The Lord vs. Satan (Complete Series)

Warning: this is a huge document

Index:

Brainout wrote the "Lord vs. Satan" series over 20 years ago (as of 2025), eventually it became in dire need of an overhaul. I've attempted to fix all mistakes and typos, original language additions, as well as amalgamate it as a single page and cut out redundant info. Other major changes include:

"Brainoutisms" and corrections to legacy theology:

Index overivew:

Part 4c's Appendix Side Trip is on God's Divine Benefit Plan to bless mankind in history, analogized in detail to actuarial valuations for defined-benefit plans (AKA "old-age pension" or "Social Security").

Part 4a's Rerouting of Divine Blessing is the Introduction to God's Divine Benefit Plan, its juridical basis. Church and Rapture are but currently used reroutes; but God has cut out and grafted in, since Cain. So God rerouted the Conduit of world blessing, from Israel to Church, as Romans 11 explains. The Divine Benefit Plan still blesses Israel (ibid since Romans 9).

Part 4a shows how Church is used to rescue Israel and her Time, without which Time would end. That was also the main demonstration in TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc", a brief summarizing the content of the larger Mirroring.htm, AKA "Daniel Timeline", and Part IVa itself. Um, that's a pretty big deal, to "redeem the time", KJV of Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16.

Part 4b's First Facet: our being made the sole conduits of Blessing to a world which otherwise couldn't get anything but cursing from God.

Part 4b's Second Facet: Everyone around you gets directly blessed due to you.

Part 4b's Third Facet: you yourself are the blessing, when you think perfect thoughts as a Royal Priest. He blesses your periphery and nation, to train you further in that perfect thinking.

Part 4b's Fifth Facet: hence you defeat Satan in the Trial that way. Lots of blessing comes from that!

Part 4b's Sixth Facet: your fellow believers are thus blessed forever.

Part 4b's Seventh Facet: then when you die, the Divine Benefit Plan 'window' remains open for those you left behind.

Corollary 3A: of course, all these were Facets of the Corollaries of Blessing, which covered your Divine Assets and thus Accountability;

Corollary 3B: Bema Blessing — which means you inherit forever.

Corollary 3C: So while still down here, you are treated as crowned already, Caring Charge, is the reason why the world and your periphery are blessed due to your training in Son's Thinking.

Corollary 3D: Hence your Devoted Destiny.

A quick vetting of Bible verses and its resulting timeline from Adam through Christ, plus proof of the originally-scheduled Millennium of 94 AD (had the Jews accepted Christ), is outlined in brainoutFAQ.htm#6a. So you can view both the GeneYrs.xls and the FAQ, side-by-side, to see how they match Bible.




Color Coding for The Lord vs. Satan

Every depiction of something physical in Bible is always first a metaphor of some Doctrine it teaches. So, Bible uses numbers to denote particular doctrinal themes, and also colors. Ergo the colors chosen for the series, sort of tie to their Biblical designations. Now, to specific colors used. The color scheme is complex. If you get sick of it simply click the "🌈 Font Colours On" button at the top right.

The other three heraldic "quarters" are "azure" (royal blue), purple (purpure), and "gules" (red, but in Bible it's scarlet, so scarlet is used). Quarters go from upper left (sinister), to right (dexter), as you look (so the onlooker's left is sinister, which is your own right, were you holding the shield).




Thinking Out Loud: the Lord vs. Satan, Introduction

If your mind often asks 'tough' spiritual questions, and you like reading a lot of material about such questions, this series might be right up your alley. The series is very long; all my webpages (except "Tulips?") derive from it. The series is probably the best-written, most interesting, and most interactive of my site; but since it spans eternity past through eternity future, its resulting 'plot' is very thick with sub-themes; threads run throughout all Parts. Hence you must read it through order, and that means plowing through a good 1500 printed pages' worth of material. The writing is dense, too, so you can't gloss over paragraphs. It will be easy to get lost. The index will help you navigate between sections. If that's too daunting a challenge, try reading The Paradox of Merit... On Trial!, instead: it's only about 65 printed pages. It summarizes Trial issues, and spans the same period of time. Another helpful page for personal orientation in light of the Trial, is Due Diligence, Diplomatic Disclosure of God's Design.

They say Herodotus spent his life making his History better, constantly rewriting it. Well, we believers are to be constantly written on by the Holy Spirit (main and very witty theme in Peter's letters); so this writing has been on my mind since 1986, and the ideas have been undergoing auditing revision since that time. For, I didn't understand why God did all this. Enquiring mind wanted to know. My pastor always says that you can't account for the spiritual life in undefinable terms. Meaning, always audit your beliefs. Well, accounting is part of what I do for a secular living. So that's the goal, here: a good spiritual audit.

This auditing was obviously private, for decades. But as a collection of web pages, it was born in April 2000 under weird circumstances. A janitor named Jesús — I kid you not — found a Windows computer in the trash. For his own reasons, he decided to save it for me, hoping he'd run into me downstairs in the building garage, so he could give it to me. Two weeks passed, and we didn't run into each other. I of course had no idea this was happening; and he had no idea what that computer could do. He also didn't know that I wrote webpages ("Tulips?" existed then, and a few minor pages). For, I was using WebTV (I hate Windows, love MS-DOS instead). And where I lived, the phone bill was astronomical (you have to compose online, with WebTV). So I was going to stop writing.

Hence when I did run into him, I was completely surprised, and I refused the computer: it was finder's keepers, the previous owner having disposed of it — so 'Jesús' should have it, right? Oh no: he insisted I take it. I didn't know his own reasons, nor did I explain how wry a thing, this insisted offer was: but clearly God's reasons were evident. So I took it, found what software it had, learned about its mIRC and web connections, and went to Office Depot to make that computer 'honest'. Can't get a gift from God and then cheat the software people, huh...

So you could say this series was 'meant to be'.

Can't audit, without a history; can't audit, without an underlying conceptual framework to track back to. Hence the historical framework underlying the series, is Angelic Divorce Appeal Trial, filed by Satan, which is the proximate cause for Adam's creation. Which means we first have to account for God's Own Choices. So the series necessarily has a drama-epic quality. Running sotto voce, the series operates as an audit trail, particularly with reference to why the Church post-salvation spiritual life is so much higher, compared to all the other groups'. Along with his teaching about the Trial itself, that claim about the nature of our spiritual life, is my pastor's, and he proves it well. So much of the writeup is to test my comprehension, test the validity, and coalesce what I've learned. Quick caution: don't assume that the series' content accurately reflects his teaching. Obviously I think it does, but that's internal to my own understanding; doesn't mean you should take 'my' word for it, okay? Each of us must execute his own due diligence, which means accessing source material, not relying on hearsay. Hearsay can expose you to connections and ideas, but that's about it.

The "Divine DNA" series is the micro-complement to the "Thinking" series. Whereas the "Thinking" series focuses on the legalities and accountings for the nature of the spiritual life throughout history, Divine DNA focuses on what the Holy Spirit does to the believer's soul, during Church. Trial emphasis in Divine-DNA is also present, but from the spiritual-biological end, what you become. Divine-DNA thus functions as a kind of appendix to Parts 3 and 4 of the "Thinking" series, so you can better understand what happens to you as you go 'under the knife' of God's Word in God's System.

"God's System" is a short and vital webpage on how you live the spiritual life. It's not a denominational thing, so threatens no denomination. Same basic five Elements are in every covenant from Adam through the Millennium; so the relevant covenant governs particulars within itself: but the overall process, is always the same. So if you're not in God's System, you're spiritually comatose. God's System is the most important of all webpages, therefore. And after you follow it for a few weeks, you should be able to see the results in your own spiritual life, so you won't need anyone to prove it to you, since you'll have proof in your own soul. Privately. For the spiritual life is between God and You, no one else!

Hence Bible Doctrinal fit is the purpose of all due-diligence, spiritual auditing; that auditing must be ongoing, as part of God's System Element Five in your spiritual life. Goal of all hermeneutics: Perfect Word means perfect doctrine; so if the doctrine you think you see isn't fitting, the interpretation is wrong somewhere, so to that extent is not Biblical. So, you go back to the drawing board. If translators could do this audit tracking (and maybe they are not allowed, who knows), we'd not have errors like in James 4:5, Isaiah 45:7 and Isaiah 53:12, Genesis 3:11, etc. — all of which translations' errors, make God look 'bad'. Same could be said for many denominational tenets. We don't audit our interpretations, but we should. This is the Word of God. Our mistakes can be corrected; He died on the Cross, so we needn't feel bad about error. What we should feel bad about is stubbornness. Christians are notoriously stubborn, not wanting to be confused with the facts.

The worst Christians born are those who dismiss Bible, who cling to their beliefs in the name of God but really owing to people. Vile and common thing, that. What your parents or friends or admired-person believes, rather than what the Word says. Which Word, people don't bother to learn. Spits on God, that. So being wrong is fine: it's why one persists in not learning the correction, that's truly wrong, Hebrews 12:5ff. And we are all guilty of that, from time to time. So welcome to the human race...

So, then: you haven't really tested an interpretation of Bible until you've tested it at the big-picture level. Same is true of secular auditing, or balancing asset portfolios. why is first, and at the uppermost level of analysis, How God Is, and Why God Wants a thing. Else, the interpretation isn't tracked to source, and therefore becomes suspect. So, then: the first why, is our origin, which is due to this Trial. The fact of the Trial itself is unevenly acknowledged in Christendom, so much of series' webspace has to be spent demonstrating how you yourself can see the Angelic Trial issues, reflected in daily life. They will surprise you.

It will take longer to see how Bible talks about the Trial, because translations don't translate Trial legal language really in Bible (wish they did). God starts out right away in Genesis 1:2, telling us about this Trial, but you won't know, from the translations. See Paradox.htm, for more detail on Genesis. For example, words like "Satan" (means "opposing attorney"), "case", "Testimony", "Witness", etc. are Angelic Trial words. It's not a hidden doctrine in Bible — only hidden, in translation.

Abram's witness, for example, was not to mankind, but in the Angelic Trial. The Christ on the Cross defeated Satan in the Trial — major sub-theme of Hebrews (Hebrews 11:1 flatly says in Greek that the Angelic Trial issue is your thinking His Word); also, Ephesians, Jude, 1 John, Peter — so if you don't know all this, the Rapture makes no sense. So you'd be inclined to dismiss Rapture is even a Bible doctrine; so would not be able to spot its hundreds of references in the New Testament. The fact no one saw Abraham nearly sacrifice Isaac, and no one saw Christ receive our sins (too dark!), should tip people off to the idea that some larger Trial is going on, and this "witness" is not to people. So too, the Book of Job. After all, it's not as if God needed to see proof.. so then To Whom is all this Invisible Evidentiary Witness ("ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων" (elekhos ou blepomenone), in Hebrews 11:1), going? Oh well.

So, because Christendom doesn't evenly recognize the Trial, and because it's the grand canvas: to do all this auditing properly, the whole of God's Design must be sketched and tracked out. For obviously, as important as He makes us, we are but a part of that whole, and need to orient to the whole in order to orient to our 'part'. The "parts" in the Lord vs. Satan series are described below. After that follow some important notes on the series' deliberately-entertaining writing style, auditing assumptions, and the Biblical extrapolative deduction method.

These Parts are divided chronologically. No Part is less than 60 printed pages (Part 4 itself runs 400 pages+), so it's not a good idea to print.

You needn't agree with the audit-trail conclusions to benefit from them. Rather, you learn how to do an audit-trail by seeing one. In fact, the trail of presentation is extremely useful. Way back in Paul's day, audit trails were practiced by means of something called "Greek Debater's technique": meaning, you picked a premise (didn't matter whether you agreed with it or not), and then tracked it through to the conclusion. Modern forensic debate in United States high school and college uses the same 'argument' method of auditing. So, of course, such a pattern sounds dogmatic, to make it easier to follow the train of thought, the audit path. So, of course, such 'speech' is persuasive. The neophyte who mistakes the declarative method of exposition for some sales pitch, misses out on the profit of reading/listening to such discourse. The ancient Greeks practiced it all the time: it was called "rhetoric", and if you wanted to be upper-class, you learned it. That's what Plato's (and later, Aristotle's) school taught; for, "rhetoric" was primarily intended as an analytical tool to seek and diagnose truth. So the style always sounds aggressive and 'pushy', like someone's selling something. Or, like a lawyer, arguing.

Oh, but audit trails and even debates are interminably boring to read! So Scripture isn't written that way, but rather with lots of drama words, color, humor (often sexual) and even deliberate offense. God is not shy. You won't see hardly any of that Divine Color in Bible translations. So, writing style in this series seeks to imitate those original-language writing styles in Scripture, though in somewhat diluted form. Even if it makes me blench, to do so. It's real important to learn the writing style of Scripture, because much of the Truth about a doctrine, is conveyed by the style. Translations bland out Bible, so the reader's grasp of its truth, is often lost. For example, if you weren't alert to the fact Paul often uses sanctified sarcasm in Romans, you'd think he was praising or pleading with his audience, in Romans 12:1. He's not. So verses 2 and 3, seem to come from nowhere, in the translation. Same is true for Hebrews 5:11-6:13, and parts of Hebrews 10, which are scathing. (It doesn't help that the imperative of prohibition is always mistranslated in Bible, so you get the wimpy translations like "do not be angry", instead of "stop being angry!" in Ephesians.)

Thus the series often reads more like an epic narrative, with lots of sarcasm (a Big Biblical style!); with allusive and direct Bible keywords, references, and citations. Not at all the style of a scholarly tome, though the information is technical enough. Real Bible isn't boring, so the writing style shouldn't be boring, either. Warning to the tenderhearted: style in Bible is often caustic, so the writing style here will be also (makes me wince to do it, though). Christ is no wimp, was not a long-haired hippie, and never shied away from the sarcastic or offensive remark when it was appropriate. His Wit — all Bible! — is totally astonishing. Even the later translations of the Gospels now show more His 'color' which the original-language texts, blatantly display. Wish they'd show more of that same color, in the Old and New Testament epistles: then no one would claim that only the "red-letter text", was really His Words!

Oh: during the telling of this epic, the audience (you) frequently participates. Because, the audience (you) happens to be the principal character in this saga! For, we are on stage, all of us: before God, before angels, and to a much lesser extent, before our fellow humans. The 'play', then, is about how we got here, why we are on stage, what is our "Script", and what happens if the Script is — or, is not — learnt. It's a pretty dramatic tale, alright.

Oh, but before the curtain opens with your clicking on "Part 1", the pince-nez accountant must make 'due diligence' disclosures.

  1. Series audit assumptions regarding the nature/knowledge of Angels, Adam and the Woman pre-Fall, and whether people can get out of Hell.
  2. This series extrapolates advanced doctrines I've learned, so to see the "grand scheme" of God's Plan. So, (where noted) I'm sometimes less certain that what's written is true. So, I write to examine doctrinal coherence. So, I use Biblical keywords, to see their interrelationships, as Scripture writers do, imitating the thought-flow style they teach us by their writing.

The biggest reason why we are mandated to extrapolate: God wants us to think like His Son, not like Bible-quoting automatons. The commands to think, know, reason are prominent in Scripture. And why not? How can one obey the First Commandment, until one first comes to know God? How can one obey God until thoroughly versed in His Thinking?

Thinking is a process; we are to add one key concept or verse to the next (precept upon precept), one thought to the next, in a certain kind of "flow". That flow, that reasoning process, is taught us over and over again by means of the way verses of the Bible are written. In the Old Testament, the flow is illustrated by the way God reveals certain facts; by what God omits saying, as well. In the New Testament, the thought-flow is presented as principles (the Gospels being a deliberate hybrid of the Old and New Testament methods). Thus, one can see how the doctrines, the principles, interrelate. Thus, one can learn to think like the Son: "for we have the Mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16). Far beyond "works", this: our first job is to think like Christ. Any works flow from that, just as James explained, when he said "be ye doers of the Word" — ending the point with the example of Abraham, whose thinking culminated in him loving God so much he wanted to sacrifice his own son, if God demanded.

So God wants us to use the extrapolation-logic Paul, John, Peter and James demonstrate in their epistles: take the known facts, and from them deduce further, hitherto-unknown facts (known as "a fortiori" in Latin, and "Chrysippus' logic" in Greek). In short, we are commanded to think-out, to extrapolate.

For way more on the basics of detecting and extrapolating Scriptural patterns, look at New Testament Interpretive Keys. Or, just pick a verse and track its main nouns and verbs/participles in the Greek, to all other verses where those same words occur: so you get the basic idea Bible deliberately references other verses by this technique. That's how you learn to extrapolate, for that's what Bible itself, does. You can't do this tracking with translations; they don't properly translate or uniformly translate Bible keywords (which are in every sentence, usually the nouns, especially the participles, and often the main verbs).

So, I try to imitate Scripture's succinctly-dense, grammar/word-playing, weaving and keyword tracking style, so to better learn and practice the mandate that we think like Him (Philippians 2:5, 2 Peter 3:18, Romans 12:2-3, Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 3:15-19, "doers of the Word, and not hearers only", etc).

So, what can you do with this extrapolation? You can use it to play off your own, in the privacy of your mind, free before the Lord. May the Holy Spirit use any thoughts here to further stimulate and profit your own! For we are both part of His Body... forever! Philippians 1:20-21!


Audit Assumptions

Certain assumptions are made for the sake of auditing ease and clarity. Many of these are minor and obvious, for the sake of displaying how multilevel and punning Scripture is. For example, Scripture's Revelation Millennial description of Jerusalem is worded in terms of gems, precious stones, but clearly means a people under the Christ: no doubt, though, the city itself will be constructed as described, to depict that people under the Christ. So in Part 1 of the series, the Old Testament term "stones of fire", is rendered as tall, literal gems which act as wall-plates for the Son's massive, assembly-sized Throne Room, even though the Scripture term is clearly metaphorical: the angels, whose bodies are composed of light, are as beautiful as boulder-sized gems. However, there are two other major assumptions which the reader must know in advance, for these assumptions impact audit-trail tracking. These two assumptions are covered in the maroon paragraphs below.

One of the hermeneutical problems folks have with Scripture concerns passages where the writer is obviously so familiar with the topic he covers, he just references, rather than explains. Clearly the audience was likewise familiar. Human language and speech follow the same save-time-explaining pattern; thus the linguistic terms are many: "ellipsis", "ellision", "contraction", "abbreviation", etc. That is, something is left out because everyone knows what is missing. 'Which is missing, because it's so obvious, you'd lose the hearer's attention, to not omit. So, the person today who studies Scripture must be alert for writer familiarity: 'a big road sign pointing to foundational truths. Moreover, Scripture's original languages use every linguistic nuance of that time, every style of speech/writing from the extreme elegance of Isaiah's Hebrew and Hebrews' Greek, to the coarse epithets of Biblical characters and the apostle Paul's, to Peter's (probably deliberate) colloquialisms. Every verse is so keenly crafted, even the syntax and sound convey volumes of information; even what nuances are omitted orchestrate yet more critical data. In short, it's the plethora of small, deft characteristics like these which Scripture uses to stress meaning via extrapolation.

So, then: historically, there has been a lot of confusion about what Scripture means by its descriptions of angelic properties, and parallels between God and angels, angels and man. So, by inferring connections, assumptions are made; that inference is commanded by God is clear, since A) the books of what we call "the Bible" have always said (somewhere in the text, and provable, from the text) they are from God; and B) Scripture writers themselves explain things by metaphor, analogy, and thus by inference (particularly Paul). Inferences can always be tested, and should be audited. That's how you learn the most important stuff, how you learn how God Himself thinks, how you yourself come to think like He does, over time (assuming 1 John 1:9 is kept handy and used).

So, in this series, assumptions of magnitude are often in maroon font. It's important to make assumptions for the sake of the series' flow, because we ourselves are part of the Angelic Conflict: we know from verses like 1 Corinthians 4:9, 1 Peter 1:12 (and the like) that they watch us to learn. Thus it is obviously important to describe our own spiritual lives' purpose also in the context of the Angelic Conflict. So, assumptions are made concerning the parallels in our spiritual lives to those of the angels (from Adam through the Eternal State), solely to present a cohesive, audit-trail picture. The premise chosen makes reader tracking of all constituent variables easy, despite the series' length, because the premise is modular: premise components are thus obvious. What's the premise? That angels, like we, sinned and could be saved; that the Lord's Humanity paid for angelic sins, as well as for all human ones. As the series unfolds, you'll not only see this premise portrayed, but you'll also gradually learn why it makes sense to so assume. Moreover, this premise is easy to later fix, to patch in a better accounting, yet keep the tracking flow intact: kinda like changing clothes.

For, there's more than one set of could-they-be-saved assumptions which could account for the angelic side in the series; in fact, one could even assume fallen angels can't be saved, yet fully account for how we have what we receive from Our Lord without contradiction. In short, the assumptions about the angels don't need to be correctly stated now, to properly portray what is known as correct: our own spiritual life and purpose in this most epic of dramas, of Truth. The assumptions about the angels will be revised and corrected (where need be), later. More about this topic is covered in Part 2's "What if Angels didn't get Salvation" chart.

Another assumption regarded what knowledge was given to the angels at their simultaneous creation; what knowledge was given to Adam and the woman at their individual creations. The assumption turns on the definition of what "Perfect" must mean. We know that "Perfect" doesn't solely mean Infinite, for Adam and the woman were initially perfect, that angels initially were also. Ok, but how much knowledge is included in the term "perfect", and of what kinds would it have to be comprised? The assumption for angels was that at least Satan knew everything, including the plan to make man, the plan for the Son to take on Humanity. The other angels probably knew this too. There's some reason to conclude that both Adam and the woman knew there was a salvation package for them, also, even before they sinned, though for the sake of argument the series takes the position that they did not know.

There is an interaction between knowledge and volition. Too much knowledge, and volition is 'influenced'. Too little, and it is also 'influenced'. So a balance of the right amount of knowledge so volition remains fully free, is what "perfect" means. God is The Ultimate Free Person, so is Omniscient. But we are finite. To know more than some perfect "x" amount at creation would require volition choosing to know, in order to not violate free will. That's really the underpinning issue: Do you want to know Me better? God keeps on asking. For Love will never coerce. So the angels didn't know at God's Level, but they knew all that could be known without it affecting their free will. Thereafter, they could know more, depending on their choices. Hence for Adam and the woman, the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" was Satan's knowledge as a result of his sin — and they had to be offered that knowledge, but it couldn't be forced on them. Eating from whatever fruit the tree had, was a choice to get that knowledge. Which, they both knew.

The Original Sin was from the woman's side, choosing to get something on her own versus what she could get from God. Same sin, as Satan's in Isaiah 14:13-14. Adam's sin — which we inherit directly in our DNA — was to get the woman versus God fixing her (or some other alternative). So both of them sinned morally — a religious sin. Satan is the author of religion. So choosing people over God is the worst and most evil tendency in the human race. That's what the couple did. That's been going on ever since. We disregard the First Commandment and pay oodles of attention to #2 through #10, and have the nerve to call ourselves faithful to God. It's disgusting. More importantly, it's Satanic. Same ploy, as back in the Garden, getting the couple to look at each other, but not at God. No wonder we humans are so unhappy.

God is undentably happy (happiness that cannot be dented). So our rejection is no threat to Him, ever. Hence free will thus remains an issue in the human race, and one is constantly choosing to know what God wants to give you to know... or what Satan & Co. want to give you to know. Well, we keep on choosing to know good and evil. Note that well: it's not about sin, but about "good" and "evil", rather than God, John 16:8-11. The Cross nailed away sin: we are left with choices regarding God, versus Satan's good-and-evil knowledge (term is hyphenated grammatically, in the Hebrew).

Sin exists, but it was paid for so is not a Trial issue. Every time Satan brings up sins we commit, God throws that accusation out of court. So Satan stresses rather that we don't want God. You can see this all over the Old Testament, but it's not easy to spot in translation, since the legal courtroom words are blanded out. But even the translations can't completely mask the beginning of Job 1 and Job 2, nor Zechariah 3, nor "accuser" verses, nor Genesis 6. It would help if they bothered to translate rather than transliterate, folks' names — Methuselah, for example, means that when he dies, the Flood begins — so mankind had 1000 years' advance notice on the Verdict of the Flood. Stuff like that, makes it easy to track the fact that sin isn't the issue, but who are you voting for.

Forget sin, Paul counsels in Philippians 3:13-14; use 1 John 1:9 as needed, live in God's System, since only the Word can heal you from sins. You can't heal yourself, it's evil to try, and all the temptation you'll ever get is to "do it yourself." So if you try to do it yourself, you are voting for Satan. For it's evil, to do a thing on your own: that was the original temptation to which Adam and the woman succumbed; that is the temptation matrix in Matthew 4; that is the temptation to which Christians especially succumb every hour. It's do you vote for God to remake you, or... do you do it your way? Period.

Finally, the "Thinking" series contains a running conclusion that unbelievers & fallen angels can get out of Hell. I now somewhat believe that they'd never go there in the first place if they didn't first totally and knowingly reject God for so long, they'd never ever change. If there were even a .0001% chance they would change their minds, God would keep them alive/out of Hell. Another important point to this is: if the fallen angels couldn't get out of hell that would mean their sin is unpaid for, and God's nature cannot allow for any sin to remain unpaid, this includes the sin that goes on for an eternity in the lake of fire, we can therefore assume tetelestai (τετέλεσται) is an infinite payment. However, since explaining that point is way too hard for the likely reader, I opt instead for a position I once believed true: that even in Hell, one can technically get out (because Christ paid for all sin, a fact we can explicitly prove from Scripture, beyond doubt). Maybe it really is true, but my pastor doesn't think so (although he did identify that tetelestai is translated as "finished in the past with the results that go on forever" so that technically applies to the payment being potentially infinite for unbelievers and fallen angel alike); I'll defer to him on that. The series assumes they can get out. Part V's last link section explains why this conclusion is more in line with God's Character and Bible than the other conclusions proposed in Christendom. Its parameters might not be accurate somehow — but the essence of it best ties to Bible, versus the other ideas I know about. Also if you were wondering why Christ could pay for sins for both human and angels despite being human, that's because something lower could pay for something higher but not the other way around (which is why Christ had to be human to pay for human sins).

Again, translations are no good. Just because God is depicted as putting people there, tells you nothing about whether He's got a plan to still rescue them. Bible's original-language texts are much more precise. Hence I see no support for the common idea that: A) God forces you to stay in hell (yes, puts you in there, but no verses say you can't believe in Christ and get out); or B) everyone eventually gets out. Middle answer seems most Biblical: yeah, you can believe to get out, but you won't want to, because you love your self-righteousness and self-pity so much that it creates a positive feedback loop where you never want to willingly leave. Guy in Luke 16:20ff is so stuck on his self-image as a martyr, he barely seems to feel the flames! That's no parable. Parables don't have that kind of specificity or syntax or use real names (re: Abraham — clearly Abraham himself is not a parable). So it's a real story told by the One Who God sent (rather than Lazarus) to inform the 'brothers'.

So, God is 'locked out' by negative volition. So, 'at the last minute' (see 2 Peter 3:9), He finally accedes; and Himself also shuts the door, though in the series the reader is left with the impression that God forever keeps the door open (ibid). That seems the most comprehensively-logical conclusion. Agree or not, as you choose. I don't even agree with myself during a day, so I could care less if anyone else ever agrees with me, 🤣.

Important Corollary: two thinking systems go on forever. Heaven, and hell (for lack of better words). In financial parlance, a "present value" is a capital base from which all investment earnings, 'flow'. So you have two present-value thinking systems: 1) the "true riches" Bible always talks about, sourced in Christ's Thinking; and 2) all that ongoing sinning in 'hell'. The latter is offset by the Former, with the result that the latter actually benefits the Former. It's like an ongoing Cross. For the Payor, is Living, and the Payment is in His Head. To now get into, our heads. To last forever.

The Cross is a joy to Christ: Hebrews 12:2 isn't kidding around. So, it never stops. And indeed it cannot, for we puny are forever finite, so are forever short of the Glory of God, Romans 3:23's second prong. The solution to this forever problem is to have His Thinking cycling in us, and Isaiah 53:10-11 shows how that gets done via the five key infinitives. Earlier revisions of the Lord vs. Satan series had the erroneous idea that some of the Hebrew text was missing in Isaiah 53, this is not the case. If the Bible's original text were irrevocably lost to a point where textual criticism could not reconstruct every original word, the Angelic Trial itself would have to conclude: for, God's Perfect Word is no longer preserved on earth, and so, Man cannot live on the Word if it's missing and God becomes a liar. This is also why Satan has been deeply involved in destroying original manuscripts (a lot more than what we have really should have existed: the gap between what we have and the Leningrad Codex for instance, is a very huge void implying many Satanic campaigns of destroying Hebrew texts).

A shorter examination of this Infinity-finity dichotomy is in Synopsis of God's Architectural Design, as it's a central thesis throughout brainout.net. It took me 34 years to understand, and I'd have not understood it so clearly, were it not for the Isaiah 53 passage. So this passage is important. It functions as the Grand Central Station of Scripture, which you can prove because of its nature (it depicts the mechanics of the Cross on the Cross), and because nearly every New Testament verse uses or references the LXX keywords in Isaiah 53:10-12.

The Divine DNA series was born from that passage, when 'mixed' with something my pastor was teaching back in 2000, which I heard in February 2005. God orchestrates what you learn under your pastor: Ephesians 4:11-16 explains why (What's a "Right" Pastor-Teacher? and Ephesians 4:12-16, Corrected Translation and Exegetical Notes) — which passage, uses keywords from the Isaiah passage. Heh.

Every second I'm breathing and awake, I literally live on what I know now about DDNA. Can't get through a day without it, for DDNA proves what God gets from our existence. We truly have nothing to ever be ashamed about, and human opinion matters not at all. No suffering but gets converted into DDNA. It's just a question of how much, and whether you refuse it. If you refuse it, the DDNA still occurs... but not in you. True riches parable, Matthew 25:14-29. Well, I want it to occur in me; but I'm glad if it reroutes, for God shouldn't lose yield! And of course, He never will. So only I can lose. Same truth applies to anyone. We all can be saved, we all can get to "Pleroma" (Ephesians 3:19, "fullness", see also Ephesians 4:13).

Hence, whether or not people can get out of 'hell', the payment for their bad thinking, is forever ongoing. That helps the reader grasp how in three short hours all the sins of mankind could be paid for. Father built a DDNA capital base in Christ of sufficient 'present value' to keep on compensating for all sin forever. Which sin, stops for us who believe; but never stops, for those who remain in 'hell'. Third Aspect of DDNA covers this in more detail (Divine DNA! Third Aspect). I spent 20 years trying to figure out how-did-forever-sinning-get-paid-for; now I 'get it'. Hope it doesn't take you that long! See also Romans 6's stress on Christ as living (passim theme throughout the Old and New Testament). That's why the Living Word is the central promise of Bible from Genesis 3:15 to Revelation, and why His thinking is the mechanism depicted as the payment for sins in Isaiah 53:10-11 (in LXX). Well, it's in the BHS also, but the deft use of "da'ath", which begins back in 52:13, is threaded. So it's not easy to see in translation, even though in the Hebrew which is translated. "By His Knowledge" is usually how "da'ath" is translated, which is a truncated — and hence fuzzy, misleading — meaning of the Hebrew term.

Summing up, series assumptions made help one audit better, don't require the reader agree with them even partly; and, nevertheless, don't invalidate the information about our spiritual life, nor the methods one uses to track and prove what constitutes that life before the Lord. This method of correct conclusions despite possible incorrect interpretations is called, in the corporate appraisal business, "arms-length valuation" (named after an Internal Revenue Service standard). That is, you value a business based on between two to five different (and often, antithetical) methods, but if you end up with the same (or nearly the same) monetary worth of the business, you've got a likely accurate value.

So too, and especially, in the spiritual appraisal business!


Novel on the Angelic Conflict

The best and most entertaining way to audit for truth is to assume true certain tenets, and then write out what 'story' they tell in aggregate. The links above explore the tenets. But what follows is an incipient 'novel' version. The original Thinking series was intended to be in novel format, but it became a 2000-page behemoth and now reads more like research and commentary. So here's a second version: a fictional novel which uses the Thinking series ideas. I'm writing it as a novel, to test for reasonability. So the purpose is still auditing. For I've tested the ideas in every other way I know against the theology 'out there' for the past seven years; so what remains is to write out a dynamic "today" version of the story playing, to see how much sense it makes. Who said auditing had to be boring?

That story is: Pleroma: Rapture Day. Please don't get all nervous, titillated by the story (you know how we humans love demon and supernatural stories, and thereby scoff at the idea of demons being real). Although, it's worth mentioning that people love to believe in many 'spirits' or 'ghosts' or 'distant aliens', anything but believing the demons of the Bible, which is a curious mental bias across humanity, a bias that should make anyone pause to wonder why this is. Any fiction writer worth his salt employs fiction to dramatize politically-sensitive truths. So too, here. Hence this story will be offensive to some people; fiction helps 'buffer' the offense. If you are offended by the PDR novel, please vote with your eyes and stop reading.

In writing fiction, to make it believable you must use what you personally know, so that means resemblance to living persons is inevitable, but the characters in the story are not real, but rather archetypes. For the purpose of fiction is to craft character types with which the reader can identify. It's somewhat like cooking. You take real ingredients and then make them into something nourishing the soul can eat, but there needn't be any resemblance to a real 'dish' folks know. So obviously the main character names are faked. I picked names based on etymology, not based on any living person. Any real background names of places or people are solely to give the story current historical realism. For the true story is, we are all in this Angelic Trial together, and you are the star of your own life, every day before God Himself. It's not at all like the movie version of demons, but where can you find proof of that, except conceptually, as you analyze a 'fictional' character's life?

One big exception: the reference to the African election in the PBS video is wholly real, I saw it myself on cable; I can't remember if it was in Angola, or Niger; it was on Frontline or something related to Frontline. The rest of the material is either quasi-fictional or wholly fictional, though the actions portrayed are surely going on in some similar configuration, while you read. The Trial is real. Satan & Co. are real. The Trial issues are real. But whether they play exactly as depicted in the PDR novel — obviously, I don't know. I'm just testing the doctrines in Thinking series a second time, for sense. For if a thing is true then it tells a story: facts always live in some kind of dynamic. So if a thing is true, then the story that fits the facts should also test true. If not, then maybe what's represented as a fact, is not. That's the testing idea behind PDR.

I wrote it in 2006 when Israel was being attacked by Hezbollah and Hamas, so one of the chapters takes place then. Only the novel's first five chapters were uploaded and completed. As it was designed around being a serial novel: I had no idea how it would progress or end. You're welcome to finish the novel based on your own experiences.




Part 1a, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump links also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
The Real Conspiracy? Core Trial Issues Integrity Properties Anti-Integrity Properties So Free Will means "Hell" must Exist Seduce, or LOVE? God's Script Now 1 John's Outline of God's Script Royal Script, Royal Power, Royal Bride DDNA, God's Apodoses make Bride Fit for Christ, 5 verbs in Isaiah 53:10-11 (amalgamated) Satan would Stop the Wedding

The Real Conspiracy?

Isn't life on earth hellish? Were we to pile up all the defective products and make a big bonfire out of them, what would be left afterwards? Kleenex? The lone Windows computer which doesn't crash? Your favorite cup? A Barco Lounger? Not much would be left, would it? We make a jet, but it crashes — why? Because it had the wrong amount of lubricant. The incorrect amount of lubricant caused a plane to crash in the year 2000, destroying 200 people. Lives depended on lubricant, for crying out loud. Makes you wonder, doesn't it, if we aren't just animals, after all? Biology says we are. Strange beings, we: even most animals would not do the stupid things we do. Yet we can fly to the moon? Does that make sense? How is it we can't even get lubricant right, but we can fly to the moon? Have you ever done something so stupid, you later asked yourself, "What the heck did I do that for?" Yet, at other times, you find yourself doing something so brilliant, you shock yourself?

Maybe Dante's Inferno is right down here. What an annoying life we all have. Used to be, man spent a whole day just hunting, catching, skinning, and cooking his one meal. It took that long. Even now, how much time do we have to spend just keeping body and soul together? Even in our modern age? Clothes need cleaning, the body needs food, the car needs to go to the shop, we've not enough hard drive space, the house always needs fixing, we always need more money. Then, what happens? We no sooner get 'enough' — and then become too old, too tired, too sick to enjoy it. Or, technology renders whatever we slaved to get, obsolete. Or, we move out of the dream house, because it's now a nightmare. Or, the spouse is now a problem. No wonder we are always frustrated, always living with our nose to the ground. Will there ever be any respite? No wonder we love television, movies, and computers so much. No wonder we love religion so much. They all give us 'escape'. Escape from the mountains of trivial duties which choke our lives. Even in this modern age.

Ahhh, escape. Back to a better time. Or, up to Heaven. Better still, let's try to make heaven out of this hell. Escape! So, life down here is one big propaganda machine: improve, improve, improve. Nirvana is just around the corner. If we can just afford that car, that house, that suit, that jewelry — things will be better. Self will be fulfilled. Looks are important; feeling is important; thinking is 'too hard'. Let's just 'enjoy'. On the news, we see crime is everywhere; it's always someone else's fault; government should 'do' for us; everything makes us sick. Yeah, let's just enjoy. But wait! The car needs a new tire. The dishes need to be washed. Johnny needs a haircut. The roof is leaking, again.

In short, give up on life, or give in to hell. So, it's nice to hear "Daddy will take care of it"; or, "Daddy's to blame." Of course, "Daddy" is Sugar-Daddy, Uncle Sugar, the one to pay all the bills, who has all the authority. So, whatever is the problem, Daddy's to handle it — or to blame. Santa Claus, God, Government, the spouse, the neighbor-next-door. Please, someone fix this. Ahhh.

Sounds good, right? Ahhh, but conspiracy theorists warn "they" are pulling the strings, seducing us. "They" are out to control the world. "They" promise us poor, beleaguered folks an escape: to become our Daddies — by promising us goodies. We are to salivate over the goodies, and thus become enslaved. Then, they can bend us to their evil will, to satisfy their power lusts. George Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. 'Merged, into a "Matrix". The New World Order.

Yeah, well maybe it's not so "new". Yeah, well maybe the "they", are Satan & Co., playing the time-immemorial game of seduce-and-destroy. God, see, has sentenced them to the Lake of Fire for rebelling against Him, and they dispute the verdict. Hence, we exist. If they can prove (via us) that they can rule the better, well — they can escape that burning Lake.

They get free rein, to prove God wrong. We, like Job, know we're the stadium and players for their appeal. Many a poet, many an author has written about what Satan & Co. do. It's entertaining, of course. Still, most of us consider the idea kooky! Other beings exist who are greater than us? These beings use us for their own gain, to crown themselves? Well, we just gotta laugh that off, right? The whole idea is just too bizarre to contemplate, right?

Never mind that Satan's crowning strategy is succinctly yet wholly revealed in Matthew 4's "Three Temptations":

Body over Bible;
Splashy over Spiritual;
Fantasy over Freedom.

Never mind that the Lord, Who Alone could have instantly fixed the world "by the Word of His Power", has always refused that strategy. Never mind that He is now Seated as Ruler of All — "waiting", as the Bible says in Hebrews 10:12-14 (and elsewhere), for the Father to make the "enemy", "the footstool of Your Feet."

What are we to think, then? What are we to do? Should we ignore all this conflict, and just go on with our lives? Why are we told about it at all? Clearly something's to be learned, else the Bible would be silent about this unseen conflict, which prompted the Trial, which prompted the creation of the human race to display the arguments of both sides. We don't get to hear those arguments directly — but we do get enough information to figure out the aims of both sides, and thus the general themes of their arguments.

Scripture outlines the background like this: Morning Star (Haylel ben-Shachar הֵילֵל בֶּן־שָׁחַר) Satan's real 'name', confer Isaiah 14:12) had rebelled against God the Son; one third of the other angels allied with Satan. Why? 'On the grounds that God was unfair (beginning Job 1 and Job 2 reveals Satan's basic claim that God is unfair). After some undenominated period, a Trial was held, and Satan's group was sentenced to the Lake of Fire (Matthew 25:41, for example). Satan's appealed the sentence, so we are created to be evidentiary witnesses of the superiority of one side, or the other. ("Satan" is a title, "Adversary/Accuser" — it's a legal term for "opposing attorney"; the beginning of Job 1 and Job 2 in Hebrew, is legal language — formal Trial convocation.) Whoever wins the Appeal, though, also gets to rule. That's the deal: the stakes couldn't be higher.

Enough is said about Satan in Scripture for us to know, really, a great deal about this Conflict — enough for us to see it in our daily lives. Further, from what is said, we can know his 'plan' to aid mankind. Scripture accomplishes full disclosure directly, and obliquely — so to provide both proper context, and objectivity — rather than gushiness, or fear.

Satan's plan, after all, is an option for our lives, too. We have the option to pick-and-choose among the elements of either plan: Satan's, or God's. 'The issue? Who's better? Ergo we need the disclosure, so to make informed choices — with eternal consequences.


Warning Label

You get what you want from either Plan: God's, or Satan's. Whether you know it or you don't, each decision you make picks from among elements in either plan. The element(s) chosen go into operation, you see: so, those elements which you chose determine how the inner 'you' develops. Likewise, for your personal 'outer', the characteristics of your immediate and eternal, future. Ergo the disclosure.


So, even though you are always deciding who will be your lord-for-that-moment, the Lord, or Satan — you alone program yourself with each decision. That's the deal.

Satan's Plan, of course, is intended to prove he does a better job ruling man than the Lord does. To Satan, 'management' is all top-down, a matter of programming man by using his strengths, but also by appeal to his weaknesses. God's philosophy is different. God is all about bottom-up, using nothing of man's at all. God doesn't believe in programming — not even for man's own good. To God, the person himself matters; to Satan, the human is a pet, to do tricks pleasing his master.

Satan nattily accuses God of having this same motive; of pretending to love man, but instead merely toying with him. So, man was poorly made by God, and as such is but a pet. Ergo his comments at the beginning of Job 1 and Job 2, and his philosophy behind the highest-echelon temptations of Matthew 4.

In short, Satan's contends that God (Son) not only made rational creation improperly, but also that He is hypocritical; the Trial is thus a sham, a kangaroo court. With Courtly manners (sometimes), or irrepressible contempt (sometimes), or genuine hurt (sometimes), and even genuine yearning for reconciliation (on his terms, of course), Satan & Co. makes his appeal arguments in the court of Heaven — but also, to men.

We hear his arguments, loud and clear, and we parrot them. Shouldn't "the rich" (God, and, per militant Islam, the United States) be made to pay for "the poor" (creation, or all non-United States freedom fighters)? Isn't it so-and-so's (God's, and now, the United States') fault problems exist, since he can fix them (God/the United States can snap his fingers, as it were, and fix all)? Does so-and-so deserve to be so influential/powerful (does God deserve to be God) if he doesn't fix things? The "rich" (God/United States) oppress the poor (creation/Palestinians/whoever-wants-our-money); the poor (creation, etc.) are all victims, can't help themselves. All injustice is the fault of the more-powerful (God), never the fault of the least-powerful (creation). See the top-down logic, here? See the venom against God? See how Satan plays on the greed of those who have (legitimate or not) grievances? See how cleverly a criminal intent is clothed in sheep's wool? Yeah, pulling the wool over our own naive eyes.

Naturally, the unbeliever concludes God does not exist, for if He did exist, the problems would not exist. Name any unfairness, and God is responsible. So, God must not exist, since the unfairness exists, and man must have invented God to comfort himself about death; to lord something over the lesser humans, and thus control them. See how this line of logic makes man think of himself as god? 'Like the Most High? See the stamp of satanic programming?

Satan's 'deal' offers the little human's ego what he wants, in return for slavery. Enslavement, which is of course for man's good! — is accomplished by dispensing, or withholding, goodies. 'Freedom' is reified to mean solely the possession of goodies. 'Slavery' is reified to mean solely the deprivation of goodies. So such distorted definitions are promulgated as good-and-true; they constitute the driving force behind a God-should-be-Sugar-Daddy definition.

Its variant, Judgmental God, is equally childish and shallow, but is handy for those who want asceticism: self-righteousness 'goodies'. For them, the idea of becoming like the Most High is the ultimate fun in life. 'On par with Him, earning a right before Him. Religion, my friends. "The devil's ace trump", religion, comes in many flavors, including the one we see a lot these days, "taliban". Top-down. Control.

See how crafty Satan is? He dismembers God, and hence our spiritual life, down to the proverbial "Brother Foot." (1 Corinthians 12:14). Never mind that we are of the Head, that is, Christ. Satan, in his unquenchable desire for revenge, wants Christ under his feet, so casts Christ (and the Godhead) as of no more value than a foot. A runner. A "go-fer", a peasant. A person who does only menial tasks. A person who is petty, judgmental. A Hander-Out of goodies. Or, a Withholder of them. Such a despisingly-cheap idea of God naturally filters down to a shoddy spiritual life: do, do, do. 💩

These two definitions of God, Sugar-Daddy and Petty Judge, are made opposites so that the believer is caught between them, in a spiritual blitzkrieg. Trapped between these two narrow falsehoods, the believer is blinded to the real nature of God. So, for added entrapment, Satan often binds both ideas together as one: you get Sugar-Daddy if you are a good person, but Petty Judge if you are a bad person. All the world's religions tout this model. Mainstream Christianity touts it, too.

So, these are the ideas of God most humans have learned and been Pavlovly-trained to love. So, we make Satan look good, and we enthusiastically proselytize others on his behalf. Good marionettes, we are.

We define everything, including ourselves, including God, by goodies. And why not? How can we avoid it, in a world which constantly needs mending? So, our mantra: a person is only worth what good he does. A person is only worth what good he does for 'me'. So I too am only worth what I 'do' for 'you'. So, what kind of life do we end up praising, or living? Wouldn't a life based on such values entirely revolve around goodies? No matter what lofty name — say, 'love' — we give to it? See how Satan has cleverly made believers, even, obsess over "earthly things"? And how can we avoid this obsession, since everything around us is defective? How can we avoid thinking that our trying to fix things down here, should win us something, even from God?

People doing for people as a scorecard of one's worth; people doing for people as a scorecard of the spiritual life; people, people, people. If Satan and Co. can keep us busy enough here, God has no room in our lives, and is merely a designer label, something to 'have' to make self feel sufficient, a status symbol, an award. Busy accumulating points before this 'God', we prove we don't want the Real God; we don't think about how He is, we don't know Him, and we don't want to know Him. We just want to bustle around, feeling 'holy' through rousing rituals or sermons; and most of all, we want to bustle around, feeling we have done something 'worthy'! So we give Him our vegetables, like Cain tried to do.

Cain slaved to make vegetables. Abel, he didn't work at all. The animals, what work were they? He had to watch them, that's about it. Let those lambs into pasture. Cain's work was a lot harder. Wouldn't God appreciate all of that effort? How could God dare spurn Cain's work? But He did — so, Cain jealously learned murder from watching Abel's sacrificing the lambs, and thus learned how to murder his brother with the very sacrificial knife Abel had used on the lambs. John 8:44 and 1 John 3:12, compared. 1 John 3:12 uses one of very many murder words Greek has. That particular word means to slay as an animal sacrifice, i.e., slitting the throat.

Like Cain, we despise God's scorecard. His scorecard is poor; after all our hard work, all our efforts, He doesn't take away our problems? We get terminally ill? How fair is that? Why do we have 'x' problem? Didn't our work count for anything? His Gifts relative to His Wealth are so small to us, we are insulted. It's no wonder we blame Him so easily for every mishap.

Or, if we are less honest, we deem ourselves holy martyrs under God's harsh hand — so any criticism against us is obviously a sign of our holiness! We will be resolute! We will be firm! We will be punished! And we will never see the truth.

But wait! aren't we supposed to help people? Wouldn't God want that? Doesn't the Scripture laud "good works"? Hmmm.

Why do people want to have a relationship with one another? Is it to use the other person? To gain something from him? To gain self-esteem? To fulfill some need self has? Many of us painfully remember being victims of such motives. When such motives are the true reasons behind 'good deeds', a lack of reciprocity makes the good-deeder feel cheated: "after all I've done for you!" is the mind's reaction. It wasn't reciprocated the way the person felt it ought to have been.

So the need for reciprocation, evening up the scorecard, slowly defeats whatever 'love' there was. Whatever 'love' there was, wears out like an old garment. It has been 'dirtied' too many times by being unrequited. It has been 'laundered' too many times by hurt tears. It has been torn too many times by ripped hopes. So, although we don't mean love to be conditional, we do have a 'price': we love, or help others, only for so long as we get whatever 'scorecard' reciprocation we seek. Is that really loving? 'Helping them? Or, us?

We apply this reciprocation scorecard to God. And we apply it with a double standard, to boot. God owes us, see. Never mind that we have no real reciprocating love for Him: He's just supposed to do what we think He should do, and then we 'reward' Him with our praise. See, He's supposed to do all the giving, unconditionally. True talibanism, that. We call the shots, see, and then call it God's Will!

We look at the problems in our world, and we don't see Him solve them the way we think they should be solved — so we fly planes into buildings in His Name, or otherwise interfere in people's lives. Top-down, baby.

Can't God take care of the people He made? Why do we feel such an urge to do it? Don't we trust Him to do it? If we say "yes" (and we will, stridently), then why don't we wait and first learn if the 'good' we have in mind agrees with the 'good' He has in mind? "But wait!" someone will say reading this, "how can you know, for sure?" Ahhh. Kinda gotta know the person to know his opinion, eh?

"But we do know: Scripture says give to the poor, give here, give there", someone will huffily reply. Hmmm. Scripture also says "the poor you will have with you always", and "he who will not work should not eat" (confer 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12), and "these people worship Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me", and "dead works", and Leviticus 26 punishments. So, maybe it is not good to do a 'good deed' in that particular place. Maybe we are being Pharisees, but in our zeal are blind to our real motives, or — blind to the recipient's real need. God, of course, is not blind. Shouldn't He be consulted for longer than the soundbyte-minute it takes to point to a verse and exclaim, "Aha!" in self-justification?

Maybe the do-good urge is coming from Satan & Co., whose program of world improvement is rife with good deeds. Good deeds are its cornerstone. Sin is sponsored so to make people want to do good deeds. After all, the tree was named "the Knowledge of Good and Evil". Adam didn't need to know what "good" was. Satan tempted the woman to eat from that tree, to know "good and evil". And, after the Fall, what was the first thing the pair did? A good deed: covering up their genitals.

All the temptations in Matthew 4, are temptations to do good deeds! Speak stones into bread, feed the world (as well as self)! Jump off the Temple, so everyone will instantly believe in You and be saved! "Kneel" to take over the world, so to benefit the world, so to defeat the ruler of it! Yeah, Satan: feed the belly, not the soul. Seduce people into belief, rather than let them freely look at the truth; fix all visible offenses, yet leave the souls as empty as they were before. Yeah, these are good (for nothing!) deeds, alright.

So, not all 'good deeds' can be said to be of God.

Do we bristle at 'doing nothing'? Do we feel helpless, do we feel it's 'right' to pick the pimples we see (especially in others, mind you)? Do we need to fix things because, in reality — dare we admit it? — we are offended that the problem we see exists? Is not our urge to do 'good' rather more an expression of our offense that God Himself is allowing the problem? So we fantasize His 'hiring' us to handle the matter, thus making us good-like-God ('same temptation as Satan made to the woman)?

But wait! Bread feeds, but stones starve! But wait! We should jump with joy! But wait! We should be humble workers for the benefit of the world, no matter what the cost to self! Yeah, Satan: we, not God, do the fixing, right? So we, not God, get the credit, right? So we, not God, are visible, right? Yeah, cut Him out of view! Heh.

None of these motives are godly. We thus have merely "a form of godliness, but deny its power." (2 Timothy 3:5) A right thing must be born of a right motive, and be done a right way. Sure, it's hard to see a kid abused by his drug-crazed mother, but God isn't stopping it — should we? What gives us the right to intervene between the child and his parent? Why isn't God stopping it?

That observation should give one pause. Maybe the solution we see (taking the child away, for example) is not God's solution, but Satan's: enslave people so they can't sin — for their own 'good'. Keep them busy doing what pleases the eye of the beholder.

Yeah, see, God's not doing something to help an innocent child. Maybe He doesn't care. After all, He cared so little for His Son He made His Son fast for 40 whole days, though fasting was never a law in the Law, but merely a popular custom. Fasting was excoriated, even (Zechariah 7), but look how inconsistent: He made His Own Son go hungry, to prove Son's Love for Father? What about Father's Love for Son, huh? Won't even let the Son feed Himself at no cost to the Father? Won't even bother to save the Son if He jumps off the Temple, despite the promise of Psalm 91? Won't even spare His Son the Cross? Well, I'll give Him those Kingdoms so He doesn't have to go to the Cross. I'll spare the Son, alright. I won't abuse Him the way the Father does. I'll be the savior of the Savior. I'll save that innocent child from the drug-crazed mother.

Yeah, Satan: above all, prefer looking down to looking up: see self, rather than the Most Gorgeous Person in the Universe. Preen, instead! Yeah, so 'good'! Heh.

'Sounds real familiar, don't it? Turn on TV, listen to any Congressional Hearing, have a conversation with anyone, go to church on Sunday. It's everywhere:


Let's feed bodies — oh, the poor children. Weep for the poor children. Weep, weep, weep: see how much we care? Let's get mad at bodies, too. Like at those no-good hussies who dared to have some fun and got pregnant. Let's call them murderesses 'cause we think that's what the Bible should say. Let's hunt them down, punish them with childbirth! But we don't take the child and raise it, no! We force those hussies to raise the child. To keep on seeing what bad hussies they are! We want those hussies to suffer childrearing! Yea and hallelujah! To give the child the bad thinking which made their mammas get pregnant in the first place, so we can make more hussies from the kids! So we can keep on having a supply of hussies to get mad at, which we love to do!

We gonna splash around, too. We gonna sing songs, and bake cakes, and ask everyone to give us money, doing God's Work, we are! We then gonna exorcise all dem nasty demons, and even tempt danger, like go to Afghanistan where missionary work is a crime! Why, we'll write nice tracts in a language they can't read — so people can see 'God's' love in us. Us, not God.

Yeah, we gonna make lots and lots of laws, too, so we can rule the world 👑. We gonna rule (& drool), and we gonna kill sin. So we gonna do it, not the Cross. We gonna fix it, not God. And God will reward us, yonder, in the good ol' bye and bye.


Yep, we're sure faithful satanic megaphones, huh. We do our father proud, yep we do.

Christians are the choicest hawkers for Satan's message, and throughout history we Christians have long had special grooming by our demonic handlers. Before us, of course, it was Israel who was the top target (not that demons have now abandoned the Jew, since God never will). Before Israel, it was anyone who had a thought (or two) of desiring to be with God — "just because".

Why are such folks, targets? The ongoing vendetta Satan has against the Lord fuels him. Once, oh too long ago, he romantically loved Him. Thus, he didn't really see the Lord as He is, but rather iconized Him, much like a romancing couple view each other. Puppy-love. Attraction. Ahhh, but if puppy love doesn't grow up to mature love, it atrophies into bitterness. Attraction must mature into Compatibility, for the attractions you find in the love-object are not the sole characteristics of that person/thing. So, Attraction motivates one to reciprocate, to subordinate to the object, even with respect to unattractions, so that Compatibility results.

Compatibility, in turn, must mature into Rapport, which is a melding — the thinking in the two individuals becomes harmoniously joined. The 'attractions' have expanded to become the whole object, because in Compatibility you came to appreciate all the characteristics in the object, even the ones which cause you discomfort. You thus come to love the object because it is, not merely for what 'good' it does you. So your values meld — it's hard to say where one of you begins, and the other ends, in thinking. So, both you and the object thus become more free, during this stage, of having to be 'worthy' — evidenced, for example, by a desire to defend/come-to-the-aid of the object, "just because". Just because, you want to. For love, loves.

Finally, this Rapport stage needs to reach Mature Love: the Object of love becomes more important than self. The hallmark characteristic of this Love stage's completion? Self regards what others would call "sacrifice", a joy. No reciprocation from the object is needed at all. Only when the Love stage completes, then, is the relationship completely free, because only then can either party be wholly 'whatever', without fear of loss. Only then, is the energy of Love fully freed to operate, because only then are all inter-object obstacles (due to differentials in characteristics) under the "feet" of Love.

This process occurs item-by-item, and its 'progress' can be due to irrational compatibilities, etc., as well as real ones. So some items of attraction might rapidly progress toward Love, whereas others are 'sticky', so to speak. Thus, a wife might completely disregard her husband's beatings, because the beatings don't interfere with her love's stage-of-development. Yet if he pees on the sidewalk, she might become so disgusted, she ups and leaves him forever. On that item, there was no desire to subordinate at all, and it broke the relationship.

Satan got stuck in the (quite-vulnerable) Compatibility stage. Queer thing, about Love. If you don't grow up fully in it, the point at which you become stuck ruins your life. So, in Satan's case, he'd passed most items in the Attraction stage, so the attraction became permanent. Some attraction items progressed into Compatibility. Some even progressed into the Rapport and Love stages. However, some attractions, as we'll see below, never progressed into Compatibility. So he got stuck. On those items, the need for self to adjust to the object, so to become compatible with it (here, the "object" is the Son), required a level of subordination which — was so unattractive to Satan, he just quit. Notice how, because he was indeed in the Compatibility stage, that it 'stuck', too: he ardently wants to become like the Most High. Yet he also needs to make the Most High do the subordinating, so he can justify his own insubordination, as 'virtue': as something owed him, rather than owed the Most High.

Attraction demands receipt of (its idea of) 'reciprocity' from the love-object. This, because Attraction is inherently traumatic, for its goal is to reach Compatibility, which in turn stresses Subordination. The person Attracted has an attraction-based love, so is weak. He needs the love-object to evidence its own subordination to him via some kind of reciprocal attention. Receipt of 'reciprocity' from the love-object is reassurance of that attention, so that self won't fear 'hurt' if it subordinates to the love-object.

Satan came to feel disillusioned, then, because he didn't perceive he got enough reciprocity from the Son to justify overcoming his unattractions. Precisely how he came to that conclusion, we don't fully know, but it's clear he feels 'let down', unloved by the Son. We do know the paradigmal elements of his Fall (a scenario depicting those elements follows in the brown indented paragraphs, below), since of course they form a gestalt we all face — one God faced first, given the impossible inferiority (compared to Infinite Righteousness) of any creatures being made. One of the running weaknesses in Parts 1 and 2 is the question of how much angels and man knew at their respective creations. I assume here that: 1) the human race was going to be created anyway and 2) that this fact was communicated, at least to Satan, before his Fall. Our being part of this Trial, then, constitutes an extra use of our otherwise-purposed existence. Such assumptions don't have to be true, and one can maybe argue that the Bible is relatively silent on these points. Still, the assumptions are used for a different reason: so to illustrate the known data. So also, in Part 2, I assume that Adam and the woman didn't know of any Gospel for themselves prior to their Fall. Again, I made the assumption in order to flesh out what is known. These assumptions will later be corrected as I learn more.

We also know Satan's extreme beauty was somehow a material factor in his decision to rebel (Isaiah 14, Ezra 28). Moreover, being "full of wisdom"(ibid), Satan knew the Father's Plan for him and the other angels — they all knew. So also, he knew the Father's Plan for the Son to become the Messiah for yet-future human race, for he was the Guardian of the Throne, the highest angel of them all. Closest to the Son, walking to and fro among those huge gleaming gems, "the stones of fire".

What a time to be alive. Way back then, "in the beginning", even though every angel knew all from first breath, the knowing-all was just so many libraries in the mind — how each felt about the information varied considerably. For, with the first breath, came curiosity, and reviewing, comparing ideas and understandings. It was a glorious time, full of every kind of enjoyment. Conversations among the stones of fire were stimulatingly fantastic. Everyone was in love with the Son's gorgeousness, and longed to emulate Him, "just because". Everyone was new. Everything was new. Oh, what a glory, to sit and play with the excellency of the knowledge, all the time!

And as time passed, the knowledge-volition interactions birthed and raised understandings. It became clear that the Plan was beyond angelic ability to execute. But, Righteousness was gorgeous, right? Yet, the daily confrontations with one's own inadequacies, the inability to measure up to those Divine, gorgeous Standards, well — that was hard to take. Kinda hard to constantly see self falling so short. Kinda hard to have one's failure to measure up constantly staring one in the face! What, He has to pick me up yet again?? When will I ever be able to do this myself? When will I ever be able to give Him something of my own self, rather than something I had to get first from Him? The initial love of being associated with Someone So High, atrophied into a constant reminder that self was so inferior.

So too, the Plan for humans was disturbing. It was analogous to the Plan for angels (confer Hebrews 2, especially verses 2 and 16), and it began to bug him (confer his bitter comments in Job 1 and Job 2, and Matthew 4's Greek, especially his tone-of-speech). Its tenets didn't fit his romanticized notion of the Most High. Like Isha (Adam's wife) would later do, Satan came to question the Motive of His First Love, because the Plan was pretty disturbing — and was meant to be disturbing, as he well knew. He well knew that the entire goal was to develop the being beyond his own nature, and that this development could only occur via God's infusion, so to speak, of Divine Attributes: through learning Him. So, the creature never never never has, of himself, any merit at all, because he is too puny. Anything he gets, he gets only from the Most High. Yet he is supposed to obey the standards of the Most High. Or burn. So whatever abilities he does have, he can't use to honor the Most High, because all of his own abilities don't meet the Standards. Such abilities are the creature's own, to have for himself, to enjoy with his fellows. But! To be 'good', he has to reject himself, be a nothing, totally dependent on whatever the Most High chooses to do to/for him, in the name of Love: to supposedly 'grow' him. Forever.

How fair was that, to give finite creatures such an impossible standard of inifnite Righteousness, a standard which they could never meet, and thus hell would be inevitable, unless they grovel (believe in Christ)? How fair was that, to the Most High Himself, even, to demean Himself so low, paying the foreknown-to-occur sins of the human race? Such a stark choice! Fair, to whom? No way anyone can become 'good enough', so the shortfall forever stares one in the face. God forever foregoes His Standard, yet keeps on insisting it be met — what for, since loud and clear everyone knows only He can meet it! Man forever must see how small he is? It's intolerable to live so low, even for angels, how much more for mankind? No sugar coating, no easing, like — even a little seduction, a little romance, to give the creature a way to earn righteousness via his own limited abilities to do something? So he won't feel utterly hopeless? Granted, God knows the human can't ever measure up — but why impose that horrific knowledge burden on man?

Really, it's too much to bear. It's like throwing everyone away. Something's wrong with this Plan. Maybe the Most High doesn't love, after all. Maybe it's all a ruse. If God really loved His Creatures, why set up for them a standard of righteousness that they can't possibly meet? Why impose on them the frustration of trying to be as good as the Most High in order to serve Him, when — over and over, mind you — the Most High constantly makes it known, "no one is as good as Me"? Wouldn't it be more loving to at least make a substitute method of righteousness they can actually do, one laden with good feelings of accomplishment — rather than burden them with this nasty, tyrannical 'choice'? Why create them with independent abilities, but say they can't act independently of God and be 'good' toward Him? Isn't that hellish?

"Familiarity", so goes the saying, "breeds contempt." As the one Closest to Him, obviously it had been Satan's job to know the most, to be the liaison. So, he was the most familiar with the Son. And, to him, the Son's 'scorecard' was not good, finally; Satan came to feel that he did all the sacrificing, and the Lord was just using him. Morning Star, the incurable romantic, became Satan, the incurable cynic. Pride blinded him to the naked Love message that God will do the impossible, God will fill up the creature for free! to make him worthy — to the extent he freely consents, for Love Never Coerces. No romance, no seduction. Pride considers such an 'offer', emasculating. So he concludes, in his disillusionment, "I will make Myself like the Most High (replacing the Most High, the Hebrew text means)."

Therefore, he became iconoclastic. Neat trick, that. Iconoclasm gives him a way to ease his inferiority complex, by putting him in the driver's seat: he, not God, sets the standards, and it's God, now, who doesn't ever measure up. Defense mechanism of "projection", that. Iconoclasm also gives him the satisfaction of putting down the God(Son) Whom he feels never loved him (the way he wanted to be loved). So, he gets 'even'. So, he makes hell for the God Whom he feels made his life hellish. Götterdämmerung, baby. Oh, what power, what sweetness, to hurt Him! Such sweetness is worth losing one's own life for, even in an eternal Lake of Fire! Yeah, baby, every second I burn you'll know the pain even more!!! Every second someone else I bring with me burns, you'll know their pain even more!!!!! Ahhhh.

Therefore, he's on a vendetta against the Most High. Therefore, anyone whom God favors must be a target for his bitter iconoclastic revenge (i.e., Christians, Jews, anyone with even a glancing interest in the Most High). Someone on a vendetta finds revenge the sweetest when love objects of the one it's against are used to produce that revenge. Someone on a vendetta is jealous. Jealousy is the mutation of the old attraction-stage of love — the attraction never dies. It just turns bitter. Steal them away from Him. Get them to turn on Him. It's like, "Ha! You don't love me, so I'll make them hate you!"

Oh, how faithful we are, to hate Him! We superimpose Satan's cheap ideas on God — saying God wants what we say should be our works, for example — and then worship those ideas. Who are we really worshipping? Surely not God — we don't even bother to know Him. We instead choose our pet taboos, our pet crusades, our pet rituals, our pet 'good deeds' — and we do pet tricks, preening — and call it all 'worship' — even, 'love'. We romanticize our body functions as making our souls worthy of Divine Reciprocity.

Romantic notions are really not love, at all. Like Madame Bovary, the romantic fantasizes someone or something which pleases — to fill a need, to make self feel good. The need is to receive unconditional love — but the romantic sets all the conditions. It's quixotic, at best. It's also cheap, for the romantic's idea of 'love' depends entirely on goodies: appearance, wealth, importance, attention, wit, charm, status — all of which, of course, are directed in favor of moi — thus moi is wonderful, too. It's egoistic to the extreme. The so-called love object is, really, unknown. Only the object's accoutrements are actually loved. Possessively. Obsessively. And above all, conditionally.

Many a marriage fails because the couple can't get past the need to romanticize. Hollywood-style 'love' is demanded, and goes unmet. The dating is glamorous, but after the initial newness of setting up housekeeping together, the drudge of daily life takes its toll. Why? Because the definition of what constitutes a 'good' relationship has been reified into looks and actions of a very particular nature. Tahiti is 'good'. Dullsville is not. Shallowly-defined 'good', shallowly-defined 'love'. Ergo, disillusionment and iconoclasm.

By contrast, God's Love knows all our flaws, and loves in spite of them. Which love, we spurn — because we, like Satan, can't tolerate the truth: that we are unable to be worthy (Romans 8:7-8). The fact that such a truth is the greatest joy of all — that we need not be or do anything in order to get this love (Philippians 3:9) — alas, such a truth goes un-enjoyed. Rather, the unconditional love we crave, we at the same time spurn, because to admit God's unconditional love means to admit our unconditional unworthiness. You can prove this fact quickly: "to believe in Christ" for salvation requires zero merit, but is instead a simple act of faith in the meritorious object (Christ), yet is derided as a totally unfair 'condition'! As if it were us, not Christ, who 'sacrifice', by believing in Him! Or, the flip-side, that "to believe" is not enough — that we must do something, too! Ahh, yeah, baby — gimme gimme gimme some credit, God.

So, like Satan, we insist on romanticizing ourselves worthy of that unconditional love, and we won't let that fantasy 'go'. For example, the very idea of a 'hell' means, to us, that at least some of us are unworthy — so maybe moi is, too. Not tolerable! So we invent a god who likes our pet tricks, our goodies — and then idolize 'him'. We want a god we can appease, not a god who is Absolute, even if that means giving up 'unconditional love', of which only an Absolute God is capable. We want a fantasy god, like Satan does: one who seduces us, and one whom we can seduce in turn. Ahhh, romance with the Sugar Daddy/Petty Judge!

Looks like we're rather involved with this conspiracy, eh? So, what should we learn? Do we care? Whose side do we want to be on, and why? Our life is a movie, playing at every "theatre near you". Our call, as to how we want it to go. Satan's script, or God's.


Core Trial Issues

Then what is God's Script? To understand God's Script for us, we first have to understand what the Trial between God (maybe Father, not Son, is Prosecutor?) and Satan is about. On the human level, three fundamental categories of arguments are at issue:

  1. God made Himself obvious via the physical universe, but-
  2. some folks just reject Him anyway, even though they know, and-
  3. some other folks really don't see Him via the universe, genuinely don't know, so don't yet believe because they can't tell He really exists.

The root question in these points? Why should unbeliever folks go to Hell? Regarding believers, Satan's variant root question: why should believers, who also behave like the #2 and #3 people, avoid Hell?

Satan's arguments are just. God's making the same arguments — made them first, actually. (God had to determine how creation would be, so dealt with these questions first.)

Notice how these three topics coalesce into a Central Trial Issue: what decision does one make about God based upon both what he thinks he knows, and what he thinks he doesn't know?

Now you see why mankind is part of the Trial: man's decisions are Trial Evidence. The fact that two thirds of the angels opted not to rebel is not used in the Appeal Trial. Instead, an entire new class of rational creatures are created — so that Divine Judgement can't be accused of being partial, even by the Defense (Satan). We are the conclusive evidence, and our decisions prove who is correct, of the two sides. Moreover, the degree of cognizance or ignorance we have about God is itself an inherent part of the Central Trial Issue. Not our 'works'. So, what are the contentions of both sides?


Free Will means Freedom to Fail — or, Grow In Love: Integrity Properties

Satan argues that failure (i.e., to want God) must mean God made angels and humans defective. Behind this conclusion is the idea that if God is perfect, what He makes should not be capable of failure. Thus, God is UnJust and UnLoving, for:

Satan's trial argument key → Notice how Satan's arguments don't even reference sin, except as symptomatic of a God-made defect. Thus, Satan and his Angels, though initially made with full knowledge-and-power, having free will, rejected the relationship with God based on that same knowledge. They thus represent Category #2, above. Their rebellion is based on a claim that God made creatures defective: so, if they can reduce or eradicate the defects in creation, they are better than God, and they should be the rulers of the universe.

Therefore: Seduction, Lying, etc. are but good tools to reduce/eradicate these defects. For, Seduction requires good deeds toward the seducee. So, Tyranny is good, if that tyranny is seductively promulgated and seductively imposed. Because Seduction, free will is indeed choosing it. So, the 'tyranny' is actually Freedom. See the top-down logic? See how the world is so infested with it? Most of all, see how they come to embrace the philosophy they have toward themselves, toward life, toward ruling us puny humans? They really know the Truth. They really reject it. The Lie Is Better. And they claim God's using the Lie also — but, lying, covers the lie with His so-called 'Truth'.

God, by contrast, explains that a rational creature cannot independently exist, be a person, absent free volition. Free will means freedom to will, and to will against. If volition is not wholly free, any 'creature' is nothing more than a supercomputer. Volition, being free, includes the freedom-to-fail. Absent this freedom to fail, 'free' is a sham. Further, Love cannot exist apart from free will, lest it likewise be just so much programming. wanting is the beginning of love, its root (being "pro" a thing). Further still: Love depends on knowledge; so, knowledge must also be a choosable thing. So, one chooses based on #2, what he knows, and #3, what he doesn't know. To make that choice, one must want the content: here, God. So, if a person wants God, he chooses to know — whether he sees proof at the moment or not. Also, if a person doesn't want God, he can #2, reject what he knows, and/or #3, choose not to know.

Therefore, the ability to avoid failure must be built into the person by means of his own free will, because if not freely chosen, it is — again — imposed programming. This ability must be freely chosen for another reason: love. One avoids failure only if one loves not failing more. That is a choice, a decision. With every decision, one foregoes the rejected option, in favor of the choice made. Thus, a preference is expressed: positive, "for" the choice; negative, "against" the alternative. So, in every decision — based both on what one knows and what one doesn't (yet) know — one is also choosing to forego any alternatives. So, in every decision, one "loves" the choice made over and against the choice(s) foregone. Love mediates choice.

However, love might love choices which compete. "Compete", because they aren't all compatible with each other. Or, more likely: "compete", because they may need to be mediated into a hierarchy, compartmentalized, so that they all can be achieved. For example, if one is, at the same time, hungry and needing to go to the bathroom, which desire should be satisfied first? If one wants to purchase a thing, but the money available means something else desired can't be purchased, how does one choose between these two "competing" desires?

One thus needs internal strength, integrity — so to mediate between the competing wants. "Integrity" means the ability to hold together well despite pressure from the "competition". If the integrity is violable, then even if one loves, the love can be violated, worn-out, even killed, by the "competition".

Hence the need for Truth, Righteousness and Justice, so Love has a secure basis for mediation. God is Inviolable because He is Infinite. The Infinity Attribute means, among other things, that all Attributes are in infinite homeostasis. Infinity's Integrity is thus totally stable, unchangeable, yet wholly free to fail because the Freedom is infinite, too. Free will is thus infinitely balanced to execution power: the ability to execute choices is in homeostasis with the desire, that is, the choices themselves. So there is no competition, because all desires are subordinated to Righteousness, and all power is balanced to desire. Love is what makes this subordination, this balance, this equilibrium 'stick': so God's Integrity holds together, infinitely stable, against any and all pressure — even the pressure of Judging His Own Son.

Happiness Key → Thus, true happiness: the freedom to fail remains inviolate, also, by forever remaining foregone, unused. So, it's a 'glory of the foregone/unused', so to speak. Finity cannot inviolably forego, even if perfect (unless deprived of free will), because it is not big enough. But God's Attributes are 'big enough'. God is Uncreated, so there is no way to 'create' Infinity in Finity and thus make the finite creature 'big enough'. However, God can share Himself, without loss, because He is Uncreated Infinity. So: if God grants this Sharing in response to a finite-but-free volition positive to Him, even finity can "grow" in God's Own Integrity, and thus become, independently, "big enough". That growth, in turn, is alone the way to become "good" by God's Standard.

(Satan nods, here. His central argument is that God didn't make angels and humans 'big' enough.)

For The Truth is, whether angel or human, the person is alive. Hence, has desires. Hence, is expressive. Hence, needs both to give and take, which is a normal part of being a person. Yet, these needs compete, until the needs can be "docked" into a hierarchy, such that all of them can be harmoniously achieved. Love, when it grows enough to "bond" with Truth, and therefore Righteousness and Justice, becomes competently mediative, so accomplishes that "docking". Until this happens, one is not happy, but is assailed by warring needs. In short, Integrity is a "Mediator", and makes peace. Thus, happiness.

So Happiness requires love-for-righteousness, to exist. So, angels and humans have free will. Love Must Be Learned, and Learning depends on free will choosing to learn. In short, the person (angel, human) needs to grow bigger than he is, by means of love-choices which are pro-Righteousness. As noted earlier, God's making one initially perfect cannot trespass free will. If it did, then the being wouldn't be free; tyranny of any kind is anathema to God. So, the initially perfect person nonetheless needs to "grow" — in Love. 'Love for what he already knows about God — or, love to learn more about Him. So, if either one favors what one already knows about God, or favors the (i.e., further) acquisition of God's thinking, one chooses "for" God — which results in a growth in Integrity, owing to a growth of Love-for-knowledge-of-God. (Rejection, of course, would mean sin, and the loss of perfection. How God solves that problem is progressively explained here in Parts 1 through 5.)

In short, God grows a person by means of the person wanting (i.e., to know) God. That wanting is a choice; God freely responds to such a free choice by transmitting God's Own Knowledge, the Truth, (for us) Bible Doctrine, which only He can do: this transforms, "grows" one's soul. (confer Romans 12:1-3, Ephesians 3:15-20, James 1, 2 Peter 3:18. Search also on "enlarge", a Bible keyword for this concept.)

This is how God's Own Integrity gets built into the person — for the Truth of God is part and parcel of all of His Other Attributes. So, the Knowledge also has the property of Truth, Righteousness; Justice, Love. So, the creature thus being built can develop the ability to avoid failure, by means of Learning to Love Righteousness — which Love results from the Knowledge of the Truth of Righteousness, if the person is positive to the Knowledge. John 8:32, Galatians 5:1, etc. It's not enough to merely know what is right. How does one value what is right? So, even if one didn't know (i.e., God), how does one value getting the knowledge? So, it's not merely the knowing, nor merely the wanting, but both, which make for (or destroy) the ability to avoid failure. Either one comes to love something else more than God, and hence fails, or comes to love God more, and hence succeeds. This is the lesson Satan didn't "complete": the lesson of Love.

So, developing a Love for God is the critical issue, not the creature's own attributes (so, not works). It's the volitional attachment to God's Integrity which justifies the sharing of God's Integrity, and the sharing of God's Integrity produces the inviolable happiness, the inviolable ability to avoid failure. Love is the key to everything, the reason to live. The "bottom" of Love is wanting a thing, being "pro" a thing. The "top" of Love is giving one's all to a thing. So, "developing a Love" means growing in Love: from the "bottom", to the "top".

See, the "heart" of Integrity is composed of Truth, Righteousness, Justice, and Love (its driver components): +T +R +J +L = I. The first three, absent the last one, make life hellish. What joy is there, if Truth is not Loved? What joy is there in self being right? Yet also, L apart from the R, J, T, is storm-tossed, since Love — loves. It needs a mediator, a protector. T, R and J do that. Yet also, L husbands T, R and J, for it is through Love that the R J find fulfillment and happy function. It is through Love that Truth is cherished and thus "in front". (See Psalm 89:14-15 Lord loves Righteousness, Justice verses.)

Here's the irony, though: Love by nature is also 'transitive' — it goes to an object. Question is, what's to be the object? If the object is not Righteousness, Love self-destructs. Why? Because The Truth is, whatever is not Righteous is harmful. "Righteousness" is not merely "rightness", because there is no glory (Love! enjoyment!) in merely being right. To qualify as "Righteous", it must also be Gorgeous, not merely right — so Love can love a Desirable Object. So, think of "R" as a concatenation: Rightness, + gorgeousness. So it is Gorgeous Rightness, not merely rightness. So it is Gorgeous Rightness, not merely gorgeousness.

In short, Love needs to be mated to Righteousness. Absent this mating, L is no good — but also, R is no good, for then Truth is divorced, so 'righteousness' would instead be mated to Lies. So Righteousness ceases to be Righteousness if not espoused to Love. Justice is the expression of Righteousness, the carrier-outer, the executor of Righteousness. So, Truth, Justice, Righteousness, and Love must all be espoused, "one". (Side note: The Bible's Hebrew word, "tsedekah", and "δικαιοσύνη" both mean Righteousness and Justice — because the two cannot be divorced. Unhappily, English has no single word to match, so translators must use either "Righteousness" or "Justice", thus divorcing what cannot be divorced.)

Why must they all be espoused? Try imagining R and J 'run' by hatred! Or, just R and J alone: what happens? Life becomes a dry 'diet' of rules and regulations, judging or approving, do's and don'ts. It becomes autonomic, rotelike. Dead, even while living. That's true hell, is it not? Granted, one does need to learn what's right, and live by what's right. But why? Because it's good — but what is "good"? Is a thing good if not gorgeous? If gorgeous, then one loves it, revels in it — so only then is 'good', good. R and J alone aren't concerned with the requisite that "good" be enjoyable. Love, though, is concerned with enjoyment. So, absent Love, there is no enjoyment, however 'right' or 'gorgeous' a thing might be. So, they need to all be 'married', in balance — or, life is hell.

Worse, R and J alone can only adjudicate — they can't solve anything. A murderer can be sentenced, but the victim is still just as dead. Two lives die because one murdered another. Sure, it's just for the murderer to also die — but the loss is never recovered. R and J alone, then, are sterile. They can pronounce blessing, or punishment; they can pronounce rewards or loss. They can't solve any loss, for to solve the loss, requires foregoing — which means to forego R and J.

Thus, for R and J alone, a hopeless paradox exists: the R and J standards must be met, but cannot really be achieved, because the Standard must be foregone in order for the loss to be recovered. So, R and J alone are unfulfilling. Love, however, is innately foregoing: that is its nature. So, only Love can fulfill R and J, and Love can only do that by means of bonding to, living on, The Truth.

As noted earlier, Love needs an object. Absent R and J, Love alone has no object, either, so is constantly unfulfilled. R and J give Love something worth loving. Absent R and J, love has no protection, so goes to any object — suicidally. Absent L, R and J are sterile. So Love solves the loss, solves the paradox, by Giving Its All to R and J — again, by means of bonding to, living on, The Truth. Of course, to be able to forego itself, Love must itself be Righteous and Just. Which it becomes, if Righteousness/Justice is the Object of Love. For Love bonds/melds when it is complete, whole: not merely Attraction, not merely Compatibility, not merely Rapport, but United. So it is, in God. So, Love's Bonding to R and J makes Love inviolately Righteous and Just — so it can always retain its "foregoing" nature, yet always Satisfy and Solve. Because, Love first bonds to, lives on, The Truth. (That's how Christ became "The Way, The Truth, the Life".)

Therefore, if Love is Righteous and Just itself, it can indeed forego its own Righteousness and Justice, if it can give itself to serve Righteousness and Justice (the Love Object): and thus, solve everything. Dock everything. Without compromise. And of course, it's not Righteous to be vulnerable, is it? Integrity means being able to withstand all offenses/opposition, doesn't it? If a building can be knocked down by something, then the building lacks integrity to that extent, cannot 'hold' against what can knock it down. So, Love Fulfills Righteousness and Justice, and Holds All, Withstands All, makes Integrity 'stick' Against All Opposition. Happily. All this, by means of The Truth.

That is why Integrity isn't Integrity, unless all four attributes are sufficiently-developed, and in balance. For these attributes to develop, there must be sufficient knowledge — hence, learning — hence, free will choosing to learn. So, if one hasn't learned Truth and thus Love sufficiently, or rejects Truth, Love, any prior learning of R and J are "deformed", and therefore heinous, destructive. Hence, they all need to be 'married', in balance.

So the "top" of love is to pour oneself out, give one's all. One is willing to forego everything, do whatever it takes, to benefit the love-object. So love's nature requires the mediating "strength" of Integrity. Absent R and J, either love self-destructs, or does something stupid, because — again — apart from RJ, Truth is divorced. So then Love would stupidly imagine itself to be doing 'good' for its object, or would stupidly imagine itself doing 'good' for itself. So, absent R and J, Love could not accurately fulfill its pour-out goal. Instead, love would eventuate in madness. It wouldn't know that what it did was no good. Unable to stop trying, though, it would drive the self crazy. Because love, loves. So, absent R and J, love 'thinks' itself "in the Light" (1 John) — but is not. So goes round and round and round. Insanely. Just like that song in the movie "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", starring David Niven and Doris Day. While rehearsing a play, Doris Day beautifully sang the problems with love: "Some days you're up, some days your down...Love's like a circus! and you're on a trapeze...High, low, anywhere the wind blows..goes love."

Self-Destruction Key → In sum, if one mates his love to anything but Love for God, Who Alone is Infinite +T, +R , +J and +L, such other-mated-love becomes hell itself: 'destroying the lover, and all the lover's love-objects, too.

Since the "top" of love is to pour oneself out, give one's all, what does that mean, in God? God, being Infinite, is Infinite Truth-Knowledge, Infinite Love. So, due to what He Infinitely knows, He accurately and forever chooses to forego His total freedom-to-fail, because He Infinitely Loves R and J. This Love-attitude is His Thinking, and thus His Power. (Omnipotence, like all other attributes, has no purpose, apart from Love.) Therefore, God's Love for creatures is Independent of their worthiness. He doesn't need reciprocation. He doesn't need reciprocation, because Love for Righteousness replaces that need, Substitutes for it. So, Love can accurately pour itself out totally to creatures, inviolably. Forever.

So, God's Thinking (Bible Doctrine), which is the dynamic of His Integrity, when poured (for example) in man, results in this Integrity being built in man, "line upon line, precept on precept". Slowly, easily, a little each day, enjoyably, like food. Like food, this Doctrine needs to be freely chosen, moment-by-moment, lest the person become a pet (God won't force you to "eat"). See? a person can choose to have God "grow" (or remake) him; of course, this choosing means he wants God.

For example, the Holy Spirit "grew" Christ's Humanity by means of Truth Deposits (Bible Doctrine), way beyond His Human limitations — so much so, He could pay for all sins on the Cross. As Parts 2 through 5 will show (plus "Nature of God" section), His Love became so high, each successive laceration with our sins was actually a successively-greater joy to Him (Greek of Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2, among other cites). How? Because, when Love is high enough, even pain expresses Love. Even pain becomes pleasure, at that level: pain fuses into pleasure. To us, this sounds like masochism. To Christ, the pain meant He was getting what He wanted. It was an outlet, to maximally express, pour out, His Love for His Father, for the Gorgeous Truth (Bible Doctrine), which the Holy Spirit gave Him in advance; and, to pour out His resultant Love for us. For, He kept on shouting parts of Psalm 22 in triumph: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani! My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!" He was Happy about it! Celebrating! Like the first Adam, who waited so long for the woman (see Part 2), this Last Adam likewise said, in effect: "at last!" He'd trained His Entire Life for this moment. He yearned for it, as He told the disciples at the last Passover. He Got It. And, He's Ecstatic, Fulfilled. On the Cross.

Please pardon the sexual metaphor (although Paul himself alludes to it in 1 Corinthians 6:16-17), but no other comes close: it was like a long orgasm, with one's totally-beloved spouse. The 'effort' of making love makes the love-act's pleasure intensively increase, even though one is sweating, maybe even tiring. Neither spouse cares, for they are too busy enjoying each other. The intensity climbs to such a level, they climax. That is the closest analogy I can think of to explain what His Joy meant. Frankly, it's a common analogy, in Scripture's original languages; why translators cover it up I'll never know, for one of the main themes in Scripture is that life with God is designed to be like intimate marriage. Sadly, given all the prissy coverups in translations, the reader misses this most-important message God relays. If this idea bothers you, use 1 John 1:9 and ask Father in Son's Name to help you find the verses which you will recognize illustrate this most-important doctrine. That way you know it's God telling you, not just some brainout writing a webpage. By the way: if you do keep reading these Parts 1 through 5, you will find some of those verses.

For fallen humans, "salvation" means the Holy Spirit spiritually regenerates the person (John 3, Titus 3:5), so that, post-salvation — if the individual wants it — He can spiritually grow him up to have Inviolable Integrity, just like the Most High — but with the Most High. 'No matter how 'defective' the person might otherwise be or become. So, then and only then is the person "good", because he's been "grown" big enough to independently have the Happiness and Love of God. In short, the person has "grown" big enough, because God poured Himself into the person. Through Love. (Romans 5:5.)

Think about it: what good is it to "be good"? Is "good", good, if not happy? Is "good", good, if alone? To preen in front of a mirror, is that all "good" is worth? To have people praise you for being "good", what benefit is that? Then they control you; they control your happiness. Is "good", good, if dependent on reciprocation? If it has a 'price', or if it only comes from being influenced, manipulated, coerced? God says "no".

'Good' is good-for-nothing, if 'unmarried', on its own. Absent the completion of Integrity, which only comes from learning to love God, 'good' has no purpose. Learning to love God creates a Replacing Reciprocation — so one doesn't need 'goodies' or even 'good': God is the meaning of 'heaven', and God is 'enough'. Else, 'good' is a Talibanesque tyrant, seeking to salve its loneliness, by mating with pride. Learning to love God, that's the proper 'mate', and true freedom. Such learning is voluntary, so requires wanting God, wanting to get and 'live in' knowledge of God. Then and only then is one free, happy. Then and only then is life, living.


Free Will's Choice-to-fail causes Anti-Integrity 'Properties'

Development of Integrity and Love must therefore also freely work in reverse. For, to reject Truth, is to reject God. To reject God, is to reject Truth, for "God is Truth". So, to reject learning Truth, is to reject God also. So if Truth is rejected, then so is R, J, L. So, anti-Integrity properties replace whatever Integrity properties were there or were being developed.

For, By God's Design, Volition freely programs the soul, and thus the brain's neurons, because the brain is the outlet for the soul, the material interface for it. The brain, in turn, is bi-directional, feeding back to the soul: a) the stimuli it receives from the environment, b) associated past memories and data, so c) Volition's Prior Programming Commands. Upshot? Whatever choices one makes, make him. "As a man thinks in his soul, so he is" (Proverbs 23:7, KJV). Choices to reject thus create the impulse of rejection. If volition doesn't override these prior programmings, such programmings are 'approved' again: thus they widen and deepen. So, if the object of the rejection is some truth the person doesn't want, other truths will become infected, too: a vacuum is thus created (ματαιότης), and then lies rush in to replace the truth rejected, so stasis can be maintained. Romans 1 explains this sad process in detail, as does Romans 6 and 7.

So, any choices which are anti-God have the innate properties of destruction, death (confer Romans 7 and 8). So the neurons, thus programmed with a lifetime of rejection, only 'understand' rejection, because such a person's soul has programmed itself and the brain to only send or receive communications of rejection. That is why God forever chooses to forego His eternal freedom-to-fail. That is why He condemns anti-God choices. Condemnation is but the recognition of (and, if one 'awakens' due to hurting, the potential escape from) these deadly properties.

Choices to gain non-God knowledge at the expense of knowledge of God, at the expense of relationship with God produce an anti-integrity: a self-destructive, romanticized love, due to the imbalance: one's righteousness and justice are not balanced by Love-for-God. So, the person becomes unbalanced: since, Truth was Rejected, and thus is absent. This anti-integrity romanticizes (feigns) balance; it counterfeits, as integrity components, obsessive, even masturbating, preoccupations: with self, with works, with 'wrong'. The preoccupation with self, replaces Love; the preoccupation with works, replaces Righteousness; the preoccupation with 'wrong', replaces Justice. So, the person joylessly disintegrates, as he 'ages' in this substitute anti-integrity. To keep going, he must fantasize (substitute for truth). As each fantasy inevitably dies, it is replaced by another. Over and over. So, his unhappiness intensifies. Each successive disappointment calls up the memory of all others, so even a small loss causes the 'sin' of them all to lacerate him. Over and Over. One becomes maddened by the pain's taunting, torturing desolation, desperate for solace. Escape! Run away! Retreat from reality! So, in self-defence, one becomes gradually insane.

Why? This 'unholy trinity' of anti-integrity is a negative orientation to life, rather than a positive one; its negativity derives from rejection of God. No one can withstand prolonged, negative obsession. Hence the person shatters, within; he shrivels, becomes embittered, and — eventually — goes insane, unknowingly tormented by fantasized, unfulfillable urges for self-esteem. This happens because Love has no proper object. Its proper object, Righteousness, was substituted. So love becomes suicidal, and the person fragments, disintegrates, and then deadens, within. The affected individual is wholly locked inside a progressively-hypersensitive quest for self-esteem. All other persons become objects, since a prolongation of anti-integrity kills empathy: there becomes no room for any other 'person' but the self. So, the insanity insanely 'protects' him, by a constant hallucination that he is "in the light", right, happy. But really, dying, locked inside the self-absorbed dungeon which can't afford any truth to shine inside.

Therefore, fantasized 'happiness' definitions, i.e., preoccupation with "earthly things", goodies — fill the empty, gloomy dungeon. The substituted definitions of 'happiness' are all illogical, but the person who's rejected God has rejected truth, so is blind to his own insanity. This blindness is abetted by the (usually) large numbers of fellow-beings who share that same blindness, for the hallmark characteristic of arrogance is, more-makes-right. So, the person fantasizes himself 'normal', and never sees how insane he truly is. Moreover, the anti-integrity has its own veneer of stability, to prevent insanity's detection. To use a psychiatrist's quote, the veneer causes the person to "present himself well". He becomes a good actor, in essence. Fooling even himself. (See Anthony Hopkins, as "Corky", in the old movie, "Magic".)

Thus the person who chooses non-God at the expense of rapport with God destroys himself. No matter how 'good' he thinks he is, he is no good, and miserable. Condemnation is the only thing God can justly do for such a person. Why? Because condemnation is the sole means of providing such a person with a link to sanity. Condemnation 'speaks the language' a negatively-oriented person can understand. Even a criminal can understand punishment; it is the one Truth he recognizes. The fear of it can protect him from making further bad decisions. We are all 'criminal', because our negative orientation destroys us. Ergo the need for condemnation — and, the blessing it affords.

So: based both on what we know and what we don't, we choose to either keep the knowledge we have, or choose to get more. Conversely, we can choose to reject what we know, and/or choose not to know (or choose not to know more). That is the heart of the issue: what/who do we want to know (or know more)? Our choices end up being our love objects, because accepted knowledge begets love. So, what we keep choosing to know, we come to prefer , and eventually — love. So: we are voting. Do we vote to learn anti-integrity, and thus come to love insane, masturbating, negativity? Or, do we vote to learn God, and thus gain true Integrity — from loving Him, which likewise produces a free, positive orientation to life? (confer Ephesians 3:19's "and to come to know the love for Christ" — corrected translation, for the ingressive aorist of γινώσκω, "know".)

Satan, of course, prefers the windblown "circus" idea of Love, and is giving his all to it. By contrast, he deems God's "Love" His tragic flaw, His core weakness. "Give oneself away for someone else? Pour oneself into someone else? Without reciprocation? Is He kidding? Where's the so-called 'balance' in that? Ahhh God rationalizes away His faulty ability to create. He's lying, isn't He? Pretends to love us, so sells us on giving ourselves to Him, when all along — heh, he wants to be served! Aha! Just as I thought!"

So Satan feels that God somehow 'lucked out' in creating Satan, making by accident a creature who is actually superior to God. God has the superior power, this Satan does not dispute. God, however, has a faulty Righteousness, Justice, Love. In short, God is brute force with faulty thinking, at best. God is really stupid, carried away by his own lust: being in love with Love. So Satan intends to parlay God's tragic flaw into Satan's victory. Then, that same Love will be Satan's pawn. Forever.

So, Satan's using the Trial to trick God into some kind of failure. If God fails to deliver on even one of His promised covenants, for example, then God proves Himself to be less-than-advertised, and should relinquish His Authority, in favor of the more-able to rule (Satan & Co.). Or, if Satan proves that he can make man happier than God can do, Satan has proved himself the more able ruler. If Satan can pull off either of these two goals, God will abdicate. That's the deal.

Satan's also using the Trial to create Götterdämmerung. You know, Richard Wagner's fiery end: If I can't win, then you don't get to win, either. So, burn up even Valhalla. Satan's not stupid: he knows by now he's very unlikely to win. Still, it's better to go down, taking as many of the people Christ paid for with him, so to 'get even' with the Son. Even back in Matthew 4 (Third Temptation) he proved how he hates the human race, for failing him. After all, only unbelievers can be demon-possessed, and look how they get treated? 'Thrown into fires, made to gash themselves, made to drool, made dumb or deaf or otherwise-goofy. Or, made so very smart, building so many 'good' things, only to become totally bitter in the end (e.g., Herod the Great). Believers, too: Satan & Co. love their bitter endings (namely, Ananais in Acts 5, Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed the Lord — see Matthew 10).

So Satan & Co. love to satirize us. One of their favorite ways to ridicule humans is religion: oh yeah, they do want you to believe in God! But not by His Real Name. See, God loves. Won't seduce or mislead. So, will only answer to His Real Name (confer 2 Chronicles 7:14 and Isaiah 44-45). So, Satan & Co. delight the most in getting folks to buy religious tripe: "all religions are the same" (yeah, they are all sadistic, tyrannical, me-be-godlike, but clothed in such seductive language!); or, "any form of worship, if sincere, is okay" — yeah, because they are being worshipped, not God! Oh, how they laugh themselves silly at these puny humans who can possibly think that their intellectualizing, their money-giving, their avoiding cow meat buys them something with God. So, Satan & Co. invent the wildest forms of observances and taboos, and we puny humans just eat up the Yucky-Gertrude-Cheese definitions of God. "Y" for "Yahweh", "G" for "God", "C" for "Christ". Yeah, let's change haShem, "The Name". Satirize Deuteronomy 6:4!

Again, believers and Jews are the top targets, for those folks actually have the Word — at least, in their living rooms. Believers can't be demon-possessed, but they can be toyed with mentally, and (to a lesser extent) physically. So, Satan & Co. opt for getting such folks to be enthralled with flashy ceremonies, miracles, powers, or other magic. You know: ponderous robes and incantations, with that wonderful music which makes you feel so close to 'god'! Or, power stuff, like tongues; "healing"/casting out demons, either of which is really one demon telling another demon, "Okay, leave now" — so the stupid Christian thinks he did it. Satan & Co. just love a good joke, you see. More mundanely, they opt for getting Christians and Jews to overvalue their works. This is a much richer revenge, for such folks get certain protection from God, and thus Satan & Co. can leverage the protection for their own purposes: to build a nice world which needs no God. In sum, they aim to get as many folks as possible to join them in the Lake of Fire. 'Especially, nice people. Moral people. Preferring-self's-good-to-God people. So they can torment them forever. After all, Christ paid for all humans, so every human is therefore a love-object. By putting down humans, they are putting down Christ.

The upshot: Satan's stuck on 'wrong', but God's 'stuck' on Love. Satan's stuck on putting down, and God's 'stuck' on putting up: putting up Truth above His Own Person (Psalm 138:2b), putting up the serpent in the wilderness so that all can be healed; putting up His Own Son, making a shameful public display of Him, so to put Him above all powers; putting us up in Him forever, putting up with our inanities so that we might learn Christ. (Old Testament and Gospel brazen serpent passages, Colossians 2:14-15, Colossians 1:25-27, Hebrews 1 and 2, Philippians 2:5ff, 1 Timothy 3:16, Galatians 3-5 especially Galatians 3:19.)

Biggest Interpretation Key → Notice how both God and Satan look at, and talk about, the same data, but from two opposite perspectives: Love, or Hatred. Same facts. Opposite premises, opposite conclusions, because the nature of the person viewing the facts is 'opposite' in orientation!

So, what does the 'middle', the fact database, add up to? Did God create a "believe or burn" Gospel because He's a sadistic 'son of Belial', or did He create a Totally Free Way to have a relationship with Himself, out of Totally Unencumbered Love? A negative orientation puts down the Gospel, just as it is in the habit of rejecting/putting down everyone and everything else in life. A positive orientation puts up the Gospel (and puts up with the Gospel, so to speak, because God is trusted to have a good reason for creating it so) — which, with sufficient spiritual growth, eventuates in putting up everyone and everything in life, even its 'crosses'.

Look: when we accuse God of being unfair to make (say) such a Gospel, we interpret the Gospel's "Believe or Burn" message to mean God's motive for such a requirement is egotistical. Therefore the God of the Gospel can't be God, or the Gospel can't be the Gospel. But wait a minute: are we really looking at the Gospel? What does it say? "Believe or Burn". One of two "B's". Very stark choice, that. So: we can look at burn and not believe, to justify an offensive conclusion as to what the Gospel means. Or, we can look at believe and not burn to justify a happy conclusion as to what the Gospel means. God says both things. He looks at both. Now, do we look at how easy is the upside, merely believing? Or do we obsess over the downside, the burning? Does God get any benefit-of-the-doubt that, since He'd be having to look at burning people forever, He'd not allow such an alternative — unless all other alternatives were all worse? More importantly — unless this alternative wasn't wholly a glorious, pure-profit "best" for all parties, and all other alternatives were not only unprofitable, unglorious, but even more hellish?

A child doesn't understand, when Daddy or Mommy spank him, that the spanking benefits him. It seems like Daddy or Mommy is mean, egotistically asserting power and bigness. The child might never come to understand that the spanking, is love. Then again, if he grows up — he'll come to see that the highest expression of his parents' love was in their being willing to hurt the one they loved in order to benefit him. After all, if you stub your toe, you'll forget the pain, but Omniscient God forever knows that pain — Omniscience 'can't' forget and stay omniscient. So your pain is pain to God, too. Bigger pain, for Him than you, because he is bigger.

See, it depends on your orientation to God, how you conclude the meaning of the Gospel. If you're negative to God, you'll be negative to the Gospel. If positive to God, you'll be positive to the Gospel. The Gospel is not to blame. The people from whom the Gospel seems to 'come' are not to blame. In all events, the issue is God, and God alone. God is really 'whoever' God really is. Our view of Him may or might not match the reality of God's True Nature.

So: arguments that the brown man's god is worse/better/same as the white man's god, and similar excuses, are just as much nonsensical put-downs as looking at "Burn", but ignoring "Believe". What, does man own God? What, is a culture or race superior because it just happens to have a correct belief? What, is this some kind of competition, 'my god is better than your god', with the result that the god isn't honored at all, but rather the ones claiming to have the correct belief? Conversely: what, God must accept any ol' definition of Him you want to make, but you get the right to be upset if someone misstates your name and nature? Over and over again? If your name is "Clyde", but someone insists, "No! You are Yucky Gertrude Cheese!" — are you unfair to turn away? Of course not. So why is God branded as unfair? 'Especially since, if He answers, He's in effect lying to the person who calls Him by the wrong name? 'Especially since He wrote a whole Book, a Will, even, to disclose Himself and His Decisions?

Such put-down 'reasoning' is a handy way to chop God into Brother Foot meniality, and Satan loves it. Man's relative superiority or inferiority has nothing whatsoever to do with what the Truth of God is, right? Right. God is whoever He is. What, is a thing true because you or I say it is, or is it true because it — repeat, it — is? What, does the fact that person "A" knows a truth make him something over Person "B", who doesn't know? Of course not. And, of course, it doesn't benefit God that you 'give' him your belief, either, no matter how correct that belief is. If your belief is in the real God, that benefits you. No matter your background.

We all know someone who delights in putting down. Whatever that person does, is good — and God help anyone for whom that person does a favor! The recipient will never be allowed to forget it! Makes no difference if the recipient didn't want the 'favor' in the first place! The one delighting in putting down, does the favor to put himself up: "I did this! After all I've done for you!" See? Even more tragically, such a person puts himself down, too, with his god-complex: I must do this I must do that, do do do 💩. Nothing but misery there. Tragically, all too many believers use the Gospel as an ego-salve. Pity them, but don't fall into the trap of rejecting God's Plan for your life because they are idiots. They use the Gospel to put unbelievers down; God uses it to put everyone up.

By contrast, we all also know someone who delights in putting up. No matter what the problem, 'no problem' is this person's attitude. "How can he be so happy?" is our reaction. He looks at the same facts as we do; he suffers (say) more than we do — so much more, even we are taken out of our own self-preoccupations enough to gaze at him. How can he be happy, hurting that much? How can Christ actually want the Cross? Enjoy it, even (Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 22)? Well, that person sees an advantage in putting up, just as the negative person thinks he sees an advantage in putting down.

Same facts. Different orientation. After all, one really can cry all the way to the bank (making a large deposit), if he's not looking at the deposit, but only at his own effort. Gratitude is the attitude, and Love begets gratitude. By contrast, the negatively-oriented person is a black hole. Self-absorbed with his own efforts, no matter what you give him, it 'disappears', engulfed by his self-preoccupied ingratitude toward everyone — including, himself! Constantly being offended by others who don't meet his unrealistic expectations (arrogance's 'heart', that) — constantly guilt-ridden over any (rarely-perceived) failures in self — misery, misery, misery. Put-down, put-down, put-down. No wonder the god-complex is its own worst hell: confer 1 John 4:18, KJV. Another major theme in 1 John is the contrast between putting-down, and putting up — 1 John 4, especially.

So, in the 'middle', both sides (God's and Satan's) often appear identical, which is another reason why one can think himself to be "in the Light". Why? Because Satan didn't finish growing up in Love. He grew some, so shares some of the same perspective as God. But not enough. Had he finished growing up, his perspective would be God's — just as God(Father) intended in the Decree. The Decree (Hebrew: dabar, Greek: λόγον) is essentially a covenant/contract between the Members of the Godhead with respect to Creation: it's a Love Contract. For example, Son did all the creating, but the design choice was the Father's — Son gifts the creation to the Father. Spirit performs what can be termed a mother-like role. Confer Genesis 1-3, Hebrews 1-2, Colossians 1:16-18 (well, all of Colossians 1 & 2 are on this topic), 1 Corinthians 2-5, Ephesians 5, John 1:1-10, inter alia; also "Footstool" verses. Or, just read Romans, Ephesians, Colossians and especially Hebrews as whole books. The 1970's NIV is best for whole-book reading, in English.

Satan, during his spiritual growth process, hit a snag which to him was so great, he spiritually arrested, and then permanently rebelled, before "finish(ing) the course" (2 Timothy 4:17). His snag was apparently romanticism, the tendency to iconize. (That's a normal obstacle in childhood through early adulthood, which a stark Gospel helps obviate.) So Satan, thus arrested, sees the 'middle' as justifying his own desires — but is blind to his own gerrymandering of the interpretation of the data. To him, the interpretation is 'true'. And he's willing to live in hell forever for it. That's his way of putting the 'truth' above his own person.

Because his love for God remained stuck in romanticization, he didn't grow enough to cross the inviolability threshold. He grew quite a lot, but when faced with the 'competition' of his own abilities, would no longer accept the idea that God has to do all the giving. To Satan, that would be demeaning. Satan had come to associate giving more with power than with love, for he loved the power of God more than the Righteousness of God. 'Good' is a status, a power label, to Satan. So 'good' has nothing to do with the object, but with the subject. Doing 'good' for others is a way of proving the superiority of self. Love is not in the 'doing good', at all. Rather, it's a form of putting-down: hatred. So 'doing good' toward the object is an unpleasant necessity, nothing more. Pleasure can only be derived by preening over self's accomplishment in withstanding the unpleasantness of 'doing good'. (← 'heart' of all religion!)

Thus, Satan is deeply and truly offended by all God is, by all Christ is. Back before his Fall, he came to need Their Love as a compliment to him — which the you-can't-earn-My-Love message erased. He wanted to believe that his own worthiness was the catalyst for Their Love. To finally realize that God's Love is not predicated on creature worthiness is, for Satan, to forever condemn himself to inferiority. He sees such "Love", thus, as an insult. "The demand syndrome", as my pastor calls it, is the hallmark characteristic of hatred. All, of course, in the name of "good"! Demanding "good". Demanding — because, the self is weak and needs that demand met. So, any love message which is unconditional — is insulting.

So, he rejects that Love. So, his rejection mutates his prior love into hatred. Love putrefied, therefore, into jealous revenge. So Satan's thoughts, ideas, and plans all reflect incomplete and mutated Righteousness, Justice, Love. Because 'incomplete, 'the most evil. Nearly-white. Nearly-Light. Anti-Christ. It's the nearness which beguiles Satan into thinking he's more right than God. Counterfeit good is the worst evil there can be. Incomplete development leads to counterfeit good. So, the one beguiled by the counterfeit can't see the counterfeit. So, the one thus beguiled can't see that his enjoyment is progressively weaker and vulnerable: any "competition" destroys it. Any enjoyment due to 'success' is but a breeze, a vapor trail in the sky: it takes progressively-more effort to get a progressively-weaker 'thrill'. So one becomes ever-more-adamant, ever more "hard" (Bible term); one is addicted to the drug of arrogance: demanding, demanding, demanding! It's obvious, it's pathetic, and the one in it becomes even more blind, by the day. The more friends try to help such a one, the more that one hardens in his addiction. There comes a point where the kindest thing friends can do, is separate from him.

For, such a one becomes irreparably insane. Watch: Satan contends God didn't furnish rational creatures (angels, humans) with the correct amount of Power and Knowledge at their (several) creation, so no one rejecting Him deserves to go to the Lake of Fire. Notice how he makes an argument which he well knows is impossible. He well knows that volition is needed to value the power and knowledge in order to receive Divine Infusion, so to speak. So, because God didn't override volition (instantly inserting into creation the 'right' choices, too!), God is impossibly wrong: thus anything God does in creating can only be wrong. Like Dostoyevsky's Inquisitor, Satan's saying Happiness depends on tyranny. That, of course, is an argument which only arrogance can love. Arrogance begets insanity, and arrogance is unrealistic thinking. Unrealistic (i.e., insane) thinking always blocks out undesirable facts. This blocking is done by free will choosing the lie, so to block out undesirable facts (theme of Romans 1 and 2). Here, Satan willfully blocks out the Free Gift of Divine Integrity, so to justify his conclusion that God is innately wrong. Psychological defense mechanisms (denial, projection, here) are thus used to do this blocking. Such mechanisms underlie all non-organic mental illness. ("Spiritual Pathology" goes into the problem in great detail. So does Part 2.)

So, what does God do? He won't coerce. So, He gives Satan & Co. grace. Ergo, He grants the Appeal Trial — so, ideally, they can yet come to see their own blindness for themselves. Formally, it is held to prove who's right in his contentions: God (the Son), or Satan. If Satan is right, then he's the one fit to rule the universe; if God is right, then He's the one fit to rule.


So Free Will means "Hell" Must Exist

See how tender is God's Love for Satan? 'For us? God, knowing in advance all of Satan's (and our) thoughts, made him (us) anyway. God, knowing in advance what would bollix Satan (us), in essence gives him his own world to rule his way — so he can come to learn that his (our) idea of what's right, is in fact hellish. 'For him, for the fallen angels, for those ruled. In short, human history is an illustration of hell, a foretaste of what living apart from God is like. The potential lesson from human history is, essentially: life with God is innately sublime, and life apart from Him is innately burning pain.

Further still, God's root contention is that any method of making rational creatures results in some type of "hell", so the only alternative to "hell" is not to create anyone. Had God made rational creatures so that they couldn't go to hell, as Satan contends God should have done, one of the following "hells" would result:

a) Say God made angels/humans without free will (i.e., with no souls). He thus prevents sin, so no Lake of Fire, but then the rational creatures are like computers, Stepford wives. Isn't that hellish? They can't love, since love requires free will; enjoyments are but programmed instructions, so no integrity. In fact, such beings would not even be persons! They would be pets, at very best. Isn't that hellish? So, to prevent a Lake-of-Fire future, power given them would have to be less, not more; knowledge would have to be less, not more.

b) Say God made angels/humans with limited free will. There are two variations of this b): First, "Free will" would only be free to the extent it can choose among non-sin options. There would be no "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", for example. So there would be no awareness of sin (awareness is an essential component of free will), and no ability to reject God in any way.

Second variation: to make them with sin-terminable souls. Here, free will is still limited, because the moment the person chooses against God, he obliterates. There is no grace. The moment one sins, one obliterates. How pleasant is life with God, in such a case? Isn't such a life evil, hellish? (Notice how, if one posits that one's soul obliterates due to never believing in Christ, one is claiming God makes free will limited, which goes against His Very Being — so one is unintentionally calling God 'evil'.)

In either variation, rational creatures are supercomputers, super-Stepford wives. They have a wider range of options, more like a Brave New World set of beings (oh, roof!) — isn't that hellish? Still there is no true love, for there is no true ability to go-against. Hence, no freedom, and 'free will' is but a sham, a spin. The greater power is still less than needed for free will; same, for knowledge.

c) Say God made angels/humans with full free will (interminable souls), with full power and knowledge at the get-go (which He really did do, for all the angels, and for the first two humans), but with No Ability To Reject the knowledge. Here, the scenario depicts a free will that is only 'full', if positive, thus no one can go to the Lake of Fire. The ability to reject, however, is denied — so no one can go to the Lake of Fire. Hence, 'free will' is not wholly free.

This scenario would be the same as b), because the creatures weren't given the option of rejecting the knowledge; Because they weren't given the option, their 'love' is but programming (based on foisted knowledge), so there is no true enjoyment; their 'integrity' (power-to-hold-together) is likewise fake. They are, in essence, seduced into obedience, made helplessly addicted to the knowledge, made helplessly addicted to God. Is that Love?

Worse, these creatures would be aware that they did not choose their lot, and instead are but marionettes, tugged into the 'right' way due to God's programming, because they do have free will, power, and knowledge — but not sufficient power to sin (the Knowledge would prohibit it). So, yeah, they avoid the Lake-of-Fire, but are in hell anyway, forever manipulated by attributes God gave them absent their consent; absent any power to reject those attributes, yet aware of their addiction. So, 'a life of torture, forever 'Run' by their Knowledge And Power, rather than by their own free will.

So, had God made angels/humans with free will, but unbalanced power and knowledge, He'd be subjecting them to tyranny of the worst kind: awareness of being manipulated, with no way out of it.

d) Say God made angels/humans with full knowledge-and-power, as well as full free will (interminable souls), just as they are in reality, so they retain the power to sin; further, just as in reality, they retain free will, even after sin. However, God prevents anyone who rejects Him from the Lake-of-Fire outcome. Again, this d) reflects what God really did, except God overrides the result. No matter whether one wants Him or not, one goes to Heaven. What kind of life is that? Isn't it hellish to be around someone you don't want? Isn't that still tyranny? Isn't it worse than c)? Surely it is, because now someone is forced to be with someone he rejects, forever. So the extra knowledge and power given by God, so that free remains free despite sin, is used to reject further "knowledge dividends" from God, of knowledge about God. Yet such rejection is tyrannically overridden, is it not, if the person is forced into Heaven, anyway?

Moreover, the person is denied knowledge he wants. Free will is always enabled to choose what it wants to know. If it rejects knowing more about God, it accepts knowing more about non-God. So, by forcing the person to Heaven, the person's choice to eternally know non-God knowledge is likewise tyrannically cut off.

Power goes with the type of knowledge, so the power to sin increases with the added non-God knowledge, and the power to reject sin increases with the added God-knowledge. The increase in the power to sin is due to the individual wanting it (evidenced by the conquering desire for non-God knowledge). Again, this power to sin, which free will had freely chosen, is tyrannically denied — by forcing that person to live in Heaven. Worse still, since that power was chosen, not the power to avoid sin, the power to avoid sin does not exist. So, the power he had, was denied, due to being forced to live in Heaven; worse, the person has no replacement power in his forced-Heavenly status. He is thus in effect paralytic, forever. Isn't that hellish?

Why can't God give the person a replacement power? 'Because power depends on knowledge. To want something non-God instead of ("anti") God, is to reject knowledge of God — the non-God knowledge is deemed preferable. To make this rejection requires the person to want something else more than God, based on both what he knows, and what he doesn't know. So the choice is "pure". The individual programs himself. His free choices "beat a path", as time passes, making himself more and more addicted to his 'loves'. So, although he technically retains free will, his accumulated decisions have a self-programmed momentum. The choices he rejected become more and more hateful to him. So, in effect, he builds walls around the rejected choices, and eventually renders himself 'impregnable'. The Bible calls this "hardness of heart". (Bible doctrine in the soul, circulating, has the opposite momentum, but is never addictive, since God is Free.)

The individual who has thus programmed himself to forever reject God remains free to choose Him, though, because God made free will inviolate: which after all, is the only fair thing, the only loving thing, to do. So God can't justly give the person a replacement power, to make Heaven tolerable, since the person never wanted the God-knowledge he needed to get the replacement power.

See all the tyrannies which result? So, for God to deny the effects of free will (here, rejection's effect is denied), how loving is that? Shall God be inconsistent?

What's left, then? Well, a) through d) above all result in "hells" God would have Himself caused, so He elected none of them. Instead:

e) God makes angels/humans like d) above, But They Receive The Full And Free consequences of their own decisions. Choosing-God 'consequences' are God's empowering responses; choosing-against-God consequences are native to their own natures. 'Eternally. Ergo salvation, so that one can learn God, be with God, despite sin's destruction. In short, one receives from God the freedom to make mistakes — and to recover from them, by means of grace, by means of God remaking the person. In a word, by means of Love.

Of course, the flip side of salvation, is eternal condemnation — but, unlike all other versions of hell, this one is totally avoidable, Even While In Hell — the person can choose to get out of it, because free will remains inviolate. Just one little choice, faith in Christ. No effort is required, no works are required. Just one little choice. To have that eternal option is only fair, only loving — after all, it is God's 'fault' he gave the person free will, just as Satan says. However, now that the creature has inviolate free will, it becomes the creature's choice — i.e., fault — if he keeps on choosing to reject God. Of course, the only reason why any creature would reject God — especially throughout his life — is that he, like Satan, keeps on concluding pride more attractive than God.


Let's summarize by putting Satan's and God's arguments in modern dialogue, as if we could all hear them talking to each other:

"If, Satan, you want divorce, should you not be allowed to get it? If I love you, should I deny you what you want? 'To be away from Me? If then, I force you all to Heaven, won't that be hell for you anyway? Don't you hate Me now, don't you blame Me now, don't you hate your situation now, even though you are not in the Lake of Fire? Wouldn't you rather be out from under Me?"

"And," God the Son adds, "Isn't this desire of yours due to the fact that you have sufficient Power And Knowledge to avoid sin, but you don't want to — because you don't want Me? So, it's not about how I made creatures, it's about how you don't want Me. Shall I tyrannize you for that? Or should I give you what you want? 'A place without Me forever? And what should be the characteristics of such a place? If I am Good, and you don't want Good, then such a place must be bad, no?"

Satan, genuinely hurt, retorts, "What's so wrong with c)? Didn't You love us enough to make staying with you pleasant? What's wrong with d)? Didn't You love us enough to make staying with you the more desirable, versus sin? Why didn't you make us via the c) or d) method, but use seduction to make our free will have a reason to enjoy what would otherwise hurt us to do? After all, we can't be as good as you anyway, why make the relationship frustrating to both you and us? Seduction is a Kindness. Seduction is Love. Seduction Teaches Love, and does so by Promoting The Very Abilities you gave us, to do 'good' in return! But oh, no, God won't do that! Instead, You leave us alone to make the decisions ourselves, with no enticements to remain with you! You coldly leave us alone to make the hard decisions, painful decisions, after having given us all these abilities — but say, 'if you use them, you burn'? What kind of love is that?"

God the Father now replies, though: "Did I make salvation too hard to obtain? I placed no works requirement, so that no one could be shorted salvation due to some knowledge or power handicap: all the person needs to do is believe in My Son. That requires no work on his part. You could have believed; they can believe. Free will can choose either one. Works by the body have no relevance, lest salvation be too hard for someone, due to power or knowledge limitations."

Satan counters that God didn't make things sufficiently-known: "Look at all the #3 people who reject you because they see no proof!" he cries. "You could have prevented their pain! You could have prevented the pain of the #2 people who do reject, and ours, by seducing us. We are weak, not like you — so how else can we be sufficiently-motivated to choose You, based on our abilities — abilities you gave us! Wouldn't that be the more loving thing to do?"

"Ah," replies the Spirit, "Why is it the #3 people do not know? Is it because it is too hard for them to see, or because it is too upsetting, at present? Doesn't an upset block the ability to understand? A person in shock, doesn't he blank out in his understanding? Shall I not give them time to learn? Shall I force that knowledge on them, manipulating them, despite their upset? Is it fair to impose? If 'yes', at what point do I stop imposing? Isn't any imposition hell, per Creation Scenarios a) through d) above?"


So, the Trial also resolves the Question: "Seduce, or — Love?"

Because Satan didn't finish growing up in Love, he is obsessed with his own abilities, and with creature abilities, period. He is likewise obsessed over his idea of right and wrong. He projects his ideas and his problems onto God, adducing them to God. So, it's God, not Satan, Who's bad, wrong. So it's God, not Satan, Who's evil. So, Satan thinks God is out to sadistically seduce, hypocritically claiming to 'grow' the person in 'Love' — if the person first chooses God with no idea whether God will be faithful. This 'giving', as Satan sees it, is a sham, because if God thinks imposition-by-seduction is unfair, how can the Lake of Fire sentence be fair? Is that not an imposition, too? In short, God's Explanations fall on deaf ears. Whatever valid points God makes, Satan 'hears' them as evidence proving Satan is in the right. He's too obsessed to hear reason. So, his attitudes, policies, motivations are love-hate, contradictory, and traumatizing. His bitterness and desire for revenge so totally fuel him, he will never want to change his mind. Even though he will always be able. For, he has learned to 'love' his anti-integrity.

Satan thus genuinely believes there is no value whatsoever to living with God. Satan also genuinely believes that pleasant, seductive appeals to creature ability to do 'good' — i.e., by dispensing or withholding goodies — is the way God should have chosen to 'educate' man. So, Satan keeps trying different ways to manipulate humans to prove which levels of imposition are superior to God's way-of-creation.

Therefore, mankind reflects the 'success' of Satan's mindset, since he really is the ruler of the world. Therefore, any Christians and Jews are special targets, because they are recipients of God's promises — which Satan must discredit at all costs. That's why in Talibanesque Islam, for example (apparently precedented by Mohammed in 632 AD), it is a virtue to kill the (especially Christian or Jewish) "infidel": one inherits wide-eyed houris and paradise automatically, even if one commits suicide to accomplish the killing, for such an instance of suicide is, instead, martyrdom.

Of course, unbelievers with even a remote interest in God are targeted, too. After all, any unbeliever can become "Christian" by faith in Christ; just as (in the Old Testament, Tribulation, Millennium) any Gentile could become "Jewish" by faith in Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad. So, the unbelievers must be 'protected' from God: and also used as weapons against Christians, Jews. Further still, the Christians and Jews must be likewise sold into the same seductive plan as the unbeliever is 'taught', so to bludgeon God with rejection. There is no limit to which Satan will not go, here. Whatever you most love, he'll want to give you. Whatever you most hate, he'll want to withhold — unless you need later 'correction', of course. Because, it's not about you, at all: it's about beating God.

Thus, Satan primarily sponsors 'good'; he only sponsors (what we call) 'sin' and 'evil' to motivate people to want 'good', to seductively manipulate them to want it. In short, Satan's saying that the meaning of happiness, of even life itself, is to be a 'user' (American slang); that the value of having relationships with others is what one gets from them. Satan thinks "relationship" ought to mean everyone using each other to get 'goodies'.

God disagrees. First, even if relationships were only for getting goodies, 'using' people, no amount of imposition is worthwhile: once you start to tinker, you must keep tinkering. But of course the value of having relationships, is instead the Free Association. Opposite of being a 'user'. So that no differential in characteristics mars the enjoying the relationship. Giving is for the benefit of the recipient to freely accept, or reject. Not imposition, not tinkering, because Free Association is what makes relationship enjoyable. It's the Person-To-Person Love which God stresses, not the person's 'goodies.' God thinks "relationship" ought to mean Unencumbered Love. No matter what worthiness in the object. No matter, the 'goodies'. Any 'goodies' are condimental, at best.

Granted, His Authority requires him to order punishment or blessing, which are types of 'goodies', so to speak, related to the person. However, hitting someone over the head with some punishment doesn't impose; it gives the person an opportunity to learn from the hardship — learn God, or learn good/sin/evil. This, to remind the person that the objective is to choose to grow bigger, even beyond one's nature, so to become able to enjoy God, if he desires: enduring learning (e.g., punishment) leads to endearing; and endearing, to enduring enjoyment. Heh: to Love. 'Or, the opposite, if the person desires. So,

The Three Trial Issues:

  1. God reveals Himself — but not so much as to manipulate free will;
  2. some folks (angels, humans) reject Him based on what they know;
  3. some folks genuinely don't yet know, so reject Him (so far) because they don't know.

In either case, the issue remains, does one want God, or not? Based on what he knows, and based on what he doesn't know?

Because, it's not about creature abilities or failure, it's about wanting God. After all, if creature failure wasn't provided for all along, would God have gone to the trouble to make creation and reveal Himself? Why not rather just make a bunch of pets, and spare Himself Forever Knowing The Total Suffering of the Lake of Fire? After all, it's not as though God isn't Omniscient.

It is, though, about Love: God foregoes His Rights to full obedience in favor of free will choosing to obey — only Love can be the motive for such foregoing. That is why Righteousness would require a Cross, so that Love remains inviolate, even though foregoing. Christ, Who had Full Rights, really owed the Father nothing (Son is God Himself also, and in His Humanity never sinned). Christ, the Perfect Inviolate Human, voluntarily forewent His Rights, to pay for our sins Due To Love: as a gift to the Father (Atonement). So the Father can offer permanent salvation, due to Love, not due to rights: Genesis 15:6, Romans 5:8-9, 2 Corinthians 5:21.

True Independence Key → Most importantly: Christ, Because God-Man, Alone Has True Ability In Himself To Meet Divine Standards. Satan's big upset started because he had to depend on 'Daddy', so to speak. He couldn't really do anything of himself. So, whatever 'Daddy' gave him became successively associated with a negative connotation, in Satan's mind: a reminder that he was inferior. That's why he was so flummoxed that Christ would actually turn down his offers in Matthew 4 (More on this follows in Part 3-Appendix.) Satan well knew Christ alone had, in His Humanity, a power Satan did not have — despite being merely human! All the Matthew 4 Temptations are temptations to Christ to use that power!

For Jesus could have called upon His Deity to make His Humanity fulfill the Standards. But He did not. Instead, He relied on the Holy Spirit (John 1, etc.), because He loved the Standard more than His Own Divine Ability to meet it. He loved the Father more than He loved His Own Righteousness. That's the key difference.

Of course, He also thus avoids a charge of cheating. Satan would cry "Foul!" if the Christ had tapped into His Own Deity, for such use of power would prove a creature couldn't obey God's Righteous Standard, thus God shouldn't impose such a Standard, thus no one should go to Hell. More importantly, the Christ proves that God's method of conveying "Integrity Properties", successfully works. Even if a measly human is ordered to do the truly impossible: paying for sins on the Cross. Not even any angel was held to that standard. So yes, God is right; so, yes, a Loving God can sentence those who never want Him to the Lake of Fire. So, yes, that sentence has nothing whatsoever to do with creature merit, but the creature who prefers his own merit, can't 'earn' what Christ paid.

For, only God is "good enough", and even Christ used the Power of God to execute the Love of God, rather than the Power of His Own Deity to execute His Own Worthiness.

And that Love never shuts off, either (owing to Omniscience) — even in the Lake of Fire. Satan & Co., and their allied humans, will end up preferring the Lake of Fire to Heaven. Does Love abandon them there? Oh no — God doesn't shut off His Knowledge, doesn't shut off His Love for them. He's right there with them, Infinitely. They reject Him — but He never, never rejects them. His Love is so very deep, He'll even live forever in Hell with them, and in fact has done so forever, owing to Omniscience always having that pain-knowledge in full. For, "love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13). He keeps on waiting for them to change their minds, even though He knows they will never choose to change their minds. In short, Love forever loves: for Better, or for Worse.


God's Script Now: Learn → Know → Love

Satan will forever Refuse Love. Will we? We humans echo Satan's view, most of the time. We want a 'love' we can 'win'. We want a 'love' which makes us important, worthy, feel-good. We don't want a 'love' which is 'tough'. We don't want a 'love' which permits pain, even though the pain is used to bless us. Oh no. We want the movie-love, the huggy love, the soundbyte love. We want to say we are worthy, see. Because we are sons of Abraham, or because we know someone important. Like, Daddy. After all, back when we were kids, we felt better than we do now. So, in politics, in the workplace, at home, in IRC, everywhere, we debate what 'love' ought to 'do'. Never what Love ought to be. All our 'be's', are 'do's'. Just like we were taught, as kids.

Problem is, we're now adults. So, our egos are bigger — but not necessarily our souls. We've big bodies, but still retain little souls. That's why the huggy-i-love-you's feel so good: just like we got when we were kids. So, we're kinda sensitive to the idea that Love is a being, not a doing. We're kinda sensitive to our smallness, so we look for something to do to make us feel worthy, special, loved. So, things like inequality bug us even more than they did back when we were kids. Back then, it was okay for Daddy to be 'better', but not now. We're all grown up, now. 'Just like Daddy. So, inequality is no longer 'okay'. So, we adults argue: Freedom, or equality — which is more beneficial to man? Folks reflect the satanic idea, 'equality=freedom', not realizing that to obtain equality requires manipulation which cannot stop. Until we are all pets, we can't be equal. And of course, as George Orwell had the pigs explain in Animal Farm, "some — are more equal than others." Heh.

Love does not equal 'doing good'

Satan's 'love' plan aims at these childish ideas. Technically, his plan is a hybrid of the c) and d) "hells" (above), in order to fashion a mankind which 'does good'. Satan is saying Love ought to be 'learned' via seduction: so, should be predicated on man's works. So, man needs to be influenced in this direction, for his own good — constantly. Tyrannically. By means of seduction and enticement, man will come to love such a state, because man is more innately suited to being a child, and God should cater to that nature — if God was fair, of course. Moreover, actions and behaviors based on 'do good' thinking create a viable world which needs no God — hence, no such person deserves a Lake of Fire for not wanting God. In short, God unjustly sentences those who do not love Him — solely for that reason — thus is Himself flawed. After all, if even mere man can be good without God, how can God justify condemning him? God thus is condemning good, which is inconsistent — and even, hypocritical.

We humans echo Satan's argument, again. Oh yeah, baby: 'doing good'='love'! Turn on any television, look at any newspaper, listen to any conversation. Do-good is the be-all and end-all of life. Like Satan, we are blind to how this insistence on doing 'good', actually makes 'good' wholly repulsive, robbing 'good' of the sheer free joy of doing it "for nothing". So, who's being hypocritical? We are. Just like Satan & Co.

Let's look deeply at how this hypocrisy uses the defense mechanism called "rationalization". Here's how our thoughts go: how can we, who are so very nice to each other, be 'bad', simply because we reject the Bible's demand that it be followed, versus some other course? What does it matter, the method we choose to worship? Why can't our vegetables, like Cain's, be accepted by Him? Why do we have to believe in the Son to be saved? In thinking these things (and we all do, no exceptions), we show we don't believe that anyone nice can really be so bad. We can only agree (well, somewhat) that folks like serial murderers, etc. should go to the Lake of Fire.

In short, we presume that how folks treat us, is how they treat God, too. Yet how is it, that one rejects a so-easy salvation? Shall God not be Righteous? If He is, then would not sin have to be paid for? Can we pay for it? Would it be right of God to make us pay the unpayable? 'Of course not, on both counts. So, if we reject the payment, the free gift He had made, what are we? In other words, how deep is our niceness?

After all, what are we saying, when we reject this Gift? We are saying God is unfair. We presume that any different ideas of God solely exist because they don't 'know' the Gospel, as if God couldn't manage (thank you very much) to communicate in ways we ourselves can't fathom. Or, we say that God shouldn't be so mean not to excuse them. It's just not possible that the person is mean. Only God can be mean.

We are saying, thus, that we, not God, are the omniscient ones. We are saying, thus, that we, not God, have the right to arbitrate what is fair. We are saying, thus, that we, not God, should dictate what forms of honor should be acceptable to Him: Sincerity, cultural-ritual, bribes, the-dog-ate-my-homework. Oh: and He should answer to "Yucky Gertrude Cheese" if we say so, even if his personal name is "Clyde" — because we say that is 'love'. We say it's not important that we properly identify Him or know Him. He's just supposed to 'understand', and be our genie.

"And so it goes", as Kurt Vonnegut likes to write. Over and over and over, we thus say God has lower rights than we do. We tell God His Rights, and we set our own. Ok, where is the love, in us? Should love be a matter of rights? If 'yes', then 'love' has strings, and is no love at all. So if we say God is unfair, and has lower rights, how is it we won't view our fellow man that way? So, is our niceness real and deep, or hypocritical, shallow? Are we nice to get something from each other, since we are viewing the issue with God based on rights, rather than based on a love-gift?

Notice how it doesn't matter if we are overtly hostile, or whether we pick a different view of God as the 'right' one. Either way, we are rejecting the Love-Gift of the Cross, and self-responsibility to choose. 'Just like Satan & Co., we really want that gift to be deserved. So we can feel good about ourselves. Pride, not love. God's 'gift' is supposed to honor us. Us, not God. If He's lucky, we might remember to nod at Him on Sunday — if He plays His cards right!

Most Christians grasp that the unbeliever has rejected God. Yet believers who childishly react to that rejection, by demonizing unbelievers, by vilifying Satan and his cohorts, mimic the same rejection. They rationalize their reaction as a 'witness': to cover up their own offense, they claim themselves 'holy', to denounce. In reality, they denounce, not because of any desire for God. Oh no. Rather, it's to make themselves feel secure about a faith they doubt; to feel better about their 'sacrifices'. 'Key pathological symptom? They can't relax about this terrific (and terrifying!) freedom. Instead, they point-the-finger, like spoiled children. Legalism is like that. Pride is like that.

Their reaction is understandable: like the unbeliever, they too lack spiritual growth. The unbeliever has no human spirit, so of course he doesn't understand, and instead has a soul's childish reasoning with respect to God. Christian spiritual children have human spirits — but little spiritual knowledge. So, still children.

Children are taught first right-and-wrong. They don't understand love, yet. They thus evaluate "love" based on rights-and-wrongs — just as they learn "obedience" in those terms. Assuming they later grow up, they will come to realize "obedience" benefitted them more than their parents. They will come to realize "love" itself has no virtue, so needs to be married to virtue (God's Righteousness/Justice). So "love", while still childishly-understood, needs to vilify the opposition. It's the child's way of being loyal.

We Christian children, just like the unbelievers, hold the satanic idea that what we do ought to count for something, positive or negative. Thus, that 'love' is some kind of reward system, rather than Grace, irrespective of rights, of do's. Like Satan, we can't understand a 'love' which doesn't seduce, entice, please, in order to get its way. Like Satan, we want to be seductive, enticing, pleasing — so to merit, earn, win, love from others. We, like Satan, count all of these seductions, these tit-for-tat rules, as virtues: 'good'.

So, as immature believers, we still reject God as much as the unbelievers do. Like Satan, we childishly presume that what we know — namely, the morality rules of God — is the whole truth, the whole spiritual life. We arrogantly ignore the "undesirable fact" that morality is but gift for man to get along with his fellows, and per se has no spiritual merit. We arrogantly ignore the First Commandment, which demands one choose to learn God via Bible doctrine, in order to come to love God. Oh no, that takes too much time. Oh no, we're not 'doing anything', then. So, we reject God-knowledge, in favor of works knowledge. 'In favor of knowing 'good', of the "good-and-evil" plan of Satan. So, we substitute our ideas of works, of good, of worship, and deceive ourselves to be in the light (1 John's theme). We do Satan's jobs, but in God's name. If we knew that salvation could not be obtained via works, how is it now that we go off on our own way, working working working? Is that consistent? Ahh, but we are too irrational, too blind, to see the glaring inconsistency of our bustling about in God's name. (Confer Galatians 3-5: Paul's explanation is fabulous!)

We substitute our own ideas of God's character, and call that substitution, His. For example, perhaps we claim man has no free will, due to the Fall, and are thus blind to the convoluted and insane 'logic' we use to defend that claim; we twist Scripture, like Satan does, in the Second Temptation of Matthew 4. We thus satanically overemphasize Sovereignty, at the expense of Righteousness and Justice, thus blaspheming Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Love — because well, see — God's too weak! to insure free will.

Or, we cheapen God into an emotional jerk, by overemphasizing Love, at the expense of Righteousness and Justice, so rationalize away thinking, in favor of the 'high' of miracles, rituals, mysticism, so-called 'sacred' movements, do's. Or, being lazy, we overemphasize His Bigness, at the expense of His Command that we learn Him (e.g., 2 Peter 3:18) — does God give a command to make bricks without straw? Yet we fancy that knowing Him is 'a mystery' and throw up our hands — well, we pat ourselves on the back about how humble we are, to throw up our hands — another way we show we couldn't care less about God, just like the believers in Deuteronomy 30:11ff. Ahh, we must make Him Inscrutable, to justify our laziness? Whatever do we think the Bible is for, anyway? A paperweight?

Or, we argue endlessly over minute traditions, like the Pharisees used to do. Or, we cloak ourselves in established doctrines, in our erudition — "cloak" being what we've done to our eyesight!

Isn't it amazing, that God foreknew all of this and yet decided to make us anyway, didn't take the cheap way out and make us pets, instead choosing the total grief of our free existence? And, doesn't even common sense turn on the proverbial light bulb? If God wanted works, he'd have made us pets. Satan wants pets, so wants works. God doesn't want pets, so doesn't want works. (Hebrews 10:5) God forever foregoes His Rights to works, to obedience — in favor of Love. If Love isn't first built in the person, He wants no sacrifice (ibid, plus "cheerful giver" verse). And, if the person loves God, he regards nothing he does as a sacrifice. Only sacrifices need to be compensated. The one who loves wants no compensation. Again, even common sense yells: "Forget works!" Works are utterly repulsive, to Love. 'Suppurating Corpses. "Dead works". Smelly.

We've just seen how the 'nice' standard of doing-works-equals-love is really an ego trip. Now, let's look at the very works themselves. Are they really nice, for the recipient? Watch: if 'I' do something nice for 'you', how the heck does God benefit from it? (Confer Job 4:6, 35:3,6,7, NAS) Did He need 'me' to do that nice thing? Or, did 'you' really need it? Or, did 'I'? Certainly God didn't need it. God doesn't need anything. So, to have the colossal gall to claim that something nice done for a human being, ought to count with Holy God — is that not the epitome of childish arrogance? Moreover, should you be beholding to me because I did this thing? Whatever for? If you should be beholding to me, then how 'nice' is what I did? In truth, it wasn't nice at all, for now you have an obligation to me. Where is the love in that? So, my 'good deed' imposed on you. Now, you get guilt if you don't reciprocate. That's not nice. That's not love. What is that? Repulsive. Just like the folks God excoriated in Zechariah 7, as well as Amos, and Malachi — their many sacrifices had become a stench in His Nostrils, so to speak. Repulsive.

The most repulsive thing of all, is an unwanted 'gift'. That's how the unbeliever feels about the Cross: a disgusting/fantasy/enslaving/ veiled-threat 'gift'. To top off the ugliness: the 'giver' wants reciprocation, and on his terms, as well?! Of course, to deny that reciprocation earns condemnation from the 'giver'. Gee, what a nice thing to do, huh? Is this repulsive, or what?

Think it over: here is Joe Blow. He's bustling in works. Each time he does one he thinks, "Ahh, I did a good thing." And — ever so slightly — pats himself on the back. Then, he thinks God will reward him for his sacrifice — ever so subconsciously — and does yet another good deed. Over time, he's done all these works. So, he's got a lot of confidence in what he will get from God. One day, though, he gets sick. Doesn't know why. It is really bad. "Why oh why did God let this happen to me? After all I did?" will be running through his mind. Job's self-righteous friends show this reasoning in spades. Take Pepto-Bismol before you read what they say.

And what is God thinking? "Why oh why did this person keep insisting on doing works he himself wanted to do — and putting My Name on them? Now, he thinks I'm supposed to reward him for what I never asked him to do? For never learning what I wanted? How ugly, how repulsive, to demand of Me a reward, for works I never requested!" (Confer Zechariah 7 — it uses the same 'reaction'.)

'Not only repulsive, but insane. Look: who of us wants to be loved, for our works? Who of us but wants to be loved, for ourselves? Yet we demand God credit us by our standards, for works we do for mere people? Aren't we being irrational? What does God get? Yet we think God should love us based on what we do? How rational is that? How rational is it, to say that we must practice a certain taboo, or a certain ritual, in order to be 'okay' with God? Whatever does He need with that ritual, that taboo? Who benefitted? How repulsive is it to say, in effect, "Dad, I bathed: now you owe me." Or: "Johnny didn't bathe, Dad. Now you should punish him!"

Aren't we being childish, irrational, and repulsive, like Satan is? "Who has known the thinking of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But (instead) we have the Thinking of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:15-16) — "for the purposes of being rational, without illusion." (Romans 12:3, corrected translation of "so as to have sound judgment" in NAS.) He does the instructing — His Thinking is our instruction. Not the other way around, thank God!

Like Satan, we do not see our insanity. If Christ paid for us, what does that mean? It means He Loves us! Us, not our works. But, like Satan, we are stuck on failure — so when we think of Christ paying, "pay" is all we insanely see. Sacrifice. Pain. Work. Hustle, hustle, hustle. So every verse in Scripture is bent to that interpretation. Just like Satan did, in Matthew 4. We hustle, because we feel bad about what Christ paid. We resent our weakness, and want to instead feel we are good. We don't want Christ to sacrifice for us — we want the pride of doing it ourselves! We wanna be grownups, 😭! Just like Satan wants. So, to cloak our true desire, we deceive ourselves to be in the light, and claim our idea of 'works' (etc) as God's desire — and thus ease our puny consciences. We apply the Bible like Mommy's lipstick — smearing it everywhere. We aim verses such as "faith without works is dead", like Daddy's gun, not respecting that it's loaded, and so maim/murder James' teaching there of grace. We brush away Paul's "elative conclusion" in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 as if it were mere martyrdom, instead of the Secret of the Cross. We don't want to have the power of Christ — we want to be strong in ourselves! What colossal arrogance. What a tragic flaw. What a missed opportunity for receiving Love.

Can't give, until one receives, for true receiving is inhale, and true giving is exhale. Ahhh but we can't breathe, until we get enough of God's Knowledge built into us — for that makes us truly strong: the Power of Christ is the thinking of Christ — which is both how He paid for our sins, and the payment itself. Content of His Thinking was the currency paying for the content of our sin-thinking — thinking is the sole content of any action.

We prove we can't breathe His Love, when we hustle about, rather than listening to the "still, small voice" of the Spirit teaching us "God-breathed" (θεόπνευστος) Bible Doctrine. No wonder we are so blue-in-the-face with frustration; so crusading, so hardened, so jaded. So crazy. 'Just like Satan & Co.

By receiving Love, one learns Love. Love, God's Way, is to transmit successive deposits of Christ's Own Thinking, into one's human spirit (which is why one first needs to be saved to become "good"); from there, into the soul. Each such transmission is made upon the believer's assent. By means of such successive deposits, "Doctrine works", to use James' 1:3 expression. ("Faith" usually = "believed doctrine", in Scripture: see also 1 Peter 1:7-8e), to grow one up spiritually.) 'To make one wise. Thus, one ages to spiritual maturity. During that process, one grows out of the childish idea of "love", and instead comes to have the joy of "good" without strings. One learns that Love is not love, if based on strings (rights, reciprocation). One learns to have integrity, so to hold together despite foregoing one's rights. Only then, is love, Love, because only then, is Love free of need-for-rights. Love means loving despite. Again, without a power to go-against, free will isn't free — and love, is not love.

Love does equal "Learn My Son's Thinking, Bible Doctrine,
Under the Holy Spirit via 1 John 1:9"

What does God want, then? Ahhh. Witness the irony and genius of God, and God's "superior power", as Ephesians 1-3 stress: He wants like-minded beings, freely-developed! But wait! Only God can empower that, right? Right. You can smile now — see how even a handicapped person is not left out? If no human power can accomplish what God wants, then where is works? It's excluded, laughs Paul, in Romans 4-15.

Why shouldn't He want us to be like Him? Who doesn't want someone like self? Rapport requires like-mindedness. The Son's Humanity is totally compatible with Deity — the only Such Person in the universe to be so compatible. Now, think: what 'works' came from such compatibility? Didn't the compatibility precede the Cross? Didn't Christ have to "grow up" to be strong enough to endure the horrendous imputation and judgment of our sins, so as not to react? And, as Hebrews 12:2 tells us, what was His response? Joy, not sacrifice. He "disregarded the shame" — disregarded it, despised it. (Greek word means "despise" in the sense of disregarding; disregarding, because unimportant.) He was so happy, He ignored the cost. It was of no value to Him. He was too busy being happy.

Now, that's the "work" which being like-minded 'buys': Joy (confer John 15:11). Which, to the worker, is no work at all. That's why Abraham wanted to sacrifice his son, as James 2 explains. Abraham, like Moses after him, was occupied with "Him Who is Invisible" — not preoccupied with self, with works. Not seduced into the 'proper' behavior, with the result that what the seducee gave into, was the seduction, rather than the Righteousness itself. Not 'helped' by the ever-arrogant elitist method: "well, we can't actually teach the masses what's in the Bible — they can't take it. Let's give them simple do's, instead." Not needing some romantic fantasy relationship, with signs, visions, miracles, and other emotional junk to drug ego. No, none of these. Instead, the truth can be served unsauced, naked. Even to puny man.

That's the life God wants for us. That's the life Christ prayed we receive, as a result of (what would be) the Cross, in John 17. To become one: Via His Life, we get ours. So, then: do we want God, or not? Our first "yes", of course, is to believe in Christ. That saves us. That makes us Able To Know God: so it can't be arbitrary and capricious, because until then, we don't have the spiritual equipment to know Him. (More on this topic follows, below.) After that, if we say "yes, I want to know God" — He happily replies, "What, is My Arm too short?" (e.g. Numbers 11:23) and "For with God, nothing is impossible." (e.g. Luke 1:37)

So, If we say that first "yes", we have the free-will (heh) task of learning Him, a task which only the Holy Spirit enables at each "yes" of our free will, but He will provide only so much knowledge at a time — lest free will be manipulated. Ergo, one learns a little each day, "line upon line". Not everything at once. So, not 'sacrificially', but enjoyably. That is why God Beats Satan. Satan wants sacrifice via seductive romance: after the conquest, there's not much thrill. God wants just plain Love.

Have you ever seen an old couple who were still in love with each other? Take the on-screen actor-team of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. They manage to portray the point: real romance is based on real, naked, unvarnished love. It needs no goodies to dress it up. Wrinkles and sickness don't diminish it. Age only makes it bigger. So it is, with God's Love. Emotion is way too small for this Love, so if one needs to associate a 'feeling' with it, to get a sense of how total this Love really is, the closest word for that feeling is this: absolute honor.

Honor dresses up, too. Back in Victorian England, there was a Royal Standard that one dressed properly. This standard existed because the self ought to honor whoever saw him by a proper appearance. It wasn't at all about self being admired, but rather about the object getting a pleasant view. All the other Royal Protocols also had this purpose in mind. It was a looking up, not a putting-down. Some of those who were of the lower classes, of course, were reminded of their own inferiority by such superior appearances, so interpreted them as snooty putdowns, "putting on airs". Much of what has become our blue-jeans culture today grew out of those who felt insulted, though being honored!

God's plan is superior enjoyment, happiness. So, those who are offended by God's superiority will interpret His Plan as an insult to them. Like Satan, they are intimidated by the Standard, upset that they are inferior, and the offer by God to fix their vegetably-naked inferiority by clothing everyone in Christ (Romans 13:14), is the most offensive of all! By contrast, look at God's protocols, which the Son Himself — alone not inferior — which the Son Himself preferred: "Sacrifice", even if true sacrifice (the Cross!) is an enjoyment (Philippians 2:5ff, Hebrews 2:9-10, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2). So, the key is — to have the integrity to enjoy, rather than the anti-integrity to be insulted (Hebrews 12:1-15). To get the integrity, one needs the Thinking of Christ, Royal Law, the Royal Honor Code, God's Script, happily circulating in the soul: the Bible.


1 John's Outline of God's Script:

1. Become a believer (believe once in Christ for your salvation — that He paid for all of your sins, be they past, present, or future — it doesn't matter you don't now understand the how's — you will, later on);

2. Use 1 John 1:9 to be online with the Holy Spirit ("abide", in 1 John's lingo); awareness is '#1 critical' to your spiritual life! Lack of awareness is the prime symptom of descent into mental illness — that's true in the mental sciences, because it's first true spiritually (i.e., spiritual state radically influences mental and physical states — more on this follows in Part 2, and passim in the rest of the series).

3. Keep learning Bible Doctrine spiritually, as follows. God doesn't need human IQ to teach you, only Satan does — hence be sure to use these steps, so you're not under Satan's fake-God 'teaching':

Prayer protocol: A) use 1 John 1:9 to be online; B) pray to the Father c) in the name of the Son (it's a Royal Voting protocol, as the penultimate section in Part 3 will explain). Make sure your requests line up with the doctrine you know, too. John 17 is a really good prayer outline. Note the tone, too. No flowery language needed!

So-called "backsliding" in the spiritual life results when the person arrests in the childhood stage of the spiritual life. There is no way one grows out of this stage, if he doesn't develop a conversational usage of prayer, like David did. Prove this quickly: what absorbs your attention? Notice how other things which compete for attention get blocked out? Notice how the more attention you pay to something, the more it engrosses you? So pay attention to God. Keep talking to Him in your soul, on whatever topic, even if it's hello, here's what I ate today. "Where your heart is, there shall be your treasure." Where you put your attention is where you will eventually be engrossed. So put your attention on God. Again, this point can not be emphasized enough.

4. Love for God (due to increased integrity being produced by that knowledge); which produces

5. Love for all mankind (illustrated by love for "the brethren"), which is evidence of God, in the world (1 John 4:12); so to produce a result

6. "we shall become like Him" (1 John 3), and thus

7. will have full joy and fellowship with Him (1 John 1:4-5), and thus will have

8. "confidence in the Day of Evaluation — for just as He is, so also we are, in this world" (1 John 4:17, corrected translation).

Love is not the childish gushing and sending of cutesy emails. Love is not the huggy-bear statements and emotional rollercoaster rides. All that, is mere emotion, with a good bit of Satan & Co. 'help' to make you fantasize you are spiritual. Love is an attitude, not a feeling at all. It is an attitude which remains no matter what you feel. And it always backs off. So all that gushy, pushy, typical Christian behavior on irc and real life is bogus. Urges are never Love. Because Love, is innately foregoing. See 1 Corinthians 13.

God wants mature spiritual beings for companionship with His Son, not pets or Epsilon morons. God is big. So, "mature spiritual beings" means something like the size and profitability of a whole steel mill, not a factory worker in the steel mill. It costs millions and millions of dollars to build, then run, a steel mill. It only costs some thousands of dollars a year to be a factory worker. God is big, not small. Your being a mere factory worker is not enough for His Son. So it takes time to invest in you the spiritual 'money' to make you Spiritually Mature: much more, than the millions upon millions of dollars one must first accumulate to buy and then operate a steel mill. See the irony? We Christians all too often think God wants us to be a factory worker. Not Enough! See the irony? Satan had wanted to become like the Most High — which was God's Script for him, all along. 'And now, His Script for us! "For He is not ashamed to call them brothers" (Hebrews 2). "Brothers" means of the same Parents. Not, pets. Not factory workers, either. We Are To Be Sons Of The Owner, Running The Place. Not hired hands.

People who've only been hired hands fantasize that the owner or executive has an easy job, so somehow is making money off the hired hand, oh-how-unfair. Same way that children think of parents: Oh, big adults, I'm small, they have power over me, they tell me no, they must be mean. And if you've ever had kids, you know how you slave over them. Well, it's no different for the owner or executive. Those are parental jobs. They eat your life, you have far less social life (it gets spent on cultivating more business, instead), and you are no longer your own person. Just as it is, being a parent. Exactly.

Gonna be billions (hopefully many) Christians in heaven. 99.9% of them will be comparatively childish, compared to those who spiritually-matured, down here. We will all be light-years bigger than we are now, but the differential in maturity, remains relatively the same. Look at the angels. They are not equal. Neither will we be. So who will parent, those relatively younger/weaker in understanding? That's the problem. Down here most Christians will not choose to live in God's System. So by comparison in eternity, they will need to be ruled. Sad fact. Part 3 will cover this problem in great detail.

Mainstream Christianity calls Brother-Foot action, 'spiritual'. Nothing could be further from the truth. You don't become a doctor by waiting on tables; you become a doctor, by many years of study study study before you go out and even practice on a patient. Much more true, of the real spiritual life. It's a training for Kingship, so takes a lifetime. God will match the do's to your personal learning curriculum; it's all tailored for the eventual office God chose for you from before creation. It's not a denominational thing. So better get in God's System, and learn His Personal Agenda for you. Which involves a lot of downtime. For Christ, it was 30 years — nearly His Whole life. So what do you think the Pattern is, for Church? Not waiting on tables, that's for sure!

Notice how the unbeliever always regards "Christian" as being about morality. Well, they are the waiters. Waiting to be convinced. So waiting on tables, the meanwhile. Satan is big on morality and works: to keep people from learning God! Why else do you think he tempted Christ with good deeds, in Matthew 4?

See? In order to live with God, forever, you've got to be as good as God is. That's impossible, though: even if you were perfect, God is infinitely perfect. So you can't be as good as God is, even if perfect. So, God imputes His Righteousness (AKA "+R") to you at salvation (i.e., 2 Corinthians 5:21 "Righteousness in Him" verse). That makes you good enough. But it doesn't stop there. Your body also needs to have the same type of life God is, called "eternal life" (AKA "EL") in the Bible, so your resurrection body can survive and thrive forever in His Presence (i.e., 1 John 5:13). So, at salvation (the first time you believe in Christ for salvation), you are imputed with that, also.

See John 3 and John 5:24-27, John 10:28-29, plus 1 John 3, John 5:11-13, John 5:18, John 5:20b verses to help see salvation is permanent upon the first act of belief. Furthermore, there are hundreds of verses about the Baptism of the Spirit, which is how salvation is made not only permanent, but Royal: He puts us in Permanent Royal Union with Christ upon salvation. See 1 Corinthians 12:13, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Galatians 3:26ff (really, all of Galatians 3-5 is on this topic); Romans 6 (e.g., verses 3-5); Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 4:5; Acts 1:5 and Acts 8; 1 Peter 1:4ff, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 9; Hebrews 10:10-14, in context; Revelation 1:10, Revelation 5:10. The foregoing verses are pretty obvious even in the English — also all "sanctify" and "saint" verses ("sanctify" really means "to set apart to God" — "seal" verses tie in here also). Greek tenses in all these verses makes it impossible to misconstrue that salvation is instantaneous and permanent. English doesn't properly translate the full meaning of these tenses, so folks get confused and wrangle over "head and heart belief", "Lordship", "Faith-plus-Baptism", and other satanically-inspired, obviously stupid ideas. Remember, Satan & Co. are out to prevent folks believing in Christ, and out to ridicule. So, the obvious stupidity that "belief" is somehow a non-mental activity — wow, sell more snake oil? Oh, I can make Christ something? Oh, excuse me — He's not already the Lord? Isn't that why you believe? Sell some more snake oil? Oh, I must get wet to be saved — come on, now! Do you see why the demons fall over laughing? Do you see why unbelievers say "no" to these adulterated 'gospels'?

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Also, even fallen angels have at least some type of eternal life, but not +R; even unbelievers get a resurrection body at the Great White Throne (see Revelation 20), so then get some type of eternal life — both kinds of beings, so to live in Hell forever. See? Eternal life cannot be lost; and of course — neither can God's Attribute of +R, for crying out loud. So once you get the +R, you can't go to Hell, ever. You can't add to it by any work you do; nor can you lose it by some sin you do; because, before you were born, Christ paid for every sin you will ever commit. That's how you got the +R in the first place! See 2 Corinthians 5:21.

Ok, so you're judicially good-enough, at last! And the Eternal Life means that after you check out of this body, you'll get one which can't die. But, um, how do you see Him? Talk with Him? Do you just float around? ESP'ing, "ohmmm?" Oh no. God is Real, not some floating ball-of-light, like in the movie, "Contact". You yourself must become a spiritual being. The Real God is a Spiritual Being. So you also have to become the same type of being, to have a basis for communication. Just as communication between a human and a pet can be wonderful, but must 'go through' the commonalities of their bodies, so communication between a non-spiritual being and a spiritual one is almost zero. So, God the Holy Spirit makes a human spirit for you at the moment of salvation — the +R and the Eternal Life reside there. This act is called "regeneration". (See Titus 3:5 and all of John 3, 1 Corinthians 2, and 1 John in this connection. Old Testament folks were also regenerated upon faith in Him, but the terminology used to communicate regeneration varies: Genesis 15:6, "book of life", "Redeemer" and all the Levitical Sacrifices verses are but a few of them.)

Now you are "a new creation" (2 Corinthians 5:17), a spiritual being, permanently. Now you know why the Gospel is needed, why it alone works to make you able to live in Heaven with God, why it's not "arbitrary and capricious" to require the Gospel as the standard. We are all born spiritually dead (Part 2 provides the details.) So, if you "believe in Christ", you are saying "yes", I want to know God. So, these three things (the +R imputation, the +Eternal Life imputation, and a human spirit) give you a spiritual life so you can both come to know God, and live with Him forever. That's called being "born from above", and it's a real birth, a spiritual birth, as the Greek of John 3:16, Titus 3:5, and 2 Corinthians 5:17 make clear. Only As A Spiritual Being Can You Process Spiritual Information. Which, the Holy Spirit enables.

Ok, but being "born from above", you're a spiritual baby, not spiritually-mature. You know nothing more than before you were saved, and indeed couldn't know, because until you were saved, you had no spiritual life. Sure, you'll be in heaven forever, but — as what? A spiritual baby? God wants Mature Spiritual beings, not just any ol' spiritual beings. So — what must you get? The Son's Thinking — 1 Corinthians 2:16 + Romans 12:2-3 — which grows you up spiritually, so you become "mature, thoroughly equipped for all good-of-intrinsic-value achievements" (corrected translation of 2 Timothy 3:17). See? You have to grow up before you are competent to 'do' what God wants. And what is the 'do'? Learn My Son, Think Like My Son. Compatibility, that's what God wants. The 'work' is to become something, not to do something. Love is a being, not a doing. So, obviously, God's Script eschews Cain's vegetables.

Satan likes your vegetables. He doesn't want you to grow up, because then you prove the fault is his own spiritual arrest. If he can make you arrest before you reach maturity, he's happy. Remember, he wants revenge — it's not merely about the Trial. If he can stop you from growing up in Christ, that buttresses his ego.

Because, Satan wants to replace the Most High. 'Not-love. That is Satan's script. We find ourselves wanting to replace the Most High's Thinking (Bible Doctrine) in favor of our own. That is Satan's script, too, the issue he himself faced oh so long ago. Satan's script looks a lot like God's script, because it references the same principles in the "middle", as we saw earlier. For, he incompletely developed, and wants very much for you to do the same. To use you, to bludgeon God with rejection. To use you, to pet his own ego. So Satan's eager to teach you his script — which you can very easily mistake for God's own. That's the danger. Absent the 1 John steps above, Satan's script will puff one up with the blitzkrieg fake-God 'knowledge'. Beware.

How much of God's script do we want? However much we choose, that is how much we will forever be close to Him, in eternity. And, the converse: however much of Satan's script we want, that's how much our closeness to Satan down here will limit our closeness to Him, eternally. If we had at least chosen to believe in Christ, the satanic closeness will be erased from us, upon death; but there will be no closeness-to-God to replace it. We will be like spiritual Epsilons in heaven — to the extent absent learning Him down here. That too, is only fair, only loving, since all the "compatibility" with God we loved, we'd chosen, by the time of death. 'A little, or a lot. At least, faith in Christ, which after all is really a choice to be with God forever. The Real God. Not Yucky Gertrude Cheese.

Fake spirituality uses nice tones, flatters the ego, is 'nice'. Lots of Bible verses quoted, almost gluttonishly — see 1Clement for a good sample of gluttonish quoting — and oh, how the appeal is made to works and sin! For the immature believer, can't yet tell the difference between what sounds like Bible, and what is Bible. Kinda like the way mom and apple pie and doing good for the poor are used by the political parties, the sounds of the words, entice. So the content of the words, goes unexamined. Thus 99.9% of the world is hooked on fake spirituality, Christian flavor or no.

Detecting-the-Lie-Key → if man is stressed, it's a lie. Stuff about what you do, what others do, definitions which are body oriented, morality-stressed — all lies. Knowing God is what Christ developed in, getting that Truth in Him. Then at the end, He went to the Cross. Bible doesn't record Him doing any good deeds when He was down here: He did miracles (which is God's Power, so not a human good deed) and He talked a lot. Yet Bible records Him excoriating those quintessential good-deeders, the Pharisees. Guess why.

It's how much one Wants To Know God which determines one's current and eternal future; not sin, not human works, John 16:9.

Nerd Note: People whose sin proclivities run in the self-righteous category hate hearing this fact. Sorry, I didn't invent John 16:9 which Christ said, nor His Cross which nailed away our sins. Sin damages the soul, so there is plenty of reason to not want to sin. Don't lie against the Word of God like most Christians do, making an issue of sin as if God didn't do anything about it 2000 years ago. Christ Himself says it's not an issue. Don't dispute Him?

So how to tell whose side one's on, whose script is one using? We don't just sit still, do we? Of course not. Yet we know we are to go "neither to the right, nor to the left". Neither lascivious, nor ascetic. Neither needing nor demanding. Neither ignorant nor puffed up. In short, on-spot. That requires precise Knowledge. Oh, the world is a minefield, strewn with Satan's spiritual-substitute landmines. The 1 John steps, above — that's how we learn to see those landmines, and even profit from them. For in learning Him, we come to see Him. In seeing Him, we come to love Him. All along the way, we come to discern between "truth and error" (1 John 4:6), so we come to see Satan's good-deeds' landmines — and the profit from avoiding them.


Royal Script, Royal Power, Royal "Bride"

Royalty. Ahhh, how many images such a term connotes. Pomp, wealth, respect, power. Distance, self-control, ruling over a kingdom. A prince. A princess. Fairy tales.

Fairy tales? Did you know the Royal Trinity Indwell you? Yes, you! "Unless you fail the test!" This "test", is a test of knowledge, a warning to know about Indwellings (i.e., John 14:20, John 14-17; Acts 1:5,8; 2 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 2 Corinthians 6:16, etc). Why? So we can know we have the most intimate relationship with the Godhead ever granted to mankind. Analogous to the Glory "indwelling" the Old Testament Tent/Temples, so we also are Indwelt by Father, Son, Spirit. Why? Because Christ is our "Husband", and this intimacy with God is what His Humanity has always and will always have (see John 14-17). Sex is a picture of this intimacy — the idea of husband and wife being 'inside' each other, via the pleasured coupling (soul coalescence depicted by body coalescence). The Indwellings are even better than that: The Godhead chooses to be "in" you. You don't feel it, because it is bigger than any feeling can hold. You instead can know it (knowing is always bigger than feeling). So, God (and Christ) are not distant! They are in you, if you are a believer! Forever! "Christ in you, the confidence of glory"! (Colossians 1:25-27). Check out all the "in" verses: "in Him", "in God", "in you", "in the Spirit" — these are all answers to His John 17 prayer that "they become one, even as We are One". Our Status in Him is breathtaking Grace. Breathtaking Love. What potential Satan rejected, becomes our first benefit, at salvation. Forever.

Now, how do we learn to enjoy this intimacy? Ahh. We need Divine Power. The same Power Christ had during His First Advent: the Indwelling of the Spirit provides the base for the Filling of the Spirit (hence the constant need to use 1 John 1:9). Further, our exalted position puts us under maximum competing pressure from the satanic do-good power. So we need the Holy Spirit to Fill us to counteract that pressure. Thirdly, we need Divine Power to counteract our sin nature, which is insanely preoccupied with "me-be-good" (explained in Part 2). Most of all, we need Divine Power, to become the spiritually-mature beings God wants for His Son, as Fit Bride — analogous to how Christ Himself depended on it to grow to Fullness, even the Fullness of the Cross. How can we use this power, if we don't know God provides it? How can we use this power, if we don't know the (i.e., 1 John) system God created to transmit it to us? How can we grow, if we don't know God's Script? Obviously, we can know, and get to know, and get the Power. So — do we want it? Each moment?

God grants this Power to not only avoid the Satan's do-good lookalikes, but — above all — to enable us to have a 'married', intimate knowing relationship with the Most High. This Power was never before granted to fallen man; it is a Power first granted to Christ, which God the Father "put into operation" for us at the Session, per Ephesians 1. It proves that, post-Cross, we Christians have the potential to use a Power so vast, we can gain "infinitely more than we could ask or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20). Salvation is but a mere floor; the ceiling Now is the achievement of Christ ("ἀγαθός", English "good", meaning "good-of-intrinsic-value-achievement"; Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 3:15-20), which we inherit per Ephesians 1, "in the Beloved". (Theme of Hebrews is on this topic, too. Try just reading Hebrews like a book, even in the English, to 'get the gist' of what the author is driving at. Do the same for Ephesians, since the two books mesh perfectly together. I get the impression that Paul is stressing the mechanics of how to use our wealth, whereas the author of Hebrews stresses the structure and basis of our royalty. Well, both stress Royalty due to His Royalty, and the consequent structure, but it seems the writer of Hebrews is in a hurry to get folks in Jerusalem to 'get with the program' (namely, Hebrews 2:1-2, Hebrews 5:11-6:1-6, Hebrews 12:1-15), whereas the audience for Paul is already growing, and needs more detail.)

Do we realize that as a result of His Victory on the Cross, the ceiling on how one can develop was royally raised? Wouldn't it have to be raised, in order for Christ to have a Fit Bride? Wouldn't we have to be able to come to think as He does, in order to go through all those four Love stages, Attraction → Compatibility → Rapport → Mature Love? So, wouldn't we have to come to be much bigger than we are, even while in this puny body, analogous to how Christ Himself grew, even in a human body? Of course, on all counts. What, will God give His Uniquely-Born Son an unworthy Gift? Guess again!

Have you ever tried to have a conversation with someone lower than you? It's doggone difficult to find something in common. Person A is all agog over the latest rap music, and here you are, busy analyzing Gibbon. Person B is all about what he ate for dinner, and C is working on string theory. What can two such persons, talk about? Moreover, if you try to tolerate the other person, you'll tense up, impatient — and it will show. Likewise, the one lower will be most uncomfortable, sensing the smallness, so will need to ridicule your being of higher interest/intellect. It's not comfortable to either party. And no amount of good deeds, can bridge that nature (of interest, of intellect) gap. See the problem? It's what we are, not what we do, that has to be fixed!

Look: here we are, puny humans, in this "body of humiliation" as Paul puts it. Here Satan was, the most beautiful creature ever to come from the hand of God, light-years superior to us in terms of ability. We are so very weak, so very dependent on food, elimination, on feeling, on shelter. We really are just a cut above being animals. 99% of our day is spent on maintenance, for crying out loud.

We puny humans were punished by work due to the Fall. As Part 2 will explain, 'work' is thus in our mentality. So — like Satan — we project our depraved ideas onto God, as if what we think matters is also what God thinks matters. But what did He say, in Isaiah 55? "My Ways are not Your Ways, nor My thoughts Your thoughts". See, because we need things, because we have to work to earn a living, fulfill needs, we insanely project these needs onto God — as if He needed them from us, like we need them from each other.

God has no needs. God is perfectly happy. Needs get in the way of happiness, for if one has needs, one must spend time on satisfying those needs, before one can begin to be happy. So, God wants us to transcend need. That is what Integrity provides: with integrity, one has no needs, even if one's body has needs. The 'shame' of having needs is disregarded, by Love. that is true happiness.

Granted, growing always involves effort and even pain. It takes effort to exercise the body to strengthen it. So, one mistakenly feels one 'earned' the 'reward' of the body's better health. So, one projects the fact of effort to get a desired goal into the spiritual life, which cannot even be done in human power.

So such a limited nature, made worse because (due to Fall) depraved by an "earn" mentality, is it pleasing to God? Of course not. One can only have so much fellowship with an animal, or a child. Make it do tricks, pet it; kinda like playing with dolls. After a while, one yearns for more-adult company. So isn't there more to life, to the relationship? Can't we grow out of this limited state?

Satan says we can't; after all, God is a liar, and made angels defective, so — see, look at the puny humans He made. Never mind that we need to be puny so Satan can have a level playing field.


God Says We Can Indeed Grow Beyond Our Limited Natures:
All The Way Up To "Fit Bride", via Christ's Thinking, Divine-DNA!
He Who Had No Descendants, bears spiritual progeny forever, Isaiah 53:8 - Isaiah 54:1!

Ephesians 3:15-19 via Ephesians 4:11-16 is how He builds that Fit Bride. As you read this series, look for charts with this background; they are used in the series to designate important Church Bridal Contract topics. No Bible I can read ever properly translates Ephesians, especially the mission-critical passages on the meaning of the spiritual life; the Ephesians 4 passage is so mangled, I had to retranslate it afresh for website readers. God's System to Implement His Blessing Plan for Your Life, the most important among all my web pages — is on the training system in general. Doesn't matter what denomination you are, or how 'scriptural' you think you are; you must be doing those Five Elements in God's System or you'll be spanked royally. Just try violating one of the Elements, see for yourself.

In Royal Marriage, it's very important that the Bride be Fit Financially, Culturally, and in every other way. It was quite important for the Bride to be as High as Possible, lest the King be dishonored in marrying too 'low'. It was always a decision made on behalf of the Kingdom; attraction within the couple was desirable, but optional. Honor mattered the more. So in olden times, the Bride was betrothed while still a baby or young child, and then after the Contract was completed, she moved to her groom's household; so the pair grew up together, and then were married at the 'right' age. Eleanor of Acquitaine and Mary Queen of Scots (of France, first) are two more recent examples of this custom. So of course the King over Kings gets a Bride growing up in Father's Household, tutored by the Mentor (not "Comforter", for crying out loud) — the Holy Spirit.

Royals are trained in Thinking. For that is Their Job. Not footmen, who after all are footmen because they cannot think. Royal Thinking governs a polity, so it must be long and arduously trained. For a Royal governs by Example, by Exhibiting the Standard: "δείκνυμι" clause in Isaiah 53:11. Four other infinitives also pertain, and are sweepingly listed in the LXX of Isaiah 53:10-11. Chained together, these five infinitives constitute what happened to the Progenitor, the Christ, both training Him for the Cross — and, how our sins got paid for by His Thinking while on the Cross. So they must happen to us, as well. These five chained infinitives are:

  1. "καθαρίζω": to Purify/Sanctify/Make Holy, via imputing His Son's Humanity with all sin (function of Atonement, in Bible).
  2. "ἀφαιρέω": to Plunder His Son's Thinking (function of Propitiation, in Bible).
  3. "δείκνυμι": to Exhibit His Son's Thinking, the Light which is God's Own Glory (function of Reconciliation/Peace, in Bible).
  4. "πλάσσω": to sculpt out from His Son's Thinking, Righteousness (function of Redemption, in Bible).
  5. "δικαιόω": to Justify/Make Righteous at God's Own Level (result of redemption — salvation/sanctification, in Bible).

Notice the going-down quality of the first two infinitives, the joining quality of the third (joining of opposites), and the going-up quality of the last two, which are the results of the third. Hence, a Divine 'circle', encapsulating creation without compromise. Man can't ever effectuate these results, but he can learn and consent to them.

Notice further that this circling process is like if-then thinking. Protasis, "if"; apodosis, "then". If a temptation hits the soul, God's Apodosis is applied to it, and the temptation is resisted, for the Truth in 'reply' defines the conclusion to make about the protasis. So, when tempted to fear, you 'reply' with "what time I am afraid, then I will trust You" as David did; and the item feared reduces in its ability to tempt you, the next time. For, a new conclusion bonded with the temptation, re-engineering its meaning. Repetition of God's Apodoses millions of times as you age, greatly reduces or eliminates the power of the temptation. That's how RNA-DNA interactions work in biology; that's how sins got paid for on the Cross. That's how you progress spiritually, living on the Bible you learn. Protasis plus proper Apodosis makes you complete in Him. There are no gimmicks, self-help or psychology or "counselling" which are effective: the world's prescriptions only cross-addict you, so you just switch what type of sin and evil you do, versus what you'd done before. Again, only Thinking paid for sins. So only Thinking His Thoughts pays, period: "true riches". Romans 8 tells us that we never stop sinning altogether. Body can't obey, Romans 8:10. So you will always be tempted, and you will still sin. But sin is not the issue, growing up in Christ is the issue: "concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me", John 16:9 has the post-salvation application of learning Him; because if you do believe in Him, you want to Learn Him. You always want to learn more about a person you believe in. So those not learning the Book have stopped believing in Him. Saved, but not growing up, and certainly not loving Him. Again, if you Love Someone you want to Learn that Person. So kiss all those songfests about how I love Jesus good-bye.

Hence all the New Testament plays on these five infinitives. When Bible references previous Divine Writ, it uses the keywords of that Writ, either outright, or thesaurally; either directly, or conceptually. When you read Bible, you must think like a thesaurus, or you will misconstrue its meanings. Which is fun, actually, because it's like a sport: connecting Bible meanings to everything in your life. Paul calls it by Olympian names: boxing, running, etc. Writer of Hebrews likens it to a marathon race, paralleling the Lord's, in Hebrews 12:1-2's Greek (other writers use the same terms).

Greek word for athletic training is ἀγών. English "agony" comes from it. And that's how it often feels, too. The idea is fabulous, fun, interesting, and Bible is truly refreshing to know (so much better than what passes for intellectuality or conversation out there in the banal world). But: your sin nature hates this, so it will feel bad often — then you're in agony. Push on, Philippians 3:14. You don't have to like it, and you won't like it, but that building of Word in you, the re-engineering, depends on repetition, since your body is dead battery. Your 'couch' and your 'body' are equally dead. Because we humans mistake body life for something truly alive, we get all upset when our bodies don't work as expected, or when people don't respond as we expect. That's like expecting your couch to do the dishes. Ain't gonna happen! Organic life is just as mindless as your couch!

So the repetition is wearing: you are sculpting your live soul but dead body by means of it; since the body is dead but organic, it can be trained — but takes a lot longer to get sculpted, than your soul. So only by repetition, will you win anything. No one makes it even in this world, without tons of wearying repetition. No diet works, no exercise works, no wealth-building works and no learning works, without millions of "reps". For the body is dead. So the soul must not be. Over and over and over. No instant fixes (heck, even Microsoft Windows takes tons of time, to even work right once)!

Each 'firing' of one of God's Apodoses (Bible you've learned and 'eaten', believed and thought over, internalized) is a Matthew 4:4-type occurrence. Which matters a lot, because God is Omniscient. Omniscience is One Big Now, even as Infinity is One Big Now, past present future an entirety, kinda like a Georges Seurat painting. So what you are thinking right now is forever in the View of Father, Son, Spirit. And will always be. Now: I bet you want to do something for Them. Well, this is it: fire Bible you know at whatever in your life, like a game. Hence the need to cultivate remembering to use 1 John 1:9 like breathing, even if you're not sure if you sinned. That way you're filled with the BrainPower of the Spirit, and can fire Bible all the time. Like, a game. For that's how Christ did it, Matthew 4:4.

"Salvation" is about much more than avoiding burning lakes. It's about growing beyond our puny humanities. We saw from the "Integrity Properties" section how God must grow us up in His Own Nature, because it's 'hell to be finite'. Satan rejected this Offer, Isaiah 14:13-14. Since Love will never coerce, How Much We Grow Up Is A Free Will Question, just as it was for Satan; sin was nailed away on the Cross first, Because It Benefitted Christ — His Benefit is Always the Reason for Anything, main theme of Ephesians 1. For Christ Grew All The Way Up To God's Level in His Humanity, thus becoming "The Way the Truth and the Life" — never doing any works, and never relying on His Human Power. Christ died, not just to save us from eternal suffering, but to deliver us for further growth, John 17:17-21, John 4:23-24, Galatians 5:1-26. Greek verb σῴζω means "rescue, save, deliver": you were saved from hell that first nanosecond you believed in Christ; now, your soul can be saved from all that horrible, puny religious thinking which was the first Adam's legacy, bombarding you from within and without, since every human born but One, is infected with it. For both asceticism and lasciviousness are religiously tyrannical, harlot-like, always trying to seduce others to join them, maligning God as Sugar Daddy or Petty Judge. Just turn on the TV at any hour, see for yourself.

But as Paul so wittily quips in 1 Timothy 2:15, the woman (Bride, get it) shall be delivered by delivery, bearing spiritual children. As usual, God's head is chopped off in that verse too, so you think it's about her being a chaste and obedient wife, 🤣. Greek there is of anarthrous construction; means God-level Actor and Action, sheesh. Spiritual seed! It's wordplay. My pastor went ballistic over this verse: he said that it was stressing how the spiritual life was the same for the woman as the man — duh — since it is in the soul. So no, it wasn't a lower occupation or something to rear kids, that's not what the verse was about. Many layers of meaning in the verse, though. Idea of Isha being the 'mother' of Christ, Who then Goes to the Cross and Pays for her is but one of the pithy meanings. What Divine Wit!

For God wills that we puny humans also become like the Most High: "into the 'destination' of life: "the Pleroma Maturity-Fitness Capacity belonging to Christ Himself", Ephesians 4:13 (corrected translation) — that's much, much greater than we are! Refer to meaning #1 in Thayer and Bauer Danker lexicons for καταντάω (Ephesians 4:12), of which this "into" (εἰς preposition) is the destination καταντανέω references. My Bauer Danker lexicon explains that this is a walking to your destination, and is used figuratively used to denote life's purpose, goal. Εἰς preposition is then used, and its own object denotes the destination. Paul chains εἰς prepositions in Ephesians 4:12-16, to show what 'building' referenced in Ephesians 3:15-19, does to the Body as a whole. In Ephesians 4:13, the shocking thing is that via the use of "measure", we know each of us can get as Highly Developed as Christ Himself. God of course does this in us. That level of internal development! is what Father laid up for us in eternity past, individually, as our Personal Dowry; which makes sense, given that Christ Ought To Have A Bride Made From His 'Rib'. If you're under my pastor, he spent a lot of time on exegesis here in the 1985 Ephesians series: Chapter 4 exegesis starts in Lesson 772.

Technical information backing up the New Testament usage of the infinitives, follows in brief.

Ephesians is wholly about how this five infinitive 'Divine circle' works; Paul goes so far as to baldly parallel a famous Greek play at the time, known as "Ion". The term means "venom", demon spawn, here by the 'god' Phoebus Apollo, which is how Satan was known (= Morning Star in Hebrew, Isaiah 14:13-14), the one at the right hand of (to the Greeks) Zeus, delivering all his commands (Zeus = Son, in Greek mythology). So Paul parallels that to show the Real God-Father's Superior Begetting in Christ. Apollo raped a human named Creusa, and by the play's end he shows his penitence by making Ion his (half-god, half-human) son by that liaison, the founder of the Greek Sea Peoples. Since Isaiah depicts the Cross as a rape-pregnancy in Isaiah 53:10-11, Paul matches Isaiah to the play, and then weaves the Seed-in-you-birthing theme around it. Must have caused much smiling among all those who got the circular letter (Ephesus was just one of the audiences). No wonder Paul was so beloved!

You can track the infinitives being conceptually played on, in the order listed above.

  • Ephesians 1 uses all five, since it's the overview chapter, which ends with the very witty, nominally-euphemistic, "filling all in all" in verse 23. The first 18 verses are all one sentence in the Greek, very dramatic Eternity-Past Funding / Endowering Decree.
  • Ephesians 2 focuses on καθαρίζω, bringing us 'near' because we are purified in Him. He begins weaving the plunder infinitive in Ephesians 2:4 onward; he introduces the exhibit infinitive beginning in Ephesians 2:7, the sculpt infinitive beginning in verse 10 (using Ionic dative for ἐπί, 🤣), and the "walk" in that same verse references the Justify. Verse 10 should say "God's Works", not "good works", because the Greek term "ἔργον" is anarthrous (God's Head is always chopped off in translations, you can set your watch by it). Then, Paul begins all over again, using the five infinitives for the balance of the Chapter, this time on a macro level to show the building nature and culmination of history, since Church is Body to co-Rule with Him forever (elaborating on Ephesians 1:10 and Ephesians 1:23).
  • Ephesians 3 takes off with the Plunder and Exhibit infinitives, showing the 'building' that the sculpt and justify infinitives will 'construct' (again, referring back to Ephesians 2:10, what are God's Works). Focus is on the individual, hence the prayer in Ephesians 3:15-19, with the again-nominally-euphemistic "Fullness": pregnant with Word, bearing Word kids from your own soul like He did in Isaiah 53:10-11! in verse 19. Note how that's what glorifies God and completes history in this Most Important "Age over the Ages" (lexeme in verse 21).

Your Spiritual Bridal Life Key → It's about what you become, not what you do; it's not about witnessing and works about the church. It's about transmuting into His Thinking. Male or female, rich or poor, handicapped or not, we are all Bride (see Galatians). Forget whatever you are humanly. You are to be Divine-DNA'd, for you are a new spiritual species that first nanosecond you believed in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:17's Greek!

  • Like Chapter 2 did micro then macro level, Chapter 4 'answers' Chapter 3 on a macro level, how this Plunder of His Thinking is Exhibited and therefore distributed, sculpted, etc. through a Divine System set up at the Ascension (4:1-10, ties back to 1:20), via local-church pastors (verse 11-16); each pastor gets his own "μέτρον" for the "μέρος" within the Body he will be gifted to teach; so he is the one whose capacity, they 'plunder' (Ephesians 4:16). Ephesians 4 uses many keywords in Isaiah 53:10-12, both directly and thesaurally, especially "measure" (Greek word "μέτρον"), which ties to "μερίζω" (apportioning-of-booty) in Isaiah 53:12 via LXX. Christ was Plundered, so Inherits All. So we inherit His Thinking which is husbanded through pastors, kitting and knitting out the Body.

Intimate marital terms are used in verse 16, to denote the level of spiritual intimacy/rapport this kitting and knitting is intended to create; no wonder translators won't blush to translate them properly. Same kind of vocabulary is used in Isaiah, very graphic. Paul parallels both Isaiah and the play "Ion" to show how one 'rape' brings about a whole federation of kingdoms, just as explained in both Isaiah and "Ion". Plot, for Church: Rape, pregnancy, kids who grow up and themselves get 'raped' by this world's abuse because they won't play on Satan's Revelation 17 turf; and by so doing, bear kids they themselves will own as the "great ones" depicted in Isaiah 53:12. Nerd Note: Revelation 17 harlot imagery is Old Testament; what Paul didn't know or didn't write about which was given to John, was that there would be a Fake Church, a satanic counterfeit passing itself off as 'Christian', which of course we all baldly see in history, and at anytime one turns on a 'Christian' station; but at the time, John, who wrote some 30+ years after Ephesians, uses Paul's "mystery" moniker in Revelation 17, tying back to Paul. But the harlot nature of religion is all over the Old Testament, in every chapter after Genesis 2.

Hence "the many" believers who refuse God's System (Ephesians 4:1-16) will be the ruled, since they proved sterile seeds, Luke 8 — "fruit" always and only means teaching you learn and believe, never anything else. These sterile seeds instead gave birth to the Fake Church, harlot Brother-Foot Churchinanity, so are only worthy of being Royal Footmen forever. Justice is precise. Remember the earlier Warning Label: you get what you want from God. Exactly. And if you don't get in God's System, what you want from God is low status and distance. So, that's what you'll get; saved, and that's all. No rewards: for all those works get burned up at the Bema, 1 Corinthians 3; just like human works get burned up at the Great White Throne Judgement for unbelievers, in Revelation 20:11-15, last half of 2 Peter. God's Works, never man's works, Alone count.

  • Ephesians 5 (which really starts in Ephesians 4:17) then goes on with the marital-intimate analogy, showing how Word-in-you plays laterally towards people, and how it defeats Satan & Co. in the Trial. There shouldn't be a Chapter 6 division, because the topic stays the same. Philippians is on this same marital-and-progeny result, using the clever propagating term, μεγαλύνω as the theme (Philippians 1:20). So the result of all the plunder and apportioning in Isaiah 53:12, is kids. Forever. See: rulership is parental. Forever. College of Paris in (I think it was) the 1100's invented the chapter and verse system. It's not part of Divine Writ.

This is God's Works in you. This is the real level of works which accounts for your being down here, post-salvation. What you do with your body is adjunctive, peripheral. For to do work for God, must be something eternal, not temporal. Hence the lifetime of Royal Bride Training, which is the real purpose of the post-salvation life. Not, what you do with your body for mere people, thump thump.

In Ephesians 4:13, the word "measure" means "capacity" — literally, a measuring cup of a particular size, used for apportionment. The size/capacity of that Cup here is Spiritual Maturity, "stature" being a bad translation (word first means a fit-for-responsibility maturity level); "Pleroma" is a big, highest-maturity-level, Bible keyword: it's used with reference to its etymological origin, pregnant-with-god's-seed. Seed in Bible always references the Word Growing In You (i.e., Luke 8), so His Thinking is what's referenced in Ephesians 4:11-16, and the Level of His Thinking, is Ephesians 4:13. His Own Thinking Level! That's the spiritual life; and the goal of it, is to get that much of His Thinking in You, so that you think Just Like Him. Just like He Thinks; not like you do now; it takes time learning and living on Word to grow that far — most of your lifetime, actually. For He paid for sins with His Thinking, keywords (Greek) σύνεσις and (Hebrew) da'ath. So just imagine what such Thinking can eventually do to the temptations and plagues in your own life! Incoming temptation/sin meets Beautimous His Thinking in you — "treasure in earthen vessels" as Paul puts it — Matthew 4:4, always occurring! Whether you brush your teeth, or are dying of cancer; whether you just won the Lottery or the Nobel prize, or — you just lost your job. Everything is different now, 2 Corinthians 5:17!

Now you know why "1 John's Outline of God's Script" is so vital to your spiritual life: it is the spiritual life. Bible circulating in your head, 24/7 is a Priestly Thing. Analogized in Bible as, getting His Seed in you, just as our sins were in Him on the Cross. The ultimate conversion, God's 'DNA' building, in exchange for our puny (ergo sinful) thought 'DNA' in our souls! See how that conversion atones, propitiates, reconciles, redeems and justifies? For DNA is literally an "instruction set": in biology, it tells your souls how to be in every respect; genetic illnesses occur when the instruction set has errors in it. Your thinking is the instruction set for your life, and your life is what your thoughts make it. So if you get His Thoughts, whoa — He's the Happiest Person in the Universe. So Happy, even the Cross was a Joy to Him, Hebrews 12:2. And His Thoughts are in Writing: Bible (Old Testament as God, New Testament as God-man). So, "Divine DNA", really. And we know this Divine-DNA works, since the writers of Bible are human. His Seed in their souls, exhaled out His Perfect Word. Which Word, replicates in us as we live in God's System, living on 1 John's Outline of God's Script, which is Matthew 4:4! And what does Matthew 4:4 say? "not merely on bread, but every taught-Word which comes from the Mouth of God." Greek ῥῆμα means Word taught by a teacher. So the capped words should be in the published translation, but the translator isn't allowed to use more than a one-word replacement. That rule would get you fired from any diplomatic post, if you followed it; would have gotten you shot if you followed it, back in the days when kings held absolute power. Evil rule. Sheer evil. Most misinterpretation of Scripture comes from using translations, frankly.

God isn't kidding around, in Ephesians 4:13. It's probably the most shocking verse in all the New Testament. Point is, His Thinking Is The Plunder, which is why you have 1 John explaining how to get that Thinking, which alone is True Spirituality. Same as Deuteronomy 6 and 30, but here at the Highest Level Ever Granted to Mankind. Isaiah 53:12 anticipates it, calls it "booty" (people-booty), playing on the "booty" made out of Him, in Isaiah 53:10. So it's a love circle: all those "Love of God" or "Love of Christ" verses in Greek have what's called a "subjective" and "objective" genitive usage, which 1 John 4:19 baldly references. For He was lovesick for us (Hebrew heheli in Isaiah 53:10), hence He agreed to be raped with our sins (im tasim asham, ibid, and anah-related verbs in the Chapter); which, the Holy Spirit made into more Divine 'DNA': spiritual re-engineering the sins out from Jesus' replies in Thinking: for you pay for soul sins — and there is no other kind, body is just a mindless bucket of biology, a 'house' — you pay for soul sins, with like kind — The Soul's Beautimous Divine Thinking. Which is why at least 21 times in the original-language texts of Isaiah 53 (Isaiah 52:13-54:1 in our translations), His Thinking Pouring out to Substitutionary Death is repeated: for that was the Contract, Isaiah 53:10-11: "if you will give your Soul as a Substitute for Sin". So: you have to be deaf dumb and blind to think that His Physical Death paid for sins. It's a juridical mismatch, and no body has a single thought, nor can a body sin: thought is immaterial. It's the thinking which defiles, as the Lord so often explained in the Gospels. But absent 1 John 1:9, no Christian can read the Bible, even when it bites him with 21 statements of how our sins were paid for, blow by blow. Sorry, there's no excuse for us not to know how Our Savior paid for us. We should be ashamed at our centuries-long horrible 'scholarship' on what should be the Most Important Question in every believer's mind.

Which defilement, Isaiah 53:10-11, graphically explains. So as a result, now that Thinking is in a Soul (Old Testament people didn't have that CopyBook), we can get His Thinking in our souls, which is the New Testament. So Paul is explaining how Isaiah 53:10-11 get fulfilled in us, in Ephesians 4:11-16, with this crescendo of Ephesians 4:13 to show how we can become His Own Full 'Divine-DNA' — in our own souls! Simply by learning and living in Bible in God's System. So we 💩 can be made into Divine Diamonds: God's Alchemy!


We believers rarely learn our Bibles to find out this Royal Raising in Christ to God's Own Level; instead, we prefer to side with Satan's huff-and-puff Sugar Daddy/Petty Judge substitute, not God: for we mouth all his arguments, playing footsie with him every chance we get. For example, it's astonishing, how we believers reject Christ via the pious claim that no one can know God, that God is "too high" to know, that anyone who claims to know Him is arrogant. What colossal gall! Is it how low 'you' are, or how hight God is? If it's how high God is, then think: isn't it arrogance of the worst kind to spurn His Order That You Be Made By The Spirit, To Think Like His Son, 1 Corinthians 1:5, 1 Corinthians 10, 1 Corinthians 5:7-8, all of Romans 8, Philippians 2:5-10, 2 Peter 3:18, Ephesians 4:23, Romans 12:1-3 (which verses are of course are mangled in most Bible translations so you don't know the order)? Or, shall one be as egregiously arrogant as Ahaz was, in Isaiah 7? As those ugly! pious hypocrites in Deuteronomy 30:11ff! What, is the Blood of Christ worth nothing??? Blood is everywhere in Bible a metaphor signifying thinking, which is why the animals in the Levitical sacrifices, all bled to death: "the soul is in the blood", dummy — so your 'blood' is your thinking, because your thinking is the real you, 'circulating' 24/7! Did Christ pay so we could be footmen, for crying out loud? How much 'fellowship', rapport, commonality, would there be, between a King and a peasant? Get real!!

What, is God so weak, He must settle for Brave New World Epsilon morons — what kind of companions would they be, for His Most Precious Son? 🤣, even ol' Jabez in the Old Testament had the good sense to know that God's promotion Glorified Him, so — beware, spurning His Highest Gift, His Plan to make a Bride for His Son! What, is He so weak, He can't communicate Himself sufficiently to produce the requisite compatibility in us? What, if He does do so, is that any credit to the one who receives such Knowledge? Isn't it necessary to be trained, in order to be competent? 🤣! But oh, one must carry his eyes at half-mast, and make politically-correct 'humility' hedges — don't dare say you actually Know God, for it must be a lie? Don't dare say you know God, for it must then mean you are complimenting yourself, instead of Him? Oh no! It can only be arrogance, to know your Creator, Who after all, can't be loved until you do know Him? Guess again!

Christ not only knew God, He also was (and still is) God. So, the foregoing paragraph's 'reasoning' was essentially used by the Pharisees to indict Him. They, like most Christians today, think "salvation" is the ultimate spiritual development possible — y'know, like the 'i can't say if i'll make it to heaven' shell game. Makes you want to vomit. Most Christians also think that (what they consider) 'avoiding sin' and 'doing works' is what makes one grow in Righteousness. Big lie, right from the very pit of hell. Most Christians seem to think that the eternal rewards Scripture mentions, are given out for their good deeds. Bigger lie. All three of these common ideas are Satan's gross, cheap substitutes for what the spiritual life really is (confer Matthew 6, Matthew 23.) Even in the Old Testament, the ceiling was way beyond salvation: "Friend of God" (a title for folks like Abraham and Moses, as James 2 notes). Even in the Old Testament, it was believing, knowing God which mattered: never works. (James 2 again, and look at Hebrews 11, Deuteronomy 30, Deuteronomy 6).

The Mosaic Law didn't even have any works. Come on, now: isn't it a big hint that one got disciplined for not resting (i.e., on the Sabbaths or the many other holidays)? Didn't Israel go into the Babylonian captivity because they didn't obey the Jubilee Years (whole years of no working) — so the "Land will have its sabbaths"? Hint, hint. And what were they supposed to "do" on those rest days? "Thou shalt do no work." Gee. Name even one 'work' in the Law. Just one. Bringing animals was no 'work'. Only God can make blemishless animals. Avoiding sin wasn't doing works: avoiding sin is merely avoiding sin. Avoiding harm, what credit should one get for that? Zero. Try to find even one true work in the Law. Don't let all the "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not" phrases fool you. Look at the content of the so-called 'commands', and see how none of them are works, but blessings, money-in-the-bank. What 'work' is in the Law? Find one. 'Dare ya.

What, is the God who made Abram righteous solely by means of faith (Genesis 15:6) suddenly changing to works? And Hope in Him, the integrity of one's ways? (Job 4:6 — some translations are awful.) So, what's with the idea that the Law was about works? The Mosaic Law, unique among all spiritual codes, had no works: the desert God did everything. He worked; people benefitted. That's what made "the Law" different, for crying out loud. The Book of Hebrews makes it clear that not only was the Law not works, but it was for rest. And what were they supposed to "do" on those rest days? Hmmm. How about Learning Him? Could Deuteronomy 6 and 30 be clearer? Could Hebrews 4 be clearer? Making fun of works in Hebrews 4:11 onward? And what is the 'work' there? Learning Bible Doctrine: Hebrews 4:12! Just as in Deuteronomy 4-6, Deuteronomy 30. Check it out. Just because (what became) the Pharisaical branch of Judaism distorted the Law into works from its inception, doesn't mean the Law itself contained any works. Check it out. See for yourself. There's no "labor" or "diligent" in Hebrews 4:11. It's "σπουδάζω", "be eager" or "be enthusiastic", a favorite term of Peter's. Who didn't like grace, to translate it "be diligent", when rest is the object of the verb? Yet translate it "be eager" elsewhere in Scripture? Clearly the translator didn't like the fact that the writer of Hebrews is making fun of works when he uses σπουδάζω as a verb! What, does one work at resting, even? But hey, this is a command to 'do' rest! 🤣! See how satanic do-goodism infiltrates believers?

Israel lost the Temple twice because the spiritual slobs took over and became popular, whether in Operation Golden Calf, or Operation Whited Sepulchre; and the sickening standard of the masses passed itself off as 'high' with all that hypocrisy. Same thing happened from the Jerusalem Church onward, which morphed into the Church Fathers, infecting minds ever since. The same mob rule is sickening on TV, and everywhere else. And now we're seeing the same 'golden calf' allusions with Donald Trump who hawks various 'golden' products and even sells his own Bibles as he spits on the Word. Pettiness. Childish pettiness, and more tyrannical than Hitler ever dreamed of being. No wonder the unbeliever is unimpressed and equates belief in Christ as stupid! Better to live on a desert island, than around a religious person.

Look how slapstick, sample stuff religions of the world call holy: getting wet is holy/saves (misuse of Bible verses, Ganges version of Hinduism); running around some building until you trample people to death (Ka'aba, the hajj, the August pilgrimage for Ali); lighting candles/incense; chanting to achieve a certain stage of consciousness (trance); set prayers; doing mindless stuff for the poor so you can say you were a good person (wonder how much the poor would receive if people didn't get brownie points from God); rubbing beads (Catholicism and Islam, some branches of Buddhism and Hinduism) and chanting while you do that. The list goes on and on. And no lightbulbs turn on, why am I doing this stupid thing? What, is God a Mad Magazine character? Guess so, huh.

Notice also, how important it is to dangle the carrot, so the religious person can never grab it: you are never sure you succeeded. You are never sure you are going to heaven. For there will always be some candle you didn't light fast enough, some bead you didn't rub hard enough, some pace around the building which didn't hurt enough, some wetness which wasn't thorough enough. Should it be hot water, since that might hurt? Should you be immersed until you can't breathe anymore? What about Detroit water — that's not as good as Jerusalem water, right? After all, the Lord was in Jerusalem, so Jerusalem water would make you more holy. And so it goes.

Not a religion on this planet but dangles doubt in front of you. So of course, you keep on trying to find that pea under the walnut shell. And live a life of shallow definitions of God, torture, doubt. So in heaven, you have all that wood hay and stubble, but no learning of God, going with you. Ouch.

The Mosaic Law was not like this. Ritual was designed to remind you of what you learned during all that rest time. It wasn't some kind of magic function which blessed you. It was a teaching aid. Oh well.

God can promote anything, even poop; since it's all His Work, and He's Omnipotent; He could 'do' the Cross, so He can 'do' 💩, since on the Cross, all our soul DNA poop, got converted into Divine-DNA inside His Son's Soul: Who thus became the Living Payment, King-Priest kata Melchizedek (theme of book of Hebrews). So In Him we get a much higher, no-works spiritual-development ceiling than even "Friend" available to us: for we are Bride, Body of Christ, not merely an associate of Christ, as Part 3 will show. This higher spiritual life, versus the Old Testament, was "put into operation by means of Christ". Ephesians 1:20a, corrected translation of ἐνεργέω and διά — in the Greek verses 1 through 18 are one sentence: it's a writing style to convey the endlessness of our inheritance.) Why? Because He prayed for it, in John 17, that we "become one" just as the Father and Son are one (confer Ephesians 1:10, KJV). Doesn't anyone get that? Paul sure did, making a big stink about becoming one in 1 Corinthians 6-7, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 5-6. Really, all of 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians and Ephesians are on Oneness; as Paul repeatedly notes, it's an analogy to the Marriage In The Garden, "Last Adam" title; so we have the designation, "Bride". Not merely "Friend".

John is all about the same Oneness Topic, which is the reference format of his Gospel; that's why his Gospel begins as it does, that's why John Chapters 14-17 are all on the abiding Oneness which The Living Temple purchased for His Bride. Notice how, because John wrote his portion of Holy Writ in the 90's AD, no mention is made of the Matthew 24 Temple Destruction prophecy: after all, it was no longer prophetic when John wrote his Gospel. So instead — as Part 4a will explain in excruciating detail — we have Revelation 11:1ff, God's Satire on the Temple-rebuilt-against-God's-orders. That's why the Two Witnesses are there in sackcloth, warning people away from the Temple. For we are the Living Temple of the Living Temple, now. No more buildings will be authorized until the Second Advent, just as Ezekiel's long book explains, from Chapters 39 forward.

Meanwhile, just as Daniel was told in Daniel 9:26, we have proof Messiah came and left in two of the biggest undisputed relics in the world: the Wailing Wall and the Abominating Dome of the Rock, which sits atop what used to be, the Holy of Holies. Could God make it more obvious?

Ergo, the ceiling on what we can have in Him is very much higher than the Old Testament folks even knew about. As Paul keeps reminding us, our "Church" marriage contract ("covenant", of which marital covenants are but one type) was a "mystery" to them. (Check out "mystery" verses.) John likes to reference the same marriage contract using homey words like "abide" (meno, the Greek word, has a be-at-home-with connotation, etymologically). Terms like "the beginning" are his way of tying our contract's purpose back to the Garden, my pastor frequently reminds us. And, of course, it was John who noted that until Christ completed His King-Priesthood in the flesh, this role could not be given (John 7:39). See, the first Adam got a bride, and flubbed it; but the Last Adam succeeded. And gets a Bride forever. Get it?

Christ invented His Own Spiritual life, and invented Church. The Agreement basis was a separate contract for defeating Satan, Psalm 110. Book of Hebrews' main theme is to explain how that contract is not Israel, but a separate thing, and Our Church Covenant derives from that kata-Melchizedek contract which predates the one to Israel. (This you will see in Parts 3 and 4.) So that's why "Church" was a "mystery" prior, as it might have been Israel who'd have been the Bride. But she refused the Groom when He came here, as you'll see in Parts 2 through 4, especially Part 4 (long story, thickly-threaded). Her rejection is the reason why there's a pre-Tribulation Rapture, since there would have been no Church, if Israel had accepted the Groom when He came.

Hence, Israel's predicted Time Allotment running out (Daniel 9:24-26 — covered in Part 4a), meant that to preserve the earth living another day, Christ had to invent a new Bride. Which He did, Matthew 16:18, ratified in John 17:20-21 as a Contract to be Fulfilled At Father's Discretion (all this is explained in detail, Part 4). That meant inventing billions of extra people who wouldn't otherwise exist (all of us!), and Christ is thus committing to pay for as many as Father chooses to make — in advance. So He upped the Bride Price when He made this Matthew 16:18 commitment. So Church's "time" is of unpredictable length, as it wasn't even supposed to exist — and is made up of people who were at the time of the Cross, yet future. Only Our Mutual Dad knows who those people will be.

Yet oh! What a mystery our real covenant is to Churchinanity, hiding in plain sight, in the Bible! What, do all denominations just thump their Bibles rather than study them? Does no one realize that we went all the way from 'taint' — to saint? Does anyone ever bother to look up how ἁγνίζω was used in the LXX, versus ἁγιάζω, the verb repeatedly used for Church in the New Testament? The latter is light-years higher! We are saints — the closest the Old Testament got to that was a temporary set-apartness by living a dedicated life for a short period, at the end of which they shave their hair, for crying out loud (Numbers 6). During that time, they had to pay for very expensive sacrifices, every day. It was called a "Nazarite vow", and was (and remains) the most celebrated ritual in Judaism (now you know where payess comes from); one so beloved, it tripped up the apostle Paul, twice! (Acts 18:18 and Acts 21:24ff.)

But "καθαρίζω" is used for us right-off-the-bat, in 1 John 1:9 — doesn't mean "cleanse", but purify, the same promise word used in Isaiah 53:10-11 (via LXX), to which John is referring — and it's the same word as used in the Old Testament, for purifying the Temple! Who in the Old Testament ever got that? They didn't: when they used Psalm 32:5, Psalm 66:18 and equivalents, they got only temporary cleansing, not purification: see Hebrews 10. So for the Old Testament people, purification (καθαρίζω) was but a future promise, to be fulfilled on the Cross, Isaiah 53:10-11 (LXX); they didn't have it while living on earth. But We are Bride, so we get it the very nanosecond we use 1 John 1:9; which is why we need to be breathing 1 John 1:9 as often as possible. Moreover, we Church get σκηνόω — indwellings — the Trinity indwell us. Who in the Old Testament ever got that? Who in the Old Testament was ever Filled with the Spirit? Greek verb "πίμπλημι" is a body-enhancing 'filling', used exclusively of the Old Testament and Millennium people — it's not the full Comprehension "Filling" of "πληρόω", which we get. Where in the Old Testament is it said that folks are permanently "sanctified" — but we are (Hebrews 10:12-14 is just one of many sample passages). Or why else do you think the writers of the New Testament address their audiences, "saints" at the beginning of the epistles? Nerd Note: salvation is the same in any covenant, but the benefits post-salvation, are not. So the Old Testament people couldn't get the full benefits until after death, for Christ hadn't yet finished the Cross, John 7:39.

Granted, one can't learn to connect Scripture verses overnight; but learning Scripture isn't rocket science either, in our Bible-on-a-computer age. 'Takes but daily plodding: the Holy Spirit enables learning via use of 1 John 1:9 and study under your right pastor, as noted above. So, take a 'test drive' of the spiritual life, to see how awesome has been man's blindness (absent the Holy Spirit, man must be blind): look up and trace the Greek words for yourself (σκηνόω ὁ ὤν, ἁγνίζω, ἅγιος, καθαρίζω, etc. — the New Testament writers all use LXX keywords to show the upgrade). Our Church Role as Bride, not footman, is so glaringly obvious in Scripture. Unfortunately, one must cover Christendom's blindness to the Bible (frequently in tiny type explaining egregious mistranslations), to show just how effectively Satan & Co. beguile us — so you can see this Trial is very real, very much playing everywhere you look, every day. The examples below are only a few among all of us. We are all dupes, k? Every denomination proves to be a demon nation, and surely doesn't mean to be so blinded:

As you read through this series, you'll see ample evidence of the charges above. How is it that Christendom's brain-pistons have been misfiring for two millennia, as if popular Christendom all had dementia praecox or some other 'mad cows of Bashan' disease? For no one's noticed how the Bible excoriates their dogmas? What, too busy finding others' motes to read Scripture? Here we've had the Gospels all this time; Romans 2 has been around for 2000 years. Yet all the mainstream denominations make the same arguments as did the Pharisees who persecuted Christ; as the Judaizers who came behind Paul! Track it yourself. Compare what is taught today versus the same nonsense Christ condemned in the Gospels (NIV conveys some of the biting wit He used). Yeah, the same ol' same ol', never look in the Book to see self in the mirror!

But God has better ideas: "new things have come" (2 Corinthians 5:17). When God calls us Bride and Body, that's definitive. His Power makes that happen. For, Son did not give Father an unworthy gift on the Cross. So we have nothing to add to what is Perfect. For, Father will never never never give Son an unworthy gift. So we have nothing to add to what is Perfect. So, let the tares keep growing in the same ol' tired field, saltless. After all, the Luke 8 wheat is growing just fine, just like the crop always has; hidden here and there, among all those popular tares who are tarrying for the Spirit, ferrying penance of the Son, carrying "Second-Temptation™" caprice in the Father's Decree. Calling it all good. Bible frequently makes analogies to apostate believers using terms for unbelievers. Hence the use of "tares" here for believers. The analogy is obvious, and of course is not at all to say that such folks aren't saved. All anyone has to do to be saved is to once believe in Christ. After that, whatever he does can't alter his status: "neither shall anyone pluck them out of My Hand" John 10:28. Part 3's "First Reason for Royalty" will say more about eternal security.

Hence the universal blindness, despite bald Bible passages to expose it in every known human language — this continuing blindness, continues via 'help' — from Satan & Co. Man's not that good at deception, on his own. Heck, we can't even get lubricant right. So, then: the demon boys go to lots of trouble to blind the seminary boys; to hook them into the very same nonsense as trapped the Jews. Yeah, that's the only way to stop us from Knowing The Score, Getting Ready For The Wedding, because without our teachers, we're cooked. So pray for everyone who works in Bible. Doesn't matter if he's wrong. Without our prayer votes for him, he can't get better; and if he's good, without votes for him, he can't get support. Doesn't matter who's wrong. Does matter, that the wrongs get fixed. We are all One Body, and we all need each other. God bless anyone working in Bible should be our top prayer priority.

For God's Wedding Plan is to make a Bride for Royal Compatibility, happiness: not, 'works'. God wanted to create the highest beings, and would want them to develop, grow, to become higher still — transcending needs, via Integrity. Which only God can make happen. Satan was the 'next level down' from God, so to speak, in his initial perfection. We, unlike Satan, start out at the opposite end — completely fettered by needs — yet, because of the Cross, and God's Power granted to celebrate Christ's Victory — we have the Position in Christ of being higher than angels (Hebrews 1-2, Ephesians 1-3); so, we get Divine Power to Grow Up in this "inheritance", should we exercise our God-given spiritual assets (per Ephesians 1), thus implying levels of enjoyment and happiness we can't now even imagine (Ephesians 3:20). Above all, we have the potential for a level of rapport (AKA Love) with God which no set of human beings was ever granted, until Christ vested in His Inheritance at the Session (John 7:39, Romans 5-11, Ephesians 1-3, Hebrews 7-10). So, this potential requires a much higher spiritual power. God has given us this much higher power "in the Beloved": as a wedding present to Christ. That is why 1 John 4:17 notes that God's Love is Completed (in association) with us, meaning Church ("perfected" there is τελειόω, to complete).

Our Inheritance is Christ Himself. So we are to be made a 'copy' of Him in Thinking. For it's the soul, not the body, which is saved. For, until there was a Bridegroom, there could not be a Bride. Until there was a Seed, there could not be a crop. Until there was a Soul fully-compatible with God, there could not be "children" made from the Thinking of that Soul. (confer Hebrews 2:9-10 in the Greek — translations are pretty bad; see also Galatians 3:16 in context — NAS version is pretty good; also, John 7:39.) In short, until Christ completed His First Advent Destiny (the Cross, and the exaltation resulting from it), there could not be a system to make Royally-mature spiritual beings while in this puny body. The angels could have transcended their natures (Satan & Co. being the group of angels who rejected that offer), which was a type of maturity. "But to which of the angels", the author of Hebrews rhetorically asks, did the Father request payment for a universe of sins? Ahhh, so a Higher Maturity is needed. Royal, in fact.

Israel was offered a royal spiritual maturity prospectively (through the future Seed — see Galatians 3, Hebrews 11, and beginning of Part 3), but not enough of them accepted. But Christ accepted: all the way through the Cross and the Session, as Hebrews 1 and 2 explain. So, Now, there really is a way to become Royally Mature, because there is a FirstFruits Soul who actually did that 'job', and He's our Precedence, Our "Head", Our Author / Captain / Originator ("ἀρχηγός", confer Hebrews 12:2). Hence, we are a gift to Christ, and that's why we are Royally endowered, unlike any other group of humans in all history. (Confer John 7:39, Romans 9 through 11, Galatians 3 through 5, all of Ephesians and Hebrews explain this topic. Colossians' theme is the Power, also.)

Peter focuses on this topic in language so clear, even the English can't well hide it. See 1 Peter 1 through 2. What's the "good", there? The testing of doctrine ("faith", in English Bibles, usually means doctrine) — 1 Peter 1:7. What result does that "good" have? You become like the Cornerstone, Christ (Peter is funny 🤣 — he's playing on his own name, chip-off-the-block!) The Greek is really fabulous. In 1 Peter 2:21, for example, Peter's playful (Chapter 2) repetition of words prefixed by "ὑπό" (idea of subordination, being "under") takes a cute turn: ὑπολαμβάνω ὑπογραμμός — "leaving you an example" is really, "leaving you a copybook". We are to Copy Christ. Until there was a Christ, no copies could be made. Think of it as Him being "cloned" into our souls line on line, only within the 'corridor' our discrete consent, each time.

This, too, Peter noted, in 1 Peter 1:10-13; the "revelation" in verse 13 is the revelation of the Learning of Him, not the Second Advent: first meaning of ἀποκάλυψις is revealed information. So verse 13 reads in corrected translation, "For this very reason be 'girding' your thinking for the journey, be of sound & mature thinking: Depend upon the Grace Carrying You By Means of the Revealed Instruction of Christ Jesus." Pretty different from what you have in translation, huh. (Peter uses ἀποκάλυψις the way Paul uses "mystery", and both are monikers for Bible Doctrine given to Church, His Thinking: for both terms mean something revealed only to the members of the group.) No doubt Who carries you, and what He uses to do it, huh.

Of course, the a copy wasn't 'made' until the Original Got Completed. But the original was completed, notes Hebrews 2:9-10 (and passim, Chapters 5 through 10; also in 1 Peter). So also, the copy isn't 'made' until the copy itself 'completes'. Τέλειος, "complete", often rendered in English Bibles as "perfect". The verb "τελειόω" means "to complete". English renders it "to perfect", which survives even today as a completion-type verb. Hence it means Mature. Not petty, not childish, not Brother Foot. Complete the Spiritual Growing Process, yet another mandate, and Peter's last words: 2 Peter 3:18.

Bridal compatibility key → One must complete something, to qualify, to vest. The question is, how does this Royal Completion get Accomplished? The process of getting there is a filling, Greek verb "πληρόω": being filled with the Spirit so to become filled with Doctrine. Paul plays with both words constantly (see Romans 8). So also does the writer of Hebrews, who made both words (and their cognates, synonymous concepts) the outline for his epistle. Peter and Paul likewise stress the idea of full completion in practically every verse they wrote. John does too, but uses ἀγαπάω and meno ("Divine Love" and "abide") to explain the same goal, that of vested Completion (1 John 4:17). The Lord constantly stressed it. Read John's Gospel, look for how He constructs the explanation of filling to completion. Greek verb ἀγαπάω and cognate noun agape never mean any other kind of Love but God's Own Attribute of Love. But translations always cut God's head off, so snip out the Divine-Only meaning of these words. So in translation you think it's the human puny variety. Oh well.

Satan and all religion counter that 'works' have the infusion-value, so doing works with a body-born-in-fallen-Adam nonetheless magically transforms the soul into compatibility with very God. Just as he told the woman that something she did with her body — eating a piece of fruit, for crying out loud — would make her like the Most High. Same game has been preyed on the human race, ever since. Yeah, that's the fruit we produce! This same conclusion would 'make' evolution true, since evolution depends on magic also (inanimacy magically begets animacy, light magically can reason).

But what does God say? Ὁ λόγος τοῦ σταυροῦ! ("The Word of the Cross"!) Word, not works. 1 John's Script, not vegetables. Matthew 4:4, not Matthew 4:3. "Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of Our Lord and Savior" — copy Him by knowing Him, not by knowing works. "height... come to know" (Ephesians 3:15-19), not 'height... come to do'. After all, the First Commandment requires Knowing God in order to Love God, and Love is an Attitude. Any do's, are just so much ketchup. So, then: invest in Knowing, so to get Filled up. You, not your works. You are the work, so You have to be filled up, and filled up with God's Son, not works. In which, if you invest your time, so to speak, you will eventually complete being filled up — and your God-Given money pot ("eaten" Bible Doctrine!) will become fully vested. In, in, in — you, you, you. Not, in your works.

In the United States private pension system, many corporations contribute funds toward their employees' retirements. Typically, these contributions require the employee to have enough hours-worked over a certain number of years, in order to "vest" (earn a non-forfeitable right) in Employer-provided funds. Similarly, in estate law, the testator (person granting assets to named others upon his death) has the right to impose conditions which the beneficiary must meet in order to actually receive the asset(s). The purpose of these conditions is to make it fair for the recipient to get the money, versus others who don't get it. Call it a way to reward loyalty, call it an idiosyncrasy on the part of the giver, call it stupid, great, wonderful, evil discrimination — call it 'whatever', but that's how such laws work. And pretty much always have, throughout human history. And why not? For, the Giver gets to call the shots, because it's his money.

A beneficiary can't 'vest' from a "legal person" who doesn't exist. The legal term, "legal person" means any human or entity which has a right under the law to make contracts, use the courts, etc. Essentially, a legal person is capable of being legally-obligable within the jurisdiction in question. For example, a corporation is a legal person; so is a pension trust. Only legal persons can sue or be sued, own property, make contracts, etc. That's why corporate dissolution or death requires some kind of legal agreement ('testament') concerning the disposition of property after that legal person 'dies'.

So you'd be laughed out of court if you went there to claim an inheritance from a fake person. Just imagine: here all along you call 'God', "Yucky Gertrude Cheese". So, you die, and you go to court to claim the inheritance the Gertrude you slaved for, owes you. You walk in the courtroom. "I am here to get my inheritance, as Yucky Gertrude Cheese promised me." So, the Judge calls the proctor, the proctor calls the Recorder, and the Recorder calls for Yucky Gertrude Cheese to come forward, on pain of death. No one shows up. So, the Recorder calls for the police, and the police end up putting Yucky Gertrude Cheese on wanted posters as #1 enemy, for — she's not showing up! Meanwhile, you spend your life running back and forth to the courtroom, living on stale doughnuts and bad coffee in worse styrofoam cups!

So you'd be laughed out of court if you went there to claim an inheritance from a fake person. Just imagine: here all along you call 'God', "Yucky Gertrude Cheese". So, you die, and you go to court to claim the inheritance the Gertrude you slaved for, owes you. You walk in the courtroom. "I am here to get my inheritance, as Yucky Gertrude Cheese promised me." So, the Judge calls the proctor, the proctor calls the Recorder, and the Recorder calls for Yucky Gertrude Cheese to come forward, on pain of death. No one shows up. So, the Recorder calls for the police, and the police end up putting Yucky Gertrude Cheese on wanted posters as #1 enemy, for — she's not showing up! Meanwhile, you spend your life running back and forth to the courtroom, living on stale doughnuts and bad coffee in worse styrofoam cups!

"Clyde" makes the will, as "Clyde". Not as "Yucky Gertrude Cheese". Here, the Grantor is the Father — not Allah, not Krishna, not Yucky Gertrude Cheese. Gotta get the Grantor's name right, to make a valid claim, to even get a hearing. Like it says in 2 Chronicles 7:14. Else, you're expecting an inheritance from a fake person! Take a moment and enjoy Isaiah 44:12ff. NIV seems to capture the sarcasm best, among the English translations I have. It's a scorcher!

And, as Isaiah 44 concludes, it's the Father who calls the shots. In Ephesians 1, the first 18 verses are really one sentence, saying: "I give My Assets to the Bride.." followed by the conditions of receipt. (Legal contracts are very 'picky' about the placement of periods. So, to really lock in the meaning of a thing, you use very very long sentences, which go on and on and on so that no one can say that something outside the sentence is outside the scope of the verbal clause in the sentence: so it is more difficult for some disgruntled person to fight.) In the Greek of Ephesians 1, 1 Peter 1:4, Hebrews 10:36, this Grantor Decree has all the characteristics of modern-day "escrow" agreements. Which means, Your Assets Can't Be Conveyed To Someone Else. Qualify to get them, or they remain "frozen" in escrow. God's way of qualifying, not my way or your way or Satan's way. The Father calls the shots. And what He calls for, is 1 John's Script, Because Christ Qualified. Thus, We Become Eligible. Will we, like so many before us, also fail to "endure to the end", fail to qualify, vest, because we didn't take the time to learn His Word Enough To Get Filled Up By His Thinking? That's the "work". Nothing else.

Because, the terms of the Isaiah 53:10-12 contract were that His Thinking Pay for Sins: "if you give Your Soul as a Substitute for Sins." So if that's what pays for sin, that's the only Spiritual Legal Tender. Christ wasn't a sinner. So, analogously, post salvation we aren't, either (Romans 5:8); so, we are to Think Like Him, since that's what His Contract was. Hence the need for 1 John 1:9, since we in fact do sin (souls sin, but the spiritual being does not, since the human spirit doesn't have volition in it, 1 John 5:18). So when we are using 1 John 1:9 of course we cannot sin (1 John 3:6). So then and only then are we thinking Like Him, since no one can avoid sin, else. Thinking is the life, and getting filled up with His Thinking muscles out sin, even as His Thinking on the Cross converted sin. Spiritual re-engineering of our in-Adam thoughts, from thought-DNA to Divine-DNA. That's the spiritual life.

If we failed to invest the time to learn His Son, it's our loss, and ours alone. God won't call a Congressional Hearing to blame some 'bad executive' (bad pastor) for our stupid choices to 'invest' based on his actions or advice! God never penalizes anyone else: His Justice is Absolute, down to the smallest speck of dust. So: use 1 John's Script, and get the "promise", or fail, and live forever in heaven a baby, like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World footman-Epsilons. Your assets, your choice.

So, that's the 'condition': get filled up with His Thinking. And, always, fulfillment of that condition requires the Holy Spirit to run the entire show. His Power to transform us is transmitted by getting and circulating Bible Doctrine, "the Mind of Christ", which the Holy Spirit runs in us. (1 Corinthians 2, John 14, 1 John 1-2, Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 3:16, Romans 15:13, Romans 15:16, and Acts 1:8.) So it's the knowledge which produces the power, and the power produces the balanced actions (neither right nor left, but balanced); the actions are results like loving the brethren, which is evidence of God in the world. In short, divine works without doctrine (James 2:18 "faith", in English bibles) are dead; so also doctrine unused, is dead. You can't use doctrine you didn't learn! So the 'divine' works would have to be dead not being divine; because no 1 John Script-learned doctrine is used and thus they're regular human works that any atheist can do. (1 John 3, 1 John 4:12-17; James 1:2 through James 2:24; Romans 4 through Romans 6,8,12,15; Ephesians 1:15-23, 3:15-21, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 5:11 through Hebrews 6:6). Ergo 2 Peter 3:18's command to "grow in Grace and in the knowledge of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ", since Scripture is "the Mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16). And once again this has nothing to do with salvation but spiritual maturity; and in fact claiming James 2 works are needed for salvation is ironically a very violation of the verse itself.

We thus come to share in the very nature of Him, seeing Him constantly, even in this body of corruption: Peter calls it "partakers of the Divine Nature" in 2 Peter :4; Paul calls it "fullness of Christ" in Ephesians 3:19; John calls it, "just as He is, so also we are, in this world" in 1 John 4:17.

Why do you think the Bible makes such a big stink about our rewards in escrow, denoted by keywords (rendered in English) such as "promise", "inheritance", "reward", "riches", "crown", "prize", "deposit", "winner", "hope", "every spiritual blessing", "the all things"? Because, He is Ruler. (Interestingly, our escrow is likened to Temple shewbread, in Ephesians 1:11's Greek.) Rulers want like-minded folks around them. That's His character, and He wants us to have it, too. Not pets, not children, not marionettes, but like-natured beings: a Bride, not merely a Friend. God the Father, in Ephesians 1, provided for us to be enabled, should we choose it, to spiritually develop into a fit Bride, for the benefit of His Son.

With that status comes a welter of tangible benefits, such as superior authority. Why? Blessing-By-Association, which is Love's Primary Goal. See, most people won't choose to use these fantastic spiritual assets, just as most people in the past did not use their own asset packages. How will they be cared for, then, in eternity? They have arrested their capacity for enjoyment, so for them to have the authority would make them miserable. Capacity and Responsibility need to be balance-mated, too. So, someone needs to rule them, so to bless them despite their resultant lower enjoyment levels. That is how we get what we get — God is bigger, is He not? Doesn't He have the Greatest Authority? But how is that demeaning to us? Is it not rather a greater benefit, His Being Superior? Don't we get more enjoyment that way?

See, this is the heart of what Satan incompletely learned: Love's "synergy". Blessing-by-association is what enables the inferior to benefit from the superior. So, the inferior one gets "more" than he could otherwise enjoy, in and of himself. But also — the Superior gets "more" than He could otherwise enjoy, in and of Himself. How? How can God "improve" on His Perfection? By having more independent beings. That gives Him more expressions of His Own Self. So, see — God benefits, too. Again, it's synergistic.

"Okay, okay," Satan would say, "I get that. In fact, you've just proven my point — He claims to be so loving, when in fact He's the one who benefits from our subservience! He calls me a hypocrite, but look at how hypocritical He is!"

Ahhh, but within the Godhead Themselves, look! Even though they are all equal — what do They do? They Subordinate To Each Other. That's what Love does. It subordinates itself. That's why Love needs the "protection" of Righteousness and Justice, so that in its giving, its pouring-out, its loving-to-sacrifice — it remains intact, happy. Love does not want to 'lord it over' anyone. Love wants to Love.

It's pretty obvious They choose subordination: look at Their Self-Chosen Titles, all of which scream Subordination: "Father" — parent, giving His Life for His Kids; "Spirit" — a way of saying Mother (Hebrew rahaph in Genesis 1:2 depicts the Holy Spirit as a brooding Mother Hen); "Son" — well, that's obvious.

So, instead of romance, better than romance, the Godhead Subordinate To Each Other. Honor, Honor, Honor. The Son subordinates to the Father in everything. That's pretty easy to see. The Son made creation, for example, as a present to the Father. The Father, though, subordinates, in that He Gives Everything To The Son. Christ is the Seed, inheriting the very gift His Deity made for the Father — from the Father. So, they end up enjoying that Gift together. Not divorced.

The Spirit subordinates in a sort of 'motherly' way. The Spirit is the Restorer. Just as He restored the Earth (after Satan & Co. trashed it), so to prepare for man's occupation, in Genesis 1:2b and following, so also He restores man, when man believes in Christ (via regeneration, AKA salvation). This is the Spirit's Gift. The Father participates in this also, by means of providing the spiritual assets (Ephesians 1). And who becomes the Recipient? Christ — but really, all of them. They Are Always Giving To Each Other, And We Are The beneficiaries. That's what 'Rule' means. Blessing. By Association. With Them. Never 'divorced'.

In short, like a family. See, Satan, so bollixed up in his romantic notions, can't 'get' that Authority is no good without Love, and Love is no good without Authority. Top-down is all he 'gets'. The idea of throwing oneself away without reciprocation is unglamourous, unromantic, unless one can piously claim the self a martyr. So, to him — not love. So, that's why God invented Marriage and family in mankind — to teach this synergistic structure for happiness: Blessing By Association. Not by being alone. Not by lording it over someone else. Not by preening how good self is. Not by sterile do's and don'ts. And above all, not by martyred works.

For all this power, is about love, not about me-be-better-than-you. Power is the handmaiden to Love, not vice-versa. So, Christ is not ashamed to call us brothers, even though He is superior. He poured Himself out for the Church (Ephesians 5), and those of us who grow enough to become Fit Bride will likewise spend eternity enjoying pouring ourselves out for those under our authority. And, best of all, we will see Him, "just as He is" (1 John 3). Now that is heaven. ☺️

Yet no one, not even the worst-handicapped person on the planet, need be left out of this "fullsim", as Paul puts it (Ephesians 3:19). As Galatians explains, neither social status, nor physical status, nor brain capacity, nor any other human factor, need be a hindrance, to becoming a fit Bride. Because God's power is alone what produces this result, "in the Beloved", via the Holy Spirit (confer the above cites). Never before in history, and never again in history, will a group of humans be granted so much potential to be like the Most High, as the Bride. You are important, because God just flat wants to make you important, and 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 is how He did it. That is the central message of God's Script for your life.

See, God's Standard is Gorgeous. It's gorgeous to look at, gorgeous to know, gorgeous to worship, gorgeous to emulate. And, because only He can give us the growth, we don't have to be tied down by our puny-ness, by our inferiorities. We don't even have to bother looking at the self. Enjoyment of Him can be had at any level. A puny person can enjoy it. As he grows in God's Script, he stops being puny, so comes to enjoy it more. And more. That's why Christ chose to reside in the Spirit, rather than even use His Own Divinity — because the Standard was so Gorgeous, to depend on the Father! Who the heck wants to turn stones into bread, when instead he can live on every taught-word which proceeds from the very mouth of God! Who the heck wants to cut out a key phrase in Psalm 91 to justify some spectacular Divine Jumping Display, when he can stand still, and be tested in the Word! Who the heck wants to take over all the kingdoms of the world from Satan, when he can absorb all sin, as a Gift from the Beloved Father!

So also, for us, that enjoyment reaches its highest level, when a Fit Bride. But is by no means unenjoyable, en route. For, it's not about low self is, versus God's Standard, it's about enjoying Him, which means enjoying His Standard. For, it's not about how impossible the Standard is, it's about enjoying it. Through His Spirit, anyone can get this enjoyment. However handicapped, however 'low'. Isaiah 55!

Love begins in marriage. It takes a lifetime to develop. So the very nanosecond you 'did' John 3:16, God married you off to His Son. It will take a lifetime to learn to enjoy it, as any long-married couple, can tell you.


Satan's out to Stop the Wedding!

As you might have guessed already, since the angels were first, weren't they supposed to be the initial Bride? Since Morning Star (now Satan) was Closest to the Son, wouldn't he have been the Second-in-Line? Sure looks like it, right? Maybe so.

Certainly Satan wants to steal the inheritance, just as he stole rulership of the world from Adam, by beguiling Adam's wife into sin via playing on her inferiority complex. Funny how what someone else spurns, that same someone won't let anyone else have, either. Just as he attacked Adam through the woman, he attacks Christ through the Church (and before us, his primary target was the Jew, since they too had been offered Brideship). These attacks take many forms — whatever suits your pride, your emotions, that's what Satan & Co. will pick. 1 John's Script is your only protection: see John 8:31-32 (which is the main theme of John's writings). Notice there how Abiding in His Word makes one a "disciple", not abiding in works. Notice how it's His Word, not someone else's. Notice how you have to know something, not do something. Notice how it's Knowing the Truth which sets you free, not works. In short, learn Bible Doctrine, or be enslaved. Guess by whom. Guess how he'll beguile you, hmmm? "Ἀλήθεια", translated "truth", literally means "the unconcealed" (alpha-privative "ἀ + λήθη", hidden/concealed). Ἐλευθερόω, translated "set free", is a sound-alike word. There are other Greek words for truth. The Lord maybe picked "ἀλήθεια" for its sound: ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει. It's thus a play-on-words. Of course, the English 'hides' this fact!

See, if you don't love the truth, whatever you do, is based on falsehood. Therefore, you enslave yourself to it, for, Love needs a mate of Righteousness and Justice — and both of those Attributes depend entirely on truth, not falsehood.

Moreover, how can you love what you don't know? What's the First Commandment? You must love the Lord your God with all your heart (believing part of the soul, wherever the term is used in Scripture) and soul and mind. In short, the real you is what you think. And, "God is Truth." So: if you don't know the truth, you can't love God. So what value then are your works? Vegetables.

If Satan can get enough Christians to be Cains, then there is too small a number of sufficiently-compatible believers in the Body to become Bride. No Bride, No Wedding. No Wedding, and the King has no Kingdom. It's all about revenge, in Satan's mind. The Bride first needs to be fit to rule, as her intended Husband is the Ruler of the Universe — get it? Israel was to be that Bride, before us, and not enough Jews were positive enough. (Parts 2 and 5 cover this issue in detail.) Now, it's our turn: will we also buy Satan's do-good substitutes, his pet-the-ego 'love' plan, instead of God's Learn → Know → Love Plan? Hopefully you're beginning to get the idea that yes, it's real important to Learn His Son, rather than run around like so many footmen, offering vegetables. And in many cases, rotten vegetables if you're a Prolifer who confuses evil as truth (Isaiah 5:20).

Sadly, most Christians will opt to be Cain-like footmen, as indeed did most believers before them. As mentioned earlier, most people won't appropriate these Divine Assets and use them all the way to vested completion. In fact, over 99% of them won't do this: the "narrow gate" doesn't suit their fit-in-the-crowd mindset. Rather, it's the wide gate they prefer, for its comforting Bigness, popularity, hiding invisibly in the crowd (to avoid criticism). That's what they worshipped while in this body, and that's why the popular ideas of God always devolve down to Sugar Daddy/Petty Judge. They like the rituals, they like the seduction, they like the pretty, childish, splashy shallows. They want to see the water sparkle. They fear deep water.

Ok, and why shouldn't they get what they like, rather than what frightens them? Aren't they, too, free to choose what they themselves want from God? They want to be of the masses. They want to see the king, not be the king. Nor do they want to be near the king for more than a few seconds; longer is intimidating, not enjoyable. They want to see the king high-off — kinda like just a picture of him. They want to know other people who are nearer the king, for that makes them more important; but they themselves want the king himself, distant: that's all the 'king' they want in their lives. Even seeing His Glory in a cloud petrified the Exodus generation. Confer Exodus 24:17, Exodus 24:30, Deuteronomy 5:5, Deuteronomy 5:24, Leviticus 9:24, Hebrews 12:18-21. So, then: why shouldn't they get what they want? 'A distant relationship, with many interpreters (officials) between them and the king? What they want is the King's occasional smile, a handshake, a glance, emotional thrill. Not intimacy.

Notice how the religious crowd is much more schooled and familiar/intimate with the Church Fathers or denominational vocabulary/history, or what some celebrated Doctor of Theology says, than with the Bible. They know all the buzzwords of all those religions and people, yet when it comes to the Bible itself, its own rhetorical style and keywords, well — it's unfamiliar to them. That phenomenon tells you they want to be connected with people, not God; with the idea of holy, but not with the Real Holy One. From Him, they want distance. They want to be connected to people. So, that's what they'll get.

So, then: those of us who do complete will need to be big enough to make the aggregate "Bride" synergistic, for those who complete can become those interpreters. Else, all those self-made masses wouldn't qualify to see Him at all. But Christ died for the Church! For you, for me! So, then: we get to learn how very much He loves even the so-called 'smallest' of us, by growing up, by 'finishing the course'. And they don't get left behind. After all, if we complete the course, didn't only the Holy Spirit enable it? So, then: the higher gladly sacrifice for the lower. So, then: the lower serve the higher, too (which gives them their coveted 'status'). So, then: Blessing by Association. 'With those who do complete. After all, the Head is no good without the Body. One is no good without the other. Married. Integrity. Docked in a hierarchy, so that all can synergistically, harmoniously, 'get'. Not Hebrew "get" (which means "divorce", "death"), but as Paul notes humorously throughout Romans 6 through 11, God's 'get': a joining, which occurs by divorcing meritorious rights.

Wait! Isn't God also offering goodies? 'doing the same thing as Satan? Isn't God also saying we must earn, to get? Doesn't what we do end up counting, just as Satan has said it should? Isn't God enticing, seducing, with this offer of salvation, with this offer of rapport with Him, with this offer of rewards before and after death?

Ahhh, but what was God's Script? To learn His Son. That's it. You and I can't possibly do that with any of our own abilities. Instead, we have to receive it from God. Meaning? We have to receive Love. Ergo, we first have to be saved, and only God can save us — which is the first receipt of His Love (Romans 5:8). What 'work' do we do to be saved? Merely believe in Christ, John 3:16; which now we know is a Trial issue as well. For God loves the world that much. But the world might prefer to reject God's Love.

Surely the world does reject His Love: nearly every "love" in Bible translations, only means God's Love in the original-language, inspired texts; because, special terms in Greek and Hebrew differentiate between Divine and human love. So God's Head gets cut off in translation, see. So if we pious Christians reject Him that much century after century despite having the original-language texts and knowing the difference — how much more does the rest of the world reject His Love? Takes a lot of rejection to reject free salvation. You gotta hate God a lot to reject what normal human instinct, would accept. "Free" is one of the happiest words in any language: but oh no, when it comes to the Gospel, oh! It's unfair! Sheesh. Ok, but God doesn't rescind the Offer, does He.

For what work is believing? No work at all — and that's the point.
Love doesn't want your works: Love wants you.

So, now: learning His Son, how can one work at that? No way. All we can do, as even for salvation, is Believe In His Word. Use of 1 John 1:9 and listening to your God-chosen pastor, turning over what you learn in your soul, to understand better — do you really think human power can do this, when for two millennia, even the clergy of Christendom have largely been blind? Guess again! Only the Holy Spirit does it, in response to each "yes". He won't seduce you into doing it. He won't entice you into doing it. He will give you full disclosure about the pro's and con's, via Scripture — but that's disclosure, not enticing. So not getting the Word is due to not wanting 1 John's Script. No other cause. The "blind guides" of Matthew 15:14, Matthew 23:16, Matthew 23:24 still tarry around, intoning how verses are "inscrutable", so of course see no disclosure, can't look in the mirror of the Word. No wonder. Will we follow them like so many of our fallen fellow believers of these many centuries? Or shall we form new cohorts? Under the Spirit, transforming á la Romans 12:2-3; rather than under pressure to be conforming, á la 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7?

I don't know: could James make this fact clearer in James 2:14, which is interpreted by James 2:26? Believing doesn't save us, God saves us. The Word justifies Him doing so, because the Word is a promise to be heard and 'done' by believing, not by hearing and walking away from the Mirror of the Word! Like James said in 2:23, it's because Abram believed that he became justified. And how did Abraham 'do' the work of sacrificing Isaac? By Believing. "Thus Scripture was Fulfilled", James concludes. Scripture did it. The Word Works. Doctrine Works. (This is James' theme, and he expresses it scorchingly.)

Nor can we entice God. Our good deeds don't entice Him. Our sins don't entice Him. So we don't and can't get those rewards due to what 'we' can do. Instead, we do and can get those rewards — heh — due to what we can't do. Free. Because, "when I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). See how God makes fun of works? He wants us weak — which is exactly what we are — not 'strong', puffed up with works that don't do a dang thing but aid Satan's plan. God flipped our weakness into His Strength. That's Love.

In short, Love — His — does all the work. Which is Righteous: after all, should God tolerate a lower standard for 'works' than His Own Power? So, He enables us to share in His Nature, via those Doctrinal deposits. "Guard the noble deposit", Paul said to Timothy. 1 Timothy 6:20, corrected translation: see also Jude 21 (no English version I have translates it properly). Unfortunately most translators translate παραθήκη as a clause, usually "what has been entrusted", so you miss the deposit/escrow connotation. Similar verses are 2 Timothy 1:12-14. Παρατίθημι is the verb, to deposit — and it's used in many passages. It is often translated "commend", "entrust", or "to give food" so you miss the "deposit" connotation. Another (and very frequent) "deposit" word is ἐπαγγελίαν, an escrow-deposit, usually translated "promise" in English Bibles. How do we "guard" it? By loving it. How do we love it? Because He enables us to "come to know the Love for Christ" (Ephesians 3:19, corrected translation of ingressive aorist of "γινώσκω"). Love is a knowing, not a romantic feeling. So what one knows, guards. Feelings can't guard; feelings can only react to knowledge. Fake knowledge, or true knowledge, feelings can't tell the difference. Love — His — guards us by enabling us to get those knowledge deposits (Romans 8:28 + 1 John 5:18, 1 John 5:20 — you gotta know Attic drama-greek to get the Romans 8:28 meaning of συνεργεῖ). Then and only then is Love built in us, as 1 John 4 explains. Then and only then, as a product of His! work, never ours, do we come to love: "we love, because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). So — where is the seduction, from Him, or from us?

Also, consider: is Love valid, or desirable, if one must seduce to get it? How reliable is the love response, to seduction? Won't the seducer have to keep on seducing, to retain such a love response? That would be hell, would it not? God would forever have to tinker with our volition, and what we'd 'buy' of Him would never be the 'truth', but the seduction He had to use. So, we'd be forever enslaved to that seduction. "But we have the Mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16) — the least-seduced Person, ever. Knowing this, knowing Him, makes seduction totally irrelevant. God doesn't need to do it — and neither do we. See how Satan cheapens God, by making our deeds important? If deeds mattered — then what is love? No love at all. What, do you want someone to love you because of what you do, or because of the fact you're you? So, then: why irrationally conclude God loves us only if we do good deeds, which are merely goodies? That's saying we ought to seduce God, a sheer blasphemy. That's saying our works ought to count, another sheer blasphemy. From which source do you think this irrational conclusion comes?

"Irrational" is too kind a word. It's insane. Why? What can we give God? Think about it. If God doesn't do all the giving first, how can we puny humans even be equipped to give back? One can never learn how to give, anyway, until one can first receive. Receiving 'authority', is to receive the gift of someone's superior ability spent on your behalf. That's what makes 'family' (ideally) so wonderful. So, receiving 'authority' means one gets to know more. So, one grows up. So, one is then and only then able to give-back. That's the idea here. God wants to first grow us up. Then and only then are we able to freely give back, competently give back.

So, for us to think "oh, I'm a Christian, I must give God my works" — is insane. Scripture never talks about works without preceding it with commands to "know". Why? Because we first have to grow up to be able to even 'do' the work competently. If we don't first grow up, what 'work' we do, is garbage. Wood, hay, stubble. Dead men's bones. Dead works. Counterfeit works. The Devil's works (confer 1 John 3). Debt (confer Romans 4:5). It's like Paul said in Romans 13:14: until we "put on Christ", we're not even properly dressed, as it were, to go out to do any works. ("Put on" is a verb for clothing self — confer Philippians 2:5ff.) So, Christ must be "formed" in us (Galatians 4:19), then "at home" in us (Ephesians 3:17, corrected translation of "dwell"); finally, He can — only then! — become glorified in our bodies (Philippians 1:20). That's the only work which counts: you can't love "in deed and truth" without The Truth Being In You (1 John 3:18-19 compared with 1 John 4:16). Again, like James noted in James 1 through James 2:24, don't divorce works from doctrine. Satan, though constantly divorces deeds and truth. Why? So he can claim an independent "good". Beware, says the first half of 1 John. Beware, said Our Lord, in the 'vine-and-branches' parable: "For, apart from Me, you can do nothing."

In short, until we grow up spiritually, our thinking is in the same trap as Satan: our self-image is enslaved to the me-be-good depravity. So all the giving we do, is to salve our self-image. The 'me-be-good' tyrant needs to be obeyed! So, we're trying to appease it, and/or seduce the recipient. Whether we know it or not. God, of course, knows it. Since He loves us, He's created a way to buy our freedom from that tyrant. Satan rejected that way. Will we?

What shall we say, then — if the giver gives to seduce, and you know that, isn't the gift tainted? Won't one want to throw it away in disgust? But if the Giver gives without strings, "just because", isn't any gift enjoyable — due to that reason? So, God builds His Son's Mind in us, and gives us stuff we can choose to use to express our stringless! love for Him. But not before His Son's Mind is built in us. Because, after all, God has His Own Standards, His Own Tastes. And He 'hates' vegetables.

Has someone ever given you a gift you didn't like? Sure, they meant well — but oh, did you really need another necktie (sigh here)? What, didn't so-and-so bother to find out you'd plenty of 'ties already? Or, did you really need that ugly figurine? Those terrible chocolates? Didn't the person know you were allergic to chocolates? And, if you don't exclaim massive praises over the gift you received, what happens? The person feels offended, hurt. Why? Because it hurts his self-esteem, that he didn't choose the right gift for you. So — see? giving is often from impure, uninformed motives — and thus, garbage.

How hard is it to choose an appropriate gift for someone you don't know very well? How many of us agonize over it — and maybe give up, for fear we'll give the wrong gift. Why, then, don't we take the same common-sense approach to God? Why do we insanely conclude that, because something is hard to do, God must demand it of us? Why, oh why, do we conclude that God wants us to give our money away? From which source do you think this insane conclusion comes? See how the me-be-good propaganda urge creates garbage?

Okay, but what do we give to the God Who has everything? Vegetables? Hmmm. We know He 'hates' the Devil's vegetables, Cain's vegetables, the Pharisees' vegetables — hmmm. Maybe we should first know Him intimately, before we try giving anything at all. Hmmm. Maybe, just maybe, since He wrote hundreds of commands to "know" in Scripture, the "gift" He wants — is to learn Bible Doctrine? 1 John's Script?

It would be nice, most of all, to be with the Giver, all the time. With or without 'goodies'. See how excited those angels are, (in Revelation 4:6-8) throwing down their crowns before Him? The crowns represent fantastic wealth — and their gestures mean they want to spend all their wealth on Him! They are so happy, they never want to spend a minute on anything but Loving Him! They are not automatons, but Free! It is not stupid or boring to love someone else that much! It is not weakness, to love that much! They aren't thinking of what 'they' do, they are thinking of Christ! And never want to think of anything else! They're happy to have all the goodies, so they can spend them on Him — Ahhh, now that is Heaven.

It's 'heaven' to be around someone whose thinking you share. It's 'heaven' to have enough of yourself, in yourself, to be able to express your enjoyment of that person. It's heaven, no matter what you or the other person does, because happiness is a beingness, not a doingness. It's 'heaven' to not have to feel intimidated, inferior, beholding, obligated. In short, what's 'heaven' is to have the best of both inequality — and equality. That's the Heaven, in escrow for you, that God wants you to have. For the sake of His Son. To share with His Son. To Spend on His Son. Forever. For Love, loves. Forever.

Just think: your escrowed Ephesians 1 inheritance is even bigger than those angels', because your escrow is for you to enjoy spending on your "Husband". 'Gifts you can give Him that He wants — stored up in Heaven. 'Some of which you can get down here — if — and this is the rarest, biggest "if" — you Learn down here. Once you've received enough Love-deposits (😏!), you are nourished enough to give back. For you will need lots and lots of His Mind in you, to competently give such priceless gifts to Him, Your True Love, the Reason you even want Heaven. See? It's not about 'sacrifice' at all! But a body He has prepared for you! To learn how to enjoy! ('Play on Hebrews 10:5's wording.)

What is Love, if not enjoyment? Ok. But how do we Learn Love? That takes training. While we are learning, it feels like suffering (Hebrews 2:10-15, Hebrews 5:8-9). Once we've learned, like an athlete, we enjoy the benefit. It's not work, it's Gain. Philippians 1:21 — "Living, Christ! Dying, Profit! (Corrected translation no verbs in Greek means shouting.)

Satan feels God isn't a good-enough prize. He considers a verse like "the Lord is my portion" (Hebrew: cheleq, "inheritance", a quote from Jeremiah, Lamentations 3:24), weakness. That's why Hell is really preferable to him, versus Heaven. Heaven means submission. Heaven is thus entirely unacceptable! How boring, how plebeian, to love someone else that much? That's slavery, not enjoyment. God is the ultimate seducer, then — calling slavery, 'love'. Forget it.

Yeah, Heaven is just a sham, a joke, a foot-licking place. Everyone grovels. God sits on his high horse and feigns love, but deceives the worst of anyone. Love? Yeah, right. What love is it, to give creatures such stark alternatives? Is 'hell' intimidating, or what? Obey or die — that doesn't sound like love at all. Creatures get all the mandates, and whatever they might wish to offer of themselves is unacceptable? It can only come one way? God's Way? Why give a choice, then? Nope, doesn't sound like love, at all. Sounds, rather, like a lie. Might as well lie, then. Lie with the mouth, lie with whomever. Mimic the seduction, warn everyone what a deceitful jerk the Most High is. Oh well: at least Hell is an honest lie.

So, Satan argues, goodies should be used to entice us, since after all God made us defective, anyway. Knowing Jesus Christ personally, well — whoopee. Christ lets people suffer. Is even a masochist, himself. What kind of love is that? What value is knowing him, anyway?

Ahhh. So human history, for Trial purposes, would have to display that value of knowing Him, huh. Is it worth more to know God, or not? Is the individual better for knowing God? Does he really become evil if he rejects the Bible? Should he be punished for that rejection? These questions require playing out every variation in Satan's plan, and God's plan. Human history is that play.

For example, since Satan contends that God's ability to create is faulty: fallen man's "Total Depravity" (Romans 5:12) makes man defective — so, can even defective man become better under God's Plan, or Satan's? So, can even defective man become happier under God's Plan, or Satan's?

Further, what happens if, as time passes, God's Plan becomes progressively more difficult to want and 'do', whereas Satan's plan becomes progressively easier to want and do? So it's as if God the Father said, "in the beginning":

"Hmmmm. Let Us institute Our Plan in stages, to suit man as he progresses under Satan's Plan. Let Us make progressive "covenants", benefit packages, of knowledge-and-power levels — to know God. Yes. Let Us make these covenants apply to given groups of men. Let Us 'see' how they each choose to use the knowledge-and-power level their particular covenant provides — to know Us, and hence to Learn Love — or to reject Us, and hence to learn hate. Let Us see how much they want Us, versus Satan and his 'covenants'." Foregoing was 'inspired' by Hebrews 1,6,9, 1 John 3, Genesis 6, and Genesis 1's humorous "Let Us Create man in Our Own (Shadow) Image".

Satan nods. This is exactly what he wants. He says to his demon-cohorts: "Man won't want Elohim. Once man is fallen — We'll win! We'll dominate Elohim forever! The universe shall be Ours, as is Our Right!"

So, here we are, on Stadium Earth, the gladiators in this greatest of dramas. Will it be a comedy, too? Will it be a tragedy, too? Do we want to know God, or not? And how much, versus other preferences? Do we want to know Christ, or not? And how much? Is God the prize of Heaven, or is Satan right? 'Our choice, every second of every day. Just as it always has been, since "the beginning".


Why Satan & Co. Rebelled

Part 1a doesn't say a whole lot about why Satan & Co. rebelled. The reason to keep the "why" short in the main body of the series, was to focus attention instead on God's Answer, God's Script. For, we are here now, and we've got a lot of decisions to make! In short, I'm trying to be pragmatic. It's important to show that Satan has reasons, and I'm not sure that I've really expressed them well. God Himself honors Satan in this way, for God loves him just as much as He loves anyone: Infinitely (in fact, Christians who don't learn to love Satan haven't learned a single thing about Bible Doctrine, they're stuck in a petty childish mindset that wants to club everything they deem as 'evil' forgetting that God loves all souls equally, He loves you just as much as He loves Satan). Here are the bullet points on this topic in more detail:

1. Satan's base contention is that he didn't get to choose to be made, (duh, couldn't choose until he existed), so the very act of God creating him created a certain fiduciary liability on the part of God to allow him to choose whatever he wants, without punishment.

That's a very key point. It begs the question of not only whether God's "Rule" is beneficial, but, more importantly, what Truth ought to "be". For, God is essentially saying that the Truth means rebellion against God is Hell, not because God imposes it so; but because that's the intrinsic result the rebeller incurs upon himself. Satan's perspective is that since God is Omnipotent, "Truth" is really only what God says it is, and "Truth" itself has no intrinsic properties of its own. (This argument exports to mankind in the popular notion that "all truth is relative".) So the Nature of Truth is the crux issue: is Truth, not Power, the determinant? If Truth is the determinant, Satan argues, then God is really not omnipotent. Conversely, if Power is the determinant, then Truth is arbitrary. Hence, either way — no one who rejects God should be caused to suffer.

2. We know that God Himself worships Truth. So, wow — it sure looks like Satan is right! Moreover, if God did violate Truth, He really would stop being God - but only because it would be His act of Will. Wow, score again for the Defense! Moreover: Truth (as an Attribute, not as an output) Is Uncreated. Every Attribute of each Member of the Godhead is Uncreated. Moreover, each Attribute is Undivided. So, Omnipotence is 'colored', so to speak, by all the other Attributes; and, vice versa. So, even if Satan concedes God's claim about the intrinsic nature of Truth — doesn't the Defense 'score' a third time, and thus win the Trial?

In short, God is alleged to be enforcing "Truth" as but a Survival Instinct, rather than due to the Intrinsic Goodness of Truth itself. So, then: again, why is it fair to punish those who don't agree? If they want to kill themselves, so what? Or, conversely, if rebellion doesn't result in them killing themselves, so what? God has His life, they have theirs. It's a kind of no-fault-divorce argument, a "live and let live" argument. Really, yet another form of accusing God of violating his Fiduciary Liability, of being Arbitrary. (This satanic argument exports in all the denominations which "constrain" God in some way, like Calvinism, Reform Theology, and the mainstream idea that God can't go against Himself.)

How does God answer these brilliant objections?! 'Empirically. Okay, let's just let everything play out and see what happens. You go your way, I go my way. If some choose Me, if some choose you, let's see what the results are. No interference from Me; and, with a few constraints, you can do whatever you like. Those 'few constraints' were agreed upon in advance, and... then Adam was created. The rest, as they say, is history.

3. Ok, but no matter how it plays out, the result always becomes unending-stones-too-heavy-to-lift! For, even if God is right in His contention about the intrinsic nature of what a rebeller does to himself, then the rebeller 'reaps' unending crushing. But look: Christ Himself, having Successfully Completed the Worst Crushing, what does He get??? More Crushing... unendingly. So, it's a choice between one form of illness/masochism, and another. So, again: why should God punish the rebellers?

It seems like I've searched for the answer to this unending-stones-too-heavy issue my entire life. When I was 4, apparently my mother evangelized me, and she says she used Infinity (anthropopathically-styled, "Omnipresence") to do it. According to her (for I remember nothing), I was frightened; I went running all around the house, looking under chairs, in corners — trying to 'see' God. She looked out the sliding glass door, trying to figure out how to explain..then saw the sky... then remembered John 3. So, she told me about how no one can see the wind, but only its effects. God, she said, is like the wind: can't see Him, but can know He's there.

So, one objection I've never been able to share with atheists is their sense of God being at fault, and therefore not existing. To me, since God is infinite, any unfairness would first be unfairness to Himself! But watch my version of little faith: for as long as I can remember knowing He existed, I've been asking Him, "What do You get for all this grief!" It seemed always so unfair for Such Gorgeousness to deliberately choose poop when He could have Everything Beautiful. And should! This was my stumbling block in the Gospel, too, for it seemed like still "I" did nothing — which, I was quite certain, was the truth — for who can do squat to please Infinite God! It seemed so unfair to Him. But there was no other way. I knew that. So, by age 18, on the bed, maybe crying, alone in that puke green dorm room, I believed in My Lord's paying for all my sins on the Cross, and I knew I was permanently saved. Because, there really was no other way. That realization was very traumatic... as it probably is, for anyone! So, like most others, I did nearly every goofy thing any history book on Christendom reveals. Unlike them, I got Bible Doctrine right away (my college roommate was under the pastor who became 'mine'). So, grew out of the goofiness.

Nonetheless, post-cognizant-salvation, countless prayers, countless tears, countless times I'd still ask this question, what are You getting for all this grief! For, the definition of "grief" became ever 'bigger' and more shocking, as the Holy Spirit aged me under my pastor's teaching. So, for every day, each time I asked this question, a small piece of the answer would become evident. Mosaically (heh). And now....!! Oh, I'm still asking the question, and will never stop, but the tone is changed: now, in ever increasing admiration, awe... love of the answer!

And just what is God's Answer? Love! 'Expressed often using metaphoric opposites! Or, using the famous Attic hupostatic balancing syntax, μεν... δε! (English New Testaments are pitiful, here. They mistranslate "μεν" as "some", "and", "verily"; and "δε" as "others" or "but") On the one hand, on the other hand! Μεν: On the one hand, we were dead! Δε: On the other hand, we are alive! On the one hand, specks of dust don't do squat to please God! I mean, how can He have invented the need to urinate and defecate! That's what even all our works are, too (Isaiah 64:6 sprang to mind)! For, a "work" is no better than the person who does it. So, to be good enough, the Person Doing the Work Has To Be God! So, on the other hand, God Is Doing The Work: and covenanted with Abram to that effect, by having Abram circumcise his phallus! Is that funny, or what! So, as my pastor loves to remind us, every time Abraham pees...

Yep, Father Decreed to baptize everything with His Son's Thinking; in practice, Father, Son, Spirit all do this baptizing in various Self-Chosen ways. (Their "names", really, "titles", reveal to us Their preferential expressions of Themselves.) And, during the Church covenantal period/Dispensation... the Spirit most deeply pours the Doctrine into our hearts (Romans 5:5). So, what a sweet savor, that poop is baptized / associated / hupostatized / ὑπομονή'd into diamonds! To look at forever! Yeah, it's the meaning which washes away the birth blood we were weltering in (confer Ezekiel 16:6, RSV), and makes us Beautiful Bride. By pouring His Thinking into us: treasure in earthen vessels, gold, gold/silver/precious stones, riches of His Glory, true riches, riches of our inheritance in Christ Jesus. So, then: if the ugly thing is caused to produce the greater beauty than if the ugly thing hadn't been there in the first place, isn't it a greater joy to have a stone too heavy to lift? Remember the parables of the lost coin and lost sheep?

When we think of the Cross, we think of anger, offense, judgement, sin, evil. What we don't think about, is grief. Just like children who think that Mommy and Daddy are 'mad at' them during punishment, so also we children don't see that Our Divine Parents' real attitude, is grief. Sorrowing for us: watching us lacerate our souls with our sins, Mesmerized by the cosmic kaleidoscope; imagining that we're having 'fun'! Hey, Matrix can't compete with Ol' Mesmer! Oh, how fun to stab self with activism, legalism, lasciviousness! How fun to whitewash the devil's world! How fun to fornicate in a vacuum! Yearning to heal us, but must wait for us to agree. Yearning to bless us, but we cannot receive blessing, because we choose to curse ourselves with our sins.

It's grief which is the biggest suffering. Really, way more than these anthropopathic terms can convey, for true and Infinite Grief is an Infinite Knowing. Oh, the loss! All this Deadness! All these dead thoughts! In live beings! All the separation! If you've ever suffered very deep grief, then you know how paralyzing it is. Unlike simple offense or anger, grief recognizes the irretrievable loss. So, is helpless, and knows it. So, avoiding the temptation to react to grief is far harder than resisting the temptation to probably any other kind of sin. Grief itself is not a sin, but reaction is. Paralysis, for example. Sitting catatonic, fixated. The one reacting becomes dead himself, at least for awhile.

Father imputes Son's Humanity with all sins — and what is the overwhelming weight, even beyond the unimaginable data-transmission weight of the sins themselves? Grief. The Loss! The deadness! Pain is a Knowing, and this kind of knowing should have killed the Lord's Humanity: for, He is the most compassionate human who ever lived, as proven by Satan himself in the Matthew 4 temptations chosen. The horrible knowledge should have paralyzed Him on the Cross! Moreover, Father's Judgment of those sins — seems to me thus far that the overwhelming tone of the Judgement was grief. Maximum lupeo: Offense at the loss, offense at the deadness, but most of all: oh, lost! Only lupeo subseries of 92SD and Lesson 1535 give the many meanings of the verb, which essentially is a combination of grief and offense. I can't find the many meanings in any lexicon, for the lexicons are 'sad'!

If ever Bible Doctrine, Truth was on the line, it's here. On the other hand, if ever there could be a greater satisfaction of Making Alive All That Deadness, it's also here. Son is thrilled to be the One to baptize the dead, Make Alive Again! Grief, where is thy sting? Lost can be found! Just a small one-time decision! Lost can become Pleroma! Just a lifetime of learning Happiness, Bible Doctrine! So, think of how happy They are, seeing this Cross ever before Them: for the Cross is, at once, maximum grief — but maximum celebration! For the dead is baptized with His Thinking, and made alive to God! No separation! No loss! Poop does a Diamond's job!

Unending-Stones-Too-Heavy Interpretation Key → That's what's 'in it' for God. Anyone He creates would be irrevocably lost upon the first sin, absent salvation. Would be irrevocably lost upon rejecting the Pleroma Plan, absent some some kind of hierarchy to Mediate Blessing Transmission of what would otherwise be too big to enjoy, given the recipients' resulting free-will-determined soul capacities. Would be irrevocably lost, finally, because the second God creates, the Truth is, even one "dot" below Infinity is an unbridgeable chasm. See why the Lord added Humanity to Himself? See how much (ἀγάπη) love was the motive!? Εἷς γὰρ Θεός, Εἷς Μεσίτης! (1 Timothy 2:5, clause in it.) United God, Uniting Mediator! No Longer Lost Creation! But, Found! Anyone. Anyone at all. For, nothing is too "small" for God's Infinite love. For, Nothing Is Impossible For God! Even a speck of dust, a drop of urine, can be "found" and used to produce Divine Blessing! Nothing less is acceptable, heh!

"Capacity Righteousness" is how my pastor translates the Greek word, "δικαιοσύνη", which is a very pregnant word in Greek philosophy. God upgrades the term to reference +R. But what is Infinite Righteousness? Well, think: infinity is a quality; hence, a capacity. Hence, "Capacity Righteousness". The thinking of a Judge must be Righteously Capacious, or He'll never render a Perfectly Just decision.

"Capacity" in the usual sense means how much a thing/person can hold or do before breaking/quitting/dying... etc. So, how much prosperity can one hold? Well, we know the poor can't, because they haven't learned how to do anything but consume. That's not holding, but spending. Same is true for lots of other things: like, joy. Have you ever been so happy you almost couldn't stand it? That's a capacity boundary. Have you ever been so unhappy you almost couldn't stand it? That's the other capacity boundary. Funny thing, about capacity: the more capacity you have for withstanding 'bad', the more you have for withstanding 'good'. It's just like the weight-bearing ability of your muscles. And is increased in exactly the same manner: by resistance training. In a word, pressure.

So, to one of low capacity, an intensity greater than he can stand hurts. So, to one of high capacity, a too-low intensity, drags. This is the fundamental reason why we're all so uncomfortable with each other: our capacities differ too much. This is, even more so, the fundamental reason why everyone's afraid of God, just like the Exodus people were: He's too big!

What's God going to do? There's only one thing to do: increase the creature's capacity by pouring His Truth into them. Which, requires one first be saved. For, sin destroys all capacity, even renders one genetically insane.

We're wrecked by sin. It's not a me-bad question, but a disease question. Which, if we didn't have everlasting souls, would have killed the soul, too. So, we're not dead... but we're sure wacko! Down to our every gene. No way around it... except salvation. So, then: we can be saved. We can get that Truth in us. And Christ did it all the way! (Finite Perfection would still need to grow, remember.) So, then: no longer 'dead', but "alive again"! "To a Living Hope!" Stone-too-heavy, alive! Not lost! Found coin, found sheep, found Savior forever!

Of course, just like Satan and me, the whole world has always asked this same question: what's the benefit for all the grief? A Gospel verse asking this question just sprang to mind: "How can these things be?" We all ask this question. Atheists vary in their versions, from bad-exists-so-God-cannot, to I-don't-see-Him to Bible-conflicts-with-science... etc. Believers in their variant religions also ask the question all the time; so religions all develop to allegedly answer the question. But, ah: the question got changed to "what do I get!" How can these things be so hard/easy, big/small... and benefit me! Of course, the ascetics do in fact wonder what God gets for it, and in their self-torture to please Him, they hallucinate all kinds of deprivations/rules/behaviors/rituals to make them feel comfortable with the answer. It's easy to empathize with all these variant reactions to, "How can these things be?"

It's not normal to want to kill yourself to get something; but that is, without a doubt, God's Standard. For, He is Infinite Love. And that's the key to the real answer. For example, I dearly love analyzing/living on/playing with/sheer seeing Bible Doctrine. Lack of food, sleep, even bathroom functions go unheeded — I'm a sop! So what? I love it. At times, people have said to me (and it was a surprise, for I don't recall saying anything to warrant the reaction), stuff like the following: "You're throwing your life away on this Bible Doctrine! Get a life!" God doesn't give brownie points. Study makes me happy, because My Lord makes me happy. Just knowing Him. Never want to stop that. It's not a sacrifice, but a joy. Although to some it can be viewed as a sacrifice (Matthew 19:21, Matthew 24:37), and depending what your spiritual gifts are your role can differ. For instance, not everyone is called to be a pastor, and being a full-time pastor studying the original languages is far more of a sacrifice than merely being a student. I guess if people don't view most pastors today as "throwing their life" away for the Lord, they're probably not using 1 John 1:9 and studying the original language texts every day. It's honestly tiring when most Christian service consists of 50% singing and 50% of the pastor spending the whole day talking about a single translated verse in English; and then building new theology around the English translation forgetting that Christ never spoke English. Oops.

It's a kind of prosperity test: to pass the test, one has to insert that joy into the things he hates, which of course means wallowing in what he hates. Akin to the imputation of sins the Lord received, the believer must learn to hold, embrace, even, what he least likes by means of the Doctrine He Loves. In my case, what I have always least-liked are the routines of living: you know, paperwork, taking out the trash, listening to someone tell me of their bowel movements, etc. ad nauseam. The more doctrine I get, the more irritating these things 'become': because my own Doctrinal standards increase as more doctrine is learned & used. So, then: if I don't do this inserting enough, I won't reach Pleroma, because one must be fully coordinated and optimized to Christ's thinking. Besides, God always reserves the Best Bible Class for such 'imputations'! So, nothing to lose, every additional sphere of joy to gain. Poop of "routine" (here), becoming Diamantes of Doctrinal Association! And oh, it's rough! But worth it.

Others have their own loves, too; but think of what you love doing the most: do you find yourself happily killing yourself to get it? Well, then: what's wrong with that? Aren't you happy doing so? Do you really think much of the 'cost', or are you too busy enjoying yourself, to care about the hassle? Well, that's how love "is". That's how God's Love is. That's what learning Him makes of everything in life, by the time one reaches Pleroma. Hebrews 12:2!

Regarding the "middle": same data, but different orientation to it, makes all the difference in life. Is the glass half empty, or half pleroma, full? Sure: on the one hand, the older one gets in Christ, the more he sees the saturation of satanic thinking in every speck of dust. On the other hand, the more he also sees the saturation of His Thinking in every speck of dust. Just think: the Muslim doesn't understand that the Koran is satanic, because the Muslim doesn't recognize the cardinal Justice principle that God better get paid for the two-pronged burden of man: Romans 5:12 (?) "For all have sinned (first prong), and come short of the glory of God (second prong)." We are finite, and sinners to boot. Okay, that's the one hand, what the Muslim doesn't see. But on the other hand, he does see that Allah is absolute. Well, then. That's true! It's a start down the path of learning Him. So, the other "hand", is God. Isn't it beautiful to know this? "For the whole earth is filled with the Knowledge of Him" shows itself operating everywhere, 24 hours a day. For, who doesn't know the term, "God"? So, then: there is always, 24 hours a day, something for the Holy Spirit to make more profitable. So, then: there's no need to worry over heretical ideas, satanic thinking, etc., because there is 'another Hand' working. Isn't that a joy to know? As the Lord said in the Old Testament: "What, is My Arm too short?!" (Numbers 11:23, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 59:1, NIV, hilarious Jewish expression!)

Oh, but the middle looks really bad, when one is hurting. But what is hurting? First, the biology of it: A) body has by Divine Design, a whole nervous system, which in part is made up of 'pain receptors' (nociceptors). Note well: if you didn't have pain receptors, you couldn't feel a wound or other damage when it occurred. What do those receptors do? They transmit communication to the brain that something is wrong, along with some data indicating the site and nature of the problem. Note well: pain is really a knowing-thing, because if the receptors didn't transmit to the brain, you couldn't know you were hurting. So, then: B) as most any psychiatrist/psychologist/ counselor can tell you, what man thinks is 'bad' is likewise 'transmitted' to his body and he thus feels pain. In psychosis, this feeling has morphed into very definite physical sensations which in a lot of cases are hallucinatory: some even show up as things wrong with the body, but the actual tests show the body part is just fine! Milder versions of this phenomenon abound: anxiety attacks, "nervous headaches", "butterflies" — a whole spectrum of physical reactions. Note well: it's what you think that makes for the pain, far more than the pain itself.

Conversely, there are just as many instances of people who should be hurting, but are not. There was a reportedly true story of a guy who deliberately cut into his own head with an axe, in order to 'get the demons' out (or something like that). Having failed to get them out, he calmly entered the police station, requesting help to remove the demons, with the axe still implanted in his head! He not only wasn't dead or disabled, he didn't feel any pain! You can learn of many others in every day: the mother who lifted the car to free her trapped child; the guy who rescued someone and didn't realize he was himself hurt until after the crisis ended; the lady whose legs were cut off in surgery (to stop gangrene), but still feels phantom pain afterwards. More mundanely, you daily see people say and hear the most awful things — and they themselves seem oblivious to the pain they cause, or receive (especially among some older people who are so terribly rude). Just look at any talk show (take Pepto-Bismol)! Note well: pain is knowing — here, not knowing pain, even where there is pain, makes it not hurt. Same "middle", different knowing orientation. That is, the (i.e., neuronal) association of thing "A" with feeling "B".

Association begets orientation, and that is why psychiatry always looks into your childhood (etc): to see what associations exist 'paired' with events in your life. Only then can they treat the resultant malformed orientations which have resulted in the patient. For, the key to mental health is an integrated orientation to reality. For the Christian, this is far more true: an integrated life with God through His Son's Thinking. "Christian" and "crazy" begin with a "C" for a reason! If the Christian doesn't go 'crazy' for Bible Doctrine, he'll go crazy, because he's got, at spiritual birth, this perfect human spirit in which resides infinite Righteousness and Eternal Life! It's a trichotomy-stone too heavy to lift!

Diagnosis Key → So, then: the pain you think you feel is really more of an index of your associative thinking towards it, than the actual pain itself. So, then: pain you express is more indicative of your attitude than the actual pain. For, if you didn't care about the pain, you'd not need the outlet of expressing it. So, then: people who are badmouthing, blaming, self-justifying, petty, always-stressing-what's-wrong, are in a whole lot of self-perceived pain. Which means, no knowledge of God is operating in them. Which means, most Christians are extremely undernourished!

God's Use of Pain Key → The truth about either effort or pain is that it opens the ability to grow bigger. Or, negatively, backstops shrinkage. That's why if you exercise, you get stronger. That's why, if you study hard, you learn more. That's why, if you work hard, you earn more. That's why, if you save money, you get more. It always requires some kind of effort or pain to get something, because that effort or pain opens an opportunity or ability, absent which effort/pain, would not be open. So it's not at all about being bad, but about growing. Increasing capacity. Thus, Christ was so opened by the Cross, even His Humanity could become Wholly United to the Father. Which, His Humanity would need to be, in order to be The Mediator forever. Prove this to yourself: ponder Philippians 2:5-10, plus all of Hebrews 1-2, Hebrews 4, Hebrews 5-10; Romans 4-8; plus the meaning of the Mercy Seat in Old Testament (and New Testament verses on it); plus Paul's Spirit-Filled reasoning about himself in Philippians, 1 Timothy 1 and 2 Timothy 6.

See, whether positive or negative, believer or unbeliever, we all just 'rock along' in our concepts of what's true... until there is resistance. Pain and effort are types of resistance. Resistance makes us question the validity of a thing. That's a critical thought process to go through, for absent questioning, one never really learns. Moreover, until the material is tested, one doesn't really know what he knows. This point is fairly obvious: yet, as is true with everything where "god" is in the background, such common sense suddenly disappears. So, the child is told he is not allowed to question his faith. He's a bad boy if he does that. So... he stops questioning. And slides into deadness / roteness. That's not how God operates. So, what must God do? Give the child something to question. Which isn't very hard, since all around us life constantly is bothersome. So, the Holy Spirit just takes advantage of all the 'bad' which exists, to motivate a questioning. Not, an accusing.

Bad hurts. So, the person experiencing bad will, like Adam and the woman at the Fall, first accuse. So, the 'bad' needs to continue, even worsen... to burn off the accusing. Either the person will grow out of the accusation mode (guilt is a type of accusation, too) or will use defense mechanisms to deaden. Thus, the 'bad' has to worsen more, if he doesn't open up and start asking genuine questions. And, who doesn't ask "Why did God let this happen to me?" about a thing? Ahhh. Open window. Will it close again? Or will fresh information be sought... finally?

'Good' feels good. Whether true or false good. So, one is enthusiastic, thus 'effort' is discounted, because the effort is part of the enjoyment itself. So, if enjoyment is high, then resistance can be high too — increasing the capacity of the enjoyment even more. Trick is, as with 'bad', to be sure that what one enjoys is truly beneficial; else, the feeling will run you over (awareness will diminish, which is another type of deadening). So, if self perceives self to have 'too much' good versus others, he will be tempted to feel guilty about it; or, to get arrogant. So the good needs to continue or even grow, too — in order to be questioned, lest it be false good, and deceiving; or, false guilt, and even more deceiving. Hence again, the Holy Spirit just takes advantage of all the good which exists, to motivate a questioning. Not, a (self-) accusing. And, who doesn't ask "Why did God let this happen to me?" about a really good thing? Ahhh. Open window. Will it close again? Or will fresh information be sought... finally?

So you can never say that because you experience 'bad', you are better or worse; nor, because you experience 'good'; for the sole criterion is, how much Truth are you learning under 1 John's Script? No matter how it feels. For only God is good. So boy oh boy He'll use everything to maximize your growth in His Son!

God's not hurting. He knows everything. Everything bad, everything good, everything everything everything. And Christ is always on the Cross, to Omniscience. So, then: if Omniscient God is not hurting, then the Truth is, even with all the pain-knowings, fabulous. Else, God would be hurting the worst of all! So, then: no wonder He wants ever-expanding, never-ending fractal-like expressions of "stones too heavy to lift!"

Hell remains the 'last' collection of too-heavy-stones. Those there are so closed, so absent Capacity that they need that much pain to stay one 'dot' open (so free will can say yes, instead of the constant no's). It's astonishing. How does God stand knowing all that pain since forever past, and for forever future, which all at once is 'one big now'? You could also refer this to the 'Godhead Archives' in the sense that all knowing is infinitely contained in God's imagination.

Ahhh. Notice how, because Hell exists, those in it are still not irrevocably lost. If God just deleted their souls, as the no-hell-exists faction contends, they would be irrevocably lost; God's too weak, see. Okay: well, besides the fact that many verses show not only that Hell exists forever, but what it's like — we know that God would never allow such a situation — for, Nothing Is Impossible for God.

Alternatively, some folks claim Christ didn't pay for every soul created or born: that Hell contains such beings. So, there's the unsophisticated Calvinist; who contends, not knowing Calvin's teachings as well as his denominational brethren, that the Lord's Payment on the Cross was limited to the "elect". Okay, then: if we ignore the Bible's many Unlimited Atonement verses (even 1 John 2:2, a Calvinist favorite), +Righteousness would be unpaid for all non-elect; so God would violate His Own Nature, a contention Calvinists adamantly deny! Yep, they're right. God would never violate +Righteousness. So the Payment is UnLimited. "Atonement" in the Bible means the toward-God payment, not the toward-man application. The latter is called "redemption", in the Bible. The sophisticated Calvinist makes this distinction, and correctly.

Okay. But the un-sophisticate Calvinist thinks that oh, then the Payment would be "wasted", since not everyone was saved, as if the payment would be wasted unless used on every human. Of course, since (at least simple) Calvinism contends man lost his free will as a result of the Fall (mixing up free will with freedom, a logical fallacy), there's no recognition of God's own Free Will to choose how He wants the payment used. This, despite the #1 Contention of Calvinism (and its best suit, which is why "TULIP" should at least become, "TULIPS"), that God is Sovereign. (Too bad the alleged justification and content of that contention makes God look trapped, threatened, weak, arbitrary: all of which are Satan's contentions in the Trial.) So, the simple Calvinist writes articles and tells listeners that Hell somehow compensates God. Christ couldn't do that! But suffering by these sinners, can. So, these sinners are more powerful than Christ? Perish the thought!

By contrast: shall the Lord's Unlimited Payment not always remain available? For if "no", they would be irrevocably lost, bereft of solution — trapped by their own negative volition. So Hell presents an unending Profit Opportunity to them... to "turn and be healed". Just like we got. So, then: is any coin irretrievably lost, too small, too ugly, too heinous? No: for, "nothing is impossible, for God".




Part 1b, Fixes and Supplementary Information

What follows are windy raw critiquing notes of the Series. Some issues here are important, and Christianity rarely audits Bible respecting them; the truly-tough questions are asked, so heavy reading is ahead!

Don't be misled by the "New Age" sound of the vocabulary into thinking this is something unbiblical; it's religious vocabulary which covers up the Word, and translations of the real Bible, are generally of a fig leaf nature. So I avoid religious vocabulary whenever possible. So as always, test with 1 John 1:9 breathed, and talk with God (etc.) as you read anything. For spiritual truth is always reflected in the secular sciences, if you know how to read the reflection (theme of Romans 1, and passim in Old Testament).

So to use physics and math vocabulary, well — God invented physics and math. We dumb humans are but learning what God invented since forever past! See, Bible verses are written like math formulas, very compact and deft. So one verse is worth many webpages. Like John concludes at the end of his Gospel, the extrapolation of the truth would fill more space than all the books ever written. Since this is a webpage and we're hampered by translations, its unfamiliarity may look like something 'heretical'... until you think out the verses themselves. Which, before the Lord, you should do. For the spiritual life is about developing your soul for life with God, in God. Nothing else. Your soul. We are each privileged to have a forever-intimate life with God, hooray!


Topics related to the Nature of God

Here, the judicial point is not questioned, but rather, the physics of it. Yet the series is about the Trial and the consequent progressive compacts of each dispensation's spiritual life, not about building block doctrines like this one. So, should I explain its physics anyway? Oooh, that would first require more explanation about Infinity as an Attribute. Oooh, that means I first have to knock out some barriers folks have about other issues, like number, Trinity, and Perfection. Ok, here begins the winding route to the answer about +Righteousness and +Eternal Life imputations: the Highest Truth is always the right starting point in any quest for knowing truth. And the Highest Truth is, God is.

Everyone knows that "God" is Infinite; for, if not Infinite, then something/someone is greater, and "God" would instead be the name of that greater entity/person. So, "God" by definition must be Absolute (another way to state "Infinite"). Yet folks don't 'get' Infinity's property of no-mass-no-energy; so, they don't 'get' Trinity, and imagine Godness would be 'diminished' if there were more than One Person; so, even the Catholic Unicity concept suffers from a hydra-headed description; even more, all those councils. They don't realize that mass/energy is a separate 'thing'; that "Life" is itself a separate attribute (which should be obvious, given death!); that "number" itself is wholly irrelevant to Absoluteness (i.e., versus relative). "Number" has relevance in the answer to the question, "What is Perfect?", for one aspect of Perfection, is "number", but Perfect itself can be either relative, or absolute (finite or infinite).

Every Jew, Muslim or Christian knows Adam was initially perfect, so why do we get so tangled up over "Absolute"? Perfection And Absoluteness/ Infinity Are Two Different Attributes, neither one of which requires solely "one" in number for completeness. Ahhh, but "number" is deemed indistinguishable from mass/energy. So, more than "one" divides. Because, more-than-one does 'diminish' a finite entity of limited mass/energy within a universe of mass/energy. So the idea that maybe mass and energy are mere properties attached to finite "life", goes unrecognized. So that the idea that "Life" is a separate attribute is likewise unrecognized. (No wonder folks can't understand the Hypostatic Union!) Unrecognized, yes; even though every Jew, Muslim and Christian knows that first Adam's body was formed separately from his Life: that "lives" (literal Hebrew) had to be breathed into him afterwards. Of course, the prolifers don't know, either: seeing, we all don't see what goes against our proclivities, unless and until 1 John 1:9 is used enough so that the Holy Spirit can break through our blindness, and it takes a long time after salvation to learn to "see".

Proof of our Helplessness Key → being blind we don't know we are blind. It's total, and because it's total, we think we can see. Look how blindly Adam acts just after his fall. He had seen God the Son every day for how many years! yet is suddenly afraid when the Lord comes again to visit, at the usual time of day? Even before that: what the heck had made Adam conclude that covering up his genitals with some leaves will solve the problem? This is what mentally ill people do! See all the bad feelings and goofy feelings which drive him? Every defense mechanism running through his brain in spades? Look at how he responds when the Lord questions him: Oh... he hid because he was naked? Does that make sense? But he'd been naked for who knows how long before! Oh... it's God's fault Adam ate, because the woman gave Adam the fruit, and God made the woman? Is this the reasoning of a sane brain? Or, of defense mechanisms like fear, guilt, anxiety, projection, etc. ad nauseam?!

Sin Rendered Adam Blind and Blaming, despite his long memory of fellowship with God the Son. It's as if Adam never knew Him at all. For, that one sin so trashed his soul's ability to function, he acts insane. We inherit blind insanity from Adam, genetically. That's why it 'feels good' to sin or 'disobey'. That's why feeling is so important. That's the body, not the soul, dictating what is 'good'. That's why it's so hard to overcome feeling. That's why we irrationally conclude that if we get sick, we must be bad. Or ... it's someone else's fault. Like, God's. That's why we irrationally conclude we must do good, and... that "good" hurts. For, it must Feel bad to be good. So if we feel bad while doing 'good', God will like it. See how God is cast sadistically? Yet, if anyone asked anyone else, "Is God a sadist?" he'd get the answer, "Of course not!"

Second Proof of our Helplessness Key → Notice how our positive volition about God is isolated, in the previous sentence: we don't want to consider God a sadist. But our Energizer Bunny (sin nature from Adam) standards treat God as a sadist. See how helpless we are? We want God, but our desire for Him is easily trapped by worldly-idea stupidities which the Energizer Bunny gloms onto, thus redefining interest in God to functionally reverse. That's a Satanic tactic, which is why religion always lies. Trapping us, because it taps that trapped, isolated positive interest we have. God can reverse the reversal, but only He can. So, keep questioning what you believe, because that authorizes Him to free you! No need to be hung up about someone else's incorrect views... or, one's own. We're all trapped! 'Galatians 5:1!

Now you see why it's absolutely impossible for us to think correctly about God, because the brain to which our spiritual thinking must be deposited for interface with the body is completely wrecked. Because it's wrecked by insane urges, and blind, it not only doesn't know it is wrecked and blind, it will deny this, and say "I see". Because, it's a dissociative reflex which became a massive inferiority complex, born from that first sin of Adam. (More about the mental malady called "dissociation" follows below.)

Here's a quick-and-easy way to prove how insanely blind we are. One thing we all know about "God" is Bigness. That's intimidating, for we know we are small. So we don't see that bigness means total intimacy, too. As in, touching everything, always being in contact, never never never divorcing; never never never separating; no barriers! Love!!! So we don't see that it's only us who constantly put up the barriers, to protect our fragile, dissociative egos. Barriers like God being 'inscrutable' or 'distant' or 'holy' (used as an excuse); of works; of behavior, observances, or looks; of human distinctions like economic status or skin color; of offense; of guilt; of.. insanity. Because, we are blindly obsessed with our inferiority. And, of course, blind to being thus blind! That's the classic psychiatric symptom of defense mechanisms: defense mechanisms blind in order to 'protect' the brain from confrontation with something which in the past was deemed 'painful'. Which, have their genetic source in Adam's dissociation, as illustrated by the fig leaves. In Satan's own fall, as demonstrated in his wildly-insane conclusion, "I will make myself like the Most High" (in Isaiah 14 or Ezekiel 28).

Therefore: it takes a lot of repeated intake of Bible Doctrine, day in and day out for some years to break through: for every single 'speck' of soul, and brain neurons, need to be entirely reconstructed and connected to the human spirit one gets at regeneration (first faith in Christ, AKA "born from above"). What an impossible task God accomplishes via 1 John's Script! (By the way: brain holds a copy of spiritual information, as well as soul information, for purposes of interfacing with the body. That's why you can will yourself to lift your leg; why Bible Doctrine gradually renders impotent the dissociative sin nature we genetically inherited from Adam; why we become able to see.)

There's no need to be ashamed, therefore: we're talking about a congenital defect here which we all have at birth; which, sometime in childhood, we gave into, thus trashing our own at-birth-perfect (made by God!) souls. So: there is need to keep wanting to check what one believes; for, since it takes so long to be reconstructed and reconnected after salvation, a whole lot of falsehoods will remain in brain and soul. For, that's the only way one can be rebuilt; the soul cannot be killed, and killing the body won't reconstruct the soul. So, side-by-side, wheat of Doctrine grows along with the tares of false thinking. If you persist in growing in Doctrine, eventually the tares will get removed. But it takes a long time. So don't feel bad about what you don't "get"... just keep on keeping on!

So of course we also don't get the no-mass-no-energy property of "number", just like Aristotle's contemporaries. So, will glaze over, even though, if God could be 'diminished' by being more than One in number, then wouldn't He be more diminished the second He creates anyone!? For we know that because He thinks, we exist. So what's the problem? 'Tulip idea that Sovereignty would somehow be 'diminished' / threatened, if God insured free will despite sin? Most Jews, Christians, and Muslims see easily that man has free will; we are responsible for our own decisions because we have free will. Yet, that doesn't diminish Adonai, the Lord, Allah — does it? So, clearly then, having more than one life around wouldn't diminish Infinity, either. So, clearly then, If there are Three who are Infinite God, that diminishes none of Them. And it is manifestly unjust for Infinite God to be the only One of His Kind. "Not good that man should be alone", He said. God's pairing is one of the most celebrated facts of Islam. Of Judaism. Of Christianity. So, then: why is it suddenly fair that God 'should be alone', especially since number, which has neither property of mass nor energy, obviously diminishes no one?

Maybe we'd get 'number' better if we remembered that "Life" itself is non-mass-non-energy by nature. Biology and science and philosophy mistake the mass/energy properties as being life, when instead, life is "in" them: just as it stands written, "the life of the animal is in his blood." So, then: if infinite life, that's a quality level which has no terminii, nor any other limitation. A quality level, not a number level, because, Infinity is never quantitative. Only Finity is quantitative; so if it were true that number diminishes, only quantities can be diminished.

Yet even where finiteness, number has no impact on the Attribute of "life". For, what we "get" least of all, is ironically the most obvious fact: you are a living entity, I am one, a dog is one, a plant is one. So, then: when any entity lives, all that entity's properties are its properties; meaning, its properties are intrinsic to itself. My consciousness is not inside yours nor yours inside mine. My hands are not your hands; and so on. Thus, even though you and I are both human, my human attributes are no less mine because you exist, and vice versa; neither do my human attributes — nor yours — bleed into each other. Finally, if I die, "I" die. If a plant dies, it dies. So, since that inviolable intrinsicness is true for lower beings, how much more, for God? So, again: there is no 'diminishment' if God is More than one Person. So no need to make Trinity hydra-headed to convey Same Essence.

So, then: we know that since number neither diminishes God's Life nor even our own, even were we plants, the imputation of +EL and +R at salvation doesn't diminish either God or us. "Life" obviously can be created or replicated, because He exists, and so do we. Since "Righteousness" is an Infinite property of God, and so also "Eternal Life", and God is undivided (which has nothing to do with how-many Gods there can be) — then Infinite Righteousness can be replicated also. If you just have to understand the meaning of "replication" right this second!

And why is this an issue among Perfect Gods? Well, think: Infinity is capable of infinite expression. Shall these expressions be limited to other infinite beings? If "yes", then Infinite God is restricted to expressions which only have infinite objects. Quite an irony, huh?

Ok: so the creation of limited beings will 'remove' the restriction, so that Each Member of the Godhead can have unlimited expressions in unlimited combinations — toward Each Other, and with Each Other toward each other created thing/person. Ahhhh.

So, then: how to get those additional 'spheres'? Well, if Perfect 'Life', then it can be replicated. So, if +R, it can be replicated. The impossible thing is not the replication of Divine Attributes; instead, the impossible things are justifying the replication, building it, and the size of the recipient who has free will; because, as "Third Reason" explains, the requisite pouring-in-of-God's-Attribute(s) process will kill either the recipient's free will, or the recipient himself!

And why is this true? Because He's Infinite, Uncreated, Undivided. We are finite, created, and thus divided internally (e.g., immaterial soul, but material body; body made of corpuscles and neurons, etc). Oh, then how is this replication possible? Aha. Let's look at what God's Truth Attribute has to 'say' about this problem! Uh-oh. We can't hear what Truth has to 'say' until we first know what the Attribute of Truth, is.

God's Truth Attribute is much more than a collection of facts, and more than the quality of being Truthful (Veracity), Faithful. Among the many functions-properties of this Attribute is one which delineates all relationships. Truth, like all of God's Attributes, is undivided, which means Each Attribute 'colors' each other Attribute. So, the 'content' of Truth will be structured in part as a 'result' of other attributes like Infinity, Righteousness, Justice, Love, Omniscience, Eternal Life etc. You can see this fact fairly readily: would truth be truth if it couldn't hang together? So, Truth must be colored, so to speak, with Righteousness, Justice, and Love in order to be stable; it would need to be 'colored' by Eternal Life, in order to be permanent. It would need to be Infinitely true, to be Absolute. Most of all, Sovereignty would have to choose a thing to be True, in order for it to actually be. 'Because, The Highest Truth is, God is. The staggering import of Sovereignty having to choose for a truth to exist is what demonstrates Love For Truth: for, if He doesn't love it, why should He exist? See Hebrews 1:3 & Hebrews 1:10, John 1:3 & John 1:10, Colossians 1:16-18, with regard to the relationship between Sovereignty and Truth.

The criterion for God's Sovereignty choosing Truth to be necessarily depends on Four Qualities which Truth must have at all times, to warrant being Truth: it must be A) Atoning, B) Propitiating C) Reconciling, and D) Redeeming. This, so that Truth will be Love-able. For there is no point to living, if one doesn't love living: and one can't love living, if the truth of living doesn't 'do' these functions, for if even one jot or tittle in any one of these four functions is absent, Freedom-of-redress is curtailed, and Righteousness cannot authorize Love to Love; which would be anathema, since Love, like all God's Attributes, is Infinite. So there can be nothing 'outside' Love, just as there can be nothing 'outside' Truth. So, for Truth to be free, these four Qualities must be innate properties of Truth itself. You might have to think over this paragraph before continuing; much more will be said about these four Qualities, under the rubric of "the Four Decisions" (my pastor's title for these four).

So, then: just as DNA is the base for the structure of a body, so also an Attribute's 'DNA' would be. So, then: relationship Truths are due to God's Other Attributes. Moreover, part of Truth's contents would also be all of what could be true, would be true 'if', wouldn't be, wouldn't be true 'if', and most importantly, every kind of opposite. For, if God is Love, then not-love could be true, since Love is true. So the delineation of relationship truths would also include all opposites to both Divine Attributes and all compatible truths. This, because if "1" is true, then all other values are derivatives of "1": even, negatives. In short, one of the key relationship truths is, that the opposite of a Truth derives its power from that Truth. Thus, for example, the destructive power of sin derives its (caroming-off) power from the strength of Righteousness. Since Righteousness is Infinite, and sin, a rejection... there is no way whatsoever for the sinning entity to regain compatibility of its own power. In math and physics, I believe the name for this caroming-off power is derivative power; it's central to the mechanical physics of the atom bomb.

If you know any math or math-based science (e.g., physics), or if you work through the principles of the preceding paragraph logically, you should be able to see that a whole slew of very specific relationship-truths must be true — due to the nature of the Other Attributes. In short, Truth is not arbitrary, nor can it become arbitrary, and remain Truth. Because, God's attributes are undivided by nature.

It's critical to understand that the contents of God's Truth exist in logical 'compartments', and in a hierarchy. So: there are 'boundaries' to a truth, beyond which it is no longer true. So: some truths are more important than others. So: because organized, flow of truth is unimpeded. So, because everything fits perfectly, synergy of truth is maximized. So, in differing characteristics or circumstances, what was less important or not-true becomes more important or true. Like math formulas, the truth of a thing, the 'law' of a thing, only 'fits' in a particular relationship to other variables, depending on a) what those variables are, and depending on b) how the relationship is to function. So, for example, 1 + 1 in base 10 = 2, but no longer equals "2" in a different number base. In base 5, 1 + 1 = 1. Note that because God is undivided, Truth is likewise. So although there are formulaic or logical or Sovereign boundaries, there are no limitations, and innumerable permutations. For, God is also Omniscient and Omnipotent. Which He would have to be, for truth to be inviolable. So, we wouldn't know when something in relationship-truths would call for the sun to "stand still" (assuming that verse is to be taken literally). But we would know that truth "knows": again, because God is Omniscient.

Being Omnipotent and Sovereign, God Himself can change how these otherwise-true relationships work. Let's assume that Truth's content had a subsection regarding what physical laws there could be. It doesn't seem that Truth's relationship properties' principles would extend to natural laws, except to say that any natural laws must reflect the nature of the Law Giver; though atheists unknowingly demand Truth impose such laws in detail, as if God shouldn't create/ decide those relationships ex nihilo, and even ad hoc, for purposes of executing other more important fidelities to Truth; but, let's pretend the atheists' view, to make the following examples 'neutral'. So, then: He could make the law of gravity work in reverse (assuming that the law of gravity can't work in reverse); or, 'the sky fuchsia with purple dots, even if the chemistry of the constituent elements of the sky could only produce blue; or, He could make us all chirp away praise at Him, like happy little Stepford wives. But the 'minute' He goes against His Own Attribute's 'printout' of the relationship-properties, He's gerrymandered Truth — and would cease to be God.

In short, His Attribute of Truth indeed presents Unlimited options, but each one has its associated consequences. 'Which can be overridden, of course: but at the cost of Truth. Well, that's a true Cost God is never willing to pay. The Truth is too gorgeous to give up, even for a dot, even for a nanosecond.

Personality of God's Will Key → (Each) God is only willing to be a slave to the Truth. He Loves it that much. God must be True to the Truth, for Truth to be Truth. So, Loving the Truth is what makes it worthwhile to be True to the Truth; ergo, the Truth Must Be Infinitely Gorgeous, to warrant Infinite Love. Even, the bad truths. Hebrews 11:6 (in that verse, substitute "truth" or "Doctrine" for "faith" to get correct usage of Greek; also substitute "reality" for "evidence"); Psalm 138:2b, Psalm 89:14-15, (etc.) are all sample statements of His Adamancy here. So that's why only circulating Bible Doctrine pleases Him. You can do all the good deeds there are from now until eternity, but if you do them divorced from or absent the Son's Thinking in your own soul, all those deeds are sheer smelly scat (KJV's "dung"). That's why everything Satan does seeks to divorce Truth from God, to divorce "good"; to use both for his own ends, divorced from the One Who Gives.

But here's the Problem: Infinity is wall-less, dot-less. So, whole. Clear. Perspicuous. No separation! The 'personality' of finity is, balance-by-divorce, since the very Act Of Creating is a type of divorce, separation. Birth = Divorce? Hateful word, divorce! Must have Unity! Rapport! What, shall Love be restricted? Hateful word! No works! No barriers of any kind! No 'inscrutable'! No impediments, no 'conditions', no disgusting contingencies like one can lose something God gives him (ugly, barrier-raising words! to Infinity), no separation, no no no no no no distance! Of any kind, not even for a logical nanosecond. But instead, Love! Intimacy! Inside! Total! Forever!

Stones-too-Heavy Interpretation Key → The "impossible" thing is to Create Yet Have The Created Being Be Infinitely Good, for the 'relationship truth' between Infinity and any kind of finity is an unbridgeable chasm. Even if one dot 'less', for Infinity is Undivided: No separation, No barriers! never never divorce, not even in hell! (so to speak).

So finity is the very opposite, and a dichotomy, even within itself: quantity-based quality, 'dots' (increments), and division everywhere; for 'competition' and barriers are needed to balance finity's all-too-fragile (separable! not acceptable!) attributes. Get this: it's finity which is 'inscrutable', not Infinity. For, finity is barrier-dependent. It's finity which has all those horrible high walls, needed to shore up, keep whole its oh so many itsy bitsy fragilities. For by nature, finity is inferior. And if souled, aware that it is inferior. In short, the mere state of being an aware, finite being.. is hellish. Even absent sin.

Note how because created, finity is at once both "of" (like) its parent (God), and of separation, a going away, birthed, Hebrew preposition "min". Going in the opposite direction, hence of an opposite nature, and yet also of its parent. So Finity is naturally divided within its own nature, a hupostasis: one part, going away from God, and the other, naturally going to Him. A true hybrid. Hupostasis. Yet, totally unable to of itself connect to God, to resolve the inherent dichotomy. So, hooked to God, by God. Which connection, can be rejected, disconnected. By sin. So if sin, then the desire of this still-divided nature, will be all on the separatist side. Hence, suicidal. Hence, destructive. Hence, the natural negativity toward God is overwhelming. Despite Free Will.

Hence, everything once perfect will be mutated toward anti-God ends. All horizontals will replace God. So the worst rejection of God, is emphasis on moralities: for, God is now a dog, who is supposed to fetch you a reward, for being moral. Morality is its own reward; obedience is its own reward. Our hybrid nature needs Communion with God, so obeying Him is innately fulfilling.

Sin, of course, says the opposite: instead of concluding fulfillment due to being in a compatibility with God, the sin-nature concludes itself god — "I am Good." As if the good one did had no value, except to make the self good. Because if it was deemed of innate value, no resultant reward would be needed; and definitely, not desired. Hence if it had no value except to make self good, then it isn't making self good, since it has no value of itself. So, sin is insane, as well as hostile to God. Using, morality to express its insanity, the most. See the horrible insanity against God, in all morality-deserves claims? No greater evil, than being 'good'.

Interpreting Oneself Key → We need God, therefore. We need to be higher than we are. We need to worship Him for our own happiness. We need to worship. It's not God who needs our worship! So, God doesn't really need us, and our shortfall is no problem to Him. But, like Jeremiah wrote, His Mercy is eternally renewed (so to speak) "every morning". He sees our need, knows the horrific tension seeing Him engenders in finity. And has mercy on us. As in, Mercy Seat! For God worships Truth, as well as Being The Uncreated Truth, Himself. Since He made us, we too need to worship: Him, the Uncreated. And He has mercy on our need, so provided a Savior we can worship forever.

So, the created being's awareness of the differential between Infinity and our finiteness creates a tension-urge to be bigger, which the 'temptation' seems to more quickly resolve. It's a tension which sits right between our natural need for God, and our natural need to be something on our own. So, the Temptation: God's Way of resolving the tension, or... our own way. Sin means one chose his own way, hence human good, morality, evil are all tools of sin henceforth. All, for the sake of making self higher (Satan's fall). Eating that fruit (same temptation motive in woman as in Satan; in Adam as in Satan). For, we either come to trust God to solve the problem, or we become iconoclastic, due to the pressure of self-seeing-self-as-inferior: competing loves.

So now the drama in Romans 5-8 is more starkly visible. Two universes, themselves wholly at war with each other: the toward-God universe, and the toward-self universe. Sin only is compatible with the latter, but yet destroys the latter, the more it gets to 'play'. So here we are, apart from our consent, created. Perfect soul goes to sin body, at birth (first exhale of the fetus is when it becomes human, per Genesis 2:7). Right there an impossible dichotomy exists, so the desires of the body are antithetical to those of the soul; perfect picture of the antithetical nature of finity and Infinity; perfect picture of the dichotomy of finity, within its own self, even absent sin. Two universes, then: infinite and finite. Sin only renders the finite so shattered that connection to Infinite cannot occur except in minute, gradual steps, via God's System.

God's System, of course, is to deposit Truth in us, post-salvation. For, Truth is God's Attribute, and it's thought, relationships (like math), so can be replicated immaterially. Hence, soul connections can be made into which this Truth, which Holy Spirit uses to make the connections, flows. Breaking down the barriers between God and the soul; breaking down barriers, even while barriers remain.

Two universes. In the top universe, with God, barriers are being broken down. In the bottom universes, barriers seem to be put up (i.e., don't-do commandments); after sufficient growth, you don't need so many bottom barriers, because the top universe life with Him has been grown: so, you get tested. Even, a Cross, during which He was actually made, sin. Yet, Himself did not sin. Ultimate barriers-down, to be made the very thing all His Life which via Truth in Him, He put up barriers against. So, having become the Truth, He can now be made sin; because, that function can only increase and complete the communion in the top universe, His Humanity sharing the very Knowledge of God with God.

Salvation, as Romans 5-8 explains, changes our nature so that we now live on grace, not the sin's law. For, law only makes us aware of sin: shows the barriers, which is why it can't save anyone. So, God fills up our new nature in That Gift, Christ (Romans 6), with Truth (Romans 8). Meanwhile, the struggle is innately intense, for the two natures, live in antithetical universes, so to speak; hence, the body and the spiritual life are absolute opposites: and thus at war (Romans 7-8). So, for every bit of spiritual truth you learn (Bible Doctrine, in God's System), your body will mutate its meaning, and tyrannize you with that mutated meaning: i-am-good, i-am-bad, always the same Energizer Bunny banging its mantra. Beating your eardrums to death.

But your Spirit-filled soul will come to recognize the separation between the body's distortion of what you are learning, and the reality: you are being knitted together in His thinking. Which, the body can't abide. But, you abide in Him (1 John, John 15), so the impossible is happening, as you breathe: you are being made like the Most High, by the Spirit Who Made the Most High's Humanity, successful even at the Cross.

For, only the growing Truth in us, resolves the problem, with the result that this life is a pregnancy (Romans 8:11ff, Greek). The New Husband's wife (us) gets His Seed (His Thinking) in her, thus the soul becomes pregnant (Pleroma) with it, and bears kids: His Thinking on the Cross, replicated. Sterile us, bearing truth, causes childbearing. Just as was designed, as per Isaiah 53:10-12.

Now maybe you see the utterly gorgeous 'personality' of Infinity: how it 'colors' the character of Our Utterly Gorgeous Father; Our Utterly Gorgeous Lord; Our Utterly Gorgeous Holy Spirit. Thus, why it's impossible for +R to accept/tolerate/want/be attracted to anything less than Infinite Righteousness. So, shall God thus be limited, because the Truth is, any creation He makes is ipse so far less, as to be a Judicial compromise to +R? So, +R would not have a Judicial basis for replicating +R and +EL in a created being, as "opportunity cost" explains? Heh — no wonder God would want only stones too heavy to lift! 🤣, that's all we could ever be!

Note the dilemma, here, for what's Good for God, is good for us; what's bad for God, is bad for us. It's a Unity. And what is the dilemma? The Unbridgeable Gap Due To Freedom; the differential between what "A" is, and "B" is. If someone is a lot better than you, that creates relationship problems. Same, if someone is a lot worse. What's good about differentials (enjoying variety), is also what's bad about them, for any kind of differential means an increase in Oppositeness. For, Freedom means that things will not develop or retrogress equally. For, life means that things will not develop or retrogress equally. So, divergences occur. And, widen. And, deepen. For, Freedom and Life mean that opposites are free to occur, too.

In God, being Free is not a problem, because He's Infinite. So, Three Gods are all in harmony, because Infinite. Even though They Each differ in Their chosen modes of self-expression: One choosing to be "Father" (Head), One choosing to be "Son" (serving "Father", thus Creator and eventually Savior); and One choosing to be "Spirit" (Re-Creator/Mentor role). We know then that free differentials only work harmoniously if Essence is harmonious. As it is, in God.

In creation, being free is a problem, because that freedom can be used to reject God's Plan for replicating key Attributes of Essence into the creature (+R, +EL, Truth). Upshot: to replicate +R and +EL in a perfect creature can only be done if the creature perfectly and continually chooses to be built up in Truth. See, even if initially perfect, and even if knowledge of Truth is just instantly created and installed in the creature at his initial creation, the creature (now alive) must continually choose Truth, too. Same, obviously, for what is not known; in which case, one is choosing to know Truth. All this, in the face of Infinity, which the creature comes to desperately want to reach... because, he comes to see Infinity is gorgeously superior. The resulting tension between where one is, and where one wants to be, is so great.. that one is tempted to get relief through a quick-fix 'solution'. AKA, "sin". Ergo, Satan must have advanced far in his version of the pre-salvation spiritual life, before he fell. He has never been indifferent to God. A person can have knowledge, and take it for granted, a sort of nodding interest, like Sunday Church Attendance. Surely some angels who fell were apathetic. But Satan wasn't. Hostility can only be the flipside of a strong-but-immature former Love. So he must have grown very far, before his obsession with being inferior finally broke into that sin of "I will make myself the Most High."

Sin, of course, is a destruction. So, an inestimably bigger gap, which essentially requires that the creature be totally 'redone'. Ergo the dilemma: How To Redo Without Violating Freedom? That's why there has to be a Cross. That's why a person has to believe (which is a free assent) in Christ. That's why a believer has to choose to grow up via 1 John's Script. For, the only way to create harmony and preserve freedom is if there is agreement to become harmonious. Absent that, relationship problems remain, because the oppositeness precludes rapport to the extent of the opposition. So, like Paul notes in Galatians, God is one party in the 'mediation'. But, where are we? Do we come to His Table and eat? Or do we substitute fake food (works, for example), and then demand He accept it? After salvation, it's the same issue, and for the same reason: freedom to agree or disagree, freedom to become harmonious... or, not.

That's why Bible mentions two types of "Doors": first, Christ Himself is the Door (way-truth-life statement, in another metaphorical format). If you believe in Him, you're 'in' the door. So, the second door is the spiritual life. See, since you went through the first Door, you're in Him; in His Kingdom, in His House. Okay, but there are many rooms in His House; in His Kingdom, many homes. So, if after salvation you reject the spiritual life, you've shut your door on Him. So, like it says in Revelation 3, He stands at the door and knocks. He's outside. He wants to have fellowship with you (depicted in that nice homey way, eating dinner). You 'open' the door by using 1 John 1:9. Notice how both Doors are volitionally-operated. Due to Freedom. Why teachers miss this second and different "door" in Revelation 3 I'll never understand. He's not a door, but is knocking at a different door! What, just because the word "door" is in two separate verses of Scripture, they have to be the same door? Or: does one door jump off its hinges and knock at another door? See how blind our totally-depraved genetics are?

Note the irony: like the unbridgeable chasm between Infinity and finity, Freedom is another constraint within Truth. For, if no freedom, then even Truth is not free to exist. So, it's an impossible situation, right? How is it that Freedom traps? If ever Calvinism's (and like creeds') doctrine that man lost free will at the Fall made a lick of sense, it would be here: for theologians conclude that only God can be free. Furthermore, the "constrains" group key off this same irony, saying that God is not free to 'go against' Himself. What they mean is, that God couldn't stay God and do it. But that ends up meaning God's too weak to solve this problem. that, He absolutely is not. See? If man lost free will at the Fall, Omniscient God was either incompetent, or weak, for only God can create free will. Secondly, if God is "constrained", then He's not free, either! Well, then: in either case, truth stops being Truth, and God stops being God! 'Satan's arguments in the Trial, as you'll see if you keep reading: for Satan exploits this irony. Again, 'trying to be as smart as the Most High!

Ahhh. Now you see both reasons why God wants only too-heavy stones: Shall God 1) be limited in what He creates because it freely can never 'measure up' to +R, with the result that 2) God Himself is trapped by Freedom? Of course not! Now, maybe when you read those ironic verses like "It is for Freedom that Christ has set you free", and "lead captivity captive", and "shall live, even if he dies", and "oh Death, where is thy sting!" — maybe now you'll appreciate the utter triumph over impossibility that the Cross represents. Maybe now you'll see that His Perspective in giving us this so-hard but so-valuable Spiritual Life, is to give us the Enjoyment Of A Glorious And Ironic Fight For Freedom: a fight against all the illusions(!) that awwww, God can't(!!) pour His Attributes into His own creation! Moreover, yet another fight, also against impossible odds: for, our situations relative to each other are the same, paradigmally, as the Creation Paradox. That is, how do we manage to get along despite being so offended with each other? Intimidated with each other? Shall we too, be limited by our own differences, our own limitations? 🤣, of course not! Once again says God... "What, is My Arm too short?!"

The personal 'cost' to God the Son cannot be overstated. As you'll learn in the next bullet point, the only way to resolve the unbridgeable chasm is for Him to attach finity to Himself. This is somewhat like having a bazillion dollars and choosing to live instead as if destitute, and in feces. forever. For, He first has to add Humanity to Himself, and then pay for all the sins of the rational creation which can exist. No matter how good, how bad, no matter whether they ever even once believe in Him. No gerrymandering of who gets to be born, who gets saved, who grows up in the spiritual life. Only Infinite Love can account for His Astonishing Motive to attach Humanity to Himself. It staggers the mind, how great this Love must be...

The fact that He has to unify all finity within His Humanity, which many Bible passages attest in different ways, further warrants the conclusion advanced in Part 1 that Satan, at least, knew in advance the entire Plan. At least, as instantly created gnosis. I'm still not sure how much of this Plan would be perfect for Adam and the woman to know; then again, you don't see them asking the Lord why that Tree is there, nor do you see them asking what happens if they eat from the tree, but still want a relationship with Him. So, maybe the 'silence' on those two points reveals that they did know. Often 'silence' in Scripture is designed to communicate what the individuals and readers already knew as axiomatic.

If you look at galaxies or hurricanes or even tornadoes from the aerial view, they have essentially the same structure. The center has an opposite nature to the periphery, and because of the oppositeness, the whole thing hang and moves together. Yet the periphery, is 'hostile' to the center, in that it is trying to move away. Yet cannot but serve the center. Yet the center is 'hostile' to the periphery, yet does not suck it all into itself. Like an atom bomb's physics, this oppositeness makes for great destructive power. But for great constructive power, too. Because, the Opposites Are United. All depends on how that power, is used.

Mathematics, of course, like physics and all other types of human knowledge, is but partially and imperfectly perceived. What stumps people about math, are the symbols. But if you treat the symbols as acronyms (for, that's what they really are), it should be no harder to read "double-dot a" as signifying "the present value of a future lifetime income stream", than "PVFLIS", or, simply, "PV." Math is a language. So, the trick is to learn how to read it. Its symbols are word-pictures. So, learn the symbols, and you can 'reason' with math. That's how all those great mathematicians got so advanced: they learned how to read and write and think in mathematical 'words'.

Like with logic accounting, the cool thing about math is that you can test it. I'm beginning to think that math is evidence of the Dynamics of the Nature of God. Problem is, we all don't know how to read it well enough. That's what Aristotle's contemporaries were trying to do: They knew "numbers" somehow revealed God; so, they were trying to use the principles of math to discern God. And, they were (not surprisingly), hung up on "One".

Sidenote: This is not a proof-God-exists argument. No such argument is ever necessary, because our genetic sin nature in Adam is dissociatively reacting to the knowledge that God exists, from our first breath. (That's why our instinctive reaction to anything we dislike is, the thing/God/someone else is to blame.) So, what's necessary is to think out How God Is, because we are born spiritually dead, and hence we are blind to both the dissociation, and its cause. Hence thinking out How God Is constitutes an act of assent to knowing Him; an act of positive volition toward the only One who can answer our questions: God Himself. Remember, though, that because we are spiritually dead, and hence blind, only so many 'dots' of an answer can be given at any one time, lest we be manipulated, influenced... or even paralyzed, by 'too much' of the answer being provided. Moreover, if you're looking for an answer which requires differential calculus to reply, but you don't yet know how to add 1 + 1, well..you first need to learn other things before the answer can be given.

Numbers themselves depict true infinity, again showing how neither mass nor energy are needed. Unfortunately, somewhere along in history someone decided to call infinitely recurring accretion, "infinity". That is, a thing just keeps growing and growing. It had a beginning, and it just keeps adding +1 (or whatever denomination base one uses). Yet Infinitely recurring accretion is more properly represented by the term "fractals".

The nature of true infinity should be easily recognizable, especially to a mathematician. True infinity is the opposite of accretion. That's the first irony about God. The mathematical symbol itself illustrates what true infinity is: depicted as a sideways "8", true infinity is an equilibrium of homeostasis which has neither beginning nor end; outside of which, nothing exists nor can exist; out from (min, ek) which nothing can 'leave'. Granted, a sideways 8 implies mass, energy, even motion; but there wouldn't be any motion in infinity, for all is filled, so to speak ("filled" being a spatial term, yikes). The most critical thing to note about infinity is that everything is joined, united, harmonized into one whole.

Homeostasis cannot exist apart from balance, and balance cannot exist if destruction. In short, "bad" must exist, at least as a potential, in order for homeostasis to be truly stable. This, because there must be opposites for there to be balance. The problem is, "bad" by nature is destructive, so would always destabilize and of course, moves, etc. — so, irony of ironies — an Infinite God Can Know Bad, but must never Himself be bad. Not even for a nanosecond. Else, the homeostasis, the balance, is lost. Once lost, can never be regained. This is why all Hindu-like and animistic definitions of God having 'badness' attributes don't fly. If "Kali" is part (really, Hindus would say "expression" or "manifestation") of God, and Ganeesh is part of God, then God is not God. "...God cannot be divided against..." Matthew 12:25, Mark 3:24-25

Since we're not God, we don't recognize the critical importance of bad's existence. We're always trying to rid ourselves of (what we call) 'bad'. But the Truth is, if bad doesn't exist, if it only remains a potential, then good isn't good, either. It's not just a question of appreciating good because the 'bad' helps form a frame of reference. The deeper truth is, if bad is disallowed to exist, then good is a sham. "Good" would then be a fantasy, for nothing was allowed to be against it. Being Infinite, God is Infinite Good. So, what must be the opposite, for Infinite Good, even though itself of intrinsic value ("ἀγαθός" has this meaning), becomes bad if such Good is tyrannical; which Good becomes, if even one iota of potentially-real bad is disallowed. Hence, all the bad that can be, must be allowed to be, without any gerrymandering by God. And God must never compromise even one iota of His Own Essence in so allowing! If He does, then He becomes bad, and the homeostasis is permanently destroyed. All this irony is true, solely because God is Infinite.

Of course, the preceding paragraph has brought us back to the shall-God-be-limited-shall-God-be-trapped topic in the prior bullet. So, again, we see why God would never want anything but stones-too-heavy-to-lift. (Theologians stop at such ironies, concluding that God is helpless — or something — to go against Himself. But they stop too soon in their analysis. The Truth Is So Gorgeous: that's why God wants to be God, irrespective of whether He could violate His Own Nature and stay God. It has nothing whatsoever to do with God 'having' to do something, and everything to do with God wanting and Loving the Truth. The stunning Glory of the Cross will never be understood, so long as one stops his analysis of Divine Nature when he encounters the Irony of God.)

So, watch the results! Since Infinite homeostasis/equilibrium cannot be preserved unless both bad exists, and is not destructive (but that's contrary to the nature of bad!) — what must God 'do'? Unite Best To Worst, By Absorbing It All. Thus Convert Bad Into Greater Good. That's the Cross! Absorbing all sins, converting them to endless Crosses — because, by nature, the Cross is Glory; you can also prove this is true, for to Omniscience, the Cross is always occurring. That's why Hebrews 12:2 is not hyperbole, but rather, understated: it really is pure, unalloyed happiness (true meaning of Greek "kara", badly translated "joy"). That's why endless crosses are exactly and precisely what God Loves, exults over, the most!

Each of God's Attributes of course 'agrees' with this conclusion based on its own properties: Infinity is here displayed. But also, Love, for Love would Love to pour itself out no matter what the obstacle; Love would also want to solve the horrible suffering Omniscience sees creation have, no matter how made — but especially, if made due to equilibrium. And especially, for the best of bests happiness creation would have if United. Truth, of course, would be interested in Truth fully coming to pass: Best truth, and even Worst Truth, because Truth. No conditions. Righteousness and Justice would 'agree' because only here is Righteousness fully Righteous, and Justice fully executed. Omnipotence would 'love' to fully exploit itself, too: this is the only way to do it. Same, for Omniscience. Omnipresence, which is an anthropopathic term for Infinity, of course 'wants' to be in everything, everywhere, always. Sovereignty of course wills this to the uttermost, for also both the obstacles and the happinesses fully 'exercise' Sovereignty... and conquer all. In sum, all God's Attributes, including of course those not listed here, have their own 'motives' for agreement: Unite Best To Worst!

Do you see? It makes creation necessary, this Truth about homeostasis. It also makes creation a glorious burden which one ardently Loves. Even though, creation is offensive (too small, and sins)! So, the irony of ironies is itself ironical, and what would be dead/ bad/intolerable is instead alive/Glory/Loved!

We humans are naturally bad, so this Love sounds like hell to us. But remember, we live in two universes, and the sin-nature universe is a Lady MacBeth, trying to rid itself of its damned spot. So will conclude "hell" based on its standards. Which are sin's standards. Not God's standards. So the Real Truth is, it's a Glory to have this burden... but we can only even know that fact is a fact, from God telling us so. Then, it's a question of how much do you want that fact to be produced in you. If you reach Pleroma stage of the spiritual life, you will still be as helpless as when newly-born-from-above spiritually: but you will want the burden more than anything else in life. God will literally take you through it, even as He alone takes us through the spiritual life He created in Christ.


The Spiritual Atomic Structure Of The Universe

It's the "Four Decisions" (The Lord's pre-Creation, Eternal decisions to atone propitiate reconcile redeem) that Unite Finity To Infinity, bridge the unbridgeable! See, we all think of the Cross as a pay thing, a me-bad thing, but that's not what it is. It's instead.. Tragedy Turned To Triumph! Tyranny Turned To Freedom! For the tyranny was, for the tragedy was, that to make creation was a stone too heavy to lift! But the Freedom became, but the Triumph became, that the Stone was lifted! So we can be Lifted to Eternal Life! with Him! Free! It's not some sit-on-cloud garbage, for crying out loud. Sin Was Never The Issue. Sin was just part of the Impossibility. Part of it. Nailed, now. Gone! Romans 8:1: "So now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus!" (Greek has no verb, so Paul is shouting).

Romans 8 is on this entire topic; Romans 4-7 set it up. Ok: 'gotta explain some things about Greek plays. The so-called 'classic' (Attic, Homerian, etc) ones involve a villain, a hero, and... most importantly, a moral lesson about tragic flaws. It's how a little flaw wrecks a whole (otherwise noble) person. Greeks were big on moral lessons, because they were a people keen on intellect. Hence, on nuances. Especially, with their language.

So, when playwrights wrote (and the prizes for winning in competition were enormous), they would give the villain a lot of 'intransitive' verbs to speak. An 'intransitive' verb is one which takes no object. Meaning, heh — the villain never succeeds in his purpose; he struts on the stage for a little while (depicting the 'stage' of life), and then goes off empty-handed. No Object.

The Hero, by contrast, would be scripted with transitive verbs. Always gets the object — due to his virtue. However, the hero always had one or another kind of tragic flaw. The play would usually have a subplot showing how the hero overcame his tragic flaw; or, if he did not, it was a tragedy. Oedipus, the Odyssey — these are examples of tragedy of this type.

Now we come to Scripture. Surprisingly, Biblical Greek scholars forget (though they are taught otherwise) that many other types of Greek besides Koine are sprinkled liberally throughout the Bible. Like, for example, Atticisms. For, kinda like Shakespeare or KJV English, Attic Greek was deemed high-class — and the plays (still popular in the Lord's day) were in Attic (and other Greek). Not Koine. So, since Scripture is about some fairly dramatic stuff, it often uses Attic, not Koine, in stressed/dramatic clauses. That's partly why you'll see strange verses in English. They don't quite make sense, or they seem ambiguous or even contradictory, compared to other verses. This, because they weren't translated properly and as many sources will mistakenly claim, that the Bible is 100% Koine when this is not the case, it's a hybrid of both Attic and Koine. It's not merely a problem of English being a bad language to translate to: if you mistake which kind of Greek is being used, you don't translate it properly. Kinda like mistaking a tone in Mandarin Chinese, you can really screw up the meaning by not recognizing what Greek you are looking at.

Romans 8:28 is Attic, for example. It introduces the Hero, God, as working out, (συνεργέω) converting intransitive to transitive. Συνεργέω is an intransitive verb. But has "all things" (τὰ πάντα) as its object: now you know why. Moreover, in Attic Greek if you want to stress the who, you use accusative (object) case, rather than the normal nominative. That, too, was a frequent drama language tactic used in the plays. So, also, in Romans 8:28: "God" is depicted in the accusative case: object of Love, but also the subject of συνεργέω; a clever and common 'pivot' usage in verses about God. Finally, Romans 8:28 tells us how this play ends: "good" result (εἰς ἀγαθόν, "resulting in good of intrinsic value achievement"). See how much meaning gets chopped out in translation? English is a deliberately insipid, polyglot language owing to England's formative history, during which England had to learn diplomacy, to survive. Yet English also uses the accusative case sometimes, for stress: "It is us" stresses "us", because it's in the wrong case. Greek would add even more stress by putting such a word early in the sentence, even before the verb; sometimes, as the first word in the sentence; or, clause. Peter likes doing this.)

So, look at Romans 8:18. The 'play' starts at verse 19 in order to explain Paul's verse 18 conclusion; play runs through verse 39, with Romans 8:28 as its apex. For, this is the 'play' of our lives, based on the Four Decisions! Creation: low, impotent, compared to Infinite Righteousness ... becomes a villain, too — due to sin. (Which we saw from Part 1 was inevitable, since we are so small. Free will just would, at some point, choose against God.) Hence, Creation is intransitive. But, our Hero converts what is otherwise a hopeless situation into transitive: Triumph! And what is His 'tragic flaw'? He has to pay for sins, though innocent! But oh! He overcomes them! How? By taking on Humanity and Becoming The Object. So now, He Himself is the Bridge (Mediator) across the unbridgeable chasm between Infinity and Finity; between God, and free-will creation. Between Righteousness, and sin; between Truth, and falsehood. So we helpless 'villains', otherwise stuck with an intransitive, no-object life, can become the object of "God works all things together for good." Oh: I forgot to mention that "to those" is dative, meaning indirect object — but also meaning, for whose benefit the object is undertaken by the subject. (This is but one of many layers of meaning in the passage. All Bible verses tell many stories, all-at-once. Stacked, interrelated: kinda like the wooden game, "Jenga".)

So this most-dramatic 'play' ends in Romans 8:39, the Hero's Triumph: No divorce, No separation! The stone too heavy, is lifted, the labor pains are over! The Barren, gives birth! Hebrews tells the same dramatic story in a Hebraistic way: Hebrews 1-2, Hebrews 5-10; the other chapters are all corollaries. Colossians, too unveils it in Chapter 1; then uses it as a foundation to interpret the spiritual life, weaving it through the rest of the epistle. By the way: Colossians 1:23-25 should be studied in Greek, not the tangled English; also, verse 10. Ephesians picks up the story at His Session, tracing out how the spiritual life we get from His Victory, results. Peter, who seems to echo Ephesians' beginning in his own, also paints the same creation drama, in 2 Peter 3:11 is a crescendo exclamation relating back to how we live today! ('But only in Greek: English is incredibly misleading.)



So, then: think of the Four Decisions as spiritual atoms, which, as a result, give birth to all else, and ensure that Freedom and +R remain always met, thus ironically resolving the sterile paradox: Isaiah 54:1! Hence, equilibrium. Hence, inviolate Infinity and Justice and Righteousness. Hence, The Impossible Is Done! The Cross represents the completion of this inviolability. Literally, the nexus of everything. Whether anyone knows or believes it, or not! For, the Lord did it this way for the pleasure of the Father. And, for Himself and the Spirit. So... inviolable profit. Just as is His Own Nature! Truth!

See, His thought process (so to speak) went like this, way back in eternity past, which 1 Timothy 2:5 so gorgeously records (in the Greek): Everything bad could not allowed to really turn out bad; else, there could be no creation. So, what we are seeing as 'bad' is a paradigm of what would have been true, if if if if if The Lord didn't make those Four Most-Glorious Decisions. But He did make them: and said so! from the "bruise" clause in Genesis 3, to the sacrifices, to the Mosaic Law... and finally, at on in forever, The Cross! Τετέλεσται! Stone too heavy got lifted! The impossible, the irredeemably bad, got redeemed! Εἷς γὰρ Θεός... Εἷς μεσίτης!!! That's why Paul is so exultant, shouting total military victory in Romans 8:38-39!

Do you realize what this means? All those bad things are rendered, Lies! I don't know about you, but I become royally upset by the small, the petty, the martinet, the incompetent, the haughty; like everyone else I've harmed and been harmed by other people/things; like some others, it just kills me to see people suffer (i really can't take it at all). But guess what? These "bads" are all Lies! Bad becomes 'bad', just a "vapor" (James), a mere hallucination! Due to the Four Decisions! Doo-doo becomes Diamonds by design! Whether I knew it or not! And I, too, being big doo-doo, am a Diamond! By Design! And we know this is true, for Son would never make creation for Father to look at forever if Son didn't make and bring to full effect those Four Decisions. So, the doo-doo would have been real doo-doo, only able to effect doo-doo; but, due to the Four Decisions, τετέλεσται! Now doo-dooing a diamond's job! Is that a sweet triumphal procession, or what?

I don't mean to imply that bad doesn't exist. It does. But here's what actually happens: first, a hupostasis in the design: God's Diamonds baptized onto the bad thing, person, whatever. Second, the bad plays out in time: at that point, so does the God meaning. So, what actually happens is that the bad is converted. Derivative power (next bullet point, below) becomes original power. So, the bad is flipped, with spiritual alchemy (next bullet, combat-green chart) into Diamonds. Doctrine really changes the nature of bad: that's the alchemy. Truth changes untruth. It's not sophistry. A real bad becomes a real good. So lie becomes no-lie. In Him. Due to the Cross.

So, then: no reason for guilt, for anger, for heartache, for any reaction to bad, because there is effectively no such thing — instead, only an masked actor who struts on the stage of life, then goes off empty-handed, because all objects are in Christ, and no one else! (Isaiah 43:25, Isaiah 51:12; plus John 14:6.) Yeah, Shakespeare, that's what bad is: "A tale told by an idiot: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Yeah, Paul, tell it like it is: "For I am convinced... that nothing shall separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus"! Yeah, Shakespeare, that's what good is now! "So blow winds, crack Your Cheeks!"

See the Irony? For, the lie really is a lie. So, a semblance. A would-have-been truth, a could-have-been hell. Which we gloriously get to see and feel in the right-here-and-now: our salvation! No wonder the writers of Scripture make so many wordplays with salvation terminology: bad proves salvation works! Which you can also prove mathematically, since real bad is a negative; therefore, it couldn't exist! Only positive ("real") numbers really exist! No wonder the Lord told the crowd to rejoice when they are reviled for His Name! Heck, even a drop of pee has cause for rejoicing! So how much more, a fortiori, all our pains, all those who have suffered from time immemorial! For nothing shall separate us! Did you get that pun on Romans 8:38?

Above all, notice this: He Loves Us Totally; and the only way He could 'get' us, is if He becomes the Object. The Gospel is the 'only way' because it's the only way for God to get an inviolable relationship with otherwise-too-low beings! So, we should stop being on our high-horse when we object to the Gospel, or bludgeon the unbeliever with it. It's Love, the Triumph over the Impossible! Not, 'you're a bad person!' But Love, the only way Infinity and finity can be totally happy together. Just as it stands written, "For God Loved the world so much" (John 3:16, corrected translation; verse is partly in Attic); "God demonstrates His Love toward us" (Romans 5:8, corrected translation). We sit here making a big fuss over our sins; but God makes a big fuss over the Prodigal Son, the lost coin, the lost sheep. Why would God make a fuss over us being 'found', if He Himself wasn't thrilled about it? Wasn't the prodigal's father thrilled? That's why the fatted calf was used (celebration, big deal in those days, emphasis lost in our current time when anyone can order a burger to their doorstep). Wasn't the woman who found the lost coin thrilled — so much so, she calls her neighbors to tell them?! Isn't the shepherd who finds a lost sheep thrilled — so much so, he leaves 99 other sheep to go looking? Let's forget our guilt over being small, our offense over others not measuring up to our standards — let's get thrilled over the fact we get to Live With Him Forever! And so also, anyone, anyone at all. No matter what sins, no matter how low, no matter how handicapped. The impossible is made righteous! Isn't that thrilling to know?

Thus: Everything in creation, and the underlying rule for all natural laws, are intrinsically bonded by and to The Four Decisions, so have those properties: atoning, propitiating, reconciling, redeeming. These are the "God-meanings" with which virtually everything and everyone is baptized. Justice cannot be broken, not even in one iota at any nanosecond, thus. That's why everything is circular! The Four Decisions are the cause of equilibrium! For, they would have to be reflected in the design, to set up the affinity for execution. Else, no fulfilment could be had. So, two-sided. So, Two natures. So, He took on Humanity to execute what He designed in creation. (Father planned it; Son executed it, Spirit restores it. You'll see this division-of-roles throughout Scripture.)

The Four Decisions' structure and function in creation, of course, emulate their Creator. Thus, two tiers, which here we'll call Alpha and Beta:

  • Alpha tier is non-volitional, inherent property. Everything bad or good that lives, happens, dies, whatever... all action, and all existences (even dust) will — due to these Decisions forming a mini-hypostasis with the item's very nature — atone propitiate reconcile and redeem. Thus, even a bad thing will have a good high profit-making effect; not merely an offset to bad. However,
  • Beta tier is volitional: any creature with volition can choose to reject some or all of this beneficial equilibrating result. As you can guess, for the believer this means he better get and use the Lord's Thinking, Bible Doctrine: because if he doesn't, he's rejecting the result. Because:

Alpha Tier represents the Lord's Own Nature in executing the decision to create, which is based on Beta Tier, His Own Decisions (so to speak) to take on Humanity. So, a thing naturally, as a 'child' of His Genius, will reflect His nature to the extent of the properties of that thing (or person); but also, if a person, must reflect His Choosing... to get the benefit.

These two tiers cause all the things we think we know as secular laws in every field, from atomic structures to zoology. That's why things die, and that's why decay fertilizes. That's why no one ever ever ever suffers true injustice, except for His Own Rejection. That's why there has to be a hell, too, for even rejection needs healing. See, these laws are so punctiliar, even the one causing the wrong has wronged himself and therefore must be the beneficiary of healing! Isaiah 53:5's raphah! Which healing, of course, that verse explains: Belief in Christ Saves, Delivers, Spares, Heals!

Lots more is said about Beta tier of the Four Decisions in "Micro Spiritual Growth Topics".

(Important note: My pastor retaught Romans 8:28 sometime toward the end of 2001, I believe. The "Freedom" angle, besides coming from verses like Galatians 5:1, is also highlighted in the context of the Four Decisions in Lesson 1552 of 92SD (July 4, 1999), first heard on February 5, 2003. I feel a lot more comfortable with my own rephrasing now that I've heard his way of describing the role of the Four Decisions, with respect to freedom.

This table's contents is partly extrapolated from his teaching, as is most of what I write, in order to understand it better. So you should check his teaching; also, "Four Decisions", his title for a doctrine he frequently teaches, which hopefully is correctly represented here and in Micro Spiritual Growth Topics. He does not, so far as I know, claim that the Four Decisions are an underpinning of all 'laws' in the universe; however, in Lesson 1552 he calls the Four Decisions of eternity past "the birth of freedom!" (s.1). The 'underpinning of all laws in the universe is my extrapolation; but if it's right — and it looks right so far — it's due to his teaching that I got it right. Also, the idea for "Beta tier" came from hearing his "Law of Double Punishment" series subsection on the Attic object-and-result structure of Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14, plus the ἀδικία tie-ins of Colossians 3:25 and 1 John 1:9. In short, I also do my own due diligence to be sure I get the Truth of what he's saying; in the process, corollaries naturally arise, like those here. Therefore, any mistakes, are mine.)


Moreover, we now know from these Four Decisions why all the punning judgements and blessings the Bible so profusely displays; why everything, in short, is matched. why all the opposites and men.de constructions in Biblical writing style. Why the association process is the key dynamic of all learning and living (including, mental illness). Why the pairing-nature of creation, why the so-called scientific laws (really God's Faithfulness laws, as my pastor so aptly puts it) depend on Opposites. Why economics and physics, and every discipline in secular life likewise depends on opposites, and therefore cycles, is circular. And, most of all, Why A Hypostatic Union! For, if God doesn't establish a "door" through which Divine Attributes can be replicated, compatibility with rational creation can never occur! Moreover, apart from the connecting of blessing-by-association, the rest of bad in life, plus all those who are yet unconnected (haven't yet believed in Him) — they wouldn't have any way of being benefitted, redeemed, even temporally!

Redemption is what converts bad to a better Good than would have obtained absent the bad thing being there in the first place. Which, we now know, is essential to infinite homeostasis! And, even more, the Best Of Glories, no matter what among infinite options God would omnipotently make "truth" be, even if He'd still stay God no-matter-what-choice-He-made! Which, of course, is Why the Truth is what it is, and Infinitely stable, harmonious, and never in 'need' of lifting a finger to 'help' it! It's not just -10 being 'paid for' by +10, but by +bazillion! So, the upshot is, God uses Bad To Leverage Incalculable Good. Not mere counterweighting! How can this leveraging be so good?

Frankly, that's God's Plan in a nutshell: to reverse both the finity derivative, and the sin derivative. That's why it feels so awful at times (depending on your own likes and dislikes) to believe. The actual properties of spiritual derivatives are mirrored in math and physics, so if you know derivatives, you'll find a good bit of Bible Doctrine reflected there. Right down to the nature of the bonding: the Worst gets bonded to the Best (Cross), and then next-less-worst to next-less-best, and so on: kinda like button holes and buttons in a shirt (but omnidirectional, not just linear). Many conundrums in science could be resolved if only people recognized the spiritual 'math' and 'physics', here. Because, there is a vertical universe operating on the horizontal one. Just as, the spiritual life is lived in two universes (Spirit and body, with soul as the connection between them), so also all the rest of the physical universe is tied to and impacted by, the Vertical One: God. So discern what the spiritual relationships are, and you can more readily see the physical universe relationships.

Just as in math, physics, and biology, derivative power cannot be as large as its original source. In fact, it can be quite small. But, since derivative power is a break away from original power, its leverage value is extreme: for derivative power derives its power from the original. In other words: God's power is the "size" factor. So a 'little' negative breakaway from God produces a big destruction. By contrast, a 'little' deposit of Bible Doctrine one gets in a given moment; a 'little' use of Bible Doctrine one (associatively) 'baptizes' onto one's experience — these, being original power, have gigantic constructive effects! Oh boy, there are so many corollaries! My fingers can't keep up with the insights; type what I can of some corollaries.

The successive depositing of Truth, God's Attribute, in a believer (Bible Doctrine is Truth) builds original power. Constructive. Reconstructive, actually, for the soul is trashed by original sin. Adam's own, to Adam; or the first sin in a totally-depraved body, infects each soul who does it. Romans 5:12 is not only a two-pronged indictment, but also the first prong is double entendre due to constative aorist of ἁμαρτάνω.

Romans 8, How You Change Key → Because the Original Power inherent in God's Attribute of Truth, the believer grows beyond both his sin nature and his human nature; yet, remains inviolately human, a kind of functional hypostasis. God's Power, being original, is thus 'in' Doctrine, because Doctrine is Truth: so for the believer, the knowledge of Truth. (Hebrew: da'ath, chakmah and other nouns; Greek: "γνῶσις", "ἐπίγνωσις", and particularly the latter, which is doctrine believed, AKA "πίστις", "faith" in Bible.) So, if one does or thinks in the energy of his own flesh, he is but strutting on the stage, empty-handed: using derivative power, not Original power.

Power of Lies Key → So, then, one kind of derivative power of Truth, is the rejection of Truth. So, the power of a lie is (negatively) derived from the Bigness, the Power, of the Truth. So, because the Truth is rejected, the power of even a small lie is very self-destructive. Splitting an 'atom' of truth, even! So, self can't burn off 'bad karma'! Only self gets burned!

Hebrews 4:12, "The Word of God is alive and powerful" — corrected translation in italics + "wrath of man shall praise God", etc. reveal another interrelationship between previous lies which keep having negative momentum, and the incoming truth: Truth Flips The Power Of The Lie From Negative Force, To Positive Force. Again, this is another reason why it often feels so bad to resist temptation or believe. The real power is way greater than you can feel, but a small part of that power, is something the body can detect. Because, the body is connected to your soul, and all emotion and feeling, is in the body (but not the soul). It's helpful to know this aspect of God's spiritual physics, to fight against the temptation of guilt (one of the worst sins, really paralyzes the spiritual life).

Again, if you know something about how derivatives interact in math or physics, you can see how what Romans 8 (etc.) describes, works 'scientifically'. Virtually any other discipline or aspect of life, has the same property. For example, cleaning your body regularly is critical to protecting against disease, yet itself is a very small thing. The cleaning 'plays' small and meaninglessly. So people have to have some radio or other entertainment in their bathrooms, to warrant spending what they come to feel is a waste of time (especially if you can no longer fantasize that looks matter). Well, see? Leverage is taking place. A small thing, bouncing in favor of a big truth, has a big effect on the body. Yet, always remains itself, small.

Similarly, note how the negative effects, mammothly aid, the positive ones, when the positive ones are employed. For, you are not only cleaning your body, you are: getting exercise; learning discipline; learning humility; learning a lesson (especially if you had let yourself go); strengthening your will. In short, whatever you neglected, becomes a bigger lesson, with the result that you are far less likely to repeat the neglect. Of course, if you spend your time reacting against the truth that you need to clean the body, the negative effects will mammothly aid the negative ones already there. But in either case, the negative past derivatives, aid, enhance.

Greater Power of Hypostatic Union Key → By attaching Humanity to Himself, the Son provided the means of converting derivative power into original power. So, lies, even while lies, do the same job as Original power. So bad, even while bad, does the same job as good (ἀγαθός: good of intrinsic value, highest good). Doo-doo does a Diamond's job. The Cross is the culmination of that means, because during the Cross He absorbs all sins in His Humanity. And baptizes them all with Truth. Thus the power of lies only multiplies the Original Power of Truth!

This Truth is so Alive and so Powerful, it literally holds Him together. Even now. What you are about to read in the chart below is for me the most shocking of all the corollaries of Truth I've ever learned, so audit it carefully. I know I'll never be the same, again. This is the internal counterpart to the "Paradox" chart in Part 5.


So, the Escutcheon Glory: the Paradox of Infinity and Finity

1 Timothy 2:5, God's Alchemy: The 'Lion' Makes Gold! "Εἷς γὰρ Θεός... Εἷς Μεσίτης!" Payment for sins was Freely made on His Part — it was not "owed".

  • First, the root concept: If God can make man separately without compromise to His Righteousness, then surely He can attach Humanity to Deity without compromise.
  • But next, notice this! The problem is the same in either case! Unbridgeable chasm!

Just like Satan, we humans think that because He is Perfect Humanity and Infinite Deity, that duality somehow 'rigs the deck' in favor of Him being able to endure the Cross. After all, everyone else who was initially perfect succumbed to temptation; so why didn't His Humanity succumb? Must have been some 'help' by Deity...

But the Truth is just the opposite: His Humanity should have been destroyed by the Union with Deity! Being in Hypostatic Union means His merely breathing is infinitely worse! For, by nature, finity is derivative (derives from Infinity). So He literally has had, every second of His Life from birth onward, unending crosses of separation, barriers within His very Nature: the sheer 'stretch' between Infinity and finity! Only Truth, which can be replicated into finity, can harmonize the two, bypass all barriers. Remember derivative power? Well, the derivative pulling-away tendency which must be native to finity, remains: constantly, since finity and Infinity are not compatible by nature. He is the Cross, by nature. permanent nature: at His Humanity's Birth, in Hebrews 10:5 depiction... and even now. "The Same Yesterday, today... forever." (Hebrews 13:8.) No wonder He's called Ho Logos Tou Staurou!

Excepting the classic theological definition of the Hypostatic Union, which is truly brilliant, history's councils and tomes explaining the Hypostatic Union betray misconceptions regarding the nature of Will, Self-Consciousness and Knowledge: treating these attributes as if they were but one attribute, and not distinguishing between the expression of an Attribute and the Attribute itself. So, 'holy' folks settle for truly insulting descriptions of the Hypostatic Union (like 'two wills', what a crock: as if God weren't Infinite!) or throw up their hands and say that God is 'inscrutable', or a 'mystery'. Yeah, a mystery to them!

Look: if it were possible for finity to survive receiving Infinity's Attributes, there'd have been no sin and no Cross, because God could have just replicated the Attributes at initial creation. What makes this impossible, is that the replication would have violated free will within finity, because the attributes are too big: will has to be that big, too. So God would be destroying free will if He just instantly loaded everyone with His Own Attributes at initial creation, since the one difference in creation, is that it has its own will. Will is an inherent component of Aliveness, Self-Consciousness, Personhood — you can't divorce them, and still remain a person. So the essential dilemma was this: to grow finity to become big enough — freely. Or, decree automatons. In which case, the binged Attributes would be disconnected from will; a travesty and wholly unsatisfactory, since God is Free. So, the automaton option, won't work.

So unity must be chosen by finity, for these Attributes to be in harmony with it. In short, finity must go against itself to make that choice. This, it cannot do of its own power; it can will to do so, but cannot make that will efficacious upon its own nature by its own nature. Only the Infinite Truth coming into it (or, if already there, continually chosen) can forge the connection needed to make the will-against choice efficacious. For, Infinity can bond finity to itself, but finity cannot bond Infinity to itself. For, finity is but derivative, separatist power.

So, as "Integrity Properties" and "opportunity cost" explain, two methods of getting 'bonded' to Infinity were provided. First method (e.g. to angels, the Eden couple, Christ): from the initial state of perfection upward, via those Truth deposits (used or gained & used, as applicable). Second method, post-sin: by faith in Christ; the Truth deposits are post-salvation deposits (remember, any pre-sin deposited Truth was totally trashed by sin, as Satan's and Adam's Falls reveal).

So clearly the Hypostatic Union means tension on the finity side, because finity can't naturally receive union with Infinity; Must keep choosing, therefore, to live with the interim Dichotomy between them, pending sufficient deposits of The Truth.

So, obviously, there is no bleed-over of knowledge, etc. Will and Self-Consciousness are each different Attributes from Knowledge; so too, are expressions. Note well: things like powers, faculties and expressions are part of nature. Personhood, by contrast, is just living. Irrespective of nature: you can prove this quickly, since you are a person, and God is a person. You, like God, can will against your nature: you can will to not eat though hungry, to believe despite no justification, to be a bird.

However, being able to execute your will is a separate issue, for the ability to execute will's directive is a separate faculty, which does depend on your nature. For, Nature determines content of living, and of course quality: but living, is just that: being alive and aware. So, since finity can't handle Infinity, Divine Knowledge 'feeding' into Will or Consciousness is no compromise to His Humanness: for only the Divine Faculty of Knowing could 'read' it; only the Divine Faculty Of Expression can express it. And, of course, vice versa, except that His Deity already knows whatever His Humanity is expressing, learning, doing, etc.

But get this: since He IS Human as well, and bonded to His Infinite Deity Nature, He can tap Divine Attributes by humanly willing that to happen; including, He can will those Attributes to aid or 'do for', His Humanity. The second He does that, it's all over. Satan is trying to tempt Him to do that, in Matt4. In the name of 'good'!

So oh, the tension on His finity! Greater than the tension needed to explode an atom bomb! For the will and self-consciousness, since attributes of Personhood (as distinct from attributes like Knowing, which are properties of nature) could tap into either Divine or Human Powers. Think of the pressure on Humanity to use Deity! For, He Is One Person, and can thus will to do this, which fact Satan was counting on in the Matt4 temptations! See, if we don't understand how He is constructed, so to speak, we can't appreciate the utter impossibility of His situation, and our so-great salvation...

My pastor makes a big stink about this, and maybe what he says will help a reader 'get' how the Hypostatic Union works. First, the underlying concepts: Will Is The Center. Everything feeds into it. For example, a believer is trichotomous: body, soul, spirit. The spirit feeds to will, so does the soul, so does the body. The will of the believer is in his soul: still, everything feeds to it. For, Will Must Choose. So, obviously His Will is centered in His Human Soul, but 'straddles' both His Natures, so to speak. In short, His Will is capable of getting and giving information to both of His respective Natures. Simple as that. So, as my pastor keeps on explaining and stressing, with oodles of verses: because He is both Deity and Humanity, He had to keep on willing to hold the universe together — even, while on the Cross!

For, the separatist-pull of finity, precisely because it can't take unity with Infinity, is ...immeasurable! That is why He had to grow to Love and thus go so far in Truth: why His Humanity had to stay perfect, and had to be Indwelt by God the Father and God the Spirit, and HAD to get the unique spiritual life (which we Church inherit — oh, how we need to know this), and Had To Finish Salvation's Provision At The Cross. That's why we can't even add one 'drop' to His Work! That's why it's so important to know that the second He was born, He was born to total separatist torture, because the Union was Permanent and Eternal (everlasting, for humanity): for, Infinity will not have barriers!

As noted earlier, since Truth is an undivided Attribute of God, it itself is also part and parcel of all other Attributes. So, 'deposits' of Truth likewise build Other Divine Attributes in the depositee. So: unless and until He grew up fully in Love For The Truth, to actually become Truth even in His Humanity, to thus become Infinite Righteousness even in His Humanity — unless and until then, He'd not have Inviolable, No-Barriers internal homeostasis within His Humanity. Because, He is One Person forever. From Birth. Not two persons (barriers!), not two wills (barriers!), but Wholly United (no barriers)!

Again, the resultant intensity of finity's urge to pull apart from or use Divinity during the 1st Advent is incalculable. Think about what it's like for Him. He is, in essence, two antithetical natures. His finite human nature is the one tortured. For, it by nature needs to separate: that's part of its life, its freedom, its independence. Finity needs to 'do', to 'move'. On the other hand, Infinity Unites. So here He is, seeing all these fellow humans: oh, how much more Human Perfect Humanity is! yet, separated from them, and they from Him! Oh, what should be the total Barrier! Not acceptable! Hurts!!!!

Then there's His Separateness from Father. Barrier! Hurts! But Truth, being original Power, flips the derivative power, the pulling-apart, into Total Integrity. So, what should have been unending explosions within His Humanity instead became unending Unity. So, what was bad about Him having to become Human also, is now His Greatest Joy. So the torture of the Humanity 'stretch' became ἀγωνίζομαι, training! So, γίνομαι (Hebrews 5:8-9; Hebrews 2, last half; Hebrews 4, last half). Fitting. No longer pulling away, but wholly woven, connected — depicted by the hugely intricate Temple Veil. Homeostatic. Forever.

We also need to appreciate our own impossible situation. Until we recognize how impossible our lives are, we can't orient to the One Mandate of the spiritual life, "Learn My Son", which is the Only Way to execute the First Commandment. Look: even Perfect Finity can't stay homeostatic without Growing in Love to the point of bonding with Infinity, by means of Truth. Integrity Properties presented this problem in simple form; this chart presents the 'physics' of it. So, Satan went nuts when he sinned. So also, the first Adam went insane when he sinned. So also, Old Testament believers were wacko. So also, that's why the Old Testament system of spirituality was so very limited. Contact had to be physically-expressed, or they couldn't stand it. For, finity, let alone having-sinned finity, can't "abide" Infinity. The gap is utterly unbridgeable, since derivative power, especially negative-derivative power, is incompatible with Infinity.

So no wonder, we Church are also wacko; even, way more so. For, the instant we first believe in Christ, we are "regenerated" (see Titus 3:5). Because we are Church/Bride, unlike other believers in other epochs/Ages/ Dispensations (latter two are Paul's terms), we Church get a double portion (Old Testament term for the First-Born privilege): both Father's and Son's +R and +EL Attributes are imputed by the Holy Spirit to the human spirit He creates at our (several) salvation. So, doubly wacko! We get the King of King's royally Intimate Spiritual Life. But, the equal-and-opposite-reaction property of Divine Physics means that — watch out — we can become that much more crazy!

That's why we Church are so nutty upon being "born from above": we now have human spirits with twice the Infinite Righteousness and Eternal Life in them! That means we are torn apart by wanting to go away from Him, and wanting desperately to go toward Him. The Energizer Bunny Already has both polarized, antithetical desires, classic symptoms of dissociation. So how much more, in those with Actual Attributes of both Father and Son replicated in them!

No wonder Church history is the history of incredibly insane people. No wonder we go wacko for works; for rituals, tongues, and other emotionalities; for puerile denominations: in short, for virgins in tortillas. No wonder we can actually think(?) God would be so sadistic or stupid to put a soul in the womb; no wonder we don't even bother to check the egregious mistranslation of Bible verses on the topic! No wonder every crazy idea that can ever come to our attention wins our love. We not only are finite, but born-in-Adam sinners, with the most Difficult Spiritual Life ever Lived! 'With two sets of infinite attributes!

There are at least 11 verses on these Two Sets, but I'm not sure which reference the Father's Righteousness and which the Son's. Same, for +EL. Looks like 2 Peter 1:1 references the Son's +R we get at salvation. Also: I'm not yet sure if the Lord's Humanity was born with +R and +EL, or if He wholly grew to that level. It seems to be more likely the latter, logically, since for Trial purposes He had to start out the same as Adam had been created, and Adam did not have these attributes in his human spirit. However, I've heard Thieme teach it both ways: whether or not his tongue slipped while talking expositionally, I'm not sure. Romans tapes, notes in Romans 5 and following, plus all classes after that. For me, either of the two possibilities is still just, but for different reasons; either of them makes His Humanity's derivative pull tendency worse, not better. For, on the one hand, if He was born with the Attributes in His human spirit, the pull from being also finity would increase; if not born that way, then the 'pull' would need to react to the task more; which would make the volitional adherence to Truth, especially in later years, far harder to maintain. Depends which is worse, probably: whichever of the two is worse, that's the answer. So far, I favor the latter (had to wholly grow these attributes from Truth, and Lesson 1542 states that also). In either case, no wonder Father and Spirit Indwelt, and Spirit Filled Him! No wonder Satan rebelled, but then again: no wonder he is wrong!


Matthew 4's "Evidence Test" significance is thus to show not only why the Evidence Test has prosperity-related, invisible, can-do, know-in-advance properties; but also to show manipulations of derivative power by Satan&Co.: they tap into (or create), the sin nature's derivative power; and they don't need much! Think of fission! So, the Evidence Tests are mind games. All tests and temptations are aimed at the soul, but ostensibly directed (feinted) to something or someone else. So the big doctrine in a person at that stage can be really leveraged by 'little' slips, little breakaways! Matthew 4 is fairly clear on this topic, if pondered over and over and over after hearing it taught. Satan takes literally every category of temptation, and arranges them all into a succinct statement in each of the Three Temptations he fires. Since Evidence Testing is in two flavors, 1) Relationship to God, and 2) Relationship to Life, you can easily see how Satan would have to marshal all temptation categories as he does. I swear, you could take Matthew 4 alone and write enough books about its meaning to fill the Library of Congress!

This is why little is big in the real spiritual life, why God stresses it so. Relationship to God: living on His Son's Thinking toward Him. Relationship to Life: living in His Son's Thinking 'on' a 'cross'. Bridging the unbridgeable, in both cases. Shows up as barely a blip on the world's radar, for all this big spiritual life is.. spiritual. Meaning, invisible. Can't be harder, for it is beyond all human ability. Can't be more enjoyable, for the same reason. Both.

Again, two universes, both antithetical to each other, Romans 8. You are always choosing one or the other, and to grow in God you must constantly make choices which go against the sin-nature universe, this world. Go against by thinking and doing, essentially, the opposite of the urge. Urge to be good is opposite God also — because the underlying reasoning is I-am-good-if-I-do-this, which is an insane lie. For, if you are good if you did it, then it itself is not good, but you are the one who's good. So if you are the one who's good, and hence it is not, then you are not good, because you are doing a worthless thing. And if it is good, then you are not good if you do it. The goodness is either in it, or in you, never both. If in you, then you shouldn't do it; if it, then it's not you who is good by doing it.

The "I-am-good-if-I-do-X" was a training mechanism used on us as kids. When we stop being children, we learn to think differently. So if not a child, to have that thought evidences hatred of God, making self god. Which thought, isn't even really a thought, but a mindless urge from Genesis 3, in our genes: the stupid Energizer Bunny isn't even a person, but pretends to be one via such 'reasoning'.

So what's truly good, is to always go through motives about God, not through motives about self. It's also truly impossible to do this: only living in God's System, enables it. You'll be surprised how often answers which 'seem' wrong are right, when the question goes through motives about God, rather than self. Virtually all works are trash. God has a different use for things you ought to do, and as a result the printout of "oughts" are very different.

It's a killer, to live like this; very subtle, and the onslaught becomes constant, the more aware you become of Him via growth in God's System. Secret is to think like Paul does in Romans 5-8, where in his thinking, he distances the sin nature (Romans 5), divorces it (Romans 6), marries in his mind, the New Husband (ibid), and then remembers how "it" (the sin nature) is just this old "ex", plaguing him (Romans 7). Romans 8 is the whole process: note how the same distancing, divorcing, marrying-New-Husband, and "it"-ness is interwoven to show the macro effect on spiritual development: culminating in, the labor-pains stage of the pregnancy, Pleroma.

Remembering it's an it really helps. It will keep saying "me". Because so many of these lies have been bought by the soul, guilt is a real problem, once you see how evil the sin nature is: so, it beeps you with, "I am evil." No, it is evil. Same thinking Paul shows in the "covet" passage of Romans 7. I am paid-for by Christ. I am righteous in Him. It is the lingering "ex", evil in all functions. Sure, you keep using 1 John 1:9, but it is not the same, as you. So 1 John 1:9, yeah, you gave into it; but only the Spirit's power overcomes it; so you breathe 1 John 1:9 (make it a habit), and keep on going, knowing His Power is overcoming it. Think of the process like a mini-Cross, for that's really the meaning: You are righteous, so all the stuff hitting you is to teach you how the Cross works. Doesn't matter if what hits you is your fault, too, except that you just use 1 John 1:9 and keep going.

Ergo the world's 'big' is little, too. Satan's spin: All religions, including mainstream Christianity, bang the drum on derivative power. The many, teeny, observances/rituals/taboos which infect every faith and society; the many teeny, chopping-off, Second Temptation style mistranslations in Scripture; these are all accomplished by manipulating derivative power:

This is why denominations are all so intransigent! Why they don't fix their bad-lawyer-must-have-drafted creeds! Ohhh, I get this now: who can resist this manipulation? Wow, 1 John 1:9 is a lifeline! Have to stick much more on the nature of derivative power in here. Amazing how one can understand the entire relationship of all verses in Scripture via the understanding of God's Nature!

The problem is puniness. We have puny apprehensions of things based on body ideas, and we are run by them. All this, the derivative negative power of our each first sins (when we were upset while infants, probably), spawned. Shattered in our souls, we are cannon fodder for the body, for Satan's substitute make-nice-without-God, plan. Chopping out the Person of God, but leaving His Name, baby. Salami tactic. Using that very same derivative power: "having a form of godliness but denying its power." 1 Timothy 3, boy oh boy.

It would be nice to run the math replication analogy presented in Fixes through these added corollaries: maybe describe the Lord's being built up enough to go through the Cross in terms of the replication of Truth, with side explanations on how by depositing truth, because God's Nature is undivided, means 'increases' in the other attributes too. Like, since Truth, and Omniscience is also an attribute, then growth in the Faculty Of Knowing likewise "enlarges" (to use Bible term) the soul. Like, since Love is also an attribute, that faculty increases also, per deposit, etc. Thus the reader can see why our parallel spiritual life is indeed gigantic compared to Old Testament. May have to explain Hypostatic Union yet again — try using server-computer analogy to help folks see that Deity and Humanity never bleed over. Knowledge is a separate attribute from Will; that Personhood is Will, so one will — knowledge is compartmentalized by nature (that council which came up with two wills was trying to address a Knowledge issue, not really a will problem; so they used bad terminology, kind of like the five tenets of Tulip did for its own reasons).

Maybe need to explain 'replication' differential in Old Testament, given no Filling, no Indwelling, etc. Moreover, the Old Testament human spirit (also true of Tribulation and Millennium believers) had special connectors and discerners which were expressly tuned to bodily functions, so that absent Filling believers could learn via the rituals, etc. Thirdly, the Old Testament teachers were endued, since the exposition of spiritual information would require it; absent enduement, the attuned-to-body human spirit couldn't just teach principles 'straight'. Just the opposite of now, when we can't learn doctrine via ritual, but only by mainlining Scripture under our right pastor-teacher.

Again, I keep coming back to this whole 'time is relative' stuff. Einstein did properly recognize that time does not exist, but apparently he didn't go far enough: only for God is there no time, because God's nature is not mass/energy. Einstein likewise did properly recognize that 'time' is a measure of movement, but what he missed was that time is an absolute constraint upon mass/energy, not merely relative. That's why, besides due to gravity properties, a body will inexplicably slow up. It's hitting an Absolute, not merely a relative. The claim that time is curvilinear rather than linear is used to conclude the relativity of time. Actually, I bet curvilinearity more explains that Time is an absolute relative to any mass/energy. The faster a body travels, the more quickly it hits a barrier intrinsic to the nature of time itself, and thus... slows down. So, really, time is still linear, but appears curvilinear, because speed is assumed to be a property of time. Which assumes (!) that time is 'inside' (a property of) the object. But instead, time is an absolute of its own which constrains the object, and is not 'inside' the object. They got it backwards! Time is not 'inside' finity, but rather, finity is 'inside' Time! Crud, I know this is right, but poorly worded, since I didn't take physics and only some math: so I can't express the concept except in words.

Seems like somewhere in the formulas we're mistaking our accounting of time for real time, and thus conclude time doesn't exist. For example, we think we're saving time, just because (so we think) something can travel faster than the speed of light. Travel speed doesn't actually save time: real time travelled is the appropriate measure, not the so-called time (zone) at destination or departure. Just because I can get to Brussels from Chicago in 3 hours, but Brussels is 6 hours ahead of Chicago, doesn't mean I really 'saved' 3 hours! (It's this kind of fallacy which might be betrayed in the so-called 'inexplicable' slowing up of a body in vector physics.) What's so odd is that everyone knows (yet not) that our accounting for time is artificial. But then, they throw out the baby with the bathwater just like theologians do, and say... wow, therefore time itself then doesn't exist, or is elastic, relative! No, whoa boy: our accounting is wrong. Don't chop out meaning to support your eisegetical goal. Don't do what Satan and so-called holy people always do with Scripture verses!

Someone should redo the whole time thingy. The result would be a wholescale revision in our accounting for time. No more space fiction about how you can go 10,000 light years away in one year, and have the destination be other than one year older than it was before you left. In short, its age increment relative to your age increment remains the same. Even our earth timezones teach that; even jet lag teaches that. Doesn't matter how fast you travel. Which, of course, means time in the universe is an absolute with respect to finity. And, that God is timeless, since Infinity is the opposite of finity.

Ironically (heh), the closest thing to true 'time travel' is Bible Doctrine. For, God is Infinite, and in order to grow up in the Spiritual Life you have to become more like Him. Omniscience means that all is seen simultaneously, because Infinity is 'part' of Omniscience, since God's Nature is Undivided. We classify His Attributes into rubrics like Righteousness, Justice, Truth(Veracity), etc. in order to better understand Him; of course, we get the classifications from what Scripture says. But Godness is One Big Nowness, and all the Attributes are Infinitely 'interwoven' (drat, another spatial term). So, then: to grow up and become more like Him means to gain in His Knowledge, which is Timeless. So, one can truly see what the Cross was (not with physical eyes, for they are too limited; thus, forget even wanting dreams, visions, and other obsolete baby stuff which now only Satan peddles). Can see what the future will be. And we are supposed to see. In order to learn how to think and act in our current situation. In order to 'obey' and thus profit from seeing him more. Obedience, where is thy 'sting'?!

Moreover, Truth, being infinite, 'stands still'. Finity 'moves'. This fact, too, produces more corollaries. For example, you go to class, you get your Bible deposits from your right pastor; you go elsewhere, you use the accumulated deposits you have. The actual 'use' is recall and identification (βαπτίζω, association, ὑπόστασις, etc synonyms). So, the doctrine replicates. Then, sits. So: it's the lies that move, trying to beat down whatever truth is there. Truth doesn't have to move. So, all that 'resistance' consists of the moving believed-untruths accumulated; external propaganda (human and satanic viewpoint). That's why it's loud, feels, even pushes against. Because, Truth isn't moving, and lies want to move the truth out of the way! So: it always feels 'tight', it always feels like failure... because only failure is moving. Moving out, actually, since nothing defeats Truth. The banging and pressure always mean that the lies are beating their 'heads' against truth, and thus are lessening. Opposite, of course, to how the process feels. So, again: 1 John 1:9 and continual intake and use of eaten (believed) Doctrine is a continuing success, aggressive/offensive. Which will actually look and feel like the opposite of what it is. Because, it's only the opposition which is moving. As in, "moving out." For, God uses all that seeming-failure to remove those pesky barriers. So just Rebound (1 John 1:9, my pastor's term) and fuggedaboutit: He's handling those critters. You move ahead, looking at how everything in your life depicts His Life down here: the Four Decisions!

Most Christians, let alone unbelievers, don't understand the nature of being "born from above". It's a real birth, and permanently puts the human on a superhuman 'plane' of existence. This, so that one can relate to God, Who is Infinite. Paul isn't kidding when he calls us, "καινὴ κτίσις" (new-in-species creation, 2 Corinthians 5:17). It's a permanent, massive, higher-state change, whether we know it or not. It isn't felt — except by the most organized part of our old nature, the sin nature. So, no one can be more happy, potentially, than the Christian. No one can be more miserable, either.

Thus, the Christian is uniquely vulnerable to the "pull" of being good, because unlike the unbeliever, he has a human spirit with +R and +EL in it. He's subliminally so aware of God that he's just got to do right, be right, be obedient... it's really too much to bear. Since this urge is below radar (which is really that battle between the sin nature's do-good drive and the human spirit's predilection, as Paul explains in Romans 6-8), the Christian will be much more dissociative, for he is under a lot more pressure, constantly. (James' keyword for this condition, when carnal, is "δίψυχος", literal: 'split-souled'; KJV's "double-minded"). The believer is thus a bigger pawn of Satan, potentially, than the unbeliever can be; for, the Christian Is Alive. The unbeliever is spiritually dead. So, that being-suddenly-alive-dilemma is part of what makes any progress in the spiritual life so hugely meaningful to Infinite God. He knows, far more than we do, how impossible our situation is. So, how much more impossible, if the Christian has some spiritual communication gift? Satan would target such a person more than he would the average Joe Shmoe Believer. Satan's not stupid; he directs his tactics where they do the most damage. Satan knows that he has to capitalize on negative reaction to God in order to achieve his goals. So, the teeniest little negativity in a believer, especially one with communication gifts, will be exploited intensely. Thus it's little wonder that such definitional incompetence among respectable people is so rampant, historically. Frankly, I'm surprised it's not worse!

Let's be honest, here: due to Adam's sin, any idea even remotely related to "God" in human minds... turns into insanity. I try explaining the origin of that fact in Part 2, taking what I'd learned over 12 years ago in Bible class and linking it to what I'd learned of psychiatry. (I'm not a psychologist.) "Dissociation" is a gut-brain-reaction, when anyone thinks of any topic which has "god" associated anywhere in its 'background'. Which ends up meaning, on any topic of strong importance or value to the individual, ergo the classic word-association diagnostics, to detect dissociative processes in a patient. All those live psychiatric/psychological exams (and Scientology, too) test the patient with words or topics which carry high affective charges (responses) — to hopefully root out problems. Lie detector tests work on the same principle, essentially.

Mild dissociation is very common; severe cases are rare. Dissociation manifests as an irrational connecting between a stimulus and a responding thought or behavior, but is accounted 'normal'; or, more commonly, the irrational connection is unrecognized by the patient. The disjunctive thought or behavior is 'triggered' by repetition of the idea, sense, name, or event giving rise to the dissociation. So, if the event was a dropping iron, other occasions of a dropping iron will tend to trigger the associative disjunctive thought/behavior again. Yet the individual will either not notice the connection, or will think it 'okay'.

This lowered awareness is the key symptom, for dissociation is the brain trying to hide something which is 'exposed' by the triggering item. Think of Dissociation as a spike in electricity, followed by a surge-suppressor type 'response'; thus mental 'spikes' barely awaken any change in the overall 'current' of awareness. The 'response' is a coping (defense) mechanism employed to 'suppress' it. Because there are many different types of defense mechanisms, and many forms of expressing them, a widespread but low-level dissociative fragment will not be easily detected, for the 'responses' are too varied. Here, the mental 'spike' is triggered by anything associated with ideas of "god" in the patient's mind. The 'response' widely varies, because the "god" dissociation reflex is a pan-DNA result, the effect of Adam's original sin upon his biological life.

That is how an atheist counts himself perfectly logical when he calmly and confidently tells you that he disbelieves miracles, because they are not scientific. So, God cannot do miracles and be God; so what he thinks he knows as scientific law is the only allowed way for Omnipotent God to have ever acted; so what is perceived as scientific law today must (!) have always been true for eons forever backward. So all the "data suggests" scientific conclusions are absolute, irreversible facts. Carved in stone, and always true in all conditions forever in the past! Meanwhile, we're seeing an uptick of atheists believing in 'grey aliens' or 'flying alien saucers', thus betraying the very scientific law they claim to uphold. It's completely illogical to believe in science fiction fantasies yet be skeptical of God. Also, you'll notice a trend in history (past and present) when this flavor of atheism/skepticism becomes 'obsolete' during periods when Satan & Co. have deadlines and need strong religious activism. Suddenly radical religious beliefs become a cancer and spread throughout the world. I suspect when the end times actually occur after the Pre-Tribulation rapture (thousands of years from now), 99% of the world will become religious through multiple factors:

  1. Future disinformation being prepped and 'seeded', in preparation for deployment when the time is right. We can observe this with Prolife and how the demons influenced Bible translators hundreds of years ago to reverse key meanings in English; setting the stage for demon-influenced pastors to start teaching the Prolife blasphemy and apostate Christians believing in it themselves placing their faith solely in the reversed English translations.
  2. Demon influence is able to feed people information thinking its their own at a global scale, and suddenly everyone believes in a unified concept or 'idea'. The feeling of whatever this global religion is in the end times will therefore be appealing to everyone.
  3. The artificial 'second coming' of Christ the demons manufacture (not to be confused with the real Second Coming at the Millennium) gains credibility through all prior factors. Everyone will believe that this fake Christ is the real Christ in a new global religion supported by the Antichrist, making all forms of atheism and theism obsolete on a scale never seen before. I suspect changes in technology and social media will help favor this too; the fact you have people who believe in a 'flat earth' today when computers can perform physics simulations that disprove this, shows how easily social media can dissuade people from obvious truths.

Other dissociative 'logic' paths: common-sense meanings of "one" take permanent holidays from scholars' minds, leaving them only "one in number"! That's how an All-Powerful Zeus can need sex, too. How life can migrate from one body to another, yet not remember what body it was in before, without a donative to a guru. That's how only in movies and church someone can say with a straight face, if you get wet, or bopped on the head, you're... saved! That's how lighting a candle for someone who's dead and can't see it, accomplishes reprieve from an unseen Candle Lover. How Majestic Deity is nonetheless honored by making the sun whirl around backwards while His Devoted Subjects look up in awe. That's how statues can cry; how holy Virgins make appearances in tortillas or fountains; how preserving someone's dead finger is so holy a thing to do, cities fight each other over the honor. That's how it's perfectly normal to cut yourselves to honor Allah (Iranian Shiites: chillingly witnessed in Tehran soon after the Shah was deposed).

So, that's also how it's deemed rewardable that man, with his finite mind and needs, Thinks what he does for his fellow man should count with Infinite God, who never needs. That's how spewing verses or giving money or being nice or being a good person is supposed to satisfy infinite God. That's how Scripture's verses on works can be twisted into earning salvation from an Infinite God Who Himself couldn't save without attaching humanity to Himself and going through the Cross!

That's also how people suddenly become threatened if their pastor committed some sin (by their standard, of course), or taught something erroneous (really, or by their idea of "error"). That's how they become even more threatened if anyone disagrees — even over "distinct" or "separate" as a descriptive word for the Three Persons! Oh, can't take that! Gotta call the other person a heretic, and never speak to him again! Oh, only bad people smoke or eat meat! Oh, anyone who has had an abortion is a sinner, but people killing an abortion doctor is Divine Retribution! Oh, anyone who won't use my hair gel is anathema maranatha! Yeah, that's how people have murdered each other by the millions, throughout history. No matter what version of "god" they believed in. And bethought it a good deed, worthy of Divine Praise!

Boy oh boy, when "god" is involved, we become genocidal maniacs, for crying out loud! And for what? What the heck difference does it make, if you and I don't see "God" the same way; and how the heck can we see "God" the same way, since we are each, unique, "one"? So-bleeping-what if we don't agree! What, if you love lemon meringue and I hate it, should we kill each other? Of course not. Moreover, it's not even possible to have the exact same view of Him, unless you and I were mere hydra-heads! Ohhh but where did that common sense come from? More importantly, because "god" is in the background, where did that common sense go? For, someone will huffily reply, "Well, God is rather more important than lemon meringue pie!" Yes, of course He is: so how does that greater-importance translate into you killing me or me killing you because we don't agree? Isn't God the Authority? how then do we take it so personally? Because, when it comes to "god", everyone taps Adam's sin-reflex of dissociation. Period. The totally-depraved DNA just can't take it. The Energizer Bunny needs to beat the drum! Visit any Christian chat group, and watch the drums try to beat each other up!

See? In normal, secular life, we aren't this wacky. Mistakes are commonly made, admitted, corrected. It's called "learning", for crying out loud! And, if something we built awhile back doesn't work, we fix it; it was broken, so let's fix or replace it. Very common sense, right? But oh, insert "god" into it, and suddenly instead of a thing being improved or fixed, it's instead fixated, frozen-in-time; you're positively a heathen if you even question it. Can't fix the Calvinist TULIP: have to leave it broken for nearly 400 years? Or, can't fix the Nicene or Westminster creedal statements with their misleading "eternally begotten" put-down of Father and Son; "proceed" put-down of the Spirit (Greek term is military but was misinterpreted as origin, making the Holy Spirit 'less' God); their Three-Yet-One Hydra portrayal of Trinity? Don't dare show how the separateness of the three Greek articles in 2 Corinthians 13:14 actually requires an interpretation of Three Separate, Co-Equal Gods? Not to mention the genitive of Apposition in Ephesians 4:30 (and elsewhere, to stress full Godness)? Oh, my: it's sacrilege, to disagree with Nicene or Westminster wordings; because, oh, pious folks wrote them — yeah, far wiser than the Holy Spirit's Own Words? So, chant the Nicene creed instead of Learning Scripture (hide the Bible as best possible for 1000 years)? So, use "distinct" instead, or you die at the stake? So, adore King James' English with ponderously-'holy'-tones, as if English even existed when the Holy Spirit wrote the inspired Scripture through the apostles — or you are damned?

Golly gee! If a Greek student translated Homer badly; if a student wrote goofball English prose like these creeds; if a logic student turned in a college paper inventing what became TULIP — well, they'd all flunk! But oh, in the name of brotherly love (or something) it's incumbent upon us Christians to die for such incompetent expressions which no teacher in his right mind would pass? Hoo boy: not only the Energizer Bunny is at work, here. Tell me: is there a greater proof of Satanic influence, than here? I mean, come on! It's okay to leave pat insane definitions related to God; but oh, that dang cashier didn't give me the right change! So we spend lots of time getting that penny back, but no time fixing the egregious mistakes in Bible translations, interpretations, and Creedal Statements? Wow: talk about straining out a gnat, but swallowing a camel! (NAS, Matthew 23:24 has the right translation, but you have to know what was considered Oral Torah to 'get' the gnat thingy's meaning. If a gnat flew into something you were going to eat, it rendered that thing "unclean". Naturally, a lot of folks would gingerly strain OUT the gnat rather than throw away the food. Camels were also "unclean" to eat. So, the Lord is very funny! He's saying you go to all this self-righteous trouble to get rid of a little unclean thing, but easily devour huge uncleanness!) The Lord didn't mean to search for the "lost coin" at the expense of found Bible!

Sure will be a lot of embarrassed religious types at the Bema. Yeah, the good-ol'boys-network of complacent mediocrity, long the bane of every society, is nowhere more obvious than here. But what did the Lord say, about His Vineyard? Wow: what business would survive, if it didn't assiduously improve the quality and productivity of its plant over time? Wow, what country would survive, if it didn't improve its defense and public sectors over time? We have no problem fixing/updating anything at all where we don't have, hovering around, some kind of "god" concept. The minute that concept is anywhere in the vicinity, we become wacko! Guaranteed!

So then: the unbelievable total blindness that even Christian theologians exhibit in their descriptions should be understandable; particularly, since Satan is doing everything he can to blind everyone (a main sub-theme here is to show this with many examples throughout history and in our current day). So, then: we need desperately to keep using 1 John 1:9 and keep monitoring what we think we know of God; desperately need to keep getting, and using, Bible Doctrine under our right pastors, every day. Our lives — nay, our sanity — literally depends on this vigilance. See "Macro Collateral" section on Bible drama, also.

So ohhh, what happens next? Does everyone get a cloud to sit on, and we just chirp away forever, no differences, problems, challenges? Oh no. The Cross's Success only creates 2) yet-bigger Crosses and costs! Wha??? Why? Because now, all these Saved Sinners are forever dependent; helpless, hopeless, useless — they have to be cared for! And, all the Unsaved Sinners are likewise helpless, hopeless, useless, and disconnected — they, too, have to be cared for! See? It was bad enough that the cost of the Cross was the sin offense / damages / fixing costs. But He replaced that cost with Himself! Bigger!!! For, Christ Himself is surely way bigger than the payment due, even if we only regarded His Humanity in that measurement! Moreover, the net effect of His Work was a bigger burden as well as a bigger cost base (He is the new cost base, having replaced sins with Himself)! So, a two-fold stretch, and a bigger 'mission impossible' was deliberately created! Two-fold, because now the cost is higher; because these sinners need care both a) down here, and b) forever!

Oh? What's that? Look: salvation saves the person forever, but the person himself is still "short of the Glory of God"; because, he's still finite. Of course, many versions of Christianity are all too aware of this problem, and come up with variant ways of trying to 'solve' it: Catholics posit Purgatory; Protestants posit some kind of you're-just-made-good-enough system (mistaking "positional sanctification" for "experiential sanctification"); others come up with their ideas. All posit body works as having some kind of magical power to transform a finite sinner's soul into an Infinitely-Glorious Person, come Resurrection; 'a dissociative idea, since the body, we all know, can't think: only the soul can think. So, logically, it must be what the soul becomes, not what the body does. And only Bible Doctrine, God's Truth, can transform the soul (Romans 12:2-3, Ephesians 3:15-19, 2 Peter 3:18, etc).

So, all these dissociative proposed 'solutions' leave out one common-sense 'reply': God doesn't need to solve the shortfall, doesn't want to solve the shortfall directly. For, He will never be willing to compromise freedom, which is part of the 'printout' of truth. Even, the freedom of a being to choose to be low forever. For, Righteousness will never compromise Justice, Justice will never compromise Love, Love will never compromise Freedom, and Freedom cannot be compromised except at the cost of Truth. Again, that's a true cost God is never willing to pay.

Huh? How is that fair to Him? Look: The Lord's Payment on the Cross is total. So the "opportunity cost" is fully paid (including funds, so to speak to spend on punishments like the Law of Double Punishment, Hell, Lake of Fire). How that opportunity cost, that redemption price, is used — is, as before, in Old Testament law — up to the discretion of the owner. Here, the Owner is the Father, and we know from Hebrews 1 and Ephesians 1, Colossians 1 that He gave all to the Son. So, the Son is the new Owner: doubly so, for He is Deity (Creator) and Humanity (Payor, Seed, Inheritor). So, it is the Son's discretion as to how much capital He applies to anyone or anything He owns. And, we know from the "promise", "deposit" (ἐπαγγελία) and "inheritance" verses that not everyone inherits "the kingdom" — which is not the same as Eternal Life. (Compare 1 Corinthians 4, Galatians 5:21 and other "kings", "kingdom" and "endure" verses, to John 10:28 and John 3, 1 John 5:11ff, etc.) Therefore, we know, though everyone gets Eternal Life at salvation irrevocably, people will still be unequal forever.

So, then: the Lord wants that higher burden. Forever. "The poor you will have with you always" has more than a this-world application. I don't know if a stronger statement of Love can be made than this one. It's easy to love a rich, attractive person; it's not so easy to spend your life on someone who's not rich/attractive... forever! It's like having a disabled parent or child: limited and rudimentary contact/fellowship, and you're doing all the giving. Note well: it is no fun for God, to have pets or chirping Stepford wives. That's why we get the Royally-Difficult Spiritual life, which is Royal Adult Spiritual Thinking of Bible Doctrine, His Son's thinking; not childish works. For thinking, not works, paid for all sins on the Cross. So, since most people won't grow past the childish God101 basics, won't grow past the childhood preoccupations with "works", they will end up... children. Forever. Takes a lot more love to want forever-children! 'Especially, if they become forever-children due to their own negative volition!

Of course, post-death we will become perfect (1 John 3, among other passages). But we can be "perfect" at any size of soul. At any size of wealth. Most will end up perfectly small. Bible's word for this future is "naked", which is often a deliberate synonym for poor. That's a burden. It's a burden to have to care for a disabled person, a stupid person, a poor person. Ideally, it's a burden one comes to love... or else, it's a living hell. Of course, the Lord Loves Everyone. No matter how wretched. Of course, to reach the Pleroma level of spiritual development, millions of millions of working Bible-Doctrine deposits have also enabled such a believer to love such a burden. And why? Because the burden remains. Even in eternity. Because people won't learn Bible Doctrine down here, the Holy Spirit is "grieved" and "quenched": the idols of works/lasciviousness/whatever have replaced Him in importance, for the getting of the Son's thinking was disregarded. So, most believers end up spiritually poor. Hence, need to be cared for by those richer than them. Forever. Starting, of course, during our own "first advents": our post-salvation, pre-death life periods right down here. For, as Paul writes in Romans 15: "the strong must bear the weaknesses of the weak". Forever.

This same poor-forever pattern is way wider, deeper, taller — due to the the calling-out of the Church "Age" (αἰών, Paul's term). People mistakenly think that what's called "dispensationalism" only developed in the 18th century. No, Paul classifies things dispensationally. (One could, I guess, class things covenantally, too. Of course, there are a many versions of "covenantal" and "dispensational" classifications, some more goofy than others! So, I'm just sticking with Paul's 'version'.) What's the significance of that? Well, the central theme of Ephesians is to show that Church is a Bride for Christ, and thus has a much richer and harder spiritual life. Corinthians weaves in some details about it (which was so well understood by the Corinthians they were all puffed up about becoming future kings); Colossians references it also. Peter and the writer of Hebrews talk about it passim, with Church keywords like "glory" and "priesthood" and "holy nation". Other epistle writers seem to prefer using keys like "promise", "inheritance", etc. to refer to it. Point is, this far richer spiritual inheritance requires reaching Pleroma to get it (a term all writers use, which has a lot of pregnant Old Testament meaning). Most won't "grow in grace and in the knowledge of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" enough to inherit that "glory" (2 Peter 3:18). So, they will be eternally saved, but forever poor, comparatively.

For, our spiritual life is uniquely like His — so, way taller, way broader — Paul's metaphor in Ephesians 3:15ff. For, it's such a royally harder life than other "Ages", way more poor will result: they won't grow up spiritually; they won't grow beyond the childish milk-usages of the Word, to the 'solid food' of living on every taught-word which proceeds from the mouth of God. They will spiritually arrest into Brother-Foot Churchinanity, as indeed most Christians always have. So, will result in an even bigger #2) class burden than Old Testament, Tribulation, Millennial people did/will. For, the Church was given a way richer life, so more was expected. The shortfall in "glory" will be higher.

So, then: He must love the burden of such a Kingdom, to let its many assets remain escrowed (because Church believers didn't grow up, they couldn't inherit their "portion" of the kingship, etc., promises). Moreover, everyone who instead grows up in the Spirit to Pleroma level will likewise Love The Burden. For, no ruler can love ruling without loving the ruled more than himself. The 'goodies' just won't compensate for the burden. That's why the Lord kept on reminding everyone that whoever would be first, must become last; whoever would rule, must wash feet. What He meant of course, was the mental attitude, not the activity: for, you can be arrogant and wash feet (yet another reason why works is totally anathema to God's Plan). Like, the condescending arrogance which masks itself with noblesse oblige, so profitable to fundraisers and fakirs of every stripe. Oh, they are so bad, we must help them. Yeah, pat pat pat pat pat your ego!

#3) Bigger Cross: each of the different covenantal/dispensational groups in human history end up being related to each other, so there are more interpersonal burdens (differences) to manage, for there are many-times-more inequalities; many-times-more people. Not only is the Vertical (God-to-people) burden thus expanded and enlarged; but also, the horizontal (people-to-people)! These attribute/wealth differences — and all the problems resulting from them — are magnified. Forever.

Justice Key → So this endless-crosses pattern replicates, kinda like fractals, throughout eternity. Ever-bigger "mission impossibles". All lifted! True Justice and Enjoyment, this: all the things which forever went wrong down here, get flipped! What we used to hate ("inferior", "superior", details, big-picture, 'smarts', stupidness, poverty, wealth, polka dots, whatever) we come to love!

Is that ultimate Justice-Victory, or what? If you loved "works" and hated learning Him down here, up there you'll love learning Him and 'hate' "works" — but, you'll apparently be stuck with works, since that's how you "measured" your learning-time down here: what 'soul skills' you developed. However, then you'd appreciate the Justice of that eternal position — and still get what you then will love: to Learn Him from it. Ahhh. For the same reason, it appears that whatever (paradigmally) bugged you down here, will be sheer delight to you 'up there', so to speak. It's the greatest justice to see the thing which 'victimized' you become your own best-and-happy servant! Wow: paperwork (so to speak) can be fun? Paying taxes can be exciting? Heh.

To get to Pleroma down here, though, means you have to come to love everything you hate — while still down here. The actual love, not an activity: God doesn't give brownie points. Again, it's not the work, but you which God saved, and the impossible thing is for you to love the way His Son does; which love, 1 John and Romans 5, Ephesians 3 all explain, only comes from learning to think like the Son. Just as, the Lord's Humanity had to come to learn to love bearing sins — which was the most repugnant and loathsome thing to do. So, a Pleroma believer will love everything, 'up there'. Even, bearing the burden of care for all in his kingdom. Loving learning exponentially more about the Lord, while doing it. For, the Lord had become, down here, the Pleroma believer's entire reason for living... so, up there, any kind giving will be a Joy. In fact, the more burdensome, the better! Such a believer will then want the burden to keep on growing! Which of course, it will.

Such a love is the hardest to have, not merely because there are others lower than you who are dependent. The biggest burden in being superior is the alienation. It's not 'loneliness', because the person who's superior is never alone: people always glom onto him. But there's this big gap in understanding; or, in some visible accoutrement like wealth, smarts, looks. In all cases, the ability to have camaraderie of any genuine nature is short-circuited. So it's worse than being 'alone', it's devastating. That's why Howard Hughes and so many other 'greats' all had such disastrous personal lives. That's why all the "poor little rich boy" stories are such true tragedies. For, everyone thinks, wow! If I just had smarts, or money, or looks, or you-name-it, I'd be happy and loved! Guess again: what really happens is that others without near-level accoutrements to your own regard you as something unhuman. They are resentful, or intimidated, or lookyloos (groupies) or... afraid. None of these reactions aid rapport! And the more you do to try and get close to them, the more of these reactions you generate!

So, imagine what it was like to be here, Perfect Eternal God and Perfect Humanity. With such an awesome job ahead. With everyone you love (and, being perfect, you really love, heartbreakingly so)... just kinda wishing you'd go somewhere else. Poor Mary. How could she stand the pressure, knowing that the Baby she held was superior to her, yet she'd have to train Him? Poor Joseph. Scandalized marriage, but knowing the Savior was his nominal Son! How to train such a Child, who would be his own salvation?

So, see: being superior (however accounted such) is no picnic. Because, superiority separates you from others. Someone should actually translate ἅγιος and ἁγιάζω and similar words properly for a change: sure, it means "holy", and its verb, "to sanctify": but that means, "to set apart"! Not human, but consecrated, separated from the mass and made different. For people to gawk at (so goes human reaction, because your being better naturally makes them uncomfortable). Like, while you're on the cross. No way around it. No one gets to Pleroma without mastering the burden of this alienation. It is a far bigger burden than the existence of 'inferior'. In fact, it becomes a relief to do something for them, as an expression of 'getting close', in the only way one can! So, then: see how it is possible for Pleroma to love the burden? It's their fondest wish and hope, the desire of a lifetime, to have a mechanism for being close!

Let's come back to 'today'. So, as Peter puts it, "what kind of persons must we now become, in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle?" The Christian's spiritual growth pattern now is a lot like a military (really, Ranger/Seals'-level) 'boot camp', in which the Godhead all coordinate their Self-Chosen roles (not a church thing, but a Vertical Relationship): the believer is under orders to the Lord, not people, as Paul carefully notes in Romans 8 and like passages. So, the believer's growth should likewise result in expanding high-low 'stretches' as he ages in Christ. 'High', toward Him; 'low', toward your seemingly-shrinking, alienated periphery. It's all due to the growing Doctrine, and the pressure can't be described. Only Occupation with Him will bring you through. So, like the writer of Hebrews says, "Keep concentrating on Jesus" (beginning Hebrews 12:2, corrected translation of verb); like Paul said, in Philippians 2:5 "Keep on thinking this in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (corrected verb translation). Keep on looking at Him — for He was the One Forsaken. But now, Risen and Ruling. Close!

Upshot: 1 John's Script, coupled with, eventually, abasement and abounding. 'Meaning, learning to love the burdens of both adversity and prosperity; of inferior, and superior. Of course, "works" have zero place in all this, since it is the person, not the things he does, who "expands" — who inherits. Even as, it was Christ, not what He did, Who Expanded enough to become the Lamb of God. And now, the Ruler. Have to "finish", too. Can't quit the training. Even as the Lamb couldn't quit. Doesn't mean we can't sin. 1 John 1:9 is for recovery.

So, instead of some magic-cloud existence of equally-attractive beings in heaven, we find instead, great inequality. Culminating at the top, with the Wealth indirectly transmitted, via Rulership: Burden loved. Bigger and wider and deeper — the cycle keeps exponentially expanding, like the universe is said to do — but, unlike the universe which will be destroyed (as 2 Peter notes) — this expansion-of-burdens keeps on going and going and going. Heh. Stones we love being too-heavy-to-lift, even as we're lifting Them! Forever.

Look: if you're rich, you have more money than you need: so, what must you do with the rest of it? invest it. And, if you invest it, what happens? The place where you invested it, grows it for you, with the result that you have even more need to invest, because you have even more money than you need; for, "money begets money" and "it takes money to make money". I like how the Lord put it (about Bible Doctrine) in the stingy-servant talents parable, and especially in his extremely humorous "I advise you to buy of Me Gold" in Revelation 3 (to the Laodiceans, who were among the wealthiest people in the world at that time). See also 1 Peter 1 and Ephesians 1-3 (whole chapters) in this connection. Also all "riches" verses.

Now, if you're rich, and you invest your unneeded wealth in some place; how does that place do that investing of your money? By creating jobs! Heck, even a bank has to hire workers to account for and protect the money you give it! Duh. So, then: rich people are needed for poor people to get richer by means of jobs. Not by means of throwing up balls in the air and demanding that they don't return to earth!

Karl Marx was a complete idiot! Governments are amorphous masses of workers, and no amount of hierarchy makes accountability more efficient: just the reverse, in fact. And why is this true? Because no one owns the capital government collects (i.e., taxes). It's instead in the "name of the people" — not an individual; thus, the interest in caring for such capital is a step removed, so to speak — for, it is not your own. Ownership makes for efficiency, because it is more important to care for what you own; what you own is your responsibility and right; for, you have authority over what you own. Like, God owns us. So, because you own a thing, you have the requisite authority to Learn How To Use It. The reason why governmental welfare programs can only fail is that the money they receive, they don't really own; the money they give out, the recipients didn't earn. Hence, no authority attaches to the money, so no learning to become wealthy can result from possession of the money, because there's no basis to respect the money. Everyone thinks he got a free lunch, so no one respects the money. If, by contrast, one earned the money, he'd associate it with his efforts: and By godfrey, he'd respect it! Just try to demand he gives you some! This is human nature: even without the Energizer Bunny, man needs effort/pain to generate respect. Hence, learning; for, no learning occurs apart from respect. It's that simple. That's why in the Old Testament the poor tax was so small: a 10% tax every third year, as I remember. "Tithe" is a very bad English translation.

See? That's why governments can never be profit-makers for their polities, because technically the money is the people's, not the government's; a group's — not an individual's. So, government unavoidably has insufficient authority, because none of the individuals (or group of individuals) in the government themselves own that money; for, "the property of the people" is an "undivided interest" (legal term; and a real problem in any kind of law on property, giving rise to endless lawsuits in history). So, mere trusteeship, which is a cost; a burden best kept as small as possible. Even the communal sharing in Acts caused nothing but problems! So goes the true nature of 'Das Kapital'.

God is not Karl Marx: God knows what He is doing. God is the richest: Father, Son, Spirit, each God, are Each Infinitely Profit. Uncreated, so, non-consuming. So, then: we who are by nature poor, Need Them To Care For Us; happily, due to salvation the Lord owns us, so has the requisite Authority To Care for us. (So, heh — believe in Christ and get His Care: "casting all your cares on Him, for He cares for you" — Peter.) So, then: given this eternal non-ending mass of beings... the care goes on forever. In a spectrum: Pleroma (highest group)-spiritual level, all the way down to the lowest-spiritual-growth level. What produces the spiritual growth levels? Bible Doctrine Is True Riches. So, by the time each person dies, the amount of Bible Doctrine which he "ate" and used goes with him. Prolonged carnality eventually eats away at this Doctrine (well, like a scar does, Greek words and cognates of σκοτίζω and σκληρῷ). Hence, the critical need for 1 John 1:9 and daily study under one's right pastor. You can only take Bible Doctrine with you: that's the capital base that's tested by fire, as 1 Corinthians 3 and 1 Peters 1:7 explain. (Well, 'need the "gold" and "riches" verses also to see this fact better.)

So, then: at the Bema we each get some amount of capital to reflect how much the Holy Spirit grew us up in Bible Doctrine while down here; those who had no Doctrine will get some kind of (very personalized) de minimis (no McDonald's hamburgers, in God's Plan). So, then: we all start out unequally, with unequal amounts of capital. So, then: the differential in growth (which is easy to understand, if you know anything at all about differential calculus, economics, finance, or even a passbook savings account) — will become greater over time. For, the poor will be consuming a greater portion of their capital award than the rich will be doing ("consuming" of course being defined in accordance with our body-nature and lifestyle then). Of course, everyone makes at least a bazillion percent interest on his capital, since the capital causing the capital award, is the Lord's Thinking (Deity, Old Testament; Humanity, New Testament). But a bazillion percent on a dollar, is always going to grow slower, than a bazillion percent on 100 Billion Doctrine Dollars! See?

So, then: Pleroma-growth level people end up as Rulers; they are the richest, and of course, everyone is under the King over Kings, the Richest One of All: the Lord (see Hebrews 1). They have the most Spiritual Capital: in fact, so much, they need to invest it! In what/whom will they invest? Well, really, in the Lord, but by means of investing in the kingdoms He gives them ("cities", for non-Church). So, those in the kingdoms are benefitted more than by their own God-given eternal possessions, because they are members of some Pleroma believer's kingdom. Get it? Synergy.

So then: if Synergy works due to inequality, then it is even more synergistically enjoyable for the 'gap' to expand. Which it inevitably would, anyway. That benefits the poor more. See?

How does God get a Miracle for Himself? Why shouldn't God get a miracle? We all think so stupidly about what we get — but what about God getting something? How can Holy God get anything from us? We are so puny, so petty, so.. dull. Why, there's zero natural justification for our even being alive! So what is sufficient, propitiatory, satisfying, such that Holy God can even want our existence, let alone the intimate relationship we Church get through Christ? Why, only a miracle of too-heavy stones lifted! The True Wealth, Profit, The Miracle of Bible Doctrine, the Son's Thinking, freely circulating in our souls! Forever...

God's Economics of Scale do what economists always dream of, but can never achieve: equilibrium. As we saw above regarding the nature of Infinity being infinitely homeostatic, it follows that if Infinity is united to finity, that finity will also operate in homeostasis. The Lord united finity to Himself (added Humanity) and in that finity (Humanity) paid for all the sins of mankind by means of the Infinite Truth the Holy Spirit poured into Him, as we saw in the combat-green chart, above. This had the result of making what was bad about finity, do Infinite good. So of course it means that all the economics laws actually and finally... work! For, the discipline called "economics" is but a display of God's Attribute of truth, just as math is.

How to illustrate this idea? Pretend that the mechanism for Bible Doctrine's replication from one soul to another is like a Bic Pen. To make a Bic Pen factory, pretend, costs a hundred million United States Dollars. That's what it takes to make just one Bic Pen! But not just one Bic Pen is to be made, but rather, millions and maybe billions of them. For who? people. So, the more people, the bigger the market (assume no good competitors); the bigger the market, the more the volume. The more the volume, the higher the revenue, and the more the revenue, the greater the payback. Notice how there would be no payback unless the market was big enough. That's the economics of scale.

So, then: since God by nature is pure profit, His Truth is likewise pure profit by nature; so this profit was put in the Christ, such that the Cross itself was paid by the Circulating Doctrine in Him. Which, in turn, becomes His Legacy to Church; which, in turn results in a "Bride"; a whole bunch of people, but only a few Pleroma among them. So the number of Bics producible is... endless! For, there are soooo many who didn't want to go the distance (footrace metaphors in the Greek of Hebrews 12:1-2). Yet they profit, too. From the Pleroma directing, comes the 'factory' of endless sweet savor, written in everyone's hearts and minds, and written out back toward each other, and First, oh First! toward Father, Son, Spirit! Under Son's Headship! 'Beginning down here... but continuing at ever-higher levels, forever! For, money begets money, and Doctrine is True Riches/Gold. Hence, true equilibrium, which economists have talked about forever, but never see actually happen! For, the Large Store Of Doctrine Circulating in the Pleroma believers transfers (akin to economic doctrines of trickle-down, circulation of money, velocity of money), because there is a large mass demand for it. So, the recipients write and write and write and write... wow. I'm too excited to write!

How funny: here Satan thinks he's getting some kind of revenge against the Lord for every Church believer he hobbles off the Witness Stand (i.e., due to works), away from the spiritual life; and, yes, that's true, the cost of that believer's increased the cost and thus yield of the Bic Pen Factory! Not merely the elusive equilibrium, but Inviolable Equilibrium! For, nothing shall be impossible for God! No wonder Colossians 1:25-27 and Ephesians read as they do! (Ephesians is the epistle of equilibrium, how God accomplishes it.)

For, every person saved who doesn't get to Pleroma, because permanently saved, increases the break-even (not merely the marginal costs), because he's an "addition to plant" (economic lingo); so increases the requisite economy-of-scale for equilibrium to occur (unending stable profit, here). Since most believers quit the spiritual life's function (or never get in it), there must be a mechanism to make up for all that loss, since their personalized Ephesians 1 escrow assets remain frozen forever. The way to not only make up for the loss, but produce far beyond it, is to create a higher break-even and volume: in short, larger masses (more saved people). Thus the blessing pipeline produces even more happiness-revenue (1 Corinthians 2:16) than if everyone got their escrows. (Lower break-evens would have occurred if everyone chose to advance to Pleroma, and did so.) Economic synergy due to large economy of scale is thus the secular counterpart to God's Economics-of-Blessing-by-Association.

Finally I understand how so many escrow blessings can remain on deposit forever without 'cheating' God. Why didn't I catch on earlier? Could the Lord make it more obvious, in Luke 8? What about the Temple analogies, why didn't I see this fact then? Oh: could the epochs/Dispensations of history, each a higher break-even, advertise this fact more loudly? Oh, how stupid I was not to see this before! Ok, enough breast-beating. God always says, Θάρσει! (Matthew 9.)

You can pick up almost any basic text on macro and micro economics and learn some of the fundamentals. Of course, common sense will also tell you most of what the textbooks say. Let's start with microeconomics concepts you can see plainly in everyday life, and show how they interrelate with macroeconomics:

Huh? Remember how God faced the hellish choice of Allowing All Bad, in order to be God? How, if He didn't, He was in effect a tyrant, and no good at all? So what did that mean? God had to Go Against Himself to decide to create. And, being as He's God, the going-against would forever be true. Not just for a moment or some finite period of time. For, God Is Timeless. So, then: in order to warrant such a hellish choice, hell has to become heaven. Else, Love won't love it. Else, Righteousness is compromised. So, Best united to Worst, and... we exist. In short, the Cross.

So, then: for creatures to grow up with reference to Infinity means we too must go against ourselves: what is heaven to us, must become hell, and hell heaven. Only Bible Doctrine circulating in the soul can bridge that horrible gap: just as it did, for Jesus the Christ, Whose Spiritual Life is given to us: Ephesians explains (whole epistle). For, God Himself puts the Word above His Own Person (Psalm 138:2b): the Word, the Word of the Cross, the Word of God. Now do you see why the Royal Spiritual Life of 'just study' is way more valuable to God than those cheesy works everyone lauds? What works can span the distance between Infinity and sin? What body-thing can accomplish the spiritual unity with God Himself, especially since God has no body? What good deed can cure the old sin nature? Only Bible Doctrine, the Thinking of Christ can do these things: just as, only His Thinking on the Cross entirely funded our salvation. Forever.

Above all, the Testimony of Christ is this: not even He could deserve spiritual unity, in His Humanity. Because, the gap between Infinity and finity is unbridgeable. So nothing He could do, think, want, however sinless He could be without those Truth Deposits — whatever He could do or be, would not be enough. Ever. "Why do you call me Good? Only God is good." That verse says it all. It's high time we awaken to the real problem: No One Can Bridge The Gap. Sin merely makes that unbridgeable gap worse.

But it's impossible, to start with! It's just like the rich woman in love with the poor guy, or the rich man in love with the poor girl: their social differences create so many post-marital obstacles, the relationship will crash in divorce. For, look: if you love God, you can't stand the fact that you aren't good enough, because your inferiority is so unfair to Him! Going to heaven, then, is hell for you, because to you it means God is forever shortchanged! Thus you need the Cross to pay for you even more than +R (judicially) does, for you can't stand the guilt otherwise, if you go to Heaven! By contrast, if you hate God, you can't stand the fact that you aren't good enough, because your inferiority is so unfair to you! Going to heaven, then, is hell for you, because to you it means you are forever shortchanged! Thus you hate the Cross, for you can't stand the guilt otherwise, if you go to Heaven absent some merit you do!

It's a Hobson's choice: no matter which way God goes, everyone gets hurt. Question is, what's "hurt"? Well, it's truly a multi-storied thing: physical, mental (soulish), spiritual (if a believer), perceived, propaganda, past programmings (what you or your environment told your brain a thing 'is'). All around us we are bombarded with definitions of things, people, feelings. That these definitions are almost always incorrect makes no difference. The weight of all these influences together constitute what "hurt" means. So, it's hard to go against the self, even before recognizing the innate impossibility for finity to go against itself. No wonder I find myself "counting the cost" and concluding (inaccurately), mene mene tekel upharsin (מְנֵא מְנֵא תְּקֵל וּפַרְסִין). That's a clause in Daniel, the handwriting on the wall saying 'weighed in the scales and found wanting' — meaning, inadequate. Too expensive!.

So, then: Satan is right. Same dilemma, as faced even Eternal God. Heaven is a worse 'hell' — assuming, of course, that you never come to love the 'hell' of living on the Word. And, if you don't come to love Him (see Ephesians 3:19, because the Word is the Christ), then all life, anywhere, is hell. For, finity itself is innate hell, which is why Satan's so interminably bitter: why did He make me, if He knew in advance that I'd turn out this way?! That's the core anger driving Satan's soul: he's hurt!

So, it's easy to see how he could conclude the Son flawed, and why he's become exponentially intransigent over the ensuing (perhaps billions of) years. This is Satan's root contention, so is the Trial Issue of issues, that God's Design and Purpose and life for Creation is a burden too heavy and undesirable to lift. Yes! Yes! Yes! 'The very point God Himself wants made, wants us to understand... and come to love! For, God's Standard is, "Nothing Is Impossible"! So: everything impossible must occur! Endlessly, expanding, fractal-like! Satan & Co. (and most of mankind for that matter) will never ever accept such a Standard. It is too slavish. All work, no enjoyment — from their perspective. Hence their ever-expanding bitterness and iconoclasm, as the Thinking series progressively explains.


The Second (Nexus!) Argument

I can't breathe. I took a break from this writing to assimilate what I'd learned better, and was trying to figure out how God answers Satan's contention about the relative roles of Truth and Power; that, (says Satan) if Truth is the Determinant, then God is not Omnipotent; that, if Power is the Determinant, then Truth is Arbitrary. This is the only category of charges which is not answered in the writing thus far. Guess what the answer is? The Truth is the Determinant, because the Truth is the Power, the Reason for Omnipotence! That was proven on the Cross. It was the Truth which held the Lord's Humanity together, not some override from the Holy Spirit's Power or the Father's Power! Understand, the Lord should have died from all that pressure! It should have crushed His Soul instead of Opening it. If it would have been cheating for Him to tap His Own Deity to protect Himself (and it would have been, first class condition) — then likewise, it would have been cheating — by God's Own Standards, who cares if Satan objects — to 'assist' in keeping the Lord's Humanity together!

For, even compared to the Worst Suffering of All Time, the true Cost of compromising Truth is a cost God is never willing to pay. This, the most impossible thing, had to be done solely by a Human! There They all are, Father stabbing Jesus with all our sins! There They all are, Father crushing Jesus with Father's Own Judgement Penalty for the sins! There They all are, just looking; looking at His Humanity suffering the incalculable; there They all are, completely able with but a nanosecond's thought to deliver Him (Second Temptation, writ largest!) — and what do They do? They just watch. They don't 'lift a finger' to help Him. The Holy Spirit keeps the 'switch' of Divine-Power-to-run-Doctrine-according-to-what-Jesus-wanted — but that's all. No more than keeping a light switch in the 'on' position — with a hairtrigger 'off'! if Jesus but once thinks "no"! Silent Sentinels, yet worse — if He falters they will not deliver Him, and He Himself fully aware of this fact! For, a compromise to Truth is a cost God is never willing to pay. And, They still just watch. We falter, of course... and blame Them, heedless of Elihu's speech. But, to Omniscience, the Cross is always occurring.

The worst kind of pain, is the kind you receive from family. The person does it deliberately! And you know! And the person knows! Looking you in the eye, even! The next-worst kind of pain, is the kind you receive in public. The jeering. The looking, ever-hungry looking. The comments, oh! how you are public property, a thing to be dissected, assessed! Which is worse, the comments from those who are sincere about their compassion (but have just as hungry eyes), or those who ridicule? The gaping-mouthed silence, oh! Like Auschwitz, looking and looking and doing nothing, saying nothing, just walk, just die... aware to the very last breath that you are a nothing, and no one cares. That your body will be thrown naked into a ditch atop hundreds of others; and someone you know well actually dug that grave! So your meager skin can be pierced by a worm, even. And crushed. While even God Himself, watches.

So why did Jesus the Christ not resent the watching, doing-nothing-to-help Father who imputatively stabbed Him with our sins, and then judged Him? So why did Jesus the Christ not resent the watching Holy Spirit, who only kept the 'juice' on? So why did not the Lord Jesus Christ tap into His Own Deity to hold Himself together? Because He Freely had the Same Attitude. He Himself Chose to be imputed and judged. And He kept on choosing it to keep on going, wanting nothing but the Doctrine to 'fight' it with. Only Doctrine flipped all those horrible imputations into victorious responses; only Doctrine embraced all our sins and the penalty. Embraced, not gutted-out. For, Doctrine is Divine Truth, and Truth is 'colored' by all Divine Attributes, since it is one of them. 'Colored, for example, by love. Love for Father. For Spirit. For His Own Self. For... even us. He's positively triumphant on the Cross! Verify this yourself, if you value your life at all. Look at the verses about it: Psalm 22! Psalm 31:5! Psalm 89:14-15! Psalm 100! Psalm 119! Psalm 138:2! Romans 5:5-8, Hebrews 2, last half Hebrews 4; Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 9-10:18, Hebrews 12:1-2. Oh, why the English strips out the exultant shouting I'll never know: "joyful noise"? (Psalm 100) — pitiful! It should be translated, jumping-up-and-down, can't-contain-myself cheering due to Victory! Same for the other passages! Well, at least the movie "David" (starring Richard Gere) did manage to convey some of the celebration, in that scene where David brings home the ark! (2 Samuel 6.)

Have you ever had to watch someone else suffer deeply, or watch them suffer for a long time? Did you enjoy that? Of course not. Only an insane person really enjoys watching someone else suffer (and insanity is no excuse, not ever). So, Father and Spirit would not enjoy watching Him suffer. In fact, because They are God, the watching goes on right now and never stops. How can They stand it? Due to the Truth of what that suffering means: Nothing is Impossible! The Stone Too Heavy Is Lifted! Tetelestai! Forever!

See, the only reason He didn't die from a bazillion 'atmospheres' of pressure shooting and crushing His Soul, was... emeth! Truth! Nothing-Hidden Ἀλήθεια! Doctrine! And "Doctrine!" was the Last Word He spoke before dismissing His human spirit (His last words were from Psalm 31:5)! And why not? What's the point of being Omnipotent, if no Truth? Not even Omnipotence would be true, in that case! Truth Is The Reason For Everything. Apart from truth, nothing is true. No Righteousness, No Justice, No Love, no purpose for 'goodies' like Omnipotence, Omnipresence... not even Life.

So, God answers, is it a survival thing? You bet! Without truth, even "life" is untrue! Dead even while living (a lie)! So yeah, it's a Matter Of Life And Death To Be Faithful To The Truth. So, not arbitrary. Or, if still libelled as "arbitrary", superior! Why else does it always result that those who reject God, see but won't see, hear but won't hear, lest they turn and be healed? What's with such a suicidal 'prime directive'? Why is it that by obeying that prime directive do such folks always shrivel up into their self-absorbed dungeons? So that only a "hell" can give them a sufficient counterbalance of sanity, to "turn and be healed"? And by what would they be healed? The Truth! For, He is "The Way, the Truth, and the Life". Survival.

So, then, is survival "good"? If "Yes", then it is the Goodness of the Truth, which makes for survival. Live, true. Dead, untrue. So, then: hell is not good, is it? So why not "choose Life", as Moses told the Exodus people: Believe in the Way/Truth/Life Who paid... and, by preserving the Payment forever available; and, by preserving Hell, preserves the option for those in it to choose life. So no one too-heavy stone need ever be lost. For, No Stone Too-Heavy-To-Lift shall be unliftable! Even if the knowing-pain of Hell is forever before Omniscience. For, Nothing shall be Impossible for the Living God!

Of course, God doesn't merely give His "coat" to Truth, but His Cloak also. For, Love covers a multitude of sins. Kopher, always occurring! Not merely withstanding, gutting-it-out; rather, embracing. Nothing hidden, nothing ungiven. Naked love. He gives His All, becomes the First Slave of Truth: Willingly. "He", Father does this, by delivering up His Son, so to give us His Son, so to give Him, us: τὰ πάντα; "He", the Kopher, Kephale, the Son does this in two natures; "He", Spirit does this, restoring us far more than He did to Satan's home planet (heh) after the First Trial, in Genesis 1:2ff. For, we became tohu wa bohu in Adam; we become even more tohu wa bohu with each sin we commit after salvation; so, all that resulting ἀδικία, the refusal of εὐσέβεια! ἡμῖν καθαρίζετε, 1 John 1:9, for the sake of Hebrews 10:12-14, kadash for Kadosh! For, that was the Desire from the beginning. For, that was the Decree from the beginning. For, that was the Gem from the beginning. Not Good, that truth go unexploited. Not Good, that Attributes go unexercised. Not Good, that Love be restricted. Not Good, that Righteousness and Justice be constrained by only that which is compatible. Not Good, finally, that there be any too-heavy-to-lift stone which isn't liftable! Marry, that would be unacceptable! So, marry...They did. That They Indwell every believer in this epoch of Divine History ought to be conclusive evidence of this First-Slave-to-Truth Choice each of Them has since forever made. Εἷς γὰρ Θεός, Εἷς Μεσίτης!

Religion, which is Satan's plan, is always about 'have-to'. Have to do this, have to do that, must do do do do ... until you collapse and die. That's how he thinks of God, of Christ, of everything. Even, of himself. He prides himself on being a martyr, a savior, even — of those who think like him. That's why he really prefers Hell; He loves hating (some people who get their thinking stuck in a rut regarding extreme depression or anger, get to a certain stage where they begin to enjoy being sad or angry and don't want to change. Similar psychological phenomenon in Satan's case). He lives to hate. "Hate" and "have-to" both begin with an "h" for a reason! You have to do something nice to get something nice. Not love, but arduous, loveless, hating, duty. Ergo, Religion, Satan's heart.

Ergo, Ananias, who Satan filled; who collapsed and died. It's amazing how people read this passage as if it were God's fault Ananias died; how they think God killed him because he didn't give all, but only rather part of the money. That's not even what the English says! But, the English doesn't make clear, though the Greek does, Ananias' (and Sapphira's) desire to bribe/win approval, to outdo Barnabas; for, everyone went wacko in reaction to Barnabas. Like children always do. Status, baby. Yeah, babies don't know anything, so mistake Nike tennis shoes for real skill at basketball!

So Ananias either was, or became, a spiritual baby. (Probably retrograded into one through the usual bitterness path, for Satan wouldn't have to fill a true spiritual baby to get his way.) The fact that Ananias lied about the price indicates how far gone he was: because Barnabas brought full proceeds, Ananias would say the same thing (and probably with more money). Takes a lot of insane jealousy, to want make up such a stupid lie. Note how the Holy Spirit makes a big deal out of how Ananias died, in the Greek of Acts 5: the Greek participle "πίπτω" (English tamely says "he fell") means to fall, but when it is a participle of attendant circumstances, it's stressing that the falling itself was not a cause of the resulting action, his death. (ἐκψύχω, 'he expired': literally, he breathed out his soul; looks like a cute play on Hebrew verses about how one breathes in his soul at birth.) So, he fell facing his money — he tried to bribe his way to get approval, tried to force others — to make them have to admire him more than Barnabas. So, God 'forced' him to fall, maybe. Alive, face to face with his money, knowing now full well his sentence, having answered all Peter's questions publicly — he still did not think 1 John 1:9, privately. So, he breathed out his soul. (And, of course, is in heaven. No fall of any kind is more 'rich' than Christ's payment!)

Satan, of course, has been busy since Ananias, intent on making many more just like him. Look: Acts 5 in English doesn't translate Ananias' answers: why? Why do the translators treat ουχι as part of Peter's question! Or is this because the passage is in Attic, but the translators blindly make it Koine? Isn't it important to translate that Ananias replied, else the passage appears as though he was just whapped dead? In fact, one Christian website about Ananias accused Peter of whacking him when such interpretation is completely unfounded and reversing the meaning.

I get it now. If English translated as it is, someone can spin it as a warning to give all — how gross! So now the 'ananias' role is being played by someone who wants your money... ewww. Okay I get it now: this is a way of trashing Peter and the church! Which then Satan fulfills by spinning the passage as "Oh, believer, you bad person you, you didn't give enough!" Wow. Typical satanic reversal tactic. By accident I discovered Bob Snook's page: see how this deft reversal tactic works in a satire on Ananias and Sapphira.

But Love, which is God's Plan, is instead always about "Want to! Εἷς γὰρ Θεός... Εἷς Μεσίτης!". Cheerful giver. Greek ἱλαρός, from which we get the English "hilarity"; Greek seems to have connotation of overflowing enjoyment so keen, it shows in the eyes, the smile. Barnabas gave his money away because he wanted to be unencumbered for his trip with Paul (first missionary journey). Barnabas didn't care about approval. He didn't need the money, so he got rid of it. And obviously enjoyed doing so. He didn't have to; it was his to give or keep, as much as he wanted; just like Peter would later tell Ananias (in Attic Greek, mind you) about Ananias' own money; his money, to keep or give. So, then: why lie to God the Holy Spirit and pretend it's something it's not? have-to's are a lie. works are a lie. Ananias died face to face with his money, in a prostrate (worshipping?) position. And Sapphira, who was either the instigator of this competitive sale or at least implicated (συνείδω is Attic there; has an "implicated" kind-of-knowledge connotation), died nearly the same way, but at the apostle's feet. So, she was buried face to face (Greek preposition "pros") with him. For, both died the "sin face to face with death". (Greek: pros θάνατον in 1 John 5:16, a book written later: the Old Testament version is near Aaron's death Numbers 20:22-29, so the doctrine was known. And, even if not known, wow — every word in Greek of this passage displays it deliberately. That's exactly the mode of their dying!) Note: Thieme concludes from συνείδω and the fact she comes in three hours later as indicating she was behind the lie. It is royally odd that three hours pass. Why didn't anyone tell her he was dead? Why didn't she inquire what happened? Why did she stay behind? It's significant, too, the use of "feet" throughout the passage. Like, what they wanted was for everyone to worship them as much as the apostles. The wordplay is rich, and this is just a start on analysing it. I understand now why God killed them: people were impressed by the wrong thing, as usual: money! Never impressed by the "true riches" of the Word, but only in goodies which make other people envious, 🤣.

Acts 5:11 records the result: the people, and all who heard of this episode came to respect God. (Greek "φόβος" there should be translated "respect"; English seldom gets it right.) Principle: God's Plan is only about want to. Have-to is sheer blasphemy; have-to is hatred. Satan's. That's the lesson of Ananias and Sapphira. That's also the lesson of grace; like, the grace to the couple. For, don't you think they are relieved to know that they didn't die in vain? For, don't you think they know now, being face-to-face with the Lord, how He used their deaths to save their fellow Christians from the same downhill road the couple traversed? See, everything with God is Θαρσεῖτε. Even, when we fail. See, everything with God is giving us the victory, just like it says in 1 Corinthians 15: so, even capital punishment — where is 'thy' sting? Εὐλογητός ὁ Θεός καὶ Πατήρ! (Ephesians 1:3, most fabulous puns on εὐλογητός! Proving oh how much He gives us the Victory!)

The have-to's in the Bible are largely written that way for two reasons: A), it's the strongest way to say I Love You; and B) because we're all like Little Johnny, too young to know what Good, really is. What we know is we need Daddy and Mommy; we want Daddy and Mommy to love us; we know we are small and weak; we know that things feel bad or feel good. We don't know why it is good to bathe or take out the trash, but we do know Daddy and Mommy say it is good, and that's all the "good" we understand. So, Daddy and Mommy have to say what is good. In terms of command: for, "command" gives us the security of command over ourselves. Precisely because we don't know. Same for spankings, for they teach respect.

Sooner or later, we gotta grow up and shed these 'have-to' training wheels. Like Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:8-13, 1 Corinthians 14:20; like the writer of Hebrews said in Hebrews 5:11-6:8, Hebrews 7, Hebrews 10 (Hebrews 8-9 being explanation linking the two, under the rubric of a better priesthood). We gotta progress to solid food, not drink milk all our lives. The have-to teaching wheels can't stand still: if they do, we'll get into a rut. If we do, we'll become moldy. If we become moldy, we'll rot, rust; then, infect everyone. Just like Ananias & Sapphira. Because, if we're grown up now but insist on using childish have-to's, the have-to becomes what we want! So that's the result we 'have to' get!

Conversely, child who truly grows up comes to realize that all those rules his parents gave him, then he comes to value all the have-to's for himself. So, the have-to's become want to's. Slowly spreading out into all areas of his thinking. Doctrinal thinking of course accelerates this process, big time. For, God is only and always about want to. Not mere survival. For, what's the purpose for surviving, if not to enjoy?

In a word, for Love.

Time and time again, I have asked Father about these issues. As noted earlier, time and time again I get little pieces of the answer via doctrinal recall and analysis. In the last five years or so, all these pieces have fit together, and tons more (!) added, rapid-fire. Like a camera taking pictures at light-speed. So, time and time again, I keep on reaching the same conclusion: God doesn't want to be God if He doesn't stake everything on the Cross. It's not a have-to question, but a want-to question.

The more I revisit this question, the more He makes it clear that He would not have wanted to be God, else. See, God already is Everything, so being Infinite, He wants the most, what He is not. Yet, without sin. We are at the opposite end, totally fettered with needs, so what we want is Relief. But Relief has two sides: when you are already Total Power, you want Love. When you are total impotence, you want power and will call that Love.

God is Omniscient. So, no matter what He Decrees be the reality of creation, or potentialities, all the knowledge is just there. No matter what. So, in "hells", I tried to convey key alternatives which Truth contained on the subject of "hell". Enough, so that the reader can see that, no matter what, some type of hell results the second creation is ordained — no matter what type of creation, either. How does a Being live with such knowledge? Well, kinda like what faces us when we have what seems a Hobson's choice: you go ahead, or you quit. "Into the valley, rode the six hundred..." The "Charge of the Light Brigade" ... going to the end, if need be; even though knowing total defeat awaits. God, being Omniscient, ironically faces Total Defeat if He doesn't ordain what we know as "life". Yet, the defeat wouldn't defeat Him, nor even change Him one jot. For, nothing changes if He doesn't do it. The Knowledge Remains.

But, as is usual with God, He never does a thing because He 'has to'. It has to be Infinitely Gorgeous — or, it's not worth living. Being Omniscient, does it really matter if He left what we know as "life" in the 'iffy' category, rather than ordaining it? Couldn't He enjoy it just as much in any category? Sure, if He doesn't ordain it, what could be true is rejected, but... is it not His Right to choose, since the first Truth is, God is? Sure, if He doesn't ordain it, then what bad there could be has likewise been rejected, and He's technically a tyrant; but since He still knows all the bad Himself, wouldn't He stay in homeostasis? See how the fact that The Knowledge Remains is invincible?

It all boils down to One question, finally: what's the most gorgeous way for Truth to 'go'? For, being Omnipotent, why should He settle for anything less? And, with the Truth being that Gorgeous... why want to live for any other reason? In short, if Jesus didn't want to finish paying for salvation, it really looks like God didn't want to be God: not the Father, not the Son, not the Spirit. So, They all just watched. Not even one iota of gerrymandering. If the Truth couldn't hold Jesus together, well... there's no point in being, anymore.

Of course, there'd be no point for us, either. While we're young, the kaleidoscopic prettiness of arrogance beckons. Oh, the lights! Oh, the feel! Oh, the potential! Sooner or later, though, we come to realize just what a piece of doo-doo this world really is. Nothing lasts; everything is either fake, or worse! — fragile. Always the promise of the pea under the walnut shell, but never do we get the pea. Always the promise of romance, a nice house, something... which always but always! turns sour. Sic transit veritas mundi. So, then: to live down here in this putrid, quixotic, wish-it-could-be-better world that instead spawns live humans who actually think it good to make a lampshade out of human skin... why bother living? Even more important: what's the point of living, if one can't see Him, however beautiful a world could be? What can compare to the Beauty of His Thinking? So, then: if God is not the Biblical God, where's justice? Where's Love? Where's enjoyment? And if God is, then... where is suffering? Oh, just a form of learning Him (Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2)! The Cross proved that! Best and Only. But most of all... Best.


Macro Spiritual Growth Topics

Of course, what constitutes the mass/energy makeup of the eternal state will be vastly different from today's structures. But look what doesn't change! "Nations" in the book of Revelation's eternal-state depiction speaks volumes. Still a hierarchy. Even, still taxes (tribute)! But... eagerly paid! So, all the value structures are preserved... and, for the First Time And For All Time, we will all love the 'cost'! We'll love the cost so much, we'll eagerly want more cost! Which is why the Judgment Seat of Christ is so painful, because if we didn't grow up to Pleroma, what we'll have to 'pay' with (play with!)... will be so small compared to our yearning. Yet, at the same time, we'll understand how the system works, and will exult in both vicarious and owning, pleasures. Those small will love 'owning the mink coat' and the other accoutrements which they will get in profusion. The Pleroma, by contrast, long ago down here learned to prefer something else: Pure Seeing Him. So, the goodies Pleroma get, are good to use on behalf of the small. That's the keenest (vicarious!) pleasure the Pleroma get from them. For, every goodie will be valued thusly: as a way to express Something About Him. Forever.

Without looking to that future date, one can't function now. All today should be lived in light of that date, for that date is what we will then be like, and now is in preparation for it. It's like going to the grocery store: before you go, you must plan what you need to buy. That involves a lot of little, logistical adjustments to your pocketbook, your schedule, your... everything. The same applies with ordering food online. So, then: if even a little thing like grocery shopping involves now adjusting to what will be then an experience, how much more, now adjusting to how one will then think?

A major focus shift will occur as all attention switches to Christ as everyone's "new life" begins. We will all then think of only one thing: How Beautiful Our Lord Is. Everything else will be a function of that one thought. Anything apart from that One Thought we will freely deem boring, ugly, not-worth-our-time. So, each person will be taking whatever he is, whatever he has, and spending it on something "to do" with Him: talking to others, doing for others, not talking, not doing, receiving from others — all will be viewed as a function of Him (Revelation 22:14). So the higher, will love being higher, for with their 'higher' they can spend it all on and about Him — to benefit others who don't have that higher — to share the joy of knowing Him together. Same thought will be in those lower: they will want to give all they have to each other and those above them, as an expression of Sharing The Joy Of Knowing Him. Just like the Father, Who forever enjoys us, our smallness, even our sins, so to speak, because of the beauty of His Son's Thinking on the Cross! On a smaller scale, it's similar to how when we love someone or something, we want to know everything about it or them — even the mundane qualities. Make no mistake, God's attention to every soul (human or angel) is absolutely perfect and contoured to the ultimate 'wants' and happiness to each soul. To some it may not feel that way, but His attention is infinite and perfect, thinking of you, always.

The Bema (Great White Throne Judgment) and Judgment Seat of Christ will be very painful for that one reason. People mistake the 'shame' and other regret forewarnings in Scripture for something God imposes. Rather, to Omniscience everything is 'one big now' (no time: to communicate timelessness, Greek uses static present or (in John 1:1) imperfect of εἰμί, or leaves that verb in ellipsis; for Hebrew's roughly-equivalent hayah, see Thorlief Boman's Hebrew Thought compared with Greek for a fabulous explanation); so He merely relays what He already and always foresees as our own soul's real-time mourning! When we actually see Him as He is: oh, He's so Beautiful! Why was I so negative and arrogant! Oh, Thank You for my suffering on earth, Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You — because it glorified You and backstopped my decline! Ohhh, I just couldn't stand to be in Heaven absent having that punishment! Thank you for this relief! I never want to stop Thanking You, not now not ever!

So, not one person will regret being lower, for he'll need to be lower to be comfortable in Heaven given the knowledge that he screwed up so badly. Justice will be served, and it will be a gigantic comfort. Moreover, the bazillion-times increase in our natures will be such a grace-out we can then appreciate, we'll crave to lose status due to our this-life spiritual rejections! We will all see how Truly Gorgeous He is, and we will all 'lose' something we could have had in the eternal state — for 100% of God's Highest and Best provision is always higher than what we grew to love, and thus be capable of receiving as an eternal inheritance. So it will be a comfort, any loss, which we can forever see in the Church Age Escrow Memorial (so to speak)! I figure that even if we get our individual escrow due to reaching Pleroma, there is a vast differentiation within Pleroma, so that something we could have gotten will be leftover. Maybe that's not true. It just makes sense to assume it's true, for now, because Infinity is punctiliar as well as Absolute (two sides of same 'coin' of the Attribute).

So, then: if we get an understanding on what our values then will be like, we can plan ahead for that trip to the grocery store. Ultimately this will be a decision chosen on our free will and not forced or coerced from death; even now God isn't forcing anything for there are no guard rails and we have the ability to refuse God's System and live our lives with religion or false doctrines. Satan & Co. regard such an eternal state as programmed/manipulated/subservient/low/ demeaning. Why? Because that's their nature, not God's; their projection of their nature, not God's.

In order for this inviolable happiness to develop, finity must ὑπομένω Infinity. The military Greek verb used so often in New Testament (and LXX) means: "live under" (ὑπό = under, meno = live-at-home), translated in English Bibles variantly as "dwell under", "stay under", "be patient", "endure", "obey". A stronger military word is "ὑποτάσσω": ὑπό + τάξις, but verb for τάξις is τάσσω, meaning "command". Τάξις, its cognate, means a given group of troops "in ranks", etc. and is likewise a frequent Bible word. This finity cannot do absent respect, trust, love for Infinity's Authority. Ergo the constant clamors in the world against "authority", all of which represent Satan's arguments in the Appeal Trial: authority is bad, authority is unfair, authority abuses its power, blah blah blah blah. All this clamor is rejection of authority, based on the claimed unrighteousness of people in authority. But authority is not the people who have it, but the organization which, if one lives under it, will bless that person. No matter how bad or good those in authority happen to be. This, because the first role of Authority was invented by God for finity's protection, growth, and stable happiness. Whether believer or unbeliever (namely, the Ten Commandments are not a spiritual code, but rather, a freedom code for anyone).

Authority, as my pastor loves to categorize it, comes in basically four organizational forms: God, nation, family, individual (corporate structures are aggregates of individuals, so have a separate authority in aggregation). That's a hierarchy, too. God being the total lover of authority, ὑπομένω's to it completely: First Slave of Truth, for example: that is why you find passages like Romans 13 (e.g., civil disobedience is never God's Will, will always be punished). So it is not demeaning. Rather, the other way around: you cannot become master of anything until you first love being a slave. We saw that in the unending stones-too-heavy bullets. We saw that in Our Lord's Life. So, then: far from being demeaning, submission to authority means Strength. Not weakness.

The trick is to first learn to love being a slave; but then to grow out from that love to the higher love of being a master. What's great about being under authority, especially bad authority (what irony!) is that if you keep on ὑπομένω'ing, you'll come to believe in authority. That's a critical thing, believing-in. It doesn't have the weakness of emotion, which leaves you vulnerable to how 'good' the rule (or ruler) is. Better still, believing-in forges a bond between 'have-to' and 'want-to'. Why? Well, think: to believe in a thing requires a good deal of thought, especially when it's hard to believe. That's why doubt is so cool: it fosters a questioning (well, after one tires of being angry or shocked). With questioning, come answers; with answers, justification; with justification, faith. Unlike the ignorant Kant so popular nowadays (who also looked up to Isaac Newton: himself unable to read the Bible succumbing to Unitarianism), the only truth about faith is this: it is a faculty of the soul, never an emotion. The act of faith never occurs until one sees some kind of justification to believe. Whether it's 1 + 1 = 2 in base 10, or "Believe in Christ and thou shalt be saved!" Same faculty, which is an attribute of the soul. One never ever ever learns anything at all absent the faculty of faith, which is just volition saying "yes" or "no".

Acts of "faith", "belief" thus are obviously mere synonyms for the faculty of choice. So, there's no such thing as "head and heart belief" (what wacko invented that lie?); there's no such thing as Lordship salvation (worse lie); there's no such thing as faith being something you feel (most insane lie). You believe or you do not; you choose or you do not. Anything else which seems to ride along with faith is not faith, but comes from some other soul or body attribute. This ought to be obvious to a 2-year old: feelings are feelings and choices are something else. Every choice anyone makes is based on some kind of assessment of merit in the item chosen. That's why it is chosen/believed, for crying out loud!

Believing-in makes for a smooth transition from the slave 'side' to the master 'side'. For, the rule is something you still believe in: whether slave, or master. Peter made a play on words about this (ὑπάρχειν). The Ruler is the one Most Ruled. Because, He believes in the Rule: Royal Law.

If you use any other criterion for obedience, you will hit glitches galore, especially in the Christian life, and will probably become spiritually retarded due to spiritual arrest. For example, you might focus on how you owe God; that sets you up for becoming legalistic and unforgiving, especially toward self, because you can never measure up, never pay what you owe. So, it's a bad standard to use, except with a smile (i.e., making it an excuse, since you know you can never pay). Another example: if you focus on an obedience criterion about how you are benefitted, that only works so long as you perceive the benefit. The moment you don't, you're shot. So, the only way to survive through the transition from slave to master is to know intrinsics and keep on recalling them: believing in these intrinsics will steer you safely between the bombardment of "owing" and "self-benefit".

Of course, believing-in can be 'barnacled', too, with false criteria which pass for belief, the classic wolf-in-sheep's clothing. So, glitches galore can also mire you down here. It's hard to recognize false criteria for 'belief' which have creeped in subconsciously, so here's a short but common list of fakirs:

Every act of belief is a choice to agree a thing is true, whether it is or not. For example, as James notes in James 2, demons believe that God exists, and that He is Who He says He is; but (unsaid in James, but clear elsewhere), they don't agree it is true that they ought to believe in Him to be saved. That's their contention in the Trial, from inception. Instead, what they agree to call true is that their merit and God making them apart from their consent merits them avoiding the Lake of Fire; merits them having whatever life they want, and God should not punish them. So, human history is playing out their votes as to what's true, versus God's votes on what's true. choice.

So, every act of belief is ordained to have its intrinsic effect, the intrinsic depending on what are the intrinsic properties of the thing/person you believed, rather than on what you thought the intrinsic properties were when you believed. Hence, to be saved it doesn't matter what got you to that act of belief: sure, you believed on false pretenses, and those false pretenses being believed will come back to bite you: but, you also simply believed in Him for salvation — which of course also has its effect — you are permanently saved. However, after that moment, to grow up in the spiritual life, it matters a great deal why you believed. You can't lose salvation, of course — only the insane would imagine man having more power than Christ! — but you sure can stay in the spiritual playpen until death. Because, these false criteria sooner or later prove themselves empty. Thus comes spiritual arrest: oh! suddenly you lose faith! 🤣 You didn't know what you believed in the first place! It was a fakir giving you that assurance, not content! I swear, religions all use these fakirs, so no wonder the "crisis of faith" is today so rampant! Content content content. See the parable of the seed and sower in the Gospels. (Luke 8 is one retelling; each Gospel focuses a bit differently on the same data.)

Being finite, and being sinners, our natural inclination is to value based on likes and dislikes, versus the intrinsic nature of what a thing (or person) is. I propose the reader (in part 2) to run a short experiment: try yelling I love you in the nastiest voice possible — see how the reaction to the sound drowns out the property of the content. That's how we are. So, valuing as we do based on likes and dislikes, which often means based on how things/people 'feel' to us: how good could any work we do, be? Not good at all. For, we can't jettison the prejudice of like/dislike, which is a criterion of value superimposed over the intrinsic properties (content) of a thing/person. So, naturally enough, anything which goes against the prejudice will be deemed 'bad'. Ergo, spiritual arrest: lost faith, someone/something let self down, self is right... etc., ad nauseam.

You can prove this problem of spiritual arrest has long been true for believers. That's why God had to word most of Scripture in childish "commandment" terms. Still, it's great He did so, if you come to understand that "commandment", (entole, among other words, in Greek — mitsvah, tsavah, other words in Hebrew) because a mandate, is automatically okay to do. Smartly, of course. This recognition, which begins as a security in childhood, becomes a reassurance in spiritual adulthood, when one begins to realize the vast blessing such a "commandment" affords; one is tempted as an adult to think it not fair to be so blessed. The "commandment" then comes in as reassurance: yes, what you have to do and now want to do is still right to do — the enjoyment is the fulfillment on the promise of the commandment. So, what starts as an ignorant trust becomes a cognizant respect; then, confident love. Self gets reconciled in the process of belief. Or, wrecked in the process of disbelief, the usual bane of 'growing up'. Our choice.

So, if you don't finish the love growth to the 'Master' side, you'll never grow up. For, the master is really the bigger slave; for, by being the master of what he has (κρατεῖς ὁ ἐκεῖ, Revelation 2:13; commanded in Revelation 3:11), he learns to Love The Burden. It's a kind of parental love, and has zilch to do with machismo or Uriah Heep "service". For this transition to develop, the individual has to come to learn to balance both subordination and rulership. For that to happen, he has to learn and love the intrinsic meaning of each, rather than the 'status' meaning. The latter will kill growth, and thus enjoyment, for 'status' doesn't mean anything at all: content is meaning. So if in charge, one will come to loathe it. So if under charge, one will come to loathe it. So has gone the history of the world. We don't grow out of the slave-love any more than the Exodus generation did. So, we can't be happy masters, either. 'Especially, of ourselves.

For example, if you can't manage your time, you have not learned to exercise authority over yourself. So, your life is chaotic. That, because the 'infinity' role is absent. Lack of self-control means weakness, not strength: you can't delay gratification, you can't manage competing needs/wants, you can't stop and go given some external authority-rule which matters more than your desire; you can't switch gears from fun to work. In short, you can't function! So of course, absent sitting under a pastor teacher and getting plenty of daily Bible Doctrine, you'll never grow out of such a fragmented, body-controlled life! For, absent the synergy of authority, you can't learn the boundaries, so will either beat yourself up, or not push yourself hard enough, and you will be "too dumb to live" about the difference! In such a case, God does (it seems) one of two things: either He orchestrates a life for you in which you have to be in charge, or He gives you one in which you can't be in charge. Depends on what will wake you up to the problem. Because, you can't handle wealth until you can handle your time. Wherever there is a weakness in this particular area, all else will be adversely impacted. For, if the body is allowed to go slack, the brain will, too!

One's own lack of authority orientation can easily be masked; fortunately, there's so much 'bad' in life, the mask is easily removed. For example, it may be often easy to obey because one likes either the rule itself or the one giving the rule. So, one doesn't notice one's own lack of authority orientation for what it was, when hitting some major situation one does not like. Even if one loves getting those Daily Diamonds.

This orientation blunts the not-likes, but a peculiar anomaly develops: 'obedience' has to be to someone or something else, in principle: so if self is the only one to 'obey', self disrespects his own authority! That's a lack of human maturity, because really the person is playing 'hooky'. Oh boy, just me, I can do what I like! I've seen that rationale slowly destroy loved ones; absent Doctrine, it would have killed me too.

Maturity Key → Maturity requires one find the harmonious function between two sets of existences: others, and self. People are constantly battling with others and themselves over relative importances. In the process, either they over-subordinate or under-subordinate in order to achieve what they feel is a harmony. Any inaccurate assessments of what constitutes 'harmony' and 'subordination' will inevitably show up, and especially, if one is a Christian. Subordinate to the intrinsics: that's the key. Don't do it for another reason. For, the Biggest Intrinsic is the Truth. For, God is; and He is out to make us Like Him — which means, neither slavishness nor I'm-always-in-charge are correct. We have to find the boundary lines and respect them, from the Truth. Not from other motives. That's a very tricky thing to do, especially since the intrinsic property of all in this life (if you ignore God's meanings), is bad.

So, say one always opted for over-subordination, so didn't respect one's own authority. Someone else's benefit had to be the motive: it was 'bad' for self to do it for one's own benefit. That valuation is just as wrong as rebellion, and is actually a form (very subtle) of rebellion. Which Satan peddles constantly, since it makes God look like a tyrant, and us, as the poor unwashed slaves! Think about it: if self is always putting self at the bottom, that's a hidden form of self-righteousness. It denigrates God's Plan, Will, Purpose. Christ was not a masochist, as we just saw, in the "Nexus" section. So to disrespect one's own authority, is to disrespect someone He paid for! Not good! And, if it is so wonderful to get Doctrine, and one knows it is His Mandate — nonetheless, one won't see the falsehood of disrespect-self, below radar. Percolating. He sees it, though. Yikes!

Respect Key → To the extent self is disrespected, God is disrespected, and so are other people, too: it's all a unity. So, to the extent anything or anyone is disrespected — so is God. Whether one knows it or not. Moreover, respect is not the world's multicultural, politically-correct hypocrisy. Quite the opposite: if you respect, you are truthful. Not too blunt, nor too fawning. Further, you don't group people or yourself in neatly-stupid categories like color, culture, etc. Each one is individual. Including, God. First. Including, self.

The arrogance of multiculturalism and other isms is that they depersonalize. Just as nastily as Satan cast God in Genesis 2, using only "Elohim" (God's Essence, His 'last name', so to speak). Of course the multiculturalists (etc.) instead claim that their isms are designed to foster greater respect of the individual. But think what a lie this is: to make an issue of one's culture, one's race, one's ancestors does have its place: but not as a self-worth thing. One is not worth more because 'white'; nor, less. 'Not worth more because American; nor, less. 'Not worth more because female; nor, less. Self is only worth whatever character one is personally. Culture, color, smarts, race: none of these guarantee character. None make for nor guarantee integrity. None make for being bad, either. In short, these things are all irrelevant to self-worth. Period. To say otherwise is to say that self has no responsibility, no role, no importance, and worst of all: no will. Which God made, at birth.

So the multicultural lie is, that culture, color or some other aggregate makes a person better or worse: the exact antithesis of what the claim claims to be 'for'! So if religions make big stinks out of being religious; if women make big stinks out of being women, blacks of being black, poor of being poor, rich of being rich, etc (both spectra) — they advertise to the world that they are among the most incredibly stupid people on this planet. "The lady doth protest too much", wrote Shakespeare. He's right! More so: the criterion doth stink too much. You Are You. Not, what you own. Not, what your religion, race or background makes you. Galatians 3:26-28 is who you are! Like God says a bazillion times, "I Made You". that's who you are. In Him. Not someone or something else! So much for the paltry cries of this world in the (disgusting) name of "equality". Like George Orwell had the pigs say, in Animal Farm, "but some are more equal than others." Stalin's line. Satan's line. We don't need it! We're each unique! "Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord!" Made by Him personally at birth, and forever in Him! The chief reason why the prolife argument is a lie (which they don't recognize as a lie because they don't know their Bibles) is that God asserts personal creation of everyone. It's a very tender, anthropopathically-possessive way to say "I Love You." And He's adamant about it; absolute, even (heh).

As noted a few paragraphs back, there are other lies just as disgusting: awwww, self should always be serving; not right to just do thing for self's own benefit; shouldn't have so much Bible Doctrine, because you enjoy it! Should be out hustling, instead! What baloney! Hoo-boy! Trap City! So, you can bet the Divine Discipline will pun the lies!

The natural effect of Adam's dissociation is that one's self-told lies have external punning effects. So mostly, when God 'punishes', He lets you just have the effect of your own bad decisions within certain parameters, to communicate a message. That's especially true later in the spiritual life, since one is an adult and should know better; since little spankings won't solve the problem (especially, here). So, the inevitable happens: one comes to really really really dislike having to do do do do for others (duh, good morning); one finally awakens to the fact that, hey, I have a life, too! Good Morning! Of course, if one only awakens in this rebellious manner, one rebels: at that point, Divine Discipline adds something to the effects of Volitional Responsibility. It ain't pretty. It is a huge Blessing: for now, self wants to 'get' too. Ahhh. Volitional Window opened. Time to harmonize!

So, particularly if one loves the Doctrine so much, the Energizer Bunny uses that Love to dismiss or denigrate what is disliked, in the name of (get this subtlety!) "it's so small, compared to studying Doctrine." Or, some other Matthew 4-type argument (First Temptation). Conversely, the same "too small" is used to still claim that oh, I shouldn't get this nice thing, for I'm too small! As you'd expect, such a rationalized disrespect renders life chaotic, with respect to things not 'baptized' with being toward-Him: can't use the have-to argument, anymore! For Infinity doesn't 'do' based on have-to, but on want to! Intrinsics! Mastery! In short, Balanced Love.

One of the big problems in the spiritual life is, self becomes reactive, when falling in love. Falling in Love with Him is the biggest kind of falling in love, and since Bible Doctrine is the Base, the Love isn't so easily dislodged. Energizer Bunny goes crazy when this happens. Of course, many is the movie or novel depicting how goofy lovers become; but seldom is it recognized how coming to love God brings out the 'cracks' in spiritual development! Oh, I can't do enough! Oh, this isn't good enough! Then follows the inevitable rebellion: oh, this hurts! Because, self isn't adjusting properly. So, it reverts to childish black/white values. 🤣 The whole reaction thing is a shell game, and the believer gets trapped in it, because the pressure is for self to reconcile to the change in desire. Those trapped, if formerly hedonistic, become ascetic; if ascetic, become hedonistic. Neither works, of course. If you evaluate yourself to be 'here', just keep on remembering why you believe in His Plan, His Rule. Go over and over and over it, firing the meaning you know like weapons. For, belief in the Rule will carry you past all the emotional trauma. Energizer Bunny is not stronger than the Word of God!

Continued spiritual growth does create a balance; but new thresholds are reached, and the imbalance occurs again. This is especially true, when Occupation with Christ becomes the issue of one's life. Then comes the first phase of Evidence Testing, which centers around Him or self, and it's very subtle, because since He's more important, one tips too much against self... giving the Energizer Bunny a derivative rebellion power of unbelievable strength! This was what Satan banked on, when tempting The Lord's Humanity in Matthew 4. By appealing to His Love for Father and us, Satan hoped his obvious insults would trick the Lord into reaction. So too, this might be what tipped Paul, in his sudden carnality over going to Jerusalem (despite the Holy Spirit's express communication that Paul was to give up running around, and become a pastor/bishop in Rome). In Paul's case, he couldn't admit that he was upset over not being allowed to evangelize his beloved fellow Jews. So, he instead rationalizes the go-to-Rome-permanently command into a different Divine Will. Note that God took Paul to Rome anyway — in chains. Comfortable chains, as it ended up. Paul had had some suffering, but by others he was treated especially well.

More commonly, a believer's reaction to Occupation with Christ is to become more slavish. Note the irony: whatever one has been given, the acceptance is imbalanced: only the slave motive of Love. But there's the 'other side', mastery! For self! Not just for Someone Else, not even God! For Infinity doesn't 'do' based on have-to, but on want to! Mastery! In a word: Love. So, God will do some stuff to wake self up to the other side. Then (usually) comes rebellion. Then, spanking, big time. And, for the recovery to work, κρατεῖς ὁ ἐκεῖ must become the guidon. So guess what blesses one to do that, despite the Energizer Bunny, which, having swung too far to the left, rebelled for a while and swings too far to the right? Those Beautiful Diamonds! So, what will overcome the remaining class-of-barriers? Bible Doctrine! The Intrinsic Of Life!

Okay, but what are these "intrinsics" I keep talking about? Well, they are uses of Bible Doctrine. All of them. For, Bible Doctrine is Truth: an Attribute of God, and an Attribute Jesus the Christ grew to have in His Humanity during the First Advent, just as it stands written: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6, NAS, NIV) So, Truth is the Intrinsic. Uses of the Truth therefore are entirely content, entirely intrinsic, and are determinative of virtually everything in life. Best of all, you can use the Doctrine in a bazillion ways, even the same verse! It's a creative act! Of Intrinsic (ἀγαθός!) value!

Here's a funny example. As you might have guessed by now, I've been caused to notice how shot-through with humor every verse in Scripture is. I first learned that fact in connection with the doctrine of hope (ἐλπίς, pregnant word in Greek literature) taught in my pastor's Romans tapes, back in 1995. Well, even earlier: when he first taught the humor of Abram being circumcised, to make the brith (covenant). So, when seeing a verse, particularly in the original languages, it becomes easy to see wordplay. Now, watch:

A few days ago, I was having an attack of "something" in the bathroom (use your imagination). It was disgusting, embarrassing, and there's probably no greater humiliating moment in a day for a human than to have such a moment. Feeling low, recognizing it was a temptation, all I could do was refuse it, thinking something like "I don't agree", when wham! Out of the blue comes a verse I've not thought of in years: "I have learned to be content in whatever state I am." Actually, all I 'heard' in thought was "learned... content... state" and immediately knew what it was: something Paul said. Context was clear. Turns out it's Philippians 4:11 in RSV. My RSV Bible is my oldest one.

But funny!!! Think about it. Here you are, totally aware of being weak and inferior, not wanting to give into it, for you know the highest truth that everything glorifies Him; but that's as far as you can think. Then, wham! comes this very funny verse (I was on the toilet, okay?) and that one verse, in a nanosecond, changes the entire character and meaning of the episode. Forever. You can bet I'll never look at the toilet without remembering that verse! It's even funnier still (I'm trying not to laugh as I type) when you realize that the "Four Decisions" have prompted me to keep on categorizing everything that happens to me as if it were an 'imputation of sin' so I can get a better appreciation of how that played on the Cross. For, I know He was joyous there, and I'm trying to appreciate how that could be. So, this little bathroom episode at once entirely changes the nature of the event; and, even more importantly, entirely explains how each imputation and His Response looks (paradigmally) to Them. For, the Cross is always occurring, to Omniscience.

If you think over all the layers of meaning in that pairing of verse and event, you can see virtually every doctrine in the Word of God: from Essence, to Hypostatic Union, how the Cross 'worked', to nature of man, to Freedom of Salvation, to how the post-salvation life is supposed to be. It's awesome. Then again, Doctrine is Truth, infinite: so of course ties flawlessly to every other thing 'in' Infinity.

While the foregoing example is kind of dramatic, often the recall of doctrine (remember that "doctrine" in my content only means God's doctrine, never man's) or particular verse is as 'normal' as querying a database in your favourite program or chat query. Only much more enjoyable and efficient. Question asked, doctrinal answer replies. All this is your soul's repertoire of past deposited Doctrine, playing out fractal-like, in reply to a 'stimulus', the query. Since the query is V+, and you're Filled with the Spirit (1 John 1:9 was used and no succeeding sin has yet intervened), the doctrinal answers are ever-swifter, as you keep on in 1 John's Script. Since each soul has its own quirks and difficulties, almost all of which are due to blocking by emotion and defense mechanisms, the query-and-answer process is a lot harder to use when these blocks are active. Which they always are, due to the Energizer Bunny and Satan & Co.'s 'kind assistance' in macro and micro propaganda. So keep plugging. Doctrine conquers some of the enemy every time you use it. See how it entirely changed a bathroom experience's character? How much more, then, do you think it's conquering in the less dramatic, everyday, (eventually) every-minute use! Especially since the entire plan works on the low, slow, constant principle? So it's enjoyable, becoming a natural habit, even though each learning or use of Doctrine is the Miracle above all miracles? Do you see now why, when people were so awestruck at a miracle He did, His reply was "greater than these shall you do" (see that verse in context)? Just think: you're learning to think as Christ did and does! What greater ἀγαθός, good-of-intrinsic-value-achievement, than that one (ἐκεῖνος, a frequent cute wordplay to designate Him, by Scripture writers)?

Satan didn't learn to love the Intrinsic One, so he didn't learn to love the Intrinsics, because he wanted his own abilities to be an 'intrinsic'. So, he didn't grow past his glitches with respect to Authority. The big sticking point for him was first that he loved the pat-on-the-head approbation for what he did "good", but felt bad when he didn't reach some (progressively-unrealistic) goal. As you've seen by now, the goal is always too high, because Infinity is always greater. Question is, do you come to love that fact being true, or do you at some point rebel, like Satan did? Is 'obedience' to you something which gets you a pat on the head, approval (however sophisticated your Energizer Bunny might phrase it) — or is it, of itself, deemed such privilege, you never want to stop?

A steel mill has vicissitudes; its profit can be hit; there can be downtime because the line must be shut down temporarily; but the question is, does the mill keep operating profitably no matter what happens to it, or does it become so cost-ineffective it must be shut down? Does the believer quit permanently from growing in doctrine and thus the spiritual life? Or, does he reach a level of cost-inefficiency, so to speak (yes, keeps rebounding, but no, never really progresses in the spiritual life or not enough)? There's always a waiting period to see if the one becomes profitable (analogous to the fig tree parables) and stably so. When that period is up, time-to-go-home. Same cost-benefit analysis concepts as in microeconomics, except that because Doctrine is so uniquely profitable, even a dot of it can take a bankrupt concern (long-carnal believer) and turn him back into a goldmine. These ideas all came out of thinking over how the Colonel explains χρυσίον in Revelation 3 ("gold": Lesson 1518, heard on December 23, 2002), in light of his past explanations of slag and chara (1 Peter 1 lessons), and "riches". Maybe don't call it a steel mill but a gold mill? Smelting, foundry? Those each require huge capital bases before they can even begin building the plant, let alone operate under a welter of do-good governmental baloney!

Biggest Problem with the description here is the steel mill metaphor; which metaphor depicts the believer (who is 100% The Work of God the Holy Spirit), at the various stages of spiritual growth: when believer is operating inviolably profitably with Circulating Metabolized Doctrine, that's Pleroma. The steel mill metaphor is apt, to depict strength, especially in light of Paul's height/width/depth metaphor in Ephesians 3, and the "foundation" verses (i.e., in Gospels and 1 Corinthians 3). Gold/riches depict value, but gold is among the softest of metals. So if I change "steel mill" to "gold mine", even including smeltering off the slag, the connotation of Strength, Integrity, Virtues is missed. Doctrine is really gold steel, pure, unalloyed; but "steel" is technically an alloyed product. Moreover, steel can be melted, causing it to lose its strength; which is why the Twin Towers of World Trade Center collapsed on 9/11. "Diamond mine", since Diamonds are the hardest stone, and we are living stones?

A pastor, for example, ought to be kitted out internally to be a bigger 'glass', so to speak, than a regular believer, for his spiritual gift is bigger. So for him to reach (say) spiritual adulthood requires more to get there, but then he is kitted out for growing more. He's not kitted out to visit the sick, etc. — that's the job of whoever has been designed for that function. Similarly, for the one kitted out to visit the sick, etc., for him to get to the same stage takes less — he's a smaller glass. Yet in both cases, two things are true: A) woe to the one who doesn't grow up with reference to his kitted-out role! and B) Pleroma being reached means even a 'small' glass is complete, so post-death can be just as much a ruler as the bigger glass, precisely because each growth level is definitional. So, equal opportunity remains, despite inequality of 'jobs', even while down here. So, no one handicapped is left out; and in fact it's highly likely those who have fully functioning faculties and live a mean & nasty life full of works and judging others, end up small in eternity future. So, no one of a big size can attribute his big size as contributing to his rewards; so, no one of a small size can attribute his small size as detracting from his rewards. God appreciates all, so nothing is left out of the 'baptizing by circulating doctrine' effects of Pleroma.

Whoa, God's System is so humorous and superior! He starts us out at salvation, All Royally Equal In Christ. Our human inequalities are thus rendered equally capable of reaching Pleroma maturation: because, as noted above, the spiritual growth levels are definitional, and thus relative to the 'glass size' each one is. So, we are structurally unequal, but positionally and opportunity-wise, equal. So, the best of both worlds! So, we can constantly be saying to each other, "Okay, what you did was worth $2 and what I did was worth $1, so I owe you $1!" Thus cancelling each other out! Constant excuses to express love by giving more! 'Laughing, the meanwhile, for we valued the other higher, and thus get to perpetually 'argue' about that! Wow, that's love, baby! For, the truly-higher one would be bereft of something to do with his higher-ness, if there were no lower! So also the lower one would be bereft of something to do with his lower-ness, if there were no higher! And, each of us is lower than Him! Wow, talk about maximizing the Love Benefit of Inequality! we all get all the joys of 'lower', and 'higher', this way! Yet, each one is unique, so no one is denied his 'specialty'

What happened here? Well, both travellers hit a glitch. One woke up to it and the other, did not. Didn't really matter if you had switched their places. So it is also, in the spiritual life.

I have to get personal here to make a point. All my life people have showered me with compliments about my 'smarts'. It really hurts to watch them feel so low, as if God didn't give X something so Y could benefit from it, too! Funny how we all admire something someone else has, and put down what God gave us! Anyway: they feel intimidated, as if God needed human smarts to convey information which only He can do!

So, the tragedy: they get hung up on their 'slowness', and settle for less-than versions of spirituality: the laundry-chore Sunday church visit, the chanting of Bible verses no one hears or explains; the do-good drives and scads of little, hateful activities which will hopefully be appreciated someday Up Yonder. They look at theologians, 'professionals', and all the high-vocabulary folks as the biker would the Maserati driver. And so they get discouraged. And so they sell themselves short! Didn't God choose for them to exist, make their souls, just as he made the Maserati drivers? Hmmm. Then maybe God chooses to make the so-called 'low', Truly Smart Like The Son — by Bible Study. Not via some mindless genetic process God never needs anyhow! God takes you as you are, and promises He can make you reach the Fullness of His Son. Do you believe Him? Then, start pedalling to Bible class! Like David said, "The Battle is the Lord's!"

Also, people like me tend to overthink, just like that Maserati driver: we can dissect so well, but can't make tea! So, yeah, we might look like whiz kids, jumping right outta da box, into the spiritual life, great potential, upward mobility and all. But we hit glitches, internally, too! Did you see how Renes Descartes ran around in circles on his little philosophy trip? Only to make a typo at the end, and waste all that time and finger-cramping? Cogito, not Cogita? I think, not God Thinks? And what about good ol' Aristotle? He, too, started at the bottom, rather than at the top: with induction (Old Testament method of teaching spiritual life, and Ari was Old Testament age, so I guess I should cut him some slack), rather than deduction (New Testament method, Christ's Thinking)?

Remember, the Lord's Humanity was the greatest Genius, ever. And, of course, is even way higher, now that He is Seated. One of my pet names for Him is "the Ultimate Jabez" (after Jabez in the Bible), because He didn't settle for anything less than all the Father wanted to give Him. That's why He is Seated. That's why we can ask for anything in His Name: and get it. So, let's be jabezes, too: enlarge our boundaries, Father! So to "enter into the joy of thy Master." (Matthew 25:21ff.)

So, don't be jealous, don't be fooled, and above all don't quit on God's Academic Style Divine Broadcasting System. He provides Spiritual IQ, and no high or low human IQ can even begin to help out (or, hinder). Instead, beware of something else: For every human on the planet, there's a dot on an invisible line somewhere, representing his spiritual 'glitch'. Find yours, and give it wide berth. Or, if you fall down, get back up and at least walk!

Remember Paul? Talk about Genius! Yet he was a full adult (and what, maybe 25?) when he first became a believer! So, Paul's big glitch in the spiritual road was in the beginning. So also, Paul hit a glitch years later, when a big spiritual adult — teaming up for that vow in Jerusalem. Aha, so even being resuscitated (see 2 Corinthians 12), and even after that becoming a Spiritual Giant didn't keep him from falling down for some while! So much for the claim that we need signs! 🤣, Paul died and saw the Lord in Heaven before he even wrote 2 Corinthians! Yet, just after he pens Romans, he goes wacko to Jerusalem? Old Home Week is more important than all that doctrine? Even Moses, who lost the privilege of going into the Land because of second Meribah — big glitch toward the end of the road!

Do you see the point? If you're 40 or 50 and you realize you're a spiritual baby, hey — just get going! Maybe now God will kit you out with a Maserati! You'll end up passing up a whole lot of 30-year olds who at the moment are ahead of you. So, also, if you are a 20-year old whiz kid with Bible stuff, watch out! You start out fast, but... there are significant bumps ahead.

Wheat-and-tares parable seems to explain the spiritual growth pattern internally, too, given how the Greats all fail sometime in spiritual maturity. Of course, God also makes it obvious this is true: for He uses terms like "children", an obvious reference to the fact that growing up spiritually takes at least as long as growing up physically. Even the Lord Himself didn't go public until age 30 (Jewish culture standard of the beginning of mature age — note how folks like Isaac didn't marry until age 40 or so).

So, then: our weirdnesses, our wackinesses, they persist side-by-side with the beautimous Doctrine deposits. Then, sometime during Spiritual Maturity, the harvest begins. Looks like Evidence Testing is the harvest. Even then, a mature believer will be at times quite wacky! But it's never the experience which matters in the spiritual life: it's only the Doctrine. When Doctrine is ready to be harvested... then, the crop! Keep that harvesting pattern in mind as you watch yourself fail, so you won't get discouraged. He'll use the tares to grow you further! Even if all you've got left of wheat is that small 'stalk' of positive volition to get going, again... He can make a 100-fold crop out of it, using the tares to fuel faster growth! Look what He did for Paul: out of Paul's massive failure, the most doctrinally-dense books of the Canon were written! (I could write 1000 pages about this fact! Doctrine, not failure; qualification due to eaten Doctrine, not experience!) And you can't fail as much as Paul did. Paul is the worst sinner in history (see 1 Timothy and 1 Corinthians 15). So how much more, then, can He do with your tares?

So, then: we are in the Twilight Zone the minute we believe in Christ, even though we can't feel it. Because, human nature can't take infinity, as we saw earlier, regarding Our Lord's Humanity. So of course we will be wacky (see Romans 8:4-10, NAS). The more we grow, the more the divergence is palpable to us; the more we become aware of it. That worsens the burden; just as it did the most, for the Christ. Everything but everything that we'll ever learn or see is a parallel to His Life, by Divine Design. "Experience" is no determinant — only Truth is the determinant. So without the Doctrine, there is no valid experience. So also, experience, like works, does nothing for God: Father wasn't compensated by Jesus' suffering, for crying out loud: but rather, by His Thinking! So, then: only using Doctrine does something for Him. Doctrine alone works. So fly 'on instruments', on Doctrine! It paid for sins! It pays for death! It pays for Life! It pays, period! Divine Thinking, which was poured into Jesus' Soul via the Holy Spirit, and is now In Writing for us. Never anything else. Period.

Orientation Key → Just as the Holy Spirit's IQ is alone useable, so one's own human IQ neither helps nor hinders spiritual growth, so also no experience helps or hinders spiritual growth. Only only only only only 1 John's Script, eating and living on Bible Doctrine! Just as Christ Himself did! All the way Through the Cross! So now maybe Ephesians, when you read it, will become more real to you. And the power theme in Colossians: this treasure in our earthen vessel is Omnipotent, and the sweet savor to Father. So who needs anything else?

So, then: when it comes to God's Post-Salvation Plan for maturing you spiritually in His Son's Image all the way to "fullness" (Pleroma, Ephesians 3:19) it only matters who gets to the finish line: "endure to the end". Not how long it took you versus someone else nor how you got there! Um, but... if you see me stranded by the road on your way, will you drag me along? ☺️

Duh. But it's not so easy to remember this when hurting. And it's not so easy to remember this when you see John/Jane Doe being more 'spiritual' than 'you' think 'you' are, because you value everything relatively, and you don't 'love' people equally, so you think God doesn't, either. Love in man is totally fragile and hopelessly dependent on not only his own integrity, but on the attractiveness of the object (real or imagined). God's Love being an Attribute, is not violable nor changeable like that. So (and this may be misleading?) it's as if you are the only person in the universe, as the object; Christ's Love for the Father (the Colonel's +R +L synthesis chart) is whole; He doesn't love the Spirit less because He loves the Father. Likewise, He doesn't love you less because He loves the Father, nor you less because He loves 'me'. Each is its own 'compartment', and whole, and never detracts from any other 'whole'.

So the growing believer's 1 John-described Love via Circulating Metabolized Doctrine likewise develops into these compartments, so that the relative attractiveness at any given moment is (progressively) less a factor. IL and PL, or IL alone — but always, Love. Sure, Love for Him is #1 — but due to that, all loves dock under His — seeing-ever-more-through-His-Eyes, the 'view' toward others becomes ever-more-unique. Jane is Jane, and is loved as Jane, not compared-to-someone-else. Faithfulness means the person loved is sacrosanct, unique, in his/her own compartment of the lover's mind. No bleeding over. Just like the Hypostatic Union, in design. (Wow, that would take some explaining.)

So, we being unequally-developing-spiritually, God's Love expressions vary in accordance with how we are (not merit, but matching). He loves 'Jane' while He punishes her, and He punishes her with what most benefits her to (remedially) learn; He loves 'John' while 'John' goes through Evidence Testing, and He blesses 'John' with what most benefits him to learn. To other people on the ground, it may well look like John is being abandoned or hurt by God, but Jane is being blessed! So what? It's like each of us, being a person, is a 'sphere'. Whole, separate, entire — a "quantity", as Aristotle would put it. So, there's no such thing as the number of quantities impinging on the quality of the Love expressed toward each one. That's the big thing we Christians don't "get", for the same reason we don't "get" Essence as fundamentally true (not accretive) Infinity (all Attributes being undivided, each is Infinite).

Of course, Total Depravity is talking in these anthropopathic misapprehensions we have. For, underneath all our brow-wrinkling over Infinity, is this Total Depravity value which says, "God should Love unequally, due to relative merit". Aha: just like Satan says. So 'I' can get more love versus some other Joe Shmoe for my good deeds or knowing-so-much-doctrine or fill-in-the-blank-totally-depraved-idea-of-good! So, whoa: we're not so noble as we tell ourselves in our brow-wrinkling. We don't like the idea of God loving equally each sphere: we want to cut out something or someone else in favor of me! Or, the flipside, we make big stinks out of (what we perceive as) our own failures, so God shouldn't love us as much as someone else — due to those failures. Wow, how ugly. We're telling God what He should be, in two opposite flavors! Yikes. No wonder we don't "get" Infinity! To "get" it would expose our "Total Depravity" Energizer Bunny's arrogance! Got to use that time-honored defense mechanism team, denial-cum-rationalization, to cover "God's Nature", up! Double Yikes!

So: you 'gotta go it alone', and you gotta go against opposition; you gotta ignore the opposition, and you will be severely chastised for it (picking up your cross Matthew 16:24). Your own family will be against you, the Lord warned the disciples. Moreover, you don't apologize for not following the crowd, and you don't rub their noses in it, either. You don't seek to be equal, you seek to be with Him. That's His Plan for your life. For my life. For Each Human Born. So, in that sense, we are all 'equal'. Only in that sense. The sooner the believer wakes up to the highborn Ephesians 1 purpose the Father set aside for us from Eternity past, the better. To reject it is to choose to be a peasant, not only down here, but... forever. A "Charly", a retarded spiritual being, so to speak. A disabled child — by choice! your your your choice. Not the choice you blame on your background, parents, teachers, ethnicity, the nurse who dropped you on your head as a baby, the priest who you imagine fondled you. Don't be a crybaby. Be royal. That is your destiny.

9/11 proved we Americans are in spiritual third grade, in aggregate. So our interactions are terribly puerile, setting up klieg lights to replace the Towers on the one hand, but suing the airlines who ferried the terrorists, on the other; lighting candles and raising money on the one hand, but refusing to spend money where it's needed (i.e., on better immigration controls) on the other. So we of course are tremendously shallow in our values of things, terrifically fond of playing with our god-dolls, and terrified by every little chance of harm. Yet, being children, we are all aware and kind of trusting about 'getting back to God'. Our ideas about what that is are necessarily childish, but at least we have the idea. So, our Total Depravity is collectively showing in far greater detail: since, the essence of Total Depravity is insecurity about one's self-worth, the genetic, dissociative, Lady-MacBeth need to get rid of our damned spot of original sin. This brings some hope that a few who are really interested in the Real God will wake up and truly start growing in the Christian life. Whatever their chronological age.

Just as with any other kind of advancement, if one starts on the road to town but others are lollygagging back, these others will try to dissuade the one going on the road: the one leaving is... um, different. So it will be very hard to keep moving, with all that flak. Harder, actually, than if (as is usual) the one leaving was the only one going to college, making money, looking 'nice', etc. Instinctively the lollygaggers deem the real spiritual life 'too hard' for them: For, they do not like the real spiritual life, and 'too hard' gives them permission to opt out of it. They don't even know that's their specious reasoning; but instinctively they react. So, in any period of history, the one choosing to learn Him will encounter opposition. Much more now, in this, a crisis period of world history. Macro Collateral Drama Topics in the 2nd page of Fixes will have a lot more to say on the global side of this topic.

But for now, consider this: In the Eternal state (see last chapter in Revelation), people still pay taxes (called "tribute", an ancient term for taxes); there are still nations. Presumably, there's still a military, even though we don't fight wars, because the principle of always being prepared to fight will still be needed — and, makes a fabulous memorial to Our Lord, to those slain in the world's battles. Ahhhh, but we do perpetually fight something else, even in the eternal state: slavery. But it will be fun, then. Enjoyable, an auld lang syne about the old things having passed away. Finally, effort will be a thrill!

Huh? Look: we know God doesn't coerce. We know God doesn't gerrymander Truth. So, then: don't you wonder how it is you can have Free Will Forever, yet never sin again? How is that possible? Not by Divine binging, so that we all just smile forever, having no challenges, having nothing to look forward to, stagnant. Rather, God preserves freedom from sin by doing a bigger version of what He gave us back when He gave us marriage, family, nations: by an eternal societal structure which maximizes Freedom. It's not just that finity needs to have division in order to maintain its integrity. Oh no.

There's a far bigger reason: freedom of choice. See, you can have free will, but if all the menu you can choose is spam spam spam or spam, you have nothing to 'spend' your free will on; it's like shopping at the Soviet GUM department store a generation ago. See, if we were all "equal" (which the world viciously pretends a virtue), then there'd be no one different to watch and learn from. You couldn't learn from watching 'rich' what that term meant. You couldn't learn from watching someone do a different job from yours, because in the name of equality, you wouldn't be able to say there was Relative Merit in so doing! Get the point? We are unequal, and still ruled, and still even pay taxes (which is a glory then to do, so "glory" is the word used in last Chapter of Revelation for (!) even taxes 🤣)... in order to have Freedom via authority, differentiation, roles and rules. Of course, since in God's Plan Best is united to Worst, thus Infinity keeps all whole — what's good about anything and anyone, is exactly the same as what's bad about anything, anyone.

So, even if there are boundaries on the choices we can make once in the Eternal State, the very nature of the spectrum of choices prevents the boundaries from impinging on free will. So, the person who elects only the form of marriage to Him, but not the content (believes in Christ, but never learns enough of His Thinking to grow up spiritually), that person's boundaries are more limited than the one who grew up to Pleroma. Still, within those boundaries, both the high and the low are fully free. Fully, because they can all see each other at all levels, so the boundaries don't prevent learning, but rather... enhance it. The mass, who really only wants symbols and feelings, learns that way. The Pleroma, who really only want pure content and use the accoutrements like ketchup, learn better by pure content: Doctrine Doctrine Doctrine. That's too concentrated a method for the mass, who never elected it down here, either. So, everyone still gets more: Pleroma vicariously enjoy mass pleasures, and mass vicariously enjoy Pleroma pleasures, but each via its own method — which was voluntarily crafted during the lifetime down here. You get what you want from God's Plan, both now and forever. Watch out what you choose!

See the Grace? You're not free to learn if there are no differences to learn from; you're not free to get and have more or less if there are no differences in having. You're not free to be unique if not uniquely different! Get it now? See why it's so monstrously satanic, this "equal" baloney! If you throw money and works projects at the poor, then you rob them of the difference, which is the source of the thrill of learning how to get something they want but do not have! Could mankind be more cruel to the poor, than to demean them by giving them something they themselves didn't work for? Isn't that why prostitution is so degrading? Isn't that why people reject the Gospel, on the grounds that well, some people don't deserve it (but I do, of course)?

Look: people like their petty conceits, and they like them so much, even God, even Truth, takes a back seat. Beneath this is another fact: people can't discern truth, anyway. Read the Lizzie Borden Sourcebook, sometime. It's a collection of news articles which were printed in various newspapers for what was the trial-of-the-19th-century, the brutal axe/hatchet murder of Lizzie Borden's parents — while she was at home, during the day, in a house which was on a busy street. Because her parents were rich, because she was a spinster, because she was a Christian (especially that!), because they couldn't easily find any explanation for the murder — she was scurrilously blamed, and though exonerated so thoroughly she was acquitted by all jurors, she was forever after a pariah. And on what was the criteria of her innocence or guilt decided by the public? Based on what she wore. On how she behaved in court. On her wealth. Not, you'll notice, on any real data. People who were witnesses or otherwise associated with the case were reported as having a name, maybe an occupation a birth year or age, and a birth town — and that was supposed to tell you about the person?!!! What she wore to court was commented on in excruciating detail — and, pray, what did that information reveal? It revealed our petty conceits. It revealed how we can't and don't want to learn how to discern truth. We just want to know what she eats and wears, and if we like what she eats and wears, we declare her innocent; if we don't, she's guilty, baby.

That's why any idea, any pair of Nike shoes, any demagogue can lead people like lemmings anywhere he plays his piping tune. Taylor Caldwell's semi-fictional novel about the rise of Genghis Khan, The Earth is the Lord's, explains this fact with Asian-style florid prose. Khan, a child of destiny, became the bitter crafter of a mass of soulless men who wanted tyranny for their glory, rather than thinking: seduce them to think themselves greater by giving up freedom, rather than being truly greater by taking responsibility for that freedom. (Same theme as Dostoyevsky had the Inquisitor explain.) How man loves a good lie!

So why is it that people crave their petty conceits? Why is it so important to have a certain job, skin color, body shape, friend, spouse? Why preen over that car, that invitation, that opinion? In a word, such conceits make people feel they matter. Conceits are chosen to mediate perceived differences, rationalize the conclusion that just because I don't have what 'he' has, I am not a worse person. The crafty legacy of Karl Marx was to enslave two of the smartest nations on earth (Russia, China) via their chief conceit: hypersensitivity to interpersonal differentiation (jealousy). By contrast, God's GUM is total differentiation: that's why we can stick together, yet not sin. All unequal, even within the Godhead, even though Father Son Spirit are Each Equally God. All unique. So there is Only One Father. There is only one you.

America needs to learn quickly the legacy left it by the fall of Europe as a result of 1000 years of inter-European strife which finally bled Europe and Russia white, which culminated in the post-WWII collapse: that America is, albeit tenuously, the biggest and baddest guy on the block, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with inequality; we don't need to apologize, intra-nationally, for our rich to our poor; we don't need to apologize for the past, the present; we don't need to bully, either. Even God in the eternal state Decrees Inequality, get it? There's nothing wrong with being 'different', and there's nothing wrong with letting the world qvetch. If we don't learn this lesson — and we're not, so far — we will end up becoming the "USSA", a satire of the real historical outcome of Marx. Well, better said, 'the real objective of Satan's use of Marx. And of Thomas More. And of Genghis Khan. And of Athens. And of race, sex, money. And of every mafia, raiding band, petty fiefdom. And, of Isha. That is to say, religion, for religion seeks equality with God. Making self like the Most High. Power, baby. In holy garb, of course.

Summing up: we've looked at the aerial or "macro" view of the spiritual life in some particulars, tracing them first from the Highest Truth, God is. We've seen how it came about that Our Lord got this Most Difficult Spiritual life, and what its parameters mean to us, on a macro level; "macro", in the sense of a body of people, an "economy", even: the Church.


Micro Spiritual Growth Topics

So it's even simplistic to say God wants compatible beings. It's true, and common sense would agree that rapport depends on commonality (well, if we could ever have common sense with respect to God). So, it's not too difficult to understand that we have to become Like Him in order to even execute the First Commandment. Old Testament folks had a limited degree to which they could 'love' Him, especially since He hadn't yet come in the flesh (John 7:39 comes to mind). But Church! Hoo-boy, we get the Thinking of Christ (corrected translation of the action noun "nous" in 1 Corinthians 2:16). So, then: let's dispense with the language of accommodation, and talk about what this promotion is really about.

God's Decision Matrix: a thing has to be Gorgeous, not merely justifiable, in order to warrant His approval for it to be true. So, if a thing is desirable, but not justifiable, it can't be approved. If it is justifiable, but not desirable, it can't be approved. If it is costly, but not Gorgeous, it can't be approved, even if it is justifiable. For, the first truth is, God is, and Being (His given-to-Moses Name, the Sacred Tetragrammaton, translated, very funny and very profound) first means, enjoyment. For, what is right but not enjoyable, is not Righteous. It must also be Gorgeous or Love can't justify loving it. (Of course, that means all works are anathema to God, which of course they are, to Infinity, which never has to 'work' at anything. Good morning!)

Think about all this for a moment. Pretend you're God. What do you make? Well, whatever you make will be so far lower than you, it will be unacceptable to both you and the one made, for anything short of Infinite is... disgusting. Fragmentation is the heart of what makes for finity, because finity depends on compartmentalized modules in a precise balance to stay whole. And 'whole' means, integrated with Infinity. That's why the Hypostatic Union.

So, it's not Gorgeous to create unless that integration can be had... forever. It is very costly, though: so it also has to be Gorgeous to pay for the cost — to the point of pure profit. Gifts among Them. Even the Cross, which after all, is perpetually in the face of Omniscience. On Purpose. Gladly. Producing yet endless crosses as a consequence of that First One. So, it must be Gorgeous indeed. So, justification is the 'floor', as Paul explains in Romans 5:1ff and 1 Corinthians 3. But Gorgeousness is the clincher. Justification alone, no; Gorgeous and justified (approved by +R), yes. Both, but most of all, Gorgeous.

Frankly, common sense should have produced the above conclusions, even absent the Bible, when one tries to think about God. For what use can we be to Him, of ourselves? Like David said, so would any human common sense say: "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?" (Fancy old English for: why do You think about us, care about us?) Of course, we don't care much about how God is, we just want Him to do for us. Our appalling lack of interest in Him is our own fault. Not the fault of all the fake religious people who we blindly accept because so many others do also: we are fitting in to the mass, not really caring about God! Not the fault of the teachers who don't teach us these things: if we were interested, God would send us better teachers. Heck, even Scripture has been lost through most of its history — why didn't anyone seek it? So, then: let's stop seeking someone to blame, and just admit our weakness. We Need Him. And, He has Mercy on us: 'new every morning, like Jeremiah, one of those who sought and thus found the lost Scripture, exulted. (Lamentations 3:23. Note that "Mercy", chesedth, is really "lovingkindness", and is a play on the meaning of the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant. This wordplay matters because it was Jeremiah who explained that losing the Ark was not something to be missed, since the Word, the Mercy Seat Himself, was to be written on their hearts and minds in the Millennium: Jeremiah 31:31-34. The Psalm 119 people, who underwent the death march to Babylon, were Jereimiah's 'disciples' (students), and they sure depended on that promise! See that Psalm. Also, Greek LXX uses "ἱλαστήριον" for this Seat. New Testament uses that term a lot — Paul in particular references the wordplay. Most of the quotes of Old Testament in the New Testament are from the LXX, not the Hebrew.)

Ergo: It's not enjoyable for anyone to be lower than self: because, especially if "self" is God, self experiences the pain/suffering/incompetence/bewilderment of the one lower more than the one who himself is lower. It's totally heartbreaking to know! Who can live with another's suffering?! Who can stand watching family — those poor, starving Christians on social media who are so addicted to goofball substitutes and beating each other up, who are so very ignorant of the spiritual life; and as a consequence, suffer so palpably, even their keystrokes tear? The pain of watching them hurt so, is beyond bearing! Who can stand watching those poor, starving children in Africa (who are used, by the way, and rarely get any of our money)! Who can stand seeing someone with muscular dystrophy or other disability? Who can stand it when the nasty clerk at the counter screws up your order, or the badly-written Microsoft Windows program crashes yet again? Instead of getting angry, ask: what would life be like for you if you were that incompetent?! It's painful enough to suffer the incompetencies of the 'lower', but harder still to watch them not know, and stab themselves with their endlessly fractal-like obsessions! Vessels of Destruction (Romans 9:23), whose god is their emotion (Philippians 3:18-19), who are drunk with the doctrines of demons (2 Timothy 2:26's ananepho etymology, plus 2 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:1 plus Revelation 17)!

You can also prove how horribly painful it is to see those 'lower', if you've ever done any de facto parenting, teaching, management, mentoring, etc. You just ache to give them the answer, but know they must learn on their own. Welfare programs strip away the ability to learn, so demean the poor. Parents and mentors know better. But oh, the pain of wading through with them, all the objections, bucking, questions, doubts — and of course, the parent/mentor is the one always at fault, just as Moses was in the eyes of the Exodus generation! But that's not painful: what's painful is that you know the person will really get hurt by not learning the easy way, so you yourself beat yourself up to help them get the easy way. But of course, you will be rejected, for your help is considered demeaning, rather than recognized for the love it is. That's why one 'higher' would want to hang himself, if that would spare the 'lower'. (See Paul's reasoning on this topic in Romans 9:1-23; and of course, in his famous sin of going to Jerusalem: Acts 19-26, Romans 15:24ff, and many other passages.)

You can also prove it by looking at some big deal in your own life, and recognizing that, While You Were In It, you didn't sense very much the impact; but oh boy, before or after, that's when the shock hits! That's why shock treatment in accidents and war is so critical, and why psychological trauma shouldn't be regarded as sissy or wimpy (though 'tough love' is still the best medicine — see Matthew 9 in Greek). Many's the story in WWII magazine or like publication of a true hero (i.e., Medal of Honor recipients) who, after doing some great feat becomes... restless, upon release from the service. John Steinbeck described mindset in shock (Grandfather) when he penned the short story, "The Leader of the People". (The aftermath (or anticipation) is worse because it's only then that enough thought is Free To Evaluate. Trick is to come in for a soft landing by accepting that the trauma/abuse is just another part of life, and so is the duller 'main' portion of life. That's a hard transition to make. The Christian will experience this regularly in spiritual adulthood, and it's only Doctrine which can pull him out of a spin.)

Basically, suffering in combat/pressure spikes life's intensity; then, you crash back into routine when it ends; but you are no longer the same, so the routine you used to find familiar, becomes uncomfortable. Because, the spike changed you. Also because, when under spiking pressure, one is totally occupied with each moment itself. Soul isn't flying-aerial over meaning, and thus mediating the experience. For example, in combat, you can't really spend time evaluating the existential meaning of things; you gotta dodge those bullets! So, if you know in advance you are going to land on Omaha Beach (as in the movie, "Saving Private Ryan"); or, if you just finished scrambling to safety on Omaha Beach, Shock! Now you are at rest, and the impact smacks you so hard, you can't breathe! So: now it should be easy to see why someone superior, who is 'aerial' with respect to one lower, suffers more, to have to watch that lower one's suffering.

So only an insane or ignorant person would enjoy being 'superior' to another. Either one must fantasize his own sense of superiority, and be dead to another's living, to get any kind of enjoyment. Sadly, lots of people are so obsessed, they themselves are fantasizing and dead: ergo the need for works verses and James 2-5, in Scripture! Love wouldn't need such admonitions. Instead, as 1 Corinthians 13 loves to say, there is a better way: raise the inferior one, and end his inferiority! That's the motive behind all the actions of Love Paul lists in that passage: Love promotes. That's why it doesn't seek for itself, why it endures all things, etc. Moreover, to Justice, it's intrinsically satisfying to do this, because that other is a live being, and since "I" am also alive, that person should have as much as "I" do. This is how God Himself thinks.

Marxists would have a field day with this reasoning. Marx, of course, was a tortured soul: it shows through every word he writes. For example, he was mistaken about how to get the communal Thomas-More-type 'utopia' he sought. Marx thought that by making tyranny you could make freedom, and he uses the (ding dong Ludwig Feuerbach's) supposed 'logic' of thesis and antithesis to construct his ironic 'theory'. But tyranny only begets more tyranny, as the history of communism proves (which history actually goes back at least to 5th Century BC Athens: Marx is nothing new). Like Descartes, Marx did grasp some essentials, one of which was that irony is essential (hence thesis and antithesis). Like Descartes, Marx began his analysis in the wrong place: at the bottom, where the lesser truths are. Bad Move. So, he too ended up running in circles, and ruining lots of lives with his kant (pun intended). He should have started his analysis at the top, where Truth is, because the uppermost truth is, God is. Truth has its boundaries: for example, Freedom Must Continue. Else, Truth isn't Truth anymore. So tyranny is not and will never be the method to obtain freedom.

However, here's the irony Marx (et alia) were looking for (they weren't stupid, just lost), but misidentified: the role for 'tyranny' must be by the self over the self. Because that's how one fights for his Freedom. Individually. Freedom begets more Freedom, and in a state of freedom all beings necessarily end up unequal. Which, ironically, is a good thing, because it's in a state of freedom. So, Freedom 'makes' inequality; Inequality makes equality via synergistic function of inequality. However, only Infinity makes that structure work, for the same reason that only Infinity can make finity stable and happy: by uniting Best to Worst. Thus a society needs to have a free economy and minimalist government, so that Freedom can be free to have its unencumbered results. So also, in God's Economy (so to speak): thus the flow of Infinite Quality Doctrine makes us all eager (σπουδάζω, Greek in Hebrews 4:11, not "labor", "strive" or "be diligent") to give to each other. Because, it is not pleasant for one's brother to have less (see Hebrews 2).

Therefore, God is out to promote you. He promoted even Pharoah, by giving him a role to play in Scripture. So how much more, the believer? Even believers who were under severe demon influence. Like Judas, an apostle, which means he was personally appointed by Christ, the Sole Authority to grant such an office. (So much for the idiotic claim Judas wasn't a believer, or that apostleship continues after the 13: see Matthew 10 and 1 Corinthians 15. By the way, 13 is the 11 + James = 12 for Israel, 1 for Gentiles (Paul). Ibid. That's why God disciplined Paul for going to Jerusalem, violating his own teaching about both law and invading "another man's territory" in Galatians and Romans.) Judas was a believer so afflicted with monetary lust he betrayed the Lord, and then regretted it with such guilt he hanged himself: see Matthew 27. Judas was used by God: see the John 17 prayer's "son of perdition" verse. Like Ananias and Sapphira. They were promoted, in that their deaths were used to bless the entire church (see Acts 5:11 and following — Peter's congregation really turned around from their prior babyish gawking at works). So also, "the wrath of man shall praise Him" — so, even the wrath of man gets promoted, into doing something connected to Him. No matter what bad act or bad boy you see in Scripture, Note how God flips the bad into a bigger blessing — in that same person's name, as catalyst! — than would have obtained, had the bad not occurred! What a blessing that is! What a promotion that is! Even Abram's phallus was made a catalyst for salvation...

So, beneath the commandment and other teaching-children rhetoric, is this: whatever you do or think promotes God by Divine Design; therefore, you likewise are to be promoted. Did you sin? Well, use 1 John 1:9, and move on, secure in the knowledge that your sin will be used to glorify Him and help you; secure that, lest you be arrogant(!) — your sins can't compete with Christ's Payment, so to say you can lose your salvation or you must do penance is the most arrogant claim there is! "Crucifying the Son afresh", way worse than Judas! (See Hebrews 5:11 with the quote in Hebrews 6:6;) Conversely: did you have a success using Bible Doctrine while filled with the Spirit? Well, move on to even more gain (καρπός, tamely translated "fruit" in English, but the term is used to mean profit). In short, like Paul wrote, "Living, Christ! Dying, Profit!" No matter what. But even better, if you know Who: Him.

God wants to promote you, and that means raising you to make you higher: so He lifted the serpent in the wilderness; so He lifted the Christ, the Stone too heavy to lift; so He lifts the Church by giving them the same spiritual life as their Ἀρχηγός invented (Hebrews 12:2). So He lifts all those in covenants before or after Church by means of Christ, by means of the Church (theme of Ephesians 1-3, Hebrews 10:1 through Hebrews 11:40). In short, συνεργεῖ (Romans 8:28's "works together"), synergy. Flow from high to low and back again, so that all get more than they would have gotten if alone. Of course, you have to know this is the purpose, and know how it works, to enjoy it. So, God is out to make you like His Most High Son. So, He turns upside down the problem of anticipatory and aftermath shock, making it Happiness instead. Even more: so that, like Christ, you can also come to have True Happiness during the trauma (Hebrews 12:2, again: "kara" isn't "joy" but "unalloyed happiness"). That's promotion! (See Philippians 2:5-10.) For, "he is not ashamed to call us brothers" (see Hebrews 2). Found sheep, found coin, found happiness, found Savior!

I realize it sounds unbelievable that God would and could do this. If you truly understand the horror of being superior and watching an inferior suffer you will realize better how He actually thinks. Satan would have us think of Him being spiteful, condemnatory. But Scripture says "No condemnation" in Romans 8:1. Flip through the pages of the Bible, see if you can't tell when God is using childlike language of accommodation, and when he stops speaking in baby talk. He does both. Think also how finity is by nature inclined to be churlish, due to it necessarily being a derivative power. Think also how Christ had to overcome the unbridgeable via Infinite Truth infusion. Then ask yourself, isn't this what Infinite Righteousness would have to demand? Then ask yourself, isn't this truly Promotion, too? Why else do you think the Holy Spirit caused James to write the humorous James 4:10 "Humble (lower!) yourselves before the Lord, that He May Promote (literal, lift up) You At The Proper Time"! (Corrected translation, concatenated from the following verses: James 4:10 (first half) and 1 Peter 5:6 (last half), because both quote the same Old Testament blessing rule: James likes to quote just a clause in a verse, like he does with καλῶς ποιεῖτε "you do well", bad translation; shorthand for Leviticus 19:18), at the end of James 1. So I'm doing that with a verse of his, and patching Peter's last half to James' first. See also Luke 14:11, Luke 18:14; Job 22:29. A lot of verses in Scripture are concatenations of and even allusions to, other verses. Holy Spirit does this to show their application.) Heh. Karl Marx, eat your heart out!

So if ever you hear in self or others any kind of accusing, putting-down, belittling, condemnation, complaining, dismissiveness, etc.: such negativity comes from within those insane and ignorant Energizer Bunnies. Or, from Satan & Co. influencing them. But it's never coming from God. The most you can say is that God employs negative language to help us understand what is good, and what is not. Since we can't discern a thing (which is why any tripe Satan peddles we devour), God has to tell us what is good and bad by means of do's and don'ts, baby-praise and baby-warnings. Johnny, if you don't bathe, you'll get spanked. How sad, to never grow beyond that baby talk, to never see what God really says in adult language: like Romans 8, Romans 12:2-3, Ephesians and Hebrews, passages and books which Shout God's Will To Promote You, as promised by Isaiah 54:1!

As mentioned prior: Adam's sin genetically rendered us spiritually dead, thus spiritually blind: therefore, blaming. All the neurons of the brain are shot through with Adam's rejecting me-be-god reflex, embedded in their very DNA. So, it's like a house wired by a mad electrician: every time you flip a switch, something malfunctions. That's why one needs to believe in Christ to even begin to understand God. Prior to that, the most one can do is recognize God exists, and hear the Gospel: Holy Spirit enables that process to work. It's very traumatic to the brain, since volition has to keep on bypassing the mad electronic impulses to even say yes to the idea of Absolute God; to even say yes to the Gospel. That's why it has to be repeated so often: gotta redo the connections!

Upon salvation, then, what does God do? Well, there are at least 40 things, assets, really, that you get immediately. However, you're getting these things without changing your soul, without changing the way your neurons hook up to each other. To fix that problem, you first must get new information: Bible Doctrine, taught by whomever is your right pastor-teacher at the moment. Absent this influx of truth, you will remain madly-wired, so to speak, and also very stubborn and negative toward learning Bible Doctrine. If Christians don't graduate from this crossroads they'll have a tendency to believe in false doctrines until their last breath, such as: works salvation (then justification through lying by saying "the faith that saves isn't alone"), denying hell's existence, Unitarianism, Preterism, Prolife, etc.

Say you get into Doctrine and stay there. Holy Spirit will either move you to a better pastor than the one you have, as you grow (kinda like changing to a better school), or He got you to the right one for you at the beginning, and you stay there. What happens, is that you keep on getting the information. It will be hard to see any kind of sense, at first, just as a child is taught about 1 + 1 = 2 and Istanbul is the capital of Türkiye, but he doesn't have a clue why he needs this information: he just trusts it, because he trusts the teacher. This first stage of getting Doctrine builds a new database and new connections in your soul and brain: without this stage, the others can't occur. That's why getting your spiritual food is so important. Just as the Perfect Christ could not have grown up enough spiritually to be fully integrated despite His Finity absent 'eating' (believing) Bible Doctrine, so also a believer cannot be rehabilitated and grow up without daily food deposits: the Thinking of Christ.

The more the Doctrine builds up in you, the more it challenges (by merely existing) all the bad-wiring ideas your brain and soul kick out. So, you'll actually feel worse at times than you ever did, because now your bad wiring has 'competition'. As volition successively votes for the Doctrinal side, the bad wiring gets replaced and the new doctrinal 'wiring' is woven in. This is a very delicate process, for the Holy Spirit will not coerce volition, and the soul, trashed as it is by the mad-wiring output it accepted, is extremely fragile. So it takes time. Hebrews 4:12 plus two verses in Timothy liken the process to surgery and war. Here's how my pastor used to begin Bible class (corrections in the translation of these three verses are his; I type from memory). "For the word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any μάχαιρα (nickname, "knife"), piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart." "All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, for instruction in Righteousness: that the man of God may be mature, thoroughly equipped for all good-of-intrinsic-value-achievement." Some of the words are KJV.

This war will either exhaust you, and you'll reject God's Script in favor of some chippie substitute, or you'll keep on going. If you keep on going, you'll come to recognize that all those commandments and other language of accommodation for children are no longer useful that way. Instead, you'll come to redefine everything in your life.

The Cross means God turned everything finite on its head. Because, as we saw earlier, there is an inherent antagonistic contradiction between finity and Infinity, as Paul so deftly explains (using the finity of sin) in Romans 6-8: for, finity depends on division, Infinity 'depends' on Unity. So, to do the impossible was alone enough. Thus, Infinite God can have even a ὑπόστασις (!) with finite man. Incarnate first, then..through Him, with all life. Particularly, with free-will creation (angels, humans). By going to the lowest, then, He accomplishes the highest. So, turned upside-down.

Being finite, we humans of course love our finity. In fact, that's all we love. Of course, as we age, we become truly annoyed with finity — but in our minds the problem is simply that something else is to blame, because it doesn't work! Thus preoccupied with our small worlds, we humans don't think about God, and it's not in our natural sin nature to do so. When we do have some passing thought, it's always tainted by human values: the tit-for-tat, the be-nice, the be-good. These are all Dividing Barriers. So, we can't "see" God even though His Nature permeates every living and dead thing we see: for example, in every natural law, in math, in economics, etc. So, we humans don't think about what it means to God, this existence of ours. The closest we naturally come in our thinking is, Oh, I gotta obey. So, we end up treating "God" as if He were spelled backwards: we talk to Him in funny voices, and we are always asking Him to fetch this, do that.. we train Him. Which, of course, 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 tweaks! He's to train us! Not the other way around. So, when we recognize this, we feel bad. That's all the 'relationship' we know.

So try really hard and put yourself in God's Place. Looking down at all these guilt-laden offers of dung — what would you do? Wouldn't you want to reverse that situation? Is this what having creation is good for? Just a bunch of ninnies with their lame prayers, their lame taboos, their lame rituals, their lame caricature ideas of a 'god' who never exists? Their Thinking is Divided, fractured still further by the sin nature. Their thinking is small, because even one 'dot' below Infinity is tiny. Worst of all, they are unhappy! They don't even see why they are unhappy unless deprived of some perceived goodie! They don't even know what Love is, instead defining it in terms of feel-good! Oh, wretched beings that they are, Who will save them from their body of death?!

No finite creation will find any kind of happiness in even being alive together with God, if the inherent antagonism isn't resolved. So, then: why create at all? Well, although from our perspective God's doing miracles is a wow thing — from His Perspective it's no challenge. Not a ho-hum, for He knows all the bad so truly appreciates the ease with which He can just speak the entire universe into existence! But what else? What about God getting a miracle? Not having Himself to do it, but getting one! Even better still, since it truly is (for Him) far more enjoyable to give than to receive, what about giving His All, so that others can have that same pleasure? Ahhh, but that means creating finity, and endowing finity with the ability to give back. Which means, turning everything upside down from what would otherwise be its natural property. Without gerrymandering even one iota of what would otherwise be its natural property. "Verbal plenary inspiration", writ large. Ahhh.

Perhaps you've figured it out by now: we need the Cross more than God does. For, technically, He is Inviolable; so Cross or no Cross, He's not 'touched' by our badness. But we are shattered, rendered insane by our badness. For, as said earlier, even finity is innate hell: if we love God, we'd hate heaven, for in seeing how Gorgeous He is, we couldn't live with the pain of Him not being truly paid! Doesn't matter that He doesn't need to be paid because He's Inviolable. See, even though God is Inviolable, if He doesn't insure Justice, no one else can. It's Unjust for Him to be Unpaid for all sin. If God doesn't execute Justice toward Himself, first (for the first truth is, God is) — then He's impotent: either He fully insures justice, or He's a liar. We can't live with either of those problems. Fortunately, God Himself would never allow even the tiniest sin to be unpaid by Christ. Our sins were never imputed to us in the first place, so we can't pay for them and neither can anyone else but Christ: that's what Passover always means, for crying out loud! Because, only God can insure justice. (Ergo the concept of Allah and other God-doesn't-need-payment flavors, are all completely insane. It's not a question of need, but of Justice. So, Satan peddles the reverse: so of course folks believing in Allah or Vishnu, etc are duped. Pray that they will see they're being used like cannon fodder; and don't get sucked into Christian activism against them, yourself. Only God can solve soul problems; activism is completely Satanic, so it only worsens soul problems. Case in point: activists for global warming or Palestine practically end up frothing at the mouth during their demonstrations, you can tell they're not well and subjected to some demon influence to help exaggerate their disposition. Moreover, only the Biblical God makes sense, a fact which can be determined by any brain anywhere in the world, even without a Bible (folks just need someone to tell them Who He is). So He needs no defending. Carefully analyze what must be Divine Characteristics: test this claim yourself.)

While we can't truly pay God back, the merchandise becomes our thinking — or rather His thinking in ours (2 Corinthians 2:15 + Ephesians 5:2 + Revelation 4:10-11). Those who (by volition) have their thinking become like His creates value. I suspect this also plays into the doctrine regarding dualities as well: negative 'worthless' thinking that infinitely grows in hell counterbalanced by positive valuable thinking that infinitely grows in heaven. So while the Cross is always living to all three members of the Godhead and those whose sin in hell goes on for an infinity, the same is true for those who have 'sweet' pleasing thinking to God.

By contrast, to Him the concern is, to Unite us to Himself, and to Bless us without Himself judicially compromising His Own Essence. That's His goal. Bigger goal: Son-to-Father wants infinite excuses to show Love. So, a unity-of-goals: Son gets to do for Father the biggest thing, ever; and we get the total and utter reprieve of knowing our shortfall was utterly wiped out; the total and utter heaven of being free of finity's weakness; the total and utter unity with Him! For He, even He is the one who Nailed our transgressions to Himself. Play on Isaiah verses.

So all bads are rendered what they really are: lies. Sure they are real. But their effects got flipped, For, what would have been the natural property of bad, destructive, is instead made constructive, due to the Cross turning finity upside down. So Salvation is also "for free". What would have been the natural property, endless Sisyphean cost, is instead just a nanosecond-of-belief 'away'. No distance. Unity. No division. Harmony. So, the post-salvation life is also for free. What would have been (and is cast as) endless, mindless servitude of no enjoyment to anyone is instead, Glory. As in, Shekinah. As in, Indwelling. As in, steadily growing in Divine Attributes. Beginning with, the Instant Regeneration and imputation of both +EL and +R at salvation. So, turned on its head: we share in His Nature. When any of the writers of Scripture talk about this, they get so excited, they drop their verbs. Lost, but Found! Unity! Like Paul wrote in Romans and Corinthians: "who hopes for what he sees" and "But we have the Thinking of Christ"! Romans 8:24, RSV and 1 Corinthians 2:16, my pastor's corrected translation of nous. What would have been the natural property, endless fantasy that the unity-with-God pea is under some walnut shell somewhere, instead is instantly and permanently true! For, "Hope never disappoints"! (Romans 5:1-5.)

So, as the believer grows steadily in 1 John's Script, he changes. He steadily comes to regard things once viewed as good, important ... as small, unimportant. Christ comes to matter more. And as Christ comes to matter more, the Cross comes to matter more. As the Cross comes to matter more, the more the believer comes to want to share in its function. Which means, turning everything upside-down. Pain becomes pleasure, not because it's a masochist thing, but because the so-called pain was never correctly defined in the first place: the feeling thingy was all lies, hooray! Because, it was turned upside down, in the Decree. Then, Finished (τετέλεσται!) on the Cross. So now, the Finished Mind of Christ can be in us. So now, we come to see the Cross in the same way as He does. So now, we come to want to 'pay' as well. Because, paying is Getting! Upside down! Because, the believer's finity was turned upside down. By Truth, Bible Doctrine, the Thinking of Christ. Meaning, Infinity circulates inside finity: in harmony with those Infinite Attributes of +R and +EL we received at regeneration. So, the believer is bigger. So, the 'pain' is less: eventually, even pain is turned upside-down, into a catalyst for enjoyment; especially sometime after Spiritual Maturity.

So of course the real spiritual life is extremely humorous. Instead of working, one gets paid for nothing! Paid the most Beautiful Diamonds, Bible Doctrine! And still the believer doesn't work for what seems like a lifetime; he just studies under his pastor and plays with his doctrine all day, like Adam and the woman played in Eden... until near the end, when the treasure in one's "earthen vessel" is overflowing. Oh boy: now what? Got to spend it somewhere! Where, though? Well, by then, only a "cross" is enough! Because by then, the believer's soul is so big, everything else is too small a purchase! Because by then, the more the believer tries to spend his Beautiful Diamonds, the more Beautiful Diamonds are generated: endless Diamontic Fractals! For, only a big enough accumulated deposit can create such a miracle: finity actually Thinking And Doing Like Infinity, heh. So you can live on the doctrinally-defined intrinsics, with nary a care about how far beyond your humanity they are! Funny, huh? Cry all the way to the bank, baby! All that bad stuff you experience, is Profit, because the pain got turned upside down! It's sure nice to experience something bad, and know that it's merely an actor: a lie! It's nicer still to know that nothing got gerrymandered, so you can know what would have been true, absent the Cross!

So then: the Cross means God gets a miracle. By giving us One: His Son! His Son's Thinking! Forever fractalization in finite souls! Wow! 😍

If you don't know much doctrine yet, all of the above probably sounds magical or fuzzy. It's not. The True Spiritual Life is entirely supernatural, yet entirely concrete: you take the same 'middle', whatever your life or circumstances are, but look at them from God's viewpoint, rather than your own. To look at anything from God's orientation rather than one's own is to be looking at Infinity's view: that makes the difference between heaven and hell. Remember the example of Infinity's viewpoint of that toilet episode in the first page of Fixes? It represents the gist of what 'upside down' looks like, in practice. What would have been a flattening experience, a frightening experience, a worrisome experience.. flips. Permanently. All because you Learned The Truth about what God made that experience mean. Only Doctrine can interpret it for you accurately, because only Bible Doctrine is truth. Of course, truth is first a language — so you have to learn lots of doctrine before you will be able to see clearly. The more you practice what you learned in Bible class that day, the sooner you will become fluent in Thinking Doctrine: just as with a language. The payoff is phenomenal.

Life is both good and bad, by our standards, but as one grows older physically, one realizes all too well how problems predominate; it doesn't really matter what your status is; who is superior, who is healthy or wealthy or any other accoutrement: instead, it matters who is happy. Some people have to become very rich before they realize it bought them nothing. Some have to become sick, poor, whatever; what they all come to realize is that most of what's touted as 'happiness' in this world is just smoke and mirrors. This, they invariably find out too late in life. So, most people end their lives rather bitter.

God has a different view. Problems come in many categories. There are people problems, logistical problems, body problems, time problems, defective things, you name it. Using Doctrine to discern what meaning God has given to the problem you face (and there is no problem which lacks a God meaning — remember the Four Decisions underpin everything) — learning or remembering the God-given meaning to that problem... kills it. While it even lives! So you don't need some cheap miracle or other removal of the problem, to kill the problem's effect on you! That's the power of Knowing the Truth. Like the Lord said in John 8:32: "You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free." Truth, ἀλήθεια means nothing hidden, literally. It's a play on words with the Greek word for "set free". See also Paul's freedom in 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 So: your option, to learn this truth, and be set free. Even when the problems get worse!

Of course, just as it takes time to get the skill to become a good computer programmer, a good lawyer, or a good ballerina/athlete, so also it takes time to become a Spiritual Athlete: practice 1 John's Script every day, as often during the day as you think of it. For, if you want to keep on knowing God better, you'll get there. If you are merely curious, only want to feel good, or have some not-that-interested-in-God motive, you'll not make it.

So, before going on with this page.. ask yourself a serious, private question: why do I want to be in the spiritual life? (Use Luke 14:25-35 for 'help' here, if you need it.) For, if you read to amuse yourself or feel good... just stop reading right now. The reading gets a lot tougher after this bullet. But if you are reading because you yourself are genuinely interested in God Himself, even if you have other motives which shame you... keep reading, to see how God flips all shame! Account yourself truly interested in God if you keep on reading spiritual stuff, visiting Christian chat channels, etc. It's an interest heavily-barnacled with fakirs, but that interest is hidden down among them. For, only indifference is true disinterest in God (i.e., the nod-to-God-on-Sunday people); hostility and other nearly-obsessive manifestations betray a trapped genuine interest in Him. Trapped by fakirs, no doubt: but God can free you from them, if you want Him to do so! It Takes Time.

False and true motives for being in the spiritual life co-exist in the soul, just as the imputation of sins and His 'reply' to them co-exist on the Cross. That, because we were trashed souls when we got saved, and to rebuild us takes time. Just as, when a demolished house is being rebuilt, the builders gently replace the old material with the new, so the residents can keep living in that house the meanwhile, so also the Holy Spirit does for us. So, it takes Time. So, don't be discouraged if you find yourself having fakirs in your motives. These fakirs are particularly strong the younger you are spiritually. Moreover, some of them hang on to the bitter end; Doctrine defeats these last: for God won't clear away the debris cluttering your old house until the new one is nearly finished! For God uses that old trash as fuel in construction!

Thus, spiritual childhood feels rough, but it is easy, once you get on Doctrine. Same for later periods of growth, but in later adulthood, because the doctrinal mosaic finally becomes clearly visible — His Soul! — it gets very rough, internally. (Spiritual adulthood and maturity are defined by God as a degree-of-completion of the doctrinal structure in you, never experience. So, one is thereafter experientially 'on edge'. You're living with reference to infinity. So it gets very rough, though your outer life may seem easy. All one's spiritual quirks coalesce, even as Doctrine coalesces in the soul. Preparing for your own Armageddon. You won't necessarily be aware of this development, until sometime after you've been in your own Megiddo.

Second Interpreting Oneself Key → So, if you are truly interested in God, and that interest keeps on being there, you will keep on growing, but will think you are failing; if you are not truly interested in God, those fakirs will rise to the surface of your awareness, to give you the option of recognizing them; if you do not, you will think you are a spiritual giant, and in fact will tumble down the lying road to an Ananias-type death. In either case (interest or lying), because you once believed in Christ for salvation, you go to heaven. Forever.

Okay: you understand that you have to live on God's Script (aka "1 John's Script) in order to grow up. You read the steps. But... um, how do you do all this applying of Doctrine during a day? Well, frankly, it's your job to decide the how's. Think of Scripture as your general for this purpose. Actually, the Holy Spirit is likened to Mentor, in Greek: "παράκλητος" was what Mentor was to Telemachus, the heir apparent of Odysseus. The Holy Scriptures are interpreted by the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Written Word. He delegates that authority to certain men (never women) for Teaching. (All believers have adjunctive roles to teaching, but only men who are prepared and appointed by the Holy Spirit are valid pastor-teachers with the Authority to Teach.) He delegates to you the job of deciding for yourself how Scripture will rule your life: for he's training you to become a King (all are but one 'sex', post-death) under the King over Kings. Your decision, then, as to how much of that escrowed future you yourself want to have. No one else can make it for you. You can't blame someone else, either, nor will anyone else be held accountable for your decisions. We each are held accountable only for our own life & role before the Lord.

So, then: look for patterns in the Scripture itself, and in the doctrine you know. Scripture's original language texts display the characteristics of the spiritual life itself, by the way its language is crafted: associative, incisive, ironic, multilevel, pairing, thesaural, and above all intensive: depicted by succinctness, compressed information of each verse. (Seems like James Joyce in his Ulysses tried to imitate that style, even making references to Biblical Greek morphological ironies.) So, precise and all-encompassing; qualitative taking over, conquering quantitative. So: big is little, upside down, low-slow-constant (repetitive, moving horizontally across a broad front every day), matching, modularity (hence flexibility and innovativeness), wordplay, humor, enthusiasm, not-stuffy, unafraid, loving, tender, intimate, and also decisive, absolute, non-hedging. That's just a start on the characteristics, before even noting that they are all thesaural! For, synonyms and antonyms tell you critical data about how similar truths relate to each other. So, too, the actual Bible's content (Doctrines) has these same characteristics. The harmony between the way a verse is styled and the content of the verse helps immensely to know you aren't hallucinating a meaning in the passage. The associative and multilevel qualities help you account for fit with respect to other doctrines. So, think of the patterns as parameters, boundary lines for deciding what to do not do, think not think, and why. All these variables and their fitting-togethers, being Truth, help you see how to fit together your own life with its variables. It takes time to learn this skill, but oh! it becomes so enjoyable to see the Doctrine in everything, no matter how small!

For example, for myself I try to analyze and live by the following (but some of these might not be right for you):

Truth Key: Virtually all wrong/incorrect ideas, all unhappiness, all misinterpretations of doctrine, all conflict in life can be traced to focus on too-low truths. You can't analyze properly if your viewpoint aims too low! So, for offensive (efficient finding of truth) reasons, seek the uppermost truth, first. For defensive (avoiding stuckness) reasons, do the same.

Example: Say you and someone with whom you have an intimate relationship are constantly at loggerheads. Doesn't matter who's right (you will tend to think you are, and the other, that he/she is). does matter what is the uppermost truth: God is. He has a role for your life, and that role is far bigger than being cattywampus with whomever. If you are right, then that person is being used as an "Field Training Exercise" for you, because the bigger truth is, you're in the Angelic Conflict. Another bigger truth: what you are right about, will be known... forever, to that person. So you don't need to correct that person now. Person couldn't take it, anyway, without requisite eaten Doctrine. All will be known, post-death. Keeping that in mind will raise perspective beyond the Energizer Bunny's narrow vision!

Thinking like a soldier helps me immensely. So maybe it will help you also. Soldier's thought: I don't have the right to regard things from a personal standpoint. I'm Under Orders. That is the perspective of looking up to superior authority, which always is Superior Truth.

Doctrine is the way to interpret everything. Using it like a mirror helps you evaluate everything in life, including yourself, dispassionately. Things don't have to be right or wrong. They are what they are: you don't have to be offended at or afraid of the Truth, because: the Truth, is Him. So, you can also afford to be dispassionate because He loves you. This life is about Seeing Him; and for self, king-in-training: if that twinned focus is successively sought, it will eventually become stable. What the world yells about, its wrongs and rights, will progressively cease to matter. Only He will come to matter, and self views self becoming a king as a way to serve Him better (that's what it's good for)! Thus, dispassionate, kinda like an owner must regard his own business decisions. (For your information: Contrary to popular notions, the typical business owner is pretty unselfish: he has to be, or his business will die. It's a law of economics no one can evade: really, a corollary of the Lord's 4 Decisions. Americans are destroying some of the oldest and biggest companies by their accusatory envy, as evidenced in the case of Arthur Anderson, Enron, WorldCom, Firestone, Kmart. Whatever the executives did wrongly, we are responsible for killing those companies, and for the horrendous loss of jobs. For, had we been less envious, Congress wouldn't have been so greedy for hearings; a way would have been found to keep those companies going. For, these events have precedents in our less-regulatory past; For, His Laws Of Economics really do work. Every time. We should stop telling God what to do! He steps aside when we interfere!)

In sum, Growth in learning Him changes the person to become more like Him, because the Truth is Him, and one gets more and more of the Truth in self as one keeps on living by 1 John's Script. So one comes to want to 'pay' because the Beauty of the Truth is so awesome. It takes time to see this Beauty, but if you keep on in 1 John's Script, it's inevitable. The many battles fought along the way are used as training aids. There's no reason to be discouraged. There's no reason to be cocky, either. The problems are real or imagined, big or small, but all things are used to train you to grow up in Him. That's the uppermost truth, for all of us. So wrongs we commit, wrongs we suffer, rights we do, rights done to us: all these are lesser truths. For, we are alive because of and for Him (see 2 Corinthians 2 and 5, Colossians, Romans 6-8, Ephesians 1-4). Nothing else compares to this reason. That's the highest truth about the meaning of our lives, whether or not we see it. Seeing that highest truth is the greatest joy there is. It's the hardest way to go — no work can even be on the same playing field! — but it is also the most contentment. Seeing Him is Everything. Bar None.

This is the basis for all life, the First Laws, The Cardinal Operating Principles Of Life, which Justify Creation. Under the Beta tier, I'm now convinced that if the Christian understands these Four Decisions, and gets in the habit of using them to drive their Problem Solving Devices like breathing (next bullet), he'll be invincible. This is the secret of how Christ Could Do It, Stay Perfect — how His Humanity thought about the Doctrine He knew. It's not sin which is the problem, since Sin Was Nailed To The Cross. It's our believing, that's the problem. Can't believe what you don't know! So "invincible" doesn't mean we will ever stop sinning. But it does mean we can't be permanently knocked out of the Witness Box, and will reach Pleroma!

Of all the doctrines I've ever heard my pastor teach, what he calls the "Four Decisions" matter more to my life than even my breath. I can't stress it enough, and I never want to stop thinking of it: for, it depicts Him! Frankly, "supersedes" is the value that comes to mind here: imagine, we can learn Him? Thus 'doing', we can actually honor Him? What an unfathomable privilege! Superseding all others: so, the hassle of life is superseded by the glory of this privilege. Superseding is what the Four Decisions are all about — dead, impossible, hurts too much — flipped! Alive again, glory now! Word above Name! Word above all other needs, exchanged for all other needs, far more enjoyable than if any other needs met! Word supersedes!

So what are "The Four Decisions"? Put simply, they are an explanation of 1 Timothy 2:5, which is an eternity-past 'report' on how the Lord 'decided' to take on Humanity. There is no verb in that verse. So, it's shouted. Need to see it in the Greek. The word 'decided' is kinda anthropopathic, since there never was a time when the Omniscient, Perfect Son didn't choose to take on Humanity. So, then: why? 1) To atone (Old Testament meaning, paying for the offense per se, akin to a penalty for criminality; 2) to propitiate, (Mercy Seat, in the Old Testament, which in Greek of the LXX is "ἱλαστήριον") meaning, to pay for the opportunity cost; 3) to reconcile (Old Testament meaning, to make peace between warring or disputing parties; also has connotation of prosperity: shalom, εἰρήνη); 4) to redeem (ransom, pay for the Restoration/Freedom — a type of fix the damaged-goods reparation).

These terms are all familiar to most Christians and Jews. But what I'm extrapolating from the above teaching is, these Four Decisions underpin all life. Everything and everyone must be brought into redemption for finity to remain stable, in equilibrium, homeostasis. Else, Justice Is Not Served. So, if someone wrongs you, the Four Decisions operate. Whether or not you benefit from them depends in part on whether you are positive to God. Even if not, though, since God is the Owner Of All, these laws operate to benefit Him. This is not saying that everyone gets saved. It is saying that Christ paid the entire price to Father. What anyone else gets depends on whether he will be reconciled to God (a Biblical metaphor for believing in Christ for salvation — Old Testament version is patterned after Genesis 15:6). If "yes", then the person gets redeemed. Post-salvation, though, he can also refuse: that's where 1 John 1:9 comes in, to put you back online. Most Christians will at some point permanently go offline. They are still saved, as per 1 Corinthians 3, but just get the de minimis benefits. Which are fantastic, compared to this life. But very low — called "naked" in Bible — compared to what they could have had in eternity.

What accomplishes such a vast four-fold purpose? Bible Doctrine. That's its Glory. See, a drop of pee has no mind, so has no doctrine in it. So, if you bond doctrine to it, you give it a role to play it of itself could not have before. It suddenly has a 'live' purpose — due to the Doctrine. What was lost, outside, disconnected from God is now found, inside, connected — via Doctrine. Just as, we too were lost, outside, disconnected — but due to His Baptizing our sins with His thinking on the cross, we are now His People.

See how this works? A thing which has doctrine associated with it plays a doctrinal role due to that association, which role was impossible, absent that association. So when Father looks at that thing, He sees the Doctrine. Just as He does, when He looks at some sin Christ associated with in His Thinking, on the Cross. It's the same principle. That's how we can "redeem the time". The ugly, disconnected thing which suddenly has a Diamond meaning — becomes, in essence, a Diamond. Even while it remains doo-doo. Doing a diamond's real job! So the more often you 'exercise' this associating, the more fluent, instinctive, and humorous your doctrinal reflexes become; the happier you become. Note the Lord's reflexes in Matt4; in the crucifixion passages. So, the memory of those usages is the 'sweet savor', making it yet even happier to again make the same kinds of doctrinal associations. So, eventually, what once you loathed, you now love; what once you feared, now 'gives' you confidence; what once drove you nuts, now 'calms' you. All due to the switch in association from negative, to positive. For Good Reason: the truth, God's meaning for the thing's existence, role, etc. is Gorgeous Gorgeous Gorgeous. Look: if you had a couch which had a million dollars hidden in it — would it matter how ugly the couch was? Wouldn't you want to keep the couch after you extracted the cool million, just for the happiness of the memory of its rich meaning? Well, that's how it is with doctrine 'buried' inside anything you put it into, even more!


Regarding the Revelation 4 Four-Part Escutcheon (discussed in Parts 3 and 4d) Well, look:

Lion (Gold, Royal Profit) atones. The thing you associated the Doctrine with is now worth far more to you than if you did nothing; Far far more than if you associated sin with it (i.e., got upset). So, were it not for that thing, the doctrine would not be used, and there'd be no sweet savor to you. Far far more, are all these things true for Father. So the use of the Doctrine 'atones' for whatever 'bad' or 'not enough' value the thing had had. It's hupostatized, now, with Doctrine. Thus, atoned!


Ox (Blue, Loyalty-to-Standard) propitiates. It's innately satisfying to make good out of a bad thing. This, Doctrine always does. No barriers, because Doctrine is Infinite Truth. This, Doctrine does, because it changes the meaning of a thing via the bonding which occurs when you associate Truth with a thing. God's Meaning for that thing. Like, suffering becomes something to enjoy, not for the suffering itself, but for the Meaning of it. So you become satisfied with the 'cost' of the suffering, for it now is doing a Profitable thing, via the doctrine baptized onto it.


Man (Purple, Royal Mediator) reconciles. Doctrine made peace out of the thing associated with it, thus the thing now has a prosperity role in your life, due to the Doctrine. Thus you no longer need to 'war' with it (i.e., react to it) — at least, not so much as before. A bit of Peace/Prosperity has been added, due solely to the doctrinal association!


Eagle (Red, Battlefield Victory) redeems. The thing itself was a 'slave' to its too-low, too upsetting, not-good-enough nature. Doctrine 'freed' it to have a bigger and far better life, simply due to the association with the Doctrine itself.



Of course, Satan's got his own four-fouled Escutcheon, explained as a four-pronged attack strategy in Part 4, which strategy also probably mirrors the four decisions he made while still perfect, the iconoclastic matrix he forever believes, so to justify his fall — and now, ours. So we need to know how to spot them. Satan's deadly decisions are really so multilevel in their thesaural wordplay, I can't succinctly tabulate them. Note how they are only about self-emphasis — putting down, denigrating, despising, all else. So, using the four typologies depicted in Part 4:


Now for the Satanic Twist...

Morality. Attacks Lion Gold & Royal Profit, to make: cost, debt, evil.

Morality is the quintessential argument Satan made to the woman in the Garden, the very content of the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil. Remember, the first act after Adam's fall was an insanity, an act of human good: sewing loincloths out of fig leaves, as if covering the genitals could somehow atone for rejecting God! See Satan's satire and venom? God is Sadistic, so man endlessly pays, like Sisyphus.

God designed true morality as a blessing-gift of intrinsic value like gold, which you'd horde in secret, caressing it to your breast in appreciation for being allowed to have it; for, morality's true foundation is Grace: you live by the standard, thus freed! from having to retaliate, get tit-for-tat, etc. What others live by, well — they have their own lives. Morality Is Freedom. Freedom from having to have someone else "do" for you. And it's very nice! It's nice to have a 'rule' you can claim to avoid being angry, retaliating, etc.; to order your life by, to have all the bad stuff in life get a good meaning. In short, having a true moral standard benefits you, and it benefits you immediately. It's its own reward. Lots of hassle, avoided. So much pain, avoided. Best of all, it's internal to you — so no one can interfere with its innate benefit. What a precious gift.

But Satan (and mankind) instead treat Morality as having no intrinsic value; it's just an arduous cost of no value to the doer, thus indebting God to bless in return. Mankind echoes this evil-evaluation throughout history, in every conceivable permutation; even though morality, strewn in profusion on the ground, can make every man rich, inside. So, of course, Satan spins it to dross; and men shake their fists at the God who created morality, for not rewarding them for using it! Just like the Exodus Generation said about manna, in Numbers 11:6! Just like the Pharisees in the Lord's Day and now, who trumpet their petty moralities, as if that's the only way they could benefit from them! Do you know, that's why people don't believe in Christ — because they want what they do to be rewarded, and they are insulted by Grace. Period. Not one person who ever will be in hell thinks differently. See Luke 16:20ff for the paradigmal unbeliever in hell.

Here we also see Satan's core prehistoric motive in choosing to make Himself like the Most High (Isaiah 13:14) — he thinks he will save angels (and eventually, mankind) if he rebels and replaces God, for he regards his own version of Morality, beneficial: glorifying self by means of works. The 'hook' here is that-everything (i.e., works) should be relative, not Absolute. One-third of the angels agreed, too. No wonder, then, that mankind so vehemently agrees. This is one reason why God proceeded with the Trial surrounding the Angelic Conflict, because soul life has an inevitable tendency towards this class of thought: souls will demand evidence to prove why Satan's morality shouldn't be the proposed alternative to God's grace.


Emotionality. Attacks Ox Blue & Loyalty-to-Standard to: dissatisfy, disaffect, disintegrate.

Satan's satire and venom here: that God's election to have creatures can neither satisfy Him nor them, due to differentials in nature between groups, which differences are thus always a burden; so, either God cannot solve the problem, or is egotistical about His Superiority; so, life with God is bad, because it can't feel good by creature standards, nor by true Righteousness standards, either — there is only endless struggle. Again, Satan's prehistoric self-appointment as savior is displayed here, on the grounds that seduction should at least be used to make creation feel good about the burden. Many a ruler has used the same ploy to get and keep power; and this elitist attitude is the heart of all religion and liberalism in history.


Gross sin. Attacks Man Purple & Royal Mediator to cause: degradation, divorce, death.

In many ways, Gross Sin is Satan's most subtle 'army', because it is used to deflect attention away from the real sin, which is rejecting God. See, if one sins a sin people recognize as such, then all reconciliation methods will be people-oriented, rather than God-oriented. People replace God that way; thus the self-first insinuates itself just as it did back at Adam's fall: one starts sewing fig leaves. See, the moral folks get all pumped up over the sin they see in others; those (allegedly or really) sinning that gross sin react to the moral folks. So, both groups divorce God, in favor of wailing away at each other. 'Reconciliation' is people-people, and... is reconciled by constant, bitter, War. Cute reversal, eh?

Satan's prehistoric decision, satire and venom here: first step in 'saving' creation, then, is to divorce God, and that 'reconciles' creation's internal war over whether God or self should be first. Ergo all the pitches: science sells man's primacy; psychiatry sells self-image; economics&sports sell the big achievements; politics sells power. Love is just another way to say, "I am good."


Apathy. Attacks Eagle Red & Battlefield Victory to: demoralize, defeat, enslave.

Satan's prehistoric decision, satire and venom here: second step in 'saving' creation, is to 'redeem' creation from its role as slave-to-God, replacing that role with self's rightful role: promiscuous tyrant. In the name of 'independence'. Genghis Khan used a similar logic to motivate unity among the warring Gobi tribes, under him as tyrant. Note how apathy thus becomes a virtue, in the ultimate satire against love: the virile tyrant should be uncaring, heedless of harm to self or others, to be virile and thus the hero, performing well. All others are but sex objects, and should likewise perform well. Think about it: almost any action movie sells this theme. The 'female' version highlights the longsuffering, sacrificial woman, or the go-getter. Do Do Do doo-doo 💩. Notice how, in either case, the person is being glorified, but no intrinsic benefit to that person from the activity, itself is admitted.

Thus 'virtue' only exists to the extent of sacrifice; about which, one should be apathetic; if the activity itself is at all enjoyable, one is guilty, selfish. Apathy thus cynically deems that one's own involvement outside the self is but cost, no gain, just do, nod-to-God on Sunday, get through it; George Orwell's portrayal of the mass in 1984; "Lenina" in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.



In Satan's Counter to God: 'Script' Strategies and Tactics, you'll find Satan's "D-I-O-S" plan to make God 'foreign' to us, is likewise four-pronged: each of the prongs runs throughout the matrix above, and runs through each prong in the matrix. For example, Derision is what morality does — deriding grace, deriding the Atonement He made. Imbalance results from stressing how one feels, over how one thinks. Of course, that derides thinking, and likewise derides the idea that any innate benefit can accrue from either Atonement or morality. Something Else — namely, feeling, is needed to be satisfied. Obfuscation, accomplished by loudness, is easily seen in "Gross sin" — for everyone trumpets it. Thus hiding the real evil, choosing reconciliation (by means of warring redress against the gross sin) as superior to reconciling with God. Substitution is amply demonstrated by Apathy: the cynical preference for self to be the arbiter, the cynical hatred of all other objects, which should be but slaves to whatever self wants. So, self is substituted not only for God, but for all other beings, as well. People set prices on their works for others, and expect to get paid by those others: the tit-for-tat mentality prides itself on being lenient — but ahhh, that leniency is to buttress one's own ego, and — well, it has a limit. Yeah, what 'I' do is worth a bazillion dollars, but what 'you' do, is worthless!

See? The ego has to be palliated, when the 'price' is reached. That's total depravity's essence. So, 'I am good' must be the 'compensation', beyond the price owed to self, for doing for another. Granted, nearly everyone has some true moral standard, and doesn't need 'compensation' within that standard's limits, which volition alone, sets. But beyond that 'price', well — ego had better get paid! Of course, our pricing of our own efforts is inflated, compared to anyone else. Even, compared to a spouse. We are liars, all of us. We pretend to be good, we pretend to grace, but we lie. We have a price, so ... where's the standard, then? Where's the grace? Above all, Where's The Love? No love at all: for love is not love, if it has a price. Period.

So also, within each of the four prongs, all four D-I-O-S functions occur:

Cute, eh? You can probably figure out how these D-I-O-S weavings thread through the other three attack prongs (emotionality, gross sin, apathy) to make God foreign to us. For example, emotionality disatisfies the person, because over time he becomes more and more addicted to feeling, so upon coming down from each successive 'high' of feeling, life becomes ever more intolerable. So, with emotionality, thinking is derided in favor of feeling; as a result the one so feeling is eventually derided by his periphery; so Christ is derided, since relationship with Christ is being sold by the feeling crowd as a feeling thing. (Note how you could substitute "morality" or "gross sin" or "apathy" for "feeling", and from these four derive every religion the world has ever sold mankind.) Imbalance is clear, and the person hung up on feeling actually becomes imbalanced, eventually, since thinking is more-and-more abandoned, so eventually atrophies; Obfuscation is accomplished by means of loud stress on feeling; Substitution is easy, then, because feeling becomes the god, instead (see Philippians 3:18). So one must feel saved, or feel guilty, or feel 'right', whatever — note how feeling replaces truth as the criterion of reality.

By contrast, we defeat Satan's plan by using the Lord's Four Decisions. So we too get the benefits of the Lord's four results when we use Doctrine. Not only with respect to salvation and the other big things, but also the little deliverances/ benefits in each moment of the day: in fact, it's in the little things that the big victories are made. For, the usage of Doctrine atones, propitiates, reconciles, and redeems every time it is used. Whether we know it or not. The astonishing thing is, because we are His Body, His Bride, Spirit-filled use of Bible doctrine in us also directly from us does this job additionally, for others. Because, His Thinking is replicated in us progressively via 1 John's Script. That's how blessing by association worked to a far lesser degree in the Old Testament. But now He's Risen, Ruling, and we are being Prepared. Hence, we are the blessing-by-association.

So, then: say I have a stomach ache, and I use Doctrine on it: forever after that instance of a stomach ache has doctrine associated with it. Remember, time only goes forward, so there's no undoing a moment (e.g., the moment you first believed in Him). So, it's permanent. So, then: were it not for the stomach ache, that usage of the doctrine would not exist. One less Diamond. Moreover, pretend that God looks at 'my' stomach ache and its doctrinal use, when He sees some other stomach ache in my periphery: that doctrinal use will 'associate' with the other ache, too. It's pleasing, to be reminded of a Diamond! So the pleasure gets partly spent on that other person, since that person's stomach ache came to be associated with 'mine'! (Something about the foregoing is true, but maybe not quite as depicted. It's the doctrine which is intrinsic value; so wherever that doctrine is located, wherever it is used, becomes the connector, and hence the blessing gets associated due to that connector. So it's not arrogance to say that someone else gets blessed due to 'me', since I got blessed due to Christ; since, like Him, I got Doctrine due to the Holy Spirit. No one owns himself, and no man is disconnected from others, in God's Plan.)

So, then: isn't it well worth it to get the stomach ache, if one gets the Doctrine as a result? That's the reasoning path which God used to design our so-great salvation. For, when He sees our sins in time, He also sees His Son's Thinking applied to it — on the Cross. So, then: that thought on the Cross wouldn't be there, its Living Anarthrous Beauty — if we hadn't sinned! So blow, wind, crack your cheeks! Now the sin is a catalyst for Incomparable Beauty!

In short, these uses are corollaries of the "Four Decisions" Thieme simply teaches us, over and over (Thank You, Father: he repeats)! So you're living on them, parallel to how the Lord's Humanity lived on them! What better way to get a hands-on practice of what it was like for Him to be here, how Father sees! Works, you can't compare..works are effete, all!

Atonement, Propitiation, Reconciliation, Redemption. Linking verses to the believer are the theme of 1 Timothy 2; also in the commands of our Ambassadorial Message "be reconciled to God", and "redeem the time" (Ephesians 5:16). Ergo, the decision matrix starts with Problem Solving Devices #4 & #5 (GODO team, Grace & Doctrinal Orientations) rationale: everything in this world is essentially dead, because not spiritual, so need to be made alive again via Doctrinal association / baptizing / hupostatizing. So, IL-PL team, Problem Solving Devices #7 & #8 through #10, backed up by 2 Corinthians 5 and Philippians 3 reasoning-paths: just as He made the Four Decisions for us and took on Humanity to do it all on the Cross, so also we get the paradigmal structure in the spiritual life, κράτει ὃ ἔχεις.

'Atone' is damages (offense); 'Propitiate' pays the opportunity cost; 'Reconcile' unites the warring parties (dead world to live Circulating Metabolized Doctrine) and creates a harmonious state between them (Isaiah 54:1ff ties in); 'Redeem' ransoms the dead to be made alive. See, Live Doctrine applied to a worldly thing accomplishes the last two functions, and the first two are spiritual motives and the doctrinal content itself, as the only legal tender in the spiritual life. Have to have Circulating Metabolized Doctrine to do this; mere function is divorced, still fleshly, so can't accomplish any of the four actions, hence "dead works" keyword in Scripture. So the believer who is growing up in Circulating Metabolized Doctrine is the only one who can make these four decisions in his daily life, and thus is the conduit through whom the Father blesses the world, during time on earth. Again, all this is true only because Our Lord finished the Cross, and gave us His Spiritual life, so that we are Bride. That and that alone, is the reason why we have such an efficacious and so-high position and potential function: as a sweet savor for Our Father, to Whom (under Our High Priest Hebrews 2, Hebrews 4) we are Royal Priests.

For example, κράτει ὃ ἔχεις means to Take What You Have And Master It. So, the Four Decisions first require having Circulating Metabolized Doctrine; then, living on it. The time for study must be balanced by use, and that use develops a skill at precisely correct procedure, as Colonel would say. So, then: I should, having been trained, use Doctrine I already have first toward the Father, directly (study is slightly more diluted than this, because part of the concentration is diverted to content). I should, moreover, emulate My Lord by function (which is applying Live Doctrine I have circulating (aka "Metabolized Doctrine") to the dead world I live in). That Atones and Propitiates (beauty-of-Doctrine thought motivated by the fact that Father will see the moment of its use forever); but Reconciliation, applied to the dead thing (brushing teeth, giving, whatever-is-the-proper-indirect-recipient-of-the-moment). For, now the dead thing is united, harmonized, at peace with, the Live Doctrine applied to it. Next, redemption: what would otherwise be a useless thing to the Father (brushing teeth helps teeth temporarily, but never Him) is instead Live with the Doctrine applied to it. Skill levels increase the number of stories' meanings (multiple Doctrinal levels applied all-at-once), as one 'ages' in this practice (true pragma). Mastery thus occurs; the generalship usage of Metabolized Doctrine directed the use of the εὐσ(έβεια) to the Four Decisions.

Example of this usage follows in the indented paragraphs below. Notice how each of the paired from-for opposites form defensive and thus offensive phalanxes, trebuchets, castles: 'stories', so to speak. With Walls that move. Walls that invincibly move through, eventually, all opposition. Notice even more how the entire cycling of Doctrine is a punning game. Turning everything on its head! Dead made alive! Barren made Bearing! Sterile made Sterling Stars! Kingship made Slaveship, and Slaveship made Kingship!

Don't believe circulating Doctrine as weapon is also a punning game, a game of ironic meaning, of turning everything on its head? 🤣, every verse in Scripture is saturated with punning ironies! Even the putrid English translations can't hide it all: look at how Paul reasons in Romans! How the writer of Hebrews, writes! Look at Matthew 4! Ok, now: let the Games begin...

Let's use σῴζω and its cognate noun, σωτηρία: to save, and salvation, since such castle walls are often deliberately built in Scripture verses using these words (and their synonyms). Bottom meaning is saved from (defensive) Hell. Next 'floor': saved for (offensive!) Heaven (e.g., Sealing Ministry). Next 'floor': saved from the devil's world while down here. Next 'floor': saved for the Kingdom. Next 'floor': saved from a meaningless life while down here. Next 'floor': saved for training/development into Fit Bride. And so on: the number of floors are endless, 🤣.

So, then: losing money, saves you doctrine (God has a Better Money in mind); losing health, saves you even more Doctrine (God saves the best for the worst); losing loved ones or loved things, saves both them and you bigger blessing (God never takes away, except to add more, just as Abram lost a little phallus flesh to Gain Nations of Sons). See, the Truth is, you can't lose, but only win more! What a comfort it is, to know that a loved one is saved! See? They gained! "No more sorrow, no more tears, no more pain, no more death... the old things have passed away!" Not Lost, but Found is the ever-running Doctrinal principle, and nothing can ever stop it from becoming ever-bigger in benefits. "For His Name's Sake" (Psalm 23: "name" really is Person — kinda like the "He cannot deny Himself" verse.)

Okay: so, with any situation, one or more of the 'floors' will be highlighted, or spotlighted for attack. Simply by identifying what 'floor' is highlighted or under attack, esprit de corps results. Offensive! It's like playing a very demanding Skill Game That You Love, from the get-go! You know, one of those games which notch up in difficulty as your skill improves! So all the negativity gets short shrift (no more wallowing how bad something/someone/self is, because no more interest). 🤣, Satan's plan is always out to dissociate us from God and His Word, so let's get 'distracted' from Satan's plan by means of God and His Word! Heh.

Okay. Say that you get into a bad car accident. You're trapped behind the wheel, and you feel as though your back is broken. You're just sitting there, shocked, bewildered: what's the temptation hitting? Fear of death, of being permanently disabled, of hurting your loved ones financially, and most of all — Why? The "why" is really a sly claim (you don't mean it this way, but your sin nature sure does) — why did God let this happen to me? As if He were a sadist (Satan's constant, bitter, accusation). It's a natural thought, a constant urge of the Energizer Bunny, so don't feel guilty. Satan & Co. will really enhance the vehemence of such temptations, if you are growing in Doctrine. So, you're under attack! During this state many also forget that we all have an Old Sin Nature; so the premise that X is better than Y and why bad things happen to a 'good' person (Mark 10:18) are nullified. Of course Satan wants to create a false veneer (especially in the minds of Christians) making the person believe they're somehow more righteous or holy at some point in their life by what they do; a common casualty of this is how many apply arbitrary reasons why some should be barred from heaven and others be stuck in hell (Romans 3:10). Just to reiterate, the Apostle Paul is the worst sinner of all time (1 Corinthians 15:8), yes, even worse than Hitler or Judas, and he himself was saved the moment he believed (Ephesians 1:13).

What to do? Answer The Objections Like The Lord Did In Matthew 4. First: the entry 'floor' being breached is... all of them. What's 'saved', if you're hurting like this! So, then: "Death, where is thy sting? " Disability, "the Lord has need of it" — meaning, you will not be living a life of no value or of burden to others, no matter what, for God Loves. Hurting loved ones financially: "the cattle on a thousand hills are His". And most of all, the "why". Why did this happen? Because He will use it to grow you. That is always true, cannot ever be untrue, for He Owns You; you are part of His Body. "For, He cannot deny Himself."

Now, let's crank it up: Let's use Doctrine to both calm down and get "intelligence" on purpose. Death: Christ died for all, so if I die blessing by association will pass to my periphery. Disability: Christ paid for all sins, so I can share in the fellowship of His Sufferings and get a better idea of what that was like for Him. Financial hurts: Must be some kind of witness to the all-sufficiency of Bible Doctrine, so we must not really need to be financially 'okay' by world's standards. Why did this happen to 'me': demonstration that Only He Matters, don't need anything but Him; to see Him, to enjoy intimacy with Him, and how this thing won't get in the way!

Now, all those quotes are Scripture, which I thought up on the fly in response, while typing. The cranked-up ones are concatenations of many verses, so aren't marked by quotes: they are super-enjoyable. Takes a long time for them to be instinctive, and it's a real joy when they just run freely. Of course, you remembered all these — or other ones. There are so many endless Doctrinal gems to admire! And just imagine: they're all real! Above all, every circumstance in life is but for one purpose: To Bless You. Cannot be otherwise, for — remember about the too-heavy-stone? God's out to grow you up to be bigger — so you can come to the "fullness of the stature of the Measure of Christ" (I didn't quote that accurately, but that's the meaning in corrected translation) So it's impossible for you to lose! "No one shall pluck them out of My Hand" (John 10:28).

See the mechanics? You key in on the thing which tempts, and tell it what it really is — the doctrine about it. Because Doctrine is Truth, you are telling the Truth to the item, and because Truth is Alive, so also Truth is replicated onto whatever is in your life. Because, like God, you have Will. Free to use or manipulate truth. By using Truth, and not manipulating it, there is no compromise and thus the item becomes baptized with that true meaning. (Of course, it can be baptized with a false one, too — ergo the need to be sure you know the truth, which means daily 1 John's Script.) It's not some stupid magic thing. It's Seeing The Truth. Which heals.

Oh? Look: you're doing what the Lord did! Like, in Matthew 4! Multistoried Building Of Living Gold!

Really, there are many more floors of Living Gold: these are but a few big categories. As you age in the practice of thinking doctrinally, you'll see more and more 'floors' of an endlessly-high building. After all, God Is Seeing Them All, And All At Once, And Always. One Big Now. So, endlessly high..just like Him. If there's a higher pleasure than this, in all the earth throughout all history, combined, I'd have to ask, "Prove it!"

So, then, the Problem Solving Device generals got going, like the maalouf will do when in the Tribulation. Battle Plan has the Four Decisions as its four objectives. 'Goes something like this, in principle: God for us, who against us! Let's atone for the attackers, let's propitiate the situation, let's reconcile the war, let's redeem/ransom these poor captives, take "captivity... captive", make "freedom... free"! Atone, let it hit! Embrace it, welcome it, παραδέχομαι it, with associated Doctrine punningly matched to whatever it is, like the First Temptation Reply! Propitiate, make it play a toward-Father role! Again, a punning match! Reconcile, ahhh — now this dead thing is united. Redemption, ahhh — now this dead doo-doo is doing what a Diamond does! Stone-too-heavy (because dead) got lifted, and is alive! No longer doo-doo then! Victory...

Huh??? Look: kinda like Elihu would say, what good is it to God if you got in a car accident? Does He need a broken car? A broken believer? Does He need to 'feel' (really know, infinitely intense) the pain you are feeling, forever (since this moment never 'dies', to Omniscience)? Does He need insurance claims and all the blamesmanship (C&B, claims-and-blames)? Will He want to hear all that Forever? Moreover: He's going to take care of you no matter what... so the accident means He's got more to do! Now, why would it be worthwhile to complicate what He's got to do for you, anyway? Well, because it will benefit you more. Okay. But, um... a car accident is gonna be somewhere connected to a sin. And, itself, is not good. Ahhh — but if you are thinking Doctrine, that 'atones' for the damage (Doctrine's Beauty is always higher than anything else's ugliness); that 'propitiates' the damage (makes it 'do', via your thinking, a beautiful thing, which of course it should do but could not do); that thus 'reconciles' the damage (its ugliness is no longer at war because of the Doctrine applied to it); that thus redeems the damage (it's no longer a slave to being intrinsically harmful). See? Is there a sweeter way to see the world's ills be 'healed' than this? "Blow, wind, crack your cheeks!"

But wait! Didn't the Lord pay for all sin? Yeppers: but you are down here representing Him (see 1 Timothy 2, 1 John 4:12-17), so you are a conduit for blessing or cursing. So, then: what you think will help or hurt you and your periphery (true anyway secularly, but here, spiritually too since you are a Representative and King in Training). So, then: Rule! Think Truth, or... consequences. Let Doctrine buy it, or... pay on your own, out-the-nose! Your free choice. Always.

God's Free Choice is Verbal Plenary Inspiration. That's a theological term; the underlying Bible principle for it is expressed in such verses as "but God meant it for good" (Joseph, to his brothers, at their reconciliation). Thus, the thing itself is what it is or wants, etc; but also, atop it, are God's assigned meanings, usages, etc. So, for example, Verbal Plenary Inspiration essentially means that God communicated through the writers of Scripture in such a way that not one iota of their own natures were waived/modified (so they were really the writers, it wasn't some magic trick) — yet God's Will and Thought ("complete and connected") is really inerrantly and infallibly communicated, in writing; moreover, that such writing in itself bears His Authority. This is also why all Biblical text carries a poetic meter thus certifying its supernatural authorship.

So, 'a kind of functional hupostasis (union between disparate natures). The doctrines are coherent, flawless, perfect. That doesn't mean that the papyrus was perfect (or, Codices), it doesn't mean the scribed-copies are perfect copies. In fact, God expects there to be errors in all of the 'copies of copies' which is why the poetic meter acts as a form of self-healing for the texts, DNA has self-correction functions too which is a nod towards this phenomenon in the world as everything is imperfect, constantly needing correction mechanisms. The exact thoughts of every Biblical author in writing 100% accurately represents God's Communication, while maintaining the transformative characteristics of their personal style (once again union or marrying between two disparate natures or dualities). This exact thought can be retrieved, as it were, from the writing: doing so is an arduous task, but it is possible, because the Holy Spirit empowers this, and since He was the One who "God-breathed" (θεόπνευστος) the information into them, He of course now knows what is really Scripture and what is not; how it should be interpreted, and how not. It's just a question of being online with Him and, for a pastor, the requisite preparation. This trend of God leveraging the personality of others while marrying His truth is one of His favourite things to do (including for pastor-teachers)... of course Christ could have just snapped His fingers and automagically summoned a bundle of completed New Testament manuscripts written without human authors and without their respective style... but that bypasses the whole point God is trying to make in the Trial and supports Satan's Matthew 4 temptation of summoning bread. It can also be assumed God gets a kick out of taking something incapable (humanity) and making it capable (royal priests in training), these series of David & Goliath or 'toothpick' incidences are no doubt a source of endless contention and frustration for Satan. A mere toothpick or 'doing nothing' shouldn't have an impact, but as all of the believers in history prove, it always does.

Verbal Plenary Inspiration is but one model of how God 'baptizes' or 'empowers' a thing to have an efficacy beyond its own nature. In doing this, a type of hupostasis is always created: the thing has its own natural properties, freely; but also, 'on top', as it were, God-meanings. God Lives, and so can make use of His Creation: here, by bonding it to Truth in some particulars (usually judicially-matching, see Matthew 7:2). Clearly He'd have to do so, since 1) the thing isn't God, so its nature is below Him, and He has to decide its use — the thing/person can't decide how it should be created! 2) God is living, and His decisions have properties of their own. Kinda like a car; you own the car, but the car can't drive itself nor decide what transportation purposes it should serve: you have to make those decisions, and then 'baptize' the car by such usages. Or, with the believer, the believer is free to choose what he wants; but God is still free to choose what God meanings to make out of what the believer chooses or rejects. For, the believer by nature cannot make himself, of himself, do or be anything with respect to God (which is why we needed salvation, and why it must be free consent, belief in Christ). So, the upshot of Doctrinal usage is that one keeps on asserting and using the Truth: seeing God's meanings. Gotta want to see Him, to want to do this; can't see Him or His meanings except clumsily and infrequently, until one grows up enough in 1 John's Script. But oh, if one decides to grow in Doctrine, and use it to pay — nothing can compare. Isaiah 55!

All of Satan's attacks are punning satires, as the Appendix explains. So, the word "pay" here is used as the point-of-impact. Just as it was, when he initially tempted the woman in the Garden. See, the Tree prohibition was a cause-and-effect warning of something harmful. Satan took the concept 'harmful' (which is in the same conceptual family as "pay" and "bad feeling") and turned that into an accusation that God caused harm, or had a harmful purpose. Because, God created the Tree. Satan then flipped/reversed the effect and the cause: so eating from the Tree, because God is at fault, affects a superior state than the one obtaining before the fruit was eaten. Again, because God is at fault. Notice also a second reversal of subject and object in that Genesis 3 passage: God will be harmed, not them: that's why "Elohim" is allegedly afraid that they will be as smart as Him. See how much hatred had to be in the motive to take the fruit?! The motive to eat it had to be two-fold: one, to get revenge on "Elohim" (nasty epithet, in the passage) for withholding 'intelligence' from them; second, to compete with Him in intellect! Ooooh, this thing is dripping with anger, bitterness, iconoclasm. They couldn't even be motivated to do this thing if some disquiet hadn't been long pregnantly developing in them (James' metaphor of how sin is born in James 1).

Think the passage over carefully, for all of Satan's thought pattern and methodology are succinctly told there. It's awesome how deftly God compresses beyond terabytes of information within just a verse or two. Part 2 goes through the whole rationale Satan used in the "The Fall" subsection. Also review Job 1 and Job 2, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, Matthew 4, Revelation 13-17 (you'll need a good study Bible for Revelation to cross-reference the Old Testament passages which use the same metaphorical keywords).

So also, when the believer notices some command or issue related to Righteousness, "pay" looms large in his associations. He paid... so shouldn't I do so also? It's a natural reciprocity motive, which of course the Energizer Bunny has going all the time; but also, developing Love for God will likewise be motivated to reciprocate for right reasons. Bammo — Satan's got a wedge! See, Doctrine is the Payor, by Divine Design. That's why the solution to sin is believe in Christ; then, get Doctrine. Pouring Truth into the believer's soul via 1 John's Script turns the whole "pay" thing into a joyous experience: eventually, even during pain/suffering. That's God's Design. But because the believer is so affected by the twin reciprocity drives, it's real easy to substitute self for "Doctrine". So, even if the believer uses Doctrine to 'pay', instead of getting joy from that, he gets guilt. Why? "Oh, you didn't do all you could have done with that Doctrine!" See? The "you" is supposed to be the object, the recipient 'vessel' for the Subject, the poured-in-Doctrine. Then the Doctrine does the work in through and for the object, the "you". But oh! Reversed! Satan's thinking reverses subject and object, thus blaspheming God's Thinking... and putting the believer in prison.

What a horrible prison it is. Doctrine is (sotto voce, of course) made to be 'at fault'. Man has to do something; doctrine isn't good enough! Same argument as the rich man in Torments spat out to Abraham in Luke 16! So, the imprisonment: if *I* am the subject, not doctrine, then *I* am forever on that hamster's wheel, trying to do this thing which I ought to do. Of course, it's always possible to run faster... until, having gone too fast, *I* die. Meanwhile, of course, *I* have gone nowhere. By contrast, if the True Subject, The Lord's Thinking, is doing the work, I'm receiving it, not doing it. Or, even doing it (for Doctrine is a true independent possession, made such by the Holy Spirit even as it was made in Christ and sustained Him on the Cross) — I'm 'participating in the action of the verb' — middle voice, not active voice! Coming along for the ride. And, enjoying it. So, Doctrine didn't do all it could do — of course not! Doctrine can do everything! There's no end to Doctrine's works, because it's the Lord's Thinking! Duh. So, instead of a guilty loss, you have a happy gain... with confident expectation (true meaning of ἐλπίς, not the insipid "hope" translation English bibles use)... of More Profit. Endless fractals. Pure Profit. One moment at a time. So all the 'hits' — internal and external temptations to "think differently" just help increase the yield. By Divine Design. Just as it happened, on the Cross.

My pastor calls this, "Momentum". Military concept of concentration-of-force, and coordinated logistics. Think of a small, wet ball rolling down soft pack snow. Because soft pack, as the ball rolls more and more snow will stick to it. So, the ball grows bigger as it rolls. So, the ball grows heavier as it rolls. So, the ball rolls faster. As it keeps going, whatever is in its way of lesser weight will be knocked out; whatever is of greater weight will be rolled over. So, the ball keeps on going.

This is how the Energizer Bunny, our sin nature in Adam, works. But this is also how Doctrine works. One of the Hebrew words for "trust" has the etymological meaning of something which starts as a thin thread; other threads get woven into it, over and over and over: until you have an unbreakable veil. (The Temple Veil was extremely thick and tall: so when God tells you the veil split from Top to Bottom, that's a big deal!)

That's how the Energizer Bunny works. But that's also how Doctrine works. So, it's a question of rolling, of knitting. Game is, what do you roll or knit? The Energizer Bunny gets a 'handicap', because it is one: a head start, in the game of life. It influences you from birth. But oh, once you start getting 1 John's Script, no matter how late in life you begin — well, now there's a counter momentum. War is joined, baby. Which side shall win? Well, we know nothing defeats Doctrine, because Doctrine sustained Him on the Cross. In particular, Love for Father, and Love for mankind, the motive phalanxes. But also, the Meaning of what He was undergoing: Father gets paid! People get saved! Those are Doctrinal Truths. Meanwhile, against these truths was all the pain; all the jeering; all the extreme fatigue of His last 36 hours; all the itching from the wood He was nailed to; all the push from His body to make Him unconscious (crucifixion position is asphyxiating by nature; you have to push against it to keep breathing); many many pressures. But Doctrine defeated them all! That's "momentum".

The ever-bigger ball, the ever-thicker veil: these are accumulations, multiple layers; or, if we switch to a building analogy like Paul does in Ephesians 3:15ff — multiple stories. Chock-full of riches of Doctrine. God is multistoried, so to speak. Being All at once, seeing all at once, appreciating all at once — and the huge volume never reduces, not even an iota, His total appreciation of each thing/person. Even so: as the believer ages in Christ, he too progressively comes to see multiple layers at once. All the time. So even brushing teeth has a lot more meaning. As, indeed it should, for what good is brushing teeth, all by itself? How much more, if Doctrine bonds to it, creating a symbiosis? How much more, if brushing teeth is thus enabled to do a far bigger job than its own nature could do? So, then: how much more is the Believer With Doctrine enabled to do a far bigger job than his nature could do?

The nature changes with momentum. Toothbrushing got rolled, knitted, kitted out with Doctrine. So, it's no longer mere toothbrushing. The believer got rolled, knitted, kitted out with Doctrine. So is no longer a mere human. For, Truth is an Attribute of God, and God is Omniscient. So Truth is multistoried. And this Truth is now in the believer: so the believer becomes multistoried. For, the objective is to become Fit Bride, compatible with the Son, for the Father. To serve forever. Aha. So the Father expresses His Appreciation in a multistoried way: by blessing the believer's periphery.

Meanwhile, the believer himself is getting Bigger. Faster. So whatever tempted him in the past, 'shrinks'. Even if it grows. At some point, the temptations themselves add to his size and growth, rather than merely acting as temporary slowdowns. This, because as he gets Bigger, because Truth makes him bigger, thus changing his nature, the believer switches his perspective about old, troublesome chestnuts: from negative, to neutral, to positive, to σπουδάζω: enthusiastic eagerness to have more of the old chestnut attacks! So, he emulates the Lord's enthusiastic acceptance of sins and judgement. So, he will emulate the Lord's Result of having Unending too-heavy-stones! For, like the Lord, he will come to the place where it's a thrill to pour self out... forever. Just because. That's "momentum". Never-ending. It just kills me that translators readily translate "σπουδάζω" correctly as 'to be excitedly eager' everywhere except where legalism would frown upon it; in which instances, they use "diligent". What a crock! Hebrews 4:11 should say, "Let us be eager", and the "let us" construction is an imperative — a Command to Enjoy!

Of course, that's how the Energizer Bunny works, too. When I was 16 or 17, I was seriously interested in psychology; that interest was born at age 12, when I was finally able to learn what "Auschwitz" meant. I couldn't understand how a whole country of (presumably) nice people could be so vicious... so cold. So, I wanted to study psychology since then. By age 16 or 17, I had the good fortune of seeing first-hand what neurosis can do to a patient. She was about my age; she insisted she was pregnant by the (to her) "late" (famous singer very much alive); and she looked, and tested, excepting there was no fetus, as if she really was pregnant. The phenomenon is called: "hysterical pregnancy". It's an imagined thing. But your body doesn't know that. To your body, what you tell it as "truth", is an Original Power.

See, if you tell yourself something is 'true', just like with 'pain', your body (which can't think) accepts what you tell it. And (shudder!) acts accordingly. So, if someone tells himself that he's having heart problems... he really will manifest the symptoms. Yet, the echocardiogram is clean. Yet, a chemical stress test is perfect. It's really bizarre, the power of mind on the body. So, then: if you tell yourself that some untruth about God or Bible (etc.) is true, you gain momentum toward more lies. So, you become bigger with lies: James 1's pregnancy analogy, again. So, you gain separatist, derivative momentum away from truth. So, you roll down, knit up yourself, and... crash. Paralyzed with lies the way the psychosomatic paralytic was in Matthew 9, you can't move. Only fantasize. 9/11 proved how much we Americans are paralyzed, divorced from truth. Even our calls to "get back to God" are hopelessly mired with the fantasy of me-be-good. Note the (barrier-raising!) blamesmanship in all such "calls". That's why America is now so hysterical, the poor sop running for his flight is deemed a terrorist! That's why a devout Christian won't even go to the City to see the beautiful Christmas tree in the Center... because, oh! Terrorists might be there! Just like that girl I saw when I was 17. Just like Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26 warned, about fleeing when no one is chasing you. Hysteria. Fantasized. For, that's "momentum", too. Knowing Makes The Difference: but the bigger difference is, what do you value knowing? For, "where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:21, Luke 6:45, Luke 12:34.) Presently in 2025 this 'mass hysteria' has reached a boiling point (stoked with demon influence for Satan's 2030 deadline), particularly in the United States where immigrants are falsely persecuted, Christians go on judging and bludgeoning, invisible boogeymen are imagined for everything and anything, and Donald Trump's obvious lies are taken as truth.

Just as in investing, one's 'portfolio' of dead things must be diverse, and nothing is to be despised. Balance means a balance between High-Low. "Balance" isn't 50-50. It can be, but it is more profitable if a small percentage leverages the rest. Like, the Christ leveraged the salvation of all mankind. One Person... the whole of mankind! Ultimate Trebuchet!

Even so, for the believer's 'day' portfolio-of-things-to-redeem. All things are to be profitably redeemed, and no thing is left out; and yes, there's a hierarchy — which only metabolized ("eaten", believed) Doctrine can mediate. That is why, for example, even brushing teeth is essential. Just as with food, the low things are made causes of the High, so without the low, nothing high results. Thus the real ROI ("Return On Investment", the (e.g., interest) yield on capital, an investment term) from the low is not merely the differential between High Doctrine and the low 'target', but rather that the role the Son designed the low to play is causational. Without teeth, you can't eat. Without food, you can't live. Food itself, though, is seemingly a cost, productive of no revenue. So, 'give money' By Eating Doctrine (implicit in Isaiah 55, throughout); 'rebound' (my pastor's term for use of 1 John 1:9) is sorta analogous to brushing your teeth. Heh.

Can't have Doctrine without Filling; can't have filling, if carnal. So the 'cost' of using 1 John 1:9 repeatedly keeps your doctrinal teeth alive. So you first eat Doctrine, and then aim it at experience. Until then, nothing. But if then, then do do do, not merely study study study. The prepared believer has been capitalized, and now must spend the capital he has, not play Midas. The investment mix for the prepared believer has been changed into a heavier emphasis on stock. Really, on running the business (yourself!), because the Son's 'business', is to make Doctrinal Profit Out Of You for Father, and we are Bride to the Son. Hence, κράτει ὃ ἔχεις. The bazillion-dollars steel mill is there, in the prepared believer. So, operate it. Evidence Testing's completion is the proof that the steel mill is operating profitably, no-matter-what. Operating Doctrine is Operating Capital, and that Capital is invincible: demolishing all strongholds. "Having done all, to stand"! (Ephesians 6:13, KJV is best — the Greek is military language, meaning to have become victorious against the enemy and won the war.)

And just what have we done? Gotten Ready For Our Wedding. It's incredible how the only ones who don't know how worthy we've been made in Him, are us! Would Satan & Co. be fighting as they are, if the Bride is not worthy? Didn't the Lord pay the Bride Price on the Cross? Isn't Ephesians 1 the Father's statement of our dowry? Isn't the spiritual growth process the spending of both Bride Price and Dowry on us? So we can see our increasing beauty (versus weltering in our birth-blood!) develop? So what is all this breast-beating! Smoke and mirrors, that's what it is. The entire spiritual life is one big beautification process, which the Beauty gets to watch and participate in. With a lot of impotent hecklers on the sidelines, jealously trying to steal a little of the fun! God isn't saying anything but θαρσεῖτε... go on, get up, move out, have fun, everything is fine! "For I am convinced that neither powers... nor life, nor death, nor any other creature can separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus." (Paul, end Romans 8.) Okay: now where did I put that smoothing oil; what About-Him doctrine does it depict (heh)?

It really is that simple and that spectacular: for, Nothing Defeats The Truth. He Is The Truth. Period. What ends up being so glitchy is our reticence to embrace the Truth. And, of course, to do that, requires daily use of 1 John's Script. Can't embrace Someone you don't know!

It's axiomatic that "opposites attract". And why? The beautiful root reason is the Hypostatic Union, as we saw in the first two charts. Can't get more 'opposite' than Infinity and finity: but the Stone too heavy got lifted! So, it's not surprising that people tend to be either aggressive, or passive: one of the two personality orientations tends to dominate, though we each are 'mixed' of both types. God, of course, is the Perfect Balance of both. So, the aggressive personality will view God aggressively, and hence will tend toward a works-slant in all he is and does. The passive person will of course tend toward the opposite slant. So, when aggressives and passives unite, they also clash: aggressives can't stand the passive's tendency to withdraw in the face of aggression. Passives find the aggressive's 'harshness', ugly. Aggressives seem strong; then, bullish. Passives seem weak; then, scheming. Only Love can resolve all these problems, but until these opposites know each other well enough, they can't resolve anything: much less, love. So, until the believer comes to know God, he also can't know anything about the personality orientation which is opposite his. So, can't learn to love it. So, will continue to be distracted from learning God by all the oppositeness he sees. So, will have trouble embracing anything, all his life.

The Spiritual Maturity-Pleroma phase is rather long. So far I've not heard Thieme say that, so watch for what he did say. Obviously those within the Pleroma top class aren't equal among themselves, either; Pleroma is the last threshold, but it ain't over till the fat lady sings (death). One can always lose out; still, upon completing (Greek: teleio) that threshold, the Trial Witness is Victorious (via that believer's testimony, reaching Pleroma) for Prosecution (God).

Here, I gotta use a very specific example to show how the game is played. At times, I tend to get very upset when I see God maligned. Obviously the person maligning him has no clue that's what he's doing, so my upset tends to be generic — mad at the practice per se. Still, I often react. Especially, when it comes to the prolife movement, among whom are the most insane folks I've ever encountered; I'm all too aware that Deuteronomy 28:28 is playing on them, and Satan & Co. are laughing their heads off, because their slapstick satire of the Truth is so bald here. Also, since I'm adopted, I don't react in favor of abortion, for crying out loud! Instead, it's because the Bible very explicitly, and in many verses, says that you are not human until born. Since miscarriages commonly occur without any intervention, God would be a murderer, by prolife standards (even worse, they're also claiming that the biology takes precedent over the soul, which is nonsense because all bodies die and you don't carry this body with you!). Moreover, for the state to take authority over something which belongs to God alone (life!) would also be blasphemous (John 18:36 + Matthew 22:21). Moreover, what right do people have to stick their noses into other people's bodies? God is a God of privacy. Etc., ad nauseaum.

What am I doing? Justifying my upset. Bad Move! Okay, so time to play the flip game, (here) after using 1 John 1:9! So, what's the flip? Well, what's the point-of-impact? Anger. Self-righteous anger (yikes, a horrible sin). How does it happen: I'm reciprocating their anger by anger, thus violating Leviticus 19:18 (even though only in thought). So, how to flip it? Aha: anger... what flip value is here? Aha: what do the Four Decisions say? God is using the prolife movement to knock down barriers in them. That's very punny, if you know James' pregnancy analogy. Kinda hard to be angry, when such a thought 'replies'! Although because the Revelation 17 'Christian Nationalism' and 'Seven Mountain Mandate' movement is saturated with Prolife, God will give them an ultimatum to wake up by 4042, else they get culled. Once Christianity goes nuclear with apostasy and demands mixing church & state, refusing to use 1 John 1:9, refusing God's System in any capacity, they curse the world, curse their country, and go berserk with demanding all freedoms get rolled back for their religious high, clubbing atheist and theist alike in their path. Did you notice Christians become the most judgmental group of people around? Did you notice everyone in the MAGA movement reverses everything Christ said not to do?

What does God do with the prolifers (assuming they've not yet hardened their hearts and gone nuclear crazy)? Well, what's happened to others like me? 'Show others what is not in the Bible, to give a respite from the crusade! Show others what is not being "Christian", to give a refreshing truth! Show the prolifers they are not in the spiritual life, to give "better things" (Hebrews 7:18-19). All these "shows" take time: but God loves helping them see the Truth! And He's doing it! In short, the flip is, God is right now using this malignancy to cure their aborting themselves from the spiritual life! Oooh, I see that! Love replaces what would have been anger, and in a tender and humorous manner: for the other thing that bothers me the most, is to see others suffer, and I am too aware that belief in falsehoods wrecks one's life!

The actual process is much faster: takes but a second, usually. So what would have been anger is changed to a smile. Due to understanding how the 4 Decisions underwrite all life, culminating in the Cross! Moreover, the next time I get or am tempted to get upset, the prior 'flip' answer will come up again to battle..and win! Never underestimate the kill-shot power of Bible Doctrine. [Racquetball term: a killshot is a skilled return of your opponent's ball such that he can't hit it. A 'rollout' is the best of this kind: ball doesn't even bounce, but rolls out perfectly from the front wall.

Cross Key and Life Key → Christ spent Doctrine like one spends money. That's why it was a Pure Profit Transaction between Him and the Father. The Doctrine was first paid to Him, for free! So, He spent it like money all His Life; as a result, He had so high a capital base He became "The Way, the Truth, and the Life" in His Humanity. So, He spent Doctrine (thought exchange) on the imputations of all sins, and on the Judgement from the Father. And didn't even flinch! That's how powerful Bible Doctrine is, and why no works, not even all works from all time added together... even compare. See Revelation 20:12ff if you don't believe it: there, all are judged short because all their works don't add up to even one quark (!) on the opposite scale (to His Payment). So, read the handwriting on the wall about works, too: mene mene tekel upharsin! (Daniel 5:25ff.)

See, the thing is, with Doctrine (unlike secular money), the more you spend it, the even more it's worth! Unlimitable Capital. That's why getting Bible doctrine under your right pastor using 1 John's Script is so vital. Its power is incalculable. As we saw in The Second (Nexus!) Argument, Doctrine Held Him Together On The Cross. So, Bible Doctrine circulating in your soul is yours by Divine Gift; true wealth. And, there's nothing which this "true riches" can't do, if you are filled with the Spirit. (He runs your investment portfolio, investing wherever you want the money to go.) See, you determine where the Doctrine should be spent. Hence, the Problem Solving Devices are directives to your Broker, which He assiduously 'obeys'. Why? Because He likes Seeing the Beauty of the Spending, so He will never gerrymander the use of Doctrine. He will no more lift a finger to help you than He would Jesus on the Cross. Your Παράκλητος will, however, give you investment advice. Don't rebuff ("grieve" , a poor translation of λυπέω in Ephesians 4:30-31) Him; don't wet on Him ("quench", in 1 Thessalonians 5:19, originally a putting-out-fire verb); don't lie to Him (Acts 5); don't insult Him (Hebrews 10:29). He has to hang up if you do that, because then 1 John 1:8 or 10 becomes true. Then 1 Thessalonians 5:15 or 1 Thessalonians 5:22 becomes true. Then (shudder!), if you don't get online again, 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7 roll out! So use 1 John 1:9 and get back online, right away!

Why won't He lift a finger to help you, then? Isn't "Helper" how Παράκλητος should be translated (rather than transliterated)? Ahhh. He's not a "helper", but your Mentor (Homeric Greek "Παράκλητος" was Mentor's job); and you are an archetype of King Odysseus' son, Telemachus: so, you are a king-in-training. So you have to practice taking responsibility for your own decisions. But there's another reason why He won't 'help' you. Because He doesn't have to — the Doctrine Can Do It! See? You really have an Infinitely-valuable asset to spend on Father! The Son's Thinking can and will hold you together under any and all circumstances! It's yours for the asking! So you don't need those (relatively-speaking) stupid miracles, dreams, visions, that job, that house, your spouse to be nice to you... or even sleep, food. Doctrine Does It All: Matthew 4:4! This is what Paul means by "the Power of His Resurrection"! For, He was resurrected due to the fact that He successfully paid for all sins of all time — by spending Doctrine! Not by using His own Power, nor Father using His, nor Spirit using His. The Doctrine Did It!


See, by building Doctrine in you: this is the only way God actually can get something He didn't have to work for. What? Strap on your seat belt ... you ready? Watch:

God is Uncreated. Yeah, you know that already. But do you? Since Uncreated, He didn't have to work for it. So, working for anything is not perfect, best, good. Get that? So, even though God pours Himself out... it's a result of profit, and can never be anything else! So, then: with creation, wow! huff and puff! But what does God get for that? Something He didn't work for: His Truth, cycling freely back to Him! Just because! Get it? He Loves Pouring Himself Out, Loves saving what He's made, Loves pouring the Truth into the believer... and Loves it when the believer freely, without compulsion, wants to pour himself out, too! Just for the joy of it! Just because! And that, dear heart, is the only way God can get something He Himself didn't work for. No Helpers. No Partners. Yet, always 'making love'. Oh boy, the legalists would be mad about that analogy, even though it was God who invented sex! And the Muslims and Talmudians won't like the play on no-partners! Yikes!

Sounds too good to be true? Are you still skeptical? Look: Bible class (ideally, daily) is where you Get The Deposits: of Truth, replication of "dots" of an Infinitely Perfect Attribute which is Uncreated. Replicated, because not creatable. So, you didn't work for it... and neither did God! Plus, as you use Doctrine during the rest of the day, more deposits are created. Hence 1 John 1:9 is a money-making 'switch'. If 'on', then you're making money. If 1 John 1:8 or 1 John 1:10 are true, you're sitting on idle cash! Either way, neither you are working for it, nor God! Because, all this money, this beautimous Doctrine, is still Uncreated! Doctrine itself is Uncreated, but because of that property, it endlessly Creates. All by itself. That's one reason why the Holy Spirit's Filling Ministry is needed to run the system: John 4:24, 2 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 4:12, 1 John 1:8-10, Ephesians 4:30-31, Ephesians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:15-22, Acts 5 'lying' clauses.

So, if you aren't getting Bible Doctrine at all (or so little it doesn't accumulate), you have no operating portfolio. See, God made a personalized wealth portfolio for you in eternity past (read Ephesians 1); but the portfolio is conveyed through the 'deposits', because you have to have money, to invest! So, you're saying "no" to the portfolio's transmission if you don't get doctrine regularly, or if you are in a state of carnality. So, you aren't profiting; nor are you profiting Father, Son, and Spirit with any beautimous redemptions, either. You're just moving on this planet, dorean (vainly, "for nothing"). Works don't redeem; if they did, there'd be no Cross (a point many believers can't grasp as they still mandate good works post-salvation). Only Doctrine redeems, and that's how Christ paid for our sins: with Uncreated Truth. So no one worked for it. So, it's Real Gold, get it? Living Gold, in fact, endless replicating like fractals do.


Father Foreordains (Ephesians 1) Fall's Fragmentation
be Fixed by (Holy Spirit) Filling with (Son's) Fabulous Fractals

Nova aired a program on fractals on PBS maybe a year ago. "Fractals" are basically mathematical results which go on and on and on producing patterns which, according to the folks airing the program, could explain why the structures of the earth (like trees, for example) are shaped as they are. It was fascinating. Fractals are really output from special formulas which never stop working. So, the 'answers' in these formulas keep on going and going. Each 'answer' is unique, yet in large numbers, the answers form patterns, shapes: like, a tree.

What Nova discovered, but doesn't realize it (and neither did I until writing this), is that fractals demonstrate how Infinity can replicate. Perhaps a more user-friendly term for fractals, is thought. Think about how thought works. Take the thought, "the dog is brown." It's typed, for crying out loud, but the typing of it doesn't change the thought itself even one iota. Now, you just read that thought, through the typing. Now, that same thought is in your head. So, it replicated; yet, itself is still itself, and didn't change. So, it didn't lose or gain anything intrinsic to itself. And, it is not, strictly speaking, the 'parent' of the "the dog is brown" in you. Why? Because it is still the same thought. Only, you are a separate entity from the thought, and you are capable of thinking, so that same thought can be in you as well. No loss to either the thought, or to you.

Thought is living; it is the only type of life which can replicate without mass or energy. Hence, Infinite Quality or finite quality thought, both immaterial, can replicate into other living thinkers. Yet, remain the same. This, because God is Thought. Infinite, Living Personhood. Thoughts we have could not exist if they weren't first in God. (i.e., in His Omniscience about what we could or would be in all permutations). Wow, Descartes was so close! That dang typo of cogito ergo sum, instead of Cogita ergo sum! Our living personhoods are finite: but the Living Personhood of Each Member of the Godhead, is Infinite.

So the manifestation of living personhood, is thought. Thought is kinda like a body for all the Immaterial Attributes of Personhood, and for that reason can connect, replicate: for, the Attributes Express Themselves Through Thought. That's why His Humanity could tap into His Deity and thus just "speak" the stones into bread, as Satan begged Him to do, in Matthew 4:3 (see also "uphold by the Word of His Power" verse; in Matthew 4:3, English doesn't bring out Satan's begging tone, called an "imperative of entreaty"). As reported earlier in this page, that's why a 17-year-old girl can literally make body act pregnant; or a guy can axe his head and not feel it nor be unable to walk, axe-in-head, to a police station. That's why you can make yourself miserable by what you think. That's why scientists can see 'electric' impulses activating throughout the brain, but the essence of thought remains intangible: the most they can do, is separate the brain hemispheres and test the living subject for what happens; which tests only reveal which parts of brain are tapped into.


Same 'middle', the fact database, the truth: but your orientation to truth, your thought/volition about it, makes or breaks you. Not the environment. Because, the power is in the thought, because attributes express through the thought. Thought is Life: the 'body' of life. Ergo the "dying, you shall die" clause with respect to the Tree, back in Genesis 2:17. Die to God (first "dying", qal of muth), you die physically (second "dying"). Because, Thought is Life expressed; so every thought you think is a creative act. So, Thought can kill, too: 'create' destruction.

Side note: You'd have to say that the manifestation of living animalhood is likewise thought, but, being animalhood, is thought of a much lower speed, scope, content, and duration. To help us understand the vast difference between God and man. So, God says that "the soul of the animal is in the blood" — which is why the blood had to be drained, not eaten, teaching that Life is not material. That life is non-material is pretty obvious, too, since even a dead plant's material exists after it dies.

Thought itself is indestructible: but its replication can mutate or destroy what it touches; or be mutated by what touches it, to the extent of the integrity/inviolability of the thought itself. This, because thought itself has no mass nor energy properties, but is the cause of both! I couldn't type absent thought. So, thought, itself immaterial, marshalled mass and energy to type. Moreover, thought is untouchable, for precisely the same reason: it has no mass or energy to 'touch'. Yet, remains real. Has no terminii, no beginning, no end. It just *is*. Again, only the replication creates, mutates, destroys, etc (including passives). Thought can 'contact'/touch us by means of replication/(aka "expression"), for we too are living and have this same non-mass-non-energy life property. By the same method, we thus can 'contact' the thought again — or, think something else: hence, the vital importance of repeated exposure to accurate Bible teaching. But in no event can the 'parent' thought be altered, destroyed, etc. The most we can do is accept or refuse a replicated thought which 'contacts' us, partially or wholly; or, accept, turn away, or alter a thought which is already in us. Which, of course, we do all the time. Consequently, divine thought can be replicated, yet not be touched in return; nor be destroyed. It's just plain impossible to defeat Bible Doctrine. No wonder God made it the Legal Tender of our Ransom on the Cross (i.e., versus some works standard)!

That's why Doctrine Redeems Every Time You Spend It, and why you can never run out of Doctrine, either. For, Doctrine is thought, and the thought, exists in the Lord; in His Deity, and in His Humanity. That's why it can be replicated in you, and why it couldn't be replicated until He finished the Cross (John 7:39). So now you can replicate it onto anything. Anytime, anywhere. Even, on a drop of pee! Just as the Lord's Humanity accepted all the Doctrinal Deposits He received from the Holy Spirit during His First Advent; just as the Lord's Humanity Replicated Doctrine By Applying Them To Our Sins and the Divine Judgement due us, but given Him; so also we can elect that the God meanings, that is, the Truths — apply to anything. Until and unless that election is given — for God will never coerce free will — God's Baptized Truths (from Eternity Past!) don't pass through to bless the believer. God will nevertheless always profit. But to get your "portion", you must want it. Then, apply it. Just like secular money.

So get it. Use it. Spend it. There's no pain you can feel which Doctrine can't pay for. The only issue is — as always — do you believe it? If no — well, then no doctrine was spent. If yes — then baby, it worked! You won't necessarily recognize that it worked, because Truth is an Infinite Attribute of God, so has no 'dimension'. But it's real, and over time you'll see how strong Doctrine makes you. After all, it held Jesus together on the Cross (He didn't use Human or Divine power, and no one helped Him) — so, imagine what it does for you?! For, Doctrine does what all other forms of wealth wish they could do: Doctrine makes you inviolate, and happy under any and all circumstances! Check out all the "riches" and "gold" verses (maybe 1000 of them), see for yourself!


Of course, Satan & Co. know how Thought Is Power (!) quite well, so have their own crafted expressions, representing their own attributes: the "strongholds" (fortresses/castles, really — demonic ones) of Ephesians 6. Only God's thought can fight these guys. Only God's thought in you can defeat these guys. No amount of hocus-pocus (exorcism, what a joke!) or works or anything human can defeat them. Lots of metaphors for their castles, and their castle-building, abound in Scripture: each one references a different function or attribute; or, the whole from a particular 'window'. Tower (Ziggurat) of Babel metaphor, Doctrines of Demons (1 Timothy 4, 2 Timothy 4), "father... the devil", "prince of this world", "come to their senses" (stop being drunk, in Greek of 1 or 2 Timothy 2:26), "drunk" (harlot in Revelation 17 and Old Testament; also Isaiah 28), "earthly".. well, too many to remember quickly and type. Point is, a whole Cosmic System (my pastor's term, and aptly taken from Scripture keywords) exists. Which, of course, has as its purpose, replication. In you. See, you're here, dumb as a stump, moving along on this planet, thinking that all you see is all there is. But ho! You're really here getting filled up with either: God's Script, or Satan's. Your choice. Whether you know this is happening, or not!

As noted earlier, Satan's system tempts the believer in the same way as Satan himself tempted the woman and Adam. It's a very effective system! Introduce 'doubt', and hold out a carrot for accepting the doubt. Is Elohim really that good, if He makes a Tree which would harm you if you ate from it? Oh, and if you do, why (carrot time!) You'll Be As Smart As Elohim! 🥕

This same ploy hits us all so constantly, and in so many fractal-like combinations, we barely 'hear' it. We don't notice it in the 'gotta give to the poor' baloney. We don't notice it in the 'gotta hustle for God' baloney. We don't notice it in the 'tax the rich' tripe (which really just ends up raising taxes on the poor inevitably). We don't notice it in the millions of incompetences which people get sucked into buying every day — all that money spent on defective products and services would feed the poor forever! That most devastating of pre-sin (stool!) softeners, doubt — hits the believer more strongly when he is growing up in the spiritual life. For, Satan & Co. aren't stupid — they select only productive targets for individual attention; especially if the target has money or power to influence their cause (and then they unceremoniously discard the person when they're finished with them). A few real world examples of this (as of 2025) are: Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Danielle Smith, Tim Pool, Matt Walsh, Benny Johnson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Karoline Leavitt, Marco Rubio, Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc. The οἱ πολλοί can be 'managed' through the macro (propaganda) herding device.

How is the growing believer targeted? Well, first he's studied for his strengths. Not just weaknesses. What made the Matthew 4 temptations so devastating, was that Satan was playing to the Lord's Strengths: His Loves (note the emphasis on the many souls within the kingdoms). So, the growing believer's strengths, not his weaknesses, are the prime targets for... you guessed it... doubt! Oh, how is it this doctrine can baptize a drop of pee and make it forever valuable to God, that must be magic. Oh, how is it God would like it if I use Bible Doctrine on such a small thing... but not do the big thing (always cast as some body/money thing, mind you — a great pun!) Oh, how is it plain ol' study will enable me to better Live before the Lord. Oh, how is it that just trusting Him does anything for Him. Ohhh... and the fractals just keep playing their tune in syncopation with the Energizer Bunny! Tokyo Rose took lessons from Satan & Co.!

Ohhh... never mind that Abram was circumcised to effect a covenant! Which he'd remember as he peed! Ohhhh... never mind that the Savior came from that peeing forefather. Ohhh...never mind that Father chuckles at the Son's sense of Humor in choosing how to effect the covenant..forever! Ohhh...never mind that, as Romans 4 explains, Abram trusted God (the Son) even after he became sexually dead! and could only pee. So, Abram sure had to use Bible Doctrine on "pee", every day! So, ohhh how is it that plain old study of Doctrine will enable Abraham to bear nations of sons?! Heh. As it stands written, "For he believed in the Lord, and it was Credited To His Account As Righteousness". Genesis 15:6 is a Bible verse. Which Abram practiced. Which James extols in James 2. And why? Because Doctrine is Divine Thinking. Can't get more 'righteous' than that. Starting with, that first doctrine we all believe to be saved, the Gospel: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall ('from that moment, forever', aorist tense) be saved!" Acts 16:31!

So it looks like pee is pretty important! For, Abram had to watch himself pee for 99 years, and nearly every adulthood day it reminded him of what he was not getting! But lo! snip snip and a covenant is born? from the same peeing organ? Tell me: do you think Abraham ever looked at pee or his phallus the same ol' way after that day? Talk about low becoming high! We'd not be here, except for Abram's pee! For without him trusting that peeing promise, there'd have been no Christ. Without a Christ, there'd have been no Church. So, you wouldn't be here to read, and I'd not have been here to type!

So, then: since Thought Lives, whatever 'attributes' it carries will become alive in you. Notice how, since God is the source of all thought (in the sense that He knows all thought which could or would or could not or would not exist) — the very inherent property of thought is tremendous Power. So, too, if a Truth is rejected. Lies derive their power from rejecting Truth, always. Equal-and-opposite reaction principle of physics is rooted in the property of Truth. Moreover, destruction is always easier than construction. Because, anything one 'dot' below Infinity is an unbridgeable chasm. That, of course, also explains why there had to be a Cross. The destroyed thing (trashed soul) can't reconstruct itself.

So, then: if a thought's attributes are lies and you believe the thought, then its lies live in you. And you die. Slowly. That's how Adam and his wife died spiritually; that's why we all die physically. That's why a believer atrophies both mentally and physically if he doesn't get into and keep living on, 1 John's Script.

So, then: if a thought's attributes are Truth, and you believe the thought, then its truths live in you. That's why the Lord, Who Became The Truth in His Humanity, had to dismiss His human spirit, so He could die physically. That's why we are born again when we believe in Him, for the Gospel is True; thus the Holy Spirit is authorized to create a human spirit and replicate +EL and +R into it. The first act of faith can't be destroyed by later rejection because the Holy Spirit, not you, is the One Who makes you born from above. Your own faith doesn't do that job, as James reminded his readers in James 2:11 and James 2:26. The text between those two verses illustrates how Doctrine works (James 2:23a is its crescendo, Scripture Being Fulfilled), which is James' main theme beginning James 1:1. That's why we can grow up "with reference to (our) salvation" (corrected translation in bold; two 'bookends' are 1 Peter 2:2 and 2 Timothy 3:15); that's why we can "work out (our) salvation" (Philippians 2:12-13 — note God's working out something you already have) by means of "growing in Grace and in the Knowledge of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ"... from glory, to glory. (2 Peter 3:18, 2 Corinthians 3:18) Floor by floor, all the way up to the Penthouse, Pleroma. From the foundation, salvation (1 Corinthians 3:11), to πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ Θεοῦ, all the fullness (of blessing) from God (Ephesians 3:19).

In sum: Thought Is Living. So, it repeats, replicates. So, every instance of a thought is an acceptance, or rejection: whether the thought is inside your own soul, or coming from your body's brain-database, or... coming from anywhere outside your soul. Good thought builds life; bad thought speeds death; and the irony is, since bad thought has to carom off Truth, bad thought's power is more destructive! So take care what you think!

Don't miss the opportunity to get God's Script. Religion lies: God is out to give you something, not get something from you. And what He gives, costs Him nothing, by nature! And what He gives, is of far more enjoyment than all the wealth of a thousand universes. That's not hyperbole. And you can prove it, because, Truth Is Uncreated. So, obviously, not something you can make or do to give Him: "for who has known the thinking of the Lord, that we should instruct Him??? But we have the Thinking of Christ." ('Taken from 1 Corinthians 2:15-16, corrected translation of nous.) So, obviously, by redeeming everything with Doctrine, you aren't working at it either. So, obviously, God gets what He didn't work for, the only way it can be done! Pure profit! Cry all the way to the bank, baby.


You're Fabulously Rich! And you can only lose by refusing: no robber, no moth, etc. verse. Matthew 6:19-20, Luke 12:33. You are given doctrine as your own possession. It's like an unlimited credit card or bank account. The only real mandate in the Bible is the First Commandment — which is a command to spend, spend spend! Doctrine, Doctrine, Doctrine! And, best of all, we know from how Our Lord paid for sins that with Doctrine, you can spend, spend, spend — but never get a bill. That's what Isaiah is talking about in Isaiah 55! (Water is a metaphor for Bible Doctrine throughout the Bible.)

So, then: if something's bad, spend Doctrine on it! If something's good, spend Doctrine on it! If you want to cure a wrong, spend Doctrine on it! If you want to effect a right (καλῶς ποιεῖτε!), spend Doctrine on it! Each spending is an exhale of Love toward Our Lord, and toward the Father! And, since money always begets money, this spending of True Money makes you richer, still!

Say you're in trouble and you claim a promise: say, Psalm 46:10. Doctrine redeems the temptation to keep on feeling troubled. That makes you stronger the next time a temptation to be troubled occurs. Hebrew has a word for trust (tiqwa, Job 4:6) which etymologically means repeated twining of threads into an unbreakable rope. That's kinda how spending Doctrine works. Its properties are, since an Attribute of God, like all His other attributes. So, inviolable, forever. So, undefeatable, in any kind of combat. Even, the Cross. Because we don't believe this is true, we don't see the benefits (and of course don't get them, either). However, repeated doctrinal deposits enable one to see how true it is — and thus it becomes easy (almost without thinking) to believe it. Then, the benefits are visible as well. On anything, anywhere, all the time: even while sleeping. (Belief constitutes a type of assent, always. God never coerces, ergo the need to believe.)

The trick is to understand that whatever is low, bad, upsetting, painful — will still occur. And probably, worsen! You can't get the skill training you need in Problem Solving Devices usage without the 'bad' as continuing catalyst! See, mass/energy finiteness means there will be feelings. However, as we saw above with respect to pain and knowledge, knowing impacts feeling far more than the feeling itself. What you know changes how you feel. That's because, you're using 'truth' (real truth, or imagined truth, the body can't tell the difference).

So, then: what must happen if you deploy Real Truth, the Bible, from your weapons database? You'll feel better. Sure, you'll have to use it a lot to reprogram all those past bad-feeling associations... but you're using Real Truth now. And in God, all is Profit. So: no reason to feel bad. Even, when bad is truly occurring. This is how the Lord enjoyed the Cross: He recognized the real meaning of the horrific, beyond imagining pain of the imputations and Judgement. The Meaning is so wonderful, even the pain becomes wonderful! It's not masochism. To understand how this can be true requires lots of practice undergoing the lesser pains for some years. 'Partly, so you can build up the strength for the bigger ones. Which, of course, will likely look small (see Matthew 4).

It's really a lot like military training and tactics. Sometimes, Problem Solving Devices need to be laid down like a barrage, almost instinctively. Sometimes, flanking movements. Sometimes, a deft one-stroke kill shot, like the Lord uses in Matthew 4:4: greatest triumph! those sudden verse recalls which exactly pun the problem in question. Ohhh, and you just know it's not your smarts giving you the recall!

It can become a fast-paced skill game. But it takes a lot of practice: most of the spiritual life is spent just getting enough study so you are at the point where you can really play! What's cool at that point is that you can look back and realize that all those past Twilight Zones where you just hung on, not knowing how the experience could be helpful — all that past was just a series of orchestrated Field Training Exercises for now, when you do know!

The enemy is within, really. No need to fight externals. It's a lot like how one is taught to resist brainwashing techniques, and you defend against them the same way: but using Doctrine, not man's idea of fighting. For man's idea is to get rid of the enemy. God's idea, by contrast, is to disregard the enemy. Like, the Lord's Humanity did on the Cross (Hebrews 12:2). So the Problem Solving Devices basically turn off interest in the taunts which invade (or clamor around in) body and soul, because you see the God-given definitions for these things, and you look instead at God's definitions. It takes some getting used to, this practice, because at first the shock and unfamiliarity of the taunts attracts so much of your concentration! But, with repetition, familiarity sets in. Volition switches from barely staying positive ... more toward curiosity and interest in the Doctrinal meaning.. to σπουδάζω, enthusing. Heh — but it don't happen overnight, and it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings...

Of course, it's normal (human nature) to expect that God will remove a problem, if you ask Him to do so; of course, it's normal (Divine Nature) to expect that Truth and Righteousness would never affirmatively answer a prayer which (knowingly or not) asks for harm. Even the spiritually-advanced Paul, in 2 Corinthians 12, kept praying for his 'thorn' to be removed, though he well knew it was there for his benefit! (Greek dative doesn't show up in English, but it frequently has a connotation of something for your benefit.) But God didn't take it away. Read the passage before going on, beginning at "third heaven".

Why didn't God remove it? Doctrine, because Truth, never plays genie, never removes a thorn, never gerrymanders any other kind of truth. Like, the truth of whatever bad is happening to you. Like, the truth of whatever good is happening to you. But — get this! — spending Doctrine on that thing bonds that thing to the Doctrine (making sweet savor), so you come to want that thing to happen because of the doctrinal bonding. This is your propitiation, baby! Sweet savor to you also! So, if that 'thing' weren't there, you couldn't have the Doctrine 'playing' with/on it! Sweet? You bet. Imagine your worst nightmares becoming happiness? Is there a sweeter revenge than this? For doo-doo to become Diamonds? Paul sure thought it sweet! "boast... in my weaknesses..." (2 Corinthians 12:5,9; too bad English is so tame. Paul is exultant!)


It's not sophistry, but a real alchemic change. Let's take an example. Most people start to feel bad about themselves if something makes them look bad. Doesn't really matter whose fault it is, the result is to feel 'ugly' in some way. Doesn't matter if it's really true, either — someone else will consider 'you' in a negative light due to this 'weakness' which you really have or you are thought to have. So, if related to your job, maybe you get demoted, fired, or don't get the promotion you wanted. If in love, the one you love is less attracted, etc. You can think of other categories. Now, watch: "for when I am weak, then I am strong." That's a rationale used in 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 4:10, 2 Corinthians 12:10, 2 Corinthians 13:9. Next, add these: "For, the Lord will fight for you today" (Moses, to Exodus generation, just before God parted the Reed Sea.); "If God for us, who against us?" (Romans 8); "For, He cannot deny Himself (meaning you are part of Him!)." (2 Timothy 2:13). See? God Loves You And Empowers You. So who gives a flip about weakness, when in fact your being weak justifies Him pouring the Power (Doctrine!) into you (2 Corinthians 12 passage)! Okay, baby — so where's the feeling of inadequacy? Gone!

Feelings come from many sources, and your brain accepts every stimulus. Every thought you think, every sound you hear, everything within your periphery is acting upon your brain, telling it informations and associations. Your brain accepts them all; Your soul tells your brain what is and is not 'true'. So if your soul accepts a stimulus, the brain records it as 'true'. If your soul rejects a stimulus, your brain records it as 'false'. That's why it's so hard to change habits: you've been telling yourself XYZ for so long, to switch to its opposite, ABC, is all uphill! So feels, awful! So, then: wouldn't you feel stupid if you've been telling yourself something is true... when it isn't? Like, a feeling which has no basis in fact? Like, a feeling that you are lousy, though God says you are a 'saint'! (Look up "saint" verses, and chuckle over who God calls, saints! Why no one brings this up to the saint-makers... oh well.)

See, the brain itself really doesn't think: it's just a sponge. A relational database. So, the biggest 'source' for your feelings, is the accumulated database in your brain: what you told your brain a thing was; what assessment/feeling/truth you baptized/associated with the item in question. So, if you've been telling yourself how lousy you are, how lousy you feel X gazillion times, you'll get constant feedback to that effect. It's just the Energizer Bunny using old programming. Mentally-ill people suffer from this to such an extent, they can't even function, at times, in society. It's the brain-feedback, malprogrammed, running amok. So, in rehabilitating such folks (and the success rate is not good), the trick is to get them to see the Truth of a thing. Much more, is this how Bible Doctrine works. Truth Heals. So, you'll still have those old feelings for quite some time. Spend Doctrine On Them; heal them with Bible Doctrine; redeem your brain's sick, mindless cells with Bible Doctrine. tell your brain cells The Truth: God Loves You, and God is right, not your brain cells. The Energizer Bunny will run down: fire at it! (My pastor calls this "epistemological rehabilitation".)

One of the greatest Doctrinal uses against feelings of inadequacy I've discovered goes like this: if I were Pleroma (highest spiritual status), how would I think about X item? Then, simply practice that answer, to the extent you know it (don't worry about what you don't know, but practice what you do know). It's a lot of fun. More: if you aren't sure of the whole, by practicing that part you are sure of, you will learn more about what you don't know. This is true, because all Truth is flawlessly connected. So by focusing on what you do know for sure is true, the things you don't know related to that truth will become clear. It's a great satisfaction! And a relief, for you don't focus on anything else: not your status, not how you feel, not what people say. Instead, all ya gotta do is... practice! Simple, plain, and easy. Another version of this is the now-famous WWJD, but changed to "What would Jesus Think?" For Thinking is Doing the Word, and any do's without the word are sheer trash. So, technically, WWJD is incorrect, or is answered by, what He would do, is Think! That's what paid for sins. So that's what pays for everything.

So: He's the Pleroma of Pleromas, so... if 'I' were Pleroma, what would I think? Then, (here's the best part, the true fun in life) practice that thinking. The whole spiritual life is an apprenticeship in Kingship. Your inheritance, reserved for you from eternity past by God the Father is a Kingship. To honor the King over Kings, you are slated to become a King with your own kingdom. Like-mindedness: Kings think alike. That's why you have this inheritance. That's why you have this iron-clad guarantee from Each of the Members of the Godhead to train you in what only They can do. (One of the purposes of Their Indwelling us is to witness to this guarantee, and to provide us with a success in supernatural training only They can empower. So one's own inadequacies are wholly irrelevant, just as one's competencies are wholly irrelevant. What is relevant is our agreement. So use 1Jn1:9 like breathing, and keep on wanting God's Script!)

Now, you need to practice kingship to become able to actually be a king, post-death. It's a profession which has a workday round-the-clock. So it is to become you, natural, instinctive. And as we know even with secular athletes and other professions, practice practice practice. Practice what you know is right, aiming to practice better. Don't worry about what you get wrong. Practice alone will get you there: stay online with your Personal Trainer, your Mentor, the Holy Spirit. Keep on the steps of "1 John's Outline of God's Script", and you'll get there. Your Mentor will be guiding you. He will make the practice efficacious. It's a lot like training to become a torero, if you know anything about (so-called) bullfighting. It's a lot like becoming a Navy Seal, if you know anything about that branch of the United States military. More, though: it is how one trains to become a King. Perfect Trainer. Perfect Doctrine. Practice away, and have lots of fun!

I live on these rationales, so I can attest to their fabulousness. Before the Lord, I attest to you that it's far better to have the 'problem', given the Doctrine which bonds to it! Like Shakespeare wrote, "If after the tempest come such calms, then Blow, Wind! Crack Your Cheeks!" What's so awesome is that Doctrine does it all. So, I no longer need anything else to 'work' for me. 'Happiness' need not be limited to outer 'stuff' being nice for me. I can enjoy all the suffering, too! No limits! Dunno about you, but I'm darned if I'm gonna limit my enjoyment to situations/times when I feel good. Who says that it's only good if it feels good? Society? Commercials? The ad for that new car, which by the way only costs money and never yet made the driver a better person? Naw, I'd rather learn how to enjoy everything. Moreover, Doctrine says this: any loss is just as much a gain as any gain — in fact, the losses are bigger gains! Just as you'd expect, since to pay for the huge cost of sin, Doctrine would have to be bigger! And the biggest payoff of seeing this alchemic change — is to realize you are getting a paradigmal experience of what it was like for Him while on the Cross! No other kind of wealth could even 'imagine' making this much money! Seeing Him via His Thinking is indescribable.

Yep, entirely a problem of having wealth. We start with the wealth of a trichotomous life, at salvation. As Romans 8 explains, the point is to fill all compartments of these three parts with Doctrine, and for all three to function together in synergistic, coordinated skill. Olympic-level, going for and getting (at Pleroma), the "gold". So, then: learning Doctrine per se "transforms" (Romans 12:2-3) the believer line by line, thread by thread (batach, baby). The Soul is where volition, memory, etc (eight compartments) are located, so filling up (πληρόω) is actually run through it. Technically, then, the process and result of filling up the compartments is achieved in the form of coordination between soul and spirit, soul and body. Spirit runs human spirit, and then fills up the soul with Doctrine; but soul's (your!) volition must assent to each discrete transmission, in order for that transmission to complete; volition must choose as well the intra-soul storage and usage functions, in order for the Holy Spirit to process them — that's why 1 John 1:9 is so vital. As to Body: it's acted on by soul; if Spirit-filled soul, then body gets filled (i.e., neurons of brain) with Doctrine via that process. Is this description clear enough?

These four problems, like the Four Decisions, seem to be (I'm guessing) parallel to what the Colonel calls the "Two Tactical" and "Two Strategic" Objectives. First Tactical Objective, Problem Solving Device #6, "Personal Sense of Destiny". That is a type of stasis, motive, purpose 'sense'. So is the first of the Four Decisions, Atonement. Christ wanted to take on Humanity in order to Atone, so He wanted to be also alive humanly in order to Gift the Father; so, He chose that Destiny to fulfill that purpose (Εἷς γὰρ Θεός... Εἷς Μεσίτης). So too, the believer's motive at the stage/Problem Solving Device of #6. Second Tactical Objective, Spiritual Maturity (AKA SM), completes the structural wealth: so, resembles Propitiation. The 'condition' which motivated the Lord to want to add Humanity to Himself in the first place, was to satisfy the Father. Atonement alone doesn't satisfy, for Atonement pays for damages, not the opportunity cost. The believer at SM now has the ability to satisfy, and, like the Lord, wants to do so, for the same reason. So, the SM believer 'lives on' Problem Solving Device #10 (e.g., Philippians 1:21 and Philippians 3:9).

That is the First Strategic Objective, for in order for Christ to satisfy the Father He had to be structurally τελειόω'd (completed) and then function as Atoner and Propitiator. The believer Occupied with Him (a stable condition, by SM or shortly thereafter) has the same attitude, but Occupation with Christ alone enables him to get the requisite skill. Ergo, the two how's of the last sentence of crimson paragraph. These correspond to Reconciliation and Redemption, first in the sense that the believer's constituent parts go through a reconciliation (harmonizing, synthesizing) process, via which process the remaining non-coordinated functions of him are 'redeemed'. Thus, the first Recon and Redempt is inside the believer himself: he becomes functionally "one", united, harmonized. Ergo, the second Recon and Redempt: outer, toward the Father, using Problem Solving Device #10 as his motivational base, plus the attendant wealth-skills the other Problem Solving Device battalions engender. So, now the "how's" are operating, and (with Evidence Testing) at progressively-more-inviolate levels, thus producing the "sweet savor". So, a third Reconcile & Redempt function ensues: outer, toward the world, resulting in a competence and productivity the world rarely receives. It doesn't have to be felt or visible to be working, since Truth, being of Infinite Quality, has no 'dimension'.

So, a Fourth Reconcile & Redempt function completes this rondelet:blessing to the believer's periphery can be reconciled and redeemed, too, as an expression of Father's Pleasure in that sweet savor. That's the heart of why "blessing by association" works: for the foundational and paradigmal blessing-by-association, was the Cross.

The First Strategic Objective, stable residence and usage of Problem Solving Device #10, Occupation with Christ, thus gives rise to the Second Strategic Objective, Pleroma. For, in the constant function and use of Problem Solving Device #10 at SM onward, even through the Evidence Tests, the now-built steel mill proves it keeps on working profitably no matter what is thrown at it. In short, @Pleroma threshold the believer himself is an inviolately profitable entirety which not only knows why to want life and wealth, but how to live and use wealth.

"Strategic Objectives" means the overall goal which is sought (i.e., in deciding whether to go to war, or sell a product/service). Why do the thing? "Tactical Objectives", by contrast, are those benchmarks which have to be obtained in order to have the requisite base on behalf of the Strategic Objective. So, we needed to take the bridge at Remagen (tactical objective) in order to get occupation of Germany (strategic objective) in WWII. In turn, the purpose of the occupation of Germany, was to secure peace — so, that was the biggest Strategic Objective. So, Problem Solving Device #6, Atonement, are "bridges" to a thing; so, SM was the "bridge" to Occupation. ('Because you need the whole realm of Doctrine metabolized and fluently running in you in order to be occupied — great play on words, that — He occupies you, so you are occupied with Him — aha! 2 Corinthians 5!) Occupation is the First Strategic Objective, because living for Him is the whole point of living, just as the Son's own desire to be Human was for the Father. So, we live for the Father with the Son, so to speak, in our thinking, from Problem Solving Device #10 forward. Ergo, the Second Strategic Objective, the completion of you as Fit Bride: Pleroma. At that point, an inviolably complete, full functioning entity. Fit for a King. Fit for a kingdom, therefore, of your own On His Behalf.

So far, the series takes the macro approach of outlining, sketching, in order to keep on top the accounting of linkages between Eternity Past Decision to Create, and... the outcome; with the raison d'etre being, "what is the spiritual life and how do we live it now?" So the how-long issue is merely noted in passing, with the stress being that it's a lifelong process. The thresholds along the way help one see one's progress, but more importantly, the design. It doesn't really matter how long or how short the time is from one threshold to the next, and of course no two of us are alike, so no two times-between-thresholds are alike. So, in short, to spend more time on the length seems a lot like Satan's ubiquitous "misemphasis" tactic. Or, could be used that way. It is true that with spiritual growth one goes through little, annoying periods of being preoccupied with where one is on the spiritual-growth graph. Frankly, I now suspect these are Energizer Bunny (Old Sin Nature) attacks, or maybe even demon influence attempts. Because, the 'answer' doesn't alter the real answer: Keep Growing! Forget What's Behind; who wronged you, who you wronged, what mistakes were made on you or to you or by you — who the flip cares? "All promises have their yes! in Him"!

It truly is a stupid question. We all have, as my pastor puts it, areas of strength and weakness in our souls; in our sin natures (Old Sin Nature, the Energizer Bunny). These are a result of decisions we've been making since birth. We might fool ourselves that we are covetous because we grew up poor; that we are anal because our parents trained us to be; but all that's just hogwash. we chose it. Doesn't matter why. So, these little strengths and weaknesses become inextricably woven into our personalities: so, in the spiritual life, we have glitches.

For some, the glitches are big in the beginning of the life: is God really the God of the Bible, is the Gospel true, was there really a world wide flood, is the Genesis account true (lol no one really even agrees on what it says!), etc. ad nauseam. It's a starting-gate glitch. But, many's the race where the one who had beginning trouble, got past it, and then zoomed past everyone else! Look at the apostle Paul! He's a classic example.

For others, the glitches occur late in the spiritual life (my guess is Satan's the classic example). They got in easy, were gung-ho, ran and rocketed, then..slump! Paul of course hit this also. So did Moses (who seems to be yet another example of someone who had trouble at beginning, and late, but was gangbusters in the middle).

So you can't say anything about how long it lasts, because you can't say what someone else's glitches will be, nor how long they will stay stuck in them. You can say that 99% or so of believers historically, spiritually arrest somewhere around spiritual age "10" or earlier! That accounts for all the babyish Church history! We just don't seem to break into puberty, en masse. But then, neither did Israel. Every once in a while, you'll see a generation break out, like the Psalm 119 people did; like Hezekiah's people did; but then it goes back down. America's big growth periods seem to be the Civil War and WWI aftermath. We started careening south somewhere in the 1950's. Europe's appear to have been 1700's or 1800's (going by how availability of Bible skyrocketed). In short, whether in the individual spiritual life or even on a macro scale, the glitches can't be timed; so, the length from babyhood to Spiritual Maturity (the stage, not the generic moniker) — can't really be defined. It's long. Life-Long, in fact. Which, even absent any growth thresholds one can define, is not only necessary, but desirable. He's Gorgeous: who wants anything less than a forever!

Maybe some short comments would be helpful, though, for Doctrinal Orientation usage of the question: to learn something about Doctrine. Not so much about self. Or, if about self, to tack in the wind. In short, as G-2 'intelligence' information, using what my pastor calls the "mirror" (James 1, last half) of Doctrine in the soul. Nothing more. (Energizer Bunny can grab that as its justification — so if the urge to dwell on the question exists, then it's not a D.O. function. Same, if the urge to negate any answer. Denial of true growth is a big problem, just as big as claiming growth. "Neither to the right, nor to the left" is where D.O. sits. Hmmm. Maybe that piece on my fridge could be folded in here, for that's how to cut through the flak?)

Here's the process, so at least the length can be objectively understood. At whatever age we first believe in Christ, two things immediately are true: 1) we enter the spiritual life via the Holy Spirit regenerating us; 2) we enter the spiritual life with all of our accumulated understandings of life — right ones, and wrong ones. So, then: the critical importance of immediately finding one's right pastor-teacher becomes obvious: gotta eat! Eating will gradually or quickly replace the wrong understandings with right ones. One meal at a time. So eat often.

For example, say that you had long thought that you had to do something besides "just believe" in Christ in order to be saved. One day, it 'suddenly' clicks in your head that no, you only need to believe to be saved! Wow! So you do that. (Maybe you had already believed, and were already saved, but now you know you are. Big deal, that.) That clicking, which was really a whole logistical operation God the Son orchestrated for however long it took to get you to 'click', added and replaced knowledge in your head. Still, your understanding (συνίημι in Greek, Ephesians 5:17, interconnected knowledge) is still small. You can only use what you both believe and understand. But, even a dot of such knowledge is infinitely valuable! And, at first you're excited about your 'insight' (φρόνησις, another Bible word), so you use it a lot! Aha. Lots more understanding is manufactured from that dot. So, lots more dots, because you're eating it over and over, heh. So, your faith grows.

Since all Truth is perfectly and infinitely connected, this one dot now opens perspicacity to lots of other dots. So you eat more and more and begin to see the connections between the dot of believe-only and other doctrines! So, again, additions and replacements are going on. And on and on. More than the Energizer Bunny can cope with!

So, your Energizer Bunny gets excited. Doubts about what you 'ate' bombard. People 'help' those doubts (Satan & Co. use them, don't blame them). So you start to question. Aha. The questions, if you keep on them, add and replace more doctrinal understanding: aha, the bad thing, the doubt, is used to do a good thing, more Bible class, the spiritual life!

And so on. It's kinda tumultuous, at times. Gets more so, the more you understand, but by then, the tumult is kinda interesting, and you find yourself more curious to learn than bothered by the tumult per se. In the beginning (unless you're starting growth late in physical life and can afford the faster-and-higher intensity), it's easy. Fun. Relaxing. But in all events, it takes time.

Doctrine Works. It's not whether something you gotta do or think hurts or feels good. It's only the doctrine. Naturally, there are things in life which are unpleasant, either because they are innately that way, or because you have come to value them that way. No matter: Doctrine Works, so fire doctrine at such things. By the same token, there are things in life which are pleasant, for either or both of the same two reasons as for unpleasant things, people, etc. So it's always and only the Doctrine, which Held Him Together On The Cross: so, then, what is it doing for you? So, then: who cares about how long it takes, if you get to have Bible class every second from now through all eternity!


Macro Collateral Drama Topics

What the Pharisees in the Lord's day objected to, was that He claimed to be the Son — not that there was One. So also, after He paid for us, you don't see Acts or the Epistles spend time clarifying what's Scripture, or what Trinity is. It's very obvious, from their matter-of-fact "Him" "He" usage, and by verses like 2 Corinthians 13:14 that everyone knew these things. Instead, the writers spent time clarifying other issues, like how the ending of the Old Testament affected spiritual life (central theme of Hebrews); like, how to live the life in light of certain Roman customs (whether to eat meat, cut hair, in Corinthians); like when the Rapture would happen (when, not "if" — very important point, in Thessalonians). Like, the whole panorama of the spiritual life now (main themes of Hebrews, Ephesians, Colossians, Romans 5 and following). So you can tell what they knew and didn't know.

But oh, by Constantine's time, people are so stupid they argue over whether the Lord is God as well as man? No one argued that in the Bible. But oh, by Constantine's time, people are so stupid they have to have a council to decide? What about seeking counsel from the Lord, for what one can't fathom? "Father, please help me read these verses better, because I'm confused about the Lord's Nature" — what about that question? Or, "Father, please help me explain Trinity and Hypostatic Union to these confused Arians, since the Lord paid for them too" — and, if the explanation doesn't work, leave it up to God to help them, rather than persecuting them? Oh no — can't defer to God, must defer to religious (satanic!) councils and state-sponsored persecution!

The importance of this stupidity is to show how Total Depravity has operated historically, so that folks can see better that the so-called 'unknowability of God' is entirely a lie. God Can Make Himself Known. Again, it's who and what God is, not man. Duh.

The Lord pays, dies, is Resurrected... and the whole world seems to go nuts. Scripture goes everywhere... by 96 AD it's so widespread (despite persecution) that it goes 'political'. That trend, coupled with those who really got the spiritual life right, progresses side-by-side for about 100 more years: the Five Good Caesars. By then, the 'activists' were overwhelming majority, so SPQR dives into a rapid decline. It's so bad that they even forget how to read and use greek properly, according to Cary. No kidding: that's why they needed those stupid councils, and why it could even be argued whether the Lord was God as well as man (which even a cursory read of Matthew 4 answers loudly: how could Jesus be tempted to use Deity three times, if He wasn't already God? duh.)

Okay: so we're dumb as stumps by Constantine's day, so of course any ol' Roman customs can be sold as being original Christianity. We can't even read by this time, so... hey, whatever. That accounts for the cold shoulder everyone gave Jerome... until his translation into (then-modern) Latin with venerability patinas due to age (as Christopher de Hamel notes) — which, of course, was by then a Latin no one could read anymore, even if that stupid script was actually legible for a change! Great: so we just keep chanting psalmodies, and keep the Bible under lock and key: though few can read it. Satan's taking no chances! Drat... etc.

So, of course, Satan was real careful to see that the one country which desired to separate Church and State — England — would have the worst language! A mutt language! Formed of the ones preceding it, willy-nilly! So, big surprise: the English translations strip out almost all flavor in the original Scripture, and render what's left, tortured and ambiguous, so both Catholic and Protestant can proudly say Bible 'supports' his sect's view! Yeah, baby, now we can all kill each other with more conviction! My best friend says the food in England is prepared specially to suck out all the flavor before eating. The language is definitely afflicted with that dryness quality. English is great for legal contracts, but terrible at communicating attitude or precision. Just try getting any true 'help' from Windows! (English words are naturally ambiguous, owing to English's polyglot formative history and defensive need to play middleman/diplomat for national survival.)

So, here we are, in the 21st century; all this while, the good ol'boy interpretations of the Bible have remained dominant. However, as part of the iconoclasm came a breaking-up of the good ol'boy network, and new mini-cliques came about. Some of these were really brilliant in scholarship. Most descended to clique level, but in the process the whole network is a lot more decentralized, and it's less of a crime for the RSV to use different words in English; wow, even an NIV can come along (well, Luke 1:15, which alone properly translates ἐκ κοιλίας, must have missed the rabid prolife censors). So into the vacuum formed by the roteness of the good ol' boy network comes all these other competitors. Most are bad, true — but some good ones. So by the end of the 20th century, it's a free-for-all. Kinda like where the world was circa 180 AD. Well, we learn from history that we learn nothing from history, again.

Meanwhile, the people are the beneficiaries of all this internecine strife among the so-called scholars (the real ones just studying and teaching, like good scholars always do). For, now it's so controversial what a verse says, Joe Shmo Average Believer has to come to learn something of the original languages. Strong's is way inadequate, to be sure — but it's a start. And now anyone can download popular Bible software offering all of the original language text in every language, though 100 years ago, I'd have to be a pastor to be allowed to know anything about the Real Scripture.

Hmmm. So at this point in the unfolding reclamation (whoa! a play on you-know-what! I realized that after typing it!), millions upon millions of folks have a chance to really learn Scripture. Which, of course, was the original intention — the New Testament was written to plain folks who informally gathered to learn Doctrine — and they didn't need anyone but their pastor to explain it. They didn't need religion! So now, during this part of the reclamation, people aren't needing it anymore. Hmmm. 'Full circle'. And, the crop of curious people (for that's all it takes: interest, not 'smarts') — well, 'they want to know'. God. Personally. Just know Him. So, Gramma Satan must trot out his trick bag of emotionalism/ritual/etc. And especially, oh-let's-end-this-controversy-and-unite-again-to-Mom. Oh, let's just be at peace together, and feel alright. All religions are the same, all truth is relative, all serious students need to be persecuted as disturbers-of-Nirvana! Yeah, while everyone vies for who's the Best Reclaimer, and who's the disturber! Calls for unity always precede war, in history. As predictable... as treaties & alliances. You can practically set your watch!

Whew. The 21st century is gonna be tumultuous, then. In the process, the good and bad of the good ol'boys network is getting exposed, collated, absorbed... a sort of coalescing database. Moreover, given the 1950 and following discoveries, the real ICE information is getting likewise exposed, collated, absorbed... another coalescence. Whew. Best-and-worst time to live, a climactic century. For this century, unlike those since the first, will be the one which has such widespread, easy availability of both good scholarship, and bad — to the common man. Can't keep the Bible under wraps, anymore. Plus, best of all, the Real Bible. To love, hate, cherish, chuck, beat on or build on. Most will turn apathetic, as usual, so one of the lessons of the 21st century is that people (in prior centuries) who didn't have the Bible easily available were no more interested than those who did. So one can't blame the Roman Catholic Church or whoever's-claimed-the-bad-boy for whatever false teaching one 'discovers' self to have believed. For, now the Bible is widely available, and what do folks do with it? Nothing! As usual. The Abuse of Scripture, then, passes from the ranks of the scholar... to the common man! Can't blame authority, now! At which point, when that lesson is learned, the pendulum will swing back to embracing authoritarianism. The trend in that direction is already in place: people want Daddy, again. So, nothing will be learned from this history. As usual. Even so: what a time to be alive! The #2 Trial issue resurfaced on a macro level with regard to the Bible, beginning about 1700-1800... and is reaching a series of crescendoes. 21st century is the biggest since Patmos, looks like...

In this unfolding drama of the interest in and slants on Scripture since Adam, the following interpretations have been trotted out, played out in history... over and over. The goal is for folks to see the multistoried meanings in each verse in concert, rather than taking a few of the 'stories' and then spinning too-narrow distortions as 'the' meaning. Watch:

  1. Eve, the first religious person in history, spins the Tree Prohibition as a physical thing, In ignorance, taking it literally instead of spiritually. Ergo, all the physical-meaning distortions, such as: God has emotions, the Father has a Body; Satan had sex with Eve; "proceed"; the Son was only human or didn't die on the Cross — all these 'flow' from the body distortion pattern of Eve. No wonder all the phallic cults of old (and now) fit in here! An Eve-flavored distorter tends to put too much 'body' in any Scripture verse he reads. That's why the "oneness" controversy occurs: to insist God must be One in Number, especially when Three Persons are depicted in Scripture, is to be thinking like Eve: bodily, rather than spiritually. Another example: if someone asks about you, and you find yourself defining yourself in terms of outer inconsequential details like your age, your sex, your occupation... you're thinking like Eve did. If you find yourself constantly evaluating everything and everyone, constantly thinking in terms of looks and actions... you're thinking like Eve did. If, most of all, you find yourself discomfited by what you feel is the proper recognition of your role or worth... you're thinking like Eve did. So, we all think like Eve, too.
  1. Adam, the second religious person in history, spins the Tree Prohibition, even though he knows better, into a 'do good for people' thing — to allegedly honor his wife. That's why the first thing he does at his fall is a good deed: the fig leaves. Oh, he's gonna throw himself away for his wife, what a good man! Ergo, all the do-good spins on the Bible flow from the protective distortion pattern of Adam, from murdering heretics to patting oneself on the head for the sacrifice of the weekly laundry-chore visit to God (church attendance). 'Always In God's Name, yet always looking instead at People. No wonder there's always a drive for a sacrificial, sacerdotal/ritualistic elite to tell the poor, unwashed masses what the Bible says — while hiding/chopping the Bible's own words! Big Brother would be proud! An Adam-flavored distorter tends to put too much 'protectionism' and 'work' into any Scripture verse he reads. For example, if you find yourself constantly wanting the government to fix problems in society; if you find yourself constantly evaluating everything and everyone in terms of society-recognized accomplishments... you're thinking like Adam did. If you find yourself reticent to disagree with some group you belong to... you're thinking like Adam did. Above all, if you are plagued by guilt, or needing to 'do more'... you're thinking like Adam did (fig leaves). So, we all think like Adam, too.
  1. The Lord, the first and only Savior in history, announces the salvation package after the pair admitted their sin: that He would take on humanity, pay for sins, and thus defeat Satan (depicted, as Isha/Eve knew, by that serpent). The salvation "bruise" clause is very cleverly stated after Eve's punishment of childbearing is announced; so it's very funny! The mother-of-all-sin becomes the 'mother'-of-salvation! (Paul caught this; he told the woman-dominated Timothy, too, when he said the woman would be 'saved' by childbearing! 🤣). Ergo, all the salvation distortion patterns. See, the sentence is: man must work on Earth, no more freebie Eden; God the Son will add on Humanity, and be sacrificed for all sins of all mankind, and thus both: 1) forever save every man who once believes in Him, by giving him eternal life; and 2) defeat the angels who war against God and man. Now: for your homework assignment, play with the bold-font clauses; see if you can't derive every kind of god-and-man-and-salvation distortion ever espoused. 'Like we did as kids: take some words out "the" sentence, and rearrange them into other sentences! The 'sentence' is the primordial DNA of the idea. To me, it's so obvious that every propitiate-god idea comes from this one. You can literally see them fractalize from it! (This is the only 'story' which has all the elements necessary to be parental of all the others.)
  1. 'Progeny' of these distortions will thus manifest a combination of the First Parents and the Lord's salvation covenant; so, these combinations will mutate in every possible permutation, fractally.

In the Old Testament, the information started with largely-correct transmission; then branched into phallicism of various ascetic colors; for the point was to get 'close' to God! But "God" of course got shrunk into polytheism, so everyone could have someone to get close to! So the phallicism, comes from the Eve distortion; the asceticism, from the Adam distortion; the get-close, from the salvation package. Thus you have the oooh-aaah of intercourse, but also the 'ouch' of burnt-sacrificing; (i.e., children, very common); castration, virgin-perpetual-priestesses, cutting skin, etc. ad nauseam. Feeling is emphasized; which compensates for the fact that the faith precepts-and-definitions make no sense. Concert becomes cacophony.

As time progresses, man develops productivity from his environment, so has more time to rest, so has more Time To Think. So, comes progressively to want the story to make sense. So, begins to philosophize. Actually, the trend begins quite early, but as time passes this philosophizing begins to replace "God" with "man" as the object. As noted in Spiritual Pathology, Julian Jaynes does a fabulous job of tracing the change in man's thought pattern (though he's wrong in his conclusions, because he wants to prove that belief in God is insane). Of course, en route, fractal-like combinations of 'reason' and the old-school distortions combine and combine and combine...

The 20th century is the century during which nearly all authority/economic/political systems which were stable and in place for hundreds and even thousands of years break up. It is also a time when the world becomes aware of its size, kinda like the Tower (Ziggurat) of Babel. It is also a time when man comes to enjoy an unprecedented increase in ease. Granted, every century contributes something; but all these "contributions" coalesce in but a few centuries of history. James Burke's series, "The Day the Universe Changed" attempted to convey something of this phenomenon. Well, however one looks at history, the 20th century is definitely the break-up century — the last one of such magnitude seems to be the period 100 BC-Birth of Christ. So: although the purpose of the foregoing paras is to show the ongoing, organized buildup of reclamation of original Bible meanings despite all the chaos (nay, even because of it, since God is the Ultimate Opportunist).

The question naturally arises, when reviewing the incredibly childish and apostate history of Christendom, why did they last? Has to be true that some grew up, in each generation: enough, to preserve the whole, when combined with the ongoing blessing-by-association due to past believers and especially the Lord. So, then: how did these few folks grow up, if the Bible wasn't available?

Lots of ways to do it, really. At first, teaching was widespread and everyone understood it. You don't see Paul having to explain what the Filling of the Spirit means: all he does is remind the Ephesians (Ephesians 5:18). You don't see Paul having to explain what "Stop quenching" (corrected translation, imperative of prohibition) means to the Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 5:19). Again, just a reminder. Nowhere is it necessary to explain that God is Three Persons, because everyone knows. So clearly is Trinity known, that all Paul and the other writers (including the Lord, in the Gospels) have to do is say "He" plus an activity/quality, etc. The reader knows which "He" is meant. (Plus, that's a beautiful way of stating equality-of-Essence; one of the most beautiful ways in Scripture. My favorite is 2 Corinthians 5:21, which employs the same 'pivot' use of the accusative of autos (αὐτῷ) as does Romans 8:28.) So also, nowhere was it necessary to explain what "Messiah" means. Instead, what you find are facts related to what "God" is or does, brought together with some particular quality of God. Why? To explain the relationship between the related thing and God. So also, stuff about the Messiah is given as reminder, and to tie together old prophecies, to explain how a given event or issue is related to Him. The book of Hebrews spends a lot of time on this. So do the Gospels. Upshot: Christian history starts with a known database, which over time gets gradually ignored, and thus succeeding generations don't know as much as their forebears. The Deuteronomy 6 order to pass on the teaching is, as usual, successively distorted and abandoned. This makes it more awkward for serious students of the Bible and pastor-teachers in God's System; as once-obvious doctrines need to be painstakingly rediscovered, and Satan's disinformation runs rampant through emphasis on methods like English translations. Of course with computers we have less of an excuse of generations prior.

So, then: widespread knowledge exists at first; this is variantly passed on, and variantly ignored, to succeeding generations. How passed on? Orally. Why? Because it isn't needed in writing if it is conveyed orally. Which, of course, in that first century, was a good thing, since the compilation of the final books of Canon didn't finish until Patmos (96 AD). Moreover, whatever is passed on can be turned over by the recipient; pondered, looking for how things connect, etc. Spiritual tefillin. Deuteronomy 6 process. So, then: a person would only need certain key Scriptures and interpretations of them in order to compose his own fractals. So, could grow up from a little turned over a lot.

So, then: even though the number set of knowledgeable believers dwindles rapidly from 96 AD onward (figures!), the information is "out there", and people are free to use it while they plow the field, go to the bathroom, sit at a banquet with fellow kings. When one gets up, when one goes to sleep: meaning, all the time. Nice thing about this low life we all live, is that so much of our brain is left free for thinking. Like, thinking about Scripture, God's Doctrine. So, a peasant could reach Pleroma even if all he knows is Gospel and rebound (1 John 1:9's function), and even if all he knows of it, is second-hand (taught by some passing teacher or neighbor). So, a King could reach Pleroma even if all he knows is the same thing. The Holy Spirit runs the system. No handicap on either 'side' of life can hinder growth. Only V- can hinder growth.

Clearly, though, most people didn't turn over whatever they heard. Moreover, they distorted it so horribly, 'Christianity' became this slapstick-satire of the Bible (Satan's autograph is slapstick-satire, filigreed or not). But some did turn it over. Additionally, those who really had a lot of interest in God probably got themselves into priesthood, nunhood, convent or whatever, so they could get more of Bible. That's a natural conclusion, if you are "hot" for God. I remember that, just after I knew I believed in Christ, I was so hungry for finding out how to Get The Word, I'd daydream in Italian class. Still have the book: on the side (paper side, not binding), I penned across all the page edges, "Te Desidero Imparare". Obviously I was a baby! Just as obviously, I Got The Message! So, back in the days when you could only see a bible if you were in a convent (and that, not easily, hoo boy) — if you wanted to know... you did what you had to.

Remember when Constantin von Tischendorf went travelling in the 1800's to St. Catherine's Monastery and found rolls of scripture given him for his evening fire? Who had to petition the Czar, finally, to get release of what became known as Codex Sinaiticus? Okay, well: during his second stay at the monastery, one of the monks had secreted in his own cell another whole manuscript. Clearly that monk wasn't using it as a paperweight; and, since obviously the other copy of the text used for fires! was not cared for, it doesn't surprise me that the monk had to hide it. Of course the monastery disputes Tischendorf's claims that he rescued the manuscript and instead blamed him for theft. 🙄

Salt is invisible, when mixed in with like-substances, heh. So of course we won't see the true salt in the 'visible' history of the Church, since the 'visible' history is largely Satan's use of the Church.

It's God's Attribute. No Divorce. However, in any given moment it's easy to slip into a dissociative (divorcing) mode, even if filled; when feeling runs high or one is busy comprehending a doctrine. Awareness, in either case, diminishes: and that's the break-in-ranks Satan&Co. exploit. Not to mention, one's own old sin nature! So no wonder the rituals which were developed (pretend) to illustrate and marry real Doctrine in the life, end up replacing Doctrine; why study of Doctrine tends to replace the Person. What a mess! who will deliver us from this body-of-death! Thanks to God, by means of/ through Christ Jesus Our Lord!

It ought to be said that many a religious person in history probably caught on to the spiritual life... but at some point either dropped out in discouragement, or actually grew up but was substituted out much like has been done with Moses/Peter/Mary, etc. In short, Satan targets successful believers and then so distorts their lives as to make a complete mockery of them. For example, suppose Calvin really did grow up to Pleroma. We'd not necessarily know. Any writings he had done which were improvements on the Institutes maybe have been lost, or otherwise 'appropriated', such that Beza's 'spin' on Calvin is less correct. Ergo, bang the drum on Calvin, because he did grow up — but misrepresent him. Same ol' dog, same ol' tricks. Or, suppose some translator or cleric during Nicea or Westminster came up with the right description, but was drowned out/ostracized by the oh-so-holy 'majority' (really a clique). Well, we'd not know that, either. So what's 'my' point? Like Stalin said, it's important to glamorize the banal. [Find out in what version of Fainsod's tome that is; it's on one of my Russian A&E videos; of course, Col. has quoted the 1936 speech dozens of times throughout the years.] Of course, he got that idea through the kindly services of Satan & Co. So, then: we should be on the lookout for the still, small voice; not the flashy, popular, or titillating one. Truth will not cast God as a genie, Bozo, black-garbed skull head prelate, or Dr. Respectable. Truth will cast God as making sense, not brownie or political points, pot pies or gee-whiz miracles. So, then: we should respect pastors (and scholars) more, because theirs is the toughest of jobs; but be likewise more chary of whatever 'spin' is being promoted... for it is probably the wrong 'version'. The wrong version will always be popular: too facile, senseless. After all, God, not man, wrote the Bible (pea-brain Bible-bunkers notwithstanding); God, not man, should thus always be consulted first. It should be no surprise that when the Bible discusses false doctrine, it always places emphasis on 'the many' over the few, yet, the majority of Christians buying into very popular false doctrines like works salvation completely ignore this fact.

So, then: if I don't learn to "Κράτει ὃ ἔχεις"! ὁ Παντοκράτωρ. Baruch atao Adonoi, shema Yisroel: Adonoi Elohenu, Adonai, Χριστοῦ! πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ Θεοῦ! Into the valley, rode the 600...


Topics related to Disclosure and Style

Trial-balance accounting essentially says, "ok, this comes in — where does it go?" And, then assigns it the place it belongs, depending on the nature of what it is. That's how the debit-credit method of accounting came into being: it's a tracking system. Idea being, for every income there has to be an equal and offsetting outgo: money spent on an asset "goes" to that asset, etc. So you can catch any 'funny' transactions. Then, at the end, everything is added up to see if what's on the left side of the balance sheet and income statement, equals the offsets on the right side. If so, then likely (but not error-proof), everything got accounted for. If no, then maybe a mis-entry was made (but usually several which offset each other, so a $5 imbalance may be hiding a $500,000 error). So, one hunts for the mis-entries.

Bible Doctrine works like math: so it is testable. "Ear tests truth" verse (Elihu, one of my favorites) is but one of many mandates to test. (See 1 John 4 also.) So, then: since the accounting method is a fabulous method of testing, even better than science; since Bible Doctrine works like math — this method is essential to seeing any inconsistencies and hence possible errors in one's belief thus far. Great way to make a fast correction and know why, too!

For another reader, the issue will be more involved. At the same time, the purpose of sites for another reader will be simply exposure to ideas. Not validation. He has his own spiritual life, and his own 'trial-balance' to do before the Lord. So sites like this one do not do his work for him. Rather, kinda like any other happenstance, something in its contents acts as an alert, a connector, an insight — and even, validation. So, then the reader applies that information (or not, as he chooses) to his own daily accounting testing before the Lord.

In sum, so far I don't think I ought to go into a lot of detail about the doctrines and their linkages unless I need to do so for myself. Which, so far, is what I've done. And, happily, will always need to keep adjusting and refining. Cry all the way to the bank: wow, I must look at His Beautimous Thinking forevermore! It's a Commandment, heh: the first one. Awww.

In Lesson 1552 it sounds more like a civil war or claim of Independence: class is July 4th, 1999 and Thieme makes a deliberate parallel between the Declaration of Independence and the A.C. In doing so, there's a sort of double entendre usage of "when in the course of human events" (substituted with "angelic" for "human") — like Satan & Co. were using the same rationale for rebelling, but it's really the Lord Who is the Freedom fighter; that Satan & Co. are sentenced (Matthew 25:41) because, for all his genius as the highest angel ever made, Satan couldn't provide freedom. Satan wins appeal on the grounds that he can prove he's right, that he did do good things and would do good things. That's all he said directly; but the clear point of the message is that mankind was created to demonstrate what freedom really is: then, the Four Decisions were reviewed, as "the birth of freedom". Really, ties in completely to all the conclusions in the Thinking series, but of course the format and wording are quite different. However, if the real nature of this is more like a civil war or rebellion-for-independence, I ought to weave that 'color' in more. But, who 'divorces', except in the self-justifying name of independence, and isn't it always a civil war, divorce?

God's whole point in making beings is to Enable Them To Rise Above Finity. True Freedom. So, to rebel is to choose tyranny. No wonder Satan couldn't provide freedom 'his way'. Finity is trapped by nature! Derivative power is rejectionist by nature! So of course, not free, and of course, will mistake its own rejecting quality as a fight for freedom! Wow. Why didn't he figure this out? If dumb me can do it... wait. Then he knows all too well, and just doesn't care. That goes back to the inferiority complex and iconoclastic/jealous-woman motive, which is what drove him to sin in the first place. Wow, bitterness really does know no bounds.

Have it his way

On the one hand, it is true he "can't but try to use" God's creation for his own purposes; on the other hand, he only wants to use God's creation for his own purposes, and he wants to satirize everything God is and does, out of his nearly-bottomless bitterness. the underlying productivity of God's initial design is unwreckable. So, then — on the one hand, yes, Satan's usage of creation has indeed accomplished much of the so-called "advancements" man praises, but for purposes of diverting man's interest away from God — so, all these accomplishments end up wood/hay/stubble ennui, making man more unhappy than if he didn't have them. By contrast, God's design not only results in the "advancements" (however, along a much slower, stabler, permanent path), but also in man's true happiness, whether or not he had them: even if the man remains an unbeliever (because even positive orientation to the Laws of Divine Establishment provides superior happiness, vs. Satan's plan). Thus, in the "middle", Satan's usage overlaps and caroms off God's Plan, which likewise accomplishes his goal of making himself look like The Most High. Very clever. However, the true author of the "advancement" inevitably is displayed, for what God does, results in happiness; what Satan does, results in atrophy. "Same middle, different orientation".


Style Issues

What Are The Components Of The Spiritual Life, in terms of outer functions?

So, part of the Second, is a sort of spiritual auditing: checking one's own understanding versus others helps reveal spiritual accounting flaws. On the positive side of the ledger, it helps one better see what one learned, and it better helps one use what one learned. For example, being in #scripture was of tremendous benefit to me. Bible classes in the past, current, and future were massively increased in value, because I had been exposed to a welter of conflicting interpretations in IRC (at that time a new phenomenon, for me). IRC was live, not merely reading somebody's view of Genesis, or whatever. It made a big difference and rocketed the "fit" of all the doctrines I'd learned. That's what the Holy Spirit did with it — to me. Moreover, He orchestrates every particle of dust, every second, to make a fit Bride out of any believer, anyway. So it's a good thing, this auditing. Trick is to not go overboard with it (and I'd done that for a while, so engrossing it was). Trick is not to substitute some part of the other two functional components of the spiritual life, for in that case it's Satan & Co's relentless kidnapping, 'scoring'.

Notice how everything is "Bible class". God is giving you His Most Precious Asset, The Truth, 24 hours a day! So, capitalize on this gift, heh. How? Well, there's the daily formal bible class ("assembling themselves together verse, but that's for teaching, so a tape recorder can be your 'assembly'); then, the other 23 hours are two other types (at least) of Bible class: the Second, above, which is the turning-over (thinking, pondering, meditating, whatever you want to call it) of meanings, analysis of what you've been learning, kinda like homework; then, the Third, which is living on what you've learned so far while you shop, work, eat... even go to the bathroom, or sleep. Principle is James' "καλῶς ποιεῖτε" (James 2:8 I believe calls this "you do well", not a good translation) means doing a right thing in a right way: Do The Word aright: neither to the left, nor to the right. ergo, balance in all three.

To redeem a thing, you have to 'touch' it via your Doctrinal Thinking while in a Spirit-filled state. That's how we were redeemed, for Christ touched our sins, so to speak, with His Thinking. That Atoned, Propitiated, Reconciled (on God's side) and Redeemed (if we too 'agree', meaning that first belief in christ). So, also, all the things of this world need to be touched by Doctrine. That converts them from having a one-sphere this-world puny meaning, to a toward-Father meaning — just as Jesus did with our sins. So, then: unlike a magic wand, which has to kill a thing to make something good, you can baptize everything in your day with Doctrine. It's a picture of what happened on the Cross, so everything can be holy. Like the Lord told Peter, "What the Lord calls holy, you must not call common" (Acts 11:9, paraphrased). We saw how Infinity wants everything united: so, let's baptize everything! With the true meanings we (so far) know! After all, Every Church Believer Is A Priest Forever, under the King-Priest kata Melchizedek! (Hebrews 5-10 explains; 1 Peter 2:5,9, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, "saints", the Indwellings, Filling, growing-up-in-Christ verses, etc.; these are all priestly functions.)

While in the Spirit (1 John 1:9 used regularly), you might recall a promise about how God makes good on everything, has a good role for it. You might play a game, about what the thing depicts in God's Plan: for, even brushing teeth depicts how nothing is too low or left out; and, subordination to Him: "we must fulfill all Righteousness" (Matthew 3:15). You might ponder some doctrine you're learning while you wash dishes, or wait in line (since some of your brain is free); you might baptize it with meaning, too. Like, while exercising your legs, how your spiritual legs are thus getting more strength. Punning match! While sleeping, you might turn over the significance of some doctrine you learned which needs that kind of pondering (this happens to me all the time). So, when you wake up... it's on your mind. Just as it promises in Jeremiah 31:31-34, shema! Since Deuteronomy 6:4, onward! For, He is near (68 verses, but my favorites are Romans 5:1-8 and Hebrews 10:19-23, tied to Hebrews 6:18)! For, He will never leave you nor forsake you (Deuteronomy 31:6,8; Joshua 1:5). For, He cannot deny Himself! (2 Timothy 2:13). The aging of the habit produces the really big payoff during usage in adulthood, in the sophisticated irony one sees; also, how huge insights hit hard and fast, literally punning the speed of His Thinking, giving one an even better sense of what the Cross was like for Him! After all, should Father hear a too-slow Bible turnover in a spiritually-mature adult? Heh.

Doctrine is incredibly powerful, because it is Truth. Truth about how a thing is; truth about how a thing belongs, relative to other things; truth, most of all, about how what's deemed big, is little; and what's deemed little, is really big! Irony. Infinity. Uniting opposites. Via baptizing with Truth. That's how even we became 'big', even to Infinite God! For, He cannot deny Himself. So, let's not deny Him anything! Baptize everything, recognizing the beautiful, even compassionate irony that even brushing one's teeth is worth more money (via Doctrinal use) than all the wealth of all nations in history! For, no amount of money could have paid for even our teeth. For, We "were bought with a price": His Thinking. (1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 7:23)

Some other reader's view and impression is a matter between the Holy Spirit and him. I really shouldn't concern myself with that issue, except to keep what's written on a high enough plane so that God remains the only focus. Descent into particular misinterpretations or problems isn't intended to point the finger, but rather, to further the explanation of the Trial, God's Design, how vulnerable we Christians all are, how Gorgeous His Design, His Son, truly is. So goes my reasoning thus far, and this revisiting of the topic isn't generating any litmus reason to change the style.

Whew. I'm sure glad I'm not a pastor! I don't know why people get so upset if a person makes mistakes, or, especially, corrects his own mistakes; this is almost a given considering how much theology has regressed where pastors have to work overtime to reclaim lost knowledge (and even now in our current time Christians are beginning to deny dispensations again, going back to works salvation, denying the trinity etc). We can't be perfect: that's what study of the Word is partly For, to grow us up and out of more-childish views! Who gives a flip about being wrong, when it's such a pleasure to get the correction? God is so Gorgeous. I'm fixing whatever's wrong with my interpretations/learnings when found, and then glory in the correction. Who cares about anything else? If some reader has a problem with that, won't the Holy Spirit who Loves the reader infinitely, help the reader with whatever is the problem? Of course!

It's amazing, how Lord vs. Satan kept developing. While reviewing the text, questions/objections/problems come up in my mind. So, I write the doctrinal-recall answer which the Holy Spirit gives me (for I literally breathe 1 John 1:9, having discovered the hell of carnality and 'hating' it); then read the new writing/revision, evaluating/checking it for accuracy — then notice that... hello, it fits perfectly with what went before or after! Or, other connections show up which I didn't notice earlier! That's why I have to keep on revising! So it's not simply corrections to beliefs of my own, but also corrections for connections I didn't before notice! Thousands upon thousands of them! So let no one think I myself can, of myself, be so 'smart'! For, "Nothing Is Impossible With God"! For anyone. Anyone at all.




Part 1c, Emotional Hooks

How Emotional Hooks create Götterdämmerung Trends

Richard Wagner wrote operas with German mythological themes. In his Ring Operas, the tragic hero ends up, by means of his virtuous motive, causing the destruction of everything. This good-destroying-everything concept, is called Götterdämmerung in German. It's a pregnant word.

Götterdämmerung is Satan's policy; the success of it is patent via religion's sordid history. Purpose is to create a dark ages, so man rejects God, never learns Him. Thus Satan wins in the Trial.

So, science is also religion, now. Competing. Intellectuality is emotionally sold, just as in religion: you are a good person, if you are 'scientific', see. So the emotional hook for the pseudo-intellectual, is just as much religious, as for the dumbest holy-roller who ever lived. So, that 'virtue' of being 'good', destroys everything. Götterdämmerung, baby. Let's see how...

Satanic out-maneuvering in the so-called 'theory' of evolution starts with definitions that are tautological, just like reincarnation and animism religions do. Worse, the premise is that something inanimate can spawn animacy. A child can see through that insanity. Yet, look at all the effort spent, and by some truly brilliant people! This criticism is not to debunk science. Rather, this is to promote science, since God's Physics (of-His-Own-Nature) underly all scientific laws, so the more of those laws we see, the better we can understand Him (potentially). Satan & Co. Would like it very much if we go back to the Dark Ages, so to destroy the human race. However, to get there, they've got to sell the man-becomes-god idea any way they can, so to unify us enough to foment Götterdämmerung. If you look through history, you'll find that all big unification attempts, like a flurry of treaties, presage war and/or mass persecution.

So Satan & Co. Promote science and 'reason' and religion as if competing with each other, when in fact they are all the same: man's claim of self-virtue. This, Satan & Co. Promote, in order to create chaos, because such promotions polarize polities, within and without. The polarization occurs, because those who become the elite, get fat, sassy... and eventually ossify. That's why the Catholic Church rose... And fell.

That's why, periodically in history, those in 'authority' suffer revolts. Granted, those revolting are revolting (disgusting) themselves, with or without a deemed-valid pretense for revolt. So, science being so incredibly dumb to promote evolution, thus sows the seeds of its own future denouement, as indeed happened with past science / authority: in each case, due to an overweening arrogance by those authorities involved. So, the 'uneducated' will of course eventually revolt with iconoclasm, usually under some demagogue; and a dark ages ensues.

The deeper reason for this recurring phenomenon is man's insecurity, due to his sin nature in Adam+any sins he's committed which weaken him even further. See, when change occurs, people get helped, but they almost always first get hurt. Change destabilizes man, because he equates familiarity, with security. Put him into a changing situation, and you rob him of the familiar; so, he feels threatened, simply because he lacks familiarity with the circumstance he faces. This, whether the circumstance is pleasant, or not; whether he recognizes he's feeling threatened, or not. So, then: some have come to be familiar with the idea that science is good; some replace 'god' with science, and therefore expect science to be infallible, or derive their ego-comfort in a different way: that science never claims a conclusive answer ("the data suggest"). Thus, they can always comfort themselves that since the (irrelevantly-tested or picked) data never bear out any proof of anything, but always suggest, there is no assured answer. So, anyone who has assurance must be stupid, for science is not like that. So, they are assured in their unassurance. Safely.

Others, uncomfortable with the pseudo- or real intellectuality of science, just plain hate it. Couple this with the unprecedented pace of change in man's 'progress' over the past two centuries, and especially over the past two generations, and you have a tinderbox for revolution. The insanity of the evolution idea will eventually show, due to the ossification of its proponents; which results in political pressure to agree imposed on those who would 'belong' to the community, just as has always been true with denominational religions; hence, those who don't fit in will be ripe for any demagogue to rally them to rebel. Power versus power, and everyone falls into the pit of the dark ages.

We are on the verge of yet another such fall into the pit of dark ignorance, destroying what science and advances we've learned, like the peasants destroyed all those valuables in the Tsar's many houses during the early stage of the Russian Revolution. As noted above, Satan & Co. use over or under exposure to truth to foment emotional reaction. In the past 100 or so years, mankind has been overexposed to technological advance. He's not kept pace with it, psychologically. While the same can be said for the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the combination of that plus the current technological revolution — is too much. The problem with so much overexposure is this: it needs mediation by counter-truth. Which is, Bible Doctrine. Morality, which is also authored by God, will not be enough help for man to orient to so much massive change.

Here's why. All power, all existence, is derived from the physics of God's Own Nature — and reflects it (Romans 1:20). The power and existences all being (positive or negative) derivative physics, and therefore separatist, if such power is not integrated with God, it is extremely destructive; atomic science well illustrates the power of the tiniest derivative in the atom. "Derivative" means an oppositeness inheres. So, any rejection creates an oppositeness with its own existence, because that rejection is a negative derivative (reaction) to God. So, sin totally destroys man; man of himself elected a power above himself, and still does — either toward-God, or away-from-God. But, in all events, related to God. Because, God is the source of all power.

Derivative power can be explained with the following example. If you bounce a ball against a soft surface, the ball will either not bounce back at all, or will do so weakly. Conversely, if you bounce a ball against a steel or brick wall: the strength of the wall is far harder and stronger. So, the ball will bounce back far harder and stronger, in 'reply'. God, thus, being infinite strength, is so strong a 'wall', that when the 'ball' of volition bounces against Him, the force and velocity of the destruction to the human is extremely high. In fact, if God didn't insure the soul's indestructibility, we'd be obliterated at our first sin. Because, the power of sin is the Law, as Paul quipped. And the Law, is from God. So the 'law' of rejecting God has a far greater power — derivative of God, because bouncing 'against' God — not derivative of the being who does the rejecting.

Hence salvation and post-salvation spiritual growth are only possible if God accomplishes them, since the derivative of negative volition creates a state of God vs. God, so to speak — the derivative power is a reactive thing, reactive against God. So, of a power level which rivals God's Own. Of course, since any rejection is necessarily a lesser power, God Himself always can defeat any rejection's power. However, to do this and not compromise the free will of the rejector, is truly a masterful thing. So it is not demeaning to God that He save us and grow us. It is also not demeaning to us that He do so. So it is not demeaning to admit our total helplessness and depend on Him. So it is not demeaning to be constantly confronted with our own puny nature and failures. So it was not demeaning for Christ to pay for us on the Cross. It is, after all, a challenge of such magnitude, that only God can confront and defeat! So it was not demeaning that Christ should have depended on the Holy Spirit only during the entire First Advent: for, even perfect human power is no match for the teeniest negative derivative power bouncing against God.

So, man's ability to adjust when things are bad or good, requires first, that man adjust to God. Absent that, he has no integration, such as with Adam's insane fig leaves obsession. So, then: when man experiences either improvement or reduction, his corridor for healthy adjustment is very narrow. By over- or under- exposing him to any 'good' or 'bad' in his life, either on a micro level or on a macro level, Satan & Co. Foster destabilization. It doesn't take much. So, currently, the trend has been over-exposure to improvement, and man has been so hungry for so long, he can't cope. Since mankind typically never does much adjusting toward God, he breaks. Prosperity kills the greater, since man's internal mechanisms for adjustment are basically adversity-oriented (sin nature). Fighting is what man knows; further, when in straitened circumstances, he is more curious about God (out of self-interest). Pleasure, though, he can't handle. So, the trend of improvement more devastatingly fosters a larger destruction, than were man still living off the soil.

Bible Doctrine uniquely mediates all man's problems by progressively relating them to God's Plan, which thus better integrates the believer himself, with God. Hence, "...Your Thinking" section, the derivative power is reduced, as growing believers talk, think; and their conversations 'beget' like thinking in others around them who agree. This integrative process starts, of course, with salvation. It progresses, as the believer learns Doctrine under his right pastor-teacher, and perseveres in that course. However, as history amply proves, man's desire for this course is at best sporadic, and short-lived. Else, the Catholic Church and its protesting children, state religions, would never have stayed in semi-monopolistic power for so long.

We are at a unique spot in history, possibly: for the first time, not only has man come under an unprecedented rate of change, but the one thing which long remained familiar, religious monopolies, have crumbled; this, largely due to yet another unprecedented factor, the level of interest in Bible qua Bible throughout the globe (even higher than the 1700's and 1800's). The fourth unprecedented factor is related to that unprecedented level of interest: the attendant prosperity that GOD economically provides due to such interest (see the 1st halves of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28).

See, until the fantastic Scripture discoveries of the mid 1800's, man was largely under the heel of denominations. So, his personal access to Scripture was largely controlled (or his ability to understand it, controlled) by a few large denominations. This had the effect of stultifying free learning of Scripture; instead, the denominations superimposed their own creeds, so that their congregants wouldn't be able to read whatever Scripture they could get apart from the 'spin' of their respective denominations. So, people called themselves Catholics or Lutherans or Anglicans or Baptists. Instead of, "Christians". Granted, a lot of great and valuable evangelization was accomplished by the denominations. However, because they restrict their creeds to babyish definitions of Bible Doctrines, their congregations almost never get out of spiritual babyhood. So, they all must apostatize to gain or keep power, folding in garishly-stupid lies as if God's (mariolatry, baptism-saves, getting-the-Ghost, taboos, works, etc). So, Satan gets to play lots of games, and we Christians are none the wiser.

However, by the mid-1800's, these denominational semi-monopolies in both Catholicism and Protestantism, blew wide open. The local churches were the ones most avidly pursuing the manuscripts. And reading them: learning, in short, the way God intended, as happened in that first generation after Christ rose. Consequently, the denominational approach was no longer man's sole option: he could be independent, now. Granted, though much of the independent-church movement started long before the mid 1800's, it didn't have the impetus for widespread growth until those discoveries, because it didn't have truly-independent sources of authority — Scripture manuscripts. Instead, all the would-be independents had to work with, were denominationally-slanted translations.

All that changed, with the collations, discoveries, etc. Of men like Tregelles and Tischendorf. The discovery in the 1950's of ancient reliable Greek grammar rules (which made all scholars rewrite their grammar books), massively heightened man's ability to objectively prove what the original language texts meant. So that, by the middle or last quarter of the 20th century, the 'independent local church' was instead the mainstream, and the ecumenist and denominational version of Christianity was in substantial decline. In part, this 1850 and following changeover occurred, because people discovered from the 'newly free to all' Scripture, that many of the denominational doctrines taught were anti-Biblical. Some Bible Doctrines which folks now saw, and thus blew open the ecumenical decline were:

And so on.

The cultural impact of this Biblical discovery by independent churches, which simmered since the Reformation (well, sometime earlier) but exploded worldwide sometime after WWI ended, is gigantic: and, probably unique in history. The biggest consequence of it is that people began to regard their individual life before God as having primacy over the church to which they belonged. If a person belongs to a denomination, its very bigness gives him a 'corporate' sense of spirituality. However, in a local church, there is no bigness — so, no 'middleman' between God, and him. Sure, the pastor is still the authority — but there are many pastors. So, the individual takes more responsibility for his own spiritual life. (Denominational folks tend to assign the responsibility to their 'elders' in the denomination.)

Thus you have the collateral secular trend from the 1850's onward, of individualism. The prior traditions of autocracies and oligarchies, though punctuated ever with the Greco-Roman idea of representative government, had largely been accepted: the leader had more absolute authority, and the individual was less important. Come the breaking-open of Scripture, though, and individualism became much more stressed. It's no coincidence that America's individualistic streak is founded upon an individualistic responsibility toward God, apart from denominations. So it's no coincidence that independence movements around the globe were, below-radar, fostered by a growing interest in Bible itself: after all, that's how America's ideals were formed.

So another big consequence of the so-called 'independent-church movement' (as if it were political instead of Biblical 🤣): worldwide, man is rapidly homogenizing away from his traditional cultures, all of which were religion-based, in favor of material commonalities. This separation of God-and-culture (a healthy one, always) thus opens up both the potential for truly-free seeking of God... or, massive war. This, because the old ties being loosened creates a temporary state of psychological flux.

WWI's psychological effects were pretty devastating. Authority was seen to be the cause of the war, everywhere. If you look at the polities in existence at the time WWII began, you'll notice an alarming similarity: they were all run by demagogues or men of powerful oratory who got used as demagogues. You had Roosevelt, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin (later Stalin), Mao, the Japanese militarists, Perón, and many others. Each nation's people was ripe for a 'polestar' (as Hitler liked to call himself), and each nation, had one. Pole, as in polarize. Ripe for war. So, after the war, ripe for anger, repudiation of authority. So, ripe for individualism. But, for the wrong reason. So if negative to God, the individualism still occurs. But, for the wrong reason. To counter, the right reason: awareness, faith in Him, desire to Know Him Better.

Fortunately, the world at large was so exhausted by the war, it had breathing space to consider choosing God for the right reasons. Some, did. Most, did not. That's why all the instigators of the so-called 'revolutions' in China, the Middle East, Africa, were emboldened to occur; we suffered a massive breakdown in faith. We rejected the monarchical system, en masse; we rejected our hitherto-accepted authorities. We still are. We've not recovered from WWII, which was merely an outgrowth of WWI, which was merely Satan's response to positive volition to Bible on an individual level by millions of people. For, where there is positive volition to God, Satan has to set up a counterfeit in order to counterattack.

So, then: the believer's role is far more important than usual, vis à vis his fellow man. The contagious, mediative, attractive true thinking of Christ's, is what will deliver the world from 'the dark side of' its current trend. Of course, even if delivered, the trend will eventually result in a dark ages. But we who are alive now, can help massively postpone it, by growing up in Him. Which, after all, is our first privilege and post, ordered by the Lord, for Father: because, we are first, Priest-Kings-in-training. We thus owe our home countries, as a patriotic duty — to grow up in Him, as well. For, we have each been deployed by God to whatever nation He's sent us, to be among that nation's best citizens (see Romans 13, 1 Timothy 2). Ambassadors, even: no ambassador is good, if not loyal to the country where he's stationed: see 2 Corinthians 5:20. We'll have a lot to answer for, if we don't get real serious about learning Him, real fast...

Of course, independent local churches can be just as apostate as any denomination. So also, many in a denomination might be far less apostate than a given group of local churches. Point is, competition=freedom. Here, freedom to learn Scripture individually. Blown wide open, due to our unprecedented worldwide technological advance: so, now available in the original languages even to the poorest citizen — for the first time, in history. We are at an APEX. And, a nadir. War (here and now, economically-fought), conflict, confusion, etc. Are the characteristics of an apex, just as they always have been.

Of course, eventually one of two outcomes will happen, since believers, despite this freedom, will nonetheless still choose not to learn their wealth-in-Christ, Bible Doctrine: either the independents will all band together in an attempt to exercise political hegemony (which is how Catholicism got started, and is a current trend among independents in the US here in 2003); or, they will seek some kind of treaty with one or more of the traditional denominations (another current trend happening as you read). Either outcome is a satanic goal, and Satan & Co. Are equally served by either outcome occurring. Which, of course, the current insanities of treating science, technology, etc. As 'gods' or demons, will neatly aid.

So, since our current, satanically sponsored trend toward tyranny-via-chaos cannot be regulated on a macro level at all (i.e., politically), the only solution is for believers in the polity to keep learning Bible Doctrine (see Part IV's 'contagion' role of thought). That alone will provide the necessary mediation, and reduce the trends toward either tyranny or chaos. Of course, we believers never live up to our role.


Emotional Hooks - Bill Maher

Emotional Hook Example of August 31, 2003 Talk Show between Carrie Fisher and Bill Maher.

For example, many would agree with the sentiments expressed by Bill Maher and Carrie Fisher, when the latter hosted the former on her talk show, aired August 31: Religion is evil. Yet they, like so many others (and me, too, back in my teens) equate religion, with Christianity. Oh? There are no other religions on the planet? Oh? Religion = belief in God = Christianity? See the flawed logic, there? See the cleverly false if A then B? If religion = belief in God and religion is stupid, then belief in God is stupid; so there is no God. Handy, huh. Note how cleverly Satan & Co. Tell the truth that the only valid faith is Christianity, yet bond that truth to their own invention, religion; so, intellectuals the world over mindlessly equate the two as A weapon to denigrate Christianity. It's an easy trap to fall into, and probably not one Christian, while still an intellectual unbeliever, would have escaped it. After all, in any supernatural movie you see, what denomination's name is portrayed as 'Christian', but Catholicism? As if that were the correct definition, and Biblical. Odd, how no one cares to question such bonding, huh. Rather, people just agree with it, so don't ever ask themselves, gee, what if God is the God of the Bible, but the way He and Bible are 'sold', are lies?

Both Maher and Fisher were commenting how ludicrous Christians were, to believe Christ was actually born on December 25th; Maher went on to note how ludicrous it was to believe that all the answers were in some book... after all, this is 2003. His main point was that people shouldn't just cock up some story or book to explain things: what's wrong with just not knowing an answer? As you listen to them discuss these issues, you quickly realize they are reacting to people, to justify their disbelief in the Bible. Brilliant though both are, they like so many (all of us, at one time or another) use illogical premises:

But oh, how proud they are of their anti-Christ conclusions! But ho, how proud we Christians are of our pro-Christ (so we think) conclusions! Thus the irrelevancy-of-analysis goes unspotted, by both sides. Safely. So of course, these two are just like the rest of us: none of us are immune from abusing logic. After all, the topic is God, and thus the sin nature in Adam must go dissociatively wacky in analysis.




Part 2, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump links also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
In the beginning,
God Freedom, Love & Justice Unity In the beginning,
Angels Father's Criteria for Sons! Covenants of Association Angelic Covenants What if Angels
didn't have Salvation? Beginning of Man,
the Garden The Fall, a Magical
Religious Fantasy Divine Design
Evidence @Fall Satan's Design
Evidence Soul Damage
Evidence Soul Dissociation
Evidence Soul Fission
Evidence Sin's Fissioning 'Dissociation'
makes Dungheap of 'good' The Fall's curse, also blesses Cursing-to-Blessing #1,
Work+Time #2, Pregnancy
(soul made @Birth) Sine Qua Non of
Perfection: BALANCE Prolife fallacy
sidenote Opportunity Cost: God turns
Sin into Divine Righteousness! #3, Faith Covenants #4, Family #5, Nations How Covenant Properties
Bless & Curse by Association |Abide| |Bond| |Connect| |Doctrine| |Extrapolate| |Fellowship| |Governance OT| |Governance NT| #6, Abraham-Moses:
the Jews God's "So What?"
Evidence vs. Satan Israel's Law
Blesses World Her Secular
Blessing Her Salvation
Blessing God Mocks
Other Nations God Advertises
Israel
David, source for Messiah #7, Jesus the Christ, Born! Archegos Ark Birther from Bad Christos CornerStone Divergence Decree His Excellency's Embassy FOR FATHER FF 1 FF 2 FF 3 FF 4 FF 5 FF 6 FF 7 Grace Governs Glory History's Highness Integrity Love the Christ's Evidence Test God Tests Himself! Now what? Church!

God's Script: Then, versus Now

"In the beginning, God." God is Infinite, Perfect: beyond-improvement.

God is beyond-improvement, yet there are three Gods: the Trinity. Religion has spent countless hours and councils honestly trying to define what "Trinity" is. Thus, the positions fostered a kind of childlike 'loyalty' test, God help us all. So, if you review Christianity's sordid history, you'll find that literally millions of people were beheaded, ostracized, tortured, and otherwise persecuted if they didn't agree with the definitions those religious bodies consensually derived, never mind that the wording in their councils' definitions was often anti-Biblical.

The big mistake in the Westminster Creed and like musings, is that those framing the ideas mistook the Voluntary Inequality of Authority for a true inequality of Essence. Granted, they asserted Co-Equality of Essence, and in fact persecuted anyone who denied that Co-Equality. Yet they didn't ever really grasp the military verb translated "proceed" to mean Love. The "Unity" chart here will clear that up, hopefully, why the Godhead does not choose to have Equal Authority.

So the sometimes-brilliant theological analyses over the centuries, alike suffer from an incompetent, hydra-headed shorthand moniker of "Three-in-One": as if Each Person were somehow less than totally free and independent and melted into a single being. Coincidentally enough, depictions of the four 'weather' angels are also melted together as a single blob with different heads when they're separate beings, too. (The Catholic Encyclopedia's "Unicity" statement is particularly egregious on this point, for it says that if God were not "One" Godness would be "diminished"; that's exactly the same argument as the Koran repeatedly advances in its Suras.)

So, here's a proposed amendment: "Three and One". Three Persons, and Each of the Same Identical Essence. It's more aptly-descriptive of the correct long definition even Trinitarians know, and still conveys all the irony the original moniker meant. The amended moniker also best summarizes the Greek meaning of 2 Corinthians 13:14 (covered below), whereas the "traditional" moniker unwittingly denies that verse. "Three and One = 4, 😏: God is "complete" as Three Persons And Same Absolute Essence. "Three-in-One" is insulting, frankly. As if Each Person were incomplete? Or, as if God were unable to separate? Salvation would become a lie as Christ would be paying for sins to 'Himself' rather than God the Father! How is it, we are ever willing to improve our environment, our technology, and we rightly don't feel disloyal to change the past; but oh! we can't improve the 'technology' of our previously-inferior theological definitions? Since when did any past theologian or religious council or "Confession" become God, that the words couldn't be improved? Since when did any past theologian (etc.) claim to be God, that the words shouldn't be improved? If it doesn't demean past inventors that we improve our technology, certainly it doesn't demean past theological effort if we improve what they came up with!

Here's one more example, which is even more egregious and maligning against God. If, like me, you told a fellow Trinitarian there are Three Gods, the person would likely look at you aghast, call you a heretic, and go fleeing from your presence: on the grounds that to say "Three Gods", is somehow "polytheism." Is this stupid, or what? The heart of polytheism is that the 'gods' do not equally have Absolute Attributes. That's why there would be a need for many 'gods', for crying out loud. So if we say They are Three Persons, but shrink from saying Three Gods, then we are saying their Personhoods are something less than God, and thus we are stating a polytheistic definition! 2 Corinthians 13:14 doesn't shirk from saying Three Gods, but rather stresses that fact. Bible is not inscrutable, because the Holy Spirit wrote it, Holy Spirit runs the ability to understand and live on it. So we need not complicate understanding Him with goofy monikers which contradict Bible, and we need not complicate Christian loyalties by piously naming "inscrutable" what God has revealed, so Christians feel torn about asking questions, about learning Him.

So let's just use the Bible's own definitions. People always ask, "where's Trinity in the Bible?" Here's a listing of the many Trinity verses in Bible:


Trinity Verse Sampler

Jesus' Own Witness: Father & Spirit are each God, even as He is God (refer to Gospel "Father" verses). Only Old Testament existed then, so Old Testament testifies to Trinity & He claims it! Eisegesis test:

  • Salvation is juridically impossible without Trinity.
  • If the same Person pays, who Judges & Empowers, no payment is made. It would be like merely moving money from one pocket to another.

Hermeneutical Notes:

The first rule of Hermeneutics: learn the writers' intended meaning. The New Testament was crafted from the Old Testament, so New Testament usage of the "Father", "Son", "Spirit" shows how to interpret Old Testament references. Thus you learn what rhetorical style for Trinity, the Old Testament employs. Only the Old Testament existed during Gospels, so everyone knew Trinity from the Old Testament, as the Old Testament quotes show. "God" in New Testament-quoting-Old Testament usually means Father, unless Son's Title (i.e. Redeemer) is used: then it means Son. "Holy Spirit" or "Spirit" + function means Holy Spirit. In Hebrew & Greek, separate-but-equal-person is distinguished by function, what is distinct. You also use functional nicknames and titles. That way, when you reference the person by function (i.e. "the President"), you needn't say who by name. Each member of the Godhead by virtue of their unique personalities chose certain roles, indicated by their Names: Father, Son, Spirit. "Servant" means "Son" in some verses. Hebrew av'vdi & Greek δοῦλος were famous dual-entrendre words for "son", idea that son was chief slave ☺️. Trebling or repetition of "God" or "He", especially in David and the Prophets, stresses Trinity. Hebrew grammar doesn't need that repetition, hence you know wordplay on Identical Essence but different Persons, is employed. Genesis 1 begins a pattern of "God" repeated, to denote a Person change. Genesis 1:1 is Son. Genesis 1:2 is Spirit. Genesis 1:3 is Father. "It was so" refrain is Spirit's response. He 'waits' on Father's Decree. Father's approval: "saw that it was good" clauses.

Note: "anarthrous" in the following verse lists mean no article ("the", in English for instance), fronting the noun. That's the LXX's way of distinguishing God versus man, God's Works versus man's, etc. To remove the article stresses its quality.

Hebrew's "echad" and Greek's "εἷς" rarely mean (literal) "one in number", but rather: same, united, unique, first. Koran says: 'God is one' (as in, one in number) so we know that's not true as per the Demons' reversal. See: Genesis 2:24, Genesis 11:1 (NASB), Genesis 41:11, Genesis 41:26, Deuteronomy 6:4, Exodus 12:49, Exodus 36:9, 1 Kings 3:17, John 17, etc. So "God is (like) One" is voluntary corporation.

God is not melted into one mass with three heads. The Westminster Confession messed up "εἷς οὖσα" (identical essence), and τρεῖς ὑπόστασις (three natures), teachings of the Bible, as shown by three Greek articles in 2 Corinthians 13:14. For, infinity is not qualitative, not quantitative. So infinity is not spatial in nature.

How the Old Testament shows Trinity as Corporate:

  1. "Elohim" usually translated as "God" without "Lord", + singular verb, or, plural verb + "Us", sample verses: Genesis 1:26 (plural verb + us), Genesis 3:1-5, Genesis 6:12, Genesis 8:1, Genesis 8:14, Genesis 9:1, Genesis 9:6, Genesis 9:8, Genesis 9:12-17 (Noahic covenant), Genesis 9:27, Genesis 11:6-7, Hosea 12:2, (plural verb + us), Hosea 17:7-23, Numbers 22:22, Deuteronomy 21:23 (hanging curse), Isaiah 55:8-11, Isaiah 61 (Christ invokes it in Luke 4:18ff), Isaiah 63, Haggai 2:3-4. Almost eery verse with "Spirit" in it plays on Trinity.
  2. "God is one" Nature. They are Each the identical Nature, sample verses: Genesis 1:26,-27, Deuteronomy 4:35-39 (God as Nature), Deuteronomy 5:7, Deuteronomy 5:26, Deuteronomy 7:9, Deuteronomy 6:4 (First, Same Nature, United, Unique), Deuteronomy 32:39, Joshua 22:22, Jeremiah 10:10, Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 36, Daniel 9:15-17, Daniel 9:19, Hosea 13:4, Joel 2:32, Jonah 1:14-17, Nahum 1:1-3 (3x entendre), Isaiah 6:3 (holy holy holy), Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 45:18, Isaiah 46:9, Isaiah 51:22, Isaiah 64:4, Psalm 18:31, Psalm 18:46, Psalm 42:2, Psalm 43:4, Psalm 48:8, Psalm 50:1, Psalm 51:1ff, Psalm 62:7-8, Psalm 68:4, Psalm 84:7-12, Psalm 89:26, Psalm 136:1-3, Psalm 143:9-11, Habakuk 1:12 (3x entendre), Psalm 45:6-7, Psalm 55:16, Psalm 56:10 (parallel wordplay in Psalm 110: Father & Son)
  3. One God speaks for All, sample verses: Genesis 1:26-27 (Father talks), Genesis 6, Isaiah 41, Isaiah 50 (Son as Attorney), Old Testament pattern, note "God" standalone in Genesis 6:13, Genesis 22, Genesis 7:9, Exodus 34 (Son speaks for All), Job 1:7, Job 2:3, Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 55:8-9. Usually the Son speaks for the Godhead from Israel's time forward, i.e. Jeremiah 25:11-12, compared to Daniel 9:2, Daniel 24, Daniel 25, Father decrees, not human king, & Jeremiah 31:31-34 (see Hebrews 8:8 through Hebrews 10:17). Exceptions are in David + Prophets (especially Isaiah).
  4. Repeated "God" or "He" denotes interaction, rhetorical style begins in Genesis 1. The functions change & revert, but the Names do not, to stress Identical Essence. It's an initiate & reply cycle, very witty. Sample verses: Genesis 1:2-26, "let" & "saw" is Father. Genesis 2:19 Spirit restores. Son makes animals directly, Genesis 1:27-29 (all three sequenced), Genesis 2:2-3 dual entendre, Genesis 7:16 (Corporate order & then Son closes Ark), YHWH repeats: Genesis 19:12 Father, + Son as Head of angels, see Genesis 18:33, Deuteronomy 10:12. 1 Chronicles 24:7-18 (see HebCal), Isaiah 42:1-4 (Father to Son), Isaiah 42:5-9 (Son's reply), Isaiah 61:1-3, Isaiah 63:1-9 Son, Isaiah 63:10-14 Holy Spirit, Isaiah 63:15+ Father, Psalm 89:26, Zechariah 3:8 (Father to Son).

The Old Testament also depicts Them individually, either by Name or by function, or both.

The Holy Spirit: COO. The Spirit's Role is Birther, Restorer, Resurrector, a kind of 'motherly' action. Spirit fills (Temple believer), Empowers. "Spirit" verses play on Trinity. Genesis 1:2-5, Genesis 6:3, Genesis 6:7-11, Genesis 6:15-18, Genesis 6:21-22, Genesis 6:24-25, Genesis 6:28, Genesis 41:38, Exodus 28:3 (LXX is anarthrous), Exodus 31:3, Exodus 35:31, Numbers 11:17, Numbers 11:25-29, Numbers 24:2, Numbers 27:18, Deuteronomy 34:9, Jude 3:10, Jude 6:34, Jude 11:29, Jude 13:25, Jude 14:6, Jude 14:19, Jude 15:14, 1 Samuel 10:6, 1 Samuel 10:10, 1 Samuel 11:6, 1 Samuel 16:13-14, 1 Samuel 19:20, 1 Samuel 19:23, 2 Samuel 23:2, 1 Kings 18:12, 1 Kings 22:24, 2 Kings 2:16, 2 Kings 19:7 (LXX is anarthrous), 1 Chronicles 12:18, Malachi 2:15 (LXX is anarthrous), 2 Chronicles 15:1, 2 Chronicles 18:23, 2 Chronicles 20:14, 2 Chronicles 24:20, Nehemiah 9:20, Nehemiah 9:30, Job 33:4, Psalm 50:12 (LXX is anarthrous), Psalm 51:11, Psalm 104:30, Psalm 106:33, Psalm 139:7, Psalm 143:10, Proverbs 1:23, Isaiah 11:2, Isaiah 30:1, Isaiah 37:7 (LXX is anarthrous), Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 42:1 (Son and Spirit severally mentioned), Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 48:16 (whole Trinity), Isaiah 59:21, Isaiah 61:1, Isaiah 63:10-14 (quintessential Trinity chapter), Ezekiel 1:12, Ezekiel 2:2, Ezekiel 3:12-24 (passim), Ezekiel 8:3, Ezekiel 10:17, Ezekiel 11:1, Ezekiel 11:5, Ezekiel 11:19 (LXX is anarthrous), Ezekiel 11:24, Ezekiel 18:31 (LXX is anarthrous), Ezekiel 36:26-27, Ezekiel 37:1 (Son and Spirit), Ezekiel 37:5-9 (play on the Holy Spirit), Ezekiel 37:14, Ezekiel 39:29, Ezekiel 43:5, "Word of the Lord came" is found in 102 verses, Daniel 4:8-9 (LXX is anarthrous), Daniel 4:18, Daniel 5:11-12, Daniel 5:14 (LXX is anarthrous), Daniel 6:3 or verse in LXX, Joel 2:28-29, Micah 2:7, Micah 3:8 (vivid), Haggai 2:5, Zechariah 5:6 (vivid), Zechariah 7:12, Zechariah 12:10.

Father: Chairman of the Board. Father's Role is Judge, Chairman, Head of the Godhead. Issues the Decrees. So any verses showing decree or Order of God references the Father. Hence, the frequent Decree-and-Response pattern of "He ... He" or "God ... God", as One Member Enacts what Father Decreed (i.e. to Father in Isaiah 53:10a, Son responds in Isaiah 53:10b). Every verse in the Old Testament which is: a Decree (i.e. Daniel 9:24-25, is God's decree, not a human king's), addressed to "God" in prayer, by angels delivering Decrees, by Son as CEO citing a Decree (...) references Father, too many such verses to list. You know this since if the Son is the Sacrifice, to Whom does the Sacrifice get paid to? And to Whom, prayer? Do you see any Jews in the Gospels ask who 'Father' is or 'Spirit'? No. Nor did they dispute Messiah as God, rather, they disputed Jesus as Messiah ending in John 7. Sample verses: "let" + "it was good" refrains (Genesis 1:3a, Genesis 1:4a, Genesis 1:6, Genesis 1:9a, Genesis 1:11a, Genesis 1:12b, Genesis 1:14-15a, Genesis 1:18b, Genesis 1:20, Genesis 1:21b, Genesis 1:24a, Genesis 1:25b, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:27a, Genesis 1:28a, Genesis 1:31, Genesis 6:1-7, Zechariah 3:2 (Son talks for Father), Genesis 8:21, Genesis 22:16, Deuteronomy 32:6, 1 Chronicles 29:10, Job 1:8, Job 2:2-3, Jeremiah 3:19. King David loves Father-Son pairings by function or repeated "Lord" (Son) & "God" (Father) names in every Psalm. The Lord quotes Psalm 110's Father-Son-Each-God wit, in the Gospels. Psalm 110 is royal-patent basis for Church (separate Kingship vs. Israel), see Hebrews 1 through 11. Psalm 2:7, Psalm 8:5 (Father to Son), Psalm 22:1, Psalm 31:5 (Father to Son quoted on the cross), Psalm 40:6-8, (Son to Father at birth, confer Hebrews 10:5), Psalm 22:22, Psalm 91 + Isaiah 8:17-18 (Father to Son see Hebrews 2 & Matthew 4), Psalm 68:5, Psalm 89:19-27 (Father speaks regarding Son), Psalm 110:1 (Father to Son), 2 Samuel 23:3 (Father regarding Son, stressing the God-Man), Isaiah 49:1-12 (Father & Son dialogue, Christ invokes Isaiah 49:8-9 in Luke 4), Isaiah 42:1, Isaiah 52:13-15, Isaiah 53:9-12 (Father regarding Son), Isaiah 63:15-19, Isaiah 64:8, Zechariah 3:8 (Father regarding Son), Malachi 2:10.

Son: CEO. Of the Godhead: revealed & initiating Creator. Son's Role is Savior and Spokesman. CEO of the Godhead, handles all body stuff, weather, etc. Implements the Decrees. So references to the Son are the most numerous. Sample verses: initiating creator: Genesis 1:1, Genesis 2, Genesis 3 ("Lord added), Genesis 6:7, Genesis 9:6, Job 38, Job 40, 2 Kings 19:25, Isaiah 37:26, Isaiah 43:15, Isaiah 43:21, Isaiah 44:21, Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:7-19, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 48:13, Isaiah 51:13, Isaiah 54:5, Jeremiah 5:22, Haggai 2:5 (He speaks of Spirit as God), Ezekiel 28:14. Son talks: "I am the Lord" (literal: "I, the Lord", AKA a signature), 161 verses. "Declares the Lord", 334 verses. "Says the Lord", if He speaks i.e. in Exodus 7, Exodus 9, 100+ verses. "The Lord said", 200+ verses. "The Lord your God" when He is speaking, 300+ verses. "Thus says the Lord" when He talks, 400+ verses, but half are said by humans. "Lord God of Israel" when He talks (13 of 53 verses). Lord of hosts: 230+ verses. He's over angels but not one, confer Hebrews 1-2. Angel of the Lord: if same one is "Lord" in context Genesis 18:2, Genesis 18:33, Genesis 19:1, Genesis 22:15-16, Genesis 31:11-13, Exodus 2:2ff, Jude 2:1, Jude 6:6ff, Hosea 12:4-5. Lord of Lords Deuteronomy 10:17. Star (stars are keywords for angels), Numbers 24:17. God-Man titles, God Almighty: 48 verses, He uses the title in Genesis 17:1, Genesis 35:1, Exodus 6:3. I Am, YHWH, 6800 verses: Exodus 3:14 (doubling wit), Exodus 6:3. Rock: Genesis 49:24, 2 Samuel 23:3, 2 Samuel 30:29, Deuteronomy 32:14, 2 Samuel 22:3, 2 Samuel 22:32, 2 Samuel 22:47, Psalm 18:2, etc. Immanuel = God with us in His Body: Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 8:8-10 (wordplay). Hand: Psalm 110:1, Isaiah 14:10, Isaiah 48:13. Temple, Him dwelling in body: 2 Samuel 7 (origin), 1 Kings 8:27, 2 Chronicles 6:18, 1 Chronicles 24:7-18 (refer to HebCal, Haggai 2 Lord's Hanukah Birthday prophecy. Redeemer: Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 43:14, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 44:42, Isaiah 48:17, Isaiah 49:7, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 54:8, Isaiah 59:20, Isaiah 60:16, Jeremiah 50:34, Zechariah 11:13 (30 pieces). Savior/Deliverer: Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:11, Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 60:16, Isaiah 62:11, Hosea 13:4, Psalm 81:7. 'Arm' (also see 'strength' verses): Exodus 6:6, Numbers 11:23, 2 Kings 17:36, Isaiah 45:21-24, Isaiah 48:13, Isaiah 51:9 (invoked), Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 53:1, Isaiah 53:10b, Isaiah 59:1, Isaiah 62:8, Jeremiah 51:14 (LXX), Ezekiel 20:33. Shepherd: Ezekiel 34:20-24, Psalm 23, many others. First & last: Isaiah 41:4, Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 48:12. Anointed AKA Messiah (Christ, in LXX): Psalm 2:1, Psalm 118:25-29 (Lord quotes this), Daniel 9:25. Branch/root/vine: Isaiah 11:1, Isaiah 53:2, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 33:15, Zechariah 3:8, Zechariah 6:12ff. Son of Man: Christ invokes it 30 times, it's only used in Daniel 7:13-14, and means God-Man Anointed. Distinction matters as Christ was not from Adam but virgin-born: sinless. So it does not mean "the sinner-son-of-man" (literally son of Adam) prophet. Mediator AKA Advocate: legal title. Search the Bible on "plead", "case", "judge", "strive", "mediate", "arbitrate". In verses from pre-Israel book of Job forward, where the Lord argues pro or con with audience. He plays attorney/advocate for the Trinity.

New Testament verses on the Trinity are easy to find. New Testament writers use the Old Testament names. 'Spirit' over 300 verses, sometimes mistranslated as "breath" or "wind". "Παράκλητος" = Mentor: John 14:16, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7. He's often referenced in wordplay, i.e. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8, 2 Thessalonians 6, 2 Thessalonians 7, reference 'Spirit' (confer 2 Thessalonians 2:2 and 2 Thessalonians 2:8). Spirit filled the Old Testament Temple, so now, you.

New Testament 'Father' verses. Genesis 1 = Ephesians 1. "Father" verses: 230 on Him. "God" verses which by function refer to Father, around 1000. Christ claims Deity, by invoking Old Testament titles. To invoke any one is a claim to be God. He claims them all. That's why He was crucified (Mark 14:62).

Christ's God-Man Claim. Anointed = Messiah = Christ, 488 verses. Arm: John 12:38 (see context). Branch/root/vine: John 15 (whole chapter), Revelation 5:5, Revelation 22:16. Creator: 1 Corinthians 1:16-18, Hebrews 1. First and last (also Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End); Revelation 1:8, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:13. 'God': hundreds of verses, Matthew 28:20, Luke 10:22, John 1:18, John 8:49-51, John 8:55-58, John 10:30, John 17:1ff, etc. 'I Am': Matthew 18:20, Matthew 22:32, Mark 13:6, Luke 21:8, John 8:18, John 8:24, John 8:28, John 8:58, John 9:5-9, John 13:13, John 14:6-1. Immanuel: Matthew 1:23. 'Lord': 600 verses, Jesus never censures calling Him "Lord". Lord of Hosts = Lord of lords: Titus 6:15, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 19:16, Hebrews 1-2. Mediator: Galatians 3:19-20, 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 12:24, 1 John 2:1. Redeemer/Ransom: Matthew 20:28, Mark 10:45. Rock: Matthew 7:24-25, Matthew 16:18, Luke 6:48, Romans 9:33, 1 Peter 2:8, 1 Corinthians 10:4. Savior = 'Jesus', in Hebrew 'Yeshua': 24 verses. Shepherd: Matthew 2:6, Matthew 9:36, Matthew 26:31, John 10, 1 Peter 2:25, 1 Peter 5:4, Hebrews 13:20, Revelation 7:17. Son of God: 43 verses plus Father's Testimony in Matthew 3:17, Matthew 17:5, and 12 verses just saying "the Son". Son of Man: He invokes it 30 times (84 verses). Star: 2 Peter 1:19, Revelation 2:28, Revelation 22:16 (see also "sceptre"). Temple: Matthew 12:6, Matthew 23:21, John 2:19-21, Hebrews 9, Ephesians 2, Romans 6, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 1 Corinthians 8:10, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Revelation 21:22.


The easiest place to see it is in the Greek of 2 Corinthians 13:14, deftly displayed by three "the" words, which in Greek are very special: you always mark off a separate entity or person by a "the", when mentioning more than one of the same type in the same sentence. So, if God were really only One Person, there would be only one "the"; so, if only two Persons, only two "the" words would be in the verse. There are hundreds of verses saying Each of them is God, but this one is pretty obvious. Trinity is similarly displayed in the Old Testament. Of course, since "Trinity" is an English word, it's not in the Bible. English didn't exist when the Bible was written.

Each "the" has another very important meaning in the Greek. This meaning is called "monadic", a term which signifies Uniqueness, one-of-a-kind. Well, that's true, too: only One Father; only One Son; only One Spirit. Each One, Co-Equal and Unique. So, "Three-and-One" in that sense, too. So, not 'partners' (a frequent condemnation against Trinity in the Koran), but Each Voluntarily Uniting. Of course, as you'll see below, "one" also means "united". As in, "marriage". Voluntarily, never coerced. See? Bible's definition says it all. Perfectly.

Moreover, each "the" tells you also that They are "one" in that They Each are the same Type of (Identical) Infinite Essence. No beginning, no ending: no 'dimension'. Therefore, They don't 'share' Essence, but Each are the same Essence precisely because there is no 'dimension' to Infinity. Moreover, Personhood itself is unique, because the existence of (any thing or) a person is intrinsic to itself. A thing exists, or it does not. If it does, it does; if it dies, it dies. By contrast, true Infinity or finity has to do with the quality of that existence, not the uniqueness: finity requires 'dimension', because finity requires mass, energy. So, because you exist, you are unique; so also, the Father is Unique. So, the Son is unique. So, the Spirit is unique. Their Qualitative existence is Infinite; your qualitative existence is finite. But, each thing or person's existence, being an entity, is unique — no other, even if a similar type, is the selfsame entity.

So the number of entities which exist never ever ever detracts an iota from the uniqueness of each one! For, if number "limited" in any way, then God couldn't make creation, for it would 'diminish' Him! See how incredibly stupid the "one-in-number" God idea is? Why, if He had to be 'One in Number' to be Absolute God, then there could be no other entity whatsoever!

Frankly, math and physics prove this, too. A "point" has no dimension. That's the same as saying it's of infinite dimension. Ὑπόστασις, union of opposites, is the true nature of infinity, and all math and science reflect it. The early Greeks knew this, and of course God taught it to mankind from the "beginning". For, math and science always display Divine Truth. You can misread math and science just as you can misread Bible, Romans 1. But nobody invented any of them. For, everything reflects God, and no one created Him.

"One", in any language ever known to man, means all of the following qualitative and quantitative terms: "one in number", "unique", "United", "First", "Best", "in harmony", "in agreement", etc. Bible uses all of these meanings, and, as is its "unique" (ahem) wordplay style, usually means all meanings of the same word at once: unitedly multi-storied, heh. Try shouting Deuteronomy 6:4 triumphantly like the Jews used to do, but repeat it using each of these definitions for "one"; see if you don't "get" what that most-beautiful-of-Bible-verses really means!

The fact that They are each Infinite tells you something of the Quality of Their Nature, Their Essence. Essence, "οὐσία" in the Greek, is "Intensive, not extensive", as my pastor puts it. Qualitative, not Quantitative. It's the Intensiveness and Integrity of God which explain virtually every 'why', perfectly. The more you turn over these characteristics in your brain using 1 John 1:9, the more glory you will have in learning Him. Promise. The enjoyment, the glory of understanding, here, is nearly-beyond-bearing, it's so wonderful. For a fuller discussion regarding The Attributes which constitute Their Essence, refer to Tulips' Sovereignty section.

Father, Son and Spirit are also therefore "One" in the sense of "united" — by Love: see how the Lord talks in John 17. Meaning, a Corporation. Bible is very strident about saying God is "one" in this corporate sense: that's why, frankly, God invented marriage, as any review of John 17 will show — notice how Christ prays that we may be "one" with Them, even as They are One. So it's not talking literal oneness like a hydra-headed monster, but more like — 'you know' 😏.

Bible's famous Hebraistic use of "He" to mean God, shouts this fact: They Each have the same attitude about whatever the verse is expressing. Which is why, Christians (and the Jews before them) can easily get confused. But if you understand that "God" is used often as a corporate term, i.e., referenced in the verse, "Let Us make man in our shadow-image" (Genesis 1:26) — then you can understand the Voluntary Corporate Nature in the Godhead. It is truly "one". By Sovereign choice which never changes.

We know this for a fact due to their Titles, which obviously were chosen: Father, Son, Spirit. These Titles tell us both Their Corporate agreement, as well as Their Corporate Policy. A corporation is based on a legal agreement, which in the United States is usually known as "Articles of Incorporation". Parties can dissolve the corporation, so are not forced, at any time, to stay a corporation. Clearly God is not God, if forced.

Why then are there but Three? 'For Love's synergy. What good is it to be God, if alone? What good is it to be God, if only two? Should they disagree, which Freedom (Sovereignty) requires be a potential, there is no way to resolve the disagreement, because disagreements always require a Mediator. (Which is why Christ is the Mediator, see Hebrews 5-10.) Freedom is not freedom if there is no judicial mechanism for mediation.

3-way gifting

So, Justice and Freedom are only completely served, if Three. An odd number of Persons, so to resolve any disputes by free majority. The Attribute of Truth would have, as one of its necessary governing principles, Justice. Yet, any of Them could — but never would, hence "one" — could! because Free! could! choose to 'leave' (not-have-rapport-with) the Others. It should be obvious that the real definition of divorce is when the desire 'leaves'. Proximity wouldn't matter, and in fact would become a painful thing. True Justice, thus — true Freedom. 'Including the glorious Freedom to not use an option. So they are never 'trapped' into being "one". They are never 'trapped' into "rapport". After all, "God" is not God if trapped, is He?

This point is incalculably critical. Being alone is not good, even if one is perfect. Not only is it the ultimate cruelty to be right, but alone, but where can Love go? To Self, only? What enjoyment is that? So, even though Each is Perfect, being Alone Perfect is not good. Like Father, Mother, Son, so to speak. A Family: not too big, lest the relationships lose intimacy. Not too small, lest the relationships be lonely. And above all — never never never never 'trapped' into that 'oneness'.

So, how does one expand on what is perfect? To have more perfect beings — thus the spheres of enjoyment, for self and others, multiplies. After all, isn't it so much more enjoyable, when someone else freely has the same viewpoint you do? Isn't it more enjoyable to have an activity in common with someone who enjoys it like you do? Isn't love even more enjoyable, when it can be spent on another?


Freedom, Love and Justice Unity Key
Understanding Trinity and the Reason for the Hypostatic Union are critical to grasping the magnitude of the Cross, and why God the Father chose for us to even exist.

  1. Perfect Love wants Problems on which to spend itself, on behalf of the One Loved. For, Love by nature is foregoing — yearns to spend itself without reciprocation from the beneficiary, even more than it wants to get reciprocation. So "Perfection" requires continuing problems, else Love hasn't sufficient outlet. Infinity requires there also be problems, since Infinite Truth necessarily includes truths about badnesses, not merely goodnesses. Hence, since the badnesses are problems, Love has a justifiable outlet, since Truth should not be compromised by limiting in any way, what badnesses may exist.
  1. So though the Godhead are Each Co-Equal, They do not choose to have equal Authority with respect to each other: this is the key to their "oneness" identity in Scripture. Thus we know Their Personalities, and how They think of Each Other: Father is the Head, and Son is the Executor; Spirit is the Operator. Thus we know Son and Spirit testify of Their Own Freely-Determinative Wills, that in their View, knowing Father is the Be-all-and-End-all of Life. "One" to Them, is thus Father, even though Son and Spirit are Co-Equally God. One Reason to want to live, as God. So Our Savior, Our Ho Logos says that ho Logos to Live, is Father. Spirit says the same thing. Even, as God. Punning note: "Ho Logos" as John uses it in John 1 first has the Hebrew meaning of "The Word", which is why even today you'll find that Jews accord Torah study the highest spiritual value. God spoke The Word and all came into existence: Genesis 1:1, Matthew 4:3. But in the Greek intellectual's mouth, "ho logos" means "Reason" (the "ho" is monadic, so is not translated, for there are no others of the same kind). So, the Reason to live, is the Word, and the Word, for Son and Spirit, is Father, even though Son and Spirit are Co-Equal. It's like saying, They don't want to be God unless it's for Father. Cute wordplay, eh?
  1. So Son does not want to be "Son", and Spirit does not want to be "Spirit", unless they can incur a cost to make bazillion percent benefit to Father. Period.
  1. So, Father chooses what He wants; and what He wants, is Problems. Unending crosses. So that He, Son, and Spirit can all spend Themselves on Each Other, and on whatever gets created. Note the irony here: whatever God creates is automatically a Problem, for whatever is created, cannot be infinite. For, God is uncreatable. Thus, whatever is created, is automatically and, if everlasting, forever short. Romans 3:23's second prong is true even for perfect beings, since even a perfect being is finite. Hence Jesus the Christ is to be dependent at all times on Spirit, not using His Own Perfect Humanity — it's too short! On a technicality: God could create a being with characteristics similar to His turning a 'lie' into reality (creating a being whose existence becomes infinite despite never being infinite to begin with), which is one of Satan's arguments, actually. Why maintain consistency of His Character when lies and paths of least resistance could 'solve' some of these issues? The answer of course is that the path of least resistance — while seemingly 'obvious' at first glance — generally ends up causing a larger problem: you can see this phenomenon play out at a micro level on earth. A good example is how Donald Trump's tariffs to stimulate growth in the United States are having the opposite effect, so too, breaking God's standards and quality would invariably have the opposite effect too — even if human & demon alike don't always want to agree with God.
  1. Thus Father is the Designer, Grantor, and Beneficiary of "τὰ πάντα" (Biblical Greek keyword signifying "The all-things", everything).
  1. So, Son is the Creator. And the Reason Ho Logos created creation, is For Father. Period. There is no other significance to creation except its "for-Father" value.
    1. An example of this would be your own soul: the 'Father' approves of your soul's creation, the 'Son' creates your soul, and then the 'Spirit' breathes your soul into biology at birth.
  1. Spirit concurs, so Spirit enables the "For Father" meaning, which is the spiritual life Father ordained for that being, to root and grow within each created person to the extent such person consents. Starting with angels, culminating in Christ (Humanity of Son of God, Messiah Title, but loosely used to mean His Humanity, entire).
    1. Since it is For Father, a created thing or person is Free to Reject. So, free to reject the For-Father value; which is, the spiritual life. Although such rejection means the life/item chosen instead has no significance whatsoever, Freedom is still manifested by the rejection, so Father is still served (albeit in other ways, namely, Acts 17:26, Hebrews 1-4). The person rejecting has his own will and properties, pursues his own way, and is free to do so. However, as Proverbs repeats so often, such an individual ends up frustrated and empty; because the truth is, only the For-Father value is actually valid. So "ta panta" are all corollaic to the For-Father value. We reject or accept the spiritual life; in the latter case, God makes the corollaries all work together For Father through us (namely, Romans 8:28). Else, our lives mean nothing but smoke and mirrors, tails of sound and fury, hoofers' faded dreams of stardom.
    1. Application to life: people substitute the variable "people", in lieu of "For-Father", as the purpose and meaning of their lives. So, there is always a quid pro quo component to such substitution, even toward people (I did for you, so you do for me). "Quid pro quo" is Latin, means literally, "this, for that". It's an idiom for I-do-this-so-you-compensate-me-by-doing-that. The Righteousness Principle itself is but a badge for preening, and has no innate compensating value. Hence the need for a quid pro quo. Rome was real big on such petty thinking, which was and remains popular among mankind. So of course, God is expected to 'reward' what we think we do for Him. As if the doing itself wasn't sufficient 'compensation', gratis, upfront, just to express the joy of knowing Him. But of course, people who substitute "people" as the variable do not know Him, so are not compensated. Hence the quid pro quo, hence the life of emptiness which ends with a meaningless death.
  1. God the Son's Reason for becoming the Christ is to incur cost, because His Enjoyment of Father is so high, to Him it's not Fair to have so much enjoyment unless He incurs maximum cost.
  1. Spirit shares this same attitude, since (i.e., per John 1, John 14) the Spirit empowered Christ all during His First Advent.
  1. Jesus is and always was also, Son of God: One Person, One Will, two 'natures' (roughly analogous to soul and body, so you can grasp 'connected', yet 'separate' and no bleed-over). Thus He had the right to refuse the Cross, and as God or as Humanity could have just 'opted out', taking the Creation He made as God, with Him; He had the Right to do things in agreement or disagreement with Father's Choices: in Matthew 4, Satan tempted Him three times to use His Deity in a manner against the Father's Choices! The Cross would have been sham Justice if there weren't Three Independent Gods: Father/Judge; Son/Payor (the Humanity paid for sins), Who could voluntarily refuse to pay for sins at any point; Spirit/Empowerer of Son's Humanity.
  1. Son and Spirit want Son to become Christ in order that Love be judicially free: not a fair-weather love only, but a Love which actually maximizes its pour-out expression in the 'foulest of weather', the Cross. In order to create unending crosses (for rational beings have interminable souls, so continue to be a 'cost burden' forever, even when finally perfect). Because, to Free Love, no cost is too high, no benefit given is ever sufficient. And, of course it will never be sufficient, since nothing can ever pay down, pay back pay off even the smallest 'jot' of Infinity. So, Free Love always has intrinsic justification for unending Giving. This is what the God-Man says: Only if It's Never Enough, is It Ever Enough. So, how much more true is this same fact, in our case? So life is not about how we interrelate, but about the For-Father value; not about merit, but about Love for Father. For, if God qua God (Son, Spirit) voluntarily throw Themselves down to give to Father, preferring that lifestyle, how much more, is this preference the best for finite creation, too?
  1. The Cross would have been unfulfilling, absent Love. For Love means weakness. Love chooses to be weak, so needs to be fulfilled as weak, in order to spend itself. So The One Who was Total Strength, Surrendered it all in favor of Father, and was thus fulfilled in doing so. Therefore no one else finds any happiness in being 'strong'. Like Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:10, when he's 'weak', then he's strong. God used His Strength to throw Himself away, so to speak. Father, to Judge His Son. Son, to not use either Deity or Humanity to 'do' for Father. Spirit, to Empower Son's Humanity. Each Member still throws Himself away, on us, since the Cross justifies the relationship to Them (Galatians, Romans 5-8). For, Love subordinates, substitutes, believes all things, endures all things (1 Corinthians 13). They tell us this because They really enjoy it, not to make us feel bad.
  1. The Cross thus totally profits Father Son Spirit. Part 4d's "Christ's Combat" chart, and the Divine DNA series cover what happened to Christ's 'soul size', as it were, on the Cross. Isaiah 53:10-11 explains the soul-size increase via LXX verbs the New Testament frequently references. As a result, our own 'size' can increase all the way up to His, which is flatly stated as the goal in Ephesians 4:13, the most shocking verse in Bible: Spirit causes this via growing us up in That One's Thinking (i.e., John 4:24, Romans 5:5, Romans 8:4ff, all "in Spirit" verses; 1 Corinthians 12:7 and Ephesians 4:3-4, both mistranslated).
  1. God wants to do it the hard way (which again, Satan's argument is for a path of least resistance instead) — due to love. Love pours out. Love foregoes. Love lingers. Love wants difficulty. Love substitutes. Love subordinates. Love takes the hard road, in order to have more to pour out. If you love a given activity, that's what you do. You don't pat yourself on the back about it, you're too busy loving the activity and it — not you — occupies your mind. If you love a football game, you're busy watching it, not telling yourself how great you are for watching. That's how love is: it focuses on the object, not the subject. Hatred by contrast always focuses on itself. So whatever hatred does, it credits self, and always hates what it must do, to get that credit. Obviously, if you seek compensation, you deem what you did as not compensating you. So every claim about works is a claim that the works are no good to the doer. That proves the doer hated what he did! So hatred can never be satisfied.
    1. But God testifies to us that Love is self-compensating: for in spending itself on the object, it gets what it wants — pouring out. God is Love. This is how He is. Each He: Father Son Spirit!

Notice how the only way to 'improve' on perfection, is to increase it horizontally, by adding perfect 'spheres', as it were — more Persons. More free choices. However, that means creating creation, which is a "stone too heavy to Lift". For, God is Infinite Perfection. Creatures, to be enjoyable to Infinite Perfection, must have the 'impossible': the same Essence. Can God do such a Thing? How can Infinite God have "sons"? Ahhhh, let's see how He accomplishes the truly-impossible.


In the beginning of creation, angels...

So, God the Son made all the angels, simply by speaking them into existence! Confer Matthew 4:3-4; John 1; Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 1:10; Colossians 1:16-18; Isaiah 55, Job 38ff.


Father's Criteria for Sons!

He did it for Father, to add spheres of enjoyment for the Godhead: Love-for-Righteousness, The Decree Standard, Isaiah 52:13. Behold, the Genius of God's Decree Standard. It goes, in part, like this:

  • God should get Every Expression Of What Is As Good As God Is — fully.
  • God should get, therefore, what is compatible with His Essence.
  • Ok, then: God did not make Himself, but He just "is".
  • Thus, no creature should be nor get less-than-God, either.
  • So, only what is compatible/acceptable to Essence, is also what most blesses the creature! Grace! Confer Exodus 34:6.
  • Just as God did not invent Himself, nor sustains Himself, so also no creature should of his own power, grow bigger than his own nature. Which is impossible for any creature to do anyway, even if perfect.
  • In order for this beyond-nature growth to occur, Essence must be produced/poured into the creature — and freely, for God is Free.
  • So, the creature should get the growth from God as a Gift. By means of Love, just as the Godhead give to Each Other!
  • Thus they can become big-enough to be compatible with Essence; thus they get no less than God — just as the Godhead get no less than Divine Gifts!

So, despite all the pain-knowledge such a decision would bring to Them, They each covenanted to 'marry' creation, when the Son spoke them into existence. 'For Better or for Worse. Thus They covenanted to do what was truly impossible, even for Omnipotent-but-Righteous God! — as we shall see.


He made the angels perfect, too. We thus see that "perfection" is balanced to the size, as it were, of the being. They were not infinite, but within their finity they were nonetheless perfect. So, they had "full" (meaning, balanced-to-their-'size', so as not to harm free will) knowledge of God, and "full" Power. The knowledge and power were instantly inserted into them, as attributes. So, they had hands and feet; so, they had knowledge. So, they had beauty. Knowledge-and-power, then, were complete (balanced), just as everything else about them was complete, at initial creation.

What fun is that, we might wonder. Ahhh, but now they are alive. That is the added 'horizontal' sphere. So, they can expand on their perfection, exploit it, even, by choosing to play with their attributes, including their Knowledge of God — or, they can reject playing. Just as God didn't make Himself, so also the angels didn't make themselves. Pure Grace. They have this perfect beginning.

A new 'sphere' of enjoyment, that of using free will, is available. They can now choose. They can now reject. They can now choose to think, or do, anything at all — going against what they know, in favor of what they don't know (sin), or by going forward horizontally, parlaying knowledge, into Love. This parlay widens them, deepens them/makes them 'taller', by expanding their souls. They thus can become inviolately "enlarged" as Paul would later say. (Confer Ephesians 3:15ff, the height, depth, length, breadth metaphor.) In short, "big enough", despite their finity.

Capacity key→ It's not merely what you know, it's not merely what you don't know, it's how much you enjoy what you know or don't know. Love is what makes for enjoyment. Thus, one's on-earth and in-Heaven (or in-Hell) capacity for enjoyment is determined by how much one grows up in Love. So, a person can have full knowledge, yet only a baby's level of enjoyment/Love of that knowledge. That's the only issue: how much shall we grow in love?

For Love requires volition being positive to what's known about a thing or person. That can't be 'improved' by any programming. Rather, since Love is based on choosing, to 'program' it in any way would be unRighteous. So, not total knowledge, but "full" — enough so they could freely choose to grow in knowledge due to Love.

Moreover, just because one 'knows' something — what does that knowledge mean? Is it just a collection of data? What does that collection signify? What's the meaning? Then: what is the meaning to 'me'? How do I value it? Do I 'love' it, hate it, feel indifferent about it? Knowledge per se might have intrinsic value, but the one with the knowledge must decide on the value to him. That requires choice, which requires will, which requires pro- or con-, loving or not loving, the information.

So, Love is potential. 'New, like a baby. Volition is pristine, but new, like a baby. All else is provided, and all else can be rejected. Or, used to create a product, Integrity.

Integrity is the sum of: Truth, Righteousness, Justice, Love. Take one of these attributes out, and the person disintegrates. The angels, being initially perfect, had a sort of finite Righteousness and Justice, but "Love" was new. So, they could preserve their perfection by not sinning. But they could expand their integrity Only by Growing in Love. Kinda like God, they didn't make themselves, so they didn't have to exert any effort to keep themselves perfect. Unlike God, though, they were finite. So, the angels could only lose — by Rejecting Him, by Rejecting Love. That was the only one way to sin. Such was their granted knowledge-and-power level: their "covenant".


The Covenants of Association

Critical Biblical Interpretation Key→ The concepts below underlie all Biblical covenants from eternity past to eternity future; and are vital to one's understanding of Scripture. For all the covenants are of Love, and thus, of "association". All of the meanings and synonyms of that term apply throughout history, for the idea is to come to enjoy "association" with God. So, from the very beginning, "unitedness", "oneness" is the Godhead's Personal Goal with respect to Creation: In a word, "marriage". So, every covenant in history is literally chock-full of associative meanings, in progressively-intimate ways. The Hypostatic Union, as a structure — Christ's own Personhood — is the ultimate statement of this Unitedness Intent. Incarnate. That's why, if you look at virtually any property in the universe (e.g., in most scientific law) you'll find a spectrum (opposites at either end): unitedness, equilibrium. Associative union. Bible's written 'associative' style thus teems with alliterations, multilevel metaphors, verb tense plays, ironic humor, satire, sarcasm, plays-on-words, etc. to fully exploit associative learning and enjoyable understanding. Folks who don't know this will miss its meanings.

When God decreed creation, He associatively-'baptized' every element in it with God-meanings. So, any thing or person has its natural, free meaning, plus God-meanings. So, everything exists in "ὑπόστασις", a (Greek word signifying) bonding (i.e., of meaning) between two disparate natures (i.e., God-Man). Some of these God-meanings apply generically, and some apply only under certain conditions. In that way, any person can receive not only the free natural meaning of any thing or person, but also any God-meanings. Hence, the covenants all have this quality, since choice of God-meanings is a choice to associate with God.

Moreover, "association" is a critical component of learning. One sees thing "A", and learns a given meaning from it, or about it. That meaning bond to the thing in the person's soul; so, whenever one sees "A" again, the meaning is "attached", as it were. Successive meanings learnt about "A" likewise attach. So, as one learns more about "A", any recall or reminder of anything associated with "A" brings up maybe all of those learnt meanings. Note: the meanings "learnt" always have been baptized, as it were, by volition choosing "A" to have that meaning. So, volition agrees to some external 'teacher', or creates the meanings from within the soul, and then 'learns' that internally-created meaning. So: the accumulated meanings, then, might be correct, or incorrect — but they are nonetheless habitually associated/baptized with "A" until volition succeeds in changing them. One interprets what he sees or thinks in light of the meanings he has learnt, however incorrect they may be: these accumulated learnt-meanings form a "frame of reference" the person uses toward God, toward life, toward self. Corollary: meanings discarded by volition become successively harder to 'learn' when such meanings reappear, so to speak, at volition's door, for approval. ("Hardness" toward both accepted and rejected meanings is thus progressive, and always volitional.)

So also, interpersonal contact is called "association": the character and function of bonding, branding, baptizing, the elements of interpersonal relationship. Fellowship. Progressive Intimacy. Being 'surrounded' by a person (preferably, someone you love). "Association" also means any attributes you see in a person, will — even if seen elsewhere — remind you of the person. Also, 'things' of that person will remind you of the person, even if you see them 'separately'. Further, resemblances to a person's attributes or things remind you of the person. Further still, your attitude toward the person will bleed over to any noted resemblances. So, if you love the person, you'll tend to love anything which reminds you of the person. 'Even if the reminders would otherwise be things you'd not like. In short, "association" aids, deepens, and magnifies the intensities of: intimacy, knowledge, relationship, life itself. For Better, or for Worse. So, if Worse, one wants to disassociate from any reminders, to avoid pain. So, if Better, one enjoys the reminders, and maybe lingers over them. Thus any Covenant of Association would have rules, rituals, parades (e.g., Luke 2 parade of angels before the shepherds) — even meals, to provide occasion for enjoyable lingering: a celebration, or even an auld lang syne. (Old Testament Example: the animal sacrifices always resulted in some form of dining fellowship, dining on and resultant fellowship with, The Sacrifice-to-Come: confer Genesis 2:16, Genesis 3:6,21; Genesis 8:20; Genesis 15:9ff; all of Leviticus, 2 Chronicles 29 through 32. New Testament Examples: the Eucharist, AKA "love feasts" in the New Testament; "dine with him" in Revelation 3, and "Marriage Supper of the Lamb" in Revelation.)


So the angels' covenant, like all others after it, operated by means of association. They all had fellowship, association, with each other. Naturally, any resemblances to what they knew about each other, or about God, would bring to mind the person with whom the resemblance was associated. Thus, they would come to be aware of each other every second. Any piece of knowledge would be associated with some facet of God, and some attitude-value concerning God. So, too, with all that was visible: with the things of the universe, with each other. So, too, with everything that was invisible: for example, thought. A thought which 'resembled' God's would remind them of God, even if the speaker wasn't God. So, the covenants served to celebrate their association: the rules and structures depicted their relationship with God, and with each other. So the covenants were — if they loved the association, that is — a way to greatly intensify their pleasurable association. "Obedience", therefore, was to be a joyous thing. (Like the American expression, "crying over the 'burden' of being rich, ha! all the way to the bank" to deposit the money.)

Surrounded as they all were with total reminders of God everywhere, including their associations with each other, every day they lived was also a test: would they reject Him? Or, would they grow in Love? Was what they could have and be apart from Him — or with the other angels — more important than He was to them? If they rejected Him, would they change their mind back to wanting Him? And, keep growing in Love? Each such pro-Love decision enlarged their souls. Any anti-love decisions shrank them. The decisions cumulatively resulted in the size of their souls, and hence the size of their enjoyment of Him: baby-level enjoyment threshold, child-level threshold, adult-level, up to mature-threshold. And this, all by means of associative thinking.

However, until the mature-level threshold was passed, there was no 'backstop' to shrinkage: mature-level Love caused "competing loves" to be docked "under" Him. Thus All Loves Could Be Fully Expressed. 'Like a well-organized day, where you can fit in all the things you love to do, without cost to what you need to accomplish: Harmony. In short, until they came to be sufficiently Love-Occupied (joyously associating everything) with the Lord, they would be prone to failure. So, the 'test' was constant, and potentially beneficial. So the result determined not only how "big" they became, but how much they enjoyed Him. After all, what benefit is association in Heaven, if one doesn't enjoy being with God? Conversely, what a torture it would be to associate with Him, if such constant reminders were not loved?


Central Trial Proof
One's soul "size" is as big as his associated Love-for-God. Gotta get a big soul, to get big enjoyment.



Educated Guesses on Relevant Features in The Angelic Covenants

God by nature is Ruler. The Godhead even choose to be organized in a hierarchy, even though They are all Equal. So, Rulership is the maximum way to enjoy relationship: ruling, and being ruled. Can't enjoy ruling, if you don't enjoy being ruled. Can't enjoy giving, unless you enjoy receiving. So, to have most compatibility and happiness, one must become like Him. So, one must acquire a ruler-nature. That seems to be why all covenants stress rulership in some way or another. 'Not pets, not children, not peasants, but Rulers. That kind of thinking.

Given the similar tenor of all Biblical covenants, one can deduce that the angels were the first ones offered exalted Ruler status — if they would execute the covenants they had. God always offers both conditional, as well as unconditional, covenants. Salvation is a "conditional" covenant in the sense that one must agree to be saved. God doesn't coerce. Salvation is also a type of "unconditional" covenant, for in every generation throughout human history, salvation is permanent.

It's the permanence of salvation which gives rise to the post-salvation covenants. These likewise are conditional, and unconditional. The Mosaic Law is an example of a post-salvation conditional covenant (although some of its provisions weren't dependent on being saved). Obedience, which requires both associative knowledge and Love, eventually produces the capacity to enjoy, and thus receive, the benefits of the covenant. Since obedience is voluntary, the covenant's blessings are thus "conditional" on choosing obedience.

So, it makes sense to say the angels had both conditional and unconditional covenants, since man does. God is never inconsistent.

Rulership seems to be some kind of additional conditional covenant, in the sense one can lose it. Further, it seems to be a rolling offer: if one person/group doesn't qualify, then a succeeding person/group gets the offer. One sees the offer to Adam, to rule the world; he loses it. One sees the offer to Israel to become a "holy nation" — they botched it. Christ has a Unique Covenant as Seed — the Holder and Dispenser of all the other covenants granted to everyone. He becomes King-Priest, Escrow Officer, Trustee. All things get executed through Him. And that Seed covenant was conditional on the Cross being completed, as both Galatians and Hebrews explain.

Given the wording in Hebrews 1, Hebrews 2, Hebrews 9, and 1 John 3 (among other big passages), it seems as though this additional Rulership offer is directly a consequence of the Angelic Conflict, which thus makes me think it initially was an offer to the angels (or maybe only to Satan, I'm not yet sure) — because it's clear the purpose of the Rulership of Christ, besides fulfilling the covenants to Israel, is to replace Morning Star 'son of the rising dawn' (Satan). Even the Lord's Humanity's Bright Morning Star 'son of the morning' title (Revelation 22:16) is a deliberate play on the Isaiah 14:12 pre-Fall title of Satan's. So it's not merely about the Last Adam taking back the world which the first Adam lost. It's bigger than that, since humans weren't around yet, before Satan fell. (This interpretation can of course be wrong. I'm trying to back into the foundation from the information we are provided. Frankly, the conclusions in this piece wouldn't alter much if there was no prehistoric ruler offer to the angels, so it's a fair assumption, to bring out the truly critical data: God's Grand Design in making real sons, not footmen.)

Buttressing the idea of a pre-human rulership offer to angels is the Matthew 22 parable of the wedding invitation. The inviter's initial guests refuse to attend the wedding; so the inviter goes out to the streets, inviting just anyone (us), to replace those guests. Paul proves we aren't replacing Israel (we don't get their covenants) in Romans, and in Chapter 11 he reinforces the wedding parable when he talks about us being "grafted in". So, it seems more than reasonable to conclude that, as Body/Bride, we, the Church, end up being the last group invited to rule. We make it. Barely. So, the "last are first, and the first, last." There end up being three kingdoms: the angels (Christ heads them, as "Lord of Lords"); the Jews (Christ heads them, as David's Greater Son), and the Church (Christ heads it, as the King over Kings). The latter two groups are interrelated, because in the Millennium, the Church rules the Gentile nations, so that Israel has peace from its enemies. So the Head, Christ, is Head of the World, in that manner. Ergo His Title as Cornerstone (joining two "walls" of the 'Temple' of believers, Jews and Church).

So, given this ongoing ruler-offer pattern, and its ultimate completion — reinforced throughout by similar offers to individuals, like to Noah, Abraham, Moses, David — maybe one of the initial "covenants" with the angels involved some kind of offer to make man anyway — for them all to rule. However, they'd first have to grow up enough spiritually, so that they'd come to associate ruling with enjoyment; thus, have the capacity to enjoy ruling. Every ruler offer always is contingent on sufficient spiritual growth, for to rule requires a greatness only God can build in you. Reinforcing this idea is the fact that A) elect angels did have some ruler-roles in the Old Testament, as communicators, teachers; B) that Satan & Co. won rulership of the Earth from Adam, and still rules it today. So, maybe such roles indicate that their design included the destiny of ruling man — if they grew up enough.

So: when God makes a person, the structural nature of the person must be compatible with the intended result. Here, Rulership. So, that is the intended destiny. So, to fail to grow up would mean the urge to rule remains — but not the associative enjoyment, so no capacity, since the association with God "balances" the urge, mediates it. Love for God, in other words, makes for this capacity. In short, the person would end up supremely frustrated, if he rebels. His 'urge' would devolve into pride, self-love, — sorry — spiritual/mental masturbation, so to relieve, via such sublimation, the unfulfilled desire to rule.

So: it seems Satan was to be the head of the angels, and thus the head of all creation — if he hadn't dissociated himself from God's Plan for him. So, our existence seems to have been contingent on either covenantal fulfillment — or, on the Appeal Trial. So, we'd end up being created anyway.

It seems as though none of them did grow up enough — without first sinning, anyway. So, it seems angels had had some kind of "salvation" package. How else can the term "elect" be applied to two thirds of them? That's the term used for believers. God is not inconsistent in his terminology, is He? Further, the order of the "seraphim" did not exist until after Satan's fall, which implies they had some kind of post-salvation spiritual growth hierarchy — the seraphim are the most spiritually-advanced (i.e., Occupied with the Lord). Since this is a Trial, and man has the same (albeit analogous) system, it would have to be true that the angels had some kind of salvation package, and post-salvation package. Else the comparison to man, and the covenants God set up for man, wouldn't be of significance in the Trial.

Moreover, how else could they grow, if they didn't sin at some point? Why would Christ's Perfection be unique, if the angels had grown up without sin, as well? After all, if Satan, who was the highest, sinned — doesn't all finite perfection sin — sooner or later? Adam sinned, too. Sin isn't rebellion, though. One can sin and repent — the first "repentance" would be to believe in Him, and be saved. Else, the damage of sin could not be restored by the Holy Spirit. Satan & Co. permanently rebelled — never believed in Him. Knowing He was Real, hence believing that truth, is not the same as "believing-in/on", because to believe in/on, one must positively value the object of the belief. In a word, Satan & Co. didn't value God. So, they never repented (mind-changed) of their sins or their rebellion, even though they always remain able to do so, since God kitted them out with souls (thus free will is inviolable). Ergo, the Trial. (By the way, the word "repent" is the Greek word "metaneo", which means "change-mind". It's not emotional, since "mind" is a separate attribute from emotion. Any emotion, if present, is not necessary for "repentance" to be effectual.)

Now, we know that God would have to be propitiated for any sin — angelic, or human. Otherwise, Righteousness is judicially compromised. That would be UnRighteous. Else, there'd be no Cross, at all. Further, in order to pay for any sin, Christ had to think Divinely — without using His own Divinity. He has to depend on the Holy Spirit. 'Which, we know from Scripture, He did. Constantly. Thus, because He associated Everything with God totally, He associated our sins with Doctrine, with His Love for the Father (and for us). So, even our sins reminded Him of the Father, of Doctrine. So, He was Invincible, even though Human. So, the Father would associate every thought He 'heard' the Son's Humanity think, while on the Cross — and be propitiated.

Divine thinking is worth infinitely more, even one thought — than creature thinking, because God is Qualitatively Infinite. It's not how limited we are, but how Great He is. So, His Enjoyment at seeing is what makes for the value of a thought. Seeing a sin, that's not enjoyable to Him — so He has to also see a Divine counter-thought, so that the second baptises/bonds/associates to the first — to be propitiated. Christ could think such thoughts — and did, on the Cross. Or we'd not be here.

So, this series tentatively assumes (for the sake of argument) that Christ also paid for angels' sins on the Cross, because His Thoughts would be "high" enough — God's Standard. It wouldn't matter what creature-level sins were. Buttressing this interpretation is Hebrews 1. His Status as a result of Session, as a result of His Victory on the Cross, was Defeat of Satan — that's a running theme in Hebrews, and in 1 John, Corinthians, etc. As per Hebrews 1, His Humanity thus becomes Higher Than Angels. Hebrews 1:4's Greek says that His resultant Being — not merely His authority — is greater than all the angels put together. Again, this result concerns His Humanity. (Were it about Deity, there'd be no need to stress how He's higher than angels, so obviously Humanity is in view.)

My pastor kept stressing that fact, as he gave us the exegesis, word-by-word. He also speculated what I'm saying here — that when Christ was on the Cross, all sins — angelic and human — were imputed to Christ on the Cross. He even goes so far as to conclude that maybe the "number" of those who make it into Pleroma (Ruler) status among the Church equal the number of Satan & Co.


What are the Implications if Angels Didn't get salvation?

It does appear, from Hebrews 2:16, depending on how you interpret the words, that (at least) fallen angels don't have a Savior: a Mediator must be of the same nature as the warring parties, in order to qualify as Mediator — that was always the teaching in the Mosaic Law (depicted by the Ark: gold, Deity, acacia wood, Humanity). If you've been reading this since 10/2000, you'll remember that I had hedged here about whether angels even had a salvation package, because my pastor was revisiting the question; that I'd update this section when I got the material. Well, I just received it (2003). What I know so far: my pastor reversed his longstanding conclusion that they had a salvation package. In 1999 he suddenly taught that they did not have one (which is curious as this directly contradicts the Divine Essence Box); it's possible he reversed his conclusion again (back to the longstanding first conclusion). Because I've been under him since 1971, I'm familiar with this kind of reversal; he's so eager to publicly correct any mistake he thinks was made, that once in a while he ends later reverts to the original conclusion, having too hastily assumed it incorrect. (Some people feel threatened if their pastors correct or reverse their prior teachings; I find greater confidence if someone is eager or overeager to do so.)

For the sake of clarity and brevity, Let's name my pastor's 1999 teaching that fallen angels cannot be saved, "reversal". The reversal apparently turns on some verses claiming that angels were given Eternal (God's Own Type of) Life, AKA "+EL" or "EL", upon their simultaneous initial creation, in addition to the everlasting life which is an attribute of every immaterial soul. I don't yet know from which verses he derives this conclusion. Still, this revision might answer many questions with respect to the role that the nature of Eternal Life plays in one's A) enjoyment of knowledge-of-God, and B) one's temptability, if one has not yet sinned. So, if they initially had Eternal Life,

  1. Sinning would be next-to-impossible, since there are zero external temptations, so the individual must manufacture them ex nihilo. This situation is roughly analogous to the famous epithet of making bricks without straw.
  2. "Redemption is not necessary", quoting my pastor, since "Eternal Life cannot be lost."

This latter item is thorny. He's not talking about how it's the granting/acquiring of God's Righteousness ("+R"), which redeems, though it's through his teaching we learned that +Righteousness is the criterion. Over and over we've seen how Scripture makes it clear many times that the only reason we get Eternal Life is because we first got the +Righteousness — the explanation in 2 Corinthians 5 comes to mind (whole chapter seems dedicated to it, as a followup to 1 Corinthians 15); so also, Romans 5. So now why it's always-having-Eternal-Life which makes redemption "unnecessary", I don't yet know, especially since it's obvious that fallen angels do not have +R. Whether my pastor now says they ever did, I also don't know (yet).

Perhaps the sin corrupts the +Eternal Life, but (of course) can't kill it, in which case there could be no redemption, since Eternal Life can't be killed. I haven't heard him say the first clause, but he's repeated the latter clause in varying ways. If this is true, it better accounts for the construction and fit of Bible verses regarding the Trial: for Satan & Co.'s (maybe billions-of-years') intransigence, as well as why Adam & Isha didn't get Eternal Life at their initial creation; and even more, why even we Church in eternity are so differentiated, with most being "naked", poor. Why also, we replace Satan & Co., as the Body of Him Who replaces Satan as Morning Star; so, why also the Church period ("dispensation", a KJV translation of several Bible terms) is the apex of the Appeal Trial. Moreover, why it is an appeal trial, the proceedings of which are unseen by the witnesses (witnesses are always kept out of the courtroom until called to testify). The rest of this chart will sketch out these whys. The entire series explains them also, despite the fact that its angelic premise is the opposite: that angels had a salvation package.

Trial Raison D'être → To grant any appeal trial, there must be new evidence which is material, i.e., of such a nature and importance as to possibly overturn the prior verdict. The Bible is shot through with legal terminology. Even the word "Law" should be a tipoff to the dullest reader. So it's not surprising that the Bible uses trial-law keywords, i.e., "trial judge" (usually chopped off as "judge" in English), "Satan" (means opposing attorney in a trial), "witness" (most uses of this term reference the Trial, not to-people testimony), "testify", and in-the-docket word pictures (the narratives), tip us off to the fact that there is a trial going on. Appellate law, just like trial law, has historical roots going back to Adam. The origin of 'prayer' is based on appellate law, and the Bible deliberately uses the term that way: you're making a legal appeal to God. That's why prayer has strict protocol, which, if not followed, gets the request thrown out of court, and the one who misuses the protocol is in for some Divine Discipline for breaking the rules. (See Hosea 8:7, Galatians 6:7, Colossians 3:25 — antidote is explained in 1 John 1:9, Psalm 66:18, Psalm 32:5, 1 Corinthians 11:31, etc., because these antidotes are likewise since-Adam legal protocols. Note how the Lord looked for the admission in Genesis 3 from Adam, which itself is a courtroom transcription.)

Trial Argument Corollaries: you can see why God would have made Adam & Isha without Eternal Life — Satan's claim was obviously that God was unfair to condemn angels to the Lake of Fire for sin on the grounds that the Eternal Life can't be rehabilitated. Ok, then: wasn't it wrong of God to give them Eternal Life in the first place? Did He make a mistake, or was He sadistic? So, the Appeal Trial Evidence will show the following (notwithstanding initial +Eternal Life in angels, but especially, if it was), via mankind as circumstantial evidence, but certain mature believers also testify for the Prosecution, to wit:

  1. that the Volitional Choice To Rebel Precedes Sin In The First Place, has no intrinsic cause, and results in Permanent Corruption;
  2. the devastation its resulting sin makes;
  3. how even more negative one becomes to God, due to sin's aftermath;
  4. how even if God had not given Eternal Life at the outset, it doesn't change the negative attitude;
  5. that God's giving Eternal Life at the beginning provided maximum protection against sin, even as God is always Eternal Life and never chooses to sin. So,
  6. They only go to the Lake of Fire because they want to. It's not the fault of how they were made, but the fault of their own choosing to be permanently negative. So for us, the parallel fact:
  7. humans have the choice of permanently living with God, just like the angels, and humans only have the "time window" of this body life to decide; during which, we accept or reject.
  8. Accepting is to once believe in Christ, just as the angels had to only once choose for God. Rejecting for us is to never believe in Christ, just as the fallen angels (they chose Satan because they rejected Christ).
  9. The human decision thus has the same ramifications as if God had given us Eternal Life at the beginning, so we aren't shorted because He didn't do it. So too, we share in the eternal ramifications.
  10. A "work" is evil if +Righteousness is not in it, and +Righteousness cannot be 'in' it, in a state of sin; a state of sin cannot be cured or rehabilitated, absent A) admission of sin, and absent B) positive volition to learning and using God's Standards on God's terms, not the creature's. (Even for a believer, since the +Righteousness resides in the human spirit, without the Holy Spirit to run the Divine System, so to speak, the work is cut off from the +Righteousness, for it takes +Righteousness to run +Righteousness. See 1 Corinthians 2, 2 Corinthians 5, Romans 8:1-17, 1 John 1:8-10, Psalm 32:1-5, and like passages, especially the Lord's many dissertations on the topic in the Gospels: practically every time, He speaks partly or wholly on this topic.)

Thus for believers, many other issues get accounted along the way. For example, we now understand why Scripture simultaneously says we have both "redemption" (a term which includes Eternal Life), and "Eternal Life" forever, from the moment of our salvation, yet the Holy Spirit has to guarantee it ("Seal" verses), and yet we are waiting for it. E.g., John 3, John 10:28, compared with Jude 21 and like verses in 1 Corinthians 15, Romans 8, etc. Jude 21 is mangled in English Bibles: last clause should read "with reference to Eternal Life", because εἰς there is accusative of reference, a frequent usage in Scripture which no one ever translates! The paradox of having-yet-not-having is simple: we have the position, but not the body. That, we get at Resurrection. Apparently the Corinthians had some trouble with this paradox, for Paul spends 1 Corinthians 15 and 2 Corinthians 5 on the timelines and categories. You can see the same lines-of-explanation flowing in Thessalonians, Colossians 1, Romans 8, 2 Peter, and of course, Revelation 1-5 (well, passim throughout that Book).

Clearly, the time between the waiting and having are likewise parallel to the angels: because we have Eternal Life, compatible body or no, any decisions after that moment have permanent ramifications, as well. No undoing them, just like we can't undo salvation. Assuming angels had Eternal Life initially: hence the vital importance of learning and living on Bible Doctrine, for the Church — for, just as with the angels, once the window closes, so do our options for spiritual wealth with Him: just like it says, in Hebrews 2. We get what we chose: if we chose a distant, ritualistic, works relationship, that's what we get; if we chose to learn Him, to be 'near' Him down here rather than to the world's preoccupations — that's what we get. Just as stark, as the choice of the angels. It couldn't be fairer. Notice how sins are not an issue, but only choosing God. The corruption of sin severely influences one's desire against God (and also serves as an accelerant to learn Bible Doctrine: what better way to learn than to be able to burn your hand on the stove burner than just being able to 'imagine' it), but in the case of humans, that influence can — well, only with Bible Doctrine learned — be overcome, starting with positive (rather than legalistic) orientation to morality, a "doctrine" God gifted to the entire human race.

No one can be as good as God absent +Righteousness (e.g., Mark 10:18). But if God were to ever sin (since He's Omnipotent that choice is always available), then even God would not be God. Moreover, there'd be no way for God to get the +Righteousness back: who can atone for Him, and to Whom would such atonement be paid? That fact makes the Hypostatic Union, in effect, the only way to risk Godness — for, the Humanity of Christ, being one Person, could have commanded His Deity to do anything --- a fact Satan was trying to use against Him, in Matthew 4. This fact will be progressively demonstrated in the Lord vs. Satan: it doesn't matter what angelic assumptions one chooses. Since God is timeless, the choice to sin would be, as it were, somewhere 'in' Him and He'd never be God; that's how we know His Choice is always "no". It's not like He'd be God for a while, and then suddenly stop, since He's timeless. However, since that idea is too hard for folks to grasp, the anthropopathic expression of God 'stopping' being God is used through this series.


It's the role of +R which will solve the question of whether angels had a salvation package. I would maintain they didn't have +R at creation but by growing in Love would gradually acquire it:

  • For God's Truth Attribute is Undivided, as are All His Attributes.
  • So by getting more Truth Deposits beyond the initial amount God granted them apart from their volition — they would acquire Love and Righteousness deposits.
  • This, because Infinity is punctiliar (as Thought) and Qualitative, else sins couldn't be paid for on the Cross.
  • So indeed, Infinite Attributes can be "built" by means of a finite process, as well as imputed.
  • This, Scripture actually says and baldly (i.e., in Romans 5 and throughout the Greek of 1 Corinthians, 1 John).
  • So if no +R, then no Eternal Life, since that too is an Attribute of God which can be built by means of the Love Deposits of Truth --
  • how Christ Himself became the Truth, and thus Integrity, even in His Human Soul.
  • Consequently that would be the paradigm for any finite creation, starting with the angels.
  • Hence anyone can be saved by means of faith in Him (angels included due to the Divine Essence Box requiring all sin to be paid for — even sin that goes on for eternity in the Lake of Fire), and at that point, receive +R and +Eternal Life like we humans do.
  • In short, an Attribute's being imputed versus being built, required Someone first be Built In it — Christ — for the imputation method to be juridically valid.
  • God would foreknow all this, of course — so would not impute +R and Eternal Life to angels at their initial creation. It would be a free-will thing to choose from an initial lower state of perfection, just as it would be for Christ. Especially, since that makes Him truly the Firstborn of all creation just as the Bible says, above the angels even in His Own Humanity (Hebrews 1:4, Colossians 1:15, in their contexts).
  • That means anyone in hell or the later Lake of Fire can always be saved, too. God wouldn't have to see the suffering, even as He doesn't have to see us suffer down here as unbelievers, since the saving mechanism was fully completed in Christ Who Lives Forever, theme of Romans 6 and Hebrews 6:13-7 & Hebrews 6:28. For He's King-Priest to Father, forever. So that's why hell/Lake of Fire can last forever, as the King-Priest is always Alive, and thus anyone there, can still change his mind — or go on sinning. Luke 16 makes it clear the rich guy in Hades still has his free will. Looks like the guy will never change his mind, but God is the God of Freedom, so would preserve that freedom to change-the-mind, even as we humans down here have it — again, Because Christ Has it First.
  • It's the consistency of the mechanic used to make Christ Inviolate in His Humanity, which has to be the primordial/prototypical design for everyone else. At least, I can't find any Bible verses to dispute this.

Yet pretend (though it needn't be true) the angels all had +R at the beginning, with the Eternal Life; they too, could sin (just as God can); so if they did sin, there's no going back, because they also already had the Eternal Life. The underlined clause is what my pastor's saying (not yet covering whether they also had +R), so far. There's something about it which rings true, and I know he never pulls stuff out of thin air. So far, I suspect he's brainstorming, because the angelic salvation issue interrupted a different topic he's been teaching, due to persistent queries from the congregation. So, often he brainstorms aloud to us, to show analytical paths, which are vital to living on Bible Doctrine; but until I know about the +R, I can neither be sure I understand what he means, nor can I track it in Scripture.

Since my pastor also said (but then hedges, at end of Lesson 1571) that unbelievers get Eternal Life at the Great White Throne Judgment (because Revelation 20 makes it clear they are Resurrected), and — bearing in mind he's pioneering an answer which theologians have always copped out by calling it "inscrutable" — maybe "Eternal Life" has more than one 'flavor', one of which requires the +R imputation (so we can live with God forever, completely compatible). So, maybe the Scriptural "Eternal Life" solely means God's Life with God: the term's usage in Scripture seems restricted to this meaning. Yet if so, how is it that Satan & Co. are in heaven, still? Further, they must still have a spiritual life, because they can see and talk with Him directly; plus, "evil spirits" is used to describe them, though "spirit" is not used solely to designate a spiritual life: the meaning depends on context. And, it's also clear that both they and unbelievers have or will get immortal body life — i.e., suited for the Lake of Fire. Conversely, maybe "Eternal Life" is a generic moniker for immortal body life, and Scripture poetic metaphors like in John 3:36 mean, if you're not living with God, "life" is not worth the name, even if you do have the God's Attribute of Life (forever).

In any event, we all can surely know from Scripture's many verses that A) people and angels live forever, that B) post-death all humans (at least) get an interim body (Luke 16:20ff being a bald proof) and then a final, immortal one at resurrection. (E.g., 1 Corinthians 15; and Revelation 20-22 all depict physicalities for believers and unbelievers alike.) But what do you call the type of immortal body life that is with God? In the Lake of Fire? Is this body life always the same type for either place? Conversely, why does Scripture call those who go to Lake of Fire the Second Death, though it's completely obvious they are very much alive forever? So is "Death" metaphorical, just as John 3:36 uses "shall not see life"? These and other questions obviously would need to be answered. Many more are related: what is spiritual being-ness, can it be lost; what is +R, can it be lost, can it be regained if lost, etc. It will take a long time to adjust the accounting on these things. The pre-adjustment assumptions you see in Lord vs. Satan still make sense, absent proof to the contrary; so will remain for now.

His reversal begs a lot of questions, though: so extensive reweaving of the 'threads' in this series will be needed with respect to any angelic parallels. Among the dozens of line items which might require a different 'reconciliation' (in the accounting sense of that term), a few should be mentioned now. For example, wouldn't any sins committed have to be atoned, lest "+R", (God's Own Righteousness) be judicially compromised? If Christ had to pay for our sins, how could any angel who sinned subsequently atone for his own?

Since the obvious answer is, "not possible, that angels can pay for their own sin", then +R is not being paid for every sin. That to me is a big issue to resolve: atonement, being God-ward, is not the same as redemption. One possible answer to this most important question might be sourced in the very explicit Biblical teaching of Substitutionary Atonement, as well as the Substitutionary role of Blessing-By-Association, upon which all salvation and post-salvation covenants are based. So, not surprisingly, these doctrines are repeated over and over again in every conceivable way, Genesis 1:1 through the end of Revelation; so you'll find them as the underpinnings here, too.

However, since redemption is not the same as judicial compensation due to +R for the loss, it is not necessarily true that +R was somehow shorted. The Christ's payment for this compensation due would not be classified as "Atonement..Redemption", but would have a different name: perhaps one not disclosed to us. For, there is no way God's Righteousness would ever be shorted. Father would never have planned it that way: Son would be shorted what He could give to Father, so would be hurt by Father, and Father would never do that; Spirit would be shorted some of the value He could make. For, God is Justice, and to be Justice, He must first be Just to Himself, even though as God He has no need to be paid. Justice is not based on need, but on what is Righteous. I haven't heard how my pastor newly covers this "However" issue, yet, so I'm just making an educated guess based on the doctrine I do know.

Ergo: perhaps the valuation of the "opportunity cost" of each of us includes the opportunity cost of each one of Satan & Co. For, just as the Lord's Humanity is the Substitute for each one of us, so also each one of us is a substitute for each one of them. We replace them: there are a good many verses which would at least imply this, an easy one being the "stingy servant" parable, the guy who hid his master's talent in a 'napkin'. Thus, indirectly, the line items composing the summation of the opportunity cost of each of us would be valued to include juridical compensation for the sins of each demon we are to replace. The idea that the payment for sin is merely valued at the offense of the sin itself by the sinner himself, is definitely not a correct valuation, not even in secular affairs: there are many other components, too. Example: remember that the cost of sustaining us, of seeing all the destruction due to sin which non-free creation receives (namely, Romans 8:18ff), that would have to be paid, too, under the line item of "maintenance cost". Since if we replace them, we are a replacement cost, there are at least two categories of costs: A) initial property, loss and damage versus best-perfect-use-revenue, capitalized; and B) replacement property, same categories as A). The sum of both becomes the true opportunity cost due the rightful owner/Plaintiff.

Since obviously all true human justice concepts must be rooted and sourced in the Divine, it's plausible that opportunity cost be valued indirectly as well as directly: in fact, in accounting there is a concept known as "direct costing", to distinguish between "indirect" costs (like advertising, General and Administrative expenses, etc) from "direct costs" (which are directly associated with a unit of product, namely, the cost of the plastic needed to make the casing of a monitor unit). Moreover, a similar kind of valuation is even very common in human law: not only the destroyed property, but also the replacement property, is summed up and the sum (plus other legal outstanding amounts like suffering costs, time loss, etc) becomes the compensation the plaintiff receives. God, here, would be the Plaintiff. All Three of Them.

So, when you go through the "opportunity cost" section, you'd merely adjust the cost concept there upward for each demon a Church believer replaces. I say Church believer, because our spiritual life, is exactly the same as Our Christ's. By Divine Decree. Moreover, maybe only "Pleroma" believers — replace them. Further, it might be that replacement isn't a one-to-one ratio, though a verse in Corinthians implies that it is. Meanwhile, it's obvious that if our added substitutionary role is true, then our spiritual lives have an even far greater meaning than described in Lord vs. Satan; so too the Divine discipline, if we aren't living in the Spirit on 1 John's, God's, Script.

Also, I can partially reconcile how 'no salvation package' might be true, since a person can become so hardened to God, no salvation offer would 'help' him change his mind. As you'll see in Part V's "Lake of Fire" section, it's pretty obvious that even in Hell no one wants God. So for angels, maybe the first sin would require a negativity so great, that they'd have said no to any subsequent salvation offer, anyway. (Imagine how hard it would be for an angel, who constantly sees Him as He is, to want to sin.) We see such hardness even in unbelieving humans, which is almost unfathomable, since it is so easy to believe in Christ (takes but a nanosecond); even believers can be recalcitrant unto death (1 John 5:16, capital punishment, not loss of salvation). So the person, whether angelic or human, is still responsible before God, as Romans 1-3 explain.

Assuming the reversal is true, and there is much logically to support it, the 'parallel' between the angelic story and man's, then, would instead be something like, the angels could only lose by sinning: defined as, to choose Satan's side, rather than God's; so is akin to our first faith in Christ. We can only lose by never believing in Christ. How is that 'parallel'? First, 'from the ease standpoint: it would be easy for an angel not to sin; it is easy to be saved, as a human; angels, because initially having Eternal life, obviously can't be 'saved' by getting it; man can only get Eternal Life by believing in Christ. Second, from the permanence standpoint: if angels had Eternal Life and they had to choose to go with Satan or God (Satan being the self-appointed savior, to 'save' them from what he billed out as God's tyranny) — it would necessarily be a forever decision. Same is true, for one who believes in Christ. Can't undo it. Same is true (let's say) for the unbeliever, who if he never says yes, has voted a permanent "no". Again, these are but preliminary comments, about an answer which is the reverse of the Lord vs. Satan's assumption about angelic salvation. The tenor of my pastor's proof so far rests on extrapolation, yet the extrapolation itself rests on sound Biblical doctrines, like 'God being Perfect, would make the best first, and the "Best" would be most like Himself.' So if you take those known doctrines, and then read original-language Scripture verses like Hebrews 1-2 (especially Hebrews 2:16), Colossians 1:13-16, Revelation 20; so if you take those known doctrines, and then notice Scripture's omissions, like the fact that angels are never said to die in any way, nor to get redeemed; so if you take those known doctrines, and read so-called 'ambiguous' verses (like Hebrews 2:2), you can see how this initial +Eternal Life creation interpretation has validity. Scripture communicates foundational doctrines largely in a sotto voce manner, to indicate that they are foundational. After all, the foundation on which a house rests is not usually visible! Corollaries or applications of these foundational doctrines explicitly reference them, namely, the many analogies Scripture writers make to the Cross, to the nature of God, etc. in order to explain something else.

In short, the reversal better accounts for Biblical finalities, doors of opportunity which remain open for a while, but then close — forever. Most importantly, the reversal stresses something we Christians all-too-frequently forget: God 'gets it right the first time': that is, He Does The Best, First. front-loaded. Why? Because eternity is forever. Of course, the reversal is also far more complex to explain: spiritual neophytes will have trouble understanding its many facets, and will feel doubt, discomfort, and — distrust. Explaining the reversal requires Divine Calculus, but most Christians are still confused over Salvation's 1 + 1 = 2 dynamics of 'believe in Christ and you are permanently saved'. True meaning of tense of σῴζω in Greek of Acts 16:31, probably the baldest verse on salvation in the Bible. Greek use of 'future' tense is not like the English; here, the aorist tense of believe, πιστεύω, gives the Greek future of sozo, "to save", a Now And Forever meaning. Assuming angels did sin and got salvation, then, is closer to the 1 + 1 = 2 basics, so that's what The Lord vs. Satan assumes. The "calculus" can be examined later.

Obviously, the true answers to all these questions depend on what exactly are the properties of "Eternal Life", "spirit", "God's Righteousness", "body life", "soul life", "redemption", etc., and whether such components differ due to the underlying nature of the being. Since the bulk of what is peddled as "Christianity" is at best baby-level teaching, just because we might not know these answers, doesn't mean they aren't in Scripture. Teachers usually cop out, claim something they are too lazy or untrained to teach is "inscrutable"; and students? Well, they mostly don't care: everyone just wants to hustle in works, feeling holy, and no one gives a flip about How God Really Is, and Why He Decides as He Does. It's appalling, the indifference: they care only about status, goodies, almost never about His Own Being-ness — well, except for titillation purposes. Kinda like the kids in high school who didn't want to learn anything, but wanted a good grade to show their parents and friends, so they only studied to "get by". And anyone who actually wanted to learn was branded a "nerd"! Whew. So the fact that these terms are abstruse to us reflects our disinterest, not God's 'inscrutability'; but that won't stop everyone from blaming teachers, Him, Bible!

But God the Holy Spirit provides a lot of data, anyway. For example, Perfect Adam's spiritual life could die, and as a result his body did (Genesis 2:17 bluntly says so); clearly Adam didn't have Eternal Life, either. But if an angel has Eternal Life, can his spirit die? Did the angel have God's +R at the beginning, since he had Eternal Life? Neither of which, Adam had? So, as you see, the questions are many and important. However, one can vary the assumptions greatly, and still find the audit trail perfectly leads to the covenants given man in history, especially, that of the Church. So, these questions can be temporarily laid aside, for we do know from Scripture what these attributes are for us. So it's assumed that how these attributes are constructed (or lost, changed) for us, which we definitely know from Scripture, is how they are across-the-board (i.e., for angels, too).


For now, I'll keep using the assumption that instead angels did not initially have Eternal Life at their simultaneous creation; that all did sin; that they all had a salvation package akin to our own which, if taken, resulted in their also acquiring Eternal Life; but a third never believed in Him after the first sin. Such an assumption simplifies the explanation of what is without doubt true: the structure and function of the spiritual life for humans. If you're interested in knowing what tapes these are: 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, Lessons 1563 and following.

Meanwhile: whatever the answer truly is, surely the Holy Spirit knows what He is doing, even if we do not. One is reminded of 1 Corinthians 2:15, here: "Who has known the thinking of the Lord, that we should instruct Him!?!" In short, there are alternative explanations which get to the same point — the Angelic Appeal Trial; yet perhaps in different flavors from those sketched here, all of them gloriously justifiable. I'm dying to write out the alternatives, but must wait until I finish reviewing my pastor's exegesis on tape. In Fixes2.htm, the "clarify brown" bullets do have some added, preliminary raw notes on the reversal.


In the beginning of Man... the Garden

In this and the following sections, you might need a Bible to follow along. In order to focus on the flow of the Trial principles and God's Epic Design, I usually can't stop to review the Bible passages themselves for the sake of refreshing the reader's memory. Of course, this 'problem' means you can instead use 1 John 1:9, and "test" the analysis here against that Gorgeously Opulent Diamond of diamonds, the Bible itself. Heh. Cry all the way to the bank, baby 😄.

God always makes sense. Therefore the story of the Garden couple is a Deposition about a real event; not some allegory, not some magic story, etc. Human nature is very well explained in the story of the Garden couple, and the more you analyze it, the wiser and happier you'll become.

If you really wish to 'see' God, then note carefully how God balances everything He does. 'For example, the 'knowing' and 'not-knowing', in man's original creation, below. Structural characteristics (like these) reveal much about God. That's why the Bible's written style is, deftly! concisely! structure-intensive (i.e., Old Testament/Gospel narratives/poetry and New Testament principle-building epistles). Even every 'particle' in the (original languages of the) Bible is balanced, to emphasize His Integrity, as a Structure, a Whole. So, parts 1 through 5 will repeatedly portray key patterns, structures, in an attempt to convey God's Intensive Integrity "Balance", in all He is and does. For this reason, I'm forced to make certain assumptions, i.e., what Adam & Isha knew at their initial creation. Such assumptions provide a framework on which to depict the truths the Bible actually makes known. I may also have to spend more time proving where I 'get' what's said here, for folks less-familiar with this part of Scripture, maybe.

Satan & Co. rejected Him. Hence, we exist. Let's go through man's creation categorically, rather than chronologically. God the Son first fully formed each body — Adam's from the ground; the woman, from Adam's rib, as it were (a metaphor for making her completely "fit" him, which is discussed below). Then, He made them alive: He "breathed lives" into them. 'Just as He had created the angels with the same types of "lives". As a result, analogous to the angels at creation, Adam and the woman became tripartite: body (for rapport with physical creation), soul (for rapport with other souled creation), and spirit (for rapport with God). Adam and the woman thus had three types of life, two of which were terminable: the body life, and the spiritual life. The latter's death was the only way the body life could die: "dying(spiritually), you shall die(physically)". So, as long as they did not die to God, they could not die physically, either.

Both humans, like the angels, were instantly loaded at creation with full (balanced) knowledge of God. This, so they could choose to have unhindered association with Him. To grow up in Love, as they might desire. (Remember, knowing something isn't enough — it's how much you want to understand of what you know or don't know, how much you value what you know or don't know.) So — like the angels — Adam and the woman also had daily association with God: when He would come "in the breeze of the evening". So, everything they saw and didn't see also served as a constant reminder of Him. Analogous to the angels, Adam and the woman could only 'lose' by means of one sin. That Tree of the "Knowledge Of Good And Evil" was a daily test: would they eat?

Properties-of-Soul Key → Thus we see the soul properties required for perfection and integrity. God is a Spirit, so God is Knowledge. The finite soul is likewise immaterial, thus it can only live on knowledge. Pain is a type knowledge. Pleasure is a type of knowledge. Whatever a body 'feels', the transmission of that data is transmuted into a form of Knowledge to the soul, so the soul can metabolize it. Knowledge is its food, so the soul 'grows' based on the kind of knowledge it gets. So, would become misshapen if it gets imbalanced knowledge, or the wrong kind of knowledge. Thus the Garden Story in Scripture shows us how Knowledge affects soul function: right knowledge, soul health/healing. Wrong knowledge, soul sickness/atrophy. Too much knowledge for the size of the soul at the time, soul fragmentation and paralysis. Satan knows these properties too. Ergo eating from his Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was the worst thing Adam and the woman could do to their own souls: that kind of knowledge would shatter them. Ergo the worst thing one can do to another, i.e., Father to Son's Humanity on the Cross! is to transmit malevolent Knowledge. This shouldn't have to be said, but the Tree itself was merely a tree. (God could have made a "paper clip of the Knowledge of Good and Evil", with the same results.) Eating from that tree meant choosing a type of knowledge which God prohibited. So, choosing to rebel, choosing to be apart. In short, one is choosing sin, to eat. The fruit itself had nothing to do with anything. So, when the woman ate, she got the knowledge of sin. Good and evil are based on sin, and attempts by a sin-tainted nature to be good or evil. So, again, the tree itself had no magical properties, etc.

Being perfect (beyond improvement) at initial creation, just as the angels had been, Adam and the woman likewise did not know — because they did not need to know — "good and evil". That knowledge hung, as it were, on a tree. They thus had no conscience. They thus had no knowledge of "morality". They also had no knowledge of "salvation". Just like the angels, the pair did not need any of these types of knowledge. Thus we see that certain kinds of not-knowing are also needed in order for finite "integrity" to hold together. Just as was true for the angels. In short, the knowledge of God, to be beneficial, must be balanced with certain categories of not-knowing ("innocence"). Thus God has not influenced free will, for the creature is balanced in knowledge.

"Improvement" (as we think of the term) was gained by growing in Love for God. The non-consensual knowledge instantly inserted into creation initially had to be afterwards chosen, decided on — and, if more was desired, that was a choice as well. Choosing for Infinite God means an improvement, for more Knowledge of Him would be given in response to the desire. Thus free will is not coerced. Thus love can grow. Thus "improvement" is coming at all times from outside the creature, and from God alone. So the creature remains perfect or loses perfection, but doesn't become more perfect — only bigger, if he grows in Love for God.

So, the Garden pair were perfect mature adults the very second they were made. So, like the angels, the pair also did not need 'works', since the word "perfect" means "un-improvable". Perfection can be duplicated, expanded horizontally, widened, but not "improved". For finite perfection, such expansion's 'added sphere' would be: development in Love. That is an 'added sphere' due to volition, though: not an "improvement". So, "improvement", the bane of our existence, was not in them. Just as they did not need the attribute of "conscience", so also they did not need any ability to "improve", and had none. So — again like the angels, initially — the pair likewise had no ability to do 'works', since the ability to do 'works' requires an ability to 'improve'. What did they do, then? They enjoyed themselves. They lounged around eating from trees, played with the animals, had sex all day. This was God's creation, remember. "Rulership" was having fun! Moreover, "they knew they were naked, and were not ashamed." Even though they knew the angels could see them. Having no conscience, they weren't embarrassed, etc. about anything.

So, God's Script for them, was the same as His Script for the angels. 'The only difference? Adam and the woman were a lower order of creation, "human". 'Animals, but with an everlasting soul. (It was the same type of soul life as the angels had — a critical point for interpreting Scripture, e.g., in Genesis 6. 'Also critical, obviously, to the Trial's fairness.) Like the angels, the pair also had a sin-destructible spirit, except their spirits were human, since their bodies were human. (Note how body life and spiritual life keep on being interrelated, but soul life is independent.) So, because they had souls like the angels, the pair had inviolable free will. In sum, the pair's parallel attributes, parallel missing attributes, parallel knowings and not-knowings, together constituted a duplication of the pre-creation 'situation' of the angels. Yet, on a creature level Satan & Co. could sufficiently influence. So he had a level playing field with Almighty God, to make his arguments.

Moreover, God did a new thing: he created two sexes. (Angels are all technically male.) God thus set up the male-female structure, to tip the scales in Satan's favor. What would eventually contribute to the Fall was the fact that the pair were so tied up with each other, God was less important to them. In short, their association with each other became more important to them than their individual or collective association with God. This particular weakness becomes a major Trial argument at this time, but is not answered until the "Age" of the Church.

Why? Remember in Part 1, where God is explaining to Satan how one can only learn to avoid failure by growing up in Love? So, to most illustrate the intimate rapport among the Godhead, the intimate rapport God wants with His Creation, and the meaning of "competing" Loves, He creates male and female. To be united. Bodies to coalesce, as a result of soul coalescence. That would make for the greatest "competition" to God: a maximally-intensive lateral relationship with a fellow being. Thus Satan has an extra advantage (like a high golf handicap).

Even if Satan never tempted them, their being so 'wrapped up' with each other would interfere with their progress in Love toward God. They thus face the Integrity issue: how to mediate the conflicting loves? Only one answer: grow "bigger". Via Love for God. That would solve the problem, a problem Satan had also faced (His "conflicting love" was apparently pride). However, sex increased the pair's 'conflicting love' problem beyond what even the angels faced, for the angels weren't designed to have sexual pleasure with each other. So, the pair faced a category of testing far greater than the angels had experienced. Yet, Adam and the woman were 'smaller' creatures!

How is this condition fair to Adam and the woman? Well, shouldn't the body be maximally attuned to the soul? Shouldn't a relationship with a fellow being be as intimate as it can be? What, is God jealous, He'd deprive His creatures from being able to enjoy a maximum rapport with each other? See, sex really matters here. The prudish folks miss the whole point of it. God invented sex for pleasure in marriage. To miss this point is to miss the meaning of God's Love. (Conversely, to have non-marital sex destroys one's ability to ever know such intense love, apart from the "healing" one can get from 1 John 's Script. In short, fornication harms! Whether it's physical fornication, or spiritual. By contrast, if your soul is prepped by Bible Doctrine, you'll never need "Viagra", etc.)

God took exquisite care in preparing Adam for the woman. She wasn't made in that (so-called) 'first week'. Oh no: the Lord, ever Rich in Humor (is there anyone so Gorgeous as Him?) let Adam look around, 😏. First, He had Adam run around naming the animals — alone. Obviously he saw them copulate. Obviously, he came to associate their pairing with a wish for some mate of his own, but alas, found none. Then, when God makes the woman, He exactly matches her every attribute, both physical and soulish, to "complement" him ("helpmeet" is really "complement", in the sense of "perfect fit"). That's the pattern of how God designs a "right woman" for her God-intended spouse. So, when He brings the woman to Adam to name, Adam shouts ecstatically, "Now! At last!" (English "Now" is prudishly tame, and is not correct. Grab a Hebrew interlinear — even they get this translation right.) He had been yearning for someone to call his own. So God married them on the spot, as the passage goes on to note. (Graphically! — Hebrew "davaq" means "to have sex", not 'cleave'. For crying out loud: "cleave"? Can one advertise prudishness more than that? "Cleave" separates, not joins. Why do translators feel they need to cover up God? Is God naked, that they must 'cover' Him?)

So, because of that associative pleasure, Adam came to love the woman more than he loved God. So, because of that pleasure, the woman was more interested in Adam than in God. It wasn't merely a body thing. The body signified the soul coalescence. Love, not merely copulation. Big difference. It created an intensity which made both extremely sensitive to each other on every level. As a result, something he did or didn't do disquieted her disproportionately over time; so, as a result, she was distracted, so came to distort what she knew about that Tree. So, as a result, Satan could tempt her. She knew very well it was Satan talking to her, as she had been instantly loaded with full (balanced) knowledge at her creation. So her talking to that pet serpent tells us she had some desire for disassociation; that she was no longer happy in the marriage. (Christian couples, take note. Christian marriage harmony is a big Trial Evidence Test, in our "Now": see Ephesians 5, Peter, Corinthians, Timothy. Part 3 has a summary of the Trial criteria in Christian marriage.


The 'Fall': Magical, Religious Transmutation Fantasy of 'Better Good' only begets Dissociation

Study this section intensely, for all man's instincts will reflect both Adam's and the woman's, 'fall'. Think over the corollaries, look beneath the facts to the pattern the facts demonstrate. If you do, you will find that all you see in life will be 'redefined' and Scripture will be much clearer to you, as a consequence.

Underlying Divine Design Principles Evidenced by the Fall

Hence, religion is always Rebellion in a pious mask. My pastor has long taught that the First Temptation in man's history was a temptation of religion. Look: like Satan, the woman, via spiritual arrest in Love-development, came to want 'more' than God; 'more' than a perfect relationship with her husband — she thought she'd get 'more', too, if she were as good as God. Ironic, huh? Just like the Most High? Heh, which all along was the desire of the Most High? Yet without, apart from, min (Hebrew preposition for "apart from") the Most High?

Sin Nature Key → Notice sin's religious character — "Desire For A Better 'Good'! 'In preference to God, of course. They failed because they wanted to compete with God. They did not fail due to lasciviousness. So being religious is the origin of sin, so self-righteousness is the original character of sin. So religious people are the worst sinners on the planet. Satan is moral, and prides himself on it. Thus Satan easily ensnares the human race the exact same way he ensnared the Eden couple. This is why the unbeliever objects to the Gospel on moral grounds: for the unbeliever, like the Eden couple, thinks he's as good as, or good enough — for God.

Underlying Satan & Co. Strategy Evidenced by the Fall

Let's look at Genesis 3, to prove from Scripture what both the above text and Part 1 say about Satan's mindset; and, how he 'begot' that same mindset into humans, via the seduction of a better 'good', the goal of pride.

  1. Satan (via the serpent, she well knew) began to talk with her. (Mere animals don't tempt people to be jealous. Satan couldn't show himself fully, either, for that would have overwhelmed her, rather than her choosing to talk to him.)
  1. So, then: what does that tell you? 'That she was disquieted in her relationship with God and Adam. Else, why even want to talk to the one whom she already knew was 'the bad guy'? It's like flirting. Note further: the conversation lasted over some long time: Hebrew makes this succinctly clear, English does not. Hebrew style also summarizes the gist of the conversation, here.
  1. So what Satan says in this passage had been a long conversation over some days, months, years.
  1. Clearly, then, she enjoyed what he'd been saying! Oh, what a nice conversation. The devil, through the serpent, pretends to observe, to seek her knowledge. Wow. Flirt, baby, flirt. What a nice voice he has. What a nice tone to his words. Nice nice nice.
  1. Ahhh, but he does a lot more than speak sweetly: he insinuates that God prohibits eating from all trees. Not a nice way to ask, is it? Moreover, he uses "Elohim", a plural 'last name' of God (translated simply "God" in English), rather than "Jehovah Elohim", (first-and-last-name, but no "ben" (son of), because Godness isn't begotten) — which is extremely disrespectful. English has a similar usage: the nasty custom of using someone's last name as an epithet: as if the person were just a member of a group, not an individual. "Elohim" in God's Name stresses His Essence, not His Personhood. So Satan's making God into just a collection of properties, de-personalizing Him: "Hey, 'Cheese!" (Satan's doing much the same thing here. Really really nasty. Sotto voce, of course.)
  1. So how does she reply to her Creator being so maligned? Not, "Shame on you for accusing God", but she repeats! his "Elohim" epithet! and then answers the (alleged) question about the prohibition. Well, she doesn't answer the 'question' properly, either. If you look back at Genesis 2:17, you'll notice that God never said "neither shall you touch it" about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. She interprets the information incorrectly, which shows she was focused more on the prohibition's body-meaning (physical death) than on its spiritual meaning (loss of relationship with God). Aha. So again we see that the spiritual life with God wasn't as important to her as her physical life.

What she knew she valued; what she didn't know she valued. She valued knowing her physical life as more important than her spiritual life, for she associated the prohibition more with physical death than with spiritual death. In short, she valued physical life more, and thus, though perfect, values an untruth; and thus, accords that untruth on par with the truth. So, is open to all untruth. Like, magic. A magic property of a fruit to physically make her as smart as God, even, what ho!

  1. Satan's got her, now. To her, the Tree was some kind of physical poison. She doesn't think about the spiritual poison, and so when she recounts the prohibition, she 'spins' it. Unknowingly. Uncaringly.
  1. So, all Satan needs to do is counter that she will not physically die, since that is in fact the truth (well, she won't die right away, heh).

Satan's Continuing Legal Gaming Key → You really should look up Genesis 3:3-4 in the Hebrew, and compare it to Genesis 2:17's muth-tamuth. Notice how she misstates the Genesis 2 prohibition, but Satan does not. The dual dying, first spiritual then physical, of Genesis 2:17's Hebrew is repeated by Satan, to her face, correcting her misstatement of the prohibition. See how Satan uses God's real words, then denies their validity, so the woman has no excuse for her 'no' to God: Satan, ever the lawyer, did his own 'due diligence' and reminded her of God's Own Words. So she, not Satan, is responsible for her sin. Doesn't matter that he tempted her: he gave her blatant proof of his own intent, and blatant warning of God's real words. Satan blatantly follows the exact same procedure on us every day, 24/7, and like the woman, we say 'no' to God anyway.

  1. That's why he responds as he does, with his religious pitch! Oh no, she won't 'die'. God's lying to her. Oh no — instead this tree has a magical property of conveying knowledge if its fruit is eaten. So, God's afraid that if she eats from that tree she'll be as smart as He is! Let's look at this heart of "religion", the valuation system Satan thus transmits to transmute her (and us).

Notice how all these arguments are patently insane. After all, if the tree really did have 'knowledge', then why did the Lord come in the 'breeze' of every day, to teach them? After all, if God really was so afraid of them knowing as much as Him, why provide the tree in the first place? After all, since when did a piece of inanimate fruit, for crying out loud, convey knowledge? And especially, Divine Knowledge? What, is God no more than a piece of fruit, that divinity is so easily obtained? Then again, insanity sounds good to dissatisfaction. To iconoclasm. Satan's own thought pattern was that Tree. He himself beguiled himself through these same bullet points, killing his own love for God via his own extensive self-flattery and seduction.

Religion Equals Insanity Key → All religious ideas are kooky and slapstick. Only a soul insanely preoccupied over authority can 'buy' them. Even, while still perfect, insane preoccupation can occur. Sin thus follows, to 'relieve' the preoccupation. Making it thus ever worse!

  1. Notice how neither Isha nor Adam ever say, "Gee, how is some fruit, 🤣, gonna make us as smart as God! Screw you, Satan!" See how far gone they are, to even listen to the argument at all? And why are they so far gone? Ohhhh because it's attractive to compete with God. Yeah, and a set cannot contain itself, but who remembers that little ol' first law of math, that bigger/better attributes can never come from smaller/inferior ones? Nerd note: temptation doesn't become sin until you decide "Yes" on the temptation. Here, to eat the fruit. So yes, they were far gone, crazy with temptation, even — but still hadn't yet sinned until each one ate the fruit. That other sins may have preceded this one can be argued either yes or no — in any event, temptation will drive one crazy, as well. Man cannot function on his own: either you use God's Power, or Satan's. No middle ground.
  1. So, Isha 'ate' Satan's arguments, too; so she ate that fruit; so she transmuted, alright! She became just like Satan, rather than just like God. So, "eating" to her had become an act of disassociation, rather than associative fellowship with God. 'Just like Satan. Note how the 'middle', "eating", reverses its meaning in the soul. 'From fellowship, to rebellion. Same fact, but an opposite orientation now is associated with that same fact: me-ness. Hence is born all politics: where content is but a servant to make the 'me', great.

Corollary to Your Real Life Key → Listen to conversations for the emphasis on who says what, rather than content itself. It's no longer what is true, but who says it's true that matters. This, because ego gets gratified by citing an expert, never mind whether the content makes any sense whatsoever. Self-importance is so vile a disease, due to the 'fall', that all truth is subordinated to serving ego-gratification. So, if someone tells you something, your first instinct is to bristle. That's the sin nature: it wants to claim its own authorship, 🤣. Just like the temptation to eat the so-called forbidden fruit, unless self gets some kind of gratification from the telling, i.e., oh, an expert says so and if I agree I too am like that expert, the actual information is deemed meaningless. Alternatively, notice how people don't want to agree with what you tell them, because if they agree, they consider that they benefit you: as if what you say, had no value apart from their approval. Never mind that a thing is good or bad of its own. Never mind that a person saying a truth is not better for having simply said it; never mind that Truth is True and Good no matter who says it, so no credentials are needed to warrant the saying. So if a drunk accurately says the Gospel, the mouth used 'makes' the true information, despised. Watch, listen, see for yourself. This is why governmental policies can never work: people are more interested in what kudos they get, than if the idea is really beneficial for the nation. So they buy or sell an idea to get kudos, not because of any innate value in the idea: any innate value is but used to get kudos. So, the policy goal is never accomplished. It's all hypocrisy. Politics is just ego-struggle, never more.

  1. Adam was right there when Isha took that fruit. Adam knew what he was doing. Adam had long known of this 'pet'. Adam didn't use his authority over the serpent, nor over the woman to warn or stop her (confer Genesis 3:17). In short, he let his love get in the way of his Love for Righteousness, and thus is responsible for causing harm to her, even though she was the first one who sinned. Adam, loving her deeply, loving her even more than he loved God (in the name of husbanding her!), not wanting to lose her, ate also. So, the Garden "covenant" was also broken.

Adam's sin was also a better 'good', and worse than the woman's: he chose the better 'good' of siding with her, over and against siding with God's Rule. Just like Satan had: in the name of "good".

However, unlike Satan & Co., Adam and the woman did not want to divorce God.

Integrity Key → Love (i.e., to have relationship with God) is always based on accepting truth. For its own sake. Irrespective of the consequences. Irrespective of what you think you know about the consequences. (That's a big reason why the not-knowings are so critical, i.e., not knowing of a salvation offer if they did sin. Many corollaries come from this not-knowing principle which are profitable to ponder. To illustrate the pattern of these corollaries, here's an important example. One who is negative to the idea that God is Absolute Righteousness will refuse the Gospel. So giving the Gospel to that person harms him, because there is no "balance" between volition and the content of the (yet unknown) Gospel. Positive volition must exist absent enticement, so that the 'good news' won't influence free will. For, Love never harms. So, Love stays silent. Yet, will be accused for its loving silence, by a negative volition. Yet, will be trusted despite what seems to be evidence against it, by a positive volition. Love and free will thus remain not enticed.)

Underlying Soul Damage Evidenced by the Fall

Next, let's review sin's damage before salvation, to see key, Trial-related, 'pathological' effects of sin.

Integrity means 'integrated with God'.

Here it's really important to distinguish between the indestructible properties of the soul, and the trashing which occurs in the soul.

Another Integrity Key→ The truth is, apart from God, everything is empty, worthless, desolate. So, apart from God, we are empty, worthless: because, apart from God, we are alone! Unbalanced! Oh, the soul is in eternal grief stricken woe! Oy, Ouai, Ayah, separated! Not good, that God should be alone. Not good, that God should not make "sons". Not good, that man should be alone. Not good, that man should be apart from God. It's about Love! See, it has nothing to do with sin per se. Instead, it has everything to do with being alone. However, it's 'original' sin which produced our unresolvable loneliness, so the brain is trying to undo that problem. The soul keeps looking outward, like it was designed to do, for Love-completion, by and with God! Hence, the soul's irretrievable yearning constantly orders the brain to go on that quest, too: 'Find My Love! End this Loneliness!' Hence, another reason for the brain's obsessive, impossible, unquenchable, quest for 'good'. 'As a substitute for "God". A Sisyphean quest, to calm the soul.

'Good' is just like that: fake clothes. Our brains, ever-desperate to fulfill the impossible 'original' sin directive of 'better good', makes 'new clothes', fig leaves, out of everything it can. Our souls then 'buy' that lie — the reverse of the original sin. Now, the brain is telling the soul what to do, and the soul's volition, still-free! assents. As if it were the slave, not the master. Just as Adam gave in to the woman. So we don't realize we are still naked (Revelation 3:17). So, we insanely imagine that our fig leaves, our 'good' will make us clean before God. At which point, 'God owes' us something in return. What a nice, tidy fantasy world. We've now cut God down to 'good': down to our size. So, we happily start sewing away, making those fig leaves, baby. And God's to blame for everything, since "earn" is our mentality.

As unbelievers, we can't handle the idea of hell: our insane, guilt-depraved brains say "hell" must mean we are bad! We can't admit we are bad — oh no, that's got to stay hidden! So, we assume our being bad is the reason for hell. It isn't the reason for hell, but we can't hear any more. All we can do is object, "Why should I go to Hell? I'm a good person." Over and over and over. As believers, we fare none better. We still insanely imagine we must 'do good for God' — and in return, He'll do good for us. Satan takes full advantage of this depraved me-be-good urge.

Underlying Soul Damage is at Root, a Genetic urge of "Dissociation"

So goes our genetically-dysfunctional 'reasoning': in psychiatry, this pattern would likely be called "dissociation". The term is reserved for mental illness diagnostics, but from the Fall forward, the genes actually possess the malady. We all have it. Just as every human being has certain proclivities to physical illness (i.e., we all have potential cancers in our genetic makeup), more fundamentally, we all inherited a dissociative predisposition at the Fall. What psychiatry classifies as "defense mechanisms" are actually the fallout urges from Adam's Original Sin: denial, projection, compensation, sublimation, rationalization/intellectualization being the five most common. They are mindless urges and target especially to "God" anywhere in the conceptual vicinity. So the weird sense of defeat or weakness or nervousness people have when believing in the Real God, thinking about the Real God or hearing about God — is all genetic, a kind of 'race memory' going back to the Fall. And the behavior of this race memory is just like the classical symptoms of dissociation.

In psychiatry, an integrated personality is the key to mental health. So, if the personality fractures, it loses integration, and the person becomes (to some degree) mentally ill. "Dissociation" is a personality-fracture malady. It is characterized by a fracturing fragment operating independent of volition. This fragment is an associative / baptizing / bonding / 'hypostatic' reflex, often occurring totally apart from the person's awareness. What happens, is this: the dissociation occurred due to what psychiatry calls a "triggering event". Say, a parent threw an electric iron at you. You were so traumatized by the shock of your parent doing something like that, you deep-sixed the memory. Your parent and the iron are now bonded to the event. What you can't admit, though, is that your parent did this to you. Even if, you thereafter are angry/ afraid/ whatever against your parent, the iron is what bears the brunt of the 'bad' association. So, next time you see an electric iron, you have an involuntary fear or revulsion at the sight. You won't touch it. If forced to iron something, you feel terrible the whole time. You don't know why. You will invent all kinds of rationalizations/ intellectualizations, to justify not seeing, touching, being around that iron. And, will likely not know why. Even if you come to remember why, you will still feel that way. It's an Energizer Bunny, playing over and over and over in a vain attempt to rid you of the memory. If you are under my pastor, he spent an entire series explaining "dissociation", 1991 Israel. It focused on how the Exodus generation were wacko, to explain the sin nature. "Dissociation" was a term invented by Dr. Emil Janet, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud's, though Janet was not a psychiatrist. Janet was trying to find organic causes for mental illness, and really Adam's original sin produced the organic sin nature, so Janet was essentially right as to the real cause. Technically the interaction between soul and sin nature results in a variety of mental illnesses, some chronic and severe. But we are all at least a little mentally ill at one time or another, and the essential sin nature's drives to which we succumb, makes mental illness a virus in the soul. Only getting in and staying in God's System, will properly treat the malady.

So, "dissociation" is a perfect description of how Adam's disassociation from God affected our genetics, our brains. For, on the topic of "God", Adam rebelled, hence dissociated, hence any "God" idea in humankind generates the exact same reflex hostility and intellectualization as is observed in Adam after his fall. Couple that with the natural genetic variation and volitional variation among humans, and you can readily see why so many goofy ideas of God prevail among Christians and non-Christians alike, since Adam's fall. For example, that's why we are so stuck on "works" (guilt reflex, need to atone). That's why we get so self-righteous, even about how our hair looks (compensation, denial, projection, many layered defense mechanisms). That's why we feel so queasy about "faith" (again, guilt reflex, but added to by the other defense mechanisms). Why it's such a traumatic thing to initially believe in Christ (sense of surrender, reliving the dissociating experience). Why man can even become mentally ill. Psychiatrists have long mused over genetic bases for mental illnesses. Well, here it is. Spiritual Pathology, explains further why this genetic urge is "dissociative".

Spiritual illness is the basis for mental illness, and must be treated in the same way: the patient must want to be cured. In spiritual illness, only God can be the "doctor"; in many a mental illness, no human doctor's help is useful. In some mental illnesses, a human doctor can help with medication and counselling (helping the patient to see for himself what's irrational in his mis-associations). In all events, though, no progress is made except to the extent the patient is willing to be healed. For, free will is an indissoluble attribute of personhood, and the Person Who Made Creation will never allow free will to be violated. For, Freedom has its intrinsic results, and that fact will never change.

Underlying Soul Damage is at Root, a kind of Soul fission, not a loss of Free Will

If you know anything about derivatives in atomic physics, you can see why this anti-God reflex is so undefeatable. If you know nothing about physics, you still probably remember hearing, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Well, negative volition reacts against Infinity, so it's the power of Infinity, not the power of the reaction itself, which is greater than the reactor itself. Hence, a mating contact between the reaction and the object (Infinity) occurred, even though the mating is negative (separatist). So, the resultant power of the reaction, being derived from the power of what it reacted to, will henceforth be forever ongoing; and it will be stronger than the reactor itself (Satan's volition, man's volition): only death ends the reaction. Fortunately for us, God knows what He was doing when He created the immortal soul in a mortal body; for the effect of Adam's sin is on the body (hence the word "flesh" in Bible denotes the sin nature). The body, happily, dies. Taking that horrible reactive reflex, with it.

Question is, during your lifetime, how much of that sin-nature reflex did your free will accept, and did the reflex get replaced with God's Reflexes, obtained via God's Script? The acceptance level determines whether any reflex goes on forever in your soul, and how much. The person who never believes in Christ accepted all of the sin-nature reflex; the one who did believe, but doesn't get on Doctrine, accepted nearly all the reflex, but because he at least once believed, the reflex's effect on his soul is wiped out at death (1 Corinthians 3 & 15, 1 John 3 one layer of meaning there). However, there isn't any Divine reflex accumulated to replace it, so such a believer only gets a de minimis level of relationship with God forever. The one who grows in God's Script to Pleroma (Ephesians 3:15-21), by contrast, comes to habitually remove the sin-nature reflex from his soul: replacing that reflex with Christ's Thinking, Bible Doctrine. Via the Spirit's Power, only. Just as Christ Himself did, while He was down here.

So now you know the power of a derivative derives from the power it bounces off (rejects), so if that power is Infinite, and the item bounces off True Infinity (largest data set, includes all immaterial), then the destructive power inuring to the item due to the bounce-off is total, far bigger than the item itself. Like, an atom bomb. See, that's why Satan's temptation in the Garden could only be resisted by Isha & Adam preferring God. For, the power of the temptation derived from Satan's rejection of God, Who is Infinite. So, the power of the temptation was way bigger than Isha or Adam could alone 'take'. So, the only counter is a Bigger Power: God's. By, Preferring Him.

Nerd note: Calvinism throws out the baby with the bathwater when it maintains man lost his free will after Adam's fall, mistaking the power for the existence of free will. The truth is much worse than that babyish idea. Even perfect Adam couldn't resist the temptation in his own strength! Even Christ couldn't resist the temptation in His Own Perfect Strength, and instead Relied On The Spirit.

Free will is an indissoluble part of personhood, and you are still a person, so still possessed of free will, but trashed up, due to the sin-nature's genetic effect on your brain. Because, the sin nature is a derivative power which bounced against Infinity so it is stronger than humanity. So yes, you have total free will, but you are only human. So the sin's reflex is sooo seductive, only Wanting Doctrine will repel it. Doctrine is God's Thinking, and it takes God's Power to enable you to effectively will something beyond human power. Else, you can will all you like, impotent. James 2:18-26, Philippians 2:1-13, 'God works in you to will and to do.

Preview of coming attractions: For Church, the amount of Divine fusion Power is unique, as it derives from the spiritual life the Lord's Humanity invented during the First Advent, as you'll eventually see if you keep reading. So, only the steps in "1 John's Outline of God's Script" can reduce and eventually cure you of the Adam-originated reflex: theme of Romans 5-8. "Cure" doesn't mean ending the genetic dissociative disease. Rather, "Cure" means "preservative", like in curing meat: you slow down deterioration with the "salt" of learning His Thinking. If you don't get with and stick with the spiritual life, however, your life becomes "δίψυχος" (term in James 1, literal "split-souled"), schizophrenic. You will eventually live a fantasy life, though to others around you who are doing the same, you'll seem 'normal'. A great movie illustrating what "schizophrenia" is like, is "A Beautiful Mind", starring Russell Crowe. Frankly, we all start out kinda schizophrenic. Much of the mind-repair which the spiritual life effects is to rid us of our fantasy ideas related to the topic of God: works, righteousness, good, etc.

See, the Fall of Adam completely trashed all his definitions of things, as if his hard drive 'brain' changed operating systems (really, quite true), compared to the operating system God initially gave him. So, all definitions are screwed up. So, if a new believer reads the Bible, he'll have trashed definitions of each word he reads, so will derive a trashed interpretation (i.e., can lose salvation, you don't go to heaven if you kill yourself, gays go to hell, you-name-it-stupidity). So my pastor says that the steps of "1 John's Outline of God's Script" (which he calls "Operation Z"), cause a continual process of "epistemological rehabilitation"; which then eventuate in building "doctrinal reflexes" to counter the sin-nature (i.e., defense-mechanism) reflexes. Over time, the recall and use of these Doctrinal reflexes become more proficient, culminating in ἄρτιος: 2 Timothy 3:17. "Ἄρτιος", usually translated "mature", really means "maturely equipped" — by God's Thinking, 1 John 's Outline of God's Script.

Respect the anti-God derivative power of sin and the sin nature, which exceeds human power. Look at Adam's and Isha's behavior in Genesis 3 when the Lord calls to Adam and queries them about whether they ate the fruit. Note how they first must accuse God before they can admit what they did. That's the reflex, operating. So, when we are in a 'spot of bother', our first impulses will be rejections: wanting-to-tell-but-not-be-told, distrust, blaming, anger, accusing, complaining, fear (remember how Adam first hid?), etc. ad nauseam. So, the task is to stay in the problem long enough so that these reflexes cycle through as mere temptations and thus exhaust themselves, yet without you sinning. You can only avoid sin by persevering in repeated uses of doctrinal counter-thoughts over time, analogous to physical exercise; so in the beginning, you'll "faint" (Bible word for succumbing to sin) a lot; over time, you'll faint less often and/or for shorter periods, because "Christ in you", Bible Doctrine, His Thinking — is stronger. If you don't use Doctrine, what seems to be relief from the temptation is just a different sin-nature reflex taking over (analogous to 'healing', where one demon tells another demon to leave a person so that the 'healer' seems effective). This is the mistake the self-righteous make: fooled by what they think is a superiority or prosperity in themselves, they tyrannize. So, because they resist the gross sins with their self-righteousness, they don't use 1 John 1:9, and think they are not in a state of sin. 1 John 1:6-10 says otherwise.

So, each time the sin-nature reflex hits, use 1 John 1:9 just in case you tripped up; for, if you're in a state of 1 John 1:9 used, you are Filled with the Spirit — that's the power to will to resist. He also built you to some extent in doctrinal thinking under your right pastor, and His Power cycles that doctrinal recall instead (á la John 14:26). So, you 'parry' the sin-nature reflex with some doctrine you've habitually learned under your right pastor, which 'now' you remember. "Christ's Combat" chart illustrates how the Lord's Humanity did it on the Cross. Matthew 4 shows how He did it even more clearly.

So, if you stay on God's Script, you gradually become aware of the sin-nature "Energizer Bunny" reflex as a mere reflex; you become aware of the fact that you have Doctrinal reflexes to counter the sin-nature ones. Until that point, you will mistake the sin-nature reflexes as valid desires, and give into them. So, if you stick with God's Script, even if you become Spiritually Mature, the sin-nature reflex activity will remain: but it will be kinda like the end of the movie, "A Beautiful Mind", when John Nash 'sees' his hallucinatory 'friends' walking on a parallel Princeton sidewalk. You are aware of the sin-nature reflex activity, but it's normally held at bay. Sin, of course, doesn't stop until you die: but it becomes a lot more refined as you age in Christ (shift from physical to merely mental, and very sophisticated, like Matthew 4), a lot more devastating, but happily, a lot less frequent.

When Christ was on the Cross, He fused Truth to the incoming sins by 'replying' to them with Truth He learned under the Holy Spirit. That is why we can be saved. That fusion which occurred, enlarged His Own Soul such that even in His Humanity, He attained the Oneness with Father. For the only area in which He lacked Oneness, was in the knowledge of sin, since He was sinless. At the bottom of this page you'll see something of the enormity of the pressure such fusion creates. All of Part 3 and Part 4d, are dedicated to explaining more about it. Point here, is this: we fissioned in Adam. Our souls are like Hiroshimas after the bombing. Only God can clean us up: and He does, by our persisting in 1 John 's Script, AKA God's System — to Pleroma Spiritual Maturity. It really works, this fusion. Takes a lifetime, but every day is a series of victories, right alongside the daily defeats. As you age in Christ — which you do, by the same mechanic as He paid for our sins, 'replying' with what Truth you know to the incoming temptations — you will see this inner-soul transformation occur. Worth it!

So the sin-nature reflex urge beats endlessly, powerless to stop, a mindless urge we mistake for a valid desire — and cave into. Here's how the reflex urge functions, and how it mutates in the life.


Sin's Fissioning "Dissociation" Transmutes life with God into a Caricature-Dungheap of "good"

Because the Person of God was rejected, Perfection was removed and life became shattered, hollow, small. What's left? A meaningless life, a soundbyte life, cutting out all 'letters' except "me". So the brain dissociatively tries to get the rest of "meaning" back! So, whether in the soul or still mindlessly beating at the soul from the brain, this self-absorbed, loveless! brain-urge plays all the following 'software programs' together, hacking for the right 'password' into the 'system':

  • Me-be-god: Meanness. Pride. Look at me. My-characteristics-should be special, better-than-others, and that makes 'me' happy. So: I-decide, I-should-judge, I-should-control, I'm-right, I-have-rights. Merit-Me. Merit-Me. Merit-Me. 'Original Sin, creator/cause of the dissociative reflex. If we analogize the reflex to 'being' a 'body' itself, the reflex 'body' is run by Pride; so Pride is the brain-of-the-brain-reflex, post-Fall.
  • Me-get-better-good: Manipulate. I'm-owed, I've-earned, more-makes-right, don't-settle (don't be content!), improve improve improve. 'Nervous system of the dissociative reflex, post-Fall.
  • Me-be-good: Martyr. The "kernel of truth" that once perfection existed; now, corrupted by the irrational 'conclusion' that if "I'm good" I can recapture that former state. 'Self-judgement, in the merit-improve 'loop'. 'Heart (cardiovascular system) of the dissociative reflex.
  • Me-do-good: Mortgage. 'Trying to make the recapture work. Ergo, I-must-work; I-must-earn; I-achieve-good-if-I-"do"-something with my body, since it's the body which caused the problem in the first place ('a dissociative accusation, since the soul sinned and corrupted the body). 'Digestive system of the dissociative reflex: ergo the need to be running all the time.
  • You-do-good: Manage. Defense mechanism of "projection". What's true of 'me' is dissociatively ascribed to 'you', so 'I'm' no longer 'guilty' of failing to be 'good'. The reflex's 'lungs' (pulmonary system: COPD-afflicted).
  • You-be-god. Massacre. 'Reflex's reproduction system. The "you-be-god" program thus has two 'subroutines' which run in tandem: A) to find God, regain that happiness, and B) less nobly, 'you-be-god responsible to please me'. So 'you' have to be idolized/iconized, live up to 'my' expectations. So if 'you' fail even the tiniest bit, 'I' become iconoclastic, thus 'punishing you'. 'Iconoclasm, thus bitterness, resentment, discontent with 'you' leads back to 'Me-be-god', because 'you' failed to be 'god', and thus 'I' must be 'god', after all. So the cycle begins anew, from 'Me-be-god'.

Thus the shattered soul runs its subterranean subroutines, fighting for survival. 'Like Anthony Perkins did with his 'mother', in the movie "Psycho". This, because we are guilty of (attempted) 'regicide', like Lady MacBeth. So, we keep washing our hands, compulsively: be nice, be good, get good, improve, merit-me, merit-you. Over and over and over. The urge can't stop playing, like the proverbial "Energizer Bunny". Notice how, Because it mutated from originally-perfect attitudes, it mimics true motives, so that one truly cannot see the hidden self-promotion drive.

Now, watch what was the original structure, to see how subtle is the problem we face. Our erstwhile, God-designed, true motives were noblesse oblige, the idea of loving Righteousness so much, one gives one's all to Righteousness. 'Self' is not in view, except as a sort of grateful 'tool'. Rather, ruling/giving is for its own sake. It's a very humbling exercise, as one is looking outward, not inward. For that same reason, it is also Extremely Gratifying to be able to give. For its own sake. An Outlet, a Release of Love.

So, Adam got this experience, as Ruler of the World, which is why having 'someone to call his own' became so important to him. The design was God's way of giving Adam a basis for rapport, to understand God's Own Desire for "sons", God's Own Satisfaction in creation — and hence, to share the same joy with God. So, the 'original' design went thus:

  • 'me be god' used to be recognition of God's Desire for "sons", valuing the purpose of growing in Love to 'godhood': to enjoy Him on a higher level.
  • 'me get better good' used to be recognition of the potential to grow in Love — "from glory to glory", as Paul would later exult (2 Corinthians 3:18). God's Design, therefore: the expansion of perfection, via the added 'sphere' of Love. To have more Rapport!
  • 'me be good' was the prosperity of the 'current' glory: being with God. It's good to be a "me", because the "me" gets to be with God. It's a glory to be alive, because "me" gets to See God Now. So:
  • 'You be God' used to be preferring Him: "aggressive devotion" (my pastor's term). The glory of ruling illustrated Him, gave Adam (and the woman) a way to appreciate what it was like to be higher, Love so much. So, by means of ruling the rest of creation, they could learn how much God loved them. Growth in Love: Rapport.
  • 'You be God' also used to be promoting Him: "responsive respect" (my pastor's term). The glory of being ruled also illustrated Him, gave Adam (and the woman) a way to enjoy the sanctity of 'marriage' with God. Free. Safe. Uninhibited. It was the Inequality which enhanced all relationships, exploited the enjoyment for all: higher and lower, alike. Confer Ephesians 5, 1 Corinthians 13, Romans 5-8.

Notice how, in all of these used-to-be's, the Most High Was First, always. Enjoyably. Because, He's Absolutely Gorgeous. Totally Engrossing. Everything else, so what? If you are busy loving, self-merit doesn't even occur to you. So, were Perfect Adam here now on earth, he'd find our depraved-urge mutation weird: "What? Why do people go on and on about themselves? Whatever for?" So, he'd scratch his head. Imagine, then, how the Last Adam felt, Who by contrast knew quite well what the mutation really meant.

See the insidious mutation sin created? 'Self' replaced the Most High, so these same motives are now empty, frustrating, hideous. Not good, that man should be alone, looking only in a mirror for his satisfaction. But what else can the depraved brain do? It's been given contradicting directives by the soul: you-be-god (find-my-love), and me-be-god. So, the love-object has to be 'god', right? And, thus: 'me'. See? The brain can't help but be in a dissociative 'loop'. The depraved urge can only be self-focused, and 'god' can only be used to justify self. That's how Satan lives. No wonder he wanted to unload the kingdoms of the world onto Christ. Imagine how horrible God would 'feel' if He lived under such self-justifying tyranny!

So, the depraved urge always results in frustration, since self-justification is — well, boring. (Don't we all get bored listening to someone else preen?) 'Righteousness' mutates into a monstrous 'rightness'. Everywhere. All one has to do is talk to someone, turn on the television, or social media. No wonder we feel tired. No wonder we sublimate (another defense mechanism) into 'gross' sins. And, into 'good'. Escape! That's what we keep trying to do! Escape this tyranny! That's why 'hell' is not due to being bad, but due to man needing that much (painful) communication, so he can admit he needs God, and get out of this hideous self-loop. Christians generally believe that hell is imposed by God, and that there is no way out of it. I don't find a single verse which says that a person in hell can't mind-change (repent). Luke 16 shows the mental attitude. So, since Adam could repent at his fall, since the Trial is still continuing (Satan & Co. are not in the Lake of Fire), even though the sentence is passed, there must be time to change one's mind. Furthermore, since Christ did pay for everyone, wouldn't a person in hell — assuming he would ever change his mind — wouldn't such a person get pulled out of there by God if he too repented? Is God inconsistent?


Is there any good news, then? Happily, "yes". The urge only gets into the soul by means of volition agreeing to the urge. So, only one's own volition can make his soul "depraved" — gradually, with each "yes" to the dissociative, genetic urge. In short, it doesn't matter that we inherit this urge from Adam's "fall." Of course, we all give into its insisting, never-ending push-pull, but at least we can (and routinely do) say no to it: even, if only to eat or sleep. Thank God for body needs, eh? Thank God for Bible Doctrine, which will truly free us from this stupid, relentless urge! Bible Doctrine can 'run down' the Energizer Bunny!

Well, where are we? Here: it seems as though Satan wins Round One of the Trial, because Adam and the woman both sin for exactly the same reason as Satan & Co. sinned — they preferred something to God.

  1. The woman preferred the unknown Tree knowledge.
  2. Adam preferred the woman.
  3. Was knowledge, wrong? Was loving his wife, wrong? No.
  4. The conquering preference was the wrong.
  5. They didn't grow up enough in Love for God, to set boundaries on their other preferences.
  6. Like a ship which can't dock in a safe harbor when the storm (of competing wants) hits, they became "shipwrecked", to use a New Testament keyword for this problem.
  7. They spiritually arrested, just as Satan had.
  8. So, they lacked the Love of God to steer them safely into port.
  9. As a consequence, their love for each other tanked. So when queried after the Fall, they fall to accusing first God, and then each other. Love doesn't accuse. Hatred does. Welcome to the human race.
  1. Their smaller stature (being merely human, not angelic) did not help prevent sin.
  2. Likewise, their smaller stature did not prevent them from being able to have a full relationship with God.
  3. So, their sin proves God's way of making the angels was not faulty, but rather, just another way to be free.
  4. Sin is not the issue. Failure is not the issue. Creature ability is not the issue. Not even being perfect is the issue. What 'help' was perfection, anyway? It didn't stop sin.
  5. So, how rational is it to claim one can 'count' with Him ever, at all?
  6. God's reply to Satan: 'You proved the Son right, even though you effectively caused the pair to sin.' Satan of course, disagrees.
  1. Wanting God in preference to whatever-else is the issue, God replies. So to avoid the desolation of loneliness, which sin creates.
  2. If the other wants don't "dock" like boats in the Harbor of Love-for-God, the person self-destructs.
  3. All the 'good' he does is trash, because it is in preference to God.
  4. So, man has cursed himself.
  5. So, the Trial will show just how this self-cursing increases, due to 'good'. As it says in Romans, the more one does 'good', the more he goes into the hole of debt. That is what God will keep on demonstrating, from this point forward. Romans 4:5 is a pun on works producing "debt". Unfortunately, English translations don't idiomatically translate. (The keen English reader can tell that Paul's pointing out Romans 4:6, faith, as the better answer, just the same.) Paul's saying that works have a reflexive result of making one go further in debt: that the one who works thinks he's earning something, but instead is reflexively only earning more "debt". It's very funny — were it not also so tragic. At the Great White Throne Judgment, unbelievers will be judged negatively for their works: "and the Books of Works were opened". So, the more works, the bigger the judgment. So, their "debt" reflexively returns to them, just as Paul notes here in Romans 4:5.

The 'Fall': Cursing-by-Association, but also Blessing-by-Association

How can God best make this demonstration, so we can find His Love port?

The First Thing God does due to man's Fall is Sheer Divine Wit: He condemns man to "work".
Which also means, He grants man Time to realize the fact he needs God.

See His Humor? "Work" was what the pair tried to do with the fig leaves, since "earn" is their new, sin-stained, replacement mindset, in lieu of Love, Righteousness, God. So, as is typical of Him, He 'condemns' them to have what they chose, which is yet another way to say He always Insures Freedom. Here, freedom to have the consequences of a bad decision. The Garden was a place beyond improvement: no work. Don't work! Works don't work. Hence by condemning man to his naturally consequent, fig leaf mentality, God graciously supplies the way for Sisyphean man to see that his works, don't work!

Note well: Work Is A Punishment, Never A Rewardable Thing. That punishment was a blessing, for it now talks to fallen man in the only language he can understand: improvement. Just as Satan got to take over the world, so he could learn that life without God is hell, so also man gets the same grace. Okay, let man try to do it 'his way': improve. After a while, he will see his efforts avail nothing. Then he can transcend his insanity, admit he's irretrievably broken, and can "turn and be healed". By God he will thus learn to appreciate and enjoy. That's why God allows life to be bad. We won't see Him unless we see ourselves helpless.

Of course we need Time to exist, so we can come to realize from all our huffing and puffing, that we are helpless. So God grants Time, too. Time is a Gift, not an automatic thing. In fact, He orchestrates time in 1050-year increments, contingent on us wanting to know Him. These time grants are personally awarded and measured by believers who super-mature by set historical deadlines measured from Adam's fall forward. For a quick overview on His Construct of time, refer to God's Original Deadlines.

Each row is a deadline. BC and (negative for) AD years show at left, followed by God's way of accounting time, in years since Adam's fall (yellow column). The third column explains what the deadlines are. Every 490 years some believer must super-mature or time ends. The 490s are 'bridged' by a 70-year mass voting period for believers. So 490 + 70 + 490 = 1050. But 'housing' these is a 1000 + 50 year period, so it too has deadlines every 1000 and 1050 years; the 1000 + 50 year period covers the world, and is dependent on the 490 + 70 + 490 which applies to believers. So of course the world ought to be able to vote, as well: the 50-year period is for mass voting by the entire world.

The idea is, if God's not wanted by enough people, then Time stops: either it stops for the people who don't want Him (e.g., the Flood), or it stops altogether. It's a Trial Issue that Time itself be contingent on wanting God, since the Trial is about "Do you want God, or Satan?" When all the voting ends, so does Time. God alone knows when that will be, but of course since the Trial is about wanting God, Satan gets a level playing field by a contingency that Time must be granted someone who wants God so much, he super-matures (by means of the Holy Spirit, always). So the rest of the God-hating world goes on living, because at least someone matured enough to get the time grant (i.e., Noah, followed by Abraham, etc).

What you see in "God's Original Deadlines", is the original schedule for Time which God invented, in simplified form. The schedule changes due to the Cross, because just as Time was measured based on the first Adam, it becomes based on the Last Adam after He dies on the Cross for us. So at least you can see the basic plan of Time God invents here at the Fall. The light-green shaded rows near the bottom represent the originally-planned time for the Millennium. The grayed out rows below them, weren't originally going to exist: our time was not originally scheduled (that's why there has to be a pre-Tribulation Rapture). Time was supposed to end in the 5250th year after Adam's Fall. For details on this structure for Time and how Bible presents it, Mirroring Timeline Inset has Bible proof on how God Orchestrates Time is needed, as you can't find this doctrine taught on internet or in print (well, I can't find it taught, but it's provably in Bible).

Very significant history 'magnetizes around these deadlines. Refer to the more elaborate God's Orchestration of Time: it's a spreadsheet timeline from Adam through 2007; it shows the history per Bible and then extra-Biblically post-Cross, so you can see the importance and historical impact of God's Deadlines in real time. For we all need time, to learn God.

The second Witty Thing God does due to man's Fall: He condemns the human body's dissociative genetics.

Thus, Cursing-By-Association: man is now born in totally-depraved bodies with no human spirit, and thus no way to know God.

  1. Adam, not the woman, is the one whose sin is the judicial link here. Adam sinned with full cognizance — unlike the woman, who "was deceived", as Paul explained to Timothy. (She had a self-deceived idea of what eating that fruit meant.)
  2. So "in Adam all die, in Christ shall all be made alive", and the use of the constantive aorist in Romans 5:12, to show that "all sinned when Adam sinned."
  3. In short, the human body at birth would be judicially imputed with Adam's Original Sin, as that is the cause of the body's depravity.
  4. We know it's the body which is depraved, not the soul, since the soul is immaterial and can't be propagated; since God, Who is Perfect, creates each soul individually and imputes it as the fetus exits the womb (all the "mi rechem" (מִרֶחֶם) and "mi beten" (מִבֶּטֶן) verses, for example).
  5. So it's a genetic condemnation and a real imputation, for the body is real, and Adam's Original Sin is what caused it to become corrupt.

This of course also means that No Human Life Can Be In A Womb, Since God Would then Be Guilty of Miscarriage-of-Justice (and thus of physical miscarriage, as well). See, it matters a whole bunch to know what Bible says in the God-breathed, original-language texts — so one doesn't accuse God of being guilty via the common 'prolife' blasphemy against Him.

  1. For Adam's sin is in the genes,
  2. so until those genes birth something on which God must rule,
  3. God would be interfering with the free results of sin.
  4. Even, the 'sin' of mindless corpuscles, reproducing.
  5. So no soul can ever be in a womb, hence a fetus is not a legal person — see Exodus 21:22 — because what is not alive, has no judicial relevance.
  6. Only when the fetus exits the womb does it become necessary to rule on whether a soul should be imputed to it — and that, is God's Sovereign Decision.
  7. For the soul is God's creation, alone.
  8. Materiality never begets immateriality, however much man (evolutionists, or even demons) might fancy such magical power.
  9. Psalm 139:11-17 says all this only in God-breathed, original-language texts: David is astounded that God ruled to make David a human being at birth. Unfortunately, the translations of the passage are lies, period. No kind way to talk about the translations, sorry: lying is the only accurate description, once you compare the original-language texts. See No Soul Life in Womb, Bible Cites, and why for the proof: "Don't Abort My Word", which is a chart providing exegesis and a corrected translation. Spend time on exegeting the passage yourself, if the abortion issue troubles you. It's positively sickening how this most-important proof of salvation's judicial structure, is masked by petty religious people with political agendas. If you don't know there's no soul life in the womb, then you cannot prove why the Cross works to save us. Satan isn't stupid: he knows that to crusade on abortion, aborts understanding of the Cross!

This of course also means no baby can go to hell, for Christ died for all mankind — and even a newborn is imputed with at least one "sin" due to his birth, Adam's. As a result, this condemnation, blesses; no gerrymandering of life, so all retain their free, non-seduced, natural properties. So also — get this — the woman's collateral "work" punishment, childbearing, was constructed to result in one perfect moment: meiosis. Hence the salvation covenant could be realized. For during meiosis, the Adam-sin chromosomes split off, so a Virgin Pregnancy could result in a perfect body exiting the womb. Hence there could be a Christ. Two corollaries: A) now you can understand why the angels tried to corrupt the human gene pool, in Genesis 6. B) Mary was born from two human parents, so could not be sinless. Only Christ was parthenogenetically-created, by God. Why Catholics think they must make her sinless is senseless. Why 'perpetual virginity' is deemed the paragon of sinlessness is likewise crass senselessness, and indeed, self-contradictory. Did not God create sex? Was she not married to Joseph? Since the creation of the woman, It's been a sin to refuse sex with your husband: and vice versa. What about Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:24? And Onan's refusal to have sex, masturbating instead? God executed him refusing to have sex (Genesis 38:8-10). What about 1 Corinthians 7:2-5? So to say she was sinless, yet remained a virgin after His Birth — that would be a sin! Moreover, doesn't Catholicism deem it a sin to use birth control? So, sex is mandated, to have kids? So, doesn't that make Mary anti-Catholic? Do Catholic teachers' brains ever turn on? Of course not. They are under the same blindness as the rest of the human race: it just shows up, here. Satan didn't like the fact he couldn't wipe out Mary's faith, which he needed to do to prevent the last eligible member of the Royal Davidic line (Mary) from bearing a Messiah. So he later 'gets even' with her, for preferring God: he gradually trashes her, by forging, from tenets in the phallic cult, garbage like "perpetual virginity". Satan's not stupid. He knows that anything connected with the word "sex" really hooks the human race, just as sex hooked Adam and the woman so much, they too forgot about God. So, Satan laughs at our blindness. And gets his revenge, so he thinks, on Mary. For, to know she was not sinless, to know she did not refuse sex after His Birth — emphasizes her great faith! Thus Catholicism unwittingly degrades the very woman it means to laud, and Catholics are denied seeing the glory of one "blessed among women". Imagine, knowing you are the last person alive who can bear the promised Messiah. Imagine, knowing that your own dynastic bloodline is so persecuted, you are the last person left in it? For Joseph could not carry the royal inheritance, due to Jeconiah's curse. Imagine, the shock of being responsible to train the One Human Who'd save the world? Could you live with these awesome burdens? She must have had huge amounts of Doctrine! What a woman! What a couple! What a great power Bible Doctrine is, so loving, so protecting, so glorifying of the very Lord whose Thinking it is! The Word!

So, free will always receives the consequences of its own decisions, just as God's Free Will does. No matter why the decision was made. No matter the ignorance, the cognizance, no matter how deceived. One chose, so one gets the consequence of that choice. For better, or for worse. So, Adam and the woman immediately became genetically depraved as a result of their sins (it was a natural result). So also, their procreation would be genetically depraved. The consequence was physical corruption, just as God promised when He said in Hebrew of Genesis 2:17, "dying (spiritually), you will die (physically)." (English Bibles incorrectly translate Hebrew moth-tamuth as "thou shalt surely die." That Hebrew legal phrase is used often in the Old Testament, to explain the two deaths Christ will suffer on the Cross. For example, Isaiah references both deaths in Hebrew of Isaiah 53:9, bemotav (בְּמֹתָיו) clause.)

God's genetic Condemnation meant that He would no longer make man's body directly, lest the free consequence of Adam's free decision be tyrannically overridden. So, God waits until biological life exits the womb, and then imputes the soul to that body. Thus, God has not compromised what He makes, for the soul is Perfect, just as everything God makes is Perfect. He doesn't impute the soul to an incomplete body, because that is wrong: an incomplete body would be imbalanced relative to the complete soul. Just as He didn't breathe "lives" into Adam (and the woman) until the body was first fully formed, Genesis 2:7. Here's why.


Important Trial Principle: The sine qua non of Perfection, is Balance.

Satan's entire argument rests on what's considered "good", but God's entire argument is based on what's perfect, which means perfectly balanced. Absent Balance, not even God would be God. All The Attributes In An Entity Must Be Balanced, Or There Is Zero Integrity To The Resultant Structure. Integrity, in turn, mediates Balance. So, absent Balance in Integrity, any "mediation" is unbalanced, as well. Destruction results, in that case. The essence of sin, is Imbalance. So:

  1. Absolute and therefore Holy, Balanced God Never Makes An Imperfect Thing Or Person — 'key issue, in the Trial.
  1. What's immaterial (soul, spirit), only God can make. So also, only God can remake (namely, at salvation). Man can't make immateriality from his own nature. (Trial issue: Neither can the angels.) Immateriality must be balanced to materiality at all times. That is why sin destroys. It removes the "spirit", an essential component of immateriality, so the being is no longer complete. So, only God can remake the self-imploded being (namely, save him). To do this, man must henceforth be born. The human spirit cannot be made until the person believes in Christ. So, to preserve balance, only the soul can be imputed, which alone makes one human. (Trial parallel: Satan & Co. can't make man 'good enough' to win the Trial, no matter how they empower man's body, e.g., by thought transmission or possession. This disclosure, like all others, is kindness, so they can avoid the frustration God foreknows they'll have if they don't give up and 'repent'.)
  1. So — especially since Satan's always arguing partialities — What God makes, what God wants, must be complete and therefore connected to God. It's either "the absolute best!" — or nothing. Partial good, partial truth, partial life — is never His Desire, is always unacceptable. God's Plan is for creatures to have Full Enjoyment — never merely "partial". That's why sin must be paid for — and on God's terms, never the creature's. Sin does two things which delete the potential of "Full": A) it deletes the Connection to God (destruction of the component of spiritual being-ness); B) sin adds to the number of "competing loves". Thus, Fullness can only develop solely from what God does. Hence, God's Terms: Christ's Paying for the sins financed restoration. So creature merit is never the issue. So the issue with fallen creatures is exactly the same as if perfect: Grow In Love.
  1. Integrity requires dependence On God to get that Completeness, so to be Independent, Free. For example, even biological life must be fully-developed, for there to be Independent Function; so until it is, there can be no soul life — for the soul was designed for integrated relationship with God, but the body is now sin-tainted. Accordingly, substitutes for God will like spiritual cancer, drive the person crazy. For the only thing which can take God's Place, is "nothing". (Isaiah 44:9ff ties in, here.)
  1. Ergo (beautiful irony!)
    • Integration with God, thus Dependence on Him, causes Absolute, Balanced, Complete, Full Independence and Freedom.
    • Revolt, negative orientation to God which at root is in the 'name' of independence, instead causes enslavement to the item or person replacing "God".

Side note on the "prolife" fallacy: hopefully the reader can now understand why the so-called "prolife" stance is Satan's deft propaganda that God creates defectively (which by the way, "prolife" is both pro-death and pro-suffering, so the exact reverse of what its name claims, hallmark of Satanic movements). So, many well-meaning Christians ignorantly blaspheme God by being "prolife". Satan spent a few hundred years developing the seeds for Prolife (crucial reversals in English translations that have gone unfixed for hundreds of years, raising up demon pastors like: Spurgeon, Bill Bright, Loren Cunningham, Francis Schaeffer, & for scientific research to catch up so that fetal development can be challenged as soul life by apostate Christians) and now in our modern time sells the majority of believers on this new idea, to 'soften 'em up' for his other me-be-good sales pitches. But they can fight him, easily: all they need to do is rethink, i.e., how the abortion issue correctly fits in. So long as one insistently buys Satan's pitch, God disciplines the believer with "madness" (Deuteronomy 28:28), the penalty for stubbornly believing a false doctrine. Technically, God withholds some of His protection for the believer, and then leaves him to Satan's 'care', with certain parameters specified (i.e., don't kill him). Satan & Co. administer "madness", essentially by magnifying what damage the believer does to his own soul via such stubborn insistence on a falsehood. In short, they don't violate volition, either. If you look at all the demon activity in the Gospels, and in the "five months" clause in Revelation, you'll see some examples of this rule.

It takes time for the "madness" to mature — so the person can opt out of the falsehood. Satan makes sure, though, that "madness" in believers is patent to outsiders. Thus Satan uses obsessed apostate Christians to maim others away from Christ. So, you might want to protect yourself: maybe privately use 1 John 1:9 repeatedly, and talk with the Father Who Loves You about the points below.

So, use logic as you read through the ones you find in your search: Note how God uses the words — all instances. Thoughtfully compare Scripture with Scripture. Notice stuff like, in the "born" verses, how the faculty of naming or knowing is tied to being born; that "called" verses always have separated from the womb monikers (easy one in English is Galatians 1:15); nearly all "formed" verses talk of God forming, not man. Interesting thing there is that the Hebrew words translated "formed" depict God as first forming a structure, or giving birth. Oh — if you read French, it's easier to see all this in French: Louis Segond seems ok. If you want more information, refer to the "The Prolife Blasphemy" Video Series page.

See, the importance of this study is not to defend abortion in non-healthcare contexts either (God-choice is therefore preferred over Pro-choice when the believer is concerned); far more importantly, to see what God is really saying about Himself. And why Satan uses prolife to 'hide' what God is saying about Himself, His Plan, His Son. See, without knowing life-begins-at-birth, a whole lot of critical things about God's Nature and salvation go unnoticed or get distorted, because the life-begins-at-birth doctrine is used as a foundation for so many others: namely, "salvation" is regeneration, Born From Above (Titus 3:5, John 3). Shall we be aborted from the implanted Word? Let's not!


So God's Genius Transforms Cursing-by-Association into Blessing-by-Association

The at-birth genetic condemnation is a gigantic blessing: without God condemning us, His Goal of making "sons" could not be realized. This condemnation is vital to 'lifting' the Stone which is otherwise 'too heavy' on the Cross, Hebrew "dakah" (דָּכָא) in Isaiah 53:5 & 10. Look at His Genius: because man is born condemned, he is eligible for salvation. Why? Because a Holy God must be recompensed for sin. So, if God is recompensed for sin, sin is no barrier to restoration. Heh — only God's idea of "restoration" is not merely to restore us to Adam's pre-Fall state. Oh no. God the Father, ever the Genius, will parlay our restoration into receiving God's Own Righteousness! A far better status than Adam ever had! God the Son humorously reasons thus: "After all, I allowed man to fail, so I ought to make it up to him, right? I ought to make it up to Myself, too. So, I'll unite man to Myself, by paying for sins, by taking on Humanity". Confer 1 Timothy 2:5. Its tonal structure: God-is-United; so, a Uniting Mediator! What a play on words! by the way, many verses throughout the Bible depict the imputation of Righteousness at salvation: Genesis 15:6 and "the Righteousness of God in Him" verse (2 Corinthians 5:21) are but two of them.

Want to see some more of this Genius? Get this: there's no justification for making a perfect creature better, since 'perfect' is un-improvable: there's no "imbalance" to justify 'improving' the 'size' of the being's merit. So, God's Own Righteousness cannot be imputed upon perfect creation. So, the perfect creation always is 'less than' Infinite Righteousness, so is never able to be good enough, unless and until he grows in Love. So:

a) Because the creature's own free will ought to determine his relationship with God,
b) Righteousness denies God's Own Infinitely-Intense "Sons" Desire be satisfied,
c) until and unless 1) the creature never sins and instead grows up in Love to become "big enough", or 2) he sins but also believes in Christ.

Of course, it was only the Christ who fulfilled C) 1), above, and that alone made C) 2) people eligible. Why? Well — this is sooo Rich — what was the "price" to God, judicially, of rational creation being "imbalanced" due to sin? Heh — Righteousness! Since God's Righteousness was offended, Righteousness is the "opportunity cost"!

In the field of economics, the term "opportunity cost" means the highest potential value one could have gotten out of the asset. For example, if you buy some land, the price of that land ought to reflect the economic value of what you can potentially do with it. (The Internal Revenue Service sometimes calls this "the highest and best use" of the property, in auditing the estate valuations of property.) So, if a property would be worth $1,000,000 if ideally farmed for the highest-value crops, and no other use of that property would potentially yield as high a value, then $1,000,000 is the proper valuation for the land, no matter how the buyer actually intends to use the land. Of course, if the seller can't find a buyer who wants to use the land that way, the seller may feel under pressure to sell at a lower value. Thus, the "opportunity cost" to the seller is the difference between the price he gets and the $1,000,000 he theoretically could have gotten.

"Opportunity cost" concepts pervade all of our justice systems. As we saw above, Internal Revenue Service assesses estate taxes based on it. Congress and courts make/interpret laws (and award damages to plaintiffs) based on it. 'Year 2002 example: opportunity cost is piously invoked to justify the Enron 'investigations'. "Fairness" in politics is likewise based on it (all the discrimination and rights fights, etc). Really, every economic and political issue in life is fundamentally a consideration (or abuse!) of opportunity cost: the theoretical value of the best-use of the object, determines its 'price'.

So, then: what's the "opportunity cost" of us, to Holy, Infinite, God? Well, what's His intended use of us creatures? To grow us up in His Essence, so we can be high enough to fully enjoy Him, and He, to fully enjoy us. In Love. That process produces a growth in Righteousness and Justice. So, sin destroys the 'property' (us), rendering it totally worthless, useless, ugly. Even the 'righteousness' of the property is menstrual rags (Isaiah 64:6, corrected translation of "filthy"). 'Which fact is obviously true, for the very essence of sin, evidenced in the motive of Satan's, the woman's, Adam's, (thus our) "fall" — is the desire for self to do or have 'good' independently of God. Which means we reject God.

So that opportunity cost of our rejection which trashed us completely, must be "restored" to God! After all, we belonged to God, we became damaged goods, and the price of that damage, is the judicial damage to God! — not the judicial damage to us. So, God would be paid this Righteousness, by "Atonement". But that's not all. We had belonged to God. Sin "stole" us from God, as well as damaged us. What shall God do, then? Well, He could do nothing, of course, since He's been fully paid. However, He still wants "sons"! So, He requires the paid-Righteousness be judicially-imputed, to "Justify" and "Redeem" our being 'returned' to Him. After all, we're now damaged goods, and we need to be fixed, heh. Further, since the "theft" and resultant damage had been self-inflicted, we must first agree to receive this imputation: by faith in Christ. Thus we are saved. Once saved, the imputed Righteousness is like a vessel (Romans 8:4, Greek), to be "filled up" with His Integrity, too! — Bible Doctrine — so we can function in accordance with our newly-remade, tripartite nature: body, soul, and spirit. Far more, far better than Adam even knew! Romans 5-8 stresses this whole topic, every jot and tittle of it. Really exciting stuff. Paul can hardly contain himself.

Ergo, the eternity-past Mediator Clause in the Decree, which 1 Timothy 2:5 records. Because, "only the best!" is good enough for Holy God. The too-heavy Stone would become the Cornerstone, and be "lifted", even as a (later) Moses would lift the brass serpent in the wilderness, so everyone could "turn and be healed". After He would be "lifted", He would be lifted into Glory (2 Timothy 2:10-13, Hebrews 2), forever the Mediator, forever the Executor of the yet-future Seed covenant (Hebrews 7-10, Galatians 3). 'With a few surprises along the way, of course. After all, can't tell the angels and man everything in advance, before they are big enough to enjoy it.

What Genius! What forbearance! What Love! So, "Righteousness" had to be paid. So, Righteousness would become the Mediator-Lamb, and go to the Cross. So, God reverses, 'flips', condemnation into blessing. 'By Association! So, the salvation announcement at the Fall (Genesis 3:15c's "bruise" clause), which Adam and the woman chose (Genesis 3:21, animal sacrifice, foreshadowing the Cross), was the beginning of the counter: Blessing By Association with yet-future, Christ!


The Third Witty Thing God does?
'Replace the Garden covenant!
He authors a Faith-Only salvation,
+ post-salvation Faith-Only covenants.

Man now starts out with no knowledge or power. He starts out born, a baby, no longer fully-formed from the 'dust of the ground' as an adult. He is independent and alive, from the second he exits the womb. But he is an empty shell, at that point. Alive, now technically able to develop independently, but — no knowledge.

Well, man also has this quasi-knowledge programming — good-and-evil — in his genetic structure. As noted above, the programming is a complex of dissociative, me-be-good urges. Thus God gives Satan a level playing field. Thus God gives Satan a truly helpless person, one addicted to against-God needs. After all, Satan's accused God of being a hypocrite, right? Ok — Let Us create a truly enslaved person, like the type Satan wanted in hell C) and D), in Part 1. So Satan can play god with them, using his 'saving' style: seduction.

Due to Adam's Fall, we can't get rid of our inborn anti-programming. We can fight it, but we can't fight it without knowing alternatives. And we can't know alternatives, until we can reason. And we can't even reason, until we have reached a certain age. Remember, Integrity demands Balance. The child must grow up enough mentally, so that the soul-brain connection can process reason. It takes reason to evaluate the question, "Does God Exist?" Some of us (me, for example), have had a nourished childhood, so by (for me) maybe the age of four, the child can process the reasoning about God. Obviously, for others, this age may be much later.

One is not "accountable" to God until one can reason out the question, "Does God Exist?" — which is the gateway to know 'alternatives'. So anyone who dies while yet unable to do this, is automatically saved. That means Heaven is a big place, for infant and other too-ill mortality is high, in history. Malnutrition has been the norm, so the development of the brain to the needed level is a kind of miracle, all by itself. People routinely leave their ill behind, or sacrificed or abused them: so many a deceased, tortured person is happily in heaven, right now. Demonic practices have been dominant in world history and still dominate today. We call them by nice names, now: but they've never been nice, but rather brutal. It's nice to know that all the murdered and raped and tortured children are likely very happy in heaven, far away from the brutal "traditions" of their cultures.

So, until that age of accountability, the against-God programming is un-opposable. So, any child who dies before reaching that "age of accountability" is automatically saved: everyone is in the Book of Life at birth. He can only be "blotted out", by always refusing God. 'Can't refuse God, until the brain has sufficiently developed, which occurs maybe long after birth, given the varying nutritional (and other) problems man faces (i.e., in Africa). So if someone can't refuse, saved, since born condemned — and Christ paid. See the utter Beauty, the utter independent completeness, the Genius of God?

Important Side Note: The "Book of Life" is God the Father's roster of everyone who was, is, or will be born — elect angels administer it. But that's not all it is. It's also His Testament, as it were, naming us as (potential) beneficiaries: a list of His highest-and-best Will for everyone who will be born. Individually. By "name". So, there is a paragraph (or more) about you in this "Book", which lists all God wants you to have. This, because God's Will is for The Best, especially for the Christ, who is the Foremost Person Written in the Book of Life. This, because Christ is glorified by us receiving all these benefits. If we do get "blotted out", the benefits we lose still bless Christ, but in the form of a memorial. Believers will be able to visit this memorial in heaven — and later on, in the eternal state. In short, the benefits are irrevocable, like an escrow. You have to fulfill the conditions of the escrow — just like the angels, just like Adam and the woman — to actually receive the conveyance of these blessings. If you don't fulfill the escrow conditions, the part you didn't fulfill gets blotted out of the list, and remains in memorial, instead. Hence, everyone is in The Book of Life, and is registered with all the blessings God wants for that person: starting with salvation, of course, for fallen man. One can only lose that status. Just as for the angels, just as for Adam and the woman. (See, sin is never the issue.) As for all other rational creation, fallen man can only lose God's Will for him, by being "blotted out". Fallen man loses salvation by always refusing Christ, from the beginning of his "age of accountability", until he dies. Saved man can lose his 'rewards'. That's why, for example, you'll see "Blot" verses in Revelation — they talk of blotting out titles, not "names" (English nearly always fails to translate idiomatically in important passages). There are many "blot", and synonymous verses, to back up what's said here, because "blot" is a common metaphor in both Old and New Testament. Unfortunately, English doesn't always translate with the word "blot".

All along, the Trial Deal was that if even one person, despite the twin hell C) and D) handicap of innate pressure against God and Satan's 'rule' — if even one person still freely chose God, despite all that programming — God's dramatically proven right, and Satan wrong. So, God will be very scrupulous not to 'sell' the Gospel.

Look at how the knowings all seem to work against wanting God: we are born in a humiliating condition: we need to constantly tend this dysfunctional body. We are easily beset by every external handicap; we get cold, hot, hungry, need to urinate and defecate, need shelter, clothing, are prone to disease, injustices by others. God does nothing, it seems, to make our hapless lot easier. Moreover, the weather — doesn't God control it? And we are destroyed by earthquakes, storms, drought — you name it. Did we cause these things to happen? No! Only God can do them. So it's natural to conclude God is a sadist (just like Satan wants us to conclude).

Further, the very Bigness of God, in the light of our own frailty, looks like a threat and a cruelty. So, the idea that offense against Him which we can't help but commit — warrants punishment, even a 'hell' — wow, that sure doesn't sound like a loving God! So: for us to want Him despite all this apparent 'badness' means our choosing him certainly is not enticed, doesn't it? (Again, Satan is given maximum advantage, in making his anti-God claims.)

How, then, is man's Castor-and-Pollux handicap — Fair? The "covenant" is the key to the answer. Man is universally given sufficient disclosure — through the nature of the universe, which man can naturally see, for example, to know that God exists. This gentle method of Self-Revelation protects man's free will, yet also guarantees that he doesn't even need to hear the Gospel, in order to decide whether he wants "God". God insures man's free will, yet does not influence it. Again, God preserves a balance between knowing, and not-knowing.

Watch how God protects volition from harm, even with respect to the Gospel. Gotta first want "God", to want the Gospel. To give the Gospel at the wrong time imposes on the person, and creates a liability: for the person getting it at the wrong time will say "No", which increases his negativity, scarring him. Yes, it's his own fault he scars himself, but God would share in the guilt if He initiates the Gospel, since He knows the person is already negative. So, God is judicious about it. To give the Gospel to a negative person must be required for some overriding reason, to justify God transmitting it. That's why Christ is so careful, in the Gospels. He talks in parables, or gives out just a few details, carefully worded so the person doesn't understand them, at first. To 'get' the meaning, the person would have to want to figure out what Christ meant. Thus, volition is protected from scarring. You never see Christ give the Gospel to an individual, until the individual is interested. Only in crowds does He talk generically, and even then, His Words are pretty guarded. He's relying on the Spirit to 'translate'. He knows some will be positive, in that crowd — but should have their privacy to listen, undetected by others. Even by Him. (Speaker needs to be 'invisible', so that God will be 'visible'.)

Furthermore, one can figure out the Gospel without even hearing it. It's not rocket science: God is Big, 'I' am small. I am too small for a Too-Big God. Wouldn't God want to solve this problem? God doesn't waste anything, for it would be to His Own Disadvantage. God thus has to solve the problem, because 'I' cannot. So: "God, whatever-Your-Name-is, I believe in You. Please tell me whatever You want me to know and do, so we can be together." See? One only needs to be able to reason. The Gospel can be deduced. The only 'unknown' would be the 'name' of the person to believe in, as one can see from verses like Acts 8:27. That verse also shows how God 'manages', thank you, to provide someone to answer that question, 'just in time'. The Omnipotent Holy Spirit is rather good at His Job, enabling even isolated folks to figure out how to be saved, thank you very much.

Man thus has the option of choosing to know of God (#2), what he thinks he knows, and #3, what he thinks he doesn't know. See how God made ignorance no hindrance to seeking God? See His Genius? The person is free to want Him, no matter where he is, no matter how old he is, no matter what he knows, no matter what he doesn't know. Even a child's ignorance cannot separate him from God. The knowledge just sits there, available for man to choose to reason out the question, "does God exist?" Once the person concludes he wants God, details of the applicable "covenants" are made available, beginning with how-to-be-saved. So, even though man is born post-Fall with no knowledge of God, and instead, innate urges to prefer self-good to God — which Satan needed to happen, so that he could prove his arguments — man is nonetheless able to freely receive and choose God. God insures it so. For every human. Always. For He always, infinitely, intensively, wants sons! — if they want to become "sons"! Always.

Hence, the human is free to grow either way. However, there's still the fact that man will now exist in numbers. But wait! If one person believes despite this double handicap, Satan is proven wrong. The Eden couple believed after they became depraved. Abel, one of their kids, believed. So, why isn't the Appeal Trial over? Why doesn't God zap Satan in the Lake, and say, "Okay, Trial's over"?

The Fourth Witty Thing God does due to man's Fall is to institute, "Family".

That's another reason why the woman becomes pregnant, instead of the man, for example. Paul gets a big kick out of God's Wit here, the woman will be delivered by delivering a Savior! In 1 Timothy 2:15. My pastor had no end of fun teaching us that quip. It's not the dour-God crowd's idea of a woman's place is behind a sweaty kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. Paul says that her domestic role, avowedly as the servant of her husband, does not mean she is unequal spiritually. But the primary wit is the fact that the Savior will be born — hence the delivered-by-delivery wordplay (σῴζω in Greek first means rescue, deliver, and then "save", so it's a great play word on pregnancy, being "delivered" of a child).

"Family" teaches synergistic love, ideally. Hence, the human is free, whatever his status, to freely enjoy receiving love from those placed higher than him in authority, and to freely enjoy giving love to those under his authority. So, always, some analogy to marriage is being displayed, even before there was a Bride. After all, who loves more than God does? Who ideally wants to be loved by God more than creation? So, it doesn't matter that some are "high", and others, "low". We all get the opportunity to grow to full enjoyment.

'Because creature ability is not the issue. Love is the issue. If one feels guilty, ashamed, resentful (etc.) about being "lower" — or, about being "higher" — that feeling is not based on love at all. It is not virtuous to feel bad about being lower. It is not virtuous to feel good about being lower. It is not virtuous to feel bad about being higher. It is not virtuous to feel good about being higher. Why do you think Paul stresses rejoicing in one's freedom, if a slave, or slavery, if free? Why do you think James stresses rejoicing in one's wealth, if poor, or one's poverty, if rich? To awaken the reader: one rejects Love, and instead stabs himself, by focusing obsessively on his relative "status". All such feelings are contentions that creature ability matters. Creature-merit is Satan's core mindset. That's why he sinned, that's why he rebelled, that's why to the end of time he will be irrevocably hostile to God. 'Because, if ability is the issue, then Love has no room to exist.

Merit-claims and Love are mutually-exclusive. Moreover, God is full-spectrum. So, Paul notes "they who compare themselves by themselves, are not wise." James notes the jealousy and strife that come from people comparing their relative merit (in their own minds, of course) to others. Paul counters that merit is for enjoyment, not for status: "I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound." And: "when I am weak, then I am strong." The purpose of merit is to spend it, not to hoard it, preening. Love spends, not earns, as Paul so tenderly recounts in 1 Corinthians 13 and end of Ephesians 5. James pleads the same 'cause' as Paul: "let faith (doctrine)... Have its completing work" in James 1:3-4. God works. We benefit. That's the role of "merit". So, God works to make us into the "sons" He wants! 'More like the Most High. And while He does this, He causes others to be blessed-by-association from those "sons", even if they do no 'works', even during their growth periods — Full-Spectrum.

For we are all one Big Family, and those of us advancing with God spiritually, would love to be used to bless those of us still lagging behind. No one in his right mind wants anyone else to be deprived of God. Least of all, God Who Invented Blessing by Association — through the Cross!

So, as the Old Testament population increased from the first family onward, world-wide, and it gained some technological proficiency due to Satan's plan, it became progressively apostate. It focused more and more on "earthly things", because of the me-be-good drive, and because it was succeeding in relieving the punishment of "work". Thus man was homogenizing in his negativity toward God. Satan & Co. Finally succeeded with such good results, they were able to interest the human race in inter-copulation with the "gods". So thoroughly did people agree with these many years of orgies (e.g., Greek and Roman mythology), so much did they reject God, that a world-wide Flood was needed: only Noah's family remained purely human. The gene pool which was supposed to produce the Savior was down to that family. So, the world got a warning period of 120 years. Then — gone. The population started over again.

It didn't remain positive for long. The Ziggurat of Babel was an example of the return to homogenized apostasy: people tried to build a "ziggurat" to "touch" God. They mistakenly thought if they could go high enough, they would be as good as God. Satan & Co. Promoted this scheme, in hopes that God would have to wipe out the human race. (Since they failed to accomplish the genetic dilution by only one family! They reverted back to religion.)

The Fifth Witty Thing God does, is to Invent Nations (initially divided by language).

Like "family", "nations" divide loyalties so man's volition is protected against the crush of 'majority opinion'. That's Witty, particularly in the manner He did it, taking a bunch of people at the Ziggurat of Babel (where Babylon would later sit) and confuse (babel) their language. Funny how people divide up when they don't understand one another. Ignorance makes us hostile, insular. So the sin nature is actually turned to good account! Of course, you know that Babel was just ground zero for that Decree, so everywhere in the world the same phenomenon happened. The population was post-Flood, so it wasn't very large. Don't go by buildings to guess population. Human bodies in the water for the year the Flood engulfed the earth would not leave relics behind. The buildings would of course survive, so you won't be able to tell if there is a hiatus in population. Frequent travel was a norm in those days, so often a skeleton crew was left behind while a larger population moved on, even when the earth was populated. Nomadic lifestyle was the norm. By the way Babel, like the Genesis 6 invasion of the gene pool, broke Trial rules.

There's a deep lesson, here. Division/competition protects and diffuses the problem of competing loves' pressure on the soul. Freedom requires competition. Social homogeneity eventuates in evil. What's popular will be (unknowingly, of course) satanic, at the core. So, any crusades, any activism, any ideas of world government/world religion are all from Satan, never from God. Whoever crusades or propounds such ideas is speaking for the 'wrong side' in the Trial. Beware of such folks.

So, there are to be nations, and God preserves them. (Acts 17:26. It's interesting that even in the eternal state — see the last chapter in Revelation — nations remain.) Even so, the resultant nations themselves become progressively apostate. Clearly, blessing-by-association with individuals ebbs, for a nation is but an aggregate of individuals. So individual corruption spreads (albeit more slowly, due to the national divisions), and cursing-by-association still occurs. Despite nations. So how do the Covenants, whether God's or Satan's, interrelate?


Intermission: How Covenant Properties produce Blessing or Cursing, by Association

Before continuing to #6, God's rescuing the world by creating the Jews, a review of God's and Satan's Covenant properties is helpful. Covenants of Association are used to display Trial arguments about who's better, the Lord or Satan, for mankind. Knowing these properties helps one follow Trial testimony in the Bible, and helps one orient to his own time and covenant. For there is a great deal of argument in Christendom about what these covenants are, who are covered by them, and what these covenants offer. Those arguments will not be discussed here. In the description below you won't see the typical categorical coverage of covenants, but rather an aerial view of properties, broadly classed. For God's covenants — and Satan's, for that matter — always have shared commonalities. There are also certain changes, all of which have to do with Trial arguments. So as you examine what follows, ignore the typical covenantalist-versus-dispensationalist debates, and instead keep the Trial arguments in mind. Pan-history, Covenantal Properties are here aerially classed into seven categories: A through G, denoting common verbal action in each covenant: Abiding, Bonding, Connecting, Doctrine, Extrapolation, Fellowship, and Governance. The specific covenants themselves thus differentiate according to how and to what extent these verbal actions, transpire.

A. Abiding Association. To "abide" in a "covenant" means you live on what it says. So you are "associated" with it. Remember the "Covenants of Association"? If you want association with God, you're blessed by living within the association terms, and of course every human being learns by means of associating thing "a" with meaning "A". So it's an "A" to "Z" association you learn, believe, and live on — with God. Or, with Satan.

  1. God's Covenants progressively increase in spiritual knowledge and power — meaning the revelation about Christ and hence intimacy with God, how well you can know Him.
  2. Satan's covenants increase in wealth of addiction-to-magic, same gambit as in Genesis 3. Increase in the knowledge of how to sin, do good and evil. Hence an increasing trend in both types of power.
  3. God essentially matches the human's development level to a spiritual-growth level, in the context of whatever counter-plan Satan is using.
  4. Satan's counter plans always aim to glorify man, so man will persist in self-focus, thus maturing in the me-be-god "Dungheap". So if he needs to use various lusts, political power and worldly wealth as the magic fruit, he does. If he needs to use religiosity, he does. Whatever it takes. It's kinda embarrassing to look over the long sweep of history and realize what lemmings we all are. Same ol' same ol' as Genesis 3 and we don't catch on till yet. Satan's goal is to foster Götterdämmerung by first promoting material prosperity, which means he must get everyone to hustle based on perceived self-worth. Then he easily motivates everyone to war with each other, in the name of grabbing someone else's wealth. It's the same magic ploy: fame, money, looks, etc. Those things only buy you someone else's determination to take it from you. But you find that out, too late. Or worse, you are at peace — and all those vaunted things don't please, anymore. You've no greater security, satisfaction, but rather more burden having to take care of all you've got. Surprise surprise!
  1. Once a knowledge-and-power covenant receives sufficient exercise for Satan to argue his points, God answering the meanwhile, a new and higher covenant is next provided. The replacement is triggered by man almost universally rejecting whatever God has offered, so He increases the next covenant's spiritual richness: a higher intimacy with God can be had, than pertained prior.
  2. God also progressively heightens each covenant's difficulty, and progressively narrows the Old Testament population to which such covenant applies, culminating in Christ.
  3. The progressive difficulty heightens Satan's advantage. For as God's covenants increase in proffered intimacy, that higher level itself becomes the most significant handicap facing the grantees under such a covenant. Again, culminating in Christ.

Hence Satan's relative advantage successively increases, even as God increases blessing to those of the greater covenants. Make no mistake, the blessings are huge. But the one getting the blessings, has an on-earth life of extreme torture. Blessings of time in 490 and 1000-year increments — time for the entire world to go on living (true since Adam). Competence and agriculture and other types of benefit to the entire region or even the world, are God's idea of material blessings. By contrast, benefit to the individual is mainly knowing God, with some material blessing to match — but you know, the more material blessing you have, the more people pick at you to get some of it. Better to be poor, Solomon would frequently intone (in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes). If God marks you for blessing, Satan marks you for cursing, and the battle is on! Material wealth won't make you happy, it will make you a bigger target. So again, Satan's relative advantage increases as God increases His Blessings in a covenant.

So basically, as history unfolds you see the same theme: if you want God, you're in deep doo-doo. So those who believe in Him anyway are either the world's biggest fools — and they sure appear to be — or they are the world's biggest heroes, Genesis 5, Genesis 11, Hebrews 11.

  1. Old Testament group Covenants can be classified as three, which in Bible goes by a "who is the priesthood" criterion: family (husband is the priest), patriarchs (Abraham, and others), Israel. Group covenants cover spiritual relationship with God, so are corporate in nature. Personal covenants are due to high spiritual maturation toward God, so are individual awards by nature. These each in turn answer the:
    #1 Trial argument via stress on supernatural visibility (God-is-on-earth, will take on Humanity);
    #2 Trial argument, based on faith in the future;
    #3 Trial argument, based on unseen and thus unknown information about God 'underneath' the seen and known rituals, laws, disclosure about God.
    'Faith test: do you seek to know/love God despite ignorance. "Evidence Testing Roster of Victorious Waste" and "Evidence Testing Compared pan-covenant" provide a brief resume on the kinds of Trial Issues and Answers each covenantal period provided. An overview of individual Star Witness Testimony will be provided later on. Hebrews 11 summarizes the entire Trial, though mistranslated in Hebrews 11:1 (testimony criterion = Doctrine, His Thinking), 6 (basis = having His Thinking), Hebrews 11:40 (Rapture precedes Tribulation when Our Testimony ends).
  1. Christ's Covenant is dual-natured, so is the nexus of the Trial. On the one hand, His Covenant displays the three Old Testament categories denoted above, so He's born under the Mosaic (covenant) Law of Israel, Hebrews 7:28, Galatians 4; but He must create out from that Law, a Higher Spiritual life (ibid. since Hebrews 6:13, covered further in G. below). His creation of that Higher Royal Spiritual Life will be legated to Church, since Christ is Seed and Husband to Church (Ephesians 5, Galatians 3).
  1. Church's New Testament covenant is by design the opposite of the Old Testament. It displays the:
    #1 Trial argument via stress on supernatural invisibility (New Covenant: God-Man Thinking, Jeremiah 31:31-34 fulfilled by the Seed);
    #2 Trial argument is based on faith in the past;
    #3 Trial argument is based on unseen and thus unknown information about God 'underneath' the seen and known (written!) Bible Principles.

    Faith test is do you seek to know/love God despite knowledge: of one's own abilities, of the world, of sin/good/evil, of religion. This is designed to parallel the ability-and-knowledge burden Christ faced.
    Thus opposite ends of Trial Argument spectra are depicted, in the Old Testament vs. New Testament epochs ("Ages"). "Filling all in all" in Ephesians 1:23 includes the filling up of the arguments, showing that's the fulfillment of God's purpose, in Ephesians 1:10: summing up of all matters in the Trial, and in the Design from Eternity Past.
  1. Tribulation thus has a post-script character, for Trial purposes: it's Satan's closing argument, which is really a revolt in the courtroom (at Tribulation mid-point). The Tribulational people don't have their own covenant, but a parenthetical return to the Mosaic Law, lived much as Daniel in exile had to live it — still protected by the pre-Israel Abrahamic promises; yet to be a believer then one becomes a Jew. They have a speedier maturation, with the 144,000 tribal Jewish evangelists being martyred within the first 3.5 years (Revelation 7's roster of bloodlines compared to Revelation 14).

Besides the math of Daniel 9:26, this lack of priesthood is your biggest Bible banner that there's no Church in the Tribulation. New Testament everywhere says we are a priesthood and a corporate temple in our bodies, not some building (most dramatically, in 1 Corinthians 12 and Ephesians 2). But no priesthood is in the Tribulation, and Revelation 11 tells you no Temple is there either, since God's sarcastic command is to measure for foundation (preparatory to building a temple on unimproved property). If there were to be a priesthood during the Tribulation, rules for it would have to be created. But none are given, because there are no priests, no covenant. Hebrews spends five chapters on this, i.e., Christ couldn't be a priest under Israel's covenant, so Church is not Israel: you can see this even in translation, Chapters 5 through 10. Ergo the Tribulation is unique among all groups in that it has no priesthood, covenant, temple. Hence the closest analogy for its own "Abiding Association" status, is to Daniel in exile. Daniel could pray, but all believers can pray. Daniel doesn't offer sacrifices or other official priestly functions, as indeed no one could, for there was no Temple. So no Temple, no priesthood, no contract is operating. But that doesn't mean Tribulation believers are left without provision, as the Tribulation sealing of the 12,000 per tribe, shows. Nerd note: Daniel is left out, Joseph gets double-portion.

  1. Millennium is of course the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises for it, and is all Mosaic Law — but in an updated memorial format, with different sacrifices, Temple structure, and a different head priesthood. In effect, both Tribulation and Millennium are hybrids of the Mosaic Law, updated for Christ's having Come. Satan is in prison during this time. The Trial purpose for the Millennium is to demonstrate that had Satan achieved his goal of perfect environment, it still wouldn't work — not even, though the Lord Himself Rules. Satan is allowed out to make his rebuttal at the end, fostering the final rebellion which is put down. Then eternity begins. It was scheduled to begin in 1144 AD had Israel accepted Christ. But of course now with Church, there's no saying when the Tribulation and hence the Millennium, will begin.

Over the long span of man's history, and not counting the Garden as a covenant, effectively seven covenantal groups will exist, again divided by who-is-priest: family, patriarchs, Israel, Christ, Church, Tribulation, Millennium. The world only goes on living for the sake of harvesting these folks. But their own lives? Attacked, if they want God.

B. Why covenants? Because, it's only about bonding, blessing, Love. Every second past, now, and forever, Life is about whether one wants to be with God or not — and how much. Each second is volition's 'vote' on that topic alone, whether self knows it or not, likes it or not; the 'vote' thus programs the self, resulting in virtually every true success or failure, every true relationship in life. So too, the Angelic Trial is solely about whether one wants to be with God. So: God says association with God is alone beneficial. Dissociation from God is not. Remember, God didn't make Himself Gorgeous. He just is Gorgeous. How, then, to give this disclosure to fallen mankind who is totally helpless, totally bereft of any knowledge of God? Covenants are systems of association which mankind can understand. Covenants are legal agreements of relationship, technically (i.e., marriage is first a contract). So covenantal terms sound (to the uninformed) cold, loveless. The opposite is clearly true: for Who enters into a covenant, if He doesn't Love the one with whom He chooses obligatory relationship? Who Keeps On Displaying that Covenant by means of a very common fellowship act: dining. (Confer Genesis 2:16, Genesis 3:6, Genesis 3:21; Genesis 8:20; Genesis 15:9ff; all of Leviticus, 2 Chronicles 29-32.) In the ancient world and even in many cultures today, dining resulted in a kind of obligation. The sense of obligation survives in Western so-called 'advanced' culture as a sense that if you have me over for dinner, I ought to do the same for you. A closeness, a bond, happens over a meal. Business relations depend on it, hence all the entertaining which business does. Well, that bonding sense is as old as mankind, so God uses dining to portray His Desire for Total Fellowship, 24/7.

In short, Covenantal Commandments are the strongest way to say 'I Love You'. God has Bonded Meaning Which Blesses, if you 'obey' it. Sadly, our depraved me-be-good/god urge keeps clouding this most important meaning in those Bible verses. God is saying I Love You whenever you see even the smallest "thou shalt". See, we're born with this genetic inferiority complex, which Pride, at heart, really is. So, if the tone of the words sounds harsh, we don't hear the content as being good, even if the content is good. It's amazing how we let the sound of a word block out the meaning. Like, "commandment", "law", "obey": we hear these words, and then automatically associate them with some kind of 'work' we must do. Just like when we were children. And we never 'grow up' enough to become positively curious, so we don't see that all these "commandments", "laws", "obediences" are Covenants of Love. Just like we didn't, when we were children. See? we arrest. Just like Satan did. The "I love you" gets interpreted negatively, for we only hear the tone, never hear the content.

Prove it now: yell out "I love you!" in the nastiest tone you can to your pet. See if you yourself don't react negatively. Now, then: notice how, if the tone is not-nice, it's not seductive, either? Satan, who has a voice like a beautiful pipe-organ (Isaiah 14), uses unctuous (very very nice) tones when he talks (e.g., in Matthew 4).

So-called 'spiritual' people often use mellifluous language, softly, so oh lovingly. Underneath, the content — is pure sadism. Look: say I sweetly tell you we're supposed to become gods via the 'evolutionary process' of reincarnation. Sounds good, right? And why does it sound good? Because if that's the process, there isn't some god out there telling me I'm irredeemably bad, the way Scripture does. So I'd rather buy literally anything else but Bible.

Don't believe that people are so hung up on being inferior (like Satan) that they'd buy anything? Oooh, let's look at the fine print of the 'reincarnation' message: how long does it take? Um, after how many lifetimes, returning to this dirtball? And I don't get to know the prior lifetime(s)-of-learning at rebirth? So I'm condemned to make the same mistakes over and over? Oh, it's okay because everyone has to go through the same thing? So we all suffer forever, so that makes it okay? Oh. More-makes-right. Okay. (Meanwhile, the attainment-of-god pea isn't under any of the three walnut shells.) Now, which would you rather have? A seductive lie, or a harsh truth with totally-wonderful blessings because of that harsh truth? Which is better then: A harshly-spoken blessing (to avoid beguiling you), or a feel-good curse?

Moreover, God is Authority. Doesn't He have to let us know what works and what doesn't? So, then: if God didn't phrase blessings as commandments, maybe we'd think we shouldn't have them. If God didn't phrase harms as "thou shalt not", maybe we'd think we should have them. For example, most of the world has historically believed revenge is a virtue, a duty. Hatfields and McCoys. If someone kills my brother, I must kill his brother, or my own family is dishonored. It's considered a duty in most of the world. From ancient times, to now. Shakespeare's plays use this fact in a subplot. So also, this 'virtue' of revenge accounts for nearly all of the problems in Middle East, Bosnia and Afghanistan, for example. It's a religious duty, to take revenge. (The Macedonian movie, "After the Rain", is on this topic. In "The Godfather" movie series, Al Pacino goes back to Corleone, Italy, and asks where are all the men. Answer? Killed by "vendetta", the Italian version of revenge murder. Of course, Michael Corleone was there in the first place, to avoid being murdered in revenge for killing Sterling Hayden's character, Captain McCluskey.)

By contrast, look at Leviticus 19:18. It says something like "you shall not take/seek revenge nor bear a grudge against the sons of your people, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself." This commandment is a blessing. By 'obeying' it, one is spared the soul-scarring pain of being upset with another, and is given the soul-enjoyment of loving another.

The blessing is extreme! Imagine having to dedicate your life to revenge, for the sake of honoring god/family. What a waste! Every time we turn on the television, we see souls doing this very thing. Nicole Simpson's father. The Arabs (sorry, but revenge is a cardinal rule of their culture and of the Koran — well, earlier, even — since Ishmael was born). The blacks-must-be-repaid thing. Those on a witch-hunt against any President, from Nixon onward (Watergate spawned a new culture of revenge, in America). The 'prolife' movement is really a witch-hunt against those who have sex out-of-wedlock. Those now on a witch-hunt against Enron. See, even if there was once a valid wrong done — see how those who seek revenge only wreck their own lives, in the pursuit? All in the name of being 'right', of course. Yeah, while Satan laughs his head off!

So, also: think of anyone you know who had some bitter experience he or she can't 'get past'. The person keeps mortgaging the present to that past, in self-absorbed revenge. The person's life just spins down into bitterness, and wallows there. TV and social media is full of such persons. Life is full of their locked-in-revenge cries. My husband hurt me! My wife hurt me! My father raped me! My mother locked me in a closet! My neighbor stole from me! White people enslaved my ancestors! Black man burned my car! And on and on and on. When does anyone get a life? Oh, no — revenge is a black hole. It sucks the revenge-seeker, and all around him, dry. Think of the billions of dollars which could be freed up to actually help people, if we didn't spend those billions on revenge!

What a blessing, to be commanded "Vengeance is the Lord's!" so you can forget about the (alleged or real) wrong! To say, "God commands you, stupid revenge-urge, to go away!" What a blessing, to be able to say, "God commands you, stupid brain, to love others as much as self!" Tactical Nuclear weapon, this (once self actually wants God enough to use it): brain is trying to obey God (mistaking 'good' and 'self' for God, due to the DNA mutation from the Fall's 'programming'), so the command 'scares' it. That 'scare' bonds to the urge: for a while, when the urge rises so does the memory of the 'scare'. Hence you get the blessing of relief. The 'scare' is eventually forgotten: like a puppy, the brain will repeat the revenge-urge. No problem: just command it again. After sufficient repetitions, even the depraved brain-puppy will learn to stop wetting on that part of the 'carpet' of soul. This is how sin is gradually reduced in the life: recall of applicable Bible bonding and hence replacing the usual sin habit in 'response'. By that same Bible-response mechanism, Christ would later fulfill Leviticus 19:18 to its other-end-of-the -spectrum: the total aggressive/responsive Love on the Cross. It's a reprogramming, but only God makes this reprogramming effective for healing the soul. (All human efforts to improve will only cross-addict one inside the sin nature, and one will fancy improvement, but the addiction deepened and shifted into something worse, more refined.)

We Church receive His other-end Legacy: "the royal law" (James 2:8).

So, the bonding blessing by association with God flows through the covenant, and the covenant's commands are God's declaration and provision of bonding Love. Sufficient usage of the covenant's associative properties grows up one in Love. Sufficient dis-usage (or dissociation) causes cursing. Moreover, association with others associated with (and especially, using) God's covenant, blesses the one having such association. Likewise, association with others who are dissociated from or not sufficiently using God's covenant, curses the one having such association.

The Old Testament people had the same Bonding Goal in their lives, but it was materially expressed. The Old Testament is very physical, concrete compared to the advanced abstract nature of the New Testament. As you'll see in "G." for "Governance" below, this differential in Old Testament covenants was primarily due to man starting out with no knowledge, so he must be taught from scratch, much as a child is taught. Consequently, material blessing was used to communicate one was properly Associated with God, and hence the Blessing by Association could be readily identified. The true Bonding and Blessing, of course, was in knowing God for Himself. Believers came to prefer seeing Him to whatever good or bad they had in their lives. That's the point of living, seeing God. Meanwhile, the blessing flowed through the covenant to them and to the world, as they were bonded to Him in their own thinking. It's the Bonding which results in the Blessing, for the Testimony God makes of us, is that we freely find association with Him, the Best Blessing of all.

C. God is Pure Thought. Hence the root connecting concept of Bonding and Abiding in Association Covenants, applies first to Thinking for the purpose of Rapport. Every thought you think is in a context. Behind every word is a meaning which is gradually forged and constantly refined in your thinking due to associations you have. We each choose what these associations are to be, and hence two people can see the word "faith" and yet that same word will not have the same meaning to both people. One will say "x" demonstrates faith, whereas the other will say "x" demonstrates no faith. If brought into the conversation, a third party will say "x" neither demonstrates nor disproves "faith". Same is true of color. For example, I can't stand the defaults in Windows XP, but love the Windows Classic theme, in which my 3D objects are set at the color R113 G114 and B73 in Display Properties. Result? 'A khaki olive green or sage. That eases the eyes when viewing text (matte colors absorb glare), and means "peace" to me. But it is a frequent color for combat gear, so many would find it unsettling, based on the their associated values for that color.

Each person differently connects a context to whatever "a" we mutually see. To the extent we mutually "connect" in our contexts, we have rapport. Of course, in Truth there is only one set of parameters properly defining "a", but we're not God, so we don't learn all those parameters equally quickly, nor equally well. But we associate with each other, and hence our body contact is a contagion for better and for worse, of thought. There's a Body Of Association which attaches to every word we have in our heads. And each of us associates meaning, a bit differently from anyone else. For we are each unique. Hence the amount of Rapport we will have with each other — and especially with God — is determined by how much we "connect" in our mutual, associated valuations. Bodies of thinking colliding or communing, in bodies of flesh. This colliding and communing can help one question his own definitions and hopefully learn more — or hasten one's intransigence. The latter, of course, whets cursing-by-association.

Ergo: "Associate" is a choosing or being "with"; "Bonding" is the result of the association chosen. "Connecting" means how all the surrounding associations and bondings from "a" to "z" interrelate or connect to "a". The ABC sum thus constitutes a 'body' of thinking on "a". Given that we are a society of multiple bodies, each 'body' of thinking is therefore intensified for greater or less, rapport. Especially, with God Whose 'Body of Thinking' is Infinite, Full-Spectrum. Hence the example about "faith" above resulting in three different 'bodies' of thinking, one per person viewing the idea. Therefore our interaction in bodies of flesh means our bodies of thinking are constantly colliding or communing within our selves and with others — resulting in blessing-by-association if we learn God from it, or cursing-by-association if we do not. Much more interaction due to the multiplicity of associated bodies: therefore, much greater intensity of either blessing or cursing, thereby.

Intensity is thus aided by multiple, Connecting Divergences. Unions of opposites. It's one thing to pick up a five-pound bag of sugar. Quite harder, to lift a one hundred pound sack of flour. Your muscles grow the more you can do the latter than the former, yet doing it is unpleasant, seems altogether harmful, a struggle. Same, for the exercise of thought. Humanity is essentially preoccupied with itself; without struggle, we never really ask the bigger questions, except to entertain ourselves. So the divergence of a low body associated with, bonded and connected to a soul capable of higher interests, begs the question of why we are in such bodies. The divergence of many disagreeing bodies in a society, begs the question of why the divergence exists. Finally we become curious about the bigger questions: like, about God. We are often thus motivated, only to get relief from that painful divergence. Seeking relief by learning meaning, we finally look up to God. At that point, we connect to Him.

Therefore, note this paradox: we are finitely immaterial, so need a physical body to best relate to God Who Has None. Reason? Being finite, we need a divergence in the sphere of beingness, to better relate to God Who is Infinite Divergence, Full-Spectrum, Yet 'united' at all 'points' in His 'Body of Thinking', which in that union-of-opposites, is Perfect.

  1. The Unity of God means that "all" is "in" Him, hence "all" means all the low, too.
  2. Eastern religions are mistaken about infinity, so claim that God is therefore evil, as well. Nope.
  3. God however holds everything together in an Integrity that is unified, or else nothing could exist.
  4. In essence, He makes good on the bad, so that the bad can be the truth it would naturally be, yet is used to cause Divine Good.
  5. Else the truths which are bad, could not be allowed to exist. But to shave off or prevent the existence of what could be a bad truth, would be shaving the truth itself, and hence a type of lie-via-truncation.
  6. Consequently God associates, bonds, covenantally connects a meaning He assigns to each truth, as part of a Decree on what ought to be "Truth"; hence a good meaning assigned, is not inherent to any bad truth itself.
  7. Rather, only by God's Inventing and Connecting a Meaning He Omnipotently Chooses, will that bad thing have a Divine-level, "ἀγαθός" good result.
  8. This is the very basis for the Decree structure of creation, which is founded upon the Cross, not the typical Decree listing you see in theology. The Cross is First On the Decree List, not in the middle somewhere after the Fall. Notice the paired high-low divergence of Isaiah 52:13-14. All existence can thus truly be free and divergent, because there will be the Christ, Hebrews 1:2-4. Christian theology is way too anthropocentric, so begins its analysis with man: that's what's wrong with all the decree theology, whether infralapsarian (the closest to the truth), or sub-, supra-, etc. They all begin with man, and that's backwards. Christ first, and only as a result is there a Decree to create, Isaiah 52:13-14. Christ is The Reason For Creation, not an afterthought or a 'fix' due to sin: see Ephesians 1, Hebrews 1:2-4. So properly reordered, the "Decree" formulation in theology should go something like: "1. Christ will exist. 2. Therefore creation can exist. 3. Therefore creation can be free to sin or not. 4. Therefore if creation sins (first class condition, it will), Christ will pay for it all. 5. Therefore anyone who believes in His Payment is given salvation from that moment forward forever." Etc. Notice that foreknowledge would be implicit in #5, yet #5 is a principle applying irrespective of the results, John 3:16; so God didn't have to blind Himself to His Own Foreknowledge about who will believe, as Calvinism childishly claims. So also, faith has no merit though a faculty of personhood, which thus knocks down all who would childishly claim their faith 'contributes' to salvation. Energizer bunny sin nature romps in both childish camps. Best to stick with Bible, instead.
  9. You'll find these Divergence Decree verses in just about any page within the Bible, like barren made bounteous, valley exalted, mountain made low, dead made alive again, etc. Such full-spectrum, deliberately ironic language, represents the refrain of God's Baptising, Bonding, Associating, Connecting Decreeing Doctrine of Justice He Sovereignly Wants to See, Everywhere He Looks.
  10. So, this same Decree structure is needed for finity, as well. Finity, even if perfect, can never measure up to the quality of God's Good, second prong of Romans 3:23.
  11. So again, God must hold finity together and make Divine Good from it, or there's no justification for creation to exist, even were we perfect.
  12. Now you know why even Christ relied on the Spirit the whole time He was here: even His Own Perfect Humanity wasn't good enough, Mark 10:18.
  13. This problem of the Infinity-Finity Dichotomy explains why God creates as He does: constituting my main thesis throughout. God and Bible make total sense, once you understand the Dichotomy. Frankly, you could solve all the physics and economics conundra we have, once you understand the Dichotomy. Better still, you can understand God, Himself.

So witness the solution to the Infinity-finity Dichotomy:

  1. Finiteness and Infinity have one particular quality in common: personhood. Made in His Shadow-Image.
  2. How so? Well, Infinity is punctiliar, that's why theology calls God "omnipresent", and "the whole of God is in every place." That can only be true if Infinity is qualitative. A point has no dimension, so no mass, takes up no space, hence is a qualitative concept. Real-ness doesn't require mass or energy. Only finity requires mass and energy, because its realness is bounded and defined by mass and energy. Hence we can be made in God's Image, so long as God is Infinite and He does the making. Hence the only definition of "God" worthy of the name, is Infinite. Bye, bye, animism and polytheism!
  3. We saw at the top of this webpage that the only way for Perfection to 'improve' on Infinite Enjoyment was horizontal: ergo, create creation.
  4. Likewise, the only way for finiteness to have more expressions with God, is for finiteness (soul, spirit) to have a body.
  5. The body is to finite soul (&spirit) what creation is to Godness: an added sphere of expressing self, relationship.
  6. Male/female structures depict the effect of soul intimacy on body intimacy, and vice versa.
  7. Hypostatic Union is the Ultimate Statement of the divergence of intimacy.
  8. For divergence, intensifies. Therefore, leverages greater gain or loss in direct correlation to the degree and amount of divergence. Think of it as spiritual physics.
  9. An atomic bomb essentially triggers due to negative divergence. That intensifies pressure.
  10. So too, the divergence between soul and body, or spiritual life and soul life, intensifies the experience — and hence potential learning, rapport — of both.
  11. So imagine the intensity of being both God and Man, yet not splitting apart?
  12. Yet if not splitting apart — if fusion rather than fission occurs — then knowing God the Father is far more Intimate and therefore Intense for the Humanity of Christ; the experience of Him Being Humanity and Godness Himself, is far more Intimate and Intense, than were He merely Humanity, alone. Fusion with sin is what happened at the Cross, and that fusion completed the fusion of intimacy with Father, Hebrews 2:9-10's Greek. English "made perfect" should be rendered "made complete", Greek verb τελειόω, a tracking key verb in Hebrews and other epistles. Idea of completing the contract of God's purpose, Ephesians 1. Read Hebrews context from Hebrews 1:2 through Hebrews 2:10; then read the whole book to see that completion is the main theme of the book, fulfilling Isaiah 52:13-14's + Isaiah 53:10-12's Decree. Culminating in Church, Hebrews 11:40. When you get to G.13 and following below, you'll see that this divergence required Him to create a far higher Royal Spiritual Life out from the Mosaic Law, just to stay alive — let alone, endure the Cross. (The Cross was a lesser problem than Him just living another day.)
  13. This God-Man divergence would make it far easier for Christ in His Humanity to fail, and thus Satan's got an even greater advantage.
  14. But so too, Christ Himself in His Humanity, can better unite to Father, Spirit, His Own Godness. In fact, fully.
  15. Hence we need to become ourselves "intensive, not extensive" in order to have more Intensive Rapport with God.
  16. So having the divergence of lowly bodies achieves this intensity, which we can potentially use to learn Him better.
  1. Now for the flipside: The Divine Design of body-connectedness intensification, is also used by the sin nature to perpetuate itself. So the body needs training to become wholly responsive to the soul. One of the ill effects of Adam's sin is that the body rules the soul, hence is not responsive.
  1. Soul thought is designed to control the body, which requires your willing the thought; there are no emotions in the real you, your soul.
  2. Rather, the body has emotions, for emotions are merely a feedback system: the bi-directional connection between soul and body, part of brain's pain/pleasure nervous system hooked up to special glands in the head (I forget their medical names). This fact is so profusely documented, even Alan Alda hosts a PBS program on the brain showing how stimulating those glands, stimulates emotions; neurologists in experiments have been able to isolate and even cut off emotions in patients; certain types of brain damage prevent particular emotions from being felt, and the individual doesn't react; certain types of mental illness obstruct emotions (i.e., in sociopaths, which is why they feel no compunction about killing).
  3. Since emotions are strictly biological, having no intrinsic discernment of their own, foods, alcohol, drugs, make one feel good. That's why music, good weather, etc. feel good. That's why sin feels good. Body can't tell the difference between true good and evil, so emotions mislead: since the body is but a collection of programmable and programmed corpuscles. Period. We're wimps, puppets, if we give into our emotions.
  4. So, until the body is trained to be responsive to the soul, it is very much in the way: the sin nature is in the body (part of DNA), and so emotions respond to it. So, fallen man is afflicted with a competing love. (That's why urges and lusts, phallicism, mysticism, gnosticism, asceticism, legalism, activism all occur — the competing love 'wins'.)

Prove this to yourself right now. Sit down in a chair and start saying as many nasty words as you can, in the harshest voice you can. Keep it up for about 10 minutes, be sincere about it, pretend you believe what you are saying. See if you don't become very angry, as a result. Alternatively, practice boxing or kicking in the air as hard as you can, pretending to punch out an imaginary opponent. See? In either experiment, you programmed your own anger, so your body responded: in the first instance, you did it solely with thought; in the second, anger-like movements made the body respond. Body didn't do it to you, you did it by an act of will. So all the stimuli outside your will, are doing it to your body, as well. Advertisers and politicians count on that stimuli to sell you their 'products'. Religion counts on external stimuli to sell you its claims, most of all.

Emotions can be stimulated from the outside, the inside, irrespective of any valid meaning. Whenever some event similar to some other past event occurs, the body sends up a feeling associated with whatever was programmed into it from that past. So, if you cave into the feeling, you just made it stronger for no valid reason. This is why crime, addiction, mental illness, and all manner of stubborn problems remain in life. We are ruled by our bodies, because we love the feelings too much, and give in; we let all the urges of all stimuli around us, program us. We are what we accept.

  1. And how did we get this way? When a baby or infant first sins (i.e., becomes irritated, which is inevitable), the sin nature's urges penetrate the perfect soul God had made.
  2. With that penetration came an emotional association, setting up an attraction to repeat that same sin.
  3. So, a double whammy: from that moment forward, the sin nature on the 'outside' (in the body) has a connection to the inside (the soul).
  4. This connection quickly broadens as the child grows.
  5. So, instead of the soul controlling the body, the body controls the soul. We are puppeted by our body feelings, and mistake the feelings for truths. It's embarrassing. If it feels good to be intellectual, we'll still be giving into the feeling! That's why the evolution crowd doesn't see how silly evolution is. No different from all those holy rollers, because they mistake the feeling for the Spirit. It's embarrassing!
  6. Each sin deepens the proclivity to repeat it, for sin is an addiction we all inherited at birth. Biological life is addictively infected with sin. As we cave into the body, its addictions broaden in scope: that's why a sexual sin will morph into crime, why self-righteousness morphs into immorality in the name of morality. Think of it like a virus or mold, if that helps you understand how the infection of sin spreads. So, like a virus or mold which infects some parts of the 'body' (of thinking) but not others, a person might appear and even act normal, but if his sin preference is tempted, he'll crave giving into it. Eventually, even if he must risk danger or do something crazy to satisfy that craving, he'll do it. Sins are addictions, and contagious. For this reason, criminal sins must be punished severely, i.e., capital punishment — to quarantine and cauterize the contagion. You get surgery for cancer — well, sin is a mind-cancer, and must be treated just as ruthlessly. But only God's Truth going into you, whether the laws for the human race (morality sans its 'dark side'), or Bible — only that, works.
  7. Our being a multiplicity of bodies in association with each other, intensifies the sin nature's fissioning, divergence power. Hence God's invention of first work, then pregnancy, then salvation, then family and even nations, will fragment the power of the sin nature, curb its advance. But not stop it. For only God's Truth being 'eaten' (learned and believed, "eat" is Old Testament metaphor) — only God's Truth being eaten daily, can nourish and empower the soul to eventually gain dominance over sin. It takes a lifetime.
  1. Second Flipside: as a believer you are in an "Association" covenant, and thus the source of blessing or cursing to the world — partly based on your own proximity to others. In this part, the idea of blessing-or-cursing by association is being introduced, for God answers Satan and protects the human race by means of covenants-of-association. So, we just saw that having a body intensifies the potential growth with God. It also potentially exacerbates the sin nature, Romans 7 being the quintessential passage on that. Thirdly, body-proximity if growing in God means a progressive blessing by association accrues to your periphery: since the Fall, God has routed blessing or cursing based on believers. Your proximity to other bodies means both you and they are contagious. Your thinking is contagious to them (even a negative reaction illustrates the contagion), and their thinking is contagious to you. Similarly and for quite different reasons, the blessing God confers is routed based on believers and those related to them. So your family, co-workers, neighbors and others in ever-widening 'orbits' are blessed or cursed due to you. Blessed, if you are growing in God. Cursed, if you are not. Leviticus 26 displays both blessing and cursing in a macro context. Satan of course knows this rather well. So this Connectedness due to the Covenant is double-edged in aggregate, as well as individually in one's life.

Human Intimacy Key→ Association in groups of humans necessarily occurs. We are families. We are (ultimately), 'neighbors'. We are not islands to ourselves. Our bodies are in proximity with each other. So, then: God declares His Love not only in the covenants themselves, not only in the blessings He bestows through those covenants, but also through individuals who are using them. So, the ones 'obeying' the covenant are used even after death, even blessing the 'unrelated', so to speak — those negative to God's covenants. All under the Seed: Christ's Payment was used retrospectively to justify the Old Testament folks' existence, and prospectively to justify the New Testament folks' existence (Hebrews 9). No one escapes God's Love. True Love is not a feel-good attraction thing, Psalm 138:2b. True Love is Integrity: God's.

Of course, this Human Intimacy Key also works in reverse: if you choose to associate with those who reject God, the cursing they must receive to wake them up to Him, will overflow to you. And of course, the big problem we all face is the same as Adam faced in the Garden: choosing another human, over God. That's the reason why the human race was cursed in the first place, and it's still true. Problem is, as God upgrades His Covenants, the cursing increases because a greater Blessing is being rejected. The greatest evil in the human race is the replacement of God with people in the name of "good". That's exactly Adam's sin. So to hear all the stress on to-people stuff in pulpits and religion is by far the worst, most vile evil promulgated on the face of the earth. Same exact ploy as Satan made in Genesis 3, piously repeated daily in the mouths of Christians and others!

The Old Testament people had the same Connecting Goal in their lives, but what they could know about God was limited. In "G." for "Governance" below, you'll see what the limits were. Parts 3 and 4 cover Old Testament proximity-of-bodies routing for blessing and cursing on behalf of the entire world. Here, we're just reviewing God's Purpose and Covenant Design as a setup for the "So What?" Evidence Test section which follows.

D. God's Doctrine, AKA "Truth" is thus codified in Bible (AKA "truth") to grow us spiritually if we learn and live on it, in God's System. Via the Holy Spirit's Power we learn and live on Doctrine, since He's the Soul Builder. Thus we grow in that Associative, Bonding Blessing Connected Rapport, via learning and living on that 'Body' of God's Thinking, Bible Doctrine. Consequently His Growing Bible in your head constitutes the only long-term deterrent against the destructive, congenital virus of sin we all inherit at birth. Christians are quickly demoralized about theirs or someone else's behavior, expecting that because we've believed in Christ, we'll magically become good people; so Christians spend billions of dollars on this-or-that allegedly 'holy' prescription to transform themselves, and then wonder why those things don't work! Well they don't work, because they are all big lies. The rituals are lies, the self-help books are lies, the works are lies, the magical phrases you utter are lies, and even your spouting Bible becomes a series of lies, if you're not Doing What Jesus Did — for no money and no cost. What's that? John 4:24, Matthew 4:4, per Isaiah 55:1-2, Isaiah 8-11!

In Greek, "πίστις" is a verbal noun from "πιστεύω", "to believe". The noun, usually translated "faith", first means what is believed, not the act of believing. So as James kept on wryly noting, Doctrine works the works. Of course, since it's translated "faith", then the reader mistakes the action as his own, rather than God's Word doing the work. In the Greek you can't make that mistake, for James inserts or omits the article ("the") to distinguish God's Word versus man's works. Very witty.

So here, the Actor Par Excellence, the Verb Par Excellence, is dramatically rendered into a noun (like any good Greek drama writer would do): Doctrine. Doctrine Works. Word Works. So What Would Jesus Do, is What Word Jesus Did, is What Word Jesus 'Doctrined' — believed. Witness: Even Christ couldn't become sinless, apart from Him growing up in God's System.

The persistence and even worsening of sin post-salvation is a big shock to Christians. They think that because they are saved, they are supposed to magically stop sinning now. No, at salvation the war really begins: your sin nature was in control before you were saved, but now there's competition. This, the Old Testament shows over and over via its stories re Abram, Moses, David. Paul explains the struggle in Romans 6-8, Galatians 3-5, Ephesians 3-6. Christians also think narrowly of sin as restricted to the "oooh ahhh" items like fornication, drugs, crime. Oh no. Every time you get ticked off in traffic, every time you feel fear or guilt, every irritation, every I-deserve thought — those are all sins, too. And we have a bazillion such thoughts, every day. The self-righteous category of thoughts alone must occur in a Christian's life hundreds of times a day. Can't escape them. Can only use 1 John 1:9, keep trying to fire Bible at the temptation, move on. The real spiritual life is what you think. And it's like learning a very difficult language. Expect constant assault. If you don't seem to have constant assault, use 1 John 1:9, for you only get 'peace' from your sin nature when you're in a state of sin. You don't measure it by how often you sin. For that will be a near-constant thing, hence the need to develop 1 John 1:9 as a reflex. "Third Reason for Royalty" has some helpful hints on what thought habits to cultivate. "First Reason for Invisibility" walks you through the spiritual life process and its maturation, which takes decades.

Once you realize how often you do sin, you'll be tempted to sin again, by being demoralized. Just keep firing 1 John 1:9 and find some Bible promise you like which makes you realize how much God loves you. It's vitally important to your spiritual life that you don't dwell on failure. See Matthew 9 (story of the psychosomatic paralytic). Nerd note: yes, it was psychosomatic. Even in English you can tell, because when he heard the Lord tell him his sins were forgiven, he is suddenly able to stand up and walk. If you compare that statement with the other healings the Lord did, you'll notice it stands alone, so in that case was not a physical problem. Soul healing, of course, is the real need: see Isaiah 53:5. The Greek of Matthew 9 makes it much clearer that his paralysis was not due to a physical malady.

The Old Testament people had the same WWJT rule but got their Bible directly, often orally — the eventual writing of Bible was a promise they ardently awaited, Jeremiah 31:31-34. Meanwhile, they had to make do with oral communication, ritual, etc. So Bible was written down serially, only when the God-sent provider was soon to die. Or, when a lot of folks needed the new provision right away, but the provider couldn't travel to them all (e.g., Moses wrote immediately, as there was so much demand, died before finishing Deuteronomy, so Joshua finished it for him). We post-Cross have the entire 66 books of the Bible, so that's (partially) why our covenant is the opposite of the Old Testament folks. But notice: WWJT was the same rule for them, too. They just didn't have His Thinking in writing, but we do. He crafted His Thinking from the Old Testament, for us to have in writing. That's the main reason why our covenant is the opposite from Old Testament in character. "Bridal Contract" lists our oppositeness in 16 categories.

E. Doctrine works, but like any effective exercise program, one must adopt it for life.

The quitter will spiral down faster than if he never started in Bible Doctrine, dog returning to its vomit (Proverbs 26:11, 2 Peter 2:22): you literally starve from Word and then choke on the fake food you make in an attempt to feed yourself, instead. We really need to think differently about what "spiritual life" means. It's A Training Process, to ready us for Heaven. It's a fellowship with God daily dining, and is very tasty. "Taste the Lord, for He is good", said David (Psalm 34:8). You don't get upset, if you need tasty food. It nourishes, and you enjoy it at the same time. You don't get upset if you have to practice piano, if you want to learn how to play. You practice many hours, and wish you could practice more. You don't get upset about practicing basketball shots, if you want to play basketball. You don't get upset about practicing a language, if you want to learn it. Well, the spiritual life is all of that. But do we practice learning and living on Bible? No. We practice rousing emotions in songs, we practice social life with Christians, we practice rituals and works, we practice just about anything but learning how God Thinks. The Old Testament people had the same disinterest we do. Some things never change, even when the covenants do.

The only reason you'll ever be unhappy in life, is that you're not eating Bible at the time. Guaranteed, Luke 11:28 — "blessed" should be translated "happy" (literally, "happinesses", μακάριοι). See, as people age, they come to realize all those childhood pleasures were fleeting; they become ever more disillusioned as a consequence; then, ever more brittle and demanding. Sure, when times are good they can even be noble; but when bad times occur, poof! Dr. Hyde comes out. No staying power, because no virtue; no virtue, because absent Bible Doctrine, the person is dependent on externals for his happiness. As one ages, it's less pleasant to move around, one loses some physical attractiveness and strength; by the end, even food becomes too much 'trouble'. Sins committed hasten this descent into jadedness; thrills become harder to sustain, harder to achieve. The capacity to enjoy deadens. By contrast, with Bible Doctrine 'living' in your head, you find aging much more meaningful, even fulfilling, despite problems; apart from it, aging is rather a horror. You have to believe lies, to survive. Of course, the person still under the sway of his sin nature is largely unaware how miserable he is. Psychological defense mechanisms 'protect' him from the truth, you see. The person who blames others, who looks to others to 'do' for him, is a marionette. Take away the buffering prosperity he has, and Dr. Hyde comes out, big time.

By contrast, once sufficiently trained in Bible Doctrine, the soul-dominated body enhances all one's relationships to express enjoyment of, to, and with God. Ergo the need to grow up in Love, the need to dock all competing loves under Him. What was a curse, association with and via the body, becomes a blessing in the spiritual life. As you'll see in the "So, What?" Evidence section below, even the promise of 400 years slavery for Abram's descendants didn't make him or them, unhappy. Satan's plan can't offer an associative antidote to that kind of horrible 'promise' and produce a like contentment. For Satan's plan produces jadedness, quintessentially expressed in the French word, "ennui". Man, I didn't appreciate the value of growing on Bible when I was young. So many things other people got to do which I felt I should not get, and then decades later I learn I'm the happy one? Because, they ran after the world's stuff, and of course got disappointed. I couldn't do that, felt deprived, but God mattered, so at length I forgot about that deprivation. Then in composing these websites I realized how much happier I was than pretty much everyone I know. Big shock, bigger grief to want them to have the same happiness, but of course they consider Bible bupkis. It's heartbreaking to watch them so bored and frustrated with their lives.

So the Association Covenant You Pick will be exercised by you over your lifetime. If God's, it results in Evidence of "So, what?" to any competition in life. If Satan's, it results in ennui, a matured martyr attitude which Satan himself has. Your choice, which "E" you Exercise — Evidence? Or, Ennui?

God doesn't 'do' magic. He does, however, supernaturally transform the believer to become more like Him via extrapolating Bible out into the soul, Romans 5:5. For God's Goal is Togetherness, oneness. It takes a lifetime to learn this. Bible is a zip file. Only God can unzip it, and He unzips it in your head if you live in God's System. So there are no magic Bible verses you can claim, no magic rallies you can attend, no magic pastors out there you can parrot to get the Ghost or whatever. Yes, you claim verses. Yes, you study under a pastor. But no, those functions of themselves won't make you spiritually grow. You have to think over the meaning (which helps if you think and talk towards God to reason it out with 1 John 1:9), and you have to want God for Himself. Else you're just wasting your time; you will be blessed, but you'll end up stuck in spiritual childhood, fancying yourself all grown up now. And then disaster will hit, and you won't know why. And the why, is this: God wants a real relationship, not goodies. So if you don't want Him, you don't want to think over what Bible you learn, and you don't want to know God for Himself, what you want instead are goodies. So one day, the goodies stop. This, to wake you up to the real purpose of having a spiritual life. True in Adam's day, true today still: Hebrews 4. Sadly, 99% of Christianity is in this rut. So were 99% of the Old Testament people. God kinda gets tucked aside when we do the things He wants, but without interest in Him or what He says. So 99% of believers, end up miserable at the end of their lives, disillusioned and not knowing why. Well, now you know why.

Your soul is real. Your life with God is forever. So line on line, day on day, precept on precept, plodding on plodding — you learn Him. Many thoughts in God. Many thoughts in you. His Ways aren't your ways nor His Thoughts your thoughts, Isaiah 55. So kiss all that Christian claptrap goodbye: you know, about throwing faggots on the fire, "Victorious Life", etc. They think just like the woman in Genesis 3, that being Christian is like the forbidden fruit, magically transforming! Well, the truth is rather sobering: your sin nature doesn't like your human spirit which you acquired upon faith in Christ, Galatians 5:17, Romans 8. It's a never-ending battle you'll fight every day. You will get dominance over the sin nature, but it's in baby steps, and takes most of your life. If you want to know God, you won't care about how long it takes, for every day you learn something about Him. You will go through spiritual maturation stages as you grow, so you can track your progress. But just settle it in your mind now, this is a permanent change, so takes time. You are being developed into someone who will Never Sin Again post-death, without magic, but with Truth being deposited in you. Same depositing mechanism as Adam went through, and he lived 930 years. Same mechanism as Abram went through, and he lived 175 years; from age 75-99, he matured enough to even get the promised son. About 20+ years after that, he'd matured enough to sacrifice that son. Same depositing mechanism as Christ went through — so go you. He was Perfect and it took Him 30 years of Doctrinal exercise, daily, 24/7. So it might take you a tad longer. Worth it. Nerd Note: if you think you're too old to reach the goal, think again. Just keep plugging. Those Tribulational martyrs all grow up in 3.5 years, and surely they are not all young! The spiritual growth process varies greatly in length per stage. Think of animals: while it's true most animals have a similarly-short 'childhood' and adulthood, some have a long 'childhood', like certain fish, parrots and turtles, or the 17-year cicada. Once an adult, the cicada takes only a month to fully mature! The cicada then dies. You won't. You live forever. God also lengthens life when volition turns positive, see the example of Hezekiah's illness in Bible, 2 Kings 20, 2 Chronicles 32, Isaiah 38.

So the Old Testament covenants were essentially Word-in-you Doctrine, Eaten, Exercised and Extrapolated. The methodology used to get Word in them was essentially the same as for us, God's System: but the format and scope of their exercise was generally of opposite means and far lower understanding, than what we Church inherit in Christ. Their association covenants were lower than ours, so involved a lot of visibility and ritual, as we'll see in "G" below. The visibility hampered how much they could learn, for Christ had not yet come; the visibility and rituals substituted for that fact. No one could get His Thinking until He became Human, and had thoughts to transmit. Once He lived out as a Human, His Thinking was written down so we could 'copy' it, 1 Peter 2:21. The Old Testament people couldn't get that. Still, the underlying idea was to use their association formats as given (i.e., the rituals), to learn and live on God's Word as then revealed to them. We get better things (main theme of Book of Hebrews).

Extrapolating Bible means you think over the underlying meaning in each word of the Word, to see Divine Truth. Bible is spiritual math. God took the Truth and from it created creation to reflect that Truth. So everything in math itself, all the laws of physics, economics, all the structure of biology, every type of animal and plant, reflect Truth in specific ways. So what you see, is always metaphorical of what you can't see. Hence the Old Testament visible covenants were taught and Bible written, via metaphor. You'd then extrapolate from the metaphors, Divine Truths — just as you'd work out a math formula, today. You see Old Testament writers do this, constantly comparing or describing something about God in metaphorical terms like weather, man or animal power, faithfulness, love, majesty, even punishment. The rituals are all metaphorical. Example: "lamb" is a common Old Testament metaphor, so you'd extrapolate meaning by thinking out what the attributes of "lamb" meant. That way, you could better understand the Spiritual Lifestyle of the Lamb to Come, and be spared a lot of angst. Because if "lamb", then not "badger", so you don't have to badger yourself with works. Lambs don't work. They eat, sleep, get sheared of wool which makes itself, and then they die. So you learn to live like a "lamb": notice how that single word tells you much about Christ, the spiritual life, and how you approach your own life, depending on God — not on some animal strength, works, rituals, etc. So the Old Testament people had the spiritual life communicated to them, metaphorically. If they didn't learn the metaphors, they became the wrong 'animals', and of course got frustrated and punished by God.

Christ extrapolated the Old Testament all the way up to and through, Divine Truth itself. This is how He became the Truth. Truth gets built this way. Again, it's just like math, or learning a language. Lots of repetition, lots of practice, day in and day out, applied to everything you think and do and see. That's what He did, so that's what God foreordained for the human race — because Christ would exist, therefore we do. Because Christ would live this way, therefore we do. Pre-Incarnation, the Old Testament people had to make do with a "shadow" version of Him, as Hebrews 7-10 explain (elaborating on 1 Corinthians 13's last four verses + Ephesians 1-3, inter alia). Post-Incarnation, we get the Real Thinking of the Real Person. Intimately. Part 3 covers Church in detail. For now, just get the idea that extrapolating from Bible (i.e., metaphors) to see Divine Truths is the mechanism, and only God can do this to you, opening the Bible 'zip file'.

F. This Abiding, Bonding, Connecting, Doctrine-Eating, Extrapolation Exercise Structure, plus body-proximity being used by God to connect and thus bless even those who choose dissociation from Him — results in fellowship with God. Directly, for the believer involved in the covenantal properties of the previous verbs; indirectly, for anyone else. Notice that: fellowship with God, not people. First Commandment, the entire point of even being alive. Being with Him. In Him. Of Him. To Him. All prepositions, Him! That is living, and when you are enough Extrapolated in the covenantal verbs, you wonder how you ever survived, prior. For all else in life is dull, by comparison. Yet vibrant, via the Fellowship with Him You Now Well Know.

Satan therefore wants to make sure that all those contractural verbs are his definitions, rather than God's. Satan's #1 tactic is to preserve God's Words (when applicable), but fake their "fellowship" results. So that you have fellowship with Satan, but you are Faked Out into Fantasizing you have fellowship with 'God'. Ergo, all the many religions and their counterfeit 'god' ideas, to trap the human race. Thus "fellowship" is today an odious word, full of hypocrisy; anyone sane wants to avoid people who urge you to "fellowship" with them. You just know they will be syrupy — and full of daggers.

So when you read words in the Word, you'll never understand Him properly. Instead, man's head substitutes for God's. Christ is replaced with either Peter, or pick-your-favorite-fake-leader-here. God-deeds are replaced with good deeds. Divine Love is replaced with emotional needs that grab others and weigh everyone down. Three good fake-out definitions common in Christendom, are actually Bible mistranslations in literally hundreds of verses. Greek "agape" only means Divine Love: but it's translated "Love" in English, so you'll always define it as human love, emotional. Second fake-out: Greek word "ἔργον" in Bible almost always refers to God's works, not man's — tip off is an anarthrous or monadic construction (no fronting "the" or a unique-Greek usage of "the"). But in translation, it always looks like man's works. Third fake-out: God's Head gets chopped off in verses depicting His Thinking is What Word Works — translations of 1 Corinthians and James, are especially egregious on that count. This mistranslation occurs because "God" is not mentioned by name in the sentence. The result? Faked meaning as something man does, rather than what God does. So when you read Bible with the faked-out meanings, you don't notice: after all, you're reading the same words.

Yet if you study the Word in the original-language texts with 1 John 1:9 "on" as needed, the Spirit bypasses all those bad definitions and alerts you to the right ones. So the fact believers for centuries misread the Word, proves they don't care enough to learn what God actually wrote — from Him. Lukewarm spirituality is Satan's specialty.

Hence Satan crafts his own "abiding", "bonding", "blessing", "connecting", "doctrine", "eating", "extrapolation", "exercise" structures. They vary much, depending upon the sin nature proclivities, which proclivities basically break down into two sides: morality, and immorality. Both are used by the sin nature to make self feel "good", and both are dependent on body ideas, which in turn break down into perceived comfort and attractiveness. Hence, always the bid for power, to get more of that comfort and attractiveness. The morality ruse is a way to pride self on how good one is, how foregoing, while basically tricking others into getting what one wants. That's no different from the base immorality uses, though the latter is more honest about the taking-from-you intent. However, it becomes necessary for the self to be tricked into claiming that its action is benevolent, to appease the me-be-god urge. So above all, people are stressed. People, not God. People, in the name of God. Same ploy as Genesis 3 used on Adam. He had to choose between God and his wife. No contest. We have to choose between God and people. No contest. And we'll fool ourselves by calling that choice "moral", just as Adam must have done.

To see Satan's definitions of these structures, just watch TV or social media for an hour or two. Notice how people people people and admiration admiration admiration and be good be good be good is stressed every second on the second. Performance. Power. Macho man. Macha woman. Nothing like real life, yet everything like the power grabs in real life. Everything in Satan's structures is reified to doo-doo's for approbation. No learning of God for Himself, oh no: God is cast as Sugar Daddy or Petty Judge, a distant two-dimensional cartoon character described epithetically, shallowly. So we're all urged to get satisfaction from this world, and the real god, is me-be-god or people. Happiness is the proverbial pea under the walnut shell you never get when you pick it, packaged prettily on TV to beguile you into thinking you can actually obtain happiness down here. Yeah, right. So you don't notice that even if you got that glitzy life, it's worthless. If you know anyone who's even slightly famous, you'll find that they don't have the glamorous life which on the surface, you'd think they'd have. They find out it's more trouble, what with everyone grabbing at them. That's why rich people seek seclusion: they need it. Of course, Solomon explained all that, in Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.

Same ruse was true in the Old Testament, as you can tell on any page in the Bible. Always someone invading, tricking, playing games on one person or another, in the name of serving the people, being attractive, thinking well of self. It's nauseating. Notice how the Bible heroes progressively didn't cave into that, but looked to God, instead. Took them decades to learn to prefer God to the world. But it happened, eventually. They learned God's definitions despite Satan's propagandic, counterfeit replacements. First an unlearning, a waiting, seemingly endless and fruitless. Then, God delivers. For they grew enough to enjoy what Blessing God had in mind, for them.

So it's the Tale of Two Fruits, Fable or Fact? the 'fellowship' with the world's shallow sterility, or the Fellowship with Father. Christ picked the latter, and because He did, He actually needed a Cross to Forego all else, as an outlet. For Father, or Forget it! For Father, is First.

Governance Level in Old Testament Covenants

G. Governance in God's Grace Covenants therefore Gradually increases in Grade of Growth available to believers under them. Remember, there are two types of blessing God's covenants convey, in any era: first, direct from God, accessed via self's 'obedience'; and second, indirectly, via those who are 'obeying'. But what constitutes "obeying"? What if you misinterpret a provision? Then you're not obeying God's covenant, but instead obeying Satan's. That was the bane of Israel, misinterpretation of the Mosaic Law, distorting it into roteness, as you'll see in #6, below. Hence for Church, knowing Old Testament vs. New Testament covenant properties unlocks many a key to "rightly dividing the Word of Truth". Cursing for us would be more severe, since we have the whole Bible, and the Old Testament folks did not. Consequently, if one thinks an Old Testament provision applies currently but it does not, one will stunt his spiritual growth until he eliminates the too-low provision. It's roughly analogous to having a Maserati, but riding on a bicycle: you won't go to the destinations God planned for your life (Ephesians 4:13!) if your chosen transport is too slow. This is essentially the problem Christianity has had, for 18 centuries. It's still riding an Old Testament bicycle, and only taking the rudimentary New Testament doctrines, slapping them on top. That's like riding a bicycle with a flat tire! You don't put new wine in old wineskins, the Lord reminded everyone. Wine, His Thinking, is from His Skin!

The Governance level of Old Testament covenants was limited to a kind of besidedness with God. God was part of your life, the most important part, the dominating part — but you had a life on your own, too. So the rapport was limited. The covenants even from the beginning were actually too sophisticated for humans to invent or understand, given the covenants' extreme metaphorical richness and Divine Wit. Also, the covenants were utterly impolitic, and not at all enticing, either. Works entirely spoofed. Hence you can spend hours on just one of the rituals, tracking its multi-storied meaning and connectedness to everything else metaphorically depicted. That's why the Old Testament covenants are in large measure, skipped over in analysis today: we don't understand them in our puny minds! Yet compared to how God would upgrade the covenant in Christ, what follows below in blue, was mere child's play:

Due to the Fall, man in the Old Testament started at ground zero: no knowledge of God, no actual knowledge of sin/good/evil, but instead urges toward them.

  1. Accordingly, the hallmark properties of all Old Testament covenants were ritual and visible supernaturality. First ritual was Abel's sacrificing lambs. First supernaturality, God talking conversationally with people as if He too were human i.e., Adam and the woman, then Cain, Noah, Abram, etc. The 'discussion' with Adam after the Fall and Cain demonstrate the informal conversationality. Very impolitic for a god to depict Himself as a lamb — oh, that invites ridicule from 'stronger' gods! — quite demeaning, to have intimate conversation with a mere mortal. What, no go-betweens? Makes this God look small! Doesn't honor the human, that this God is not "macho". Of course, that's your big tipoff, this is the Real God Who doesn't Flash His Cash, and doesn't want you to, either. lo toar lo, wa lo hadar, wa lo mareh (לֹא־תֹאַר לוֹ וְלֹא הָדָר וְלֹא) as Isaiah would later quip (Isaiah 53:2).
  1. People were taught to associate what they saw (i.e., in the ritual) with what they couldn't see, as a vehicle for learning God. What they saw, was a God Who did all the work, you only contributed the problem and reaped the benefit. You only got in trouble if you accredited yourself, as Cain tried to do with the vegetable thingy. There He goes again, being impolitic, making Himself the slave instead of you. How majestic is that? "The Sinbearer" is lying at the door of his volition to save him, Genesis 4:7? What God phrases His warning as a Promise? Only the Real God would stoop so low! Genesis 4:7 is vilely reverse translated. It's not "sin" lying at the door, but Christ the Sin Bearer. Get my pastor's 1975 Genesis series and some good lexicons if you don't see the mistranslation in the verse. I could see the mistranslation via the lexicons in BibleWorks, not merely from my pastor's correction, so you can find it, too. I don't care which pastor gets it right, Word of God should be properly stated!

Here we see the extrapolation rule. You do something. Whatever you do, has certain characteristics, parameters. So you analyze what 'laws' lie beneath those things. And you analyze them, to learn more about Invisible God. So the covenants all had metaphorical depictions in their rituals, the teachings, etc. Succinct and easy to remember, you could ponder the meanings while you walked, washed, tended flocks, ate, etc. Old Testament writing style is extremely succinct, seems ambiguous only because it's omnidirectional. So Old Testament text often baffles translators, for there's no good way to render all the multilayered meanings derivable from the interconnected metaphors. I could spend years on Isaiah 53's Hebrew, alone. Can't translate all of what it says, gotta use the original text and chew on it. That's what the Old Testament people were to do with everything they saw and heard. Most didn't do it, but the method was available, and as you see David and the other Old Testament writers engage in that extrapolation, you realize they played with the metaphors all the time.

  1. Impolitic Rituals for learning, sacred behaviors and structures, complemented the communication — dreams, visions, prophetic messages. They're all distinctly Mad Magazine-type spoofs on their pagan counterparts. First, notice that these methods are taken for granted, treated axiomatically by Moses in Genesis. So everyone knew well what he meant when he wrote, he didn't have to elaborate. Next notice what he mentions, the anointing of rocks, the dreams, the ceremonies of eating which God then burns up. Burns up: meaning, He didn't need to be fed. Meaning, He'd do all the work. My favorite is the scene in Genesis 15 where Abram — who came from a family of pagan priests before he met God — goes to all that trouble to cut everything up as God tells him, and then God doesn't arrive! So Abram has to chase away the birds etc. for the rest of the day. Then he falls asleep. Then God replies to him while he sleeps, with a 'covenant' which no pagan would want. Then Abram wakes, God does the quintessential "I will protect you", covenant-ratifying symbology of personal food oven and lighting-the-way Torch "passing over" between the halves. Passover, get it? No pagan god behaves in so demeaning a manner: people are supposed to behave like that, not gods. Using a mean, common, earthly cooking vessel normally carried with you or stuck in the ground for your daily food cooking. Slavish, again. Yeah, because this isn't a fake god, but the Real One. Now you know why the Word is called Food and Light. It starts here, when God Conveys His Word, His Promise, His Oath — by means of a mean oven and ordinary thrushes, both alight and working. God working. God, not man. God cooks, God lights, we benefit. How impolitic!
  1. Thus we see that principles of Divine Thought and Nature were communicated as straightforward, concrete expressions metaphorical of the unseen principles. Like, the God who accepts a rock used as a pillow for a sacred stone, Genesis 28:18, read context. Notice how God makes unilateral promises in clear language. No Delphic Oracle for Him! Who disallowed fancy monuments (requirement that an altar be unhewn). There He goes again, acting 'common'! By contrast, the pagan rituals and god-concepts were all obtuse, pompous, full-of-hot-air mysticism. Not here with the Real God! So yeah, extrapolation was what you did with what you saw. Notice, though, you didn't extrapolate inanity, like the pagans did. God depicts His covenant as a mean oven, so it means cooking, fellowship, not some weird flowery emotional prose of no meaning and less sense. God depicts His covenant as light, so it doesn't mean your soul was initially in Him and you by your own efforts make yourself light and float up to the heavens, as Eastern mysticism (AKA gnosticism) claims i.e., heaven depicted as "drinking orange light" in one holy book you can buy today: 🤣 — drinking fire? God gives light to illuminate, not you. God provides, not you. Very straightforward extrapolation, all rooted in common sense, is God's way of communicating.
  1. It was a spiritual system attuned to their human limitations: one learned principles by doing. Man was trained like a child: do this, do that, this is right, this is wrong, trust Daddy, have faith. Following the steps, painting by the numbers, like animal sacrifices. Like washings. Like eatings. To motivate them to ask why those particular rules, versus the more glamorous rules of pagan people. Here's another dimension of the metaphorical system. The more senses which are engaged in a learning process, the better one learns. This is especially true if the actions are common, repeated. So of course you won't know the meaning behind the motions, right away. But you learn the motions instinctively, so then you have time to ponder and enjoy the motions.

Children learn by doing, until their brains develop enough so they can learn from 'pure' principle. It was like basic math, not differential calculus or physics. Yet if you analyzed the metaphors enough with God's Power, not even the most sophisticated math or physics could compare. The Old Testament is so metaphorically dense we moderns don't understand it: you must well know the meaning of each metaphor and extrapolate interrelationships from them. It is true spiritual math, every bit as sophisticated and comprehensive, as unified field theory in physics seeks to be. Yeah, you can't understand it on your own. Breathe 1 John 1:9 and keep asking God about those metaphors, study with His Brains — and then you'll understand them. Each metaphor is of something common. But to have so much information about each common metaphor in your head, at once, extrapolating the principles they depict and interrelate them — requires Divine Power. On human power alone you'd have to spend your life writing out all the meanings, and maybe after 50 years of writing non-stop, you'd have a vague idea of their interrelationships. Well, the writers of Scripture had instant understanding: so they had to get it from God, to make so much wordplay on all the metaphors.

Unbelievers can't read Bible, so don't know how to read God's Word metaphorically. This requirement of Divine Power is most amply proved, because we all know that good literature — and the Bible is considered good literature, even by its detractors — all good literature, employs metaphors. So how is it, that a provable genius like Julian Jaynes, mistakes what Amos says as being childish? Most people I know can't even follow Jaynes' pro-evolution arguments in his The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Jaynes devotes most of his thesis to how old Greek and Bible literature was concretely expressed, therefore man was not possessed of a self-consciousness, which (according to him) evolved over hundreds of years. So the rich metaphors of Greek and Bible literature are a complete blank, to Jaynes. Not only him, but look around the internet: Bible debunkers all see those metaphorical descriptions, and mistake them for literal. A metaphor is a real thing which in principle depicts something you can't see, like a law of God, or God Himself. Anthropopathisms are metaphors. Anthropomorphisms are metaphors. We all "get" that when we see Shakespeare: why not, in the Bible? See: Satan & Co. mask our normal intelligence when it comes to Bible, and we really need Divine Power, to read it.

So too back in the Old Testament, when Bible was still being developed, you went through the motions, and if you didn't extrapolate the metaphors inherent in the activity, you didn't learn God, and would mistake the motions for magical things. Just like the woman did of Satan's Tree in the Garden, heh.

Pagan religions all treat the ceremonies as literal things or mystical things. That's why cannibalism was popular. Attributing magical properties to the literal object in the ritual, rather than abstracting, extracting, extrapolating the Divine principles metaphorically. Thus you know the Bible's ideas were first, and the pagan mystical meanings are deformations from the Bible, rather than the other way around. Abel sacrificed a lamb to memorialize in advance, The Future Lamb Who Would Come to Pay for Sin. Later cultures sacrificed animals as if what they did paid for sin. See the difference? See why the Mosaic Law is so rich and sophisticated?

  1. Thus we see that man's "meaning" was Associatively Bonded and Connected to demonstrate Doctrine, the spiritual meanings, which man could then Eat, Extrapolate, and Exercise in his daily life. How man could thus tell the Fake fellowship of Satan's plan from the True Fellowship, in God's. Hence, even the most menial secular activity would remind man of the spiritual relationship he had with God. These everyday physical expressions naturally became intimately associated with God. The repetition alone would 'train' the body to make such association, if the meaning was extrapolated each time. Hence any activity always bore resemblance to some ritual, and thus to some God-meanings. Such association facilitated pleasurably learning Him so man could progress out of the concrete, and into the higher abstract understanding levels, metaphorically. How ungodlike, to make mundane activity and rituals bear so much resemblance to each other! Unless, of course, it's the Real God Who chooses the mundane so you can enjoy your small life the more, by being reminded of Him, in it. Clearly no ego problem, in this "God". And do you think Abram could ever cut animals in half again without being reminded of the contract? Could he ever look at a personal oven or common torch again without thinking of God? And of course, God made the sons contract via circumcision! So as my pastor loves to quip, Every time Abraham urinated...

How impolitic, to make the common phallus remind you of the god! Oh? Do you know, most of the totems in pagan cultures are phallus symbols? So notice God's spoofing — A Real Phallus By The Real God Is Used To Make A Real Holy People. From Dead Skin, A Living People Living Forever Before Living God. Do you begin to see some of the Genius behind the metaphors God picks to communicate Himself? The associative, thesaural pleasure is Endless Wit! Easy therefore to remember, Tasty therefore to remember. Who but the Real God would think this way? And by picking common things to display His Thinking, you not only have constant reminders to enjoy — but best of all, you a common nothing, He must want. For after all, if even the lilies of the field are so well clothed — if even the grass here today and tomorrow thrown in a common oven which has the honor of Depicting God's Integrity Love for Abram — how much more important to God are you! The Lord would have endless fun using the metaphors when He was down here. Just read the Gospels, look at His Genius in Extrapolating from them.

  1. Such association thus facilitated growth in spiritual intimacy. Or, it facilitated volitional mutation of Truth into false magical ideas, just as happened to the woman in Genesis 3. Essentially, you derived meaning by extrapolating the metaphors thesaurally, so derived the abstract, from the concrete. How quickly you could do this, and how much you wanted to, would vary. Volition, again. The angels could decide how much to play with what they knew, and so can man. The angels knew a lot more, and from their initial creation. But it's always a question of how much you want God. So if you want God, you play with what you know already, and try to learn more. If you don't, you don't look at what you know already, or change it into something else you prefer. Hence over time, the physicality interfered, constantly mutating into roteness or magical distortions. People progressively chose not to think about the meaning of the movements, and thus depraved the God-meanings — grabbed by the "Energizer Bunny", our old sin nature inherited from Adam's Fall. Thus depraved in their minds (Romans 1), "God" would mutate into a designer label that self was 'good' if he aped the motions.

Of course we Christians exhibit that same attitude. Like the Jews eventually did, we too create little pet observances, ascribe to them magical spiritual properties, all crafted from Bible verses. Yet demonstrating, we don't know what those verses mean. For we don't extrapolate, but enchant. We want Disneyland: light that candle, chant this prayer, thus get magical blessing from magical motions, ad nauseum.

Hence in movies and most media depictions, "Christianity" is falsely defined as Catholicism. Or, some other form of magical movements prevalent in Protestantism. The goofier, the more accepted. Woo-woo, rah-rah, no meaning, just motions. Just like the pagans.

  1. The covenants' granted degree of intertwined secular and spiritual knowledge & power increased as time passed, to feed the desire for greater intimacy, and to counter the 'magical' misuse of God's ritual and visibility meanings. What made the transition from the family priesthood covenant to the patriarchs, was the promise to Abram that The Son would come from his loins. So the priesthood passed to the sons of the Line. So the upgrade in knowledge and power, was 'matched' to the narrowing of who would be the progenitors of Messiah. Humorous, how they used their priesthoods so intimately, i.e., Job's thinking when he sacrificed animals, Abram's nervous excitement when the Lord talks to him at Mamre, Jacob's irrepressible desire for contact with God any way he can get it, even if it lames him (and it did). Notice that the Old Testament itself was serially written, demonstrating a progressive increase in how much and how well you could come to know God. This gradual unveiling 'tracked' man's learning about God, so that he didn't get information too early or too late. Tied, to the gradual unveiling of the bloodline of Christ, since the Old Testament itself is about Christ's Coming. As that revealing became more detailed, of course the covenants themselves had to upgrade. With Abraham this upgrade started, as we'll see in "Cursing-to-Blessing" #6 division on the Jews (after this section on Governance).
  1. So above all, each succeeding Old Testament covenant/Dispensation/"Age" stressed Personal Relationship. Very impolitic of God to want a personal relationship, rather than a macho-man, distant dominance! Yeah, because God wants a personal relationship, not Macho Man. This is the big difference between God of the Bible, and all other holy books and religions, and always has been. Pagan ideas of god are all power-based, so distant and macho-man, prostituting. You prostitute yourself before the god, and he gives you goodies or good feelings, in return. God of Bible is the exact opposite of all that claptrap. It's true that Judaism and later Christianity morphed the Real God into a pagan prostitution system of rituals and works; but if you really study Bible, you readily see He's not as advertised by His apostate 'handlers'. As Jethro Tull put it in the 1970's, his "Aqualung" album: "He's not the kind you have to wind up — on Sunday."

Notice how God talks directly to the priests, like Job (family priesthood example), then (patriarchs) Abram-later-Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Notice that an angel, not God, talks to Hagar (so she was a believer, and not in a fake "Allah", either). Every supernatural manifestation in the Old Testament is distinctly personal in nature. Someone you know well, with whom you are on a first name basis. No fanfare. Notice also how the rituals are all of a dining character. Again, personal fellowship in nature, not the overblown rituals of the pagans. Remember when Dorothy, the Lion and Tin Man first 'met' the Wizard of Oz — before he came out from behind that fake machine-thingy? Yeah, the bombastic machine thingy thumping its power, has always been depraved man's idea of what 'god' should be like. Nothing like the Real God. Which The Real God proves, by His Direct and Real Personal Contact — with those who believe in Him. No grandiose temples and gargantuan statues to intimidate and overwhelm, as if that's what relationship should be; no mystical, complicated rituals to obfuscate. Just God, and just you. Was that way since Adam, is that way, still.

  1. This stress on Personal Relationship was based on the Promise that God (Son) would come in the flesh. Hence covenants hallmarked by visibility, reminded them of His Future Visibility, A Promise Of Savior To Come. Unilateral promise. This God just ups and announces Himself to Abram, Isaac, Jacob. Takes the initiative, just makes the Unilateral Promise, just as He did with Adam, Noah, etc. We merely reply with believing or not, Genesis 15:6 pattern. There's no human-works component anywhere in the 'contract' with God, you'll notice. Oh, how impolitic, for the god to demean Himself and want nothing in return? Shouldn't the people be giving Him, not the other way around? 🤣. Look: if you're the real God, then nothing people do will be at your level, so you just have to love them unilaterally, to create in the first place. So all the pagan egoism with its fancy structures depicting rather weak gotta-have-man's-obedience gods, betray who's really behind them: men or demons. Insecurity needs power over others, needs others to 'pay' it: security, never has those needs. By the way, this core insecurity-versus-security truth explains why religions of the world mutated. The Real God was universally understood, but not universally accepted; so folks mutated what they learned in accordance with what parts of the Truth were acceptable. Thus, the unacceptable God-meanings were gradually substituted with whatever meanings people preferred. It's historically traceable, a kind of conceptual DNA.
  1. But Christ Had Not Yet Come, so intimacy with God had a ceiling. The metaphors acted as a shadow picture in remarkable detail — but no picture is as good as The Real Thing. So His Human Thinking — which would be more intimate, versus rituals — wasn't available to them. Book of Hebrews likens the Old Testament ceiling to a "shadow", and Paul in 1 Corinthians likens it to seeing through a dim mirror (Word = mirror, in the Bible). The besidedness-nature of the relationship was a necessary ceiling to start with, since He hadn't Come Yet, so there was No Soul to Copy and instead have an exclusive insidedness with God, a 100% dedication. Hence the most you could anticipate, was for God to be #1 — First Commandment — and keep aiming for as much intimacy with Him as you could get. So the priests were privileged, in that their lives were dedicated to God — but even so, the thinking was split between God and this world. So that's why what would become Israel's Nazarite vow (covered below) was so desirable. You got to set aside a given amount of time solely to be 'spent' contemplating God. But you had to end it sometime. That's why those who could become prophets or other dedicated persons (pattern of Anna and Simeon in Luke 2) — were so happy for that privilege. Intimacy was a goal, but one couldn't have enough, until He came. This goal is quintessentially expressed in Jeremiah 31:31-34, the "new covenant" promise which Israel anticipated. That's why they'd not miss the Ark, because He'd be alive (Jeremiah 3:16). Prior to Israel, this same goal was desired. You wanted a relationship with God for Himself. Just because.
  1. Moreover, Time Was Running Out. The sin nature mutates and progressively degrades biological material in each future generation from Adam's fall. As time passed this macro degeneration also gave Satan more opportunity to win, and the progressive increase in God's covenants, thus meant man would be less and less interested in knowing God, ceiling or no ceiling. Moreover, as the covenants progressed, the Time promise which began at Adam's fall, reified into a deadline for Messiah to come: this deadline was the last forty years ending in 37 AD, which was the 1000th anniversary of David's death. 4a covers the significance of that deadline in the context of Israel and the Rapture which thus derives from the deadline; but here, notice that Messiah's Very Visible Date Of Arrival signified the End Of Time. So more than just a ceiling on knowing God, was in view. Time had a deadline.

Thus you know the Mosaic Law, for all its limitations, was capable of being used to the uttermost intimacy, even though Christ had not yet Come. After all, it would be His Job to extrapolate from it sufficiently to Become The Truth. And by the deadline, too: same 40 years as would be allotted David for his rule, was allotted to Christ. As it would turn out, the world was so jaded and degraded, that He was rejected seven years prior to His allotted deadline, dying in 30 AD in the year of David's 1000th anniversary of retirement. Notice the Governance ceiling on knowing Him also had a physical time deadline. Foretold, 1000 years in advance, when David died (in 963 BC).

In sum, then, the visibility and in-your-face supernaturality, the politically-incorrect rituals, the common-ness so that one would be constantly reminded of God throughout one's day — all these physical governances characterized the Old Testament covenants. As they narrowed and upgraded, people would become more and more polarized, voting for or against God with more vehemence. As an index of that vehemence, notice the decline in the number of verses which show God directly speaking to someone. Instead, 'buffers' are more used: the prophets. For if people are so negative to God that intimacy is not desired, then The Intimate One To Come will only come to those who want to hear Him. And as time passed, only a few individuals, did. That's why Malachi ends so abruptly. Just a prediction of John the Baptist as the herald of Messiah... then end. Time? 397 BC, the beginning of the "62 weeks" in Daniel 9. 586 BC begins the Daniel 9 countdown, as it's God's Decree, not a human king's: 586-70 years to make up for the sabbatical years Israel didn't observe, -70 more to 'reimburse' for the first seventy, was the 140 years allotted for the rebuilding of Temple (first 70) and Jerusalem (second 70). That takes you to 446 BC. Then come the 49 years, and at that point the 126 years of the First Temple's shorted time (950-460 BC allotted, but 586 BC demise) was made up. That's why the 62 weeks could begin in 397, and Old Testament canon could end. 434 years later would be 37 AD, the End of Allotted Time.

From there, the degradation of the biological material from Adam's time resulted in a mortality which precipitously fell during mass negativity (witnessed also in Christian times, i.e., in the Dark Ages) — or rose, when there was higher positive volition to knowing God. But there was a deadline. And Christ would thus have to arrive and complete His Most Difficult Task, when mankind would be at its lowest ebb. That ebb, would be epitomized by man worshipping himself, his cultures, his arts, his military conquests. Making himself, god. Time has been stuck in this characteristic 'bubble', ever since.

Governance Level in New Testament Covenants

So finally, the Old Testament covenantal system had to be scrapped, Hebrews 6:13-7:28, +Chapters 8-10. All its levels had been tapped out, the requisite Trial Arguments made and Answered, and man finally refused to learn from it. Something higher would have to replace it. Enter, therefore, Jesus the Christ. Governance Level in New Testament covenants is an insidedness, far more Intimate than the old besidedness of the Old Testament. Now God is your life, there's nothing outside, as the Lord explained when He updated the First Commandment (i.e., Matthew 22:37). His whole life, both Inner and Outer, was dedicated to God: that's the Legacy He left for us, as well. So that 100% inner dedication required a Higher Priesthood and hence an upgrade in covenant, as Book of Hebrews explains: His Own.

  1. Hence Old Testament Covenants associate from outer to inner; but New Testament covenants associate from inner to outer, due to Christ's Own Nature as God-Man. Fallen man started out as a child, with zero knowledge, so like a child knows the "outer", first. With Christ's Birth, all that changed, for as God-Man He'd have to become the Truth. He must therefore extrapolate Old Testament Bible's metaphorical structure completely, to All Divine Truth Levels in His Human Soul, Hebrews 2:10. We saw in C13, the problem of Divergence. It was bad enough when Adam was created, the divergence between his then-perfect body, and his soul. So, God created the woman. That increased the divergence, since in key ways she was of opposite nature, though still also human. Oppositeness which fits, is still an oppositeness. When Adam and the woman fell, that divergence multiplied out to infinity (as in math's idea of continual process, not infinite in quality). So think how much the divergence would be, if God and Man in one Person? How to handle that and not split apart? So His Spiritual Life would first have to be an insidedness, in order for Him to be integrated within Himself. Else, His Human nature would separate (i.e., sin under the pressure). An outer-first associative life would be too slow. Seems impossible, huh.
  1. God-level Intimacy was therefore immediately required, since only God is Truth. "Messiah" means intermediary between God and Man. Hence Christ would have to be thoroughly intimate with God, even though man, because What Truth He thinks, should be Perfectly and Intimately Coordinated to What Truth Propitiates Father, especially while on the Cross. Ergo, just as Isaiah explained in Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:11 (yaskkil (יַשְׂכִּיל) in Isaiah 52:13, + bedato (בְּדַעְתּוֹ) in Isaiah 53:11), He would have to invent the requisite Royal Spiritual Life out from The Mosaic Law, Hebrews 7:28, Hebrews 2:10 and Hebrews 12:2's "Ἀρχηγός", Galatians l4. This made His Life maximally harder, requiring an extrapolation from the metaphors which is essentially, Infinite in Qualitative Structure. This invention would have to begin at birth. You see it beginning then, in Hebrews 10:5, which He spoke from the feed trough ("manger") on the day He was born (my pastor stressed that He spoke Hebrews 10:5 at His birth, which Greek text not English, proves). So here we realize that Spirit began empowering and teaching Jesus, immediately.

It's important to understand that God's Nature is natural to Him. So He doesn't treat His Power as magical, and we shouldn't either. Ants would consider us gods. We don't think of ourselves that way. So look: when we do things, we have reasons for doing them, good or bad. We don't (hopefully!) sit around and pride ourselves on being better than the ants. Instead, we (ideally) make decisions how to use our abilities to benefit ourselves and others, etc. God is Infinite Power, and never exercises His Power absent proper Reasons — because that's how He wants to live. So the fact He empowers Jesus' Humanity to speak at birth (or maybe the Lord did it Himself, I'm not sure) — shows you the reason for such an action. Acknowledgement and acceptance of His Role is what Hebrews 10:5 tells you. For that acknowledgement to be made, obviously even the Baby would have to be empowered to know and understand, immediately. That would make it harder to grow up, you'll notice. It's hard on the human to be so far superior to everyone around him. Hard on those around him, to know he's superior, too. So it's not as though God's use of Power tipped the scales in favor of God. No: God uses His Power to make it harder on Himself, not easier. The covenants all have that feature; that harder-if-higher feature, derives from God first doing it to Himself.

So here is God doing it to Himself: attach Humanity and thus create the greatest potential for destruction, ever. For He has to be integrated not only within Himself, but with respect to Father and Spirit. God-level intimacy must be 100% from the get-go, yet He has to also grow up as a human being, no influence or trickery? So of course the spiritual life required to not only create that 100% integration for His Own God-Man nature, but also for God-level intimacy with Father and Spirit, is eons higher than the Mosaic Law. Yet, under it. There's no other way to make it harder on God Himself, than to create such a situation. God would not have been paid if even for one second, the Humanity — baby or no — sinned.

Paul isn't kidding around when he pens Philippians 2:5-10. Kenosis is the topic of the Fourth Reason for Invisibility. Upshot: pretend you inherited billions of dollars but you weren't allowed to use a penny of it except as ordered; you had full and ready access to the money at all times, and it always stared you in the face. Yet you'd have to keep saying "no" to using it, even though it was permanently yours, and no one could gainsay you if you chose to use it. Repeat: you are not physically restricted in any way, at any time, from using the fortune. Instead, there's only a voluntary compliance on your part, which of course you can refuse at any time. The "order" is something you want to obey, but no one has the right to tell you that you must obey it. Oh and by the way, the "order" is for you to be tortured beyond human endurance. Yet, not do anything to buy your way out of it. Who could live with such pressure?

One thing which my pastor stressed repeatedly is that Jesus the Christ as a Human had to keep on willing to hold the universe together, which was a required use of His Deity at all times. In effect, that means His Attention is constantly split and torn: on the one hand, constantly using Deity to will the universe keep on going, and on the other, constantly willing to avoid looking into Deity to learn something, do something, help Himself or someone else. This split in concentration should have killed Him all by itself. So of course He'd need to have Intimate connection within Himself and would have to have that power from Birth forward. But again, that makes it far harder, not easier, as noted above. As my pastor liked to put it, for some uses He had to tap His Deity, but not others. It's easier to only use it one way or only avoid using it — but far harder, if you have a mix of reasons for usage, all of which have to be extremely precise and coordinated. For as God and Man in one person, that's His Job to hold the universe together, Hebrews 1:3 and Colossians 1:16-17. But then to eschew usage, when the world depends on Him remaining sinless? And He's got to think like this when a baby? Mind-boggling.

Mind-boggling, but you can readily understand how it works. The Holy Spirit would inform Him, and He'd then obey what the Spirit said. We have the same procedure, though we don't will to hold the universe together. It's a difference of scope, but the procedure is the same. If God tells you to do something and you do it, the power you tap (in His Case, an order to tap His Own Deity, here) would be part of that command. So, humanly, while we are supposed to also be filled with the Spirit at all times, sometimes the command also requires we move or do something with our bodies, coordinated with the Spirit-Filled thinking. That's a mind-boggling coordination, too!

It's like driving, really. When you drive you must focus on the road, on other cars, and whatever else is clamoring for your attention from the roadside or the radios — you must 'filter'. Slip for just a second, and you can kill yourself with the car. So you are paying a selected corridor of attention for a specific purpose but must avoid any deviation from that corridor or purpose. So now you know what it was like to be God-man: He'd focus His attention in a 'corridor' of Deity, i.e., willing to hold the universe together; but would eschew looking beyond that corridor or purpose, i.e., to learn something from Deity, rather than from the Holy Spirit. Not at all hard to understand the Hypostatic Union. Impossible, though, to imagine having enough soul strength, to never falter for 33 years...

  1. Hence His Seed Covenant (Isaiah 53:10, Galatians 3) required He be Filled and Indwelt by the Spirit, Indwelt by the Father. Can't get that level of spiritual development without Divine Indwelling. For who but God could know and make what constitutes an "infinite" soul structure of Truth for sufficient intimacy? Do you begin to see now why the Old Testament people couldn't get the Mind of Christ, even prospectively? There was no justification to make a covenant with mere mortals that would result in making them Become Truth. That would be unfair. (This is an important Trial issue, the fairness of God's covenants.) However, if God-Man, the covenant must have making His Humanity Become Truth as its goal, else the entire Personhood of Christ won't be sufficiently integrated. Ok, but that takes time. Yeah, so He'd better be Indwelt the meanwhile! See the precedence being set for Church, why we too are Indwelt?

Soul of itself obviously cannot be infinite; but like brain DNA, could get the needed soul 'dendrites' to hook up in the right places for Infinite Divine Truth to circulate properly. For Truth is categorical, so has a structure. Truth categories aren't infinite in number, but in quality and fractal-like function; even as, "God" is not infinite in number, but Three. Hence Divine Truth as a Structure can indeed be built inside a finite soul. But it would require Indwelling, to work properly. Not only would God have to build it, but God would have to run it at all times. Only the human's consent would be used. Hence the Infinity-finity Dichotomy, is solved both structurally, and functionally. Union of opposites. Divergence. Spiritual "unified field theory" as the five infinitives of Isaiah 53:10-11, depict.

  1. For His Destiny was to pay for all sins within a scant three hours! On the Cross! That required accomplishing an inner growth of lightning-fast, infinitely sophisticated, immediately comprehending Thinking — like Omniscience. In a Human? You can't find any doctrinal 'meat' about Cross mechanics on the internet. I've never heard anyone but my pastor even attempt to explain the mechanics or logistics of it. But think: three hours is a very short time to pay for all sins in history. So the payment must be made nearly as fast as Omniscience, itself. A human's thoughts are fast and many: you might think a million thoughts in a day, or at least a hundred thousand. Thinking is the way your soul 'breathes', for crying out loud. So in less than a nanosecond you can sin. Irritation, fear, anxiety, stubbornness, hatred, impatience, guilt, self-righteousness — who doesn't experience many moments of these, each day? They are all instinctive, and they are all sins. Body sins are maybe 1% of one's sins. The mental process is lightning fast, compared to the body process. But God's Level of Thinking is faster than light. So how can Christ pay for all sins in the human race? At God's Speed, only. Else His Thinking won't be of sufficient quality or quantity. That means many levels at once of understanding, reply, acceptance — despite all the pain obstructing His Thinking? It's incomprehensible, let alone possible, for a human to do this. So clearly, the level of spiritual growth required, far outstrips the Mosaic Law He'd be living under. So He'd have to Become the Truth, just for this reason alone.

So He had to invent a far Higher Spiritual Life, not only because He'd be God and Man in one person, for total intra-personal integration; not only, to utterly interface with Infinite God the Father and the Holy Spirit, else the entire salvation plan would tank; but also, to pay for all sin in only three hours by means of Thinking, alone. And obviously that's how He did it, even if you didn't know the 21 soul-paying clauses Isaiah uses in Isaiah 53 — because a person nailed to a cross can only think. Crucifixion takes three to seven days to kill you, as insects and birds bite and all your organs swell up: you eventually die of suffocation. Meanwhile, being nailed, all you can do is think, feel, know you are being crucified. The fact people gloat over your suffering is rather inconsequential, by comparison.

  1. Now the plot thickens: He also has to beat Satan in the Trial while on the Cross, Psalm 110 contract. This is a supplementary cost, the expense of the Trial, itself. Paul seems to be alluding to this cost at the end of Romans 5, for he ties it to our being made Royal forever (Romans 5:17-21, see my pastor's exegesis in 1977 Romans if you're under him). This contract is pre-creation, and His assent is recorded from eternity past in 1 Timothy 2:5 (per my pastor, no verb in the Greek there shows the timelessness). Ephesians 1 also covers this pre-creation contract, as does Isaiah 53:10-12. It was a separate Battlefield Royalty Covenant He had with Father from eternity past for defeating Satan, called "kata Melchizedek" in the Book of Hebrews. So not only does He have to pay for sins, but He has to defeat Satan in the Trial. What's this line item of cost? Well, as shown earlier in the "opportunity cost", directly or indirectly Christ has to pay for all creation, not just for human sins. Angels — at least the fallen ones — sinned. In fact, since they will live forever, the fallen ones will go on sinning forever, as indeed all of unbelieving humanity. So this cost has to be paid. Atop that, is the cost of waging war and winning, since history went on before the Cross, and would go on after it. So the Strategic Victory would be the payment of that expense, as well as proof why Satan is wrong. Satan contends that what God designed is flawed; that God's covenants are unfair. So the God-Man Divergence, flawlessly executed by One Who Has the Right of Refusal all the way through the Cross, proves Satan's contentions utterly wrong, and pays for the expense of the Trial. All this is atop the expense of the sins, themselves. So again, the Law will not be sufficient spiritual provision for such a Victory, and His Consequent Priesthood would have to be separate, Royal, and hence Higher. This is the main theme in Book of Hebrews, especially Chapters 1 through 3, 5, 7 through 10.

So how did Christ's Payment on the Cross, pay for all sins — since some of them never end? Structure. His Thought Structure got completed on the Cross, Hebrews 2:9-10. That's why He beat Satan, too. Romans 5 & Romans 8, and Hebrews 10, He never ends. So the 'cost' can be paid even though the process never ends, if the Structure is built. So again, divergence: forever, Christ will live in His Glorified Humanity, constantly thinking Divine-Level Thoughts. So too, the unbelievers live in the Lake of Fire, constantly thinking sin. That's why hell can go on forever, else God would have to disallow it. We believers also, will always be thinking forever, and in aggregate we reflect Christ. So in aggregate, the payment is ongoing, though now we are dividends on His Cross Payment. See?

This is the essence of 'opportunity cost' in economics: the Present Value of a Future Income Stream. Negative income from the aggregate thought structure of unbelievers and fallen angels, more than offset by the Positive Income of the Thought Structure of Christ Himself and His 'dividends', believers and elect angels. So the Payment on the Cross had to be enough to pay for the structure's completion. That's why it could 'finish', yet thoughts and sins, go on forever. You are a soul. That's a structure. But your thoughts keep on going. So pay for the Structure, and then the thoughts are paid for, too. See?

  1. Worse: to beat Satan in the Trial involved yet another supplementary cost to pay at the Cross: a Bride Price. Here, the original one, for Israel. Doesn't matter that she will reject Him, so will not be Bride. Does matter that He agreed to pay in eternity past. The kata Melchizedek contract required a Bride, because it's a Kingdom and a Priesthood. Since God is Infinite but creation is not, even when saved creation is perfect, it is still short; saved creation didn't universally and equally opt to learn God as God provided, so there's a shortfall in chosen spiritual development, as well. Hence mediation is required forever, and there are extra costs to furnish the requisite spiritual 'capital' for it all. Secondly, hell will exist forever, and a kind of pleasing counter-thinking must be ongoing, and in large numbers, as "dividends" so to speak, memorializing His Payment for it all. Hence the Mosaic Law was to train the Bride for this role, and Israel was the first offeree. Hence in order to retroactively pay the proper Bride Price for that contract — because after all, He dies on the 1470th anniversary of the Mosaic Law — He'd need an even higher spiritual life than required to pay for sins. For to buy an upgrade in spiritual life for a Bride, requires greater spiritual funds. So again, while the Old Testament Mosaic Law was fine for training a Bride, it was wholly inadequate for the Groom Who Pays for That Training. He would have to make a higher life out of the Mosaic Law, in order to pay for the Bride of it (again, Hebrews explains all this). Israel was told of her potential Bridal role often in the Old Testament, how it was dependent on her Accepting The Groom When He Came: the Mosaic Law was to prepare her for an eventual Priest nation role (see Paul's summary of it in Galatians 3, then look up all Lord-as-Husband type verses in the Old Testament). The time to complete her consent to that Bridal contract ended with His paying for sins, Daniel 9:26 — because a separate deadline of David's 1000th anniversary of death, intervened). Hence if Israel didn't accept Him when He came, time would end with His Death. She didn't. He paid anyway.

One can speculate how much of that payment gets shared out with Israel at the Second Advent and during the Millennium. Surely it will, for many people who believed in Him died prior to the Cross, and we know their inheritance structure is likewise in material terms, i.e., the "talents" parables about the cities awarded, and Hebrews 11's comment about how those believers looked forward to a better 'country' than they were living in (on earth). So it's not as though the payment stays in escrow. Isaiah 53:12's w'et atsumim yehalleq shalal (וְאֶת־עֲצוּמִים יְחַלֵּק שָׁלָל) tells you it won't be escrowed, but instead is shared out "and to the great ones, He will share out the spoil" is one way of translating it.

  1. Worst: due to Israel rejecting Christ when He came, Time Would End Prematurely, if He didn't suddenly invent a Replacement Bride and Pay for Her on the Cross, in advance. So Church was literally invented as a post-mortem entity near Passover 29 AD to prevent the world's ending, Matthew 16:18. See John 6 and 7 for the background, how Israel rejected Him for admitting He was the Bread of Life. Hence Church couldn't begin to exist until after He successfully finished the Cross, for His Election is contingent on Him successfully completing it. See His John 17 prayer, especially verses 17 through 26. That prayer was contingent on His Success. How much it cost and what would be purchased as her accoutrements, Father alone would determine, Acts 1:5, Acts 1:8. That's the main reason why Rapture can't be predicted, it's up to Father who and what will be Church.

This doctrine of Christ pre-paying for Bride-Church to save time — the reason why Matthew 16:18 is recorded — goes missed in Christendom because we look at people rather than God. For centuries Matthew 16:18 has been blasphemously mistranslated and misused to cut the Lord's Head off and put Peter's atop. Peter must scream daily from heaven for someone to redress that grievance. That redress didn't begin to happen until the Reformation, and even in every Bible documentary you see today, the verse is still vilely mistranslated and used. No excuse. "Πέτρος" only means "little rock" in the Greek. "Petra" only means "big rock" (i.e., cliff) in Greek. Someone deliberately cut out the "little" and "big" meanings the Greek conveys (think of "pebble" versus "Bedrock" in English), and then vilely transliterated "Πέτρος", but not "Petra", so the English reader can't see the difference. Pope Myth has a collection of videos on this topic walking you live through the Hebrew, Greek and Latin pan-Bible, to prove how vilely Christ has been maligned via the bad 'scholarship' on this verse.

As a consequence, the blasphemers don't get to know what the verse means: which is ironic, since the verse means their own existence was voted for by Christ, back then. Else they'd not be around, to blaspheme. Peter sure remembered the "little" meaning in his name, using all kinds of little rocks in his letter (i.e., λίθοι, citation stones given as award certificates or voting pebbles you carried to prove you had a right to vote). 1 Corinthians 10:4 quotes Matthew 16:18, so Paul knew what it meant. Maybe one day Christendom will, as well. For we are all purchased here by Christ, unilaterally and in advance, see also Ephesians 5.

  1. This meant He'd suddenly have to pay a Far Higher Bride Price than originally contracted, for billions of extra people who didn't yet exist. So that added cost all by itself, upgraded the Intimacy level required to even go to the Cross, in the first place. So again, a far higher spiritual life would be required, since obviously this future was known since eternity past, theme of Ephesians 1. But it was contingent, so couldn't be forecast to Israel. After all, she might have accepted Him.

Whereas point 19 focused on the extra payment for the Bride, here we're looking at the added cost of all those who will not be saved, because they will never choose to believe in Him. This is analogous to the cost of the first-born in Egypt. God memorialized them. The Jews only got delivered out of Egypt due to the first-born dying, and God never let them forget that. So too, here: it's been 2000 years since the Cross. Something like 20 billion people or more have lived on this earth since then. Pretty big extra price to pay! The 20 billion is a conservative estimate, probably too low. Derivation is from "God's GAAP Balancing".

  1. Not only is the Bride Price higher for the extra peoples' sins, but it's also higher because His Post-Resurrection Status would require a Higher Level of Bride. So yet another supplementary cost at the Cross, is added. Think of it like this: suppose a royal belonging to a small kingdom contemplates betrothal to another of similar 'value' kingdom. Their royalties are matched, so no problem. But next suppose that the potential groom inherits an entire empire from his uncle who just dies. Then he has to rethink whether he should marry a now too-low, royal princess. For a Ruler's marriage affects everyone, not just him. It's a Judicial Matching issue. So here, Christ is suddenly of far Higher stature if He succeeds, and this Bride is to be built afterwards, not before. So the requirement for Bride would have to be far higher, so a far greater training, so a far higher Bride Price would have to be paid — in advance. All this, one year before He goes to the Cross — and He knows when it will be, the following Passover.

Post-Cross, His Success meant He'd be changed. He'd be higher. His Battlefield Patent would be bigger, since He paid for more people. So His Bride would have to be higher than Israel would have been, both because the kingdom inherited would be larger — all those extra people — and because His very Royalty itself would have to be bigger. A king of a smaller kingdom doesn't need as much wealth, as a king of a far bigger entity. Since this bigness is a Soul Size in Him — for it's a Royal Priesthood, a Thinking before Father — then the aggregate 'soul size' for the Church would have to 'match' His. So no longer could the old spirituality and its soul provisions, be anywhere near enough. We have to become a brand-new spiritual species in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15. So that means a much higher payment at the Cross. The Law couldn't even begin to touch this, as He has to pay a cost for His Own Authorship of a Higher Spiritual life atop that Life, itself. For Father is to kit out the Bride as Father deems fit, so only Father can even say what that cost ought to be, John 17:17-26's carte blanche language. It's mind-boggling. Now you know why the Rapture can't be predicted: it's predicated on how we mature in Christ, Ephesians 4:13, based on that John 17 passage.

So He pays more, analogous to the empire-inheriting groom's prospective father-in-law taking from his own personal property, and flat giving it to the princess to make her big enough — and the groom then pays a higher bride price to the father-in-law, to still get her. Since the Groom is suddenly bigger, so must be the dowry. But if the dowry is bigger, so must be the Bride Price. So His Very Success at the Cross becomes yet another cost-creating line item which in turn He must pay for. Because, He loves Father. And by way of extrapolation, us. So when you read the verse "you were bought with a price" (1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 7:23 evokes Matthew 13:36) — now you know something more about what kind of price and how much.

Bride must match Groom. So that higher stature due to His Success is Ephesians 4:13, the most shocking verse in the Bible. Even the KJV gets it right!

Τί γὰρ οὖν, So what do we have?

  1. Post-Cross, our Church Royal Spiritual Life is Adult at His Level, Ephesians 4:13! Since we are the Replacement Bride built after the Cross, so after His Success and after He inherits the Battlefield Royal Patent — we have to be built to His Level, to even be an eligible Bride. Notice: Replacement bride, means a new Covenant. Not, a takeover of Israel's covenant. So the first Bride Designee in effect abrogated the betrothal, only a new Designee occurs — not, a takeover of what the rejector Designee, had. So Church does not replace Israel.

Consequently, our covenant is not like Israel's — her covenant is now way too low, Hebrews 7:18 — because the Precedence is His Battlefield Victory for a far larger and new group of people, not the status quo ante. Paul calls the Law a "boy-leader" (older boy supervising younger ones, Galatians 3:25, see context), a child (1 Corinthians 13:11, 1 Corinthians 13:13's "faith") — pending the Completion of Canon and its teaching by Our Real Tutor, the Holy Spirit. Christ was taught by Him. He had to Become the Truth, not merely learn Truth. That same standard applies to us, John 4:24, Romans 5:5, Ephesians 4:12-13, Ephesians 4:15-16, 1 Corinthians 13:10-13. Obviously we fall far short of it. For 2000 years have passed: that fact tells you at once how difficult it is, because we've still failed to corporately reach the goal — and how big it is, because time hasn't yet ended. So the extra payment, Divine Intimacy Level plus Standards are beyond comprehension, had we no Holy Spirit to explain what Bible tells us about it.

  1. Obviously, since God is Consistent, there is a continuation of some Old Testament provisions, but all is "in Christ" — key phrase in the New Testament (i.e., Romans 10:4). So the Old Testament rules were redone de novo and upgraded in Christ. (Example: Leviticus 19:18 upgraded to Christ's Own Impossible Love Level, James 2:8, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.)
  1. Even as Christ is Royal Adult, even so the format of spiritual development for Church is inner-first: getting the Mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Peter 3:18, Romans 12:2-3, Philippians 2:5-10). Flat opposite in nature and mechanics, versus the Old Testament. Therefore: unlike the Old Testament, where body coordination led to spiritual coordination, the New Testament spiritual development pattern is spiritual coordination leading to body coordination — the reverse of mainstream Christianity's teaching. The New Testament is thus abstractly worded, versus the concrete expression of the Old Testament. We first extrapolate Divine principles to craft concrete actions, the exact reverse of the Old Testament. It's not merely the Trial spectra being answered: it's an internal development mechanism in order to reach the new Ephesians 4:13 Bridal Spiritual Growth Threshold. Royalty trains for most of its life before ruling. He trained for 30 years, 24/7. We obviously need a longer time, since we sin, don't want the rigor, and for most of our lives we're clueless as to what even constitutes the spiritual life, because Christianity hasn't caught onto the thinking standard as the criterion, till yet. It thinks our Royal life is merely a souped-up version of the Old Testament doing system. Yeah, that's why we Christians remain spiritual children!
  1. The Cross was last, not first. Accordingly for Church, "works" are last, not first. Our Royal Training is first, just as it was for Him. Because first, as God-Man He had to Become the Truth, before He'd have the requisite spiritual strength and Intimacy with Godness, even in His Humanity. He is God and Man. You are body and soul. Just because you start out as body and soul, doesn't mean your soul and body can well interface together. Much more true, of the divergence between Godness and Humanity, especially when born Humanity! The point is, the Hypostatic Union of One Person in Two Natures with One Will able to tap both, made it harder for Him to live down here, not easier. So His Spiritual Training was light-years harder than the Law could offer. So it's Royal Downtime, for Church. You train for decades before you're qualified to do a work, even as a ruler-in-training must endure maybe 40 years before he can rightfully ascend a throne. For we are in training to be kings. Until you are trained, you can't be trusted with doing anything. Accordingly, "works" are last, not first: got to grow from a seed (of the Seed) to a full tree before you can bear 'fruit'. (By analogy, the Old Testament covenants would grow you spiritually to the level of a "bush".) Once a fruit-bearing Tree, the "work" becomes far greater than even what Moses (and others) could accomplish, theme of Hebrews 3. So unlike the Old Testament spiritual life, Church's Royal Spiritual Life is back-ended. Peasants "do", as soon as possible. Royalty "sits" for as long as possible, because its job is to think. Takes decades of training in Divine Royal Thinking, before you can 'do', anything. You first have to become like Him in your soul, i.e., Galatians 4:19, Ephesians 3:17-19, Colossians 1:27. Those are not indwelling or position verses, but spiritual growth thresholds.
  1. This change-in-covenant to Church is the proximate cause for the pre-Tribulation Rapture, why "the last are first", Matthew 19:30, Matthew 20:16, Mark 10:31, Luke 13:30, explained in Hebrews 11:40. Church wasn't on the schedule. So there is no time allotted for her, and Israel ran out of time — so Church can't 'borrow' from Israel's time. In gist: God predicted all future time deadlines via Daniel 9:24-27; so ever since David died, you had a complete future calendar to the end of the Millennium, which would have been 1144 AD. The Daniel 9:24-27 passage merely confirmed that original calendar. We Church were not part of that schedule. Hence the Lord's unilateral pre-Tribulation insertion of Church is the very reason for the pre-Tribulation rapture of Church. Thus the original schedule is elongated, but not changed — God still keeps His Promises as advertised in the Old Testament. Nerd Note: Greek word for Rapture is ἁρπάζω, means to snatch up, Latin equivalent is rapto, hence English "rapture" has zilch to do with emotion, but rather with rape, plunder. Another Greek term is ἐξανάστασις. Both are in Bible.
  1. Whether Church completes is a New Trial Issue, as Church constitutes New Evidence in the very middle of the Trial. Hence Satan can suddenly win a Mistrial Verdict, after all. God keeping His promises as advertised is the central issue in Trial 'play'. If even one of God's Promises fails, it's a Mistrial, and Satan wins. The Promises are themselves Evidence in the Trial, and Church is a new Promise. All of heaven must have shouted (!) when Christ saved the Trial by voting to make Church in Matthew 16:18. For He invents New Evidence as a Promise of no certain fulfillment — then pays for it all, in advance. That means God the Father charged Christ with sins of people who didn't yet exist, so if even one of them doesn't come to exist, then God failed to deliver: to claim evidence you cannot produce is grounds for Mistrial.

The import of this new potential for Mistrial cannot be overstressed. Israel rejected Christ; Church can, too. Church has rejected Him for 2000 years, now. God's Promise is that Church will complete, but there's no deadline promised as to when. So Satan has a new potential for victory. If too many in Church are too apostate in any generation, then the Rapture must occur as Discipline — analogous to the destruction of the First Temple. Only Church has no time guarantee protection as Israel did. As Israel's time ran out, there's no time which Church can be allotted. Christ bought the Millennium on the Cross, so His time purchase didn't go to Church, that's a purchase for Israel.

So if Church must be recalled too early due to her apostasy, then Satan wins in the Trial.

Moreover, Satan's rights of argument and rebuttal are in essence renewed at the higher level of Church. That blunts the Strategic Victory of the Cross, for now a tactical victory of Church Completion is required — or Satan still wins. For it can be argued that since Israel failed, the contract provided her was insufficient, inasmuch as it was replaced. Better still, the new standard for Church is so much harder, all the prior arguments get to be made again with reference to this new and far higher standard — a spiritual life not previously available to mere mortals, as per G15. Since Church is New Evidence introduced in the middle of a Trial, then all future Evidence is contingent upon this New Evidence first proving valid. If invalid, i.e., if Church doesn't complete — then it doesn't matter what the future evidence would have been, it's a Mistrial and all ends. This section is on how Covenant properties cause blessing or cursing by association: Mistrial is a major issue, if not the issue, in determining whether cursing occurs for everyone.

  1. The future covenants and future history itself, change character owing to the insertion of Church. So all future promised covenants are now at risk, due to a potential Mistrial Verdict, Hebrews 11:40. Moreover, had Israel accepted Christ the promised Tribulation would have had a certain character with associated costs. Same, for the Millennium. But now, both periods follow Church, so the information and character of each period will be very different, very much delayed, lots harder to live through, and the covenants themselves have to reflect Church. Messing with time has a huge impact on the future. Church is an insertion which elongates Time itself, hence all the believers who would have been alive during the originally-scheduled Tribulation and Millennium (94 AD and following) are long dead, and part of Church instead. We ourselves wouldn't have ever existed had Christ not inserted Church, because according to the original schedule, eternity should have begun in 1144 AD. That's a major change in how blessing or cursing are governed throughout all eternity.

Question is, will Church become a blessing or a cursing to those future? Blessing, if we live our spiritual lives as God Designed. Cursing, if we do not. The awards at the Bema are in large measure determinative of what quality Tribulation and Millennium believers will get, since Church is the culmination of the Trial, Ephesians 1:10's "summing up of all things" (Trial matters). Church's covenant impacts the covenants future of it, even as Israel's covenant and her own rejection of it, triggered the creation of Church.

  1. Tribulational believers now have Church doctrine to look back on. This is a mixed blessing for them. Since it's fashionable to debunk the Rapture with no Bible homework, the poor Tribulation people will be faced with a paper trail of bad but 'respectable' scholarship to confuse them. Church is not in the Tribulation, you have to be an idiot to think so. The Tribulation is a real and future period, you have to flunk basic math and accounting, to think otherwise. But if respectable people say a thing they are believed, never mind how wrong they are. So millions of lives both now and in the future Tribulation, are harmed due to the bad scholarship. Conversely, those who can see the role of Church now and later, will be used to bless future history; because of them, many Tribulation folks' lives will be saved, for they won't fall for Satan's fake-Church-in-Tribulation. It's vital to understand that Tribulational folks don't have their own covenant, so they will be blessed or cursed owing to the character and quality of Church, even as we Church are blessed or cursed by the character and quality of prior scholarship and history coming down to us. Again, God always uses body proximity — here, writ large over eons of history. Lots of bad scholarship in the past, by Jews and Christians alike. The world suffers to this day because of it. Some good scholarship came down to us also, by which we are blessed. All this will be made known, at the Bema.
  1. Millennial believers will have Church doctrine to look back on. This is a real blessing to them. The Millennium is a hybrid of some aspects of Church. The Old Testament Millennial predictions were upgraded in Revelation, reflecting what happened during Church. That makes sense, given that the Millennium is now very much delayed, Christ literally bought its time on the Cross — precedence from Adam forward, believers literally buy time — so He's owed more for His Second Advent, as a consequence. For example, in the Old Testament there's no discussion of Gentile kings ruling Gentile nations on behalf of Christ. But Revelation talks about it (Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 20:6). That's an upgrade for Israel's benefit, though for Christ's Own Benefit, first. Not much is predicted about Church in the Millennium, except that we will be co-rulers. Which makes sense, given as Christ invented His Spiritual life, and out from His, we invent ours — that's His Legacy. So given that God will not predict when Church completes, predicting its future composition wouldn't be appropriate, either. Volition determines, since volition is king.

The Old Testament vs. New Testament, child vs. adult contrast in covenants, doesn't mean that the Old Testament people couldn't grow to a spiritual maturity. They did: but their 'maturity' was much lower, concretely defined, versus Christ's totally-abstract ability to think. That's why Paul compares the Law to a "boy-leader" in Galatians 3:25, or a "prison" in Galatians 3:22-25, and the writer of Hebrews calls it a "shadow" (passim term in the book). Paul also likens the Law to a "veil", in 1 Corinthians 13, 2 Corinthians 3 (Hebrews uses that analogy too).

So an Abraham and (later) a Moses could and did indeed become "Friend of God". Yet the method of this growth remained rooted in the slower, limited, outer-inner pattern of training. Again, for Messiah had not yet come in the Flesh, finished His Covenant, and thus vested as King-Priest, as the "Royal Bride". More on this topic follows in #7 below.

This fallen-man-is-a-blank-page Old Testament condition advantages Satan's plan, too. Remember, at the Fall all Knowledge of God fractured. Its fracture is evidenced by total depravity: genetic dissociative reflexes of me-be-good. So, man is like a demolished building, with respect to any 'race memory' of God. Moreover, he's got all these physical urges which are destructive to him, but he's got no discernment about them, for that discernment — depends on knowing God. Satan now has an opportunity to give man knowledge, too — just as he did to the woman. It takes time for the "knowledge of good and evil" to develop. It takes time for the knowledge of God to develop. Not only on a micro level, from baby to mature adult, but also on a macro level — for mankind. From 'scratch'. From zero. After all, a parent can only train his child based on the parent's knowledge. So, mankind needed to be "grown up" on a macro level, over the millennia. This situation was thus ideal for all the knowledge-and-power "covenant" levels to be displayed, tested, proven. And, eventually, 'their promises conveyed. (See Hebrews 11 on the conveyance issue.)

So of course, Satan's 'covenants' for man have the same structure: teach sin/good/evil by 'doing'. It becomes essential to stress body stuff as spiritual, post-Cross, for then the wrong covenant is being followed by believers, and they will not grow up. Hence via outer-directed methods Satan & Co. influence the content of man's inner nature. In the Old Testament, Satan needed time to 'educate' man, to technologically develop him. Man had no idea what 'improvement' means, as we saw with the fig leaves. All he has is an urge to be 'better'. But what does 'better' mean? Well, he can identify with a full stomach, with being sheltered, with pleasure. So, that's the base for the teaching: physical things. 'Just as with a child. Physical things are visible. Hence, the Old Testament covenants are hallmarked by visibility, palpability. So, too, are Satan's covenants. So in the Old Testament, Satan & Co. manifest themselves as the "gods", which are famous in all the world's pantheons throughout history.

Satan's New Testament 'covenants' are all illustrated by the Matthew 4 temptations and still stress visibility, as in the Old Testament: be moral, be visible, tend the body, improve living standards, take control. Notice how his methods are all outer-stressed, body-ruling-soul: so to keep man spiritually childish, if not spiritually dead. He aims to replace the "inner" with satanic thinking, rather than God's. By doing this, if he achieves a no-need-God 'good' world, he thinks he wins the Conflict. He's not stupid. His task is to develop man to become good enough so he can assert his benevolence before God — and get out of the Lake of Fire. He really thinks he's better than God, that his plan really benefits man more. That's partly why he rebelled, in the first place: he thought he was better than God. And he still does.

So now we return to the Old Testament: the stage is set to appreciate why God set all this in final motion, by creating the Jews out from the nations of the world.


How Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob become a Blessing-by-Association race: the Jews.

Recap: from the Fall forward, Satan has had the better advantage. God has 'restricted' the communication of Himself to go from outer to inner, so if Satan can focus man's attention on the outer, he can forestall or minimize any inner learning. So, the more ritual and physical metaphorical observances and laws are viewed as rote things or magical practices, the less man will associate them with knowing God. "God" will then become a designer label, which is already the brain's depraved conception of Him. Many are the religions which stress doing rotelike practices; many are the religions which gain their pleasure from mysticism, chanting, and magic. "God" is just a genie you invoke to do your bidding, so man is just a pawn for Satan to nurture.

Over time, Satan's plan became the more popular, even with all the protections from #1-#5. Man progressively opts for it despite all the 'competition' of working, birthing, family, nations — skipping right over #3, God's Covenants. So those positive to God are way outnumbered. Put into military terms, God has a narrowing population for 'distributing' His body proximity, blessing-by-association. That makes it harder to justify keeping the world alive, as Satan happily knows. For Satan wants Götterdämmerung. God wants to save the world. What action can God take, given His Self-Imposed restrictions and covenants, structures to protect free will? Focus the covenant's power within a smaller group, and 'find' a way to keep that group going. "Concentration-of-force", one of the cardinal military principles of success. In short, leverage: a "remnant", "salt", a "pivot". As goes the group, so goes the outflow of blessing or cursing; those who reject the group will be severely disciplined.

The smaller the group, the greater responsibility and pressure on each individual within the group, and the more growth would be required. Ouch. What can justifiably be provided, yet not 'tip the scales' of the Trial away from Satan's favor? From which branch of humanity should the Savior come? Whatever Branch it would be, the 'father' of it must be so positive to God, a bloodline can be justifiably insured.

God does a Sixth Thing
to Insure Man's Freedom:
He reposes His Covenant
& Spiritual Standard in
the progenitors of
Messiah-to-Come.

Thus came into existence the Jew, due to the faith of Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob/Israel. After Jacob, the line could no longer be threatened, for those 3 were the "remnant", so were used to provide blessing-by-association to their descendants. And via those descendants, the Jews — provide blessing by association to the entire world. The world will go on living at this point solely due to these three and their bloodline, until Christ successfully dies on the Cross. Like it or lump it.

The main purpose for interaction among beings, the main purpose for superiority or authority over others, is to provide blessing-by-association. Both Ruler and Ruled benefit from this structure, again — analogous to marriage. Being "equal" is not desirable, for then everyone has to do all the same work! That is why, for example, the Godhead have equal nature, but do not choose to have equal authority: instead, They choose a division-of-labor, so to maximize Love. The point is central, in the Trial.

Antisemitism is vile. As Paul notes to the antisemitic Romans in Romans 4, Abram was not a Jew until God made him one by faith. That the bloodline was perpetuated was a contract God made with Abraham. By extension, a contract is open for us. But instead of taking God's Contract we humans become jealous of those who did. Antisemitism is jealousy, plain and simple. Well, if you want to be jealous, then you will be more jealous if you keep reading, for God granted the world time to live based on these three people. Even Messiah could not have come, were it not for their faith. So either stop reading now or gear up for some heavy thinking ahead. Faith in God counts for everything, and God Alone does the Work. Faith is something man not God does, but God's the One Who Gave Each Human a Soul with the Faculty of Believing, In It. That's how you learned 1 + 1 = 2 (you had to believe the one who taught you), and that's how you got saved. Having believed, that didn't obligate God to save you, and it didn't have any power itself to save you. But God chose to save you because you believed in Him. So if post-salvation you keep on learning Him because you believe what He says in His Word and want to learn more, then you too can become a hero like these folks. It's no exaggeration. As you read the sketches below of why they are accounted heroes, you'll realize you can believe like they did...

Remember when the Lord announced at Adam's Fall that He'd take on Humanity and become Savior? Well, just as through one man, Adam, cursing by association with him genetically fell on all men, so also, blessing by association would prospectively be linked genetically to the yet-future "Last Adam": but, just as with salvation, the basis for such blessing had to be faith. It takes three strong believers to establish sufficient blessing by association for this bloodline. This doctrine is one of the running themes in Romans 4-11, and Hebrews.

The number is repeated often in Scripture: for example, if three generations in a family go "bad", the fourth will be the last, if it chooses to repeat the sins of the fathers (so-called "four-generation-curse" , i.e., in Exodus 20, Deuteronomy, and Numbers). The reverse is also true. The "salt of the earth" and "remnant" doctrines have a similar structure. Obviously this is some issue in the Trial: the progeny's spiritual life "begets" a type of blessing or cursing on periphery. Certainly we can understand we benefit due solely to His Payment, and so did they (prospectively). That God would extend this imputation/attribution via humans to other humans would be an extrapolation of His Substitutionary Life for us.

Some easy cites to see this rule: Genesis 15:16, affirmed in Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Deuteronomy 5:9 (general principle); 2 Kings 10:30, 2 Kings 15:12, Job 42:15; the 120 years of the Flood, and the (extra-Biblical) 120 years Assyria lasted after Jonah came to live there, illustrate some of the applications of this curse. The purpose of the curse is to bless. The curse occurs to limit the contagion of sin. As we saw from the Flood and Babel, sin is very contagious. Family, then nations, help slow the contagion, but this 'curse' is an even more helpful 'quarantine', so to speak. The 'fifth generation', if there is one, starts out clean. You can see this trend frequently play out in modern history: pick up some epic biography of a famous family line. Two which I remember off-hand are: Fortune's Children, about the Vanderbilts, and The Rockefellers. Most of the European Royal epic biographies I've read display the same pattern. In all cases, if there's a 4th-generation curse, like there was with the Exodus generation — which is why nearly all the adults died — you'll see A) a strange killing-off of that generation; B) childless fourth generation, and/or C) a wealth-collapse of some kind. With the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, it was largely "C)". The Claudio-Julians, even — who weren't believers — seem to illustrate all three categories. The 'curse' is not restricted to believers. Probably every 'family line' can look back at its own history and see the pattern: I've seen it in my own family. It's extremely common, and probably every family can find at least one occurrence. For God thus preserves the family, it's a kind of pruning. Further, you can see it in any nation, any period of history. Cyclically. Truly amazing. Point is, the 'line' or the 'empire' ends with the fourth generation, in one way or another, if it is under that 'curse'. The fifth generation, if positive to God, is opposite in some key way, and is preserved — as it was with those who went into the Land — and starts anew. Again, it's a Blessing, this 'curse' — as are all of God's curses.

Blessing-by-Association is the way God orchestrates not only life down here, but Time itself. While many pastors know and teach something about God's Blessing-by-Association through believers — on the internet, usually called "salt of the earth" — no pastor seems to teach how God grants time to a super-mature believer roughly every 490 years, so that the world can go on living; He's been doing that since Adam (first grantee, 130 years post-Fall). Pre-Abrahamic grantees were Adam; (probably) Jared; Enoch; Methuselah (two contiguous grants?); Noah. Grants are 490 years and 1000 years. Noah thus received both a 490-year grant and a 1000-year grant. Bible demonstrates this in various ways, so you have to do some sleuthing. The links below will help speed that sleuthing, if you choose to use them.

This series began primarily to explore what my pastor calls "Blessing by Association" and "the Angelic Conflict", in an attempt to see what Bible proof there was. For I didn't really understand him, and needed to delve into these topics more. In the years of research since then, via mistakes I made regarding Daniel 9 in May 2004, I was caused to stumble onto how "God Orchestrates Time" (God uses everything to teach, even mistakes). In an earlier revision, the 1077 was a math error, and in finding out its correction, I was caused to discover the entire Accounting System since Adam. "1077" is significant for other reasons, but not the ones posed in the 2004 revisions.

There is an exact accounting System for Time which God uses, and you can prove it from Bible. This accounting system is due to the Trial. It's a Trial criterion that some believer on earth must be so mature, the world can be granted time to live. Else Satan wins. There are so many verses in which this System is disclosed, it took me two years to analyze the main ones; after all, one finds truckloads of goofy stuff about prophecy and Bible numbers, on internet and in print. Refer to the Poetic Meter Resource Index if you wish to explore further. Warning: I can't find anything on the internet like this documentation. So please use 1 John 1:9 and keep asking Our Mutual Father for confirmation in Bible, especially if a Bible verse cited doesn't make sense to you. I don't generally trust Bible in translation, so the published translation you see might not clearly show the meaning in the original-language texts. Even so, there will be other translated verses God will know you need to feel comfortable, so please ask Him.

Of immediate relevance to the text below, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob each received time grants of 490 years, which justified the world's continued existence. Abraham also received a 1000-year time grant (which began with the birth of Isaac). The other recipients were Joseph (beginning with his enslavement, and 490 years later was the Exodus); Moses (beginning @ Exodus, both a 490-year and a 1000-year grant); David (six grants); and through David, the First and Second Temples each received 490 years. That Second Temple's grant is the theme in Daniel 9:24-27, and it's based on the First Temple's not completing its own grant, so God crafts the Second Temple grant from time left over on the First, with an outer boundary of the 1000th anniversary of David's death: That's Why Messiah Came When He Did, And That's Why Tribulation Is Still Future; David's 1000th Death-Anniversary Intervenes, Cutting Off Time, So Messiah Had To Die By That Deadline. Christ Arrived and Died based on deadlines tied to David's Kingship dates and his death. That's why the world was allowed to continue until Christ came. He bought the Millennium (which is really 1000 + 50 years, the latter being a voting period in God's Accounting). Post-Cross, someone on this planet must still be awarded at least another 490 years (and probably 1000), for Time to continue — but the historical deadlines for the awards are calendared from the True (not nominal) Passover 30 AD, the day He died (Jewish calendar ran 4 days fast that year per John 19).

In short, due to the faith of Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob/Israel, we're all alive; if not for their faith then, Christ could not have justifiably come and of course we'd all not be here. The Judaic bloodline could no longer be completely eradicated, even despite later apostasy, and the Messiah could be justifiably born. In short, those three witnesses in the Trial were successful enough that Satan could no longer use apostasy's cursing-by-association, to justify exterminating the Lord's human progenitors.


God's "So what?" Evidence Test, Glory, versus Satan's

What "work" did these three do? How was it that they proved superior to Satan's way? What's God answer, via these three? Here's the pattern for all God's and Satan's answers in history.

God's Answer: "Faith (Doctrine) works", James humorously begins his letter. The 'straw man argument' of James 2:18 is the context. James began in James 1 noting how one needs Doctrine, to be a "doer of the Word". The idiot in James 2:18 is trying to divorce The Word From works. Alas, if the reader doesn't 'get' that point, his me-be-good urge will distort James' "faith (doctrine) without works is dead." Hebrews 11 is dedicated to the same theme, as is the humorous "work out your salvation" verse-pair (Philippians 2:12-13), which concludes "God works... to will and to do." Romans 8:28 is in the Attic Greek drama language, Our Hero even makes the intransitive, transitive: working together everything for ultimate good to those who love Him! Not to those who do works. For, only God works. Not creatures. We believe, He responds with His Script. We receive, He gives. He keeps on "pouring power". "Pour" and "Power" are Bible keywords for God the Holy Spirit's Power being given us, like in Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 44:2, Romans 5, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, and Ephesians. In the Old Testament, the knowledge-and-power levels were much lower than ours, today: yet even those much-lower levels beat Satan's achievements. Isaiah 32:1 is mistranslated, should be "The King" — Jesus the Christ, not "a king". Only New Living Translation seemed to catch onto the right idea. The moniker of Him being The Righteous King is a refrain in Isaiah, visible in Isaiah 53:11 among other places. LXX text in Isaiah 32:1 is anarthrous, so it's not just any king, but the King to Come, Son of David. Isaiah 44:2 is blasphemously mistranslated, because "mi beten" always and only means beyond the womb, outside the womb, and you'll never understand Isaiah's frequent wordplay with preposition min if you don't translate it properly. It's a keystone in Isaiah 53, which is all about the birthing of our salvation. Yet in Isaiah 44:2, only Louis Segond got the birthing translation right. Sheesh. Everyone hates the Word of God, loves to fit in with past bad translations — fit in with people and their petty prejudices, but not God! Here it shows in spades. No wonder my pastor always went ballistic when going over mistranslations of mi beten verses to show there's no soul life in the womb! I'm going ballistic myself, so better shut up now...

Satan's Answer: "Works work." Satan's achievements were then and remain today, considerable. It cannot be exaggerated how much human history owes to him. If you think that man's advancement through history is coming from man's own abilities, think again. If Satan & Co. didn't enable man to progress secularly through their own "enduement system", we'd all still be huddling in caves. Satan's achievements wouldn't be possible without God's underlying Laws, because apart from those Laws nothing could have the structural integrity to hold together. But we humans, too dumb to live, can't use those laws as well as Satan can. In short, Satan's using God's Truth, alright — and thinks he's making a better use of it!


Mankind is stuck in the middle. We can get either God's Plan or Satan's, remember. Each system has its own "covenants". Knowledge-and-Power. We have to be empowered by one or the other, to advance. We aren't able to advance on our own.

Integrity Key→ Remember Adam and the woman? They were initially perfect. So, beyond-improvement. So, God created them without need for improvement. So, they were content. So, they had no ambition: ambition requires discontent, to exist. The option was to grow in Love for God. That would make them bigger persons, but since it's growing in the relationship, the goal was to enjoy the relationship, not 'improve' the self. If you love someone you just do. So you dwell on stuff about them, hang around them, drink in every little detail, and you're not thinking of yourself, at all. You don't need to bother with the self. So, because they were perfect, God built no 'improvement' system into them. God is not "partial" anything, so 'improvement' is anathema to Him. It's Perfect, or nothing. So, God built no 'good' system into them. So, 'good' is never good, because God didn't put it in them. Any 'good', any 'improvement', thus, must come from outside.


God's Rebuttal: that's why the Cross must provide Total Salvation to spiritually birth us, for we are spiritually dead. 'Improvement' does not exist. Only upon total salvation can man be remade. Remade, not improved. How remade? God's Script creates spiritual growth via "deposits" (Greek: παραθήκη) of Divine Thinking: Bible Doctrine. This deposit is made by God, to each "faith-yes" assent of ours. The Depositor is Perfect. Each "deposit" is Perfect. Use of that deposit is a Love Issue, just as it was for the angels. So, another "faith-yes"; so God perfectly uses the Deposit in you, however small. Perfect use of each Perfect Deposit yields little Perfect "dividends". The accumulation thus replaces the 'good', the 'improvement' doo-doo (which volition, succumbing to the congenital brain defect of dissociation, programmed into those initially-empty neurons). Each Diamond Deposit replaces some doo-doo. Replaces, not 'improves'. Replaces, not makes 'good'. Replaces the previously-programmed associations. Thus one's dissociative 'reasoning' is gradually replaced, so the person can become sane, whole, happy. Not do's, doo-doo's, works — but, Knowledge. For the neurons will only put out what was put into them. If what was put into them was do-do's, not knowledge-of-God (which requires positive volition), then the neurons will only put out cannon fodder: "wood, hay, and stubble" (1 Corinthians 3). People perish for lack of knowledge of God — Hosea 4, Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28. No amount of works can make up for that deficit.

Moreover, "Godliness" and 'goodliness' are mutually exclusive. Peter, the rich businessman, likened this process to the extreme cost of making a Greek play, in the Greek of 2 Peter 1. Everything had to be done from scratch, and financed independent of the chorus, actors and stage hands. Paul uses "deposit" (and other capital metaphors) also, throughout his epistles (namely, Ephesians and Timothy). The Old Testament constantly likens Bible Doctrine to accumulating true wealth (i.e., Proverbs regarding wisdom, Psalm 119, Psalm 138: "true riches" and "riches" verses in New Testament being terms the Lord liked using).

See God's Genius? The "faith-yes" is an I-want-God, the marrying of a little bit of "love" to a little bit of the Word, which is Perfect Righteousness and Justice (see Psalm 33:4-5, Psalm 89:14, Psalm 138:1-2 in this connection). Each time. So each "deposit" increases both Knowledge And Love, together, a little bit at a time. So these little "marriages" build up in us Inviolable Integrity. Replacing 'improvement', 'good'. So it was for the Old Testament people; so it was, for Christ. So it is, for us. So sin is not the issue. Creature failure is not the issue. Love is the issue: one "deposit" at a time. Heh: Love pays doctrine! in advance!

Integrity is God. God is not us. So our Integrity is always outside ourselves, even were we perfect. That doesn't bother God. He wants to have His Thinking in us. Cycling. For Fellowship with Him. He'll take care of any shortfall in our nature versus His Own. Salvation means that He gives us His Own Righteousness and Eternal Life, building the rest of His Attributes through these deposits, post-salvation, within the corridor of our discrete consents.

Spiritual death, which is total separation from God, total disassociation, must be 'made alive' by salvation and those perfect deposits. Dressing up a corpse, perfuming it, won't make it breathe! So, "let the dead bury their own dead", the Lord told the good-deeder. Don't waste time 'improving', doing 'good'. Instead, 'do' what James counsels: "Faith (doctrine) works patience. Let patience have its completing work." Patience, not hustling, improving, 'good', works. From Doctrine. In short, let God enrich you, like He did Christ: get Bible Doctrine. Then, let the Wealth of Doctrine run your soul; let Doctrine pay for everything, at no cost to you (Isaiah 55)! That's true good. One deposit at a time. Doctrine Works. Let the dead bury their own dead. Leave the me-be-good-twitching-body where it belongs, at the Cross (Romans 6-8 tie in here).

And how do you do that? By learning and living on what you learn. You naturally will do this, if you enjoy doing it. You'll want to study, think over, ponder all day and night, analyze, play with Bible — if you like what it says. If you understand what it says. Which you will, if you live in God's System. People gravitate to what they enjoy, and they avoid what they don't enjoy. So historically since Adam, we humans do not enjoy learning about God. We instead gravitate to each other, slap God's name on our interactions, and then have the nerve to call ourselves 'holy' or 'godlike' for so doing. So here in the Evidence Test, God demonstrates that only He matters to the heroes. All the 'competition' — especially, with reference to other people and works — dies.

So what will distinguish Abram, Isaac, Jacob is that they just plain wanted God. They don't 'win' because of anything they do. They win because only God matters to them. It's not a work, but an All-Consuming Preference. Which obviously, one enjoys. Now, maybe you don't currently enjoy the Word, but wish you did. Just keep plugging and voting for it. The enjoyment will build over time. Don't feel guilty because you want to avoid study. Just do it anyway, using 1 John 1:9 as needed and studying under your right pastor, talking to God about everything, trying to live on what you're learning, applying it everywhere in your life. Turn it into a game, for you'll fail constantly but also succeed constantly. One Love Deposit at a time. Enjoyment is not native to fallen mankind. Only urges which seem like pleasure are now native. So just keep plugging, Philippians 3:14. That's what the Bible heroes all did, as we'll see below.

Satan's Rebuttal is a mad mortician's (see Jude 9): dress up the body, perfume it, play Frankenstein with it. He wants us all to stay dissociated, dead, so he can prove God a liar. Dead we are, spiritually. Incapable of any 'improvement', any 'good'. The depraved me-be-good urge is our death-twitch, just as physical corpses twitch once newly dead. Thus Satan associates the impossible 'improvement' and 'good' in our minds with the idea, "God". This is his way of insulting God — which, of course, we can't see. He wants us to be dead to God, so God can't fulfill His Promises. 'Good' and 'improvement' replace God, thus. And so, we are Satan's marionettes. In God's Name, of course — we twitch.

Don't believe we're so helpless? Here's just a tiny list of proofs from the recent past:

If we personally were so capable of the advancements we've had, we'd not do such stupid things. Why do we do them, then? Because we can't think on our own. We need 'help'. So Satan & Co. 'help' us.

While they lived under God's Answer in the Garden, Adam and the woman had neither motive for self-improvement, nor the need. Satan had to create one. He did this by tempting her to 'gain' knowledge: that's an improvement temptation. Satan had to trick her into thinking God was withholding something from her. Thus, she became discontented. He thus set into the human nature a new thing: an unquenchable desire to improve, improve, improve. A-better-good, me-be-good, me-be-better. It was not native to man. It was 'empowered' from the outside. The "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" was outside them. It was Satan's plan, hanging on that tree. She knew that, because, like Adam, she knew everything. Yet Satan tricked her into thinking that Knowledge was really something God was hiding, in Satan's name. Why could he do that? Because she (and Adam too, for that matter) spiritually arrested before growing up enough in Love. Thus, she (and Adam) exchanged knowledge of God, for Satan's plan. Thus, they would have remained forever discontented, had they not accepted God's replacing covenant.

"And so it goes", as Kurt Vonnegut loves to say, for us. Everywhere one turns today, anywhere — associative reminders of this unquenchable desire are constantly sold — from "aid the poor", to "Zest" soap. Surely there's nothing wrong with aid to the poor? Surely Zest soap is great soap! Therefore — surely 'improvement' is always helpful, right? That's the distortion: always improvement, all the time. Any goal reached only fuels further desire for 'more'. Unendingly. That's why we feel queasy about "faith", for "faith" means we are giving up on 'improvement'. That's why we feel queasy about "God", for "God" means 'giving up', too. So, we can't just 'accept' a truth which has any associative connotation of 'giving up'. Moreover, one's sense-of-contentment at achieving any 'improvement' is mercilessly short. Why? Contentment is an enemy, just like "faith" is an enemy. Just like "God" is an enemy. So is "rest" — so we are restless. Of course, Satan doesn't need to worry about contentment, since the depraved brain's prime directive is — unquenchable discontent. Because we are dissociative genetically, and have no knowledge of God to question the 'improvement' association, we truly can't see that what we think we are — i.e., 'loving' — is not true at all. The propaganda completely colors our diagnoses of our lives. We are utterly helpless, apart from God. So, when 'things don't work out', we are genuinely baffled. Or, hostile. And still just as blind, just as propagandized. And so it goes.

Thus Satan's Answer motivates, teaches, uses and proselytizes man's 'strength' — born of sin — to achieve secular advancements, competencies and moralities which are truly admirable — were it not for the motive of replacing God. Therein lies his flaw. Satan's very great achievements suffer from their inherent loneliness. No matter how great one becomes, unquenchable dissatisfaction remains, and even plays ennui as virtue. One can only enjoy self-love, which is a form of spiritual masturbation, for a little while. As time passes, the enjoyment wanes, and the addiction requires greater 'doses' to get the same thrill. 'Despite all the goodies of the world. So, one becomes bitter. And, finally, quixotically, glories in one's own futility: curl up with L'Etranger, The Razor's Edge, or Ulysses (by James Joyce), sometime. Such is the Evidence, the 'glory' of Satan's plan for mankind.

Conversely, with God's Answer — even under the minimalist provisions of the Old Testament — the most deprived believer was happy, as Hebrews 11 records. Moreover, all the fantastic goodies were of no value, compared to the Joy of Knowing God. See? A replacing reciprocation, the outcome of all those perfect deposits of Bible Doctrine, substitutes for the natural reciprocation need. God is enough. One 'gets' God in advance, see — and the knowledge of that fact so compensates the soul's need to be loved, that a reciprocal love for God becomes the soul's outlet. 'Instead of sin, human good, or evil. Because, knowing Him is enough (i.e., "that I may know Him and the Power of His Resurrection" Philippians 3:10). So a funny thing happens: one wants to suffer for God. God doesn't need that. God doesn't want that. But we need it, we want it, even though our suffering buys nothing. We just want to waste ourselves on Him, and we want that waste to 'do something' for Him. Via the Spirit, that otherwise useless suffering can be turned into true Divine Value. That's why the Cross works: the Holy Spirit converts all that sin to make Christ's Soul functionally infinite, completing all His God-Man dendrite connections, as per the purple text in "Governance". Isaiah 52:13-14, Isaiah 53:10-11 is the Decree Contract to do that to Him — and we get His Contract. Much more about this conversion follows in #7 below. "Third Reason for Royalty" is my favorite section in this entire series, the hands-on key to enjoying the spiritual life.

What a tennis match, on which our lives depend! So let's look at some selected Old Testament Witnesses:

Comparing the boundaries of the initial Eden in Genesis, it appears as though the land grant to Abraham extends over the same territory. That's poetic.

Along with the "Land" (ha’aretz (הָאָרֶץ), Bible term), God had promised him something Abram longed for: an heir from Sarai's barren womb. "Sarai" means "contentious one" — well, "bitch", let's not be coy. Well, God really promised much more than that! He'd also promised that anyone who treated Abram and/or his descendants well, would themselves be blessed by that association. Conversely, anyone who treated Abram and/or his descendants badly, would be cursed by that association. In short, how anyone treated Abram or something "of" Abram would be how God Himself would treat them (shadow of the forthcoming Matthew 7:2 rule). Furthermore, these descendants, this huge Land, would belong to him and his descendants forever. He would become Abraham: father of many nations (by faith and by blood, as Paul explains in Romans 3-5)! Heh. That requires what? That Abram have Eternal Life! So, Genesis 15:6 proves he had gotten it. (I love how Moses just inserts that in there, as an aside — showing us that both Abram and Moses' immediate audience knew the Gospel rather well!)

Moreover, this "Abrahamic" Covenant (theological term, sometimes subdivided with other names) was also one of material prosperity: those "of" Abraham would be materially blessed. Money, goods, health, exuberance-for-life (l'chaim!), good looks — which, of course, we can all still see today.

What was it about Abram that 'made' God give him such an inheritance? Well, it wasn't his race, for crying out loud. As Paul reminds everyone in Romans 4, Abraham was a Gentile. Paul goes on to note, Abraham became a different racial species when he circumcised himself. And why that? Because of faith. Not because of him personally, not due to any of his human attributes or possessions. (The me-be-good urge is always trying to appropriate merit from stuff like looks, race, possessions. It would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.)

So how did Abraham's faith demonstrate itself in the Trial? Well, God gave him great wealth. Yet, he chose to stay itinerant. He didn't build himself palaces, but preferred to live simply. Why? Was he ascetic? No. He had better things to concentrate on: Bible Doctrine, as it was then revealed. Sure, he sinned — and quite a lot! — it took him 99 years to mature. At that point, Romans 4 notes he essentially said 'So what?' to his sexual death, and circumcised himself as God commanded. Note the humor: from then on, Abraham couldn't even urinate without associating his phallus with God. (Considering how the phallic cult was so important in ancient times, circumcision is downright witty!)

It took Abraham yet another 20+ years after the birth of Isaac, to have the spiritual strength to sacrifice his only legal son. Way back in Genesis 14, you'll remember, this issue of someone to inherit his wealth really plagued him: he was bothered that Eliezer of Damascus would be the heir, so long as he remained legally childless. It kept him from progressing spiritually, this desire-for-heirs. Yet, now here he was, to sacrifice the long-awaited heir; now, in the prime of his manhood, Isaac too would be agreeing to be sacrificed: Genesis 22:5, Hebrew naʿar (נַעַר) is used of Isaac, means someone of marriageable age. Yet both of them said, So what? Abraham and Isaac came to dismiss, despise, disregard any 'merit' claim in sacrifice. He blithely told his slaves, before he went up the mountain, to wait there — "I and the lad will return" he said simply (ibid). He, and Isaac. So what, both of them thought, that Isaac was to be sacrificed. Would not God work it out? Hebrews 11:17-19 shows their reasoning at the time.

See how a completed faith associates everything with God, docks everything below God, contentedly? It's the small, quick 'so what' attitude which demonstrates the superiority of faith, over creature merit. Like a consummate ballet dancer. Quiet ease and grace marks the true athlete: wrought over a lifetime of 'practice' — using those many, many Perfect Deposits. For, what should kill anyone else is merely a 'so what', compared to the beauty of the Word athletically circulating in the mature believer's soul. Doesn't mean he's not hurting. It doesn't feel good. But you just want God over everything else in life. It becomes an Absolute in your soul. That's what happens, here.

Not only does this docking gradually remove sin from the life — because God becomes progressively more valuable than sin and frankly you become too busy thinking about Him to have much time for sin — but most importantly, the person becomes happy. Independent. Free. Contented. Due to Love. That's the power of Bible Doctrine circulating in the soul. As David would later breathlessly exclaim, in Psalm 138:2b: "You have magnified your Word above even your own Person!" ("Name" means "person, reputation", and is qualitative, in Hebrew.) See? God loves Righteousness, His Word, First. That's why He's Inviolable. That's how we can become inviolable. The Power of Doctrine in the soul produces Integrity, because it produces Love for God, Who is Righteousness. Thus one becomes inviolably happy. Content.

This contentment doesn't mean you walk around with a smile on your face. Your soul is focused on God, settled about Him, you just keep on looking at Him, like Hebrews 11:27 records of Moses: Seeing Him Who is Invisible. That ties back to Hebrews 11:1, the Trial Witness criterion of Bible-in-your-head replicating Christ's Own Testimony: corrected translation, "It's about Confidence in Word! Christ's Thinking, On Trial! Evidence, Unseen!" See, sin is motivated by a need to relieve a pressure your soul receives. So essentially, Bible replaces the "apodosis" — giving into the protasis temptation — with Bible Thinking. So you get better relief, than if you sinned. Learning and living on Bible is in essence a continual 'replying' to what hits you in life, as well as just plain enjoying fellowship with God and enjoying the Word for itself. That's why God doesn't sin: He enjoys what He knows. So if we get His Own Knowledge built in us, we'll enjoy it more than the alternatives, as He does. That results in a "So, what?" attitude toward the alternatives and pressures, and defeats Satan. But the believer so thinking, isn't trying to defeat Satan or anyone else. He just prefers to think Bible and be with God. Versus all else.

Every Old Testament believer in Hebrews 11 came to such contentment with God, such Love for Him, everything else in life was 'so what'. Christ is the Ultimate 'So what?' Witness. He said "So what?" to being equal with God (Philippians 2:5-10). Christ said "So what?" to being imputed with the shame of our sins (Hebrews 12:2).

Christ was too busy Loving the Father for any 'competition' to have room. He Loved What He Knew; He Loved Who He Knew. From Doctrine. 'Which Was Paid To Him — first. All other wants were but expressions of That Love. Ergo, Hebrews 12:2 — the "So, what?" attitude to the Cross. See, He kept on looking at the "Joy" (Doctrine, i.e., Nehemiah 8:10) and said, "Ahh, you're paying for all this!" So, He wanted the Cross. The Cross, far from being a sacrifice, was merely a vehicle to express Love — a Desired Outlet — not a 'cost'. A Joy, not an expense. Even though the pain is beyond description, it's associated with Love For God — "So, what, that it hurts? I'm glad to have it! A Body You have Prepared for Me!" ('free rendering of Hebrews 10:5's tone.)

By contrast, creature-merit values can never say 'so what'. They are unfulfillable, fantasized, obsessions. Hence, any merits achieved always become progressively-sterile benefits. So, the rich "Richard Corey" kills himself. So, the Howard Hughes becomes a demented recluse. So, the "star" becomes a drug addict. See how no matter what achievements Satan enables man to make, however quantifiably noble they are — however much hunger is reduced, however many hospitals are built, however high man's Satan-inspired technological achievements — however great all of these are, and they are very great — see how they are nonetheless empty?

"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher" is how Solomon summed up such greatness, when he finally! — learned to say 'So what?' Merit-based thinking is what "total depravity" is. Merit-based thinking is a constant hamster's wheel, turning over and over: me-be-better, me-be-good, me-get-better, me-get-good. It can't be done! yet the desire can't stop 'playing'. So, one eventually becomes disillusioned, frustrated, jaded, despairing, in trying to 'get' the never-reachable, "Matrix"-style 'nirvana'. Yet, this despair only heightens the frantic search for solution. One goes crazy seeking external compensation. Why? Because internally, one is empty. All the goodies in the world can't fill the vacuum of the soul. Why? Because God should be in the space where the vacuum is — but God was rejected, in favor of self-merit. Love was thus rejected. So, life is merely about rightness, me-be-good. Thus, life is loneliness, veiled by ever-beckoning fantasy.


Evidence Test/Trial Proof

Merit remains always dependent on externals.
Faith, by contrast, loses dependence on externals,
since God is the Only External one comes to value.
Even in the limited, visible Old Testament set of covenants.

As we saw above, Isaac came to say 'so what', too, at a very early age (נַעַר): means he was a young adult when he was almost-sacrificed (marriageable age, but still unmarried). Imagine a love for a father so great, he was willing to be sacrificed, if that is what his father wanted (prototype of The Son). Clearly, Isaac had a very strong faith from his childhood onward. 'Dad' even picked his wife 15 years later, sight-unseen, and of course Rebecca was not known, apart from a sign from God! See? What God thinks, what God wants, matters. So, what, anything else? That's Love. Moreover, Isaac didn't even marry until he was 40, yet for the next 20 years, he too remained childless. Of course, part of the reason for her barrenness was that Isaac wasn't fully docked! Like his father, Isaac had trouble with others being jealous of him. So, he caved in to the 'get-along' (e.g., wife-pretend-you're-my-sister). Notice, though, how that even got docked, for when Isaac prayed for his wife to bear, God answered. Yet, note the irony and beauty: when Rebekah finally became pregnant, her pregnancy was so terribly painful — she became bitter? Oh no. "She consulted the Lord" (see Genesis 25). See? She knew Him. First Commandment, even before the Mosaic Law existed: Lord God is first.

This, although the couple had problems galore from the birth of the twins, onward. Abraham had waited a grand total of 160 years! to see his own grandchildren. He died before they married, even. No problem: God will provide. So Abraham died happy, just the same. Score one for the Prosecution.

So, Isaac inherited all of Abraham's wealth, and like his father, preferred the Lord. The closest 'competition', apparently, was his love for the high-strung Esau. Yet, when Isaac discovered that Jacob (which really means "chiseler", in modern American English) got Esau's progeniture blessing, instead — he accepted that fact. You can actually see him docking his rage in the passage. After all, it was the Lord's doing. See? A docked faith matures into into Love's top tier, Honor: Lord God-First. Knowing Him personally. So he bore no grudge against either Rebekah, who instigated the trickery, nor against her favorite, Jacob. This, despite what was clearly a constantly troubled family life; complete with witches for daughters-in-law, married to a very spiteful man (Esau). How Isaac remained so calm after so much and for so long — seeing his family split asunder — remember how Esau wished for his father to die, so that he could kill Jacob, and that's why Jacob had to depart? Yet Isaac lived yet another 20+ years, long enough to see Jacob's return, long enough to be grief stricken at the permanence of the rift between the two sons. So, then: where are all these offspring God promised? The only two sons he had, were bitter enemies? Mightn't Esau kill Jacob, as Cain killed Abel? Do you see Isaac thinking these things? Oh no. The Bible says that Isaac died old and happy. Score two for the Prosecution.

Yeah, even ol' Chiseler came to say 'so what'. Romans 9 makes a big deal out of the fact that Esau and Jacob were twins, but Jacob inherited. Why Jacob, who was a few minutes younger? Because Jacob believed, as per Genesis 15:6 (Bible term for this is worded something like "child of the promise", in English). See, promises have to be believed. Esau didn't believe, as Hebrews notes; as Genesis notes, when Esau, so hungry for some thick soup, gave his birthright to Jacob (way before Jacob did the hairy-hands routine to fool Isaac). See? While Esau baby was out hunting and doing, Jacob was "quiet", learning. (That's why Malachi 1 reads as it does: scathing parallel between Esau's despising of his birthright, his unbelief and the leaders in Israel after 445 BC who despise the Law's sacrifice and righteousness requirements.)

So the Jewish bloodline was started by faith, not by genetics. For only the sons of the promise inherit, as Paul explains in Romans 4, Romans 9-11, Galatians 3. The covenant to Abraham has non-spiritual clauses in it (e.g., in Genesis 12), but of course the eternal covenants (e.g., the land grants) require Eternal Life — so, you have to Believe The Promise, Genesis 15:6, to inherit.

Jacob did believe, and that is why the Jewish bloodline goes through Jacob's blood descendants. In many ways, Jacob's story is the most touching of the three patriarchs, because his enthusiasm for the Lord God is so extreme. He's always naming places after Him! The Lord is constantly on his mind! 'Never wants Him out of his life! Yet this same enthusiasm is also the fuel for the manipulation-tendency: 'can do' has a lot of trouble saying "no"! (Prototype-paradigm of what the ultimate Can-Do Person, the Lord's Humanity, would face.) So it took Jacob a bit longer to mature. His enthusiasm for the Lord God finally conquered the 'can do', and he learned to "wait on the Lord", just as his fathers Isaac and Abraham. Jacob came to say 'so what' about Leah; about working so hard for the master-chiseler, Laban; about Rachel's barrenness, whom he loved so dearly; about being lame (after 'fighting' with the Lord, no less, heh); even about 'losing' (so he thought) Joseph and Benjamin.

Jacob's entire life from birth onward was a constant struggle, with never-ending family strife: yet Adonai came to matter the more. Everything else 'learned' to "dock" in His Harbor. Satan's plan can't beat that kind of happiness. Score Three! for the Prosecution.

The Bible's wording, especially in English, is easily glossed over. To say a person got married, was childless, or had sons, or died — it all seems like a listing, no real points to be made. You have to think as you read, to see the meaning. So, think: didn't each of these three men have truly torturous lives? Constantly on the move, constantly threatened by grasping enemies, set upon within and without their own families? Amidst all this pressure, not to mention the command pressure which always accompanies wealth: how easy would it have been for us to wait 99 years for a beloved son? How easy would it be to give him up? How easy would it be to see the finally-beloved son marry — but remain childless? How easy, too, for Isaac? Could you live with all that pressure? That poor guy had no end of trouble — so why didn't he resent his situation?

Let's think this over a bit more. Logically, now: would God just beat us up? What, does He have an inferiority complex, that He needs something from puny man? As David noted, who is man, that you would even think about him? We are owned by God! We're His Property! In fact, it's that very awareness which so bothers people, they avoid thinking of God at all costs! We're intimidated, for crying out loud, and the Gospel is nothing, if not intimidating. "Believe or Burn", remember. Yeah! He can squish us flat with nary a word, and the world is very 'into' squishing, so God must be that way, too! Believe, or Burn! Evil message! Evil evil evil!

So, is God a sadist? Is He just out to kill you, like the (later) Exodus generation complained to Moses, time and time again? Bringing you into this wilderness of Planet Earth solely to murder you? Let's think logically, now: would You acquire something solely to abuse it? To show how 'macho' you are? 'Especially if you had to spend oodles of effort in caring for the thing? Of course not. Would you knife your couch? Of course, "no" — unless there was some treasure in the couch, right? And even then, you'd try very hard to extract that treasure without hurting the couch, wouldn't you? What, don't parents discipline their own children so that the children will grow, prosper? So, then: parents 'extract' the treasure of learning for their children, don't they, by spanking the 'couch' of their bodies? As the Lord noted in the Gospels (using the Roman a fortiori logic system prevalent at the time): if you, who are mere human fathers, desire to give good gifts to your own children, how much more, does the Father want to gift you!

Dear Ol' Abram, he just wanted one son from his and Sarai's bodies. Just one, was that too much to ask? No — it was too little! "Avram" meant "father of high places" (he was from a pagan priestly family, originally). God changed it to "Avraham" — father of many nations. Whole nations of "sons" were to come from Abraham, not just one son. The Son would be the foremost among them. So, Abraham had to wait awhile, until he had grown up enough in Love, so that this fantastic prosperity wouldn't destroy him. For, having a son was his big overwhelming desire, his big stumbling point. How much more, would it matter to him that he'd have whole nations of sons!


Principle: What do you want? Whatever it is, God wants to give it to you more! Forget what your sins are, forget what your weaknesses are. Couldn't God instantly create you in a second, and make those problems go away? So, they obviously don't matter a whit. It's God's Will To Fully Bless You. Fully. Not partially. Completely, Forever, Fully. He just doesn't work any other way. So: do you want it? Then grow in 1 John 's Script. Grow to Full Love. Then you will be big enough: Ephesians 3:19-21. That's the key demonstration in the Evidence Test.


So, despite all the very considerable satanic pressure against them, these three formed the cadre of blessing-by-association. So, under the terms of the Trial, God the Father could justify the continuation of the "sons": the biological Jewish line, despite any progeny of no faith — so Christ could come in the flesh. No matter 'what'.

Notice, now, the Bigger Test to which each Jew finally had to say, "so, what?": They knew they would be enslaved for 400 years, from Abram onward. Look at Genesis 15:13. Abram was still childless (he didn't even have Ishmael, yet). This is the 'promise' from God? Slavery? So when God would finally give sons, they would be enslaved? So this horrible promise got passed down to all Abraham's sons. They had to live with that knowledge their whole lives, on top of all the other problems they had. And Jacob knew, when he led the family into Egypt, what would eventually happen. So did Joseph. So did the rest of the family. And they stayed? Gotta dock a whole lot under God's Love Harbor, to want such a horrific future, eh?

They were not in slavery at the time Joseph gives them the blessing. It was about 1836 BC, and Amenemhat the third ascended to the throne seven years prior. Joseph had retired as vizier. So they had about 30 years — an entire generation — to leave Egypt before the politics of jealousy, hemmed them in and turned Goshen into granary cities (which is why they had to become slaves, builders). Government expropriation of the land in the name of 'the people', totally spitting on what Joseph had done to save Egypt in a vile parody of his reorganizing the country, farming the Fayum depression. They knew this would happen in advance. And they stayed?

Could you live on, knowing that Sword of Damocles was hanging over your family's head — and then Vote For It To Fall On You? Dunno about you, but the only way I could live with such a horrific promise, was to Know God Quite Well. For what Abraham almost did to Isaac, God obviously intended to do to all of his sons. Especially, the Son-to-Come, Who would be a Lamb, and be Slain for all the sins of mankind. Tell me: would any lesser ultimate future, justify 400 years of slavery?

Pick any holy book you like, anytime. Ask yourself how it compares to the Bible (spoiler: all holy books demonically plagiarize from the Bible). No one who is sane can want what the Bible says, unless and until he realizes this Bible is of the Real God, no counterfeit. Even so, the promise seems to be insane, right? Yet so cogent? That's what each human being faces, the same kind of test. Not, because God is sadistic, but because Love Knows No Bounds. So if you believe in God; if you believe in Christ, well — you too are voting like Israel did. Not works, but Love. And no amount of works can even fantasize this level of achievement. Which level, is due to Knowing God. So now maybe you can see how the Evidence Test of God's, so utterly defeats all counterfeits.

Again, these three plus Joseph each received Time Grants of 490 years; so the world goes on living due to these people being granted time due to their faith in El-Elyon. Joseph's time grant is the last of them, and 490 years after he was enslaved — is the Exodus. At that point, Egypt's prosperity ends. Israel's begins. So it's no light thing, to say "So, what?" And it's no small blessing to mankind, either!

Abram & Co. were 'rich and famous': they were on first-name terms with kings and Pharaohs, due to their commercial wealth and huge defense capabilities. 'As the story between Abraham and Melchizedek reveals; as that between King Abimelech and Isaac reveals. So, some of their activities are recorded in "prisms" (obelisks/pillars people in the ancient world used to record important history). British museum has some of these. So don't fall for the pathetic, uneducated, antisemitic tripe claiming that "Jew" is not the same population as "sons of Abraham" or "Israelites", namely, the garbage pandered today by "Identity" and other we-are-the-real-Israelites jerks. Some believers in my own families buy that junk, and you don't even want to know how God is slowly and very painfully cursing them for it, one body part at a time; they are slowly going insane. Other believers in my family who are disinterested in God notice it too: both the cause (antisemitism) and the effect, for they had alerted me (whereas I had been clueless, not applying what I learned in Bible class to my own relatives' illnesses). 'Breaks my heart. Conversely, considering what we now know of DNA distributions, and the fact that Abram's progeny were such prodigious begetters, it would not surprise me if over 80% of the world's population had at least one drop of his genes in them — or, are related to someone who does! God keeps His Promises with humor!

This Promise is the reason why the Middle East remains a hotbed, and will continue to be one (no peacemaking efforts will ever work), until the Second Advent, when "Footstool" (Bible's name for the Millennium), delivers on the "promise". This promise is really complex, for some of its clauses are conditional, and others, unconditional. The promise that Israel would be forever a chosen Nation of people is unconditional, and it's on this clause that the following analysis is focused, for Satan's out to prove God can't keep His Unconditional Promises.

The most important clause in this Promise is the Unconditional Promise that there will be a Ruler who will live forever, and He will become their Ruler by means of Redeeming Them. (Job 9, Psalm 103, Isaiah 43, Ezekiel 16, Hosea, Jeremiah are the easiest books to read to see this fact quickly.) The Son Himself, actually, will rule Israel, as a Human Being, then; now, He will rule them Personally, as their God (Deuteronomy 6:4, known even today as "the shemah", is a triumphal acknowledgement of these two facts). Bible calls Him by many names, to reference His various roles. As we'll see below, He was forecast and depicted in the Holy Of Holies as the "Ark". (Review Book of Hebrews here for the easiest way to quickly see proof of this interpretation's accuracy.) So, some of the names for Him in the Old (and New Testament, too) are "Rock" (idea of hanging onto Someone strong for safety — Hebrews 6 calls this "Anchor", playing on the fact that after the Ark was melted down, Israel used a big rock to represent it); "Redeemer" (a title known even before Israel existed, namely, Job 9); "Seed"/"Father" (one of Isaiah's favorites). You get the idea: the entire value of being a holy nation was the association with Him. So that He'd be constantly in their hearing, heh: Shema Yisra’el: Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad! שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד (Deuteronomy 6:4).

The reposing of God's Script in a nation was necessary, so to provide a place where positive folks could go, to get The Truth. Just as a person can be a blessing-by-association to his periphery (namely, Abraham), just as a people can be a blessing to those related to them (namely, the Judaic bloodline), so also a nation can be a blessing to other nations. Or, as always, a curse. These are historical trends throughout human history. Just as most people are antithetical to Truth, so also, most nations are antithetical to Truth, since nations are aggregates of people. The existence of competing peoples, faiths, and nations protects freedom of each one to choose Truth on a macro level, and thus become a beacon of freedom, to those seeking Truth. Today, the United States is still hanging on as one of those nations. In the past, nations like England, Germany, etc. have been such beacons — maybe still are. Whenever a nation has enough growing believers in it, it is a blessing, a "client" (of God) nation. When a "client" nation's people spin into apostasy, namely, Germany last century, it becomes a curse. Eventually such a curse results in that nation being occupied by another power. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 explain the basic principles; the Old Testament prophets' books provide a wealth of detail. Hosea, for example, explains that "My people perish for lack of doctrine" ("knowledge" means Knowledge-of-God).

For a long time it was only Moses. God the Son twice offered to destroy the whole nation and begin over again with Moses alone! as the progenitor (Numbers 14:12, Deuteronomy 9:14). The offers illustrate how apostate the people had become despite only a few months of freedom, whose adults were all believers. Satan had had much success with that Exodus generation (who are a pattern of how most believers 'turn out', in every generation).

'But not enough success. As Hebrews 11 notes, Moses was so Occupied "with Him Who is Invisible", he said 'So what?' to being Pharaoh, to being the new Abraham, to being constantly reviled by that-paradigm-of-humanity, the Exodus Generation. Moses declined the Lord's offers, because to accept them meant the Lord would be denigrated in the eyes of the surrounding peoples (and of course the Lord foreknew that, so He didn't tempt Moses, but tested him). That's how important the Lord was to him. Moreover, Moses had to keep saying "So, what?" to the excruciating task of teaching the most stiff-necked group of believers ever to grace the Bible's pages. Their Trial testimony? In their own words? "Our souls are dried up" (Numbers 11:6, Numbers 21:5, idiomatic translation (L996, 92SD, and also Brenton's.)) So, they were crusaders: many times they nearly stoned Moses. They devised jealous plots against him, even using Miriam and Aaron, Moses' own family. Their me-be-good insanity was so terrible, it took 40 years to execute them: "your corpses shall be strewn out all over the desert." (confer Numbers 14.) Paul repeatedly notes this fact in Romans and Corinthians, to stress how we Christians can easily suffer the same punishment: we should be warned.

I suppose when your own enemy compliments you, you are truly complimented. Satan thought so highly of Moses, he wanted to play mad (religious) mortician with his body: see Jude 9. Think over what a tremendous pressure Moses was under: the Congressional witch-hunts of today are mild, by comparison. No matter what Moses did, he was 'wrong' in the eyes of the people. And here he was, by upbringing entitled to have been their Pharaoh! Which he turned down! And here he was, given an offer to wipe out all those hateful people, by the Lord Himself, not just once, but twice! Could you have resisted that temptation? Sure, it's easy to be noble theoretically, but how easy is it to say "no", when that "no" ends all the kvetching (bitchiness)! It's so sickening to be around black holes: martinets who just love to hate, be jealous; who delight in their petty, uppity condemnations and criticisms of others. Imagine living with someone whose thought pattern is always: pick pick pick pick. You know: the self-important clerk in a company or government, with a pea-sized brain and a dust-speck soul. Better a meal of vegetables, than to live with a contentious woman, Solomon wisely observed. Well, Moses husbanded that generation for Better or for Worse. (And, of course, when he dies — but never before, mind you — Oh my! What a good leader he was! say the people. Sound familiar?)

Moses also taught those (mostly non-adults) who were positive, and by the time they became parents and grandparents, the nation had developed a viable remnant. Thus the Lord authorized it to enter the Land, after having destroyed every believer among the older "Exodus" generation, who had remained apostate.

By then, at least two other believers had grown up enough spiritually to say 'So what?' to the prosperities and adversities of life: Caleb, and Joshua. Caleb said "So what?" to the fear of fighting even the giants, even 40 years later! So what did God do? Gave Caleb the giants' land (Hebron), which Caleb, now age 85 (see Joshua 14), delighted in fighting to get! Joshua said "So what?" to that daunting task, as well as the task of being the followup leader, after Moses. Their matter-of-fact tone evidences their strong happiness, their strong faith: So, what? That was their superior testimony. The Lord, He matters. Everything else, so what? For, when you really value and believe something, you regard having it as a privilege. Never, as a sacrifice. Never, as something 'due' you, or 'due' to your merit, or any other such petty kvetching nonsense. And what tone do you use? Honor. Simply said, matter-of-factly. For the Object is so Important, so valued, everything else is just a statement.

Not too long ago, everyone recognized the quiet speaking tone of honor, and it was commonly voiced by Americans. Sure, the tone can be (and often is) mimicked, but people used to be able to tell the difference. Now, you almost have to rent an old movie, to learn the difference. Sadly, in the last two generations we humans have come to love the loud, the garish, the soundbyte. So, when someone quietly speaks, and the tone seems almost colorless, we mistake it for being 'cold' or 'insincere'. But not too long ago, everyone knew that meant the person was so absorbed with Honor Toward the Object, he had barely a voice left. Today, that tone mostly exists in the militaries of the world. The tone might sound corny, or stilted, or flat — matter-of-fact, because there is no competition. Period.

Notice also how Caleb and Joshua, like so many Old Testament heroes, talk about God as though they actually know Him. Because, they do. You don't see them sell Him; nor do they apologize for talking about Him, nor try to justify their faith. It's just there: simple, plain, pure. No using His Name to make themselves 'spiritual', either. Instead, they genuinely look at Him, and mutually talk about the One they know. 'Like He's a Real Person, even. Because, He is.

Hence these heroes, with their so-who-compares-to-God "docked" faith — thus these heroes secured a nation. Just these three. Just as a little leaven leavens a whole loaf, so a little salt preserves it. So, again, despite everyone else's apostasy, enough blessing-by-association could be granted, so the nation Israel could justifiably continue.


The Nation Israel becomes the Blessing-by-Association

God's Spiritual Covenant
thus refined and expanded into
the most-richly-associative,
Nationally Codified
Giftset in History:
the Mosaic Law.

Really, there was never anything like the Mosaic Law in history, unless you can find some ancient precursor to Mad Magazine, spoofing every religious practice which Satan authored since Adam's Fall. For that's what the Law does, and baldly: spoof religion, showing why works don't work! When a people can get the Death Penalty for not resting, you're looking at a God who hates works and spoofs religion (i.e., Isaiah 44)! On the other hand, the laws of cleanliness, jurisprudence, and civil law were just not in practice by nations — until the Law came along. You have to be deaf, dumb, and blind in reading Bible, not to know all this. The Law became the foundation of Western culture because of its competence, not because of its geographical origin or the fact Jews moved to the West. Um, did you ever look at how much the West pogromized the Jews? So the last thing the West would want to do, is adopt the laws of a people it persecuted. And we couldn't read Bible worth a tinker's dam anyway, as proven by our rank inability to see how often the Jews washed themselves (we Westerners took a bath maybe once a year). In short, we Europeans were dog-doo-doo. And stank like it, too!

The Law demanded a smart populous, not a bread-and-circus rabble. It was and remains extremely sophisticated in its thought patterns, its wisdom, even in its secular laws and jurisprudence. This isn't to say there weren't any precedents. Rather, the precedents since Adam had all so mutated into degenerate ideas, the very protection God intended via nations was threatened to the point of extinction. For, the upcoming Messiah was to pay for everyone; but the laws of nations were so detrimental to preserving the then-developing national entities, humankind might not last long enough for Him to arrive. In fact, just as with Abraham who was developed in the very year that time was supposed to run out, so too Moses was developed at the very end of the 490-year time grant given Joseph. That time ends if someone isn't developed within a 490-year period is Trial Rule since Adam's Fall: that's why the Rapture must precede the Tribulation — it's a time problem in Trial terms. But for now, Israel is the one who had to exit on time — or Time would have ended. And she did — almost at the last minute. Jesus the Christ, to Whom the Law pointed, would die exactly on schedule, 1470 years to the day that Israel celebrated its first Passover. God has this 'thing' about Being on Time.

Hence the two main purposes of the Law were evangelical for all mankind, and the meanwhile, to demonstrate how to have a prosperous secular life, and save the world from its disastrous course. That's why the Exodus had to be so dramatic, and the Law so extensive. This bifurcation in the Law was designed to preserve the human race, and Israel was made the National Posterboy of it — due solely, as we saw above, to Moses and later Caleb and Joshua. As you might guess, this Law made Israel a frequent target of invasion by jealous or resentful nations: her law was truly offensive to everyone else, much as the tenets of Christianity are considered offensive, today. So in the listing below, there is quite a bit of overlap between the categories. We'll have to cover these in reverse order.

The Prosperous Secular Life Purpose

A. The Mosaic Law was an entirely new creation, in that it Codified For a nation What "Law" Should Mean. Israel was a nation under law, not some king making laws to suit his whim. By contrast, other nations' laws were all blended between religion and the state.

B. God was the King. There was no human king. Moses was just the spokesman, and wasn't even a priest. God was the King over the 'stranger' who chose to make his home there, as well as over any believer-Jew; as well as over any non-believer Jew. God's Kingship, then, meant that the Law's spiritual provisions were used to evangelize those within the nation, as well as from without. So spiritual giving was optional, but since the Levites also had national functions because God was King, the (usually) 10% income tax ("tithe" in English Bibles) was levied on the entire populous. For Israel was to be a priest nation, different from all others: hence, God (the Son) was King. Later, of course, when apostasy had set in, Israel wanted a human king, so to be like other nations. (after the apostasy period of the "Judges", Saul was second king; David, third.)

C. God made Himself subject to the Law as a Party to the Contract, Permanently. This surely had never happened before. "The gods" never made themselves subject to anything long-term: dealings with them were ad hoc and conditional, Delphic-Oracle vague, impish. Not here, not with This God. For every dire statement there are three unconditional committal statements by God, in the Old Testament. Awesome stuff.

Note how impolitic and insulting this is to other nations. Here God is the King, not a human, yet religion is utterly repudiated by this God. For He Subjects Himself to the Law. That makes the law more important than God, to God. So religion goes right out the window: for in every other nation on earth, before, then, and ever since — religion asserts itself as the higher law over law. No! Says this God. All those Christian theonomists are dead wrong, therefore. Romans 13 echoes this rule of Law First, so any Christian who alleges to disobey in the name of God, all those crusades and politicking you see — are completely anti-God. For God subjects Himself to Law.

Most of what became European history was a gradual freeing of nations from the evil of religion, with England leading the way. Any nation which still shackles itself to religion never prospers. You can set your watch. Russia remained backward due to its shackling itself to the Russian Orthodox Church; Latin America only started to come out of its own doldrums to the extent it also frees itself from the Roman Catholic Church; China was long enslaved to its animistic religion, as indeed was Japan. The Middle Eastern countries which most embrace secular governments most prosper, and they aren't client nations to God. But they are embracing the secular laws God offers as first. So, they prosper.

D. Because God subjects Himself to Law, the Mosaic Law's civil codes could be adopted by any nation, and often were (e.g., by Babylonia and later Persia). This, because the outward purpose for giving Israel the Law, was to benefit the whole of mankind. Believer, or unbeliever. Um, no 'god' gave away anything. So this was entirely new. It was tantamount to an unconditional contract which God would bind Himself to, that if you "x" nation not Israel, also adopted the civil codes, God would bless you also. A later Nebuchadnezzar and several Persian emperors would take God up on His Offer. So did the Western world — eventually. That offer is still valid, no matter what the race or nationality. Think about stoning, for example: since the whole populace was supposed to stone to death a guilty person, how hard it would be to want to testify against some future person, how hard it would be to want to lie against someone, knowing that you yourself would have to help kill them? Shirley Jackson's famous short story, "The Lottery" shows how even an irrational basis for stoning was a problem for people to take: how much more, a rational one? Where you yourself must participate in the execution? See how humane that rule was? I bet a whole lot less accusation was made, for folks (naturally) don't like killing, especially if they have to be the physical agents of it. The civil codes were Decalogue and Judgements, AKA "Codex 1" and "3"; in the LXX of 1 Kings 2:3 these are called "ἐντολὰς" and "κρίματα", respectively; 1 Chronicles 29:19 substitutes "προστάγματά" for the latter.

1 Kings 2:3 καὶ φυλάξεις τὴν φυλακὴν κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου τοῦ πορεύεσθαι ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ φυλάσσειν τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ δικαιώματα καὶ τὰ κρίματα τὰ γεγραμμένα ἐν νόμῳ Μωυσέως ἵνα συνίῃς ἃ ποιήσεις κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἂν ἐντείλωμαί σοι

וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֞ אֶת־מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ לָלֶ֤כֶת בִּדְרָכָיו֙ לִשְׁמֹ֙ר חֻקֹּתָ֤יו מִצְוֹתָיו֙ וּמִשְׁפָּטָ֣יו וְעֵדְוֹתָ֔יו כַּכָּת֖וּב בְּתוֹרַ֣ת מֹשֶׁ֑ה לְמַ֣עַן תַּשְׂכִּ֗יל אֵ֚ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֔ה וְאֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר תִּפְנֶ֖ה שָֽׁם׃

1 Chronicles 29:19 καὶ Σαλωμων τῷ υἱῷ μου δὸς καρδίαν ἀγαθὴν ποιεῖν τὰς ἐντολάς σου καὶ τὰ μαρτύριά σου καὶ τὰ προστάγματά σου καὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ τέλος ἀγαγεῖν τὴν κατασκευὴν τοῦ οἴκου σου

וְלִשְׁלֹמֹ֣ה בְנִ֗י תֵּ֚ן לֵבָ֣ב שָׁלֵ֔ם לִשְׁמוֹר֙ מִצְוֹתֶ֔יךָ עֵדְוֹתֶ֖יךָ וְחֻקֶּ֑יךָ וְלַעֲשׂ֣וֹת הַכֹּ֔ל וְלִבְנ֖וֹת הַבִּירָ֥ה אֲשֶׁר־הֲכִינֽוֹתִי׃ פ

You see the God's dissemination-to-mankind purpose if you have a program like BibleWorks or Logos, and search on those LXX words for the three divisions in the law, "ἐντολὰς" (Decalogue, "commandments", accusative plural, 155 references), "δικαιώματα" / "μαρτυρία" (Ordinances/Testimony), and "κρίματα" (Judgements — or, variantly, "statutes" or other English words). It's interesting how the Decalogue and the Ordinances are stressed, always saying that if anyone follows these, they will be blessed on Earth — descriptions are pretty detailed and graphic: there are about 50 verses in the Old Testament which use those words. Judgements (which cover things like civil law, hygiene, diet) don't get the same amount of stress, but are "incorporated by reference", a legal term which goes all the way back in time. Hebraic and later Greek incorporation-by-reference was done by listing first-and-last in a list to mean the whole, or only the first in the list. 1 John uses this practice, as do the Gospels, and which of course is done in the Old Testament a lot.

The Salvation Purpose

E. Obeying the Law therefore, was first a way to live with God on all the earth with and despite sin, never a way to be saved or 'earn' a thing before Holy, Infinite, Jehovah Elohim! What was the First Commandment? "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength." Well, you can't obey that commandment without first believing in that same Lord. Hence the shemah, "Hear, Oh Israel! The Lord Our God, the Lord is Unique/First/United/One!" Note the "our God" (Elohenu אֱלֹהֵינוּ), and "Unique/First/United/One" (echad, term qualitatively means unique/first almost exclusively, search on the term). So you were saved. Of course, some people came to Israel because they believed in this God. That's why they wanted to be part of the nation. Others came because they wanted to have material prosperity, but after being there for a while, believed. Yeah, that was the idea!

F. "For with the Law, came the knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:20) and "the power of sin is the Law" (1 Corinthians 15:56), as Paul would later explain. Never were there more ways to sin, than when the Law came out. For, were there no sin, there would be no Law needed to mediate it. (ibid, both passages, plus all of Galatians.) So the first purpose of the Law was about sin. Sin provisions were Ordinances, AKA "Codex 2" in the theology of the 1930's, Biblically known as "δικαιώματα" in 1 Kings 2:3, "μαρτύριά" in 1 Chronicles 29:19, and similar terms.

G. Most of what the Law prohibited as sins, were mandated as 'holy' in the other nations on earth i.e., making graven images, orgies, drugs, human sacrifice, taking revenge, castration, rape, across-the-board theft, across-the-board murder, permanent slavery or permanent purchased ha’āretz (הָאָרֶץ) inheritances, cutting out women from inheritance, mistreatment of animals or someone else's property, etc.

So basically the Law demonstrated why all the other nations' laws, were wrong. This fact would get Israel in trouble over the centuries. Pagan polities justified the above activities in the name of 'punishing', or in the name of 'dedication' to the 'gods'. Mosaic Law exposed all that hypocrisy. So if you were a pagan nation and had to deal with Israel, you really were offended. Much more so, if Israel proved to be a more successful nation, than yours. Same taking-offense problem persists, even today. The Arabs are nothing, if not jealous of the Jews.

Much inept 'scholarship' faults the Bible for ordering the killing of whole towns, during the limited 40-year period when Israel entered the Land. Each town was given plenty of advance notice, as you'll see in the surrounding context. So anyone sane, would have left. So anyone insane would have stayed. These inept 'scholars' also don't investigate the persons against whom God gave these orders. God ordered populations whose idea of 'fun' was to murder everyone, rape everyone, have sex to the screams of their own children. Pederasty was rampant, as was homosexuality, drugs, brutality of every kind. These were terrorizing people. They disrupted the trade of the Fertile Crescent. If you really investigated their practices, your objection to God would be, "why didn't He order their extermination sooner?" When you see those Palestinian children learning in grammar school how to make bombs (per the kids' own report to Diane Sawyer, and of course everyone knows the Hamas Bunny from the Memri TV videos) — then you know the entire population, is evil. Criminal. Children taught to be killers. You can't rehabilitate the kids. They will kill to be loyal, as that's the only loyalty they know.

The same is true for many other groups, like most of the American Indian tribes, whether North or South America. Brutal people. But of course, inept 'scholarship' against the Jews, reflects a satanic involvement which must spill over to 'cover up' the very same brutal history of other peoples, lest those who were wiped out by God in the Middle East, be shown as a very common type of brutal pagan mankind.

H. The Levitical priesthood didn't have any material inheritance promise, Leviticus 18:23. They only had assigned cities with pasture land since their office was to sacrifice; but they had no governmental power whatsoever. That stricture wouldn't sit well with other nations' priesthoods, who wielded much secular power. Israel's priesthood thus made the other ones look greedy. For example, when Pharaoh was pleased and promoted Joseph, he gave Joseph the best land in Egypt, as part of Joseph's being made a head priest. The upper class of Egypt would become jealous over that (Exodus 1). Point is, other nations' priesthoods got rich and owned a lot of property, often wielding lots of political power as a result. All that was forbidden the Levites. They belonged to God, so had no actual inherited lands, etc. It's true that what became the Sanhedrin ended up having a kind of governing authority, but it was juridical, and subordinate to God Himself under a leader who was not a priest (initially Moses). Of course, over time this God-ordained system would be corrupted, but it wasn't the design God made.

I. Israel as a nation was instructed that it bought time for the world. Nothing like that anywhere in history, because it had not happened on a national scale until the Exodus. Ten Ways this Timeline differs walks you through the math. There's an interplay between the sabbatical years and the non-sabbatical years which results in a literal 'purchase' of 50 years as an appendage for world voting to the 1000-year time grant. So if Israel observes its sabbatical years, the world gets a 50-year voting period. Of course, 70 years between the 490-year time grants were for Israel to vote (see Daniel 9:2 where that point is stressed, and Daniel uses it to vote AKA pray). Those sabbatical years literally purchased voting periods which the Jubilee years represented. Of course, the Temple being operative was the criterion for the world to go on living, post-David. Hence the need to vote for its restoration, during the historical 70-year voting period which ensued after the First Temple was destroyed. GeneYrs.xls' "First Temple" option in "Custom Views" displays the historical voting periods surrounding the demise of the First Temple, and bridging to the 50-year voting period which was soon to follow. It's incredible, how God keys Time to the 70-year and 50-year voting periods, since Adam.

J. Animal sacrifice depicted the Redeemer-to-come. This, of course, the world had long known — but forgotten. Ever since Genesis 3, animals were slain in the same way as they would later be under the Mosaic Law: humanely, cutting the carotid (this cuts pain — by the way, Cain killed Abel that way, learning how to kill by watching Abel do it). This reminded mankind he'd forgotten about the origin of animal sacrifice. The blood of the animal would pour out each time it breathed: depicting by that exact function the 'breathing out', pouring out that the Redeemer-to-Come would do with His Soul — that's why the later Mosaic statement, "the soul of the animal is in its blood" was made. To reset the analogy, so people could learn. So too, with many other offerings (drink pouring out, depicting the animal sacrifice, and with the same meaning). So now mankind was reminded that the entire thing depicted how God made a covenant with Noah and Abram by means of a specific format of sacrifice with which they were already familiar. So it's as if God is yelling, "See? All this ritual is for teaching. Not, absolutely not — sacrificing or works. And what does the ritual teach from Time Immemorial? A Promise Of Redeemer-To-Come!"

Over time, God's Promise — which represented what God Would Do For Man — was negated by reversal, to what man would do for God. Thus man reasserted himself as god, as god-pleaser, as god-maker. History is full of such reversals, in every people of every region on the planet. Mosaic Law, therefore, restored the public meaning of the sacrifices, and at the national level. That the Jews themselves would come to reverse the meaning just shows you how the First Meaning was God Sacrifices For You — so you know the pagans had all gotten the message, ever since Abel.

K. However, the animal sacrifice system had never been promulgated for an entire nation, until Israel. As a result, the sacrifices were different. Moreover, the Law's dining Passover and other Communion fellowships were all new. Generally, you ate part of the animal to demonstrate faith in the promise. Again, prior to this there had only been family priesthoods. For the Levitical priesthood was to transition Israel, train her for a future (Millennial) role of being a Priest Nation (which back in those days, she hadn't yet spurned). As Abram had done, so Israel would do, as a nation: be a messenger of the True and Only God, for unbeliever and believer, alike. If one became a believer, he became a "Jew". If one remained an unbeliever, he was a "stranger" (see Romans 9:1-13). Israel began with only believers. It would, of course, continue with unbelievers and believers alike, racial Jews and racial non-Jews. All these classifications were explained in the Law, for the promise to Israel had many layers. The Genesis 12 protection, as well as Levitical priesthood 'layers' did not require one be a believer, but rather, be racially Jewish. It's quite wrong to say you're not Jewish if not of the Jewish faith. Bible makes it clear that Abraham's bloodline is protected secularly, as well. It is true that if you become a believer in Christ, you are no longer a Jew, per Galatians 3. No racial or sexual or any other human distinction divides the Body of Christ.

L. So in the Law — unlike ever before in any religion — human and all other sacrifice was essentially forbidden. All those Mosaic rituals had the opposite meaning of Future Memorial, not appeasement. The Law's rituals all depicted a Sacrificing God, for Whom you did nothing. Nations had never heard of that before. To them, sacrifices and offerings were to appease the god, get favors from him. There was no culture in which only the nation's god did the sacrificing for the people — until the Mosaic Law.

  1. For in the Mosaic Law, animal sacrifice Depicted What Elohim Would Do: take on Humanity and pay for all the Sins of Mankind. So if you didn't Keep the Law, you were rejecting that Promise, and would be punished. The Christian counterpart to this is to not use 1 John 1:9. It's always and only about whether you believe in God or not, just as for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Believe, not works. For again, the sacrifices Taught That Coming Savior, so by observing them you demonstrated faith. This point can't be stressed enough: all other societies' versions of animal sacrifice depicted man's works to appease some god; but alone among all national codices, the Levitical sacrifices were a Promise of What God Would Do For Man: save him, by means of a coming, human, substitutionary "Lamb". Which believers then ate (eating is a metaphor for belief, in the Bible) to depict faith-fellowship with God. Like a rabbi (who is not a believer) explained to me a few years back, the central theme of the Law is that no covenant exists, without the shedding of blood. It was to celebrate that Covenant. Made unilaterally by God. Agreeable or not, by man. See Hebrews 2 and 9, which explain the point the rabbi was making. Why unbelieving Jews today don't 'get it' that the Covenant Was Sealed By Christ stumps me. Isaiah 42:18-20, Isaiah 44:18, etc. was sadly right, as the Lord explained in Matthew 13 and parallel passages.

    Lambs are not work animals. There's not a pantheon on the planet which has for a head god, a lamb. Why? Because a lamb is helpless. It's not even an adult sheep, and sheep are the most helpless and wayward of God's creatures. So for God to depict His Saving Work as a Lamb from Abel forward is downright insulting, to pagan man. Not at all "macho". Yeah, because this is the Real God, Who doesn't need to be macho. And obviously too, if you provide a lamb for sacrifice, you're due no credits, since you're providing a weak animal, not a strong one. This Lamb sacrifice was the most important in Israel, required daily at beginning and ending of day in the Temple, to propitiate the entire nation (i.e., Exodus 29:38ff); it started during the time in the wilderness, and continued until the Temple was defiled, each time. That's how important it was.
  1. Moreover, the sacrifice of the blemishless animal only-God-could-miraculously-make — notice this: it was the animal which got sacrificed, not the person who brought it. Get that loud and clear: you couldn't make a blemishless animal. God would have to foreknow your sins and make sure in advance that the animals needed would be Born and Develop In Time, so you could sacrifice them for sin offerings, thank offerings, etc. Substitutionary Sacrifice. The sinner placed his hand on the animal to identify his sin with the animal, and the sin thus was 'imputed' to the animal. So, by sacrificing the sin-imputed-animal, not the person, the person was made 'clean'. See? No Works. Did the animal 'sacrifice' by plowing 15 hectares? No! Did it sing songs, bleat, make pies to give to churches, and that was its 'works'? No! Did it run around telling everyone how to live moral lives by its own standards, and then go to God to get rewarded? No! So if the animal itself was the sacrifice, and God Himself had to make the animal itself: where can anyone imagine he can do works for the Living God?

    Notice, again, how in the "middle", a negatively-oriented person concludes he works, but a positive orientation looks at how God's Promise works. Same Facts. Same Ritual. Same Animal. Different Orientation.
  1. Christ was depicted by the animal. What works did Christ do? He talked a lot, He healed a few people, He fed a few people, and He Voluntarily Hung On A Cross. All of these, the Holy Spirit enabled, and Christ agreed to them — notice that. Christ never used His Own Divine or human power to advantage Himself or to advantage us. Even via those few miracles (which He deprecated In Favor Of Doctrine: see John 6-7 in the NIV, especially John 6:26), He taught what He Himself First Learned. He used the Power of the Spirit (and sometimes His Own Deity, where the Father wanted it done) for a few validating miracles foretold by the prophets, so Israel could know it wasn't seeing a 'false' Messiah. But, no works. He didn't save us by never sinning Himself, nor by any good deeds; not by giving to charity, not by running around the world setting up peace committees, not by crusading, not by having bazaars or sing-alongs or rousing revivals. Instead, just like a Lamb, He Himself was Himself sacrificed. He hung. For us. Without using one ounce of His Power. What did He use? The Holy Spirit's Power, via the Bible Doctrine the Holy Spirit enabled His Humanity to Fully learn. Because, when positive, One Relies On The One Promising. Resting, even, instead of arresting into 'works'.

Most Critical Trial Key → Like a Lamb, Christ relied entirely on Someone Else: Father, Spirit. The Old Testament sinner relied on Christ to come — that is what the animal sacrifices promised. The sacrifices depicted the promise that no, God would not take or seek revenge for the sin, but would rather impute the sin to a coming Savior, Who Would Voluntarily Take It. So, when Christ came, He too relied: not on His merit, but instead, on the Holy Spirit to sustain Him, even on the Cross. Thus Jesus, Human, did the exact opposite of what Satan did, based on the same facts. Different 'orientation', huh!


So, then: where does any sane person come up with the 613 Talmudic 'laws', eating certain foods, being moral, etc — as counting for anything whatsoever with Holy God? Think about it. Christianity has long since multiplied the grace of the Bible into excessive works-obsessions, too. In fact, all religions do. Check it out. That's Satan's plan and Trial Answer. Satan's, not God's. But in the name of "God", naturally! Do you see how insidious is the replacement of the Most High? 'Replacement of Love Into Hate, 'Of Grace Into Works?

  1. See, that's the point about the Law. The God didn't want works. Instead, He wanted you to what? "Trust in the Lord"; "Love the Lord"; "Wait on the Lord". That was utterly antithetical to the machismo-god cultures which had dominated the world since Adam's Fall. See how Cain started the machismo thingy, in Genesis 4, running out and building a city, so that all Adam's kids split into pro- or anti- Cain camps. Then notice how the Cain camp's "Lamech" boasted about murdering a little boy clinging to his father; moreover, this "Lamech" ("Strong", "Power"), abuses God's Orchestration of Time rules, invoking "seventy times seven" (Genesis 4:24) as a revenge killing of that man and his loyal child. And of course, his two wives were supposed to be proud of him for that? Don't you think they secretly wished he were dead, for after all, that boy could have been a son of theirs? So you just know that all families were brutalized. Yeah, that was the history of Cain's side of the progeny. Totally anti-God, pro man's works.

So of course God now demonstrates His No-Works policy concretely, contrasting with the religious customs of the times, so there could be no mistake that this God was different. Why else do you think Moses gives the speech he does, in Deuteronomy 1-9? At least a dozen times he repeats the fact that Adonai Elohenu is Unique, who ever heard of anyone like Him? For again, as Paul would later note (Romans 3, Romans 7, 1 Corinthians 15), with the knowledge of Hatorah, came the knowledge of sin. Woe to those who call good, "evil": and evil, "good" — but ahhh the revenge and power-lust and always-looking-over-your-shoulder is not necessary! Freedom from all that (swear word-here), at last! The Real God isn't like that, at all! Hallelujah!

  1. For the sake of man's sanity, the Law proved that it was impossible to fully obey: True Righteousness is way above works. For, if anyone failed in even the tiniest part of the Law, he broke the Whole Law: and, once the Law is broken, you can't atone or make it right again — but you can get the cleansing of the animal sacrifice, if you believe in the One Depicted by It, the Redeemer-to-Come. (See Exodus 15:26, Leviticus 18:5, Leviticus 26:14-15, Numbers 15:39, Deuteronomy 4:2, Deuteronomy 4:40, Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 27:26, Romans 2:25, Galatians 3:10-12, Galatians 5:3, James 2:10. — over three dozen verses.) Righteousness is Perfect, not merely 'good'! Thus, the Ordinances all taught man needed a Savior. For no one could ever, of his works, please Holy God; for no one was righteous, no not one (Deuteronomy 33:26, 1 Samuel 2:2, Job 14:4, Psalm 14:1-3, Isaiah 64:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Micah 7:2, Romans 3:10, etc). Look carefully at all the prescriptions in the Mosaic Law, and ask yourself the obvious question: where oh where does it ever say that by doing any or even all of the works that one can save himself? Can atone for past sins? Nowhere! Obedience to the Law was for earthly benefit (confer Leviticus 26:14 for a sample of the legal wording in Scripture). Check it out for yourself! See Deuteronomy 4:8, 2 Kings 21:8, 2 Chronicles 33:8, Matthew 22:40, Romans 10:4, all of Hebrews 7, Galatians 5:3, Galatians 14, James 2:10 on the impossibility of obeying the Law, to show it was about Grace, not works.
  1. So, this desert God repudiated human works by means of works (i.e., the Sabbath-rest observance), in favor of study by all the people, not merely the priests. This "God" made a "Law" which was pure Grace! The First Commandment: "You shall love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart And Soul And Mind." No one could execute that — it was Deliberately Impossible To Do. Who can Love Infinite God, people complained in Deuteronomy 30. What, shall we send someone up to Heaven to get the secret? Or, send someone down to Sheol to get it? They were being flip, sarcastically complaining about how it was impossible to do this "Law"!
  1. So, the entire point of this "Law" was to prove how only the "God" could do the work! Deuteronomy 7:7, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 9:4-5, Romans 11:17-20. So, rest! So, this desert God didn't want its believers to even work for their own initial wealth (note how the Egyptians paid them back wages as a sendoff), nor their food; they were punished, and even executed, for not resting enough; their 'sacrifices' required the desert God to make such animals (blemishless lambs!); their 'wars' were generally fought by the God, Who only allowed them some minor fighting, to keep fit, usually once the enemy was on-the-run. This desert God wanted the enemy to be certain Who was fighting them, and gave long Grace notice! before the attack — in the only language such brutal folks could understand: war. Who had ever heard of such a God, Moses reminded the people in Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 4:7-8, Deuteronomy 32-35).
  1. The promise by this God to His people was intimacy, to be gained by knowledge-love, totally apart from phallicism. In other cultures, unity love with the god required fornication with temple priests/priestesses, human sacrifice, permanent virginity, castration, etc. Yet this desert God wanted intercourse of the mind, not the body. Who had ever heard of that? people asked each other. What, no cost? No drugs? No alcohol? No feeling? Research carefully any ancient polity's religious rites, and you'll find that in any of them, some kind of drug-induced 'high' was deemed holy and necessary for contact. Only thinking, which the rituals mnemonically aided? Certainly the covenant of this God is strange, indeed. And the Word of this people spread quickly; some who heard of the Habiru God left their homes, to be with Him. Most, entertained by the stories, just scoffed.

God Mocks Other Nations' Religions

M. Those with a shallow (or mis)understanding of Scripture try to liken the Law's secular provisions to Hammurabi and other polities, when in fact almost every provision of the Law poked fun at the idolatrous and secular structures in other societies (both past and present). God humorously explained all this using rituals and rules which deliberately resembled those of surrounding polities so they could see how stupid they were, and change over to the Real God. Some did notice. The burlesquing quality of the Law is metaphorically rich. Pick any particular ritual, then compare it to pagan cultures, look at the difference in meaning. Don't be fooled by the similarity of motions.

N. God's Satirical Mosaic Law was plainly teasing in every respect. Take the Nazarite vow, for example. This was the most respected, sacred religious observance in all Judaism. Paul didn't even get past it after he believed in Christ (Acts 18, Acts 21), and God had to spank him for still observing it, post-Cross! So look:

O. For another example, the portions of the animal offered for sacrifice under the Law are downright funny, compared to the 'competitors'. What other god wanted the offal, entrails as the sacrifice? This desert God wanted the whole offering burned up — an offering which only He could make (blemishless animal). Or, for the more commonly-made offerings, He wanted only the "fat", the entrails, burnt — which weren't healthy for man, to begin with! Moreover, often men merely waved the nutritious portions, and then ate them. The sinner literally 'got fed' — usually the choicest meat (meat was hard-to-come-by, in the old world) — and he got it, as a result of sin! As did the priests! What sacrifice, what loss, was that? None at all. Do you see the spoofing, yet? This is like saying, Yeah, I know you're going to sin in advance, so I'll provide the sacrifice for you, and then feed you for having sinned. So what becomes the punishable offense for you, is if you don't eat what most of the world drools to get its hands on. No religion ever on this planet ever had provisions like the Mosaic Law, sorry.

God Advertises Israel

P. Consequently, God 'advertised' Israel to the world by means of its supernatural events.

Q. God blessed Israel Visibly, to portray the Richness Of Salvation. The Mosaic Law's system of memorial sacrifices meant that as you neared Jerusalem, you'd be overwhelmed with the smell of cooking meat and animals. Since meat was hard to come by both then and now in agrarian societies, the smell of cooking meat had a long cultural connotation of banqueting fellowship, prosperity. You couldn't just kill a calf or even a lamb for dinner — unless many people were reclining to eat. Even a small goat could feed maybe 10-15 people or more. No refrigeration, so the animal killed had to be eaten within a day or two. As a result, you'd instead drink milk and eat cheese, grain, eggs, birds, figs, dates, lentils, certain insects (usually fried, good source of protein), maybe very small animals, or fish — for a single meal with just a small family. Hence as folks neared Israel, all this prosperity of food animals usually reserved for nobility — was quite striking. That the God would have so many animals sacrificed as a memorial of the Future Sin-bearer, and you ate some for sinning, well — that was pretty attractive, especially since the God promised to provide you with the means to do these sacrifices which you ate, if you merely believed in Him. Add to that, the visible prosperity of all her trading income due to people having to pass through her for commerce, and you've got one rich nation to eye — and maybe, resent.

Atop all this was Israel's longevity. No other nation in history remained intact for as long as she did, 1440 BC - 70 AD. This persistent existence would advertise her as being born from the real God, never mind how horribly apostate she became. For Judah remained a ruling line of sons over the same nation lasting about 400 years, though for most of that time they were vassals due to their own apostasy, raiding the Temple time and again to pay off invading kings. David became King over all Israel late in 1004 BC, so call that 1003 BC. Nebuchadnezzar took away the last of them in 597 (Jeconiah AKA Coniah) and then 586 BC (Matthaniah AKA Zedekiah). Samaria began with usurpation at God's order even, Rehoboam son of Solomon being such a jerk. But jerk or not, the line of David uniquely continued longer than any other family line you can find in history. And the royal line still continued even after the Babylonian captivity, but routed through Nathan, son of David and Bathsheba (born later than Solomon was). You can't locate that kind of continuity elsewhere. All the Davidic dynasty comes solely from two sons directly from David and the same woman, all the way down to Christ, 1000 years later: Solomon, and Nathan; line switched to Nathan's, after Jeconiah, who adopted Shealtiel, since Jeconiah was in Babylonian prison from age 18, until his 50's; that's why the promise is made of Christ to Zerubabbel ("zeru" means "seed", very clever) in Haggai 2. Nothing like that royal longevity, in history. By contrast, the average length of a kingdom worldwide is something like one to four generations. Then it is invaded or overthrown. Successors usually claim relationship to some past ruler as justification for usurpation, and in part adopt the previous customs, to provide an illusion of continuity. Rome, for example, claimed to be very ancient, but in fact only the geography was the same. It went through many different rulerships, often by usurpation, one dynasty of no long length being taken over by another, sometimes with an intermarriage. Egypt, of course, was long famous for that pretense. Every 'dynasty' started with some general either assassinating a prior Pharaoh or being appointed by that Pharaoh, as he had no children. Arab history is much the same. So too, Russian history, Chinese history. Legitimacy of the usurper is established by claiming ties to the past, but it's only a claim. Even our modern system of nations didn't begin in earnest until Gutenberg made the first movable-type Bible, which happened when the 100 Years' War is deemed ended, and Constantinople was overrun by the Ottoman Turks. Even so, we Europeans next spend about 500 more years, fighting over boundaries. So what we call stable nations today, is historically new. Most nations today weren't even born until after WWI or WWII ended. While it is true that the royal families of Europe can trace their lines backward for several hundred years or more, their actual rulerships were of different polities, switched in patriarchal line frequently, none more than five or six generations. For continual warfare kept on redrawing the map of Europe and which of the royal lines headed what polity. So you can't say that any one royal family anywhere on earth had a continuity of nationhood rule like Israel's record. Yet it's patent from Bible that Israel's royal family largely weren't worthy of their role, the refrain "for the sake of My Servant David" invoked by God to preserve them. Israel's longevity perhaps explains mystical attachment to claims of descent from that royal line (i.e., Grail myths and alleged descendants in the news). Certainly it can't be explained by anything else, since Books of Kings and Chronicles aren't at all flattering.

All this, as language of accommodation: man's ideas of blessing are being granted so that man can come to see Who is the Real God. Thus, to promote Israel in a negative way, as well — as a target for plunder, so Israel would toughen up. Moses warned them in Deuteronomy 4-9 just before they entered the Land, don't get fat-headed about your so-great prosperity, thinking you are somehow superior to others. (See Deuteronomy 9:4 — parallel passage for Church is in Romans 11:17ff.) Consequently the tenets of the Law as well as the advertisement of all that ola factory prosperity and longevity, made many nations around her jealous and angry. You don't end up having very good foreign relations if your Ambassadors have to admit that Israel is slated to rule the world, and that all other gods are false. Of course, Israel became quite adept at hiding this message — so God spanked her often (i.e., Isaiah 28-37, reliance on Egypt and the wimpy ambassadors with the Rabshakeh).

R. The Mosaic Law in its entirety is the monopoly of Israel; everyone else can only adopt its secular parts — with attendant beneficial consequences. The only place where sacrifice was allowed, was in Jerusalem's Temple (precedence Leviticus 17:8-9, rule Deuteronomy 12:13-14). So to go there and sacrifice, was a kind of subservience to the nation, as well. Advertisement? The God of this nation, is the only one in the universe. This advertisement constituted a kind of ultimatum: choose Israel or get spanked. So on a political and economic level this exclusiveness naturally was offensive, too: surrounding nations polarized. For if you believed in the God of Israel, well — you'd have to go there. You couldn't be a king in another polity and believe in the God of Israel without somehow becoming subservient to Israel. So no one was neutral. Notice the trouble Nebuchadnezzar got into when he finally acknowledged God (i.e., Daniel 4): he lives maybe another seven years, and chaos comes in behind him. Both the Medes and the Persians who supported Israel experienced antisemitic conspiracies, even within their own courts, even at the cost of their own lives. The Haman story is but representative, demonstrated by the ease with which he could even implement it. I've long been perplexed about the centrality of sacrifices being in Jerusalem, once the Temple was built. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Encyclopedia says that Israel had two types of altars, both layman (unhewn or piled earth) and official, terming the latter "horned". I can't find anything in Bible to support the idea of multiple altars once the Temple was built: why didn't Daniel sacrifice to God in exile? Why didn't anyone else in the Captivity? The only legal altar seems to be that in the Temple, and all the text spent on sacrifice is solely in context of Temple sacrifice. Were sacrifices legal in other places, they ought to have their own rules. Which brings up the logistical question: did you have to trek all the way to Jerusalem, every time you sinned? That people would sacrifice in other places anyway, legal or not, is clear enough. But it's not clear that those sacrifices would be acceptable. Fausset's Dictionary says Jerusalem was the only place, citing the Leviticus and Deuteronomy passages in this paragraph. That's consistent with what I'm finding too, thus far. Still, the legal territory would be restricted to inside Israel, so if you didn't live there, you'd have to move or travel, to sacrifice. Politically, that's tantamount to saying you are vassal to Israel. So no external king could be neutral: he'd either have to become an enemy or an ally, no middle ground.

Moreover, people from other nations voted with their feet to go to Israel; so those other nations lost taxpayers. Not exactly something to warm your foreign relations with your neighbors. Probably the chief complaint against the Jews in history is that they are so stuck on themselves, deeming everyone else to be inferior. But if you were the people of the Real God, wouldn't you become cocky, too? Paul warned the Romans about that, in Romans 11. See Exodus 19:3, Leviticus 26:46, Romans 3:19, Romans 9:4; Deuteronomy 4:8, Romans 2:12-14; Acts 15:5,24, Romans 6:14, Galatians 2:19. Christians who try to appropriate the Mosaic Law as spiritually applicable to them are dead wrong, for the spiritual provisions of the Law are temporarily 'on hold', in favor of the superior set of provisions Christ Personally authored down here. You can quickly see the fact of it, though, in Galatians, Ephesians, Hebrews: the whole books are on that topic, yet are baldly visible even in English in their Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5; in verses like Hebrews 7:18, Hebrews 9:14-28, all of Hebrews 10. The Ephesians counterparts of these latter three Hebrews passages are interwoven throughout Ephesians, but most notably in Ephesians 1:15ff, end of Ephesians 1, middle of Ephesians 3, and Ephesians 4. Climactic 'why' of the change is in Ephesians 4-6: chapters aren't well-divided in English, so look at the point being made, and consider the 'true' chapter to begin at that point's beginning (usually a few verses back or forward of the chapter division).

In sum, Israel and her Mosaic Law were designed to advertise the Real God, and how God wanted nations to operate for their own benefit. It was an in-your-face advertisement. Again, not Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends And Influence People. More like the Terminator. God has never been politically-correct. Ergo, this God was King of the nation Israel. Other nations had mere humans for kings. See how intimidating and offensive that is, to those outside Israel? See why Israel eventually caved into wanting a mere human king? We Christians have the same message, essentially. Yeah, and who likes us? No one. As you might imagine, the surrounding polities were greatly affronted. The 'gods' of those nations were said to be demons or non-existent, a lie! What an insult! What an outrage! What, their gods were not gods, but demons (see Isaiah 44-45); their rules were (morally, or immorally) evil? Obviously, these other nations would loudly hear such claims: it was like an underground declaration of war. And, maybe they'd retaliate. The claims hurt other nations' egos, because the claims were obviously true. If the claims were obviously false, they could be laughed off. But Pharaoh's shame began this nation. It was the Greeks, not the Jews, who renamed the Reed Sea the Red Sea. So the Greeks didn't rename it that due to testimony from the Jews, obviously. So they heard what happened there from non-Jews. Most seriously, the claims would potentially hurt the agricultural and taxation profit in those other nations, since peasants/slaves were routinely abused. Think: if you were some peasant in a neighboring kingdom, you'd conclude like Rahab would later do, and prefer Israel. So, you'd leave or practice what you'd learned about the Law in secret. If enough slaves do that, the depopulation is noticed — and resented. For if you even secretly converted, God would find a way to provide you with a private exodus of your own.

America is a similar threat. We're the nation everyone loves to hate, much as France, Germany, and England once were. When a nation is successful, when its superiority is coupled with a claim of superiority one cannot refute well, then the very 'breathing' of such a nation is a threat. That's why 9/11 happened. Moslems are largely strangled by their own countries' cultures, and find Americanizing a relief. But they can't admit that openly. Their cultures are much more unforgiving of political incorrectness than America's. So even if the leaders want to mimic us — and they pretty much have to — they must do it in a way which is 'acceptable' to them politically. This is the phenomenon of the 20th century: Europe didn't really coalesce fully into nations until the 19th century, given all the religious and royal family squabbles plaguing its long creation, especially after the Reformation. WWII finally resolved the boundaries. Then, Europe being exhausted by war, the United States picked up the superior-culture mantle, and frankly the war's not over yet. Nations are threatened by cultural superiority — it's no different than a military invasion, to them. We Americans haven't learned that lesson well. Just watch international channels, see how our clothing, our movies and other cultural stuff is aped, used. The O.J. Simpson watching craze went on all over the world, people mesmerized in pubs or what have you, for hours. We humans speak with two mouths, when our official one can't open. People who can't speak openly ultimately find a way to get out. That's why we'll always have an immigration problem: freedom is attractive, and for all our many faults, the United States yet offers more freedom than any nation on earth (before Donald Trump came into office). That's what made us superior, nominally. Actually, it's the fact that the Mosaic Law was extrapolated to form our Constitution. Perhaps the founders didn't mean to do that, but they did. We're just one of a long roster of nations who did that extrapolation, but we did it more, eschewing tribalism and other cultural conflicts in favor of an overarching rule of law divorced from religion, etc.

If you live in this world, you have a choice to become wise in worldly terms, or wise in godly terms. The link between them, is good governance. So if a polity embraces the Real God and has good secular law, that bridges to worldly wisdom and protects it. So even people who want to become worldly wise, will be attracted to such a polity. So will be free to grow up in godly wisdom or not, due to the protection of that good governance. Which means, freedom. It's no accident that the 20th century has seen a remarkable increase of extrapolation from the Mosaic Law, though again that's not intended. What's intended, is to adopt what makes a nation successful. Well, that's what the Mosaic Law did for Israel and anyone else who adopted provisions on its model. True back then, true now. Notice how that still advertises the Law, even though now it's been upgraded in Christ.

Again, to read the Bible in English — especially in Kings and Chronicles — this hugely dramatic story of Israel appears instead as one long and dry train of facts. But on closer inspection, you realize Israel has been terrorized by its neighbors from inception. Satan had to exploit this "advertising", by fostering antisemitism. Mostly, by its own cousins the Arabs: Amalek, Esau/Edom, Ishmael, Midian — about 13 tribes or more. Imagine living under constant, unrelenting attack. Not to mention all the other polities nearby. For Israel was rich. So, whether jealous over not being the legitimate heir (Arabs), or jealous over someone-else's-trade-wealth (other nations), many peoples sought to destroy the tiny nation of this Weird Desert God. Even, of course, today. But God vindicates His People.

Antisemitism is always satanic: that is why it is so virulent and persistent, throughout history. Satan must stop the Jewish covenants from being fulfilled, so he himself can get out of the Lake of Fire. It's a do-or-die thing with him; his lust for revenge against the Son is an even greater need. So, like Satan, anyone who is antisemitic only succeeds in destroying himself.

Here, during the Old Testament, Satan's objective was to prevent the Humanity of Christ from being born. With the announcement of the "promise", Satan knew that Abraham's line would be the progenitor, so the sons of Abraham got concentrated opposition. Despite this, Isaac believed. Despite this, Jacob believed. So the race could not be wiped out: blessing-by-association according to the Trial rules had been secured. Then, the nation: Moses didn't succumb; Caleb and Joshua didn't succumb; a remnant didn't succumb, and the nation fought for its own existence against every kind of viciousness imaginable. Despite overwhelming odds, the tiny country with the weird God and the weirder promise (just like Joseph's dream) — it kept on going. It only broke up due to internal apostasy (confer Isaiah 28, Hosea 4). The enemies all broke themselves. And the Jewish remnant, remained.

So what good was the Mosaic Law for mankind?

What animals we are. We lie to ourselves, pretend noble sentiment to get something, just like the male peacock struts to get something from a female. We pretend to love the poor, so we can pat ourselves on the back. And hide those horns, 🤣. We pretend death is a tragedy, yet rubberneck at any accident on the freeway. Yet flock to 'action' movies. Yet sit stunned before the television for 7 hours hoping O.J. Simpson will blow his brains out while in that white Bronco: even overseas, people just watched that car mealing down the highway at 15 kilometers an hour — would he do it? Can't even pee! Don't want to miss the 'moment'! Ooh. Yeah, we 'love' alright — like animals do! No, take that back: even animals are more noble!

So to capitalize on ancient animalistic apathy-toward-God, Satan created large-enough power blocs, so that the rulers — and their people — could begin to call themselves Alexanders, Caesars. Even, 'gods'. Apart from the Most High. No wonder they were so enamored of gory death. No wonder they philosophized as they did. They were practicing to become gods, you see. High thoughts, so to count themselves high, fantasize themselves to be "in the Light" ("Light" being a an old keyword for divinity, reworked anew in the philosophy of that time): but really, just animals waiting to see some blood. After all, when one is dead to God, death is the only thrill in life. Imagine the loveless arrogance: it became a virtue to compete with God!?! It became a vice to believe in God, to want God!?! Wanting God, oh my, is weakness?! Upside-down! Reversed! Oh, Who will deliver us from this body of death?

Have you noticed, man progressively has become negative to God as he grows in non-God knowledge. So, God has Progressively Upgraded His Covenants: starting, of course, at the Fall. Each replacement covenant, in fact, only begins because man rejected the one he had. In short, each covenant dies due to apostasy — and is replaced by a better one. So it was, with the advent of the Mosaic Law.

At that point in history, people were more advanced, clean, sophisticated, compared to the later Dark and Middle Ages which Christendom dominated. We went backwards after the Canon was distributed. Because we lost interest in Bible. But back in 1400 BC when Israel entered the Land, the world was much more civilized, comparatively. So it was relevant, to have a Law like this. People could understand it.

Due to Total Depravity, which is an inferiority complex writ large, people were (and are) aggravated by these superiority claims, rather than adopting their Grace Prescription (e.g., believe in Gospel, then depicted in verses like Genesis 15:6 and Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 43:11, Isaiah 43:25, Psalm 103:12). So the rejectors gotta fight back! Just like Satan & Co. It's incredible, how we Westerners so romanticize the past. The "noble savage". Yeah, right. Look at the long-term history of any nation, and you'll discover a 'law' operating on it, just as predictable as gravity: when and to the extent that a nation adopted principles consonant with the secular provisions of the Mosaic Law, that nation prospered materially; conversely, when and to the extent that nation rejects principles consonant with the Law, that nation declines. Of course, this same analysis can be applied to any family; to any individual. With the same empirically-observable results. That's what made it so 'inconvenient', that nations who adopted the Mosaic prescriptions, prospered. No matter which nations they were. So you couldn't make Israel the scapegoat — even she didn't do well when she rejected her own law. Yikes, that means maybe this Law was from a Really-Superior God! Yeah, that's the point!

So the only protection the world had against this me-be-god, love-of-death 'virtue', was the Mosaic Law. Using others to get something for self, revenge, death, power-lust, hatred — these were considered virtues, for crying out loud. The Law exposed these as destructive, as sins — "for the power of sin is the Law", as Paul would later note. So 'obedience' to these self-destructive things could be justifiably reversed. It's literally a difference of being human versus becoming an animal. Animals must use, take revenge, kill, seek power, hate — in order to survive. But God gave "neshamah" (נְשָׁמָה) to man. Man is not an animal. So for man to become animalistic is the death of his humanness. So having the Law is this fantastic privilege, making the difference between life and death, as Moses told the people in Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 30 (and passim). "Choose life, so that you may prosper."

So Israel became a safe haven for those who wanted God's truth, amidst a rapidly-apostasizing, me-be-god world.


David, the source of Messiah, David's Greater Son, Psalm 110!

What's David's Evidence Test, such that God would grant him so much? What works did he do? Zip. Huh? Yep, zip. Ever since Adam's fall, the world only continues living, due to time grants to believers. So the latest of the time grants operating, governs when the world ends, irrespective of anything else — unless another believer can be awarded a new time grant by the latest grant's ending. Think of it like the www.net10.com prepaid cellphone policy: you have to buy new minutes before your latest expiry date, or you lose the cellphone number. Of course, the world continuing is rather more important than your cellphone, but it's the same basic accounting method which God uses. It's a relay race: baton must pass from the current carrier to someone new, before the current runner is supposed to stop.

Well, David was given six grants of time by God, more than any other believer, which I can prove impacted history. Here's the gist. 490-year grants were three:

  • King over all Israel, late 1004 BC (treat as 1003 BC in your calculations): Second Temple reconstruction deadline (516 BC) is tied to the 490th anniversary (513 BC) as the outer cut-off date, whew.
  • Next, the year he retired from kingship, 970 BC: Esther's going into Xerxes' harem is tied to the 490th anniversary, which is also the year Themistocles defeated Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC). Had that not happened, Xerxes might not have come home, Israel would have been toast, and we'd all not be here. She marries Xerxes two years later, whew.
  • Then, the year of David's death, 963 BC, seven years later than scholars presume (they misread 1 Kings 6:1). Purim is tied to the 490th anniversary, the deadline for its resolution. Thus Jerusalem could be rebuilt by the 446 BC deadline. Again, Israel woulda been toast, there'd have been no rebuilding of Jerusalem because there'd have been no Nehemiah, if Purim conspiracy had succeeded. It was foiled, the year of or before, the 490th anniversary occurs (473 BC).

Next are three 1000-year grants, all tied to the same Davidic dates. These are even more dramatic.

  • The Lord's Birthdate is tied to the year David became King over all Israel, occurring exactly 1000 years later, late 4 BC (on Chanukah).
  • 1000 years after David retired from Kingship (which scholars mistake for his year of death based on Josephus), the Lord died due to Israel's rejection, Passover 30 AD; that's the 1470th anniversary of the original Passover to the very day. (1470 ÷ 3 = 490.)
  • Messiah would have had the same 40 years' ruling period as David, had Israel not rejected Him (late 4 BC = 3 BC through 37 AD). God keeps real close tabs on David, don't you think?
  • So notice: This 1000th anniversary is also why the seven years is reserved for the Tribulation in Daniel 9:27. The 490 year grant to Second Temple runs past the deadline — David's 1000th anniversary of death intervenes.
  • So the extra seven is real time reserved, but yet conditional upon, and has to play after,
  • Messiah redeems Time: the Millennium, a typical 1000 year period followed by the typical 50-year civilization voting period which intercalates time since Adam. (490 + 70 + 490 = 1000 + 50 as the God's Basic Time Accounting Structure since Adam.)
  • The 37-30 AD difference is 'paid' Israel between 64-70 AD. So that finishes up the leftover credit balance on Messiah's time owing to Israel's rejection.
  • Thus all Israel's time is paid for by the time Messiah dies.
  • So 1007 years are truly and literally owed like money; but cannot be paid until after Church completes, since 7 years before Messiah returns must be the Tribulation, and His Return begins the Millennium.
  • So none of that time is available for Church; the seven years was reserved back in 538 BC, time of Daniel 9; the 1000 years was paid for 50 days before Church even existed.

So what did David do, that the entire world depended on him, ever since? For even Messiah's Birth and Death are keyed to David's dates. So what the heck did David do? Believe, that's what he did. Belief depends on the merit in the object, which is why you believe you should buy one computer versus another — or, why you believe Christ paid for your sins. It's a pile of doo-doo to claim that your belief does aught for God. You believe due to what the Object does for you! That's true whether you believe Red Gold tomatoes are better than Hunt's — or whether you believe Christ paid for your sins on the Cross. No one believes anything but what he thinks the object is true or more beneficial, versus some 'competitor'. So it's the merit of the object, which is the basis for belief. So scrap all that Christian nonsense about belief having merit, about whether your faith is greater than mine or mine than yours, as if the differential could make one of us better than the other. Rubbish. Faith is knowledge-dependent. Adam lost his knowledge at the Fall, not his ability to believe in God. So get knowledge of God, and your faith will increase. Which you'll do, if you want to know God. Because, you believe that it's worth your time to know God, compared to what else you could do with that same time. Again, Object-dependent, knowledge-dependent. And all knowledge of God comes from Him, so it doesn't matter what your IQ or academic qualifications, capisce?

David believed and kept on believing, even as Noah did, Abraham did, Isaac did, Jacob did. But in David's case, it was harder to keep on believing, for unlike the others, David literally took over all covenants when Israel rejected God as King, in favor of a human king. David is God's replacement, so in 2 Samuel 7 when God gives David both Temple and Messiah which the Temple represented the meanwhile, all Israel depended on that grant being fulfilled. And the world, depended on that Temple remaining standing. No one after David, however great, was given a historical grant of time. Not even Elijah, not even Daniel. Only the Lord would be the next grantee. This seems to have been a Trial rule. The grants of time shifted from an individual to Israel at the Exodus. Moses' personal time grants were the basis, so his continued; when Israel rejected God as King and God replaces the king with David, it's a kind of flow through, since king over Israel. But then the grants are housed in David's house, as if he alone is the nation, from that point forward. It's an awesome thing you really can track from Bible, and were it not for an error in accounting I'd made with respect to Daniel 9, I'd not have found all this while trying to audit and correct the error, which took two years. God knew what He would do with that error, heh. I know exactly how God used the error and two other people — my pastor's revisiting the Lord's birthdate, and a reader query on Jochebed — to alert me to this Accounting System.

So what David did, was believe the Lord when He said that David would become king eventually — but David didn't do anything to bring that about. He waited, just as Abram did. When God finally made him king 10-16 years later (probably closer to 16), David brought the Ark to Jerusalem, and again God was front and center, in Israel. During those 10-16 years, he fought Israel's enemies, despite being chased all over the country by Saul, who also knew of David's anointing, and was jealous of him. But David never lifted a finger against Saul. In short, as you read Samuel you see how David kept on thinking of the Lord first, kept on believing, waiting. Sure, he made some fantastic mistakes and sins, especially after he became king (i.e., with Bathsheba, adultery and then murdering her husband to cover it up, the census, being stuck on Absalom, other stuff). But he didn't stop believing and teaching others about the Lord.

God gave David the architectural plans for the Temple (1 Chronicles 28:11 + 1 Chronicles 28:19), and while he lived a good bit of Temple construction peripheral to and preparatory of the actual building, took place. Actual building was not allowed to begin until David died. Yet God gave David the Levitical priesthood design, liturgy, and the names of the priestly courses are prophetic about when Messiah would come, as well as prophetic of certain other key dates in Israel's history. David taught his son Solomon what came down to us as Proverbs. You can see David's thinking in the Psalms. Point is, David (="Beloved") believed the Lord. He believed when confronting Goliath, and he believed when turning over the kingdom to Solomon (which seems the hardest thing for him to do, see 1 Chronicles 22 compared to 1 Chronicles 29). During the seven years after he retired, he designed the Levitical priesthood and made Temple preparations. Four years after he died, Temple construction began (960 BC, 1 Kings 6:1). God thus began a new time grant when the Temple was finally dedicated in 950 BC, which was 490 years after the Exodus, the year Moses' 490-year grant, ran out. Whew: just in time! Had the Temple not been built by then, David's time grants wouldn't have turned on, because the Temple was post-mortem, so a voting issue for Israel to accept or reject: its building begins during a 50-year civilization voting window. Temple actually completes construction by the end of that period, but is not dedicated. So the deadline for dedication (when God fills the Temple) went by Moses' 490, not by David's. After the Temple is up and running, David's time grants govern. That's what you learn when you crunch the numbers. Try it and see for yourself.

Could you live with so much riding on your shoulders? With so much knowledge of the Temple, alone? No wonder David had to live another seven years after Solomon ascended the throne. Those seven years were horrendous, as 1 Kings 1-5 reveal (they chronicle the seven years until David's death, which is why 1 Kings 6:1 suddenly says the fourth year of Solomon, context being fourth year after David died). But God enables!

There are many things to say about David. God really put him through the ringer. Gives him an anointing, then seemingly makes him an exile. Makes him wait. Civil war and war with the Philistines characterize his life, which is always in danger. Yet for all that, looks like for him the Evidence Test was primarily to lay down his crown. But David's whole life is one big "So, what?" whether it was to fighting Goliath, or — eventually — turning over the kingdom to Solomon.

Don't mistake body achievements for the real Test. The body stuff just tells you how faith is tested. Competence in doing body things is not itself a measure of anything. For the test is, do you keep on believing, even though it looks like God abandons you or otherwise is not keeping His promise? Can you live with the burden of knowing what God gives you to know, the meanwhile? That's the hardest part! So, do you keep waiting on the Lord, or do you try to "do it yourself" to relieve the pressure? You flunk if you do the latter. Every great believer flunks. But then he gets back up again. You can, too. True flunking occurs if you do not get back up again, into God's System.


That's how the Mishnaic interpretation came about, frankly. That's how Christianity's works-obsessions also came about, frankly. For, we are children, when it comes to God; so, we think childishly. So we get all worked up over what we do, because, being children, do's pass for know's. We can't discern, yet. We really do, in the manner of children, love God. But, being children, we love God childishly, and absent growing up in the Knowledge of Him, we focus on do's, and don't know or forget the meanings we were taught. How easy it is to empathize! We see a rule, a standard, an idea we adore — and not meaning to, of course we go overboard. Kinda like overeating. Satan tried to push the Lord over the edge in the Second Temptation, so we should know from that fact that going over the edge is one of the biggest ways we fail. Out of a good motive. Due to Love. So, it should be no surprise that Satan will take a good thing like the Law yet foster apostasy and pain out of it, by playing on the Love.

So, that's how the 613 laws got multiplied out of what God gave Moses. Hence, the Mishnah: if God said "rest" on the sabbath, and one is enthusiastic about 'obeying' that delightful law, then hey: let's get real precise as to when the sabbath begins, and let's make a big stink about beginning our obedience at that beginning. Okay, is it when one can't distinguish between blue and white thread? Do we inspect the threads in natural light, or by candlelight? What if it's a stormy day? What if we can't distinguish color, because we are color blind? What if we don't have the right shade of blue? What shade of blue would be more holy — medium blue, which is harder to tell from white, or dark blue — hmmm, it should be medium blue. See? The point of the sabbath gets lost. The punctiliar observance becomes an obsession, and the obsession literally ruins the very purpose. Rest becomes arrest. Rest becomes work.

Happiness Key → So long as someone regards his effort as making self deserving, he will never be happy. The benefit of doing a thing God commands is intrinsic to itself; it benefits you. It's a joy to eat, eating is required to live. It's a joy to be competent, being competent is required to live. It's a joy to be moral, because that makes life meaningful. It's a joy to learn Christ, for that makes even the dullest, most painful, or most prosperous of circumstances, meaningful. It's about the Meaning: intrinsic benefit. Pure Grace. Pure Love. So, happy. So to take that benefit and make it into something it is not, is to deny the benefit, and demand that the benefit be a rewardable thing you deserve. Therefore, nothing else you get for that benefit will satisfy. Rest becomes arrest, and life becomes a dry, dull, harrowing hamster's wheel. On which you endlessly go round and round and round. Going nowhere, ending up full of bitterness and disillusion. Just like Satan & Co.

So, in Israel's case, a large part of its failure is due to good deeds! We just saw how the punctiliar observance-obsessions ruined their enjoyment of the Law. Now let's look at another major vulnerability: God had ordered Israel to execute the child-burning Canaanites. Instead, Israel did the 'good deed' of sparing some of those they were sent to execute. As a result, we see Israel gradually succumb to the same evils as those they were supposed to replace. So, we see that nation divide, and then crumble, time and time again, due to apostasy ("My people perish for lack of knowledge (of God)", moaned Hosea). They thus became easy prey for other nations, as Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28 had constantly warned.

In these and other like distortions, Israel floundered and eventually came to fail. So bad was their periodic apostasy, they lost the Ark, forever. They thus had to use a Stone in lieu of an Ark, in the Holy of Holies, which was built on the former threshing floor of what had once been called Mt. Moriah, where Isaac was sacrificed. (Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the Ark, along with all Temple articles, and melted down the gold: 2 Chronicles 36:18-19.) Jeremiah's promise that they'd not even miss the Ark (Jeremiah 3:16, Jeremiah 31:31-34) thus came true in the wrong way: for their hearts had hardened into stone. The "Rock of Offense" was too much for them, and they couldn't "eat" His Words any longer. Satan got to them, with his promises of earned 'bread'. So, Israel languished alone, estranged from its Beloved. By Malachi's time, the people had become so apostate, "God" was just an idea to them. The remnant almost died out, akin to those horrible days just before the Flood.

So the Mosaic Law was finally rejected. How would man be preserved? How would the promises to Abraham, Moses, David, Israel be nonetheless fulfilled? It came time, therefore, to upgrade the covenant. Fully.


The Royal Jewish Savior is born! To Bless the world by Intimate, Baptized Association with man's sins!

The Seventh Thing God Did
is the Greatest,
Jesus the Christ:
Who is Born to
Bless-By-Association
The Entire World,
as long foretold by the prophets.

His very Name tells you of His Hypostatic Union (God-man nature), and His purpose, for His Name means "God is with us", "God is our Salvation", and similar phrases.

That's a chapter on how They work in concert to deliver Israel: notice the tender love and wit conveyed by using "He".

Folks wonder, why did He Arrive then? To save the world: for its Time was Ending, Galatians 4:4. The world had only 40 years left to live, as David's 1000-year grant based on his death, ended in 37 AD. God crafted a 490 + 140 year grant of time to the Second Temple in Daniel 9:24-26, out of time left over from the First Temple's 490-year grant (which got cut short in 586 BC), capped by that outer limit of time granted David. So the world was living on 'David time', so to speak. Hence the Lord's Humanity had to arrive by late 4 BC — on what by then was Chanukah, promised Zerubbabel in Haggai 2 when he dedicated the foundation of the Second Temple (Nazareth = "Dedicated" = Chanukah, heh) — so He would live the same 40 years on earth as David ruled. Else, the world would have ended. For now we're tracking Blessing by Association and the Trial Arguments through His First Advent. And here, He's a Blessing of Time and a Trial of Salvation: He Arrives and On Time, as Promised for 1000 years you were to count down, ever since David's death. He Arrives, To Save Time and The Human Race.

The world's happiness was ending, and needed Rescue. We just saw man's blasé, jaded mental attitude and Israel's tired one: man had come to think of himself capable of actually being a god. Self-becomes-god is a virtue? Status, a virtue? What kind of sad fantasy world must the mind inhabit, to derive that conclusion? Ahhh, but everyone believed it was indeed a virtue, to prefer self as god! Power was everything! And love? Oh, it was a means to justify power-lust. Nothing more. Consider poison for Octavian's figs, Livia, when you want more power — let the bed you shared with him grow cold. Then deify him, so you can deify yourself, as you had shared his bed. Through your son Tiberius Caesar. After all, one must seem humble — and let others deify you. Ahhhhh. Never mind, those offering sacrifices to your deified name think of themselves in the act, but never you: just as all 'the faithful' deem themselves more the god. Gaudeamus igitur! Indulge your insane divine fantasy: you, not the Most High Born This Day.

The Roman pantheon, like most others back then, was oh-so-cynical. Multiple limited gods give man a shot at becoming one himself. Even Caesar could become a god simply because he was Caesar, splendidly horsed. Gnostic thought, a reincarnation of Eastern religion, taught that man is part divine, but tragically lost his former glory for his current, undignified, estate. Still, in one lifetime or more, he can grow back to full divinity nirvana Light via certain practices and mysticism. Strong is of course the more divine. Love is of course superfluous. Love is to manipulate. Handy idea, that. Cut "God" and "Love" down to biting size, then make-man-god. Good idea. Gets one working. Gets one greedy. Gets one sacrificing for power, rather than love. Gets one ready to die. For Time was running out. Mankind was so corrupt at this point, to allow the world to go on, something drastic must occur. Like, a Savior's Birth. For the world was so dead-to-God, it needed the Redeemer to rescue it.

As a consequence, we know that Humanity being united in some way with Divinity, was a popular idea. Hence His Arrival would be seen as just one more view, ho hum. Thus, Satan has not been prejudiced — and the playing field remains level. Mankind was at its then-highest level of emetic apostasy. We Christians tend to misdiagnose apostasy in terms of the 'gross' sins like fornication, drugs, and 'crime'. We miss the far larger apostasy of indifference, self-righteousness, and "be a good person" morality. Morality's dark side, as it were, is the sense that self is good-enough for God. Internal competencies bought by communication (e.g., koine Greek, the invention of Alexander the Great) made such self-is-good ideas spread widely, giving people a commonality hitherto unexperienced. All gods were essentially the same; so, Rome was an avid sponsor of any local religion. People came to see that, much like today, it didn't matter who you worshipped; moreover, that 'worship' was mere observance of form, so people would admire your piety. True belief in deities was pooh-poohed by the upper classes as superstition. It was not 'p.c.' to really believe — just as it isn't, today. Side note: Julian Jaynes of Harvard, a confirmed atheist-evolutionist, unwittingly makes the best case for what I'm saying here about the people then, in his Bicameral Mind book. He thinks he's proving evolution. What he's really proving, is how man became blackened in his soul, dead to God — exactly as the Bible describes, in Romans 1. Of course, Roman historians like Mommsen, Gibbon, Tacitus, Suetonius, etc. also help one see how the world's jaded mindset of that time functioned.

Accordingly, just as man's mindset will be during the Tribulation yet-future, so was man's attitude back on the day Christ came; 18 years before Augustus would regret his love of figs, Israel the fig tree would be fertilized, yet again. Just as Isaiah had prophesied the double entendre pregnancy in Isaiah 7; just as in Isaiah 53, the very Hebrew meter Counted The Years To His Birth from the very year Isaiah Wrote. Which Countdown, God used to remind Daniel, in His 'timeline' of Daniel 9. The full explanation of the interplay between Isaiah 53's meter and Daniel 9 is covered in the videos below. You need to see this to believe it.

Isaiah got his meter from Moses in Psalm 90. So this 'schedule' of Messiah to Come and Pay, was known ever since 1400 BC. Isaiah just updates it. Script goes like this: Messiah comes at the "end" of Israel, the End of Time, though not quite like a classical Greek play: for this is An End That Happens Twice. Double Trouble. Presaging Jacob's Trouble. Two Advents, and This is The First. Two Advents, but Israel had long forgotten There Were Two. Ouch. Yet the well-known prophecy was, that First Messiah would come, then be cut off, then the Isaiah 28 tongues-prophecy warning of 40 years would signify that Messiah had come, gone, and Israel's status as a client nation to God would likewise finish, until the "times of the Gentiles" would be completed, Daniel 9:26. There's a lot of good stuff on the internet about it. My pastor's exegetical tapes on this topic are too extensive to summarize them here or do the many verses justice. Acts 2 summarizes the point.

Moreover, at this time a balance of power gives rise to stability, hence trade flourishes; therefore, a stable world-wide travel system exists: thus the word of any new faith could be rapidly Delivered. It was a relatively peaceful time. Octavian AKA Augustus had turned the Mediterranean into a Roman lake. Rome and Persia, enemies forever, were in stalemate. Barbarians to the north and west of Rome were just as apt to negotiate, as fight. The power blocs of north, west, east and south were reasonably settled, hence what became a permanent historical stage for larger-scale wars, began. In short, communication and conflict systems coalesced. Where Satan & Co. failed to make Babel, they succeeded instead with big homogenizing polities — bigger than ol' Babylon. "Homo Genocidus" strategy was all set to go.

And Satan needed his Götterdämmerung strategy to be ready. For in Israel's Book the future was neatly laid out, gradually revealed since Moses:

But all that was 1000-40 years old, now. Who remembered it: mi he’emin lishmuʿatenu (מִי הֶאֱמִין לִשְׁמֻעָתֵנוּ), Isaiah 53:1? Certainly the Jews didn't remember, except for some weird Essenes who decided to leave the Land and hide out in caves until it was all over.

Consequently, at the time the Lord took on Humanity, the most abhorred religion was the Mosaic Law: for it denied divinity to any but Israel's God. Judaea was regarded as the armpit of the Roman empire, and to pull duty there meant you were out of favor with your superiors. Feisty and weird people, those Jews. The rabbis of that day made the Law a travesty, a tyranny. Mishnah records their rules. Tripping over wens, their perversion of the Law was demandingly punctiliar. Even when they correctly spoke Torah, the listener only heard how their God was terribly revengeful, exclusionary, and superior(!) to all other faiths — which, this God universally condemned! And oh! He's coming down like at the end of a Greek play, to take the world over? Ha! So the world would likewise have to spend its life in all of those olive-bulk, pilpulling minutiae, just to please a desert god too petty to respect people? Such was the attitude of those who did not believe in the Law.

Those who did believe in the Law, had an opposite kind of emetic apostasy: an egregious, often mystical roteness and legalism. If the Law said one must rest on the Sabbath, these rabid Pharisees, Sadducees, etc. said that one could not move a muscle — not even pull one's ox out of a ditch! They prided themselves on how perfectly they observed the Law in form — Saul (later Paul) would soon be born and become foremost among them. So to these people, self-becomes-god was defined in terms of greater punctiliar observance of the Law than it demanded. Yet they did not grasp the meaning behind the motions; God was just a designer label to them, someone to buttress ego. Most of the priesthood serving at Temple was corrupt, of the wrong families, political appointees: never mind the priestly lines and courses, God had David design. So corrupt, God Himself would command a valid Abijah-course Levite named John to live out in the wilderness, far from the Temple in which per the Law, he was to serve each fourth week in Ziv, Bul. John had only just been born, though, and didn't know of his future, contentedly nursing at his hitherto-barren, mother's breast.

Clearly Satan had done a good job of fostering his futile, me-do-good alternative to God's Grace Systems. In fact, there was no one left among the Royal Davidic line with enough faith except Mary. Joseph's line had been cut off, due to the Coniah AKA Jeconiah curse. So can God Keep His Promise, to provide Messiah? He'd have to come now. Time was up.

So they went up, to register at Bethlehem. They are detained in Jerusalem for about a month before they return to Nazareth, owing to the Law's requirements for bris and mother's post-partum purification. Which was tough to do, since it was Chanukah week so every place was crowded. During that time some magi visit Jerusalem, claiming to see a star no one in Jerusalem could see, that was an angel who likely protected Mary and Joseph while they were there. When the couple leave the angel does, the magi see the angel and follow. So do Herod's spies. So suddenly Joseph has to leave as soon as the magi do, to save the Child's life. Many other nursing children thus perish from Bethlehem in the south west, to Ramah (a common town name) in the northeast, near Nazareth. Herod dies 3-4 months later. Nothing like the manger scene in Christmas pageants, huh. Preview of coming attractions.

Into this self-righteous, jaded, no-love world the Lord came, now also Human. His Task was not merely to observe the true Law. Oh no. His task was far worse: He was to be the Redeemer Who the animals sacrificed, depicted. To be that Redeemer, He must invent a New, Royally-Invisible, Far Higher Spiritual Life out from the metaphorically-rich but shadow-of-Him dependent, Mosaic Law. By associative sacrificial ritual, the Law taught that forgiveness was obtained by transfer of the sin to the Redeemer, depicted by the animal sacrificed. The sinner put his hands on the animal. The animal thus became associated with "sin", as the Redeemer would (later) be. Then the priest slit the animal's throat. The human sinner then ate part of that animal (usually), to associatively illustrate faith in the substitution. Okay: but He is the Substitution. So the Law will not be enough for Him, He'll have to invent Something Higher and Better, Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 7-10. Here's His Spiritual Life Invention 'alphabet', why and what He must create, become — to fulfill His Unique Nature and Role in History.

A. Archegos Ark: "ἀρχηγός" in Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 12:2 means "Originator", "Inventor", "Author", "Pioneer". The First One, the Archetype from Whom all others derive. Christ, unlike all other men, was to be the Redeemer promised under the Law, so He must Arrive under the Law; yet, must craft a spiritual life which is light-years Higher than the Law, in order to atone for the sin committed under the Law. For to be that Redeemer, He had to become The Living Ark, God and Man, Jeremiah 3:16. Not just one or the other. Why? Man was the guilty party, via personal sin. Adam's imputed sin merely set up the "curse", the predisposition. Even Adam in perfection had sinned, so fallen man's predisposition did not constitute an unfairness — this, in answer to Satan — so man has to be the one judged. However, man could be judged either by paying himself if such payment could be made, but the Law proved it could not: you'd have to never ever break even the smallest jot or tittle in the Law. This is the mistake unbelieving Jews make, both then and now. They fantasize that their many observances actually comply with the Law. But they eliminate the heart of the Law, that you must believe in Messiah-to-Come, Who is provably Jesus the Christ. Thus it doesn't matter how much they fantasize obeying all the other provisions of the Law — which of course they don't obey, it's impossible — to not believe in Him, is to fail the entire Law. Paul and the other New Testament writers explain this; Christ kept on explaining the same thing, when He was down here. You can't cut out the heart of the Law, the First Commandment, and be obeying the Law, no matter what else you do. You don't love God if you don't believe in the Substitute He appointed in Isaiah 53:10, period. The Ark represents that Appointment.

Or, man could believe in an Associated, Atoning Substitute (depicted by the animal) paying for him. That Atoning Substitute would have to be God as well, even though paying in the Humanity, because only if God-Man could the requisite Intimacy with God be built, so that the thoughts in the Humanity, could be high enough to pay. For the Payor has to think at God's Level to compensate God for sin, Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:10, Jeremiah 31:31-34 thus enabled. So merely obeying the Law perfectly, wasn't enough compliance for the Payor Himself. The Payor would have to be Higher Than The Law, Himself. The Law was fine for teaching about the Payor, and the sacrifices thus prospectively depicted what that Payor would do. You demonstrated belief in the Payor, by 'doing' the sacrifices. But of course until the Payor actually paid, the sacrifices never took away sins, theme of Hebrews 10.

The rest of the Law, its prescriptive behaviors and commandments, were for living well on earth. The rules didn't buy you salvation: rather, if you obeyed them, they bought you earthly prosperity from God. Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26 are quite clear about this. Israel could not obey, did not obey, and no one can obey all those laws. The Redeemer by contrast, would have to obey them all and be Thinking like God Himself. So must first be God Himself, adding Humanity, else the requisite building in that Humanity, couldn't be juridically justified. For if God creates Law, the first One to obey it, should be God Himself... Rulership and Law house in a Person: but that Person, is Himself the Most Ruled. Consequently as Hebrews 7:28 explained, He Arrives as Human under the Law, to fulfill the higher pre-Law contract He made with Father, as God.

This God-Man requirement was depicted by the Ark, a box in the Holy of Holies roughly the size of a large chest (height: 27" x width: 27" x length: 45", Exodus 25:10): it was covered in pure gold, to signify Deity; underneath the gold was acacia wood, to signify Humanity. Look up how thorny and essential to commerce acacia trees are. Very meaningful! So, just as Adam had brought to us cursing-by-association, so also the Lord could provide blessing-by-association. And much more, as Romans 5 explains. For more on the Hypostatic Union.)

B. Birthing Beauty from Bad: Substitutionary Payment resulted in Atonement, Hebrew kopher, "covering". Idea that a payment 'covers' what's owed. However, that Atonement still requires subsequent mediation: the Payment must be Living, Himself. (See Hebrews 7:24, Romans 6:4-10.) So that's a redemption cost. For although wrong committed stops, the Omniscient One Seeing the Wrong — sees it forever. So the Payment must Live Forever, as well — Bonding Side By Side to and with, the wrong seen. This is another reason why the Payor must be God and Man. For Substitutionary Atonement is not a one-shot deal, something to do which ends. But rather, Someone to Become: Romans 6 and Hebrews 6, Hebrews 9. For the thing atoned, must also be Redeemed. This is the root idea behind the Opportunity Cost. Priesthood is first an ongoing mediation toward God, and first in the sense of compensation-to-God. To 'cover' or make worthwhile the ongoing 'expense' of Omnisciently seeing wrong, there must be a compensating 'right' to balance it. That requires a Living Priesthood with Compensating Thoughts Omniscience Continually Sees, to derive compensation. It's a compensation, if the bad seen is made into a trigger for the Compensating Thoughts the Priest has in 'reply'. So the Priest has to be a Forever-Living Payor, Himself. Hence mediation involves ongoing, living Intimate Association: a joining-of-peace "ὑπόστασις" between incompatible bad and compensating good, Isaiah 53:5's "raphah". Joining both, using the bad as the trigger for the good Priestly thought in 'reply', reconciles the bad, makes it worth having. Hebrew "raphah" means a sewing-together, but is translated "healed"; it's hard to properly translate the play on words between "by His Wounds" and the stitching-us-up-in-His-Wounds-to-buy-Reconciliation that "raphah" really signifies. I can't read that passage without being reminded of the Caesarian section method of delivery.

In short, an instance of bad is not compensated merely by an instance of recompensing 'reply'. Rather, that instance of bad must birth beauty: Someone Who Lives Forever. If so, the bad then has a pregnancy meaning (e.g., per Romans 8:11ff & Isaiah 54:1), and no longer merely its native meaning. Hence each "bad" becomes a "brith", karat-cutting a covenant for long-lived seed, yir’eh zera, ya’arikh yamim (יִרְאֶה זֶרַע יַאֲרִיךְ יָמִים), Isaiah 53:10b + Daniel 9:26! But who's the first "zera" = seed? Why, the Seed Himself, Galatians 3:16! So "bad" is redeemed, if it 'produces' Him! Then from Him come the other "zera" = seeds, Galatians 3:26! That bad-brithing thus compensates for the bad's own birthing, as the Someone's Compensating Thoughts Thus Birthed and Brithed — go on forever. Hence the bad is used to create or increase a Person. For if a death, then life must come from that death. If a reduction, then an increase must come from it. Okay, then: He will be hit with bad, so must be far greater than even one who perfectly executes the Law. Much more, He'll fulfill the Isaiah 53:10-11 contract to birth many sons to glory, Hebrews 2:9-10! Isaiah's Hebrew is all about birthing. Even the English can't hide the ecstatic conclusion of birthing from sterile, in Isaiah 54:1. Yeah, and that birthing contract is from eternity past, so it predates the Law! Galatians 3:17 measures from Jacob's entry into the Land, compare to Exodus 12:40-41 which Paul is indirectly citing. For at that point — entry into the land — Jacob was the last seed family head. Israel left as a nation 430 years later to the day Jacob entered, Exodus 12:40-41. So Paul traces it down from Jacob, to finally rest in Christ, and wants to make sure the reader understands that the Law's entry didn't interfere with the promise made to Abraham's seed, prior. That's really important to stress, for Church's covenant derives from a separate pre-Law Kingship given Christ, hence not from the Law and not from Israel which was under the Law. That's why Christ has to invent a new spiritual life, as you'll see better if you keep on reading, here.

Human thinking is innately disgusting, totally preoccupied with itself, with the world, vaunting its own abilities and rights as if it were so wonderful. And totally disinterested and even hostile, toward information about the Real God. Insisting that He owes the human for anything that goes wrong, as if man's puny moralities compensated God in any way. How vile, to so demand of God. So the Real God should be paid for every such thought. Untold billions of them.

Sidebar corollary: nothing bad that happens in this life goes unanswered. God has to see it forever. So every bad that happens has an answer from eternity past which plays in the person's life before or after that bad thing occurs. So the person can take advantage of it. Most often, bad is used to remind the person of God, of the Gospel, of the Bible: for man naturally tends to look up when he perceives suffering of (what to him is) sufficient intensity. So for example, many a person tortured or raped in Nanking during WWII, many a person drowning on the Titanic before WWI, many a person burned in WWII Nagasaki due to the atomic bomb, many a person slaughtered in Rwanda, many a person killed in battle or in any horrible event you want to name — remembered the Gospel or Bible at that time, and reaped spiritual benefit from it far outweighing the suffering. And they will be in heaven so you can get their testimony, too.

This extreme disproportionality between an instance of wrong done and the requisite ongoing compensation due, represents the dichotomy between Infnity and finity. That's the main reason why He has to become God and man in one Person, yet from Humanity do what only God can do: it's not compensating, else. The Mosaic Law wasn't designed to be compensating, it was designed to teach. So Christ must make His Own Superior Spiritual Life out from it, brithing the Compensation in His Own Humanity, to be the Birther (and hence Brither) from Bad, forever. How poetic, as Hebrews notes in the last halves of Hebrews 2, Hebrews 4, and Hebrews 9.

C. Christos the Cornerstone, making Compatible Compact: God is but 'one' party in the Mediation of salvation (Galatians 3:20, NAS). The other party, representing mankind, thus must be a Ruling Mediator — "Christos" in Greek — Who is the Sacrifice Which Unites Everyone, not merely sub-mediators like Moses and the priests (Hebrews 3-10). To be a Mediator, one has to be equal with both parties in the mediation — hence again, both God and Man (1 Timothy 2:5, Job 9:2, Job 30-31, Job 19:25-27, among other passages). Unlike the requirement for being God-man to pay, this God-Man requirement is due to the Mediation, itself. Association between groups requires a mediative Head; especially, if the two groups are incompatible. In the Old Testament, a "mediator" was a third party who had enough in common with both groups that both sides trusted him. Everyone must once agree to be bound by the Mediator's rulings, or there's no mediation — today it's called "binding arbitration". Later disagreement could not cancel the first agreement, just as later disbelief in Christ can't cancel the First Belief in Him. As Galatians 3 and Hebrews explain, the Levitical priests represented God, in the mediation of the Mosaic Law: hence one brought the animal (depicting Christ) to them. But as Hebrews 7-10 explains, the Real Mediator must be Continually Living before God, and Have Sacrificed Himself.

This addresses the issue of shortfall and incompatibility between the parties, not sin itself. For after sin is paid off, the incompatibility remains; so intermediary issues remain; so an Intermediary — Priest — must remain. The compensatingly-high thinking in the Priest, makes up for the unsatisfyingly low thinking of the other parties to the mediatory association.

We all instinctively know this, yet we don't apply it to our relationship with God. No one just drives up to the White House and saunters in to have a chat with the President. There are go-betweens. No one waltzes into Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen a casual question. There are intermediaries. You don't open the door to a stranger, there must be an intermediary introduction and some vetting before you'll let the person into your house and your life (unless you are insane). And above all, no one can approach God except a Priest. In the Old Testament, there was a specialized priesthood. To pray, you didn't have to be an official priest, but you did have to be a believer in Him, Hebrews 11:6. That 'office' of prayer request really is based on an Intermediary, Christ — in Whom you believed, prior. Thus you got access.

Intermediaries justify contact. This go-between role is necessary if freedom exists, because if freedom, then we aren't compatible. Protections and shields are necessary, as much for the sake of those incompatible, as for those employing the go-betweens. If "A" is rich but "B" is poor, it will actually harm "B" to have much contact with "A", since then "B" will suffer from intensively seeing his relative inferiority. Better to have intermediaries, so "B" can freely develop out of poverty with less suffering. How much more true, with respect to spiritual poverty.

Yet Infinity wants no one to be poor. Poverty is incompatible with God's Nature. Yet how to preserve freedom and enable upward mobility for those who want out of their spiritual poverty, meaning their incompatibility via á vis God? If sane, we are all rightly intimidated by His Highness. Hence the need for a Priesthood, and of course we Church are that Priesthood forever, under the King-Priest, Who is the Cornerstone between the Old and New Testament. Ok, then: if the Cornerstone, then the Old Testament Law has to be upgraded, else the Bonding God wants, won't be completed (theme of Hebrews 1-2, Hebrews 7-10, playing on Ephesians 1-3). So, that's what He does, here: upgrade the Priesthood Spiritual Life to the Royal Standard of God's Own Level, for all eternity. And He does it, out from the Law.

Again it's a birthing, here of a Compact for Communal Mediation by the Ruler: were it not for the unsatisfyingly low thinking, there would be no need for a Priesthood. So the Priesthood is 'brithed' due to the need for it, which arises from a bad thing, free incompatibility between persons. So the Priesthood He "births" must be far higher than the Mosaic Law which could only prove its need (Hebrews 7).

D. Divine Divergence Decree: the Mosaic Law pointed to Him and was about Him. So clearly, the Law would not be sufficient spiritual provision for Him Who it depicted, to pay for sins (7:18-28). For the Law only pointed to the One Who Would Pay, the Law itself didn't pay. Hence a Decreed Divergence: Isaiah 53:10-12 is a Decree higher than the Law could mediate, Isaiah 55:1-9. Hence the spiritual life knowledge-and-power level He'd need to fulfill that Decree, had to be the highest of all, since He'd be made sin, the Lowest of All Paying for all time, Hebrews Chapters 5-10.

If ever Satan thought that God created creatures unfairly, this combination of highest-and-lowest covenantal levels applying to Christ, was the absolute most 'unfair' combination possible. 'To which Christ would have to grow up enough to say, "So what?" 'No greater Test, no greater Witness in the Trial, than this One. Ever. Hence no one in history has or will ever have more ways to sin than Christ. What other rational creature could be tempted to speak stones into bread? Who, even including Satan, has such a power? No one but God. No one in history can have as much temptation. Who of us can be tempted to just say the-heck-with-it and destroy the whole world with a word? Who else had to pay for sins!

He can't grow up enough if only man, and He can't grow up enough, under only the Law. If He could, then any man could, and there'd be no need for salvation by someone else. We'd all have to do it ourselves. God has testified all along that we can't do it ourselves, beginning with the #1 thing He did to free mankind, condemning it to work. Ideally, as man ages he finds out how futile his works are, same things being done with sweat and toil, lasting only for a day or so, never really compensating for all that effort. Indeed, in Satan's plan one works his tail off, only to realize at the end that it wasn't worth the effort. For at very least, one ages, becomes feeble, dies. So what was that lifetime, worth? A grave, that's it. Pretty demoralizing. So God uses the natural consequences of sin — a need to buttress ego hence works — to show why works don't work. At which point, hopefully man looks up to God for deliverance. Or, shakes his fist from hell, because God won't credit his puny moralities and his works.

Here, the issue is "What's the point of living?" Is it worthwhile to be born to have a life on earth, only? Would it be more worthwhile if one lived forever on this earth — only? As one lives on this earth, even if life is very nice, it's an inevitable question, "Is that all there is?" like Peggy Lee used to sing. For the soul wants more than this life, push comes to shove. We only think this world enough, because we are so mired in our struggles over basic things. But take away the need to struggle for the basics, and a different life question emerges: "why live?" Same too, if the muck of struggling for basics is too hard or goes on too long, we begin to wonder why. God's waiting for us to ask Him why. So Divergence is Decreed, as the dichotomy between Infinity and finity requires intermediation so both sides can enjoy each other; but also, because humans won't ask why until we have intolerable divergences in our own lives.

The Divergence which Christ must reconcile, besides that in His Own God-Man Nature — is that of a Spiritual Lifestyle which bridges and unifies the Dichotomy for all parties. The lifestyle itself if successful, would be replicated in mankind forever afterwards. For that's the contract in Isaiah 53:10-12, the making of sons from the Son. So this "D" covers life after the births of these sons, how they live happily with God forever.

It's a killer lifestyle He must adopt. The combination of being God and Man, the combination of being the Payor for Sin, the combination of living on the one hand as a Priest before Father, yet with a lowness of being Human, is like being on that medieval torture device called "the Rack". And He has to say "So What?" to that. Satan couldn't do that, but instead went ballistic and rebelled in the name of God asking too much of His Creatures. Satan wasn't also God in nature, so didn't have to contend with that Divergence. But Christ is first God, so has the Worst Divergence, ever.

It's hell not to be God. So only if God adds Humanity to Himself and crafts a reconciling spiritual life to make it heavenly to be with God, will there be any point in living. For if knowing God, what compares? Without money, without price, Isaiah 55? Wouldn't it be worth it to suffer on 'the Rack' of a spiritual life which is founded on and fuelled by, knowing God? Christ shouts "Yes!" Specifically, He shouts Psalm 22 and Psalm 31:5 on the Cross, the latter passage being His dying words, Into Your Hands I deposit my spirit, Oh God of Doctrine! Oh, so then knowing the Truth, knowing God Who is Truth, made the Cross worthwhile. Yep. That's way higher than the Law could provide, Matthew 4:4, Hebrews 12:2.

Such a "Rack" lifestyle is genuinely needed to become bigger, more able to see and enjoy God. Christ only wants to live For Father, so there's no limit on the cost; since to Him, there's no reason to live if not For Father. Which Reason and Life, is legated to us Church. More about all that will be said in "F", below.

E. His Excellency of Embassy: Hebrews 1:2-4, Christ is Excellent in every way. Therefore His Spiritual Life Provision, His 'Covenant' is Separate and Much Higher, versus the Law. So He must invent a New Priesthood out from all of the elements of the Mosaic Law, Hebrews 6:13-7, Hebrews 6:28. Hebrews 7:28 is reverse translated in every Bible I can read. The point since Hebrews 6:13 is that the oath predates the Law, sourced in the promise to Abraham. Hebrews 7:28 closes that point showing that the Son came born under the Law to fulfill the predated oath. But somehow the translations all screw up that meaning, so the Bible in translation appears to contradict itself. Oh well. Greek is really clear, given the placement of νόμος and υἱός — that the Son comes under, in association with the Law, the oath is not the object of the preposition meta, but both νόμος and υἱός are.

This is the main point in Book of Hebrews, explaining why the Law is set aside in favor of "a more Excellent Title", and "better things" in Christ. The Law was fulfilled in Him and by Him. But He takes it farther, for Father. See, Priesthood is the ultimate embassy. First, Representative for God, to God. Representative of God to others. His Eyes and Ears, so to speak, vis á vis others. Reflecting Him, to them. See also Galatians 3:15-16 compared to Hebrews 1-7 and Colossians 1:15-20. The next point, "F", will explain this "E" more fully. For the purpose of "E" is to buy "F", to be the Unity Himself, through Whom all Creation exists. Else, there's no point in even breathing. For Christ lives for Father. All else is inconsequential to Him. (By the way, "name" in translated Bibles more often means Title, Rank, Personal Quality, whether in Hebrew or Greek.)

We all have motives for living. Jesus the Christ wants to live For Father; all other reasons are too small to warrant breathing another day. We Church are made to 'fit' Him, so whether we know it or not, His Reason for wanting to breathe, is ours by nature at the spiritual "born from above" birth when we first 'do' John 3:16. Israel didn't have that nature. The Law couldn't provide it. Sure, you could dedicate yourself to God, but, they were stuck with a besidedness, of which God could be the dominant 'part' of their reason for living, but not the sole reason. Christ would have to craft that Soleness-Level of thinking and motivation while down here, before it could be transmitted to anyone else. Only then would the Divine Royal Embassy of Priesthood, be complete.

An ambassador AKA priest ("διακονία" in the New Testament means both ambassador and priest), has two main motives for wanting to have that job, and in this priority order: 1) he dearly loves his home country, and considers it the highest honor, if he can represent it. 2) He dearly loves the people to whom he is sent, and wants to do all he can to help them have a good relationship with his home country. In human affairs, these two loves create many problems, not the least of which is a distrust by either the home country or host country, as to the ambassador's loyalty. Atop that problem, the skill required to explain, mediate differences, make the relationships smooth, is a never-ending struggle. Much more true, for the role of spiritual ambassador. So the level of training is quite high, the years required are many, and of course there's an entire society of diplomats needed to interface with so many people, hence a ranking among them. So Christ is to manufacture the entire structure of this Priesthood while down here: and He'll be the Head of it, the King-Priest.

Every word counts. Every thought counts. So Christ trained hard, for this was His Life's Goal. A Goal requiring long training which we inherit but abuse, 2 Corinthians 5:20. Both down here and in the eternal state, this role translates into a kind of teaching, sharing, representing between whatever rank we each have, and those below or among us. Down here and in eternity, frankly most people are quite distant from God though saved. In eternity but not down here, it will be a huge thrill for them to hear anything at all about Him, because they are so distant. Down here, that's akin to but far bigger than the thrill people now get pouring over details of famous people and celebrities in the gossip shows (print and TV). In eternity, people will get all their information about God via Church — and most of Church rejects God down here, so most will be like peasants, distant from God, up there: receiving instruction from those who got trained up in the Royal Spiritual Life He legated. However, relative to those who are not Church, even the lowest Royal has more info about Him to 'gossip' about, than who are not within the Royal Family.

So here He is beforehand, the One about Whom all this future will exist; and therefore the Pattern of Representation He creates, will stand for all time. That's way higher than the Law could achieve, because it essentially waited for the One Who would Fulfill it, to carry its purpose to the next level: His.

F. Fellowship For Father! This Fellowship is the entire reason for creation in the first place. Hence the entire Reason for a Higher Spiritual Life, to get that Highest Fellowship with the Most High. Obviously the Law couldn't create Christ, but He could create the maximum Fellowship out from the Law, if He adds Humanity to Himself. Isaiah has this really cute way of expressing the Incarnation in every verse of Chapter 53 (which starts at Isaiah 52:13, someone — possibly Stephen Langton forgot to watch Hebrew samekh markers). In the contract of Isaiah 53:10, for example, Isaiah closes with the phrase, wuh hephetz yehwhah bayado yitslah. "bayado" means "by His Hand." That's the Son's ratification to take on Humanity, "and By His Hand, to succeed/prosper" is how it's usually rendered in English Bibles, so you miss the Trinity play in the Hebrew. (Same form as verb and tetragrammaton in the first clause in verse 10, but the Hand is added, get it? My pastor noticed that, tied it to Isaiah 53:1's "Arm of the Lord". Cute.)

God shouldn't tolerate lesser-thans, and we of course don't want to, either. So the Decree is but one Decree — to Create Christ, everywhere Father 'looks'. Isotropic property of the spiritual universe! It's therefore a Decree to Clone His Thinking in anyone who wants it! Think: is Fellowship with God to be something like the 'fellowship' we humans could have with ants? Or is there something better, fuller, more intimate — instead of intimidating? Well, here's the answer. God-Man requires a Higher Spiritual Life, so those who are merely men, can have His Same Level! of intimacy with God. For once That Soul exists and is completed, His Thinking as a Human can be cloned in other humans. You read words and they 'clone' into you, if you believe in them. So the Word becomes Flesh, so that flesh can become Word. "For the purpose of bringing many sons to glory", is how Hebrews 2 explains this eternity-past provision, invoking Paul's explanations in Ephesians and Colossians. To wit:

    1. First Reason He needs a Royally Higher Spiritual Life, is due to His Own Nature as God and Man, to mediate that excruciating internal stretch. So this is a Fellowship within Himself need. Can't have fulfilling fellowship with others if you aren't integrated within yourself. The Archegos Ark reason (of this section) for His Existence was mandated by the Law, but the Law couldn't even address the resulting divergence in His Own Nature; for the Law was designed for mere sinner humans, Hebrews 7, Romans 7. We also saw this requirement Him to have a Higher Spiritual Life in "Governance", above, but from the covenantal standpoint of how He needed to Become the Truth, in order to pay for sins. However again, it's first needed due to Who He is, Cross or no Cross, the Infinity-finity Dichotomy being solved within Himself, functionally. Else it would be hell to be Who He is, shackled to His Humanity. Hell on His Humanity, always having Higher Standards mere Humanity can never meet, and hell on His Godness, always living with a Human Soul which can't execute those standards. So what His Invention of the Royally-Higher Spiritual Life first does, is Integrate, Mediate. That's why it's Royal Priestly in Nature.

So here, the reason for a Royally-Higher Spiritual Life would be to make functional all the necessary connections between his Human Soul, human spirit, and His Godness: thus He'd be fully and functionally integrated as a Person. By nature these connections would be present at birth; but the functioning of them would require special spiritual design which no human before Him, needed or could use. However, if successful, then the resulting 'design' which made Him successful could be cloned into humans, which Isaiah 53:10-11 says was the intention: the New Testament writers, play off the keywords in the LXX. All of the New Testament is dedicated to explaining how Isaiah 53:10-12, 'get done' in saved mankind. So Isaiah 53 is the Grand Central Station of the New Testament, the foundation of it. Christ the foundation, 1 Corinthians 3.

That accounts for the shocking word "καινή" in 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15. For Paul says we Church are a new-in-spiritual-species creation, designed to fit Him. Which means we have those connections at the "born from above" spiritual birth, in our human spirits. Just waiting, to get the Doctrine in us to fill them out, Romans 8:4. Divine DNA is dedicated to that proposition and that page goes through the metaphor in more detail. One could well argue that my pastor spent from 1985 through 2003 essentially elaborating on 2 Corinthians 5:17; for his entire goal was to teach the mechanics and nature of Church's spiritual life. It's not been done in Christendom: so far as I can tell he's the only one to really tackle the question. Everyone else keeps reverting back to the Old Testament and slapping a few things on it from the New Testament, calling that the spiritual life, essentially some varied mixture of works and morality. Not so. Of course, Christendom hasn't figured out till yet that He paid for our sins with His Thinking, never mind Isaiah 53 says so in 21 different ways (21 different soul functions depicted, and Isaiah 53:9's bemotav (בְּמֹתָיו) tells you there are two deaths, not one, on the Cross, a fact my pastor stressed for over 50 years and caught a lot of heat for it, unfairly (in my opinion)).

So He's the Original we get to Copy, 1 Peter 2:21's "ὑπολιμπάνω ὑπογραμμός". So He had to craft a maximum Royally-Invisible Spiritual Life, to Father's Level — way above what the Mosaic Law could even contemplate. Thus He'd have Functional unity in His Own Dual Nature; thus, For Father Unity, Compatibility, fellowship — even, from within His Human Soul. John 17 proves He got that Fellowship Unity, and that He legated it, to Church.

    1. However, this Intra-Personal Integration would require He not use His Own Attributes of Deity to aid His Humanity, i.e., to avoid sin. So instead, a Higher Spiritual Life would have to be used in lieu of His Own Godness running the connections, making them function. Inter alia, Satan would have won in the Trial had God the Son 'rigged' His Humanity by interfering with it in any way, or 'helping' it in any way. Ergo all the Matthew 4 temptations to Christ to tempt Him to use His Own Deity. However, even if Satan made no objection, the eschewing of His Own Attributes is still required due to Who He is, Cross or no Cross. What "fellowship" is it, if He uses His Own Attributes? Well, it would be fellowship with Himself. Okay, but then He's stuck with being in fellowship with Himself. Do you enjoy life by standing around looking at yourself in a mirror, "Oh how great I am"? Maybe Satan gets his rocks off that way, but any normal being far prefers to have fellowship with others, already quite familiar with the self. It's a question of varietal enjoyment, for crying out loud. So it's a mismatch, to use your own abilities or attributes, if fellowship is desired. Better if the fellowship itself is used. So if He's held together by Godness not His Own, then the fellowship with that other Godness, happens at the same time. Not mere brute power of His Own. Macho-man is not happiness, but aloneness.

We will all live sinless in fellowship with God forever. How does that happen? Does God magically and spontaneously zap information into us? Nope. We get what Christ got. He got the Truth in Him. We can get that same Truth, starting right now, down here. Notice again how this would be needed, Cross or no Cross. For happiness depends on not sinning. God wouldn't be happy if He sinned, and He doesn't sin due to what He knows. And what He knows, is that the Truth is so gorgeous, He's not even remotely attracted to sin, never mind that sin is also a threat. Wouldn't matter if it weren't a threat, it's ugly to Him. So He's not even remotely tempted. So if we knew what He knows, we wouldn't be tempted, either.

So the solution is to get His Truth in us; which Truth God builds, God runs, we receive and don't use our own attributes. But we must consent, as Love never coerces. So Christ is the Prototype. Again, this is the purpose, Cross or no Cross. Yet the Cross is used to achieve that Intention: for by means of the Cross He is Completed, so we can be also, Hebrews 2:9-10 ("perfect" in translated Bibles should be rendered "completed", Greek verb τελειόω).

Corollary: if He doesn't use His Own Attributes but instead relies on the Spirit, then that's the rule for us, too. Notice how that saves wear and tear. He's Perfect, yet doesn't use His Attributes. We're not to use our sinning, imperfect attributes, 🤣 — either. He relies on the Spirit, and we do also. Whew. So the only struggle is the natural temptation to use one's own attributes. Which struggle would have been the greatest for Him Who was (and is) the Greatest Ability this world will ever see. Repeat: every heartache in life is due to us using our own attributes, or being affected by someone else who uses his own. Only God's Attributes are satisfying, so the spiritual life is a gradual replacement of our own attributes, for His. This is accomplished via the pouring in of His Truth, Isaiah 55:1-9, John 4:24, Romans 5:5, Ephesians 4:12-16.

Now for that to happen, it first had to happen to Him. His Humanity must be a Lamb, doing nothing. Just gets fed, sacrificed. Intimate association of the deepest, Best-and-Worst kind. The five infinitives in Isaiah 53:10-11 form a kind of cycling process through which all this happened to His Human Soul: so, those same infinitives work upon our souls. For Him, He'd have to go to the Cross to get those infinitives completed. Then His same process can repeat in anyone who wants it (our crosses being less, tailored individually), Isaiah 55:1-9.

    1. As a result, a far-higher Divine Power Provision which is not His Own, is needed for His United Humanity to grow utterly strong, spiritually. So from Birth He must be indwelled and filled by the Spirit. That requires a Higher Royal Spiritual Life to match, as that level of Divine Power could not be allowed prior (John 3:34, John 7:39), focusing on what He needed to become, in order to pay for sins. But it wouldn't matter if He came to pay for sins or not, the combination of His internal nature and the stricture that He not use His Own Deity, would require a higher spiritual life just for Him to breathe another day. Yet you can't have a higher spiritual life, without higher power than heretofore available to mere humans. And if you have that greater power provided, what level must it be? And then, if a higher level, at some point the level itself calls for an even higher spiritual life than would otherwise be required, just to 'house' the pressure of the higher power upon a human soul. So it's a Catch-22, somewhat analogous to putting a Maserati engine inside a Volkswagen. Wouldn't the entire car design have to change? Engineers face design problems like this all the time. Much more so, The Spiritual Engineer. No wonder the Lord quipped you can't put new wine into old wineskins (Matthew 9:17, Mark 2:22, Luke 5:37).

Indwelling serves as the base-of-operations, protection, buffering for the extreme weight of understanding at God's Own Level, also mediating for Him not yet being the Truth (i.e., when He was young). Filling accomplishes the requisite Divine-Level Generative Power to get that Truth built in Him and then enables Him to live on it, yet not die and not be so overwhelmed, He wouldn't enjoy what He Divinely Knows via that Same Spirit. Note Well: Filling creates thinking powers, knowing powers, not something you'd feel. Perceiving and knowing God requires God's Power. Feeling is childish. God is not a child. The Old Testament people needed the childish 'feeling' version of the Spirit's Filling, and in the Millennium that will be true again. But not for Royal Sons. Him, First. Us, cloned from Him, to the extent we consent. Filling, versus the Old Testament "enduement" method is very different; the latter is extremely limited, merely an adjunct to human power to execute particular secular tasks for spiritual purposes. Oholiab's skill, Samson's strength, David's ruling genius, Solomon's wisdom — these were all examples of enduement. See Pimplemi vs. Plerow.

God doesn't want to do it the easy way, huh. He'd rather go through all this trouble than just instantly create us to make us into what He wants. And He wants, for us to decide what we want — here, how much fellowship with Him, how much and how fast we want to grow. And He gave His Son, so we could get this. And His Son, went through all levels of Intimacy, hence the need for Filling and Indwelling, whether there was a Cross or not. But of course, if free creation would exist, there would have to be a Cross to pay for it, juridically. Even though, God doesn't need to be paid. Love wouldn't want anything less than full payment, anyway. Christ gets a fuller and higher Fellowship as a result: Hebrews 5:8-9, 12:2 show His Reasoning while on that Cross. And this, is the Power System He uses — legated to us Church — to do, just that.


The Purpose is Fellowship, Not Performance.

Fellowship is the reason for creation. Here, the means of it becoming fully realized — in Christ — is accomplished. All the New Testament is about this accomplishment. Sin was just used as an instrument for achieving it. For nothing stops God from getting what He wants.

Now, if this fellowship is achieved, then performance doesn't matter, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. God can make a high or low performance, any time He likes. But He likes, making the low high, Isaiah 54:1. And He likes, making the High low, Isaiah 52:13-15, Philippians 2:5-10. In Christ, both. At once. So it's not about how you perform in order to get Fellowship with God, it's how God performsall points. For Infinity, wants to be in everything, both High and Low. For Better and For Worse.

Indwelling is first and foremost, a fellowship Function. God focusing on you. For your thoughts 'dwell' somewhere. So do God's. Dwell on Christ, obviously. So now, dwell on the believer in Him. We really are in Christ. So now we are Indwelled, get it? (Okay, you can smile now.)


    1. So, in the Power of the Spirit Filling Him, He is to Execute the Word to its Maximum Metaphorical Extrapolation, all the way up from its metaphors, to the Divine Truths those words depict. Extrapolation is a Covenant Blessing. Genius of the metaphors provides endless learning, and the witty construction of the verses at once makes them easy to remember, and tasty to analyze.

But Extrapolation is first, Fellowship with God. Competence of Thinking in order to have Fellowship with God, not to preen. Until there was a Redeemer, the Bible and ritual metaphors interfered, because there was only so much extrapolation one could do: so Rapport (AKA Fellowship) with God was limited. Granted, their child-level covenants were far higher than humans can think; even today people don't understand the metaphors in the Old Testament. Nor can they, apart from the Holy Spirit. The learning was superhuman, reinforced by the rituals — but nowhere near as high as Christ would need for Himself.

For God is Immaterial. So to have Total Rapport with God, one must think with Total Abstraction Ability, greater than all the math and physics geniuses put together. For as John writes in 1 John , "No one has seen God at any time." So the concrete metaphors could at best be extrapolated to develop abstraction in shadow form, as Hebrews 9-10 explain. But the Spirit is God. Spirit Filling Redeemer means total abstract thought is possible, so abstracting from the metaphorical richness in Word and from the Law to Divine Truth itself, is something He can make happen, John 4:24, John 14:26.

The ability to take a single word in Bible and extrapolate whole realms of doctrine from it is possible given the words themselves. The succinctness and deftness of word choice in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation proves God empowered the writers: humans just can't write that well. Every word in the Word ties flawlessly to every other word in the Word, with the ironic result that you only need a few words to derive vast estates of Truth from them. You can check your extrapolation in the same manner as you'd step through a math formula, auditing it. The precision of the extrapolation which comes from the succinctness and deftness of Bible words makes this auditing rather easy, albeit time-consuming. The trick is to trace all the occurrences of the keyword in question, and what other keywords are tied to it in the other verses. Or, take the keyword itself, think like a thesaurus and then do your tracing. Spirit enables this process to be lightning-fast, once you have enough Word in you. Of course, people variantly are willing to learn Word, so many can't see but a single meaning to a word, so can't extrapolate from it very well. Takes time and practice. Accounts for why some believers are more mature than others, some pastors more able to extrapolate than others, etc. Christ had to go all the way with this, on the Old Testament. So the power of extrapolation Now for Church is even light-years higher than the Old Testament people could get, because His Extrapolation is the New Testament, having been replicated in the minds of the New Testament writers. So we can get the same level from Him. It's only a matter, as always, of how much do you want to know God. Never any other issue in life. Christ wanted God all the way, and got there. So now we can, too.

    1. But Indwelling, Filling, and Becoming-Truth Requirements together result in yet another problem which requires an even Higher Royal Spiritual Life: the pressure of all this Intimacy. Fellowship means intimacy, and here it's Intimacy with Himself, with Spirit, with Father, and with Truth itself. That's a lot of pressure, and of course that's why Indwelling and Filling are needed. But here's yet another kind of Intimacy needed: the intimacy of the pressure, itself. That's a kind of fellowship, which Paul notes in Philippians 3:10's "fellowship with His Sufferings". God is Intensive, which means Pressure. One has to grow familiar with pressure before one begins to enjoy it, have competence in being under it. And if Intimacy with God and God-Nature, then Intimacy With The Accompanying Pressures, is needed.

Again, all this is another Fellowship Issue, Cross or no Cross; that Intimacy and its pressures were required for Thinking Competence so He could know how to think and what to think, to pay. But pretend no payment was even needed: Intimacy still means Sharing God's Thoughts — just because. Just because you want to be 'in' Him. Just because He loves you and you love Him. Christ Loves Utterly. So Utter Intimacy is provided by the combination of Indwelling and Filling. Which by nature means Utter Pressure, too. So it doesn't matter that His Soul is Finite. But then it does matter altogether, to have a Higher, Royally-Invisible Spiritual Life, to 'match' that unlimited potential for Divine Intimacy, to handle that attendant and unlimited, pressure. Mosaic Law just won't cut it.

Again, He doesn't start out as Truth, but must Become Truth within His Human Soul. Of course, that means greater Fellowship, too — which after all is the purpose of living with God in the first place, Cross or no Cross. Not, fellowship at the low level like that of a human to an ant, tantamount to no fellowship at all — but at God's Own Level. God is Truth. So the more Truth Christ becomes in His Human soul, the more He knows Godness in that soul. The more fellowship He has with that knowledge. Well, that creates added pressure too. So in order for Him to be enabled to grow, He has to get more power than previously available, which in turn impacts the very design of the higher spiritual life, making the requisite "higher", higher still. Atop that design problem is the resultant Fellowship coming from being made into the Truth — which is itself an added pressure, requiring that "higher" be even higher yet again. So what must become the Royally-Invisible Spiritual Life He crafts? The Law sure couldn't handle all that added pressure. Wasn't designed to, Hebrews 7:18.

Physical exercise and combat training essentially strengthen you, due to repeated pressure. Much more true, in the spiritual life.

    1. Yet only knowing father intimately would suffice as the motive to keep breathing, Cross or no Cross. So that Intimacy would also require a Royal Spiritual Life far higher than under the Law — especially, when being imputed and judged, "made" Sin (2 Corinthians 5:21)! Here again, the first issue is Fellowship, for what motive could sustain Christ on the Cross, but for the compensating, atoning knowledge that what was happening to Him, actually paid Father? Notice that it's bi-directional. Christ would need to be compensated for not using His Own Deity and Humanity, especially since He loves Father so much. So the payment must please Him Who wants to Please Father By Paying it. You know He is compensated while on the Cross, for He keeps on shouting Psalm 22 as a promise He's receiving:

    "Eli, Eli lama sabacthani"
    (Aramaic version of that Psalm, quotation is from the first line)

    ܐܝܠ ܐܝܠ ܠܡܐ ܫܒܩܬܢܝ

    אֵלִי אֵלִי לְמָה שְׁבַקְתַּנִי

    Aramaic was then spoken in casual or intimate family circumstances, even by Jews of that day. (Hebrew was reserved for Torah, and Greek for cultured conversation or conversation with goyim.) So His switch to Aramaic maybe tells you how deeply He loved the Psalm of what He right then! experienced on the Cross. Having waited so long to get there (see Luke 22:15-19 in this connection), it must have been satisfying to at last, pay (yireh yisbah clause in Isaiah 53:11).

So here is an added Fellowship category: His Own Satisfaction, being paid by the very act of being the Payor. It is self-compensating to be able to pay, especially if You Get To Pay Someone You Love With All Your Heart And Soul And Understanding (upgrade on the First commandment He invented, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27, compare to Deuteronomy 6:5's wording). 100%, not partial!

    1. Hence the Intimate Knowing which required a Higher and Royally Infinite Spiritual Life anyway, gave Him the Soul Size to be imputed and even judged with all mankind's sins. This, the only category of Fellowship Intimacy He didn't have with Father — until the Cross — as He had to remain sinless, Himself. Yet Father knows sins. So the Cross most of all, gave Him that Total Rapport to the Completed High of Knowing All Father Knows — even, in His Humanity.

Now you see why knowing sin actually benefitted Christ — To Make His Soul Size Big Enough, So That Nothing Is 'Missing' In The Rapport With Father. Sins are "truth" in that they exist, and their true nature is sin. So to not know truth, however bad, restricts the Rapport. If one sins oneself, he no longer knows sin or anything else, except lies. So one lives in a fantasy world, having no fellowship with anything but those lies. Subsequently, one sin kills knowledge — that's what Total Depravity is, a complete corruption of knowledge processing (effects of Adam's Original Sin).

So far worse, for Christ to be made sin — total knowledge of it — and remain sinless, Himself. The pressure is unimaginable. Here, we focus on how this 'fellowship' with Sin, completed Fellowship with Father.

Thus being imputed with sins and the judgement upon them, Rapport Completes, and so does His Soul Size: the required "sweet savor" (always a metaphor for thinking, in Scripture, confer 2 Corinthians 2:14-15) thus births forever, for both Father and Son, fulfilling Archegos Ark through excellency of embassy in this section. Consequently this for Father! purpose is fulfilled and endlessly fulfilling for Father and Son to look at, the yireh yisbah clause in Isaiah 53:11: "He will see, be satisfied." Each "He": Father, Son, and Spirit.

Since God is Infinite thus Immaterial, only Thinking which is Like-Immaterial, could pay for sins. Again, this is first a Fellowship issue. Like-Immaterial Thinking is Fellowship. That it also pays for sins, is 'extra'. For the measure of the offense of sin is not the sin itself, but Against Whom The Sin Is Committed, as the Law had long taught (i.e., the pay sevenfold, aggrieved-party-determines-damage clauses, etc). God is Infinite, so Is Infinitely Offended, judicially speaking. So notice the flip-side: here the Gift He can give Father, makes that Infinite Offense, Infinitely Satisfying to Compensate. Forever. So here we see the Fellowship side of "B" for Birthing Beauty from Bad as the Substitutionary Payment God Requires. They are 'watching' the Birthing occur, Together. Togetherness, flat: Father Son Spirit. Forever. Son on the Cross, but Father Judging, and Spirit Empowering, so in that sense They are All Together On the Cross Forever. Because, no moment ever dies to Omniscience. Nerd note: Infinite God is never actually offended because He is perfect. Offense is a judicial issue everywhere in Scripture, never a personal one: see Leviticus 19:18, James 2:8.

3-way gifting

It makes a great package of Fellowship. After all, we get offended, too. And what offends, but incompatible thinking? Action comes from thinking. But thinking can exist alone, and many a seemingly-pleasant action is immediately destroyed in value, once you know the thinking behind it. The guy who gives a gal a nice present so he can get something from her — so long as she thinks his motive is nice, she'll enjoy the gift. But when she discovers the true motive, the gift suddenly 'turns' ugly. Same is true vice versa, of course. Thought counts. Thought counts for everything. Incompatible thought is hell. So to the converse: compatible thought is heaven itself. So compatibility with Father is fully realized via Him being imputed and judged with our sins.

G. Grace Governs Glory: two covenants thus Govern simultaneously in Christ's case in order to Fill, Fulfill, Finalize, Buy For Father, our "F" above: 1) the Law and 2) "King-Priest kata Melchizedek" (Hebrews 5-7, Galatians 3). These two covenants are to be Joined in His "Blood" (Old Testament metaphor for Soul Thinking) on the Cross. So He's to be the Heir of All Things, the Ruler of the Universe Forever, the One to Fulfill All Covenants to everyone: both to those already-dead, as well as to those yet-to-be born. But, at what a price! Paying for all of mankind's sins? But, at what a price! Total Unity With Father achieved thereby! All to be done in the Grace Governing Glory of the Spirit, not via Christ's Own Attributes, but rather only with His Consent!

Of all the things Christ wanted, He wanted to become King-Priest for Father, Psalm 110 being the contract both ratified. To be the One to Unify and Satisfy Father is the Lord's Own Personal Happiness, Hebrews 12:2. Notice how this is a desire to serve, not to lord over. Even though, He is the Lord. Of course, since this is a Rulership Contract, He'll have to Invent the kind of Rulership He wants to make. Rulers make the rules. Rulers must have Brides. So He Invents both the Rulership, the Rules, and then legates it all to us. Cross is about much more than paying for sins. It's about Buying Blessing To Spend On Father. There'd be no point in paying for sins, else.

We saw in C., the "Christos Cornerstone" section immediately above how Mediation due to incompatibility required He craft a higher-than-the-Law Spiritual Life. We saw in E., the "His Excellency's Embassy" section immediately above how Priesthood is essentially Ambassadorship, the Royal Level of which also meant He'd have to Invent the Pattern of Priesthood which would forever function. Here in "G.", it's a question of rulership. For an Ambassador doesn't rule, but a King does. Ambassadors speak for the king, are the mouths of the king: but they are not the brains of the King. Only the King is the Brains.

So what must His Kingdom be? Well, He's the King: it's up to Him, to determine. The Law can't dictate that, He must take the Law and either throw out or update the parts as He chooses. You see Him do this in the Gospels. He's got two kingships to craft, first His Messiahship Kingdom over Israel and hence the world, designing it for the eventual Millennium. But more importantly, He must craft His Kingship for the kata-Melchizedek structure He'll have forever, in the eternal state. Quite a job, to do all that deciding and testing, in only 33 years. The Law was a guide, and could be nothing more.

Christ wanted the Priesthood, His Own Life in every respect, and especially His Rulership, to be fashioned according to Father's Desire. So as He lived down here, He learned Father's Desire, and He 'obeys' it. As a result, His Life, Priesthood and Rulership, formed, solidified and were tested to the uttermost. Thus His Grace, received under the Spirit, becomes His Glory forever. And all is crafted to suit Him, theme of Ephesians 1, Colossians 1, both pointing back to Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:12, the two 'bookends' of Isaiah 53 in Hebrew.

So that's why Church inherits from Him, and also (ideally) lives to learn Father's Will on every jot and tittle, rather than running off half-cocked with ideas of its own. (Obviously the ideal, is not happening.) If you want to get a sense of this job and you like video games, play the "Sims" game. It's about ruling a hypothetical polity; the game presents you with problems to solve, people complaining, etc. Of course, if you studied politics or economics you can use that material to hypothetically construct what a good "kingdom" ought to be. It's a daunting idea. Kings own their kingdoms, they are not elected to office, and the people are property. That's how it is for Christ's Kingdom, Isaiah 53:12. So that's how it will be for yours (we’et‑ʿatsumim yeḥalleq shalal (וְאֶת־עֲצוּמִים יְחַלֵּק שָׁלָל) clause in Isaiah 53:12). Of course, you remember the parables of the talents, the one where those who made money with the money, were given as many cities as they had talents. It's an enormous responsibility. So what kind of thinking must be created in you, if that's your future? That's the issue Christ faced, since He was to own everything in His Humanity: and of course, now does.

You are to craft your own spiritual life for your own kingship, before the Lord. That's nothing like the Mosaic Law. You extrapolate from the Bible, His Thinking. That's what He did, but now we extrapolate from both Old Testament, His Thinking as God, and New Testament, His Thinking as God-Man. Of course, He did it under the Spirit, so that's the only way for us, too. Hence our need for 1 John 1:9.

Christendom doesn't explain the kata-Melchizedek contract, even though it's the Royal Patent we inherit in Him. Christendom is rather confused over what differentiates us from Israel. Well this kata-Melchizedek king-priesthood is "it"; you are in training to become a king-priest, not merely a priest. Part 3 covers how that works, what you can lose, how you train, etc. Part 4 explains how we got this and what Satan does to stop us from growing up. The kingship can be lost; so although you will forever be a Royal Priest to Father, the ranking you receive, depends on whether you completed the training ("endure the course", "endure to the end") down here. So you may or may not "inherit the kingdom" God reserved for you in eternity past. The Lord warned that each of us has a potential kingdom, "take your crown" verse in Revelation 3:11.

So nothing about Church derives from Israel, as Hebrews 5-7 explains. She turned down the Brideship (Hebrews 3-4), so we get it — but since we get it post-Cross, the "Brideship" we get isn't even like what Israel's would have been, Hebrews 7-10. For had she accepted Him, the Cross Price would have been lower, and thus the inheritance would have been lower also. But since billions of added people had to be created and paid for so that Church could exist, the Cross cost skyrocketed and so did the matching inheritance, Hebrews 1-10. Again, Book of Hebrews walks the reader through all that with great care. Just grab your favorite beverage and read that Book over every day for a month, thinking about it whenever you can't read it. Read it at least 30 times. Memorize it if possible, talk with God about it frequently during the day. Translations aren't all that good, but even so with 1 John 1:9 breathed you'll get more out of it.

The extremely long Part 3 covers our very separate Royalty in Christ. In Christ, not Israel. Part 4 covers how we differ from Israel and what precedents created our status. Meanwhile and better still, the Bible flagship books on the differences are Hebrews, Colossians, Ephesians, Galatians, Romans and 2 Corinthians , plus certain chapters in 1 Corinthians 1, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 13. Read those books over repeatedly, and talk with God about them as much as possible. It really matters to know your "portolio of invisible assets" as my pastor likes to put it. When I do this reading over and over, I often find the NIV most helpful. Like any translation, it messes up individual verses — but when you read large blocks of Bible, the overall sense of the book is the most important. NIV seems to convey that overall sense better than other English translations, especially in the Old Testament. I found the NIV especially helpful in orienting to Book of Hebrews, while studying its verse-by-verse exegesis under my pastor. It captures the flavor of Galatians well also.

H. History's Highness: Jesus the Christ must become The Highness of History. Highest in everything. Therefore also the Lowest, i.e., paying for sins, being in a hell no one else will ever know. Hence "filling all in all", end Ephesians 1 — leveraging from the Lowest, these Most Highnesses. There's no way the Law itself could 'rise' that high, but rather He would have to literally create that First-and-Highest-in-Everything from scratch. God had Isaiah predict that He would, via the "yaskkil av'di yarum! wa nissa, wuh gavah me'odth!" clauses in Isaiah 52:13's Decree, and the "bedato yatsdiq" clause in Isaiah 53:11. Of course the Lowness is decreed and depicted in Isaiah 52:14-53:9, which was the "Decreed Divergence" need to create a higher-than-the-Law, spiritual life. But this "H" is the High End: a leveraged, catapulted result of the Divergence Decree.

Conversely, since He must become Highest, the birthing and brithing leverage require He become Happiest: for Truth is Happiness (Luke 11:28, John 17), especially in F. "For Father" , above. Treasure Trove of Truth For Father. In a human? Forever?! So now you know why both Old Testament and New Testament list all those titles for Him. They each indicate His Highest Highness with respect to the title category, and apart from those titles, there are none. Here's a sampler. Notice how these titles are sine qua nons, and rather sweeping in scope:

The Lord's use of His title is vilely mistranslated in English Bibles. In Greek, He uses the governmental, official style, with two articles: you won't find this wording anywhere in the so-called "son of man" verses in the LXX. So the Lord deliberately and repeatedly states that He's the Official God-Man Messiah Daniel spoke of in Daniel 7:13. The LXX in Daniel 7:13 doesn't use the same wording, so as He often does, here He deliberately changes the Old Testament text to show it points to Him: so He changes the text: ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, two-article governmental official style, versus: υἱός ἀνθρώπου. He repeats His two-article Official Designation often, and the epistles carry it over: His wording is repeated 82 times in the New Testament.

To prove the two-article official governmental style, see it written maybe hundreds of times in Chronicles, Kings, Esther, Luke 1:26, with respect to official calendar dates, etc. By contrast, the plain υἱός ἀνθρώπου translates the Hebrew "ben adam". But Daniel 7:13 uses "ben enosh", not "ben adam". So the Old Testament Hebrew rendered "son of man" is wrong. It should be translated "son of Adam", i.e., said of Ezekiel maybe 90 times in his book, said of Daniel once or twice. We are all fallen sons of Adam, but Christ is not a son of Adam, but rather the Last Adam, Himself (last half of Romans 5, 1 Corinthians 15:45). So this distinction is extremely important, reminding you of His Virgin Birth so no old sin nature in Him. A BibleWorks search on "son of man" yielded 182 entries, so there's a huge database you can use to prove what's said here.

Each of the titles tells you a ton of Truth about His Nature, as well as what He had to accomplish in His Human Nature to get that award, all down here and all in 33 years. It's mind boggling, for He must have at least 100 titles listed in the Bible, and each one is an achievement. He's the Greatest Celebrity in History, and the most mistranslated, maligned. Highest and Lowest!

Being the Best of itself is frankly not enough to warrant going after a goal. Human or self-approbation is of zero value, here today and gone tomorrow. Unless, you can be the Best for Someone You Love more than your own life. "For Father" makes it worthwhile to excel. To be able to share that For Father goal with everyone else, who after all will be under Him, also makes it worthwhile to excel. First Commandment, therefore.

I. Inventor of Intimate Integrity Love: to fulfill the First Commandment, required The Christ. The Mosaic Law could only command, not fulfill itself. So within only 33 years! He must uniquely Invent Intimate Integrity Love Solutions to the Imputations which will Impact Him and everyone else — forever. That Intimacy with Self, Father and Spirit made it all the harder. For He had full understanding, John 1:14. 'Greatest knowledge, learned bit by bit via the Holy Spirit, using Bible as then written, which He constantly quotes and applies per Gospel depictions. Additionally, the command was to love God with all of you, not just most of you or part of you. God alone, not God and people, things. No one could fulfill that command in the Law, which is partly why the Jews were so flip, asking who can run up to heaven or down to Sheol to get the secret, in Deuteronomy 30. The Law above all was designed to prove that only Messiah-to-Come would Come to Fulfill it. So you obeyed the Law as best you could, waiting, thinking of your obediences as merely thanking Him, and even that, at too low a level. Well, if you loved Him you thought that way. Most didn't.

So His Wonder and Enjoyment of Fully Knowing had its flipside, the knowing of bad truths: like evil, sin, man's utter disinterest in God. If you mature in the spiritual life, you will come to a place somewhat analogous to mental maturation, where you realize how bad life is. People become jaded as they age, but when you learn Bible, the divergence between the Gorgeousness of God and His Word and the vile quality of life down here — especially, its claims of niceness — is intolerable. Additionally, your normal urges as a sin nature being, the pulls from the world (especially, those who are close to you), the hits you get from Satan & Co. (generally unrecognized), all wear you down. Seems easier to just 'go along' with the roteness-loving world. So imagine how much harder it must have been for Him to know how bad things really are, yet be young, chronologically. Yet keep going on, knowing He'd end up at a Cross, with no one understanding His Mission, the meanwhile. Grief in knowing that however well He explained, people wouldn't understand and wouldn't care. Would die in their ignorance. Would hopefully at least believe in Him sometime, and not go to hell. But even so, would arrive in heaven, clueless. How do you live with that knowledge? It's a killer.

"Governance" covered His making a Higher Spiritual life primarily from the standpoint of Higher Cross Price Required to pay for sins, the spiritual provision of Bride, costs of the Trial, defeat Satan, etc. But internally, He needed it anyway. Even had there been no sin or other costs to pay, for Him to have the Requisite Unity within Himself and with Father and Spirit in His Humanity, The Very Same Higher Spiritual Life was required, to Max Out The Love Fulfillment of the First Commandment. Look: Love is the reason to live. So to max out the Love at God's Level was Christ's Goal. If that happened, then all creation could share in God's Love Fully. This is the main theme of 1 John and Pauline writing, though every New Testament writer references it. You can't see that in translation because every "love" verse is mistranslated. Should be rendered, "Divine Love", not merely "love". For the Greek word is "agape", and it only means "Divine Love" in Greek.

This Divine Love is a knowing, a being, a status quo attitude which never changes, so is never a feeling. If the body has feeling, it's a reaction to the knowing. People don't realize the terrific burden knowledge creates. 'Especially, if it is Truth. Most of our suffering is really due to our associative attitude regarding what we know (or think we know). Feeling merely reacts to the knowledge. So, change the knowledge, or change its meaning, and you change how you 'feel'. Far more than any body problem or prosperity, knowledge weights a person. Ignorance really is bliss: childhood. How much more heavy, then, is the heaviest of knowledge — that One is the Redeemer? No temptation Satan could muster can 'compete' with the Weight of knowing one has the power to wipe out all repugnancies — but instead, is to bear them. Just like a lamb. Go to the slaughter. Don't 'improve', don't 'fix', leave unused one's power, like discarded clothes. Note: Greek verb κενόω, sometimes translated "set aside" in Philippians 2:7, is a Greek verb used for taking off one's clothing. You have the clothing still. You just don't use it, for the moment. True kenosis is avoidance-of-use, not — God forbid! "emptying". What nonsense: how can Christ 'empty' Himself of His Godness? How can Infinity be "emptied", ever?

Can you "set aside" as a "So what?" knowledge you have cancer? Can you "set aside" as a "So what?" knowledge you can feed the poor? Can you "set aside" as a "So what?" knowledge that you will be blamed by the very people whose sins will lacerate you? Whom you know will hate you because you bought something wonderful for them? 'Takes a lot of love, to set all that knowledge aside like an old garment. Takes a lot of love, to not only obey the don't-take-revenge-nor-bear-a-grudge command of Leviticus 19:18 and instead give the World Which Hates You, your 'cloak' (right to be served, rulership mantle). This One Who is truly Perfect, Innocent, deserving of all the foot-licking man can do — This One instead was to pay for all the hostility against Father, and against Him. With an attitude of gratitude! Maximum love for those who hate Him!

How much do we ponder the terrible injustice of His Position, which God the Father imposed on Him? He was being charged with doing what even God Himself could not do — pay for sins! This was the Stone 'too heavy for even God to lift', Isaiah 53:5 and Isaiah 53:10's "dakah". 'Too heavy, since it would be against Divine Righteousness to pay for sins. Yet here, the Cornerstone, is the Stone too heavy for even God to lift! All creation depended on His Humanity Never Once Sinning. His Humanity, Perfect, but just as weak as ours (Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 4:15), was to take on this task?

Look at the impossibility of it: He could not use His Deity, or Satan wins; He could not use His human power, either, for it was not enough. The Mosaic Law was designed to interact with human power, so was "weak and useless" (Hebrews 7:18) to prevent sin. So Christ could not use His human perfection at all. It was just a shell, just a blemishless lamb, for all the good it could do Him, in this worst-of-lives. Why didn't He rebel? Satan rebelled for far, far lesser reasons. Christ would have been justified in rebelling. To which of the angels did the Father consign to receive imputation and judgment of sins? In effect, associatively-paying the entire cost of creation, including the Lake of Fire, so the Father could 'look' at it all, and — by associating the creature failure He saw with the Spirit-empowered Thinking of Christ — be nonetheless propitiated? (Hebrews 2 and Romans 8:19-39 tie in here.)

Why didn't He ever even once resent Father putting Him in such a position? Such setting-aside of His Royal God-Man Rights — that was the Father's Will. Why? Because Infinite Love-for-Righteousness had to say "So what?" to Omniscient Knowledge of sin, rejection, "hell" — or creation could not exist. So, the Son would have to continually and perfectly say "So what?" on such a level: God's Level. Yet, not use His Deity, but instead say "So what?" as a human?

And that's not all! Far more is at stake. After all, sin destroys the person. Paying for it doesn't restore the person. Salvation restores the person, but via rebirth: the soul has to be completely reconstructed after that, because it is completely trashed by satanic and human viewpoint. More, still! After salvation, the person is to grow way beyond his own humanity, to be made like the Most High, so to be fit companion to the Godhead. Not pets, not automatons, not children. However, all of this is subject to the person wanting it, since Love never coerces. All of this was the Father's Will, not merely escaping the Lake of Fire. So the Atonement would have to be big enough to pay the Redemption Price, too. In the "Governance" link section on the New Testament, we saw how the Bride Price for that Redemption went up by billions of extra souls, owing to Israel's rejection in the last year before He died. And He knew that. And He unilaterally contracted to pay for whomever Father willed to be born, John 17:20-21, ratified on the very night He knew He'd be arrested, which was the day the Lamb was set aside (on the true calendar, versus the four-days-fast official one that year in 30 AD).

There's only one way to withstand all this, even embrace it: Integrity Love. "Love is God's Integrity", my pastor excitedly shouted over and over beginning about 1999, using those words from the year 2000 forward. Love is God's Head Attribute, and it's nothing like we humans call "love". Again, Greek word "agape" only means Divine Love, even in pagan Greek literature — and especially, in Bible. (Bible's Greek uses "agape" in the classic divine sense, but it's the Real God Loving, not a pantheon. Bible uses other words for human love in variant categories.) You can't see that, because translations all cut God's head off and truncate what should be translated "Divine Love" as merely "love". Pity. For in human terms, love is attraction-dependent, so right there you know His Love wasn't like ours. There's nothing attractive about sin, nothing attractive about us, nothing at all attractive about the above knowledge He lives with, day in and day out.


God's Head Attribute

  • Resolves longstanding theological conundrums about what 'runs' God's Thinking
  • Sovereignty wants Love to govern all, so wants free will and Soverignty of God to co-exist, despite rejection & sin.
  • God is never stuck with anything. So can will to undo any or all creation at any moment, can will to sin, but will never choose that, because He wants Love to govern.

The scariest words I ever heard my pastor utter went something like this: "the same love as Christ had on the Cross", is the level of Love provided for us Church. Of course, that's Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:13, which my pastor spent 7 years explaining. That level of Love, He invented and legated to us. Absolute Integrity. Absolute Integrity Love. For Love really is the Integrity of God, why He wants to be God, and none of His Other Attributes 'constrain' Him to think that way.

Above all, the Mosaic Law could not create Intimate Integrity Love. As Paul explains in Romans 7, the Law only excited the sin nature, couldn't motivate Love, which in any case had to be Divine, to fulfill the First Commandment, Romans 5:5-11, 1 Corinthians 13:4-13. So the Old Testament people lived with a level of integrity which is far higher than human, yet not high enough. Christ would invent that Integrity. Then His would be cloned into us, Romans 5:5, Romans 17-21, Ephesians 3:15-19, Romans 12:1-3 (Greek), Hebrews 11:1b, Hebrews 12:2, Philippians 2:5-10, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21.

And what is Integrity Love? Believing. If the object of belief is good, then the strength of the belief is made good. Truth is good. If one learns the Truth and believes it, then the Strength of the Truth creates the Strength of belief even under pressure, as repeated believings turn into unbreakable ropes, due to the unbreakable nature of Truth itself. Belief is therefore Love. Belief in, due to the content of the Object. Here, God, for God is Truth. Christ essentially believed and kept on believing, and kept on learning, and believing and living on — Truth. Father is Truth. Truth about Father. Spirit is Truth. Truth about Spirit. Truth in all categories, learned, believed in — turns into Love, Romans 5:5, 1 Corinthians 13:7. So Integrity Love is an unbreakable believing-in which in turn is surrounded by the content of Truth Learned and Lived On. After all, no one lives on but what he believes in. Question is, what's the integrity of what you believe in? So will your integrity be. So Christ believed in Divine Truth, and kept learning and living on it: thus He became the Truth. This Truth was built in Him, fully. Can be built in us, too. Building requires belief. No one keeps building when he stops believing. So the content of Truth proves itself valid, you believe it, and your soul strength just increased. So His Soul Strength became Infinite, essentially. So all this pressure against Him, couldn't break that Integrity Love. Built precept on precept, line on line, plodding on plodding, one day at a time. Constantly. Constancy. Integrity. Intimate. Invented. By Him. Legated, to us.

And how do we know this? Hebrews 11:1. Verse is vilely mistranslated, cutting off Christ's head, and then also the heads of all the believers depicted in the verse. Proper translation goes something like this: "It's about Confidence in Word! Christ's Thinking, On Trial! Evidence, Unseen!" The rest of the Chapter then goes on to illustrate Old Testament witnesses who did just that, using the Word they then had available to them. See Psalm 119, composed by youngsters on the to-Babylon death march who were daily raped, beaten, starved, walked-to-death. In Hebrews, notice how believing keeps being stressed (i.e., Hebrews 3, Hebrews 11:6). Despite whatever seemed on the surface, the believers in that Chapter 11 hero roster kept on believing. That's Love. For them, the developmental level couldn't be as high as what we get, because we get Christ's Thinking and He endured the Cross. Hence the corrected translation of Hebrews 11:1, which verse is designed to explain what this Trial and the spiritual life, are all about. Cloning His Thinking into us, Greek term "ὑπόστασις" is a moniker for Christ the writer of Hebrews uses (Hebrews 1:3 His Nature, Hebrews 3:14 reference to His Thinking, Hebrews 11:1 same). For He's the Substance of your life, the Reality you Believe in, and πίστις (faith) first means what you believe, not so much the believing itself. Which means, why you believe. Due to its merit, never mind your own. His Merit. Him. Believing in Him. Believing in Him when everything about life with Him seems unattractive. When you are hurting. When things are bad. When things are good. When you can do something else with your own abilities — but you don't want to, you want to just keep "looking to Jesus", Hebrews 3:1, Hebrews 12:2 (different Greek verbs, latter is undivided focus). Crowds out everything else in your life, docking it all eventually to a "so what?" That's the Trial Testimony, and that's Love. Eventually unshakeable Belief, Based on Truth: His.

Belief requires information. Belief derives its strength from the object of the belief, and so the more Bible you learn and live on the stronger becomes your faith. So when you have trouble believing, it means you lack information. So then pressure is on what you do know, to "go out there" as it were into the dark of what you don't know. Remember the three Core Trial issues from Part 1? #1, God provides 'enough' information; #2, you believe or don't believe based on what you do know; #3, you believe or not based on what you don't know. And by far, the hardest believing you'll ever do, is in #2. Christ knew everything. Should have motivated Him to quit. But what He knew was the Truth, and He believed in it. So, He didn't quit. Neither will we, if we keep believing, learning, living on what we learned like He did, Matthew 4:4. That's Intimate knowledge, hence Intimate Integrity Love: His.


Christ's Evidence Testimony: it's Only about Integrity Love.

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So the Christ, exhibiting His Own Happiness, "endured the Cross" (Hebrews 12:2). His Love triumphs even over the worst injustice. No wonder James would later call it "the royal law". The greatest Royal in all history, God-Royal and Human-Royal, set aside His Rights to pay for us scum. And Love doing so!?! No amount of human love can do this. But the Unique Monadic Love of Jesus the Christ was built by all those Perfect Deposits. Maximally. So even in His Humanity, His Love is Divine. Supernatural, yes — but not hocus pocus. Not somehow 'supplied' by His Own Deity. No protection by ignorance or delusion (John 2:25). So will be His Legacy for the Bride-to-come, for whom He gladly paid, voting for her a year before His Cross in Matthew 16:18, ratified in John 17:20-21, explained in Ephesians 5 and 1 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, determined at Father's Discretion — billions upon billions of us and our sins! Bride Price, in Advance!

His Victory is all-encompassing. We Christians are rather dismissive of His Work on the Cross, chirping how He died for us. Yeah, and do we know what that means? Do we know what He purchased? Well here's chart summarizing what He purchased: every "block" in it is a separate category of purchase, and the categories are broad. Each block is interrelated to every other block, to form a whole building for all eternity. The underlined text in each box is a link which will immediately take you to the relevant subsection in this webpage, so you can easily navigate back and forth to see how these blocks all interrelate. The milk-white blocks denote Divine Design which Church inherits; the blue ones, the role of the Law, now completed; the royal purple ones, kata-Melchizedek Kingship for Father Design which Church also inherits; the red ones, His Trial Witness, the topic of this section on His Evidence Testimony — which Church also inherits. Thus you can integrate what you've read, with this section. Here's the table:


Become Truth, associate Truth first, inner-life-to-outer-life, to be strong enough to pay for sins.

God-Level Intimacy to keep Universe intact, yet Intimately think Truth: above all, when tempted or on Cross.

Indwelling & Filling, Independent Power Base to build and run Divine Truth in His Soul.

Think like Omniscience to pay for mankind's sins in but 3 hours.

Trial & King-Priesthood, Ps110 added Cross fee for 'court costs' (all time) & proving Satan wrong.

Bride Price for Israel. He paid this added Cross cost despite Israel's rejection.

Create Church. Added Cross cost per Father's Discretion (design, length, spiritual features, etc).

Create new people post-Cross. Added Cross cost re how many, per Father's Discretion.

Higher Bride Price. Added Cross cost since His Success raises Royal Patent Value, as Church must 'match' His New Stature, Ephesians 4:13.

Mediate & Integrate His Own Dual Nature, thus Become the 'Original' the Holy Spirit can 'clone' into Church.

Eschew His Own Attributes; instead rely on the Spirit to build, mediate and integrate His Human Soul.

Indwelling & Filling empower mediation, integration, & primarily, Infinite Intimate Fellowship with God.

Absolute Extrapolation of Bible (i.e., its metaphors), all the way up to full Divine Truth and hence Fellowship with God.

Pressure of Intimacy. God is Intensive by Nature, as are His Attributes. Intimacy with pressure itself, thus aids Fellowship.

Knowing Father Intimately as the reason to breathe. Intimate satisfaction of being able to pay Father.

Increase in Soul Size to get the knowledge of sin and thus Fully Complete Intimacy with Father.

Fulfill the God-Man mandate as Redeemer, Promised by Mosaic Law.

Birth Living Redemption "Seed" from sin, per Isaiah 53:10.

Birth Living Mediatorship to Eternally Preserve Freedom & Unite All Incompatibilities.

Be Made Sin, Trial Proof that only knowing God makes one happy.

Create an Eternal Royal Priesthood for Father.

Create Eternal Fellowship-with-Father Structure and Function for all creation.

Design Kingdom Structures for Rule in Church, Millennium, Eternity.

Become the Highest Person in every category.

Divinely Fulfill First Commandment under maximum unfairness, but in His Humanity!


Pretty impressive accomplishment, huh. You know, we humans always underestimate God's Standards, Abilities, Desires — and most of all, His Intensiveness. Like Abraham once did, we're always thinking 'too small'. Truth is one of the Divine Attributes. So, it is also a Standard. So, there is such a thing as God 'obeying' His Own Standard. Now: think of how big God is. What would He really want? What would He want to do? What would They want? What would They want to Have? Had God made us differently, we'd not be free. If not free, then not persons, but rather something like pets, marionettes. Would Love, love that? Of course not. If we don't even enjoy being around the stupid, how much less, God?

Intimacy Key→ The Cornerstone Christ is not only the Payor, but the Model, the Embodiment of all God intended for angels, for humans. To bless them by association, by spiritual growth, Freely, to be "Like" and With — the Most High. It takes one's breath away to know the Godhead Subjected Themselves To The Worst Testing Ever — the Cross! So that They could justifiably and freely develop like-minded beings, by pouring Themselves out onto them: Romans 5:5-11. God's "Evidence Test" of Himself! Sacrificing His Own Son! So to be able to say "So, What?" to the forever-in-Their-Minds-Knowledge of creation's pain! Was ever there a Love as Great as This One? He could have done it the easy way, and just spoken "Be!" and it would be! But oh noooooo — He chose the Hardest Way!

So now we see the meaning of Romans 5:8: "God demonstrates His Love for us: in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died as a Substitute for us." ("As a Substitute for" is the corrected translation of "huper", a Greek substitutionary preposition. Seminaries mandate that their Greek students chop "huper" to a simple "for", because of the truly-insane rule that one Greek word is only allotted one English word in translation. Never mind that to the English reader, such a chopping destroys the Greek meaning that salvation is totally "finished" and complete due to the Cross. After all, "substitute" means substitute — not "discount"! If something substituted, then nothing else is needed, and nothing can be 'lost'. Who didn't like grace, to invent such an insane rule? Hmmm, maybe Satan?) The rest of the Chapter goes on to explain how His So-Great Sacrifice was: heh, Love loves to pour out! Hebrews 5:8-9, "He learned through what He suffered" is a Greek paronomasia! Christ says He 'got paid learning' — by suffering! He associates the Cross with Getting Something He Wanted, in the very act of it! (Greek "emathen" is "learned"; Greek "epathen" means "suffered". It's like the American phrase, "cry all the way to the bank." Mocks any "cost". Very funny.) Hebrews 12:2 says it also: "joy set before Him" refers to the Cross — as a joy! 'Not a sacrifice. It really should say "because of His Exhibited Happiness", in English. The 'joy' is His, not some external set out in front of Him.

Dana Carvey's Church Lady

Love Key→ See His Testimony? If you do something you greatly love, do you call it, "sacrifice"? Heck, no. Why? Because you associate what you love so deeply with any "cost", the "cost" Only Heightens The Love-Pleasure. How much happiness must one have, to so conclude a "cross", joy! So much so, you want to go on suffering? Like Paul said, "to have the fellowship of His Sufferings" — that's Profit, a gain! Not a sacrifice. To the word "sacrifice", not-Love says, "oh, what it's costing me!" But Love says: "Thank You!" Love is grateful for the cost, as it provides an added way to pour self out. Why? Because Love already got paid: seeing Him via Doctrine. Christ had a whole, glorious Life of seeing the Father. He needed an Outlet to Spend what He'd already received! See? Self-merit doesn't even get a glance. (Hebrews 12:2, Nehemiah 8:10, Proverbs 29:18.)

The Lord laughs first in Hebrews 10:5, on the Day of His Birth: "Father, Sacrifice and Offering You did not desire, but a Body you prepared for Me!" Love laughs at sacrifice. Love loves. What sacrifice is that? Hebrews 10:5 is awesomely humorous, on so many levels. 'Can't translate them all. Think over the word-play on transitional particle "de" in Greek. See how different is the attitude, when merit is not the issue? Love laughs at sacrifice: "He is not ashamed to call them (us) brothers." (Hebrews 2.)

Counter-Love Key→ A merit-thinking person (like Satan) needs to pat himself on the back, needs to think himself worthy. So any 'cost' is never allowed to be a joy, must always be a sacrifice, lest self-worth be threatened. Love is not so encumbered. A merit-thinking person defines "righteousness" as something to earn, to get self-worth. The righteousness itself has no other value to him. Whatever its intrinsic content, the merit-thinking person appropriates only to praise himself, so doesn't appreciate righteousness for itself. By contrast, love loves righteousness itself, for its own intrinsic content, and enjoys it, never accrediting the self — because if you're loving something, you love it. If you hate a thing, you have to credit yourself to slog through and do the thing you hate. It's that simple a difference. So anyone claiming self-merit, hates. No middle ground.

So, Christ proves it's not about power, so it's not about rights; it's not about power, so it's not about merit. It's not about power, so it's not about being-good-as-God for the sake of claiming any rights. Love doesn't love based on rights: who wants to be loved, due to rights? That's like being loved solely because of one's attractiveness, or possessions. Satan's argument had been precisely that love ought to be based on attractiveness, and rights. Satan's argument had been that power, not love, was the more important. Satan's argument had been that love comes from power, rather than power, from love. So Satan wanted to divorce the Most High, and thus rebelled, on the grounds that the Most High's standards were evil.


Each God's Evidence Test of Himself!

Juridical Jeopardy! Do we recognize that even the Godhead staked everything on Jesus' Willingness to Pay what is unfair to ask Him to pay? Under The Worst Possible Temptations? Think of it: had He chosen not to pay, it would not have been a sin — what did He owe the Father? Nothing: He'd not sinned, Himself. It was a Gift — or, nothing. Can't make Him pay. He Has The Right To Say "No". Think of the ramifications had He said "no"! God would forego being paid, and all mankind would have ceased to continue. Only those already-born would exist: those who believed, well — Righteousness would honor their having believed, despite not being paid, right? For it doesn't dent God if He's not paid. He doesn't really need it. The payment is a juridical thing, an honor thing. So, Himself honoring, God would basically live forever unpaid, had Christ said "no". Christ Himself, inseparably united to His Deity forever from birth onward, would maybe forever be at odds with Himself. And then again, maybe not. It's His Right to say no. One could well argue the converse, that it would have been a sin to say no to Father's Will, on the grounds that even a Perfect Human is not Infinite. On the other hand, the Father's Will is that it be a Gift, not a coerced or owed thing, and being Sinless, Christ really didn't owe anything. God isn't like us humans who say "gift", but then get ticked off if none given.

What a hellish thing for the Godhead to risk! And, it couldn't have been a sham! What a hellish thing for the Christ to continually know, every breathing second, awake or asleep — could anyone live with such a burden, even before the Cross? Think of the burden He faced: could you survive five minutes, knowing even the Godhead staked Their Own Getting Paid on you?

All this flummoxes Satan so completely, he reversed the apodosis and protasis in the Third Temptation's Greek (Matthew 4). Satan can't understand the Absoluteness of Love (and we can't, either). God had wanted Satan (and us) to grow bigger, so Satan could have the Full Blessing designed for him, rather than the smaller one he'd kept wanting.


But God reasons thus:

Should not God have a Full Blessing, Himself? Shall He Who wanted a Far Greater Blessing for all He created, shall He not also have Full Blessing, Himself? Who else wants to share in that Full (Greek: "Pleroma") Blessing? Who else will freely choose to be grown up in Love? Sadly, like Abraham, Satan had wanted too little. But, unlike Satan, Abraham kept growing in Love.

And Christ? He Did The Impossible! He grew up Fully (Greek verb: "πληρόω") in Love! Whereas Abraham had wanted 'just one' son, but got whole nations of sons, God wanted a whole universe of "sons" — and got them. Through Christ. Who totally grew up in Love. Christ, Who reasoned thus, on the Cross:

Is Righteousness Righteous, if not gorgeous? No! Is Righteousness Righteous, if anything at all can 'dent' it? No! Righteousness must endure maximum unRighteousness! Yet Righteousness must be fully paid! All at the same time! Else, Righteousness is not Righteousness. But Righteousness is fully paid at all times, by Gorgeously Righteous Truth! See? Love Associates Everything With Truth, Righteousness. Therefore it is Free To Associate With Unrighteousness, Unconditionally. And thus incurs no cost, even when enduring maximum cost, because prepaid by the Gorgeousness of the Truth. Talk about the ultimate in cost-benefit accounting!

So He kept on reasoning, thus: Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Gorgeous! Sine qua non of Life! For if something can 'dent' Love, is it Love? No! Love wouldn't be Gorgeous, then! Yet should Love love without mediation? No! Love wouldn't be Gorgeous, then! So Gorgeous truth, doctrine mediates Love and makes it Gorgeous to Love, by forging a 'marriage' between Love and Righteousness and Justice — so Love becomes Inviolable Integrity, Gorgeous! Glorious! For, 'The Lord Loves Justice.' Chesed and emeth march in advance, on point!

Complete Integrity. Even in the face of maximum repugnance, like Hell. Forever. Love is thus free to express itself Fully And Without Compromise, Love is thus free to love dending to the Gorgeousness of Truth. Good Truth, Bad Truth, Any Truth, Because Truth. Love is thus free to love despite even maximum repugnance; Love is thus free to love despite the pressure of maximum attraction. All 'competing' loves thus have 'compartments', each of which is Full, and Inviolable. So, Love can even love Satan & Co. So, Love can even love unbelievers in Hell. So, Love can even love apostate believers. So, Love can even love fully-advanced believers. All Loves Are Exploited; no compartment 'bleeds' into another, no compartment harms another. Love can fully live! And so He did, even on the Cross!

Sources for this paraphrased 'reasoning' come from the plays-on-words/concepts, in at least the following passages. Love-for-Truth-and-Righteousness Attitude: Psalm 33:5, Psalm 89:14, Psalm 138:2b; 1 Timothy 2:5 compared with 1 Timothy 3-6, Philippians 2:5-10, Psalm 22 (inclusive), Numbers 11:23, Isaiah 43:25, and His Theophanies, especially with Abraham and Moses. Gain-for-Self Attitude: Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 1 and 2, inclusive; Hebrews 7-10, inclusive; Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 1, inclusive; Ephesians 3:15-21; and all "Footstool" verses. Additionally, Isaiah and the Old Testament writers often equate the Members of the Godhead by talking about One of them then switching to Another within the same sentence, paragraph, or section, but not changing the Name used, i.e., still using "He" or "Elohim" or especially, "YHWH". This clever and tender switching shows not only Identicality of Essence, but Identicality of Thinking. Utter Rapport. That's such an utterly gorgeous rhetorical device for stating Trinity (albeit confusing to the reader of translated Bible) that I emulate it in my pages: here, putting what Christ thought on the Cross, under the same "section" as "But God reasons thus". I got the "but God reasons thus" from Isaiah 53:10's paralleling Father's "wa YHWH haphets" with "wuh hephets YHWH" of the Son. Each One states His Contract reasons in that verse. Holy Spirit is included, since Holy Spirit would be empowering the One who will add a "hand" (bayado, in the verse).

Accordingly, Each Member of the Godhead even put Themselves to the Evidence Test, given the Gorgeousness of the Truth! To fulfill Freedom, Love, Justice Unity! Remember the first chart in "Freedom, Love and Justice Unity Key"? Father Son and Spirit all contract with Each Other to Make Sons. The Truth is so Gorgeous, They want to share their Very Essence with angels, humans! For what Gorgeousness is it, to have fellowship with beings too small? It's not Gorgeous for them, nor for Us! So They wanted the impossible: "sons", Galatians 3:26.

  • Since They are free, we are free, Galatians 5:1.
  • Since They know, we can know, 1 Corinthians 13:12.
  • Since They are Righteous, we can be made Equally Righteous, Genesis 15:6, Romans 4, 2 Corinthians 5:21.
  • Since They Love, we can Love, Romans 5:5, 1 John 4:19. "Love" in translated Bibles should be translated "Divine Love". Greek "agape" never means human love.
  • Since they are Omnipotent, we can receive Omnipotence in Christ, Ephesians 1:19-20, Philippians 2:13, Colossians 1:11, Philippians 4:13.
  • Since They are Whole, we can be whole, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 6:15, 2 Corinthians 13:11, Hebrews 13:21, Ephesians 4:12-13 (mistranslated).
  • In sum, since They can make us come to share Their Essence, They can horizontally exploit Their Perfection: through "sons", Hebrews 2:10, Ephesians 1:3-4.
  • Because, the most Gorgeous One's Thinking can be 'cloned' into us to the extent we want Him, 1 Peter 2:21 (ὑπολιμπάνω ὑπογραμμός, very witty), 2 Peter 3:18, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Philippians 2:5-10, Galatians 4:19, Ephesians 3:17-19, Ephesians 4:13 (!), Colossians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 13:9-13, 1 Corinthians 1:5 (Greek), 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 2:14-15, many other verses. 2 Corinthians 5:21, Titus 3:5, John 3:16, John 10:28, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Romans 5:5, 1 Corinthians 10:17, Ephesians 3:6, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 12:8-10, 2 Peter 1:4, 1 John 3:2 are but a few more verses showing that we acquire Divine Attributes that God imputes to us and builds via Bible deposited in our souls. Romans 8 is the flagship book on that building. Ephesians 1 is the contract for it, "every spiritual blessing" clause especially. The concept of "sharing" is in Isaiah 53:12. If His Attributes weren't going into us, then we couldn't live forever nor with Him. Hence the need to be born from above to become a spiritual being (God is Spirit), get Eternal Life (God is Eternal Life), get Divine Righteousness (e.g., 2 Corinthians 5:21). Becoming Truth and Love Romans 5:5, is a post-salvation function repeated over the rest of your life, as Romans 8 explains.

Omnipotence can do whatever God wants. So this entire creation thingy demonstrates what God wants to do. Christian theology is forever constraining God, oversimplifying Him into "God can't be unRighteous", etc. Of course He can be UnRighteous if He wanted to be. But He doesn't want that, doesn't like it. His Attributes don't constrain Him to like or dislike anything, that's His Sovereignty choosing what to want or not want, totally free of influence by His Other Attributes. Sure, God is undivided in nature. But that doesn't mean imprisoned by His Nature. Else, He'd not be Omnipotent, get it? God's Undividedness of Nature would mean that Sovereignty is undivided too, so God would not be influenced by any other attribute, as that would make Him less Sovereign. So the Sovereignty being undivided means the other attributes are all governed by Sovereignty. Conundrum solved!

So God could choose to make us all little happy Stepford wives, perfectly obedient and happy from the get-go. In fact, that's what Satan says God should have done, charging God with being sadistic for making him, the angels (and now we humans) go through this Grow-Up-In-Love process. It's extremely painful to deny the self, to always see one's own inadequacy. And that never changes, perfect or imperfect, since finity is never ever going to be as good as Infinite Righteousness. Yet God replies, "free! Freely choose how much you want to be with Me and like Me, and I'll flat give it to you!" One line at a time, to be sure, since we live one moment at a time. It's the slowness of growth that hurts, always having to choose for or against God. But then it's free, truly. That's His Reasoning, and why He doesn't choose to instantly create us into obedience from inception. Free "sons" is what He wants instead, Hebrews 2:10, Ephesians 2:10. Freely-Joined, Associating, Bonding, Connected-by-Doctrine Extrapolated For-Father! Governing Highness Integrity-Love Togetherness is what He wants. Not performance. He can bing the performance, any time He likes.

Oh, but there was an awesome price to pay, to get these "sons". In fact, it was a stone 'too heavy' for God to lift, because it would be unRighteous for God to lift it. So the-Most-Beloved would have to be "lifted", to pay the awesome price!?! Oh — what if We only made Him? (Confer Exodus 32:10.) So We'd not have to judge Him? Our Only (created) Son? Must even God suffer judging His Only Son, to get "sons"?

Why shouldn't Christ have said "no" to the Cross, to spare His Father the pain of imputing sin and judging Him? He was certainly free to do so. Had He changed His Mind, there'd be no "sons". Isn't sparing Father pain worth more than "sons"? A sane person would conclude that: it's even moral. Satan concluded that in the Third Temptation of Matthew 4: Satan's nothing, if not moral.

Think of the Integrity of God — for, had His Humanity changed His Mind, the Godhead would become Satan's to rule forever. And the Godhead would have freely submitted to Satan, it would have been Righteous to do so. Those who believed in the Son would of course still receive the promised blessings, since Integrity never welshes. In short, even the Godhead would choose to forever forego just recompense for sin, if Christ did not want to pay. In short, even the Godhead would choose 'hell' for Self, if Christ did not want to pay. No influence, no gerrymandering, no rationalizing, no 'rigging the deck'. Free. That's Integrity! That's Our God! For "the Lord loves Justice". His Sovereign Standard, which God Himself Freely, Inviolately, Forever, 'obeys'! Without even the slightest "shadow of a turning", ever.


So, all was staked on Christ. By the Godhead. Here, even God's Own Integrity Components were tested Infinitely! Just for the love of it! Look: Righteousness takes Responsibility for sin (imputation, Isaiah 53:5a's "pierced", tamely translated "wounded" in some English versions). Justice makes Junction (juridical contact) with sin (judging, Isaiah 53:5b's "crushed", lamely translated "bruised" in some English versions). Love stakes Lordness (Godness), all! on the One Judged for sin (Isaiah 53:10ff). Freely, honestly.

Freedom, Truth. If it's not free, then it's not Truth. If it's not free, then it doesn't matter what's the Truth. But if it's Truth, it's Free, and any Truth is then worth dying for. Good Truth, Bad Truth, Any Truth, Because Truth. Because Truth is Gorgeous. Because Truth is Gorgeous, no matter what kind of Truth it is. God thus tells us that if this risk weren't taken, it's not worthwhile to even be God. It works or it doesn't, but if no risk taken, then the Truth is shaved. Love would never love that.

Thus even the Godhead Sovereignly Subject Themselves to Truth, Psalm 138:2b. No matter what it 'costs'. Why? For the Truth is — Doctrine! Gorgeous! Worth it! Think over the enormity of Their Risk, here. Thus you will see the enormity of Their Love: for Freedom, for Righteousness — even for us. Without compromise, Love Can Fully Live. Even in "sons".

That's what Father Fathered in Christ for the human race (confer Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 53:5-6,11, Isaiah 63:11-16, fabulous Hebrew wordplay): the potential to grow that much, in Love. That's what the angels were designed to have. That's what Satan & Co. were designed to have. Because the Truth is, the Doctrine is, the Glory is:

It's Only About Integrity Love!



Consequently God Trumps Satan's arguments by making the Son's Humanity into "sin" (confer 2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Peter 3:18, 1 Peter 2:24, Hebrews 10:1-14). Not even Satan could tempt Christ so much, since Satan has no power to impute and judge sins. All of the knowledge-and-power covenantal levels have now been exploited, upon the Ascension. Technically the Trial should be over, with only the 57 years promised to harvest Gentiles and play out Tribulation, remaining until Satan gets locked up. Then, the Millennium. For God has demonstrated why Satan's wrong in his claim that God made rational creation as a pet (i.e., defective). Moreover, Satan's petting (and petty!) plan never made man happy, however much the persons had in goodies, merit, strength, talent, morality. Yet even the lowliest of sinners found more happiness with God. Yet, even the lowest of jacobs could grow to greater integrity, hence more beneficial to mankind — an "israel", a prince, a blessing-by-association. Yet, even the Highest One, Christ, preferred to cast aside His Perfection, not thinking it a gain to be seized and held (Philippians 2:6-7, Greek), instead 'spending' it, so to speak, on "the ungodly". So: no good arguments remain, for the Defense (Satan & Co).

God is still on time, too. For here is the timeline:

Remember, God never coerces. The Jews did not want their King. That is why He was executed as "King of the Jews". The Zealots only wanted a political King, not God. God was supposed to be a Sugar Daddy, and this One refused. The Pharisees didn't want "competition", so they went to their most-hated enemy, the Romans, for help. After all, the Jews were under Roman rule, and didn't even have the power to execute their own people. Herod, for his part, was beholden to Rome, since it was Rome who rewarded his father with a kingdom, owing to his family ties and his loyalty to Rome during a dynastic dispute. Rome didn't continue that offer with the son, making the son only a tetrarch; which caused no end of rivalry among the always-warring Herods. (Heroes, they were not.) Moreover, Herod's father was a Hasmonean Arab, really, married to a Jewish (Hasmonean!) princess — whom he later murdered; the son but married his half-sister by that princess. So he had no desire for this Jewish upstart. The rank and file among the people were too obsessed about earthly things, so could easily be bribed to vote for the Lord's Death — in lieu of Barabbas, the revolutionary (and criminal).

Of course, as you'll later see, the Jews didn't recognize until it was too late, that they only succeeded in proving the prophecy of His Death right on time. Well, seven years early, in 30 AD --

Even so, the few who believed in Him weren't enough in number, and Church had only just begun. A king must have a sufficient number of people wanting him, in order to rule. The "numbers" issue has always been critical in the Trial, so Satan's success here was vital. If he can stop the Jews from wanting God, then he can stop Church from wanting God, and all the future covenants can't be fulfilled — which is, all the covenants, for none of them were yet fulfilled. What a coup. If not fulfilled, then God is a liar, it's a Mistrial Verdict — and Satan wins the universe. 'Wins control over the Most High. Kinda high stakes, huh?


So, now what? So, our Now:
Church, Bride, Evidence. On Trial.

Because Israel rejected Him, the calendar for history — depicted by her calendar — stopped: the Passover-Pentecost 'time bridge' promised by Mosaic Law between 37 and 94 AD, was "out". So the Trial would be lost. Accordingly, a year before He knew He would die (near Passover 29 AD), Christ Invented a New Bride, partly to bridge that time gap: in Matthew 16:18 He announced "Church" would be grafted in. John 14+ cover the upcoming Church, passim. To replace the Israel who was to be His Wife (confer Isaiah 54:5 and similar passages), the Lord Jesus Christ paid for this Church, having ratified the contract just before He was arrested, in John 17 (especially John 17:20-21). The commitment itself is the "I will build My Church" verse, Matthew 16:18, which Paul quotes in 1 Corinthians 10:4 so Bible confirms the meaning.

In 29 AD, Satan was surprised. Grounds for a Mistrial Verdict, Jesus is handing a bill of divorcement to Israel! Wait! Maybe this is to my advantage! 'Church?' To wholly replace Israel, thus not keeping His Promises? No, not to replace Israel, but in addition to Israel. Vashti had been set aside, not cast out. Israel would be set aside, not cast out. Esther would be grafted in, and would rescue all the inheritance promises despite Vashti's rejection. So a new Queen is used by the King, to preserve everything previously decreed for the Kingdom. By creating, a Sister Kingdom, later called "two walls" in Ephesians 2, and two Kingships, in the Book of Hebrews. All which Christ Himself voted for in Matthew 16:18, ratified just before the Cross in John 17:20-21, and Father endorsed, on the Cross.

Now, that second kingship — Psalm 110, from eternity past, related to defeating Satan — meant Satan would have to agree to it also. After all, Christ defeated Satan, but Israel had not; rather, Israel had endorsed Satan. Hence the need for a New Bride, which thus under Trial terms would require the Adversary's consent (both sides in the Trial must first agree on what constitutes admissible evidence).

This 'Church' was to be a complement, a Body, a Bride to Christ's Humanity, due to His Battlefield Victory against Satan. (See Colossians 1:16ff., Ephesians 1-3, and Hebrews 1, Hebrews 2, Hebrews 9-11 on that sentence.) So, the "new covenant" would have a brother covenant, such that the two together, joined at the Cornerstone, would make the very world Satan kept trying to achieve.

Satan ponders: Hmmm. This new "Church", a Bride? Hold on, now. Brides must have sufficient status, to warrant Royal marriage. They should have the same spiritual life as the Groom! So they must undergo the same trials! Jesus won against me, and therefore this Bride must also, else the marriage is unequally-mated, and against Trial rules. He's bigger due to paying for this Church, so this Church should undergo the same Trial Jesus did! Satan smacks his lips. No way fallen man can handle the killer thought-life the Lord had. No way. No way. Man couldn't even keep the Law, which was paint-by-numbers stuff — Satan winces — no way man will learn to bring every thought into captivity, like Jesus did. No way. Man can't control his thoughts for two seconds, let alone grow to such a stature, his mind run by Scripture — freely? No way. Hmmm. I can make Him fail not only to get Israel, Now, but also — this 'Church'! Ha!

"I agree to this New Bride, but there are terms," Satan says, and then spells them out.
I can't say which of terms governing Church's covenants are of God's Direct Design and which ones are due to Satan's objections. God foreknowing all, would have incorporated what He foreknew were Satan's objections into the design indirectly, provisions or potential provisions which would be the same whether Satan raised the objections or not. Every objection Satan raises is based on a valid issue, so design would always deal with valid issues. The problem with Satan is that he won't carry out the answers far enough. So God always ends up finishing his answers, for him.

God of course readily agreed to the terms as per in the "Covenant Properties" section, summarized here as blocks.


Rapture occurs when Church is built to His Maturity Level, Ephesians 4:13.

Old Testament scrapped, redone in Christ, upgraded.

Church Spiritual Life = His, Indwelt & Filled, Inner-First, Get His Mind, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Peter 3:18.

Cross was Last, so "works" are last, but learn Him is First.

Church Completion causes pre-Tribulation Rapture.

Church is New Trial Evidence: thus Satan gets second chance for Mistrial. So Rapture's pre-Tribulation, can't predict it.

Church Completion is prerequisite for all Future covenants (from Old Testament), Hebrews 11:40.

Tribulation believers look back on Church, mixed blessing: denial of pre-Tribulation Rapture leaves paper trail harming millions in Tribulation.

Millennial presence of Church will bless, as our 'wifely' role then is to rule Gentile nations.


Satan smacks his lips. Hmmm. Elohim agrees to my terms? For fallen humans? But they're animals. What kind of trick is this? Even we angels never had a spiritual life as did Jesus. His Royal Spiritual Life, far beyond the Law — what fallen human could execute it? This is totally and utterly impossible. No way God wins, Now. He's shigaon! He does the impossible, pays for sins — then flubs his victory by commanding the same spiritual life to fallen man? Oh, I was right all along! He really needs me to rule Him. And I will — oh how I will!

Satan believes the Lord's Human Perfection contributed to His Success at the Cross. He disbelieves what he knows: that the Spirit enabled Christ, Who didn't use even His Human Power. Satan thus still thinks something's rotten-in-Denmark, so to speak; or, that God's stupid. For to Satan, such Love is stupid, in the extreme: a truly-omnipotent God can't be God and love this much, can He? Therefore Satan disbelieves that our having sin natures, is no hindrance.

See how flummoxed Satan is? See how he doesn't 'get it': Christ proved that it doesn't matter how low a creature is, because creature power isn't even needed or used! For, the real problem is Unity With Infinity, which only Infinity can solve! Unity with Infinity is the real problem Christ solved. So it never matters that we've sinned; but only matters if we use His Thinking, which only the Holy Spirit enables. Sin means you're not filled with the Spirit, so you won't be able to learn or use His Thinking, so obviously you don't want to sin. In fact, it's a far worse effect if you don't name your sins to God, because not only is the sin obstructing, but while in a state of sin you are refusing the Holy Spirit's enabling power to make you in Christ's Thinking. So believers in Church have far more to lose post-salvation, than if they never believed. It's no cake walk, because we're permanently saved.

So now what? So, Our Now — in part 3, prepare to gasp. For you are in the worst and best time in all human history. As "Bride".




Inset for Part 3: Tips To Maximize Your Daily Spiritual Life

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Tips To Maximize Your Daily Spiritual Life

Basically, the daily spiritual life is using the steps in "1 John outlines God's Script". God's System gives you a short-yet-comprehensive overview to complement Part 1. Additionally, if you are truly serious about learning God — and don't do this unless it's Him Who interests you — the tips below will make learning Him most profitable:

  1. The key to rapid growth is to learn to habitually monitor your thinking. Create two habits: first, use 1 John 1:9 like breathing telling God "I've sinned" as many times a day as needed. Chances are you are sinning and don't know it, for there are a bazillion ways to sin, now. So, whenever something bothers you, or you're feeling a tad cocky, learn to "associate" that feeling with using 1 John 1:9. Big hint: whatever 'sins' to which you react, those are the ones which you are sinning, too. Paul showed this point to his audience in Romans 2, when he said, "Do you steal?" See, they were reacting to thieves, but they were stealing the Word from its rightful place in their lives! Another Dramatic Example: Moral degeneracy reacts against immorality because the moral degenerate is fornicating with idolized works! (See the Lord's comments about the Pharisees. Isaiah has some scathing sermons on this topic, passim. Paul does, too, in Galatians. See also "whose god is their emotion" clause in Philippians 3.)

Maybe set a voice alarm on your phone or computer to awaken you with 1 John 1:9 reminders, and for others you find helpful. Also, I use 1 John 1:9 before saying grace — every time I put something in my mouth. So, physical food is associated now with Divine Food, heh: I got that idea from Matthew 4:4. Maybe that habit will help you, too — you decide.

Another great monitoring device: pray as often as you can in your thoughts, talking to God 24/7 is paramount for spiritual growth whether it's mundane or thinking out heavy doctrinal questions. Prayer has many "offices": it's 'conversation', for God always 'replies' so you can learn more about His Son; it's a Crown Prince (you) expressing his Royal Voting (Opinion, request) Prerogative to the Father (confer Romans 5:1); best of all, it's awareness of Him, and that awareness will shield you from temptation (because temptation becomes ever-more-boring compared to looking at Him). So, of course there's a royal protocol for it: all prayer is addressed to the Father, just as Christ does in John 17; because we are bought by Christ, we pray in the name of Christ; of course, be online using 1 John 1:9 during the prayer, and make sure what you ask lines up with doctrine. This protocol is due to the fact that we are "boldly before the Throne of Grace" so it's also a celebration, besides the proper recognition of authority. Christ did nothing apart from the Father's Will on it, so of course we shouldn't, either. Hence the protocol. Caution: If you ask for something you shouldn't, God might just give it to you to show you why it's no good! For, prayer is truly a weapon, truly effective, you have authority, too! It's the Royal authority and Royal intimacy the Lord bought for us which constitute the heart of the meaning of prayer. See, we are Royal Priests under the Lord. We are thus given tremendous power. Use it wisely: and the only way to learn how to use it wisely, is to practice with real prayer, while online with the Spirit!

Study the John 17 prayer carefully. Note both structure and tone: analytical, tracing the integrity of the doctrinal bases through to their conclusions; intimate; confident; succinct; thorough. Note how He's not saying some set prayer (the inane bane of religion), but is actually thinking. Note how the Lord's Requests aim at uppermost goals, rather than specific mechanics. Note how ordered His Thought process is, and how He doesn't use flowery words or empty phrases ("pray not as the Gentiles do, with their many words", He'd told the disciples). Note also how He's not shy about saying what He wants; note how His statements have the form of acknowledgement, honor. See, God needs no chanting, Uriah Heeps!

Second, "Baptize" (associate) whatever you see, hear, or think with something you know of Christ, of God, of the Bible. Make it a game, the way Christ did! For, such "baptizing" is thoroughly enjoyable. With practice, doctrinal association becomes a nuclear weapon against sin, as well as for more joy than you can imagine. This habit is the ultimate goal for all thoughts, the way to bring them into captivity to Christ. It is this habit which sustained Christ on the Cross, and thus enabled Him to think divinely, so to pay for our sins. For every thought, there will be a verse, or a doctrine "ruling" on it. Heh, God's Opinion! So you're "hearing" Him! Okay, How right is the thought? How wrong is it? What to do with it? Remember the First Commandment: God the Father hears each thought you think: will He be pleased? Will the Spirit groan at your thinking too much about "earthly things"? So, how to exploit, rule on that thought? See? You're ruling! And They hear you! Granted, it's extremely difficult to do, this association, but you'll grow to love it: promise. Also, your spiritual life depends on this habit being developed. So, begin now, with whatever doctrine you know. Play with it, have a good time!

Don't worry if you believe something incorrectly, when you associate. Don't become "anal" (abbreviation for a psychiatric term), quibbling over how you messed up. No athlete starts out competent. Practice practice practice. (I like to think of this as spiritual racquetball — you substitute your favorite sport, heh.) Start small, if this task seems too daunting. You don't have to get it "right" overnight. Practice a little more, try to keep it a game. (God means for this to become enjoyable, so don't grit your teeth.) For example, start by just being aware of what you are thinking, what motivates you. Not all thoughts which "hit" are really yours, but are picked up from outside of you (i.e., from news, your body, others). So don't fret over what might seem a bad thought. Attempt to use 1 John 1:9 as often as possible — that will help develop your awareness. It will keep you on-line with the Spirit, too, which is essential. If you don't stay on-line, you're Satan fodder. Count on it. Satan & Co. are sending you thoughts all the time and will try to do deter you from the truth. So you need the protection 1 John 1:9 affords.

  1. Try to keep an open mind to any doctrine you hear, and learn under the Spirit (1 John 1:9, a frequent habit). Even a "wrong" doctrine will yield added insight regarding 'correct' ones you've already learned; if you're uncertain of certain doctrines just pocket them until God sends the information you eventually need to iron it out. You'll be pleasantly surprised. So, you don't have to feel threatened by any falsehood you might hear. Try to figure out how that falsehood is created: what verse is used, what's the logic behind the interpretation? It's very profitable. You don't need to 'protect' yourself. Of course, you might find out that what you thought was a falsehood, proves true after all. Ahhh, then you really profit, big time. That's what God's Plan in Christ is all about: "the Riches" verses.

If you are still under the authority of your parents, and they insist you learn under their choice of pastor, then that's what God wants, too — for now. It doesn't matter if that pastor seems (or even is) wrong. If you are no longer under the authority of your parents, find a pastor-teacher (God will show you who He's appointed for you). Study under him, if possible, daily (no more than an hour, lest you burn out). Don't worry too much about where your pastor might be wrong, or right. In the early stages, being under authority does you the greater good, in God's hierarchy of values. Just as it didn't matter that your parents weren't perfect, so also it doesn't matter that your pastor isn't perfect. Nor, of course, does it matter that you aren't perfect.

Any errors will be shown to you as time passes: God "waits" until you are ready to get the correction. He's very good at making a correction clear — often, with humor! So this is fun — not dreary. Remember, God's out to make you happy — not to make you "sacrifice". So you don't have to worry about making mistakes. Christ died so you could grow — not so you could become paralyzed by guilt, like the paralytic in Matthew 9. Not so you could become obsessed with other believers' false ideas or sins, like the Pharisees. But so that you could "grow in Grace, and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Savior"... 2 Peter 3:18. Look at that verse — it ends with glory. So will you, if you keep on learning Him. That pleases the Father. That obeys the First Commandment. So it doesn't matter that you will make mistakes, during your learning of Him.

What does matter: don't be bull-headed, don't be discouraged, don't give in to the peasant-argument you should be out there hustling for the Lord. Or, if you slip up (and we all do!), use 1 John 1:9. The Lord has a lot bigger job in mind for the Church, than Satan's cheap "Brother Foot" garbage. After all, works are just a mask for rebellion against God. So "works" is a minefield. Bible Doctrine will become your minefield detector — if if if you learn it. Then you will be "mature, thoroughly furnished unto all good works". Not before. ("ἄρτιος" is variously translated in English Bibles. It means sufficiently-trained, hence mature.)

  1. "Let patience have its completing work" as James counsels in James 1. Keep plugging in your study. At the right time(s), God will give you plenty to "do" for others — of far greater importance than you can imagine, now. 'Far greater than if you were Bill Gates, and gave all the money away. God blesses plodders; for, just as He elected to become a plodder, plodding with our shortfall, our sins, our weaknesses, so also He elects to bless those who plod along despite the unending obstacles of life (pleasant, or unpleasant, all of life is a type of obstacle to seeing Him first).
  1. Claim that promise! Create your own list of favorite promises in the Bible: my pastor counsels his congregation to make promise notebooks of their own, meaningful to them. One of my longtime favorites is Psalm 46:10: "Be still: and know that I am God." Rest! "Knowing this": because the Bible is the Word of God, it is 100% infallible, coherent, inerrant. So, every verse ties to every other verse. It's not possible to get a whole doctrine out of only one verse. So, it takes time to learn. You'll get the time: you're royal, and need it! By the way: Don't get tangled up in the many idiotic claims that the Bible has this-or-that 'flaw': those claims only end up proving the Word of God more inerrant and infallible than you already knew! You'll be tempted to prove the claims wrong — don't bother. God the Holy Spirit will do that for you. He does it humorously. He "waits" until you've enough understanding, and — for fun! — will suddenly 'remind' you of some long-forgotten old chestnut, thus vindicating His Word. Then, you'll smile. Save time, then, and just focus on learning the Word. Save the naysayers embarrassment, too, once you do know where they're wrong: they need the grace of time to learn privately, on their own, where they flubbed up. Just like we did.
  1. Give top priority to first learning the following key doctrines: Salvation, Essence of God and Trinity, Hypostatic Union, Ministries of the Spirit, spiritual mechanics (habitual use of 1 John 1:9 and study under one's pastor-teacher — 1 John Script); claiming promises, 1 John 1:9. The last two help keep you stable while you learn the first six. So, at first just "do" 1 John 1:9 and study under your pastor, even before you understand why those two functions are valid.

Salvation is the first doctrine to learn, because Scripture's authors frequently use it as an analogy to explain more-advanced teachings. They are building on the basics, building on what you would first know. For example, the term itself (sozo, verb; sotereia, cognate noun) has a wide variety of meanings: to save, to deliver, to save from, to deliver from, to save to, to deliver to, to save (accumulate), to save (cost), etc etc etc. So, careful review of the verses with these words in them shows that "save" and "salvation" have every kind of meaning, because saved to-Heaven begets every other kind of saving and delivering, down here! Doctrine learned 'saves' you from sin, for example, in that it delivers you from carnality (one of seven types of 'death' in Scripture), because you are looking at the doctrine more than looking at the temptation; hanging on to the rope of Doctrine ('rope' being a metaphor for a type of Hebrew word for 'faith' in the Old Testament), and being pulled out of the chasm of sin. Saved, as in saving money, too: for, Doctrine is ultimate wealth ("riches" and "wisdom" verses). So you are saved and saving and being saved constantantly, in the sense that you are always growing in wealth if you keep using 1 John 1:9 and study under your right pastor.

It's downright humorous, all these plays on "save": like Paul told Timothy to save something, "guard the noble deposit" (Bible Doctrine). Since guarding is for the purpose of saving something from attack or harm: 🤣, we save Doctrine? Yep, we do! Hoarding it, even, delivering it from being a mere book in a hotel room drawer, "redeeming the time"! See all the fabulous wordplay you can make with "save"? Awesome, beautimous Doctrine!

My pastor often alludes to this use of 'save' by means of a doctrine he teaches I find more 'saving' than almost all the others: what he calls, "the Four Decisions". The moniker references the structure of the Lord's Decision to take on Humanity (1 Timothy 2:5, Greek), and also, His Thinking on the Cross: atonement, propitiation, reconciliation and redemption. Doctrine constantly does all these things when used: an inviolable spiritual law — for God, and for you.

Sadly, many Christians don't recognize the writers' use of salvation as analogy-building-block. As a consequence, Christians thus draw wrong conclusions, e.g., that one can lose salvation, that salvation requires more than only believing once, etc. For example, Paul teaches eternal security by means of a fortiori logic in Romans 5:1-11, then builds on that to show how the royal rewards tie in, in the second half of Romans 5 — but again, starting with our death in Adam, and salvation. Check it out...

Notice how the stress is on learning God, not trivia like whether women should have their heads covered with hats, or with long hair. (Every doctrine is important, but not all have equal priority. God is first, and by far, most Enjoyable.)

  1. Folks who know me personally tell me they find my pastor's Integrity series books helpful, in providing an outline they can use to target an integrated overview, in their own studies. My pastor's church never: reveals names (e.g., sells out lists), asks for money, sends you mail you didn't first request. The latest Integrity Books don't reflect his teaching after 1996, which colossally upgraded how Divine Love Motive and Doctrine learning are mutually-dependent: for that upgrade, you need to get the "1992 Spiritual Dynamics" lessons (MP3 on CD or USB), beginning in the year 1997. That's six years of daily lessons (through 2003), but you can get them free at 40 or 80 lessons per month. Church policy on the limit each month is there so people don't overstudy. They ship around the world. Again, you don't need money to get the material, and you shouldn't give until and unless you know what God says about it.
  1. Each book of the Bible is worded so to reveal how one should reason out doctrines. The New Testament epistles are especially helpful. The Book of Romans walks one through the way to think out a doctrine, step-by-step, for example. The Bible uses keywords as bookends; this helps you organize not only the definitions of biblical doctrines, but also how they interrelate. So, when reading, spot the repeated words; carefully note how they are used throughout the Bible, not just in a verse, not even just in an epistle.
  1. The Old Testament remains important, for its patterns are still "written for our benefit", says Paul (i.e., in Greek of 1 Corinthians 10:11). Sure, the Mosaic Law was set aside, but the Law of Christ incorporates most of the underlying Mosaic precepts, albeit no longer the ceremonial forms and (dietary, etc.) taboos. "For the Lord, is the Lord of the Sabbath" and we are to have a lifestyle of rest in the Word (last half of Hebrews 4). If you feel uncomfortable not following some Old Testament rule, then tentatively follow it — pending further learning, lest your conscience be troubled, the meanwhile.
  1. Thus, you learn how God's Grace works, so begin to know Him better — you're learning how He thinks, so you develop what my pastor (and others) calls Grace Orientation. The orientation (positive or negative attitude) toward the "middle" determines the meaning of one's life (wonderful, or terrible). So also, with Grace. Grace-oriented people tend to be relaxed and happy; those against grace (i.e., the ones who rail about others' sins) tend to be uptight, and mentally ill. So, becoming grace-oriented is good for your mental health, too. Saving you, heh — from a very miserable life.

The Old Testament usually provides examples of grace, as do the Gospels. These are analogous to "case law". The New Testmaent is best for learning why God's Grace works as it does. Grace orientation is a must, to rightly-divide when/if/how to do things like give to the poor, or write in the sand; to avoid getting tangled up in anger or irritation, etc. when someone or something doesn't accord with your standards.

See, we are each different. We don't all learn Truth the same way, to the same extent, on the same topic, at the same time. So you will be 'ahead' of others on some truths; they will be ahead of you on others. Even, if you are younger than they. Even, if they are younger than you. So the trick is, to "cut some slack", "give the other space", and — give yourself the space, too. For, you will also fail to meet your own standards. But, you are human. But, you can't meet Divine Standards, and every attempt you make, you will always fail. But, with each attempt you make, you get closer, if 1 John 1:9 is used, and you're studying under your right pastor. Just like with physical exercise. So, things won't meet standards, either; nor will people. Life gives us all time to get enough exercise. That's Grace!

See, if you love the Standard, you are yourself expressing that love by trying to obey that standard yourself. If you don't love the Standard, you are trying to get benefit from others obeying some standard which gives you pleasure. What hypocrisy. How common. How depraved we all are! For who of us has not been guilty of this fake-love? So, we failed our own standards, but expected others to obey? Thank God for 1 John 1:9!

So, the essence of grace is, "My standards apply to me, no matter how right they may be for others. So I must live up to them (or improve); no one else is expected to meet my standards." That's honor talking. That's honor talking. That's grace talking. That's God talking (see second half of Romans 5): for, again, the better benefit of studying is to learn how God thinks, and why He thinks as He does. It is extremely relaxing and freeing to know what Grace really is; how big it really is; how pervasive and unconditional it really is; not simpering, whimpering, wimpy or pimpy. You don't give up common sense, you don't let the criminal go free, and you don't judge him, either. Boundary lines are essential, to understanding Truth, His Seeing — and apart from grace orientation, the Christian will never make it out of spiritual childhood: such a legalist or hedonist will forever see things in black-and-white terms; that is to say, childishly. If you evaluate yourself to be in this category, don't worry, for God gives grace to grow you up (2 Peter 3:18)! So, just keep on keeping on with God's Script. For, it's okay to be a spiritual child, it's just not okay to remain there, 🤣. And you won't remain that way, if you keep on with God's Script.

  1. Grace Orientation will lead to a Doctrinal Orientation, as you keep studying. "Doctrinal orientation" means 'how God sees things, 'decides' things'. So, you'll gain a grasp of His Attitude on any topic: this is the reason to want to breathe, in my opinion. Again, the same procedures outlined above can be used to ferret out the boundary lines of doctrines. (Hint: when you see what seem to be 'contradictory' Bible verses, you've instead found a boundary line, heh.) For example, what Old Testament rules do not carry over to our "now", and why? When should you also confess some sin to the person against whom you committed it? Always? Never? Sometimes? If God is Triune, what impact does that have on His Policy? Who does what within the Godhead, and why? Learning here helps you get the data you need to form a frame of reference in decision making. Again, the better benefit is to know Him better. His View and Opinion — sheer delight. Sheer protection, too — even more protection than the Psalm 119 people exulted in having, while on the death march to Babylon.

Here's why: the Truth is Gorgeous. So Gorgeous, even the Cross was pure profit. If you want to really see why Doctrine works so very well, absorb that material, and talk with Father about it while using 1 John 1:9. The spiritual life is about learning Truth, and learning to Love Truth. God's Truth, AKA "Doctrine". Bible Doctrine. Gorgeous diamonds, which save you, and which you want to save, cherish, admire, look at forever: Him. For, as He said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life" — oh, how very true! The same yesterday, today, and forever!

So specialize in both Grace Orientation, and Doctrinal Orientation: the GODO team will 'save' you from spiritual childhood, 'deliver' you into spiritual adulthood; you won't have to wait for Godot, which is Satan's satire of God's Grace and Truth (play by Samuel Beckett)! But, if you don't want to learn GODO, then... you'll wait forever for the fantasy of works/emotionality/whatever to 'pay off'. But if you do want to learn GODO, then you will learn love. Keep on keeping on, then, for "the law came through Moses; but Grace and Doctrine, through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17); and "Confidence never disappoints, for the Love of God is poured out into our Hearts by means of the Spirit (Romans 5:5)! "Doctrine" is depicted by many keywords in Bible, like "faith", "truth", "wisdom", "Word". I'm using "Doctrine" for such words, for Truth is organized. God's Doctrine, not man's or Satan's. So also, "Hope" is a pregnant Greek word "elpis", and means "confident expectation"; Paul tweaks Plato's Philebus when he uses "ἐλπίς", for Plato had a wimpier definition of "ἐλπίς"; since, all man's doctrines are wimpy, compared with God's. Sadly, the English translators only translate παρρησία as "confidence"; so the English reader who sees "hope" gets a wimpy meaning!

  1. To most speed your development of love due to GODO, and thus prevent the "divorce" of Love from right/wrong learning (Satan's tragic flaw):

Do what David always did, ever since he was a lad keeping sheep. Remember 1 John 1:9 (cf. Psalm 32:5), and talk with God (prayer, really, but conversationally) about what you think you're learning. After all, the entire Godhead Indwell you as per "born from above". Play with the concepts, ask the Father questions, pretend you're supposed to explain the doctrine you are learning "to" Him. The Spirit won't reply in "voices" or "visions", of course, but you'll be surprised how often you suddenly see the answer. (Holy Spirit recalls to your mind doctrinal principles which answer, prove, give insight: John 14, 1 Corinthians 2.) Of all the believers I know, the most-advanced ones are always talking with Him about something. Why not? He's not a figment of our imaginations. 'Maybe don't talk to Him out loud in public, though... people won't understand ☺️

Don't avoid God, no matter how bad you feel about something; instead, pour your heart out, like David did, remembering what Peter says in 1 Peter 5:7 (Greek says throw your troubles on God as if He were a pack animal!); like the Lord poured out His Heart, in Hebrews 5:7-9. (Nerd Note: "perfect" in >Hebrews 5:9 is mistranslated — should be "completed" in spiritual growth.)

Lack of conversation with God will kill your spiritual life, even as it kills any other relationship. People don't talk much with someone if they've got a problem in the relationship. So, this is where every Christian hits his big 'glitch' in the spiritual life, so he never learns love. Instead, he gets his eyes stuck on earthly things, this world this humanity — and especially, the defects thereof. He concludes, like Satan, that self-getting ought not to permit what displeases. What a trap that is. And how difficult, to avoid! For, it's easy to love something or someone who pleases you, but not easy to love what displeases. Doctrine, Grace, Truth displease the sin nature; displease the one who wants, of his own effort, to be important before God.

Total Depravity, means we humans appropriate any "good" into a self-merit claim, rather than enjoy the "good" of whatever the thing is. Lots of humans, then, work very hard at getting good at something, but not to enjoy it; but rather, to preen over the self. It's heartbreaking to watch, for inevitably, if the goal is reached, the person ends up frustrated and empty. For, he wrecked his enjoyment by using 'good' to make self good, rather than to enjoy the good itself. That's why works-oriented Christians are so very boring, annoying, brittle, frustrated, hostile, legalistic, dry, shallow, nothing upstairs. They appropriate works into self-merit claims, and dissociatively hide that abuse of Grace from themselves. Thus, they become very prickly over those who don't do as well as they consider themselves to do: "measuring themselves by themselves, are not wise" Paul told the Corinthians. Satan wants this result: get your eyes on self-merit, on people, so self-merit gets fed. Rather than, grace enjoyment of what true good is: God's love, God's provision.

So, if you talk with Father about what you are learning, if you talk with Him about whatever is on your mind, you will avoid the trap of making-self-good. For, when you talk with God, you are aware of God; and awareness is the #1 operational key to spiritual growth, as we saw in the Third Reason for Royalty's "Multisphere". Being aware of God (oh, this is so important, I have reminders on every wall of my house), spiritual tefillin, means you become habitually aware of His vast beauty. So you avoid the trap of self-merit more quickly. You still fall in, but you get out sooner, wake up sooner, etc. — because the habit of awareness grows. So, love grows.

Back in Deuteronomy and Leviticus, God gave the Jews a lot of commands and rituals to constantly remind them of Him. That was the major idea behind using do's, and why the do's were constructed so punctiliously. For, they were all reminders. To us in modern times, the idea of wrapping little leather strips (holding minuscule verses) around your head and arms, and tassels on your clothes looks bizarre: but remember, they didn't have Post-it notes back then. Moreover, the meaning of those things was beautiful, and the actual crafting of those things was beautiful also. Tefillin strips were leather, and leather is beautiful. Leather was widely used for anything important, i.e., as combat clothing to protect the body in battle. Its material bespeaks permanence, constancy, thickness, protection: just as Doctrine is and should be running in the soul. Tassels, around the bottom of the person's clothes (tefillin being at the top, so the whole person gets covered by doctrinal reminders, heh) were also decorative: we call that "fringe", today, and you'll see fringe everywhere, for decoration. But the Better Purpose for it is reminder: have Doctrine decorate your soul from top (tefillin) to bottom (tassels), and then you are truly beautiful.

  1. Ideally, seek an aerial-view understanding of the whole picture. For example, learn the Angelic Conflict (in a nonemotional way) and the Divine organization of history along with the mechanics of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. These greatly help check the "fit" of any other interpretations you hear or learn. They give you the "big picture", God's overview. You'll begin to see why He created creation as He did, why history works as it does — and your appreciation of Him will multiply. Also, you will become gradually able to assess any item you face currently in light of where it "fits" within the Divine Scheme of Things. Ephesians, Hebrews, Revelation are critical books on these latter two topics. Ironically, panoramic study is the most relaxing of all: for, in seeing the Whole, you better see the Who. Sadly, panoramic study is the least-explored way of studying God, among Christians I've seen.

By contrast...


Tips for Making Dung out of Your Daily Spiritual Life

If you want to wreck your spiritual life and thus your happiness, engage in the fake-knowledge pitfalls, below. Every believer is hit by them all, in varying degrees, during his spiritual life. Read Corinthians, Timothy, Peter to see why these pitfalls are so destructive to your spiritual life. Also: folks who are self-trapped in these pitfalls become brittle, prickly, as they "age" in them. Their tempers flare easily, and their tolerance narrows. Where possible, and unobtrusive, "avoid such persons as these", Paul warns (2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7). Paul oughta know: see Philippians 3:8 in the KJV.

  1. Lie to yourself about your true reason for pursuing a 'spiritual' life. Put everything in the name of God, but really have your motive be your spouse, your friend, your need to be accepted at some church, your ego, your insecurities. Any motive except the desire to know God, will tank. The only true Christian backsliding is a false motive. Sin is unavoidable (Christians like Spurgeon who lie and say you become sinless post-salvation are out to lunch), which is why we have the procedure of 1 John 1:9 available 24/7, and this should be obvious as we always make mistakes in life. But desire to know God can't be faked, can't be cheered (rah-rah!) into you. Not even God 'can' fix a dead interest, since His Love never coerces. So if your own motive for being 'spiritual' is not due to wanting to know Him better, then... save yourself a lot of wear and tear. Just believe in Christ so you never go to hell, John 3:16... and then cut your losses and forget it. He will remember you, and at least you can say you were honest, when you face Him at the Bema.

Millions of Christians with you at the Bema will not be able to say that, because their belief was fake — sure, they're saved, but their many works and pious behavior was done á la the Pharisees, á la the Laodiceans in Revelations 3: to fit in or feel good, or preen. No desire know God for Himself accruing a tremendous amount of debt as they bankrupt their spiritual life. Which shows, because they don't care about the Word except to preen. You don't have to join them. They're a boring crowd, anyway.

Having said this, it must also be said that everyone's at least somewhat curious about God Himself. So your motives will always be mixed. As you grow in the spiritual life the motive will coalesce into just wanting to know God Himself, gradually defeating whatever other motives you've had. So don't feel embarrassed if in your honest self-reflection, you realize you don't have much curiosity about God. But do consider this: whatever other motives you have, they won't carry you. So wherever you do want to know God Himself, keep looking at that. The Holy Spirit expands whatever positive volition you have, so the trick is to keep focusing on the right motives. There's really only one right motive, but it takes time to develop: you want God for Himself. That motive blooms as you learn Him better via living on God's Script in God's System, and no one has but a dim curiosity, else. We aren't able to understand Him on our own, and the sin nature is afraid of Him, so practices every version of avoidance behavior it can.

So focus on why you want to know Him better, and the Holy Spirit will use that motive to skyrocket your spiritual growth. That's how He did it to David, Moses, Abram, etc. It's not about being good, it's about being with God via vertical relationship. Period.

Oh: if you have genuine interest, try not to let it show too much. People will use it to 'get' you. Really weird phenomenon, people who are not interested in God, glomming onto you because you are interested in God. Read the Gospels on all Christ's many 'groupies', see for yourself.

  1. Fool yourself that the spiritual life is about works and how good you are. Satan will love it 😘. That's how he tempted the Lord in Matthew 4, see. The Lord didn't fall for the good-deeds, be-good-myself evil that was the same ploy as Satan used on the woman and Adam in the Garden. So he needs his ego stroked by you succumbing to those good-deed temptations, yes indeed. Oh: he likes it even more if you thump your Bible and sing oh how you love Jesus, as you doo-doo your life away (which violates the third commandment as you 'sell' things in Christ's name that having nothing to do with Him, like: Prolife, judging the sins of others, works salvation, being sinless post-salvation, water baptism for salvation etc.). And if you really want to get his praise, be sure to tell people you've "read the whole Bible!" to impress people and especially yourself. As if it were a novel or something. Yeah, it's novel to you, and you'll never learn what's in there, most of which is obfuscated in translation anyways. That pleases Satan just fine ☺️.

The Jews do all this, so you'll fit in well with them, too. Every Saturday all over the world, everyone gets his Torah soundbyte. Which is dutifully chanted and pontificated on, no one hearing a thing, shemah Yisroel. Which fact you can quickly prove, since the Dome of the Rock mutely testifies to Messiah's having already been here, as per Daniel 9:26 and Matthew 24. So you can join right in with your own brand of Phariseeism, which after all is the same as Satan's Fall, expressed in Isaiah 14:13-14. Making self something. Yeah: doo-doo.

  1. Eschew use of 1 John 1:9 by deceiving yourself that you are in the light, baby. 1 John is about this process. 1 John 1:7-10 summarizes the point. Truly weird how many Greek-geeks can't read Bible, claiming that verses like Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14 mean you don't have to name your sins after salvation. Guess they can't read Hebrew, either: Psalm 32:5, Psalm 66:18, the red heifer offering (by believers, duh), the sin offering (by believers, duh), etc. ad nauseam. This is what learning without 1 John 1:9 does — turns your brain to mush.
  1. Political activist "knowledge". These people are truly dangerous. God is disciplining them "big time". Eschew political activism, because it is spiritual "AIDS". No matter how "right" the cause may seem, crusading is always satanic. Period. Why? Crusading is Satan's substitute for the First Commandment. Always. Better to be boiled in oil. Revelation 2-3 list how truly awful these folks are. Exodus records how nastily they die. ('Korah rebellion, Miriam, the manna complainers, etc, ad nauseam.) Philippians 3:18 weeps over them. James excoriates them. Don't imitate them, if you value your life at all. Don't believe in their causes, either, for every crusade has one "dot" of truth, but a ton of false doctrine. That is why crusades are so contagious. Don't "catch" that all-too-popular disease, Satan's thoughts spread like physical diseases, too.
  1. Denominational-stubborn knowledge. Denominations are all too often demon-nations of thinking. This isn't to say that you should leave whatever denomination you might be in — just beware of its tendency to stand pat on a few doctrines, as if its catechisms were the full and only and complete truth. Denominations tend to arrogate to themselves this idea — they are as right as the Bible. Satan is behind the arrogance. He seduces the person in a denomination to feel disloyal if the person questions the denomination's catechisms. In this way, the denomination replaces God in importance. It is a slow, subtle, and below-radar form of apostasy — his top priority, for believers since the Fall (for example, in Isaiah 44:9ff, Jude 9, Revelation 13).

Of course, you can substitute "pastor" for "denomination" in the above paragraph, for yet another version of stubbornness to avoid. The "Who is Apollos?" verse in Corinthians depicts the problem of denominational-stubborn, or pastor-stubborn, knowledge. The Bible, and the Bible alone is truth. Denominations are just handy ways of trying to communicate the truth. And Satan uses them, as he does everything in Christendom — to hide truth.

While we're children in the playground, we feel compelled to say "My Daddy is better than your Daddy." Stay with your "daddy" (pastor) until and unless God shows you why you should leave. Then, leave quietly. Meanwhile, keep learning under his authority, "for this is the will of God, concerning you." You don't have to think he's the only one who's got truth. You don't have to think he must be perfect, either. Satan will always try to make you think one or the other to knock you off balance. Use 1 John 1:9, and be calm, for "greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world."

  1. flash card knowledge. When initially learning something, or in the early stages of learning, it's easy to mistake learning the vocabulary for true knowledge. Children do this. Wow, I know my ABC's! But think: what do you really know, if you know vocabulary? Knowing how many Marys and Herods are in the Bible won't make you grow spiritually, will it? True learning means you first learn the names of things; then, you collect data on the characteristics of these things; then, you discern the relationships from analysis of the data, and use that analysis, live on it. Of course, such learning must be repeated and retested, over and over and over. This process is true for ALL learning. So, then: how much more true, for the spiritual life?

flash card knowledge is the bane of mankind in every endeavor. Every day you see people mistake quantity for quality. That's a flash card goal, quantity. Quality, by contrast, is a wisdom goal, which is true (useable) knowledge. No one escapes the flash card stage, and few grow past it. That's why this world is such a mess. We treat flash card knowledge like coins, and so the more of them we have, the smarter we tell ourselves we are. Incredible stupidity is thus demonstrated. Knowing what is worth knowing, and developing in the quality of that, is true wisdom. Alas, we hanker after the quantity, instead. So know nothing. If you really want to know God for Himself, you will grow out of this flash card childhood, because at some point you will start wanting to know more, and why... and you will graduate out of having knowledge for its own sake. If your interest in Bible is to feel good about yourself, by contrast, you will stay trapped in the flash card playpen your entire life.

Satan absolutely loves tangling us up in flash card knowledge about Bible... and any other topic. For by that seeming 'knowledge', he can more easily lead us by the nose wherever he wants us to go. flash card knowledge is flashy. So blinds the recipient, of it. If you want to really know God, by contrast, the flash is removed and the not-so-flashy task of learning why the verses say what they do, and — bigger — what they really mean, faces you. But if you want to learn God instead of preen over how well you know a thing, then... you will do the grunt work of thinking over what you think you know. Before Him, using 1 John 1:9 in God's System. Else, you will have fun with the flash Satan & Co. will use to make you think you're a spiritual giant because you can rattle off so much Bible data, etc.

Even in my own church, which gets more Bible Doctrine more deeply than any other church I've ever been able to find (and that's why I'm still a student under that pastor) — even the folks of my own church often get "stuck" here, with mere flash card knowledge. My pastor develops many vocabulary words, so we can cycle the meaning in our Spirit-filled brains much more quickly, so to grow up in the Lord faster — but many folks in my own church just preen with the vocabulary. Like children. It's positively scary. For a while (until God spanked me enough!) I was like this, too. It's so easy to slip into this fake-spirituality!

Look: just because the words are the same words the "experts" supposedly use; just because the words sound important or because the words are in an important location (the Bible), doesn't mean that using the words makes you know a thing. To claim that you actually understand something because you can mouth the words, is like thinking that if you wear Nike shoes, you'll be a star basketball player! This was the problem which felled the Jews. Why they insanely developed 613 Talmudic "laws". Why God disciplined them (confer Deuteronomy 30:11ff, Zechariah 7, almost any sermon of Isaiah's or Jeremiah's or Amos, etc). This is the problem which still fells Christendom: why the so-called "catholic" and like ecumenisms developed.

Don't make the same mistake. You don't know "word processing" just because you have Microsoft Word on your computer. You don't know "word processing", if all you do, is hit the Return key at the end of every line! In fact, you wreck your document if you do that (ask any secretarial service how they moan over anyone who brings in something to be reformatted)!

So, then: Folks who collect "Bible facts" and/or Strong's meanings, then memorize them, thinking they thus "know Scripture" — these folks are (as yet) insecure; they don't realize their human intelligence is irrelevant to learning Christ. They also don't yet know how Scripture is supposed to be studied. Their insecurity taps the me-be-good reflex, creating a defense mechanism of "rationalization", which exports as "I know Scripture". Yeah, what they know, is Satan-fodder! Beware beware beware. This problem is as bad as activism, and is in fact the base from which Satan has always cultivated activism in the human race. Don't get sucked into it.

The difference between true knowledge and flash card knowledge, is that you understand meaning in a fluid way. flash card knowledge is cardboard-like, just as the flash cards themselves. You can rattle off all kinds of data, but you have no clue as to what it means; you only imagine you know, because you can rattle off information. The ability to analyze what you think you know, is a separate thinking skill. Then and only then do you begin to acquire true knowledge. It's like school: tell me, how much of what you learned in school can you really use, in real life? Very little. Know why? Because you really didn't learn anything, except how to get the grades you needed to get out. So take what you know of Bible and ask why. Why why why, over and over and over. The "why" helps train you to analyze. And if you give up, then you won't learn to analyze. So you really never learn. Just a bunch of words in your head, will be the Bible, to you...

By the way, if all you are familiar with is Strong's, you only are familiar with something of the sounds of the words. I can never use my Strong's on BibleWorks, because it's too shallow, telling me nothing. Kind of like Microsoft Windows "help", it helps very little, and unintentionally misleads far more than it helps: Strong's was meant for people who just needed reminders of Greek and Hebrew they already knew, like an abridged English dictionary for native English speakers. It's not good for those unfamiliar with the original-language texts, therefore. This isn't to say Strong's is bad, but it's kindergarten, and if you insist on using it, you'll stay a spiritual child, but fantasize you are 'grown up'. I've seen the abuse of Strong's cause spiritual growth to arrest in far too many people who started out with a genuine interest in God. They are stunted, now. But think themselves, mature. Very sad.

  1. Titillated knowledge. Too many folks spend oodles of time on Bible Codes, try to date the Tribulation's beginning, look for dinosaurs in the Bible, and other such trivia. These distractions are sought as substitutes for learning Him, and aren't about Him at all: merely in His Name. Folks who do this are trying to buttress their weak faith against all the claims that the Bible is garbage. So, they're looking for spectacular proof that the Bible is from God. Don't get sucked into that nonsense.
  1. Needing "new" knowledge. Like the titillated folks, the folks who are constantly questing after the new, learn nothing. Itchy ears: Paul talks about these folks in 2 Timothy 3,4; Peter talks about them in his passage about the flood; Hebrews talks of them in Hebrews 4:1-11, Hebrews 5:11-6:6, Hebrews 10:36 (a verse about the impending destruction of Jerusalem, which had long been prophesied), etc. If you hate repetition, you will end up hating God, and end up hating life. The small repetitions, the doctrinal repetitions by a pastor, these are critical to developing integrity. Close Order Drill. Beware always needing some "new" thing to titillate your boredom. Boredom is a conclusive characteristic of arrogance: entertain me me me me me me...
  1. Puffed-up, or proxy knowledge. Too many Christians can quote the Church Fathers, or their denominations' creeds, but can't analyze what they quote. They parrot well but understand nothing; sometimes even repeating learned truths such as soul-life begins at the first breath, but denying it. They don't treasure what they've learned. Worse, they don't try to understand the Bible directly, piously claiming some second-hand source is right. How do they know? Will God say to them, "Well, it's ok, you didn't use My Power to grow up on your own?" If it was okay to rely solely on someone else's opinion, there would be no "judge for yourselves" verses (refer to NIV), nor would Elihu have said that the "ear tests truth", in his discourse to Job. If it was okay to rely solely on old Councils and Popes, we wouldn't need to believe in Christ ourselves, even — it could all be handled by proxy.

Christ didn't die by proxy (an old gnostic and Muslim accusation) — so we shouldn't learn by proxy. People who do this seek to avoid learning on their own, in the alleged-"holy" name of "expertise". It's a cop-out.

Satan will use proxy knowledge to justify a claim that the Church is in the Tribulation and also stage a fake second coming through the usage of a Jewish antichrist (secondary to the antichrist, both of whom will be believers). Key to the proxy puff-up is respect for status. Respect for oldsters, respect for old documents, respect for form, versus substance. Wrong one, baby! Status is stupid, substance is sophia (one of the Greek words for "wisdom"). Satan is always substituting status for substance, so people won't question content. Just as, folks today gawk ("ooh-ahh") over someone with a degree or money, but don't look at the content of the person (oh, how many bad marriages are made this way); so also, the puffed-up idea that Dr. So-and-So knows so much, therefore he must be right — because he has a degree or a nice personality or a nice presentation or, hallelujah! — he's of an advanced age? Get Real! Satan's the most beautiful, smartest, and oldest creature ever to come from the 'hand' of God, he does not have red skin or horns. But see how he uses his greatness? Look beneath, seek content, and above all, ask why — and thus better avoid Satan's pious, attractive, starry... landmines.

  1. Trust in "education", or "expertise". Still others, armed with enough Bible knowledge to be dangerous, and some degree from a seminary, think themselves experts — much like a newly-minted attorney is prone to so think. Guess again. Folks here have the same problem the puffed-up/proxy folks do; worse, they are trying to become the "experts". It's not wrong to go to seminary, of course. It is wrong to believe in one's own knowledge — or, another's — solely because people venerate "experts". God, by contrast, only venerates His Word: Psalm 138:2b.

Oddly enough, over the last three years or so I've had occasion to talk to a lot of folks who graduated from seminary. Their knowledge is almost entirely in the "flash card" category. Children... but with Degrees! They have no real understanding of the meaning of the Bible's words. Of course, they think they 'know' the Bible really well, and are hostile to any data which suggests that they do not know, because they have a degree. Of course, such hostility makes it plain their degrees are obtained without use of 1 John 1:9 — which is the only way for the vocabulary to become understanding. For, the Bible is to be learned supernaturally, which only the Holy Spirit enables. And, there is no hostility in the Holy Spirit.

Look: education is important, but just as with anything else in life, it can be misused. Any educational system is avowedly designed to give you building blocks, from which you are supposed to extrapolate relationships, learning, etc., as we saw in the "flash card knowledge" bullet, above. However, what universally happens, is this: people mistake all that building-block learning for true knowledge. Whereas, it's only meant to be a base. This is laziness, frankly. So "experts" in every field are largely incompetent. All that collegial learning wore them out, and they don't grow in wisdom after that.

For, the knowledge is useless until it becomes wisdom, and wisdom is consummately difficult to get, since you have to do it yourself. No one can do it for you: even when under the Spirit, He won't spoon feed you — you have to keep on being positive to learning from Him, and you have to be aggressive in trying to use what you learn. Constantly.

Wisdom is the ability to discern relevant versus irrelevant, worthwhile versus unworthy, relationships. Education cannot ever give a student wisdom; that, the student must do on his own. Worse, education itself, as an act of self-survival, promotes people with degrees and published tomes, because the schools need to get new students, to stay alive. So, what happens is, nearly everyone in education ends up being hopelessly stultified in his thinking. It goes with the territory. It does not go with learning under the Holy Spirit. Sure, in the beginning, you learn flash card-like stuff: but under the Spirit, you progress from there to wisdom, because He wants you to grow up into your Royal Purpose. A King must become wise, to rule. So you don't grow up, if you keep playing with building blocks and status-degrees!

So, then: how scary is this problem? Very. For, seminaries turn out flash card 'experts' by the droves. 'Not surprising, though — for in every secular discipline, too, this kind of pseudo-knowledge has plagued us. Now, of course, our incompetently-puerile rottenness shows: if we who have so many degrees can think it proper to ruin the entire private sector by persecuting an Enron, Arthur Anderson, Bell Labs, totally blind to the meaning of this activity upon all the rest of the economy as it's intrinsically interlinked — well, see how "flash card" expertise is just a flash-in-the-pan? And the rest of us, will burn in its fiery wake?! Fallen man has no ability to 'improve'? No Osama could do as much damage as we flash card-children do to our nation. Satan & Co. weep with laughter.

  1. Mindless Scripture citing. Many Christians are adept at citing verses, but have never examined the whole realm of the topics the verses address. So, they completely misunderstand the verses. They also misuse the verses: you can tell easily, because they are characteristically hostile to any suggestion that they are doing so. Worse, when they use these verses, it's often to beat up another Christian who sees the interpretation differently: a classic is the misuse of Leviticus 19:28 claiming it's forbidding aesthetic tattoos when it was actually for religious markings.

This activity is the hallmark of normal spiritual childhood — they are parroting, trying to play. If you evaluate yourself to be in this category, don't worry. Play! Just keep asking how the verse 'fits' in the whole (as you understand it thus far). That question will heighten your awareness to the idea that verses aren't to be interpreted in some soundbyte manner. So, when you see some other verse, you'll be more apt to note hitherto-unseen connections between the other verses you know.

The idea is to grow beyond the Dick-and-Jane, shallow citing and reading. If folks don't grow out of this childish phase, they will be spiritually-retarded. Many believers who started out really interested in God are trapped, here. Ask why. Ask why again. See if you can better understand why every time you ask. God responds to asking: "seek and you shall find." See also Mark 4:24. Religion reacts to asking, calling that impious, evil, bad.. because it cannot take inquiry. Falsehood never stands up under audit, examination. Truth, always does. So God says, ask Me (i.e., Malachi 3:10, "seek" and "sought" verses; hundreds of them in concept of asking why).

  1. Studying only "solo" disregarding teamwork and right-pastors. Still others, reacting to the hot air of folks in the above categories, reject the idea of studying under a pastor (or, secular equivalent — learning in school). Don't fall for this trap: you only cut off your nose, to 'spite' your face! Granted, good pastors are disturbingly few, but God is the God of authority: He didn't cause Paul to write Ephesians 4 and Timothy out of whimsy. Learning from a teacher means learning. Not roteness, parroting — or rejection. No pastor gets it all right. No pastor gets it all wrong, either. You are royal: talk to God about what seems right, or wrong. He is in you. Use 1 John 1:9, and then think. You will get the answer, over time: sometimes, instantly! Sometimes, years later. (I swear, this is the reason to live: 'hearing' Him.)

Warning: God vindicates His Word, always; and always vindicates through a pastor who teaches His Word. Don't fall into the arrogance that the Holy Spirit bypasses authority He gifted to certain men. You'll be roundly disciplined by God for as long as you succumb to the arrogance of rejecting sitting "under" a pastor, just as anyone who scoffs at learning in school ends up being a loser in life.

  1. Studying "Only". It's very easy to get stuck here, especially if one grasps the supreme importance of learning Him. beware! Satan & Co. will tease you into thinking that you aren't studying enough: they're angling to get you into a sort of spiritual bulimia. That makes you either burn out, or go mad. Limit study, balance it to your other duties and rest during the day. Follow the first two bullets in the yellow-brick table, above. Balance. Treat the rest of the day as time to practice the thinking you learned during that hour. Try to 'baptize' everything in the rest of your day with what you learned. That's how Christ grew up. So, if you do this, you'll get much more productive 'study', than bulimic learning. If you keep growing, you'll find that you'll have more time to study than a mere hour a day, due to the productivity of the 'baptizing'. Still, remember: God is the God of balance. You don't neglect other duties in the name of 'learning God', because you can 'learn Him' in anything you do — by using the Doctrine you know.

Spiritual bulimia hits everyone who remains positive to God, at some point. The 'hunger' to know Him suddenly becomes so great, you can't get enough. (I suspect this is one reason why Christian instant messaging channels are so popular.) Some folks are hit early on in the spiritual life. Most get hit during late spiritual adolescence, or, adulthood. The danger of bulimia is to throw up the spiritual life — to make it become bitter or nauseous to you, harmful. So, the antidote is to remember that life with God is with God — a relationship, not a do-good, know-all contest. Sometimes, you just do nothing with someone you love, right? So, make sure you putter around with God, too. ☺️




Part 3a, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump Links in this table also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
The Bride Cometh Your Priesthood
+ potential Crowning Synopsis, Our Royally‑Invisible
Spiritual Life I. Kingship II. Bridal Thought DDNA,
God's Apodoses III. Bema Inheritance
1st Spiritual Life Trait,
Invisibility 1st Reason,
'Clone' Christ God's Apodoses The Five Infinitives:
καθαρίζω ἀφαιρέω δείκνυμι πλάσσω δικαιόω 4 Happinesses, Hefty Hearty His Husband Love Alphabet Abiding in His 7‑Faceted
'House of Thinking' Function Desire Development Plunder Victory Intimacy Compatibility Spiritual Maturation: Process, Overview 1 Corinthians 13:13 — Faith Hope Love I–VII Spiritual Growth Benchmarks Spiritual Childhood Form Before Function Spiritual Teenhood Spiritual Adulthood Spiritual Adulthood II Spiritual Maturity (“Pleroma”) 2‑3‑4‑5 Evidence Tests Evidence Test Alphabet Evidence Test Structure 2nd Reason,
sign of Jonah 3rd Reason,
Qorban fulfilled He Upgraded Divine Intimacy! 4th Reason, max tests Love for God CrossOver Law Evil, ἀδικία or Κένωσις, Marriage? Victory or Dungheap?

God's Script: Now

Father Answers Son's John 17 Prayer, and Builds a Bride

The Bride Cometh; and with Her, "Wifely" Blessing by Association

We saw in Part 2 that at His Session, His "kata Melchizedek" Office yet had no kingdom to go with it. Yet He's to be the King-Priest over king-priests to Father?! The only Priesthood to last forever, and the only one to the Father! As Hebrews 7 and 10 so wryly explain, The Lord's Humanity wouldn't even be a priest, under Israel. Think of how the Godhead would humorously respond:

What, a King of the Jews and a King-Priest, yet no kingdom? No Priesthood for the King of Priests? Ahhh, yes. That's right, now We Remember. Yes, Israel had turned Him down: the first-intended priestly, 'holy nation' for His Deity, had said 'No!', just as Satan pointed out. Hmmm. So, what kind of kingdom should He receive, to commemorate this Victory over Satan forever? A Bride. After all, Israel rejected Her Husband. Look up Old Testament "Husband" verses, and especially Ezekiel 16, Jeremiah 2,3,5,11, Hosea.

And Yes! Rabbis must marry, to even be rabbis! The Son, though, was not allowed to marry, since the Cross was His Task. And yes! Yes! He's the Seed, the Fulfiller of all covenants! 'Sown in dishonor', Raised with Maximum Honor! Oh — and shouldn't He have progeny? After all, Israel's covenants include a thousand years of perfect peace on Earth — how to achieve that peace, without friendly nations living alongside Israel, hmmm? So, We hereby Award Him — in answer to His John 17 Prayer and His Matthew 16:18 Executive Decision to have a Church crafted upon Himself as Petra; in answer to His Acceptance of the Isaiah 53:10-11 contract in John 17 — a Bride. This Bride shall be His Battlefield Royal Family, Co-Rulers, His 'progeny'. Beginning Now, at His Session. See Ephesians 1, Ephesians 3, Galatians 3, Galatians 5, Hebrews (whole book), Colossians 1, 1 Peter 1, 1 John 3, John 14-17, Romans 9-11, Revelation 1-3, Revelation 19-22.

And Yes! This Priesthood is forever first, to Father! Filling all in all, Firstborn of Creation, Church of the Firstborn! So this Bride will be His Body, Heading Everything! Under Him Who is Everything! For Father! And all the sons of the Firstborn receive His Spiritual Life, "every spiritual blessing", so that they may elect to be in Him in their Souls as much as or as little as, they choose: which election shall determine how close they will be to Him within His Royal Kingly-Priestood — forever, per the "great ones" apportionment clause of Isaiah 53:12.

Hebrews 1-2 state that due to His Strategic Victory over Satan, Son's Humanity receives a second kingdom from Father: Church. 1 John 4:17 in Greek sums up the reason: to "complete" His Love. God's Love is an Absolute. Meaning, this second Kingdom is supreme over all others, except that of the Godhead Themselves, Ephesians 1:15-23. Paul stresses this fact by calling the Age of Church, "the Age Over all Ages", a Greek lexeme in Ephesians 3:21. Verse is poorly translated. It should read, "to Him, the Glory! by means of the Church, even by Agency of Christ Jesus: throughout all generations of this Age Over all Ages, Amen ( = I believe it, a Hebraism)." Anarthrous construction in Greek requires in English, the insertion of articles or demonstratives to signify the same meaning. By the way, beginning in 1985, my pastor spent seven years exegeting Ephesians, and the foregoing is roughly his re-translation. The book shocked him; he consequently re-tooled all his prior 30+ years of teaching due to it; he did this almost daily, to his own congregation. I have and heard all seven years; but also I understand now from Scripture, as well. Shocks me, too: daily.

So, He is King-Priest, and we are His Kingdom of Priests, and our Kingdom is Head of all the others — forever. (1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9; Acts 1:5,8; Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10.) Whoa: so the last — are first. That statement sure needs a lot of explanation, huh. So we get it: the entire New Testament. Ergo Hebrews, Ephesians, Corinthians, Colossians and Galatians are singularly devoted to explaining in deft detail, that Royal Legacy of, as 1 John 4:17 puts it, His Love's "completion in association with us", which incorporates by reference the earlier Book of Hebrews' 11:40: "for apart from us (being completed), they will not be completed." Hebrews 11:40 is quoted in corrected translation: in Greek you don't repeat the same phrase twice, but put it at the end, to show it applies twice. So "completed" is put at the end, to show the subjunctive aorist contingency of Israel and Old Testament people inheriting, contingent on us being finished, first. This is the root reason why Rapture kicks off the official Tribulation. Part 4 will as a threaded theme, explain that reason much further, since no one in Christianity seems to talk about the true reasons. All translations you can find of Hebrews 11:40 are similar, but largely fuzzed over; New Living Translation, surprisingly, caught the flavor the author of Hebrews intended in the Greek — anticipating Hebrews 12:1-2, which uses marathon racing terms. Latin Vulgate is good. The French, Spanish, Italian seem to 'miss the boat' in translation. I can't tell if any among German translations are good. Next, 1 John 4:17's phrase "in association with us" is Greek prep "meta", and should have been translated that way in English. It's a climactic statement which began building back at the beginning of Chapter 4. Moreover, English of 1 John 4:17's "has been perfected" there is misleading, unless you know it's a legal term. Greek verb is clearer: means "has been completed". Verb is "τελειόω": it means to "perfect" in the sense of completion of a contract, in English. The contract is John 17, which is based on the previous eternity-past contract of Isaiah 53:10-11. This Love Completion is about the contract, the expressions, with respect to finity: but these are all intra-Trinity expressions. Due Disclosure explains why. As with everything concerning God, there are no soundbyte answers, and the surface impressions one gets are all shocking and even offensive.

There are basically two kinds of arrogance: 1) inferiority arrogance, and 2) superiority arrogance. Woe to the one made superior, who doesn't fulfill his God-given role in a superior manner. Woe to the one made inferior, who doesn't fulfill his God-given role in an inferior manner. For God is superior to all, yet sacrificed His Own Son, having made Him inferior to all, Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1, Philippians 2:5-10, Hebrews 1-2. So if Church is made superior to all In Him, whoa: we'd better not be peasants. The one God-given a peasant role has a right and even a duty, including all the privileges and pleasures, of being a peasant. But the one not given by God to be a peasant, but rather Royal, had better doggone well live up to those rights, duties, privileges and pleasures. So a peasant gets the privilege and pleasure, of ignorance and a life of his own. But the Royal, whoa: the Royal must banish ignorance, and is never his own person.

So none of us who lived and ever once believed in Christ since that first Pentecost of June 30 AD, through the day the Rapture occurs — none of us so living and having believed, are ever entitled to be peasants. Whoa. What a scary inheritance, to miss.

The Cross was about a lot more than salvation: salvation is but a floor, a "foundation" (1 Corinthians 3:11). The Grand Strategic Purpose of the Cross was to unite "all things" in Him, main theme of the Book of Hebrews and Ephesians, visible even in translation, in their respective Chapters 1 and 2. Remember the humorous end of Part 2? "Shall God not also want Full Blessing for Himself? Who else will freely choose to be grown up in Love?" Well, that's the theme of Ephesians, for Paul engagingly parallels a famous Greek play, to show God's Vast Blessing Humor. The play is "Ion", by Euripides, about how the Greek Sea Peoples were created by a liaison between Phoebus Apollo (ancient name for Satan, by the way) — and Creusa, a human. So Paul uses that famous play to show the Real Begetting Plan of God!

That's the issue: sons! For Father For Father For Father! Starting with, the Son! "YH", Who became "WH": Son of Man, Son of Israel, Last Adam, First and Last, Faithful Witness, Alpha and Omega. And therefore Founder, Pioneer, Originator, Archegos, Head, High of new Order of Priests. King-Priests: Church. Thus, requiring a New Covenant. For, each Covenant must have its own Priesthood, Hebrews Chapters 7-10! A Kingdom of Priests, even. For the Father of that Son. Forever. So, at the Second Advent, He will also be "King Over Kings", us..

Not good, that God should keep Themselves to Themselves, heh. So, there's the "kingdom", as it were, of the Godhead: Father, Spirit, and Son. The Father is the Head of that "kingdom". To celebrate Their relationship, Their "kingdom", creation was made. That would entail a Cross, since God would never permit rational beings to be unfree. Want proof? Read the Matthew 22 wedding parable for a neat summary on why God Chose to create A) angels ("bottom layer" meaning of parable), then B) Humanity, then C) Israel, then D) Church ("top layer" meaning of parable). Funny thing is, the identity of the Bride isn't mentioned there: gotta see the Book of Esther to know that.

Of this rational creation, the angels together comprise a kingdom, for His Deity. He made them for the Father, and the Father gifts them to the Son (confer Colossians 1:16-18): so, He's "Lord of Lords", Head of the Angels. Humanity comprises a kingdom as a gift to His Deity, headed up by Israel: "Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad" (the "shema").

However, Israel is also a gift to the Son's Jewish Humanity, as "David's Greater Son": "The Lord said to my Lord, Sit down until I make your enemies a Footstool for your feet." (Psalm 110:1.) "Footstool" is the Millennium. For, He's Seed, the fulfiller of all the Old Testament covenants, and it's during Footstool He will fulfill them. For at last Israel, long the laughingstock and "footstool" of world conquest, will head them all. The ugly duckling will become the Eternal Swan. God Keeps His Promises.

So, as it says in Hebrews 1, now everything comes through the Son. For this Son, this Perfect Payor of our Salvation, also defeated Satan (refer to Part 2). That was way beyond what the Law required of a human being. The perfect execution of a uniquely-difficult spiritual life: one requiring maximum intimacy with God. Granted, that unprecedented intimacy — which should have killed His Humanity long before He reached puberty — that intimate spiritual life was needed to pay for sins, which is why it could not be granted until the Son took on Humanity, John 3:34, John 7:39.

See, to pay for sins, you have to know How To Think At God's Own Level. Which is why the life itself, is one of unprecedented Intimacy with God Himself. Remember, though He is also God, He didn't use His Deity to live the spiritual life, but was taught it by the Holy Spirit, wholly. It really should have killed Him or driven Him mad, way long before the Cross. Man can't take contact with Deity and survive. Even contact with demons drives a human crazy; how much more, contact with Very God?

Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1 graphically depicts, blow by blow, how He paid for our sins: with Divine Thinking the Holy Spirit deposited in His Human soul. That whole passage is so mistranslated, who can tell how He paid? Isaiah explains 21 times(!) that Divine Thinking paid for sins; thinking in His Soul, not His Body: after all, sin is thought, lacerating Him. So He pays with God's Thinking, since God is the one Wronged — notice it's the same essential currency, thought. Only a dingbat would deem His Physical death — body is mindless corpuscles — as contributing a 'dime' to our salvation. If anything in the body could ever 'pay' for anything, then there would have been no need for a Cross! Duh.

So that means total Intimacy with Very God in His Human Soul, while at the same time not using His Own Deity to do any of that paying. For God should not pay for sins, but rather the one who did the wrong. So He was made sin, that we become the Righteousness of God in Him that first nanosecond we believe in Him, 2 Corinthians 5:21 (in context). In Greek, different words are also used for death: ἀποθνῄσκω, which has to do with the soul's function of separation from the body, cognate noun being θάνατος. By contrast, a mere body death is νεκρόω, and νεκρός, from which we get the English term "necrotic death". Body death. So it's real clear in the original-language texts of Bible, that He suffered Substitutionary Spiritual Death and hence Soul Payment for sins, not a physical death. Unfortunately English Bibles translate both Greek terms and their cognates with the fuzzy word "death", so Christians have long — and without excuse — deemed His Physical Death as the payment for sins. No: His Physical Death is part of His Victory, Psalm 31:5 being His Dying words to attest to that fact (Luke 23:46), which Paul plays on in the last half of 1 Corinthians 15. See God is Not a Magic Doll's four "Trichotomy" tables for details. Failure to understand Trichotomy explains why Christianity is so inane that it invents magic doll ideas of spirituality, worshipping them. Pagans worship those dolls too, so a carnal Christian — one not using 1 John 1:9 — follows the same silly ideas as the pagans do.

This Requirement of learning total intimacy with Deity yet not using His Own Deity or Humanity to 'help', even — should have driven Him utterly mad. After all, notice how wacko everyone gets when they have some contact with God. Reflect: do you think Adam would have been tempted, if he wasn't wigged out by those daily visits from the Lord in the Garden? It wasn't a picnic to live in the Garden. Surely the woman was wigged out enough she even was willing to talk to Satan, who she knew was controlling the pet's vocal chords. You don't talk to the opposition unless you are very upset, right? Every believer from Adam forward wigs out when he gets some kind of contact from God directly. Psychological behaviors vary: Cain gets psychotic, Abram falls asleep, Moses makes excuses, Gideon keeps putting out fleece. When the psyche can't take the shock of a thing, it engages in defense-mechanisms of varying kinds. And Bible shows all of these. Deity is Shocking. Hence we deny the Truth about God. Anything to gain a bit of precious distance from Him. So for Christ to go to maximum intimacy, whoa. Should have killed Him. Truly.

Atop that unfathomable shock, everything was a sudden-death round: absent the Cross, He'd not fulfill the Jewish covenants. He'd not vest as King-Priest kata ("according to the order of") Melchizedek, if He didn't perfectly complete the Cross. It shouldn't have been possible to succeed. Truly. For the kind of life He had to learn, was entirely alone (He was too far advanced for anyone to be comfortable around Him); yet He was always on the operating table, as it were: doing nothing. For the more advanced you become, the less you do; the more powerful you are, the softer and more skilled and more strategic must be each move you make. For you have too much power, relative to the capacity of others to receive it.

Above all, He should have never lived past childhood, since He is in Himself, two natures: God and human. How does a human child resist the temptation to use the Godness? Even harder, as He grows? Every day He lived, 24/7, He must resist the temptation to use His Deity. And to make it more difficult — a fact my pastor often stresses — He had to use His Deity to keep holding the universe together (Hebrews 1:3, "by the Word of His Power"). But not, for His Own Spiritual Growth? But not, to do stuff for Father? No. It's easier to not use something you have if you never use it; very much harder, if you must constantly use it for only some purposes, but never for others. So His whole life down here was light-years beyond what the Mosaic Law could even address. So the Word He lived on from the Holy Spirit, crafted out from the Old Testament, was a spiritual lifestyle light-years bigger than anything which had ever been granted to anyone. And we inherit that lifestyle. We, the Church.

As a result, we are in Hupostasis with the Hupostasis, the Christ ("hupostasis" is a Bible keyword designating His God-man nature). So, like Him, we are given power vastly beyond what we understand. By the time you finish reading you will hopefully come to realize that your every thought is given the same importance as His Own. Why? Because Every Thought Can Be Made intoHis Own. By, the Same Spirit. Hence, with the same responsibility, and the same effects. Granted, we don't pay for sin — but the world is held together only because we are here. And the future after us, only happens due to us, as Hebrews 11:39-40 climactically states. For the Covenant vested in Him, and we are His Body. It's an awesome inheritance, to have believed in Christ.

Everything goes through the Son, so Now He is the Everything, New Testament Greek moniker "τὰ πάντα", usually translated "the all things": Everything is in Him, beginning Now, at the Session, Ephesians 1 (especially Ephesians 1:15-23). Everything means everything: nothing happens 'outside' Him, for He is the King-Priest to Father, before Whose Eyes Now Everything Must Reflect His Son, just as promised back in Isaiah 52:13, Isaiah 53:12, Isaiah 54:1. Everything was separated due to spiritual death, last half of Romans 5, and all of Hebrews. But He paid the "opportunity cost" of all creation on the Cross. So much of the New Testament is devoted to explaining what happens Now that cost has been replaced — by Him. The cost was, sin. The cost is now, Him. Vastly higher cost, so vastly higher responsibility and privilege, obtains for us Church.

As a consequence, our spiritual lives are harder and higher than all other covenanted groups. Romans 8 explains the battle between flesh and Spirit giving rise to a pregnancy which births eternity in Him, ending with the triumphant "nothing shall separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus!" Book of Hebrews explains how this Builder of the House (Hebrews 3) is now the Living Temple (threaded theme) and He Himself is the Holy of Holies (last half Chapter 6, all of Chapter 9). Revelation, of course, shows how it all turns out, beginning with Him taking the Title Deed of Earth and slowly opening it, Revelation 4: culminating in Operation Footstool, Second Advent Millennial Reign. And then, Reigning for all Eternity.

Because, for Father to see what Pleases Him, Son must be the Everything — and we are His Body. So whatever facts, people, events — they Now must and do, reflect only Him. For with everything being In Him, everything is sanctified, theme of Hebrews 10. Everything past, everything future, hence what we see of ourselves and the world down here is not what life means, Romans 8:18-39. Shout for joy, you barren one, Isaiah 54:1! Everything Now Descends from Him Who Had No Descendants (Isaiah 53:8)!

So He is King-Priest kata Melchizedek, to Father. And all the universes, past present future — are in Him. Nothing existed apart from Him as God; and now nothing existed or exists or will exist apart from Him in His Humanity, either: Hebrews 1:2-4, Colossians 1:15-20, Ephesians 1:15-23, Romans 11:36, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Greek. Mistranslation here is really bad and insulting. For example, the word "world" in Hebrews 1:2 is completely wrong: αἰών in the plural really signifies the covenantal Ages of All Time; meaning all time is constructed for and to and in and by Him. Greek preposition διά is causative, conduit, parental. The construction is anarthrous. Verses 3 and 4 are worse in translation (i.e., Hebrews 1:3 uses the moniker Hupostasis to signify God-Man, but is not transliterated), and would require too much explanation right now.

So everything which exists at the time of, or comes into existence after, the Session, is a "how" and "where" Inside His Seated Status. How is a thing, person, event in Him. Where is a thing, person, event in Him. Him Seated. Him Victorious. For He beat Satan, and Now it's time for The Everything to get everything put under His Feet. Beginning, Now. So the replacing Truth, is Him. Look for the "in Him" value in everything, to find the True Value. For that's what Father sees, and must see, to even allow an existence. Everything serves a Priestly Purpose to Father, Now. Now, and forever.

So like it or lump it — everything you do, think, are, is in Him. For Him. Through Him. By Him. Because of Him. All prepositions, Him. When you see your life and your world, to you it has certain meanings. But actually, your life is being orchestrated, yet never gerrymandered, so you are truly free. Both God's Meaning and your own, play in your life. You only see God's orchestrated meaning for your life as you spiritually mature. You can see He orchestrated the lives of Bible people. So what, are they the only ones? Nope. Every life, believer or no, was paid for by Him, so every life, believer or no, has a to-Father meaning which plays. Even though, we are each free and therefore freely craft our own lives. That's the "hupostasis" of being of ourselves, yet in Him. We believers are in Him, saved. The unbeliever is in Him at the Cross, potentially saved. Either 'flavor' is a type of hupostasis, union, union-of-opposites, no longer separated, so God's Meaning for Everything is achieved.

So look: greater comfort, security, absolution from your flaws and failures, you couldn't have! You are not your own, but His. As is, everyone and everything else. For everything is, Him Reflected. So everything and everyone is In Him. Forever. The old things, the old meanings, the stupid worldly ideas we have, all truly, passed away. So all these temporary worldly ideas are just tales told by a lot of idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying οὐθέν. Nothing. They were all replaced — by Him.

It was ever thus, since Father would never have even Decreed Creation, had He not forever known that all would be in Him, from the get-go. What passes for our values in life are all but tools to paint the Grand Painting Father wants to see forever. We only see horizontal meanings in life. But the Truth is, everything rather is Vertical in Meaning. All prepositions, Him. The horizontals we see are actually expressions, reflections of Him. So what we think the horizontals mean, is entirely wrong. Ephesians 1 sets the record straight. The shemah in Deuteronomy 6:4 set the record straight. Sin is defined as rejecting Him, Genesis 3. So any horizontals are superfluous, if their meanings are assigned apart from Him, since nothing is nor ever shall be apart from Him, John 15. Worst sin you can commit is to put anything in the place of God in the First Commandment. And it's a sin, only because it never works. Whatever pleasure you think it will bring, it won't. Whatever meaning you want it to have, it won't. You'll just be fantasizing the meaning. Because, it's only about Him. Period. Father wouldn't have it, any other way. So you are only breathing, because your life represents Him. Whether you ever believe in Him or not, whether you ever grow up into your post-salvation inheritance or not. And no one in Heaven, angels or people, cares a flip about anything or anyone else but Him. Like it or lump it.

As you cruise through Bible, you'll see how the horizontal meaning of an event, had quite a different Vertical Meaning; and it's Only the Vertical Meaning, which lasts forever. Joseph explained that to his brothers when he said (Genesis 50:20), you meant it for evil, but God meant it for Good. This duality is all over Bible. Quintessentially, it's expressed in Isaiah 53, beginning at 52:13 to show how Christ's Exaltation is realized by Him being tortured so badly, He doesn't even look human, Isaiah 52:14. So the horizontal is the torture, but the Vertical, is Promotion above everything else. So too, in your own life. What you think a thing means is due to your horizontal view of it. But the Vertical Meaning for you, is instead the truth — and that meaning will blow you away, once you learn it. Again, only as you mature spiritually will you ever come to understand this Vertical Meaning, for spirituality is not detectable by soul or body. Live in God's System, keep on doing it; gradually, you will learn God's Vertical Meaning for your life — because, you are commanded to learn His Will in order to live on that Meaning. The term "God's System" is a Greek Bible word, "ἑνότης"; it means the Divine Order of Things, God's System for maturing you in His Thinking. Term is used in Ephesians 4:5, for example. Sadly, God's Head is almost always cut off in translation, so the translation "unity" makes it look like men living harmoniously with each other. No, the idea is to be in harmony with God, and if you purview Greek literature, that's how ἑνότης is used; idea that once you are in harmony with God, you are in harmony with everything else. So that's why Paul picked "ἑνότης" in Ephesians 4:5.

After typing that paragraph, I lost concentration so went to clean my balcony which my apartment complex had newly painted, unbeknownst to me. The painters had broken some of the furniture, and left old scraps of old paint strewn all over, such that you had to pick up the individual pieces. I didn't notice all this until cleaning. So immediately — after using 1 John 1:9, for I was ticked off — the John 14:26 recall hit my mind: apply the vertical meaning to this situation! It was a struggle, but as time passed it was easier to do. Now, that cleaning is a pleasant memory. Past. Forever past, and forever pleasant. So notice: even the mundane irritations of life, have Vertical Meaning. Which, once you know them, makes you glad the spit hits the fan! How much more Glad, then, is Christ Who Paid for cleaning us, Hebrews 12:2!

So what was the Vertical Meaning? Colossians 1:24-27, for as you use Bible in any situation, God matures you faster, particularly under pressure! That's the theme of part 3, what God does to you as a consequence of your being saved. Vertical, baby, is the way to live!

Here's the flipside of this Ὑπόστασις, everything-in-Him: man refuses the Vertical Meaning, in favor of the horizontal. Man insists that the horizontal meanings he sees, should instead be his gods to worship, to satisfy man's penchant for self-glorification. We Christians are no better. Look: we deem the First Commandment met if we do things for mere people, for crying out loud. But "people" is nowhere in the First Commandment, which is that you Love God With All Your Heart and Soul and Mind. So none of 'you' is left over, for people. But oh, man wants his horizontal works to count, just like Cain did.

So all human history is the battle between the Abels who vote Vertically, and the Cains who vote horizontally; between those wanting God, and those hating Him. It was ever thus, back before Adam was even made, for one third of the angels became cains, starting with Haylel Ben Shachar (now called "Satan", a title). Eyes on one's own abilities given by God, replacing God Himself in one's own estimation. It's a subtle thing, or a gross thing, but it's always the battle of choice.

Here's God's Choice: the Godhead throw Themselves down before Truth and before Each Other due to Love (Psalm 138:2b, Psalm 89:14-15, their Self-Chosen Titles demonstrating Their Mutual Love for Each Other). "Hupostasis in Trinity" has more info on Their Voluntary Submission.

So what else would be happiness, if this is God's Own Happiness, His Sovereignly-Chosen Vertical Meaning of throwing Self Down Before Truth? That's the same option every souled creature gets, yet another Vertical Meaning for this Hupostasis in Him. Sure, we humans choose to make self god, just like Satan did. But that choice can be reversed, and now the reversal has the most importance and value in all history. Because, all really is in Him, Now playing to completion. Positionally it was ever thus, and will forever be. But Now, the Victory Strategically Won, we Church get to be the agent for the Tactical Victory which Lasts Forever. That's God's Vertical Meaning for each of us. So it's our choice as individuals, how much we want to go under the 'knife' of Hebrews 4:12 and Vertically Share in His Plunder, as "great ones" of Isaiah 53:12 (wa et atsumim yehalleq shalal וְאֶת־עֲצוּמִים יְחַלֵּק שָׁלָל clause).

So Now, is nothing is 'outside' Church, since He is Everything; since Church is His Bride, His Body, becoming pregnant to the 'delivery' which is the Rapture — the Completion of God's Love Expression, Contract. Part 4 is on the precedence for and nature of, the Rapture. Very different from what mainstream Christianity imagines. Note this Macro Corollary Result: the "new covenant" to Israel is thus expanded, given a sibling, to make it better. This "better" is the main theme in Book of Hebrews, which also demonstrates how Church rescues Israel and her promises, so she doesn't lose them due to rejecting Messiah. Everyone knew when Hebrews was written that Temple Destruction, the fulfillment of Daniel 9:26 in accordance with God's Accounting System for Time, was imminent. After all, Israel has been the footstool of humanity for a very long time. After all, God had promised her repeatedly that after some "little while" of punishment, she would be restored. After all, she was so persecuted and pressured since alone among all the nations, her God would be coming down, taking on Humanity, paying for sins — and then rule the world forever. And now He had completed that task. Non-Jews didn't like that prophecy very much, and now sure didn't like hearing from these new Christians, that He'd risen and was ruling! So, they plundered her often in the past, and were getting ready to do it all over again. So, 'someday' she ought to have everyone else be a footstool for a while. And she will: in the Millennium. The "new covenant" accomplishes that. God keeps His Promises even when we don't, 2 Timothy 2:11-13.

So, the expansion of Israel's profit to include a sibling kingdom, the Church, benefits Israel even as it benefits the Son's Humanity (confer Hebrews 7-10, and Hebrews 11:39-40). Our Now is the preparatory phase of "Footstool". So, when we come back to rule, we will be the "footstool nations", in that we guarantee Israel's supremacy. As Bride to Our Husband who Rules Israel, it's the wifely thing to do. All nations will be blessed thereby. Beginning Now. Reminder: just as anyone post-Abraham became a "Jew" by faith in Him, namely the rule in Genesis 15:6, so also any Jew becomes part of the Bride of Christ in exactly the same way: Galatians 3, John 3:16, Acts 16:31, and New Testament "priest", "holy nation" verses. So, reminder: God keeps His Eternal Promises to all Jews who believe Now, just as He always has, and always will, to those Jews of other covenantal periods in history who believed/will believe. Beware: antisemites would cut the Jew out of God's Blessing, and many among them are 'Christian'. So, á la the promise in Hosea 4, and Isaiah 63, God will torturously cut out the antisemite slowly. I've actually seen people suffer due to their antisemitism. Better to have no eyes!

Since He had to intimately know Father and Spirit in order to be developed sufficiently to become the Living Payment for our sins, and because we are intimately related to Him (not distant) as Body and Bride — the blessing by association to go through us is vast. So too, the cursing, when we ourselves are negative. The unbeliever is never to blame for Divinely-authorized bad stuff in the world. Man is born apart from God, so not under God's Jurisdiction, since Satan owns the world. So any bad stuff God Judges are due to the bad believers on it, Leviticus 26. Same, for the good stuff. Only due to the good believers on it. You're a bad believer while you are absent from God's System; you're a good believer, while you are in God's System. For everyone else is not under God's Authority, per the terms of the Trial. Even though, He owns everyone and everything, and everyone and everything is in Him. God respects Authority.

Accordingly, think of yourself as part of a distribution system of blessing, just because you breathe and learn Him. Isn't something you do (reverse of Churchinanity, Satan's claims). It's a juridical matter, for the world rejects Him, but you don't. So for the world to be blessed, every jot and tittle of your life, utterly matters. Hence the need to get under and stay under the 'knife' of Hebrews 4:12, on God's Script in God's System. For you are being transformed (more on this follows in the sections below). Being transformed signifies it's being done to you, not something you do. Even the secular world has long depended on what got done to royalty, and millions died for that privilege: until after WWI (other than Americans), soldiers in battle died "for the king" or "for the queen" throughout history! Preserving Royalty is long the world's fascination, treasure, and dying satisfaction. Ever much higher is this truth, since you are Royal in Him. Humbling, in fact. You breathe, and your home nation is blessed Divinely.

Preview of coming attractions: Christ's Payment on the Cross bought everything, so everything is in Him. That means anyone in Him who is saved, is used to distribute the plunder, main theme of Isaiah 53. He got plundered by God, so now the Plunder is to be distributed — all of the New Testament focuses on this purpose, especially Paul, constantly using keywords in the LXX of Isaiah 53, to reference it. So you are by mere breathing, a conduit for the betterment of the world — or, for its cursing.

A greater work is not possible, than The Transformation God makes of the believer — you, me, any other believer. He's so pleased with the transformation He makes, He 'reimburses' the world for its time in putting up with us: only His idea of 'reimbursement', is — well, Infinite. Just as, Abram only wanted one son, but God wanted to make all sons through The Son from Abram's loins, so too His idea Now, is much bigger than we'd ever imagine, Ephesians 3:20-21. So for you, look: your family is impacted, your locale is impacted, your home nation is impacted, and hence the world. This impact is multifaceted and it goes on forever. As you mature spiritually you will actually see this impact, for God means to train you in understanding it. It's humbling to the extreme. Nothing bad gets wasted — but instead, is 'repaid'. This is literally true, but until you've matured enough, you can't detect it, since you need the Holy Spirit's Brains, to properly analyze the data. It's real. The primary impetus for writing this Thinking series about the Trial was to learn that impact, a doctrine my pastor has taught for over 50 years. Yeah, it's really true, shockingly so. Hence in this series I attempt to describe it.

"Now" — an New Testament keyword for Church's Age/Covenantal period — is the time when we learn how to grow up into this our future King-Priestly, adjunctive role. It, like all things with God, is voluntary: maybe we want it, maybe we do not. Remember the Three Core Trial Issues from Part 1? #1, God Provides Enough; #2, we choose or refuse God, based on what we know; #3, we choose or refuse God, based on what we don't know. So here in "Now", we choose based on both #2 Trial Issue, what we know about Him, and #3 Trial Issue, what we don't know. As always, these choices have their free consequences, Colossians 3:25. The free consequence of choosing Him, is His Training us (His Power, never ours). The free consequence of choosing against Him, is Royal Punishment. After all, Royalty has responsibility. If it shirks the responsibility, it should be punished. 'Especially if it is in training to rule.


You are to be a King-Priest for Father.
That Is Your Destiny to accept or refuse.

The real person, is the soul: the fact you have thoughts is your evidence that you are a living soul. Not, the body: body is just a bucket of biology, mindless. So it matters not at all what race or sex you are, those are material dead attributes which function as a kind of 'house' you amble around in. Your soul lives forever. Question is, where does it live? Believe in Christ, and you are instantly and forever saved-to-God, Acts 16:31, Acts 4:12, John 3:16. Never believe in Christ, and you go to hell, where the burning on the outside, is nothing compared to the burning on the inside, souls loving their hatred of God. Don't believe it? Read Luke 16:19 and following, see how the guy in Hades loves to call himself a martyr so much, he uses his suffering to make Abraham and Lazarus suffer. So how much does he really feel the pain? Sure didn't stop his manipulating tactics! (That is not a parable. Real people are named.)

So believing in Christ is the better decision to make. Instantly, right now, you can just think "Father, I believe in Christ", and in that very moment you have eternal "salvation". So now you're forever saved. Okay, now what?

Well, here's a brief on the meaning of your being saved. "Salvation" means you are saved from hell, since it first means you are forever saved and separated ("sanctified") to God, Hebrews 10:10-14. Moreover, as introduced prior to this table, everything is in Christ; He thus became "the Everything", as The King-Priest kata Melchizedek, to Father. Hence you are reborn in Him, that first nanosecond you 'obeyed' by believing, John 3:16. Hence you became a Royal Priestly spiritual being.

You can't feel or detect these facts, because nothing else about you changed the moment salvation began; your soul and body remain the same as before. The non-spiritual can never detect the spiritual per 1 Corinthians 2, whole chapter. Feeling is absolutely never spiritual, but a body thing: not even your immaterial soul, feels. So if you 'feel' spiritual, it's a big lie, because feeling is material, coming from the material body. You are now a "trichotomous" being, with three types of life: spiritual life, soul life, and body life. The latter lives on feeling, has no ability whatsoever to think or detect. Feeling is its 'truth'. The soul has a limited ability to detect truth, but it cannot detect spiritual truth, nor anything spiritual. That requires a spiritual life, which you get only as a consequence of being saved.

However, since you are now a spiritual being, your new human spirit can 'talk' to your soul via the Holy Spirit, so you can learn to detect and enjoy, this new person you really are. Learning, however, depends on your continuing consent. But where you go after you die — nothing you choose can change that, John 10:28. You can't cancel salvation, because your spiritual being can't be corrupted, one of the points made by John in 1 John 5:18: God is a Spiritual Being, see John 4:24. You now are, as well. Your human spirit, which is your 'born from above' spiritual nature (John 3, Titus 3:5, mistranslated as "born again"), does not have volition or consciousness, nor is it detectable or corruptible: for within it resides God's Infinite Righteousness (i.e., 2 Corinthians 5:21) and His Own Eternal Life (John 10:28, John 3:16, 1 John 5:18, etc). Only your soul, which has volition, can sin.

Because your soul can still sin, you have recourse to 1 John 1:9, which purifies you from the sin, since the sin was paid for on the Cross. Use it like breathing. For the quality of the life you have while you remain down here, and the quality of your life in heaven, are vitally impacted by how much you 'live on' 1 John 1:9 — for that's the only way to learn Bible, to have the Holy Spirit's Brains. Absent 1 John 1:9 you are spiritually comatose, so you'll get a huge amount of Divine Discipline to remind you to use it; you can even be executed by God for not using it, 1 John 5:16 (see also Ananias' story, in Acts 5).

Part 3 is dedicated to explaining the ramifications of your new life and the life-or-death importance of living in God's System for which you need 1 John 1:9. I use it probably a bazillion times a day, whether I'm sure I sinned, or not. Very few Christians know what you're about to read. So the material is designed to be testable. But you can't properly test squat apart from 1 John 1:9. Make it a habit to remember to use it, else you'll have spiritual apnea, and waste your time.

Moreover, the kind of spiritual being you became that first nanosecond you 'obeyed' John 3:16, you also cannot change. So what then must change — at your option — is your soul. Souls think, and that's all souls do. (Repeat: feeling is a body thing giving 'feedback' to the soul, and is never spiritual.)

So your soul's thinking needs to be "renovated" into God's Thinking, before you can detect God, your salvation, and enjoy this new life you have. That's why we have a Bible. "Renovation" is a huge threaded New Testament theme, using many metaphors, playing off Isaiah 55:8-9, John 14:2, John 17; but the explicit "renovation" metaphor is hard to see in translation. Ephesians 4:23, Ephesians 12:1-3, Hebrews 3-4, Ephesians 3:15-19, "stones" verses, might show the vocabulary in some translations. Greek is unambiguous. See also Romans 12:1-3. Romans 12:1-3, Corrected Translation and Exegetical Notes shows the corrected translation.

DNA is the "instruction set" for your biological life, and nothing operates absent your cells' DNA. Even more true, Divine DNA, God's Thoughts, are God's 'DNA'; since God is a Spiritual Being, He is Pure Thought. Hence our need for the Bible, which is the Thinking of Christ, Who is both God and Man (1 Corinthians 2:16, "Word of God" and many other verses not well translated in English). Because He is also Man, we can get God's Thoughts, for that's what He got as a Man, while He was down here. He paid for sins with God's Thinking deposited in His Soul by the Holy Spirit, per Isaiah 53:10-11.

So you can now get those Thoughts, which are now in Writing. For your 'soul DNA' is the product of your past decisions; only God's DNA can change your soul to fit Him. Again: that's why we have a Bible. As John notes in 1 John 5 and throughout that epistle, since you are a spiritual being born from God, that nature cannot be corrupted; but your soul is corrupted. But if you get God's 'DNA' to replace your own 'soul DNA', then your soul heals, and becomes like His. That is a continuing option you have, so long as you are down here. You will take God's DNA with you in your soul ("true riches" verses). Get enough of His DDNA down here, and you become a king in your soul, so you will also inherit a kingdom, for all eternity: people who didn't opt to get enough of His DDNA will be your subjects, Isaiah 53:12, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10; and you all will be freely, extremely happy. Forever.

Now, for some important details. That first nanosecond you believed in Christ, you became a Royal Priest by spiritual nature. You can't change it for all the tea in China; so your real job and real position forever, starting down here, no matter how much of a scallywag you are, is — Royal Priest. Just as one could only become a priest in the Levitical priesthood by being born from Aaron's genes, so also it is for you: your spiritual birth from Christ makes you a Royal Priest by Spiritual Nature, His 'genes' which saved you, birthed you. Which spiritual birth occurred, that first second you believed Christ paid for your sins, John 3:16.

So your real name is "(your-name-here), Priest-Royal."

Priest-Royal, you. Means that once your body dies, you will crave this role. It will be a craving of your own free will, and you will have it forever. Nothing else will satisfy you. Question is, what you learn down here, determines how well you can satisfy that craving — up there. You'll never be frustrated again, post-death. But the scope of your expression, will be shaped by what of Him you learn down here. That is your destiny, and your consent shapes it. So it's up to you: God has kitted you out, given you a Script, a System and a Teacher. And, this warning (or wonderful news) about what awaits you 'up there'. Not at all like Christians imagine, though the Bible is plain enough: Book of Hebrews shows it all. Christ died so He could create a new Priesthood, a Royal Priesthood for Father. Bible in Hebrews and elsewhere shows how we will be like Him, when we are dead: so what else do you think you will want? If this is what Christ wanted, that's how it will be for you also. As goes the Head, so goes the Body, as Paul frequently explains in all his epistles.

The sad thing about religious vocabulary is that it is fuzzy and used to buttress ego. So when you see words like "Royal" and "Priest" you'll tend to roll your eyes or reach for a Kleenex. This is serious stuff: it's a diplomatic post, a governing thing, and you should be frightened of not learning it. The "Kingship", walks you through some of the harder-hitting aspects of life in a royal/diplomatic position. For you are really in it, now. Deeply. Permanently. So you can't get out, either. My pastor often quips that an evangelist ought to give a warning message with the Gospel: beware of believing in Christ; for once you do, you can't get out of it!

So skip the warm fuzzies of religion. Think heaven's (not earth's) politics. Think heaven's (not earth's) power. Think most of all, of soldiering and honor. For you walked straight into the heavenly battles going on above us, whatever a scallywag you were, that first nanosecond you believed in Christ. It's an erudite battle, a battle of words, of innuendo and lawyering. So there's a lot to learn. Learn, not earn. Bible Greek word "διακονία", which is always mistranslated, means envoy. Representative of a King. Etymologically, it means a server of food. Words are food for the soul, hence "emissary" is also meant by the term. The classical Greeks made dual-entendre plays from it, since a low servant and a high emissary could be signified by the same word. That's you. That's me. That's a lot to learn.

For this is a uniquely-powerful Priesthood which does not play on the world's stage, yet all the world depends on it. Since the world rejects God, the only blessing the world ever gets is due to the Positive Royal Priests (believers) living on it. If those Priests are negative, the world gets disciplined (i.e., bad weather, war, etc). Pretty unfair both ways, right? Welcome to the reality of being Royal. It's always someone else who gets hurt, since royalty must always be protected. Hearing this makes you want to obey, right? Yeah, that's your Royal Priest Spiritual Nature showing its 'face' to you. See? You can't not want to be a Priest! Believers have always been the only source of blessing to the world. See Genesis 5, Genesis 6:7-9, Genesis 11:26ff, Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, Deuteronomy 32:7-12; Daniel 9; then, read Revelation 6-19, to see how a no-priesthood world (during Tribulation) gets judged by God. That's one of many reasons why Church is not in the Tribulation: believers are a conduit of blessing. See also Book of Jeremiah.

So next, understand this: Israel's spiritual life was a besideness, a "with" God. Even Moses, for example, could never be more than a "Friend of God" (Bible title for him). The Promise of Brideship for Israel was conditional upon enough believers growing up in the Old Testament style spirituality; idea was to in sufficient numbers, accept Christ as Messiah during the First Advent. They didn't do that. So, the Bride still didn't get 'formed'. That's where we come in: 'grafted', as Paul notes in Romans 11 (see also Hebrews 4, same concept). Part 4 focuses on our Trial Legacy from Israel. And as a result of it, we are in Christ, not merely "with" Him. The constant "in Him" refrain in the New Testament stresses that intimacy. For, we are married to Him. That too, is a part of your spiritual nature Now: your desire is for your Husband, so to speak.

So for Better and for Worse, we hapless Christians are Bride, Body of Christ. Much closer than "Friend": not merely 'with' or 'among' or even 'nearby'. In Him, in fact. "With" is a Bible keyword designating the Old Testament level of relationship with God; showing how the Holy Spirit worked with ritual, added to what human stuff was there; Shekinah Glory in Temple was with Israel. See also Acts 1, Psalm 23:1, look up translation of "Emmanuel", etc. So our spiritual life, by contrast, is exclusively in God. There is nothing 'beside' our spiritual life; because in John 17, Christ prayed for our Oneness with Him even as He is One with Father. That's serious stuff. "Oneness", of course, means total rapport, not some mystical, phallic thing, or a literal one melted together. Total intimacy. All the "in Him", "in God", "in Christ" and synonymal key phrases depict this relationship; there are a bazillion ways Bible stresses it; it is the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:31-34, which Hebrews 8:8-12, Hebrews 10:15-17 explains.

So unlike other covenantal groups, your life is totally dedicated to Him whether you like it or not, whether you even knew it or not; everything about you, no matter what your societal status, what do's you have in your day — are all "Qorban", an Old Testament term for an item, animal or person wholly owned by God and doing what He wants done. Welcome to the reality of being Royal Priest. Not what you thought, huh. Oodles of responsibilities, and the privileges you have are quite shocking; so there is much to learn, and self-control will be your number one priority. For the ruler, must be the most ruled. The point to "get", is this: you don't own yourself. God has a Plan for your life and you can reject it, electing your horizontal meanings instead, just as the world elects. But whatever you do will still end up serving Him, as that's your Vertical Purpose. Forever.

So you can never lose your Priesthood, because it is part of your spiritual nature. For just as Adam was created a Husband, not merely a man, and Isha a Wife, not merely a woman; so also the Last Adam gets a Wife. So, "Your Desire shall be for Your Husband" (Genesis 3). So, from the second you were saved, your only happiness in life will be the same as Christ's, which is His present to you: "My food is to do the Will of Him Who sent Me."

It is your job to think Word before Father 24/7, says Romans 12:1 in the Greek (always reverse-translated 😈). It is your job to know God's Will at all times, says the Greek of Romans 12:2 (also reverse-translated — Word proves you). Because, you represent Him. So to learn that Will, you have a Textbook and a Trainer to transmute your thinking, says Romans 12:2-3 (last half of verse 3 is also reverse-translated, refer to: Corrected Translation and Exegetical Notes, for the corrections). Both the Book and the Trainer, are not human: the Book is the Bible, and the Trainer is the Holy Spirit. He will match you up with a human teacher He personally selects; through whom, He will feed you spiritually. What's a "Right" Pastor-Teacher? is on that topic.

So you have the Royal right of privacy; intercessory, conversation-with-God and other prayer privileges — every one of them, nuclear weapons! You also have many other closeness-to-God privileges. There are no go-betweens. Christ, not someone else, paid your sins. So there are no go-betweens. No animal sacrifices, no little penances, no others to whom you confess sin; no one is more holy than you (please take that fact quite seriously) — nothing, between God and you. The Tabernacle Veil was split, from top to bottom: no more barriers, last half Hebrews 6, end of Romans 8! For by One Offering, Himself, He has sanctified you for All Time: from the moment you first believed in Him, you elected to take that offering. It cannot ever be rescinded, because He sanctified you for All Time. (Hebrews 10:12-14, Greek, plus Romans 6.) Consider yourself trapped, for you were born Spiritually Royal.

Next, there is a potential inheritance you can lose, which is designed to also function within this Royal Priesthood: Kingship forever. Actually two kingships: one which only lasts during the Millennium, and a separate kingship which lasts throughout eternity. Bible key phrase for this is "inherit the Kingdom", or sometimes simply, "inherit". It's a potential, because it's a level of Priesthood function which you must grow into down here, via God's Script. So, while down here, you are also a Crown Prince, in training to become a King: this role you can forfeit, but so long as you are down here, it is yours to learn.

At any moment down here, you can accept learning it, or turn the learning down. If you turn it down, you will shrink; so, down here, you will be more miserable than Satan (he was to rule on a lesser level). For God's Script is always, to learn Love. That is how anyone becomes big enough to enjoy Him. Will you accept it, or turn it down? If you accept it, you will grow up in Christ (explained in the next section). If you turn it down, you will still be a priest forever, but your priestly office will function at some lower level (tailored to you personally). So, while you didn't have a choice to be made united in Him, you do have a constant choice about whether and how much you want the relationship to be a merely 'legal' marriage or a truly intimate union.

What Part 1 called "God's Script" is God's System; so learning and living Bible in God's System, is the way you accept learning your inheritance, moment by moment. Those Five Elements need to be the habit of your life, 24/7. When you sin, just use Element #2, 1 John 1:9, and you're back in the System again. Doesn't matter what else you do, as the System is all-comprehensive, can take anyone 'wherever' that person is, and grow him. So just keep on keeping on in God's System, and you'll become a King. Here will walk you through the vicissitudes and Bible verses which highlight that process. Most of Christianity doesn't even have a clue about this System, largely because Christians study Bible shallowly, and in translation. But again, live in God's System and God will prove it to you directly. He always vindicates His Word.

This dual King-Priest position is unique, even as Christ is (shemah, Yisroel!) Unique. All past and future priesthoods were and will be for the Deity of Christ; but To Father is the Son's Humanity, King-Priest; we are His Body. So no one else is given to be King-Priests under The King-Priest for Father. Forever thus co-ruling the entire universe. (See Revelation 1:6, 1 Peter 2:5,9, Revelation 5:10, "Bride" and "Body" verses in New Testament, plus Hebrews 2, Hebrews 4, Hebrews 5-10, 1 Corinthians 6, uses of καθαρίζω in the LXX compared to 1 John.)

So obviously, your 'job' is not at all related to works, etc. because your 'job' was positionally inherited already, when Christ was on the Cross (see Romans 6). By what Christ did; which (Hebrews 10:9's "second") you inherit. Inheritances can be conditional, or unconditional. Your priesthood is unconditional, in the sense that when you believed in Him you didn't know nor were you given a choice about whether you wanted to be a priest-by-nature. However, the kingship inheritance is conditional upon how much you grow up in God's Script, for the most obvious reason in the world: kings must first be trained, to become competent rulers. Now in law from time immemorial, and so also in God's law, the recipient of an inheritance must always elect or elect against it. So, you have to learn your inheritance, just like anyone has to learn how to be rich. And you can only learn it by God's Script.

So you learn wealth, by having wealth. Yours is a wealthy office, right now. If you mess up, others get hurt, because you are wealthy and they are not. If you do well, others are blessed. Because, again — you are wealthy, and they are not. Royalty and wealth have always been about Honor. True Love is Honor, not attraction. Honor means placing others above the self, and the purpose of wealth and royalty is to use those assets Honorably. Especially, spiritual assets. Ephesians 1 grants "every spiritual blessing", which is the highest class of blessings there is. All else rank below these "true riches" of His Thinking. So you are commanded to get that Thinking and learn to live on it, 2 Peter 3:18. Don't do that, and you perish: Hosea 4:6. Israel lost out because she refused her much-smaller portfolio of spiritual assets. You will lose more if you refuse yours — but it's your option.

True wealth makes you happy. By contrast, there's no form of wealth in this world which can make you happy. People think they will be happy if they look better, feel better, and above all, have more money. But if you actually get those things, you are quickly disappointed — they bring with them only bigger problems. It's a real shock to have spent so much time and effort to get worldly goods, only to discover that they aren't at all what was advertised. By contrast, if you live for honor — and living for Christ is the highest honor there is — then anything you have or lack, eventually becomes a source of happiness to you, however problematic. Because you have the True Wealth — seeing Him, living for Him — so everything else synergistically amplifies that enjoyment. Granted, your enjoyment of wealth is a learned thing, so it takes some years to see Him from all that Bible study you'll be doing — but it happens. Takes maybe two or three decades, sometimes a shorter period — but it happens. So either stay in this for the long haul, or quit now. But be sure you've believed in Him for salvation before you quit, 'doing' John 3:16. That way you never go to hell.

So, then: You accept God's Script by persisting in 1 John's Script. You elect-against-the-Will, you turn it down by refusing 1 John's Script. Your choice: God's Script, or Satan's. For, if you refuse 1 John's Script, you are opting for Satan's Script. 'Whether you know it, or not.

Most Christians turn this offer of Kingship down. They want a distant relationship to God, and just the goodies of status, of stuff they can preen over in front of other humans. Now you know why verses in the Gospels about mothers going against daughters, why you have to bear your own cross, why you must leave everyone else to follow Him, exist. It's an isolating thing, to be a king. So the training you will undergo to become a king, will be isolating — even if you spend your life amidst people non-stop, your thinking will be progressively alien to theirs. And they will eventually notice that fact, no matter how you try to hide it (as you should, since kings don't throw their weight around). It was a lonely thing, to be the Messiah. So his kings-in-training, will undergo the same experience of hostility, of ostracism, etc. Many verses about this in the New Testament, and the stories are all over the Bible. It was true in the Old Testament that the prophets were scorned; even more true, for those in Church who would truly follow Him. The loud, gushy version of Christianity is all satanic tripe, and a lot of it isn't even believers, but Satan's fake Church of Revelation 17. So the believers largely reject Him, even as Israel largely rejected Him.

That is what you must choose, if you'll choose His Inheritance reserved for you: having Him grow you up on His Script in His System — or you running after the world's satanic prescriptions, most of which are moral and godless (morality as the replacement for God, actually). No middle ground.

Which is why there must be kings. It only takes a nanosecond to believe in Christ and be saved forever. But then what? If the person has rejected learning Him, and thus rejected the Kingship offer, the person becomes but one of the "many" He inherits, per Isaiah 53:12. Per that same verse in either the Hebrew or Greek (it's usually reverse-translated), Christ inherits Everything (not just a portion) and then He apportions among the "great ones" — i.e., the Kings of Church — the "many", those who are saved. People booty, literally. For when you reject your Conqueror, that's what you are: "spoils". Now, even the lowest person in heaven is utterly happy. So being booty is a happy thing. But happier still, to be closer to the King over Kings — which requires you yourself, be a King. They elected distance. You don't have to. They will get the distance they elect. You don't have to. God's Will is that Everyone be a King, the "every spiritual blessing" clause in Ephesians 1. But 99.9% of those "many", will elect against His Will. You don't have to. And if you elect His Will, then you will inherit your portion of "the many", as a king over them. For their benefit. A role which you will crave, for you have been trained down here to crave it. And they will love being under you, and you will love benefitting them. No middle ground.

Big choice for you to make, 24/7: what think ye of Christ?


Satan is dead certain we can't handle such a Royal-Priestly Training role. Satan banks on our not wanting to execute the spiritual life of the Son in our depraved bodies. Most of all, he's quite sure that the number of rulers needed won't happen — for it takes a lifetime of arduous (and very enjoyable) growth in Bible Doctrine, which no one wants — to reach Pleroma, "the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4:13), the spiritual maturation level one must reach in order to "vest" as a king-priest under The King-Priest, the Christ. Satan's thus thinking: I can still beat the Most High! Not washed up yet! So I'll implement my Dios plan, make God foreign to them! Make Myself the foreign god over them! Deflect their attention away from this spiritual life — and prove Him wrong! The "dios" plan is explained in the Appendix.

Whoa. Must be pretty important, then, what we inherit in Christ.


Synopsis: What's Different about Our Spiritual Life, Now?

1. Church gets Unique Kingship from His Battlefield Royalty, Psalm 110

For us to get this Royally Invisible Spiritual Life, something had to first be killed. Hebrews and Galatians make it clear that the Mosaic Law no longer applies to us, because Christ fulfilled the Law, died perfect, and was thus Resurrected. (e.g. Matthew 5:17, Romans 10:4 should be translated: "for the purpose of Justification", Foreign translations beat English Bibles here, and caught Paul's wordplay, since "end" in foreign languages has "purpose" and "fulfillment" connotations which today's English lacks; same is true for the foreign equivalents of "for". At least the ones I can read: French, Spanish, Latin, Italian, Portuguese and here I can even read the German, what a surprise. Translations don't convey the drama, though: Paul is shouting (no verbs in Greek means high Attic-quality drama). See also Galatians 3, Romans 7-8, all of Hebrews, especially Hebrews 6-10, which explain He was depicted by the Law. Instead, we have the "law of Christ", the "law of liberty", the "law of grace": all of these terms are synonyms. As it says in Hebrews 10:9, "He took away (literally, killed, abrogated) the first (covenant), in order to establish the second (covenant, ours)." After all, the Law pointed to Him, and He fulfilled the law; so a New Law comes from Him — not from the Mosaic law. This is the main theme of the Book of Hebrews, to explain that Change in Covenant. We also know that Israel has not been abandoned from Romans 9-11; so what applies in this period of time, applies to all people spiritually born in this period, irrespective of race, Galatians 3. Jews who believe in Christ during this covenantal period are part of Church, even as anyone who believed in Him during the Old Testament period would have been thus a Jew. So the covenants to Israel have been put on hold, to be fulfilled later. "Later", as per Luke 21:24, Hebrews 11:39-40, and Daniel's prophecy about the final of the 70 weeks, for example.

So now the Second, replaces what was killed: His Spiritual Life which we inherit, was both invisible and royal when He was here. For He was born a King, and due to the Cross, became the King over Kings. So it's a lifestyle of King-Priestly Thinking toward Father which we inherit, since His Thoughts paid Father for sins, Isaiah 53:10-11 (inspired Writ, not translations). He was born King of the World, not just Israel. For the Messiah of the Old Testament was to come and rule the world through Israel, since all of Church's Precedence derives from the past. And the past always was a prophecy of a world ruler (i.e., in Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 11:4, Isaiah 11:10); not just the ruler of a dusty backwater country no one liked!

His Three Kingships are:

  1. of Israel, local, as son of David.
  2. of the World, non-local, as Messiah: with Israel as the head country, in a federation of kingdoms during the Millennium. So over other kings who are kings of those other nations. So,
  3. Battlefield Royalty over the entire universe in the Eternal State: for having defeated Satan & Co. It's from this 3) that our kingships derive, and in fact we only become kings if we prove to be victorious witnesses in this Lord vs. Satan Trial.

Thus 2 and 3's "kings", become us. He has three kingships, and we potentially get the latter two of them, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, 1 Corinthians 4:8 (sarcastic), 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9 and a host of less-obvious-in-translation verses thoroughly explain these three kingships. We'll lump these as one kingship under the 3 rubric for purposes of Parts 3 and 4, since that's how the Bible lumps them (i.e., Book of Hebrews lumps the two as one under the kata-Melchizedek Battlefield award). Στέφανος is a crown of achievement, and represents wealth awards; it's not related to ruling. Διάδημα is for ruling. Unfortunately English Bibles translate both "crown" so you can't tell the very great difference between them in Bible.

Note: as Part 4a will explain in excruciating detail, Israel's relationship to Messiah has not changed long-term: her unconditional covenants will still be realized, because God vested them all in that Son of David, fulfilling the promise in 2 Samuel 7. So it is not true that Church took over from Israel, for the Kingships are separate so the covenants are separate, too.

As you'll see in Part 4a, which covers the macro-historical and precedence issues of the Trial and hence the Rapture's kicking off the Tribulation,

So we know that our covenant is not the Mosaic Law, just as the Galatians 3 and Book of Hebrews repeatedly state. (Hebrews, about once or twice per chapter, rhetorical devices vary.)

That's the legal basis under which we are operating. Much more about the macro-historical meaning of our being on Trial and the invention of Church being de novo based on the 3 Kingship, is in Part 4. Here the focus is on the parameters of the Royally Invisible Spiritual Life we individually inherit upon that first nanosecond of faith in Christ, John 3:16.

2. Church gets Uniquely Bridal, Spiritual Thought Life of Divine DNA, God's Apodoses

Hence two main Characteristics now constitute the Spiritual Life of Church: invisibility, and bride-royalty. The level of visibility was high in the Old Testament, because Christ was Coming, so would be Visible when He arrived. But since His Visible Self was rejected, He is now invisible. So the invisible aspect of the spiritual life, which was always 99.9% of the life even when the Old Testament rituals etc. were extant — is now 100%. Secondly, He is King over Kings, and we are awarded to Him, so unlike the Old Testament folks, we have Royal Standards to learn and live on, because everything upgraded to Royal level (namely, James calls what was Leviticus 19:18 the "royal law" in James 2:8). Royal wealth, too: all those "riches" verses in the New Testament are the Wealth of His Thinking, which is His Love. My pastor stressed these facts repeatedly, and they are pretty easy to find even in Bible translations.

God has always 'been about' Oneness, Marriage, theme of Ephesians 1. God is Trinity, because Spirit and Son choose to subordinate to Father, rather than be independent. Even though, they are Equally God. That's a "marriage" commitment. So also, God the Husband to Creation, the Wife: so the Wife must be made equal to be Fit Bride, Genesis 15:6 and 2 Corinthians 5:21. So we the Bride of Christ due to 2 Corinthians 5:21, are a unique spiritual species matched to Christ per 2 Corinthians 5:17's Greek: so we Church will be the Chief Representative of Creation for all eternity; that's why we are Married to the Husband Who is the Substance, the Hupostasis of All Creation, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are therefore in an exclusive hupostasis with Him; Him, not the world. The world refuses Him. So the Divine Call out to the highways and byways of the world has a limit, just as does any proclamation: you got the due-diligence disclosure, so if you refuse it, no more will be said to you. Sign of Jonah. Meanwhile, we internally develop toward Him, growing up in our Bridal role: invisibly, for the Wife is the property of Her Husband, and is not for anyone else.

Repeating: your life is toward God, not toward people. Christendom totally reverses that fact, and thus makes a sham of spirituality. Wife is exclusively for her husband, not for other persons. All relationships she has to anyone else, are through her Husband, not through herself. The Christian who mistakes spirituality for morality and works will end up being a frigid wife, and will never mature spiritually. That's why the Rapture hasn't yet occurred. Christians reject their Husband, in favor of other people. It's a type of fornication, replicating the original sin of Adam (choosing the woman over God).

This unmagical-yet-supernatural Royal Spiritual Lifestyle System, is metaphorically depicted in DNA biology and in Greek debating rhetoric's "protasis" and "apodosis". Same processes occur inside you with any learning you do: how much more, the supernatural learning System of God's.

Notice the metaphorical parallel in the spiritual life: your 'soul DNA' is a set of instructions you've willed since birth. You tell your soul how to be, by taking what comes into your soul, and ruling on it. So the task is, to replace your own rulings with God's Rulings — AKA the Bible — so you can become closer to Him, and hence become a King. For God is Ruler by nature, so you must become a ruler in order to be closer to Him. So it's just like DNA, except that it's Divine DNA — Christ's Thinking, replacing your 'soul DNA': line by line, precept by precept. When all those discrete learnings under your pastor have reached a critical mass (think of quantum mechanics), then your 'soul DNA' is ready to split and be spiritually re-engineered. It's a Cloning of Christ's Thinking. Each time, solely upon your discrete consent.

Bible nomenclature for this DDNA metaphor doesn't use our modern "DNA" terminology, but references like concepts: crops (i.e., Luke 8), seeds, children from the Seed (Galatians 3, 1 John, Philippians, James 1). The whole repeated idea of His Thinking replicating in you (i.e., Philippians 2:5-10) is easily as advanced as our modern DNA concepts, particularly with respect to brain DNA — which require their own salt generators, isn't that ironic, since "salt" is a metaphor of the Word in the Word? Paul seems to refer to what we know as DNA concepts directly in 1 Corinthians 12 (Body and Head), and all of Philippians is built around a μεγαλύνω theme, which is magnification-by-childbearing. So all that reproducing terminology plays on Isaiah 53, especially Isaiah 53:2-4, Isaiah 53:8, Isaiah 53:10-12, Isaiah 54:1.

The second metaphor is derived from rhetoric, and was introduced in Part 1.

New Testament explains this conversion extensively. The "First Reason for Invisibility" section which follows this Synopsis, will introduce you to those five infinitives: they together invisibly constitute what God does to you as you learn and live on Bible in God's System. Every New Testament verse points back to that contract in some way. Divine DNA seeks to show in modern lingo, how this process works, especially since Isaiah 53:10-11 is translated poorly.

If you examine the 'flow' of New Testament Bible verses carefully, you'll realize this type of reasoning and thinking is going on in the mind of the writer. Always a premise, followed by a conclusion, with pilings of corollaries from it. You'll see the Lord do it in the Gospels, and you'll see each New Testament epistle after the Gospels and Acts, is similarly constructed. This is most easily seen in Romans and 1 John, for both are quite methodical in crafting a premise then compiling conclusions, then taking from the conclusions new premises, etc. That's the 'flow' of thinking which is supposed to develop in each of us. It's natural for the brain to think that way, but it's completely supernatural for you to conclude God's Apodoses. Need to be living in God's System, to train in that.

A whole series of Thinking Skills come out from this process of Divine-DNA building by the Holy Spirit, and the use of God's Apodoses on a repetitive basis, every day you live in God's System. It becomes a truly Royal Thought Life, and it's light-years smarter than the smartest person on this planet. Essentially, you learn to:

Repeat: these thinking skills are often simultaneous, once you are mature. Even your secular IQ will markedly increase, never mind what science says — you need a bigger capacity to think toward God, so you get it from Him. Idea is to widen the scope of thinking, since God is Omniscient and therefore the knowledge typology is an all-at-once, multisphere thinking style. It takes decades to get to a 24/7 fluency, but if you practice and seek these skills, they will develop much faster. How you do that, is of your own devising before the Lord. Since God runs the System, human smarts don't matter, here. A brain-damaged person can learn just as much as you can. No human ability 'helps' God, and no human handicap, handicaps God. In the spiritual life, we truly start out equal, and only end up unequal because we are unequally unwilling to learn Christ. Spiritual insight is a matter of connecting the dots, but only God knows how they connect. Well — He can connect the dots for a brain-damaged person just as He can do it in anyone allegedly 'smart'. So it doesn't matter how smart person A is, compared to person B. It matters instead, how willing.

3. Church gets Unique Inheritance at the Rapture's Evaluation Seat, AKA "Bema"

In the ancient Roman world, after a conflict ended the general or king would evaluate the performance of his troops and hand out punishments or awards. This was done from a raised platform somewhat like a proscenium stage, called a "Bema" (with an eta, not epsilon). So the Lord's Bema 1 Corinthians 3, occurs in Revelation 4:1, the Rapture. We will then each be graded on how well we learned and lived this Royally Invisible Spiritual Life, parable of Matthew 25:13-29. Matthew 25 is a series of nested parables depicting the eternal future. There are two sets of meaning layers; Paul, Peter and John often use these parallelisms (in translation, you best see Paul's in Galatians; John's, in 1 John). First set of meanings: believers versus unbelievers. Second set: believers who grow up in Him, versus those who refuse. So the stingy servant in the first set of meanings, is contrasted with believers. But in the second set of meanings, he's the believer who doesn't invest what God gave him at salvation. Ancient rhetorical discourse was always dense and deft like this.

Book of Esther is a historical account, but also a prophetical one from which Israel was to draw her warning, given the fact that such warnings were heavily stressed by all the prophets. Due to Esther, the Jews were preserved from extermination while they were in exile. Then-King Ahasuerus — AKA Xerxes I, who'd just lost to Themistocles at Salamis — loved Esther so much, he overruled his councillor Haman (very dicey thing to do, in the ancient world). Now why did he even look for a wife, about two years prior to warring again with the Greeks? His prior wife, Vashti, refused his command to appear. Seems like after that, he immediately went off to Greece, to finally end it with about 250,000 troops. He ended up limping back home, with heavy casualties and the loss of most of his navy. And how did he find Esther, once returned? Oh, the meanwhile eunuchs combed his vast kingdom for the most beautiful and appropriate women. They had to spend a good year or two, becoming suitable for viewing. All the women selected by his eunuch entourage, he formally married: those women became his harem. To be in the harem was an honor, and a life of ease: so competition was fierce. For once the king selects you, if he thereafter rejects you, no one else can marry you. So the King takes on the obligation of supporting you the rest of your life, if he selects you at all. It was often a big, cushy deal, compared to the normal life back then.

But only one woman would become the replacing Queen: Esther. The choice depended on how well the woman trained to be pleasing to the king, and then how well she succeeded at it. Of course, the biggest criterion of all was to Love the King. Obedience without love is not worth a farthing.

See the parallel, now? Matthew 22:9 is due to Matthew 16:18. And that's where we are, historically. "Upon this Petra" — famous moniker for Christ throughout the Old Testament, since it was the BedRock on which the Ark stood — "I will build My Church." The woman was "built" from the rib of the man. We are to be "built" from His Structure of Thinking. That's why we get a Mentor, and a Book. Like Esther, we have a lot of training time before we marry the King officially. And those of us who don't do that training won't be ruling, but will be of the King's 'harem', so to speak. For you gotta become a king, to be close to the King. Rank has its responsibilities, because of its privileges, as my pastor never ceased to remind us. "To whom much is given, much is expected", said the Lord (Luke 12:48).

So the Bema will reveal who among us are Esthers. Together as a Body we have an Esther function, but individually there must be a few who are crowned, to take care of the rest of us who didn't care to learn Our Mutual Husband.

Thinking God's Thoughts means getting the Royal Training, not magic at all. Not thinking God's thoughts means refusing the Royal Training, not magic at all. Because, the First Characteristic of spiritual development is always, thinking. For it's your soul which is saved. And what a soul does, is think. There is no emotion in the soul. Emotion is a body thing. So it's the invisible thinking, never the visible body, which matters. Pretty awesome thing to learn, huh. Can't go by what people say or fit in with them, huh. You'll be graded on what you think and do with your own soul in your own Royally Invisible Spiritual Life!

The size of your soul determines the scope of your free thought, just like the strength/flexibility of your muscles determines the scope of your range of movement. God wants you to be king-sized, and He can do that to you by training you how to think as He does: via His Book. But He won't coerce. So, your ability to think is determined by your choosing to live on God's Script in God's System.

We are thus in training to be kings, so there is no such thing as a 'mother church' or master denomination. Instead, we individually — since we each are to be kings — we individually learn how use the Book of His Thinking in God's System. We won't end up equal, though we started that way (Galatians 3:26), because we won't equally use God's Royal Provision. We will be negative to some parts, positive to others; we will accelerate growth in the parts we like and understand, and will not, in the parts we don't. But we will be graded on all parts, Colossians 3:25, Philippians 3:18-19.

The grading occurs constantly down here, since we are in 'spiritual school', as it were. If 1 John 5:16 happens, the person flunked the spiritual life. Still, 'graduation' occurs at death, and unlike secular graduation, where you can sigh with relief and get a diploma, well — we get graded on our performance. Most will flunk. Saved, but no rewards, because the Holy Spirit's Mentorship was refused, God's System was refused. So those who refused, will be the people booty divided among those who did not refuse. The Lord does all the dividing at the Bema, Isaiah 53:12 (and many New Testament verses).

Again, as in the Esther story which the Lord wryly and allusively uses in Matthew 22 — the biggest "pass" criterion is that you Love the King. Obedience without love is sterile. Love without obedience is a lie. Trick is for both to be running in tandem. Can't obey what you don't know, and can't love Someone you don't know. 99.9% of Christianity neither knows how to obey, nor knows God. Instead, magical idolizations about God are invented and worshipped: going to be a lot of crying at the Bema. Knowing all the Bible on the planet won't win you a crown. Being totally moral won't win you a crown. Being emotional won't win you a crown. Gotta be learning Bible to learn the King for Himself. Only then will you come to know and thus love Him. And then, your obedience will have precious meaning to you, and to Him. And then, you will be crowned.

So if we refuse to learn, what must happen? God has to change us into His Divine-DNA apart from our volition, so we retain free will yet never sin again, post-death. That means He'll not change us except to a de minimis level, since our free will didn't choose to be much changed. So either we agree to learn down here, or we agree for Him to force whatever are the needed changes down here, such that we will freely never sin in eternity. You know what that means, right? Lots of spankings, Hebrews 12:5ff. So that also means your scope of free thought will be limited to the scope of your thinking down here. So if your scope of thought down here is all works-based and people-based, you've programmed the parameters of what God can justifiably 'upgrade' to a very small level, compared to His Plan for you: which is exclusively Christ-based thinking ("in the Beloved" clause in: 1 Corinthians 13:12 + Colossians 1:27 + 2 Corinthians 3:18 + Ephesians 1:6 + Ephesians 3:15-19 + Ephesians 4:13, see context). A peasant is free, and can have integrity; a king is free, and can have integrity; but the scope of a peasant's integrity is very much smaller than that of a king, because the ability to process thought in a peasant, is lower. If you don't learn to think like Christ, you opt for a peasant's level of thinking — forever.

Notice how it is possible to be a Royal Peasant forever. Look around you: people have different jobs, and the jobs are generally matched to their thinking skills. Your boss will likely promote you if he sees your thinking skills are too high for the job you have, because he needs those skills elsewhere; he can easily replace the lower skills. Because, people are lazy. You know how it was common to ridicule those learning, in high school: well, it's 99.9% 'common', to denigrate learning God, in this life's 'school'. Peasants always defame learning to justify their own disinterest. Hence the believer so doing, gets a peasant's job — forever. No matter how highborn. For his disinterest constitutes a dishonorable abdication. So it is, in the Millennium and Eternal State.

Your Royalty in the Priesthood 'harem' is a guarantee you will be cared for while down here and forever; down here, it's a guarantee you can get the requisite Royal Training — if you want it. So long as you're still breathing, it's not too late to Vote Yes. But there's no guarantee, that you will rise in rank within the Royal Family, since that depends on whether you accept the Training, and how much: just as was true for the harem from which Esther came. Thus it is for even secular royalty: not all royals, rule. So how much more, among Christ's Own? Christ Himself comforted and warned the apostles about all this, in John 14:2ff. He's not talking about physical houses, but about royal rank, in the Greek. Sure, as a result of your rank, you will have finer (or baser) accoutrements to go with that rank, including a place to live. But "My Father's House" is in Greek, a royal house. So means a Royal Family, with its many rankings. Again, that's even true secularly: how much more, for Christ's Own?

The reason to want to be high — the only reason it's worthwhile — is to be closer to Him and to honor Him more. For He chose to be the Highest. So we must also. This fake humility business about "oh, I don't want a reward from God" spits on the Cross. First Reason for Royalty in Part 3b covers that hatred-masked-as-humility-statement. For now, just think: He chose to be #1 so to Honor Father Who Is #1. So should we. Aim high, train hard. Leave the grousers to their grousing, they're still in junior high school. Flunking it.

Since only the Holy Spirit can make you understand Bible, your own intelligence matters not at all. Funny, how an uneducated peasant in human terms, can learn so much about God simply because he's interested and wants to learn Bible. So he learns to read, so he can read Bible. So he learns 1 John 1:9, and reads it literally, thinking, "Oh, I should do that!" So, he does it. Then it dawns on him that he needs a teacher, so God leads him to one. So, he keeps on using 1 John 1:9, and learning from his teacher. Because he's interested in God as God, he talks with God all the time, and it will naturally occur to him to keep using 1 John 1:9, so suddenly his prayers all count. So he grows. So he becomes more intelligent. So, he asks higher questions, gets higher answers, and before you know it, he's reached spiritual adulthood, even if he doesn't know he's living in God's System. If he keeps on growing — which he will, so long as he keeps on wanting to know God better — he'll mature (more on the stages of spiritual development follow in the next section). So here's this initially low-IQ person who just plain wants to know God. So, he will. And all those ecumenists who prided themselves on how smart and educated they were, won't. So, see: it is important to be a diligent scholar. But unless you want to know God, you'll go nowhere.

Most Christians, educated or no, don't really want to know God, they want to feel good about themselves and get goodies. So "God" becomes a vehicle for that, in their minds. Whether they take the erudite route to assuage ego, or the hate-academics route to assuage ego, it doesn't matter. It's not God they want, but instead, to assuage ego and get their material wants, gratified. So they live loveless lives, eventually become quite prickly and self-righteous, whether they adopt the ascetic mode of falsely-relating to God, or the lascivious (i.e., emotional) mode. If you don't want to know God, then just forget about it. All the huff and puff on the planet gains you nothing, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

When you don't want to learn God, if you persist in that attitude, your ability to process information will disintegrate. Your soul size will shrink as you age in this disintegration. At the end, your interests will be narrow, and self-focused. Everything will upset you. You will regard yourself as deserving more than you got from life, and you will be bitter. You will imagine that you hide all these attitudes from others, but the truth is, you're a walking advertisement of the misery which accompanies someone who doesn't want God. And others will indeed learn, not to make your mistake.

When you do want to learn God, if you persist in that attitude, your ability to process vast amounts of information in every academic discipline will be light-years faster than a scholar's. Still, you respect the discipline of a scholar, and you become able at it — solely because you want to know God better. So you're always using 1 John 1:9 and monitoring your thought for Biblicity, and as you increase in soul size, you can process ever-wider amounts of both spiritual and secular information — which you then can quickly categorize and link to the relevant Bible passages. So at the end, your interests will be all-encompassing, and God-focused. Everything will interest you. You will regard yourself as deserving far less than what you got from life, and you will feel overpaid, graced out, wanting to somehow reciprocate. Others will indeed see those attitudes in you, and will want to emulate.

In sum, due to His Successful Completion of the Cross, He instituted a Royal New Covenant: it's under this Covenant that we derive our precedence, our rules of learning, our Royally Invisible Spiritual Life, in order to Train in our Future Brideship. Repeating, this is the main theme of the Book of Hebrews; most folks miss this fact when they read it, in part because Bible is so economical in its use of language, and is rife with wordplay; you're expected to read with your brain on, 1 John 1:9 breathed as needed. For example, the Royal stress is deftly conveyed in Hebrews, by the term "Melchizedek", a King-Priest who lived at the time of Abram. If you don't understand that background, you won't understand the Book itself. Moreover, the term "New Covenant" is therefore used in tender wordplay. For the "new covenant" was to be the Bridal covenant the Jews would receive, had they accepted Messiah. That's the central theme in Moses, Jeremiah and the later (post-586 BC) prophets. Messiah was to institute this New Covenant, and so the writer of Hebrews is assuring Jewish believers that in fact with Church, the New Covenant will be instituted: with us as the siblings, rescuing Israel. The fact that the letter is in Greek itself is important, as indeed all the New Testament is in Greek for that reason: for Vashti had refused, so Esther is Church, but the Husband will not abandon His First Love. And in the end (theme of Romans 11), she will return to Him (like Gomer returned to Hosea).

So if you were to chart the topmost features of Our Royally Invisible, Marital Covenant in Him, the table might look like this. The verses in the table are merely flagship verses. Other verses tying to them are in the thousands, and are selectively referenced passim. Ask God to show you verses which you will recognize, for it's hard to guess what you'll find useful.



Transmutation Feature What God Does What You Do
Divine-Quality Royalty Divine-DNA manufacture by the Holy Spirit from Bible you learn and use, gradually transforms your soul into Functioning Royalty, Isaiah 53:10-12, Colossians 1:25-27, Romans 12:1-3, Greek. Daily Learn and use Bible in God's System, Ephesians 4:12-16 (especially verse 16), Greek.
Divine-Quality Bridal Invisible Intimacy Divine-DNA manufacture by the Holy Spirit from Bible you learn and use, matures your soul so you can have a dynamic, intimate, 24/7 relationship with Christ Himself — long before you die, Isaiah 53:10-12, Ephesians 3:15-19, 1 John 4:12-17, Philippians 1:21, 2 Peter 3:18. Daily Learn and live on Bible in God's System, with emphasis on practicing God's Apodoses in 'reply' to every thought or proposed action, á la Psalm 35:28, Matthew 4:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, 1 John 3:10 + 3:18 (Greek), Revelation 22:11.
Divine-Quality Crowning at Bema Divine-DNA manufacture by the Holy Spirit from Bible you learn and use, matures your soul to become King-Sized: so you inherit a kingdom of believers who didn't mature like you did, Isaiah 53:12, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Ephesians 4:13. keep learning and living on Bible in God's System; keep 'replying' with God's Apodases, Philippians 3:14, even under pressure — just as was true for Christ.


You will constantly fail and constantly succeed. Omniscience sees all-at-once, and all failure doesn't depress God. He converted all sins into Divine-DNA at the Cross, so failure can exist side-by-side, as Truth would dictate. For failure is a truth, in that it is a fact of life. Any soldier of any war can tell you that fighting is 99% failure, 1% success. But it's the 1%, that makes good on the 99%. Much more true, in the spiritual life. So do what Paul does, Philippians 3:14. Keep on truckin'. Or if you prefer: failing forward.

Satan is out to stop the Wedding. The Royal Spiritual Life is wearing on the soul. The constant besidedness of failure tempts us to want some chippie substitute like ritual, emotionalism or works, to make us feel less like failures all the time. Satan knows this better than anyone, because he quit. So he wants us to quit, too. Don't you think angels had the same offer as we get, for their size and natures? Is God ever inconsistent? If He wants unity with us, He surely wanted unity with all the angels — first. So now it comes to Church, and the covenant is upgraded, the other groups having all refused too much. Those who accepted, got their own rewards, though the Old Testament folk will get theirs at the Second Advent. We precede them, Hebrews 11:40. Point is, we are the group 'in the Now'. Satan's out to stop the Wedding, so He can prevent God's Promises to the Old Testament people as well as to Church, from being fulfilled. For if Church doesn't complete, then God is a liar. Again, we saw those issues 'born' in Part 2's "Covenant Properties", and how Christ invented Church to prevent a Mistrial Verdict — yet set up potential for a bigger Mistrial Verdict, and Satan agreed to that. So, here shows what spiritual life we must mature in, to "win". Part 4 will focus on that macro fight in history, so you can see the larger picture of the history you are making, when you do what seems a little thing, "just live on Bible".

Ergo, Satan intends to prevent or disrupt this Divine-DNA growth in God's Matthew 4:4 Apodoses, toward Oneness; principally, Satan inserts his own viral DNA and passes it off as godly. So it's no walk in the park, to learn and live on this Bridal covenant. It's a Battlefield Royalty we inherit, because you have to battle it out in your soul, day in and day out throughout your life. Your enemies are your own soul, everyone around you, and Satan & Co. False ideas of spirituality and God abound everywhere. It's even fashionable to say there is no God, so that must be battled, too. Your own life is filled with a million fragmenting details, making it difficult to think. Your own life is filled with sound in every direction, whether music or TV or people talking at you — making it difficult to think. All these things will be used to obstruct and obfuscate spiritual growth, and the people thus used do not know they are being used. You are being used also. We're all in this battle together. So the rest will cover the vicissitudes and parameters of this New Bridal Covenant we Church get, and Satan's many subtle attacks against it. Part 4 will focus on the larger historical context of the Bridal Covenant and the Grand Strategy of both sides, plus the historical impact of it: for the Rapture is determined by when in aggregate, the Bride finally grows up. That, no one but God can know.

So let's now examine further, what this "Invisibility" means for each of us, our Invisible Spiritual Life.


First Main Characteristic: Invisibility

So Christ's Thinking was invisible to the world when He was down here. You only heard parts of what He thought, when He spoke. But God sees every thought. So, the First Characteristic of the Spiritual life is Invisible, because it is Thinking. That was always true, really. Now it is true solely, for Church. There are no rituals, anymore. Even the Eucharist, which seems like a ritual and is commanded, is a Thinking Thing: "do this — in Remembrance of Me", 1 Corinthians 11:24-25. So Church spiritual life is solely a Thinking Thing, never magical nor rote. A Supernatural Thinking Thing: God's Thoughts, God's Script, in God's System, Matthew 4:4.


First Reason for Invisibility, His Invisible Spiritual Life during First Advent, is now to be replicated in us: Divine Thinking "in earthen vessels".


The first 30 years of the Lord's life are barely mentioned in Scripture. Obviously He spent that time learning Doctrine, for He used it constantly, as the Gospels depict: especially Matthew 4, His debut. All His Thinking, was Bible Doctrine. It circulated constantly in His "heart" (a metaphor for the soul), even while He slept, lest, just as any other human, He lapse into sin during sleep. It was a constant source of joy to Him. When He paid for sins, the Payment — His Thinking! — was likewise invisible to man: the Cross was enshrouded in supernatural darkness on that fateful Wednesday, from 12 PM - 3 PM.

God's Apodoses

When you think, you mix information with your scale of values about that information, to derive decisions. Hence there is a lot of protasis-apodosis thinking: if-this, then-that.

Protasis: If "a".
Apodosis: therefore "b".

Now "a" can be anything. It can be simple: "I go to the grocery store". It can be complex: "the universe is expanding and contracting at the same time, the speed of light is constant, and time-space is a unified continuum".

So "b" can be anything. It can be simple: "I will buy milk." It can be complex: "the 'pants' unifying both quantum physics and the general theory of relativity, must be an imperfect vacuum, not mass."

If-then thinking is going on in your head, 24/7. So what apodosis you match to the protasis, governs your entire life. Much like DNA (same mechanics, really), which is an instruction set for your cells, your 'soul DNA' tells your soul, how to think. You program your own soul, 24/7, by means of the apodosis you choose each time. That choice stores in your brain, and then serves as an instruction the next time a similar protasis arises. This happens billions of times during your day. Every day. So just as Proverbs 23:7 says, you are what you think.

Note well: you are ruling on the apodosis, not merely analyzing it. So if your apodoses are incorrect, your rule still 'sticks' since you are in charge of your own soul; you are thus influenced by those past rulings. If you got jealous, it becomes easier to give into jealousy the next time. If you resisted jealousy, it becomes easier to resist it the next time. So too, with God's apodoses for every "if"; especially, if you practice them over and over. More practice makes for more ease, more integrity makes for more enjoyment. For all God's Thoughts, are pure enjoyment to Him. Else, He'd have sinned and we'd all not exist — or, we'd be automatons, like Satan & Co. prefer.

Math tells you much about how truth is constructed. There are dynamic boundaries and relationships among variables. Change the variable, and even the formula changes, depending on the fundamental relationships between variables. For example, if you believe in Christ, your entire human nature is rendered irrelevant to the spiritual life, John 4:23-24, Matthew 15:11, Mark 7:20. All that matters, is that you have a soul. Therefore your relationship to your body, is entirely the opposite of your secular relationship to it. Secularly, we must do things. But spiritually, we must instead avoid doing things, and instead become something we are not: thinking like Christ Himself, Philippians 2:5, Romans 12:1-3, 2 Peter 3:18, Ephesians 3:19, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 2:21, many other verses.

So notice how the apodosis to "if spirituality" can be quite wrong, if you don't know or misread Bible: if spirituality, then works. If you rule that apodosis true, you'll go nowhere in the spiritual life, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 6:1, 1 Corinthians 3's wood, hay stubble, all "works" verses which don't have (nee: definite) articles or do have Divine Actor verbs in the original-language texts (hundreds of these, always mistranslated). So matching up the right apodosis with the right protasis requires that Word to be in you. And you'd better be able to know what that Word is (i.e., translations mess up what God really wrote). Else you'll just be exchanging one false apodosis, for another, and still not be 'spiritual' or 'scriptural'. Yet think that you are.

Temptation is a false apodosis to some thought which hits your soul, no matter what source the hit or the temptation. Source can be generated by you; can be generated by your body's reaction; can be generated by someone else: including, by Satan & Co. They can send you thoughts, feelings, etc. God sends you thoughts also (but never feelings). This is how invisible communication, works. So you always have incoming information. Question is, to match it up with the correct apodosis. Else, you are programming falsehood into your soul. As James explains in James 1, sin is "born" when you choose the temptation's apodosis. That's why it 'implants' in you. James therefore concluded that you need the Implanted Word to re-engineer all that bad soul DNA, and give birth to Divine Thinking, instead (James 1:14-21). This, is doing the Word (James 1:22-25).

So the defense against the false apodoses of temptation, and the false apodoses of false spirituality (which is based on sin, usually self-righteousness or emotion) — is the Real Word God Wrote. You are what apodoses you choose.

So to say the Bible constantly circulated in Jesus the Christ, means He learned it. Then, used it. So He lived on God's Divine-DNA Apodoses, Matthew 4:4. So, He learned Leviticus 19:18, don't-take-revenge. So whenever He was tempted to want to take revenge, He'd recall that verse as a weapon against the temptation. So, He learned David's Psalms. So, He thought about those Psalms constantly, enjoying their meaning, finding stuff in His Life which depicted their meaning — which would be everything in His Life. For everything reflects God, just as David so often says. That process of course, developed His Own ideas and values about God, life, things. So totally did His thinking thus develop, that He became "the Way, the Truth, and the Life." For Life, is a thinking — thinking Truth, here. Hence the Way to Live is to learn Truth: God's. Then you think it, 24/7.

That Word, was built in Him line on line, precept on precept, by the Holy Spirit, and you can see that thought process in writing, Now: the Bible. Every writer demonstrates it, so you too can get it, promise of John 14:26, which was a promise fulfilling Jeremiah 31:31-34, as Hebrews 8:8 through Hebrews 10:17 explains; and all that, was to fulfill the "strike" promise in Genesis 3:15. Of the various meanings of the Hebrew verb shuph in Old Testament, the idea of striking or repeated striking, and laying in wait in order to strike, seems to be the common root idea. Bruising or crushing would be a result. LXX uses different verbs to translate the Hebrew in Job 9:17 and Psalm 139:11, so the Hebrew must have a broader range of meaning than "bruise" in Genesis 3:15.

So now you know the answer to the popular question, "What Would Jesus Do?" It's "What Word Jesus Did", really. Which is, What Word Jesus Thought. James explains all this in James 1: you are a "doer" of the Word if you are a "thinker" of the Word. You learn it but don't forget it. All those "faith" words in James mean the Word you Believed, not your act of faith itself. And the verbs in James are Divine verbs, not human-action verbs. For God must "do" the Word in you, James 2:22 (Verse uses the Divine Actor verb συνεργέω, mistranslated "works", thus cutting His Head off — "faith" should be Word-Believed. James has been saying the Word works ever since James 1:1. So he's closing the point about what 'doing' the Word means (well, ends the point in James 2:26 showing it's the Spirit who Works the Word in you). Πνεύματος there is anarthrous, so means the Holy Spirit; "works" is also anarthrous, meaning the Works He does in you; but the translation cuts Him out again, as if "spirit" were man's life, and the works were man's.) It's the Divine Word, so takes Divine Power to "do". Hence the constant need for 1 John 1:9 and Matthew 4:4: living on God's Script, in God's System.

So with many Bible verses circulating in your head, whoa — you can learn His whole Thought Process. Frankly, once these thoughts link up fluently, you'll have more proof of God and His Nature than you can bear. Seriously. Like spokes, every verse connects in certain ways to every other verse, so you see whole matrices of truth relationships. Just like math, you can learn these and become fluent in them and they can become naturally a part of you. I type as fast as I can in the websites, rarely stopping to research, usually remembering verse numbers and snippets. That's John 14:26 at work (for I breathe 1 John 1:9), born of decades of being under a pastor who taught Bible daily. Time was when I couldn't remember a Bible verse if you paid me. But now it's fluent, and my fingers can't actually type fast enough; what comes out on the page is inferior to what I understand. That's how fast the spiritual life plays, once His Thinking has been put in a believer. So, that's what happens when you learn Bible with His Brains instead of your own; His Ability, not your own. Well, that's what Christ did. Fully.

Hence Christ got fully built in God's thoughts: "full of Grace and Truth", as John's Gospel puts it. As Isaiah 52:13-54:1 bluntly states, He paid for sins with His Thinking. Of course, even logic would tell you that: He was immovably nailed to the Cross, so all He could do, was think. He said "It is finished (in the past with the results that go on forever)", while still alive, so His Physical Death didn't pay for sins. Failure to understand Trichotomy explains why Christianity doesn't understand how our sins got paid for on the Cross. As for the Isaiah passage, since it's so badly euphemized in published Bibles — obliterating the very description of our salvation! — I had to retranslate it three (similar) ways)

God is Pure Thought, and in a very precise array and hierarchy. Like math, if one 'dot' differed in the wrong way, all Truth would be different, because God is undivided in Nature. Moreover, since part of His Undivided Nature is Omnipotence, if one 'dot' of a thought varied from the Truth, Reality would thus vary. Hence Reality is what it is, and is stable, because God's Will Attitude is Love for the Truth. That is His Integrity, By Sovereign Choice. God's Attributes don't 'lock Him into' a particular attitude. The Attitude He Has, is Able to be enforced by His Choice, due to His Other Attributes which He keeps on choosing to be stable. He could sin if He wanted to. He doesn't want to, isn't at all attracted by sin like we are. So by growing in His Thinking, we too come to regard sin as unattractive, and though temptation always hits, we learn to say 'no'. In eternity, we will not be attracted to sin in any form, and will never sin by choice. We won't be even tempted, either. It's not magic, it's Learning Truth, which brings about this result.

So: that's why the Lord's Humanity in Matthew 4:3 immediately rebuffed the thought of some stone becoming bread to feed Him with Matthew 4:4. Had that thought not been met by God's Apodosis of "not by bread only — but on every Word which proceeds from the Mouth of God" — the stones would have turned into bread. Because, He is also God, and God need merely think a thing — and it is so. So how did His Humanity get such total control over even the body's innate hunger-imagination reflex (which occurs when you've fasted a long time)? Satan was trying to bypass volition, to use that body reflex of imagination, see. It didn't work. As you read below, you'll see why. Right there, you know the idea God 'emptied' Himself and the idea that somehow Jesus wasn't God while down here, are flatly untrue. Can't be tempted to use Omnipotence, if not God. Satan's telling us more, too: that he couldn't defeat the Lord's Humanity, unless he bypassed His Human volition, taking advantage of the body's natural imagination reflexes (recalls of images of food due to extreme hunger). So that tells you how True the statement, that He is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life".)

Isaiah 53:10-11 says there are the five contract verbs that happened in Him, to Him, of Him, for Him and hence via Him:

  1. Purify,
  2. Plunder,
  3. Point out (enlighten),
  4. Πλάσσω (sculpt),
  5. Perfect (make righteous/justify the action done, which was the imputation and judgement of sins to Him).

In Isaiah 52:13 are threaded key thinking terms and their conceptual synonyms: da'ath in Hebrew, and σύνεσις in Greek. These terms signify fluent mastery of Thinking Truth, and are climactically used to show Him Thinking Masterfully to pay for our sins in the original-language texts of Isaiah 53:11: usually mistranslated "By Knowledge" in English Bibles, it should at least say "by means of His Divine-Truth-Knowledge", because that's what b'da'tto in Isaiah 53:11 really means. So you miss what is here stated as the very mechanic of your salvation and justification on the Cross — because the translation truncates meaning, rendering it fuzzy and obtuse! That's the most common translation error in Bible, truncation of meaning. No wonder we Christians are all so confused. It's hard enough, when you have the right meaning: thinking Truth is harder than any sport requiring dexterity, alertness, comprehension, etc. Hence these five infinitives could and did occur.

For what God Thinks, is Who He is. For what God Thinks, is what becomes Reality. For what Christ Thought, became the Reality of Payment for Sins. For What we Think, becomes our 'soul DNA' and is hence accounted by our own free will, as 'reality' for us. So these five infinitives are needed to correct and expand — in short, Transmute — our 'soul DNA' into Divine-DNA, God's Thinking. Christ is the First and Biggest Soul to go through this process, which happened all His Life and culminated on the Cross. So He is the "FirstBorn of all creation" as Paul puts it (Colossians 1:15 — other New Testament writers use similar nomenclature). So what happened to Him — the five infinitives — is to happen to us. Nerd Note: Old Testament people couldn't get the spiritual life we do, primarily for this reason. His Own Soul wasn't built yet, so they had to make do with lower mediation/transmuting devices: hence the heavy emphasis on rituals and practices all day and all night long. The meanings were beautiful, but the practices themselves were very complicated; good news was, if you enjoyed the meanings then you enjoyed the practices, and since you were so focused on both, you didn't have much time to give into temptation. But that put a primacy on learning the meanings behind the motions, and the motions themselves; primacy, on using the motions and the meanings all day and night. Which as we know, didn't happen except in a few individuals. It's always how you value a thing — your apodosis ruling — which determines the quality of your life. Their highest enjoyment level is for us, mere child's play, as my pastor continually reminds us. Hence their covenants are obsolete, and don't apply to us, as was explained earlier.

We inherit the same five-infinitive process: New Testament threads these five infinitives throughout its text, and nearly every verse 'looks back' at these infinitives through a legal writing method known even today as "incorporation by reference" (not merely "allusion"). That means the whole structure of the referenced passage is grafted into the meaning of whatever other passage, references it. (Bible uses incorporation by reference in nearly every verse after the Book of Genesis, by means of deft keywords or phrases from the passage referenced, into the 'current' verse.)

Via these five infinitives, God thus used sin to leverage Oneness, solving the Dichotomy of Isaiah 55:8. It's not about sin. It's about the Oneness. And we get that: John 17 is answered, "Yes!" "Salvation" is about a lot more than paying for sin. God didn't just solve sin, He solved the dichotomy between Holy Infinity — and puny sinner humanity. All via One Human, Christ. Whose Thinking we can now get DDNA'd into us, so we truly do become like Him. Just as God always promised, ever since Genesis 3:15. Now you know why you are a Bride-Level Royal Priest forever, that first nanosecond you believed in Christ. You are one in Him, main theme of Romans 6-8, all of Ephesians and Colossians, and especially John 14-17, and all of 1 John. The priesthood and covenant changeover to Church is tracked in the Book of Hebrews. In short, this Divine Truth is the answer to John 17 and is covered extensively in Bible.

So these (amalgamated) five infinitives explain how we can become what we are not, how we get God's Divine-DNA, how we get God's Apodoses: for the purposes of Rapport, Shared Compatibility, with Him.

Compatibility-of-Thinking is God's Goal: "sons". It's never about anything else. Togetherness, flat. Hence God's System to transmute you, line on line, precept on precept, spiritual dendrite on soul dendrite. Your physical brain's dendrites are all fixed at birth. By contrast, spiritual dendrites get built one by one, beginning at the new birth. The more dendrites you have, the more thought flows, the more compatible with God you become in your soul. So that's the purpose of being down here, once spiritually born ("from above", corrected translation of John 3:3, John 3:7). Divine-DNA produces those dendrites as you live in God's System: the process begins slowly and sporadically, at first. In "spiritual adulthood" it then rapidly multiplies: this is true spiritual growth, as 1 John 4:12-16 explains.

God is Infinite. This process takes a lifetime. So just hunker down and decide if you're sufficiently interested in God, for Himself. Else you won't have the motive to stick to it. Think: it takes a good 13 years to train as a doctor. Four years college, four years medical school, at least two years of internship and at least three years as a junior physician in somebody else's medical practice, before you have any competence. How much more ought it to take, to become like Christ — especially, when it took Him, 30 whopping years to train? So either learn and live on Bible because You Want To Know God — or quit now. You already believed in Christ, heaven is secure for you.

"Lifetime" varies. So, therefore, does the speed of spiritual maturation. A very strong motive to learn God for Himself makes you mature faster. So yes, it's possible for a child to become spiritually mature, so there are children who've done that and died young. The 144,000 Jewish evangelists of the Tribulation — 12,000 per tribe, Daniel left out, Joseph has double portion, all killed off by its mid-point — they become mature in 3.5 years or less. So it depends on how much you want to know God, versus all the other stuff you want in life. Your call, how much that is.

Here's the biggest reason it takes so long: finity is not compatible with Infinity. Sin of course is utterly incompatible, but even worse — Sin Divorces. So there is no chance to regain compatibility. Hence the Cross; hence 1 John 1:9 post-salvation, which legally invokes the Cross as the basis for regaining compatibility (hence no penance, works, etc. make up for sin — that is being admitted, too). For, just as those five infinitives converted sin in Him, so too His Soul's Pattern of Thinking can be converted in us: by means of the same five infinitives playing on us. That's why Isaiah exults in Isaiah 54:1 about the sterile, bearing kids: kids of the Seed, 'children' of His Thinking. Paul and the other New Testament writers make no end of reference to this exultant result, since the very purpose of the New Testament is to get His Head — now in writing — into your head (i.e., per 1 Corinthians 1:5, 1 Corinthians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 13, Romans 12:1-3 all in Greek, and all mistranslated). It fell to John, to sum up and finish the writing of His Head, so in the Greek of 1 John (and Revelation) you find the most concentrated incorporation-by-reference terms in all the Bible. Every verse elsewhere in Scripture is referenced in that one short epistle. Deftly. So now the compatibility gainable, is available to any believer who wants it. Every second, per his discrete consent, more Infinite Quality Thinking of Christ can be "deposited" by the Holy Spirit, so that these "true riches" can be cycling in the believer's soul: subjective and objective genitive, the Love of/for God. So the compatibility problem, is solved! Forever.

Satan's contention is that God could have just instantly created us to have this compatibility, make the end product we would become, from the beginning — so there's no need for anyone to go to hell, God is sadistic, unfair, or unable to 'do it right'. The Trial and your Transmutation into Christ, proves Satan's contentions wrong. Can't be more important, than to get in and stay in God's System.

For God's counter to Satan, is that Compatibility Transmutation Requires One Want To Be Compatible, Hence Consent Is Always Required. God being Love, won't violate the corridor of your consent. So as much compatibility with Him as you want, you can get. It takes time, and it's against everything in your human nature, to transmute. So it often feels bad. You're going under "the knife" (μάχαιρα, in Hebrews 4:12), to be operated on by the Holy Spirit the entire time you're down here. The more you transmute in your soul, the closer you will be to Him forever. Frankly, that's the real and only important meaning of salvation. Being in Him. All else isn't even worth discussing, but whatever else you prefer, you'll get that. Satan & Co. and all unbelievers, prefer as much distance between themselves and God as possible, thinking-wise. That's the only reason why there is a hell. With God, you always always always get exactly what you want. Forever.

However, even most believers do not want to be close to God. They want their own ideas, and to be their own gods. So most believers will be far away from Him, in Heaven and in the eternal state. Everyone will be fully happy and forever sinless, in heaven: but not, fully compatible. Perfection doesn't mean compatibility. It means everything is in its right place, and everyone is happy with that place. No coercion, fully desired, each size and shape different and unequal. Numbers tell you that: no two numbers are equal, ever. So the 'compatibility' of $1 with $1,000,000 is pretty small: only $1's worth. But it's connected, not divorced. So it is, in heaven and in the eternal state — but wholly by choices we make, down here.

Repeating, because you will often be discouraged by what you think is slow progress: To grow up in Christ takes a lifetime. Even took Him 30 years in isolation, to ready for His final two phases of growth, the pressure of fickle and addicted humans (all of us, effect of sin nature); and then that final unique pressure, the Cross. So if that's what happened to Him, what must happen to us? "Love is the Integrity of God!" my pastor shouted during one Bible class, totally stunned over the plethora of Scriptural proof about it being true. So we know that Love being Integrity, means it doesn't coerce, and is never wimpy or maudlin. You don't want the Gift, you don't get it. And to not want the Gift of God can only mean the spurner — hates. Granted, given the many false ideas out there, it takes a long time just to know God's System even exists and is the right 'path'. But everyone individually gets enough time. Bristlers who don't like the path can bristle down here and even in hell if they want. Love will not be less for them; Love will also never compromise. Doesn't ever have to compromise. So what we choose, is what we get. Freely.


How Isaiah 53:10-11's Five Infinitives Play Daily in His and hence Your Own, Life

Every time you learn or use Bible Doctrine in God's System, God sees and does these five infinitives to that learning or usage: thus He builds "gold silver precious stones" — all metaphors for Word in you, see "riches" verses as well as 1 Corinthians 3 — as you learn and live Bible, in God's System. He loves seeing it and doing it to you. Knowing that fact makes the difference in how you regard everything in life. Nothing you do is a failure, even if a failure. For God can work His Power upon it, and He loves doing that. So, I live on the information you're about to read. If you use it every day, you'll see its power. More importantly, Christ lived on it and all the New Testament writers focus on these five verbs. So let's now examine more closely, the meaning and usage of these five infinitives in your own daily life. Every day, they are happening to you as you live on God's Script in God's System. Witness the Precedence and Mechanic of our salvation, our transmutation process into having His Gorgeous Divine-DNA Apodoses, multiply and cycle like synapses, dendrites and axons, in us mere earthen vessels! Oh: if you don't know already, an "infinitive" is a part of speech which in every language I know of, signifies that the verbal action is a goal, purpose, objective, and even a standard to practice. So true, here! As usual, the verbs are listed in their vocabulary forms rather than their infinitival forms, so you can find them more easily, in a lexicon. Don't use Strong's, it's not meant for deep Bible study, but only as a mnemonic. Find something stronger like Bauer-Danker (AKA "BDAG"), Thayer or Kittle which provide extensive verse listings, Greek lit. occurrences, tally of usages, morphology and etymology.

  1. "Purify" Infinitive, καθαρίζω, hence atonement: Full of Divine-DNA, Christ in His Humanity could and did 'reply' to all those incoming sin apodoses, with the Replacing Apodoses of God's Thoughts. So when the sins of lying, murder, resentment, i-deserve, jealousy, etc. hit Him like javelins (meholal clause in Isaiah 53:5), His 'reply' of replacing apodoses converted the sin apodoses into God's Apodoses. Think of it like genetic engineering, for that's what Isaiah said happened. Our 'soul DNA', so to speak, is our thinking. Sin is thinking, so all that evil 'soul DNA' was reserved since eternity past and poured out on Him on the Cross. As the sins hit His Soul, His Own "DDNA" (Divine Thinking, Divine DNA) replied with the correct apodosis (alternative to the sin 'answer' to temptation). Over and over and over, billions of times, and all faster than the speed of light. So that purified the sins and converted them to make Christ's Soul bigger. You can see that καθαρίζω's purifying was with respect to the sins hitting him.

Principle: when you think God's Apodoses, a Purification process goes on. When you name your sin, καθαρίζω means you are forever purified from it, 1 John 1:9 uses that verb just that way. Forever, because the Cross lasts forever, to Omniscience. See also Hebrews 10, which stresses the forever-nature of His purification on our behalf.

But you also 'purify' whatever you are thinking or doing by using God's Apodoses, applying them to anything or everything, even toothbrushing or watching TV. For think: nothing in life is pure. Human ideas and purposes are always petty, banal, waste-of-time but necessary. So how to purify them from their smallness? Associate them with God's Apodoses, and now that petty thing is an occasion for your use of Bible, even as all the sins being imputed to Him provided the occasion for Him to think Bible in 'reply' to them. So if even our sins got purified by means of that 'occasion' of the Cross, how much more, the helpless stuff of life, which can't even sin, but only be annoying to one who can? And think more: doesn't it atone for the thing you're stuck with doing, if you can use it as an occasion to play with Bible? What do you think the Old Testament people did all day and night, given the fact it took probably 30 minutes to just fetch water?

Satan just doesn't get it. Sure, God could have instantly created us all from the get-go to be perfect, but then all these potential occasions for using Bible, would never exist. They'd end up as woulda been, iffy history that never occurred. Worse, all of us would not be anything like we are, our freedom to choose thus curtailed, the "hell c" or "d" in Part 1. That's worse than being a Stepford wife — at least the Stepford wives were drugged. Here, you'd know that you missed a whole side of life. God won't do that to us. Satan would, and does.

In the trenches, just assert the verb. It's happening at a deeper level, and you are blindsided by whatever pressure is hitting, so appreciation for the purification process, will seem remote. Just assert the verb. Because it's going on, more than ever. Christ shouted Psalm 22:1 over and over and over, to remind Him of it.

  1. "Plunder" Infinitive, ἀφαιρέω, hence propitiation: Christ Himself Became Bigger in His Own Soul, due to all that incoming sin being converted into God's Divine-DNA Apodoses. That too, Isaiah stresses, in verse 12 (which is why Isaiah 54:1 is so witty). Ἀφαιρέω is usually translated "take away", but that's a bad English translation. It really means "carry off as plunder", because the root concept is to take something away which belongs to someone else. Main theme in Isaiah 53 is that the Lord was 'raped' by our sins as a woman taken in plunder, becomes 'pregnant' with us as a result, and gives 'birth' to our salvation. So Paul and the other New Testament writers play with ἀφαιρέω a lot, whether using it directly or using the many synonyms for it, to stress our Plunder of Thinking in Christ. The writers all zero in on the plunder meaning which Isaiah climactically builds to, in Isaiah 53:12 through Isaiah 54:1. It's satisfying, get it?

Principle: when you think God's Apodoses, a Propitiation process goes on. You are plundering "true riches" of His Thinking, and that's innately satisfying. The Lord uses ἀφαιρέω this way, in Luke 10:42. The New Testament uses ἀφαιρέω in the context of taking something away which belongs to someone, and it has a specialized meaning of taking away sins, in the Old Testament. But think: that's a kind of plunder, and Isaiah talks about sins as plundering Him, in Isaiah 53:10 where this verb is used. Taking away sins is indeed, satisfying.

It's just flat satisfying to learn and live on Bible. Because you're in a body, everything in this life is a hassle. So learning and living on Bible is a hassle, too. But Bible's not to blame. Moreover, it Propitiates for the hassle of learning and living, in all other aspects of life. For, no matter what you're doing, you can think Bible anytime, anywhere. So no such thing as a waste of your time. Now, isn't that satisfying? Frankly, everything else by comparison — isn't. The more you learn and live on Bible, the more previously-attractive things will become unattractive to you. You'll go through an irritability phase in spiritual adulthood (next section) during which it's like someone finally gave you the right glasses, and now you can see so clearly! Yeah, and what you see is that this world chases its tail, and calls itself holy for so doing. So you'll be tempted to right the wrongs you now see so clearly. God will spank you for that, and eventually you'll calm down. But you've crossed over the border into "Bible is more enjoyable than anything else." Welcome to the Twilight Zone, when you do.

In the trenches, just assert the verb. This is even harder to detect under pressure than καθαρίζω would be. Helps to remember that we get pressure in order to better understand what happened to Christ. So try remembering Hebrews 12:2, here.

  1. "Point-out" Infinitive, δείκνυμι, hence reconciliation: His Very Soul was made Total Light on the Cross. Before the Cross, He was also Total Light, but 'smaller': the only 'portion' of 'light-making' (for lack of a better word) which remained to accomplish in His Human Soul, was to Convert Sin into Light ( = Old Testament metaphor of God's Thoughts). So that last stage of light-completion happened on the Cross, Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 7:28. ("Perfect" as a verb means to "complete" a process or contract, even in legal English: Greek verb is τελειόω.) So many verses on this, too many to quote: look up all New Testament "light" verses and every verse with πληρόω or τελειόω and their cognates, particularly in Paul and John's books, and Book of Hebrews. The latter two words and their cognates are used like twinned DNA threads, so trace them carefully. Of course many Christians under demon influence conflate the "perfect" translations as literally perfect (which they use an excuse to validate works salvation, or obvious defects in biology).

As a result, He could bequeath to Church the selfsame Divine-DNA process, via His prayer in John 17 (i.e., the "oneness" and "sanctify" clauses, especially John 17:20-21). He had to vote on it in advance, for that would determine who would be made or not made, to pay for.

This is not at all a mystical or gnostic thing. We know now and the ancients always did too, that matter converts into energy and vice versa. They knew better than we apparently do, that thought converts from one kind to another. That's a DNA-style function, which is why DNA works as it does. So too, a thought coming in from person "A" to person "B" converts in person "B", yet remains the same in person "A". Because, thought is contagious, an 'RNA' which replicates immaterially with other immateriality. So to say sin converted means it converted in Him. Those were our thoughts of sin, and they remain our thoughts — but now the conversion is also true, and hence atones, propitiates, reconciles and redeems our own existence (which really is thought, the body coming along for the ride). So now you see simultaneity: our thoughts continue to be what they are, and yet God's Omniscience can in advance assign them to Christ for conversion. Which makes Him Bigger Light than pre-Cross. Total fusion of thinking with Father — and also, with His Own Deity, resulted in His Humanity. You'll find that this fact is recognized in varying ways among some pastors. Mine speculates a kind of 'blending' might have occurred post-Cross, for lack of a better word. There's a similar idea being considered by the Watchman Nee people. Greek Orthodox has its own way of describing the result. In short, this recognition of what I'm terming "fusion" has been around for centuries. I picked the term "fusion" of thinking, as that result doesn't alter the best theological definition of "Hypostatic Union" (especially the "without loss or transfer of attributes — the union being permanent and eternal" clauses). If the thinking is fused, the other human attributes wouldn't be altered or mixed, since thinking is immaterial by nature. Clearly His Humanity is a far bigger finity, greater than all the angels put together, per Greek of Hebrews 1:4. Not as we know "humanity" now, obviously.

Greek verb δείκνυμι means to point out, make known, publish, declare, enlighten and even teach — it seems to be the most common method to incorporate Isaiah 53:10-11 by reference, in the New Testament. Ἀφαιρέω is used in carry-up, carry-off wordplay very thickly in Isaiah; he thesaurally weaves in every version of the carry up/off idea possible, seems like. New Testament writers thus imitate his style with as many carrying verbs and nouns as they can pile in a book, stringing them from the carrying of our sins to the carrying off of the riches of His Thinking. However, they prefer to use synonyms (especially κομίζω and ἁρπάζω, the latter also being the official verb for the Rapture) more than ἀφαιρέω. By contrast, δείκνυμι is repeated more often, as well as played on thesaurally.

Principle: when you think God's Apodoses, a Publishing process goes on, and what you're publishing, is your Reconciliation of the Truth. That Enlightens You, both in the sense of seeing better, and in the sense of 'weight lifted'. For in accounting you must reconcile the books. Especially, The Book, the Bible — it and what you believe, must match. Or you will never be happy. Remember, you are a Royal Priest by nature, so you need this. That's why you have The Book. It proves God 100%, if you'll study it diligently. For any protasis requires a reconciling apodosis, for the entire concept to 'fit', Balance. So when you choose God's Apodoses in Bible, you're Publishing the Balancing Reconciliation to your soul — but more importantly, to Heaven Who Hears You, 24/7. You might seem to be alone down here, but count on it — if you're using Bible in your head, you have an Unseen Audience, Hebrews 11:1!

In the trenches, assert this verb and try to find even one Divine Apodosis which reconciles the pressure for you, and keep on asserting that. For me, it's "DDNA", or simply "dendrites". For Christ, it was Psalm 22:1, the Psalm of sins hitting Him on the Cross, foreknown by David. He told His Disciples He'd longed for that Cross, Luke 22:19 being the occasion He foreknew when He'd finally be 'set aside', since it was true 10 Nisan, nominal 14 Nisan, first day of Passover on the then-incorrect, calendar. So four days later on true 14 Nisan, nominal 18 Nisan, He's finally on that Cross from about 9 AM until 3 PM: beginning 12 PM, Psalm 22 reconciled everything for Him, and His shouting it is a happiness, not a complaining. He's telling the audience — those around the Cross, us reading about it — that He's now being judged for their sins and it is a relief for Him, Hebrews 12:2. Combat is a relief when you've trained for a lifetime to be in it. The spiritual life is back-ended, all the profit finally showing up at the end, so a lot of hurry-up-and-wait characterizes the life. So the training has to be harder than the combat you'll undergo, or you won't complete it successfully. So it is comforting to finally get it. More about Combat will be covered in the "2-3-4-5 Evidence Testing" table below. The final stage of your spiritual life is almost pure combat, as you'll see later on in this First Reason for Invisibility.

For in the trenches, the objective is to hang onto what you believe most firmly and keep firing it. Will stand you in good stead, hold you together when you are close to an unconscious state (i.e., sleep deprivation, too much pain, too little food, etc). Spiritual dendrites are manufactured by the ton when you're under pressure, but you are so blindsided — if you can think one or two words, that's a major victory. So repeat them over and over. If you find the reconciling item, obviously you will see the comforting propitiation and atonement meanings, which refresh you amidst the pressure.

  1. "Πλάσσω" ( = to sculpt, Greek) Infinitive, hence Redemption: thus the dichotomy between finity and Infinity, was solved in His Humanity. So He's The Beneficiary, as Isaiah 53:12 explains (usually mistranslated). He thus distributes His Own Thinking booty (and hence the people He purchased as well) to those "great ones" who grow up like He did: μερίζω clause in Isaiah 53:12, which is incorporated by reference in Romans 12:3, Ephesians 4:16, other verses.

"Πλάσσω" is the most important of the five verbs, for it depicts the actual sculpting of His Thinking as first happened in Him, and from there — to happen in us. The Hebrew counterpart verb is yatsar, and you'll find it used for sculpting the 'body' of a thing, person, mountain, etc. So the New Testament doesn't actually use πλάσσω, but yet references it with many synonyms to play on its wry meanings. Idea of sculpting a 'body' of thinking: His. Very witty. The Hebrew in Isaiah 53:11 is b'd'atto yatsdiq; LXX δείκνυμι and πλάσσω clauses are used to translate but those two Hebrew words. Point is, the Hebrew text means what the LXX says, but the New Testament writers play with the LXX verbs. Paul never tires of body-of-Christ's-thinking analogies — him the only virgin apostle of the lot of them — so line by line, precept by precept, Divine-DNA dendrite by God's Apodosis, the 'body of the Head' is to go in your head. And "πλάσσω" accomplishes that.

Principle: when you think God's Apodoses, a Play-Doh process goes on. You yourself are Redeeming Time by crafting from your own free will, Bible in your head to apply to your life. See why it redeems? Here you are, a lump of clay with these Diamonds of Doctrine in your head, and from them you craft something — under the Spirit, but the Spirit isn't forcing you to do this, He's enabling it. Well, think of how pleasing that is. God likes that even better than if He alone made up whatever you do. Just as, you'd treasure a clay animal your kid made more than something you make yourself. It redeems, doesn't it! Don't you find yourself glad despite all the hassles of child-rearing, when the kid actually comes up with something on his own? So too, does our Heavenly Father. Play-Doh is an American commercial wheat flour dough sold to children for their school crafts, non-toxic. It's probably sold worldwide, by now. It was invented when I was a kid in the 1950's. I loved it, TinkerToys and Lincoln logs. Bible is the ultimate version of such creative toys, and it's actually the Thinking of Our Beautimous Lord! Don't ever let anyone tell you that to be holy you have to be boring. Bible is anything but.

Now for the bad news: in the trenches, you feel this happening. The pressure you experience is the sculpting knife, and you're on the Hebrews 4:12 operating table, so what you want to do, is keep on using your favorite Bible verse or just assert this verb, over and over. Our sins 'sculpted' Christ on the Cross. So in our own lesser crosses, the pressures 'sculpt' us, too. We either come out of the operation totally mad at God, or we grow by leaps and bounds. Never underestimate the power of failure to grow you. Look what happened to Paul, who blew it in Acts 21-22! My pastor spent the spring and summer of 1999 teaching "the fall of Paul". Yeah, then God turned around and gave him Canon to write! Just keep on keeping on like Paul did, in his post-fall epistle, namely, Philippians 3:14. That lumbering Greek is how you'll feel, too. Just keep on keeping on.

  1. "Perfect" (literal, make righteous) Infinitive, δικαιόω, hence Result of Redemption, justification: when Christ 'replied' to all those sin thoughts with replacing apodoses of God's, Divine Righteousness was produced out from those sins; the fact is echoed in 2 Corinthians 5:21. Isaiah 53:10-12 repeats this fact several times, and Isaiah 53:10, has the initial contract offer: "If you will give Your Soul as a substitute for sin". Interesting how "Soul" is put in the center of two clauses, a common technique in Greek to make the same word be subject/object of both the clause preceding the word, and the one following it (similar construction is in Romans 8:28 and other verses' locations I can't offhand remember). Now you know how we get Divine Righteousness: it's first a conversion on the Cross — and then an exchange into us. Romans 6-8 therefore elaborates on how that same process plays in us, to exploit the results of the Cross. Two kinds of Righteousness here: first, the Divine-DNA base, 2 Corinthians 5:21; then atop that, the previous infinitives' work building in us (per Ephesians 2:10's Ionic dative of purpose for ἐπί), what my pastor likes to call "capacity righteousness" — all that Divine-DNA building and functioning in you as you grow in God's System. This is the growth toward Kingship, a status of closest Rapport.

Principle: when you think God's Apodoses, a Perfecting process goes on. The protases of life don't do squat for God. But they are justified, to Him and to you, when His Apodoses are used to 'reply' to the protases, even as happened on the Cross. It's the same mechanic. Obviously not the same scope, to apply Bible to your toothbrushing — but since it's the same principle, it's justifying. After all, God has no need to watch you brush your teeth. But He loves hearing you think Bible, so while you brush, you can ponder something, remember, analyze — so now your brushing is associated with that thinking, just like our sins became associated with Christ's Thinking on the Cross. Association is what justifies a thing. If you bought a lottery ticket and scratched off a winning number, bet you'll keep that ticket as a souvenir. By contrast, if you scratched off a losing number, what do you do — throw it out. So here, the Justification — your use of Bible in the activity or thinking — is Associated with something that otherwise, would only be worth pitching in the trash.

In the trenches, δικαιόω finishes the Association, bonds to it. What happens is that the next time you have the same or similar activity, the remembrance of the Association is much faster and stronger. You go from asserting the verb to enjoying the verb, with the pressure coming to signify the verb, rather than itself. So the pressure, actually changes in meaning. Same kind of idea happens in physical exercise, as you repeat the exercise, it becomes less a hassle and more an enjoyment, until you attain so much proficiency, any pressure in it is actually enjoyed. It doesn't happen overnight, but you can see the progress, even after a week or so of repetition.

This is the upswing in what one can call the "Circle of Plunder" that these five infinitives create. This δικαιόω connects back to καθαρίζω and the whole thing begins anew, over and over and over. Explains how Hebrews 12:2 can be true. For that verse said He enjoyed the Cross, as my pastor never tires of explaining. How do you enjoy a cross of any kind, much less, His? I ask God that question every day. Well, this is how. So here, repetition is the key. Keep on keeping on as with the other verbs, assert assert remember assert. Here you see the payoff. No wonder Isaiah says in Isaiah 53:11's Hebrew: "yireh! yisbah! bedato yatsdiq, tsadiq av'di l'rabbim!" / "He will see! Be Satisfied! By means of His Mastery of Truth Knowledge, He makes Righteousness/Justification, My Righteous/Just Servant for the masses!"

Here's what the world doesn't understand. A pain or a pleasure lasts for only a little while — but the memory, lasts forever. Think of some party you went to — or other event, time — where you enjoyed yourself 'a bit too much'. Look back on it now. Do you feel a little chagrin? Yeah, and now you're stuck with that chagrin as a Remembrance forever. By contrast, look back on some horrible experience and what you learned from it. That learning lasts forever, but the horror, only a little while. That's what Bible keeps telling us — we will live forever in either heaven or hell, what memories will we want to have? Only Bible in your head makes good viewing for Father, so guess what's the only happy life game in town — for us? Matthew 4:4, always occurring! That's happiness forever. Not the "la la" emotional kind, smile here. But true contentment.


The Four H's of His Happiness, in which We can become Heirs

So what counts to the Father, is Divine (DDNA!) Thinking: Bible Doctrine circulating in our souls, since it is that same happy Thinking of Our Highness, Who paid for our sins. See these four H's, Heaven's Holy Happy Highness, Now Complete Seated, Our King Forever! The Highways and Byways of earth the Holy Spirit searches, to add to His Harem! Harvest Time! In rural America, they used to have something called "Four-H Clubs", which were designed to teach rural folk better farming practices. So now witness the Divine 4H version, to Harvest Humanity and fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah 53:10c, of His Hand Happily Harvesting Humans, w'hephets y'hwhah, b'yado yitslah!


God's Love Alphabet for Eternity

The Royal Issue is always Love. This Trial is about Love's Completion, 1 John 4:17.
Part 1 and 2 introduced this Trial, which is about whether you grow up in Love.
Trial Proof: growing up in God's Love creates Soul Integrity and thus Happiness.
Can't grow up in God's Love, unless you want God.
Three Core Trial Issues in red font from Part 1:
#1 Trial Issue, God provides "enough"; so
#2, you can accept or reject Him based on what you know; so
#3, you can accept or reject Him based on what you don't know.

Now observe how all that plays out here, with respect to God's Larger Love Alphabet:

Now here's the scary part: Church — us believers between Pentecost and Rapture — will Canonize The Conduit For Love — forever. All will go through us, for we are Body and will thus be Bride of Christ. We will govern. So just think: how will you feel, if you haven't learned His Canon? Not good. Just think: you get an intimacy and a governance opportunity now, which will forever circumscribe what you have in eternity. Big, or small. Your choice, how much you want to be a conduit forever.

Flipside: all those other believers who had the same opportunity as you but refused it, will then have you as a conduit for what they refused to learn. So they won't be unhappy. They will count themselves blessed, to get that Love through you.

So too, no one in the past who couldn't get that level of Love Development, is shorted its enjoyment. This is the reason for you being Church, vis á vis your life down here, and forevermore. You are to be the conduit for the greatest outpouring of Divine Love in all history, and in all eternity. This is why Paul and John get so excited when they talk of Love and Church. This is why they keep on stressing that Church is the culmination of Everything, stressed in Paul's Ephesians 1:15-23, John's 1 John 4:17, which points back to Hebrews 11:40. For the Trial, is all about and only about, God's Love. Satan disputes it. We are the quintessential products of It. All made by the Holy Spirit, Romans 5:5. No wonder Paul and John and the writer of Hebrews wax so eloquent about the Treasure of Word building us!

Absent obedience here, all "works" are pure trash. Worthless. Ugly. Repulsive. If God wanted "works", He'd have made us automatons, like Satan's trying to do. So, we know that our spiritual life is a progressive growth in the "knowledge of Our Lord and Savior" (2 Peter 3:18). And from that comes His Own Love, which causes us to glorify God (ibid).

Glorifying God isn't mouthing "how I love Jesus" or praising Him. What glorifies God is that He be replicated, so His Own Glory is reflected everywhere. God sees everything. He shouldn't see anything below the level of His Son. So for that to happen, His Son must be built in us. Surely you know how little praise matters. That and a quarter might buy you a phone call during an emergency, in rural America. So true praise, if praise were an issue — and it is, Hebrews 13:15 says so, "through Him" — then through Him, Becoming Like His Son is the only acceptable praise, Hebrews 11:6. Which you do, if you want to know God, thus learn God. You then love God. And then even toothbrushing, is a work beyond compare. For you are Thinking Like His Son, when you do it. Hebrews 13:15 is mistranslated. It's about what constitutes true versus false worship, praise (context is Hebrews 13:9, then the Jewish-law ritual crowd, running straw man warning comparison of the letter, since Chapter 2). Hebrews 13:15 ties to 2 Corinthians 10:5, is about every thought or word coming out of your mouth, since you are a believer in Him. It's a command to WWJT, essentially. To be like Him, since we are Royal Priests (Hebrews 13:10). I don't have time to retranslate it here, now. Key Greek words are διάπαντος = constantly, and ὁμολογέω, as a participle, which is not "giving thanks", but "admitting" — i.e., admitting you are a believer, naming sins to Him, a whole thought pattern of admitting truth (constantly, διάπαντος) — it's a courtroom verb of admission that a given fact or precedent is true, ties to 1 John 1:9 which also uses ὁμολογέω — so you will be Filled with the Spirit and thus "through Him" is realized — it also ties to many other verses. So even with this short note, you can readily see that you're not to run around constantly saying: "how I love Jesus! Jesus is Lord! Christ is King!" like some holy roller, making God look like an idiot.

If Christ's Thinking is built in you, then you truly become like Him. Else, you are not. It's exactly like DNA, except here it's God's 'DNA', Dendritic Nucleotides' Agape. Built line on line, precept on precept, God's Apodoses replacing the natural human ones. You are what you think. So if you think the thoughts of Christ, then you are like Christ. That's why you have a Book.

God 'stays' God because He loves. "Love is the integrity of God!" my pastor shouted on May 7, 2000, utterly excited about the discovery, having searched for it 50+ years. At that point, he'd been basically teaching the same thing, since 1977 (Romans series) — but you only see that when you go back that far in the lessons. God knows what we're learning, but often we don't recognize what we're learning until long after we've learned it. That's true here. Abraham didn't know how much he loved God until he almost-sacrificed Isaac — God stopped him. You don't know how much you love God until you are tested with something that really gets to you, your worst nightmare. God Enables via His Eternal Love, because that's really why He wants to be God. Which you know immediately, for if He didn't love, how could He stand knowing all that He knows about us? It's not like Omniscience ever turns 'off' or can be set aside, forgotten for a while like we get to do. So this Enabling Eternal Love is the Quintessential Meaning of Everything, True Integrity, the reason to want to even breathe.

This Love isn't like anything humans know, because it's Divine Love, not human love. Divine Love is a thinking, not an emotion, for God is pure Thought, never changes (e-motion by definition means change). So the closest human concept is Absolute Honor. Dying for your country with no qualms at all. Wanting to do it; yearning to do it. Paul gives a succinct definition of this Love, in Romans 5:6-11. It's superhuman: Divine, actually. For the word "love" is usually "ἀγάπη", which only means Divine Love. To know the meaning of a Bible word, you must look at how the Bible uses it. The Bible never uses agape for human love of any kind, but rather only for Divine Love. Greek high philosophy and literature did the same thing, so you are expected to know agape only means 'the gods' level' of love. That quality, never below. Sadly, translations almost always cut out the "Divine" meaning embedded in Greek words.

So now, with Filling, Full Divine Love can be built in our souls, Romans 5:5. Conversely, every thing anti-love which exalts itself in our souls, can be finally defeated. "Every lofty thing" is not really the right translation in 2 Corinthians 10:5a: it's every arrogant thing, puffed up with itself, deeming itself on par with or substituting for learning God, having an equal claim on your attention. But there's no hedge room in the First Commandment. But until His Soul was built, who could love God so exclusively, yet have anything of the self left?

Ironically, if God is First and Only, then you really do love people, as 1 John diagrams throughout his epistle; because by proxy you want to bless the world by studying Him. Human love is not love, but as masquerading as love. Look how people abuse each other in the name of love, and you'll see we might mean well — but we beat each other up with our importunings, our flatteries, our anything-to-get-our-way lifestyles. Cut it all off. God First and Only. Then you truly don't need anyone, so can truly love, 1 John 4:19.

Need and love are mutually exclusive. So the person who bugs you about being more attentive, doesn't love you. Love wouldn't ever ask such a thing. All those many demands in the name of you loving an object, is a broadcast that the object so demanding, hates you, needs you, and lies to self a claim of love. Very easy to detect. Very hard to live with. Again, true love is alien to the human race, having died in Genesis 3. We crave it, but when we 'love', we become insecure: hence needy. Hence what was meant as 'love', isn't. God's Love is not needy, not insecure, as 1 Corinthians 13:4ff explains. So the trick is, to get in God's System, and get God's Love in you, Romans 5:5.

The world deems it immoral, really, that you should not devote your life to people by the world's definitions; never mind, that those definitions cause all the strife, jealousy, hurt and war ever on this planet. God, of course, gets no attention: he's just a dog who should fetch for people, too. So the world will hate you for pursuing the First Commandment and excluding them from your thinking; not realizing they are getting blessed as a result, so — who really loves them? God. And thus — you. God always cuts out and then grafts in, culminating in Hebrews 10:9. That's how our DNA actually works, biologically. Fitting, huh. Our Divine Instruction Set, our Divine-DNA, God's Apodoses' spiritual maturation process First works that way: to cut out the world from our thinking, so only He is the Object of our thoughts, Ephesians 3:19. Then He grafts in what really blesses and loves the world.

So here's the resulting Invisible Pattern of Your 'Developing into Christ' Soul daily occurring "to produce a reflection (κατοπτριζόμενοι)" of Him 2 Corinthians 3:18! "To produce a reflection" is my pastor's translation of κατοπτριζόμενοι. "Mirror" is a common moniker for the Word in the Word, often used allusively. So when you are produced by it, you reflect Christ, i.e., sea of glass is Church, in Revelation 4. That, my pastor stressed often, when exegeting Revelation and James.

So now, let's look on the bright side. Suppose you choose to grow up in God's Script? How will it play, as you age in Christ? Well, you are used to complete the Love Alphabet for everyone else:

See, we really sell God short with all our Brother-Foot Churchinanity. God wants equals for His Son, not footmen. No fellowship with a footman. But intimate Fellowship, with a Bride. So those among us who opted to be footmen, considering themselves the more holy by opting for the low, will get what they wanted — and be distant from Him, forever. Most of the women in a harem seldom saw their husband. Married, but oh so distant. Most of the people in a royal entourage rarely see the Royal Person of it. Depends on the intimacy, how often and how close.

Since Our Royally Invisible Spiritual Life is truly a Divine-DNA, God's Apodoses', Learning-Love Transmutation process, then the Life's process is to be 'housed'; and within that housing, your Royally Invisible Spiritual Life experiences distinct stages of growth. So let's now examine the housing, and the growth stages.


His Seven-Faceted, Royally-Invisible Spiritual Growth 'House of Thinking'

So, then: how do we live out this spiritual life? What do we 'do' to grow up, "serve the Lord"? Should we shake tambourines and sing "Do, Lord"? Do we froth at the mouth and spout gibberish? Do we pray to merely "get" something? Do we sing hymns to get that good ol' feeling? Do we say grace because "it's expected"? Do we 'nod to God' on Sundays, like He's dirty laundry? Do we hustle? Do we trumpet the Gospel to the hostile, like pearls before swine? Do we knock on doors, stand on street corners "proclaiming Christ", to get brownie points? And then, consider ourselves good martyrs, for being scoffed at? Do we wrangle over denominations? Do we judge others? Do we feel guilty about how Christ paid for us? Do we want others to feel guilty? Do we crusade for causes, activism? Do we seek laws, so to make a 'Christian nation'? Oh no. The spiritual life we inherit from Him is none of these silly, wasteful things. Instead, we inherit the life He lived — which had none of these stupid "works" in it. A careful review of the Gospels reveals that Christ refused all of those works. Adamantly.

Answer: we don't live out, we live in — Inside Him Who is Our House, our Vine, New Testament keyword "abide" (and many synonyms). Put simply, that means learning and living on Bible, His House of Thinking, 24/7, in God's System. This is the most common of the New Testament metaphors. In the early 1980's, my pastor coined the terms "Divine Dynasphere" and "His Palace" for this House, which he learned from teaching 1 John's Greek. Trouble is, people don't even grasp what expressions like "house-of-thinking", or "learning and living on Bible" mean. The poetry of these Hebraistic metaphors, are obscure to those who don't know how Moses likened the Word to a house you lived in, slept in, ate in, 24/7 (Deuteronomy 6ff). You know: you might go to or even move in a house, but that doesn't mean you are familiar with that house, especially if you only stay in a few rooms, ignoring rest of Bible. Yet we've just seen that quite a lot is being done with that 'house' of Divine Information to renovate your 'soul DNA', the 'house of thoughts' you've built up over the years. We just saw that our Royally Invisible Spiritual Life 'begets' a God's Apodoses', Divine-DNA Transmutation of our very souls being processed with five infinitives to produce four happinesses and nine Love Alphabet results.

Bigger Answer: God generates this Divine-DNA Transmutation in you to create Abiding Togetherness AKA Communion with Him. Each "Him", 2 Corinthians 13:14. For the Old Testament folks got "You, with me!", Psalm 23:4b. But we get, "You, in Me!" It's all about Togetherness, Relationship. Period. Now God is Diamond-Quality, and we live in transparent houses, before heaven. So this House, is the Diamond of His Thinking. Again, it's good Greek rhetoric to mix metaphors. Your House is the Hardest Kind Of Stone, Diamond. But you need to learn its facets, explore it, live in it, to see its splendor and strength...

  1. Abiding function. Greek verb usually translated "abide" is μένω. Its cognate noun is used mostly as a suffix, μονή. The Lord uses the term in wordplay in John 14:2, very witty way to announce His Legacy (μοναί means dwellings, it's sound play). It gets even more witty as He thesaurally branches into the parameters in the following verses — for the next three chapters! Consequently, the New Testament's main theme is to explain how you learn to μένω: meaning, to live in Him. Basically, the New Testament elaborates on what the Lord Himself explained in detail during the Last Supper, which we have recorded in John 14-17; and that discourse, was to show how the five sweeping contractural infinitives of Isaiah 53:10-11, get DDNA-accomplished into Church.

So we are in Him then, Romans 6. So He is in us — Now, Romans 5-8. So Now you can think Bible 24/7, WWJT — What Word Jesus Thought, Matthew 4:4. Any second you breathe, you draw analogy to your life that minute, to something in Bible. You solve problems with it, you eat with it, sleep with it, constantly using it like breathing in everything you think and do. That's what Christ did, as He Himself says in Matthew 4:4. That's what Moses told the people to do with it, in Deuteronomy 6 and 9 (represented by the tfellin, strips you bound on your head depicting Bible in your head, and on your arms, depicting Bible in your daily use of your body). It's a Lifestyle, living on Bible in God's System, and has no religious connotation whatsoever. Everyone lives according to some beliefs: these, are yours. Standards, ideas, goals, stuff you want to keep on touching, knowing, seeing: Him. So, His Thinking is codified in writing, so we can live in it, walk in it, be in it 24/7. So you practice living on Bible, and you'll be failing all the time; but also, succeeding all the time. Failure and success are always constant companions, wherever you live. So Live In Bible in God's System, 'abide' there in your thinking. And God will make that lifestyle, grow in you. That's the spiritual life!

Here's how I do it, so you get an idea of the 'layout' of "abide". You should design your own 'layout' before the Lord, that's your Privilege as a Royal Priest Yourself. So here's the one I use, generically presented:

Notice how it's about Life with Him via the Bible — doesn't matter what denomination you are. If you think one denomination more 'spiritual' than another, well — stay in the denomination but keep living on Bible, in case God wants to upgrade or correct what you think right before Him. It is an issue what you think right before God: so if your own conscience is hurt by not being in a denomination you think 'right', don't violate your conscience, see what Paul says in Romans 14. Notice how that Chapter shows we can have incorrect understandings, deem things holy which are not, and vice versa; so we shouldn't stand pat on our beliefs, but keep on asking God for upgrades and corrections.

Just be sure to stay in God's System so that any needed upgrades or corrections will occur. Else you'll slip into a fake spiritual life, even if you have the 'right answers'. For one big problem with all denominations, is that they pride themselves on having the right answers. Then the life becomes a matter of being right, rather than being with God, and your spiritual life tanks — you'd be abiding in how right the answers are, not in God. The denomination or church ends up replacing God, even though surely that's not intended. You can tell when this happens: the person who's replacing God with his denomination or church will bristle if there's any criticism of it, will be legalistic about it, will be fixated on how right his denomination or church is, and talk about it all the time — rather than, talking about God Himself and even worse; not talking to God Himself constantly: for there's no relationship. So such a person's not occupied with God, but with his own rightness. False abiding, therefore — passing oneself off as holy. Notice how it doesn't matter if he's right, he's still wrong, because the wrong 'god' is being worshipped. You can be a Christian and become equally as distant towards the real God as atheists; and even more distant if you're gradually learning Satan's replacement theology present in all religion, that's why 'easy believism' is vilified in most denominations and religions.

And what He told them was, He'd be staying in them. Yes, He'd be tortured, crucified, and would rise again and then leave to go to the Father. But He would Indwell them, meaning — abide. Be in communion. But it's a two-sided thing, rapport. So the very Isaiah 53:10-11 LXX infinitives which were and would be done to Him all the way through the Cross, they'd get as well — after He was Seated. Hence the Vine and Branches command. A command of Togetherness. Which togetherness, is a rapport; which rapport, means like-mindedness; which like-mindedness, the Holy Spirit would produce via Scripture recall, John 14:26. Which Scripture, would be added to, the "ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη" as the writer of Hebrews puts it: "the New Testament of His Thinking". (Hebrews 8:10's fulfillment, illustrated as fulfilled in Hebrews 9:15-17, then brilliantly bookended to show Church is the carrier and reciprocating, wifely-rescuer of Israel during our "Now", in Hebrews 10:16. Hebrews 11:39-40 in Greek stresses our rescuer role. Part 4 is dedicated to this topic, since it's the reason why Rapture kicks off the Tribulation, a contractural promise relating to how much time Israel had remaining, how her time gets rescued, due to her rejection of Messiah.)

So He's explaining to the depressed apostles how He takes away the first (the Mosaic Law) to establish the second (His Thinking in us earthen vessels) so we can abide in Him — forever. Oneness. Togetherness, flat. So the rest of the New Testament memorializes and expiates on, this Passover discourse. Because Our Lamb lives in us. So we can learn to live in Him.

So that's another dimension of the Abiding Function, not just going through the motions of it, but Remembering What It Means. And what is that? "Christ is in me!" "You, in me!" "You, in Me!" The Third Reason for Royalty explains this in more detail. For now, the point is this: He's really in you. You're not just going through the motions, all alone, on your own, it's only the world you can see and God is something like Harvey, the white invisible rabbit (movie "Harvey" starring James Stewart). It's not imaginary. Invisible yes — God is too big to see with physical eyes. But Real, Royal, Royally Invisible. So when you think toward Father, Son and Spirit are there also. Indwelling you, just as promised the disciples. You'll come to know this well, as you mature. John 14:26 is how you get Divine Feedback or insight into your day. It's not voices and visions but a true Knowing you test with Bible — but you won't realize that, unless you keep on keeping on in God's System. Your perceptions will be enhanced secularly, too. More about that will be said in the next section, on the growth stages. Point is, you will have understanding you will know came from God, and you can prove it's God and not the demon boys, a bad dinner, or your emotions, 'hallucinating'. But again, this growth takes time. So just keep on keeping on.

  1. Abiding desire. The root idea of "μένω" is staying: lingering, tarrying, remaining. But more than mere position, you stay (etc.), because you want to do so. Reluctant to leave. This is the second "flank" of μένω, the desire. It's not merely gritting a thing out, functioning like some robot or resentful, confused slave. Rather, "μένω" emphasizes your State Of Thinking, your reason for staying: your thoughts occupied/staying on someone or something, essentially. So your body stays, too. Hence the verb is used for where you live and remain; for marital faithfulness; for martial loyalty; for remaining truthful. All these, connote staying despite pressure, even — because you want to stay so very much. Hence "μένω" is a very homey, marital-intimate, shared rapport; very martial-honorable term. Its cousin ὑπομένω (literal, to stay under) is a favorite New Testament keyword, and is usually translated "be patient" or "endure". Those meanings don't convey in English the ardent desire to obey or endure which the Greek has built in it. That matters, since God's goal is to build us up in His Love — main theme of 1 John — not legalism, which 1 John warns ardently against (as does all the New Testament). So when you see "persevere", "endure" and other words which in English have this horrible, huff-and-puff-God-is-a-Tyrant translation, look to the Greek, which is probably μένω or ὑπομένω or a synonym, being translated.

Love is something you train in. It's not human love, as we saw in the previous section. Love has to be learned, so of course your body and soul will have urges against it. Don't feel bad about that. Your body is allergic to the Divine, product of Adam's fall. Just use 1 John 1:9 as needed and keep on trying to learn and live on Bible in God's System because you want Him, too. Battle of the Wants, theme of Romans 7-8 — that's a daily combat you will face until you die. But the Desire to Know Him will keep on increasing, right alongside all those tares of the world's wants. Two crops are growing. God harvests them both at the end, and by then you'll be mostly Wheat, totally in Love with Him, Matthew 13, Luke 8:5ff.

  1. Abiding development. Note Our Archegos (Pattern, Progenitor) again: He didn't 'do' anything which made Him Our Savior. Rather, He became something: The Way, the Truth, and the Life. Because He Became, and because He meno'd in the Spirit — that Way (heh) sins could be plundered "out from the labor of His Soul" and converted into Divine-DNA, as the prior section's five infinitives demonstrated. See, we aren't like God. We needn't feel ashamed of that. We need God to transform us, even as Christ though Perfect, also needed that. So, He voted for the Compatibility. So, we can, too. God could have just zapped Christ to make that compatibility; can just zap us to make us compatible. But Love doesn't want to do that. Love wants to stay within the corridor of choice in the love object. So, it's not at all about being good little boys and girls, about performance, but it is a struggle to change from what you are, to what you want to be. That's true even secularly. So it takes God's Power to transmute you to be like Him — a power you Vote for Him to use, since He won't coerce. And you'd want to vote, not to be a good little boy or girl — but because you want to know Him better. Because you want Him. Just Him. God will make that happen as you vote. As you'll see below, it's a gradual process which takes decades — took Christ Himself 30 years — not unlike physical or mental maturation in its timelines. So it's okay that it's hard. The thing is to keep on voting for it by living in God's System, Philippians 3:14!

Notice how Abiding Function and Abiding Desire combine to produce Abiding Development. You can't vote without information. You can't vote for something you don't believe in. So from all that Abiding Function, you have information which the repetition makes easier to remember; and obviously your Abiding Desire has been building also, since to repeat the Function, you had to Desire that. So here, Development results, again gradually — but you vote for more. That's why Philippians 3:14's keep on keeping on is so important. The Greek is lumbering: "κατὰ σκοπὸν διώκω εἰς τὸ βραβεῖον τῆς ἄνω κλήσεως — τοῦ θεοῦ! ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ!" Sounds like a tramping soldier, right? Yep. True Spirituality is a plodding. Notice how the exclamation comes at the end. Spiritual profit is back-ended, long downtime, huge payoff. After all, when you buy a house, you don't get the profit on all those mortgage payments — until you move out!

  1. Abiding plunder. So our Royally Invisible Spiritual Growth Pattern — is His. So our spiritual growth structure parallels His Own. Those five infinitives we saw at the beginning of this First Main Characteristic of Invisibility, all act like a Circle Of Plunder:

Because the spiritual life is back-ended, the realization that you are plundering Riches of His Thinking — which Plunder is your Inheritance in Him — takes some time to recognize. You begin doing it from spiritual childhood forward, simply because you're living in God's System — but that fact it doesn't register as valuable, it registers as a 'chore', a thing you are supposed to 'do'. Children do chores, not knowing why they are valuable. So it takes time to see how rich you are becoming. However, if you use the five infinitives in the previous section to solve problems, analyze life's situations, you will begin to see the fifth one — δικαιόω, Perfecting Justification — which completes this Circle of Plunder.

As you practice using those infinitives in your life, you'll speed comprehension of the fact of this wealth. Our God is a God of Wealth. Wealth means responsibility, which you want because you love spending everything on Him. Every other use of wealth ends up being disappointing. So your Abiding Function and Abiding Desire lead to an Abiding Development of an Abiding Plunder which you might not see happening, for some years. But again, if you practice asserting, analyzing or problem-solving with the five infinitives, you'll see that Plunder much sooner. I need instant gratification, because it's stupid that God should have to see me be a human: remembering those five infinitives, is how I get it. He's DDNA-doing to me what pleases Father, and that's how I get through the next minute of any day. So it works, to use those infinitives and thus see the Abiding Plunder.

  1. Abiding victory. Whoa. Even though we are fallen, we get this so-royal spiritual life? Yes. For that is the Trial Issue: can we fallen humans grow up in the same spiritual life as His, since not even the angels got it? We saw the nine-member Love Alphabet. This is a six-member Trial Alphabet, and both alphabets play in our lives, to see if we know our Spiritual ABC's. Notice the tug-of-war quality to the Trial Alphabet, in what follows. Due to that tugging, you begin to see the Abiding Plunder. Ironic, that it takes Combat to see what you've won already.

This is a Plunder sign, too, and you are indeed aware of it. Here, you get a great deal of satisfaction putting down your old hangups about God and the nature of the Relationship. So the Victory here becomes really obvious. Of course, those around you who still buy those false ideas, well — you'll be tempted to battle them, as well. Not good. God will spank you for that. Battle your own demons while living in God's System: leave God to handle the other people Himself.

The Plunder sign here is almost immediate, but as in the Plunder of Absolute Unity, you don't recognize it for what it is. Closest analogy is to high school: people made fun of students who actually learned something in the classes, calling them "nerds" and other not-nice names. That, because it was only "cool" to want whatever bugged your parents — here, not learning. It's not until long after graduation — say, at a reunion 10 years later — that you see the nerds with the money and prestige, and the mockers, twice-divorced or some other misery. Much more true in the spiritual life, you won't see how superior it is, until you come across other Christians who maybe mocked you or others, for persisting in it. Temptation will be to get cocky or try to 'help' them. Talk to God a lot during this discovery-of-your-Plunder phase, for it's a nettlesome fact, in adulthood. That's when you begin to see how rich you are. That's when Demon Opposition rises, too. Satan & Co. have no time for children. But they will find time for you — then.

Your average 'Christian' idea of spirituality is just as hateful, always cutting God's head off in 'translating' either the Word or the life. Work work work we wewewewe do — never what God does. Sickening. Satan has been quite successful at replacing God with his own idols and replacement theology.

So the world, hates. So whose idea is better — the hating world's, with its unending hypocrisy of masked hatred, preening over its good deeds and then stabbing the good-deeders in the back (read up on Belsarius and Stilicho in the Roman Empire) — or God's Loving Gospel and subsequent Hebrews 4:12 surgery?

Ok, what was the point of the above digression? Oh, huge: the Biggest Plunder Sign is that you have come to Love God, the hallmark characteristic of spiritual adulthood. So all the above fake piety will trap you, because you'll think you need to 'do something for God' to express your Love — and you'll think you don't love God, if you don't do that stuff. That's a reciprocity motive, which is also endemic in the hating world. The world demands reciprocity its own way, and the demand stems from hatred, not love. But you now beginning to Love, so will be attracted to the world's demands, because to you, they mean Love. But they don't mean love. You can tangle yourself up in knots here. So that's your Plunder sign, that you are so attracted, due to wanting God. So now you have yet another Plunder Index of your spiritual advance. But resist the urge to 'do something' other than keeping on in God's System. Talk to God constantly about any reciprocity motive you have, lest you cave into the world's alleged 'reciprocity' which is in fact evil, substituting for learning God with one's works. Remember Matthew 4? Satan tempted Christ with good deeds — because, the Lover of Us All wanted so badly to help us. So guess what will happen to you, who are now a 'dividend' of Him? The same dang thing. Plunder index, baby — when you are tempted to do good deeds because you need an outlet to express Love for God, then you've arrived. Very messy. The pressure is intense from that point, forward. Hurry up and wait, sit still, study Him — that's the spiritual life.

So these six members of the Trial Alphabet, designed to derail your spiritual life, only serve to act as eyeglasses so you can see the Plunder. After all, the objective of the Trial is to plunder you, rather than allow you to plunder the riches of Your Archegos, and grow BrideWorthy. Hence these Plunder signs all constitute a kind of Victory index you can use to see that hey — I'm growing! So you keep on doing what you did to get you to this place. If Abiding in Function, Desire, Development, Plunder got you to be Abiding in Victory, keep on doing what you were doing. Then all of these Abidings will grow further. Again, it won't necessarily feel good. But you can know it's true, and that is satisfying, whatever your other feelings. Always the wheat and the tares. Fields growing wheat also have weeds, bugs, smells, and lots of nasty stuff. And the wheat needs all that nasty stuff, to grow. So do you.

  1. Abiding intimacy. So, we all get His Same Life, because growing up in That Life makes us 'Fit Bride': which father wants for His Beloved Son. So we can be Intimately Together with Him forever. Now you know why there are literally hundreds of "in Him" verses in the New Testament. That's clever Bible shorthand to (inter alia) incorporate by reference, the Vine and Branches explanation of John 15 (which obviously was known before John penned that chapter). Having gone through Abiding in Victory, you become much more aware of what it was like for Christ when He was down here. So your intimate understanding and hence rapport with Him, grows. This is the ultimate goal of the Christian life, to See Through His Eyes. This becomes a kind of constant understanding, the more you age spiritually. You seek to make parallels, 'rehearse' what He'd think in your own circumstances, to identify better with Him. At first this seeking is intermittent, but it becomes more an issue and a question mark in your mind, developing in strength over time. It becomes an all-consuming focus on Him in maturity, Philippians 1:21.
  1. Abiding compatibility. Your new spiritual nature is therefore the opposite of the Old Testament folks', who were stuck with seeing Him 'at a distance', Numbers 24:17, Matthew 13:17, Luke 10:24, 2 Corinthians 3:1-18, 1 Peter 1:10-12. So your spiritual life is not based on the Old Testament. You don't even get the same "race" of human spirit as other believers "Then" or "Later". "Now" believers get a uniquely-coalescing human spirit, akin to how the woman was exactly matched to Adam. In short: we're all spiritually-designed to exactly fit the Christ. So, like Him, we are Indwelled by the Trinity, Filled (until we sin, ergo 1 John 1:9's importance), etc.

As shown in the Third Reason for Invisibility, the Mosaic Law wasn't 'big enough' to develop Him, because the Cross was His Task. So His Human Spirit from the get-go had to be bigger than the Mosaic Law's system of spirituality, could develop. So our human spirits at salvation, must be tailored to fit His Own. And, they are: Paul exults about this in 2 Corinthians 5:17, with the Greek words "καινὴ κτίσις". Those words mean "new-in-species creation!" as my pastor likes to translate them. Not just new in time. He is a Unique Spiritual Species, and we are of that same species. And from it, we are to Grow Into Fit Bride: an Esther, corporately.

Birds can fly, but horses cannot. Horses can pull huge loads, but birds cannot. Each species has special abilities which make it unique, so obviously the species are not equal. Nor are individuals within a species equal, though they have the same 'building blocks' by nature. By contrast, we start equal to each other in spiritual nature, since we all have the potential destiny of King (a main theme in Galatians, 2 Corinthians 5). So our like-kind spiritual nature, requires special spiritual food to grow up the way God intended: His Thinking. However, we won't equally grow up in His Thinking, because we won't equally choose to grow up in it. So we won't be equal down here, nor in eternity, either. But while down here, any decision made, can be reversed. So the only reason we don't remain equal spiritually, is due to differentials our free choices: how much and how often do we choose God's Divine-DNA Apodoses, in lieu of our own? How often do we keep living on God's Script in God's System? You are what you choose, in God's Plan. Period.

Again, "Compatibility-of-Thinking is God's Goal: 'sons'. It's never about anything else." That's why we get the same five infinitives happening to us, as happened to Christ. That Circle of Plunder results in Compatibility. But, we can choose how much Eternal Compatibility we want, even as down here we can choose to become or not become, compatible with people around us. So: if the sons don't end up being of equal compatibility, they end up being ranked, John 14:1-2. That's inequality. But the only thing bad about inequality is its incompatibility with your own nature. In heaven, everyone is suited to what they are, and especially because they chose to be what they became. God provided all the tools and the power: we chose unequally to use what He provided. So the results are unequal. Bristle about that all you like, down here. But up there, you'll see the justice and happiness of such a structure. And if you grow up to become a King as is your God-provided destiny to refuse, you will love throwing yourself down for your kingdom. No preening, in heaven: preening is boring, 1 Corinthians 1:31, 2 Corinthians 10:17, 2 Corinthians 12:9. So all the preening down here, is laughable — up there. No one 'up there' enjoys lording it over someone else, because Our Lord Threw Down His Life for us. That's everyone's idea of maximum enjoyment, to throw self down — up there (i.e., in Revelation 4:10-11). Just the opposite of life down here.

So what was the point of that digression? To explain what you'll face vis á vis people you know and see in the world, versus your own growing compatibility level with Him. It becomes extremely painful to see loved ones and others elect incompatibility. Husbands and wives who don't equally love to learn God, grow apart. Same, for other members of the family or friends, i.e., Luke 12:53 (context begins in verse 49). You will eventually have to choose between keeping peace with those near you, or growing up further in Christ. Compatibility is always a decision, in God's Plan. The world largely refuses to give up its claimed moralities of being compatible with people, in favor of being compatible with God. So abiding or not abiding here, will be the true test of your life. Bible is full of data on this subject: turn almost anywhere in the Gospels, you'll see the Lord talking about it. It's no exaggeration to say that maturity arrests for most people, over the compatibility issue, for you can't serve both God and "mammon" (meaning the world's ideas of good, not merely money). James 4:4 throws down the gauntlet, Romans 8 and Galatians 5 explain why that enmity, and there's no way around it. You will be most tested on this. It hurts. Only Love for Christ which you Developed from Abiding Function and Abiding Desire, while staying under the Spirit (1 John 1:9 used), will be sufficient power to carry you.

So these, the Seven Facets of your House of His Thinking, Your Diamond House — each 'room', gets polished. It often hurts, it's messy, just as it is in any renovation of a secular home while you still live in it. Especially, since you live in a Diamond House, which is the Hardest Stone, so needs the Hardest Polishing, Isaiah 52:13-14. That High-low Decree of God for His Son, is extended to us. We go through High-low, because the divergence between them, stretches, enlarges the soul. So the Diamond, actually Grows. Obviously this Diamond is not like any kind you find in nature. So as it grows, it goes through yet more renovation, as the hookups to make the whole house 'run', must be made. Like adding additions to a secular home, these are also messy, and you can't wait until it's all over. But it's never over. It just keeps on getting bigger and a new round of renovations begins, Ephesians 4:23. Because, God is Infinite. So at some point in maturity, you learn to reconcile the fact that this is a never-ending process. Those five infinitives never stop. God loves doing them. Once you've matured enough, you'll be glad the house never ends its renovating. For by then, you'll come to love the process, too.


Overview of the Spiritual Maturation Process

Use the videos and text below to help you get a hands-on grasp of the real spiritual growth process you'll go through, as you age (or retrogress) in Christ. The spiritual-maturation diagnostics begin with the fourth video in the list. The last one, shows you what to avoid. You can download the clearer originals of these videos: links are in their video descriptions on Youtube.

Refer to the Flow Chart of the Spiritual Maturation Process, a set of six flowcharts: one per stage of Spiritual Maturation plus a generic overview chart. Videos basically talk you through the charts. They are color-coded for comparison and are easy to understand. You should be able to diagnose your spiritual maturation level within 10-15 minutes(?), even before you read what follows.

This is the entire point of being alive. To grow up in Christ. Nothing you are in human eyes, not even your own eyes, matters. Living really is Christ, far better than anything else you'd ever dream of being. But you won't learn and enjoy that fact, unless you mature spiritually. Most Christians, do not.

Only my pastor has taught the stages of spiritual maturation, and alone has taught the Pleroma stage, so far as I know; one can't find material like this on the internet, except through pastors who also learned the material under him (many of whom have since gone apostate claiming 'we're in the end times', or suffering from chronic trumpitis). By contrast, the material on the House, Divine-DNA, the five infinitives, 4 Happinesses and God's Love Alphabet is a repackaging I did, indirectly derived from his 1985 Ephesians and 1992 Spiritual Dynamics series. So what follows below on spiritual maturation, is synthesized from what he taught in those series; so at times I must use his terminology (since there's no one else). Thus you can audit his own material for Biblical accuracy, as suits your inclination. I try to avoid using his terminology because his material should be heard for itself, and I do not wish to sound like a parrot (parrots are incapable of making what they've learned to become transformative). That same respect should be accorded any pastor. However, there are occasions where a pastor's terminology is best used, i.e., so you can audit it yourself; and above all, if there seem to be no other pastors who teach the same subject matter. It just so happens in this case that the pastor in question, is my own. Hence his terminology will be stated as his, but with my description, and of course you'd thus be cautioned not to take my statements as accurately representing what he says, but would verify them yourself. This is for brainstorming / witnessing purposes only. Teaching Bible is a very different discipline.

Okay, now that we've seen Our Abiding-in-Him 'House of His Thinking', it's time to look at the vicissitudes of Our Royally Invisible Spiritual Growth. Life "in Him" is a progressive Spiritual Maturation which God does to you as you vote to keep on keeping on God's Script in God's System. The structure for this maturation which we've seen thus far:

Complex, huh. So now you know another reason why only God can mature you and make you like His Son. Consequently, from salvation forward it's only about growing up in God's Love within His House, just like Paul says in Ephesians 3:15-19, like John says (paralleling Paul in reverse order) in 1 John 4:12-17. So if you turn out the lights (sin), then use 1 John 1:9 to switch them on. Note well: works, ritual, and all that stuff which passes for Christianity, are all outside the House. For the House is Immaterial, housing your soul: we are behind the veil with Christ, theme of Hebrews 6 (last half), Hebrews 9, Hebrews 13:10; anything outside That House will not go with you to heaven. So only what's inside the house, will go with you when you die. Now you know why the Lord called learning and living on Bible, "true riches", Luke 16:11. (My pastor likes to call it "The Edification Complex of the Soul", a description which sometimes portrays this House differently, because his metaphorical structure is different. But you can see even from the above Bible verses and John 14-17, that there is a house in which you must mature spiritually.)

So as you grow up in God's House of Thinking, you are being progressively weaned off from the world's ways of thinking, and instead weaned into Son's Thinking. Therefore, you go through a protracted and messy switchover in both Viewpoint and Focus. Viewpoint, from the human/worldly viewpoints, to God's. Focus, from being on self, people, earthly stuff to — Christ Himself, exclusively. It's no exaggeration to say that the biggest benefit of the spiritual life is to come to the point where you see Christ 24/7 with every breath you take, Philippians 1:21. Maturity is always a progressive switchover in viewpoint and focus from the childish preoccupations with self, people and things, to the larger issues of life itself, even humanly. If you're a king or President of the United States, you have no personal life. Everything is the job. So how much more, if we are in training to be Kings Under Christ, will our own Royally Invisible Spiritual Maturation shift out from the tiny-mindedness which characterizes Christianity, into the Big-Mindedness of God's Perspective?

So obviously it takes decades to mature spiritually. The meanwhile, the experiential end of this weaning-off-the-world and weaning-into-His-Thinking, plays amazingly like its psychological counterpart, with a lot of the same behaviors and motivations, i.e,

Yet if the spiritual maturation process doesn't proceed in tandem with your psychological maturation, eventually your spiritual immaturity will erode whatever psychological maturity you once had. This, because we truly lost our brains at salvation. It's the reverse of what happened to Adam: he died spiritually, so lost his connection to God, so couldn't use the information he had, prior. So too, being born spiritually, we can't use our prior life's ideas to mature in Christ. That's why we need a Divine-DNA transformation: there is much to unlearn. So the spiritual birth and its life, is a real change which in many ways acts like yet is antithetical to, human secular maturation; but since the spiritual life is Royally Invisible, we don't know all that until we've matured in His House. So, just as Adam tried to access his pre-Fall information and insanely concluded fig leaves, fear, and accusation from it all, so we too will keep on reaching back to secular information, and draw wrong conclusions. We are indeed all brainouts, at salvation — so if we don't get in the habit of living on the Holy Spirit's Brains, we will become retards, even psychologically.

By contrast, genetic retardation is mere biology, and unless too severe, it's no hindrance to spiritual maturation; brain-damaged people in my own congregation learned Bible as well as I did; and my pastor had Alzheimer's, which wrecks the brain. Doubling as his spiritual 'final test' before death, it could have (unfortunately) also been chosen by God to alert the congregation that they had spiritual Alzheimer's, God's humour at play. Apparently he couldn't even read, so obviously couldn't study the Bible which he used to read in Hebrew and Greek, teaching it all to us that way — but you know what? My pastor could still think spiritually. I myself have been in situations where I am barely conscious, yet 1 John 1:9 (which I even remember when dreaming), Scriptural recall and use is no problemo, gringo. That, Because the Power Source is Not Human. So God Provides The Power, That House Is Real And Lasting, just as Christ promised it would be (Matthew 7:24, Luke 6:48) — and It Works. Even if the rest of you, can't. In fact, anyone who learns Bible in God's System becomes noticeably (and unevenly) smarter secularly, as well — I've seen that happen, too. It goes with the territory, you need some secular upgrading to accompany the real purpose, spiritual maturation. If you need a higher IQ, you'll get that (gradually); if memory, you'll get that (John 14:26 stresses the memory faculty); if some talent, you'll get that. I can testify to that, too: a foreign language I'd learned or stuff I'd forgotten 20 years prior said in Bible class suddenly comes to mind, right when I need to remember — but don't ask me what I had for breakfast! Point is, The House Works. Just as advertised, in the Bible.

Accordingly, Spiritual Maturation impacts soul and body maturation positively if it is happening, but negatively, if it is not. Again, there is no natural connection between the two, but when you are saved, the spiritual impacts the secular for better and for worse.

Important Caveat: if you started spiritual growth in physical adulthood, you will have adult expectations of what is really a child's stage; you will either fancy yourself spiritually older than you are, because you have an adult's vocabulary and viewpoint in other ways; or you will become frustrated with yourself when you don't see the 'progress' you would expect from an adult. Additionally, we are all 'mature', 'adolescent', and 'childish' on any given doctrine, so our maturation is uneven. So a physical adult who sees himself not learning or growing as fast as he expects, will be prone to guilt, etc. This is unnecessary, but it will happen anyway. Helps a lot to realize that the two types of growth, spiritual and natural-human, are similar in characteristics, but totally divorced, else; since the Holy Spirit alone accomplishes spiritual growth, the physical adult can relax over his own yet-childish, spiritual needs. It's okay! What a great day that is, when you know it's really okay to be of so divergent a spiritual age! The only thing that's not "okay", is to quit using 1 John 1:9 or be under your own God-appointed pastor. If you like self-torture, do one of those two, and you'll get the spanking of your life (that is, assuming you've already been alerted to this — if you know about 1 John 1:9 and willingly choose to defy it, maximum discipline will be engaged once you're an accountable adult).

Second Important Caveat: If your learning Bible and your Abiding Desire to Learn God for Himself don't keep up with each other, your spiritual life is toast. My pastor called this "mutual flanks" in his Y2K Bible classes (also in 1988). Idea comes from parallel lines of troops, such as in the summer of 1944, when the parallel lines formed after D-Day didn't stay close enough, so the Germans escaped through the breach and the war lasted a year longer. The Bible you learn is one "line" and your Desire to Know God, is the other. It's real easy to focus on either Bible learning or the Desire, and thus miss the other. Point is, Christians get so puffed up about learning Bible that it ceases to be about learning God, and instead becomes a matter of ego-patting. At that point, your spiritual life is toast. Learning Bible is to Develop Love for God, Romans 5:5. If that's not happening, don't even bother studying. Conversely, the Feel-God crowd effectively spurn learning Bible, in favor of their emotions, so they thump Bible or blubber Bible verses, learning nothing. Their spiritual lives are toast, too. Always monitor your motive for learning Bible and don't dismiss the need to be a serious student. Bible study requires the discipline of the highest academic honor, without the pompousness. Man prides himself on what he knows. Don't know why that would be something to preen over — it's the knowledge that's worthy, never the knower of it — but Pompousness Masked is a problem in all the sciences, and especially in the hallowed halls of Bible 'learning'.

That's the gist of the overview. Now let's get into its subdivisions and benchmarks you'll need to track your Royal progress or — ahem — regress. My pastor divides spiritual growth into 8-9 classifications, denoted by what he calls "Problem-Solving Devices", some of which also are Bible-thinking Stages Of Spiritual Maturation: I'll subdivide this First Reason into his classifications. Other pastors classify them somewhat differently; but all these come from Bible, no matter whose nomenclature.


1 Corinthians 13:13's "Faith" (childhood), "Hope" (adulthood), and "Love" (maturity, AKA "Pleroma")

Bible itself subdivides spiritual maturation into childhood, adulthood, and maturity (i.e., in 1 John); but also, by characteristic thinking patterns, as in 1 Corinthians 13:13.

So in 1 Corinthians 13:13, you see the Maturation Process, how God means to grow you: by abiding in His Son, meno'ing in His Love Complex, His Diamond House; which is to say, learning and then living on His Thinking in God's System. Notice how it has zippo to do with works, denominations, how right or 'scriptural' you or someone else is; has nothing to do with crusading, potlucks, church attendance, giving out the Gospel or all the other substitutes for learning Him which Satan's Churchinanity panders. Fake Church in Revelation 17 seeks to look like God's Book, so uses God's Provision — to kill God's people. Very effective. When learning Word is given short shrift, when man is stressed, when the typical Bible translations are taught instead of the Inspired Word — you're looking at fake Christianity. Matthew 7, by the teaching fruits you know who are Satan's people. That's 99% of Christians in every generation. Israel before her had the same problem. So we are all in this trap together. Hence the need for God's System, and living in it — especially, living on 1 John 1:9, thinking toward God as much as possible, and getting under your own God-appointed right pastor, to avoid the many landmines.

As you Royally and Invisibly Grow Spiritually, your Viewpoint and Focus can be distinguished, thusly:

Romans 5:5 ties in, to show the mechanic God uses: He grows you in His Script, and Ephesians 4:11-16 shows you He has a System ("ἑνότης") for growing you up in His Script — hence the term "God's System". Consequently, you go from "Faith" to "Confidence" to "Love", by growing in God's Script in God's System. That's the maturation process. Whatever denomination or other quasi-cultural behavior you also engage in the meanwhile is adjunctive, and hopefully helpful. Some people remember and use Bible better if they are engaged in rituals, others are too put off by the robotics, so instead they sin. Some people like formal churches, others find the hypocrisy too much — and thus sin, instead of learning. But you are to determine all that, privately before the Lord. The System, is His House — it's not optional. Anything you add to it, well — that's a private Priestly Matter between Him and you, and is optional: see Romans 14.


Spiritual Growth Diagnostic Benchmarks

Again, what Spiritually Matures, is your own soul's Viewpoint and Focus. All this begins at salvation, and of course you are clueless, then. The House is new, so it's unfurnished, has only de minimis electrical structure and power: for the only "Word" in it, is the Word of Your Salvation. At the new birth, you've no clue what "salvation" means, either — you've just got this vague idea that you won't go to "hell", whatever that is — and you'll live with the Lord forever — whatever that means. Bible verses feel good, but the meaning is fuzzy to you. So you're not particularly comfortable in your new home, and you've no idea what to do or how to live in it. In fact, you don't even know you are in His House. For our "born from above" birth is a first spiritual birth (not to be conflated with our first physical birth which Nicodemus couldn't reconcile), trichotomous persons with a new spiritual life, but an older soul and body life (John 3:3, John 3:7; Titus 3:5, 2 Corinthians 5:17).

So we're Royal Spiritual Babies, however mature we might be as humans. You can't feel your new birth, you can't touch it, you can't taste it — it's Royally Invisible. Remember 1 Corinthians 2: what's spiritual is not discernible by non-spiritual means. Corollary: works of themselves are never spiritual. Anything you can do in a body is not spiritual, as Christ explained to Nicodemus in John 3. Paul elaborates on that fact in Romans 8, showing that the flesh is inimical to the spiritual life. So forget works. This is about Divine-DNA transformation, not works. You begin with human viewpoint, so you view God in human terms, focus on earthly things, just like mainstream Christianity and the world does, even though you are saved; you can't do anything else, because you don't have enough right information from Bible to transform your thinking. So when you read Bible, or when a spiritually-immature person translates or teaches it, the Bible is given a distinctly anthropopathic 'spin', focusing on stuff you can see like works, rituals, pleasing people as the definition of spirituality, etc. That's only about 10% of Bible content — but it's the only portion of the Bible, a non-spiritual person can read. And you are non-spiritual, even if saved, if not breathing 1 John 1:9. The 'lights' in His House are "off" because then you're not Filled with the Spirit. So you'll get out of Bible study the same ideas as the unbeliever. For you have no Inner Light to enable reading, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10.

But by contrast at Spiritual Maturity, 1 John 1:9 is as natural to you as breathing, so you've become saturated with the quite-opposite, Divine Viewpoint, Isaiah 55:8-9; you literally think of everything from toothbrushing to death, in terms of Christ Himself, Philippians 1:21. This change is accomplished supernaturally, and is always run by the Holy Spirit, but it becomes a natural part of you, and is in fact how your own soul, works. This change does not occur without trauma. But by the end, while the trauma has even intensified, your Focus and Viewpoint remain on Christ. The Focus cannot be dislodged. Then you die, victorious. Again, only God can make this happen. Only God makes the House, furnishes the House, and Enables you to Enjoyably Live in it. Whew. Now you don't have to tangle yourself up in knots trying to be a good little boy or girl: Romans 3:23 tells you that's impossible. Impossible is what God likes, and that's all He accepts. Thus He does The Whole Thing. Whew.

Humans are incapable of loyalty, though we sure try to be loyal: but we are too needy. So when we don't get what we think we want, we go find someone else who'll give us what we want. Love is just a word, never a reality. So it's technically impossible to be loyal to God. Especially, under the mounting pressure of prosperity and adversity, which accompany spiritual maturation. You still sin; but you don't quit the System permanently. That's the test. Sin is not an issue in the Trial, since Christ paid for it all (it was a sudden-death round issue for the First Adam and Isha, and for Christ the Last Adam, but no one else). So as you spiritually mature, your sins change and become refined, not the gross and silly stuff of childhood; although it's not sin which God actually changes, but your focus and viewpoint. So sin stops being interesting to you (well, the old ones stop, but new ones take their place, 🤣). You're occupied with Him now; you've got Him on your mind. That's how you change, essentially. That's the Trial test of how you change, versus the changes Satan & Co. 'provide' for the human race.

Since Viewpoint is a collection of attitudes, these attitudes are habits of thinking which are being matured. As noted earlier, the line-by-line nature of learning and living on Bible in God's System, is essentially a replacement of the world's apodoses, with God's Apodoses. So for every protasis in life, there will be two apodoses to choose from: the world's, or God's. As you learn Bible, you learn God's Apodoses, and you learn to 'reply' with them to your life's endless protases, kinda like learning a language, much repetition and failure en route. As you do this, your attitudes will change. You realize that the old ideas you had, are incorrect and unattractive. So:

It's pretty enjoyable. God's Truth is refreshing to know. Not at all boring, or grunt work. Yet your old sin nature will come to buck it with whatever excuse it can muster. And from outside, you'll receive all kinds of temptations to quit, particularly from those close to you, who don't value learning and living on Bible as you do. That's why Strongly Believing And Wanting To Know God, matters so much. You'll need that motivation, to counter the attacks from within yourself, from those in your periphery, from the world, and from Satan & Co. Again, gotta keep the two lines together: learning and living on Bible, which is the Abiding Function 'room' of His Diamond House — and your Abiding Desire to know God. Gotta live in both 'rooms', not just one. They are connected by the door of volition: yours.

During "Pleroma", the final Stage of Royally Invisible Spiritual Maturation, this switchover in Viewpoint and Focus from earthly to Divine, is demonstrated by two other maturations, and both constitute Conclusive Trial Evidence to justify your Crowning: 1) your maturation in what "Relationship with God" means, and — oh what a surprise — 2), your maturation in Weakness. These two are Core Evidence Witness Depositions in the Trial: for they 'answer' Satan's root contention that God made creation defective. Most Christians would keel over if they knew this is how it's supposed to end. But look at Christ — His end was a Cross! That's weakness, that's maximum maturity in what "Relationship to God" means. So this is the Plan for you, too, since you are Bride, the "B" in God's Love Alphabet.

For this Royally Invisible Spiritual Life is only about Relationship With Invisible God. Maturing in it. Since it's only about Relationship, it doesn't matter if one is strong or weak. For Love in the believer — as demonstrated First in Christ Himself — is Absolute. That's the real Testimony of Love: 1 John 4:12-17, Ephesians 3:15-19 (parallel passages). And here's what the Testimony reveals:

In any nation's cultural dramas, the ultimate fidelity depiction is either the soldier who fights nobly to the death — or the wife who waits on and for her husband, even when he's long absent or seems to mistreat her. So if it's only the Relationship and not the goodies of the battle or the husband, then it's Really Love On Display, because it's Really Love On Trial:

So scrap the idea of testing being some glorious thing you see in the movies. There's nothing glorious about real combat, except the Actual Meaning: Him. The activity is all horror and failure on the surface, like Hamburger Hill.

Christians don't get this.

So since most Christians don't get this, most Christians won't mature to Pleroma and won't get crowned. So somebody has to "inherit the kingdom" — get crowned — and rule over them. Forever. The Rulers are all Pleroma people who matured in the Meaning of Relationship and Weakness, for that's how Christ won. Then God's Love Alphabet is truly realized: "Archegos' Bride Conducts a Developed Eternal Fulfillment Growth of Glory, in His Highness' Impossibly Integrated, Integrity-Love." Conducts, symphonic. Conducts, electronic. Conducts, conduit for all other blessings to flow. That's how we are in Him, so that's how we inherit kingdoms, too.

Any realtime tracking of these Royally-Invisible Spiritual Maturation Stages, can be a pistol. You periodically need a spiritual 'checkup', but don't become anal about it, obsessing over 'where' you are. Spend no more than maybe 15 minutes, and if you start to obsess, quit analyzing. Each Stage will have the same benchmarks, but a different description to reflect its character during that Stage. The benchmarks can be helpful for gauging how 'childish' or 'mature' you might be on a particular doctrine or idea, too. They are also helpful in human interaction, so you don't over- or underestimate the spiritual growth of people around you, and thus by your words upset them or yourself, as Romans 14 warns. It's real easy to mistake someone as being older spiritually given a mature secular vocabulary, especially if he's fluent in Bible terminology; it's real easy to mistake someone as being younger spiritually given an immature secular vocabulary or uncultured mien. So many heartbreaks can be avoided if you know the spiritual benchmarks, and disregard the secular ones. Again, a person can be very smart, well-mannered, so will seem mature spiritually, but is in fact in his "terrible 2's." For spiritual age and secular age are not at all connected.

Within this Royally-Invisible Spiritual Maturation, here are seven benchmarks of growth you can use for diagnostic purposes. They work in tandem, so the area or doctrine on which you are the most childish — that's the area or doctrine holding you back from faster spiritual advance. We all have such 'pet' areas or doctrines we won't release, and they will fell us, if we don't let go. The benchmarks are:

  1. Consuming Bible. How much and often you learn and live on Bible, and generally what you think it's about. A lot of people don't advance spiritually because they won't take Bible seriously; or if they do take it seriously, they treat it as either a catechism or an ego boost. You learn Bible because you want to know God: not to predict the Rapture, prove science wrong, show how smart or 'spiritual' you are, or any other reason. To the extent you don't take Bible seriously, or you have some other motive for learning it (i.e., ego-petting), you won't mature, but will shrink in your soul.

Motive is the last thing to mature. Gotta have info on which to base the motive, so just be aware that you'll catch yourself studying for the wrong reasons. Just use 1 John 1:9 when you do. Motive is a subtle thing. You think it's God you want to learn, but it becomes something else, often because just learning something new is gratifying of itself. That's a trap. So occasionally you'll get spanked. Ask yourself what's your motive. Then use 1 John 1:9 and truck on.

Other related issues: sure, you're studying for the right reason, trucking along, but — you're supposed to notch it up from the level of study you're in. Yet, you're not doing that. You get spanked for this, too. The stuckness might be due to you having 'favorites' among your Bible study topics, so the ones you like less, aren't getting learned sufficiently. We all have favorites, but the less-favored shouldn't be neglected. Another version of this happens in spiritual adulthood, when you literally are on fire to learn Bible. Then what happens is you neglect your secular life. God uses 24 hours to teach you Bible, not merely the formal learning period. I've been spanked a lot for failures like this, so I speak not only from the Bible's verses on the topic (i.e., Hebrews 12:5ff), but from (ouch) experience. (Part 4's topics were once among my least favorites, ones I avoided like the plague, all that technical Bible dating and why the Rapture. So I got Royally spanked. You can't imagine how much spiritual growth sped up when I finally studied them as understanding the Pre-tribulation Rapture is a core tenant to virtually all other doctrines — cost eight years of my life, almost non-stop. Don't be stupid like I was.)

  1. "Spiritual Skills" (my pastor's term) you live on: how often you are using 1 John 1:9 and only therefore Filled with the Spirit, plus what Bible you live on. 1 isn't working if you're not doing 2. Your spiritual life tanks without 1 John 1:9, just as the Old Testament Temple was defiled and the Holy Spirit left until the Temple purified = καθαρίζω, so also you the living temple, must use the verse. To the extent you don't learn to habitually do 2 during the day, you will gradually stop doing it, and your spiritual life tanks. I use 1 John 1:9 a bazillion times a day, probably against thought-temptations (so it's not needed), but I don't even stop to take a chance. 24/7 usage of 1 John 1:9 is mission-critical. You can overcome wrong motives for learning Bible with 1 John 1:9 and try to get the motive right — the Holy Spirit Builds The Motive And The Proper Execution, see Philippians 2:12-13.
  1. Thought Pattern, which of 1 Corinthians 13:13's 'divisions' habitually characterizes your thinking. This is the fastest index of 'where' you are spiritually, so most of the description in the following sections will be spent on how this pattern plays.
  1. Your idea of Relationship to God, during that Maturation Stage. Since maturation's #1 goal is to mature your idea of Relationship to God, this too is a very fast index of 'where' you are spiritually.
  1. Your Love Growth during that Stage. 5 is wholly an adjunct to 4, so to the extent you are childish in your idea of Relationship to God, you're not growing in 5, either (main theme of 1 John).
  1. Your Trial Status during that Stage. This is a heads-up on where you are in the Trial. As you mature your role in the Trial becomes something you must monitor, as you are not your own, and you must regard yourself as an entity, impersonally assessing where you stand and why.
  1. Your Weakness Growth during that Stage. This too is a heads-up on where you are in the Trial. You have to be able to tell the difference between weakness which is due to immaturity, due to Divine Discipline, or — most importantly — due to your being in the Trial Witness Docket. Very subtle, the differences between each of these weaknesses, for they often look the same, on the surface.

In sum, Spiritual Maturation leads to a marital-style abiding in the Word despite Weakness; and as you mature in it, the Word becomes a Coalesced Whole to you. You begin to see the Big Picture the Word Crafts, and that Picture is a Mosaic: Him. You begin to see it, because you begin to Reflect Him. That's why you can see it. So your Abiding Function and Abiding Desire massively increase. Every 'room' of His House becomes impregnable, what my pastor liked to call "watertight compartments", for he likened Christ's spiritual life to a prototype submarine which could go to greater depths than we'll ever need. So you live in it. Which Abiding, living, likewise demonstrates a martial loyalty despite warring pressures.


It can be daunting to analyze this Spiritual Maturation as a structure, let alone know where 'you' are on the spiritual map. So to easily interrelate:

  • The Five Infinitives,
  • the 10 Thinking Skills
  • His 7-Faceted House
  • The 4 Happinesses,
  • and above Benchmarks with Spiritual Life Maturation

In each of the subdivisions of spiritual growth below, you'll see the Benchmarks repeated with the salient functions/structures, explained in more detail.


Spiritual Childhood

In the Flow Chart of Spiritual Childhood, notice how the colored-in blocks are few, and baby-pinkish. That denotes a zero to tiny maturation in the spiritual life. Most Christians you meet will be spiritual children, 99% of the population on any given day. Now you know why Christianity is so childish. With that many children in adult bodies, childishness is deemed 'holy', given the titanic size of the group. Man forever mistakes huge numbers, for truth. But God uses almost imperceptible and even ignominious means to show His Truth. For example, much of the New Testament is seemingly repetitive, with only a small phrase or word changed. That style tells you the enormous impact of the "small, still Voice" of the Holy Spirit Who you can't see or feel. So in the bullets which follow, the bold text will be repeated in each maturation section, for tracking purposes, emulating the New Testament writing style — but within each future section, be careful not to gloss over the text around what's repeated, and thus miss the very small changes in text which depict gigantic maturation in the spiritual life for that stage. This is especially important in 1 John, Ephesians, Colossians and Hebrews. 1 John makes deft changes in repeated text to show you the enormous meaning of such a change. The smallness of the text change versus the enormity of the meaning, thus stands out. Sometimes it's only a case change or a preposition change which he makes. James does the same thing with the insertion or removal of the article — oh, John does that too in order to tweak the Jewish calendar being four days too fast, in John 19. My pastor warned us many times to track these types of changes. If Christianity had done that, it would not be in the dark about when Christ was born and died!

In short, spiritual maturation is a process of first learning, then using, God's Apodoses. As you grow via this constantly-repeated process — much like learning a language — God matures you in the Apodoses, themselves. Here in Spiritual Childhood, the only Apodosis you think you know, is "salvation". But you've barely learned how to spell it.

  1. Notice how, of the five contractural action infinitives which happened to Christ on the Cross per Isaiah 53:10-11 LXX text — only two of them (colored, pinkish-flesh tone) are largely operative upon you, καθαρίζω and ἀφαιρέω.
  2. Parts of the other three verbs, are happening also.
  3. For at salvation you come into your new house with a lot of 'baggage' from your old life; so there is a lot of soul debris to throw out.
  4. Accordingly, the first thing God does, is to purify (καθαρίζω) and take away (aphaireo) old ideas, replacing them with His Apodoses: just as He took away Adam's and Isha's fig leafy loin aprons, and replaced them with animal skins (depicting His future Coming to pay for sins), Genesis 3:21.
  5. So the bi-directional pointer indicates action done to the maturation blocks below it by the infinitives;
  6. but also, the Holy Spirit causes the blocks to feed back to the infinitives, for the process is circular and its 'sphere' increases depending on that feedback;
  7. thus each infinitival action, enlarges. So you grow exponentially.
  8. Pointer placement tells you the goal of the stage: here, it's the clearing away, aphaireo.
  9. For there is one infinitive "on point", through which all the others, "run".
  10. So here in Spiritual Childhood, taking away false ideas is the major goal of the stage.
  11. Your new Love Alphabet can't begin growing in you, until the old alphabet you've been living on (world's ideas) gets cleaned out.
  12. So this happens (as it were) one 'letter' at a time. Precept upon precept, easily and slowly.
  13. So now you're learning the beginning of that Alphabet: "A" is for Archegos, Leader, Pioneer, Originator, 'Father'. Time to learn Who is your New Parent. (Hebrews 12:2 and Isaiah 9:6, which doesn't directly refer to God the Father, but rather to the fathering-of-eternity action on the Cross, pointing forward to Isaiah 53:5, play on ab'di, My Slave; our salvation being birthed in Christ back then. Abi'ad, My Father of forever-future and ab'di, My Slave (the "i" means "my") both have the same Hebrew letters, very witty. Isaiah loves to embed the Trinity doctrine whenever he can.)

For of course, in Spiritual Childhood, you're young; so you don't have any Divine standards. So you project on God your human (usually body-oriented, emotional, moral) ideas; that's how you read Bible, too. For of course, we don't start out abiding in the Word: when spiritually-born, all you can do is wet your spiritual diapers, and drool. That's the beginning of weakness. Nothing's weaker than a newborn. He's in you fully, but where is your head? Drooling! Blubbering how you love Jesus, 🤣. Can't well do anything else, as a spiritual babe-in-the-woods. So until Bible is built up enough to shift us away from our human ideas, we'll shake the tambourine, nod to God on Sunday, get the Ghost, and make all manner of drooling doo-doo works, as depicted earlier. We do these baby things because we're too young in the Word (Bible term is usually τέκνον or βρέφος, see Ephesians 4:14). So we have no defense against Satan's propaganda, which he aims at our depraved me-be-good urge — to keep us thinking of God in human terms. We also do these things, because as spiritual babies, we are hungry and hurting. We do those works to alleviate tension. We'll thus also wonder if God really exists; wonder if we are really saved; wonder if we can lose our salvation; make nasty comments about how others will lose theirs. To alleviate tension, we'll also constantly 'eat' our favorite-flavor sins (be they moral sins, or immoral sins, per the genetic urge pattern). But Doctrine is our food, now. We'll starve if we don't get it. All those 'stupid works' manifest spiritual starvation.

Retardation in animal life (therefore including human biological life) is caused by many possible factors. One of them, is poor nutrition. This is maximally true for the spiritual life. When one abides outside His House AKA God's System for too long, one retards spiritually. It's a nightmare. However, cure is possible by a determined, sustained return to God's System, so it's always worth returning. Problem is, as one retards spiritually, one becomes a petulant child, very stubborn and i-am-god oriented, so one thinks of self as spiritual, already mature. A sweet personality often masks this prickly, retarded nature, which compounds the problem. So one doesn't regard self as being retarded, but as a spiritual giant. But others notice the rapidly spoiling, hypersensitive child beneath all that masking — so God gets maligned (God is always blamed along with the 'bad' Christian, count on it). And no matter what someone might say to the spiritual retard — and one shouldn't say anything, but it blurts out in exasperation! — the spiritual retard, won't hear. The actual psychological ability to hear disintegrates, so that what you say to the person is not at all what they think you said, no matter how clearly you try to express yourself. All kinds of imagined meanings are attributed to what others say. It's weird. People hallucinate when they are starving. Much more true, for the spiritually-starving.

The Exodus generation are the consummate illustration of spiritual retardation among a mass of people, Numbers 11:6. Next illustration are the many retards in the Book of Acts (Peter for a while, end Acts 1 and Galatians 2:11ff; Paul, for a while, Acts 18, Acts 21; the Judaizers all the time, and the Jerusalem church all the time, and anyone emulating them today). In short, spiritual retardation is more the norm, and we all experience some like-stuckness, during our spiritual life.

So usually at some point disaster must hit to wake the person up to questioning his apodoses. Since 90% of Christians don't grow beyond childhood, they end up retards. When enough people are spiritual retards, God must judge the nation or locality per Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. For we are Royal Priests, and the world's weal depends on our growing up in God's System. We're always treated as adults, even while we are children. So we are responsible, no excuses. Now why is it, we fail so routinely? Oh, because we're droolingly reading Bible; imagining that now we're saved, we're instant experts! Yeah, and it takes some 13 years for a doctor to even finish school: how much more, the Christian of the Infallible Christ?


Formation Precedes Function

Principle: in all life, Formation precedes Function. Until the Formation completes, there is no life. Just as we saw, there must be balance between structure and function. Thus, Structure Creates Function; until the structure has passed a threshold-of-completeness, there is no ability to function. You can't use a car until A) it has been built, B) you've learned the rules of driving, and C) you've become competent at driving. So:

  • Until a check clears your bank, your deposit is not yours, your bill paid is not paid, etc.
  • No fetus breathes in a womb, so it's not alive;
  • Formation of Christ preceded the Cross.
  • Formation of Christ, preceded his functioning at a Filled-up-with-Truth level so high, He called the Cross, a joy (Hebrews 12:2). "Joy" in Greek means true happiness, not some emotional thing. Way bigger than emotion, is God.
  • Formation of Church, precedes the Rapture.
  • So formation of the believer, precedes his successful spiritual function, and he is formed by means of Truth deposits under the Spirit — that's the main theme of Romans 8. As is usual for Old Testament writers of Scripture and Paul, this explanation is made via marriage and pregnancy analogies.
  • So, no believer without Bible Doctrine can do any 'work' whatsoever to please God, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10. Even with 1 John 1:9 used, you have to be trained in that function before you can operate in it. So until you have the Doctrine, you aren't trained (i.e., few can give the Gospel properly). Doctrinal Standards must first be built. Then, you have to learn how to use what you learned, breathing 1 John 1:9 as you do. There is no "Good" absent the Holy Spirit 'in' it. "Ἀγαθός" only means Divine Good: but as usual, translations cut God's Head off, so you only see "good" in translation and don't know this.
  • So, there is no production except wood, hay, stubble, unless Circulating Doctrine is running the soul of the Spirit-filled believer at the time of the activity. (See 1 Corinthians 3, compared with Hebrews 5:11 through Hebrews 6:6, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 11:6; and James 1:1 through James 2:23. James, especially, screams this fact.) "Faith", as a noun in the Bible, most often means believed doctrine. Idea that the doctrine is in the soul, and one believes it. That turns the Doctrine "on" (well, the Holy Spirit does it really), and then non-manmade precious gold/gems are manufactured. James 2:14 repeats this point via a bracketed analogy to how man's believing in Christ doesn't make him regenerate — Holy Spirit has to do that — James 2:26 is the other bracket, and interprets the one in James 2:14. That's why verse 14 is there; it explains that man alone accomplishes nothing, but rather, Work of God. Bible Doctrine is the Work of God, always. So, parallel to the "Lord, Lord" verse, Deuteronomy 30:11ff, Romans 10:9-10. Can't just mouth a faith, have to actually believe the Doctrine.
  • Hence the requisite structural level of 'eaten' Doctrine in the soul determines one's spiritual-developmental stage. Next, one functions in that stage by 'eating' yet more Doctrine, so to get to the next-highest structural level, etc. One always needs to 'eat' Bible Doctrine; one never outgrows that need. Heh (cry all the way to the bank, baby). To 'eat' Bible is a Bible metaphor for learning and believing and living on it, idea that you need food to survive, and Bible is spiritual food, i.e. Jeremiah 15:16 says, "I found your words and I did eat them" when he found Bible 'lost' inside the Temple.
  • Hence the most dangerous people on earth, are Christians who for too long don't know and therefore misuse their Bible. They are all satan-fodder.

So here are the seven benchmarks of Spiritual Childhood. Again, to the extent these benchmarks characterize any individual doctrinal understanding or belief you have (i.e., what "love" means, what "God" means, etc.), you will be stuck here. You must eventually mature in all seven benchmarks, because they all are interdependent. So each of us is relatively 'childish' with respect to at least some aspects of our Bible understanding and belief. That's what holds us back from spiritual progress. Find out where that 'childishness' is, or it will fell you. God will spank you many times, to help you diagnose it.

  1. Consuming Bible. So, just like Christ when He was a spiritual (and physical) baby, we too need Bible doctrine: it feeds us, just as it fed Him. When you start out, it's really critical to get into God's System. Learning Bible Doctrine under whomever is your right pastor is the most important thing you can do. You thus acquire Truth Standards in your soul, which help alleviate the tension. That, because 1 John's Script causes those perfect "deposits": the Depositor, the Holy Spirit, is perfect. The "deposit", the amount of Bible Doctrine we believe on learning it, is likewise perfect. So, Biblical Standards come to replace any depraved "good and evil" in our souls. We thus learn God's definition of "right and wrong". The learning here is both sporadic and rudimentary, especially since the average spiritual child thinks himself more spiritual if he does things, versus 'only' studying. The peer pressure is intense, just as it was when you were a physical child. When you were young, everyone focused on little do's. Big mistake to do that, for the spiritual life. Bad habits begin early, and all the typical Churchinanity emphasis on do's make you a doo-dooing Christian — potentially, for life. We know physical children need to go to school for some years, before we expect them to hold down a job. So why is it, we so disrespect the Word that we think we're supposed to hustle, shake the tambourine, sing in the choir, knock on doors — right after we're saved? Christ didn't do any of that; He spent a lot of time alone, learning — look how He talks when He's only 12 (Luke 2:49)? So should we.

Spiritual children who raise children often impose on them a horrible idea of what life with God means. The legalism of the spiritual child is just like that bully in the playground who considered himself 'adult' only if he could beat up everyone else. So here, the spiritual child will go one of two routes: he will think works are "it", and beat his kids up to think the same way; or he will turn learning Bible into a "work", thus poisoning its meaning to the child he raises. I've seen a lot of both categories, and none of us escape physical childhood unscathed from the religious legalism of our parents. After all, most of us are born when our parents are in their early 20's, so they aren't exactly spiritually mature. Accordingly, there's a lingering taint in our minds which the parents did not mean to impose. And it gets passed down, generation after generation. Hence many among us find learning Bible unpleasant because it's been sold as being unpleasant. That's a handicap which is overcome only if you want to learn Bible, because it tells you about God. But it's a rocky road, to be sure. Between the God-is-unpleasant salesmanship for centuries, and the snoozily boring translations of Bible, it's a wonder any of us grow up at all.

  1. Spiritual Skills. Here in Spiritual Childhood you use 1 John 1:9 fitfully, so get purified from your Ἀδικία (usually translated "wrongdoing", but it's technical for being in a state of sin); you are Beginning to be sporadically filled with the Spirit; when Filled, you are living on Basics, like Claiming Bible promises you find, learning basic doctrines under your right pastor, playing with basic salvation and Essence-of-God concepts. A spiritual child who just wants to know Bible and starts studying it, will 'do' these skills instinctively. Although Bible translations are snoozy and boring, when you're new to it, everything about it is interesting. Your thinking is fuzzy, anyway. So you'll read and read and memorize and speak and spout and you love it all with the love of a child. So you'll read about 1 John 1:9, interpret it literally as you should, and do it. So you'll read in Bible about teachers, and it will naturally occur to you that you should have one. I went through that, so does everyone else. I daydreamed in Italian class about finding a teacher — the book still bears the daydreaming scrawl, "Te Desidero Imparare" — not knowing that my college roommate's teacher was the guy who'd end up being my pastor. But God knew. And I was a really stupid spiritual child: everything you see criticized in my pages, well — I did them, too! It's normal. Just don't stay in the stage too long. But there's hope, however long one stays childish. So here, if you want to know Bible, God will cause you to know about these skills, and you'll regard them as an enjoyment, not a chore. The rebellion comes later, heh.

In spiritual childhood these thinking skills are disparate and halting. Repetition makes them become instinctual. So the hallmark signature of spiritual childhood is that these skills have not yet merged into a sense of "Grace" and "Doctrinal Orientation" (terms are my pastor's). So the spiritual child who remains too long in that childhood becomes graceless, legalistic; doesn't see the overall doctrines Bible verses signify, but rather just parrots the verses, or parrots the teacher's teachings, not really understanding what he says. There's no coordination between the pieces of information. "God" is a set of parroted soundbyte-like platitudes, and when queried about what the words mean, the child can only respond with more parroting. Children, parrot. That's all they yet know how to do. But that's okay: the practice will stand them in good stead, later on when enough pieces of Bible information are 'eaten' (learned and believed).

  1. Thought Pattern. So the chief Thought Pattern Characteristic, would be called "faith". Which means, the development of a habitual learning and believing Word. It's fun, in this stage. All the Word you learn here is a jumble, but it feels good. Makes you feel like you're touching God. And, you are. So your "faith" viewpoint is an attitude which habitually continues and gets stronger, sporadically: you are living on God Lives, because what you're learning doesn't seem to make sense on its own, just yet. The words sound good, and you believe them, but you really don't understand anything. It naturally occurs to you to talk to God a lot. Read the Christian emails that circulate about what kids say on their Sunday School essays or tests. You can see God is real to them. Pity we lose that faith, as we grow older.

Again, the older you are physically when in spiritual childhood, the more you will think you understand something, because you expect your spiritual age to match your chronological age. It doesn't. Stubbornness is a real problem for the chronological adult who's a spiritual child, which is most Christians today. Hence the need for this description, so the "childhood" nature which is totally supernatural can be seen, appreciated, and not fretted over. Doesn't matter how old you are, does matter whether you are growing. No shame in it. Who said there was no such thing as a second childhood? Here it is!

The first meaning of "faith" is what you believe, not so much the act of believing itself, whether it's in the Hebrew or Greek. Second meaning is the act of believing, itself. For you first must have an object, to believe in. Then, you believe. That's how you got saved, and that's always the priority, the object — "what think ye of Christ". In this stage, "Christ" is magical to you. That's fine! Again, the only thing wrong with spiritual childhood is the same thing that's wrong with physical childhood: there comes a time when one must grow up. And human maturation, even more spiritual maturation, will not progress until you are willing to leave childish ideas behind, 1 Corinthians 13:10-13.

  1. Relationship to God. Your idea of "Relationship with God" in this stage is childish, so it's emotional, feely, touchy, lots of do's. God is like this new toy to play with. A new person to know, but you see Him with a child's eyes. So when you do something Bible says you should do (as you then understand it) you are childishly happy and a tad boastful. Judgemental, too, the way children are when they see some other child mess up. So it's all about whether you took a shower, Daddy, but your brother didn't. Folks who sound smarter than you will either look like spiritual giants to you, or will make you feel threatened. Lots of accusations about 'heresy' and 'unscriptural' here. Most of those accusations are wrong, since Bible is progressively understood, and a later sophisticated understanding is not 'heretical' compared to the familiar words one heard in Bible class. But the kid doesn't know all that, yet. So what you construct is a kind of loudish belief in God loving you. It's very touching to watch. Very much childlike trust. Very easily deposed, since you are a child. So: very attractive to satanic predators, too. 'Deflowering innocence' is a real attraction to anyone loving evil. Spiritual molestation is the worst and most prevalent kind in the world today, Ephesians 4:14. But Matthew 18, God 'visits' the predators — count on it.
  1. Love Growth. As children, the closest thing we know as "love", is an emotional, childish trust. It's largely passive, responsive. We obey, because we trust. We don't really understand anything. We parrot. We believe. We are children, so that's all we can do. We get a lot of Divine Discipline (Hebrews 12:5ff) at this stage to correct our childish, whiny ideas: of God, of the spiritual life, of our status. It's pretty painful, so Satan is keen to "help" by offering as much false doctrine as he can: like Brother-Foot Churchinanity. Even so, children are given do's secularly, so they will eat up the do's and think of God anyway. That's what you were supposed to do with the do's, under the Mosaic Law. In fact, all do's are doo-doo's if you're not thinking about God when you do them. So unless the child is beaten up over the do's, he'll get through this emphasis on action with little harm.

Sooner or later you'll question the relevance of the do's, and that questioning occurs early in childhood. That's good. The earlier the questions begin, the better. A sign of impending or entrenched spiritual retardation is that the questioning stops. That means the spiritual child has either been beaten down so has lost his natural curiosity — or, has turned the do's into a system of feeling good about himself, in which case it becomes a threat to his ego, to question. Bad news. That child will grow up to be a tyrant with the thickest blinders he can buy. It's a very common, sad story. Overemphasis on works and ritual pass as holy, so that feeling one gets from them coddles people into not asking questions. Bad news. Then one day disaster hits and now God is thrown out with the baby's bathwater, in disillusionment with the works and ritual. Very common biography of the average "I used to be a Christian".

"Used to be" any religion, really. Children readily notice hypocrisy; it equals "you lie to me", and that's a very serious threat to a child, whose fledgling trust is so easily lost, anyway. Religion is nothing, if not hypocritical and shallow. So many a 'former Christian' is 'former' due to religion, but so too many others of non-Christian faiths. Afraid to be open in the disavowal, the child will settle for fitting-in. As an adult, that becomes his god. Love for God then will not develop, because God=hypocrisy was ingrained, early on. Takes a long time to recognize that God is not people, not religion. Usually something abnormal must happen, for the equating God = bad, to even be questioned. I hated and dreaded church when I was a child, and went to many different kinds, so it wasn't a particular denomination or church that I hated. All of them were horrible, except when empty — but God, he wasn't like people. So the trick was to tune out the people, and just think about Him. Many others I've talked with over the years, tell a similar story. It's common.

  1. Trial Status. Notice how this Stage is marked by ignorance. So, the #3 Trial argument, wanting God based on what one doesn't know, is demonstrated. It's demonstrated, in that even a spiritual child knows more than the wisest unbeliever, that God ought to be paid for sin: else there can be no relationship. Every unbeliever religion bangs the drum in one way or another about how you'll be punished for the wrongs you do — but notice how cagily they all avoid saying how God gets paid for those wrongs. Always the excuse: He doesn't need to be paid, He can't be paid, God has no partners, God is Love: yeah, and if He's Love, doesn't He love Himself? If He doesn't love Himself, how the heck can He love you? For even a spiritual child knows God is Holy. The child doesn't understand what "Holy" really means, and he's very emotional and obnoxious: but for all that, he's light years smarter than the wisest unbeliever, about how "holy" requires payment in order for Relationship To Be Just (i.e., to go to heaven). The widespread 'evangelical' movement, for example, for all their goofy misuse of Bible, can get it right that you only have to believe in Christ to get to heaven, John 3:16: because Someone had to pay God for our sins.

Yeah, out from the mouths of babes, Thou hast perfected salvation, á la Psalm 8:2!

The unbeliever, the all-religions-are-ok crowd, are all unjust. First, they maintain that their ceremonies, their washings and taboos, the givings they like, God should accept. Which means they dictate to God: just like Cain was trying to do with his vegetables (Genesis 4:4-5). That's unjust. God isn't a dog, but they essentially claim He is or should be. Moreover, if all religions are okay, then God doesn't get paid what He deserves: so that's unjust. Moreover, all religions conflict with each other. Not all of them can be right, therefore. So to say they are, is to say God Himself is Unjust; and instead, God's just a doormat, truth is a lie (lies conflict); hence justice should not exist — at least, not for God. Instead, God's just supposed to accept everyone and they tell Him what to do, 1 Corinthians 2:15. So all that, is 'wisdom', see. It's only wise, to be unjust!

The poor child is thus assailed by those dippy arguments, since he yet lacks enough Truth, to refute them. Which arguments, always publicly polarize around Bible, but not around any other faith (hint hint).

So notice the impressive testimony here: the world is blind to its fixation, thus advertises that He is the Christ, just like the Dumb Dome and the Wailing Wall do; but the child keeps believing in Him, though he feels threatened. That belief-despite-ignorance overcomes the world, theme in 1 John. God loves His Children, and He vindicates them utterly.

  1. Weakness Growth. The Core Trial Issue of weakness begins developing here. Satan accused God of making creation 'defective'. So the goal of the spiritual life is to — get this — perfect (complete, legal contract verb) you by Maturing You in Weakness, 1 Corinthians 4:9, 2 Corinthians 12:5-9. The seeming 'weakness' of faith is where that development begins. Christ didn't play macho man, He picked weakness. Hebrew word "he-heli" in Isaiah 53:10 means "lovesick", there and in other passages (usually translated "grief"). Love is so strong, it renders all else, weak. So it 'feels' weak to trust, to respect, to obey, to have faith. But those are strengths. Christ wanted weakness to express the strength of His Love for Father. For us. So, God the Holy Spirit maximally matured His Son's Humanity in Weakness. Not macho-man. That's the game plan for us, too. Probably the biggest mistake theologians and Christians make about the spiritual life is that they expect to be shining heroes like in the movies, if they are 'right' with God. Nope. It's about Relationship, only. Not performance. So as you mature, your performance by human standards goes down, not up. Like Isaiah depicts with his rising and carrying words in Isaiah 52:13-54:1, it's really a circle: you grow up up up up up — and then are cut down down down down. And in those downs, love's strength is really shining. But it won't look that way, feel that way, to humans. It will look shameful, ugly, worthless, instead.

So the progressive Trial Evidence to be given in a believer's life, is how his progressive weakness doesn't motivate him to quit the spiritual life. In 99.9% of the cases thus far quitting occurs, or the Rapture would have happened centuries ago. So those who progress through Pleroma are extremely few. But it all starts here in childhood, with that beautiful, innocent, ignorant wanting to believe in God. Just because.

Since the spiritual child can't really understand why Christ did what He did, he feels weak, to believe; and of course he's made fun of, by the foolish world which deems its rabid penchant for beating up God, 'wise'. So the world dumbly broadcasts its insanity in movies, documentaries, songs sung at fund-raisers for hurricane victims, newscasts, you name it — all managing nicely to malign the Bible's John 3:16 Grace statement that there is only One Way to God (see also Acts 4:12). Weird thing is, this broadcasting was just as prevalent 2000 years ago, as today. Almost in the same words! Take a gander at how Christians were burlesqued in the 90's AD when Revelation was penned, then compare to what's said today.

The most remarkable trend of history throughout history, is the world's fixation for-or-against Jews and Christians. It just continues generation after generation, like the Energizer Bunny. More reliable than your next bowel movement.

So just for the moment, reflect: how is it, no unbeliever intellectual who knows history, catches on to all this fixation? Or even the simpler obvious thing: if Jesus the Christ is always the target, just who do you think the Real God must be? Could Satan make it more obvious? You realize it's Satan who's advertising that Christ is God, right? By always pointing Him out, just as Mark showed the demons behaving in his Gospel? It's a picture-refrain in Mark: The Lord does a miracle, the demons make a stink of Him being the True God, then all the people hate Him for that, even more. The more miracles the Lord does, the more He has to hush up the demons, and the more the people hate Him. So who's the really dumb pawn, huh? Not the spiritual child! The child is constantly vindicated by that same God the world loves to hate! So the weakness of the child's "faith" is stronger than all the world. No wonder 1 John (e.g., 1 John 5:4) reads as it does, for Every Generation of God's Children.

Of course, the spiritual child doesn't know any of this vindication. From his low level, from his weakness, all he sees is worry and threat and fear. The kid slaps the tambourine, drools his works everywhere, goes on street corners proclaiming Christ, makes a fool of himself in a bazillion anti-Biblical ways, always tempest-tossed per Ephesians 4:14. But he keeps on believing, whaddya know. And you can bet from all his drooling, many other droolers got saved. Because even a child can understand and repeat, that quintessential power-of-God-to-save verse, John 3:16! Greater power than all the world, that. Coming from the mouth of a child, Psalm 8:2!


Spiritual Adolescence

In the Flow Chart of Spiritual Adolescence, notice how the new colored-in blocks have grown in scope and are goldenrod, versus the 'pinkness' of Spiritual Childhood. That growth in color and scope, denotes a further maturation in the spiritual life.

  1. Notice how, of the five contractural action infinitives which happened to Christ on the Cross per Isaiah 53:10-11 — you've progressed to the enlightening one, "δείκνυμι".
  2. Parts of the other two verbs are happening also.
  3. For now you're beginning to enjoy your new house, and a good bit of the 'baggage' from your old life, has been replaced with God's Apodoses.
  4. Accordingly, God now focuses on enlightening you (δείκνυμι), while still purifying and taking away (καθαρίζω, ἀφαιρέω) remaining old ideas, still replacing them with even more of His Apodoses.
  5. Here the bi-directional pointer indicates Coalescing Understanding within the maturation blocks below it, by means of the infinitives. Because, you've learned a significant amount of Bible, but as yet can't put it all together to orient you to the 'big picture' of Grace and Doctrine, which are the operative spiritual life, John 1:14, John 1:17, 2 Peter 3:18.
  1. Again, the Holy Spirit causes the blocks to feed back to the infinitives, for the process is circular and its 'sphere' increases depending on that feedback.
  2. Thus each infinitival action, enlarges. So you grow exponentially. Growth here is so rapid it's traumatic, analogous to human maturation in adolescence. For the big goal is that that you become more independent of the world but more dependent on God, Luke 2:49. In Hebrew culture then and now, you are an adult at age 12, when sexually mature: that's why you have a bar or bat mitzvah, at that age. The Lord was more mature than a mere spiritual adult by that age. So He's reminding them of His future role when He says that verse. They had forgotten it, and are treating Him as if he were still a child. You know this, because they not only left, but went on a whole day prior to even looking for Him. They temporarily failed to be good parents — understandable, given the pressure of being parents to their own Savior!
  3. Pointer placement tells you the goal of the stage: here, it's a coalesced, orientational enlightening, δείκνυμι.
  4. For there is one infinitive "on point", through which all the others, "run".
  5. So here in Spiritual Adolescence, orienting you to God's Big Picture of your spiritual life, is the major goal of the stage.
  6. Your new Love Alphabet's A-for-Archegos, wants a "B", Bride. The new "B" can't begin growing in you until the old, false "B" you've been living on — for "bad", body-stuff passing itself off as spiritual — gets cleaned out. For God's definition of "Body", is the Body of His Son's Thinking, 1 Corinthians 12:31 (ὑπερβολή), Colossians 2:19, Ephesians 4:16.
  7. So this happens now in groups of letters, coalescing. Precept upon precept, knitting into whole paragraphs all that disparate Bible you've been learning. Traumatically, quickly.
  8. So now you're learning the next letter of God's Love Alphabet: "A" is for Archegos, Leader, Pioneer, Originator, 'Father': but "B" is for His "Bride", AKA Body, the Church. Time you learn to Whom the Father, will marry you off. (Isaiah 9:6 also ties to Isaiah 53:12's wa-et atsumim yehalleq shalal "great ones" clause, which means there are rulers under Him Who is made the fathering-of-eternity.)

So if we instead keep on growing spiritually, and progress in God's Script to eat its solid food, we hit Spiritual Adolescence. Here, we begin to have a measure of independence, because enough of the Divine Standards and obedience have shaped our own thinking, our own values. So we lose dependence on the world and its ideas. We begin to obey God's ideas instead: not merely because we have come to trust Him, our "Faith-Rest" function now established — but we obey also because we ourselves have come to value His True Standards. A child needs to trust a person, because he cannot understand the principles; an adult comes to trust the principles, so doesn't need to trust the person as much, to obey. Here the "person" was your teacher, the world, your parents. But now it shifts to God Himself, and His Word. Notice how this added motive, "ourselves" is a sort of self-confidence: emerging spiritual self-esteem. See, God is inherently satisfying, refreshing-to-know. So, we become more interested in God Himself. As a by-product of this learning, we begin to 'overlook' the me-be-good urge, so the urge can't sustain our attention as it formerly did in childhood. We're 'too busy' learning Him, you see.

So, learning Him causes one to relax, become happier. Thus is woven the foundation for adulthood: like Christ, we start to disregard non-God knowledge in favor of regarding God. Naturally. Easily. Enjoyably. As a by-product of our increasing enjoyment in knowing Him better, we come to respect our own existence, our own motives. Our lives come to have a value of their own. We start to lose dependence on others' opinions of us, as the arbiters of how "good" we are, so we worry less. In short, we start to lose dependence on "being good". God has replaced that depraved focus, with Himself. Temptations become less interesting. God becomes ever more interesting. Because we respect God more, we come to respect everything else more, too. Including our own selves. See how Love is beginning to bloom?

True esteem, like true love, means the flaws don't matter. A human being is alive. Your parents don't have to be perfect, and neither do you, to justify your existence. False self-esteem is really based on the opposite premise: that you are Good Enough, and thus you deserve to exist. You hear false self-esteem touted everywhere, from weight-loss contests to all manner of self-help programs. You deserve you deserve you deserve — if you do something worthy. That sets up a hamster's treadmill and you just end up exhausted. Great satanic ploy, those fig leaves of Genesis 3. True self-esteem is not like that: true self-esteem recognizes Grace. It's not even based on good, because it's based on God. God didn't make Himself, so "deserving" is ludicrous. So guess what? You live! God lives, and so do you! All these flaws exist! Grace, that they can! Grace and Doctrine team up in Spiritual Adolescence, to propel you toward Spiritual Adulthood. Like mental adolescence, it's a rocky time, because there's a Merging Of Understanding going on. The kiddies are still wrestling with right and wrong, and their idea of "grace" has yet to be mated to Bible-in-head. But the Spiritual Adolescent, is going through that mating process. So he becomes independent of others' opinions — and more dependent, on God's Opinion.

The biggest behavioral change in this stage, is a questioning. No longer content to be a child, one begins to wonder why about everything, to have independent and provable knowledge about it, for oneself. That's not rebellion. One wants more than just soundbyte answers. It's a salient characteristic of maturation. Of course, the rebelling, retarding child will mimic that questioning to defend his ignorance, constantly demanding answers which fit the answers he wants. But you can tell the difference between true versus false questioning in children, and you can tell the difference in spiritual children, too.

Religion dissuades questioning, since then its satanic nature is exposed. So if the growing Spiritual Adolescent is still trapped by religion or religious people, he will experience much more trauma than is normal for the stage. Many people peel off here. Since Christianity is incompetently and childishly taught, yet rigidly imposed, so those who want real answers are frustrated; if they don't have sufficient interest in studying God for Himself, they will painfully separate from religion, yet still ascribe its satanic ideas as truth, so will claim God doesn't exist, the Bible is bunk, etc. Very common feature of daily life is to hear the disgruntled believer, complain how he lost his faith. Yeah, he found out that he wasn't believing in the truth — yet doesn't desire the real truth, as his questioning is false — he's not seeking God, but rather enjoys his anger at the falsehood. Such a believer will not grow up if he persists in such iconoclasm. Our parents aren't perfect. Neither are we. If we lambast the feet of clay we find, we'll never get new feet, and go anywhere fruitful. That's the fate of many who 'walk' into Spiritual Adolescence, but it doesn't have to be your fate.

So here are the seven benchmarks:

  1. Consuming Bible. You are beginning to see the big picture: all those pieces of Bible-class data you learned under your right pastor are beginning to have a coherence about them. So you start to think on a higher plane than formerly. So you aren't merely claiming promises, but also the reasoning behind them. You are extrapolating from what you are learning to form new amalgamated conclusions, and you are beginning to live on those conclusions. Bible is easier to read than it used to be, and sometimes you find yourself using it like math — all by yourself! You don't need to be spanked as much by God as when you were a spiritual kid, and you begin to see how all that right-wrong debate among the (overwhelming majority of) Christian children, is graceless. So it bugs you, but you use the Grace you are learning to live with it, sporadically. More often you debate, as rebelling begins to bloom. That's the dark side of a growing independence.
  1. Spiritual Skills. Here in Spiritual Adolescence, you use 1 John 1:9 regularly, so you are regularly filled with the Spirit; when Filled, you are still living on basics, like finding Bible promises and claiming them, learning basic doctrine under your right pastor, playing with basic salvation and Essence-of-God concepts. But it's almost second nature to you, now. Additionally, you are living on what my pastor likes to call "Grace Orientation" and "Doctrinal Orientation", with "Orientation" being descriptive of your merging thought pattern.

The hallmark signature of graduation from spiritual childhood is that these thinking skills merge into a sense of "Grace" and "Doctrinal Orientation" (terms are my pastor's), rather than remain disparate, halting activities. These skills all combine to become a higher base of spiritual living, a kind of 'team', so you're using them all at once. Just as it takes several different types of movements to bring up a rifle to your shoulder, steady it, ready it, fire it accurately in one motion, it takes several types of thinking skills to coordinate so you can accurately 'fire' Doctrine at a target. And as any sharpshooter can tell you, the ability to swiftly, smoothly, and competently do all those motions with instinctual calm, is a life-saver. So much more true, in the Royally-Invisible Spiritual Life!

Or, perhaps you prefer a ballerina analogy. All that practicing of 1st-5th positions, the plié and jeteé — is disparate, like Spiritual Childhood. But being able to put them into an actual routine during which you don't keel over as you dance — is Spiritual Adolescence. Or, a piano analogy: all that practicing of scales over and over and over, the positioning of your hands and fingers (gently high, please), the disparate learnings of the differences between notes and their names, the length of time between a quarter note and a 1/16th; the difference between "bass" but it's not a fish, and "clef" — endless Italian names to learn, tempos and chords and a clicking μέτρονome which drives you nuts — that's Spiritual Childhood. But being able to consistently play several short tunes by Satie or even Debussy — perhaps without flair, but at least without eyeing the music, only a few errors — that's Spiritual Adolescence.

  1. Thought Pattern. This Orientation teams up into a GODO of 1 Corinthians 13:13's ἐλπίς, AKA "Confidence". It's incipient, here. You become impatient, and the on-fire quality of spiritual adulthood begins kindling in your spiritual 'belly'. So it seems like you are instead Waiting for Godot, and you can't understand why others aren't as excited about Bible as you are. For now your GODO is fitting together and you actually begin to see for yourself, stuff your pastor long taught as true, which heretofore you just blindly accepted. So you also begin to emulate the confidence you now begin to see Paul and the New Testament writers exhibit in their epistles. You start understanding that confidence and their thought patterns, and you start understanding their whys. That does a whole lot to increase your confidence in Bible: nothing like understanding the whys, to audit and thus prove, validity. So your confidence in God, alike increases; you still don't know how to argue against the world, and with this new burgeoning confidence, you will try, 🤣. But that's okay. You get combative. That's normal. For now all those former mere 'words' which you'd heard in Bible class after Bible class, are becoming whole concepts you can see as it were aerially, and oh boy you want to practice flying! Which, you should. That will bug your periphery no end, too. Through Darkest Adolescence, a 1960's book by comic writer Richard Armour will help you get a grip on what Christian adolescence is also like. Same basic characteristics.

So the chief Thought Pattern trait, would be called "Orientational Confidence". Getting the big picture, now — and knowing it, too. And wanting more. An enlarging habitual learning and believing in Word — because you want to do it, not solely because it's 'right'. All the Word you learn here begins to coalesce, and as it does, the focus becomes increasingly — God Himself. The words still sound good, and you believe them, but now you really begin to understand what God is about. So what you do is gain the faculty of independent Bible thinking. It's this changeover from learning Bible just because you want to; this changeover of thinking about it independently without someone telling you how it fits, is how you cross over into spiritual adulthood. As a spiritual child, you were supposed to think what you were told, do what you were told; so you were a bad boy or girl, if you did anything on your own; you were a good boy or girl, if you didn't question, if you just believed everything your teacher taught you, as if that teacher were God Himself. Now all those childhood training wheels are falling off your spiritual bicycle. And with only a little regret, you begin to leave it behind.

  1. Relationship to God. Your idea of "Relationship with God" in this stage is still emotional, feely, touchy, lots of do's; but there's a 'weight' to the thinking, and it's beginning to take over your childish ideas. You ask heavier questions when you talk with God, and you start talking with Him more often; you start spending much more time analyzing. You still live in two separate worlds; generally when you are doing something in the world you don't think about Him during that time. Like the spiritual child, He's only on your mind sporadically, but the intervals when you forget Him are much shorter, as you've more to ponder. You begin to wonder what His Plan is for your life. Most of all, you begin to wonder what it's like for Him to be Him.
  1. Love Growth. Love becomes glitchy, here, because you're newly able to do it, and your emotions are wacko. A war begins between your Orientational Confidence, and those around you who aren't as advanced; plus, your confidence in yourself is still vulnerable. The GODO team is new, and it's your moderator, but you've only begun putting it all together. So you become testy, even churlish, but if the interest in knowing God better persists, you'll grow past it. Still the childish trust lingers; still emotion is associated with "Love" in Bible; but you're learning to be more tolerant — at times.
  1. Trial Status. You're at the crossover point between Core Trial Issue #3's "ignorance", and its #2, where you Start To Know Something. You stay on the fence for a while, back-and-forth. You'll cross over to #2 if you make the decision that you "must get serious about learning Bible." And then you actually do get serious. Every Christian I know who crossed over tells that same story. "I just needed to get serious about Bible Doctrine." It's really funny how they all use that phrase, no matter what church or national background they might have. I've heard people in chat channels say that from distant countries, other churches, not at all related to my own. It's also a common expression among people in my church, too. We all go through this same recognition that Bible ought to be more — well, dominant in one's life. The traditional 'Christianity' answers and prescriptions, no longer satisfy. And we begin to understand here, that those answers and prescriptions aren't in tune with Bible, either.

So kinda like John the Baptist yet not so starkly, the Spiritual Adolescent sporadically begins to seek a kind of self-imposed isolation, which at that spiritual age, goes against his nature. For Adolescence is all about, fitting-in. The isolation is maybe of short duration, but it sets a tone and the study begins in earnest. Sometimes there's a question, "should I be a pastor" or other 'official' church career job, revealing the desire to dedicate oneself, not just go to church like everyone else — and not to assuage ego or get human approval, either. Idea is, this pursuit of learning God is not something you do because it's expected. It's rather an interest of its own and you want to allot a good deal of time to it, and you genuinely want more time — because you have bigger questions.

You're vulnerable to satanic attack here. Chiefly, you're vulnerable to the satanic ploy which seeks to siphon off your desire to dedicate yourself, into some fake works program so to occupy your time so much, the study you wanted, you've no time to do. Then you'll atrophy, dying on the Vine, as it were. So the Abiding Desire 'room' of the House becomes all-important, here. If the Desire to learn is strong enough, the fake-y substitutes sent your way won't much grab your attention, or will be soon discarded. If the Desire is not strong enough, you'll get hooked. Most Christians who reach this Stage, don't go beyond it: Revelation 17 politicized religion, grabs their growing interest and traps it.

For here you start to separate from people in your thinking and start to separate yourself in thinking unto God. That's the beginning of Real Love: His Own. It's a dangerous time.

  1. Weakness Growth. Again, Trial Application: Weakness is growing. You become more dependent on God's Opinion, which is Love and therefore Grace; so you become gradually more independent of all else. Which paradoxically, makes you think of yourself as weak. And it's true. But you are actually stronger Spiritually, and that is More True. Hence the loss of self-preoccupation, because Grace justifies your existence rather than "good", theme of Romans 4-5. God is Good, so nothing else need be. And God's Good, is just there: uncreated. So no other good need be. It's a gradual awareness of how Truth = Grace, so you become weak — because you are learning to Love that Truth.

It's really true that the world hates truth, grace, love. Litmus is the constant complaint that God should accept what we say is "good", just like Cain had done. So the Spiritual Adolescent is awkward for another reason: he's not yet matured in God's Script, but he's developed enough where he sees he must separate from the world. Yeah, and when you grow up enough, you leave your mom and dad. The world was our womb, so we were born dead to God. Now it's time to grow up and leave the thinking of our 'father and mother', theme of Rom6-7. There, Paul explains the conflicting feelings of disloyalty to the 'old man', human viewpoint. Divorce must come, sometime: He paid for it, on the Cross.


Spiritual Adulthood, 1

In Flow Chart of Spiritual Adulthood Substage 1, notice the enormous maturation which has occurred; so many new and grass-green sections, far greater than Spiritual Adolescence. That growth from goldenrod seeds to a crop of grass, denotes a huge advance in the spiritual life. Indeed, this stage represents what my pastor calls a "Tactical Victory" in the spiritual life. Hence the stage has two subparts. Historically speaking, only about 1% of Christians ever get this far, and they won't ever be popular on earth which Satan controls — but they are famous, in heaven. So it's a dangerous phase.

  1. Notice how, of the five contractural action infinitives which happened to Christ on the Cross per Isaiah 53:10-11 — you've progressed to the birthing one, "πλάσσω". LXX employs this verb to translate Hebrew yatsar, used to denote the formation of body parts, mountains, etc. Idea is, you're born now, just as Adam was created an adult, Genesis 2:7. Paul plays on that meaning in Galatians 4:19 with reference to the Last Adam, covered below. Again, the Spiritual Adult is now capable of reproduction, analogous to sexual maturity, time for marriage. So that's the major theme of this stage of spiritual maturation, marrying your mind to Christ's. It's a long phase, typically from one to three decades, during Church.
  2. So note the other two verbs: πλάσσω not being complete until the stage completes, it and δικαιόω's blocks aren't yet fully green. The verbs work as a team. Verb δικαιόω does mean to make righteous, but its first idea is to justify, to Legally Perfect (Complete) something: and the result of that, is the righteousness.
  3. For now you greatly enjoy your new House, and most of the 'baggage' from your old life got replaced with God's Apodoses. In fact, God's ideas are more familiar than the old ideas, though the old stuff still assails you, dynamic theme of Romans 6-7.
  4. Accordingly, God now focuses on sculpting function (πλάσσω), while still purifying, taking away, enlightening you (καθαρίζω, ἀφαιρέω, δείκνυμι), still replacing the old with even more of His Apodoses.
  1. Here the bi-directional pointer indicates Coalescing Action within the maturation blocks below it, by means of the infinitives. Because, you've learned the Big Picture of the operative spiritual life, but as yet can't translate it into the relationship which is the purpose of the spiritual life, Colossians 1:27, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:13.
  1. Again, the Holy Spirit causes the blocks to feed back to the infinitives, for the process is circular and its 'sphere' widens depending on that feedback. For now you're advancing along a very broad front, as the greening depicts.
  2. Thus each infinitival action, enlarges in a widening fashion. So you grow exponentially wider in scope of understanding. Growth here is quite traumatic, analogous to falling in love; whether you detect that trauma or not, varies by underlying personality.
  1. Pointer placement tells you the goal of the stage: here, it's a sculpting of Love Function, πλάσσω + δικαιόω.
  2. For there is one infinitive "on point", through which all the others "run". But these two act together as one, with emphasis on the formation side, πλάσσω.
  3. So here in Spiritual Adulthood, developing your Love for God is the major goal of the stage, Romans 5:5. Notice how justifying-of-hope is emphasized in that verse, pointing to the δικαιόω purpose, goal.
  1. Your Love Alphabet's A-for-Archegos, gets a "B", Bride. Your Personal Sense of Destiny Developing, Your Personal Love for God and honor for all mankind Developing, your Divine Happiness Developing, all make you realize how Bridal you are becoming. So you are Becoming to Him. So you are made Conductive, Developing. That's the spousal thing to do, Ephesians 3:15-19.
  2. So this happens now in groups of sentences, coalescing. Precept upon precept, knitting into whole pages of all that disparate Bible you've been learning. Traumatically, quickly. You've asked question after question, and it seemed as though you'd never start to learn the answers. But now, you do. That burgeons your hope just as Paul said it would, in Romans 5:5. You become content. Even, too content, cocky, as you'll see in the paragraphs below.
  3. So now you're functioning in the first four letters of God's Love Alphabet: "A" for Archegos, "B" for His "Bride" — now your cognizant Destiny. So, you're being Conducted to be Conductive, Developing. Time you prepare for your marriage, by meeting the Groom. (Paul ties Isaiah 53:12's wa-et atsumim yehalleq shalal "great ones" clause, to learning Him via Bible, in Ephesians 4:12-16, especially verse 16; also, Romans 12:1-3, 1 Corinthians 12-13 — that's the main theme of 1 Corinthians — and also, Colossians 1:12. For there are to be rulers under Him Who is made the fathering-of-eternity, and that's Church. This idea of sharing in Divine plunder, riches was a main theme of the Lord's when He was down here, i.e., the parable of the stingy servant, Matthew 25:14ff. Paul stresses it too.)

Hence continued spiritual growth on God's Script in God's System from Spiritual Adolescence, produces Spiritual Adulthood (i.e., "young men" in 1 John). It is a merging of what you've learned into a cohesive 'body' of thinking. Bible describes this stage as giving birth in Galatians 4:19. English Bibles truncate the translation to "Christ formed in you", so you don't know what kind of "formed" it is. God's Greek is not so bashful: "formed", because delivered, the birth pangs are over! Born! In short, like physical/mental adulthood, spiritual adulthood is a new independence, a life on your own, a transformation. Just as no fetus is a human being until born, because it is not independent of the womb; just as conceiving of the idea of sin doesn't make it sin until it too is born (see James 1:14-15, NAS); just as you have to be born from above, not conceived from above (i.e., just because you conceive the Gospel doesn't mean you are saved, else everyone who has merely heard, would be in heaven); just as you can't be graduated until you have completed the prerequisite courses, so also you aren't a spiritual adult until His Thinking has become an independent structure within your soul (right lobe, AKA "heart", technically). No building can take tenants until it is completed! Gotta grow up first. Then you are 'born', so to speak, into adulthood. Not before. Only then are you eligible to have an Adult Spiritual Job. You usually can't do outward-works which "count" until then. (Well, God will throw the works He wants to do via you smack! in your face, so you needn't go looking for them. A work He wants will make your sin nature bristle with an urge to say "no". Heh.)

  1. Consuming Bible. For what distinguishes this phase is that the Basic Structure of Christ's Own Thinking has formed in you. It's a comprehensiveness, though at basic levels. It's also habitual. So your Focus and your Viewpoint have merged. God just isn't on your mind during Bible class or prayer, anymore. You begin to see Him as a Person. So when you study Bible now, you study it to see Him better — and you do. This is a monumental shift in your reason for Consuming Bible. When you were younger you had many motives for doing it: to be good, to think well of yourself, to justify believing, for the attacks against Bible worried you. But you've instead become so curious about how God is — His Personality, why He wants to do things — that the other motives, kinda fade away. The world and its wants still intrude a lot, but this newly-emergent focus on learning Bible to learn God Himself, shifted you into the "birth" that is spiritual adulthood. For Christ is all about, looking at Father. So now, you too begin to look at Father. By the end of this stage, you will look at Father as an instinctual habit, for you will come to want to live on His View of anything, even brushing your teeth. At the beginning of this stage, though, the idea of looking at Him as a habit, is newly born.

See, as we grow spiritually, we age. As we age, we can see others more maturely. A child is utterly threatened by change, and really can't see his parents as persons. So they aren't allowed to fail, and any thing which looks like a threat is frightening. But as you age, since you are older, you can see older people — as people. So God, the Ultimate Person, stops being a cartoon character, and you begin to see Him as a Person. For Himself. And you love seeing Him. It stops being an issue so much of right and wrong, but just flat wanting to know Him. And of course, what's really happening, is that you are becoming more like Him — which is why you can see Him better.

  1. Spiritual Skills. These are instinctive at this point, but still glitchy: use of 1 John 1:9 is remembered more often throughout your day, so you are more often filled with the Spirit — in large measure, the remembrance is prompted by you wanting to just think about God. So when you do want to think about Him, you remember to use 1 John 1:9. You begin, therefore, to question more broadly the 'big picture' of your salvation, why did God do it, how could it benefit Him. So you try to add up many types of doctrines in an effort to learn something about Him; you now find yourself doing it in free moments, while waiting on the telephone, or even in the bathroom; not merely when you are in Bible class. Verses start coming to your mind when you need them, slowly at first. Again, the structure of Christ's Thinking has now formed, been born: so it begins functioning as a whole, having a life of its own. So the effort to remember, diminishes greatly. Or, increases greatly because now you are "getting serious" about Bible. When a person "gets serious" in a relationship, marriage is not far off. Even more true, here.

The hallmark signature of graduation from spiritual adolescence is that these thinking skills merge into a "Personal Sense of Destiny", as my pastor likes to put it. That becomes your base, built atop the previous thought patterns which were using 1 John 1:9, being filled with the Spirit, claiming the promises of God and rudimentary Bible reasoning; to those spiritual-childhood Bible Thinking Skills were added Grace Orientation and Doctrinal Orientation, during spiritual adolescence. It took some time for GODO to integrate with the earlier skills and for them all to team up and coordinate; but that's happened now. So by analogy, if you were able to raise and fire a rifle in one motion, now you can do it in your sleep. If you were able to do a simple ballet routine without falling down all the time, now it's too simple for you and you start eyeing something in the "Nutcracker". If you were able to play "Golliwog's Cake Walk" by Debussy without banging the piano, now you are up to a subtle Chopin nocturne. In short, a wholistic view of the spiritual life has taken hold in you. For you are born, independent, and can function. You still screw up. You're just reborn for the third time — to adulthood.

The Personal Sense of Destiny is entirely due to a new Love for God the Father. You begin to see yourself through His Eyes, which makes you become more objective. It's glitchy, for what you come to see is often disturbing, so you are impatient with yourself, the world, etc. At the same time, a growing contentment at having the answers, mediates the upset. So you'll zigzag between these two poles of contentment and upset. So your spiritual skills will often focus on this mediation, to keep you on an even keel. Paul describes this stage poignantly in Romans 6-7. Battle really begins here.

To say you have a "Personal Sense of Destiny" doesn't mean that you know your future death date, who you should work for (or marry, if you are yet unmarried). Rather, it's a growing awareness that this Bible you've been learning is real, God is real, your future is real and will really be with Him. There's a 'body' of understanding about it, which in turn means you have a 'palpable' grasp. "God" is no longer a two dimensional, candy-cane idea.

  1. Thought Pattern. "Hope" (ἐλπίς) which Bible uses as a shorthand moniker for Confidence in Word, characterizes your attitude during Spiritual Adulthood. What is spiritual adulthood like? Two chief soul traits of this stage are: cognitive recognition that His Thinking should govern, and thought-fluency concerning the content of His Independent Standard. There's no roteness about true fluency. It isn't the child's parroting, like spouting Bible verses, creeds, etc. Instead, it's the ability to Think Doctrinally, to analyze an issue and determine God's general position on it. 'With doctrinal reasoning to support the analysis and conclusion. There's a distinct confidence in one's ability to do this, because there's a distinct cognitive Confidence in the Standard. A less-salutary characteristic of this stage is a temptation to cockiness, due to the fact one begins to know he knows more than his contemporaries.

My pastor uses terms like "cognitive self-confidence", and "spiritual self-esteem" to explain this stage. The "esteem" comes from the Confidence in the Standard, but since the Standard is in the self, it translates into a certain self-confidence, as well. The characteristic doesn't mean one is yet competently obeying; a new spiritual adult's obedience function due to the structure must first coalesce. There's much more to learn, but the Holy Spirit has interlinked the Doctrinal Database with the soul's norms-and-standards 'compartment'. As a result, the soul has found and accepted its 'place' with respect to Him, so a kind of confidence and contentment mark the inner life: it's a kind of Structural Rest. Before this point, as is true in regular adolescence, a huge struggle about "whats" had gone on. Now, enough of those whats are resolved, so a kind of restful attitude ensues. So, at this point the spiritual adult also begins to recognize where he is in God's Personal Plan for his life down here — and, in eternity. My pastor calls this turning point "a personal sense of destiny": God's Personal Agenda for your own life becomes known.

This "spiritual adulthood" stage is the first tactical objective God has for the believer's life. It's a Tactical Objective, as my pastor likes to explain, because you can't grow up in Love until and unless you first become an adult. For our spiritual mortality rate is extremely high; most believers don't want to know God, they want the goodies and status of being Christians, so they opt for Satan's Revelation 17 substitute Churchinanity, over the centuries. The Church Fathers, for example, were demonstrably spiritual children, given their weird and legalistic writing full of works salvation and antisemitism. Bible wasn't at all clear to them: you don't need to convene councils to decide whether Christ is also God, whether Trinity is Biblical, if you actually read the Bible. It's not debatable, Matthew 4:3 and 2 Corinthians 13:14 are vividly clear. So, those people couldn't read the Bible, because they didn't use 1 John 1:9 to get the Holy Spirit's brains. And, it shows in their extremely legalistic, anthropopathic slants, persecutions and weird ideas, turning body stuff into magical spirituality, blaspheming the Word thereby — for Christ did none of the things these dolts account 'spiritual'. Yet these folks are regarded as spiritual giants? Well, even today Christians laud them, not noticing how Different Christ Is from all of them. So children laud other children, and no one grows. It's the tragedy of 18 centuries, and it still continues. Therefore the Spiritual Adult is utterly rare, and it's a Major Victory in the Trial if you even get this far. The second bookended Tactical Objective is Spiritual Maturity, explained later below.

This stage is a Coalescing Of Everything You've Learned, and you become Doctrinally Competent. Since an underlying structure got formed, you're now moving into function. It plays like discovery-after-discovery as all that got knitted in you, actually starts working. You'll easily mistake yourself for a genius. For you are: but 'Mom' (the Holy Spirit) is running the show. Yet you don't recognize that, often trying to 'help' by providing answers people don't want, and by impatience at others' disinterest or ignorance. So you get spanked. Then you begin to recognize it's the Holy Spirit, not you, Who's the Genius Behind Your New Thinking. Additionally, if you had a sin nature which favored lasciviousness, it now shifts over to the other side, legalism. If you were legalistic, you'll shift into lasciviousness during this stage. Your life is being freed up from the old patterns, so (🤣!) you also switch sin patterns, too. Paradox: the bigger you get, the more you sin bigger sins which are subtle. Big people make bigger mistakes because they are big, see. Or as King James put it: "Jupiter's thunderclaps light more often and sorer upon the high & stately oaks than on the low and supple willow trees: and the highest bench is slickest to sit upon."

Again, as in Spiritual Adolescence, the 1 Corinthians 13:13 moniker for this Stage is "hope". This "hope" is also the beginning of Love, Romans 5:5; the latter starts growing per the four dimensions of Ephesians 3:15-19 and 1 John 4:12-16 (parallel passage) from this point forward. So we now obey for an additional motive: to express gratitude to God. Life has become very enjoyable, even when being disciplined. We've come to know Father pretty well, now. We enjoy thinking of Him so much, we look for ways to thank Him. He's on our mind, most of the time. We often find ourselves asking, "What does God think of this?" — and the answer is often instantaneous.

  1. Relationship to God. This is the biggest behavioral change: Knowing God Becomes A Burning Issue. You have a bazillion questions about Him personally. Why why why why what does He get what does He want. The pronoun has changed from "me" to He". It can be very traumatic, because here the Focus Shifts. Hence your idea of "Relationship with God" in this stage is a stable and urgent recognition of Him, so you do think of Him often during a day; but it's still somewhat emotional, you're preoccupied with your obedience, maybe; overall, you spend more time just thinking out how He is. So you are alone more — and want to be. You've distanced yourself from your earlier Christian friends, if you had any, so you can spend more time alone to think about what you're learning, to talk with God, etc. So, at this point, "Christ formed in you" means the necessary Rapport Base with God has been built. You can't use it well, but it's there. The rapport function is stable, but basic; the Maturing Merge of the world you live in and the God you think about, is only beginning. See, the focus shifted to God, so now all your other foci must shift, too.

Unfortunately, a side effect of this shift is that others in your periphery notice it, even if you do not. Some will be resentful and jealous; often the believer in this phase becomes obnoxious, because he comes to resent the disinterest in God which he's newly able to see. So whether it's his fault or that of others around him, marriages, families and friendships break up here, Luke 12:49-53. You'll have to choose. Most people when faced with a choice like this opt for the people, so do not grow up. Lots of casualties in this Spiritual Adulthood phase, for that reason.

  1. Love Growth. In short, due to that hope, you begin to Love God. Starting with, Love for Father. Love is still somewhat childish but its pace escalates, now. So, the aggressive facet of Love begins to develop, as gratitude needs an outlet. As 1 John repeatedly notes, this Love-for-the-Father-outlet causes the 'overflow' of loving the brethren. You start to view people more objectively. That provokes a kind of overflow love to people: it's Divine Love beginning, which has no strings. It isn't based on attraction, but on God. So it doesn't feel good, and it 'plays' as a kind of respect (true love manifests as respect or honor).

True marker of love is that your thoughts are occupied by the love object. And, secondly — you respond honorably. Not necessarily competent at it, but that standard of honorable response has become more important than whether the love object is honorable toward you. Being right for its own sake is being replaced by a desire to rightly love. So we can initiate love, at this point. And we do: toward the Father. See, rapport begets the ability to be happily intimate, not the other way around. For your information: this is the main reason why sex before/outside of marriage is so disastrous to the soul. Body can't take intimacy until soul has rapport, and body's design can't handle sexual rapport, outside of marriage: if "it" was "good", you think you are in love; if "it" was "bad", you think you are not. Soul's free will is thus significantly impaired by non-marital sex, because then the body dictates to the soul, with the result that soul satisfaction becomes progressively cut off. Other sins of course are very destructive, as well; however, sexual and criminal sins more quickly destroy the cohesiveness of society, owing to the dysfunctional effect on the relationship between soul and body that these sins engender. For, these types of sins separate body urges from soul dominance. That's why, for example, repeated sins of these types cause successively-higher need to repeat them, leading eventually to impotence: unfulfillable urge, no matter how often repetition occurs. Same pathology as for any type of addiction, needing ever-bigger doses to get the same high; eventually, no dose of any magnitude can give the addict a high. All he's left with, is overweening need.

Again, Hope produces Love, Romans 5:5. This happens because the fundamental need all humans have, is to have a relationship with God. You realize you have that. Again, there's a distinct shift in all your Viewpoints from here on out. You need people and things less; you're not only newly secure, you're even cocky. You know God, and you know you know God, and wow! So you begin to ask new questions, re-prioritize your life, shed old hobbies and loves to make room for more time just learn Him. For you are confident in your knowledge, and it's a constant satisfaction to you. So you begin to simplify your life and isolate yourself. You might not even notice that fact. But others, will. Again, many won't like it. A 'wall' seems to be forming between you and them. That's true, too.

Love increases when it isolates. That's a surprise. Live and let live. The frenetic pace of childhood and spiritual adolescence, with its crying need to tell everyone about Jesus, shifts — you begin to realize that's not how God wants it done, and you decide you need to "get serious" about Scripture. For yourself. So you begin to isolate yourself. This will bug some of those close to you. So you will get some flak for this. But now your desire to know Him for Himself is independent of that pressure. Still hits you, you still fall down — but now you keep on getting up again. Paradoxically, this shows more love for the brethren, since you are now doing the one thing God can use to bless those who are not doing what you are doing. For you, are doing the Word — by learning Him. Just studying, does all of that. World couldn't even begin to do what God does to bless. No human works can buy the world time, good weather, competence, good crops, freedom from enemies. But God says He will, Leviticus 26. And if you scan that chapter, you notice that the contract is about Abiding in Word. Oh! Abiding in The Abiding House of His Abiding Thinking, bottom row in the Spiritual Maturation Process charts?! Yeppers.

For a while, life after entry into Spiritual Adulthood will suddenly calm, because you're now getting an Abiding Contentment from Abiding in His House, huge deposits of His Four-Sided Happiness. 'Calm before the storm of Trial Testing. Rest up and enjoy, for you need this "R&R"!

  1. Trial Status. Romans 8:28 begins to apply at this point. You've moved out of the Core Trial Argument #3, which was Ignorance; and you've moved into the #2 Core Trial Argument, do you choose God based on What You Know. This is much harder. So, the spiritual life intensifies, for there is no burden greater than the burden of so much knowledge in such puny, fallen bodies. Yet there is no greater enjoyment either, since the knowledge, is of God!

True wealth, "true riches" verses in Bible, all mean knowing God. Wealth is a shocker. If you don't have it, you imagine it to relieve you of certain burdens, and to afford you leisure, etc. What you never expect, is that the responsibility going with it, is far bigger than whatever problems it solved. New and bigger problems replace whatever the old ones were. So you can get cocky or resentful or burdened — it takes awhile to sink in. Knowledge of God is the greatest form of wealth, so is exponentially bigger in 'weight'. You don't own yourself, especially when you know God, so it's a real shakeup to your self-image. Exhilarating and enervating (you feel so small). So again, Weakness is Growing, and you are innately tested at all times to just keep on keeping on God's Script in God's System — or, to peel off. You are very vulnerable here.

Knowledge Key→ This burden of knowledge begins the deliberate parallel to the burden of knowledge Christ had in His Humanity. No greater test, no greater burden, existed for Him. Every second He had the burden of knowing Who He was, and What He was to do. Important: as mentioned at the end of Part 2, what made bearing our sins so awful, was Knowing them Intimately. 2 Corinthians 5:21 makes this point: "For He (Father) made Him-Not-Knowing-sin, Sin! as a Substitute for us, so that we become Righteousness-of-God in Him." Verse has word-play which English doesn't show. I translate it here to depict that word play. Paul uses the accusative for "Him" (the first Greek word, for max-emphasis), and "Sin!" So, Paul shouts the equating of "Him" and "Sin!": meaning, all sin was imputed to Him. We know Paul shouts, since there's no verb between both 'sin' words. Next, Greek preposition 'ὑπέρ' stresses substitution: alludes to Old Testament animal sin-sacrifices. Next, "become" is subjunctive of both purpose and result, with 'ἵνα' ("so that"). There's zero doubt. The parallel verb structure yells final Justice by Exchange (His Righteousness for our sins). ("Become" is also the left-out verb.) There's no "the" before "Righteousness": so Infinite quality is thus shouted. So again, Paul stresses totality-of-salvation. Finally, the "He" pairing Scripture so fondly uses denotes equating: here, saying Christ was good-enough-for-the-Father, i.e., equal. So, we get that, too: Father thus made us Infinitely Righteous, "in Him". This verse yells that judicial fact. So there is no way to claim salvation 1) needs our 'help', or 2) can be 'lost'.

The Pain of the Cross was a Knowing Pain, because that was the "cost" of the sins, to Divine Righteousness. So: it's Knowing which is the greatest burden — and the greatest Joy. Satan had had a smaller version of this burden, so of course we have to go through a parallel: due to Satan's failure, due to Christ's Success.

Finity can't handle knowledge of God. Intimate knowledge of God is supposed to drive one crazy. Were it not for how God reveals Himself (delicately, carefully, lovingly) — we'd all be dead. Man cannot take too strong a dose of knowledge. It's like overeating food. You can die from overeating knowledge, just as you can die from overeating food, and obsessive accumulation of either is bad for your health in every way. The bigger you get spiritually, the harder it becomes to live with this burgeoning knowledge of God. Life down here becomes smaller, since life down here is innately unsatisfying. So the "stretch" between the beauty of knowing Him and the horror of puny life down here, becomes excruciating. So now think how it was for Him Who had Perfect Knowledge, to then go to the Cross, where all our puny thinking, lacerated Him?

So, during the calm, our understanding of His Greatness coalesces; as a result, our awareness of Him intensifies, and that Knowledge creates new and traumatic pressures. On the one hand, we become shocked, because we know so much more about the differential between God's greatness, and our smallness. It's not that our confidence is shaken, but rather, our desire to live has undergone a dramatic change: we are living for the Father now. We thus are constantly tempted to despair, since what we want to do for Him is so much higher than what we are yet able to do. Due to the new "Rightly Love" motive, we revalue everything in our thinking. So as you might guess, we become weaker, not stronger. Because, the Love has become stronger.

  1. Weakness Growth. Consequently, this stage is very traumatic: we've fallen in love with Him. When you truly fall in love, the Love Object is more important to you than you are to you. Another Person literally occupies the central space where your thoughts of self had been. It's hard to admit true love for Him, partly because the sin nature can't handle that admission, and partly because true love always wants to do 'more': you feel you don't qualify, for whatever you 'do' for Him is always too small. False "falling in love", by contrast, is loud: gushy, emotional, me-praise-me garbage.

Additionally, a second major class of new traumas hit: we are so much more aware of what's wrong in the world! It's like getting eyeglasses for the first time: oh, how clear everything is, now! So, a kind of double-whammy ensues: falling-in-love with the Father, coupled with falling-out-of-love with the world. One is literally torn apart, internally. This tearing-apart also occurs because enough Doctrine has been built in the soul to make it functionally incompatible with the dead world of one's dead body: Romans 6-7. So, a new spiritual compatibility must be forged, in order to live in this dead body, this dead world, but unto the Lord! Every past thought-structure needs to be replaced or redone! (Romans 8) Moreover, for a while, this change-in-loves' trauma will not be recognized for what it is.

Remember at the beginning of the First Reason for Invisibility, that Christ converted all sins into "Divine DNA" on the Cross? That's spiritual re-engineering. DNA doesn't split until there are enough compatible pieces made by the ribosomes, to complete the new strands. Well, here you've had so many Doctrinal pieces made by your human spirit's 'ribosome' factory (done by the Holy Spirit), that now you're ready for splitting and Divine-DNA replication, all over the place! Well — splitting means a fragmenting process, preparatory to a bigger integration process. So it feels like you're going loony. Really, you're being knitted together. In God's Way of Doing Things, the loud meaning is always the opposite meaning. So when it feels loudly bad, it's quietly better. Nerd Note: don't go by feeling; go by Bible Doctrine. As you do, you will notice that bad stuff has better value, regularly. That's a Justice valuation: gotta get a bigger rate-of-return (ROI) on the bad stuff, than on what's already working well.

Divine-DNA Integrity Key→ Remember how psychiatry says mental health is based on an integrated personality? Well, that's the issue in your spiritual life, too. Integrating the Ever-Increasing Knowledge of God into Your Life. Into your daily routine. Into pressures of adversity and prosperity. Into, in short, your body. So you can become able to express Love. So that you can become able to do for Him what you want to do. In short, God wants to give you the ability to have what you want — and what you want, from this stage forward — is to Show Love for Him. Only, you're not able! Body's weak! You need to grow, make the body the 'footstool' of your own feet! Through constant living on 1 John's Script! Look: if the desire doesn't run out in front, you can't get the motive to learn integrated strength over your body.

So, that "integration" is to progress, from here onward. See, 'sacrifice' is not the issue. Love is the issue. Integration 'seals' Integrity, thus insures Love, so you can become free, forever — to Love. No matter what.

This desire-exceeds-ability stage is thus awkward, because 'true love' has hit you. Doctrine-body coordination goes awry. On the one hand, the sin nature will be screaming with defense-mechanism urges like sublimation, denial, etc. On the other hand, the hugely-increased desire to Thank Him isn't matched by the body's obedience. Instead, you find yourself giving into temptations you used to habitually spurn! Again, if you were lascivious, you'll become legalistic; or, vice versa! So, you'll feel like a spiritual failure, but the opposite is true. Hang in there! So, you will have arresting urges, and will be constantly tempted to be 'anal', going overboard in one direction or another; for sitting still, resting, is exactly what you need to 'do'. So, the sin nature will resist 'rest', big time: because, as we saw in Adam's Fall, its 'good' concepts are all doo-doo's!

So in this temporarily-weak state, one also gets hit with many outward enticements: "competing loves", "suitors", as it were, to "kidnap" your love away from God. Prosperities with people, things will be introduced. Also, adversities. Satan needs a level playing field on us, and we need exercise. So, the function of the spiritual life refines: doctrinal usage shifts into subtlety. Life intensifies, so is at once much more enjoyable, and much more problematic. All the while, Love for the Father causes progressive focus on Christ Himself. Think of it as the Bride, not-yet-officially-married, but growing up in her Father-in-law's Royal House, as was once custom. As she grows, she comes to understand her Groom-to-be, better. So, love for the Groom develops, too. As this growth happens, competing suitors try to snatch her away, before the wedding.

The snatching-away temptations will be extreme, and extremely subtle. You'll fail most of them, and fail most of the time. This, because the doo-doo genetics developed a tit-for-tat valuation of life: I do for you, you do for me, and that is supposed to be 'love'. But it's not love, it is fig leaves craziness. Churchinanity. Or, rebelling against Churchinanity. Both are sin-nature functions, and neither is God's Thinking. Be, not "do". For, Love just is. Under bad circumstances, good circumstances, no circumstances, any circumstances, "the all things" (Big Bible keyword), all circumstances. You need to be weaned off the earthly, preoccupied idea that doing is supposed to be some kind of 'evidence' of love. Love just is, in God. In you, at this stage, that fact has only been born. It's real, it's in your soul, and like a baby, you don't know what to 'do' with it!! But you are to 'do' nothing, for the do's in the Christian life are all back-ended, after you are grown enough. Christ didn't go to the Cross until the end: after He learned to Completely Rest. That is Kenosis. So, you'll be jumpy all the time — and through this jumpiness will come a lot of failures. Then, through the failures (!) you will learn what unconditional love means: God's, for you. Then you learn to rest, for then you learn that Love just is: No Barriers, no works, no conditions!

Morality = spirituality is the way most Christians and non-Christians value the spiritual life. They are all wacko. They get wacko, because A) there is a genuine recognition that morality is "good", and B) it's attractive to be nice, to follow rules for harmonious interaction. It's also very difficult to be moral, just as Paul quips in Romans 7: until there was a law saying don't covet, he didn't covet. Like he also says in Corinthians, the power of sin is in the Law. It's "in" the Law, even though the Law is good, because sin is a derivative (separatist) power, deriving its power from the power of good (sin has no power of its own, so caroms off true good, to derive power).

So, when people aim at morality, the counter-urge is fuelled, because the sin nature hears 'good' in morality, and tries to appropriate it to make-self-god (which is the quintessence of the sin's nature). So, to resist the counter-urge, one either rebels outright (becoming lascivious), or one becomes religious in observing moral laws. This latter becomes ever-harder and nastier: oh, I didn't light that candle in 4 steps, but in only 3, so I am a bad person, 'cheating'. So, the eyes gradually get off God, and on what obedience one does (or doesn't do); on, what obedience others do (or don't).

This is the cruelest and most subtle of snatching-away divorces, happening 'below radar', so to speak; and that's why Morality is the main objective of Satan's mega plan. To Divorce You from God in God's Name. 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7 explains the many sad forms of this divorcing. So, having been all this time surrounded by morality-touted ideas of spirituality but nonetheless having become independent of them enough to actually begin to love God — every enticement in your body and on this planet and even off this planet will come against you. For, if you make it past this stage, you will likely stick with the spiritual life through the end. That, Satan can't afford.

It's a truly marvellous stage, but it often feels awful! See, being an adult doesn't mean you know how to think and act like one. It takes practice, and "practice" includes distractions you find both unpleasant, and pleasant. So you're tested:

In short, the Trial is in full swing: do you want God, or not? After sufficient practice in the above tests which largely center on morality's 'competition' to be your god instead of God, your adulthood function stabilizes.


Spiritual Adulthood, Substage 2

In Flow Chart of Spiritual Adulthood Substage 2, notice how the 'grass' of the spiritual life deepens in color, and there's more of it, due to aging spiritually. Here, you have successfully weathered the first hurdle of comfort due to becoming a spiritual adult and having certainty about Bible. Lots of people thereafter lose interest in the spiritual life, and become complacent — at which point, they arrest. But for a few among the new spiritual adults, getting all these answers only fuels a greater interest in God. So what happens next, is a divorcing. For if you want to know God, there's only so much time in a day, and you have to split that time between knowing Him better — or knowing the world better. So you enter Spiritual Adulthood 2, if God 'wins out' in importance. So this is a divorcing substage. Notice the enormous maturation which has occurred; the divorcing results in near completion of most blocks, and the πλάσσω structure has completed. Historically speaking, you've just entered the same spiritual territory as Paul and the apostles in their later life. This is the Divine Design for all of us, but most of us don't want to know God, so don't grow in the Design. So it's a more dangerous time.

  1. Notice how, of the five contractural action infinitives which happened to Christ on the Cross per Isaiah 53:10-11 — you've progressed to the justifying one, "δικαιόω". Greek Old Testament employs this verb to translate Hebrew verb tsadeq, used to denote the justification which results in righteousness (both justification and righteousness, never are the two divorced). Here, the development task is to Justify entering you as Evidence for the Prosecution in the Trial, AKA "qualifying the witness" in modern legal trial parlance. For if you complete this substage, that's what happens to you, pattern of Job 1:8. Can't be entered in Evidence until the defense (Satan & Co.) gets to depose you. So here in Spiritual Adulthood 2, you are being deposed. Ergo you get what my pastor calls "momentum testing", four (to seven) categories of tests in the areas of your own thinking (Bible vs. sin nature apodoses, essentially); systems (in the world, i.e., injustice happening to you); people (obnoxious and nice, eyes-on-people problem); prosperity and disaster (eyes-on-circumstances problem). The tests can be subtle (like germs or a mosquito), or gross (like an elephant or a bomb), usually both. They seem to be serial, notching up in strength with each repetition you 'pass', until an overall threshold is "passed". That threshold, is Occupation with Christ as the Apodosis you live on, to get through the pressure. Some of these tests will carry forward in Spiritual Maturity, depending on the content of your deposition.
  1. So note the remaining verb: δικαιόω is not complete until the stage completes, so its block isn't yet fully green. You finish this stage when it fully greens and matures into Combat Olive, as you'll see in Spiritual Maturity's diagram.
  2. Here in Spiritual Adulthood 2, you become totally at home in His House, and in fact are uncomfortable anywhere else. The 'baggage' from your old life is still outside in the world, and you don't want to be around it, for nearly everything in your thinking is replaced with God's Apodoses. You will thus keep seeking the same old enjoyments, by habit; but will always be quickly disappointed in them, not knowing it's you who changed. For God's ideas alone make sense. The old stuff still assails you, dynamic theme of Romans 6-7. By the end of the stage you find out all this, and you'll generally quit trying to derive enjoyment from what has for you, "passed away".
  1. Accordingly, God now focuses on justifying you (δικαιόω), while still purifying, taking away, enlightening, sculpting you (καθαρίζω, ἀφαιρέω, δείκνυμι, πλάσσω), still replacing the old — with Christ Himself. For if you complete this phase, you will become Spiritually Mature, and that means Christ becomes your life. You will see Him in everything, and don't want to be seeing, anything or anyone else. That's a kind of Justification — your reason for wanting to live, to see Him. You won't be competent at getting rid of the competition, yet. That comes during the Pleroma phase of Spiritual Maturity. But here, the true fruit of Abiding Desire to see Only Him — begins. For you discover during this substage, that only God makes you happy (the +H block in the chart). True fruit-bearing is an attitude of wanting to see only Him, and everything else is a "so, what?" in your mind. That was the Trial testimony from Adam forward, demonstrated by Abraham's willingness to sacrifice even his own son, because he saw Him; by Moses leaving Egypt. Hebrews 11 explains that attitude, not works, is true Trial Testimony which glorifies God.
  1. Here the bi-directional pointer indicates Coalescing Happiness within the maturation blocks below it, by means of the infinitives. Because, you've learned the relationship which is the purpose of the spiritual life, Colossians 1:27, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:13. So now it's time to finish off your Attitude, so that you come to see Your Groom.
  1. Again, the Holy Spirit causes the maturation blocks to feed back to the infinitives, for the process is circular. Here, its 'sphere' deepens depending on that feedback. For now you're to deepen in the Relationship to Christ, as the greening is wide, and you need more stability. This is a very unstable substage, lots of zigzagging. For since the objective is to Justify you to Stand Trial, you will be severely tested before you are Qualified to be a Witness for the Prosecution (God).
  1. Thus each infinitival action, enlarges in a deepening fashion. So you grow exponentially deeper in coalesced understanding — of Him. Growth here is most traumatic, analogous to staying in love despite pressure; you know trauma in this substage.
  1. Pointer placement tells you the goal of the stage: here, it's a sculpting of Love Function, πλάσσω + δικαιόω. This time, Love for Christ Himself, subjective and then objective genitival meanings, Ephesians 3:15-19. Love circle.
  2. For there is one infinitive "on point", through which all the others "run". But these two act together as one, with emphasis now on the Justification side, δικαιόω. Particularly, Justification for Living becoming Him. Just Him.
  3. So here in Spiritual Adulthood 2, developing your Love for Christ is the major goal of the stage, Ephesians 3:19. Notice how justifying is emphasized in that verse, pointing to the πλάσσω purpose, a building goal, emphasizing His House and how you want to live in it, surpassing all else (i.e., worldly knowledge).
  1. Your Love Alphabet's A-for-Archegos, got a "B", Bride. Your Personal Sense of Destiny Developed, Your Personal Love for God and honor for all mankind Developed, your Divine Happiness Developed, all make you realize how you are Becoming Him. So you are ready for the actual marriage, Conductive, Developed. That's the spousal thing to do, Ephesians 3:19.
  2. So all this happens now in groups of paragraphs, coalescing. Precept upon precept, knitting together whole chapters of all that disparate Bible you've been learning. Traumatically, quickly. You've asked question after question about what it's like to know Christ intimately, and it seemed as though you'd never start to learn the answers. But now, you do. That burgeons your hope just as Paul said it would, in Romans 5:5. You become content, but lose the cockiness. You'll indeed be lame, weakened. For when you are weak, then you are strong, 2 Corinthians 12:10.
  3. So now you're functioning in the first six letters of God's Love Alphabet: "A" for Archegos, "B" for His "Bride" — now your cognizant Destiny. So, you're being Conducted to be Conductive, Developing. As a result, you derive momentum for living due to awareness of the Eternal Fulfillment which awaits, since now you've met the Groom and are Happy, so want to become Intimate with Him. (Paul ties Isaiah 53:12's wa-et atsumim yehalleq shalal "great ones" clause, to Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4:13 and Philippians 1:20-21, to denote the childbearing fruit from Intimately knowing Him via Bible. Also, Colossians 1:27 and all of 1 Corinthians 13 — that's the main theme of 1 Corinthians. For there are to be progeny under the Church rulers under Him Who is made the fathering-of-eternity. This idea of sharing in Divine booty, riches was a main theme of the Lord's when He was down here, i.e., the parable of the stingy servant, Matthew 25:14ff. Paul stresses it too. Childbearing is the main theme of Philippians, verb μεγαλύνω in Philippians 1:20.)

So if God 'wins' in importance, if you keep on in Doctrine during the trauma of this Spiritual Adulthood stage, you will progress to its substage of coalesced Spiritual Adulthood, which Paul calls "Christ at home in your hearts". (Ephesians 3:17; English Bibles usually say "dwell", and they always mistranslate the temporal participle, so you can't see that God causing you to love Him is what makes Christ be 'at home' in your thinking. In Greek, the participle precedes or is coterminous with the main verb, which here is μένω. This you learn in Bible-Greek-101. Aaargh.) My pastor calls this substage, "cognitive independence" and "spiritual autonomy". Christ then is indeed at home in your soul. Having made some gigantic bloopers, having tasted Divine Discipline for them, you're now far less cocky, too. Heh.

So, from this substage forward, God's Agenda for your life becomes an issue: you want to know and learn to stay on, His Agenda. And you'll be able to prove it doctrinally, too. That's another parallel to how Christ Knew His Role. And had to know. So, also, do you: In advance. For, that is the Core Trial Issue #2 Test: do you keep on with God's Plan, despite what you know?

The Big Focus Change here is the recognition that God has an Agenda: my pastor's term for this is "a Personal Sense of Destiny", using the "hope" meaning in Greek as a "door" in 1 Corinthians 13:13. That began back when you first became a spiritual adult. Personal Sense of Destiny grows on you. For God's Love never coerces. You become gradually aware that you want more out of the relationship with Him, and the focus is steadily on what He wants. So in this segment of adulthood, the scope of that question morphs into what He wants for the rest of your entire life. It begins to matter that you are doing a lot of deciding about your life — and what if God has other ideas? You begin to want a "de novo review", if you know that legal term.

In the larger sense, your enlarged understanding of God's Script has produced the faculty of measuring your life in light of eternity, and you've a fair idea at this point what "eternity" will be like. So now you begin to wonder how what you're deciding 'today' fits in. You can't know, so — what does God want? So as you can see, your idea of "Relationship with God" has begun to be — Total. 100% Him, and zero everything else. You won't recognize that for a long time, and may even project onto Him some demand you obey. You become anal about it — that's your Love being demanding of you. Not God demanding of you. But it takes maybe years to catch onto that fact.

Meanwhile, your focus during this substage shifts from your own agenda, your past plans, your past orientation to life, and instead you focus up to what His Overall Plan is. It's a massive shift in values, and the hallmark behavioral change of this substage. Frankly, few Christians get this far. They're like Peter in Acts 1, dictating to God a set list of choices, and then God chooses 'second'. Not right. But here God's Choice becomes what you want to know, irrespective of your own choices. It's a struggle, for the self is being divorced. Love for God fights with the sin nature's self-preoccupation. Some people don't have much of a struggle here — the struggle comes later. Depends on how 'set' you are in your ways at the time you hit this stage. Basically, you are shifting from living for yourself by your own standards, to an unknown — living according to something God might want you to do with your life for the rest of your life.

You get another nice R&R period, here, to learn what His Agenda is. Once you know it, your R&R might end, for you always get tested on something you've learned. In any event, what could be called Paul's "thorn" eventually occurs. It's personally tailored to you, and usually starts out toned-down, escalating as time passes. The "thorn" keeps us stable — or, allows Satan to spin us out into his system permanently. In order to get the 'thorns', this "at home" substage is a prerequisite, so 'thorns' contain vital G-2 info about vulnerabilities within the Divine Standards' structure in your soul: you are also 'told' where in the spiritual growth spectrum you have stabilized. One is not yet fully mature, but one is no longer in his spiritual 20's, either. Therefore, one will be "childish" on some doctrinal topics, for example. In other words, the "thorn" is designed to catch you up, so to speak, so that you are mature on all doctrines, all applications (how you use "eaten" doctrine).

Caution: most Christians peel off, here, assuming they even get this far. You can't even imagine how desolating, how horrible is the resulting Divine Discipline. So hang in there! Or, if you fall out, get back! 1 John 1:9 aggressively! For, the "thorn" test is not just one test. It is a progressive thing, in more than one area, and the tests become successively more intense. You might pass an adversity version, only to be undone by the seductive-prosperity version. Again, the only way to survive is to live on Doctrine. 'Which, paradoxically, is the glory of continuing!

For these "thorns" mean God is essentially saying, "You don't need them removed! I've grown you to such an extent, you don't need relief! Instead, I'll use the thorn to flip the frustration into fulfillment! Pleromai!" So these 'thorns' are designed to make us happy — if we keep on with Doctrine. Here's why. Going through the 'thorns' strengthens your coordination. That's why you need their progressive intensity. You'll think you're failing all the time, but instead you're gaining skill at an accelerated pace, not merely learning more doctrinal principles. Thus, you gain more Doctrine-to-body independence from externals. The body is learning to obey Doctrine more than the other stimuli which hit it. As a result, your body is 'taught' independence from externals. That's why God doesn't remove the thorns: they're your best friends!

As the word "thorn" implies, it's personally tailored to you: so, the problem continues (with rest periods), it's bothersome, and it really 'gets' to you. Don't mistake "thorn" as solely being painful, and don't adjudge others' 'thorns' as somehow better or worse than yours — for, just as Christ is Unique, so each of us are. Prosperity brings its own kind of "thorn", and it's prosperity, not adversity, which is the harder "thorn" to tolerate. Adversities are generally for spiritual 'youngsters'. You're getting older now, at this stage; thus, like Christ, the "thorn" of what you can do, is the harder to live with. Further, as 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 explains, the purpose is to grow past the bothersomeness. Past the weakness. Past your cockiness, too, at being so spiritually grown, versus your contemporaries. Past all the obstacles which separate you from full rapport with your Husband. So, the tests you fail will get repeated, as is usual in God's Plan. 'To grow you up enough to pass them!

Glory Key → The glory of the spiritual life is to not need anything but Him: not need sleep, not need reciprocation from others, not need your wants — and above all, to learn your own "kenosis": to not need your own "can-do". Unlike Satan, you learn to not need your own abilities, your own righteousness. All you need is Him. "Fourth Reason for Invisibility" covers "kenosis" in more detail.

It is a truly fabulous way to 'get married' to the Lord, Who at this point is becoming the Center of your thoughts, 'taking up quarters', as Paul puts it (2 Corinthians 12:9, corrected translation of "dwell" — it's a military term, which few lexicons even recognize). Doctrine is so unimaginably powerful, His Thinking! — it brings you to this glorious independence, living beyond the limitations of one's own humanity, living on the power of His Thinking. 'With Him, even while hurting, humanly powerless. 'With Him, even when prosperous, humanly powerful. You're learning "how to be abased", and "how to abound". All this spiritual exercise escalates your confidence. For, you finally come to realize He just plain loves you! You finally come to realize you just plain love Him! 'Just because'!

Well, you won't realize all this until you are in Spiritual Maturity (next stage, below). But it actually begins happening, here. When you later look back, you'll see it. While you are in it, you only see that you are between and betwixt. Doctrine is your glasses, you fly on instruments.

Remember the "So, What?" Evidence Test in Part 2? Well, a precursor of that ultimate testing level, is now happening to you: all else is rapidly dwindling down to the "So, what" level, though it won't feel like much advance is going on, and you'll zigzag a lot. But the truth is: it's just a matter of 'bringing to completion' this Love, in you. Which God the Holy Spirit will keep on doing, with extreme tenderness. So the tests must keep coming, so to 'complete' us, even as Christ was completed. "Τέλειος", "complete/perfect/mature" is another Bible keyword, a synonym for "Πλήρωμα" (fullness). Look up all verses with these keywords, to help see how this paragraph is true.

If you are under my pastor, in his 1985 Ephesians series he classified seven types of "Momentum Tests" which you undergo during this stage. Later, he condensed the classifications to four: people testing, system testing, thought testing, disaster testing. As these names imply, the "agent" affects you, and you will be tempted to respond in kind. But test passage requires you learn to say "So, What" instead, since you are so busy looking at God, not the agent. Obviously the agents have no clue of being so used. In thought testing, you are both agent and target. That category gets harder and harder to handle, requiring more and more monitoring of your thought (i.e., to catch a sin and use 1 John 1:9, to catch a temptation and fire Bible at it á la Matthew 4:4).

Again, the big issue here is a Divorcing from the self and the world, replaced by a Marrying of God's Will for your life. You don't 'divorce' the world by going to a mountaintop or special 'community' of believers. It's a Thought Pattern Change: All Your Values Reverse. More fundamentally, the Thought Basis shifts from being world-based, to being God-based. Because this is a massive Trial shift (like a series of really fantastic touchdowns), you won't recognize that's what's happening for some while. Instead, you will be increasingly disoriented, not knowing that the Very Basis For All Your Values Is Being Replaced: God's Thoughts have so much built up in you, the 'weight' of them has begun to crack the very foundation of your 'normal' human thinking, which by nature is to-the-ground, this-world-oriented. His Thinking has been growing and chipping away at other areas, on the phalanxes, toward the 'center' of your human mindset. And now the center is breaking. Your own Waterloo.

Think of the Hurricane Katrina victims who lost everything they had. They were totally disoriented, then became angry, then became withdrawn or resentful or resigned. In this stage, all that will occur. But something else happens which is even more devastating: you don't care anymore. It's an active motive, a reversal of former interests and values. If you used to be a photo buff, you'll suddenly lose interest in all that stuff you acquired. It plays like depression, but isn't. Very easy to mistake. It plays like iconoclasm, but isn't. Very easy to be tipped over (Matthew 4's Second Temptation) into depression or iconoclasm. Very easy to mistake: for the truth is, your values have changed because God is so much more important, everything else is rapidly becoming that "So, What?" Evidence.

Given the zig-zag conflicts which characterize this stage, it seems like other issues are really playing (like whether you are obeying Him or not), but there's only this one, about preferring Him — you are nearing Occupation with Christ, the hallmark of Spiritual Maturity. So the other apparent issues are surface; just decoys, or of much lower relevance. For if Satan & Co. can't steal you away, you'll end up marrying Him in your thinking, and it will be almost impossible to win you back. Again, it's never been about sin, because Christ paid for sin. It's only therefore about Love, since it's God's Love which is On Trial. And now, so are you: because here, you come to Love Him. Or, you'll divorce Him in your mind and run after the tinsel Satan & Co. sell. Most, do the latter. Can't lose salvation: can lose the promise of a lifetime — total rapport with Christ.

You'll notice I'm merely sketching vicissitudes. Specific thoughts, specific ways to live on Bible, all these are of your own crafting, before the Lord: He is the Precedence, and He invented the spiritual life out from what was the Law. So Now His Law is individualized. You have a Script, a Teacher, and a System. What you do with it, is up to you. You are unique. How someone else handles the same pressures or circumstances or temptations is utterly irrelevant. God chose you from before the foundation of the world. You. It's as if there were no one else on the planet. As you near Occupation with Christ you will come to know this, and it will shock you. For God is Infinite, which is truly a hupostasis, a dot-like Infinite Quality. As my pastor sometimes reads to us (quoting someone else), the 'whole' of God is in every dot. Well, you are a dot. Uniquely. Other dots don't matter: frankly, they get the same relationship you do, and in each one, it's as if they were the only person on the planet, since the 'whole' of God is in every 'dot'. Because, Infinity is not diminished by a plurality of objects. (A fact which the Westminster Creed, Catholic Unicity and Koranic definitions of 'oneness' fail to comprehend.) So it's only God, and only you in the relationship. Each relationship.

So the spiritual goal is, to get to the point where you are in Him in your own thinking, the way He is Infinitely In You, Colossians 1:27.

So this precursor phase of divorcing (cutting out) and marrying (grafting in) is how God does things. So now that's happening in you — you are cutting out the world and your own ideas of life, and grafting in a preference for God's ideas for life. That's why it's so traumatic. For when you begin to love Someone, that Someone's Ideas matter more, than your own. So look how God shows His Love: Cain who hated God, was cut out; but Seth who wanted God, was grafted in; Ishmael who rejected God, was cut out, but Isaac who wanted God, was grafted in; Esau who said no to God, was cut out, but Jacob who said yes, was grafted in. Levi who rejected God at Shechem, was cut out, but Aaron who said yes, was grafted in. Now notice: then Levi was grafted to Aaron due to Moses, who refused to be God's Mouthpiece to Pharaoh. And on and on, with the last cutting out being Solomon's line, and Nathan grafted in, such that Messiah — who is due to David, Israel having been cut off and grafted only through David — such that Messiah could be born to graft in the world, 2 Samuel 7:13ff. Even DNA works the same way, splitting before it replicates. So too, it went with Israel: the two walls of Ephesians 2. We are sibling to her. She was cut off, as Paul explains in Romans 11 — yet grafted in, since any Jew who believes in Christ is automatically part of Church, even as we were grafted in due to her Jewish Messiah (big tweaking point Paul makes in Romans 9, Romans 11).

So we all should have been cut off, unsaved. But by cutting out and then grafting in, Christ Himself saves everyone.

See, It's based in Him. Here, your Foundational Viewpoints are Switching Over, and you are doing the same cutting out and grafting in. God is no longer on the outside of your life, anymore. You are switching bases from your former world-based thinking to solely Christ-based thinking. Cutting out the world from your preferences, and grafting in Him in Whom you were grafted on the Cross, theme of Romans 6 and Romans 11. So now you come full circle, and what happened to Him on the Cross before you were even born, is now happening to you "in Him". God likes circles: subjective and objective genitive, plenary!

This earthquake-like divorcing has already been going on since you first entered the spiritual life, and it ramped up markedly when you hit spiritual adulthood. But now it is coalescing via first separating, just like DNA does when it's ready to replicate like rabbits. First, the DNA 'staircase' splits. That's what's happening to you. Latin quip "non possum vivere tecum nec sine te" (I can't live with you, nor without you) is pretty apt, here.

Key to success here: keep on thinking toward Him as a 'conversation'. Toward Father. It's supposed to be communion 24/7, eventually. So you won't survive this phase unless that 'conversation' keeps going. But if it does keep going, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. (AKA prayer, but in the broader sense like David and Christ and Moses used it.)


Spiritual Maturity, AKA Pleroma Phase

In Flow Chart of Spiritual Maturity, AKA "Pleroma", notice how all the blocks get filled up and go from grass green, to Combat Olive — which becomes Peace Olive, if you complete the maturation "course", AKA "endure to the end". See 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Matthew 10:22, Matthew 24:13, James 1:12 (see also James 5:11 for definition), Hebrews 10:36 (in context of Hebrews 4:1, Hebrews 11:1). It isn't salvation that can be lost, but delivery of your kingdom. There are many "saves" after salvation to complete. At this point, you've been brought through all but the last one, the saving of your soul from thinking about anything or anyone but Him. This stage can take a decade or more, to complete. You usually die soon afterwards.

The biggest salvation atop the salvation which places you in heaven forever — is to be saved from having a human viewpoint of life, and thus miss out on seeing Christ while in this puny body. Only seeing Christ will make you happy, both now and forever. It's a big lie that being a good person, matters. So what if you are a good person? Christ is perfect, and what did He do with that? Spend it on Father! In short, rather than waste His Time preening over how good He is, He can choose what's more enjoyable, and spend His Time looking at Our Mutual Dad. Which is more enjoyable, to stare at self in the mirror, whoopee — or look at God? No contest! So: can't you spend being any kind of person on Father? God will make good on you, so you don't have to worry about it. Thus go the rationales of the Spiritually Mature Person God has made you become, at this stage. It's a happiness and freedom from the unbelievable waste-of-time sin nature, which forever focuses on itself, in a dungeon of hallucinated merit. Focus on self is a waste of your time. You could be looking at God, instead!

You'll learn that fact the hard way by flunking the spiritual life, or the easy way by growing up to this stage. For you will see Him if you make it this far, just as Paul testifies in Ephesians 3:15-19. Your maturation in Christ completes here — via combat. For if you complete this stage, you will indeed be "one" with Him in your thinking. That's the goal of the spiritual life. At the beginning of Maturity, you have successfully weathered the two hurdles of comfort due to becoming a spiritual adult and having certainty about Bible; of the pre-Maturity Trial Witness Justification. Lots of people before you flunked. You are now in the rarest group of humans in history, and are famous for even getting here, in the record books of heaven. But the fat lady hasn't sung yet. So what happens next, is a childbearing test, essentially. Do you, as Christ did, 'birth' the same kind of thinking While In Labor, Isaiah 53:11? For your job as King forever under The King, will be to bear children who think like Him, among your own allotment of believers who flunked the spiritual life. So you complete the Pleroma substage, if Christ 'wins out' in importance — under maximum pressure, your own series of 'crosses'. So this consummates the marriage to Christ, in your head.

So the truth is, sin isn't the issue, happiness is the issue. Being good or bad, sinning or not, anything other than seeing Him is unattractive, a waste of your time. But you don't know all that, until you have completed Spiritual Adulthood 2 or nearly — because you didn't have enough Bible in your head functioning, to realize what it all meant. "Christ in you, the Confidence of Glory" is a real statement of happiness, in Colossians 1:27. Sure, that verse is in context of winning in the Trial, but the larger meaning is the Glory of seeing Him, itself. Nothing compares to it. So of course along the way, you shed sin habits and false ideas about human good, etc. But the real story is seeing Him instead of everything else. Because everything else, is anticlimactic, a waste of your time. Here in Spiritual Maturity, you've come to that happy place, Hebrews 12:2. Worth it!

Notice the enormous maturation which has occurred; the divorcing results from Spiritual Adulthood have filled up with Him as the Replacing Apodosis in all things, in your mind. That's the goal of our Royally-Invisible Spiritual Life, for then Like-Mindness is Total. Without Like-Mindedness, 'performance' is irrelevant. And God alone can make this Like-Mindedness, so God Alone can make it 'perform'! Hence testing this Replacement Intimacy with Your King has yet to complete, for all prior testing was to see if you'd choose Him. But you did. So the πλάσσω structure completed, and now its tandem δικαιόω structure has completed, but not the δικαιόω function. For until you chose Your Husband, you couldn't exactly have "intimate relations" with Him and thus go into labor. Historically speaking, you've just entered the same rare stratosphere as Paul and the apostles in their last stage of life. Again, this is the Divine Design for all of us, but over 99.9% of us don't want to know God, so don't grow in the Design. When push came to shove, the Christian only chooses to mouth "Jesus", and wants the form of marriage, its status — but not, its intimacy. So now you're in the Spiritual Olympics, as Paul likes to put it. Everyone else you likely know, was disqualified. So you feel quite alone, and are one of the weirdest birds on this planet. Philippians 2:5-10 will be important to remember, in this stage.

  1. Notice how, of the five contractural action infinitives which happened to Christ on the Cross per Isaiah 53:10-11 — you're solidly in the justifying one, "δικαιόω": it's now cross-hatched to show it's functioning on all cylinders. Here, the Justification is to exhibit why you are Just Evidence for the Prosecution in the Trial. For if you complete this stage you get crowned, pattern of 2 Timothy 4:7-8, James 1:12, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10. Tests are personalized based on your own ideas of worst nightmares, and dreams come true which you had to forego, prior — here you get them all, at once and in successively-bigger 'doses'.

Abram's big stumbling point in maturation was that he wanted a son. Moses', that he wanted to avoid confrontation. So here's the Test: Abraham finally gets that son after he's been sexually dead — and then, 20+ years later, must kill him. Moses, who actually had the power to free Israel as the next Pharaoh, is supposed to throw that away, in favor of isolation; then, after he's learned to love isolation, he's ordered to go back and do what he hates most: confront the new Pharaoh. Worse, he's now to free Israel, something he had to refuse, 40 years prior. Worse, he now gets the most confrontational group of nitwits ever to grace this planet, the Exodus generation — and when he finally loves that confrontation, God retires him.

See the irony God constantly employs? Embrace what you don't want, but eschew what you do want, and when you finally do that, the thing you learned to eschew, you get — the thing you learned to embrace, is taken from you. True Twilight Zone. All the while, the person is voting that God's ideas alone make sense. Even when they don't make sense. That's a Love Testimony. Accordingly, Matthew 4's temptations are all based on God's Ideas Making No Sense: not feeding the poor, not being flashy, not defeating Satan. But the Lord preferred Father's ideas, just the same. So will you.

  1. So note there's no other verb: δικαιόω is complete, so its block is cross-hatched, functioning to complete all the other (cross-hatched) blocks. It's a demonstration of completeness which already occurred before you got here. The demonstration is extremely intense, so again the fat lady hasn't sung yet. You can't afford to be complacent or cocky, even though you are in this class, the rarest of individuals in all human history. Alexander the Great is nothing, compared to you. But knowing how high you are, is really of no consequence — that's Trial Evidence — what matters to you, is knowing Christ, and like Paul said, the fellowship of His Sufferings, Philippians 3:10.
  2. For now you want Him to be glorified in your body, Philippians 1:20, bearing Him children in His House. The 'baggage' from your old life means nothing to you, but once upon a time it mattered — so all that 'baggage' comes back into your life, in a successive series of ironic Testings: this, to show everything in your thinking is replaced with God's Apodoses. Also, to demonstrate Operation Footstool, your complete reversal from how you thought as a spiritual child. Also, to show how everything you used to want, God wanted to give you more — but you had to be grown up, first.

Again, Abraham only wanted one son. Was that too much to ask? No, it was too little. God wanted a universe of sons. So after Abraham passes the Test of being willing to kill the one son he longed for — solely because God said so, even though it made no sense, morally — now Abraham is mature enough to withstand the prosperity of being a kind of father of our salvation, blood-wise. For The Son would be coming from his loins. Paul makes no end of witty parallels with this, throughout his letters (i.e., Romans 4). Same kind of no-sense-obedience is demonstrated in all the Bible greats, especially Christ. So for you, here all the old desires which got conquered by Christ in your heart and soul and mind, get fulfilled. For now they are 'under' Him in value, and that will be demonstrated during the Pleroma phase, just as it was demonstrated with Job, Abraham, David, Moses, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel — and most of all, with Christ Himself.

As a consequence, the Testing here plays in two ways: 1) you get all those erstwhile-desired things, and 2) they all are later taken away. That test pattern is the same, since Adam. But here in Church, it's a 100% exclusivity-of-Christ exhibition: that He alone matters with or without, anything else. A King must be Trained In Having. So therefore, must you.

  1. Accordingly, God now focuses on justifying your function (δικαιόω), while still purifying, taking away, enlightening, sculpting and structurally-perfecting you (καθαρίζω, ἀφαιρέω, δείκνυμι, πλάσσω, δικαιόω), still replacing the old — this time, with Christ Himself. It's not that you stop sinning. It's that your thinking is the same level as Christ's, the Ephesians 4:13 level. For Christ became your life, and you think like Him from here on out. Same playing field, not the same scope; same kinds of motives and thoughts as He had, you will have. You see Him in everything, and don't want to be seeing, anything or anyone else: that is your dream come true, and it comes true, here. Your reason for wanting to live, to see Him — so you do. Your reciprocation motive is to emulate Him — so you do. God makes you competent at getting rid of the competition. Again, you don't stop sinning, you stop wanting anything but Him, even when normal human deprivations assail you. The true fruit of Abiding Desire to see Only Him — completes. True fruit-bearing is an attitude of wanting to see only Him, and everything else is a "so, what?" in your mind. That was the Trial testimony from Adam forward, demonstrated by Abraham's willingness to sacrifice even his own son, because he saw Him; by Moses leaving Egypt. Hebrews 11 explains that attitude, not works, is true Trial Testimony which glorifies God. And now it's your live testimony, too. You won't recognize this perhaps for a while. (Not everyone in Evidence Testing knows it until sometime after being in the Pleroma end of Maturity.)
  1. Here the bi-directional pointer indicates Coalescing Occupation with Christ, a Love Focus energizing all the maturation blocks, by means of the infinitives. Because, you've learned the relationship which is the purpose of the spiritual life, Colossians 1:27, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4:13. So now it's time to show off your Viewpoint, your Attitude, and Focus: Love Rapport with Your Groom. God does this showing off: to you, to Satan & Co. At your end, you're constantly thinking you don't love Him enough. But look how your thinking gets upgraded:
  1. Again, the Holy Spirit causes the maturation blocks to feed back to the infinitives, for the process is circular. Here, its 'sphere' deepens and widens to the Fullness of Pleroma. You seem unstable, lots of zigzagging, but actually you're being punched all the time, 2 Corinthians 4:7-10, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 — it's really a demonstration that the much-higher tests don't knock down your Occupation with Christ. You experience deprivations which go against normal, God-given human desires.

Yet notice the circularity and depth: the Love is so total, even what makes no sense, even what deprives, doesn't stop the love for God, end Romans 8.

  1. Thus each infinitival action, enlarges in a completing fashion. So you grow exponentially Complete in coalesced intimate understanding — of Him. Growth here is beyond traumatic, analogous to staying in love despite Your Loved One, slaying you. It's a true dying to everything else in life.

This fact shows up starkly in Matthew 4. All Satan's temptations are moral, and on moral grounds. Think over the following bullets carefully, using 1 John 1:9 as you do it.

But notice:

Test Passing Key: You have to choose as Christ did in Matthew 4, here in the Pleroma stage. In a way, that's always been the test since spiritual childhood:

All these tests have been going on in your life, and you didn't know that's what they were. You thought you were bad, you were bad, and yeah you got spanked. But the larger purpose was for this goal, here in Pleroma. To choose God — specifically, Christ — over all else in life. Even, over all other moral things in life. Even, when God seems to be treating you immorally. Just as, in preparation for the Cross.

The Incarnation? Not him!
No glamor,
Will we see;
No Worthy Sight
Will we esteem of him.

  1. Pointer placement tells you the goal of the stage: here, it's a sculpting of Love Function, δικαιόω. This time, Love for Christ Himself, justifies anything so far as you are concerned, the "ἐμοί" keyword in Philippians 1:21. Subjective and then objective genitival meanings in "Love of/for God", Ephesians 3:15-19. Love circle. Demonstrated as Complete, Inviolate. We are here to be completed in God's Love, which also completes the Trial, 1 John 4:17. "Love" is a moniker for His Thinking both there and in Romans 5:5, throughout 1 Corinthians 13. Idea that when Canon got completed, so God's Love Demonstration in the Trial would be completed in Church. And at this stage, you are Witness to that Completion, which occurs in you.
  1. For there is one infinitive "on point", through which all the others "run". So here emphasis now is on the Justification-of-Love Completion side, δικαιόω. Justification for Living being Him. Just Him. How that's better than Satan's, the world's, and all other alternatives even God Himself could design. You go through ever-higher testing cycles during Pleroma. Each one demonstrates it's Just Him, a beyond-human Love: God's Own.
  1. So here in Spiritual Maturity, Fulfilling and Glorifying your Love for Christ in your body is the major goal of the stage, Philippians 1:20-21, Ephesians 3:19. Notice how justifying is emphasized in those verses, pointing to the δικαιόω purpose, a birthing goal, emphasizing His House is Fruitful in you and you in Him, surpassing all else in your life. Clearly all the works in history, however noble can't even begin to produce one dot toward that goal. It's wholly Divine, produced solely by the Holy Spirit in you, fulfilling Ephesians 2:10. So you are now, Fit Bride. Demonstrably.
  1. So your Love Alphabet's A-for-Archegos, got a "B", Bride. And you married Him. And you became Conductive, Developed. And now, Progeny-Fruitful, Fulfilled. That's the spousal thing to be, Colossians 1:27. Be, not do. Brides get done-to, and the 'job' of a Bride is to be something, not do something. Be — compatible, companion. Again, all the works on the planet from the Fall until eternity can't add one dot toward that goal. It's a transformation, not a toil.
  2. So all this happens now in your head, coalescing leaping growth in groups of whopping chapters. Precept upon precept, knitting together whole books of all that disparate Bible you'd been learning. Traumatically, slowly; traumatically, quickly. You question within this new-found intimacy with Him, and you know His answers in mammoth detail, almost immediately. Like a pregnant woman, you are flattened by this knowledge growth within you, even crushed by it, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; and you wait for your deliverance, pattern of Psalm 22 — which He shouted on the Cross, Matthew 27:46.
  3. So now you're functioning in the all the letters of God's Love Alphabet: "A" for Archegos, "B" for His "Bride" — now your vested Destiny, when the stage ends with that deliverance. So, you're Conductive, Developed. As a result, you derive Eternal Fulfillment Growth in Glory for your Happy Husband, as you now Intimately have His Impossibly Integrated, Integrity-Love. You are now one of the "great ones" in Isaiah 53:12's wa-et atsumim yehalleq shalal. For you yourself are the fruit, the booty now capable of bearing fruit just like you, your children for eternity, a whole kingdom of them — all due to what you became in Him, never from what you did yourself. Sheep are not work animals or mere beasts of burden. Neither are you.

So during Spiritual Maturity, the goal of the Royally Invisible Spiritual Life is finalized: one coalesces into mature Occupation with Christ. Bible has a number of ways to express this stage and its result. Here's a quick sampler:

In the Bible, keyword "pleroma" as a maturation level means

So in literal function, Pleroma thus means

As you'll see more below within the benchmark descriptions, the believer's entire operating system of thinking has upgraded. When we were spiritual children, our ideas of Bible, God, salvation — and our motives for obedience — were of this world, childlike, material, do's based, and selfish. What we get, what we do, what we think, how we compare to others. The words in Bible sound nice, but we've no clue what they mean. Instead of studying Bible to learn its own definitions, we childishly superimpose on Bible, our own baby ideas of the Word's meaning. However, if one undergoes extensive study of Bible for itself, it will gradually disabuse the student of these false and worldly ideas, supplanting them with God's Own, as Bible defines itself. Hence, maturity progresses; and as it does, one grows past these narrow and puerile ideas, coming instead to see God Himself. One thus comes to prefer to look at God, eventually to the exclusion of all else in one's life. That Exclusivity Viewpoint is the hallmark attitudinal characteristic of the believer in the Pleroma stage of Spiritual Maturity, Philippians 1:21.

A virtuous king thinks big. His own person is redefined as the office he holds; his status is but the means to carry out what's best for his kingdom. By contrast, a peasant thinks small. All his concerns are about himself, his status, his looks, his promotions in the eyes of others — the larger issues of world welfare do not concern him, and he rather belittles as 'pretentious', anyone who doesn't share his own petty prejudices and ignorance. Same analogy as the difference between a parent, and a child. Christ thinks Big. That's His Job. Yours too, if you'll intimately grow up in Him.

My pastor likes to explain the Strategic Importance of this stage as follows:

Structural maturation in focus, occurs to the extent that "He" replaces "me" as the meaning for living, the Object in one's thinking. It's analogous to how even human psychological maturation (i.e., the ability to love) occurs to the extent that the individual stops being self-focused, and starts being other-focused in his values. A person who perpetually defines everything in terms of himself never grows up, since self-focus is the essence of childhood. Example: a child will learn something and pride himself on being a good person for having learned it; he really doesn't understand the content, but has basically memorized it, can parrot it. By contrast, a mature adult will learn something and be focused on the content of what he learned, admiring it, rather than himself. Since Christianity largely prides itself on how much Bible it claims to know, its Bible grasp is almost nil, since it deems the value of learning, to make the self 'good'. That's how a child reasons, so that's all a child understands. That's why Christian theology has remained ignorant and childish, all these centuries. That we don't know His Birth and Death dates despite Luke 1:26 and John 19, that we still call His Crucifixion "Good Friday" despite John 19 and Matthew 12:40-41 + Matthew 28:1, shows our incredibly puerile theological retardation. For humans make a stink about their birth and death dates — but we have zero respect for what the Bible says, about His. Pathetic. It's awesomely embarrassing, how easy they are to prove.

Of course, to become God-focused requires God's power, and no amount of human maturation can accomplish it. For human maturation, is in human things. But spiritual maturation is in spiritual things, theme of Galatians 5 and Romans 8. So one must obtain the spiritual thinking of God Who is Spirit (ibid + John 4:23-24, 1 Corinthians 2). Moreover, that means spiritual information about God must have coalesced to the point that the individual can focus on God, because he has come to know God via Bible in God's System. Absent a progressive and replacing focus on God, the believer will not progress to Spiritual Adulthood; and his ideas of Bible, God and the spiritual life will remain trapped in human concepts of works, ritual, feeling and magic — all of which intensify self-focus, rather than maturation.

For this reason, interest in God becomes the propellant for spiritual growth, even though that interest of itself, is impotent. Love never coerces. If the individual is interested in knowing God, God will provide the ability to understand Bible via the Spirit in His System. It takes years of study, but to the individual interested in God, study is a desirable thing, not a preening device or a chore. Hence the spiritual growth to Occupation with Christ is likewise desired, not a status to be obtained in order to call oneself good. Better things have come: seeing Him, forget all about whether one is good — one's goodness, after all, was purchased on the Cross 2000 years ago, 2 Corinthians 5:21. So the development of Occupation with Christ, is a maturation in Divine Love solely by means of Divine Power.

Nothing is impossible for God Who Wants To See His Son Everywhere He Looks. So you have to be made into a reflection of Him. You could call it a kind of cloning of His Thinking. That's God's objective for the believer's life. Any "Christlike" 'performance' God Wants, can only come from The Same Thinking Being There, First. You can't do like Christ, until you think like Christ. Which Thinking you can't even know until Bible is as natural to your soul, as breathing. Which, only the Holy Spirit can deposit in you, Romans 5:5.

Ok, next suppose you were in this stage. What would you be like? Well, you are in only one world, now: His. You're a One-Note Person. All items, people you see with your human nature, have been completely redefined as expressions of Him. Just Him. If you watch a movie, stuff in the movie will remind you of stuff about Him or Bible. If you brush your teeth your thoughts 'go' toward Father, about His Son, or you ponder something in Bible, glad for the time spent on your teeth, to think about it. If you are laid up in hospital you spend time analogizing your suffering to the Cross, taking advantage of the pain to learn more about what it was like for Him. In short, you are besotted. Everything reminds you of Him in some way, and your thoughts keep "abiding" there.

So people will unexpectedly tell you that doggone it, you see everything in terms of Bible. For you do; it's so natural for you to do that, you don't even think about how others might hear the parallels you draw. Christ thinks that way — everything expresses Scripture — so you see Him talk that way all the time in the Gospels; so too Paul, Moses, David. It's now innate for you to think that way, as well. The world view you once had, is gone. To hear others have the former view, sounds alien. Total reverse, from spiritual childhood. So of course you also sound alien, to them. They will mistake your focus for religosity or even pushiness to make them believe. So you learn not to talk, to guard your words. You are as boring to them, as the proverbial wife who only and forever talks about how great is her husband. For He is yours, and male or female, your attitude toward Him is like that wife's. Everything fascinates you now, because it all depicts Him, and if you don't guard your words you'll gush or bore them. Not good.

For the switchover to Occupation with Christ is the behavioral change of your life, literally eclipsing all other loves. He is the total motive for your existence, then. If you had "Spiritual Self-Esteem" AKA "Cognitive Self-Confidence" and "Spiritual Autonomy" in Spiritual Adulthood, now you have "Cognitive Invincibility" in Spiritual Maturity. In short, you no longer merely believe Bible is from God, you know it is, you know what it says (always more to learn, of course) and you live on it, day and night — here, to keep seeing Him and know His Will, just flat 'be together'. It's about Togetherness, never religion, in God's Plan. (Quoted terms are my pastor's, used in the 1985 Ephesians and 1992 Spiritual Dynamics series.) You live on 1 John's Script 24/7, even when dreaming during sleep. Temptations are higher than ever, but sin is occasional — and has far worse consequences, if 1 John 1:9 goes unused. We're mature adults, now. Don't expect the spankings of childhood, to alert you. Here are the seven benchmarks. Notice how they all seem to be on the same topics; so unlike in earlier stages, you now can't easily tell 1 though 7 apart. For they all merge, here.

  1. Consuming Bible. You consume Bible now to know Him better, and you're doing it 24/7, whether in Bible class or not. Bible is always on your mind, because it is His Thinking, and you can't get enough. Everything you've ever learned and now learn about Him burgeons, coalesces, melds, merges, and the resulting communion in Him is truly beyond description. Paul isn't kidding in Ephesians 3:19-21 — those verses literally come true and you experience them, 24/7. True communion is a constant knowing, not a feeling; it's a status quo in all circumstances, bad or good, kinda like breathing. Togetherness, flat. Feeling long since became recognized for what it is: puny body reaction to stimuli. Not even worth your time. Getting control over the knowing and the feeling reaction is a major problem, given the vastness of the increase in knowing God. Dream come true. Body can't deal with it. True riches, have arrived. My pastor likes to describe this as you receiving the "spiritual blessing" portion of your "portfolio of invisible assets" in a "down payment".

Paradoxically, it's so big that all other pressures you will ever face are no longer effective — except because they are so low by comparison. Instead, it's the Knowing in the context of the other pressures, not the pressures themselves, which makes life difficult. So that's why Pleroma is a longish phase — gotta learn how to have these true riches of knowing Him in such abundance. For everything else is dead, slow, low, by comparison. It's like the rest of the world lives in slow motion, a tape recorded at 1 7/8ths which is played at half-speed. Like having to live in close quarters with a willfully-stupid person. Very hard to live in the world which is too small, too slow — compared to knowing and seeing Him spiritually. So you keep consuming Bible, redefining all your earthly experience in Bible terms — just to get through it.

How Christ survived being so high among us puny humans, is almost impossible to understand. Imagine being a genius living among small-minded folk. Imagine being a devotee of Gibbon, or physics — but your companions with whom you must live and work, are only interested in what they ate for dinner or who they dated. Imagine being a clean modern person, suddenly thrust into the bathe-once-a-year, slobber-over-your-food, Middle Ages. It's intolerable! But you come to understand what it was like for Him, because now the same incompatibility-with-the-world, happens to you. You have to live on Bible, to survive the day.

So, God gives it all to you, in unending scope and depth. Anything you want to know about God you can know, and both the vastness and speed of comprehension, is overwhelming. That's the pressure, and of course that's #2 in the Trial Core Issues, do you want God despite what you know. Christ had to know sin — despite being sinless, so the knowledge He got was total and horrible beyond description — so the test was, would He still want God? Same (smaller-scale version) idea, here.

  1. Spiritual Skills. These are now fused; you live on all the 10 Thinking Skills. As a child you had been confused, easily conned by the world's many chippie substitutes for spirituality. But now the "con" of this world has left you; so with and in Him you are fused, instead. One-in-thinking. So 1 John 1:9 is always online and handy, as instinctive as your next breath. So you are almost constantly filled with the Spirit. Doctrine is all-comprehensive, firing all the time, and it's truly abnormal if you have a thought which isn't related to Bible. It's actually disconcerting to think in any other terms. Again, this stage is the opposite of spiritual childhood. Back then, remembering 1 John 1:9 was something you only did if you got spanked, or your pastor reminded you to do it prior to beginning Bible class that night. Back then, you could barely spell "salvation", let alone know what it means. Back then, you were full of the world in your eyes, and everything about being saved had this distinctly material definition of having no more pain, being finally comfortable, having loved ones around you, etc. But here in Spiritual Maturity, the world is the last thing on your mind. For you are in all the Rooms of His House, Abiding Function is almost Total, and that Abiding Desire, consumes you. The Abiding Development, while yet to experience its τέλειος completion, can. The Abiding Plunder is vast, you're receiving all the on-earth portion now, it's overwhelming, the riches of knowing Him. The Abiding Victory you've yet to taste, but you see Him — it will happen, in good time. Most of all, you live in the "rooms" of Abiding Intimacy and Compatibility. You moved into them as your primary rooms sometime soon after you left Spiritual Adulthood behind. And you really don't want to be, anywhere else. For when you were a child, your new house was both small and empty, equipped only with a table, some chairs, and a cot. Now you live in a sumptuous mansion, greater than any you can find in the travel movies or international for-sale listings. All those vaunted castles and chateaus mean nothing to you. You have a better domicile: His.

The hallmark signature of graduation from Spiritual Adulthood is that these thinking skills merge into "Occupation with Christ", as my pastor likes to put it. He becomes your base, built atop 1 John 1:9, being filled with the Spirit, basic promises and Bible reasoning; then came the GODO team, who coalesced all your understanding into a relaxation which gave rise to Spiritual Adulthood's characteristic Personal Sense of Destiny. Back then, your Personal Sense of Destiny became a burning desire to know God for Himself, so you progressed into a motive and function of seeing Bible in terms of Love for Father, and all the earlier thinking skills ended up serving the Love-for-Father purpose. From there, you became happy from seeing God, and your need to derive happiness from circumstances, diminished and dwindled to almost nothing, despite the successive "momentum testing" (my pastor's term) which characterized your graduation from Spiritual Adulthood — to where you are now, here in Spiritual Maturity.

But that's all a base now. In fact, your base is now Occupation with Christ, and every thinking skill groups 'under' Him in some way. Indeed, every thought you think relates to Him consciously and directly in some way. "Unto the Lord" is no longer a nice Bible refrain people mouth but never understand. For you, that's your every waking moment, and even now in your dreams. So now all the thinking skills have merged into Just Him. So by analogy, if you were able to fire a rifle in your sleep, now you can deploy a whole army, complete with Keil und Kessel. For it never happens anymore that only one set of doctrines or verses come to mind: oh no. Now, battalions of them do. You're giving up ballet and the piano in favor of combat, because of His Combat. In short, the Focus of Christ Himself has taken hold in you. Everything else, so what? You still screw up. You're just reborn for the Fourth time — to Pleroma. For here, you're Growing Up In The Marriage.

My pastor likes to say you grow up three times in life: physically, mentally, and in the intimate partnership of marriage. Well here, it's similar: you're first born spiritually, then born into adulthood, and now born into Intimacy with Your Eternal Husband, be you male or female. So it's the Fourth Growing Up, if you lumped all your pre-salvation growing up as the first one. So your spiritual skills have morphed to become intimate-marital and martially-oriented in content, focus, and nature. For that's what Greek verb "μένω" means: marital intimacy homey-ness, and martially-adept honor.

  1. Thought Pattern. 1 Corinthians 13:13's "Love" is your thinking. Growing in scope and competence. All directed, toward Him. So far as you're concerned, you've already died and gone to heaven, even while still in this body. Analogous to, how He as God Came Down and took on a Human Body. And the last place you wanna be, is down here. Once this place seemed fascinating. Now, it's past. Not present. Something you have to keep wearing, like old clothes. So this place is alien, a post you're in, and happy to get whatever He wants to send you. Your body, of course, is deaf to the spiritual life, as indeed it always was. So as a spiritual child, you took your feelings seriously, as if they represented some truth. Now, you laugh. You know better. So the body keeps on its pooping 💩 urges, and you've learned how to live with that — kinda like living with a disease that will never kill you, but will always goad you. Been there, done that, move on, Philippians 3:14.

So living on knowing Him is alone how you function; everything else is anticlimactic, now. So it no longer matters what circumstances you get: the good ones are too boring, and the bad ones are too annoying. Actually, the bad ones are better. And you'll get them the most, here (usually, piled up in cycles, with enough prosperity to keep you disoriented).

You are one weird bird in this stage. Normal human motives are to get good. Normal humanity needs things to be good, and everything in human nature is about improving what you got, to get better. But you, oh! You are "he-heli", lovesick, Hebrew term in Isaiah 53:10. You need it bad. You need bad, not good. Christ needed the Cross as an Outlet for His "he-heli" Love. Now, so do you. Antithesis of what a normal human should want; antithesis of what a normal human should be able to take, antithesis of life as we know it. Seems masochistic. But Love is so Big now, it desperately needs a SuperHuman outlet. Christ said He longed for the Cross, in Luke 22:15. That "longing", well — um, you better look up meaning #2 in Bauer, Danker lexicon for ἐπιθυμέω, as it takes the accusative in that verse. So you need it bad, and you need it to be bad. Smitten but smart about it, that's you in your thought pattern.

  1. Relationship to God. This Focus on Him is a totality, a constant, a new base of operations (not really new, but perhaps newly-recognized for what it is). Him. Personally. Intimately. No goofball stuff. Rather, Honor is the closest word which can be used. Utter, total, Honor. And oh, your body can't take that! It's an Absolute Attitude but is inside a body which survives only on limits, so the divergence between your puny body and the Absolute Standard of Love, is intolerable. Love is not emotion: emotions are in the body, and they are all wacko, and you just learn to ignore them. Same, with circumstances. Love is not a rah-rah, strumming-harps thing. If anything feely can be said about this stage, the feeling is "trauma". For you are ever traumatized by the fact you can't meet this Standard, and everything else doesn't, either. For the trauma is the gigantic differential between the Word Whom you know, and anything else. In short, "Relationship to God" is total. You're not competent to deal with it, but it's an Absolute Attitude in you, just the same. Every thought you think references the Relationship. You might become anal about whether "God wants" you to eat fruit or Cheetos, here. For 2 Corinthians 10:5 is your all-consuming passion. Religion long since "left the building", so the motive here is love, not me-be-good garbage. What He wants is the Total Arbiter of your decision making, so you want to know What He Thinks about even the most menial topics, like what you eat or wear. So you pick what's both tasty and most nutritious, since that's the most like Bible. So you pick what's most attractive and Royally-honorable in light of who will see your clothing (so as not to embarrass or impress them) — since that's the most like Bible. See how intelligently besotted one becomes?!
  1. Love Growth. The Trial is about Love, which by nature is a Unity, since God's Undivided: so Love is Righteousness is Truth is Justice is Omniscience is Omnipotence, etc. God's Love is on Trial, so you are therefore simultaneously growing very strong in His Love; yet, weak and needing Him more than ever. Doesn't matter anymore what your circumstances are. You've lost pretty much all attraction to this world. Your human nature is adrift, since even it can't maintain the attachments. So you are sometimes very disoriented. Your attitudes are pretty much the reverse of spiritual childhood. God used to be a mystery to you; now you know Him better than you know yourself; people used to be a mystery or a snare to you; now, you don't need them. Bible used to be a collection of words in a book which put you to sleep; now, it's your living thought pattern. The world used to be an exciting place, and how you looked or acted and what status you had was important; politics and world affairs and its actors seemed to be the movement and shaking of history; now, well — what do I have to pay attention to? Above all, the former nervousness and naive attitude which hallmarks spiritual childhood, is way past gone. You instead think like Paul does, in Philippians, viewing your life down here or in heaven in terms of stages of being in Him.

Seriously: He alone matters. Philippians 1:21 is really your life, in this stage. Everything else is too small, makes no sense — even though you know those old rationales. They hit you and maybe you fall down even a lot — but the focus shifts away from Him, not at all.

  1. Trial Status. A believer's attainment of Spiritual Maturity is a major setback for Satan. Consequently, Spiritual Maturity is the most dangerous time in our spiritual lives, for the very few of us who even make it this far. Here, Doing Nothing is all-important. See, at this point it's inconceivable to you to get off Doctrine. See, at this point Love and Honor for Him galvanize your every thought; though you don't know it yet (for whatever you want to do for Him, it's never enough, in your view), your Love and Honor toward Him are structurally invincible, because the Doctrine in your soul has reached a structural level of Invincibility. But oh, how intense the Love-for-Christ. It's as though you'd hit spiritual adulthood all over again, and you'll be tempted to think you're a failure. So, a new trauma, too. Time to go from Structure, to Function. After all, the fat lady hasn't sung yet!

Mature adults get mature and subtle circumstances in which to function. So, internal (and varying external) prosperity and adversity will cascade into the life at this stage: here we receive part of our escrow blessings, because Christ is First in our lives. That prosperity can kill maturity, because it is so wonderful. So the only way to keep going is to fight against prosperity: combat. Paradoxically, that's all one wants to do, too, if he keeps on keeping on! For you have Him, now: what more can you need?

But oh, the pressure to 'just rest a little' is huge, and the joy of the prosperity one has is Divine! See the parallel to what the Lord faced? He could have used His Divinity. He has always 'had the prosperity' of being God, but had to keep aggressively choosing not to use His Divinity to benefit Himself (Philippians 2:5ff) for that Task. So too we, at this stage, 'can' avoid combat. We too need to 'kenotically' avoid our can-do! Because oh, if we permanently peel off here — and very few make it past this stage — we will be the most miserable, most punished, believers on earth. For having grown so high, to peel off, is a mighty big fall. One had grown 'bigger', but now 'leaves' Him. As with King Saul, "nothing" will fill the void He once Occupied. Any Divine Discipline is a blessing, compared to such utterly frightening emptiness. Trouble is, as a mature adult, you don't get outside spanking, until it's almost too late to recover! Moses almost lost it for his smaller Old Testament top-class, "Jeshurun". Paul almost lost it. The risk of loss has never been higher, than at this point in the spiritual life.

So we need to "keep concentrating on Jesus" as the Greek of Hebrews 12:2 begins, to survive. In a way, it's easy to do, since by this stage He is our life. We see Him every second, in every circumstance, in every speck of dust — even when we sleep, He's our focus. The shock of Occupation with Him settles, and matures into Honor. This stage of Love manifests as an ongoing, professional and truly royal attitude: romanticism has long since departed. The desire and ability to "obey" is so honor-driven, folks in the periphery may mistake the Love for Him even as "cold", because they can't understand a Love which is above emotion. See, Love is now "without price", as Isaiah noted.

So now the Core Trial #2 Issue of Knowing reaches its peak phase: this Spiritual Maturity is the beginning of the "Pleroma" stage Paul describes in Ephesians 3:19. As my pastor puts it, you have "reached the high ground." Yeah, and you couldn't feel more like a helpless baby, either. For you've matured in your understanding that you are weak: God is everything, you are nothing, and like Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9, all you want to do is boast in your weaknesses. So now you are truly strong: in Him. Holy Spirit runs the entire show, and you're on the operating table from here on out.

  1. Weakness Growth. In many ways, when you enter this stage, you begin all over again. The surprise in Spiritual Maturity is that you are Weak, not strong. The goal of the spiritual life is to mature you in Weakness, not your own strength. Love's development makes you weak, as anyone in love demonstrates. But this is Divine Love in which you are developed, and your human nature simply cannot handle it. Christ opted for this; we of course had no power to begin with. God was and remains Omnipotent to start with. God was and remains able to instantly insert you with power to start with. So what God 'hankers for', so to speak, is Weakness. He's already Omnipotent Strength. We started out at the opposite end, and craved strength to alleviate our many weaknesses. We learned instead, to just trust Him; then we learned to Wait; then we learned to Love; at which point, it no longer mattered whether we were strong. Total reversal from childhood. So now what you crave — big evidence test, this — is what God 'craves'. Going down, ταπεινόω, Philippians 2:8's motive. Going down, just to have a cost. Because you are weak with love for Him and for mankind, Hebrew word "heheli" in Isaiah 53:10. It's an Absolute, despite your puny nature. Which that nature demonstrably can't handle. You are living almost solely and almost all the time, on His Thinking. Nothing else can sustain you, and nothing else motivates you, either.

Christ was Made Sin As A Substitute For Us, 2 Corinthians 5:21's Greek. So the closest a believer can come to knowing that experience, is here. That's why you are on the operating table. Prosperity or adversity, are the same. It's a simultaneity, a communion, and you are utterly helpless, no matter how well or badly your body seems to be operating. No matter how nice or horrible, are your circumstances. The divergence between the high spiritual life and the dead body life, is exponentially increasing. Feel good, feel bad, your soul is torn apart, either way. A "cross" isn't defined by how it feels. It's defined by the divergence. So you get both kinds, feel good and feel bad. And hence, you are helpless. And you want to be helpless: it's the culmination of all you ever wanted, Just Christ, Philippians 1:21.

Here's why. Omniscience is total. So all the bad, all the good, all-at-once, occurring. To be close to God, you have to become like God, which is why you got His Righteousness that first nanosecond you believed in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:21. Post-salvation, the goal is to get you to finish being filled up with Divine-DNA, His Thinking, per Romans 8:4's Greek. Per Romans 12:1-3, that's a Transmutation process, which results in a 'building' per Ephesians 3:15-19. And where you are on the spiritual map at this point, is Ephesians 3:19 itself. At the beginning of it; and you'll stay there, until you die completed in it; or, you spin out in favor of Satan's plan. Zig zags and sin are still normal; it's Whether You Divorce (a permanent rejection), not the ups and downs of being totally in love with Him. Absolutely so.

Here, then, what you have been learning all along, comes up-front-close: Two knowings are co-existing. The bad — which at this point is anything other than His Thinking — and the Good — the Ἀγαθός, Divine Good (always mistranslated), which is His Thinking. It's like two circles of awareness, one heavenly and the other hellish. Even were you sitting on a yacht in the Caribbean during a beautiful day. Nothing compares to His Thinking. So you are getting trained in the all-at-once quality of God's Omniscience, on a smaller scale. It's the simultaneity which is being developed. For the Cross is a Simultaneity: the sins hitting Him and all that Divine DNA going on — all-at-once, side-by-side. For that's how it really is, in Omniscience. One big Unity, a System of Truth. Playing live. Never ends, never changes, all-at-once all-time-at-once. And you gotta 'taste' that in larger doses, from here on out. It 'merges' you, to go through this.

It's this Simultaneity which completed Christ on the Cross, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2. It's two circles, and they are in a kind of tandem, and they also cycle ever bigger until a fusion (for lack of a better word) occurs. Then, completed, you (usually) die not long afterwards. Again, parallel to His Psalm 31:5 dying words. It's very rough, and you couldn't want any other experience, more. Phase takes a long time for the believer, sounds like. My pastor tried to guesstimate the time for Paul, who made it (2 Timothy 4:7-8): I'm not sure he ever settled on a number of years. Assuming 30 AD was when Paul was hit in Damascus, since he died in 68 AD it took 38 years to finish, but who knows how reliable a period that is for other believers (Paul was also the worst sinner in history, as well as the most-developed believer: duality of both extremes).

It's Total God-Dependence, On Trial. For after all, only God is Good, and only God can create Integrity in you. At this stage, Love means you don't find acceptable anything you can do on your own, and you're given can-do's to refuse, just as Job, Moses, David — and especially, Christ. What you can do is not acceptable, for what you want is what God Can Do, instead. Thus you seem to be extraordinarily passive, and to your human nature, it's surreal: Why aren't I doing something to relieve this pressure? will keep hitting the brain. But the fact is, just as you might have become anal about what to even eat or wear, you just plain want God's Decision to govern even the most traumatic big things. Like, whether you will live or not. You're not sitting on a park bench waiting for a million dollars to drop on you. You're waiting for His Decision on a thing to be known; or, if known, you're waiting like Abraham did, for it to be enacted. This is the absolute antithesis of what you thought spirituality was, when you were a child. The absolute opposite of what the pooping world, considers "good", "strong", "right". Just as Satan thinks in Matthew 4 💩, so also does the world. And you are dead opposite, all of them. Reflecting your Lord the Lamb Who Did Nothing, Dying to Everything.

For it's a paradox of Royal Rule, that you just sit there. Learning that poise is extremely difficult, and while the outer mien is passive, the inner mind is extremely active. So you're very selective about what you do, pending sufficient information from God. Which, at this stage, you often get quickly; and if you do not, you know you're being tested for patience. It's anything but passive, but will look that way on the outside. Just like, a sitting Ruler would look.

So now you are one Weak, Helplessly-in-Love Ball of Being. Kinda like the Lord must have felt weak after deliberately fasting for 40 days, so Satan would have the Testing Advantage. So, at this point, God puts you on the Witness Docket in the Angelic Appeal Trial. No one but God, the angels (and eventually you) will know it, down here. He will do the testifying, since it's to show off what the Holy Spirit did to you, growing you up. You are still a dufus. But you maturely know you are a dufus. When you were a kid, you wanted to be grown up. Now that you are grown up, you know you are a kid. So you get "Evidence Testing", my pastor's term, maybe taken from its use in Hebrews 11:1's Greek. Verse is always mistranslated, as are all really important verses in the Bible, 🤣. Corrected translation goes: "For it's about Confidence in Word! His Thinking, On Trial! Evidence, Unseen!" Great play on words: "hupostasis" is a moniker for Christ used by the writer of Hebrews, by Paul, and probably by Peter (I'd have to look it up), since Peter is addicted to hupo-prefixed words. Usually mistranslated "substance" or "reality" (which the term also means), the writers use it in wordplay to show He's the Substance of Reality, the Substance of God (Hebrews 1:3), the Substance of the Trial, the Money, the Wealth, the Substance and Reality and Sine Qua Non of Life. Without Whom, who cares if one lives? Life isn't worth living without Him, period. Many "demon" pastors hired by Satan (like Charles Spurgeon) build their core replacement theology with these English mistranslations. Spurgeon writes: "despite to the blood of Jesus Christ which is the substance, the certificate, and the seal of that covenant." As you can see, Spurgeon places a weirdly specific emphasis on 'substance' thereby converting God Himself into a mere physical substance, always an emphasis on the physical rather than the spiritual.

So that's how you think of Him during this last and greatest phase of the spiritual life. So you lucky devil — now you go On Trial to test how true that attitude is. Yikes.

To maximally demonstrate the value of #2 and #3 in the Trial, at this point we are successively hit with the same strategic pattern of tests as Satan applied against Christ in Matthew 4: all the things we ever wanted at once; but, overlapping, we are also cascaded with all the things we never wanted, too. So, being "occupied with Christ" is what sustains us during these last, most-intensive tests ever faced: what my pastor calls the (usually-invisible) "Evidence Tests". If you analyze the Matthew 4 temptations over some days or months, seeking each day to see yet another layer of meaning Satan aimed within each temptation; if you spend time thinking about what Christ Himself wanted and didn't want, you'll see how those three seemingly-simple temptations were utterly devastating. 'Operating on innumerable levels: subtle, quick, so-easy-to-screw-up!


God's '2-3-4-5' Evidence Testing Alphabet and Structure

Freedom, Love and Justice 'Unity' Key, Tested → We know exactly the Evidence Test Answer from Son and Spirit: that Father is the Be-All and End-All of life, "τὰ πάντα". And Father? He has the Same Attitude toward Son and Spirit! Since Son and Spirit are Co-Equal but instead Choose To Subordinate to Father, what other answer can there be, for such choice? For the Son, that means creation reflects His desire for lateral cost, so to maximally express His Love for Father. For Spirit, that means growing the created rational beings to have that same attitude: fixing our tohu wa bohu even as He restored the trashed-by-Satan & Co. planet, in Genesis 1:2. See "Creationism" for the other "tohu" verses to show that Moses is making that analogy to restoring us, too, when writing Genesis 1:2. And of course, Father throws Himself down in Love, in that He must do what He least desires — to Judge His Own Sinless Son for our sins which He also imputes to Him. So for Each of them, the dream-come-true, is the worst nightmare!

Parallel to Son, we get the consummate privilege of having His Same Throw-Down-the-Self, Love Attitude; it functionally demonstrates via constantly living on Christ's Own Thinking. Rapport. Relationship with God is the Reason for living, so expressing laterally this Reason is the grounds for any lateral relationships in life. For us, that means we want to use everything we have, bad or good (and especially bad) to also maximally express Love for Him (see last half of Romans 8).

And the way you throw yourself down, is to do nothing. God does everything to you, instead. Just like the Cross.

God's Evidence Testing Alphabet

God's Evidence Testing Alphabet is a subset of His Love Alphabet.

  • Absolute, Autonomous God need merely Assume a thing, think a thing — and it is exactly so. Because He Assumes All Power and Responsibility, not merely is Power and Responsibility, Isaiah 45:7. Ἀγαθός, even.
  • So as Basileus of All He could just therefore instantly create everything to be nice and perfect, but then nothing has a free and independent character. But God is Free, so doesn't want Bondage; but rather, Benefit. Bigger Benefit than if it were always nice and perfect.
  • So, He could instead instantly create everything to have a free and independent Character, and then instantly create each thing to have the Cost He wants Crowning that thing, never waiving its own autonomy to be what it is. And then, Compensating that Cost. Simultaneity, hupostasis. Verbal Plenary Inspiration.
  • And so He Decreed that Cost, that Crowning, that Character, Isaiah 52:13-14.
  • As a result, He Enables us free, souled creation to have His Same Autonomous Assumption Privilege, so to train us in His Own Omniscience and Omnipotence — just as He trained the Humanity of His Own Son, Who is First God Himself. Thus born with Total Divine Power. Yet, Eschewing it — in favor of the Enabling of the Holy Spirit.
  • Ergo we Christians have that Same Full Power, John 3:34 and John 7:39 — but not God's Smarts to go with it.
  • So the Christian life is about Getting, Growing, and being Governed in and by His Thinking; which Thinking, is how He chooses to use Himself and His Powers.
  • Consequently, whether we are ignorant of Him or well-versed, our own soul's motives 'Head' and hence govern the character of the experience; both meaning and effect will indeed be as we rule in our own Hearts, Matthew 7:2, Proverbs 23:7. Which character, should be Honor. For He is Our Honor.
  • So instead of a good or bad thing just being a good or bad thing, it also becomes whatever meaning we Impute to it. So if you impute a bad meaning to brushing your teeth, the next time you brush, it will have bad meaning. If you impute too low a meaning to brushing your teeth, then the next time you brush it will have that low meaning. If you Impute too low a meaning to God or the spiritual life, then the next time "God" or "spiritual" occurs to your mind, the meaning will be too low. He is Our integrity, so aiming high is the name of the game.
  • By contrast, if while we are living in God's System we vote for God's Own Justice Rule to govern: and then He does.
  • So too, if we want that good or bad thing to have the Kingly character God wants it to have, in His System we vote that, and — it is so. Hence Kenosis occurs, as His Kingship governs, instead of our own.
  • It's just like prayer, when you are Living in God's System at the time you pray. Prayer is a Legally-Binding Vote for a thing to be or not be. And so, it is Law. And so, it is Love.
  • Therefore whatever your Motive, whatever your (legal) Motion voted while Living in God's System, that's how it is: for you are a believer in Christ.
  • Hence while living in God's System, you can 'Nominate' your experience, your self, anything — to glorify Christ. And it is so. Thus the Nature you are Nominating, is the Nature which is growing in you.
  • When Love is so deep that all the nicenesses are no longer enough to express Love, bad stuff becomes the needed Outlet. So we can Opt for the bad thing to benefit God.. and it is so. Thus Omnipotence plays within our own being, towards the Oneness Goal Christ prayed for in John 17. For Truth poured into our hearts, pours out as Love for God, Romans 5:5.
  • That Romans 5:5 Plenary Genitive Process thus results in the self being grateful, relieved, amazed, Pleased to have the Painful or Petty stuff. Like, a cross. Propitiation, even. Purification, even. Prosperity, even, Hebrews 12:2 + Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:12.
  • Alongside this incredible gratitude, the qvetching cacaphony of human objections constantly clamors in the soul. It doesn't 'play' pretty: it plays like Twilight Zone. But it's Qorban, wholly-dedicated-to-God in meaning. Just as Christ is Qadosh.
  • The gratitude Remains and grows; the cacophony Remains and grows. So, you'll be constantly struck by thoughts of hate / fear / guilt / whatever-most-gets-you about what pressures you face. Yet often each thought is met by an exact matching (often punning) Reigning counter-thought of its Real Bible meaning. And, it is so! Royally.
  • His Thinking in you Stays the pressure; His Thinking gradually Supersedes and becomes Stronger and more fluent under ever-greater Stress of ever-greater Spheres, as the Testing persists. Horror and heaven, side-by-side. For that's how it is for Omnipotent, Omniscient, God. That's how He wants it, and that's how you come to want it, too. And, it is so! Supernaturally!
  • Tested Practice in His Thinking is the essential mechanic of how Christ paid for sins: Doctrinal Counter-Thinking, God's Apodoses. Incoming sins of ours, each Touched, Tackled by Bible 'reply', Turned Into, 'birthing' Divine-DNA out from them all, enlarging His Soul for Total Rapport with Father. See Matthew 4 on the mechanic of this 'reply'. Isaiah 52:13-54:1 gives you a very graphic blow-by-blow description of the Cross, and deftly shows the counter-thinking in what appears to be an "antiphonal"-like pattern of writing (initiation and response, musical/poetic/rhythmic term). Published translations bland out so much, you think you're reading Mary Poppins.
  • Hence Evidence Testing is designed to Unify the believer's thinking with Christ's; to Uniquely Parallel the Cross Demonstration of Unconditional Love. So to prove to both the believer and to Satan & Co. that even 'hell' with God, is heavenly, fulfilling the Lord's Prayer for Oneness in John 17. But all this success is unseen by anyone on earth, Hebrews 11:1. God appears to forsake, Upbraid the believer under such testing.
  • For God's Vote is to make every believer Victory Booty for His Son, Isaiah 53:12; the believer's resulting Voting Value to History in his lifetime — and for all time — reflects how the Cross impacted history for all time, Hebrews 10:10-14, Hebrews 11:40. And this Voting Victory is to play as the Cross did, ending as if in defeat, in Vain.
  • Son wants us to glorify Father, to serve Father, and "service" is the most awesome Wealth Enjoyment for the believer, way above all the wealth this puny world has to offer. Father then 'turns around', as it were, and wants us to glorify Son, serve Son — so this awesome Wealth Enjoyment is doubled. And He Wants it done in Wasted Weakness, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Isaiah 53:4-5, Isaiah 53:7-9, since the world wants works.
  • "Enjoyment" — Greek word Χαρά, literal "unalloyed happiness" — is not a body thing, but a soul awareness of Christ (Χριστός). Your body will feel degradation, not enjoyment. But your soul enjoys and wants the meaning that it serve Father and Son — so you keep voting for that meaning, which you have come to Love. And — it is so. For the excellency of Knowing Christ, Philippians 3:8.
  • For Yehwah can make anything glorify His Son, even what's Yucky. Doesn't matter, that dung of itself is bad. Remember Christ's last three years? Sin is surely worse than dung. Yet God truly makes it into Diamonds. Saves the best for last. Which feels/plays like doo-doo and Diamonds. All at once. Which you come to Yearn for, as all this time you become more and more aware that you cannot reciprocate. So You Need It Done To You.
  • For again: all Absolute, Autonomous God has to do is think a thing... and it is so.

God's '2-3-4-5' Evidence Testing Structure

Glorifying God is the monopoly of and a privilege for, the believer. Frankly, the reason why God didn't just bing everything and make it perfect from the get-go, was to enable us to have that Privilege. Think: God isn't the one who needs to be glorified, He's Pure Glory by Nature. But we His Creation desperately need to glorify Him as an outlet for gratitude: if you actually saw Him, that's all you'd ever want to do. Everything else you could do with your life would suddenly become irrelevant, unimportant, stupid. Frankly, if you persist in learning God's Script in God's System, you will indeed come to see Him in this body, and from that moment forward your life means nothing else to you. You don't have to die, to see God. But you do die to this life, even while in this body, once you see Him. Everything else ceases to have value, to you.

For Church, there's the added fact that we are Bride, so our need to glorify Him is far more intense: Ephesians 5 upgrade on "thy craving shall be for thy husband" concept in Genesis 3:16. So during Testing the believer is so 'in love' with God he yearns for this privilege more than his life. Yet, can do nothing of himself about it. (You never lose your helplessness.) So to get pressure one knowingly cannot handle, yet be carried through it, is such a relief! For all this glorifying is only done through the Spirit, Who massively enjoys transforming us. "Fourth Reason for Royalty" covers how this testing 'plays' on the inside, so to speak.

We Christians typically think Christ was glorified because awww, He paid for us, died for us, we want to praise Him for that. Our praise is worth squat. We glorify ourselves, not Him — deeming ourselves to be worthy of such a sacrifice, so now He's worthy of such praise. How disgusting. For the truth is, there's zero natural connection between paying for us, for our sins and His Resulting Glory. Sins are ugly, our evil thinking is unbelievably ugly, and nothing about us is ever glorious. So we can't make glory 'happen'. So being imputed and judged with our sins did not make Glory happen. Instead, God had to flat Decree it Glory, and Decree that He would use the imputation and judgement of sins to Him, to do it. Isaiah 53 tells you of that Decree (especially Isaiah 52:13-14, Isaiah 53:9-12).

By the same token, therefore, nothing you do in this puny body is worth squat to God, helps God, glorifies God, no matter how moral it might be. But if you live in His System, you can Vote For The Meaning To Be What He Wants, and then and only then, it is so. Of course, you'd need to be living on Bible in God's System, to even know that, to even know how to vote. But you can. So now even brushing your teeth or going to the bathroom, can be "voted on"! And He'll Decree that It Be So.

God Decrees. God Decrees what will be the Independent Truth, since Truth is His Attribute, something He can use, any way He likes. You can use your hands any way you choose. Well, God's "Hands" are His Attributes, and He can use them any way He likes. And He likes, training us up to think like His Son, Who is Also God — so we get God-like powers in which to be trained. One of which, is to Decree The Relationships between thing "1" which is in one's life, and thing "2", the meaning it ought to have. In God's System, therefore, you want to be glorifying God, so you want "2" to have a Glorifying-Him Value, no matter what "1" is. For after all, God is looking at "1", same as you. So your toilet time can be voted on — along with everything else, to have a "2" value that glorifies Him. It glorifies Him if you use that time to learn Him better, think toward Him, apply Bible to your life, ponder something or go over something in Bible class, pray, etc. Notice how "1" can be quite base (illustrated here by being on the toilet) — and that baseness, doesn't matter. Nothing is more base than the Cross, where Christ voted all the highest "2" values for all time! God's Apodoses, those "2" values. So get cracking, start voting!

Why does it glorify Him? Because His Meanings, God's Apodoses are being applied to thing "1". That's exactly how His Own Decree works, as we saw in "C". The thing "1" is crowned with an "2" meaning that is glorious to see, so one glories in it. That glorifies, elevates "1", for now it has that "2" meaning. Since the One Seeing "1" is First God, and it's His Meaning, that glorifies God first. Reflects Him, reflects the Decree He made — and you got the privilege of decreeing it, too. In the Trial this matters altogether, for Satan contends that God's ABC's are unfair, unloving. That God just inflicts pain by not binging! everything to be nice and perfect, incapable of failure. Different "f" preoccupies Satan — failure, rather than Freedom. But you pick Freedom when you pick God's Apodoses — and especially, you pick when you are under pressure of testing, which is always a failure situation. So see the poetry of the Test? Rich, huh.

Consequently, Evidence Testing is essentially a Privilege, and hence a Prosperity Test of How You Use God's Power, pattern of Matthew 4, John 17. Sometime during Evidence Testing you will notice how this dual purpose of glorifying both Father and Son, is being accomplished in your own life; the total 'disconnect' between your earthly life and this purpose, will beguile you. But just keep remembering, all God has to do is think a thing — and it is so. Hence you get that same privilege, of Decreeing The Relationship — in order to be trained as Christ was. For, Christ always used this Privilege (i.e., John 17). In short, since this is a Wealth Test, your voting is required: so you are to know you are in Evidence Testing, which is essentially a Decreeing, Voting Test based on Who You Know. That Knowing makes the test harder, not easier. Prior to this point, it doesn't seem to be necessary that you know you are in some particular test. In a way, the ignorance makes it easier (i.e., less self-conscious). But here, you are being cross-examined by Satan & Co., and you gotta know that, at some point. When, probably varies by individual and by the particulars of an issue. Again, that's the Trial Core: what do you think of God based on what you know (#2), and what you do not know (#3). Knowing is far harder. Knowing God and living in this body afterwards, is the hardest of all. So now, wham! you get it all: your knowledge of Him skyrockets, during Pleroma. That Wealth makes you weaker, even overwhelmed — and it remains, this double-sided high and low, theme of last half of 2 Corinthians 12. So How Do You Vote When Utterly Weakened By All That Wealth Of Understanding? That's the Test Christ faced, so that's what happens to us in this last maturation stage.

Because, you really are a King in Training, with The King's Power. By now, you're supposed to know The King's Thinking well enough, to rule on how His Power should be used. Under, The Same Pressure. Ergo, you get this Evidence Testing. When you were much younger, the meanings of things to you were immature: spout Bible, be moral, get a gold star, get approbation from people, feel good singing a song about Jesus. So that's all those things meant — very little meaning, you voted on. So very little growth and meaning, resulted. As you mature the meaning of everything to you becomes Christ Himself, to heck with the everything else — and that's the meaning which resulted. So, you grew up to this Pleroma stage. Here, the meaning you vote, thus has to be the Same As His Own Vote — if the meaning you pick is too low, you'll continue to be tested until the meaning you vote, is stably on His Playing Field.

Hence, there is an overall structure for all Evidence Tests. This structure is, by Divine (Father's) Design, parallel to what the Lord's Humanity experienced during His First Advent, since our purpose is to become like Him. We get the same spiritual life, so we get the same testing. It's not about how good or bad we are, but about how totally sufficient Christ is. That's the purpose of the Evidence Tests. Even a failing believer will have a parallel life to Christ's: in which case, he demonstrates to angels, especially to Satan & Co. in the Angelic Appeal Trial, the effect of rejecting Christ (never loses salvation, but does lose out as a successful witness, etc). Important: the believer's life always ends in humiliation, just as Christ's life did. You will not be able to gauge whether the believer is a loser or winner via His dying method. You can only gauge yourself. Death itself is innately humiliating, no matter how one eventually dies. Remember 1 Corinthians 15:55-57. For the believer in Evidence Testing, those in the periphery will conclude the person died abandoned by God, to fulfill the clauses in Isaiah 52:14, Isaiah 53:3-4.

As you know, an attitude can be aped or mimicked, but is nonetheless fake. This fact is especially true in the spiritual life. We know we are 'supposed' to love God, and many of us fancy we actually do; however, in life's tougher moments our fancy is revealed as fake. Too much prosperity, and God is demonstrably but a badge for preening; too much adversity, and God is demonstrably valued as but a genie, to make things nice again. True love doesn't operate like this. Only Bible Doctrine empowered by the Spirit regularly cycling in your soul over a very long period of time makes true love exist (John 14, John 17, 1 John 4-5). So, Evidence Testing manifests the result of all that athletic cycling. The cycling is conscious and vigorously willed, but it cannot be counterfeited. Satan and man's attempts to counterfeit love/God's Word are as hysterically (and pathetically) obvious to the Spirit-trained person, as the Monty Python skit in which 'pet store owner' John Cleese sold Michael Palin a dead parrot.

This structure is God's Testimony, really, not ours. So, we can objectively observe it in our lives, once we've learned enough of His Thinking; usually, as is true of the spiritual life stages in general, the observation of this Testing Structure's progress is clear once the believer is past a given threshold, rather than while still in it.

From what I can tell, this Structure has the following 'skeleton', or one very much like the description below. I like to call it the "2-3-4-5" structure:

  • There are two answer categories of Evidence Tests. 1) "Relationship-to-God" (my pastor's term): to what surpassing degree is living for God more important and valid than living for self? 2) "Relationship-to-Life" (my pastor's term): To what surpassing degree is living for God more important and valid than living for anything and anyone else? "Two" is the Biblical number-metaphor of marriage, fidelity, bonding, integrity, hupostasis (God-man, inseparably and totally intimately united). So you could think of these categories as a 'marital intimacy' demonstration structure. Therefore it has a "for better and for worse" high-low testing angle. High, when God is blessing you and/or you are competent. Low, when God seems to be cursing you and/or you are incompetent. When self perceives failure in self or someone else, that's a major test of relationship and fidelity. Satan's all about failure: but God's all about freedom, nailing failure issues to the Cross. So what seems to be the "plan" God has for your life, tests the Relationship to Him, and to your life: do you want to do something about it yourself, or do you decree God's Plan should govern you, instead? That's what Matthew 4 is about. If you're under my pastor, he covers all this beginning about Lesson 800 through 1000, in the 1992 Spiritual Dynamics series, "Occupation with Christ" Problem-Solving Device. The initial coverage was back during the Ephesians series, but it's passim in the context of "Invisible heroes", so maybe specific lesson numbers won't be helpful.
  • There are three phases of progressive intensity within each of the two answer categories, repetitively administered, somewhat akin to labor in pregnancy; or, akin to progressively-intense physical exercise circuits/levels: 1) Matthew 4-style, invisible, mental, internal but the 'testor' is external and subtle; 2) á la the Lord's ministry post-Matthew 4, public prosperity of some kind (even if the 'public' is but a small group), which acts like a setup for 3) a 'cross' entailing public-yet-invisible humiliation; again, even if the public is a small group. This 3) is administered by the Father, looks like; 1) and 2) seem to be administered by Satan & Co. (my pastor calls it 'cross examination'). "Three" is the Biblical number-metaphor of stability (e.g., Trinity are three)/perpetuation (i.e., "family" is at least 3). Production, 'fruit' cannot occur until there is a fertile union, so fertility-of-union is illustrated by the progressive intensities. The test of the believer is whether he becomes a superior ruler to Satan & Co.'s rulership. Rulership is a type of parenting. So the ability to parent is demonstrated here.
  • There seem to be four stages/layers-of-victory within each of the three intensity circuits: 1) Shock Administered, 2) Shock Answered, 3) Shock Aggressively Accepted, and 4) Shock Accomplished. The number of shocks you will go through depends on what shocks you, so the number varies by person. Shock can be pleasant or unpleasant, and in the Pleroma stage both are administered in just the right mix so that the off-balance nature of shock continues with progressive intensity. "Four" is the Biblical metaphor of completeness, which is what: Πληρόω, Πλήρωμα and Τελειόω, Τέλος, Τέλειος signify. So the believer in Evidence Testing can monitor his development using these four benchmarks; of course, no one can do a thing on his own. The Holy Spirit's All Sufficient Power is being demonstrated. The All-Sufficiency of the Truth the Holy Spirit built in the believer is being demonstrated. God's Attribute of love is also demonstrated, having been built in the believer via those millions of Truth deposits. Hence the believer's happiness due to knowing God despite shock, is being demonstrated.

Again, these (at least) four stages/layers mirror the Lord's experience in His Humanity during His First Advent (you can also see smaller-scale versions of these stages play out in Job and Abram's life stories). Each of these four will signify benchmarks of progress in Pleroma, being filled up to the point of maximally glorifying God (see Romans 8 and 2 Peter 3:18, plus Philippians 2-3). These stages are also layers, because when the first one is passed, it continues, and the second is built on the first; the third, on the second, and the fourth, on the third. As in biology, development is occurring in all levels at once, but not equally.

So Evidence Testing looks 'messy' or 'mundane', but internally plays like jungle combat; except that outwardly only you will look the fool; you will never look like any soldier or hero one admires. Quite the opposite: people will enjoy your being a fool, for you are depicting Christ, and they get to enjoy hating Him via seeing you (which, most of them do not realize they are doing). Hence, humiliation is the name of the game, in the Pleroma stage (any popularity you get is only a setup for a bigger humiliation later on): Isaiah 53:3, in context of Isaiah 52:14ff. We inherit all Christ is and has, including His Suffering, and for the same reasons. And with paradigmal purpose/result.

In one's Shock Administered, the shock 'plays' overwhelm, blocking-of-Doctrinal-thinking and analysis, blocking of competence, raw and sheer competing power. Here, the believer's seemingly-blind insistence that whatever God allows to happen to him is good, gets demonstrated. (Remember when Job said, "Even if He slay me, yet I will trust in Him.")

In two's Shock Answered, the believer learns to respond mentally to the shock with a progressively higher Doctrinal Orientation to reality, despite the pressure; in practice, this means a progressively higher and more competent recall of the doctrinal meaning of the shock (i.e., greatest gift God can give the believer, rather than abandonment or cruelty). As he matures in this Answering layer, he begins to use the shock to learn more about Christ Himself, since that is the highest level of Decreeing, analogous to God's Own, in Isaiah 52:13-14. So by the end, the shock reminds him so much of Christ, he values having the shock. Progressive acceptance of the fact of the Shock, plus progressive orientation/adjustment to the fact of the Shock, is demonstrated here.

This is where those "Problem Solving Devices" are so helpful in diagnosis. Took my pastor almost 18 years to explain them, so I can't hope to summarize them well in a webpage. Essentially, your maturation level shows up in what of those devices you use to get through the pressure. Sometimes, the pressure is so strong, all you can keep doing is use 1 John 1:9, thus being Filled with the Spirit. Sometimes, you can 'advance' by also using Faith-Rest promises, rationales, etc. Sometimes, you immediately relate the pressure to God's Plan for your life, so Personal Sense of Destiny is operative. Sometimes, you relate the pressure to Father being glorified, so that's Personal Love for God. Sometimes, you relate the pressure to either people being helped or how happy you are to be tested, so that's IL and +H, respectively. Notice how each Problem Solving Device tells you how much you've progressed in that layer on that shock, as you're moving forward, the reasoning becoming more mature and stronger. Of course, the goal is to relate the pressure to what Christ faced, having the same motive, 'rehearsing' Him, so to speak. And in Pleroma, you will do that, for everything to you is about Christ Himself, period. So all this pressure is just a way to coordinate life pressure with soul's focus on Him. It's a killer life. And nothing else begins to be as enjoyable.

In three's Shock Aggressively Accepted, the believer advances to embrace the shock, rather than merely passively endure. God doesn't avoid sin due to the 'threat' of sin wrecking His Godness, as some theologians would have you believe. Rather, God flat enjoys the truth so much, He's not interested in anything else. So here, you stop being threatened by the shock and actually become interested in advancing in it. This is an attitudinal change which basically shifts you from being defensive, to offensive. As any military guy or football fanatic can tell you, the defensive never wins. Only the offensive wins. So you switch from being on defense, to offense, here.

Part 4d's olive combat table will illustrate how this Aggressive Acceptance functioned on the Cross. The key demonstration in this stage/level is the 'flip' in the believer's attitude from passive acceptance to yearning to have the Shock in question. (See Paul's "fellowship of His Sufferings" verse in context.) This plays quietly, not like some action movie. Thoughts are quick and fast, and in a way are just quiet yeses. Constant. "So, What" Evidence Test showed the quiet, resting confidence. For Church it's a much bigger Test & Testimony, since we are "in Him" but other believers in other epochs at most get to be (occasionally) "with" Him. Physical competence may be nonetheless absent: you can't go by physical competence as a gauge of test-passing success. It's motivation, not execution. Holy Spirit fuels both, and it's really up to Him whether the physical competence, works. You just keep getting up again, like a Joe Palooka doll. In 1950's America, Joe Palooka was a 3-foot, inflatable, snow-man-shaped, boxer 'doll', with lots of sand weighting its bottom. The idea was to blow up the doll, and then punch it. Due to the sand weighting, the doll would weave down, but always return upright. Perfect illustration of what happens in Evidence Testing. Love motivation from all that Bible Doctrine weights you so well, nothing can keep you down from a 'punch', 2 Corinthians 4:7-10.

In four's Shock Aggressively Accomplished, the believer completes a threshold level of embrace, so that either the shock is no longer a significant challenge (so added shock is needed), or the shock itself ends (the shock itself having been tapped out, rather than the believer being spun out). Demonstrated and measured here is the All-Sufficiency and Superior Competence of A) Father's Plan and B) Legacy of Son's Execution in His Humanity, compared to Satan & Co.'s 'parental' plan for the human race. Satan's plan is goodies-dependent. God's plan is God-dependent, goodies-independent. So the believer here is independent, and begins to see that for himself (God does the testifying, not us), what the Holy Spirit has done to and for him. Hence it becomes a joy to have the experience, Hebrews 12:2. Not, demeaning. Again, the bad and good run simultaneous, as Omniscience sees all bad and good at once, so it's the growing presence of the added joy 'crowning' the bad, not a lessening of the bad, which occurs. Due to that increasing joy (which is a knowing, not an emotion), the bad will seem less. But won't be.

  • There are five micro benchmarks-of-growth within each Shock: 1) strength, 2) flexibility, 3) endurance, 4) coordinative Integrity, 5) Agility. The last one means you've so mastered the shock that you use it to your advantage, loving what you would otherwise hate. You can see these five benchmarks play out in the Lord's Humanity within the Gospel depictions. For example, the lightning-fast, astonishing humor and agility of His Answers to Satan in Matthew 4 depict all five operating perfectly. Part 4d's "Combat" table, you'll see how all five operated flawlessly on the Cross. Of course, if you read and analyze the Gospels over and over and over, you'll see how His Answers on any topic also demonstrate these five Diamond-Doctrine facets.

"Five" in Bible appears to be the numerical metaphor of profit / compensation / leverage, e.g., in Exodus 22:1. All the uses of "five" I could find in Scripture (excepting those which were mere facts) seem to convey that a critical property of completeness (number 4) is its ability to generate profit (etc). Five was an integral to Temple structure, for example (i.e., Exodus 26:3). Moreover, 2 (marital intimacy) + 3 (family minimum number) = 5 (profit).

You'll see both Paul and Peter make reference to these substage developments in their letters. For example, Romans 5:2-5 lists them (in the NIV, the five are translated "suffering", "perseverance", "character", "hope", "love"). In Peter's ἐπιχορηγέω passage, that Greek verb for financial equipping for competent execution of the Greek play, is the metaphorical base (idea that God has equipped you): 2 Peter 1:5-7. Translations are bleepingly bad. Rather than the testing focus on the five, Peter lists all seven pursuits ("7" is Biblical number of perfection), and in the Greek-drama ranking. These are 1) "Virtue/Excellence" (ἀρετή, a pregnant word in Greek literally, related to ἄρτιος, a measure of personal competence to enthusiastically seek); 2) "Knowledge" (tech term in Bible for learning Doctrine, "gnosis", idea of competent understanding); 3) "Mastery" (ἐγκράτεια), of which self-control is but a part, idea of competent execution; 4) Stamina/Staying Power/Perseverance/Patience, "ὑπομονή", one of Peter's favorites, idea of endurance; 5) "Spiritual Life" (εὐσέβεια, mistranslated "godliness" in most Bibles), idea of spiritual rather than earthly means; 6) "Brotherly (impersonal, independent-of-object) Love" (philadelphia) — Greek term means that one unconditionally loves the stranger as much as if there were a tribal connection, idea of the to-humans result of "Spiritual Life"; 7) "Agape" — in Greek literally this is a specialized term, and means Virtue-Love for God, which is only produced by God, His Own Attribute of Love, the highest result of the "Spiritual Life".) Passim, you'll find a number of references to each of these five components throughout both Old and New Testaments.

Paul's reference point is the believer's volition. First, the believer sees suffering, so he tries to endure it; the result of the two (which constitute strength + flexibility + endurance in 'my' list of five) is coordinative Integrity, denoted by Paul's terms (NIV translation) of "character" and "hope". Last, is Agility (in my list of the five), denoted by "love".

Peter's list has a different reference point. For Peter, the financial metaphor is denoted in the term "ἐπιχορηγέω", a Greek verb signifying the entire financial backing of the expensive Greek play. Obviously, then, Virtue represents the totality of the funds, so is listed first; then, knowledge, without which the funds can't be known how to spend properly; next, mastery, without which the funds can't be competently spent; next, stamina, a quality of investing and sticking with the project to completion — absent this, no project is finished; finally, the play itself, depicted as the spiritual life, here. At this point, Peter's listing tallies up to Paul's "character" and "hope". Then, the results of the play: two types of love: toward mankind, and toward God, the latter being the highest. Paul concatenates these as "love". Agility means one loves to do what one is agile at doing, so that is why 'my' list uses the term agility. For, 'my' list's reference point/metaphorical base is the development of spiritual competence.

Of course, if you've ever exercised, you know that the first thing your body must learn is strength in order to increase flexibility, endurance, coordination, and agility; that the body itself goes through these stages of performance in its own development. So, too, the soul — for it's the soul Christ saved/delivers, not the body. Think of the physical parallel, to better understand the spiritual one.

    • Ok: if you're a couch potato, starting an exercise routine is so arduous, all you can do is gut through it.
    • You won't be able to keep on keeping on without proper motivation. Getting back some attractiveness will not be proper motivation, and will not sustain you. Doing it to get (spiritual) strength will be alone enough to sustain you. (But in the beginning, all you can barely think of is, "God will make this work.") Notice how that motive of wanting inner strength rather than looks is sophisticated, yet basic and still defensive.
    • Next, as you become comfortable about the meaning of the traumatic exercise, you will keep on, and the body (soul) will gain strength.
    • As a result, you become more flexible in your thinking: you don't just grunt through it anymore, but can better appreciate, even find humor in what you are doing (a sense of humor is a sure sign of some flexibility).
    • Thus, your gratitude (toward God) increases. This increases flexibility the more, and causes you to endure.
    • As you keep on, of course, the stamina to endure increases, so you can exercise for longer and longer periods.
    • As you endure, you'll find your thinking level increases again to a thought pattern of coordination among the various strengths and flexibilities which are progressing. (So now you're thinking, "The Holy Spirit will make this work for Father", or even "This is what Christ went through" — and you're learning from it.)
    • So, your stamina increases yet the more, because you're inspired by the increasing Strength of Motivation.
    • So, your strength and flexibility increase yet the more.
    • So, your enjoyment increases yet the more.
    • After a year or more of this traumatic daily exercise, you have formed a thinking habit and set of values which is agile, so it becomes easier to defeat the temptations to sloth which had beset you.
    • In fact, you find yourself looking for challenges, so you can use these five assets yet the more.
    • You end up not wanting the 'cross' to stop. For, Father is Infinite, and nothing will ever be enough of a gift. Nor do you want the gifting to stop, for at this point you are so grateful to have gifts to give, you feel the 'cross' is so high a gift you need to reciprocate by getting yet more 'crosses'.
    • So, you do get more of them. Whether you are competently exercising, or not. For, again: your soul is saved and delivered, but the body always ends up being delivered over to the Conqueror Worm, Isaiah 53:9a.

God's objective is to run the believer through all the cycles of shock which shock him. So, these five substages/benchmarks play out in each of the Four Shock stages; the Four Shock stages of course, overlap and layer; each Shock stage is also playing at one of Three Intensity Levels which likewise continue, overlap, and progress; meanwhile, each Shock stage, within its then-current Intensity level, portrays some overall level-of-completion within each of the Two Answer Categories, concerning the importance and validity of Life-with-God compared to any other relationship (i.e., with self or anyone/anything else).

So, Evidence Testing is relative to what you are and are not, what you like and dislike, not relative to another person's abilities, not relative to what society values or demeans. It's the if faithful-in-little, then faithful-in-much criterion; the handling of True Riches criterion. Again, because all God has to do is decree a relationship be — and, it is so. Consequently, it doesn't matter what you are humanly, and it doesn't matter how 'high' or low the human idea of your situation might be. So for example, if you are a paraplegic or living in an iron lung, what taps you to exhaustion the most will not be the same as what taps an Olympic athlete, but the athlete is not better nor worse than you because he can move his arms and legs. God doesn't need you to be able to move physically, to make you Pleroma. So, the Olympian will need to have his own version of what taps him despite his ability: for if any of man's ability is in the execution, it's a competing power, so is of no 'credit' in the testing.

Therefore in Evidence Testing, the '2-3-4-5' Structure constantly demonstrates the uselessness of human/demonic power and success compared to the all-sufficient superiority of Truth-bought Love for God. Thus, the testing is humiliating: the human abilities you have, obviously accomplish nothing, or are demeaned; or, are taken away. Your life appears to have been wasted. The deeper proof is that nothing separates your Love (i.e., no competition prevailed), even in (for you) maximum pressure, end Romans 8. Abba, Father, 2 Timothy 4:7-8! This is not a Perfection test (you still keep sinning); this is not a 'performance' test (Holy Spirit does all the work, and you remain just as helpless as always); this is a Love Completion test, 1 John 4:17. You are Evidence, on Trial to prove whether God is Fair to make life so 'hard' on creation. And your Trial Testimony becomes: even 'hard' is heaven, to you! So what, anything else!

Oneness is the real purpose of Evidence Testing. And if you complete the course, that's what happens.



Let's go through an example of a believer who grew up spiritually and passed God's Spiritual Tests: Moses. (We have a more intense spiritual life than folks in the Old Testament, but the testing criteria are essentially the same.)

First, though, what are the test criteria? What you want. What you don't want. Compared to how much you want God. The goal? To grow you so that all "competing loves" dock under God, and thus have the freedom to exist in harmony. See, it's not about "sacrifice", but about Love. It's not about deprivation, it's about fullness. Kinda like being so organized, you can get all of what you want to do out of a day. Of course, that criterion is the basis for how one grows in Love, and the basis of the Trial. Just as for Job, so also for us.

What did Moses want? To free his people. To see the Land God promised them. What did Moses not want? Confrontation. So one test for Moses, was to refuse his inheritance as Pharaoh. Notice why he didn't want it. Notice how, he didn't rationalize that as Pharaoh he could free them. Instead, we know from Hebrews 11 that he regarded being Pharaoh as interference with his spiritual life. So he wanted God, more: easy. Ahh, so God raises the "stakes". To what Moses does not want. Not so easy, to get trained for 40 years in the wilderness, married to an Arab woman who didn't like God's Plan for Moses — and then to go back? To Amenhotep II, son of Moses' successor (the replacing Thutmose III when Moses abdicated near Hatshepsut's death)? And confront him? Ohhh my. Moses finally learned to say "So what?" to what he most disliked.

So, the Exodus. So, he gets what he wants, to free Israel. But what kind of people are these folks? Nuts. Abusers-of-children. Guilt-ridden. Legalistic. Orgiastic. Conniving. Activistic. In a word, "confrontational". So for the next 40 years, Moses has a very confrontational life. They blamed him for everything, from the first day of the Exodus, onward; they blamed him for trapping them at the "Sea of Reeds" (literally translated, and before God split it — the Greeks renamed it the Red Sea owing to the carnage); they blamed him for every hardship they had, even to the days of their deaths. Their qvetching finally got to Moses at the Second Meribah, and he becomes angry. For that one sin, God says Moses can't enter the Land. It was a bitter pill to swallow — you can see in early Deuteronomy how he temporarily became infected by their own qvetching, blaming his failure back on them — but he finally learned to say "So what?" to losing his big dream. But wait! As a result, God gave him a Bigger Benefit than merely seeing the Land. God gave him the honor of writing the Old Testament canon. (Maybe Moses had written part of it before Second Meribah, I'm not sure. Deuteronomy wasn't written until after Second Meribah.)

See the pattern? The test is always designed to give you "more than you can ask or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20). So whatever you want, God wants it more. To get God's version of what you want — which is way bigger — you gotta first grow up. Ergo the testing. Meanwhile, the testing which benefits you is used also to answer Satan. And what's the criterion for the test? What is important to you.

So the testing won't look big. Moses belonged to a visible time, we belong to an invisible time. Yet, the meaning is huge. After all, a malaria-laden mosquito can do more damage than an elephant. So, the "look" of the testing is no guideline to the bigness of the benefit, the bigness of the meaning, in our Church covenant.


Let's take another example: Christ. What did He want, more than anything? To be one with the Father. To free mankind. So, He had to learn to dock all competing alternatives under those two motives. It was the docking which achieved all those goals. For example, in Matthew 4, Satan really did offer Christ all the kingdoms of the world — a painless victory. No Cross. Christ refused it. Why? Because the Father would not have been paid for sin, which only Christ could do. Because the only way His Human Soul could become big enough to be fully (like) "One" with the Father, was by experiencing the Cross. Also, He refused Satan's offer because, absent payment for sin, people could never be freed from the burden of sin, the me-be-good motive which destroys joy. So, the "competing love" of taking away all our earthly pain would not have been served, by avoiding the Cross.

See? Christ got what He wanted. The Best Way. It wasn't a sacrifice. Why? Because He Loved it that much. He grew up to be big enough to fully get what He really wanted. Including, us (John 17 prayer). In short, Christ would not settle for "less than the Best" for the Father, for Himself, nor for us.

That's what He says life is all about: go for the Best. So, false humility ('Uriah Heep' arrogance!) has no place in the spiritual life. So, it's not evil to "want it all". However, as the Lord explained, no king who's about to go to war ignores the cost. One needs to prepare. Want it? Okay, then train. Train in 1 John's Script. Then, you will be tested against what you most dislike, fear, etc. Get past those, learn how to "dock" those nightmares in God's Love Harbor, and then prepare to get way more than what you could have imagined. Yet still dock what you love the most, "under" Him.

See, if everything is in its proper place, you can get it all. Kinda like a well-organized day, properly-ordered wants can all be achieved without "competition". So, go for it all, by going for God: "keep seeking first the Kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33.) That's not mere rhetoric. It's God's Will for your life! (Note: the "all things" New Testament keyword ties in here, heh, like in Romans 8:28.)


That's our "Footstool" task. If everything goes under His "Feet", then we are Heads. Of polities in the Millennium. Of maybe whole solar systems, in eternity. Which we are designed to rule. Which sufficient growth in Love (Integrity) enables us to enjoy ruling. With Christ! The Happiest Person in the Universe! In short, this Plan fulfills us. It also fulfills all who we end up ruling. It is not wrong, it is not demeaning to be ruled, is it? What, is it a joy to be ruled by Christ? Of course it is. So, what — will those ruled by us, call it "joy" to be ruled by us? Of course they will. God is not inconsistent, is He?

Life Key → It's all thought thought thought thought. Thought alone makes for happiness or misery, thought alone paid for sins, and thought alone pays for mankind even now.


Second Reason for Invisibility: Mankind became blasé toward visible supernaturality, in favor of making self god. So needs the "sign of Jonah": silence. So needs a New Covenant for his preservation: Divine Thinking "in earthen vessels".


Further still, look at the nature of man's reasoning at the time of the Lord's Deaths: men were increasingly skeptical toward fancy displays of godness; like Herod, they had come to want "God" only for entertainment. The flip side of this scoffing: they were increasingly fascinated with the idea of becoming gods. So, since this goal serves Satan the most, it would behoove him to switch tactics, and want any visible supernaturality to be downplayed. Moreover, it makes sense to say that Satan was apprised of the lines of God's Plan, in part so the playing field could be level between them, and so Satan knew that an end to visible supernaturality would be forthcoming. So he fashioned an appropriate counter — man worshipping himself — in preparation.

Ironically, it is Now that man's opportunity to "become like the Most High" is indeed the highest — "in Christ". So, God withdrew visible supernaturality as a system of communication. As prophesied by Isaiah and others, within 40 years after Christ's death, the Temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed, and the Jews would go into dispersion; gone was the entire sacrificial structure, and the Law of Moses became greatly diluted into mere me-be-goodism.

So, too, would become the message of Christ. Even in Paul's travels he constantly had to contend with moralistic apathy among believers — they had also diluted Christ into me-be-goodism. So, over those same 40 years, God phased out visible supernaturality from Christianity, in favor of a written Canon, so folks could have Greater Assurance than mere, doubtable, dreams/visions, or "gifts". Before Paul's ministry even ended, his gift of healing had ceased; in a most unusual weaving rhetorical style which he begins in 1 Corinthians 2, Paul prophesied the end of the spectacular spiritual gifts upon the completion of the Canon (1 Corinthians 13: study it in Greek). That chapter has too many specialized words which have no good English equivalents. Moreover, the threeness repetition style in Greek doesn't work like the English one. Probably have to really exegete from Chapter 2, tracing the keywords to really understand what Paul is saying. He uses this style because the completion of Canon is the biggest promise in Scripture, the gem of the New Covenant promise to Israel. Watch how the Psalm 119 people, who were tortured in their death march to Babylon, cherish this Word, and you'll get some idea how the Jeremiah 31:31-34 promise was of the greatest value to them. The current kissing-the-Torah practice common in every synagogue is in part a reminder of this promise.

After all, as Hebrews 1 says, in the latter days the message would come Only Through The Son. The Son was now "completed" ('perfect', in English Bibles). So, now His Thinking in His Humanity could be codified, a promise long made in the Old Testament (Psalm 138:2b, Jeremiah 31:31-34 are flagship passages), because the "veil" between God and man had been removed, split asunder by the Victory of the Cross. No more a unique Ark, but a unique God-Man. The First — Christ — had been fulfilled, so to establish this Second, Church. (Play on Hebrews 10:9.) The First Adam had been replaced by the Last Adam, so that now, all the promises find their "Yes" in Him. (2 Corinthians 1:20)

And now the Son had Ascended, waiting for His Bride to be prepared. So, we get our fulfillment of the Jeremiah 31:31-34 promise, first: Hebrews 8:8-12 compared in context with Hebrews 10:15-17, plus Hebrews 9:16ff (covenant means testament, Will of the deceased Testator), plus Hebrews 11:39-40. Why? Since the Son is absent, He is invisible. Since the Son has risen, there is no need for the Old Testament visibilities: His Bride, His Witnesses, represent Him.

That's why 1 John says that we are evidence of God in the world, which is a main theme of his epistle, why it is so dramatic. e.g., 1 John 4:12 — keyword 'μένω' has a legal/testimonial/military connotation, as well as the root 'at-home' meaning. If we are evidence, our bodies indwelt by the Spirit (Romans 8:10-11, among other places), then the evidence outside of us would be slim. Sure, there is the universe, but when was the last time an angel got up in front of a group, teaching? Instead, they are learning from us (e.g., 1 Peter 1:12). We are "in Christ" (indwelt by Him, as well as by the Father). We are the evidence to a skeptical, scoffing, man-be-god world. Ironic: here we really are indwelt by the Godhead, the closest thing to being in Hypostatic Union the way He was, and the world says, "Where's God? I don't see Him."


Third Reason for Invisibility: Mosaic Qorban Law was fulfilled, so Now association with Him is Total!


As we just saw in the First and Second Reasons, Our Spiritual lives Are Designed Parallel With Him: Bride. So, Blessing. By Association. With Him. Married.

Passages like Romans 3:20, Romans 3:28, John 1:17, 1 Timothy 1:8-11, Galatians 3:2, Galatians 3:21-26, 1 Corinthians 15:56 all help us to understand that the announced purpose of the Law was to explain God's Holiness by educating man about sin. And, from there, to show how God would solve the problem by means of a Redeemer-to-Come. Within that explanation was the concept of "Qorban", meaning "devoted to God" and thus unavailable for any other use; it's foundational to the concept of redemption. Something — and eventually, the Unique Someone — had to Redeem mankind, and to do that, it had to be wholly offered up to God. The Levitical sacrifices, particularly the whole burnt offerings, depicted this requirement. Idea was, you'd have to be perfect and wholly burnt up for God, to fulfill the Law. Which, no one but Messiah would ever be able to do.

Book of Hebrews thus contrasts the old 'shadow' offerings of animals and food, with the Real Offering of Messiah, so that readers could understand the scale of Qorban was therefore changed to His Own Level of Sacrifice. Hence when Christ did come and did pay, He Forever Sanctified all mankind, and especially Church (Hebrews 10:10-14), which is why salvation is permanent in any covenantal epoch (AKA "dispensation" in KJV). But also, His Payment Fulfilled the Law, which is the main theme of Hebrews 8-10 (see Hebrews 8:1, Hebrews 9:28 through Hebrews 10:1 for the thesis statement). For God is holy, and all those temporary sacrifices of animals and food, didn't really make anything holy: but Christ did (ibid). So the purpose of the Law was to "advertise" Him.

To say Christ "fulfilled" the Law means two things: 1) due to His Total Voluntary Dependence on the Spirit, He fully obeyed every jot and tittle of the Law; and 2) the Law promised a Redeemer: that's what the "Ordinances" (δικαιώματα), AKA "Testimony" (μαρτυρία) meant — and Christ fulfilled the Role and Function of Redeemer.

So, having fulfilled the Law totally, both as to its exigencies and its promise, the Law now 'resides' in Him as the "Seed", the Fulfiller of all Covenants (Galatians 3). That's why He upgraded provisions in the Law even during His First Advent. That's why Now, Seated, He is in fact Ruling — invisibly. That's why now, we are Bride, being "called out" (Biblical term for election, but also for development, has Old Testament precedents). That's why any Jew who believes in Church is one of us, just as we would have been one of them by believing in Christ, back during the time before He fulfilled the Law. So, Our role now has the same 1) and 2) characteristics.

Like everything else in Scripture, when you see what seems to be a contradiction, if the verse is properly analyzed, either the seeming-contradiction is not there, or you've found a boundary line. Below the boundary line, a thing continues; above it, something else replaces. Just as with real property. So it is, with the Mosaic Law's continuance. See, on the one hand, the Law is 'dead', because its purpose was fulfilled by Christ. On the other hand, the Law lives forever, because Christ lives forever. That's why you see verses like: one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law, but yet, the Law is "rescinded" (for the key verb in Hebrews 7:18). Scripture writers reference one or another 'boundary line' for reasons which should be discernible from the context. This is such a common method of explanation in all human languages, it's a wonder that when it comes to the Bible, boundary lines are called 'contradictions'. Amazing: even more so, when so many really smart people, who just don't like Scripture, seize on these boundary lines, yelling, "Contradiction! Bible is bunk!" — and wind up with egg on their otherwise-genius faces.

So because Christ lives forever, and He is Seed, the Law continues under His Rulership: but He is the Source now, having Fulfilled the Law; so the Mosaic Law is set aside. That's what Hebrews 1 is all about. The Book of Hebrews takes great pains to explain what upgrades, and what stays the same. If you read it over a dozen times (or more) in translation, or study it carefully in the original, you realize that the Law was upgraded as a result of the Session, and — most importantly — that because "everything comes through the Son" (Hebrews 1), The Son Alone determines how and what the upgrades should be. We know His Opinion, from the New Testament. The secular provisions were streamlined (no more stoning, etc. for certain sins, and some which were crimes are now solely in the hands of the Lord's Discipline, namely, adultery); and the prior spiritual provisions serve as case law, past guidance, kinda like history lessons, still very instructive about what Salvation etc. mean; but no more special food or food taboos, ritual or special days, for example (except the Eucharist), as Paul explains in Romans 14 and elsewhere, and 1 Corinthians 8:1 onward, etc. Think of these uses of the Old Testament as instruction and case law, our "boy-leader": but now, we are no longer children, says end of 1 Corinthians 13. See also, Galatians 3. I use the literal translations here of παιδαγωγός, for the English translations are too high in meaning, compared to the Greek. The Holy Spirit is Our Mentor, teacher, etc. Someone who was but a supervisor of nearly the same age as those supervised, and not a teacher, is meant by παιδαγωγός. Modern American practice of hiring a "babysitter", usually a teenager, is a good cultural parallel.

Hence the Law Became Intimately United In Him. So it didn't die, but became "better", even: because this bettering had itself been long promised, as part of the "new" covenant (Footstool, the Millennium). Attic 'κρεῖττον' is a gigantic keyword in Scripture, usually translated "better things", referencing the "better things" of the new covenant, main theme of New Testament, main promise of Old Testament. Other words which indicate the same meaning are used in other contexts, so you have to separate out the variant uses: καλός (good), compound words with "φέρω" at the end (Lord liked those a lot), μᾶλλον (pregnant Greek term used often in elative conclusions), and even oblique constructions using "he", a disjunctive particle often translated "or".

This Uniting enables the fulfillment of one of the most-desired provisions in the New Covenant, and the Book of Hebrews spends three chapters explaining it: the promise was that the Jews could one day, know Him intimately. Beginning with the Session, that Promise was fulfilled. (Namely, Jeremiah 31:31-34, which is repeated in myriads of ways in every Old Testament Book, and relied on by, for example, the Psalm 119 people.) Before He completed the Cross, the Law was our schoolmaster (literal, boy-leader in Galatians 3; house-servant (represented by Moses) in Hebrews 3); now, the Lord is The Master, Our Husband (Hebrews 3, Romans 6 and passim); so we get a Mentor, the Holy Spirit; no longer a mere schoolmaster, Galatians 3 and Galatians 5.

So as humans, we skyrocketed from a distant relationship to God, to an intimate one, theme of Ephesians 2. All because the Seed now lives forever; and the "law" lives in the Seed. Enter yet another reason why the Lord took on Humanity and became the Redeemer: by taking on Humanity, the Word could be 'written' in His Human Soul. His Human Thinking became transmissible without risk of killing a (later) recipient believer. All this was meant in the Jeremiah 31:31-34 promise, as a replacement for the missing Ark: the dead Ark would be replaced by a Living One! In one's soul!

To get to the competence level where He could enjoy the Cross (Hebrews 2:9-10's "fitting" clause; Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2) staggers the brain: we can't imagine it. The horrible pressure of knowledge & horror of imputatively-knowing sin was already covered. So, think about what a horrendous pressure on His Humanity it was, not only to know Who He was; not only to know what He was to do; but think very hard about how awesome it was to know the Father from the 'inside'! For, His Humanity would have to know the Father intimately in order to know how to obey, to keep on having sufficient Motive, to go on! For, His Humanity had a unique Task which, was way higher than the Law could handle. Thus, He was Indwelt by the Father, and the Spirit, and was likewise Filled by the Spirit. That structure alone enabled Him to not die from such Intimacy, which of course no human before Him ever had (John 3:34, John 7:39, again). Why He didn't die solely from this pressure alone, amazes me. It's far worse than the Cross He was training for! Or, how else do you think He'd have been able to train for it? You can't execute a task if your training isn't harder than the task you're to execute.


Jesus Christ Upgraded Intimacy to His Own Level with Father — for Church!

There's nothing more shocking than this fact, which Paul so awesomely states in Ephesians 4:13 (paralleling the individual-growth verse in Ephesians 3:19) — we can know God as well as Christ Himself. Verse 13's key clause "to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" is the usual way English Bibles translate the clause, retranslated:

"each one provided for the thorough spiritual training of 'the saints' (believers), to result from his work of feeding Word; to result in, the building of the Body of/belonging to Christ; until we all/each would reach/walk into the Intended Objective/Destination of Life: namely, due to the system from Doctrine, even by means of the believed knowledge of/belonging to the Son of God; into, 'Completed/Matured Hero'; into, the Measure/Allotment of Spiritual Maturity of the Fullness of/belonging to Christ"

But even in basic translation, look: to His Level? There's no mistaking that. God is not kidding when He says He makes us very Sons of God in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26). Now you can see better why: to be Holy, good-enough-for-God, well — only Christ was that good. But we can get His Thinking — and that's required, since the thinking is before Father — forever.

This massively-superior spiritual life is a change from childish, concrete-style knowings, to full-blown intimacy with Infinite God. So, kinda like the difference between knowing your ABC's, and being totally fluent in all the languages ever on Earth, including all the knowledge in those languages. "For no one has seen God at any time", John notes. But now, we can 'see' God fully: through the Son's Thinking.

He changed Old Testament-style concretenesses — to Infinite abstracts. Hence the Old Testament writing style is concrete (Christ coming down in a Body) versus the New Testament's highly abstract reasonings (Christ rose and is Seated). Hence it's an abstract, adult-based understanding we are to (spiritually) acquire, not the babyish, paint-by-numbers Mosaic Law. Obviously this Legacy is way beyond anything humans can do; and, just as obviously, light years beyond so-called 'works'.

Hebrews stresses this fact repeatedly, beginning slowly in Hebrews 2, but then focuses on His Pioneering Spiritual Life almost exclusively from Chapter 5 onward; climax of the explanation is Hebrews 12:2. There, similar to Paul's explanation in 1 Corinthians 13-14, the writer of Hebrews tells the readers that our "now" is an adult spiritual life, as distinct from the childish, concrete 'knowing' available to Old Testament people (i.e., the Law).

Therefore no human limitations hinder the Holy Spirit's ability to provide intimate knowledge of God. When God says No Limitations, He means it. Since most Christians refuse to grasp that Now the spiritual life is adult, abstract-based, they never complete the spiritual life, and end up 'retarded' (so to speak) in eternity. It's "refuse", not "can't help it", or "the dog ate my homework", or "I had a bad teacher", since The Teacher is the Holy Spirit. And if you don't get your Mentor's Teaching, it can only be, because you refused Him.


So, as part of our Legacy from His Fulfilling the Law, we Now can have His "law" (His Thinking, the "law of Christ") written in our souls. Read repeatedly Hebrews 2, Hebrews 7-10; Romans 5-14, passim. The Hebrews passages are quintessential, written from the gigantic Old Testament "promise" of this writing. Its upgraded twin is likewise in two parts: first, the macro Father-designed purpose is exactly this 'writing', panoramically described in Ephesians. But the other quintessential twin-part is in 1 Corinthians 13, a climactic chapter (begun in 1 Corinthians 2, then woven big time into 1 Corinthians 6 onward). Really, the awesome wordplay on how the Head is to get into our heads which Paul weaves in 1 Corinthians should have a separate website. Just read 1 Corinthians a bazillion times in Greek, and with a really good lexicon (Strong's is too weak), parsing out the concepts: you will never ever see Scripture the same way again, afterwards.

We saw in the First Reason for Invisibility that we inherit His Spiritual Life, which means we are to get His Thinking transmitted to us, which those prior to us could not get (John 3:34, John 7:39). Because this intimate contact is His Thinking, it's an invisible way to relate to God. So, the New Testament writing style is largely aerial, not ground-level. So, creative, not prescriptive do's. So, Deductive, not inductive: since the Christ crafted a New Spiritual Life down here, we abstract from Him, so construct the Royal Protocols as they apply to us individually. Just like He did. Takes a lot of intimacy with His Thinking, to do that. No paint-by-numbers. So, one of the reasons All Three Members of the Trinity indwell us, is to protect us from the extreme pressure of this intimacy.

Invisible Intimacy Key → So that is yet another reason why He is not visible to the world Now: we have a different "Way" ('old name for Christianity) to relate to Him. And this "Way", it's light-years bigger than what even the best of the Old Testament believers could receive. For, the Old Testament system of functional relationship with Him was outer-based, kinda like body-contact. After all, knowing someone's soul directly is a far more intense relationship than one 'mediated' through mere body-contact: so how much more intense, to know His Soul? How much more intense, to know Divine Thinking, from the inside? For, Our Lord's Humanity knew the Father, too.

My pastor passed away from Alzheimer's in August 16th, 2009, with his last words being: "I feel very happy". For over 50 years he faithfully taught from the original-language texts of Scripture to a dull-of-hearing congregation, of which I am a part (long-distance now, since he retired due to the illness). As he became worse in year 2000+, God ironically gave him the highest level of Understanding-God's-Nature to teach; for I can't find anything higher on the internet or anywhere else, than his proof (despite his ailment) that "Love is the Integrity of God." Revolutionizes and matures all theology, once you understand that bold statement. Christ received that Integrity in His Humanity via learning Scripture, and that's His Legacy to us, Romans 5:5. So yeah, that's also the only way you become able to resist sin in the process, but the far bigger result is that you Intimately Know God as Christ Himself Did. Nothing in life even begins to compare with Knowing God Intimately. My pastor's materials on this are only available in live-class recordings on MP3. The books so far issued in his name since he retired in 2003 do not reference his teaching from 1997 onward. So get the 1992 Spiritual Dynamics lessons from the beginning, or at least the 1997-2003 almost-daily live recordings of the classes. Underpinning of those 1992+ lessons is in the 1985 Ephesians series (which is 7 years long, daily), and 1977 Romans (which is 4 years long). No price is on the materials and you won't be badgered for money or put on some mailing list. If I knew of anyone else teaching so deeply on God's Nature, I'd mention that pastor, but I can find no one. Seriously. If you learn how God is, that revolutionizes your entire life. Learn Him as your first priority, and everything else troubling you will fall into place much faster, saving you time and rocketing your spiritual growth.

Because, God is pure Thought. So you relate to God, by Thinking Like His Son. Conscious thought is the manifestation of life; it takes up no space, and in God, is timeless. Therefore transcends time and space. It just is. The sum total of all His Beingness is the Thoughtness. All thought of anyone ever is alive 'in' His. That's why the past, especially the Cross, is 'always online & occurring', since Omniscience is one of the Attributes of God's Thought. And more importantly as Christ takes your place for every sin, each moment is therefore a 'snapshot' He constantly lives and experiences for all eternity, while willing the existence and continuation of time each second that passes. That's why you can read thoughts on this page, and the minute you do, they replicate in your own head — yet still stay on the page, and in my head. No energy loss, no mass moved: immaterial. Ne shemmah, the spark of life, is thought. Therefore, the relationship to God is based on thought; in the Old Testament, that relationship had to be buffered by physical mediators: The Mediator being chief among them. Now that the Mediator has come, gone, and is Seated, no more buffering is needed. So, the spiritual life Now is thinking thinking thinking thinking. No more body stuff is used in the contact between God and man — the Cross nailed down all that barrier of physicality, forever: in Him, not merely 'with' Him. So, in the Spirit, not merely with the Spirit. So, the Indwellings, not merely 'Emmanuel', God with us. So the binary inputs are the spiritual transmission and the real life. Far far closer to the way God really is. Now.

Satanic Counter Strategy Key → Satan will still bang the drum on Old Testament visible methods of relating to Him, because they are inferior to what Christ accomplished, and thus no longer needed. So, God will be "too high" to know. Satan needs to keep us in the dark, keep us looking at the ground, so we forget how all barriers to intimacy have been removed. So, you have to "do" things. And/or, you have to "experience" God through miracles, feeling-ceremonies, etc. Because, all these are not the spiritual life, anymore. Because, all these negate learning Him from the inside. So, learning Scripture must be relegated to the homily, merely adjunctive. So do's are more important than knows. So, the 'proper' attitude towards Scripture is lukewarm, dismissive: it should play a subordinate role! So, study of Scripture is relegated to the realm of the curious, the intellectual. So, you must be arrogant or highbrow to study Scripture. So, you must be arrogant or highbrow to understand Scripture in its original languages. Or, conversely, studying Scripture is a 'work' so you get praised for being so 'holy', as if the purpose of studying Scripture was to make-self-good, rather than to get contact with God?!

Second Satanic Counter Strategy Key → Since Satan well knew it would be impossible to forestall awareness that the Seated method of thinking (aerial) is Now the spiritual life, he also authors esoterica. In some measure, he always has, using the sound of the words to induce a trance-like feeling, and hence substitute for truth. Currently, the New Age drivel, with its nice, empty words illustrates the genre. In past years, there have been many versions. Mahayana Buddhism is one; Self-Realization Fellowship (a variant of Hinduism popular in California since the 1930's) is another; O.T.O is yet another; among Judeo-Christian versions, there are the likes of Kabbalism and (some versions of) Eastern Orthodox. There are thousands of versions, both within and without Christendom. In Paul's day, it was gnosticism. You can look all of these up on the internet. They all share the same pattern: lots of fuzzy, nicely-toned words which leave you wondering what-the-heck you read. Kinda like the typical politician's speech, but with even less sense.

For, what the Old Testament folks saw in shadow, we see with unveiled face, as the writer of Hebrews and Paul (in Corinthians) explain. There are no longer any buffers or limitations. Witness, though, how God makes what would otherwise be an impossible-to-withstand intimacy, manageable: you learn Bible Doctrine. See, especially in the beginning, learning Bible Doctrine, His Thinking, will seem like an "it": "it" seems to be telling you about Him. You don't seem to be seeing Him at all. Moreover, the 1 John Script learning process mimics natural learning processes, superficially. Of course, the Holy Spirit is doing the work, but He is very delicate about it. So you sit under your pastor, and with many repeated learnings using the steps as explained in Part 1, you aren't given 'too much' at a time. This seemingly-slow process builds your strength to withstand seeing Him. And, from there, to enjoy seeing Him, rather than being afraid. Gradually, the "it" conceptual-buffering dissolves. You'll come to see the "it" — is Him.

Spiritual-Marital Intimacy, this. For, we are Bride. Frankly, unless and until you come to know Him through that 1 John's Script, you will be just as fearful of Him as any demon. But He's not far away. He Indwells you! So, that fact also means no aspect of your life is 'distant' from Him, either. But Now — Marital-Intimate! As Charles Dickens noted in David Copperfield, "Barkus is willing"! Willing to marry you, His Peggity. You are betrothed to Him, but you could settle for a mere legal relationship: salvation, with no 'extras'. Then again, you can be Intimate with Him in All Things, All The Time, and especially when suffering! See? Satan's big contention was that man would only love God so long as God 'bribed' Job with goodies. Aha. Ok, so what if the greatest intimate joy of being with Him was delivered, so to speak, via suffering? Even the suffering of the Cross? Don't you think that, of all the vicissitudes of His Human Life down here, the most enjoyable time was also the most agonizing time? Wouldn't it be fit for the Father to design it that way? Isn't that what Hebrews 5:8-9 and Hebrews 12:2 shout? Isn't Hebrews 12:1 thus saying we get the same potential?

So, then: are you suffering? He's in you! Are you standing in line, stuck in public transport? He's Right There! Heck, after you learn Him enough you can be in any mundane circumstance, anytime, anywhere — and don't need some magazine, muzak or other 'entertainment'! You'll rather just think of Him, the Doctrine you know, all the time! So, then: do you hate paying your bills? Find some doctrine you can aim at it, and enjoy paying those bills, with Him! Do you feel lonely? Get a hug from doctrine, from Him! Are you being persecuted? Get refuge through Doctrine, in Him! For, Bible Doctrine is the Mind of Christ: 24 hours a day! Do you feel happy? Have a glass of wine or grape juice to Him (Eucharist)! For, all things are by Him, for Him, to Him, through Him, because of Him, all prepositions — Him! (Colossians 1:16-18 + John 1:3.)

Legacy-From-Christ Key → This is the Secret of the Cross. This is the success of the spiritual life, the very heart of it (pun intended)! Once you're seeing Him, you're not seeing sin or temptation! Get it? So: you don't have to memorize prescribed ways of getting this association — you are free to create them. Because, Christ fulfilled the Law (Hebrews 7), for "Christ is the End (our friend "telos", completion) of the Law." (Romans 10:4.) In short, full, complete: that's why Paul also wrote that the Church ends the purpose of history. So, we get a full, complete associative process, now. Each of us can make our own set of associations, 24 hours a day!

My pastor calls how this Associative Thinking works the "Problem-Solving Devices". That reference is an elaboration of Ten Problem-Solving Devices and Spiritual Growth Stages, a brief on how to use those "Problem-Solving Devices". Pure Joy. As shown in the spiritual maturation stages of the First Reason for Invisibility, you can gauge your own spiritual growth by how far right among the Problem-Solving Devices, you use most (i.e., if you rely most on Faith-Rest, you're still in spiritual childhood, but if you're motivated by Occupation with Christ the most, then you're in Spiritual Adulthood or even Pleroma). I can't find any other teacher who provides such an on-hands way of gauging where one is spiritually. We need to monitor our progress: it's a big factor in motivation and maturation, to know where you are on the spiritual map. Of course, that was covered extensively in the First Reason for Invisibility. But here, you find out why — to become intimate with Christ! The Old Testament people couldn't get this Intimacy — but we can. So they had cookie-cutter rules. So we don't.

My pastor discusses this fact of our Upgraded Spiritual Life in a most dramatic way. For a long time I didn't understand why he kept on saying that the Mosaic Law's sophistication is mere spiritual childhood, for Church. Meaning, that the highest advancement a Moses could get, is but childhood for us! Further, what my pastor calls the "Advanced Problem-Solving Devices were not available to the Old Testament folks. It sounds like the big changeover to +L being a component of +I occurred sometime back when he re-exegeted 1 Corinthians 13, given his stress on the monadic nature of the article (he agape) there, + how μακροθυμέω should be translated "not swayed by emotion" given the etymology of the term found by Johannes Horst. Those, plus the other passages he mentions in these lessons, really appear to have been the 'lightbulbs' for him. At least they were for me, when hearing him talk about them.

Because, Christ invented an Adult, For-Father, Inside, Intimate, Highest-Level-Of -Love while He was here. A child's 'love' isn't really love at all, but need. The child can't really love until he grows up. At which point, the love still has to go through a maturation process. When mature, love has definite giving characteristics which dominate. Receiving isn't the need, anymore; Giving is. Until Christ, mankind couldn't grow up to have an Adult Spiritual Love for God. There was no justification for it, until the Seed — for, the Seed is supposed to Give to Father. Until then, the relationship to Father was only through the future Seed, so mankind had direct-but-buffered contact with Son's Deity, only.

John 3:34, John 7:39 confirms, Hebrews is basically on this topic, and 1 Corinthians 13's wordplay in Greek explains it basically as a body analogy: The Head-in-writing, AKA "Love", "Perfect" renders what went before, even pre-Canon, "like a child". From "Love never fails" to "the greater (corrected translation) of these is Love" you have a complete parallelism in threeness style to explain how this Thinking Love is to be put from His Head into ours, in writing. So Paul is saying that all those spectacular substitute-teaching-until-Canon-Completed gifts were childish, compared to this Love, His Word in our hearts, the "better gifts" we are to seek.

All because, He is the Qorban now, theme of Hebrews 10. Not limited, His Sacrifice, but all of Him. So no longer limited, because of Him, our relationship to God. So all of us are Qorban, too. No barriers. If you're familiar with brain dendrites, think of this changeover from the Old Testament as going from a few dendrites to a bazillion of them. That's a huge jump in the scope of the ability to think. So, in the ability to relate. Utterly shocking.

So the level of love-intimacy we can have as Church is light-years higher than what the Old Testament folks could get. Because, there was (and of course is always) this Bridegroom Whose Thoughts invented that level of love in His Humanity. Because in His Humanity, the difficulty of Divine Knowledge killing us is overcome. So we can know more. Love is a Knowing, not a feeling, and we get the most of it. Misery, likewise, is a Knowing, not a feeling — so we can get more of that, too — only by rejecting this So-Great Lover. Can't lose salvation, can't lose Royal nature, can lose Fellowship, Intimacy. And be married, yet forever distant. For us, that is the biggest tragedy. Rank has its privileges, but also the misery to go with rejecting them. Wealth = Responsibility = Love. Learn it, or lose it, your choice.


Fourth Reason for Invisibility: Invisibility maximally tests Love-for-God, especially in the face of visible alternatives.


As Paul would explain in Romans, "who hopes for what he sees?" We see nothing. The world sees nothing. Satan claimed, if you'll remember in Trial Argument #3, folks genuinely didn't know God existed, despite the "evidence" of the physical universe, Romans 1:19-20, Matthew 4:6.

That claim didn't hold much water in the Old Testament, since supernatural manifestations were frequently visible. That's why the old supernatural "god" myths are so globally-prevalent. They are based on people frequently seeing supernatural manifestations, and then rejecting God; in their rejection they create animal-gods and other substitutes, Romans 1:21. Nonetheless, in the Bible and other 'holy' books, there's a taken-for-granted tone to the writings about such manifestations. The kind of miracle, its scope or meaning, might be impressive. The kind of deity might be pondered, doubted, debated. But the fact of deity, supernaturality was simply and easily accepted. Why? Such manifestations were commonplace. Now those manifestations are gone, from God's "end". So now, it's easier to believe Satan's side of the #3 Trial Argument. If you cruise the Old Testament you'll find a lot of people who are scoundrels also getting input from God directly or via an angel, like Balaam, the king who took Sarai, the Philistines, Cain, Pharaohs, Rabshakeh, Nebuchadnezzar before his zoanthropy, Cyrus, etc. And that's just the from-God category. Demons manifesting was commonplace, namely, the Oracle of Delphi. So the supernatural manifestations were of course more numerous the more mature you were, but they weren't restricted to believers or mature believers, by any means.

The most important Trial reason for going-invisible is this: Christ had the "invisible" burden of "kenosis": not using His Own Deity, but rather depending on the Power of the Holy Spirit and the Bible Doctrine the Spirit built in His Human Soul. Yet at times, just enough to make it difficult! He was to use His Deity, for certain miracles. Why? Because the people needed proof He was the real Messiah. Such proof had been prophesied, so that people could use the prophecies to separate false from true Messiahs — of which Israel had suffered many. So, Christ had to do things like "disappear in the midst" when folks wanted to stone Him. Or, turn water into wine. Yet on the Cross, as well as before, He didn't use His Deity to "save Himself", as one of the Cross onlookers would (nastily) comment. So, when He used His Deity, it was solely under the Father's orders. Even though, He could have used His Own Deity for any reason He personally chose!

Here we have to take a Greek-geek side trip to explain "kenosis", because Christian theology is generally puerile on the topic, forever trapped in 'bodily' interpreting Bible, missing its more mature meaning. Like in most languages, in Greek the 'normal' meaning of a word changes depending on what other words are used with it. The ancient use of the verb κενόω had an etymological and often literal meaning of "to empty" (emphasizing usually the result, not so much the pouring-out action), but clearly the term is figurative in Philippians 2:7, the flagship verse on kenosis. There, the figure explains what He put on (humanity), to show that κενόω is like doffing clothes — or, more aptly, covering up the nature underneath, so that only the 'clothes' of His Humanity, are visible to humans. Isaiah uses this same analogy with "toar", the Incarnation word in Isaiah 53:14, Isaiah 53:2-4 (then branching to other visible metaphors like lamb, in Isaiah 53:7). Now this isn't too hard: if you take off your clothes, your own person didn't change. So contrary to the silly refrain in some denominations, Godness does not "empty itself", 🤣.

Some lexicons note that κενόω in the figurative use means "divestiture" (an English term with the root idea of taking off clothes), a laying aside of privileges. For example, to take on a high government job in the United States, you must set aside all your assets in what is called a "blind" trust — the idea being that you can't thus influence your own assets with government policy, as a result. In short, the point here about "κένωσις", is Objectivity and Humility. Not some kind of loss.

Coupled with the Greek words for what the Lord puts on, slavemanship, you see clearly that Paul is talking about the figure, like clothing. Of course, common sense would tell you God can't be 'emptied', but then common sense doesn't operate much in Christendom. It's this κενόω, mistranslated "to empty" in Philippians 2:7, which gives birth to kooky ideas like Christ was only Human until He died, the horrible religious persecutions in Byzantine Rome over His Hypostatic Union in the second-fourth centuries, etc. Such folks can't read Matthew 4 or Philippians 2:5-10, so of course are truly stumped when Paul talks about being 'clothed' with Christ — for centuries, even until today. How blind we Christians are! How great is the Holy Spirit's unblinding Work!

"Kenosis", essentially means to set aside abilities/ rights/ privileges you have in yourself — in favor of another's. Love alone can be the motivation to do this, and Love alone is demonstrably the only happy reason to do this. If you love NASCAR, you set aside whatever else you could do while the race is on (usually) each Sunday, and watch it. You don't call that a sacrifice, you call it a joy! If you love Bible, you set aside whatever else you could do that day in favor of Bible class, and you don't say, "oh, I'm being good!", but rather "Oh, how wonderful, to have this!"


Love 'Law' of Kenosis CrossOver

Here are a few quick examples.

So watch the viral effect:

Here's the converse:

Test that bold statement, which hereafter I'll call "CrossOver"; see how it's not only a sort of spiritual law, but operates in every other sphere; and in all spheres, is just as predictable as the law of gravity. Weak link in the chain! As per the wrong amount of lubricant that felled a plane in Y2K: they showed the part on television — it looked like a pipe — think of that. A mere pipe, improperly lubricated, wrecked 200 lives! So it is, with the law of the CrossOver.

Satan's CrossOver was that he got stuck in Love's Attraction and (some of the) Compatibility stages. So he just wouldn't get past kenoting himself, so to speak, in favor of the Son. The Son, Who alone was by nature good enough for God, Grew Up All The Way In Love Due To All Those Divine Deposits of Doctrine from the Holy Spirit; so Jesus had the exact opposite orientation: to Him, eschewing the use of His Own Attributes was a Privilege, a way to pour out Love for the Father; and, for us.

"...Christ used the Power of God to execute the Love of God, rather than the Power of His Own Deity to execute His Own Worthiness." For Love, loves. Thus Love, κενότης. It's not a sacrifice, but a privilege. So, needs no, wants no, 'reward'. So, says no, wants no, has no "works" component in it. Remember, it was the Fall which 'invented' works out of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If no good nor evil is known, then no works can be known, for "works" bespeak improvement. (See John 6:26 through John 7 in this connection. NIV gives the flavor well.) In the Son's Attitude, Love conquered all. So, as Paul so deftly records in Philippians 2:5-10, the Son preferred to go to a death on the Cross, rather than give into Satan's normal-wants, normal-good-deeds offers in Matthew 4.

Think about it: children are constantly making ego issues of themselves and what they do: why? Because they Do Not Understand The Intrinsic Value of what they do, so resort to ego valuations — something they do appreciate. Neither do we humans, understand the Extreme Value of Divine prescriptions. So we behave like children, and don't learn the value — because we don't want to learn it. Worse, we are human, so we are fettered by needs everywhere. It's normal to want a whole lot of things, no sin in wanting. But — where the want competes with God, that's a big problem. Bigger than the need to have 'whatever', is the need for rapport with God. If one wants to be happy, that is. God's Plan is to enable having all wants dock harmoniously in a hierarchy, so one can get all of them, without compromise. This, to parallel God's own Infinite homeostatic Happiness: "+H", as my pastor likes to call it.

So, then: Integrity Love is Abnormal. One has to become abnormal about normal wants, in order to dominate them, so one doesn't lose inviolability with respect to Rapport/Love of God. First Commandment. If God isn't First, then the other wants become 'god', for the lowest one which wins over God, so to speak, takes His Place in our values: the law of the CrossOver 'replaces' the Cross! Which, of course, is the history of the Trial, the meaning of that Tree in the Garden, the history of the human race. Not good! Ergo, like in war, to get good, we have to fight. Have to fight the body with exercise, to make the body healthy. Have to fight normal wants, to make one's rapport with God healthy. This is impossible, though: ahhh, but not impossible if the Holy Spirit is running your life! 1 John 1:9 and your right pastor — your freedom to learn and use Bible Doctrine! This is Kenosis, this is how the Lord did it all the way to and through the Cross. This is our Legacy from Him, even as we receive the same spiritual life He had; this is Christian marriage (covered below). All this grace! Pretty abnormal, huh?

So also, we are to live: abnormally. 'On God's orders, not on what we want to do. On the Holy Spirit's Power, not our own — the closest thing to being in Hypostatic Union a fallen human can have. See 2 Corinthians 5 and Romans 8 in this connection, each whole chapter. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 are especially cool: a circle of Love. See, Greek "of" is usually (not always) communicated in the genitive case. Belonging-to. But, from whose perspective? 2 Corinthians 5:14's "Love of Christ" — subjective genitive, that Christ is the One Loving, or objective genitive, we love Him? Well, think of what Paul has been saying in this chapter, and says after the verse: it's a Love Circle! First, Christ loved us (1 John 4:19 ties in here); as a result, we come to love Him. So, first, subjective, then objective, genitive: the Love that belongs to Christ, He has for us; as a result, His Love being poured into us via Spirit's pouring Doctrine (i.e., Romans 5:5) causes us to Love Him. And that Love, belongs to us. So, as 2 Corinthians 5:15 notes, we live for Him now: left side of the Love equation becomes the right side. (Romans 6-8 uses the same math-path.) Clearly, that's pretty abnormal. Supernatural, in fact. The Holy Spirit's Filling Ministry, in fact.

This is Divine Love, not human love. So it takes decades to get it. God being undivided, His Truth being poured into us means all the other Attributes would be cycling as well — ergo the need to be Filled, for Only God Can Run This Thing. But if you are Filled and absent sufficient Truth, there's not enough 'room', so to speak, for the other Attributes to function. So that's why, back in the First Reason for Invisibility, we saw how Christ Himself had to be filled up with Truth, to Love God. It's not magic, it's a process of Learning which God continually runs, it's alive. That's how Infinity can cycle inside finity, what Paul means in Ephesians 3:15-19. Subjective then objective genitive. Operational Compatibility, despite the fact we are sinner humans. You don't learn Bible in a day (or even any secular occupations in a day), and you certainly don't learn Love until you've been in God's System for decades. First you have to unlearn almost all your human ideas, replacing them with God's Apodoses. Then you have to live on what you learned, and get to Spiritual Adulthood before the Love is even built. Then, you go through this longish phase of falling in love with God, which is fraught with all the human love problems — being anal, mistaking love for emotion, not knowing what to do with the self because God is where self used to be in your thoughts — but it all settles out into Divine Love conquering those natural human traits and needs, in Pleroma Maturity. So really, it's not until nearly the end of your life, when you actually fulfill the First Commandment.

The Old Testament people couldn't even get to our Spiritual Adulthood: their "love" was akin to our Spiritual Childhood. For, until Christ Himself went far beyond the Law in Intimacy with Father, there was no human soul to 'copy' into other humans. So the best the Old Testament folks could get, was a souped-up version of human love: much higher integrity, yet of mainly human characteristics. The Bible heroes did an awesome job with the lower life they had. But that's all childhood for us, just the same, theme of Galatians 3.

My pastor taught this fact for decades. Gist is, we get His Own Soul cloned into us, now. That's why we Church get commands to think like Christ, i.e., 1 Corinthians 2:16, Philippians 2:5-10, Hebrews 12:1-2, dozens of different thinking verbs in the Greek throughout the New Testament. The Lord changed the First Commandment, upgraded it versus Deuteronomy 6:5. Compare Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27, notice that "mind" isn't in the Old Testament command, but the Lord inserts it. "Heart" stands for believing Word, "soul" is where you do that, but "mind" is διάνοια, which is "understanding", specifically the function of it. An athletic cycling of thinking — well, the Old Testament people didn't have the Mind of Christ, so they couldn't do that. But when He came, He was teaching them, and of course that teaching was put in writing, after He died. So then "mind" insertion into the First Commandment, could be done. Which means the other three, "heart", "soul" and "strength" — would all be bigger. But not until Christ, could this happen.

So yeah, it takes a lifetime — but no one prior to Church, even had the opportunity to know God this well. So bear in mind that this kenosis process of Love for God triumphing over all else, is a lifelong thing; it will always be at odds with your life and nature, as you persist in God's System. True Love is an Absolute Honor, and humans just aren't capable of that. Holy Spirit alone can build it. So you must live an abnormal life, constantly competing with normal needs and wants, in favor of this Love growing in you. It's a fight to the death. And as you progress in it, you won't be satisfied by anything else.

Ergo, our lives are deliberately designed to parallel His: that's the main theme in 1 John, especially at the beginning of 1 John 2 and 1 John 4:17. And what was His Life? Matthew 4:4. Not flash, not works, not do's. So, our happiness and love and joy are likewise designed to parallel His: that too, is the main theme in 1 John (and everywhere else in the New Testament, frankly). So, we don't get to do flashy miracles for others, to prove we are Evidence of God, for the flashy miracles were only for Israel's covenant, and that covenant is temporarily on hold. So, the Cecile B. DeMille type-days are gone, during Now: "behold, new things have come!" as Paul exulted in 2 Corinthians 5:17. That's why Christ Himself is not doing flashy miracles today. Rather, Christ Himself is Ruling, and He uses the 'sign of Jonah': Silence, in favor of getting Bible Doctrine. Luke 11:29-30; read whole of Jonah too, in order to understand what the Lord means in Luke, bearing in mind that Jonah spent the rest of His Life teaching Bible Doctrine to Assyria, and his tomb is there.

Our "miracle" is to learn Bible Doctrine, God's Script, in God's System. Constantly. As 1 John keeps stressing, and Romans 12:2-3 (among other passages, e.g., Ephesians 3:15-21) confirms, learning and using Bible Doctrine transforms us, so that we eventually learn to Love at a level impossible for humans. That's the miracle, far greater than flash: "love for the brethren" — which only spiritual growth via 'metabolizing' doctrine produces. For, in learning Christ, we learn to see as He sees. So this transformation is actually a 'crossover' of its own: we cross over from our own view, to His. And His, is Divine (not human) Love.

So it makes a lot of sense that, as 1 John 1:8-10 makes clear, not "eating" Doctrine is worse than sin, for us: we are supposed to have the Truth in us, not make God out to be a liar (i.e., denying Jeremiah 31:31-34's promise). 1 Corinthians 2, 2 Corinthians 5, Romans 6-8 (especially Romans 8) all tie in, here. For the Holy Spirit is Our Mentor and Depositor; being 'spiritual' means being "Filled" with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18, + "not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord", etc). And what does "Filling" do? Well, as Romans 8:4 in the Greek explains, the purpose of the Filling is to "fill up" = "πληρόω", which we saw back in the First Reason for Invisibility is a big Bible keyword. English translation of Romans 8:4 usually says "fulfilled"; which is ok, if you understand that Filling-up is done by the Filling of the Spirit to make you fulfilled in Righteousness. That means, filling up our imputed Righteousness (see 2 Corinthians 5:21 in this connection), spiritually. Rest of Romans 8 explains how spirituality means 'things of the Spirit', which of course must mean that the Spirit does the Work. For, as Romams 8:8-10 explains, the sin nature is at war with the Spirit, and can't obey. Hence the need for 1 John 1:9, to stay spiritual.

The desert God of the Israelites always condemned works. Isaiah 64:6 likens them to menstrual rags (literal Hebrew). That's why no man-made altar was 'ok'. That's why Moses had to take off his man-made shoes when standing on the same ground as the Burning Bush. That's why the Bush burned, for crying out loud (the Old Testament equivalent of the 1 Corinthians 3 contrast between gold, and stubble). The idea was and remains that only what God does, is Holy, Good. All else is only fit for burning. Thus, the only way God would let David have a Temple, is if God "endued" the builders (Oholiab, etc) via the Holy Spirit, and even that would wait until David's death, for his son Solomon would not be warring. "Endued" is such a vague English word. It's often misunderstood, from what I can find in Christian literature about the term. The Hebrew significance is clearer, since obviously the Holy Spirit took Samson's strength and greatly increased it; took Oholiab's skill, and greatly increased it. That's not Filling, but endowing (which I think is a better term), meaning to add to something the person already has. Theological term, though, is "enduement". By contrast, the Church is endowered — hence, Filled; from nothing-of-her-own, but everything from her Father! Like any proper Bride, especially for Such a Groom!

Note that pattern: God does all the work; moreover, He does Temple-Building work only through the Spirit, and only in conditions of peace. So, it's totally consistent, this Kenosis of Christ, for Kenosis is Peace. No 'competition'. So it's totally consistent, that we Church, who are also likened to a Temple (for the Cornerstone), have to be filled with the Spirit or whatever we do is dung, Philippians 3:8.

Apart from this (unfelt!) Filling status, one is "carnal" and hence never learns Christ. That's the problem the Corinthians had, and that's why Paul spends so much time explaining to them what spirituality is. Since the Canon was not complete yet, part of the Corinthian problem was to distinguish between what spirituality actually was, and the visible gifts they got, to get the spiritual information during the interim. So, Paul shows that the spiritual life requires supernatural perception, as 1 Corinthians 2 explains in detail. Not works. Not dreams, visions, etc. By 1 Corinthians 14, Paul makes it clear that the gifts are just stand-in's, child-like devices (see end of 1 Corinthians 13 for the true beginning of that concept). So, once the "adult" version of the spiritual life is in place, nothing visible or natural is the spiritual life, anymore, because the Holy Spirit alone will use His Power to Deposit The Son's Thinking in us. Same way as He did, for Our Christ. Bible uses "deposit" in a lot of ways: downpayment, escrow, and 'deposit' like a deposit of money. Greek words aren't all properly translated so the English reader can see all this financial wordplay. But in NIV, there is an attempt. Ephesians 1's escrow-funding words aren't translated, but Holy Spirit as "Deposit" (downpayment) is in 2 Corinthians 1:22, 2 Corinthians 5:5. Doctrine as "deposit" is in 2 Timothy 1:14. Wish all the financial words were acknowledged in the English!

So it's worse than sin, to not use 1 John 1:9, for in rejecting that, one rejects the Holy Spirit. The more I examine the verses about this and hear my pastor's teaching on it, the more I get the strong impression this is the Christian 'side' of "blaspheming the Holy Spirit" ('unforgivable sin' of never-believing in Christ); no loss of salvation, but permanent loss of inheritance.

Of course, every sin requires rejection of Bible Doctrine, too: but it's for the rejection of Doctrine, not the sin per se, that we are punished. Christ died for sins already, so we can't get judged for them: not even the unbeliever can be judged for them (see Revelation 20:11ff). Instead, just as the unbeliever is judged for his works (ibid), so also, are we. Our rejection of Truth is just as the unbeliever's: as he substitutes his works for Truth, so also we reject Truth in favor of a substitution; for, activism, works, feeling, ritual are all synonymous and evil, since they are all things man does on his own power. Man's own, not God's.

"Evil" is to substitute something else for God. That's why the Garden Tree was named "Knowledge of Good-and-Evil", for there is no difference between the two: the moniker "good" is masked evil, compared to relatively-honest (i.e., gross) evil. 1 Corinthians 3 records the judgement for the Christian's own works: only fit for burning. Adam chose the woman over God, and called it "good". So, has been making fig leaves in the name of "good", ever since. But, to hide that fact, separates out the grosser rebellions and calls only them 'evil'. So calls his "good", "godly". Which God should credit, of course! Is there a greater hatred of God than this? 1 John 1:8-10, a theme which continues through the rest of his epistle, replies a resounding no, there is no hatred greater, and it ends in the sin face-to-face-with-death. (1 John 5:16, corrected translation of that clause.)

When you are dying, you know what's the score. If an unbeliever, you know you are rejecting the Gospel, because it's your last call, and God is making it clear to you. If you are a believer, you know you have refused 1 John 1:9, and it's your last call; and God is making it clear to you. Granted, for some this last call refused, might lead to a coma or other vegetative state, so we don't think the person dead. But death is an internal condition of evil so permeating the soul, that you know you hate God. And you are glad to hate Him. So all those people in hell are enjoying their CrossOver to Hatred so much, they barely feel the flames (and it wouldn't matter if the flames were swapped out with Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia). Read Luke 16:19ff, notice the manipulative attitude of the guy in Torments: he immediately requests for Lazarus to dip his mere finger in water (implying he wasn't even serious as someone would ask for a proper drink of water), doesn't think about or ask God, and hyperfixates on Lazarus despite him not even being in the direct proximity but far in the distance probably amongst millions of people before Abraham's bosom was emptied out. All of Luke 16 is on the self-righteous crowd. Hatred fuels self-righteousness, the ultimate, hellish outcome of the CrossOver: in the soul. Nerd Note: Luke 16:12 is the key verse in Luke 16, for the "true riches" are elsewhere defined in Bible as the Word itself; here, Christ's Thinking. No one sins who doesn't make a self-righteous argument that he deserves something. So all sin is based on self-righteousness, and all self-righteousness is based on hatred. For to be self-righteous requires that something/someone else, be put down. So those using Luke 16 to put down the rich, prove themselves unable to read that chapter, and need 1 John 1:9 so they can breathe again. We all do!

See why Paul used the swear word σκύβαλα in Philippians 3:8, to describe his own religious works? What is Paul saying, with such a coarse epithet? That works stink; that they are best gotten out of you, away from you, flushed out of your life! Yes, it's a swear word: my pastor has spent a lot of time explaining it. When trying to talk about it in a chat room among Greek geeks, I was kicked out of the room. Modern Greek version is "σκατ", and I was able to verify that, too. Of course, the Modern Greek term is also a biological term for animal dung. So of course, the ancient Greek σκύβαλα is prudishly translated "dung" in KJV, or — worse — "rubbish" in other English versions. Man's self-righteousness knows no bounds. As usual, we are censoring God.

Paul ought to know: in Acts he had made a Nazarite vow in the Temple as a political compromise to make Peace(!) with the Jerusalem legalists, thus murdering the very teaching he'd previously instructed under the Holy Spirit to the Thessalonians, Galatians, Corinthians, and Romans! (Romans 21ff, but read all previous chapters for background; also 1 Corinthians 15:1-10, Romans 11:13, Romans 15:24ff, Galatians 2 for background) Due to James' calling in his past favor (Acts 21:25; L1586S2) to start Paul out in the to-Gentiles' ministry, and due to Paul's own emotion — Paul got religious, again. And God sent him where God had previously told Paul to go — Rome — but, under the circumstances of Paul's refusal, God sent him to Rome in chains. Hence the autobiographical tinge of Paul's comment in Philippians 3:18-19.

Once Paul got to Rome, what did God give Paul to "do"? Did the Holy Spirit tell Paul to 'do' a charity act, since Paul was wealthy, which is why Paul funded that dang vow at James' suggestion; which is why bribe-happy Felix incarcerated Paul for so long, Paul finally appealed to Caesar? Once Paul is safely under house arrest in Rome, did the Holy Spirit give Paul a ritual of some kind? Or, Indulgences? Or even "penance" of any kind whatsoever? No No No No — God the Holy Spirit gave Paul Doctrine To Write, just as He had done before. Hence, the so-called "prison epistles", the most concentrated and highest-level doctrinal communication in the Bible. Philippians, for example, was written under house arrest. By then, though, Paul had learned Philippians 2:5-10 is the way to live the spiritual life, not works. Φρονέω, thinking, not doing. God's Power, not man's.

So works, disobey: for then we aren't 'running' under the Holy Spirit's Power like Christ did; meaning, our thinking 'running' (Philippians 2:5ff). So, we get punished for that. (Hebrews 12:5-12, in context of Hebrews 12:1-2 in the Greek; English is much harder to follow.) Punished big time: if we don't wake up, the punishment escalates all the way to capital punishment, like it nearly did for Paul (1 John 5:16; see also Philippians 3:18-19). Kinda raw, ain't it, to be executed for doing good deeds? But kinda evil, ain't it, to prefer your doings to having His Truth in you (1 John 1:8-10, again)? It's the Word of the Cross that's the Work of the Cross! No wonder the writer of Hebrews accused his readers of murder: "crucifying the Son afresh" by their works! (Hebrews 6:6.) So, shouldn't one be executed, if one persists in stabbing Him? That's what works do: doo-doo murder! If Paul, the #1 apostle in God's Opinion, was prone to this problem — how much more, we?

Bible calls this disobedience "ἀδικία", usually translated "unrighteousness" or "wrongdoing" in English, the last word in 1 John 1:9; and if you trace the word and its synonyms in the Greek of New Testament carefully, you'll find it is used in connection with grieving, quenching, or lying to the Spirit, Who is the One Who builds Truth in us. Just like He did, for Our Christ. So it's ἀδικία, ἄδικος, unrighteous, wrongdoing! to not be kenotic. To not live on Bible Doctrine, to not have the Truth in us. Just like 1 John 1:8-10 vividly says (note how John crafts parallel clauses in that passage, carefully matching the last clause in 1 John 1:8 to the last one in 1 John 1:9; to the last one in 1 John 1:10). Colossians 3:25 uses the same terminology. Colossians 1:9-10 are the contextual base, so in Colossians 3:25, Paul's calling wrongdoing, not getting the Truth in you. Of course, English translations of Colossians 1:9-10 are all mangled: for they reverse the Greek's Doctrine = "Fruit" meaning in those two verses. First of all, the terms in those two are anarthrous, to signify only Divine Work and Divine Enabling and Divine Production: so the Filling of the Spirit is presumed. You learn about anarthrousness in first-year-Greek in seminary. So to reverse the meaning to man, is flat blasphemy. Moreover, the translators overlooked the basic grammar rule that in Greek, participles always precede or underly the action of the main verb; also, the rule that the most important stuff is placed at the end of the clause or sentence, in order to stress basis or importance (same rule is in modern Russian). So in the God-breathed Greek, the participles in Colossians 1:10 prove that because you learn under the Spirit, "fruit" is the learning, and that's the work God is doing! So to refuse the Spirit is "wrongdoing", ἀδικία, in Colossians 3:25. It's really clear. But English translations make God's Word of no importance, giving man's doo-doo's, replacing importance. Such translated reversals illustrate the classic satanic Second-Temptation method of murder-by-distortion, applied on us hapless Christians. So this complaint is not against the translators, but rather more evidence of the Trial defendants, preying on us. So we need 1 John 1:9 as protection against their predations.

Galatians 6:7 and Hosea 4:6 and Hosea 8:7 show the rule here is consistent, in the Old Testament. In short, works were never dikaios (righteous, just) without living on Doctrine while doing them. Sins always result from rejection of God's Word, from Satan's own fall, forward. But the real ἀδικία/wrongdoing, is the rejection itself. Sin is but the excuse or the follow-through substitute one adopts: deceiving himself, of course. Just like John is saying in 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10.

Therefore, ἀδικία and ἄδικος are exactly the reverse of δίκαιος, righteous, so you can see why "unrighteousness" is often the translation, but in English, that's fuzzy. The words are also very pregnantly used in the (LXX) Old Testament and the Gospels (the Lord uses ἀδικία a lot) — do a search on these terms in any popular Bible software.

The root meaning of ἀδικία (the noun) or ἄδικος (the adjective) is, abuse of justice by a judge. In other words, someone in a position of public trust misuses his authority. So it's not just any ol' small thing, that "ἀδικία" references. If you are not on God's Script in God's System, you are worse than a murderer, because you are in a public-trust position and are abusing your position. We are Royal Family of God. As you'll see in the Second Main Characteristic, that means everything we think is of epic importance in the Trial, and hence on earth, impacting history. My pastor stresses these facts so much (how else do you think I learned about ἀδικία), he spent a good seven years on a daily basis, exegeting Ephesians to prove the parameters to us. Hence Due Disclosure sketches those parameters: you'd not want to spend seven years to learn them, right? Take it very seriously, to be in God's System. For you will get it very seriously, if you are not.

Overall, ἀδικία and its cousin ἄδικος range in meaning from 'false testimony', to 'disputation', to 'wrongdoing', the gamut of rejection/rebellion. Notice, also, when you search (my pastor's classes tipped me off to this fact): no one in the Old Testament ever got purification from ἀδικία, but only ceremonial cleanliness. But we do get purification: καθαρίζω in 1 John 1:9, usually translated 'cleansed' in English, really means "purified". If we use 1 John 1:9, we are purified of all wrongdoing/unrighteousness; no longer just the symptoms are treated (that's "cleansed"), but the disease! For, ἀδικία accelerates the addictive sin-nature sickness we inherited from Adam, even more than sin does, because ἀδικία is an advance on sin — which is to say, evil. Analogy: people go to hell because they reject, not because they sin; the rejection is the evil. So to be purified from ἀδικία, is greater than any 'cure' man could dream of! See how great is our salvation? Folks in the Old Testament didn't have the Mind of Christ available to them, because He hadn't become Human yet (John 3:34, John 7:39). But we do. So we can be purified on the inside; they could only cleanse the surface, so to speak (see Hebrews 9-10 on this, it's a main theme of those chapters).

Greek verb καθαρίζω is used for purification in 1 John 1:7 and 1 John 1:9, but I don't see it used the same way anywhere in the Old Testament; instead, καθαρίζω is only used in the Old Testament for purifying the temple, the altar, its implements! Since John is very careful to use LXX terminology, this has to be a deliberate parallel; that we are purified analogous to the way the Temple was; and (verse 7) that Christ's Blood does the purifying (John's way of saying what the writer of Hebrews wrote in Hebrews 6:19, bookending to Hebrews 9:11-14). And of course, that makes sense! For we are a Temple (1 Corinthians 6:19), that's why the Spirit Indwells us. John uses μένω a lot deliberately to reference Shekinah Glory, in his writings (Shekinah is not a Bible word, but the concept sure is), and 1 John repeatedly stresses the importance of being in fellowship using μένω, treating it as a synonym for κοινωνία, from which we get the English word "communion". Wow: this topic could easily take one hundred pages to explain! Closest Old Testament concept is really a setting-apart due to the Nazarite vow, for only the period of the vow: LXX uses "ἁγνίζω" in Numbers 6, of course. So does Acts 21:24, the infamous vow of purification Paul got into. Καθαρίζω is not used. Amazing. Moreover, further searching on the verb and its cognates in LXX shows that it was a promise of future purification, post-death. Because, ὁ Χριστός (LXX term) had not yet come. The Temple represented His Paying for sins and us being purified in Him — hence it was the Temple which was purified — see Isaiah 53:10 in LXX, where καθαρίζω is used on He Who was made sin for us. So the Old Testament people couldn't get purification. But we can. So if we refuse 1 John 1:9, we are liable to much more discipline; which Paul is warning about, in Colossians 3:25. Note how the concept was known well in the Old Testament, hence the fact that John's writing a generation later tying back to Paul and the Old Testament, is very specific. God help the believers who don't learn this! Scares me to death!


Evil, ἀδικία, or Κένωσις, Marriage?

Let's pause to look at evil for a bit. Sin is kinda like slipping on a banana peel, but evil is calling the slip, 'good'. Hebrew term for "Tree of the Knowledge of Good-and-Evil" literally equates both good and evil as two sides of the same coin. Self-righteousness is the base of all evil; the homosexual's sin of same-sex is but a sin, but his justification of it, is evil. So, every time that justification is used, the person thus justifying himself becomes more evil. Line upon line. Until hopelessly tangled. At the so-called 'opposite' end, the self-righteous prolifer is also evil, for he justifies his crusading, rather than letting God handle it, for the self-righteous 'Christian' crusader lusts. For the crusader, is looking man-man, rather than at God-man: instead of looking to God, he looks to man; so in effect, has 'intercourse' with man, refusing God's solution. It's a major topic in Isaiah, and has parallels in the New Testament (eyeservice, men pleasers, don't be like the Pharisees, etc). Hence evil thought semen, in members of the same 'kind'.

Paul makes this very analogy in Romans 2 onward, equating moral evil, to immoral evil. Paul does the same thing in Galatians. The second you crusade, you are just as evil as Satan. Whether you know it or not. For God, not man, Alone works. Satan doesn't like that fact, and the crusader doesn't, either. So, not merely sin, but rejection. Rebellion. Whether the one in it knows he is, or not.

As noted about Mary, the Mother of the Humanity of Christ, it is a sin to refuse sex with your husband (cites are there); hence, the Catholic claim about her is patently false. For, if she refused sex, she'd have sinned, and not be immaculate; if she didn't refuse sex, then Christ had half-brothers. Which of course is what Gospels say; Paul also notes it in Galatians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 15:7; see also John 7, 1 Corinthians 9:5, NIV. The point matters, to show how easily Satan dupes us sincere Christians, in any denomination.

Why is it a sin to refuse sex with one's husband? Biggest reason: Both throughout Old Testament (graphically!), New Testament, and in the Trial, Sex depicts Relationship with God. That's why He invented it. Most bald New Testament passage in Greek is 1 Corinthians 6, which uses προσκολλάω, the sex-act verb in the Genesis command for a man to "cleave" to his wife. Hebrews is davaq. Baldest Old Testament passage is Ezekiel 16. Hence homosexuality and all non-marital sexual acts are severely punished. Hence works are also punished, for they are a form of 'homosexuality': done to/for man, rather than God. A form of harlotry (Revelation 17). Hence Paul was so severely punished. Hence Israel was so severely punished. Get it? All these are forms of infidelity to God, because all of these substitute people for God. True fornication is with your attitude.

Could God make it plainer? "Kenosis" is intimate Love. Setting aside one's own desires, in favor of the One intimately Loved. 1 Corinthians 6, Ephesians 5: He wants a marital relationship; to substitute anything for the learning of His Son's Thinking is to refuse the spiritual equivalent of "sex", which is why sex was created in the first place, to depict what the spiritual life is really like experientially. For, the 'body' you need to 'make love' to God, is the 'body' of Christ's Thinking! A physical body is not enough (phallicism's chippie substitute); emotion is not enough (ritualism & feeling-religions' chippie substitute); works are for someone/something else, so obviously not enough! Why? Because Infinite Infinite Infinite God is neither: both "body" and "emotion" are finite, and thus change; God having no body, works don't "go" to God, but to people, 🤣. Duh.

So: "infidelity" is in the soul, not the body: as the Lord frequently said in the Gospels, it's the thinking which defiles a man. The body merely 'does' whatever volition, which is in the soul, tells the body to do. That's why you have comments in Scripture, like

  • the Lord's pronouncement that if a man even thinks of committing adultery, he already has, by that very thought. (Matthew 5; Bible's 33 verses on "adultery" are very apt, here.)
  • "My ways are not your ways, nor My thoughts your thoughts" (in Isaiah 55, a complaint about incompatibility, as well as how much Higher God is);
  • what the Lord said about how what defiles, is what a man thinks, whereas food just goes into the stomach and out from the body (e.g., Matthew 15, Mark 7).
  • the constant stress on thinking (Deuteronomy 6, Philippians 2:5, Romans 12, many other passages).
  • the constant censure about being "cows of Bashan", or like analogies/terms (metaphor for stupidest, in Amos' day); or "ἄφρων" (usually "fools" in English of Ephesians 5:17).
  • Proverbs (and Paul) praising wisdom, and as a female (both Hebrews and Greek nouns are depicted as female).

See? The 'good wife' thinks, and thinks like her husband. The "foolish" one, of course, doesn't. Solomon bemoaned women like that in Ecclesiastes and Proverbs; and Solomon, who married so many women, should know!

So Fidelity is thinking like your Husband, for Your Husband (Ephesians 5);
infidelity is the opposite.
Coalescence of thought then, is fidelity; which means, Κένωσις.


So, then: what's the Divine Punishment gonna have to be, if we reject 1 John 1:9, we who are the only ones in history who can get purification from ἀδικία? So, even more for we Church, the far greater evil is rejecting Truth, which we routinely do, given our appalling lack of interest in Scripture qua Scripture. So to not use 1 John 1:9, as (apparently) many in Christendom now find so fashionable to reject (claiming verses like Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians 1:14, yet ignoring 1 John 1:9 and its precedents in Old Testament, like Psalm 32:5 and Psalm 66:18), is to ask for Hebrews 12:5ff to scourge self. Of course, for anyone who awakens (2 Timothy 2:26) from his addiction-to-self-righteousness and uses 1 John 1:9, God converts that punishment to benefit, as indeed He has always done for believers. Else, the person keeps on being scourged, for to not "eat" Bible Doctrine results in spiritual starvation. Thus goes Christendom's goofy history, and its maladies among those who chose to starve (i.e., they go insane). Can't eat Bible Doctrine without 1 John 1:9, as 1 John 1:8-10 clearly prove, even from English. Nerd Note: Not all maladies are due to sin or Divine Discipline. Many are, some aren't. One can't "judge" another's spiritual life by illness. Worse, judging means one maybe gets that malady in 'reply' from God! So be careful. Refer to Spiritual Pathology: Principles and Diagnostics.


Trial Victory (and Failure) Keys

"Kenosis" is Love, and, like Love, it hurts: until one Loves enough. Thus "Kenosis" means living on Doctrine like Christ did, in order to learn to love enough (1 John 4-5, Ephesians 3:15-21). Which, like physical exercise, 'hurts' until the (spiritual) muscles are strong enough. At that point, it's no longer a chore or a bother, but a joy to huff-and-puff. But one doesn't get there, on one's own power; nor, by one's own wants. Remember the mechanics of how He paid for our sins? So, then: what must we not do? Forsake learning Him! Could God make it more obvious? Of all the things I can remember my pastor teaching, the one sentence which shocks me the most is his statement in 1992 Spiritual Dynamics lesson 1641, that the Trial Evidence Goal is for the believer to "have the exact same love Christ had on the Cross". When you review the "love" verses in Greek, paying very close attention to syntactical stress, you can prove that quote true. Truly awesome.

Love Completes Integrity, which is why its Completion in you is a Trial Victory. Righteousness and Justice cannot retain their character and be 'foregoing', but "Love is innately foregoing". For Love to rise to this level, it must be freely developed. Therefore the development of Love is your Trial Victory; failure to develop in Love is Trial Failure. And since "Love" in the Bible only means God's Love (term is always mistranslated, cutting God's head off) — you cannot win, unless you are living on God's Script, in God's System.

Here's why it's so important in the Trial. Love is voluntary, and the level of love is what sustains. Συνέχω, keyword in 2 Corinthians 5:14: "sun" means "together", and "echo" has connotation of holding, having, owning. So, comes to mean what holds you together, sustains you, motivates you, keeps you going, keeps you wanting to keep going. Just the opposite of compulsion. Of course, if you don't love, and are legalistic like the dippy translators of that verse, you spin Love into a work, and screw it up by translating "συνέχω" as "compels" or "constrains", sigh.


So, then: lack of Κένωσις means

Do I need stronger words to say how bad this is? Can't get worse than Hebrews 5:11-6:12, which has so much scathing sarcasm, you can barely read it. Try "crucifying the Son afresh" as the writer's description of what works do (Hebrews 6:6)!

Sadder still, lack of Κένωσις means the 'wife' is busy doing stuff which doesn't benefit her! For, what did God say to Isha, as the 'punishment' for her fall? "Thy desire shall be for thy Husband." Cry all the way to the bank, Church! Our Husband is our desire! How blessed we are, then, if He is willing to punish us for not going in His Direction?

Which direction, of course, we almost never go in, since we are Ephesians 4:14, "πανουργία": prone to any anti-God definition of 'spirituality'. Witness: the movie, "Dogma" (starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Alan Rickman), which covered our panourgiac direction rather well. We either rush headlong into hedonism, or headlong into halakic 'holiness', bored silly; "God" is capricious girl who keeps secrets; just a Voice no one can hear without dropping dead; and all God's servants fall splat! on the road before mankind. At least hedonism is more 'honest', and easier to cure! For, mainstream Christianity is anything but kenotic: works-oriented; emotional-service-oriented; activistic; trying to influence government and people. Ergo, public; noisy, full of "brother-this, brother-that", sonorous (zzzzz) tones and self-righteous pronouncements — oh: and walls full of plaques with lots of initialled degrees, but no common sense. Just like the Pharisees before us, so we Christians are. "My people perish for lack of knowledge", Hosea moaned. Not for lack of good deeds, though, aha! After all, doesn't every university have at least one building proudly carved, "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free"? High up, of course. Where no one can read it.

By contrast, the Lord Denied Himself The Use Of His Own Power: He didn't do any works at all. Not even one. Check the Gospels for what Scripture says and omits about His, the Most Important Life:

Didn't He condemn all such activities as Pharisaical and pride-motivated, in the Gospels? Didn't He say, "seek ye first the Kingdom and His (Father's) Righteousness", rather than the world and its righteousness? Wasn't the reason that the rich young ruler was given that deliberately-impossible way to inherit eternal life — give away all he had and follow Christ — wasn't that to show how love-of-the-world is not seeking "the Kingdom and His Righteousness"? Merely giving away all he had, wouldn't make him inherit, for what else did he have to do? "...and Follow Me"! So here's a deep question: when John the Baptist baptized Him, think — did Christ need it to be saved? 🤣 (See Romans 4 and Romans 6.) Even when the Lord converted the last Passover into the Eucharist, what did He say? "Keep on doing this in remembrance of Me." Not, doing as a mystical experience, or cannibalism, or 'work', but — dining together! Look it up yourself! Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24 NIV. "Doing" means "keep on doing", Greek word ποιέω. How anyone can get a literal wafer-changes-into-Body meaning out of Remembrance, I'll never be able to fathom. Spiked wine, maybe? Does no one remember that the Passover was originally and always a Remembrance of Deliverance From Bondage (Exodus 12)? Guess not, despite the fact that Exodus movies are among the most popular in Christendom (remember the Ten Commandments, starring Charleton Heston).

Ok, then What Did Jesus Think? What Did Jesus Do while down here? Well, look at the Gospels. What do you see Him do, except learn, use, or teach Bible? Gee, and that even before the Cross, on which obviously all He could do, was Think!

Then where does Christendom get all its goofy ideas? Whose 'bible' are they avidly eating? Not God's.

Yeah, not God's. Yeah, Satan's. Satan's counterfeit doctrine, 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 4:1-4 (ties to Ephesians 4:14). Mouthed to sound like the Bible, promoted on TV and social media like you can't believe, even in mainstream network TV. Whatever is the false, gets lots of media attention. But the truth — literal Greek, "the unhidden" — remains hidden. In plain sight. Invisible truth, versus Visible Lies. And we panourgiacs just flock to them, hallelujah!

Now let's look at what Satan does, how clever: Bible has all these warnings. Bible is mistranslated to make it look like man does stuff, cutting God's head off. So what 'you' think the spiritual life is, when 'you' see someone not 'living' it, can justify 'you' patting yourself on the back over how 'faithful' you are. So Demonation A and Demonation B can have at each other, each considering himself oh-so-faithful. And neither knowing what's actually in the Bible. This happened in Constantine's Rome — one of the most corrupt shameful periods in Christian history — this happens today among believers. And of course, the same ruse is how the terrorists could justify flying planes into the Twin Towers on 9/11. Satan beats us all, baby, and he does it, via the visible. So that the unhidden remains safely hidden.


The Dungheap Visibility Trap

See how it's Now a lot easier for us to fail in the spiritual life? It's a lot easier to fall for Satan's Matthew 4 temptations: belly vs. Bible; splashy vs. silent spirituality; legalism vs. Love-For-God, the quintessential fantasy-over-freedom motive which felled none other than Satan himself. For we can't see God except via Doctrine, but we sure can see the lovely substitutes Grandma Satan wants us to 'eat'. Ay, Hansel und Gretel!


For Satan's plan is at its most subtle, most complex — totally visible, totally accepted by an 'ever more homogenized', competent world. There's no visible Divine manifestation. "Miracles" one sees are likely hoaxes. Any true miracles can always be explained away. So, world-improvement is the visible "miracle" Satan sells us, to replace God's "silence". Far more ways to trip up, than ever before. Far easier to fall for visible works. Or, "getting the Ghost". Or, praying for miracles which Satan & Co. can "do". Or, the psychic stuff (which is easy for them to make true). Or, that tyrannical religiosity known as "theonomy", which addicts the United States, while I write. (Thomas A. Bailey, a famous American historian, maintains, in his The American Pageant, that we Americans have always had this mean theonomic streak, due to the types of religious sects which were popular at our founding.)

Satan's complex plan, is to dismember God, and hence our spiritual life, down to the level of a footman. This traps the believer into wanting visibility, especially at a time when no visibility exists. This traps the believer into Divorcing God by not learning God's Script. Just as the straw man complainer in James 2:18 wanted his works to count, but James retorted, theme since James 1:1, that Doctrine Works. Satan thus makes visibility-hungry Christian conclude just like the straw man in James 2:18 — that his works, prove his faith! So if he doesn't work, he's got no 'faith', so not saved. Amazing, the genius of this satanic reversal, in plain sight!

Video demonstrating live exegesis of James 1 and 2, with a color-coded Word doc, here:

Satanic Counter Strategy Key, Repeated → Here, as in the Third Reason for Invisibility, Satan's counter is to bang the drum on Old Testament visible methods of relating to Him, because they are no longer needed, to learn Christ. So, God will be "too high" to know. So, you have to "do" things. You have to "experience" God through miracles, feeling-ceremonies, etc. Because, all these are not the spiritual life, anymore. Because, all these negate learning Him from the inside, Now.

So, learning Scripture must be relegated to the homily, merely adjunctive. So, the 'proper' attitude towards Scripture is lukewarm, dismissive: it should play a subordinate role: you know, grace the brow of some school building, hah! "You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free." Truth, not works. So, the "unhidden" (ἀλήθεια = English "truth", but root meaning is "unhidden"), is unseen. Hiding in Plain Sight. So, works! So, study of Scripture is relegated to the realm of the curious, the intellectual. So, you must be arrogant or highbrow to study Scripture. So, you must be arrogant or highbrow to understand Scripture in its original languages. Or, conversely, studying Scripture is a 'work' so you get praised for being so 'holy', as if the purpose of studying Scripture was to make-self-good, rather than to get contact with God?!

"Satan" means "opposing lawyer". Here that lawyerly finesse shows awesomely. For by defining the spiritual life as a visible thing — when sheer logic would tell you the opposite — Satan narrows vision. So you become more and more blind, get it? Blind people grope. So to best blind you, Satan & Co. stress stuff you can see. Therefore, what is truly visible proof of God — i.e., the rampant, super-human wit in Bible mistranslation which 🤣 anyone can prove is satanically directed — goes unseen. Do you get the wit here? "By indirections, we find directions out" said Shakespeare in Hamlet. So we become gropers, because we didn't turn a blind eye to works. So we will be blinded by the flame of our works burning, at the Bema: John 15:1-6, Romans 11:16-22 (which references the content we know as John 15:1-6), 1 Corinthians 3, "glory...shame" clause in Philippians 3:19, Revelation 4:1's sea of glass (playing on 1 Corinthians 13:12).

Moreover, what we are Now invisibly to "do", learn Christ, is unlike the simple Mosaic standard. Thus, "Learn Christ" is hopelessly complicated by the inanities of religion — especially Christian religion, as we all use our Royal Freedom to learn. This freedom results in the endless factions and their trivia; past Councils, spiritual-baby-debates, intra-Family persecutions — these all muddy the waters of what "learn God" even means. Here are some examples of how childish we Christians are about Scripture, even after centuries of having full written Canon! What saps we are for Satan's plan, perishing in our ignorance of Bible's Doctrine. As you read the bullets below, notice how we sincerely can't even think our way out of a paper bag.

It's shocking to realize that believers took positions on the puerile issues above, rather than read their Bibles; and then, used those positions to ostracize, plunder, maim, and murder millions of other people, who disagreed! All this, in the very name of God Himself!!! See how vile, how body-bound is our thinking? And how come our ideas of God were so goofy? What's so mysterious about the Hypostatic Union? Why is Trinity so hard to figure out? Weren't Matthew 4:4 and 2 Corinthians 13:14 in their Bibles back during Constantine's day — or even today? How body-bound our 'theology', how we childishly narrow spirituality to do's and days and eatings and dressings. Paul wrote extensively against all that, in Romans and Corinthians; that to the unbeliever these puerile things are alike relevant; so although we aren't bound by them, we don't flaunt our freedom in the unbeliever's face; but we aren't to regard these idols as important, either. But instead, we idolize those things even more than unbelievers do. Proving we only thump our Bibles.

Satan, of course, gets his rocks off by encouraging us to "defend God"! That means we, not God, are foremost, see. We, not God, are 'good'! God is the Victim, not the Victor! See Satan's bitter satire against the Victory of the Ascension and Session? See why theonomy and all like 'defense of God' pursuits are the worst evil? See how they lead to the same plundering, maiming, murdering as has been true since the Session? See how he traps us, see how we stop growing?

So no wonder unbelievers see no difference in being Christian, and rightly castigate us for saying ours is the "only way". It is the only Way: but the way we are telling them, is not the Way it is. But we are blind-of-Word, so don't know that. But we prove our blindness by the issues we fret over. And Satan & Co. laugh their heads off.

The 12/19/2005 issue of TV Guide has a blurb on Barbara Walters' hosting a 12/20 special on how one gets to Heaven. She was asked why she did this unusual thing (page 20); she replied that while she was not religious, in part because it seemed ludicrous that there be only 'one way' to God, nonetheless the get-to-Heaven topic was interesting: not the usual 20/20 fare. Notice how axiomatically she states that there shouldn't be only one way to God? She represents the world's view there, aptly: she's miscasting the issue in terms of human good and sin, just like Christians mistakenly do.

See: People Can't Believe In Christ If They Have No Reason. Satan stresses the visibility, so they won't see any reason. Because, we believers are busy Abusing Justice, ἀδικία: for we are not learning the Word. So we are the cause of the unbeliever's not knowing Why Believe; for only the believer on God's Script in God's System, can know what the Bible really says. It takes Divine Power to learn Bible: power we are not using, because we are running after the idols of works. No kenosis, no love, so no difference from the unbeliever. Oh, we have a lot to answer for, at the Bema.

Granted, the unbeliever will grab any ol' excuse to disbelieve. We were like them, so we know how it plays 'from the inside'. So they really need a better explanation than they get: same doo-doo as all the religions, what's the diff, all roads lead to God, then; i'm a good person, so I'm going to heaven. No, they aren't! But we aren't explaining why. We are competing, instead. Thus looking like them. As Paul noted in Philippians 3:20, we're no longer citizens of this world, but of heaven (see also Ephesians 2:19). So we should learn that difference, ourselves.

Never have I seen even a remotely-accurate documentary or TV program on Bible-related topics. I keep trying. Most of them don't even use the Bible, but only words in the Bible which are also in fake holy books or the mouths of demonstrably-inept 'scholars'. For example, that incredibly puerile "Da Vinci Code" garbage is based on pseudepigrapha, Koran, Catholicism, gossip, but not on Bible. The 'scholarship' is laughable. Always. Very embarrassing.

Hey: it's Satan's world, what do you expect? Truth? Nerd Note: it's significant that Catholicism gets picked as the representative of Christianity, when virtually every doctrine in it is anti-Bible. That's not Catholicism's fault. That's not the Catholic's fault. That's people wanting to pick the false, so they can nod their heads. Many a Catholic doesn't believe in what the "Mother Church" — Revelation 17, really — teaches. And frankly, at least 50 years ago, even my relative's 1953 Catholic Missal books didn't require you to believe, but just offered all that ritual stuff as suggested. So again — it's not the Roman Catholic Church's fault. Her harlotry is out in the open, easy to compare to Bible, and you could fix what's wrong with it and still be in God's System (after all, "mass" is a celebration, and if you know Bible you can celebrate it with Bible-in-your-head). Frankly, for centuries that's what people did (i.e., the Cluny monasteries so popular toward the end of the first millennium AD). We'd not have the Reformation without Catholics (they started it); we'd not have Codex Vaticanus without Catholics (Tregelles forced its publication). So no need to castigate Roman Catholic Church, every need to pray for them all. Every need to be alert to Satan's wiles. We are all dupes, absent God's Script in God's System.

So here we Christians are, with the lone monopoly on Truth, but we don't live on God's Scripture in God's System, so how can anyone have information to rebut the media blitz? So: in a scathing passage (beginning in 1 John 3:8), John likens the works-no-Bible Christian to a Satan, Cain, and a murderer. (1 John 3:17-18, corrected translation: "Children, we must not 'love' by means of mere words nor in lip service, but (rather) in the sphere of Divine Work, even The Truth!") Now you know why.

It's no exaggeration to say people are dying by the millions, and it's our fault. Takes a long time to get trained up in the Word so you can accurately represent Him. So those getting saved, are getting saved by a very precious few. 99.9% of the Gospel presentations aren't even the Bible's own Gospel, but are adulterations (see Royal Gospel Brief, left top blue boxes on Home Page). This is worse than genocide, and we only have ourselves to blame.

In sum, all these many tangles are far more complicated than the Judaic obsessions ever were. We don't have the neat rules of the Old Testament — except to argue over. Do they still apply? Jews never had to worry about that. We, however, do. So yes, we do need to learn what's right. Yet, not at the expense of growing. Spiritual growth requires we get beyond these babyish obsessions (confer Hebrews 5:11-6:6). Satan intends to tangle us up in them, so we never grow up.

Whoa. What a Royal Role, Kenosis. What a Royal tangle we've made by our CrossOvers into the visible, eschewing the Word. What Royal screwups we are. And why? 🤣, because we are Royal Family of God, no matter what!




Part 3b, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump Links in this table also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
2nd Spiritual Life Trait, Royalty 1st Reason,
Priestly Bride of Christ 2nd Reason,
Royal Life Far Harder 3rd Reason,
Qorban Thinking for Father Aletheia Love You, in Me! Βαπτίζω Building Communion Concert Dendrites for Dad Royal Spiritual Multisphere Living 4th Reason,
Royal Defeat of Satan & Co.

God's Script: Now

Father Answers Son's John 17 Prayer, and Builds a Bride

Second Main Characteristic: Royalty

Secondly, We Church the Bride-Evidence are Royal, like our Betrothed. Royalty is essentially separated, distant — even (in many ways), "Invisible" — just as Christ Himself, The Lexeme of Lexemes: The King Over Kings, the Lord Over Lords, is currently Invisible to the World. As Ephesians 5 explains, we got that Royalty in Him on the Cross, when He committed to paying for untold billions of extra people to rescue both Time and Israel, in Matthew 16:18: thus He stopped Satan's motion for a Mistrial in light of Israel's rejection. He ratified this commitment in John 17:20-21 — and then paid for us, before we even existed. We are only alive because He did that. We are only Royal because He did that. So this Royalty He purchased for us on the Cross at Father's Discretion, is no light thing. Royalty of any kind is essentially separated, distant — even (in many ways), "Invisible": just as Christ Himself, The Lexeme of Lexemes, The King Over Kings, the Lord Over Lords, is currently Invisible to the World.


First Reason for Royalty

Father's Gift To Christ is to make us Bride, Royal, High, instead of low;
let us beware of plebeian arrogance.


  1. We are Royal Family of God in Christ, for the purposes of serving Father as Royal Priests — potentially, as King-Priests under The King-Priest, Christ. So now hear this: We need to be made Royally High, not because we deserve anything, But Because God Deserves Everything. Unendingly. Pleromized, 'fully'. So, for this our permanent role throughout all eternity, we must be Royal, because The King-Priest, Our Lord's Humanity, is the Highest Royalty in the Universe. Forever. No other priesthood will last. No other Member of the Godhead will have a priesthood.

Theology doesn't recognize the significance of His King-Priesthood, though Book of Hebrews even in translation, is pretty plain. The Old Testament priests were not priests to the Father. They were training to grow up corporately so that when Messiah did come, He Being The Priest, could make the whole nation a Royal Priesthood under Him. So He was the object of worship, and the sacrifices depicted Him being sacrificed to Father, which everyone knew (you don't see anyone in the Gospels ask Christ Who "Father" is, and a whole month of the Hebrew calendar, July-August, is named "Ab", "father"). So they weren't priests to Father, because too low in their Thinking. They had the Mosaic Law as a boy-leader (παιδαγωγόν, Galatians 3:25) for that Training; hence, their future role was conditional, as Galatians 3 and Hebrews 3 explain. But since they rejected that Marriage when the Groom came — we got it. Else there'd be no Church, Matthew 16:18's Greek.

So: we are Royal Priests to Father. That's new. So: we think toward Father, Our High Priest's Thoughts. That's new. New Covenant, in fact (main theme in Hebrews is the change in covenant). So if new, 2 Corinthians 5:17, new spiritual species (καινὴ κτίσις). So if new spiritual species, then all those old wineskins get tossed out, Hebrews 7:18 (and passim in that book). So if new, then we need to be trained so other potential or actual Royal Priests can learn to think toward Father, too. Of course, we'd have to first know we are Royal Priests, to know we need to be trained. Christendom has routinely failed to communicate this to the Body, for twenty centuries. It's pathetic: instead of teaching us the Bible as a thinking we need to learn and practice, we've been given chippie satanic substitutes like body works and rituals. Satan laughs his head off. Search all the so-called Church Fathers, the internet, anywhere you like — see how almost no one recognizes the importance of how we think toward Father, okay? It's embarrassingly pathetic! Matthew 4:4 is accurate in translation, so what gives? If the Lord lived on Bible, as that verse clearly says He did — then what do you think we are supposed to do? Duh!

  1. Hence of all the choices the Lord Himself could have made, while still 'solely' God He Chose To Add Humanity to Himself — so He could serve the Father as King-Priest (1 Timothy 2:5, Psalm 110), a contract from eternity past, theme of Hebrews 1. That tells you how wonderful it is. How important it is. How high it is. So for us to turn it down or piously protest Oh shucks, I'm-not-worthy! — is to spit in His Face. For He didn't turn it down, did He? We don't mean to spit in His Face. We mean to be humble. But as you read this Reason, you'll see it's not 'humble' to think self low. Let's start with God's Own Reasoning...

(search on "His Craftsmanship", this page, to quickly see Ephesians 2:10 in corrected translation)


Paul's Allusions to the Play Ion

In Greek Drama, wordplay is everything. Double entendres are very popular. Ergo, the key to this play: the word "δοῦλος" means either and both "son" and "slave". That was very well known, the humorous double entendre, at the time Scripture was penned. Euripides' "Ion" uses the term as the basis for his play: Ion, a 'slave' of Phoebus Apollo, who is really Ion's father. See, the god (really demon, Genesis 6 time period) Phoebus Apollo raped the human Creusa; and she, ashamed, hid the kid to let him die (with snake charms, get it?); but, unknown to her, Phoebus took the kid and delivered him to the priestess of his temple at Delphi (famous Oracle of Delphi). Then years later, after Creusa married (and of course is barren), Phoebus arranges to get Creusa to visit that temple. There's an exchange between Ion and Creusa which plays with this dual meaning to the term "δοῦλος":


  • Ion: "Is it to seek earth's produce or fruit of offspring that you come (to seek aid of Phoebus as oracle)?"
  • Creusa: "We are childless, though wedded these many years."
  • Ion: "Have you never been a mother? Are you wholly childless?"
  • Creusa: "Phoebus knows whether I am childless" (🤣 of course he does, he raped her!)
  • Ion: "Unhappy wife! How this does mar your fortune else so happy!"
  • Creusa: "but who are you? How blessed I count your mother" 🤣
  • Ion: "Lady, I am called the servant of Apollo, and so I am."
  • Creusa: "(Were you given to the Phoebus as) An offering of the city, or sold to him by some master?"
  • Ion: "Naught know I but this, that I am called the slave (δοῦλος!) of Loxias."

The play goes on: Creusa finds out that Ion is her son by Phoebus; but not before she almost kills him, due to another joke which Phoebus plays upon them both, making Ion out to be the son of her husband, conceived anonymously during some Bacchic orgy (per the Oracle). Athena comes down at the end of the play (stock ending), and announces that Phoebus is repentant, so will make Ion a great nation: the Ionic race, which is the first of the Greek races (origin of the Greek sea peoples).

If you don't have time to read Ion, here's a synopsis: "Ion" is about a Greek god, Phoebus Apollo who raped (remember that!) a human woman, Creusa. Phoebus Apollo = Bright Morning Star = Haylel Ben Shachar, Satan's pre-Fall name. Founding/Fathering the Greek peoples — who of course are Paul's audience. ("Ephesians" is a filled-in-blank, so the letter we call "Ephesians" circulated to various Greek cities.) The audience ended up being the 'chosen peoples of the gods' in the play; so, they are Church, Body of Christ in the epistle! As a result, Creusa became pregnant, and bore a son, whom she was too ashamed to keep. So she put it by a tree with snake charms (to protect the child — "Ion" means "venom", euphemism for semen). Phoebus saw the child, took it to his Temple, and raised the boy (his son) as a Temple slave ("δοῦλος" means both "son" and "slave"). Creusa, meantime, keeps the birth a secret, and marries well. Then, the god causes Creusa to be barren, so that eventually she'll come to the Oracle of Delphi (his temple) seeking the ability to bear kids. Where she meets Ion, the now-grown son. Discovering who he really is takes up the rest of the play, and is extremely funny. The wordplay is awesome: Paul weaves in Isaiah 53's begetting themes, and deliberately tracks Ephesians to the plot of the play. A laugh line threaded sotto voce: Here you Greeks thought you were founded by a snake, but instead you are Fathered by God; and will be no mere Temple slave-son like your half-human (get it?) 'progenitor' Ion, but will rather be part of the Body of God-Man Himself!

Paul thus tweaks the play in Ephesians, by showing the origin of the Real God's peoples, from Christ! So Slave-son is the progenitor of many son-slaves, Galatians 4, Ephesians 2. Get it?


  1. So "Priesthood" means a love so great, one wants to dedicate himself to the Love Object. In which case, one wants "low", to max out Love Expression. So first, God-to-God Absolutely Dedicated Love: notice that They call Themselves "Father", "Son", and "Spirit", thus denoting unequal authority. Theology is all tangled up about that, because theology has yet to discover that "Love is the (Genitive) Integrity of God!" which means Voluntary Subordination, Love's innate quality. In God, that means Absolute Love, so Absolute Deference, Psalm 138:2, Psalm 89:14-15. So although Equal, "Son" wants to subordinate to become a King-Priest, in the Psalm 110, Isaiah 53:10-12 contract (Decree, really) to make creation. So although Equal, "Spirit" wants to subordinate to 'mother' that creation, poignantly depicted in such verses as Genesis 1:2, Isaiah 63:10-14, Titus 3:5, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 5:18, John 4:24, etc. "Father" for His Part, has the toughest job: He has to impute and judge Son for all the sins of creation, Isaiah 53:10a — notice how it's dependent on Son agreeing to that, so obviously this is a contract between Equals (at first glance you'd think Christ becoming "beyond human" Isaiah 52:14 would be the toughest or most painful, but it's actually the role of Father to Judge Son). But They choose not to function as Equals, but rather in a Priestly manner — to Father. See: no Westminster Confession or Catholic Unicity befuddling language, here. It's pure 2 Corinthians 13:14, easy to understand. Sometimes it's best just to chuck centuries of theology, and go back to the Bible — which God wrote. The Bible explains itself and sometimes we're too hung up on looking for external data rather than using the Bible's first party explanations already present.
  1. "Priesthood" also means the intermediation of interpersonal differences, a diplomatic role. For if freedom, then freedom will be unequally used by unique persons. You and I are each unique. There will never be another "you" in the universe. There will never be another "me". And each of us will live forever. Now chances are, if you and I met down here, we'd be of differing social status, temperament, likes and dislikes. If one of us was very rich or good-looking and the other not, there would be a tension. The differential would interfere with the compatibility, because these conventions of societal differences make people group with those most like them. The deeper reason is that if one of us is rich and the other poor, there's a lack of understanding between us about that difference. Were I the poor one, I'd likely have bad manners, bad speech, and bad values, too. I wouldn't know any better, because it takes some amount of wealth to get the proper breeding, in this world. You (pretend) being the rich one, would presumably have that breeding, so my behavior and thinking would be quaint, and at least mildly distasteful. So our relationship would be strained whether we wanted it to be, or not. I'd be intimidated by how great you were, and you'd be constrained to deal with me based on the honor concepts you'd learned. I'd not be acceptable in your society, and you'd be totally out of place, in mine. You can substitute good looks or any other attribute man craves as valuable for wealth and poverty, in this paragraph: the strain would be different, but it would be there.
  1. How much more, then, the societal difference between God and man? Imagine you are God, and it's Sunday. When you look down on the planet, you see most Christians howling how they love Jesus, yeah! But they don't spend any time really learning Jesus' Word. They thump and howl and holler and do all kinds of rituals and good deeds around the church — but learning Him? Nope. So how do you talk to those people? They want "Jesus" to be a song, a good-deeder, a flashy person — just as Satan tempted Him to be, in Matthew 4. So Being the Father of Freedom, you as God can just create those people with instant knowledge, discipline them — or you can make the Real Word available through other people who are really learning His Divine Breeding Program in God's System. And then come the Bema, those other people become the rulers of the Bible thumpers. For the thumpers' souls don't have any Real Bible in them, when they die. They have lots of songs in them, lots of rituals in them, lots of works in them. Earthly things that all got burned up at the Bema. So they are ruled, low. Just as they voted to be, while down here.
  1. Hence the need for a Priesthood, which is intermediary. For to the extent you think like God, you will be close to Him. To the extent you do not, you will need someone between God and you, to mediate your lack of compatibility.
    • Works and ritual don't create a thinking compatibility, for they are trained muscle memory, not soul nature.
    • In any society, there are classes, groups: a commonality of soul nature is really the basis for them.
    • Because, these groups form based on aggregate shared choices of association which are attitudinal, people electing certain values to have in common, as the 'definition' of that class or group.
    • Hence each class or group has its own culture. So you learn that group's culture, if you belong or want to belong to that group.
    • So if you wanted to work at Buckingham Palace, you'd have to learn and accept the values of the Royal House, else you can't fit in there.
    • If you wanted to marry a prince, you'd have to learn His Culture, else you can't marry.
    • God's "culture" therefore needs to be learnt, which means the thinking of God Himself.
    • Your consequent fit into His Kingdom depends on how much you learn Bible, since that's His Instruction Manual about Himself.
    • If you abuse that Manual to create some other culture of ritual, works, human approbation but you slap God's Name on what you create — that's no different from the pagans who worship dead idols of wood and stone (and once again, violating the Third Commandment when you brand that slop as God's). They call those things "god", too. And that's what Christianity does, make up its own ideas and call them Biblical. So many Christians will not but distantly fit in with God's Culture of the Eternal State.
  1. So the eternal state has a priesthood, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10. The Lord Himself is the King-Priest of it, Psalm 110. Consequently you know people in heaven are in their relationship with God, because they didn't equally choose to learn God's Book. Yeah, we'll all be "in His Presence" forever. But God is everywhere. His Throne will be in one place. So you might be a bazillion miles away from that throne (Revelation 22:19), or in the very throne room itself, depending on how intimate you become with Him. That's the condition of association, since we are to be bride, and that means intimacy must be learned. Everyone who didn't choose intimacy will be relatively poor and far away — so they need intermediaries between Him and themselves. If you graduate the Pleroma course — they will also need intermediaries between themselves and you.
  1. Heaven is a big place, so most people have to be quite far away from Christ's Throne. You're tipped off to this by the size of the Lord's personal (intimate!) Jewish chorus who go with Him everywhere He goes, the 144,000 martyrs in Revelation 14 (compare to Revelation 7). In "God's GAAP Balancing" I tried to come up with a population number of humans just to get a sense of scale, based on Bible ratios — whether or not the methodology is right, I came up with a future size of at least 100 billion, going by infant mortality and other human factors since Adam. That's a good sixty planets worth, given an Earth population of about six billion (circa 1999). And that is probably too small a number. In any event, you can see that there need to be intermediaries between all those humans, and God — forever. Church is that Intermediary, as Body of Christ. Within Church, we also need intermediaries, since we aren't equal among ourselves, either. But inequality in Heaven is only due to us unequally choosing how much intimacy we wanted with Christ, versus intimacy with other things; there are many clues towards intimacy with Christ even in said things, all animals 'breathe' so that's your hint to use 1 John 1:9 and refutes the very Satanic 'prolife'. So your choices to learn and live on Bible in God's System, determine where in that Forever-Church-Body-Priesthood, you will be. (Nerd Note about population sizing: anyone who dies too young or diseased, malnourished — anything to impair development of the brain — so could not yet understand-and-reject the Gospel, is permanently saved; this also means they'll have a higher status and capacity in heaven by default than those who lived a long life on earth shrinking their soul from Satan's doctrines. So heaven is big. Don't forget to factor in something for infant mortality and brain-morbidity since Adam, in your own computations.)
  1. We have unlimited unlocked access to Him while we are down here: it's a New Testament refrain (see format of Romans 5:1, so you can spot it elsewhere). Access post-death will not be unlimited and 'locked', because what we choose down here determines the entire shape of our post-death, eternal life: compounded by the fact we won't be sinning so that changes the dynamic of how much you can learn which is where learning with an Old Sin Nature has benefits: while you can imagine what it's like placing your hand on an oven burner experiencing it is different (just like sinless angels can 'imagine' what it's like to sin but lose the experience of it Matthew 13:41). When we were kids, we were warned to learn in school and develop good habits for our life as adults. We largely didn't listen. We largely don't listen to God now. So we largely will have a rare glimpse of the Lord in eternity, despite Him manually willing every second of existence for an eternity. Think how hard it is to get an audience with the President; how you must have "connections" to even get contact with one of his aides! So think how much harder ought it to be, to get an audience with the Lord Jesus Christ! His Humanity remains forever. Glorified, but physically still occupying one moment-by-moment location, in time and space. So physical access to Him will be limited. Especially, since His Kingdom will be the entire universe.
  1. Most people never want to learn His Thinking, historically and now, so they are far away from Christ in heaven/eternal state. Popular Christianity throughout the centuries, is the kind which gets you shame at the Bema. So if it's popular — avoid it. For Christianity took 18 centuries just for the Gospel to become widely taught despite the Reformation; the massive, unprecedented rollout of Scripture in the original languages resolved that no-Gospel-taught problem for a generation or two, but since the 1960's, the Gospel is as falsified (with extra verbs, etc.) as it ever was, even pre-Reformation. Hence our ideas of God and spirituality are still in 'the 3rd grade' of spiritual grammar school, which is embarrassing: twenty centuries have passed and we still don't know that Trinity is a Voluntary Association, not a hydra-headed monster? Four centuries have passed and the Calvinists still don't know that Love is an exercise of Sovereignty so no, Adam did not lose his free will? If you look on the internet, out of every hundred pastors' websites telling you how to be saved, at best only one gets the Gospel right (believe only in Christ only). So how many of those congregations, are even saved? Sheesh. Now I know why my pastor harped on the Gospel being John 3:16 so much beginning in the 1990's. (It was common knowledge in the 1950's, my mother tells stories about her having to use John 3:16 and going door to door with it, 🤣.) We can't read Bible, even when it's correctly translated! So our votes to learn Him over the centuries, have been pitiful.

Most Christians today will be far away from Christ in heaven. Why? They don't know (and don't want to know) they need 1 John 1:9 to be Filled with the Spirit, so are filled with Satan & Co. instead, ultimately becoming pregnant with Satan's thinking Ephesians 4:16 + Revelation 17:9. For today in Christian media, circles and pulpits, witness all the loose talk and loose cash spent on books and tapes, how you need more faith, increase your faith, and how to have faith "exclusively exclusively exclusively" in Christ. Each one offers a little 12-step program or other 'magic' set of do's or affirmations which promise spiritual growth and Holy Spirit Power — as if God's Power were a machine for 20 minutes a day to better "abs". Like this pitch: Oh, you must admit to God that you can't do it, only the Holy Spirit can, this is a special revelation I received from Him! Yeah, that's true, duh — but um, you don't have to pay $20 for another book, to learn it: John 4:24, John 14:26 tell you all that at no cost and with no fuzzball prose in large print for blind eyes on how the Holy Spirit Works. God flat tells you it's 1 John 1:9, which turns on the Holy Spirit's power. Else, it's Satan & Co. working in your life, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10.

It's positively frightening that nearly all the famous pastors I could find on the internet don't teach or even seem to know about, this verse. I want to kill myself like Paul says in Romans 9:3. Wouldn't do any good. Now I know why my own pastor kept shoving 1 John 1:9 in our faces — a Priestly Function — many of us left off listening to him temporarily, tired of that repetition. Yeah, well he didn't repeat enough! Look on the internet, go to seminary, ask pastors — do they teach that 1 John 1:9 usage fills you with the Spirit? Greek verb καθαρίζω makes clear it does, since that's a famous Old Testament Temple-Filling prerequisite, to purify the temple from what defiled it. And sin defiles the temple of our bodies, where the Holy Spirit indwells. That's why John uses the verb καθαρίζω in 1 John 1:9 (parallel verse is in 2 Peter 1:9, but translations leave out one of the Greek keywords). So if you want to get increased faith, get increased Bible in your head, by living in God's System. Or else just stop going to church, etc. If you'll not live in God's System, try to make as little wood, hay, stubble of Churchinanity as possible. Then at least your burning at the Bema, will be short! And you'll reduce risk of soul shrinkage; that's why very casual Christians tend to be more level-headed than the ultra-religious Christian crusaders that club atheist and theist alike.

As you can see, Heaven will be a big place full of babies who didn't Learn the Book because they didn't get into God's System. So babies need overseers to take care of them. Babies need smaller roles in life, for they can't handle the bigger stuff. So they need parenting. So Heaven is a big, unequal place, full of people who died as chronological and spiritual babies. So the rulers can learn why it is God so loves us all — for even the biggest Pleroma ruler will be a 'baby' in size, compared to Him with Whom we get to live forever.

  1. Hence it's critical the Christian understand he cannot lose his salvation, for he is irrevocably Royal, upon the rebirth in Christ. If he doesn't know that, he'll keep trying to 'work' for or 'atone' for it, and thus will never mature. Look at 2 Corinthians 5:17: "καινὴ κτίσις" there means "new-in-species creation". Just as the Jews became blessing by association to the world owing to the faith of just three men, so also we who believe in Christ are designed to be blessing-by-association — married to Him, and born-from-Him spiritually. So, our "bloodline" is spiritually-generated, just as the Jewish line had been. Theirs is a physical Royalty, of which Christ was born. Ours is a spiritual royalty — our human spirits are different from other believers', born of His John 17 prayer. Your Eternal Security can be no more "undone" by any human action, than the Jew can undo his bloodline. That's the point of 2 Corinthians 5:17, which of course is echoed famously in John 3, Romans 9, Ephesians, Hebrews, Peter, 1 John 5; in hundreds of passages throughout Scripture!

Beware: don't say "So what?" to this unalterable position in Christ. Don't rebuff this status, to make self feel so holy for being 'low'. Don't denigrate His Work on the Cross in the high-sounding name of 'humility' or 'compassion'. If you do, you're just as evil as Satan. For Satan says "So what?" to Christ, in favor of his own merit. So do you, if you also say or believe garbage like "I don't know if I'm saved, only God knows"; or, "I don't expect anything from God, I'm not after any reward"; or, if you think that a puny human can either contribute to his salvation or lose it. All these and like statements are pure satanic arrogance: why should you borrow his venom? Nothing compares to God's Work. Don't even try.

Oh yeah, baby. Satan encourages that Uriah Heep thinking because he wants you to rebuff your Royalty, to motivate you to think more cheaply of what God has accomplished in Christ; so to make you think more cheaply of God, and thus more cheaply of Christ, and thus become a 'Brother Foot'! in your spiritual life. So other people will say "So, what?" to your works — which will look just like Satan's other minions' works. Counterfeit serpents. So, what? Who's "so what" do you want to represent? Satan's, or God's? If God's, you've got to get a grip on your highborn status. Now.

Until the Christian grasps the irrevocability of his status, he can't adjust to it. For one thing, he can't relax and grow; for another, he can't spot Satan's do-good landmines, Hebrews 6:13-14, Ephesians 4:14. Writer of Hebrews threads that warning throughout his letter, since the basis for it is the Royal Priest Upgrade Christ wrought on the Cross: a battlefield Royalty (Hebrews 1:1-2:11, especially Hebrews 2:5-14). So he's very scathing when he introduces that new Royal Priesthood in Hebrews 5, interrupting the discourse in Hebrews 5:11 through Hebrews 6:6 to show the readers how they are behaving like peasants under a dead standard of "works". Mere babies. Spiritual Retards. "Dull knives" (Greek, mistranslated) in Hebrews 5:11 and Hebrews 6:12. Dull knives are dangerous (references dull-of-Word, not on the operating table of Hebrews 4:12). So are you, if you don't get a grip on the reality of your Royal status which no one, not even God — can cancel. For He took an oath already (Hebrews 6:13ff).

Moreover, such a Christian is prone to psychosomatic illness, like the paralytic in Matthew 9: whose friends had to bring him to Christ, so the paralytic could finally realize his debt was forever paid. All these weaknesses torment the believer who thinks he can lose his salvation, who thinks he has to earn it. He's total putty in Satan's hands, and will never be able to grow up, and thus get beyond his humanity. He is the person "crucifying the Son afresh" in Hebrews 5:11 through Hebrews 6:6. Such a believer is the Laodicean, who had to be warned of his lapse into Brother-Foot peasantry versus the Royal Living Standard of his Master: thus the Lord invokes His Royal Titles of "Faithful and True Witness", and "Ruler of the Creation of God", in Revelation 3. So, beware. The Son will vomit out from this life (capital punishment, 1 John 5:16) the one who arrogantly insists on living like a peasant, though irrevocably Royal. Greatest sin you can commit is unbelief, John 16:9.

So you just sit down with your Bible software or Bible and search on the following verses before the Lord, if you doubt the irrevocability of your Royal Spiritual Status and Nature in Christ. God will not give His Precious Son, an inferior Gift. We only start out that way, so we can choose what kind of "gift" we'll be. For Our Mutual Dad, is kitting us out (verb καταρτίζω, common keyword in New Testament). As Bride, we get to choose where we want to be within Heaven, John 14:2 — forever.

Get it? You are Good Enough, now. No justification for pious I-am-low thinking, for the most obvious reason: it's now a lie to say you are low! What, is Infinite Righteousness, low? Perish the thought: see how evil it is to say one is low? Why, you denigrate Christ and His Payment; you denigrate Father's Decree to impute you with Infinite Righteousness, you denigrate the Holy Spirit's work at salvation, to claim self low! So also, no need to breast beat, either; no need to bemoan your failures: 🤣, all man's failures are but training aids! Would God allow bad to exist, if not for a good purpose? So, then: do what Paul counselled, "forgetting what is behind" (Philippians 3:13); do what Jabez did in the Old Testament — move forward, enlarge your borders! You are Structurally Compatible with Very God. God doesn't want inferiors for companionship. Can't undo Infinite Righteousness. In Him. Not, in your works. Not, in your behavior. Not, in your failures. But, in Him. You can't undo what's in Him, can you? Do you have the power to undo what's in Him? Nope.

So you just sit down with God and talk about this Royal Status you have in Him, if you are inclined to doubt it. Use 1 John 1:9 and talk with God until you are blue in the face, to reflect your spiritual "blue-blood" origin. For if you reject this Royal Inheritance in favor of a claim that it's arrogant or too high to call oneself this — you are more arrogant than them all. No Royal lives up to his heritage by rejecting it. You are not your own. Beware of the positively disgusting arrogance of alleged 'lowness', Brother-Foot Churchinanity pandered by Satan, on which Christianity gluttonizes itself.

These words are harsh. They must be. His Payment was harsh. We were bought with Royal blood, and God help the person who rejects that fact. If you can't stand the harsh tone you've just read go somewhere else that appeals to your satanic tastes. For surely you are too far sold under, to comprehend anything. People who spit on the Cross fancy themselves in the light and so are in Satan's darkness, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, and 1 John 2 (passim), 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7, Philippians 3:18-19, whole book of Jude, last half 2 Peter. Of course, if you are still reading, then please accept my apologies. Peasant riff-raff shouldn't be reading this section, and if you stuck it out, then you are willing to accept the toughness which goes along with learning one's Undeserved Royal Status. Grace is not wimpy.

Of course, there's a whole lot of nonsense made out of the "Kingdom" also, people mistaking it for something Jewish or political on earth, rather than a spiritual kingdom which will only become a political entity when Christ returns. Meanwhile, we Church are in that Kingdom, but are training for our future visible role — royalty always trains for decades, before ruling. For us, this is a lifetime of Royal Training, main theme of Romans 5:17, Romans 8, 2 Timothy 2:12. So this is not something to preen over, our Royalty. It's something to be frightened of screwing up. Everyone wants to be a 'prince' but no one wants to live up to the Royal Standard: like peasants, they only want to grab at the goodies. They wouldn't know royalty, if it bit them. Neither do we. For we are all peasants, at physical birth. We need breeding. God has a Royal Breeding Program. We saw its invisible tenets in the First Main Characteristic of Invisibility. Here, we see the underlying Royalty provisions.

  1. Upshot: You inherited the Most Noble Name, The Most Royal Name, in the Universe — Christ. Christ is Messiah, Savior. So, that's what we Bride-Evidence (1 John 4:17's legal Greek) are to also be. For, even mere secular royalty is for messianic reasons, always: 'saving', 'protecting', 'guiding', 'parenting'. First Father of the country. So we also are to be used as mini-messiahs, emissaries of Our King, saving, protecting, guiding, parenting the world; but Invisibly, since Satan is still the ruler of it, and this is the Rebuttal (God's answer) stage of the Angelic Appeal Trial.

You Are A Conduit Of Blessing To The World, for ever since Adam's Fall, the world only gets blessed via believers on this planet. The entire world depends on the spiritual growth of Christians for its welfare. For, if you are Royal, Everyone Depends On You. That, too, is something no one born royal ever escapes. That's why the Church must be raptured up for the Tribulation to begin. Judgement that severe is not allowed to happen so long as any member of Church is on earth. The world rejects God. It is so hardened to Him that it needs a wakeup call in the only language it can understand: disaster. Surely the hurricanes of 2005, a year which started with a tsunami of unprecedented geographical range, proves to you how hard we are. All we did, was shake our fists at God. All we did, was shake our fists at each other, everyone blaming someone for aid delivered or not delivered; no gratitude or humility at all. So if you are not down here, God can only justify wiping out more people who hate His Son. So your Royalty is innately protective, just by your bleeping breathing. That has always been true for secular royalty, even — how much more, the True Royalty for All Eternity?

Rulership is super-parenting. So it's exhausting, frustrating — but you can't live without it, and it's the only thing in life which will ever fulfill you. Of course, you can't become a parent until you first grow up. Same is true in secular royalty: it's the Royal Training which makes the difference, and the biology of the royal is the same as any other human biology (there's no 'magic' in any bloodline). By contrast, our very spiritual nature the moment we are saved, is only suited to His Royal Purpose, 2 Corinthians 5:17. That's why we Christians can be such prima donnas. We also need the Training, since we are still in these peasant bodies, and our souls are now saved trash, rescued from being thrown out with the other self-willed refuse walking on this planet, wheat and tares parable in Gospels. So we get The Royal Advisor, the Maker of Kings: the Holy Spirit. We never outgrow 'Mom' (a Name He uses for Himself, via רָחַף (rahaph) in Genesis 1:2). Again: you will never be happy if you don't grow up in this Royal Role, I don't care how many goodies you accumulate. They will bore you, eventually. The only alternative a Royal has (even secularly) to growing up in his intended ruling role — is boredom. It's a killer outcome. Don't tempt fate, alright?

God makes you great. So God makes you responsible, even before He's made you able to function in your Royal Greatness. History we hear is not the true story. Genesis 5 is the true story, and it's now upgraded to believers in Christ, Who is Seated and Ruling. I don't care what you think of yourself or what others think of you, God made you Royal, that first nanosecond you believed in Christ, and He sealed it with an oath (Hebrews 6:13ff). Then, the Holy Spirit Himself sealed you, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 1:13, 2 Corinthians 1:22. Sealing meant ownership in the ancient world (seals opening in Revelation are ownership title deed sovereignties, exercised). So you are great; me too. Let's live up to that Ephesians 1 inheritance, and be the mini-messiahs (mini-me's of Him) God designed by living on God's Script, in God's System, on the operating table of Hebrews 4:12.

Mini-Me

Most people prefer to be childish. That's 'happiness' to them, and misery to everyone else. In heaven, they will not be childish, but they will be children, compared to the Pleroma rulers over them. Perfection doesn't mean equality. It means "fit". Synergy owing to free "fit" among all persons of widely-variant personalities and abilities. In heaven, those abilities and personalities are solely determined by how much one lived in God's System. Our version of "the System" is the Royal one for all eternity. So among us, sadly 99.9% of Christians opt to be peasants, though of the same Royal Spiritual Bloodline. So they won't be ruling, they will be ruled, for they abdicated from the Royal Training program down here. So this 'saving' isn't just of the world and now — invisibly, not via works — but for all eternity, and of our own fellow believers. Salvation that gets you into heaven, requires added saves after that, to provide for the type of eternal future there you will have. And Your Choices Are Decreed to Determine What Kind Of Life You Want, And What It Will Be. Choose wisely, stay in God's System.

Your vote, my vote, and the vote of any individual, has never been compromised by the masses, and still is not. And as you know even with a secular election, the lower the voter turnout, the more each vote matters. In the Election of God, each vote matters like His Son's does per Ephesians 1's "every spiritual blessing" clause. That's why (John 14:14) "if you ask anything in My Name, I will do it." Do you realize, that's a carte blanche which only the Son had, down here? Anything you ask. Not just some things. So James notes we should ask for wisdom (James 1:5). Yeah, because you can really get in trouble if you pray for something you'd later regret! Kings say a thing — and it happens. That's what we're in training to become! Important Nerd Note: initial context of John 14:14 was for the apostles to ask Him then, directly. Don't pray to Christ, but to the Father. The Lord Himself explained that's the procedure post-Cross, in John 15:16, John 16:23ff. So all those people who only read John 14:14 and try praying "to Jesus" will not be heard (like Karoline Leavitt who prays to Jesus in Jesus' name violating prayer protocol; then asking 'Jesus' once again why He let Canada win the face-off 🤣), you pray to the Father in the Son's name refilled with the Spirit. Christ Himself prayed to Father, in John 17, and even the Lord's Prayer outline is to Father, so there's no excuse for not knowing Father is the only Recipient of prayer. Not any saint, either. Sheesh we don't know our Bibles!

Hence the mandate is to get filled up with His Son, and we can get there, per Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:13, 2 Peter 3:18. Whoa. Voting for God has Divine effects, each time! Noah was only one person voting — and through him the whole human race was spared. So yes, one person makes a difference. The fact that the masses are so many tells you how successful Satan is. That God's heroes are so few, tells you how much more successful God is. So choose God's System, and let the masses fool themselves with their large numbers, as indeed they always have. Christ is One Person. So are you. That is enough!

God didn't create Himself, so no one else does, either. Problem with the world is that like Satan, they want to try to create themselves, á la Isaiah 14:13-14, making themselves high. It doesn't work. People huff and puff and become jaded one way or another, at the end. Heroes are many and all of them have bad endings, in this world. Just read any famous person's biography, notice how tragedy always permeates his life. The only worthwhile heroism in this world is God's — because He does all the making, not you. You basically watch Him do this to you, as you learn and live Bible in God's System. It's kinda like the Battle of Jericho or Berachah where the Jews trained and trained and trained, prior — but on the days of actual battle, The Lord Did It All In Advance. They just came in to collect the spoil. That's how Christ 'did' it, Matthew 4:4. Christ didn't make Himself, but relied on the Spirit. We get that same privilege. Frankly, that's the only happiness in life. This life — or, the next one. Else you're stuck with trying to become a star; if you make it, you'll find out a devastating fact: everyone hates you or gloms onto you for goodies or status or something else which makes them feel good about themselves. It's never you they really love. That's how it is in 'worshipping god', too. All fake. All a waste of time. Avoid it. Just learn God, and let the dead bury their own dead. For if you try to win their favor, they will be out to bury you.

In sum, based on your choices to learn Him, down here you will have varying amounts of wealth and poverty, health and sickness, heartaches and happinesses as training aids. You are not better if you have the nice ones, and you are not better if you have the not-nice ones. Your own soul is unique, so the circumstances needed to train you will be in concert with your own soul. But after death, those who became more intimate have the higher status and wealth. That, because the only way anyone in heaven wants to spend himself, is on Christ. Because, God is drop-dead Gorgeous in Nature. Everything else we hold so dear down here, will have passed away as valuable. Everyone will have his dreams come true — but the New Dream will be then, to spend whatever one has, on Him. That's Priesthood, internally. That's your future and mine. Ours to choose down here, how much we get to spend on Him, by how much we learned His Thinking. The more time and thought you spend on learning and living His Thinking, the more material wealth you'll have to express that Thinking — forever. So just keep learning and living on Bible in God's System, if you want to get that Intimacy. This is the one area in which you must become greedy!

  1. Fundamentally, therefore, the Bridal Role we have in Christ, makes us higher than any group of humans in history and for all eternity. This Bridal Role is a Gift to Christ, and was designed by Father for His Son in eternity past, theme of Ephesians 1. Dark side is, woe to us if we undervalue His Bridal Design. The most important role of a wife is to be intimate with Her Husband, particularly with His Thinking. Anticipating it, catering to it, loving it, living on it. Every man wants that in his wife. Every wife who loves her husband wants that in herself. It's natural: if you love someone, you drink in every thought that person has, and live on it, even pining over the memories if the loved one is absent. So how is it, with God we suddenly act like the frigid wife, relegating the relationship to cold do's and rituals, robotic and shallow, tit-for-tat? If your spouse treated you like that, you'd want a divorce — or at least, a vacation!

You are thus to learn Our Mutual Husband's thinking. Only then can you function honorably in this your Royal Role; your new spiritual nature In Christ will be utterly and completely miserable to the extent you don't grow up to function in that nature. This was explained in "Priesthood +potential Crowning". That's the 'curse' of being born high, and there is no escaping it. Woe to us individually, then, if we don't grow up. Woe to our nations, if we don't grow up. When a king is out of sorts, of course no one tells him. So if you leave God's System, everyone else will know you're miserable: but you won't, until it's almost too late. One way to identify the beginnings of this is disinterest in everything in life, finding no satisfaction where you once found happiness.

Obviously if Father chose this Bridal Gifting of Church as the way to Honor His Son's Humanity, the Gift must be worthy of Him. God doesn't give unworthy gifts. So notice the magnitude from the flipside, the kind of sins only we Church, can commit:

What believer in history, what human, even, ever had such opportunities to sin? See how devastating it is to think self so holy one can lose his salvation — or that one must "contribute" to it? How sad a thing for us to not realize our Royalty. Dead or alive, Royal is Royal. A dead prince or princess doesn't stop being royal. A bad prince or princess doesn't stop being royal. It's inherited, at birth. Can't undo that.

This is an intimidating inheritance. No wonder Paul counselled us to "operate" the salvation we have, give it a workout with fear and trembling, in Philippians 2:12; adding (whew) that it's God Who does all that work, in Philippians 2:13. Parallel passage is in Ephesians 6, where you don all the armor and then go into battle. You are saved, armored: now use it, don't be like the stingy servant who hid it away in a "napkin" (Luke 19:20, ties to similar parable in Matthew 25:25). "Φοβέω" is negatively, fear; but positively, awe. Respect so high, you 'fear' not obeying. Apt term. You mature from fear to awe only in God's System.

Thus we have more power to sin than any humans yet born. We also have the highest and most difficult spiritual life ever given to fallen humans. It is more difficult, because we don't have the paint-by-numbers spiritual life rules of the Mosaic Law. Then, if you just did what Daddy told you, no matter what you were thinking, you "obeyed". Now, oh no, that's not enough. It's the thought that counts, and if you don't get the thought exactly right — the whole thing is wrong, and you are punished. 'Reminds you of the high price of any failure on His Part, had He Himself failed. 'Difference is, we can't lose our salvation: but we can lose our extensive rewards, and instead end up naked: "but he himself shall be saved, as though through fire". (The "wood hay stubble" verse in 1 Corinthians 3).

I speculated that Satan was to be the #1 Ruler, but he flunked out? Remember how God must have designed the structure of the person for rule — so, as Romans 5-8 say, it could be filled up/out by Love's capacity? And how the person would become "supremely frustrated" if he doesn't thus grow up to become that ruler? Guess how you'll end up if you don't grow up. How I will. How any of the Bride will. Miserable. Royally miserable. That's a promise from God, in every epistle. What do you think the "shame" warning means, anyway? Christian, beware of not staying the course. "Endure" in the doctrine ("faith", in English bibles) — "until the end."

Notice how enduring to the end is a problem because you are permanently, Royally saved. If you were a peasant, endurance wouldn't even be an issue, for no one watches peasants, for crying out loud! And, if you could lose your salvation, you couldn't endure to the end, so there'd be no warning like this in Scripture. It would be irrelevant, get it? You can't 'endure' what you don't have! What, would the Bible tell you to 'endure' pain, if you had none? What would there be, to endure? Get it? 'Salvation' is something you have to endure to completion, because you have it forever. Maybe the quickest way to see this point about "shame" is to search all English-language versions in your favourite or online software. Search on all verses in the whole Bible which have both "shame" and "glory" in them. Note that the two terms are always used for on-earth discipline, never a loss of salvation. Philippians 3:19 is talking about "shame" at the Bema, which obviously means you got saved — ties to 1 Corinthians 3's description. You can also do the same search with "endure" and "end", but since English translations variantly translate these, you won't get all the verses they are in. Try "faith" and "endure" and "end", or "faith" and "end". Better still, find a pastor who teaches in the original languages.

My pastor passed away of Alzheimer's; for over 50 years he was a pastor, faithfully teaching from the original-language texts of Scripture to a dull-of-hearing congregation, of which I was a part of (long-distance). So it seems to me God took away his memory, because we were so forgetful and disinterested; a kind of substitutionary thing. So here's the upshot: the above text is very similar to his warnings to us over the past 50+ years, and are validly provable in Bible. This sounds like a condemnation of my own church and for good reason: back in 2018 the very Russian-compromised apostate Ted Cruz met a delegation from West Houston Bible Church; it had split from Berachah right when my pastor died. Like West Houston Bible Church, Berachah has contracted #Trumpitis: and none of them learned Bible 💔. The Bible's Poetic Meter vindicates my pastor's classes, God won't give them the poetic meter, commercially it's worth billions. Instead, twenty years ago Berachah found a 1973 letter I wrote, seeking all of R.B. Thieme Junior's classes they had on reels: did I still want reels? Oh yes. So I got thousands of reels from all over the United States, now I know why.

It was all on tape, my pastor told us we were like that, you can hear him say so yourself from about 1996 onward, more and more frequently. I witnessed the dullness myself in both others and myself. I was spanked, too. Since it's all on tape for anyone to acquire and hear for free, this is not a condemnation, but an admission. Bible isn't coy about failure. Neither should we be. Calling a spade a spade is Royal Honesty, before the Lord. More battles have been lost from dishonest reporting — most famously, in Hitler's regime — than for any other cause. One can't diagnose problems and fix them if the problems are covered up. We all make mistakes. That's why we have 1 John 1:9, and look at the ramifications when it's not used: the United States is now cursed with Donald Trump because of everyone at West Houston Bible Church and Berachah becoming obsessed with Donald Trump. Or apostate students under Thieme who lie and claim they listened to Thieme while reversing nearly every major doctrine, buying into works salvation, conflating 'the race' of kingship with salvation, lying and saying the Pre-Tribulation Rapture isn't in the Bible when it couldn't be more abundantly obvious. Or others being so disinterested in Bible Doctrine that they immediately pivot to conventional works-based Christianity after they don't perform any due diligence into proving what Thieme was saying. Or becoming obsessed with the end times and lying claiming we are in the end times presently, no student let alone pastor under Thieme would ever make a claim if they were using 1 John 1:9. The growing sickness of Christianity in the United States and disinterest of God's Word couldn't be more abundantly obvious and Thieme's incessant warnings fell on deaf ears in the congregation. Economic prosperity will likely shift to Canada as students under Thieme still use 1 John 1:9 over there. God will eventually pull the plug for these Christians in the United States and their lives on earth will be culled by 2042 if they don't rebound (1 John 5:16-17). We all make mistakes (to which Donald Trump famously says he does not make mistakes and therefore doesn't need 1 John 1:9), but no believer can afford to refuse to 1 John 1:9 and refuse to rehabilitate their thinking with the truth.

So whomever is your own right pastor, learn under him well? Don't be like we were and just sit and nod in class, because you agree with what your pastor says; turn it over, investigate in the Word. Then you truly honor him with your due diligence. Then you will believe. Don't just mouth, go to the potlucks, 'fellowship' with Christians — forget the people, fellowship with God in His Word on your own, turning over what you learned in Bible Class! Or you will be utterly embarrassed at the Bema, and wreck havoc on the world as well: which we're now seeing as the Trump administration rolls back the rights and freedoms of people and Christian Nationalists (and Trump himself) do everything Christ said not to do. Yes, you are that important. The world really does depend on you. It's not a lie or arrogance. Look: I'm a dufus, yet the world depends on me, too. On each of us, Colossians 3:25. Did you read 2 Samuel 24:17, and see how David got punished by others being executed? Do you want that on your conscience?

See: we are true royalty. We should then royally learn this our so-great salvation. And we are not learning! How much bigger a hint do you need, than all those water judgements which characterized 2005, even drought being included? These things happened all over the world in an orchestrated fashion, like a rollout, measured: even Europe got some of the weirdest flooding it's ever had (American news didn't cover those catastrophes very well). Doesn't that gradual, repeated orchestration, same themed deliberateness quality as what happened to Pharaoh, so you can't mistake it for natural phenomena unless you are willfully blind — remind you of the epic scale of the Tribulation judgements? All of which, are patterned after what happened to Egypt under Pharaoh Amenotep II? Do you see why? Leviticus 26 is no joke: when you see it play live just as it does in Bible, with the obviousness of a theme behind it — so a mind is behind it, not happenstance — then you should take your role seriously. For God surely takes your role seriously: a Royal Role He created to Gift His Son.

  1. In sum, Royalty in Christ means Responsibility in Christ, and that Responsibility cannot be fulfilled until and unless 1) you come to grips with the fact that you are both Irrevocably a Royal Priest and a Crown-Prince in Training, and 2) you learn how He thinks. For the Royal Life is a Thinking Life. Peasants "do", Royals "rule". So the Royal Life is far harder than the peasant's, as you'll see in the next Reason.

Second Reason for Royalty

Divine Thinking "in earthen vessels" means, "to whom much is given, much is expected."
The Royal Spiritual Life is far harder than the peasant life.


Salvation, because you have it permanently, is Now like school (John's analogy), or (Paul's term) an athletic competition (Hebrews calls it a long-distance footrace, in Hebrews 12:1's Greek): question is, what grade or place level(s) do you complete? So if you quit God's Script, then you flunk the "course", rather than pass it; you don't finish the course, because you flunk. So your "grade" arrests, and you don't graduate. Or, in athletic terms, if you quit God's Script, you quit the event for which God's training you. The word "telos", Greek word often translated "end" in English, really means to "the point-of-completion", and is only and always used for the post-salvation life, because that life is a parallel to Christ's. (It should be obvious that His life is not a parallel to our pre-salvation life, 🤣.) Romans 8 explains that Doctrine completes the Infinite Righteousness we got at salvation: see also 2 Corinthians 5:21. Parallel passage to the prior verses is succinctly summarized in Philippians 2:12-13 — God completes you.

And what, precisely, are you in 'school' to learn? What 'event' are you being trained for? To be a King! No sex distinctions post-death: Matthew 22:30, Mark 12:25; also Luke 20:35, but English translation is legalistically distorted. For, He is the King over Kings, and we are to be the Bride: the "of Kings" is a subgroup among us who actually complete the training "to the end" of our lives. Yes, it takes that long.

Why? Royalty is a lifelong thing, not a "9-to-5 job". So even down here on earth, it takes nearly a lifetime to train for it; since once you ascend the throne, there's no way out (except the shame of abdication). Look: Royalty's "work" is invisible and constant; because, it is thinking amidst a bazillion others who watch. Constantly. The pressure is enormous. You grow up under the pressure of all eyes judging every eyebrow movement you make, whether your cravat is properly tied, whether you misuse a preposition. All that petty judging going on. It's enough to drive anyone bats! Worst hell on earth, is to be born royal in this world. Yet all we commoners see is that calm exterior, usually clothed richly and housed richly. We wonder, what do those folks do, sit around all day looking good? We don't see what goes on, and what we call "work" is rigidly defined in childish, visible terms, so — we don't think Royalty does anything worthwhile. Well, 'except to visit hospitals, and such.

On the contrary, the work of Royalty (ideally) is rougher than any job ever conceived. As in the case of the Lord (in Matthew 4), our thought must be quick! and precisely correct! (Satan was tempting the Lord to visibly use His Humanity for the "good" of mankind.) A slightly wrong thought can send shockwaves through the country, since Royalty lives in a glass bowl, and every move is viewed with magnifying glasses. And why is all this true?

'Because Royalty sets policy. Royalty sets standards. Then Royalty Spends Its Life Living Those Standards, For The Sake Of The Ruled. 'So that the ruled benefit by seeing, and thus trying to emulate, those Standards. Royalty doesn't even have to make law, to fulfill its Role. It merely needs to exist: for the trick in successful Ruling, is to realize that "less, is more". The Queen of England has more power in her "little" wave to influence people, than all of Parliament's laws. That's God's Will, by the way. For, "rule" means "standard", "ought-to", "best". The best way to live. The beneficial way to live. So, the only valid purpose of "law", is to benefit from obeying its standards. Yet the problem with legislation is, laws by nature impose. On the other hand, seeing a person choose to live high standards, causes enjoyment — and thus, emulation. So, see? Royalty needs to exist, and by 'merely' existing, provides the best "rule": by example. Free. That's why we want to emulate Our Royal Ruler, the King over Kings. Because, it's not about imposition. It's about the Gorgeousness of His Standard!

And why is this true? Because Royal Thinking is inherently attractive. It is gracious, considerate, appreciates, and respects. It is relaxed, and values life not by things, but by ideas: virtues matter, "goodies" do not. Aren't we all attracted to the phenomenal Love And Strength of our Gorgeous Lord? Who did not consider even His Godness a thing to be seized and held (power, baby!), but rather Loved His Father and us so much that He added on lowly Humanity to Himself, and even went to the Cross? (Philippians 2:5-10.)

By contrast, peasant thinking is ugly, for it is childish, animalistic. Grab this, grab that. Feel this, feel that. Dirty, disorganized. No discernment. Goes by appetite, rather than by reason. Has to be told what to do, because has no initiative. Can't think. Uneducated. Therefore, insecure. Therefore, can only 'relate' to Royal Standards by wanting the "goodies", for "goodies" are all its animalistic appetite wants. Responsibility for its own sake is not valued. Graciousness might be aped, but as a child apes her mother by dressing up in her clothes, or smearing her lipstick. Watch the movie, "The Elephant Man", and see how viscous the peasant-like old sin nature of man truly is. So, in that cry-your-eyes-out movie of man's cruelty to man, the Queen, a sensitive doctor, and a leading noble actress befriend tortured John (Joseph) Merrick. No peasant would do such a thing: peasants gawk. Oh, Who will deliver us from these bodies of death! Thanks to God Our Father, The Lord Jesus Christ! Ending of Romans 7. Walking trash, the peasant. Walking trash, we.

So the peasant is intimidated by the Royal Standards, especially since they are so demanding of virtue, of selflessness. Peasant-thinking doesn't want to work that hard. Since people are fallible, whether "high" or "low", any "high" person who misuses his status naturally is a convenient excuse for charging that his status was at the cost of peasant labor. And, peasantly, that charge is extended to the entire upper class, thus justifying never working that hard. So, laziness becomes a virtue. So, theft of property from the higher classes becomes a virtue, in the name of 'taking back' something 'stolen' from the peasant. So, the peasant often revolts. So, the higher classes are made to feel guilty, because maybe a few among their number abused wealth/authority. Thus has our so-called "modern, enlightened" attitude today come to be. Read up on the French Revolution, Constantine Pleshakov's The Flight of the Romanovs, Mao Zedong's Hundred Flowers Campaign, or other what-happened-when-China-became-Communist books. There are a lot of good ones out, now. See how much destruction occurred in any of these so-called 'freedom fights'; priceless stuff wrecked, rather than sold to help the poor. Millions of people murdered, and especially peasants. Just like people in Watts, Los Angeles trashed each others' neighborhoods. For what? Because they were mad at 'the establishment'? So why trash other poor victims? It's the same stupid trashing thing, in all those oh-so-hallowed 'revolutions'. The film "Dr. Zhivago" well illustrates what really happened: a break out of the sin nature, manifesting its true rejecting, jealous nature. Check it yourself, don't take my word for it. In a nutshell: activists rising up against the imagined big bad wolf, usually ending up harming themselves than perform any collective good. It's a hallmark of Satan's strategies that man echoes, don't think and take the path of least resistance because it's feels and masquerades as good, except short-sightedness doesn't look at the bigger (complex) picture. This is often why left and right political sides have aspects of being correct, but nobody wants to see the nuance.

So, in our modern, "egalitarian" times, we praise being "equal" as if it were a good thing, as if it were even potentially true. What rubbish. Just walk around (well, drive around, and in daylight) any 'ghetto' area: notice how trashed up it is. What, is there no sense of cleanliness? Of course not. Like 1 John says repeatedly, because God first loves us, we are only then enabled to love, and even that must be learned (1 John 4) via the Holy Spirit. So, until then, dirty. Not equal, but rather swine, trampling down everything underfoot. Nobility requires noble nurture, for nobility is superior. Left to their own devices, even properly-reared children revert to savagery: Fielding's Lord of the Flies records man's true, vile, nature. Needing, therefore, all the noble nurture he can get!

Besides, we don't want to be equal — why are we so hypocritical, telling such lies to ourselves? We each want to be special, needed, unusual in some key way. Why? To buttress ego. However, even assuming we didn't have the depraved "me-be-good" need of "ego", there's another reason: we want to matter. We don't want our living to be empty. So, we try to carve out niches for ourselves, and then say "this niche is what makes my existence worthwhile". So, "being equal" is the antithesis of that normal wanna-be-worthwhile need.

Nor is it possible for anyone to be worthwhile, were we all equal. Without the rich, the poor can't get paid to do something worthwhile. Without the rich, there are neither markets nor innovations for products: everyone wants to sell to the 'rich', and so markets are driven where the profits seem best — which means, toward the 'rich'. Think about that. We gawk and awe over great architecture, art, philosophy, music. Who do you think paid for all that? The rich. (Study up on it, see for yourself: every great building, every budding artist or philosopher had some rich patron.) So, then: innovation, too, depends on there being rich. Which means, on inequality. So, by that system, everyone can do something worthwhile, unique. because unequal. Think it over. God isn't kidding in 1 Corinthians 12 and 1 Timothy 2:13 when He talks about never saying 'I don't need you.' He created a need for you or you wouldn't exist. So, you're not equal to anyone. You're unique.

One hopes that the lessons of the 20th century will at least be these:

So, too, freedom to be poor or rich means there must be inequality, with royal-rich at the top (God, for example!) and common-poor, at the bottom. The trick is, to have freedom of mobility, which the so-called 'equality' economies (like socialism) would erase, trapping everyone. Look: many folks just love being peasants. That's their thinking style, that's their living style, that's their "niche". What's wrong with it? Well, the only thing that's wrong with it, is peasant ignorance and arrogance. Ok, but "peasants" don't have a monopoly on ignorance and arrogance, do they? Of course not. Moreover, maybe one who is a "peasant" doesn't want to be one. Can such a person get out? Is he locked into that status, like some caste system? Ahhh.

Enter the True Role Of Royalty: To Provide Mobility So That Those Lesser Can Become Rich. True Royalty is nothing like the lower classes imagine. Such folks see "goodies", and imagine "goodies" to be the benefit of being 'Royal'. Nothing could be further from the truth. To True Royalty, the "goodies" are all subject to rules, protocols. Why? Because the "goodies" themselves aren't important, but rather their use. What use is that? The "goodies" are there to depict proper standards. If you have a standard you can see, then you can move upward in life. For, you have a visible goal.

Truly Good Standards are inspiring. So you enjoy trying to reach them, motivated and inspired by them. So Good Standards make all the difference in the quality of one's life. If one's standard is 'revenge', for example, he will spend his entire life chasing after the (alleged or real) object who wronged him — and himself has no life worth the name. For, he spent it on revenge. By contrast, the Leviticus 19:18 standard "thou shalt not take/seek revenge" frees such a soul! God will handle it! Ahhh. That's inspiring. You can breathe now, freed from the tyranny of trying to get revenge yourself: God will handle it, His Standard prevails.

Standards thus enable happiness or misery, depending on the intrinsic properties of those standards. Therefore, one must learn them, in order to use them. A peasant therefore cannot get out of peasanthood unless he learns higher standards. His natural thinking is low, to-the-ground, petty, needy, grasping. On the nicer side, he's childlike, so can be trained, and is capable of great (and very touching!) loyalty. So, how to help him? Well, all the money in the world can't teach him how to want the standards. All the money in the world, if given him absent him first having learned the standards, can't make him want the standards.

How then, to help the peasant? Be Royal, Be 'Parental'. For, Peasanthood is essentially childhood, retarded. A child is obviously 'closer' to the old sin nature due to his age: he has no natural resistance to it; so, is the more ruled by it. So, he never grows out of his insecure, grasping, petty, selfish-but-imitative nature absent a parent who well trains him. So, the only reason peasants exist, is that they never had (or accepted) proper parental training. So, the child grows up physically, but not soulishly. So, too, for the Christian: born Royal but untrained, the Christian remains but a peasant-child, however old his body might be. Our Parent is the Godhead: 2 Corinthians 5 and Romans 5-8 explain how we are born in Him so are to be trained in Him. Peter talks about the Lord's Humanity "leaving behind a copybook" vocabulary form is ὑπολιμπάνω ὑπογραμμός, so we could be written on (ὑπογραμμός) — just as was promised back in Jeremiah 31:31-34. That is the only way to grow up. Royal Standards must come to rule the soul. Those of Christ's Forever-Royal Family who are still peasants, then, refused to become λίθοι (another Petrine term), stones one writes His Thinking on. See? Peasantry is a volitional thing. Can't blame the rich for not learning. Especially, if a Christian!

So, secularly, if the peasant/child habitually sees a nicely-dressed clean person who reads, writes, acts responsibly and gracefully — the peasant/child will want to imitate what he sees. He might start taking a bath. He might try to practice walking the same way. Count on it, he'll memorize every little detail, and try to improve his own lot — by imitation. After all, absent the royal, the only standard the peasant knows, is — other peasants'.

So, seeing a Royal, in the beginning the peasant will just ape the outers he sees. He apes them, because he is insecure; he obeys, not to honor the standards, but peasant-like, childishly — to feel better about himself, to get approbation from others. Funny thing about aping: as you practice the outers (aha! just like the Mosaic Law!) you begin to change your inner values, too. Suddenly it's no longer alright to just throw your jacket on the floor. Suddenly it's no longer alright to have grimy skin. Suddenly it's no longer alright to just hit anyone who disagrees with you in the tavern. Suddenly it's no longer alright to just take someone else's property, or rape a woman. For, "suddenly" the inner values are different. All because someone with different and more-attractive standards was habitually seen.

Royalty by definition means "good standards". Royal, even. That is why Royalty is promoted by non-royals, who pledge their loyalty to that Royalty. It's a Love of Good Standards, and a Fealty to Those Royals who exhibit them. So, people have traditionally promoted some family or individual to Ruler status because the person had such standards, and the society wanted that individual to represent those standards for the entire polity. The society itself wants to be ruled by those standards. In short, society benefits by having good governance, for good governance means that everyone can learn, live by, and benefit from — Royal Standards.

That's why, in older times, Royalty actually wielded the final governmental powers: military and taxation. Royalty is looked-up to, on the grounds that it is free of corruption. For this reason, Royalty is (supposed to be) financially independent, owing no one. For this reason, Royalty is (supposed to be) wholly dedicated to the benefit of the ruled. So, we often ascribe parental qualities to Royalty, and celebrate them, if we recognize the benefit we receive from them. And what is that benefit? To learn the Standards, and thus ourselves have a happier life!

So for a Royal Person, life is extremely demanding and sacrificial. For, in order to execute all of these duties, Royalty must above all be self-disciplined, and possessed of keen wisdom, quick perspicacity, diplomacy, and essential knowledge in a dizzying variety of topics — since, after all, decision making is a constant role Royalty has. For, the decisions of the Royal become the Standard everyone else is to follow (and wants to follow, in order to escape peasanthood). So it is with Christ, the Son of God (thus Divinely Royal), the Son of David (Humanly Royal), the King over Kings (Battlefield Royal Patent for strategically defeating Satan, from whence comes the Royal Patent of Church).

Therefore True Royalty is necessarily intense, and thus not visible to the public-at-large except in passing — in short, at a distance. The true behind-the-scenes Royal lifestyle is fraught with meaning, roles, rules. One born royal is thus intensively trained in these things, and often is deprived of simple pleasures most "peasants" take for granted. For example (I type from memory — book cites are further down the webpage),

Not as thrilling a life as you imagined, huh? (Frankly, the dress codes alone would cancel any royal attraction, in my opinion!)

That strictness is the heart of what royal means. It's done to make the royal independent of goodies, so "goodies" don't have remotely the glamour value the masses imagine. In fact, if you are intimate with anyone who is noble, wealthy, or Royal, you can tell by their conversation and behavior that they are more occupied with the right use of what they have, rather than the status that they have. It should be no surprise that the rich romanticize poverty just as much as the poor romanticize wealth. Rich children are constantly taught to honor the poor, so naturally grow up with some romantic notions about what poverty is like. Grass is always greener in your neighbor's yard!

For, True Nobility/Royalty is completely self-sacrificing, and believes in being so: it's not eyewash to make the masses 'obey', as some freaking people claim. It is completely self-sacrificing, for it is trained to love the Standard with all its being. So it lives to rule, which it lives For The Standard. So, self is always second. It thus can be trusted with wealth, power, etc., because those things are also "second". Any ruler who has not come to love the Standard more than his own life will never enjoy ruling. As the Lord explained to David His Own worship of the Standard, Truth, which of course is also one of His Godness Infinite Attributes; to which David breathlessly replied, prostrate: "You have magnified the Truth above Your Own Person!" Psalm 138:2b; see also Psalm 89:14, but every English translation is partly mangled: the first clause talks about how Righteousness and Justice are the foundation of God's Rule (Throne), but the second clause verse depicts a public procession, in which Love (emphasis on Mercifulness) and truth march ahead of the king. It's another way of saying those latter two are in the front of the King's Mind (God, here), more important than he is. See also Exodus 34:6, 1 Kings 10:9, Psalm 33:5, Isaiah 61:8, Jeremiah 9:24, Hosea 2:19, Hosea 10:12, Hosea 12:6. There are many more, of course.

What makes abdication so vile, is the betrayal of Royal Standards. As a human being, of course, any Royal is entitled to wants, needs. But the Royal who will rule is no longer allowed to be human. For the sake of his country, he rules. His own life is of no consequence to him. Else, he should not rule. To be Royal, to have been trained for this role and then to reject it, is beyond all crime. Personally, one can empathize. However, one doesn't have the luxury of personal desires. That is why the Royal upbringing is what most would consider, sadistic. The one trained who survives all that, becomes truly great. To not survive, is betrayal. For, the Royal Standard is bigger than the self; to dishonor it, is betrayal beyond all betrayals. Period. Death is preferable.

While some particulars of a royal standard in human affairs (and especially, the traditions, protocols) might be wrong, the essential idea is still at heart right. This, the true Royal learns from the beginning, and comes to wholly love with all his heart: it's The Standard, Whole. Right, or wrong. Loved, or not loved — but still wholly honored with all his being. This, is what the abdicating Christian will not do. Instead of learning his Dread Lord's Royal Thinking, the abdicating Christian opts for tavern-like spirituality, with the rituals, the songs, the deeds based on ego. Yet notice the contrast: the Lord lived on the Word, Matthew 4:4. This, Our Lord wholly loved and obeyed in His Humanity, even through that most unfair act of history, being judged for our sins (Philippians 2:5-10, again). This, can only be truly done via the Uniquely Royal Spiritual Life which was granted to us through Jesus the Christ; which is to say, through the enabling power of the Holy Spirit utilizing Bible Doctrine we learn and live on daily, in God's System.

Unlike normal earthly royalty, since we are His Divine-DNA at the new birth (2 Corinthians 5:17, Titus 3:5) we cannot be happy except via this most-demanding, Royally Invisible Spiritual Life crafted by Father for His Son: Brideship. Ephesians focuses on this topic, saying in Ephesians 1 and Ephesians 2 (especially Ephesians 2:10) that it's the entire point of history, this making of Body of Christ. So, we are truly born Royal, in Him. We can't get out of that destiny, it's built into our new-birth Divine-DNA nature, as we saw in the Synopsis. Woe to us if we abdicate, via rejecting our apprenticeship period down here: that is why, for crying out loud, life apart from Him is so demonstrably empty! Don't we all notice that? How many jaded Christians do you know, huh?

We have Royal Duties, also. That we aren't officially ruling the world or public celebrities, etc. is a blessing. We are, however, on Divine Television. "Because just as He is, so also we are, in this world." (1 John 4:17.) Remember the Second Reason for Invisibility: the world rejects God, so it gets no visibility from Him. Instead, the world gets the Sign of Jonah: human warners, human teachers. We are the Evidence, says 1 John 4:17 (Greek is legal). So what we are is known, but largely distorted.

The world has known about Messiah's First Coming for all its history. That story was progressively revealed, and you can trace that fact through the morphed god stories and holy books. No set can contain itself. Largest "god" dataset is Bible's. All else that morphs, subtracts one or more data attributes, to derive the morphing. Same principle in tracing DNA or the origin of a language. Look for the mutations. As a result, this oldest of God disclosures, about the Coming-World-Ruler-Who'll-End-the-World-When-He-Comes, is rather unpopular by now. But not unknown. Who in the world has not heard of Jesus Christ? Even remote African tribes sent the United States a few cows to show sympathy for our 9/11 massacre. So how could they not know about Christ? See, it's a myth to say the heathen haven't heard: just check out their myths. Any anthropologist will tell you all these myths are so similar (but since evolutionists don't recognize that no set can contain itself, they can't trace origins very well).

Hence Satan & Co., realizing we are so blind and the world is getting the silent treatment from God, well they seek to derisively advertise the Bible every chance they get. They advertise their involvement in the fake holy books, in the way they polarize all religious topics to Christianity, in the way they mistranslate the Bible. You can prove all this and it goes back for centuries, same pattern. So it's not really all that invisible to the world — but rather, is hiding in plain sight. God the meanwhile, is silent. You don't talk to the other party in a negotiation until that other party is willing to talk to you. Barkus is willing, but in the world-at-large, all the Peggities, would rather flirt with someone else.

The world hates Christianity due to its content, yes; but even more so, due to the thoughtlessness of Christians. We are rightly held accountable as representing God. Even though the world does not believe in Him, they nonetheless know we are His, and are far less tolerant of us for that reason. It's not merely our bad behavior which makes folks hate Christianity. In a 'subterranean' way, folks know we're Royal: because both God and Satan & Co. keep pointing us out. Else, how would folks be able to know where to go for the Gospel? Why do you think Paul kept stressing behavior, in Corinthians, Timothy, Romans 12-14?

'Because we are being watched, as Royals always are. We are being watched to demonstrate what's the value of believing in Christ, just as secular Royals are watched to demonstrate what's the value of growing out of peasanthood.

Pick up any Royal biography, from Clovis to Diana, sometime. See how hard it is to be Royal. The childhood training is far more rigorous than even a soldier's, in boot camp! There are literally thousands of rules for etiquette, protocol, and every minute of the day is often scheduled. Every glance, every inflection of the voice, is interpreted by the audience — and commented upon, in the papers! Everyone is staring at you all the time; reporters and 'fans' try to find your private trash dump to see if they can learn something 'secret' about you; what you wear, suddenly is mass-marketed! If you dislike a thing and, forgetting, make an offhand remark, well — that manufacturer loses millions of dollars! And all this, simply because you are always being watched and imitated! Tell me: how pleasant would you find that kind of life? I bet, "Not!"

In short, the Royal has no privacy. Glass bowl. Servants. Dependence on "underlings". Gossip. Intrigue. Can't be sure of anyone's love. Can't take even the simplest peasant rest. Solomon recorded these many problems in Ecclesiastes (while carnal), Proverbs (while spiritual) and Song of Solomon. David's story, in Samuel and Kings, helps portray how "heavy hangs the head, who wears the crown." King Achish, upon hearing 'madman' David sought sanctuary in Gath, away from Saul, said "Haven't I got enough madmen already?" (1 Samuel 21:14-15.)

Do you get what "Royal" really means? The Royal never has a moment's peace from careful thinking. 'Just as Christ never had. The Royal has to come to love constant self-control amidst every kind of subtle torture — if not, he publicly self-destructs. Who wouldn't go 'ballistic' from all that pressing attention? Or, look how everyone pressed against the Lord in the Gospels! Why do you think he said to the groupie, "foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head"?

Get This Point: Without the "Mind of Christ" circulating in our own souls, we'll never make it. Satan & Co. want to make a spectacle of you (confer 1 Corinthians 4:9, which uses gladiator terminology). So does God — just as He made a spectacle of Christ. Count on it, you're being watched. Any slip which can be used to denigrate Christ in others' eyes, will be capitalized upon. Pray as hard as you can for every pastor or person who works in Bible. They get hit on the most, and their many egregious errors are all public now, let alone at the Bema. They need all the prayer support they can get. Isn't it nice to know how you're being used to 'shame' Him in the eyes of the world?

Have you noticed, we get less room for failure than do those of other faiths? Every small mistake we make results in shockwaves of "See, all Christianity is bad, so the Bible is bad" — do you notice? The whole Existence-of-God debate magnetizes to Christianity. You don't see the books, etc. attack Islam or Hinduism for believing in a "God", do you? No — they attack Christianity, the Bible. Try to find errors in it, with their pea brains. Do they do the same to the Koran? The Bhagavad Gita? No — the unbeliever focuses on Christianity. If he picks a non-Christian faith, it's because something in Christianity disturbed him. Same, for the apostate Christian sects. In fact, scholars drop all of their common sense and logic to absurdly claim the Bhagavad Gita is over 9000 years despite the fact it plagiarizes concepts and principles from the New Testament (usually reversing them), implying it completion somewhere in 300 AD or later.

You can trace this same fixation throughout history. Satan is so fixated, his minions' authorship of the world's 'holy books', all point derisively to Bible, and deride anyone who doesn't believe in Bible, all at the same time! Notice also, how all the ghost, UFO, 'spirits' stuff is so promoted, worldwide throughout history — and every time the characteristics of these 'beings' is exactly the same as the character of the demons in the Gospels and the Old Testament. Fascinating: Appendix examines some of their salient gambits. No one catches on even when they use blatant Biblical parodies which contradict the whole premise of foreign alien species. But then the same colors as in Revelation 17, are worn by the chief among the Revelation 17 fake Church, the Roman Catholic Church. Which all the independents since about 1960, are rapidly rushing to emulate. Much more religified, the independents, than before 1960. So all this focus on Christianity, century after century, um — don't you wonder why? Yeah, you're on Divine TV, alright. Hiding in plain sight. After you read Part 4a and its Mirroring Timeline, you'll be breathless with recognition. It's so obvious, one wonders how we could be so blind. Guess why.

Want some quick examples? Look at the so-called development of "Western" Civilization. It took off dramatically after Christ died. Do you think that was because it was "western"? 🤣 We Europeans were savages, for crying out loud. What tamed us? Christianity. No, it wasn't Catholicism, but rather the simple faith of a lot of simple people, who couldn't even read: most of whom weren't even allowed to see a Bible. They merely believed. And that Standard influenced their lives so much, the "West" prospered. It's not a racial thing, a Church Institution thing, a regional thing. It's Christ. As always. In every country of the world where grass-roots Christianity itself flourished you'll find a parallel flourishing of the economy and the polity within a generation.

And, so, those of Him are the more watched — and the more ridiculed. No way around it. Royalty rejects the peasant standard, so is exclusivist. It does this in honor, but the "rejection" looms large in the minds of peasants. So, reciprocating, peasants don't allow Royalty the peasant standard, either. And the world (consciously or unconsciously) makes sure we Christians are scrupulously observed (mostly, reviled).

Think all this over. See if it's not true. Funny: "even the wrath of man" proves the accuracy of the Word of God. Indeed, "to whom much is given, much is expected". Of course, Satan & Co. are accusing us even more than they ever did believers in the Old Testament. And rightly so: for to which of the angels did the Son ever say, "He is not ashamed to call them brothers"? (Hebrews 2, 'play on words in that passage.)

Do you begin to get the idea that our Royal Spiritual Life due to Christ's Session is rather complex? 'Rather higher, eh, than what most Christians think it is? And shouldn't it be higher? Weren't we peasants once? But now, due to Him, Royal? So where will our fellow peasants, our brothers, get to learn how to escape their crass animalism, if not from the Doctrine, His Thinking, Our Royal Legacy? So, then: isn't our real duty to help the poor by means of thinking His Thoughts? So that they can see in us a Royal Standard they can come to want, emulate? For, we, too are not ashamed to call them "brothers"!

It's pretty intimidating to recognize just how vastly important our status is. As you read the next two Reasons, you'll be even more intimidated. For we are doo-doo, let's face it. But Father's plan, for the sake of Son, is to make us like Him: Diamonds (see Ephesians + Hebrews, whole books — reread them over 30 times). Via, learning His Thinking! So, then: for what it's worth, when I'm on the verge of (or actually) fainting over all this importance Christ wrought for us, I recall two things: a) post-death, we will all know as we are known — 1 John 3. So it's really hard to get upset about self or someone else, when that person will one day know how he missed the mark. No punishment devisable by all mankind can be so frightful as totally knowing The Truth. Nerd note: There's a different "know as we are known" catchphrase Paul uses in places like Galatians 4:9, 1 Corinthians 8:3, and 1 Corinthians 13:10 or thereabouts which is an egregious mistranslation — it should have been translated "we will know as we are caused to know by God" — meaning, via the Holy Spirit's Teaching Ministry, and has zippo to do with the eternal state. Greek prefix ὑπό is how you tell the difference.

Then, b) what we see play now, life down here, is what we all would have been stuck with, had He not saved us to The Standard of Becoming Royal Priests in Him for Father. What we see, would have been the reality — forever. True Hell. Empty. Vile. Everyone using everyone else. No real love, just the name of love, 'fair weather' love. 'Just like Guy de Maupassant's short stories, which spotlight the hypocrisy of man. In short, ennui, both garbed and naked: always occurring.

Of course, living for the sake of a good witness to potential and actual 'brethren' is not at all the main reason why Christ wanted the Cross. The main reason, the Sine Qua Non Reason, is Father Father Father Father Father. Divine Thought Pleasing Father, Always Occurring! So now let's get into the root why He Legated Us His Own Royal Spiritual Life, and let's see just how impossible and impossibly wonderful it is, to be Church...


Third Reason for Royalty

Divine Thinking "in earthen vessels" means the Royal Spiritual Life is lived toward Infinite Father.


Aletheia, Absolute Love!

Funny how "Aletheia" = nothing escapes God's notice, Greek word meaning "Truth" — is also, Absolute Love. Funny how Love always finds excuses to get what it wants. So, then: Perfect Love finds them all, and without compromise, too! Think how God's Love works: we can't become "big enough" on our own, and yet He wants us, anyway. He could have opted for perfectly-obedient automatons, but instead nonetheless wants free-will sinners? 'So much so, He takes on Humanity and pays for us yet again (creating us being the first 'cost')? Oh, how many excuses are there, for This Perfect Love?

Infinite, that's how many. See the jubilant last half of Romans 5. (Greek shouts a lot.) Talk about excuses! What's this, God allows sin so Grace may abound the more? See why Paul has to word the beginning of Romans 6 the way he does? "For God loved the world so much" ... "For God demonstrates His Love toward us" (first two clauses in John 3:16 and Romans 5:8, corrected translation). Unendingly.

Therefore, in many ways this Infinity-Of-Love-'excuse' is the biggest reason for our Royalty, from Our Lord's Perspective. He wants infinite ways to express His Love for the Father! Nothing less will do! That's why He yearned for the Cross! It's as if the Lord constantly said, "Please, Please, Please give Me a Way to Pour Out My Love For You! Please? I need it." (1 Timothy 2:5 expresses this attitude. English masks the intensity.)

And He did, too. For while Israel was in training to become His Bride, He wasn't yet Human, so the way they could relate to Him and to Father, was very limited. Through things. Hence all the rituals, etc. were mnemonic training aids. Aids to remember constantly, like tefillin, that He would come down and pay for sins; that they would be disciplined time and again for their apostasy, but in the end it would all work out, and they would live with Him forever, as chief among the nations, in the Millennium. Time and again the prophets promised this. But the meanwhile, the Word they knew so well, was buffered. For the Word hadn't yet, become flesh. Until that Word was also a Soul with that Word in it, the Word would have to be mediated by a boy-leader, as Paul explained in Galatians (also referenced by Hebrews 3). But now, He's Come and Paid!

Think what Infinity means. Infinity is Full-Spectrum. All. All the small, all the great. Nothing too great; and nothing too small, either! Think of all the small microscopic animals; all the fish so deep in the ocean, we can't see them. Think of all the billions upon billions of light years of space, and the spectacular fireworks they display — which we also can't see. But the Father sees them. And the Son Made Everything To Please the Father. Which is why Christ is called "τὰ πάντα", literally "the Everything", in the New Testament.

So think also how, given that God is Omniscient, every thought you will ever have was "live" to Him since forever past. Will be, too, since forever-future. Adam is still sinning his first sin. Abram is just finally leaving Ur after a long shock at God's initial 'hello' (Acts 7 compared to Genesis 11:26ff). Moses is still showing Pharaoh those miracles. Caleb is still fighting those giants. What a guy. Good ol' First King Saul is still squatting in the cave, defecating. David has just left him, having snatched a small remnant from his cloak. Hitler has just come to power, too. You are just being born. Your death is occurring. And Christ is still on the Cross, to Omniscience. Forever. I like to refer to this as the "Godhead Archives" (similar principle to how the Library of Babel image search technically contains every image that could ever be known, but the majority is white noise impossible to search), whereby all information of infinity lives, in God's imagination. This is the precise reason why God's thought of us always existed, even if we ourselves did not exist until He created us.

A really great sample Bible passage to read which shows this continuity-of-time threading Omniscient Thought Pattern, is Isaiah 7-11. Notice the weaving: a rhetorical style of marbling and shifting between the 'current' time (Ahaz' day) and the coming of Messiah and the end of the Millennium. Constant side-by-side parallels between current and future are the norm in prophecy, demonstrating the Omniscient 'picture' God sees, showing how the past events 'fit' with those yet future. An all-at-once 'fabric' of meaning, like the Temple Veil. Very intimately viewed and told, shot through with Absolute Love, hence Absolute Justice is never compromised. Notice how Messiah is prominent, whether in the prophecy of His Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7), or the prophecy of His Eternal Rule beginning in the Millennium (Isaiah 9); then, back to the epic saga of how Israel will be judged and then justified, all her enemies defeated: all by and for and from Her Rock, that Root of Jesse (Isaiah 10-11). In a word, multilevel. All-at-once viewed. Everything fits together, and He sees it all. That's Our God!

So God likes the picture He sees. He likes the weaving of the fabric. He likes weaving that fabric, Himself. He must Absolutely Love what He sees: for since He's Omniscient, the picture is always the same. Being Omnipotent, He can change that picture anytime He wants, with less effort than it takes to brush food off your dinner plate. But He won't do that. Why? For surely He sees all the horror, too. It's all part of the same picture, ever before Him, every horrible thought and action by mankind, let alone by Satan & Co. Why?

Now think how small we are. How helpless. How stuck on the vapor trails of this world. How engrossed in our next party, what someone said about us; how high-horse we are about another's sins. So, then: how does Holy God derive pleasure from us being so small? It's not as though He can ever forget our petty lives, our grasping and whining and blaming and guilt-laden offers of dung. We're always occurring!

Do you ever recognize that the Godhead went out of Their Way to make life with creation difficult? Look: He's perfect. No problems, no needs, no sins, no compromises. Why, oh why did He elect weakness? To marry it? Here we are, constantly scratching and biting and conniving to lessen our many weaknesses, but God — elected us free creation? So, then: God doesn't want the easy way. If God did, we'd be automatons, pets, unable to sin; we'd just be chirping away praise, etc. Isn't it obvious, then, that Infinity Wants it All — sinners, rather than sinning Itself. For, Infinite Love wants to give good, but — because Love, because Infinite — also receive bad. Not merely good. So, Infinite God Never Wants to Restrict Life to the Easy, the Partial, the Unbalanced. But rather, Full-Spectrum. Just as was proven in Part 2 (and will be proven again in "Paradox" of Part 5).

He does enjoy us, because He enjoys everything. Infinity. Thus, His Infinite Capacity for Appreciation. His Infinite Capacity to make good on whatever He wants — without violating free will. It's not a power-trip, but Capacity. Appreciation. For God, being Infinite, is Total Capacity. Multilevel Thinking to the Uttermost. No one empathizes more than God, end Hebrews 4. Whatever you are going through, He's right there with you in it, Psalm 23:4b. But now in you, if you ever 'obeyed' John 3:16. Forever in you, not just with you. Old Testament people couldn't get that much intimacy, for the Divine-DNA conversion that is the Cross, wasn't yet 'done'. So now the relationship is totally connected. Sure, God is in every thing, and is intimate with all things and empathizes totally. But before the Cross, the relationship is one-sided, Galatians 3:20. Only One Party in the Mediation was at peace. But now that barrier, is wiped away. Total Empathy, which is another way of saying True Love, Absolute — can be poured into every soul. So you can empathize as God does. And therefore enjoy, as God does. Barriers are down forever, due to the Cross!

If we were frank, we'd have to admit that relationships in life are one-sided. Someone is always at the giving end, being beaten up by a weaker one who is demanding. The petulant child. The petulant boss. The petulant liberal. The petulant conservative. Everyone grabbing at everyone else, and frankly only those who respond with empathy, are the givers. Then as a 'reward' for their giving, they get beat up the more. Then, discarded when they have nothing left to give. So goes the intimate relationship in life; so goes world history. So many heroes, all discarded, given lip service or a scrawl in some monument somewhere, collecting pigeon poop and ink — written somewhere, memorized to pass a test, and then forgotten. God of course is forgotten the most: nodded at on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas — oh, we can't say "Christmas" anymore, can't put up signs or creches with "Christ" in them, it must be "happy holidays"! Some human demander, might get his fragile feelings hurt! Of course Satan now uses this to stoke more hatred at Christians by having Christian Nationlists turn this into a state issue, demanding that the United States is a "Christian nation", of which the Bible itself warns about mixing church and state. And of course their flavor of is Revelation 17 which is the furthest thing away from Christ 🙄.

For with us, it's only an insult to one's freedom or a violation of Church and State, if Christ is mentioned. It's okay to say "Happy Ramadan", but not "Merry Christmas", in our stores. Yeah, and we yet wonder who God is?

So, then: how is it He can enjoy even judging His Own Son for us puny wretches who always magnetize against Him, thus advertising He is the Real One: particularly since that judging is always in front of His 'Face'? Sweet Savor, My Beloved Son. See the Righteous Beauty of His Thoughts, even though He is suffering more than all creation put together! Magnificent, Him; still loving Me So much, even though I make Him become sin! See? Total Appreciation. Always occurring.

For with God, not only is nothing impossible, but nothing is ignoble, either. Even our sins are ennobled: by the Cross!

How is this enjoyable to Him? Well, think: God didn't create Himself. So, He's Totally Appreciative of the 'grace' of just being God, without having to 'work' for it. So, He's totally appreciative of everything, however low, because that's grace, too. So, He wants to pour Himself out into everything, good or bad. Happiness, Love. Love of freedom to be Free. Free to be bad, or good. Free to be made into good, too — while, at the same time, preserving the freedom of the bad thing to be bad. Always occurring! Romans 8:28! Intransitive made transitive! Isaiah 54:1ff! Barren made bounteous! Opposites, united! Lovingly, appreciatingly: Full-Spectrum. Flip through your Bible, see the proof for yourself (in corrected translations): "therefore, no condemnation in Christ Jesus!" "Not-my-people" become "My People"! "Stand up and walk"! "Lost, but (now) found"! "Dead, but (now) living!" "Shall live, even if he dies"! "To a living Hope"! "Anchor behind the Veil"! For absolutely nothing is impossible for Absolute, Full-Spectrum, nothing-beyond-Him, God! So, "by Grace... not by works"! Oh, how "God loves the world so much!" "For He cannot deny Himself."

Romans 8 is the quintessential chapter on this topic. Galatians explains how mankind is changed by it; Ephesians and Hebrews, explain how all human history is changed by it. From doo-doo, to Diamonds. Romans 6 sets up Romans 8, with Romans 7 being the reaction to chapter 6. (As with all Scripture, every verse is of multilevel interpretation, all fitting together: this is but one way to read import.) See, Christ put death to death, Romans 6-8; so He in His Humanity gave birth to Eternal Life (Isaiah 53:10-12, referenced in Romans 6, 2 Corinthians 5). Death is what we are now, in this body; and that's why our lives are so dead-empty with meaninglessness. But these barren things, this barren life, is but a pregnancy! That, is a central topic of Romans 8. Read it yourself, then read the other chapters; see if you can't tell the design, the brilliance, the enjoyment that awaits.


You, in Me!

It's hell not to be God. So God is out to make everything in Him, so creation needn't have a hellish existence, despite itself. So to solve that, Infinity must cycle inside finity; so the finite being can get God's Own Happiness by getting God's Own Nature. Infinity is punctiliar, essentially: theology likes to say "the whole of God is in every dot" or similar words. That's true. Bible's Greek aorist tense is technically a unity: a point of time divorced from time (has other meanings spoking out from that root). Hebrew shows this by use of the qal imperfect, or no verb (New Testament's Greek uses those Hebraisms, too). Infinity is dimensionless, which is to say omni-dimensional, without limitation. Hence punctiliar. Hence can be cycled by means of thought — for thought replicates without mass or energy, yet itself never changes. God is Pure Thought. And undivided, since Infinite. So His Attribute of Truth, is never apart from His Attribute of Love. Hence Romans 5:5, by Him pouring His Word in us, we get His Love. And then it's not hell, anymore.

God is all about, Relationship. Rightness comes from the Relationship. The relationship never comes from the rightness, 1 Corinthians 13:2. Without Love (relationship), all the rightness in the world only accomplishes οὐθέν (drama word in that verse for "nothing")! So being in God's System is birthed by God Making You Righteous As He Is, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 8:4. Anything wrong in your thinking, is corrected first by the relationship. Which relationship, ideally makes you want to learn Word. Which Word, makes you think rightly. So you can be closer: for the Oneness is what He prayed for first, John 17. Notice how John 17 is structured, and how the getting of Truth is a result of the desire for Oneness (compare verses 17 through 21 ending the prayer, with what went before).

That's why salvation is a floor, not a ceiling, theme of 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. That's why salvation is permanent and you can't lose it. You can only lose by not going toward the 'ceiling' (ibid, 1 Corinthians 3:15). And that ceiling, is as high an intimacy with God as you choose. Love never coerces, and there's no limit to how much intimacy you can get. All this is true, because Christ wanted it so, namely, John 17.

We Christians generally have it backwards. We are busy trying to be right, and altogether ignoring, the relationship aspect. No wonder Christians are generally so dry, Numbers 11:6! But the first thing you get at salvation is God's Own Righteousness, so it's no longer about trying to be right — impossible anyway — but about growing in the Relationship. Which means, lots of time spent thinking toward God. Learning Him, talking to and with Him. And you do that, by being in God's System, especially Element #5, constant conversation with Him. The 'conversation' comes from the growing Bible-in-your-head you're learning and living on (Matthew 4:4), as you converse with Him (24/7, ideally). The better you know Bible, the easier it is to 'hear' God talk 'back'. For He only uses His Word, and John 4:23-24, John 14:26 is the mechanic of how He 'talks' to you. (You don't need to throw sticks in the air, read entrails, have a dream or vision. Those were inferior communication systems pending the completion of Canon in writing.) I would also like to point out that there are many innocuous things God stages in your life complementing your interests (whether it's people, pets, events, recreational activities, information), of course if you're not talking and thinking towards God, they may be missed as happenstance.

That's the spiritual life, baby, and you won't be a baby very long if you get in and stay in God's System. Hence this table is about why it works this way. Buckle your seat belt.

Hence the spiritual solution for Oneness with God, is to establish and grow, spiritual connections in your soul. Then the God's Nature cycling, goes through those connections. Your brain operates the same way. The soul is immaterial, but the brain is this vast network of axons and dendrites. Thought connects to the body by going through those dendrites: immaterial thought converts into energy, and the consequent electrochemical 'binary code' (for lack of a better term) runs then throughout the brain by means of those dendrites.

Technically, when the thought 'hits' the brain, the brain receives the thought in 'translation' of electrochemical sequences. The thought itself doesn't convert, but is replicated in the brain. A connection is thence established between the thought in the soul, and its counterpart in the brain. Thereafter, a bi-directional function begins; it widens and deepens from a trickle to a flood, with repetition; that's why it becomes easier to think the same thought, do the same task, with each subsequent repeat. The goal is for Bible Thought to so widen and deepen. So that 'memory' is in two places; that's how you can learn, since all learning is by nature associative. Hence the need for as many dendrites, as possible. Spiritual Dendrites, for Spiritual connection to God.

That's why you get a human spirit (which is like a shim) when you are first saved (Titus 3:5). Divine Righteousness and Eternal Life, two of God's Attributes, reside in it. The human spirit is a processor of spiritual information, and it hooks up to the soul, the way the soul hooks up to the brain. But — you don't have but a baby's spiritual dendrites at spiritual birth — because you must choose to get them. It's the opposite structure from the biological brain. In the biological brain, all the neurons (etc.) you will ever have, you have at birth. They gradually die as you age. But at the spiritual birth, you only have a de minimis amount, because to get more, is a matter of your choosing to get more. And you choose to get more, each time you get in and stay in God's System. Now you know what the Bible keyword "enlarged" means (Greek words are many, especially μεγαλύνω, verb of "magnify" — by propagation). More spiritual dendrites from more Bible in your head cycling!

Love never coerces. Living in God's System is both the vote to get the dendrites, and the mechanic of their building — all done by the Holy Spirit. No works on the planet can build spiritual dendrites. Takes Divine Power, and only God would even know how to take one invisible thing (a human spirit) and make it talk to another invisible thing (your soul). See? This is entirely supernatural. Can't feel it, can't see it, can't manipulate it. Can only vote for or against it.

So the solution to our hellish finity, is to get as many spiritual dendrites as possible, interfacing with the soul. Then God's 'DNA', His Thinking, AKA "Divine-DNA", cycles through, Ephesians 3:15-19, 1 John 4:12-16 forever. And then it's not hell anymore, because you can think in terms of God's Apodoses, rather than the finite (now, sin-nature) ones. For thought determines everything. So get God's Thought, and you get God's Happiness. For God is obviously Happy, if He can look at us puny wretches and not wretch, Himself.

Consequently just as happened to the Humanity of Christ, we get Two of God's Attributes (that first nanosecond we are saved), Divine Righteousness and Eternal Life; due to which, we are justified to receive the spiritual Divine-DNA 'skeleton', our human spirit; out from which additional spiritual dendrites will be constructed, by living on God's Script in God's System. Now you know why you're still alive. Theologically, you can argue either that He became Divine Righteousness and Eternal Life in His Humanity via the Spirit growing Him down here — or that He was born that way, and the task was to grow up in the Truth to fill up the Righteousness without sinning; prototype Archegos function of what became Romans 8:4. Since when we are spiritually born at the moment of John 3:16 'done', and at that moment we get both Divine Attributes, it makes more sense to argue that's happened to Him at Physical birth, as well. He then also grew up in the Righteousness via the Spirit, John 1. So are we to do, Ephesians 2:10. So He was more likely born with the Attributes in His Humanity as well, and for Him it was a sudden-death issue of whether He'd sin and thus lose His Human Spirit. That brings up other theological issues with respect to how the angels started out.

What follows in this table, so far as I know, has never been covered in Christendom. We've never asked the question, What did Christ get for being on the Cross? Surely we are not a prize for Him, but a burden. Father would never have had His Precious Son pay for all sins, if there wasn't a bigger prize than rescuing and ruling our puny humanity, okay? Only insecure people who need approbation think that ruling is a prize. It's a burden. For what can we be but a burden, since we care so little about Him and about His Word, we don't even realize it was His Thinking that paid for sins — never mind that twenty one times in Isaiah 53, Isaiah screams that fact. The Divine DNA series has more detail on why His Physical Death didn't pay for sins, but instead is Evidence of The Victory Of Having Paid With His Thinking. So it's that All-Powerful Thinking, which is legated to us. Thinking, not works: can't be doing any works, if you are nailed to a Cross, okay?

So as you read what follows, please use 1 John 1:9 as needed and keep asking God for verification in Bible, since I have no clue what verses in Bible will convince you. To me, this is the most important doctrine in all of Bible, and it forms the basis for the Divine-DNA series. Isaiah 53:10-12 is the contract for what follows below, but of course you'll need more than one passage to prove it for your own due diligence (there are many passages, but which ones work for you, I don't know).

Here goes. What happened on the Cross was this: God the Holy Spirit fully completed all of the spiritual dendrites in Christ's Human Soul, such that His Human Soul could fully interface with His Own Deity and the Deity of the other Members of the Godhead. Prior to the Cross, He had to become "The Truth", which is first and foremost a structure of Thinking. The playing of the structure can't occur until the structure itself is built.

By the time of the Cross, His Soul's Truth Structure had played out in every way, but one: the knowledge of sin. Omniscience obviously knows sin, without sinning; but in His Humanity He had to be sinless, so technically did not know sin, 2 Corinthians 5:21. So that knowledge being poured into Him by Father, finished the knowledge content (ibid). So finished the dendrites (Hebrews 1:3b). All the while, He had to keep on choosing not to sin Himself, else the knowledge poured in, couldn't be purified by the Same Thinking as Father Who Knows Sin. This is important: in eternity, we all will never sin again. Why? How? Due to what we then know. Christ had to get all that knowledge while in a human body down here, in order for His Own Soul, to complete (Hebrews 2:10, usually translated "perfect", means "completion"). We get the knowledge post-death, because He got it during this life. "To perfect" is actually a better translation, if you realize it's legal English, to perfect (complete/fulfill the terms of) a contract (Isaiah 53:10-11 being the contract referenced). But most English-speaking people don't know legal English, and will think the Bible contradicts itself, calling Christ a sinner in this verse. No.

Knowledge kills, and knowledge gives birth. It should have killed Him, to get knowledge of sin yet not sin Himself. Really should have killed Him. But the Holy Spirit Held Him Together; meanwhile, Christ had to also Keep On Willing To Hold The Universe Together from His Deity (Hebrews 1:3, my pastor frequently cites this point); yet also keep on willing not to use His Deity to hold Himself together (Philippians 2:5-7).

Thought is extremely contagious. When someone is nice to you, it's almost instinctive to be nice in return. When someone is nasty to you, it's instinctive to be nasty in return. When you have an urge, certain thoughts associated with that urge instinctively come to mind. So far worse than the worst temptations to ever hit you and me and everyone — are all those sin thoughts Father reserved from eternity past, thrown like javelins (Isaiah's term) into His Son's Soul. The three hours' shortness made it all the harder to resist the contagion, the urge, the overwhelming blast of all that evil desire like a tsunami into Him. And then — oh then! Father judged all those sins at once! Yet He didn't sin in reply. We know, because He kept on shouting Psalm 22 at the top of his lungs (first verse is the Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani, in Aramaic). Notice how it's just like Matthew 4:4, He's 'replying' with Bible Doctrine. That's how our sins got paid for.

Truth is about Everything. Good truth, about good things. Bad truth, about bad things. Seemingly-'neutral' truth, about things which of themselves are neither good nor bad, but can be used of course in good or bad ways. Good truth can be used in bad ways, which turns the goodness into badness. Truth is essentially a kind of 'math' about relationships. Secular math is a subset and demonstration, of truth. Good truth, bad truth, any truth because Truth, God adores: Psalm 89:14-15, Psalm 33:4, Psalm 132:2b. David spent a lot of time thinking toward God. Thinking toward God is the goal and essential function of the spiritual life: fellowship. Oneness. So to get that function, you must be built in God's Thought. For God is Truth.

God talks back; and He talks back, through His Word. Back when the Word was not yet completed, people had to make do with dreams, visions, roving prophets to fill in the gaps between the partially-completed Canon, and what would later be in writing. For the promise was always that the Word would become flesh, and His Thinking would be in writing so we could get it all too, Genesis 3:15, Psalm 138:2, Psalm 139:17, Jeremiah 31:31-34: Hebrews 8:8 through Hebrews 10:17 circles on and explains this fact. Thus is John 17 fulfilled, especially John 17:17-21. There's a lot of debate over the origin of שׁוּף (shuf) in Genesis 3:15, because the LXX translates it with τηρέω. But one of the meanings of τηρέω is "to hold fast". See Thayer's lexicon — search on "to hold firmly:" under the τηρέω entry, and start reading. Friberg's "to hold in custody" is useful, as well. The BDAG lexicon lists that as the first meaning of τηρέω. Considering that shuf and shaf are so similar, I'd bet God is using wordplay on the act of grabbing and holding, hence the LXX translation using τηρέω that way makes sense. But the LXX shows there are more meanings, and hence the debate over שׁוּף (shuf). For In its other two uses, Job 9:17 and Psalm 139:11, both passages about darkness, the LXX translates שׁוּף (shuf) in Job 9:17, as a rubbing-out of one's life (much like you'd polish silver to remove dirt). But in Psalm 139:11, verb for trample underfoot is used. Seems to me all three meanings are in view in Genesis 3:15, but the kind of activity first depicted, is a grabbing and holding in thrall. That surely is what happens, too. Again, τηρέω is a good translation, and seems like the frequent usage of τηρέω in the New Testament harkens back to the LXX of Genesis 3:15 — and always, the Word is the object of what you hold fast, cherish, guard, in the New Testament τηρέω verses (i.e., 1 John 2:5, Jude 21). Seems these verses deliberately tie back to Genesis 3:15, huh.

As per the "5 Infinitives", this same procedure as happened on the Cross applies to us by contract in Isaiah 53:10-11.

  • For we are to get His Dendrites, Mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2:16.
  • Think of it as Divine Divine-DNA Cloning.
  • So every time you learn and use Bible in God's System, you are choosing God's Apodoses as the 'answer' in your life, and
  • His Thinking is increasingly cloned in your own soul as a consequence.
  • More Divine Dendrites are being built.
  • Just as happened, on the Cross.

The very-unusual, dramatic usage of the five LXX infinitives have no objects, so in Greek (Drama) 'grammar', you know that all objects are to receive the action of the same five infinitives. And we are the beneficiaries, so are the indirect objects of the infinitives (beneficial relationship, indirect object, uses the dative case, which isn't listed since all objects are indicated by no objects being listed). It would appear when the New Testament writers quote the LXX terms, they're doing so in an additive fashion as the Hebrew text is a bit different. Technically you can say He's the only object, the text cutting us off, grafted in Him. That's how we become objects of the infinitives. Very apt description. So we go through the same kind (not scope, but kind) of growth procedure. That's why the last stage of life, and the last stage of the spiritual life, usually involves suffering. So you get a frame of reference — and Divine-DNA dendrites! — for what happened to Him. You, in Me! is not just a nice phrase! It's a killer. And you can't want to live without it, once you're spiritually mature. God truly does save the best for last.

So every day of your life is about Him in you. How much is He being cloned into you. It's an update on Psalm 23:4, which used to be, "You, with Me!" (Corrected translation from the Hebrew.) Updated to, "You, in Me!" For God is wholly in you — but to what extent, are you in Him? Paul makes a lot of wordplay with that in-ness, as do the other New Testament writers (especially the Apostle John). You are "in" someone whose thinking you share. Love means shared thinking, even when incompatible. But God loves Freedom, and won't coerce free will consent: so the added dendrites are only built in accordance with the corridor of your consent, as you live on God's Script in God's System. So the Attributes we initially receive, are Divine Righteousness, 2 Corinthians 5:21; Eternal Life, John 10:28. These 'go' in a human spirit (the spiritual CPU which will produce the dendrites), Titus 3:5. So we are a new spiritual being, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 3:3, John 3:7. The remaining Attributes can then cycle: Truth = Love = Omniscience, etc. Obviously God has to run them all, since only God would know how. So we are one, just as Christ requested in John 17.

The 'building' of your relationship with God is thus determined by how many of these dendrites you get. Divine-DNA is the substance of the Trial, to get that 'building' in you. Ephesians and 1 John are the flagship books on this topic; with John basically tying in all of Ephesians, as he deftly writes out the spiritual primer for his readers, who were one generation after the Temple's Destruction in 70 AD. Nerd note: 1 John was written in the 90's AD and not prior. Don't know how anyone could mistake it as being written anywhere near 70 AD, when you look at how he incorporates by reference, how he skips over what we'd call the Matthew 24 content, etc. It's even stranger when Christians are so blind they can't tell Matthew was written first.

Christ was the first Human wholly Completed in God's Own Attributes, as Book of Hebrews painstakingly explains: the Cross finished that process in Him, and set up a cycling mechanism for us to get it, too. The Cross rescues us from that horrible Infinity-finity dichotomy, by 'process' of the five infinitives in the eternity-past contract, as recorded in Isaiah 53:10-11. Book of Hebrews basically elaborates on Isaiah 53:10-11, just like Ephesians does, using both as its founding frame of reference. Isaiah 53 (Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1, really) is an elaboration on Isaiah 7-11. My pastor spent a lot of time stressing the πληρόω and τελειόω usages in both Ephesians and Book of Hebrews, which he stressed are employed as reader tracking devices. It was through those tracking devices that I realized the books were elaborating on Isaiah; and in particular, saying that those five infinitives get macro-completed, with Church.

First thing this process does, is save us from the judicial separation from God, Romans 5:1 (which references the "δικαιόω" infinitive in Isaiah 53:11). Hence we are "saved". Verb and noun "σῴζω" and "σωτηρία", first mean "to rescue" and "rescue", respectively. Usually translated "to save" and "salvation" in English Bibles, the terms mean rescue, deliver from harm, deliver to safety, etc. It's important to also pay attention to nuance, because we need rescuing from our own corrupt thinking post-salvation as well, so not all verses refer to pre-salvation. The works salvation crowd cannot resist.

By first processing the δικαιόω infinitive (which is the last one completed on the Cross), you now have a magnetic field, so to speak: a circle of Divine Nature to be 'filled up' with Divine Thought. So all the rescues after salvation, are rescues of thinking, the other four LXX infinitives in Isaiah 53:10-11: to get His Attributes into us, theme of Romans 8 (especially Romans 8:4). Ephesians explains this process further, especially in Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:11-16. By replicating His Son's Thinking in us, we escape the hell of being finite and have total rapport with Infinite Trinity, 2 Corinthians 13:14. Forever.

All this, is God's Real Love showing, John 3:16, Romans 5:8. We can't exist unless finite, and God would never have us be unfree: that means sin. That means we need rescue. And He dearly Loves doing that, for no one knows better than God how hellish a life results from sin. It's hellish to us, see. Love totally empathizes, and wants to spare us that pain, heal it: Isaiah 53:5, 2 Peter 3:9. We in our hellish state are naturally antagonistic to God. But There is One Party in this Mediation, Galatians 3:20; and One Mediator, 1 Timothy 2:5 — the Christ!

So now look at what They, the Godhead, are saying while He is On the Cross — each Party in it, speaking to Each Other and to us! And given Infinity + Omniscience, this is Always Occurring!

You, in Me!

"You", Father. "You", Son: Each His Humanity and Deity, One Person, speaking in Two Natures. "You", Spirit. "You", all souled creation ever born or to be born by Father's Decree. "You", us Church getting to say this to Them, as we learn this oh-so-fabulous spiritual life, Romans 5:5, 1 John 4:19, Ephesians 3:19, Romans 8:28. John 17, fulfilled! Forever! Barriers down! He Who Knew No Sin is Made Sin — so no barriers to Omniscience in Father, remain! He Who Knew No Sin is Made Sin as a Substitute for us, so no barriers to our relationship in Him remain, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1, "near"-and-"far" verses! Barriers down, baby!

Love this Good, this Absolute! doesn't need to feel good. You, in me!


Βαπτίζω Building in His Aletheia Love

So God Makes Good On The Bad By Baptizing It With Righteousness. That's essentially what happened when all mankind's sins were imputed and judged in the Lord's body on the Cross, as Romans 6 explains. That's exactly what "Baptism of the Spirit" means — at the opposite end, 2 Corinthians 5:21, we are Placed in Union with Christ and have His Righteousness, that first nanosecond we got saved. It's a Legal Justification, the δικαιόω infinitive of Isaiah 53:11 in LXX, "bedato yatsdiq" clause in the Hebrew of that verse. This point is so critical, it's necessary to review what "βαπτίζω" means. The verb is very ancient (predates Homer). The etymological root had to do with the blacksmith's changing a sword into a permanent fighting tool after he shaped it with fire: by 'baptizing' that hot sword in water, the metal was permanently tempered, and the shape was likewise permanent. So, via the identification of thing "A" with thing "B", "A" permanently changes due to "B". So, our "A", our ἀδικία (unrighteousness) was "B", "Baptized" with His Blood on the Cross. Just like the ancient Hoplite Greek recruits would do in their graduation ceremony, thrusting their swords in vats of pig's blood to "identify" with victory in combat, so also the Father thrust Our Savior through with all our sins in order to identify us with His Victory. That's why Isaiah 53:5 reads "but He was pierced through (javelin-pierces, actually)... were healed." Remember further that "healed" is really the verb רָפָא (raphah), which means to sew-up-a-belly-wound-in-order-to-heal. We were Sewn up In Him: made "one". This is what the "Baptism of Christ" means. It's hard to find the stitch up significance of raphah in lexicons, but my pastor stresses the stitch-up-belly wound every time he covers Isaiah 53:5. Brown Driver Briggs lexicon says the stitch up is the etymological root meaning. Other lexicons are more dismissive with respect to raphah's meaning. Given the wound context, the stitch up meaning should be translated, rather than the lame "healed". For the Hebrew Holladay's lexicon correctly identifies the surgeon/medical aspect of raphah as well.

Oh: you need to remember that "blood" always represents thought, in the Bible. For real life is in the soul, and what the soul does, is think. Hence an animal was sacrificed by slitting its carotid artery (which cut off the pain), and the animal bled to death by breathing out its blood ("breath" = "Spirit" = "soul" = "life", again depicting Christ paying via Filling of the Spirit). Hence all the prohibitions against eating animal blood, in the Old Testament (= don't desecrate His Upcoming Thinking payment for our sins).

Now, let's go through the parallel again, to see how our "Baptism of the Spirit" works; meaning, as Romans 6-8 explain, The Permanent Union with Christ due to identification with Him in His Deaths; due to identification with Him in His Resurrection. A generation ago, these two permanent positions were commonly known theologically as "retroactive" and "current" "positional truth." Again, Isaiah 53:5's "healed", 1 Peter 2:24 and 2 Corinthians 5:21 all add the explanation that this Baptismos was bi-directional: our being made "righteous in Him" was an Exchange. This is not an experience, it's a legal position which gives rise to your real salvation. Anyone who calls the Baptism of the Spirit an experiential thing in which you froth at the mouth or 'speak tongues' in nonsense garble is getting the baptism of demons. Avoid such people, pray for them, they are too far gone in demon influence, God will help them. Bible never ever classifies the Baptism of the Spirit as an experience of any kind whatsoever. So those who do, are getting their information from Satan & Co. and seriously need 1 John 1:9 and alone time with God. Demons made the Greeks speak in "ecstatic utterance", i.e., in the Oracle of Delphi. It's the very same thing with tongues. Paul himself explained that tongues was giving the Gospel in a foreign language the speaker did not know, and that was all it was, see 1 Corinthians 14 which references Isaiah 28. By this, Israel was to know Christ had come and left, Acts 2. So even pre-Temple Destruction when tongues were valid, they did not operate the way claimed today. So the claimants today, are demon-influenced or possessed. Avoid them like the plague — or, just cut out their false teaching on Baptism of the Spirit and tongues, testing the rest of what is taught. Surprisingly, a lot of Pentecostals get the Gospel and Pre-Tribulation Rapture basics right — unlike most other denominations — so maybe the demons target Pentecostals more, to obfuscate what truth Pentecostals do understand. So it might be harder to dislodge demon influence, and God is getting out what basics are right via them, anyway. By the way, "Spiritual Adulthood" explained 2 Corinthians 5:21.

When the Best (Christ) is baptized with the Worst (sins), Unity results (antitype of ὑπόστασις bonding); this uniting/baptizing/bonding/pairing/marriage is the root pattern depicted in all God does with respect to everything. "Baptism" is God's Fundamental Jurdical Processing Method for everything from the structure of physics to your salvation, and in "Covenants of Association". Ergo, Full-Spectrum Association is achieved, "filling all in all", Ephesians 1:23. Cutting out and grafting in. Since it's juridical, it's not an experience, get it? But you can know it. Form before function. The function is a knowing thing, what you learn and live on of Bible in God's System. So throw all that Satan & Co.-sponsored garbage about "feeling the Spirit" — in the trash where it belongs. If you can feel a filling, it's not the Spirit you're feeling, but demons. Use 1 John 1:9, think Bible, and move on.

Isaiah 53:10-11 explains how your salvation works. It also explains the structure of the cosmos, and solves the quest for "unified field theory" which Dr. Stephen Hawking and other physicists have been seeking for so long. Most importantly, it solves the spiritual maturation process, which resolves the real problem of the universe, the Infinity-finity dichotomy.

Again, when you learn and live on Doctrine, you "baptize" God's Apodoses to the questions in your life. That's how you grow spiritually. It's a ruling you make in your own soul, to choose God's Answer versus the world's. Exact same juridical function. That's exactly how Christ in His Humanity, fully became One with God on the Cross via those five infinitives, as shown in the First Reason for Invisibility. Bigger, therefore. So needs a Body to complement, so gets all the booty, Isaiah 53:12, Romans 6:11ff (beginning of marital analogy, the old sin husband being divorced). So Romans 6-8, show how that same baptizing process, characterizes the spiritual life. You baptize your life with Bible in your head you 'ate' (learned and believed, also exemplified literally in Ezekiel 3:1-3). Spiritual dendrites thus get made, and you become more intimate with God. It's a knowing thing, a building of His Thinking, dynamic. My pastor's 1977 Romans lessons are an extensive verse-by-verse exegesis of the book, and it takes four years of daily 90-minute study, to go through all those classes. The divorce/death and marriage-to-Christ on the Cross is a strong theme in Romans 6-8, which his exegesis stresses. Just so you know I didn't make this up: you can't see all this in the English, of course. Marital/Sex topics always get fuzzed over in translation.

This Unity thus creates a Divine System to implement the function of the five infinitives in that Body, which is Church: Greek word for "Divine System" (always mistranslated) is "ἑνότης". It's used several times in Ephesians 4 in wordplay with "ἑνός", meaning "one": Oneness System. God's. Our friend "ἑνότης" is a very pregnant word in Greek literature, especially in Plato. Idea of becoming one with the gods, being in harmony with them, by living in their system of thinking. It's not about harmony with people. That's a result, but is way secondary: for if we harmonize Vertically, we'll naturally harmonize horizontally. Multisphere, therefore. So the Real God takes a real Greek idea and shows how it really works: via the Cross.

Notice how the one-sidedness of relationships, is now an advantage. For Christ unilaterally paid, just because He wanted to Gift Father. Father unilaterally judged, Spirit unilaterally empowered. They stop short of "work" each time, but instead unilaterally and without strings, Gift to Each Other. Then, the Recipient can do 'whatever' with that Gift. So also, now us. For we get His Thinking gratis, it's a unilateral transaction (Holy Spirit runs the entire thing), and then it stops for us to decide yes or no on the learning/living on His System's Script. We unilaterally decide "yes", and those horizontal to us, are blessed. It no longer matters if they grab at us, or we at them. The Vertical Sphere takes primacy, since "unity" is about Union with Christ. Whew: now, you can have some peace in human relations, since it no longer matters how well they treat you, or you them!

Better still, you really have something Valuable to gift God. Only God's Level gifts God — we are forever thinking too low, here — which is why you have to be made a god, to even be eligible for salvation (true in the Old Testament also, Genesis 15:6, 2 Corinthians 5:21). Christ became Man, so we could become gods in Him, as He kept on trying to explain to the fake-humility Pharisees, in John 10:34, quoting Psalm 82:6 from the LXX. We just saw the "You, in Me!" section's mechanism to accomplish that, a transference of Divine Attributes (Righteousness and Eternal Life), and then the building Attribute of Truth upon them. All via the same five infinitives which did the same thing to Christ on the Cross. See, the sin problem isn't the first problem, but the second: the first problem is our finity, second prong of Romans 3:23. So He solves both at once, on the Cross. So now, you can think God's Thoughts in 'reply' (or initiating) to any circumstance, 24/7, no matter how banal your life, no matter how noble. For it will never be noble enough for God: only His Thinking is enough. But it is enough, so it is a Divine Gift, manufactured by the Holy Spirit in your soul, so it comes out from you. Now, that's worth Omniscience's Always-Occurring Sight! What a relief!

Now you're beginning to understand why God can look at the same picture for eons, and not get bored. "Treasure in earthen vessels! My Son's Thinking in them! You, in Me! Us, in them! Them, in us! Dichotomy resolved!" One never tires of a beloved activity. Repetition only enhances that love. So how much more, in God? So now you see why all those valley-exalted and like verses rampant in Bible are always exclamations. Isaiah 54:1c's ecstatic "WatsaHalí, lo-hala!" = "Burst forth in neighing trill, you who never writhed in pregnancy labor!" God's the Ultimate Recycler!

So every dang time you learn a verse and use it, think it, love it — God will see that moment forever. And be screaming, watsahali, lo-hala! See? It's a valid gift the Holy Spirit creates via Him in you! Every second!


Communion Concert due to Βαπτίζω Building in His Aletheia Love

Thus, even the worst becomes ennobled, "for the purpose of bringing many sons to glory", as Hebrews 2 puts it. As Paul put it in Galatians: "you are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus". Instantly. That's why Paul exults so in Romans 6: just as Christ was baptized with our sins, so we also then were baptized in His Deaths (substitutionary spiritual, and after "It is finished", physical — 2 "deaths", Isaiah 53:9's בְּמֹתָיו (bemotayo) — not just one). So, as 2 Corinthians 5 echoes, since He substituted for us, we now live for Him: Full-Spectrum. Best is united to Worst, so now everything becomes "best" to all those who thirst (Isaiah 55); for, once they drink, like the Lord told the Samaritan woman, they will never need to drink from the world's wells, ever again (see also John 6:27, John 45-55 for definitions). Ephesians 4:5, therefore: One Baptism. One Lord. And one Bible/Truth/Doctrine/"Faith", all of which are synonyms for His Thinking (1 Corinthians 2:16, Hebrews 4:12, etc). One System, and One System only: God's. God's Divine-DNA-making, God's Apodosis-making, Glory: "You, in Me!" One. In Him.

We saw from the Third Reason for Invisibility that the Old Testament people were restricted in how they could relate to Him, but we are not. They were stuck with a mere besideness enhancement of human powers, outers by the Spirit — since Christ's 'Outer', the 'WH' in 'YHWH', His becoming Man, hadn't yet happened. So the Old Testament people could indeed feel something of the Spirit's endowing power, since that power went through — in very small doses, lest He kill them — their human soul and body. By contrast, we Church get the Total Power of the Spirit, which is too big to feel — spirituality is immaterial, so is never a feeling, anyway — which Power is used to make you able to learn and use spiritual information, aka the Bible. That's why no unbeliever or carnal believer understands Bible today. That's we must be Indwelt. The Indwelling is a buffer so that the Full Divine Power can Function in us. Hence you can't feel it, and you'd be dead if you could.

Hebrews explains that contrast. We are the Temple, now, so it's just as well the other one is gone, Daniel 9:26, Jeremiah 3:16. For now, Jeremiah 31:31-34 is implemented, as Hebrews 8:8-10:17 explains: He is behind the Veil in Heaven, so His Thinking fills us, since Shekinah is Incarnate and Ruling. So we can Vote To Have His Thinking; can vote to have His Thinking apply to anything, anytime, and that Gifts God, God's Way. No need for rituals, emotions, works, do's. Only the thinking can defile, so only the Divine Thinking can ennoble, too. Which it did, on the Cross. Which is therefore available as a Voting Privilege 24/7, whether in the bathroom or the boardroom. For we are Royal Priests by Nature, as we saw in "Your Priesthood".

For on the Cross, surely sins weren't themselves noble. So Christ kept on Voting for the Divine-DNA conversion, and that was therefore a judicial justification, since He Voted for it. The sins lacerated Him, and He kept voting for them, just the same; so that the Divine-DNA conversion, could complete. So now, we can keep voting for whatever in our life, to likewise convert, since we are in Him. That makes sweet savor for Father, justifies the five infinitives 'going to work' on the always-too-small-for-God stuff in our lives. True Priesthood, this: we get paid to be here, to do this voting. That's essentially how the spiritual life 'plays'. Forever.

Voting equals
Learning and Living on Bible in God's System
equals using God's Apodoses, which results in
Divine-DNA exchange via the five verbs of Isaiah 53:10-11,
as Spirit does the baptizing surgery, Hebrews 4:12,
καθαρίζω, aphaireo, δείκνυμι, plasso, δικαιόω,
which Father Forever Sees: "You, in Me!"
Always-occurring Baptism!
Matthew 4:4 emulated!
Sweet Savor!
Treasure in earthen vessels!

Hence the very essence of Our Royal Priesthood denotes closeness, intimacy, union, a "You, in Me!" Sharing of God which other believers in other covenants will never get. We're sons, so we Church are all Royal Ambassador Priests! Forever, Royal Family of God! (Confer Hebrews 5-10; 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10 plus other verses.) Priests are to have a mediatory mindset. Modern word for this is "diplomat", frankly. "Priest" has been too much trashed in the movies. Diplomatic representative of God is really what priesthood always meant in real life. We saw that, back in the First Reason for Royalty, the role of "priesthood", and the example Paul uses to craft his letters — especially Ephesians — from the famous Greek myth immortalized in Euripides' play, "Ion".


"Dendrites for Dad!" Divine Doctrine Communion Concert Due to Βαπτίζω Building in His Aletheia Love

  1. Since God is Full-Spectrum, will our puny, horizontal, one-sphere thinking about "earthly things" be sufficient for Rapport with Him? Of course not. That's why we get the "Thinking of Christ", 1 Corinthians 2:16. His Thinking is that Ephesians 4:5 "One Faith": 1st meaning of "πίστις" is passive, What Is Believed. So doesn't refer to any of man's doctrines or man's faculty of believing. In ancient Greek culture, "Pistis Sophia" is the Personification of the Credal Wisdom of the gods. And "ἑνότης" was the system for getting that Credal Wisdom, living in harmony/rapport with it. In the Philebus you see Socrates use the ἑνότης idea as a jumping-off point to define ἐλπίς, the quintessential Greek word for confidence. Idea that you can only have confidence and thus happiness, if you are living in harmony with the gods. So too, here. Again, the Real God takes real Greek ideas and then fixes them to show Whose Thinking one ought to acquire and believe in, to get that oneness rapport. Just One Person: Christ, Our Mediator. And we are His Diakonia Diplomats, His Representative Body. So we are to live on His Dianoia, His Understanding. So we need to get His Divine Aletheia Dendrites, Divine-DNA, for Dad. Yeah! D.A.D. for Dad! Sometimes I use "Plato" and "Socrates" interchangeably. It's really hard to tell what Socrates actually said, and what Plato says 'through' Socrates' mouth. Here, it's probably really Socrates.

You know, to see the media version of life, you'd get the impression that what's important down here is sex and violence, having nice things and knowing important people; that what matters, are your 'connections', what causes you fight for, what competitions you win, what recognition you get. What a load of hogwash. For when you look inside any home: who enjoys being around one whose thinking is incompatible? Would any amount of wealth, achievement, looks, fame, whatever — atone for that person's ugly thinking? If you are normal, you'd say, "No!" For, what makes life enjoyable, is rapport-in-thinking. If that exists, nothing else matters. If that doesn't exist, all is hell, pretending to be heaven. We pretend these differences don't matter. They matter altogether. We just live behind closed, hypocritical doors. For no one likes being around incompatible persons (or circumstances, things, etc). It's normal, to want compatibility.

So, then: if rapport-in-thinking makes life heavenly, how much more, rapport-in-thinking with very God? All life after salvation is designed to give you the same appreciation basis as God Himself has. Like Paul says in Romans 6 and elsewhere, we all died on the Cross with Him. So now, we see on a negative level, what He's saved us from: our own and others' failings, meaninglessness, and death. Bigger: on the uppermost level, we see what He's saved us to: Life forever with God and in God's Thinking, His Absolute-because-Infinite, Appreciating, Empathic Love.

  1. God is Infinite-Level Thinking. So we must become Multisphere in our thinking, 2 Peter 3:11. So a growing Rapport with Him means we need the skills of Multilevel Learning, Thinking, Living. For, the uppermost truth is most unseen, because Infinite. And all the lesser truths, rank below. So here we are at the bottom, with all those levels to Learn And Live Toward Father, because we are Royal Priests.

Multilevel also, because mankind is multivalent. We have a simultaneity of thinking D.A.D. toward "Dad", but also, toward people. So many levels of thinking are thus required laterally, as well. Father hears all those lateral levels, too. So coordinating all these levels, is a goal in spiritual maturation, but also in our eternal "jobs" as Royal Priests. For we each differ in our values; we differ a lot over our preferred intimacies with who and what. Variety is everywhere, +1 property of uniqueness. Such differences create antagonisms, since each person is his own god, passing judgement in favor of "x", but in disfavor of "y". So incompatibility is everywhere, too.

Hence the need for diplomats: especially, between God and mankind. Hence the Cross: to provide a cycling mechanism whereby the incompatibility can be healed. But of course, +1 property of uniqueness, we won't all avail ourselves equally of this mechanism God gifted to the entire human race. So again, diplomats are needed. For many beings mean many connections and hence many mediations, even absent conflict. These differences between us therefore require a hierarchical societal structure to provide and enhance, a cycling synergy; thus the incompatibilities, harmonize in aggregate.

  1. Not everyone embraces this Royal-Priestly, MultiSphere lifestyle of Thinking Toward Him. So those who reject God's Script, will live far away from Him. Forever. Bible is real adamant about this and even rude, in the prophets, Gospels, and Revelation. For, it's your choice Now how close you want to be. Like Christ, you only get to vote your future structure, down here. Once you die, you've cast in stone how close you want to be to Him — forever.
  1. There are three basic reasons for eternal distance from God, i.e., why the Gospel has its stark "believe or burn" alternatives. First, if Omnipotent God ever sinned, He'd stop being God. He doesn't sin due to what He Knows And Values. He knows sin is ugly, and would never want to do it. The 'threat' of what He'd become if He ever did sin is a non-issue, because He's not even remotely attracted to sin. Are you remotely attracted to eating dog feces? No. So it doesn't matter that you can eat dog feces; it doesn't matter that if you ate dog feces, you'd get sick. Same concept here, on infinite scale: God finds sin disgusting, never mind how it would affect Him if He ever chose to do it. Man shackles God erroneously by saying God "can't" do something, yet calls Him Omnipotent? Oops. Man's theology needs maturing, huh. So go with the El-Shaddai, ho-pantokrator Word, instead.

Second reason, He gives His Own Son as a Substitute for Sin, John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 5:21, many other passages, especially Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1. So to spurn that Gift, one must be evil indeed. To spurn the Gift, is an election of Extreme Distance. Hell, even. And we all did spurn it before we became believers, so we are all evil. Some of us woke up to that via God's continual due-diligence disclosure, and some will not. Still in these evil bodies post-salvation, we want or do not want to learn Him.

Hence the third reason: it's totally evil not to learn Him, post-salvation. That's an election of extreme distance, too. Even though saved. So watch how God adjudicates "distance":


  1. Divine Physics, this. And secular physics (or atomic/biological behavior) will always exactly reflect the Divine.

  1. Consequently, when you look up at the sky, all those bodies of various types --- represent people. A society, if you will. Bible calls the angels "stars", so the heavens depict societal relationships. So next notice that if Earth were the 'head' of the universe, its asymmetrical position in a corner makes most of the universe be rather far away, relatively. Colder. Weaker. So if God's Throne will be here — and it will, Revelation 22 — most of the people saved will be rather far away. Seeing Him only once in a billion years, perhaps. Do you want that to be your future? I sure don't. So learning His Thinking means you will be closer to Earth, maybe even living on it, near Him. That's the place to be. For when you scan the sky at night, you view an imperfect vacuum; wherein those very distant bodies receive and give off amalgamated ripple effects to and from other bodies; such that the entire universe, is held in a concerted dendritic 'web' of alignment. Yet all these bodies are travelling at fantastic speeds — in concert. Yet they are all staying in place, due to their ripple effects of gravity, magnetism, etc. Yet they are all slowly dying, now — won't be true in the eternal state, but we all know the universe has a finite life, just not how long — yet they are all being born, too. Constant cycling. That tells you everything about Bible. It's on display every night, Romans 1:19-21. (In English) Gravity and God begin with a G for a reason.

  1. Enter the need for Our Royal Priesthood both now and forever, toward mankind. Priesthood means forming a diplomatic relationship link between God and non-priests; that link is a soul filled with His Thoughts which those others can also learn through you. You become a Royal Conduit. That's what "Priesthood" basically means, toward man. So consider the tremendous value to you and to others, of getting and being a conduit! Believers who reject their Destinies down here, and believers in other covenants who are thus not royal, are farther away from God. They will not have the spiritual-dendrite 'capital' of the Pleroma; they will be relatively "poor" (Revelation 3 warning to the Laodiceans). This poverty-of-thinking will have material counterparts. The Pleroma will be the richest persons in the universe. Everyone else will rank under them.

Sure, everyone will be happy (once the post-Bema shock wears off being forgotten trillions of years in the past), and even the least of us will probably know more about Him than the best of us down here; but compared to what vast increase will have been 'invested' by the Holy Spirit in those whom He grew to Pleroma, everyone else will be poor indeed. So, flunking Royal Family will be excited about every opportunity to be close to a Pleroma Member, to get a taste of that 'gain'. So, every believer who is not Royal Family will be excited to be close to a Royal Family Member, to get a taste of the 'gain' even the lowest of Royal Family will have. It really is a spectrum of relationships much like (what ought to be) a free polity/economy: a few very very very rich, an upper class, middle-upper, middle, middle-lower, lower, and destitute. In Thinking. And hence, in accoutrements, compared to each other. After all, if you are living on a billion dollars a day, someone who only gets a million a day is "poor".

There is no physical Temple in the eternal state, Revelation 22; instead, we are the Temple, Body of Christ. So we will have to be deployed throughout the new universe, to represent Him. The Pleroma will be the owners and will be closer to Him; they delegate positions to those under them. Just as a rich man might own a yacht he seldom visits but he has employees taking care of it all the time, so also the Rich Christ will be delegating His Body to take care of His Dominions. Pleroma will be closest underneath Him, and underneath them, will be the rest of the Body. So that Body will be deployed throughout the universe, kind of like the Levites were spread out over Israel — for the sake of other distant folk who aren't Body. The deployment will metaphorically resemble all those stars, asteroids, planets and other bodies you see at night, now. So everyone is connected — but not, up close. The closeness was determined by volition's choice to learn Him, down here.

Consequently in the eternal state, everyone will be very clear on his relative inferiority or superiority, and will not want to be close to those higher. It will be regarded then as a breach of good justice, to be close to someone high who made the right choice when 'you' did not. That's the central theme of Galatians: there is no inequality in Christ — unless one rejects the spiritual life. That's why Paul alternately upbraids the legalists and the lascivious crowd among those cantankerous Celts (Galatians = Celts who moved to Galatia). Equal Opportunity but unequally-used positive volition, yields an unequal hierarchical society, forever. Like a progression or regression of numbers, -100, -99, -98 ... +98, +99, +100. That Recognition of Justice will then satisfy everyone, from the greatest among us (then) to the least of us. For then we will all be nearest those with whom we are most compatible.

  1. Enter the need for Our Royal Priesthood Role to Father, to think like Christ and thus compensate for the missing void of thinking in all others.

All that booty's thinking, Father hears forever. Their thinking will then be perfect like the Pleroma, but far smaller than the Pleroma's. Given what Divine-DNA does to a soul, and the justice of Father getting full sweet savor of Divine Thinking, I'm not 100% sure whether everyone will have the same amount of knowledge but we vary by how we can process it; or, whether the knowledge is also unequal — at the very minimum what you don't understand or care for gets converted to white noise even if you 'know' about it. Certainly the processing is very unequal: for spiritual growth down here produces spiritual Divine-DNA 'dendrites' in your soul; the amount of 'dendrites' determines how well you can think. Or if you prefer another description: a virtual scaffolding in your mind that becomes built up over time the more you think about Bible Doctrine and talk to God. Its full potential doesn't become unlocked until you're dead.

In either event, once we see God face-to-face, we will ardently wish we had gotten to Pleroma, just to be near Him; just to have more to express ourselves in thanksgiving. So everyone, great and small, will want to have more to give Him. Via the higher thinking in the Pleroma, not only will Father have the sweet savor from them, but also because they rule kingdoms, the resulting higher thinking in the kingdoms themselves, will be yet more sweet savor than the booty could otherwise think: for the Pleroma's thinking will infuse and inspire his kingdom, adding to the quantity and quality of what Father hears. That's the Role of the Royal Leader, always. And what will the Rulers, then think? Well, look: the 24 (head) seraphim in Revelation 4:10 are constantly throwing down their crowns, enthusiastically demonstrating their ardent desire to give Him all they have. They don't ever want to stop! So the ruled will have the same attitude, as the Rulers leading them.

Especially post-death, the self sees Love and Justice perfectly; all that ego claptrap we are diseased with down here will be gone, thank God. Christ will be the only topic of interest. You won't give a flip about seeing your dead relatives, though you're glad they're safe; you won't give a flip about all those dippy ideas of heaven you had down here — you know, being able to do all the things you never got to do — you will only care about Christ. And you will get everything you missed down here — but you won't think of those things the same way. Instead, you will only be interested in how those things can be used to honor Him. All else will be utterly boring. Relationships to each other, who cares? Can we use each other so to see Him better? That's how Christ was when He was here: all that mattered to Him, was Father. So how much more, now that He's Ruling? We are of His Body, His Nature, we share everything He is. So what will we be like, in heaven? Like Him! So He is alone of interest to anyone in heaven. Now, and forever.

Don't believe it? My pastor spent repeated time emphasizing how 1 Peter 1:12 uses a Greek verb indicating angels are "craning their necks" to watch us, παρακύπτω. With it is a really strong "desire" verb, "ἐπιθυμέω": same word the Lord used of the Passover, in Luke 22:15, and it has 'overtones' I dare not write in a public document. See ἐπιθυμέω's second meaning in Bauer, Danker lexicon (glad they were honest, this time). Let's just translate the clause in 1 Peter 1:12, "into which (God's revelation to us) the angels, craning their necks, most ardently desire to see." Yeah, that makes it more accurate yet not dangerous to publicly write about. I want to say "consumed with desire" is more accurate, still.

So if humans up there can watch us down here, you can be certain they don't give a flip about you except for what helps you see Him better. Because that's really loving you. Rooting for you to get the best — seeing Him. Of course down here, seeing Him is the last on our list of interests. What a surprise Heaven will be. So think about how important what you learn about Him and take home to heaven, will be to your loved ones. To strangers up there. To anyone. You're the expert on God-Who-Is-Now-Distant. They'll hang on your every word. Frankly, there are only two reasons to want to go to heaven: 1) to be as close to Him as possible, and 2) to hear/talk about Him as much as possible. Anything else is hell, sorry. Burning forever isn't good either, so at least 'obey' John 3:16. However I would say the people affected by Revelation 22:19 probably have a worse hell than the people burning-by-choice, for they maliciously and deliberately altered the Word of God in its original languages, and are now forever banned from entering the Holy City (not to be conflated with heaven as a whole, as the Holy City is just a subsection). Stuck outside playing with twigs for an eternity, still physically closer to God than those burning, but also mentally farther away from God than those burning. And if a trillion years in the future any of those burning decide to believe and 'get out', well, they're still closer than the ones stuck outside the city gates (unless someone is competing to have a speedrun for the worst possible ending: by simultaneously never believing and knowingly maliciously altering the Word, only to believe post-death and then join the others outside the gates, but that would be difficult to pull off as you'd have to never believe 'once' and if you already knew that you'd probably have already accidentally believed).

  1. When Father is pleased that we are Multisphere Thinking like Christ, He blesses the world both now and forever. So how you vote to spiritually mature, have more of Him in You, affects millions of lives: for Father blesses the world to express His Being Compensated by His Son's Thinking. So it's an entirely different 'work' relationship we have down here, versus the world's ideas. This Royally Invisible Spiritual Lifestyle is Compensated, and hence Compensating. From God, To God. That's Divine Economics. Bible always says you should live your life in light of eternity: what you will be, not what you are now. Where you are going, not where you are. Where you are, is in a leftover, defeated world, and this is just a harvesting of believers and Pleroma. But since you are among that harvest, God blesses the world for your sake. As Part 4 will dramatically demonstrate, when the last believer has been harvested, the Rapture occurs. Then, Israel's time — the Tribulation — is measured back to her. (Principle of Matthew 7:1-2 playing out historically, due to Isaiah 53:12, same "μέτρον" keyword, see also Mark 4:24, Romans 12:3, Ephesians 4:13, 16; then compare how μέτρον and ἑνός and ἑνότης are used in Ephesians 4:3, Ephesians 4:4, Ephesians 4:7, Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 4:16. Awesome stuff.)
  1. Therefore this Royal Priesthood is unique in another way. Other priesthoods did things: especially, handling other items or animals to be sacrificed. By contrast, the Royal Priest under Him to Father, 'sacrifices' only himself, just as Christ did: by Thinking Royal Thoughts, the Lord's. Hence this Royal Spiritual "breeding", like any noble nurture, must be taught and then assiduously practiced, 24/7. For which lifelong teaching we've a Script, a System, and a Teacher Who also Personally selects a human conduit to teach us the Script within the System. From all that Royal Provision, we must learn multisphere thinking, the functional fulfillment of "You, in Me!" So in your 'head', you are to simultaneously 'live' the Royal Spiritual Life in Heaven (so to speak) — and on earth. This multisphere thinking faculty must become a natural part of you. Royal and noble houses have long recognized the importance of "breeding". You can't be a buffoon in high society, and especially, not in God's Society. So you get a Royal Teacher, the Holy Spirit Who can Royally Train you, however much a buffoon you are! God is not limited. So your limitations, never hinder Him. Only your refusal can hinder you!

Royal, Invisible, Spiritual Qorban: a Multisphere Lifestyle of Thinking

As noted in the Third Reason for Invisibility, "qorban" in the Old Testament was a sacrifice which was wholly given over to God. The burning of animal sacrifices was the ultimate depiction of "qorban", and the celebrants understood that such whole burnt offerings (holocaust) depicted what Messiah would do to pay for sins: "if you will give Your Soul as a Substitute for Sin", Isaiah 53:10. Now that He has done so, everything is qorban. So, in the Third Reason for Invisibility, we saw that He upgraded how well we can know God, no longer limited to outer stuff of cookie-cutter design. Anything you do and think, can be fellowship with Him, in God's System.

Repeat: anything you do and think is a priestly 'sacrifice', if you are in God's System when you do/think it. The flipside is also true, and devastating: if you are not in His System, anything you think or do is ἀδικία, "wrongdoing", and will be Royally Punished. 1 John 1:9 and Colossians 3:25 each end with "ἀδικία". So if you are not filled with the Spirit, you're in deep doo-doo. We saw that problem in the Fourth Reason for Invisibility. 99% of Christianity is in ἀδικία. You don't have to join them. Well, the overwhelming majority of what's called "Christianity" is really the Revelation 17 harlot of Satan's manufacture, and since you can't find 1 in 100 'Christians' who get the Gospel right, it's debatable whether the public face of 'Christianity' is even Christian. You must believe in Christ per John 3:16 to be saved, no added verbs. Most Gospel messages add verbs, and hence save no one. So who's really a Christian? 1 John explains it: got to be born from above due to faith in Christ Alone: John referencing his own John 3. But going by the public face, Satan's got the corner on the fake definition and the real Christians, are needles in haystacks. Hope that's not true, but it appears true.

Understand this well: You Individually Craft your own spiritual life out from Bible. It's not a group thing. It's not a denominational thing. It's not a set anything. Your Own Soul decides before the Lord, for You are a Royal Priest forever, kata Melchizedek. Your Crafting, Your Responsibility. That's what Christ did, so that's the method. God's Script is Bible; nothing else is essential; all else is optional. Paul explains this fact extensively in Romans and Corinthians, since both groups of believers were hung up on pagan rituals, etc. God's System is non-denominational, meaning it's not required for you to be in some particular denomination: no particular denomination is prohibited, either, since it's a Divinely-appointed personal matchup between you and some pastor 'somewhere', and neither you nor he need necessarily be Biblically accurate. Your parents weren't perfect, neither are you; it's the learning synergy which is the criterion. Nerd Note: Bible is horribly mistranslated in every century: but God preserves the translations, and millions of people use them. Moreover, the doctrines of the Catholic Church (both types) are very inaccurate — yet God used Catholics to preserve and free up Bible; without them, many people would not have been saved. In fact, the Reformation was started by Catholics, and the Reformers' doctrines were also largely inaccurate Biblically on many (not all) topics: yet God used all those folks, to free up Bible for the common man; eventually leading to King James publishing the Authorized Version of 1611. Which, now that the cat's out of the bag and everyone has access to a Bible, Satan is baiting Christianity into believing this version is 'perfect' despite the fact nothing can replace the inspired original language texts, the AV1611 has many astronomically bad errors that even conceal major doctrines owing to its usage of the inferior Textus Receptus rather than superior manuscripts to which we now have. Even so, a pastor today might have one or two things you need and the rest isn't all that 'scriptural'. So freaking what: God knows that, and is working on it. So you need God to tell you who is your right pastor, and forget worrying about how 'scriptural' he is. The fastest ways of getting in trouble with God are: anti-semitism, and judging a pastor instead of praying for them. Even self-righteousness, sex-related sins, murder seem to garner less Divine Discipline than those two, from what I can tell in Bible.

Religion lies against Bible nonstop, since Satan invented it. So don't be misled, learn yourself from Bible what is there. God will lead you to your right pastor, in whatever denomination or no-denomination he is. Then from that teacher you live in God's System and yourself craft how you live before the Lord. Fail to do this, and you will be Royally punished, since You are In Training To Become a King. Peasants need paint-by-numbers and 'mother church' junk. You had better not treat your spiritual life as if you were a peasant. Unless you're a masochist. For you are not just Qorban, but Royal Qorban — in Him. You, in Him!

So your every thought is to be Royal-Priestly. That requires a lot of downtime, a lot of thinking practice, a lot of rumination over what you are learning in Bible class. Since He paid by means of His Thinking, our very thoughts are supposed to be qorban, too. Hence the command to "bring every thought into captivity to Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5), with "Christ" being the 'Body' of His Thinking (frequent New Testament metaphor, often used in wordplay you can't see in English). So that means a multisphere lifestyle of thinking, must be developed. You have to be thinking toward God 24/7, and you have to be thinking Bible, and on God's terms (not your ideas of Bible, but His). So you have to train in it, since you also have this leftover body life, and you have to think toward this world, too.

So, "Multisphere" = thinking toward God and toward your life, simultaneously. It's a very rigorous thing. You essentially split your attention into three 'fronts':

  1. Toward God, constantly being aware of Him, 'listening' for any Doctrinal recall per John 14:26, and of course 'talking' with Him whenever (aka "prayer", in the wider sense of 'conversation');
  2. Toward self, to monitor your thoughts for temptations, sins (so you can use 1 John 1:9) and monitoring/analyzing for doctrinal accuracy. For, Father hears what you are thinking.
  3. Out toward your body life, which has its own (alien) world of needs and uses which you also must competently aim at completing.

Now you know what being a "doer of the Word" means (James 1:22, theme of the book). It's a very active thinking lifestyle, since it's to Father. That's your 'production'. Body is not spiritual, so whatever it does of itself is totally unacceptable. It must be made acceptable in exactly the same way Christ made us acceptable: by means of Thinking God's Thoughts. Divine-DNA in you is so important, and light-years beyond anything "works" could even dream of being. For you are to transform and rehabilitate, to become a King forever. It's you who are the product, Ephesians 2:10. You. Not what you do. And the real you is your soul, so it's your thinking which must transform:

Ephesians 2:10, corrected translation: "For we are His Craftsmanship, created in Christ Jesus for the purpose of Divine Achievements which God (Father) prepared in advance, that we should live in them." The word "περιπατέω" is used Hebraically, for a lifestyle, so "walk" isn't really the best translation for a modern reader. All translations in any (Romance) language I can read are horrible, cutting God's Head off as usual (though maybe the German versions have shading I don't recognize). There are no articles in front of any of the nouns, so Paul is stressing the Filling of the Spirit to accomplish the 'walking'. There is no human power at all, in the verse.

Then there's Romans 12:1-3, which in corrected translation reads as follows: [1] "So I beg you, brethren, because of those same unfathomable mercies of God, to offer Your Own bodies as a Living Sacrifice, holy and well-pleasing to God: your Real, Thinking worship. [2] In fact, stop being conformed to this Age, but be Transformed by means of the Renovation of Your Thinking, in order for it to approve you as genuine, competent regarding what's the Will of God, the Divine Good-and-well-pleasing-and-complete/mature. [3] For I testify because of the Grace given to me, to everyone among you, to stop thinking in terms of arrogance, beyond what one ought to objectively think; but rather, objectively think in terms of sanity, for the purpose of being rational without illusion: just as God has assigned to each one a Thinking Standard from Bible Doctrine." "Assigned" is literally "measured", our friends "μερίζω" and "μέτρον", referencing Isaiah 53:12; "μέτρον" can also be translated "Standard-of-measure", so has that meaning as well. See also Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 4:16. It's astonishing how all the translators for centuries (!) missed the wordplay on Logos in Romans 12:1 when Paul uses λογικός, especially given Romans 12:2-3, and all of Romans 11. See, we humans are pawns; no blamesmanship due, except to marvel that God rescues us.

Notice how you're not worshipping God if not thinking Doctrine: John 4:24, Romans 12:1's "λογικός". Christ became the Truth. So you are, also. It's what you are to become, not what you are to do. It's What Word Jesus Thought, not What Would Jesus Do. Well, it is what would He do: He Did The Word. Can't do a thing which isn't in you. Him, in you, Colossians 1:27.

Again, Father hears (and of course sees) every second you are living. That's your real "job", to be living and thinking before Him. You are a living sacrifice of thinking, Paul says wryly in the Greek of Romans 12:1. Hence the rigorous training, and rigorous practice. It's a very busy thought life, and if people knew about it, they'd be shocked. According to their lukewarm ideas of 'spirituality', we're not supposed to render to God anything but lip service and pat phrases like "Jesus loves you", a song or two, homilies, rote words we say mindlessly (like the Lord's prayer — which is akin to submitting a résumé template rather than populating it with your actual details, what a travesty) — plus of course some coin in the collection plate. Anything more than that is deemed insane, 🤣. People replace God in the minds of the unbeliever and Christians who don't know Word. That's blasphemy, okay? Hence they need representatives to mediate to God, by means of sweet-savor thinking. That's how Christ paid for sins on the Cross, Isaiah 53:10-11. So: that mediation can be done in part by you, if you're willing to undergo "the knife" of Hebrews 4:12 on God's Script, in God's System.

See? Works are evil, pure and simple. Thinking is denied God by the billions, every generation: "This people worship Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me." And, "my people perish for lack of knowledge of God." So who among us will do it, which in effect provides the world time so it can wake up and smell the coffee? Only takes a few people, to do it: Moses alone was the reason all of Israel wasn't destroyed (Deuteronomy 9:14, Numbers 14:12); David alone, after him (refrain in Old Testament, "for the sake of My servant David" or similar words); Christ alone, because David existed (obviously). Else we'd all not be here. It was always true, to a lesser level before us. But we are the permanent and highest group for all eternity entrusted with this role. We need to train hard for it, and it takes a lifetime, especially since 99% of us will not "finish the course" (2 Timothy 4:7-8) to Pleroma (Ephesians 3:19).

There's no excuse for us not to know how Christ paid for sins. In the Hebrew and Greek of Isaiah 53 (which is actually Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1) you see no fewer than twenty one (!) instances which flatly tell you His Thinking paid for sins; that it was His Soul's labor is even evident in Isaiah 53:11-12 in some translations, sheesh. English Darby, KJV (not NKJV), Young's Literal and Douhay-Rheims pick up the soul sacrifice. Surprisingly, the 1985 Tanakh flat outright says He "makes the many righteous, it is their punishment that He bears" in verse 11 — so why don't Jews get it? (Both Darby and French Darby treat the doubling of tsadeq as "instruct righteousness", very interesting, aptly French Traduction Oecumenique de la Bible uses the interesting construction "il dispensera la justice" for the doubling.) Other English Bibles miss the point entirely, no excuse. I can't read German well enough to know if they got it, but they seem to catch on to the middle-position of "soul" wordplay (Seele and Leben are used in the various German versions I have in BibleWorks, but my 1545 Lutherbibel is corrupted for this passage). Portuguese Bibles got it, but the Spanish, French, and Italian did not (excepting French Darby, which did). Since "soul" is mentioned several times in these three verses, and twenty one times in all soul or soul function is mentioned in the Chapter, to miss how our sins got paid for in translation is doggone inexcusable, sorry. So this past 2000 years (!) of goofy emphasis on ritual, emotion, works since the Cross — is sheer Satan-insanity. You know, of course, that all pagan religions are characterized by ritual, emotion, and works. We didn't read Bible at all, during the last 2000 years. How embarrassing. No one has any excuse to think Christ's Death on the Cross to pay for sins was physical (if it were, the Lake of Fire wouldn't be able to exist in the future due to it requiring an infinite 'white hole' payment, and also "τετέλεσται" would have then been said after the resurrection and not before). We should be ashamed!

Yeah, and I should be ashamed. For years, despite all the great Bible teaching I had — and only since that janitor named Jesus gave me my first Windows computer from the trash, could I compare other teaching and thus realize how blessed I was — despite all the great teaching I got — somehow I kept on thinking that what I learned, was 'extra', and the real spiritual life was supposed to be something I 'did'. The learning was required, to know the 'rules', but that was it. What a dufus I was: less than no excuse, pour moi. Good thing I loved what I was learning (God is gorgeous!) or I'd have learned nothing at all! God had to spank me royally before I realized it's only the Thinking, who cares what you do. Scripture is plain, I was taught it in the original languages, daily. Yes, daily. And I still blew it. So maxima mea culpa. God's Grace is Bottomless!

It should go without saying that if you're thinking Bible 24/7, you'd not 'do' certain things like cheat people, lie, etc. You'd be too busy with how to use the Bible you're thinking (1 John calls it "practicing righteousness") to even have time to want to cheat, etc. So see? Thinking is everything.

No believer is a faceless person. Every believer is extremely important in this dying world. So learn His Thinking in His System. Father will then like what He hears, for a refreshing change.


and here are some helpful hints, how-to-Qorban-Think

Now let's talk specifics: you do this rigorous tripartite thinking, by associatively-baptizing everything with the Bible Doctrine you're learning, using the 1 John's Script mechanics in Part 1. For now, just focus on the panoramic idea: eventually, with consistent intake of Bible Doctrine and practice using it, you'll develop 'reflexes', as is normal with any kind of associative learning — but this type is solely run by the Spirit, so you live on 1 John 1:9. Again, as mimics normal, associative (i.e., academic) learning, these reflexes will become stronger, faster, more fluent over time. They have a lot of functions, but one of the most important, is "guarding". Remember how tefillin depicted guarding the thoughts? Remember Psalm 119? 2 Timothy 1:14? Jude 21's and 1 Timothy 6:20's Greek? 1 John 2:5's "τηρέω" means to cherish, and hence guard the Word, John 8:55, John 14:15-25, John 15:18-27. That's the key.

To say "associatively-baptizing" sounds sophisticated, but it's simple. Just match up whatever is in your life at the moment with some meaning in the Bible. This is an enormously enjoyable thing to do, if you love Scripture. Doesn't matter if you do it wrong. Does matter that you keep trying. Your biggest weapon in the spiritual life is to develop a habit of association between Heaven and Earth, so who cares how many mistakes you make — the Holy Spirit will fix those. But He won't coerce your volition, so you have to decide to want the habitual association. So make it a game, a way of having continuing conversation with Father, etc. This is your life, not someone else's: so you decide what you want before the Lord Who Loves You.

Back in the First Reason for Invisibility it was introduced that the Thinking is a kind of "God's Apodosis" matching. If you didn't read that section, you might want to do so now. Briefly, the idea is that any incoming information, is an "if" on which you rule. Whatever you rule, is how you value the information, and that value is an "apodosis". Trick is, what's God's Apodosis, compared to the one you had in mind? Hence the idea of 'baptizing' (= associating, = apodosis) your circumstance/thought with something in Bible which 'matches', fits. Great fun, really. Best weapon on the planet, too.

Of course, you're Thinking Toward God as you do this, as well as toward yourself. Notice how you are so busy with this game, it's harder for temptation to get your attention, huh.

For this associating 'game' guards you. My pastor calls this guarding phalanxes-of-Doctrine, "FLOT"; because they have offensive (spiritual-growth) and defensive deployments (against temptation, false doctrine, bad decisions). "FLOT" is a military term he borrowed, "Forward Line of Troops". They are doctrinal-patterns-of-thinking used so often, they naturally come to mind whenever past associations bonded them to like items (again, mimicking natural learning processes). So it's not some weirdo-thing! You can view the patterns of thinking en marche in the New Testament epistles. French "en marche" might be hard to find in dictionaries; it's an idiom for something which is proceeding very well to a successful conclusion. Verb is "marcher". Romans 5-8 is clear enough in the English, to see how the patterns of thinking process works. 2 Corinthians 12 is another easy one to track.

These Doctrinal reflexes translate into a variety of responses, which vary also by degree and by person, because each of us has free will, so we all use our free wills variantly; we craft our own spiritual life out of the Royal Legacy Structure left to us by Our Lord Jesus Christ. (Remember, unlike the Mosaic Law we have a few broad rules, from which we are to derive applications.)

Here are some quickies I use a lot, based on events in my own life which troubled me.

  • When I had dial-up internet access, it used to take a good 90 seconds for each screen in my online banking to load. At times I thought I would die from waiting. It got to the point where I almost punched the monitor. Then I used 1 John 1:9 and via the Spirit hammered the thought barrage, "exchange exchange exchange!" which was shorthand for "exchange my anger for Divine-DNA dendrites!" Didn't take long before any other instance of anger occurring in other contexts, 'brought up' that response to mind (John 14:26 playing live). Now it's fun to use it, given the origin of the thing (and of course now I have lightning-fast broadband)!
  • "I have no rights!" is now a habitual thought reply whenever there's a temptation to think self good. I've used it so many times it comes up automatically, almost without thinking. It's my way of heading off at the pass any cockiness. When you get competent at living Bible, cockiness is a real problem. I probably overcompensate, but it's amazing how associated this reflex thought is with any worry that I might be arrogant.
  • "I want dendrites!" This is the most common thought I have. Only 1 John 1:9 occurs more often. This is a vote for whatever I'm doing or thinking to do for dad, because clearly it's not worth His Time to watch me.
  • "Matthew 4:4 always occurring!" is one the Holy Spirit often brings to my mind to remind me of the dendrites. That one was born from a particularly low moment a few years ago, and He just flat zinged it in. It recurs a lot. Idea is that Omniscience forever sees the moment of conversion due to using Bible to 'reply' to temptation, just as happened at the Cross, so 'this' (current) moment will likewise be forever seen. Very reassuring.
  • Many times during the day verses come to mind, often widely-divergent ones in concatenation. Spirit does this. Very witty, how He does it. The more Bible you learn, the more you talk with God about what you are learning, the more this happens. For me the language varies from Hebrew or Greek, Spanish or French, depending on what the meaning is. It's just fabulous. Always apt, too.
  • Analysis of what choices to make always brings some Bible principles to mind, often in surprising ways. Verses which on the surface have a given common meaning have more layers uncovered. So everything is a mini-Bible class, no matter how in-this-world it seems.
  • I have certain problems which make me feel intensely ashamed. When these problems arise, I'm caused/reminded to remember Isaiah 53's Hebrew verbs on how He was shamed for us, to identify with what happened to Him (like mishhat in Isaiah 52:14, sebalam in Isaiah 53:4, nivzeh in Isaiah 53:3, yisbol in Isaiah 53:11, and especially "im tasim asham naphesho" in Isaiah 53:10). Notice how it wouldn't matter if the shame were really my fault, or I felt ashamed for no reason. It's still useful for identification with what happened to Him, since truthfully all sin (mine or someone else's) was nailed to the Cross. Other common verses I use are Hebrews 11:1 in the Greek, and Philippians 3:14 in Greek. You, of course, might prefer other verses. Recall and drilling in verses which are meaningful to you is really important. As you mature spiritually the same verses will have more meaning than they had at a younger spiritual age. When young, you just grab onto a verse, a faith-rest. When mature, you see Him in the same verse, and it's Communion. Never be ashamed of an immature usage of a verse. It's God's Truth, so it's Divine!
  • Always Key Into The Protasis Of A Problem And Carom Off A Solution From Bible. Here, the key is you accept the claim in the protasis, but fire Bible answer. You don't defeat the protasis (temptation). You agree with it. For example, if "shame" is what you're feeling, find a Bible principle, verse, story, idea which is about shame. "I'm so ashamed" is the usual feeling, so for example you might grab a God's Apodosis of "yeah, and He loves me anyway", or "yeah, so this is how I can learn His Own Shame experience better" — see how the tie is to the very problem which overwhelms? In either event, you are asserting Bible truths which aren't actual words in the Bible, but many verses tie in. That's creative thinking before Father. Shows you've internalized Bible meaning rather than merely memorized it. So don't think you have to parrot Scripture to 'win' in the fight.
  • Sometimes the overwhelm is so strong, I'm lucky if I can just think "no, that's not God's Will" to resist a temptation. That's fine, too. In combat, you use every weapon you have, not just certain ones. Every weapon has a place. Despise none of them.
  • Final example (and this took years to learn): when you are feeling most defeated, you are most victorious if you keep voting. You won't feel at all victorious, you'll feel like you're sinning because you don't measure up in your own mind to the "performance" you think God should hear. 2 Corinthians 12:10 is for you, then. I live on that verse a lot. It has a counterpart thought, when I'm at rock-bottom: "You're God, and that's all I know." So here's the surprise: it's a more significant victory when you don't have a sense of victory. Hamburger Hill soldiers would go up one step and slide back two in the rain and mud. Then they tried again, and same thing kept on happening. So a lot of them couldn't get up that hill. No seeming victory there. They didn't hold it long, either. But a more heroic group of victors I can't even begin to imagine. That's the spiritual life, too. Seems like you're losing, no glamor, no sense of satisfaction. But if you still get up again, then it's God you love, not your sense of victory. So the real victory is seen in heaven. You won't deem it so. God, however — will!

Notice again how busy is this thought life. If you're busy playing spiritual racquetball with God all day, temptations don't hit you as often or as deeply, though they do zing in. But you recover faster — because you want to get back to thinking toward Dad. It's such a fast life you literally slow down almost to a crawl, in this world (i.e., if you get your eyes on it too much and forget thinking toward "Dad"). Try it, see for yourself. More helpful hints follow below.

However you craft your own associations, you must include at least the following types of awarenesses. For, without a growing awareness in the categories below, you'll not only self-destruct in the spiritual life, but your mental and physical "lives" will atrophy and sicken. So, the following minimal types of awareness/alertness need to at first be consciously practiced, to create habits; they eventually become quite enjoyable, naturally-functioning conscious 'layers' (even during so-called 'conscious' sleep):

  • Awareness-of-God: over time, this also becomes a responsive, I-want-to-think-thoughts-He'll-love 'reminder'. This becomes a huge leading desire, as you begin to appreciate the Royal Spiritual Life and Intimacy with Him; as you come to really function in your priesthood, eventuating in your sole desire to breathe, being to Express Love For Him. Someone once quipped, "Marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." So it is, with "prayer", aka, a never-ending 'conversation' with God. He either initiates or replies through the Holy Spirit (i.e., John 14:26, John 16:12-14); which is to say, via Son's Thinking, Bible Doctrine. So you 'hear' all Three Members of the Trinity at once. Over time, you will get better at distinguishing which of Them is 'talking'.

Satan & Co. try to mimic this, hence the Biblical mandate to always test with Scripture (there's technically three major tests linked by 'δοκιμάζετε': 2 Corinthians 13:5, 1 John 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21, testing yourself, testing the spirits, testing the Bible's internal prophecy via Poetic Meter). It plays like recall, insight: if you're hearing voices, they're not God's. Use 1 John 1:9, get seriously into God's System, and if that's not enough (it takes a month or more of seriously living on 1 John 1:9 in God's System, to see results): then seek a believer-psychiatrist's help for drugs which can clear your head so you can study Bible better. (Believers who are also psychiatrists do exist, and they won't be prejudiced with the prevailing idea in psychology that anyone who strongly believes in God is nuts.) The only cure for mental illness is God's Script in God's System, but your brain can be made less susceptible via certain mind-clearing drugs.

  • Awareness of your own thoughts, whether they line up with Scripture: this is critical and also acts as a diagnostic whether you're offline from the Holy Spirit (of course God could have given us a tangible method to know if we're offline, but instead that diagnostic is your thinking itself). You must monitor and manage your thinking, or you'll be in a state of sin and not know, or be involved in some stupid idea/thing and not catch on. You lost your brains when you got saved, and can only live on the Holy Spirit's brains, now. We are all brainouts that first second we got saved, since the brain is corrupted with Adam's sin, just like all our DNA. For that reason I use 1 John 1:9 a bazillion times a day, whether I'm sure I sinned or not: takes only a nanosecond to think-breathe, "I confess my arrogance". It's important to identify where you're sinning, but as any policeman or soldier would tell you, in the heat of battle you just fire when you think you should. Delay is deadly.
  • Awareness of stuff around you, whether that 'stuff' aligns with Scripture; once you get past that stage, you'll see how all Scripture is depicted by 'whatever' is in view. Since "even the wrath of man shall praise Him", Everything, "τὰ πάντα", reflects Him in some way. So you will begin to see As Father Sees, As Son Sees, As Spirit Sees. And, of course, be able to prove that fact. Communion!
  • Unlike baby Christianity's historical claim, you are supposed to have communion with God, 24/7. That's why you get "The Thinking Of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16) as your mandate (2 Peter 3:18). This communion is the above thinking-toward-Father, so it's enjoyable, not some ritual you strain through. Of course, until Holy Spirit has built you up enough, 'communion' will be spotty. The occasional, official ritual of Communion is valid and mandated; but it represents the larger meaning, as the Lord had explained in Luke 22:19: remember Him. Which, of course, as with even human loved ones, is to be frequent, even all the time. Not just on Sunday, and not that goofy 'transubstantiation' idea! You are already 'transubstantiated' in Him since 2000 years ago (!), theme of Romans 6 and all "in Him" verses! You, in Him! You'll notice that Scripture doesn't prescribe set times or manners-of-observance. People vary in how they determine those things, over the centuries: since we are Royal Priests and can determine them severally. I like my Communion nightly, a glass of wine to commemorate Him. My church is on recorded on audio, my pastor is dying, so that's my 'church'. Assembly with believers is never mandated, but rather learning under a pastor, is: Hebrews 10:25 is always mishandled, since man always substitutes people for God. "Ἕπισυναγωγή" is plain enough — getting teaching about God, never mind fellowship with other humans. The epistles were studied, taught, and the 'teachers' who wrote them were miles away, get it? It should also be noted that pastor-teachers are also rewarded based on how students under them mature as well. Conversely, I believe that people who are invalid pastors and 'elect themselves' (not all people are called by God to be pastors and it's a male-only profession), God will probably hold them to same standard and their shoes won't even be left once their performance is judged. Why anyone would wish that upon themselves is beyond me. Similar situation when someone wants to marry the wrong person, God will allow it and hold you accountable for all of the problems it causes in your life.
  • Awareness of the Plan God has for your life, and of your current 'location' in that Plan (geographically, thought-wise, job-wise, even down to brushing your teeth). This takes time, but you'll start getting ideas right away, for practice. Test them with whatever Bible you know, because you are to always test with whatever Bible you then know. Don't worry about making mistakes. Again, this is a process, and you'll always improve and always fail some in each attempt. It's a corridor: no athlete became a hero overnight. Plodding is the key to spiritual progress, "disregarding the shame", Hebrews 12:2.
  • Awareness of your own future (this takes longer, but becomes comprehensive), which awareness takes the form of (mundane metaphor) a listing of future items kinda like you know the 'future' of a trip to the grocery store; or (math metaphor) forecasts you calculate based on Doctrinal Formulas; so in no event psychic junk, dreams, visions, or other irrational nonsense. Bible Doctrine is rational, provable (and far better than those taurean turds). The "formulas" are compiled from the way you learn the variables of Doctrine as you turn over what you learn in Bible class, and from your 'life database', so to speak (applicable facts and circumstances in your life). You have His Own Thoughts, by this point, so you don't need shadow (Hebrews 10) substitutes, like the Old Testament people had to settle for. (See also Hebrews 4, last half of Hebrews 12.)

For example, I tend to recall Doctrinal variables as keywords in the original languages, or as verse snippets; but each person has a different mnemonic aid system which the Holy Spirit employs. It appears that with spiritual growth, a wider variety of these aids comes to mind, and ever-faster. The Holy Spirit gives you the ability to see what variables and database items fit together, how, where, etc. It's a kind of sleuthing process, sometimes slow, sometimes instantaneous, which is a lot like deductive reasoning. Only, way bigger; at times, you'll mistake this process for you suddenly being brilliant, since the Holy Spirit is so good at what He does. In no event goofy or glitzy. God doesn't need you to hallucinate, open the Bible to some random page, throw sticks in the air, do Peter's stupid election-of-Matthias thingy. For, He gave you a Brain: His!

Look: when Christ was here, every second of His Life He looked to Father. Constant conversation in His Head, 24/7. So when He suddenly went out to the wilderness, we're told the Spirit "led" Him there, and the verb is very strong. Same, for Him later going out of His way to Samaria (which surprised the disciples, for Samaria was shunned by the Jews). He'd suddenly go in one direction, then in the opposite direction. Why? He was led — by knowing. Not by feeling or dream or vision. So you need to keep on asking God's Will on things, so you get used to asking, hearing (in thinking), perceiving the answer. You will know, but you won't know if you don't practice. It will seem as though at first God is "silent". He's not. You have to keep on asking, hearing, perceiving for a while. Just do it. The "silence" period is a test of your patience. Abram's the example. You won't have to wait that long, but when developing this skill you do have an up-front period where you seem to get no answers. Just do it. And keep doing it. This has to become an instinctive skill for everything in your life: ask, listen for answer, perceive. Once it becomes habitual, you'll be surprised at how fast you know. During the silence period, try to guess what the answer is, to test your Doctrinal understanding. God will use that to help you know the answer — when you later look back on that exercise, you'll have many a smiling moment. Just do it!

  • Awareness of your historical situation, and trends in your country or the world: this is another type of forecasting, but writ larger. If you love your country, you'll stick to God's Script in God's System like glue so that your home nation becomes blessed. Hint: only due to Moses was Israel preserved, and only due to Israel was the world preserved.

As noted in the Third Reason for Invisibility, because the Mosaic Law was fulfilled, Association with Him is now Total. So eventually, you come to 'see' Him 24/7. That's the whole reason to want this rigorous life, Philippians 1:21. Worth it!

I call this inner lifestyle "the High-Low" or "Stretch", and it's very enjoyable; but no 'nirvana', because the more you 'see' Him via the Doctrine, the more problematic is the earthly life. For, the 'second' becomes less interesting, in direct correlation, as the First (Commandment!) becomes More Interesting, as noted in the "First Reason for Invisibility"; it's a result of growth in the spiritual adulthood stages. So, the 'stretch' between seeing Him, and seeing your life is progressively bigger (thus tougher to handle); but even so, satisfying (more will be said about this experientially, in the "Fourth Reason for Royalty", below). For, Christ is the Ultimate High, and on the Cross He was made the Ultimate Low. Full-Spectrum. So also, must we become. Impossible? Yes! Except via John 4:24 and 2 Peter 3:18, heh.

Seriously: this will end up being the biggest pain in life. The glory of seeing Him via Bible in Spiritual Adulthood+ versus having to look at this life is like racing in a Maserati and then suddenly having to get out and walk in muck. You have to learn to live with the growing divergence. This world's ideas will become progressively alien. Soldiers who return from combat have a rough time re-adjusting to 'normal' life, because 'normal' life is now too low for them. The combat enlarged their souls, so now coming back to the tedium of everyday life is hard to tolerate. Well, that's a smaller version of what will happen to you in the spiritual life, as you switch back and forth between thinking toward Father and living toward people. No getting around it. Must have been absolute hell for the Lord to be God and man in One Person down here, even long before the suffering of the Cross.

These reflexes, due to the awareness functions (which are critical — i.e., to alert need of 1 John 1:9), also build whole Doctrinal Matrices of understanding; thus whole Complexes of Analysis are constructed in the soul, which you can use anytime, anywhere, in any circumstance. The biggest reason folks don't think well isn't that they lack data or are naturally stupid — but rather, they don't know how to incisively connect the 'dots' of information they do have. This is especially true when it comes to God. Discernment requires wisdom, and wisdom only comes from the accumulated intake and usage of Bible Doctrine while under the Filling of the Spirit (carnality renders intake, "GIGO"), as Scripture writers tell us over and over (remember all those Proverbs verses about wisdom, for example). Ergo, with these matrices, the 'dots' you really need to be 'wise', as well as the proper connections, are constructed and linked. A sort of spiritual intranet. All done only by the Holy Spirit.

People mistake knowing a bunch of facts for knowledge, and thus are impressed by big words or credentials; so then they mistake knowledge, for wisdom; then they mistake wisdom, for competent function. God knows better. Knowing the contents of the Vladivostok Telephone Directory won't garner any admiration from Him! So, He instructs us (1 Corinthians 2:15-16). Then He connects the dots. Then we actually know something; then we are able to practice what we learned; then we are able to function competently. All this, in a Filled Status; or else — garbage in, garbage out (GIGO).

If it helps you, think of the Holy Spirit as the Sole Operator, but awaiting your authorization (each nanosecond), since He will never coerce. Then, the human spirit is a kind of server CPU for the entire intranet; the soul, is the intranet itself. Volition then 'clicks' yes or no on the thoughts/ideas/conclusions/doctrinal mnemonics presented, whether 'presented' at your initiative, or 'presented' in the form of Holy Spirit-inspired recall. My pastor calls this "Operation Z", and I parsed out its steps in the "1 John's Script". It does appear 13 years later that the demons influenced Putin's Russia to use "Z" as as hostile military symbol to mock Thieme's own Operation Z. Apparently this is a recurring theme of the demons, to associate attributes or ideas of people (or unbelievably even other angels) close to God and malign them quietly to the world whether it's Hitler's Germany or Putin's Russia. This is why it's discussed why Russia inexplicably chose the Latin "Z" when it makes no logical sense for them to do so when Cyrillic has nothing visually similar and disassociates from Russian Nationalism. Well, now you know. It's demon mockery as they influence Putin to attack Ukraine and work behind the scenes alongside the Arab League, attacking Israel on October 7th — which just so happens to be his birthday. This is also why North Korean weapons are being used in Gaza.

Operation Z

Please don't get the impression that you yourself are some passive dumb server. Quite the opposite: Holy Spirit treats you like the CEO, and Himself acts as "Mentor". 'Name of teacher to Telemachus, son of Odysseus, and a term for a really wise military/civil trainer to Royalty) — the word "Παράκλητος", which unfortunately English Bibles render "Paraklete" or "Comforter" or the insipid, "Helper". Most bizarre phenomenon I've ever seen, how Scripture mistranslation always succeeds in cutting God's head off or otherwise demeaning Him. You can prove this. It's not rocket science.

As you can imagine, the Bible uses many keywords to describe this multi-complex system, and its progress-under-construction is denoted as a series of growth thresholds, namely, the "Christ formed in you" level, discussed in the First Reason for Invisibility. In that "Reason", the filling-up keywords (πληρόω and cognates, synonyms) and completion keywords (τέλειος and cognates, synonyms) were likewise mentioned; these are usually used to describe the process itself, or the ultimate completion stage, usually called "Pleroma" or "Telos" (fullness, end) by the writers of the New Testament.

My pastor's term for this structure used to be, "The Edification Complex of the Soul". (Now he calls it the "Stream of Consciousness", which sounds New-Agey, but is not: he seems to be taking the term from the discipline of psychology, but I'm not sure.) Paul uses building terminology a lot, too, like the famous one in Ephesians 3:15-19. Peter likes to play on his own name, so stresses the building materials: like, "stones", "gold", "precious gems". Of course, Paul uses such terms too (i.e., 1 Corinthians 3). John makes a big building analogy to the Church in Revelation, and the famous Rock/Cornerstone titles of Our Lord's Humanity likewise talk of building. 1 John plays off Ephesians 3:15-19's dimensions, reversing the order of them (so John's presentation is chronological), in 1 John 4:12-16. "1st Aspect Summary" walks you through those dimensions (though you might have to read the whole page, to make sense of that section).

Therefore, writers like Paul frequently exhort usage of these complexes; keywords denoting usage are many as well; one of them is "σύνεσις", often translated "wisdom", which has a long etymological history. The word embraces the concept of coordinated understanding giving one mastery of a subject. My pastor calls the usage-point, "the Launching Pad": the 'compartment' in your soul from which, among other functions, you 'fire' (apply) Doctrine to life. Think of "wisdom" as that spiritual faculty of "connecting the dots" to get relevant answers you can use, not just GIGO. GIGO, of course, is often called by not-so-nice Bible keywords, like "aphron" (witless, usually mistranslated "fool"); people without doctrine, or in a carnal state, either don't have, or can't use Doctrine if they have it, because carnality means being offline with the Spirit.

Isaiah 53:11 uses σύνεσις in the Greek, and da'ath in the Hebrew. Mastery of Divine Knowledge, paid for sins. Darby and French Darby picked that idea up by using "instruct" (enseigner) in the verse. Frankly, the first emphasis in the Tsadeq Tsadeq doubling is Justification, wordplay on reversing Genesis 2:17's two deaths; but also the cycling of teaching us the same mastery is definitely meant, and the LXX's five infinitives. For: what happened to Him, happens to us, as the Gospels frequently explain in varying contexts (reason why is John 15). Maybe the Darby people were trying to show both, and forgot about the justification. In any event, the σύνεσις keyword and its cognate verb (and synonyms) are quite numerous throughout the New Testament, pointing back to Isaiah 53:10-11, each time.

A "matrix" is like a building, not a jigsaw puzzle. An architectural hierarchy and fit of meaning among 30-100 or more doctrines all at once, how they all apply to a situation facing you, or how they all fit together to explain some big-picture doctrine in Bible. You see the fit both comprehensively and very quickly, yet if you tried to write it out — you'd be writing until the Millennium ended. It's hard to describe this, because it's almost intuitively grasped — but it's not intuition or even insight. It's the dimensioned understanding Paul is talking about in Ephesians 3:15-19, because you have enough Bible information to see how the verses or concepts all fit together — and coalesce into a whole. You'll know this "matrix" type of understanding, when it happens to you. It becomes a regular occurrence, a fluency, something you depend on as you mature: and it begins sometime in spiritual adolescence. Closest analogy would be like a mathematician understanding a whole blackboard of complex formulas all at once. Obviously God causes this, not a human.

So, over time, 'Multisphere' thinking functionally translates into Multilayered thinking, as well: perception will operate on multiple meaning levels at once, much like every verse in the Bible is chock full of multilayer meanings. Like, a multistory building. This happens in secular fields, too: kinda like how a doctor in a few minutes can know a whole lot about a patient. Why? Well, with Doctrine, as with any field in which one becomes professionally fluent in analysis, you develop a "frame of reference", along with a whole host of other 'departments', so to speak, which all interface with each other. Your brain works like that already (that's how the brain-soul interface works), but with Doctrine, it's much faster, higher, etc. The weight of this growth accounts more for the difficulty in living than the actual living itself! But oh, worth it!

Here's where you really see the benefit of studying in the original language texts. First of all, you can't possibly understand Bible properly if you stick to a translation. Translations should be adjunctive (and they are valuable that way). But most of all, the incredible multilayered at once meanings in the inspired texts is flat awesome. With practice in viewing them, you get this multisphere-thinking skill much faster. I mean light-years faster. That's why those languages were used to write, and people actually got all those meanings at once when they used those verses. The writers of Scripture play on a bazillion levels of meaning as they say or write the verses! You can prove it by the wordplay! That's the glory of learning Bible as God Wrote It. See, it's His Brains, not one's own. My own brain on my own can't even figure out what to wear, much less think multilevel, okay?

Multilevel thinking grows from seeing stacked 'floors' of meaning in a Bible verse and how it ties to so many other verses, all at once. When you first start out, you'll see one meaning. Then another time, with the same word or verse, you'll see another. Then another. So eventually, you get a "matrix" of meanings and next you see how they fit together. Then, you learn how to actually use that information, and quickly. The wit is phenomenal. So the process of learning Bible and seeing those meanings, births an actual faculty of thinking in you which is the same. So you appreciate something on multiple levels or analyze it on multiple levels, all at once and quickly. So to develop this process, keep looking at a verse or passage to see its many meanings. Start with Matthew 4, and keep on asking why Satan picked those temptations and why did the Lord respond as He did. Keep on analyzing. As you do, you'll see more layers than the last time. What follows below will be of some help. A lot of this content focuses on Matthew 4 because it's so multifaceted, it has endless applicability to something else being discussed in a page. But the same is true of Isaiah 53 (which all the New Testament incessantly references), and many other key Bible passages. So if you don't want to choose Matthew 4, pick some other passage and keep analyzing.

Omniscience and Truth are omnidirectional. They would have to be. So all these 'spokes' or 'floors' of meaning really do exist. So in practicing this analysis, you're learning a skill which helps you better relate to Omniscient God, what it's like for Him to be Him.

So what are the multilayer thoughts we come to develop, via living on 1 John 's Script? Well, let's take a look at our Archegos, Our Originator. In Matthew 4 He counters Satan's temptations rapidly (!) with God's Divine-DNA Apodoses, so temptation is immediately (!) converted/baptized with something about the Father: "you will live on every word which proceeds from the mouth of God". "You shall not put the Lord Your God to the test." Best of all, crescendoing atop these other statements, "You shall love the Lord Your God and Him only shall you serve." Now, besides all these deft uses of circulating Doctrine in His Soul, He's also totally aware of the Father: we see that in, for example, John 1 and John 17. Hebrews 10:5 shows Him talking from His Humanity at the point of birth — so of course by age 30, out there in the wilderness, He was more aware of the Father than ever. So, here are at least five layers, on FLOT (as my pastor would put it), all at once:

  • Most-Forward-Line-Of-(Bible Doctrine)-Troops in the soul: awareness/occupation with the Father. "On point", as a Vietnam vet would say.
  • Next in line: Total Desire to eat Bible Doctrine only, because it Pleases Father; nothing tasty by comparison, not even the Lord's Own Divine Nature.
  • Next in line: Total Desire to execute the Father's Plan; nothing is attractive by comparison, not even the Lord's Own ability to get others to believe by using His Own Deity.
  • Next in line: Total Desire to serve the Father, 'just because'; completed Love.
  • Last-is-also-First, in line (idea being alpha and omega completeness): Father Father Father — awareness and occupation, Rapport, the Very Meaning and Purpose of Life Itself.

Those are just five of the "Desire" levels. Then there are the comprehension levels, which are many more than listed here. But to give you an idea, some in just the First Temptation are:

  • Hunger-reflex in body met by hunger-reflex of Word, hence the reply to the First Temptation is also about eating (keying to the protasis, agreeing with it in order to match Bible to it more strongly). That was a doozie, because the hungry body naturally tries to imagine food if some mere word about food is stated. Since He is God, if He even imagined turning stones into bread, it would have happened. But His reflexes were so strong, "food" first meant Word to Him, and Satan's sly bypass of volition to body reflex, didn't work! (My pastor loved to explain this.)
  • Priority of Word over good deeds met by saying what the real good deed is, eating Word — versus feeding bellies. For if He turned stones into bread for Himself, why not for everyone on earth? That's behind Satan's taunt, too.
  • Fasting to be weak for the Temptations is slyly derided by Satan, a veiled accusation against the Spirit for having Christ fast. There was no requirement in the Law that He do that. So it's accusation that Christ is not loved or is stupidly wasting Himself in vain. So that's why "not by bread only" matters the more, to show what "living" — the worth of it — really means. Living for God is worth more than living on food.
  • Christ is accused of misusing His Divinity and Humanity in that He's going hungry rather than feeding Himself. For as God He's holding the universe together, so what happens if He's too hungry and faints? Then the universe tanks. Again, the "living on every Word" reply answers the implied stupidity, that the Truth is strong enough to carry Him.
  • Satan is playing on the Exodus generation in the wilderness, who rejected the manna. Idea is, back then God did a miracle to sustain them, and they rejected God. But no miracle here? What, is God inconsistent, loving His Own Son less than the Exodus generation? Twice the Rock, too — first struck, then it was supposed to be spoken to, but Moses struck it. Satan's nastily reminding the Lord that the people He'll pay for, don't want Him. No one would know that better than Christ, who at that point was already rejected by his own family for 30 years (see John 6, the last year before He died, they still reject Him). Here, I'm not sure if Satan was trying to make the Lord angry, or hurt. Probably both. Anger would have been a sin, and hurt could easily have set up sin, since we lash out when we are hurting (gut reaction of survival). So again, the reply about living on the Word (Deuteronomy 8:3, so we know the Lord caught Satan's reference to the Exodus generation) is quite apt.
  • Then there's the general idea of what Godness ought to be. The 'majesty' of God is a big sticking point with Satan. So in goading the Lord to turn the stones into bread, he's also saying, It's not majestic or godly to become weak. That's a crass insult to Sovereignty's choices about how to use Power, versus Love. Satan's always maintained that if one Loves, one should use Power. But God always stands off. I'm glad I didn't get that temptation. I'd be roasting in hell right now, for I'd have used Divinity to zap Satan to hell for insulting Father, yikes!

So now you have a sampler of only 10 of the many more layers of thinking which all at once hit. So this life toward Father is truly multilevel. For that's how Godness really is. So that's how you learn to think, as you grow up on Bible in God's System.

What's so very important about that passage, is the multilayer intensity: Satan tempts Jesus, within but a few seconds! on at least a 100 levels (maybe more, I've not counted); all of which Jesus immediately understood. You can tell, by the wittiness of the temptations, and the responses. Which, of course, Satan intended. Else, they'd have been no temptation to Him! These multiple levels include body things (like the fact He was hungry, the fact that Satan knows how to use his own beauty, voice, and wit) — but most of the levels are aimed at the matrices of Doctrinal understanding, and all of them focus like a laser on Jesus' Love (especially, of Father). To bait His Humanity into using His Own Deity.

Breathe 1 John 1:9 and analyze the Temptations, even from translation. Write down what you notice, and keep doing it. The Holy Spirit doles out information line-on-line so to give you time to absorb what you're learning: so take an hour or more to do this.

Bear in mind, it doesn't take much time to say the words in that passage. But Satan was counting on speed and panoramic information overload (as per Matthew 4:8 using δείκνυμι itself just like the LXX infinitives): he wanted to give Jesus no reaction time. But he failed anyway, for Jesus' volition-with-Doctrine reflexes were instantaneous and airtight. Satan was totally amazed, given the Greek syntax (i.e., reversing protasis and apodosis in Third Temptation). It all happened in at most, what — an hour, allowing for transit time to the top of the Temple and then the 'high mountain'?! Or, alternatively, over a long time (though I doubt it, given the text), Satan angling for relentlessness and guerilla-type wear down. So it is, with combat in the Royal Spiritual Life. Since 100 levels is too long a list to put in one place, levels are 'sprinkled', so to speak, passim here, where relevant. So be alert to Matthew 4 references, which are frequent.

For this same Matthew 4 temptation structure, Satan uses on us. Amazing, their multilevel uses. My pastor warned us of Matthew 4 being Satan's strategy, so I developed this entire series to test its play upon man. Big surprise, how stupid we humans are not to recognize these very temptation methods are played upon us, despite the bald text of Matthew 4, even in translation. The Three Temptations are methods which play repeatedly, oh-so-faithfully, a genuine Satan & Co. 'law' preyed upon mankind. I see them every day in life: good deeds, flash, win the kingdoms of the world — but you can also see their patterns in fake holy books and — surprise surprise — in the ways Bible gets mistranslated. Alerts to these mistranslations are presented as they come up.

Obviously, God operates on a bazillion levels, for all life is just one Now to Him; so the spiritual life is multilayer, and thus its temptations are as well. Hence the need for Vertical Skill In Thinking. This is the most important reason for multisphere living training. God is Omniscient. So it's all-at-once, One-big-Now, in His 'Mind'. To be compatible with Him, we need to be like-minded. Same values, but also same structure in Thinking. Cross converted Christ's Human Soul into a Size So Large that even in His Humanity He is effectively speaking, Omniscient. Something of that transformation must happen to the Pleroma. My pastor and some others speculated that post-death His Humanity and Deity is 'blended' in some way.

A similar-faculty structure due to Omniscience would have to result. God can do anything, so it's just a question of what mechanism He wanted; in any event, one needs to learn how to think on as many levels at once, as possible. We know also this can be done, since Scripture is so very multilevel (uncountable levels in each verse), and humans were the writers. So it can be done. The wordplay in Scripture is awesome, and God didn't just bing the thought bypassing the human soul or mind. The writers understood all those levels at once when writing: you can tell, by the way they play with the words, the syntax, and a bunch of other geek-language facts. Sheer brilliance. Blows me away every time I open BibleWorks to look at a verse in the original-language texts.

God doesn't want lesser-thans, but Equals. 2 Corinthians 5:21 isn't just some warm fuzzy verse: it's a reality. So if God's Righteousness is what we get at salvation, what else do you think He's doing? But think: God doesn't need pets for companionship. So whatever the structure is, the reason for it is to maximize Togetherness, aka "oneness". Not, for "performance". God could just bing us into proper robots, if He wanted to. He doesn't.

Therefore we know that the structure of the spiritual life Our Lord's Humanity invented, is multisphere: each believer is to become such a building, as Paul explains in Ephesians 3; then, together all believers form a temple (Ephesians 2); or, as John also depicts in Revelation 4, a "sea of glass" reflecting Him. Multiplying the multiple spheres! This is light-years bigger than what's put 'out there' as the spiritual life. It sure ain't the Mosaic Law, any more!


One conclusion should jump right out at you, even after this all-too-brief description of what multilevel, multilayer thinking constitutes the spiritual life: what Christians call "works" can't ever be multisphere, because works themselves don't think. Isn't it weird, how we humans value inanimate objects, more than our own souls? Think really hard: would God value you more, or less, than some thing you did, didn't do, gave up, or made? Well, did He save that item(s), or did He save you??? So, which is more important? Reminds you of the family member which surely every family has, who every holiday goes over the who-gets-what-if-I-die list, as if those things were the more important! 🤣 Works are by nature earthly, and they are inanimate, to boot. What, can't God bing the 'work' faster and better than we can? Of course He can. So, then: what are we here for, except to hear Him? To grow up, so to have rapport with Him? In a word, to Love? "We love, because He first loved us" wrote John.

So, consistently using the 1 John 's Script will build a multilevel spiritual capacity on top of your imputed Righteousness. Romans 8 explains this mechanic as being filled up with the Righteous Word (pointing back to Romans 5:5), especially in Romans 8:4 (NIV best conveys the meaning among the English translations I have). Capacity means strength. Capacity means 'more'. More of everything. Big 'glass', not a small one. Think what this means. You must get the capacity to think competently on more than one level, even though under pressure. Once you have it, though, you enjoy it. What's difficult for someone smaller is easy, now, for you. That's an enjoyment. Spiritual intelligence, spiritual fluency, spiritual intimacy. Aha!

Jobs that pay more money do so because such jobs require more thinking, and it's harder to think, because thinking always has to be two sphere (or more) — in order to coordinate with one's own body, and the other bodies one deals with in that job! So, it takes a lot more thinking to run a company than to push a broom; any kind of planning, computer programming, even word processing, means you have to think on multiple levels (lots of what-ifs have to be handled in the designing of a thing). So, if you want more money, learn to think better. So, if you want rapport with God, learn His Son's Thinking Better. It's really that simple.

Spiritual Capacity begets all the others: mental, physical, social, etc. That doesn't mean money will rain down from heaven, you'll get the Mr. or Ms. Gorgeous as your mate; nor does it mean that you will have a life of relentless drudgery. God knows what you want the most. He wants to give you much more than that. But give it time. Your wants are determined by your know's, and Doctrinal learning under the Holy Spirit will result in your changing a lot of what you think valuable, now.

In all events, though, your enjoyment of anything, anyone, anytime, anywhere exponentially increases, over time, due to spiritual growth. That makes sense, no? God enjoys to the uttermost! In man, the process tends to be a back-ended development, so you won't see some 'magical' transformation (God can bing magic anytime, ho-hum: even Christ spent 30 years training, and He was perfect!), but it is steady, real — and makes the difference between ending up a shrivelled soul, or a truly happy one. With many an enjoyment along the way.

In sum, God's Infinity means we need to be Royal, because growing up spiritually means we'll come to need pouring out to the One Who is Infinite. The Need has to be matched by the Capacity, before that can happen. That's exactly what the Father did in eternity past: He provided us with Royal Power, so that we can become Royally Capacious.

Again, all Old Testament prophecy (and frankly any verse in the original language texts) demonstrates how Omniscience 'sees'. Earlier in this Reason, Isaiah 7-11 were cited as a great sample for seeing how Omniscience 'sees' the sweep of history, with all these tie-backs between Ahaz's day, the development of Messiah, and the Millennium. For, seeing the results from Omniscience means He's always enjoying them. And what are those results? Our Royal Multilevel Enjoyment. Our own. See, "one": the interpersonal empathy is total. What's the pleasure of Person "A" is ipse the pleasure of Person "B", in B's own valuation of it. We, here in 'this' moment, well we aren't grown up yet. But we can grow up — in Him. Our Groom led the way, leaves us a Copybook, so we can indeed copy Him: and come to share in His Happiness. See John 17 prayer, Acts 1:5, Acts 1:8; and especially 1 Peter 2:21, though all English versions egregiously mistranslate that verse, though even mere Strong's shows the "copy the handwriting-copybook" meaning of hupolimpano hupogrammos! No one is denied the grace to fully grow up into this unique Bridal Intimacy. No one. We alone ourselves deny it to ourselves. Our Royal choice.

So, then: the daily function of God's Script changes you, so changes your capacity for life. The Trinity indwell you, so They share Their Life with you; and, you with Them. Like in marital intimacy (without goofy phallic or emotional ideas). It's not at all mysticism or works, but the enthusiastic pouring-out results of the Bible Doctrine, His Thinking. He's Alive, and His Thinking is Alive. The Holy Spirit supernaturally directed the apostles to put this Thinking in writing, and then the Holy Spirit puts it in us. Kind of like a compressed archive or .zip file, this Thinking expands, gradually taking over everything. Non-coerced. So, then, you grow up with reference to Infinity. What once you considered mean or degrading, you now appreciate, and even enthusiastically love: what once you considered too high, is now comfortably and competently yours. And, you come to want to pour yourself into everything: even and sometimes especially, into what was once most repugnant to you. The smallness and yuckiness and repugnance don't change: instead, you change. This changeover doesn't happen overnight. It takes a lifetime, as was explained in the First Reason for Invisibility's spiritual growth stages.

As noted there, my pastor classifies the spiritual growth process in the following stages: spiritual childhood, adolescence, adulthood in two substages, maturity, and "Pleroma" ("Fullness", a very pregnant word in both Greek literature and the Bible). Each of these stages has defining characteristics, covered in the "First Reason for Invisibility" link. So, then: by late spiritual adulthood and beyond, one really comes to know Him, every second, even while sleeping. Resulting in a real online Relationship, Knowing Real Persons. So, one comes to want to pour self out into everything. Everything painful comes to be appreciated, as well as everything pleasant. Total enjoyment. See how the Lord does it in Matthew 4. See how Paul cycles it in Romans 5 and following. That's kind of how each day 'feels', eventually. See, the Lord could disregard the shame, because there was none. Why? Because, He enjoyed everything. Even, the Cross. Best of all — the sufferings of life become the most intimate moments, with Him. It's as if God grants the suffering to balance seeing Him so intensely in those moments. Because, He enjoyed everything. Even, the Cross.

"Enjoy" in human thinking is limited to what feels good. Not so, in true enjoyment. That is one of the Trial demonstrations of great significance: feeling dominates the soul, in the human, owing to Adam's sin. Very difficult to overcome feeling, especially since it substitutes for Truth. So if with the Truth, you prefer bad-feeling stuff, then you are operating on God's Truth and God's Love — despite being a sinner human. Satan cannot match that demonstration. Not possible. "Evidence Testing" is where this demonstration reaches its highest phase. God's '2-3-4-5' Evidence Testing showed how rigorous it is. And it's all a Thinking Thing. For only the soul, can Think God's Divine-DNA Apodoses.

Resultant internal Happiness is extreme, and it's a Knowing (contentment, enthusiasm, honor), not a feeling (feeling is only in the body — body feedback is why you think you feel in the soul). Emotion is restricting; frankly, the body only 'recognizes' stimulation (good or bad). The body is too limited to handle true happiness. There's also a gradual docking of all else in life. Life becomes more intense mainly because there's a growing discrepancy between the high Happiness of Knowing Him versus the low quality of earthly existence. The next subsection will explain something of that problem. God uses the differential to leverage an even higher happiness, by integrating the doctrine one lives on in the Spirit, with the low earthly life. The ultimate integration is the Cross. So, finally, nothing high or low interferes with Love, enjoyment, happiness; instead, everything unifies, parallel to how Infinity enjoys virtually everything, no matter how good/bad/high/low.

You really can know God intimately. You really can live a multisphere spiritual life. Nothing beats it, sorry.


Fourth Reason for Royalty

Divine Thinking "in earthen vessels" means Royal Defeat of Satan & Co.


The Third Reason for Invisibility and the Third Reason for Royalty team up with the Fourth Reason for Invisibility to make you, in your daily intimate contact with Father and Son, become more like the Son. That, of course, is the goal of the spiritual life. For, your life is designed to parallel His down here, for, your spiritual growth means you are learning to think toward the Father (Third Reason for Royalty); which results in a kenotic spiritual life (Fourth Reason for Invisibility). So, when you've grown to Spiritual Maturity, you inevitably come to be like Him, and 1 John 4:17 is your life.

So at that point, two extremely important Trial Witness aspects 'turn on', so to speak: a twin parallel to "the Bread and the Cup". Bread represents the perfection of Christ in His Humanity, and the Cup represents the Wine of His Thinking in paying for our sins, AKA "His Work on the Cross". We know that we get the same test, due to Hebrews 11:1, which in corrected (in my favorite translation, trying to match the meter in the Greek, but at five syllables each vs. the Greek's seven) reads:

Greek: Translation:
ἔστιν δὲ Now It's about
Πίστις ἐλπιζομένων Confidence in Word!
Ὑπόστασις πραγμάτων Son's Thinking, On Trial!
ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων Evidence, Unseen!

Translation here tries to reflect the Greek Drama style, which is anaphoric and heptameter and in parallelism. I couldn't do it in English with three clauses of seven syllables, so opted for five.

The usage of "Hupostasis" as a nickname for Christ (Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 3:14) in apposition tells you that we are put on Trial as He was. Same kind of Trial, not the same scope. And how is it the same kind of Trial? Word in you, tested. So that's the "Bread", and the "Cup" is how you think that Word under testing (Evidence Unseen). It's a Communion Test, a Prosperity Test. Hence it is at once your Dream Come True and Worst Nightmare.

So this Reason is about the Evidence Testing which results due to your growing up enough in God's Script to become Pleroma. All along, this dimension of your being a Witness in the Trial was a potential. But here, it becomes a reality. So first, let's look at where you've been, before arriving here.

  1. You began as a spiritual baby, born in Him Spiritual Royalty, a Priest. You knew nothing. Like the rest of the world, you thought in terms of body things, so your definition of "God" and "spiritual" were all body things, definitions the world buys: Satan's definitions. So you thought relationship with God was gauged by something you did or didn't do, how nice you were to people, whether you engaged in certain rituals or practices like going to church, working around the church, giving money, singing songs, observing certain holidays, dress codes, food eatings, washings or intonations, set prayers or 'holy language', etc. "Bible" was an enigma to you, but its words sounded good, so you memorized some verses and aped the other legalistic believers around you, fancying yourself holy. Or, conversely, you reacted to those people, and were tempted to chuck the whole thing as you spent time in that lifestyle.
  1. Then, somewhere in all that babyish experience, something happened. Somehow, some way, "God" became Someone you wanted to actually know. So at times you found yourself sneaking off somewhere or sitting down and just opening your Bible trying to understand what it said. The moments when you did this were halting, at first. But you kept doing them. As you did, you somehow ran across 1 John 1:9 and its plain language made sense to you, and you started to use it — again, haltingly at first. You kept on reading, and the Bible started to make some sense. Suddenly you realized you needed a teacher, and not long after that, you found one. So you started more Bible study, and even became regular at it.
  1. During this time, you began to cultivate using 1 John 1:9 as a habit, for all this study made you more aware of God throughout the day and you didn't want to be sinning. This made you more aware of what sin was. Which made you more aware of who God was. So you started to become more aware of other things in the Bible, like the promises, which you started to memorize. Especially, promises which related to how God was. So during your day, you came to think about Him more and more at odd moments, when in bathroom or bedroom, dressing; when stopped at a street corner, waiting for transport; when getting ready for bed at night. You found yourself seeking more time to be alone and study, go over what your pastor was then teaching, to understand it better. And, you started praying to God.
  1. As you went through this gradual infusion of Bible into your life, you didn't know you were growing spiritually. You certainly didn't know you were in a Trial, all you knew was this "God" person was increasingly interesting to you, and you wanted to know Him better. So, you kept studying, and as the years passed it became a daily habit, now with increasing time spent, such that you started to spend your leisure hours trying to write out what you were learning, looking up verses, analyzing what the pastor said, talking ever more with God about the meaning of what you learned. And, you started to know how to look up stuff in the Bible. So, you started to regularly set aside time for further study. Meanwhile, you started to grow apart from your old life and friends, a kind of mental wall growing between them and you, which of course you didn't know was happening, either.
  1. Life starts to settle for you. Nice circumstances allowed you to devote more and more of your time to studying this Bible, and of course your increasing isolation meant that some people close to you, were becoming annoyed. So right alongside with the nice circumstances, were some incipient conflicts; quiet at first, then louder. Other people came into your life, and they were attractive to you, so you started spending time with them. This cut into your Bible study time, and so you slacked off awhile. Then something bad happened, you realized you'd not been studying, so you started in again. Then other bad things happened, but this time you just kept on wanting to study, because after the bad, you realized that God was more important. You didn't understand that you were being tested. You didn't know that Satan & Co. were trying to deflect you from study, because at this point you're in Spiritual Adolescence. You didn't know anything about spiritual growth, so you didn't know you were in a testing stage. What you did know, was that God was beginning to make more sense than your own life, and the life around you suddenly looked smaller. You didn't know you were changing, you thought it was. Bible was beginning to be something you rather preferred to the stuff in your life, so now you dropped off talking to the new friends you'd made, gradually at first. And you kept on studying.
  1. Now suddenly during your day, you're thinking about whole doctrines of the Bible, all the whys of salvation, and you're asking God many questions. You're doing this because you want to know, and the urge to know becomes a strong desire, often interrupting whatever you're doing during the day. It becomes difficult to concentrate, and you long for time alone so you can work out the many questions and issues and insights which keep burgeoning in your mind. So you don't know that you entered Spiritual Adulthood, and are progressing rapidly. All you know is that now your life is becoming topsy-turvy, a kind of war beginning over whether you study or whether you do what 'normal' people do. And you don't feel 'normal', anymore. What you feel, is that you have to make a choice between devoting your time to study, or to the 'normal' things of life around you. You decide on study.
  1. Then the spit hits the fan. Stuff in your life begins to go wrong. Weirdly wrong. So when you study it becomes hard to concentrate, but you manage somehow. As you go through the weirdness of things going wrong, you find yourself suddenly understanding the 'big picture' about God Himself, and you increasingly become aware that God has an agenda for your life, and you want to know what it is. What you'd been living prior to this point, suddenly becomes a kind of loss, in your mind. "What does God want?" begins to dominate, and you become somewhat anal about knowing the answer to that now pressing, question. So more begins to go wrong in your life, but you find yourself using whole doctrines to keep going, and of course 1 John 1:9 is an instinctive habit by now. So you don't know you're in a testing phase of Spiritual Adulthood, to bridge into Spiritual Adulthood 2, on the verge of maturity. What you do know, is that you want to obey God, and as far as you're concerned, you're not doing it well enough. You mistake the spit hitting the fan as a warning that you're disobedient, and of course under that pressure, you fail a lot, so you develop a new habit of feeling guilty. Takes awhile before you use 1 John 1:9 on that guilt, but you know God saved you, so pretty much all the Bible you've ever learned, you fire at the increasing pressure, just to keep moving. You become cocky, too, as you realize you know Bible rather well now, and as you look out upon the world it suddenly occurs to you that the world is a rather futile place, people so preoccupied with the banal and silly. So you become a tad iconoclastic. So you decide to isolate the more, and just study Bible, as everything else is ever more annoying and boring. Again, you don't know you are changing, you think the world is getting worse — or, that you're seeing its stupidity for the first time and are disillusioned.
  1. At this point, amidst all the problems which occur, all that Bible you've learned starts to become a kind of wholistic picture in your mind. You see patterns. You begin to understand the difference between Old and New Testament covenants, the big sweep of God's plan for mankind; there begins to be a 'body' to all those disparate Bible doctrines you'd been learning and instinctively using. A panoramic view. And most of all, you're beginning to see God in wholistic terms, a Real Person with a Personality and Goals — and you fall in love with Him. So now, His Plan for your life is a burning issue, and you see yourself as a jerk. You want to do something for Him. So you go through this phase of trying to do stuff, which often takes the form of good deeds of one kind or another, and instead of being quiet about your faith as you had been, you start becoming 'involved' in talking to others. You become something of a crusading pest, after a while. You get spanked, and you come to know it's from God, the spanking. So you come to realize that straightening out the world or people around you — why don't they see Him, why are they so preoccupied with small things — well, you realize you can't be upset about that. Again, you don't know you are being tested. You only know that you must hunker down and study more. Frankly, at this point study is the only thing you want to do, everything else being boring. So you don't know that you've just entered Spiritual Adulthood 2.
  1. Peace suddenly ensues. All that time you wanted to study, all those burning questions you have, all begin to get answers, now. You begin to see God in palpable terms, as real as anyone you could meet on the street, though of course that 'sight' is all conceptual, in your soul's awareness. You are aware of Him when you wake, when you sleep, all the time during the day, and conversation with Him becomes almost non-stop. The world, meanwhile, annoys you more than ever. You find yourself completely inadequate, but the guilt doesn't last long, because the questions related to Him or Bible, interrupt the guilt and occupy your time. You are constantly finding some Bible parallel to something in your life, mainly because that's the only way you can stand doing the thing in your life: it stops being worthy, of itself. And every spare moment you have, you spend learning Bible better. For now, the Bible makes entire sense, and your ability to recall or read it, is pretty good. Your cockiness about that remains, but at least you've left off trying to explain Bible to other people — well, your restraint doesn't always hold — but you seek more isolation and that helps.
  1. Your isolation lasts a little while, maybe a year, maybe two, maybe only a few months. Your understanding of Bible and God, His Plan for your life and virtually everything you ever wanted to know, skyrockets. You ache to study when you can't, and you begin to stop doing normal things like eat, sleep, shower, take care of your residence, so you can find time to study. You are addicted, now. Then life starts to intrude. People in your life, authorities with whom you deal, financial or other circumstances, all start to command ever more attention, and it's all annoying to you. Takes you away from your addiction. So to get through it, you first go ballistic, and probably fail big time, maybe stopping study for a while, resenting the problems. So you get spanked. So, you recover, because now you see life in terms of living with Him — or, without Him. The latter alternative is completely unacceptable. So you get up, maybe slowly at first, but you use 1 John 1:9 like breathing, and your study intensifies. You come to survive on using Bible to view what's going on, as only living on Bible, makes your circumstances palatable, now. Then, suddenly some problems go away, and something unexpectedly nice happens to give you a breather. It's something you always wanted from life, and you're surprised to have it. The wonderfulness of it surprises you, and you even forget God for a little while. So of course you don't know you're going through a prosperity phase of "Momentum testing" (my pastor's term), that final phase of Trial tests to qualify you for the Witness Box in Spiritual Maturity. You just keep doggedly going on, failing often, now used to your constant sense of inadequacy.
  1. Something in your circumstances bothers you more than anything else, and it keeps on nagging your life: so of course you don't know that's your version of "thorn", a test to keep your feet on the ground as you cope with the now huge understanding you have of God and Bible. So you are on the edge of Spiritual Maturity. But you don't actually know that, even if you had been taught the stages of spiritual maturation by your pastor, since of course you undervalue your own soul, and consider yourself not to love God enough. What instead you know is that Christ Himself is increasingly a Whole Person in your mind, and you find yourself spending ever more time drawing parallels to what happened to Him down here. In fact, at this point you become somewhat anal about knowing Him better. Just Him. So of course you don't know that you're entering Spiritual Maturity, for the hallmark characteristic of it, is Occupation with Christ Himself. For even if you know of that hallmark, you don't consider yourself Occupied with Him, but rather you value yourself as being a spiritual dog, compared to Him, always failing Him in some way. And at this point, you use 1 John 1:9 even on temptations, considering them sins. Why? Because you are so in love with God — and increasingly, Christ Himself — that you are completely anal about your thinking measuring up to what God should hear. And to you, it never does. You view yourself as a constant failure.
  1. You're one weird bird, at this point. So you yet don't know you've just entered the Pleroma phase and will enter Evidence Testing. You've long since dropped off contact with friends and family to the extent you can, and even if you can't, you're so mentally distant from them, they wonder if something's wrong with you. Rightly and wrongly, they attribute your distance to all that "study" you do, thinking that you're in a cult or something. They complain openly or just let you be. If you were married, by now you're probably divorced; if you were close to your family, by now you're distant. If you have kids, they polarize about you, either getting into study like you are, or finding reasons to think you are a bad person — depending on their own attitudes toward God. In your work you have become very competent, and people value your work; but now this "obsession" over God begins to intrude. So you have trouble shifting between work and your study. Yet you begin to find ways to use your life as a way to understand Bible better, and life itself becomes a kind of Bible class. This had been true ever since you'd hit Spiritual Adolescence, but now you know that's what you're doing with it. For life now is about Christ, and you want to insert Him into everything, as an excuse to study while you must ostensibly do something else. So you begin to draw parallels, realizing that He had to do mundane stuff throughout His Day, too, so an internal running dialogue ensues, with you asking God for what parallels your life has, to His. And you begin to know the answers. And rehearse them.
  1. In fact, you begin to know the answers in spades. Answers to anything. When you study Bible you know not only the answers, but how verses interrelate, and in such technical profusion, it flattens you to realize how much you know. And thus you come to know you are in Spiritual Maturity. Everything comes in a whoosh! now. God is your life, Christ is your life, all else is but a dividend of Him, and the coalesced understanding is so vast, you almost can't breathe. Becomes very hard to even eat, sleep, your focus on Him is so strong, little of you is left for anything else. So another brief interlude ensues, a kind of peace, as this whooshing coalescence occurs. Quiet time. Whatever problems you had, suddenly slack off. So you are free to think out what's happened, but you find instead that all you want to do, is think about Christ. So you do. Constantly. The view you have of Father, Son, Spirit, is well defined by now. All the doctrines you know, are well defined and integrated, by now. So now you can appreciate the sweep of Father's Plan, and you feel as if you couldn't know God and Christ better, were you already dead and in heaven. It is here that you begin to understand you're in Spiritual Maturity. And you want to reciprocate Him.
  1. After some while, this understanding leads you into realizing you are in Evidence Testing, a Witness for Prosecution in the Trial. Probably, that recognition occurred when something newly wonderful and horrible suddenly came into your life which you'd always wanted when a spiritual child — and you realized it doesn't matter to you anymore. This realization might be slow in coming. What happens is your constantly seeing Him, 'mediates' the experience, and there's a distinct simultaneity of the human side being always intense, yet at the same time, the knowing-Him is increasingly dominant over it. So you won't recognize that the the "newly wonderful and horrible" doesn't matter to you, you'll think it matters too much, and that you're not dealing with it well enough, before Him. But what's happening really, is that you're redefining it in terms of Him, so really this is a Victory, a kind of Operation Footstool Attitude which dominates your thinking during the day. That's Occupation with Christ, maturing. But it won't feel like victory. It never does, during Evidence Testing. For Evidence Testing is always about waste — in favor of seeing Him Who is Invisible. And that's what happens, too. So humanly there's no 'compensation': the nice is not nice enough — not even your version of "all the kingdoms of the world" which offer is made during this time, as you'll come to understand — and the not-nice is of course more annoying than ever. You do not feel like you're winning. Only living on Bible before Him matters, though, so you keep on going as Paul describes in Philippians 3:14. You only come to know of the victory, that way; nothing in your circumstances will actually agree with that knowledge. So you become independent of those circumstances, Bible being more real than they are. This independence began in spiritual adulthood, but here it is a mature knowing of the divergence. In any event, you only want to honor Christ. That becomes your all-consuming passion, and of course you always evaluate yourself as Paul does, not having attained Philippians 3:13. But Christ is your life, now, Philippians 1:20-21, and that's all you care about. You think toward God 24/7. You don't know another life, anymore.

So notice that all during this time, what had begun as a vague idea of "God" and salvation, has now become a very specific, detailed focus on seeing Him. Gradually everything else which "life" meant to you, dies. Then, finally, you do. The spiritual life began with all kinds of worldly definitions of life with God, and ends only with seeing Him. You aren't a better person. You are a happy person. So happy, in fact, that whatever problems you experience, drop off in importance, compared to seeing Him. Happiness is not measured by feeling, but by relative meaning. In the end, only He is Meaning, to you: "Living, Christ! Dying, Profit!" is just a constant mental attitude. Battles are constant. Doesn't matter. What you had is taken away, in the end. Doesn't matter. You get no victory in life, and in fact those around you will view you as a loser, abandoned by God, someone who God is punishing. Doesn't matter. Everything else is a "so, what". It doesn't feel that way. The meaning of Him comes to dominate in 'reply' to everything, and that's what the Trial Evidence is about. Again, Hebrews 11:1, the Evidence is Unseen.

The above vicissitudes are of course sketchy, as no two people experience spiritual growth in exactly the same way. But notice how in all events, the focus shifts from the me-ness and world-ness of childhood preoccupations, to God, Bible and eventually, Christ Himself. It does play as a gradual addiction/obsession, with a progressive abnormality 'look' to the life. Depending on how conventional you are as a person, how disciplined, what kind of routine you have, spiritual progression can be rather tumultuous, or it just quietly happens until Spiritual Maturity hits you. In all events, at Spiritual Maturity your understanding of God and Bible and especially Christ Himself, skyrockets and coalesces in such huge volume, you almost can't bear it. The knowledge is crushing. That's the "wine" function, with the Word itself being the Bread you've come to eat in such quantities, you find it impossible to get through a day without that Word being constantly in your spiritual mouth (believing part of your soul). So whatever the pattern of your life, the overwhelming understanding will characterize it during Spiritual Maturity and you will indeed come to know you are in Evidence Testing.

Evidence Testing answers Satan's objections to God from before the human race was created. Essentially, the objection was that God is unfair to put creation through this growth process. That we can't take it, it's too painful, no one is as good as God anyway, so the standards and the pressure make life with God miserable for creatures. Therefore God is not Loving, to have created this relationship. So in Evidence Testing, it's shown how the believer has a superior happiness and life with God, versus Satan's plan for the human race.

Satan's plan all along, rested on certain 'pillars':

  1. The creature must receive nice circumstances.
  2. The creature must be given something to 'do' which makes him feel worthy, within the confines of his abilities.
  3. The creature must receive real credit from God, for using his nature morally.
  4. That credit should be power, so the creature's nature should increase in size and scope and ability, as result of using his nature morally.

God has a different opinion, as we saw in Part 1.

  1. Nice circumstances don't make for happiness, but instead, knowing God makes one happy.
  2. Anything finity can do is unworthy of Divine Righteousness and irrelevant, for what God wants is relationship, not "performance".
  3. So no credit ought to be given for moral or any other 'performance', as it would be a lie to accredit what is below the Divine Standard of Righteousness, and 'credit' is not the point of relationship, in the first place.
  4. Rather, growing in the knowledge of God makes the creature change nature into God's Own, and hence that enhances the relationship, as the creature grows closer to God, by becoming more like God. So yes, the creature increases in size and scope and power, but not for the sake of better performance. Rather, he becomes weaker, as Divine Knowledge is too much for the creature, but since that creates the real happiness, it doesn't matter that the creature is weaker. His happiness increases with that weakness, instead. For God will carry him through the weakness. Again, since it's only the relationship which matters, only the relationship which makes for happiness, and it's only the relationship, which God wants. Not, 'performance'.

As you can see, then, Evidence Testing will demonstrate how your weakness is your strength, just as Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:10. So you don't feel good here. You feel overwhelmed, wasted, and in fact your life will be wasted, just as Christ's was. But you have a contentment in knowing God which even you come to know, is superior to all other forms or ideas of happiness you or the world once believed valid. So here in Evidence Testing, like Christ you come to have a series of tests which culminate in your own personalized "cross". Your thinking during this time demonstrates God's points as superior to Satan's, and if you persist to the end, you are crowned. You defeat Satan in the Trial, by being helpless. Which of course you are. But you will experience a number of subtests in this phase which tempt you to use your abilities — especially, your perception and comprehension abilities, which at this point frankly are superhuman. Because, you're living on Bible. So in material terms, that could translate into a variety of activities which would give you prosperity, relief from the debilitating sense of weakness — in the name of reciprocating Him. That's a Love test, and it's a doozie. For you are given ways to reciprocate Him which are truly valid, but the point of the test is not reciprocation, but weakness. You must learn to say no to your abilities, even as Christ learned to say no to His Own Godness and Perfect Humanity: first, in not doing the good deeds Satan tempted Him to do, Matthew 4; next, in not using His Power to 'help' people believe, even going so far as to speak in parables, rather than wow people with His Absolute Command of Scripture; finally, in not fighting the injustice against Him, which led to the Cross on which Father executed that ultimate Injustice, the imputation and judgement of our sins on Him Who Knew No Sin. Again, we don't get the same scope of testing, but the paradigmatic structure is the same. Reason? To know Him better. And, here — to prove the point to Satan in the Trial.

So Evidence Testing is at foundation, a prosperity test. The weakness makes that prosperity ever more attractive, so you will be constantly on edge about choosing to be weak, not merely being in circumstances which make you weak.

Pleroma Phase and Part 4d, extensively explain Evidence Testing parameters and experience, so more won't be said now. Here, the point is that the Fourth Reason you are created Royal Priest with potential Kingship inheritance, is to answer Satan in the Trial. Your successful Witness here, is what gets you Crowned. Forever. For that's what happened to Christ, and paradigmatically, that's what happens to you. In this stage, your focus on Christ matures, and you come to know what it was like for Him to be here. You come to emulate His Motives, Reasonings, thoughts, and fortitude. But it doesn't feel like victory. It feels like a continual series of defeats. Everything which ever conflicted with your priority to learn God, will play here. Nice and not nice, and often playing at once. There are rest periods, and the tests notch up afterwards. You don't always know you are being tested, but you will come to know and by the end, you know all the time. For the knowing is a kind of pressure. Here you are, living toward God and toward life, with the latter being of such progressive deadness to you, it becomes unbearable, the 'stretch' between seeing Him, and seeing life. You become satisfied only if you can fight. At first, the desire to fight is hard to develop, as the pressure of knowing Him is so wonderful, you seek to avoid fighting. Or, conversely, if you liked fighting upon coming into Spiritual Maturity, you tend to fight too much. So you learn to be defeated, to stop fighting. Again, this is a personalized series of tests wholly keyed to your own personality and life circumstances, so generalization can only be sketchy. But you yourself will know and in some detail, what's happening to you and why. For Christ had to know, and in advance. So will you.

As you've also hopefully guessed by now, if you don't stick with the spiritual life you'll also get an increasingly-crushing life: but as discipline. The long-carnal believer's soul progressively descends into animalism. Galatians 6:7, Hosea 8:7, Colossians 3:25, Matthew 7:2, Ephesians 3:18ff, "brute beasts" passage in Peter, etc. Because, if we aren't in training (être en train de) to becoming the Bread and Cup like Our Precedence did, we're debauching the Communion. See 1 Corinthians 11:30 in context + 2 Timothy 2:26's "come to... senses" is really the Greek word for recovering from being drunk, and the following verses include self-righteousness in the satanic imbibing. See also 1 Timothy 4:1 and 2 Timothy 4:3-4. As a consequence, we'll shrink inside (e.g., σκοτίζω and σκληρῷ passages + "brute beasts" again); because absent 1 John 1:9, the body and Satan & Co. (!) run the life (2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7 and like passages). 'Not God the Holy Spirit, Who's "grieved" and "quenched" during the time one is carnal. Those passages really say stop grieving/quenching(squelching) — Greek imperative of prohibition means to stop something you are doing.

  1. The believer, of course, is "born from above" and hence positionally freed of the sin nature (Romans 5-8 are on this topic). But that doesn't mean functionally freed. As we saw in "Crowning", "salvation" only made you a spiritual being, which you cannot detect. Yeah, you go to heaven when you die; but your soul isn't changed except by living on God's Script in God's System. So the carnal believer is controlled by his feelings, which are all sin-tainted by the "me" thing, as explained in "Dungheap".
  1. The carnal believer's soul thus shrinks. This shrinkage problem is visible, for spiritual pathology has visible manifestations, if it is prolonged. More importantly, the soul's shrinkage needs discipline as surgery. See, the enormous suffering the long-carnal believer progressively gets is first needed to keep his soul large enough to enjoy his eternal future. Soul shrinkage also makes the believer extremely hostile towards correction and even bothering to acknowledge another perspective; false doctrines they've settled on (such as prolife) they want as the truth no matter what.
  1. Kinda like the Tree-of-Life prohibition at Adam's fall, you too can't 'eat' the Eternal State and enjoy it, if your soul (the real 'you') is too small - but you did get Eternal Life, because you once believed in the One Who Hung on the Tree to give us life. So, you are too small for 'Heaven' (so to speak), even though you are guaranteed to live there. But, will you enjoy it? Ergo, you need the suffering discipline to prevent undue shrinkage. For, God keeps His promises, and He's promised that "no one shall pluck them out of My Hand" (John 10:28). And, "there will be no more sorrow, no more tears, no more pain, no more death: the old things have passed away (Revelation 21:4)." To keep such promises to the nonetheless-permanently-saved carnal believer requires Divine Discipline.
  1. Carnality is addictive, viral; the only effective antibiotic is habitual use of 1 John 1:9, coupled with habitual use of 1 John 's Script. For, carnality is a disease of the soul, due to sin getting in the soul (remember, sin nature is genetic, so volition had to say Yes to the body temptation, for sin to get in soul). Since volition is attracted to carnality, and can addict itself to carnality, volition is responsible; yet, the disease is real enough. So one can't blame the person who has the disease, because it's a disease; yet one must quarantine himself from the disease, as well.
  1. Prolonged carnality shrinks the soul; as a consequence, the ability to enjoy anything, shrinks. Such as the aforementioned "testimony" of the Exodus generation: "Our souls are dried up." God tells the story of the Exodus generation to show a litany of paradigmatic characteristics which span the progress of spiritual disease in a believer. You'll see Paul (and the writer of Hebrews) refer back to the Exodus generation's maladies again and again, in his epistles. The New Testament is also chock full of verses which tick off a listing of the symptoms of prolonged carnality (be it moral, or immoral, degeneration). Gospel narratives also are rife with examples; the Lord repeatedly observed the devastating effect of prolonged carnality on a soul, and repeatedly instructed and warned His hearers about this oh-so-common killer disease.
  1. Shrunken souls exhibit very definite traits: self-righteousness, bitterness, prickliness, I-deserve, blamesmanship, nothing-is-enough, babyish values (petty, activistic, whining, etc), and above all, treachery. This, because if you don't grow in God's System, you're growing in Satan's. So you're growing in hatred, and hence in the lust to hurt someone: the apex of negativity (which is why Christian Nationalists, the MAGA movement, the Canadian Convoy movement, they all want to hurt others). There's no middle ground.
  1. See, if you're not learning God, then you are empty. So you have to find a replacement, but the "me" thing must always be appeased. So one inevitably focuses on people and things, trying to appease that "me". But it can't work. So then one is disappointed, and blames the object of previous glomming — so turns treacherous. This is why husbands cheat. This is why wives are bitchy. This is why children misbehave. We all grab at each other and — truth to tell — no one is happy. Can't be happy, apart from God. Horizontal relationships always depend on the Vertical, from the get-go. Same for angels, same for us. Satan is the most unhappy person in the universe, but has everything with the coziest of circumstances. Hint hint.
  1. Hence inside characteristics, constitute the litmus of your 'status' with God. Outside characteristics which look like prosperity don't mean one is 'right with God'. Just as the wicked seem to prosper but one day, they're gone! like Sennacharib's army; or, gone like Sennacharib, in 701 BC (murdered by his sons); like, Assyria, in 612 BC. So also the wicked believer will be removed ταχύ, without warning. Hebrews 12:4ff is the (Father-must-discipline-to-protect) alternate road, to the 'agony' of Hebrews 12:1!
  1. It's an awesome way to suffer: no physical pain is comparable to the soul and spiritual desolation I've seen perpetually-carnal believers go through. The person ends up something like a burned-out building. 'Inside, a 1945 Dresden: you can see it in the eyes. It's a fate far worse than an unbeliever can have, down here. For, after all, what unbeliever can suffer spiritually? What unbeliever can be desolated by failing to fill up his own imputed Divine Righteousness with Bible Doctrine? See? Salvation makes the person much bigger, to start with — it may be completely invisible and intangible but that means it's not there. For, in order to grow up with reference to God, one has to be 'born from above' with a much bigger internal foundation. Your soul can scream in the background with your mindless biology being 'content' with its apostasy and misery in the foreground. Can't get any bigger foundation than a human spirit in which resides Infinite Righteousness and Eternal Life! So, if the bigger person doesn't eat what his bigness needs (Bible Doctrine), he hurts 'bigger', too! The "tumbleweed" passage (Jeremiah 17:5-6) ties in here. So also, Hebrews 6:6 and the three above-cited Pauline passages, plus the end of Hebrews 10.

Of course, for Trial purposes, our accuser will also demand suffering (despite himself being the coziest in the universe); see, you get this great spiritual life constantly available, greater than even the angels got (Satan & Co. are nothing, if not jealous) — and what do you do with it? Nothing. So, Satan will say in some Supreme Court of Heaven convocation, "This believer isn't using what You gave him. Shouldn't he be punished?"

My pastor calls this failure the "law of double punishment" — he spends over a hundred hours explaining it. Not for sins — those were judged on the Cross — but, for failure to execute our Uniquely-Royal-Spiritual-Life which Our Lord bought for us, on the Cross. In regards to Trial application: Satan seeks to get advancing believers punished under this law so that others who see them will be even more inclined to reject God; with any luck, the believer being punished will peel out of the spiritual life permanently. So, then: expect a far worse punishment than if you were punished for sins!

The Holy Spirit is "grieved" (short-term), or "quenched" (long-term) by carnality. So it's not the sin per se but the failure to fellowship with Him that brings on such 'double' Discipline. That's what the "knock... sup" warning in Revelation 3 is talking about to Laodicean believers. All this negativity, infects others; so, for the sake of the world, the long-carnal believer will eventually be "cauterized", treated the way the Levitical priests had to treat leprous articles. Meaning, isolation of some kind. However: you can use 1 John 1:9, immediately. Any Divine Discipline will either cease or convert to the blessing version the advancing believer gets. For, if you repeatedly get back in fellowship with the Holy Spirit via 1 John 1:9 and you repeatedly use God's Script, you too will be an advancing believer. 'Never too late to get going' ☺️. After all, the apostle Paul was the worst sinner who ever lived, as he autobiographically tells Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:15. So, cheer up: God has big plans! Move! Forget what's behind, and don't look back, Philippians 3:14!

See? Either way, suffering is needed, not because God is some sadistic son-of-Belial, as religion (implicitly) teaches. Rather, you're getting Olympic training, or protection during carnality. So, either way, suffering is in your future, down here. What happened to Christ, happens to all His Children. So, then: do you want merely one-sphere, petty dead-while-living discipline; or Two-Sphere training, which eventuates in a communal, intimate happiness with Him beyond all you can ask or imagine? (Ephesians 3:20) Your Royal Choice: no one can make it for you. So, then: why not learn to enjoy suffering by growing up, instead? Babies don't enjoy solid food. But adults sure do. Same is true, with suffering. The Lord proved that fact to the uttermost, as Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 2 all attest.




Part 3c, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump Links in this table also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
Reasons’ Sum:
His Escutcheon Your Soul
Becomes a Polity Spiritual Heraldry,
Life of Honor Conclusions #1, He takes Precedence #2, His Word takes Precedence #3, Royalty Makes the Rules Corollary 3A:
Authority Accountable 3B, Bema Blessing
(or Burning) 3C, Caring Charge 3D, Devoted Destiny
(or Dung) Conclusions’ Sum:
Your Potential Escutcheon
Where do we go from here? And now, for that Blessing-by-Association Payoff

God's Script: Now

Father Answers Son's John 17 Prayer, and Builds a Bride

Summing Up the Reasons

These sets of Invisibility and Royalty Reasons pair up, though I was unaware of that fact when I first wrote them! When I wrote them back in 2001 or so, the process was question-and-answer, in my mind: "Ok, why are we Royally Invisible?" Then, the Holy Spirit brought Doctrinal answers to mind, and I 'reported' what I understood. In short, I had no idea where all the answers were 'leading'. But now, ἴδου! "4" is the Biblical number-metaphor of completion, fullness. Look how these four sets of Reasons interlock! Oh! Are these like the four colors of yarn for the Veil? The four-part Royal Heraldric Escutcheon the four weather angels ("living creatures") wear and bear in Revelation 4?

Shocking! About 20 years prior, during Revelation 2-4 exegesis, I listened to my pastor tell us day in and day out about heraldry, the Angelic College of Heralds, the Angelic Order of Battle, and the heraldric/knighthood meanings of the Awards mentioned in Revelation 2-3. I couldn't understand what-the-heck was the significance of so much detail on heraldry! Oh, but I was (wrongly) bored! And for tuning out of Bible class, whoa — what a spanking I got, too! But notice: even God's Discipline, blesses. What a comeuppance, Payback Time! For now, all-of-a-sudden, a scenario of what the heraldric awards might signify 'clicks' in my puny brain!

Oh: now that my brain is back on, here's what I tuned out of during four years of daily exegesis faithfully given by my own right pastor: The Awards represent vast amounts of eternal wealth of every type. Bible terminology for awards is extensive, and is usually fuzzed over in translation. "Pebbles", for example, are citation and voting stones, which also function as passes to exclusive places, like the Gazebo in the Garden and pass to the New Jerusalem — on stone, so easy to carry and permanent; white clothing, is honor/dress-military; crowns (στέφανος) are battlefield/athletic victory wreaths (the higher the body-part item, the higher the wealth of the award represented). Kingship crowns are distinguished by διάδημα, though the more normal nomenclature seems to be just to say "kings" (Βασιλεύς). Rome greatly rewarded its heroes, and expected much, too: need to know that stuff, to understand the Bible's metaphorical terms. Behold the Escutcheon, patterned after Revelation 4's, but using today's ideas of the color-names of Veil thread:


Invisibility Assets plus Status Assets. Our Irrevocable, Permanent Position in Christ. The Lord as Precedence used His Royal Status and Royal Assets to the uttermost. Best economics, Best Investment, Total productivity, Total yield. So, then: did the Royal believer also invest these 'talents' for maximum yield, by living enough on God's Script in God's System? If "yes", at the Bema he gets a Royal Knighthood title (usually mistranslated "name") and enters within:

The Royal Order of the Gold-for-Profit, Crowned Lion!


Our Aggregate Position in Christ is designed to Invisibly Function to Royally Preserve mankind during post-Cross history. Royal Status and Royal Assets require Nobility: living up to a Royal Standard, for the sake of the ruled. The Lord's Humanity invented that Royal Standard, and demonstrated Steadfast Nobility, for He faithfully and completely abode in it. Thus He protected mankind from destruction by a 'foreign' power (Divine Judgement, Satan & Co. — 'foreign', in the sense of 'foreign' to men's awareness). So, then: did the Royal believer steadfastly and nobly abide by the Royal Standard during his own 'first advent', by living enough on God's Script in God's System? If "yes", at the Bema he gets a Royal Knighthood title and enters within:

The Royal Order of the Blue-for-Virtue, Immovable Ox!


High-Low! Serving God the Father! Vested mediation of Life! The Lord, the Highest (as God) became also the Lowest, thus Vested as King-Priest, Full-Spectrum. So, then: did the Royal believer also vest in docking all things under God through his own spiritual life, by living enough on God's Script in God's System? If "yes", at the Bema he gets a Royal Knighthood title and enters within:

The Royal Order of the Purple-for-Royalty, King-Priest!


Maximum Mediation "Stretch" leads to Maximum Trial Witness! The Lord's Humanity accomplished a Strategic Trial Victory on the Cross against Satan; thus He was Crowned "PantoKrator", Ruler of All. As a result, Operation Footstool's Preparation Stage was inaugurated to Tactically Conquer via the Church: man's dissociation, the world, Satan's power system. So, then: did the Royal believer also finish the course, such that his witness produced Tactical Trial Victory, by living enough on God's Script in God's System? If "yes", at the Bema he gets a Royal Knighthood title and enters within:

The Royal Order of the Scarlet-for-Battlefield-Victory, Flying Eagle!


I can't breathe. One knows from Doctrine that these things are true, but to see them pair off like this...! Oh, I had no idea of these meanings when I wrote each answer ... breathless! How Father completes Son's Royal Escutcheon! With us! Hebrews 11:39-40! Oh, Beloved Father, I'm prostrate, speechless: Psalm 138:2! Revelation 1:17!


Escutcheon Meaning: You are to become a polity, In Your Soul

There are so many applications from this four-part Escutcheon. Why didn't I pay attention in Bible class then? Ohhh what I've missed in my understanding! But now, Grace! I get to know! See, each of these is a class society needs for happiness: Profit (1 Philippians 1:21!), Virtue (probably ἀγαθός; put verses here on recall of keywords), King-Priest (Hebrews 5-10), Victory (νικάω, κρατέω, ὑπομένω, ὑπάρχειν verses)! Four categories of knighthood, four categories in executing the Spiritual Life! We each will end up ranking in each of these four categories! Have to get to Pleroma to even get in ("overcomes" in Revelation means reaching Pleroma, so that is the litmus), but even within the Pleroma category, variety! Inequality of ranking! Those below Pleroma will be rewarded for the peaks or specifics that they accomplished (Colossians 3:24 + Luke 8:13 + Mark 12:41-44), even though they spun off before Pleroma. This also ties into the quality of thinking, some Christians who check out prematurely still end up with more memorized Bible Doctrine than those who are apostate their whole lives, believing in Christ but totally empty upstairs and ultimately dying as a spectacle for Satan. A great example of a "loser believer's death" is when Pope Francis passed away in April 21, 2025: right before he died his 'magnum opus' was condemning the war in Gaza ignoring the fact that Palestine never wanted a two-state solution, and forgetting that Hamas attacked first on Putin's birthday — Qatari state regime media Al Jazeera absolutely loved the speech. This ecumenical slop ultimately favouring Russia and Hamas was as evil as you can get, even more so by slapping God's name on it. Pope Francis refused 1 John 1:9 even on his last breath and died as a Satanic spectacle, and this will be known for an eternity (well, until in a trillion years it becomes so irrelevant in New Jerusalem nobody cares anymore, along with the very concept of "Popes" and the odiousness of religion). Meanwhile, there'll be Cafeteria Catholics who end up knowing more Bible Doctrine than Pope Francis and thus a higher status and rewards as a result.

Thus, if our Church group had a Royal motto, it would also be four-fold: "Profit for Virtue, King-Priest, Victory!" For, in Father's Plan, there is only and always Pure Profit. A Blessed Word, not a bad thing. "True riches" verse, but fulfilled! That Divine Thinking "in earthen vessels"! His Thinking! Which only the Holy Spirit can run, so to us the spiritual life is entirely without price, without cost: Pure Profit! 'The "business" of our unique spiritual life!

For, "Profit" means efficient use of assets. No profit is very bad. Too-low a profit is bad. Only high yield is good. "Profit" represents the Economic Sector. Provider of jobs, of goods, of productive capacity. Essential to any society, free enterprise and the higher-profit which thus results. For, without jobs, no one eats. For, without jobs, no government can defend its people. So, without profit, there's nothing left over to create jobs. So, without profit, the polity dies. Slowly.

No society can hold together absent "Virtue". This invisible, endemic quality-of-soul is best defined from its Latin root, virtus: inner strength. Strength to remain steadfast, idea of structural integrity. Strength to remain loyal (loyalty-up, loyalty-down). Strength, therefore, to remain fair. Neither cheating nor excusing cheating in others. Neither being "a respecter of persons", nor being a stingy servant. Royal Law (James 2:8).

"King-Priest" means wise and mediatory rule.

"Victory" is military victory, without which there is no independent freedom. Galatians 5:1!

In short, an entire entity: economics (lion), internal character (ox), government (King-Priest Man), military (eagle). We each must become entire and completed entities in order to qualify as Rulers. Else, it's not fair to the ruled. More importantly, apart from our becoming entire self-ruling entities, we are no reflection of our Gracious Lord! So, of no sweet savor to the Father!

Important Addendum: I type this brown subsection on December 17th, 2002. I got curious as to why knighthood is used, so did some research on the Equites during the reigns of Augustus through Marcus Aurelius. Domitian was Emperor when John wrote Revelation, and the exile of John and the death of Domitian occurred in the same year. It turns out that Augustus (AKA "Octavian", who was in power until just before the Lord took on Humanity) suddenly appropriated the Equites basically for his own use: to have them administer his own imperium (which in effect was most of the new Empire). The exception to this was that freedmen (former slaves, set free) remained in administrative control of his own household. Moreover, two years after Domitian died, not even freedmen were allowed to handle the household: only the Equites. All this, because the Equites were regarded as impartial (not senatorial), and they were selected based on competence, merit, and professionalism. Anyone could become an Equites (which was true all along, but from Augustus onward the opportunity to get the necessary property due to valorous or meritorious service was much greater). From 98 AD onward, the role of the Equites was thus suddenly much more important than it had ever been, and by the end of the second century the titles among the various suborders were many, and the Order as a whole was thus extremely striated and organized. So it can't be a coincidence that Revelation stresses knighthood in its review (Revelation 2-3) and heraldry (Revelation 4). Oh (but maybe you already knew this): "whites" was the dress color of the military/honorees, just as much then as now.

So, I'm wondering if the Lord's Own Escutcheon, and the knighthood language (e.g., "title" and "pebble" are commonly-associated with knighthood terms, in Rev2-3, and knighthood heraldry is displayed in Rev4) isn't intentionally predictive. After all, just after most would get their copy of Revelation, they'd hear the news of the imperial policy change regarding the Equites. So the analogy would be even more intense, fresh, and meaningful. More importantly, the seeming surprise (to me, anyway) that the four heraldric quarters together signify a whole polity 'suddenly' has some contemporary history to back it up!

Personal sub-corollaries of these applications are also legion. One can look at this four-part Escutcheon and examine his own spiritual life: how well is he progressing in each of the four major categories? Great way to do the same thing to self as the Lord does for the churches, in Revelation 2-3. The weakest place in the four parts would be the way to resolve all shortfalls in any parts. So one can see what is the big bottleneck(s) in the life. So one can say where advances are, too (and objectively, since any advance is solely the Holy Spirit's work). So, as Paul so often notes, one can use the Biblical version of the nine cardinal principles of military doctrine to defeat the bottlenecks, and exploit salients. Pity that English translates military words in the Bible with fuzzy euphemisms. Paul, but also writers in the Old Testament, constantly reference military analogies in explaining how to live the spiritual life. As to the "nine principles", these are codified in various secular works throughout history (not necessarily grouped as "nine"): Sun Tzu is a good sample of this genre.

So, then: am I investing my Invisibility and Royalty assets for best yield? I'm but a stingy servant, if I am carnal. Reboot! 1 John 1:9! Ok, then: now, wherever my attitude toward some issue/problem in life is close to a "So, what? Nothing compares to Doctrine" level, regarding that issue/problem, I'm getting good yield. However, issues/problems which are not characterized by such an attitude need to be 'cashed in' and reinvested in Doctrine! Like, in the ten Doctrinal-thinking patterns, which act like super brokers, maximizing yield out of every topic in life. Like, in more time appreciating what an astonishing thing it is to be Royal in and with Him: communion, the highest version, Looking at Him!

So, then: how steadfastly noble are my current doctrinal applications toward life? Do I decide based on 'partiality' rather than Honor? Do I let the peasants get to me? Do I treat them the way they (seem to) treat me? Do I get on my own high-horse because I'm Royal? Oops! Reboot! 1 John 1:9! For, nobility has only one Royal Standard: Honor. Him. Doesn't matter what others do, what things are, whether I'm in an Iron Mask. Only Honor. Only Him. And my decisions must be based on that sole criterion.

So, then: am I monitoring my thinking for Doctrinal content? To please My Husband's Father? How much, and how often? Am I thinking in both spheres, coordinating them, both the toward-Father life and the toward-earth life? Am I unbalanced between the two? Do I look for ways to avoid the toward-earth life by 'hiding' in Bible study? Or, vice versa? Ouch! Reboot! 1 John 1:9, and keep looking up!

So, then: am I associating everything in life with Him? Imagine, even washing the dishes can be made a noble occasion for auld lang syne, since the lowness of that activity depicts His Choice to become lowly-human (Philippians 2:5ff). Also, am I remembering the Ephesians 6 protocols, looking at the Trial Issues, too? Being alert for them, so to avoid Satan's Landmines? Yikes! Reboot! 1 John 1:9, reload and march!

These last two, thinking-for-the-Father and associating-everything-with-Christ are their own nuclear blitzkrieg against human good, evil — well, against everything in Satan's kosmos. Temptation has to be able to get past that barrage, see. The more and more I exercise Doctrinal thinking, the more and more it 'demolishes strongholds' (satanic thinking, world's thinking), as Paul noted in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (NIV). So, here, these last two categories will maximize both asset yield and virtue. They are the vanguards. What's 'last', is First!

For me, the ultimate nuclear weapon uniting and serving as the litmus in all these four categories, is Isaiah 53:11. Remembering what it is, what those five sweeping infinitives mean. Divine-DNA, baby, being built in me by the Holy Spirit. What's the "You, in Me!", highest-Divine-DNA value, as the criterion for any decision. Not a day goes by, but I live on this verse and its Divine-DNA meaning: for God Wants Sons and This is How He Makes Them! Every second you live on God's Script, more Divine-DNA is being put into you! This Divine-DNA idea unites the Third and Fourth Reasons into a 'do' concept which even the body can understand. Something is happening, in all this Thinking Multi-sphere Life!

For you are that polity, Now. In training, to be sure. For the world is only blessed through the believers in it, which is why the Pre-Tribulation Rapture (if not enough Pleroma believers reach the quota and interest in God completely fizzles out) removes all the remaining believers, for then the world must be judged. But you are still here, so the Rapture hasn't happened till yet.


Spiritual Heraldry, a lifestyle of Honor

Once upon a distant speck in time, we all really knew what Honor was. Whenever I read Herodotus, Tacitus, Roman or Greek literature/philosophy, etc. — one theme keeps on running through them all: Honor. Even the public plays. In them all you find a real honor thought pattern, not only circus-for-the-masses. Herodotus, who dedicated his whole life to just write The History, oozes respectful honor in every word he writes. It's astonishing. In later periods of history you also find little 'oases' of honorable thinking and living. America was such an 'oasis', once. We're too self-righteous and petty, now.

The essential difference between adulthood and childhood, between noble and base-peasant, between virtue and evil, is Meaning vs. the truncated "Me". Honor all about Meaning. The "me" is grateful to have Meaning. To the adult, the noble, and the virtuous, Meaning Matters altogether, and the "me" matters not at all. It's a preference, not a preening. But the child, the base peasant, the evil one is all about the "me", so is all about preening; for the child, the base peasant, the evil one is addicted to feeling, not Meaning. In children, this addiction is to be expected, since the child has no information outside his feelings from which he can derive meaning; so the careful parent rears the child so the child can graduate from the truncated "me", up into Meaning. For older 'children' this rearing must be done impersonally, which is why we have institutions and government, law, etc. For we do not equally define and value, Meaning. So we need mediation as a 'parent' from whom we can all learn.

Hence the Cross and the Government of God, which is really nothing like earthly governments of any political stripe. God is Perfect. Best we humans can do, is emulate His Standards. Now enter Church. Those Divine Standards are our food and drink. So Our Spiritual Heraldry, Our Lifestyle of Honor, is what we're yet down here training for, since we will be (as Body of Christ, a Governing Title) the Government of God forever: fulfilling Isaiah 9, with Israel as our 'sister', during the Millennium.

For a long time, my pastor taught this Honor System we live under (via exegesis in Romans) as "The Royal Family Honor Code." Apt name.

So what's the thinking pattern of true Royal Honor? The Object is viewed, not the "me". True honor never thinks, "I'm a good person because I did this"! Rather, true honor isn't thinking of self at all (1 Corinthians 3:6, which Isaiah 14:14 reverses). Instead, the self is grateful to the Object of Honor. See? We've really lost that attitude in the United States of America. To us, now shrunken, 'honor' means something the 'me' gets. Just the reverse of true honor. No wonder we ravage anyone based on any allegation; no wonder we are such crybabies.

In ancient Rome, Honor was King. Sure, hypocrisy abounded — we childish humans are forever paying lip service, solely to get something — but the standard of Honor was genuinely admired by everyone great and small. The whole society was built around honor, as indeed were many ancient societies. Hence honorable people who had lower-class duties didn't resent those who were higher. Wealth and Virtue were wedded, in people's minds. So a person of wealth was respected. Slavery, too, was by no means disrespected. It was a privilege to be a slave of such persons. (Bible's version of this fact is in the story of the "prodigal son", his rationale for going home.) Actually, it was often a privilege to be a slave of any honorable person — so much so, many slaves set free refused to go free: there was a special ceremony to commemorate that refusal. The master would back the slave against a wall, and pierce his ear with an awl. The slave then wore an earring in that ear, to signify he was committed to the master For Life. By the slave's own choice.

In the same manner, the Roman/Greek higher classes were very much 'into' obeying virtus. "Δικαιοσύνη" means the thinking of a Judge; and, obeying Righteousness, carrying it out. A person was thus evaluated by how honorable he was, not by how much he owned or how good he looked: those hung up on looks and money, were ridiculed as childish. If you read Suetonius, you'll see this ridicule in spades. Suetonius gets real mean when he sees what he considers pettiness in one of the Caesars whose Lives he reviews. Roman adoption customs, likewise, often promoted an honorable slave (as in the movie, "Ben Hur"). "δοῦλος" means either "slave" or "son". In Galatians, that famous book explaining why there are no social/gender/economic inequalities due to our position in Christ, Paul plays with the "δοῦλος" double entendre (Galatians 4). He reminds them how we Church heirs, down here, are slave-sons until we grow up enough to take our toga virilis. See the idea? True Honor. Not accoutrements.

The whole point about having money or wealth is that now you can Afford To Be Virtuous. So it was a more heinous thing, if you could afford to be virtuous, but were not. It was a given that you had the right to do whatever you wanted, virtuous or not, with your own property. "The gods" gave it to you, and they were not to be questioned. Too bad we don't get it that the Real God knows what He's doing, so we all can afford to be virtuous via living on God's Script in God's System: so we are wealthy beyond all earthly wealth. But if you don't value virtue, meaning Him — well, nothing will satisfy.

So it was a Privilege to obey governmental authority. It was a Privilege to die for one's country. It didn't matter that one's country might be in a 'wrong' war! Moreover in Rome, one had to fight in the army for 20 years to even become a Roman citizen. (Paul makes reference to this with the word πολίτευμα, to depict the high privilege of our heavenly citizenship.) Imagine, one was willing to die just to become a citizen of Rome! Yet, life in Rome was extremely tough.

See? If a thing is (or is deemed) honorable, even all menial activity associated with that thing is ennobled. So the soldier's suffering, the slave's suffering, the millions of little annoyances — they all were raised to Honor. 'Far cry from today's thinking, eh? Many Americans in the United States (as of 2024) now go so far as to justify stealing from large corporations "because they have a lot of money". If everyone had that mentality, then nobody would purchase anything, and there wouldn't be any products to buy from said corporations. 🤣

So, then: although we can tell from all the history we have that there was a whole lot of greed going on; although sex outside-of-marriage and like pursuits were considered 'okay' methods of entertainment; at the same time there was great respect for wealth, authority, government. For example, if a person became rich (i.e., a Caesar), he was expected to put on a "spectacle", as a form of respect toward those lower who had a less-privileged status. See? Honor. Not give-to-poor as we understand it. Second example: the master of the household was revered. What he said was law. If he said you should kill yourself, you would. It was not considered demeaning, but rather, honorable. So, when some Caesar (like Nero, to Seneca) said (or implied), "go home and slit your veins", that's what the subject did. It was Honorable.

Principle Extrapolated: In Church Royal Family Honor Code, He is Everything. Virtue itself, Honor itself, life itself... only has meaning if you can use it toward Him. The Greeks and Romans knew that well: they just misidentified who "God" was. Even so, their lives were far more meaningful, since Honor was the standard. So we who can now honor the Real God, whoa — what meaning now is in every speck of earthly dust!

Honor makes whatever you do, fulfilling. If you do dishes to honor a spouse, don't you enjoy it more? Doesn't the pleasure of being able to give honor so raise the quality of the activity, you are happy during and upon its completion? Instead of grumping through the whole thing, and at the end, resentful! So, then: the next time you go to do those dishes, what thought pattern do you think occurs? If Honor was the prior pattern, it comes to you again. Ahhh. If grumping was the prior pattern, it too comes to you again. Making you miserable.

It's a Privilege to be under God. If you get to live for God, you get freed up from having to live for yourself. No bigger tyranny, than the "Me". Satan's all tied up in "Me", so he would have you think it a burden, a slavery, a waste to live for God. Frankly, that's why life seems so mean: but Christ wanted the Cross — it freed Him Totally. No greater freedom, than to be able to so totally get rid of the "Me", you can waste yourself on God. Of course, to get that far, you need Lots of Training. Christ needed 30 years. We obviously need a lifetime. What freedom we are fighting for, then, is freedom to live for God, Galatians 5, 2 Corinthians 5, all of Colossians. Not for the "Me" which came with that stupid prohibited fruit. Now that is waste, the "Me" tyranny. Totally.

It's a Privilege to have Authority make the decisions one must obey. Satan would have you think it's a tyranny. So, in today's thinking, the errors of those with money, power, authority, are all writ large — so you can justify rejecting authority, because of the badness of those who have it. Yet, think: just because bad people have money, power, authority, what is that to me? Can't I just do what money, power, authority 'bids' me do, as unto the Lord? Isn't that what Romans 13 and 1 Timothy 2 say is the very blessing of it? Isn't that why Ephesians 5 is written as it is? After all, who's the most obedient, despite the maximum 'unfairness' from His Own Father? Which, instead, He loved to obey? Even the Cross? So who cares, what intermediary agent of unfairness is 'over' me? I can use it to honor My Very Lord! Romans 8:31, and march!

So, then: see how marvellous it is to have a Royal Standard of Honor in all things? Who really benefits by honoring Him? We do. In the very act! Every tedium is suddenly ennobled, kinda like the noble act of folding the flag. Because, it's not the surface activity which is in view, but the Meaning behind it. Meaning, not the yucky, truncated, "me". For, if God's Script circulates in the soul, the doer's orientation mindset escapes Satan's one-sphere works deadness.

Greek: ἴδου, look at the Honor! No more sense-of-inferiority, to drive ego. No more cockiness, either, to buttress ego. So, no more need to get upset over Windows crashes; traffic; the telemarketer; waiting in line; some fool's incompetence. Instead, under the Fourth Reason-pair, you can Vote the Doctrine of Your Choosing, out of a motive to Honor the Father with Divine Thinking. Isn't that a supreme privilege? What, take a Microsoft Windows BSOD and turn it into a Divine Gift? Talk about revenge on annoyances! What greater revenge is there, than for the thing which offended, to be turned into a thing of beauty?! And if the Lord told His Audience (Matthew 7) that the widow who put in the two coppers did more good than the 'talent' contributed by the guy before-her-in-line, how much more do you think the Father appreciates your thoughts when besieged by the 'gnats' of life? Conversely: do you like hearing complainers? Gripers? Greedy people? How much less would the Father like to hear such thoughts in you? Conversely, how wonderful is it, to recall how God flips failure into fulfillment, so this tedious problem is actually to your advantage! A deposit! Wow, can a 'gnat' be more valuable, or what? Heh.

For you turn it to Divine-DNA, God's Apodosis advantage — just like He did on the Cross! — when you vote for it to benefit God; then you are voting for True Honor. Just vote. Maybe use 1 John 1:9, if you reacted first. Vote some Meaning you know: pick one or more, among the Gorgeous Diamond Deposits the Holy Spirit has gifted you from God's Script in God's System! Real Capital Royale! For, you are Royal Priest under the King-Priest, Who Voted Our Sins be made the Righteousness of God in Him, 2 Corinthians 5:21. Prayer is a voting, a conversation, a communion with God as often and of any configuration you choose: for again, you are Royal Priest under His Most Highness! Prayer is to be a 24/7 thing, Thinking Toward Father always in any variety of uses: examples are in Acts 20:31, Romans 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-3, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (mandate), 2 Timothy 1:3. Online constantly, thinking constantly, of which prayer is a part and not merely for asking things. Do you think for even one second, the Lord wasn't thinking toward Father? Oh, 🤣: had there ever been one second, the whole universe would have tanked (see Hebrews 1:3b)!

Sometimes when the pressure is too much, when I can't think or match a Doctrine to the pressure, I just keep voting yes to whatever God says it should mean. Basically every night's prayer is that whatever My Lord says the prayer is, I absolutely vote for it all (called "incorporation by reference", "blanket proxy vote" in legal parlance). It works, this Voting. And only the Royal Priest has that privilege!

Look: God Votes a thing to exist... and it does. So can you. Why? Christ is God-man. We are His Body. Every thought we have, is given the same power as His: "just as He is, so also we are in this world", 1 John 4:17. The Holy Spirit said, "Light, Be!" in Genesis 1:3. So we vote, and He says "Be!" to that vote — just like He said to our initial 'vote' to believe in Christ, John 3:16. Same procedure. Same liability, therefore. Same Privilege therefore.

But notice how Christ does it, in John 17. Very confident, rational, thinking like a Judge — but then, leaving the Decision to Father. Voting is an affirmation which is then made subject to Father's Will. Fully subject, because if Father doesn't want it, self doesn't either. But confident of what Father wants. That's the Prayer we all should study our brains out learning... and don't. But now, can!

So doing the dishes, petting the cat, brushing your teeth, being in traffic — like Him, your every thought has enormous power. First one, saved you. It's how God Grants, but He's already Voted you Royal Family. And now you are: so now every thought is of this enormous power. Hence the need to keep 1 John 1:9 'close' to your heart, monitoring every thought, training hard in that Third Reason for Royalty. For it's your "Logical, Thinking service" (corrected translation at the end of Romans 12:1). Thinking is your Priesthood, as we saw back in the Third and Fourth Reasons. So what you think, makes history. By Divine Design. Again, 1 John 4:17 is the reason.

Most Christians are drooling babies, so their thought quality is poor. They hustle with their bodies, not knowing all that body activity actually insults God, for then people are made the replacement of God (it defies Genesis 1:27 for the whole reason is your thoughts, not manipulating physical molecules that a soulless puppet could do: important to repeat, if an atheist or soulless automaton can do it, it's not part of the Christian life).

Children don't know better. But then the problem: who is doing the requisite Royal Priestly Thinking? For that's the only way God can justify blessing the world. The body stuff serves to make Christianity look like Satan's other counterfeits, which is why Revelation 17 characterizes what the world even considers 'Christianity' for the last 20 centuries. That's why John wrote the warning of the politico-religious Revelation 17 fake Church. We've seen it in action for 20 centuries, and a huge apex in our time beginning in 2023: it's very popular in the United States to be a Christian Nationalist while clobbering everyone with the blasphemies of "Prolife", "holier-than-thou works salvation", mixing church and state, denying everyone of their privacy, going on crusades and activism indistinguishable from the very nasty Pro-Palestine protesters. Where is the Thinking? Hidden. Few. And that's how history will be later revealed. Hebrews 11 roster. The Invisible Way our sins were paid for, by Thinking, on the Cross.

You can make sweet all that ugly body stuff God must continually see. You can make it competent, blessing the poor, the hungry, the sick, the despondent. No one else can do this, but the Christian who's growing up in God's System. And how ironic, too: what you think while in traffic, standing in line, turning down your bedcovers is way more important than all the good deeds on this planet. Widow of two coppers' thinking was way more important, and that was during the Old Testament: for she was thinking of God, not people (Mark 12:43). So how much more important, Now? For Christ is Seated now, and we have His Thinking in Writing to learn and think 24/7. Nerd Note: First Commandment is that all your heart and soul and Doctrine-thinking (διάνοια) are to be devoted to God. She's exhibiting the motive of the first commandment when she gives what she has. This verse gets distorted into a give-all-your-money cheapness, when the First Commandment is way bigger than that. You are Qorban, wholly. So as Paul writes, it's the thought that counts (Romans 12:1 again, Greek). So that's what the Lord is commenting on, here, as you'll see when you read the surrounding context. He goes straight to motive. See also Acts 5 on Ananias. The Lord's Humanity changes Deuteronomy 6:5 to upgrade the First Commandment, since He will be our Divine-DNA. For He says:

"You shall love the Lord your God in (by means of, in the sphere of) all your heart (believing-in),
and in all your soul and in all your Understanding/Thinking-Of-Doctrine."

Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27.

God's Ways are not the world's ways. Our Royal Priestly life doesn't work like the world does. God's always been about voting. He voted for our existence, and we exist. He votes for our freedom, and we have it. We in turn can vote for Him — for Love never coerces. See, God already is Everything, so He wants the opposite: cost. We start out as cost, and really remain a cost to Him forever. He loves it. But can we reciprocate? Yes! Learning God's Script in God's System gives us the tools we need to vote properly. We vote to learn, the Holy Spirit says "yes" to that, and runs the whole thing; we vote to live on what we learned, and then He runs that. So it's as if we too were God, which is proper, since the First Thing We Got at Salvation was God's Own Righteousness. Else, we couldn't vote at all. Else, we'd have to spend an eternity in hell or never be created. But God voted we exist, and we voted to be saved, so He voted we become as Good as God: that's how Love works. It Votes, then Waits. If the recipient doesn't return that vote, it's okay — Love didn't get cheated, it got Fulfilled. So if the vote is freely given back, well... that's extra; Love is like that. Since extra, there's no "Me" truncation, because the Meaning is full. No need means no truncation. Love is self-fulfilling. So never needs reciprocation, but always loves to give it. That's our So-Great-Royally-Invisible, Spiritual Life: "we Divinely Love, because He First Divinely Loved us", John 4:19 (corrected translation).

Honor mediates and makes sweet what is ugly. Gosh, we all know this so well, but rarely think about it. Soldiers live incredibly horrible lives, and there is nothing glorious about what they do. Yet that very fact is what makes them so Honorable. Like in the Fourth Reason for Royalty, they are Honor-Driven, so it becomes sweet to them, however horrible, to go up "Hamburger Hill". That movie's end demonstrates Honor. Here they are, sliding down in the mud two feet for every inch of toehold they got, going nowhere. Shot, mangled, in the rain, covered with mud, totally incompetent-looking. No success. But they kept on trying to get up that hill, even though they knew it was a lost cause — they'd rather die trying, than not try. No feel-good, no medals, no cheering crowds were in their minds. Like Steven Weber's confession as to why he re-enlisted, they just want to get it done... or get it done to them. When you are willing to die even if you get nothing, then honor is your attitude. So how much more would one want to die, if one knows it actually serves God?

And why does it work? Well, in 1 John, John spends his third chapter explaining why, since a main theme of the letter is that we are extensions of Him in the Trial and therefore in the world (refrain, repeated in 1 John 1:3-4 (referencing Isaiah 53:11), 1 John 2:6, 1 John 2:28, 1 John 3:2, 1 John 4:17, and the many "abide" verses). First Commandment, we are Qorban, so we should lay down our lives in Thinking — since that's the only way for the world to be blessed, who can close his heart to all the poor people in need?

1 John is all about Thinking Word as true spirituality, aka "fellowship": it's all about how to live the post-salvation life. So using a Greek rhetorical structure of "parallelism" (kinda like tic-tac-toe clauses), he repeatedly contrasts religious legalism versus the person who just learns and believes, climactically proving Trial Witness Success in 1 John 4:12-16. You really need to get under a pastor who exegetes the book verse-by-verse to see John's deft usage of keywords. I had such a pastor, and there are others. It's probably the most concentrated epistle in the Bible, since it incorporates by reference virtually all the rest of Canon, to show the Trial Witness Effect of Church via learning God's Script in God's System. "Word is One" is John's rhetorical motto, throughout all he writes: Word = God's Script; "One" = ἑνότης, God's System (etymological root of unity between wife and husband since "the beginning", see).

But think about what you know already, and you should be able to prove the foregoing true: the Word is what works, James screams throughout his epistle. Why would Paul say learning God in Ephesians 3:15-19 leads to the very fullness of God, then parallel it in Ephesians 4:13? Must be what God does with what you vote, what you think in His System, right? And surely, whatever God does, Works.

For surely the best of our thoughts, even when living on God's Script, are incredibly small. Well, it still works for the same reason you got saved: you essentially voted to be saved. God did the work, but wouldn't coerce you, so required that you vote, to get salvation. So, ever after, it's the same: God sets the conditions, and if you vote for them, He does the work. The conditions post-salvation, are to live on His Script. So, for the same reason it worked when the Holy Spirit said, "Light, be!" in Genesis 1, He makes serve God whatever thinking on God's Script you have: no matter how small, no matter what you seem to be doing. For, you voted for God to be served. Instead of binging you apart from your Consent, God wants your consent. Because, He just wants it that way. He is Freedom, so won't want slavery. So if you want it to serve God, it will. But only, if you are on God's Script at the time. For Freedom is never apart from Truth, and if you are rejecting Truth, then you are not voting for Honor.

God makes your vote serve Him and it's real, what He does, and He largely will do it to you. And then, bless your nation, your periphery, way beyond all the fantasies you could ever imagine. Provably. Naturally, it will take some time to see all this proof. But know this: God Did It To His Son, and thus it must work for us, since we get the same Royally Invisible Spiritual Life.


What Conclusions Should We Draw?


Conclusion #1. Our Unique Spiritual Inheritance (Invisibility plus Royalty) = He Takes Precedence.


When the Lord's Humanity trained a lifetime so that He could suffer more than all creation put together, even on the Cross, why did He do that? What motivated Him? The Father came first. Then, His Love for us. Note that order.

So the Son is now Precedence, and that is why we are Royally Invisible, and Royally accoutered: to become Fit Bride, during this preparatory phase of Operation Footstool, AKA the "Age of the Church". We've now seen how our lives are not like the Mosaic Law, for the Lord Himself wouldn't even be a priest under that Law. Instead, He's a King-Priest, "kata Melchizedek" (Hebrews 5-7). So, our unique spiritual life is structured to "fit" Him, and is characterized by Royally Invisible Thinking, culminating in Pleroma ("Fullness") — if, oh if! — we choose to actually grow up. For, we were bought with a price, and that price is spent on us, to make us Fit Bride (1 Corinthians 1-3, 1 Corinthians 6, 2 Corinthians 5; Romans 5-8, Romans 9-11; Hebrews 2, Hebrews 4, Hebrews 7, Hebrews 9-10, Hebrews 11:39-40, Hebrews 12; 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John 3-4, James 1-2:8, all of Ephesians and Colossians).

Therefore, we have to ask ourselves: do we really understand what God the Father did, depositing on our behalf "every spiritual blessing" in eternity past as part of the Decree, as Ephesians 1 and 1 Peter 1:3-5 explain? Do we really understand what passages like Ephesians 1:15-23 and Ephesians 3:15-21 mean? What about 1 John? Are all these passages just sweeping rhetoric, to be passed over (like so many brush off Revelation as merely colorful)? To look at these citations alone, gives one the impression that Father's Standard and Intended Inheritance is for us to become like Our Precedence, the Most High — and that we can make it, due to the unparalleled power of the Holy Spirit. Can we? If "yes", then our usual works = spirituality attitude is just so much peasant tripe, dished out of Satan's bowl to deceive us.

First Commandment has no one but "God" in it; no angels, and no people, either. Deuteronomy 6:5 follows the dramatic Deuteronomy 6:4, the command to Hear The Word, saying: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Note how they were to love God: Deuteronomy 6:4 is a command to Hear the Lord, and to this day is the most famous verse in Judaism (wish they actually heard Him). Specifically, the Word of the Lord, which Deuteronomy explained was a 24/7 thing. When you get up, when you go to bed, all the time in between, hence you have tefillin to look at to remind you. No other object for that love: and none of you left to love anyone/anything else, either. Loving your neighbor as yourself is due to loving the Lord with all your heart and soul, etc., because He made your neighbor, also.

"You shall love the Lord your God in (by means of, in the sphere of) all your heart (believing-in), and in all your soul and in all your understanding/thinking-of-doctrine."
Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27.

That purple italic text is really the pithy Greek noun "διάνοια"; the term is usually fuzzily truncated in English as "mind"; but "διάνοια" is not merely the faculty of thinking. Rather, the term stresses the connections in the thinking, how the thinking 'moves', and the content of the thinking; here wrought by all those spiritual dendrites and data the Holy Spirit makes inside you.

Our job is Royally higher, as a consequence: "bringing every thought into captivity" (2 Corinthians 10:5). That demands total control over your thinking. Just as Christ had. For, the Father hears every thought. Never before and never again in history will the spiritual standard be so high for fallen mankind.

The root reason for this so-high standard is to Kit Out the Bride. The Trial reason for this so-high standard is Satan's objection. But the Eternity-Past Reason is to Benefit Father and Son, Ephesians 1. This was always the design: for God wants to hear Divine Thinking, and that raises us up from the hell of being finite, so it benefits everyone in the universe, if we learn and then 'do' this Thinking. Being doers of the Word, not doers of works.

So all Four paired Reasons, and especially the Third and Fourth, are how we are to live on this Word-which-is-Our-Life. Else, we are spiritually comatose. Hence "dead works" characterizes our life (refrain in Hebrews and elsewhere).

So the sheer impossibility of such a Royal Standard of Loving God with Every Thought means maximum spiritual leverage is gained with every occurrence. Every time you do a Matthew 4:4 'hit' on some temptation, it's a huge Victory. So the 'game' is, to rack up as many of those 'hits' as possible. Easy to get anal about that, but easy also to think it's not important. It's only the thought that counts, because Father hears. So aiming to fire God's Apodosis at every thought is of inestimable worth. For God's Pleasure is Infinite. Hence the 'leverage' of each such thought (small 'you', but going to Infinite God) is easily worth more than all the good deeds from Adam through the end of the Millennium. Each such thought. For it takes God's Power, to say "Light, Be!" on each positive-to-God vote your puny soul makes. Now that's true leverage!

The closest divergence to the Divergence of God-man nature, is to have the same spiritual life, yet have a sin nature fighting it the whole time. Life is a constant struggle. We are unrealistic by nature, so we think that oh, I learned this Doctrine so I'll never sin again. Nonsense! Romans 7 sets the record straight: until there was a law saying do not covet, I didn't covet, quipped Paul (Romans 7:7-8). So it's a divergence between the law of the flesh, and the law of the Spirit, theme of Romans 8 and Galatians 5. In finance, leverage is a coveted thing. The more money you make with the smallest possible downpayment, the more value the gain. Same thing here: we Vote for that Leverage. Then, the Holy Spirit accomplishes it. Same exact mechanic as operated on the Cross, is done to us.

In calculus and in physics, there's something called a "differential". That's the math version of this leverage/divergence idea. Power of a tiny thing to do a big thing, because of the size of the big thing it bounces off. Infinity, here. A little thing, a negative attitude toward God in the Garden, begot spiritual death for the first two humans. So totally shattered them, and its genetic impulses were begotten in us. So now the reverse is even more true, as demonstrated by Christ on the Cross (theme of last half of Romans 5): fusion, from fission of temptation. Atomic power is but a pinprick compared to Divine Power. So the derivative power of sin, shattered us completely. But the derivative power of a vote "yes", is made to fuse us completely. Starting, with the first "yes" to John 3:16. See? God won't tolerate lesser-thans for companionship, and doesn't have to. He's Omnipotent, get it?

Look: Infinity is punctiliar. So the quality of it is undiminished, no matter whether the quantity replicated is large, small, even zero. Infinity is not quantitative by nature, but qualitative (Aristotle messed up there, reversing that fact in his writing). So if Infinity cycles inside finity, then the finity is functionally Divine. It won't matter that the being in which the cycling occurs, is a sinner or Perfect Humanity. The latter mattered for the number and size of the connections, which thus produced total Capacity, for the resultant Structure of the Lord's Own Human Soul would have been restricted had He ever sinned (and of course then sin wouldn't have been paid for, and we'd all never exist 'ab initio').

So just as He told everyone down here, we are to be gods for God the Father, quoting Psalm 82:6 when He said that (in John 10:34). So only the scope of the connections — which are spiritual dendrites the Holy Spirit makes — will determine how much of that Divine Function cycles in each of us forever. Which dendrites, need to be fashioned before we die, since Love never coerces. Hence the scope of the First Commandment, is Royally Higher in Potential Fulfillment. All due to that First Soul of the Last Adam, who birthed us (Galatians 4:26, wordplay on Isaiah 53:11-54:1, see also Hebrews 2:10ff).

For the Cross was the ultimate in unfairness, and the ultimate in Royal Love-Commitment by the Greatest Royalty of All Time. So via the Cross, Christ forged the Ultimate Leverage and Legacy: to Think His Thoughts. This also plays a pivotal role in the trial, for, nobody can claim they've suffered more than Christ (Isaiah 52:14 + Matthew 4:8-9).

Hence this Warning Application: If the "royal law" of James 2 is to "love the brethren", Who's First among them, Hebrews 2:11? "For He is not ashamed to call them brothers." If we are "brothers" to Him, isn't He the First "Brother"? If Yes, how does He feel about us not wanting to know His Own Father, Whom He knew better than anyone? (Confer Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 22:36-39; Romans 5:6-11; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 5:19, 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 3:18; James 1 plus 1 Peter 1:7-8 plus: Romans 13:8, Galatians 5:14, Galatians 5:22; flagship verse is James 2:8's "royal law", where "καλῶς ποιεῖτε" should be translated "you do a right thing in a right way", not merely the chopped translation's "you do well".)

Do works benefit God, or you, said Elihu to Job (beginning of his discourse to Job). Surely even more now, we should ask the same question: for whom am I really working? Isn't my first, and most important work, without which I break the whole law — to know God?

You can't love Someone you don't know, warns 1 John. So 1 John explains that by learning God, we become able to love people. So obviously, "love" here is not mere human love. Moreover, love is virtue-dependent. So, for the Christian, Royal spiritual living isn't mere human stuff (like morality). After all, the Christian way of life is a supernatural way of life, and demands a supernatural system of execution. Christ's love on the Cross was no mere act of human love — but rather, Divinely-empowered-by-Doctrine Love. In the Holy Spirit.

So, as John explains in 1 John 4:18 and following, he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, is not able to love God, Whom he has not seen. But also, in 1 John 1, the person who alleges to love his brother but does not love God, is a liar, and deceives himself. So any "works" are sheer garbage! A person who doesn't know God can't be obeying Him; cannot be loving Him. And what is obedience to Him? that we believe in Him, and that we obey His mandates, says the end of 1 John 3. These mandates are Spiritual, not physical, as 1 John 4 goes on to note. To worship God, one must "worship Him in Spirit, and in Doctrine", John stresses (John 4:24).

Israel made worship a mockery, denigrating it into punctiliar law observance, priding themselves on how much law they knew, how much commentary they knew, arguing for hours about whether the sabbath began when one could no longer distinguish between blue and white thread. No God, in all that — just ego.

So, too, with the Christians, the same trend beckons. Paul constantly warns of this in Corinthians, Galatians, and Timothy. Controversies. Petty observances. One regards certain days or actions as sacred, and deems those disagreeing as apostate. Another, regards certain prayer words as sacred — again, those of other views must be less holy. A third prides himself on being able to cite all the books of the Bible, posting verses, or you-name-it. "Who is Apollos? Who is Paul?" Surely such wrangles are just as whitewashed sepulchres, as those of the Pharisees. No God in all this — just ego.

But of course you won't see that, in Bible translation or Churchinanity. Instead of His Head getting into our heads, Ho Logos' Head is cut off, and man's was placed atop. It's real important to remember that almost every Divine-Actor verb and noun in the New Testament is translated to cut God's Head off and put man's in His Place. That's exactly how Christians live. Prove all this to yourself, the words: "ἀγαθός, ἀγάπη, ἐνεργέω", all sun-prefixed Greek words, plus all nouns without (nee: definite) articles in front of them denote God is the Actor. But you won't see that in translation. So "Love" in English New Testaments is "ἀγάπη", so should be translated "Divine Love"; "work(s)" without the article should be translated "Divine Work(s)"; "good" should be translated "Divine Good". But never are. No love for God — or precious little — exists among Christians today. That's why they are pawns for the Revelation 17, Ephesians 4:14 schemes pandered by Satan & Co. Imagining themselves spiritual. Those weather disasters we keep getting aren't happening for no reason: see Leviticus 26. Violate the First Commandment and you thus violate the Royal law, since the First of Our Brothers, Christ — is being dishonored.

Cutting God's Head off in translation is an insult no amount of works can make up, since works worsen the insult, by still cutting God's Head off and replacing it with people, claiming that's obeying the First Commandment. Cutting God's Head out of your head is an insult, and works can't put His Head in your head — only the Holy Spirit, can do that. Ergo, 99% of Christians are thus insulting God, and worse — pretending they are spiritual — just like the evil people depicted so clearly in 1 John.

How unfair, how dishonoring to the Lord, still crucifying Him afresh, as warned in Hebrews 6:6. What a lot of wood, hay, stubble and embarrassment at the Bema, therefore.

So we "Christians" are not living His Spiritual Life, we're instead rejecting His Legacy. So we are not loving Christ, so not loving the brethren, either; but fool ourselves just as John warned, in 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 2:4, 1 John 2:11.

You know, I did searches on the internet to test who got the Gospel right, and who got it about living on 1 John 1:9 and God's System, to see how bad so-called 'Christianity' really is. My pastor has harped on these two things for years, and I didn't really listen carefully: believed him, yes. But took it all so seriously? No. Was I ever wrong! For here are the search results, which you should test yourself (or you'll not believe it seriously, either): 90% of the sites searched screwed up the Gospel royally, adding verbs to "believe" or even leaving out "believe." (Results are worse with Christian broadcasting — I never once heard the Gospel presented properly, not even by the most famous evangelists.) Second, not one site, except by those trained under my own pastor, "got it" about the significance of 1 John 1:9, and in most of those cases they didn't realize the importance of the relationship aspect with God. (Results were the same, watching Christian TV.)

Do you realize what that means? First, many who call themselves 'Christians' aren't even saved; although it's quite an olympic feat to be an unsaved Christian (Matthew 7:21) as most accidentally believe anyways (2 Peter 3:9 + John 10:28). Second, almost no one is spiritual and lives their entire life in apostasy. You can't be spiritual if 1 John 1:9 isn't breathed, as John makes scathingly clear. But even among the very few sites which do recognize you've gotta use it, they don't know what it means when you do! What, did no one search the Greek Old Testament to learn how John uses his words? That's the first thing you do when deciphering a passage, is look for the keywords and how Bible uses them, so you know what incorporations by reference the author intends! Yikes! The function of 1 John 1:9 is also common sense because as sin is already paid for, 'something' still happens when you choose to sin as: a) God chooses not to be in the presence of that sin and so His filling zips out of you, b) God respects our freedom to live in apostasy if we so desire, & for trial purposes which wouldn't be possible if it was forced and automatic as some Christians believe it is.

Among those (very few!) websites on 1 John 1:9, were some who couldn't read Bible if it bit them. Just like the works salvation people, they always want to add conditions to 1 John 1:9. You can't 'add' to 1 John 1:9 just like you can't add to John 3:16: 1 John 1:9 is based on the Cross, not something we do. Naming sin is but an acknowledgement that a) it was a sin, and b) it was paid for on the Cross. So you negate that acknowledgement, just like you'd have negated salvation, if you add something. So if you try to do penance or 'repent' in addition, your naming of sins didn't have any effect, and you're still in a carnal state. Look:

Just do what Bible says, don't overthink the terms and above all don't add to Scripture what's not there; a real big issue for those who exclusively use English translations and add their own English adverbs. We don't instruct God, but rather He instructs us, 1 Corinthians 2:15-16. Again, my pastor harped on the don't-add theme so often during his ministry I thought I would vomit. Well, he was right to harp, as any search on the internet all too amply proves.

So we know that public Christianity is largely unbelievers, and/or carnal believers. Whoa. So almost no one is living John 4:24. That makes you and me much more important, because our puny selves are getting this Divine Diamond Deposit so often and so much. There are always others, always a remnant, and really — who couldn't tell the meaning of John 3:16 and 1 John 1:9 even from any translation? So some bloke just gets curious in a hotel room, pulls out the Bible provided by the Gideons, and reads John 3 and 1 John 1. Well, he can immediately get in God's System, even if he doesn't know that's what he's doing!

Okay, it's unfair that so few of us get so high a responsibility. But Christ was only One Person. Okay, so it's unfair that those of us who get into God's System should thus have so much higher a burden to shoulder, given that 99% of our brethren would rather cut God's Head off. But Christ was only One Person. Okay, it's really hard to just do this tripartite, Royal Multi-sphere Thinking toward Father, which is Our Royal "Thinking Service", as Paul says in (corrected translation of) Romans 12:1 (last two words). But Christ did that, Matthew 4:4. Yep, maximum unfairness to Maximally-Gorgeous Father, which Maximally-Gorgeous 'Mom' (Holy Spirit) enables to produce the biggest spiritual leverage gain in all history. Which makes Divine-DNA happen in you, so you inherit a huge kingdom as Pleroma.

Into which kingdom, your share of the 99% rejecting-believers, will live. And be grateful, too. That's pretty unfair, eh what?


Conclusion #2. So, the preponderance of commands to 'know' = The Word takes Precedence.


The Ephesians and 1 John (etc.) mandates are almost wholly invisible. For every one visible work commanded of us, there are 100 commands to "know" something. These are discrete commands. After all, one being trained to rule cannot afford to be emotional, mystical. Satan will do all in his power to fragment one's learning the Word, since learning Bible Doctrine, His Thinking, is the key to beating Satan in the Trial. Maybe Satan knows something we idiots don't know: that the "Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any (Roman sword) 'knife'..." Hebrews 4:12. Above all, Satan will deflect learning Him by tempting the believer to do some good deed. 'As if some — get this — physical 'work' could magically convey spiritual benefit? Can we be dumber? I don't think so. Worse, this bait-and-switch tactic of Satan's is recorded, "in plain sight" — if we'd ever pick up the Book and read it. This temptation is exactly of the same pattern as executed against the Lord in Matthew 4. Do we catch it, as the Lord did? Or are we thoughtless, like children, still drinking the milk-portions of Word only, instead of also eating its solid food? For, like Him, we are to live on every taught-Word which proceeds from the mouth of God — not merely the words which suit our egos. Words our egos "eat" turn stones into bread — so we'll die, stoned by rocks in our bellies.

So, then: am I spending enough time really learning Him, or am I spending time deceiving myself to be in the light, due to my many works? Do I spend time learning Him, or defending my denomination? Do I spend time learning Him, or shouting down others who disagree? Do I spend time learning Him, or wallowing in emotional, thump-thump "fellowship"? Do I spend time learning Him, or do I spend my time being politically obsessive, whitewashing Satan's world? After all, Peter writes in 2 Peter 3, this whole world and all of its works will be burned up.

"Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of Our Lord and Savior", Peter concludes, at the end of his letter. Not, "grow in works". As always, it's what you do with what you know, with what you don't know — #2, and #3 Trial issues. Yet Royally Higher, for us. To Honor Christ, the Word of the Cross, the Word of God, the Word. Not "the Work", but "The Word". Absent the Word ("faith", in English Bibles), there are but dead works, James screams in James 1-2:24 (well, throughout his letter). The Word Works. In You. "To will and to do", as Paul noted in Philippians 2:13: "works" there shows Who's the Real Hero. Else, as James corroborates, you just 'hear' the Mirror (looking at the Word, but not living on His Thinking), so of course you forget how to 'do' (believe, and thus reflect) It!

Here's what's embarrassing. Your average Joe Shmoe who wants to know God will want to know Bible, having no clue that the spiritual life is just that: learn and live Bible. Your first big hint is by the usage of 'spiritual' and not 'physical'. Spiritual implies thinking, works imply physical. He won't know all this fancy description used here, he'll just have his King James Version or whatever. But when he reads John 3:16, he'll immediately believe in Christ, because that's what it says to do. He'll read 1 John 1:9 and then decide to get in the habit of using it, because that's what it says to do. He'll look for a pastor to teach him Bible, because it's a natural thing to do, if you want to know God. If you want to know God, you want to know His Word. So wanting to know His Word, he'll read it a lot. So he'll learn how to pray, which will be natural for him anyway: if you want to know God, and you want to know His Word, you'll want to talk to God about His Word. 24/7. David did that, all the Old Testament people growing up did that, and you can read about them doing that, in the Old Testament. So you'll ape what they did. It's a natural conclusion.. if you want to know God. So now, this average Joe Shmoe is unknowingly doing 4 of the 5 Elements, in God's System. All that's left, is for God to put him under some pastor the Holy Spirit assigns (it's a person-to-person matchup, not a denominational or 'how scriptural' thing).

Now, Satan & Co. mess big time with anyone who works in Bible, so maybe the pastor is kind of goofy. Doesn't matter: God the Holy Spirit has already gotten this average Joe Shmoe in the System, so whatever is accurate the pastor teaches, will be planted in Joe's Spirit-Filled brain. Meanwhile, Joe already knows to learn and live Bible, so he's just rocking along doing that. Making mistakes, breathing 1 John 1:9, growing. Now if that pastor keeps growing, then they grow together, and maybe the Holy Spirit keeps Joe there. Maybe He moves Joe out of there. In any event, the System is working just fine, thank you very much — though no one knows really, that's what's going on!

This is how the world has continued to exist even until now. Lots of average Joes who wanted to know God but were otherwise too dumb to live. Lots of brainouts, lots of heroes. We all start out dufuses, and that's how we remain, too. All for the want of a knowing of God... God, not works. Like James harps, it's the Word which works. Every time.

The Lord told everyone that He was food and drink in John 6 (John 6:27ff, saddest passage in the Bible). They didn't like that. Even the apostles had trouble with it, and — weird — the Lord actually had to explain that metaphor as His Thinking that they had to believe (John 6:63). Of course, Satan gets his rocks off playing to belly bread, since the Lord refused it in Matthew 4:4, based on Deuteronomy 8:3, for the Man-hu got His Manna from Mom, rema'd into Him. Taught. Real bread, then, not something for a belly.

Okay, but aren't We Royals to "give to the poor"? Blessing-by-association, remember? How does our unique spiritual life in Him address that and like issues? Well, think: what kind of good deed was the Cross? Would you rank giving money to the poor as highly? I bet not. Now think: if you were rich and you refused to give money to the poor, you'd be pretty bad, huh. So if you are to be spiritually-rich in the Word so God can bless the poor because you study His Son, how 'good' are you, if you refuse? That's the very stabbing argument 1 John 3:17-18 makes: if you're not in the Word, you're worse than a murderer or a miser. For all the rabid-works Christians were already out in force, even back in the 90's AD. That's why 1 John had to be written. Anything compared to the Word is but lip service, says 1 John 3:18: "Children, we must not 'love' by means of mere words nor in lip service, but (rather) in the sphere of Divine Work, even The Truth!" Pretty strong Greek, there: God's head is cut off from regular English translations, of course.

Christians refuse the Word by the millions. So they condemn the poor to poverty God could heal in a nanosecond. They don't know how to pray, so their prayers go nowhere: that's more damage done to people that could be avoided. They don't even know how to give money properly, for when they do, they perpetuate poverty, for all their giving doesn't teach anything permanent. Christian inept giving is the norm. And the damage coming from them not knowing even how to give the Gospel correctly (so no one is saved!), from not knowing how to pray (so God must stand off due to their apostasy)... well, who can stand to say more?

Few would say that giving to the poor was bad. Yet the Lord refused to do it, replying, "the poor you will have with you always". He had also refused to rescue the world from hunger by speaking the stones into bread. (He could have justified feeding Himself if He fed the world, couldn't He?) He had further refused to rescue the world by jumping off that Temple, revealing Himself as God to everyone. He had finally refused to rescue the world by rejecting Satan's offer to surrender it! — in exchange for token obeisance. (Had He had taken the offer, He then could have won, right? 'Just said "ha ha — bang, you're dead, Satan!", and done no obeisance at all.)

Of course, He's always refused to help the world, even still today — by not miraculously solving our many ills. For this refusal, the world routinely condemns Him, taunting — "If you are God, show yourself and solve this problem!"

The world only gets the sign of Jonah: Doctrine Taught. Amazing, how the Lord's "evil generation seeks a sign" lecture, with its condemnatory tone, announced the New Covenant fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:31-34 via an analogy to Jonah's saving all Assyria from destruction in 754 BC. Do you know that story? Assyrians loved doing really nasty stuff, like skinning people alive. God told Jonah to give them the Gospel, but Jonah went to Tarshish (Spain) instead of Nineveh (Mesopotamian valley, Iraq). The opposite direction. So, God appointed some sea creature to act as a taxicab. From there, Jonah finally gave in and grudgingly announced the Gospel. Everyone — "from the least to the greatest", as it says in Jonah — believed. Jonah stayed on to teach them Doctrine, and died there. His tomb is among the ruins of Nineveh. Notice how the book of Jonah never mentions that epilogue. It only ends with God's Policy Of Grace. Assyria lasted four (!) generations longer, and then God wiped it off the face of the earth (but remnants of the people still survive. I met an Assyrian who told me about the Peshitta, which the Assyrians all use. About 800,000 of them supposedly live in the United States, if I remember properly. God protects His People.

Invisibility. Invisible Grace, before painfully-visible Judgment, was the 2nd Reason for Invisibility. Peace before war. Health before sickness. So that pride can go before a fall, or catch itself in time and "repent" (μετανοέω, change-mind, nonemotional). So maybe the poor should be hungry, for their empty bellies might motivate them to fill their empty souls? Do we really know what helps them best? Who of us would rather see a poor person fed, when he might be saved, by being hungry? Do we know? Did we learn nothing from our parents, who let us get ourselves into trouble, and did not help us recover... so that we could learn ourselves? Do we learn nothing from the failed welfare programs of governments, world-wide? Have they eradicated poverty, even in America?

So maybe we should be reticent to give to the poor, until we know what competently helps. Don't we first need specific understanding from God? What might the person, whom God has allowed to be poor in the first place, be learning, that our "help" might hinder? Do we know? How do we know that ABC Charity organization will rightly use our contributions? Do we know? How do we know God wouldn't rather have the money spent elsewhere, like on our families? "He who does not provide for his own family is worse than an unbeliever" (1 Timothy 5:8). What's "provide"? Do we dare run afoul of the Lord's Will on this? Especially since we know He does not necessarily approve of helping the poor by our idea of help?

Discernment requires standards. If the standards are inaccurate, so will be the conclusions from them, and thus any 'solution' will not work. Now, what is the standard? The Word. Not bread. Why? Because, if the brain is empty, filling the belly won't enable that belly to fill itself. So, the belly is not helped at all. Ego, yes. Belly, no. Brain, no. Soul, no. See: Royal Standards are better. First teach the soul, so that the body can be ruled properly. For the Body's Benefit. Now, then: where are all these poor gonna get the right standards, so that they can get the right discernment, so that they can really be helped? Not by our feeding them physical food, but by feeding them Doctrine. Yet, eating doctrine is a voluntary thing. So, then: wouldn't only God have the ability to know where to deploy us? Doesn't He alone know what person would benefit from being around those of us who have the Word Planted there by the Holy Spirit? So, then: shouldn't we obey the First Commandment, thus get the Word ourselves, and leave it up to Our Boss to decide where He wants our doctrinal wealth 'given out'?

Then again, we ourselves are Royal and can reject this so-great command to learn the Word. We too can choose to turn stones into bread by rejecting the Cornerstone's Thinking and bake all the wood, hay, and stubble we want for all those poor bellies. Our choice.

The Sign of Doctrine We Heed... saves the world. Macro, King-Sized Bread Benefit. For God wants living stones, and turns them into Bread! Anywhere in the world where interest in Bible increases, so does the material prosperity of that nation, usually within the same generation as the one having the rising interest. It's completely predictable, and the recurrence is utterly stable. Trick is to recognize what constitutes a rise in interest. Conversely, anywhere in the world interest in Bible decreases, so also decreases the prosperity of that nation.

Okay, so here's the upshot about us Royals giving to the poor: God thinks big. And He likes to use the teeny-weeny thoughts we have, to implement His Big Plan, á la His statement to Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9 — "My Power is made operational through weakness." (My pastor's translation.) So if we go under the 'knife' of Hebrews 4:12, we live the Paired Third and Fourth Reasons, and hence live a Multi-sphere Lifestyle of Thinking toward Father, which is Our Royal Priestly Role, which manifests as Matthew 4:4 occurring as often as possible.

In return, the world gets the following benefits:

  1. If we follow the prayer protocol, we get anything we ask, John 14:14, John 15:16, John 16:23. So think hard: if you get Bible Bread, don't you have to get physical bread so you can be alive to learn it? So why not pray for Bible Bread to get 'out there'? I did just that in 1984, when I didn't have enough Bible in me to come out of the rain. I wanted Russia to break up, didn't trust Gorbachev, and so prayed for the breakup so Bible Bread could go there. And on my birthday in 1990 or 1991 (I forget which), Gorby baby went under house arrest, and lo! Russia broke up! I wouldn't have known that, had I not been stuck in a hotel room on my birthday (I didn't watch TV in those years). See? I'm a jerk, okay? God didn't answer my prayer because I'm some good person, He answered the prayer because Christ said we could pray anything in His Name and we'd get it! Since I was too dumb to live, I just believed what Christ said, and prayed it. Bet when we get to heaven we'll find out a lot of big historical things happened because some dufuses prayed for them, not because of man's hard sweat. Probably a charwoman prayed for the Bible to be available to everyone just before the Reformation, and that's why it happened! God answers His Son. That's what happens when you pray. It's not you, dummy — it's Him that Father answers. You represent His Son down here, 1 John 4:17, 2 Corinthians 5:20. Do we believe that? God isn't a liar, is He?

So, pray! Oh, but we don't. We don't follow the protocol, nor do we even believe Our Own Lord Who Said that, obviously: or all hunger and poverty would be nearly cured by now. Only the portions of hunger and poverty which developed people spiritually, would remain on this planet (even discipline is for development purposes, Hebrews 12:5ff). So it's our fault the world is still sick and needy. We can pray, we don't have to work. But instead we work, and not pray. All work and no pray makes Jack a very stupid boy who knows jack spit about Bible.

  1. Israel gets her 'time' and her people protected because we are growing in Christ. That's a main theme of Paul's, in Romans 9-11. It's also a major threaded theme in Hebrews, which reaches a crescendo at the end of Romans 10 (for the Temple's destruction was imminent), culminating in the climactic statement (Romans 11:40) that "apart from us (Church) they (Israel, the Old Testament people too) will not be completed (in the promise)." You can prove it through the math and verses: God's Double-Entry Time Accounting is very precise: it's a Justice 'thing'.
  1. The world gets Time day after day, solely because we are learning Christ.
  1. The world gets competence blessing and prosperity, solely because we are learning Christ. That's why the Rapture kicks off the Tribulation, because so long as Christians are here, the world cannot be judged. Leviticus 26 and whole books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, plus most of Daniel, explain that fact (believers in Old Testament converted to Judaism, then). When going over this doctrine of "blessing by association", my pastor spends the most explanation on this competence grant, and on the above two time grants. So he classifies this competence grant in four categories: "Personal impact", "national impact", "international impact (missionaries)" and "Angelic Trial Impact". The terms vary each time he revisits this doctrine, since he always upgrades what was taught prior; and he spent the better part of seven years weaving it through his 1985 three-time exegesis of Ephesians (through 1991). Point is, this doctrine is major. Every pastor knows something about it, but I can't find anyone else who really nailed down the mechanics of how you get into this, and how God accomplishes it. Since 2000 I've seen the proof all over Bible, too (that's one reason these websites exist, was to look for the proof, so to understand it better). Maybe other pastors are out there who understand it as well, I don't know and I can't find any. But it's Real Bible Doctrine, this: and there's recognition of it on varying levels, throughout Christendom.
  1. Criminality and all manner of other immoral practices change to more moral ones, because there is a kind of "magnetism" (my pastor's term) about a growing body of believers who are really learning Word. You saw this phenomenon roll out over Europe from SPQR, and then from Europe to 1800's America, which lasted until about 1960. We've since gone religious, which is poisoned morality. Hence the growth of immorality in the United States to an astounding level, in but a generation: mine, I'm sad to say.
  1. Conversely, the real "666" (stands for fake Church): if too many Christians are not growing up in God's Script, the most unbelievable things occur to harm the world. Because, the Christians are rulers down here, under terms of the Trial. Analogous to how the world depended on how He would 'vote', when He was down here training for the Cross. That theme is the main theme of my pastor for over 50 years, and he fully documents it: the blessing or cursing by association due to Christians growing or not growing up spiritually. Leviticus 26 shows the horror side, too. You can track it historically. The United States is prime proof of this negative trend, now. With Donald Trump's second term this poisoned morality is on full display; the "Christians" want to mix church and state, deport all immigrants (forgetting we were all immigrants at some point), enforce their idea of "Bible" in public (demanding that the Ten Commandments are forced down everyone's throats while they themselves violate the first and third commandments), etc. Satan is conveniently using this Christian apostasy in the United States for his 2030 'deadline'.

"666" is an unholy Trinity, hence fake Christianity. Revelation 17 tells you Satan's plan is to fake out that there is no Tribulation and instead an artificial Second Coming using the two antichrists: one being the real (gentile) antichrist, and the other being a (Jewish) replacement Christ, since he's authoring a fake Church during it. Since he himself doesn't know when the Tribulation begins, he's got to start that myth right away. Satan did that with Israel, creating a fake Judaism (i.e., the Pharisees), and of course today Judaism is as fake as possible, nothing at all like Moses taught including the fact that it's devolved into unitarianism (which is no shock that Islam too, and of course Islam turns Christ into a mere 'prophet' how sweet 🙄). So too, with fake Christianity.

Once Satan ramps up the pressure with this fake Christian church and fake Second Coming, he will sway the masses to make all other religions and ideologies obsolete; Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Evolution, etc, will all be retired as falsehoods around the world. You can kind of see these trends in our own time, for instance how popular 'skeptic atheism' was and now all of the sudden Christian Nationalism exploded in popularity in the United States and they can't get enough calling Donald Trump some sort of Christian savior; Satan encourages atheism to become obsolete when he needs more control, and it will be no different during the Tribulation. So there's a fake "Father", a fake "Son", a fake "Spirit". And a Fake Church to hawk them all. Fake Gospel, too: verbs added to believe, so you're not saved but think you are. Bible calls this "doctrine of demons" in 1 Timothy 4:1, and in 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, you see something of the spiel. Upshot is an anthropopathic spin on everything that's truly Bible, so you can't tell the difference unless you get on God's Script in God's System.

Through the centuries, we've seen this "666" play. Every goofy idea about God's Nature and Christ's has been promulgated; every goofy idea of what constitutes being filled with the Spirit has been promulgated. And the Gospel is almost never accurately presented, plus the 'spiritual life' is cast in terms of ritual, emotion, works. So everything is fake. And this dazzling array of Fake Christianity has always been popular: just count up the millions of Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Dunkers (AKA Baptists), Apostolic One-Person-is-God people, etc. ad nauseam. They all get God's "identification" so screwed up, you barely can find anything in Bible their doctrines even match. Just the names match, never the meanings. So there's been a whole lot of cursing, in history. Now you know why.

Having said that, you can also tell from history there have been a whole lot of average Joe Shmoes who didn't quite 'get' all those demon doctrines, but did want to know God: so they just learned and lived Bible. Many were Catholics, in the period 800-1000 AD; there were many break-out-the-Bible movements, many happening under Catholicism, as well as the more famous ones who broke with the Catholic Church more officially. Same, for the other denominations since the Reformation. God doesn't have to send bolts of lightning down when falsehood is the norm. He instead just quietly develops those who want to know Him. So that's the Royally-Invisible answer to why this planet even now exists. Post-Cross, eternity was scheduled to begin either 1144 AD. But hey: you and I are alive, so many average Joe Shmoe brainouts, preceded us.

  1. Which brings us to the reason history hasn't tanked, yet. Learning and living on God's Script in God's System, is what buys all the benefits in the first five categories, and also keeps the world going despite #666. Only takes a few believers. , good rulership requires only a few, but those few must be sterling. Adding more rulers who are not sterling makes things worse, not better. Quality not quantity. Godhead are only Three, and that due to Justice. They are essentially making more 'gods' out from Themselves, and that via the Cross, as we saw in the First Reason for Invisibility. Sigh: people bristle like they did in the Lord's Day when you say They are to make us gods. Scripture to carefully study is John 10:34 (where the Lord Himself says that's what we are to become), 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (which says we get Divine Attributes), and John 3, John 10:28 to show we get God's Own Life. Now if you are as good as God the second you are saved, then you are functionally set to be God, having what amounts to Divine-DNA. Hence the Romans 8 requirement to learn at a Godly level, which only God Himself runs. So it's not arrogance, but humility, to say we are being made gods by the Ones Who Should Not Settle for Lesser-thans for Eternal Companionship. We stay on the operating table, They own us, and They want Their Standard met. Which is, God's. Making gods. We can do nothing apart from Him, John 15.

But rulership among the gods They will make us functionally become, doesn't require extensive bureaucracy. But rather, virtue. So, only a few are needed. Each one of the Genesis 5 folks mentioned was the 'carrier' of the entire world for his generation, my pastor repeatedly stressed when exegeting Genesis. Moses carried Israel, and Israel the world. All history depended on Messiah coming, or there'd be no justification for humanity at all. In short, this Matthew 4:4 lifestyle we're called upon to learn and live, is eons above all "works". Just by our breathing in it. And of course the #666 consequences are devastating, as many a tome on the Church's sordid, bloodstained history, reveals.

No such thing as "small" in the Christian life. Everything is King-Sized, no matter how small it looks on the surface.

These are macro benefits, not the micro ones filling bellies. We are Kings-in-Training so we are to produce Polity-level benefits for the world. Not small stuff. The unbeliever does the small stuff. Satan's all about small stuff, and he blocks our learning Word by getting us to focus on the small stuff. But the Lord upheld the Universe by the Word of His Power the whole time He was down here, and we are His Body. No small stuff, for Him. The poor we will have with us always... they need something to practice on. But we are supposed to become Kings, and without us, they will not be completed. In short, we have a king-sized effect, and we achieve that goal by living on the operating table, under the 'knife' of Hebrews 4:12. Because obviously: this thing is way bigger than our puny natures. It's a Trial, it's all God's Word and Work, so let's just submit to the surgery. World needs that. So do we.

So if you would feed the poor — Do Your Job! Live on God's Script in God's System. Cry all the way to the Bible Bank, you Crown Prince!

In sum, God gave us His Word: "the Word of the Lord." His Word is His Son, as John 1 dramatically says (John loves Greek drama). So His Son's Thinking is in Writing. So we are to learn it. The Word, not works. So if we pick works and not the Word, as we've so assiduously done for 20 bleeping centuries! We are to blame for what goes wrong in the world. Not, the unbeliever.

See, the unbeliever is busy like Cain was, claiming he's good enough for God; or, that he doesn't need God; or — and far worse — that he should tell God what is "good", and God should 'obey'. God is dog, therefore. Well, then: playing 'dog', God does nothing to bless the world, since dogs can't do anything "good". So if we Christians play the vegetable game like Cain — more aptly, the dictating-to-God game Peter did with the Matthias thingy in Acts 1:20ff — then we too are treating God like a dog. But 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 are the truth. But we don't know that Truth, if we aren't Learning that Truth, which is God's Script in God's System.

So if we treat God like a dog, then He acts like one (God always mimics your attitude toward Him, count on it). It's an interesting phenomenon to observe when God truly gives us what we want, and then we get mad at Him for granting our wishes. So all that works business is as evil as it gets. Think Word, and then the Word will be in your works: but the work is you, a king-in-training!


Conclusion #3. He's Precedence + His Word is Precedence = Royalty Makes the Rules.


See how much harder our lives are, versus the Old Testament? They had neat little rules like, collect one portion of manna every day but on Friday, collect two; give tithes (income taxes, including for the poor) of certain amounts, each year. Rest on Saturday, take the holidays, memorize the Scripture and then ponder it to learn what it really means, don't just mouth it. Everything then was clear-cut. Now, nothing is: the guard rails are off with no cozy comforts offered to the Apostles or the Prophets, God is more 'distant' to those who don't want Him (including those in Satan's replacement Revelation 17 Christianity), and the expectations are all higher while simultaneously demanding a very busy thought life where your thinking is the merchandise... let's not forget how hectic the modern life is. Distractions everywhere.

"All things are lawful, but not all things contribute." "What God has called holy, you must not call common." "Love your wives as Christ loved the Church." "Against love, there is no law." These broad mandates all require extensive and precise understanding of principles, to execute them properly.

The Old Testament people, great as they were, lived on spoon-fed rules. We, by contrast, are to make the rules, having only principles and past case law as our guide. Why? because We Are Royal, and in training to Know How To Make The Rules, not merely obey them.

This fact should refresh, as well as frighten. Christ is our Precedence, the basis of our Royalty. He determined the rules, since He was to be the Ruler. He ruled on how any carryover from the Old Testament would be handled — or retired. This, because He is the Seed, the Inaugurator of the "New Covenant" (see whole Book of Hebrews for parameters). So, He gave everything a de novo review. His Thinking, which we now have in writing, is His Mindset, His Conclusions. So, we too have the same "liberty", the prerogative of rulers — and the awesome responsibility to go with such Freedom.

So, no cookie-cutter rules, like the Old Testament, held. We can say they hold, to some extent, if that is how our consciences determine our life "before the Lord". This flexibility is unique, because we are unique, among fallen humans: Spiritual Royalty. So, it's no wonder, then, that we have Four Corollary Conclusions, which 'just happen' (yeah, right) to correspond to our four-part Royal Escutcheon!


Corollary 3A, Accountability for Assets: Your 'rule' on Scripture is Your Royal Authority and Accountability Before The Lord.

This is the "flipside" of the "law of liberty" we have. You are Royal, as in "kingship", but also Royal, as in "priesthood". As we saw in the "Crowned Lion" heraldic quarter of His Escutcheon, the spiritual assets we have from the Father to Honor His Son are awesome (Ephesians 1). So, our role is unique in History, and is solely due to the Precedence of Christ. (Hebrews is about that fact. See also 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10.) So, we have the requisite authority to use those assets — and, as Scripture warns over and over, we are accountable for what we have been given. So, because you are royal, your job is to learn Christ, and Then Derive Rules. You have a Personal Royal Authority Before The Lord. This was not true for the Old Testament people, and will not be true for people after the Rapture. We are the Spiritual Royalty of history and forever. Awesome and scary.

So, as a Ruler-in-training, you are to Conclude Rules, and live by them. Right or wrong: and you are accountable for the decisions you make. Naturally, you can change your conclusions, fix the rules as you learn, as any ruler ought to do. However, meanwhile, since you are a ruler-in-training, you will be held accountable for what you believe God wants — even if your belief is mistaken. As James puts it in James 4:17, if you "know" something is wrong to do, for you "it is sin." Paul echoes that fact, in 1 Corinthians 8, Romans 12, Romans 14, Romans 15:1-7. 1 Corinthians 8 (etc.) ties also in another way: one should avoid being a stumbling block to other, weaker (younger-in-doctrine) believers. James had said the same thing, in his "royal law" passage (James 2:8). 1 John echoes it in his stress on loving the brethren; in his stress on the differing spiritual age-groups he addresses. Peter stresses it also, in the "prowling lion" passage (1 Peter 5:8). Paul stresses it again and again in Romans 12-15. We have a witness to our fellow man: to unbeliever, and believer, alike!

That is why, for example, Romans 13 and Timothy charge us with being fully (Romans 13:2 is blanket) obedient to the governments of the nations to which we belong. Model citizenship is made a spiritual (and witness) issue (Romans 13:6). Civil disobedience, rebellion/revolution, paramilitary involvement, not-paying-taxes, pacifism/finagling 'easy' (or no) military combat duty get severe Divine Discipline for this reason (Romans 13:4-6). As Rulers, we can know that Christ controls history (Acts 17:26) and don't need to worry about what evils we see our nation do. (Remember, Paul was a Roman, and Rome was extremely corrupt. He submitted to that government, even to death, just as Christ had done. So, today's Christian call to rebellion against the United States — even though American government is worsening and now has reached an apex of apostasy in 2025 — will be severely punished by God, like the Korah rebellion and the cobra plague against the Exodus generation. We're already seeing mass fires and floods rip across the United States. Christ never made such a call-to-rebellion, however much the Zealots wanted — even though Rome in Christ's day was far more corrupt, and what do you know, the demons have also influenced the rhetoric on Trump's third term — even by using Ancient Rome imagery which they love to do.)

We are a diverse group, and are each responsible individually, before the Lord, as apprenticing rulers. (Confer 1 Corinthians 4:8.) After all, who of us is perfect? Aren't we all "younger", on some doctrine? Someone can be a spiritual giant in one category of theology and a complete moron on another, shockingly so. Therefore we could benefit from someone "older" in that area? Ahhh. Rulers can't afford to be stubborn, dogmatic, willfully-deaf. They are supposed to be alert to any advice — for the "mouth" speaking might really be the Lord (using that person). After all, Balaam got advice from an ass — so we will, too. God always loves His humor, too.

The Ruler's first job is to be Obedient (and not the kind of forced and fake obedience that works salvation Christians scream; it must actually have thought behind it, you have to know why you're being obedient and have the appropriate logic operating behind the scenes rather than assumed emotion). And, Flexible. Why? because the Ruler will be ruling a diverse group — a whole country, a whole world. Who was more flexible than Christ? He is our Full-Spectrum, Diverse, Royal Standard. He, Who Died for all, and knew when to write in the sand, when to turn over tables. Precisely.

For our new Royal Protocol in Christ is as precise as it is diverse. Slovenly learning just won't cut it. Excuses we make to ourselves about reliance on experts, standing pat in denominational stances, seeking emotional highs from ritual rotenesses — these won't cut it, either. Hiding in a claim that God is unfathomable is a cop-out. As my pastor is so fond of saying, "Protocol is a rigid, long established code and procedure, prescribing strict deference to due order and precedence, coupled with precisely-correct procedure." Far from being a free-for-all, the "royal law" we have demands exclusive focus on the true, full meaning of Him — a requirement greater than any group of fallen humans ever had or ever will have. For, we are destined to be Rulers, not peasants. So, during the apprenticeship period (our life in this body), we practice, setting our own rules before the Lord. Woe to us if we don't keep checking our idea of what's right!


Satan wants to "help" us rule.

Satan knows all too well how much more difficult this new standard is. He's out to exploit it. If we don't get the Mind of Christ circulating in us, he'll make us casualties faster than we can count a car's wheels. His task in deflowering Israel was more difficult, because its rules were so simple and its people so centralized, even though Israel was small. We don't have those strategic advantages.

For, the "law of Christ" is much more complex than the Mosaic Law was — the Law's central principles were reaffirmed. However, for the most part, the manner of observing those principles was rescinded. This, because Christ fulfilled the Law. Rituals are no longer required, but are not prohibited, either. (Of course, any roteness means hypocrisy, just as it always did. And, if you engage in the ritual for credits rather than as an aid in learning Him, expect to be roundly disciplined.) Sabbath observance, for example, is now fluid, "for the Lord, is the Lord of the Sabbath". It's also bigger — a daily Sabbath in the Word, as Hebrews 4 explains. In short, one can still observe Saturday, or not. It's no longer mandatory, because the principle takes precedence, even as Christ has come and taken precedence.

These changes mean much more opportunity for error. So we have more ways to sin. More ways to become apostate, yet fancy ourselves to be in the light. Satan smacks his lips. No longer is he hampered by the old, clear, physical rules of the Mosaic Law. Now, his distortion opportunities are literally endless. And, following the Second Temptation tactic of distortion (of Psalm 91, there) — he takes every opportunity he gets. On us.

Notice how this "law of liberty", which seems to say 'anything's okay', is instead the antithesis of Satan's tyrannical, homogenizing goal. People like simplicity. If everything's okay, then all faiths are alike, and we are all 'one', oh goody. Yet we also like the simplicity of paint-by-numbers spirituality: haha, I obeyed better than you did, wahhh!!! So, we are natural pawns for a "Daddy" religion to ease the pain of actually thinking for ourselves; to make us feel 'one', all warm and fuzzy (🤣, for 'oneness' is truly God's Plan); to give us little chores so we can say we're "good" — well, better than someone else. Oh, but this New Standard in Christ goes against those desires, so plays into Satan's grand-strategy of "Daddyhood" — to create a nice world which needs no God. Satan smacks his lips, gleeful. This constant push towards ecumenicalism ends up creating an apathy towards clear and defined Bible doctrines; if all faiths are the same, then the technical details are discarded for feeling good rather than what's actually true.

If you read the Book of Romans and then Clement I, you can tell how Catholicism basically barnacled all manner of pagan religions to itself, to be all things to all people. So long as you were under that roof, you were okay. So the broadness of the New Testament mandate was interpreted to simultaneously incorporate any ol' pagan practice, to get the butts in the seats; and at the same time, to narrow the definition of what the New Testament says, to a Daddy religion. True and smart evil, that. Revelation 17, right down to the purple and scarlet colors worn by the pontiffs and prelates.

Why does this diverse Royal Standard in Christ preclude some "Daddy" religion, too? For the most obvious reason in the world: God doesn't want some "master" religion, because we all now have Ephesians 4:5: "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism". Ironic? No, sensible. The Mosaic Law is fulfilled. Christ's law applies now. Christ is in Heaven, not on earth. No more "one religion" is needed to point to Christ, because He's Risen, Ruling. We have a Master already. His Mind, the Canon, is completed in writing. We have the Book we need to learn our 'job', and the Holy Spirit is our Teacher/Mentor (Παράκλητος, "advisor", a quasi-military term: see John 14, 1 Corinthians 2, Ephesians 5 and Ephesians 6, Galatians 5). We have our own Divinely-appointed pastors (principle similar to right-man-right-woman: God has chosen a pastor for you).

So we don't need a master religion, too. We are to become King-Priests under the King-Priest. So we need no intervening "king religion", for crying out loud. We have a Husband already. What, do we need someone else, in our spiritual bed? Where's our common sense? What, don't we 'get' Ephesians 4:13? "Unity" there is a feminine word, "ἑνότης", root meaning of united in Marriage to Our Husband! Not, to each other. We don't need to be united to each other, for crying out loud; but rather we are knitted together in Him, Ephesians 4:16 (συναρμολογέω, to join together stones in a building, knit together) — God does the joining and the knitting, not man! What, do we need to fornicate with each other?

Why don't we notice, when we look at Ephesians 4:5, how it means the opposite of "one religion"? Did God predict, that in the "latter days" (a term for Now), Satan would try to make a world religion out of Christianity? Yes, in Revelation 17. Did God only appoint one tribe of priests? No! Hebrews 7-10 is very adamant on that fact. Did God only appoint one nation to carry His message? No! we are all Ambassadors for Christ, whatever nation we belong to (see first half of 1 Timothy 2). What "nation" are we? Church — a "nation" with no geographical boundaries. Did God only appoint one apostle? No, He chose 12 — later 13, including Paul, who was the only apostle to the Gentiles. Hence Peter could never have been a pope, as he was an apostle to the Jews and died in Babylon (and most certainly not on an 'inverted cross' which is another lie), where he was. That the Roman Catholic Church can get away with this pope lie — and for centuries — though Scripture easily proves the lie even in translation, is conclusive evidence that few read The Bible. So the Roman Catholic Church is not to blame, we all are. We each have our own brands of lies which persist for centuries. Bible translations being so bad for centuries are typical of the genre. Did God only appoint one pastor? No, He's appointed many, as Ephesians 4 and Timothy stress. We are knitted together in Christ operating through teamwork, not in some religion that removes the intimate relationship with Him. See how stupid we Christians are?

Satan, since before Babel, wants to construct a pan-international religion which "unites". When Moses died, he wanted to grab the body, so he could make it seem alive, and start up just such a religion (Jude 9), not too dissimilar from the preserved bodies of Chairman Mao and the so-called 'eternal leaders' Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and yeah the 'eternal leaders' thing is a Satanic joke. So that very "One Lord..." verse is often quoted to support Satan's desire! See how sly he is? See how he twists Scripture? See how thinly-veiled his lie is? How satirical? The Lord 'united' us in Him at the Cross. So, Satan wants to 'unite' us under himself, too: using one religion. So he can crucify us.

By contrast, God favors competition — but not invasion. Remember Paul saying he would not work in another man's territory, 2 Corinthians 10:6? Remember how Paul violated his own rule, when he went to Jerusalem, which was James' territory? And got disciplined by God for it (Acts 22)?

God wants many rulers, not just one. Each living independently before the Lord. Not trying to take over someone else's people. Not trying to appease those who try to invade, either. What, do we need to fornicate? Don't we have a Husband? Christ, Who after all had prayed for the very Royal Status we have, our "oneness" with Him, in John 17 — Christ himself warned about both invasion, and appeasement, repeatedly, in the Gospels. Shall we listen to our Husband, or to Satan's siren song?

Why competition now, when the Mosaic Law had none? Because we're Royal; because we're not like Israel, which after all was one tiny nation. Also, because none of us can get all the doctrine correctly learned overnight. Or, for most of us, even over a lifetime. Face it, we are just as corrupt as any other group. Without competition, we've no way to spot our current doctrinal errors. Our bigness as a group makes competition all the more important. Look at the corruption which occurred in Catholicism. Do you think that happened because it was catholic? Oh no. Give it any other denominational name, but the same bigness — and the same corruption, with different dogma-clothing, would have resulted. Israel was never so big, so its monopoly was not a threat, even when it was apostate. And, you'll remember, even Israel fractured at least five times during its lifetime (the north and south Kingdoms). God liked a little competition, even then.

Man/Mom-opoly (monopoly) is anathema to the spiritual life, just as it is to secular life. That is why we have many nations, not just one. That is why we need many versions of Christianity, not just one. The day you see Christianity homogenize, run away. The more it homogenizes, the more the truth gets stifled: it's a trend of history. Satan wants Christianity to "unite" so he can stifle it. Hide in plain sight. That's why he tries to make it popular — the bigger it gets, the more he can apostatize it via homogenization. We're now seeing this with United States' Christian Nationalism and the Russian Orthodox Church (which Satan is using both of them: such as Derek Huffman who went to Russia for "traditional values", well, Putin simply used him as spare meat for the front lines).

"Homo Genocidus" is Satan's plan. Here's the gist: Satan homogenizes in basically two ways, and often both at once, as his favored Kyle-und-Kessel approach: a) make the lukewarm popular/profitable, and b) make it respectable. Read how the King James Version came to be, sometime, to see how Satan is so very effective at chopping off God's Word; and also the problems King James himself had keeping order as many of the protestants accused him of being 'too Catholic' when he wanted all denominations to be free and not homogenized. Any Bible translation's story is like that of the KJV: in order to get a translation accessible to the masses, translators must compromise, in the name of inter-sect Christian 'peace'. So, the resultant text is horrible, almost as bad as Aquila's counter to the LXX: fuzzy, ambiguous, dry, contradictory. Why? Because nearly every rule a linguist must use is denied him, in official Bible translations. It's truly appalling. No wonder people think the Bible is bunk.

Don't blame the translators: they are hamstrung by political expediency. (They really should get hero-medals.) Instead, note the satanic genius at work — this chopping mimics Satan's Matthew 4 temptations' structure:

Of course, this translation travesty is 'good'! It's all justified in the name of "love the brethren", lest some denomination be offended by the translation. See how good-hearted people get satanically outmaneuvered? So, when everyone agrees on the lukewarm translation (i.e., Catholics and Calvinists, in 1611), well — one achieves unity. How nice. Oh: and then teach would-be pastors or lexicographers, even today, that they'd better use these traditional rules, even if they are taught the true meanings. Confer Mounce, Basics of Biblical Greek, Zondervan: for example, page 328, versus page 331 of Appendix. How nice.

We, the laymen, well... we don't know enough about languages to realize how heinous such rules are. So, we won't understand the importance of them. We don't realize that, in history, wars have begun even due to bad secular translations (by/to diplomats). So, our eyes glaze over. Or, the idea is just too horrendous to absorb. Or, it tempts one to rebel against Bible and its 'authorities'. See how Satan wins our downfall, no matter how we react?

See, popularity requires appeal to the lowest-common-denominator, so a lot of truth can be shaved away. The more popular a thing, the more shallow it must be: Brother Foot. Respectability makes a chopped truth 'safe' to believe. Popularity aids respectability, for its sheer numbers make a shaved-truth, a lukewarm version of the truth (e.g., a translation), 'okay'. So, this clever use of both popularity and respectability puts pressure on dissent — especially on those who are correctly dissenting. It's a deft propaganda technique: soundbyte stereotyping narrows the ability to think. So dissent, which is by nature complex, is irritating. Evil.

For further 'safety', Satan will mix in a lot of flash, too: visibility, feel-good observances and works, dreams, visions, "revelations", etc. 'Just to add a touch of class, make the believer feel he's got the "real answer". After all, his 'book' is now made hopelessly boring and obtuse, shaved as it has been of nearly all original color and meaning. Can be read any ol' way, and puts one to sleep. So a little flash-and-dance makes the believer feel happy. Satan's way. How nice. A great example of this is when Nabeel Qureshi converted from a minority sect of Islam (Ahmadiyya) to Christianity, he continued to believe God was sending him dreams and visions and he never got into God's system, ultimately getting stomach cancer at only 34. Get it? He wasn't eating the Word, and so his stomach was full of figurative (and later literal), cancer. Like Pope Francis, he refused 1 John 1:9 on his last breath. What a travesty.

Today, Christianity is again homogenizing at an alarming rate. Beware. Everyone's so upset about the factions in the Church. Everyone's trying to "cooperate" with fellow Christians via ecumenicalism. How clever of Satan to use the "royal law" to destroy truth. Yes, we are supposed to be nice to each other. Yes, we are supposed to be quiet in any criticism. (Peter and James' big point.) Yes, we are supposed to avoid practices which we know are alright, but which younger believers feel aren't, as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 8. See the cleverness? Satan pushes these rules over the edge, just as he tried to get Christ to jump, by chopping out a clause in Psalm 91 (Second Temptation). See, soundbyte-translations lead to soundbyte Christianity, so we can all nicely go over the edge. Like lemmings. In the name of "unity". How nice.

Of course, many Christians are aware of this problem. So, Satan & Co. push them "over the edge" in the opposite direction, by urging them to make big stinks over trivialities. Thus they rant and rave over stupid things, like whether one should celebrate Christmas on December 25, because it was coincidentally used as a pagan holiday (or perhaps, not so coincidentally if the demons know the importance of that date as pagans never paid attention to it until after Christ was born). Or, they vilify fellow Christians who don't share their idea of proper doctrines, works, customs, rituals, etc. Satan uses these ranters to make others yearn for unity. In short, these folks are used to herd the unwary into the "pasture" Satan & Co. want them to go.

Handy, too, is the fact that any correct dissent will be made to look like the ranters' picayune complaining. Thus, any truth spoken which excites much disagreement among lukewarm believers will make the speaker appear to be wrong. Thus the lukewarm can knock him down, for the truth-speaker 'sticks out'. Or, for a change-of-pace, Satan & Co. try to make dissenters "stick out" by making them popular. See? Satan uses the same homogenizing tactics, to trick such dissenters into thinking their message "successful", because it's 'gaining acceptance', a 'revival'. That's a pride temptation, just like the Second Temptation in Matthew 4. Satan's not stupid.

Thus it is not God's will to bash another's denomination, or faith. It is also not God's will to seek doctrinal unity. See how complex our spiritual lives are? When does one speak out? When does one stay silent? All the skill of an Ambassador is required, for the cardinal rule of Ambassadorship is, Never Tell A Lie. The minute you're caught lying, you'll never have credibility again. Be quiet, use shaded language, but Never Mislead Or Lie. So sometimes, you must be blunt (even bluntness can be kind). Bible is very blunt, often. Calling a spade a spade hits hard, but the hearer knows you're being honest. So over time will trust better. It's real important to be balanced in bluntness. See Revelation 1-3, where the Lord bluntly reviews the churches. He doesn't coddle, and his praise is as blunt as his warnings. So to say something is false, when there's something else true — balance both comments, lest it seem misleading. For example, it's true that the Roman Catholic Church doctrines are full of lies. But so are a lot of other Christian faiths. So are we all. Truth must be balanced in presentation, or it's not the truth, you're presenting...

Sure, it's proper to say what you think Scripture means. Some debate is good also, for the same reason. All that's part of your job as a ruler, and it helps you yourself learn what to think, as well. However, remember that "less is more" in dialogue — be sparing, balanced, objective — so the hearer can get information he requests, not a sales pitch. Resume silence if you receive hostile reaction, each epistle warns. That's what Christ did. Write in the sand, walk away from a fight, stand your ground in silence, change the subject. Arguing only excites sin. Clearly a hostile reaction means the person won't hear you explain any whys. So, be silent.

Here's another reason why "less is more". You do not know how much of what you say God wants that person to receive. 'Maybe, 'none' of it — the Holy Spirit is the One Who decides what of your words to confirm true. Even if you are more "right" in your Scriptural understanding than your hearer, the Holy Spirit might forego transmission, since the issue isn't rights, but Love. That's His call, as Ruler. When the right time comes, the Spirit will cause the person to recall the issue. (Confer John 14, 1 Corinthians 2, Acts 1:8, Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 6.)

Moreover, who's to say but what He will use a mistaken belief to grow the person? After all, each of us is responsible to God for the "rules" we conclude. After all, we all have the Unique, Royal, "liberty" to choose a taboo, or a special day, or special foods, etc., as our Royal Conscience Dictates. It's not another believer's right to condemn our choices. Nor is it our right to condemn his. To his own Master he stands or falls, 1 Corinthians 4.

In short, it's one thing to write what you believe is right or wrong about anything, for you're not present when the reader is reading. Thus written material can afford to be more blunt and comprehensive — there's no face-to-face confrontation. So, the reader has the privacy to reject what you've written, and need not feel threatened/bad/hostile toward the writer. After all, he's just reading, not 'buying' something. Not 'being disloyal'.

In dialogue, though, (at least) two minds are engaged, facing each other. So it becomes dicey to say someone's doctrine is amiss — however right the 'correction' may be. The Lord seemed to handle it by means of small oral 'forays'. He'd make some comments, wait to see if the hearer (like the Samaritan woman at the well) wanted more, then He'd continue. Once He encountered a blankness or hostility, He'd usually back off, end with a question, or with some kind-toned statement (like to the rich young ruler). His strong condemnations were directed at the Pharisees, because it was His Job As Messiah to condemn them. If He didn't do that, the common people who believed in Him would mistake the Pharisees for being right.

We don't have that job. Instead, we individually must answer to the Lord. So, the Seventh-Day Adventist, he has a right to be one. So the Catholic, he has a right to be one. So the fill-in-the-blank-believer has a right to be one. That's refreshing, isn't it? And scary, for those who would bash someone else's faith. Each one's faith is a "kingdom", and God doesn't favor invading someone else's kingdom. So what's the answer? "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up", Paul replies. If someone wants to know, just pass on the information — not your opinion of how good/bad they are, not your opinion of how good/bad you are versus them. If you love God, you love them. If you love them, you never ever want to put them down. No good king wants to invade his brother's territory, does he? Let us not be arrogant as the Arians and the Athanasians were, treating our faith as if it was some kind of Hippodrome race. For, there will be, by God's Own Command, some Edward Gibbon to point out our shameful apostasy to our periphery. For, We indeed are one in Christ. In Him, not in our own high opinions of ourselves!

On the other hand, you will be accused of judging, even when you are not: John 6:27ff happened to Christ, and it will therefore always happen to you. The Ambassador's job is to tell the truth, and not shave it. So if the truth is harsh, you must tell it. But you will be blamed as judgemental whenever you tell a harsh truth. In a recent 20/20 special (aired 12/20 or 12/19/05, I believe), Barbara Walters was interviewing some Evangelical pastor in Colorado. She was quite upset at the idea that there was only one way to Heaven, and wanted to pin down the pastor on whether Christ is the only way. He admitted it, but she had to prod him. You could tell he was loathe to admit it, since he well knew how judgemental would be the reaction against him. Which, it was. The poor guy then was constrained to explain it's like drinking Drano, to refuse to believe in Christ.

See? This awesome Royal Ambassadorship is not only a problem of checking the natural tendency to be cocky: the world already deems you to be judgemental — in psychology, this phenomenon is called the defense mechanism of "projection." Projecting onto you, the character flaw that person has. Hence, shooting the messenger who's providing a message of the only way mankind can get out of his puny state, and live happily forever. We didn't write this Bible. We just repeat what it says. And then are blamed for it. This weird phenomenon of everything polarizing to Christianity has been true for 2000 years, and you can prove it on any given day. Before Christ, it was the Jews who bore the brunt of the polarization, and of course they remain in the spotlight, too. Satan makes sure of it, since he likes mocking not only believers and Jews, but all who are against them. Yet no hostile-to-God humans catch on to this never-varying trend of history? Which they themselves by their very hostility, thus prove Who is the Real God?

Finally, this diversity gives everyone a chance to audit his own faith for errors. No matter how right one is about a doctrine, there is always more to learn. Can't tell you how much I've learned from analyzing different faiths — questions arise which I realized, hey, I can't account for my own understanding of Bible on "x" topic! So it wasn't to defend, but to learn. Much respect for both the other faith, and my pastor's teaching, was gained thereby. The relative correctness of one versus another, doesn't have to result in putting down the less-correct version. Rather, more admiration often results. Particularly, admiration for how Satan & Co. beguile us all. The pattern of lies we all buy goes across the world, and for centuries, and we remain stuck in the lies, differing only by 'flavor'. Errors explained here are for purposes of showing the grand pattern of them, so we can all understand we are being herded away from the truth, so we needn't feel ashamed. But rather, alerted. For until we can see we all get blinded, we will be perennially looking at the mote in our brother's eye, and ignoring the forest. How believers who didn't know truth could survive and believe in Christ in the Dark Ages amazes me no end. In short, by seeing what's wrong, you find much more to admire about those who got it wrong.

Two final, scary sub-corollaries of this "liberty": first, we can't use the excuse of solely depending on someone else's teaching. As rulers-in-training, we are also to decide for ourselves. Right, or wrong. Second, because we must be gentle in any criticism, or silent, we can't expect someone else to point out our errors. We must diligently look for our own errors, as all good rulers must. See? We have a much harder life — we don't get the easy reliance a child or peasant can enjoy. That, too, goes with the privilege of rulership: more is expected of a ruler, than of a child-peasant. We are heads, not feet. Woe to us, if we don't know of, or forget this fact!

So a ruler-in-training, must listen to His Teacher, the Holy Spirit; must listen to his Holy-Spirit appointed human teacher; must turn over what he learns, not just swallowing it or spitting it out (the information should be transformative in your head), John 7:16-18. Same is true in all secular things. Your secular teachers are not to be slavered over, nor spit out. You learn from them, and you think out what you are learning developing your own 'style' as it were. People don't do this, which accounts for the massive ignorance even in our literate societies within the 'West'. Thinking over is how you grow even psychologically. Much more, spiritually. It rarely happens.

The above principles apply to all secular rulerships, as well. You own things. They won't perform as you want them to. You have varying kinds of authority over people, and they over you. The more you own, the more you are owned. Ownership of a business, a house, even a car means lots of things which go wrong and you must bear the brunt of them. Especially, when in a family or owning a business. Loyalty up, loyalty down, and the whole point is freedom of everyone to learn and grow. It's the hardest thing, to be a ruler. And we are from the get-go, designed for that function, since we are by spiritual nature, kitted out for Christ, Greek of 2 Corinthians 5:17 and all "in Him" verses. So we dare not look at life the way peasants do, as the first two Reasons for Royalty explained. We are accountable. Like it, or lump it.


Corollary 3B, Bema Blessing: You will inherit. Question is, what will be your Royal Inheritance?

This second heraldic quarter of the Our Lord's Escutcheon references "Immovable Ox" Virtue: living up to the Royal Family Honor Code. Obviously, steadfast nobility is required of a Ruler. So, the Royal who isn't steadfast wouldn't rightfully vest as a Ruler. But, everyone who believes in Christ in this epoch of history is Forever Royal. What then are the blessings, and the criteria for them, awarded at the Bema (the Evaluation/Judgement Seat of Christ)?

'Bible calls us "adopted" — Adult Sons. Heirs. Not peasants, not children. That's a Roman custom, the Bible references. The "Abba, Father" verse is Paul's play-on-words of what the Roman adoptee says when he takes the toga virilis, the Roman robe of heirship. (Paul uses the Hebrew "Abba" to show the Father; the vocal doubling of "father" was the Roman rite, though: once in Greek, once in Latin.)

To the Romans, the custom of "taking the toga" meant taking over the adopted father's estates: ownership and rulership of them. "inherit... Kingdom of God" is the counterpart term in the Bible, and there are 65 bald references to it in the NIV's New Testament, for example — note the difference between Entrance (salvation) and Inheriting (Pleroma, namely, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 1 Corinthians 15:50, Galatians 5:21). To the Caesars, it meant the heir-apparent: the crown prince, as it were. The "son" was rarely a blood son. The "son" was carefully picked — for his competence. The recent movie, "Gladiator", illustrates how the Roman custom of adoption worked, one which remained long after the Bible was written. It was as ancient a custom as Rome herself.

Part of "taking the toga" was assuming responsibility to take care of other family members who themselves did not have ownership/rulership privileges. This was done out from the annual income or assets of the estates the son inherited. For example, an infirm cousin might get a yearly stipend for his needs. In short, the "son" owned and ruled, versus being a dependent beneficiary of some bequested stipend. Bible equivalent of this idea is expressed in many ways; for example, Roman 15's "the strong must bear the weaknesses of the weak."

It was the son who would make the decisions, from that point forward. His "father" would naturally be available to advise, but the son was expected to know on his own. No spoon feeding. No micro-management. Clearly, then, our training is in Learning To Make Rules, In Order To Be Rulers. For that, one needs principles to apply: the Word. So, then: first, we practice ruling ourselves. Then, if we pass the tests, we will be qualified to rule others. Look how God Himself is: God Infinitely governs Himself by Infinitely obeying His Own Truth, Righteousness, Justice, Love. Such is our Father. Such is Our Father's requirement for us. Such is our Lord. Such is His Requirement of us, in order to Gift the Father. This 'job' is not to be glibly taken for granted, relegated to shallow pomp-and-circumstance visibilities of Christian religions. Look what happened to Tzar Nicholas II's family!

The folks of the Old Testament were largely ruled; few of them were given any enduement power to be rulers. By contrast, every Christian is potentially a ruler, so must become able to think like a lawyer (AKA "lawgiver"). We are sons, in training to take our spiritual toga virilis. So, we need, and get, the Power of the Holy Spirit so we can realize this potential. We need, and get, 1 John 1:9 (confer Psalm 32:5, Psalm 38:18, Psalm 66:18), so we can get back into fellowship, when we react to our so-high life. In short, we need, and get, the time and training to become objective, rational, thinkers of His Word. Doers of the Word. Not doers of emotion. "...for the purposes of being rational, without illusion, as God has assigned to each one a standard of thinking from Doctrine". (Romans 12:2-3, corrected translation of the "sober" clause ending verse 3.) Why? "For the strong must bear the weaknesses of the weak", it says in Romans 15.

So, because we "Now" (Church) believers are all slated to be Rulers, we can't get out of that "adoption". (See Romans 8:16-17, Galatians 3:26-27, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 1:3-5, Romans 14:10, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Philippians 3:11, Revelation 3:11 in this connection.) So, if we prove unworthy to rule (e.g., Galatians 5:19-21, Revelation 3:11), we must nonetheless inherit something, just as was done in ancient times, because we are still in the Family. The unworthy son did not inherit the "true riches", but he did nonetheless inherit some kind of economic provision from his father, because the son was still a son. What does he get then, since he is unworthy of the "true riches"? In ancient times, he was given what he could 'handle'. Everyone can handle something, however small. So also, in God's Inheritance. He has reserved for you and wills the highest-and-best, the "true riches" (confer 1 Peter 1:5, Revelation 3:11, Ephesians 1).

However, if one has not trained sufficiently to competently handle those "true riches", then a substitute inheritance is provided. What is this substitute? From what I can tell (and will explain, below), the substitute inheritance is tailored to the substitute spiritual life the person chose, down here. God's Justice is Total. It's awesome, it's scary, and it should give anyone pause.

We are the work, not what we do. Can Paul make that fact any plainer than in 1 Corinthians 3? Look at 1 Corinthians 3:15 "yet he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire (NAS)." Note the context. The so-called "works" are tested by fire. So, then, if the believer is not the work, why then does it say he is saved yet so as through fire? Think about it: gold, silver, precious stones are not manmade. Wood, hay, stubble are (potentially) manmade. So clearly what we "do" can only be wood, hay, stubble. Since only the Holy Spirit can make the Doctrine get into and circulate in our souls, then only that can be gold, silver, precious stones. For, as Paul notes in 1 Corinthians 3:11, the Foundation of the building (our spiritual life, namely Ephesians 3:15ff), us, is the Lord Jesus Christ! Again, He, not his works, was the sacrifice for sins!

So, then, what's the role for body-works in the spiritual life? Any 'works' are but training aids that a spiritual life uses to learn; they are thus secondary, not primary. So, they had better well be precisely what God wants us to do, for only He can know what 'work' He designed to facilitate spiritual growth: only the Lord's Thinking can discern what are the personally-applicable 'works' to facilitate our own internal spiritual growth. For, only via His Thinking can we prepare to become something; our works themselves don't go with us when we die, for crying out loud. Works aren't alive, so works can't make the soul grow up to become Royally-fit. Only Our Lord's Thinking is alive, only Our Lord's Thinking being progressively-deposited in our souls can make us fit. Fit for The King, Him!

Since all but the Thinking of Christ is not spiritual, notice how anything you do becomes spiritual, if that Thinking is operating in you. Thus not only are dead works an insult to God, but they could have become spiritual, but for your refusal to be in God's System (i.e., not using 1 John 1:9). So it's double-trouble, if you don't live on God's Script in God's System: which eventually you won't do, even if you started, if you don't keep growing spiritually. (Most Christians start out in the System, but quit sometime during spiritual adolescence, or prior.) For, as was noted earlier, there's a Divine Function Enabled when you're firing Matthew 4:4 style (how the Script 'plays' in your life, is this firing). So you can be doing Real Works from Real God's Power in them, and no one else on this planet but the believer in God's System, can do that. But if refusing the System, is not doing that. See how important 1 John 1:9 and your right pastor are? For if you don't 'do' those two things, you won't be in the System, and won't get back in it... and won't stick through it, either. Gotta want God, to do that. So motive is all important. And you need His System, to keep building the motive. Word without motive is no Word in you that you can use. Motive without Word, is dead everything. Word not in you if not in God's System. So now, notice: that has to mean 99% of Christianity, will not be getting the toga virilis. Yikes!

For 99% of Christianity, goes for the world's standards, and not Divine Standards. As poignantly recorded in John 6:27 through the end of the book, the world says you must be nice, flashy, and give it goodies, to get any praise. You must kowtow to works, hedge and be shallow, hypocritical; you must always fake humility, and never tell the truth (except when for political/monetary/religious gain). And above all, you must praise publicness, and anyone public — yet at the same time, deftly pick public people apart, in the name of love. You are allowed to show interest in God only via shallow expressions, like ritual, works, and emotion; and you must look goofy when you do — lest someone be insulted at any competence. So, that's what the Christians do. And they succeed therefore in looking like all other religion, only dumber. So the world can laugh at them and take their money and well-meaning good deeds, and trample Christ in the dust. Satan runs this world. So to kowtow to the world's standards, is to kowtow to Satan-Standards. No toga virilis can thus be awarded.

Fear Stubbornness! What you will inherit in Heaven is determined by what you think of God down here. As we just saw in Corollary 3A, whatever is your 'rule' on Scripture, it's yours. Well, whatever is your accumulated 'rule' on God, is what God rules you 'take' as your inheritance. Here's why I conclude this:


"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.
For the way in which you judge, you will be judged;
For the Measure which You Measure shall be Measured back to You."
(Matthew 7:1-2, composite translation, mostly NAS; emphasis added.)


God never coerces volition. So, free will always gets what it wants, always. Forever. After all, Righteousness got paid the "opportunity cost" for all this "weakness", for free. After all, Righteousness can "bear" anything. Forever. That's God's View, as we saw the Christ reflect, especially when He was on the Cross, bearing our sins.

So, the 'God' we essentially voted for, is the relationship to God we're voting to have in eternity. Problem is, post-death we'll realize how silly many of our ideas of Him were. Too late: 'the measure which we measured will be measured back to us'. Forever. Thus, any adversity/punishment down here is designed (in part) to wake us up to any false ideas of Him, so we can change our 'vote', and thus be much happier in eternity. Everyone will be happy then, but the spectrum of happiness is vast, and everyone will be unequal: each one living within the capacity-for-happiness his accumulated 'vote about life-with-God' created, down here.

Consider this: your thinking shapes your life utterly. So it shapes what you want and don't want, what you are willing to learn and not willing to learn. Thinking is to the soul what DNA is to the body, an "instruction set". Trick is, to replace your instruction set with God's, which I'm calling "DDNA", Divine DNA, Son's Thinking. So: what seems the most likely outcome of all this life's thinking down here, is a permanent painting of how you choose to process information. So even if we all have the exact same amount of knowledge of God post-death (i.e., maybe per 1 John 3), we won't have the same souls, so we won't process the same information in the same way. That causes restrictions. The prior threads about spiritual dendrites indicate the 'roads' along which knowledge is processed. So if you learned works, ritual, emotions, you've built a lot of soul dendrites for those things, so you can process a lot of them; but no or few spiritual dendrites. So you'll be stuck using your knowledge of God, via the dendrites you chose, down here. That's restricting. No one in his right mind would want to have his expressions restricted: it's like being handicapped. But that's what most Christians will be, forever. Happy, yes. But restricted? Smaller inheritances for expression? I wouldn't want that for my worst enemy, let alone a fellow brother in Christ: would you?

Look at those seraphim (truncatingly mistranslated "beasts" or "elders") in Revelation 4, tossing down their crowns with such enthusiasm. They aren't at all interested in 'lording it over' anyone: what a great job they have, just being able to praise Him constantly! Heck, even God throws His Own Godness away, as their Self-Chosen Titles reveal: Father, to Son and Spirit; Son and Spirit, to Father. Due Disclosure explains the Trinity's Self-Chosen Subordination, so you can see better what all this Royal Authority, is for: Love. For Love is the Integrity of God, as my pastor shouted on May 7, 2000, his 50th anniversary of teaching that local church. Love couldn't be less interested in vaunting superiority: quite the opposite, it loves to throw down. Just like those angels. So, then: the more you have to throw down, the more expressions you have for Love. Imagine, then, being restricted in your inheritance of expressions!

Assuming the typical Christian's beliefs, what kind of inheritance will result? Well, assuming he didn't also live on 1 John 's Script, his toga virilis, so to speak, is an Eternal relationship with Christ much like the superficials he lived, down here: far-away-from-Him; close-to-people-and-things; eyes-on-people; works-based; do's; shallow; outer. So he will thus also have a limited 'portion'. Again, the 'personality' of one's eternal future is 'measured back' to him, since the Real God ensures free will — and, its free consequences. Forever. However, they will fully know Him, at least relative to their own soul size; will fully appreciate the justice of their limitations, and will thus love their lower status.

For, just as the strawman of his own free will projected his own self-tyranny onto God, thus accused God of robbing him of will, in Romans 9:19-20; just as the rich man in hell still belittled Scripture in Luke 16; just as Pharaoh accused God in Exodus 8:32, Exodus 9:17, Exodus 9:30, Exodus 9:35; just as the stingy servant (likewise projecting his own flaws) 'judged' God stingy (Matthew 25:24-29), so also believers who shallowly value learning the Son's Thinking in the Father's Hearing will receive a shallow eternal inheritance. One always gets the real consequence of what one wants. Royally: Colossians 3:25.

Moreover, this 'measure back' rule not only is one's 'future', but also, one's 'present'.

All the above bullets demonstrate forms of spiritual pathology. The body reacts to spiritual maladies, and we all get them, from time to time. Additionally, certain kinds of activities automatically generate Satan & Co.'s involvement: tongues, drugs, religiosity, preoccupation with the supernatural, and especially the stupid healer stuff, psychic stuff, and "exorcism" (they love that stuff, see "seven sons of Sceva" verse). Sad to say, I've seen a lot of that involvement, and as a result don't want to talk about it, but would rather just document the Scripture mistranslations, the games they play with the fake holy books, UFOs, etc. as discussed passim here in this series, the Appendix, and elsewhere. Satan & Co. are not coy.

Psychology is based on atheism (not universally among psychologists, but doctrinally). So its prescriptions generally make whatever you're suffering, much worse: for example, it's pretty routine in psychology to think you are ill if you aren't regularly having sex, even though single, so they actually prescribe illicit sex. Screwing around screws up your brain, so you'll instead get sicker. It's also pretty routine for a psychologist to think you ill if you believe strongly in God. So disbelieving — which makes you sicker faster than anything else you can do! — is their idea of 'wellness.' Worst of all, every psychological prescription is anthropocentric, based on deservingness and being proud of yourself: that will drive you bats faster than a NASCAR race, since by nature you are designed for fellowship and hence dependence on God, not people, not yourself. Hence when it comes to psychological treatment, Satan & Co. are actually behind those prescriptions, which after all have the same goals as the fake healers and the exorcists: so get the same gamesmanship. So just get in and stay in God's System; any outside psychological counselling you might need, might be exactly the wrong thing, or may be valuable — check with God, first.

Conversely, if you are making a lot of spiritual progress, you can be hit with a malady or other types of 'bad luck'... to grow you faster. That's "Standard Operating Procedure" in God's System for Spiritual Adulthood, onward. Satan & Co. participate at times in that, too (i.e., Book of Job, Zechariah 3, Matthew 4). So it's not a cut-and-dried thing, to analyze. Moreover, sometimes it's hard to tell whether the body malady is just a natural thing (i.e., having nothing to do with negativity in the spiritual life), or whether it's truly a 'measure back'. Best thing to do, is keep on using 1 John 1:9 and being in God's System on God's Script. That's the only cure for spiritual maladies, anyway. So you can spend a short time in diagnosis, or even none — just keep on keeping on, in God's System.

Yes, there is a panacea for all problems: be on God's Script in God's System. That blesses the world, and it gradually or even quickly heals you from whatever is wrong (brass serpent metaphor from Old Testament). Isaiah 53:10-11's five infinitives, are the only cure.

For, who can live up to his own standards, much less, God's? God is very punctiliar in the way He applies Justice, so Justice 'puns' the person's belief — and measures it back to him. Uncompromisingly. Both Now, and in eternity. Exactly. Free will always gets 'measured back' the consequences of its own decisions. Especially, with respect to attitudes about God.

So, it's a good time to pause and ask the self: "Is this idea of God I have, and how I am to live down here — is this what I want eternity to be?" If "no", then use 1 John 1:9 and talk to God about what might be incorrect in your beliefs. In short, think over what you want in your own 'toga' inheritance, which is the 'personality' of your relationship with God. For, you are Royal: whatever 'kingdom' you carve out for yourself, that's what you'll get. God never compromises His Righteousness. He loves it too much.


Corollary 3C, Caring Charge: Because you will inherit, you are treated as an Owner-Ruler Now.

This third quarter of Our King's Heraldic Escutcheon is, of course, the most important: King-Priestly function. Being Accountable, having Assets, having a Royal Nobility Standard is one thing — but how does one mediate/enact those glorious assets, those solemn and happy responsibilities? High (to Father), and low (to life)? One needs to practice ruling, in order to gain competence. Moreover, how does one practice ruling, without a kingdom? And what does that kingdom get due to successful practice? Or, due to failures in practice?

As we just saw, the way one adjudges God is the inheritance one gets, both later and Now. So also, is the inheritance your periphery gets, from your spiritual life as unto the Lord, before the Father. For, your periphery is part of your kingdom, too. As if you owned everything in your periphery. Including, the people. Why? Because you are owned by the Lord. As a result of Him paying for you, the Father gave you to Him. As a result of you being owned by Him, you are to pay for your periphery by means of learning the Son's Thinking. Thus, you own your periphery. In short, your life down here is an exact parallel to His Life down here before the Father. So, the well-being of your periphery depends on your spiritual well-being, just as lives depended on the Lord's Spiritual Well-Being while He was down here.

Adam was the first ruler. Because of his failure to rule, we all were cursed. Moses was also a ruler. Because of his success, all the Exodus generation was spared destruction by the Lord. Twice! Because the Lord's Humanity vested as the PantoKrator, Ruler of All, we are blessed. So also, our spiritual failures curse our periphery, and our spiritual successes bless it. Even when the periphery includes other believers. Of course, other believers' failures or successes, if they are in our periphery, curse or bless us, too. That's yet another reason why Paul counselled Timothy to avoid carnal Christians (2 Timothy 3:5). There are many parallel warnings in Scripture.

If you read history, you'll find out that for most of man's history, the "king" owned everything in his kingdom, including all the people. It was very, very common. So, if the king had sons, he'd frequently give them smaller territories to rule, even before they grew up, so they could get practice. In fact, this dividing-of-one's property has decisively influenced history (e.g., Clovis' dividing up the Empire among his sons).

Principle: God owns everything. He gave "the all things" to the Son. The Son gives the Bema awards. We are Royalty, though, beginning at salvation, so we have to have Royal Training. Which means, ownership-of-property responsibilities, including over people. It's not simple stewardship or trusteeship. It's ownership. Temporary, pending our vesting in the task. But make no mistake: you have Royal ownership responsibility over your periphery, before the Lord. And that is how both you and they are treated by Him, as well. Is this fact scary, or what?!

See, no ruler-in-training can learn how to rule in a vacuum. Ownership means Responsibility. So "goodies" are owned, and one is responsible for them. (So the peasant idea that one should just play with the goodies is entirely misplaced.) You have to own something to learn responsibility for it. Only God is not going to train you by giving you a puppy or a goldfish to learn how to own it. You have to get a kingdom. Starting, when you are saved. Whether you vest in rulership is quite another issue, but you can't learn how to become a ruler, without something to rule. True, one must learn how to rule himself in order to rule others. But at the same time, the eventual rulership is both ruling self and others. So you need 'others', for practice, too.

These 'others' are anyone in your periphery. See, since you temporarily own that periphery, its existence is intended to benefit you. So, it needs to be benefitted. Just as, we are made Royal to benefit our Betrothed. Hence, we are benefitted with the highest spiritual life ever granted in history, past or future. So, God the Father treats your periphery as your property. So, in accordance with the life you live before Him, the Son treats your periphery. God respects your authority before the Lord even more than you do! Hence, if you move, your periphery changes, and like any Royal at any time in history, you'd better not move without the King over Kings' advance order! My pastor calls this "the geographical will of God". It's awesome.

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Remember, the unbeliever has no relationship with God. So, judicially, the unbeliever can't be benefitted from God directly, except to the de minimis level required to make sure he has equal opportunity to believe in Christ. Enter 'you'. If you are in his periphery, and you are growing in the spiritual life, he benefits, because his benefit, benefits you. So you benefit him, simply by existing nearby. The same principle is true for carnal Christians in your periphery, though their de minimis is of course higher: logistical support to create equal opportunity to execute this so-great spiritual life.

So the converse is also true: if you are carnal, You And You Alone Are To Blame For What Goes Wrong In Your Periphery. Authority has its responsibility. They benefit because you have authority before the Lord, and they are cursed if you abuse your authority before Him. So when you see phenomena like the many fires in the Western United States, be scared. It's not possible to diagnose God's punning "measure back", though, except in aggregate. There are so many individuals each being a blessing or cursing to each other. Plus, Justice makes sure the innocent are blessed, despite their being part of a bad 'kingdom'. So, be scared of being a contributor to cursing by association! Live on 1 John 1:9 and God's Script!

So when you hear the satanic argument that the rich should provide for the poor, and that the poor are victims of the rich, now you know how he gets to make that argument. Our current kingdomship under the Lord is the truth on which Satan's distortion is based! So those who coyly spurn this Royal Position in Christ, imagining themselves oh-so-humble-and-holy for so doing, then — and this is what's happening now — God sends disaster to the world. For Royals are never directly punished, but their kingdoms are (see also 2 Samuel 24:17 in context). That has always been true even in secular history: how much more, the True Royalty for All Eternity, Leviticus 26? Repeat: all the disaster, hunger, suffering, pain on this planet is our fault. If we try to correct worldly problems with works, it's "cursed is the man who puts his trust in man" (Jeremiah 17:5). So all that disaster (etc.) gets worse as per Leviticus 26, since we are using worldly methods instead of Going To God. So we go to God, by learning and living His Word, in God's System. If you love mankind at all — if all that suffering in Africa, Asia, your home nation and elsewhere matters to you even a whit — get in God's System and learn His Son. Else you are worse than a murderer, says the Greek of 1 John 3:18. The Greek words for "deed and truth" are anarthrous, meaning God's Deeds, and God's Truth. Not human. So if we refuse to live in God's System, God's Deeds aren't being done, so that's worse than the murderer or uncaring persons in passage context. As usual, translations cut God's head off, so it looks in translation like man's works are being urged by John. No, man's works are being excoriated by John, ever since 1 John 1:6.

The Number One Evil in the world today is not the terrorists. They, like the hurricanes, are not restrained because Christians malign the Word by deeming the spiritual life a peasant's, hustling about with their doo-doo's. We have a lot to answer for, at the Bema. If you want the terrorists to go away, grow up in God's System, and pray for God the meanwhile, to catch/stop the terrorists. We don't know how to pray, so that's why our prayers go unanswered.

Now what do you 'do' with this information? Practice Being Aware of it at All Times; practice thinking out the implications, since in the eternal future this will be known. The chief training one needs for Royal Rule is Thinking. So in a way, you rehearse this idea by constantly acting as if you were the real (but secret) owner. You'd be concerned for the welfare of your property, and especially its people. You'd be very concerned about the correctness of your decisions before the Lord: which are all of them. Your behavior and decorum would be rehearsed as well, with an eye toward whether you are making yourself a stumbling block or annoyance to others. Notice how you are ruling yourself, and not giving orders to anyone else. That's how true royalty works: its own example inspires others, so it doesn't have to give orders, advocate causes, engage in politics, browbeat, money-grub, etc. Even secular royal children are reared with this kind of rehearsal and awareness. Less, is more.

Royalty is a kind of prison. You learn to love its demands on you, or you self-destruct. Publicly. True love is evidenced by respect and submission (not wimpy, either). Attraction, is not love.

Notice how it's a self-ruling mindset which develops and matures. The spiritual child is thrilled to say he has this status, and imagines many childish things: ordering people around, getting whatever he wants when he wants it, etc. As the spiritual child matures, he realizes that his real importance can actually harm people if he's not careful how he uses it; he realizes he's just as humanly weak as anyone else, but whatever he does, has disproportionate effect; so he learns to withdraw, to mediate himself. Peter uses the term "ὑπάρχειν", which in lexicons is listed as a sort of intensive, alert, beingness. Yeah, that's true: but it's primarily being ruled by standards (Peter likes to play on etymology, especially with ὑπό-prefixed words). The Ruler is the Most Ruled: a palindrome. The Multi-sphere Royal Thinking Lifestyle (3rd Reason for Royalty) is a very intensive ὑπάρχειν. It is not seen, but the dedication is somehow sensed by others. The word "Bible" doesn't even ever have to cross your lips. People are thus inspired to reach beyond their peasant attitudes toward the more noble, and you'll be surprised how many just know you're into God though you say nothing (royalty never advertises itself). This inspiration really matters, and all the legislation on the planet can't change morals faster than a royal (or other leader) who inspires. You inspire by being inspired, yourself. Not by lecturing, etc.

Christian marriage is doubly-solemn for this reason. It's not a "Christian" marriage unless both spouses are believers. We're not talking the usual Divine Standard of marriage here. The gist, is this: Adam was created as a husband, not merely as a man. Isha was created as a wife, not merely as a woman. Due to the marital failure, Satan made big stinks in his arguments in the Trial. So, Now, since we are Royal, Father is answering Satan with the special spiritual institution of Christian marriage. My pastor calls this, "Corporate Testimony". The idea is for the couple to develop to a joint "Pleroma" level. We saw that "Kenosis" is essentially the testimony, back in the Fourth Reason for Invisibility. (You can get details from my pastor's tapes.)

Ephesians 5 covers the essential criteria for 'passing' Pleroma-level joint rulership:

  1. Husband must grow to love his wife so much, it's parallel to how "Christ loved the Church and gave Himself as a substitute for her".
  2. Wife must grow to love her husband so much, she "respect(s) her husband", and "obey(s)" him, "as unto the Lord".
  3. Both spouses are to forgive each other, "as Christ forgave". Meaning Total. As if whatever the problem was, never happened. Ἀφίημι, cancelled!
  4. Most Importantly: God has to matter more than the 'horizontal' attractions or distractions between the spouses, within the marriage. The above three 'tests' will never pass unless God is the more important. This is what failed in the Garden. The woman got her eyes on her own inferiority relative to Adam and God, so wigged out. The man got his eyes on the woman's reaction, and he wigged out. Neither grew enough spiritually while being perfect, to weather the 'stretch' of being inferior to God. This was the test Satan failed, and of course that's why he knew how to tempt them. So Corporate Testimony is about God being More Important than even a God-designed Marriage. Here, one goes against God's Own Design. That's the hardest thing one can do. Not everyone should be married. If you grow into Pleroma and remain single throughout, there is some counterpart difficulty to correspond to Corporate Testimony. We know that, because the Lord never married, and Paul never married. It's not true to assign single or married life as 'higher' per se. God the Father sees everything, so there must be counterparts, else He's cheated of sweet savor, which of course will never happen. But it's wrong not to recognize the Bible doctrine about Christian Marriage, and my pastor started teaching it stridently about 1997 or so. You can just order "1992 Spiritual Dynamics" from that year forward, if you need to, but... it's better to learn the whole realm of what God says, not just the parts which interest you now.

Only one way to pass such a difficult test: run the personal relationship through the Doctrine you're learning in God's System as often and as intensely as possible. That ends up meaning the spouse is of secondary importance. Which reduces the human neediness which often plagues a marriage. So now True Love blossoms. (Human love has no virtue, and causes the problems of inferiority, etc. to intensify.)

Obviously, only those millions of Doctrinal Deposits will, under the Spirit, enable such an impossible 'triple crown' to be raced! What? Husband has to love his wife as much as the Lord loved the Church? Impossible! What? Wife must respect and obey her husband as much as is due the Lord? Impossible! What? Both must forgive each other as Christ forgives? Impossible! Heh: see why the Father 'waited' so long to answer Satan? An earlier answer wasn't 'impossible' enough! For, Christian marriage depicts the entire blessing-by-association or cursing-by-association criteria in history: the synergy of Love. Thus it is the hardest and highest way to get to Pleroma.

Principle: We live as Royalty in the Son's House before the Father, in order (as Royal Priests) to make a "sweet savor". Our Training thus requires Rulership, which means Ownership, which means Responsibility for Whatever Goes Wrong In Our 'Kingdom'. Which is, our periphery. Starting at salvation, depicted by marriage (for we are Bride to Him), and affecting virtually everyone. For Better and For Worse.

As you can see, this takes a lifetime of training. Even the Lord trained for 30 years before 'going public', and He was always Perfect. So how much more, we need to train. Royalty is a thinking, an Honoring, an Obedience which you must learn to love more than anything else: as an expression of True Love toward Him. For He is Ὁ ΠαντοΚράτωρ, Ruler of Everything. Anyone who would be close to Him, must become as He is, functionally. You already have the Royal Soul and Spiritual Structure from that first nanosecond you were saved, but you lack the Truth built up in you, to function in the Role Intended. So Your Intended is Seated, Watching. As is Father, and of course the Spirit is working upon you. Your Intended sees to your physical circumstances; Father, orders it all. They subordinate to Father, and He by being Father, shows how He throws Himself down. They don't have to do this. They however want to do this, since They Rule Themselves, first. Happiness is Righteousness, but Righteousness is Love, and Love foregoes.

Frankly, that's the only reason to want to go to Heaven, to be close to Him. But it's a killer life, that Multi-sphere Royal Invisible Thinking. And it's the only life, for a believer in Church. Do or die in it, no middle ground.


Corollary 3D, Devoted Destiny's Duty: to fulfill our destiny under Him, and the Royal Law to people, we must keep thinking objectively (φρονέω, Philippians 2:5).

The Fourth heraldic quarter of the Bright Morning Star's Escutcheon, the Flying Eagle of Victory, completes both His Escutcheon — and our Trial Role. For, here the issue is our Witness, first to the angels, and second, to mankind. For, the Trial is a War, and the destiny of Satan & Co. is the Lake of Fire; so also, mankind's. We thus have over our periphery a Caring Charge, as we just saw above, which is mediatory — but also, our own Destiny's Duty is live our witness — so others too can change their minds, and believe in Christ: thus exchanging their destiny for His. Indeed, this is Our Royal Law, as we saw in the Second Reason for Royalty.

We've just seen how awesome is our role towards people, how we are a blessing or a cursing to them! How to cope with all this responsibility! How do we witness to them, too! It's enough to make a person frenetic with activity, keeling over from the emotional burden! Ahhhh. So let's not be emotional. Let's φρονέω, instead: Like the Lord did, in Philippians 2:5.

In that passage, we see that He invested in learning the Word. He kept thinking, and didn't use His Power to fix the world. So too, we (1 John 4:17) should learn, and become wise, eschewing our 'powers' (2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ties in here). For, we are first and foremost, to be a sweet savor to Father, as we saw in First Reason for Invisibility, and in Corollary 3A-C, above. As a result of that role, we are used to be a sweet savor to our periphery, which we saw in Corollary 3C. Here, though, the idea is that we don't live in hermetically-sealed compartments, 'blessing' or 'cursing' our periphery solely because we are deployed by God to exist nearby. Rather, we mingle with people — and, people being people, they evaluate us by what they see. Hence, all the behavioral do's and counselling in Corinthians, Romans, Timothy, Hebrews 13, Ephesians 5, James. Because we're Royal, as we saw in the Second Reason for Royalty — we are on Divine Television. Which results in people reacting to us, since reaction to Christianity is also a way to advertise it. God uses the wrath of man: He doesn't advertise, the demons do (i.e., a main theme in Mark's Gospel). Because, "we are evidence of Him in the world" (1 John 4:17, corrected translation from my pastor); for which we will be judged in the Day of Evaluation (ibid).

A virus is tiny. You can't see it. It can kill you. A tiny thing, properly placed, kills. Conversely, a tiny thing, a Right Thought, properly placed, saved many lives. Hürtgen Forest in WWII is an example of a wrong thought which killed a lot of people. Anthony McAuliffe who told the Germans "Nuts!" at Bastogne is an example of a right thought, properly placed. If it wasn't for some pretty fancy maneuvers around Hürtgen Forest, everyone would be under Hitler's descendants. If it wasn't for McAuliffe at Bastogne, we'd all be doing a goose step. As Benjamin Franklin/George Herbert quipped, "...all for the want of a nail." So, then: just like the ballet dancer, the bazillionaire, we Royal Family must learn how to think the right thought at the right time. For Father! And, that right thought at the right time takes oodles of practice. After all, you don't become a ballerina in a major ballet company, without years of daily, gruelling, practice. So, too, you don't become a Pleroma believer without years of daily, not-so-gruelling (except to our sin nature!) learning and practice in thinking His Thoughts.

So we don't live on our own, and we are not to be running around, but to Learn the Groom, getting ready for the Wedding. So, not Satan-fodder: people who froth with emotion every time a scrawny child looks at the camera with his big eyes and distended stomach, tearing out our heartstrings. So, it's not that we should be stingy, but that we should be generous — in learning Him. Again, as we saw back in Conclusion #2, The Word Takes Precedence — our Royal Job Is To Grow Up And Pray, Which Is A Royal Priestly role, not a peasant's. Pray not peasant; as Satan's pandering wants to inflict! A Ruler orders a thing done, not does it himself. So we grow up and pray, which is treated as a Ruling — "ask anything in My Name and I will do it", the Lord said three times (again, John 14:14, John 15:16, John 16:23). The Lord doesn't lie, does He? So that's like ordering something. Rulers order, peasants "do", so the peasants of this world have peasant jobs. Not us.

Blessing Key → We must invest in Him; as a result, we can be wise in any investments with people, and not trip off any satanic, good-deed landmines, which maim people away from Christ. Let us not become like Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose preoccupation with visibility maimed Germany from World War I onward, even to this day. Regarding the Kaiser: An Uncommon Woman, by Hanna Pakula, is the scariest book about the importance of royalty on history I've ever read. (She doesn't mean it to be scary.) Next-scariest is Flight of the Romanovs, by John Curtis Perry and Constantine Pleshakov. Of course, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, especially the Milman edition of 1845, will make anyone lose sleep for days! If you're willing, read these books while thinking about how we Christians are Ultimate Royalty. Wilhelm II was obsessed with making Germany "Big", but was really just a puppet in Bismarck's hands, for between Bismarck and Wilhelm's childhood tutor, the boy had an inferiority complex, and thus craved a good image. His withered arm (a birth defect) didn't help that withered soul. Were he a peasant, well he'd be okay. But he was born to be King. Like you and I are. What's okay for the peasant, is not okay for us; if we try to live like peasants, we'll do a king's worth of damage. Just like Kaiser Wilhelm II, and a whole host of other royals in history. Look: they didn't get a choice about being born royal. Once born royal, always royal: no escape. Above all, the Lord Himself became human, and took on the worst role there is: King-Priest. "Worst", that is, if you think like a peasant. "Best", if you grow up in your kingship. Your choice.

Satan likes to use starving children (or peasants), this is why you hear "think of the innocent children" when Gaza or Prolife are brought up, both being Satanic enterprises. He doesn't care if he uses them to carry bombs (his goals), any more than some Vietnamese or Palestinians cared if they used kids to carry body-bombs. Two media depictions of these widespread facts swiftly pierce the mind: 1), the scene in "Good Morning Vietnam", where a kid carrying a bomb tries to blow up an Army-held restaurant; 2) Diane Sawyer's interview with 3 Palestinian kids during school recess, who enthusiastically explained there were 9 (!) ways to make a bomb. So much for motherly/fatherly love!

Satan doesn't care if the kids are used to fleece others, but the children receive nothing. 'Get our eyes on them, abuse our compassion, so to make Christianity look like just another moral lifestyle, like any religion. So, we succumb, and then when the world wonders what right Christianity has to be unique — we can say nothing. So because we look like them, they won't buy the Gospel, as they are already doing what we are doing. So we've essentially condemned them to hell. We are estopped, for we behave just as they do: Satan uses morality to denigrate God in this way, every day. Neat trick, huh? Thus he makes stones become bread using the very Bride the Son purchased. Thus he causes many more unbelievers to reject the Gospel, to have their names auto-blotted out of the Book of Life. 'All by means of good deeds.

Giving to the poor, then, might be helping Satan, and thus surely doesn't help anyone else. Need precise understanding of God's Will on the matter, then, right?

What, maybe God's Will on helping the poor physically, is to let Satan do it? What, maybe God's Will on Our role to help the poor is in some other, superior way? After all, what does Satan know of the spiritual life, really? He can mouth it better than any of us — but what does he really know? If a person isn't royally-trained — and we know from Satan's fall he rejected his "covenant", so seeing, he no longer sees — can't the blind person do a peasant's job? What do peasants do? Don't they run around tending to physical matters? After all, they can't think, but they can — "do".

Any broker will tell you that while it only takes a few weeks to pass the Securities and Exchange Commission exam to become licensed, it takes a lifetime of study to properly advise people on how to invest their savings. Any attorney will tell you that although it only takes 7 years to get one's law degree, it takes a lifetime to become competent at the law. If these two secular professions are so demanding, how much more, ours?

Moreover, a person with a newly-minted securities license can process trades, but can't competently advise. A person who's never grown beyond that limited knowledge is still useful, as a doer. The same analogy holds for new lawyers, and old-but-incompetent ones. They can do simple things.

Do you see the analogy? There are plenty of unbelievers and believer-babies, who will be hustling about in the menial-body stuff. But is the Body of Christ merely a foot? Of course not. Does God's Will for your life call for you to be a mere foot? Of course not — but rather, He wants you to be a Fit Bride — a Whole person, not a "gofer".

Have you noticed, competent people are few? Competence is wrought by learning. If the wrong Head is driving the peasants, then only evil results. So if we aren't learning the Head of Christ, and thus aren't praying for His Head to be Ruling down here — then we are electing for Satan to be the head, get it? Most folks don't or won't spend much time learning. So who's competent-to-advise, among the Royal Family of Christ? We are all Royal-Priests-in-training. Granted, we have pastors — but we are also Ambassadors. So who's competent-to-advise, among the Royal Family of Christ? 'Precious few. So, the many, who have rejected the spiritual life, they can be the runners, the doers, the peasants-despite-birthright. Where do you want to be? Christ chose the narrow, high end. Where do I want to be? Among the many simple, who think it evil to seek to be among the few — or do I want to be among those few, who, like the Most High, really benefit the many, as good rulers always have?

Moreover, can't we trust God to take care of people while we ourselves are apprenticing in this, the Royally Invisible Spiritual Life? After all, it's His "First Commandment", and we need time to learn how to obey it. Won't He have made provision for those poor we're supposed to help but cannot, since we are supposed to instead be learning? Even our earthly fathers didn't say, while we were yet non-adults — "Get out of the house and start working!" So how much more, our Heavenly Father, Who — by the way — has been sustaining them through the Son, long before we even knew of them?

Also: how are we to obey "the royal law", as James puts it, absent sufficient knowledge? Wasn't James' complaint in James 1 that his audience was not learning Scripture, so lacked wisdom, so weren't "doers of the Word", so were engaged in strife and eyes-on-people? By James 3, his complaint is searingly loud. 1 John shouts it also, explaining the process of spiritual growth. Do we understand 1 John ? Do we use its principles?

Witness Key → When the unbeliever or uninformed Christian sees all the hustling,

Hebrews 4 screams about how so many Exodus generation Jews just hustled, instead of learning. What attracted foreigners to Israel was the Promise of Knowing the Habiru God. Israel, unlike all other nations, had extensive holidays and rest, no works (well, the works it had made fun of works). Why? Because the God did everything. See? the attraction, is Rest — Knowing Him. That is, assuming you yourself find it attractive and restful to know Him. If you don't — well, others will "hear" that fact by your hustling. For if you're hustling, you're telling them that knowing Him is of no value — that He's just out to "get" something from people like every other 'god' they've heard of. Is that the message you want conveyed? Listen to the comments of unbelievers and 'not sure if I'm Christian' people, sometime. See if the out-to-get "message" isn't what they are "hearing".

You should have noticed from the Fourth Reason for Royalty that a 'pillar' in Satan's plan for the human race is Morality. Satan is all about, morality. Because morality stresses one's own power. So Satan's big argument against God, is that God is immoral not to use His Power to feed, clothe, and otherwise provide nice circumstances for the human race. God's counter is that happiness only comes from knowing God, no matter what circumstances one has. Satan is moral: he only uses gross sin (the "G" in that table) to make morality look better. Deflect and decoy, one of the oldest military tricks in the book. Matthew 4 is a triumvirate of Morality Temptations. The Lord was smart enough to say no to them all. But we are not. We slaver, can't give into those good-deed temptations fast enough. Satan laughs his head off. Thus by means of morality — which God invented — Satan keeps people away from salvation and God.

So God will not do anything down here if we don't grow up — or, the meanwhile, ask for His involvement, principle of 2 Chronicles 7:14. Because, this is Satan's world. So the absolute worst thing you can do as a Christian, is hustle. That's Satan's plan you're following, not God's.

See? We are indeed on Divine Television. We are thus 'advertised' to the world: we are His Representatives. For Better or for Worse. So, if our "message" isn't Christ Alone, we condemn folks to Satan's idea of Him. However, if our "message" is Christ Alone, folks gravitate to such prepared believers. Suddenly. With no need for the prepared person to initiate. It's weird, it's obvious as a Goodyear Blimp, and you won't mistake it. That's why Peter warned us (1 Peter 3:15) to always be able to explain "the Hope that is in you", echoing Paul's "in season and out of season" (2 Timothy 4:2). With gentleness and meekness. For, you never know when Satan or God will spotlight you. Be prepared — not hustling. Learn 1 John 's Script. That will benefit souls with real bread, far more than stupid belly-bread. Learn 1 John 's Script, not Satan-fodder. And thus "obey the royal law."

And all that above, is just with respect to people, what they see in us. But the far bigger issue, is what God sees, and consequently what Blessing or Cursing the world must get due to the Unseen Trial we're all in. For, back in Conclusion #2, we saw the Massive, Polity-Level Seven Categories of Blessing and Cursing which the world gets due to our being here. Let's recap them briefly:

  1. Prayer, which for us really is a 24/7 conversation with God, not just asking for things. Our Multi-sphere Royal Thinking Lifestyle, since we ourselves are Qorban.
  2. Redeeming Israel's Time and protection of her people (God does the work, but we are the justification for it, since Israel broke with Messiah, and her national covenant is on hold).
  3. Redeeming Time itself: the world gets another day with less or no judgement, solely because we are here.
  4. Competence blessing and prosperity.
  5. Opportunity to change to Better Standards.
  6. Here's the curse part: Fake Church, Revelation 17, playing daily on every Christian station and in nearly every pulpit on Sunday, for lo these past 2000 years. Even down to the colors depicted, 🤣.
  7. Here's the curse antidote and protection from it: Learning and using Bible Doctrine is contagious, too. So people believe in Christ and get in God's System, which reduces the curse of #666, and increases the prosperity of the prior five categories.

All of these are big-ticket blessings and cursings in our Destiny's Duty portfolio; they all have precedence, too. From Genesis 5 (really Genesis 3:15) onward, the people honorably mentioned in Bible were the top folks in their generation who brought about that prosperity to the world. For a long time (40 years) the world survived only because Moses was on it. Moses technically was the only reason Israel survived, but Israel was the only reason why the world survived, and all time was conditioned on her. So now, Church gets to return the favor, since there'd be no Church, if not for Israel. Since we are Kings-in-Training and our Training is to be Witnesses in this Trial — Fourth Reason for Royalty — our battle has some pretty big effects, even if we end up casualties. Right Now.

So while you brush your teeth, do the dishes, stand in line, try to not get angry during the hundredth rude telemarketer's pitch, remember: it all depends on what you are thinking. My pastor quips that we are to be "spiritual Atlases." And that's true. Woe to us if we consider that arrogant, since Christ's Payment is so high, we can be kitted out with this Role. Royalty never spits on its ancestors, and our Progenitor (Hebrews 12:2, "Ἀρχηγός") is Christ Himself. Let's not spit on Him, let's avoid that #666 poisonous fake humility like the spiritual AIDS it truly is.

Oh: there are two ways to be humiliated, in life. First is the obvious one, where everyone spits on you. But second, not so obvious: where you are promoted so high, you can't handle it. Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1 is about both types. And both types happened to the Lord: that's why His Humanity relied on the Spirit aka 'Mom', rahaph in Genesis 1:2, and eschewed use of either His Deity or Humanity to benefit Himself. And therefore they happen to us, the five infinitives of Isaiah 53:10-11. Like it or lump it. John 6:27ff, 99% hated it. Too bad. Royalty is a prison you learn to love or loathe, but there's no getting out of it. You are being watched by Dad. Mom can make this prison a palace, so just cling to Mom, and you'll see what He can do.


Summing up the Conclusions

These conclusions are staggering, aren't they? Look: Conclusion One: because Our Lord Jesus Christ became Our Precedence, our life before the Father is the heart-and-soul of our spiritual life, as Royal Priests under the King over Kings: First Commandment. So also, our role before mankind — we live to the Father, which mediates our role before people. For, what honors the Father, pleases Our Lord; benefits people.

Ergo, Conclusion Two, the Word takes Precedence: it's the Word which Mediates Our Thinking and Function. Ergo, Conclusion Three: We Make Our Royal Rules before Our Lord, out from His Word (His Thinking), which is why we have the Four Reasons, the structure of our inheritance in His Four-Part Escutcheon. Behold the four 'quarters' (heraldic term) of our potential 'pebble' citation, put on deposit for us by Father, in eternity past! (Revelation 2:17 tied to Revelation 4:7 and Ephesians 1:1-18.)


Your Name Here

First Reason: Royal Order of the Crowned Lion

His Spiritual Life becomes Ours, + Our Royal Position and Assets in Him = Profit. Ergo, Corollary 3A, our Authority and Accountability for profitable use of these "true riches" Assets: we exploited the profit of our spiritual authority and assets under the Lord, before the Father, while down here.

Your "Hidden" Title Here

Second Reason: Royal Order of the Immovable Ox

Mankind gets Invisible 'Royal Sign' for his benefit, + Royal Life is "far harder" = Virtue's Royal Nobility Standard. Ergo, Corollary 3B, Bema Blessing: we "inherit the kingdom" due to choosing and fulfilling the True Virtue and spiritual life of Him, while down here.

Third Reason: Royal Order of the King-Priest

Associating all with Our Lord + Vertical Living toward the Father = Mediation. Ergo, Corollary 3C, Caring Charge: true Blessing flowed due to how we ruled our 'kingdom', our periphery, while down here. Faithful in Little, Faithful in Much.

Fourth Reason: Royal Order of the Flying Eagle

Kenotic Spiritual Life vs. Visible Fake Spirituality + Bread & Cup Crushing Defeat of Satan & Co. = Victorious Trial Witness before Satan & Co. and before men. Ergo, Corollary 3D, Destiny's Duty: we thought objectively, and displayed the superior benefit of Knowing Him, so truly fulfilled the Royal Law, while down here.


Four is the Biblical number of completeness; these Four Corollaries form the Complete Royal Lifestyle of Honor, as depicted symbolically in His Revelation 4 Escutcheon. If we live our spiritual lives to Full Completeness (Πλήρωμα-Τέλειος, so to speak), we too will be enrolled in all Four Knighthood Orders, and will Forever Reflect our Lord's Royal Escutcheon. Awesome, isn't it? Do you begin now to see how vastly superior is Father's Honoring of His Son, versus Brother-Foot Churchinanity's puerile prescriptions? Do you begin to see how vastly rich mankind can become, through the Father's Infinitely Superior Plan? Especially, versus Satan's do-good, touchy-feely rotenesses? Let us be eager, then, to go under the 'knife' throughout our lives, and thus enter this Rest! Hebrews 4:11-12!


Where do we go from here?

Isn't Our Legacy in Him intimidating? Lots bigger than folks think, huh. So, in case you're interested, here are some tips to help speed your spiritual development — or speed your retrogression. All are testable, and no one but you will know about it. Contrary to Churchinanity opinion, the spiritual life is intensely private: Royally Invisible, in fact. Greek of Hebrews 11:1 says so.

Tips To Maximize Your Daily Spiritual Life

Tips for Making Dung out of Your Daily Spiritual Life

Upshot: if you use the "1 John's Outline of God's Script", in God's System, coupled with the study tips and cautions above: over time a comprehensive, "aerial view" of God's Thinking on a wide range of topics gels in your mind. Once it does, you can see connections or boundaries between the mandates with clarity. The entire dynamic of His Thinking becomes clear; so you, too, can quickly and precisely know what He wants for you at any given moment. This happens, because Doctrine is truly alive: His Thinking in you (1 Corinthians 2:16). It's Real. See, each verse is like a stone in a mosaic, and until you've enough "stones" learned, you can't see the 'picture'. That 'picture' is Him, the Cornerstone: face-to-face. No kidding. It takes time, though, and diligence-of-desire. But God will enable it all (see Philippians 2:13). It takes time for you grow up enough to be able to understand the answer He wants to give you. Abram wanted only one son: but God wanted a universe of sons — headed by The Son, who is descended from Abram's loins! What would have happened if Abram thought instead, "oh, shucks, I'm not worth all that honor?" We'd all not be here!

So whatever you want, God wants it bigger. So you need to first grow up, before you can get God's version of what you want. That means a lot of downtime, learning. It takes Strong Motive to want to know Him, to keep plugging at study, when everyone around you seems to be glorified, but you not. Yeah, and the ugly duckling was the swan, all along. Worth it!


And Now, for that Blessing-By-Association Payoff

Meanwhile, the fact that you are learning benefits those in your periphery,
even more than Moses saved Israel from destruction by the Lord.

The Exodus generation, even though believers, wanted the Lord to really be Yucky Gertrude Cheese. To suit their works-oriented (or orgy-oriented) egos. So, twice the Lord offered to wipe them all out, and start over again, with Moses (Deuteronomy 9:14, Numbers 14:12). Which Moses refused, because Moses had spiritually grown up so much, He fulfilled the First Commandment. So, as a consequence he thus loved people so much that he wanted them to see the Lord's Beauty. So, he framed his refusal of the Lord's offer in terms of how people wouldn't then see His Faithfulness anymore. That was the first thought which hit Moses' mind. Even though the people were unremittingly hostile to God, and to him.

Human love is based on attraction. That's why it's fickle. Worse, if the person loving has no integrity, he beats up the object of his love, rather than benefitting it. Beats up with attention, beats up with complaints over not getting the needed attention back, beats up with all kinds of questions and nervousness and prying, and... above all, insecurity. We get grabby over what (or who) we love. Like animals.

God's love is independent of attraction. Absolute Love requires no attractiveness in the object, and in fact doesn't even need an object, since Love is part and parcel with Truth, Righteousness, Justice. So love is self-compensating by nature, since God is Undivided by Nature. That love is obviously Integrity, and obviously impossible for a human to do. Hence most of the words translated "love" in the Bible are in the original languages, only used of Divine Love (the actual words in the original-language texts for human love are different). So the Trial is about God's Love being built in you. Here, in Moses. So although the people kept on wanting to stone him, and mounted many "coup attempts" to unseat him, he didn't reciprocate their jealousy or hatred. Amazingly, the first thing to hit his mind when the Lord offers twice to destroy them all for hating Him, was... well, what then would people say of Adonai? God first. God on his mind First. Then, the people. But notice who is not on Moses' mind? That's love: it doesn't at all think about itself. For love... loves. God's Love, that is. Nothing else like it. Bible in your head, growing on God's Script in God's System, makes you able to think this way.

Why did the Lord want to wipe out the Exodus generation? Well, if you look at those passages, you'll see: He didn't like hearing their constant, kvetching rejection. So, what do we know? God hears. It's what God Hears, not what we do. It's what God Hears, not how nice we are to other people. It's what God Hears, not whether we are high, low, pretty, ugly, rich, poor, healthy, sick, white, black, Americans, Asians... et cetera, ad nauseam. For, what else is there, but God hears? Can man give God anything else, at all? What, does God need food or clothing, a nice cake or you being all dressed up for church?

All you can 'give' God is your thinking. Just as Christ gave Father His Thinking on the Cross. That Thinking saved us. Not works. Isaiah gave a blow-by-blow description of how He paid for our sins with His Thinking, beginning in the original-language texts of Isaiah 52:13, going all the way to Isaiah 54:1: we sterile got borne on the Cross via Him bearing our sins In His Head and 'replying' to them. So we are born in Him, theme of Romans 6 and 2 Corinthians 5:21 (all of 2 Corinthians 5 is on this). And yet Christianity doesn't even know how our sins got paid? So you can tell we aren't thinking except of "earthly things", flesh that we are (see Romans 8). So our thinking can't be too pleasing, huh. Translation of Isaiah is so bad, I had to make a translation of the entire chapter. I heard the material from my pastor using other verses, discovered Isaiah by accident, though he always taught sin was paid for by His Thinking, using Isaiah 53:5. But that fact is all over the larger Isaiah context.


Amalgamated Translation of Isaiah 53 (beginning at Isaiah 52:13)


So, then: if what you do is moral or okay, but what you think is not, then — is God pleased? No! And how is what you think gonna be okay, if you aren't thinking Bible Doctrine? And how are you gonna know Bible Doctrine, if you aren't habitually using 1 John 1:9 and studying Scripture under your right pastor-teacher? And how are you gonna habitually use 1 John 1:9 (etc.), if you think the spiritual life, is works? See how easily Satan traps us? See how useless it is to hustle-for-God, the bane of Christianity and Judaism — indeed, of all religion? See how offensive it is to hustle, rather than learn? Or why do you think the Bible makes a stink out of Esau being a hustler, but Jacob, being 'quiet' (Genesis 25:27)? In Hebrew, the "quiet" is due to studying Adonai. Sure, the Bible didn't yet exist, back then, but "Adonai" always was. So He heard Jacob hearing Him, and thus He heard Jacob learning Him. Esau was busy learning the world and its skills. But Jacob was learning to become a Prince of God (= "Israel", in Hebrew). Now you know why Romans 9 reads as it does.

It's amazing, when we consider 'what must I do to get eternal life' like the rich young ruler did; when we consider 'what must I do to obey God' — we always devolve into people things. Why? It is insane, it is making fig leaves. Why don't we consider that God hears us all the time, and — well — are we thinking thoughts He'd like? Or better yet, that Jesus Christ is manually willing every second of existence that passes. Especially, since we saw in the Third Reason for Royalty, that every thought we will ever have is always in His Face Forever? Do you like a gift if the thought behind it is bad? How much more, God?

Do you notice how people always make a big stink out of do's, and gravitate to works verses in Scripture like mindless magnets — without ever once recognizing the obvious — if the thought going with the do is not good, then the do itself is horrendously tainted. Just as it would be, for us. Why else do you think the Lord praised the woman who gave the two coppers, Mark 12:42, Luke 21:2? Granted, if the soul is stingy, it needs warnings to do something — that's why you find verses like if-you-do-it-to-someone-you-do-it-to-me. But, the person who does it like the guy who went before the woman with the two coppers, giving big bucks to be seen of men — about that person, what did the Lord say? "Verily, I tell you he has his reward" (Bible refrain). Yeah, he has his reward alright — people-praise, not God-praise.

So on and on and on mankind goes, with his washings and taboos and foods and days and givings and eyes on people. Whether Christian or not... all alike. All alike hustling, busy earning approbation or condemnation from each other. Verily, they have all the reward they're gonna get!

The ugliest people alive are those constantly making an issue of themselves. What they like: the proverbial petulant children, just like the Exodus generation (i.e., Numbers 11:6). Oh, what food they like or what activities they don't like, on and on and on you can't shut them up! Their opinion about thus-and-so. And they love hating God, shaking their fists at Him, demanding of Him that He cater to their opinion, too. It's incredible, the direct correlation between those who love to voice their hatred of God, and their overblown valuation of their own opinions. As if anyone enjoyed hearing them. Just like Hitler used to do in his dinner parties, 🤣. Orson Welles said that at one such dinner party Hitler was so unremarkable he never recalled a second of it, vapid, empty. Often those who simulate their own value where there is none are the most unremarkable, like when Donald Trump wore a MAGA hat he signed himself... as if wearing his own signed hat gave it more value to himself.

The truly sad thing is you can't explain any of these categories of ugliness to the affected persons. No matter how often you preface the remarks with how you used to think the same way; no matter how you try to explain that it's the thinking, not the doing, because God Loves, so doesn't even want works (John 3:16's underlying import, see also Romans 5:8) — all that explanation, is dismissed as you selling something. As if you needed their agreement, 🤣. As if their agreement helped anyone besides themselves. Especially, since they are the ones trying to make everyone agree, listening to them go on and on and on and on about opinions-absent-facts-or-reason.

So now consider the impact of all these thinkings, constantly filling God's 'Ears': Yikes! God has to hear that garbage 24/7 from billions of minds! Why then did He ever create, Romans 9:22-23? Would you have created humanity, if you knew it would turn out so puerile and ugly?

By contrast, remember the awesomely-beautiful scene in the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth": when He grabs the blind beggar, puts mud on his eyes despite protest, then cleans them (John 9, whole scathing chapter). Remember how the beggar went wild, being able to see? And went looking for the man who did this? And is led to the Lord, so asks Him who did this? And the Lord replies, "The Son of Man." To which the formerly-blind beggar replies, "and Who is the Son of Man, that I may worship Him?" To which the Lord replies, smiling with ironic humor (wow, I love this): "You are seeing Him." Yes!!!!! That miniseries has so many genius scenes like this one, to convey the flavor of Gospels. Great acting. Mel Gibson's film was really good, too (of course Mel Gibson is now full of Trumpitis and completely nuts and apostate); I try to remember that scene where Christ (played by Jim Caviezel) embraces the Cross, every day. Very accurate depiction of His "he-heli" Attitude in Isaiah 53:10.

So, then: think about how Pleased the Father is, to hear thinking like Moses'. All day long, for eons now, most of what He hears is me-be-good, accuse-the-Son. It gets old, baby. Wiping out such folks is truly within the Father's rights to order. After all He's done for them??? They still spurn His Love Gift? They still call Him Yucky Gertrude Cheese? Believers, and unbelievers alike? And it takes but a spoken word to wipe them all out, baby. Just a word from the Word, and it's all over.

Ahh, but these few believers, what a sweet savor, how pleasant it is to hear them think. Oh, that one, he just learned about the Totality of Grace! The Lightbulb Went On! See how happy he is? And that one — oh, he just learned that Learning My Son is the Real Spiritual Life! See how years of misunderstanding are wiped out by the discovery, at last! Yes!!! And that one — faithful in using 1 John 1:9 so My Spirit can grow her without compromise! Oh, that one, he is finally conquering his fear of being spiritually rich! And that one, that child — look how magnificently he trusts the Lord to defend him! Oh, how these precious ones are learning to think like Moses. Even, to think like the Son, who would rather die on a Cross than see the people wiped out. And Yes! These few believers, like Moses, are still in puny bodies, so need others around. And these few believers, like Moses — well, they want the other folks around, just in case the other folks finally recognize that the Real Lord is gorgeous beyond description!

So as a consequence, the Father blesses the rest of humanity. Even the curmudgeons, gives them goodies, even — though they themselves should instead be executed. Just as, once upon a time, we should have been. But we are learning His Son, now.

So, our growth in Him produces a "sweet savor", an intercessory role, a substitutionary role — to justify the existence of all those hard-necked folks. Fertilize the fig tree, one more time. And another. And another. After all, weren't we all God's enemies once (?) noted Paul (Romans, Corinthians).

So for a third time in this page, let's categorically review the blessing-by-association from us, simply due to our being on the operating table, under the Hebrews 4:12 'knife' on God's Script, in God's System:

  1. We are the only conduit for blessing by prayer the world has. "Ask anything in My Name, and I will do it", John 14:14, John 16:23. That's not hyperbole.
  2. We Redeem Israel's time — which you can verify in Bible, math, and history.
  3. We buy the world time to go on living — a day only dawns for this reason. On a larger scale, one person justifies the continuation of 490 years, or 1000 years.
  4. We buy competence and prosperity blessing the world would not otherwise be legally entitled to get, since the world opts for Satan's rule, rather than God's.
  5. Divine Standards in enough believers changes the world's thinking at large. Ample historical evidence of this.
  6. Despite Satan's Fake Church counterfeit to mask the True Royally Invisible Spiritual Life,
  7. The world gets time to get saved, and grow up, learn Him, due to the Christians (always small in percentage) who are learning Him.

In short, since "every spiritual blessing" goes to the believer (Ephesians 1), so every other kind of blessing goes through the believer, "filling all in all" (end of Ephesians 1). Kinda big benefit accruing to living on God's Script in God's System, huh. Just as it was when Christ was here, theme of 1 John 4 (especially 1 John 4:17). For we are His Bride, and thus He is down here.. through us.

Again, as my pastor puts it, our role is to become "spiritual Atlases", "invisible heroes." If you're under my pastor, you might not know that this "invisible heroes" is a main theme in his Ephesians series, which is a seven-years'-long exegesis of Ephesians and Colossians, verse by verse until you puke. That series is so good, I cried when I finished it, not believing he could top himself in teaching. Well, guess what: he did. 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, which began a year after Ephesians ended, revisits "invisible heroes" in the "Magnetism" lessons (start in Lesson 1820ff). "Magnetism" was used also in the Ephesians series. Think of the Earth's magnetic fields and of the basic construct of magnetism from an electric field. Apt metaphor: look at the galaxies!

All this is a main theme running throughout Ephesians, Colossians, Romans 11, and John's writings, in the Greek. Colossians is a really good summary of the other books, excepting John's material. It's like a diplomatic brief on how to represent your King in a foreign country, based on "hope" (confident expectation, pregnant term in Greek literature). "Hope" is a Bible witticism for getting Christ's Thinking in your head, and for the Bema Blessing which results. That's why Colossians 1:27 reads as it does: "hope" is the epistle's theme, Colossians 1:5; "Christ in you... glory" is the Bema result. This true diplomatic mission in light of the Angelic Trial: to learn our King's thinking and then practice it as we live in this body, under Angelic Trial terms. It's only peripheral, how we engage with people. Important, because diplomatic; but they are not our boss and not our judge, nor are they the criteria for how well we serve. Trouble is, you have to read Colossians in the Greek. It's badly mistranslated in key spots, substituting out God's works, replacing Him with man; so reverses what Paul writes. So you really need a pastor who teaches this book from the original languages. Very important book, full of deft references to all prior Canon.

So due to the Session, there can be many christs. Peter uses the term λίθοι, chips off the Bedrock which are voting: written on. See, that was how you voted: or, cast lots to see how God votes on you. What a wry tweak at Peter's bad hair day back in Acts 1:15-26, when he played God: wrongly ordering lots for a replacement apostle! Peter's sense of humor is awesome. There's no way he didn't have an awesome command of Greek. But he who once was very legalistic, in his letters is often politically-, and hence grammatically, incorrect!

See, God voted for you on the Cross, so now you can vote for Him every day. That's what Christ did, Matthew 4:4. So, as the New Testament writers explained, Moses and the prophets longed to see "our" day. Jeremiah 3:16, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:8-12, Hebrews 10:15-17, Isaiah 52:15, all of Psalm 119, John 8:56, Acts 26:7, Matthew 13:17, Luke 10:24, 1 Peter 1:12.

So you, too, are capable of being listed in a Spiritual Hall-of-Fame, like the roster in Hebrews 11. And why not? If not for those folks, the rest of us wouldn't have any life at all. Justly. It doesn't matter what the object is, if Divine Function can go into it? Well, this is a soul into which Infinite Truth is going! So by voting for that Truth, You Have Divine Function to Please Father! You have Divine Voting Power, and the Holy Spirit says the equivalent of "Light, Be!" — the equivalent of empowering the Humanity of Christ on the Cross. He's given "without limit" Now, John 7:39 (and elsewhere). Same Power, Same Person, doesn't matter at all how puny or 'bad' you think you are. Only matters, what you vote. For, "You, in Me!" — that's your status, "In the Beloved", Ephesians 1. What you were is not important, for who you are, is "in Christ" (refrain in Bible). The visible 'you' is really a leftover, Now a chrysalis — ugly duckling now a swan, if you prefer. Holy Spirit is developing the new you from within the old you; you can't see it, you can't touch it, you can't feel it, it's Royally Invisible, 1 John 3:2. But Visible to Father, Hebrews 4:13 (frequent Old Testament refrain; note carefully the context is Hebrews 4:12, see also Hebrews 11:6). Never underestimate the Power of Christ.

The world calls it a "makeover" if you get a new hairstyle and some new clothes. That's way too puny for God. It's God's Level of "makeover", only if the Same Stature as His Own Nature, Ephesians 4:13 — or it's not even remotely acceptable. Since "Dad" is looking at you, count on it — you are being made over at His Son's level, every moment you reside in God's System. I live on that knowledge. Okay, Dad, since I'm a jerk, 'Mom' the Holy Spirit is making me into Your Son, because you have to look at me. That's why Cain and the world's works are burnt up at the end of time, 2 Peter 3. Better things have come (refrain in 2 Corinthians 5, whole book of Hebrews). God has Infinite Standards, and they can therefore only be met by God Making Them Met In You. Else you'd not be here, and there'd be no salvation.

You had to become god-undergoing-Word-surgery in order to even be saved, 2 Corinthians 5:21. Now, it's a matter of building you.

Paul talked of the crowns and rewards (often using athletic contest analogies). The writer of Hebrews, in the Greek, uses the metaphor of a Greek endurance footrace, in both Hebrews 12:1 and Hebrews 2, making a clear parallel between the race Christ "endured" and the one "set before us". We're in The Spiritual Olympics, training for it, and we've the power of the Spirit, just as Christ had. (Acts 1:8, Romans 15:13, Romans 15:16, Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 3:16, John 14, 1 Corinthians 2, Romans 8:10-11, among other cites.) Revelation warns and promises all this, too.

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? If even 10 people were "righteous" (which in Old Testament times meant believers who were positive), the entire pentapolis would have been spared destruction. So, now that Christ is Risen, and you are Royal "in" Him, how much more, do a lot of lives depend on your learning Bible Doctrine? What, does a king benefit his people directly? No, but through agents: some agents are thinkers, and some doers. Peasants are doers. Enemies are doers. "But the sons are exempt", the Lord told Peter, about the two-drachma tax (Matthew 17:26). God will benefit them on your behalf while you learn, just as the world was sustained while Christ learned.

Bible keywords "fill", "fullness", "perfect/complete/mature" are used to describe the blessing-by-association God the Father has made of us. While we learn, our potential to reach this highest status justifies the world continue (analogous to, but higher than, Jeshurun class-elite in the Old Testament). Now, what work could you ever do, as great as that one? Or what do you think "salt of the earth" means? If you lose your "saltiness" (positive volition to learning Him — a neat, ironic twist on sin's "leaven"), then you are cursing by association. After all, Royalty has always been the boon or bane of history.

It's your choice: become a great believer, by learning Bible Doctrine, calmly knowing that the meanwhile God Himself is doing more and better works in your name. Why? because you're finally doing what few do — obeying the First Commandment — so He's pleased to hear His Son's thinking grow in you. To express Himself, His Pleasure in you, who are reflecting His Son's thinking more and more as you learn, He Blesses Them, For Being Associated With You. That's far, far more than you yourself could ever begin to even imagine doing. Now, does Ephesians 3:20's "infinitely more than we could ask or think" and Ephesians 1's "God's superior power" begin to make more sense? Heh, 'quite a bit bigger than a Brother Foot, huh?

So, if you are learning Bible Doctrine while brushing your teeth (turning doctrine over in your mind, to understand it better, pretend), God the Father, being pleased with that, is benefiting those poor in ways you yourself couldn't do! So, what's the real best way to help the poor? Is your Royal Role in His Kingdom becoming clearer to you? God doesn't want you to be a peasant. He already has plenty of those. Will you reject your Royal inheritance, erroneously thinking it is "too high" for you, like the believers in Deuteronomy 30:11ff? Like Christians do now, in their hustling to benefit Satan, though in God's Name? Will you be a peasant like they are, "enemies of the Cross", as Paul laments? 'Shipwrecked from doctrine, off-course from doctrine? (1 Timothy 1:19, James 1:6b — "faith" there means "what is believed", hence "doctrine".)

Satan of course, will keep pushing cheap "Brother Foot" stuff (1 Corinthians 10:21), so to distract us all from learning Christ, so that the Father must kill us off. Satan first crafts a media blitz so he can tranquilize the masses, thereby allowing for concentration on those few who decide to learn God's Script in God's System. The demons can't be everywhere at once, so they have to split their attention between the big, visible, mass-anesthetizing ploys, and the individual, pick-on-the-positive-believer attacks. So if you are learning Him, you're under attack.

You will thus be under pressure to go along with the world's ideas; and, to denigrate the value of your Learning Christ. So any number of pretended substitutes will be offered you. And you will succumb. Then you will succumb to guilt: just use 1 John 1:9, get up again. And again and again and again. You get this leftover nature as the closest approximation to the divergence, the differential of nature of Your Ἀρχηγός, Who is God-Man. Maximum Trial Stretch, learning how to live in two 'worlds' at once, your Real Home, with Omniscient Father and down here in this puny body. Divine Function, and Isaiah's five infinitives is how you should view the pressure: it happened this way to Him, but far bigger (see John 6 and John 7, Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1). So it now happens to you, theme of Romans 8. Leverage. Differential. Making the sterile bear kids, Isaiah 54:1. That's your life. See also how Paul reasons, in the last half of 1 Corinthians 15. We are not who we think we are, and should instead regard ourselves in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5.

So you'll be tempted to think yourself too puny, too low (that's a Love Motive growing in you, don't mistake it); you'll be tempted to get cocky, as you realize your own superior knowledge (that's a Power Motive growing in you, don't mistake it). So no, it truly doesn't matter if you were an axe-murderer before you got in the System, it only matters that you be in the System. So no, it truly doesn't matter that you owned the world and everyone praised you before you got in the System, it only matters that you be in the System. Christ's payment is all-sufficient, it's only a matter of Thinking For Father, and all else gets used as training aids. Your sins, another's sins, the stupidities in this world, even toilet waste. Only people who hate God resent that someone they regard as immoral or inferior, gets blessing from God. So why should God bless those who hate Him? Should not God be blessed? Isn't the one who resents God's Grace worse than a murderer? John sure thinks so, in the Greek of 1 John 3:18!

So everything is designed for Father. Not for human approbation. So now everything is ennobled, to teach, train. Paul was the worst sinner who ever lived, 1 Timothy 1:15, and Paul ordered all kinds of evil upon Christians, it was so bad that Paul even refers to himself as the aborted fetus when he finally became an apostle 1 Corinthians 15:8. So guess what: God doesn't resent or say we can't be blessed. Why not? Because God benefits. Doesn't Father have to see it from forever-eternity-past and forever-eternity-future, as we saw in the Third Reason for Royalty?

This pressure is intense, as we saw in the Fourth Reason for Royalty. In Part 4, we'll see how awesome our role is with respect to history, to better understand the macro side of the pressures we face. Brushing your teeth is a big deal, not a small one: because Christ manually wills every second's existence and every second is a chance to think Bible Doctrine and talk to God. One small thought is a Big Deal. Nothing is small in Christ, and Everything is in Christ (main theme of Ephesians 1, all of Colossians). So also the converse: there's no such thing as a small mistake. So 1 John 1:9 is your lifeline, your way to trebuchet out of the sin, the error, the evil you will inevitably get into, over and over and over and over. Philippians 3:14 is your lifeline, therefore:

katá skopón dióko, eis to Brabeion, tes ano kleseos, tou Theou — en Christoi Iesou.

Poetically translated (march heavily as you say this):
"Goal in Sight I pursue, steadily marching; to the Bema Prize Destination! The higher 'Calling' from God (Father): in, by means of Christ!" (His Head in my head!)

κατὰ σκοπὸν διώκω εἰς τὸ βραβεῖον τῆς ἄνω κλήσεως τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.

So for the world at large, Satan & Co. bang the drum: improve the externals, the environment, feed the poor physical food, improve international relations (so to build one-world government, his desire from the beginning), improve morality (so to make Christianity look like any religion), improve improve improve. See, Satan wants to "help the poor" already. For his own reasons. So you don't need to "help the poor" in the same way. That 'job is already taken!'

Here's why Satan helps the poor, and would just love it (!) if you'd follow him, á la Matthew 4:3: the more man advances technologically, the more he thinks himself god. The more man advances materially, the more he thinks God approves of him. The more man advances intellectually, the more he comes to despise quaint books like the Bible (bonus points if the original languages are ignored; Richard Dawkins for instance only ever read the AV1611 and couldn't be bothered to read Greek or Hebrew — meanwhile Jordan Peterson completely hallucinates what he thinks Christianity is and makes a fool of himself towards Richard Dawkins: both individuals fail at reading the Bible in opposite sides of the spectrum). Morality is the key to all of this advancement, and Satan knows it. Further, so long as man is moral, God must withhold some of the punishment, for God was the Author of morality. Side note: God's Authorship also means you don't eschew modern conveniences. It's the abuse of morality one needs to avoid, not modern society. That's why many whacko Christians (who also can't get the Gospel right) think it's 'righteous' to abandon modern conveniences and technology, even though the very computers they abstain from have God's very own words in the original Greek and Hebrew available at a moment's notice. Something scholars of the past would have done anything to have. We now have it and nobody cares, or actively ignores it.

Here's the 'trap": morality is about right and wrong, so is easily deflected for Trial purposes into questions about rights, which thus cheapen "love" into a rights issue. Thus God is cut out in the name of the Very Love which is On Trial. Grace gets cut out of the picture, so "love" is not love at all, but a growing totalitarianism. Nice totalitarianism. Killingly-nice. Brave-New-World "nice". Everyone has a place. To make the masses happy, we sing songs of equality, but of course everyone is so busy trying to be important, the equality song is just sung, like the national anthem. To make one feel as though all's well with Ford in his flivver. If it ain't broke, don't fix it: don't need God, because nothing's broke — or, worse, God smiles down on humanity, the new golden age has begun. Angel-of-light stuff. All via development of morality. Look around you: it's everywhere. All the time. Everywhere in the world.

Why does Satan not want you to learn Christ? Ahhh, learning Christ makes you spiritually competent, right under the Devil's nose! More importantly, Satan doesn't want God to grant blessing-by-association, when you "do" learn Him! Such blessing speeds Satan's loss. Part 4 will explain why. But by now you should at least get the hint that without spiritual competence, moral competence can only descend into evil.

See, since the stress on visibility makes one ever more blind, one's moral competence declines as the blindness increases. When you can't see how evil thing "A" is, your previous sight with respect to thing "B", erodes. Sooner or later even the stuff man considers evil, can't be solved. That's why the stuff everyone bemoans is so prevalent. All for the want of a nail. All sins were nailed to the Cross, but people just keep on wanting to ignore that fact, and make an issue of their sin nature thinking of good-and-evil. Well, all that is sin, dummy! Sin cuts God out, fundamentally. So cuts out sight, integrity, love, etc. Leaving only seductive tyranny. Which seductive tyranny, is very easily seen on social media or YouTube. Of course, most who watch it, cannot see. So we need invisible heroes. Every day.

Do you now begin to see how valuable your learning is, to every human being on the planet? And even more so, to God? What, is God's Infinite Pleasure in your learning of no value? What, is God's expression of His Pleasure in your learning — toward those very people you want benefitted — too small? Of course not. The world needs us to learn Him, so that He can justify giving them enough time, enough opportunity to "find" Him. That's "redeeming the time". Royally. Right under Satan's nose.

Okay. You can grin now. It's okay to be Royal; it's okay that God wants you and will make of you this far, far, bigger blessing than all the world's money could do. So let's look into the historical impact God creates out of the believer.




Inset for Part 4a: Book of Enoch, Testing its Validity for Daniel Timeline

February 2006 Revision note: every day I want to delete these pages because I have to say not-nice things about the ideas often espoused by semi-identified groups of real people, in order to explain something else. Ideas are not people, so I'm never criticising the people. But you know how we humans are: if something we believe is attacked, we react as if it were a personal affront. So last November I gutted EnochTest, in the name of saving GeoCities space. I don't have that excuse now; website is upgraded to GeoCities Plus. So this page is restored to its pre-November 2005 text; not much changed versus that pre-November version, only #13 was substantially changed; #13 covers how 1000 years got lost from Adam until David was King over United Israel; hence the Millennium 'reimburses' them. So the Book of Enoch is irrelevant, and its vaunted Chapter 33 is actually the worst inaccuracy in it; all this, besides the fact the book is horribly derisive against God: which derisiveness ruled it out as being from God, at the get-go.

It's really not hard to tell when a book lies. Look for the derision against God: when you find it, you'll know immediately the book (or idea, claim, etc.) needs to occupy a trashcan, Galatians 6:7. Then pray for those who still believe the falsehood, because no one ever means to malign God.

2026 Revision note: it's come to my attention after some cursory research; people don't take the 'composite' nature of the Book of Enoch into consideration. In other words, while the Aramaic portions are quite older, there is no actual proof that the Aramaic ever said what the much later Greek manuscripts added. Therefore I'm of the opinion that 1 Enoch 1:9 as we know it today from the Greek, was a future addition written after Jude. We already know Jude was written in 68 AD well before the known manuscripts for the Greek in the Book of Enoch, but even if you refused to believe that, Papyrus 72 with Jude is still much older than all of the later Greek "Enoch" manuscripts. If our only 'proof' are inconsistent 4th century manuscripts, that's way too late to substantiate it's some ancient manuscript that the Bible quotes from and not vice versa. We already know Jude wrote before that in around 68 AD. So between 68 AD and 700 AD, that's more than enough time for someone to either create 1 Enoch 1:9 from scratch (of which we have no Aramaic for so this is a possibility), or mangle Jude back into that section when the Aramaic said something completely different originally. You'd expect more than just a lone anomaly of Jude supposedly quoting a translation of Enoch dated from 400 ~ 700 AD, the translations themselves are also inconsistent and only begin looking more like Jude 1:14-15 as they get newer. 🤣 Coupled with the fact you have the demons continually getting people interested in this stupid book, just adds to its suspiciousness.

Here are the Greek manuscripts that 1 Enoch 1:9 is compiled from (for most translations, they use the newest Berlin Codex and not the earliest and least similar Chester Beatty Papyrus XII):

And here are my reasons why I think the demons have a strong involvement with the Book of Enoch:

  1. The Book of Enoch (in its Aramaic portions) was suspiciously preserved alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls. This almost seems like a contingency plan the demons whipped up; consider that if anyone were to discover the important manuscripts there, they should also be 'spiked' with bogus literature (which now, people seriously consider as being from God 🤦).
  2. The 'composite' nature of Enoch also seems like a deliberate dualities demon joke. They whipped up the first revision of the Book of Enoch in Aramaic, and then after the New Testament was completed, gave someone the idea to 'update' the Book of Enoch through Greek add Jude 1:14-15 into it. Oh... and make sure only the strategic portions of the Aramaic are preserved so that the new Greek overwrites whatever the Aramaic said prior 😉. This tactic also makes scholars assume the Aramaic says the same as the (inconsistent!) Greek additions.
  3. There's a recurring and suspicious pattern of people inexplicably getting interested in the Book of Enoch, for no reason — well, unless you factor in demon influence. 😉 They don't even read it and just blindly praise it, you'll hear zombie Christians start saying "I knew there was something missing in the Bible!" It's crazy to watch.
  4. There's probably some large doctrinal significance of Jude 1:14-15 that the demons are poking fun of: whether it's metering, anaphora parallelism, or something else.

Whenever you study Bible, you first have to account for its whys. Else, you don't know the meaning of the whats you have. Here, the problem is, "why the 1000 years?" Why not 2000, 3000, or some other number? Why does it signify End-Time Judgement, As Well As Deliverance? In short, until we establish when this "1000" first was revealed to mankind, we don't actually know why God uses it, so we'll screw up interpretation. And from what I can tell, this "1000" first was used, as the time period to warn mankind of the coming Flood. Because, Enoch named his son, "Methuselah". My pastor translates that name as follows (which I was able to verify): "when he dies, it [the Flood] comes." Notice how "it" is in the meaning, so "it" was well known already. We always substitute pronouns when the nouns are so well known, we take them for granted. That's the case here.

So right away, I know Enoch had been warning the world about the Flood a lot longer than "Methuselah" would live. And the latter, lived 969 years. So that probably means a warning period of 1000 years, especially since "Day of the Lord" is a warning, and it too lasts 1000 years. The 1000 years itself, is analogized as an investiture sacrifice by David for his son Solomon, in 1 Chronicles 29:21. And that, because David was to be the progenitor of Messiah (2 Samuel 7:11-13). So here you see the tie between end, 1000, Messiah, Deliverance, and Judgement: 1000 years, Deliverer will arrive on a Day that is also Judgement for those who reject Him.

The true first usage of this "1000" might be in Deuteronomy 32, but I'm not certain; it's allusive, about knowing the end. The "day" usage is explicitly first in David: Psalms 90:4. Isaiah picks it up next, beginning in Isaiah 2 (allusively, but full-blown term is used beginning in Isaiah 13). Thereafter, the term is used more and more frequently, as the Bible's books are given to the succeeding prophets. Therefore this specialized significance of "1000 years", was at least known since David. And may derive its precedence from, the pre-Flood warning by Enoch.

So now I have to verify Enoch's role. Other than his son's name, I'm not finding much in the Bible to clarify it. Thus, on November 2, 2005 I began auditing the non-Biblical "Book of Enoch", since Jude quotes Enoch (Jude 14). Just because he quotes Enoch, doesn't mean he's referencing a book. God quotes someone in the past to Moses, all the time in Genesis. (Briefly, Jude's Greek is ambiguous about whether he quotes Enoch the person from the Holy Spirit; or whether he's quoting from a book by Enoch.) Further, no other quotes are attributed to Enoch anywhere in the Bible. There are strong reasons to suspect no such valid book exists. So: initial audit results follow below. Given that audit, it seems clear no further review of Enoch as a possible Bible book for any reason, is warranted. But... you be the judge for yourself. I'm sure that if God wants me to review this alleged Bible book again, He'll cause me to know about it. Maybe, using you...

Just because someone slaps a lot of Bible vocabulary on a page and assigns a famous name to it, doesn't mean the material is either right, or written by that person. Even with regard to the Bible itself, you can't just assume that the text you have, is right; you have to prove it out, like a math theorem. Especially, if you are reading Bible in translation, you can bet that a good 80% of the Real Bible Meaning is mangled. If you've read my webpages for any length of time, you should have seen ample reason to suspect translated Bibles.

So: just because Bible quotes a person, doesn't mean it quotes a book allegedly written by that person; doesn't mean that who/what it quotes, it's approving. It may be reporting, it may be showing us why the person is in error — again, apart from the whys, you can't discern the whats. So: we have no idea whether the Book of Enoch was actually written by Enoch; and given its derisive tone (deriding God and Bible heroes He makes); given the number of anachronisms seemingly in it (same problem as Book of Mormon), I doubt any Divine Origin behind the words. Demonic origin, maybe; but Divine, well... let's be careful. Old doesn't mean Divine. Just because Bible topics are in it, doesn't mean it is from God.

At the moment I'm using two versions of 1 Enoch, and one version 2 Enoch in English translation (by R.H. Charles & Richard Laurence), which is not good to do. However, no translation can hide derision and flagrant contradiction which is widespread (in fact, the demons often ensure 'their books' are accurately translated anyway). Hence the bullets below constitute an initial reconnoitering. A later version of BibleWorks than I have, includes this Book in its earliest Greek and Latin texts, as well as in English.

Testing-for-Inspiration-Criterion: if there were a Book God gave Enoch to write, then It Will Be Consistent With The Bible We Have, because God is Consistent. That is the only right way to test books allegedly inspired by God. Religious councils didn't decide what is from God. God Proves His Word, Verse By Verse. So you test it with Previously-Proven Scripture. Therefore, You Go By The Content Alone. As when proving a math theorem, you first assume it from God, and then test it against whatever you already know passed that test. You don't look at what other people say, you ask God to show you. You're being trained to be a King-Priest; so You Must Learn To Discern, per the command in 1 John 4 (theme of chapter, with 1 John 4:12-19 being the macro effect of such learning on time itself).

So, you have to find out from God, whom He appoints as your right pastor (no two people are matched the same way; it's not a denomination question). So your pastor is your God-Assigned teacher, whom the Holy Spirit will use especially for you; but under the Holy Spirit, you must use what you learn under your pastor, in God's System. You are to do this, 24/7. Because you are in training to be a King, and Kings don't have 9-5 jobs.

So let's test this Book of Enoch as we should. It's incredible how much garbage exists on the web regarding this Book. Man loves titillation, so whenever a book offers controversy or titillation, That is how people view the book, never stopping to ask the right questions. The right question is, "if this if from God, how do I prove it, versus a counterfeit lie from the demon boys or ranting humans?" You prove the Word of God with the Word of God, always. And in the Holy Spirit, breathing 1 John 1:9 in God's System, as you do so. Very simple procedure. Very time-consuming. But good scholarship is always time-consuming. You don't operate on hearsay in the courtroom, so you don't operate on hearsay (what others say about a holy book) here. God's Word is always on Trial.

Hence we need to take an audit approach. Nice thing about audits, is that someone can come behind you and check your work. So if you messed up somewhere, you can be corrected. Bad thing about hearsay is that the one relying on you is in effect accrediting you with 'expertise'. So your character is what gets judged: not, the content of what you say. That's wholly dangerous, for then a person with a nice demeanor but totally wrong, gets accredited. So hearsay evidence is not allowed in any competent court. Nor should it be allowed here. So as far as you are concerned, you are auditing, yourself. You might read stuff here, but that's only for brainstorming purposes. One auditor reads another auditor's report critically. That's how I wish all my webpages to be read, and that's how I read them when I edit them. God Is Watching. So I must be watching. That's the only way we Christians can grow up in our Royal Priesthoods, for It's A Brain Thing. His Brains, to be precise. Growing up in His Brains. Our pastors are experts, but they more than everyone else, want us to think over what they say, because they want us to grow up in His Brains, Galatians 4:19 (pregnancy verse, giving-birth pains, in the Greek). If you've ever taught anyone else something, you'll understand that very parental motive. Ok: end of reminder about how to read what someone else writes. Let's get down to business!

The "Enoch" books we have are not Biblical, because:

  1. Many of the terms didn't exist until Moses or the New Testament. So the Book of Enoch might betray a younger 'age' than it claims. "Hi, I was written very late but I'm pretending to be early." This is very much like catching a child with his hand in the cookie jar; so when the child denies he was taking a cookie, you just smile...

Hoaxes are many. Genuine articles are few. So you tell a hoax by looking for its lies. If I pretend I'm age 21 but am 16; or if I pretend I'm 39 when I'm really age 52, well — there will be lies evident in my speech, my carriage, my face. So you look for the same sorts of things in a book.

So if a book is claimed to be from Enoch — Jared's Enoch, born in 3050 BC, not Cain's born much earlier — and if this Book is claimed Biblical, then: Bible terms which did not yet exist, shouldn't be in the text. The native language of it, can be dated — if you have that native language. So if Bible terms which couldn't yet exist are in the Book, the text is a fraud; its true age is revealed by the very words in it. Immaturity cannot be hidden by makeup; Wrinkles cannot be hidden, by cream. Not, anyway, to a good detector. They are as obvious as a hand in the cookie jar.

Here's how all this works with respect to Bible. Until a few centuries ago, the Bible has never been bound up as we moderns know it. It existed in pieces, as it was a Gradual Revelation of God. So it was collected, and people have always differed over what books to collect. Furthermore, Bible was written over a period of 1500 years. During that time — as you can Prove From The Original Language Text — God gradually revealed Himself, So You Knew What To Collect, What To Throw Out. In short, Every Book Could Be Compared To The Others, And Then Tested for all those hands in cookie jars. For if God writes a Book, and God is always the same, there will be a Consistency from one Book He authorizes, to the next. So Taken Together, These Books Will Fit Together. No hands in cookie jars.

So it's a flat lie that a group of men decide what is and is not Canon. God decides. All too many councils and religious leaders take credit over the centuries for what only God can prove. Debates never ended, either. So yeah, a bunch of guys back in Constantine's day really tried to separate the sheep from the goats, and they were very sincere about it; but... they didn't pick all the books properly. And ever since, stupid people just let the 'scholars' tell them what is and is not Holy Writ. But they always make mistakes, they always debate, and they always forget that the Holy Spirit can empower anyone He wants to write Divine Writ (which is why they keep arguing — they aren't asking the Right Person). Because, only God is Perfect. So you verify everything with Him. The Real God really knows His Word And Can Really Prove It To You. All you need, is to be positive, in His System. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen. And if you start doing it, He'll respond. So then He is proving it to you, as always. God and God alone! There's only one Go-Between, Christ. So now that you're saved, you get communication from God directly.

So, you can trace that gradual revelation, by the Bible terms used and later upgraded (e.g., Revelation 17 is an upgrade on the harlotry-of-religion image, in the Old Testament). You won't find "computer" in any Bible book. You won't find "telephone" in any Bible book. And You Won't Find What God Didn't Give To Earlier Generations, In Genuine Bible Books for those generations. Because God is not going to talk about, say, "computers" — until the generation that will be needing or using them.

Even when speaking prophetically, the Bible uses Terms You Can Date In Their Own Time. So Revelation, for example, doesn't talk tanks, but does pictorially describe what we today would recognize as tanks. So if the word "tanks" was in the original language text of Revelation (in Greek), we'd know that word in the Book was a fraud of the 20th century; for that's when tanks were invented. See? The hand would be in the cookie jar!

Counterfeits betray themselves in their own words. Counterfeits which aim to replace or skew Bible's importance will ape Bible words — but the time those Bible words were used the same way as the counterfeit, doesn't match the alleged time the counterfeit was written. Well, there are many variations of mismatch, not only with respect to time. But here's one you should be able to trace: "sabbath" is not a term used until Exodus. Because, the "sabbath" was a gift to national Israel. It's a technical term. So also, "King over Kings" was never used of God until the New Testament, and then for the Humanity of Christ. (In the Old Testament, the term is used of higher-than-normal potentates, all of whom were human. God's Kingship is evidenced by other terms.) So if the Book of Enoch uses a term which existed in the Old Testament past his 'time', then Enoch looks suspicious: especially, since no version of his language, survives.

And that's the problem here: there were No Jews Prior To The Flood, but Enoch is full of Jewish terminology; Abram is the ninth generation after the Flood (Arpachshad is first post-Flood), and Abraham is the first Jew, by faith (evidenced by circumcision, see Romans 4). Yet you'll find commentators frequently observe that the Book of Enoch was translated from Hebrew (text doesn't exist in Hebrew, but is supposedly full of Hebraisms). Well, Hebrew didn't exist, until after the Flood. So it's not Enoch's native tongue. There shouldn't even be anything Jewish in the book. Abram was the first Hebrew, the first one circumcised. His 6th-generation-back 'father' Eber (from which many think "Hebrew" is derived) — was born 65 years after the Flood. Are you beginning to get the impression something is amiss with this Book?

The very name "Enoch" is Hebrew, and that, because Moses wrote the name that way. It is really "Chanuch" or "Chanoch" (guttural soft ch sound, not "chat"room). Name means "Dedicated", "Devoted", idea of being Totally Set On God. "Chanukah" comes from the same root. But we don't know the original actual name for "Dedicated" in that language. Moses is translating, and he's getting the information Directly From God. So any "Book of Enoch" is by definition a translation, not an original language text. Just the same, it shouldn't be dealing with things Jewish at all.

However, translations use terms which are familiar to current readers. So those translated words might not be in the original. So you can't tell if you've got a fraud, from a translation. This is the problem we have with the Book of Enoch: we don't have the original language texts. We know we don't, because the texts' languages we have, did not exist back when Enoch existed. That fact is a red flag, as you'll soon see.

But let's pause now to test what you've learned, using a Bible-debunker favorite, the claim that Moses & Co. Didn't cross the Red Sea; the Bible contradicts itself. Oh, what a perfect test this is. Look: it's true that "Sea of Reeds" is used in the Hebrew Old Testament to designate what we know as the Red Sea. For the Jews wandering in the wilderness, only knew it as the Sea of Reeds. (Yama Suph, first occurrence in Exodus 10:19.) However, sometime afterwards, the Sea was renamed, owing to what happened in it when the Jews crossed it. We can trace that renaming, historically and etymologically, in the changes of Greek language. For the story spread everywhere, and as people are wont to do, they rename places which had famous events, with names related to those events. So by the 3rd century BC, when the (Old Testament) Hebrew Bible was translated into the Greek Septuagint — the same sea was called the "Red Sea" (= Erythraean Sea, a term also used in Enoch 32:2's translation, also in LXX Exodus 10:19 ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν). Because, By The Time the LXX Was Written circa 273 BC, the Greeks had long 'baptised' it with that name, owing to the drowning of Pharaoh's entire army. Etymology is important, especially for dating and validating some book claiming to be from God.

Notice how there is no contradiction. Notice how it's valid for a book translated in the 3rd century BC to use a term in its own time. No hand in the cookie jar, no anachronism. Notice further that "Sea of Reeds" is also not an anachronism, for the Hebrew Old Testament. By contrast, if instead the Hebrew Old Testament had used the term "Red Sea"... we'd know someone long after Moses, adulterated the text. Oh, Hand in cookie jar! Hoax: at least, with respect to that term. Now you know why a pastor's job is so exacting. Ideally, this Counterfeit detection is part of his Job, like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". For a pastor is supposed to study the Bible in its Original Languages, not in translation. That's why God preserved the original language texts, and gives us His Brains, to learn them. That's the only "gift of tongues" which remains after 70 AD. I really wish the tongues crowd would read the Bible someday. Paul reminds his audience in 1 Corinthians 14 that tongues are for the Jewish unbeliever, giving them the Gospel, quoting Isaiah 28 — parallel to what happened to Samaria, tongues were a Judgement Announcement of Impending Destruction which — standard procedure — lasted 40 years before the Judgement came. Peter did the same announcing using Joel 2, in Acts 1. See: if you don't know what the Bible says, you're a sucker for anything some fake book or ignorant-but-sincere teacher, claims. Most people involved with Bible are very sincere, and sincerely ignorant. Which means, all of us.

So too, here in the Book of Enoch, you'll find in translation "sabbath", "Sinai", "King over Kings", and literally dozens of other keywords which did not exist at the time Enoch lived; we know that, because those terms were Invented by God, i.e., due to Abram, due to Israel becoming a nation; they were Gifts Never Given Before. It's not that people didn't rest on the sabbath before: but "sabbath" in Hebrew means Promised Day, first. Promise of Messiah. Term "Messiah" is a Jewish Term related to His Role to Israel. Means "Anointed One", "King" — and only of Israel, not some other nation. "Savior" is the general term. So "sabbath" is a technical word for a special use of the Rest Day, given to Israel. If you read Hebrews 4 even in translation, you'll see the author play on this Promised Day, Promise meaning of "sabbath".

Gratuitous Extra Comment: a lot of Bible debunkers thus make fools of themselves when looking at later books of Bible which change place (or people) names, not knowing the 'update' rule. For example, in the Old Testament, "Mt. Moriah" is later designated "Mt. Zion"; because the name changed, you know when to date the writing and how to use the text doctrinally. So it's not a contradiction. Bible debunkers also don't know the fallacy of dating a book based on media age: so they exclaim the Bible is later than other religious books (despite other religious books having a much younger age anyway: Qur'an and Bhagavad Gita are dated only in the AD's for manuscripts), because the manuscript's age, is 400 AD! How embarrassing for them. Also, Bible will call the same place by an older or later name to reference what time period applies. So when the writer of Hebrews says "you have come to Mt. Zion", he refers to the Doctrine about the Change of Status in Mt. Moriah. It's kinda like the difference between saying "Abram" (pre-circumcision, pre-Isaac) and "Abraham" (post-Isaac, promise fulfilled).

So you have to find out whether the original text of the Book of Enoch, used such anachronistic terms. So I'd have to see the Book's original language texts, to find that hand in the cookie jar. I can't tell from the translation, whether or not the translator was revising the text for the convenience of his contemporary readers. That's a valid thing to do. But it signifies fraud if the underlying original text, also uses such "anachronisms".

But we don't have any original language Book of Enoch: we only have later translations in language forms which didn't exist back then. That is our first potential red flag, that this book is not from God. God preserved the Bible, so if this were His Word, He'd have preserved it in the original languages, just as He has all His Other Books. God preserved 66 validatable books in the original languages, copied down through the centuries: but not "Book of Enoch"? Hmmm. This red flag criterion is part and parcel of the science of textual criticism. Dating a book depends on the Use Of Language At The Time, not on the age of the written medium. So if you don't have the original language texts, you Cannot Validate The Book. Again, because in translation, updated terminology will be used for the contemporary audience. God never gives a book you cannot validate, because then in effect He'd be lying. Can't demand you test something, but then deny what you need for testing!

The Bible we have, is in languages we can date. The Old Testament was originally in Hebrew (and several other old languages, mixed with the Hebrew); and we not only can prove that, but copies of that very ancient Hebrew, have been preserved. Same, for the New Testament's multiple-Greek tongues.

Here's why these facts about the original language texts, are critical to your spiritual life. Not just interesting, but a life-and-death matter. You need Counterfeit Detectors against false teaching and false translation. If you don't have the original language texts to check, you have no clue whether you are getting the truth. Think of it as Freedom-of-Information.

For example, there's a great deal of both false translation and false teaching, and you can prove all of it is due to not using the original language texts properly. Even the higher-ranking Biblical scholars have been terribly remiss in not noticing how often the Septuagint is directly quoted in the New Testament. It's not as though the lexicons, didn't spend a lot of time comparing the Hebrew and Greek counterparts, because the Lord and the New Testament writers used the LXX so much. But those lexicons, just gather dust. And the dust, chokes our understanding of Him. We are dead men, walking in a whirlwind of swirling darkness (metaphor in 1 John 1), even though saved. Thinking we are in the Light.

Volumes of meaning in the New Testament thus go unnoticed, untaught, unrealized. All because, the Hebrew texts aren't taught, properly translated, and the LXX isn't amalgamated with for the New Testament transformative additions. This lack of amalgamation is positively fatal in certain passages, such as Isaiah 52:13-54:1 (Satan himself both quotes from the LXX, and uses lexical borrowing from Isaiah 52:13-54:1 i.e. δείκνυσιν in Matthew 4:8). There, you have a blow by blow explanation how sins got paid for on the Cross. So we don't know how: and what we don't understand, we will doubt. It won't be a pleasure, to believe in Him, because there is so much ignorance. Which ignorance persists, since you aren't being taught what is really in the Bible.

So instead of learning the truth, you get fed speculations, and stupid ideas like Christ's physical death is what paid for sins; which idea fails even logic; since sin is a thought, so would have to be paid for with thought; which the LXX proves in Isaiah 52:13-54:1. But you won't know the proof even exists. So you have to plead the Blood, imagine some stupid Grail cup somewhere, call it a "mystery". Yeah, right under our noses! Hiding in plain sight.

This lack of counterfeit detection is fatal to your spiritual life. Everyone talks about being "Filled with the Spirit", yet who knows what it means? The holy rollers think you feel it. So they froth at the mouth. The workaholics think your works are infused, in some magical way. Yet 1 John 1:9 in the Greek, makes it clear how: he uses καθαρίζω, a Temple-purifying verb; you are God's Temple, so if you don't name your sin to God, you are a Defiled Temple. And the Temple in the Old Testament was never filled while it was defiled. So if you aren't habitually breathing 1 John 1:9, you don't have the Holy Spirit filling you; which is why John uses "καθαρίζω". But you can't know John uses that word, if you don't read it in the original language text. And you can't know what John means even if you do read that word, if you don't also search on it in the LXX. This isn't rocket science, okay? It took me only five minutes to see that meaning, by doing just such a search. Maybe back in medieval days, it was hard to know this information; but it's a cinch, now! Yet ask around: who knows this fact? Not one Christian, in a million.

So look at the huge damage: literally millions of Christians are spiritually comatose in every generation, doing scads of dead works they themselves don't even like (let alone, God): simply because they do not know the usage of 1 John 1:9. Which, almost no pastors, teach. Because, the pastors don't know. Because, they ignore the LXX. Because, the pastors don't study in the original language texts. So, then: how could they know that the Book of Enoch is a fraud? They can't. Took me but an hour to know, simply because I was taught Bible in the original language texts so I know what its Real Doctrines are. Anyone on the planet can likewise know: it's the Holy Spirit's Brains, not a human's (God won't accept lesser-quality than Himself, which is why we needed a Cross in the first place).

Expensive Extra Comment: so you must depend on God, in order to be sure you: a) are really using His Word, not a counterfeit, and b) are properly interpreting What Word you have. Whether you had only some books, or all of them. This takes a lot of time, and is the primary Job of a pastor. But we who study under such pastors, must understand that we too must do our homework. For a pastor must necessarily simplify what he teaches to a group. It's not like grade school, where you get assigned homework and a gold star if you do it. No, We Are Training To Be Kings. So must take our own initiative, and work through what we learn. Without needing a gold star or a pat on the back. Kings don't get gold stars. They get gold crowns. And the guillotine, when they misuse those crowns.

So those who don't use 1 John 1:9, will not be able to discern between a fraudulent book like the Book of Enoch, and a genuine Bible book. And they will not be able to properly interpret even real Bible. So will be easily choked by similar sounds in the fraudulent book, in religion, in pulpits — Mistaking Sounds for Substance. That is why you have so much disagreement over the centuries about what doctrines, books, ideas, are "Biblical." And such poor research. Very expensive mistake. For which, God will allow no excuses, at the Bema. Because, we really have this Legacy from Christ to be trained as Kings under the King over Kings.

But we have no such 'counterfeit detector' to verify the Book of Enoch. All the texts are in translation, and all of them in languages which are post-Flood. So if God really had Enoch write a Book we were supposed to get, then He'd have preserved what Enoch originally wrote (else, the Trial of the Angelic Conflict would have to end as this would defy Matthew 4:4). What words Enoch himself actually wrote: not, a translation. That's what He's done with respect to all the other authors He Empowered. Moreover, much-earlier versions of what we call Hebrew and Greek did exist back in Enoch's day, and we have preserved texts of those; but not of Enoch. So the fact that God didn't preserve the original, means He didn't commission Enoch write a book for us. So whatever book we have, is not from God. By the time you finish reading this section, you'll probably realize why.

True textual criticism involves seeking anachronisms in the original text, to decide the validity and date the text was written; but in translation, the translator might use anachronisms, for the sake of audience comprehension. So you know nothing certain about the date of a book's text (holy or not), unless you have the original language text. Doesn't matter that it's a copy; does matter that the original words were preserved.

So even if it were true (which it's not), then the only valid preservation of "Enoch" would hypothetically be in the Jude quote. You'll find a lot of books referenced in the Old Testament which we also don't have. If those books were corrupted, such that no valid original language text remains even in scraps, then God will have preserved the valid parts He wants, in the Bible itself. So, in the Old Testament accounts you'll see that done. Thus you immediately know two things: 1) God preserved what He wanted, and 2) anything else out there is a fake. However, as with everything else in Bible, you can't use that rule as black-and-white. You must still do your homework with whatever "witness" you have. The term "witness" is here used technically; it's a theological term for a book of antiquity.

So this #1 by itself is pretty conclusive, because God Is Consistent. He consistently Preserved the Very Words He had Isaiah pen. Same is true, for every other author. God breathed what He wanted communicated into the authors; it's not automatic writing, but understanding. Then they, from their Spirit-run understanding, exhaled exactly what God wanted written. Those people. Not the translators. Those people in their languages. Not, later ones.

Still, let's give the Book of Enoch the benefit of the doubt; let's examine what it teaches, and note anything which contradicts the genuine Bible we have. In short, we'll pretend that well.. The Holy Spirit coulda handled the translation of Book of Enoch, too — after all, He'd know in advance, what would happen to it. So as you read what follows, ask yourself: Would the Holy Spirit, have authorized this book we have? He'll answer. You'll see...

  1. Next problem category, Book of Enoch's contradicting account of same things Bible already explains. For example, "Enoch" Chapter 2 versus the Bible account of the Flood in Genesis 6, seems very contradictory. Book of Enoch provides a rather bizarre scenario which is nowhere in Scripture. On smaller details, there are also contradictions. For in Genesis 6, God says that rain had not come upon the earth until the Flood; but Enoch 2 (and elsewhere) in translation, says there was always rain. There's also the problem of "seasons" being claimed in Enoch, which aren't discussed in Bible until after the Flood: takes too long to explain this problem.

Chapters 6ff relate a contradictory relationship between men and angels, versus the Bible. Example: Enoch 9:3 has men pray to angels. Scripture prohibits that — it's idolatry. You always pray to God, alone; to pray to someone else is to acknowledge that substitute as god/idol. Bible never deviates from this: search Bible for yourself. God is never inconsistent. For that same reason, Bible prohibits the praying-to-saints stuff, because it violates the First Commandment: see John 17, Ephesians 1:15-21, 3:15-21, and even the disciples' prayer (AKA "The Lord's prayer", which is not even a prayer, but a template outline He used in teaching.)

Other problems with the Flood account in Genesis 6 versus Enoch take too long to explain, but if you review them both, especially with respect to all that silly angel behavior in Enoch, you should see how 'off' the latter is. The demons being mentioned by names the Bible never mentions, the crying for forgiveness — all that is downright slapstick. Even Enoch reports their activity as premeditated, so how penitent will they be? Notice how nasty God looks in the Enoch text, for not forgiving those poor angels who just wanted to have a little fun. Sheesh. You know who wrote that stuff, huh. By the way, demonic cohabitation did happen; whether the Book of Enoch accurately describes it (i.e., with only 200 angels involved), well.. I doubt it. Genesis 6 is laconic, but the Hebrew is deft; the doctrine is much referenced in the New Testament (almost constantly, because Genesis 6 was the demon-counter plan to God's spiritual begetting of 'sons', a counter-plan they still employ now, but via soul 'fornication'). Genesis 6 says angels co-habited with women; it's not symbolic or figurative. Christianity is historically squeamish about admitting that. Well, then might as well be squeamish about God Himself, okay? In short, anything that contradicts the Bible is not from God, so you always have to be sure what "Bible" is. And you can never be sure of what "Bible" is, in translation. So any appearance of contradiction, is a big red flag warning you to investigate the original text. Which, you should just flat do anyway, for there may be masked contradictions due to translation, which would be revealed by comparing the original texts. Again: this kind of function is part and parcel of the science of textual criticism.

  1. There are Disconsolate Differences in the writing style, suggestive of different authors, so maybe part of the Book is valid, but part is corrupted (adulterated). Chapters 1-4, 39-51, are kinda like Bible's: sorta laconic, using stock imagery for the sake of deft economy of communication. In these chapters however, the writing style — again, this is a tentative observation from a translation! — isn't as metaphorically-dense as I'd expect, for an Old Testament book. It's more abstract, like an New Testament book, though it's also like Job (which is the oldest version of Hebrew we know of, if I remember my pastor's comments correctly). Well, that's yet another major category of analysis, in textual criticism.
  1. There are Math Errors. Okay, but math errors are claimed in the Bible all the time: yeah, but on closer inspection, it's the one crying "Error!" who's mistaken. So maybe that's true here, as well. Enoch Chapter 58 it says Enoch got a vision in his 500th year. Well, that's impossible. Enoch lived as many years as the solar calendar has days, 365: see the Genesis 5 roster. However, maybe the "500" in the Book of Enoch we have, is a textual error or a typo; I'm only scanning the translation I got from reluctant-messenger.com, thus far. It's also possible that this whole Book of Enoch is really the Book of Noah, misnamed, and with corrupted text; so maybe Noah is recounting the story back from the days of Enoch and the vision given him: for we know God made a contract with Noah when Noah was 500 years old, per Genesis 5 (compare to "Book of Enoch" chapter 10, v.1). If God gives you something to write, you didn't have to be there to properly report it. No humans but Adam and the woman were in the Garden, but Moses could write accurately about them. So it's possible we have adulterated text, some of which is genuinely from God. Research in Bible or maybe-Bible stuff, is never simple. Nor should it be. It's always a house-to-house fight, when it comes to validating what is from God. Our sins weren't paid for with ease, and our learning of Bible isn't easy, either. If it were easy, then it would be humanly possible. But God is out to prove that He doesn't want what is humanly possible, which is why works never save anything. Not even, your own daily life: notice how you gotta keep taking a shower over and over? Hint hint!
  1. There are many other anti-Bible problems with the text; but you shorten search time if you first look for derision. Obviously God will not deride Himself nor the heroes He makes. But demon-sponsored stuff derides God, and pointedly, too. First signature characteristic of their stuff will be incredibly witty, slapstick derision in the text. Well, "Enoch" Chapters 5-17 (and passim after that, especially Chapters 32, 52ff!) are flagrantly anti-Biblical, derisively-lurid in the style of the fake Gospels and other against-God tripe. Chapter 5-17 contradicts Bible in its Doctrine: God doesn't send men to rebuke angels, even as He forbids men pray to angels (all the idol passages in Bible, are described as demon-sponsored, so that's why you pray to no one but God Himself). Read Jude on the rebuke issue. Worse, these "Enoch" chapters basically deride God and deride Enoch, which is a classic sign of satanic sponsorship of a holy book (make God and the heroes He builds, look like fools). Read the Koran also, because the Chapter 12-17 style of "Enoch", is very similar to the Koran (i.e., "Jesus" passages in the Mary sura and elsewhere, plus Iblis passages). The Koran was written far later than "Enoch", and yet the style is so alike? Hmmm. Humans don't live that long...

In all fake holy books, the angels are particularly chatty. Bible's angels, by contrast, are to-the-point, even laconic in communication. Chattiness is nearly a litmus test, because it so quickly predicts the ultimate 'guilt' of demonic origin. Chattiness is an inferior quality. Concept of running-at-the-mouth, of being controlled by a demon (etymologically). Isaiah 28's "tsav lasav" quotes are designed to mimic Gentile/drunken/mindless speech and also roteness-of-religion. Demon possession or influence results in "λαλέω", verb of the ἐγγαστρίμυθος demon controlling your vocal chords. So you blither. Since Satan & Co. Obviously know this theme in Bible, they practice and mimic it to 'advertise' their sponsorship. Okay, then: the angels in the Book of Enoch are incredibly chatty. Koran's "Gabriel" is verbose. Moroni, in Book of Mormon, can't shut up. Fluff phrases abound, etc. So the chattiness index of the Book of Enoch, renders it suspicious.

Enoch Chapter 32 (R.H. Charles' translation) is downright hysterical. God's Tree, the "Tree of Life" (which prolonged life, not knowledge) is not mentioned by name (a form of derision, idea of a thing not deserving mention). But ho! Look what is mentioned, and in a complimentary way! Whoa — that "Tree of Knowledge", which is Satan's tree, in Genesis 2:7 and Genesis 3! But oh, here in "Enoch 32", it's in the Forbidden Garden (off-limits, since the Fall, per Genesis 3); and yet everyone magically can get in there anyway and eat from it and get Wisdom (verse 3 compared to v.6)? What a stitch — so wisdom is forbidden?! That's exactly the same accusation made against God as in Genesis 3, and no one who believes this Book is divine, notices God being maligned again in exactly the same way? Oh, the last verse in that chapter lies against God just like Genesis 3:11 does!

I have to explain Genesis 3:11, or you won't get the joke. That verse is mistranslated in every Bible language and every Bible version I can read, going all the way back to 1550. In the Hebrew, "nagath" means to denounce, but it's translated "tell". See for yourself. Now: compare the meaning if the correct "denounce" is used, versus the "tell" you have in translation, with the surrounding text beginning at Genesis 2:24. Do you see how the mistranslation, denounces God? For it makes Him look as if He either: a) withheld information, or b) lied to them (about being naked). Okay: but then how could they be naked and not ashamed, if they didn't know they were naked? Can't be 'ashamed' or not, unless you know something. So now: compare to the end of this Enoch Chapter 32! Do you see? Surely this chapter is demon authored. Only demons are clever enough to realize the screw up in the translation of Genesis 3:11, to write Enoch 32 as they do. Which means, translations of Genesis existed at the time this "Enoch 32" was written. So that part of the text was not written pre-Flood, or even pre-Israel, get it? Funny how knowing the original language texts of Bible causes you to be able to detect counterfeits in other books, huh.

Tree of Knowledge is Satan's tree; it, not God's Tree is named; it, not God's Tree is delicious for wisdom (same language as Genesis 3, allusively), well... who do you think would be interested in cutting God out, but grafting Satan in? Would the Holy Spirit do that? Or an evil spirit?

And just for added fun, the text makes it appear as though Adam and Eve were Enoch's parents! Well, maybe the original text is more precise, I'd have to check. Do ya notice how Enoch is drooling over Satan's Tree? Would a guy so great a hero, do that? Do you see how the angel he's talking with, makes fun of him? Do you think the Holy Spirit had anything whatsoever to do with this chapter?

Lots of what looks like blah-blah-blah gnostic stuff from chapter 52 forward (gnosticism has many flavors, and its animistic roots began well before the first century AD). The gnostic stuff isn't even clever, so could just be human ego-tripping (or a bored demon who's deriding our ability to discern valid and meaningful metaphors, from mere sound-alikes). Just seeing these chapters makes me want to reject the whole Book, but no God doesn't like such sloppy scholarship. (The text kinda reminds me of the goofy fake ending after Mark 16:14, which clearly someone added, but not Mark. Mark's whole theme is that the generation getting this Gospel re-telling, is just as negative as the generation which saw Christ face-to-face; not believing in Him, directly proportional to the miracles He did. So Mark is not going to end his Gospel book with an exhortation or claim that those telling the Gospel will do miracles. God is never inconsistent in His Message! Furthermore, this is not the only place the "Great Commission" exists. It's been the Great Commission, since Adam, sheesh. That's why we have an Old Testament, to begin with! So I don't know that Mark would end with verse 15; verse 14 is more consistent with the book's theme (and pointed, 🤣). Verse 16 flatly contradicts Scripture — it's always and only been, "believe": see Genesis 15:6, compare to like verses in the New Testament.)

  1. The (variant forms of the) "Book of Enoch" we have is awfully clever; it's a cut above human intelligence, in some of its usages, particularly with respect to allusive play on bible verses. Which matters, because this "Book of Enoch" would be, if valid, actually the first-written book of the Bible. So it shouldn't be alluding to other Bible verses which didn't yet exist. That's a serious red flag to investigate. Just as in #1, late vocabulary proves false a claim of early authorship; so also books alluding to 'future' Bible verses, scream: Hi, I was written late but I pretend to be early; but since you're too bored to learn Bible, you'll mistake my obviously late writing date.. For 'prophecy'. Because you want to believe it's early so you can call yourself special because you know this. Hoax, like 'Piltdown Man'! And we are the fools! Phoney as a lead nickel. But someone will try to spend it anyhow...

The Book of Mormon has this screaming as its salient feature; it alleges to be written just after the destruction of the First Temple, but uses thousands of New Testament references which did not exist in the Old Testament Bible. And derisively twists those New Testament references as well. I particularly like the derision against Acts 4:12, which in the Book of Mormon says you "might (not the Bible's "must") be saved."

  1. Book of Enoch has uncharacteristic specificities. 2 Enoch 36 claims God took him 30 days after giving him the revelation to pass on — you don't find Bible giving "30 days" notice. It's either much longer, or unstated, or "tomorrow". Bible goes by precedence. So if Book of Enoch were valid, it would set Precedence. In which case, we'd have a whole lot of 30-day-notices in the Bible. But, we don't. So, that's a red flag, too. Here, we also know the warning began before "Methuselah" was born, since "Methuselah" is the Living Warning, and Enoch lived another 300 years after that; but see Enoch 82, which sounds a bit more sensible. It is common for a departing prophet to put in writing at that time what he learned from God as a legacy for future generations; that's why the Gospels are in writing a generation later. But the reduction to writing, isn't the first warning, but the last one; it generally occurs after a lifetime of prophesying in person. Pick any Old Testament prophet you like, to see that pattern play in the Old Testament (usually at beginning or the end of a prophet's books will be some command from God telling him to put the revelation in writing).

So "30 days"? Well, it could be allusive of 300 years (day = year) in deliberate metaphor, but Methuselah was only born then. So why, in 2 Enoch, is our Dedicated prophet talking to a newly-born child? Makes him look like a fool (derision, again). Or, why is he given only 30 days' notice to communicate and teach what he wrote? Doesn't make sense; God is thus derided, for being so perfunctory about what's supposed to be an eternal teaching aid for the kids. And most importantly, this specific-notice-period isn't echoed in what are supposed to be later Bible books: not one Old Testament prophet is given a specific notice like the one in Book of Enoch. So if the Book of Enoch were valid, then every Old Testament prophet's write-a-book command, would likewise have a dated 'notice'. So this "Book of Enoch" is likely invalid, okay?

Do ya notice how careful the Enoch text is? People don't know these things about Bible. Most can barely spell "Bible". The fact that the Old Testament plainly records prophets writing books at the end of their ministries, so that's why the Gospels are also, well... people always debunk the Bible because of those late writing dates, claiming those dates make the accuracy wrong. So they prove they didn't learn that pattern of revelation by God is His Policy. But the writer of 2 Enoch, sure knows. So while 2 Enoch is slapstick, yet the precise awareness of Bible is cultivated. Which again, begs the question of the 'age' of 2 Enoch. Can't be aware of a Bible which didn't yet exist. And if you're a demon, you'll advertise the younger age of the book you're feigning, by pointing to the Bible's structure. Because it really did exist at the time the demon wrote the book, and you're a fool for believing in that book if you didn't do your homework in the Bible which then existed.

They do this very thing with all fake holy books. It's very obvious. Whether it's some other fake Gospel or pseudepigrapha, the Book of Mormon, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, you name it. There's this same pattern of derisive pointing. So you are the fool, if you don't see it. They hate us with all their hearts and souls and minds...

  1. The so-called Book (Apocalypse) of Noah, Chapter 60, says Enoch's vision began Year 500 (again in translation, who knows if that's what the original says) — but that date doesn't work either, because Enoch wasn't even born until 622 years after Adam's fall; Noah was born 69-70 years after Enoch's death, so that wipes out the Biblicity of Chapter 65, too. Naturally, both chapters deride both Noah and Enoch. Demon-authored books are like that.
  1. But hey: in Chapter 65 (like Chapter 32 above), the same accusation is made, as in Genesis 3 — oh, God is withholding information from mankind, and punished the angels for giving that withheld information to mankind! Naughty naugty God, huh. For in Chapter 65, God is supposedly punishing mankind due to angels giving him forbidden knowledge of metallurgy, etc.? Does no one read Genesis 4-5, which explains how that knowledge was derived by man? So oh no — God unfairly punishes, because useful knowledge He had ordered hidden, being revealed. Contrast that with the real reason Real God mentions, at the beginning of Genesis 6. We must have cotton for brains, to just accept any old book as Holy Writ because it sorta sounds like Bible. Sure, there might be some scraps of obsolete information; and no doubt some valid truths (demons skew truth, so they use truth); but this Book is absolutely not Canon — well, it's part of the canon of demons, that's for sure. Different "c", for "circus": there's a sucker born every minute, as P.T. Barnum would say. It's all downhill from Chapter 65.

God is Truth. So to accuse God of hiding anything, is to call Him a liar, and a sadist. Your typical Fake holy book which alleges to be Biblical or updating the Bible, always accuses God of hiding something. This accusation will be couched in flowery language, and play off Bible verses: oh, you special person, you get this Hidden Manna, which others were denied. That's a blatant reference to the term "mystery" which is in the New Testament, and the fake holy book is deriding the term. With the poor sop who's told he's special, too impressed with himself to recognize he's being ridiculed. (Same kind of thing happens with fake visions, 'ufo Visitors', 'ghosts', etc. You're supposed to feel privy, so you will just swallow the lies told you.) The Biblical term "mystery" (μυστήριον) means doctrine only known to a select group. Now, think: the New Testament is a published book. Anyone anywhere in the world can get it. So nothing is hidden. In fact, the Greek word for truth, "ἀλήθεια", literally means "nothing hidden".

But the future is 'hidden', in the sense that it has not yet happened. So the Church was a contingent future event, known therefore only to God. And the Church would not happen, had Israel not rejected Christ. And Israel would not have rejected Christ, if there was no Christ. So until Christ came, all that future was a mystery. So as, not to coerce free will. So as Paul exhaustively explains in Romans 9-11, what was 'hidden', was the future existence of Messiah, since He wasn't born yet; it was up to Him to decide how He would live, so once He came, He was no longer hidden. So what was hidden, was Israel's future rejection of Him, since it was up to them to decide. So what was hidden, was Church's future existence, since it was contingent upon Israel's rejection. So what was hidden, was how God would still fulfill all His goals, being as the contingency hadn't yet occurred. But it was not hidden to God (this is the theme of Ephesians 1, readable enough even in translation).

So the "mystery of God", which is an Old Testament term, referred to the revelation of Messiah, and the fulfillment of the promise of saving the Gentiles. But since Israel did reject Messiah when He came, the "mystery" changed to Church, Matthew 16:18 (trace all "mystery" verses in Bible, see for yourself). Israel is not replaced by Church. Only the part of her future (hence "mystery") potential covenant changed. She rejected the marriage contract, essentially. So now Esther must be found. So the "mystery" of Church, is... will it complete?

By succeeding at the Cross, Christ forever secured salvation. Now, it's only a question of Time. That's pretty critical, since we are the hidden, now. In the eyes of the world, we Christians are goofballs. That is true. But goofball or not, the very continuance of Time depends on the very few among us who grow up under the Spirit from goofball to greatness. Which, clearly only He can do. So the very spiritual life of Christ is our legacy (I love Peter's wry term "ὑπογραμμός", CopyBook). And it's a "mystery" to those uninterested to learn it, but it's no mystery to God.

And what is that CopyBook material? You can know God Himself better, more intimately, than any other covenanted group of humans who have ever lived or ever will live. For Church is the Body of Christ. As close as one can get. Higher and real knowledge. Knowledge you won't regret; knowledge you take with you. Togetherness with God in thinking. Nothing in this world, compares.

This intimacy achievement of Christ — and the resultant formation of Church — really riles Satan & Co. They want the status which goes with our intimacy, and they are rabid about us puny getting what they consider, rightfully theirs. So they are obsessed with advertising us. So they bang the drum, just as they did back in the Lord's Day (see Mark's Gospel) on hidden hidden hidden mystery hidden hidden... like "HAL" in 2001: A Space Odyssey, run amok. The "hidden knowledge" which was wrong to get in the Garden, was knowledge of sin. Now flipped into "hidden knowledge", the "mystery doctrine" in the New Testament, which — 🤣 — is no mystery any longer, but published! Paul has no end of fun with that ironic outcome. But Satan & Co. Use the theme derisively everywhere they can. Marvelling at their own cleverness. And we hapless, nonetheless favored, well.. We truly are a mystery, even to ourselves, bypassing this Unique Covenant. Which is 'hiding' in plain sight, in every hotel room drawer. Bible: Being fulfilled, Ephesians 1:15-21.

So every fake holy book turns the above true definition of "hidden" into malicious derision, cheapening the definition to sorcery, magic, mysticism, tongues, and knowledge of the universe. None of which definitions, are at all secret! So that's what you have here in Enoch: it's definitely a post-Canon burlesque. Oh, Enoch, you are better than the angels, you get all this banal earthly information. Thereby putting down the angels who obey God, angels who know God — so notice — knowing God is put on a lower plane than mere dead earthly information! Is there greater hating derision than this? Worse than even given to the woman in Genesis 3 — oh, God is withholding information, but if you eat from the tree, you will get it, aren't you special. Morphed versions of Genesis 3 accusation, here updated with "hidden", are used to bait you into buying the lie. At which point, God is accused and you bought it. Whether you know it or not.

A lot of Christians don't know it. A lot of Christians think that mass or scholarly human opinion of the pseudepigrapha in the past, justifies the material as 'godly'. Okay, then a whole lot of murders were done in the past, too: should we thus murder, because so many others have? Sheesh. These Christians have their eyes on people and things, so God's Word being maligned by each of the pseudepigrapha books, goes unnoticed by them. The quintessential proof of a demonic book, is that it derides God. But we just praise the book anyway, ignorant of its import. Because, we can't read it. It totally boggles my mind how many Christians argue for these terrible books. Because, they don't read them. What they read, is public opinion. Selectively.

You just have to look up this stuff on the internet. It's sheer Twilight Zone. If they spent a sliver's worth of the same time in the real Bible, they'd never go back to that snouting tripe. I mean, look: Enoch was pre-Flood. There were no Jews pre-Flood. But they don't notice that, either, and continue to pound away about Jewish stuff in Enoch, so therefore it's divine writ? Amazing. I guess the moon is made of green cheese, too...

Well, what's left they can use to justify this book? They usually justify the Book of Enoch, based on other pseudepigrapha books which recognize it. Why no Bible book? No Bible book recognizes any pseudepigrapha book. What, is the Bible we can prove from God, which never contradicts itself — of lesser value, than the lurid pseudepigrapha which routinely malign Our Savior and flagrantly contradict Scripture? Come on: you can't say the Bible endorses a book if only one quote in the entire bible, Jude 14, is from Enoch. And in the Greek, all that Jude uses, is "λέγων". That's no where near as strong as "it stands written" (latter is always a quote from a book, "γέγραπται"). "λέγει" can be used for indirect discourse, direct discourse, quoting a person's remark. Not necessarily, some book.

There are a lot of folks in México named Jesús. If one of them wrote a book, should we jump up and down, saying it had to be from the Lord? Sheesh. Well, "Enoch" isn't only the Enoch. Anyone can read a Bible, mess with the facts a little, and pretend to be him. Plus, the Book of Enoch allegedly dates from the inter-testamental period of the Jews (which I now doubt, too many post-Christ New Testament references in it). That inter-testamental period was the time when God left them: the Temple was not filled. The Maccabees were in power for most of the time from 160's BC onward, and once entrenched, they usurped royal power (no sons of David among them, but they were of the priestly caste). It was an apostate time, in Judaism, worse than prior. Last book God gave them was Malachi, about 434 BC. So why no quotes from Enoch, in the Old Testament? So this Book was held as sacred by the quasi-Kabbalic Essenes — an odd bunch, if ever there was one. Much of what they believed was anti-Bible. Oh, heck: just anyone can write anything and claim any famous name wrote it, never mind the claim is made two millennia later? Whatever happened to forensic examination compared to Bible doctrine?

So: Satan & Co. want to help us poor hapless believers, who'll believe anything is Bible, if it says so. Hence, to make sure you have no excuse for your ignorance of Bible, the fake holy books always take unimportant earthly knowledge which titillates the sin nature, and glorify it. Like, knowing a whole lot of facts, is not knowledge. You just have a good memory... but what deft use can you make of the information? And what would it matter, if you didn't know God? Do you think, on your deathbed, that it will matter at all what human praise you got? What abilities you had? You're dying now. What's all that past stuff mean? Means bupkis, that's what. But so long as you can be distracted from really evaluating what kind of knowledge is important (Hosea 4:6 warning), well... you can be palliated with the fantasy that the number of facts in your head makes you a smart person.

Hence "secret knowledge" is the cornerstone of gnosticism, which goes back easily to 500 BC or more. "Enlightment", "Nirvana", all those Eastern religious concepts are expressions of this. But think: at least in the Eastern religions, the "secret knowledge" you work so hard (i.e., at body positions) to attain, is at least the sharing of Godness, at some level. It's certainly not knowledge about science stuff like metallurgy, agriculture, astronomy, etc. So note how in Enoch the so-called wisdom is not about God Himself, but rather about the physical universe. Big whoop. God uses that knowledge in Job, to argue; so Job already knew, as did his friends, and they talk fluently about it, no one gawking over his being special. So big whoop, that you know earthly things: but what about, the Mind of God? Now that is something to get excited about. But the Book of Enoch assigns no importance to learning His Mind; no, a different "m" is stressed: the miracle transport, the eye stuff. Not, the mind. And any sane Christian thinks this book is even possibly Divine? Okay... then they never read the Bible, either.

Per gnosticism, all the stuff you see is infused with magical, mystical qualities. As in Buddhism, the goal of gnosticism is enlightenment; the two are sibling 'faiths'. So in gnosticism, your goal is to play all these games with these qualities, so you become wise about this stuff. So you try to harmonize with these forces, in order to have power to get what you want in this life. Variantly, they'll tell you these forces are Divine Powers — and the language here in Enoch is quintessentially Kabbala/gnostic, with the seven this, three that, personification of forces, giving them names as if gods. Fake holy books are all about power, just like in Genesis 3.

So you tap into these forces — in the name of God, of course, floating up like Thetans to the Light! — with ritual, special words you say at specific times and positions in relation to sun and moon. But notice: No knowing-God as a Person in all that... just fancy. God Himself is not important, see: only His power is important. He Himself, means nothing.

Now: would the Holy Spirit authorize astrology and magic writing? Ya think? Or did He not condemn it, in both the Old and New Testament? So is there not a huge doctrinal contradiction between what Bible teaches as the spiritual life... and this 'special knowledge' which everyone already had, in the Bible? Which contradiction, by the way — is being played on and referenced, in 2 Enoch? So how old is this 2 Enoch, anyway? Certainly not 3119 BC! Again, Hebrew of the Jews was not a language, pre-Flood. But allegedly the ninth heaven is called in the Hebrew, "Kuchavim" (2 Enoch 21:8). Of course, Enoch is only in translation. But here the text is saying "is called in the Hebrew" — at a time when that language did not exist. Hoo-boy!

Again: if relationship with God is just so much ritual and incantation and knowing how the universe works, well... how deep a relationship is that? Isn't that like marrying someone for his money? And when the good times stop rolling, well... bye bye! Yeah, an Infinite God who doesn't need us, would want the relationship to be like Stepford wives and warlocks. Right.

Note further, that the Job God gave Adam pre-Fall, was a scientific Job: taxonomy, a kind of Dr. Dolittle. Naming the animals. So: does it look like God wanted to withhold knowledge? And what value was that Job? Well, he could learn to draw parallels about God that way, to gain in rapport. God created him, and the first thing God does is give him a Rulership Job. So he could learn how much God His Ruler, loved him; even as, he probably grew to love all those animals: preview of what would become, Romans 5:8. Nothing mystical about it. But it's altogether a personal, one-on-one, Relationship. So: either the Enoch intentionally derides Genesis, or at least it contradicts Genesis, for whatever (pretend unknown) reason. Would God contradict Himself? So how could the Holy Spirit who did all the action in Genesis, authorize a supposedly-earlier creation account which contradicts Genesis?

You've just got to check out of the library, books on UFO visits, ghosts (i.e., by Frances Kermeen), and The Mothman Prophecies to see the same material as here in the Book of Enoch. It's just as slapstick, uses nearly the same lingo, same speaking pattern even — oh! And these books are this generation (1960's and following). But the Book of Enoch, is dated at around 200 BC (based off of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls). Now think about that for a second. No actuarial table I know of posits that man can live for 2000 years. But look — 2000 (!) years later, the same behavior is reported by people 'visited', as is recorded in the Book of Enoch? Same slapstick style? All this 'hidden knowledge' talk? There's no guesswork about who wrote this book, and who those 'visitors' are! They live longer than 2000 years! Alien = strange + 'spirit' = demon, get it? Sure, they're ghosts and extra-terrestrials, too! Just as 'Enoch' describes! Offering the same promise of 'hidden' information to make you feel special! 🤣!

  1. Oh! 🤣 The 'secret knowledge' presented in Enoch, isn't even secret — even if you fantasized the physical as representing the unseen. For anyone can look up or around, and observe how things work. Genesis 1, inter alia, tells you the physical is designed to communicate what you can't see, so you can understand God better (see parallel passage, in Romans 1). It, like all Bible books, goes to some trouble to precisely explain (in the Hebrews and Greek texts) how the universe is constructed; so much so, you can actually resolve current cosmology conundra (see Key to Fix Evolution). So what's secret? So how is God hiding anything? You can look up at the sky and learn a lot, for crying out loud! God reveals all before your eyes: that's how we learned these sciences — by observation. Again: what's the secret? Where is anything hidden? Again, the demon boys play with "hidden" because of the richness of satirical wordplay, compared to wordplay in Bible (which isn't supposed to exist when Enoch is written). But even so — nothing is hidden. Again, the alpha-privative negative, ἀ+λήθεια (unhidden, AKA "the truth").

Of course, many of these secrets in Book of Enoch, don't agree with either science or Genesis. There aren't nine heavens, but three, per Bible. Science can't detect any of them. No bad angels are imprisoned in heaven, but under the earth, per Bible. The other stuff which doesn't contradict, yet supposedly secret is prosaic; and already in Bible. And already observable, Bible or no Bible. Big whoop.

But look: the Book of Enoch claims he's getting 'secrets' about the construction of the universe — not, about a closer relationship with God. That's pure demon derision, sorry. Closeness to God is absent throughout Enoch. God is cast as Sugar Daddy or Petty Judge; He's capricious, too chatty, malevolent and vile. Would God cast Himself as the Book of Enoch depicts?

Look what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3:

(NRSV) If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved

Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον. καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν, καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάναι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθέν εἰμι. καὶ ἐὰν ψωμίσω πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντά μου, καὶ ἐὰν παραδῶ τὸ σῶμά μου ἵνα καυθήσομαι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.

What's not generally known, since no one cross-references the keywords, is that "Love" here means the Bible, Christ's Thinking ("head" analogy began in 1 Corinthians 1:5, but you can't see that in translation). See also Romans 5:5. So it looks like Book of Enoch is "nothing". Οὐθέν, there in 1 Corinthians 1:2. All that knowledge, baby — worthless. Οὐθέν: Attic Greek word — my pastor spent days explaining its use. It's the strongest, most dramatic word for "Nothing!" So much for the value of 'secret' knowledge, huh.

So Book of Enoch (both 1 and 2, maybe only parts of 1 are corrupt, not sure) — is a derision against both God and Enoch. Oh, your relationship with God is distant, but you can know all the earthly goodies. Big whoop. And what earthly goodies did he get, for being so faithful? Oh, 'secrets' about what anyone can already observe! But hey: the book calls the knowledge 'secret', even though it's not; calls the reader an initiate (read: special), even though he's not. So the one believing in this book, craves flattery. It compliments the reader — oh, with this book you have secrets! — doesn't matter that claim is patently untrue. So hungry for a compliment, even if based on a patent lie — to think of self as being 'special'! So if a book says you're 'special' if you know it, well... then to call yourself 'special', you'll seek to know the book. Because then you can justify calling yourself special, because this book says so. Guess who ends up looking the special fool!

Religion specializes in flattery. Harlots are like that, it's their trade. Just like advertising. They tell you you're special, you deserve this product — so you'll buy it. Are we humans too dumb to live, or what!

This much derision cannot be caused by bad translation. You have to think about the text, to realize how insulting it is. Sure, there are wordplays on the allegedly not-yet-existing, Bible; as well as, contradictions against it. But even if we disregard all that, look what relationships are painted. Shallow ones. Enoch's relationship to his sons, is all about what they can know, but not about who they can know. God is distant. Things are close. People relationships are shallow, too: relationships with the angels, Enoch to his sons. Sterile, like clods of wood. It's not possible for a translation to be so far from the original, that all of what's painted here is mistranslated. Bible mistranslation does woodify the 'feel' of the Bible, versus the vibrant original text, so we'll allow some 'blame' on mistranslation. But the contradictions, the flat obviousness that this 'secret' knowledge is no secret at all, the goofy face put on God, well... all that can't be blamed on the translation, sorry. Bible in the original language texts is a pure joy to read. It makes perfect sense, the wordplay is phenomenal, and you're soon exhausted — not because of scripture, but because of the pettifogging lexicons (and they have to be so boring, it's essential to good research). Nothing wooden about Bible. Translations reverse out all the personality, to make God stern, to make man a workaholic. So I have to allow for the idea that some of that same bleaching, is done to the underlying non-English text in Enoch.]

  1. 2 Enoch begins anti-Biblically, saying Enoch was 165 (versus the Bible's age 65) when Methuselah was born. Worse, it's in first person, and he says how long he lived, past tense! Now how can he write while still alive, and say how long his lifespan was? Do you see who's being ridiculed, here? The reader! Oh, this is classic! For obvious derision is a hallmark characteristic of demon-sponsored stuff. Yet Christians believe in this book? Yet Masons use this book? 🤣 See how they are being made fools for not knowing their own Bibles?

Oh, this is priceless. See, if you accept the lie that he begat Methuselah 100 years later, then sure, you'll accept the lie that he himself would be writing this thing up! Oh, a miracle! Yeah, God can do that; angels can do that. But — just because a miracle is alleged, doesn't mean: a) it is true, nor b) it came from God. But if you want to believe the first lie, you'll want to believe the second. Bible is way secondary, to lies which are first fun to believe...

So we shouldn't be surprised that Enoch 2:1 contradicts the ending of its own Enoch 1. The angels just finished telling him they were taking him to heaven. But notice what he does with that information: he lies to his kids? For Enoch 2:1 says, "Listen to me, my children, I know not whither I go, or what will befall me"! 🤣🤣

Book of Mormon is rife with stuff like this, too. The trip to America from Jerusalem starts with the Holy Spirit playing the role of an ἐγγαστρίμυθος demon inside Nephi, faking Laban's voice — after having commanded Nephi to murder Laban and don his clothing. You realize, of course, that makes the Holy Spirit a demon, a liar, and a murderer with no decency (desecrating the victim, afterwards). If that's how 'God' delivered his people to America, then that 'God' is no god. It's clear that Mormons don't know their own holy writ, either. Mormons are some of the nicest people on earth. So are many Muslims. And both groups tend to be smart and hard-working. So how is it, that they are so fooled? Breaks one's heart. No wonder Christ yearned to go to the Cross (Luke 22:19, Hebrews 12:2). Anything, to save these people!

Bible gets accused of being mean to people quite often. No one bothers to identify the people God commands be destroyed. The Canaanites, for example, were very heavy into drugs; into rape, orgies (to the sound of children screaming as they were burned alive to their god Molech); they habitually invaded nearby villages and torched everything, stealing the women and kids. Genghis Khan was more civilized. But oh, because God is supposed to execute criminals, and does... well, it's God Who's wrong? Puh-lease. Only in the last few years has the scholarship on ancient societies begun to admit how drug-dependent and orgy-dependent they all were. Seems I hear about a new documentary or National Geographic article on the topic, monthly (or slightly less often). Whether it's Sparta, or other parts of Greece, the Americas, Egypt, Asia, etc. We have so white-washed the past. Nice to see some honesty creeping into these documentaries. My pastor gave us the more sordid truths beginning in the 1950's or '60's, from what I can tell in his audiotapes. It wasn't a secret. But it wasn't routinely taught, either. Indian civilizations were just the same. Just visit the Indian ruins in New Mexico, etc., buy the books. They too are more honest, now.

It is possible for an entire populous to be so evil, that even the women and children should be wiped out, so sick they are with evil thinking. We need look no farther back than the population extant at the time Hitler took power. We need look no farther back than daytime 'court' TV, or even the night's news: notice the glee with which accusations are flung! And how quickly we believe the accusations true! Heck, we need look no farther than the mirror. Read the Gospel accounts of Passion Week carefully: note that it's Only Because The People Voted For His Crucifixion, that He got crucified. So you can't blame a clique in the Sanhedrin. It's all of us.

Quintessential proof of our evil: we think it right to sue the airlines whose misfortune it was to be hijacked on 9/11. So we buy the lie that we are good; we buy the lie that some guy can be writing while alive, telling you he's already "completed" his life (see Enoch 1). We want to buy that lie, because it makes us feel powerful. So after that, other lies are needed to keep that power "fix" going. So, it doesn't matter that the book contradicts the Bible flagrantly. We'll still lie to ourselves, and claim the Holy Spirit 'inspired' this Book. Just as gets done daily, with the Mormons. Just as gets done daily, with the prolifers, the ritual people, the tongues crowd, etc. Who claim true what Bible says is false. Bible (and biology) proves life begins at birth, but we make laws as if it began in utero; Bible says rituals are meaningless, but we say they are spiritual; Bible says tongues is demonic, except during 30 AD - 70 AD, but we say it's the Holy Spirit who makes us blither. And on and on and on. The viral variations are too many to number.

And why do we all think so vilely? Endless Genesis 3! We want to call 'holy', what makes us feel good. That's the 'knowledge' we want. And thus the lies of a hitler, nest in ripe soil. While God's Word, is ever mocked.

Oh! In Enoch 3, Enoch's dead! So who is writing? Oh, Enoch is still writing! Yeah, we believed the other lies, so what the hey. Who remembers Enoch 1:3, when he says he "completed all the years of my life" as of the day the angels come for him? This is not the same as Paul's being stoned to death and then resuscitated, yet it's in a similar format (see 2 Corinthians 12). Of course, Paul's experience wasn't supposed to exist yet. Note more parallels: in Enoch 36, God sends him back and then gives him only 30 days to tell his sons, what took Enoch himself months to learn. Then Enoch is to die (per Enoch 36). And we are supposed to believe God would be so unfair. Yet Paul got years of life after his post-death experience in the third heaven (the highest level, in bible), and was not supposed to talk about it, when resuscitated. And his downtime was all on the same day (he was stoned to death, and then suddenly seemed alive, Acts 14:19). My pastor taught extensively about this. If you have the same pastor, get the "Paul's Fall" tapes from May 1999 and following, 1992 Spiritual Dynamics.

If you know your Bible, you recognize derisive parallels against it; so you see God didn't write the Book of Enoch. For in their fake holy books, demons just love reversing similar stories in Bible... point by point. Making plain, they not God, wrote these books. But if you don't know your Bible, their counterfeit will sound holy, so will sound like it makes one special, so it will sound like it's from "God." Not!

But in religion, as in politics, it's real important to mouth feel-good words and buzz words. So if you mention "Mom" and "apple pie" and "Bible" and "angel", well you must be of God. Just by mouthing those magic words. Never mind, no one really knows what those words mean. Never mind, that the rest of your words and plans will hurt "Mom" and "apple pie" and "Bible" principles. You mouthed the words. That makes you a hero. A fake Bible book mouths the same words you find in Bible. That makes it divine, however derisively those words are used.

  1. In sum: lots of fluff in Enoch, but no substance. You learn nothing of value. By Enoch 40, 'Enoch' is supposedly telling his children all wisdom. But look what that 'wisdom' was: mere stuff (supposedly) about the construction of the heavens and the earth, how they got there, and he saw the Lord face to face. Well, sheesh — that's all better stated, in Genesis and Job. Not at all secret, but expected knowledge. God is instructing you, and you are expected to know, Romans 1! This knowledge wasn't secret before Genesis was written, either: because Genesis is written axiomatically; so Moses is just putting in writing, stuff people already knew. And why? Oh, because the Exodus just occurred, and now it's important the Nation set straight what really happened from the beginning, stripped of all the gossip-barnacles which accumulated over the centuries! And why is that? Because due to the Exodus, people started recognizing the Real God; and their enquiring minds, wanted to really know! First-hand information, not the child's game of telephone (pssst pssst change story pssst pssst reverse details pssst pssst cat-becomes-dog).

No offense, but if the Book of Enoch is supposed to be about the secrets of the universe, well... they're pretty childishly told. Adam was no dummy. Adam's firstborn, Cain, ran out and built a city for his firstborn son who also was named Enoch. So these humans were not childish in their understanding, from the get-go. No hunter-gatherers, here. So why is Enoch so childish? Genesis, Job, many other passages in Scripture are far more precise about rotation, gravitational pull, the galaxies, how empty space is what unifies (the "unifying theory" everyone pants after and misses, is based on vacuum, not mass). Scads of real information. But Enoch reads like a kindergartener's explanation. The real Enoch was not so stupid, okay? He was superior to all his own generation (which by the way, included the smartest of the lot — Adam — most of the time), which is why God took him home early. So, come on: these are 'secrets'? 🤣.

So Genesis is far superior to the Book of Enoch. More importantly, Moses is explaining God's Thinking the whole time — but Enoch doesn't have a clue. Enoch's list in Enoch 40 is about earthly things, whoopee. 🙄 The stress in Enoch is the miracle manner of getting that knowledge; but Moses with deft wit... stresses the Thinking of the Creator. To Moses, the earthly stuff is but a metaphor, however tangible, to use for seeing Him Who is invisible (see also Hebrews 11). Whereas Enoch talks about pain at meeting the creator (Enoch 39), Moses had to be veiled because he was so happy. Does no one see God and Moses being mocked, in 2 Enoch? Oh well. It's not as though there weren't blatant contradictions, throughout. Satan & Co. did their level best to advertise their authorship, here. So if we still buy this book as from God, well... our blood is upon our own heads. You can even compare translations and see this. Its proof isn't sequestered in the lonely cell of the academic.

One lie leads to another. 🤣 When people differ over Bible and accept pseudepigrapha, they often smooth over the disagreement with some bland "everyone has a different opinion" bandaid. Sorry: if you believe that text, it's not a 'different' opinion, it's a foolish opinion. Making a fool out of, the one believing it. And Satan & Co. make fools of us all. We differ only on what topic we are proven the fool.

Demon-sponsored stuff always manages to keep the topics to angels and the world. You don't get much info about God. God comes in as an extra, says an idiotic line or two, and then exits. 2 Enoch is in that same lurid style. Nice touch, its derision against the meaning of "mystery" in the New Testament, since that term (μυστήριον) means knowledge known only to those in the group, and is a moniker for Church. Get the pun?

This Book was no more written pre-Canon's completion, than I was born in Caesarea. So of course, the lie gets an accusation to go with it: real cute, God withholding information again from the angels, but telling it to Enoch for the first time in Enoch 24 (putting down the angels, see — exact same accusation as made to Adam and the woman in Genesis 3). Don't people ever read the Real Bible, to see how different it is? Guess not. This is Laurel and Hardy stuff, Biblically speaking.

Laurel and Hardy

Okay, I get it now. This is another blah-blah-blah gnostic tract, but as if "secret knowledge" was something about the world which God withheld; what a crock. Sheesh. Enoch 24ff is a parody on Genesis, and is written post-Canon completion, given the vocabulary. God is sure chatty. The God of Genesis just says "Light, Be!" and it is. But this 'god' has to get real specific, and is malevolent; so he tells something/someone else to make light, etc. Yeah, this is the gnostic format of personification, typical stuff: translation can't be so far off, to yield this rendering. No wonder this Book was outlawed from Canon: it's sheer slapstick. But why didn't they notice it's treating Genesis as a first creation, instead of the Biblical text which says it's a restoration? Funny, how a Book of Enoch could help Christians misinterpret Genesis, all these years?

Oh, Enoch 33! This is where so many Christians get the idea of a seven-thousand-year limit for history! Sheesh! So don't they wonder why the Bible doesn't repeat this format? Especially, if the Book of Enoch was supposed to be the first book? The First Book of Bible is the precedenting Book. Every Bible book must tie back to all the Bible books which went before it, to prove the validity of the 'new' book. It's a kind of signature. That's why you have Four Gospels written successively, and the ones later always have elaborative comments on the ones prior, to attest to them as well as prove that the new Gospel, is from God. So here the Book of Enoch, were it valid, would have to be quoted in all subsequent Bible books — either allusively (incorporation by reference, a legal requirement) — or directly. So here's the quintessential proof that when you first believe in Christ, your brains are poop 💩 from that day forward: Christians 'buying' this 1000-year chapter, didn't even care to examine Genesis-Revelation for other usages of the 1000 years, and since Genesis-Revelation don't refer to Book of Enoch, then the latter is a fraud. Real easy proof, so our brains aren't working, and we don't care, either. It feels good. 🥵😈

Why all this focus on Enoch 33 (usually used to try to predict the Rapture 🤣), yet no focus on Daniel 9's perfect timeline? Which tracks all the way back to Adam and forward to the end of time, so you can exactly date events using Bible's own verses? It took me a year to do the Daniel timeline. It wasn't hard, but it was tedious. As a result, I can prove mathematically why the Rapture cannot be predicted, for the Tribulation is a balance sheet item belonging to Christ as Messiah. Not, to anyone else. The entire timeline balances consecutively: it's just a question of whether you move it all up 3 years, beginning with Adam; this resolves our longstanding BC/AD problem when we switched calendars 3 times (from pre-Julian to Julian to Gregorian, lots of date mess-ups occurred). I'm not doing that yet; need to see if there is some other way to resolve the problem. Never go for the easy solution. It is usually the wrong one. So all I gotta do, is understand the "1000" piece better. So why don't all my other fellow believers, many of them doggedly into Bible, know this? I'm not smarter or better than them. Centuries of confusion have attended these questions, but it only took a year with BibleWorks and a calculator, to get the answers? Using 1 John 1:9, that is. Ahhh. That's the difference. Oh well. He caused me to understand and write about it. Hope someone else will be spared yet more confusion. For this is independently provable. Don't need an "Enoch 33".

Honestly: the difference between the real Bible and fake texts such as 'Enoch', is like the difference between Encyclopedia Britannica and The National Enquirer. That tabloid always has like-kind lurid stuff. And we Christians don't notice. But when we do notice and try to show the difference to people, then we are accused of being biased. Because only information which maligns God and the Bible, is 'objective', you see...

  1. However: in that 2 Enoch 33, its chapter 16, and 1 Enoch 71ff, 'he' talks about stuff related to God's Accounting System for Time (the two books seem to contradict each other, but I'm only skimming). Reading between the lines, one might find useful information. 1 Enoch 71ff description is replete with intercalation and the -1 nesting function (which is why the year is reckoned as 364 days, not 365). Even a demon-authored book will have truth in it: just be careful how you use the data. You use the data to find the wordplays, for they will be playing on Bible verses. When you figure out which wordplays, then you can search in Bible. At which point, you will find the right version. That would save me time, else I have to go looking for sound play and wordplay on end-times, 1000 years, in Psalms, Isaiah, etc. Would take me decades, absent some litmus. And this kind of parody offers a great litmus. Every time. Of course if Christians were more privy to noticing the demons' parodies and reversals as a litmus they'd probably change tactics; but since we remain blind, deaf, & dumb, they continue doing it and enjoy it.

This is a wild thought: the -1 nesting function (piggybacking day 1 of the new year on the sundown of the same solar day), might have more meaning. What if an extra day gets inserted due to the Flood, so our year runs a day longer? Yeah, it's a wild thought, but God does do this with Time itself. Daniel 9 is about a "490" count of years; but is given to Daniel far earlier than 490 BC. So God inserted time, get it? That's how I learned of God's accounting system, because I wanted to see how time continued for more than the 490 years God 'allotted'. Only a debit and credit system for Time can be the answer, when "490" is used, broken into accounting components (each piece of which must have a meaning)... and then justifying more than 490 years of history.

See, again the Bible is superior, because the Book of Enoch lies (or is stupid) about how God's Accounting System works; for this Enoch 33 (etc.) claims a consecutive measure of time. But we know that's not true. Look: let's pretend for the sake of argument — especially, since demons do put significant truths in their fake holy books — let's pretend, that Enoch 33 is talking about a plan of 7000 years. Let's ignore the fact that this chapter is blatantly Mosaic Law, and pretend it is prophetic. Let's ignore the fact that throughout the text, allusions going all through Revelation are used, so of course the Messiah promise to David (namely, Psalms 90:4, 1 Chronicles 29:21, Psalms 110:1, 2 Samuel 7:11-13), would be known as past information, not predictive. So let's just pretend that the original plan for time was 7000 years, consecutive. That's not how it stays. For if this data is (pretend) Biblical, then its real play must follow the same debit-credit accounting system for time which God uses in the Real Bible. The latter, you can prove. You can prove why the insertions of time, the deletions of time, and why Church is an open-ended insertion of time, off-balance sheet.

So, then: this initial 7000, is also in debit-credit components. The insertable components would be functions within the 1000: 20, 50, 40. The 40's always nest, so 20 and 50. And smaller functions within them (2, 5, 10, etc). So you still don't know how long time will last, and the demons laugh their heads off at all those drooling Christians who keep trying to make Enoch's 7000 year passage, balance to Bible! We should be seeking the relationship with God, not titillation about how long we'll be here before the Rapture comes: so they get to write false books like this one, since only those who are tied up in the titillation — not in God — will believe this rot. We are all so frail; some get hooked here, others somewhere else; we are all Satan fodder. We all need lots of prayer support!

Yet more inaccuracy in Enoch is baldly demonstrated if you know from the Bible, God's Accounting System. Look: Christ died at the end of the third '490' since the Exodus (literally, at the very last minute); which means, the fourth '490' since Abram, the fifth '490' since Noah. The civilizations are not the same. Two '490' periods are ensconced in each "1000", so that makes seven sets of '490', by the end of the Millennium (remember, Church time is off-balance sheet). That's seven 490's, not seven 1000's. The 1000-year period is not the 'soul' of time, the 490 is. So as usual, Satan & Co. reverse soul and body: and they do it also, here. More: we also know that Christ completed the sixth "1000", if there were initially seven of them to allot — but we also know elapsed time to 30 AD, is less than 6000 years. So again, Enoch is inaccurate.

In reality, only a single "1000" remains, the Millennium itself; the leftover seven years on Christ's 40 years, to parallel the same remaining ruling time as David had, is the Tribulation Book of Enoch thus belies that, and its usage of New Testament concepts means the demon authors meant to deceive post-cross people about that fact. Going by how Peter and Paul excoriated believers who got goofy about the Rapture (i.e., Thessalonians and second half of 2 Peter), well... looks like the demons did a pretty good job.

So maybe this Book of Enoch "7000" is both right and wrong. Demons always tell the truth in order to deceive. And what has been the deception all these centuries? People have interpreted the 7000 consecutively, as if elapsed time. So they have been blinded to the fact that the earth is not young (though mankind is); they have been blinded to the Daniel 9 timeline's debit and credit nature (despite the blatant breaking down of time into accounting pieces, since those pieces are consecutively-run). If you are on the wrong thinking path, you derive wrong conclusions in other areas. So all this doctrine about Time itself, has been missed. So the "redeem the time" concepts and verses in the New Testament, get missed. We smile, feel important for a minute... and then go back to whatever we were, prior. Because we are ignorant of the meaning. Because we looked at Enoch 33, instead of the Bible. Yeah, that makes so much sense!

So not only is Enoch inaccurate, derisive, reversing of the True Time Element which is the Promise (the 490); but it's irrelevant, to figure out how the (not-true) prior six "1000" pieces are accounted. They aren't real values, and even had they been, they are mirrored or otherwise used up. It's tempting but facile to suppose that since the time elapse has not been 7000 years — technically, here in 2006 we are in Adam's Fall Year 6112 or 6106 — that somehow some of this is reserved for Church, and we're on a deadline. Frankly, given all the apostasy, it could well be He subtracted from that 6000, with the result that all we have left is the Millennium. But that's not how God did the 490, so that's not how He's doing the 1000's. God is consistent.

So I can account for everything, totally absent Enoch. God doesn't waste time when writing Bible books. No older Bible book has been rendered redundant because of a later one. Bible books don't contradict each other, either. Daniel timeline contradicts this 7000 thingy at every turn, since Time runs out when that last 490, plays; no guarantee of 7000 years, but only of that last 490. Which you know for sure, because Christ had to come then, or we'd all not be here, as the math of demonstrates. Which you also know for sure post-Cross, since Christ told the apostles in Acts 1:5 that no one can predict the Rapture.

So this Book of Enoch, is meant to deceive people into trying to predict the Rapture, thus disobeying the Lord; and it has admirably succeeded in that goal; lots of crazy stuff on the internet about this 7000 year thingy. For even if someone caught onto God's Accounting System for Time, he would still be tempted to do the calculations above and imagine that Church is 'secretly' being allotted the remainder. Which, of course, people do anyway (it's not hard to add up the begats in Genesis 5). Yeah, a maligning-God book's words carry more weight than the Lord's, "har har har see the stupid Christians!" 👹

Okay, I'm done. This exercise was very helpful. For decades, my pastor has harped at us about how Church extends Time itself. For decades, I didn't really understand what he meant. So I just rocked along, enjoying learning Bible under Him, crazy with curiosity to know God better... still dumb as a stump about this Time structure. Guess the Holy Spirit got tired of me being dumb, for I'm sure aware, now.

Upshot: Enoch 33 (etc.) cannot be written prior to David, since the 1000 years is based on David being king, for that's the amount of time needing to be reimbursed then. So it's a fake book with a fake claim of an early author. Really obvious. Further, there's zero prophecy value to Book of Enoch; it wasn't relevant pre-Flood, and post-Flood it didn't become relevant, until David became king. That's why the promise wasn't made of a king forever — until there first, was a king to get the Promise. Notice how the king Promise began only with the Real King of Israel, God — back in 1440 BC. God Himself being the King, is the Prophecy fulfilled. So no need to say anything, there's no contingency on which to elaborate. But — Israel rejected her King, so God makes from David, a replacing King; and David, doesn't reject God. Again, Book of Enoch data on 1000 and 7000 is sidelined, never needed. For We already know how much scheduled time, remains. But it hasn't started yet, and cannot start, until we Church are completed. And that criterion, is volitional, not time-based. Just as it was, for Christ.

Prophecy is about the fulfillment of a promise previously made, always. That's why you get the prophecy, in the first place. So back in Genesis 3:15, the first prophecy was based on the previous promise that Adam and the woman would be saved: so the "head... heel" clause was prophetic, yet stating the promise again. Okay: but Adam and the woman weren't promised how that would be done. Abel sacrifices lambs, so they knew that much. We know from the Genesis 5 roster that all those believers knew eventually their Savior would be born from their loins, culminating in Abraham. But Abraham wasn't told where his not-yet-existing-kids, would be going for the 400 years of slavery. So we see that the promise was gradually clarified (same thing happened to Noah, compare Genesis 6 and covenant after Noah landed back on earth). Jacob's deathbed blessing, added some. And why? Because until an individual existed to get more, more could not be given. You don't prophesy what cannot be told (i.e., the injunction for Paul not to say what he saw in the third heaven, what John heard the thunders say). And you cannot tell more, until there is a recipient: um, a person has to be alive, to hear a prophecy. All Bible's covenants are to Individuals (i.e., even the lone Conditional Covenant to Israel was crafted based on Moses). So if that individual is not yet alive, there's no one to tell.

So we need Bible, not pseudepigrapha; Book of Enoch is at least overkill (if we gloss over its derision). So it will only be useful to find derisive wordplays to shorten my search in the Bible for more "1000" info, etc.

  1. Most importantly: if there was a genuine Book of Enoch, Moses would have mentioned it, for then Moses would not have been the first one to write Canon. It's sheer garbage-talk scholars make about some Bible writer 'compiling' prior material, to get what he wrote. God never works that way, never claims to work that way, but always gives the information directly to His prophets. So you always find refrains in the Bible, "thus says The lord"; not, "thus says the compilation I dredged up." Sheesh. Scripture is what God says about a subject. So only God can be the source. You might know I have a house, I might know you have a house, and yes we can compile data about each other's houses. Whoopee. Two mouths. But what God says about the houses, would be important. Else, you and I can just blab all day together, wasting time. Sheesh.

Bible text on Enoch is always terse. Remember, in accounting you must first account for the "why". So, then: why is it terse, since this is one of the biggest Old Testament heroes in the Bible, if not the biggest one? Enoch didn't even die, but was so quickly mature spiritually, God just flat took him home. My pastor spent a good two weeks exegeting the "begats" in Genesis 5, showing how the names tell you all about the Divine Assessment of the person. He spent time comparing the long phrasing of the others in the Genesis 5 roster, versus the short phrasing of the sentence on Enoch. Marking him out as different, above even all those greats! So, then: why isn't more said about Enoch, since God is obviously stressing his spiritual growth?

Well, let's think: maybe the reason the Bible's text on Enoch is so terse... is to warn against anyone giving credence to the many "books" of Adam, Seth, Enoch which abound. I've read the ones allegedly by Adam and Seth — they were gnostic pieces. Puerile junk, much like the fake Gospels. Bible always acknowledges other Canon books. Jude quotes Enoch himself (as in the person, not the Book of Enoch); Jude doesn't say he's referring to a quote in some "Book of Enoch". Omniscience can give you the quotes, so the quoter doesn't need a book to quote from. They don't have to be in a book. Read Genesis sometime, see how much Moses quotes people he never knew. Greek phrase using λέγω can be used to quote from a book, or from a person. "It stands written" is definitely intended to mean the person is quoting from a book. But Jude doesn't use that expression, and the Bible doesn't claim that there is a "Book of Enoch" anywhere in the Bible. Which, it would have to do, if such a valid book existed. Else you'd have no way to know it was Canon. Again, you always proof God's Word with God's Word. That's how Constantine's people came up with the list, frankly; there was (and still is) much debate about what to include, based on what is in the Word everyone already could prove. Same procedure should be followed today. But isn't. We are too uninterested, now.

So you read fake holy books the way a CIA agent used to read Pravda newspapers — Правда = "Truth" in Russian, what a cynical name — back during the days of the Soviet Union. Between the propaganda lines, you learn things. All the news you hear on television is partly skewed away from the truth; it's designed to get you to 'buy' a certain opinion. You're better off scanning the Associated Press wire, the Reuters wire, watching CSPAN. So too, with Bible: go to the source. So, too, with the holy books which are fake. Especially because, whenever Satan & Co. author a tract, they do use truth. So their stuff helps you recognize truth in the Bible you didn't know or overlooked. See: they know Scripture better than any of us. So they make running commentaries on it, via their own fake stuff. So if you learn to read between their lines, you'll see them reference valid doctrines (which they burlesque) — doctrines you maybe didn't see, prior. They always point at Christ, yelling how True He is.

Try doing just that with the other wanna-be-bible books, like "Book of Jubilees", the "Book of Jasher". Notice how each one satirically insults both God and every Biblical hero, just as the Koran does, just as the Bhagavad Gita does — same kind of mind is behind each one — and that mind is not God's. God doesn't author insults, but Satan & Co. sure do. And they go outta their way to sign whatever they author. Just as one of them did here, with the Book of Enoch.




Inset for Part 4a: Mirroring Timeline

Jump links also serve to list webpage theses.
Synopsis Preface God's Macro 'Watch' God Leverages Time God's Hypostatic 1050‑year ‘Building Block’ Micro 'Watch', Mirroring & Redemption
PROMISE Time one ‘week’ of years 7 weeks 10 weeks 62 weeks FIXED Time 120 years = 4 generations 50 yrs / Jubilee 40 years 33 years 30 years 20 years 7 years 3–4 years 1 year
1000 years + play
Adam → Christ Grantees:
Shem → Exodus Abram → Jacob Joseph Seedmaker Precedence:
Abram–Joseph Components Moses & Exodus Blessing by Association
with Mosaic Law
Blessing‑by‑Association
Results in Messiah:
1. Saul 2. David King of Judah 3. David King of All Israel 4. David’s 490 & 1000 Grants
End Time
5. First Temple 6. Second Temple —
“To Be or Not to Be” of Daniel 9 7. JESUS the CHRIST Passover Plot 8–9. Tribulation & Millennium,
original & revised timing
Appendices: Meaning for Church Other cites on 490s How God ‘amortizes’ Time Timeline Methodology

Mirroring Timeline Inset (this portion) only traces the proof of time grants to 70 AD. Due to the Cross, it seemed as though the 490's terminated or changed. Well, now I realize the 490's are still God's policy, and are still granted. Still as result of Divine DNA God built in the believer; still means God grants time to at least one believer sufficient to justify continuing Earth's existence for another 490 years. Because, you can prove it still happening on a corporate level, though you can't prove identity of the individual(s).

Synopsis, Videos, Related Material Theme: Redeeming The Time, KJV Ephesians 5:16; Colossians 4:5.


Relevance:
Rapture Precedence is based on how God uses believers to literally buy time, ever since Adam.


Crux: Time is 'loaned', and if the loan of Time is 'paid' by enough spiritual growth, another 'loan' of Time can be granted. So God always treats Time as a balance sheet, debiting or crediting, balancing to the 'loan'. It's a justice issue for the Angelic Trial.

Consequently, in the Bible, God denotes time based only on solar years, and on two master tracks: one is Real Time, absolute historical, measured from Adam's fall, not initial creation.

The second master track is an accounting, so isn't necessarily consecutive. The accounting track determines whether and how long, Real Time Is Allowed to Continue. So real historical time is cut short or elongated, based on whether the time 'loan' must be adjusted for results which either 'repay' the loan, or 'add' to it. This too, is tracked in Bible from Adam's fall as a system of debits and credits.

Bible displays this accounting in sabbatical language, since Time Is a Conditional Promise — in Hebrew, 'promise' and 'seven' have the same sound. So you know when God uses the accounting track, in Bible. For example, in Daniel 9:24, it does not say '490 years', but 'seventy sevens'. So the period referenced is not 490 consecutive years. To know what consecutive years are referenced, you have to apply the accounting rules. As you'll see in this webpage, the actual number of consecutive years remaining per those accounting rules — set ever since Psalm 90, and in the Mosaic Law — were 673+7 (dated from 586 BC, the accounting event giving rise to the measure). Because, all history had to end by the then-scheduled Millennium commencement of 94 AD. Due to Israel rejecting Christ, the remaining 'time loan' freezes at 7 years, until Church completes. This webpage will go through that math.

The accounting Rules begin in Genesis 5, using the 490 itself; between sons, so you can see who 'barely' made it, and who was early. So you know that 130 years of the 'loan' remained owed, because Adam didn't super-mature until 130 years after his 'fall'; signified by his siring Seth='Appointed to carry the Name'. More on this fact will be explained later in this webpage, and will be demonstrated in videos which also follow below.

By contrast Abraham super-matured 54 years early, so that's a credit against the 'loan'. The Genesis 6-7 Flood is an instance of debiting against all but Noah and family. (The dramatic impact of these maturation debits and credits will be covered later on, in this page.)

These accounting rules are also prominently used in passages like Psalm 90 (via the meter) and other Psalms, 1Kings 6, Isaiah 53 (via the meter), Jeremiah 3 and 31, Daniel 9 (via the meter and explicitly), Matthew 1 and Luke 3 (both tying to the metered Hebrew in Isaiah 52:13-15), Matthew 18:22, Acts 13:16ff, Hebrews 3 and 4 (very witty), Hebrews 11:39-40, Galatians 4:4, Romans 11:25, Ephesians 1:10 and many other passages. New Testament nomenclature for Rapture AKA rapto in Latin AKA ἁρπάζω (both terms are in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, so 'Rapture' is a Bible term), derives from Old Testament accounting terms, since Rapture is a Matthew 16:18 consequence of Jewish rejection of Messiah, in 30 AD.

I made many videos showing how both Moses and Isaiah use Hebrew meter to reconcile these two 'tracks' in Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53, respectively; Daniel and Paul also use the same meter. In all of these passages, the same meter simultaneously tracks annually from the time of writing, to a deadline warning; and sabbatically, to the then-scheduled 94 AD commencement of the Millennium. (In Paul, the meter is open-ended, as befits an unpredictable Rapture.

Judaism once knew God's Accounting Methodology, but messed it up sometime during the Hasmonean period, when creating and (now) maintaining the wacky Seder Olam Rabbah. That calendar is used as if a straight annual calendar today, but it is not. It was meant to track what the author of it, considered 'promise time'. In short, he was trying to reconcile real history with God's accounting conventions — and blew it. So the calendar is way off: according to it 'our' 2010 is the year 5770 from creation, when in fact we are in the 6,116th year since Adam's fall.

For God's accounting track is based on 'mirroring'. That is, when the 'loan' of time is 'repaid', God 'mirrors' (reimburses, restores, redeems) the time 'paid', to the world. So at all times, it's Grace: the 'repayment' is returned, restored, redeemed to the world: akin to Joseph's restoring the money his brothers paid for grain, in those very sacks, Genesis 42:25.

Hence this Mirroring section is dedicated to show God's two master Time tracks, and especially how He 'mirrors' Time. You can't understand the origin of the Rapture doctrine, else. So here you'll see how God ties the absolute Time since Adam's fall, to His master accounting ('loan repayment') track, replete with Bible verses so you can vet webpage claims. For Christianity does not know this doctrine of how God 'mirrors' Time, because the Church Fathers were anti-semitic, so disregarded the Old Testament rules regarding Time (commonly called 'dispensations', today).

Essentially, Time's Mirrored Continuance depends on someone getting the Mirror — Christ's Thinking — in his head.

  • Hence someone must spiritually super-mature over a 490-year period.
  • If someone does super-mature, the world gets a new 490-year period, to go on breathing.
  • Else, the world ends.
  • Then, believers alive during the next 70 years, must vote to learn God better.
  • If at least one of them is sufficiently positive, the new 490 can play.
  • Else, the world ends (i.e., that's why the Flood happened).

Daniel 9, therefore, is merely one of a recurring series of instances showing how God grants and then accounts Time itself, since Adam's Fall. Daniel 9, even, derives from Isaiah 53 and Psalm 90, which create the numbers you see in Daniel 9. Essentially, the 'church fathers' denied these rules, and instead just back-slapped 490 years to the Temple's destruction date of 586 BC, to derive their perennially-wrong dates for David's Kingship, Saul, Exodus, etc. Sadly, 'scholars' have been slavishly repeating these same errors for centuries and even still today, all over the internet, no one looking at Bible, to vet the calculations?! They don't properly read Bible to realize that Israel returns to the Land before the 70 years are up, so clearly there weren't 70 missed sabbatical years, but only 49 (they start rebuilding in the 49th year, per Ezra 1:1, 3:1, 3:8 compared with Jeremiah 52:12). Duh.]


Time ran out when the Jews rejected Christ.
That's why the Rapture must precede the Tribulation, kicks it off; that's why the Rapture is unpredictable,
Because the Precedenting Rule since Adam, is that a believer must super-mature, to buy time.
So unlike Israel's time promise, our time is now contingent, subject to the same rules as applied pre-Israel.


Christ, the Last Adam, Preserved And Reinstated Time For Church, Galatians 4:4. (Greek: in English you miss Paul's clever wordplay on the Greek god 'Chronos'.)

Somehow Christianity has missed these in-Bible facts; they instead rely on the anti-semitic 'Church Fathers' for their information; on Josephus, who had a very garbled idea of Jewish time since after all, he was embroiled in a war, so didn't have good records. Beginning about his time, Jews too forgot how their True God has always granted and accounted for Time. Their annual calendar is way off, patterned after the wacky Seder Olam Rabbah; their intra-year monthly calendar misreads Numbers 28:26 (see proper context in verse 25); so is 6 days too fast with respect to Pentecost; and its month terms, violate 1Chronicles 24 (which calls for 30-day months excepting Adar, which ran to the next vernal equinox). Our Christian calendars are even worse. Time we learned from Bible, what time it is!

For further material and videos on how God Orchestrates Time and the Poetic Meter, refer to the Poetic Meter Resource Index.


Gist:
God designed Time since Adam's Fall, based on a believer sufficiently maturing spiritually, to Justify Time.


So Time itself is 'housed' in 1050-year blocks, within which are two 490-year blocks. Specifically, the 1050 block consists of a 1000-year unit which is contingent on one or more believers being spiritually-developed enough to be 'awarded' that block of time. The next 50 years is a voting period for the human race, since if there aren't enough votes to be saved, there is no point continuing time. Within this 1050, is a structure of 490+70+490 years. Another believer must be 'awarded' another 490 before the current one ends, for the next 70 to 'play'. That 70 is a voting period for believers to vote whether they want to know God and live in His System. If the votes are sufficient, then the next 490 can play; by its end another believer must be 'awarded' it. Else, time ends.

So think of these time-grant contingencies as a relay race, in which a prior believer awarded a 490 or 1000, must 'pass the baton' to the next believer awarded it, before the prior believer's 490 or 1000 ends. Thus the award, justifies the current historical 1050 time unit's continuance for the human race via grantees.

Within the 490s and 1000s there are debits and credits of time in lesser denominations like 1 year, 7 years, etc. These lesser amounts are often mirrored back (credited) within a 490 or 1000, if their specific goals are met.

Two of these lesser amounts, a 70 year and a 50 year period, are designed for voting; the period adds to the 490 or 1000, respectively. A third voting period, which runs four generations, plays to terminate a 490 (lasting about 120-160 years) and does not extend it. God bridges (justifies) the next time grant based the results of these voting periods; so they are supremely important to understand. He does this in Daniel 9 for example, bridging the four-generation voting period ending the 7th historical 490 from Adam, to enable the 8th. Else, Time would end.

In all events, these lesser periods do not require a particular believer being spiritually developed, for the crediting to occur. However, these lesser amounts of time will not 'play', unless there is an underlying 490 awarded someone to 'finance' (justify) that 'play'. Moreover, Time ends anyway if the positive votes are too low; only those voting positive are saved, i.e., that's what happened at the Flood.

We've not noticed these voting periods, so Christians go in circles when trying to tally or balance, Daniel 9. Yet everybody knows about the four-generation issue. Genesis 6, 120 years before the Flood, God says the votes are negative, wipeout is due. 120=70+50. We know that 50 is for Pentecost and Jubilee, but we don't ask God why. We don't ask God what the 70 means, in Daniel 9 or Jeremiah 25, because we think the sabbatical years' answer, is "it". So we don't ask God "why sabbatical years?" So we don't know the role of voting, and we don't know God's Construct for Time.

In short, time can be cancelled due to either no one being awarded time, or due to sufficient negative votes. Two dramatic instances of this 'finance' are in the lives of David, and Christ Himself. Christ literally died at the end of justifiable time, which ended up being 64 years short of the 1050 block, due to David's 1000-year grant (based on his death), ending prior. So Christ died to conform to that deadline. It's awesome. It's not a majority-rules criterion. It's a God Rules criterion: hence one believer can be enough to justify the world's continuance; frankly, that's the norm in history — often, just one person 'carried' time for the human race and for those believers in it, particularly since 1004 BC. (Time only continued due to David, from that point forward.)

Satan's goal is to force God to cancel Time, on judicial grounds of so many believers being negative. If he can succeed, that warrants a mistrial Verdict in the unseen Angelic Trial in which Satan & Co. are the Primary Defendants. A Mistrial Verdict means the Judge (God) abused justice (i.e., evidence tampering). So the guilty go free in that case (angel or human). The Angelic Conflict is variantly understood by many in Christendom. But we relegate the idea of "devil" to gross sin and titillating movies which are not much different from the red-horns-and-tail pictures popular during the Dark Ages. We thus miss much: it's a trial, the language in Bible about it is Legal (mistranslated, of course), and it's Trial language that you see in Genesis 6, Job, Book of Hebrews, Hosea, Jeremiah and Isaiah — in short, this Trial is well exposed, in Scripture. "Satan" is a title meaning "opposing attorney", so that's the character of the Conflict: erudite, legal, suave, based on moral arguments — by Satan. Thus he tempts the Lord in Matthew 4 with good deeds, using very nice language (like the imperative of entreaty, in the First Temptation). Satan's a nice guy. That's what makes him the more evil. Do we notice all that? No! So we don't notice the Mistrial Goal that Satan has, either.

Here's the issue: if God doesn't keep His Promises, then a Mistrial results. Judge introduced the promises as Evidence in the Trial, of which Church constitute yet-future Witnesses; so if the Rapture occurs too early, those Witnesses will not exist, and everything ends. Trial is about whose plan for humans is better, who's more loving, God or Satan. God the Son became Humanity and in that Humanity proved by Going Through The Cross, that God is better and more loving — even through the unfairness of paying for sins, theme of Hebrews 2. Now, Church must go through something analogous, since He invented Church in Matthew 16:18, and voted for her in John 17 (Ephesians 5 and Hebrews 4-11 elaborate). So if this Future Body doesn't complete, then the Cross itself was a kind of sham (payment for a future which doesn't come to pass). So that would taint even the Cross, as Evidence. (God foreknew all this, is proving how His Absolute Love requires no tampering.)

The promise of Time is contingent on positive believers; but the promises of Church completing and Israel getting her promises fulfilled, are not contingent. So only the 'when' is contingent. Thus if Time must be cancelled, there is no 'when', and a Mistrial truly results. Hence Satan hopes to exploit the contingency into a failure. Thus Satan sponsors religion as well as gross sin, to get believers to be negative to God; religion substitutes out God, in favor of human approbation and standards. (It's a main theme of 1 John in the original Greek, pointed warnings against the religious believer, thread begins in 1:6.) Same temptation strategy and basis, as Satan used back in Genesis 3 and Matthew 4.

To orient further, watch the God's Salt 'House' Timing series below to get a sense of the dramatic time impact God makes, of voting to learn His Word, i.e., during the 70-year period you saw me draw in the topmost video, above; because, here in 2010, we're in an analogous period to the Flood. So will you vote for His Salted Head, to be in your head?

Companion videos to "Pass the Salt", show all 120-year voting periods since Adam, including the current one from 2010-2130 AD. The gist idea is already covered in the Youtube videos, but the ones below cover each period, blow-by-blow. You can watch them here in a single video:

  • Flood Chronology of Days showing possible precedence for the later Mosaic Law Calendar (2 pages).

In sum, once you see how God grants time to a positive believer, you can see how He wants to use any believer. Thus you can see the importance of living in God's System. It's not a works thing. It's not a denominational thing. It's not a prophecy thing. It is a math thing, and you can prove the math. For Bible in your head is spiritual math, retraining your brain to think like God does, as you keep on living in God's System. For anyone can be a hero. That's the design for every believer, no matter what.

Unfortunately, God's Accounting System for Time is nowhere taught in Christendom that I can find: so use extreme caution in reading this material, 1 John 4:1-6. Breathe 1 John 1:9 as needed, and keep asking God if this information should be examined. Only God knows the answer to that question for you, even if the information is correct: for it takes a long time to vet the material. I too am still testing it, ever since 2004 when I learned it in Bible.


Preface and Introduction

God orchestrates Time; and He does it, for the benefit of the human race. God Himself is timeless, so doesn't need time. But we do. Hence Time is given a purpose, an agenda, and a goal. It is designed to be used for the sake of teaching humans how to know God and enjoy a life with God — eventually, forever. However, people might not want to know God and enjoy God. Love never coerces. So God also orchestrates time to justify continuing time for those hostile to knowing Him: frankly, that's why there's both a Heaven and a Hell which lasts forever. Those hostile can thus forever enjoy their hostility, and those who want to be with God can forever enjoy being with Him. It's not about sin: the Cross nailed sin away. It's not about good deeds: God can do good better than all creation put together. It's only about, Do You Want God, Or Not? If not, then you get what you want, even as those who want God will get what they want. Today, tomorrow, and forever.

Thus justification for continuing time must go through those humans who are learning Him, since those hostile want no time with God. So those who do want time with Him, are used to justify granting time even to those who don't. In short, a believer positive to God is used by God to buy time for the world (i.e., Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16). And that, via the positive believer — you and me and everyone else, hopefully — merely breathing. It's not a work man can do. Nothing ever is. With God, it's Grace... or nothing. God doesn't need us, He Loves us. We need Him; whether we ever learn to know and love Him, is the drama of life down here. With eternal ramifications, of course.

God structures Time in 490 and 1000-year grants to super-mature positive believers. These grants respectively get 'bonuses' of 70 and 50-year Voting Periods 'attached' to them. For Time may be granted only due Positive Votes. After all, if you provide all the life and livelihood of someone but are hated for it, that's not fair to you; so you should stop wasting your money and your time on such a 'user', even if you love that person. We all know users. We all eventually learn to walk away from users, because — frankly — those who are not users, should get the benefit of whatever we have to offer. It's simple justice. So how much more, is it only just that the benefit of God only go to those who won't abuse Him?

God provides everything, our souls and even time; yet we are unremittingly hostile, just like that couple in the Garden after Adam's fall (Genesis 3). It's not a sin question per se: it's an ingratitude, a hostility which all the nice deeds and behaviors, can't cure. We all know someone who's very proper and nice to us, but hates us just the same. All that person's good deeds don't make the relationship worthwhile: the hostility and ingratitude, sour whatever nice appearance and deeds that person exhibits. We learn to groan when we have to be with such a person. So we yearn to find a way to avoid that person. Not spend time together.

So, then: how can God justify blessing us? Well, the only way is to greatly bless someone positive. For God sees the blessed one, who pleases Him. Yet we humans remain interdependent and helpless, so those positive need the hostile. We none of us deserve anything, for we are useless and helpless, positive or no. What's belief? Useless. But Belief is a Vote. God makes good on that vote. Hostility is also a vote. God makes good on that vote. For Love never coerces. Such is the Genius of God's Justice-Love.

Bible tells us God orchestrates these Time Grants. After all, if you have to get one so the entire world can keep breathing, you ought to know how. So from Genesis through Revelation, you're told how, and you can audit what you're told. Contrary to popular opinion, God wants you to test what He says, so you can learn what He says. So He wrote a Book, which you audit.

This section is therefore an audit. It has a 'mate' to audit its conclusions for error.

Unlike the worksheet, this page explains the underlying principles so you can know how and why those dates occur as they do. So reading this and the worksheet, you make a substantial commitment of your time. Alas, both are novel. So both this page and worksheet must be longer than desirable, to provide enough data for testing. Please keep testing what you read by asking God for corroboration, breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed.

So, only the Bible's dates are used (i.e., in Genesis 5, which begins from Adam's Fall), irrespective of any historical corroboration or 'popular' interpretation. Bible doesn't say the Genesis 5 timeline begins at initial creation, but rather when God began to number Adam's days. That happened beginning in Genesis 3:17-22, not prior. So we shouldn't read into Bible what's not there. So popular ideas like the Ussher timeline, and all extrabiblical ideas are not used.

First one must know what the Bible says, before one can competently test what it says. Biblical scholarship (whether pro- or con-Bible) avoids using the Bible's own dates. As you'll see from the worksheet, that's a fatal prejudice and very bad scholarship: for the pattern of God's orchestration of time is only visible (and of course provable) if you use the Bible's dates. If you don't know what the Bible says the dates are, you can't competently test the Bible for accuracy. So of course the Bible will seem wrong. Prejudice, indeed!

Prejudice and laziness. It's positively insane how many Christians think the world is only 6000 years old and oh so piously proclaim "the Bible tells me so!" No, it doesn't. The world might be that young, it might be much older, who can tell? See how stupid we all are, in what follows. The world is in stasis: how long it really took to get to stasis, you can't know; an earthquake is fast, but the stasis after it settles down, is slow. A Flood is fast; the stasis after it absorbs back into the ground, is slow. So too, with the universe: we see only the stasis result, not the process which created it. So it's completely insane to use the stasis we see, to back into the creative and destructive processes which resulted in this stasis.

It's like comparing apples and pigs, because the apple is in the pig's mouth! Which silly comparison evolutionists make, claiming the latter essentially developed from the former, because both are organic. What a crock. When you see an apple beget pigs or pigs compose a poem (pigs are very smart animals), you let me know. If anything, big produces little, not the other way around. So the pig had to come first. Of course pigs don't beget apples, either. But something of inferior attributes, never creates something of superior attributes, duh. Hey Satan is that stupid, thinking he a creature, can beat God the Son Who created him, Isaiah 45:7 (Hebrew), Isaiah 14:13-14. So we Christians shouldn't be surprised that all those PhD evolutionists are as dumb as Satan, the smartest creature in the universe.

So obviously, you can't move backwards from today to discern long gone yesterdays by assuming constants. Because constants are static, get it? We don't: Einstein made the same mistake Newton (who was a Unitarian 🤮) did, merely substituting a higher constant. But we see all around us that things are in flux; they don't 'fit' the constant when a body is at rest. Quantum physics operate on entirely opposite 'rules', versus the macro universe. That's why Einstein could never fully resolve his grand theory of relativity, and why we can't, either. Oh well.

So too, with time: we're looking at stasis. So did God 'microwave' and thus 'cook' everything faster? Genesis 1:1 doesn't tell you. Just says He flat made the whole thing, done. Genesis 1:2 tells you things got messed up after that, with the key phrase "tohu wa bohu" elsewhere in Bible to demonstrate Satan & Co. trashed it up. But does anyone do his homework in the Bible? Of course not. Genesis is a Greek word, given to the first book of the Hebrew Bible by Jews translating into the LXX. And "Genesis" means the origin of man (really the Man, the Messiah) — not the universe.

But does any Christian do his homework in that, before running around the country pontificating against evolution? No! Really, we Christians prove ourselves just as insane, prejudiced and lazy, as the evolutionists. We don't read our Bible, either. Adam was never a meat-eater, nor a hunter-gatherer, and the first thing Cain does when he leaves, is build a city. So nothing in the evolution hypothesis is relevant. Souls are immaterial, so there will be no organic evidence of them. So you can't tell if the allegedly-human relics of any age prior to civilization, were souled. Oh well. Maybe someday Christians and non-Christians will read the Bible.

I can't wait that long, so I'll just use the Bible now, and ignore what others claim. You can then test using that same Bible, for accuracy. And here's the astonishing result: you'll end up being within 12 months of the most-reliable extrabiblical datings man has derived, i.e., for the Temple's destruction, etc. This is so, because the Bible's dating scheme runs from Adam, forward. And if you keep digging in it, you'll get an entire fitted timeline through 96 AD which is even more accurate. So you can correct both your own reading of the verses, and the extrabiblical conclusions. We humans round off our dates, and to some extent Bible does too; but the way Bible rounds off, tells you whether one or both events occur late or early in the years measured. This means a timeline provably accurate within six months; and even sometimes, within 24 hours. All because you start from Adam, forward. Sorry, but no humanly-created timeline of history is that accurate. But God knows what time it is, huh. So the only inaccuracy is in our understanding. Which, we can keep auditing and refining, via that same Bible. So here and in GeneYrs.xls, you'll see the timeline is accurate within a year, sometimes better. I need to keep going over Bible verses to get an improved understanding. Repeat: the Bible tells us these dates. But we need to keep auditing how we read it.

Helpful Hints on Bible Dates: assume solar year, and count from Adam. Bible dates are thought to be based on a Jewish lunar year, which is 5.25 days short of a calendar (solar) year; a lunar month is 29.5 days. David invented the priestly courses, therefore, on a lunar month basis: each priest served a fortnight, timed exactly to change at the 29.5 midpoint. That's why Jewish days are measured from the night prior. Every month thus has the same number of days, and the priestly courses remain constant. But when Bible reckons multiple years, it always intercalates, so you do not adjust its accounting for lunar versus solar. In fact — as per in "1000 years" — God intercalates the entire System for Time! That's why the math balances in this section and the worksheet. Accordingly I do not follow the scholarly convention of using Jewish lunar years and the Judaic calendar (which is so far off, it's embarrassing). Save yourself wear and tear: just count years without respect to lunar or solar. If the calculation doesn't work, and you don't first find some other error in your calculation, only then try recalculating based on lunar.

Ancient dates are always a problem in scholarly analysis. People then didn't use the BC/AD system. For most of man's history, time has been measured as a number of years elapse from a particular ruler, event or epoch. That's why people vary so much in their assessments of not only Biblical events, but most other ancient events. In SPQR for example, 205 BC was accounted as the "1st consulship of Scipio Africanus". So when archeologists, historians, scholars cull through ruins and other materials to date a particular thing, they must convert to our BC/AD. It's never accurate. Hence the need for God's system of timing, because you are supposed to know whatever He Gives You To Know, about the date of an event. Future, past, makes no difference — if God wants you to know, then you should find out. God uses the ancient standard of measure in the Bible, because — duh — the Bible was written in those ancient times.

Our modern system of dating is absolutist, but the ancient systems were all relativistic (i.e., Roman system example above, based on who was consul that year). Worse, the world largely operated on two astronomical calendars, lunar and solar; that, because to figure out when to plant or celebrate a religious holiday, you needed two calendars. That proved to be a problem for everyone.

So Julius Caesar invented a new solar calendar, circa 45 BC. Then, we in the West switched to the Gregorian calendar sometime shortly before or during, Pope Gregory: that's when we started reckoning by BC/AD. As a result, there is often a 3-6 year discrepancy when you convert to or from our absolutist calendars, to date something the Bible references. Because they messed it up, when they did the conversion to BC/AD. They knew they screwed it up. They tried to correct the screw up. And the correction, made the screw up worse. That's why today, most scholars resignedly date Herod's death and the Lord's birth, circa 6-4 BC. They don't bother to correct for the obvious discrepancy (so now His lifetime is way shorter than the Bible says, if you went by AD system), because they really can't fix the discrepancy.

So you can bypass that error by using Bible's system. See how the center column in GeneYrs.xls reckons years from Adam. That ends up being an absolute, since all other dates in Bible tie to years from Adam (duh). So, you just count years from "x". Here, from the Adam, the Exodus, whatever is the 'relative' Bible uses. So you can plot backwards and forwards of the Exodus, of King David, etc. And derive a complete, provable timeline. Afterwards, you can then compare the dates you have with what 'scholarship' is out there. Funny, you can thus often correct the 'scholarly' dates, and know the correction is valid. Or, you find out where you messed up, and then correct it. And all this just using Bible, deemed a quaint mythology for children and fools!

Test this section's contents with God's Brains, keep breathing 1 John 1:9; else you'll go in circles and waste your time. Keep asking God to lead you to the right Bible verses, and He will. Holy Spirit will cause you to remember or find the verses: John 14:26 plays live, just as the Lord said it would.

You don't need to be a Hebrew or Greek geek. You will need to know a few things about Hebrew and Greek rhetorical styles, and how Bible dates (i.e., night-first accounting, lunar years being intercalated, etc). This section and Passover Plot explain some geek-type information, so you can know what to vet. Else any Bible translation you use, will generally be sufficient. Later on in this section, you'll see how Luke 3 counts 77 sons in Hebraistic rhetorical style, depicting the 490 structure. Same, for Matthew 1's genealogy. Paul also balances to a 490, in Acts 13. Daniel 9 is obviously a 490-based accounting, for God splits up the 490 into subcomponents, baldly showing He's balancing to an underlying deadline. He doesn't have to mention all this to Daniel, because every son of David was schooled in the timelines of David, which (it turns out, if you crunch the math) God is using. "To Be or Not to Be", walks you through God's math in Daniel 9: God measures back old time on a prior 490-year grant on the Temple which should have completed, to graft in new time ending at the 1000th anniversary of David's death (37 AD, in our terms). That's how He caused me to learn it. I do some accounting for a living, so I breathed 1 John 1:9 to get His Brains and asked Him why He was accounting for the pieces separately. Anyone can know: just ask Him! Took about two years to vet this accounting in Bible.

Most Bible verses are easier to evaluate: Jacob was age 130 when he got to Egypt, for example, Genesis 47:9. Ho hum. Yeah, and that's how you know he arrived in 1870 BC, because 430 years later Israel leaves, per Exodus 12:40-41; and that's 1440 BC, the centerpiece date in the Bible, the date of the Exodus, the reason we even have a Bible. So a "ho hum" verse is pretty important, huh. How long have people gone in circles, frustrated by not knowing when the Exodus occurred? Well, the Bible tells you precisely when it happened. Won't matter that the world festers in its claims that the Bible is bunk: you'll see the conclusive proof for yourself, no hocus-pocus or "blind faith".

So look at how folks go in circles when they don't use Bible: dating the Pharaohs extrabiblically is so fraught with problems, lots of idiots (even most Jews) doubt the Exodus even happened. Yeah, they look at Ramses II, which is over 100 years too late — and why? Oh, based on a flimsy imprecation against Israel supposedly written by Merneptah, what bad scholarship. Look how prejudiced: if the imprecation is the first found 'evidence' of "Israel" being known to Egypt, then "Israel" wasn't there prior. Really? Look: we didn't find out how blood worked until last century. Even Cornelius Vanderbilt's son William was "bled", for crying out loud. (Cornelius Vanderbilt was a railroad baron in the 19th century.) But obviously how blood worked, was true long prior to our findings! So too, with Israel's presence in Egypt. Um, only the 18th Dynasty used the royal moniker, "moses". Hint hint!

God gives Surety: His Son. So we get Bible, His Son's Thinking! Which Son's Arrival and Departure you can exactly date, and guess what? He died on the 1470th anniversary of the Exodus. That's 490 × 3, meaning The Trinity can keep the Isaiah 63 promise. The whole chapter is about each of Their Roles: Son is Isaiah 64:1-9, all Three, Isaiah 63:9-10; Spirit, Isaiah 63:11-14; Father, Isaiah 64:15-19.

Technically, He dies on the 1470th anniversary of that first Passover, which is the night before the Exodus, what gives impetus to the Exodus. But in Hebrew time accounting, the next day begins the prior night. And the day on which He dies, Lamb slain before sundown, is on the same day as the night occurs. Notice the nesting: within the very ending of the 1470th Passover Day, He dies, just as the Law commands. Jewish calendar ran 4 days fast in 30 AD, which is why He's arrested on what was nominally the (wrongly-dated by the Sanhedrin) first Passover. That's the day the Lamb is to be set aside, Exodus 12. Then four days later, He's crucified — on what is nominally 18 Nisan but true 14 Nisan, thus conforming to the Law. For the Passover law is a prophecy of His Passion Week.

Yeah, and for what — 2000 years? — we've not looked in the Bible to see this very blunt proof, given the persistent confusion over even a basic thing like the Exodus?

All proper proofing, depends on accounting: you haven't proved anything, until you have accounted for everything. But all proper accounting, first depends on correct identification of whys. For the basis of God's Accounting, is Justice. And Justice, is first founded on Just Reasons. Hence the Whys Must Be Accounted First, or you waste time. So let's begin analysis of how God Orchestrates Time, with the Whys.


How Does God Build His Accounting 'Watch'?
God Builds the Macro 'Watch' Based on His Nature, Hupostasis!

To know what time it is, know how God builds the Watch. He builds the Watch, in accordance with His Own Nature, which is Infinite and therefore In Equilibrium; defined as, a dynamic homeostasis; despite, and even deliberately because of, a union of opposites (i.e., finity is the opposite of infinity). So all is 'in' Him, stably: "ὑπόστασις", meaning a "standing under". Opposites, united; and the lower stands under its higher opposite. Full-spectrum, because united in ὑπόστασις. And that Uniting remains stable, because God never wants to sin. So there is nothing to break that unity. Nerd note: Bible words are used with reference to their etymology in wordplay; so the first thing you do with a word like "ὑπόστασις" is focus on its literal origin: "ὑπό" = under, and "στασις" = standing. From there, you thesaurally branch out into all its other meanings and usages. So to translate "ὑπόστασις" — a term Bible uses as a title for Christ in Hebrews 1:3 — as mere "substance" (namely, in Hebrews 11:1) is a travesty. Christ Stood Under the Power of the Spirit all the way through His Substitutionary Spiritual Death on the Cross, Isaiah 53:10-11, Philippians 2:5-10. That's full-spectrum ὑπόστασις, never to be broken! And He stood under due to His understanding, Isaiah 52:13, Isaiah 53:2-3, Isaiah 53:5, Isaiah 53:10-11.

So time itself, just like law — e.g., laws of math, economics, physics, accounting — must reflect its Creator. Therefore: Time must always go to Equilibrium.

Because, Time is extrinsic to matter, but intrinsic to God. Bible Hebrew and Greek verbs often depict God as timeless, one big now, all-at-once. And, Infinity is a Ὑπόστασις of Opposites. So relationship of time to God, is the opposite of relationship of time to man. Example: we perceive time in 'dots'. God, being Infinite, thinks, lives and experiences, all at once, never partial anything.

So Time is not a constant, but Evidence of God's Constancy. Willed, never put on autopilot. And willed, based on justice. His.

Hence the Uniting of Infinity to finity, is a Ὑπόστασις: the God-Man, Christ, Messiah is therefore the key to time, the Redeemer. All God's Time-Crafting is based on double-sevens. 7, 2, 5 are the factors. In the Bible, 7 is the number of perfection, 2 the Hypostatic Union (God-man), and 5 is the number of Restitution/Profit. So the root structures for time (coming up below) are 490, 560, 1000 and 1050 — all based on these factors.

  • For Christ is the Redeemer of Time, and all Time is crafted based on Him, Hebrews 1:2 (Greek).
  • As "Man", He has a beginning. The Jews who translated the first book of the Bible into Greek (LXX) named the first book "Genesis", because it's about the origin of The Man (not the origin of the universe).
  • So His bloodline as a Man, comes from Israel. And Israel comes from Abram. Who only became a new race due to belief in God: Romans 4, Romans 9, Genesis 12, Genesis 15 (especially 15:6), Genesis 17.
  • So Israel is His 'roots', and He is Israel's Root (of Jesse), Isaiah 53:2b.
  • So the framework for Israel's history is the same for all world history, for all is knitted to Christ.

Else, we'd all not be here. So you can use knowledge of how God constructs Time and therefore Christ and Israel, to see how Father thinks of Christ, and therefore of Israel; and therefore, how He thinks of you. For God is never inconsistent. How He thinks of one, is how He thinks of all. Absolute Righteousness and Justice demand consistency. And God Loves. Anyone. Consistently, doesn't matter our relative merits or demerits, because God's Nature is Absolute, and therefore His Love is Absolute.

God deletes or inserts future time based on justice-accounting principles which depict His Son Who Will be 'Inserted' into History. Kinda like the modern practice of public accounting, where based on the character of an item you either debit or credit it, God debits the expense of time which didn't prove productive; or, He credits time which will / did / could. So if during the credited time something productive occurred, then the debited time can be reaccredited. Thus the loss, is made up.

Example: God would know how much time is just for 'me' to live. One minute shorter, would be unjust. One minute longer, would be unjust. Bible puts it this way: just as there is a 'ripe' time to pick fruit — and if you miss that time, the fruit is ruined — so also there is a 'ripe' time to die. So: if I get all angry at God, if I stop using 1 John 1:9, I'm losing time, because I'm accelerating the disease of my sin nature. Feeding it, instead of being fed by the Word under the Spirit. So whatever was the original justice-period of my life, changes. So also, this loss affects others. So whatever was the original justice-period for them, also changes. So to handle the changes which God obviously foreknows, He must debit or credit future time in whomever is affected. Love wouldn't have it, any other way.

But wait! If the initial plan of time was Perfect, won't the changes wreck that perfection? Ahhh. God Redeems Time by means of time, to Restore the Time. So it still plays as intended, plus pays for the 'opportunity cost' of the loss while it remained. Because His Son will own it all, even in His Humanity. In economics and finance, "opportunity cost" represents the benefit you could have had, if the damaged item had not been damaged. That's basically how people calculate damages in court cases, among other things.

Hence God basically structures time into 1050-year increments beginning with Adam, as you'll soon see. Inside those segments, God inserts "promised time" crafted in factors of doubled-sevens. Hebrew "seven", usually translated "sabbath", first means "promised time", "appointed time". That's why "7" is Bible's number-metaphor of holiness (AKA Divine Integrity). By careful deletion or insertion of this promised time, the entire 1050 years can be justified to continue for the universe. Which means, those who believe enough in God's "promise" are used to leverage the entire world's time. After all, not everyone believes in God equally; not everyone believes in God beginning at the same age, or in the same way. And we are finite, dependent on the time it takes to learn Him. Can't believe what you don't know; can't believe what you don't understand; can't believe what you can't justify. Well, we aren't equal in those functions. But we are equal, in needing time.

So maybe a child starts believing in God so early and so much, that (like Enoch) he can die relatively young (Enoch died 3 times earlier than everyone else). So maybe an adult has so long disbelieved in God, that he dies very old — for as 2 Peter 3:9 explains, God is "not willing that anyone should perish, but that everyone should change his mind (about Christ)". Corrected translation from the Greek: μετανοέω means "to change the mind / mind change", and has nothing whatsoever to do with sin. The verb is often used as a shorthand for a change of mind toward the Gospel, in the New Testament. See John 16:9 in context, and look up all "repent" or "repentance" verses. Bible always defines its own terms. You don't superimpose your own definitions on the Bible: something that Spurgeon was infamous for, see for yourself:

"The apostle Peter, addressing the crowd, said to them, "Change your minds; be sorry for what you have done; forsake your old ways; be turned; become new men." That was his message as I have now put it into other words." - Charles Spurgeon, Apostolic Exhortation

That is not what Peter said in the Greek, and Spurgeon himself couldn't read Greek, he's just superimposing his own ideas and definitions right after "change your minds" making sin an issue rather than belief 🤦. So you have to search all the uses of a word in the Bible, ponder what they mean, then thesaurally analyze all related topics. God is not a soundbyte.

So: should God just zap the old disbeliever? But He's Not Willing! Okay, but is it just to let him keep living? Well, it is just, if there are others who do believe. Because if you believe, you also want others to get that same privilege of knowing Him — which is why you believed, in the first place. So if there could be more time granted to them, you'd want that, Luke 13:6-9. So those believing, still need to live down here. So those disbelieving, still get time down here. So God who is not willing that anyone should perish, can justify granting more time down here!

"For God loved the world so much, that He delivered over His Uniquely-Born Son; that whosoever once believes in Him shall never perish, but have Eternal (God's Own Type of) Life." - John 3:16, corrected translation.

οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον, ὥστε τὸν υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ἔδωκεν, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται ἀλλ᾽ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον.

There's more than one good way to translate the verse, but the published translations don't use good ways; they instead fuzz up the verse. This verse is in Attic Drama Greek. Μονογενής = uniquely-born, a better translation than you'll find; "once believed" is also a better translation, for it recognizes the rule that a participle precedes the action of the main verb ("have"), so it's the first act of believing, which makes you have Eternal Life. Greek verb "δίδωμι" means to give, but often to give over/deliver over. Term is used in the LXX of Isaiah 53:10 in this way, and John 3:16 is alluding to that Isaiah 53:10 eternity-past contract between Father and Son.

So God leverages all losses of unbelief, to make bigger gains of belief. This buys Time. For belief, means belief in God's Promise. And as we just saw, all time is Based On The Promise Being Believed (running subtheme in Romans and Hebrews). You know much about leverage already. If someone hits your car, you need to be paid for the damage. How much more, God? If that damage caused you to lose time, if it caused you suffering, then you should be paid for that too. How much more, God? And, if you used that car like an investment — i.e., used it to drive to work, so now you lost the 'earnings' the car helped you get, well... you should be paid for that, too. Again: how much more, God?

So what's the Promise to Believe, which buys time? The promise that God Gets Paid! So you can believe in Christ, since He paid God for you! For if He gets paid, then certainly you do: because He has to see you forever.

Now, look at the flipside. Because the car was damaged, you got paid. And the amount you were to be paid, was a judicial issue of what would be owed you, based on what you could have gotten as a benefit, from the car. So: the reality was, you got nothing from the car, because it was damaged. The reality is, God gets nothing from us, because we are damaged. So if God Gets Paid, He gets what was otherwise, 'not gonna happen.' Moldy bread cannot be eaten, whether it's a little moldy or a lot moldy. The whole loaf is infected (most of the mold is invisible). So we can't pay God, anything. So if He can take our damaged nature, and use it to leverage payment for what He should have gotten but never would have gotten, well — that's redemption, huh.

So right away, you can breathe a sigh of relief about your own failures; about the failures of others. For God must be paid for seeing it all. How much more, Infinite God Who will Forever See Everything you or someone else has done wrong? It's not as if Infinity could just turn off memory. He'd have to stop being "God", to turn off anything. Which, He will never choose to do. Which, He doesn't need to do, because He can leverage all loss through the Cross. So God gets paid. So we can too. So if God gets paid and we can too, then "there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus", Romans 8:1. So all Time gets redeemed, and it's just to not condemn. That is our so-great salvation, procurable at will by anyone on this planet, and in a nanosecond, too:

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are forever saved!" - Acts 16:31 (corrected translation)

οἱ δὲ εἶπαν· πίστευσον ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν, καὶ σωθήσῃ σὺ καὶ ὁ οἶκός σου.

So the Cross leverages all losses throughout all time forever, Hebrews 10:1-17. Secular 'laws' always depict the spiritual ones. Every 'law' you see in biology, economics, physics depicts Isaiah 53:10-12. That's why space is so empty and lumpy (a partial vacuum: ματαιότης). Lots of loss (emptiness) leveraged wholly by a little gain (three hours on the Cross paid for all the sins of everyone forever). Ultimate Unified Field Theory, Ultimate Leverage, the Consummate Financier of Time Itself. Kinda makes you wanna know more, huh. How did God pull all this off, considering as we have free will? It's not as though God coerces anyone. Love would never do that. So how the heck did God achieve this utter gain? Enquiring minds, wanna know. So Loving God, wrote the Book!

God's Book, God's Accounting for Time System: God accounts for time in a building manner, to achieve His Purpose for Eternity, theme of Ephesians 1-2. Paul cleverly constructs Ephesians based on Euripides' play "Ion" and the Lord's discourse in what comes down to us as John 14-17. "Building" a Royal "house", actually. The famous "in My father's house there are many mansions" is not talking so much about where you park your body at night, but where you rank in the Royal Family (double entendre use of: οἰκία and μονή). It's because He's talking about building a Royal Spiritual Family, that you find Him cleverly mix the metaphors of "home" and "Vine", throughout the rest of John 14-17. Blood of the Grape. His Blood. His Thinking circulating in us. For apart from His Thinking, we can do nothing. Ultimate 'bloodline', huh. Is God Consummately Witty, or what?!

So Paul has no end of fun using that play — known to all his readers — and the Lord's discourse about Royal House Building — known to all the readers — to show God's Superior Begetting Plan as a Living Temple. Awesome wit! In fact, this theme is in all Paul's letters. Imagine: the only forever-virgin apostle, talking about God's Begetting, in every one of his letters!

Therefore, Concept of foundation, which is Christ (Matthew 16:18, 1 Corinthians 10:4): and then building on it, 1 Corinthians 3, Ephesians 2:10. Very clever use of the Ionic dative of purpose, ("ἐπί") in Ephesians 2:10. God's Nature is essentially two-sided: infinity is only stable because it is all-inclusive, Ephesians 1:15-23. Hence, all opposites are Joined in some manner, based on Truth. It's a Hypostasis, where the inferior 'stands under'; the opposite, is Joined to. Joining. Building. Temple. Church. When He prays for Oneness in John 17, that's a marital "oneness" in the Greek (and LXX). See how using the play "Ion" is so apt?

For, the Cross is fundamentally a hypostasis effected by The Ὑπόστασις, Christ, Who Himself is a Union of opposite natures: Infinite God, finite Humanity. Sins were 'joined' to Him on the Cross, and His Thinking Joined the sins (Isaiah uses sexual innuendo to describe this, in Isaiah 53). Baptism, joining, marrying, bonding. Hence our sins get exchanged for His Righteousness that first second we believe in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Hence the Cross sanctifies us, makes us worth what we could not be worth on our own... forever, Hebrews 10:10-14. So too, every speck of dust is bonded to a higher purpose. Thus, ennobling its own existence, however humble, Ephesians 1:15-21's "filling all in all." Right there, you see why God takes a 1050-year period, and inserts the Promise of Salvation inside. To fill all time. For All Time, Hebrews 10:14. Are you beginning to get the idea God is using your belief in Him, to sanctify time? Well, if not, it's about time you do! Hebrews 10:15-17 actually says that. In the Greek, the Holy Spirit interrupts the writer of Hebrews, to stress that. In the immediate context, the readers were wondering how Israel would benefit, since her covenant is abrogated (i.e., Hebrews 7:18). So God the Holy Spirit ties the old promise of Jeremiah 31:31-34 (repeated in Hebrews 8:8-12) to Church, in Hebrews 10:15-17. Which basically says that Church is nested in the "new covenant", so has a new covenant of its own, Hebrews 7:18-22, Hebrews 8:1-7, Hebrews 9:15-17, Hebrews 10:9-14, Hebrews 11:39-40 (Hebrews is a consummately witty book). Which new covenant, will be used to rescue the "new covenant" of the Old Testament, Hebrews 10:9-17, Hebrews 10:37-39, Hebrews 11:39-40. God will redeem Israel's Time via Church.

So see also, this joining causes loss to be leveraged into greater gain than would exist absent the loss (concept explained in last half Romans 5-11, Ephesians 1, etc). Concept of salvation, really — Restitution Which Causes Pure Profit To All Parties. For think: bad as finity is, so inferior to Infinity, the latter can replicate itself inside finity. Infinity is a quality, non-spatial. Finity is only spatial. So if the Infinite Quality 'circulates' inside that finiteness, well... it's a gain. That's what happened to the Humanity of Christ (bedato yasdiq clause in Isaiah 53:11). So that's what happens to us by contract: Isaiah 53:10-12, upgraded in Matthew 16:18, ratified in John 17, explained in Ephesians, Hebrews, 1 John. Sanctification is in the use of finity, so it no longer matters that the finity itself, is inferior. Dichotomy solved!

What makes finity hold together, is Time. So, God Sanctifies Time Itself. Otherwise, all the other structures, couldn't join. We can't learn His Thinking, absent Time; we can't breathe, absent Time; we can't get the Thinking we learn to bond to our bodies, absent Time. See? Time is central to all finity's life, learning, living — and most of all, central to the relationship we have with Him. For, at our end, that relationship means we need Time. So now let's look at how God builds Sanctifying Time.


The Hypostatic Structure of Time

To effectuate this sanctifying result which both Anticipates and Rewards Christ, God restores time itself; and He does this, through a nested structure of time segments; the nesting results in consecutive, contingent, 1050-year blocks of real time. Most importantly, segments of what Bible terms "seventy sevens" — 490 years — this is "promised time", AKA "appointed time". Surrounding, 'housing' these "seventy sevens", are "1000 year" segments of Time. This nesting of "promised time" inside the "1000 year" segments, justifies time continuing for the entire world. The resultant 'building block' is 1050 years long (490 + 70 + 490 = 1050, and 1000 + 50 = 1050). So it becomes a question of crediting another 1050 block of Time, by the time the previous 1050 block, ends. Note that: future is contingent on past. It's not guaranteed.

So at least one person during a 490-year segment, must be spiritually-developed enough during that segment, in order for the next 490-year segment, to be granted. The same is true, for each 1000-year segment. This ends up meaning that God runs time based on four justice-accounting tracks. The worksheet's gold rows are 490 tracks; the green rows, are the 1000 tracks. Here's how they both interrelate:

  1. 490 + 490, which is a non-intercalated, "justice eligibility" track for the 'soul' of Time (promises are made to a soul, the real you, not to a dead body);
  2. 1000 + 1000, which is a non-intercalated, "justice eligibility" track for the 'body' of Time (a promised soul, needs a house).
  3. 490 + 70 + 490, the "soul" of the 1050 unit, plays historically, contingent on the above non-intercalated "justice eligibility" tracks, all being met. Else, Time Ends.
  4. 1000 + 50, is the "body" of 1050 historical, real time; again, 'housing' the 'soul' unit; again, contingent on the above non-intercalated "justice eligibility" tracks, all being met. Else, Time Ends.

Put another way: a believer during a 490-year period grows up in God's Own Thinking so much, in the name of that person, God grants 490 years to the whole world. But! By the end of that 490-year period, the next 490 years still cannot be granted, unless a new person by its end, also grows up as much. It's like the passing of a baton in a relay race: the previous runner must pass the baton to the new runner, for the race to continue. This passing of the blessing baton applies personally, and at the 490-year grant level, first. But it also passes at the 1000-year level. For clearly, someone might have enough desire for God to learn Him well enough to get a 490-year grant, but not a 1000-year grant. Both are needed. The Bible tells us who they are. So the contingent nature, the baton-passing, is mathematically provable. Awesome, how much.

Meanwhile, the real clock of time, keeps ticking. It runs in 1050-year units, and the question is whether individuals living in time, will be granted 490 or 1000 units, themselves. Question is also, does the rest of the world vote for God? So interspersed — intercalated — are mass-voting units. 50 years of voting link two 1000-year pieces together; within those 1050 year periods, a 70-year unit links two 490's together. So even though the baton gets passed, if people worldwide don't want God, then God will just zap up the few who do, and end time altogether. It's like the Flood. Only 8 people wanted God. The rest didn't. So either those who don't must die, or the world must end.

There, God continued time only for those who wanted him, since everyone else had voted so negatively and for so long, it became unfair to let them live longer. Positive volition is contagious. Negative volition is contagious. Thought is contagious. So at some point, quarantine must occur. The only way to quarantine disease permanently is to kill it. Harsh reality of life. People must be free; and that means infection. But at some point freedom is compromised from infection (i.e., you can only learn so much by contrast). Hence, either a 'flood' or an ending of time. For some, for all. It's a basic Justice question for the sake of the human race.

So beneath Tracks #3 and #4, are #1 and #2. So #1 and #2 are person-related, independent of the 1050 unit. So there can be many #1's and #2s, stacked atop each other, running along with varying endings. The Quality Of Each Time Period Rises In Direct Proportion To The Number Of Individual 490s, Running. So the Bad Quality Of Each Time Period Rises In Direct Proportion To The Absence Of Individual 490s Running. You can trace this in the Bible and in history. Think over what was the Quality of each time period. The individual 490s are listed (not completely, but the salient ones). Note that in the last of these 490s pre-Christ — the one granted Daniel — there were no other 490s running, and only David's 1000's running; Israel couldn't even be granted any more of David's sons as ruling kings. So only David's running tracks served to continue history; and that, only for Messiah. So think over the history of that period from 586 BC onward: see how bad it was. Man being full of himself; full of empire, full of violence. We still glorify that period today, because we remain just as arrogant — well, worse — as the people back then. So look how negative it was. God was just a toy one used to puff up the self. That's as bad as it gets. That's how bad it remains.

So now let's see some real data to show how the underlying #1's and #2's, justify continuing time. Example: Moses was a 1000 person. God's grant of 1000 years due to Moses began 1440 BC, and ended 440 BC. So by 440 BC, someone else had to be a 1000 person, for the next 1000 years to be justifiable. In turn, Moses was only able to become a 1000 person, because Abraham was a 1000 person, and his personal grant of 1000 ran out in 1060 BC. David is the 1000 person after Moses. So David is born in 1040 BC, too late to get the baton from Abram, but within the time of Moses' grant; so David can carry the baton for the next 1000 years, if he grows up (which only God causes). David's 1000s are multiple, based on his Kingship dates and his death: all of them converge on Christ's dates (i.e., Christ is born in the 1000th anniversary year of David's consolidated kingship start, and dies on the Cross in the 1000th anniversary year of David's retirement from that kingship).

However, real time plays in 1050 increments, so these personal grants don't run on the same timeline as Time itself, though Time itself is wholly dependent on these grants being 'alive'. Thus when Moses gets his personal 1000, it's during the third 1050-year unit since Adam. When David gets his, it's during the fourth 1050-unit from Adam. When Christ dies, the fourth 1050-unit from Adam still had 64 years to run. But it wouldn't finish, because there were no other personal 490s remaining: the Temple's 490 (Daniel 9) expired the same year as the Lord's Humanity died, because Israel had rejected the Last David, who after all was the one who got the Temple (see 2 Samuel 7). So the first David's personal 1000 based on his death expiring seven years later, was rejected. Vote was no. So time was supposed to end.

So Savior bought the Time on the Cross, besides saving us forever. Else, we'd all not be here to have the opportunity to be saved. Justice is precise. Everything must be individually justified. So if He paid but no one wanted Him, well... then we'd never have been born. So those who want Him, are in effect caused to 'save' — via the grants of opportunity to believe, which requires Time — those who want Him, are in effect caused to 'save' future generations. That remains true today. So if you want Him, you are being used to justify time continuing. So others can learn to want Him. Just as, past others who wanted Him were used to justify time continuing so you could learn to want Him. Awesome, huh. Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16's statements about redeeming time, are real. Not just warm fuzzies!

So note the 'savior' value of these individual 490s and 1000's being granted. That fact is dramatically demonstrated in the First Advent of Christ — we'd not be here, if there wasn't a lone, not-yet-expired Personal 490 track still running, from Daniel 9 (due to Daniel's prayer). If that doesn't alert us to the importance God assigns our growing up in His System, well... nothing will.


So now let's examine:


The Hypostatic, Triune Deadlines of Time

As a result, each endpoint within these components, is a Deadline. So at each end of each 490, there is a deadline of someone being spiritually-completed sufficient to justify the next 490, to begin. So at the end of each 70, there is a deadline, which is a Believer Mass Voting Period to choose to know God: sufficient mass positive volition, irrespective of any individual qualifying (see the terms in Daniel 9, Nehemiah, Ezra, etc). So at each end of each 1000, another deadline: same one-person rule as for the 490 (but here, it justifies the continuation of the 'house'). So at the end of each 50, another deadline; it's another voting, Unbeliever Mass Voting Period. So within each 1050, there are:

  • 4 book-ended deadlines for the beginning and ending in each of two 490s (in each 1050); plus
  • 2 book-ended deadlines for the beginning and ending of a 1000; plus
  • 1 deadline for the end of a 70; plus
  • 1 deadline for end of a 50.

Quick application: in the worksheet the year 2006 is really the 6112th year since Adam's Fall. So the next 1050-unit ends in 6236, about 120 years from now. During the last 120 years of a 490, the world kinda goes crazy. As Mirror, Now explains in detail, there are seven historical trends which peak during the last four generations of a 490-year unit. The general tenor of these trends focuses on a kind of warring over learning Bible. Bible becomes available like never before, and those opposed to it consolidate like never before; of course those pro- and opposed, don't recognize the trend. Same trend repeats during every historical 490; but each subsequent 490 plays the trend with a far bigger scope than any 490 prior. So it simultaneously is a repeat, yet "like never before" due to the terrific increase in scope. Think about it: back in 96 AD, interest in the God of the Bible was fairly restricted to those in Israel. But now, look: worldwide interest in God is peaking, and it's peaking everywhere but where it has been — Asia and Africa are the fastest-growing Christian continents. We in America and Europe have become lukewarm about God. Interest in the Middle East historically tanked first; though due to our presence in Iraq, interest is rising again.

Again: you can test the historical data to see how it tallies to the necessary characteristics listed in the Mirror, Now section. Or, just track the data to Leviticus 26, which tells you what the trends will be. Positive means upheaval and prosperity; negative means upheaval and disaster. Upheaval can't be avoided, since this is the devil's world and people are pretty anti-God, without Satan's help. If you're positive, you'll be beaten up. Goes with the territory.

Back to this Structure, itself: a total of 8 deadlines in each 1050-year block of time must be met, before the 9th can commence; the 9th, begins a new 1050-year block. Triune purpose, always: Father to Son, Son to Father; Father to Spirit ('Mom', per Genesis 1:2's "rahaph"), Spirit to Father; Spirit to Son, Son to Spirit; Spirit and Son, to Father; Father, to Spirit and Son. Nothing is ever on autopilot, but all is a Gift from One Member to Another. A greater guarantee of Love's Integrity, doesn't exist. Israel's sabbatical years were literally used to buy the 50-year units. Of course, that structure predated Israel, and the actual purchase is historically based on someone prior being granted a new 490. So when you see how God literally matches and keys to these deadlines, there can be no doubt of His Love.

Paradoxically, because His Love/Integrity is guaranteed, Time is not guaranteed. For Time is about Integrity, period. And Integrity, is about Love: Triunal. Family. God-to-God, blessing. Expressing Love, "filling all in all", end Ephesians 1.

For there is no proper building, without Integrity. And there is no Integrity, if you don't go for Profit (never spend good money after bad). For there is no integrity, without Justice. So the First Rule of Time is that it must be Justifiable. Time is a judicial question, first. Next, it becomes a logistical question, a how-to-construct question. Again, because finity needs extrinsic integrity to hold it together. Put simply, we are dependent on Time.



God Builds the Micro 'Watch' Based on His Nature, Mirroring Redemption!

So God builds time based on Justice. We just saw the macro, big picture 'Watch'. Now let's look at the micro 'minutes'. Macro or micro, notice it's the same Justice issue: do you want to have a relationship with God? Okay, now a sample micro Justice issue: if you don't want the relationship now, will you maybe want it later? Justice issue: did you have enough time to make up your mind whether you want the relationship? Therefore: is it just for the next moment to occur, on behalf of the entire world, a nation, a group, your own life? Is it just to continue earth for another 1000 years? If "yes", then those macro "seventy sevens" must be justified first; after all, most of the world doesn't want God, so won't want His Promised Time. But some will. So: shouldn't the whole world continue, if the few who will, need a world to live in? And shouldn't the rest of the world who don't want Him, get Time to change their minds? Same questions as Abram asked the Lord on the way to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Oh, how Deep is the Love of God! Integrity, Absolute!

Absolute Love is never stupid. If someone hates you, there comes a point in time when you separate from that person. You must. You must because it is unfair to you — but as importantly — because it is unfair to that person. Your presence 'causes' the person to hate. So, you remove your presence. So, God removed the Temple, August 28-29, 70 AD, and the Temple was razed. So Israel ran out of promised time. The whole world should have ended then, but Christ had paid by that time, and there were enough who believed in Him, within Church! For the 1000 year segment 'houses' those not believing in the Promise = Christ (see Hebrews 4-10); so the 1000 years surrounds yet is dependent on, those two '490' periods granted those who do believe. So when enough of those who had believed, instead disbelieve (= hate), well... God must remove what is rejected. That's when the Rapture will happen. That's why it will happen. God will have accomplished His Goals by that time.

For rejection means a death. Murder of relationship. Divorce. Integrity demands the wishes of the other party be recognized. Love wouldn't have it, any other way.

God is Absolute Righteousness. Love would never cheat Righteousness. So think: it's horrifically unfair that God should have to view us at all. We are so evil, grasping, puny; we are so totally disinterested in Him; we want Him to do pet tricks for us. We couldn't care less about how much grief we pour upon Him, what with all our endless me-nesses, our complaining, our demands, our claims of deservings. Just turn on the TV at any hour, watch all that sick preening parade. I'm a good person. There oughta be a law! So-and-so is bad! Murder and blamesmanship dominate airtime on TV or in brains: because we love it. What we deserve, is death. We're absolutely disgusting, especially when we think or say how good we are. Yeah? If we were really good, we'd not need to think of ourselves as good. You only need, what you don't already have. And we are obsessed with being good, getting good, claiming good — so we can demand others give us attention or other goodies. Sick puppies, that's what we are.

So why should God grant us time? Time to yell at him for not fixing some problem we we we think should be fixed. Oh, that's fun for Him to listen to! Endless kvetching in His 'Ears', all day long. Time to involve ourselves with all manner of petty pleasures, preening what good Christians we are, comparing ourselves to others or calling self 'better' due to dress, jewelry, cars, a house, a Job — puh-lease. Even we puny humans get sick of folks who go on and on like that. How much more, God?

Yet we get time. If that isn't proof of His Absolute Love, there is no such thing. So at the same time, there must be thinking which satisfies righteousness, or — however much He is unwilling — the next 1050-year increment, must be denied. So those who believe in the Promise, are learning His Thinking, and abiding in Him. That satisfies Righteousness so much, that Time Can Continue For Their Sake. Hence the kvetching, accusing, hating world gets another 1050 years. Contingent, never guaranteed. For it's unfair to guarantee, hatred. At some point, separation must occur.

For God wants you to be blessed, so He's designed even Time for that purpose. So if you screw up on His Timing, well... you incur a loss. Not to worry, though: God reroutes even time, for blessing. He has an initial plan of time. If a plan of time is not met, it's reallocated to restore the time lost. When God 'makes up' time lost, He can justify doing it for Christ Who paid for it. Who owns it all.

We all know the Ecclesiastes verses about a time to live, a time to die (the verses became a famous song by the Byrds, in 1960's America). But what we don't recognize is that God appoints these things in a very precise manner to effect his purpose. Nothing happens really by accident. You are free, a thing is free, but since all is foreknown, what can be done to assure that freedom yet achieve god's own will for 'whatever' — can be incorporated into the very design of even time itself.

So, if time is lost, it will be be 'mirrored' (doubled) on either side of a particular event or epoch. Example: as you'll see in this section, Daniel 9 is just such a mirroring which enables the Birth and Death of Christ to occur. In fact, that's why Daniel 9:24-27, read as they do. Yeah, you can predict exactly when He will be born, and the outer limit of when He must die. But the first Justice issue was, can He even get born, in the first place?

For at the time, Israel was 'short' 126 of the 490 years, due to its apostasy. The Temple should have gone on from 950 BC when it was Dedicated, (1440 - 950 = 490) to 950 - 490 = 460 BC. At which time, it would have a renewal of another 490. But instead, due to apostasy it was 'cancelled': 586 BC, only 364 years later. So now God has to 'redeem' the lost years, before He can justify Renewing the 490. So He has the angel explain to Daniel, how the 126 years get restored: 70 (Daniel 9:2, missed sabbatical years) +49 +7 = 126. The "7", however, is not mentioned with reference to Messiah; rather, it's cut off. So it doesn't get measured back until after Messiah. So the 70 sevens are now Renewed: for the 70 was met by the 516 BC deadline (586 BC - 516 BC, Jeremiah 25, Daniel 9:1-2); so that 70 years having been 'paid' productively, could next be mirrored (redeemed) to meet the rebuild-Jerusalem deadline of 446 BC. That leaves the 49 of the 126, and the "62 weeks" is all new time, culminating in Messiah. The 70th is cut off, happening after Messiah, and there's a reason for that: the 1000th anniversary of David's death, runs out seven years prior to what would have been a full 490. So it will be mirrored back in the Tribulation, Daniel 9:27.

As you'll see when you read the timeline with reference to Messiah = Christ (Hebrew = Greek), because Israel rejected Him, 7 of His allotted years couldn't play. But He successfully completed His Mission, so those seven years could be 'mirrored'. And they played from 64 AD - 70 AD, the years Jerusalem was under siege. (For years mildly, but then came the Year of the Four Emperors, and Titus' adopted dad was the new Caesar, so Titus had to get tough; so in 70 AD Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple was razed.)

Notice how you can tell when the First Temple was dedicated, given God's accounting. So the huge divergence of scholarly dates over when it was dedicated, is unnecessary. God's counting from 586 BC destruction backwards, to derive the 62 weeks: 70 years is the future-required-sabbatical years, so that leaves 364. So, 586 + 364 = 950. Simple. God gives you what you need to prove dates.

Notice also how there could have been only one '7', the 'reserved' one; in which case, Daniel 9:27 would be referencing the 'reserve'. Had Israel accepted Messiah when He came, the long-promised Tribulation would nonetheless occur; but Israel would have already 'redeemed' the '7', by accepting Messiah. But if Israel rejected Messiah (and she did), then the '7' would have to play twice (which it did and will). So it's playing after Messiah in 9:26, if He's rejected; and 9:27 will still occur. Balances, either way. Freedom is not compromised. It was Israel's choice to incur the double-restitution, as was always true in Mosaic Law (i.e., Exodus 22:4,7). Now Matthew 24's warning makes more sense. Now the imminency of the Rapture makes more sense. See, Israel once understood all this. That's why the Gabriel and later the Lord, talk axiomatically.

Note how God's timing allocation is based on goals. Man, having free will, can reject those goals. Hence, time adjustments occur. Hence, are mirrored back to man. Similar to the warning about judging, in Matthew 7:1-2. This mirroring then is two sided: 1) the initial plan, and 2) the makeup or reroute or redemption plan. So there is always a numbering of years applying to anything, everything, you, me, our home nations.. Nothing is outside of the Time for it. Bible repeats this fact in so many ways, it's astonishing. Moreover, since Christ did Successfully Complete the Cross, we don't get Israel's times. Instead, ours are based on Christ. Hence, incalculably bigger.

So we see that back in 586 BC, Israel lost time, because she had rejected God. Due to Daniel's prayer in Daniel 9 — he was the one credited with the 490, so the whole world got to go on because of his prayer — due to that prayer, Israel was mirrored back time. Because on time, by God's Deadline, she had returned (shub) to the Land and rebuilt both Temple and Jerusalem. But we saw that later, 70 AD, she again had rejected Him when He came. She got the traditional 40 years' warning, then.. Gone. No More Time. No Temple, no national relationship to God.

Which should have meant, no more time for the world, either. But Christ had come, gone, and succeeded, just as Daniel was told back in Daniel 9:26. Which verse, represents our historical position today. So: Church, being part of His Body, is an extension of Christ in the world, 1 John 4:17. So Church, is the Conduit Through Which Father Can Justify Those Continuing 1050-Year Increments. But again, if we become too negative, that time will stop, per Romans 11, especially Romans 11:21-22. That's what the Rapture signifies: Called Home, in shame and triumph. The remaining seven years of Tribulation now 'reserved' to mirror back, will then begin. Justice is consistent.

So note how God rerouted Justification for Continuing Time — via Christ. For we get this role, not because of ourselves — remember what Paul says in Romans — but because of God's Loving Purpose. In the immediate context of Romans 11, the purpose is to rescue Israel. But rescuing Israel, means Buying The World Extra Time. See? It cuts both ways. Israel got fat-headed over being so important, being the one nation on whom all the world depends. Yeah, and look at the discipline she got, Paul warns: so now that the time baton has passed to us, let us not also be fat-headed. For we can be pruned, too. Only for us, the pruning is the Rapture.

So we see this micro 'Watch': a cycle that 'mirrors' over and over. God sets up a numbered system of recurring days, because our days are numbered. Warning! Time is limited! Your days are numbered, due to Adam's Fall. If your days weren't numbered, you couldn't recognize that you will die — so we see the day 'die', every 24 hours — so you'd recognize the need of being saved. Also, when you're going in the wrong direction long enough, you have to get some numbered warning that the path you're on, will lead to some disaster. So if you are made aware of the limitations, the numbering, your first response will be to prioritize your life. God-first. Of course, we all variantly become aware of our limitations — which is why bad stuff happens, to wake us up — so we need time to reap what we sow.

The basis of God's time accounting was laid out in Genesis: 7 days. Yes, God restored (not created) the Earth in six literal days, probably during some interglacial period, who knows. Coulda done it in a nanosecond, if He wanted. So it's very witty, what 'Mom' the Holy Spirit does: He pretends He's a man, since the Son will be a man. So, He dawdles for six days, to teach man how to number his days. Back then, there were no humans. But He foreknows the Son will tell this story to Adam. So it's witty, that He hovers like a mother hen (Hebrew rahaph, Genesis 1:2, hence the moniker 'Mom'). Does one category of restoration per literal day, and then takes 'off'.

Six days are effortful (not works, but not necessarily feel-good, either); and the seventh is resting. So "seven" in Hebrew is a big deal. It means rest, completion, promise, oath, etc. So "week" has all those connotations, too — Completion, Perfection (legal sense of "to perfect"). So, when God communicates His Plan for Israel, He publishes it in terms of "sevens", "weeks", "time" (7-day-unit), and especially, "appointment": Hebrew for these latter three words seems to be most often, l'moed, a pregnant word in Hebrew related to the Temple Fellowship being central, the spiritual life. LXX Greek often uses καιρός for these latter three English-translated words.

Every date or age number from Genesis 1 onward is there to teach about time. Moses began the written Bible, so the way you need to read it, is in terms of the Jewish system of dating then. Hence, all time markers in the Bible, whether talking about age of someone when he becomes king or rules, whether backwards to Adam (which date you begin after his fall, when his days first became numbered) — are measured in terms of years pre- and post- Exodus. Exodus date is 1440 BC, and if you screw that date up, you won't get the timeline God uses. Almost no one in Judaism properly dates the Exodus, and the official Jewish calendar is off by several hundred years. Scholars, whether pro- or anti-Bible, don't date the Exodus rightly either — and certainly don't measure time as years "x" before or after it. So that's why they give out incredibly goofy dates for Exodus as being during Ramses, and Abram being born circa 1800 BC, etc. Ad nauseam. In which case, the Israelites couldn't have been in slavery for 400 years, so those who hate Bible can pretend they 'proved' it wrong, hooray! Anything to debunk Bible. What a perverse ego trip. All they prove, is that they are sloppy scholars. Which makes it embarrassing to watch them in documentaries, etc.; especially, since these folks are very sincere. Who will deliver us from these bodies of death! Paul exclaimed at the end of Romans 7. No wonder!

So God tells you how to number your days (to prioritize). God also tells you how many days you have left, when you need that kind of warning to reprioritize your life. This is in answer to Moses' prayer, in Psalm 90:12.

Israel's timeline was predicted, but not fixed, because (as my pastor likes to say) "The Sovereignty of God and the free will of man co-exist in human history." Israel might have obeyed. Adam's days were not numbered in the Garden, for it was really one day. One day at a time. Each day, he had the option of eating from the Tree of Life, or the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Those Trees were real, but they also represented his attitude toward God. So, he kept on eating from the Tree of Life (the woman, too) for who knows how many days or years — they weren't counted — until one day, they both ate from Satan's Tree. And on that day, they died spiritually, Genesis 2:17, and Genesis 3. So, death came upon all men, Romans 5:12. But this death, is spiritual. Body doesn't just croak immediately. But it degenerates from that point onward. So, its days are numbered.

God also numbers your days when too many have gone by, to restore what was lost — time you could have spent learning Him has been rejected, and now the degeneration is so bad, you gotta get punished, to survive. General principle is stated in Genesis 6's 120-year verdict. So, when Israel became too apostate, Her Redemption Days Became Numbered, too. This, to protect her (soul devastation of apostasy). So the first time God numbered Israel's days to limit them, began after she refused to have God as king anymore: Acts 13 explains this. Second time He numbered her days to limit, was based on the fact she even rejected Him despite getting the human kings she'd wanted. Ergo, the 586 BC destruction of the First Temple (the one Solomon built). Nebuchadnezzar besieged the city three times; but in the final siege, he was so enraged with Zedekiah's betrayal (2 Kings 24:17ff) that he razed the city and the Temple, melted down the Ark to extract its gold (don't even bother looking for it, see end of 2 Chronicles). Daniel was one of the second-siege hostages, because he was of the royal house of David; so he went to Babylon and was in the King's entourage, about 11 years prior. Eventually, he became a chief official under both the Chaldeans and later, under the Medes and Persians (read the beginning of each: Daniel 1-9).

Note carefully: from 586 BC onward, no kings will be provided Israel, until Messiah comes. So, Daniel 9 tells anyone when that will be. For us, it's demonstrably past history. That's why the Temple Is gone: to show Messiah came, left, and is coming back. The No-Temple message is even derisively enhanced, by the "abomination" now sitting atop, called "The Dome of the Rock". Exactly portraying, in mute yet verbose stone, Daniel 9:26-27. You can see this verse in stone almost every day on television, whenever someone takes a shot of Jerusalem. Its gold dome dominates the old city!

And what does Daniel 9:26-27 tell you? That "until the very end" Jerusalem will be desolated. So you don't know when the end is, and you don't know what kind of end it is. Yet, Daniel 9:27 suddenly is there: huh? Daniel 9:26, no Temple; but Daniel 9:27, the Temple is there, and abominations set up? Again, not telling you when it begins. Hebrew syntactical structure breaks between Daniel 9:26 and Daniel 9:27; so you don't know how long; you only know that Daniel 9:27 is next in sequence. So when you look at that Dome, for crying out loud — you know Messiah came, left, and Israel's Contract As a nation, is in breach. You further know that this is the "times of the Gentiles" (phrase is actually a refrain in the Old Testament), so you know you are in a dead time spot. No set time. Dunno how long, how short, anything. But you do know what comes next — the Tribulation. If you were a Jew and thinking, you couldn't miss this advertised fact. And just to help out, Satan & Co. make sure to stir up the Arabs, so that Dome is on TV at least once a week. A Dumb Dome, testifying to the watching dummies who can't count.

Considering how the Jews were taught God's 490 structure of time (at least, back during Jesus' day and prior), they knew about God's system of inserting and deleting promised time. That's why Daniel 9 was worded as it was: Daniel understood it. The language is not mystical, but technical. So they knew from Daniel 9:27's break, that an Insertion of Time might occur there: specifically, 50 years to 'pay' the "times of the Gentiles". That's what Pentecost and Jubilee depicted. The period from Passover's beginning until Pentecost's ending, was 57 days: exact same as the number of years belonging to the "times of the Gentiles". The exact same number of years as spanned the allotment from the 1000th anniversary of David's death, to the ending of the fourth 1050 from Adam. You could know all that centuries in advance, once you had Daniel 9:24-27. Which, Israel did. So her days were numbered far in advance, and the schedule for Tribulation, the inserted 50-years voting period, followed by Millennium, were all easy to know. Just like you know on what day of the week "May 31" will be years from now, so they too knew when the Millennium was supposed to begin.

Fast-forward to 68 AD, Christ having been rejected, so the 50 years was 'off', no longer Israel's calendar. The writer of Hebrews assumed that since the 40 years post-Crucifixion is almost up, the Temple will soon be destroyed. It helped that Titus was there besieging Jerusalem at the time. So the writer of Hebrews understood the Insertion of Time 'laying' between Daniel 9:26-27. (Hebrews was written from Rome (or near it) just after Paul's death, see Hebrews 13:23-24 compared with 2 Timothy 4:1, where Paul asks Timothy to come to him and bring Mark. Note how carefully the writer words Hebrews 13:23-24. Paul was in Rome, not Italy. And you go to prison in Rome, not "Italy"; especially, since Timothy went to Paul in Rome. So to protect believers in Rome from being detected, well... the author of Hebrews wrote "Italy". For surely this Book was circulated all over, not just to believers in Jerusalem. So: it's not hard to know what happened: Timothy went there (with or without Mark, I can't tell), and got arrested with Paul; Paul was beheaded. Dunno what happened to Luke (maybe he's the writer). Since it's a doctrine that when the shepherd is struck the sheep scatter (and are persecuted), that's why the writer of Hebrews suddenly shot off this very hasty letter: it's code for "Paul is dead" — but he dare not say that, for who knows who might intercept the letter, thus imperilling whoever had the letter, and whoever should get the letter. So the author had to know what would happen to the Temple, given the doctrine, which is in principle paradigmal to Daniel 9:26. Now you know why the letter is anonymous. They must have been running for their lives.)

Greek, Ταχύ; Hebrew, מַהֵר (maher): both mean suddenly, without warning. First Coming was predicted exactly, but now because fulfilled, the Second Coming is "imminent" in that Church is now inserted and no one knows when it ends. So you can't predict when the Tribulation will begin, so you can't predict when Messiah will return. But you can obviously know He's been here: Dome of the Rock sits over the Holy of Holies, a prototype of the "abomination" Christ explained (based on Daniel 9), in Matthew 24.


"Promise" Time Elements: Components of our Numbered Days, and WHY

God made your soul at birth, pattern of Genesis 2:7. That is a type of Promise; specifically, it's a Promise about Time with Him. A promise that He loves you; that His Plan for your life, would enable you to enjoy living with Him forever. It's a promise to your soul, since that is the real you. For Promise Time relates to the soul, and is structured in terms of "7s", ever since Adam was saved (Genesis 3, "all the days of your life" clause). The Garden couple received the first promise of time at their Fall, for they had believed in Him ("and I ate" clauses and the animal skins verse, show they believed in Him for salvation). The Lord makes a joke about it using the preposition min in Genesis 3:22, calling the Fall a kind of birth: teasing that Adam knows everything now, born from himself, out from, away from, God! Verse is mistranslated: it's not "like us", but "out from us", a play on birthing, since the preposition min is the quintessential birthing preposition of the Old Testament.

So think of Promise Time as the "soul" of Time, for that's its purpose. Frankly, God plays these promise times in your own life, if you are a believer; He keys events in your life around your birthday and the Hebrew calendar. He does this to show you He's involved, and to teach you about Time. His Accounting is so complex, i.e., an event in question is keyed to your birthday relative to the two Hebrew calendar standards — you'll tie yourself up in knots if you evaluate it too much. Just be vaguely aware that He does this. On selected occasions, the Holy Spirit will show when an event has been orchestrated, and will demonstrate convergence. Again, the purpose is to teach, not wow you. You need a hands-on sense of how the doctrine works, and He really does orchestrate our lives. So occasionally, you need to see how Promise Time works in your own life.

By contrast, Fixed-Time Elements are macro for the world. Promise Time is only for believers, and 'plays' on both micro and macro 'Watch' levels. So what are the components of Promised Time?

Generally, the 490 is composed of the following time elements, each of which has an Important Meaning. (You should see these values exhibit the same types of meaning in the natural and numerical sciences.) This listing is not all-inclusive. Note carefully the purpose of each segment, and its Bible examples:

  • 1 week, 7 years. Purpose: Fundamental Building Unit. Bible uses the term "sevens", not "week"; but since most English Bibles translate "sevens" as "week", I'm following the English convention, here. The root meaning of "sevens" is promise, in Hebrew. The seventh day is not so much a way to divide time as a promise. The existence of a week, then, signifies the Promise of Time. So the Promise is first, and the fact that it's metaphorically displayed via "week", is secondary. Writer of Book of Hebrews makes puns of the Hebrew meaning using Greek wordplay, very witty (especially the "while it is yet today" clause). Very memorable. And that's the point: a week is a designed period of time, with the promise of rest at the end of it. Hence "sabbath", "seven", "rest", and "promise", are often punned in the Greek & Hebrew of the Old and New Testament. Except for Luke, all the writers were Jews, so this multilayered meaning of "seven" is often allusive. You have to be alert for pointed allusions to seven, because they won't be explicit: you won't find "seven" in the verse. Examples of allusions are Matthew's use of "14" (doubled seven), Luke's use of 77 sons from Adam (another doubled seven), 1Kings 6:1 (the math of which shows David died 7 years after he abdicated in favor of Solomon).

So, this "week" has a Foundation role; therefore, a Testing role (for improving structural/functional integrity). So, you'll notice that it took 7 years (a "week" of years) to complete the First Temple, or the time David was King in Hebron: compare 2 Samuel 2:11 with 2 Samuel 5:5, 1 Kings 2:11, 1 Chronicles 3:4, and 1 Chronicles 29:26-27. Note that over Judah he'd become king six months earlier (sometime during 1011 BC, probably just after Saul and Jonathan died in the Battle of Mt. Gilboa). Thus tribulation characterized David's first seven years' reign, because that was a time of civil war. It also took 7.5 years to build Solomon's Temple, according to the the LXX of 1 Kings 6:1 (see also 2 Chronicles 3:2).

We know for sure that a week is 7 years, a way of measuring time since Adam: see Genesis 29:27-28. Notice the Contractural Nature of the expression. It's not slang or a figure of speech. Moses is writing it out, because the Contract for Israel is being explained. All contracts have roots; so Precedence governs all contracts. Justice Issue of Consistency requires Precedence be followed.

So God's assignment of the Jewish Tribulation to a "seven", is patterned on this precedence; however, that 'seven' is primarily a 'body' number. Fixed-time elements all derive from Promise Time, so have an embedded 'promise' meaning in them: but they relate to the 'body' of civilization.

The entire 490 structure is based on double sevens. These depict the God-Man, the Promise of Promises. So Matthew 1 shows this Fundamental Building Unit is the Ὑπόστασις of hupostases, the Christ. Luke 3 does the same thing. Thus you know that God's 490 + 70 + 490 = 1000 + 50 Accounting System for Time, was well-known to their audiences. You won't get the wit if you don't know that Accounting System. It shouldn't have to be said that no writer wastes wit on a witless audience. People alive then were not witless like we are, today. Even the graffiti spoiling the walls in Rome was wittier than some of our best writing now: for that was a society which prized words and wit. So, Bible's chock full of wordplay: but wordplay is native to its original language; so most of Bible's humor gets washed out in translation.

Matthew's listing tracks the Kingship Promise, so the listed generations aren't all the generations there were: it's like saying 1,3,5 instead of 12345. Compare to the every-generation-listed Luke 3 genealogy for Mary i.e., there were really 42 generations from David to Christ, not merely 28, and 14 × 3 = 42, get the numeric wit tying back to Matthew? (Luke's Gospel was written maybe 10 years after Matthew's.) Side note: In Matthew 1, the kings of Israel were all usurpers, so aren't listed; whereas, the kings of Judah were descendants of David. So Matthew skips over the more-unfaithful sons of Judah, in his tally. Ahaz was not one of the faithful, but his son Hezekiah was among the best of Judah's kings, 2 Kings 18:5. Josiah, too (2 Kings 23:25).

Matthew also keeps the tally of the generations to 42, but spans them Abraham through Christ. Luke's, runs David-Christ. Thus you see a mirror back of the number of generations, too. The 14 pre-David, add to the real number of generations of David, 28 + 14 = 42. Principle? Faith bears kids. Father of Many Nations. Beloved Seed bears seeds forever, im tasim asham naphesho yireh zera ya'arik yamim, Isaiah 53:10's Hebrew: if His Soul will(s) (to) be appointed as a substitute for sin, He will see Everlasting seed.

Number games telling profound truth is very Jewish. Very memorable. "Naphesho" is the whole Bible in a nutshell: His soul. Given to pay for sins; given to us, to be transformed into Him, per that Isaiah 53:10-12, stressed by Paul in the Greek of Romans 12:1-3. For Bible is His Thinking, 1 Corinthians 2:16. Transforming the soul of the believer who learns it in God's System per that eternity-past contract of Isaiah 53:10-12.

This is how the Church believer becomes Πλήρωμα, pregnant with the seed of His Thinking. Thus is assigned a kingdom of 'seed' forever: for Father, under Him Who is the King over Kings.

Matthew plays on the promise that a Son of David will forever have the scepter, which is why he goes back to Abraham: see Jacob's blessing on Judah in Genesis 49:10. He's tracking from Abraham, to show continuity of the 490 as well as to show the Kingship Promise; he's showing how the Seedmaker Abram, becomes the Seed Sprouts, Israel. In short, Matthew is showing you precedence. The Precedence for the Promise. That the Promise is pre Israel as a nation; and that's important, since David gets his covenant apart from Israel. Matthew thus stresses a superior promise precedence, which in law, is everything. Especially, God's Law. Precedence is based on the Justice Requirement of Consistency despite disparate groups (i.e., everyone is equally entitled to Justice before the law). That's not a 'Western' invention. We got it, from the Jews. They got it, from God. But before them, it was the same rule. For God is always the Same.

Hence Matthew isn't giving us a dry history lesson, but a witty legal-accounting one. It's great wordplay, since "490" turns out to be roughly 14 generations (sirings, not longevity) by the time Matthew wrote his Gospel. So by this you know God is "on time": God's Seed (see Galatians 3), the One to inherit all the Covenants in Himself — was sired in time.

Matthew uses Joseph's line because that's the Kingly line. Therefore you simultaneously know Christ from Mary's line also fits the standard, due to crossovers at Zerubbabel and Nathan, among others; yet the Jeconiah curse, remains. The wit is phenomenal; in the very last phrase Matthew switches to Mary — wry way of saying that the foregoing listing is in her line, too (again, through Nathan and Zerubbabel). Luke also wryly begins as if he were talking of Joseph's line — but is really talking of Mary's — again, to show crossovers at Zerubbabel and David. Jeconiah, the last King of Israel (at the time of Babylonian deportation) was cursed by God to not have anyone of his kingly line to sit on the Throne (Jeremiah 36:30, see context!), so Joseph was not legally allowed to be King. Zerubbabel would not have otherwise been king, but becomes the line, via Shealtiel son of Neri (AKA Neriah), who became the kingly line due to the Jeconiah / Jehoiakim curse (the latter not having descendants, thus fulfilling the curse, see 1 Chronicles 3:17) — see also the prophecies and encouragement given to Zerubbabel by the prophets Zechariah and Haggai. The lampstand prophecy in Zechariah is especially important. Zerubbabel was the Royal son who headed up the deputation to rebuild the temple in the first year of Cyrus the Great; but Temple rebuilding halted, so God cursed the Land (see Haggai, Zechariah, Ezra, Nehemiah on this); then, temple got completed during the last 20 years, ending in 516 BC.

Luke 3 genealogy stresses how Christ is the Last Adam (directly 'fathered', so to speak, by God). So His Kingship is a Higher One than David's, yet He is a son of David. That's also a big point the writer of Hebrews makes, in Hebrews 3, Hebrews 4, then Hebrews 5-10: wry explanation of Psalms 110:1's fulfillment, which of course David wrote! David was 77 when he died. So it's like one generation for each year that David lived.

For just as Levi was cut off and Moses' father Amram was grafted in at the head of the line through Aaron, due to the fact Moses' mother was a higher-ranking Levite (cousin of Amram on his aunt's side); so also, Joseph is cut out, not the biological father of the Lord's Humanity. The Holy Spirit made those chromosomes (via miracle, creating and imputing them in Mary's uterus — miracles are natural for God, not supernatural). Mary is also descended from David. So the Royal Family, continued as promised. So the Greater Son was born of the right lineage and on time and by the Holy Spirit — all just as advertised in prophecy, prior.

All these facts sound irrelevant to us moderns. But they were part of the very breathing of Israel. Just as we Americans reckon and analyze time by Presidents and cultural epochs ("the 60s", "the 70s"); so also the Jews reckoned by kings and prophecy. For prophecy is just a scheduling of time. You get up in the morning, and you know in advance what you must get done, what must happen by day's end. Similarly, Jews had to be briefed in advance on how the entire time was structured, because it was necessary to vote on God's schedule for their lives. So they knew it well. Measured by it. Analyzed by it. That's why the Gospels read as they do. That's why so much about Messiah, right down to His Schedule of Arrival and Departure, is in the Old Testament. So you could measure and analyze and therefore, vote. Vote, not drool.

God's Vote is to cut off and graft in. That's what Matthew 1 and Luke 3 demonstrate, the Schedule being kept and who was accounted, in it. Thus you'd have no doubt as to the identity of Messiah.

Notice how God votes, rather than coerces. He could turn me into a pencil or iguana any second He likes; He could just will it, and all time would cease as if it never began, and all creation in it. He could will we all be Stepford wives any second He likes, and that's what we'd be — either retroactively or from that point forward — or whatever He wants! God is bound by nothing. But instead, He votes. If that isn't Absolute Love, dunno what is.

Matthew also allusively illustrates how Israel's voting-no rejection shortened Time itself by 14 years, yet the deadline of Time at the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement (30 AD), was met. That's another reason Matthew selects "14" as a rhetorical grouping device. Middle yellow strip in the worksheet, look down the rows to Year of the World 4136. See, 44 AD was the 4150th year from Adam, when the 4th Civilization 1000 ended. People back then counted years from Adam. Matthew is writing in 49 or 50 AD (this, with book of James and possibly Galatians, were the first written New Testament books). Matthew thus writes after 4150th year from Adam, so how could everyone still be alive? Those against Christ would use the year itself to claim Christ wasn't Messiah; since after all, everyone is still alive! So: the clever use of 14 in his rhetorical structure of the genealogy, doubles 😏 as a way to show how the 14-years' short in time, didn't hinder the Redemption of Time.

The way he does this is awesome. First, he's paralleling the time on both sides of David, so he's depicting the Mirroring Nature of the Promise. Let's pretend that instead of the normal accounting basis of covenant-delivery-date ("CDD") to the next CDD, Matthew's measuring this parallel, from birth-to-birth. So: between Abram's birth and David's, is 2160 BC - 1040 BC = 560 × 2 = [490 + 70] × 2 = 1120 years. So it is to be mirrored back on the 'other side' of David, because the promised time, was met. But this other side ends up 14 years short, even when the entire 1120 is mirrored back: 1040 + 1120 = 80 AD, 14 years short of the historical 1050 ending in 94 AD (Year 4200 from Adam). So mirrored time runs out before the 1050 period containing His Birth, ends. That's a debit of 14 years.

So we now use the more-normal Bible accounting basis of CDD to CDD; the birth of a brith. Abraham's CDD is 2060 (birth of Isaac). David's, is 1003 (consolidated kingship at Jerusalem). Difference is our friend 1050, +7. So: between David and the deportation of Jeconiah the king and the royal-family hostages to Babylon is 1003-597, 406 years. From Babylon to Christ's intended time (born a king of all Israel), is 597 + 40, 637 years. 406 + 637 = only 1043. (Notice how 7 of the shortfall is reserved in Daniel 9:27.) David reigned for 40 years. Christ thus was entitled to 40 years. Which results in a 14-year shortage versus the mirror.

So now you know why both the Tribulation and the siege of Jerusalem, end outside the time for Israel, yet belong to her.

All this shortage, of course, tallies exactly with the 1000th anniversaries of David's Kingship (970 BC + 1000 = 30 AD) and death (963 BC + 1000 = 37 AD). All this tallies exactly with the allotment of time given in Daniel 9:24-27 — which uses as its outer limit, the 1000th anniversary of David's death; which then shorts by an added 7 years because Christ was rejected, hence He dies in 30 AD.

So Matthew deftly shows that the birth-birth accounting, the CDD-CDD accounting, Daniel 9:25 and David's anniversaries, all converge. Only God can converge real dates and time; everyone knows those times and dates; no human could have created those times and dates. So this Jesus has to be Messiah.

So no matter whether you accounted birth-birth, or covenant-delivery to covenant-delivery, it's 14 years' short. Time had run out, so He has to be Messiah, else no one would be alive. Thus Matthew uses the very dispute against Christ, to prove He came: Matthew's only able to be alive and writing, duh, because Daniel 9:25 was fulfilled!

Thus we see Matthew use God's Accounting System for Time which every Jew grew up on. So we know how to use that Accounting System, too. The Promise of His Birth was met On Time, by 3 BC (really 25 Chislev 4 BC), the 1000th anniversary of David's consolidated kingship. Death On Time, end 1000th anniversary from David's Abdication. Matthew thus references the reader back to Daniel 9:25's accounting, which is based on those two simple 1000th anniversaries. Clear implication, then, that Temple be gone by 70 AD (a seven plays inside a 40, precedence of Pharaoh's dream of fat and lean years). Warning, Bill Robinson!

Everyone was familiar with Daniel 9; everyone was familiar with genealogies or could check them. Hence they can prove for themselves, Yep, He's Messiah! For the second generation from the Crucifixion getting this Gospel, that accounting would be especially important. Math can't lie. People, can't tell the truth. So, you've got the Bible and its math. It's written, doesn't have an ego. It's written, so it can't browbeat you into buying it. It's written, can be audited. Sensibly. No mystical meaning in the numbers, 🤣.

Principle: God keeps His Promises. Right on Time. Woe to us if we don't read the time then, threaded warning in Hebrews 2-4.

Hence by this "14" measure, God shows why the 490 exists: a doubling of the 7, is a mirror, and signifies FirstBorn; more fundamentally, the dual God-man nature of the One being Created. Lots of wordplay there: shining via a mirror, reflecting the Word in your soul; mirror wordplay later in 1 Corinthians 13, "sea of glass" in Revelation 4, mirroring verbs and nouns. Luke 3 shows Mary's genealogy, and the two genealogies cross over (at Zerubbabel, see Luke 3:27); hence via Mary, Christ is biologically descended from both lines, so is doubly Royal (David's younger son by Bathsheba, Nathan ("to give") is the son from whom Mary descends, Luke 3:31).

When Luke wryly appends like a footnote! The genealogy of Christ in Luke 3's ending (what a fine sense of Attic Drama Luke has), you find Christ is the 77th generation from God (42, to David; 14 more, to Abram; 20 more, to God). Get the doubling? See why Matthew uses "14"? Double portion, FirstBorn, mirroring, begetting, reflecting, ὑπόστασις of opposites. God produces a mirror of Adam, and a mirror of Himself. Endless metaphorical/number play!

Ergo the Precedence for Church: a believer who grows up in Him generates many children, and is caused to generate Time itself. The significance of Church is that we are promised bodies, from whom come the Promised Time. So we make history (babies), not prophecy, Isaiah 54:1. That, because we are on the flipside of the Cross. Prior to the Cross, the promise was Time, because it was about one Body — His — being developed. Now that One Body has come, a Body for that Body is being developed, however much time it takes! This, because His pre-Israel Kingship was kata-Melchizedek, and Israel turned it down. That kingship, requires a Bride. First-offered Bride, Israel said "no", a Vashti-refused story. So now "Esther" is sought on the highways and byways. Notice: Esther is never Vashti. Church is never Israel. Two Kingships. Two bodies, two contracts, two priesthoods, main theme in Book of Hebrews. Mirror, double 7s. Two promises. Joined, in Him.

For Our Redeemer redeemed all time and for all time (theme in Hebrews 10), so also we Church are here to redeem time (Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16) — because Church is Body, hence Royal Family to the King of Kings. Royal line, then, with royal effect on time itself, and therefore on humanity: see Luke 8. So some will have 100x the effect, some 60x, some 30x (and maybe more than 100x, if the 'yield' numbers are used as illustrations only). The effect of Church on Time seems to be bifurcated; 1) we have the same role as prior covenantal groups with respect to this earth's time; but also 2) we are the rulers under Him for Eternity, the Only Royal Family in the eternal state. So our effect on that time, that Eternal State, seems more in view, in Luke 8. Again, this is all due to Him, and the building up of His Thinking in us. It's not due to us, but the Holy Spirit makes it happen in us, which is why we should be adamant about getting in and staying in, God's System. This knowledge is pretty intimidating. Helps me to stay calm, if I keep on regarding the self as an entity/product of His Making, and live on Philippians 3:14 and Hebrews 11:1.

God thus shows time has a purpose, and He reconciles it like we would a balance sheet or a checkbook. Here, the meaning of "1 week" remains for Church, Hebrews 3-4: but its focus is on the number of believers developed during that time. That's actually harder than obtained prior. The standard of spiritual development is now Ephesians 4:13, not the lower standard of the Mosaic Law (main theme in Galatians, Ephesians, Book of Hebrews). So for us Church, it's always sudden-death: "Mene Mene Tekel upharsin", handwriting on the wall. We can tank at any minute. For, we are here to make babies and thus via that, make time. The minute we stop growing spiritually — for the "babies" are the spiritual thoughts growing in us, which form the basis for 'fathering' our kingdoms in His Thinking forever — the minute we stop growing spiritually, time ends. This isn't just nice prose, or poetry, or symmetry which you can brush away as figurative. Do the math, to realize this is Real Time being shortened, lengthened, based on whether you want God. For the whole human race, due to one or a few who are learning Him. Awesome and scary.

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  • 7 weeks, 49 years: that's the number of years between Jubilee years (Jubilee was every 50th year). Jubilee year was Legal Release and Reversal from certain kinds of obligation or ownership, a reset; a reminder that whatever you owned or were during that time was only temporary. Purpose of the 7 weeks: to vote for and await, freedom. So since this Freedom is coming, you are encouraged to vote against being too attached to your circumstances 'now'. Which vote, frees you from many kinds of snares in this life.

If you knew you'd be moving out of your current domicile a year from now, your attitudes toward it would immediately change. You'd collect less stuff. You'd begin packing. You'd not schedule magazine or other subscriptions to go beyond the move date. Above all, you'd be far less attached to your location, psychologically. So if something was bad about where you lived, you'd not be so bothered, thinking, well, I'll soon be leaving.

Problem with us humans, is we don't have that attitude toward our own lives, though death hits us in the face daily. We won't be here very long. It's temporary. Only when an illness hits our bodies, or someone close to us dies, do we even have a glimpse at the vapor trail (term used in James) which is this life. At that point, many people undergo a deep psychological change, and it's usually not for the better.

So with a 7 weeks' purpose, God eases the trauma; Jews reckoned everything in terms of the upcoming Jubilee, since whatever contracts they made, would be over by that date. Sales of land were really leases until the next Jubilee, at which time property reverted to the original owner. Thus the temporariness was a daily part of life. Talmud is basically a philosophy of Jubilee. So was Jewish economic life. More importantly, it was a constant reminder that God had a Plan for your life which was eternal: one better learn it, huh. Paul uses this very line of reasoning in Romans 8, calling life a kind of pregnancy (translations bland out the metaphor). Real Birth begins when you die.

So at heart, the 7 weeks signifies positive volition to God; that's why it has a Freedom Purpose. It's just like one week: at the end comes the rest, freedom-from-this-life purpose, fulfilled. Writ larger, in the "1050" Building Block of Time God uses, the "50" stands alone as a voting period for the human race. The "7 weeks" nests within it. Hence the Promised "7 weeks" is pretty significant. Each 7th of those weeks is a sabbatical year. During a sabbatical year, you trust God to feed you, since His law requires you let your land lie fallow that whole year. Frankly, it ends up meaning a wait of three years, because: 1) you're living on the prior year's produce, plus 2) just foraging during the sabbatical year, plus 3) you must wait until after FirstFruits (first non-sabbath after Feast of Unleavened Bread) before you can eat from the new tillage after the sabbatical year. Look how much waiting, therefore: 21 out of the 49 years (3 × 7). So that by the time you reach the 49th year, you've either really Learned Freedom based on trusting Him, or you're completely negative.

So to keep the sabbatical years (which they did, beginning 516 BC), means a big Positive Vote for God. So, having done that, Jubilee can happen. And Jubilee, always represents the Millennium in miniature. Message: future is always contingent on volitional votes. God literally used the 70 sabbatical years as a 'tax' within a 490, which He 'rebates' by attaching the 70 years following the 490; from this, He literally 'taxes' the 70 via its own 10 sabbatical years and one Jubilee year, to 'leave' a net 50 for the goyim (symbolic name for unbelievers, in the Old Testament). It's pretty shocking, how literal God is about financing and accounting Time. It's more shocking that we aren't taught all these things beginning in Sunday school: since Bible is so stuck on numbers, you'd think someone would have plotted them out by now to show these mathematical relationships. Oh well: we haven't learned to count to three yet, still calling it Good Friday!

This 49 years is uniquely used in the final 490 which culminates in Christ, and is related to the aftermath of the rebuilt Jerusalem — distribution of the last Old Testament book, Malachi. In Daniel 9, the 7 weeks is part of the 126 years of old time. Temple had an allotment of 490 years, but due to Israel's apostasy, only 'lived' for 364 years. So that left 126 years; the components of that 126 are 70 + 49 + 7. So in the 490 of Daniel 9, the components are: 70 + 49 + 7 + 364. Since a 490 sandwiches inside a 1050 as 490 + 70 + 490, you'll notice that like Daniel 9:2, Matthew 1 recognizes the amalgamated 490 + 70 = 560, in his tallying of Abraham to David (birth-to-birth, it's 1120 years, 560 × 2). So the message is, due to the voting which resulted in the completion of Temple and Jerusalem, when David's 490s all ran out, leaving only Moses' personal 1000 as a 'cover' — now Old Testament Canon can be completed, too. And it was, within that 49 year deadline: book of Malachi. Next stop on the schedule? Messiah. For now that Temple, Jerusalem, and Canon were completed, it's time for The One those things all depicted.. To Arrive. At which time, Jubilee can occur! (See Luke 4:19, how He quotes the Jubilee verse in Isaiah 61:2 as the proclamation of His Messiahship).

Its parallel is Pentecost. Jubilee signified the end of the 50-year period for harvesting the Gentiles which would follow in the wake of Messiah's paying for sin. Passover depicted the payment for sin. So the entire count was a "57". Seven for Passover, plus 50 for Pentecost. (Jews don't count the Omer properly today; Bible shows you begin the count on the night of the last sabbath, which is the last day of Passover. Last day of Passover is always a high sabbath. See "Firstfruits".) That "57" depicted 57 years. Since 963 BC when David died, therefore the exact year when the last "57" would play, was known. Since 538 BC, when God accounted the Temple's restoration to tie to that 1000th anniversary of David's death — no one could mistake it would be the 4143rd year from Adam. The end of the 4th 1050 would be 57 years later. Can't start a new 1050 before the old one is completed. And the 5th 1050, was to be the Millennium plus its 50-year ending voting period.

So of course the first year of that Millennium, would be a Jubilee year. So Isaiah 61, Jubilee is a poster boy for the Millennium. Pentecost depicted it also, which is why God made you count down. See, even Moses knew this. The only thing you didn't know, was which 1050 it would be... until David died. That cast the date in stone, had Israel accepted Christ when He came. She didn't, so we Church had to be inserted: time had run out.

  • 10 weeks, the voting period for believers. There are 10 sabbatical years in a 490, during which Israel was supposed to vote its trust that God would take care of its food needs; it was punished with the Temple's razing, among other things, for not observing any of those years (see Daniel 9:2).

Purpose: rest, recreation, time to think, vote, focus / learn / enjoy Him. "Just because". No works. Bible says in a bazillion ways that God hates works. This is one of the stronger ways — Israel got punished for not resting every seventh year. Translations mask and even reverse the very many Bible verses excoriating works. But even Romans 4 in translation is clear enough. So too, the meaning of the sabbath, and sabbatical year.

7 weeks 'nested' in the "50"-year component, which in the "1050" Building Block of Time, stands alone. So too, this "10 weeks" stands alone, separating and joining the '490' ending, and the next '490' beginning. So: 490 + 70 + 490 = 1050, the entire nested, 'soul' "Promise" Time, housed inside the 1000 + 50 'body'.

Again, as with the 7 weeks, it's about voting. 10 weeks stresses believer voting. For the next 490 will not occur, absent sufficient believer voting. So it's more important. Bigger number, too. Whereas there were only seven sabbatical years in the 49 years (7 weeks), there are 70 sabbatical years within a 490: ten times as many. So if they were all met, the next 490 begins after a 70-year hiatus, which gives everyone more breathing room; for the 490s require deadlines of spiritual development. Notice how a longer period of Trusting is required; but there is no separate requirement for one person to develop to some high level, within the 10 weeks. You'll see that this 70-year period was absolutely critical to the world's survival. So you don't have to be a spiritual giant (yet), to be vitally important to the world even breathing. Do you know how many others are voting? No. Do you know what they are voting? No. What if your vote is what makes the difference? You don't know that it will. You don't know that it won't, either.

People justify not voting for their elected representatives on the grounds that the mass of votes required makes their own votes 'small'. But with God, the opposite is always the truth. One believer carries the world's time, most of the time, since Adam. Between Adam and the Flood, you had several carriers; but excepting the period between Abraham-Joseph, from Noah forward there was only one person. Baton had to be passed from one to some other who was developed within the 490 (or 1000) period. Had God not made the promise to David about the Temple, and had not the Temple been rebuilt by all those voting to return to the Land and rebuild it, we'd not be here.

So your vote, like your prayer, counts. You can pray that Africa receive massive harvests and end world hunger, if you wanted to. Prayer is a vote. Sure, there's a protocol to voting (and hence to prayer): you have to know something about the subject, which requires a lot of learning; you have to want the right answer; you have to live that vote (or use 1 John 1:9 when you fail, preferably right away). But that's how Israel survived, and the world through it. That's how the world survives now — but Church is the Bride, Israel having rejected that role for herself when He came to Pick Her Up. So does your vote count? You bet! Every second you're breathing, you're voting. So lots of votes, not lots of people, count with God. God rules: not majority-rules.

Israel went down because it refused to vote. Christianity is acting likewise. No wonder we are all so miserable. We aren't voting to live in God's System. The world hurts, due to our refusal.

Think of the 7 sabbatical years within the 49 years as Rest For The Body. Think of the 70 sabbatical years within the 490 years, as Rest For The Soul. All of them rewards, for trusting in Him. God delivers on His Promises, and you believed that, so now you can rest. Of course, by the time you reach those benchmarks, you are only interested in resting so you have time to See Him Who is Invisible. Heh.

So notice how God splits the value of trusting Him into 'body' and 'soul' components. Notice further how there are 10 times as many sabbatical-year rewards in the 'soul' component (10 weeks). When you're a kid, it's at once natural and hard work, to keep on trusting Daddy. When you've grown up, it becomes a pleasure to both trust, and be trusted. Trusting in God grants a rest like no other, and to the extent you don't trust Him, you can't enjoy trusting or being trusted. You'll be tied up in knots. Hence the longer period of 10 weeks — for the growing-up of the soul. The 'body' can only grow so far. But the soul, will be living with God forever.

  • 62 weeks (434 years), Redemption. The number is a composite of 364 years (precedent is BC 950 - 586) plus 70 sabbatical years.

The precedent for the 62 weeks is apostasy, A time period to be restored. So it comes to mean Redemption. So God uses it as the final countdown period to the Redeemer. So notice how it is restored, in Daniel 9:25. See the mirroring? Israel had been apostate, but not so much that the Temple was razed, so it stood for 364 years. However, her apostasy was so bad, her 70 sabbatical years were not paid; 52 of these had accrued 'unpaid' by the time the Temple had to be razed. So when 49 of them had truly elapsed during the 70-year period between 586 BC and 538 BC when God via Gabriel gave Daniel the next 490, He had 'been paid' for the seven years reserved in Daniel 9:27; so the remainder of Temple time could be restored. Which restoration included another 70 years, if the Temple were rebuilt and standing for another 364 years. Parallel to the initial 'charge' levied, back in 586 BC. So here we see candidly, how God cuts out and mirrors Time.

Notice also how the 70 years going forward, stresses how The Sabbatical Years Must Be Observed in order for time to continue. Extrabiblically (i.e., in correspondence with Alexander), you can prove the sabbatical years were observed. (The Jews flipped from lasciviousness to legalism, post-exile. That's a typical human pattern: once you really see who God is, whatever you were, your sin nature will try to become the opposite. We are hapless!)

So in this 62 weeks, you have two components representing restitution: the 364, represents obedience, so gets 'rewarded' due to that. '70' represents the required sabbatical years, contingent on obedience going forward, just as before. That's how we know that the 'soul' / "Promise" Time "1050" Building block, is separated by 70 years. It's a contingency, and requires votes.

There is a de minimis vote which must be ongoing, even when God completes some spiritual hero within a '490'. The 62 weeks stresses that rule.

Conclusion: promise time is exactingly accounted, and it's entirely based on believers. Hence in Daniel 9, the '490' is composed of 'old' time and 'new' time God Adds. Moreover, it's 'intercalated' with 70-year mirrored believer voting periods, with the result that 630 - 7 years is the actual award, taking you to 37 AD. So Daniel 9 is an example of an entire Accounting System going back to Adam. Not, an isolated pronouncement. God grants 490 more years to mankind only based on those He assigned to carry the baton. It's like a budgetary review: will the money be granted for the next fiscal year? Will time be granted for earth to continue another 490 years? Yes, Justified, or no, Not Justified. When you stop to consider how apostate Israel was (and by extension, all mankind), it's starkly evident how God values the few who were faithful in every generation: same principle as the roster of heroes, in Genesis 5 and Hebrews 11.

And what is "faithful"? Voting to know God and learn His Word. Not works. Sabbatical years were for Not Working but instead, studying Word. Not at all what you'd expect, huh.


So now that we've looked at the 'soul' component of time, let's examine the house for that 'soul':


Time Elements: Fixed-Year Components, and Why.

Fixed-Year Components are designed to accomplish at least three types of 'jobs'; all jobs are designed to facilitate the function of or fulfill, the role of the 490s. Since God structures the basic 1050 unit of time in ὑπόστασις, with 1000 + 50 as the 'house' (AKA 'body'), and 490 + 70 + 490 as the 'soul' in that house, there need to be Components which produce the interaction between 'soul' and 'house'. So the "weeks" components (of the previous table) are the interactors for the 'soul' of Time; these fixed-year elements, are interactors for the 'body' of Time. Taken together, these two types of components constitute the 'brain' or 'heart', enabling the profitable circulation of Time itself.

These Components, like the "weeks", have been playing since Adam. But the Bible rarely talks about how the components worked, pre-Israel. Reason: Moses was the first writer of Canon, and by that time, he was the leader God appointed for Israel. So the relevancy of the components to stress, dates from the formation of the nation, forward. The precedence of the components pre-Israel occasionally is referenced so you can see the consistency of the 1050's; so you can see the whys better; else, attention should be focused on the current meaning of the component for the time you live in. There's a place for focus on the past, as a learning aid. But then you use that past, to live in the present. God is "One Big Now". So you are to live in that "Now". God's Now encompasses the Future — so you live in light of the future, 2 Corinthians 5 (whole fabulous chapter)! Not, in light of the past. God isn't about, wallowing in the past. Religion, politics, family life — all these end up creating little tyrannical chains to hold you to some past. So you don't end up living in the present, and for the future. "Tradition" has a niche, but it's not supposed to choke you. However, if you look at history, you find people use the past to buttress their egos or control other people. This is yet another cause of man's progressive retardation over the centuries. We're not advancing, except in the disease we inherited from Adam.

God is First. Your present and future is with God; for Church, that relationship is more intimate: "in Christ". Hence we are indwelt by each Member of the Trinity (including, the now-risen humanity of Christ, since as God-man, He is still One Person). Consequently, you disinherit your old life and purposes, and instead graft in the Biblical to-God purposes. So your relationship is wholly to God; and through that Relationship, to people and things. God's all about cutting-out and then grafting-in. That's what He does with Time itself, so that's how things work, period. God First. First Commandment has no room for anyone else: "you shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart and Soul and Mind." See? There's none of 'you' left over for anyone or anything else! So Paul elaborates on this fact in 2 Corinthians 5. We were cut off from God, but our sins were cut into Christ, so we are cut into Christ (theme of Romans 5-8, too — especially Romans 6). So now cut into Christ, we are only in Christ, so all the old things have passed away, and we have a new way to think and live, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21.

So technically, your spouse, parents, and friends, are irrelevant. And you, are irrelevant to them. That sounds wrong, but remember: God is First. So if "family" is supposed to be first, well... Who's the first Father! To Him you owe everything. To everyone else, nothing. And the same is true, relative to what they 'owe' you. They don't owe you, you don't owe them, each one instead has a vertical relationship to Him. And we live toward each other, as "unto the Lord". Period. To live otherwise is to put a square peg in a round hole. This is why this world is so dysfunctional, they're cutting out "God", grafting in "people". We try to put people and things in the space where God should be. No wonder we are all so unhappy.

The "Promise" and "Fixed-Years" Components therefore help us remember that it's God First and Only. That's why the many rituals, etc. In the Law are all teaching aids, mnemonics for your real purpose down here. You're here to train for the future, your real life with god. Which lasts, forever and ever and ever.

Now we know that God is not saying (sheesh) that you should just up and divorce, up and disown your family, friends, and go live on some mountaintop, like those stupid hermits of the 2nd Century AD. They were goofballs, totally retarded, learned nothing about God. Because, there are other Commandments, after the First One. "After", but they exist. Ergo, everyone benefits more, because they are "after". Think: if God is first, then you won't need people to fulfill you personally. So you won't be clingy, domineering, etc. So life with you, is refreshing for them, not a pain. And Love never co-exists with need, so now because God is First, you really love them (main theme of 1 John, climactically portrayed in 1 John 4:19). So if they also are putting God First, they won't be a pain to you, either. Pain is fundamentally, a lack of rapport. But notice: if our goal is only Rapport with God, then we automatically have rapport with each other. Oh, the depth of the Riches of our Inheritance in Christ!

For Christ, it was only about Father: "My food is to do the Will of Him Who sent Me." And look what love for us, resulted... the Cross! That's what 1 John 4:19 means. That can be the meaning of everyone's life!

See how the building works? Build up in God, and that builds you up for happy relationships with people.

Now, to the three main Job types assigned to fixed-year components. The term "week" (literally "seven") is a promise word. A promise first requires something/someone be completed, so the Promise can be delivered. You'll see Paul talk about this fact in Romans 9. Idea is, God won't give you something you can't enjoy. It's not then a promise, but a punishment. So Paul builds on that concept to explain why the Jews are not saved until they do what Abram did, believe in the Lord (he's using Genesis 15:6, like James did, in James 2:18ff).

Ergo job one: fixed-year components are designed to build something or someone so that the Promise can be delivered. Part of any building process, is waste. So certain fixed-years 'handle' waste: something lost that must first be punished, redressed, restored. This, so that the recipient of the Promise could first Be Built. After Being Built, the "weeks" apply. Notice how wasted time is therefore not wasted 😏. God loves even the dung beetle, giving it a job to do which facilitates a building being completed. Else, we'd all be drowning in poo! 💩 See how God used Joseph? Seemed like his life was wasted — yet God used that to save the world, for if no Joseph 'wasted' in Egypt, there'd have been no Israel building up in Egypt, hence no promised Exodus of that built-Up nation, hence no David, hence no Messiah, hence no salvation. Time would have ended, absent waste! Infinity is nothing, if not ironic.

Ergo job two: so if you believe in the promise, then the deliverance on the promise, is a fixed thing. Contractural 'perfection', here demonstrated with fixed years of blessing. ("To perfect" is a legal term of completion, verbs: τελειόω, πληρόω, cognates and compounds. Better translated "finish" or "complete", but English Bibles often use "to perfect".)

Ergo job three: if you reject the Promise, a different fixed thing occurs: you get the bad thing promised, for your refusal. Again, these are contractural provisions. So the numbers God uses reference contractural provisions everyone was taught. But you know how it is in school: you forget what you learned, as soon as summer begins. No more school, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks! So: you need a wakeup call. And God expresses that wakeup call, in terms of Fixed Time. Giving you time, to change your mind and go back to school.

As you analyze the Fixed-Time Elements of this section, try to spot each of the three jobs just mentioned. Bazillion dollars of understanding-profit will accrue in your spiritual life, if you do. For here we see God's Genius Grace Plan of Time!

  • 120 years, four-generation adult voting period for Word. It really runs between 120-190 years, terminating with a historical 490's ending. The first 490 in a 1050 has a tack on of 70 years, so 120 + 70 = 190. The last 490 in a 1050 includes a 50-year voting period, so the total becomes 120 + 50 = 170. At other times, it's just 120. Whenever it plays, it's designed to clean house among adults, based on votes to believe or learn Word during this period. Negative voters are wiped out by the end of it, or shortly thereafter. A new 490 or 1050 must get a clean house. So God either cleans house at the end of a period, or at the beginning of the new period. We entered such a period back in 1960 (the historical 490 and 1050, both end in 2130 AD); so of course, that's why Bible teaching started to polarize and sour so much! Some of the best and worst Bible teaching in history has characterized our period from 1960 onward. Some Bible doctrines recovered now, went sleeping since John wrote Revelation! We are in the midst of another Reformation, really. Amazing, how you can track this period on a macro level throughout history. In the Bible, you see God use this voting-then-cleaning often, so most Christians are at least dimly aware of its existence, though not its purpose. Here's a sampler of instances from Bible:
    • Genesis 6, four-generation notice of Flood, 120 years; maturation is gauged at age 30, so there are four generations in 120 years. In Genesis 6, God doubles the period, since the whole world will be destroyed. Notice that in Genesis 6, Bible doesn't differentiate between believers and unbelievers, saying rather that everyone's evil except Noah. Surely Noah wasn't the only believer on earth. Doesn't say that Noah had no kids prior, either. Noah gets his covenant 20 years into the regular 70-year voting period; that's when his listed kids are born; so he had voted but not enough, beforehand. It looks like Noah's agreement to build the Ark at the beginning of that 120 years was the reason for the extension? In short, Genesis 6 spans both believers and unbelievers. (You can just bet that a whole lot of drowning people believed in Him while drowning, so are in heaven now. Anyone too young to be accountable would automatically go to heaven, just as in any other year. Consent depends on being an adult, as per: Numbers 32:11, Exodus 30:14, 2 Samuel 12:23.) At the time God makes this announcement, the historical 490 only has 4 years left, so He's first announcing the Negative Result of the previous 120 years, and also extending it for another 120. The 'regular' believer voting period of 70 years began 4 years later, so there's an overlap; time enough for Noah and his kids, plus their spouses, to finish maturing and voting. Notice: 120 + 120 - 70 = 170, net; 170 = 70 + 50 + 50. God's calculating the period based on allotments he uses for voting periods. Since it's a worldwide warning, notice also that 120 = 70 + 50. Notice also that Methuselah's name was given to pre-warn of this Flood, at least since his birth, if not prior. (Enoch seems to have been the town crier about the Flood.)
    • Four-generations' principle stated in context of the Exodus generation, why God would wipe out that generation of believing adults, Numbers 14, Deuteronomy 9, Exodus 32; principles are in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Every adult who left Egypt with Israel, left due to belief in Him. Else, they wouldn't go: two thirds of the exiting adult population were converts. The kids don't count, because they are deemed too young to know better, until they are adults; and, they'd have no independence. So kids share in the fate of their parents, having no way out; the alternative is to override authority, which God never does. So now you see the tenderness in saving anyone who dies before he can become accountable, from yet another angle. So in Numbers 14, one year after the Exodus, the adults proved so negative God pronounces sentence: instead of going into the Land, they will wander around in the wilderness for another 38 years, until every adult (excepting Caleb, Joshua) is dead. Even Aaron and Moses did not enter the Land. In Numbers 14, you see the statement that God cleans house with every fifth generation (the so-called "four-generation curse"). So too, it plays a macro-level in history, hallmarked by seven trends.
    • Jonah in Nineveh: Assyria lasted 120 years longer post-Sennacharib because people voted positive to Jonah's message, theme of Book of Jonah. An Assyrian remnant survives even today, just as God always promises.
    • Samaria's kings run four generations or less, from the beginning (when the 10 tribes split from Rehoboam, calling themselves "Israel", competing). Bible calls this entity "Samaria", usually. The moniker is a dig, but it was also the capital city.
    • First Temple's destruction occurs in exactly the 120th year before the 7th historical 490 is due to end. Following that ending would be a believer voting period of 70 years. Israel's God became widely known because of this. Many voted for Him.
    • Christ is born and dies within the 120-year period ending the 8th 490 from Adam (which also ends the 1050, so the 50-year voting period is sandwiched in there). That period began with Augustus taking over the Senate: the fractious Roman republic died, the civil wars in it died, and the Roman Empire was born. This made it easy to vote with your feet and go to Israel. Since Messiah's birth and outer-limit death year were predicted since David's death year; since that year was confirmed in the Daniel 9 accounting, anyone could know when to leave for Israel. Time runs out at His death; but since He succeeded at the Cross, He resets Time. So on God's calendar you date all new 1050s from His death (BC, Before Crucifixion; AD, After Death: although the BCE/CE have inexplicably exploded in popularity adding more confusion to everything).

In short, this 120-year period is Biblical, repeated, observable, and auditable... if you look for it.

  • 50 years, Jubilee. In the design of time, a Jubilee period of 50 years was only allowed to play because some believer was spiritually-matured enough during the previous 1000 years, to justify time continuing for the next 1000 years. It first signified the coming of Messiah to reign 1000 years, Isaiah 61 and following So each Jubilee was designed to remind Israel of her future. So each Jubilee year, was a time of renewal and celebration. Here, the focus is on returning to foundation. Idea that what got done is erased, ended, because it was temporary. Alternatively, if what got done was so complete, it's time to relax and enjoy the Profit ("5" is the number of restitution / profit in Bible).

It's a dual contingency. The character of a 70-year piece is fundamentally a 'tax rebate' on 70 sabbatical years, even pre-Israel. Pre-Israel, God is still accounting time in this manner, but the observance was not by a nation, and did not necessarily have the physical characteristic of not working for a year. (If it did, I can't prove that from Bible, though crop rotation and letting land go fallow has been a feature of good farming for many centuries.) So, the 50 years is purchased by the 70 as a net rebate, as we saw in the "7" and "10" weeks. But additionally, someone new must be awarded a 1000-year grant for the 50 to play, even if 'paid for' by the 70 weeks. So it truly is a Jubilee, if the 50 occurs. Whew.

Hence the Jubilee concept of "reset" is literal and economic. So it plays literally: in a Jubilee year, property reverted to its owners from 50 years prior, debts were cancelled, contracts had to be renewed. It sounds disruptive, but everything after a Jubilee year was valued based on when the next Jubilee would occur, so it became a stable recurrence. You should be able to verify that fact from Bible and most any rabbi — especially, one in Israel. I'm not sure how they practice Jubilee today, but it should be substantially similar, at least among the Orthodox.

Hence, in the Grand Scheme of God's design for time, the housing period is "1000 years". Which is, 20 × 50. Which has following it, another "50" years, to make the "1050" basic unit of Time that God built for the human race, beginning with Adam. That's why the Lord quotes from the Isaiah 61 Jubilee announcement, to proclaim Himself Messiah, Luke 4:19. I can't yet prove that the year He announced Himself was a Jubilee year. Doesn't look like it. Depends on when God had them start the clock for countdown. Surely it began sometime after they entered the Land, but was it the first year they entered, or after they'd won the territory and did the allotments? So I can't calculate whether His Proclamation — maybe mid-26 AD — was supposed to be a Jubilee year.

So notice the metaphor communicated by the number: the 1000 years starts over after the "50" finishes, 'redeemed by' the previous period. Now you know why God gave 1000-years' advance notice on the Flood via Enoch naming his kid, "Methuselah": "methu" = he dies, + "saleh" = destruction comes (from Hebrew shalach). Enoch clearly had been warning people long before his kid was born, and God clearly told Enoch what to name his kid. Since we know the "Day of the Lord" is first a Warning of the Last 1000 years of history, then we also know its precedence: the Flood. So you were warned to shape up! And if you did, this wonderful 50-year period of Return, Rest, Foundation, ensued.

That was the law in Israel, therefore. Always telling them what time it was, always reminding them of the timeline. Since Israel was the nation from whom Messiah would come, the nation got this rule. Prior, it was the bloodline (i.e., Genesis 5 and 11 rosters) who got the rule. For Jubilee is always about Salvation, and Millennium is always about The Savior Ruling. Until Israel and then David, it wasn't known for sure, of what branch this Messiah would come. That was a progressively-revealed thing, because it depended on voting. You'll notice that the contracts from Adam forward all depended on voting for God. If you did, you were promised to be a progenitor of His Line. Finally, that progenitor was Abram, renamed (contract-given-evidence) Abraham, "father of many nations". And from them, one nation, would be a priest nation: Israel. That future was contingent on voting for Messiah when He came. Two Kingships He would have: 1) the eternity-past Melchizedek King-Priesthood for father (see Hebrews 5-10), which David knew about, so Israel did too (Psalm 110). Then 2) King of Israel. The latter was unconditional to Israel via David, only. The former was contingent on her voting for Messiah. So Israel will be a priest nation in the Millennium due to His kingship, not her acceptance (though she will accept Him at Second Advent), because that role falls under 2). But 1) being rejected, went to us Church. We are not Israel.

This meaning of "50" was used in many provisions of the Mosaic Law, so you could be constantly reminded of its "retirement" meaning. If you were a Levite, you would be retired from Temple service at this age. Israel was supposed to revert back to its original property allotments and make similar changes economically, every 50th year. They didn't do it, so they got punished. Severely, too. So this God is a God of rest. Don't take the rest He prescribes, and you get clobbered. While we are not Israel, so this rule doesn't apply to us secularly, you will find an astonishing resemblance of its play in life. Because, it's a critical component of how God designs Time.

Notice how the 49 years are in "sevens" (again, "week" really isn't a Bible term). To get the sevens, you first must have a base; you next must have a goal. Every "50" means either you met the goal, so can rest; or, you flunked so you go Back to Base and try again. Hence the promise of the next 49 years. Jews knew this well and reckoned all their prices in terms of years from the next Jubilee. Probably, when the 50 years came around, they renegotiated what amounts to a 50 year lease on everything. We Are Leased Life From God: when the lease is up, what do we have to show for it? Idea of productivity, since life itself is short, and you go back to God in the end. Talmud has no end of wordplay on the concept: nearly all of what's called "Jewish wisdom" is based on Jubilee. Because, the entire economic life was based on it.

So when the Lord spoke Isaiah 61, the "acceptable year of the Lord", that's Old Testament-speak for announcing Himself as Messiah — because everyone knew only Messiah could authoritatively claim that verse. (See Isaiah 61:2 but read whole chapter; then look at Luke 4:19, and read whole chapter plus parallel chapters in the other Gospels.) So all Israel went wacko, having considered herself enslaved ever since Daniel got that 490. See, Isaiah 61 is the ultimate jubilee announcement, the promise of eternal deliverance, salvation, rescue. So the Millennium is composed of 20 Jubilees, and Isaiah 61 is the announcement of its implementation, AKA "the new covenant" in Jeremiah and Hebrews (and elsewhere in Bible).

Jubilee also meant the 50-year period for harvesting the Gentiles had completed. It's quite uncanny how God literally showed Israel He 'purchased' the 50 years from the 70 sabbatical years during a 490. So you see the tie to Pentecost. Again, the reason so much of this provable Bible accounting is not easily visible is that God reveals it through the math He gives. We Americans don't constantly run around telling everyone how we number our days, so you wouldn't expect a Bible book written to people who knew the calendar, to give them a primer on it. You don't write out what everyone already knows. That we don't know today, means our parents and our parents' parents, didn't pass down the information. But you can still find it in the Bible... if you crunch the math.

And what everyone knew, was the year David died. So it's humorously embedded, in 1 Kings 6:1. You'd just seen 10 of Solomon's years. But his 11th year is the 4th after David died, in context. So from that year forward, the last 1000 years to Messiah, was cast in stone. This "Day of the Lord" became a prominent Old Testament phrase from David forward. It is a coming of Messiah future, the year is known, so it's a warning to prepare. So when Messiah arrives, He must invoke Isaiah 61, to show He's arrived. And it's a warning, because if Israel then rejects Him, that Third "day" from David — the Millennium — will not happen. Literally, there would be no more time if Israel rejected Him, for He comes at the End of Time. First Advent, End of Time. Second Advent, the End of All Time as "we" know it: verb συντελέω used in the LXX of Daniel 9:24, played on incessantly in the New Testament.

Hence the 50-year components and the "seven weeks" which 'birth' them, are to remind you of these meanings: harvest period for the Gentiles, then Jubilee, Millennium begins. Meanwhile, God's saying: if you didn't learn the Word well in the last 49 years you are still a zero, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3; but, now you can start again. If you did learn the Word well in the last 49 years, then rejoice in being a zero! James makes wry application of this Jubilee, in James 1: if you're rich, rejoice in your poverty, and if you're poor, rejoice in your wealth. For this world is entirely temporary, and you always go back to dust — but your soul, goes up to God. For life is only about, the First Commandment, and to know Him is to Love Him (can't love Him if you don't know Him, main tandem theme in 1 John). Frankly anything but the Word, is boring. Name any goody you like, it's boring compared to His Gorgeous Thinking: talk about Jubilee! End commercial message.

Jubilee was instituted at the time Israel became a nation, though the 50 years was part of the 1050 unit of time since Adam.

So what's Job One for Jubilee? What got built? The next 1000 got built in the previous 1000, so now the "50" can play, as celebration. Then, that next 1000 (Millennium), can begin (really the next 1050, but 1000 is the qualifying unit justifying the whole). Abraham got built during a 1000, as did Noah before him; as did Moses and David, after him.

Job two, if you believed? You believed in the Promise of the 1000, so it got done: you now get the tag-on 50 to rest, reflect, vote. Isaac voted for God during the 50-year period ending with the 2nd 1050 from Adam (he was between age 25-40 when Abraham almost sacrificed him, so it was voluntary on Isaac's part). Israel voted for David during its 50 for the 3rd 1050 from Adam. Because the Lord's Humanity Voted to complete a 1000, Church could exist so mankind would still be alive to vote at the end of what would have been the 4th 1050 from Adam.

Job Three, the Judgement if you didn't believe? You didn't believe in the promise of the 1000, but it got done. So vote now, before the 50 ends. Else, you'll end with it. David's subduing of Israel's enemies occurred during the voting period that ended the 3rd 1050 from Adam. Everyone contiguous by its end either paid him tribute, or were dead/enslaved. By the end of the voting period of the 4th 1050, Israel was gone, having voted negatively (Temple razed 70 AD).

  • 40 years, Judgement / Grace Warning / Testing. This corresponds to judgement periods, i.e., the wandering in the wilderness, the warning period between Christ's death and the Temple Destruction. The 40 years never exists on its own: it is always nested within something else with a "weeks" purpose, or "weeks" are nested within it. So you have to be careful how the 40 years you are using, fits. So generally (but not always) you leave out each 40-year piece in tallying to a 490: because it's nested. You need to count it if its 'mirror' is in a new 490: note how Paul uses it in Acts 13:20; how Book of Hebrews uses it (without needing to mention the timelength) in Hebrews 4. That latter usage is really interesting, for the writer is reminding everyone that the "40" is on — so the Temple will be destroyed in 70 AD. It helped that Titus had invested Jerusalem, too (but until about 68 or 69, when his adopted dad became Emperor, was reluctant to actually destroy the city and Temple).

A characteristic of every 40 years since the Cross is that every generation can be the Rapture generation — for 40 years, God had Israel wander in the wilderness while He executed the adults who left Egypt, due to their rebellion (see Numbers 14). That equates to ages 20-60, under the Law. So there is enough time to accept or harden into permanent rejection. The writer of Hebrews makes that point in Hebrews 3, allusively reminding the audience that Israel is in a kind of Booths period — wandering in the wilderness, again. The writer's general theme was that the Temple would soon be destroyed, and hence there would be a Diaspora from which Israel was not supposed to return until the Lord regathered them — just as was true, back in 1440-1400 BC. It was a Warning to Leave, just like Matthew 24 and Daniel 9:26 had been. John will later reiterate that warning via the sarcasm God told him to write, in Revelation 11. Notice how we all don't heed the warning. So the world won't heed it then, either. So there's no point in having signs, since the signs of the past are already in writing, and go unheeded.

While the 40 years never exists on its own, nothing exists without it, either. So Bible often doesn't often mention the 40 years in a timeline, because it is to be assumed and therefore added in, if not already nested within a larger period. Your big tipoff is the presence of a "week" (seven years) somewhere in the calculation, since a week is for building foundations and testing, so a testing period preceding its beginning, or following its beginning (more often, both, due to the mirroring) is needed — grace.

The seven is always housed inside a 40, at either the beginning or the end (first or last seven of a 40-year period). For example, as you'll see in the "Joseph" intra-page link (at pagetop), Pharaoh's bad dream of 7 famine years is mirrored: it's preceded by 7 plenteous years; so you have to enclose each "7" within a 40 years, on either side that nexus of 7's, to get the Right Time. So there will always be this quality of a 7 inside a 40. (Parallel period is 30-70 AD, where the last 7 years are 'spent' on the siege of Jerusalem; that period represents the mirror-back of Christ's 33 years, plus an extra '7', because David was ruler for 40 years; so that 7 played per Daniel 9:26, but was generated by Israel's rejection of Him.) Of course, that couldn't be given Pharaoh, if he didn't appoint the Promised person, Joseph (believing son of Jacob, therefore inheritor of God's Promise to Jacob — see Romans 9). So, through that Promised person, Pharaoh and all Egypt, can be saved. So, Joseph's tenure as vizier to Pharaoh was Made By God to be 80 years.

It isn't always true that the 7 years get paired back-to-back, but they are always within a 40. David and Solomon represent a pairing of 40's. During David's first 7 years as King, he suffered civil war. During Solomon's first seven years after David's Retirement, he suffered civil unrest.

Hence the 7 years of the Tribulation in Daniel 9:27 means a 40-year period, not merely a 7-year period. And since Israel rejected Christ, it gets that 40 paid twice, via the siege of Jerusalem ending the 40 year period from 30 AD-70 AD. All the writers of the New Testament knew this, expected this. You'll notice that a flurry of new Canon came out just before 70 AD: Mark's Gospel, Peter's letters (written after Paul was executed, see the addressees in 1 Peter 1), Book of Hebrews (written after Paul was executed, Hebrews 13:23), Jude. Then, when the next expected Rapture deadline of Year 4200 from Adam didn't trigger the Rapture (our 94 AD), that's when John has to write. Because, you write to explain something. So there must have been something new to explain.

The second play of the Tribulation will be the one John depicts, reserved from Daniel 9:27. It will be preceded by 33 years, and of course we won't know that, since there's no prophecy given Church; but in retrospect it will be seen. For that was the original schedule: Messiah was supposed to die in 37 AD, had Israel accepted Him; following that, would be the 50-year period for harvesting the Gentiles, depicted by Pentecost and Jubilee; the final 7 years reserved for Tribulation would follow it, mirroring; but as you can see there's plenty of room for that last 7 to be nested within a 40 which also nests, 'connecting' the 50 and the 7. The 7 depicts Passover week, so total is 57 days between the beginning of Passover and Pentecost, which represents the 57 years between the 1000th anniversary of David's death and the end of the 4th 1050 from Adam, when the Millennium was supposed to begin. So the last 40 of that 57 would be a judgement warning to those negative in Israel, as usual. However, Israel rejected Christ, so the timeline changed: the 40 played to mirror back His Allotted Years, from 30 AD to 70 AD. Hence there was no '50', since Church had to be invented in Matthew 16:18 (ratified in John 17, paid on the Cross, Ephesians 5) — to continue Time itself.

Hence the remaining 7 is the Tribulation, yet-future, kicked off by the Rapture, whenever that occurs. But the previous 33 years of that 7, will be pre-Rapture. Thus you see the precedence for saying that any generation can be the Rapture Generation, because the original generation which saw Him, was supposed to be the final generation. Of course we're Church, and the original timeline was abrogated (um, we're way past 1144 AD, when eternity was originally scheduled to begin). Therefore, since you can't date the Rapture, you also can't know when the beginning of the 40 years will be. But what you can and should know, is that this generation might be the Rapture Generation. We are in that Daniel 9:26 bubble, akin to how Israel would have been. So every 40 year period (roughly corresponding to a siring maturity, hence called "generation") will look the same. Names change, surface events change color, underlying nature is still the same.

So forget looking at all those drooling programs which allege to 'analyze' historical events to predict whether the Rapture will be "soon". It's always soon, literally Greek word ταχύ, meaning next-in-sequence, without prior warning. Bible tells you that. Those wouldn't-know-Bible-if-it-bit-them TV people who obsess over political events, are failing the spiritual life. They will bring on the Rapture, alright — since It Occurs Because Christians Fail. Just as, the Flood came due to negative votes, the official precedence for the Rapture per the Lord in Matthew 24:37, echoed by Peter in 2 Peter 2. Just as, the Temple got razed due to Jewish negative votes. Rapture is caused by us, not by political events. Believers are the cause of Rapture due to their spiritual retrogression or progression en masse. No other cause. Hence you can't predict it: voting in the soul, is really not knowable.

  • 33 years. This is always a Result Of Promise Being Fulfilled value. Hence it is the difference between 40 and 7, and you'll notice the trinity doubled. Hypostatic Union, God-Man, empowered by the Spirit, Judged by Father on Cross. So this "33" is Consolidation, Communion. So, this was the period of David's rule over the rest of Israel. He ruled for a total of 40 years, but the first 7.5 were of Judah; of those, 7 was of Hebron as well; that leaves 33, so the Consolidated Rulership was 33 years. Christ lived 33 years, for that reason.

This, like the 30-year piece, always has a savior value, so upon completion of the 33 years, that same period is always immediately mirrored back. It's mirrored back irrespective of when it occurs (i.e., the mirrorback is not restricted to the same 490). In the case of Christ, because He's the Convergence of all 490's, you have this mathematical phenomenon where all the pieces redeem and nest after the 490 ends in 30 AD, to buy Israel more time. God's version of "AD" means "After Death" — all time got reset then. The next 1000 years, actually began 64 years before the 4th 1050 from Adam, ended. Upload GeneYrs.xls and scroll down to the "Year of the World 4136" (middle column, yellow) to see this. So God's "BC" means "Before Crucifixion", and "AD" means "After Death". Thus time was reset in what we call 30 AD. Whole timeline balances perfectly from Adam, until that point. The reset thus changes the benchmarks of when a 490 ends, when the 1000s end. Again, GeneYrs.xls plots all those benchmarks through about 2200 AD or so. Historical data will be filled in as I've time, but enough is filled in already, so you can see something of the effect this reset has had on history post-Cross. History magnetizes to these benchmarks. There are seven trends which always occur within the last 120 years of a 490. Mirror, Now: God's Post-Cross explains the trends; its dates are keyed to the qualifying 490s, not the historical ones, so that webpage needs revision. (The trends magnetize around the intercalated historical 490s, not the qualifying ones.)

These testable post-Cross trends magnetizing around historical 490s due to the cross, occur because He is our Precedence (Greek "ἀρχηγός", used in Hebrews 12:2). Just as time continued only so long as Israel continued, because The King-Priest kata Melchizedek completed His Mission, we get ours. And our mission is the same as His: to Redeem Time (i.e., Colossians 4:5, Ephesians 5:16, Greek or KJV). So Israel now gets more time because of us; and, like them, if we screw up, the time goes bad or is shortened on micro and regional levels (disasters, etc). The en masse shortening, is the Repture (so it occurs due to Christian apostasy, even as the world's time almost ran out due to Jewish apostasy). God Is Consistent. This is a solemn, scary thought: woe to me if I don't stay in God's System! To whom much is given, indeed everything is expected. Just as it was, for Christ.

  • 30 years. This is a building-of-savior number. You couldn't work in the Temple until you were 30 years old: search on "thirty" to see the verses. It is the number of maturity, as well. So you'll notice that Joseph became vizier when he was 30. This is the age at which David became King of Hebron, the age of maturity, the age Christ was when He began to announce Himself as Messiah. In the "490" which constitutes the building of Israel as a people, there are three 30's: Joseph's time to become vizier (measured from birth); Jacob's time to grow up spiritually enough to come back to Canaan (60=2x30). Then added to that will be the 400 years of slavery allotted, so to test Israel sufficiently so it will hang together as a nation.

New 490, once the People had Become a Nation: hence, the Exodus. Notice how in the 490 building the people, Jacob is on the 'left' side, as progenitor, and then Joseph follows (building the location base for the sons of Israel); then, the 400 years. So, in Exodus 12:40-41 you have the stress on how the sons of Israel leave Egypt 430 years later, on time as promised, to the very day (they arrived in 1870 BC). The extra 30 years, mirrors Joseph's time before he became vizier, and any "savior" number is always mirrored (or added to the timeline). The remaining 60, is allotted to the development of Jacob, who is "Israel", so is not included in the 430. It's also true that for the first 30 years, the sons were not enslaved, due to Joseph's influence. But about 1840 BC, Joseph was getting old (he died in 1836 BC at age 110), so encroachments (due to jealousy) against the freedom of the Israelites, began: Amemenhet III had come to power c.1842 BC, and did not respect (English Bibles say "know" in Exodus 1:8, misleading) Joseph as did Amenemhet III's fathers (Amenemhet II, who had the dream; Senusret II, and Senusret III).

So the precedenting root composition of a 490 looks like: 400 + 30 + 30 + 30, the last two of which are Jacob. I'm not wholly convinced that's right. But it's either this or a better answer. The 400, is 4 generations at 100 years' longevity each, on average, but I'm not wholly convinced that's the reason why God uses 400, since He is the one who determines our longevity — so why did He decide to make it 400? By the way, it is really four generations, per Genesis 15:16. Frankly, Bible flat tells you most of them were converts ("mixed multitude" in Exodus 12:38), so why scholars tear their hair trying to figure out how so much Jewish reproduction could occur, is kinda weird.

The 490 precedes Abram, goes back to Adam as a basic promise unit of time. That it plays out as: 400 + 30 + 30 + 30 as a mirrorback, might be a unique characteristic for only that period. Could be that 8 × 50 is the reason God picked 400. Again, more thinking as to the precedenting character of this number is needed. I don't think the precedence is the promise to Abram, but something farther back.

  • 20 years. There many Biblical 20's, but they all mean adulthood, battle. When the human is independent, responsible for himself. 20 years of indenture Jacob was willing to undergo for Laban, to get Rachel. "Rachel" means "ewe", and the Lord is called a "ewe" in Isaiah 53:7. Mistranslated "sheep" in the silent-before-shearers clause: though KJV, Darby, Geneva, Tanach, Webster, NIV cleverly insert "her" to show it's a ewe. Red heifer and the ewe were important Levitical offerings, signifying Israel's Bridal Contract, with the Lord paying the Brideprice for her? That's what Isaiah 53:10's "im tasim asham (female) naphesho (His Soul) is all about!

Idea of what He was willing to do, to get us; and, as a volitional response, what we are willing to undergo, to 'get closer' to Him. Our volitional yesses have no power, but they are free yesses. God makes them have power. Free will, but powerless to make the body obey God, theme in Romans 8. Man didn't lose free will at the Fall, he lost his knowledge of God, and his integrity. Hence we need salvation. And it's a battle to even want to believe, given the sin nature. And it's a battle post-salvation, because we don't lose the sin nature, until we die. Jacob had to battle for Rachel. So it was a demonstration of how much he wanted her.

Twenty years old is the draft age — Bible has many verses on it. At twenty, you were considered a legal adult; notice how God condemned everyone in the wilderness who was twenty and over to die in the wilderness, due to their apostasy. So, any "20" functions like the 20 years Jacob was a slave to Laban: Fight for Freedom. 20 × 50 = 1000, so the Jubilee is usually a component in any 490 where a 20 is located. The 20's are nested like the 40's are, because the 40 is 2 × 20. So sometimes you don't add the 20's into a calculation, just as sometimes you don't add a 40, because the component is already included inside a larger "weeks" one. The 1000 is a result of the interplay between what man causes and what God causes (i.e., "weeks"), so the 490's only add up to 1000 if a "20" is present.

Saul pursued David for 20 years; took about 20 years to build and then dedicate the First Temple, 1 Kings 6:1 compared to 1 Kings 8:1 (960 BC - 950 BC). Took about 20 years to build the Second Temple, Ezra 1:1 - Ezra 6:15 compared with Haggai 1-2 (537 BC - 516 BC). In short, the 'fighting' meaning really plays, live.

If God doesn't punish, we have no hope of getting out of the arrogances we so naturally love. Man has to Fight to keep alive, to protect himself, to have Freedom. As a result, Jubilee — freedom — with the ability to appreciate it. Just as, a child doesn't appreciate anything, so also, no slave does. Gotta grow up and Learn to Fight. Blaming, is not fighting. Blaming, is childish. So we need the 40's, we need the 20's, and usually until we are in our 20's, we aren't grown up enough to choose to fight. But you know — people harden early. By age 7, what you will become is largely already set. You would have to fight much harder to overcome whatever you had become, if you don't want to be that way anymore. Well, what better way to motivate the fight, than to condemn? So, any of those folks condemned in the wilderness then had 40 years! To alter their sentence... or, they could just blame God for condemning them, thereby proving His Condemnation Just.

Man is lazy. Sin nature likes to fight and complain. So God makes judicious usage of our sin natures, to wake us up to His Salvation, as our laziness makes us want relief, and our fighting makes us want an inspiring cause. What better cause, than to know Him? What better thing to fight for? And what better... rest?

  • 7 years: Fulfillment-of-Promise, Grace Warning Judgement Time. It's true in math, chemistry and biology that 7 is a very important structural number. DNA replication itself is based on the 'seven' of "GACTU", sugar and phosphate, for example. So it should be familiar, to say that "7" is a foundational number. Less familiar, that it represents promise and warning from God. Here we see most starkly the mirroring characteristic, the Hypostatic Basis for Time, Union of Opposites, God-Man, doubled-7s. In 'Promise' Time, we had "one week" of years. This "7" is a counterpart. The Promise is High, and the Counterpart is Low, Isaiah 52:13-14, Philippians 2:5-10. So the Promise being Fulfilled, having been Built, results in a Judgement which Builds, Isaiah 53:9-12. Condemnation is meant as a Blessing: so even Warning is designed to Build something. Forever.

In the Bible, pastors and scholars often call "7" the number of Divine Perfection, which is true enough; but as you cruise through Bible, you'll see many more related meanings. The very design of time being a week of seven days stresses that time is orchestrated by God for blessing the human race. So a "week" of years is likewise a promise, but also it means going-through-punishment-to-build-a-foundation. A fixed time period, in order to build something. So to get happier "sevens", as a consequence. Hence Bible often uses "seven years", implicitly. That is, you'd have to analyze the text to see a sevening occur: foundation is an unseen thing, so the sevening will be implicit, not explicit. All those dates and begats are measures to show you the sevening. Genesis 5, Genesis 11; the priestly courses; the number of sacrifices; and especially, the Bible's dates. For example, God embeds David's death year as the Foundation to Temple foundation in 1 Kings 6:1, by suddenly calling that Solomon's 4th year. Very stark, really, since the previous five chapters ended with the third year after David died, Solomon ending his own 10th year of rule putting down the last rebels (1 Kings 2:39-46, whole chapter is on the three years after David's death, showing Solomon's obedience to David's dying wishes). Then Solomon finally had everyone's respect, and spent the remainder of that third year preparing to build the Temple with his cousin Hiram, King of Tyre (theme of 1 Kings 5).

A "7" is almost always doubled, meaning it plays like bookends, twice (= Joseph, double-portion, moniker of heirship). So if you see a reference to one "7" in a passage, be sure to seek its parallel, which will have a matching-but-opposite character. Here's a partial list.

  • "Joseph" section here, shows the doubled-7 in Pharaoh's dream.
  • Hypostatic Union double-7 wordplay is in Luke 3 and Matthew 1 genealogies (rhetorical device, number play).
  • First and Second Temples both built over 7 years, 960 BC - 953 BC (first) and 537 (then hiatus) and 521 BC - 516 BC (second).
  • 7 years David king in Hebron but not over all Israel (civil war), 7 years Solomon plagued with civil unrest after David retired.
  • Passover Week and Tribulation, initial design in the Law.
  • Israel's rejection of Messiah and Tribulation

The successful completion of a seven results in a mirrorback, and it needn't be contiguous with the expiring 7; both will be housed in their own 40-year periods, so you're looking at 80 years, not just 14. The trend also works in reverse; a 'bad' seven occurring first (i.e., Israel's rejection of Messiah) results in another 'bad' seven playing later (i.e., siege of Jerusalem in 64 AD - 70 AD).

Again, every generation can be the Rapture generation: parallel is the 40 years' wilderness wandering, while God executed the rebelling adults (Numbers 14). Hebrews 3 allusively reminds the audience that Israel is in a kind of Booths period. Temple would soon be destroyed, hence a Diaspora to protect Israel until the Lord 'shubs' (regathers) them at Second Advent (not before). Same as back in 1440-1400 BC, when initially they were supposed to go into the Land, but they were afraid, so God rescinded it. Then they insisted on going in, and got clobbered ("chased you like bees do", in Deuteronomy). Always the opposite of what He says, Israel (and Church) will do. So now, Diaspora: Warning to Leave And Don't Return. Matthew 24 and Daniel 9:26 reaffirmed that Warning. God will later reiterate it to John, in Revelation 11: the Two Witnesses are there to warn everyone to Stay Away. No one listened. So the world won't heed it in the Tribulation, either. What point then in having "signs", given the many signs of the past are already in writing, plus Wailing Wall Stone and Dome? So it is, with "7". It goes unheeded, and so must 'play'.

Again, as you purview Bible verses using "7" (or "week", "sabbath", "seven", "promise"), you'll notice how each usage references promise, Grace Warning, and foundation-building. So, implicit Bible usages of this "7" often express in an embedded manner: embedded within etymology, sound, wordplay in the original languages. Examples of embedded usage are in the genealogies of Luke 3 (77 sons), Matthew 1 (14 generations), 1 Kings 6:1, to name but a few of the commonly-missed references.

Now let's examine why it's important to seek such embedded references. David's death age is embedded in 1 Kings 6:1; if you don't know that, you end up misreading Bible regarding key dates related to the Temple — and, misreading most of Old Testament prophecy. In particular, you won't know that Daniel 9:24-27 is based on the 1000th anniversary of David's death. That's pretty important, for if you don't know the accounting basis in Daniel, you'll misdate the future and other prophetical ties. Now you know why so many goofy ideas about prophecy are 'out there'. Even most scholars scratch their heads.

Okay: it's true you can't find another Bible verse explicitly saying David's age when he died. But scholars almost universally assume 1 Kings 6:1 is a scribal error, so they disregard the verse. They've instead used his age and reigning period to come up with a death age of 70 (i.e., from 2 Samuel 5:4); or, they use Section 8.15 of Josephus' Antiquities. (Section 8.15 is how ISBE or someone else like it, listed the Josephus reference. In my copy of Josephus, it's in Book 7, Chapter 15, subsection 2, paragraph 389.)

But in 1 Kings 1-2 and its companion verses in Chronicles, you learn David transferred the kingship to Solomon while he was still alive, and lived a considerable time afterwards. 1 Kings 6:1, the "fourth year of King Solomon" references Solomon's reign from after David's death in 963, because Shimei was finally executed the year before (see end of 1 Kings 2), and that was in the third year after David's death, upon which Solomon consolidated his solo rule. So the 40-year count in 1 Chronicles 29:26-27 and 1 Kings 2:11 ends with David's turning over power to Solomon. 40 years of Solomon are 970-930; the "fourth year" clause in 1 Kings 6:1 follows naturally from the 3rd year when Shimei was executed. Thus you see how Solomon kept all his promises to his father. So God will use this departure point in 1 Kings 6:1, to show how He is keeping His Promise to David. Very witty, very profound.

God has the writer of 1 Kings 6:1 jarringly state that Solomon was in his fourth year of reign, though it's clear that the 480th year from the Exodus, was Solomon's 11th year of reign. This is why scholars dismiss 1 Kings 6:1's "in the fourth year" as a scribal error. Big mistake, on their part. Let's see why.

The 2 Samuel 7 (1 Chronicles 17) promise made to David that after he died the Temple Would Be Built, is the reason for the "fourth year" clause is in 1 Kings 6:1. It's phrased that way to show the Temple-and-Messiah Promise to David was fulfilled; and, to stress that the promise to David is the only reason Israel gets a Temple. So when you do the math (for the 480th year from Exodus means 960 BC, explicit) you realize the "fourth year of King Solomon" means David died in 963, seven years after Solomon became king. So Solomon is really in his 11th year of reign, and by the 20th year of his reign, the Temple is dedicated, 2 Chronicles 8:1. So in 1 Kings 6:1, God is stressing how Solomon, Israel, and all the future wouldn't even exist, were it not for the 2 Samuel 7 promise made to David. In short, in a verse about the laying of the Temple foundation, God is saying David's Death is foundational to that foundation-laying. Witty and profound, huh.

When you read Solomon's talk with the Lord in 1Kings 8, you'll see at least Solomon himself was very aware of that fact.

So David was age 77 when he died in 963 BC. Doubled-sevens. Like Christ, his Future Son, will be the 77th son from Adam, per the witty end of Luke 3. Notice the body meaning here: progenitor of a literal Messiah of flesh and blood. Notice how it nicely complements the "Promise Time" meaning of "1 week"? 1 Kings 3:2-4 is the introduction to 1 Kings 6:1, with 1 Kings 1-5 as a parenthetical explanation for the delay: Temple Building couldn't commence until Solomon and Israel were tested by God. There were succession problems which arose even before David died (Absalom's rebellion was only one of many revolts). Grammatically, each chapter in 1 Kings spans David's post-kingship lifetime through the end of 1 Kings 5 (chapter divisions aren't native to the Bible). So you don't need to add the words "post-David" in 1 Kings 6:1 to know that it's in the fourth year after David died (looks like he died 3.5 years prior, going by topic divisions). Everyone would already know that from both context and the preceding Exodus clause.

Like my pastor says, when God Changes His Normal Pattern of Discourse, He means you to pay special attention. Every Jew should be bug-eyed at 1 Kings 6:1. See, it was expected that God tell you the age of the King to whom He unilaterally promised eternal rule. But where's the verse? See, you can't mistake that it's 960 BC: the Exodus benchmark accounting leaves no wiggle room. So why "in the fourth year" of Solomon? It's not his fourth year, it's his 11th year. Every Jew knows that. Every scholar knows that, too. But instead of first believing God has a reason for saying something so oddly — and then researching what that reason might be — the text of 1 Kings 6:1 is dismissed. Big mistake.

Job One of this Fixed Time 7: due to David's death 7 years after his Abdication/Retirement, Messiah's Arrival is a fixed Promise (and Warning). Messiah-to-Come will arrive in 1000 years, represented by the Temple foundation's construction: David is the foundation of Messiah being built, biologically.

Job Two of this Fixed Time 7: if you believed this, you'd notice what 1 Kings 6:1 means and can Balance Bible Numbers from Adam through Christ to know when He will be born. So you'll calculate Daniel 9, rightly: 1000 years after David dies, Messiah dies. Which math you can verify, for in years from Adam, there would remain only 57 years to the ending of that 4th 1050, when the Millennium would begin. 50 years was for the Gentiles, 7 for the Tribulation, 57 = Passover Week plus Pentecost, all known since Moses. That 57 years was always going to be the ending; you just didn't know in which 1050, it would terminate. Once David dies, you do.

Job Three of this Fixed Time 7: if you didn't believe this, if you deprecate 1 Kings 6:1, you won't balance to Bible so will be confused and lose your faith. And you'll miss all the convergence. Warning, Bill Robinson! Don't assume Bible wrong! It's really sad how scholars deprecate verses like 1 Kings 6:1, Luke 2:2, not doing their homework. Quirinius was a trustworthy close pal of Augustus, a roving emissary charged in 12 BC with implementing the new Augustan tax code for the provinces; he'd worked it out with Herod, who annually remitted the taxes; but by 4 BC Herod was dying so Rome had to take over. Luke 2:2 doesn't say that Quirinius was officially governor of Syria at the time of the census. People read that into the verse. The Greek is not so specific, easily can mean Quirinius was the guy who implemented it, which we know he was, since the Senate gave Augustus such a hard time about his tax reform. Lots of inventions and laws are named after their initial promulgators, even today (i.e., "Keogh", an erstwhile type of American retirement plan for non-corporate sponsors, is actually named after the guy who proposed it, decades ago). Quirinius long had charge over the provinces, was dispatched from time to time from 12 BC on, because he was close to Augustus. Sometimes he had to assume official roles, even as sometimes he was elected consul, etc. But in Judea, you can easily prove Herod remitted the taxes directly; in 4 BC, his many diseases meant he might die, so obviously Rome took over then. Herod and Augustus were close, so it would have been easy to do this. And don't expect to find census records: like we moderns, the ancients would recycle or trash outdated records. A tax census is annual, else the state can't get paid, doesn't know who to tax. So no one would keep outdated census records very long.

So what is God saying in 1 Kings 6:1? 2 Samuel 7 Promise Undergoing Body Delivery, the Job One of Fixed Time! The Temple, which represents the body of Messiah-to-Come, is only being built because David died; he died, so now God Fulfills the 2 Samuel 7 contract. Legatee, is Israel. Grace. Israel would not get this Temple and this covenant, except for David. Except, for The Last David To Come From This First One. The Last David, Who is depicted by every tassel and ornament, carving and stone, lampstand and oil, which will be this Temple's construction. Book of Hebrews in the New Testament, and Leviticus + Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, all painstakingly stress how Blood Seals A Covenant; how this Temple and its sacrifices all depict Messiah. Book of Hebrews is explaining how the Mosaic Law, being fulfilled by: Messiah = Christ = Last David, thus enacted "better things" (new covenant, promise since Israel was born). Which is why Christ is the Legator, the Father being the Grantor. Ephesians is on the same topic. So by embedding David's death, God yells it's Foundational to the Temple Being Built — and, heh — so the Seven Extra Years is going underneath in the text — which text is about, the Temple foundation, get it? God always plays like this in the original language manuscript. You have to be alert to word order, sound play, wordplay, and the running threads. Embedding conveys the most important meaning, and if you're unaware of it, whoa.

Our sins were embedded in Christ, which is the only reason we are alive. Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 54:1 is very graphic on that point, calling our sins into Him javelin wounds; very violent, heavy sexual innuendo of rape, and all bleached out in translation. So you'd better believe God assigns the Highest Importance to embedded information.

Frankly, most Christians have very little sense of humor. Dunno how we got the idea that life with God is supposed to either be dour, painful — or like an orgy, rolling in the aisles. Most of the 'scholar' errors — for which Bible gets blamed as being "inscrutable", 🤣 — are due to them not looking for the wordplay. They know it exists. You can see their many references to wordplay in the lexicons (i.e., those bundled in BibleWorks). But when they translate or read a verse, well... the brain goes off. Use 1 John 1:9, so you get God's brains and you'll spot the wordplay. Then again, scholars until our computer age had a really awful Job, wrestling with fraktur typefaces, tiny vowel points and endless political pressure to 'respect' the past. So who wouldn't cave in and be dour? Kinda hard to remember 1 John 1:9 when you're so busy wrestling with people, musty codices, unreadable type and pomposity. It's a miracle they got as much right, as they did!

So next meaning God conveys: the Temple 490 is due to the Kingship 490, and they converge therefore in that Ultimate King-Temple, Messiah. "Destroy this Temple" He said, pointing to Himself, "and in three days I will resurrect it (literal, Him, talking of Himself)", John 2:19. This was said after He'd resuscitated Lazarus, so the meaning was clear. (Love the Greek of that verse, John 11:43 — "Lazarus, Come Here! Outside!") So clear, in fact, that it's used as part of the accusation to get Him crucified, and He's taunted with it (Matthew 26:61, Matthew 27:40, Mark 14:58, Mark 15:29). Fitting that John, writing his Gospel a generation after the Second Temple was destroyed, should remind the audience that the Real Temple Had Left the Building, Was Seated in Heaven, in his summary of man's unbelief (John 2).

Do you get the wordplay, now? Hebraically speaking, Christ died to make a better covenant, be the Foundation for it, 1 Corinthians 3, whole book of Hebrews and Ephesians. Hence this significance is embedded throughout both original God-inspired texts of the Old and New Testament: all playing on, 1 Kings 6:1.

It was David who wanted to build the House; no one else asked God for it. God (the Son) uses the most beautiful Hebrew sarcasm to answer David's prayer (i.e., 2 Samuel 7, 1 Chronicles 17). Makes you wanna cry with joy. What, did I ever ask for this house? Making a point of David's asking for it, how beautiful. Can I be contained by anything? What, after all these years, I am now in need of a house? Don't I house you, not the other way around? Did I ask you for anything? But, well okay, I'll give you a house for Me... and then, He gives David the most elaborate instructions, and spends a good 50% of Bible text on that House! How wry, blatantly pretending not to be pleased David loves Him! How Jewish, pretending to concede something, when building the House of Sons is His Most Adamant Purpose! I love this text! In translations, the blatant Temple-related text is probably 25-30%; but in the original languages, every verse has some tie, given the significance of: Temple = Messiah. So to say 50% is actually too low an estimate.

So note the doubling of the 7's: 7 years after David's abdication, he dies; then the 3.5 year 'pregnancy' hiatus, and Temple Construction begins — which lasts for 7 years. Perfect description of the doubled-Seven (7=Promise, in Hebrew): the "God-Man". Specifically, the promise from YHWH that the last two letters of His Name, will become human to save the world. The 3-year hiatus is analogous to Christ being under the earth; then, the promise, the Resurrection, depicted by the seven-year building of the Temple, starting with the foundation built on the Foundation of the Promise God made to David, who asked for it in 2 Samuel 7. Which Solomon repeatedly acknowledges (i.e., in 1Kings 8). Followed by many repeats in Old Testament about how due to David, God will continue to bless Israel.

A "7" never plays but inside a 40. Notice how David's first 7 of his 40 years' reign, are civil war. As 1 Kings and 1 Chronicles relate, the first seven years of Solomon's 40-year reign, are marked by succession problems, too — even though David is still alive. Only when those seven years complete, is there breathing space and consolidation. So the Temple is built after the seven, and is itself a kind of seven. This is real time, okay? Only God can orchestrate time.

So the sevening theme is, Promise Made and Believed, followed by a kind of pregnancy hiatus, followed by Promise Fulfilled. In real time, with real meaning the Bible explains repeatedly, with real data you can check, so this is the real God talking! Talking in our language, to denote Infinite Desire for intimacy, as represented in the Promise of the 'Temple Who Will Pay For Sins'; mirroring ourselves to ourselves, yet always quintessentially Holy God. Never demeaned, never demeaning. After all, acacia wood was used for the Ark, and it was covered with pure gold. Thorny, ant-ridden acacia wood, the hardest kind to harvest and make into anything: those ants can kill you, if the thorns don't do it first. Yet, just like the temple itself, which was covered with gold over the cedar (a noble wood), God will take all the thorns. To make you, Gold. Double.

So note how this parallels the doubled sevens of Pharaoh's dream, which dream heeded made Egypt the #1 power in her day: historians still extol the time of (multiple) Amenemhet and Senusret. Notice how it is simultaneously a Promise and a Warning; a Promise and a Building Preceding; a Promise of intimacy, "God with us" (= Immanuel), in order to build us to be like Him (thus solving the Infinity-finity dichotomy). Hence the warning, don't get fat headed, don't be dismayed, don't miss this. If you were God, wouldn't you be wrong if you didn't warn and punish, since this is the goal of being human? What human could go back to the same ol' same ol', once he understands this is God's Plan? God in us Church, because "better things have come", Hebrews and Ephesians. "Christ in you, the Confidence of Glory", His Thinking cycling in us, thus unifying, solving the long separation that even finity 'begets', and sin fragments. So Joined by Him, in Him, and then Unified by His Thinking, Divine treasure in earthen vessels. That's the doubled promise, warning, building Plan of very God.

Notice how the 950 BC dedication of the Temple, is two 490's later than the year Joseph went into slavery (1930 BC - 950 BC = 490 × 2). Direct tie back to slavery. For the freedom of the human race from sin. Via the great-grandson Joseph, the fourth generation (!) of the guy to whom God made the first promise of sons, Abram. Well, the promise was made since Adam, Genesis 3, the "heel... head" verse. The naming used reflects that each father knew about the promise. "Seth" means "appointed" — yeah, appointed to carry forward the bloodline to Messiah!

Gee: all this Divine meaning, due to what seems like a 'contradiction' in the text of 1 Kings 6:1. Heh. And don't you think God knew we'd misinterpret the verse for centuries, when He gave it to the writer that way? Talk about buried treasure!

  • 3-4 years, a hiatus: pregnancy. Really, God means 3.5 days, which is one-half of a "7". This is the difference between the day the Lord was arrested (which was the 10th day of Nisan, the day the Lamb is set aside), and the day the Lord was crucified (14th day of Nisan, the day the Lamb is slaughtered). Which of course represents His time in Paradise, too — for in 30 AD there's uniquely a 3-4 day hiatus between the slaughter of the Lamb, and FirstFruits — which we call Easter, the Day He Resurrected. God misses nothing, to prove Who is the Messiah!

Unique, because they hadn't properly intercalated the calendar in 30 AD. That's why He celebrates the nominal first Passover night, yet is executed on True Passover, just as the Law's holiday had always foretold would happen. Calendar was running four days fast, because it hadn't been intercalated to solar. Passover Plot examines the Greek of the six "παρασκευή" ("Preparation") verses to show you that the Bible explains the intercalation problem. You have to know Jewish Law to know what day the Crucifixion occurred. High Sabbaths aren't Fridays, necessarily. So the idiots who came up with "Good Friday" didn't know how to read Bible, or were lazy. No excuse for not knowing, since Passover and the high sabbaths which Mark its first and last days, are so thoroughly documented in the Old Testament. Passover is a prophecy of the timing of Passion Week. So true Passover 30 AD was the day the Lord was executed, just as the Law required, 14 Nisan in the Law but officially 18 Nisan per calendar that year; He was arrested on 14 Nisan, official calendar date for Passover, but because not intercalated, it was true 10 Nisan: Lamb set aside, just as the Law commands. It's absolutely outrageous we hate Him so much we won't bother to even get His Death date right. We should be boiled in oil for our centuries of pious hypocrisy regarding His Death!

But God Honors His Son. So God stresses this 3-4 year hiatus to reflect His Son's Suffering. Ephesians 4:8-9 + Psalm 88:4 are on this.

    • Luke 4:25, James 5:17, Revelation 11:9, Revelation 11:11 are some I can find in translation (but there are others which are not translated with the true 3.5 of the text, but are truncated in translation to "3", making it much harder to find those verses).
    • Many commentators notice the 3 days' focus (i.e., the writer of The Workbook of the Old Testament, AKA "TWOT"). So when you see a 3-4 year discrepancy which isn't related to our screwball BC/AD dating system, treat it as a red flag to start digging for fabulous Bible treasure.
    • Lord went for 3 days down to Hades.
    • Jonah being 3 days in the whale (which the Lord uses to explain His future trip to Hades).
    • Tribulation Pregnancy Metaphor is always depicted by three and a half (days, years, etc). So comes to mean, sorrow turned to joy: metamorphosis. So has its own Years counterpart.
    • 3-4 years was how long Absalom successfully revolted against David.
    • 3-4 years was roughly lapse between the initial reconciliation of Joseph with his brothers (the second time), and the actual shub (return) to Joseph by all the house of Israel, into Egypt.
    • Again, 1 Kings 6:1, the hiatus between David's death and the beginning of Temple construction. It's easy to mistake the total 7.5 year period versus the 7 years, versus the 3.5 year hiatus. The first six months of the Temple building period were spent getting supplies from Tyre, etc. So that's why you'll see Bible distinguish between seven exact years for the Temple construction proper, versus the total 7.5 years which began with six months of cutting the wood, etc.
  • 1 year: nesting, pregnancy. Like the 3-4 year hiatus, "1 year" is a real Bible time period God uses, and also a real error problem in our calculations. Let's cover the problem of human error, first. Biggest problem is that we use this screwy BC/AD dating system. There's no such thing as 0 AD, so you have to subtract 1 or add 1 almost constantly, when converting from Bible's dates to BC/AD, even if we didn't have a 3-6 year discrepancy owing to the screwups resulting from adopting that system.

But with years, you also have to pay attention to when in the year a thing happens. Because the Bible is precise, even when it tells you the number of years, it actually adjusts for the months, so rounds up or down. For example, if one referent is near the beginning of a year, but it ties to another referent near the end of a year, you need a +1. And, vice versa, maybe subtract 1. For example, Shem is born very late in his father Noah's 500th year. Shem's son Arpachshad is born late in his father's 100th year. So that works out to be "2 years after the Inundation" — Genesis 11:10, "Inundation" = the beginning of Flood; for the Flood is dated based on Noah's birthday (600th year, Genesis 7:6); it recedes by his 601st birthday (Genesis 8:13ff, they were in the Ark for 375 days). So when you seem to be a year off, ask if one of the benchmark numbers is at the beginning of a year, and the other is toward the ending. (GeneYrs.xls rounds years also. Since the Bible gives you a whole timeline in which some of the dates are exact, you can accurately date most events within several months or even better. From Bible you can know exactly at least the following dates: Exodus, First Temple construction, destruction, dedication, Second Temple's foundation, dedication, city wall's completion, Lord's Birth and Death dates. So any dates given relative to those, you can date more closely as well.)

Hence the Lord's Birthdate of 25 Chislev, which is late in 4 BC by the Roman calendar then (last week of the Roman year), must be treated as if 3 BC when doing the number crunching balance to other BC/AD dates. Point is, when you do number crunching, you must add "1" if you are talking about early-in-the-year; subtract "1" if you are talking about late in the year.

So don't assume that the Bible's numbers don't add up.

Here's another quirk about "1": God always nests the beginning and ending of the same day, namely, sundown the 14th of Nisan, really begins the 15th of Nisan, but yet is still the 14th of Nisan. So when God says you begin eating the Lamb at sundown the 14th of Nisan, He's using a solar calendar expression; but the lunar new day, was also beginning at that same moment. Pregnancy, nesting, hidden, developing, building. Similarly, He nests other important periods as well, and that's yet another form of embedding. God thus always stresses that the next period depends on the successful completion of the prior period; for, it's a play on pregnancy (which lasts almost a year). Overall message is just like the Cross: Someone met the criteria of the prior period: else, you'd not be here. Can't do squat to get saved or stay saved. John 3:16 says it all.



The 1000 Years

Finally, there is a 1000 year "set"; it houses all the number components, above: including, the 490s themselves. It's a Civilization Time Grant, and originates from Adam.

Interplay between the '490s' and the '1000' Time Grants

There are two sets of 490s and 1000s which interact upon each other. The first set is personal, granted individually in units of either 490 or 1000, and must be awarded contiguously; like a relay race, before an individual's 490 and 1000 grant ends, another individual must receive a new one. Or, like a bus: when the driver's shift ends, a new driver must take his place beforehand, or the bus can't go on.

By contrast, the second set is the bus itself, and runs historically from Adam: the "real time" we all experience. It therefore runs 'intercalated' in 490 + 70 + 490 and 1000 + 50 units which are 'stacked' atop each other like a double-decker bus, with the 1000 + 50 as the 'upper deck'. Both 'decks' require underlying time-grants of their respective years. So a personal 490 must be actively running for the historical 490 years to elapse. So a personal 1000 grant must be actively running for the 1000 years to elapse. Time stops with the expiry of the latest such personal grant, if there's no new grantee. That's like the 'bus' losing a driver. Might be easier to just load GeneYrs.xls and page through it, to see this interdependency between historical time and the personal grants which justify it. Cell A2 has a great summary note on this interplay.

Thus Time runs based on a unified, interdependent matrix of 1050 years, renewing in units of 1050 years, if justifiable. Think of Ephesians 2's two walls, build-out in process, joining in Christ as Cornerstone. For Christ has Two Kingships, and is the Last Adam. These tandem Kingships are the reason for both Time tracks being codependent. For Time's Design is based on Christ, Hebrews 1:2 (Greek), in factors of double-7 (7, 2, 5). First Kingship is from eternity past, based on Him defeating Satan, a conditional contract called "kata Melchizedek" in Book of Hebrews and Psalms 110. Second Kingship is Son of David. So Church is under the first Kingship (which Israel turned down), not under the second (which is unconditional, sourced in David, over Israel). Church is not Israel, ever. The Hypostatic Nature of Time might help you better orient to the content. Now let's look at each 'deck' of this 'bus'.

  • Lower 'deck', the role of the '490' set is Carry Forward The Promise of Messiah. Historically, it runs beginning with Adam's fall. During its run, someone on earth must have received a personal 490-year time grant which is actively running, or time ends. Also, by the end of that same 490 years, someone new must receive yet another 490-year time grant, or Time ends. If both of these criteria are met, then a 70-year voting period is added, with the result that 560 years of historical time, occurs. Then, the next 490 — again subject to the condition that a new person receive a 490 award by its end — runs. That completes the 1050.

So historically, the 'drivers' of this deck were as follows: first '490' was awarded to Adam, represented by Seth's birth; then, it shifted to Jared, then to his son Enoch, then to Noah. Due to Noah's faith, God grants a Covenant, using Shem's birth as a birthday present to seal it. Shem = "the Name", the son who will be the progenitor of Christ. From Noah it shifts to Abraham, who also gets a covenant sealed by a son's birth, Isaac; from Isaac to Jacob, then Joseph (when he was enslaved), then Moses, then David and hence Temple... to Christ. All one unbroken line of Promises, some of which are awarded at the last minute (Abram, Moses, Temple, Christ). Sometimes, multiple 490 grants ran at the same time, overlapping each other (Abraham's, Isaac's, Jacob's, Joseph's). The more overlapping, the more prosperity the world has. But there must be at least one personal '490' grant actively running, for mankind to survive. David had three 490 awards. Due solely to his staggered 490 awards, the world kept living. Temple depended on them, and Daniel 9's Temple 490 was only justifiable because David's awards were still running at the time.

  • Upper 'deck', the Role of the '1000' set is Carry Forward Civilization, the whole human race. It too, depends on personal 1000-year time grants actively running 'beneath' it, as well as on active 490-year awards running 'beneath' it. If successful, and the next 1000 is personally granted someone, then a 50 year voting period precedes the new 1000; thus the prior 1000 + 50 = 1050 plays out, completes. Then the next 1000 begins. Notice that it's always dependent on that 'lower deck', despite the 1000-year grants.

So historically, the 1000-year Time Grants began at Adam's Fall, and also shift from one individual to another: Enoch got the first one (not Adam); then Noah, then Abraham, then Moses, then David, then Christ. Again, David gets three 1000s, tied to his Kingship starting, ending, and death. It is solely because he got these, that Christ could be born and die. Else we'd all not be here. However, these 1000-year grants in turn depended on the Temple Grant of Daniel 9 being active, or Time would have ended with the expiry of the Temple Grant. This is all dramatically depicted and explained in year 4136 from Adam (G column, yellow 'stripe') of GeneYrs.xls. It's really shocking, and demonstrates why Galatians 4:4 is so literal.

  • All Timelines Converge on Christ the Foundation, the Πέτρα (Holy of Holies "BedRock", always mistranslated merely "Rock") of Our Salvation; since the Crucifixion, both 'decks' run in tandem from His Death, not from the first Adam. The Bible calls Christ, never Peter, the "Rock"; proper translation would be "BedRock" (Holy of Holies) or "cliff" (Rock from which Moses got water). Of course, "Πέτρα" is a famous section of cliffs even today in Jordan, hint hint. See the following sample Πέτρα verses: Exodus 17:6, Numbers 20:8-11, 2 Samuel 22:2, Psalms 27:5 (26:5 in LXX), Psalms 40:2, Psalms 61:2 (60:3 in LXX), Psalms 78:15-20 (77:15-20 in LXX), Psalms 105:41 (104:41 in LXX), Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 48:21, Isaiah 51:1, Matthew 7:24-25, Matthew 16:18, Luke 6:48, 1 Corinthians 10:4, Romans 9:33.

So God runs His Time Grants on two tracks: one reconciles within base 490 (so to speak); the other, within base 1000.


Historical Interplay, Adam - Christ.

Important: the years here depicted are not the real years in God's Calendar, though they are close. I'm slightly changing the years to those more familiar to a reader. For I must first illustrate the concept of How God dates, since you can't find anything like this on the internet. So: to simplify the explanation here, I convert and then 'round' the actual years to our BC/AD dating system; the actual years are not quite the same, running often about 100 years ahead. For example, the year the Lord dies, is really the 4136th year from Adam's Fall. But by our BC/AD dating system, you get 30 AD. So when counting down from Adam, to show the 1050-year increments, I round his fall to 4100 BC, with the result that in this table the 4th 1050 ends 0 BC — but it really ends in 94 AD.

But ignore all that divergence, here. Just use the dates given in this section as hypothetical or approximates, to see the pattern. For the same people are involved, the same meaning is involved, the 490's and the 1050's play the same with respect to those people. The actual dates are in GeneYrs.xls. In "David", you'll see the real years used. For time really ran out. The Lord literally came and died at the end of allotted time. You'll never understand the value of your spiritual life being literally used by God to buy time, if you don't see how the Lord did it. We are extensions of Him, 1 John 4:17. We are caused to debit or credit time based on how badly or well, we learn Him in God's System. It's part of our inheritance as believers, and it's native to our spiritual lives, down here. Awesome stuff.

  • First 1050: 4100-3050 BC. So from Adam's Fall to Noah's birth, there was 1000, followed by a 50, which gets you to Noah's birth. Notice how the 490 70 490 = 1000 + 50, and tally to Noah's birth, in 3050 BC. Adam and Jared were the first 490 people, illustrated by the 490 separating their sons' births. (You know that's true because 490 years separate Noah's and Abram's sons, and you know both of them got 490s (because they got covenants). So the shorthand way of God telling you an award was granted and at the last minute, is by the 490 separating the son's births. People awarded 490s are benchmarked with extra dates in the Bible, so you can see when the 490 grant was awarded them, as you crunch the numbers. This 490-year son separation is but one way the Bible reveals the identity of the grantees.) The second 490 person must be Enoch, and he's probably the 1000 person; so, Noah can be born. Both 490 persons were also used to 'finance' his birth. So another 1050 (with the third 490 beginning co-terminous) began with Noah's birth. During this time, additional underlying personal 490s which run on different timelines (overlapping) are unknown.

The Flood's beginning date is significant. Noah is clearly the 490 person by the end of that third 490, thereby making good on the previous 'financing'. Look: 3050 - 490 = 2560 BC; Noah was 490 years old. But the Flood occurs 2450, and was immediately preceded by Noah's 120-year Building of the Ark. Which means, he began building that Ark in 2570, when he was 480 years old, ten years before the third 490 was due to expire. Really, it would expire only four years later, very close call. Again, this section rounds years.

So you can see why Noah is a 490 person for both the third 490, which ended 2560 BC; and for the fourth 490, which ran (after the 70-year hiatus) from 2490-2000 BC. For a human being to be willing to endure the most horrible ridicule and attacks while doing what looks stupid, building this gigantic boat miles away from any water, meanwhile warning the ridiculers of what God was gonna do — takes a huge, mature, faith. If God had ordered someone in our day to do that, we'd have the person arrested!

So because of that great faith, the Flood can be granted (see all New Testament passages with "Noah" in them, especially Hebrews 11). Else, there would be no more time, and everyone would have to be destroyed: including, all of Noah's family. Else, Abram couldn't be born. I realize people have oodles of problems regarding the validity of the Flood and when it happened; once upon a time, I did too. Fact is, we all don't think through what Bible is saying, so we get confused or frustrated. Also, people don't read Genesis 7 properly. But let's focus here only on the logic: to have a Flood in 2450 BC means that for 1000 years prior, civilizations had been corrupt: you can easily learn how corrupt, by researching ancient civilizations. Without exception, they were heavily into institutionalized phallicism, drugs, rape, and pillage: if you wanted to be part of the society and not sacrificed to the gods yourself, you had to play that game. It was a horrible, dangerous, time.

Next big conundrum people have: how could all the earth be flooded? The principles of even college geology tell you how, frankly. The Flood itself, is easily accomplished naturally or supernaturally, since the underwaters opened — the earth is 75% or so water, so that would wipe out everything. You can see it geologically, i.e., study how Pangea became the continents, and read up on plate tectonics. Essentially, according to geologists, the landmasses of today were all once totally underwater (Encarta has a video on this, great way to see how Genesis 1:2ff might have happened). Gradually, these broke up some and floated; they dried out and then plate tectonics, separated them further over some millions of years. But also, there can be sudden shifts (i.e., earthquakes due to subduction, a problem in California); these are classified in geology. So, earthquakes or other openings could flood the landmasses again; that's how we got the Grand Canyon. Also, atop mountains in Iceland and Greenland, there are marine fossils. So it's more than naturally possible for the world to flood, it's still a threat: for the landmasses all float on water and magma. We just saw a demonstration of that power, in 2005 with all the hurricanes and earthquake-spawned tsunamis. (But I don't know whether God used this 'natural' method to do "the" Flood; maybe he just binged it all; could happen, either way.)

Next big conundrum: as for human remains, there wouldn't be any. Body dissolves or gets eaten by aquatic life if it stays in water for a few months, let alone, the year-long period of the Flood. The three families left after the Flood would then have all this remaining booty of gold, agricultural implements, etc. So they would have strong reason to return to the old sites pre-Flood, and rebuild. Rebuilding on old ruins is the common trend of history, and you should be able to find much evidence of it, on the internet. National Geographic frequently has at least one of its monthly articles on this topic. Look up archeology on Troy, Sparta, Jericho, the Latin American ruins (especially, a current excavation in Peru), etc. It's really common, the far older layers of ruins beneath the ones we can see (even in America — Clovis points research). As to repopulation, study Malthusian theory, presuming menstruation begins at age 9-12 (true today, but is earlier in primitive societies). Bear in mind that pre-Flood ruins don't mean a large population post-Flood, and you won't be able to tell true continuity of population, from the ruins themselves. People were migratory, and often left behind a cadre of a few individuals to care for the property when migrating (i.e., at Mesa Verde). Plus, you could have different groups of people successively inhabit the same dwellings, so you'd not easily know that a break in society occurred. In short, there are reasonable explanations for Bible's Flood story: but sadly, few think them out. So you rarely hear why a Flood covering all landmasses is demonstrably rational: especially since that's how it was, before Pangea broke up and 'floated'. So the story of the Flood is not at all far-fetched, and survives in every culture's ancient stories. Oh: don't go mounting expeditions to Mt. Ararat — the Ark was made of valuable cypress wood (which doesn't rot); Noah would have broken up the Ark, carried its wood down the mountain, using all that ready help from the animals.

This is precedence for us Church: growing up spiritually buys time for the human race. We know it's precedence, because the New Testament writers repeatedly reference Noah in this connection (especially Peter, in 2 Peter). Noah is always depicted in the Old and New Testament as the prototype of Christ; and we are Body of Christ. Rather dramatic meaning to your life, huh. Rather more important to grow up spiritually by learning how to think like christ via learning His Word — than fuss with Brother-Foot Churchinanity. (It should be obvious that Noah and Abraham didn't do any works. What's recorded is that the one built a boat to save his own neck based on a Promise; and the other waited for a son then almost sacrificed his son, AKA murder — based again, on a Promise. So it's the One promising Who is doing the Good Deed. Not, the one receiving the gift.)

  • Second 1050: 3050-2000 BC. Begins on 3050 BC (Noah's birth) and ends on 2000, the year of Jacob's birth. Again, you have two 490's 'split' by a 70, same piggybacking method: the third (since Adam, as we just saw) ran 3050 - 490 = 2560; then a 70-year hiatus between 2560 and 2490. Then the 4th 490 begins, running from 2490-2000, when Jacob is born.

The two 490 persons during this 1050 are Noah and Abraham; Noah's 4th 490 'finances' Abram's birth, and Abraham completes maturity (signified by circumcision, see Romans 4); so that justifies the 'financing' from Noah; so Abraham is awarded the upcoming 5th 490: that's why Isaac could even be born.

Abram was promised an heir, but the progeny would undergo 400 years of slavery as a result, Genesis 15:13. Abraham believed despite having no son born from Sarai, and believed despite knowing that when this kid would be born, his children would eventually suffer 400 years of slavery under some other ruler. How easily would you believe in such a promise? How could you even want it? Of course, Abram knew the Savior would eventually be one of those sons; but Abram wouldn't live long enough to even see the slavery period, let alone, the Savior born from his loins. So how hard it must have been, to keep on living year after year — 25 more years, really — knowing this future promise? If God is Love, why does He treat His Heroes like this? Takes a Huge, Mature Faith to combat that argument, huh. You can't just keep straining; you have to have stronger reasons to knock down such an argument. Faith is always based on Reason. Takes a brain to reason, takes a brain to believe, and you never believe anything without a reason. But are the reasons, valid? Abram's were. God validated them. And it was horrific, to undergo all the necessary testing to prove how inviolable were those Reasons. Which means, the Word was in Abraham. In those days, not written, since God talked to Abram directly. Not true, post 96-AD. From then on, God only speaks through His Written Word, a main theme in Book of Hebrews. See also John 14:26, 1 John 4:1-6. The Holy Spirit teaches you directly, just as He did Abraham. Difference is, He uses the Written Word to do it. If you aren't getting His Word, you're getting Satan's. Period. So anyone claiming to have a vision, revelation, Exodus cathedra, etc., gets their input from Satan & Co., not God. And thus their 'word' will always contradict the written Bible, and usually blatantly and derisively. Same, for the fake holy books (i.e., apocrypha, deuterocanonical, Books of Enoch, Jasher, Mormon, Bhagavad Gita, and Koran — great slapstick, certainly not holy). That, you will be able to prove, since you have Bible in writing. Roman Catholic Church (and much of Orthodox) 'revelation' contradicts Bible at every turn, for example (but so do many other denominational 'revelations').

Which testing, occurred about 50 years before that fourth 490, ended. Because after Isaac is born, and while he's in his 20's, during the voting period for the second 1050, Abram is told to go to Mt. Moriah and sacrifice his "son of the promise" (see Romans 9). Which he does (see Romans 4 and Genesis 22:5 in context). So by the end of the fouth 490, Abraham's faith had been completed (see James 2:18ff); and Isaac's young faith is pretty strong, too. Isaac was a young adult, so would have had to agree to be bound on that altar. Faith, πίστις, Hebrew verb aman: what is Believed, first meaning of the term. What is believed? God's promise. So the 490, which represents Promise, gives humankind who doesn't believe, another 490 years.

Believing is a hard thing to do, but it's still only a believing. It's not works. Legalists try to pride themselves on their believing, as if they were oh so good for believing in God. What does that tell you? They hate God. If you love someone, you don't pride yourself on the fact you love. For you are too busy loving, to think of yourself. Abram wasn't like that. Isaac wasn't like that. The merit of belief is in the object of belief. Duh.

So the counts of the next 490s shift, because God makes a Covenant with each Noah and Abram. 490s begin when covenants do, always. So we shift how we track the 490s: you find a bookended 490 beginning with their respective sons, Shem and Isaac, but are due to the fathers. (There's a 490-year span between Shem's birth in 2550, and Isaac's, in 2060.) That "covenantal" 490 tracking, will justify the birth of Israel. Principle: God stacks blessing-by-association. And the biggest blessing of all, is to get enough time to learn Him.

Probably both Noah and Abram are 1000 persons. Without them, we'd all not be here. Can't imagine the pressures they faced. During this time, additional underlying personal 490s which run on different timelines (overlapping) are Shem's and Isaac's, which begin at birth. So the fathers' 490s 'flank' their children; so those children get the necessary time to grow up and become 490s, in themselves.

Notice how each personal 490 has its own timeline; Noah's ran out and Abraham's began in the same year, which was about 50 years prior to the historical 490's ending. Abraham's will run until 1570 BC, when the 18th Dynasty comes to power in Egypt (the dynasty of the Exodus). By contrast, the 5th historical 490 ends 50 years after that, so we're not short of the deadline: short, because Abraham's personal 490 began 50 years prior to the close of the previous historical 490. So personal 490s are on different tracks, overlapping in time. So when a 'new' 1050 begins, the remaining personal 490s continue to run 'below' it, like a protective net — until they expire. This independence of personal grants is critical: were it not for these running-below 490s, Christ could not have been born or gotten to the Cross; so, we'd all not be here. As you'll see in the next segment, Joseph had to get the next 490, or else the God's promise of slavery to Abraham wouldn't have occurred; so there would be no Exodus, no Moses, no Israel, and no Messiah. These numbers are pretty dramatic, yet they sleep in seminaries and hotel room drawers!

  • Third 1050: 2000-950 BC — shortened 100 years! The new 490 persons are Jacob, Joseph, and Moses. Moses is the 1000 person. Were Joseph not enslaved in Egypt back in 1930 BC, there'd have been no Exodus, no Israel, no Messiah, no "us". For there would have been no surviving Egypt to house Israel when the region-wide famine hit in the 1870's BC. Had Moses not been developed spiritually, there would have been no Israel. Had there been no Jacob, the whole thing would never have happened. These people grew up knowing that they were going into slavery for 400 years, just as God promised Abram back in Genesis 15:13, as a condition of Abram even getting a first son. Of course, if Abram, then Isaac, then Jacob, then Joseph then Moses had said yes, and kept saying yes, the Son of sons would be born of his line. Could you easily live your life knowing that simultaneously horrible and wonderful information? I couldn't. During this time, additional underlying personal 490s which run on different timelines (overlapping) are those remaining from the second 1050. Joseph's 490 began when he became enslaved, in 1930 BC: else there could have been no Exodus, for there could have been no Moses. Moses was born 1520; all the other personal 490s had run out by then — well, Jacob's ended in 1450. Moses' 490 began in 1440, lasted until 950: absent Moses' 490, there'd have been no David.

Here in the third 1050, it gets very complex. For our rounding purposes here, we track the 1050 as a set beginning at Jacob's birth; it was supposed to run until the First Temple is dedicated, 950 BC.

    • Israel rejected God as king in 1050 BC. That should have ended Time itself.
    • But for Moses' 490 running, Time would have stopped, 100 years short.
    • Yet during that 100 years, David got developed (born 400 years after the Exodus, kinged 430 years after the Exodus): so time could continue.
    • So now the 490s shift to David and Temple, for God has disinherited Israel and grafted her onto David. See 2 Samuel 7.
    • So if the kings become too apostate, the Davidic protection could lapse (and it will, in 586 BC).
    • In that event, only the Temple 490 can continue the 490s, because the Davidic 490s cover the temple.
    • The Davidic 1000s, bracket when Messiah must be born and die, so you know for sure it's the Real Messiah, when He arrives.
    • That's why the "Day of the Lord" Warning becomes rather pronounced, from David forward.
    • David's Time Grants run as follows. Each of the following three dates begins both a 490 and a 1000.
    • David's consolidated Kingship began late 1004 BC, sometime on or after 25 Chislev; so account it like 1003 BC for math purposes.
    • He retires in 970 BC and later
    • Dies in 963 BC. I'm still not sure in what month the latter two dates happened, but both of them are on or after (more likely after?) 14 Nisan.
    • David's 490s each end thusly:
      • 513 BC (consolidated Kingship start),
      • 480 BC (retirement/abdication),
      • 473 BC (death).
    • David's 1000s respectively end as follows:
      • 3 BC (really, late 4 BC),
      • 30 AD,
      • 37 AD.
    • So the Millennium must begin no later than 37 AD + 57 years = 94 AD, when the 1050 ends. The 57 years denote the sum of allotted time for the Gentiles, depicted in the Law by the sum of Passover plus Pentecost.
    • So Messiah must come and pay no later than 94 AD - 57 - 40, the "40" being His allotted lifetime (paralleling the time of David's rule). So He must be born by late 4 BC (3 BC, for counting purposes). Else the promise to David is not kept on time, and Time ends. Again, a new 1050 must be awarded before the prior one ends, and this time, the one to end, must include an allotment for the "times of the Gentiles". That's why Passover and Pentecost preceded Rosh HaShanah, why Yom Kippur parallels 10 Nisan, why Booths parallels Passover. They mirror each other (first one paying, second one celebrating success of payment).
    • If these two 'musts' do not occur, Time will have to end with the latest grant, which at this point is 37 AD. And that, contingent on the Temple being built and standing in that year — which year hasn't yet happened, so it's a contingent 'last grant'.
    • Note: all the foregoing is true centuries before Daniel 9. God balances to the foregoing limitations when He has Gabriel announce the accounting pieces to Daniel. That, because God crafts time in these 1050 units subject to the rules explained in this section, all of which are in the Bible.
  • Fourth 1050: 950 BC-100 AD. It really runs 956 BC-94 AD, but we're rounding. David is the first 490 person, and the 1000 person; there are no others, because the 490 had gone from Moses to Temple; so only David's grants are valid. However, Daniel knew that, so prayed for the Temple to be restored. God answered his prayer with the 490 that kept the world alive long enough for Messiah! You don't need to be a spiritual giant to get big prayers answered. You do need to know how to pray. Daniel did know how, and he also happened to be a spiritual giant. But Hannah was a jerk. Both got answers to their prayers. Daniel's spiritual maturity shows in the content of his prayer. Hannah's spiritual childishness shows in her prayer for a son she'll give up to the Temple, if God grants it. Yeah, and that son He granted was Samuel, Israel's finest, the prophet who saved Israel and taught David. So practice praying, even if you think you're a jerk; your advancing maturity will alter what you pray as you grow. Christ wasn't kidding when He said you could ask anything in His Name, even that a mountain get up and move. Prayer teaches you what it's like to be God, having all the power. It teaches you how to think like a Ruler: you learn to be very judicious in what you choose! Prayer is the most powerful weapon in the universe: because it's Word Going to the Court of Heaven. Pray as often as possible, think over well what you say, use your own words. For you are in training to become a King under the King of Kings, and that alone honors Him.

Personal 490s running underneath and on their own timelines: only David's, and both Temples'.

  • First Temple dedicated 950 BC, six months after Moses' 490 ended, but still within David's. It's only 6 years after the voting period for the third 1050, ended. Close call!
  • Temple now begins its own 490, which is supposed to last until 460 BC.
  • Except, it is destroyed 364 years later, in 586 BC by Nebuchadnezzar.
  • So that leaves a 126-year credit predicated upon the rebuilding of the Second Temple, Daniel 9.
  • So because David's 490s are still 'alive', God can justify reconstructing a 490 to the Temple, due to Daniel's prayer in 538 BC.
  • 140 years (back-to-back 70 year voting periods) precede, measured from God's 586 BC Decree back in Jeremiah 25 (which Daniel is reading, in Daniel 9): because both Temple and then Jerusalem must be rebuilt before the new time can play, Daniel 9:25.
  • Second Temple construction began 537 BC, foundation laid on 25 Chislev. Then a hiatus due to antisemitic opposition.
  • Rebuilding recommenced on 24 Elul 521 BC, lasting until 3 Adar 516 BC when it was dedicated. Again, this is 7 months later than the end of the 70th anniversary, which dated from 10th Ab. But David's 490s are still 'protecting' it.
  • So in 516 BC because Temple exists again, the 70 sabbatical years (from 586-516) are mirrored (reimbursed), to play from 516-446 BC.
  • But then Purim intervenes in 474 BC, a year before David's last 490 runs out. Purim is averted. Purim was cast to coincide with Passover, the notices timed so they'd hit the public on Passover, a full year's notice. The day of slaughter was scheduled for the end of that civil year (Persian year ran Nisan-Adar, like the Jewish sacred year). It's not a coincidence.
  • That reimbursed 70 continues to 446 BC, and Jerusalem is rebuilt at the last minute, wall completed 25 Elul 446 BC, about six months early (measured from 3 Adar 516). Moses' personal 1000 ends in 440 BC. David's 490s ran out back in 473 BC, so only his 1000s are running now.
  • So only because the Temple 490 started up again here in 446 BC just six months shy of the deadline, the world goes on living.
  • So out from the Second Temple 490: 586 - 70 - 70 - 49 - 434 = 37 AD, the time limit for Messiah to come, pay for sins, and rescue Israel. That is the world's time limit, too. End of the World. That is the 1000th anniversary of David's death, the latest of the time grant deadlines.

Paul explains this countdown to Messiah in Acts 13:19ff, counting 1440 BC-40 wilderness-450 to Temple Dedication, and from there to Christ. So when Luke relates this, the readers all knew the 490 accounting system. You know that too, because Paul references the "promise" of 2 Samuel 7 in Acts 13:23, and Temple = Messiah. (English translations are very confusing. The 450 years is measured after the wilderness and includes the time of David. Paul is balancing to the Moses 490 which began at the Exodus. Better translation of verse 20 should be something like "and over the course of the next 450 years", followed by the four categories during that period: Judges, Samuel, Saul and David. Greek "μετά ταῦτα" begins the verse after the 40 years' wilderness, not as the English makes it seem (after the 450 years). Greek word ἔτος introduces something which is about to be recounted within the period stated. You also know that because the Land was not subdued until David's time ended, hence 2 Samuel 7 requires David retire and Solomon take over.)

    • But that 37 AD becomes 30 AD when Israel rejects Him; for now the Second Temple must be destroyed to effect Daniel 9:26. So the extra '7' lost will be 'spent' on that. And is, from 64-70 AD.

Now witness the Glory of God. All this complex accounting with personal 490s and corporate 490s and 1000s overlapping, whew — why go to so much trouble? Witness:

  • A new 1050 must start upon His Death. David was used by God to leverage the Second Temple so Christ could be born.
  • Christ being born thus justifies 'resetting" the clock since He died Victorious.
  • God did that for a building (Second Temple, Daniel 9), so He could Build the Living Building, Hebrews 6 and Hebrews 9!

Savior's Time Legacy, 30 AD+ : Ὑπόστασις with Church.

  • Israel rejected Him back in 1050 BC and again in 30 AD, thus ran out of time.
  • All the remaining time Israel could get, is through Messiah. And He purchased her Millennium, clock's reset.
  • Messiah 'holds' the Daniel 9:27 piece (7 years of Tribulation) in reserve.
  • Father 'held' the Second '7' year piece due to her refusal, and 'played' it to fulfill Daniel 9:26, in 64-70 AD.
  • So her inheritance went through David, thus securing it; then
  • Through the Temple, then
  • Through Messiah; so now He holds it.
  • Separately, Church (as His Body) — separate covenant
  • Church now represents Him down here (1 John 4:17, etc.),
  • But with no fixed deadline for aggregate spiritual maturation (i.e., per Acts 1:5, Ephesians 4:11-16, especially Ephesians 4:13).
  • For Church doesn't get to have her days numbered, but per 1 Thessalonians 4:17 will just suddenly terminate at Father's command (ibid).
  • So because Messiah Succeeded,
  • He is measured back.. Time.
  • So a new "1050" begins, but
  • -1050, reserved for the Millennium and its ending voting period (Revelation 20:7).
  • +40, because Christ was successful, and any years of a savior are always mirrored back (precedence is Joseph, then David). Here, the years Christ was due as King (same number of years as David ruled). This gets mirrored back from 30-70 AD, exactly. David ruled 7 years, then 33 years. Christ was on earth for 33 years, and the remaining 7 is mirrored back in a premature play of Daniel 9:26, happening from 64 AD-70 AD. God is precise.
  • =70 AD, the amount of time Israel gets granted, since Messiah is Jewish and was completed.
  • Notice: had Israel not rejected Him, He'd have died in 37 AD, not 30 AD, for that was the deadline allowed in Daniel 9:26 (end of the last 62 weeks). Instead of 40 years, it would have been 50 years, the "times of the Gentiles", which were depicted as 50 years under the Mosaic Law (Pentecost counting and Jubilee counting). So now we're at 87 AD, in the accounting. That only left Daniel 9:27 to play, so the Tribulation initially would have begun 87 AD, Millennium in 94 AD, ending 1094 AD (probably on Pentecost, but I can't prove it yet). Final phase would have been a 50-year voting period, so eternity should have begun 1144 AD. Thus you can balance the entire timeline from Adam to the originally-scheduled end of time, from Bible.

In the real years that played, the same result obtains, time clock is reset at 30 AD, not 0 AD. GeneYrs.xls shows this. Go to Year of the World 4136, and start reading. God has His Own BC (before Crucifixion) and AD (After Death) dating system. Unlike our Before-Christ and Anno Domini system, God's BC/AD system balances, exactly. And it actually resets at 30 AD. You can see the 490's play out from there, as well as the 1000's; the world's historical trends all 'magnetise' to the benchmarked deadlines. Just track the gold and green rows of the worksheet, notice the history occurring within 120-160 years of their endings. Same seven historical trend patterns keep repeating. The trends themselves are color-coded with notes.

Uh oh. There is no time left! Now you know why Church had to be grafted in. Remember, God's been cutting and grafting His progeny since Cain (who was cut out) and Seth (who was grafted in, though not the firstborn). You'll notice how many people who were not firstborn, got grafted in lieu of the firstborn. Jacob was second son. Joseph was penultimate son. David was the seventh son. Moses before him, was of a minor branch of the Levi tribe; but Moses' great-aunt, a daughter of Levi, was used and then the entire Tribe of Levi was cut out, and 'grafted' onto Moses' brother Aaron: and that, because Moses wouldn't be God's mouthpiece to Pharaoh, Exodus 3:10 - Exodus 4:16, especially Exodus 4:14-16.

So too, with Time itself. So to begin a new 1050, Church would have to be the reason for granting time. For Israel had rejected Messiah. Now you know how literal is the New Testament expression, "redeem... time" in verses like Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16. Note that Ephesians 5 is on Christ and Church, analogous to Bride of Christ, analogous to Christian marriage. This redeeming-time doctrine is expressed in many ways by each New Testament author, but those verses are easy to read.

It's not a joke; it's not a toy for ego. If anything, we should be afraid of missing the goal, like Paul counsels in Philippians 3:6-14. We are being used To Buy Time, and that only happens, for the same reason it ever happened: spiritual growth is the criterion. So we wreck time, if we aren't in God's System. We are being used To Redeem Time, if we are living in God's System.

Eventually, no one in Church will care about God enough to grow up in learning Him; that's one of the two reasons why the Rapture occurs. That's why it can happen tomorrow, or 10,000 years from now, for all we know. But God knows. So: just as you couldn't predict the date of such apostasy back in Paul's day, so also you can't predict it now. Again, these 490s and 1000s are not a guarantee of time. Someone must be developed in time for the next 490 or 1000, to even begin. At some point, that will no longer happen. Then and only then, will the reserved 1057 years, 'play'. And no one knows when that will be, since it depends on Volition, Voting to Learn God. So we Buy Time And We Make History. Not, prophecies. We are the prophecy: they don't get anything until we complete, Hebrews 11:40's Greek.

That final 1000 years 'completes' time, makes up for all losses. We know only 1057 years remain to 'play', after the Rapture. Church is off balance sheet, for time was only promised to Israel.

Next question: how the Bible covers the 1000 years, and its component parts. Like everything else in Bible, there's some dispute over whether the Millennium is in the Bible. The only explicit reference to reigning 1000 years, is in Revelation. So, some contend that the "Millennium" is manufactured by rabid, Rapture-thumping Christians. What a crock. Look:

  1. Leviticus 25 system of Jubilee years (20), since Jubilee represented His Advent, namely, Isaiah 61:1 which the Lord quotes on returning to His Hometown in Luke 4.
  2. David's lineage, a continuous line of kings until Messiah was born, 1000 years later;
  3. "Day of the Lord", first fully used in Isaiah 13:6 (Isaiah 2:2 uses shorthand), and
  4. Known long prior, i.e., Psalm 90. In short, Moses taught them about the Millennium. Then, as the Day approached, more information was provided. So this is a Jewish thing, not a Christian thing. Not an invention popping up from nowhere for the first time in Revelation. Sheesh. See, when a thing is well known, it's rarely explained. You allude to it, instead. Look how hard it is to learn a computer or how to do stuff on the internet: explanations aren't easy to find, are they? Why? Because you are presumed to know. So if you don't know that "click" means to push your index finger on your mouse, you're clueless, huh. Same kind of thing with Bible: the writers were writing to people who already knew God's 1050-year accounting system, since every date in the Old Testament is arrayed on that 'calendar'. So they didn't explain it. Daniel just needed the pieces for accounting, in Daniel 9 — not an explanation of the system. So too, with the Millennium.

If you read Leviticus 25, you'll see God make the connection between the sabbatical years and Jubilee. Basically, every 50 years has 8 sabbatical years in it: the 50th year is the 8th sabbatical year, following hard on the last of the sabbatical years for the 49-year period. God enjoins the keeping of these years, and that's why the Temple was razed in 586 BC.

So notice: 8 × 50 = 1000. Given the meaning of Jubilee, it's impossible not to realize that 1000 has to do with some completion of historical objective meaning. Moses dedicated Deuteronomy 32 based on the 'numbering of days' theme (compare Deuteronomy 32:29 with Psalms 90:12, Psalms 39:4); Leviticus 25 is based on the ultimate freedom (picture of heaven). Therefore we are sojourners here, not owners, and God will redeem our lives and the Land. Just as He did, for Israel. Just as He did, for Egypt.

The Deuteronomy 32 usage and all its kindred passages reveals the Hebrew keyword "aharit". There are at least 60 of these (depends on how your Hebrew searcher bundles morphological hits). The term is used much like our English "latter days", with the prophecy flavor about the ending of time; but "aharit" also and even more has in view the very personal ending of your life, idea of how you will end up. Isaiah 2 is a 'last days leading to Millennium' prophecy; Isaiah 2:2 uses sound play between aharit and naharu; unfortunately, the latter is translated as if a stream or river of water, but naharu is about light (so streams of enlightenment, which of course is the Water of the Word). Could be profitable to look for sound play there on eleph or some other clue as to the 1000 years. Isaiah 2:11-12 are allusively using Day of the Lord vocabulary; the actual phrase first appears in Isaiah 13; the equating of Day to 1000 is explicitly in Psalms 90:4. But the first use of aharit seems to be in Deuteronomy 32:20 (Moses predicting that they will abandon Him). So maybe until David, the Numbering Of Days wasn't done, but only the aharit-type warning, no set time specified; after all, David is God's Answer to their rejection of Him as their King back in 1050 BC. Again, God doesn't start numbering your days until after a fall so steep, the numbering is necessary for your protection (kinda like quarantine or slowing a viral spread).

Precisely how the 1000 predictively worked prior to David, seems but allusively revealed until David ceded kingship to Solomon, i.e., via the number of investiture sacrifices in 1 Chronicles 29, see also Numbers 7. Moses was the first guy to talk about it, Psalms 90:4, 12 (Psalms 90 is written by Moses). Since the phrasing for Day and 1000 are from David as well (i.e., embedded Hebrew sound play on eleph in what we call Psalms 40:6 — quoted in Hebrews 10:5); and since Isaiah and the other prophets are so very repetitive about the aharit usage, plus "Day of the Lord"; and, finally, since those pre-Flood got 1000 years' advance warning of the Flood (i.e., Methuselah lived 969 years, and his dad "Dedicated / Devoted / Consecrated" (= Chanuch, = Enoch) deliberately named him that, to testify to the coming Flood), the 1000 seems to be an embedded understanding, not needing elaboration. Read Jude and carefully search and cross-reference its keywords, first in translation, and then in the Greek (comparing to the LXX). You'll find Jude is drawing parallel between the pre-historic fall of Satan, Genesis 6, Enoch's Warning everyone about 1000 years prior about the Flood — and the current time Jude is writing, which seems to be sometime after the Temple is destroyed (and due to its destruction). For Jude is the younger half-brother of the Lord, and is in Diaspora when he writes.

Everyone uses shorthand expressions to each other when the underlying meaning is fully-known. You don't keep repeating your full name to your friends, and they don't keep calling you by your full name. So, we invent abbreviations and nicknames, synonyms for a commonly-understood ideas, things. So the Bible's seeming obtuseness is often rather our obtuseness, because we don't research what it says; so we don't recognize that it is talking first to a contemporary audience, using terms as they used them. After all, we say "call me on my cell" and everyone knows we mean "cellphone"! But a reader in WWII would have thought we meant "monk's room", "jail room", "cells of the body", and wondered what the heck! On "my" prison? On "my" body?

Point is, there is a special vocabulary people familiar with each other, use. Everyone involved in a business, a faith, a webpage, even, ends up using specialized words to simplify discourse. If you write anything longer than a page, you must create special vocabulary lest you keep repeating the whole definition, over and over. So Millennium vocabulary in the Old Testament exists: we know that, even given the few snippets above. So the trick is to find that vocabulary.

The sacrifices will probably demonstrate some of the Millennial meaning everyone knew. For example, in Numbers 7 roster, the leaders do the same types of sacrifices, but only one of each. I believe the leadership was elected, and for one year, a custom which was still true in Jesus' Day (i.e., high priesthood office was for one year). So 1000 would be a dedication acknowledging God's promise of 1000 years, looks like. I searched on eleph (spelled aleph lamed peh-final), found 244 verses, none of which seem to allude to this 1000-year promise. I also searched on "Day of the Lord" and found nothing nearby in the Old Testament which alluded to it referencing the 1000 years. It could be that there is no explicit prophecy given to a group, but was given to David as an understanding, which he communicated. I've not yet checked all the Psalms for sound play on "eleph". David loves sound play in the juxtaposition of words, especially physical onomatopoeia, and especially on topics of begetting or body-metaphor stuff; so does Isaiah. For an awesome example of David's love of sound play, read Psalm 139:11-17 aloud in the Hebrew. So all that analysis will take some time, especially since "ola" (smell of the sacrifice rising) and "alah" (rising, preposition of going up or aboutness) will be used in the sound play, and it's a very common term commonly used as a sound play device (i.e., all over Isaiah 52:13 - Isaiah 54:1).

Whether you are sure of the vocabulary or not, Bible dates prove to be based on the Millennial meaning for the entire structure of time itself, not just for the last 1000 years. So the first and most fundamental meaning, is that the 1000 functions as the 'daddy' or 'house' for all other components of Time. So you have math to prove the meaning, even if you didn't know the vocabulary. God demonstrates by His dates that He structures all time components in units of 1050; then, nested within the 1050 are three components of 490 + 70 + 490. This 'house' is an Official, Civilization usage, with the Promise at that macro level ensconced. However, running below the 'house' are personal 490s; an individual who has an office would presumably have his office 490 run within the 'house', but his personal 490 run below the house. Then again, perhaps all of them do. David sure did. God uses the Kingship office to craft 490s which saved Israel from destruction several times. Yet his personal-death 1000 saved all of the human race from destruction, since the Temple 490 depended on it, even when the Temple was destroyed.

Second meaning: when the 'house' of 490-year promises begins to empty due to apostasy, the '1000' functions as a warning period for the End-Of-Time Judgement. Which makes sense, given that essential structure for time: the house of time is not being maintained by positive votes, so it will fall. Rather appropriate, then, to have a Millennium also function as a last-call 1000 years. Like it was, 1000 years before the Flood.

This 1000-year warning usage originated with Enoch. He would have been age 34 when he began; 1000 years remained until the Flood at that point. I can't verify when he began the warning, but Jude 14 makes it clear that was his 'job'. Bible doesn't seem to say much else.

Um, the so-called "Book of Enoch" isn't a valid source for the historical Enoch. It's just like the Mad Magazine type satires in other apocrypha, demeaning God and Bible heroes, using flagrantly wrong information, reversing what Bible says (i.e., 'Book of Enoch' reverses Enoch's age compared to Bible, makes him, God, and all other Bible heroes look silly). Obviously not Divine Writ. Slapstick. (Hint: any book which derides God or Bible heroes isn't God-breathed. All false books help you see the mocking rhetoric of Satan & Co., so no book should be rejected out-of-hand.)

There is widespread agreement even among the Bible's critics that a 1000-year period runs from the date David became King of all Israel, 1003 BC (late 1004 BC). Christ was born 3 BC — really, at the end of 4 BC on the Julian calendar, which for math purposes you'd treat as 3 BC to balance. So these are Two "Days of the Lord", respectively. Dates for David do vary somewhat, but the same chronological method ends up showing a 1000-year span between David and Christ, no matter what convention is followed. The "Day of the Lord" as 1000 years is an established Bible convention. The usage of "Day of the Lord" is always in apocalyptic, end-times terms. Then we have folks like the Essenes, who were Jews, who believed in the Millennium — and they were in the first century AD and somewhat prior. You can find Jewish sects of other types who also believed in a final 1000-year reigning period, with Messiah at the helm. Messianic Judaism is as old as Judaism itself. So the idea that the Millennium is something of Christian invention, is flat crazy. The Millennium doesn't even belong to Christians, neither then nor now. We get to be there. But we are ruling Gentile nations, at best. Israel is the star under Her Star Messiah the Bright Morning Star. And this was long known, since Satan's name used to be Morning Star: Son of the Rising Dawn, and the point of the Millennium is to show why Satan is wrong. Israel, for her longsuffering role in this Angelic Conflict, gets that 1000 years of peace. Lion and lamb finally at rest, and the lamb is not inside the lion's stomach. So all those who think the Millennium is not in the Old Testament, need to get a life. Like most Bible debunking arguments, this one isn't worth any more space. Let the mockers enjoy their mocking. We've got a Lord to learn, and He wasn't a doormat. So we aren't to be either.

So the first Day of the Lord began with David's kingship. The Second Day of the Lord began when Christ was born, but due to Israel's apostasy, had some back-credits of years which had to be repaid (40); due to Church being grafted in, we don't know how long that "Day" will last. Had Israel accepted Messiah, history should have ended 1144 AD; but, she did not accept Him. Nerd note: "acceptance" is a believer function, not an unbeliever function. The unbeliever needs to believe in Christ, John 3:16; having done that, he is now a believer and therefore needs to accept instruction, accept authority, etc. Often the word δέχομαι is used, which translates better "to welcome"; sadly, fools use such verses to say you must 'accept' the Lord into your heart to be saved. No one is saved by doing that. Christ told us how, John 3:16. Maybe someday someone will notice the verb is "believe", not "accept"?

So what becomes instead the Third Day of the Lord, begins thus at the Millennium. We are in between, hidden, part of that now-expanded 40 year period which had its own 'credit', between 30-70 AD.

Now: since component periods which are losses are mirrored on either side of the event to which they tie, you have what amounts to a cutting-out and grafting-in accounting function applied to time, itself. See the quality and impact of Insertion? God has a traceable habit of disinheriting and then re-inheriting, like you'd 'hybrid' a tree, cutting and grafting: which He begins right away, in Genesis. Abel is cut, Cain is cut, Seth is grafted in as the firstborn. Those other sons of Shem are cut, and Arphachshad is grafted in as the firstborn. Ishmael is cut, and Isaac is grafted in as the firstborn. Esau is cut, and Jacob is grafted in as the firstborn. Reuben is cut, and Judah is grafted in as the ruling tribe ("scepter" verse in Jacob's deathbed blessing). 400+ years later, Levi is cut, and Moses was to be grafted in as the firstborn, via his mother on his aunt's side — but Moses refused to be God's mouth, in favor of Aaron, so Aaron gets Levi instead. The whole tribe. Basically, God reorders the primogeniture line up to Aaron's father as a result of Moses — making a Big Point of it being God Who Cuts and Inserts, not man's merit.

He keeps up this practice, making a stink about it when Israel cuts out God as King: Saul is inserted, but then Saul gets the kingdom torn from him (that verse in Samuel where he grabs Samuel's coat). David is the Seventh son of Jesse, but the other six sons are cut from God's appointment, and David is inserted instead. And when David is inserted, all of Israel is cut out, disinherited, and grafted into David, 2 Samuel 7:12-13.

Because David is inserted, Christ can be inserted despite Israel's double rejection of Him as King (in 1050 BC and 30 AD, respectively). So God accomplishes this goal in the same, repeated fashion, since Israel never hears His past repeats: Jeconiah is cut off, adopts Shealtiel son of Neriuah, who descended from David and Bathsheba's other and younger son, Nathan; who is, the forefather of Mary, Luke 3. Who was also, the forefather of Joseph, Matthew 1. But because Shealtiel was adopted by Jeconiah, you'll notice the Luke genealogy (versus Matthew's) specifies the natural father, and Matthew's, the legal father (same thing is done with Moses' father when all of Levi is grafted into Aaron). So you know God fulfilled His Promise, and followed the same cutting-out and grafting-in He has always done. For it's based on a Promise, not on personal connections. On Faith, not on family. For the First Father, the First King, the First Fealty is to God, not people.

Messiah is thus the key to understanding the timeline for the 1000 years. God cuts, God inserts, God treats time as losses to be made up and hence mirrored back later. And Church is not in all these calculations, for there might not have been a Church, had Israel welcomed Messiah. See Romans 11.

Now hopefully you have a better macro-accounting grasp of how important Church is to history, and why — because Christ is the purpose of history. So the purpose of the Millennium is to Mirror Back To Israel the 'lost' 1000 years, the 'cost' of the Davidic line. Since the next 1050 is predicated upon the successful completion of the prior 1050, the continuance of time itself is a kind of restitution for the 'cost' to whomever was developed, during that prior period. Granted, a new person must be developed by the end of the next period; but the payback quality of each new period, remains. Hence Israel is 'owed' for the successful completion of Messiah, which is why the Millennium is both real and literal. It's a Justice Accounting Verdict, not something to drool over and make movies out of. They never get those movies right, anyway.

So, that means 1144 AD should have been the end of all history (Millennium ending in 1094, 50-year voting period after that).

    • "Day of the Lord" as 1000 years, so David gets the first day, and the Lord, the second; which turns out to be a third, since Israel rejected Messiah when He came. David is the first King, the Lord is the Second (forever-reigning) King. Parallel idea to first Adam and last Adam. Then, history ends.
    • On either side of this doubled day are "wilderness" periods of 40 years, warning of the Day in question; both warnings are to the Gentiles. Saul's 40 years preceded David; Paul accounts Saul's reign as a wilderness period, in Acts 13:20. Furthermore, David's reign of 40 years is subdivided into 7 and 33; next, the Lord's First Advent is a mirror: 33 years then 7 of Tribulation (played in miniature via siege of Jerusalem), since He's Seated and Ruling, at the Session, Hebrews 1. At the end of time, there's another 40 years which 'announces' the real Rapture. That can be any 40 years.

Why We Are Here: God Restores Israel's rejection, by Installing David. That's why the promise of Messiah as a Son was made to David. David, like Abraham, was a man of Faith. So, the Faith got the promise, and therefore those of no faith could tag along and maybe figure out He's really God, 2 Peter 3:9. So now tie in the Day of the Lord promise, also made to David, and provable from the math — and you have in effect a Promise of 1000 years' Lineage, Culminating in Messiah, Whose Day begins as Restoration of all those other days. Hence the tie in to Jubilee years.

One might ask, how is it that the last 1000 years pays for the cost of the prior thousands of years? Answer: now you know why a believer must be awarded a 490 or 1000 grant in order for time to continue. Time must pay. If paid, it can be reimbursed the payor. So the next 1050 only occurs, because in the previous 1050, someone had already purchased it, and someone new was developed during that prior 1050, to purchase the next 1050. So here, Christ was developed before David's 1000 (leave out the 50 for qualifying purposes) ran out. So Israel having rejected Him, has no more time. Hence Church had to be grafted in.



God's '490' Timeline Countdown to Messiah: Can God Keep His Promise to Make Messiah and Save the World?

Precedence principle: Everything dates from the Exodus, but derives precedence from Abraham and the Time Israel was in Egypt. Precedence of Abraham, derives from the Noahic Covenant, which derives from Adam. All this is illustrated in GeneYrs.xls. Here, we start with Shem, Noah's son. The point: can God produce the Humanity of Christ via positive believer Votes? After all, if God rigs Justice, then He's not worthy of being God, as Satan keeps on alleging. The Angelic Trial is based on a contention that God has Abused Justice, and from Adam's Fall forward, Satan's contended it should be a Mistrial, accusing God of tampering with Evidence (i.e., of bribing Job, beginning of Job 1 and Job 2). So let's see the Evidence.

  • God's First 490 Post-Flood, Starts With Shem's Birth. There are 490 years between Shem's and Isaac's birth. So both their fathers, were granted 490-year blessing periods: that's why time for the whole world, even continued. Shem was late in his 100th year when he begat Arpachshad in Genesis 11:10; you know this, due to "2 years after the Inundation" (literal, means the event, not the whole time). Then, Arpachshad was born: maybe also of triplets, but not first. So Shem — also maybe of triplets — was born just before Noah's 501st birthday, Genesis 5:32. Hence when the flood ends on Noah's 601st birthday (Genesis 8:13-14), Shem must have been newly 100, in order for it to be 2 years after the Flood began; Genesis 11:10's Hebrew says literally, "in his hundredth year". So Archpachshad was born almost at the end of his father Shem's 100th year. Thus you know the births of these sons, are birthday presents to the fathers. Earlier, the math in Genesis 5 shows you God did the same thing with Seth and Enoch, each of whom were birthday presents to their fathers. The Bible is unusually specific about the Flood. When Noah was 600 and two months and 10 days old — let's call this "age 600 and 70 days" — God tells him to get everyone in there, Genesis 7:4. Seven days later, the Flood begins, Genesis 7:11; the rain lasts 40 days and nights, so on the 41st day — Noah is now age 600 and 117 days — it stops. The resulting inundation over everything, even the highest mountains, lasted for 150 days, Genesis 7:24. Not clear to me yet whether Bible says the whole earth was literally underwater, or whether the tsunami action washed up that high, drowning all land life. At this point, then, let's say it's 600 and 267 days. The receding of the water had begun almost immediately after the 40 days were up, Genesis 8:3-4. (Therefore a tsunami series is the more indicated, not a bathtub. Only takes a few minutes to drown.)* So that, 600 and 197 days into it (Genesis 8:4), the Ark itself grounded in the Mt. Ararat range (Genesis 8:4). (Whether that range is the same as we call Ararat today, who knows.) But there was more to recede. So by the 600 and 301st day, you could see the mountaintops (Genesis 8:5). Then another 40 days ensue (Genesis 8:6), so at that point it's 600 and 341 days. For the next 24 days, he sends out the raven and then the dove, thrice. The second time it returns with the olive leaf (symbol of peace), Genesis 8:12, and the third time it doesn't return at all (Genesis 8:13). That day, is Noah's birthday (Genesis 8:13). Still, the ground it takes time to dry thoroughly, so they have to wait another 86 days (Genesis 8:14). So all in all, Noah and family were in that Ark for (601 and 57 days minus 600 and 77 days) = 343-375 days, depending on what days are counted (I'm not not certain how long the birds were flying.)

* 2026 Update: it seems more likely (to me) that the earth was completely submerged for purposes of outlining the doctrine itself, and the fact ὑψώθη / הַמַּיִם עַל־הָאָרֶץ references increasing water verticality on the z-axis. Once again the Bible seems to be referencing the LXX with the cross itself (John 12:32 ὑψωθῶ), so there's a lot of parallel significance with the flood waters being 'raised' and Christ being 'raised'. Someone will have to exegete this topic more thoroughly to determine the correct interpretation if it was a partial tsunami or a global flood.

Why is God so specific here? I don't know yet, I need to ask Him: it looks like the precedence for the holiday structure in the Hebrew calendar?Benchmarks are 70 followed by 7, followed by 40 followed by 150 = 197 in Genesis 8:4, 267 in total; followed by 33 (to 301st day, Genesis 8:5); followed by 40 and then 25 of which 21 are mentioned, Genesis 8:12-14, so the 3-4 hiatus piece is in there. So there's something about "calendar" in the meaning, since the total of the benchmark pieces seemingly equals 365. No, doesn't look like the Hebrew calendar. But sure does look like the basic accounting units for time in a 490. Dunno what more it is, yet.

But one lesson stands out loud and clear: God reckons time by Noah. Couldn't be more obvious. Hint hint.

So that's how it works out that Arpachshad is born 2 years after the inundation, yet to our modern glazed over math eyes, it looks like only one year. Beginning versus 'end of year' calculations result in "1" being added. Bible is real careful about the difference between "in" and "after", and the latter is explicit ("ahar" is used, not Hebrew "buh" — Greek uses "μετά" for "ahar"). By the way, they broke up the Ark — don't even bother to look for it. No one in his right mind would leave valuable cypress (AKA "gopher") wood up there. It was the most prized wood for sea travel; and Noah & Co. knew that since they were to repopulate the Earth, they would all be travelling. And that had all that ready pack labor for hauling!

How appropriate, too: for "Shem" means "The" Name: God the Son, HaShem, He Whose Name We Do Not Yet Know, Who Will Rescue us. So "Shem" carries the bloodline of the Name, the progenitor of the Name's Humanity! So Rest (Noah) sires The Name (Shem) sires The Healing from Ruin: Arphach-shad. See how witty Bible's begats are, when you know the meanings of the names? "Rest" from all the warring pre-Flood, rest from all the waiting. Refreshment. So the 'son' of that, is "The Name", which tells you they knew the Savior would be a son of Shem. The Savior, of course, provides Healing from the Ruin of the sin nature, so son of The Name will also be the progenitor of The Name! Witty, huh. Nearest appropriate Hebrew roots I could find for Arphach-shad's name would signify 'healing from ruin'. First two syllables sound like the qal imperfect of raphah, a very significant Caesarian-type sewing-up in battle of belly wound: verb is used in Isaiah 53:5, I believe; see all the related roots, because wordplay is done on his name. I really wish lexicons would trace the etymology of Biblical names: so much Bible Doctrine is in those names! It's really hard to believe but that Hebrew is the language of Noah, in very ancient form. So all that stuff about Sanskrit is either pre-Flood, and the language development bifurcates into all Hebrew-based languages; or, Sanskrit comes from the Hebrew, not vice versa.* Wonder what Mario Pei and other language geeks would think of that idea.

* 2026 Update: I can certify that Sanskrit would absolutely have to come from the Hebrew because the Bhagavad Gita itself parodies the Old and New Testament (earliest manuscript is from 1482 AD). The original temples in the region had nothing to do with modern Hinduism either, as it was invented in at least 200 or 300 AD. The modern writing system for Sanskrit in its current iteration (Devanāgarī) was developed in the ADs as well (Brahmi is older, but the Bhagavad Gita was never written in this, yikes). In other words, all of this is much newer than linguistic scholars assume based on real faulty data.

Then, adding up the ages of each father at the time the child is born, tracks the line. How smart God, for look: this way the promise to Abram, which vests in Abram, is justified by precedence: covenant to his progenitor, Noah, via Shem, via Arpachshad, who was not the first born (Genesis 10:22). Thus the Noahic covenant and the Abrahamic, 'touch'. Note also the "three" precedence: based on faith, not order-of-birth. See, God doesn't miss a trick. It's really important to notice no one gave birth to kids while still in the Ark. 1 Peter 3:20 compared to Genesis 8:18ff proves this. So if the women were pregnant, their fetuses were not counted as persons, get it? Ark is likened to a womb many times in Scripture, and so is the time in Exodus (i.e., Hebrews of Isaiah 63:11ff), because it Depicts Christ Bearing Our Sins, "me amal" of Isaiah 53:11: Dead time. To be made up, after birth.

Note the precedence, then, for Daniel 9:25, how God Numbers The Days, when a fall occurs. Fall of Adam resulted in Adam's days being numbered, Genesis 3 sentence (beginning around Genesis 3:15, note the exact words He gives to Adam; then Genesis 3:22's birthing preposition "min" usage, in Genesis 3:22). Fall of Adam resulted in the 490s (inside 1050s) being used as the conduit system for blessing. So the same 490 system predates Israel.

Notice another precedence: 490 years was added to the human race between Noah and Abram, due to Noah's faith. The 490 year period which came from Noah, justified developing Abram. Notice how it runs from Shem to Isaac, since the sons Evidence the Covenant God Made with both fathers. A covenant statement is one way the Bible tells you who got the 490s and/or 1000s. Unconditional covenants mean a 1000 is granted. So both of these fathers, got both. So let's now pick up the time with Abram, see how God 'amortized' him to benefit the human race.[The Noahic Covenant was stated in three passages, and I've not closely investigated the text for embedded wordplay. Hebrew Old Testament always uses embedded wordplay (or sound play via juxtaposition, such as in Jeremiah 31:33's Hebrew) for the most significant provision/characteristic, especially when related to founding/foundation — here, sonship. Passages are Genesis 6:13-7:5, two instances contiguously presented in the text (so you know they are related, progressively stated to Noah). The third one is in Genesis 9. "Shem" makes the promise of Savior bald. So Noah is precedence for the Covenant to Abram, which was also done in three stages: Genesis 12, 15, 17. So antisemitism is utterly hapless and stupid, totally ignorant of Bible: we are all sons of Noah!]

  • Progenitor Abram is born c. 2160 BC, but his first 100 years (pre-children) count as part of the "490" years from Shem to when Abram became Abraham. So a New 490 begins when Isaac is born. Abram lives to be 175 years old (Genesis 25:7), so dies in 1985 BC.
  • Isaac was born 2060 BC, when Abram was age 100 (Genesis 21:5). Isaac marries at age 40 (Genesis 25:20); he's 60 when Rebecca finally has those twins (Genesis 25:26). So Abraham got to see them become teenagers; but Abraham didn't get to see them married off. Wow: what a faith Abraham must have had. Isaac himself lives 180 years (Genesis 35:28), dying 1880 BC. That guy's faith is completely amazing. He is most assuredly his father's son.
  • Jacob was thus born circa 2000 BC. God, preparing everything in advance, chose "Jacob" (Genesis 25:26) to fulfill Genesis 3:15's promise of Savior: for Jacob grasped the heel of Esau when exiting the womb ("heel" is used in both Genesis verses). Since, the heel of Israel would be grabbed for our sins: Messiah. (Awesome wordplay, for Isaiah 52:13ff portrays how we thought of Him who is glory as but a heel. Thus we know from Genesis 25:26 that the meaning recorded in Isaiah 52:13-54:1 was in substance, always known and transmitted among mankind, since the very prophecy of it is in Genesis 3:15.) God, preparing everything in advance, also began at this point to change Egypt's ruling house; she had been recently unified (between Upper and Lower Egypt — upper is lower and lower is upper geographically, but what the hey). What would become the 12th Dynasty (the House to protect Israel), began when a vizier (remember that) named Amenemhet, overthrew his Pharaoh (Mentuhotep), in 1991 BC, thus becoming, Amenemhet I. How ironic: the guy himself will be murdered (what goes around comes around), and the guy's grandson will appoint Jacob's son, vizier. The guy's great- and great-great grandsons will confirm Jacob's son in that appointment, but the great-great-great will himself, fall prey to a superceding vizier (Exodus 1:8), for having rejected the vizier of his immediate ancestors. History sure takes some interesting turns.

Meanwhile, Esau (='doer') grew up busy with this world. Esau has more than one name, in the Bible, due to his parents' naming rationales. "Edom" means ruddy, and "Seir" means hairy — but in the Hebrew, the connotation is of a gloriousness by human standards. Such a coat of hair all over made him attractive, so he would be a doer-and-shaker, a man's man, a person who makes things happen. All this is in Genesis 25:25's wry Hebrew. But dear ol' Jacob grew up as a kind of mama's boy; you can just see him quiet, "tam", learning. "Tam" is used in wordplay of Genesis 25:27, tying Integrity to sitting. Sitting means Thinking, studying, pondering — my pastor made a big deal of Jacob being the studious type using this verse, but I can't find enough data in lexicons to see why. LXX uses "ἄπλαστος" which means not cunning, unpretentious. But we know he tried to be cunning and manipulative, but we also know he always failed at it. There's also embedded word play of the sound on "Joseph" with tam in that same verse, "tam yoshev ohalim". So while Esau was the 'perfect doer', Jacob was the 'perfect student', seems to be the comparison made, with Jacob being approved but Esau not, Malachi 1 (in which God accuses the Jews of emulating Esau instead of Jacob). Jacob was kinda afraid of daddy Isaac, who after all braved that rock when in his 20's; who after all, lovingly named his God, "The Fear of Isaac"; so daddy Isaac, was the rough-and-tumble type. Daddy had to grow up that way, since Ishmael and all the other sons of dad Abraham, were always against him. He inherited, they didn't (Genesis 25:5-6). So, the seconds-older son of Isaac, named Harry (oops, I mean red-hairy, as in "Esau"), was the apple of Daddy's eye. Jacob thus became one of the most henpecked, hassled husbands on the planet. How he survived as long as he did well, only the Lord could sustain him.

    • His hateful brother marries at age 40 (Genesis 26:34), and his wifely choices drive his mom Rebekah, to distraction (Genesis 26:35);
    • Worse (Genesis 27), it looks a lot like Isaac (then age 100) isn't gonna last too long, so he tells Esau to get him some game so he can bless him (a kind of ritual);
    • Rebecca overhears it, and beats ol' Esau to the punch: she cooks up something to keep the blessing from Esau and his witchy wives, with mama's boy Jacob's compliance. (Uh oh, they're not waiting on God, like she did back when she was pregnant with the boys).
    • So of course (Genesis 28), Jacob baby has to high-tail it outta there and get him a wife. At which point, God makes a unilateral contract with Jacob, Genesis 28:12-17; Jacob in his own mind makes his own reply covenant to God (Genesis 28:18-22, which God never ratifies, so forget the tithe thingy).

At this point, Jacob is age 40. It's 1960 BC. It's also 490 years after the Flood. But Jacob's getting a gradual rollout of contract terms over the next 20 years. His personal 490 begins 20 years later, in 1940 BC when he's renamed (another way to tell when a 490 starts). When God makes a contract, a 490 is granted to go with it. After all, a contract has terms, and that requires time for the party receiving the contract. Jacob had a lot to learn, still. Abraham's 490 is still running, as is his 1000. So we see a stacking, here. Probably Isaac had a 490 also, but I'm not sure how to date it. It's true that the 18th dynasty began in the 490th anniversary of Isaac's birth (2060 - 490 = 1570 BC, when Ahmose I comes to power). But it seems that Isaac's contract really began after his being sacrificed, since he was in his 20's at the time, no longer required to obey his dad, and of course strong enough to resist being bound for the sake of slitting his throat. But when in his 20's, I don't know. Genesis 22:5's "naar" stresses that he was of marriageable age, in the sense that he could procreate. But the term is also used endearingly like parents use "my boy" at any age; or, used of someone of low authority — a son who's not yet inherited would be called a na'ar, just like a household slave would be. Your big clue as to the manhood-age of Isaac, is that the servants who accompanied them to the mountain, are also called "na'ar" — Greek is equivalent in meaning. You don't make a mountain trek like this, with children. So Isaac was no child, but rather at least as old as the servants accompanying him. Your third big clue is that Abraham and Isaac went up the mountain alone. Were Isaac too young, a servant would have to accompany. So much for those silly Bible depictions of Isaac as a mere child.

    • It's still 1960 BC when he finds her, so Jacob is nearly 41; he thinks he's working for Rachel, but surprise! Leah.
    • Miffed, in Genesis 29:27-30, Jacob gets chisled (Jacob = chisler) by Laban to marry both of them to Jacob simultaneously if he'll stay another 7 years to work off for Rachel. It's now 1953 BC. Notice how Jacob didn't use any of Daddy Isaac's money, as a brideprice. It's not as if he were poor.
    • God won't open Rachel's womb until the 7th year, so at the end of it, Joseph is born (Genesis 30). So Joseph is the only child of Jacob who wasn't born indentured (well, Benjamin will be born free, too). Immediately, Jacob wants to leave: it's 1946 BC.
    • Laban strikes a deal again (Genesis 30:26ff), so Jacob stays 6 more years, and then says, Finish! Because God got him outta da jam, then (Genesis 31:3ff). By then, he was the happy hen-Pecked husband of four women, who fought over who'd 'get' him for the night. And, their fractious, just as conniving sons. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So it's 1940 BC when he re-enters Canaan, and God re-ratifies the contract, Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:54 - Genesis 32:1, Genesis 32:9-12, Genesis 32:24-32.

Think about it. Here Abram had to wait until he was 100, to get one kid. Meanwhile, Abram had two women pecking at him, "Sarai" (= bitch) and Hagar (= The Stranger). Hagar must have been a believer who hung on or indentured herself in order to be near God; look how God makes a covenant with her when Sarai gets her husband to kick Ha-Gar out, Genesis 16. Look how she responds. But of course, the sons would not be on good terms. So both the boys from two different mothers, were not the best of friends (kinda hard, don't you think, to be 13 years older and due to some God promising the younger son's birth to be passed over). So then the mother of the younger boy dies, and then Abraham marries another woman who's named after Incense (= Keturah), for crying out loud; and it's her who bears him lots of sons — none of whom, get along with either God-Hears (= Ishmael, from which we get the famous shemah of Deuteronomy 6:4 in response) or Laughter (= Isaac), who is the promised son. Same old rivalry has gone on for centuries, ever since.

Then that Promised son, long since grown up, waits and waits and waits for the Promised Progeny. But oh, nearly a generation passes beforehand; then when Rebekah is finally preggers, oh! It's like WWII in her belly!

And then those two boys, Hairy and Fairy — as in "conniving" not "homosexual", sheesh — well, they don't get along either. Hairy marries multiple women from his cousin Ishmael, so mom Rebekah wants to tear her hair out; Fairy's little joke with the fake hair on his hands got him into a tangle with the real Hairy. Never mind that Hairy, true to his "Red" name, sold out his birthright some years prior for a bowl of red lentil stew (Genesis 25:29-34 — note how Jacob was the one cooking).

So Jacob baby had to split, to save his life and get a wife: one wife. He even met her almost the moment he arrived back in Haran, and it was love at first sight. But here, 20 years later he returns: himself with four women, not merely two; and twelve sons, not counting the daughters; all of them, just as impish as daddy-o. Presages one heckuva story, huh. It's interesting that Joseph gets into trouble for telling his dream to his brothers; then gets out of trouble by interpreting another dream; but not until he learns to stop conniving (i.e., asking the guy with the best memory in the kingdom — the "cupbearer" to you — to ask Pharaoh to hear his case). So Joseph has to cool his heels another two years, waiting for God to send Pharaoh a dream. But, hey — that doesn't stop Joseph from playing that trick on his brothers, and twice! When they come looking for grain. Um, you need to know that "Joseph" means "Twice"! So see? The impish, fairy games run in the family. God bless Israel, every one!

  • And the Apple of this tribe was soon to be picked off his tree; henceforth he would think twice (= "Joseph"); for, Jacob becomes (is renamed, a form of Adoption) Israel, circa 1940 BC, and he's 61 years old, at the time he returns to the Land. For, on the eve of seeing his brother Esau for the first time in 20 years (see Genesis 31:38, Genesis 31:41), he's nervous, and starts up the ol' cranium's natural tendency to bargain, plotting how he'll send gifts ahead of the family, etc; so God visits him (Genesis 32, especially Genesis 32:24ff), renews His Never-Cheating Contract: and Jacob is now an "Israel", prince of God. If you read his life from that wrestling match forward, it's real obvious he's a changed man; in fact, so changed that when Bible refers to him as Israel, it's talking praise (reserving "Jacob" for when he — or later, the nation — is misbehaving). The Jacob of the Laban years would never react the way the Jacob of Shechem reacts.
  • Jacob arrives in Egypt when he is 130 years old (Genesis 47:9), in 1870 BC: the Pharaoh he speaks with is Senusret III. What a guy that Senusret III must have been! How wise! The next relevant date, is 17 years after that, Jacob's death at age 147 (Genesis 47:28), 1853 BC: still in the reign of Senusret III (1878-1843 BC, per Encyclopedia Britannica Macropedia).

Total time in slavery in Egypt will be 400 years (Genesis 15:13), but there is a hiatus period of 30 years. Exodus 12:40-41 says after 430 years, to the very day, the sons of Israel leave. Which ties straight back to 1870 BC. So the 430 has two components: a 30-year non-enslaved period, plus 400 years of Slavery. LXX of the Exodus passage includes "and Canaan", because Joseph was 17 when he was abducted into slavery (1440 + 430 = 1870 - 17, Joseph's years in Canaan as a boy = 1853, year of Jacob's death).

So we have a double entendre. The first 30 years is also the time it took to build Joseph so he could prepare a place for Israel to learn what God wanted them to learn over the next 400 years. Joseph is a son of Israel. Ergo, the 430 year count: God is measuring and mirroring back as restitution, the 30 years of Joseph, in the first 30 years Israel comes to Egypt. So the enslavement began in 1840 BC, after that restitution was measured, since Joseph would die four years later. God keeps His Promises, and on time. From the beginning, God shows how He usurps primogeniture due to faith. He does it with Seth, Arphachshad, Jacob, Joseph (partially, via the double-portion tribe), Levi, Shealtiel, and finally Mary, through whom was born Our Christ. For how God usurped primogeniture in Levi (which is why Moses' authority was thereafter contested), which scholars apparently misunderstand due to that blasphemous mistranslation in Exodus 6:20.

The whole period is a nested set of 490s: it's kinda confusing to trace them all. The Exodus of 1440 BC is exactly 490 years after Joseph was first enslaved in 1930 BC. But the 490 that began with Isaac in 2060 BC, was still running (would run out 1570 BC). Jacob was 40 or 41 when he high-tailed it to Haran in 1960 BC; which year 'just happened' (yeah, right — no accidents in God's Plan) to be 490 years after the Flood occurred. So 'deluged' with fear of Esau, but also obeying his parents (Genesis 28:5-7), Jacob leaves — but God first makes a covenant with him then, Genesis 28:12-17. Jacob was 60 or 61 years old when he returned to Canaan. Two 30's, two wives, two sets of kids: double portion, primogeniture, Twice, all meaning "Joseph"! 😏 It took 60 years to build the seed so it could sprout. God made the contract with Jacob beginning circa 1960 BC, at Bethel/Luz, Genesis 28:12-17. See also Genesis 31:3, Genesis 31:54 - Genesis 32:1, Genesis 32:9-12, Genesis 9:24-32; 20 years later, in 1940 BC, Jacob is renamed. So a new 490 due to Jacob dates from 1940 BC, instead. The 30's and their multiples, are always savior numbers and immediately mirrored back. I'm still having trouble deriving the origin of "400" subcomponent. God wouldn't have used it in Genesis 15:13 unless it already had a meaning Abram knew. So I'm overlooking something in the Bible.

  • Now let's look at Joseph. Joseph was 110 years old when he died (Genesis 50:22), so was born 1946 BC. Joseph thus died in 1836 BC. Other dates of note: he is sold into slavery c. 1929 or 1930 BC, when he's about 17 years of age (Genesis 37:2); 13 years later (circa 1916 BC), at age 30 (Genesis 41:46) — age of maturity by Jewish standards, he's rescued from his 3-year (?) hearsay imprisonment (he had been with Potiphar 10 years, if you do the math); he was promoted to vizier by Amenemhet II, whose grandfather Amenemhet I, was assassinated by some conspiracy at court about 46 years prior; his dad, Senusret I, was either dutiful or obsessed: the dad spent a long time chasing down the assassins, since his father had named the assassins in The Instructions of Amenemhet; and went so far as to have another publication of his own reaction as Son, called The Story of Sinuhe. (See Encyclopedia Britannica Macropedia bio on Amenemhet I.) With that kind of background, no wonder the II Amenemhet would be quick to distrust: he's been in power 9 years, when he first meets Joseph. So now you know why, 2+ years prior, the imprisoned Joseph had cellmates who were two formerly-highest court officials; why he interpreted their dreams (showing palace intrigue — one guy was guilty, the other one, falsely accused). A "cupbearer" was really a kind of walking memory bank, so that the Pharaoh could be briefed on all the people he met. The "chief baker" was the head honcho for the food of the palace. Both individuals had the responsibility of making sure the Pharaoh and his household would not be poisoned, so it's a high security Job, not a sinecure. Of course, if something went wrong, they would be the first ones blamed. Amenemhet II was famous for clemency when warranted. In Fausset's Bible Dictionary paragraph 2034.06 there is an interesting datum about "The story of Saneha" which supposedly records Joseph's "elevation to high rank under a Pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty, and his developing the resources of Egypt just as Joseph did." That would be interesting to review. It's part of the papyrus d'Orbiney in the British Museum.
  • So because Joseph's advice is accepted by Pharaoh and Joseph is promoted to vizier, an undocumented 40-year grace period then intervenes before the years of famine commence. That's standard operating procedure in God's plan, so Bible wouldn't have to mention it. Besides, keywords for the 40 year-period (like in New Testament) are used: "maher" (piel) and "tachunei", see Genesis 41:32. Verbs don't mean quickly, but suddenly, next in sequence, without warning — it means: make haste to prepare. So most of Amenemhet II's reign is spent preparing: Encyclopedia Britannica has a lot to say about this Pharaoh and his son — calls their rulerships a kind of golden age, with a massive restructuring of the polity (see what Bible says in Genesis 41). The so-called fertility of the "Fayyum depression" was discovered at this time, and it appears to have been drained and prepared for cultivation. The influx of foreigners begins during the reign of these two Pharaohs. Encyclopedia Britannica almost waxes rhapsodic over them.
  • Amen baby dies 1895 BC. His son, Senusret II, co-rules during the last two of Amenemhet's years. The 40-year grace period, which began with Joseph's accession as vizier in 1916 BC, ends circa 1876. So the seven fat years date from (say) 1882-1876, and Senusret II, died circa 1878. Then the seven lean years from 1875-1868. During the lean years, Senusret III rules; this is the Pharaoh whom Encyclopedia Britannica accredits with doing most of the political restructuring under one "vizier". (Gee, wonder who.) During this time, Israel sends the other brothers to Egypt twice (Genesis 42ff); after the second time, they go to live there, arriving in 1870 BC. Encyclopedia Britannica notes that foreign influx under both these two Pharaohs (Senusret II and III) was high, particularly "Asiatic" peoples. (Gee, wonder why.)

If you scan through Genesis since Abram, you'll find axiomatic comments about going to Egypt because there is famine in Canaan. God makes a point of that, to show that since ancient times Egypt was a known breadbasket. So think: to put Israel there during this famine positioned the world to know of Israel's God. Sometimes disaster is the best evangelist, huh.

More data of importance: Genesis 45:11 says 5 years of famine remained at the time Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, but maybe it took 2 more years to go back, pack, and return the whole clan of Israel, to Egypt. Jacob is 130 years old when he arrives, Genesis 47:9, and lives another 17 years (Genesis 47:28). Only two more years of famine are mentioned after Jacob and others have settled in Goshen, Genesis 47:17-18, so they must have arrived during the 5th year of famine, 1870 BC. In that last famine year, Egyptians (but not the Hebrews!) largely became tenant farmers with a 20% flat 'tax' on their produce (Genesis 47:26, which rule should still have been in effect during the time of Amenhotep II / Thutmose IV if Moses wrote Genesis circa 1440 BC); the only land not owned by Amenemhet II, were the priestly lands, Genesis 47:22.

Note well the stage is set for political tension between Egyptians and Jews. God always causes trouble when He blesses, and He does it on purpose. That way you don't get so hung up on the goodies, you forget about the Real Inheritance, the Giver. So, here, since Joseph is married off to an Egyptian of a high priestly caste, the Jews get the best lands. Free. You just know that award won't last much beyond Joseph's lifetime. Especially, if the initial group of 75 people (75 including wives, compare Genesis 46:27 and Acts 7:14) grow numerous. Just can't let free land and a potential labor pool sit there, fat and sassy, engaged in food and other practices Egyptian gods forbade their own people. Acts 7:14 is really interesting, because it implies that only five women were in the group. I can't tell if the "75" is meant to include Joseph's own Egyptian wife. The point being, a whole lot of intermarriage between Egyptians and Hebrews, began right away. So the later descent into slavery would have brewed a great deal of civil unrest; simmering, out of respect or fear of Pharaonic authority. No wonder over two thirds of the population leaving Egypt 430 years later were "mixed multitude"!

Compounding this nascent basis for tension would be the realization that this same Joseph was the one who 'caused' all Egyptians to be essentially tenant farmers of Pharaoh (see Genesis 47:11-27). The famine was worldwide, and so by the 3rd or 4th year, people were willing to sell all they had; then, their livestock; then their land; and finally, themselves. So the Jews were the Only Free People in the Land, at the time they arrived. Everyone else was Pharaoh's employee — excepting the Egyptian priests. Now, think: this is a situation much like England's when Protestant ideas took root and flourished (mostly, mind you — to get back at the tax-free Catholic priesthood)! The Catholic Church was thus in a political struggle, and like good churchmen, they propagandized the people to fight for them. So what do you think happened back after Joseph died? Same thing. After all, a foreigner who was responsible for their being enslaved (never mind, the people themselves praised him for saving their lives) — this foreigner had the ear of Pharaoh. While they sweated. And, of course, there's this 'foreign God' these wanderers brought with them. Who also had the "ear" of Pharaoh. That this foreigner was married to one of the daughters of the high priest, well... it was forced! And, being a daughter, that priest could claim her share of her former husband's stuff, if the daddy played his cards right.

Next, factor in the guy newly on the throne, Amenemhet III, was the first Pharaoh to actually own most of Egypt. So a still-insecure kingship, under all this political tension (the intrigue shadow from Amenemhet I still dogged his sons, which is why Sesostris III restructured the polity to reduce the power of rivals, see Encyclopedia Britannica article on "Egypt, History of"); this kingship, so unlike his dad Sesostris III, who knew Joseph, the famine; so this kingship, with the awesome change of now owning a nation, instead of merely ruling it. All that pressure, especially the prosperity after the lean years ended, would swell anyone's head. Amenemhet III was thus raised in good times, owning everything. So: all that foreign influx due to the famine and Egypt's cultural superiority would swell anyone's head.

Not to mention, a goodly portion of those foreign folks, as well as many native Egyptians, believed in Israel's God, not in Egypt's gods — for you don't think Israel swelled in population so quickly by physical birth, do you? After all, if you believed in the God of Jacob, you were therefore a Jew. After all, it was a foreigner who believed in a Foreign God, who saved Egypt. Not, Egypt's gods. So it would be popular to believe in that God, even as today many people are Christians first owing to the popularity of God, not so much because they want God for Himself. Especially, if being a Jew meant you could go live on tax-free land in Goshen. So it's easy to understand, how the slavery begins four years before Joseph dies: 1840 BC. Well, at that point Israel couldn't itself number more than 100 or 200 people (1870 BC - 30 years, one generation more). So the swelling numbers had to be conversions, not new births.

Ahhh, the threat of all those foreigners who don't believe in Egypt's own gods, now. Ahhh, the bigger threat of all those traitorous Egyptians, who abandoned their heritage, their own gods, and for what — tax free land? For surely, the enemies of Jews and converts, would never accept foreign belief as something valid. Civil war brews quietly for a long time before it breaks out in public fighting. So think: intrigue, families split apart over belief, some trying to bribe the others to switch faiths. We do that now. Human nature never changes. Not to mention, the very real economic advantage of being on tax-free land, your own person. Not to mention, the very real economic advantage of switching sides.

That makes for a very insecure Pharaoh. Now you know why Amenemhet III is the guy who began the crackdown on foreigners, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. More likely, the replacement vizier, who was none too secure himself, counseled a crackdown. It would have to play softly, like bureaucratic creep. First, in the name of the people, start appropriating a little of that Goshen land at a time, in the name of building storage cities. Get the Jews to 'help', proving themselves good Egyptian citizens. Yeah, and when the Government builds a freeway which goes right through your house, offering you a pittance for your property — what can you do? Not hard at all to understand the descent into slavery, huh.

So numerous, now. Egypt hadn't been on her own so long — just finished putting down the provincial fiefdoms, at that — so, maybe it's time to talk tough. Act tough. Encyclopedia Britannica's article on "Egypt, History of" had a running thread about how the 12th Dynasty under Sesostris III consolidated its power over the "nomarchs", changing the system of Egyptian government over into three districts, all headed by a vizier. Well, that's what happened under Joseph. Encyclopedia Britannica seemed puzzled about how this could happen. Well, duh — no one gives away power willingly, so the "nomarchs" caved in, to live — given that Dream. Whether they believed it or not, they'd need food. These nomarchs were wooed by the first Pharaoh in the Dynasty, who when Jacob was 9 years old, overtook the throne by negotiating with them. What goes around comes around, so the III Amenemhet would be, perhaps understandably, desirous of not appearing too 'friendly' with the Hebrews. Beginning, with these Hebrews who after all didn't have any of the hardship thrust on them.

We learn from history that we never change. Evolution, bah! It's always the same ol' game. The ruler has no more power than people are willing to give him, no matter what the form of government. So he has to win over key persons; he has to cultivate a persona which will wow the common man; above all, he has to watch his back. The game never changes. The more power you have, the more enemies you have; the more money you have, the more thieves and flatterers you have. Unless you love virtue, which means learning God, money and power are worth less, than yesterday's news. All your fame becomes to succeeding generations, merely data one must remember to pass a test in school. Do you remember who Stilicho was? You don't? Well, there ya go! (Hint Hint — he saved all of Rome, only to be murdered two years later by the very 'royal house' he saved! Of course, then the guy who Stilicho had protected Rome against, besieged it. Ha!)

  • So notice how quickly events rolled out, during that mirrored grace period (1875-1835 BC): since the first 40 years were sometimes unusually nice, the last 40 are sometimes horrific. Repeating: during the lean years, which were the First Seven of the period: Sesostris III had just taken the throne (1878); Israel sends the other brothers to Egypt twice (Genesis 42ff); after the second time, they go to live there, arriving in 1870 BC, when Joseph is 76 years old. Jacob then dies 17 years later, in 1853 BC, about 15 years into a new prosperity period; after all, the world had come to a breadbasket, and was now beholding to it. After Jacob dies in 1853 BC, watch how evenly spaced are the next two deaths: Sesostris III, in 1843 BC; Joseph, in 1836 BC. Notice: 1836 BC is the 7th year of the reign of the illustrious and ambitious, Amenemhet III — the Pharaoh under whom the Hebrews would become slaves lasting for the next 400 years. (Exodus 1:8-14, but the "king" of Exodus 1:8 is not Pharaoh, but probably the new vizier who replaced Joseph. A Pharaoh doesn't have to justify anything to anyone. So this is someone who has Pharaoh's ear, trying to sell him on turning against the Jews. It would not have happened overnight, but combined with other factors — and who knows what they are, don't need to know, just know human nature — eventually Pharaoh would even cave in. From that Exodus passage it's clear Amenemhet was at least constrained to follow the vizier's advice. How he felt personally, well you can't really tell. Either he was a weak king and the vizier ran the show (a common occurrence, in the history of Egypt and other ancient kingdoms), or he was reacting against what he felt was a usurper, Joseph. Which would have made him putty for a vizier. So was still a weak king. Whether he became a believer, one can't tell. Weakness is the norm among believers, especially, so this non-defense of Israel tells you nothing about whether he was saved.) "Case Study in Flawed Dating of Exodus" picks up the story, so you can see how this timeline towards the Exodus is reflected in history (as I found it in my personal set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 1985). Egyptology kinda went nuts after 1985. So I think my old Encyclopedia Britannica is more reliable. That's why I'm sticking with it. You'll find some URLs on the wide divergence among scholars, and why. Has a lot to do with how you recognize the huge amount of defacing and sheer plagiarism the Pharaohs practiced, wiping out the cartouches of their predecessors, and superimposing their own — to claim victories as if their own. Then there's the Sothic dating problem. You have to use common sense when you review empirical data. Common sense seems to have quickly deteriorated after 1985. So I don't buy the later dating scholarship, sorry.

My pastor frequently notes that when a Biblical great dies, "all hell breaks loose." Well, you can see it when Methuselah dies (his name means the Flood will begin when he dies). You can see it also, here. It's a disaster for a country to lose good leaders; that's what's happening, in 1853-36. It destabilizes a polity, there is always some scramble for power, the enemies within thinking they can grab a better deal. Like, with the Iraqi elections of January 31, 2005, so also back in 1836 BC. That's man's sordid nature, always grasping, never enjoying what he has.

Here's why. Leaders don't seem to do anything but look good and give soundbytes, but the truth is, everyone else is a headless chicken. Happiness is dependent on order, organization, and above all, a goal which is noble. No noble goal can be about the self. Self just isn't big enough, and I don't care how selfish a person is, serving himself just won't make him happy. So "noble" is always above the self. Hence, the need for a leader to be above the common fray. The leader embodies that nobility, however much of a cad he might be or others imagine him; and his life is sheer sacrifice. He has no family, no property, no anything — however legally it seems otherwise — for his Job as leader, is all-encompassing. It's a 24/7 Job. So the polity blessed with such a person literally falls to pieces, when it loses him. This is even true of evil leaders: look how Germany fell apart psychologically after Hitler; how Italy, after Mussolini; how Russia, after Stalin. Some of the survivors, to this day, still want those guys, back! 🤦

Here, see God's Grace: the loss of Egypt's leadership is evenly staggered, giving everyone time to adjust, to look up to God for guidance. First the Jews lose their patriarch, the last guy to actually see God face-to-face; then, the Egyptians lose one of the best rulers they ever had. Then Egypt and the Jews lose Joseph. Now, that also means they were losing interest in God. For if the interest in God remains, the good leaders either come to the fore, or stay in place. So it's a bellwether of disinterest in God, when good men die. But when good men die, blessing-by-association is released, so it's the only way God can bless the negative.

Encyclopedia Britannica is almost vociferous in blaming the creation of a vizier by Sesostris II or III, as the cause of the denouement of Egypt, culminating in what is known as the "Second Intermediate Period" of the "Middle Kingdom". Kinda depends on who the "vizier" is, don't you think? After all, the vizier of Sesostris III (whom we know as Joseph, but Encyclopedia Britannica doesn't name him) was the guy who got the Fayyum depression going, the fantastic development of art and humane-ness, and all the things Encyclopedia Britannica lauds. But in the Second Intermediate period, it's the vizier who's to blame (duh, Exodus 1:8) for the chaos. Meaning, weak rulers. So the descent into slavery which began under Amenemhet III wouldn't show up on the historical radar for what it was — but by 1786 (50 years after Joseph's death) that Pharaonic line died out. Hmmm. So all the foreign influx became a problem. Weak rulers are easy targets for foreign domination. We Americans did something of the same thing to blacks, and to our own citizens of Japanese extraction, until after WWII! Principle: a people who forget God become a frightened people. A frightened people become a tyrannical people. A tyrannical people become an enslaved people. And that's what Israel itself was becoming, and what the people of Egypt were becoming. So it's not solely a Pharaoh's fault, a vizier's fault.

So notice the repetition of 3, 7, 30, 40, 60, 70, etc. Year-periods in all the above timelines so far. So something's going on, here to protect amidst disaster. It's deliberate, and deliberately communicated. God doesn't need to prove to us He can count. There's always a skyscraper of meanings in every Bible verse, so it's a sleuthing Job to find out why God goes to so much trouble to give us these dates. He's not doing it to prove He's God, but to teach. The mirroring is always a boundary line, though if the 490 isn't used up, the boundary line of a submirror, intersects. Think of how the magnetosphere of the earth looks in pictures (like the National Geographic article on the Sun, written in 2004), with concentric lines radiating out like figure 8's, the 'waist' of them being 'drawn in' to the center of the globe. Well, that's how God makes time work, too: the 'top' or 'left' is mirrored to 'redeem' it on the 'bottom' or 'right'. Awesome stuff.

That's the case here. The 'top' of the '8': Egypt passed the first test by preparing for the lean years during the prosperous years, the 40 years ending 1876. Next comes the 'bottom' of the '8', the lean years, ending in 1836; she'll flunk during the last 3 years (!) of its 40-year 'house'. So close to the finish line! See, she'd weathered the two tough parts: the first forty and then the next seven years. So, after all that hardship ends, she has prosperity again. So by the time Sesostris III dies, Egypt has been in a prosperous phase again for 26 years (circa 1843, the year Sesostris III dies). Scarcely two years later, Amenemhet III begins to cave into his advisors' clamor to make Israel slaves; it doesn't happen all at once; it happens kinda like how Hitler got the Germans to progressively ostracize the Jews. First, a question of whether they oughtn't to give up that land they didn't pay for; then, what about the 'favoritism'; then, well... you know about bureaucratic creep. For a new king is weak, and needs to build his own coalitions of loyal supporters. On the other side, Joseph's lost his longtime protector, Sesostris III. Further, Amenemhet III is no baby; so he grew up learning from his dad Sesostris III, how bountiful were God's blessings through Joseph. And maybe resented this foreigner's claim on his dad's love. Who knows.

In any event, the sixth Pharaoh of the dynasty, who was the fourth Pharaoh to be blessed with Joseph's wisdom went wacko. Or, felt politically constrained to follow the advice of the "melek" of Exodus 1:8. So Egypt falls into a terrible period of civil unrest called in history, the "Intermediate" period. 12th Dynasty falls, and it will be several hundred years before she again becomes united. In 1440, the Exodus completes, exactly 490 years after Joseph was sold as a slave in Egypt; at that same time, Egypt's own 490, Ends. Who says God doesn't keep his promises? I'm figuring the visits with Pharaoh, the preparations to leave, the plagues, the packing, the moving across the 'border' of the Red Sea, took about a year. I know the 40 years in the wilderness is divided into 1 year to Kadesh, 38 years of wandering, and 1 year ending with the entrance into the Land by that second generation — 1997 "Jeshurun" sub-series by my pastor (in 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, #376), will take you through the timeline, especially Lesson 1023 (of Series #376, 1992 Spiritual Dynamics). So here we have an illustration of a 1 year problem.

Joseph served under three Pharaohs, but by the time of the fourth, who was maybe not even born until after the 7 lean years occurred, Joseph had no influence. During the last 5 years of his life, the vizier who took his place influenced Pharaoh to begin oppressing the Jews (Exodus 1:8). If you look up the reign of Amenemhet III, you'll notice a distinct relapse away from friendliness to foreigners.


Seedmaker Precedence: How God Redeems and uses Time to Communicate

How do subcomponents like 7 years, 40 years, etc. 'behave' in a 490 time grant given a real Bible hero, so one can verify the claimed meaning of the number? How did the 490 shift to Joseph, from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob? How does that cause Blessing by Association, and what happens if the 490 ends? Bible answers all this. But you have to dig into the numbers, to see why. That's the purpose of this section. It's an exercise, to show how subcomponents in a 490 work, how the blessing shifted from Abraham to Joseph to Moses, and — what happens when it ends.

490 Subcomponents Play 'Live'; how the 490 shifts to Joseph

The Isaac (really Abraham) 490 began solely due to Abram meeting the spiritual-growth conditions by the time the Noahic 490 ended in 2060 BC. This happened, 2061 or 2060, because Abram became Abraham (at his circumcision) to commemorate it: renaming is always concomitant to a new covenant being enacted. When the Lord appoints Church to replace Israel in Matthew 16:18, note the future tense, "I will build". That tense tells you when the enactment will occur. The naming is the enactment based on a future date; such a provision is very common in testaments. Book of Hebrews uses that analogy to show how the covenant changed from the Mosaic Law, to Church. "Legal Precedence" walks you through the parameters, the types of changes, and how you can see it for yourself using Greek keywords in Hebrews and other New Testament books.


Volitional Responsibility, Freedom-of-Contract Key → Abraham's Faith is Precedence, upon which all other precedence is based. Romans 4, James 2, Genesis 15:6 (quoted by both), Romans 9 (covering Jacob), explain this Faith as Precedence, principle. Without faith in the promise, no covenant can be delivered. For it always requires Recipient Consent To Delivery. Thus those who refuse are rightly outside the covenant. Justice principle, and God never welshes on Justice.


The subcomponents of a 490 derive added Precedenting Origin in this period, in addition to God's Root Design for Time. Reason? So that when God 'plays' them, people can see it's HIM doing it, not coincidence. And He'll do that, by matching character, based on these events. So when He plays them later in history, if the character of the period 'ties', you know it's God talking.

What about 1960 BC, the year Jacob ran away to Laban's house (and met Rachel)? That was the year God made a contract with Jacob. Further, it's related to the Flood, since 1960 is 490 years after the Flood. But Jacob wasn't renamed until 1940 BC, so if a 490 related to Jacob, then it starts in 1940 BC, not 1960. And neither instance is appropriate to Joseph; the meaning does not match, and it's still within the Abraham/Isaac 490.

However, maybe this 20 year fighting period is the origin for God's later Rule under the Mosaic Law, that one enters military service at age 20; or, why Temple service will be between age 30, and age 50 (search your Bible on those ages, see for yourself how very many there are, easily proving these meanings). Or, why Temple Building + related building will take 20 years, each of the two times it occurs in the future (covered with respect to the Temple). Aha. Something of Precedence from this period is used, and that makes sense, given that God did make the contract 20 years before He renames Jacob. We know there is no law about Temple building, as distinguished from the first two 20-year measures.

Then there's the 40-year grace period granted Egypt, twice: "Joseph" means Twice, Double-portion, how clever. But then it was mirrored, so is already nested within the 490, so isn't added on. You almost never add on a 40 year period. But clearly the 40 years played, so our "40 years" meaning in the Law, has precedence too. This is really important, for God nests a "7" inside a 40, from the time of Joseph forward. (If He did it prior, I never found it.)

What about the mirrored sevens in Pharaoh's dream, the latter looking a lot like a representation of the Tribulation — AKA the "time of Jacob's trouble" (KJV, Jeremiah 30:7)? These already got paid out, so to speak, so are nested already in the 490 of Abraham/Isaac. Still, this earlier meaning of "7" is a kind of precedence.

What about the 3-year piece which is the difference between the 7 lean years and the amount of time Israel was not in Egypt? ('2 years on either side of their initial meeting, and their settling in Goshen, as noted above.) This one is obviously already nested also. And, it might really be 3.5 years, I can't tell. Aha, more precedence! It's really interesting that the actual time from 1870-1836 is 34 years, not 30 — so in Exodus 12:40-41 God is saying "30", because 4 of the years were not in Egypt (i.e., the time between first visit and the actual move there). God is so precise! It serves to show how pieces can be found which wouldn't be obvious, and yet are important. For example, God repeated the 400 year sentence several times. Abram was the first one to get it, while he had fallen asleep waiting for God to burn up the sacrifices. So that means the slavery period began 1840 BC. Joseph, being 110 when he died, had maybe gotten sick four years earlier. So maybe that is the offset to the 4 years, instead. Further, the slavery had to begin 1840, but it doesn't mean Israel was slapped into chains the first second 1840 BC began. Oppression, like any virus, always has a root; and that root is always unseen until its growth 'goes' topside. Here the root, is disinterest in God, as noted above. The stepping-stone quality of the deaths from Sesostris III through Joseph, tell you that.

What about the 30 years from Joseph's birth to the time of his becoming vizier? Aha. He was a slave during this time, so it should be added on, something lost to be made up to the sons. Technically, only 13 years of it were slavery, so this 30 might be instead measured like a "savior" piece, which a 30 usually represents. And if so, then it will be mirrored in the Exodus 490, which of course it is: Exodus 12:40-41. So immediately upon Israel entering Egypt, they get the 30 years mirrored back to 'reimburse' the time it took to develop their deliverer, Joseph. God does the same thing with Christ's lifetime, from 30 AD-63 AD. No doubt of this precedence, it's a savior/king piece, and Joseph is the precedence for it. Such pieces are always a nexus so always are repeated on both sides. Which explains why Joseph's two sons are accounted to Jacob, making 13 tribes, not 12, Genesis 48:22. Here, they are not contiguous, but bookending: 30 years from his birth, 30 years from the 'birth' of entry into Egypt. Which tells you that a nexus needn't always be back-to-back joined, but the mirror will 'match' in meaning.

So note that the first 30 years in Egypt, were prosperous: so long as Joseph retained influence at court. This piece is the mirror of Joseph's 30 years from birth to vizier; hence, God tacks on "30" in Exodus 12:40-41; God treats the first 30 years of Freedom in Egypt as mirror-back. So that's our connection, the switchover. For had Jacob not entered Canaan again, there'd have been no contract enacted (renaming him, 1940 BC). Apart from that contract, Joseph couldn't be connected. Had Joseph not been too young at the time, Joseph could not have been connected, either. Had Joseph not been enslaved while too young, God couldn't justify the switch. So the 430 years in Exodus 12:40-41 include the mirror-back due to Joseph. So that 30 years does not offset now. Do you begin to get the idea God is punctiliar about how He accredits or shifts Time?

What about the time from Jacob's birth until the time he was ready to re-enter Canaan, with two wives, two families, 60 years? Double portion? Aha. Well, let's see. That time is 'left' of his own 490, assuming Jacob's 490 begins in 1940 BC when God renames him. So it has to be mirrored on the 'right' side of the 490, as restitution. What argues for this 60 years as a mirrored item, is that God did rename him in 1940 BC, and Jacob is obeying it. Joseph then was too young, only six years old, and must connect somehow to Jacob's covenant, to be able to have the 490 switch to him. Faith is the cause, but Joseph at this point is not a man, so the switch has to be retroactive — hence, based on Jacob. Of course, that means Joseph must also believe in God when he becomes a man, just as Jacob and Isaac before him: Romans 4&9 cover this Ultimate Faith Precedence rule. We know Joseph was a believer before he was enslaved, due to his dream of the sun, etc. Bowing down to him.

So now we have another 70 years to account. Okay, what about the difference between Jacob's age when he enters the Land and the time he goes to Egypt, 70 years (counting year of entry as year 1)? Hmmm. That's after 1940 BC, huh. And the promise God knows but Jacob still does not know, is that Israel will be in Egypt during the 400 years of slavery. Where Joseph is. Hmmm. If you add up the 60 years and the 70 years, you get Jacob's age when he arrives in Egypt, 130 years. Jacob was resting in the Lord for 70 years, waiting for Him to decide when to enact His 400 year slavery promise. You know Jacob was resting, because he did the same thing as Abraham had done, coming back under God's orders, waiting, depending on the Lord to tell him what to do next. And the Lord didn't tell him to do anything — until the sons came back with the news about Joseph. Then the order was, Move up to Egypt! And he did. The sabbatical years, were over: 70 of them.

Aha. So notice from whence the Temple 560 years in Daniel 9 derive. Daniel 9:2, 70 years, missed sabbatical years. Okay, but why 70? Because there will be 70 sabbatical years inside a 490 (one every 7th year). But why sabbatical years? Well, because the allotment stops really at 560; we know that, because Matthew 1 uses 560 multiples; we know that, because Daniel 9 uses 560 (just you try to get the 490 to balance to 30 AD without 3 replays of the 70). In short, 560 is the "gross", and so sabbatical years 'subtract' from the gross to get the 490, 'net'. Our 70 years sure ain't a coincidence. Furthermore, remember Jacob knew that 'somehow' his sons and progeny would be in 400 years of slavery, if he returned to Canaan. Abram knew that, Genesis 15:13. So Isaac knew that. So Jacob knew that. They didn't know it would be in Egypt, but they knew it would happen. Kinda big faith, to keep believing in El-Elyon, to come back to what you know 'somehow' will be a horrible slavery of 4 generations' duration (4 × 100). Kinda big Precedence for some sabbatical years, once free, to remember that slavery. Since in every invocation of a case against the nation, the Lord always works in the clause, I the lord your God who delivered you from Egypt, seems fitting this would be the basis for the sabbatical years. It was 4 generations in Egypt, just as God said it would be, in Genesis 15:16. You can prove it. Scholars haven't been able to prove it because they keep stumbling over Jochebed, no one noticing how Exodus 6:20 is blasphemously mistranslated, and no one comparing the LXX with the BHS in that verse. Confession time: I wouldn't know any of this, were it not for a reader querying me on Jochebed and this problem of the 4 generations regarding Genesis 5's apparent contradiction in the LXX, the problem of Jochebed (implying Israel was not in Egypt 400 years), and when was the Lord's Birthday. That reader was trying to figure out the answers to those questions. I by nature don't like getting into those questions, but if someone writes me, I know God is saying something through the writer. The writer didn't know I was toying with a timeline from Adam, to vet Mirroring for my errors. So his timely — and Providential — questions had a lot to do with the accuracy and balancing of Mirroring and GeneYrs.xls. I hope God gives me lots of assets to gift that reader-and-writer, once I'm dead and in heaven! Because to me, this information is priceless! And I had been too lazy, to investigate it! Aha! God has a habit of using someone to ding me with a question I'm not willing to research, as a clever reprimand. And as always, His Reprimands are huge blessings!

So maybe, because it took Jacob twice as long to be developed (and it wasn't his fault, Laban kept tricking him and he was trying to be a good boy); maybe, since he had two wives, returning to the Land at age 61; maybe, since Joseph's Brothers were responsible for putting Joseph in slavery, and Joseph was then used to save Egypt; in short, maybe because there was all that 'rest', delay, pause — Maybe That's Why God Invented Sabbatical Years, As A Memorial. So needs to be added to the 490. Because, God always mirrors the 70 years, too. You'll see this when He accounts time to the Temple both before and after it is destroyed and rebuilt. This 70 years is definitely a piece He uses; maybe it's not due to the foregoing facts related to Jacob. Then again, maybe it is. Jacob is not at fault, so it does look like a justice mirror-back is needed.

Thing is, the use of 560 predates Abram. So what we see is how God uses His Design for Time, in real time, on believers: to make them On Time, so His Promise can be delivered. So the above exercise has a precedenting value, but it's more a demonstration of how God Sovereignly accomplishes His Will without manipulating ours. God is not compromised by man having free will. More importantly, God achieving what He wants in this manner, depicts His Unfailing Love for us (Hebrew word "chesed"). That, too, is His Sovereign Will!

As to why in eternity past God flat decided to make Time in units of 1050 'housing' a 490 + 70 + 490 structure, such that the factors are doubled-7s to depict His Son (7,2,5 are the factors), well... mathematically, would any other numerical matrix display Him better, more fully?

That leaves the 400 to account. God mirrors the 400 with David. David will be born 400 years after the Exodus, and will become king at Hebron 430 years after the Exodus. But why 400, initially? Was that a design number, or just foreknowledge? So far, it looks like foreknowledge, and God uses it as precedence specifically in relationship to Israel, namely, the mirroring with David. In short, God knew how long it would take to mature Israel as a nation, plus accomplish His other goals with respect to saving people. So He makes the offer to Abram in advance, since it's a pretty scary promise, Hi, you've not even got a son yet, but when I give you one, I'll enslave his sons for 400 years! You want Me? Doesn't sound like a very attractive offer, huh. So maybe that's the precedence, not so much the number of years, but the foreknown number of years is given to Abram, who has to live with that foreknowledge himself... and still keep choosing El-Elyon? Faith is the basis for everything. Precedenting, founding... even if enslaved. Yeah, but if you're enslaved with God, you're really free. That's how Abram thought. That's how His Future Savior Son, thought... all the way through the Cross.

How the 490 'baton' shifting blessed and then cursed Egypt, Precedence for Rapture's Meaning

In all pieces, note how these 490's are used as conduits, and Reroute Blessing By Association; how they are wholly associated with individuals, and thus morph into Blessing to the Nation. Each person is used to justify 490 years of blessing others at some level, and the 490's all overlap. Isaac was born 2060 BC, and 490 years later, 1570 BC, the 18th Dynasty comes to Egypt (the dynasty which will rescue Moses). Jacob's covenant began 1940 BC when he re-entered Canaan; 490 years after that, 1450 BC — oh no! Short of the deadline! Hence, God being Omniscient about that fact, he let Joseph be enslaved in Egypt 1930 BC — and 490 years after that, is the Exodus! Like the Latin proverb, "not all misfortune, comes to injure." Cheer up next time disaster hits. God has plans for it! LXX of Exodus 12:40 says "and Canaan", to track the reader back to the time Joseph was in Canaan, so you can see the contract transfer, know that the 490 overlap switched to Joseph.

You could spend years tracing all the 490 'spokes' being created. Thus the layers of blessing decline as each person dies. Which is why Israel could even get 400 years of slavery (lost time), in which to learn Him; for, the 'national' 490 associated with Joseph, is the only 'national' 490 (1930, when Joseph became a slave -490 = 1440). Moses couldn't become Moses, had there been no Jacob. Moses couldn't deliver Israel, had there been no Joseph. So God, knowing the last 490 would end by 1440 BC, had the task, as it were, of developing another 'savior' for Israel. So, you'll notice from 1 Kings 6:1, that 480 years later, they start the temple. Because, the first 80 years of Moses' life, were nested in the last 80 years of Joseph's '490'. So, needed to be mirrored back to Israel, since Moses' life was successful. Shocking, shocking, shocking!

Note the precedence and the blessing flow, because the principle continues even until Now: someone has to get a 490 'baton' to carry. Someone else has to get it the next go-round. One person. So to shift to a nation means One Nation. There can be more than one per 490 years, but there must be at least one, or the next 490 cannot be granted. So history until now continues because at least one person 'gets' a 490. The more who do, the better the quality of time the whole earth gets. Tell me: what kind of works can the whole world do, to buy time?

So Israel's Exodus converges with Egypt's: Egypt's "490" ends, because Israel, leaves. Egypt's 490 began when Joseph became enslaved, and ends in 1440 BC. And when it does, Israel the Nation now, leaves hastily, suddenly, Hebrew "ahishennah", "maher"; Greek "ταχύ!" and verb "σπεύδω" (1 Peter 3:12). Rapture Precedence, get it? So "the Seedmaker", with Isaac the son of the promise, begins 2060 and ends 1570; that's when God started up the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, which would be the 'savior' of Moses. Meanwhile with Jacob, from 1940 BC until 1450 BC, "the Seed sprouts": a people born, growing up, getting to the ending destination (Egypt), On Time. So next notice Joseph, beginning 1930 BC: so, the "Seed becomes a Nation", 1930-1440 BC. Just in time, too, since that is the year Moses has the courage to return and face Amenhotep II. Notice the 490 overlaps, how they are needed to justify the Exodus being able to occur. God keeps His Promises. And all this, despite every kind of human foible and (I'm sure) satanic involvement.


Haste is the precedence for the Rapture's "ταχύ", and another root reason why there is no prophecy to predict before the Rapture. Every coming-and-going of Israel is in great haste, and the haste is stressed in the feasts (i.e., Passover, Booths). Abram left Ur in great haste; Israel left for Egypt in great haste (famine); they left from Egypt in great haste; they left into exile in great haste, they are to leave Jerusalem in great haste (Matthew 24) and not return until the Lord shubs them; and, even if they disobey and are stuck there in the tribulation, they will be rescued/returned in great haste, (Jeremiah 30:24, Isaiah 60:22 and like passages).

See, by using something as Precedence-Past In Parallelism, and repeating its format over and over, God communicates to a jaded world that He Really Exists and He Really Means What He's Said in His Book! When a thing happens, you can call it natural law or coincidence. But when a thing is orchestrated, and works like an accounting ledger, then you know a brain is running the show (the weather, time). And you know which brain by the holy book which explains all the accounting. Line item by line item, the Bible explains it all.

Further, you know boundaries of interpretation, due to Precedence. Christ had two Kingships, not just one. As God of Israel, He was Her King. But as Humanity, He has a separate contract with Father, "kata Melchizedek", Psalm 110, explained in Book of Hebrews. As God of Israel, the promise was He'd take on Humanity and deliver Her, as Messiah. As you'll see below, she abrogates that covenant, in favor of a human king, Saul. So As God of Israel, the Son then contracts with David, 2 Samuel 7. Which renders the King of Israel covenant, unconditional and inviolate. That left only the "kata Melchizedek" Kingship, which required a Bride. (The King of Israel was initially God, who needs no Bride, as He is Eternal. So too Messiah will be eternal, no Brideship needed, 2 Samuel 7:12-13). It's this second Kingship to Father, which was also conditionally offered to Israel: but she would have to vote for Messiah when He came, to get it. She didn't. So in haste, when the Lord knows this 'on the ground', He makes a unilateral commitment to pay for a brand new entity, "Church", in Matthew 16:18. This commitment is ratified in John 17, and explained to Israel in Matthew 22-24, especially. For they still had time to change their vote, pre-Cross. They didn't.

Hence Church gets the Bride mantle from Israel solely due to Israel's rejection, but Church belongs to Christ, and His separate Kingship over Israel as a Son of David, remains intact. But our origin, our Betrothal, was so hasty — we didn't even exist, yet. So Father is literally making a Bride for the Son, in our "now" (New Testament keyword for Church Age). So, our new Law "in Christ", the "law of Christ" will Reflect that "sudden" call, just as Abram et. Al. Received. Yet is entirely separate, just as Paul notes in Ephesians 2.

God is consistent, and especially here — where the sudden nature of the change is essential to Israel's recognition. Hence Rapture cannot be predicted, and should not be; so Rapture cannot be during the predictable events of the Tribulation itself. Haste is always what God uses, and it's a surprise. You don't know at all, or not until the last minute. Israel didn't know it was leaving for sure, until the last minute. In Exodus 12 God told them what to expect (probably) fourteen days in advance, hence the Passover rules about setting aside the Lamb on 10 Nisan (in anticipation of the day the Lord would be arrested during Passion Week, when the calendar was running 4 days too fast). But even so: until they were told by Pharaoh they could leave, they couldn't. If God allows Pharaoh to set the time, then it's a matter of human volition, which God chooses as the criterion. Hence you cannot predict the Rapture, ever, because you can't predict how humans will vote. Justice uses Precedence. Precedence for Rapture is the Exodus, and has exactly the same character. But is not Israel. Because Justice never welshes on a promise. And that promise of the Tribulation and the Millennium, belongs to Israel, not Church.

So, for those too dumb to live who still don't get it — and all of us are too dumb to live — well what else is there to do? Repeat repeat repeat at more and more intense levels: hence Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28; and their super-kid, Revelation 6-19, which today only play in paradigm (hint hint), but which will during the Tribulation, play blow-by-blow.


Notice how the composition of the 490 was all developmental, so there's no "weeks" of a set number of years. For, "weeks" belong to Israel. Yet notice also, that because Joseph was there, God blesses Egypt; when Joseph's sons leave, so does the blessing. So, the beginning: the "weeks" type dream, which a Jewish man 'just happened' to interpret well, to the (understandably) apprehensive, Amenemhet II. Notice also how Egypt gets saved by all this: historians rave about the golden age of the 12th Dynasty (which lasted just as long as Joseph lived, plus the usual 40 year warning period after the death of the source of blessing). After all, if they are gonna house Israel, they ought to share in the blessing from God. Blessing by association comes through the Jews, for their God, is the God. Notice finally how this good Pharaoh, followed by two others, more than balances against all the bad ones which follow. (Egypt's two most blessed periods were when it had a Jewish person in rulership position — Joseph and later, Moses. See also how much Babylon and others prospered due to Daniel.)

Here we see again, as at the time of the Flood, how God delays judgement until He first removes those believing in Him. Principle: God's blessing goes through the people who are related to Him. So if you don't choose to be related to Him, your relationship is wrath, i.e., per John 3. This blessing by association is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, and is the basis for the Rapture meaning that Church is not in tribulation because, the tribulation is a judgement, and it cannot occur if Church is present. Paul spent a lot of time explaining all this to the Thessalonians, though English Bibles routinely denigrate the Spirit into an "it" (2 Thessalonians 2:6 is who, not "what", for crying out loud) — along with other mistranslations in those passages; so you don't see what Paul is saying.

So, when they come out of Egypt, the latter gets judged. This is one of the functional precedences for the Rapture, one of the "jobs" it must do. And, if you look up Egyptian history after that time (Amenemhet III), you'll find out the polity had to resort to diplomacy to keep its sovereignty, for the next several centuries. What happened to kill the 12th Dynasty, happens again in the aftermath of Amenhotep II of the 18th Dynasty, the dynasty of the Exodus: the dynasty dies via a high official (general) usurping command (after Tutankhamen); many civil unrests eventuated in even that ending general (Horemheb) deeding the kingdom over to yet another military man (which history will later know as Ramses I). Warning Message: don't treat Israel badly. Christians, don't treat Bible badly, either (Hebrews 12:15ff).

  • So at the Exodus, Israel as a nation, is due a New 490 of its own. This is a national 490. Moses is the source of it. We know that, because God offered to destroy the people and begin over with Moses, twice (Deuteronomy 9:14, Numbers 14:12). Just in time, too, since the last 490 remaining, ended 1440 BC. So a new savior arrives to carry the baton, a new nexus person. The national 490's composition thus changes, but meaning does not: 450 years to subdue the land, plus the 40 years testing in the wilderness, Acts 13:17ff.
  • Notice the new time-element, the Jubilee (50). Because, as a nation, they are now Contracted to God. That's why the tent — foreshadowing the Messiah who would tabernacle among us (John 1, Isaiah 60:22 through Isaiah 61). Contract with God requires a body, see. "Jubilee", if you'll remember, means starting over with a fresh beginning, as originally designed. New body, new life. New covenant is depicted eschatologically, conditionally. So if the national contract is breached, there is no jubilee during the time of the breach. That will be critical to remember, as you read what follows.

Here we see the importance of the 50-year voting period in the 1050-year unit God constructs for playing historical time. If the 1000 doesn't complete, there is no voting period granted. What ends up happening is that the Lord dies 14 years before the 1000 ends, because the deadline is shortened that much due to David's death, with no one accepting God's conditional offers, post-David. So the voting period which should have begun 44 AD - 94 AD, couldn't play unless Christ died early. So this Jubilee question, is an important one. Let's examine its meaning, further.

Isaiah 61 is about Jubilee, which only Messiah can pronounce. It's shorthand for the Millennium; specifically, it refers to the 50-year period preceding the Millennium's beginning: that was reserved to harvest the Gentiles at the end of time. Because, time is structured in 1050 units which are 'joined' by a 50-year voting period for unbelievers. So the preceding 1050 before the Millennium, 'connects' to it. So every 50 years Israel was to be reminded of that fact, by starting over. For that's what the Millennium represented, starting over. Isaiah 61 is a special pronouncement of the Millennium (beginning with the Second Advent), itself. But to get that pronouncement, there must be created a Jubilee rule. Gotta harvest the Gentiles, first.

When the Lord actually came and used the Isaiah 61 announcement in Luke 4:19, everyone then reckoned years from Adam, from Israel, from David. So everyone knew He was telling them: a) I'm Messiah, and b) when that final Jubilee Period was supposed to begin. For He was the same age as David became king when He made that announcement (that's why He waited, "30" is a savior number); so only 67 years remained until the 1050 was to close. Like David, He'd have 'ruled' (been rightful king) for 40 years when He was scheduled to die, so He's also reminding them of the limit — David's 1000th death anniversary would end 10 years later. Now you know more why everyone was so apoplectic in Luke 4:20 and following (English mistranslation makes it seem people liked the news, so the Lord seems mean, 🤣, in verses 22 and following).

So back when Israel was founded, God had Moses encapsulate the prophecy of Light for the Gentiles — the very reason for Israel's founding — in that holiday. The 1050 is a nested 490 + 70 + 490, so a 1050 begins with a new 490, which Israel thus began in 1440 BC. Since a new 490, this new Independent Nation gets a new contract: the Mosaic Law. Hence Jubilee is more about the Future Role of Israel, than the current one. As there will be a Future Role, a Current Rule must be enacted to depict it. For a nation is its own entity, and must have law and training within its boundaries. Jubilee thus represents a Belief in that Future, so the nature of Jubilee stresses temporariness of the present. Every 50th year, all ownerships of land (and certain other stuff) revert back to the original allotments. Obviously, if disbelief in the future, then disbelief in Jubilee, too. Hence the need for Isaiah 61, the Pardon for disbelief. Which will come from Messiah who will pay. Hence no one else can claim it. Hence everyone was to look forward to Messiah, and all the rest of life was mere tenting like Abram through Jacob, had done. Memorial. Past. Precedence. Prologue.

1000 = 20 × 50. "20", the number of adulthood, the number of eligibility to pay tax, to be in the military. Age of responsibility. 50 is the flipside: age of retirement from Temple service, Jubilee Year. Rest. Return. So first the Cross, then the Crown. So first the Law, then the Messiah fulfills the Law. That's what they knew. Since Messiah was going to fulfill the Law by paying for sins, the Law would become a memorial, so they could rest from it. It continues forever, alright, but housed in the house Who will be Human Messiah. You see Bible embed these concepts in Hebrew wordplay, playing on the sound, syntax and word order of its verses, especially in Isaiah and Psalms, none of which translate well. Book of Hebrews explains how Messiah fulfilled the Law; Paul of course referenced the fact in all his letters. John uses Temple words when the Second Temple is gone, to show the Living Temple of the Word in us, stressing the First Commandment (you can't see this in English, John's wordplay is quite deft). In short, all this was known, back during Moses' day. So all that future was represented by Jubilee and hence the Millennium is 20 Jubilees.

(490 × 2) + 20 = 1000. "20" is also the building period for the Temple and Jerusalem; which future history, Israel doesn't yet know. But God knows when the time matures, becomes adult.

And the point of all these numerical observations? They are all future. Based on a nation. So if no nation, then no future, get it? And only God restores the nation. That they do know, for He keeps on saying, "I... brought you out from Egypt." Using the quintessential Hebrew birthing preposition "min", in deft wordplay verses like Isaiah 63:11-13. God birthed them. God always says He Gathers, He Births, He Restores. So if no contract, then no restoration. Now you see why "Legal Precedence" Results in Church being used to rescue Israel's Time. Because, the abomination has been there since 70 AD. Of course, that is all past to us now. But still future, for Israel. Her Jubilees will arrive, and on time!

  • Now, another national layer: the tabernacle gets its own 490, because that's a contract of God's dwelling. The Temple and the National 490's are now doubled and united, and so begin at the same time: Exodus, 1440 BC.

To see this Tabernacle significance, we gotta fast-forward to the First Temple. Promise was, that God would Tabernacle with His People (next bullet). So, needs a House. So, gave Moses elaborate instructions for that House. Now, flash-forward: 1 Kings 6:1 measures from the flipside of the Exodus, showing the 490 convergence on the temple, from Tabernacle and from Moses. Thus we know these two timelines are supposed to converge. So it tracks on both sides, to David and to Moses, two quintessential 'birthers' who depict the Seed Who Will Birth All, Messiah. David is crowned 430 years after the Exodus, a cool mirror of Exodus 12:40-41. But also 1 Kings 6:1 mirrors back to the 80 years it took to build Moses, so the timing tells you what matters: the Word. For, that is what Moses represents, and what he did, see Hebrews 3. So: 400 + 80 = 480 - 1440 = 960, the year Solomon began building — tells you Moses was foundational, as well as David (see "7 years" for details on David's foundationality). So because the Word is to become Incarnate, and the Temple depicts that future Promise you naturally measure back to the Word given Moses to write. Hence the day Temple building on the site officially commenced, you have a perfect mirror of its meaning; so, a perfect mirror of the time it took Moses to develop, thus 'reimbursing' the 80 years he did develop which 'belonged' to the Joseph 490. Notice also the hidden Jubilee in the '400', tying to the Temple promise — for, Messiah will free His People! Beginning with Moses, then David; Accounting From The Period Of Slavery. So, 8 × 50 = 400, no longer 4 × 100!

And not without humor! For do you know how David discovered the site of Temple Building? By sinning. See, he got fat-headed (and who doesn't) toward the end of his reign, and decided to number the people God said couldn't be numbered. For that, he got to pick which punishment among three, and wisely chose the Lord pick the one He wanted. Well, that was three days' pestilence (disease) among the people (reminiscent of the same kind of thing which happened to Moses, back during the wilderness years). During the three days, David was so shocked he prayed to the Lord, saying, it's my fault! What have these sheep done! And God told him to buy this hunk of land on which was a threshing floor, owned by Araunah AKA Ornan. Nerd note: it should be obvious that if God is killing, the people thus killed were supposed to die anyway; to do so here by disease, meant they were so apostate, that type of death was the kindest thing to do. Yes, people do get that bad: just turn on your television, sometime. But there are no atheists in foxholes, so when people get sick, they actually think of God for a change. If they were believers at the time, they are mighty happy now about what happened to them. If they became believers at the time, they are mighty happy God wouldn't give up on them; if they didn't become believers by means of that disease-then-death, then nothing God does would but give them reason to shake the fist. Living people on this earth pretty much divide out into the same three groups.

So David rushes over there to Mt. Moriah, where the Angel of the Lord (AKA the Lord, often, and maybe this time too) is busy smiting people — so Ornan AKA Araunah and his kiddies are right there on the threshing floor, shaking in their boots. David buys the place though Ornan wanted to flat give it to him: fifty shekels (!) for the floor itself, 600 (!) shekels in all, including the land around it. David makes the sacrifices there — then learns, oh! This is the Rock on which Isaac was almost sacrificed, and this is where GOD wants His Holy of Holies, built!

Psalms 138:2 shows David's shocked response, as he lies prostrate on the floor (oh, how my pastor loves this verse and the story behind it): For you have magnified your word above Your Own Person!

For 600 shekels, the Temple site! Talk about foundational! Samuel used to sleep in the tented Holy of Holies, right next to the Ark, whoa... and he wasn't even a Levite, let alone a high priest, 1 Samuel 3:3. Heck, not even Moses got to do that. Now here's David, also not Levite, laying on the floor of what will always be the Holy of Holies on this earth (abominated today by a Dome)! But then, this flat bedrock had been used for stomping out wheat from chaff for centuries. And still is, everyone stumbling over its meaning like Ornan the Jebusite and his family.

See context around 2 Samuel 24:18, 1 Chronicles 21:18ff, 2 Chronicles 3:1. Looks like "Ornan" in the Hebrew text of Chronicles is a back translation from the LXX, which transliterates Araunah, "Orna" in 2 Samuel. Since Chronicles is later than Samuel, looks like centuries later someone copying Chronicles substituted the LXX spelling in 2 Samuel and then converted it into a like Hebrew sound, thinking that the more authentic copy. In Hebrew, "ornan" is related to trees, fir or cedar. Lexical data in BibleWorks is almost non-existent for this word: HALOT offered Hittite ariwanni, meaning free/noble, for what it felt was the closest meaning to Araunah. The Hebrew root is the same for either spelling: aleph-resh-nun, with either a terminating nun or hey; and "Araunah" is a kethib/qere reading in 2 Samuel 24:18, but is spelled out in succeeding verses.

So now you know the foundations: Abram, who paid at the King of Sodom's behest a 10th of the latter's property to Melchizedek, King of Salem, in whose kingdom that threshing floor was located; Abram, who at the time didn't have any kids, but rather a strange nephew, whom he had just rescued. Abram would be on that bedrock sacrificing his only son about 50 years later; but knew nothing of all that, at the time he was blessed by Melchizedek. Abram would not long afterwards cave under the pressure of waiting; he didn't yet know that yet, either, when Melchizedek was blessing him. Then comes Moses, who never saw that Rock, because he hit a Rock twice instead of speaking to it the second time. Then comes David, who of course knew nothing of that Rock's origin, and was only there due to his sin; at which point, he's informed by the God he wanted to build for, well... build here! Three great believers, three great failures, three great blessings. And we have all been stumbling over Him, ever since.

On that PetraRock depended our salvation; it depicted Messiah being thrashed for our sins, and graphically — for in order to thresh grain, the sheaves would be laid on that hard bedrock, and animals or huge stones would stomp or roll over on the sheaves again and again, separating wheat from chaff; you had to guard such a place, for it was a target of raiders seeking the wealth of the sheaves.

So we meet Him there, prostrate. There, surrounded by land that same Lord had David buy, to shepherd His people; there, on the Rock Abraham almost sacrificed his son; there, on land Moses himself, never got to see; but he saw the Word Himself, and Trained Folks In That Word-Above-Person, all those years in the wilderness. Where we all are still... wandering astray.

  • Doubled and United, Solely due to the Third national layer: God is king of Israel. So trebled and united and beginning at the Exodus — predecessor for Messiah in the Flesh, l'moedth! Uniting nation, temple, and Kingship in himself.

So notice that this 490 depends on God being King. Moses was offered to be the replacing progenitor, the nation having already failed so badly, all the adults in the Exodus (save 3 families) will die in the wilderness. Moses was not offered Kingship, politically: but he was offered progenitorship, which has the same essential meaning. This distinction between political and progenitor kingship is important: we couldn't be legally saved, without it. Politically, the Kingship 490 has no provision for continuance, since God never dies. Of course, the unknown to Israel future outcome is that she will reject God as her King and demand a human replacement in 1050 BC (see Acts 13:20 on that). Hmmm. 1440 - 1050 = 390 years. So it's a pretty good thing Moses' 490 will last long enough to carry on the baton. Israel doesn't know it yet, but a new progenitor will have to be found, for the political contract made here, will be abrogated.

Ergo, a new "490", but of triple the value: so the Exodus of 1440 BC, becomes year 1 of the nation, when God led them out in great haste. Kingship, land (HaEretz) and temple 490s therefore each begin on this date. The king is the lord Himself. The Property is the Land (usually mistranslated "earth" in English Bibles), and the temple is the Upcoming body of Messiah, represented by the Tent/Tabernacle and later a permanent Temple God designs. Can't divorce any of these layers from each other, and have them stay intact. Covenant goes on hold, if any piece is missing. Else, only the individual 490s which are left, plus the promise to Abraham (Genesis 12, Genesis 16, Genesis 17) alone remain valid. God's contracts (AKA "covenants") have terms for "breach of contract" (see Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28).

So you can never divorce the temple from the contract from the person of messiah. Nor from Israel either, since the Messiah — duh — is jewish. God is precise. These dates are real, their events are real, and all history has been materially impacted by them. There would be no western civilization, apart from the Jews. There would be no salvation, apart from the Jews. Anyone who believed in YHWH then was Jewish. Anyone who believes in the jewish Christ now, is Christian. It's not racial, but a Promise Being Fulfilled. Abram was a Gentile when he believed, probably age 75; but was 100 years old when he fathered — his bloodline through Isaac and Jacob are called Jews. So it matters not at all what race God called the promise to Abram. But it matters altogether that what God promises, be respected. Beware of antisemitism: God punishes it most severely.

What Grace God provides. Surely any group to whom He'd give this role of representing Him — through whom the whole world is to be saved and made rich! — would be persecuted. Man is just so jealous of his neighbor. So he whinnys and mews and caws over his neigbor's relative prosperity, as if it were the neighbor's fault. So notice how deftly He communicates, don't mess with Israel or I will clobber you! So the satanic propaganda isn't so easily bought. If God is the King of this people, whoa — maybe I better find some other neighbor to rape and pillage.

Hence the Protective (vaccine against antisemitism) Corollary: since Christ is Jewish and He fulfilled the Law (i.e., Romans 10:4, Hebrews 7, Hebrews 10), then He can fulfill the Contract to Israel, precisely because the union between nation and temple and King is indissoluble. Forever due to the Cross. Ergo: though the Bridal Contract (Mosaic Law) was conditional; though Israel breached it wholly by rejecting Messiah when He came, such breach never means God abandons His 'side' of the Contract (see Galatians 3). One of the Church contract's inextricable clauses, is to rescue Israel. So woe to the person who thinks he can take over, or harm even a hair on the head of God's Chosen People. God made the promise to Abram; the other promises atop that promise, only alter how God handles His 'side'. God never ever abrogates His 'side'. Which, if you think about it, should cheer you much: for if God continues faithful throughout all these long years of apostasy, how much more is He faithful to us who got grafted in? Paul's blazing sarcasm in Romans 9 and Romans 11 is fuzzed over in translations — don't get cocky over their fall, but be their net of safety as God intended (cute Pauline term in Romans 11, analogous to fishers of men).

Nerd note: Protection of the Jews represents God's Promise, and there is no reason whatsoever to get angry, or Kabbalic or steal the identity of the Jews like the so-called "Identity" or "British Israelites" or "Scottish Israelites" people try to do. No tribes were 'lost', because God keeps His Promise, get it? Just because Samaria was sent into Diaspora circa 725 BC doesn't mean the 10 tribes were lost. They were quite happy and well in Jesus' day, and if you read Acts you'll notice that everyone knew that Jews were all over the globe even then. Wouldn't surprise me if a good 75% of the population of the earth by now had at least some Jewish blood, so that the earth could be blessed by God judicially under Genesis 12 — and to fulfill what He promised Abram in yet one more way, that all the world would be blessed through him, Genesis 17, Genesis 22:18. Of course, that's yet another reason why antisemitism is suicidal. Frankly, if you just look at the geographical position of Israel, you realize every bloodline must be flowing through her. People mingle, they intermarry, and it was far more common in the ancient world than we imagine; especially, in a cosmopolitan area where trade routes meet. So it's really suicidal to be anti-Jewish. Do you really know your bloodline? Whatever you think you know, it's a lie, because only God has all the facts. Same God, as He who covenanted with Abram, who was a son of Noah, from whom we all spring.

So the Bible's vast numbering system is not merely symbolic, nor some acrostic 'codes', or other folderol. God uses words and numbers to convey meaning directly and metaphorically: not a crossword puzzle for bored children. Our Days are Numbered for a reason. This precedental 490 sets the pattern for the rest. It's just as much a promise as any other promise in Bible: more important, actually, is This Promise of Time. Hebrew "l'moed" is an important word you should look up, see every verse in which it occurs and how it is used. It will tell you more about how real this timing promise is, than anything else I can quickly think of to highlight. The fact that all history is built on this structure is of course the point of all this number-crunching. Seeing Him face to face, via Bible's doctrines. Like, this one about time.

  • Big time blessing by association to the world now begins. Major Impact on World History, thus starts in 1440 BC: the blessing blueprint of true nationhood is born. See, they went in to Egypt as a people; but are to come out, as a nation, and you can't go from people to nation, without struggle. It's real important to see this fact; the reason they were enslaved was due to fear and jealousy in a reign that had become too soft: Exodus 1:8ff. God is teaching them ahead of time that fear and jealousy have no place in national affairs. To the extent they do not learn that lesson, they will not enjoy the Blessing of the Promised Land. That same lesson is preserved for us who read their story: we don't learn it any better, than they did. If you turn on any television today, you'll see that sad fact parade. Blamesmanship and fear are all the rage, all over the world.

It's not the same to be a nation, as to be a people: a nation is a polity, so the Impersonal Rule of Law Must Take Precedence Over Family And Other Personal Connections; over fear and jealousy. Moreover, thus bloodlines can be mixed — again, because the belonging to a Nation is based on law, not based on personal connections, religion, etc. That Israel also had one faith, is Under and Protected by the larger institution of being under One National Law. See, the First Commandment is about the Freedom To Love The Lord With All One's Heart, etc., just as much as it is a spiritual command to do so. The nation has no right to make one obey that command; instead, it has the Duty To Preserve Freedom So That The First Commandment, Can Be Obeyed. For, the First Commandment, is a commandment of Love, and Love can never be coerced!

Love sounds to us like a personal thing. But personal love has no integrity whatsoever, for Real Love is outer-oriented. What we call love is inner-oriented, so we become grasping. That's not love, that's neediness, coercion, manipulation, emotion, lust... anything but integrity. So we 'price' what we do constantly, subconsciously, because we need to get something from someone else. We overprice what we 'give', and way underprice what we get. Just as criminals do, legacy of that forbidden fruit of religiosity back in the garden.

So notice what True Love, which is True Integrity, Infinite Justice does. He obligates Himself. There is a contract He makes with man. God Obligates Himself to the Contract. God does this. We are so busy thinking of our obligations and humans' obligations to us, we completely ignore how God obligated Himself. Um, He's Omnipotent, deserving of all the foot licking man can do, but what does He do? He obligates Himself. Word-above-Name, means Law-above-Self. Even, in God's Own Attitude. That's Love. For you'd have to love law more than yourself, to want to obligate yourself. So watch: God imposes on Himself a set of rules, rather than rule by whim. A set of rules above even His Own Person. Now you know why David was prostrate. Now you know why we meet Him on the same threshing floor, prostrate: He prostrates Himself before the Truth. Which, at this point in history, the Mosaic Law, uniquely represents. For if you prostrate yourself before the Truth, then you are truly free, Galatians 5:1.

You can't prostrate yourself before Truth if it is not taught you. You can't be free if you are not free to get truth. you can't be free if you aren't free to reject truth. So no group of people, basing their 'law' on familial connections, culture, religiosity, is free. Something above bloodlines, shared experience and culture, must mediate. And, everyone must have a certain amount of freedom to reject the "above". So there are boundaries, and law properly derived, sets the proper boundaries. Law properly implemented and executed, enables freedom. It is always a struggle, we are forever tinkering, but unless we have something above our personal proclivities and connections, we are forever tyrannized, by them. So, falling prostrate before taste, not truth. God isn't like that. The Law wasn't like that. It was an objective standard which even God obligates Himself to — as evidenced by, Israel's repeated unfaithfulness. But God continued faithful, stayed within the Law. Even, until today. Because, He puts the Word above His Own Name, the contract being Perfect, it can reroute and upgrade. That is the story, the story of Love. And it begins at the national level, right here with Israel.

So notice how God divorces even as He enjoins, obedience to Him personally, by means of this Law. You obey the law and you are blessed, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28; you disobey the Word and you are cursed. Doesn't matter if you love Him or not. He makes the Word higher than Himself, thus. So if this is true in the relationship with God, then it is true in all other relationships. The Ten Commandments are about relationships. Seems contradictory, the First Commandment, which is a commandment to Love God. But what does 1 John say? If you love God, you obey His Mandates. Since John is busy contrasting what was the old contract versus the one for Church (just like Book of Hebrews), we know that under the old contract, "love" was obedience to the Word. Which, if you didn't learn it, you didn't love. So, under the new contract, post-Cross, the "law of Love" (Pauline term) upgrades to its fullest extent, completing God's purpose (theme in 1 John 4:12-17). But that is always the rule: Word above Name executes the first commandment, at which point, you are truly free to love in all other relationships: for against love, there is no law. For if you do love, you obligate yourself, not someone else. Love kneels, not knifes. Because the Μάχαιρα ('knife') has inserted Truth into you, same mechanic as Isaiah 53:10-11, fulfilling That First Love Contract, between Father and Son.

Thus the role of a nation, is to protect the freedom of the people within it; which is why the religious evil of the Ziggurat of Babel, was used to create nations, in order to destroy the unifying evil of religion. If you don't 'get' that, you'll never be able to distinguish between national and personal. Hence, the Mosaic Law was divided into three parts: ἐντολή, δικαιώματα, κρίματα. The ἐντολή and κρίματα were civil Law (hence the Ten Commandments, part of "ἐντολή", are not spiritual code, but national; and nations today can accept or reject them, when deciding what laws to make). Of course, since God authored the ἐντολή, if you violated them you certainly were not spiritual — since you'd be disobeying God. But to obey them wasn't spiritual. Else, you'd not need the δικαιώματα.

The δικαιώματα are the Levitical offerings and accompanying spiritual code (i.e., the feasts, rituals about washing, Nazarite vow, etc): separate compartment, voluntary. So you participated, or not. Sabbath was part of κρίματα, so anyone not observing it was punished (whether you thought about God during that set-apart day, was your prerogative). Principle: rest is critical to integrity. When you examine Hebrews 4, you realize that man is frenetic, never resting in God, so... never resting. So, arrests in fear and jealousy; so becomes a twitching corpse, even while he lives. So it's imperative that a nation have laws which provide a rest for people, as well as for freedom. Note that these are positive roles, and that law should be constructed on positive roles; not the negative, micromanaging rules polities so love to enjoin on their hapless citizens.

This point about the separation between spiritual and civil cannot be overstressed, for man has always rejected the impersonal for the personal. Hence, most polities even until the late 20th century, have been either tribal (which is personal, not impersonal), or quasi-religious states (i.e., where there is a state religion and the head of it rules the country, too). Here, a nation ruled by God and not a human king, is ruled by Rule of Law — not the king's whim. The sacrifices were the sacrifices of the King for the nation, depicted by the Levitical offerings. That is what each offering taught the celebrant. So you had true separation of church and state, even though God Himself was the Ruler, for there was this national contract which divided between secular and spiritual. No one had ever heard of such things.

See, because God was the king, the administration of the nation was separate. All other polities had human kings who were supposed to be a kind of (later term) pontifex maximus: a 'pope', as well as secular ruler. So they didn't understand the separation but liked it. Here was Moses, a human, but not a king. Here was Aaron (= "Ark", as in "Ark of the Testimony"), who was a priest. Moses no, Aaron, yes. God was unseen. People could revolt against Moses or Aaron, and often did. But they were punished for their revolt, not for their lack of piety. To work on the Sabbath was a Revolt; what you believed, you were still free to believe. So to call this a theocracy in our parlance, is a misnomer, for when we hear that term we think of church+state, not separation between the two.

For God wants church and state separate, because He is holy, and nothing man does counts before Him. Above all, the Mosaic Law taught you that, as the New Testament extensively explains, Isaiah 64:6 thus elaborated. "Holy" means "to set apart", "to devote to God". Separated from the world's meanings, usages, ideas. So to illustrate that, the polity 'ran' on two separate tracks: one, the spiritual; but since God was the King, there was a separate secular order as well. Even had two calendars, one for the spiritual year (beginning with Passover), one for the civil year (beginning with Rosh HaShanah). Could God make it clearer, than by providing two types of years? After all, we are talking about Time. Nature of time. Time for spiritual, time for secular. And of course you aren't spiritual, if you violate any law; but you aren't spiritual, if you obey the secular laws. Couldn't be more clearly marked.

And nothing — repeat, nothing — like this Separation had ever been on earth. See, if you want to maintain power over people you gotta have an 'angle'. So, for centuries past and centuries future, even until today, people who want power bandy the name of 'god', to get it. How Sick, but How True. So for most of the world's history, even today, religion has been a tool of politics. Revelation 17 harlot has always been around in some form. So yeah, some of what's in the Mosaic Law is in every polity's rules, since the secular basics are imperative for survival: can't be a polity if it's legal for anyone to steal, murder, etc. So puzzle pieces resembling tenets of the Mosaic Law existed everywhere; but nowhere were they joined up to show the objective, rule of law Freedom you got under the Mosaic Law; nowhere, joined together rules to display Messiah to Come — those sacrifices represented what He would do for you, not vice versa, and no other polity on the planet, was like that.

Because, the Mosaic Law sacrifices depicted Grace. Religion is antithetical to grace. But under the Law, you could 'sacrifice' wheat or a bird, instead of a whole animal, if you didn't have the money. And when you did that, what were you doing? You were being reminded of what HE would sacrifice for you. You were being reminded how you couldn't sacrifice anything, everything you were and had was too small for Infinite God Who Cannot Be Contained. You were being reminded how He did not denigrate you for that, since He personally made your soul at birth. So He would pay for your sins. Which, the sacrifice portrayed: they didn't have movies, they didn't know about how He would do that paying, exactly. But they did know He would become Human (the "WH" in "YHWH"), and in that Humanity sins would be imputed and judged on Him, by Father. When and with what outward specifics, they knew little. So they needed the sacrifices to get a hands-on idea of how that played. The suffering, the hassle, the dying. Blood seals a covenant. Fight for freedom to the death, it's worth dying for. All that, God is saying via the Law: and no other polity on the planet, before or since, had rituals teaching all that. After all, religion needs to make you huff and puff, but Omnipotent God needs nothing. We need Him. And our weakness He will lift up, even as He will hawah and lift up our sins as a sweet aroma, an "ola", a holocaust, to Father. Ahhhh. Now you are in fellowship with Him. So, you ate part of what you offered, to depict the dining fellowship, the aftermath of healed breach. Reconciliation. Shalom.

Even since Moses' day, there never has been such a teaching. All religions' ideas of sacrifices depicted parts of that display, like communion with the gods, ya gotta be holy (with many morphed definitions of what constituted "holy") — but not one depicted the sacrifices themselves being made by the God for you. But the Mosaic Law was founded on Abraham, who sacrificed his promised Son — Specifically To Depict the Coming Son Who Would Pay for the Sins Of The World. No other faith had that national provision, that national depiction; no other holy book has that provision, even today. If you think you see one, trace carefully the origin of the idea: it will be copycatting, and will still leave out the all-sufficiency of His payment for sin. No other faith on earth, even until today, handles the juridical issue of sin with respect to God being compensated. Not one. Cracks me up what bad scholarship there is among those who claim that 'savior' concept predates the Jews, i.e., some of the tripe out there on Mithra, etc. Where do you think those ancient cultures got the information, but from the Genesis 5 people? So you're seeing their second hand morphing of it. For crying out loud. But then, such 'scholars' think the age of Bible is the same age as the media it's written on; they think that because the ocher used in Lascaux is 30,000 years old, that's when someone must have painted it. Get real: so you go out, grind up some ancient material, paint in a cave — then call the world in for a press conference, claiming the painting is as old as the material used to paint with. Sucker born every minute. 🤣: so my Von Clausewitz from Amazon.com is only a few years old? Sheesh. It's even easier to see, post-Crucifixion, how the world's religions changed to mimic and then morph, the Message of Messiah. When you trace parentage, you go backwards from mutated cells or ideas to a parental set. Same thing here. Oh well.

Hence, the Mosaic Law represented a prototype platform of the Millennial ("Day of the Lord") government. Originally, lord would become Messiah in the flesh, with Israel as His priest-nation, the light to the Gentiles. It was a conditional contract, dependent on when Israel would be ready. It was an open-ended contract, lasting for so long as she would agree. Its days were not numbered, in the beginning, though Moses' song in Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 90 told Israel she would breach the contract — a way to warn any then-current generation, they could still vote yes. But of course, after 1050 BC, Israel's days got numbered, and "Day of the Lord" verses referencing a fixed time we (but not Bible) call "the Millennium", became the prophets' refrains (especially beginning with Isaiah). For to whom much is given, much is expected. Israel was given to be the light of the Gentiles, a unique nation in the world. Back at the beginning of this contract, it didn't look like Israel would even make it long enough to get into the Land. But the world needed a safe haven for seeking God. And God provides. Lesson: when we Christians fail, God still blesses, for the world needs us to be blessed. Humbling, huh.

Hence the need for a separated nation who is learning to become a priest nation, conditionally. Subject to their consent. And, if they do not consent, there are these basic laws to obey. If you didn't want to obey the δικαιώματα, well, that was your prerogative (except that Sabbath was also κρίματα, so you had to obey that, etc). Even the Levites didn't have to be believers: but because they represented Messiah-to-come as an Office (rule of law, note the distinction) — they had to be free of certain physical defects or diseases, just like the sacrificed animals had to be. Do you see how finely-honed is this Mosaic Law, preserving freedom, yet teaching about Him?

So next: notice how "Jewish" was a matter of faith, not bloodline (Abram was a Gentile, after all, see Romans 4 and Romans 9); and it was voluntary; the bloodline Jewish is also under the Genesis 12 protection; but as Paul explains in Romans 9, You Had To Believe The Promise To Inherit It, since the inheritance is forever (requires belief in Messiah as then revealed, to be saved). So many in Israel were not believers, after the Exodus (all were believers at the time of the Exodus, excepting maybe the kids). Naturally, all these Jews and "mixed multitude" of converts intermarried from the Exodus forward; so the bloodlines would be decidedly mixed in the next generation. Moses repeatedly warned against racial prejudice. A person who fancies himself racially superior proves himself a dolt, because the races are so mixed up by now, even the most remote Africans are a good 25% or more white. A person has to be ignorant of history and genetics. Ironically, the Lord had to keep repeating, as did Moses, that the stones could be made sons of Abraham. So He allows antisemitism in part to mirror back to His People their own racism. Even the Messiah-believing Jews have a problem with it, thinking they ought to display their Jewishness, thinking it wrong to assimilate, etc. But woe to the person who uses that fact to hate the Jews or discriminate against them. Scan Scripture, see what happens to Israel's self-appointed enemies.

The political and historical impact of Israel on the history of human development is incalculable. At the time of the Exodus, there was nothing at all like this Entity. Kingdoms and peoples were so confused with personal and tribal loyalties; that's why the common idea of 'god' at the time was much like a warlord who had some limited amount of 'turf'. But with the Exodus, all the world saw quite a different God — a universal God, not limited to any kind of race, creed, culture, sex, political boundaries. And this God had just proved Himself superior to what were regarded, as Egypt's 'gods'.

Of course, the world long had exposure to this Real God, but was negative, so to protect the ego, abandoned what was rejected, and morphed into something palatable, the remainder. Well, look at what was palatable: petty warlord gods all battling with each other, and the variant human groups being the 'clients' of these gods, thus battled too. Not a pretty picture. My god is better than your god 🤪. A childish picture, in fact. So Exodus blew the lid off all those ideas. Hence Moses had to write the first five books, for now Information in Writing was needed so the existing polities, could reconstruct themselves.

As the Bible explains, many rulers did pattern their nations after the Bible: Assyria under Jonah; Babylon under the last period of Nebuchadnezzar; Cyrus the Great through Darius through Artaxerxes Longiamanus; and hence (per Daniel's prediction) Athens, Sparta and Rome would pick up at least some of the same tenets, particularly the ἐντολή and κρίματα. With, of course, some pockets of negativity remaining. It's positively astonishing how much of what is in the Mosaic Law, got reflected in 5th century BC Athens; in Sparta; in Rome. You can see distinct links tracing back to the Law in the very language of these folks, as well as in their literature and plays, their worships. Every religion or culture has commonalities, just like the whole human race is... um, human. But like DNA, you can trace origins of ideas.

Deus Exodus machina, for example, is distinctly Jewish in origin, and is a classical Greek play ending. For, it was known since David that Messiah would come at the end of time, 1000 years later, to redeem His People — and then take over the whole world. That's what made the prediction about Messiah, so politically explosive. So news spread; just as mankind had 1000 years' advance notice of the Deluge via the very name of "Methuselah" (after he dies, Flood happens), so also with David, the 1000 years' advance notice of Messiah.

So the cultures morphed the prophecy. In short, while many people try to argue origins of what culture influenced another, they mistakenly look at the age of relics, rather than the truer 'DNA'-type markers in language and literature. For that's where the true origins are hardest to mask. Kinda like fingerprints.

Israel is the geographical trade route nexus of the world. So it's impossible for news about her to not be known. Takes time, but not much time. Certainly within a generation, the news would be widespread. And people voted with their feet a lot more often in those days.

Notice how Israel's Legal Structure created a competition over which rules were better: people voted with their feet. So other polities had to adjust — fight, or ape. Book of Joshua and the story of Rahab help you see how news of Israel's nature and entrance into Canaan, spread like wildfire, affecting all around her. That trend continues until today, which is why the United States and certain European countries, are emulated. Because, we Europeans got 'Christianized', which is to say we were affected by the Law. Also, we largely derived from the political structure of SPQR — who itself aped a morphed version of the Mosaic Law, even better than the Greeks did — where do you think the idea of the Twelve Tables (founding law of Rome) — came from? Israel and the Greek nations were very close, even intermarrying. Because, competition means all nations were constrained to adopt at least some of what comes down to us as the Mosaic Law. It was too effective, too good, too provably sane. Man wants to better his lot, and boy oh boy, this Law was something! So, that's how history changed from 1440 BC onward. The next such huge impact would be 30 AD

So think: here you are, in Joe Blow Polity, which believes in skinning you alive; which has these monthly ceremonies requiring you to get drunk and fornicate with a Temple priestess (who isn't at all beautiful, since she has to take all comers); requiring you to maybe sacrifice one of your kids, if your neighbors don't like you and say a 'god' told them your kid was needed to buy relief from the constant famine (Canaan often suffered from famine). Which polity, was run by a family or two who if you looked at them crosseyed, would cut off your ear or arm. Or grab anything you had which looked nice. Or take your daughter if she looked nice. And you could do nothing about it. So if you lived in JBP (Jerusalem / Bethlehem / Petra) and you hear about this Desert God Who beat the gods of Egypt, who also didn't want all those stupid ceremonies, who wouldn't take anything from you; who wouldn't harm you unless you committed a proven crime of some verifiable severity, well... what would you do? Vote with your feet, going to that God. What, you don't think Israel got so big so fast by mere birthrate, do you?

All you need do to prove this fact is turn on your television. BBC and other broadcasts show you many other parts of the world outside America. And everyone everywhere is aping the United States at the ground level. That's why 9/11 happened. The militants in Islam feel threatened by the popularity of America; the argument about Israel is just a smokescreen (Israel is blamed for everything, even when all it does is breathe, as a political device to keep fellow Arabs quiescent. It's a very old gambit.) After WWII, Europe felt similarly threatened, as did Russia and China. People want the prosperity we have; so their leaders are constrained to either ape, or badmouth the United States. There's really no other political option. So when we mess up — and especially when we make a right decision, like invading Iraq — we will be vilified. Big kid on the block gets no other treatment, ever. Which is why the Big Kid always needs to have a big stick.

  • Israel enters the Land 1400 BC, 40 years later. If you carefully read Book of Joshua, you'll realize that the other nations are being taught 'to shape up or ship out' by what happens to Israel. There's the direct warning which precedes some raid God calls on Israel to do — to the upcoming 'victim'. Because, this warning is coming from GOD. Next, there's the peculiar quality of Israel training training training yet not doing much to actually defeat the enemy (i.e., the walls just fall down at Jericho, then one of the most stoutly protected of cities). This again — to show GOD is saying this, and His People are just adjutants. And yes, they killed every man woman child in those cities — among those who didn't heed the long (usually at least a month) warning, and stayed put. If you read how vile were their lifestyles, you'll wonder how God could even stand to 'wait' as long as He did! These folks liked raping, burning children ("pass through the fire", KJV euphemistically says), gangland-style ruling. The Rape of Nanking would have been routine, for this lot.
  • Israel quickly becomes apostate after Joshua and the elders who knew him all die (within 50 years after entering the Land), completely forgetting about God most of the time. Easton's Dictionary says Joshua was 40 years younger than Moses. Assuming that's true, since Moses was 120 when he died, and died in 1400 BC, then Joshua at that time was 80 years old. So died at age 110; the elders picked up from there, Joshua 24:23-31. So he ruled for 30 years, and they for about 20 more years. I could swear there's an explicit verse saying the Judges lasted a total of 300 years, but I can't find it now. The math still works, though. That tells you how vile those people in Canaan were — for when Israel started making friends instead of funerals out of them, they killed Israel's love for God. And then, they killed Israel by the thousands. Because, the Rape of Nanking was the routine, for this lot. (For in the 'law' of this lot, you didn't work, you stole from someone, when you wanted to get something. Or, you allied yourself as a slave of someone else who'd promise to feed you by stealing from someone else. Of course, you did it seductively, and you didn't call it stealing, you called it "service" or some other nice name. Same dang thing continues to this day — we've refined our methods, what with all the centuries of practice.
  • So God grants occasional 'judges' to protect her for the next 300 years. The story is not pretty.


Countdown to Salvation Accomplished: God Rejected, Saul Accepted, God replaces Saul with David, thereby housing Israel in David, for the Human Messiah will replace the people's choice.

People often overlook the underlying lessons in the Old Testament, deeming all those dry begats and chronicles as some mere history preservation. Big mistake. For in the story of Saul, you see the story of our salvation. Just as people overlook how God used Seth to disinherit Cain; just as God used Shem's son to disinherit the other sons; just as God even used Jochebed to disinherit the whole tribe of Levi so to graft in Moses and Aaron as firstborn; just as God used the last-born son David, to disinherit Jesse's other sons; so also would God disinherit all Israel, here. And David would become the one to rescue Israel's inheritance. So, when David's sons later rebelled, just as God used Shealtiel to disinherit Coniah, so also God disinherited all David's children in favor of one born of a woman, Who is The Son: Who would rescue an inheritance for the entire world. So, notice: the disinheritance sets up the potential for a Greater Inheritance. What could be a greater inheritance, than life forever close to God? Heh.

So let's walk through this Failure Turned to Fulfillment, God's Genius Plan:

1. Finally Israel's apostasy is so bad, she doesn't want God as king, but instead a human king, 1050 BC. Contract Abrogation Begins Here. Acts 13 talks about this, and uses the 490 system to explain its effect. Because God's Kingship is rejected, all the kings except David become conditional, blessed only if they stick to the Law. The original contract called for God to be King, not a human being. So long as that agreement held, the coming of Messiah was imminent. But once abrogated, then God spent 40 more years raising up the human king (and hence progenitor of Messiah) He wanted (theme of Acts 13, explaining what happened to Israel is sourced back to this rejection of God as King). So actually, the contract with Israel is broken, and reroutes instead through David. Which is why the only thing left to Israel from that time onward is to Accept Messiah When He Arrives. If they don't accept Him, even this One Link Left, is Severed. Daniel 9:26 is how one knows that happened.

  1. Samuel, at age 30, becomes the last Judge to Israel. The year is 1070 BC; Samuel, the last of the Judges due to Israel's rejection in favor of Saul. We know Samuel's ministry dates from the Law, so God doesn't have to say the year names. What's so hysterical, is that Samuel is not even a Levite, but his dad is from Ephraim (see beginning of 1 Samuel). Yet God picks him — for it's always by faith. Temple service begins at age 30, and you retire at age 50 as repeatedly stated, in Numbers 4, Numbers 8:25, etc. So, Samuel is recorded as judging Israel for the proper 20 years a priest serves in Temple. In actuality, he'll unofficially serve Israel as a wandering teacher after Saul becomes king; for Samuel runs a circuit, setting up the first organized system for the priests — for what looks like another 20 years or more. So he's age 50 when Saul becomes king. Must have been age 70 or older, when he died (some years before the Battle of Mt. Gilboa). These are scattered Bible notes. Easton's Dictionary dates the 2nd Battle of Ebenezer (which God won for Israel via that thunderstorm) as 1095 BC, but that can't be right; cry for a human king arose some time afterwards, 1 Samuel 8:1ff. BibleWorks timeline dates Samuel's judgeship to begin 1069 BC. Judges Ibson, Elon and Abdon were listed as judges in BibleWorks for the period 1124-1078 but Bible says only 25 years for all three (Jude 12:10-14). So their combined judgeships couldn't have gone beyond 1100 — no, their whole timeline is way too late. Samson is listed as 1108, but that doesn't work either (Judges 13:1). Judges 15:20 and 16:31 say he judged Israel 20 years. So again, the judgeship timelines are way off. After Judges 16, it looks like a long time elapsed — and unbelievable weirdness ruled. So it's more likely the Judges period pre-Samuel had yet another 40 year hiatus. Samuel had to be at least 30 years old before the second battle of Ebenezer, because for all the recognition, he has no voice until 1 Samuel 7:1, after Eli died, and after the Ark is returned, it's the Levites who stupidly attend to it, Samuel not being mentioned. He started going on that circuit in 1 Samuel 7:16. The first seven chapters of 1 Samuel are almost too painful to read. Doesn't present-day Israel learn from them? So badly was the Law distorted, that Samuel sleeps in the Holy of Holies (1 Samuel 3:3). Moreover, the sacrifices are totally screwed up. Worse, they somehow remembered Levites were supposed to take the Ark out to battle (duh) — but then they lose it. 7 months later, the Philistines figure out — hey, we gotta get rid of this — yet even after the Ark is then returned, No one in Israel knows what to do with it? 🤣 The priests were summoned to come down and make the sacrifices — so what, they just left the Ark there in Beth-shemesh? Incredible. You can see even the Philistines remember a warped version of the Exodus (first thinking that the gods plagued everyone in the wilderness, then consulting their own experts who came up with the cockamamie gold tumors thingy). Incredible.]
  1. Saul officially becomes King 1050 BC; but Bible won't count Saul's kingship at all. Saul's anointing date long preceded his official crowning (same for David's anointing as a teenager); presumably, to give him time to change his mind. Moreover, Saul first had to fight some battles to unify the people of Israel behind him. Again, Acts 13 says Saul ruled 40 years, and accounts the time of Saul as a loss. Which is even more hysterical, when you look at the contradicting translations of 1 Samuel 13:1 — sorry to keep harping on this, but when you find a contradiction in Bible, it's not God who created it. Man did. What, did the translators never read Acts 13? So please — turn to 1 Samuel 13:1 now.

It's not correct in any translation I can read. The verse is about how, between the time he was anointed through the second year after he became king, he gathered an elite corps: it wasn't an overnight thing. If you read the prior context, there were two wars, plus a conflict with the Ammonites (chapter 11), as a result of which he was confirmed king. Meaning, some time had elapsed between Samuel's anointing Saul in 1 Samuel 10, and the crowning at the end of 1 Samuel 11. So in 1 Samuel 13:1, you need some kind of organization statement, to prepare the understanding for what follows (battles where Israel wins against overwhelming odds; how Saul gets cocky and impatient because of it, and will thus lose his kingship). LXX doesn't even have 13:1, which in Hebrew is just an introductory clause, not even a whole sentence. Rendered literally (so you can know the Hebrew words), it says:

"Saul (=Inquirer, him asking about the donkeys) was [missing number]-years old,
When he became (infinitive, works like a participle) king; and the second year after he became (perfect tense) king over Israel,"

-- that's the actual verse in Hebrew literal word order. 13:1 is to explain the timing of 13:2, given prior context — note how his age is missing, lost. Ironic, considering that Bible accounts his rulership as a loss, huh.

Here, what's known from the previous context, is that Saul was anointed by Samuel, but then he went back home; then, Samuel called the people, and they consented to him being king — he, though, had hidden in the baggage, so they had to spend time finding him via Urim and Thummin. That took time; and then they all went home again. Are you getting the impression all they wanted was To reject God, really have no king at all, but hypocritically pretend to want a king? No one did anything about it. Just hurrah! And then... home. So then, the enemies do something about it when they hear Saul is crowned (for they didn't fight Israel very much so long as God was the King, they were afraid of Him) — so, 1 Samuel 11, you have the battle with the Ammonites, at which point the people voted for him personally. So you need this 1 Samuel 13:1's precision about that interval, to answer when did he muster picked troops. See, it took time to do this. Some of them went right after the anointing, 1 Samuel 10:26. Others came along after he was confirmed as king at the end of 1 Samuel 11. 1 Samuel 12 is a parenthesis, Samuel abdicating as judge; he remains a prophet, but Saul becomes their judge-king; since they rejected the Holy One as their King. So now, they have an intermediary. They are now more distant in favor, from God. By their own voting.

  1. So Saul, initially loving the Lord, succumbs to the power and prosperity of kingship, so Samuel is sent to anoint David as the next King. David at this time is a teenager. Sometime later, David is called to calm the poor king's nerves, because David is a skilled musician (gotta do something while out with the sheep). So David commutes as needed back to the sheep. It's easy to dismiss how hard a time Saul had. To go from a guy who hides among the baggage and is only discovered because he was a head taller than everyone else — quite handsome, actually — to reverse that shyness into bullying, means he was under a lot of pressure. For this time period is pivotal in Israel's history. All time for the whole world hinged on it. Having succeeded in getting Israel to reject God — whoa, what a coup — Satan & Co. now have to work overtime on Saul, lest he turn into God's Chosen Seed. For that was the offer given him. 1 Samuel 13:13 "You acted foolishly," Samuel said. "You have not kept the command the lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time." It wasn't David, first. It was Saul. How do you live with such an offer, when your insecurity complex is so bad, you hide among the baggage at the very time you knew in advance would be the proclamation of you by Samuel, Voice of God to the People — that you are to be the first human King of Israel? 🤣 I'm intimidated by writing webpages — I'd faint and never wake up if I were announced as a king... even of my bathroom!

Okay, so he finally gets over the nervousness and wins some battles — so goes to the opposite psychological end, excessive cockiness. Only Bible in your head (which came in writing and orally, in those days) can mediate all the crazy pressure. So yeah, Saul turned out to be a loser — but who wouldn't?

But notice David. He knows in advance, too. And by what would seem a quirk of fate, is sent to play the lyre for Saul, to calm the poor man's demon-influenced nerves. Saul almost kills David during those times. But David goes back to the sheep. Where the Doctrine is. To be alone and learn it. For Bible was something people routinely memorized. As you read through the injunction Moses gives in Deuteronomy 31-32, you find with astonishment that every seven years the Torah as they then had it, was to be read aloud to all the people, lest they forget. Which means, they memorized it. Easier to remember phone numbers than to remember which speed dial number on which of the ninety phones you have, the number is on. Easier to remember the multiplication tables — because why? You drilled in them. This is what was done with the Bible. This is why only once every seven freaking years it was necessary (sabbatical year was devoted to study). This is what David did with Bible in his head, talking to God all the time — back with the sheep. No wonder the kingship didn't awe him. Someone Else, awed him more. Frankly, that's the only way to survive and want to live down here.

  1. Philistines battle Saul; David's sent to carry provisions for his brothers, kills Goliath in the one-on-one Greek challenger style. David isn't awed by Goliath. He's awed by God.
  2. Saul takes David into the palace, marries him off. At that point, David is about 20 years old, so it's about 1020 BC. Saul, jealous over David's popularity, tries many times to get him killed. David finally flees, wanders about, people come to him, so there is a cold war between Saul and David (but David doesn't fight back) for approximately the next 10 years. There's a lot to say here about how Saul and David compare in character, but this section is already very long. Just read Samuel, think over what's between the lines.
  3. Saul and Jonathan his heir die in the Battle of Mt. Gilboa, circa 1011 or 1010 BC. The Ark is gradually brought to Jerusalem by David afterwards (2 Samuel 6). The cavalier treatment of the Ark tells you much about how little God was regarded by Saul and the people in general. But the other thing you notice is that some had this huge faith. Almost no knowledge, but a whole lot of desire to learn. We're all jerks. Only the combination of motive and knowledge cures us jerks. Never too late to start.

2. So David becomes King of Hebron 1010 BC, 430 years after the Exodus, the same time period as the sons of Israel had spent in Egypt, Exodus 12:40-41.

  1. David is 30 years old then (2 Samuel 5:4), so was born 1040 BC, exactly 400 years after the Exodus. He thus becomes King 430 years after the Exodus, in 1010 BC. So Israel's entire time in Egypt, including its 400-year slavery period got individually mirrored back! "30" is the savior number! David had become king of Judah six months prior (2 Samuel 2:11, 2 Samuel 5:5).
  1. This is a new King 490, and it depends on voting for the King. Hence David's Proclamation And Waiting For Votes. Just as before, with King Saul. When the vote went out about Saul, his investiture was not immediate, and always remained conditional. Which is why he sought to kill David, once David became popular; David was forced to leave, and wasn't interested in taking the kingdom away. God just thrust it on David. Even so, Kingship was always based on voting, even back to 1440 BC: Mosaic Law is a contract of people agreeing to be ruled by God. See how Joshua ends, getting the people to vote for or against God; and when they vote for, he sets up a Stone Witness to that vote, so they can be reminded of their own apostasy (Joshua 24:27). Hmmm. Kinda like the Two Stone Witnesses, Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall, which remain to this day? Hmmm. Kinda looks like this God is the Real God, don't it?
  1. Therefore, the same voting issue applies during the First Advent: will there be enough among Israel voting yes, to constitute national acceptance? The King over kings will be the 'Last David', so that's yet another way you can know voting for Him was the issue Israel faced: precedence was established at the Exodus, as everyone was well aware. Since they voted no, they played Vashti. So Jesus the Christ announces the search for Esther: Matthew 16:18ff (see Matthew 22, for a summary of the 'case'). So here for Church (Esther), it's still about votes.
  1. 2 Samuel 2-5, Civil war ensues as people divide over whether to support Jonathan's heirs, or David. Notice it's a civil war over God's choice of human king versus the people's choice for not-God King. 1010 BC-1003 BC (really late 1004 BC) is one of those Building sevens. It's not Promise Time, or fixed-judgement time, but in character it is a building-ness. Same number of years as to build First and Second Temples. So the Divine Purpose sevening is at least implicit, but the length of building time for each of these three, was not promised. Note though, how tumultuous voting is. Many thousands died during this time. It boiled down to whether you wanted God's Anointed, or not. So very violent.

3. David is finally crowned King of all Israel after settling the claim with the last of Jonathan's heirs, late 1004 BC (count as if 1003 BC). He will end up being king of a United Israel for the next 33 years, ending in 970. But he doesn't die until 7 years later, 1 Kings 6:1; while living, he abdicates in favor of Solomon, 1 Kings 1:33ff. See also 1 Chronicles 29:26-27, 1 Kings 2:11, 1 Chronicles 3:4 on his rulership ending. So he's 70 years old when he Stops Being King. His Kingship 'dies' then. But he's age 77 when he dies.

  1. What makes David important, is his faith. First, faith in the best of environments, being alone with God. Everyone in David's family, hated him. Then up pops Samuel to anoint this seventh son teenager out with the smelly sheep. Then daddy-o wants to ingratiate himself with the army which is sitting on its tuchus because loudmouth Goliath is challenging anyone in Israel to a little one-on-one. So daddy-o makes the shepherd boy play quartermaster with cheese and bread. Overhearing loudmouth, the red-haired teenager thinks, hey, who is this braggart who insults the army of the Living God? And... well, you know the story. God is real to David. Not a name to babble while bobbing at some wailing wall. Not tassels on shabbas, preening. So God makes him king when there already is one, so he goes back to his sheep and his wonderful alone time with God. God is His King, he doesn't need to be a king himself. So, God always gives you what you don't want... here, kingship. What a come-down, ruling a country of brats who don't even know what to do with a wandering Ark. But he learned to love them like he learned to love being a shepherd, and the minute he did, zap! God makes him give up being king! For God always gives you what you don't want. In order to give you more of what you want more.. Himself.

Now, this becoming-king and unbecoming-king was very unbecoming to Israel. For she decided that Praise is Becoming, alright, for to Him Praise will always Be Becoming.... but that didn't quite extend to Him being King over her, anymore. She wanted to mouth His Praises, but else be like other nations. So having rejected G-d in favor of Shaul, and then finally voting for David after seven years of fighting against him who G-d chose, well... He Who Is, became of Dawid, instead. Ooops.

  1. So to build on David, means cutting out Israel. Henceforth, the sole criterion for Time's continuance is narrowed to David, 2 Samuel 7. As you saw in the synopsis, Satan's always accusing us so he can stop God from completing His Promises and thus 'force' a Mistrial Verdict. That is, God has introduced His Promises in Evidence, and the promises remain unfulfilled. So if even one of them is not fulfilled (as my pastor puts it), Satan wins in the Trial. Why? Because a thing introduced as Evidence which never gets produced is a kind of evidence tampering. You know, claiming you have a murder weapon and then you can't produce it. Therefore, Satan and everyone on his side (including all unsaved humanity) would go free. See, they don't have red horns and tails: they are consummate lawyers. That's what "Satan" means: opposing attorney (a title, not a name). So they fancy themselves saviors, if they can force God to cancel Time, due to negativity among believers on earth. And, they would be.

So for God to condition promises on volition, gives Satan & Co. a way to maneuver a motion for Mistrial. For if God has Promise Evidence but we refuse, then He must not grant the Promise to those who refuse: Love never coerces. Worse, if He then narrows the 'continuance of time' criterion to but one person, that should have tanked God's side in the Trial. This God does in 2 Samuel 7, which is about year 10 or so of David's consolidated reign (I'm guessing). A Promise of a Temple and a Messiah, specifically. Unconditional promise, yet by nature conditioned on a future line of believers among David's progeny who will vote for God. So God loses in the Trial if He flat forces or executes the lineage promise irrespective of positive votes, since He just cut out Israel for refusing Him. Big abuse of Justice, then. Aha, Mistrial! But He also loses in the Trial if He doesn't produce that future promised Temple and Messiah — but will people want Him? Aha, Mistrial! Now you know why Israel remains so persecuted, even today: the promise today remaining, is that of Tribulation and Millennium. Absent Church, that promise could not be delivered (main theme of Book of Hebrews, which is all about this Trial). Of course, Church is subject to the same issue. We too are not completed, and so will our future "Evidence" finish? If no, it's a Mistrial. God will not gerrymander Freedom.

So back to David: he got 2 Samuel 7 relatively early in his reign. So David had a good long time afterwards, to screw up so badly the promise couldn't be delivered. Not to mention, all the rebellion against him, which continued until the day he died (see the warnings he gives Solomon after retirement, in 1 Kings 1-2). So what distinguishes David, again — is his faith. Not good deeds. Frankly, Israel doesn't even know why David is an ideal king. Neither do Christians. But the Bible tells you: "a man after My Own Heart". David just flat loved God. God can fix any wrong you do, but Love will never coerce a soul who doesn't want Him. All the good deeds you do don't make up for not wanting to know God. And if you don't know God, you'll not be doing good deeds, since the First Commandment is to love God. Can't love someone you don't want to know.

So Dawid Beloved is Beloved of God, while everyone else cut Him outta their lives. So what does God do? Play into Satan's hands! Look at God's Genius: the Temple-and-Messiah promise cuts out Israel, because she rejected God as King in 1050 BC, as Samuel explained from 1 Samuel 8-12. But when God cuts you out, He aims to bless you better. For back in eternity past, the covenant was, "If You will give Your Soul as a substitute for sin, you will see long-lived seed." So He became the Seed to bear many seeds. So first promise given, to come: Genesis 3:15, which predicts the name of the guy who will be the progenitor, Jacob ("heel" in Genesis 3:15). Then, next promise given, to the grandfather of that son, Abram — made Abraham at circumcision, the father of Many Nations.

Which many nations raged on the earth until that Heel guy came back to Canaan, knowing he was bringing four wives and 12 sons, 70 people in all — into some kind of slavery under foreign domination somewhere — since that is what God promised Grandpa Abram, back in Genesis 15:13. But Heel Guy did not know that a scant 11 years after being renamed Israel (Prince of God, now lame, no longer grasping heel) the very slavery and salvation of his own loins will be enslaved: Joseph = Twice. Who then goes through his own training period, and twice saves Egypt, gets the family inside. All waiting for the 430 years to end, which they do. And right on time, up comes Moses, pitched as the salvation of Egypt yet again, by Egypt's own sterile queen. Gift from the River, so "moses" — royal Egyptian moniker, drawn up/born from Isis, the mother of the gods. So now to that one guy God offers to wipe out all those who left with him through the water dry-shod, since they had dried souls. But Moses refuses. So they enter the Land, forget mostly about the Ark, and finally demand that their God Who is Their King, abdicate. For they want a human king like other nations.

So He gives them one they wanted, and then later — 430 years post-Exodus, to be precise — He gave them one He wanted. And to this Beloved, God gives the promise of one Son, in 2 Samuel 7:13. Future sons between don't count. And to get this One Son Who Will Save the World and Who will Build a Kingdom Forever, the Beloved must also abdicate. So, he does. So Beloved lays down his crown, and Reconciliation / Peace / Prosperity his son, reigns instead. Each one, for 40 years, with Beloved spending the last 7.5 years of his life as a retired king, an abdicated king, a king who threw down his crown, the only such king Israel ever will have, until Messiah Himself. On the other side of that nexus Beloved's 7.5, his son Peacefully and in Prosperity builds the Other Promise God made to Beloved (who was the only one asking for it) — a Temple. Which, represents down to the last pomegranate and oil drop, the Future Seed; Who will Give His Soul as a substitute for sin, thus building forever, a Kingdom. 2 Samuel 7:14's Hebrew uses beh'awoto, which is hiphil infinitive construct of the verb awah, to twist, bend, distort (awon is the cognate noun). Because it's in the hiphil, which is causative, I think this verse is mistranslated by the usual "when he commits iniquity", and should instead read, "when He is caused to become iniquity" — in short, made sin. Generally Bible mistranslations reverse key words in the original language texts and malign God or glorify man in the process. That potentially appears to be the case, here?

So from One to ManyNations' Father, to Laughter to Heel/Prince to Twice to Drawn-from-Water to Beloved to The-One-Uniquely-with-us. Who will birth from His Brith on the Cross, a whole universe of sons. Those are the translated names of 490 folks, as follows:

    • "Many Nations' Father" = Abraham (אַבְרָהָם | 𓈖𓀠𓁶𓉐𓃾)
    • "Laughter" = Isaac (יִצְחָק | 𓃻𓈇𓇑𓂝)
    • "Heel/Prince" = Jacob (יַעֲקֹב | 𓉐𓃻𓁹𓂝)
    • "Twice" = Joseph (יוֹסֵף | 𓊋𓊽𓌉𓂝)
    • "Drawn from Water" = Moses (מֹשֶׁה | 𓀠𓌔𓈖)
    • "Beloved" = David (דָּוִד | 𓆟𓌉𓆟)
    • "The One Uniquely with us" = Immanuel, Our Lord (עִמָּנוּאֵל | 𓋿𓃾𓌉𓆓𓈖𓁹)

A "brith" is a cutting of a covenant; hence the "brith" ("bris", in modern Hebrew) of male circumcision.

For that One, that Greater Son will be cut off by Israel, just as Moses long predicted in Deuteronomy 32:15ff, reiterated in Isaiah 52:13-54:1, Daniel 9:26b (wordplay between brith and death). Just as, God is cut off by the people who voted for a human king, 1 Samuel 8. They would rather pay income tax to a human king (1 Samuel 8:15, 1 Samuel 8:17). They paid no taxes to God, really: He paid them, since only He could make the animals, the grain, etc. So everything was voluntary in the Levitical offerings, Leviticus 27. If you believed in God and wanted Him, you wanted to make offerings. God wanted to teach you by means of those offerings, hence the many rules about them. But a human king, well... like 1 Samuel 8 says, he will oppress you.

But Israel wanted a human king anyway, even if he would oppress them; so they cut off God, in favor of a future of tyranny: just like other nations! So they will cut off His Son when He arrives as promised, too. So God preempts this future, by having David be cut off from official relationship to Israel, via abdication. So Israel can be grafted into Messiah, despite having disinherited herself. Deuteronomy 32:8 in the Hebrew is so multi-level in meaning, it will take some time to analyze. LXX version ends with "angels of God" rather than "sons of Israel" in the Hebrew (of course the Hebrew needs to be metered to find out which is one is correct). So my guess the Hebrew bifurcated the explanation of how God designed mankind to be based both on the angels and then on Israel, since we first exist due to the angelic Trial. My pastor has a lot to say about the relationship between the number of demons and the number of believers in Church, but I've not yet spent enough time on that topic, to better understand Deuteronomy 32:8. Point is, we see here God orchestrates Time around Israel, due to Messiah. So it's not farfetched to say the numbers of folks are constructed also based on Israel, especially since most among her (as here in 1 Samuel 8), reject Messiah.

  1. We can now legally account for how Messiah could still be promised after the Temple is destroyed: Messiah derives from 2 Samuel 7 to David, not Israel. For if no Temple, no national contract, no kings, etc. And of course no more kings were granted due to the First Temple's destruction. So "cut off", is Messiah. So He will be "cut off" in Daniel 9, too. Cutting a New Covenant, based on a prior Promise (that wordplay is actually in Daniel 9:26). Independently made, by God, to a person: David. Just as parts of the Abrahamic promises continue despite apostasy, so also the Salvation-King Promise is made independently. It is an unconditional promise, to David. But you will note in 1 Kings 6 and 1 Kings 9, and in all such reiterations about kingship afterwards — when God talks to Solomon (etc), it's conditional upon the Law being kept. Which means — and this happens too with some of the later kings — God abrogates the deal due to their apostasy. So another king replaces, but finally... no more kings are allowed.

In short, the promises stack, so that if there is a rejection, precedence governs, and the rejection can be 'saved'. So, Abram was Unconditionally Promised First that God would be His God ("I am the God of Abram"). Next, he was promised sons; so becomes Abraham, father of many nations, at age 99. Also, since sons must live somewhere, alongside that promise of sons, is the promise of Land. Israel is the fulfillment of the sons promise, and so Moses is deployed to take her to the Land. However, once she is in the Land she rejects the First Promise, of God as King (which promise Jacob knew, given what he impulsively decides in Genesis 38:22). So if you reject the Giver, you reject the Gifts from the Giver.

So now what? Well, the promise made through Moses was conditional — if they keep the Law, they will become a priest nation. Even in translation you can see this often stated, in Deuteronomy. God is the King, not a human being. That makes Israel different from all other nations. Okay, but they reject His Kingship. So look: that abrogates the deal, but it's Israel who's abrogating, refusing.

So what now? Well, a New Promise to a New person must be made about Kingship. Hence, about Temple, since Israel has wholly rejected its inheritance when it rejected its king (subtheme in Deuteronomy 32, prophetically expressed; see also Joshua 24). God raises up a human king, since they only want a human king — but then apart from Israel, makes an unconditional promise to that person He raised up. So for that promise to be realized, David must sever his kingship before he dies, so that the promises of Temple = Messiah = Kingship, have the necessary legal justification to be implemented. For they cannot be implemented, if David is connected to Israel. For Israel has rejected God, and hence Messiah.

  1. So only because the Messiah Promise is unconditional to David severally; and only because it is a Testamental Promise, can Messiah be justifiably born. Which is the only legal reason why we can get saved! Legal Status Backdrop: since the first Kingship 490 began 1440 BC with God as King, it has to be renewed before it runs out in 950 BC. Remember, there is a voting period intervening between the two 490s (490 + 70 year voting period + 490 = 1050); so someone 'covering' the next 490 must be spiritually developed in the prior 490, in order for time to even continue. Technically, Israel rejected God's Kingship, 100+ years prior to the expiry of the Exodus 490; Saul was a concessionary human king (he was given the same option as David — 1 Samuel 13:13-14).

So note how the Kingship gets renewed via David by the deadline; notice also the Temple 490, being Foundational and Independent of Israel because dependent instead on David as Abdicated King, can be renewed. Again, there is No Other Judicial Basis to renew the contract with Israel after 1050 BC and 586 BC. So the expiry of the Kingship and later Temple contracts, would have been 950 and 460, respectively (1440 - 490 = 950 and 950 - 490 = 460). And the Temple contract didn't even start, except for David (again, 2 Samuel 7 tells that story). So before the contract came up for renewal, it was abrogated by Israel, twice (in 1050 BC and 586 BC). By Israel, upon whom God had previously conditioned, Time Itself. So now the whole world is in an abrogated status, subject to annihilation: see how important David's time grants are? Not only David's, of course. But notice: Moses' 490 (in Israel's name, but it's due to Moses) ran out 950 BC. Moses' 1000 runs out 440 BC (1440 - 1000 = 440). So only David's time grants, remain.

See, just because God is Omnipotent doesn't mean He brushes aside judicial issues to suit His Goals. God Rules Himself. Doesn't have to, but wants to. Infinitely. Absolutely. No one bows to Authority, more than God Himself. Hence the Cross, the Ultimate bow-down.

Crux: jurisprudence must first be concerned with the legal status of a legal person ("standing", in legal parlance). One's status when one makes a decision, i.e., husband / wife, king / citizen, owner / hired labor, etc. Each of these are offices which have certain rights, privileges, responsibilities which legally belong to that status in question. The right to sue, to get damages, to have a contract fulfilled, all depend on one's contractural standing at the moment in question. One must be have the requisite status to make a contract (i.e., no contract made by a minor is considered valid in some states, due to the status of the age at that time). One must have the requisite status to benefit from a contract (i.e., be a named beneficiary in a will of provable identity). So here, David's status as King before he abdicates, matters for purposes of a kingship contract.

Likewise, David's status as Retired post-contract matters for the delivery of the promise: for so long as David is King, the benefit cannot be delivered. Israel is attached to David, so long as he has the status of King. So his enacting-of-contract acceptance of God's terms, must be done while King. And that acceptance, requires he relinquish his crown. Thus after that, he's no longer attached to Israel, so the Kingship and Temple can go to Israel via David. Not, due to itself. For it abrogated its status with God, by rejecting Him in favor of a human king. Consummate example of cutting out, and grafting in, here. We all depended on what David did for our salvation. Else, the Lord Himself could not justifiably, come.

So David having abdicated, Israel is not bound to him, either. So Voting becomes an issue again, just as it was back when he was first crowned at Hebron. Except this time, the voting was for his son Solomon. But eventually, it would be a voting issue for David's Greater Son, The Lord Jesus Christ. All this, because David abdicated kingship. No more a bound relationship, no more an imposition. So if the vote is no, then the time associated with David's death, 'dies' too. So the whole world gets to vote, with the Jews being the appointed ambassadors / messengers / priest nation in training. No reason, then, to be big-headed about being Jewish; no reason, then, to be pig-headed with antisemitism. But I digress.

  1. So notice the underlying legal structure. There are two grantors / testators: God Who never dies; and David, who will. The contract is a Forever Contract, with the "Temple" representing that Living Temple to Come, Messiah Himself. So on the one hand, God is and remains, the Initial Party to the contract (Galatians 3 stresses that fact, showing precedence is Seed, not Law). But on the other hand, the one who got that contract — David — also has rights. His Right to Lay Down His Crown, is exclusively David's Right, as a Reigning King.

No one else can vote on that, because only the king has the proper standing. So no one can take away the time belonging to David's reigning Kingship, by voting against Him. This critical legal principle is the only reason we could even get saved. Again, the standing of David when He abdicates determines the standing of the contract. No one else can gainsay it except God, for no one else is: a) in the status of a party to the contract, and b) in the status of someone eligible to vote on that contract (i.e., an interested party). Now you see why God cut out all Israel; now you see why voting for Messiah when He finally came, is the only way to get grafted in again (main legal theme in Romans 9-11).

Now: while yet King, David asked God whom God wanted as David's successor, inasmuch as God would be the one deciding which future son, would be Messiah. God picked Solomon (i.e., 1 Chronicles 28:6). But Solomon had many kids, and picked his own successor — doesn't say God picked Rehoboam. So Solomon, broke precedence. Each of the kids from that time forward picked their own successors; or, invading kings put puppets on the throne: none asked God to choose the successor. So after Solomon, though each king got an offer like Solomon (follow Me and I'll make you the progenitor) — none sufficiently did. Oh, there were some good kings, like Joash and Hezekiah — Matthew 1 is a kind of honors roster (with two exceptions) — but in the end, God changed which of David's sons, would be the 'line' for Messiah, to Nathan's.

The Old Testament tells the saga of this son-switching and renewal of offer, over the centuries. So all that sheer crap about Christ having kids, is proven wrong at its premise level: God never picks sons based on bloodline, but based on faith. Certainly all the cutting out and grafting in He's shown since Cain, for crying out loud — is enough evidence that this is His Policy. So there's no magic power in bloodline, but there is majesty — God the Holy Spirit's — in the faith He makes grow in you, as you merely vote.

So, tally up the votes: God obviously did not want Rehoboam, since He had Ahijah tear up a cloak and offer 10 of the tribes to Ephraimite (same tribe as Samuel, who chastised Saul!) Jeroboam — again, conditional upon the latter keeping the Law (1 Kings 11:28 - 1 Kings 12:15). Which, the latter did not (1 Kings 12:26ff), and Israel (AKA "Samaria") went down after a long history of usurpations, in 721 (?) BC. Which left, Judah. Which left, God. So God told Jeconiah who was apostate, sorry Charlie, no son of yours will ever sit on My Throne, as Jeremiah explains (Jeremiah 22:24-30, read whole chapter then whole book). Shealtiel is the son of Neri / Neriah, not of Jeconiah. That's why Luke 3:27 reads as it does. Shealtiel was adopted by Jeconiah. Bible pointedly cuts off Jeconiah whenever God talks, too: compare Jeremiah 22:24 with Haggai 2:23. If you search on "Shealtiel" you'll find Zerubbabel, who's the crossover person from whom Mary descends via a different son of his — you'll find that God always calls Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel. The proper naming should reference Jeconiah, to show the kingly connection. But God won't do that. He's changed the kingly connection to David's other son by Bathsheba, Nathan (= to give (replacement), heir and spare).

So God sticks with the one line He chose, Nathan's (Zerubbabel is descended from Nathan). For, long in advance He bifurcated the Davidic line, and God keeps picking whom He wants as the successor, as the very deft Matthew 1 selectively shows. For, God is consistent. Abram believed in God — and that Faith, irrespective of all other factors, is the only 'human' thing God will ever use. Sure, it has no merit — which is why Faith alone can be used. Merit is a religious contention, and if that contention were used, no one can compare to Infinite Righteousness. Hence a Cross. Hence faith alone in Christ alone. Independently, Legally, Procurable — because God was faithful to David.

So it was Messiah Who got the worst deal. Isaiah 53:10-11's "If You will Give Your Soul as a Substitute for Sin" is the true clause in the Eternity-Past contract between Father, Son, and Spirit. Hence we exist. So imagine: Jesus the Christ has this Conditional Contract to fulfill in His Humanity, the slightest infraction of which cancels the judicial basis for all the human race (all creation, really, but that takes too long to explain). Just the opposite of the promise to David.

Book of Hebrews talks in testamentary terms: death must precede. Hence the Mosaic Law, being fulfilled in Christ, dies in Him. But He is Resurrected, so now a New Covenant, long promised the Jews, can be enacted — because a death first occurred. So how could that argument be made, if not first a Testamentary Promise to David; Personally, and Independent of the Nation? Which means it cannot be valid so long as he is King, since that ties him to The nation. But must be chosen by him while he remains king; and then as a consequence, he steps down. Like, the Temple promise was (2 Samuel 7). In short, it's this Personal and Separate Contract with David that Warrants Him Abdicating While Still Alive. In favor of a successor God picked. Now the proper juridical independence has been established. So when David later dies, he's a private citizen, not an active ruler dying in office when God's promise takes effect. Again, just like it was for the construction of the Temple.

God is consistent. Law must be consistent to be fair. Law must be based on precedence to be fair. And God's saying David's death was foundational to the Temple being made, in the Hebrew of 1 Kings 6:1. So if Messiah = Temple, but Temple destroyed, but David's Death is foundational to Temple, then — the Promise of Messiah to David, is Foundational and Independent, too. Else, I'd not be here to write about it, and you'd not be here to read this page. Simple as that.

  1. The larger contextual meaning here is almost too shocking to write. The Lord twice offered to destroy Israel and start over again with Moses, due to their apostasy; twice, Moses turned down the offer (Deuteronomy 9:14, Numbers 14:12). Israel would have been lost, had he accepted; which, of course the Lord knew, and was (obviously) testing Moses — the offers were real enough, but Israel would have been lost had Moses accepted. Likewise, Israel would have been lost if David didn't accept. Most importantly, it would have been lost if Messiah didn't accept. Never mind, that she didn't accept Him. As goes Israel, so goes the world, Deuteronomy 32:8. So we are all here, and only here, because He Redeemed Time. And He'd not have been here to redeem anything, had David not been here. And Moses before him, and Joseph before him, and Jacob before him, and Isaac before him, and Abraham before him, and...

The entire tribe of Levi was disinherited due to Levi's participation in the mass slaughter of all the men of Shechem. God basically 'grafted' the entire tribe onto Aaron (his name's sound = "Ark" in Hebrew, what great wordplay) — again, because Moses refused to speak for the lord to Pharaoh — thus the Levite inheritance goes only through Aaron, and it's a priestly inheritance (i.e., no land, just reserved locations, etc). Grafted in! Precedence for Matthew 16:18! Utter Grace!

The entire Nation of Israel was similarly disinherited, here. Unlike Moses, David was flat given the kingdom due to Israel's rejection of God as King. Unlike Moses, unless David Accepted God's Gift of Messiah (and hence the inheritance, since Messiah is the Seed, not Israel) — unless David accepted God's Gift of Messiah, Israel would be lost.

So Moses refused the kingdom, to save Israel; David accepted the kingdom, to save Israel. Notice how in both cases, you see a laying down of a crown. Moses lays down a crown he never picked up; David picks up the crown in order to lay it down. Which he does, to sever the connection to Israel who is disinherited for disobedience — in order to join her (join = levi) in Messiah.

So when that Messiah comes down to join her — and hence all mankind thru her, would she but consent — He Too Lays Down His Crown. In favor, of a Cross.

For if you love someone, you give your life, Roman 5:8. That's what Abram did. That's what Isaac did. That's what Jacob did. That's what Joseph did. That's what Moses did. That's what David did, so that's why Christ could. For if you love someone who hates you, you find another way to give your life, Ephesians 5. It's pretty clear from 1 Chronicles 29 and the first half of 1 Kings 1, David was somewhat reluctant to give over the kingdom to Solomon. He had to be reminded of it, and sorta manipulated into doing something about the problem, by Bathsheba and Nathan. Anyone can understand why. Maybe that's why David is sick at the beginning of 1 Kings 1, because he wasn't doing anything? He sure gets well fast afterwards: compare 1 Chronicles 22:5 to 1 Chronicles 29. Some time had elapsed between the two, and I'd bet money 1 Kings 1:1-39 (1 Chronicles 23:1 being parallel?) happened between those two Chronicles verses, followed quickly by the crowning in Jerusalem, 1 Chronicles 29:22.

God is consistent. Law must be consistent to be fair. And it's unfair to coerce volition. So how can you justify keeping a promise your chosen people, reject? Well, you must reject them, mirror back that rejection, ruin after dome after rock after wall after Book. Hoping the meanwhile, they might someday see while they keep bobbing and chanting, what they are seeing but not seeing

    • At scheduled Sabbath times,
    • At Chanukah (abomination, Daniel 9:26), Passover (Daniel 9:25 & Exodus), Purim (Vashti and Haman);
    • And on any day, from the Wailing Wall and Dome:
      • Genesis 33:10, 2 Samuel 7:12-13, Psalms 17:15, Isaiah 6:9, Ezekiel 8:6, Ezekiel 40:4, Matthew 13:13-14, Matthew 15:31, Luke 8:10, Acts 2:31;
      • Daniel 9:25-6, Matthew 24, Revelation 11:1;
      • Because, Romans 9-11, it's obviously the times of the Gentiles due to Israel's Rejection, Luke 21:24.

Providing the meanwhile, via the one person among them who did want that promise, David; followed by, his Greater Son as promised in 2 Samuel 7:12-13 — though to be solo carrying that promise, was a cross too heavy to bear — via that One Person, You execute Your Plan, hence execute Your Son, hence execute sin, hence execute salvation, so all those rejectors need not go to the kiln as their execution, forever.

4. Hence with David, a new Kingship 490 begins; instead of God being King, it's David. Note the precedence: 7 years followed by 33 years. 7 years of tribulation Mark the beginning of his reign, and the aftermath of his reign. Again, the doubled sevens. Nexus. Savior Nexus. Most of all, it's from David that the "Greater Son" will be Messiah, and That's a Separate and Personal Contract God makes to David. You'll find David constantly reference that contract (often invoking it, in his prayers about his enemies) in the Psalms. Actually, some of the Isaiah passages invoke it as well. Isaiah 63:16 is a really good example, but it's so mistranslated, you can't see the meaning. The Hebrew is phenomenal. The entire world depends on this contract, so it has its own Personal '490'; even if the nation Israel breaches, even if the Temple is razed, this Personal promise will continue. Question is, will people want this King? So, unlike all the other 490s, this one requires a group consent, to be enacted. That's the root reason why the Bridal Contract was conditional. Both sides must choose, for the contract to be consummated. For this Personal 490, is the Groom: Messiah.

Messiah has two kingships, as the Book of Hebrews explains. David knew about both of them, writing Psalm 110 to show the pre-Israel battlefield royalty kingship contracted between Father and Son before Son took on Humanity. It relates to defeating Satan in the Angelic Trial, and the Book of Hebrews takes pains to show how Church derives from that battlefield royalty, not from Israel. But Israel had been the first one offered Brideship. For that eternity-past contract, required a Bride. The Kingship over Israel, did not. Hence to vest the Kingship in David — specifically, a Forever-Ruling Son of David, so no progeny and hence no wife, "waet doro mi yesoheh", Isaiah 53:8, "who can name any of His descendants?" (because there are none) — is an unconditional promise from God. So Satan will try to kill all David's positive progeny, so that Messiah cannot arrive. No longer a 400-year slavery promise, merely. It's a death sentence, to be one of David's sons yet positive to God, from David forward. God likes danger.

With so much riding on him, David's successful completion is thus due a rather larger 490 and 1000 award than had been granted in the past. After all, the whole world depends on him, now. Hence David gets multiple 490s and 1000s; each one plays a major role in blessing / saving Israel via the Temple. GeneYrs.xls lists them. There are at least three pairs of 490s and 1000s based on David; perhaps four, which you can prove historically protected Israel and the world, given the events. GeneYrs.xls doesn't list the first pair (based on initial Hebron crowning), because I'm not yet sure God uses them. The four pairs are:

  1. The 490 beginning when He's first crowned at Hebron in 1010 BC, ends 520 BC. A year prior, God sent Haggai to nag Zerubbabel with a humorous announcement that he was to be the foundation for the Savior Seed, on the 16th anniversary of the Second Temple's foundation stone laying date. So without this 490 as an upcoming deadline, Zerubbabel (who surely knew about it, as did Daniel his cousin) wouldn't have been in a hurry. Temple reconstruction resumed on 24 Elul, and didn't stop after that — 24 Elul is three months before God told Zerubbabel the news about him being the Zeru (seed), compare Haggai 1:15 to Haggai 2:1 and Haggai 2:15-24. So first Zerubbabel got out of his slump — and all Israel there with him — and having voted 'blind', then God comes in reply. That's how this spiritual life works. You get information, that builds your faith, then you go through what seems a 'dark' experience, and then God answers. Just like in school, when you learn and then get tested.
  1. The associated 1000 from 1010 BC, ends 10 BC. From God's perspective, the purpose of history is to reveal His Son and save mankind; to make mankind a gift to His Son, and to make His Son, a gift to mankind. Since Love never coerces volition, God Sovereignly chooses that the free will of man co-exist. As my pastor likes to put it, "The Sovereignty of God and the free will of man co-exist." So, to accomplish these objectives, when there is sufficient positive volition, God can thus justify 'moving heaven and earth', just as He promised Zerubbabel — this time, for the entire human race. That's what happens here, from the beginning of the Second Temple.

For the last five centuries BC, the net result of its history was a conversion from massive instability, to massive stability. Man generally needs peace in order to learn; after he's learned, he is tested with both adversity and prosperity. So, these five centuries set up the peace for man to learn; a common government, a common language, a stable and reasonably effective set of rules. Thus Greece rose and fell, taking over from Persia; thus Rome rose, taking over from Greece. So in the first century BC, when the Roman republic became too corrupt, it dissolved into a series of civil wars. One general after the next was called in to restore peace to civil-warring, Rome. The final such general was Julius Caesar, and his condition for saving Rome was that they appoint him dictator; opposition to him four years later resulted in his assassination, and in the ensuing competition for power afterwards, his nephew Octavian would finally emerge victorious to become the Emperor Augustus.

Thus Rome finally had stability: it would last three more centuries. The Republic was never officially dissolved, but the Senate would never again have real power. Hence you see a kind of split personality in SPQR from this point forward; the territory Rome conquered was also carefully divided between imperial and senatorial provinces, to preserve a balance of power, to keep the Senate in its place. Imperial provinces were directly owned by the Emperor. Thus Rome effectively became an Empire circa 27 BC.

So by the 10 BC blessing deadline, there was a stable Rome so that word of Messiah could spread with ease; so those positive to Him, could more easily travel to Jerusalem. Furthermore, by 40 BC, due to his relationship with Rome and despite him always picking the wrong parties to back during Rome's many civil wars, Herod manages to get himself appointed first tetrarch and then King, of Judea. As a result, he can start reconstructing the Temple, which at that point was badly in need of repair. Herod's rulership was plagued with Jewish opposition to him; frankly, the Jews were unfairly opposed to him; they cared more about opposing Herod, than for Israel's welfare. So the irony was, Herod ended up being the preservation of Jerusalem and Israel, from 40 BC onward. So by 10 BC, the Temple sanctuary was finally finished that year at Herod's expense. Thus we see God used the Arab Herod, to finish reconstruction of key parts of the Jewish Temple, in time for Messiah's Birth.

  1. The 490 beginning when he's made King over all Israel in late 1004 BC rounded to 1003 BC, ends 513 BC. Second Temple couldn't have been built by 516 BC, without it. That's another yardstick God used to tell Daniel He would authorize the Temple to be rebuilt.
  2. The associated 1000 from 1003 BC, ends 3 BC. The Lord is born 25 Chislev 4 BC. For the Davidic inheritance requires continuity within the 1000-year period beginning with the time David is King of all Israel, so David's Greater Son would have the same number of years as King. It's a heads-up proof of Messiahship, too. Only God could make Messiah born at the right time.
  1. The 490 beginning when David Retired from Kingship in 970 BC, ends 480 BC. Jerusalem couldn't have been rebuilt, without it. For Jerusalem couldn't be rebuilt, absent the Temple's being rebuilt; during the 70-year voting period following the Temple's rebuilding, Israel was protected by the 2 Davidic 490's, plus the Davidic and Mosaic 1000s. The Mosaic 1000 would end 440 BC: 1440 - 1000 BC. The money flow for restoring the Temple and continuing its service, came from Persia; so there was justification for preserving Persia, since in effect some of its kings had voted to restore and protect the Temple. This justification mattered. For on the negative side, Persia was pretty hot to conquer the world; absent David's 490 protecting Israel, someone might have beat Persia. The Greeks actually did in 480 BC, the year David's 490 from his Retirement, ran out. From that point forward, Persia's internal strife increased. But also — except between 529-522 BC, when a succession war raged in Persia — its kings kept on voting to restore both Temple and Jerusalem, paying for it from the royal treasury. See what a difference positive volition makes, even in those who were probably unbelievers.

It seems that, since the Mosaic 490 and 1000 were granted preceding the narrowing of the Time criterion to David; that, because Israel's 490 was really predicated upon Moses, since he had turned down God's offers of wiping out Israel and instead starting over with him; it thus seems, that both the Mosaic 490 and 1000 would still be in effect. Precedence is everything. However, since Israel broke its contract with God in 1050 BC, I'm not sure whether that same Precedence would overrule. Clearly the continuance of Israel and the spiritual development of David was protected by the fact that Moses was the basis for the 490 granted Israel, even as the reason Messiah could come, was predicated based on David. So here, I'm assuming that the Mosaic 1000 remained in force. After all, Moses died before Israel rejected God as King.

  1. The associated 1000 from 970 BC, ends 30 AD. His actual Crucifixion year. As Romans 5-9 and the entire Book of Hebrews explain, the Lord's crucifixion defeated everything. So He became the Redeemer of Time itself. Hence Church, not Israel, becomes the source of the continuance of time. For the only time left Israel is owned by Messiah, now. His Life on this earth was shortened 7 years, so that seven years is owed Him personally. In effect, the Tribulation was thus converted from Israel's time, to His. So for Him, it plays. The Millennium, is His. Thus you know for sure that both the Millennium and the Tribulation are real and literal, never allegorical. So all the a-Tribulation, mid-Tribulation Rapture, end-Tribulation Rapture, and amillennial doctrines pandered by so many in religion, are flat false. They don't balance to the Bible's allocation for time.
  1. The 490 beginning when David died in 963 BC, ends 473 BC. Purim was in 474 BC; had it succeeded, we'd all not be here. Here, the protection afforded by Moses' 1000 which ends 440 BC, is somewhat overridden: because this is a voting period, historically. As you'll see for the year 473 BC in GeneYrs.xls, the historical 7th 490 from Adam, ends only 7 years later, in 466 BC. Therefore between 466 and 396 BC, a historical voting window also occurs. Atop this, is God's voting-window decree for Jerusalem's rebuilding from an accounting basis of 586 BC as He had the angel explain in Daniel 9:24-25. So Israel was in that second, special 70-year window from 516 BC-446 BC, which partly overlaps with the upcoming historical voting window. Thus positive volition in Israel was abnormally important for the continuation of time. Now you know why it was so important for Satan to deploy the Haman conspiracy to kill Jews: so not enough of them, could or would vote positively. Persecution has a habit of encouraging one to give up.

If you'll recall, Purim means 'casting lots to see who we'll destroy on what day' — "who" being the Jews, here — that was a magic thing in Persian culture back then. The notices pointedly went out on Passover that all Jews were to be destroyed on exactly the same day as the notice, 12 months later (at end of year). How petty and cruel. So not only was the holiday ruined for Jews all over the empire, but they had a year's advance notice they were going to be slaughtered. Confiscation of property was hoped-for, obviously, with such a long lead time. Hitler must have learned something from Purim.

Of course, the goal of killing Jews was pitched to Ahaseurus with the same old claim that Jews didn't honor the King, that their religion was perverse. Given the defeat in 480 BC by Greece, Ahaseuerus wasn't too secure, politically. So he'd be more than normally dependent on his advisers. Handy thing: wipe out the hated Jews and control the King, all at that same time. So the King signed this "pur" decree which would take place at the end of the year. (Persian civil and Jewish sacred years ran roughly the same, which tells you much about the Jewish influence on Persia, since Daniel.) Yet by the time the dreaded day arrived — 13-15 Adar, depending where you were in Persia — the tables were turned, and it was the Jews who got to destroy their enemies. It was dicey until the end.

All this came up perhaps because Esther was Jewish — she had married Xerxes I in 478 — given Mordecai's temporarily bad behavior, always outside the palace gates, snubbing Haman, surely someone learned his relationship to Esther. For her part, she didn't tell the King she was Jewish, apparently? I don't see how he wouldn't have known that before he met her. In any event, the Temple, Jerusalem, and all Jews in Persia would have been wiped out, but for Mordecai and Esther proving to Xerxes I, who his real enemies were. Well, they missed warning him about Artabanus, who murdered him.

Purim is in Adar, "the sixth month" of the Jewish civil calendar (12th month, in the sacred calendar). Fittingly, it becomes the month of the Annunciation, Luke 1:26. "Mosaic Law/Holiday Confluence on Christmas" provides further details.

  1. The associated 1000 from 963 BC, ends 37 AD. That was the outer limit of time itself, and its deadline is the ultimate basis for God's accounting in Daniel 9:24-27. See, in terms of years from Adam, 963 BC + 1000 = 4143 years after Adam's fall. So year 4200 is technically the end of the 4th 1050-unit of time from Adam. Its last 50 years are a voting period, so Messiah must finish no later than 50 years prior, 4150. But since David died in 963 BC + 1000 = 4143 years from Adam, one can't justify "4150" ever occurring: there's no personal time-grant 'house' lasting that long, to 'cover' it, except Christ Himself. At that point, only the Son of David, could buy time — and that, contingent on Him completing His Mission before the 1000th anniversary of David's death, ends. Again, it's like a baton-carrying relay race. So the missing seven years (4150 - 4143 = 44 AD - 37 AD) have to be assigned outside Israel's time, to even reach that 50-year window for world (i.e., Gentile) voting. That's why Father reserves 7 years for the Tribulation. Had Israel accepted Christ, the 50-year period would have become payable (it was beyond the 490, so couldn't be allotted in Daniel 9:25, but was promised via Pentecost and Jubilee). The total period was supposed to be 57 years, so David died right on time (57 depicted the sum of Passover week plus Pentecost's 50 days). But if Israel rejected Him, that 7 "bridge" couldn't play, and time would end. Of course, as it turned out her rejection also meant the deadline switched to 30 AD, because she could vote down David's post-Kingship years, but not the time he alone had the legal standing to vote. So his retirement 1000 became the new deadline, since only he had the right to lay down his crown. The Lord did the same thing; so the kingship and payment, were not invalidated by Israel's negative vote. See: the Bible's not kidding when it says (usually via Paul, but also in Old Testament prophecies) that Messiah came at the end of time. Literally.

This inability to bridge the gap in time — never mind that we are unfaithful — would be a major breach of faith; for God's many promises to the Gentiles, would go unfulfilled. Satan appears to win, for sure. For the second biggest set of prophecies in the Bible, second only to those about Messiah Himself, are about how the Gentiles will get the "Light". Isaiah especially, keeps harping on how the Jews are the only hope for the Gentiles to be saved. So there'd be no "times of the Gentiles", until you can justify enough time to get from 4143 to 4150. Tribulation is needed, to span that time. Question was, how to justify its occurrence. Well, quite literally, it could only be justified in two ways: one, Israel accepts Christ and He dies by 37 AD, with the Tribulation occurring contiguously (it would play over the last 40 years, but the 40 depends on the 7 for its existence). Or two, if Christ dies earlier, at the other protected window, the 490 running from David's Retirement — which is seven more years earlier than the outside limit allotted in Daniel 9.

For Daniel 9's protection is covered by the Temple 490 running from David as King, to get started (ending 513 and 480 BC, respectively). But the 1000s protecting it are those of his Kingship's beginning (covering all the way to Christ's Birth) and his own death (a personal, not Kingly office 1000). So if Israel rejected Messiah as both their King and as a Person — and they did — then all that's left is the Temple 490 which depended on David, not on Israel... and it ended 30 AD, since that was both the 1000th anniversary of David's abdication, and simultaneously, the outer limit of the original Temple, had it never been razed (950 BC - 490 - 490 = 30 AD).

Thus the original time track for the Temple, would be met as well. That would matter, since in rejecting Messiah, Israel is rejecting the Temple which Represents Him. Can't keep the Temple and the Land, if its Grantor is rejected. Now you know why the Temple had to be razed. See: 1 Kings 6:12-14, 1 Kings 9:6-9 for the contract linking all three together. Jews vaguely know that's why they lost the Temple back in 70 AD. You should find stuff about their recognition, on the internet. They still reject that Christ was the Messiah. I don't know how they can do that, given the Bible's math and history. It's precise to the very day.

That grant was given before Messiah came, and it was given to Daniel, who asked God for it; so it couldn't be nullified by rejection of Messiah in later generations. Daniel follows the voting procedure of admitting Israel's sin, which was the Old Testament version of our 1 John 1:9; then he acknowledges the 70 years, etc. Surprises me that no one else did this. God answers prayer, but He never does it if the proper protocol isn't followed. For, this is a Trial, and also Royalty means Protocol. So procedures must be followed. Our prayers aren't answered mainly because we don't follow the protocol. It's not hard. Takes but a second to do. Christians don't do it. But we are all Royal Priests, so we have the requisite authority granted from God. No unbeliever has that power. It's scary, how important we are!

Repeat: from the First Temple, the 490 ran thusly: 950 - 490 - 490 = 30 AD. David's 1000th anniversary of Retirement also ended 30 AD. Retirement legally justified time's continuance, because the covenant God made with David was personal and unconditional. It's a Kingship covenant, but it's not conditional on Israel voting for him. So God grafts Israel into David via that Messiah from your loins promise, not vice versa. For David must die, before the covenant is enacted. And he must abdicate before he dies.

So if the Lord dies by the 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement / Abdication, then Israel's vote can't nullify the grant to David, since its connection to him got severed by that Retirement. King still, but not politically over Israel. It's a personal Kingship. King without a kingdom, which kingdom depends on God's granting. The Lord of course is King by birth — but still a King without a Kingdom, even at His Death. Now you know why Psalm 110:1 reads as it does. Father's telling Son He'll create a Kingdom, now that Son has completed Father's Mission, the Cross. Right on time. It's crucial to the justification for the Cross, in the first place. For again — a 1000 time grant requires that the next person to receive the baton, get it before the previous 'runner', runs out. So notice how the first meaning of the Cross, is to create a Kingdom for David's Greater Son. You don't think God would just save us out of maudlin sentimentality, do you? If the Son isn't the One Benefitted, there's no justification for saving us. None.

So Messiah completes before the Davidic 1000-year retirement grant ran out; also, within the original timeline for the Temple, both of which ran out in 30 AD. Whew.

So when Israel rejected Christ, He thus died another 7 years early, 4136 years after Adam's Fall (= 30 AD): that way, His Successful Completion within the Davidic window justified a reset for all time by means of His Own Death. So from His Death forward, it's just a question of people being completed down here — always required — but we can't nullify the time grant. That's why there is no time limit on how long "Church" lasts. Whew.

Well, whew in aggregate — but there's no guarantee of time. Satan counts on that fact. That's another reason why you can't predict the Rapture. A Church believer's being granted a 490 (or 1000) still plays on the since-Adam principles, but there's no prophecy time given. That matters. Israel had fixed time grants in prophecy. It was up to God, to make sure those prophecies were fulfilled. But now, there's no fixed-time prophecy. It got used up, at the Cross. Instead, ours is a fixed-body numbers criterion, and since that's an internal spiritual development requirement of Ephesians 4:13 — for no one but God can read the soul — it's not possible to predict when we will complete.

Having paid, the Tribulation is assured by Messiah Himself. That seven years technically belongs to Him, since He gave up 7 allotted years of His Life (he was owed the same 40 years David received, but lived only 33 of them). Now, the grant of a 7 always means the grant of a 40 (precedence is Pharaoh of the Dream); so a 7 never plays apart from a 40, but is always within it. Thus during the "times of the Gentiles" which Christ bought to begin at Pentecost, Israel herself got 40 more years to live as a nation; with its second seven (4143-4136) being assigned at the end of that 40 (64-70 AD siege of Jerusalem). Mirroring exactly, the 7-33 components of David's Kingship. In reverse, of course!

Justice accounting is complicated, huh. And even more, vital to survival.

5. Israel subdues the land by 950 BC, the Year of the Temple's Dedication, 490 years after the Exodus, 450 years after they entered the Land, Acts 13:20. (KJV, Old Webster, Geneva and Louis Segond get verse about right — other translations don't understand that "μετά ταῦτα" isn't referring to the time, but the things he's discussing (getting into the Land, getting the Allotment), so they misdate the clause in translation — the judges were after getting into the Land and after the allotments were given but during the 450 years.) 1400, year they entered the Land -450 = 950, Temple's dedication date. And: 1440 BC - 490 = 950, Temple's Dedication Date.

  1. Thus begins another New Contract of God's Dwelling: "70 weeks" start over on the day the Temple is Dedicated. Language in 1 Kings 6 and 1 Kings 9 shows this, since that passage is the Contract regarding the Temple. If you read all of it you'll notice that Temple, Kingship, and Land are all one; can't lose the Temple, and retain either Kingship or Land. 1 Kings 6:1 deliberately dates the Temple building from the Exodus. There was a hiatus between the time the temple was finished, and the Day it was Dedicated (1 Kings 8:1ff) by Solomon. The text of 1 Kings 6-8 and 2 Chronicles 3-5 shows a gap. Furthermore, the reason for 1 Kings 7 is to explain that there is a gap between Temple completion and Dedication, due to Solomon's building his own structures; Temple is built, first; but it isn't dedicated until Solomon finished building his own structures (which fact will be wryly used by Haggai to Zerubbabel when the later builds housing first — see Haggai). When you add the two periods together, you get 950 BC as the dedication date (970-20, see 2 Chronicles 8:1 and 1 Kings 6:1, 1 Kings 6:37-38, 1 Kings 7:1). The interval 1440-950 is a 490 set. So the Nation 490 now ties to the Temple 490.

It really matters how you date two things: 1) the commencement of Solomon's reign, for he was twice affirmed as King while David was still alive, according to 1 Chronicles 29:22 (at Jeru), compared with 1 Chronicles 23:1 and 1 Kings 1:33-34 (the first crowning, at Gihon). The period between 1 Chronicles 22:5 and 1 Kings 2:12 seems to be the Adonijah revolution and the healing from it. Looks like David made the announcement appointing Solomon king in 970, but didn't actually crown him; rather, the announcement was in advance, to motivate people to gather and give stuff to help Solomon build the temple; 1 Chronicles 22:5 being the gist of what he had said then, but á la Deuteronomy, he recounts it just prior to the second crowning, after the revolution; the Gihon crowning 1 Kings1:33-34, being what ended the revolution. 1 Kings 1-2 shows the aftermath of the 1st or 2nd crowning, I'm not sure which — but probably after the second crowning.

1 Kings 6:1, the "fourth year of King Solomon" references Solomon's reign from after David's death in 963, because Shimei was finally executed the year before (see end of 1 Kings 2), and that was in the 3rd year after David's death, upon which Solomon consolidated his solo rule. So the 40-year count in 1 Chronicles 29:26-27 and 1 Kings 2:11 ends with David's turning over power to Solomon. 40 years of Solomon are 970-930; the "fourth year" clause in 1 Kings 6:1 follows naturally from the 3rd year when Shimei was executed. So now the reader knows that 2 Samuel 7:12-13's promise is being fulfilled (promise that after he dies, the Temple will be built — see Solomon reference it in 1 Kings 8:20). So from 970 until David's death, David was busy designing the priesthood and other Temple matters; Solomon was busy building other things, and the furniture etc. For the Temple-to-come were being made. That would explain why only 7 years were accounted to its building, from 960-953; everything else was prepared off-site or built in advance, pending David's death. 1 Kings 6-7, 2 Samuel 24:18ff, 1 Chronicles 21:18ff, 1 Chronicles 3:1ff, 2 Chronicles 8:1 shows the scoping out of the grounds, planning, and many other activities preceded the actual digging of the foundation, and building. The period 953-950 is another hiatus, from completion to dedication. Which makes sense, given the wall hangings and carvings: you wouldn't make those until last (lest they become dirty); they would take some time to make.

Next dating issue: 2) the commencement to build the Temple. We know per 1 Kings 6:1, it's 960 BC, which is the 480th year since the Exodus. The LXX of 1 Kings 6:1 says 440th, probably because they don't count the period in the wilderness (it's lost time), and are thus dating the count from the time Israel entered the Land. LXX verse next says Solomon began ordering the costly unhewn stones for the foundation, and that the sons of Solomon and Hyram hewed them; which we saw in chapter 5 (i.e., writing the King of Tyre, his cousin Hyram, see also 2 Chronicles 1-2 — notice how he writes of David in past tense) in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. End of 1 Kings 6 makes it clear this ordering period took less than a year; building time proper was exactly 7 years, so the other six months was occupied in getting materials: compare 1 Kings 6:37-38. The text in that verse says Temple was completed in the 8th month of his 11th year, thus 7.5 years had elapsed, measured from the procurement stage rather than from the digging-foundation date of 2 Ziv.

So in 950 BC, you have again a unity of King (under Solomon, a king God wanted), of Temple (here, dedicated, now permanent structure) and of Nation (all Israel is united). However, that triple unity will only last another 20 years. Bible language in Kings helps you track the King 490, i.e., when God says He will nonetheless honor the Davidic line in order to honor David. So that tells you no new kings are 'adding' to the timeline (not even Solomon, given 1 Kings 11:28ff); so they are largely apostate. So notice that by the time of Hoshea (Samaria), that language is no longer used. Again, in Jeremiah's day, by Chapter 25 that language is no longer used. And there are No More Kings after 586 BC. God had offered conditional guarantees to the kings, which might have resulted in additional king 490s, potentially. But there were no takers. After the 20 years ends, there's no one. David will thus be the sole basis for blessing not only by contract, but in fact. That spells trouble for Israel and the world. Satan must have been gleeful.

  1. Temple destroyed, 586 BC, due to Israel's continuing apostasy. Israel continued to exist as a nation because of Moses alone; then Caleb and Joshua; then, finally, David. But still its apostasy persisted too long and too much. Hence 950 BC - 586 = 364 years, 126 years short of completion.

Most of the Old Testament was written during this time. The United Kingdom didn't survive Solomon. So split into "Israel" AKA "Samaria", and "Judah". The former kingdom was far more apostate, and lasted until circa 722 BC; those positive to God moved into Judah during Samaria's decline. During the last battle, in a rear guard action the few faithful fought their way out, as I remember my pastor explaining Samaria's gruesome end. Much of the first third of Isaiah is about the interaction between Samaria and Judah, so that the latter 'sister' didn't succumb to the same fate. Language is extremely abrasive, in Isaiah: very graphic in Isaiah 28, lambasting the drunken parties Samaria kept having under the shadow of invasion, like the Titanic band playing while the ship sank. Judah faced continuous pressure ever since that time, and in fact both kingdoms had been paying tribute (mostly by robbing the Temple) for a good hundred years, even when both kingdoms were still alive. By the time you get to Elijah and Elisha, the knowledge of God is so absent, these two are called "man of God". Wonder-workers. So it's easy to understand how they couldn't even make it through the 490 years.

You're "positive to God" if you want to know Him for Himself. Not, for His goodies. There's no way to fake interest in something. If you are interested, you want to know more and more and more about the object, and the difficulty in learning is no hindrance to that interest. Doesn't mean you won't get frustrated. Does mean you won't want to give up. By contrast, when interest is lacking, disinterest reckons in terms of 'price'. So when the 'price' gets too high, the interest turns off (usually making an excuse). Sin and failure notwithstanding, true interest can't be driven away by price arguments. So, if a person has real interest, the 'price' argument becomes less effective, over time. So, when one is "positive to God", he will bethink himself 'bad' every time a price argument knocks him down. And, will get up again. By contrast, the one lacking interest will eventually feel quite smug about saying no. So most of the world has this sense of smugness, and crafts more palatable ideas of God than the Infinite, Righteous, and most of all Loving, Real God. Price is too high, see.

Conclusive proof of this fact is that everyone expresses relationship with God, however they believe, whatever their faith — in terms of price. Good behavior, good deeds, platitudes and rote things, taboos and days and all manner of do's. Stuff you do. I do for you, you do for me. That's disinterest talking. Maybe largely ignorance, too (you have to grow up before you can even love at a human level, and most people, don't grow up even humanly). Still, it's childish at best; and disguised apathy, typically. Point is, however "God" is defined, we set a price on the relationship. So no matter what definition of God we espouse, the "price" is a dead giveaway we really don't want Him for Himself.

God doesn't fault us for our disinterest. Your big clue this is so: the Gospel. It's believe or burn. So if you are at least interested in not burning, you will believe. From there, your interest may drop back to its normal subzero level, but at least you're going to heaven. Or, you might later become interested, and since now a spiritual being (though you can't feel that and certainly won't act it), you can learn more. By contrast, if you are so calloused that the burn message doesn't even interest you, then you die hostile. Even, to yourself. For, the one common characteristic of all people in hell, is their self-righteousness. See the guy in Luke 16:20ff, how he hates God (so much, he won't even think of Him, and instead talks to Abraham as if Abraham were God, trying to manipulate Abraham's pity). They like the pain: it feeds their egos. So, that's their idea of 'heaven'. They aren't worse people, compared to other humans. They are, however, getting what they want.

Nobody goes to hell who didn't reject the Gospel knowingly, and for a prolonged and constant lifetime. Nobody. When you read the bloody Second Advent passages like Isaiah 63, where the people dying have the flesh rotting off their bones while looking at Christ Coming, you realize that — hey, no one dies without knowing He's God. God is consistent. If He'll display Himself and then slowly kill people while they look at Him — so obviously, they can believe in time, before they actually finally die — then that's His policy with respect to everyone. 2 Peter 3:9, "not willing that anyone should perish" is the policy stated clearly, even in translation. No exceptions.

So next, pretend you are God. You see all this teeming, weltering, Ezekiel 16:6 humanity, imagining itself serving You. Among them, a few persons, just as weak, just as weltering, actually — miracle of miracles — want to know you as You. Just because. They aren't better than the others for that, but they really do want to know You. What do you do? Well You love them all, of course. But you are Love, so you don't coerce. So you aren't coercing, by giving those who really want You for Yourself... Yourself. That's what happens in the human race, every day. That's why there was an Abram, that's why there is an Israel, that's why YHWH, hayah hawa'd, why God the Son ... became (!) the Christ. So that's why we are breathing. So to keep on having the chance to know Him. We thus owe Israel, much.

So the fact that Israel didn't last but 364 years, well... it's amazing she lasted that long. We humans are all the same. And it's really difficult to want a relationship which, as Isaiah puts it, is "without money, and without price" (Isaiah 55). That means Free — and it means no cost is too high. Oooooh: we don't like free, that means there's no price. So, that's really why man can't stomach a relationship with the Real God. Let's not kid ourselves that there's some (ego-salving) other reason.

6. Now there is no national contract operating! So Israel is in exile. Temple 490 had 126 years remaining. Can God 'save' the 126, and thus Israel and the world? Daniel prayed for God to save it, them, the world... and God answers: "Here I am, Yes! Yet without gerrymandering time or truth!"


To Be or Not to Be, that is the Question

Since God has crafted time based on His Son, it's a real dicey thing whether His Son will be justifiably born. For, as always, the continuance of time is based on votes for this Son. Faith means a "yes" vote. God won't go where He's not wanted, and if Israel doesn't want Him, then the world wants Him even less. So will enough keep voting, so time will continue? That's the precedence question.

Hence the premature death of faith in Israel, left a gaping hole in time: 126 years. God had promised them a 490. So that is the lone mechanism whereby the entire history of the world, can continue. 490 - 364 = 126. So, if you take 49 + 70 + 7, you get 126, three of the constituent elements of Daniel 9's "seventy weeks". Remaining, of course, is the 364 years the nation (although divided), the temple, and the kingship remained 'alive'. So because Israel did limp along for at least 364 years, they can be 'redeemed' again: conditioned on the Temple being rebuilt. And, what justifies offering that condition? David's Personal 490s haven't yet expired. So, if enough in Israel are positive to God before those grants expire, then Temple can be rebuilt, Jerusalem can be rebuilt, and history can continue.

Note how rebuilding the Temple requires positive voting. You have to vote to return to the Land, vote to stay there, vote to keep on trying to rebuild despite opposition, vote to obey the Law. All this voting. So the precedence is, enough votes. It's only and always been about voting. For God is the God of free will. You get what you want, because that's how God wants it. So be careful what you want.

The National and Temple 490's effectively terminated in 586 BC, but David's Kingship Promise of Messiah remained "alive". For a pre-empting precedence remained based on the personal kingship promise God made back in 1050 BC and 2 Samuel 7, respectively. It's pre-empting, because the first Kingship promised, was to the Son of God regarding His Taking on Humanity, Psalm 110 and Isaiah 53:10-12. Those were promises from eternity past, which is why Israel was even created, main theme in Book of Hebrews. However, that kata-Melchizedek King-Priesthood was separate from Israel; the promise to David of a King from his loins merged both kingships into one Person, Christ. But that one Person still has two Kingships. So, He's unconditionally King over Israel, but they would have to vote for Him anyway, just as they had to vote for the first David. Next, they could also get the Brideship promised under Christ's kata-Melchizedek priesthood — which required two sets of votes: 1) to believe in Christ as Messiah, and 2) grow up in His Thinking. Hence the Mosaic Law had two purposes: one, to govern Israel, believer and unbeliever alike; but two, to furnish the basis for growing up and living in a second, eternal kingdom. This second kingdom is the main topic Paul covers in Galatians, Romans, and Ephesians. Writer of Hebrews helps the reader see the bifurcation, and how the second kingdom is used to rescue Israel from her rejection.

Since Israel rejected God as king in 1050 BC, she in essence rejected both Kingships. Henceforth the King-of-Israel promise became conditional (see how God talks to Solomon in 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 8, and 1 Kings 9, 2 Chronicles 6, 2 Chronicles 7:12-22; to Jeroboam in 11:31-41), but David's personal 490s are still running. Just as God kept on saying to kings that He would do a thing based on "My Servant David", so also the redemption of the Temple can be based on that same Promise. So only the Kingship 490s kept Israel going. Else they couldn't have even been eligible for the 70-year punishment Jeremiah warned about, and we'd all not be here. For God really did build time based on Israel. For when even she rejected Him, He raised up a progenitor of His Own Son's Humanity. For all converges in Him, just as God has always promised it would: Adonai Elohenu, Adonai convergence. Unique.

Let's Look at God's Accounting Genius!

This new Temple 490 thus becomes the macro criterion for continuing Time itself, Daniel 9:24. That's God's Decree, echoed in Jeremiah 25. God's Decree. Not any man's. So the Decree date to rebuild was issued back in 586 BC, when the Temple was razed, Jeremiah 25. Now Israel's appointments all have an ending: her days are numbered. God demonstrates all the foregoing in this Daniel 9 accounting; and the allotted time runs out, upon expiry of the 1000th anniversary of David's death.

That's why the Tribulation is separated from the 490 God accounts — it's beyond the 1000-year deadline. But a grant of time must be a 490. So how to connect the 7 years beyond the deadline, and resurrect the dead time owing to Temple's death? Those are the two line items and trial balance goals of the accounting in Daniel 9. For if you were a Jew back then, you'd know the 490th and 1000th anniversaries of David the way we Americans know the 4th of July and the World Series. So you'd know there was a breach in time: 126 years isn't enough to take you to the end. How would God justify healing that breach?

Well, due to David's Kingship 490's and 1000's — the last of which are anniversaries of his death — God can justify continuing time until then. For that's all part of fulfilling the 2 Samuel 7 promise God made. Question is, will Israel Vote to Rebuild and stay faithful? Will Israel Vote when Messiah Comes in the last 40 years of this 1000th-anniversary-of-his-death deadline? Messiah must be born by the time that 40 years begins, else the kingship promise is broken. God will keep His side of the promise. So it's up to the Betrothed.

Moreover within this deadline are three components, each of which is likewise tied to a deadline missed or a deadline met. To remind Israel of the meaning of Time:

  1. First, the 70 years Israel lost, since David's 490 running from his consolidated Kingship ran out in 513 BC (1003 - 490 = 513): the 'time slot' runs from 586 BC (when God, not man issued the decree to rebuild, look who's taking in Daniel 9:24 and Jeremiah 25). So it ends 516 BC. That's the deadline to have rebuilt the Temple.

Hence another 70 year period can be mirrored to 'reimburse' the first one, in order to Rebuild Jerusalem. But only, because the Temple was completed by 516 BC. So this second 70 runs from 516 to 446 BC. David's last 490 terminates in 473 BC, 27 years prior. But during this time, the Temple is up and running on its own 490 grant terms. And the true essence of such a grant, is 560 years, because a successful completion of a 490 results in a 70-year voting period tack-on. So whether you want to call this one the tack-on, or the 586-516 BC period the tack-on, it's still due. Just playing in reverse order. And why? Because Israel must Vote First before new time will be granted. Doubling restitution, mirroring. Voted no once, so must vote yes twice, to leave one net "yes" 70 voting period. Cool, huh. This 70 Saved Our Lives. Seriously. Without this Justice Requirement, the new time in the grant would not be allowed to play. Who says God doesn't craft blessing from badness? Were Israel not negative, this 70 would not be here!

You have to look at GeneYrs.xls, to appreciate the impact of this. So it's really this second 70 which bridges to the voting window, so mankind can keep living... and voting. Lots of people voted for the Temple during this time. Israel was famous worldwide for admitting Temple was razed for her apostasy, just as 1 Kings 9 warned; her conquerors frequently invoked that reason, to justify conquering her as well. Meanwhile, a lot of goyim voted with their feet and learned the Real God. After all, four emperor-kings authorized and then paid for it, too: Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes.

  1. So next, a 49-year period (7 weeks), still paying back 'old' Temple time, runs under Ezra and Nehemiah from 446-397 BC, in order to complete and distribute Canon (post-exilic books through Malachi). After all, the many new voters needed the Voting Manual completed!

Note the order: Temple, Jerusalem, and the Word Who will save them both, all to be completed. For before Christ can come, the Old Testament Canon must be finished. For He will learn it in His Humanity. No tricks. This might sound facetious, but it's not intended that way: just like the sitcom "Bewitched", 'Darrin' wants no magic. Kinda like 'Samantha', God Who can have anything He wants, wants instead, to throw Himself down. God-to-God, Absolute Love Expressed Toward Us. That's the only reason why it's Just. God loves God. God loves pouring Himself out to death for God, Philippians 2:5-10. Funny the hidden Bible doctrine you can find reflected in even a sitcom.

  1. At this point, the old Temple time has been repaid or reserved, so new time begins: the 434-year, "62 weeks". It's subdivided into 364 years (mirroring / redeeming the longevity of the First Temple), playing from 397 to 33 BC. That marked the beginning of Rome's consolidated authority over Jerusalem by Augustus, who would defeat his rivals at the Battle of Actium. Thus Israel would have a kind of stability it had not experienced for centuries, and the usurping pretender kings the Hasmoneans, would be outfoxed by their former Arab clients, the Herods. And in 33 BC, Herod who had been supporting Anthony as a longtime friend, footing the bill for most of the ships which fought in the Battle of Actium — was beginning to realize he'd backed the wrong horse, yet again.

So 33 BC begins the last 70 years — sabbatical years occurring in a 490 — a voting period. Again, the last 120+ years of a 490, the 'voting for the Word' period begins, as the 8th historical 490 from Adam ends in 94 AD (scheduled beginning of Millennium). If you want to know what the end of history looks like, look here. See how apt, this voting window: it represents the number of years until the completion of Word = Messiah, Himself! For in the last 40 years of that 70 — same 40 years as David ruled — He Himself votes to complete the Cross! So it was to be a special time of preparation for the 'Jubilee' of His Arrival. Now you know why He began His Ministry citing Isaiah 61:2 (see Luke 4:19), for Jubilee was always about resetting the clock, resetting your life, restoration. It was thus a voting period, for Messiah Himself. If Jubilee years were reckoned from the time Israel entered the Land and not from the Exodus, then the year He was born was a Jubilee year. If so, Isaiah 61 is a prophecy of his year of Birth. But I can't prove that true, yet. Certainly spiritually it's true, no matter what year He's born. But all of Israel's holidays are prophecies about Him — Passover is the timeline of His last week on earth, day by day — so I wonder if Jubilee also plays a subrole of predicting His birth year.

This 3rd 70 occurs, because during a 490 year period, there are 70 sabbatical years. Technically sabbatical years occur every seven years, and technically this 70 grant is subsumed inside the 62 weeks, not a separate piece. Still, God uses the meaning to bridge to real Voting Periods that He foreknows are upcoming.

Scholars and prophecy buffs can't get Daniel 9 to balance without hedging. Truth is, they misuse (or neglect) the role of 70 years, misdate David's death, misaccount the Daniel 9 years as lunar, and misinterpret who decrees in Daniel 9:24-25. So it's not the Bible which errs; not the Bible, which is confused or obtuse. It's the reader. Yeah, and I made all these mistakes, too. But math can't lie, won't balance unless you do it rightly, so it bites you until you get it right. Ouch.

  1. All this was scheduled to complete by 37 AD (33 BC - 70). That was the 1000th anniversary of David's Death. No more time left, after it. So if Messiah didn't successfully complete by that deadline, time would end.
  1. So that left the hanging 7 years from First Temple time, Daniel 9:27, reserved for after Messiah completes, because it is beyond the 1000th anniversary of David's death. So it would have to play in tandem with the 50 years allotted to the Gentiles, also past the 490 and Messiah (so not listed in Daniel 9:24-27); belonging to, the rest of Isaiah 61-63, when Israel's enemies would come against her and Messiah would deliver her at the last minute, if she remained faithful to Him. Again, 57 is the number of days from the beginning of Passover until Pentecost, and the number of years from the scheduled ending in Daniel 9 (37 AD) to when the 1050 ends (and Millennium was to begin), 94 AD. (You count Pentecost from the ending of the last day of Passover, not from the first one: see Numbers 28:25-26, Exodus 23:15-16, Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 23:8 with Leviticus 23:9-11, Deuteronomy 16:8-10 and related verses. So modern Jewish counting of the Omer is wrong.)

Thus believers would know how to interpret the meaning of these future periods, whenever they would play. And though the components are modular and hence can have any amount of time inserted or debited between them due to apostasy — say, units of 40 years of punishment, as during the time of the Judges — these modules were designed to play consecutively. Positive votes within each module justified the play of the next time module, without hiatus. Time has meaning. The components tell you doctrine. The very structure of Time itself, is designed to teach. Israel knew that. It wasn't a magical incantation of numbers, but a lesson in the Bible, where you were on a schedule of God's Will for your life. Israel knew that, too. Learned it the hard way, as we all inevitably do. According to the various dictionaries on Temple History in BibleWorks, the one thing the Jews assiduously observed from the time of the Second Temple forward, was the sabbatical years. Which makes sense, for you don't hear God chiding Israel from then on, about missing them. The Jews get into a lot of other infidelities, and in fact go overboard on legalism (whereas prior, the problem was lasciviousness, mostly) — but they don't miss those sabbatical years.

Jeremiah's explanation about the 70 years of captivity is in Daniel 9:2, and is key to a proper accounting per above. More importantly, it's critical the believer understand the Voting Meaning of "70". Daniel invokes Jeremiah's explanation of the 70, as the justification for voting, himself. See how he talks in his prayer. From this Jews afterwards could remember God's treating the 490 'owed' the First Temple as successfully completed; so the normal 70-year voting period usually following a 490, can play. If the votes are sufficient, then the Temple will be rebuilt. Again, its 'time' is protected by David's personal 490, but People Must Vote by going back to the Land, rebuilding the Temple, keeping the Law.

That being done, another 70 years was 'paid back' to Israel, funding the time needed to rebuild Jerusalem. So notice how that's a voting, too. Hence it lasts 70 years. This repetition of the meaning of 70 is really important, for God keeps on repeating it post-Cross, for Israel's sake (i.e., from 0-70 AD, from 70 AD to 140 AD, the same thing as happened in the building of the Second Temple and Jerusalem, happen in reverse). Restitution always requires a doubling. 70 years for completing the Temple; 70 years for completing Jerusalem: whether to build Israel up — or tear it down, as was done between 726-586 BC, and — despite partly being during Church — from 0 AD -140 AD. God likes repeating a lesson. We never learn it, of course. But we had learned it for awhile.

Again, this second set of 70 years is partially justified by a personal 490 of David's which hadn't yet completed: the 490th anniversary of his death. But that would end 473 BC. However, since the Temple was completed by the end of its own 70 years, it has its own 490 dating from the time of its completion, due to David. Baton got passed, in time. The 1000th anniversaries of David's Kingship start and end, and of his death, still 'cover' the time sufficiently, but only if the Temple has its own 490, once completed. So here we see the 70 years being justified due to the passing of the baton. So a 490 never happens without a 70 'in the middle'. There would be no 'middle' at the end of that 490+70 grant, for Christ would have to pay by that deadline, since Time would run out. Having paid, Time is Reset the year of His Death. So again, see the Justice of God's 'playing' that second 70 years, in reverse order from the norm. No one, Israel included, got shorted.

Again, 1050 is the basic unit, within which is 490 + 70 + 490 = 1000 + 50. The voting periods are contingent on the 490s and the 1000s 'passing on' to another believer God developed to maximum spiritual maturity. When the Temple is razed, it's 120 years before the 7th 490 is to end. So a 70-year voting 'bridge' to the 8th 490, would normally be due next. The first 70 belongs to old Temple time, as does the 49 and the 7. But the second 70, would normally be the grant for completing the prior 490. So God still plays all the right pieces, but since the issue is rebuilding, the first believer-voting-70 is used to rebuild the Temple, and the second, is used to vote to rebuild Jerusalem. So then the old 49 can play, followed by the new 434 years. The seven, remains in reserve as it's beyond the 1000th anniversary of David's death.

Back to our Countdown to Messiah: the time having played down to the last 40 years, Messiah then is born. Here the time accounting Changes due to the Vote He Got while down here: a vote of "No, we want Barabbas!" But it didn't begin that way. It began with shepherds, not priests in their flowing robes and ecumenical hypocrisies. God invited shepherds to witness His Birth. My pastor made a big stink out of that, teaching Luke 2 and the Chanukah Birthdate until the congregation was ready to scream. Thank God he did. Harlotry isn't just the gross kind. Ecumenism is the bigger, 'classy' strumpet. Just view Edward Gibbon anytime you like. Today's Christians of any denomination are largely hawking their appearance, too. No wonder people still think "Good Friday" is valid. Never mind, there aren't three days and nights between Friday and Sunday. We humans are blissfully unaware when we are most hypocritical and evil, because from our viewpoint, we're being holy and obedient; we're quite sincere about it. So we are blind. So when you read what follows, remember our negativity towards Him is even worse than that of the Jews.

Here's the accounting. He must die seven years earlier than scheduled, due to Israel's rejection. This is not a compromise, for He was Born On Time: 37 AD-40 years to mirror King David's regnal period, so to tie to the 1000th anniversary of David's consolidated Kingship in 1003 BC, means the Lord is born on what we call (due to screwups in our calendar), 3 BC. You can't forward-adjust the years from this date. Scholars have given up trying. It's really Chanukah, 4 BC (25 Chislev), but that's within 3 months of Jewish sacred calendar year-end, and is at the end of the Roman calendar (last week of it, that year). So for accounting, use "3 BC" in your calculations to balance. He must be born that year, for the 1000th anniversary of David's over-all-Israel Kingship started then. To be born later would leave a gap. Again, the awarding of 490s and 1000s have to be done before the active one ends. So He must be born inside or at the 1000th anniversary. It's "at", for the ending anniversary is 37 AD, and He must get the same 40 years of total kingship David had, to prove He's the Real Messiah. You were supposed to use Bible to tell who's Messiah, not go by popular feeling, gossip, politics, etc. And since at the time Israel reckoned years from Adam and David, it would have been easy to know. (Judaism still reckons years from Adam, but incorrectly.)

So on the original timetable, Messiah must complete by the end of the "62nd week", since the end of that week is the 1000th anniversary of David's death. God's counting down to that anniversary. That's why the last "7" is set apart in Daniel 9:27 — it occurs past that 1000th anniversary, in the last seven years of history. Hence as originally scheduled, Messiah must complete before the latest of these time grants: and the latest one, is David's 1000th anniversary of his death, ending in our 37 AD.

But the 37 AD becomes 30 AD, a further shortening of 7 years because Israel rejected Christ. Since the character of David's 1000 due to his death is post-Kingship, it can be negated by voting against him as a person. So the 37 AD deadline can be negated by a negative vote. Last David was rejected. But when David abdicated in 970 BC, that was different: it was God's voting him to do it to ratify the 2 Samuel 7 contract; and it was David's vote to do it. Not, Israel's. So the Retirement 1000 ending 30 AD, couldn't be negated by Israel's vote. It's a vote between God and David, God and the Last David, over a testamentary contract God unconditionally and unilaterally offered. Christ massively upped the cost of His earlier "kata-Melchizedek" Kingship contract of Isaiah 53:10-12 and Psalms 110, when He voted Matthew 16:18: to build a new entity — "Church" — upon himself. This is a testamentary vote, as Book of Hebrews explains. Whew. Messiah did what David did, and of course more so all the way through the Cross, and right exactly on Time: true 14 Nisan, 30 AD, just as Passover holiday's structure annually promised.

Notice how God preserves freedom and still gets what He wants. Here, we see the contingency back in Daniel 9: if Israel rejects Him, the original deadline for His death can be truncated to the next legally-unimpeachable year, one which does not depend on Israel's rejection. Hence His Death deadline's 37 AD becomes 30 AD. That's the 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement as King, which only a Son of David can eligibly use. Only a King can throw down his own crown. So the Last David throws down His Crown of His Own Free will, now fulfilling the 2 Samuel 7 testamentary contract. So now He Alone cuts the new covenant on the Cross (Daniel 9:26, Hebraic verb "karat", wordplay on brith). Thus Daniel 9:26 is fulfilled, so now Temple is destroyed, replaying His 7-year Cut Off (from 37-30 AD) in 64-70 AD, nested within the typical 40-year judgement period; housed however, within the times of the Gentiles, since in fact Israel's time had run out. Now everything balances. Because she rejected Christ, the allotted 50-year period for harvesting the Gentiles, is no longer a line item. It got replaced by Him founding the Church upon Himself, Matthew 16:18, explained passim in Matthew 17-24 (especially Matthew 22 and Matthew 24), ratified in John 17 just before He was arrested. 1 Corinthians 10:4, 1 Corinthians 12-13, Romans 9-11, Ephesians 5 and Hebrews 4-11, all elaborate on how Church was inserted. That's why the Rapture must precede the Tribulation: Israel has no more time. The 'bridge' to the Tribulation of Daniel 9:27 is "out". We are here to be built under our own and separate contract; during which time, we are used to 'bridge', to complete hers. Satan's trying to stop that bridge from completing, a kind of spiritual Remagen issue. Read Ken Hechler's The Bridge at Remagen. It's a WWII story worth reading.

The writer of Hebrews builds his entire epistle around the timing and shortening of Daniel 9:26. So does Mark, whose scathing "εὐθύς!" interjections slap the reader in the face. For both are writing just after Paul died. Temple destruction was imminent, now, suddenly, immediately, εὐθύς (!) Titus had invested Jerusalem off and on for two or even four years — most Christians could take the hint and got outta there; Peter went to Babylon (not Rome, see the end of 1 and 2 Peter). The writer of Hebrews was just returning from Rome, with Timothy, who had been jailed for being affiliated with the executed Paul (Hebrews 13:23). Mark too was leaving Rome (Paul had asked for him). So "mene mene tekel upharsin", the handwriting was all over the Wailing Wall. Still unseen, even today.

Epilogue: the Temple is to remain destroyed until after the last week of history plays out. Daniel 9:27, Revelation 11 whole chapter, Ezekiel 39 and following., Isaiah 63 and following. Repeat ad nauseam how only Messiah is to restore Israel and her Temple, and angels will be rebuilding it (see Ezekiel's description, and John's in Revelation). Dunno how one can make it plainer. And we've Two Stone Witnesses standing about where the human ones will be. Do you know, the only undisputed relics of Israel are those two, the Holy of Holies which the Abominating Dome now covers, and the Wailing Wall?

So we can't see these Witnesses, so the rebuilt Temple in Daniel 9:27 and Revelation 11:1 is not being done at God's command. God makes fun of it, in Revelation 11:1ff. Most Christians, wholly ignorant of Bible, think that the Rebuilding of the Temple would be a good thing: can't they read the Lord's warning to flee and stay away in Matthew 24? Nope. So the Jews can't read, either. So count on it, Satan is the one who'll motivate rebuilding the Temple, and both Christians and Jews, will be suckers for his ploys. Historically, he's been trying to get it rebuilt, ever since it was torn down. That's why he keeps playing on Temple dates (i.e., getting the Dome of the Rock built in a year that's the reverse of 586, 685 AD). Because, we all don't want God, so we want a lie, relics, feel-good, preening. We'll buy Satan's fake rebuilt Temple, too, as Daniel 9:27 and Revelation 11 so sadly prove. You can tell from the wording in both Bible passages and especially from Ezekiel, who spends six chapters on how God rebuilds the Temple at the Second Advent — that God didn't authorize any humans to rebuild the Temple after 70 AD — i.e., the Two Witnesses are there to warn everyone away.

In terms of the Timeline, the last week, Daniel 9:27, thus stands on its own; at the time Daniel got the information about it, he already knew that the final deadline of time for Messiah's life was the 1000th anniversary of David's death, so that 7 years was already late. Every schoolchild knew that; David had Solomon's accession offerings in units of 1000 (e.g., 1000 rams), each one representing a year in the countdown to Messiah, post-his death. Because, the Kingship was to be forever; it can't be forever if Messiah doesn't complete successfully, and to do that He must die victorious before the 1000th anniversary of David's Death occurs.. It's a relay race, God's basic structure of accounting for time: just as a 490 can't complete if someone isn't developed to get another 490 following the current one, so also a new 1000 can't be granted without Someone being Completed within the current 1000. God promised Messiah would be completed before the 1000th anniversary of David's death, as represented by his sons, ruling. It was an awesome promise, to be sure: who but God, can make time?

So God counts from the year the Temple was destroyed down to that 1000th anniversary, in the numbers He provides Daniel: 586 - 70 - 70 - 49 - 434 = the 1000th anniversary of David's death, our 37 AD. Note how there are three 70's, (one 'inside' the 434): the first is a loss period; the second is a reward for completing the Temple on time by 516 BC. (David's kingship 490 ends 513 BC, so 516 is within that window.) God always mirrors back successful time makeups as more time. The third 70 is the normal next-due set of sabbatical years (that's why it's inside the 434 = 70 + 364).

Technically any amount of time could be inserted between that week (69th, because the 7 weeks play first) when Messiah finishes and Jerusalem is afterwards destroyed; but whatever length of time is inserted, it was not promised Israel. Rather, it's allocated to the Gentiles, per the many prophecies rampant throughout the Old Testament. All Israel gets, is the reserved seven years of Daniel 9:27.

However: a 7-year period running inside a 40-year period was precedented for Israel by Joseph, whose reign as vizier, spanned 80 years with the 7 fat and lean years twinning in the center of the 80-year period. So Israel naturally would calculate the intervening period after the 62 weeks as the normal 40-year Grace Warning Period, of which the Tribulation was the last seven years. Hebrews 4 does this elusively: the "rest" which "remains", is likened to the 40-year period of wandering in the wilderness. Note the clever play on 7, "rest".

So in the final 7 years, Daniel 9:27 relates that the Jewish ruler then on earth makes a deal with a Western Gentile king at the beginning of the Tribulation (which means, anytime prior to or as a result of the Rapture, the territory roughly comprising Rome of Jesus' day, will again be under one ruler / group). The Temple is already blasphemously rebuilt or starts to be rebuilt at this time. Revelation 11's sarcasm is scathing. God's ignoring any Temple which is there by telling John to measure it (as if to begin the foundation) — with a reed. Reed, not the measuring rod the angel uses in Ezekiel. A reed is the Bible's nasty way of saying unreliable, fake, useless. It's also used as a writing instrument, and of course John is writing about it. So maybe the Temple just begins reconstruction, too. If the latter, then they are trying to do sacrifices in an unfinished Temple.

However, the king breaks the covenant made with the Jewish ruler, stops the sacrifices being made in the fake (and maybe unfinished) Temple (analogous to the Fake Church of Revelation 17); then, his fake 'prophet' (analogous to John the Baptist, AKA Elijah) puts up a fake god in the temple God didn't authorize, and plays ventriloquist (av demon = ingastromuthos demon), Revelation 13; and, having now fooled the Jews and believers, proceeds to kill them all — but then the Anointed One comes back to usher in the Millennium, just before the 7 years end, saving them all. Isaiah 61-63 records how that future history plays. It's pretty gruesome.

Important: if the Temple were rebuilt tomorrow, that doesn't mean the Rapture will be here the next day. As noted earlier, you can prove that Satan's been trying to rebuild the Temple ever since it was torn down. That's why the Arabs are deployed (they don't realize it), and that's why Israel is in the news, constantly. Satan has always tried to get folks to fight over relics, so we'll forget about learning God via Bible. This same tactic is deployed over and over in history. GeneYrs.xls plots out as many of the salient events as I could quickly input. More will be added as I've time. It's important to see how many and what timing. A few events can be dismissed as coincidental. But not a pattern of them.

All we know is that the Temple will be rebuilt by the time the Rapture occurs, or sometime soon after it occurs. Given time it takes to build the thing (seven years, same time as the Dome took), and given Satan's many attempts to get it rebuilt (finally using Islam to do it), well... it could be here centuries before the Rapture occurs.

That's why Church began on Pentecost circa June 30 AD, because: a) Israel had no more time, so b) as part of the "times of the Gentiles" it was possible that Church could have redeemed the time by 70 AD (strident thread in Hebrews 2, Hebrews 4, Hebrews 8, Hebrews 9, Hebrews 10, Hebrews 12 usually near the beginning and ending of each chapter). So you have two hupostases the Ὑπόστασις bought: the years 30-70 AD are "times of the Gentiles", and years allotted to Israel.

The Ὑπόστασις Came to Earth and Rose to Heaven, Victorious: so in GeneYrs.xls, you'll see how the personal 490s shift from Adam to Jared to Enoch to Noah, to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Joseph, to Moses and thus Nation Israel, to David to Temple to Christ. At His Death, all the 490s and 1000s since Adam, converge. The New Testament catchphrase about the "end times" is literally true. Time was supposed to end. Only because He came down here and saved us all, could Time itself continue. So the Millennium is real, not figurative, not allegorical, not symbolic. It is a restitution, a reward, a mirroring back of David's 1000 years — which after all, were granted so the Last David would become Our Ruler Forever. Because, the Contract will be fulfilled by that Living Ark, that Last Noah, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So the Rapture is Real, and really unpredictable, too: not based on events, but on believers. That's the precedent since Adam, and it's not changed.


So here's a summary of God's Decree that the Second Temple Be!

  1. New Temple 490 begins 516 BC. So the next increment to play, the 70 Temple years, begin also in 516 BC, running to 446 BC. It's a mirroring, since the Temple got rebuilt in time. It's also the 70-year tack-on to a 490, playing in reverse. Because, when the time ends, Messiah ends, and resets time. So there won't be a tack-on at the end. So it's mirrored, playing upfront. According to Nehemiah and Ezra, the Temple was completed in the 6th year of Darius, AKA 516 BC, dedicated on 3 Adar, which is the last month of sacred Jewish year and Persian civil year. (Ezra 1:1-6:15; search on "6th Year of Darius" in Nehemiah.) Jerusalem is rebuilt finally by 446 BC, 25 Elul. Wall rebuilt 20th year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, AKA Ahasuerus, see Book of Nehemiah. Prophecy of Jeru being rebuilt is in Zechariah, passim. Doesn't seem like Ezra is complete in English translation; but the dates will be valid.
  2. The 7 Temple weeks come next, beginning in 446, going until 397 BC. Israel, finally herself again, starts to go rabidly apostate; so much so, Malachi is there warning everyone. Nehemiah, too.
  3. The 62 Temple weeks follow last, beginning 397. So it should be no surprise that the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi, is written circa 433 BC, distributed within the next 40 years.

7. So, right on time, He's Born. It's a slam-dunk to know He's Messiah, pre-Cross or post-Cross: no one but God can make you born, no one but God can make you die, no one but God can resurrect you, and no one but God can orchestrate Time. Um, David died in 963 BC. The 1000th anniversary of that event would be 37 AD. David became King over all Israel late 1004 BC. 1000th anniversary would be (say) 3 BC. So 1000 years in advance, the Birth and Death years of Messiah would be known. So anyone not fitting those date specifications, cannot be Messiah. There are maybe 900 other prophecies He'd have to fulfill, but these date boundaries make it easy to eliminate pretenders. So anyone lauded as Messiah who does not fit these dates, will be accepted only by people who hate God. For if you love God, you learn what He says. In His Book. His Book, not someone else's (i.e., Talmud, Catechism).

  1. The Christ is born in the 1000th anniversary of David's crowning over all Israel, maybe on that very day, 25 Chislev 4 BC, to parents who are both the highest-ranking Davidic royalty alive at that point. In short, had there been a kingship, they would have been King and Queen, see Haggai 2 and then compare with Matthew 1 and Luke 3. For there to be 1000 years mirrored as promised since David testified at Solomon's investiture (end of 1 Chronicles), Messiah must be born at the end of the previous 1000. Can't have a 2nd 1000 play, if not piggybacked on the 1st. He's thus born 1003 BC - 1000 = 3 BC, really at the end of 4 BC on the Roman calendar. It's actually Chanukah's first day in 4 BC that He's born. The Real Passover Plot of 30 AD proves He's Messiah!
  2. Gets the same 40-year regnal period as David had, because per Daniel 9, you knew 37 AD would be the ending, tops.
  3. Announces himself at age 30, same age as David was when crowned at Hebron, Luke 4:19.
  4. Waits for the voting, just like David did. Doesn't impose Himself, doesn't ask to be crowned.
  5. Is arrested on true 10 Nisan, nominal 14 Nisan, 30 AD, so could eat the Passover yet be the Passover. Is "set aside" by being arrested. Um, it shouldn't have to be said, but Christ didn't arrest Himself in order to comply with true Passover law that the Lamb be set aside on 10 Nisan. Jewish calendar was running fast 4 days that year, had not been intercalated (per παρασκευή verses). Um, Christ didn't control the intercalation of the calendar, either.
  6. Dies on true passover before sundown (between 3-4 PM): 18 Nisan was the nominal date, 14 Nisan was the real date, had calendar been properly intercalated that year. Um, Christ didn't nail Himself to a Cross and then crucify Himself on this day, to fulfill prophecy.
  7. Dies when He's 33, so has the same number of years on earth as David ruled over all Israel. For Messiah was born a King. Um, it shouldn't have to be said, but Christ didn't cause His Own Death to make this convergence happen.
  8. Dies in the 1000th anniversary of David's abdication of Kingship, and for the same reason.
  9. Dies in what would have been the end of the second 490 awarded to the first temple, had it never been razed.
  10. Dies on the 1470th anniversary of the original passover to the very day. 1470 = 490 × 3.
  11. He's the temple, and He is razed, rising again 3 days and 3 nights later, just as He told everyone He would. Um, a human being cannot resurrect himself.
  12. 33 years post-crucifixion, Israel received the 7 years 'tribulation' penalty for killing their Messiah — truncation due from the 37 AD period when He should have died, minus the year they actually killed Him (30 AD). That's when the siege of Jerusalem began, mildly and fitfully, 64 AD. (Some date it 66-73 AD, but they set all years forward 3 to adjust out the discrepancy in our BC/AD calendar. As you'll see in GeneYrs.xls, there's no discrepancy to adjust, and we can't fix our calendar.)
  13. 33 = His Age, and David's period of rule over all Israel. "7" represented the previous civil war period, when David was king of Judah but not all Israel, since they had voted "no". So, it was a civil war again, from 64-70 AD (terrible infighting among Jews in Jerusalem, see Josephus). So notice how it's a mirror replay connected to Christ's personal years, and He's dead at this point, so obviously isn't influencing anything. No Christian can manipulate Time. This is math, not an "interpretation" of a Bible verse.
  14. 40 years post-Crucifixion, the Second Temple is destroyed, with the timeline running from Passover to 9th Ab, the same 57 days after pentecost, as are measured from passover to pentecost: Pentecost represents the harvesting of the Gentiles. Can't miss the meaning that they missed the harvest. Um, Christians didn't cause the Year of the Four Emperors, which required Titus to suddenly get hasty with the siege, so he could bring home a triumph to his adopted dad, the newly-appointed Emperor Vespasian. Christians thus did not cause the final stage of the siege to begin on Passover and end on 9th Ab, 70 AD. Notice how it doesn't matter whether the calendar was intercalated. The same double-57 count is based on whatever is nominal 14 Nisan that year.
  15. 57 days in the mosaic law represent the 57 years which were needed post-Messiah, to reach the end of the 4th 1050 from Adam and begin the Millennium, had Israel accepted Messiah when He came. That would have been a 37 AD then 44 AD then 94 AD spread, with the Tribulation beginning 87 AD, and Mill beginning 94 AD, probably on Pentecost. Um, we're way past that date.
  16. 70 years post-Second Temple, A pig temple stands over the Holy of Holies, and Jerusalem has been renamed aelia capitolina, a pig name. Abomination of what Chanukah — His Birthday (!) represented in Daniel 8, plus the future Daniel 9:27 stares everyone in the face, metaphorically. Um, Christians didn't rebuild Jerusalem and establish this pagan Roman Temple.
  17. 685 AD, the reverse of 586 BC, another abomination goes under construction, the Dome of the Rock — "Rock" meaning the Holy of Holies, the bedrock on which Isaac was almost-sacrificed, but the Koran claims it was Ishmael. It is constructed over the same 7 year period as for each the First and Second Temples (Second Temple's total construction years were 7, hiatus in between), ending in 691 AD. Um, 685 is also the sum of 99 (when Abraham was circumcised) and 586 (year of First Temple's destruction). Um, Islam is not about proving the Bible and the Jewish Savior correct, and itself a pack of lies.

Now let's elaborate on the foregoing. Repetition helps seal in learned information and also allows for seeing the same information in new angles. I thought I would vomit when my pastor kept repeating the same things over and over for months on end. Others in the congregation — and me too, for a time — stopped going to church during that repetition, waiting until it was over. Don't even ask what was the Divine Discipline for doing that. Yeah, was I wrong! Let's go:

  • He announces His Messiahship when He attains age 30, same age and manner as David did at Hebron (2 Samuel 5:4, compared to Luke 3:23). Because David's 1000th death anniversary is approaching, the Jubilee is approaching: the 50 year voting period that is to this time, end all history. So the Lord's arrival is the announcement of the coming of Jubilee, the Millennium.

This shouldn't have to be said, but the Millennium is a promise to the Jews. It's not a Christian thing; we're part of it, but we don't get that inheritance; we co-rule with Him over Gentile nations during that time. That 1000 years is a promise to the Jews, and it will play, for God keeps His Promises. He Himself, is Jewish, and as Jewish King He came to the Jews. So the entire message is to the Jews, about the Jews. Gentiles can get in on it if they want to. But remember the origin: this is Jewish. We Church were not originally even supposed to exist. And our existence is largely used to return the Jews to their rightful inheritance. That we end up being Royal Family is of course a boon to us. But we'd not even have that chance, had Israel not rejected Him. Point is, the Jubilee is for them. Then, and still. God help any Christian who's antisemitic because they rejected Him, alright?

  • He lives 33 years = number of years David reigned over Jerusalem (2 Kings 2:11) = number of years the Lord reigned in First Advent (by God's appointment, not man's). Three Passovers are recorded by John, to show you the number of years He was 'public', so 30 + 3 = 33. Other Gospel writers use more sophisticated methods and Roman-and-Sanhedrin related data, to show you how much time passed.
  • He dies on the 1470th anniversary of the Exodus, a point which John sarcastically stresses in his usage of παρασκευή. You can see how you're told the Jewish calendar ran four days fast that year, thus the Lord dies on the true (but not nominal) Passover, just as that holiday long predicted He'd do. Set aside four days earlier (arrested), then on what should have been the high sabbath — but was not, because the lunar calendar wasn't updated — He is slain before sundown, Lamb of God.
  • Not to mention, the 900 prophecies about Him all play out; most of these concern items over which He and his disciples had no control; many were embarrassing things over which they'd wish they had control, like how they'd abandon Him (sheep scattering when shepherd struck, etc); how He'd die childless (hence unmarried, duh) as Isaiah explained in Isaiah 53:8-12, something to do with wood and piercing, so far as Israel knew. And per Isaiah, whoever ruled Israel at that time, has Him killed; so clearly His disciples wouldn't do that. Only a few prophecies were items Messiah would have to invoke, like coming into Jerusalem on a donkey. Most were what others would do to Him, say about Him, His lineage, etc. (Aside: note that two prototypical 'antichrists' were involved, Rome and Sanhedrin — mirroring what would become the later Revelation 12-13 descriptions, which tie back to Daniel 9-12.)
  • As a result, He's cut off in order to cut a New Covenant — nice Hebraic play on words, that Daniel 9:26b.
  • In short, if you know your Old Testament, you can audit Him, either then or now; you can add up the facts and see whether He was a charlatan or really the Son of God, as long foretold (i.e., in David's wry Psalm 110:1). That's what you were supposed to do, audit anyone who claims to be Messiah. For there had been hundreds of false ones, throughout Israel's history. And still are. But math never lies, doesn't have a political agenda, can't balance if interpreted wrongly, and most important — is all in the Bible. In writing. Contract. Promise. Sevening.
  • So His Death ends up being 30 AD by our calendar; which just happens (yeah, right) to be: the end of the remaining 62 weeks, minus the 7 years which now have to be lopped off, since Israel rejected Him; so He dies on the 1000th anniversary of David's 970 BC Retirement. Specifically, His Death makes for a shortened year, since Passover begins the Jewish year: 14 days short, to be exact. Exodus is Israel's birth as a nation, so Passover is the First Feast, beginning due to preparations, on the 10th of Abib / Nisan; but the Lord dies on the fourth day of Unleavened Bread, a "3-4 hiatus" illustration! So it's a shortened week, a shortened year (hint hint).
  • Sorry, no Jew could miss all this convergence. You'd have to work at it, not to notice. It's like looking at the calendar, seeing it's Wednesday, and pretending it's Friday. So they didn't miss the convergence, they covered it up. Everyone did this, not just the few in the Sanhedrin who browbeat and otherwise threatened the rest into submission. For the truth is, none of us can cope with the knowledge that God is Real, and He loves us. Our sin nature in Adam, won't allow it. So we plotted against Him, back then. We plotted against seeing, we plotted against knowing, we plotted against others who might actually want Him.
  • Had we 'been there' during those years, we'd have done the very same thing. In fact, we have the audacity to call it "Good Friday", when it was Wednesday that He was crucified, Bible is bald about that: He rises on the "first day of the week", and will be in the grave "three days and three nights". Um, that's Wednesday, since the first day of the week is Sunday. So the Roman Catholic Church has been covering up for 18 centuries, and its dating is completely screwed up. The Bible is plain there's a hiatus of 4 days between arrest and Crucifixion, just as the Passover Law required. But is there even one Bible movie or documentary which shows that? No! So um, we are covering it up, too. For as long as the dates are screwed up, the Bible looks either wrong or so obtuse, you must rely on the 'experts'. See the power play? So why wouldn't the Jews cover it up, as well? Like Isaiah says, we are all sheep going astray.
  • Jews are hung up on numbers, facts, dates, law. It's a full-time Job just to orchestrate your day around the Kaluach3 calendar from aish.com (great calendar, but of course Judaism gets the years from Adam and Omer counting wrong). When you are raised in the Jewish faith, you always learn little catchy proverbs and songs about 1 this, 3 that, 7 this, 5 that; then you sing or chant them to show off for your relatives at Passover, Chanukah, Purim. For the numbers represent Torah concepts. The Hebrew alphabet itself, each letter, represents a number. Kabbalah is all about numbers and hidden messages. Yet here in plain sight is the most phenomenal number convergence, and no Jew notices that today?
  • Jews chant Torah every Saturday. You go through it over a year, each Saturday being a set of verses such that by the time you get to the end of that year, you've chanted the whole Torah. So at least once a year, David's dates and regnal periods are chanted; Daniel 8 is chanted; Daniel 9 is chanted. So in Daniel 9, notice that the only uncertainty in the timeline is How Long Messiah Lives. His Life length wasn't explicitly predicted because there were two possible outcomes, Israel's acceptance... or rejection. But the Deadline For Completion is stated, and clearly: if He didn't complete His Task before the 69 weeks completed, then history would end. End, in 37 AD. Not later. Pilate was out of office by 37 AD, and it's Tacitus who also records that Pilate crucified "Chrestus". Moreover, in retrospect we can see God patterned His lifetime to David's consolidated kingship period, since the King 490 must be over all of Israel, not just the parts that accept the King. So even if the Jews mistakenly think David died in 970 (and they do, as did Josephus), and thus misdate the conclusion of Daniel 9's timeline, well — 1000 years after that, is when Christ was crucified. That, too, is another blatant hint as to the fact Messiah has Come And Left And Was Rejected. Honestly, how can God make the Truth plainer, than all these converging numbers! Much more provable than some 'miracle' people pant after, like loaves and fishes.
  • At the Session 10 days before Pentecost 30 AD, Messiah is like David was, when newly crowned (in heaven, though): waiting for His Enemies to become the Footstools of His Feet, Psalms 110, another passage every Jew chants at least once per year. David's first seven years' rule was over Judah and Hebron only, the first week; notice how Passover Week and David's first seven years are paralleled. So, that double entendre characterizes the last week of Jewish pre-Millennial history, the Tribulation, 70th week of Daniel 9:27. So we now are in Daniel 9:26, provably. So much so, even satan gets into "Bible is from the Real God" advertising business. When Satan wants to 'help out', you know we're truly blind, huh. Watch how blind, in what follows.

This Daniel 9:26 period is thus a time bubble of no fixed duration, Church having been inserted. Yet, it's still analogous to the fact that some but not enough, of Israel believed in the King of Israel who is the Last 'David', when He came down here and paid for our sins. Which was also the time it took Solomon to build the Temple; so now, the time it takes to Re-justify Building The Millennial Temple; which thus pre-justifies a temple of believers (Church, Ephesians 2) being readied for the Millennium, being built "Now"! David ruled a total of 40 years; over united Israel, for 33 years. David waited 7 years to consolidate his kingship. So the Tribulation is analogous to the period 1010 BC-late 1004 BC. But, playing in reverse order, since mirroring David: David's rulership played 7 then 33; Christ's plays 33 then 7.

Leave it to Satan to copycat this same 7-year, building-Temple Grace provision; to mirror God's accounting units of blessing, and — admiringly — tell the world who God really is. Again, Dome of the Rock was built between 685 AD and 691 AD, 7 years! Oh, and did you notice that 685 reverses the digits of 586? Which thus is 'obeyed', 🤣 by constructing this Abomination of Desolating, Dome? Oh, and let's not forget that 70 sabbatical years have to be counted just like between 586-516 BC, so let's mirror them by having 615 (reversal) AD be the Year Mohammed begins to gather people (paralleling the Jews going back to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple). And, for good measure, since Abram was 99 when he was circumcised, tack on 99 years to 586 (BC) so that an Abominated Temple would be over that rock Abram trusted and almost-sacrificed Isaac on. Lasting even to this day, just as predicted way back in Daniel 9:26!

Daniel's "abomination of desolation" has already been repeated so often, you'd think we Jews and Arabs and Christians, would catch on by now:

  1. First was Nebuchadnezzar, duh. Maybe that was 490 years after Samson pulled down the Dagon temple and died, not sure yet.
  2. Next came Antiochus IV Epiphanes, circa 167 or 168 BC. Um, that's 430 years after Nebuchadnezzar baby first besieged Jerusalem (he besieged it three times, but the last two were enslaving). Does 430 ring a bell, Exodus 12:40-41? If you transpose the 8 and 1, you get a mirror of something in Ahab's reign; Ahab was the worst of Samaria's kings, and did fake temples (to Baal, mostly); so the content of what the later Antiochus did is very like what happened under Ahab — but I don't have time to research it and see what is specifically being mocked.
  3. Titus, 70 AD. (Cute — the Second Temple's longevity mirrors the date of the First Temple's destruction.)
  4. The Roman temple after the Bar Kochba revolution, circa 140 AD. (mirroring 70 AD, occurring about 70 years later, Wake up, people!)
  5. Constantine, another Greek 490 years after Antiochus, tried to rebuild the Temple, but it didn't work.
  6. Justinian attempts to rebuild the Temple. (Edward Gibbon talks about this.)
  7. 490 years after Aelia Capitolina, both the Romans and the Persians tried to rebuild the Temple between 600 AD and 630 AD (630 - 490 = 140).
  8. Up pops Mohammed, 610 AD. Nicely manages to die in 632 when the 630 AD rebuilding, doesn't pan out.
  9. So the Dome, begun 685 AD, is the latest "abomination", and remains to this day, just as the Lord warned would happen in Matthew 24; the abomination yet to come, will replace the structure that the Dome now occupies, and will appear to be "the" Temple (i.e., pretending Messiah has come, replete with talking statue to replace the Two Witnesses — see Revelation 11, Revelation 13). Hence the warning in Matthew 24 about not believing those who claim Messiah has returned (since the Old Testament prophecies about the Temple rebuilding all say only Messiah will rebuild it, namely, Ezekiel 39ff). Note that: one long string of attempts to take over that Πέτρα (Rock which constitutes the heart of the Holy of Holies), which represents Christ. Proving oh so cogently how all us prophecy buffs and Kabbalah crunchers don't read our Bibles!

Satan's games are many: he satirizes God's construct of Time by scheduled religious ploys. You can see him do this historically:

    • As we just saw with respect to Israel's calendar dates related to Temple,
      • Purim, the notices to destroy the Jews going on Passover, Esther 3:12ff;
      • First (and Second) Temple's construction and destruction;
      • Antiochus (Chanukah);
      • Aelia Capitolina;
      • Constantine;
      • Rome vs. Persia wars in Jerusalem;
      • The hegira (Islam's own official 622 AD date 'just happens' to be 490 years after Bar Kochba revolution began — cute, huh);
      • Dome of the Rock.
    • With respect to the originally-scheduled Millennium and John's Revelation, the Crusades;
    • Then, within 120 years of a 490's ending, he 'plays' Islam throughout its history (charted in GeneYrs.xls, too many entries to list here).
    • The 'discovery' of 'the theory of evolution' and "Book of Mormon" were timed based on a tandem rollout of the biggest treasure trove of original language Bible manuscripts since the 1st century AD. It was this rollout which broke up state religion in the 19th century; the aftershocks are still occurring, and we are in the midst of another 'Reformation': the fourth, if you call Israel the First and Cross, the Second. Human history is a long Reformation out from the tyranny of religion which Satan authored in Genesis 3, basically.

Satan's reversal are accomplished in characteristic ways, diagnosable like a fingerprint. When playing anagram games, the key letters or numbers are reversed to make the anagram; in Bible translation, features of the original language are reversed in translation, and deftly. Very witty. Prepositional meanings are reversed (ἐκ / מִן mean out from, not "in", εἰς is reversed in Romans 10:10, James 4:5's πρὸς should use accusative of hostility); subjects and objects are reversed (e.g., Romans 12:2), nouns or verbs are reversed to make God look bad (Mark 3:5, Genesis 3:11); and most of all, when God is the actor, the translation reverses it to man being the actor (1 Corinthians 1:5, all of 1 Corinthians 13 via 1 Corinthians 12:31's ὑπερβολή, James 2:22, etc). Every verse in translation has some kind of reversal in it. Even the begats reverse the meaning of "begat" (men don't beget, men sire; only women beget). I'd not believe Satan & Co. were so mocking and venomous, if I didn't see the pettiest surgical precision in the way they reverse Bible in translation. No translator would be smart enough to do this.

So, I wondered — and found — many reversals in the Koran, too: here are some of the simpler, conceptual ones you can even see in translation. Christ is made to play John the Baptist to Mohammed (Koran claims Christ announced Mohammed's coming, 🤣); yet the messenger Mohammed, has a Second Coming! Red heifer sin offering is turned into a Golden Calf in the Cow sura, with no one the wiser. Etc. Satan at least tries to key Islamic dates to mimic and play off God's dating system. After all, Arabs are protected by God under Genesis 12 and Genesis 16:16! Even Arabophiles like Sir John Glubb (and those who write articles on Islam in Encyclopedia Britannica) notice the propitiousness of Mohammed's sudden call, coming as it did just when Christendom had decimated itself and Persia. Gee: wonder why. 610 - 586 = 24, which was probably when John the Baptist started his ministry (he was killed circa 27 AD, soon after the Lord's ministry began; so John had to have been at least 3 years' preaching, by the time he died). So, Satan, using the longevity of the Second Temple or the BC destruction date of the First, or both — kindly sends his own mouthpiece, Mohammed.

Islam's official date for the hegira is 622 AD, which they call "year 1" on their calendar. However, looking into the Hadith you can derive other ways to count it. Derisive play on God's 490 results with the alternatives, too. Example: hegira could be dated 620 AD, if you date it by when negotiations with Yathrib began, or when Mohammed & Co. actually left Mecca — begun, is 620, per Encyclopedia Britannica's biography of Mohammed, page 607 volume 12, 1985. Note that if you add 620 to the Exodus date (1440), you get Isaac's birthdate mirrored (2060). Yet "Ishmael" (= God heard / hears the prayer), is born 2074 BC (Genesis 16:16, see also Genesis 17:20-23), and Satan's not playing off his birthdate! Good thing, too: for Ishmael would have been too old to be sacrificed on the Rock (would have been long married, since Isaac himself was in his 20's when Abraham went up that mountain with him). So by playing this dating game, the satanic joke is to supersede the Promise to the son of Abraham, get it? Lots of games like that: if you read the Koran you see the satire, big time. The Hegira mocks Exodus (Moses 'negotiating' with Pharaoh, so Mohammed 'negotiates' with Mecca and Medina); the Muslim thieving of the caravans mocks Israel getting all that booty on exit from Egypt, and its wandering in the wilderness; also mocks David's wandering bands who protected Israel, etc. Again, there's enough convergence to see something deliberate is being done, though the components and their measurements might be somewhat differently configured, from what's here stated.

  • So the New Covenant's first 40 years, which begin 30 AD (since He Successfully Finished) are like Israel's going out from the Exodus. And also, like Israel under Saul (1050 BC - 1010 BC), nested; playing also in reverse order (a point Paul allusively makes, in Acts 13:20; which is hysterical, since Paul's original name is Saul). Again, can God make this punning replay of Israel's famous periods, more obvious? We learn from Bible that we learn nothing from Bible. Who needs all those Old Testament signs, when we have the "signs of the times!"

Technically speaking, the Church has its own covenant; so it's a double entendre "new". Again, Christ has two Kingships, the first one dating from Eternity Past, Psalm 110. So we are under that Kingship, not His King of Israel Royal Patent. Look: the Queen of England is also Queen of Canada. Um, Canada is not England. So Church is not Israel. They are separate Royal Patents with separate kingdoms and peoples. Just so happens that the person ruling them, is the same person. But only the ruler is the same. Those "Christian Identity" people and "British Israelite" people couldn't read Bible if it bit them. It's such a travesty that they lie even against their own Queen, trying to make her into some hidden Davidic person. What mental illness. And let's not even talk about the Scottish nonsense about the Stone of Destiny. It's sitting under the Dome of the Rock! That's why there's a Dome, even there!

So Church is never Israel. Why Christendom is so mixed up about this, I'll never know. The book of Hebrews is wholly dedicated to this topic of the switchover, showing how the transition works. (Paul talks a lot about it also, most notably in Ephesians; the later Book of Hebrews looks back to Ephesians. Paul was dead by then, Hebrews 13:23 compared to end of 2 Timothy.) Our "New Covenant" dovetails to rescue Israel. The book of Hebrews literally calls it that, διαθήκης καινῆς — from which we get "New Testament", the name we gave the post-Cross books. For us, this covenant is genuinely "new" and separate, tying to that kata-Melchizedek King-Priesthood of eternity past: which Christ invoked to found Church in Matthew 16:18, so the world wouldn't end when He died. So the writer of Hebrews plays on that fact, to show the dovetailing: how we Church are being used to Rescue Israel. In the Millennium we'll help implement their New Covenant, the Church Bride Πλήρωμα members ruling Gentile nations: that fulfills the contract promise of Israel's supremacy among nations, 1000 years of peace from her enemies. So our "now" (New Testament keyword for Church Age) is the "Footstool" promise of Psalms 110:1, being implemented in a preparatory phase "now" (via Church), and the official phase, "then" (Millennium). Book of Hebrews goes through all this in painstaking detail. Key phrases are mistranslated, of course (like Hebrews 11:1 regarding what's the Trial Witness in the Angelic Conflict).

You know, God makes it plainer to us what's going on via His Word than if He flew a gaudy Blimp in the sky every day at noon saying, "I'm the Real God of the Bible, people!" And He'll actually do that in Revelation 14 at Tribulation mid-point. Using angels, not blimps. Won't help then, either. Like Abraham told the guy in Torments (last half of Luke 16), if they won't believe the Law and the Prophets, they won't believe a blimp or angel, either. Two Stone Witnesses there today, one Wailing and one Abominating Dome, watch them as you eat dinner, since Israel's always in the nightly news! Seeing, we never see.

  1. So the Tribulation was originally 'scheduled' to begin 87 AD, then truncated to maybe 70 AD. And then 'missed' those deadlines. First, the basis. God's 1050-year structure for granting time was known to everyone since Adam. So when Moses was given the Law, Israel's calendar — a calendar of world history, really — was based on His 1050 system. Hence Passover depicted the future Tribulation, and Pentecost depicted the harvesting time for the Gentiles. Rosh HaShanah depicted the beginning of the Millennium, so that entire month 'mirrored' Nisan, in which Passover occurred. Passover + Pentecost equalled 57 days, depicting the last 57 years of the 1050 in which Christ would come. But no one then knew in which 1050 it would be. Since a "7" is always mirrored and nested, and since you can't get to the last 50 years without completing the 1000, the "7" would have to play post-Messiah, as a mirroring. But until David, they didn't really know much more.

With David, you get the rest of the 'schedule'. For David's rule is 7 and 33, so now there's an additional "7" meaning in the mirroring. The Future Messiah would get it, too, during His Upcoming Time on Earth. Which time you then knew, because you knew David died in the 3143rd year from Adam, so Messiah = Christ would die in the 4143rd year from Adam. So now you knew why the 57 years was represented by the 57 days in the Mosaic Law. So you knew this Messiah would have to be born by 4103 or late in 4102; you knew that after He died, the 57 years would begin playing, with the last 7 being what we moderns call the Tribulation (they had other names for it), and the Millennium would begin on time, in the 4200nd year from Adam.

When Daniel 9 is given, then, it's a refinement of that timeline. Still ends at the same year; still the same 57 necessarily playing post-Messiah, given David's death year. So in our modern AD terms, Messiah was to die 37 AD, followed by a mirroring play of the 50 years for harvesting, followed by the Tribulation, and then the Millennium. Tribulation should have begun 87 AD, and should have ended 94 AD. The 50 years isn't mentioned in Daniel 9 because it wasn't part of the 490 God is allocating. And it wasn't necessary to mention it there, as the calendar itself had long depicted it (Pentecost and Jubilee).

But Israel rejected Him, so the calendar was now technically 'off', and Church instead was the criterion. Hence the Rapture, and its imminency. Still, it was reasonable to expect that God would want the original schedule met. So, Rapture could have occurred at any time during those ensuing 40 years from 30 AD-70 AD, for it was still within the original schedule. But due to Israel's rejection, Christ died 7 years earlier than initially scheduled. So the following revisions were expected, never mind the Lord said no one could predict when. Israel had been required to predict for over 1000 years, at this point. So it wasn't easy to stop predicting when the Lord said "no". It certainly was reasonable to expect God would keep to the same timeline, too. Of course, that was the plan, anyway: so the message was, grow up, people! Echoed in every New Testament epistle. As a result:

  • 70 AD would be the next most-likely date for Rapture to kick off the Tribulation, because Israel would have to get her warning period and 'reimbursement' of the extra-7-short years, prior.
  • Because Messiah died 7 years early, that 7 years would be nested at the end, terminating in 70 AD. So the initial besieging of Jerusalem in 64 AD (part of Nero's campaign against Christians and Jews) saw a large exodus of believers conversant with the warning in Matthew 24 and Luke 21, "when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies" (Luke 21:20 lists that phrase). They knew it wasn't the Tribulation yet. But the Lord warned about it, since obviously it could presage the imminent beginning... AKA, the Rapture. Again, He told them not to predict its commencement, but the warning to get out was given. Was natural to conclude it as a presaging of the Rapture.
  • Daniel 9:27 could then play contiguously, the 50-year period now being 'off' (no longer Israel's time, so no longer her Pentecost): 70 AD - 77 AD, mirroring the previous 7.
  • Or, Daniel 9:27 could play at the end of another 40 years, though because it was not her 'time', that nesting was no longer required.
  • If contiguous, then 70-77 AD would be the Tribulation So letters went out in 68 AD when Paul died: Mark's Gospel and Book of Hebrews (plus maybe 1 and 2 Peter, plus Jude).
  • If not contiguous, then 70-110 would be the final 40 years, and 103-110 would be the Tribulation
  • Alternatively, maybe the original schedule would still be played, with Tribulation occurring 87-94 AD. Lots of reason to expect that, since it was God's original design.
  • So when none of these events happened as expected, believers were disaffected. Now you know why God had John write in the 90's AD, penning 1 John 2-3 with such an immediate expectation. And then, why he wrote Revelation from his imprisonment (by Domitian) on Patmos, circa 96 AD. At that point, all the expected 'deadlines', had been 'missed'. Church didn't mature enough. Time to reveal the revised Plan.

Notice how we don't listen to God when He does give us a real prediction, and warning; how we don't listen to Him when He takes it away. Ever since Moses, it was known that the last 57 years of pre-Millennial history, were 'mirrored' in the sum of Passover Week plus Pentecost. (You count Pentecost from the ending of the last day of Passover, not from the first one: see Numbers 28:25-26, Exodus 23:15-16, Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 23:8 with Leviticus 23:9-11, Deuteronomy 16:8-10 and related verses. So modern Jewish counting of the Omer is wrong.)

Moreover, Ethanim's holidays all 'mirrored' those in Nisan, memorializing it: the mirroring depicted the 'other' side of the Cross. So it was a question of which 1050 would be the last one. When David died, everyone knew which one, 1000 years in advance. For he died in what was the 3143rd year from Adam. The 4143rd year from Adam would be 57 years away from the 4200 year from Adam, which is the ending of the 4th 1050. Rosh HaShanah represented the Millennium, when Israel would become the Head of the Year: calendar new, starting over. That's why the calendar was bifurcated into sacred and civil, each starting opposite the other, as a mirror. But in between, was this 'silent' period running from Pentecost through the end of Elul. Why was it there? Same was true on the 'opposite' side, another 'dead spot'. So after Booths ended, no holidays, initially, on either 'side.' So it was known from the beginning, that 'something' might happen to elongate the time between harvesting the Gentiles, and the Millennium. Moreover, the time left 'blank', was all harvesting and planting, in character: for that's what they did, during those months. So whatever this 'something' was, it had harvesting and planting, as its purpose.

By the time He was born, even then the 'calendar' had a dead spot. 25 Chislev, depending on intercalation lapses, was 'opposite' Pentecost. So after Pentecost still this dead spot. Of course, by then two more civil holidays were in the calendar, 9th Ab to mourn the destruction of the First Temple, and Purim, which also had to do with the Temple. So the 'dead spot' on both 'sides' of those last three months of the calendar, had to do with Temple:

  • It was 57 days from Pentecost to 9th Ab;
  • It was about 50 days from 10th Ab to 1 Ethanim, same number of days as the 50 representing the harvesting of the Gentiles.
  • On the other side, also having to do with Temple, 25 Chislev had become Chanukah, the day He was born.
  • But Chanukah was the 85th day from 1 Ethanim, not the 71st, as Pentecost was (71st from 1Nisan, the parallel). So it wasn't quite 'opposite'. Difference? 14 days.
  • So only if there was an intercalation failure could 25 Chislev 'equate' to the 'opposite' of Pentecost. Even if intercalation took place at the beginning of the year, the calendar would be 4 days fast as of 25 Chislev, relative to Nisan (5.25 ÷ 12 × 9). Still, on a gross basis, it was 14 days too high to be 'opposite' Pentecost; 10 days, net of the intra-year intercalation.
  • Hmmm. 10th day you set aside the Lamb, and 14th day you kill it.
  • Bottom line was, on the 'right hand side' of the calendar, the difference was imbalanced, relative to the 'left'. So 'something' had to account for that imbalance.

That 'something', therefore allowed for Israel's rejection. Messiah's death actually occurred 14 years shy of the 50 years for harvesting Gentiles go to "4136" in yellow column of GeneYrs.xls for the accounting). So the next 50 years were the voting period, reserved for the times of the Gentiles. His Death occurs 14 years shy of that voting period's beginning, because 7 years later was the 1000th anniversary of David's death; so it had to be 7 years shy, to start with. That's why only 483 years are allotted in Daniel 9:25, which is the remainder of time left, owing to that final personal 1000 of David's. But when Israel rejected Christ, they basically rejected the last Davidic protection. So they rejected the 7 + 50 years, too. So the scheduled 87 AD date was 'off'. But turned on, is the final 40-year warning to Israel, playing 'inside' Church's "time". Because, Israel had no more time of her own.

And we are now in that 'dead spot' in her calendar, which is the calendar of world history, not just Israel's. For the purpose of harvesting, "whosoever believes", John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Acts 4:12. Including, Israel herself. So when she looks at her calendar, she can know what time it is. And we can know we have no fixed time. Could end, any moment.

Review: Christ died in 30 AD because only the 1000th anniversary of the David's Abdication year, remained free of any mass voting requirement. So Tribulation years have to play double. The extra 7 already played 64-70 AD. Each number in God's construct for Time has a set of properties, therefore a set of behaviors, and math thus Acts on matter (i.e., physics) in predictable ways. So too and primarily, for Justice reasons, to communicate Divine Policy. Bible tells you what time it is, just like a calendar 'predicts' when your bills are due, the next holiday, etc. Except, it's for all history. So you read Bible like a calendar, not an acrostic or secret code. God always plainly tells us what time it is, 2 Peter 3:9. That we don't know, means we don't read it.

So Rapture could have still occurred that same 87 AD. In fact, the writer of Hebrews expected it to happen 70 AD; when Paul died in 68 AD, it looked like Church might be raptured — so out went the letter. Mark's Gospel, too. Paul expected the Rapture (Philippians 3), as did Peter (second half 2 Peter). When neither the 70 AD or the 87 AD years panned out, it was still possible, as 1 John 3 shows. Of course, the last 'old-schedule' year was 94 AD, and when that didn't pan out, God has John write Revelation, to show the revised schedule. See, Love never coerces, but Love always has a contingency plan. We're "it": Church, the Daniel 9:26 time bubble of history, the harvesting 'dead spot' on both sides of Israel's calendar, alerting her. Not originally scheduled on the calendar, heh. Still about the Temple, too: Ephesians 2-4, and all the Book of Hebrews, explain why and how; it, plus Romans 9-11 explain how Israel's to be harvested, with us.

9. So the Millennium originally should have begun in 94 AD, which Israel long knew. That would have ended all time 1144 AD = 94 + 1050. So all of us today, should have never been born. They didn't have the convoluted calendars we all do. For them, it was a simple elapse of time from Adam. Going by that simple counting, 94 AD was Year 4200 from the Fall. 4200, is 1050 × 4. Easy thing to know. That's why you find Jews and Christians so wacko in the first century. They like we moderns, were hung up on the Bible's numbers. Hung up, not understanding. So they expected the end in 70 AD; when it didn't come, the next benchmark was 87 AD; when it didn't come still by 94 AD and the Millennium was supposed to begin, John had to write Revelation (in 88 AD) to explain why. For John himself, writing in the late 80's AD (1 John 3) expected it at any time. But then, so did Paul (e.g., Philippians 3:10-12, in Greek). So did Peter ("slowness" verse in 2 Peter).

Of course, because the post-Cross period does not belong to Israel — though it got paid back for Messiah's use of its time, since it rejected Him — there is no promise about how long this time will last. (Only Israel gets the promise of set time.) So the only "promise", is "ταχύ" (maher, ahishennah, in Hebrew): meaning, suddenly, next-in-sequence without warning.

A promise of set time means you failed and your days are thus numbered. We've seen that precedent from Adam. (Genesis 3:14, Genesis 3:17, first mention of "days" of a a finite-length life. Previous contract was a daily contract with no time limit, based on not eating from the Tree — Genesis 2:17 is the beginning of death, hence a limited lifespan, as its moth-ttamuth, states.) Church has not yet failed, so its days are not numbered. Israel had no set time until she rejected God as King of Israel, in 1050 BC. Then God began to number her days, with David. When David died, you knew when Israel's time would end to the very year. When the Temple was razed, 586 BC, God used that long-known Davidic deadline, to show Daniel and thus Israel, how it would culminate in Messiah. So Daniel Chapter 7ff is full of end-of-the-world data, because they had already long known when, but didn't know how. So in Daniel, the deadline doesn't change. It's just further explained. Right down to how you count those last 7 years for staying away, just wait for Messiah, don't come back:

  • First half of Tribulation = "time, times and half a time" from Daniel 7:25 and Daniel 12:7 (1260 days in Revelation 12); this is the exit window.
  • Then count the last 1290 days in Daniel 12:11. Sum equals 7 solar years minus 6.75 days. Heh: a 'credit' for Passion Week!
  • Apparently the last 45 days of the exit window are horrific. So big bonus if you read the times accurately during the exit window and got away on day 1215 of the Tribulation, 45 days before exit window expires: the 1335 days in Daniel 12:12. Messiah arrives at the end of that. Notice how the accounting is from right-to-left: from the ending, backwards.

See, God always tells us what time it is in plain language. Not acrostics, mystical numbers or secret codes, sheesh. Only pagans use numbers mystically.

So in Daniel 9, God demonstrates the Justice Accounting Basis of restoring time to Israel, which was all the time she had left: 364 years the Temple stood, plus the 126 years short of the 490 belonging to the Temple (950-460 BC), was the accounting basis. This was all the time which could be redeemed, which took you to the 1000th anniversary of David's death, the endpoint. So the Tribulation would occur on the 'other side' of that, necessitated Messiah come early. Of course, that adds up to 490, which meant the extra 70 becomes eligible as the tack-on. So the total elapse of time is 630-7 years, which is: 70 + 490 + 70 (but playing out historically as 70 + 70 + 490 - 7), since in the last 1050 of time, the terminating 490 has no '70', and instead the new (Millennial) 1050 was to begin. Thus God restores that balance, so that the current 1050 can end, and the promised Millennial one, can still begin on time. Simple and easy to know, if you already were weaned on God's calendar as the Jews were. Not so simple, today — for in the first century both Jews and Christians stopped caring about Bible, so stopped teaching Bible, so we don't know God's Justice Accounting System for Time, anymore. But as you hopefully see by now, it's actually in the Bible, and all the Bible's dates 'tie' to it, even the construction of prophecy.

Revelation now Acts as the last elaboration on 'how' the end occurs. Only now, there's no prophecy about 'when'. That got abrogated, when Israel rejected Messiah. Hence, Church's days aren't numbered. Our contract is not Israel's, but rather is sourced in Christ's other Kingship, the Battlefield Royalty, eternity-past "kata-Melchizedek" priesthood contract of Psalm 110 and Isaiah 53:10-12, for Defeating Satan at the Cross. Book of Hebrews painstakingly walks the reader through the two Kingships, Priesthoods, Contracts, showing how Ephesians 2's joining of the two 'walls' (covenants), gets done. See Hebrews 7:15-28, especially Hebrews 7:18; Hebrews 8:7, Hebrews 9:15-17, Hebrews 10:9. So our contract is dependent on the completion of witnesses, theme of Hebrews 11. You can't say how many those will be. So it's a bodies criterion, both as to the number of Witnesses (Πλήρωμα people successfully witnessing before Heaven for the Prosecution, God); as well as a bodies criterion for what number of folks, God wants to constitute the corporate "Bride" for His Son. A Royal Priesthood (1 Peter 2:5,9).

So from Satan's perspective, all this truth must be covered up. For if you know God's calendar and goals, you will want to obey them. So for 18 centuries, Scripture in the original language texts — the only way you can see all this — has been obscured, relegated to 'experts' who by the way are mostly incompetent (the popular ones, that is). Those who teach properly, must be persecuted, denigrated, dismissed as kooks, etc. Those who believe those who teach properly, must likewise be 'put down', lest the Word be known. That's been the story of the 19th and 20th centuries, a long battle between the entrenched incompetent 'experts', all claiming 'tradition', their good deeds and degrees — versus those who read in the original language texts, and have the audacity to give that information in the original Autograph, to the 'sheep'. Same ol' same ol', as obtained back in the first century when Christ came. Here in the 2000th anniversary of His Birth (which began in late 1996, accounted as 1997), we've come full-circle. Kinda nice birthday present for the Son, doncha think?

So Satan can still win his goal of a Mistrial. If he does, we'd be Raptured anyway. In shame. For think: if he wins, won't God submit? Our God is a God of Righteousness. It wouldn't compromise Him to submit since after all, He's being unfairly accused in the first place. God is being accused of not completing His Promises, even though it's up to us, to say yes or no to those Promises. That's unfair. But it was unfair to impute sins to Christ Who is Perfect. Yet when put upon, He gave us His Cloak, too. God is consistent. If He'll give up His Son, He'll give up anything. That's the flipside of our so-great salvation: there's no such thing as loss, even in maximum loss at the Cross.

But we know in advance — analogous to how Israel knew in advance — that God will win, yet without gerrymandering anything. Imagine, God is So Inviolate and Gorgeous, it doesn't matter which way this Trial ends. Heaven is where He is. And He is everywhere. Yet, like Israel, we sure don't seem to care about growing up in His Word. History repeats itself. So Satan can win against us, like he won against them, back in 1050 BC, 586 BC, 30 AD and 70 AD. Our own sordid Christian history proves that fact, amply. Satan's 'birthday' present for what was supposed to be the Millennium's ending in 1094, and commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Revelation's penning, was... the Crusades. Not only God, plays to calendar...

The Millennium thus mirrors the originally-intended unbroken reign of David's line, and should have ended 1094 AD. Everlasting King, and a New Covenant Temple, just like Isaiah and Jeremiah long and often promised before exile. Just as Ezekiel painstakingly 'mapped' from Ezekiel 39 onward. No, we won't miss the Ark (Jeremiah 3:16)! Then the final voting period, the Revolution of Revelation 20:7, would last 50 years, at which point Eternity would have begun in 1144 AD. It didn't. We Church, who shouldn't even be here, began instead.

So right away, a lot of false doctrine can be pitched:

  • No, the Millennium does not belong to Church. We are in it ruling Gentile nations as 'helper' for the New Covenant to Israel, guarding her peace: but the period, belongs to Israel.
  • No, the Millennium is not allegorical, figurative, but literal as a payback to Christ: and through Him, to Israel.
  • No, Church is not in the Tribulation at all. But because so many incompetent, 'respectable' dufuses for centuries have bought into Satan's Fake Revelation 17 Church, it will seem to be in Tribulation, in order to snare believers who are dufuses then. 'Respectability' is a snare: means you value man's opinion more than God. So you go for form, rather than substance. So you go for the relics, rather than for the Real Person. So you go for the politics, mass approval, buildings and parade-like trappings... and thus are trapped by them all. That's why Satan makes such a stink over tradition, traditional values, ritual, movement. Trapped Israel, traps us.
  • No, the Temple should not be rebuilt until the Second Advent, but Jewish dufuses will think it should be, and that can start any time, since the Rapture can begin at any time.
  • No, the secular state of Israel's existence does not ipse mean we are the Rapture generation, because she shouldn't even be there. Dead bones in Ezekiel 37 means a resurrection of all Israel, and that only happens at the Second Advent. But wherever she is, God will protect her, and we Church should also.
  • No, you can't predict the Rapture by events in history, because believer votes, not history, determine when the Rapture occurs. So the historical events will always be Daniel 9:26 in character, because that's where we are on God's Calendar for Israel. Sometime between 9th Ab and 1 Ethanim AKA Tishri. Harvesting time.

God's Polls have not yet closed: anyone can still vote to be forever in His Kingdom, John 3:16, Hebrews 3-4, Romans 9-11. Once in His Kingdom, any believer can then vote to have the Holy Spirit produce a reflection of Him in one's own soul, John 4:23-24, John 14:26, Ephesians 5:18, 1 John 1:9, James 1:23, 1 Corinthians 13:12, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:12-16 (goal is in Ephesians 4:13), 1 John 4:12-17, Hebrews 11 (Hebrews 11:1 is on the concurrent Trial Witness Role, followed by a roster of pre-Cross Testimony).

Polls close at Revelation 4:1, the Rapture. At that point, we Church are the "sea of glass" depicted in that chapter.


Daniel 9, World History Countdown: the Shub (Return) of Messiah: its Meaning for Church

Past is prologue. Precedence is God's Assiduous Application of Infinite Justice. He always disinherits the one who rejects Him, but then provides a means for the disinherited one to get greater inheritance via the supplanting heir. Heh: "supplanting" is the meaning of "Jacob" (one of the meanings, in Bible Hebrew). So Israel plays Vashti and rejects Her Messiah when He comes. So Church is Esther; thus has within her Job description, the Rescue of Israel. For Israel's erstwhile Betrothed Remains Faithful. Thanks to a query from a reader, I learned of a pattern of "disinheritance leading to greater inheritance" which God started way back with Cain. God warns Cain that if he keeps on being an unbeliever he'll lose his inheritance, in Genesis 4:7. (It's vilely mistranslated. Should be "Sin Bearer", AKA Door of Salvation waits for you; which door you 'open' by believing in Him.) From Cain forward, you see successive disinheritances in exactly the same pattern. Really clears up a lot of misconceptions in theology.

Again, our kingship derives from the eternity-past contract, not at all from any of the Jewish covenants. All those covenants are unconditional, housed in Abraham, Moses, David. Those believers died victorious, so Israel's inheritance is inviolate. The King of Israel being rejected, was not rejected by David, His progenitor. So Israel, like it or not, has a reigning king. She will accept Him at the Second Advent, but notice He just flat conquers and delivers her, prior (Isaiah 63). So we Church get the only conditional offer Israel had, Brideship. And we only get it, because she rejected it. That Brideship belongs to the Lord's other human kingship, the antedating "kata-Melchizedek" King-Priesthood, Psalm 110, Isaiah 53:10-12, explained in detail via the Book of Hebrews. So we are a separate wall from Israel, not replacing her, Ephesians 2; we are grafted in, Romans 11.

What a comfort that is! We get, because they rejected; not, because of ourselves. We get, because He accepted; not, because of ourselves. See the parallel to what Moses kept on telling them, in Deuteronomy? If you were to concatenate his threaded refrain in that book, it would go something like this: Oh you Jacob, don't get fat-headed and kick because God is kicking out all those goyim before you; He is disinheriting them due to their lack of belief; and Jacob, He'll also disinherit you if you exhibit like disbelief. Deuteronomy is the Precedence: Then your Land will become the home of the lizard and the spider; your enemies shall besiege My House which I had gifted to you, and all My Land, which I had gifted to you; and everything you sweat after... they will enjoy. So that same warning, continues for us. Paul deftly explains this continuance, in Romans 9-11. Then, his crescendo: Romans 12:1-3 (in the Greek) are so blistering with sarcasm and then enthusiasm, you almost can't sit still while reading them. Same warning in Hebrews 3-4.

What a comfort that is! We get to be used to rescue them, never mind that they rejected; were we not once far from God, too (Ephesians 2 theme)? If you actually love, the last thing you ever want, is for someone else to be hurt. Doesn't matter how vile the person, it's a person, and you empathize with pain. And we were all vile, and still are vile — more vile after salvation +Doctrine, for we still reject it, right? — so we know the inside pain. So we don't want them to miss out. But their Ever-Faithful Disenfranchised Husband, loves them Absolutely. So they won't miss out. They need merely vote. At which point (theme of Galatians, Romans 9-12) they become part of Church. Better inheritance, than that promised Israel. For He is Risen, now.

So the Church Age (Pauline term, lexeme in Ephesians 3:20-21 and elsewhere) is inserted / grafted in what would have been the 40 years following the Crucifixion. So the Daniel Timeline is still right. No definite time was specified between the endpoint of Daniel 9:26, and the beginning of Daniel 9:27. We now see there was a long-known scheduled gap, but it wasn't part of the 490, so wasn't promised to occur then. It was contingent on Messiah, Whom Israel rejected. He had a Deadline — because the amount of blessing-time promised, would have ended 37 and then finally, 30 AD. Because He met that deadline, we get no deadline. Flipside of that boon is the bane: time can end at any minute. For, do you know what everyone else is learning about Christ? Negative votes can end time, just as positive ones can complete the testimony or buy time.

So, then: since the Voting is open-ended; since the polls are open but can close at any time, since we can't say how we compare with others learning Him: then we can't predict when the Rapture can occur. We are like those virgins waiting for the Bridegroom, and when He comes, well... will we be spiritually ready? Bible verses always have stacked layers of meaning. One of them always pertains to the post-salvation life. Here, we gotta Grow Up In Time. Main layer is the comparison between unbelievers — the ones without oil, since oil means the Spirit, see Zechariah lampstands' vision — but the post-salvation parallel would be Fellowship (πληρόω, filled with the Spirit). So you can be an oil-less believer, too.

So what's the timeline in our "now"? Well, the 490s and 1050s keep playing post-Cross, as GeneYrs.xls shows. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 still operate. These trends are plottable and observable. The descriptions in that section are right. Again, that's because math can't lie: I found my benchmarking error in MirrorNOW, by actually plotting all the 490s and 1000s in GeneYrs.xls. See? How we read math can be wrong, but if you keep auditing back to source and match causes, you can test for errors. That's how you are supposed to test Scripture, too. Ergo, you can learn to fix mistakes and 'add it up' properly. God gives us insight, "without money and without price", as He says in Isaiah 55. Breathe 1 John 1:9 as needed, live in God's System, ask Our Mutual Dad, and you'll see all this for yourself. That's how I got it, that's how anyone gets it. Yes, stay under your right pastor all your life. But use what he teaches, by studying yourself. That's how you're supposed to use your grammar school and college education — how much more, your spiritual education? So we can't blame our priests and pastors for our errant beliefs, huh...

So the Church Age Believer is being made the cause of those debits and credits of Time, based on whether he's become debited or credited, with learning Bible in God's System. Just as it was, for Christ Himself. Again, We Are Here To Redeem Time, because we are the Firstborn of the Firstborn, Who is the Redeemer, Hebrews 1:2, Hebrews 6, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:6 (Greek); Hebrews 11:28, Hebrews 11:40, Hebrews 12:23; 1 John 4:17, Colossians 4:5, Ephesians 5:16.

The 'Last is First' Commercial Message of Hebrews 11:1,6,40: you are supposed to become a '490' in yourself. That's the plan of God for your life. You are supposed to become a King-Priest, which means that His Thinking is supposed to be bigger in you than the aggregate faith of the kingdom you are destined to Rule Forever. They will need such a person. Will you grow to Πλήρωμα, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4:13? Will I? That is the Drama Play in every believer home near you. And not near you. For that's God's Plan for each of us, no exceptions — but whether we agree to grow that far, is a Personal Decision, each moment of our lives. To be Πλήρωμα or not to be Πλήρωμα, that is the Question. Christ did grow that far, Ephesians 4:13. Hence that is our Destiny as Living Stones, ὑπογραμμοί built upon the Hupogrammon, 1 Peter 2:21; we take it, or do not. No middle ground.


Appendix

Other Research Sources on the 490 Dating System You might find Useful

I didn't use any of the material below for developing this page, not even my pastor's material on Daniel 9. I was aiming for the spiritual equivalent of a double-blind clinical study. (That's my modus operandi with respect to all my content, frankly.) After I did this section in substantially its present form, I then started searching out what else on God's 490 dating system is 'out there'. What follows seems to provide the reader with the most thought-provoking material, even where wrong. Since 2005 when I wrote what's below, there are many more webpages.

"Thought-provoking" is the goal of the spiritual life, because it's all about God the Holy Spirit building spiritual-brain DDNA in you, linking line to line, precept to precept, so you end up thinking like Christ. So what's "thought-provoking" may be correct or incorrect, doesn't matter. What matters is the practice. It's just like chess, football, nascar, name your favorite actively thinking sport. Going on in your head, before the Lord, as you are a Royal Priest to Father forever, that first nanosecond you first believed in Christ.

On February 7, 2005, I searched dogpile to learn how many on the internet say stuff about the 490: the search words were 490 +Israel +Bible. There were 66 websites, each one very different, often using very different dates, all of them tracking 490's; but I didn't see any of them notice the extensive mirroring God does (though some know the subcomponents). Here are the links which seemed most intriguing with reference to their analytical approach, even if the approach has some not-so-scholastic elements. I don't know any of these people.

I didn't care if they agreed with 'my' approach or results, and they didn't. Your own Head has to keep turning Bible over in God's System, so to get that practice doesn't require reviewing only good ideas, or only ideas one finds 'acceptable'. So here are some other websites to use for thinking-Bible practice:

The next five URLs belong to a site which is into making pictures out of Bible letters and believing that current-day events are thus 'foretold'. That is not how to use the Bible; yet the links below, from the same site, demonstrate thinking, not drawing. Thinking is the key to the spiritual life, so it doesn't matter that we might have a few barnacles, too. We are all learning!


Side tangent on the Bible's Hastening-Birth application of the 490s to Church

For unlike Israel, we have no prophecy time. So like time did for Noah, it runs contingent, hidden, can end any second. And since Christ is risen, the impact (quality) of each 490 (or 1000) must be a bazillion times bigger. So it's not merely a potential 490 years of blessing per each of us, but way bigger in quality and ultimately, in time itself: can't even calculate it. So be scared of not getting in and staying in, God's System!

So, think hard: what must be the impact now, since Christ is seated, and is (as Hebrews 1-3 puts it), superior? Peter calls it hastening the birth of the New Covenant to Israel, using the most astounding wordplay in 2 Peter 3:11-12. 2 Peter 3:12 uses the verb "σπεύδω", which in the LXX (which Peter clearly knew) was used to translate the pregancy labor pains "hastening" "maher" in the Hebrew text. Hebrew "maher" is closely tied to imminency. Imminency of birth, specifically. Idea was, the Jews were to grow up in Knowledge of Adonai Elohenu, be 'pregnant' with it. For by His Mastery of Knowledge Adonai Elohenu, now hawa'd into HaMaschiach (= Χριστός, in LXX), would pay for sins, Isaiah 52:13-54:1. So the sterility of the rest of the world is a womb, even as sins are made to work like a womb (see last half of Romans 8 — Peter's alluding to it here): a vessel used for the birthing of our Salvation.

So now Church gets the maher'ing baton, Israel having rejected it. So Peter writes (in 2 Peter 3:11-12):

What kind of persons must we become in a dedicated to God lifestyle, since all this world will be destroyed? So seeking and thus hastening (maher, σπεύδω) the arrival of the Day of God?

τούτων οὖν πάντων λυομένων ποταποὺς δεῖ ὑπάρχειν ὑμᾶς ἐν ἁγίαις ἀναστροφαῖς καὶ εὐσεβείαις, προσδοκῶντας καὶ σπεύδοντας τὴν παρουσίαν τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμέρας, δι᾽ ἣν οὐρανοὶ πυρούμενοι λυθήσονται καὶ στοιχεῖα καυσούμενα τήκεται.

Note that last phrase, it's an important play on words: not the day of the Lord our Savior, but of the Father, AKA the Rapture, legal incorporation by reference of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (tying at "trump of God" in English Bibles). Note also how it ends: "because of which (Day)" the destruction of heavens and earth occurs. That's yet another way of saying the rest of history cannot finish, until the Rapture occurs. Which we, by becoming "σπεύδοντας", pregnant with Word, "hasten". 2 Peter 3:11-12 is badly mistranslated in Bibles. The underlined portion, is my pastor's translation as I remember it. Rest of the verse is summarized like Bible writers do when they reference or interpret the quote: not verbatim. Peter plays with ὑπό-prefixed words in nearly every sentence of his letter: in 2 Peter 3:11, it's ὑπάρχειν. Wifely submission to Our Husband-Savior is a running subtheme of his letter, hence the ὑπό and stone words.

It's passages like 2 Peter 3:11-12 which make me think this letter is written post-Temple; but one could argue it's because of the siege that Peter, like Mark and the writer of Hebrews, expect the Rapture to occur at any moment. But Peter then talks about how the Lord is not slow as some count slowness, which would mean the expected Rapture did not occur, so he must reference the why. So again — that argues for a Post-Temple date on 2 Peter and hence on his own demise. This idea needs a lot more legwork, though, to vet.

What isn't in doubt: this verse says the Rapture causes the rest of history. Mid-Tribulationists use the "trump of God" in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 incorrectly. The last trumpet in Revelation does begin the second half of the Tribulation, but (among other things) this verse in Peter proves the two are unrelated. Clause "because of which" is preposition διά + feminine singular of Hosea ("day" is ἡμέρα, a feminine noun), so it means through that Day the rest happens. Conduit. Causal translation in NASB of διά as "because of which", is apt, because here διά takes the accusative, stressing cause. But he's using wordplay again, since διά's normal case is the genitive. Generating, and with a Time Meaning — birthing, in other words. See, Peter really knew his Greek — he had the Holy Spirit's Brains, that's why!


How God 'amortizes' Layers of Blessing, to fund Time

These 490s are layered atop each other. The more layers, the more prosperity to the world (quality-of-time improves). The fewer layers, the more adversity the world gets.

Here I gotta explain something about amortization bases, for God essentially finances time via amortization. You're more familiar with "amortization" than you know: it's a different word, but the exact same concept, as financing your car, your house: "buying on time". Here, time itself is financed by God. So you're also familiar with the fact you must set aside savings every year for retirement, to be able to retire on time. In what we call "actuarial science", one 'amortizes' the results of all those savings in a retirement plan, to decide whether deposits must go up or down, to stay "on time". Social Security programs in every nation of the world, are based on this concept of amortization. So see? Much in your life depends on what "amortization" means. Time itself, even.

So let's explore how "amortization" works in God's Divine Benefit Plan by using its secular counterpart, a "defined benefit plan" (underlying mechanism behind Social Security). If you've got 50 years to fund your retirement, you have to tack in the wind when yields on your annual deposits, turn out to be better or worse than expected. Else you might have too much or too little in the fund, 50 years later. So you wall off the gains and losses you didn't expect, and offset them against each other. They play for time periods, and any net overage or cost, adds to the 'normal' (expected) annual deposit for the 50 years. (I oversimplify.)

So: your cost for years after the first is the sum of the initial deposit (oversimplified) and the net amortization of those intervening gains and losses. So in theory, since the 50 years doesn't change, the amount you put into your retirement plan, does change; but not so much as to be disruptive. Because, you're amortizing over separate periods of time, those gains and losses. They run on their own time tracks, but the net value adds to your deposit; so you hopefully arrive on time 50 years later, fully funded. Same concept applies in finance of capital projects (i.e., a steel mill, how do you pay for it over time), or even a house (i.e., a mortgage can be adjustable). Again, I oversimplify: point is, you separate, offset, and then add the net of any amounts which don't play as planned, to the amounts you planned.

Here's a simple example. Say that you needed $100 to fund a lifetime of retirement income, 50 years hence. So, if you got no interest, you'd deposit $2 annually for 50 years. But you're not stupid. You invest that $2. So pretend that the following year you'd been real lucky, and that $2 earned $12 more! Since that money is invested, it might later lose, even if you cashed it in to lock in the gain — for you'd invest the $12, too. So how to treat it? Do you skip contributions for the next six years? Well you could, but who knows if you'll have $2 six years out? So: you can instead be conservative, and amortize the gain of the $12 over 10 years. Which amortization (pretend, oversimplifying) for the following year, is $1. So you put in $1 the following year ($2-the $1).

Now, it's year 3. Pretend that the whopping gain you got, resulted in a whopping loss: that $12, suddenly became $6. Oops. What do you do? Well, the $6 gets amortized separately too. Notice how its 10-year period begins a year later, so it would continue a year later. So now your deposit becomes the regular $2, minus .50 (the amortization of 12, minus the amortization of the 6). So you deposit $1.50. Of course, in year 11, the initial $12 gain base, runs out. So in year 12, you'll have to pay 2.50 (assuming no other amortization bases existed then) for another year. Then it would go back to $2.00, again.

Notice how the amortization bases smooth out, stabilize, your annual costs. Time needs to be stable. And that's why, when blessing can be granted due to multiple 490s (a type of amortization gain), it offsets the huge losses due to negative volition. Stabilizing, time itself. So we can all grow, negative or positive. For God loves everyone. Never mind that we don't love Him, 1 John 4:19.

This is how God plays time. He doesn't robotically dole out the years' gains or losses as in the above example; but analogous to it, He does 'finance' separate timelines: so the 'amortization base' of one or more 490s and 1000s determines the quality and ending, of historical time. Without a running amortization base of time assigned to a believer, there is no time. That's been true since Adam, and that's true still.

So if several people were matured spiritually enough to be granted a 490, each one of them is made a type of amortization base for Time itself. Here, Noah is one base, 490 years: it starts Year 1556 (from Adam's Fall), our 2550 BC (well, really late that year); it ends Year 2046, our 2060 BC, the year God's Covenant to Abram was delivered via Isaac's birth. Notice how the Covenant to Abraham nests within the last year of Noah's 490. God always does this. For Abraham must become a base within that 490 years for there to be new base: since Noah's, runs out. It's not always a last-minute thing: point is, it must occur by the time that last year runs out, or time itself, will cease.

You know, if people worldwide understood this, they'd be up in arms with hostility. Irony is, here we see provable demonstration of God's Everlasting Arms (Deuteronomy 33:27), on behalf of people worldwide. How we hate Grace!

In short, God's funding for Time demands a basis. Specifically, a justice basis. So these 490s can stack, and they run on their own time tracks, but they fund the justification for the historical 'cost' of time; so they run 'under' historical ('normal') time. So the more of them there are, the greater the gain, and the greater the prosperity to the world. The fewer of them there are, the 'thinner' is the justification for funding time's continuance. It's awesome.

That's why David's and Solomon's reigns were so prosperous. Why afterwards, the prosperity rapidly declined. As you scan GeneYrs.xls for that period onward, notice how Moses' 490 and 1000 was still running (ending 950 and 440 BC, respectively); thus 'covering' Israel such that David could be spiritually developed on time; notice how David alone got four 490s and four 1000s due to the 2 Samuel 7 promise. Four of them, not just one. Each one of the four, playing on an event in David's life (birth, death, beginning of kingship, end of kingship).

Leviticus 26 tells you that a rise in wanting to know God begets a rise in material prosperity; and, its opposite, when interest in God declines. So there you also see the amortization basis, play — even in shorter periods (i.e., 40 years and the other subcomponents of a 490). In Church, you can historically follow a rise in Bible interest Itself (not religion, but wanting to own and know Bible). Notice how prosperity follows within a generation.

Seems funny, that mere faith is considered by God to be the only valid currency, financing even time. Then again, "faith" in either Hebrew or Greek first means the content of what you believe — the word. And that's, Priceless. So how funny, people chide the Bible characters and believers and cultures which show slavish deference to authority, as if somehow such deference were demeaning. No self-respecting person would behave like that, just accepting what he was told and obeying it. Forgetting, of course, that "Father" and "Son" and "Spirit" are each God, so these Titles They tell us, are Self-Chosen. So how can it be demeaning?

As if that weren't enough hint, look — what were Noah's works? Zero. What does God do for Noah? Save him. What else does God do? Provide through noah the continuance of the human race and history for it to learn. But when God talks to Noah in Genesis 6, He sounds peremptory, do this, do that. No "please", no soft words about diversity. Orders. Like, to a slave. Of course, all the New Testament writers call themselves δοῦλοι, slave (term also means son, which tells you how the son was just a bigger slave, that's all). Okay, what do we have? Well, a culture of extreme deference (for which all oriental cultures used to be famous) — but, notice how the One in Charge, honors the 'slave'. Hmmmm. Seems like the One in Charge doesn't think 'low' of the slave, huh. End commercial message.

No, not the end, but the beginning. Look: What God orders Noah to do saves and blesses Noah. This is like ordering you to be a millionaire. If you became a millionaire, you'd be working very hard afterwards, since anything you own requires lots of maintenance and attention — unless you wanna lose it all. (So much for the shibboleth that the rich have it easy.) So yeah, Noah worked real hard to grow those trees, cut them down, plank them and cure them and pitch them for the Ark. But for whom was he doing it? Well, in his mind, God gave him an order. That made it more enjoyable to do. It didn't do anything for God, God was doing something for Noah. But it isn't satisfying enough to do something for yourself: it's more enjoyable to do it for someone higher. Hence deference to authority is a Huge Blessing. Like, being a millionaire. At last, what you do is worthwhile!

And what 'did for' God, is the Faith. Evidenced, by Noah's building the boat — for himself. God didn't need the Ark. Noah did. Noah was thinking of God, his family, the earth, and knew it was a Salvation Message, A Salvation Mission. He believed, see. And lived on what he believed to keep on going: for "faith" is first, what you believe, God's truth. Just like his Future Son would do, on the Cross. Just like his earlier future son Abram would do in Genesis 12, when called out by that Foremost future Son. For faith works, not man works.

Noah had been building the boat for 120 years; but he didn't even have any kids who'd be with him on that boat, until the last 100 years' building. Whether he had other kids prior to the Flood, the Bible doesn't say: so if he did, they left him, laughing at him as surely everyone else was doing, hey, look at that fool building a boat in the middle of nowhere! And probably burning down his cypress wood — more likely stealing it, since the wood was valuable — the meanwhile. So for the first 20 years, the only ones building the boat were Noah and a few of those remaining faithful like his dad and grandad ("Powerful" and "When he dies, the Flood comes" — AKA Lamech and Methuselah). The dad and grandad knew they'd not outlive the Flood. Noah's wife was either barren or bereaved. Not easy to keep faith with all that waiting. Sure, it takes a long time to build a boat — but it doesn't take 120 years. They had to drag their feet in building it, even if they grew the trees from seedlings. Takes a whole lot of faith, then. Faith must be based on content. So the Word as they then had it, was pretty important. More important, than how they lived their lives.

Abram waited 99 years to get the son he yearned for. And by the way, the promise back when he yet had no kids was that all these promised kiddies, would have a whopping 400 years of slavery, first (Genesis 15:13). How much faith does it take to keep going, when you're not getting what you want now? And by the way, your sons are promised 400 years of torture? So the Word as he then had it, was pretty important. More important, than even 400 years of slavery; even, when he didn't have any promised kids yet. Abraham's sons Isaac and Jacob would also have to keep believing, valuing the Word more than the horrible promise of 400 years' slavery. Don't you think Jacob knew what would happen when he brought his family to Egypt? Why didn't they leave Egypt before Joseph retired? Or at least, when he retired? For the slavery period didn't begin, until they were there for 30 whopping years: enough time, for the third generation among them, to also know the 400 years' slavery, was looming. You didn't have to be a rocket scientist, to figure out where that slavery would be. They could have left. But they didn't. So they believed in the Word as then revealed: and He was more important to them, than the upcoming slavery He Himself, had promised them. That's a lot of faith.

God sovereignly chooses to justify time based on faith. So it's a faith-funding amortization base of 490 or 1000 years, granted to a person who believes the word — to demonstrate his successful witness in the Angelic Trial.

It's pretty intimidating to know that someone else has so much power over us. It's intimidating, that someone else knows more, is stronger, etc. But look (and I hope you'll forgive the analogy): God made feces. They existed pre-Fall. So God wanted even feces to be important. Else, He'd not make them. Surely God could have invented other ways for body elimination to occur, or none at all period. Surely, since His Own Son would be taking on Humanity and be Perfect, God could have said, Oh, I'll just make elimination go through breathing alone. (Breathing is another form of bodily elimination.) But notice He didn't say that. So yeah, it's intimidating to us to be so weak: but God's not looking down on us. Well, not looking down with anything but Love as His Sovereign Attitude. Thus we know how He wants to use His Hugeness.

We're all poor at something. We're all rich at something. Man gets his eyes on man to fund his insecurity complex, by putting someone else down. But God, puts up. Puts up with us, so we can grow. That requires financing, since it's not fair to God that He should put up with us. He loves us unconditionally — but it's unfair that He should — unless He is properly paid. Faith is Doctrine; Doctrine in Christ's Head is His Thinking, which we now get in writing, 1 Corinthians 2:16. That thinking paid for sins on the Cross, as Isaiah tirelessly repeats (21 times!) in Isaiah 53. Now, think: what can pay God except thinking, since God has no body? You can't feed God, clothe God, house God, bring Him little goodies at holiday time. But you can think — and He's hearing every thought of every person since eternity past and future. We all know how we groan when we hear/see a display of bad thinking. How much more, God? We all know how delighted we are when we hear/see a display of good thinking. How much more, God? So it's only the thought that counts. It's only the thought that accounts for Time continuing. And we all can have His Thoughts, and thus redeem the time, 1 Corinthians 2:16 + Hebrews 11:1 + Romans 12:1-3 (in Greek) due to Isaiah 53:10-12 contract, hence Colossians 4:5, Ephesians 5:16. Lot more Bible math (verses) than those, but you'll get the idea.



Timeline Benchmarks and Dating Methodology

The scholars didn't consult the Bible but rather astronomy and outside (never mind God forbade using stars for Divine Information in Deuteronomy 18), so they don't get the Bible's dates, correct. It pays to trust Bible first, and learn what it says: saves you lots of time and money, honey. Scholars err with Bible by mis-construing text, and by assuming Bible means lunar years; by assuming that the decree in Daniel 9, is a human king's (no, Daniel 9:24 tells you it's God's decree, so you know it dates from 586 BC, not later). Finally, they assume the 490 and the 70 year periods in Daniel 9 (9:2 refers back to the 70 years in Jeremiah) — they erroneously assume these are lone instances. Not so: the units are like a calendar, a basic accounting Time Unit of Promise.

The rest of this section is a kind of housekeeping for unanswered methodology questions. Skim it to see if anything mentioned, matters to you.

If you haven't already read The Hypostatic Structure of Time & The Hypostatic, Triune Deadlines of Time, you may want to before reading this part. Put simply, God structures time in 1050-year blocks; each block is contingent on the 'soul' of it, being fulfilled. The 'soul' of it depends on two 490-year grants of "Promise" (literal Hebrew, "sevened") Time; and each such 490, keeps the God-rejecting world going another 490 years. So there must be an individual, an entity, which Justifies each such grant. For God to save the world yet not coerce anyone in it, He has to develop a 'savior'. In order to continue time so the Savior can be Born and Pay.

So each individual / entity granted a 490, can be 'benchmarked' in order to track the 'threads' of God's Appointed Times, AKA "seventy sevens" (i.e., in Daniel 9). In this section, they are color-coded thus:

Blue = Nation; Purple = King; Crimson = Temple.

The type of individual or entity, is color-coded in this section, so you can see how Time was justified to continue, through Christ. Due to this Justice Requirement, the timeline shifts and overlaps. For example, the next table starts the 490 tracking with Shem (though it goes all the way back to Adam), and you'll see that when Joseph becomes enslaved, the 490 grant shifts and continues to track from that date (1930 BC - 1440 BC = 490 years). It's a complex system of time 'threads' which secure the world's future. To secure that ultimate future, eternity (fulfilling Isaiah 53:10-12's contract). But my goal in this section is to trace the main 'line' of the 490s through Messiah, so you can see how the System works. Then you can audit its results, before the Lord.

The macro-level historical classifications above simplify tracing out how the 490-year benchmarks work. There is another macro-level class, a 490 due to progression of Canon ('gold' in the veil). It began in 1440 BC with Moses; so its 490s run contiguous with the Exodus: so every 490 years post 1440 BC, like 950 BC (when Temple dedicated), 460 BC (when last prophet, Malachi, began); then 30 AD (when Christ died on the Cross). This class is mentioned in passing, but since its 490s timeline ends up following the Temple's, the Canon 490s are not separately tracked. They keep playing, though. You can trace them from Adam through 2007, as well. Canon was completed in 96 AD, but then it was basically kidnapped for 18 centuries. About 120-160 years before a historical 490 ends, Bible is 'discovered' again by someone, and protected, distributed, taught. Widespread Back to the Word movements occur. This happened pre-Cross, but it's easier to see post-Cross. These trends are tracked in GeneYrs.xls.

All 490s and 1000s converged in Christ; so post-Crucifixion, God's 1050 Building Block of Time is Redeemed — but also, reset. Due to Israel's rejection of Messiah, God treats time as if it still were the First Advent, except that the covenant changed. Mute testimony to that fact, is ever before the world's (now television-soaked) eyes via the destruction of the Temple. Israel doesn't accept the First Advent, and of course a good many self-proclaimed 'scholars' claim Christ never came either. They prove they don't do their homework, since the Wailing Wall and Dome of the Rock bear obvious witness to Christ's coming and going and Daniel 9:26 being fulfilled. Oh well. Now you know why God stamps time with tribulation-like characteristics paradigmally — if they can't see the two biggest relics, they can't see, period. So, there's nothing left to say, but silence. Sign of Jonah, in every American hotel room drawer, left by the Gideons or someone else, open, unread.

The Reset occurred to rectify an old breach: for, the contract between Israel and God really began abrogation in 1050 BC, when Israel rejected God as their king. Paul makes a parallel to the time in the wilderness and Saul's kingship, showing that abrogation, in Acts 13. Paul's showing that had God not raised up David and made the separate promise to him of Temple = Messianic line, there would be no Messiah; hence Israel cannot claim any credit from the Law, since they broke its source when they rejected God as King: all bullets from Saul to the first Temple bullet will be relevant. It's positively astonishing to me that so little discourse on this fact is to be had. So yeah, Israel is as blind as a bat, but so is everyone else. Scripture is very blunt about it. Just read 1 Kings and 2 Samuel 7, and their parallel passages in Chronicles, even in translation.

As a result, when Christ redeemed the human race and time at The Cross, God Resets the Fifth 1050 to begin at His Death. GeneYrs.xls illustrates that in its "Year of the World 4136" row (yellow stripe down the middle of the worksheet). You can't use our BC/AD calendars to see this. It's necessary to start the count from Adam's Fall. Hence GeneYrs.xls tracks the years; reset is then obvious.

The 490-year "Promise" Time thus implements Isaiah 53:10-12. When you use Bible dates to plot the heroes on an Adamic timeline, you see how the 490 has worked since Adam. You can't see it any other way, because every modern calendar (including the Judaic) is completely messed up. So that's why we don't know about God's Method of Securing, Saving, Eternity in that eternity-past contract, wrought by Christ on the Cross. So this 'sharing of the plunder' (contractural thread in Isaiah 53:10-12) goes to great believers. The 490 grants therefore go to those "great ones" (term in Isaiah 53:12). So "the many" (everyone else), share under them. Parallel passage is John 14:2 (always mistranslated, means the spiritual 'bloodline', not living quarters); all of John 14-17, elaborates on John 14:2, and hence on Isaiah 53:10-12. So, in Isaiah 53:10-12, The LXX verb "μερίζω" is a big Bible keyword, refers to sharing booty from defeat and capture of an enemy, to inheritance, etc. English usually renders this verb "to share" or "apportion" (and it has cognate nouns); but it means sharing plunder. Translations of these key references leave a fuzzball; for example, Ephesians 4:11-16 (μερίζω is in Ephesians 4:16, climactic), Romans 12:2, Peter's "partakers" passage all make no sense.

Sharing in the Plunder of Christ, Isaiah 53:10-11 means sharing in His Thinking Nature. So that's how we could even become worthy of being plundered, ourselves. Would Father give Son an unworthy gift? Of course not. Okay, then how is it we become worthy, sinless yet free forever? Well, God doesn't sin because He doesn't want to (He can, He's omnipotent). So what He thinks is the reason why He doesn't want to sin. So His Thinking was put into the humanity of Christ via the Holy Spirit; and from that Humanity, we get His Thinking in writing. Same Holy Spirit as built Him, builds us from Him.

So time continues post-Cross, because someone every 490 years got built in His Thinking; by the end of a 490, someone new also got built, and the time 'baton' passed to that new person. That's how God benchmarks time since Adam, so that's how it's benchmarked here, in GeneYrs.xls. The Last Adam reset the starting point to His Death of 30 AD.


Dating Methodology

Quick answer: Only the Bible is used. Dates are solely derived from it without adjustment or extrabiblical 'consultation'. Bible alone proved trustworthy. This section will explain more why, since pro- and con- Bible scholarship is so prejudiced against using what Bible says, and instead relies on extrabiblical sources. This section ends with a "final caveat" about what non-Bible sources I chose to use. Right now, we're just covering the generic problem of using non-Bible sources for dates. For example, the Decree to Rebuild is generally connected with the first year of Cyrus II the Great, due to end 2 Chronicles and Ezra 1:1; problem is, scholars differ over what year that was. Encyclopedia Britannica's 1985 volume 9, page 833 uppermost right paragraph dates Cyrus' first year as 559 BC; others list it as 539 BC, or even 536 BC. The Encyclopedia Britannica date works best, if you interpret Daniel 9:25's "shub" to reference Temple rebuilding, as distinct from rebuilding Jerusalem (which is also in that verse). That's not what the verse says you should benchmark, but there's no other way to make it balance to anything connected with Cyrus.

But it's not Cyrus, nor Darius, nor Artaxerxes or any other human king, who is talking in Daniel 9. It's God. So the "decree to rebuild" in Daniel 9:24 is God's Decree, not man's. That's why the math never balances if you assume any human king decree, pick whom you will. Simple grammar tells you why: Who is Decreeing in Daniel 9:24? God. So Who would be the person decreeing in the very next verse, grammatically and syntactically? God! Daniel was even reading God's Decree about the 70 years, in Daniel 9:1. Context context context. Yeah, we ignored the first rule of hermeneutics for centuries, huh.

This screwup is not a matter of interpretation, but flat incompetence, sorry. Not just here, but with respect to nearly every other key Bible date, the 'majority' is unbelievably wrong, and you can prove why wrong — from Bible. So Bible's own dating system is alone trustworthy. You can always audit with the 'scholars', afterwards.

Thank God I have a thorough pastor, who decades ago took the time and trouble to teach his congregation the right dates and prove them! Every documentary you'll watch messes up Bible dates, particularly with reference to these critical periods: Abram-Jacob, Joseph, Exodus, David's death (versus abdication), First Temple building / dedication, Passion Week. No wonder people think the Bible is wrong. But it's the 'scholars' who wrongly estimate those dates, and then claim to get them from Bible! You can prove they didn't competently consult the Bible: hence this webpage, became necessary. So too: Encyclopedia Britannica and other 'respectable' written sources also misdate these critical periods. Of course, the official Jewish calendar itself is wrong — off by at least 200 years, in places. How weird, since the Bible tells you how to plot the dates. So let's trust the Bible, instead.

Bible first dates based on years from death. So, for example, you start counting Adam's days with his fall; because, that's when God began to number his days (Genesis 3:14ff "all the days of your life" punishment clause). So Adam's "lifetime" of 930 years began after his fall. So the Judaic and Ussher timelines are way off, since both presume the Genesis 5 timeline starts with Adam's creation. (Hebrew of Genesis 3:22 wittily uses the birthing preposition min, to designate that beginning. What a God is our God!) So, God also dates from other falls, like the fall of the First Temple in 586 BC. So, God dates beginning with nights; if you don't do that, you'll mess up the chronology of Passion Week, the Jewish feasts, etc.

God also dates in years from birth. And particularly, Spiritually Born, Contract Born, Nation Born, etc. Again, Adam's lifetime begins at his spiritual rebirth on the same day as he sinned, Genesis 3:9ff. So Exodus is the Birth of the Nation; hence, you date everything as before or after the Exodus, else you'll miss the 490's: the Exodus itself is the result of a 490, the 490th anniversary of Joseph's enslavement in 1930 BC.

It's also the result of other 490s tied to heroes from the first Noahic covenant, forward, such that the Noahic covenant gets 'carried' by the later believers who like Noah, grew up spiritually. God creates a 'relay race' of 490-year segments, and they stack on multiple levels. However, one of those timeline layers shifts from Issac (or Jacob) to Joseph to nation Israel (at Exodus) to king (David) to temple to King-Priest (Messiah = the Christ): thus it accounts for how God kept the planet alive.

Hence, you always calculate backwards or forwards from the Exodus Date of 1440 BC. Backwards, to derive Abram's birth of 2160 BC. You can prove it's the right date, because it tracks to the 490s: Abram was circumcised exactly 490 years after God made the first covenant with Noah; it matters, because Noah sired kids as a result of that covenant (so Abram's waiting, was for a reason). (What enormous doctrines are in these numbers. Look: Bible tells you Noah was 600 when the flood began, 500 when he sired Shem, and that God was gonna give the world only 120 years before the Flood: so he had been building the Ark when he had no kids, or when they had just been born! Maybe for 20 years before he even had kids — and only two believers were alive to help him, Methuselah and Lamech! My pastor made a big deal about how God didn't tell Noah all the information at once, when exegeting Genesis 6. God tells him to start building, then later tells him more. So, see, it was a test. My pastor says Noah started building 120 years before the Flood, so that means Noah had no kids at the time he started building, or they all went apostate and perished in the Flood. God doesn't ever list all the children, but only the children of Christ's bloodline. So beginning with Shem, the contract is made. Who knows what kids Noah had, prior. Of course, you can discern all this even in translation, in Genesis 6-11.)

Then the two events showing the covenants for both Noah and Abram were accepted: Isaac's birth occurred 490 years after Shem was born — note the multiple layering. It's not a coincidence that Shem is at the end of his 100th year when Arphachshad is born, and Abraham is 100 years old when Isaac is born — God is mirroring / 'reimbursing' the Noahic 490 for the 'time' spent developing Abraham during the last 100 years of it. (This quality of the last 100 years of a 490 being the most suspenseful occurs often in the timeline, even with Church's separate timeline.)

Note also the one-year hiatus between the circumcision and the birth (really, 9 months); between the covenant with Noah to build, and the birth of his kids (maybe triplets?) almost a year later. So Abram was age 100 when Isaac was born; Noah, almost 501 when his kids were born. So every 490 has a 'nexus' in its last year, such that the new 490 is 'pregnant' within the expiring 490. If therefore you find yourself with a year or two variance, remember this pregnancy role. See "1 year" for more on how this overlap makes date calculations seem a year short or over.

Hence you also calculate forwards from the Exodus date, to get the shifting of benchmarks to justify the planet continuing to live. Notice how Bible is self-auditing:

  • 1440 BC - 490 = 950 BC, First Temple's Dedication;
  • -490 = 460 BC, time when last Old Testament prophet arose.
  • And, 950 - 364 = 586 BC, when First Temple razed, 126 years short of its intended 490.
  • Which God then measures back, in Daniel 9:24-27 : 126 = 70 of Daniel 9:2, + 49 + 7 (the last 7 years being potentially part of the last 490, or double-punishment doctrine in Mosaic law, added back — this latter happened from 64 AD-70 AD, the siege of Jerusalem).
  • Note how the added 490 years, 483 of which preceded the death of Christ, thus are Justified. So 460 BC - 490 + 7 - 7 = 30 AD.
  • Because Christ completes the Cross, his time cost of 33 years is mirrored back, and the 7 years plays out 64-70 AD. So the entire 30 AD-70 AD is a picture of Him, hence Daniel 9:26, reads as it does.

So all The Time Left For Israel, is that last 'week' (Bible doesn't use the term 'week'), the Tribulation of Daniel 9:27. So the Millennium can't occur, until the 7 years are fulfilled, because, just as Christ justified the continuance of history after His death (Christ, not Israel), so also Christ justifies the 7 years turning on, which is why Church has to be developed, and there's no timeline for it. Hence, once Church is completed (Rapture), the 7 years can begin, complete, and thus Justify Christ's return to inaugurate the Millennium for Israel. Christ is precedence, and He only became the precedence because He is Jewish and got it from His 'forefathers', so to speak. So, having successfully completed the Cross, now all the timelines converge and play out based on Him.

The Temple and David's kingship are the two primary institutional items God uses, so it's real important to get their dates right. Predictably, the scholarship on these dates is incredibly bad. Paul accounts a 490 running from Exodus to 950 BC, Acts 13. You already know from Daniel 9:24-27 that the Temple is the basis for a new 490 — if Israel completed the Second Temple by the time the first 490 runs out So there's no excuse to mess up on kingship or Temple dates.

For example, 1 Kings 6:1 tells you flat that in the 480th year after the Exodus, building the First Temple commenced, so that date can only be 960 BC. But until you get to 1 Kings 8, it's not dedicated. So the Temple 490 didn't start until it was dedicated. Doing a little math from 1 Kings 7, you realize that the Temple was dedicated long after it was completed; that the 13 years Solomon spent building the rest, are to be added in. So it becomes easy to see the date of dedication: 20 years into Solomon's reign, the Temple is dedicated, and hence that date is 950 BC. Which, 2 Chronicles 8:1, flatly corroborates. The years were spent, sounds like from 1 Kings 7, also in making the furnishings for the Temple, the altars, etc. Solomon's 13 years building, thus began and ended on either side of the Temple rebuilding, with 1 Kings 7 being parenthetically inserted, to explain the delay: 3 years on the 'before' side, so the Temple building commences in his year 4 after David died (1 Kings 6:1). 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 6:37 compared to 1 Kings 6:38, differentiates between the total time including the six months of preparation prior to building atop the foundation, and the actual time spent building the Temple proper. So Bible subtracts the six-month preparation period, in the last clause of 1 Kings 6:38, as any good accountant would do.

Next, note the chronology of Solomon's other building; 10 more years, with the Temple furnishings being made also during that time. So the first 3 years, Solomon was building, stopped to build the Temple itself, for the next 7; then resumes again, for the last 10. These aren't dry facts: important doctrines are here about priorities. It matters to know them, also because a parallel occurs in the saga of building the Second Temple, which (again, with non-Temple building), takes 20 years until it is dedicated (roughly 535 BC-516 BC — see Haggai, Ezra, Zechariah). God used Haggai and Zechariah to bug Zerubbabel (the rightful king of Israel at that point), to stop dragging his heels in rebuilding the Temple. We Church are called the Temple in passages like 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 2, so where should our priorities be? So you learn a lot of (very witty) Bible Doctrine (!) from that parallel.

All this timing is missed, because every scholar (I can find) misdates David's age when he died. They claim he died at age 70, but he died at age 77, per 1 Kings 6:1 (again, context tells you that, 1 Kings 2:39ff). Notice: the 490s timeline is predicated on David beginning with his kingship, and runs for 1000 years; the Temple and Messiah promise begin with that date, but God also ends Messiah on the 1000th anniversary of David's death. So if you get these dates wrong, you won't see how God told the Jews exactly — by reference to David alone, even — when Messiah Would Arrive And Leave. That's a critical thing to mess up, for then you are in the dark about when He was born and died. The math in Daniel 9 tells you when, so you can count backwards 1000 years and see it even without the glaring hey-see-me of 1 Kings 6:1.

So look: 490 × 2, plus 20 years to rebuild the Temple and Jerusalem = 1000, the Millennium. That's an important parallel you only see, if you knew the Precedence from the First and the Second Temples. So if you do see it, you won't go building the Temple yourself (which Israel will, see Revelation 11:1ff), but instead you will do what the Bible commands, wait for God. That's why a Dome is over the Holy of Holies, displaying the warning not to rebuild, Daniel 9:26, Matthew 24. But of course if you didn't recognize the Dome, you won't recognize Daniel 9:26c, and you won't count correctly from David, either.

Since the Second Advent begins with the biggest bloodbath in history, done by the Lord personally (e.g., in Isaiah 63 and parallel passages in Zechariah), you can see why it might take 20 years. Takes seven months just to bury the dead, and we know from Revelation that the bloodbath (or bodies) are something like five-six feet high (horse's bridle), from Daniel to Beersheba (length of first-covenanted Israel land). The Millennial Temple dimensions are not the same as Solomon's: see Ezekiel 39ff to the end of his book (God is very specific). Revelation 21's about the eternal state, not the Millennium, and Jerusalem then will be about half the size of the United States, 1500 miles in each direction. I know the United States is about 3000 miles in width, so I used the United States as an example. Pick whatever other example you like. If you measure on a world map with Jerusalem as the midpoint, you cover all of the area today we call the Middle East, with a northern boundary at the Caspian Sea and Black, and a southern boundary which swallows Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, etc. 'Suspiciously like the size of the 'park' (not garden, but park) God made for Adam, in Genesis 1. But Revelation 21 talks of the eternal state; and I don't know if it will have the same continental configuration as we do now.

It's not pleasant to be critical of 'scholarship'. But it's flat evil to cover up the mistakes made. Making mistakes is understandable. Scholars of past centuries slaved over candle wax and musty leather codices. They would have to make mistakes. But instead of improving and correcting, we piously stand pat on the old errors, not admitting and fixing them. No excuse. Evil. Lots to answer for at the Bema. Or, we could just fix the past errors, realizing that had we been in those old scholars' shoes, we'd have made far more errors than they did. And move on. This is the Word of God. It deserves more respect than it's getting. So the utter disdain given it by scholars, results in this webpage disdaining them in favor of the Real God Who Really Wrote The Infallible Word. When the scholars stop blaspheming the Word by, among other things, claiming Good Friday or Peter as the Head of the Church — even among Protestants, 🤣 can no one read or count to three? — then maybe they will deserve some respect. Until then, Bible only. So you can audit any of 'my' webpages for mistakes (and there will be mistakes, I can't get it all right either, only God can). Again, no shame in making mistakes. The only shame will be at the Bema for covering them up.

God ties His dates to matched reasons; that's self-auditing, too. The reasons are the basis for tying a 490 between two events. Usually, the events are parallel, i.e., kingship to kingship, temple to temple, birth to birth, maturity to maturity, etc. For the earth's lifeline, however, the 490's 'jump' from nation to king to temple to Christ (converging all on Him), and they run in parallel lines: so you'll have a 490 about to expire from David (480 BC = 970 BC, year of retirement -490); which deadline is still 'covered' because a Temple 490 still has 20 years yet to run (950 - 490 = 460 BC), and that's why God gave Daniel the last 490. The full interplay is depicted in GeneYrs.xls: gold 'stripes' or 'rows' track the 490s, and the green ones track the 1000s.

Note God's precision: for Time to continue, a new 490 must be justified to begin just as the prior one ends (so you'll have an overlap in the last year of a 490 sometimes, and have to add or subtract 1 to tally). Moreover, for time to continue, two running grants have to be 'alive', both the kingship 490 or 1000... but also, the Temple 490. Because Messiah is both King and Priest, get it? So, that's why God takes the 126 years remaining on the Temple 490, at a time when there are no more kings, officially. The line continues; Jeconiah was cut off by God's curse (which means he had no kids); so, the latter adopted Shealtiel, whose son Zerubbabel becomes the rightful king — except, Israel never exists on her own again — until Messiah. Shealtiel is also descended from David through Nathan, a younger son of Bathsheba, from whom Mary and Joseph, descend: see the Matthew 1 and Luke 3 genealogy and whatever Old Testament verses tie to them. Joseph descended from the Solomonic line, which is why he, though a rightful king, was no longer the rightful king, by the time of Christ. The next rightful king would have to be born from Mary, for the same reason that Levi got grafted through a Daughter of Levi, to Aaron.

God follows that connecting-490's procedure from Adam, forward: GeneYrs.xls tracks them so you can see the methodology blow by blow and audit it. So the reason why Abram didn't become Abraham until age 100, was because the 490 was scheduled to end on that date: the last year being the 'pregnancy' period, so the last year of the 490 overlaps with the 1st year of the new 490, since the Covenant began with the circumcision. Again, note God's precision: Abram didn't grow up enough to get his desire for a son fulfilled until he was age 99, theme of Romans 4; so, as usual, it was at the last minute that the world is saved, allowed to go on for another 490 years. Precedence is Noah himself, who for the first 20 years after he started building that boat, remained childless (or accounted childless, same thing); like Isaac would be, who was born 490 years after Noah's firstborn. So when Noah was building that boat (and 20 years is the normal temple + accoutrements building period, AKA the age for military service), he had no proof that anyone but he and his wife, would be left after the Flood began. But he believes anyway, like his future 'son' (Hebraic expression for progeny) Abram would do. So, 20 years later, God gives him his sons: three at once, looks like. Then, 100 years later, the sons are married, and the eight persons (the sons all childless!) enter the Ark. Pregnant analogy, for us: we seem to not get what we think God promises; the spiritual life seems sterile, all this study and live on the Word, without anything in this life which seems to bear fruit. Well, look how much fruit came from Noah! The entire human race!

From there, you go forward to Christ: due to Jewish rejection, He had to die in David's 1000th anniversary of Abdication / Retirement, 30 AD.

Similarly, God tags Canon completion in terms of 490s. Bible verses don't say that, but the math, does. Moses penned the first five books from 1440-1400. So using the 1440 BC start, you get 950 BC as the 490. Well, by then Psalms and the Solomonic books were written. From 950-586, you have all the Canon except for Jeremiah through Ezra — which was written, during the 70-year hiatus, which got measured back, Daniel 9. Since restored, you can account the 490 to continue. So, from 950 - 490 = 460, by that point all but Nehemiah and Malachi had been written. The last Daniel 9 piece, however, intervenes: 49 years. So that's why Malachi is the ending. Malachi began preaching probably in 470 or 460, since the standard time for a last prophet was 40 years, sometimes longer or shorter, but usually that long — book was composed circa 433 BC, according to most scholars — how right that is, I don't know, but it fits well enough to not check further.

The "62 weeks" which next play are a silence period, since "62 weeks" initially represented apostasy, but its mirror playing here, is a countdown to a different "R", Redemption. As in, Redeemer. Rebirth. See God's matching wit? The period runs runs from 397 (446-49) through 37 AD. Thus you know all those inter-testamental books are not Canon, like Maccabees, etc. They can't come from God, since God already told Daniel He'd go silent after the 49-year period, ended. You'd know this, by knowing the character of the "62 weeks". No doubt about it. (Of course, reading any of those inter-testamental books proves they're not from God, within an hour. God isn't silly or slapstick. Those books often are. Same for the post-Cross fake Gospels and other nonsense.)

Notice how much proof you get on interpretation, if you match character of a Biblical number, to the time it represents. That methodology is critical to vetting any possible mistakes here, and vetting whatever you come up with as a timeline. In accounting you must always match the character of an amount to a like character; the amounts might be alike, or might be sums of other amounts, so the Character is all-important, in determining a balance. That's where double-entry accounting comes from. Else the accounting (here, interpretation of Bible) won't balance.

Math can't lie. But scholarship can be slipshod. It's very painstaking, one makes a bazillion mistakes. So the key is to never stand pat on the answers you have, but to keep on digging. Trouble is, we all don't do that. It's harder on the scholars, who, when they make mistakes, well — it's public. So although much criticism of scholarship is in my pages, this isn't to criticise the people themselves. No individual can get it all right, no matter how brilliant he is. Only God can get it right. Hence 1 John 1:9 and plugging is vital. Failure always happens, success is rare, but God makes good on all of it. Because, He Redeems Time Itself. So of course, everything else will be redeemed, too. And frankly, after all the digging you come to appreciate how unbelievably hard it is to be a Bible scholar or a pastor, whether incompetent or brilliant. Satan's done his darnedest to make Bible difficult to research. And of course, the pay is bad...

Final caveat and summary regarding date methodology: I derived the needed fill-in historical and Pharaonic dates from: BibleWorks 5, my 1985 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica or Encarta 2004; but only to the extent the dates prove accurate, compared to God's '490' system. I spend a lot of time on the internet comparing dates 'out there', especially for the Pharaohs. My 1985 Encyclopedia Britannica is what I used, instead. It's more accurate. Its internet version is very different, swayed by all the goofiness which has plagued Egyptian scholarship since the 1980's. When the dust finally settles, then maybe a revision is in order. But frankly, they're not matching the character of events properly. You don't decide that the Jews left under Ramses II because of a flimsy imprecation you find from Merneptah. That tells you nothing but that he didn't like the Jews. It's bad scholarship in other ways, too, this latest furor in Egyptology. So that's why I'm sticking with my 1985 Encyclopedia Britannica.

Otherwise, dates are backed into from Bible-provided dates (i.e., 1 Kings 6:1). Except, well-known dates like Temple Destruction, Exodus, etc. Are derived from my pastor's live Bible class audiotapes (which always tie to the 490s); because, something's usually wrong with the 'scholarly' dates, and the Jewish calendar, is screwed up (so you can't use it). Then, because Bible dates create a whole timeline from Adam through 96 AD, these dates can be audited for accuracy. So you can audit them too, irrespective of how I got the BC and AD plottings.

It's not tautological to take this approach, treating the 'scholarly' dates as wrong if they don't match up. When you work with math, you have formulas. Well, Bible is a set of formulas, since truth, like math, is a body of relationships among variables. So, Bible uses a '490' formula, and your Job is to trace it out. After you've done that, you cross-test (AKA "audit") the results. You don't prove anything from extrabiblical data until you know what 'answer' is supposed to be there. Because, that data might itself be wrong, and you don't know how they got that data. Frankly, this is how science is supposed to work: top-down, not bottom-up, since you don't know if the extrinsic data you see, is real. Worse, you don't know but what the real data, really means something else. Duh: first construct based on truths known, a formula (AKA "theory"). Then play it out. God gives us the formula: so, play it out. Then go looking for the data where the formula tells you to look. Then, if you find contradictions, you revisit how you did the formula; or, maybe the formula doesn't have all the right elements in it, and you misapprehended the formula; so, maybe you begin anew. In short, this is objective accounting, to first say "Bible is Right". It's exactly the same procedure you learn in algebra and geometry, when you first learn to work with variables.

This is how all learning operates: you start with the assumption that what you are being told, is True. Then, You Test It. No one gets beyond grammar school, without that second, testing step. How much more, this approach is also critical to the spiritual life.

So it's good to do this accounting exercise to see God's Precision Policy. Bible is right. We miss all kinds of valuable Bible Doctrine about how God blesses and orchestrates time, if we don't follow the Bible's own dating system, which is based on reasons which match; and on years "x" from some hallmark event of Death, or Birth; of Exodus, Kingship, Temple. But maybe the fact so many ignore the Bible and thus misdate everything — then, call the Bible wrong or themselves pious, for believing anyway — maybe the fact so many ignore the Bible, is a blessing. Because the shock never ends, after you see these 490s. No visible miracle God could do for us puny, could be more shocking.

There's an anecdote you occasionally find in books said about Bismarck, who was rabidly antisemitic. He caustically asked a German general who believed in Christ, why that general believed in the Bible at all, baiting the General to answer in one term, why. The reply was swift: "The Jews". Yeah, that general knew something about how God keeps His Promises!


Associated Video Playlists

All of the associated videos are now in the Poetic Meter Resource Index, as well as the indexed playlist for How God Orchestrates Time.

Despite having Bible in the original texts for over 2000 years, we Christians don't even know about this for a variety of reasons, all of them inexcusable.

But instead, Psalm 90's same 350 syllables function sabbatically to delineate God's Millennial decree plus a 14-year warning (hangover credit from Abraham maturing too early), since by the end of the Psalm Israel will be 14 years over her time budget. This tracking culminates at 460 BC, since there was a 490-year time grant beginning at the Exodus (which was 490 years after Joseph was enslaved), which terminates 950 BC, followed by a new (Temple) time grant which — if the Temple stays up — terminates in 460 BC. The truncation to 460 BC simultaneously warns Israel the Temple might not last (and it doesn't), pushing her over the time budget.

Yapping Most High Episode 10 focuses on scholar errors about how Bible dates a 'year', and on Jewish Dispensationalism; then corrects these errors, with special emphasis on how Isaiah 53 proves the correction.




Inset for Part 4a: Passover Plot




Inset for Part 4a: Pope Myth

Contents: [Purpose] [Satan's DIOS Hoax] [Matthew 16:18 Gender Grammar Hoax] [Date Hoax] [New Testament Book Dates] [New Testament Facts Hoax] [Basic Questions] [1. Petra vs. petros] [2. Only Christ has Keys] [3. No pope in Bible though ruling While Bible being written?] [4. Peter not to Gentiles, but Jews] [5. No apostolic Succession, 1 Corinthians 15:1–10] [6. Paul's not a pope?] [7. Peter doesn't call himself pope?] [8. "chips" like Peter?] [9. Peter didn't get to write Word till Paul died?] [10. Mark's not a pope?] [11. No one writes Romans except Paul?] [12. Bible says Peter never in Rome] [13. No Bible written by popes?] [14. Roman Church damned in Rev 17 (8 sub‑questions)] [15. God didn't have John appoint successor] [16. Vine and Branches succeeds, not popes] [17. 1 Clement contradicts 1 & 2 Corinthians — to the same audience]

Purpose: How Satan & Co. Fool Us (not to bash Catholicism)

Back in the first century AD, there was no such thing as "Catholicism". Believers didn't even call themselves "Christians"; unbelievers gave them that name. Back in the first century AD, believers were in an uproar, fighting amongst themselves, because Christ made a New Testamentary Contract with Father about a year before He went to the Cross. This New Contract set aside the Mosaic Law in favor of something entirely new, built upon himself. That change was necessitated by Jewish rejection of Christ during the First Advent; else, according to God's Rules of Allotting Time, the world should have ended. So time would have stopped, had Christ not Invented A New Covenant for a New Bride Father would Choose To Create: "Church". This invention and election, occurs in Matthew 16:18. It is ratified in John 17:20-21; the changeover to the new covenant is explained in detail by Paul and whomever was the writer of Hebrews (who wrote just after Paul died). The apostle Paul was first given the parameters of that change; he faced opposition and even persecution, from Peter, James, and the Jerusalem church, not to mention his fellow Jews who remained unbelievers. Peter and James finally realized Paul was right. James was executed by his fellow Jews (and maybe Jewish Christians) as a result. Peter was in Babylon then, among Jews who'd lived there maybe since 586 BC; he'd moved there from Antioch, owing to persecution of Christians in the wake of Paul's arrest, release, later re-arrest and execution in Rome (68 AD) by Nero.

In short, there was no cohesive "Christian faith" in the first century AD. Everyone was splintered. It was in the second century that "Christian" became an eclectic, apostate amalgamation of many pagan Roman sects, eventually forming a religious institution with its own hierarchy. According to the last two chapters of Cary's History of Rome (1965 edition), by 180 AD what we call "Catholicism" had stabilized: having driven out, killed, or otherwise defeated, the competing sects. You can trace all this out in Gibbon, Mommsen, and other writers of early Roman and church history. As you know, the victor always gets to rewrite history. But the victor was Satan, not Catholicism. So what follows is indeed about how popism is a provable lie, a myth — but it's really, a satanic conspiracy. The Catholic Church is just blind, as all humans are. Don't blame Catholicism, just learn from its blindness how Satan & Co. So easily trick us all.

So: even though you'll see in this page why it's a lie to claim Bible authorizes a pope in Matthew 16:18 or anywhere else, that does not mean the papal office should be abolished. People have the right to choose their own spiritual leaders, and that right is very much in the Bible as we all know, i.e., Ephesians 4:11. You can see the spiritual freedom rules throughout both Old Testament and New, i.e., not everyone listened to the prophets or rabbis, all of whom had restricted territories of operation, i.e., Hosea was prophet to Israel; but Isaiah, to Judah; the Levites were severally assigned to given cities. So if you wanted to be under a prophet, you voted with your feet. In the New Testament, all the apostles had given territories: Paul to the Gentiles, but the 12 including Peter, to the Jews. No one writes to the Gentiles until after Paul is executed by Nero. Paul's rules to Timothy included the congregation choosing who would be their pastor. Same remains true, ever since.

So if people want to be Catholic or anything else, no one on earth has the right to gainsay them. Of course, this spiritual freedom rule means God would never authorize a pope, either. But it also means that if people want to set up a pope for themselves, that is their free prerogative. Obviously, the Catholics want to do that. No one can gainsay them voting that for themselves. The evil is to claim that they are the "one true faith" with the right to rule on earth. But then again, we have many such groups claiming to be the only "right faith" in the world. And all are evil for that reason, Revelation 17 update on the Ziggurat of Babel. Only God gets it right. Best we can hope to do, is keep auditing our faith for errors. Religion won't admit error: Satan invented religion in Genesis 3, Ziggurat of Babel, phallic and ascetic cults, Revelation 17, "harlot" imagery in Old Testament and New, idea of spiritual fornication. And man is free to choose it. That's what the Angelic Trial is all about — do you pick God's Plan... or Satan's?

The start of it all: due to Israel's rejection near Passover 29 AD, Jesus the Christ voted to create and pay for billions of future people — like you and me — in Matthew 16:18. His vote trumped Satan in the trial. So this defeat of Satan is masked for centuries, by alleging Matthew 16:18 makes Peter the head of a Revelation 17 religion, right down to its Institutional religious and political Colors. Thus Satan advertises his authorship of that religion, so no believer can excuse his ignorance: even the colors of Revelation 17 are mimicked (Revelation 17:3-4). People don't live for centuries, demons do. So people can be blinded, fooled for centuries, if they don't know the Bible. Not one person born would ever knowingly blaspheme Christ. But almost anyone is too lazy to read Bible.

As you watch, notice how you must lie against all the Christ-is-Rock-of-Salvation verses Bible, to call any pope claim valid. It's criminal, sorry. Those videos trace how that lie was invented in the latin text, by twisting grammar conventions on case endings. Very clever, very bald, so any Catholic who can read Greek is a liar. No kind words can be said for a whole denomination which cuts Christ's head off.

"PopeMyth" is devoted to exposing the lies you can prove yourself by reading the 'church fathers' in their own words. 1800 years of lying that keeps on keeping on, deserves censure in the strongest terms. Think of the lives lost, the money wasted, the people who will lose faith, all due to a power-mad elite who can't afford to fix past mistakes. Be Catholic, but be Biblical: well, to do that, you have to reject most of the Vatican arguments!

The Peter-is-head claim is thus easily proven false, embarrassing us all; proving as well that we don't give a flip about the Bible, and thus we don't love God, either. So mankind's hypocrisy is laid bare. To wit:

This page summarizes the proof regarding the three hoaxes, above.

As to the claim that a new contract was created by Christ in Matthew 16:18 and following, my pastor has taught that doctrine for over 50 years, and others have, too. Book of Hebrews is quite helpful: it walks you through the contract changeover, demonstrating that His pre-Israel "King-Priest" contract (i.e., in Psalms 110) is the juridical basis for the switch. Because the Bible is often mistranslated and uses specialized vocabulary, because readers who got it already knew about the changeover (so much information is taken for granted), you should read Hebrews at least a dozen times in a translation you best understand, breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed: constantly ask Father for understanding, proof, etc. As you read. We get the term "New Testament" from the Book of Hebrews (ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη). What one section of Bible treats axiomatically, another section of Bible presents in full. That's why you need all of Bible, not just some. Most of the New Testament is on the new contract. But some books are easier to grasp in translation than others. Hebrews and Ephesians are flagship books on the topic, as well as 1 John, and John 14-17.

Right away you should notice one thing: if people couldn't get a Bible, they couldn't know that what they were taught, was a satanic lie. Further, those who had Bibles, were given so much other stuff to do, they didn't get much time to study. Same problem existed in the Old Testament: the Bible as then written would go lost right inside the Temple, where it was kept. Now, that provokes a kind of empathy for people buying into Catholicism for so long. But frankly, even in the Old Testament and during the Dark Ages, when people wanted to know Bible, they could get it. But they didn't want it, most of the time. So you had breakouts during the Dark Ages and afterwards, of "back to the Bible" movements, many of them goofy in their doctrines: but you can't stop being goofy, until you get the Bible. So we are all still responsible for our disinterest. After 1889 there is zero excuse, for that's when Samuel Tregelles unintentionally forced the Vatican to publish its own original language manuscripts, called Codex Vaticanus. So for over a century we've had free access to the Real Bible, and look how few of us know those original language texts, today. So we in the 21st century have a lot to answer for. Very disinterested, very much liable to Divine Discipline. If you don't study God's Word, then you can't know God, so you can't discern a satanic lie. Simple as that.

A satanic conspiracy is always blatantly signed, to prove authorship; thus whoever believes its lies, has no excuse. Because it doesn't take much research in bible, to prove what's a lie. Satan's strategy is always to make God 'foreign' to us. So, a good acronym to display that fact, is "DIOS". Pretending you didn't know Spanish, the meaning of "DIOS" would be 'foreign' to you.

Briefly, the "DIOS" acronym summarizes how Satan's lies fool humans into defining "God" foreign to the truth in Scripture. So if you do not know bible, you will fall for the lie. Falling for the lie proves you hate God's Word, and Satan wins points in the Angelic Trial (i.e., God will agree to punish). Hence a satanic lie is always blatant, having these "signature" characteristics: Derision, which is Imbalanced to Obfuscate Christ and thus make foreign Substitution that replaces Christ with something Blatantly Derisive.


The 'popism' lie accomplishes specific DIOS objectives:

A quick perusal of the Gospels even in translation proves that all four of the above DIOS characteristics were rife in Judaism too; and the Lord excoriated them at every turn. But then, we don't even peruse the Gospels, or we'd stop aping what was wrong with the Jews back then. It's easier to just fit in with people. Who cares what the Bible says? 🙄

All this DIOS got accomplished, by blasphemous and provably wrong usage of Matthew 16:18. So it behooves us to see how such a lie could be believed for so long, huh. This is not to bash Catholics. They don't mean to blaspheme Christ. Their very blindness is itself evidence of the blindness of all of us. They get to be the poster boy example, only because the blindness is so easy to prove. Once you see the proof, then you can take the same paradigmal characteristics, and see how blind we humans are in many other things. We're all in this blindness, together. We all are so uninterested in the Word of God that we get duped (albeit in other ways), just as much as Catholics --


Witness the Matthew 16:18 DIOS Gender Grammar Hoax, how we all don't do our Bible homework!

Greek:
"κἀγὼ δέ σοι λέγω ὅτι σὺ εἶ πέτρος ("little rock", chip, male noun), καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ ("big rock", bedrock, cliff, female noun) οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ πύλαι ᾅδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς." *

English:
"Now I declare you are Little Rock (= Peter); in fact, upon This Big Rock (= Christ), I will build My Church (female gender, Greek equivalent of synagogue); even the gates of Hades will not defeat it (literal, her, matching gender)."

Latin Vulgate:
"et ego dico tibi quia tu Esther Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversum eam"

* Greek didn't capitalize, but rather wrote all words in capital letters, so if you have Greek text with "Πέτρος", that's some later scribe's invention.

Notice Christ is not calling him by his name, which is Kephas (Aramaic), but is playing on the meaning of his name, which is "little rock", a stone. So you should translate the verse the way the Greek renders it (since in other Greek verses Kephas is used, when he's called by name). So, that's what I did here. There is a kind of adoption connotation. The Lord is telling Peter he's saved, part of Him. But it's not a renaming; the renaming happened back when they first met (John 1:42). And it's spelled with a "K" in Greek (no "c" in Greek language). It's a very tender, affectionate verse. Even more so, when you realize the huge commitment He's making when He says it.

In Latin of Christ's time, a rock is not "petrus" or "πέτρα", but "scopulus" for big rock, and "calculus" or "lapillus" for little rock — in short, Latin was not used in the Vulgate, here. Instead, they transliterated from the Greek. Notice how clever, to mask the size of the two very different rocks, via transliteration. Even so, Latin words have a given sex, so even in this transliteration, the masculine petrus would become petrum (masculine accusative), not petram (feminine accusative). So anyone reading petrus = petram is making a Latin grammar 'mistake', too. So even if you didn't know Greek, petrus and petram are not Latin words, and they are not of the same sex, so they are not the same Rock! You have to flunk kindergarten Latin and kindergarten Greek — or be a liar — to claim they are the same object.

Greek of 1 Corinthians 10:4, where Paul uses Πέτρα = Christ: "καὶ πάντες τὸ αὐτὸ πνευματικὸν ἔπιον πόμα· ἔπινον γὰρ ἐκ πνευματικῆς ἀκολουθούσης πέτρας, ἡ Πέτρα δὲ ἦν ὁ Χριστός"

Douay-Rheims (DRB official English Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, 1610): "And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)"

See how easily Peter's head replaced Christ's in the Vulgate and in English Bibles? All it took was misuse of a capital, and misuse of sex, and voilà! Christ is replaced! So not just the Catholics are stupid, huh. This is royally embarrassing to all of us, because Greek πέτρα is used 104 times in Bible (video shows that), most of which are in the LXX (Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, from which the Lord and apostles extensively quote). But look in any English Bible — especially if it claims to be translated directly from the Greek, 🤣 — see how they just follow along with the Catholics, never looking at the Greek! Notice how clever: so long as the size of the rock is obscured and you translate πέτρος as Peter rather than "Little Rock", you can Mask The Meaning, hooray! So now you can even translate 1 Corinthians 10:4 to show the (Big) Rock=Christ, yet no one will catch it! They've been inculcated with the idea Peter is the head of the Church, so see the derision? This verse contradicts that claim! What brilliance. Satan & Co. Sure know how to manipulate an outcome, and we poor soppy humans are none the wiser. Because, grammar bores us. Yeah, God bores us too, obviously.

It's a rather bigger meaning that Christ opts to make the Cross far worse upon Himself to pay for billions of added people, than whether He'd appoint some sinner in charge of a religion. But we only see the latter 'meaning', so we miss the former truth. We'd not be here but for Christ's Election in Matthew 16:18! Oh, but we don't know that! It's covered up with a man's head! Kill me now. Yeah, and Satan's mightily glad for this coverup, for then it's not repeated generation after generation, how the Lord saved the trial and snatched victory from defeat at the last minute. But at what a rise in BridePrice? Incalculable! If you were Satan, you'd want to cover up your defeat, too. How deftly he did it.

So how did we Protestants also screw it up for centuries, because we essentially accept the Catholic interpretation? 🤣Laziness. We do know the Catholic usage is wrong. It's common knowledge among Protestants. But do we change the translations to reflect what we know? No! And why didn't God alert us? Well, God won't give you understanding of His Word when you are in a state of sin per 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10. That's why so many Christians are dufuses: they don't regularly use 1 John 1:9. So I breathe it constantly. 🤣 That's why to some people, 'my' webpages seem so 'smart'. Yeah, not my brains, baby! So you go get God's Brains, too: make it an instinctive habit to breathe 1 John 1:9, so you can escape the doofus history of Christendom!

You know, people get royally ticked off if you tell them they are wrong. But it's sure okay to misuse Bible, huh. We must respect people's 'interpretations' and 'opinions', but Mangling The Bible is okay, huh. No wonder God won't alert us more often to the many mistranslation and misteaching errors we routinely make in pulpits and documentaries (you just try to find a documentary which gets Matthew 16:18 right). Why should God bother? His Word gets oodles of lip service, but zero respect! It's positively disgusting that we trash the Word in translation and teaching so much, yet are so offended if someone makes even the smallest hint of criticism at us. So Satan & Co. Mock us, and we deserve it.

Let's thus see how this blatant kindergarten grammar gender error makes the Matthew 16:18 satanic signature particularly deft: since Christ invented His Own Spiritual Life and Church, Satan invents a Fake Church to Substitute, Revelation 17 replete with Fake Head from Matthew 16:18! As usual, you'd have to know the Bible, to see that signature. That's the burlesque. So if you read Greek, you have zero excuse for claiming Peter is a 'rock', 🤣. 2nd century folks could read Greek, so they just flat lied to everyone — and no one cared. Nyaah nyaa-ah nyaahnyaah nyaah, foolish human, you can't see us mock you since you don't know your Bible.

Okay, but why is it so important to distort Matthew 16:18? Three topics behind this: 1) Time was running out due to Israel's rejection, so Christ had to invent a new Bride, even as He had to invent a higher Spiritual Life to do what the Mosaic Law could not do, pay for sins (theme of Hebrews 5-10). 2) This new Bride would be based on his pre-Israel contract with Father, an award for defeating Satan in the Angelic Trial (ibid and Hebrews 1-2). 3) Therefore, the contract for Bride would have nothing in common with Israel, except that Israel had been the first Betrothed, but turned the offer down (ibid and Hebrews 3-4,10:18ff, Hebrews 11:39, see also Romans 9-11).

Gist of the Time Problem: Matthew 16:18 is why you and I are breathing. In that verse, Christ commits to pay for billions of people who otherwise would never be born. Time was supposed to end with the generation of His First Advent. Time's end had been forecast ever since David died in 963 BC; that with Messiah's being cut off (Daniel 9:26), there would follow another 57 years of history, during which the Tribulation would come; then, the Millennium, a 1050-year period which Christ also purchased while He was here. That meant all time would end (including the 50-year voting period following the Millennium), in 1144 AD. All this was known since 963 BC. But since Israel rejected Christ, the only way History Could Continue was for Him to Vote for a New Bride. Which He does, in Matthew 16:18, ratifying His Vote in John 17:20-21, just before He was arrested. So Paul was the guy God chose to explain this new "Church" body of believers born from Matthew 16:18 (which Paul quotes, in 1 Corinthians 10:4). Last Adam and Last Bride. The Head is the Husband. No earthly head. He paid for billions more people yet future relative to 30 AD, as Father might choose to exist. Has absolutely nothing to do with religion of any kind. Has everything to do with the fact we're alive.

Gist of how He Trumped Satan: when Israel rejected Christ, Satan should have won a Mistrial Verdict, which is also why Time should have ended with the Cross. For, then God isn't keeping His Promise to Israel of a Future Son of David Ruling forever, never mind it's her fault she didn't want Him. Not only that promise, but all the others (like the land grant, the Millennium, etc). For, there were past believers who had voted for Him. Idea is, to claim God's bad. So, by voting for a New Bride, Christ ups the ante, for billions upon billions upon billions of extra sins would exist, if more people do. The number of people was left up to Father, John 17:20-21. Thus the Trial is not over, after all. But a mistrial issue still looms, for if claimed evidence is not produced, then the one not producing it cheats. Here, that's God. So it still becomes a Mistrial, if even one of those future people paid for, doesn't exist. So if Satan can mask what "Church" and "Bride" and "Head" are, then He can (so he thinks) manipulate God into having to judge the world... and cancel Time itself, just as he almost succeeded in doing, during the First Advent. That's a real possibility, for God conditions time on believers growing sufficiently. For Time to continue, there only needs to be one believer awarded time each 490 years: Adam then Jared then Enoch then Noah then Abraham then Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, then Moses then David then (via David) Temple then Christ paid for all time prior to 30 AD. And, a small group of believers worldwide voting for God enough during the intercalated voting periods (between two 490-year periods, principle of Daniel 9:2). But it's possible such a person won't get developed. If not, Time ends. Time also ends if mankind is too negative i.e., the Flood: but for 8 people, the world would have ended.

Gist of the New Bride Contract: back in eternity past, the central Decree was to Create Christ, Ephesians 1, Isaiah 52:13, Psalms 110, 1 Timothy 2:5, Galatians 3 "seed" clause. So that meant, what Roles would He consent to 'play', once Human? One of them was the Bright Morning Star, to defeat Satan (theme of Hebrews 1-2). As a result, He'd have 'children' (Hebrews 2), which meant a Bride (passim Betrothed and adultery-complaint theme in the Old Testament, plus Isaiah 53:10-12). So once He "arrived" down here (Hebrews 10:5), He had to vote separately as Humanity, what He wanted. He determined His Own Spiritual Life, and those terms thus govern our own spiritual life contract. That contract is Ephesians 4:13, His Own Royal, King-Priest Maturity Level. It's a Thinking Life, Thinking toward Father, Royal-Priestly, therefore (1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10). Essentially, 'looking' at God and monitoring your thoughts, learning and living on Bible 24/7 like He did (i.e., Matthew 4:4). Yikes. Bridal contract for the Church is unbelievably higher than Israel ever had. It's a Mistrial if the numbers of these spiritually-mature people, don't complete as paid for in Advance. Rapture is based on Promised People Completed, not on historical events, prophecy, or time. Because that's the nature of the contract, "as many as", John 17:20-21.

The above three issues about time, the trumping, and the Trial numbers, are interwoven with the fact we are unseen witnesses in the Angelic Trial, itself. Hebrews 11:1 in the Greek tells you this plainly, so of course it too is egregiously mistranslated. Followed by, a roster of past Old Testament trial witnesses, to show that the issue is: "Word Believed", Christ-on-Trial, Evidence Unseen (essential translation of Hebrews 11:1, the topic header of the chapter). People are, unbeknownst to them, put in the trial docket to demonstrate the inviolability of "Word you live on versus everything else". Winning in that unseen testimony begets a crown (you inherit a kingdom you'll own for all eternity), 2 Timothy 4:7-8: so you'll know if you win, before you die. So here we see yet another, interwoven threat: if the Testimony doesn't complete, it's a Mistrial. And here you thought the devil had horns and a tail. Try instead, an Armani suit with a Rolex. And so he is suitor to the human race, to get them into his Fake Church, so he can prevent the Testimony from completing, owing to no one remaining who wants to testify (kinda analogous to the Genesis 6 infiltration, except it's into our souls, not bodies).

So, since Christ invented Church to keep mankind alive, it's important to mock Him. That's what Revelation 17 is, a mock, fake, "mystery" (moniker for Church, in the New Testament). Invention of New Body by Christ, becomes invention of New Religion by Satan — tares replace wheat! So Satan considers the Lord mocked, if His Head is replaced with Peter's in Matthew 16:18, the verse recording the Lord's Commitment for the billions of extra souls which we humans all are (including all future unbelievers, remember). The believer is thus mocked for not caring to learn and thus notice the different Greek sex and the LXX fame of "Πέτρα": most spectacularly, the "Bedrock" (not merely "rock") that Moses struck to give the people water. Same "Πέτρα" rock later became the base for the Ark in the Holy of Holies (on Mt. Moriah later renamed Zion, where Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac). So when Christ says "ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ Πέτρᾳ" in Matthew 16:18, He's pointing to himself, as we just saw in the "Sex... Hoax" subsection. The masculine-sex "πέτρος" is a play on Peter's name, a diminutive, meaning "chip", from which we get "Little Rock". Chip off the Block, way of saying Peter is saved, in Christ forever.

So it's really important to mask the real meaning of Matthew 16:18, so that people will buy the Fake Church, and thus not be saved (because you are only saved if you only do John 3:16, no other verbs). Lots of people who buy into the Fake Church, at some point merely believe Christ paid for their sins, so are saved; the satanic goal is to keep them spiritually childish, afterwards. Thus Satan delays the completion of the evidence, and maybe can stop Time altogether. Meanwhile, because man has to be responsible for his own screwups, the blatant misuse of Matthew 16:18 and its matching to Revelation 17, mocks. So no one has any excuse, for buying into it.

Note how obvious the signature: sex mismatch, easy to spot, kindergarten Greek or Latin. The layman won't spot it so easily, but the teachers sure should. Yet century after century, even Protestant teachers either won't fess up about the egregious mistranslation of Matthew 16:18 in English Bibles, or don't know about it. Next, Revelation 17 is a biography of Catholicism, right down to the colors. The Gospel was added-to, with the result that the Catholic 'gospel' of you having to be baptised in the Church to be saved... saves no one. Atop that, the historical barnacles of pagan religions, incorporating much of their customs and tenets, is a fact of church history as every reader of Gibbon knows. That's what harlots do: they wear (and shed) whatever it takes to get customers. The sheer incompetence of "Good Friday" despite Matthew 12:40-41, boggles the mind. Count backwards from Sunday and you get Wednesday, not Friday. See how in-your-face is the satanic signature? And we don't care. Or we'd not be deceived so many centuries. Again, it's not the Catholics, but all of us who are to blame. There's no excuse for this: we don't look into the Bible. So we are rightly deceived.

So look how clever Satan & Co. are, to mask Christ's most important vote, the very reason you and I are alive today. The Roman Catholic Church's interpretation of Matthew 16:18 makes Peter a pope, head of the Church, and "Church" is also redefined as a religion, not a body of believers — another misuse of the Greek text. See? That 'interpretation' (incompetence or lie, let's no longer be coy) totally Derides Christ. Totally Imbalances our reading of the verse. Totally Obfuscates the verse, and then most of all, Substitutes out Christ, for Peter. See the "DIOS" usage? So, think: you just know there's never been a Catholic who intends to blaspheme Him. You can bet most popes never desired to blaspheme Him. Thus is the satanic nature, not human nature, of the conspiracy evident: humans are blind to the blasphemy. Hence, other errors quickly follow, and Bible had to be sequestered lest the truth be known. Again, this sequestration was too successful, to blame the Roman Catholic Church (though it avidly sought to persecute those who had independent copies of Bible). To this day, Bible disagrees with everything the Roman Catholic Church says, and its 'gospel' of you needing to be baptised by it, is a lie above all lies. You are not saved if you believed that. So get saved, now: just 'do' John 3:16, don't add anything. Then you'll be in heaven forever (no purgatory, either, that's another lie).

This pope lie is therefore a good example of how quickly Satan duped negative Christians beginning immediately after the Crucifixion; and, of how his strategy ensnares us all. Believers right after the Crucifixion, were largely Jews. Paul and the Jews were at loggerheads, because God changed the Covenant due to Matthew 16:18, and even believing Jews resisted that (Peter, James, the Jerusalem church). There was no "Catholicism" for another two centuries, and it began its morphing with the Jerusalem Church; it developed further with the apostasy we call "the Church Fathers" at the very time God was giving John, but not any of those 'fathers', Bible to write. Humans can't possibly manipulate the entire world and all this history; only Satan & Co. are that powerful. So the Roman Catholic Church is not being bashed. Rather, we all have been burlesqued by Satan & Co. It's important to keep that in mind, as you read the disturbing, easy-to-verify evidence, below.

Christ paid for everyone, 1 John 2:2. God made us into His Own Righteousness the very nanosecond we first believed in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:13, Romans 10:9-10 (in Greek), John 3, Ephesians 2, scads of other passages. So blamesmanship is obsolete; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 is instead our new Royal Lifestyle, 2 Peter 3:18. We can throw away all the guilt questions, Romans 5:1-5, Romans 8:1-4. So if you can, try to keep remembering that the game changed due to Christ. No more blame-game, but instead, Gain-Game. His Gain, going to us. So when you read what follows, look only for the blame, in order to better see the gain. We do 💩, Satan 'helps', but God converts it all to good, Genesis 50:20, Genesis 45 (longer explanation), Romans 8:28 (principle applied to growing believers in Church).

Ok: you got your thinking and sleuthing caps on? Let's roll up our sleeves and consider the the last two hoaxes, about dates and Bible facts.


Date and New Testament Bible Facts Exposing Popism as a Hoax

Consider, if you will, what the Roman Catholic Church lists as its popes, with their reigning dates. (Table comes from Encarta 2004, but its source was the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Pope Name Pope Reign
St. Peter 42-67 AD
St. Linus 67-79 AD
St. Anacletus (AKA Cletus) 79-92 AD
St. Clement I 92-101 AD

Next, consider the dates New Testament books of the period were written. It's long practice in God's Word to write about a thing years after the events covered; or, when large numbers of people want it immediately, so logistically writing is the better medium. The idea is to leave behind a testament (as in testimony, even more than 'legacy') which survives the author. So these books are Affidavits of Official Divine Communication, no matter how much later written versus spoken. God the Holy Spirit recalls facts to the mind of the author; He teaches the author what message to craft from them. Hence there will always be a rhetorical style used for teaching the communication. God's Word is precise and precisely multilayered. So, one author is given to stress some things, but to leave out other things. This makes for better learning. So, there are multiple authors with multiple rhetorical styles and hence lessons, in each Book: idea of telling the same information from multiple angles, weaving in new information or new ways of looking at the information previously given, so you can learn better. There are reasons for every jot and tittle in the crafting of each Book. No detail is unimportant, but obviously there is also a hierarchy of importance. You'll tear your hair out if you don't breathe 1 John 1:9 while reading Scripture: especially, the Gospels.

More relevant date data to consider...

Next, let's list what, if anything, the Bible says about the Roman Catholic Church's listing of popes, or about the office of pope. Because, if this pope office is directly from God, then God ought to have talked about it, since New Testament Scripture was still being written and compiled at the time these popes allegedly ruled. If the "pope" can speak Ex cathedra — which means his word in that status is as holy as the Bible — then the Bible ought to have some of his words, in it. Or at least, authorize that function. If not, well... then you have to ask yourself who's arrogating to himself a role which God never authorized. We all can claim to speak for God, 1 John 4:1-6 — but not infallibly.

So even the ἀπόστολος had limited authority within the Church, and a prescribed territory: Paul wasn't supposed to interfere in Peter's territory, and vice versa. (This is a major running theme in the New Testament, so you can't list all the references for it. 1 Corinthians talks about it a lot, since the Corinthians were dividing over who was 'their' leader, i.e., in 1 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Corinthians 3:4-6, 1 Corinthians 3:22, 1 Corinthians 4. Acts 15 and Acts 22 are on this topic, the problem of Paul having his own territory. Romans 14:4 and 1 Corinthians 10:29 show the basic principle; Romans 15:20, 2 Corinthians 10:16.) Paul wasn't an apostle to the Jews, and God sent him in chains to Rome for having disobeyed God's territorial rule, Acts 22. Same, for Peter and the others. This is typical of missionary activity, even today, the concept of a given territory. Hence the terms "πρεσβύτερος" (elder), "ἐπίσκοπος" (overseer) and "διάκονος" (food-servant/diplomat) were sometimes used to describe an apostle's authority; later, the pastor's authority (pastor office replaced the apostles' office, Ephesians 4:11 Greek and all of Timothy). So the last-appointed apostle was Paul, and the last living apostle was John. Peter was an apostle. Mark and Luke, who were closely associated with Paul (and Mark, with Peter as well) were not apostles.

Moreover, you find no one among the apostles writing again to the Gentiles, until Paul is dead (Peter, Jude, John). So if apostle to the Jews, Peter is not a pope over Gentiles. If there should have been a pope, then it should have been Paul. If there was apostolic succession, which we know there wasn't, since there were 13 apostles living during this time; if there had been apostolic succession to the Gentiles, then Paul was first, followed by Peter, followed by John. And no one follows John. (The Lord has the keys in Revelation.)

By the way, from the time of Paul's first imprisonment onwards, Jerusalem erupted. Rome finally had to intervene, beginning about 64 AD. You can read Josephus for an accounting, or whatever other material you respect. So that means the apostles for the Jews had to disperse, if they hadn't left Jerusalem already: Matthew 24 would have been too obviously, 'turned on.'

How much more grave, when a claim of authority is made! Jeremiah 23:25 is but one of many verses in that book and other Bible books which declaim the severe penalty for falsely claiming to speak for God. So if a pope claims to speak for God, whoa: if what he says disagrees with Scripture, then not only he but the hearer is to blame, for believing him. See all of Jeremiah 22-28 on this topic, so you get a fuller picture of the parameters. If someone claims to speak for God, the reader is supposed to test what he hears, no matter who the person is, 1 John 4. Canon is demonstrably closed (Hebrews 1, and quite clear in Revelation 22:6-21). But even so, anyone claiming to speak for God is supposed to be tested: whether claiming to be a pope, some brainout writing a webpage... or even your own 'certainty' that you 'heard' Him. And the only way to test is via Scripture. If Bible disagrees, then the speaker is mistaken, crazy... or speaking for 'the other side'. So should be disregarded.

When authority abuses power, it is given very wide latitude by God, since authority is being wielded by a human, and all humans err. The one in authority errs bigger, because his authority makes him bigger. So you won't see bolts of lightning hit authority which errs. What happens instead, is that the authority is given enough rope to hang himself, and God the meanwhile makes even the errors, bless those under that authority. So if our parents or teachers or leaders screw up, we needn't hate them or resent them or crusade against them. In fact, if we do those things, we get punished, and big time. I learned this the hard way. For God is the God of authority and Justice, so we who are not authorities, should never try to redress any injustice by trying to topple an authority. We who are authorities, should be extremely circumspect about how we use that authority. For God will not send us bolts of lightning. We are expected to live on the Word, and by it gain the correction and wisdom needed, to handle whatever life He graciously grants us. Christ is the Top, and voluntarily went all the way to the true bottom, the Cross, so no low-ness in life is demeaning. No high-ness in life, is self-aggrandizing. God alone is important and worth knowing. All else, is but a tool to learn Him better. For all of us.

The meanwhile, one is to test anything claimed by an alleged or real spiritual authority. Even if popism were true, it would have to be tested. Even though it is false, people who accept its claimed authority, have that right. Same is true for any authority, really: if you are accepting someone's authority (i.e., in your church, Job, home) then unless it's a valid thing to get out, you must obey. If you get out, you don't try to topple that authority, Romans 13.

Now, let's ask some basic questions.

  1. The most famous Greek Old Testament moniker for Christ, is "Πέτρα"; as in, 'Rock of my salvation'. It first signified the Rock from which wandering Israel drank, twice (see also 1 Corinthians 10:4). Same kind of BedRock on which the Anchor of the Holy of Holies, the Ark used to sit, on which Isaac was almost sacrificed. Christ Himself used this famous term which all Israel knew in Matthew 16:18, pointing to Himself, of course — "on This Bedrock". So how can it be twisted to mean Peter, who's a mere "πέτρος" in the same verse, a chip of Πέτρα. The Vulgate transliterated the Greek, so the size differential was erased. That's how this horrible blasphemy of Peter replacing Christ as head, occurs. All translations of every language I can read in my BibleWorks 5 mimic the Vulgate, as if the original language Greek text didn't exist. So much for the claim of a fresh translation! Talk about satanic conspiracy! They mimic the capitalization and the sex errors (which eliminates the size difference), though the Greek never capitalized (letters are all one size in the oldest original language texts)! Satan blinds us all! Only Young's Literal translation recognized it's not a name, πέτρος: but mistranslated both terms, "rock"! Yikes! Satan's laughing his head off! Understand, I have translations of Bible going back as far as Lutherbibel and Geneva, both of which are Protestant. And they too messed it up! So too, all the modern ones! Gonna be a lot of embarrassed Bible scholars in heaven. It's not as if we didn't widely know about the screwup usage Roman Catholic Church makes of this verse: it's one of the reasons for the Reformation, for crying out loud! But the translations weren't fixed! Please kill me! This is as bad as the capitalization of pros in James 4:5! They all flunk first year Greek!
  1. Only Christ has the keys and the power to open and shut, bind and loose, in Revelation. Matthew 18:18 is in dative plural, so Peter is not the only "keys" recipient. Moreover, Matthew 16:18-20 isn't some gatekeeper who decides who goes into heaven, only Father would say who is and is not saved! No one human has Omniscience into the soul, for crying out loud! Only Christ has those Keys. See Revelation 1:8, Revelation 3:7-8, Revelation 9:1, Revelation 20:1-3. See also Isaiah 22:22, Isaiah 28:16, Zechariah 6:12-13 which Christ allusively quotes in Matthew 16:18; also, 1 Corinthians 3:9-11, Ephesians 2:19-22, Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 5:25-32, Colossians 1:18, 1 Timothy 3:5,15; Hebrews 3:3-4, Revelation 21:14. I really don't know how it's possible to be more arrogant than to say some human being has the power to say who gets saved and who doesn't. That puts the person on par with Christ Himself.
  1. If God wanted popes, why aren't they even mentioned in the Bible, since the Bible was still being written? There never was one authority. Even the number of apostles, was 12 + 1 (13): Paul being the last one God appointed as a specialist for the new Church (had Israel accepted Christ, there would be no need for "a Paul"); James, being second to last, see 1 Corinthians 15:1-10. The one Peter appointed by lot, God replaced with James. So God sure didn't consider Peter a pope. See Matthew 10 on who were the apostles, and see end of Acts 1:19ff on the blasphemous lots thingy Peter did (we all have bad hair days). You don't dictate to God who God should choose, ever. So if there were a papal office, God would have to set its parameters, and directly appoint the first one. Christ didn't do that, the Holy Spirit didn't do that.

Here's where omission is very important. Notice that New Testament never has a verse where someone wrote a pope, or talked with a pope, or got instructions with a pope; there are no Bible quotes from any popes talking about anything or going anywhere. For a guy who allegedly has the "keys" to decide whether you go to heaven or not — a power only God has — funny, no mention of such an important person anywhere in the New Testament? Paul is in Rome most of this time, but we see Peter visit him in Asia, then Peter goes to Antioch, then to Babylon — but Paul, is in Rome. Okay, why then doesn't Paul have any conversations with any popes? Surely they would be important high spiritual people to work with, no? 🤣 Nothing on the allegedly highest-spiritual-leader-on-earth, in Bible, not even a quote or passing mention of something such an illustrious person said? And people buy popism? Yikes! Do you see the mocking in this omission? By Satan & Co.? For if we knew our Bibles, this omission of such an 'important' person is downright dishonoring. Of course, it's not dishonoring if no such person existed.

The Catholic counter to this is that the office of pope was not the same, back then. No kidding. It must have been so very different, no one knew these 'popes' Linus or Anacletus, for of course John never mentions them. Peter never mentions them. Jude, Luke — no one mentions them. So whatever they may have said, must have been rather unimportant, that no one recorded what was supposed to be the highest spiritual authority, saying. Pretty rude of God, to not even give them mention, huh. Yeah, assuming they ever existed. Even more rude of God, to not give Clement a byline in the Bible, and rather have John write Revelation before (!!!) 1 Clement was allegedly penned. Funny how between the two letters, there's no congruence or confluence. As if one didn't know about the other: though John wrote before Clement. To read Clement, you'd not know Revelation even had been written. And of course Revelation treats the Roman church as if it didn't exist, in Revelation 1-3.

Here's the point: the Bible was still being written, and these popes allegedly were ruling at the very same time. When Bible talks about other stuff, there's lots of mention of contemporaneous history and people, which is why you can date the New Testament books. You know, for example, that Acts ended circa 62, because it ends with Paul leaving for Rome, and mentions all kinds of historical stuff you can check. So well... an important person like a pope, should be mentioned in the Bible during the same years. Nope. So either no pope or... God disapproves of the idea so much, it gets no mention. In which case, Peter sure isn't one of them. This is another hand-in-the-cookie-jar, dead giveaway.

  1. Why are the twelve apostles only to the Jews, but Paul is the only apostle to the Gentiles? The Roman church was a Gentile church. So how could Peter be a pope, when he's not even allowed to be an apostle to the Gentiles, since — duh — he's among the apostles to the Jews? This is really blatant throughout Acts, even in translation. Just read Acts in your fav Bible translation, see for yourself. Satan & Co. Love it when we prove we don't read our Bibles.
  1. If God even wanted mere 'apostolic succession', why doesn't He bother to mention it? And why doesn't Paul? Surely Paul, who wrote most of the New Testament Bible, would have put it at the top of his list of items, when writing Timothy in such haste about how to select pastors and their administrative subordinates (Paul thought he'd be executed very soon). As you'll see below with respect to 1 Clement, the "πρεσβύτερος" (elder) and "ἐπίσκοπος" (overseer) offices were quasi-secular, local-church administrative jobs, subordinate to their pastors, not superior over them. How can anyone claim those folks were more important, than the ones to whom God gave canon and teaching? See: the Timothy letters are about succession, and nowhere is the roster of succession offices above that of the local pastor. The terms are used of subordinates or of authoritative functions of the pastor, in addition to his headship as the teacher. It's real clear in the Greek; the terms are well-defined in the Old Testament; but the translations aren't so bad you can't tell that nowhere is any provision for apostolic succession. Nowhere for anything remotely resembling what 'pope' is supposed to be. Even the Cathars, who didn't grasp Bible all that well (they were a goofy bunch) understood that much. Many movements prior and afterwards, could read correctly even that much. Hence the Bible was confiscated, hidden, chained to altars, made too heavy to carry, etc. Can't afford to let it in the wrong hands.

Of course, lots of Protestants claim apostolic succession, too. They are also unable to read the criterion for being an apostle, you must have seen the Resurrected Christ, since only He appoints you (it's not an election by people, 🤣) — 1 Corinthians 15:1-10. And an apostle is just a super-missionary, namely, Paul. Not someone who rules over everyone. Yes, he sets church policy — and the last one was John. Just ask the alleged 'successor' if Christ appeared to him personally and appointed him, okay? This is so embarrassing, how we profess love for the Word and Christ — yet will not read it. Satan & Co. must be rolling on the floor, all the time.

  1. And why, since Paul was alive until 68 AD, wasn't Paul a pope? Paul would have been a flashier name to claim, and then the history would have been right. Especially, since Paul was in Rome, and he wrote most of the New Testament; and we can prove God sent him to Rome (Acts 21ff)? Further, we can prove he, unlike Peter*, died in Rome. Are you beginning to smell a rat? Taking Paul's data, and slapping Peter's name on it? My pastor spent a lot of time going over the Scripture in Romans, Acts, Galatians on how God wanted Paul to go to Rome and stay there, but Paul wanted to witness to the Jews instead. You can read Paul's own words about it, even in translation, in Acts 22. Paul was the only apostle ever in Rome, and the only one God sent there.. Since 60 or 62 AD, having appointed Paul to go, circa 57(?) AD or so (Romans 15 is where Paul starts to go wacko); though after God let Paul out, he had one last tour around Asia Minor, before Nero re-arrested and then executed him. (If I remember rightly, my pastor dates the prison epistles about 2 years later than the Scofield does, i.e., 62-64 AD not 60-62 AD.) However you date Paul's tenure, he spans the years Peter was allegedly there. Paul was writing at that time, so why is nothing said about Peter being there? Why is Paul deserted by all but Luke, at end of 2Timothy? Peter sure wasn't in Rome while Paul was there.

* This of course also means that the myth of Peter dying on an inverted cross in Rome is just a Satanic idea for he was never in Rome. There's no proof of inverted crosses ever being used, and just — you guessed it — mocks the real Cross. But Christians and religion will normalize any kind of mocking under combined demon influence and emotion. It feels so good to them to mock the Cross. Pretty great huh? Satan gets various sects of Christianity to invert the cross and they think nothing of it! 🤣

  1. So why doesn't Peter call himself a pope or a BedRock, in his own letters? It would be his Job to do so, if that were his occupation. I don't know what Greek word he'd use to call himself pope, but he doesn't call himself by any title. Rather, he tells the audience to be subject to their own pastors ("elders" in English Bibles, 1 Peter 5). He doesn't issue instructions to those pastors, either; doesn't set policy. 2 Peter he writes when he knows he's about to die. So think: if he were pope, it would also be his job, more than anyone else's, to lay down the rules for who's to be pope after him — God would want that, if the office of pope were Biblical. But oh — there's nothing! See? Here omission is again important. To omit something so important is either a snub — or, the omission means the thing does not exist, so there's nothing to write about it. You don't omit what's allegedly the sole arbiter of God's Word on earth, from the Word of God. Unless of course, there is no such person. 2 Peter 1:20-21 says there is no such person, but rather the Holy Spirit teaches many persons — because the Holy Spirit is the Person Who is the arbiter. Wow: the Holy Spirit is being replaced by a mere man, in this pope claim? Of course, Hebrews 1 tells you everything comes through the Son, not a pope.
  1. Why does Peter assert his audience are chips like him? 'Using lots of Greek synonyms for his Little-Rock name, calling those he wrote, by those same synonyms (e.g., λίθοι, chips one writes on)? But Christ is ὑπογραμμός, the Copy-Book? No assertion of papal authority, but rather a denial of it, throughout. Why is 2 Peter 1:20-21, written as it is? Sounds pretty anti-pope: as if to counter the claim Peter even was one. Note the plural of "men". Not he himself, alone.
  1. Moreover, if Peter was the first pope, why didn't Peter get to write what John or Paul got to write? Peter didn't even get to write a Gospel. That fake book called the "Gospel of Peter" is so slapstick even a kindergartener can see through it. Much more, once you know the Greek of the two valid letters provably from Peter. For Peter has his own distinctive style, focusing on ὑπό-prefixed and stone-cutting words, much Attic drama Greek vocabulary and wordplays — a consummate writer who loves 'non-kosher' Greek. The Mad Magazine style of the alleged "Gospel of Peter" is really quite funny. And stupidly so, kinda like those who claimed they saw the Virgin Mary washed up on a girder under a Chicago freeway. It got such an audience, even NBC's Dateline went out there and did a little piece for its show: it was just before or after the Pope died. Wow, thousands of people sludged down the hill, putting daisies and icon pictures by that flowing salt stain. And none of them asked, Why would the Virgin 'appear' plastered against a freeway pylon? See how we are derided! Satan & Co. must have been sick with laughter. All the wanna-be-bible books are slapstick like this, too. No substance, just titillation, certainly not something Holy God would commission be written. Edifies no one. Read it yourself!
  1. Speaking of Gospels, John and Mark was pretty important to both Paul and Barnabas and Peter; Mark leaves Rome with Timothy, when Paul died. God gives him to be one of the last to see Paul alive; to be close to Peter as well; even, to write a Gospel... so why isn't Mark a pope? And why, in his Gospel, doesn't he predictively call Peter a pope, if Peter was one? See, it really sticks out that neither Peter nor Paul, but their alleged-close-associate John Mark writes a Gospel; the latter wasn't a disciple, so not an apostle, either. Rather, he was associated with Barnabas, who also came to the scene later. So where's the Divine Prediction so rife in every book of Bible, a divine signature characteristic... in Mark's Gospel, about some pope appointment; at least when talking of Peter, since scholars seem so convinced Peter is the source for Mark's information (what a laugh)?
  1. If Rome was such a great body of believers, why does no one write to them, post-Paul? And frankly, where was this alleged 'pope' when Paul was imprisoned? He wrote Timothy that everyone but Luke deserted him: 2 Timothy 4:16, but see context. If Peter was in Rome, where's his name... ever, anywhere in the New Testament? If Linus was the heir apparent, why isn't he listed first in 2 Timothy 4:21? Doesn't seem that Linus is even among Paul's entourage, but just a believer (the entourage having deserted him except Luke, 4:11). Compare to Hebrews 13:23, so you know Timothy did go to Rome, taking Mark with him. Timothy, not 'pope' Peter. And Hebrews 13:23 sure makes no mention of any pope or apostolic successor to Paul.

Odd, that no one writes to the Roman believers, but Paul. And that, years before he's chained up and goes there. So if any pope was there, where are the people? They cleared out of Rome from 64 AD onward, Nero was busy torching them all. So no one was in Rome then. This was probably when Paul got out, but I'm still trying to verify the dates.

  1. Why didn't Peter even write to the Romans? Why was Peter in Jerusalem and Antioch and Babylon, and you can't find Scripture saying he even ever set foot in Rome? Look at the audience at the beginning of 1Peter: it's to the churches in Asia, Paul's old stomping ground. So how can Peter be the pope of Rome, and not in Rome, and yet isn't writing to them? This is a really critical year for Christians, persecution was bad under Nero — shouldn't Peter be writing to his own popedom? And surely persecution was bad, since Peter is not there: 1 Peter 5:13, shows he's in Babylon, sending greetings of the Babylon church — to the Asian churches? And not to those at the center of the persecution, the Roman believers?
  1. If God wanted popes, why are the letters during circa 64 AD - 88 AD — Timothy, Titus by Paul, followed by Hebrews, Jude, Peter, John, Revelation — so strident about false teachers, and written by several hands, but never by an Roman Catholic Church-listed pope? Nor to the Roman church? For we've already established that Peter wasn't a pope... but the other ones on the list — where are the Bible books by them? Moreover, why doesn't the Roman Catholic Church claim Paul or the other Scripture writers as popes? Could it just be possible that everyone contemporaneous knew these people were not popes, that in fact no such office existed? So they dare not claim anyone who wrote a Bible book? I mean, you've looked at the Greek of Matthew 16:18 by now, and researched it over the Greek Old Testament to see what a blasphemy it is to use that verse to claim something about Peter. Okay: but why not claim the other ones? Maybe because there were no other ones. It's never good to claim some relic or article 'proves' someone's existence. On the other hand, you can well prove the existence of persons by the volume of what's said about them by other persons. So we got absolutely nothing said on Linus and Anacletus. The lone "Linus" Bible verse doesn't tell you which Linus it is, so it's disingenuous to just assert it's "pope" Linus. I can look up "brainout" in a search engine and find 100 motorcycle-related sites ("brainout" is a motorcycle term).
  1. Most important: if God wanted popes, why does He give John the Revelation before (88 AD) 1 Clement was supposedly penned? Why didn't God give it to 'Clement'? If you read Clement 1 ("Epistle to the Corinthians") and then Revelation 1-3, Revelation 17, you'll easily see God's answer to the Corinthians (and others) was: flee the Roman church. Can't miss it. Revelation circulated, okay? God is warning believers to flee the Romans just like Christ warned everyone to flee in Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21; all these tie to Daniel 9. In short, there was a intra-Christian antichrist (see also 1 John 2) set up within the 'temple' of the Body of believers. Really bald analogy. Whole new face gets put on Revelation 17 in the context of what those apostate Church Fathers were doing.
    1. Where's Peter? Okay, after you finished reading that long letter... did you notice that nowhere in 1 Clement is there mention made of Peter being the first Pope? Nothing about Linus, or Cletus either, huh. Search on "Peter", see for yourself. I mean, if Peter had even written Clement; if even Paul had written Clement — wouldn't Clement make use of that? Oh, but there's ... nothing.
    2. Where's any prior pope? Did you notice that nowhere in 1 Clement is there mention of the alleged-prior, popes? Search on their names, see for yourself.
    3. Why isn't Clement a self-confessed Pope? Does even Clement call himself a pope? No, he's trying now to claim some kind of overseer right, based on the apostles (unnamed, of course) foreseeing who to empower, in 1 Clement 44:2 and following!
    4. Where's any Pope's writings during the first century, other than this maybe-Clement? There's no guarantee that Clement 1 was written by anyone in the first century, let alone by anyone really named "Clement". "Clement 1" might be fictitious. The usage of the LXX of Isaiah 53:11 was interesting, but it had been a favorite verse of Christians. Do you begin to question whether the whole 'pope' thing isn't crafted long after, even Clement? Linus never wrote anything — so if Linus had been a pope, shouldn't he have written something? Where is anything about 'Anacletus' or 'Cletus'? Wouldn't Clement use their names, if he was their successor? So maybe someone invented their names some years later? Something is very rotten in Denmark, huh. In modern parlance, it's called a "hoax". A very old hoax. Now with respectability, since of course good deeds are everywhere touted. Along with the tyranny, just as 'Clement 1' was trying to impose on the Corinthians. What a long-winded guy. Forget about all those novels and P-2 claims of Roman Catholic Church machinations. This pope one is blatantly provable! But no one questions it? How do these people get away with it, century after century? Because we hate God so don't read His Word. Simple as that.
    5. Where's the agreement by the Corinthians? If Clement 1 was really a pope, why does he have to argue with the Corinthians to get control over them (last half of the letter, preceded by excessive flattery and scripture quoting). If he had authority, he could just assert it. That is very telling. Look: if popes went back to Peter, three generations later when 1 Clement is written, popism would be a well-established procedure. Clement was the fourth, allegedly. There would be no arguing, there would be orders. Moreover, he wouldn't have to reason with them about apostolic succession, etc., it would already be well-known. He's trying to convince them to submit to him. If he were really a pope, he'd just order it, not reason with them. Of course, if he's trying to become a pope — i.e., the first one, not the fourth — then there would be no established procedure from Peter and others, and he'd have to do some very smooth talking.
    6. If God wanted popes, why isn't the Church of Rome even mentioned, in Revelation 1-3, as if it didn't exist? Why no mention of it at all, until explaining Satan's strategy, in Revelation 17; and there, the Roman church is depicted derisively ('mystery' is New Testament shorthand for Church, but the one at Rome is mocked as a "harlot", the Old Testament designation for anti-God religion)? A pointed omission of something known to exist is God's not-so-nice way of saying a thing is worthless. Watch how Cain gets left out of the accounting in Genesis; notice how so many other 'sons and daughters' don't even rate an honorable mention. This is Oriental (and Roman, for that matter) custom of haughty exclusion when the royal house disapproves.
    7. Why are the colors in Revelation 17 exactly the same as the so-called 'Church' in Rome? Why the bother to describe the seven hills (the famous moniker by which Rome was known) — and then call it Babylon the Great, a harlot? All this, said of the area where the 'popes' were supposed to be? The chilly exclusion of Rome in the roster of Revelation 1-3 would have been very noticed by the reader. Especially, if there were these alleged 'popes' claiming divine authority at the time! Coupled with the only mention of Rome being in Revelation 17, and in such unmistakeable and uncomplimentary terms, well — the rejection of Rome by God, is complete. Can't be more obvious. Anyone who follows Rome is fornicating with Satan, see. Really crude analogy, and based on the deeper meaning of religiosity — so anyone religious, is fornicating with Satan. That's one of the oldest themes in the Old Testament, going all the way back to the religious temptation Satan gave to the woman: you will be like God (eyes on self, self emphasis — just like DPRK's Juche which translates to "mastery of oneself"). Notice how it's a lust to make self like God, to be good as God — which is the most immoral thought a person can have. Immoral, because God is infinite, and to compare self's good deeds or good works or even imagine that they deserve even a glance from Holy God, well... it rejects Grace, to think like this. Rejects the Husband who bought you. Very old theme in Bible, constantly repeated in Isaiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah. This is what felled Israel. This is what fells Church: religiosity.
    8. Why are 1-3 John so 'obsessed' with false teachers who left, but pretend to be 'the true' Christians? Why are these Asian concerns, with zero mention made of Rome? Why isn't John a pope, since he's the last real Apostle alive presumably in a similar time slot? That is if you are to believe the overly-generous dating of 1 Clement. 1 Clement 44:2 claims apostolic succession from the apostles, 10+ years after writes Revelation which God gave him. Hmmm: no need to succeed someone still alive (if we assume Clement and John were alive at the same time, but Revelation was completed in 88 AD). So 1 Clement sounds like usurpation, not succession. So, God usurped the Roman Church, and had the rightful last apostle, write to the Rightful Church. Pointedly. Don't know how anyone can miss this dating confluence. Even if we say 1 Clement was written after John died, though John is nowhere mentioned in the 'Clement 1' letter! What, was he practicing his own 'exclusion'? It's astonishing. John's Gospel is probably the most important, for Church. None of the keywords or concepts John uses are in 1 Clement. John himself is not listed even allusively, that I can find. Again, omission is important. And there's a dead silence here. At both ends. John is not dead. But he was exiled on Patmos. Odd that it's the Corinthians who get Clement's attention, they'd have been within John's territory. Not even the Vine and Branches analogy is in 1 Clement. Wow. That means John 14-17 is missing from his repertoire. That's it. God is not talking to Clement, but is talking to John. Yikes. Yeah, Clement doesn't even know the doctrine behind 1 John 1:9, thinking instead you have to ask God for forgiveness, 🤣: 1 Clement 51:1 compared to 1 Clement 51:3, so he doesn't know what "confession" does, which means he doesn't understand the Filling of the Spirit. So that accounts for his letter, proves his abuse of Bible, i.e., using Numbers 14 to advance his usurpation goal, 1 Clement 54:2ff compared to 1 Clement 53:2-4. (Moses didn't refuse God's offer to destroy Israel to avoid sedition.) 🤣 Okay: now I understand why God would not speak to 'Clement' and his ilk. They are their own gods!

Since so much of Paul, Peter, and John are missing from this guy's letter — and especially, John — some massive break with the Roman church must have occurred. 1 Clement therefore is in an awkward position as Revelation was completed in 88 AD and not the assumed 96 AD, and it's likely 1 Clement as a whole was written much later than 96 AD anyway making the apostolic succession remarks even more nonsensical. There was no provision for succession by the apostles; never in the Bible is such a thing done. God appoints directly. So to claim any kind of succession, is a flat lie, completely unbiblical. Bible has nothing on it at all, except the appointing of pastors which is by election of the congregations involved, theme of 1 and 2 Timothy. So it now makes sense why the Real God and the real apostle remaining, John — were not on speaking terms with the Roman church. 2 and 3 John are very strident about avoiding such people, but the overall panorama of the problem, is the framework in 1 John (thread begins in 1 John 1:6, coming up every other or every third verse after that). Now I see why.

  1. Why didn't God tell John who to appoint after him? Surely Revelation would have been the place to do it. But instead God has John write to the pastors ("messenger", not "angel", for crying out loud) in the "seven churches of Asia", Revelation 1-3. Surely they should have been told right there and then, of succession. But no mention of succession was made. Hmmm. Maybe because the last-appointed apostle, was Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:1-10. Gee — no mention there of successors, either.
  1. Note what succession God does specify, in John's Gospel: John 14-17, vine and branches system, fulfilling Isaiah 53:12, teaching of truth. No counterpart to Matthew 24, since Christ is the Temple. So if Christ is the Temple now, the Vine now, and we are the branches of Him apart from Whom we can do nothing (note what He says to Father in John 17) — then no earthly vicar was requested, needed, nor provided. So in John's Gospel, only stock references to the old physical Temple are given. After all, Ephesians had by then been out and about Asia Minor for a generation, with Ephesians 2's central theme of replacement Temple built on Christ (Ephesians 2:10 uses the Ionic dative of ἐπί). So in Revelation, the rebuilt, physical Temple is sarcastically reviewed by the Lord, Revelation 11:1ff, treated as if it weren't there: the command to measure the foundation means the space is treated as if no valid building is atop it. That's an Old Testament refrain, and always an angel is the builder or someone God empowers, directs, appoints: for only God can command Temple building. So any claim of a "Vicar of Christ" is anti-Christ. Aiming to replace Him, Isaiah 14:13-14. In any denomination: for nearly all the 'Christian' denominations are following the same 1st-century corruptions, not just the Roman Catholic Church. Everyone trying to get his megachurch, who cares about what the Word actually says!

See why we all need salvation so badly? Just like Paul says with that fabulous word "πανουργία" (all-erring-urges, so to speak) in Ephesians 4:14, that's how we all are. The right succession provided, we reject. And instead, invent our own — even to the point of obviously reflecting Revelation 17. We learn from Bible that we learn nothing from Bible. Satan & Co. Weep with laughter.

  1. "Clement I" was having a very bad hair day when he wrote this letter. This last point is a mix of reactions to specific things in his letter. 'Clement' clearly didn't know any of the apostles, and he didn't have John's material. So it's highly unlikely that the Clement of Philippians 4:3 is the author of this 1 Clement. Not all Bible was evenly distributed; no one was even talking to the Roman church after 68 AD when believers left due to persecution. Of course, had he really been a pope, surely he'd be first in line to receive the latest divine writ God isn't giving him to write. What Paul wrote the Corinthians 40 years prior doesn't seem to be in Clement's hands, either, or he'd have been too mortified to write his "Epistle". For, Paul's 1 Corinthians 15:1-10 flatly contradicts 1 Clement 44:2.

Random observations: there's no familiarity with the apostles (well, Peter and Paul are mentioned as dead in a distant, flowery, vague way). Instead, quotes are often from the Old Testament, James and Hebrews, two allusions to 1 Corinthians (Apollos verse and 1 Corinthians 13). Very (unintentionally) mocking of Paul's letter about Head and Body, in 1 Clement 47:1-3, 1 Clement 49:5. There are no quotes from other Pauline letters, or from Peter. So if Peter had been a pope, Clement snubs him by not quoting him. Peter is talked about (1 Clement 5:4), not as a pope, but merely as an apostle. Same, for Paul (1 Clement 5:5). 1 Clement quotes the Apollos verse (1 Clement 47:1ff) but in a bizarre manner. Two mentions of Peter, never calling him pope, one mention of Paul biographically, 1 Clement 5:6 — and that's it. Since 'Clement 1' quotes Scripture haphazardly and in such meaningless volume, he didn't have an up-to-date copy of Scripture, or he'd have poured in those verses as well. And the letter is weird. Notice the flowery stress on how the Corinthians are so nice, in the beginning; the garbage about how important for men to have a good opinion of 'you' — Bible condemns all this in the Old Testament, James, all Paul's letters (i.e., the "eye service" warning in Ephesians 6, Romans 12:1-3, Galatians, 🤣 all over the place). 1 Clement even claims a fake bird, the phoenix, is real (1 Clement 25:2) — to make a point about resurrection! It gets steadily more blasphemous, after 1 Clement 44:2. Then again, in 1 Clement 16 nearly all of Isaiah 53 is quoted, which is valuable. Nothing from the Gospels. No mention of Matthew or Mark or Luke. No quotes by the Lord, even. But then, nothing from Ephesians, Colossians, Galatians (well, he'd avoid Galatians, that book is about grace). Nothing from book of Romans. Nothing from Jude (which would have been apropos to his topic of sedition); nothing from Titus (again, would have been relevant). So if he were a spiritual head, Someone didn't see fit to give him all the divine writ, available. Clement is too verbose not to use everything he had. Sorry, it's real clear he doesn't speak for God or anyone else, but his ego.

So let's compare the Bible versus Clement idea of spiritual authority. Paul wrote Timothy and Ephesians on congregations having pastors. To sustain a pastor required free will election on who would shepherd them. Hence pastors must be elected by a congregation, the office is a gift from God alone, Ephesians 4:11. In the Bible, πρεσβύτεροι and ἐπίσκοποι were administrative, never interpreting Scripture; specific Bible-defined meanings are in the Old Testament. So the πρεσβύτερος and the ἐπίσκοπος never interfered with pastor's authority, (Old Testament "teacher", modern term "rabbi"); they were subordinate to him. So too in the New Testament, individual pastors are "the" authority of individual churches. In the New Testament, pastor's office was supreme, so he had some πρεσβύτερος and ἐπίσκοπος functions (also sometimes διάκονος, a "kitchen-help/waiter" and "diplomat"). But that only extended to the local church. Comprehensive description of the pastor's role is in Greek of Ephesians 4:11-16. It's always mistranslated in Bibles.

By human-manipulation contrast, look at 1 Clement 59:1, where he's threatening the Corinthians, claiming to speak for God, as if they had no right to vote for their own local authority at Corinth, many miles from Rome. Bleccchh. Totally the opposite of 1 and 2 Timothy.

According to Encarta on "Roman Catholic Church", it wasn't until 1943 that Catholics were even allowed to learn exegesis (Divino Afflante Spiritu, encyclical by Pope Pius XII). Word has been kidnapped and forbidden since Clement 1: that you can prove historically. But beginning with the collation and collection of Scripture in the mid-1800's, the Roman Catholic Church had to progressively relent, since so much of what it taught was being proved wrong by those God-breathed Bible texts. Since that time, the Roman Catholic Church has fought to justify its positions from Scripture. But notice how long it took: so everyone is to blame, not merely the Roman Catholic Church, since every denomination goes against Bible, doesn't do its homework, and enjoins upon its congregations to believe it, rather than God's Holy Word. So this phenomenon since 96 AD continues just as God said it would, in Revelation 17.

When you read the Bible talk about false teachers, and then you look into extrabiblical writings like this "Clement 1" and Church history, you come to realize there were at least two fake 'Christian' flavors: the catholic brand, and the Christian gnostic brand. Either flavor, is hairy reading! Both stress all the same tripe, then and now. Compare for yourself. Bring aspirin.

Now you can begin to understand why it was so hard to get a Bible for centuries, once the Roman 'bishops' got entrenched. Read the history of how we got our Bible, sometime. It's a kidnapping story, more dramatic than anything you've ever read. And real history, too. I bet some of the greatest heroes of the Church will be those anonymous monks and caretakers of Scripture. One of them secreted what we call Codex Sinaiticus in his cell, which Count von Tischendorf was able to acquire; another original-Bible text was being used for lighting fires, to keep the monastery warm. Yeah, they loved Bible alright... like you love the trash!

So the Roman Catholic Church has heroes, alright — but not the ones it promotes. Rather, the ones God protected for protecting Scripture, for our sakes. The officials of the Vatican kept Scripture under lock-and-key, until Tregelles forced them to publish their Codex Vaticanus, in the late 1800's. And that happened, because Tregelles managed to memorize that Codex. A loyal Catholic, he was allowed to view it — but not to touch or copy from it. An acolyte or other minor official had to turn the pages for him while he read. Can you imagine? Tregelles, thus hampered, memorized as much as he could; and at night, secretly wrote down what he'd memorized during the time he'd spent standing for 8 hours each day in front of that huge manuscript! So when he published what he memorized, the Vatican was gradually forced to publish the manuscript it had. Hence, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are two of our best manuscripts. And of course, those manuscripts, as the rest of the Bible, largely disprove 99% of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church (and doggone near every denomination, frankly). So we owe these folks who found these original Bible manuscripts, everything!

So here's something else you know right away: The Roman Catholic Church did not adulterate the original language text of Bible. Roman Catholic Church has always been good at hoarding relics, and this manuscript (Codex Vaticanus) was one. So God used the Roman Catholic Church to preserve one of the best manuscripts of Bible we have. Surely, the reason they thought they were keeping it under lock-and-key, was to protect it. Surely, that meant studying it was very rarely done. So they wouldn't know that what it says, contradicts Roman dogma in nearly every detail (i.e., Bible proves wrong the official Roman Catholic Church position on how you get saved, which is in fact why we had a Reformation, based on other (smaller) original language Bible manuscripts).

In sum, the apostasy which began sometime in 30 AD, was so rampant by the 90's AD, canon got finished. Same story, as what ended the Old Testament. We didn't want God enough anymore, so we get the sign of Jonah: silence, but Bible teaching. So this section isn't written to bash Catholics — but to bash all of us! Stupid misuses of Bible continue today among the non-Catholics, too. If we claim to love God, we should learn His Word better, and "test the spirits", as 1 John 4 warns. We clearly weren't doing that, in the 90's AD; we clearly have done very little of that learning, ever since. You can't find a documentary or encyclopedia on a Biblical topic which properly quotes and interprets Matthew 16:18. There's no excuse for such a gaffe, since that Πέτρα = BedRock is the Holy of Holies, over which now the Dome of the Rock, sits. So the above recap of the horrible apostasy which happened in the 1st century is no different, today. Mea maxima culpa.


Footnote on Mark's Gospel (Outdated)

This section is extremely outdated. I've done extensive videos proving Mark's text is third and when it was written. What follows below was written years ago, before I had time to do the Synoptics videos and Mark's Greek. You can tell even in translation that Mark wraps his text to Matthew and Luke first.

According to scholars, Peter called Mark "my son" in 1 Peter 5:13. "Son" in those days, meant heir apparent, especially if not of the bloodline. It was also a term of affection, as in spiritual son (a Hebraism). By the way, this is yet further indication that Peter outlived Paul, for John Mark was supposed to come with Timothy to Paul (see 2 Timothy 4:11ff). Mark's Gospel being written 69 AD then, could be just after Peter's death. But it's not written from Rome, baby. For Timothy was released from Roman custody after Paul was executed (Hebrews 12:23). Hebrews was written from Rome or at least "Italy" (ibid), by an unknown author who had been trained under Paul. Book of Hebrews makes no mention of any successors or popes, but rather that joe average believer is in the Royal Priesthood of Christ, which replaces the Mosaic Law (main theme of the book). Mark doesn't differ at all from that, and in fact dovetails with Book of Hebrews' imminency-of-Temple-destruction theme via his frequent usage of Greek term "εὐθύς": "immediately", "right now", "suddenly", shorthand for wake up, stupid! I'm not convinced that the "Mark" at the end of 1 Peter, is the same as John Mark, who is attributed as the author of the Mark Gospel. Something's fishy about the claim that the two are the same person. So here I'm 'going with the flow', the majority opinion (what a dangerous thing to do), that the two Marks are the same person. The majority opinion is so wrong on Peter not knowing Greek — they think he didn't know it well, they don't get his wordplay, his penchant for ὑπό-prefixes and stone words, and his penchant for political incorrectness — that I am queasy about their opinion on the two Mark references being the same person. Especially, since they keep on claiming that Mark got his material from Peter, rather than from the Holy Spirit, 🤬. Absent 1 John 1:9, all the degrees on the planet only make you more foolish, still. Moses knew what Adam said; so by that same Holy Spirit, Mark knew what happened, too, and didn't need Peter. Either you believe in God, or not. You believe in His Word or not. And if it's His Word, He talks about it to the writer. Verbal Plenary Inspiration (VPI) is real.

Mark wrote his Gospel after Paul's (and Peter's) death to counter speculation, to reassure readers Mark himself had been there through it all, and yes, the Gospel is true. It makes sense that the roundup of Christians which captured Paul would capture Peter also, especially if the Babylonian government needed a favor from the Roman Caesar. 64 AD - 70 AD is the leftover 'week' from when the First Temple ended, so had to be measured back to Israel. The First Temple ended 126 years before its own 490 time was up. God measured back only 119 years (70 + 49) in Daniel 9; the remaining 7 could have run concurrently with the 70th week of Daniel 9:27, had Israel been positive to Messiah. But they weren't. So it got measured back to them after Messiah repurchased time (by dying at the end of the 69th week).

What a scathing Gospel Mark writes! Telling you at once how the world was at the time he wrote it, just before the Temple was destroyed: to a parallel apostate generation of those in the prior generation had rejected Christ. Only this time, it's the Christians who don't believe in Him. You know that for the simplest of reasons: the Jews wouldn't be interested in hearing another Gospel. But every Christian would have poured over its details for 30+ years, at this point. Plus, the 40 year judgement period is about up, and they wonder what to think. Plus — as you'll see in the Gospel itself — people at the time Mark wrote were themselves hung up on miracles. Which weren't forthcoming, at this point. What was forthcoming, was a lot of persecution. Read also the Book of Hebrews, which was written at roughly the same time.

There's a lot of stupid controversy over the Mark Gospel. Instead of reading the content to see if God wrote it, people agonize over where Mark got his information, positing he got it from Peter. Sheesh: when God is the Real Author, the brilliance of the word usage is like a signature. Any author signs his work. So just look at the content: doesn't matter if Mark wasn't an eyewitness for all of it, just like it didn't matter for Luke or even Moses (who obviously wasn't in the Garden of Eden). Divine authorship proves itself. God Himself says you test Scripture with Scripture. So, then do that, and you'll have zero doubt God wrote the Gospel of Mark. Zero doubt thereby, about the counterfeits which are not Canon, but even today, still pretend to be.

It's very clear God the Holy Spirit had Mark write it, just like all other Canon books are very clearly different from all counterfeits. Moreover, you have to be already very familiar with the prior Gospel reports as well as the Old Testament, to grasp the scathing warning thickly threaded throughout Mark's spectacular retelling; for, it also predictively focuses on Old Testament judgement metaphors as its conceptual framework (especially after Mark 9). For Mark is telling far more than a boring, heard-it-all-before Gospel. No, this is a vibrant, double entendre story, using the actual Gospel; but applied to the time he wrote it, a generation later. Kinda like a New Testament Deuteronomy, God has Mark interpret for his post-Paul (and probably post-Peter) audience why the Rapture hasn't come: because people still can't bear His Word. They still only want the razzle-dazzle of the miracles, despite all the witnesses of even the demons the Lord had to repeatedly shut up. And they want to be Pharisees, just like that first generation, who crucified Him. So he tells the story vividly: since after all, most readers just want bread and circus, and can't bear to really learn anything. Well, soon they will get more supernatural evidence, showing God's "490" plays right on time... when Rome destroys the Temple! (Note how brusquely he handles the Temple's demise in Mark 13, and compare what's stressed and interpretatively quoted, versus other Synoptic accounts.) To make sure the audience 'gets it' that God is doing the telling (i.e., it's not a sermon), God the Holy Spirit provides information you don't get in other Gospels. So you know Who the Real Author and Warner is. So any fake popery should be on guard, see.

Back in those days, people knew how to read and read multi-layer meanings into what they got: all good Greek playwriting, Latin poetry, etc. Was deliberately multi-entendre. Also, the very common practice of interpretative quoting and concatenation of Scripture verses, was used to make newly-relevant and explanatory a passage. Which, if the person was from God, was his job to do. See, everyone already knew the exact quote; what they didn't know, was the use of it. So, you'll see the Lord constantly interpretatively use Old Testament verses. Not verbatim quotes, but applied quotes. So you took what He said, and what the original was, and you could see His Use of the verse(s). A whole lot of that goes on in Bible, and especially, in the New Testament. So don't mistake interpretative quotes for errors: pay closer attention to how the quote is changed when it's used (e.g., Acts 2, when Peter quotes Joel). A prophet (AKA "son of man") was expected to do stuff like this, so his veracity, his coming-from-God claim, could be vetted. It's not a mistake, but a deliberate teaching style.

So, if new Scripture was being written, these would be some of the signature characteristics, to look for:

So that's how a true Bible book got validated. Everyone is supposed to ask such questions, it's not the sole provenance of some elites. So people expected all this proof, and played with what they heard, all day and night. It was also a lifestyle, even if just to entertain themselves; Scripture is delightfully witty. Far more, if they believed it was from God. So most people, rich and poor alike, played with the meanings in Scripture, all day long: after all, way back in Deuteronomy, they had repeated warnings from Moses, to do just that (which tefillin, tassels, (etc.) were all supposed to depict). 'Easy thing to do, if you spent your day out in the field, or riding a donkey, baking bread, sewing. So even the uneducated were far more educated in Bible, than us: look at how the poor and wretched reason Scripturally, in the Gospels. Far superior than we are, today.

So Mark's very pointed satire and sarcasm, was deeply noticed. Finely-honed. Mark 8's the theme of the book, and Mark 8:12, its heart: okay, you wanna get sign after all this evidence? What a sign will be given! — Himself as sign #1, and the Temple's destruction, sign #2, both of Daniel 9:25-26. So flee, leave this village, don't be blind, don't ignore how the Lord can care for you, don't go by what you blindly think you see! I know Mark 8:12's usually translated "no sign will be given", treating "εἰ" plus the indicative of the future passive of δίδωμι there, as a refusal; but you can equally read it as Jewish sarcasm for a sign they won't want — especially, given the negative connotation of σημεῖον. Especially, in the context of the next verses, i.e., Mark 8:15, which would be very relevant if when Mark was writing, there were these fake popes claiming Peter as one of their own and divine authority. So Mark is refuting them and warning the faithful to stay away from these wolves in sheep's clothing. The chapter ends with the Greek epilogue, what you should learn: take up the Cross. All, or nothing. Not miracles, not fancy powers, not religiosity, but the 'cross' of learning Him. Get fed, rely on Him. Or you will be fed to the wolves. Very timely, very comforting warning. Εὐθύς.

Rest of Mark after that, is elaboration on what to expect. For what happened to Him, is what will happen to those who learn Him. But also, to those who do not. Stark choice, that. Kinda eliminates the thrill of seeing any miracles, huh. So to illustrate this in Mark 9, you have scary miracles which don't continue or don't work, absent belief: the vision of the Transfiguration goes, when fear enters; by contrast, the guy's demon-possessed kid is healed, when (Mark 9:24) he asks Christ (Mark 9:29). For nothing is impossible with God. So don't get cocky (end of Mark 9), and do get married; for if you divorce the Lord, as was done a generation ago, well... watch how God will divorce Israel. Which is prophetic, by telling the history: the cause of the upcoming destruction. So you have the warning to stop being cocky toward those inferior, like children; to stop being religious or trusting in the world, like the rich young ruler was; to shed your blindness and follow him, like Blind Bartimaeus did. To stop believing in politics, like the people did; to stop being Jeremiah's over-ripe and unripe figs, like that fig tree which wasn't ready for its time of visitation. One metaphor after the next, in parallelism.

So Mark is very pointed like the Book of Hebrews, about what 'this generation' receiving Mark's Gospel (and Hebrews), will see happen. Mark's Gospel seems meant to be read in tandem with the Book of Hebrews. The first halves of the latter Book's real chapters (versus our numbering system) stress the current situation, and the last halves, how it got that way. Mark's take-off point seems to be a parallel of the situation back when Christ was here, compared to the current generation. It's a real affidavit story, but with a point current readers need to get, right away, εὐθύς. Kinda like Hebrews 12. In the context of Paul and probably Peter's immediate (εὐθύς, again) death, the hurry of Hebrews 12 seems stressed.

In that context, it makes sense that Mark 16's end would be corrupted by too-eager copyists. The better mss (manuscripts, Bible in original language text) have no verses after Mark 16:8, except maybe 20 and that weird text about Peter (although that can just be proven for certain with the meter). So let's try to correct that. If you keep to Mark's story line and perfunctory style post-Crucifixion, the verses which seem to be his writing, makes sense as follows. Verses in Mark's writing style, in my opinion, go through verse 15; then, pick up again at 19-20. Verses 16-18 look totally bogus, because the Lord didn't talk that way, and neither does Mark: but the counterfeit gospels all talk that way: goofy stuff. Verse 19 looks genuine, so follows verse 15. Verse 20 looks genuine, because it uses συνεργέω, big Divine Actor keyword in Bible, used by Paul in Romans 8:28 and by James (James 2:22), which Mark would have known, and which the Lord would have stressed (God does all the work, the theme of Scripture). Most of the manuscripts have "Amen" after Mark 16:20. So that next text about Peter getting instructions is ludicrous (it's only in the Westcott-Hort manuscripts), totally wrong. Mark 16:16, is bogus where it says you gotta be baptised to be saved: that contradicts all other Scripture, so someone inserted "καὶ βαπτισθεὶς", if the verse is even valid (verse is superfluous, and the verb-tense pairings look funny, so I doubt the whole verse). But God has a way of using even mistakes, like He does with the scribal error of καυθήσομαι in 1 Corinthians 13:3 (should be καυχάομαι, a χ instead of a θ).

My pastor makes a big stink about how this word was deliberately adulterated by a Byzantine scribe. Since it is extremely rare for my pastor to say such a thing, I spent more time on the issue than normally. He says that the scribe did this thing because he was legalistic, and didn't like Paul's statement that people gave away their goods or got themselves martyred just so they could boast. I had to think about my pastor's contention for awhile, because I didn't see how the meaning would much change: then, the light bulb went on.

Here's how I think the meaning changes: as is, the verse plainly says that good deeds like these are only motivated by self-attention, parallel to the verses where the Lord warns folks not to imitate the Pharisees. So, they do not have ἀγάπη (virtue love); so the one doing them gains nothing: the deeds and love are mutually exclusive. However, as altered, the verse appears to say that if one also has ἀγάπη, then the deeds are valid; so, the deeds can evidence ἀγάπη, or are valid on their own, irrespective of motive. Wrong. Motive is everything. The guy who volunteers to give away all he has is but another flashy Ananias; the guy who volunteers to burn himself up in the middle of the street (or equivalent martyrdom) isn't doing it to honor God, either. For, no verse in the Bible commands or commends such stuff; but these and like practices were popular. Rather, the Bible condemns such stuff everywhere; Zechariah 7, the Lord's statements against the Pharisees, and don't tell your right hand what your left is doing, are but three well-known categories of passages.

Note how satanically clever: by simply changing one letter, the scribe reverses the entire meaning of the verse. Instead of 'giving all, giving body in order to boast, thus having no ἀγάπη'; the change says 'giving all, giving body to be burned but without ἀγάπη', gains nothing. Nerd note: "δὲ" has several uses, but unfortunately is usually mistranslated "and" or "but". The essence of "δὲ" is transition, not necessarily (though often), contrast; meaning, there is a causal relationship between the clause / sentence before the word, and what follows after. So "thus" is a good translation of "δὲ" here, because Paul's clauses are hypothetical, and this is the third one; so it is to be presumed that there is a cause-effect link, since the expected answer is worthlessness; plus, obviously the one who boasts in himself isn't loving God at that moment. Moreover, 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 are all really boasting problems, which is partly (heh: play on 'μέρος', keyword in 1 Corinthians 12:14ff) why Paul brings them up. You change the translation as you think best: I did my best so far, here. My pastor seems to regard "δὲ" as a "but" for the giving-all portion of the double protasis, because on rare occasions (namely, Barnabas) one can do this thing from the right motivation. The idea of using "δὲ" as "thus" for the second protasis he did not mention.

So that little "θ" adulteration thus denies that to give all, be martyred, is ever done to boast! For, what human onlooker would conclude that the one giving, being burned, didn't love? Do you see how God is maligned, here? Paul's point that Love, not works, counts is reversed into, spectacular works count — thus the entire theme he's developing since 1 Corinthians 12:14 is negated, contradicted, fuzzed up, confused. Same kind of screwup folks make out of James 2:18ff. Takes satanic help, to be that clever at reversing a meaning. Takes continued satanic help to keep on motivating Bible publishers even through today, to accept and translate so obvious an adulterated verb. Of course, Satan's tactics always employ Obviousness and Reversal.

Nerd Note: you don't need verses 14ff to justify the Great Commission, by the way. Fools who want to pretend non-whites shouldn't get the Gospel (Christ, not being 'white', shouldn't be our Savior, then?) — are hot to claim that since Mark 16:9-20 are suspect, thus there is no Great Commission. Well, let them fool themselves — you have to throw out the entire Bible to make that claim (else why do we have one, huh). But don't you be fooled. Sheesh: if anyone would bother to look at DNA generations for more than 15 generations, he'd realize there's no such thing as white or black or brown or yellow, anymore. We are all, mutts! Wouldn't surprise me, either, if Abraham's blood isn't sprinkled over all the planet's population, by now. After all, blacks and whites were well intermingled among the Jews from the Exodus, forward, and comprised two thirds of the (Exodus) population. Moses married an Ethiopian, etc. Sure does help to do one's homework!

In sum, Mark is very selective about what events and what teaching to pair up and repeat; and he packages by subject, picking representative things, juxtaposing the overwhelming evidence with the overwhelming rejection. So he's paralleling events then to show what's happening now, at the time of writing. Mark 10 onward, you have a repetition of the initial Divine indictment: but this time, explaining in advance why Jerusalem will be destroyed (Mark 10ff, the "riv", in Hebrew, divorce court case, a familiar theme in the Old Testament). Matthew's Gospel had to be the earliest one, considering it would explain the changeover from Law of Moses to 'Law' of Christ, which Paul was newly writing, back then. That would be the first thing the believers would need to know, so to tie Old Testament to the then-building New Testament, and to discern the fake versus the Real 'gospels' then proliferating, "εὐθύς". Yeah, εὐθύς, the Greek word Mark repeats every chance he gets: meaning, The Right Way, the Straight Way, the Only Way... right away! Hint, hint.




Part 4a, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

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Summary

God's Script: Now, versus "Later"

Why does our "Now" end with a Pre-Tribulation Rapture?
Says Ephesians 1: Because Bride is Completed!

Matthew 16:18 + Matthew 22:9, Vashti refused. Go find Esther!

It's about Love, not legalism; so God is out to make a Bride for His Son. This Ephesians 1 purpose therefore requires our nature change to become just like His Son: 2 Corinthians 5:17 + 2 Corinthians 5:21 + 1 Corinthians 15:43-44 + Romans 8:18 + John 10:34-35 + Psalm 82:6 (which the Lord is quoting, in John 10:34). Thus we have to become 'gods', because it's unfair that God permit an Inferior Companion for His God-Man, Son. So as the Lord explains in John 10:34, warning us as well as those legalistic Pharisees, we dare not be arrogant with fake humility, for:

Notice how the Lord uses the Psalm 82:6 quote. He quotes from the Septuagint, not the Hebrew, but He's using the quote Hebraistically. God can just say a thing, and it is so. (Hebrew text says, "I said: 'gods — you!'") The context of that verse in the Old Testament is a warning not to mistreat people, since God is the Judge. But the Lord uses another layer of meaning, in John 10:35, very interesting: you are gods, if the Word comes to you. Then, he seals that statement with the affirmation that Scripture can't ever be 'untied' (not "broken"), tantamount to an oath, see Hebrews 6 last half. So He's flatly saying that the Word going to you means that you are gods, because of the previous decree (Psalm 82:6 being a reminder of it) that this be so. Again, God need to merely speak and it is so. So He speaks His Word into us. So we really can and do become gods — just as He Willed It.

Thus you are a child of God, alright, Galatians 3:26; and you are, due to your being born in Him, which birth was juridically produced on the Cross per Isaiah 53:10-11 (both BHS and LXX texts), as Isaiah 54:1 exults and Romans 6 further explains. So now, your soul needs to be filled up with the Son of God's Thinking (theme of Romans 8, especially Romans 8:4, see also Romans 12:1-3 in the Greek).

So the worst sin you can commit, is to refuse to get this Word. There is no substitute. No work can make you into a god, 🤣.

The growing-up is a hupostasis of natures, reflective of His Own; this growing-up in the Son's Thinking is the substance of the Trial now, Hebrews 11:1's Greek. So at the human level, the growing-up 'plays' as Paul describes in Romans 7 and Romans 8: you sure don't feel like a 'god' in progress! But if you were not, the process itself couldn't juridically occur!

No-Extra-Charge-Corollary: now you know where all those ancient transmutation-into-god ideas are sourced. The first time that idea was mentioned to mankind, was in the pre-Fall Garden; in fact, it is the basis of the Trial — do you have God transmute you, or do you follow Satan's idea, and make yourself something? Hence Satan's temptation via the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil", was a religious alternative to God's Transmutation Plan: you can tell that fact even in translation. So: no set can contain itself. Hence the source data set for an idea will be the one with the largest 'attributes', and all 'children' of it will subtract from that 'master' dataset. So: largest data set for the transmutation idea is the Bible's; because among all the world's explanations, only the Bible portrays this transmutation as occurring by the Decree of an Absolute God, i.e., repeated in Psalm 82:6. It's an instantaneous transmutation, which befits an Absolute God Who can but speak and a thing is exactly so. All other transmutation ideas subtract from this idea, to derive their morphings. See? You test truth the same way as you use math; the latter is just a different, symbolic truth 'language', that's all.

Hence Romans 6-8, explain the zigzagging spiritual growth process, post-salvation. You divorced Satan's plan, that first second you believed in Christ, so you "overcame" that hurdle (as 1 John puts it). But the now-divorced 'spouse', your Energizer Bunny 'old sin nature', keeps on trying to get you to commit adultery with it, mindlessly. Like a really annoying disease which won't go away and won't kill you, either. So Paul walks the reader through the vicissitudes, so the reader can derive comfort and wisdom with respect to the progressive conflict he experiences. For truth is a weapon against falsehood. Now the old spouse is false, so you war with it. Your New Husband is in you, and greater is He, than either Satan & Co. or your yet-powerful, sin nature. You cannot ever fight this battle on your own. You cannot ever fight it with works. Your works are just different expressions of the same sin nature, as Paul explains (with coarse epithets!) in Philippians 3 and Romans 4.

So now you have two warring natures (dualities is something God likes to mirror in many things: including the brain itself with right and left hemispheres), theme of Romans 8. So now you like Paul will constantly quip (Romans 7:24-25), "who will deliver me from this body of death?" knowing full well Whose Battle it truly is. And then the 'red sea' parts and you nonetheless live this impossible spiritual life because you really are a god by spiritual nature, John 4:23-24, Hebrews 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (Greek); thus, under that Same Spirit, you are in training to become a King-Priest, Fit Bride for the King of Kings, Who is God and Man in One Person, forever.

He was on the Cross and you are born in Him; so the five infinitives (through LXX transformatives) of Isaiah 53:10-11 are happening to you; because that's the contract between Father and Son, and that's what happened in Him, to Him, of Him, for Him and hence via Him: purify, plunder, point-out (enlighten), πλάσσω (sculpt), perfect (make righteous/justify). Hence this building of 'Esther' is our now, on the sweeping map of history. These two Isaiah verses are the most important verses in the Bible, for they succinctly tell the entire story of the Bible, focusing as they do on the exact mechanics of the Cross and what happens to us once saved.

He was on the Cross. So on the Cross with reference to our sins, and prior to it, all these five infinitives happened to Him to make Him into the Way the Truth and the Life — at God's own level. not inferior, not even in His Humanity: the ὑπόστασις thus effected (Hebrews 1:3) made Him higher than all creation in His Humanity (Hebrews 1:4). For even finite Perfect Humanity is not Infinite Godness. But He didn't use His Godness to 'do' those infinitives, which got Him full compatibility with Infinity inside His Human Soul. Rather, the Holy Spirit did it to Him per that Isaiah contract of eternity past. So now, since you are to be Bride forever, the Holy Spirit is doing those five infinitives to you. To anyone who consents. We consent and cause problems: He does all the work. That's the contract. And we have two natures as a result: one we can feel, and the other, we can't. The two war with each other because it's a dichotomy, as Romans 8 explains.

In short, these aren't nice verses to make you feel good about becoming a god; rather, they are real truths to make you see God. For you have to be like God, to see God, theme in 1 John (e.g., 1 John 2:28 through 1 John 3:3, and all "born of God" verses).

For the Trial is about creature nature compared to God nature; a dichotomy exists between the two. So is this a relationship of Legalism, or Love? Is God making you a god to make you perform, or is He doing it from Love, to make you Plenary? God says Plenary, and He says it with deft wit: all the "love of God" verses employ a drama technique called "subjective and objective genitive" to demonstrate a Circle of Love: the "plenary" use of the genitive, in Attic Greek. 1 John 4:19 calls attention to that fact, and John likes using the genitive that way in a lot of other constructions, too: particularly the (mistranslated) "born of God" clauses, which depict in the Greek a continuing 'circle' of siring by the Holy Spirit, playing off the plenary genitive in Romans 5:5 (and others). So, look how deft: what comes from God, goes to God. Just as the contract of Isaiah 53:10-11, states in the LXX (by omitting prepositions, highest drama). Because God is Plenary, He makes you Plenary, to have a full relationship with Him, Ephesians 3:19's "Pleroma" clause. Note how Paul says you get there: "and to come to know the Love of/for Christ". Knowing, not doing. Learning Love. For it's a hellish thing, to love someone and not be able to express it. So to God, this is not at all about performance, but about Full, Plenary Love. Which, once built by Him, you too will have the ability to express it: since you really are this god-in-training.

Satan, by contrast, votes for legalism: he thinks that because his own nature is so superior to everyone else's, that ought to count with God. That's why he rebelled, Isaiah 14:13-14. But his nature is only what God made. So to demonstrate that creature nature doesn't matter — God makes humans, who are just animals, but with souls (our relationship with the angels is therefore low-to-high versus high-to-low, from their perspective). Then, it's a question of growing spiritually in that relationship, just as it was for the angels. Doesn't matter where you start, what your creature abilities are, you're not infinite. Solving that dichotomy is the issue, but only if you want God. Else, there's no solution. Else, it doesn't matter how superior or inferior you are, life is not worth living. That's what the Trial is really about. So that's why our puny nature we see is not who we really are, once we are saved. It doesn't matter what Satan was, pre-Fall. It doesn't matter how great or bad he is now. Likewise, it doesn't matter who we were. It matters what we are and are able to become: forever.

Omnipotent Infinity doesn't need finity's help. So no impotence, no smallness in finity can hinder Omnipotent Infinity, either. Call it God's Sense of Humor, but it's really His Absolute Love, His Sovereign, Husbanding Attribute: "filling all in all" clause at the end of Ephesians 1. It's hell not to be God, so God is out to make everything have the effect of being God, even all inanimacy. So how much more you, if even the sparrows are thus cared for, said the Lord in the Gospels.

Notice how Satan's selection of legalism requires the dichotomy, whereas God's Plenary Purpose, erases the dichotomy. People vote with Satan, not with God, because they too want the dichotomy; they want it, to be able to differentiate themselves, to call themselves 'special', 'good', 'better'. But by preserving the dichotomy, you preserve all the frustration which accompanies it: others are lower than you, so you must narrow your relationships. And if happiness only comes from being able to say you are 'special' or 'better' in some way, then as time passes you must widen the scope of those you call 'inferior', lest your 'specialness' be diluted. So either you hunker down and don't associate with anyone 'better' than you, or you broaden your condemnation-range of others. In either event, you become a quivering lump of coal by life's end: all in the name of preserving your ego. Thus has gone the history of the world, which thinks it essential to survival and self-identity, to put down others. Legalism is the justifying key to that dungeon.

Like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, life is "οὐθέν" (Attic Drama Greek, "nothing!") without Love. Doesn't matter how good you are, how bad you are, what your abilities are, how right or wrong or just or unjust. What's the freakin' point, if there's no love? No point. Just a lot of tails full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. So God makes a new tale: a tale of Two Natures. So it's the best of times, and the worst of times, and For All Time, you are sanctified. Barkus is willing, you are His Peggity, and He will make you Fit Bride. By thinking. Because of compatible nature, now: those same five infinitives, tell the tale of your life. Lovingly.

Think: to be Compatible with Infinite God requires you to be Equal. It's not as if there was "God" and then something less which could be compatible. Even one 'dot' less than Infinity is utterly incompatible with it. Co-existence is not the same thing as compatibility. You co-exist with a plant, a dog, a house, but that doesn't mean you are compatible with them. Compatibilities determine the scope and nature of relationships, because shared capacities make for shared compatibilities. Hence the nature has to be the same for any compatibility with Infinite God. God can create what is not compatible with Him, obviously: the universe He created, Genesis 1:1 is not compatible; so too with flora and fauna. Sin is not compatible — He didn't create sin, but He did create the freedom to sin. A soul of itself is not compatible, either. That's the problem. The Infinity-finity dichotomy has to be solved; sin only complicates the dichotomy, because then the being wants to sin, and wants to reject God, which therefore precludes consent to being made compatible. It's not that God can't solve the problem, but that we don't want Him to. Hence you need to change natures, from your own — into His. Thereafter, the function of that Divine-DNA needs to be deposited progressively. So you "fill up" in that new nature, as Romans 8 (and other passages) explains in detail. Again, that's what the five (amalgamated) infinitives of Isaiah 53:10-11, do. Just as they did, to Christ.

So given this unbridgeable gap between Infinity and finity, "performance" can only be God's, never the creature's; hence relationship with God, unlike the relationship with people, is not about performance: but rather, about your soul and volition gaining the capacity for Divine Love. For Love never coerces, and God wants an Equal Companion for His Son. Now think: God could just instantly create you, instantly make the outer 'you' anything from the most spectacular angel, to a lump of coal. So He could just instantly load all the obedience and performance into you to make you do whatever He wanted. But you'll notice: He's not doing that. This is something radical or religious Christianity tends to ignore when they try to force everyone and the world into their interpretation of a perfect world or how God should be, not very pleasant is it? They ignore the very fact that God isn't forcing their ideals into anyone.

So God is not legalistic and petty, the way religion and people are. Because God is all about love. Right and wrong are issues to secure capacity and hence competency for the enjoyment of togetherness. The togetherness is first, hence the First Commandment is First. The Love is First, not second. The "performance", that's what's secondary. Finity has the opposite need: for finity, the performance comes first. That's a barrier which got erased at the Cross. Since erased, then any performance is optional, a thing to enjoy as a subset of the already-unconditional, togetherness. So any kind of performance, good or bad, can be enjoyed. So then the relationship, is always fulfilling; not, some forever-frustrating dichotomy.

Which means the delicate enlarging of your soul and volition, only as you consent. For togetherness is all about consent. For again, Love doesn't coerce. God doesn't need your penance, your obedience; but you need — and would desperately want, if you knew Him — Rapport with Him. So this entire spiritual life, this entire salvation, even — is to be with Him forever. Just to be: to be or not to be with Him, that's the eternal question, the first commandment. Not, your rising up against a sea of troubles and by opposing, you end them. But by Him parting the 'red sea' of the Cross, so you walk dryshod through this drowning, dead, hamlet of a world. So therefore He Performs, due to His Love. not to put you down, but to put you up: Isaiah makes that a running theme, with deft uses of ola and other upward-moving words, in the Hebrew of Isaiah 52:13-54:1. So, it's not about being right. not about being wrong. not about being proud. not about being "Uriah Heep" humble. So, not to preen. Preening is boring; being complimented is boring and even offensive, Revelation 19:10's "Don't do that!" Being king-of-the-hill is boring, when you can instead see Him Who is Invisible: "more than we could ever ask or imagine", Ephesians 3:20.

So while you were a spiritual kid, you learned Bible in terms of right and wrong. But you're supposed to outgrow that tricycle-idea, to realize it's togetherness, rapport which makes the question of right and wrong important: for love wants to be competent. So what's truly right, is to want God. What's truly wrong, is to not want God. Hence no one goes to hell except for rejecting God, John 16:9. So learning God is what's Right. All else is pointless. Unless you enjoy this insane hamlet.

So you're not who you see in the mirror. You're who you see in the Mirror of the Word. The word "mirror" is a Bible keyword for The Word instructing you how you are. It's not always translated "mirror" or "reflection". So you're not who your friends, family, co-workers think you are. You're who God says you are, and those verses above are but a few of hundreds saying the same thing. For God doesn't want to live with inferior natures forever: would you want to be saddled with the stupid forever? So if not you, why should God be so saddled? So, you are not allowed to be inferior, once saved. So, those of the Old Testament are not inferior either (everyone gets God's Righteousness at salvation, namely, Genesis 15:6). So we gotta stop looking horizontally at what we think is right, but look at what's right from God's View. Which if we weren't now of compatible nature, we could not do: for if we were not of compatible nature the Holy Spirit couldn't justify telling us anything. Now do you see why only believing in Christ 'begets' salvation? We need a complete change of nature, to even be saved!

So God is all about Oneness: togetherness, flat. not about performance. 'Performance' is not at all impressive to Someone Who can just think a thing, and it exists ex nihilo exactly as He wants it, Genesis 1:1, Matthew 4:3! Equality is needed so the togetherness can be full. So competence in being together is something we need to learn. We have the Divine-DNA structure that first nanosecond we are saved, Titus 3:5 and 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; but we yet lack the learning to go with it, which transforms our own thinking: the "true riches" the Bible talks about. That transformation and thinking comes from the Holy Spirit putting God's Attribute of Truth as a structure in your soul via God's System. Again, if you weren't already equal, this building-up of Truth couldn't occur: it would kill you.

God is Omniscient. So He knows all the high and all the low. He is already High. We get to start low, and we learn the High that way, so we can likewise get the 'stretch' of what it's like to be Omniscient; which understanding of 'low' going to High, makes for more rapport with God. Like the Lord says at His Birth (Psalm 40:5ff, Hebrews 10:5), this having of a finite nature is only a training mechanism to create the Oneness togetherness. That's why Christ wanted the Cross in the first place: to get that full Togetherness, to erase the barrier, the dichotomy between Infinity and finity, which cramps how much rapport one can have with God. And, per the contract of Isaiah 53:10-12, that's what really happened on the Cross, as Romans 6-8 explains.

Hence God flipped all sin into Divine-DNA Oneness on the Cross, in answer to the Lord's John 17 Love prayer: we'll see the macro-historical effect of Church on history. After all, if we're now gods-being-trained, we ought to have a 'godlike' effect on history. Oh how truly we do, since Our God is Seated, 1 John 4:17!

So now, God's out to exploit the Victory of the Cross per Hebrews 1-2. So now, God's combing the highways and byways of this little hamlet called Earth, to build an 'Esther' for His Son. You'll see why, in the next section. For now, notice that this is the real drama playing before all the eyes of Heaven; and the criteria for choosing 'Esther', is Hebrews 11:1's "It's about Confidence in Word! Son's Thinking, On Trial! Evidence, Unseen!" You evidenced confidence in Word when you first believed in Christ. You continue to evidence confidence in Word as you eat more of Christ's Thinking. That's why we have a Bible, God's Script, and a System of learning, and a Teacher Who Runs that System, the Holy Spirit.

Meanwhile the rest of the world is lovelessly tail-chasing, and hence signifies nothing. So the whole 'play' of life, is hupostatic; genitive absolutes, like Luke uses in Acts, like John uses in Revelation: split-screen TV, Hebrews 11:1's Greek. What we think we see, is the nothing 'TV program', playing. A tale told by a lot of tail-chasing idiots. So the more and louder they tell it, the more idiotic it becomes. But Hebrews 11:1's Evidence Unseen — you learning God's Script in God's System — you are the real tale, and yours is a heroic one. Just like Your Hero, Whose Thinking is deposited in you, thus filling up your spiritual nature. So you are among those in Hebrews 11. not among the tail-chasers.

That's the Bible's Cinderella story, but it's no story, it's history. His Story, replaying time and again. The Jews couldn't have rebuilt Jerusalem without an Esther then, and they can't do it now. But Esther isn't complete, yet. So Israel is languishing, not really supposed to be back in the Land, since only the Lord can "shub" (return in Hebrew) them, as you'll see better beginning in the next section. For past is prologue. What happened before, gets repeated in bigger and more epic cycles, until the plan of God completes. For His Son is ὁ ΠαντοΚράτωρ: knowing kind of persons we must become in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle, as Peter puts it in 2 Peter 3:11: gods. Greek-geek note: check out ὑπάρχειν and δεῖ and εὐσέβεια etymology. Like Paul, Peter plays on etymology throughout his letters. Specifically, the Son of God, Who is Seated. So the world gets to live another day. Thus it has ever been, since Adam. So what happened then, is upgraded now. For the sake of that Same Son Who invented history, Genesis 1:1, Isaiah 53:10-12.

Of course we can't see all of this; so blind we are, we can't even translate Hebrews 11:1 properly. For in our mistranslation, we strip out both Christ and the people in the Trial, rendering the subjects and objects in the verse, as if mere things! After all, it's unseen! 🤣 When Satan & Co. mess with a translator, they always but always play on some doctrine in a verse to reverse the meaning. In Genesis 3:11, they get the translators to keep on mistranslating נָגַד (nagadth) as "tell" rather than the correct meaning, "denounce": thus in translation, God gets denounced for hiding and lying (makes God look like He 'hid' knowledge of their being naked, what a farce). So here in Hebrews 11:1, the operative punning Satan & Co. use, is "unseen": thus Christ is unseen (ὑπόστασις) and turned into a mere thing, 'substance'; thus those who believe in Him are unseen (the genitive plural endings in the participles); and all the persons, are turned into some things, to elicit an "awww" from the reader! Awesome satanic wit. Awesome, how blind we truly are to it.

Meanwhile — split screen — down here on this hamlet with all its tail-chasing οὐθέν heroism, we humans are utterly clueless about our massive, undeserved importance. We're busy doing Brother-Foot stuff, ignoring the Head. Look how small our souls are, constantly preoccupied with dead things, and imagining that the acquisition of more dead things makes us more alive, more important. Look how small, our motives and identities. For when people ask you what you do, they telegraph that they identify you by your occupation — rather than, by how you are as a person. Or, worse — they telegraph that they can't fathom you as a person, unless they can cubbyhole you in some inanimate category, such as your job. So, when people ask us to identify ourselves, and we say our names, ages, birthplaces and ethnicity, we make shallow statements about what personhood means: a collection of polite but meaningless data, which elucidates not at all, the person being identified.

So it should be no surprise that all holy books except the Bible, express the very same Genesis 3 (and Matthew 4) accusations; no surprise, that these other holy books all treat God like a dog, prescribing polite and meaningless relationships toward Him. Washings. Bendings. Food bans. Dressings. Fancy hats. Special days. Rituals. Works toward people, as if God were but a human. Weird. Hostile. Self-righteous. Read John 9-10 even in translation: that will tell you everything about how we lukewarm, Laodicean hypocrites really think of God. (NIV captures the flavor of John 9 well, but mistranslates John 9:36 as "sir". No, it's wordplay — the formerly blind guy knows from prior hearing Who His Lord is! Oh how great a chapter! Oh, how Franco Zeferelli captured it well in the "Jesus of Nazareth" TV series!

Worse: once you look beneath the nice rhetoric in these books, you find God Himself depicted as but a dog, expected to either roll over... or bite. For, in all other holy books, God never gets paid for the wrongs done him. Oh yeah, if we are bad we are reincarnated to a worse life next time, or get some bad karma or get a "painful doom" (Pickthall's translation of Koranic catchphrase), etc. — but God gets nothing. Unless, you want to call Him masochistic and sadistic, exulting in our pain. For all holy books of any stripe but Bible's, inevitably claim He is masochistic and sadistic. For, when you look underneath the paint, you see 'god' (by whatever name) depicted as a capricious, unfathomable person of total power.

Power, and not love. So these other holy books are constantly maligning Him with honeyed words. You have to look at the content sans the honey, to see the hatred. For if God is only about Power, then He's not really a person, but a monstrous computer. For, if it's about Power and thus not love, then it's about hate. Hatred needs Power; love doesn't need power, for it is already the greatest power in the universe. Love is the greatest power, inherent: so it is not emotion. It is the greatest power, because it needs nothing. Needing nothing, doesn't mean it should be unfairly treated. Justice is based on love. So if you love God, you want Him to get paid. If you don't, you fantasize that He doesn't need to be paid, He likes suffering, He's somehow in 'need' of what humans do, etc. So the holy book's portrayal of God, itself tells you whether God really wrote it. For if God is not, then He's not love; then He's not Justice; and if not Justice, then He's not getting paid, and the holy book which portrays Him not getting paid, isn't even worth space in a trash can.

Every fake holy book will also deride God and bluntly, painting Him in satire and pointing at Bible; if you're familiar with Bible Doctrine and read the Koran or Bhagavad Gita it becomes obvious. It's the #1 demonic-origin "autograph" characteristic. Truly weird, how the satire simultaneously praises Bible and mocks those who believe in the fake holy book; all the while, insulting God Himself. Humans aren't smart enough to do all that at once, you know. Bible mistranslations always have this same tripartite characteristic, too — every time you find one in a verse. Mocking the Trinity, I guess.

So how many holy books would be left, after you'd gone through and pitched all those saying God doesn't get paid? How many left, after you toss out those dismissing the issue altogether, claiming God doesn't need to be paid? Then how many, claiming 'God' is this force or manifestation, not really a Person — so there is no 'Him' to pay? Of course, if there is no 'Him' to pay, then you are the god, see. That personhood can't come from inanimacy or non-personhood due to the first law of math that no set can contain itself, well hey. You can be your own god now, so just overlook that glaring contradiction. Evolutionists overlook it, so why can't you?

Well almost no books are left: only the 66 books of what we call the 'protestant' version of the Bible, remain. Verse by verse, book by book, you can run the litmus test yourself on all the world's holy books. I've done my testing already, which began about 40 years ago, when I was in my teens. If you find a qualifying holy book outside this very narrow list of 66, I'd like to know about it.

So, this problem of not caring at all about God, is universal, natural, tragic, and unavoidable: Romans 7:24-25, thank God we can be saved by merely believing in Christ! We all share that hateful disease, our sin nature. So, we cast True Love as hatred, since hatred is all we know. Thus the Gospel looks like hatred to us. A put-down. Because, that's how we are. not how God is.

So, our vaunted 'love', is but a designer label we use to preen or get something from someone else. Even, from God. We take Him for granted, no matter what holy book, Bible included, we claim. Hence what we call love, is but a need to feel good, and it betrays itself when the need is not met: divorces occur, businesses break up, people sue each other, countries go to war. Love is just hypocrisy to get something from someone.

But our hypocrisy doesn't offend the God Who Knew us all since eternity past — yet Decreed our existences, anyway. Each of us, individually. It's not an impersonal decision, since He personally makes each soul at birth. No one else can make an immaterial soul. So since eternity past, God has a rescuing solution for this incompatibility problem, which sin only compounds: take our 'soul DNA', and turn it into Divine DNA, via those same five infinitives which were effected upon Christ on the Cross.

As Romans 5:5 puts it, we are to be infused with Truth, which is God's Attribute, AKA the Bible; since God by nature is Undivided, that depositing of Truth results in Love being in us: main theme of 1 John. So God's rescuing solution — Greek σῴζω, usually translated "to save" — begins with that first Faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9). But σῴζω, first means rescue. Hence "salvation" continues, as many a witty Bible verse explains (in both LXX and Old Testament Hebrew). You go from salvation to 'deliverance from dead thinking', fulfilling Isaiah 54:1; for that same σῴζω verb, means both salvation and deliverance, a witty play on the pregnancy connotation of Pleroma. And you go from the initial Divine-DNA of salvation to the Divine-DNA in your head 24/7, but One Way: learn His Son's Thinking.

1 John 4:19 explains the result: "we love, because He first loved us." God Is Love. So we are not love, since we are not God: this is the essence of the dichotomy between finity and Infinity. Which dichotomy, has been solved by Infinity, Who is Pure Thought. So that Thought Can Replicate, Divine-DNA! without loss of mass or energy, since that Thought is Life, and Life is immaterial. Hence Love is something to be learned, and it requires God's Power, to learn it. So, we needn't be ashamed. But we do need to be aware of the enemy within. Our own sin nature is essentially body-tyrannized. Bigger problem than sin itself, is this puny way of thinking we naturally possess. So we can get out of that status by learning His Thinking, the Bible, because We Get A New Spiritual Nature the sin nature cannot perceive, that first nanosecond we got saved in Christ. John has no end of fun with the "born of God" catchphrase in 1 John, for this reason.

Peter goes happily ballistic in his letters on this topic. For example, Peter can't stop using stonecutting/lapidary metaphors for this inscribing of Christ's Thinking on each Little-Rock (= believer = πέτρος, play on Peter's Aramaic name in Matthew 16:18). So, characteristically, Peter calls the Bible, His Thinking, when he uses the clever word, "ὑπογραμμός". Written on our hearts and minds, the Bible is the biggest promise in the Bible — for if God's Own Thinking is in you, then you can and do Love Him, which is why you have 1 Corinthians 13, Romans 5:5, and many other "Love" verses portrayed with Head and Water metaphorical functions. Which is why often "Christ in you" verses likewise reference that cycling Bible in your head: Love is in you, see. And you, in Him — John 15-17, the oneness with God. Happiest state, that cycling Love in you. And that happy state, is our Legacy from Christ (theme of Hebrews 10).

Hebrews 12:2, the Cross is a Joy. That's the big surprise, in this drama. We think love should feel good. No. We think happiness should feel good. No. Our body is dead, so what 'feels good' to it is also dead. We have no idea, therefore, what life is, what happiness, what love is. For our spiritual nature, cannot be felt by the human nature. Cannot be felt, but can and is designed to, be Built. Isha was "built" for the first Adam, Hebrew word "banah". not built to be inferior, as the text of Genesis 2 explains. Well, this Esther-Bride is being built, a Living Temple, for the Living Temple Behind the Veil (Hebrews 6:15ff), Who is the Last Adam. And we can't see or feel any of it. But we can know it, via God's Script, in God's System, via our Teacher, teaching us.

And what He teaches us, is a new set of apodoses. The Divine-DNA function of the Cross was to replace the sin-nature apodoses with Divine ones. If X happens, sin resulted; and sin, is a conclusion, a birth — as James explained back in James 1. So replace the conclusion on the conclusion, and you have spiritual re-engineering occurring upon the 'soul DNA' of the sin — in Christ this happened, per those five infinitives (coupled with the Hebrew text) of Isaiah 53:10-12. So now that same Divine-DNA conversion, can happen to us. See why the Cross is a Joy? See why it cannot feel good, and yet be love, happiness, joy? Feeling is a body thing, but love, happiness and joy are soul functions. Soul has no feeling, but rather lives on knowing, Matthew 4:4. And knowing is the key to joy, love, happiness. It's all about Who you know. And if you know Him, then you know joy, then you want it to feel bad, to express that joy.

Of course, we still rattle around in our 'soul DNA', not knowing love yet. Hence, our preoccupation with when the Rapture, and if the Rapture: we are really asking about the impact on us, and don't care about God at all. So, we don't ask the only important question: why the Rapture, which question can only be about what God thinks, why God picks it.

So we can get God's apodoses, by asking why. Why are we hapless humans being Divine-DNA-turned into gods as Esther-Bride, for The King of Kings? Why are we so loved? Aren't you curious why? So now let's practice learning This Love's apodoses. Of course, God's apodoses are deep. So we'd better begin back at the beginning.


Because Israel became 'Vashti', Our History

Past is prologue, because geography never changes. Grab a map of the world; note carefully how the continents are connected. It's not hard to see why your geology professor tells you that once upon a distant speck in geologic time, all these continents were basically one: "Pangea." Looks like Someone first drew a big series of craggy circles on a sheet of paper, then curled that paper into a sphere, thus breaking apart the connecting 'lines'. Microsoft Encarta's "Continental Drift" video shows you how a world which started underwater, gradually breaks up and hence floats up, to form the continents as we know them, today. The video doesn't show clearly the effect of floating that plate tectonics had on Pangea, which was submerged under the water, due to its combined weight; as each piece broke apart, being lighter, it could go above the water. Plate tectonics can run immediately, too: that's why we have earthquakes. So we really don't know whether those ancient tectonics were slow; we're merely guessing, based on today's generally slow plate-tectonic behavior, now that the continents are separated. But Pangea's breakup might have been rapid: over a day, a week or a month, a year: who knows. So learn plate tectonics, and you'll understand how the restoration of the world in Genesis 1, could have worked; how the Flood of Genesis 6, could have worked. God didn't have to do it miraculously. Maybe He did, and maybe He didn't, but at least you can see one way it could have happened. Plate tectonics was one of the great scientific discoveries of the 20th century, well worth your time studying. Explains why most of the Western United States was under water (i.e., Grand Canyon). In the context of Bible Doctrine: it's more akin to God's style not using any fancy miracles during the flood. Why bother even having Noah build a boat if He could just snap His fingers and have the whole process done supernaturally without any natural rules? It was certainly not a localized flood as the doctrinal emphasis was that everything gets dunked.

So, then: note how, as a result, you can travel along virtually any coastline, and go from anywhere to anywhere.

And you needn't do it by foot, either; why, you can float along the coastline when you like, using the lowest of technology, some very light (cypress, aka "gopher") wood coated with (then-plentiful) tar/asphalt; or, if you wanted the equivalent convenience of an inflatable raft, you could use animal bladders; or, removable sealskin to cover the wood. You can float offshore at night, safe from predators, animal or human; you can carry what you floated in during the day, when you feel like walking or eating inland food, since you just unfold the skin (or lift the craft) onto a 'V' you make of two slats attached to your waist: load it up, and drag it all behind you. Works in snowdrifts, and works even better on flatland.

Can do between 20-40 miles a day, at a normal walking pace; when tired, just get back on the water; and use your arms to row or guide a simple sail, to rest your strong legs, and thus cover maybe another 20+ miles, depending on the winds. For travelling gear you'd need string made of gut and a hook, probably a throwing knife and maybe a slingshot, the clothes on your back and a spare set, a few spices, a wineskin or two; oh, and money or salt for buying what you might need. Ancient slingshots (like David's) were not pulled back like a bow, but twirled utilizing rotational inertia. Great exercise for the body, great freedom for the mind. For your entertainment you'd review all that information you, like all your tribe, memorized since you were weaned: so to enjoy time with Him Who is Invisible. Then again, there were always other travellers you'd meet on your journey, if you took the normal routes. So, if you wanted to be alone, you found yourself more and more pushing off to water, to think about Him even better.

You could make quite a nice living by moving around all the time. You'd stop in the morning when the fish are biting, haul in maybe 10 of them, then sell them to the inhabitants or other travellers you met as you moved on. Easy meal for them, easy salt for you. If you felt like a break, you'd go inland a bit and see what small game you could hit with your throwing knife (or slingshot); then you could skin it, and while the skin was curing you could eat or sell the meat. Quite a nice life, actually. Lots of greens everyone could identify as safe for food; lots of nuts, often wild spelt or other grains would be nearby, so you could chomp on the heads. Dried seaweed was good too, when available. Water was occasionally hard to find, maybe; but everyone had wine or beer, which was safer anyhow.

Next: note carefully what countries are smack dab in the middle of everything in this "globe", intersecting most of the resultant broken landmasses together. Did you guess "Middle East"? Do you notice where in the "Middle East", Israel sits? Middleman, center of Western Civilization, central link to all nations' trade routes, where East meets West, narrow enough to traverse easily from Western water to Eastern water, even if no Suez Canal. Whoa: if there was to be a God-man Who becomes the Mediator, the Middleman-to-God, the Only Savior for a hapless world, this would be a real obvious place, to birth Him!

Now you know why past is prologue. Israel has always been a 'problem' to people, and always will be. By Divine Design. There will never be 'peace' in the Middle East, until Messiah comes back at the Second Advent to regather His People. Meanwhile, Israel remains the stumbling or salvation of the world. God couldn't make it plainer, than to locate the Promised Land, smack dab in the middle of the globe, the shortest trade-route distance between all points on that globe. Surely when Abram left Ur, he'd know how strategically important to commerce, war, politics — would be the land grant El-Elyon would give him.

Note well: land grant to Abraham, for "many nations" of sons, need land to live on. Abram was a Gentile when God did that, as Romans 4 explains. "Israel" is a "sons" Promise Made by God to Abram, later Abraham (renaming signifies adoption and contract delivery). Then to Isaac. Then to Jacob. Isaac was born only due to a Promise God Made to Abraham when he was 99 years old: though anyone else could inherit with that son, if they also believed in El-Elyon. The son, however, was the Firstborn of the Promise. Romans 9 explains all that. A promise from God, so a promise to be kept by God. not by the son, not by man, not by anyone else. So, then: can God keep His Promises?

Well, God's track record had been flawless, so far. In 490-year increments from Adam's fall forward, God promised selected individuals in Genesis 5 He'd continue giving the world time, due to their faith. Due to their faith. not works. And what works could buy time? None. So, 490 years before the Promised son of Abram was born, Shem was born. Shem was a promised son, too: of Noah. God made a unilateral covenant with Noah, and all Noah did was believe it. Believe it while he built his rescue craft out of cypress wood. Of course, all those οὐθέν heroes of Noah's day laughed at him (really, a precursor for Matthew 16:24-26 as the world and apostate Christians will laugh at you too, for learning the mind of Christ). Just as, they had laughed 490 years prior, when Enoch was giving them the same message: for Enoch's son, was named Methuselah; and that name means the Flood will occur when he dies. So Methuselah lived almost twice 490 years. For the promise of a son to save mankind was as old as Adam. So Rescue And Warning not To Miss It, was long known: since Genesis 3:15, to be precise. So God was orchestrating when to give Abram an heir: 490 years after the prior promised son, Shem. For which, like Noah, Abram had to wait. Just wait on the Lord, no works. God always does all the work. Yeah, like He did when Adam finally grew up spiritually, giving him Seth="appointed". Appointed to carry the bloodline of the eventual Savior promised back in Genesis 3:15. 490 years after that, Jared's son Enoch was born; from whom came, Methu+selah, "when He dies, destruction comes".

So: do you ever wonder why Abram was so hung up on wanting an heir? Granted, some folks really want children, but to have kids is not the sole reason for living. Unless, of course, the son you were promised to have, would be the progenitor of the Son Who Would Save The Human Race! Ahhh, now we know why it was such a test to wait for this son. Who wouldn't yearn to be the 'father' of the bloodline of faith which one's Future Son, would purchase? Especially, since El-Elyon was going to take on that bloodline, as a Promise? See? It's the relationship with God, the wanting to be with and for God, which so galvanized Abram. Which thus made that Promise, a yearning intense. So by age 99 when suddenly! God announced the Promise was to be 'cut', a covenant of blood, how apt — so by age 99 when Abram became Abraham just as God had long promised him, well — bet he never urinated again without smiling.

But the coming of sons promised Abraham, was to be preceded with 400 years of slavery, Genesis 15:13. For they needed to be trained, in time for the historical 490-year deadline's ensuing voting period, the 5th since Adam. The world's continued existence depended on Moses maturing during that voting period: he did. Bible's math proves that God grants time only if someone within an elapsing 490-year grant, matures sufficiently to be awarded new 490-year grant. A second grant of 1000 years is also awarded, but it depends upon an underlying active 490-year grant. Else, time ends...

So in real time it took 490 + 126 years, 586 BC - 30 AD to complete Messiah; all the past time left over from the Temple's first 490 got reimbursed, right on schedule. For God is the Master Accountant: years debited and credited followed His Accounting System. That's why Israel was debited 70 years in the first place, and the Temple was destroyed in 586 BC (Daniel 9:2). So that was measured back to Israel atop the 490 years. 7 years was subtracted, reserved for the Tribulation. "To Be or not to be" shows you how God accounted for those remaining 126 years plus the 490-7, + 70 in Daniel 9:2, etc. to get to 30 AD when Christ died on the Cross. It's pretty engrossing/addictive to read; so make sure you've set aside the time, and watch your clock; or you'll forget all about time, 🤣.

In short, all time depended on Israel, and it worked like a balance sheet. Still does: for now the Son is Seated, and through a different Kingship He's Ruling Church. So all these "490s" keep on being accounted: and Church believers have to be awarded them. Still, the award is based on how much one matures spiritually, not on ritual, religiosity, works. Else, time ends. God makes epic promises, huh. There are many 490s to track (and a lot of Bible-verse and number crunching, to vet the data), and they often overlap. Because, the time grants are always Personal Promises. So when more than one person at the same time has been grown in faith to get a 490, the prosperity of the world increases. When only one person remains, the adversity of the world is high. Time only continues because it's 'attached' to someone or some group associated with that someone, still on earth. The believer has and still is the source of time continuing, by God's Own Decree. Again, you can prove all this in Bible, math, and history — though post-Cross, you can't identify the individuals — so this doctrine of Bible's is testable.

Rapture Interpretation Key → Past is prologue, and hence Precedence for the Rapture. This "past" is based on the above Promise to Abraham. As Romans 4 explains, he was sexually dead at that age; God used the act of circumcision to render him 'alive' again, hence he could now sire children. Note that circumcision isn't anything, but rather the belief in God evidenced by the circumcision, was accounted by God to justify granting the miracle. Sarah was sexually-rejuvenated when Abram was, which is why "Laughter" (Yitzak, to you) could be born 490 years after Shem had been.

Above all, note the personal contouring of this promise, and that God gave it due solely to Abram's mere belief. The merit of belief is solely based on merit in the Object of Belief — God. So God Who is meritorious, makes a Unilateral Promise to one who believed in Him. Romans 4 (and the mistranslated James 1-2) goes to some trouble to remind the reader that this Promise was not based on how good Abram was (and he wasn't), not related to his ethnicity, not due to his works (which were zero), nor any other (puny!) human factor. Simply because he believed God, this happened. So only if we Believe God, will it happen to us. For, what's past is prologue: precedence, actually — legal basis. Notice that all the claptrap pandered by humans that their ancestors, their ethnicity, their "whatever buttresses puny ego" claims, are sheer dung. God is the Father of every soul.

It's one thing to have a legal relationship. It's quite another, to have a personal intimacy. When you first believe in Christ, that creates a legal relationship, "son of God", namely, the legal terminology in Genesis 15:6, John 3:16, Galatians 3, John 1:12. So you are forever saved from hell. But then it's a question of how intimate a relationship you want with God, afterwards. Intimacy, not works. All the works in the world don't make even a smidgen of rapport. That, has to be freely wanted. Abram wanted it. Spiritual maturation is a process of progressive intimacy with God, never works, Romans 4:5, 2 Chronicles 20:7, Isaiah 41:8, James 2:23.

Back then Abram was promised to become first a great nation (Genesis 12); later, the land was granted (Genesis 15) and then Abraham, father of many nations (Genesis 17:5): but the sons of Isaac would be enslaved for 400 years (Genesis 15:13ff). Precisely 400 years after the Exodus, the first of God's promised Kings for the nation Israel, was born: David, in 1040 BC. Paul traces out that 400 year goal to his fellow Jews in "490" accounting lingo (time debits versus time credits), in Acts 13:20ff. Because, God taught the Jews a grand scheme for time, based on sets of 490 years, as you'll see again illustrated in Daniel 9, and (more deftly) Matthew 1 and Luke 3 genealogical charts. Both genealogies use the doubled 7's accounting approach — because David was 77 when he died — hence their deft, sotto voce expression of the Hypostatic Immanuel-to-Come.

Now this David was to have A Son on the throne forever, 2 Samuel 7, Galatians 3:16-19, Isaiah 53:10, Isaiah 54:1. Forever means post-death, since we don't live on earth forever. So this is the promise of a Messiah, a Savior, a King Who Pays for All Mankind. Which Savior promise, went all the way back to Genesis 3:15. So now converging in this one line of the sons of Abraham, would be the One Who Would Unite us with God. Of course, when God first gave Abraham all this promise in Genesis 12, Abraham didn't have any sons at all, nor did he know the details, since God waited until David became king, to make that part of the promise.

So past is prologue: until David, No One Knew How Or When God Would Fulfill His Promise. For, God orchestrates time based on Messiah and His physical ancestors. Therefore time itself, is a promise from God. Very punctiliar, very prompt, very orchestrated. Yet, without altering even a 'dot' of Freedom. Such as, the Freedom of Consent.


Rapture's a Legatee
of Decedents who Depended, not demanded

Volition, is free. God guarantees that freedom. Hence your soul is indestructible, and free will is unimpeachable. You program yourself with each decision you make, and while future decisions become harder to break because of momentum from past ones, you always retain the option to go against that past momentum. So, at heart this question of "Rapture" is about choice, because the doctrine itself, is about God's Choice due to your choice to believe in Him. In short, the basis for the Rapture doctrine, is the same as the basis for the Gospel itself: "what think ye of Christ?"

God Sovereignly Decrees and Upholds freedom. God is not enslaved by His Attributes therefore, and neither are you. Sin doesn't cancel or restrict free will, and free will is not meritorious. The ding dongs who argue that it is, or that man lost his free will at the Fall, make God smaller than He is. You are responsible for your decisions, but the merit in them is based on the object, never the subject. Because, that's why you choose "X": based on its merit, not your own. How correct you are in that choice alike depends on the merit of the object; which merit, will obviously show up in the consequences of your choice.

This is true for everything in life. We humans so easily arrogate to ourselves merit when there is none. For example, if you believe in Christ, that's due to His Merit, or you'd not believe. If you read a webpage, it's not the merit in the author which justifies the read, it's the merit of the content. The content, is an object. That object, 'got into' the author, and now 'gets into' you. But it is still what has the merit. It might bless you. It might help you. But at all times, it still retains the it-ness character, of Content. It just happens to be in you now. So all our many arrogances about what we know, who we know, what we have — sheesh. They have the merit, we have the blessing of having them. Gratis. From God. Who is All Merit. Satan, like mankind, argues that he has merit in himself. Christ, who is Total Merit, threw His Merit away on the Cross. So much for man's (and Satan's) arrogance, huh.

So choice, not self-merit, is the issue. It's not about morality, culture, race, creed, or anything else. Choose. And the merit of that choice, will either come back to bite you — or come back to bless you. Its merit. So the idea is to choose God, or something or someone else.

When a thing's based on choice, its timeline is generally fluid, lest choice be manipulated. When certain events overtake the moment when choice is efficacious, then obviously a timeline has some fixed characteristics. You get to the bus stop too late. Your plane has to taxi in the airport longer. Dinner burns and you have to begin again. After all, even things have the freedom to fail. So this issue about choice, does have overriding elements which have fixed times associated with them. How much more, a relationship between two beings — here, the individual and God — would have some non-set times of no predictability, for the sake of freedom. And, conversely, some elements which are fixed.

So, for most of the world's past, it was generally not known, when The Messiah would come. So, in the past, for eons the same promise was that He would arrive at the proper time (i.e., Isaiah 60:22: בְּעִתָּהּ (bʿittāh) / κατὰ καιρόν); not slow as some count slowness; but then would hasten the time, ahishennah (!) to gather them (ibid, see LXX). Yes! He would arrive as promised, to end history's play, and save mankind. So a whole body of wits were sharpened, given that No One Knew Day Or Hour Of His First Arrival, His Birth. After all, what if it was 'today'? Let us not harden our hearts, but ahishennah, grow up in El-Elyon!

See, it's all about relationship, not religion. Do You Believe? Believing in someone means being "pro-" that person. Even more, when that person seems to not behave as expected. God never behaves as expected, lest your relationship with Him be based on the expectations, rather than be based on the person. For what love is valid, enjoyable, if 'idols' like expectations, goodies — intervene? It'd be like marrying a man for his money, having a friend due to her connections, etc. False relationship, then. Well, everything about God is true, never false. So He'll not have a relationship with us based on our "goodies" (of which, we have none however we fool ourselves with our possessions and adornments). So, He'll not have a relationship with us based on His goodies, either. Such as, performing to expectations.

So all along, the goal of this seemingly-unfair 'test' of mankind, what with Abel sacrificing those lambs (depicting Messiah-to-Sacrifice-Himself, for who knew when Messiah would come?), of Abram waiting for an heir, of Israel waiting to go into the Land — all these 'tests' were to build faith, so that love could flourish: built one day at a time, living on His Promise. For God is love, and it's all about love, Which Is A Thinking Thing, A Believing Thing, An Understanding Thing. Love is not emotional (emotion exists only in the body). So not at all tit-for-tat-doo-doo, religious. For love never coerces, manipulates, influences, cajoles, seduces: but religion needs to make its living by all those verbs!

So, as Hebrews 11 recounts, Abram learned to love God by all that waiting (age 75-age 99), waiting for the promised son whose Son would 'someday' save the world. But when? How? Well, Abram didn't know; but he depended on His Promised Arrival, choosing to wander about rather than build a permanent home — for who knew when He would fulfill the Promise, so why settle down? Isaac depended upon God's Promise in the same way; Jacob depended on God's Promise, also: which is why he returned to the Land. Even though, Jacob knew from his father and grandfather that as a result of returning, he'd be leading his sons into slavery, 'somehow'. For 400 years! But he did it anyway.

Joseph, the first one enslaved and the savior of Egypt as a result (1916 - 1836 BC), depended on that promise, too; at the end of his life counselled his sons to take his sarcophagus from Egypt, when the appointed time came; for by then they knew they'd be in Egypt for another 400 years. Oh, and finally, the appointed time did come, what a surprise! For they had forgotten about it. But into Ha Erets, the Promised Land, led by Him! Oooh, didn't He come suddenly? Suddenly, without warning, all those plagues. After all, no one by then expected Him. But God didn't forget. Love remembers. Lovingly.

Lovingly, and with humor. For dear ol' Thutmose II couldn't get kiddies by his half-sister bride, Hatshepsut. Which was a real problem, for he'd always been sickly. His daddy, Thutmose I, wasn't feeling too well, either. So, five years into the reign of Thutmose I, there was quite a lot of concern about the future of the kingdom; dad had been but a general, and was only adopted by the prior Pharaoh, so he didn't have the legitimacy he desperately needed. An heir would be needed. But there was no heir. So, his palace ministers could manipulate him; one of them got the dad to reluctantly or ignorantly authorize killing all male Hebrew babies, lest the Hebrews become too powerful a group and overrun Egypt. These Hebrews, see, had become pretty elite for slaves; for, they had long been temple building slaves, the masters and architects and contracted labor for Egypt's many grand building projects, ever since Amenemhat III, just before Joseph had died (circa 1836 BC, enslavement began four years prior). Since that work required a whole bunch of skill and muscle, and there were so many of them, well a Pharaoh with a sickly son, had cause for concern.

But if the son died heirless, then his daughter Hatshepsut — AKA God's Wife — would have to marry some royal outside Egypt! That just wasn't politically acceptable. They had only just gotten some freedom from outsiders, via her dad and grandfather; the Hyksos were still a real threat, too. So as she's bathing, bobbing in the reeds is one of those Hebrew babes. Poor thing was followed by its sister, who confessed all when Hatshepsut queried her. So here was the salvation of Egypt, "a gift from the Nile" (= "Moses", claim of his divine origin from Isis, a moniker only used by the 18th Dynasty) — floating in an ark-like covered basket! Hu-hah! Political conundrum resolved! Moses: known also to history, as Thutmose III, but only during Hatshepsut's regency period. If you can read hieroglyphics, you can read about him in Central Park, NYC, on an obelisk misnamed "Cleopatra's Needle". (The "Thutmose III" of the post-Hatshepsut period was the son of Thutmose II and a concubine.)

Moses learned to love God by waiting for the promise, too. And Moses did a whole lot of waiting. Forty years, in fact. See, by age 38, he'd been ruling on behalf of Hatshepsut, but she was dying, now. So he'd have to choose between ruling in his own name as an Egyptian, though a Jew; and, between freeing the Jews. Should he do it as Pharaoh? No, God didn't want that. Besides, it would interfere with the life he had with God. So, he decided to give up the crown. So, within 2 years of her death he abdicates, in favor of the younger son; then he tries to be a Hebrew among the Hebrews. It doesn't work out well: he kills one Egyptian to save a Jew, and the Jews turn against him for that, thinking he's trying to gain power over them or something. So, God sends him into the wilderness for the next 40 years. So when he's 80 years old, God suddenly appears to him and says, Go back to Egypt, face Pharaoh, and bring out My people to a Land I will show you. After making some excuses God won't accept, Moses gives in. So Moses suddenly shows up at Pharaoh's Palace (but since he was apprehensive, God gave the talking to Aaron his brother), suddenly tells Thutmose III's son Amenhotep II a whole lot of stuff the latter didn't like, and bang! The plagues begin just as the barley is budding; about a year later, will be the Exodus.

Well, each plague was warned about just before it happened, give or take a month (like the later conquest of Ai, and Jericho) — but the date of occurrence, depended on what? Pharaoh having enough time to say no. The Israelites (and all Egypt) having enough time to say yes. For, if you look at each plague warning, people had to first do something (get in the house, protect their crops, water or cattle) — if they believed in YHWH, that is. For, ταχύ, suddenly, next-in-sequence, would be a plague. Who knew how long between the warning, and the execution? Decide now! Sure, God did go via Moses to Pharaoh and say, 'this time tomorrow', or some definite time. Last warning call.

So whether you only know the time at the last minute,
or whether you know in advance:
what do you think of God's Promise?
For with God, it's always about voting.
Free will, see.
Love Never Coerces.
Never wants to.
God is Love, so Loves Free Will.

Oy, the Exodus! Two million Jews and maybe another four million folks of every other race on the planet, hastily left! Ahishennah, hasten, hurry up, will you! Lest Israel tarry and its God get even angrier, and kill more sons. First few days, the Exodus generation went out, jubilant; but then, God leads them smack dab into a trap! with the Red Sea at their backs, and what's that dust in the distance... sounds like... oh no, Pharaoh's chariots, seems like the entire bleeping army! Yet by the next day, the bodies of that army were just about bloated up enough to rise in the water. What a plunder that had been. For years the neighbors along the sea told stories to selected passersby of the booty they'd gotten. Which is how we came to know it as the "Red" Sea (the Greeks named it that, due to the drowning army).

Egypt didn't recover for well over 100 years. Amenhotep II's younger son, so ashamed of his dad, changed his name back to that Moses name: known to history, as Thutmose IV. Poor guy, he had to make a diplomatic marriage with the Mitanni(?), since he had no army left to speak of. Worse, those left in Egypt were psychologically torn apart about this god thingy. So their religion went through revolution and retooling: from the Exodus forward, every ruler of Egypt had to prove he had a god's backing. Thutmose IV, played to it. So, every Pharaoh after Thutmose IV pretty much followed the same strategy for getting along, except that one weirdo who went ballistic and monotheistic; so he was the last long straw; roughly three generations later the line died out, there was a political tug-of-war, and the generals finally took over again as Pharaohs.

Meanwhile back on the other side of the Reed Sea, Israel was in high spirits for about three days; then got bitter again, while Amenhotep and his dead comrades were floating in a different kind of bitter water. If the Pharaoh somehow didn't die in the Red Sea, someone would have murdered him. It was politic to ride at the head of your army, so if he managed to get out alive, he'd have killed himself, would have ordered someone else to kill him, or someone else would just have done it. I don't remember how my pastor knows he died in the Red Sea, so I have to hedge on its proof, for now. Closest verse I can find corroborating Pharaoh died in the Reed/Red Sea is Psalm 136:15. The verb there is to shake off, like you shake off dust from your clothes, but it has the connotation of shaking them out of their chariots and horses into the sea, with the waters closing over them. So since Pharaoh is severally distinguished in this Psalm verse, the "popular" interpretation that he died in it, might be right after all.

So God helped Israel despite her Marah and Meribahs, by making her go in Sinai circles for the next 40 years: to teach her kids, what the parents wouldn't learn. So when all the parents had died out except Moses, Caleb and Joshua: then the kids were grown up and ready to enter the Promised Land. So, they did. Took about 10 years after entering the Land under Joshua, for Israel to conquer the Land, per Paul's accounting in Acts 13:20ff.

Oh, but within a generation of Joshua's death 40+ years after entering the Land, well let's see... where did we last leave the Ark of the Covenant? Wasn't there some Book or something we were supposed to wear 24/7, and teach to our kids? So Israel spent another wandering period under the judges, but within her own lands. Very harrowing account. This time, it lasted about 300 years. How human: to have a disaster, be rescued, be grateful and train so to never again lapse into disbelief. But then well, it's back to the same ol', same ol'. We learn from history — that we learn nothing.

Sigh. 390 years after the Exodus vote by about six million souls, Israel had grown weary of God as King; weary of waiting for Him to become the promised Man as fast as they had wanted. So, He gave them a human king, Saul, in 1050 BC. That kingship didn't work out so good. In fact, about halfway into Saul's kingship God took Israel's first prophet, a guy who as a kid slept in the same room as the Ark itself, and He had him appoint a human progenitor for the Human He Himself would hawah, become: the Savior Incarnate, Immanuel, God-with-us.

Just to make sure no one would miss the point about how stupid it is to reject God: God caused that human progenitor, known to us as King David, to be born exactly 400 years after the Exodus. Yeah, the same number of years as Israel was in slavery, mirrored back to them in freedom, which they (like all of us!) abused. Despite this gift, which was the final phase of establishing Messiah! well ho hum. The people grew ever wearier of even their Divinely-protected kings; and the Davidic line nearly died out several times. Mary, in fact, would end up being the last of the line (Joseph's being cut off due to the Coniah curse).

At this point, Israel's days become numbered, and the Exact Year of Messiah's Birth and Death, are deadlined. 1000 years after David's consolidated Kingship began, He would be born. 1000 years after David's death, He would die, paying for all the sins of mankind. Just as the Flood people got 1000 years' advance warning via Methu+Selah, so also mankind got 1000 years' advance warning of the end of the world. For when Messiah came, He would live for the same period as David ruled, 40 years — assuming Israel did not reject Him when He came — and He would die at the end of that period. That was necessary, because David's 1000-year Time Grant would run out. So if No Messiah, then Time ends. But if Messiah and Israel accepts Him, then Time also ends. But in a different way.

That different way, was long foretold in the Mosaic Law. First, Passover Week, depicting the exact chronology of when He would pay for sins: on Passover, He'd be slain. Four days prior to that, 'something' would happen to set Him aside; so, that's why they set aside the lamb; that's why on the flip side of the calendar, Ethanim (AKA Tishri), it was Yom Kippur. So: after Passover Week ended, that night of the last day of Passover, began FirstFruits. 50 days after that, was Pentecost. Total? 57 days. Which represented 57 years. And 57 years after the 1000th anniversary of David's Death, was the close of the 4th 1050-year historical Time Grant from Adam. So when David died, everyone knew exactly when Time would end, so that last 57 years could play and bring about the new Millennium. In our calendar terms, it would be 963 BC + 1000 + 57 = 94 AD, when the Millennium was to begin.

The long wait to know When Messiah Would Come, was over.

So you'd think now that Israel had a certain date for Messiah's Arrival, she'd be faithful, voting "Yes!" Nope. Between the Exodus of 1440 BC and the end of Israel's (Judah, line-of-David) kings in 586 BC, there had been some good moments. That first David's kingship (1010 - 970 BC) was always being contested by someone. But after him, during Solomon's reign, a time of great peace and prosperity! And, best of all, the people rejoiced for a while in building God's House. For that House represented Messiah-to-Come, in every minute detail. Oh, what a structure. Took two decades to finish all its adornments, and many contributed what they could, and happily, too. Its "Most Holy Place" (AKA "Holy of Holies, a lexeme) was curiously built around a huge hunk of bedrock which God had picked out for the Ark of the Covenant to sit on. Well, it was no ordinary Rock; for this was the slab on which Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac, and that act depicted what the Real God-Father (literal Hebrew) would do, in sacrificing Adonai, His Son as Humanity: echad, unique! But at the time, it was a threshing floor on Mount Moriah, so David had purchased it, and made building plans for his son Solomon to carry out. Work took many years, but building the Temple proper, only 7. Wow, how great it was.

And how at the last minute it was dedicated, too. God makes a big stink of this in 1 Kings 6:1, the verse telling you David had died three years prior to the commencement of building, which was in the 480th year from the Exodus, our 960 BC. It got dedicated in 950 BC, which was 490 years after the Exodus, just in the nick of time! Else time would have ended. Its 490-year grant depended on the Davidic Time Grants, which were three: one ended 513 BC, another, 480 BC, and the last one, 473 BC. So when the Temple was razed due to apostasy 126 years short of its own time grant (which was supposed to run to 460 BC), God could justify re-crediting the 126 years. For each 490-year grant is 'sandwiched' with a 70-year voting period. Because Israel's apostasy occurred 120 years before the next such historical voting period was to begin, God could justify adding that, too. So He balances to the 126 years (net of the reserve for Tribulation and later rejection of Messiah), using the allotted voting period. You'll see more of this accounting toward the end of this table. For now, notice this: The Temple Preserved the Earth due to David. Else, Time would end.

Yeah, but after Solomon the ol' political rivalries started up again, so Israel split in two; then the northern part (Samaria AKA Israel) was taken over for good from 721 BC onward. Which left Judah "the southern kingdom", limping along until the last of even her kings went into captivity, circa 586 BC.

Of course, it would be facile to just gloss over Israel's decline; frankly, no one could have survived that much pressure, absent reliance on God. Again, geography explains why past is prologue: Israel is the most valuable landmass on the planet. Nexus for trade and commerce, she was attacked relentlessly by those wanting to at least get her to pay tribute. The Jews were 'above normal', in smarts; above average, in looks; they were incredibly talented in math, languages, song, architecture; all of these qualities in the people, made foreign kings want the men as advisors and fighters; want the women, as mothers and concubines. This is a beautiful and proud, smart and stubborn, talented and charming people. Their Arab cousins are, as well. So they have learned to be charming as a form of diplomacy. For diplomacy, like economics and politics, is war carried on by other means. And this people have always been warred upon, simply because they belong to God. Satan & Co. cannot afford to let the Jews prosper. Because, it's only about whether God can keep His promises. And if Satan & Co. can make God 'fail' to keep His Promises to Abram, then Satan & Co. win a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. It's not a mere "Monopoly" board game. It's their future. So count on it, the Jews are the most persecuted people on the planet, bar none — until Messiah comes to deliver them.

Just go to any news item or social media on the web about Israel, or watch those newscasts. Notice how the newscasts are always slanted against Israel, whether conservative or liberal, no matter what country airs the broadcast (and now the demons are marrying pro-Israel politics with the MAGA and Christian Nationalist movement to add further animosity against Israel; a great example of this is how Mehdi Hasan now comes out as a hero in debates despite fostering Antisemitism himself). Sometimes the slant is vague, an undertone; sometimes scorn or even vehement browbeating is reflected in the report. But it's always negative. Like 1960's MIT scientist-turned-singer Tom Lehrer sang, in his National Brotherhood Week: "Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, and the black folks hate the white folks, to hate all but the right folks, is an old established rule... Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Hindus hate the Muslims, and everybody hates the Jews."

What a life that "First Temple" had: it lasted 364 years, just shy of a 'year' of years, one year short of Enoch's lifetime (Genesis 5:21). Ended, with a flood of troops. Prematurely. Do you know, sometimes it was filled with weird statues and cult prostitutes, as if YHWH didn't exist; sometimes it was cleaned up, usually when someone wandered about inside and found, hey, here's this Book we heard about when we were kids! Over and over, this would happen. And over and over, the one discovering the Book would tell the king; who would gather all the people, who would listen to someone read that Book aloud to them. Then over and over, all the people would weep and wail over how they had done wrong, and vowed never to disobey God again. But, you know how we humans are. Over and over, after the remorse was over and you had to dig that soil, do those rituals, well we forgot. So, the Book would get 'lost' again, in the Temple. Over and over and over.

Finally, when Nebuchadnezzar was on the verge of defeating Judah, Jeremiah found the Book in the Temple (Jeremiah 15:16), yet again; then God told him to add to it. Two kings were thus informed. One of them, burnt the Book Jeremiah wrote; the second of them, pretending to concede to his advisors, threw Jeremiah in his son's sewer for awhile (underneath the king's barracks), hoping he'd die. But "Ebed-melech" an Ethiopian eunuch, rescued Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:6), so the king () had to look good, and had Jeremiah released. Seems to be a title, not a name. Ebed = slave. And "melech" means King. So: "slave of the king" is his title.

For 40+ years, Jeremiah's job had been about this Temple's future destruction; for 40 years, he warned everyone that time was up now, Nebuchadnezzar was going to raze the temple. And then, despite his enormous respect for Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar reluctantly did raze it, in 586 BC. So Israel's volitional choice had been rejection; so, God's Choice in Response: the appointed Temple isn't going to get any appointees (kings), anymore. Israel didn't keep any of the appointed sabbatical years, and during all those 364 years, rarely celebrated Passover on the national scale God had commanded Moses.

So, finally, the appointment (Hebrew: l'moed, look it up) was cancelled, the Temple destroyed, the people led into captivity in Babylon. Too many times Israel didn't want to learn Adonai at the appointed times, so Love never coercing them to keep the appointments, the appointments, were cancelled. Appointment with God, l'moed, always meant a unity of time and place and space: time, every moment, and the Sabbath time to focus solely on learning Him. Place, HaEretz, the Land: Israel, gifted to the people, the land of milk and honey. Space: the Temple, symbol of the appointment, the meeting place, the "Place of Testimony". School. For God is infinite, we are not, and it takes Infinite Power from God, to learn Him. So to have a relationship with Him. For that one perpetually goes to "schul" (modern Yiddish). So if you don't go to schul and cut classes enough, sooner or later you never go back. So the schul, the Land, the Ark (meaning covenant) goes away, too. God doesn't stay where He's not wanted.

Principle: Can't divorce God, and keep the property. Can't divorce the Nation Israel from her Temple; So Can't Stay A Promised Nation, if No Temple. Necessary Nerd Note: Just keep reading, and you'll see God's Permanent Blessing To Israel, Via This Curse.

Old Testament likes to first summarize the Decree/Order of a thing, then later on elaborate on its execution (namely, Genesis 1:26-27 compared to Genesis 2:7ff). So the KJV version of the initial commission order and its result, reads as follows:

1 Kings 6:12-14 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel. So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

Now, the elaboration: what God replied to Solomon's prayer of dedication (1 Kings 8:22-53), on the very day the First Temple was dedicated, 1 or 2 Ethanim 950 BC. "Ethanim" roughly corresponds to our September-October, and the first day of it is Rosh HaShana, the New Year. Law forbids work on the first day (Trumpets), so the Temple was maybe dedicated the second day. Then again, you met in holy convocation, so maybe it was 1 Ethanim, not 2. You can read the chronology also in 2 Chronicles. Note the repeat warning:

1 Kings 9:6-9 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house? And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

"taken hold" is a euphemism; Hebrew verb is חָזַק (hazaq), hiphil stem. Greek verb is ἀντελαμβάνομαι. You'll have a real hard time getting an honest answer from the lexicons, so trace how these verbs are used in Scripture.

So back in 586 BC, Israel languished, having been exiled from the Promised Land, Temple and National Contract gone, because she had abandoned Him. So the One Who would still Become Her Redeemer, meanwhile ejected His Holy People from the Land, and He razed that Gorgeous House of Love, right down to the ground. Just as He had promised.

No more human kings for her, but Him. But He had also promised He and He alone! Would Return them, shub! But when? Oh Lord, When? Daniel prayed in Daniel 9, acknowledging for the whole nation, the "riv", the Divorce, was solely Israel's fault. So, one day soon after, Daniel got the Word that Israel's time of punishment, was ending! Hallelujah! For here's what God said to Daniel via Gabriel:

NLT Daniel 9:25-26 "Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times. After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing ("killed" is "cut off", as in foreskin; so, Cut a Covenant, cut off without descendants, are all additional meaning layers); and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood (of troops), and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end."

So now, every date was fixed forever forward. Israel's days were numbered, and she'd be Mirrored Back What Was Due Her. No more open-ended wondering when Messiah would come, how all history, would go. So, this punishment included news that no more Kings would head Israel until the Messiah was painful, But It Would Be Messiah! Next In Sequence, ahishennah! ταχύ! Moreover, the 'when' balanced to David's 1000-year anniversaries, in Daniel 9:26. The benchmarks in Daniel 9 were well understood, reimbursing the 364 years the Temple stood, adding on the 70-year voting period, debiting it from the 126 (= 70 + 49 + 7 reserved). So they knew the doctrine of the time grant for the Temple, too. A dating system which shifted to the Jews when Joseph became vizier in Egypt; from then forward it was tied to and 'hubbed' from, the Exodus and Davidic-rule dates. Every Jew was weaned on all dates valued in years pre- or post- the Exodus or David's rule, within Israel's then-substantial history. So the promised Davidic deadlines, were preserved. Whew.

Rapture's a Legatee: for the Rapture, is about volition. So the remaining number of Israel's days resume playing after the Rapture occurs. Which means the Tribulation. Which means Daniel 9:27. For David's death cut short time for Messiah to Come, so these seven years could not play until Messiah Came and Left. Since Messiah came and left with Israel rejecting Him, time ran out and the seven reserved years need a 'bridge' of Time. Hence Church. Which means the Dome of the Rock we see today, advertises Dan 9:26c, the green text; not Dan 9:27. Which means the Rapture is not predictable. Which means Israel can still be rescued by believing in Messiah.

So between 586-516 BC (Daniel 9:2) a chastened, Babylon-exiled Israel came to depend on His Promise of "Shub", Return; so He returned them to the Land, and right on time, too. By then, they knew that the "time" included the appointed place, l'moed (i.e., Daniel 12:7), just as in Moses day — the Tabernacle, then the Temple! The Congregation, The Appointment At The Temple, l'moed, would be kept! All was, l'moed! joined in time and place and space! For the Temple Represented The Promise of Him Taking on Humanity and Tabernacling Among them. For He would be Their Ark Forever (Jeremiah 3; see also John 1, Hebrews 5-10).

And at the appointed time, l'moed, not one second sooner or later, Isaiah 60:22! For of course, this Israel was to be the progenitor of this God-man to Come. Because, That One was going to fulfill all the conditions of the Law which as God He gave to Moses, at Sinai. Yeah, just as Jeremiah had promised back in Jeremiah 3 — they wouldn't even miss the Ark Nebuchadnezzar had melted down when he razed the Temple in 586 BC. Now, back in the Land, on time they would keep time, mark time. Because they knew what the timing would be. All the way down to the end of time. And God would fulfill His Promise to Abraham, David, Israel. On time.

See, the "seventy sevens" granted to Daniel in Daniel 9, was all the time the world had left: under the Time Accounting System God invented, that time would be up in 37 AD. The world, not merely the Jews, had only that much time remaining. For if no Savior, then no world can be saved. And if no Jews, then no Savior can arrive. Because, Remember The Past Promise God Made To Abram? On whom, all the world depended. Abram had pressures you and I can't even imagine — but God kept him going. God kept the family going. God kept the nation going. A few in each generation, believed Him. Daniel believed Him. So, the world got 490 + 126 more years to breathe and shake-the-fist at God, because of Daniel. Just as it always has gotten time because of Abram. Who got that time, because of Noah. Who got that time, because of Enoch. Who got that time, because of Jared. Who got that time, because of Adam (Seth and Jared's son Enoch are 490 years apart, and God signifies grants by sons).

These seventy sevens, you'll notice, are broken up into smaller accounting pieces. Each piece has a character, so if the character fits, the piece 'plays'. So the pieces can, but need not, play consecutively. Here, they did. Because, each piece of Real Time Depends on that Character, being Fulfilled. But Israel was taught that system, so that's why God spoke to Daniel in the 490 accounting vocabulary.

So: God Decreed the Rebuilding back in 586 BC when the Temple was razed, Jeremiah 25. Daniel was reading it in 538 BC, Daniel 9:2. So Daniel prays, because he knows the 70 years are a deadline. So God Replies: world was scheduled to end in 37 AD, the deadline due to 1000th anniversary of David's Death. So one "seven" had to be reserved for Daniel 9:27. This, because the Davidic deadline came before the 490 would end, and in God's Accounting System, you can't have a 1000 continuing without an underlying 490, nor a continuing 490 without an underlying 1000. So Messiah would have to come first in order to buy another 1050 unit of time (1000 + 50 year voting period = 490 + 70 + 490). Then and only then, could the 50-year reserved-for-Gentiles-voting period between Daniel 9:26 and Daniel 9:27, 'play'. The reserved 'seven' would play last. (The 50 years is not part of the 490, so is not listed in Daniel 9. It is also beyond the Davidic deadline; but that reserved 7, was part of the 490.) So then those years would play in reverse order, just as Moses long instituted, mirroring the joint holiday of Passover + Pentecost. That would bring history to its proper ending, 94 AD, at which point the purchased Millennium (1000 + 50 year voting period following it), could close. So the last 1050 from Adam, was to be the fifth one. Five: number of Profit, Restitution, All Goals Accomplished.

Preview of Coming Attractions: the whole 'math' went like this: 586 BC - 70 - 70 - 49 - 364 - 70 = 37 AD. Scholars mistake the "decree" in Daniel 9:24 as some mere human's decree. But the one decreeing in that sentence, is God. So it dates from when God decreed He'd send the people back after the sabbatical years, which was back in 586 BC, Jeremiah 25. That accounts for the first 70. The second "70" was the historical voting window, which could be justified if the Temple were rebuilt during the first 70; Jerusalem would have to be built by the end of that second 70, which equated to a deadline of 446 BC in our system. Followed by, the 49 year allotment to finish Canon, which allotment ended the historical voting window 'attached' to the 7th 490 since Adam. Then, the 364 years the First Temple was standing, could be 'reimbursed', followed by yet another 70 sabbatical years required within the 490 (which purchase the 70 years 'sandwiching' after it ends). Messiah would die by the end of that 70 years. His First Advent Rule, was to be of the same length, as His progenitor David. First David, 7 years + 33 years. Last David, 33 years + 7 years. That Was The Initial Design. Due to Israel's rejection however, we see His Life cut short by 7 years, which are 'reimbursed' to Israel from 64 AD - 70 AD when Jerusalem was under siege. Daniel 9:26 playing live but prematurely, due to rejection of Messiah.

But now we're ahead of the story, so let's go back to the Jews in the Land, having built the Second Temple, awaiting the clock to run out.

God would not fulfill His Ark promise as they'd expect. For, God doesn't live up to expectations, ever. He exceeds them. He'd promised Abram an heir, but until Abram realized God Meant A Whole Universe Of Heirs Through The Heir Messiah, well Abram had no kids at all. Same for Isaac, whose wife was barren for 20 years. Same back earlier, for Noah's kids; Noah had no grandkids until after the Flood. So, see? God promises a thing — but until you recognize l'moed, and learn to love that unity, what's the point of meeting your smaller expectations? Would God be fair to Himself or to you, if He only met human, temporary, insufficiently-informed needs?

For past is prologue. Noah, who sired Shem exactly 490 years before Abraham's son Isaac, had spent 120 years (!) building the first Ark. It represented salvation, deliverance from catastrophe, and most of all: Relationship with God. In a specific time, space, place. So, its building represented a future Appointment which no one liked to keep. So people came thousands of miles just to see this silly man and his family building this huge box thingy — and laugh at him and his Appointment Warning. Just he and a few other remaining pure (non-Nephilim) humans, helped build: his sons and the wives, maybe Methusaleh and Lamech. No wonder it took so long to build. Atheists often tend to have an irrational hatred for this portion of the Bible, not realizing that the people who died in the flood were hybrids as it was Satan's desire in the ongoing Angelic Conflict to enact this. Satan's goal being: pollute the human race such that Christ couldn't be born (for a hybrid couldn't pay for human sins, only a human can pay for human sins, upward). Obviously God could break this rule, but being justice He would never do such a thing. Satan also mirrors a similar technique to stop Christ's birth when he influenced Herod to eradicate baby boys Matthew 2:16-18. So really, the atheists are misplacing their anger on God instead of Satan (ironically, probably Satanically influenced when they always beeline toward the 'flood' passages, too).

God was real specific about its construction, even as He'd later be specific about how to make the travelling Tabernacle, with that other person He'd deliver in an ark: Moses. Yeah, 'drawn out from the water'! So the first 'moses', the 'one who gives us rest', aka "Noah" to you, spent years growing and chopping up (potentially) cypress wood (wood-of-choice for ships used in ancient times, AKA "gopher wood"). Heh: cypress wood, from the cypress tree. Light, buoyant, tough, bendable: great for coffins and ships. Then, Noah had to coat that light wood on both sides with the readily-available, bitumen. Took lots of time. And he was building it miles away from any sea access. The length was about 1.5 American football fields (450 feet); 75 feet wide, but only 45 feet high; perfect seaworthy proportions, kinda like a barge, a bit shorter in length than a WWII Liberty Ship. Three floors. One Door (Christ, known then as El-Elyon); one window (up to God). No wonder it took so long to build. Dimensions from 1975 Genesis Lesson 85, near end of tape.

Noah just kept building, ignored the growing ridicule. And, he kept on warning his jeerers: 120 years, to warn folks their disinterest and rejection of God would lead to a deluge. Over 500 years before Noah was born, God went so far as to name Noah's grandfather, "Methusaleh", which means: "when he dies, the Flood happens." So, believe in El now! Get into the Promise which that Ark represents, because Muth+shalach!!! Methuselah! The death of him, that's the sign it begins! So it's not like the message of the last 120 years' building, was a surprise.

Ark, whoa: a Box, really. Stablest form, for a vessel on water. God will have to steer it, though, since it's a box, not a boat — God delivers. God delivers a Box holding all of the life to be preserved, and all of us, come from those eight people. That's what's important about the Ark. That's The Only Valid Question To Ask: Why? Well, think: preserving life, saving life, rescuing life which is incompatible with God, so to rescue it from incompatibility, is way more important than just having it breathe. Everyone else, voted against compatibility with God. But Noah & Co., didn't. The Ark is not sitting on Mount Arrarat. Someone is hoaxing or hallucinating. Its wood was way too valuable to leave on a mountaintop, especially since so many beasts of burden were readily available. No sane person would have let 120 years of lumbering, go to waste.

So this Box was depicted by Israel's smaller one in the Holy of Holies, the third of its kind. It was bigger than the boat baby Moses floated in. Oh, much bigger in meaning, too (see Hebrews 3). For this Ark of the Covenant for Israel travelled with them. Back about 950 BC, this third Ark finally came to rest atop Petra, the rock on which Isaac was almost-sacrificed; smack dab in the center of Solomon's Temple (AKA "First Temple").

For what made the Holy of Holies, was the bedrock. That's why the Temple was built around it. That "Ebed"/"Πέτρα" represented the Rock of our Salvation, Christ (Greek, Old Testament; Messiah, in Hebrew). So: that's why God Picked That Rock, for Atonement; that's why He picked it, just after David sinned by numbering the people — a sin of pride, trusting in human mass-strength — so David then had to rush to Mount Moriah and buy that threshing floor (get the pun?) in order to stop the plague God inflicted on the people, for his disobedience. On which threshing floor, right then and there! David made oxen sacrifices. You can read all this in 1 Chronicles 21ff, and 2 Samuel 24. Nerd Note: Ornan and Araunah are the same person. The name is spelled phonetically, following the needs of the writers of the book in question. This happens a lot with Biblical names, because the Bible was written over 1500 years, and since Israel was the cross-section of the globe, lots of name-changes and language changes ensued. So you can use this dynamic to date the Bible books. A real helpful tool, in assessing what's True Bible versus the many counterfeits, scribal errors, etc. God thinks of Every Contingency When He Commits To Something.

This third Ark was made of acacia wood, representing His Future Humanity, and covered with Gold, depicting His Deity; inside it were the symbols of sin, depicting how Messiah-to-Come would bear sin on mankind's behalf: the first set of broken Law tablets due to Operation Golden Calf; a pot of manna (which Israel endlessly complained about); and Aaron's almond rod that budded (Korah rebellion, rejection of Aaron's priesthood authority). Three basic types of sins in the human race: rejection of Divine righteousness, in favor of one's own preferences; rejection of Divine provision, in favor of one's own efforts; rejection of God's Authority (i.e., delegated to the priests). Can't reject God and have fellowship with Him. Can't have fellowship with Him if not 'housed' in Him. Can't be 'housed' in Him if you reject His Messiah-to-come. Can't keep the Ark, then, either. All this, the Ark represented. And all Israel knew it, through all those ritual mnemonics.

Of course by 586 BC, Israel had rejected that third Ark for so long, God had Nebuchadnezzar's troops raze the Temple to the ground. The Ark itself, was melted down to extract all its gold. Playing a Noahic role, Jeremiah had forewarned them of this bad future, in Jeremiah 3 (i.e., verse 16): but (past is prologue!) no one listened. So when the Temple was later rebuilt by 516 BC, and Israel was finally keeping her appointments again; when Israel finally knew how to tell time of Messiah and the rest of history, well the Rock on which the Ark used to sit... was bare. Waiting for its Living Counterpart, to be born. So on Yom Kippur, the head priest would sprinkle the blood over the Rock. A very thick curtain, maybe 2 feet thick and 90 feet high, separated that Rock from the antechamber. So if you were on the outside, as all but the High Priest were — then you could forget that the Rock was naked, now. More a stumbling block, really, rather than the Cornerstone-to-Come, Depicted.

Messiah, the fourth and Last Ark — but Living. The Promise of His Coming now portrayed directly as that very Petra on which the High Priest annually sprinkled blood (depicting atonement for sin). That Living Bedrock/Ark would be carried through a very different kind of Flood: the flood of our sins. Thus forever preserving and making compatible, those who believed in Him. And if too many of them did not want Him, the Temple would be destroyed after His Death; and its Holy of Holies' Petra would be 'desolated' (captured by unbelievers, i.e. today's Dome of the Rock), Daniel 9:25-26.

So now Israel's Days were Numbered, and He had a deadline date for producing Messiah. So, then: can God keep His Promises? For, via Daniel 9:25 you can calculate His Birth year in a variety of ways even using the wrong benchmarks, and still get it right:

    • From the Babylonian captivity commencement date of 597 BC (in 2 Kings 24:12 compared with 2 Kings 25:27, compared with Jeremiah 25:1's wry tweak of Nebuchadnezzar being in his own first year reigning over Palestine, so it's his own ninth year): 597-70 sabbatical years -490 -70 (mirror back, intercalation piece belonging to 490 credit) = 33, His maximum life length left; so count backwards from that, and birth is 3 BC = late 4 BC.
    • Or, let's do it the 'accepted' way most Bible people use: from Daniel 9:25's text, interpreting the decree to rebuild Jerusalem as the date in Nehemiah 2:1-8, 446 BC - 483 +40, the years reserved for Messiah's kingship (same # as for David's) = 3 BC.
    • Or, from the lifetime scheduled for the Second Temple once reconstructed: 950 BC First Temple - its own 490 = 460 BC (presuming completed on time, which it was) - 490 of Daniel 9 = 30 AD, His maximum life length; -40, number of years He'd be owed as King, -7 for Daniel 9:27 = 3 BC birthdate.
    • Or, as Bible does it, from the destruction date of the First Temple: 586 BC - 70 sabbatical years = 516 BC (deadline, met, so mirror of 70 plays) - 70 -483 (the 69 weeks) = 37, the maximum life length; minus 40 years owed = 3 BC. Gee, we keep getting the same answers. And they're real historical values, what do you know.
    • Yeah, even if you use mistaken dates like I had done: 556 BC (decree to Rebuild interpreted wrongly from Isaiah 44:28, year Cyrus comes to power) -483 (the 69 weeks) -70 (Daniel 9:2)= 3 BC, the Year Christ was actually born, still. The Decree is made by God, not a human being; that's the mistake we all have made for centuries. Even my own pastor did it back in the 1960's. So using that assumption, Daniel 9 never balances, really. But other mistakes made, cancel out the mistaken idea that the Person speaking in Daniel 9:24, is not the same person as issues the decree. A really silly mistake, considering we all know only God decrees. And "decree" is used in Daniel 9:24, famous Hebrew word "dabar" — Word of the Lord, get it? But we didn't. Still, by making other mistakes like thinking the years are lunar-based, which they are not — we still get in the vicinity of His Death year. But then so many other things don't balance, and the 490-year structure of time from Adam, gets missed. Oh well.
    • You could also or instead get His Birth year simply by counting to 1000 from the year David became King over all Israel, since the "Day of the Lord" would last as long as David's dynasty. You'd know it was 1000, because David published it and then prophets like Isaiah, kept on using the term. Same idea as the last 1000 years before the Flood. Everyone knew Messiah was to be the last King of that dynasty: born from the line of Nathan, not Solomon.
    • So pretending you didn't already know know it's the 1000th anniversary of David's united Kingship that Messiah will be born, you can find out what anniversary it is by using any of the above Temple calculations, because you know that Messiah's arrival is tied to the Temple's 490 since Messiah = Temple. That way you don't need to know when the Decree to rebuild will/did occur. So when you get the answer, you count backwards to David's reign and you'll see Messiah must be born in the 1000th anniversary year of David's united kingship; and He must die by the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement from kingship. Again, because both Messiah and Temple are bound up in the promise to David, 2 Samuel 7 and 1 Chronicles 17. Messiah has to die by the 1000th anniversary of David's death, because that's the end of time. So counting backwards the same 40 years as David had, you get 3 BC = late 4 BC. By 521 BC they would know it was late 4 BC, because God tied the Birth to the Second Temple's foundation-laying date, Haggai 2. Guess that's why 357 years later, Antiochus IV Epiphanes would pick that day to sacrifice a pig on the altar, resulting in Chanukah.
    • Because You Can Track From Adam, The Basic Structure Of Time: it plays in two nested 'calendars' which run both non-intercalary (to qualify the next segment), and intercalated, just as lunar and solar years. The two calendars are: a set of 1050 years, composed of a 1000-year piece (non-intercalary), and a 50-year piece (added to intercalate); the second set, on which the first depends, is composed of a 490 year piece (non-intercalary), coupled with a 70-year piece (to intercalate with another 490, so to interlock with the intercalated 1000 + 50 piece). In the Mosaic Law, each piece has a Biblical-metaphor definition.
    • Most importantly, any Jew reckoned years from David. That was s.o.p. around that world, that you reckoned from the King. So reckoning from David, you'd know when time ran out: 37 AD, by our calendar. For the last of David's 1000th anniversaries, is the anniversary of his death.

Simple math, which Moses enshrined in the Hebrew meter of Psalm 90: 1050-year increments from Adam mean that Year 4200 is the end of the fourth one. The last 50 years of it is a voting period, so by Year 4150, Messiah must be come, gone, and successful. In our BC/AD terms, 4200 = 94 AD, and 4150 = 44 AD. But in Daniel 9:26, the accounting only takes you to 37 AD, cutting out the last 7 of the 490, reserved for the Tribulation (Daniel 9:27). So that's Year 4143 from Adam. That's what the Old Testament people had to work with. David had 40 years' reign, so Messiah as Last David, would also. Takes you right to 3 BC, in our terms (their 4103 from Adam, 1000 from David). So immediately you know you're at the end of time, since it's short of the proper end of a 1000 to qualify the last 50 years: short by 7 years. So you'd know exactly when to expect Him. We all know September has 30 days, May 31, we learned silly songs in grammar school about the days of the month. Well, this 1050 accounting is just as basic. Everyone in Israel learned it at mother's knee; couldn't know the calendar without it. All Bible dates are predicated on this structure. God times things to voting periods, which in Mosaic Law were represented by the sabbatical years 'buying' the 70-year sandwich period: Ten Ways this Timeline Differs walks you through that, and its devastating effect from Adam forward. Incredible.

    • In short, you didn't need to be a math genius, to know when Messiah comes. A child can usually count to 1000 by age 7, and certainly before he's age 12. So there were many ways you could get the answer from the Word — if if if you cared enough about the Word, to learn Him. Even with mistaken assumptions! To be honest, in late 2003 or early 2004, I first learned of God's mirroring method due to a mistaken usage of Acts 13:20; and then due to that mistaken calculation on Cyrus. When I did the latter, I saw the "70" of Daniel 9:2, being mirrored back. I know a little something about double-entry accounting. So: I started digging in Scripture; that journey led to the development of Mirroring Timeline Inset, God's Balance Sheet System for Time. It's only based on the Bible's dates; so I can't find anything like it on the web, since the typical 'scholarly' piece doesn't use the Bible, as if It were a leper; but instead, uses other fallible human, scholarly opinion. So that's why you can't get a correct 'scholarly' date on the Exodus — you have to use the Bible, and then vet against whatever history we have. So: don't just accept the numbers: vet them, as any good auditor would. Moreover, this mathematical phenomenon of the timeline converging on Christ despite a wide variety of erroneous calculations, can be seen on the internet."Other Research Sources" provides sample direct links I found. The calculation methods people picked couldn't be more disparate, and some of them are quite goofy — yet they all converge on Christ. There are at least another 60+ websites on the 490s; they each differ. Yet, the same convergence on Christ. Awesome: I've never seen math do this. Naturally, human bias will skew math usage; but math can only 'bend' a limited number of ways before it smacks you upside the head. Yet the ending result is the same convergence on Christ? So God took into account how we all can't do our math too well, when He gave Daniel that timeline. What Grace! On the switch in bloodline, see Jeremiah 22:33, the JeConiah curse. Shealtiel was adopted by Jeconiah, and was from Nathan, the younger son of David and Bathsheba. Compare 1 Chronicles 3:17 with Luke 3, and Matthew 1, which both list Shealtiel. Oh: leave "Cainan" out of your translation of Luke 3 — then add up the sons from Joseph to "God" — and then add "Jesus" — you should get 77, with "Jesus" as the 77th son. Seventy sevens, get the pun? See, not even the begats are boring. "Cainan" thus throws off the count — what a sly way to malign God — so is not in the original text Luke wrote. Someone added it in years later; probably didn't notice the 77; maybe even thinking he was helping God look good. Because, a different scribe had stuck in a Cainan back in an LXX copy of Genesis 5; so someone long after Luke died, added "Cainan" in Luke 3, to balance to Genesis 5. Everyone trying to make God look good, clothe Him. If we didn't have so many pieces of Bible manuscripts in conjunction with the Bible's internal poetic meter, we'd not be able to detect such tampering; Biblical "CSI"! Heck: the Word is best viewed naked, in the original.

Israel had to wait about 535 years for this to occur (Daniel got the vision circa 538 BC, see Daniel 9:1). Once back in the Land under Zerubbabel Israel languished again, Haggai having to come and wittily upbraid them once a month (see that book). Of course, the persecution they suffered was unbelievable, and should have sent them back to Babylon and later Persia where it was much nicer and safer. Notice how Malachi, who God sent out circa 460 BC, is the last Old Testament book (circa 433 BC). So within a generation after completing Jerusalem on time in 446 BC, it didn't matter that His Coming was Predictable: they still didn't want Him. How human. So by 3 BC, Israel, like any other group in humanity, instead expected this Living Ark to provide mere political deliverance and material prosperity. But Ever-Faithful God the Father would still make "Sons of God in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:26) out from the Son of God's Humanity: just as long Promised, especially in Isaiah 53:10-11. Thus God exceeding all expectations, lifts the Stone Too Heavy To Lift, Isaiah 53:5! For nothing shall be impossible for God.

This compatibility would thus be forged by God in Messiah, based on His Free Will Consenting, and on time. So the plan for Messiah (= "Christ", Greek) would be light-years higher than the Mosaic Law, since He was to pay for sins. So, Christ would depend on the Holy Spirit, not on His Own Godness. Nor would Christ demand God fulfill expectations. Unconditional love, is like that. Unconditional love, is not humanly possible. Only God can be unconditional.

Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 53:12 explained in detail how the forging-of-compatibility works. Gist: He would live On The Book, AKA the Bible. Then, 'the Bible' only went from Genesis to Malachi. Jewish order of the books was different; Jewish pseudepigrapha were known by all to be fakes. That's what Christ lived on, and He lived on it, in two languages: the Hebrew (AKA "BHS" or "Masoretic" text), and the Greek (AKA "LXX", a translation from the Hebrew Old Testament). So Christ in His Humanity did what He Legated us: Learn the Word, under the Spirit, John 4:24. By so doing, the Word as God became the Word as Humanity: "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (in John 14:2-6ff). By Choice. So, by Choice Again, the Holy Spirit gave to the New Testament writers the Thinking of That Humanity so it could be put in writing, so that all humanity could learn Unconditional Love, by learning The Same Thinking. So the Old Testament, His Thinking as God, as my pastor likes to remind us; and the New Testament, is His Humanity's Thinking. Just as long promised, since Genesis 3:15, Jeremiah 31:31-34.

Of course, back when planning that Fourth Ark-Who-is-His-Son, God-Father and God-Son and God-Spirit all knew Israel would be languishing; in fact, it would be the end of time, by the time He added Jewish Humanity to Himself. On purpose. But Love always lovingly reminds, so the love-object can voluntarily "shub" (return) to Him. For "Seth", means "appointed". Appointed times, l'moedthim. Divisions of time, with particular briths, covenants to match those divisions in time for those living during those divisions, those covenantal epochs, those Ages. So the births must match, too. Appointed Persons, then. From Seth, came Noah; from Noah, came Abram. So God likes to redeem time spent building. To be the Living Ark, Himself. To redeem time for all time (Hebrews 10:1-17, Ephesians 5:16, Colossians 4:5), and thus justify the births of men.

Ahhh, the Grand Designer, noticing stuff we humans don't. Hmmm. Like, how intimidated we'd be, if He just showed Himself as He really is. Okay, then, the Temple Veil which represents the Holy of Holies being Sacred, is also the veil which separates God and man, due to that Holiness. So the One Born to Tear that Veil from Top (as God) to Bottom (as Man) will come together, l'moedth, in time and place and space. And an angel acting like a star in order to be a travel guide for some really positive guys (Matthew 2:9, Greek), plus some old forgotten prophecies will guide them to Him. Lest, they turn and be healed. Lest, they turn and be frightened of a Lamb.

By the time He did come, the world had been given 1000 years' advance notice on His Birth Year. They had been given thousand years' advance notice on the Flood, but didn't listen. The one who makes a nest ("Kenan") sires Praise ("Mahalal"); who sires Descent-of-civilization ("Jared"); who sires Dedicated-to-God ("Enoch"); who sires When-he-dies-destruction-comes ("Methusaleh"): the guy whose death date is the Flood's date. Yeah, this long line of oddly-named guys; their names were their missions. But no one listened. So the doomsday guy sires Power-Man ("Lamech", wry play on how angelic or human power count for nothing, compared to God); who sires he-who-will-give-us-rest: "Noah". Who built a boxy boat while everyone else laughed. Until they drowned.

It wasn't as if God didn't establish a pattern, huh. But so have we humans. So, past is prologue: we won't hear Him when He actually Arrives As Promised, yet again.

So notice: the precedence for the Rapture, is Voting. They didn't know for the longest time, when it would be time to vote. But when God finally gave them 1000 years' notice, updated in 538 BC and 521 BC (to Zerubbabel, Haggai 2) — no one cared. So even if we knew when the Rapture would occur — and we can't, because our contract is a Body Promise, not a time promise — even if we knew when, we'd still screw it up. Mankind never changes. Thank God He won't change, Hebrews 13:8!


"Jesus of Nazareth", a 1970's mini-series by Franco Zeferelli, covers the politico-religious struggle resulting from the Lord's First Advent in Israel. But even that movie portrayal, light-years superior to the typical syrup pandered as His Life, soft-peddled the real message: This Promise is of a World Ruler Who Is Also The Only God. Who Comes To Pay For The Sins Of All Mankind. Who Then Comes Back, to End The World, Killing Millions All By Himself. So: Believe In Him For That 'Rescue', And You Live With Him Forever. Don't, and You'll Burn Forever. Nerd note: "save" and "salvation" words in English Bibles really first mean "rescue", "deliverance", in the Bible's original languages. And of course not all verses with 'rescue' refer to salvation, we still need to be rescued by things post-salvation, including our own style of thinking which is by default legalistic, and if not, the world subconsciously trains you to be legalistic by Satan's design.

No one can be neutral to such a prophecy; no one can fuzz over the prophecy, since it's in nearly every verse of the Old Testament, and had lots of 'press' for hundreds of years. Laugh at or loath it, fear it or fight it, love it or lose it. You'll have to do one or the other. The political significance made it impossible to be neutral. Worse, since 963 BC when David died, the year of His Coming was known.

Almost no movie producer can afford to portray the destruction promise of this prophecy, without sugaring it somehow (i.e., with senseless power-miracles and maudlin script). Zeferelli did better than most others. For This Story is not some warm-fuzzy tale, goo-goo over the Baby in the Manger, say-awwww-here. Oh no. This story is shocking. God is shocking. Believe or burn is shocking. So Messiah is Most Shocking.

So long as God is 'distant' in our minds, we are comfortable with the idea of him. The atheist has to make God not exist, for there is no amount of distance which he will find comfortable. The "om" vocal drone imitation crowd who wants god to be a collection of impersonal attributes they can tap to make themselves the next Thetans or Light Spheres (gnosticism, again) must divorce the idea of Personhood from God. But even the believer in the God of the Bible will 'distance' his belief to find comfort. Because we are innately shocked at the idea of this Holy Person Who can just zap us into oblivion with nothing more than a nanosecond's will. For we don't understand Absoluteness. We only recognize power, and we all want as much as we can get. To get comfort. For we are none of us comfortable, really. So when we write our movies about the supernatural, or about Christ, we sugar them with gooey love statements, syrup them with spectacular circus tricks. And thereby, gain that precious distance. Trouble is, the truth is intimate, never distant. And we can't take it.


The Bible's Nativity Narrative:
not shown by a literal star, since astrologers must be executed, Deuteronomy 18:20.
So rather, Announced by living angels to living shepherds,
a living angel to some living Persian priests; then by
those living Persian "magi" to comatose Jerusalem;
then by many massacres of living babies,
ordered by a dying Herod the Great,
to the rest of living Israel, due to those "magi".

So the news of His Birth, though few humans witnessed it, nonetheless spread like wildfire by means of those innocent Magi; then, through that ol' dependable gossip network of humanity. So much, that Herod ordered his troops slaughter all males below age two who were unfortunate enough to be born in towns where the Child was taken. For Herod feared civil war, if this 'messiah' remained alive (but of course Satan wanted the Christ child eradicated as well — through the power of demon thought influence this 'idea' was amplified to Herod). Which of course served to spread the news even further, faster, and deeper. Think about that fact for a minute. How great must have been the interest, that such news could travel throughout the world in just a couple of years? And it did traverse the world: for no leader sets about to massacre babies unless he has a worry over foreign domination. Domestically, it's political suicide to do such a thing — oriental despot, or no. So the only way he can justify it is by saying some foreign intrigue over this Messiah rumor warranted it. But notice also, that by making this claim, by ordering his troops to kill babies from Bethlehem up to Nazareth — he himself contributes to the fast spread of the news, worldwide! For now, a king is involved, seeking to kill another — and prophesied (!) — King! For this kind of event shocks people wherever they are; wherever they go, they will tell this story. We all salivate over disaster stories.

Look how easily he can make the claim of foreign domination, considering these were Persians: Oh, those Magi were spies sent from Persia, seeking a marital or martial alliance with the no-one-knows-where-He-is, Son of David. They were trying to stir up support for him here, pretending some miracle 'star'! We found who supported this lie, and since they wouldn't confess which child it was, well we had to resort to drastic measures. For the sake of all Israel. not at all hard to believe, since Persia was the mortal enemy of Rome, and long had exercised varying degrees of suzerainty over Israel, ever since Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, in the 500's BC. To think there would be support for Persian rule rather than Rome's wasn't at all farfetched, either: were it not for the Persians, the Second Temple and Jerusalem wouldn't have been built (see books of Ezra, then Esther, then Nehemiah), all fulfilling Daniel 9:25's timeline. Many Jews then lived in Babylon and Persia, and many still do. All Persia would have long known the forecast year of Messiah's birth because Daniel was the highest official in the Empire under Nebuchadnezzar and later, Cyrus. Future Persian kings appointed Jews as their senior officials. So it's no surprise that magi — who specialized in lots of 'wisdom' forecasting — would run around Jerusalem wondering where this prophesied King was located.

Look at the difficulty: the Jews are caught in the middle. They have always been caught in the middle. As a middleman nation much like Switzerland, they have survived on diplomacy and playing the rivals off each other. It's the only way for a small nation to survive, at any time. So here are these Persian officials, who however naive, are still highly-ranked. What are they doing inquiring about what they have to know, is the Messiah prophecy? At a time when Herod himself was king? The Jews didn't like Herod, everyone knew that. Sure, these Persians demonstrated themselves to be really naïve — but not so naïve, are their superiors back home. See the dilemma: now if the Jews show too much interest in a Messiah, Rome will see that as an attempt to ally with Persia, since this official delegation has just arrived — well, what's to stop Rome from running over Judea, just squashing it? By contrast, what's to stop Persia from running over Judea? Either way, it's a slaughter of Israel. Better to slaughter babies, than to have the whole nation be slaughtered by one of the two sides. Israel is in a political vice grip. It's a real problem, that these Persian officials are expressing positive attitude toward Israel's prophesied King. If Herod doesn't repudiate them, if he doesn't repudiate Messiah, Rome will surely intervene.

Much has been made of the fact Herod ("the Great") was bloodthirsty even within his own family, as if to explain this baby atrocity as a personal motivation of his; and in fact, on both sides of the family there was a long train of killing off rivals which dated back almost 200 years prior, to the origin of the once-noble Maccabees (Herod's wife was the daughter of the last great Maccabean king, who maybe was also his cousin). For, the whole reason why Rome got control over Judea at the time (well, finally after the Battle of Actium), was due to this very tangled relationship between the Herods and the Maccabees (AKA Asmoneans or Hasmoneans). Rome was dragged into what had been a simmering struggle between Egypt and Syria, charmed by Herod's father (and no doubt, the promise of much travel-tax revenue); when Rome finally succeeded in winning against the other (backed by eastern potentates) factions, Octavian (later called Augustus, Caesar) had appointed Herod king of Judea; and the latter spent a bloodthirsty four years quelling intense Jewish opposition to him, finally settling himself down in 37 BC. So, you can understand why this Herod would be fairly nervous about rivals a scant 33 years later: some of the worst of whom, were in his own family. He nearly killed off all of them, including his own wife. He knew quite well Augustus only wanted him there as a buffer between Persia and Rome: kinda like the Eastern bloc countries were, between Russia and Germany, from the time of Catherine the Great, onward.

But brutal people are often quite pragmatic — and no king sets about to murder potential taxpayers, without a very strong reason. For in those days (and probably still today, somewhere), Rulers commonly must kill (or at least sequester) rival royal children: for people who are not children, can use them to cause trouble — witness the history of (the later) Europe, and especially France. Even in our day 2000 years later we can surely understand, since the same phenomenon kicked off our Y2K (which really began 2001): "9/11 September 11 attacks". The terrorists are still active in the US, around the world, and now especially in Iraq and Palestine: trying to blow up rivals (i.e., those brave Iraqis running for office in the January 2005 elections). When a significant power threat is perceived, violence is often used. It's a calculated move, usually a counterproductive move (it backfires), but humankind just hankers after what seems like a "quick fix". See, the trouble in the Middle East today has always been going on. Geography, politics and tribal rivalry are the real story behind that trouble, not the issues voiced in the evening's news. Deeper still, The Trouble Over Messiah Is The Foundational Reason: remember, Satan & Co. have a vested stake in preventing Messiah, and in persecuting all who believe in Him and more importantly to snuff the truth: look at how the Bible's original language texts constantly come under attack in different ways.

So sometime just after Chanukah 4 BC, Herod the Great was thinking, yeah! Those Magi didn't go to Bethlehem Ephrata! So the Child must be there! But look! They then turn north, and just go back to Persia, snubbing my courteous request! So many towns they visited on their way home! All the way up to Nazareth! What if they somehow snatched the Child in Bethlehem — no, had it delivered to them — and then left with it? What if they moved the Child north, secretly in someone's care? Yeah! They cannot be the innocents they seemed! Yeah! The East could never be conquered by Rome — maybe they sought alliances with the Promised Royal Family (where oh where was the Davidic line these days?) — Yeah! there's nothing more powerful than Religious Motivation! — so they'll build forces, overrun Judea, monopolize, get rich and attack Rome's economy! What then could Caesar do, since Rome's army has never been able to defeat Persia? Judea is prime territory, linking all trade routes! That's it! They plan to conquer SPQR via this Messiah! And I'm the buffer territory? Maybe I should send emissaries. No, it's too late, I've already allied with Rome; I'll be beheaded if they conquer Judea, the Jews hate me! Yeah! To defend the Land... Kill all the newborns... no, all those up to 2 years of age, when they stop suckling, since you can't tell baby age earlier, and it will take time to find them all! Now Now Now! Franco Zeferelli had Peter Ustinov play Herod the Great in that scene in 'Jesus of Nazereth': fabulous way to help us see the real cause for that order to slaughter babies. Which from Bible's deft "ramah" labelling, tells us happened at least partly from Bethlehem in the south, going 120 miles north in a relay — to Nazareth.

For, back circa 4 BC, grappling with a huge worldwide influx of people seeking this Messiah, never sure who were spies or insurgents among them, Herod needed to show brutality, 'strength'; he was not particularly beloved, amiable and attractive though he was, since he was not Jewish. So, he thought he'd bought some time, not knowing his own time on this earth was just ending. Maybe he feared Rome's reaction, since "Messiah" was the heart of Judaic hopes, the Promised One, the Sevened One. Whatever his reason, and of course Satan & Co. had a lot to do with the motivation, Herod felt he had to do this brutal thing. It didn't work, of course. The Baby got to Egypt. Never trust in man's ideas, but in God's. By the way, it was this Herod, who rebuilt that second (Zerubbabel's) Temple, and at great expense. Trying to ingratiate himself. His sons would continue that project, finally finishing the rebuilding in 64 AD. Right in time for the siege of Jerusalem to begin, and by 70 AD all that hard work would be burnt to cinders.

Soon after his baby-slaughter orders, this Herod died a bitter man, but not before also signing away death warrants on most of his family and other rivals. So his throne became so contested, Rome won't appoint a new King of Judea; but rather, cunningly uses the factions to negotiate down divided territories; so after much intra-family wrangling, things settle down; the 'sons' don't get the same status as the father. I know the traditional accounting for Herod's death is 4 BC. It was maybe only four months between His Birth and Herod's death; Christ was actually born on 25 Chislev 4 BC, by God's Accounting System — so if Herod died near Passover like so many contend, that's at the beginning of 3 BC (Chislev is the ninth month, Adar the twelfth, Nisan = Passover, the first). Some scholars use the two-year Herodian assessment in Matthew 2:16 as if it were retroactive rather than proactive, forgetting that Herod would have to add for the future time it would take to hunt down all the children. So to back-date Christ's birth by assuming two years — i.e., that the magi came to Jerusalem two years later — well, the text doesn't support that idea. Clearly Herod didn't achieve all the killing by his death; other people would have hidden their children too, once the killing began. Also, there are an average of two solar eclipses per year. It was also common Roman superstition to assign (or invent) astronomical events to ruler beginnings and endings, so how can you trust any claim of eclipses. See how Suetonius writes.

The family of the Herods — attractive schemers and usurpers, really, makes one think of the Merovingians — were always at war with each other, too; and now the intra-family wars become even worse.

For this reason, Herod's second son by a third woman, a Samaritan — also named Herod, this one "Antipas" — married his half-sister Herodias; who, through his father's Hasmonean wife, was herself a Jewish Royal Princess (though not from the tribe of Judah); Herod did this in order to legitimize his Roman-appointed rule, tainted further as it was by his father's brutality — but as well, to secure greater claim for himself against his own brothers. Problem was, he himself divorced his first wife, and then had married Herodias via her divorcing her previous husband — his own half-brother Philip! No soap opera on TV today, can rival this convoluted story of the Hasmoneans and the Herods! Both tumultuous bloodlines, married again! BibleWorks Dictionary (Easton's?) says Herodias was Herod the Great's daughter by Mariamne, but Encarta says she was Herod's granddaughter, and sister of Herod Agrippa I. You decide.

During this time, almost three decades then pass: and no one sees this Messiah! So imagine the simmering civil war bubbling in Israel: at one 'end' you had the brutal melodramas with the Herods; money and approbation accompanied those who favored the right faction. At the other end, was this loud, politically-incorrect, and hence popular promised herald of Messiah, John the Baptist. For he'd denounced Herod for marrying his half-sister, a divorcée to boot. That made for the civil unrest. For John had become popular, as he was the sole link to the Still-Unseen Messiah. No one could be neutral.

Choose: no seen Messiah, but instead a seen scroungy guy whose lifestyle no one would want; or, a seen Herod, who loved to throw his money around to win popularity. So the people had two scandalous choices: 1), turn against John the Baptist, or 2) turn against Herod. It was that stark, that simple. Brew for a civil war, indeed!

John was a herald foretold, end of Malachi, so he talks like Malachi predicted, to make clear who he was. His birth was also prophesied in Malachi (toward the end): that was how people were to know of Messiah's presence, as well. John's heraldic role was to prepare the people for Messiah's Announcement of Kingship: by Voting for Him. "Voting" meant believing in Messiah for one's salvation, just as Moses and even Abram had done (i.e., Genesis 15:6, Deuteronomy 6:4). For, the Kingdom was of heaven, not earth. Everyone knew those prophecies. Everyone was abuzz with those prophecies.

When you read Luke 1, you realize that since John's father was miraculously able to speak only by choosing a first name which was politically-incorrect, you know much. From that day forward, everyone knew John's role, prophecy or no prophecy. So for the first 20-some years he lived, people came from miles around to hear him. What made John particularly egregious, was the fact he was a legitimate Levitical priest at a time when many serving in Temple were not legitimate. Yet he snubs Temple service? Under the Law, that's a bad thing. So if he's popular, well that's a big advertisement that the priesthood is so corrupt, that even God is snubbing Temple service. If you were in the Sanhedrin, house of all the bloodline records, you would find this snubbing by John most troubling. For under the Law, a Levitical priest does have the right to teach and minister. John was just such a priest, but garbed in Elijah-style roughness. Powerful weapon for massing support. That wasn't John's motive — but the Sanhedrin would think it was.

So by the time John makes his politically- and religiously-incorrect grand national appearance dressed like Elijah in the fifteenth year of Tiberius (26 AD), he'd not need any introduction to Israel. John was the only living evidence of Messiah anyone knew. So no one was neutral to him, and no one didn't know who he was. Tiberius' reign had two phases; the first began before Augustus died, and then Tiberius ruled on his own. So, depending on how you accounted that beginning date, you'd derive an early or later AD value for "fifteenth year of Tiberius". Bible dates go by the time the person first became king, irrespective of any co-regencies. That's why there's so much confusion over 1 Kings 6:1, since that is an exception (dating from David's death out of the clear blue sky, hence the added clause of 480 years, thereby proving it was 3 years after David's death). So this "fifteenth year" is an exception here, too. So I'm following that convention, since it's the Bible which says it was the fifteenth year of Tiberius. 11 AD, his first year, while Augustus still lives, + 15 = 26; but if you count the same year, then it would be 25 AD. not sure which of the two it is, but it would be 26 AD at latest. That was the year Pilate first became governor. Mommsen may also uses 11 AD for Tiberius' commencement of rule, according to one of my Bible dictionaries.

So, people in those days also engaged in the (originally Greek) custom of "baptism", a type of graduation ceremony originating with Alexander's Hoplites. The Hoplites went through a 'baptism' when they were graduated from their bootcamps: they each received a sword, dipped it in pig's blood for luck in battle, whooped their war cry and entered the ranks. That was Βαπτισμός. Which, in reference to the Kingdom, was a believing in, and hence voting for The Messiah: so, to depict that, one dipped down in the water; then, coming up out of the water signified being in that Kingdom. So "Baptism" had, therefore, a dual significance of salvation, and entrance into the Promise. See Isaiah 53 through Isaiah 61: just as He would be immersed in our sins, so we got immersed in Him (see also Romans 6). So one "came to the waters" like Isaiah counselled in Isaiah 55, see. It was a demonstration of belief, not the belief itself; and everyone knew it was the belief which God used to make one saved, even as He had done for Abram and Moses. Thus they demonstrated they knew they'd obtained the permanent cleansing of salvation, the permanent status of salvation in His Kingdom. But that was all they knew about the Kingdom. For, Messiah hadn't yet presented Himself.

John, cousin to the Christ, was six months older than His Savior, was the "Elijah" everyone waited for; he lived an ascetic life, in the style of a prophet being ostracized. Which he was, because what he taught, few wanted, the Sanhedrin hated, and Herod — though intrigued by this man's teachings — couldn't politically tolerate a man who told the world their tetrarch married against the Law. John wasn't advertising Herod's sin to get him in trouble, but to save him: some of the details John had broadcast, no one but God could know. God gives the Gospel in myriads of ways, and all of them don't feel good, lest you believe for the feel-good. What, should feeling become god? How fair is that?

Again, God isn't dog; He doesn't perform to expectations. Instead of seeing Messiah (Who by the way needed much solitude, as King-in-Training), the people saw... John. Scrawny, maybe muscular, who knows — wearing camel's hair tunics and eating grasshoppers with honey (tweaking the Law, ok?) our herald isn't exactly what fits in with the religious crowd. Neither were those Luke 2 shepherds, who weren't even allowed to go into the Temple — never mind, that their sole job was to pasture the only kind of lambs the Temple could use for sacrifice! But the angels went to them; but the Holy Spirit endued John (= πίμπλημι, a Greek word which is not πληρόω, so less than the Filling of the Spirit, look it up). Worse, God advertised His Son via some distant priests who He just had to know would rile up political concern since they were Persian, for crying out loud. Who then turned and were healed by an angel acting like a star. As a result of their visit to Honor that Son's Birth, maybe hundreds of babies, died. God foreknew all that, and did nothing to stop it. Wouldn't let those priests even go back the same way they came; thus making their visit look like it had power-grabbing motives to an already suspicious and apoplectic, Herod the Great: what, did they secretly arrange a marriage between this just-born King of Israel, and one of their princesses? Herod would surely suspect these priests of such motives. It was, after all, the normal practice: even, his own.

What God does, is cause trouble. He caused political trouble and many children's deaths, in order to birth Israel at the Exodus; so here He does it again, only this time Jewish babies die. Antiochus IV Epiphanes had done the same thing about 164 years prior, when the Jews refused to give him pigs to sacrifice in the Temple. So, God does it Himself: sacrificing babies, just because He births Messiah. Nor does He stop there. He keeps on causing trouble for those who believe in Him, by sending them a scruffy prophet who talked about Messiah being alive, rather than by sending them Messiah. Time and again, God does what we consider wrong, late, slow, bad, ineffectual. Like Satan in Matthew 4, we are flummoxed at God's Choices. So, then, what do we choose? Do we look beneath the surface of our puny expectations and ask why God does a thing? Do we ever stop to think about what all those Gospel verses are telling us about these uproarious times, and the Person Who lived then? Oh, we can practically repeat the facts by heart! Yet think about their meanings, not at all. For what movie yet made, brings out How Much Immediate Worldwide Trouble This Birth Caused, and on purpose, too! For that is always the issue, in the life: "what think ye of Christ?" (Matthew 22:42.)

There's a whole lot of Bible-bashing which is rationalized based on the fact Bible is silent about the first 30 years of Christ. No homework! For you don't announce yourself as king, until age 30. You couldn't serve in Temple until that age, and Christ has Two Kingships, one of which is King-Priest kata Melchizedek, antedating Israel. A king must train, before claiming rule. So the years are 'silent', because it's illegal for Him to announce Himself, prior. David was crowned when he was 30, not before. Samuel had anointed the lad when he was a teenager. But then nothing happened. Maybe 15 or more years passed between David's anointing and his kingship. You don't hear anything much about his years then, either. Because, he's too young. It's a ponderable question how many knew who He was, during those years. Did John meet and talk with Him? John's reaction to Him when He comes to the River to be baptized that first time looks like John knew who He was, but didn't actually believe He was God — so maybe not the Messiah — until John heard God testify of Him. So maybe that reaction typifies what people at large knew. For the shepherds were charged with saying Messiah was born when He was born, and they knew Him directly, being present within a day or two of His Birth. They would know His Name. So maybe people did know, furtively going to Nazareth during the ensuing years, to be nearby — but laid low. Because, it really was up to Him whether He Himself would Vote to Be Messiah. God would not coerce.

So to choose between popularity politically, or ostracism, was the issue for a Whole Generation Of People Who Did not See Messiah Himself. Yet, people came from miles around to hear John, to be baptized in the River Jordan, a ceremony long popular for illustrating graduation. So it was a great way to illustrate self being saved by the Water of the Gospel, the Official Good News of Salvation. So a lot of people were dipping down in the River. But no one was seeing the Messiah.

Those people visiting John at the Jordan, and many ever since, simply dipped down in the River, believing in Him. So they entered God's (i.e., Old Testament) System. Notice what they did not do. They didn't dip into jealousy over His Being Rich. They didn't dip into guilt over their being poor and needy. So, they didn't dip into politics. They didn't dip into doubts about God's Sanity, that He'd not show Messiah. They didn't dip into doubts about God's Righteousness, that He'd allow many babies to be massacred on account of the political needs of a king, even if the king's goal never got met because he died. They dipped into belief that What God is, they wanted to know forever. They drank that hope of Him, vile sinner or no — it didn't matter to God what they were, so it didn't matter to them how He seemed. Relationship, not religion, not politics, not goodies. Just Christ.

Of course God didn't let those babies get destroyed for no purpose: He Saved Them For Heaven That Way. For, no one who is incapable of understanding and refusing the Gospel, can die and escape Heaven. You have to be "auto-blotted" from of the Book of Life via conscious Lifelong Unbelief. So, if your life wasn't long enough, guess what? You went to Heaven. Unlimited Atonement on the Cross, baby. For every baby. And every adult. Still, who are we, compared to God? Does He not own everything? Wouldn't it be wrong if He didn't have the right to exercise His Choices over all of what He owns? How would our own ownerships have any juridical basis, if this First Rule of Ownership, wasn't God's Rights? The one who is positive to God, thinks that way. The one negative, doesn't. Positive or negative, we all are unworthy, so those positive have nothing over those negative. So God uses His Unexpected Nature in a way which strips out all the barnacles, so it's a pure question: do you want Him, or not? Love, is like that: un-sauced.

Being un-sauced, the Truth is a starkly confrontational choice: to choose Messiah, is not merely to choose versus the nice alternatives; but rather, since God always causes trouble for His creation — to choose to get trouble, if you choose Him. Messiah was born for trouble: troubled times, end of the world, destruction of the people, and especially, His Own Death on a Cross. He knew that from the moment He was born, Hebrews 10:5 (spoken supernaturally from the feeding trough, AKA "manger", French verb for "to eat"). So we get trouble as a result of believing in Him: he who would follow Me must take up his own cross, see. So all these people didn't take up politics, they took up crosses, when they believed in Him. It was ever thus: read Hebrews 11. So the un-sauced truth is, a rough-hewn cross with plenty of splinters awaits the one who believes in Him. So it can never be said, á la Job 1:9-11, that you love God for His Goodies. Even as, He doesn't love you, for yours. Even as, He Makes You Into A Diamond from your own doo-doo nature, if you learn His Son's Thinking. Then, you are full of goodies, anyway. Σύνεσις and σταυρός, comprehension and cross, together eaten, Isaiah 52:13 and Isaiah 52:14, not just one or the other. Un-sauced.

The worst persecution is not overt, but covert. The drip drip drip of doubts, of wanting to be comfortable, wanting to fit in with one's fellows — that's the devastating kind of persecution. The 'cross' is also, learning Him Whose Very Beauty makes the self feel even smaller, still. Even uglier, still. And, since per 2 Corinthians 5:21 we get the very Righteousness of God that first nanosecond we believe in Christ — for the Cross is an Exchange of sins for that Righteousness — we are, the moment born from above, totally at odds with ourselves. What was once acceptable, is now, well somehow unsatisfying. That drip drip drip over the years wears one out. So the flashy persecutions which make mouths cheer in the movies — aren't the worst ones, by far. The sheer differential between Godness and our puniness. That's the torture. That's what He saves us from. And that's what we go through, that's our cross: a lifetime of tortured waiting to be as good as our Divine Standards from Doctrine, for Him! (Romans 8:11ff, last half of 1 Corinthians 15.)

This torture plays quietly. That is why it's so intolerable. There's a growing, quiet separation-of-thinking between the worldly thinking you have, and the growing Truth you're getting in God's System. This growing, silent, deadly separation quietly grates. Like sand developing into a pearl, you'll find yourself progressively and yet quietly irritated all the time. For, you are growing out of your attachments to things human, and growing quietly growing into new attachments toward things spiritual. Paul deftly explains this quiet transmutation and its devastating internal separation, in Romans 6-8. That's the true cross. not the flashy one. Christ would have to suffer way more before the Cross, to be able to endure the Cross. Your training must always be harder than the combat, in order for you to do well in combat. So it is, for us. Playing drip drip drip relentlessly. And 99.9% of us, won't endure it. We choose the dry world, instead of the drip drip drip of Doctrine in our spiritual veins.

So all during this explosive Messiah's alive (!) period — during these 30 years (!) The Messiah Himself, being Unseen — many lives were ruined or saved, all over the world, not merely in Judea. As usual, God 'delayed' His revelation to give every soul enough chance to vote, and no chads, either: sans influence of His Presence. Just as He had done, during that first unofficial interregnum, when He transitioned out, King Saul (1 Samuel 15:27-29). Again, because the issue is relationship with God, not His Goodies (i.e., His Attractiveness). If you'll recall, it wasn't David who revolted or advertised he'd been anointed king; but rather, it was Saul who periodically would take his whole army to seek David's death; naturally, people in Israel gradually began to vote for one or the other. So here during the last 'interregnum', waiting for Messiah to show Himself, people voted between the politicos they saw, and the Promised One they didn't see — again.

Thus many could — and did — think God abandoned them; yet many more, very far away, thus had the chance to come to Jerusalem, from anywhere in the world. But in Judea proper, the people remained oppressed; writhing, they lived under a hated non-Jewish ruler; oh, God abandoned them — for where was this Messiah when we need Him most?

No wonder Israel was a seething cauldron of hope, hatred, and fear. The ruling elites became very concerned about Rome just stamping its foot down and destroying the people like Nebuchadnezzar had. Especially, since from the Daniel timeline, John's preaching exactly mirrored timeline components relating to "first" and "last", Alpha and Omega! For John's ministry was a composite of Elijah, but also Jeremiah: and most of all, of Samuel.

Oh, these many confluences of history, prophecies melding together, messages all discomfiting! All the elites could do, was pray this 'Messiah' never actually showed up! For this time wasn't like the others. This time, there was no one going up to John and saying, "I am he". So this time, unlike all the others, it was believable. No one promoting himself. The herald, not promoting himself nor accepting approbation, gifts, etc., the way charlatans do. So this time it was um... maybe real?

What makes it so ruddy difficult, is the timing. Years from Adam, everyone knew. Years from Adam in 1050-year increments told you exactly when the world would end. And here's this Messiah thingy? At the very time it should be? Waving it off would be easier if the confluence of time were out-of-sync. But it wasn't. And it was too easy to count from Adam. Year 1, when he fell. Year 4103, when Messiah comes. At this point, it's something like Year 4104-32, and everything's right on track. Scary.

For, the Coming of Messiah is the heart of Judaism, depicted as it was by those sacrifices (i.e., the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world) and above all, the Ark. Gold = Deity; Wood = Humanity and curse of receiving our sins; the sins, of course, were represented by what was being preserved in that Ark — Aaron's rod that budded, the broken tablets. Exact representation of how sins would be paid for, too: imputed to Him and judged, just as Isaiah 53 explained in excruciating, horrific detail. (To this day, you will only find Isaiah 53 euphemistically translated.) Of course, by the time God birthed Him, only the Petra remained, in the unseen Holy of Holies. And now it was all coming true?!

And let us not forget, Passover is the Jewish Freedom Feast, the first of the year, and it's all about His Coming and paying for sins. Lamb slain, eaten depicts His Paying and our Believing, the most famous metaphorical structure in the Old Testament. After which salvation, one was to train: to grow up in the Law, so that The Nation Could Inherit A National Priestly Status, versus the temporary lineal one they then had. For, Israel was to be the world's Adjunctive Ruler for Messiah, representing Him to a lost and dying world. All that, was also foremost in their prophecies: the 1000-year rule of Messiah, with Israel as His Home. Potent stuff, salvation and Headship. Bride of Christ was first Israel's conditionally-covenanted role. Based on, them keeping the Law, which was Based On The Passover. For the Passover, like all God's Holidays, are little prophecy maps. Which is why God was so punctiliar: the repetition and the rules helped you remember the future. So that when it happened in time, you could recognize it and not wig out. Kinda like training soldiers before they go into battle, so they can still think during it, so also, Israel's holidays. God always tells you everything upfront. So you can train to endure it when it occurs.

In the Old Testament, you have so many multi-layered metaphors, it's easy to gloss over them when reading Bible. Pictorial depiction enables man to learn more quickly, since he can hear and see and touch. Babies learn better with finger painting; if you just tell them what finger painting does, they'll never learn it. Same, here. But once an adult, the richness of the pictorial explodes into a bazillion 'spokes' of understanding and reasoning. So for the adult, Passover itself depicted the saving of the world, in miniature: for upwards of four million non-Jews accompanied the Jews out of Egypt. And, being now Jewish by belief (like Abraham, a true fathering, see Romans 4,9, Genesis 15:6), they quickly intermarried and became Jewish by blood, too. So deft an analogy, to how Messiah would spread His Wings (for He is God, Deuteronomy 32-33) over all the world, and we could nest in His pinions.

So the Coming of Messiah in the early AD's represented the coming deliverance of the world. But first He would have to pay; then, because He's Jewish, everyone would hate His People, even as others mostly had. So Tribulation preceded Triumph. Every Jew knew that, ever since the first Passover promise to Abram, way back in Genesis 15:13 first your sons will be enslaved for 400 years, and then I will bring them out to the Land I have promised you. So it would also be for the world — and now, the time for deliverance for the entire world was at hand?!

See: you can't be neutral, no matter where you are in the world. This story is too political, too epic, too apocalyptic, to ignore. Laugh at it or loathe it or love it, you'll have to do 'something'. And, everyone did.

Israel's geography made all this upsetting prophetic confluence a global concern, not merely a local one. Kinda like today, though not due to oil needs, the Middle East was vital for the world's trade. Very much like the role Chicago and Houston have, in the United States. Mid-point. So trade routes which skirted the coast of every landmass on planet Earth, thousands of years old — every one, went through Israel. Israel is the most strategically-placed nation on earth, bridging three continents, and equipped to be accessed on either side due to the unique shape of (what we call) the Saudi Peninsula. So travel could be cut in half by someone coming to Israel, then embarking to any point on the compass, next. People from all over the world incessantly moved through and in Israel, usually on their way to somewhere else. It was the waystation of the world. It still is. So of course those living there made their living through travel-related services, like middlemen, banking, security/policing, etc. Living from other people's production, marketing that production — just as God had always promised them. Just like Grace — you get something from Someone Else's, Work.

Meanwhile, the travel itself would prove profitable, for one stopped every 20 miles or so to eat, get news, etc. Since this was a time of big empires (Rome, Persia, China, etc), there was a fair amount of safety, and water travel allowed faster getaways from any onshore dangers, as well. The nomadic lifestyle is far more efficient and safer, than if one stays put: for one thing, sewage and garbage have no time to build up, so health is better served by constant movement, as well. It was the normal and even preferred pattern, to be moving all the time. You were harder to attack, you travelled in style, you travelled at a leisurely pace, with a large retinue, along familiar routes with familiar faces every place you stopped. Perpetual vacation, in a way. Those who served the many nomadic traders, stayed put.

Think of a network of relay posts dotted along every coastline in the world, and it shouldn't be too hard to see how quickly news can spread. So Israel was the Center of Commerce: it took almost no time for news of this Messiah, to spread around the globe. People came from all over the world to hear Him (namely, Acts 2). It's the whole world, not just the Mediterranean area, which learned of Him. (Look up the Clovis and pre-Clovis anthropological theories, plus Thor Hyderal's work, if you are skeptical about ancient travel.)

Trade and talk go together. People like people, and people like to compete with people. Everyone loves a good story. So imagine how popular it was to tell this story, which is why John was so popular: the Promised 'Elijah' to herald His Arrival was at the Jordan, proclaiming His imminent arrival; and by the way, The World Is Ending as a result, so you can quit this dusty life and go to heaven soon. Who wouldn't listen to such a story? How could such a story not become popular, among the hopeless, the hurting? So how could such a story not become political?

So any 'messiah', real or fake can be used by the clever to foment outside alliances, to cause trouble. In the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth", Antipas (Christopher Plummer) explains this problem to John the Baptist (Michael York). The larger reality that short jail scene depicted, cannot be overdone. Again, the strategic geographic position of Israel forever makes it the most fought-over piece of territory in history, so the threat of invasion or outside-sponsored civil war (much like in Iraq today), was quite a threat, even in normal times. But these weren't normal times; and oddly, no one was coming forward to claim David's Crown. The real Messiah wouldn't be seeking political power, everyone knew that. He must finish as Lamb first. So, since no one is claiming David's crown, is the Real Messiah, really on earth now? even the elites, wondered.

"Sanhedrin" was the name of the juridical body in charge of running Israel. Back when Moses was first made leader of Israel, the job proved too much for him, so Jethro (his father-in-law) recommended he appoint 70 "elders" to assist in adjudicating the law. For the Law was divided civilly, too: it was a combination of spiritual and secular provisions (names for the divisions are: ἐντολή, δικαιώματα (the spiritual rules), and κρίματα). So these 70 men came to be known as the Sanhedrin. They were the most-trained-in-law among Israel. So: among them were those thirsty for power, and those thirsty for the Kingdom of God. The former obviously didn't like the latter. So when John the Baptist came, it galvanized the divisions within the Sanhedrin, so the power-thirsty were looking for a way to arrest him. But couldn't get one, since they couldn't control those thirsty for the Kingdom. Movies don't bring out the split, but should. We are all human. It's just the Jewish flavor of wanting power, which shows up in this history. But it could be any flavor. Negative or positive, any human is some of both. But God loves us all.

So imagine the reaction once He announces Himself: by quoting, of all things, Isaiah 61:1! The Pardon of the Year of Jubilee only belongs to Messiah, and only Messiah can claim it! So you can understand (i.e., John 5ff, Luke 4): all Israel roiled! The political powder keg was real, with Messiah born exactly 1000 years after David became king! And announces Himself at exactly the same age as David had been, when David first became King of Hebron! Yes, the Savior has Really Arrived, and Israel will be its own kingdom, at last!

Again: who can be neutral? Either this now Seen Messiah was a charlatan like so many others — but um, everyone could prove His Birthdate, since He really was the Firstborn of David (the Sanhedrin would later use that proof to get Him crucified, even). Or, He really? Isthe Messiah. Oops. Now too close for comfort, not nicely distant, not some ephemeral idea one sighs over. Confrontation, now. The long hoping or hating now has a Face: His.

In those times, people loved to talk about their faith just as much as any other popular topic. God wasn't a pariah of common society, then. Understand that Scripture was very well-known, even among the smallest brains in the Land, and in a good bit of the world — again, owing to the commonness of travel — and this Scripture about Messiah was so well known, crowds were everywhere looking, straining for news of Him. Especially, since "1000" is also the promised 1000-Year reign of Messiah! Will it begin now? people wondered — kinda like how people drool over the idea of the Rapture, today. Wow: God sure keeps a tight watch on His l'moedths!

David's dates were too well known. One can 'construe' prophecy and claim it's merely an 'interpretation'. But math isn't an interpretation. 1 + 1 = 2, never 3. Since everyone counted from David, they'd know 1000 years from his kingship, was Messiah's Birth. If they didn't know when He was born, they sure knew it not long afterwards, for between the shepherds and those chatty magi, the news was everywhere. That would get everyone counting. That would get everyone looking at Daniel 9:26. Many inaccurate ideas, but all can count to 1000. So many could know He'd die by 37 AD. Time must end if He doesn't arrive at this point. Time Must End if He doesn't die by that deadline. These are deadlines, and only the Real Messiah, can arrive to extend them.

Real Dates tied to Real Politics can only come from Real God Who Really Advertises His Coming to Rule. A false messiah can't manipulate time. He can manipulate verses. He can seem holy. He can seem a lot of things, but he cannot be born, announce, and be from the line of David you can prove from Temple records — child must be dedicated at the Temple when born, it's the Law. So who else could this Jesus of Nazareth, be?

What they couldn't then know, of course: that He would die for our sins in the 1000th anniversary year of that First David's retirement in 970 BC, seven years early. At that time having been, like David, (uncrowned by people, but crowned by God) King of all Israel — for 33 years, exact same number of years as David had been King over all Israel. But they sure could add up the dates when He's on the Cross!

What they could then know, but didn't analyze until after-the-fact: God sent His Son to His Deaths on the Cross on exactly the same Passover delay timing; first set aside on the real 10 Nisan; then, Sacrificed on the real 14 Nisan. Of course, to know all that, you'd have to be savvy about the Jewish calendar running four days late that year. Of course, to know all that, you'd have to be savvy about the timing of the Passover. For the Jew, that's basic kindergarten stuff, so everyone should have known, as Passion Week unfolded.

So all these l'moedths, the keeping of Time and Date and Place exactly as Previously Commanded and Assiduously Explained — all these, who could orchestrate, except Adonai Himself?

God has always been of extreme emotional value to the Jews, as indeed to many people of that part of the world. We in the West tend to be 'cold', deeming stoicism the more respectful. But in the Middle East and most of South Asia, extreme emotion is deemed the more respectful. Plus, the temperaments of people in those geographical areas (also the Southern Mediterranean) are more "joie de vivre" (zest for life), no less intellectual. So you'd have rejoicing in the streets, here. Tears. Wailing over all the waiting, is now over. Whether you even believed in Messiah as God or not, the political meaning was a kind of vindication. You can't understand Palm Sunday and the problem with Herod, Pilate, and the Zealots, if you don't understand what "Messiah" means politically. It's as big a powder-keg issue as there can be, for a people who've considered themselves punished by God for lo, these six centuries. God is Now Smiling Upon Them! It's political. We don't make enough of an issue over His Kingship and Kingdom, though the Bible stresses that fact incessantly. It's not religion: religion is against Christ, was Satan's invention. So, the religious elites were in an uproar. For, it's Political, so their power will be lost.

Again, the (by then) 565 years' advance notice meant that everyone understood Isaiah 61:1. Jubilee meant return. It was the Return to Former Status; Israel lost its Temple and its kings in 586 BC, and now The Promised One Is Here To Take Away, Israel's Long Reproach! So to hear it was pardoned now, well the wordplay on Salvation and Pardon, Redemption in the term "Jubilee" meant jubilation in the streets!

Hence it's a very emotional, tumultuous time everywhere, not just in Israel. All along every trade route the news spread faster than germs: remember the Messiah prophecies? Well, He's Finally Announced Himself! Just like King David did! To claim His Kingdom! To save the world! So the end of the world, ahishennah! Just as the prophets foretold (i.e., Isaiah 60:22)! After all, Israel hadn't had a king, since 586 BC. Remarkable thing, that. 613 years pass after that, yet no Jewish King. The bloodline remains. The members of that most-sacred bloodline, were thus long under threat by Herodian and Maccabean descendants. For the Maccabees were originally priests, so had non-royal Judah but Aaronic-priestly blood, themselves. Cashing in on that status during a period of foreign domination (Antiochus Epiphanes), the Maccabees had long ago become usurpers as kings, too. So the real Royal Family Members stayed silent, living on Nehemiah 8:10 and Lamentations 3. Imagine, then, how they felt when they hear the Heir Apparent announce He's Messiah: oh, he's causing trouble, exposing the Family! (Read John 5ff for several chapters, to see how upsetting it was.)

After all, about 200 years prior, that very exposure's what made the family go underground: Antiochus Ephiphanes tried to wipe Israel off the face of the earth! It looked for all the world like the end of the world, then: Daniel 9:27 (misread, of course) seemed to come alive, since that Greek had desecrated the Holy of Holies with a pig offering. That's how the Maccabees came into power, originally a priestly caste — but soon, claiming kingship too (so their Scripture knowledge wasn't so hot). For the next 200 years, they have influence over Palestine. Trumped, finally, by their former captives, the Herodian Idumeans (Edomites/Arabs) and Antipater's son, married one of Hyrcanus' granddaughters. Ahhh, sweet revenge, to marry the granddaughter of the man who had imprisoned one's ancestors. Ahhh, that time-honored alliance tool: marriage. Divorcing God in the process of course.

So the real Royal Family had gone underground to avoid pressure-to-marry, persecution, greed. For then as now, if you are "royal", everyone wants a piece of you. Especially, if you were of the line of David. (Just think about the Grail myths!) So back since Antiochus Epiphanes in the 160's BC, they remained low-key. It was a blessing when finally Rome took over and installed Herod, because by legitimizing one who was not Jewish, the Royal Family wouldn't be so much a threat. But they didn't advertise themselves. That's why the genealogies in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 are needed. They didn't advertise themselves, so lots of people didn't know.

See how intense the plot lines: Messiah would come when History Is Supposed To End, to proclaim Himself and pay for sin. Then, the fulfillment of the Pentecost for the Gentiles, a 50-year period corresponding to Jubilee by its end; followed by, seven years of Tribulation, at which point He'd come back again to rescue Israel from her enemies, initiate the biggest bloodbath in history, covering Israel in blood, i.e., Isaiah 63, Zechariah 14:12 event (see context from Zechariah 12 onward); and then, He'll usher in the Millennium, AKA "The Day of the Lord" — with Israel finally taking her rightful place as Queen of all the Nations. Married, to her Promised King. And Now, He's Arrived, Just As Written In A Scroll Of The Book?!

Again, you can't escape the math: year 4103 from Adam, He's born. This you could verify objectively from Temple records. So, the countdown: 4103 + 40 = 4143, the 1000th anniversary of David's death, endpoint in the Daniel 9:26 calculation and end of time anyway. So, the 'bridge' could only play if Messiah completed. Presuming He did, then 4143 + 57 years = 4200 years from Adam, when the 4th 1050 from Adam, ends. End of History, then. Beginning of Millennium, then. Because back by 4143, Messiah Purchased The Time in the same way as had previous heroes, starting with Enoch then Noah then Abraham then Moses then David (the 1000-year awards), ending with Christ, ending in the 1000th year from David's death. It's inescapable math, if you knew the calendar. Back then, they did.

So if you were Jewish, you'd be so shocked at how the prophecies are being fulfilled, you'd faint. Or, jump about wildly. If you weren't Jewish, you'd either become Jewish right then and there, if you believed — or, you'd become virulently anti- this Messiah person and His People. So the world polarized during this time. The polarization began about a generation earlier, what with His Birth Year known, people began to talk a lot about the prophecies; the Essenes themselves, started going into the wilderness to prepare — they knew Isaiah, so skip the fanfare, let's just hide out and wait for the Second Advent, hearing about the First, from afar. In short, this Birth, this Kingship was the focus of the world's attention, as illustrated by the Magi running around Jerusalem asking where He was, based on what they thought was this oddly-moving 'star'; as illustrated by, the city-wide adverse reaction to them; and only the long silence between Birth and Kingship Announcement, kept it from boiling over. But now, well He's here! Whether you believed in Him or not, now He's in everyone's 'face'.

Adverse reaction occurs when you are worried about something being true. For Israel, Messiah's Coming meant first Tribulation Before Triumph: precedent was set with Abram, Genesis 15:13. Isaiah spent four whole chapters explaining how that future would occur, in Isaiah 52-55; and now, staring everyone in the face, was the very Messiah he'd talked about, with all the events being on their doorstep; no longer in some dusty book. So they faced the prospect of everyone assembling against them, as a consequence of His Arrival.

It's really no different from the reaction to Iran or Osama bin Laden in the past. Both of them claim a world ascendancy, that the West will be crushed. Well, the prophecy of Messiah means that the world will be crushed. That theme is repeated so often in the Old Testament you can't open one of the prophetical books on any page, and not find it.

No one could afford to stay neutral, either: here's this claim of One World Ruler Who Is God Himself! Coupled with, an announcement that the whole world is about to end (can't divorce the prophecy of Messiah's Advent from the ending of the world). No one in power can afford to truly yawn at such news. So were you a satrap in Persia, a shaman in the Americas, a Caesar at Rome — you'd perk up your ears, even if you didn't believe. Civil wars come from years of unrest simmering below the surface in the common man. And here, was the common man's salvation! So think: when people get enthusiastic, they move. They do something. At least, they begin to murmur a lot. So that's going on all over the world, not just in Israel. For, this Messiah is a Worldwide Event, one that just happens to start in Israel. Brew for civil war, indeed!

The Sanhedrin well understood the potentially explosive, civil unrest: Finally, The King of Israel was on earth! Like Herod's father, the Sanhedrin faced being unseated, too — no small concern, that. But give them some credit, they were more concerned (like Herod's father), about Rome's reaction. Truest evil, see, is nearly-white in motivation. So, see it through their eyes: the historical parallel to the First David, and that long civil war which knowledge of him created — there's God causing trouble, again — was too awesome, too patent. Didn't a leader have to 'do' something about it?

Correct interpretation of His Arrival was that this time, He'd just come to Israel, get their vote, and in that process the elites would get Him executed, m'otser umimishpat luqqah, Isaiah 53:8. But the common people would treat Him as a political savior, not really getting it that He'd not go for crowns. So you'll notice, they don't arrest Him during the three years; they do know why He came. But the people's over-fondness for a political 'solution' was a grave and valid concern. Because, He really wasn't going to take political control, until 57 years after His Death.

For one characteristic the Jews have in spades, is a fierce independence — it's the flip side of their (understandably) slavish devotion to things Jewish. So there had been many messiahs, many uprisings, and one reason the Romans even installed the Sanhedrin to govern; one reason the Romans wanted a Herod as the interceding tetrarch, was to Keep These People Quiet. So the Sanhedrin, like Herod, were vitally interested in squelching all this 'messiah' talk; so in the very name of protecting the people, as well as their own power, they came to plot how to discredit, capture, and then kill Him, using Him as a scapegoat for Israel's well-known rebelliousness — to propitiate the Romans. They go completely wacko in Passion Week, acting suicidal, totally out of character. That sudden meshugge (senseless) behavior betrays a different 'hand' uppermost: Satan's.

The Jews have always been a vigorous people. Smart, talented, attractive, often more healthy than the average person: all these, are part of the Genesis 12 and 15 blessings bestowed on behalf of Abraham. (So the Arabs share in some of those traits via Ishmael and the sons of Keturah.) By now, probably most of the population of the world has at least one drop of Jewish blood, which honors Abraham, the more. But those we call "the Jews" have historically been the smartest, fiercest, most competent of people in virtually every field of endeavor. So, way back in the Lord's Day, Israel already was well known for its trading acumen, military prowess, and a wide range of other talents. Unfortunately, they were also famous for their fanatical bravery and stubbornness; accordingly the Sanhedrin were very nervous about this Messiah. It seemed very politic to propitiate the Romans with but one Jewish life, if they could 'catch' Him doing something wrong. Thus saving this important people, see. After all, He did come to die, anyway. So if He really was Messiah, they could rationalize themselves helping Him achieve his goal; if not, well then Israel was rid of another false claimant.

Moreover, world trade was threatened by any upheaval: didn't The Lord grant the Land to this people? And if this 'messiah' were not dealt with, wouldn't the whole world be adversely impacted? Compounding this concern was the fact that travelling activity was at an all-time-high during the Lord's time on earth, and a lot of it was due to Jews In Diaspora who wanted to see this Messiah. If there was massive movement to Israel, well: that would upset other countries, too. No one likes losing a taxpayer.

A similar population influx began back when Joseph was promoted to vizier of Egypt in 1916 BC. Since ancient peoples were constantly moving, they all knew much about 'foreign' lands and cultures. Trade was extremely well-developed. So back then, when famine hit other parts of the globe, "mostly Asiatic" people (per Encyclopedia Britannica) went where they knew the food was: Egypt. They poured into both Upper and Lower Egypt, looking for work so they could get food. Jacob and his family were among that number, and they are the highlighted folks in the Genesis account of that time, arriving in 1870 BC, when Jacob was 130 years old. But extra-Biblically, Egypt's history was demonstrably (and later severely) impacted by the demographic changes. Her language changed, her culture became cosmopolitan: she truly became an empire, with a wide sphere of influence. For people remember if you kindly feed them. She also became a target for those jealous of her popularity. For as a result of her feeding so many, other nations lost many taxpayers. Where the food, wasn't.

Of course, this economic-becoming-political phenomenon has recurred many times in history, making and breaking nations. The United States is the product of just such a movement: so we can tell the past from the present, which was once, merely prologue. Witness US is an essay about worldwide jealousy over the United States from WWII onward, and our extreme naiveté about our role.

So when spiritual famine is perceived, people move with hunger. And go where the spiritual food is. So other nations who lose enough of those people, become jealous. So the nation receiving such people, becomes a target. Here, a particularly lucrative target, given Israel's geography. Of course, that was how Egypt got destroyed, too: the Exodus. She didn't recover from that depopulation for well over 100 years. The spiritual hunger for a desert god of these Hebrews meant a lot of taxpayers wanted Pharaoh to let them go. And you can understand better now why he was rather reluctant to agree. So reluctant, in fact, that the "Red Sea" actually got that name by those retelling the story of how all Pharaoh's army, perished in it. Check out the etymology in Greek. Now you know why the Old Testament calls it the Sea of Reeds — because the Jews didn't call it the Red Sea — but by the time the LXX was being written, the same sea was known as "Red", owing to that much death. Awww, another fake 'contradiction' in the Bible dies.

Now the Sanhedrin, ever the lovers of men's traditions, were all too aware of the past parallels to their current situation. These events were well-known in the world, as Israel had already long been a nation others periodically hated. Their abilities, their history, their vigor — and now their Messiah? Well, that's a problem. Had no one much known of Israel's "God" and His Story, all this concern would be overblown. But He was Well Known. That in fact was the Purpose of Israel, to Teach The Goyim About Him. Which was fine, so long as this Messiah never came, so never upset the usually-cordial relationships the Jews were famous for cultivating. So sheesh: what are we gonna do, now?

The Jews had long understood their superiority. They were quite proud of it, as any review of the Gospels will show. They became rather diplomatic over the centuries, and in fact were prone to ally with other nations. For superiority invites jealousy. That's the dark side of wealth. Any kind of wealth: looks, health, money, connections, talent, you name it, if you are perceived as superior, you will be hated. Obviously true now, and always true prior. So if you are superior you learn to play it down; you learn to be diplomatic.

In a word, you learn to Compromise And Cover Up. The Royal Line of David had long laid low. The prophecy of Messiah had long been told, but the higher up you were, the more you pooh-poohed it — out of self-preservation. After all, the idea alone would threaten Rome, who well knew its content. So what Rome needed to see, as nations prior, was that you would be loyal to them. That you disbelieved the prophecy, wouldn't make anything of it, would quell the masses if they got riled up. Else, the power in question would indeed have to 'do' something if you rulers of Israel do not. See, it's a real and valid concern, the Sanhedrin had.

God always puts us in a situation where we have to choose between Compromise and Alliance: who is more important, God... or the competition? Especially, when it seems God's creating the problem in the first place (His favored ploy, ever since the Garden), well the competition looks better. True then, true now.

So all religion was threatened. not just the local ones, but all of them worldwide: for Religion Depends On Politics And Most Of All, Money. All of a sudden, a claim about God which actually makes sense gets widespread attention. People think. People talk. This time, it's not about the ho-hum sacrifices 'I' must make, but one God Freely Makes for me? Whoa. Who wouldn't sit up and take notice? What, I don't do anything but believe, and get saved? Tell that to anyone now, and you'll get a shocked look. And, deservedly so. Think, then: what must have been the widespread reaction of this news of a Savior who would pay for all sins, with the result that all you do is believe in Him, and you are forever saved (John 3, especially John 3:16, but Isaiah 53-55 tells the whole story)? All along every coast in the world, spreading like wildfire inland.

So next think of the political ramifications. If you're a witchdoctor or shaman or other teacher whose long tenure was marked by a browbeating form of religion, which all religions are — well, how do you compete, with this message? You have to persecute those who believe in it, or... you convert. And, that's what happened. It wasn't pretty. So migrations of populations increase at this point; not that you can find them anthropologically (which require large masses of hidden material, to constitute a 'find'). If you saw the tsunami destruction pictures on television, you can easily understand how after thousands of years, evidence of population migrations along coastlines would be scant or none. But you can find traces of the story being told, in language and literature. Stories morph, but like handwriting, there are telltale characteristics of origin. Kind of like how the Flood is also in the Epic of Gilgamesh (although that's more due to demonic authorship much like the Kesh temple hymn, Qur'an, or Bhagavad Gita which parodies the Bible), so you find bits and pieces of His Messiah story playing all over the world (usually, snippets in their myths, where there is no written language). Or, you can just deduce the fact, logically. not that difficult, given human nature now: free salvation, folks! Who turns down, Free? So it was still human nature, back then, to want this message. To gossip about it, whether smirking or smiling.

Bible debunkers are keen on asking the wrong questions, so they can get the answers they want, allegedly proving Bible wrong. Smart lawyers do the same thing, in courtrooms. If you ask the wrong question, you get the jury to buy the wrong question as valid, so the 'evidence' you bring in makes your wrong question, suit your argument. So the debunkers don't look at the massive shift in religion which took place in the 1st century AD, and instead attribute backwards, the religions they see as causing 'Christianity' or 'Judaism'. The truth is the other way around; and the way you can tell, is by the timing. More about this will be said later on, but here the point is, there's plenty in writing you can trace from the Cross, to prove it was the Cross, not something else, which made the other religions, change. To compete. That was also true back in 1440 BC and 586 BC, and will prove true again, in 1st century AD.

The Lord then feeds the cauldron for His Own burning: when He first shows Himself in 27 AD, He behaves so oddly. Isaiah 53:2c has some fabulous Hebrew wordplay on how odd we found Him. We expected fanfare and superficial conformings to worldly ideas of tit-for-tat, pomp, etc. He eschewed all that. So we were quite apoplectic about Him.

John, endued (not filled) with the Spirit from birth (outside the womb, in Greek: Luke 1:15 is mistranslated) — John was awestruck that His Savior would come down to be baptized as well. It was so unlike what a King should do, especially back then. For Kingship then meant, haughtiness. You weren't kingly if you were nice. You weren't kingly, if you humbled yourself. That was the absolute antithesis of royalty, even the subjects would turn away in horror if some king humbled himself (Isaiah 53:2c, again). So This One behaves in Exactly The Wrong Manner, If He Wants His Subjects To Vote For Him.

Note how what the Lord emphasizes, is His Own Obedience to Father. Not, that He is Messiah, a King worthy of all the foot licking man can do. People talk a lot about humility, but they don't get what it really means: one is so Awestruck by the Beauty of the Love Object, one Wants to Prostrate the self Forever. That's what's going on, here. David prostrated himself on Mount Moriah, maybe even on the very Rock which would become the Holy of Holies Ark Stand, back in Psalm 138:2. He was so overcome with awe, so desirous of serving Such Gorgeous God! he just had to prostrate himself (maximum sign of respect, in oriental culture).

Yet here is the Lord Himself, having the Same Attitude? Accepting the Baptism of the Cross (see Romans 6)? That's disturbing. Who would want to see the Queen of England ever grovel? Perish the thought! Yet here is the King of the Universe, and this is what He does? See, it's not that John didn't know Who He was: they were close enough cousins, that Mary visited Elizabeth, when the latter was pregnant with John, and Mary stayed until he was born. Mary may have even been like a godmother to him. But what John didn't know was how his Cousin would really choose: it was still possible, He'd say no. So to see This One bow in the water? Too much shock. Even when you know a thing, until it gets up real close, you don't know it at all, John 1:29-34. What a comfort: here he is, the Herald, and for all that even John doesn't really believe enough, until he gets the Spirit's confirmation; he knew yet didn't really know his own Cousin was Son of God, until then. It's human to doubt, no matter what spiritual gifts you have. Shock breeds denial, no matter how great you are. Greek word oida has a number of meanings, which include to understand, perceive, recognize, to acknowledge. How many times have you known someone, even intimately — but some later defining moment gives you so much insight into their character, it's as if you never knew them, prior. That's what I bet this passage means. There are a lot of meaning layers, here, one of which is that John really didn't see Him as God Himself, until that witness from the Spirit. John is now talking of His Messiahship, rather than just a cousin; he's sorta admitting his own prior, lower belief. He's admitting what the Spirit said, was a defining moment for him. I mean, haven't you yourself had a recognition about God so deep, that you count as zero, all your prior 'knowledge' of Him? Oh well. I suppose someone could make the argument that John actually didn't recognize Him physically until after the Baptizing, but I doubt it; John wouldn't have to repeat it twice in John 1:31 and 33, especially using διά τοῦτο in verse 31 — a phrase usually reserved for climactic conclusions, "For this very reason!" — if it was merely a first-time facial recognition, dove flying down like a mouse pointer, this is the Guy! Of course, most translations of verse 31 leave out the climactic διά τοῦτο, 😩. By the way, this John 1:29ff verse is spoken as a testimony of that past baptizing. So: note how the rest of John 1 after verse 29, is about belief due to seeing, versus not-seeing. Yeah, I'd bet money John 1:29-34 are John's confession of lesser belief, before the Spirit testified at the Baptism's completion. This rhetorical style depends on your knowing the previous Gospels, or you'll miss the lesson, not being able to flash back-and-forth to see the parallels. Each Gospel writer refers to what's prior Holy Writ, so don't regard the Gospels as mere re-tellings. Look for the way they are written, and read them in chronological order: Matthew, then Luke, then Mark, then John.

So for John to hear the Holy Spirit speaking for Father afterwards, "This is My Son..." was vital. not because John didn't know, but because he did. Shock needs all the authority it can get, for stability. And there's no greater shock, than knowledge. Like, Knowledge that Your Own Savior, is bowing down for you to baptize Him. Love would never want that. Hatred always wants that. So the Holy Spirit, gives John the comfort of validation, afterwards. not before. In Luke 7:19ff, John is suffering so much, he's having doubts. John already knew the answer to the question, which explains the indicative mood in the participle. Going by the Lord's answer, it appears that John was having a doubt-attack. Poor guy was in prison a long time, before his beheading. Who wouldn't have doubts? Here we see another characteristic: John lived his entire life as the herald for Messiah. So now that the reality strikes, well he's human. Parents go through much the same thing when their kids really do grow up: part of the parental psyche, can't accept it. Any long anticipation over years which gives way to the event actually happening, whether a marriage long-awaited, a job, a death... the brain just has to rut out in stunned disbelief. So how much more, realizing your Task in Life, came to Eternal Fruition? Especially, when you are likely to die soon? See, Bible heroes are just as human as anyone else, which means anyone can become just as great. Lord makes that very point, in Matthew 11:11, Luke 7:28.

True Love never says it loves enough, never considers what love it gives or has or shows, to be worthy of the object. Hatred always makes an issue about how much it sacrifices, how much it loves, what it does for you, how selfless it is, how the self does more than someone else. Hatred thus mimics love, so it thinks. For, it's out to tyrannize, and charm is the great seducer. Run away from anyone repeatedly or loudly proclaiming love, if you value your life at all. Oh, how we love the children, oh how we love the people, oh how I love You — get on a jet plane, fly away as far and as fast as you can. Right now!

So God won't tyrannize John, by telling John in advance, His Ruling on this Son. So the Lord won't do it either, but instead reasons with him, why this Baptism is necessary. Because, that's how love thinks. Then afterwards, when volition has voted, God speaks His Affirmation/Confirmation, provides the 'evidence'. Because, you survived the first shock, based on something you knew. So now you can absorb the higher shock: seeing God agree.

The sequence was this: first He's baptized by John, then the 40 days, which take place before His 30th birthday; then the wedding at Cana, then teaching at Capernaum, then He goes back to Nazareth again and there He announces He's Messiah publicly, via reading Isaiah 61, then saying it's fulfilled. So He had had His 30th birthday for certain, by the time He announces in Nazareth, as David was crowned when he was 30, also — and then ensued the civil war over his crowning. Thus Christ begins His Ministry, in an uproar. I bet He was 30 years old just after the Three Temptations, so the temptations ended not long before Chanukah. A rite of passage, eligibility to declare Himself King. Can't prove this dating yet, but by John's Gospel you know you're looking at four months of official ministry in Galilee before that first tumultus trip to Jerusalem for Passover, in John 2:13.

By then, He had assistants, those who saw Him baptized, and during the 40 days, went around looking for Him, telling others they had found The Christ. Andrew, who had been advised by John to follow Him, went to his brother Simon, and said, "We found Messiah!" (John 1:41, Greek.) Simon joined, too. So that's why you get John 1:35, Jesus had deliberately returned to John the Baptist's area after the Three Temptations, twice (so He was obviously waiting for them to arrive and find Him). So John identifies Him again, as the One to Follow.

John's Gospel fills in the aftermath of the baptism of Jesus by John. John 1:29 and following occurs over 40 days after that baptizing — which the previous Gospels covered, so John omits it. During the interim, the Pharisees had come to John. When Jesus had finished passing the Three Temptations, He returns to where John is baptizing, awaiting the disciples Father would choose. So that's why you have the account in John 1:29 et seq., it's the epilogue, how the disciples came to find Jesus.

When they do — because He returned to where John was — He and the disciples went around on a circuit, with Him teaching the gathering crowds. For His Mission was to go to the Cross, and folks needed to be educated about that, and vote. After the Cross, would come the Kingdom. So the King was engaged in due-diligence disclosure.

His group of followers suddenly became smaller, John 7. The Pharisees thus seek to persecute Him for doing those miracles, so He does more of them over the ensuing year, John 8-10. Odd that two pieces of good news would so alienate people. Here you can tell how sick man really was (and still is); like when Charlie Kirk joyfully cries over Trump's re-election — nobody in their right mind would cry over a convicted felon and attribute this to God when God warns very vividly against Trump and Putin Matthew 25:11, Charlie Kirk was one of the epitomes of Revelation 17 Christian apostasy. The entire meaning of Sabbath (literal seventh, promised, appointed-meeting-day), is rest. Not, arrest. Rest, to Study Word. God gives them a vacation day once a week during which they can spend the entire day on only the Word. Greatest Rest there is, to know this Word. So, for spiritual children, the rules were laid down: Do No Work On That Day. So what do these spiritual retards do? Oh, they make a big stink out of doing nothing! Making a pain, a work out of doing even nothing, on the Sabbath! Like so many modern 'Christians' do, priding themselves, Oh, I Keep The Sabbath! Yikes. See how good I am to not even use an olive's bulk. Is there an arrogance worse than this? So of course, they make a work of the Word, too; hence don't actually learn it; memorize it, yes; chant it, yes; make word-games with it, yes; but Learn Why God Sent Messiah — no. Never mind, that the sabbath was made for man to study The Man, not the other way around. So He was not accepted, wa lo hashabnuhu, Isaiah 53:2-3.

Notice how He can't win for losing. If He is genuinely humble (John baptizing Him), well no king should grovel like that. Ok, so then He announces in a Kingly manner, invoking Isaiah 61:1 as He is supposed to do. Oh, then He's being arrogant, and must be stoned! Ok, so He just goes into Perea, making a circuit between there — a politically-unacceptable area — and the many towns around Galilee and Samaria, all of them despised by the pious Jew. Oh, see, He consorts with the unclean and uncouth. Ok, so finally He does the most humble thing, yet what you'd want of a King: announcing that He's the Bread of Life. And oh, He heals on the Sabbath, it's a King-Sized Miracle — and what happens? Oh, You worked on the Sabbath! and You Blaspheme in calling Yourself Bread! If it's true, He's not blaspheming, is He? See: there's no way to please this stiff-necked people, who are any generation of people anywhere in the world. Ok: time out. Vashti has voted no.

John has an interesting way of putting this. John 2 groups three miracles which made a lot of people believe in Him: the wine at Cana, driving out the money changers in His first year, because He is the Temple, proved when He resurrected — very poignant, since John writes a generation after Temple Razed. And a third category, all the miracles He did after that. Then John concludes the chapter by saying He didn't believe in their faith in His Miracles. Same verb πιστεύω, in the chapter: parallelism of their believing versus His View of them. Faith is fickle. We are fickle. So He didn't take it too seriously, all our praise. John's Gospel is laid out in chronological order, but some of the timing words are mistranslated so it becomes confusing. So, for example, you see 'the next day' repeated three times in English (John 1:29, John 1:35, John 1:43), followed by 'the third day' (John 2:1), which to the English reader should be the fourth day. But twice on the same day — the day Jesus returns from being tempted, when John next sees Him — John talks about Him (John 1:23, John 1:35). Then another day passes, with details on how the disciples met Jesus. So that's why John 2:1 says 'on the third day' (using Greek two definite articles) so you realize that the third day after the disciples found Jesus after He'd returned from being tempted — the wedding miracle at Cana happened. Thereafter, John accounts time by feasts in sacred-calendar order, but the hours using Roman time (e.g., in John 4:52), since the hourly accounting is an accounting of what Romans do (i.e., the legate whose kid was healed, Pilate announcing crucifixion, etc).

So by Matthew 16:18, near Passover 29 AD which was the Second Passover of his 'official' Ministry (covered in John 6), Israel had rejected Him. Thus He announced His Solution: "Upon This BedRock" — pointing to Himself, the "Petra" Holy-of-Holies-Rock and Cliff from which Israel drank in the wilderness, see also 1 Corinthians 10:4 — "Upon This BedRock I will build My Church." Future tense. Testamentary, the body-building terms of which are open, up to Father, "as many as" clause in John 17:20-21. You and I would not be here, else. For time would have otherwise ended, due to Israel's rejection. King without a Kingdom otherwise meant mistrial, God didn't keep His Promise, Time Bridge out!

Satan's goal was to get the First Betrothed, to reject Him. Success meant a Mistrial Verdict should be rendered. For, Christ had Two Kingships He was presenting, the first which antedated Israel, and the second, as Son of David. "Messiah" had two roles: first, to beat Satan, for which He'd win the Battlefield Royal Patent of King-Priest kata Melchizedek, Psalm 110, explained at length in Book of Hebrews. Meanwhile, as Son of David He'd fulfill the promise to David, through which all the other unconditional covenants to Israel, 'threaded'. But, if Israel rejected Him, He's a Double-King without His Kingdoms. So no promises could be legally fulfilled! He would have to 'divorce' Israel as God and Man, precedent set back in 1050 BC, with the rejection of Him as God-their-King.

Back then, it should have been a Mistrial Verdict, since it's a Mistrial if the Prosecution tampers with evidence. It's evidence tampering, if a Promise is Entered In Evidence But not Kept. The first promise of salvation is a unilateral thing, conditional only in the sense the Christ had the right to say no or fail. But the other promises required consent which by now, wasn't happening. But all those past generations of believers believed in those promises — shall they now not be delivered? How then is the Most High any better than me? Satan reasoned. But oh drat — David comes along and accepts first the kingship, then the abdication in order to get the 2 Samuel 7 contract delivery. Thus God grafts in Israel through David, even as He had grafted Levi in through Moses (Aaron, technically, Moses having refused). So the Trial, continued! So human history, continued!

Here in 29 AD, it's far harder. 'Desperate situation for the Last David: Time had to end with the Cross, If Israel Said No. We saw the time accounting. 1000 years from David's death, Time would end — and here, it's ending early. Too early. Even if He completes His Mission, Israel's Voting No means the Promise cannot be delivered. What to do?

So He invokes His First Kingship, and Unilaterally Agrees to Pay for a yet-unborn group of Humanity which in Matthew 16:18, He dubs 'Church' — building them upon Himself. That's a completely different covenant and spiritual life, His — far harder than the Law, since He had to invent a higher spiritual life in order to pay for sins. A dual-sided Internal Spiritual Life of Thought — all of you is the sacrifice, your own self (Third Reason for Invisibility); so it's Priestly, and you spend yourself Constantly Thinking Toward Father (Third Reason for Royalty). Um, the Mosaic Law couldn't fulfill that, didn't demand that. And the Jews couldn't obey the Law. So now Christ raises the bar to the far higher Life He Himself invented? And this 'Church' was to be built upon His Life? Worse, this is a future group of people? What if they don't come to exist? What if they too, reject this life? The Royal Spiritual Life is about having perfect thoughts: for Father forever hears each one, and you are Thinking Toward Him to Please Him. It's a killer life. Light-years beyond moral behavior. It's exhausting, a kind of spiritual racquetball, and you never get off the court!

Back here in 29 AD therefore, Christ Vastly Increases The Cost Of The Cross When He Says Matthew 16:18, telling Peter he's a 'chip' in this yet-to-begin, entity. It would be a testamentary construction, conditioned on Father, the vote for which is recorded in John 17:20-21. In Trial terms, this Saves History, Allows Time Itself to Continue. Satan's not compromised. If anything, Christ played into his hands. Oh, now the cost is far higher, so how can He make it? Far bigger win, if I stop Time by getting believers to be negative! And how will they not be more negative than Israel ever was, with this Impossible Royal Spiritual Life? Thus Time continues! Trial, continues! Human history, continues! What a shout must have gone up from the angels in heaven, that day.

With respect to Israel, such a 'Church' Announcement is just about the biggest insult He could devise. For simultaneously, He's saying that the Gentiles will become the Bride, Israel having rejected Him. not that any Jew who believed in Him would be left out, but Isaiah 52:15 would be the mechanism of fulfillment now. Unless, Israel repents within the next year. For again, a deadline was looming: by the end of the following year, the 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement from Kingship, would occur. The Lord basically announces His Retirement, since He is being rejected, a year in advance. You can trace this theme beginning in Matthew 16 forward: look at all the parables about the king or master being rejected beginning in Matthew 20, through His Arrest (Matthew 26). Then locate the parallel periods in the other, later Gospels (chronological order is Matthew, then Luke, then Mark a generation later, then John a generation after Mark).

Shocking thing, that. "Church" is ἐκκλησία, the Greek equivalent of Jewish synagogue — So He Was Replacing The Law, too! For they didn't believe Him when He said, He had come to fulfill it (i.e., Matthew 5:17-18) — in His Own Body, since He Is the Petra, Recipient of all those Yom Kippur 'sprinklings', since Solomon built the Temple depicting His Body. So they won't believe Him about 40 years later, so they can flee Jerusalem before the Temple is destroyed as warned throughout the Book of Hebrews. See Hebrews 13:23ff; Paul was dead.

In sum, He's not making the right kind of Kingly Announcement, to get votes. Rather, it's the kind of announcement one makes if Declaring War. And He was warning them of just that: for if they persisted in wanting only a Political Messiah, they'd be playing Vashti. Matthew 16:18's import is expounded in: So Father stamps Earth's Trends During Church, with Daniel 9:26c — To thus Warn Israel, and the World. Notice how He's insulting them: they are the Vashti, this time. If you know how much Jews love being able to say they are superior to all goyim, you'll understand what a deep insult this was to their egos. It was easy to imagine He was rejecting them, the chosen People of God! in favor of the dirty Gentiles. Every group has its prejudices based on what it perceives are its own cultural or racial superiorities, versus another group. "China", for example, means "Middle Kingdom" in the Chinese (character "Jung"). Center of the universe, is what that means. The Japanese have their own sense; the Russians, their own. Each of us has a cultural prejudice, so the Jews are no exception. Problem is, the Jews do have demonstrably superior Bible; and that is why they are always hated. They have a Real Promise From A Real God, and there's a real Satan out to persecute them. But being human, they of course abuse their status. Who of us, has not? All prejudices are defense mechanisms to soothe a hurting ego. Here, though, the Jews have so long been the brunt of prejudice against them, they cling to the prejudice with practiced rigor. For in order to keep the Law, they have to Keep Telling Themselves They Are Doing Something Better. You see the same kind of defense buildup in Christians who are legalistic. A rigidness due to a long-perceived threat morphs into prejudice, too; even, where none initially existed.

So His announcement of Church played right into the hands of the Sanhedrin, and they rapidly picked up adherents. Those who didn't really like the Law, stayed with Him — it wasn't really Him they wanted, but to overthrow authority. Those who did believe in Him were few and timid, confused: why would He do this? Aren't we the chosen people? In short, what support He had rapidly dwindled down, and those believing in Him started to keep quiet. Even His family went along grudgingly (read John 6ff).

As a believer in Christ, you will face the same opposition. People don't want God, they want goodies. When those goodies are refused, they get angry. That's when you know all the previous protestations of love or admiration were bupkis, John 2:24-25. We are all hypocrites: it's only a matter of price. So now you know why religion and fake spirituality are always popular. Those are goodies. People feel they are more 'worthy' if they can do something to get goodies due them. So "love" is just a way to get goodies, no more. We don't mean to be so grasping. But we are. Past is prologue.

So the three years of His Ministry were not happy ones, and many hated Him. Grief stricken every day by man's puny sense of right and wrong, his grasping and neediness and inability to love, his copious capacity for hatred and jealousy, the Lord nevertheless trudged on, ish makovot, w'idua holi: seeing if Vashti would change her mind about her King. She didn't. It was all the more heartbreaking for Him to know that His 30 years of being incognito, Presence known but not seen, didn't result in worldwide positive response. For, those who would have been positive to Him from far away, had had plenty of time to move to Israel in time for His Announcement, even as they'd had plenty of time to move there, in advance of His Well-Known Year of Birth. Worse still, they were positive enough to trek who-knows-how-many thousands of miles to get to Israel, but now that they see Him, well they want the self-righteous I-obeyed-the-Law, rather than even healing and food itself.

By the end of that three years, He was betrayed by His own, everyone left Him. He was tried in seven(!) kangaroo-court trials that would make a later Stalin's or Hitler's, look positively virtuous. Then, He finally Hung, Cursed On Wood.

His final Week was 'celebrated' in a manner the Sanhedrin could find downright threatening. Palm Sunday, He comes waltzing in on a donkey, traditional entry into the city reserved for the King. Of course, this was preceded by the miraculous resuscitation of Lazarus, so everyone was abuzz with His Entry. Then, quite kingly and insultingly, He enters the Temple and teaches openly, but stays outside Jerusalem until the Passover. And again drives out the folks making money off the Temple, Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15, Luke 19:45. He uses the King title, this time. Son of David. Rights of a human king.

For remember, the first time He did it, they had asked Him by what authority He did it. So He replied by asserting He was God, John 2:13ff. To assert He will rebuild the Temple in three days stresses that He's God. Look: if someone made that assertion today, the hearers would call the police. But this last time He does it, He's asserting He's the Messiah, to public acclamation, and anyone knows He's a Son of David — the Pharisees depend on that royal proof of His Birth, to convict Him with Pilate.

So note well: the accounts in Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19 are summary, are the final time, not the first time, which John 2:13ff recounts. Read all three accounts carefully: notice how no one is surprised in the other three Gospels, you don't get the long conversations you see in John, and Christ is not censured for driving out the moneychangers and merchants. But rather, the Sanhedrin are afraid, plotting to kill Him, and instead rebuke Him for allowing people to call Him Messiah, due to that Triumphal Last Entry. Yeah, because the last time He enters Jerusalem, that will be His Human Death to pay for sins, the promised Son of David!

It's really important to 'get' the meaning here. They didn't listen to Him the first time. That's analogous to not listening to His First Coming, which of course this is. In prophecy, His Second Coming is as King Triumphant. So He's making a strong point to the Sanhedrin, even while still in His First-Coming State, that He will return as the King, which His Triumphal Entry depicted. It's like a rehearsal.

So the Sanhedrin are afraid. If He is installed as King, they are of course in deep trouble. The people want to make Him king, obviously. So this repeat of the throwing out of the merchants, which after all is not illegal since what the merchants were doing was the violation — this repeat, couldn't be prosecuted under either Jewish law nor under Roman. But the kingship claim could be, if He put a foot wrong. So they had to find a way to make Him appear as a usurper against Rome. The public acclamation played right into their plotting hands, and the violence of throwing out the merchants suddenly had a new, more sinister meaning they could insert into the event: rebellion, disruption of Rome's rule.

Zeferelli's 'Jesus of Nazareth' production did a great job of presenting the issue of Christ's Authority over the Temple, Ian Holm playing a Temple scribe named "Zera", seed, coming up afterwards pretending to be calm: asking why Jesus did this thing — but Zeferelli's presentation confuses the two times the Lord overturned the money changers as if they were one. With a mortified Ian McShane playing Judas, trying to pacify "Zera". Yeah, that's the way to win votes, alienate the very people who can fund you, Master. Notice they didn't arrest Him for what He did, so whatever seeming violence in it, He broke no law (i.e., no damage to property, no one hurt, no money lost). They would have gladly arrested Him if they had a valid charge, you know that. And as Son of David — David, who invented Temple service, priestly courses and rules, see the end of 1 Chronicles — Christ does have the right, to do this. But oh! He's crazy! would be the charge. Never mind those guys were profiteering. Oh, ok. So if He's properly Regal and Severe — driving out the cheaters in front of the Temple, for example — well, He's cruel and unholy, a madman!

The Gospels are meant to be interlocking. When you see what to uninformed eyes looks like a contradiction, instead you get more details of the same event, or you are being told of a similar event, or a repeated event. At the Last Supper and Resurrection, for example, there are many similar events, i.e., more than one disciple asked Jesus who was the betrayer; more than one woman visits the tomb. After several readings of what seems like the same person in the same event, you realize there are subtle differences. Here in the driving-out-moneychangers account, the subtle difference is the reaction of the Pharisees. First time, first Passover of His Ministry when He does this, they post a challenge, and their plotting begins. Last time He does it, they don't challenge Him directly — but they plot all the more.

Matthew's is the first Gospel, coming out 30 AD. Paul quotes from it, and so does James. Then comes Luke, written just after Paul was imprisoned, and Luke plays to Matthew, extensively adding parenthetical material, as he did with the angels and shepherds, to parallel what Matthew wrote about the angel mistaken as a star until the magi believed in Messiah (Matthew 2:1 through Matthew 2:11; notice how in Matthew 2:12 they are warned by the angel, just as Joseph was in Matthew 2:13). Then comes Mark, written just before the Temple is to go down; Mark plays on both Matthew and Luke, adding his own witness. Then comes John, a generation after the Temple is destroyed.

Bear that chronology in mind when reading, and forget all the controversy over the dating of the Gospels, many 'scholars' aren't honest or competent, what a pity. If you ignore the controversy, the 'fit' of the Gospels will become clear to you, especially if you use 1 John 1:9 as you read. Always ask God: 'is this the same event being told with added detail or from another angle? Or is this another but similar event?' For example, the Last Supper had multiple people in it, so you have multiple times people went up to Christ asking who would betray Him. So too, at the Resurrection when His Body is suddenly missing, multiple people went multiple times to the tomb, and you got at least three Marys to work with, Mary of Bethany, Mary of Magdala (who wasn't a prostitute), and Mary the mother of Christ. It was a common name, just like James = Jude = Judah = Judas. 😊

God is not the author of confusion. Each Gospel comes out to refresh the memory of the audience, which is changing. Reading Bible is always a test of how much you want to know God, so you have to ask God for the meaning. If you don't ask, you'll be like those hapless scholars. And the people who never ask God, are content with their own private interpretations for they really want their own ideologies than to really want to know what God says.

So now you know why John omits the last time Christ drove out the money changers, from John 12; and instead puts his account on the first time He did it, in connection with the theme that Christ is God. Full circle, the end which was the beginning by the One Who Has No Beginning. For by then, the Temple was long gone, and Daniel 9:26c was the current 'bubble' of applicable prophecy. That mattered a whole lot in the 90's AD, because the original schedule for the Millennium was 94 AD — and it wasn't gonna happen, due to Jewish Rejection. So what would happen now? Remember this timing when your read John's Gospel, and his deliberate irony will jump out at you (i.e., he omits or inserts well-known Gospel events to stress irony).

So on Wednesday — for Passover week ran Saturday-Saturday in 30 AD — He's on the Cross. Between 12 PM - 3 PM on Wednesday Nisan 14, 30 AD (but nominally Nisan 18 since the Jews hadn't fixed their calendar), there's a supernatural darkness over Him as He pays for sins. No one could see his hand in front of his face at least locally, during those hours. (You can't see that fact in translation, special Greek Old Testament verbs are used, tying back to supernatural darkness in the past.) So He probably hadn't slept since Monday or Tuesday night; Who, beaten so badly that Wednesday dawn He no longer looked Human, Isaiah 52:14b; He, still silent, Isaiah 53:7.

Then The Father Hits Him with all the sins in history and eternity: past, present, future?! For suddenly, maybe ten hours after He'd been so brutalized by Roman stone-and-bone, by Praetorium (Gabbatha) crowds screaming themselves hoarse for Him to be crucified; suddenly, beginning noon that day, He too is screaming: Eloi, Eloi, Lama sabacthani! Psalm 22, suffering Isaiah 53:5, Isaiah 5:10, being crushed for our sins! On October 22, 2005, I finally got Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". Utterly-brilliant film. Passion Week timing is off, which is the norm in Bible movies; but Gibson focuses on the Suffering — in this his success is total: more realistically brutal, more like those Scripture verses (and the worm king scene was a brilliant interpretation of them), really helps you see what Isaiah 52:14 means. Each time my pastor teaches Isaiah 52:14, he explains from the exegesis how He was so beaten up prior to the Cross, He no longer looked human. My pastor also stresses that Satan tried to get Him killed before He got to the Cross (so our sins couldn't be paid for). Mel Gibson's version manages to depict that point well. Brilliant and subtle touches throughout the film bring out truths which I've never seen in any Bible film. In the first sequence where Pilate questions Jesus, for example, Pilate first speaks to Him in Aramaic, but the Lord replies in Latin: that the Lord like most educated people then was fluent in three languages, is thus demonstrated (you wouldn't believe the theological debate on that point — proving the theologians don't do their homework, but Gibson's people did). Yeah, God speaks to us in our language, but we won't learn, His Language of Love, His Word. Awesome, how a change-of-language subtlety says so much. Best of all, the embracing-of-the-Cross scenes are exactly what Isaiah 53 conveys; and in Isaiah, it's a sexual analogy. No translation brings that fact out, though they couldn't fuzz over Isaiah 54:1, the exultant conclusion. So Gibson's film well displays the Love-for-Father Motive for the embrace, just like the Isaiah passage. He First Loves Father. Father First Or Forget It. And then as a result, yes, He loves us. First Commandment has no "people" in it. Brilliant, how Gibson's film brings out this Most Important Truth. So this movie really helps you get a grip on the meaning of the real spiritual life. Love For Father Is Just Flat Total. So for us believers, Love for Christ (i.e., 2 Corinthians 5:14) "holds us together" (better translation of συνέχω in that verse, compared to published Bibles) — just as it did for Him (towards Father) on the Cross! The movie is thus a sterling portrayal of His Love and the Love He bequeathed to us. Toward Him. Jim Caviezel, who portrayed the Lord, did a fabulous job. not wimpy at all. The whole cast was fabulous. Sure, some stuff in the movie wasn't well researched, but no Bible movie gets right the Passover timing, the fact the Lord had short hair, and they all have to make some kind of goofy statements about Satan, to fit audience prejudices. Gibson's movie was not anti-semitic. Why people think so, baffles me utterly. Wish he could make prequels or sequels to this movie with the same cast, going back over the earlier periods in the Lord's life, and still in Aramaic/Latin, etc. Then he can correct the timing, the hair length, etc. Such movies are sorely needed, since we don't read our Bibles, so still think there was such a thing as a Good Friday or even a Star of Bethlehem, for crying out loud! Of course in 2025 Mel Gibson's brain fell out and now he's completely apostate supporting Donald Trump.

Then, Τετέλεσται, Salvation Accomplished with Results that Go on Into the Future. Then, Into Your Hands I commit my spirit, Oh God of Doctrine, Psalm 31:5. Then. Gone. But then! Resurrected on the Third Day, the promised Son of David Who Would See No Decay! And the tomb, was empty.

Near the last scene of Zeferelli's "Jesus of Nazareth", Peter (James Farentino) looks at the camera and says, "forgiven.. all of us." All of us. For He said while still on the Cross, "Forgive them, Father, because they don't know what they are doing." Nerd note: Wescott and Hort, and NA27 don't have this sentence, according to BibleWorks 5. I think He's quoting an Old Testament verse on the Cross — using the imperative of entreaty, obeying the command to pray for one's enemies — but I can't find the Old Testament verse He's quoting, just yet. Stephen says essentially the same thing, when he dies (Acts 7). So I think this is a valid Bible verse.

How true. Humans are cowards, under pressure. It's natural to be so. Betrayal occurred at all levels and by all people, because when the political heat is on, one at least hedges his opinions. Really shows up in today's casual conversations, the hedging. How much more, when to admit you believe in Messiah, could get you His Own Fate? The Jews are fighting for their political lives. The Roman legions have to quell an uproar. Israel is important territory to keep peaceful. The Romans wouldn't be the first to say: "aw, the heck with the people!" and just wipe them out to restore order. And the people, well they couldn't afford both Jewish and Roman authority, crushing them further. Remember, the Jews are the most persecuted people on earth. Because of their strategic location, they have been trampled down many times by many nations. So, with that much history of persecution in their 'blood', so to speak — they've learned to be diplomatic.

I can't honestly say to you I'd never betray Him, either. Clearly I have, for He had to pay for me, just as He paid for every other human, else I'd not be breathing. Moreover, every time I sin, I am betraying Him. Look at all this doctrine God has given me through my right pastor: so how is it, that I still sin? Sin is thinking, a type of traitorous thinking. Body is just a bucket of biology, mindlessly obeying whatever stimulus hits it. And that 's the problem. Our biology is more powerful than the soul, due to Adam's sin. So it takes Superhuman Power to be loyal to Him. Spirit runs that power, man can't even know how such Power works. Christ didn't depend on His Human Power, and of course didn't cheat by using His Godness. So yes, the Jews all betrayed Him. Even John depicts himself as just skulking around after Christ Rose, staying sort of at a distance (last chapter of John's Gospel). They, we... are human, after all. Just like James Farentino gets to tell the camera: All Of Us. Gist: Adam's sin is a negative derivative which bounced off Infinite Holiness, thus shattering the soul. Think of fission, and you'll understand that while man can't lose his free will, he certainly can — and did! — lose his mind.

We also each betray Him every second we breathe some thought in self-defense. If we have even one thought about injustice, we betray Him. For the greatest betrayal, is to think that self has anything whatsoever that is "good", to claim. What a slap in His Face, what derision of the Work of the Cross, that we ever think our puny righteousnesses, could count! Is there greater arrogance than this? Yet we, quintessentially defective, rightfully condemned to think in terms of petty tit-for-tats, can only be arrogant. Yet, cancelled (not merely forgiven, the verb is a financial verb, ἀφίημι) are our sins. Nerd note: check out Ephesians 1:7, Colossians 1:14, 1 John 1:9. The latter is an operational need for fellowship, based on the Finished Work of the Cross.

The hardest thing for anyone to understand and believe, is Grace. Grace isn't a freebie, but a hard-won Brideprice (see Ephesians 5) — but, not paid by us. So, we feel bad about it. Feel like we owe — so can't enjoy, The Freedom Purchased At The Cross. Due to the Cross, Grace: so, no need for goodies one can claim to feel good about self. No need for breast beating because one feels bad about self. God is Omniscient. If it mattered to Him at all how bad or good we are, there'd have been no Cross. So neither our good, nor our bad, matter. He didn't want them to matter. Else, there'd have been, no Cross. So eternally finished! are all questions of injustice or inferiority. Only blind arrogance clings to those "i" shibboleths! The tomb is empty, and so is any condemnation: Romans 8:1!

Repeating: the tomb is empty, and so is any condemnation, Romans 8:1! You have conclusive proof of this, right now: you are breathing. God is Omnipotent, and if He wanted obediences out of you, He'd just instantly program them and override your volition, zap! And you'd be a happy little Stepford drone (wife or husband, take your pick). So He Must Have Been Paid. And Christ's Resurrection is the Testimony Of The Success Of That Repayment. Bible differentiates between His Spiritual Death On The Cross (Romans 6) and His Physical Death of Victory, usually via Greek key phrase "ἐκ νεκρῶν", "out from the dead ones", a play on Birth. So, in Romans 6, Paul makes much of that Victory, the death turned to birth turned to our death with Him on the Cross turned to our spiritual birth, so now we are divorced from death, and alive to Him Who is Life. (Paul adores wordplay, and it never translates properly.) So that's The Hupostasis, The Reality, The Substance, The Christ: no condemnation in Christ Jesus, get it? Total Grace, totally abounding (see last half of Romans 5). All things are new, now: the old things have passed away. See 2 Corinthians 5, Ephesians 1. Nerd Note: if you know someone who thinks Christ's physical death paid for sins, you might want to read Divine DNA. It has more info on how you parse out the two Deaths of Christ on the Cross and what-death-belongs-to-what-doctrine. You can prove it yourself if you have original language Bible texts on software. Takes maybe a month (or less) to go through all the searches and see for yourself. Christendom has been goofy for centuries, always reading body meanings out of God/spiritual verses, which is why so much of the Bible is mistranslated. But we have good access to the original language texts, now. So we can be disabused of our quaint notions about what happened on the Cross. I did Isaiah 53:9 and Genesis videos on this topic.

We humans are always comparing ourselves to each other. So if someone is richer, smarter, prettier we think they are better persons than ourselves. Yeah? Well a cold or calamity strikes anyone down, pretty or ugly, rich or poor. So it's just a difference of circumstance which makes one of us seem better than another. So if one person knows Bible better — well, he hit his flash-point need to know, earlier than 'you' did. Same for any kind of lesser wealth. The guy who's wealthier than you, needed it then. So, he got it then. So, if you need it now, you'll get it now. And we all need Bible all the time. So: we are all together, one, in this thing. None of us really better or worse than the other. For only God is good. And only God, has the right to condemn us, right? But God is not condemning, but rescuing us instead, Romans 5:8 + Romans 8:1 due to John 3:16!

So, near the end of "Jesus of Nazareth", the final empty-tomb sequence shows Ian Holm ("Zera"), inspecting the tomb. He looks up at the camera, consternated at there being no body, and whispers, "Now it all begins. Now it really begins." Indeed. As Matthew 27 recounts, now the danger is His Resurrection. 'Far more serious problem, than His Arrival!

John 19 is one of the most sardonic chapters in the Bible, and you can't tell that's true in translation. Playing on what constitutes the true-dated Passover versus the false one — for the Jewish calendar was running fast 4 days in 30 AD when He died — John keeps on wryly using the Passover keyword, "παρασκευή". Greek noun "σκεῦος" is a vessel or utensil (or even an anchor), idea that what it holds, holds together something important. Like the world. Like, your relationship with God. Like, sin so you can get a relationship with God. So John keeps on tweaking the Sanhedrin's common idea of the holiday versus the True Preparation Who Died For Us that day, right on Mosaic Law Corrected Time. So in John 19:31, he notes wryly how the Sanhedrin suddenly realized they'd Proved True The Prophecies; Proved True That He is Messiah, so cover up their panic with the ruse that to be kind — and keep the upcoming sabbath two days later — oh please, Lord Pilate sir, break the legs of those being crucified. Yeah, because the Passover Lamb can't be the Lamb if His Bones are Broken, Psalm 34:20. Notice: the Jews prepared the Sacrifice Right On Time, wry point made in John 19:42. And now they know it: too late!

So of course God didn't let up on anyone. He just kept on rolling out that overwhelming evidence of His Son, in spades. At the very moment of His Death on the Cross, His Last Word being about the Word (Psalm 31:5, only partly recorded in Gospels, since everyone knew that verse so well), a sort of mini-display of future Tribulational stuff, occurs (Matthews 27:45ff). Actually, all of that stuff was orchestrated to demonstrate yet more Old Testament prophecies about the effect of Messiah's death, especially the splitting of the Temple Veil. They weren't comforting miracles, they were shocking ones. God doesn't use "sign" miracles to comfort, but to warn; for His typical Miraculous Style is Quiet, not loud, 1 Kings 19:10-12, Ephesians 5:18. (That's how you can immediately tell the difference between demonic supernatural, and Divine supernatural.) Man can't take too much evidence of God, as was explained in the "Third Reason for Invisibility". That's why the Old Testament Scriptures, are so anthro-metaphorical, as teaching aids and buffers for a shocked mind. That's why the Holy of Holies in the Temple was veiled — but now, that Extremely Thick Veil, was torn from its (maybe 90-foot) Top, to the Bottom?

Worse — again, to fulfill an old set of prophecies — dead believers are resuscitated at the very moment He dies, so all these formerly-dead people are wandering about in Jerusalem (Matthew 27:52-53). Hoo-boy: how are you going to explain that? All these dead people now alive again, demonstrating en masse what He'd done with Lazarus (which after all, only a small crowd saw)? Who can breathe, seeing all this shocking evidence?

Then, the worst: He Himself, is alive again? Popping up suddenly in the midst of one group or another, behind closed doors, out in the field, showing up to the women but not the men — but then, to the men but not the women. Who can live with such experience? It was upsetting, not comforting. Brain overrun by too much supernaturality, too close to the Divine, can't cope. God never lives up to our expectations, but always exceeds them. So when you read of people in the Gospels running around talking about these three days and His Resurrection — they can't help themselves. Brain needs to exhale the shock it had. And, considering that one got into a lot of trouble if one talked about Him back then — in Luke 24, watch how believers hedge when talking to the Stranger-Who-is-really-Risen-Christ — you'd have to be uncontrollably upset, to do so.

Worse still, how these things happened. Dead people coming back to life aren't so many one couldn't doubt the encounter. Appearances by the Lord are of a mundane nature, and He doesn't advertise that it's Him (He doesn't lie, either). So, all these occurrences are... you know, weird. Unexpected way for God to behave. He's not making some gorgeous display all the world can see in the sky: you know, the long white-bearded muscular guy with the outstretched finger, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But instead, lots of little occurrences that make a person feel foolish to recount, variables that are practically gossip, or transcending into folklore knowledge. He shows up, only to a few, and only for a little while, then disappears again. Now who is going to believe what just happened? Makes you want to be silent. Unless it becomes so upsetting internally that you have to tell someone.

The entire point of interrogation or torture is to get information. To do that, you've got to shock or otherwise upset the victim so much, he loses his sense of restraint. You can do this deftly, like Satan does in Matthew 4 (baiting), or you can do it with brutality; or, you can do it by disinformation which upsets the hearer. However you do it, once the restraints are down, the person blubbers out information. And afterwards regrets his loss of self-control. That's what you see happening here. People don't readily admit when they are wrong; people don't readily admit to a supernatural experience; people certainly don't admit beliefs which can land them in jail or in the hospital. Yet, that's what happened here. It's not like the wacko who wants his 15 minutes of fame so says or does something outrageous. Normal people restrain themselves, calculating how the hearer will react. That is, unless they are in too much shock, as were the believers, here. It really shows up in the text. Again, God doesn't feel good. We are incompatible with Him, and when He is too 'close' to the reality we know, well it's a shock!

When a human being is in a state of shock, he always reacts with some kind of denial. It's a biological reaction, born of Adam's sin actually, which in psychology is called a "defense mechanism". To buffer the soul against shock. This denial takes many forms, and since (like all defense mechanisms) it is dysfunctional, its failure to protect, shows just like the coverup does. One morphs the truth, instead of being able to fully excise it. All psychological illness is rooted in denial and its many morphings. So too, with respect to denying the truth known about God. Simple denial is more shallow: the person can't quite manage to replace the truth with a morphed story, so he keeps on shaking his head. At some point, he will either slowly come to grips with the shock (i.e., shocked grief eventually gives way to acceptance that a loved one really has died), or he will begin to morph. So all morphings of the truth display a greater and prolonged negativity. But here, three days into the post-Crucifixion life of the world, people were too shocked to morph much. So, they don't believe the women who went to the empty tomb and were informed by angels that He had risen. But that's all they can do, is deny it. Just like, everyone around Judea then. Shock. All groups, believer and unbeliever, alike.

The soldiers guarding His Tomb probably got severe punishment. So all the barracks personnel would know about it, too. The Pharisees, who believed in an afterlife, and the Sadducees, who did not, were immediately set against each other: even though neither side believed in Messiah. Some among their number, like Joseph of Arimethea and Nicodemus, committed political suicide (see how the fake gospels all insult those two). So, what can one say? God is upsetting, that's what. He upsets everyone, and on purpose, too. God is like that: always upsetting the applecart. Like, showing Himself, saving us...

So let's look at God's Message about what Ended, and what Began.

For Christ had invented a new spiritual life and a new bridge when He was here. So like Ian Holm said above, "Now, it Begins." Yeah, "now" is a Bible term for the Church Age! A New Spiritual Life, since the Mosaic Law wasn't 'big' enough to pay for sins, main theme in Book of Hebrews. New Bride, Church — founded on His King-Priest kata Melchizedek contract from eternity past (another main theme in the Book of Hebrews). We saw the devastatingly-higher Standard of spirituality Christ invented while He was down here, to produce a sinlessness which could survive the Cross. Holy Spirit's Power had to be Unlimited — something Israel never had — to enable that to happen. Christ chose to be Totally Dependent, eschewing use of either His Godness or His Humanity, to benefit Himself. Meanwhile — and my pastor stressed this every time — He had to Uphold The Universe By Willing It. Every second of time Jesus Christ manually wills into existence.

Think of what that means: He's One Person with One Will (duh, can't divorce personhood from will) — so mere human will upholds the universe? Yeah, if the Holy Spirit empowers it. Same with you and I. We will a thing, but we ourselves don't have the power — Christ eschewed using His, Philippians 2:5-10 — and when we will to obey, Holy Spirit enables that — At His Own Level. Divine Quality. So, same idea for holding the universe together. But you just try to keep on concentrating on one thing — here, willing to hold the universe together — and concentrate on something else, like — being hit with all mankind's sins. Simultaneous concentration under those conditions, while your forearms are stabbed by stakes to keep you on the Cross? The salty sweat coming in your eyes? The jeers, the need to faint? Takes a higher spiritual life than we can even fathom, huh. Yet that is what we get, ὑπογραμμός, Copybook (Petrine term)! The Original made, we get copied from Him, Divine-DNA, made by the Holy Spirit. So all that thinking and concentrating is the spiritual life. not works, but perfect thoughts. So the Law said, "thou shalt not murder". But His Law says, "think no negative thoughts!" Whoa. not possible for a human! But mandated, for us? For a Royal Bride must be of Equal Status with Her Royal Husband, Who must not marry below Himself!

Childish piety says one must be low to be holy. The opposite is true. God is high. So we must become high. The higher, the more holy. Obviously only God can accomplish this. Obviously, it's a thinking standard, the body couldn't possibly obey on such a high level. So much for the Brother-Foot people. God wants gods, and He can make them, John 10:34. And no lesser-than is Fit Bride for His Son.

This New Covenant Beginning was what the Beginning-Who-Never-Had-A-Beginning always planned, Ephesians 1. Ephesians 1 refers back to Isaiah 53:10-12, using both it and the Greek play "Ion" by Euripides to craft one of the wittiest books in the New Testament. So here's the fastest way to orient to the underlying story in Bible about God's Plan, and thus to the Meaning of the Rapture: A) read Euripedes' play, "Ion". B) Then read the Amalgamated Translation of Isaiah and compare it with whatever translation you use, to see there is much more Information in the God-breathed Original about how our sins 'raped' Him on the Cross. Paul will be playing on both 1 and 2. C) Next, read Ephesians a dozen times, each one more carefully than the time prior. Each time you read, note the parallels between what Paul says in Ephesians and the play.

At the end of Ion, of course, all is revealed, and Athena comes down to announce Phoebus' repentance, which results in Ion being awarded as the Progenitor Of All Greek Peoples. "Phoebus Apollo" is the Greek myth version of Satan's pre-Fall title, "Son of the Dawn" or "Morning Star", in the Old Testament, "Haylel ben Shachar", in Isaiah 14:12. (See also Job 38:7.) Look up the role of Phoebus Apollo in an encyclopedia. Why Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28's references to Satan are ostracized by scholars, when the keywords for Satan are there and elsewhere, completely baffles me. Can God make it more obvious who "Son of the (Morning) Dawn" was, by crowning His Son's Humanity, "Bright Morning Star"? Even the Koran steals the same keywords (At-Tariq sura, among others). God draws analogy between the pride of the human king and his demonic backer, using the analogy to show how the king will share his backer's fate. Description weaves in characteristics which must reference Satan, since obviously no human was in the throne room of God.

Theme of Ephesians? God's Superior Begetting! Christian! It's Your Duty To Be Close, Near, Intimate With Very God! Cry all the way to the Bible Bank, baby! Paul uses "far" and "near" Old Testament language. Ionic dative is a discovery of my pastor's back in the mid-1980's while exegeting Ephesians verse-by-verse; that led me to the play "Ion" in 2003.

So Ephesians is thus chock full of sexual innuendo, depicting the Victorious Fathering Of Bride, beating Satan in the Trial. God gave this to the only perpetual-virgin apostle, Paul! Paul deliberately and carefully parallels both Isaiah 53 and the play in his circular letter which we know as Ephesians. It spread to all the churches of Greece and Asia Minor, who were largely populated by these 'sons' of Ion. For, the play was as popular to them, as Johnny Appleseed or the story of George Washington would be to Americans. So the audience for 'Ephesians' knew immediately that Paul was paralleling the play. Remember, what we call "Rapture" derives from 1 Thessalonians 4:17's Suddenly Snatch Up ἁρπάζω = "rape". For that was the cultural norm, not the exception: when men invaded or attacked, they would just grab women. It's a trend of ancient history. So too, in the play "Ion". So too, when the Lord comes for His Own, the Church.

So "Ion" is used to wittily convey God's Superior Begetting Plan in Ephesians, when combined with Isaiah 53, a chapter all about Him being raped with sterile sins and thus bearing all children. Here's a sampling of just a few witty analogies which quickly come to mind:

Writer of Hebrews picks up "Ion" + Isaiah 53 witticisms in his own Isaiah 2; in the lengthy, threaded Temple analogy from Isaiah 7-10; his "Ἀρχηγός" (= progenitor, founder) usage in Hebrews 12:2; and his "Church of the Firstborn" comment (Hebrews 12:23).

This same theme runs throughout 1 John, who tracks his letter horizontally to Ephesians, using "in the beginning" and "born of God" (really, being-sired-by-God) to tie to the "Ion" theme, and then spends most of the letter tracking to Ephesians 3:15-19 via Isaiah 4:11-16, how that gets done (i.e., 1 John 4:12-17 reverses the order of building in Ephesians 3:15-19). For God Makes Sons through the "me amal" (labor pains, pregnancy-of-sin-imputation) of The Son, Who is "plundered" so we can "share" (μερίζω, LXX, a term much used by Paul) in His Thinking (σύνεσις, a God-Produced Knowledge, as all sun-prefixed words denote). Most of the verses in the New Testament which seem to talk about human works use Greek words that make it clear only Divine Works are in view. The One Who Had No Descendants will Get Plunder by being Himself Plundered (Isaiah 53:8, Isaiah 53:10-12, Isaiah 54:1). And we are to share in that Plunder, as Bride (Ephesians 4:11-16, very pointed allusions to LXX verses in Isaiah 53:10-12). And what's the Plunder? His Thinking (σύνεσις), taught to us by our pastors (again Ephesians 4:11-16, very graphic, can't translate it in public, συμβιβάζω and συναρμολογέω plus ἁφή, in Greek.

I don't know how anyone can read Bible in translation. All of the wordplay is snuffed out. The Bible is the most enjoyable book on earth. But not, in translation. No human pleasure can compare with learning it, sorry! Even worse, many of the Christian Nationalists and apostate Christianity always bludgeon people with English translations and never once clue in that they should be reading the original language texts, forever rendered as hateful babies.

Bible keywords for the change in spiritual life and covenant wrought by His Successful Completion of the Cross are many, but three of the more significant ones are "Resurrection", (ἀνάστασις) which describes the Power Nature of the change (the Justification to Transform us into His Nature, not merely the "miracle" idea of raising from the dead); "fullness" or "fulfill", (πλήρωμα, a pregnancy term) and like verbs, to describe the process of this change; and "perfect" (τελειόω, legal sense of perfecting, completing all contract terms). If you track these keywords throughout your New Testament you'll find that they are constantly linked with His Thinking (which is usually metaphorically depicted as "riches", "Christ", "Love", etc). These words all mean to convey something Totally New, and planned from eternity past (i.e., in Ephesians and Colossians). It would take a long time for the writers of the New Testament, to know how to explain this change in writing. For, they themselves had to learn it first. Like Paul repeats often in his letters, this new change was a "mystery" to the Old Testament, though based on the same principles.

So what also began, was the New Testament. But not easily. All the above wit and information wasn't immediately received by believers, though the ideas were immediately known, since they all came from what the Lord said down here. People were too legalistic to accept the implications, similar to the hostility you see in John 6. Took awhile to reduce this New Will aka Testament to writing. So after He Rose, no one "got it" about what Isaiah 53:10-12 meant would ensue, even though the Lord told them in detail what Isaiah meant in what comes down to us as John 14-17. People long knew what the Lord said. They knew what happened. Much oral communication happened right away. But His blatant spiritual-sons Royal House of God usage in what became John 14, was completely the opposite of the Mosaic Law, a freedom to craft your own spiritual life: many royal 'houses', no longer just one. (not buildings you live in, but kingdoms, as in the English term, 'royal house'). Moreover, the blatant marital metaphor of Vine and branches in John 15 bespoke of a daily intimacy with Him Israel never knew. Most shockingly, for a people long accustomed to Distant God, the marital oneness prayer in John 17 was a conundrum. Of course, immediately after someone's saved even today, he doesn't "get it" that The Head In Your Head is the entire spiritual life. Of course, most of the world doesn't "get" it that God exists. In short, the New Testament would take time to develop, not because God's slow about Keeping His Promise: but we are slow to want Him, to learn His Promised One's Thinking. Recalcitrant, even.

During this time, there were many special spiritual gifts given, one of which is called "knowledge" in the New Testament. That's a gift of knowing what will be reduced to writing, and the ones having the gift began teaching immediately. There were other supporting gifts such that as a whole, people got what they needed to know, as much as they needed to know it. Tongues was a gift of giving the gospel in foreign languages unknown to the speaker, to an unbeliever who spoke that language (see Acts 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 shows the principle). Tongues was never between believers, and never in gibberish, but in human languages then extant. For Jerusalem was a cosmopolitan place, where people from all over the world came. The supernatural qualities of such a gift helped the hearer understand it was God talking, rather than yet another charlatan. So it wasn't like Church had no spiritual logistical support. These gifts gradually died off; 'tongues' ended in 70 AD, because by nature it doubled as a warning sign that Israel's time was ending, see how Paul quotes Isaiah 28 in 1 Corinthians 14. So anyone talking in tongues today is talking from demons (demon influence or possession), or is just mentally ill. The other gifts died at different intervals, depending upon the nature of the gift. Healing was used as a calling card to validate a teacher; Paul, for example, had the gift and then it ended, so that he couldn't even heal some of his friends. Knowledge gifts ended with the completion of Canon in 96 AD. So anyone after that claiming to have a knowledge or discernment gift or any Acts gifts — is not speaking from the Holy Spirit. There is no such thing as "prophetic utterance". Only the Word: see Hebrews 1.

Schism began in Church, as well. Back then, the enormity of the Change He wrought on the Cross was slow to sink in, even among those who most believed in Him. That's why you have God making a Saul become Paul. As you cruise through Acts, you notice how wacky believers were. It was a bad time. They were persecuted by the Sanhedrin, but they were also infighting within themselves. Peter's bad hair day when he resorts to electing two apostles — "notice you never hear about them again in Bible," my pastor quipped when teaching about Peter's faux pas. The group was basically still groping around in the Law, with high moments like Acts 2, and low moments like Acts 5, when communism was in vogue, and people competed to gain the approbation of their fellow believers. So all those "pillars" of the then-Jerusalem-church like Peter, John and James (see 1 Corinthians 15 and Galatians 2), were falling back on the Law.

Meanwhile, Acts 8, there's this unbeliever who really doesn't like the "Way" people, named Saul. Was chasing after them, throwing them in jail, getting even some of them executed. Yet this Saul, "gets it" about the changeover in the spiritual life — directly from Christ. First, Saul gets it drastically, and in the eyeballs (Acts 26:14, the Lord using a famous Greek iambic line about what a horse says to an ass, very funny): for having been blind to the very Law which spoke of that Second David. So the drowned-out-sight of the now-seeing-Messiah Paul, has to be dragged by a different Ananias, to safety.

Then, drastic isolation ensues, as the Holy Spirit teaches him the new spiritual life. This second Saul-renamed-Small (="Paul") spends about 14 years hidden away in Arabia somewhere to restudy the Law and thus regroup, but he "gets it" at last! and comes back like gangbusters. In fact, when he gets to Jerusalem in Acts 15, he's too far ahead of everyone else, and they're all muttering "ti oun estin" (= what the heck do we do about this guy)? For those "pillars" are still playing with their Old Testament doctrinal dolls, drooling. So they clash with Paul. Acts 15 is a compromise to get rid of him, basically. But then when he starts his missionary journeys, he pitches their rules. This gets him all kinds of persecution from the Jerusalem Church and the Judaizers. Everyone's trying to wiggle the Law back into the life, but Paul by contrast, realizes that Christ upgraded the Law. It's a messy situation. For Paul is a better scholar in the Law than all of his comrade believers.

Like everyone else, even this Paulus wants to compromise 'somehow'. He realized that everything in the Law was being pitched — only the morality ideas ("entole", i.e., the Ten Commandments, plus principles underlying "κρίμα") ported over. Yet even this Paulus gets roped into not just one, but two Nazarite vows — catching himself as he stands at the port in Cenchreae, waiting for a boat to take him to Jerusalem (which he knows he's supposed to avoid, Acts 18); second vow, he gives into James' compromise with the Jewish believers who catch him by using that vow to kill him, Acts 21-23 (look for the genitive absolutes). Sound familiar?

Does God have an ironic sense of parallel timing, or what? This second Saul is appointed after the Second (and forever-ruling) David! Heh: remember how, 40 years previous to the First David, was that first Saul made the king the people wanted instead of God? So now the Omega David, who the people rejected as King Yet Again, sends them another Saul! Funny no one among Israel caught onto that deliberate, timed irony, yet one more obvious clue that Messiah had Risen and was coming back! The first Saul was voted for by the people, but not by God; the second one, who is voted for by God but not by the people, will nearly get killed on the Temple steps due to a claim he's changing the Law (yep, he is) by the sons of those same people who'd voted for his namesake!

Of course, God wanted Paul to stay away from Jerusalem, instead go to Rome and just live there, teaching. My pastor spent about a year teaching how Paul kept hemming and hawing, not wanting to give in ("Paul's Fall" taught in April + 1999 portion of 1992 Spiritual Dynamics lessons). For Paul's need to 'get along' with Jerusalem, motivated him to rationalize accompanying a monetary gift back to Jerusalem — hence he nearly got killed. Nonetheless, this second Saul ends up writing most of the New Testament! By 57 AD he had written the basic roadmap of God's Bridal plan, explaining from Old Testament verses how Bride was to be built. When circa 58 AD he got tricked into that second Nazarite vow, the near-death experience landed him in Roman prison, where a greedy Felix waited for a bribe (Paul was wealthy). When it wasn't forthcoming, Paul languished for two years. So, blatantly imitating in reverse the path of Jonah, God used Paul's negative volition to transport him to Rome: chained. And from Rome, from 62 AD until his death, He had Paul write the Rest Of The Story. So by 68 AD, when Nero decapitated Paul, everyone had plenty of time to digest (what we call) Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians — and to tie them to the earlier material in Romans, Corinthians, Galatians and Thessalonians — as well as to the Old Testament. So they had time to learn God's Bridal Dowry Plan; and, as a result, His Divine Benefit Plan for mankind and get in on it. But, most didn't.

Thus begins the wacky, schisms, history of "Church." It had a kind of bipolar disorder from the start, which continues to characterize it today. The legalists in the Jerusalem church morphed into what you would call ecumenical religion, today. Those hearing what God had Paul write — which was 100% consistent with everything else in Bible, would anyone study the material — they would become breakaway Back-to-the-Bible movements and independent churches of history. The legalists were hanging onto the Law. They were wrong. Book of Acts casts this bi-polarization using genitive absolutes, in the Greek: split-screen story of the bad guys — the legalists, which in the beginning included all the apostles — and the good guy, Paul. Two tracks, two stories, very bitter schism between them. God resolves the whole argument by employing Paul to write most of what becomes the New Testament. By the end, James realized Paul was right, so gets murdered by the legalists for it; Peter leaves Jerusalem for Antioch and then Babylon, never setting foot in Rome, since Paul is there (apostles don't step on other apostles' territories); John, the last apostle left alive, gets to write a Gospel which updates the post-Temple situation, and he patterns what he writes in 1 John after Ephesians. So John completed the job God had Paul start; when Paul died, Peter and the others reinforced what Paul wrote, so you had 100% agreement among the New Testament writers about what was Canon (see second half of 2 Peter). Which leads back in a big circle, to John 15: abide in Me by abiding in My Word. For now, Jeremiah 31:31-34 is being implemented (main theme of the book of Hebrews). At least in the Word, there is 100% agreement. But the legalists still go on dressing up in outdated party clothes, and largely argue Canon is not closed, inventing their own 'divine writ' — yeah, they have to, for the real Bible contradicts them on nearly every doctrine they tout. Oh well.

So notice how this saga starts out a lot like the Exodus did. Back then, it was Moses who was the outcast; now, it's Paul. Back then, it was Moses who got to write the first books; now, it's Paul. Back then, the people went out to Israel; now, they are going out from Israel. Back then, Moses' authority was always questioned, rebelled against; now, it's Paul who gets grumbled against. People tried to stone Moses; they will try to stone Paul. Paul, who began as witness to the stoning of Stephen, becomes more persecuted than Stephen ever was. So just like that first Exodus, where then-new Israel split into factions, now-new Church will, too. "Legalists vs. Paul" would be a good title for the period — which is another reason why the New Testament Canon, took so long to write. Can't get trained by God if you're not look at Him, but instead at someone He appointed — with envy. Do you notice a pattern here? Same tacked-on 40 years, same wilderness, but new cast, new covenant: 1470 years (3 sets of 490 years!) after that first one of 1440 BC. 1000th anniversary year of First Temple's dedication, the first New Testament books are written. Hmmm: someone is sure paying attention to some very old dates, huh. Do you notice Orchestration here? So the New Testament began its rollout in serial fashion.

Thus began the fulfillment of His Promise from the beginning that His Thinking would be in Writing (namely, Jeremiah 31:31-34, referenced in 1 Corinthians 13, Book of Hebrews). So, a long time after that Ending which Begot a Beginning, John 1, Ephesians 1, Hebrews 1 et alia, confirm and explain What Changed. For, He Who always Was, Became! hayah, to be; hawah, to become. HaYah. HaWah. YahWeh. Concatenated. God, Yah. Becoming Man, Wah. Yah + Wah = YahWeh. Yeshua, even. Immanuel, even.

Frankly, these books are too sophisticated for humans, and solely reading English as most Christians do does not help and eradicates all of the important information. That's why you need God's Power, to properly discern what's in them. God sent Moses to law school (privately tutored), and that's what He's done with all His Writers. He teaches the teachers, then the teachers can teach. He taught the Writers, so then the Writers can write. And if you learn from His teacher (whomever is tailored by God for you); and if you will read Scripture, you gotta think like a lawyer. So use 1 John 1:9 and get the Writer's Brains (God the Holy Spirit)!

The axiomatic writing style of Bible tells you the readers got that discernment, and were extremely familiar with the contents, long before it was put in writing. Israel was a cosmopolitan nation based on commerce, so even her poorest people were multi-lingual, as you can see from the Gospels or even any barrio in Los Angeles. It's a quaint myth among Bible debunkers that Christ was unilingual. Dream on! (Lots of poor people overseas are multilingual; just watch PBS videos sometime.) See, during Christ's time, you learned a whole language as a special vocabulary for certain purposes: you spoke Aramaic at home, spoke or wrote Latin when dealing with Rome on official business; spoke or wrote Greek in analytical or dramatic discourse (Greek was the language of refinement); Hebrew, was reserved for Torah discussion, though Greek was often preferred. So being multi-lingual was the norm — especially for any country which made its living on foreign trade. Not to mention the whole concept of royalty (of which Christ is a King) is to be competent in all languages and subjects. Any Christian or atheist who discounts Christ being a polyglot is challenging the very idea of what it means to be a king. King James VI & I was a polyglot (having learned Scots, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, etc.), why wouldn't Jesus Christ the King over kings, be as well?

People liked Bible back then. It was a cultural icon to them. So they repeated and played with it all day long, especially when doing the many menial tasks which made up the average day. Bible was part of their cultural life, warp and woof, their way of learning to speak, read, write and have fun. Didn't mean everyone believed in it, obviously — but believe in it or not, it was the center of life for people. Much like, the Koran is for Saudis and Afghanis, even today (they technically do a better job at keeping the Koran in their hearts and in their life than the Christians with the Bible, do. For they read it in their original language, and the Christians are only half-assed to read in English). And that was the problem: Bible was too well-known. As a result, its usage denigrated to the level of mere culture. Satan's not stupid. Make a faith so widespread, everyone is 'in' it. Therefore, all of life's vocabulary, is in its terms. Then it ceases being about God, and instead focuses on people. Point is, the Bible is not and was not abstruse. If anything, it was too familiar. Just like today. When a thing becomes too familiar, it becomes despised. This phenomenon is observed in business when trademarks become generic, or "genericide". Companies therefore go at great lengths to prevent their trademarks from becoming vernacular lest they lose their license.

So as the New Testament was gradually reduced to writing, it also became too familiar. Thus people stopped being interested in it for what it said about God. Thus they stopped teaching their children properly. By the second century AD, they stopped teaching it in university. And by 180 AD, no one could even read the Greek well, anymore. An ecclesiastical vocabulary replaced what was once known. Again, Satan's not stupid.

"Roiling" describes the world in the wake of His 30 AD Crucifixion. Everything turned upside down religiously and politically. But why? Surely, the death of a power threat ends the threat. But oh, the world roils even more, instead! Because That One — "ἐκεῖνος" — That One is Coming Back! cried His believers. Everywhere. The potency of that same can't-be-neutral message was this: He's God, and when He comes back, the world ends. So you believed in Him to be saved and picked up by Him when He returned, or you didn't believe and got burned at that Return. Stark message still: just like it was, at the First Advent. Difference here? You didn't know when it would happen, whereas the First Advent was predictable 1000 years in advance.

If you're interested in God, this is good news. If you're hurting, this is good news. If you like gossiping, this is good news. In short, it's popular news, even if as a form of entertainment, a way to snub the elites, to make self feel better. And, if you're in some kind of political office, this is not good news, and those who regard it as good news, you want to stifle. But no one could shut up these "Way" people. Imagine: here the One Who Totally Disavowed Political Involvement, was even still! attacked after He'd died. And for what? For spreading the "Official Good News", ἐπαγγελία, the Promise from the King? Well, yeah — the King had rivals, see. Never mind that the King's own subjects, being citizens (πολίτευμα) of Heaven, weren't even looking for political power on earth. Well, at least not yet. For popularity begets politics, and at this point, popularity favored the incumbents. So if you believed in Him in those days, you were really going against the political system, which hated Him. Despised Him. Isaiah 53 explained all that. But since unpopularity also begets politics, there were many scrambling to persecute the believers, since by so doing, they gained more popularity for themselves. Aha, great later tool for ensnaring the believers, once their movement becomes popular, Satan notes carefully.

People hide when they are persecuted, and since Christ wasn't exactly popular politically with anybody, it wouldn't be expedient to drop His Name to get some favor. Rather, one would pretend to not know Him (like Peter did, like we all have at times) — to keep a little bit of safety. So to claim He'd Risen From The Dead, was political suicide. Yes, it was the biggest promise in the Old Testament, second only to the Cross itself — but still not um... wise. For, who had really seen Him, and couldn't just anyone claim to have seen Him? Surely if anyone ran around today saying they'd seen Christ, at least one hearer would place a call to the local lunatic asylum for a pickup wagon. So to also say He is Coming Back! is certain to garner rock-throwing. To one's disadvantage. Stephen sure found that out.

For the rivals couldn't shut up, either — just like today, if one could get something by blaming someone, hey — let's do it! Oh, yeah right, coming back. What a lame thing to say, to cover up that your 'god' died in crucifixion's ignominy, as all 'gods' do: heck, punctilious Romans like even Tacitus, were forever afterwards confused about his name! So, lamebrain Christian (!): just admit your 'god' is your emotional fantasy. Thus, the world ever thinks. Sure looks like the world is right, huh. After all, they expect God to have a flashy finish, with hundreds of angels lofting His Body up to heaven where everyone can see — kinda like Satan was expecting, in the Second Temptation. Or, they all expect God to come down in some nice costume and take over the sceptre from a grateful world — kinda like Satan was expecting, in the Third Temptation. What the world does not expect, is a God who allows everyone to starve — and Who Starves Himself, too! — like Satan didn't expect, in the First Temptation. But God is never tempted to perform to expectations. He only likes exceeding them all: "filling all in all", it says at the end of Ephesians 1! Yeah, Isaiah 53:10-12, again, filling us up with His Son fills us up with the spoils, makes us great, and He is the Cause, Romans 8 (main theme), Ephesians 3:15-21!

People hide when they are negative to God: just like Adam did, in Genesis 3. They hide beneath altruism. They hide beneath superficial 'respect', nodding to God on Sunday. They hide in crusades in the Name of God, but not really Him, since the only 'god' they love, is their egos. You can prove this all too quickly. So with everyone hiding due to persecution or negativity, due to making-self-fit-in with the "in" crowd, the notion that "He's Coming Back!" Well who could resist taking sides? No one could be neutral to Him while He was here; let alone, if He Became Ruler of the Universe and is Returning! For even if you didn't believe that claim, you could sure use it to gain power, yourself.

So Now, the Rapture is imminent, Greek word "ταχύ"; still based on that Selfsame Bridegroom, Christ. Father wants to kit out a Fit Bride for His Son: but now, it's Church, the "Esther" to rescue "Vashti", roles reversed, Same Groom Loving Them All! New Exodus! Father gets what Father, wants! As a result, this is the doctrine which so galvanized (and made goofy) Christianity in the first century AD, for it gave an urgent immediacy to belief: for, He's Coming, and ταχύ! The Way, the Road, the Path, the Odos who Became the Truth, the Life, the Hope, the Love of mankind, both subjective and objective genitive! He He He is Returning, shub (שׁוּב), ταχύ! To collect His Bride! And ταχύ! So, Get Ready! So the Word spread rapidly, since no one knew When He'd Return. Because the 'date' of His Returning, was ταχύ!

Ταχύ: suddenly, hastily, without prior warning. Used 12 times in the New Testament, but in two ways: not necessarily quickly, soon — though that also could be true. But rather, ταχύ, immediately, hastily, without warning: the manner of coming, not the lapse in time. A lapse in time can be long or short; but ταχύ refers first to the speed of arrival itself. For example, you might go to the store after an hour or a few days. But it's ταχύ, if you instantly popped into the store like Samantha of Bewitched, versus merely walking or driving to the store. In-an-instant, is ταχύ. A heart attack, is ταχύ. Sudden discovery you have the winning lottery ticket, is ταχύ. Something unexpected, instantly-occurring, no prior warning.

As my pastor likes to explain it, "next in sequence of events, without prior warning". For, ταχύ is also a military term, the Next Move On The Battlefield. Element of surprise; suddenness of haste. So it's Haste which is the heart of "ταχύ", in all 12 uses in Bible. not how long one waits. So He says to the believer, Make Haste! Get Ready! For I will come upon you like a thief, Hastily, ταχύ, since Rapture is the Upgrade and Means of Implementing the ahishennah (אֲחִישֶׁנָּה) of Isaiah 60:22! Mark's Gospel uses a synonym, "εὐθύς", usually mistranslated "immediately". Same idea as ταχύ, next-in-sequence, can't predict it, and it's Swift when it happens. Because, Mark was writing his Gospel as a result of Paul's (and probably Peter's) death, knowing that the Temple's destruction, was soon to occur. For the traditional warning period for Israel was 40 years, and Mark was probably writing circa 68 AD, when Paul was executed by Nero.

Of course, back in 30 AD many people around Rome's 'lake', laughed at all this talk of Sudden Return Of The Christ, A Preparing Bride, And The Sudden-Death Nature Of Time Now that He's Seated. After all, that's exactly how their own dramatic plays ended: yeah, we know the god always comes down at the end of the play, deus ex machina, to deliver his clients. Many around Greece's 'lake', smiled too: yeah, that's how we were founded, by a half-god, half-human spawn of that snake-god, Phoebus Apollo: Ion, our venom, our founder!

So everyone laughed at "ἁρπάζω" as Bible's "Rapture" term (1 Thessalonians 4:17, Greek): it signifies "Rape!", "Thief!" The coming snatch-up. not at all a nice verb, but not at all unusual. Didn't gods always rape women? Didn't the conquering tribe or nation always get to pillage? In Latin Vulgate of 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (?) the term translates as rapto; hence our English "Rapture". So we moderns think it's something nice, not knowing etymology, as usual. It wasn't nice: it was Violent and Sudden. It was ho-hum though, to the inhabitants of both Med and Aegean. Yawn. Been there, done that: Phoebus raped Creusa, that's how we Greeks got birthed. 😴. Someone's had a little too much wine in the morning.

Uh oh, God's disappointing His Audience, yet again. But hope never disappoints (Romans 5:5). For, Hope (elpis, a central Socratic term denoting absolute Confident Expectation about someone or something Divine, and in the Future: a moniker for Christ in Bible) delivers the Groom into our hearts — long before the Wedding Day. Specifically, His Thinking kits us out to be Bride, which is why we don't see Him now (Hebrews 2, Hebrews 4-10, Romans 5-8, 1 Corinthians, central theme). So the rest of the audience, laughs at us much like their ancestors laughed at Noah who was so long in building that stupid box-boat. So the audience of the world, boos Him. Oh well. Someone needs a little whine for their mourning.

Of course, as the years post-Ascension slowly passed, the hype of His ταχύ-like arrival, got a bit 'old'; just like it did, the first time. Even though He Had Arrived, And On Time, and anyone could prove it, even from Daniel 9 alone! He was Messiah Who Came, YH+WH, Yahweh hawah'd! Oh well. Anyone can get excited about a wedding, but if the Time Of Preparation takes too long, well what if the Groom Cancelled? Guess it wasn't Him. Despite Daniel 9's incontrovertible proof. Not to mention, 900 other prophecies and over 100 Characteristics and prophecies He Specifically Fulfilled, when He was here, right down to His manner of death. Seeing, they didn't see. Their eyes were blinded by hurt tears. So even most Christians, even the Lord's half brother James went back to the Law.

As a result, others had recalled: oh, wait! The Lord said the Temple would be destroyed before He returned, right? Pump pump pump the heart holds belief a little longer, a little faster. But ταχύ! Paul is suddenly arrested a second time, and executed by Nero! So then, Book of Hebrews had gone out: Okay, this might be "it", ταχύ, Grow up! But then, Nero, gone as well! Hail Caesar, full of gracelessness. So nice to lose a bad poet. Little did anyone know how quickly things would happen, then. For, each of Nero's three successors didn't last but a few months; when only Vespasian remained, everyone breathed a sigh of relief (whew, his troops won't overrun us), and they crowned him.

Oh, but his adopted son Titus, was stuck in Jerusalem trying to subdue its weirdly arrogant residents, so needed to wrap things up! For years I've been patient with these people, letting up on the siege, negotiating with them, to save their god's temple. But now! Oh, I'm finished with this armpit of the Empire, these recalcitrant people who think their little god is head over all the others! Oh, Temple Gone! The plunder from that Temple fortress was legendary in value, workmanship, splendor; and it took a legion to trundle the spoil back across that Roman lake to display in triumph. With 90,000 Jews in tow, enslaved, thus preserving the people.

The flutter in the believer hearts, oh! Temple Gone, the Lord Must Be Coming Back! And, like Christian clowns would do some millennia later during the infamous Great Disappointment, waiting on a hill overlooking the yet-to-be-born Los Angeles, the 70 AD+ Christians quickly gave up all they had and waited For His Imminent Return. And waited and waited and waited. Waited, obsessed over historical events. Waited, looking in prophecy when there was no more prophecy. Waited, not "studied". Waited, not "grew up".

It's easy to understand how that first-century group couldn't stop trying to date the Rapture. God orchestrates time, and every Jew was required to know how He did it, from Adam forward. That orchestration math was as basic to them, as the holidays in the Law. God used specific segments of time to teach Doctrine so they could learn how to interpret His Policy, to number their days, and all of history, as well. So, as we saw, from David's death onward every Jew was required to forecast the coming of Messiah. God made it real easy to know. Since every Jew was weaned on how God orchestrates time from Adam forward, you simply had to know what were the 1000-year time grants given David, and you bracketed everything from there. David's death was 963 BC in our terms, so +1000 = Messiah had 'buy' another 1000 by dying successfully no later than 37 AD, else Time Would End. God cut the 490-year grant in Daniel 9 short seven years because of this. David's 1000th anniversary of Crowning was (in our terms) 1004 BC + 1000 = 4 BC, the deadline for Messiah to be born: again, to purchase a 'new' 1000 grant (use 3 BC in your calculations, for it was late 1004 BC). So you knew when He had to be born, and when He had to die. You also knew He'd get the same 40-year reigning period as David, from this bracketing of deadlines. You also knew another deadline, the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement from Kingship, 970 BC + 1000 = 30 AD. Messiah would thus have been on earth as long as David was King over all Israel, 33 years, as of that anniversary.

So you also knew when Time was supposed to end if Messiah succeeded, so you knew how to estimate the Rapture, if God kept to the same timeline as initially planned. For if Messiah had been accepted by Israel, He'd have died 37 AD, which was the 4143rd year from Adam's Fall, when God started to number Adam's days; the historical 1050 year ending would have been 4200, which was exactly 57 years later, the 4th 1050 from Adam's Fall. The 57 years represented the sum of Passover plus Pentecost, First fruits beginning on the night of the last day of Passover — so, that represented 7 years 'reimbursement' for Passion week, and 50 more years for the Gentiles to vote (true since Adam, not just with respect to Gentile unbelievers), which took you to the end of time. That would be 94 AD in our terms, and that's when the Millennium was supposed to begin. So it was easy to guess the Rapture would rollout seven years prior, in 87 AD. Or, more likely, in 70 AD, for obviously the cut-short 7 would play from 64-70 AD, since a seven in God's accounting is always housed inside a 40-year judgement period. So from 30 AD when He did die — David's 1000th anniversary of retirement from Kingship — plus another 40, was 70 AD. So then you'd expect the Rapture to occur when the Temple was razed, since Daniel 9:26 would not be fulfilled until the Temple was razed.

So despite the warning the Lord gave the apostles in Acts 1, people anticipated the Rapture based on the old Davidic schedule. It made sense, given that God always likes to be on time. And it could have happened. Paul anticipated it in 1 Thessalonians 4 and Philippians 3. But it didn't happen, and instead Paul was executed. So Jude, Peter, Book of Hebrews and Mark's Gospel went out because Jerusalem's siege got stepped up. Then the Temple was gone. No Rapture. No one grew enough. Now maybe you see better why, and why our penchant today for dating the Rapture, has a long history originating in the first two generations, post-Cross: we want prophecy to titillate us, not Word to grow us.

The purpose of prophecy is to tell you what time it is. And time, was up. So no more prophecy. Instead, Learn Word. We didn't. So Now, God has to resort to a Stronger Warning Method, same Policy as Leviticus 26. And that method, will continue to 'play' the theme in Daniel 9:26c, with wars and desolations dominating the Land Which Lost its Temple, Until Messiah Returns at the Second Advent. Now updated, with a Rapture occurring seven years prior, which no one can date. We didn't listen to Him when He told us when He would come. We didn't listen to Him when He told us He would come again. So now, we need Daniel 9:26c to be advertised, daily. That's what 'time' it is, the Times of the Gentiles, Rapture is ταχύ!


A Syncopated Prototype of the 'Tribulation', begins

"Ἀρχηγός" means founder, originator, author, even prototype. The first and ruling one, thing, idea from which all the rest, comes. This term is used of the Lord in Hebrews 12:2, and that verse uses a marathon footrace metaphor (you can't see it in English), paralleling His life with our own marathon footrace (in Hebrews 12:1, also not visible in English). Idea is, we get the race, because He first ran it. As my pastor likes to explain, He tested and proved successful the spiritual life He invented while down here, analogous to a successful submarine hull's staying intact at 100000 fathoms; so we can certainly be submerged by life's problems, at a mere 2000 fathoms. So too, with "tribulation": the Lord's Tribulation on the Cross, was by far the worst, and had to be, since He basically paid the present value of the cost of all souled creation, either directly or indirectly, lest Father be cheated. So, too, He leaves behind a copybook (ὑπογραμμός), so we Living Stones can be inscribed like Him. Prototype. Progenitor.

So to reject Him now, carries a much higher penalty. Before, He hadn't paid. But now, He has. Before, He didn't leave behind a Royal Legacy. But now, He has.

By 70 AD (and ever since), the world had rejected Him, yet again — despite all that added proof, written Canon. So how can God 'talk' to a world which still rejected Him, yet point Him out at the same time, to save or spiritually grow, whoever will respond? Takes more drastic measures, now. So, just as in Matthew 22's parable — you talk parables to negative people and to children — Send out the servants (us) to all the highways and byways, calling everyone to the Imminent Wedding. Which, being but servants, We Are Sent As God Makes Happen (Our Prototype didn't promote Himself, but let Father and Spirit run that).

But of course, like the parable about the vineyard, since they don't accept the Owner's Son, but instead killed Him — they won't accept His servants, either. How deaf. So next deafen them with what they will hear: cataclysms. Drastic measures because drastic surgery is needed to remove so much scar tissue (prolonged negative volition, Bible term for it). Hardening of the arteries, actually: "hardness of heart", in English Bibles. Arteriosclerosis of reason.

A person has to be deaf, dumb and blind not to believe God exists. Deaf, dumb and blind, to call Absolute God some kind of ethnic symbol, belonging to one group but not others. Deaf, dumb, and blind to then turn around and demand some counterfeit idea of "god", so he can claim his tribe or ethnic group, has a "god", too. Yet that is the history of the world. Christ isn't European, and God isn't human. So no tribe, no culture, no race can claim superiority. The promise which gave rise to the Jews, isn't due to them, but to Abraham, and no Jew inherits because he's Jewish, but because he believes. All this is carefully explained in: Deuteronomy, Romans 9, Galatians, etc. ad nauseam. And, the group which gets this information to disseminate, is very much more spanked, than those who don't ("to whom much is given, much is expected" concept of responsibility). So anyone who preens over being a believer versus those who are not, is in for some harrowing discipline, for he proves himself deaf to the undeserved privilege he gets. So also, anyone who is jealous (and it's always jealousy) over those who are believers, is in for heart surgery. Drastic measures, on believer and unbeliever, alike. Tribulation, even. To realize only God can be doing the spanking, so wake up and believe, or spend eternity shaking your puny fist at Him from a very sweaty place. Your choice.

For Europeans didn't write this Book. God wrote this Book. Using, descendants of Noah. Of whom, we all are. "Noah" means rest, relaxation, repose, and that's the whole Purpose of Learning This Book: to Rest in Him. Him, The Second Noah, Christ, the Author of our Salvation: and we all died in Him (Romans 6). All, Greek word "πᾶς" used in the plural as a substantive (= noun), which means: "all items/people without exception." So, then: All Mankind Can Be Saved. So God isn't the God of the Jews only, as Paul repeatedly explained. God is the God of everyone. Without exception. So anyone without exception can believe in Him and become Body of Christ. No longer separated by stupid and meaningless barriers such as race, culture, religion or sex; but One In Him. The One who Paid for it all. Real God, Really Got Paid. Real God, really saves you, that first nanosecond you first believed Christ paid for all your sins. In that first nanosecond, you married Him. Whether you know it, or not.

So, for all those who still scoff at Him and invent truly stupid excuses based on their tribal, racial, or cultural backgrounds, like, oh, we have a god who is as good as your god — just like the inane excuses people make in the Matthew 22 parable to refuse the wedding invitation — well, they need pretty drastic surgery, since obviously they think God is just a dog, to be owned by a particular people! But the believers who reject Him — usually pretending to love Him no less — shall they be less punished? Oh no — but more punished!

Because the cost had been, our sins. But Now, the Cost is the Son Himself. God raised the bar on cost of salvation, didn't lower it: The Payment Is Continually Living, Now — That's What His Resurrection Power Signifies. Thinking paid for sins, main point of Isaiah 53 (beginning at Isaiah 52:13). So the Payor must live forever, since hell lasts forever too. Sinning goes on forever. So Counter-Thinking must go on forever. That way, those who are still sinning, are countered by those thinking Divine Thoughts, and thus those who go on sinning can still be saved. Christ paid so this counter-thinking can continue, not merely to pay the present value of all sin: Father should be given pleasing thought; what else can a finite person, give God Who Needs Nothing? So, hell does not ever compensate God, it's an ongoing cost. Hence, nothing in the Bible says demons and unbelievers are forced to stay in hell (Lake of Fire, eventually). Luke 16:20ff shows you the guy in Hades, loves staying in hell. Loves priding himself on what a victim he is. 2 Peter 3:9 tells you that God is never willing that any should perish. Never, is never. not maybe, not sometimes, not eventually, but never. Meanwhile, how else can we become sinless forever ourselves, if His Thinking Which Made Him Sinless, doesn't get into us? There's a reason why God never wants to sin: due to what He Knows. So, if we Learn the Book, we will gradually sin less, and then when we die, we will know what we need to know, to retain free will but yet never sin again. It's not magic, it's Justice. God's. In Christ. For us. Eternally.

See: why God doesn't just instantly create us and make us little obedient automatons? Sure, He's got All Power. It's how He chooses to use it, that's at issue. Justice is How He Chooses, and it's Only Just, if it's free. No matter what the Cost. But still, Just that God get Paid, and Payment has to be Thinking, since what else can pay Holy God? Only His Own Thoughts, are good enough. So, that's what happens when we die: the Bible you learned and lived on down here, goes with you. It's True Capital, from which God can justify burgeoning your understanding to fit your new eternal status. If you learned no Bible down here, you'll only get a de minimis amount to enable you not to sin again: your soul has effectively shrunk to compensate for those knowledge voids with God's patches where absolutely necessary. But what you can do with that, won't be much. Heaven is not an equality, it's a hierarchy of spiritual understanding. And that, leads to a hierarchy of material wealth, to express it. Rich in understanding, rich in material wealth: King of a kingdom, under the King of kings. Else, a happy Royal Peasant forever, take your pick. There's no middle ground.

Since in Him, then we merely believe in Him. Finished, is the payment ("with results that go on forever", is the meaning of "τετέλεσται"). Finished, is salvation. Ended, is the enmity. Begun, is The Life Learning How to Live in Him, Since We Died in Him (theme in Romans 6-8, 2 Corinthians 5, Colossians 1-3, all of Hebrews). Which means not less but more surgery, Hebrews 4:12. Lifelong surgery, every day. Delicate surgery. Delicate or drastic, surgery means 'tribulation' will occur. For Better and for Worse. For with God, there is no such thing as "divorce".

So careful students of the Word often notice that the New Testament doesn't reserve the concept of "tribulation" to denote only the official one of Daniel 9:27, which plays out the last seven of Israel's promised pre-Millennial years. Rather, there are several types of "θλῖψις" (a tribulation word) in the New Testament: personal ones (like in Romans 5, 2 Corinthians 12); group ones (like in 1 John, Matthew 24 — which speaks of two Tribulational beginnings — also Revelation 1-3); and world ones (i.e., "wars and rumors of wars"). Moreover, these tribulations are often layered, like floors of a building, so overlap (i.e., historical disasters cause personal ones). So the Bible describes several types of "tribulation", just as it differentiates among different classes of "baptism" (not just the water ritual), and "salvation" (post-salvation, you still need other types of deliverance while still on earth).

So the Official Tribulation, belongs to its own class; it is briefly defined as the timeline of Daniel 9:27. Therefore, a type of 'syncopated' tribulation begins, because our slowness never makes God slow about keeping His Promised l'moedths, appointments.

So He plays it out, syncopated: not exactly the official Tribulation long forewarned and explained in the Old Testament; but rather its underlying trends rhythmically play out — enough to alert unbelieving Jews and believers everywhere that they, not God, were slow to take up the Promise. Book of Hebrews was the last warning. God stamps history after 70 AD with Daniel 9:26c's characteristics; so A) we can better spot where we are in time despite our deafness, and B) we won't confuse the official Tribulation 'owed' the Jews, with the syncopated version assigned between Temple Destruction and Rapture.

"Syncopation" is a kind of musical or percussion rhythm which repeats in a discernible patter — but is never stressed on the exact same beat. It's not always one two three, but one two three, or one two three, etc. The stress varies somewhat unpredictably; the number of beats often change, as well (or are variantly chained together). This way, you know a tune is being played, but it's wacky, weird. Unexpected, see. Kinda like California rain, which isn't quite rain, and isn't quite mist, it's a noticeable aberration. Catches your attention. Like those tsunamis did, mimicking what God describes of the Flood, in Genesis 6. But, for the world of January 2005. What a way to start the year. We should take deep notice.

God never plays to our expectations, because then the relationship isn't with Him, but with the expectations. Expectations ruin a relationship, as many a drunken divorced person, will gladly explain. So God has to get our attention if we aren't listening to Him, and He uses both time and weather, to do it. The aberration from our expectation of time, of weather, can only be superhumanly explained (of course now many just falsely attribute every modern weather disaster to "climate change", which is not true — the MAGA went so far to say Joe Biden was controlling the weather after God targeted Trump Country). We well know man can't manipulate either time or weather; so naturally we are motivated to look up when either one, seems out of kilter. Weather, since it is not manmade, attracts our attention, and every culture ever on this planet attributes weather (correctly) to God's Direct Action. (God runs the weather via the four angels responsible for each cardinal direction and via direct control, in order to communicate His pleasure/displeasure to mankind — hundreds of verses on that. No auto-pilot inanimate forces run the universe, okay? See Genesis 1 for a refresher course on how directly God handles the universe — Genesis 1:2, mother hen, the Holy Spirit (in Hebrew).)

So we "get it" about God when some huge thing happens which we know man couldn't control. So, "tribulation" involves huge things, since the 'small voice' of the Spirit (1 Kings 19:12), is going unheeded. So He plays Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, Genesis 6, Exodus — via Huge Things. It's all in writing, so we can see play what the Writings warn. And know there is a connection. It's not rocket science. And the message is always the same: Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up and smell the sweet savor of your Savior's Thinking. As the Lord puts it in the Greek of Revelation (a refrain), if you reject the μάχαιρα (Hebrews 4:12, "knife", short Roman sword), you'll get the Ῥομφαία (big Gentile-style broadsword which hacks you to pieces). Word or war. Your choice.


So let's look into how Christians Stopped Wanting The Spiritual Life Christ Wrought, Once the Temple was Destroyed: for, every generation of Christians since 70 AD has the selfsame disease. To understand today, you have to look at yesterday, since human nature is the same in 2007, as it was, back in 70 AD. Notice that: Christians are to blame, not the unbelievers. It's also an easily observable phenomenon as to why Christians become the most nasty people of any group. Indeed, to whom much is given — us Church! — all is expected. Without exception.

So how do we know these folks just waited for the Rapture, and didn't learn anything about God, and were disappointed in Him from 70 AD onward? Well, the Biblical science of "textual criticism" uses language and isagogic quirks in the writing, to date authorship times. So from those quirks, you can tell there's a hiatus in the "Writings" (Bible's name for Bible in Bible). Peter, Jude, and John's epistles are very different in tone and content, largely Pointing Backwards (with the exception of Revelation), rather than forwards. Depicted below is a table with more-probable dates of the New Testament Books. Red denotes post-Paul.

Book Name Year Written Notes
Matthew 30 AD Certifiably the first book in the New Testament; major doctrines route back here
Galatians 49 AD By Paul
James 50 AD
1 & 2 Thessalonians 53 AD By Paul
1 & 2 Corinthians 54/55 AD By Paul
Romans 56 AD By Paul
Luke 58 AD
Philippians 60 AD By Paul
Philemon 60 AD By Paul
Acts 62 AD By Luke
Colossians 62 AD By Paul
Ephesians 62-63 AD By Paul
1 & 2 Timothy 66/65 AD By Paul
Titus 66 AD
1 & 2 Peter 68 AD Post-Paul. Paul dies (68 AD): year of the four emperors begins.
Jude 68 AD Lord's brother, succeeded after James was murdered. Jude is in exile.
Hebrews 68 AD Post-Paul
Mark 69 AD
John 77 AD
1 & 2 & 3 John 77 AD
Revelation 88 AD Certifiably the last book as it 'bookends' everything prior

You date a piece of writing via its content, not by the media it's written on — text can be written on stone and there'll be no way to truly know its age. You look in the content for historical and other references; for example, an article talking about Microsoft Windows software would not be written in the 1st century BC. You look in other books to see if they play on keywords located in the book whose age you are testing; this tells you the other books are later in age. You look at the language idioms, slang, tenses; for language morphs quickly over time, so you can date a book by its idiom (and catch later scribal adulterations, too). All this and more, is involved in what's called "textual criticism". That's how the above dates are derived. There's a lot of sloppy scholarship on Bible book dates which doesn't analyze the language content properly, so the dates derived are wildly wrong.

Notice how Matthew, James, and Paul's letters are written right away. Luke is the Second Gospel. Then, silence until Paul dies, 68 AD. Then a flurry of more books, Peter, Jude, Book of Hebrews, Mark's Gospel — all with an undertone of expecting the Rapture due to the Temple's imminent destruction: it was the year of the Four Emperors, and Vespasian had adopted Titus who was then besieging Jerusalem. Then another silence for another generation. Notice the rollout of the New Testament was accomplished with only 9-10 people, all of the same century, versus the Old Testament.

So here's what we know:

  • By 70 AD, Bible had been written in enough detail, for folks to grow up in the totally new spiritual life Christ had Authored for us from His Own Life; only John's books were yet unwritten (though the special Gospel content which we know as John's, was already known and often used by Paul).
  • But, Christians had stopped responding, and instead were doing what Paul had warned against, in Ephesians 4:14, going after every wind of false teaching.
  • So God had Peter and Mark and the author of Hebrews write after Paul was executed, warning them about the many false gospels and teachers; warning them to Study Scripture, not pine or salivate after all the pandered, counterfeit debris. Just before he died, Peter wrote scathingly in his last letter about the final Valhalla Bonfire, to get laggards in the Diaspora to remember the Lord is not slow about keeping His Promise, just as Isaiah 60:22 explained. not slow, But Gracious. So, Grow Up! After all, Noah spent four generations building that ark, while people laughed at him until the deluge suddenly swept upon them. No one listened, for guess what — the Rapture didn't occur!
  • So God had John write a generation later, to remind folks that they had the information; to explain why their expected Rapture dates didn't occur, and what next to expect. When one New Testament writer uses the key terms of another earlier New Testament book, he's citing it as Divine Authority. You can't tell this type of legal form called "incorporation by reference", in English. Peter's epistles, both addressed to Paul's former "μαθητής" (dedicated students — no such thing as a casual Christian) — Peter's epistles frequently reference Pauline key terms, especially those in Ephesians 1-2 (using stone/gem words, ἐπιχορηγέω, etc). Jude frequently references Peter's key terms, but it looks like he's incorporating Paul's Corinthians' and Ephesians' themes, in verse Jude 1:13, Jude 1:17, Jude 1:20-25.
  • So we know from the content of the 66 AD+ epistles, what was going wrong: false teachers leading folks astray, with Jude the more urgent letter on that topic.
  • Since their letters did not wake up the Body Corporate, God finally had John write down his Gospel, followed by the primer/refresher course in spirituality we know as 1 John, followed by two short warn-against-false-teachers letters; ending, with Revelation. It's clear from 1 John 2 that John knew he was the last writer of Canon. John loves finessed wordplay, so you have to read what he says over and over thinking about keywords before you 'get' what he says. That's one of the hardest letters in the whole Bible for a modern reader to understand: it is deceptively simple (Greek-Drama simple, meaning "epic"). So the simple-minded gloss over it. Big mistake. I'm re-translating 1 John gradually, to bring out what published translations miss. Best to get the exegesis from your pastor, though. I have my pastor's exegesis, and am testing myself before consulting it.
  • Same kind of rollout structure and tone as for Old Testament books written after 586 BC, frankly: reminding them of what they already knew, clarifying (for us, who didn't have all that oral teaching) what's the score, in light of the Diaspora. To encourage and brace them. These books only needed to be written, if Christians were failing in droves. People don't need reminders on what they already got right.

So the last Writings were due (in part) to People not Understanding What Paul Had Written from the 50's AD until he died. They hadn't understood Luke's Acts (chronicle) theme of evil (i.e., Jerusalemite) Christian Legalism, versus Paul. They were aping those stupid first-generation believers, instead of learning, Don't Be Like These People. So you find a return-to-the-basics (Firsts! as in First Commandment!) theme in 1 John; endless warnings about false teachers; Peter's bulleted stress on being under the Word so it can inscribe you (he loves ὑπό-prefixes and stone-related words). Revelation is mostly about the developing apostasy — playing a role akin to the Book of Daniel for the Jews — since Christianity, like Israel in 586 BC, had pooped out. Revelation was also needed since the spiritual gifts had died out (tongues died with the Temple's destruction), and People Were not Learning What They Already Had In Writing (mostly from Paul) — so Revelation is a strongly abrasive warning (and comfort, as all God's Warnings are). That's how far down Christianity had fallen; that's how fast a generation can decline. We wanted only miracles from Him while He was down here: and then we hated Him for doing them (main theme in Mark's Gospel). Fine: then see the miracles at the end of time (theme of Revelation). For when God has to do a visible miracle, it means We Went Deaf!


But we Christians began falling away, right away. Even in the Old Testament (and in Judaism today), everyone knew that having the Dabar (the Word) in your heart was The Highest Spirituality; hence the tefillin, to remind you to wrap the Word around your thinking. So how is it, that a decade or two after the Crucifixion, people lapsed into works? Book of James (Judah, his real name, the Lord's oldest half-brother) was written to redress this lapse; it is one of the earliest New Testament books. James was murdered by Christians and Jews (!) soon after Paul was shipped in chains to Rome, partly due to his longtime support of Paul, but the Book of James looks like it was written maybe 10 years earlier.

James was composed 45-50 AD, so we know they started falling right away. Ironic, James had to write on this (he had 'been there', was a former legalist who even allowed Paul to be persecuted but then grew up). James 2:18-26 (a quintessential God Alone Works passage), Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 4:11-16, Romans 12:1-3, Hebrews 11:1 (covered below in detail), and many others, are so screwed up in translation, you can't even know the God-only-does-it structure. James' theme, for example, is that Bible Doctrine Works ("faith", in English Bibles). By James 2:18 he's answering the arrogant straw man who claims Doctrine doesn't work any better than the man's own works. James finishes up with a series of God-Actor verbs like "συνεργέω" (only used of Divine Action, see also Romans 8:28) to prove that Doctrine Does The Work In You Via The Spirit's Running It (James 2:22-26). Like many New Testament writers, James stresses the God-Alone theme by removing the Greek article in front of nouns of God's Action. Translations essentially reverse that meaning, for the only way in English to convey it is to stick "God's" or "Divine" in front of each such noun. If that were done, you'd see how James reams out people for thinking their works better than the Faith = Word meaning. Which is ironic, since a scant 8 years after writing this letter, James will be part of the conspiracy to trap Paul in Jerusalem. not for long, though. Then, finally siding against them, he gets their wrath, pushed off the Pinnacle of the Temple (southeast corner) by them. That Pinnacle was where Satan had taken James' half-brother, Jesus (= Joshua) the Christ. I got that information from my pastor. How he was able to separate out the story from all the tripe out there on James and his death, I don't yet know; but the guy's 'read' has proven so trustworthy on every other topic, I'd bet what he says is valid here, too. I've not gone through all his lessons to see if he elaborated on the topic more in some other classes.

Hence the historical legalism which has plagued both Judaism and Christianity, began early. Is easily perpetuated. When we're children, it's right and natural to use morality as a toward-God training aid. Yet You Must Grow Past That, and mature instead into Love for God. Just because. Not, for brownie points or human approval. But they didn't grow past that, and neither do we. Christian theology to this day is appallingly childish, in every denomination and no denomination. Relationship with God, not religion! Relationship with God, Love: not sandbox legalism. not I-do-for-you-and-you-do-for-me sterility. Which morality becomes, if Love doesn't become its Husband.

So when large numbers of folks are age 50 chronologically but age 5 spiritually, there's no excuse: people don't care about What God Actually Says, or they'd not arrest in spiritual childhood. Children care only about what makes ego feel good, because they feel small. That's the "natural" man's thinking (1 Corinthians 2): it's foolish to the natural man, to say he can't do anything which "counts" toward God. It counts as far as he's concerned, so darn it! God admires it also!

So, people pretend to obey God, but the 'god' is their emotions, Philippians 3:18-19. That was the problem among believers when Paul was weeping over it, while under house arrest in Rome (when he wrote Philippians). Again, we should take deep notice. And we notice that we don't take deep notice or even teeny-weeny notice, 🤣. For Every Generation Is Just Like the Generation of 70 AD: puerile.

So God's percussion of disaster, the θλῖψις on personal/national/regional levels, must keep on playing the Leviticus 26 and Revelation 6 'tunes'. Trying desperately to beat into our dull skulls (Hebrews 5:11, Hebrews 6:11-12, blazing νωθρός sarcasm), so we might turn and be healed. That's why hell exists. That's why life is hellish down here, too. For "God is not willing that anyone should perish", 2 Peter 3:9. We're the ones slow-on-the-uptake. So He'll keep beating the eardrums.


So 😮‍💨 by the 90's AD, one generation into the syncopated, prototype tribulation, Christians were so tired. Read Revelation 1-3, which chapters were composed circa 96 AD. Note also that during the 90's AD, the "Church Fathers" arose and via their prolific writings, morphed Christianity out of all resemblance to the real Bible. Read their stuff carefully, note how Pharisaical and goofy most of it is, straining at gnats but swallowing camels. Instead of studying Scripture, they were trying to 'reconcile' it with pagan culture (!), apologizing, for crying out loud, defending the faith! (Yeah, God is weak, see, so needs human defense, 🤣.) Pure garbage, high on their own holy-sounding tones, learning nothing from Bible. It's pathetic. Or, they're out chasing who they consider heretics — sure sign of apostasy — writing tracts and all manner of humanistic claptrap, as if it were 'wisdom'; getting involved in politics, telling everyone else how to live their lives; or, contemplating their navels and calling themselves 'holy' due to their isolation. Their writings prove they didn't know God 101, even though many of them were allegedly fluent in Greek and Hebrew, and had the original language texts. I mean, the 'esteemed' Origen concluded that the Son is subordinate in power to Father? Did he never read 2 Corinthians 13:14 or any part of the Old Testament, nor any of Hebrews 1-2, Hebrews 11:1 nor any of Romans or that quintessential passage on the Son's Equality, Philippians 2:5-10? Maybe he had a different Bible than mine. To think that Western Civilization was built on these dolts. Gibbon's indictment of the early Church is scathing, but once you read these guys in their own words? Gibbon is too tame! So if these guys so messed up, how much more, will I? So it's scary, what negative volition can do to a once-sane, person! After reading what kind of nonsense the Early Church saw fit to circulate, peruse Eusebius and Hegesippus' story on James' martyrdom! Yeah, we learn from history that we don't learn a dang thing.

Clement I and his ilk were busy penning blasphemies (i.e., 1 Clement 44:2), contradicting 1 Corinthians 15:1-10, Ephesians 4:11-16. The Corinthians passage shows God has to Appear to you Personally, or you're not an apostle at all. Paul said last of himself. Last means the last one appointed, no successors. Since the 90's AD, same phenomenon has blighted Christianity: Good Friday (1 + 1 = 3 versus what the Lord said in Matthew 12:40-41), mariolatry (which my Roman Catholic Church-authored "Library of Devotion", imprimatur Cardinal Stritch 1953 says is based on "fanciful" material and the Koran, but not Bible), all that hermit junk, the wild lies about James living in the Temple, the endless persecutions of 'heretics', etc. ad nauseam. Ephesians 4:14! Pope Myth parallels the allegation of Popes with Bible-then-being-written, proving the allegation false, a case study in first century + apostasy. It's hard to tell if in the second century AD people claimed certain believers of the first century were 'fathers', versus those first century people, trying to usurp power. Truth is probably a mix of both: people take the previously-dead, and make myths out of them. So it's not clear whether the so-called 'Church Fathers' sought power; or, whether some later 'others' used them, made up writings and myths about them, to gain power. I mean, a guy's writing might just be brainstorming, a rough draft, a musing, a reasoning-out; but it's found post-mortem and oh! It's a Masterpiece! Enshrined! Relic! Slop for the hungry apostate masses! For example, both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin must be screaming from heaven for people to stop worshipping what they wrote and instead, improve on the ideas via transformative thinking. They wouldn't want what they wrote to be a substitute for Bible, nor would they want their writing to be the definitive interpretation of it. For the Bible is what's perfect, not what men write; writing is only an exercise in understanding, at best. By contrast, the claim about popes is a substitute-for-Bible, power-usurping invention of the third century (or sometime in the second century), using previously-dead people who can't refute that evil claim. Pope Myth demonstrated that there was no pope during the first century, and that the whole pope claim is anti-Biblical. You can test the material, that's its purpose. It's pretty awesome how sensitive we all get about saying some human being is wrong, but it's okay to totally trash the Bible. Well, the pope claim resulted in successive kidnapping, persecution, and trashing of Bible, using the so-called 'Fathers'. That fact really ought to be admitted in Christendom. That it is not admitted, proves how we too believe it's okay to trash the Bible, but oh we must be nice to those who trash it with their holy tones and false doctrines. This was a black time in Church history; only 'golden', in the sense of golden calf. Shameful. And now the independents are trotting down the same road. More Shameful. We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

With each passing century they became weirder and weirder. By 300 AD, they didn't even know what God-man meant, nor Trinity: so had to convene bleeping councils, to figure it out! So blind were they to the Word, that "councils" was a good idea! Do you see God ever convene a council to authorize explanation of His Nature? No! And yet in history books these folks are honored? Sheesh. What historians call the "golden age" of the Church Fathers used to be known more accurately as The Dark Ages. Yeah, Scripture was midnight to them, 1 John1:6, so the world had no light, either. Come on! "Good Friday" was invented by these idiots. Um, Friday to Sunday isn't three days and three nights, okay? They couldn't read Bible if it bit them! So, it did!

Note that: councils, rather than God's Command to use 1 John 1:9 and studying Bible to find the answer, 2 Peter 3:18 (in context). God didn't matter, 🤣, but humans and their overinflated egos! Just after the Pentecost, the church began in people's homes; there was always a teacher, and no one needed a pontiff: our King was Seated in Heaven. But oh! All that changed, and man's assuming power In God's Name over man, became preferred! How do we know? Because, by the 200's AD, no one could read the Bible in Greek anymore. Because, No One Kept Up The Teaching Of Its Greek. A lapse which began, back in the 90's AD. We preferred "Church Fathers" to The Father Of The Son Whose Thinking Is Written In That Book. Which was designed for anyone to learn, under no ecumenical Revelation 17 harlot, but under a local teacher. Hand-picked by none other than the Holy Spirit, Himself. But by the 90's AD, we were like Israel, wanting human replacements for God's Grand and Royal Training. So, we became peasants, unable to even read the Book. We replaced the gorgeous husbanding of Ephesians 4:11-16 with trailer trash. Ephesians 4:11-16 is always horribly translated in any Bible language I can read (Spanish, French, Italian, English, Portuguese, sometimes German). Who dressed themselves up in the exact same colors as the Revelation 17 harlot. But we didn't get that obvious hint. We didn't get anything. We are dumb beasts, now ridden by politicized religion. By Satan & Co. Fancying ourselves holy, of course.

God is Grace, though: He used these incredibly-inane councils To Gather Scripture. That way, maybe the folks would wake up to the fact that It's the Bible, stupid. God didn't need man's help to preserve Scripture; God doesn't need man's help in identifying which of the many books out there, are God's, or counterfeit. Man shows his extreme and horrifying arrogance when he claims that he himself preserved the Word or he himself decided what's God's and what's not, or he himself tells us what's right or wrong interpretation. God does all that; so God appoints teachers Himself, just as He had appointed Paul on the Damascus Road. No pontiffs, no more apostles, no middlemen. Ephesians 4:11-16 couldn't be clearer, in the Greek.

Avoid the Trap Key → Faith in Christ has within it an implicit desire for, and recognition of, authority. Authority is a wonderful thing, like morality is a wonderful thing. To learn proper rule — whether you exercise it, or exercise obedience under it — is the greatest prosperity of being human. So much Freedom is gained once one has and is under, proper rule, because all the pieces of life thus fit, so you are free to have them all with minimal compromise. People instinctively know this, so they seek to be under authority, as much as they seek to exercise it. So Satan can and does use both authority and morality, to trap us: they are his most potent weapons. Oh, how well he succeeded here in the first century, where the most insane ideas prevalent today, were all born.

For in the 90's AD, believers were largely whining: What, did God abandon us? Echoing the sighs of their long distant compatriots during Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, and Caesar. So, believers languished, just like their 586 BC counterparts. He did not return for them? Why don't we hear from Him? Meanwhile, the Christians had become even more odious to their neighbors, than the Jews; like cockroaches, the Christians infested every house. Nero had proved that a generation prior, when he blatantly lied about that bonfire he lit all over Rome, and no one protested. Well, serves those Christians right. Sure, they did it, since they are always saying our ancestral gods are but wood and stone, but Their God Is The Only One. Yeah, and He came down to them, like at the end of a play? Yeah, so they have to make it look true, by burning down The Eternal City? Figures. Yeah, Caesar, burn them like torches.

For the Roman, religion was an expected thing. One performed a given piety, and all gods were due expected oblations, obeisances, etc. Didn't matter if you actually believed in the god or not — and if you did, you were politely received, but never admired — what mattered was that you Fit In. Just like today, all-faiths-are-equal was expected, and if you didn't follow that norm, you would have a hard time in society. So, a generation after Nero, the Christians were the Least Respected Group. Which is why they had to use the catacombs for their assemblies. No one in polite society, accepted them.

Fast-Forward: Just like today, every other faith got warm respect and welcome, all the nice politenesses. But the Christian, gets only accusations. TV programs revile Christianity constantly and in every fashion. Granted, we Christians are mostly still in our spiritual diapers, and there is much ridicule due. But you'd never see the respect given to Muslims who get upset over the exercise of free speech, given to the Christians. Never has been, never will be. Like the Jew, the Christian must be reviled: because his God is the Real God, principle of Isaiah 52:14, writ large, and over history. Ken mishhat me-ish — battered beyond human semblance. Wa toaro me bene adam — Incarnation, yet Beyond Human, Born from man to Save man. And so, the Redeemer and all who belong to Him are always Reviled, 1 John 3:13, 1 John 4:8, 1 John 17. For Grace is forever ugly, to the ugly. But look: as apostate Revelation 17 Christianity floods the United States after the 2024 election, all of that reviling becomes justified in the eyes of the world. This is always the constant risk of apostate Christianity.

The apostles had covered a lot of ground the meanwhile, from Spain to China; and everyone else made up their own gospels to cash in on the response. Everywhere everyone reacted. Hence everyone had a 'gospel', everyone was a messiah, oh! And leaders all over the world, were embracing or erasing, these new "Way" people. Read these fake gospels, sometime — but have Pepto-Bismol or bicarbonate of soda, nearby. Hairy stuff. Tells you a lot about how crazy people were, that they'd believe in such nonsense. Even the Church Fathers got into the act, hallowing a good bit of the fake-gospel tripe (my favorite being the one where "Hieronymus" pandered on behalf of James, depicting the latter as an unwashed ascetic who lived in the Temple, 🤣). Anything to make God look bad, was pandered and bought, 🤣! Anything, that is, but the successively-hidden Real Bible books, which were in ever-shorter supply, being the target of pogroms (or collectors), everywhere.

Yep, all over the world. Even when some demon wrote the Book of Mormon 18 centuries later (which was also the case for the Koran and Bhagavad Gita), he spent no little time (and wordplay against the original language texts of Bible, oh!), explaining how the (alleged) splintered tribe travelled to American shores shortly after the 586 BC overrun by Nebuchadnezzar. Refer to Tactical Example: Book of Mormon to see why I conclude it was a demon-authored book, not a human hoax dreamed up by Joseph Smith. The latter, as well as Mohammed, were duped. Royally. What a tragedy, since you just know these two guys did not mean to be fools! You can prove it empirically, too. Took only a year or two (if you dawdled) to reach American coasts from Israel, if you kept close to the shorelines (northerly route, going west or east). Some anthropologists researching the origin of spearheads called "Clovis points", sailed in an ancient (Inuit-made, open-craft, sealskin) manner between the Carolinas (?) and France, in but a few (six?) weeks, following the coastline. It was an easy life, an easy trip, not a hard one. The experiment was explained in one of the episodes of the Alan Alda National Geographic series. I don't remember the exact title, and maybe I've misstated how long it took to traverse. I only remember it wasn't very long. Suffice it to say, the routes were known for thousands of years, so it wasn't like one would be isolated. Great way to spread whatever 'gospel', one was selling.

So during the first century AD, the world was turned upside down in every way. So world religions were the hardest hit. For if it was true that the Real God had accomplished salvation on the Cross; if it was true that this Same God then destroyed His Own Temple and at the very time as He'd promised well over 600 years beforehand, well — who else could be 'god'? people wondered. This God orchestrated time, and you could do the simple prophecy math, if you knew the right dates. This God saved you by paying for you, and only wanted you to Once Believe in Him? You didn't pay anything, He did. So who else can be God?

The proof of the story, was the very Book of This God, which is why Christianity spread like wildfire after the Crucifixion. People could read why what happened did happen, and that it was long explained beforehand. Miracles can be claimed by anyone, but this God had this Book which made sense. So even if you didn't see the miracles claimed, the Book Itself Was Provably But Sensibly Miraculous. No other holy book was like that (even until today). You could Take the Material in the Book, compare it with whatever you were told, and validate. What holy book, ever did such a thing? For the Bible Mandates You Validate Using It, And Mandates That You Test It. Idea is, it tests you, and you test with it, and you test It. Refer to Paul's witty Greek wordplay in Romans 12:1-3, especially Romans 12:2. Because, you are to Learn To Think with it. Because, miracles of themselves aren't important, but rather the Lesson From Them. Because, you are to learn to think 1 Peter 2:2.

There is no other holy book at all like the Bible. Excluding the truly goofy, National Enquirer-tripe such as the Apocrypha, the world's genuine holy books offer poetry, arcane words, pithy homilies and sometimes brilliant writing. But all of them, nicely vague. What passes for 'prophecy' is Delphic; again, nicely vague (you can even make Nostradamus mean anything you like). And in all of them, you huff or puff some drug — controlled breathing is just like a drug — to commune. But none of the Bible's words are arcane, though few understand its many metaphors, wordplay. But all of the Bible's prophecies are quite specific and never abstruse, unless you don't learn the metaphors and wordplay; after all, it's a book from God, so its sophistication must be playing omni-level. You couldn't learn it all overnight. Moreover, the Bible's forecast of history demonstrably plays just as predicted, and is meant to, as a form of Divine Communication. Probably the largest point as to what makes the Bible unique (besides the notion of Grace which all religions and apostate Christianity reverse and add works), is the fact it's a vertical relationship with God. If you remove the relationship aspect, the Bible becomes an 'offline' piece of literature ready to be mangled with your own ideas and not God's.

Here's a Heads-Up:

After My Son pays for all the sins of mankind, I'll destroy the Temple;
so you know to leave Israel; Do not come back
until I personally bring you back,
Daniel 9:26c, Matthew 24.

That's a pretty straightforward message. Since you know that if the Temple is destroyed again — given you know what happened the first time it was destroyed — God is Ejecting His people from the Land. Since that first time, He later brought them back to rebuild the (Second) Temple; until He did that, they were not to come back. So repeat lesson again, shenayim. That's why so many Jews left after the Crucifixion; and especially, after Paul was deported to Rome, and James was martyred. They read the lesson. It was not arcane. This is also why Zionism is technically a Satanic movement of our today, and why Satan is calculating 'when' to initiate Israel to rebuild the third temple prematurely. Some will say being against Zionism is antisemitic — because God has warned "don't go back until I return" it's not under that context. However, it's antisemitic to actually believe in all of the Palestine/Iran/Qatar propaganda and those who are anti-Zionist usually are antisemitic because they deny the fact Jews were originally there along with Jewish history and culture. Make no mistake, Satan is fully behind the "Free Palestine" movement as well: this is why you have global activists pop out of nowhere chanting "Free Palestine" while people falsely accuse Netanyahu as being a murderer committing a genocide 🙄, while they conveniently ignore the Chinese Communist Party's actual Uyghur genocide and Russia's actual Ukrainian genocide. But these are to be ignored and Israel defending itself needs to become the focus? How does that make any sense? More Uyghurs and Ukrainians have died than the entire population of Palestine three times over! Of which Israel always takes its time to warn them to get out, which neither Russia nor China do. It's estimated 2 million Uyghurs and 5 million Ukrainians have been murdered (as of 2025).

So you are meant to test Bible and prove it all, even commanded to do so; because, Bible is so specific. Because, you are supposed to learn it. Because, learning it teaches you how to Think Like God Does, So You Can Know God And His Will. So that's why you have to test It, to Make Sure You Are Interpreting It Properly. That's why you have it. Of course, if you don't learn it, you won't see a thing. And if you can't see, then Bible looks any other holy book — potentially worse due to the fact it requires God's relationship factor and the others do not.

Most of all, the Character Of God revealed in Scripture is unlike any other holy book. Try this experiment with any other holy book: strip out the flowery-I-love-you's, mystical vocabulary, and Delphic vagueness. What's left? A 'picture' of 'god' which is cruel and capricious, deriding all who believe in the holy book portraying him. For there is no surety about your afterlife: it's vague. Sounds like you have to do things your whole life, and maybe in your next life you'll be better off. Maybe. Screw up, and you definitely will be hurt, though that's vague, too. The more cruel among these fake-god books tell you that you must keep coming back to this dirt ball in one living format or another, and maybe you can break free of that after thousands upon thousands of years. Or, you break free if you do something spectacularly noble (but silly) and sacrificial: say, if you starve or torch yourself in public (popular ideas, even back before Alexander's time). In all events, you have to really work at it, and well, maybe it will work. How cruel. Notice it removes the emphasis on thinking and intellectual pursuits as well.

And derisive, for the afterlife these books sell is kinda hot, going by the usual descriptions. Here the most clever wordplay is employed. True genius. Like,

Notice how Delphic, that refrain: "Paradise" is a well-known compartment deep within the Earth. Greek plays and Bible have much to say about it. So notice:

Do you see the common pattern? These books differ greatly in their geographical location, time period, and 'client' people, but they all promise fire! at the end. And the 'god' never gets paid, either. So the 'god' is a masochist, and would like it very much if everyone joined him.

The demons even take this concept within Christianity and make it into a joke, such as this phrase here "I want to be on fire for Jesus, because lukewarm leads to hell". Get the joke? You're to self-immolate yourself to earn your salvation which then ultimately leads to the lake of fire because you never wanted to believe salvation was a gift, refusing to do the Will of the Father (John 6:40)! There's nothing about being 'on fire' in the original verse, Christ said you're either to be cold or hot, but never lukewarm as it leads to apathy or apostasy. And there was certainly nothing about hell.

lukewarm

But in Scripture, God Gets Paid. And you're Told Why. And you're told what He wants to do, is spend it on you, just as He spent your sins on Christ; because He didn't need to be paid, but it was only Just to be paid; that because He's Infinite and you're not, well that's a Medical Problem and a Legal Problem. Which He can fix, but He won't coerce. Medical Problem: you don't have His Nature, and the one you have, is all trashed up by sin. Legal Problem: you must consent to Him fixing you. That fixing, is called salvation; and it's instantaneous, happening the very second you first 'do' John 3:16, Believe Christ paid for your sins. That's it. No baptism, no rituals, not I'm-sorry junk. Okay, then what next? Well, your soul still has free will, so maybe you want a say in how much more than salvation, God should do to you. That's why you have This Here Book. To choose to learn it, means God the Holy Spirit will change your soul to match the Son's, line by line, precept upon precept, decision upon yes-vote-decision-to-learn-and-live-on-The-Book's-principles, that you make. Notice it's a personal relationship, just between God and you. You get a teacher, but it's a personal crafting in your soul, what you choose to learn and live on. Not, some religion. Now you know why you didn't immediately go to Heaven that first nanosecond you believed in Christ.

Pretty powerful message, and not too hard to understand, either. Ok: God is too big, but He can make me compatible. That's a medical problem. I am a person with the indestructible power of consent, so He being the God of Authority, Honors Consent. Will not violate it. Okay, and if I consent, I am 'saved'. Then, made more like Him, since He's Omnipotent and He can do that. Via learning His Thinking. Okay, makes sense.

So of course other faiths had to come up with competing answers, or the feet would swiftly vote away to Christ. Historically, you can see how they often adopted some part of the Story of Christ, or even Christ Himself; and then, passed off that part (or Him) as their own.

Buddhism, for example, had allowed for 'gods' but didn't really believe in a Creator, so what passed for 'gods', were merely higher beings subject to reincarnation like everyone else: you placated them if you had to, but most of the time, you concentrated on not getting ruffled. Yet within the first century of the Crucifixion, all across Asia Buddhism was morphing into a "Greater Vehicle", with "bodhisattvas". These were Christ-like helpers who enlightened poor sops still on earth to transform; after which, the bodhisattvas would transform themselves. Additionally, there was born the idea of one transcendent Buddha even bigger than Gautama himself. This One would Come, a Maitreya, and usher in whatever peace and prosperity "Nirvana" was thought to mean.

Similarly, Hinduism was initially animism, so 'godness' was this abstract thing; unlike Buddhism, Hinduism's 'All' played out as gods manifested, most often in animal form. Post-Cross, this "avatar" idea got upgraded, too: principally, by adding "one to come", who'd usher in a permanent prosperity, and He was Human. Moreover, the entire concept of godness became a oneness of person; amorous, no longer amorphous. Just as had happened to Buddhism. Post-Cross Hinduism would also get "Krishna" which is a joke on Kristos, and you'll see many reverse parallels with Christ and Krishna: a big one being that Christ is the light of the world, but Krishna is the opposite with the name meaning black or dark blue.

krishna vs kristos

To be sure, the idea of Absolute God had already been around a long time; after all, Elohim created the angels, adopted them and gave them His Last Name, such that they were bene ha-elohim, the stars of God. So to be sure, as that story was told around the world throughout man's existence, some of the story morphed; some groups just truncated the bene-ha-elohim, and those were the gods; the promise of their being Grown Up To Be Like the Most High made for an eventual transformation, too. Aha.

To be sure, these syncretic faiths easily incorporated into their beliefs whatever was in the periphery. So within the century of the Crucifixion they emphasized: 1) a savior-helper, and 2) an underlying Oneness to godness, thus chucking centuries of polytheism. What used to be a loosey-goosey confederation of deities/super-creatures, with 'oneness' always lurking around somewhere, tightened up to eliminate the idea that there were ever multiple gods, in the first place. Sheesh. Everyone had to have a monotheistic, Second Coming tenet in their faiths, now! What a pain.

Historically, you can find many examples of such opportunistic changes since time immemorial, so this morphing was nothing new. Most notable, was the 'vision' (and god-change) promoted by Thutmose IV, younger son and heir of Amenhotep II after the latter died (either in or as a consequence of, the Exodus). This change simultaneously repudiated Amenhotep's patron deities, and adopted the Hatshepsut patrons, to keep peace (in the name of placating the gods, but it was the society who was being appeased). Each Pharaoh after him likewise had to follow that precedence, and with devastating ramifications. Building on the 'vision' that Hatshepsut claimed when she claimed Moses her own, each Pharaoh had to mix the Hebrew-God ideas with local deities; or, like the Tutankhamuns, abandon the former altogether, 'returning' to the old gods under whom Egypt became great. It didn't work. The 18th dynasty died just like the 12th one had. Past is prologue.

The closest parallel we moderns have, is our shivering or angry awareness of terrorism. No one can stay neutral to it. It's now the policy of the United States to not befriend anyone who favors terrorism (replacing the Monroe Doctrine, in a way). Well, then no nation or its people, however they truly feel about the terrorists, will be neutral. Gauntlet is thrown down. Same now, as then. Today, of course, we can easily leave traces behind of our history. Back in the Lord's day, given the explosive potential of civil wars, you'd have a whole bunch of folks seeking to cover up the impact His Coming had, try to play it down; hence, a massive and skilled coverup which makes the other coverups like massive deletions in Talmud during the Middle Ages, Hitler's concentration camps, Stalin's persecution of Kulaks, Saddam's sold-to-the-highest-bidder WMDs, Watergate, Enron or WorldCom seem amateurish.

It's A Matter Of Political Survival: if they don't morph their religions, cultures; if they don't cover up His Advent smartly, Then People Will Know! So civil war remains a threat. Elites must cover up whatever threatens their power. It's not always a greed thing. Some rival and popular idea, ruler, religion invites voting feet. Voting feet means chaos. Voting feet means loss of revenue. Voting feet means the very survival of the group, can be lost. Same problem as the Sanhedrin had while Christ was still alive and visible; but now, the whole world inherits the same problem, due to His Crucifixion. So the very problem the Sanhedrin meant to solve by means of His Crucifixion, instead expanded geographically. The world's elites therefore had to offer something of like attractiveness. Pogroms and other oppressions, wouldn't suffice.

Lest you think that coverups back then weren't done, let's look at a modern one which also regards the Middle East. No one in the mainstream media who reports nightly on the Palestinian 'conflict', bothers to note that Jews bought the Land (Israel) from the Ottoman Empire, beginning in the 1800's; they drained the swamps, hired Arabs as day laborers, built the kibbutzim and all the infrastructure. The Arabs wouldn't live with them, generally preferring to commute from Jordan. You can see the history in detail by a formerly-anti-Israel journalist named Joan Peters. What she learned had so shocked her, she wrote From Time Immemorial. You'll note that Wikipedia in its current versions proudly declares that the book has "been discredited by reputable scholars" (as if Noam Chomsky is anything but biased and certainly not reputable), along with other pages on the Palestine-Israel conflict sporting disinformation and anti-Israel bias; including outright calling Ben-Gvir 'a settler'. These have all been edited by a coven of Pro-Palestine editors who conspired to systemically change the narrative (CarmenEsparzaAmoux, Makeandtoss, Nableezy, Nishidani, Onceinawhile, Zero0000). And so, the anti-Israel sentiment and disinformation continues. Couple that with blazingly anti-Israel statements in the Arab PLO Charter that "Israel has no right to exist", and you realize smiley faces like Arafat's and kindred were just pasted on, Arafat refused a two-state solution, despite this most news coverage tries to deny it. Coverups aren't new, and they go on all the time. So it shouldn't be surprising that the most threatening political event ever — a Messiah in Israel? — would motivate coverups, too.

Of course, the lie that Peter was ever a Pope, ever even in Rome, much less buried there, is covered up blithely by the Catholic Church. You can prove that claim a lie so easily, it's embarrassing. So past is prologue, and present is what happens when the past comes to pass, yet again. We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. Shenayim!

Those who win in history get to rewrite history in their favor; and in the case of Messiah, the anti-God forces will win. So they burn, cover, hide, what doesn't make them look good. And it makes no one look good, to reject all this fulfilled prophecy about Messiah. Moreover, there are plenty of altruistic reasons to justify the coverup, and every country had a doozie: to Keep The Peace. Antiochus IV Epiphanes wanted to destroy Israel for that reason; the Arabs sweet-talk the same idea today to everyone (yet talk quite differently, in Arabic). Peace in the Middle East will be here when Israel's gone.

So the Book has been assiduously sought, in order to destroy it; so to destroy any Basis for Faith in this Messiah. That's why only three known copies of the Masoretic text survive even today (there are small scraps of Paleo-Hebrew, but hardly anything of those remain). Antiochus had a lot to do with that, confiscating every Old Testament he could lay his hands on about 160-some years before Christ came here. It's been going on ceaselessly, ever since. Only the tactics, have changed (now the Bible is hidden via bad translation or the demented claims that translations are perfect or supersede the original texts). Understand, this isn't a human conspiracy. But humans do have their reasons for participating in parts of the conspiracy, and they don't see the fit of the overall historical conspiracy over the centuries. But Satan & Co., who manage this conspiracy, sure do. And — I guess to make it fun — they leave all kinds of Very Large Hints that they, not mankind, are behind all this. So much has been done to wipe out evidence of this Messiah in the interests of keeping the peace, history sometimes has to be torn in pieces.

Trouble is, they didn't manage to wipe out the evidence. Instead, they corroborated it, by proving they covered up. For, when anyone tries to cover up a vast occurrence, no one can succeed at covering up its language; so since all that's left are traces in the language and literature, you know there has been a massive coverup. Which, you trace like you do DNA: looking for markers in literature, belief, histories regarded as myths, etc. (Use the same process, when tracing out mistranslations of Bible.) So too, the usage of words Biblically, leaves its markers in every culture. Which usage, is at variance with other cultural norms. A real good example is how Christ is portrayed in the Koran as the Faultless One — versus Mohammed, who is portrayed as a sinner — yet Christ only plays John the Baptist, to Mohammed? And yet Christ magically doesn't die at all... and has a Second Coming in His Same Body? This is Islamic teaching about Him. See also the Mary sura, and the At-Tariq sura.

The modern Navajo have their own creation stories: man is made by the Great Spirit from the red earth, Who Breathed His Spirit into him. Very much like the old Anasazi stories, about how man comes up from the ground, some versions (where the spirits come up from below the ground).

There are hundreds of similar morphed creation stories, Flood stories, salvation stories, etc. which linguistically and doctrinally betray their real origins. For the carriers are not so smart as to selectively play on the original language Bible texts, especially since those texts would be hidden, torn up, and otherwise kidnapped for the better part of 30 AD - 1850 AD.

So, just as you can easily prove Genesis 6 a demon begetting, and the universality of the Flood, via worldwide literature and 'myths'; so also you can prove the worldwide political impact of His Time Here, by the enormous multitude of fake gospels, the changes in religion which reacted to Him, and the changes in politics which reacted to Him. As well as, the changes in worldwide languages, themselves. As well as, the timeline convergences — since only God can orchestrate time.

So there are three common morphings which characterize worldwide religions from the first century AD forward:

Judaism was also gradually forced to suddenly trumpet monotheism, disavowing the Trinity it always knew. That would be no easy task. Mystery math, to make 1 + 1 + 1 of the Bible's witty "echad", become "One" in number of Persons. They couldn't erase Scripture, but unless they changed its meaning, they couldn't stop people from adding up the prophecies about Messiah. Especially when at Pentecost these "Way" people reminded everyone of the fulfilment of Joel 2, the "times of the Gentiles"; which of course The Way Himself had explained, in what we know as Matthew 24. And also, Isaiah 28, the tongues prophecy of imminent destruction.

Which actually happened right before everyone's eyes. Pentecost 30 AD could not be explained away; for Messiah was dead now, and as a result of Him being dead, Joel 2 was supposed to roll out on the Pentecost following His Death. And here it was, all over Jerusalem! See, it's one thing to dispute miracles by a man, even if you can see Him. You can tell yourself your eyes lied, that it was a demon trick, that either He or you was drunk, that it was a charlatan's act. All these arguments were in fact, made. But you can't do anything about someone who you know doesn't speak your language, suddenly giving you a personalized version of the Gospel, with details about your own life which no one around you in Jerusalem, knows. You can't do anything about what look like tongues of fire descending on people — fire being the quintessential metaphor for the end times Judgement. Too many seeing, too many hearing, too much cogency of the prophecy being explained, showing how it was fulfilled. Something had to be done. And quickly. First, round up these "Way" people, charge them not to speak of their messiah again for the sake of keeping the peace — then figure out how to retool Judaism. So to have a like cogency based on the Same Scripture. It would prove a daunting challenge, even quixotic.

So to keep their own adherents, they had to redefine Bible's essentially Tri-Theistic presentation of Identical, Co-Equal Infinite Essence in Three Unique Gods (e.g., via use of "ἡ" and articles in 2 Corinthians 13:14) — into monotheism: just literally one Person being God and labelling all other ideas, heresy. In addition, they face the impossible task of recasting witty Bible terms like "echad" and "monos", which each mean "unique", and "united": signifying that They plural! Each Unique, Voluntarily Unite As A Corporation — signified by "Elohim", last name, plural, collective noun, namely Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 3:22 (not "like", but "out from") — due to Love. For it was Jews who wrote the Greek Old Testament, and mostly Jews who wrote the New Testament, showing how those witty meanings in the Old Testament, were all Fulfilled As Promised. Validating the proper definition of the Jewish God for all Time. So here the non-believing Jews are, faced with Total Vindication of Their Holy Writ — in need of debunking it. Not a happy position to be in!

The Jews would face the ultimately-impossible task of morphing "God" into Only One Person — so to eliminate That Christ, being God. Sure, the Pharisees finally succeeded in killing Him; but oh dear, now what a problem! He Resurrected! Promises of the Brass Serpent, and The One Who Will See No Decay, all over the Old Testament! Psalm 16:10, Psalm 49:9, Acts 2:27-31, Acts 13:37. Worse, the rabbinical schools could find endless other problems with such a stupid 'oneness' morphing of Bible's doctrine, even logically and juridically. So the internal arguments raged among Judaism's more-established sects (Pharisees, Sadducees, etc). The hundred-or-so Judaic sects in the world today sprang from arguments like those dramatized in the bullets below, which splintered them. The typical Christian barely knows of the top three, which are Conservative, Reform, Orthodox. But there are the Hassidim, Sephardim, Kabbalah crowd (with many sub-sects that argue against each other), Zadokites, Ebionites, etc. You can find many of them on the internet; you'll find many Jewish sects believe Jesus Christ is Messiah (they call Him Yeshua, His Name in Hebrew (translated "Ἰησοῦς" in Greek and hence "Jesus" in English); but they vary over how much of the New Testament they also consider Divine Writ. Much of the dramatized bullets below are sketched from their sectarian differences. Judaism, like Christianity, has never been monolithic. The minute Moses was appointed by God — Who disinherited all the Levites, in favor of him and Aaron, and then gifted the entire tribe to Aaron — the rifts and sectarianism began. God really likes being politically incorrect.

Yikes! Everyone knows that verse is a typical min preposition wordplay on Messiah-to-Come, being Born "out from" the Holy Spirit, verse 11 (qereb at ruach), even as His Humanity would be borne out from Israel who the Spirit led out from the 'womb' of the Exodus! Not to mention, the nine verses connected with verse 16, using the same Fathering concept! Not to mention, all of Isaiah 53-55, which use that same Fathering concept to describe our salvation! Wow. Can we just hide the Writings and hope no one will notice?

From this point onward, then, Judaism began to splinter into many more factions, and those who couldn't stand the struggle, just plain left. Understand that what seems like a later conspiracy to cover up "Echad" (United Unique One), was a matter of survival. People who didn't want to be part of that, simply moved out. They moved west, east, north, south. They collected themselves into deserts, ships, caravans — or remained little enclaves within the city. No small number of them moved down into what used to be called Sheba (seven), or Egypt. Some just upped and left for Rome. And every one of them had his own story to tell, thus fulfilling the expediency Caiaphas advised, though Caiaphas didn't mean it to turn out that way: John 11:49-53. Fake gospels of all kinds, usually weird in the extreme, were crafted, circulated. Meanwhile, the Real Gospel was communicated orally and in writing, on a gradual basis; some of the letters were immediately recognized as Canon-being-developed, which is how we have them, today. No council would determine God's Authorship: God Did It.

Back in Jerusalem and in other Jewish quarters around the world, the πρεσβύτεροι (elder elites) didn't really want to change their Beloved Writings, and in fact did not alter them; even that most blatant Isaiah 53:10-12, depicting the exact Mechanics of the Cross (without specifying it would be on a cross), has gaps signifying text is missing. (No text is missing, Isaiah crafted his meter like a calendar, so you can test for missing text; but they forgot he did that.) They also didn't really want to re-define "God" as One Person, because they knew better. But Judaism so fragmented that the elites became afraid the Law would be forgotten; that Israel as a people would be assimilated; so they began to work out a way to unify their variant sects, and then to compile what comes down to history, as the Talmud. In it are dozens of references to the Holy Spirit and to Messiah, still. So 'Trinity' is still there.

It wasn't that they wanted to cover up "God", but rather they wanted to buy time, get the people back together and then figure out a way to educate them. So, it took time to work out what to do. Some years later, they finally did. Hence the Talmud. Hence the retooling of time, after the Temple was destroyed. They decided to call the period the goyim would come to call AD, "the Common Era", for in their morphing to unify after the Temple's Destruction, they came up with a new doctrine that God had transcended the Law to a new 'common' phase, so that the Temple and the sacrifices were no longer needed. "Common", of course, means "times of the Gentiles".

Which, of course, was true: Book of Hebrews was written to Jews and Gentiles in Israel, shortly before the Temple's Destruction, about the time of Paul's execution by Nero — to warn everyone to grow up or get out — and it explained why and what about the Law, was now made obsolete.

How right James was when in his Book he counselled that not many should seek to be teachers. What a responsibility. What "double discipline" (my pastor's term) accrues to the teachers who distort His Word! What fear anyone should have, when representing that Book!

The devastation among Jews was total, in 70 AD; the siege on the outside, the horrors Josephus recounted, were but tiny compared to the inner upset. For every Jew knew the Book. It was part of his very breathing, just as Moses ordered. The first time the Temple was destroyed, it was largely due to Israel's pursuit of phallic-style religions. But the second time, whoa — Israel had gone way overboard in punctiliar observance. So think: here you are, a devout Jew, being very careful to obey the Law and then, poof! The Temple is gone? After all my careful obedience? For seeing the Law, they held it too closely, became rotelike, comprehending nothing. So God had to give them some distance. To think. To wake up and see Daniel 9:26 right before their eyes. Since they didn't, couldn't accept the Messiah when He came. And the Dome of the Rock keeps on witnessing to Daniel 9:26c. Mutely testifying to the devastation that began on the inside, as a result of the Crucifixion.

Judaism has never recovered from it. And won't. Not until He returns, to properly regather His Own, just as He has always promised (see Romans 9, Romans 11). Meanwhile, bet your life that there flourishes in many little pockets a remnant of different sects of Jews who, like their forebears, do believe in Yeshua HaMaschiach. They aren't loud, they aren't flashy, they are part of Church because they believed in Him, and They Are Still Jews, yet in the Higher Church Covenant; and they will be shouting with joy at the Bema along with us bleeping goyim, Galatians 3 (no racial distinctions in Christ, so no racial barriers, either). God keeps His Promises!

Meanwhile their fellow Jews who did believe in Messiah, known then as "The Way" group (from "The Way the Truth and the Life" quote by Jesus), well these later-monikered "Christians" were undergoing the selfsame doctrinal upheavals (confer Acts 15). So far as they knew, now that He had gone, the Tribulation was begun: "Tribulation" being understood in the wider, "common" sense of the Daniel 9:26 destruction phase, aka "times of the Gentiles". (Acts 4:24ff, note the meaning of the verses they quote.) Many who believed in Him also still believed in the Law (i.e., Acts 15:3). Paul and James were great friends, having known each other since Paul's days as a student of Gamaliel; Peter was a pillar of the Church according to those admiring him; John, of course, was the beloved apostle. As Acts notes, they all had endless discussions about how to unify and not splinter. Of course, God was getting left out of the discussion; salvation was degrading into a political problem of how to control the people.

Paul finally had to break with the Jerusalem Jews and James, for the Real God Really Showed Paul How The Session, Changed Everything. So much, that the Lord even forbade Paul to even talk to the Jews, and repeatedly. Acts 9:15, Acts 13:47, Acts 15-22, especially 22:18-21. This was the worst thing that the Lord could do to Paul, and in the end, it felled him. Imagining himself destined to just pass through Rome rather than to permanently take up residence and teach there, Paul fools himself into thinking he's just to help ferry some money to Jerusalem, in Romans 15:25ff. Keeping up this charade takes the better part of a year and a half, culminating in him being nearly beaten to death in Jerusalem, on the very steps of the Temple (Acts 22ff). After which, God shipped him to Rome anyway. In chains. Finally, the Canon's main writer, was gonna stay put! And tell everyone else, what no one wanted to hear about what real unity, was: Ephesians 4:5, Son's Thinking on the Cross! Learn it!

Meanwhile, above the thickening, teeming fray of human confrontation, high above the clouds, looking down on all this writhing humanity, the one who for eons ached! to replace the Most High! was most interested in all these factious proceedings, and did all he could to help them proceed apace. Oh, to provide a final solution to these vexing problems!


Satan's Mystery Math Class: How 1 + 1 + 1 = 1!
Yes! Three Becomes One!

First, the Problem: what we Christians would later come to call the doctrine of the Trinity was so well-known by the Jews,

So, of course, when the Real Son came here, and identified Himself as The Way Of Salvation (Old Testament keyword) in John 5 and following, the Pharisees looked for a way, alright — a way to kill Him, because He Was Saying He Was Equal To God. This moment is sometimes lost on Unitarians and modern Judaism.

Next, the crafting of a final solution!

Satan really feels for these guys. So he puts on his thinking cap. So, let's see. How about, we just restrict the thought about the meaning of "one" to one person, as if Infinity were limited and spatial, 'wholeness' can't exist unless one entity.

But the Pharisees, who keep mulling over this suggestion, not knowing Satan's behind it, are understandably despondent, and their rumination began again. Oy, such a headache! 🤔 Despite all the other Bible uses of echad for unitedness (or εἷς), not to mention how the Each of Them is separately designated God, like in Isaiah 63:9-18. Or, failing that — 😩 — since after all it's Painfully Obvious "God" Is A Collective Noun, Denoting Three Independent Persons — 😩 — we can't fix this. We'll just have to be pious and deny it, hoping no one will notice how incompetent, is our coverup.

Satan tries again. Aha! Wait! Suppose you truncate "God" into a hydra-headed Scylla, no one 'head' being really alive on its own — yeah, like the beast of Daniel, hooray! Oh, yeah, and have the Christians call it, "Three in One! and make it a mystery, the name for Church, how God can really be a whole Person, Alone! Oh: and make it heretical to disbelieve they are separate whole Persons! Heh. So he can confuse both Christians and Jews so much, they'll kill each other! Yeah, Satan's not stupid. He got to work on both Jews and Christians, right away. "God" is this egg, see...

Whew. Satan saved the day and came in clutch. And so they all lived happily ever after, the Jews with their One-Person-Revision despite that even today "Echad" means "United" as in "United Nations". Oh: and the Christians are happy too, with their Mystery Egg, which is somehow Three Persons, Yet no One of Them whole as God on His Own? Yeah, God is just a good ol' Egg... 🐔🥚

Yeah, an Egg, that's how stupid the Christians are, a demon calling himself 'Gabriel' would tell the genuinely-pious Mohammed, about six centuries later. So you, Mohammed, you write down what your lord tells you, that God has no partners, and these Christians are dummies. So, Mohammed faithfully did, dictating what his lord told him, to a transcriber; not noticing, of course, the many references to the Holy Spirit in the Koran he was writing. not noticing, either, the reference to Christ as the "Faultless One" who in the Mary Sura was vouchsafed to be conceived via the Holy Spirit.

The Jews of his day who kept peppering Mohammed with questions — so that 'Gabriel' had to dedicate several Suras to them — the Jews alongside Mohammed were very contented with his replies. Guess they didn't notice that the Cow sura turned the red heifer into a golden calf, that the Koran still claimed Abraham sacrificed Isaac, never Ishmael (Sura As-Saafat, 37:83-113). But then, the Koran never says that Ishmael was the rightful heir, either — the Jews still have their inheritance, Allah has something different for those who Surrender to him — so maybe the Jews were mollified. Precisely what the ones surrendering were to get as their inheritance, the Koran wouldn't say. Allah knows. Allah merely promises shade in "Paradise" beneath the earth after one dies if you obey the Koran; which is where all shades go, as everyone knows from fifth century BC Greek, literal: Hades, AKA "Hell". But by Mohammed's time, the Old Testament prophecies of the Ascension, Messiah taking everyone out of Paradise (see Ephesians 4:8-9), had been fulfilled for six centuries. So Paradise was empty, in Mohammed's day. No shade in it, but rather it was dark — well, that's a kind of 'shade', huh. So "in Paradise there is shade", is quite true! But notice: lots of shades roasting outside it in 'Torments', though (see Luke 16:20ff). That's why they can see but not be in, that Paradise where there is shade...

"Allah", as any good Muslim will tell you, doesn't mean "God". That's true: it's a Hebrew term for the rising of smoke from an offering. So comes to mean ascending. As in Isaiah 14:14. But no one seemed inclined to make that most obvious connection, though "ala" is one of the most important Hebrew words in the Bible, a preposition of ascent. So if "Allah" really means ascending, well then "Allah" isn't yet on high... right? Oops. For sure that blooper wasn't Mohammed's fault. The guy was just an honest young man who had no familiarity with Scripture. But his Jewish hearers should have known better. Guess people got sleepy, when hearing Mohammed explain his visions, or when reading that name in the Koran. For centuries.

So of course who raised an eyebrow, when the Koran said how this Allah would be diminished if He had partners? Who asked, So, um — wouldn't Allah be more diminished, if He created other beings? More Diminished, if sharing this message with a Mohammed, rather than simply announcing the Message with ... skywriting? Oh well.

Yeah, so "God" must be diminished to... an Egg. Something you eat. Something which never becomes alive. Coming from a chicken brain which can't understand John 17, 2 Corinthians 13:14. So what was the proper Trinitarian Jewish view, could nicely become but mere Hindu 'manifestations' of One God. No one manifestation was the whole of Him. For eggheads.

So, back in that first century AD, the Pharisees and Sadducees finally mended fences, and worked very hard to sell this new one-person-thing. But they never quite managed to eliminate all the Talmudic references to Trinity (i.e., in Mishnah); and they couldn't dare mess too much with the Divine Writ everyone knew and had in synagogue. So all that wonderful Trinity wordplay, remained intact. Right down to Elohim, a plural 'last name' to convey Identical Essence, Triplets, which Israel still uses every Saturday, in the "shema": Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad!

So back in that first century AD, the "Way" also having splintered mostly due to Paul, finally decided that amidst all the persecution, they better find a way to stick together. So, by the end of that first century, what had been the Jerusalem faction of believers, gained dominance; and from their loins would be fashioned, political religion. And the world would never be the same again: Revelation 17 began right on time, just as God had John warn them.


Naturally, during that first tumultuous century AD, people around the world largely found all these changes in their long-cherished beliefs, extremely upsetting. Give me that good ol' time religion! Out of that upheaval, many others saw opportunity for yet more variations — and profit. Profit means trade, and trade means travel, so that first century saw a huge upswing in travel. The normally ever-mobile populations (great way to keep safe), now emboldened by the peace of Rome, travelled like never before. (It's no coincidence that the Mohawk, certain Hawaiian headgear, and the Roman helmets, have so much in common. It's no coincidence that Mayan and other Latin American temples remind one of ziggurats.)

So, new faiths sprang up like weeds, especially based on some kind of Redeemer claim, and a lot of money was easily um, obtained thereby. Oh, so popular the tale! Just as foretold by Christ, and in Paul's letters to the Thessalonians, messiahs started popping up everywhere. Anyone who had a grudge against entrenched authority, claimed himself a messiah returned, to make his bid for power. Polities would soon be at risk, so governmental persecution soon became the usual reaction. It was as if the First Advent, hadn't completed.

By Domitian's day, Christians were so unpopular, there were mime plays mocking their beliefs and rituals. Tableaus of their ridiculous megalomania of god sacrificing himself for them! Oh how sacrilegious! How against the Roman mindset of inclusiveness! All The Gods Share Power. How dare any of them not reciprocate honor to another! How dare one of them claim to be the only true god! Why, such effrontery goes against every tenet of Roman culture! And it's Rome who is headed by a god, not some dusty little backwater country every soldier yearned to avoid, and every politician, considered a penal tour!

Ti gar oun: Whatever shall a Caesar, do about these pesky followers of Chrestus, or whoever he was? By this point in the 90's AD, the riots Paul had encountered a generation earlier at Miletus, were pretty routine: if Christians were in sufficient number. And, bearing in mind that being saved means you are completely incompatible with yourself from that minute onward, until you've sufficiently Eaten Christ's Thinking — Christians then were as obnoxious as the Christians we know, today. Pity the Christian who never learns His Lord's Thinking in That Book. Pity those who must live with him, too.

Coupled with the rampant upheaval among those having diplomatic connections with Rome, the pressure on the Emperor to do something about this "Way", these Christians (an epithet!), became intense. You, oh Caesar, are the Imperator of the very realm which spawned these people. Surely it will be a significant statement if you teach them a little discipline.

What was most obnoxious about these bleeping Christians, even as their Jewish 'parents', was their utter Faith. Granted, they were goofy, and goofiness in the name of a god was accepted on the grounds that you thus demeaned yourself — say, by torching yourself in the street to atone or show the god love, a common practice Romans and Greeks alike even admired — but these people! had the colossal gall to denigrate any faith but their own! So who could say what they might do? Of course they had to be taught a lesson. But — careful now, don't want to so alienate them that, well Claudius had been promoted by the praetorian guard, and Nero would have been murdered by them if he didn't beat them to the punch. And of course the Guard really liked that Paulus, and were very upset with Nero for executing him. Hmmm, show a little of that Roman inclusiveness, just banish this guy whom the Christians say saw their Chrestus or whoever he was. So what was a good Emperor to do? Round Them Up! Ταχύ!

So John found himself exiled on Patmos by Domitian. Exiled, not killed: emperors must show compassion, you know. Especially when, Who Knew Who Was A Christian, even in the Palace.

There on Patmos, a rock really, some shrubs — there on Patmos, hardly big enough to sustain its paltry wildlife, let alone a people — there The PetraRock told one of His Living Stones, the rest of history: AKA hey Ἀποκάλυψις, the UnVeiling, the Revelation of Jesus the Christ. In mime. With a narrator/chorus, sometimes played by the one on Patmos, not in the play, relating the mime. A Burlesqued Mime, this time against those who burlesqued His lambs. The Lamb reviewed His troops on the earth where John actually was, warning them to Get Ready (!) but Next In Sequence told how "after these things, a Door opened" — Revelation 4:1 — and they would be snatched up into the green pastures, to dwell with the Lord forever. Not mere Eleusian fields.

For the Mirror of History is designed to Reflect Him, which is why Matthew 7:1-2, the quintessential mirroring verse, was played on Israel; and then given to Church, to Rescue Israel. For, God Buys Time We Lose, And Gives Us The Victory. Whether Vashti or Esther. For Father wants a Mosaic of His Son always in Father's 'Face'. Sweet 'smell' and sight of His Son's Thinking. In millions of souls. Priestly souls, designed as Body for Son. So an Aggregate Body Of Thinking will Reflect Him, 1 Corinthians 13:12, fulfilling Jeremiah 3:31-34, the Ark in our heads means we are arks too: for preserving life on this planet. But, when the earth no longer can abide us abiding in Him, we go Home and become that sea of glass, Revelation 4:6. Forever reflecting Him, as is the job of our Royal Priesthood: in this Age over all the Ages, Ephesians 3:21 (in context, corrected translation of the lexeme there).

Of course, there is an anti-reflection. As with Malachi, God gives His Church Final Word, because believers on earth are too negative to listen. So the next time they get revelation will be for Judgement, and the Book's contents, will play. Meanwhile the Christians on the earth were already fast succumbing to what John would pen in Revelation 17: politicized religion of allegedly 'Christian' flavor (denoted by "mystery", a moniker for Church, but this one is fake); equals, the harlot clothed in purple and scarlet, dominating (not merely sitting on) the 'beast', political powers. The 'beast' is traditionally interpreted to have a head location of Rome, since the seven hills was a famous moniker for Rome and what Rome then represented — empire — but at a future time, and in a different configuration versus what it was at the time. The problem is, the angel says, "was and is not" in Revelation 17:8; so this opens the possibility of it being geographically somewhere else. Rome reached its largest extent under Trajan, later than the "was". I remember my pastor hedging on the location, too. So for writing purposes I go along with the traditional interpretation of the location of the beast. The idea of a "Revived Roman Empire", a 10-nation European confederacy comes from the assumption that a literal Rome is meant, in Revelation 17. But again, Rome was an empire at the time John got Revelation, so if the angel says "is not", how can it be Rome? If you interpret "is not" to mean the at the rapture's time, rather than historical time on Patmos, then Rome would have been long dead. not sure you can read "is not" that way, since it's contemporaneous in Daniel, which uses a parallel idiom. Revelation also has associative contexts for 'our now', for instance the seven hills are also referring to the Seven Mountain Mandate, which God warns everyone of this Christian apostasy. Yeah, the people who chose the name thought they were being clever when they were the ones also being referenced in the prophecy, go figure. Not the 'literal' portion of the prophecy but the nested one in the Poetic Meter. Revelation is multi-layered, it's not a linear piece of literature.

So Christianity was morphing into a political power, its faith having declined to the level of mere human culture, God long forgotten, but like the Romans did, "God" is piously mouthed to make one receive human approbation. The actual future harlot probably isn't around in Church history, but is only aped or in prototype form, given the angel's comment that this harlot comes from the Abyss: where demons are now locked up, released in Revelation 9, during the first half of Tribulation, so that future religion is of demon invention. But since Satan doesn't know when the Rapture will occur, he uses the Revelation 17 setup now, to trap and prepare. So we are to understand Revelation 17 as a pattern, a trend which will operate during the time of Church, not a particular denomination. For again, the actual 'denomination' will be the invention of the demon nation which is let out of the Abyss by Satan, in Revelation 9.

Here's the tragedy which John is about to pen, which had been one of his main themes, five years or so prior: when you stop wanting God, you stop knowing God or you never come to know Him. So of course you'll trash His Word. Doesn't matter how moral you are. Doesn't matter how religious you are. Doesn't matter how right you think your doctrines are. The soul which stops or never starts wanting to know God and thus His Word, blackens. Slowly. So his reading of that Word blackens immediately (Greek words: ματαιότης, σκοτίζω, σκληρύνω). Thus, history comes to an end with a lot of blackened, hating-God souls, many of them quite moral and religious, shaking their fists at His Coming. Thrice. First: the Church, Raptured in Revelation 4:1. Then, the Tribulation people, separated by the Baptism of Fire, Revelation 19 (see also Matthew 24:37-41, Luke 17:30-37). Finally, those at the Great White Throne, cast into the Lake of Fire, Revelation 20:11-15. Scary thing, to not want God. Insane, too. See, it's not a warm fuzzy, Revelation. It's a true future we're warned about. There's a double entendre in the Matthew 24 and Luke 17 passages. We Church don't know when He will come, and the people at the end of Tribulation don't know when the Second Advent actually arrives — that very day, is in focus. My pastor teaches the Baptism of Fire meaning, but it's also clear the lesson is to warn us about our own 'day' when He arrives to pick us up, given the allusion to Noah. Normal life will go on that day — and suddenly, cease. Parallelism. Be prepared.

Though the 'Church Fathers' were touted as God's mouthpieces, instead, the Real God gave the real Last Apostle John, the Real Play of History. Therefore, the rest of history unfolds as Greek plays are supposed to, in quadrilogy. In Greek drama competition, a quadrilogy would usually be three tragedies plus one comedy, or the reverse; all four related in plot, kind of like what we call a miniseries. Plot per play had to center on a 'day', with flashbacks and forwards for other times. So John uses "μετὰ ταῦτα" clauses in Greek to mark off each play's 'time', makes it easy to follow with all the flashbacks, flashforwards, and tableau intermissions:

Meanwhile, He's resurrected all the Old Testament believers, and gives these latter their land grants and other benefits; then, using Pleroma as rulers of Gentile nations to guarantee Israel's Peace, He ushers in the last 1050 years of history, not only to fulfil His Promise to Abram and those covenanted since, but to answer that original serpent's claim of superior begetting. For, that old devil had long maintained that Lamb's Father was a bad Planner; that the plan Wasn't Nice Enough for creation, so of course creation rebelled. Okay, then: usher in the greatest environment ever, and watch how people still hate Me, says the Lord.

Moral: So Play #3 demonstrates that you either want God, or don't, and all the goodies won't make a bit of difference. So, end with an anti-deus ex machina, the release of Satan & Co., hence that final big war during the last 50-year voting period in history, Revelation 20:7.

Then, The Judgement, and what a future German would call "Valhalla", last part of Revelation 20.

Of course, the famous Greek practice of epilogue, putting a memorable Moral at the end of the play for virtue's sake, makes for John's final scene (Revelation 22:6-21): learn this Book; I Am Coming Ταχύ. Don't deviate from this Book don't add to it, it's Finished. Even as, He finished at the Cross, He finishes prophecy (Revelation 19:10), He finishes explaining how history will go, since He Controls History (i.e., Acts 17:26). For all the promises, find their "Yes" in Him! So get ready! Make haste, chop-chop, hurry up and grow, Ταχύ! For Isaiah 60:22 is always true, and there is a Sudden Appointment we'll all keep: Hebrews 9:27.

Therefore Daniel 9:26's timeline didn't stop at 70 AD, since Church is not Israel; Daniel 9:26 however did specify the Character Of Our Time, which is left 'open' as to length. Because Matthew 16:18 + John 17:20+21, Revelation must play paradigmally as trends during Church, syncopated to dovetail with Daniel 9:26, alerting everyone what comes next Without Warning, Ταχύ. Again, Rapture is based on Church believer bodies completing, not a set period of time. Time thus stopped for Israel but shifted, rerouted to Church: for Christ the King of Kings, is the Nexus of History, Joining both Israel and Church, Ephesians 2. Theology overlooks the dual-entendre of prophecy here, though it recognizes that Scripture typically plays prophecy in what it calls a "near" and "far" "fulfilment". That's true here, too. For Revelation, penned 95 or 96 AD, laid out the rest of history in neat Greek-Drama format, as summarized above. No excuse, that we don't understand it. Watch how embarrassing it is that we don't understand Revelation, in what follows:

  1. Greek Drama is always split-screen. We've had Greek drama for centuries, and laud it.
  2. In Greek drama, tableaus or explanations are "choral" or "prologue", and function as an 'intermission', for the sake of the audience.
  3. The audience needs the tableaus and choral explanations, since the audience is not part of the play, so is told the play.
  4. The action offstage is reported, so that offstage group is also not part of the play, but rather the explanation behind the play.
  5. So those in the play, are neither part of the audience nor part of what's offstage. For, they are onstage.
  6. Um, if you're onstage and an actor, you have lines or blocking given you to do. Notice Church has no lines, no blocking, no role, anywhere after Revelation 4's depiction of us as that "sea of glass" in Heaven, as audience. Only the Fake Church of Revelation 17 has lines and blocking associated with it. So we the Real Church of believers, instead of being living stones are dead blockheads, to think we're in the Tribulation!
  7. However, when audience is being taught something, the thing they are being taught is A Message applicable to their lives — a message plays paradimally, in principle, a trend or 'law' governing the life.
  8. So at no point is the audience part of the play, but yet the principles of the play, are playing in their lives as principles. Trends.
  9. So we are to understand the tableaus and explanations, as trends during Church.
  1. The usual format for incorporating an audience into the play, is via a Representative Person in the play (here, John); and, via a dramatic device which continues even today, called interjection ("suddenly, like a thief" being a typical Revelation example; today's "aside" in modern drama). This way, you can follow the play, and integrate its lessons.
  1. So in rhetorical terms, John is on the sidelines in the Play: typical Greek-drama Narrator, Representative Audience, reporting what he sees. So John is not in the Play, duh, he's on Patmos. But in the vision, he is given commands to the Audience, Church. And then suddenly, without warning, Ταχύ! from Revelation 4:1 onward, he's up in Heaven: so Church is also.
  2. From then on, no more tagline, "Spirit says to the churches".
  3. Notice next how the stage from that point forward Remains in Heaven. Um, the audience is in front of the stage, and the stage is in Heaven, and we are the audience, so we are in Heaven seeing this. All the action is reported from Heaven. The earth itself is offstage. So clearly, Church is not on earth.
  4. For the Play, is about How Christ Takes Over, "The Day of the Lord" — in Greek drama, the onstage action must take place over a "day", with flashbacks and flash forwards, to explain it. So, it's told from Heaven. Where we are, during that time. But we get the Script of the Play in advance, get it?
  1. All the on-Earth depictions are choral explanations or tableaus, often narrated by John — to us, the audience. So Church is not on Earth then, hence she's hearing about what happens on Earth. So the tableaus are not seen nor the explanations heard, by Earth. Since at that point Earth is offstage, relative to us. Hence the split-screen nature: top screen, Heaven, with all the tableaus and explanations to us Church. Bottom screen is Earth: experiencing the cataclysms, not seeing tableaus or explanations. Because, They Are Two Separate Action Sequences. Related in meaning, but separate groups, joined by being in the same time period, the whole thing being the Lord's Property: the Title Deed Sequence in Revelation 4-6 is His claiming ownership of the property, hence the release of the seals. If you're under my pastor, he covers this Title Deed meaning when exegeting those Revelation chapters, and briefly updates that meaning somewhere around Lessons 800 in 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, when he covers Revelation again in the context of PSD#10, Occupation with Christ. He also covers it in his Revelation series, which exegetes Revelation verse by verse, so get the classes on Revelation 4-6.
  1. Now you have to know your isagogics. In Roman times, the property isn't validly turned over until all the seals are opened, and the proper identity of the Owner (and other clauses) are revealed from within the scroll. So the seals metaphorically depict Encumbrances to Ownership which must be Removed or Played Out, in order for the Ownership to Complete. Hence the trends in Revelation 6 apply to Church. Because Church has completed in Revelation 4:1, the first six (but not the seventh) seal can be removed. The removal releases the six seals to play in Tribulation, because Church got completed. Double entendre: in order to remove the first six seals, the trends they cover, had to play in Church; since they finish playing in Church, they can be removed to play blow-by-blow, in the Tribulation. The first six seals are trends which go back to Adam, and you can see them in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. That's why Daniel 9:24 talks about completion as it does. So notice how the Tribulation and Millennial future depend on Church Being Completed, even as we Church were once future and unknown to the Old Testament: more about that precedence will be covered later on. For now, just note this a priori dependence, is legally expressed by Releasing The Seals.
  1. The Seventh Seal Begins the actual Tribulation, because the Title Deed is now Unencumbered. That's why the trumpets can begin. These trumpets are not at all related to the one in 1 Thessalonians 4 (which has a different title, "Trumpet of God" and an archangel, not a mere angel, sound it). Church is in Heaven being told what these events mean on earth, since Church isn't down on earth. Duh, if we were on earth Then, we wouldn't need to be told, Now. (KJV and other Bibles in Revelation 13 and Revelation 14 is mistranslated so the reader is misled. John doesn't go down to earth in Revelation 13: text should say "he (Satan, from Chapter 12) stood", not "I stood". Hence Revelation 14's "from heaven" in verse 2 should be rendered "out from heaven", so the reader won't think John is hearing this from on earth. Some of the original language manuscripts added an "n" to ἵστημι, but some didn't. So you can tell where a copyist made an error; maybe someone tried to match verb person between ἵστημι and ὁράω, to 'correct' Bible, kinda like the Cainan problem in LXX Genesis 5 and Luke 3. It's easy for Satan & Co. to 'help' a probably underpaid, exhausted copyist or translator, slip up.)
  1. People during the Tribulation need us to complete first, so they will know where they are in history. For the Fake Church will be there to beguile them: "to deceive, if possible (means it is possible), the elect", Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22. We sheep are always deceived, Ephesians 4:14, Isaiah 53:6. So the Tribulation people need a way to fend off deceit. From Revelation, they will then know that The Real Church Has Left the Building, analogous to how we know Messiah Came and Left. So they will know that Revelation 4-6 is happening live, and they are onstage experiencing what's depicted that we then currently, see from Heaven. So they can know what play it is, what time it is: and hide. Daniel 12 tells them the exit window is day 1-1260, try to get out before day 1215; for the last 1335 days will be murder. (You count backwards from the Second Advent in Daniel 12:12, to know this; you know to count backwards, because "happinesses" begins the verse.) The Two Witnesses are killed on day 1260, and the statue goes up as a result. So they count the days, and in that sense 'watch' from the sidelines, like we are. Only they, are on Earth.
  1. So the Actual Rollout Of Events For The Tribulation Proper, begins when the Seventh Seal opens. From it come the trumpet judgements, the first 6 being played in the first 3.5 years, offstage, on Earth. The last trumpet 'opens' the vial judgements (really "libation bowl", shallow and broad, more like a deep saucer). These begin the second 3.5 years. Interspersed between them, are the prologues and chorus advisements, so the audience knows how to interpret the actual events depicted by the trumpets and vials.
  1. By this Greek drama structure one understands which tableaus and explanations, will also run during Church. Because, by 96 AD, only Church was left: the "times of the Gentiles" had been running since 30 AD, but now that the Temple was destroyed but Church hadn't grown up in time, it needed its own tribulation, too. For that is the only design map of history remaining, the 7 years for Israel. So, since Israel rejected Messiah, and that's the only character of Time Remaining, Church will get the tableau form of that character (Revelation 6, Revelation 12, Revelation 17). Because, the character of the time is specified quite bluntly in Daniel 9:26c, as we saw in the Legatee table: "war and its miseries are decreed from that time until the very end." That time, 70 AD. That time, Gentile time. Until the fullness (Pleroma! Body completion!) of the Gentiles has come in, Matthew 24, Romans 11.

Meanwhile, above the thickening, teeming fray of human confrontation, high above the clouds, looking down on all this writhing humanity, the one who for eons ached! to replace the Most High! was most pleased with his progress in all these fractious proceedings; quite pleased, in fact, that the very Revelation 17 harlot of political religion, which the Most High even told everyone was soon occurring — well, she was sitting like a princess, nicely flexing her beauty within that horrid "Way". Might as well adopt the same colors as those in Revelation 17, so no one has excuse to say he was fooled into my Pretty Ruse. After all, to avoid the persecutions, many among her number opted for the harlot's security of political clout that sympathy over the persecutions, granted. Meanwhile, the Jewish problem was nicely solved by none other than the Rejected Bridegroom back in 70 AD, so persecution BY these "Way" people of the former bride was also proceeding to develop, nicely on course: all that had to happen, was for the harlot to be called, "Christian". Dress up in the "Way" terminology, but suck out the meaning. Falsify the Gospel by adding verbs, replacing the only verb that saves, "believe"; and any number of Lord, Lord people who are mine will be thought "Christians". Thus the real Christians can be persecuted, too. Thus the Real Bible can be confiscated, hidden, 'protected' — well, kidnapped, let's not be coy — as well. Ahhh, the final solution to all these vexing problems.

So Bible remains a 'Mystery' to the Church,
for the New Esther's kinda Old Now.
Thus we learn from Bible, that we learn nothing from Bible!

So, here we are in this Year of Our Lord, 2025, and it's still, Ταχύ! Unlike that first century's folk, we are so wise now; all religions born since His Crucifixion are so wise, now. All nicely retooled to look just like him, so they say. So many holy books out there, now. All claiming to be Divine Writ, all clamoring at the fair to be purchased, all being nicely respectful, "tolerant" of all faiths — well, when expedient. Um, but one small problem: How Did Sins Get Paid For? Oops! None of the holy books answer that question, even now — except the Bible.

Kind of odd, isn't it? Here 20 centuries have passed, and on every other topic in Scripture, you'll find a counterfeit in some faith claiming it's the 'same thing'. But where's the Cross counterfeited? Where's the mechanism in Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 53:12 counterfeited, which shows how His Counter-Thinking Matched against the sins' thinking which hit him like javelins; thus, propitiated Father and Sewed Us Up In Him, Isaiah 53:5 — as Romans 6 also explains? All of the material on the internet about Isaiah 53 except here, casts the Chapter as a "Who Is It?" question, rather than a How He Paid explanation! Text couldn't be more blatant, given the Contract in Isaiah 53:11! But guess what — Christians can't even read that Chapter, for they still think His Physical Death paid for sins, though the Chapter very clearly proves it was His Thinking! Does anyone notice the 21 times Isaiah explains that fact, beginning in Isaiah 52:13? Does anyone actually re-translate the chapter? No! Everyone copies what someone else translated, rather than any de novo review of the original-texts!

So if even Christians don't understand their own Book, 🤣 — you just try to find any other book which explains How Sins Got Substitutionally Paid. For surely the one who did the wrong, is now Damaged Goods — so couldn't afterwards pay, anything at all to Infinite Infinite Infinite God. If our post-sin righteousnesses are menstrual rags (literal Hebrew of Isaiah 64:6), um what can you do with such gross stuff? So the Real God, 'whoever he is' has to be paid. Okay: then the only valid holy book, is the one which admits that, and answers How He Got Paid. Simple as that.

So of course all the holy books skirt this question, even until today; or, they make lame statements like God doesn't need to be paid (so, God doesn't deserve justice 🤣); or, just throw up their hands and make Him a mystery (cute word, that — mocking the "mystery" moniker that is Church). Clever lawyerly ploys, all. Oh: and make sure you link political/ethnic loyalty to the holy book, so those in that group will feel traitors if they don't adhere.

So wise, to recast reincarnation, a spoof on salvation invented eons ago, into a "science of evolution", hah! Then, just for fun, mix its goofiness with religion, so now religions can be "scientific": whether a rehashed metempsychotic gnosticism with Kabbala highlights, like the one invented by a grifter (L. Ron Hubbard, who also robbed Jack Parsons); or, by a woman with four different married surnames who felt refusing medical attention was spiritual, yet scientific (Mary Baker Eddy)! Or well, there are too many, to list! All how we float up to the Light, all magical transformations we make, whether through the nicely-martyr-sounding eons of time, or instant! In this lifetime! Just observe this taboo, chant this mantra, pay this money, commune, baby. Yes! Man-becomes-god. Old story. Been there, done that, so if God makes Himself man, it's kinda anticlimactic.

All the while, God getting paid is never addressed. We are too mesmerized with each other. Fitting in. Being alike. Being nice to each other. Making gods out of ourselves. So the last thing we want to do, is admit Someone Infinite Made Us and He Should Be Compensated for That. Satan's not stupid. Just mimic Bible in the right places, and you mask the real issue, Believe or Burn because Sin requires Payment to Infinite God Which You Can't Make. Thus Bible remains unique, even as it always was. And uniquely reviled, too.

Bible's Rapture Doctrine also remains unique. For Rapture only happens due to God's Ending His Answer in the Angelic Trial. Or, Satan garnering a mistrial verdict. Either one, to be determined via the Outcome of Church Believer Witnesses in that Unseen Heavenly Trial, per Hebrews 11. Rapture has zilch to do with world events. Church Is Made The Cause Of All World Events Due to The Angelic Trial, as you'll see below. So all that prophecy drooling you see and hear in 'Christian' media is flat wrong. Rather, as Hebrews 11 makes clear would someone ever read it — since Adam, our primary job down here is to grow up spiritually in the Word, just as it was for Christ ("full of Grace and Truth", see also Romans 8). Our primary witness down here is toward God, not people: just as it was, for Christ. For, the First Advent occurred primarily due to the Trial. The Trial is about whose plan is better, God's or Satan's. Therefore man was created, pursuant to an Appeal Satan made, when the initial trial of him and the fallen angels, ended. Thus Man Voted for salvation when offered, Genesis 3:12 et seq. At that point, procreation was invented, since God won't touch sin, and sin is genetically inherited. During that time, the Trial Witnesses were adjunctively rewarded with being progenitors of Messiah's bloodlines; and finally, under the Law He came. But He came, first as a Witness to Defeat Satan, Hebrews 1, Hebrews 7; for which He won His first-contracted but second-in-chronological-time, Kingship: King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Hence Church, to be developed into those Kings He is King over (Lord of Lords is over the angels, as Hebrews 1 explains).

He won — but there was no Kingdom! For Israel had rejected Him. Groom, but no Bride. So Christ invented a new Bride. That should have been grounds for a Mistrial: you don't invent Evidence. So how could Christ do that, and be Just? Satan's argument is that He can't. But Father accepted this! Satan's argument is that Father is therefore wrong. You just try to bring invented evidence into your own home country's courts! But given the Terms of this 'Church', Satan agreed to its post-Cross creation, so is estopped from claiming a Mistrial unless Church does not complete. And the Terms are devastating, even impossible:

  1. Added Cost of Church to Christ, Ephesians 5: Church was invented in Matthew 16:18 as a Testamentary Contract between Son and Father, ratified in John 17:20-21, explained fully in Book of Hebrews. Christ thus Agreed to Accept untold trillions of Added Sins on the Cross, using His eternity-past Kingship promise (theme of Hebrews 1-2) as the basis for Adding Church. Thus He Agreed In Advance to Pay for all those future people to be born, whether believer or unbeliever. As Many As Father would 'vote' to make. The extra cost to Him is humanly incalculable: something like 70 billion people must have been born since 30 AD. Of that number, there must be some billions of children (and other ill or malnourished individuals) who died before being mentally-old enough to understand and reject the Gospel, so they are in heaven. In short, Church is huge; and hell is at least 10 times bigger. So the Bride Price was huge. In Advance. We'd not exist today, had He not made That Vote.
  1. Hence Two "Basileus" (Kingships); thus two covenants, two priesthoods, two spiritualities, the Last is First. Church is not related to Israel, but to Christ. Founded on His eternity-past Kata Melchizedek contract, not on Israel's, Psalm 110 — all this, Book of Hebrews explains.
  2. For God Promised that the rest of history would play, because He promised Church would Complete.
  3. Church's Deadline is not time-defined, but body-defined: it must Fulfill the Body Numbers Promised — i.e., those souls in John 17:20-21 — before the rest of history can 'play'. Else, it's a Mistrial. (You'll see this same body promise in Revelation 7, with respect to the Tribulation evangelists, and those bodies aren't time-defined, either. They die in the first half, as you see before the second half of Tribulation begins in Revelation 14.)

As we saw earlier, Israel's time ended at the Cross, except for two 'sevens': the first seven was reserved back in Daniel 9, because the 1000th anniversary of David's death occurred beforehand, so Messiah would have to redeem Time, before that 'seven' could play. The second seven was within the Daniel 9 grant, but Israel rejected Christ. So He died at the next-closest Davidic deadline, 30 AD: that was the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement from Kingship. So that cut-short other 'seven', played between 64-70 AD: siege of Jerusalem and Temple razed, thus fulfilling Daniel 9:26a and b. But the prophecy of Israel's land being dominated by the Gentiles until the Second Advent — Daniel 9:26c — remained. So Israel's time is used up. A year before He died, Christ knew all this, hence He made a testamentary contract for Church to buy time and complete Bride. So our deadline being now of a body-completion nature, literally Buys Time for every day that Body-building, continues: ergo God has Paul exhort us to grow up and finish, Colossians 4:5 and Ephesians 5:16. Meanwhile our 'spot' in history is characterized by Daniel 9:26c, to keep advertising to the world that Messiah has Come and Left, Rapture is Real and the Bible is Really from Real God. So anyone can look into the Book, look around in life, and prove that fact conclusively. Later on in this page you'll see how embarrassingly bald, is that proof.

  1. We are thus Evidence of Him down here (1 John 4:17), the First Advent being rejected.
  2. Fulfillment of All God's Promises is On Trial, since the Cross itself would be a sham if Church doesn't Complete (people paid for in advance who don't come to exist or don't come to exist as advertised, means payment was incorrect).
  3. Church is Now On Trial for whether she will Grow up. For we must measure up to Christ's Own Gruelling, Royal Spiritual Maturity Standard, Ephesians 4:13. The Royal Spiritual Life is about having perfect thoughts: for Father forever hears each one. It's a killer life. Light-years beyond moral behavior. It's exhausting, a kind of spiritual racquetball, and you never get off the court!
  1. Church makes History, not Prophecies. The 'prophecy' is that the Number of Church will Complete. So as History passes, that fulfillment is demonstrated. So you can't predict when, because it's a Body-Promise, not a time promise.
  2. The Individual believer who matures in Christ is placed in the Witness Box even as the Old Testament Witnesses were, main point in Hebrews 11. Because it's a Witness Role, there is a number of Witnesses who must complete, else it's a Mistrial. We don't know what that number is. God however, does. (Presumably Satan does too (and if he didn't he'd demand the telemetry to be handed over anyways), as even in secular jurisprudence, the number and identity of witnesses to be called, must be given to the opposition in advance.)
  3. So the Rapture's not even remotely based on historical events, since Church Votes Juridically Determine Historical Events. That's really a Justice Principle since Adam (i.e., Noah was saved in the Flood, which continued history).
  1. Church's own Unseen Kingship-eligibility Witness Completion Determines the Quality and Length of History. Again, this is an upgraded version of what's been the Juridical rule since Adam. History only continued because Adam voted yes. Then it shifted to the Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 heroes. Then it shifted to Abraham. Then, to Moses and through him, Israel. Then (when Israel voted against God in favor of Saul), to David. Then via David, to the Temple promised David. Then, to Christ. Time's very existence is based on these heroes. My pastor (and I'm sure others) has taught this Everything-depends-on-believers doctrine for decades. I'm not sure if he's ever taught the 490-year structure from Adam; though I'd bet money he long knew about it, given what I've heard him say on blessing-by-association, i.e., in his Genesis 1975, 1985 Ephesians, and 1992 Spiritual Dynamics series. God clued me into it, because I was trying to vet in the Bible how believers buy time as my pastor claimed.

Our "witness" role is to God, since we are Royal Priests to God. The witness is about whether the crown laid up for us, is justifiably awardable (i.e., the do not lose your crown verse in Revelation). That is, everything you do and think is being Witnessed From Heaven. You are tested for whether you should inherit a kingdom, every second. You are being Trained for that Role. For, we were all slated to be kings since eternity past, theme of Ephesians 1 (i.e., the "every spiritual blessing clause", a kind of escrow, as my pastor likes to explain it). But we can of course abdicate. So forget about witnessing to people. God will throw that role in your lap unexpectedly, you don't need to seek it. The First Person to Whom you live... is God. Just as it was, for Christ Himself.

  1. Rapture and meanwhile history itself, are Legally the product of Our Voting To His Level. All Divine Juridical Pronouncements are based on believer votes, Leviticus 26. Again, this is true since Adam, and God has even designed Time to include three types of voting periods; Bible events are keyed to these voting periods. Justice is always consistent. Past is precedence, for past is prologue: that was the criterion for Israel, that was the criterion for Christ, and He Increased the Passing Level Required when He Voted To Build Church Upon Himself in Matthew 16:18, ratified in John 17:20-21. That's why Satan accepted it, deeming that Level utterly impossible to fulfill.

God accepted that Level, obviously — why should Holy God tolerate a level lower than His Son? God's Plan is to make us 'gods'. Why should He tolerate seeing, anything less? So think of this enormity: we had to be paid up to That Level in advance, 2000 years ago! What we see as ourselves now, is but the training format He chose to use. Start us low, because of the Trial. Look: God can do anything He wants. Our natures don't hinder anything. He could instead instantly format us to be like gods, but He's Real Big On Freedom — which means voting for Him to change you, line on line, precept on precept, thought on thought — so you vote, He executes. You always vote based on the Merit of the Object. After all, if you had merit, you'd be running for office — but you're not, because you have no merit. But the Object is Perfect and Infinite. Easy vote, then.

So the Level of History itself, is solely determined by: 1) Church Voting plus 2) Christ's Own Spiritual Maturity Standard and hence Spiritual Life, Ephesians 4:13. Um, now you know why history has been so Low for so Long. So We are Liable. we are to blame for sickness, disease, bad weather, war, calamity: just read Leviticus 26, see for yourself. We believers are Liable. Not, the politicians or unbelievers or name-whomever-the-world-deems-liable.

Are you frightened yet? You should be. I'm scared to death of not growing up spiritually. "Spiritual Atlases", my pastor likes to say of Church winners. True: and the flipside, is to know forever if one failed. No thanks!

  1. Accordingly, if Church doesn't Complete (i.e., due to so many negative believers, God must cancel time), then it's a Mistrial.
  2. Cost or Gain to Satan: If Church Completes, God finishes His Arguments, and that Nullifies all of Satan's arguments. If Church doesn't complete, he Nullifies all God's Promises, and Satan wins.

So if the Twin Promise of Church Mature Witness and Number of Believers is not Fulfilled, it's a Mistrial, Evidence not Being Produced — and Satan would win. Satan can win, because God Grants Time only due to believers who sufficiently mature. That's a precedence from Adam, as noted earlier. So that criterion remains: so if no one matures enough, then time ends. Satan hopes to exploit that rule. There's a tandem rule about mass voting, which occurs in 70-year units and 50-year units, 'intercalated' since Adam. So if enough believers are negative, Time stops when the voting period ends: the problem in Daniel 9 (they were in the last four generations of a 490-year historical time grant, Temple had the Time promise, but it was razed 126 years before the expiry of that grant). If enough unbelievers are negative, Time stops for them, Genesis 6 (120 = 70 + 50, standard worldwide judicial voting period). So if enough Church believers vote negatively, the Rapture will have to occur at the Wrong Time. Hence God didn't complete Church — never mind it's our fault, not His — and Satan wins. Or, if the number of slated Mature Witnesses don't fully complete (i.e., they get discredited under cross-examination, same idea as Job) — then again, Satan wins. Because, God made a numbers promise. And it's like tampering with evidence, if claimed evidence is never produced. Mistrial Verdict would then be due.

Note His Precedence, Prologue: Christ had to mature greater than the Law, to pay for sins. So must we, for we inherited His Own Invented Royal Spiritual Life. As a result of that First Advent, the world roiled; as a result of Church it roils again, for He is Coming Back to Get Us, which kicks off the long-promised Tribulation. As a result, in the wake of the First Advent, all the religions went through a doctrinal retooling to 'compete', as we just saw. Hence today, many holy books and religions talk about a Coming, but they 'inherited' that idea from the Bible, as we saw earlier; their ideas are all sugar-coated. Ours are too, which is why the Rapture hasn't happened, till yet.


Stone Deaf?

The true doctrine of the Rapture is uniquely abrasive, a Severe Warning about not growing up in time, about this Mistrial potential — just as, for the First Advent. Satan masks or distorts the Rapture to arrest us spiritually. He's been wildly successful, too. Not one Christian who believes in the Rapture remembers its frequent Bible usage as a warning to grow up. And of course the rest of the world, Christian or no, laughs at "Rapture", not knowing the term's violent origin (Latin translation of Greek rape/snatch up verb "ἁρπάζω" in 1 Thessalonians 4:17). Yeah, Satan knows how to take advantage of our disinterest in the Word.

So we Church ape the first post-Cross generation, since every generation is potentially the Rapture Generation — here we are, all hyped up about this Rapture thing, viewing it as nice fiction or Disneyland, an escape from dry cleaning. But it's a Sword Hanging Over us: the μάχαιρα, Hebrews 4:12 — do we believe it? Delivered from destruction down here, if "yes"; destroyed by a Bigger ῥομφαία sword, if "no" (Hebrews 10:36-39, Revelation 2:16, Revelation 19:15).

For we're still in Revelation's Play #1, Revelation 1-3, with Revelation 6-19 rolling out in a prototypical, syncopated, even appetizer format. Play #1's title: "Will Church Complete?" Will this Superior Temple whose Foundation is Christ Himself, the Petra Incarnate (Matthew 16:18, 1 Corinthians 10:4, Hebrews 6:18ff), be Built (Ephesians 2-4)? So that the rest of History can occur (Hebrews 11:40)?

But hey: we are Church not Reading Our Bible, aping the puerile goofiness of past generations. Either we go hog wild over Rapture as a Halloween-like event, now making the silliest movies, sermons and TV programs imaginable; or, we pride ourselves on how stupid an idea it is, and parade our sloven scholarship by calling Rapture an invention of the 19th century. Big mistake, to do either one!


Hence We Church are on trial for the Progress of Our Spiritual Maturation, Hebrews 11:1, Ephesians 4:13. Our Trial Testimony thus far? We Church are utterly childish, immature despite the fact 'Esther' is so old, Now. In a word, retarded! So the Rapture hasn't happened till yet. Spiritual growth stops if certain key Bible doctrines are misperceived or not believed, or even worse, forgotten. Rapture is one of those doctrines. So long as we misperceive or disbelieve Rapture, we will not mature spiritually, because it ties to every other Bible doctrine like a 'major trade route'. So though saved, we will be among the Royal Peasant class of believers.. forever.

So much for the claim that those folks of the first century were somehow spiritual giants. If they were, we'd not be here, Rapture would have happened. So we know that not only they, but the many overpraised religious people since, were really spiritual retards. Because our humanly-approved roster of spiritual giants is so large, the Rapture should have happened long ago. It didn't. So, they weren't giants, but pygmies. Instead, people you'd never hear of, an occasional charwoman in a monastery, an invalid duke, a disliked nephew, a travelling friar or merchant, not a few Jews, lots of isolated monks or nuns 'mother church' couldn't be bothered with — they grew up spiritually, away from prying eyes. So they bought us time. We know this, because we'd not have the original language manuscripts but for people like that. Count on it: the religious people praised in history and by churches, are deftly praised by Satan & Co., who control all publicity.

As in every other Royal family, not all Royalty, rules. You have to be trained to rule. Else, you're a beneficiary, and you get little jobs, something to do... but not much. For, you're little-trained. Peasants are able to move their bodies, but their minds have the wrong values, are childish in thinking. So they must train, to advance out of peasantry. Down here, we are in training to become Kings, and if we fail at that, we will be happy, but.. in lower capacities. not ruling. The more you have, the more you have to honor Christ. Obviously a poor person can't do much with what he has. So aim to be rich. Satan aims to keep us all thinking it's only holy to be poor, to be Brother-Foots. Be rich in Doctrine, and then you are truly rich. Whatever material wealth you have or lack down here, is meant to train you. You will get both high and low. For that's what happened to Our Precedence, Christ.

So we know for sure, that Heaven at present is populated with people who, 99.9% of them, were spiritual babies, down here. And died that way. Doesn't take too many people to rule kingdoms. One king per kingdom, and obviously there won't be too many kingdoms. Not a large number needed, to be sure. Yet 2000 years have passed, and still not enough kings were developed, proved true in the Witness Box? Unbelievable. That's how little we know our Bible.

You merely believe in Christ to be saved forever. But you must grow up in His Thinking to become a King-Priest. Else, you'll end up like all those losers of the first century AD and following; childish, with no kingdom of your own, and a Failed Trial Witness to forever remember. Happiness is two-sided. It is not emotional. It comes from knowing Justice Was Served, primarily. So yes, you will know a lot of painful things forever, but the comfort is that Justice Was Served. God knows Everything Good and Bad, simultaneously: God is Happy. So will you be: but do you want that happiness to include knowing you failed Him? I bet not. So then growing up would be your first priority. Certain doctrines if misperceived or disbelieved, hamper that growth more than others. Some key doctrines must be progressively perceived properly or you will stop growing altogether; instead, you will retrogress spiritually and die a lump of soul coal. Still saved, but knowing nothing anymore; blissfully happy forever, once you die; but your soul will be small, compared to a believer-king's. That is the destiny of 99.9% of believers, past present and yet-future. That does not have to be your future.

The most critical Doctrines to keep asking God if you perceive correctly, are as follows. There is at least a Baker's Dozen of Our Daily Bread, which are most important. Going by the many false doctrines on the internet and their source beliefs (which generate the errors), going by the tragic history of believers not learning these doctrines from the first century onward — if you don't 'get' the following doctrines right in your own soul, so long as the errors are retained, you will infect your spiritual life and eventually shrink it. God allows enough time to learn these doctrines. But, like a child who grows up physically but not mentally, there comes a point when retardation sets in. It is always possible to grow out of error. But there comes a point, where you don't want to. That's what happened to believers from the first century onward, and keeps on happening, today. Here's the Baker's Dozen list:

  1. 1 John 1:9 usage is a essential — if you don't do this, you are already dead, even while alive, and all your Bible study is just hot air. 100% of sin is in thinking. The body is just a bucket of biology, going along for the ride. So you must monitor your thoughts, i.e., if you get upset at Microsoft Windows or traffic, that's a sin of irritation. Anger is a sin, Ephesians 4:26 is mistranslated (it's the imperative of prohibition, stop doing something you are doing). Spirituality never exists when some sin is unnamed to God. Psalm 32:5, Psalm 66:18, 2 Peter 1:9 are parallel verses. (There are more, but not so easy to see in translation.) Defiled Temple. Purified (Greek verb καθαρίζω), with 1 John 1:9 breathed as often as you even suspect you're sinning (call it "arrogance" if you're not sure of the type or even if you sinned — just do it). Then and only then, you can learn the other critical doctrines. If you think there's any cogency in what I wrote — and you do, if you've read this far — 1 John 1:9 is the only reason why. I breathe it constantly, because I'm tempted constantly, and I don't have time to tell if the thought 'crossed over' from mere temptation to sin. God's Brains are only accessible via 1 John 1:9, it's His Rule. Don't use it, and your spiritual apnea is total, and what you think you know in Bible is just a fantasy. That's the history of Christendom: fantasizing they are holy, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10. Else the Rapture would have occurred, long ago.
  1. Nature of God and Trinity: Attributes do not constrain God in any way, and Yes He Can But Will not Sin, because He doesn't want to, there's nothing about sin which is even remotely attractive to Him. Each God is Wholly Infinite God in Himself, not joined at the hip or hydra-headed, but Three Independent Gods Who Voluntarily Incorporate, 2 Corinthians 13:14's three monadic articles. "Hupostasis in Trinity" goes through Christendom's puerile ideas of God. You can historically trace why we've not matured spiritually via this one doctrine, alone. Trinity is a main wordplay feature of the Old Testament (i.e., with all the "He" triplings, idea that They are Identical Triplets, so you can't tell Them apart). You also saw some verses in the Satan's Mystery Math. Improper understanding of Nature and Three Persons means the believer doesn't understand how he got saved, and what relationship with God means. So he'll never grow up spiritually. Salvation cannot juridically occur unless "God" are Three Completely Independent Persons. You don't get paid if you merely transfer money from one pocket to another. So all those claptrap "monotheistic" claims are flat stupid. Then God never gets paid, He's just moving the 'payment' from one 'pocket' to another, since the same person would be doing the paying, as doing the judging and imputing. The Cross would be a sham, in that case. Think it over.
  1. The first belief that Christ paid for your sins so you are saved, results in Permanent Salvation. No added verbs. Just Believe is Enough. If you add verbs, you are not saved. So Just Believe He Paid for Your Sins. Now. Faith is always something you do with your soul. The idiots who think there is a "head belief" versus a "heart belief" are too insane to argue with. Bible makes it plain, this is a mental act, since only a soul can believe: Genesis 15:6, John 3:16, John 10:28, John 16:9, John 3:36, Acts 4:12, Acts 16:31, Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 2:8-9, Galatians 2:16, many other verses. If you add any other verb to "believe" you were not saved. Just believe. If you properly understand and believe Roman Catholic Doctrine, you believe some Roman Catholic Priest priest must baptise you, to be saved. So you are not saved, for the Gospel is Just Believe. Fortunately, many a Catholic does not understand Roman Catholic Church doctrine, and merely believes in Christ. I know this from many a Catholic, both historically and in my periphery: they at some point — because of all the exposure that Christ paid for their sins — merely believe He did that, Roman Catholic Church or not. Thank God for that! Of course, today many of the independents also believe you must be baptised to be saved — so their fake gospel saves no one, either. If my pastor harped on this lie of believe + some added verb once, he harped on it so much, we the congregation wanted to vomit. Thank God he did! Really, it's almost impossible to find the Gospel accurately told, especially by the so-called 'famous' ministers and evangelists of past or present, anywhere. Check that claim for yourself. It's appalling. If you love people, make sure they know Gospel is only believe, no added verbs. Then walk away. God will use what you said to cause them to remember that truth. They won't accept it right away, but He knows when's the right moment for recall.
  1. God Sovereignly decrees that Free Will Co-Exist Forever and Preserves it, else #3 above would not be a valid juridical issue in the Trial. The constant Bible condemnations of people for not believing apply, because they can but will not. It's not meritorious, if you believe. The merit is in the Object, which is why you believe, duh. To say man lost his free will at the fall is to say God is impotent, blind, a Tyrant. For would not God, if allegedly omnipotent, have a way to prevent that outcome before it happened? Why punish someone for not believing, if the person couldn't help it? See how so many 'reformed' folk really castigate God, but bethink themselves holy, when they claim man lost free will at the fall? Total Depravity is valid, but it is not a loss of free will. That's part of the soul's very nature. It's a non-meritorious power, to will. Object of that will is where the merit exists, duh. So people who assign merit to will or free will or think that free will was lost at the Fall will never grow up spiritually, for such beliefs malign God. No one grows up spiritually, with beliefs that malign God.
  1. Trichotomy once saved: God breathed two types of life into Adam (Hebrew is plural) in Genesis 2:7, spiritual life and soul life. You need a spiritual life, to relate to Spiritual God. You need a soul life, to relate to other soul life. You need a body life, to relate to biological life and have a 'house' to move around in. Both soul and spiritual life are immaterial, so never propagated biologically. So, Adam lost his human spirit at his fall, warning in Genesis 2:17. So Christ died two deaths on the Cross, Isaiah 53:9 (bemotayw מֹתָיו is plural). You regain a human spirit you can no longer lose, at salvation. Titus 3:5, John 3:16 in context. Human spirit is a kind of CPU so you can perceive spiritual stuff; Holy Spirit uses that human spirit to teach you, John 4:23-24, John 14:26, main theme in 1 John ("born of God" should be translated "being sired by God" in 1 John). People who don't know this structure will misapprehend the mechanics of the spiritual life and thus won't grow up in it. They will forever mistake the spiritual life as being 'right' about doctrine and moral behavior, totally missing the point that you must be made into a new spiritual person in your own soul structure, main theme of Romans 8, 1 John 1, Ephesians 3-4. So of course they won't end up being right on any doctrine, since they aren't living the spiritual life.

Most sources claim the 'plural deaths' in Isaiah 53 either refers to a collective like a nation or they chalk it up as an error 🤣, rather than Christ's two deaths. This is ratified by John 19:30, anyways. Christ couldn't have said "τετέλεσται" without the first death preceded by the physical one.

  1. Bible Teaching Filling Role of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 5:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, end Ephesians 4, 1 John 1:9 (καθαρίζω verb is a famous Old Testament Temple verb after which done, God Filled the Temple). To think that Filling is something you feel, is satanic. That's what all the pagan religions are about. Bible never says it's something you feel. Verb in Greek is πληρόω, and it's a perceptive power, nonemotional. (Old Testament version did have a feeling component, Greek verb πίμπλημι, filling like you feel full after a good meal. It wasn't emotional then, either, but of course people reacted.) To not understand this Role of the Spirit is to fail the spiritual life completely. Even if one uses 1 John 1:9 to get the True Filling, since he doesn't know it's a perceptive thing, he keeps on expecting to feel something; again, not realizing Filling is for the purpose of Teaching Bible — so he never uses that Power, and thus never grows up. Instead he rolls in the aisles babbling, or thinks he lost his salvation because he doesn't feel something, and lives on an emotional roller coaster, eventually becoming mentally ill. The tongues people are in this category. They don't read what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14 about the temporary nature of tongues — foreign human languages one didn't learn naturally, never gibberish — being only for giving the gospel to unbelievers; and that, ending 70 AD with Israel's destruction (precedence of Isaiah 28). So Satan & Co. have a field day with these people.
  1. Doctrine of Right Pastor (for you personally), Ephesians 4:11-16, 1 Peter 5, 1 Thessalonians 5:12. You must be under a teacher. It's an authority and soul-matching question, not a denominational question. So if your right teacher is Catholic, Baptist, name-the-denomination or no denomination, well... that's who you go under. You must ask God to lead you to your right teacher. He won't be coy about it. The believer who will not be under his right pastor, never grows up. Even if he uses 1 John 1:9 and correctly perceives some doctrines, his refusal to be under a teacher will eventually result in Divine Discipline of great magnitude; if he doesn't heed that Discipline, he will lose whatever growth he had. It's pretty gory, what happens to a believer who won't go under whomever is his right teacher, or who rejects his right teacher after being under him. Some things in life, you'd rather not know.
  1. No Soul Life in the Womb. 340+ verses on that (all womb verses in English Bibles are reverse-translated, too many to list). If you think that human life is in the womb, you will misperceive the nature of the spiritual life (#9, next) and will in essence claim God is a Sadist. No Christian means to do this. So it's pretty destructive, to be misinformed here. Revelation 17 becomes 'the way' for believers who believe there's any soul ever in any womb. Again, no doctrine that maligns God can be correct, and the idea of soul-in-womb is as unbiblical as it gets.
  1. New Covenant in Christ, His Invention of both the Royal Spiritual Life, Church, and its time meaning. Central theme of Book of Hebrews and Ephesians, Colossians, Galatians; we have no precedence from Israel except a voting requirement. To not know this, is to completely flunk the spiritual life. The Church is never Israel, and nothing that pertained to Israel pertains to Church — we are the reverse of everything Israel was. Christ has two Kingships, hence two covenants, two priesthoods, two 'walls' joined in Him.

Morality (i.e., the Ten Commandments) was never spirituality, even in the Old Testament. Morality is a gift to the human race so you can have a happy life down here. Morality has its own laws; Mosaic Law was divided into three components, two of which were secular. So of course you still should be moral. But even the unbeliever can be and often is, moral. Spiritual immaturity is evidenced in anyone who teaches or thinks that morality is the spiritual life. That's what felled Israel, and that's what fells Church. Satan uses morality to beat God, that's how much morality is not spirituality. It's his fake substitute. All of the Matthew 4 temptations are temptations to do good deeds! Satan is moral. His arguments against God are Moral Arguments. So of course he uses morality to substitute for the spiritual life!

The Royal Spiritual Life is about having perfect thoughts: for Father forever hears each one, and the believer in Christ is a Royal Priest to Father, 24/7. It's impossible to have perfect thoughts, which is why you need #1, so to keep on being Filled with the Spirit. So it's a killer life, constantly monitoring your thoughts, constantly learning and living on Bible you know so far, gauging every thought and action and decision in Bible terms. Nothing is more satisfying, either. Light-years beyond moral behavior.

Moreover, that Thinking Evidence you can't see of your learning and living on Bible 24/7, is playing live before Heaven (more on this follows below). Satan uses your thinking to accuse you — your thinking and attitude toward Word, not your sins, since your sins were all judged on the Cross — but God uses your thinking to justify giving the world one more day. All the good deeds and moral behavior on the planet, cannot buy time. So the Christian who doesn't understand the sudden-death nature of the Rapture based on the voluminous Bible Doctrine from Genesis through Revelation that God orchestrates Time based on the Trial, will not grow up, because he won't recognize the importance of how he's thinking right now. Rapture has a basis: the Trial. As we saw earlier, it's due to Israel's time ending that Church was inaugurated, in the first place. That's why the Rapture has no fixed time, and ends God's Rebuttal. That means the believer must first understand the underlying doctrine of God's Orchestration of Time due to the Trial, to understand the role of Church and its own timing constraints. The believer who doesn't, won't mature. It's akin to always being late, because you don't know what time it is: those Matthew 25 virgins without oil (Holy Spirit) in their lamps (souls) had no conception of the timing of the Bridegroom.

  1. Christ and no one else is the Head of Church, a body of believers, not a religion or institution. Simon surnamed/nicknamed Stone, Little Rock (John 1:42) — Peter, to you — is just a chip of the bedrock, Christ. Strange how misapprehension here leads to never understanding #9; no one who believes Peter is the head of the church (i.e., in popes or apostolic succession) ever matures spiritually; very moral, very well-meaning, and very stunted. Belief that Peter is the head of the church motivates one not to learn Bible. So the spiritual life shuts down completely: can't grow if not regularly learning Bible. Matthew 16:18 is egregiously mistranslated. Conversely, it's a remarkable phenomenon of history that the many flourishing monasteries were a handy place to just get Bible but without rocking the religious boat. So you went through the religious conformity motions — for it isn't Biblical to rebel — meanwhile, you learned the real Word. Or, you became a travelling friar, etc., in which case you had even more spiritual freedom yet no one would suspect you. Very easy thing, to teach and stress the truth, and only pay lip service to what 'mother' demanded. People hearing you do that would thus learn 'mother' was wrong, and still grow up in Word. Of course, you gave up your life to do that, being a priest or nun: in order to be close to Bible. You can bet some of those people grew up spiritually.
  1. Pre-Tribulation Rapture is an Angelic Trial issue with potential for a Mistrial Verdict, if the numbers of Unseen-by-people Witnesses, Don't Complete In Time. It's a numbers question, not a time question. Book of Hebrews is all about this, especially in Hebrews 11.
  1. Most Important of All — our Royal Spiritual Life is a Thinking Before Father, since you are a Royal Priest for Father. This is how you invisibly win in the Trial — forget about people on earth! — think before Father living on what Bible you're learning, 24/7. It takes a long time to even get into the habit of living like that. You go through a lot of awkward self-consciousness and the temptation to be anal, is constant. Happily, if you want to know God this kind of living is almost instinctive, so many Christians do this. Trick is therefore to mature in the doctrines and usage, with interest in looking at Him being paramount, rather than looking at other Christians. If you want God, you 'talk' to Him all the time. Children do this instinctively. We grow away from that when we compare ourselves to other believers; at that point, we are no longer living the spiritual life, but merely its form, 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7. Don't stop talking with God like you did as a child, like Christ, Paul, David, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Job all did. That's the secret to growing up in Christ. He answers back constantly, too: using His Word. You'll see how true this is, as you keep on looking at Him and talking to Him, Hebrews 12:2. Prayer is first and foremost, conversation. Official prayer goes to Father only. Else it goes no higher than the ceiling. But that doesn't mean you don't learn to 'hear' from All of Them. Holy Spirit does all the communicating, and He does it Only through the Word. So if you don't know the Word, you can really be fooled. It's not a voice or other Hollyweird stuff. You just 'know' the answers and then you prove their Biblicity. (For demons also send thoughts, so you test what you hear, same principle as for people in 1 John 4:1-6.)
  1. Because Christ paid for sins with His Thinking, in order to become King-Priest "kata" Melchizedek, main theme in Hebrews. This Thinking Life is an Eternity-Past Contract in Isaiah 53:10-12; all of the New Testament plays to those verses, to explain the Contract for Church. Tie-in is Jeremiah 31:31-34, explained at length in Hebrews, especially Hebrews 8:8 through Hebrews 10:17. So long as Christians think Christ's Physical death paid for sins, they will never understand the spiritual life and will flunk at the Bema. Morality can't pay for sins. Rituals can't pay for sins. Good deeds can't pay for sins. What a soul thinks wrongly, only Another Soul, can Fix. So only Christ could pay, and He paid by Soul Thinking (Isaiah 53:10 + Isaiah 53:11) — which alone can be enough to Thinking God Who has no Body and no needs for good deeds. So now our souls can be fixed to think like His, Romans 12:1-3 (in the Greek).

It's amazing how incorrect perception of these (and some other) Bible doctrines stunts spiritual growth and sends you into Satan's camp, moral and blissfully thinking you're being spiritual. But instead, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10 characterize the life. It's unbelievably tragic, how we all get so trapped. For centuries. The proof of that tragedy is all over the internet and in 'Christian' servers, group chats, social media, churches. The more incorrect someone is about these doctrines, the more anthropocentric, legalistic; the more that person fancies him/herself holy. That's why I keep auditing my beliefs by writing websites, myself. The tragedy of Christendom is so vast, I don't trust 'my' interpretations at all, and need to see them 'on paper', to correct them. Constantly. I'm lazy. If I don't write out, I don't internalize the doctrines. If I don't write out publicly, I'll be sloven in my research. It's not teaching, it's auditing, that you see in these pages: I'm writing a report to God, who cares if someone else reads it. That's between God and the reader.

So Christendom has been Stone Deaf for centuries, and that's why the Rapture hasn't happened until yet. Not using 1 John 1:9 is the primary reason. All the hallowed tones and theological degrees on the planet are no substitute for the Holy Spirit's Brains, Ephesians 4:23 in Greek (correct translation is "by Agency of the Spirit"). We are all brainouts, apart from 1 John 1:9. Then, progressively learning and auditing your understanding of at least the critical doctrines enumerated above, of which the Rapture is one — must be ongoing. Else, you'll show up at the Bema with only your charred-and-healed small soul, ever grateful to even be there. But, with no gold, silver, precious stones — except for the high moments in your spiritual life, before you tanked. You will always be rewarded for the spiritual highs Spirit made in you. But you could have more: Kingship. More to honor Christ with. Go for it. It's far harder to be rich than to be poor. It's parenting.

As the preceding summarized history demonstrates, we learn from Bible that we Learn Nothing from Bible. We are thus cannon fodder for Satan & Co.'s Trial schemes. A favorite satanic ploy is mistranslation of Bible verses which teach the above 13 doctrines, namely Hebrews 11:1 regarding what's the Spiritual Life on Trial. Take the Doctrine about the Rapture. It's connected to the Angelic Trial. So, the only defense and the best glory of the believer, says Hebrews 11:1 in Greek, is Bible Doctrine, for it's the Evidence of Him in the Trial. So guess what? That verse is abysmally translated in every Bible! In that verse's Greek, the genitives are plural to demonstrate believing, trials and not-seeings of believers who trust in the Word, the hupostasis — Greek word for Christ usually translated "Substance" — well, yeah, He's the Substance of the Trials we're all in (same word is used in Hebrews 3:14 and Hebrews 1:3 by the writer as a moniker in his letter). Verse in Greek is as dramatic as can be, using heptameter and anaphora and parallelism, not to mention the passive voice of the verbs, which stress how Faith Is His Thinking in you; so Its Power to Make You Hope, Undergo Trial Though Unable To See humanly — parallel verse is in Romans 5:5, another verse about how Bible affects you, impregnating you with God's Love via His Word. So Hebrews 11:1 should blow you away, and you'd want to wear it on your forehead always, as spiritual tefillin. So of course this is one of the most mistranslated verses in the New Testament. When you see how badly, and how the mistranslation maligns God, Christ, and humanity surgically, it will blow you away, too. Fortunately, you can almost always tell a mistranslated verse from the translation itself: if the translated verse glorifies man and denigrates God, stresses what man does and cuts out what God does, it's a mistranslation. You can set your watch by it. Good examples of mistranslated verses are Genesis 3:11, Psalm 139:11-17, 1 Corinthians 1:5, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:6; Romans 12:1-3, Ephesians 4:11-16, Ephesians 4:23, James 4:5, James 1:1-20, James 2:18-26; Bible keywords and wordplay frequently get trashed in translation, so the entire passage meaning is Reversed. You can set your watch by it. Oh: most of James, Corinthians, Colossians, Ephesians, Romans and Philippians are so mistranslated, the sense-of-meaning you get in translation, is the Opposite of the God-breathed original.

So Hebrews 11:1 should read, "It's about Confidence in Word! Christ's Thinking On Trial! Evidence, Unseen!" to match the Greek dramatic intent and meter. In sum, Thinking Bible properly is Successful Trial Witness, avoids a Mistrial Verdict: that's the Substance of the Trial, Hebrews 11:1's Greek. Thinking properly is far harder than acting properly. It's easy not to murder; but impossible, to avoid a nasty thought toward a Windows glitch or misplaced chair. Again, the Royal Spiritual Life is about having perfect thoughts: for Father forever hears each one. It's a killer life. Light-years beyond moral behavior. It's exhausting, a kind of spiritual racquetball, and you never get off the court!

Here we are Church On Trial, inserted into Daniel 9:26 to be the Time Bridge to the Tribulation, so that a Mistrial Verdict won't be declared; yet our Thinking Witness thus far is abysmal. So what happens if Satan wins? God will indeed submit if Satan wins. God is Love, and Love subordinates, and Love never gerrymanders Truth; so if the truth is we don't want God, then Time must End. If it ends too early, then we are Raptured, Satan wins, and we'll still be together with God. But they would rule us. Love doesn't need to be in charge. Love has already informed us they won't win, because their schemes just flat don't work. But they can win. So if we don't keep growing in Word to have that Hebrews 11:1 result, then Time Will End. Because God is Perfect, and even Submission doesn't compromise Him, Psalm 138:2b, Psalm 89:14-15, Isaiah 52:14 through Isaiah 53:7-12.

Omnipotence means omnipotence. God doesn't 'have to' submit. When you have everything, when you can do anything, it becomes a question of What Reason you pick for doing or allowing. The reason has to be valuable enough to you, since you already have, everything else. God can undo all of us at any time He likes. It wouldn't be a sin to do that: He owns everything, so has the right to do whatever He wants, whenever He wants, Isaiah 64 and Romans 9. So what we see in Bible, is what He wants. So if Satan won in the Trial, that doesn't compromise God one iota. God could undo Satan and anyone else, in less than a nanosecond. He's not forced by anything: not by Satan, not by us, not by creature needs or lesser justice issues — and most of all, His Attributes do not constrain Him. One of the biggest blasphemies in Christianity is to think that God is somehow forced to do a thing, given His Nature; arrogantly using Bible verses on His Attributes or promises to justify imprisoning Him, as if those attributes or promises were better surety than God's Own Will. So guess again. He promises, sure — because He wants to. You're breathing, because He upholds you with every passing nanosecond. Not because He has to, or He's a bad guy if He 'changes His Mind' and wipes you out. If He wiped you out, you'd not be around to say whether He was good or bad! So those promises tell you He wants You Forever — that's why He makes commitments. But you know, any commitment is only as strong as the person wanting to fulfill it. God is Strong Enough. But not, imprisoned! God doesn't have ego problems, like Satan and we do.

This news of God Loving us unconditionally is very hard to live with. Dunno about you, but when I hear "I love you", my first instinct is to run away as fast as possible. The phrase is employed to use the object of it, to take something, even if sincerely meant. Human relationships are proof enough of that. Yet what can God take from us? Nothing. So He isn't using us. We only add a cost to Him, saved or not. So it must be true love, and no other reason, for His creating and upholding us. Either that, or He's nutty as a fruitcake, just as Satan contends.

Satan well knows God's Love is unconditional. God's nature totally bollixes Satan, who is seriously in love with God, really. But love like anything else, needs Maturation in Thinking. The plan for us after all, is the same as the initial plan for the angels. Satan just couldn't stand it, that his merit — above all the other angels — didn't contribute in some way to God's Love. Satan is extremely moral. So are most of the fallen angels; to get us to do gross sin is a way to deride us as animals. It's the morality question that's the object of the Trial. Merit is at heart, a morality question. Satan contends merit should be the basis for relationships, and up to a point it's easy to understand his contention. But Love is beyond merit. That's what God's been explaining from the beginning. Satan's strategy and tactics are all based on morality; God's Strategy and tactics are all based on Love, a Body-Building-Sons purpose. The two sides couldn't be more different. Satan's got an unreconciled love; God, of course, is Reconciliation Inherent. To the extent we, like Satan, can't reconcile to God's Unconditional Love — and we never will, if that Word doesn't get in and cycle in us, Romans 5:5 — we too will be unhappy with God. Precisely because, His Love is Unconditional.

So what do we conclude? Well we know Satan won't win; but they win over us the meanwhile, if we don't keep doing the Hebrews 11:1 learning-and-living on Word. Our Trial Witness is primarily to Heaven, unseen; not, to people down here. No human being can hear you think Bible. That's what's on Trial. not your sins, your good deeds, your rituals, what others think of you, how you look, what job you have. You have One Job, Learning And Living On Bible: that is supposed to seed into all else you have and are in this life. Having done all, to stand, Ephesians 6:12-13. Fail in that Testimony, and you'll be ashamed at the Bema. For Satan won't win, he's been warned, as have we. But if we get slovenly about it, those who did not — they will be the kings awarded at the Bema, they will be the ones buying Time For the World, and we will be mightily glad to be saved, but... we won't have anything atop that salvation, 1 Corinthians 3. It's a big deal. So of course Satan & Co. would mask bald Trial verses like Hebrews 11:1, so we don't know about all this. This is a political thing going on in Heaven, in the format of a Legal Trial. The winner takes all. Forget entirely about earthly politics: the Heavenly politics demand all of your thinking and time!

Meanwhile, above the sickening, steaming fray of modern human living, high above the clouds, looking down on all this writing humanity, the one who for eons ached (!) to replace the Most High (!) is most pleased with his progress in all these facetious proceedings; quite pleased, in fact, that the very Revelation 17 harlot of political religion, which the Most High even wrote everyone is occurring — well, she sits like a queen, nicely flexing her beauty within all the Body of Christ. So they become the persecutors, but seductively claim political rightness; they tout believe + works verbs to kill the Gospel; so they make movies and books and beg money and crusade politically, and loudly as if 'Christian'; so loudly, that even the largest democratic polity on earth, can't tell anymore what 'Christian' is; won't consult The Book to test the many steamy claims. Yeah, going into the real estate business after getting enough money and power from doctrinal prostitution or rah-rah-drugs, this harlot does. And now, wants to use all that clout, to gain political respectability, as well. So of course she should bang the drum on immorality: to cover up, her own!

Meanwhile, the Jewish problem is nicely solved by none other than the Rejected Bridegroom, since He has bound Himself not to rescue them except if Israel turns to Him, else by means of the Church; so persecution of the few Church who actually learn Him is also proceeding to develop, nicely on course: well not so nicely, as this Scripture is no longer under lock-and-key.

Yet, all that has to happen, is for my harlot "Christian", to muscle out the real Christian, even among the independent churches. That is proceeding very nicely indeed. Dress up in crusader's clothes, but lay off really learning Bible. Falsify the Gospel by adding verbs to "believe", and be sure to crusade on anything which even the dumbest person with Bible software can prove anti-Christ. Thus the real Christians who don't follow along can be persecuted, too. Thus the Real Bible can be hidden, 'protected' — well, kidnapped, let's not be coy — even though in plain sight, easily available to anyone in the Original Languages, Like Never Before In History. Ahhh, the final solution to all these vexing problems is in plain sight, 😞.

How nice of the average believer to not notice the Fake Church which the Most High warned them would take hold, way back in their puny 96 AD. Why, that's the very year and the very reason I began it! I even used the same colors as Revelation 17, didn't they get that? Nope. Wasn't too hard, either. Starting with Acts 15 nutcases who wanted to keep the Law, folding in the alluring idea that if you adopt pagan rituals and other senseless paraphernalia you'd at least maybe save some; barnacled religion, by 180 AD. Aha, and all Scripture — well, not all, drat, but most — captured under this wonderful Fake Church. Universal. Yes. Of course, with their incessant politicking, I had to throw them a bone or two — ok, my boys lost control, let's not lie — you know, the Reformation and the dozens of breakouts before it — then that dang Tregelles and Tischendorf and all their ilk, what with their collecting manuscripts — still, now the independents have had Scripture for over a century, and in the original languages at that — still, I have them. I own them. They play to my piping tune, nicely over the political cliff.

So, let's play the same tune as in the 90's AD, this time with the independents, who after all are so proud of themselves that they aren't 'catholic'. Take them down the same old road, see if they notice the parallels. They don't, aha. The creeping in of crusading, of the need to 'defend' God from 'heretics', of tabooism and relics and little rituals with food and days — never mind Paul wrote extensively against all that — they don't discern. Give them maybe 20 years — 10, if I'm really careful — and they'll morph faster into a pontificating group than that first group ever did. Even with all those original language texts. That will show the Most High how His Own Sheep are truly disinterested in His Word.

See how easily Satan can win: we don't see the obvious evidence of Daniel 9:26c and hence pre-Tribulation Rapture's validity. For like every past generation, we ask all the wrong questions. Example: what questions do we ask about Bible's data on the Temple? We know the Bible devotes huge chunks of Scripture related to minute details about the Temple: several temples, really, and each one slightly different from the next, from the original Tabernacle in the Wilderness, to the huge and shining Millennial Temple in Ezekiel 40ff.

Oh, we debate the frigging size of a "cubit", or whether there are contradictions in the various data, and write extensive tomes describing each structure, in voluminous commentaries dutifully replicated in every seminary, required reading by heavy heads with long trains of deservedly-respectable initials after their solemn names; yet we never ask why all this sacred data, is even there?! For surely God is not a kid with a construction set of Lego blocks. He doesn't spend this much time on measurements and dimensions and construction materials for no reason. If all He wanted to do was leave blueprints, He could just bing that into anyone's head, when the time came to reconstruct.

So it never dawns on us that no Temple from God is ever man-made. From Tabernacle to Eternal State, God and God Alone, Instructs And Empowers Its Building, each time. Even for the Tabernacle, God the Holy Spirit πίμπλημι-ified the workers — and that was just a very fancy, Tent! Oh, but Paul sure noticed that Only Divine Temple Builder, in Ephesians. Built the letter around Him building Us Who Will Be Made Fitted Bride. So Paul also weaves into Ephesians the most-famous play of the Greeks' origin: "Ion", by Euripedes. So no one would miss the meaning of God begetting This Temple Made Without Human Hands. Oh well.

Tragically, we therefore miss this most blatant message in the Bible, using the most blatant Symbol of that Message: God is building a 'Temple' of Sons! From His Son's Thinking! Line on line, precept on precept, because Truth is God's Attribute which Can Be Deposited In Us! Isaiah 53:10-11, Living! So yet another metaphor: the woman was built for the man, Hebrew verb "בָּנָה banah" in Genesis (rib verse). So Paul uses that one, too: we are being built by God, Ephesians 2:10, Ionic dative of ἐπί, Matthew 16:18 thus referenced, Upon The Man. Also, New Testament enjoys many a witty play on ἐκ, birthing, referencing mê-‘ă-mal מֵעֲמַ֤ל in Isaiah 53:11 Hebrew — beyond, born — root meaning of Hebrew preposition "min" מִן, always meaning after, separated from, never "in" or "from" the womb as English Bibles blasphemously make it. Upon, Out From, Due To, Made-Up-Of The Man, Who is the King of Kings. So we are to be built as Kings. Yeah, since the Temple always has represented the King-to-Come, Messiah! Hence a Temple analogy is always used for the wife, too — Israel was to be that woman, but she played Vashti. Hence the "banah" now proceeds upon Christ: building up Church, theme of Ephesians 4:11-16. So don't you know, Ephesians 4:11-16 is egregiously mistranslated, so #7 of our Baker's Dozen doctrines above, is never learned! Thus your spiritual life tanks, since you don't learn Bible under your right pastor! Oh well.

Wow, what a dramatic and fitting metaphor for God to use throughout Bible, that of Temple Building. Stone upon stone, precept upon precept, person upon person, all fitted together into a Kingdom. By means of His Thinking On Trial. Buildup of Evidence leads to a Built Church and Built Time-and-Justice Bridge to Trial climax, the Tribulation and resulting Millennium. Finishing for all time, the Body for the Eternal State. How clever. The one thing we can all see, the one thing we relic-hungry humans can all admire, the one topic on which The Most Bible Text Is Spent, the Temple: and we don't notice its Divine Builder, even cutting off the Lord's Head in favor of Peter's, in Matthew 16:18!

Okay, so we ask relic questions of Temple, rather than Son-Building questions. Okay, then maybe we'd listen to the Bible's Warning of the Rapture, if we had the right relics to look at? Guess again! For regarding the relic of the Temple, look: there is no Temple, but instead an Abominating Dome Squats Over the Holy Of Holies: vividly advertising Daniel 9:26, Matthew 24 — that the Rapture is Ταχύ, next to occur! Yet, we recognize nothing from that. You have to understand, the one thing over which there is no dispute, is that the Dome squats over the Rock which was once the Holy of Holies Ark stand, on which Abraham almost sacrificed his son. What's disputed is who was the son almost-sacrificed. There's not a scholar on the planet of any sanity who'd claim that rock was anything else, and all three major religions — Islam, Christianity, Judaism — wow, even their respectable scholars all agree! This is a miracle, so much agreement. Yet we learn nothing of the meaning, and restrict our inquiry to the age and nature of the stone, bare flashcard facts. And look into the Bible not at all, except to figure out original dimensions (the cubit debate, for example).

Yet, we chase after all manner of other relics to 'prove' Bible is from God; we even form expensive expeditions to Mount Ararat, drooling over fuzzy photos of its protrusions, as if Noah would be so stupid to leave valuable cypress wood behind. Yet the Two Greatest Relics Of All Time Vividly Evidencing Daniel 9:26, can be seen from any computer linked to cameras at the Wailing Wall! Thus we prove ourselves Satan-fodder. Generation after generation. Not only is Bible mistranslation and misapprehension of key Bible Doctrines the sad Immature Testimony of Church thus far, but the most vivid possible Evidence of Rapture's validity stares at us each night on TV, at supper.

Remember how, when Daniel was praying and fasting because he was worried about his people, God sent an angel to inform him of the rest of Temple history. Since Temple = National Covenant, such that if no Temple, no relationship with God, Temple history meant Messiah's history and thus Israel's history. So Daniel was anxious to hear the angel explain what would happen. While explaining, the angel made what then seemed a cryptic comment about the regular (lamb) sacrifices stopping in order to set up the abomination of desolation, a statue of an anti-Christ, a Fake Anointed One. But, um isn't that strange, that Daniel 9:27? Didn't the angel just finish saying (Daniel 9:26) that the temple would not be rebuilt until after The Very End of the 70 weeks; meaning, not Until Messiah Returned, just like Isaiah 61 and Ezekiel 39ff have also said? So, then: who had caused the temple to be rebuilt and sacrifices resumed, so they could stop again? Couldn't be God Who authorized it.

Aha. So this "abomination" is going into an "abomination" of a temple; an "abomination", in that it pretends to be of God, but is not. So someone not God, rebuilds the Temple over the Holy of Holies, and claims to be Messiah! So stopping the sacrifices would rile up people believing in this Fake Temple, to protect this Fake Temple from stopping the sacrifices. Oh, no! It's A Trap To Herd And Kill The Jews! Or, if the sacrifices are stopped before the Temple is destroyed, as a Warning the Temple is about to be destroyed, oh no! It's just a different kind of trap to herd and kill the Jews, because they will try to defend it! One of these two outcomes, but either one, still a trap!

it's a trap

After all, the Temple had already been plundered and desecrated many times during its 364-year history, mostly by the Jewish Kings, themselves — to buy peace from foreign domination — as well as, by those conquering them. So "desolation" was very familiar to Daniel. Of course, back in 586 BC there was no temple at all. Zerubbabel would be rebuilding it, not too long after Daniel got this prophecy. Then, to prepare for the Lord's Arrival, an "abomination" named Herod, would essentially rebuild Zerubbabel-baby's temple to gain political popularity (actual rebuilding begun 17 BC, ended 64 AD, just in time for Masada and the protracted siege of Jerusalem). Hint, hint of things to come. For Israel remained Under Foreign Domination from Zerubbabel, forward. Just as promised, in Daniel 9:25.

Between 516 BC and the time Messiah came, there were many other hints: most notably, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, in the 160's BC. Which gave rise to the Maccabees who were total Scriptural dolts, even though God gave them the Grace to Protect the Temple. Hence, the secular custom of Chanukah. So by celebrating Chanukah every year since circa 164 BC, Jews are reminded of "abomination" for eight days. The Lord's prophecy in Matthew 24 even uses that holiday's significance, to teach them how to read Daniel 9:25-27. But, no one hears Him.

So, when (August 28-29th 70 AD) Titus reluctantly fulfilled the "near" part of the Lord's (Matthew 24) double entendre prophecy/explanation of Daniel 9:26, no one still heard Him. August 28-29th date is from the Atlas of the Bible and Christianity by Tim Dowley, though other sources could be used. Oh well. Guess it's necessary to raze the Temple, wait a generation or two; and then a whole Roman city was built around its former site; culminating in, a Roman temple built smack dab atop the old Temple site (Hadrian, sometime after 135 AD, since Jerusalem was wholly destroyed in the Bar Kochkba rebellion)! And still, no one heard Him? First, 70 AD, Temple Gone! And then, a repeat lesson about "abomination": another 70 years later, an Abomination stares them in the face; meanwhile, with Jews worldwide commemorating Chanukah every year for a week, and They Don't Get It By Now?

God wasn't exactly coy when He had the Second Temple destroyed. 57 days from Passover to Pentecost, and 57 days from Pentecost to 9th Ab, when Titus razed the Temple. (The final siege began on Passover, 70 AD.) Um, 57 was the number of years in the Mosaic Law depicted by the number of days from Passover to Pentecost (you began the count of the Omer on the last day of Passover, modern Judaism doesn't read Bible rightly). Those 57 years were the number of years between Messiah's deadline for completion (37 AD, in our terms) and the beginning of His Millennial Reign (94 AD in our terms), known since David died, and reaffirmed in the Daniel 9 timeline (it ends in 37 AD, because Messiah has to purchase time for the remaining 7 and the 50 to play, in God's Accounting).

Moreover, 9th Ab 586 BC, the First Temple was destroyed. 140 years passed, just as prophesied to Daniel: Jerusalem was rebuilt by 446 BC, right on time. So Notice The same Number of Years, not just in number of years, but in Meaning Per Segment (true indication of Divine Mirroring)! First 70, analogous to 586-516 BC; the Second Temple was completed by that deadline. Next 70 years was a mirroring back of the first 70, so Jerusalem got rebuilt by that deadline, 446. Now note the reverse, in AD: to 70 AD, Temple destruction; to 140 AD, Jerusalem destruction — and complete rebuilding, By Abominators. Can't miss it.

Daniel 9:26 is very specific, as is Daniel 9:25. It's about the destruction, not the mere desecration, of the Temple. 40 years after the Lord died on the Cross is significant, for "40" is always the Judgement warning period. Can't miss this. Can't miss the play on Daniel 9:2 — the next 70 years, subsuming both the elapse from Messiah's Birth and the 40 years — replaying again, shenayim, twice! But of course, according to some reports, the entire reason for the destruction in 135+ AD by Hadrian, is that the Jews were continually trying to rebuild the Temple themselves. So by then they couldn't read any of their sandy soil Taanach. Taanach תַּעְנָךְ = sandy soil in Hebrew, nothing grows in it. Like, understanding, since the Temple is not Standing Under the Contract. Just as Daniel 9:26, explains.

And lest you say all this is too arcane, Jews Are Raised On Biblical Numerology; just check out their obsession with numbers on the web (e.g., the wacky Bible Codes people). Biblical numerology is abused by many in Judaism, but that doesn't mean Bible doesn't use numerology. And your big hint it's valid is that real time is 'matched' (mirrored) to the numerological concepts. So look: "70" means all the missed sabbatical years. Jews didn't miss them from the Second Temple forward. But they missed the Sabbath, Adonai Sabbaoth becoming Immanuel — so they missed all the sabbath rest, theme of Hebrews 4. So that Chapter's purpose was to announce a higher abrogation of Promised Rest, and hence the Temple would be destroyed. And it was, right on time. And it was, on the Same Timeline As The First Temple. And then Jerusalem was destroyed, right on time. And an Abomination of a Temple rose on the very Holy of Holies. Could you miss such a blatant Message? Done in real time, we can all verify these facts about the time — sheesh. How blind we are!

Look: what is called "Jerusalem" today is really still the Roman layout of that city! Layout Abomination, get it? Construction dates for Aelia Capitolina and the Roman Temple, per Encyclopedia Britannica, "Jerusalem, History of", volume 10, 1985; and Encarta 2004's "Jerusalem" article. Fausset's Bible dictionary in BibleWorks 5 dates this city from 130 AD. Hadrian died in 138 AD. The Kabbalists are so hung up on Biblical numerology, and they miss this? Sheesh: what does it take to get through to this stiff-necked people, Christians included! So, oh well might as well keep on Playing In Real Time, What Daniel 9:26 says.

So wars and rumors of wars were decreed, and they keep on playing. So the Land changes hands many times, over the ensuing centuries. Then the Christians decided to try their hand at being abominations — Emperor Julian tried to rebuild the Temple toward the end of his reign, so clearly knew no Scripture at all — but fortunately God stopped him. Julian tried 40 years after his uncle Constantine; the latter, by the way, took power 490 years after Antiochus desecrated the Temple. Constantine presided over the desecration of Christianity, over the senseless murder and ostracism of millions, as well as helped preserve Scripture. We are all used by both sides, in this Trial.

Satan sure believes in the Temple's Rapture-is-next, Ταχύ (!) meaning of Daniel 9:26c as our present 'spot' in history: watch how very much he believes what God says there, in what follows. For Satan even has his own Daniel 9, Revelation 11 Fake Temple "shub" (= Return-to-the-Land) plan: purpose, to congregate the Jews so he can pogromize them more easily, once the Rapture comes. You can see it play historically; for Satan tags his play, to God's 490-Time-Accounting-System. "Revelation 6-17 trends" explains that plan and its timings in more panoramic detail. Notice: when the Christians finished whomping each other circa 600 AD and lay exhausted, well then Satan himself elects to help God boom the message to His hapless Jews and Church; he uses the Persians to occupy Jerusalem from 614 AD-circa 629; that riles up Heraclius to beat Khosrow II; the former recaptured the City in 628 or 629 AD (research varies). Which Satan was kind of keen to do, since 140 + 490 = 630, and 70 + 560 = 630. God's Basic Time Accounting unit is 490 years (non-intercalated) and 560 years (intercalated). So look here: kind of nice for Satan to run his own 490's — always, to compete with the Most High, Real Lord.

Apparently Heraclius wanted to rebuild the Temple, according to templemount's "Constantine" table entry (misnaming Heraclius as Herodius). The table was prepared based on a document by "Lambert Dolphin, for the Jerusalem Temple Foundation". It also says Constantine did build (what God would still define as "Abomination") circa 324 AD (his "Constantine and the Christian Roman Empire" entry). I can't confirm this said about Heraclius and Constantine from any other source, so far. Nor can I confirm elsewhere: that in 614 AD, Khosrow had granted permission to rebuild and then rescinded it. It also says Hadrian had previously granted permission back in 117 AD, but rescinded it two years later. Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook (oh, I love that site) has an interesting entry concerning 614 AD. Which reference was obtained from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. If the statement about Constantine is true, that was 490 years after Antiochus IV Epiphanes desecrated the Temple with his pig offerings. Cute. Julian's attempt to do the same 40 years later, apparently a month before he died, cute. That's the last line of centered text also from Hebrew University. I didn't use any of these websites' chronology for my sites; I only found them (February 13, 2006). Not saying they're right or wrong, but rather just disclosing their independence. Of course, I can't find anything on the internet (or elsewhere) which recognizes the 490-Time Accounting System or Satan's plays against it described here. But as far as I'm concerned, the math, Scripture, and history are validly accounted. Observationally-wise considering it appears Satan uses Exodus 12:40-41 every 430 as a cruel exodus parody for Islam, or that they play cruel 'timing' jokes on Riley Martin like visiting him every 11 years — it appears they're eager to make fun of the 490 timing. I can't find any substantive flaw to 'undo' the construct as a whole. If something is from God, then He Himself wants to prove it to a reader. So if you validate anything in 'my' pages with God, then you got the information from Him, never 'me'. After all, I'm just using His Word, same as you.

Notice how whether it's a Roman or Persian conqueror, the focus is on rebuilding the Temple with a timeline strangely 'tied' to significant Jewish-Temple-related dates and the Daniel 9, 490-year time accounting unit. Isn't that strange? Isn't it stranger still, no one listens? Especially, since Matthew 24 and Daniel 9:26 and Revelation 11:1 so clearly say God Does not Want That Temple Rebuilt? So who does? Guess.

So look at Satan's parallel lines of attack, so you can see how orchestrated is his 'shub' plan, always keeping attention on Jerusalem and the Temple, so people won't properly read Bible's prohibition against returning there until Christ Himself Returns: back in 610 AD, while maneuvering to get Persia to Jerusalem, a demon under Satan got the ear of an Arab guy, and thus raised up a Surrender = Islam (in Arabic). So by the time Byzantium was again in control of Jerusalem, now the Arabs could be used to abominate, since Satan & Co. clearly were having no luck getting the Christians to do it. By 632 AD — okay, the demon was a tad late — Islam was established enough so it could be perpetuated without its progenitor; so Mohammed could safely die. So they swept into Jerusalem in 638 AD — 'miraculously' defeating in their turn, both the Byzantines and the Persians, in separate and protracted campaigns. This is roughly analogous to the Jews beating Antiochus from 167-164 BC, and its timing is derisively based upon those earlier events' dates. Encarta's "Islam, Spread of" has two paragraphs — look up "Yazdegerd III"; Khosrow II (AKA Khrosrau, in Encarta) was murdered in 628-629 AD due to his being defeated by Byzantium in 628 in Jerusalem. So when Caliph Omar I took over Jerusalem in 638 AD, he'd be about 8 years behind Satan &Co.'s 'schedule' for rebuilding; but impressive, nonetheless: 638 is 568 years after 70 AD, and 568 is a transposition of 586. You see games like this (using words) all the time in Bible mistranslations. So Satan & Co. got the Abominated Temple Rebuilding going, at last! beginning 685 AD — which stands for a reversed 586 BC — to vividly remind everyone what that ground originally was the place where Abraham almost-sacrificed, Isaac. But in the Koran, some demon giving it to the hapless Mohammed, cleverly changes the name to "Ishmael" — this, to abominate the site conceptually, thus proving Daniel 9:26 true! — as well as to deride all who believe in the Koran; for the Temple was there since 950 BC, and the Rock was the Holy of Holies Ark stand; so clearly 'Allah' didn't care about the site, to leave it so long in Jewish hands. To also deride the larger audience who'd not remember What The Temple Meant, ever since.

If you're not familiar with the Koran's claims, you don't realize what a horrible prank this is to play on Muslims. See, the Koran repeatedly says the Bible is from Allah also; that the Jews had their own covenant, which the Bible records; but the Jews "adulterated" it over the centuries. So now Mohammed is getting the straight story. Ok: well then why did 'Allah' allow this Jewish Temple for so long? Bear in mind, the Koran treats many Bible heroes as valid, like Abraham, David, Isaiah, even Mary and Christ. So: um, the Temple was promised to David by God, in 2 Samuel 7. Koran doesn't dispute that. So think: if the site is for Ishmael, there could be no David. For David is a son of Isaac, not Ishmael; Christ is a son of David, not Ishmael, and the "Rock" always means Christ in the Old Testament, referring to that BedRock (Petra). So the Temple should have been promised to someone else, or there should have been no temple. So 'Allah' himself profaned Ishmael's alleged sacrifice by granting the Temple to David, long prior!

Worse, nowhere in the Koran is there a command to build on that site. Do you see the prank? It's so cruel against Muslims, who thus prove they don't even know their Koran, however much they chant it in school (and notice they're not using a translation like Christians do). But also cruel against Jews and Christians, who demonstrably can't see the Dome Proving Bible Right. Satan & Co. love to burlesque us all: here, with a Real Building we all can see, in Real Time. It's not a hallucination or ancient story. IshmaelnotIsaac.doc has pasted from the Koran the relevant verses and Islamic commentaries, pasted from the Alim 4-in-1 software suite (which I got as a gift from a Muslim). I love the Muslims, just as much as the Jews. Kills me, that they — and we Christians — are so burlesqued by Satan. But we don't want to learn God, so it's fair he be allowed to do this. We only have ourselves, to blame.

There's a whole lot of verifiable Temple History available on the internet, in encyclopedias, etc. going all the way back to Solomon's Temple. They can prove what it was, where it was (the recent Temple location disputes are farcical and fanciful, since obviously the Dome is supposed to cover the Rock on which Abraham almost-sacrificed his son). So this orchestration isn't hard to notice, prove, etc. When you turn on your TV at night and see Jerusalem always in the news — you have no doubt whatsoever about Satan being behind Islam. Look: that's why Islam got started, so to capture the Temple Mount, thus fostering attention (and yearning) on not-waiting-for-God-to-rebuild!

Since we didn't recognize the joke of the baldly advertised, Abominating Dome, well Satan & Co. gave the site a really catchy name in 691 AD: Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra, Dome of the Rock. Hint Hint! Oh: and just for overkill's sake, the Dome is built over The Same Length Of Time It Took For Solomon's Temple. See 1 Kings 6, compared to 685-691 AD for Dome per Encyclopedia Britannica, Macropaedia entry on "Dome of the Rock". Oh, the number games don't stop there: 685 AD, you'll notice, is a Reversal of the 5 and the 6: does "586" ring a bell? Then there's 615, the number of years after the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. Which, if you again reverse the 5 and the 6, is "516". Does that ring any bells? Of course, in the year 615, the tide began to turn for Mohammed's new faith; so 70 years later, here's the Dome! Mohammed, of course got his "call" to be a prophet 610 AD, age 40; begins publicly preaching about 3 years later (cute). I think that date is wrong, but can't prove it, yet: I'd bet money he started getting the visions in 600 AD when he was 30, and started preaching then (which lines up with when PERF 558 is dated at 643 AD). Of course, there's the fact that 7 years was Mohammed's tribulational period: ending with the Hegira, AD 622, first year of the Muslim calendar — or, mirrored, beginning with the Hegira, since they succeeded at Mecca about 7 years later, depending on how you date "succeeded", as the Treaty of al-Hudaybiya or the entry into Mecca 2 years after the treaty, with 10,000 troops); and 70 years later, the Dome is completed. Of course, 622 AD, is 685 years after Pompey conquered Jerusalem and desecrated the Temple with his presence (but he didn't take any booty). Who says history happens by accident, hey? As you'll see in the Appendix, one of the Conclusive Characteristics of Satan's authorship, is Reversal. Down to the most petty things like, numbers, dates, Bible pronouns and prepositions in mistranslated verses. I'm sure there are more number games than just these, probably tying to the Temple history, to Messiah, to David's kingship. Satan's also tying events in Mohammed's life to significant dates like the BC dates for Isaac's birth, and the Exodus — i.e., Mohammed's real first 'exodus' was 620 AD (at Ta'if), 2060 years after the Exodus, and 2060 happens to be the BC number of Isaac's birthdate — but I'm not going to spend my life learning how many number games are being played. I'm not interested in proving supernaturality, only in seeing the Whys which help me see The Lord, better. Suffice it to say, this is supernatural and very witty orchestration, a burlesque of God's mirroring of time to reflect Christ. Man can't do this kind of thing.

So you just know that when the Arabs built that Dome so many years ago, they did not mean to advertise to the world, the accuracy of Daniel 9:25-6. They did not mean to verify that Christ is The Real And Only Savior, the Real Allah Who Rose, (Isaiah 53:2, uses "ala") and Hence Became our Holocaust (red heifer/burnt offering, terms in Isaiah 53) and then Ascended On High (= ala in Hebrew; Arabic is similar). They certainly didn't mean to have that Dome prove the "Allah" of the Koran, is Satan. A devout, conservative Muslim steeped in the Koran will politely tell you that "Allah" does not mean "God". Oh, how true! It means "Satan", since he is the ruler of the demons; "Allah" (related to Hebrew verb "ala" (to ascend, climb), so kinda related to "Most High" (el-elyon), in Bible) originally meant head-god of a pantheon, in Meccan Arabic. Pantheons are always demons, throughout human history. See the fantastic wordplay in Isaiah 14:14, where Satan claims he will "ala" to replace El-Elyon (pronounced ay-el ay-elyown)! Koran is a masterpiece of demon-lawyerspeak. Book of Mormon is of like wit. Carefully go through the wording, and you'll see the Signature Characteristics, for Satan & Co. exquisitely chip and chop Truth: they never quite lie. Good lawyers all, they know how to fuzz up the truth surgically, so you will yourself be to blame for your own misunderstanding. Appendix has a lot more on their strategy and tactics.

But, that's what the Arabs unwittingly did; they Proved Bible The Only Word Of God, Simply By Building And Keeping Watch Over, That Dome. Even if the only Bible you knew was Matthew 24 + Daniel 9:26 + 1 Kings 6:12-14 + 1 Kings 9:6-9, so you knew that no-Temple means no-Covenant:

Because, the Daniel dates only add up to those conclusions. No one back in 586 BC (when the Temple was destroyed, Daniel being exiled as a result), or 30 AD (Year He was Crucified), could even know how to manipulate those dates. Actions since then, well no would-be manipulators had control over them — no one controlled Titus when he ransacked the Temple in 70 AD, thus fulfilling Daniel 9:26 and Matthew 24. Not to mention, the incredible devastation in the siege of Jerusalem and ever afterwards, which no one would even want; especially, just to prove those ol' weird prophecies and verses like 1 Kings 9:7, true. No one is capable of that much self-righteousness: well, except maybe Satan & Co. So, the later actors proving Daniel 9:26 true, mostly didn't even believe in Bible, like the Romans; and certainly Emperor Julian didn't mean to be an abomination himself, when he tried to rebuild the Temple; and later, my gosh! Then the Arabs themselves claim the Rock, and Advertise For Centuries Afterwards That Their Koran Is a fake, But The Bible Is The True Word Of God. Pray for them, since Christ paid for them, as well (of course): how embarrassed would you be, in their place? No one likes to be proven a fool: it hurts!

You'll see this weird trend of history, Satan deploying Islam every 430 years — mimicking Exodus 12:40-41 (!) — but only after the West failed to 'deliver' for him. Read the history worksheet (GeneYrs.xls) alongside the commentary.

As you can see, Satan & Co. need to control religious fervor in order to: herd mankind, kill mankind. Satan invented religion in Genesis 3, for his temptation of the woman and Adam, was religious — to her, to become like "Elohim"; to him, to save her. So, this sinning version of messianic zeal got programmed into the human race. So, it becomes important to promote and then protect, the relics of the religion so to turn on and off at will, whatever flow of zeal desired. Moreover, it's quite fun to burlesque the entire People of the Book (Genesis 12 protects Arabs and Jews in different ways, and Christians are spiritual sons of Abraham, Romans 4). Get them to all hate each other, by manipulating their relics. In order to make the Bible a relic of the past, full of jewels or dust, something you look at, but not into; something you kiss with frigidity, rather than caressing its 'soul'.

Satan & Co. laugh: Ahhh, let's burlesque their complete disinterest in the Most High — how disgusting, their disrespect of His Word! Ephesians 2 is burlesqued by a Dumb Dome and a bobbing Wailing Wall! So, vividly capture the Holy of Holies, put an Abomination atop it, and nyaah nyaah nyaah here's the proof of the Real God, you suckers — don't you see? Nope, we don't. So we are all — the peoples of the Book, who don't read it, but Just Kiss or Thump it — proven fools!

Silent sentinels, these two structures. Ohhh: "2". Like, "in the presence of two or more witnesses, a matter shall be proven", good Mosaic Law jurisprudence. Hmmm. Well, let's see. 'Two Witnesses', these two blocks of stone that don't talk, plus a Bible, which does. Hmmm. Aren't there a whole lot of verses in Bible which say you test empirical data with Scripture, and if the Scripture confirms it, it's right? Yeah, well, Look:

But even here, with just this much, it's pretty easy to see that the 70 AD destruction of the Temple, meant that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. No religion on the planet has more conclusive proof of Authorship available to any pair of eyes, any pair of ears, who wants to see and hear. Between these two Stones, and the phenomenal convergence of David's 1000-year grants on His Birth or Death, there cannot be any other Messiah, ever in history. Of course, no one wants to see or hear these in-your-face facts. But God didn't become unfaithful and withhold them.

We all know that Revelation 11's Two Witnesses during the Tribulation, will be humans. Everyone differs over who they are, but no one disputes they are two humans. Sadly, few ask other, more important, questions, and instead pour over identities which God didn't furnish. Kinda like hunting for dinosaurs God also doesn't talk about in Bible, you can waste lots of time going after answers God isn't giving. You know, like how in Genesis 1, the very name Genesis tells you that Chapter 1 is about the Fathering of Mankind, not about how the universe got here. Gennaō means to beget, not "be born". Those third century BC Jews of the LXX who translated Genesis 1 from the Hebrew, vividly tell the world they knew Trinity by giving the first book of the Bible, the Greek name "Genesis"! Get it? It takes two parents to make a child who will from Abram's loins be the Son. So right away, in Genesis 1:1, God made the universe (Father's Decree, Son's action, ties to Isaiah 45:7 where the Son is talking). Then, Genesis 1:2, the Holy Spirit, is "mother": verb about mothering chicks (rahaph). Matthew 1:1 uses the same term in his genealogy of Christ, playing off how Genesis is about the Origin Of Messiah!

All this in-your-face interpretational proof, yet we don't ask the right questions about the Temple, nor about the Two Witnesses? And what's the right question? Why are there Two Witnesses? Why do they warn everyone away??? For surely if they were standing in front of a valid Temple God authorized, they'd not be clothed in sackcloth; they'd surely not be issuing fire out from their mouths at people who came near.

Answer: God allowed these present Two Stone Witnesses to represent the upcoming human warners; so we don't need to chase around Scripture to learn the right answers. The Two Witnesses tell us where to look in Scripture, by Their Physical Placement: Daniel 9:26, Matthew 24, Luke 21, Revelation 11. A blimp flying in the sky with huge chartreuse arrows pointing down to these Bible verses painted on some tarmac, wouldn't be plainer. See, there's no limit to the "Love of God in Christ Jesus"!

Thus Our Two Sentinels faithfully stand for centuries, testifying to everyone on earth that Jesus Christ is the Messiah! His Rapture is Ταχύ! Dead Stones, testifying to deaf stones. But what do we notice? Oh, not the Bible, but the crusades! 1000 years after Revelation was penned! Hmmm. 1000 years. Isn't that how long Christ is supposed to rule? Hmmm, did those Crusaders think they would bring in His Rule by conquering? Watch how Satan mocks Our Word Ignorance, using 1071 and hence 1096 AD!

Everyone prior to and even during the First Advent wouldn't know and wouldn't expect Israel to reject her long-awaited Husband. Instead, they had a timeline going back from the date of David's death in 963 BC, which was the 3143rd year from Adam (refer to GeneYrs.xls center yellow column — modern Judaic calendar doesn't measure years from Adam correctly, but Bible does). So their 'calendar' for eternity's commencement, went like this:

So those hearing Him speak Matthew 24 accounted Daniel's timeline to mean Rapture was imminent, since the above timeline was cancelled, due to Israel's rejection. However, that meant the 50 years would be replaced by a 40-year warning-to-Israel period, since a "7" only plays inside a 40, precedence of Pharaoh's dream. So they expected the Tribulation to come in 70 AD; that's why Mark's Gospel and Book of Hebrews went out about 68 AD, when Paul died. So that changed the timeline expectation to 70-77 AD for the Tribulation, adding up to an ending sometime around 1077+ 50 = 1127 at the latest, given Israel's rejection, right? And if not, then what about the original schedule, since Rapture could occur at any time? So when Rapture didn't occur by even 94 AD, folks were pretty disappointed. Now you know why John wrote Revelation when he did. And now you know what Satan's burlesquing, with the Seljuk takeover of Byzantium in 1071, and with the 1096 of the Crusades. Happy Millennial anniversary which we managed to delay, no matter how you counted it (!) say Satan & Co. Happy anniversary, indeed. Unhappy ignorance — ours.

Our ignorance of God's Accounting System For Time, considering our obsession with Bible's numbers, is all the more evidence of Satan's Orchestrating Obfuscation. Look here, the fact that God orchestrates Time itself, is not so well hidden. Only the timeline in Bible seems to be 'magically' hidden from our sight — hiding in plain sight no less — for somehow everyone gets it wrong! How is that possible? Genesis 5 is very plain, everyone uses it, yet everyone comes up with different dates? How is that possible? Oh, because We Don't Believe Bible! We don't believe it, because we don't read it properly, so we get frustrated and don't understand what it says. We are also vulnerable to unbeliever taunts that "objectivity" must be defined extra-Biblically (because the Bible must be lying, you see). So what do we do? We go elsewhere for validation, to non-Bible sources (i.e., astronomy or pagan sources). We also assume Bible's listing of multiple years is lunar (big mistake!) so of course we can't balance to history. Worse, we assume that Genesis 5 begins with the creation of the world (unbelievable!) so of course we assume a young earth, and the numbers don't balance to history! (Timeline's commencement should be at Adam's Fall, so the Judaic calendar is totally messed up, 346 years too low.) There are more stupid things we do which account for our ignorance of how God orchestrates time. Incredible, how the pattern of God's orchestration of Time becomes clear, if you just use the 1st party Bible and ignore all its 3rd party critics. Satan used the Bible to date his launching of the Crusades, as we just saw above. Hint hint!

It's not at all vague, in the Bible. The Bible math you find in all those many verses with the dull begats and dates, is utterly precise, showing how God orchestrates time. (Bible Greek verb ἐπιχορηγέω means "to orchestrate" the financing and putting-on, of a play. Timing is everything, in a play.) That you can prove this doctrine from Bible and mathematically.

Again, all this is empirically testable from Bible and from history. If you want proof of God, this is it, baby. Scary proof, though. You won't be the same person after you understand it, as you were before. That's why it must be covered up. If you see how God orchestrates time, you have more proof and understanding of both Him and what He regards as the spiritual life, than you could dream of. Relics and Bible interpretations can be disputed. Math cannot. Well, anything can be disputed, but with math you just laugh at those who still claim, like the Good Friday crowd, that 1 + 1 = 3. So Satan covers it up as always, by recourse to our own laziness and negativity: our eyes glaze over when Bible goes into dates and cubits and begats. Amazing, how much vital information is in those verses. Yeah, and we don't care to read them properly, so a lot of satanic coverup is just a nudge to encourage our native negativity, a tad more. That's why we don't get it about Daniel 9 only being a sample accounting of how God orchestrates Time. And I was once just like all the other lazy people. God spanked me for that. Hence writing part 4. Ouch and Thank You, Dad.

Get it? We're not Supposed To Be Here. History should have ended long prior. Again, that's a validation of the Rapture, which is caused by the insertion of Church, to Bridge Back to Israel's Time. Meaning, things were so bad by the time Titus took Jerusalem, that it was Tribulation-Quality. Tribulations can be subtle, or gross, just like sin. Evil is primarily subtle, as is sin. Pride is the subtlest of sins, and the prime motivator of Evil. Evil, is thinking you do something. You, not God. Well, look at history since even 1070 AD — evil, everyone doing something. Well, Except Looking Into God's Book.

So the Crusading folks in 1096 AD who had God's Book, should have understood that they were not supposed to go to Jerusalem, ever. Just as, the Jews were not supposed to go, since the Two Sentinels were there to warn them away. Those before that generation of 1096 did know: prior, no one seriously tried to recapture the Land, since the Romans built the replacement city and temple, by 140 AD. And what did they know? Daniel 9:26c. Let's not live there, let's not go there, because desolation is decreed until Christ returns. The Jews knew that, the Christians knew that. Idiots in both camps did go back to be "close to God", as relic-hunters always do. Every Emperor from Constantine forward paid attention to the relics, and it was a status symbol to say you'd been there. But not until the Crusades was there any attempt to colonize. A few monasteries, a few herdsmen, even a decent population, but no "nation". The Land was largely under control of the Muslims, anyway. And neither side felt much like fighting for that patch of ground for 1000 years. So Jerusalem languished, as even Encarta is constrained to note: "in keeping with its marginal political status, the city was often poor and neglected." Encarta 2004, article on the History of Jerusalem, #C. Yeah, the home of the lizard and the spider, just as the Lord and all the OT prophets, predicted in hundreds of verses. All this history is in plain sight.

But in 1071, oh! Seljuks grabbed Byzantium, and the Crusades were thus needed in revenge! Never mind, that the same crusading idea was promulgated 490 years prior between that same Byzantium and Persia, resulting in Islam when both those abominators were exhausted by their fighting over the Holy Land (a phenomenon even Sir John Glubb noted in his A Short History of the Arab Peoples). We learn from Bible that we learn nothing from Bible, even as we learn from history that we learn nothing from history. And especially, we learn nothing of the matching in God's 490-year Accounting System for Time, since we don't use the Bible, to date Bible events! See why the Rapture hasn't occurred till yet! And we fancy ourselves faithful? 🙄 What a farce! We're always clamoring for "proof of God" — though it stares us in the face from Bible and from history, century after century! What liars we are, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian!

So the one who ached (!) to replace the Most High ached to get a Firm Surrender of that Land, to motivate, oh, someday (!) an attack against it, by fostering the rebuilding of the Temple by mere men, instead of by the Book's Design. Preferably, by the men of the Book who surrendered to Christ, instead of to me.

And how hard I tried to do this with the Christians, sending them there. Then I sent them all kinds of invaders to rile up their desire to defend such 'sacred' ground, especially, at the end of the 490-year-segment post-Temple, 600 AD. But alas, the people just didn't have enough zeal. So next try: get in place an Opposition to Surrender — catchy title, that — yeah, Islam to me, you resahim! Oh, everyone will want to crusade against it, in time for the second 490's ending in 1080! So in 1071, oh! Now the motivation for religious reclamation, can override the laziness! On with the Crusades, Recapture The Holy Land! If they recapture it, we mock the Real Millennium, we prevent the Real Tribulation, because they are too childish. Body of the Most High remains Retarded, Rapto = Rapture, cannot occur. Different "R", aha! After all, history should have ended in 1070 or 1077, right? not My History, but theirs. My Way, not His Way.

So oh, the one who ached! to replace the Most High! Ached! to get His Chosen People to Return to the Land, for — how can I destroy them neatly and dramatically, unless they are herded? And by the way, deflect their attention away from Codex Amiatinus, which was finding its surreptitious way into Cluny and other believer hearts...

And thus it remained, until just before WWI. Either the Christians or the Muslims are the rulers, up front or in the background, holding the political strings and territory. Mostly, the Muslims: for it's Satan's goal to keep attention focused there, so he can turn on or off the desired religious zeal. But then, Satan succeeded! The Final Solution finally comes: the Balfour Declaration, nicely and ignorantly promulgated by true friends of the Jews, who also didn't know their Bible; then, the two World Wars and their pogroms, the Jews meanwhile having bought the Land progressively from the Sultan, and then moving back there before and after WWI — just in time, too, for Hitler's pogroms and the West's rejection of refugee Jews, to forcibly swell the Land's population. By 1948 so many of them are there, that for the first time in 2000 years, there can be a nation. A nation which celebrates Chanukah every year, so now sees The Abomination Of The Dome, live from their Jerusalem windows; a nation thus Being Blatantly Reminded That God Did not "shub" (regather, return) them. But Satan did — using their friends! Sheep to the slaughter pens, ka seh latevah yuval. Finally.

See how deaf? See how Dead Stones speak volumes to deaf stones, the Bible in every hotel room, Daniel 9:26 and Matthew 24 being even well translated? Who hears, mi he'emin lishmuateinu? not the Jews. Not the Arabs. Not the Christians. Makes you want to put on sackcloth and ashes, as will the Two human Witnesses of Revelation 11:1. The God of Israel is vindicated! But we don't notice. So now you can notice why the bridle-high bloodbath in Revelation 19 (+ Zechariah 12-14), occurs in erstwhile-Bridal Israel: because so many Jews are living there, despite God's Warning. If Satan can destroy enough Jews at any time before the Second Advent, then there won't be enough of a population left to vote for Messiah when He comes the second time. Then Satan would call for a Mistrial.

What a sad testimony Our Church has had thus far. We don't get the Baker's Dozen doctrines right, we don't 'read' the Temple and Dome Witness rightly, and just like those first-century believers, we keep asking The Wrong Questions of Bible — like "When is the Rapture?" rather than why. So we don't know Why. So we don't know why it's taking so long for the Lord to Return, and thus doubt the Rapture's validity, altogether! Satan's not stupid to manipulate our misinformed interest in Temple, huh. Yet we here in 2007 do know it's way beyond 1070. Heck, England was just coalescing into a nation, then, and Europe was trying to regain the unity it had lost since Charlemagne. Heck, the Rus were just getting established, then. Heck, the Fujiwara and Japan's independence from Chinese language, were just getting entrenched, then. Heck, the Sung had just barely united China, then. Islam was in its resurgent glorious empire state, thanks to the Seljuk defeat of Byzantium, in 1071; thus the Crusades began, to rescue Byzantium and Jerusalem. Sure doesn't look like the Millennial Reign of Christ! Instead, it looks more like the regrouping of the four "kings" of West, North, East, and South, to represent the Gog and Megog revolution which should have been occurring at that time, based on the original timeline? Which Satan & Co. kindly delayed? Yet another burlesque of how we didn't know what time it was!

Observe: the longer Satan can delay the completion of the Body of Christ by diverting us into all these fake spiritualities (like rituals and works and prophecy-slobbering, rather than Word-Eating) — the greater his chance of preventing its completion, altogether. A human being needs time to learn to think as His Lord does. And as time passes, the number of those failing becomes more numerous, so the pressure of the masses against Learning Word will eventually overwhelm the desire to learn. Which goal is ardently desired, since after all, the sooner the Body Is Completed, the sooner Satan & Co.'s sentence in the Lake Of Fire, begins.

So, it's a funding calculation with respect to how the remaining time is used. See, to fund a whole kingdom, requires infrastructure. Which, requires money (Thinking Doctrine is Money, in God's Kingdom). So, requires upfront time in Building Sufficient Capital, so the necessary Thinking Money will flow in enough vigor to Nourish the Kingdom (analogous to blood). You invest in what works. God wants Thinking. You don't invest in what doesn't work. So God is investing in His Son's Thinking, not in puny, sin-nature doo-doos.

Since God can instantly create an entire functioning universe in a nanosecond (Genesis 1:1, Hebrew), He doesn't need good deeds. He doesn't need to accumulate money. But He Gives It To Those Who Please Him by Thinking As His Son Thinks. So, the more you grow in His Son's Thinking, the richer will be the kingdom you inherit, and the more blessed will be everyone associated with you down here, Now! Not just after you croak. So, that thinking being contagious, will spawn others to begin to think toward Scripture, too; which ahishennah! Hastens the End of the Church's Completion. An ending which Satan can't abide. So you will have an increasingly-harder trek up Hamburger Hill as you learn Christ, if Satan has anything to say about it. Which, he always has (see beginning of Job 1, Job 2, and Matthew 4). So, if you are growing, Capital Funding Is Growing, And the funding gain on your life, is also growing. For, Every Bible Thought Circulating In Your Soul Is Real Money. Each thought, worth more than all the GNP of the planet. For God is Infinite, and the Value of Thinking is His Pleasure In 'Hearing' It, capisce?

In finance, you have to keep close watch on Timing and Yield. So: when you don't get the yield on your investments you should by the time deadline you should, the remaining time period during which you must make it up, is shorter. So, your future yield must be higher. If not, the loss is greater. So look at all the Loss By Christians, since 1070 AD. Christians, who shouldn't even be alive. How much investment loss in His Thinking, do you calculate? Unimaginable amounts. So how much more is expected of us who have the original languages of long-hidden Scripture? What potential yield must Father be planning, via us in this generation?

Fertilize the fig tree, one more time. In agriculture, there comes a time when you can no longer fertilize the ground. It will begin to burn the soil, rather than nourish it. So too, with investments which don't produce. The longer you wait, the more they must yield, to make up for the lost time. At some point, they cannot produce a sufficient yield to make up for the losses. That's what Satan's banking on. The longer he can delay the Rapture, the more 'yield' must come from the remaining believers to be produced, to make up for the many spiritual babies who have died and will be living. So the Church on a technically, will not complete. It's more than possible. At the same time, given world population it is always possible for enough new believers to exist and mature such that the Rapture can complete as God desires. Both possibilities remain. Billions of people are on this planet. Only a handful of them, maybe a family's worth — would be needed as kings. Leverage. It's truly a race for time when there is no time. Couldn't be more political or dramatic. Forget earthly politics, then. Concentrate on the heavenly one of getting your own kingship!

Thus Satan sponsors whatever it takes to make us look away from Bible; or, when looking at it, to Ask The Wrong Questions. What we want to know, is not what God wants us to know. That, is the sad Testimony of Church thus far. What God wants us to know, is His Son. We can know Him, but we don't want to; so we piously pretend we can't, just like the idiots of Deuteronomy 30:11ff. Instead, we want to know how the universe was made and debate that, rather than Why God Made Man; we want to know when the Rapture will happen, rather than Why God Chose It. We want to know how to use (what we think are valid) 'spiritual gifts', rather than Why They Are (supposedly) Given. We want to know what observances to do, rather than Why Have The Relationship. In short, we want titillation, not God. So we misuse Scripture, and come up with any number of inane ideas. That, is the Testimony of Church, thus far. We vote for Satan's plan, not God's. For every criticism you read on here, I'm guilty ten times over. Purpose of showing errors is not merely to correct, but to demonstrate that our pattern of error evidences two larger trends, lack of interest in Word and Satan & Co. 'help' us not to learn it. We need Divine Power in order to perceive Word and defend against demonic brain fog. 1 John 1:9 and asking 'Father' is the only way to get that defense. That's why so much stress is laid on rampant Bible interpretation/translation (etc.) errors, to demonstrate how we cannot fix them, only God can — so shifting blame is completely irrelevant. These patterns persist for centuries, are strategic, and can't possibly be of human origin. But at the human level, the error occurs — and we are responsible — due to lack of asking God, reading Bible. We don't know because we don't ask. Look: doesn't even occur to us to ask how it could be Good Friday, when there aren't three days and nights between it and Sunday. Doesn't occur to us, that Passover begins and ends with high sabbaths, though everyone who's ever met a Jew, has heard the term and knows Passover's 1st and last day are treated like sabbaths, no matter what days of the week they fall on. Doesn't occur to us to ask why God who forbids astrology, would use a star to advertise His Son. Yeah, it's our fault: but yeah more, we're getting 'help' from the bad boys in the Trial.

So Daniel 9:26 remains the character of our 'time'. So history can end any minute. That was the fact most stressed in Matthew 24, so Ταχύ is how we should live. In haste. As if in exodus, exile, on the run: because we are way past the 1070-1144 AD dates, in overtime, the sudden-death round of history. All this, Daniel 9:26 advertises. We are in its time bubble — No Prophecy. Just as were those post-Crucifixion, in the first century AD. We just saw their history, their foibles when the Lord didn't return as quickly as they themselves expected. We just saw how They Failed The Spiritual Life when they lost that sense of haste. And they lost that sense of haste by looking for prophecy, when the only remaining prophecy for them was "Ταχύ." So they waited and watched, instead of growing. Since every generation is the Rapture generation, every generation ever since has aped the same follies. We've just seen how we have failed in the spiritual life. Past is indeed prologue. Past is indeed precedence. We are precedented on Christ. Our foibles are precedented on past generations' retardation, which with age are given an undeserved patina of respectability. So in the name of their preceding us, we instead call "tradition" holy. Yeah, it's the traditional apostasy. And God's Word? Well, it sits nicely on our coffee tables, big and heavy, a place where we record births and deaths... where people can see it and call us, pious.

So now that the you see how Past Is Prologue, Precedence; now that you've seen how we all don't read our Bible; how even Real Building 'Witnesses' no one can hallucinate or impeach, 'testify' to that Word and that Rapture is next-in-sequence, without warning; now let's examine the Legal Contractural Whys of the Rapture.


Star of Bethelehem and Magi there? Guess again! Find it in Bible? Not at all!

Typical church Nativity replay: Babe in manger, cute shepherds and wise men standing around, beaming mother, perhaps perplexed husband. A creche. Awww, how sweet. What a lie, and of course we don't mean to be lying. Nevertheless, we dishonor His True History, and prove we don't read our Bibles. The truth about Him is always shocking, which is why we don't know it. But you can verify it in Bible with lexicons better than Strong's, and some patience; add some knowledge of the relationship between Israel and Persia, historically. Should take about a week to do this, for that's how long it took me. What you will read here, I didn't know until March of 2007; and I learned it by accident, while looking for Greek text wordplay on His Birthdate. So I didn't read my Bible either, but just trusted in all those Nativity plays. Oops. Whenever you see me point out someone's error in any website, please remember it's not to put down anyone else, but mere disclosure. Frankly, for every mistake I find someone else making, I thereby find 10 which I made. We can't get it right apart from God's Brains, 1 John 1:9 and living in God's System. But because my pastor taught us how to live in God's System (he uses different nomenclature), that's the only reason I can find these things. Of myself I'm utterly worthless, ergo Exodus 16:6, John 4:23-24, John 14:26, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 2 Corinthians 12:9ff.

Matthew's Gospel is written first. You get no details of the Birth other than the King-proving, Prophecy-proving fact that He was born in Bethlehem in Judea, Matthew 2:1. Matthew then goes on to tell the report of the high-ranking Persian priests ("magi", in Greek) and how Jerusalem, not Bethlehem, reacted. You can even read it in translation. Luke 2, written about 10 years later, in typical Bible fashion fills in the details about Bethlehem; but also, about the fact the couple then went to Jerusalem to obey the Temple Law (maybe circumcision, definitely the purification and Dedication-of-Firstborn sacrifices); immediately upon which, they returned to their hometown of Nazareth (Luke 2:4, Luke 2:22, Luke 2:39). So you know that after first 50+ days, they were back home. Going back to Matthew 2:11-14, you know that then they were visited by the Magi, and because of that, Joseph and Mary suddenly have to leave with the Child in a hurry, at night. From there they go to Egypt. You can see all this, even in translation.

So, this much is true: He is born in Bethlehem, in a stable amidst farm animals, plopped into one of their feeding troughs on hay. It stinks in there. We know this, because in Luke 2:7 and Luke 2:16, Greek word φάτνη means "stable" and/or "feeding trough". Not a cave, not a nice place. The world had no room for Him; so of course Bethlehem's inns didn't, either. He was wrapped in death bandages, not "swaddling clothes": these long strips were like the ones He'd be wrapped in 33 years later, when He was taken down from the Cross and buried by Joseph of Arimethea and Nicodemus (John 19:39). Message: nothing is apart from God, no matter how ugly. At the high end, myriads of myriads of angels parade in military formation, Luke 2. Isaiah 53 is born, here. Psalm 40 is fulfilled, here; Hebrews 10:5 begins, here. And, He's not as we expect Him to be, Isaiah 52:14!

The shepherds come afterwards, that night, by themselves. There are no "wise men" there at all. Just the parents, their Child, the shepherds, and (earlier) a bazillion angels overhead, saluting, all explained in Luke 2. So note the Loving Grace of God: although His Birth Year was exactly known, Christ (= Messiah, in Hebrew) was unexpectedly born without fanfare. In secret. Biggest event in the universe, upon which the entire history of mankind depended, and yet the format of His Birth, depicted His Upcoming, Ignominious, Death. This isn't the harped-upon humility people laud every Christmas, either. But rather, the most powerful way to say Nothing Is Apart From God. For, we expect God to be grand, majestic, spurning the small. We don't expect Him to prefer what we would shun, the ignominy of grime, anonymity. But God is Infinite, so to Him, Everything is Grand, Majestic: and He Spurns, Nothing. Not even the sparrow, not even us. Else, you'd not exist. Nor would the dust and grime. God sees everything. So He must want to see it all, since He is Omnipotent. And so He knows how frightened we are of Him. And so Messiah is not born with only angelic glory, pomp and ceremony, but with the lowing cow. For Infinity means just that: intimate with everything, excluding nothing. Just like, the Truth. Which is first, God's Own Attribute.

Principle: the stage we're on has a far larger Unseen audience, God: therefore nothing about our lives, is small. However small or big we imagine ourselves. Because God, is big.

God doesn't violate His Own Law. If you get the death penalty under the Mosaic Law for practicing astrology, then God won't tempt you to violate His Own Law by using astrology to advertise His Son. So no 'wise men', and absolutely no Star of Bethlehem attended His Birth. In fact there was no star anywhere, but rather an angel was reported to be a star in Jerusalem, not Bethlehem, by some Persian sorcerer-priests who were positive to the King of the Jews. For "the Magi" of Matthew 2:1 were Persian priests: a "magus" is a priest, and "magi" is the plural. So Bible doesn't say how many there were. But these guys were at least of high enough rank to make a public appearance everyone noticed in Jerusalem, never Bethlehem. So, they get King Herod the Great's personal attention and concern.

Because this information is so shocking, going against centuries of what we were all ignorantly and innocently mistaught in Sunday school, we must take a side trip into the Bible. First, to show that it was an angel, not a star, which led them; and more somberly, to show the brutal story the Bible tells us really happened as a consequence of His Birth. You can't understand why Herod would kill so many babies without knowing this brutal beginning.

Angels are often called stars in the Bible, and their bodies are made of light; see all "stars" or "star" verses (over 19 of them in Bible). There is no verse in Bible saying that some star was ever over Bethlehem; not in prophecy, not in Gospels. not anywhere. Check out the verses yourself: stars are used to represent the Lord, angels, Jews and believers. Else, "stars" are never said to be anything but bodies of light, and you are not to predict anything by means of them. They never mean anything magical in themselves; and in fact to use stars as portents is prohibited under Mosaic Law, Deuteronomy 18. But angels would or could look like stars, given the nature of their bodies. Angels are Honor Guards accompanying the Lord, in the Old Testament (i.e., in Ezekiel, or even back when the Lord appeared to Abraham at Mamre, etc). The Jews are depicted as stars, in Revelation 12 (allusion back to Joseph's dream). Satan is depicted as a star which fell. For the Word is Light, and if it's not (or no longer) in you, you fall.

Next, it's important to distinguish whether Bible is quoting someone, or saying something of itself. Quoting requires that what the person says, be accurately represented, whether quoted in gist, or quoted verbatim, or quoted interpretatively. All three types of quoting are used, but that does not mean Bible agrees with the quote: you have to read the surrounding context to know God's opinion or communication, regarding the quote. Scholars all know this. We didn't pay attention to the fact that in Matthew 2, the references to "star" are all in the mouths of other people. What they think they see, what they think they know: God isn't ever saying it is a star, but what it was perceived to be by those on the ground. Moreover, there is jarring Greek text in Matthew 2 which tells you it is not a star, and why. If you knew the Mosaic Law against astrology, you would immediately know God isn't sending a star, anyway: so you'd be alerted. But you'd also know He sends angels, who could look like stars. So you'd immediately understand that's what Matthew is talking about. But of course if you don't know your Bible, you won't know what Matthew means.

To say there was a Star of Bethlehem is to Say God Violates His Own Proscription Against Astrology, Deuteronomy 18. So, we've been maligning Him in our Christmas pageants, all these years — not meaning to, of course. So proof what follows yourself, especially since the idea of the Star of Bethlehem is one of Christianity's sacred cows; since lots of people have lost faith in Bible because they can't find a "star" matching the expected year of His Birth. Translations are messed up, some: but even the translations aren't so far off, we couldn't recognize it's not a star God is talking about via Matthew. We just misread or don't read Bible, and then blame Bible for our disinterest and bad reading. Again, proof this yourself, breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed, so you get direct insight and proper reading from God Himself.

Important Timing about Gospel Writing: Matthew was the first Gospel, written circa 50 AD. Luke came out about ten years later. All later Bible books build on what went prior to establish the authenticity of the new book (hence it always has unique information only God could know); but also, to elaborate on and teach lessons which people aren't learning from the prior material. Also, each Gospel has its own literary 'house', so is 'furnished' with its own style and vocabulary. All this is designed to enhance recognition of Divine Authenticity and learning the Divine lessons. So too, with the Gospels, which is why they are spread out over a period of time, not written all at once. Gotta absorb the earlier material, before the later can come out. So:

What follows below are 33 additional points to ponder and investigate in Bible. Text is written hastily. Nothing like this on the internet which I can find, so be sure to ask God about it, breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed so you don't waste your time.


Have you ever spent hours trying to account for some number, or find something, only to later discover it (i.e., the answer) was right in front of you? Whether balancing a check book, reconciling transactions in a multi-million dollar portfolio, or looking for the car keys, one routinely overlooks the obvious, and spends oodles of time chasing after false clues. So when you do find that item/number hiding in plain sight, you say to yourself, "Why didn't I see that, sooner!" Of course, it's even worse if someone unrelated saunters into your office, and while barely glancing at your accounting papers, notices, "oh, you forgot to do X in the calculation." Fixing in two seconds what you couldn't fix in hours!

Well, that's the problem Christendom largely has had about this Rapture thingy: they're forgetting about "X", Christ! So, they waste a whole lot of time with this doctrine, millions of hapless folks all searching in the wrong direction, because they ask "When?", though they should be asking, "Why?" Yes, the Rapture is extremely important, the culmination of history, even: virtually every other doctrine of Scripture is woven into the Rapture. In fact, so woven, it's one big seamless, interconnected whole of such intricacy and magnitude, just seeing the fit alone would prove God wrote This Book. So it's easy to get some key fact amiss, thus screw up maybe years of research. For, we humans are always prone to look too low, and the Uppermost Truth, The Most Obvious Truth, Is What We Least See. If you will reconcile anything in Scripture, start at the Top, never the bottom. "Cogita ergo sum", not "Cogito ergo me confundo". God thinks therefore I exist, not I think and thus confound myself.

In Scripture accounting, as in asset accounting, the uppermost truth should be the same, since the uppermost truth is, everything reflects God (i.e., Romans 1:18-20). Since the uppermost truth is, God is. Three And One, not hydra-headed. but, Three In One Corporation! That Trinity is a corporation, is baldly evidenced by 2 Corinthians 13:14's three monadic articles, and Their Titles: Father, Son, Spirit. Aha. Likeness to the secular world's concept of corporateness, intentionally! So, if I don't know what's the thing to look for in Scripture accounting, I should pick some kind of secular accounting aid, and see if there is a Scriptural counterpart. In secular accounting, when you have trouble balancing transactions, you ask, "What's The Purpose For The Funds?" So if you're reconciling some pension trust's assets on a Merrill-Lynch account and you find a $100,000 "buy", you have to know if the purpose was a Contribution (new money), or a Transfer (existing money). IRS makes a big deal, of things like that. Even a bigger deal, if it were a Withdrawal. Is someone playing games with the money???

So you always ask, in Scripture accounting, too: What's the purpose of a Material Item? Nerd note: in accounting, a "material" item is generally defined as something which, if misrepresented or misreported, would have a 'material effect' on the financial picture of the entity being audited. Think of Enron. See, accounting rules did not require Enron's extensive partnerships be reported on its balance sheet (assets and liabilities statements, a type of financial snapshot); so, the financial health of Enron looked far better than it was. Same, for WorldCom, and (in a way) Parmalat. We didn't have to react so violently and trash the companies due to what may have been the wrongs of a few.

Of course, everything in Scripture is Material, but some items are more important than others. Such as, Why Does God Choose A Rapture; not, when the Rapture will occur. The latter tells you nothing about God. Especially, since in Acts 1, the Lord made it plain, the date is not for man to know! For, in Scripture Accounting, Asking The Wrong Questions, Searching For The Wrong Answers, Is Fatal To Proper Interpretation. So now you know why all that date-setting, 'prophecy-based newscasting' stuff you see on Christian TV, is just plain wacko. "Avoid such persons as these", 2 Timothy 2:26 through 2 Timothy 3:7. If an interpretation is goofy, it's not God's. We know that stuff is goofy, because it's not even about God, but about titillation, stressing man all the time. Just like the Bible mistranslations. 2 Timothy 2:26 uses a cool verb for someone having a hangover — Paul hoping they will awaken sober and hurting, learning a lesson from their drunken stupor, to better avoid getting drunk on Satan's religious lies, yet again. Drunks are goofy, like in that classic movie, "The Lost Weekend", starring Ray Milland. These folks are still on a prophecy bender, okay? So one should avoid them like the Spiritual AIDS they peddle, and pray God they sober up.

So, time to put on our accountant's / banker's visor, and ask Bible: What's The Purpose Of The Extremely Material Withdrawal, AKA Rapture, at the Uppermost, God's, Level? Well, we know from Ephesians 1: To Wrap Up All History (last half of chapter). We also know more about this purpose from Ephesians 2: to Tie Together Israel And Church At The Cornerstone (last half of chapter). Hmmm: Paul talked about our being grafted in, Romans 11, so this Joining must be Important, and Related to Israel! Seems like a pattern is developing, here. What's the end of Ephesians 3? Oh: a lexeme! in Ephesians 3:21: "with reference to every generation of this Age Over the Ages" (usually εἰς is mistranslated, if not the entire clause). Hmmm. End of Ephesians 4 is — Marriage?! Oh! End of Ephesians 5 is Marriage, too. Christ And Church. Followed by 6, a sort of catchall, but stressing the Angelic Conflict. Hmmm. That was in Ephesians 3, too.

Uh oh. Must Be That The Purpose Is Materially Related to, and in part a port-over from, Israel's Annulled Marriage Contract, since I already know that's the one thing Israel didn't get: for, she rejected Messiah at the First Advent when He offered the marriage Contract to her, which is why (purpose, again) He went only to "the sons of Israel" like a Baby in a Manger (John 1, all of Matthew). So if I know the Terms Of Israel's Marriage Contract, then I know something Material about Father's Criteria for the Rapture, too. And I know what the criteria for Acceptance of the Old Testament contract was: Sufficient Votes. So that has to be continuing, since a Marriage Contract Is Voluntary Between Two Parties, and I know Christ completed His Side of the Contract (Galatians 3), by successfully completing the Cross. Whew. I know from all over the New Testament that Church is being called out, grafted in, prettied up, that's the to-people purpose of the Rapture. But Now, I know God's Purpose, Macro-Historically. And it's based on votes, not historical events. Votes of Believers. Just as it was, during the First Advent.

Whew again. No need to cull newspapers to see if the European Union is "up to something", since Paul's Ephesians 3 prayer is with reference to Every Generation (Ephesians 3:15-21). Because, Every Generation Will By Design, Be Equipped To Be, Potentially, The Rapture Generation. Whew. That sure saved a lot of chasing down details I didn't need.

So the Next Accounting Step, to save my 'client' billable time, since He hears me 24/7 and wouldn't want me to waste His time seeing if Jacques Chirac was this generation's candidate for the Antichrist, is — hmmm. Well, if there's a Purpose, there must be a plan. If there's a precedence, the Marriage Contract, then the plan relates to that Contract, right?


So Because Israel Rejected Groom, God Reroutes Bridal Blessing through Church

Bingo. For, the Most Obvious Of God's Plan Truths should be utterly patent by now, if you've been following this series from the beginning: God reroutes blessing. Ephesians 1 is a flagship passage on this, but Isaiah 53:10-12 are firmly in view throughout Ephesians.

The Bible demonstrates Rerouting in two ways: 1) the famous cut-out-graft-in pattern of disinheriting and inheriting He's done since Cain (the first guy to be disinherited); and 2) the Cross. The Cross is a contract of Rerouting, "im tasim asham naphesho", If He will Appoint His Soul as a substitute for Sin" — red heifer offering concept in the law. In that offering — and all the others, your sins reroute to the animal, and it is guilty instead of you. So the animal was executed, and you go free. The Ultimate "asham" offering therefore, is Christ. All our sins were rerouted to Him, and He was then judged for all those imputed sins. They were saved up, as it were, in a 'bowl' for the Cross, and then poured out (javelin-piercing, Isaiah 53:5's meholal) on Him. So that sets up a cycle. He Who Got Judged Gets Booty, Isaiah 53:12. In the Hebrew and Greek, He gets all the booty, since He was Plundered for us. So the rerouting is a circle.

Consequently, God designed everything for the Son, Who is the Beneficiary, Isaiah 53:10-12 (yireh... bayado yitslah + alleq-Lo b'rabbim clauses, especially). Galatians 3 is a flagship chapter on that fact. Thus, the Divine Benefit Plan Father grants, is to benefit the Son. We are Beneficiaries of that Plan Through the Son, which is why the "in Christ", "in Him", and "in Christ Jesus" phrases are so commonly used, in the New Testament. All this, is the Implementation of what Isaiah 53:10-12, describes. Israel benefits through us: Book of Hebrews explains how that re-routing works, as a result of Israel's Rejection.

So, then: what is the "Divine Benefit"? Well, think of it as a Huge Pile Of Money to be divided out among folks: who gets how much? In eternity past, Father knew How Much Wealth It Would Take To Fulfill Son's Desire To Spend It All; What Types Of Wealth, Distributed how And In what Amounts And To whom, To Make A Perfectly Happy Kingdom, for Son.

Technically, the "Divine Benefit" to be funded is:

See, whatever you're doing, you're thinking something. Question is, How Pleasing To Father, is What You Think? That's what Christ cares about, which is why paying for sins on the Cross was done via His Thinking: Isaiah 53:10-11. Because, God is Omniscient, so all history is all playing all at once before Him, at all times. So every thought, every experience, every action, every feeling is always online and He experiences it all at once. (So also, Son and Spirit, obviously, since Each is also, Wholly God Himself.)

Initially, Father funded each of us such that each of us could become Pleroma: each one, a King. So we're talking a Whole Lot Of Money Set Up In Eternity Past. For, God doesn't want pet animals to entertain His Son, nor Himself: instead, He wants equals, kings. "For He is not ashamed to call them, brothers" it says in Hebrews 2. (Satan would have you think God wants us all doing pet tricks, the Brother-Foot pandering which passes for Christianity, today. Well, that's Churchinanity, not God's Plan. God Is Never Goofy, remember. But Satan always paints Him that way, which is why all religion is always so goofy.)

It takes more money to run a company, than to run a family; to run a country, than to run a company. The bigger you are, the more you need to express yourself. The guy who won five Olympic medals isn't gonna be content with just a walk around the park. That person needs more, because he is more. The smaller a person, the smaller his expressions (and don't we all know someone who can only talk about her bowels, her aches, what she ate for dinner). So, the smaller the asset base needed for expression. Notice freedom: we become what we want to be, in life. So, in eternity, we get assets to match what we chose to become, down here. For in God's Plan, you get what you want — takes God's Power, to become Pleroma, but if that's what you want, you can get it.

So, The present value of all that 'sweet savor' thinking, which necessarily includes the Opportunity Cost of all Creation including Satan & Co., must have been paid, on the Cross — for all the funding to vest in Christ. Part 2's first half spends time on the opportunity cost, if you forgot where that concept was presented. "X" means Christ, the Greek letter chi. I get this conclusion from LXX Isaiah 53:10-12's transformative σύνεσις, and how the New Testament writers reference Isaiah 53:10-12, particularly Paul's detailed mechanics in 1 Corinthians (which is abysmally translated, cutting off the Lord's Head from 1 Corinthians 1:5 onward); Ephesians 4:11-16, and Romans 12:1-3, Greek. Logically, you can tell it's true even faster: if, as it says so vividly in Isaiah 53:10-11, His Thinking paid for sins, then Thinking is the only legal currency. So all of the funding goals would be set with respect to How Much Thinking Like His, will be produced. Sadly, for Biblical proof of what logic would also agree, you cannot see all this in any translation!

"Present value" is a financial term (Bible uses "deposit" sometimes in that way), and means capital. A Current Pot Of Money Of Sufficient Size, to Generate a Particular Amount Of Revenue. For example, $1 on deposit at 5% interest, will earn 5 cents annually. So the present value, is $1. The income, is 5 cents. So notice the "capitalization" of 5 cents of annual income, is $1. AKA, the "present value". So it is, in Christ's thinking: His thinking in our heads generates thus a bunch of spiritual money, "dividends" or "interest", if you will; we couldn't get that thinking, if He didn't first have it. Likewise, in the eternal state (and prior), there will be (and have been) such 'sweet savor' dividends occurring in the heads of maybe millions of believers. So the "present value" had to be furnished, for all those dividends, to occur. Since Christ didn't go to the Cross immediately upon Adam's fall, the accumulated cost was paid at the Cross, but an Advance Payment Was Made On Behalf Of All Of Us Living Post-Cross. So, see? the "Present Value" operates backwards and forwards. Accumulating "interest", in those who learn Father's Holy Son. What a Divine Benefit, to us!

For, Son wants to spend the money to glorify Father, and for that He needs a 'kingdom' of priests. A whole kingdom of them. All other kingdoms benefit Through the Priest-Kingdom, so the eternal state is a Federation of Kingdoms, all of them headed by the King-Priest, Our Lord — who uses the Priest-Kingdom, to carry out His Rule. (Millennium will be different — there, we play a lesser role, of ruling Gentile nations to benefit Israel.) Israel was supposed to grow up in the Law, to get that kingdom-of-priests, role. But, Israel didn't; instead, she rejected the Groom who would Head that Kingdom. So, we Church become Esther, and get that role. That's why Isaiah is kinda ambiguous: who are the "great ones", in Isaiah 53:12? Well, they could have been, the "Jeshurun" among Israel. But — though those Jeshurun will still get their vast individual inheritances, count on it! — the "great ones" who are among Bride (as we now know), are the Pleroma folks in Church. So Israel still benefits, and those in Church who refuse to grow up to Pleroma also still benefit — but indirectly. Through, the "great ones". This fact will become clearer in your head, as you keep reading. Nerd note: pretend that Israel as Bride would have been apportioned $1 bazillion; pretend further that because she forfeited her role, only the Jeshurun among her, get (say) $.3 bazillion: then, through Church, I'm guessing the other $.7 bazillion still goes to Israel's benefit. Might not work out that way, but I'm certain that Israel will be thrilled the way it does work out. When God reroutes, The Result Always Has To Be A Bazillion Times More Profitable, Than The Original Route. God is a good businessman, see: gotta get the proper ROI for the cost!

Frankly, this rerouting of funds is most analogous to the way Fully Funded Retirement Plans Should Work: those who stay in until retirement, get the benefits. Everyone else, forfeits. Since that concept takes too long to explain, think of it this way: Stay In God's System, Or Your Benefits Go To Someone Else, such that you instead indirectly benefit from those who get your benefits, rather than directly benefit By Getting Them Yourself. This is roughly analogous to your cousin getting your money, but then he spends it in a way that thrills you (so you know we're talking heaven here, 🤣)! Remember the parable about the stingy servant, whose one talent was given to the guy who had 10? Well, that's God's simpler description of how He reroutes blessing. For God fully funded all benefits (including for those who chose Hell rather than God), since Eternity Past: In Order To Benefit Himself, in and by means of (Greek preposition, "ἐν") His Son (theme of Ephesians 1). For, it's never about us, but always about Christ.

In this world, a "defined benefit plan" is a big pot of Retirement Money to which you (via taxes, etc) and your employer, contribute. (Social Security in the United States is a type of defined benefit plan; businesses also can have their own defined benefit plans for their employees.) The contribution is determined by what "benefit" (monthly income) is "defined" in the plan, namely, some percentage of your annual salary. Based on how old you are, how long employed, what you're paid and when you'll retire, the Plan calculates based on definitions within its legal documents, what your retirement income will be. So, knowing all those facts, you can have a computer calculate what deposit each year must go into that pot, on your behalf. But — suppose you quit too early. Then you didn't stay until retirement, so you don't get the benefit you'd have gotten if you did stay, obviously. Maybe, you get nothing at all. If you return after quitting, you can maybe get all that money back, plus ("accrue", in pension lingo) benefits for the new time you've been back working.

God's Divine Benefit Plan kind of works like an earthly "defined benefit plan", except (see Isaiah 53:10-12, Ephesians 1):

My pastor has been teaching this for decades, though some of what I'm saying (i.e., the way the reroute works), I'm not sure he's taught (though he has stridently taught this about Isaiah 53:12, and Ephesians 1). But the reroute is very observable in Scripture, so it 's a plausible description, for now.

People have trouble with abstracts, so here's an example of the enormity of a "defined benefit" value. In America, $75,000 per year is about middle income; can't do much with it. But do you know, to generate that much income every year, at age 55 you have to have over $1,300,000 continually invested somewhere? Nerd note: the monthly APR was calculated using J&S 100% IAM83a mortality table with a large setback; an expense load; and 5% interest. That is, if you want to be sure you'll get it annually. So, see? Quite a lot of money is needed to fund one's retirement. Those governmental/employer retirement income statements, which look like such small monthly sums, represent large pots of money (which no government in the world has adequately funded, so you can't depend on Social Security-type programs, but hey).

Note The Mirroring, The Nesting Of Benefits, Works Similar To The Way God Mirrors And Nests Even Time Itself. Ephesians 1 says "every spiritual blessing" is in Christ. If the spiritual blessings, which are the highest, are in Him, then all the material (i.e., physical-wealth) benefits are in Him as well. Galatians 3 tells us He's the Seed, and by Him being "completed" are the benefits paid out (last half Ephesians 1). So: even though everybody has an escrow account with his own name on it, deposited by God the Father in eternity past, the payout of the benefits operates like a trust fund. This Fund is actually Owned by Christ: well, He's Trustee of it, now, and Father awards it all to Him, in Revelation 4's ceremony (Rapture-triggered, Revelation 4:1). Isaiah 53:10-12 tells us a lot about this trust fund's nature and how this trust fund works. Leave it to God to say in a few verses, what takes thousands of pages, to explain! United States pension law is about 40,000 pages long. Yes, 40,000 pages. God isn't a bureaucrat, but He's soo good at wording what He says, even a non-bureaucrat would need thousands of pages, to explain a verse!

A Trust Fund comes into being due to a Grantor (here, Father) depositing assets into a "Trust", which is a Separate legal "Person". It has its own legal life. So, needs a corporate structure, as it were: so, needs a Trustee, a Fund Manager (who can be the same person). The trust fund (or "foundation") accumulates funds on behalf of "beneficiaries", those who are to get the funds according to some schedule or based on contingencies which the Trust's documents (analogous to articles of incorporation and minutes), dictate. So, the beneficiaries get the funds and the Trustee (or "escrow officer") is charged with the "fiduciary" responsibility of making sure that the terms of the Trust (or "escrow"), are met with respect to: all the investing parameters, the payout parameters, the contingencies, etc. Surely you know of someone who has a trust fund due to some relative dying; or, gets an educational trust set up long ago by a parent. So also, you yourself are in at least your own home country's retirement security program, which pays you some amount of income when you reach a certain age (normally, starting at age 60, in most countries today). These are all types of trust funds. If you aren't alive, you aren't going to be paid from them. Which is yet another reason why one must first believe in Christ to be a recipient in God's Divine Benefit Plan (spiritually-dead people can't benefit, because they basically have opted out of the Plan).

Note: when my pastor covers this doctrine, he likes to use the terms "escrow officer" and "escrow", and he likes to stress how God's funding in eternity past was irrevocable. That term means God can't take the money back. God has forbidden Himself (!) from getting the money back. So, the money can only go to the beneficiaries under the terms of the Trust: Christ being the Beneficiary. So He determines how the apportionments go, Isaiah 53:12. That is what the Bema, is for (i.e., 1 Corinthians 3, which actually occurs, in Revelation 4). If you're under my pastor, you'll recall he often mentions that you can see what you lost as a memorial, if you didn't make it to Pleroma, in eternity. Yep, because the assets are irrevocable. That fact doesn't mean, though, that God doesn't reroute the actual use of the funds. Fact is, once we all are up there, we will ardently want the assets we refused, used by whomever — since everything glorifies Christ. So, the Memorial depicts what could have been, versus the reality: it's not a contradiction, that the actual use of these committed assets, don't function as the could-have-been history. By the way, here on earth, other types of trust funds aren't always irrevocable, but most are (better tax benefits, for irrevocable trusts). So many a will sets up a trust at the decedent's death, into which all of his estate essentially 'pours'. Retirement plans also are irrevocable (again, due to tax benefits), though certain "reversions" (returns) of money to the Employer, can occur (but in the United States, reversions are taxed at 50%-80% in addition to the regular corporate income tax, so not many reversions occur).

Do you see the Enormous Impact of this Divine Benefit Plan? How Much Hung On Christ, While He Was Here? Father Irrevocably Committed Himself to a Burden of so Great a Magnitude, I can only use the term "bazillion", to reference it — and, what if Christ didn't want to finish His Cross? He's God, you know. He didn't have to do it. But — He wants to kill Himself for Father, all the time. He loves Father that much. So to Him, the Cross is what He wanted the most (i.e., see context for Luke 22). Love is like that. Father's love is like that — committing Himself in Eternity past! Spirit's love is like that — imagine, having to doodle with us stupid believers, forever, getting our thinking built and functioning, what mother-hen care! Love, absolute. No object, or whatever object. Satan is loved just as much. Awesome, this Commitment! Freely given, no strings!

Christ will apportion God's Eternity-Past Divine Benefit Trust Fund "among the great ones" (Isaiah 53:12's yehalleq clause): so it's like dividing up a pool of assets. So if you'd not reached Pleroma by the time you died, you still get the benefits God assigned for you, but the portion you get directly is not the whole amount. Technically, you forfeited it when you chose not to stay in God's System "until the end" (death). But God never welshes. So here's what happens: the funds reroute through the Pleroma people ("the great ones"). So you still end up getting the benefits, but not directly.

Again, that's how irrevocable trusts, work: The Money Stays There, But Who Gets That Money, Changes Due To The Contingencies, as specified in the trust (or Plan, for retirement plans) documents. So, it's really your money, right Now — but if you elect Against Completing the Conditions (grow to Ephesians 3:15-19 level, Pleroma), You Won't Get "all the fullness-of-blessing from God" (pan to πλήρωμα τοῦ Θεοῦ, in Ephesians 3:19). Someone else, though, with whom you are associated who is Pleroma, will get it. So you still get the money — but not, in your own hands. (Now, maybe you like that idea, but I don't. I want to grow to Pleroma. Because I want to kill myself thanking God, and I need a whole lot of money, to do that.)

There are many Bible passages and keywords explaining this topic of God's Divine Benefit Plan; sadly, English seldom properly translates Scripture's financial words; so you will have trouble seeing the analogy Scripture sets up between Doctrine in you, and money in your Heavenly Divine Benefit Plan. My pastor exegeted Ephesians 1 to show the "escrow" nature of it, and he spent months going over and over the Chapter's meaning. Often retirement plans are similar, funded trusts, another type of escrow: its money can't be given except to the participants who vest; Those Who Quit Too Early, Don't Benefit. But think: even those who quit too early, if associated with someone who vests, will share in what the one who vested, gets. That's how God solves the problem.

Note the Fabulous Grace, Turning on its Head, all the stupid lording-it-over-games, played down here: Everyone Will Be Associated With A Pleroma Person, because all the people are "booty" as well, in Isaiah 53:12 (how clever of God to do that) — and the Pleroma persons become the Rulers forever. So everyone either inherits a kingdom, or is in one: so no one loses, everyone gains. So the money never goes to waste. There's no "reversion" in God's Divine Benefit Plan. The reason to Want to Vest, is to honor Him; not, to preen. You want more so you can spend more. Not, to beat your chest in front of a mirror like a gorilla.

Since we humans are all interdependent in God's "economy" (Bible keywords οἰκονομία and οἰκοδομέω, usually vaguely translated), whoever quit early becomes a beneficiary under someone who vested. Hence Part 3's stress on Corollaries 3A-3D. The macro economics of God's provision is largely the topic of Part 4b and 4c. Learn the mechanics of your own retirement plan at work, to get the most understanding, here. For, what I'm tagging God's "Divine Benefit Plan", is an exact analogy to a perfectly-working defined benefit plan (if such a plan could exist on earth): more about that, follows in Part 4c.

God explains all this funding most deftly, via the phrase "every spiritual blessing", in Ephesians 1. A shorter Bible moniker for this term is "all things" (Bible Greek keyword: πάντα); then there's "riches", or "riches of... Glory", and many metaphorical synonyms like gold, etc. Christ is the beneficiary ("Seed", Galatians 3). Spiritual riches are the highest type, because God is Spirit, and they who worship Him worship Him in Spirit and in Doctrine: John 4:24. So Spiritual Wealth Births All Other Types (i.e., per 1 Timothy 6:17). So if you would be rich, become rich in His Thinking (2 Peter 3:18).

As noted earlier, God doesn't need money; He can instantly create whatever He likes, whenever He likes. What He 'Can't' Do, Is Force You To Learn His Son. (He won't do that, since it violates love, righteousness, freedom, to coerce or manipulate.) And what He likes to hear most of all, is His Son's Thinking. Of Whom, we are all partakers (term in Peter). So, we learn to partake of His Thinking. Father expresses His Pleasure in our Learning That Thinking In The Exact Same Way as He did the Son's Thinking on the Cross, so we are thus apportioned 'booty' (Greek μερίζω = share/apportion; this whole concept is explained in Isaiah 53:10-12 and Ephesians 4:11-16). That 'booty' is a whole lot of physical and non-physical benefit, especially tailored to our tastes. Every day is Christmas. But here's the irony: the most enjoyable thing to 'do', is learn Him! So every day, is Super-Christmas, however bad it is externally, for His Thinking is true enjoyment! So it's Super-Christmas every day, with the 'booty', added! Especially, because You Get To Know Father Is Pleased! That's the greatest Christmas gift of all! It's no 72 houris, okay? It's Way Better — Rapport wealth-of-thinking makes even a hovel, heavenly. So how much more do you think compatibility is heavenly, in Heaven itself?

You kinda know this already, for if you are in a bad mood, the nice weather outside doesn't make you feel better. So too, with all 'earthly things': How You Think Determines How You Enjoy. So the True Wealth, is Shared Thinking. Everything else is colored by it. So if you are thinking how much you love someone, even if the person is in hospital or looks like gefilte fish, your love only increases. But if you hate someone, even if the person is attractive, your hatred only increases. So understand that if you have Every Spiritual Blessing, you have Every Blessing. And, frankly, as you grow up in Him, the Fourth Reason for Royalty will come to be what you prefer, Wormship. Because, you already have everything, in Him who is τα πάντα, everything. 😏.

The Pleroma person Wants To Spend Himself On Christ. It's a need so deep, an outlet so desired, that when Christ apportions out to the Pleroma, all they want to do, is Spend It On Those Ruled. Not take. See how the angels (AKA "elders" in bad English translation) in Revelation 4:6ff, how they throw down their crowns? That's an ancient-world expression of giving self away to Him. The crowns represent all their rewards given them by God for not having rebelled with Satan & Co. (angels got their own escrows, too). But what do these highest seraphim do with all that wealth? Throw It Away. Not stupidly, like today's welfare programs, but Smartly. To glorify Him. So they need all that wealth, so they can get the outlet of spending themselves. Not, wasting the lives of others. Wasting themselves: just like He so ardently wanted to do — and did! — on the Cross.

And here's the precedence for all this spending! The Trinity 'Corporation' Decreed and provided it all from eternity past: To Share Themselves More, 'Expand' On Their Own Happiness — by Creating Creation. For, if you're already Uppermost, the only way to 'expand' is ταπεινόω, 'go low' (usually translated "humble" in Philippians 2:8, one of the most stupendous passages in Bible.) Then, pouring Themselves into creation, via those Delicious Diamante Doctrinal Deposits of Son's Thinking. Starting with Angels. Then, Adam. Noah. Abram. Isaac. Jacob. Moses. Israel. Christ! Hence, Church.

Each change in the method-of-deposit (covenant) is Warranted And Justified By Some Kind of Failure, and Some Kind Of Success, in the Recipient Group. So, the Blessing reroutes through the "great ones", even now, while we're still in these puny bodies. Thus the human race keeps on being blessed-by-association. With the Uppermost Truth. God. Coming Down to Us. To Save Us. Now, Up, Risen, Ascending, Ascended, Seated, Footstool! Ruling! Uppermost of Uppermost (Hebrews 1), The Lexeme Of Lexemes, waiting for "Operation Footstool" (my pastor's term) to complete, τελειόω, πληρόω, ἁγιάζω. To Resurrect Us. Purpose, again. But this time, we know The Plan.

Of course He primarily reroutes Blessing individually; or, cursing, when individuals fail (Jeconiah's curse, for example); so all the more, He does it when individuals succeed (Abram, David, etc)! He thus also amalgamates all these individuals to reroute Blessing Funds corporately, when groups fail or succeed (region, nation, even a whole covenantal people, Leviticus 26 & Deuteronomy 28). He also does it even if only three (!) are in a 'group' (Abram, Isaac, Jacob). Sometimes He reroutes temporarily, i.e., making Deborah a judge in Israel (should have been a man's job, so great apostasy was rampant). God, He is the Ultimate Feminist: Genesis 3:15. So to say that authority vests in the man in certain situations like marriage, pastor-teacher, is no slur on womanhood. Again, we humans need to Ask The Right Questions, not the wrong ones.

Note that God's welfare plan, is smart. Man is supposed to be trained in Love, which depends on being trained in Righteousness and Justice, the objects of Love (namely, Psalm 89:14-15). During this training period, man gives and takes with his fellow man, and there is always a scorecard operating, with respect to how much given or taken, is "fair". Once a person perceives that the scorecard is imbalanced, the Energizer Bunny (old sin nature) starts banging the drum: oh, you are superior. Oh, you are inferior. Either 'banging', is upsetting. For if you are inferior because you got a gift, then that gift is no longer enjoyable to you; if you are superior, same problem: the giving becomes a tension experience, instead of an enjoyment experience. Because the sin nature enjoys hating, it will feel good to say self is superior, and feel bad to say that the other is superior. Whole point of giving, then, is trashed. Becomes poop. So God's Gifts First Depend On Having The Requisite Capacity For Enjoyment (which requires lots of eaten Bible in His System), so that neither of these two bunny hops, play. So, that is how a good welfare program should operate. So, that is how God's Divine Benefit Plan operates. So, if you don't have the capacity yet, someone near you who does, gets gifts so you can indirectly share, without being tempted to bunny hop.

Capacity for enjoyment isn't a happy-go-lucky, smiley thing. It's an appreciation too deep for emotion. One which responds with respect, a sense of responsibility, and relaxation. Insecure people are always tense. Learning Bible in God's System lessens and gradually eliminates the tension. So those bunny hops, flop! And you can begin to actually enjoy inferiority or superiority. Because, God enjoys everything. Think: it's a horror to be superior, and saddled with drooling babies all day long. Think: it's a horror, to be a drooling baby, saddled with these big people making loud noises you don't understand, all day long. We are all variantly incompatible with each other, and it's a tension, to be so close yet so unalike. Even more, the incompatibility face to face with God, is Total! That's why we make up those goofy religions in the first place. Satan's not to blame per se; we enjoy and crave legalistic Christianity and religion, and therefore gladly accept their influence for the finishing touches — which is why all religion reverses or parodies Bible Doctrine or Pleroma believers (1 Corinthians 9:24). So the first order of business, is to get facts: yes, you aren't as good as someone else in "XYZ" endeavor; so what? Yes, they (or you) should be paid more (less) than you because of their relative abilities, versus yours: so what? Who cares? As you calm down over being unequal, you cheer up over being whatever you are. Over whatever are your circumstances. Because, you know they are all designed to Train You in Him: so who cares, about anything else? Ahhhh, now capacity, is increasing.

Now, port those individual ideas over to a group: groups of individuals are also, more or less capacious. More or less, tense. Folks who band together to crusade or claim rights, have zero capacity for happiness. Your big clue: they are demanding something from someone else. Happy people don't do that. And nothing you give an unhappy person, can make him happy, just as the bright sun outside won't cheer you up if you are in a bad mood. God alone can make one happy, and only His Son's Thinking being progressively deposited, accomplishes that goal. Then, even a cross will 'make' you happy. So: same for groups. People tend to congregate with others who are like them. So people tend to move out of areas where they are too "different" from those around them; so, over a long period of time, the people in an area, are very much alike — so, when they are all too negative as a group, bam! Divine Discipline occurs to wake them up. Or, conversely, if that group is growing, bam! Divine Prosperity occurs to bless them. Oh: overt disaster is often a prosperity, so don't narrow your idea of "good" and "bad" to puny human standards. Abram was being tested to think God "bad" because God didn't give him the promised heir for 25 more years (age 75-age 99), 😏. Because, God was building Abram's Capacity for a Whole Universe Of Sons! Talk about blessing to a group from an individual!

So, when He does reroute, it means Somewhere, There Was A Failure; so, Sound Investor that He is, The Rerouting Has To Have An Exponentially-Bigger Yield than the original structure, to Compensate for the "sweet savor" investment loss, so to speak. Because, God Sees. One Big Now. It Has To Pay Off For Him, see.

He, being Infinite; He, being Three Infinite — well, how much more yield must there be, if the first group screws up — which screwup, He Must See Forever past present future? It's not like Omniscience turns 'off'. So someone peeing 5,000 years ago, is 'still peeing', to Omniscience. The Cross Is Always Occurring. So, the Yield on the Cross is Always Occurring. So That Yield Must Be Increased, if a group which has a covenant, screws up its 'end'. So it is, with Israel. Rerouted, so Bigger For Israel, too. To Church. not replacing Israel, but Blessing Israel. Let's see how.


Because God Always Insures and Observes, Precedence

So the Uppermost Truth about the Rapture which so many miss, is God's use of precedence.. Precedence is the 'lens' through which Truth needs to be discerned. If this lens is not used, or is abused, or misused, the resulting 'picture' will be like an unfocused or misshot photograph, worth only a pitch in the trash. Precedence, of course, is a double entendre word, since everything in the universe is a hupostasis. Infinity itself is a type of hupostasis: in order for "all" to be all, there must be Harmoniously-United Opposites. Else, "Absoluteness" isn't (structural, hence 'moral', for lack of a better word) Integrity.

So "Precedence" must be a hupostasis, too. And, it is. Precedence, What Preceded in Time, and What Preceded in Importance. Connected, though. Not just any old past thing is precedence. There Must Be A Justice Connection Warranting It. Here, of course, we found a just connection: Israel's never-completed marriage contract. The 'connection' is the groom. For He Finished His Side of the Isaiah 53:11 Contract. Both in Time, and in Importance. Uh oh, we've another Hupostasis. New Precedence: His + Israel's Marriage Terms. Okay. Now we have a Plan, and a Precedence to work with to see how that Plan tells us about Rapture. For, it's our purpose, so must be disclosed: the most Important Precedent of all, the Hypostatic Union, Our Lord's God-Man Nature. Virtually everything in the universe expresses that Structure at all times. So all Scripture reflects Him, too.

We gangly Christians get so tied up with data collecting, date setting, and the spectacular nature of Tribulation events, we entirely forget that God is Truth, so there are Spiritual Laws Of Relationship Which Govern (i.e., like gravity, but spiritual). If you forget those relationships, you chase after windmills. Vanity. Hopefully, this series will help the reader recognize the vital role of precedence, and properly see what "Rapture" means. For himself. Oh, how ironic, to be writing this. My pastor stressed Christ's Precedence for Church in nearly every Bible class he's taught. Ironic, because even though I'm trained in pensions (which means laws and accounting relationships), I myself didn't clue into the vital role of Precedence and Rapture, for years! Ouch! And without understanding the 'why' of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, you will be blind to many other central doctrines.

At the beginning of Part 2, we learned that all God's Covenants are "Covenants of Association". You may want to review its purple-text; and, its following brown text about the angels, before further reading here: you will require quite a lot of thesaural thinking. Also, Legal Thinking: the Bible has always been, By Its Own Original Language Terms, first and foremost, a contract series. Within it, are depositions, relevant historical testimony/evidence, and a wide variety of other legal documents: for example, the rituals are all contract related, the precedence for which is easily visible from Genesis 2:17 onward.

God's prohibition against eating good-and-evil knowledge is a contract, Genesis 2:17 being the heart of it: depicted by a real tree with real fruit, so there could be a Real Rejection Expressed by Eating That Fruit. You stay in Fellowship with Me, so long as you don't do this. Followed by, the Abrogation Clause, as my pastor usually likes to translate it: because the day you eat from it, dying spiritually you will die physically. Two Deaths, not one. So Two Lives are needed: human life, and spiritual life, in order to Live With God, Forever. All Contracts After The Fall Are About Getting Into Fellowship ("saved"), and then Learning To Have Fellowship (spiritual life) with Him.

That's the only reason why anyone goes to 'hell': They Never Agreed To God's Terms For Getting Into Fellowship. That's the only reason why most believers will be 'naked' (poor) in heaven — they didn't finish the Spiritual Growth Contract of Part 3, Ephesians 3:15-21. So if one of the spiritual life contracts is Priestly Brideship (maximum intimacy), and not enough Corporately Complete it, the contract remains open.

So at the end of Part 2, we saw that, Post-Cross, all but one of the covenant contracts had been "finished", "perfected" / completed: Brideship, the Marriage Contract. Marriage contracts have always been Voluntary, and Two-Party, which is why the Bible uses the term in both the Old and New Testament, to convey its nature. So if one of the Parties to the Marriage Contract rejects or violates Terms in the Contract, the contract is annulled.

"To perfect" in legal English and most other languages means to finish/fulfill the Terms Of The Contract. Bible uses τελειόω this way, so English often translates the verb and its cognates with "to perfect" or "perfect". Contracts, especially testamentary wills which transfer a great amount of wealth, are usually if-then in structure. So to say all contracts had been completed except Brideship is to say the "party of the first part" (Jesus the Christ) fulfilled the conditions.

Isaiah 53:10-12 is that contract, and it was made in eternity past. So that's the Ultimate Precedence, the initiating justification for creation.

So, if party "A" completes certain actions/conditions, then party "A" inherits. However, the actual resultant delivery is a separate set of clauses. So there is a time lag between the completion of the contract by party "A", and the receipt of whatever party "A" is promised. This rule of contract law is as old as time, so was already a well established language of accommodation by the time God had Moses write the Pentateuch. All those rituals you see in the Old Testament are contract recognition rituals of one category or another. Contract delivery also goes by terms of the contract which apply to the grantor/provider (God the Father, here); oftentimes the delivery is delayed, subject to certain other conditions, and even can remain abrogable.

As per the Isaiah 53:10-11 LXX transformatives, the Divine Benefit Plan Delivery Preparation Terms, are that Father will Purify, Plunder, Exhibit, Sculpt, and Justify the Plunder. Then, Isaiah 53:12 — the delivery to Christ, occurs. He then apportions the plunder to the "great ones", Based On The Same Criteria as the Criteria Which made Him. In other words, the "great ones" are Made the Same Way as Christ was made, Isaiah 53:10-11 (combined texts). So those who rejected the Isaiah 53:10-11 contract terms, forfeited, and become booty to be apportioned among the "great ones". Thus, all those other people share in the Inheritance: indirectly.

See? God blesses everyone exactly according to what the individual, chooses. By Contract. With Son. To Make Sons. That's the Ultimate Precedence: It was Son's Individual Choice to Fulfill the Terms, which the Holy Spirit Enacted upon Him; so it becomes our Individual Choice to Receive the same Action By Father (via the Spirit again, note the consistency), upon us. The individuality nature of the contract is so blatant in the Old Testament, you can't miss it. In fact, the only group contract in the entire Bible, was the one given to Israel, and that, only due to Moses and later, David (2 Samuel 7 basically cuts Israel out and hands her to David, just as Levi was cut out and handed to Aaron). Paul loves this Individuality Nature of God's Contract Provision so much, he can't stop using Greek marital-intimacy words, mixing them with Greek construction vocabulary, in all his letters. For the Last Adam gets a Wife Fitly Built for Him. 😏: I wonder how he could stop smiling and laughing long enough, to write!

Note how the Contract is Sweeping, and a Whole, even while it remains Individual. So Israel was under the Contract, and everyone who believed in Him had the same terms (but at a lower level, since Christ was not yet come, John 7:39); but they did not fulfill the Corporate Marriage Contract, the Mosaic Law's "training" purpose (theme of Romans 11) to make them into an Entire Priest Nation (not merely a nation with a priesthood, as under the "schoolmaster", the Mosaic Law, see Galatians 3 and Hebrews 5-10). So that Contract by party "B" (Body), remained unfulfilled. That's why we get it, Matthew 16:18. Which was also a Choice by the Groom: "Upon This Rock" — pointing to Himself, the Petra, the Holy of Holies Bedrock — "I will build My Church." Will build, future tense of οἰκοδομέω. Which Building, 😏: is the whole point, Building sons. Temple, get it?

That's What Your Life Really Means, And You Are Under This Contract. Whether you choose abrogation, is up to you. Israel chose abrogation, which is the only reason why the Contract of Brideship is still Open to us.

Now, to the Legal Relevance Of Precedence. In all contract law from Genesis 3 until forever, Precedence Matters. Principle: Consistency and Fairness, two cardinal rules of Justice, are based on precedence. Precedence is what justifies any kind of contract entry, change, or abrogation. Law is governed by prior law's interpretation, for example. Sure, new interpretations can be made, and old ones even reversed: but always the past 'case law' will be relevant. Ergo the Bible's command to compare Scripture with Scripture (i.e., "it stand written" refrains). You never disregard the Precedence from the Past. For, all law is sourced in Truth, and all Truth is God's Own Personal Attribute. This rule is helpful in diagnosing false interpretations, translations, scribal errors, wanna-be bible books (i.e., Apocrypha), etc.

Consistency Is Expressed By Parallelism. Same for "A", as for "B", core tenet of Justice. So, Precedence determines Parallelism, too. Idea of Same Treatment. Equality before the law. Impartiality. So, when evaluating what is or sets Precedent, one must be careful in diagnosing, the "parallel". Most importantly, look for essentials, not forms. Meaning, rather than motions. To mix these up, is to violate Precedence, Consistency, Justice.

You should be able to peruse Leviticus-Deuteronomy and see that even in translation: none of the Levitical offerings were ever called "tithes", for example. Bible clearly shows, even in translation, Two Separate Systems, with separate categorizations, timings, everything: the priest and Temple gifts were specific, had sliding scales, and were occasion-based. The tithes, by contrast, were national, flat, and income-based. Malachi 3:10 is God chiding Israel for not paying income taxes. Um, how blatant a difference between 'love gift' and 'tax', do you want? God is the original proponent of the flat tax! Romans 2, do you steal? No wonder people hate Christianity, lose faith in authority, rebel! And Abram giving to Melchizedek (Genesis 14, Hebrews 5-7)? Did anyone notice that Abram was giving what was not his, and at the consent of the King of Sodom? Abram didn't keep the spoils of victory, at all. The King of Sodom had offered Abram a "take", but Abram refused with the famous, "lest you [someday] say, 'I made Abram rich'." So the "tithe" isn't Abram's. And, moreover, it wasn't given to the Levites (big point being made, in Book of Hebrews), but to a King-Priest, Melchizedek. Directly. So, the meaning of Abram and Melchizedek cannot be used to claim the Church should get a tithe, either. Do your homework.

Tithing is income tax, never a spiritual thing. Voluntary giving is always voluntary, never a set amount. In the Old Testament, God set rules about giving when you want to do it, to teach you. And the irony is that the Levitical system of giving was agriculturally phrased, so only if God blessed you enough, would you be able to give. So yes, there are tithing concepts — since the idea of a tenth for income tax was well known, even back in Jacob's day, Genesis 38:22. But no, they are voluntary to God, as the whole context of Leviticus 27, shows. Tithes were allowed among many other valuation formats to decide what God gets; and other formats were allowed, and phrased even as mandates so you would be doing your voluntary giving according to rules which taught you something about God. But the income tax is separate, as Leviticus 27 stresses. That whole chapter is about redeeming what you had voluntarily dedicated, versus taxation, refer to: Leviticus 27:1, Leviticus 27:26, Leviticus 27:31, Leviticus 27:32 in context. If you can buy it back, it's not a tax, get it? Further, whatever you dedicated, you can still keep. Idea is you now hold it for the Lord (see Leviticus 27:28). Idea is, if you give something and then want to get it back, you add 20% in the buy-back, for the opportunity cost. But the gifts and especially the taxes, were never a means to buy anything from God. So much for the kooky idea that tithing is to go to the Church. Some dingbats claim that since the concept of tithing predates Israel (yep, it does), then Church isn't getting that precedence from Israel. But they don't bother to research the precedence: tithing was a form of income tax, which is why Jacob is voting for God as king when he says Genesis 38:22. Abraham giving Melchizedek the King of Salem (Jerusalem) a tithe was done at the behest of the king of Sodom whose property it was, since Abraham did not take spoil, Genesis 14:17-21. (The King of Sodom was with Melchizedek, as you'll see if you pay attention to the verses. Had this 10th not been given at the King's behest, then Abram's refusal of spoil is a sham, and Abram would have been a thief.) What a sad travesty is made of tithes today, totally blasphemous in every jot and tittle. If you have The Hebrew Workbook of the Old Testament, look up eser (ayin sim resh), and read what it says about tithing as a voluntary thing, and the abuses of it which had occurred. My pastor gets positively bilious when he covers the subject of how tithing is abused, today: Church is not Israel, okay? Tithing was Income Tax To A King.

God's "tithe" isn't 10%, but 100%: "You shall love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart And Soul And Mind." First Commandment. So if we're talking tithe for the Church, baby — it's all of you, and it goes to God, not some collection plate. Remember that verse in Timothy which talks about how the believer who doesn't take care of his own family, being worse than an unbeliever. Again — see how the misuse of Bible in the name of 'tradition' or 'precedence' can be so evil?

The list could go on and on, because there are as many variations of abuses as there are people. Precedence Demands Precision. God's. misunderstood, or sometimes blatantly abused. Do Your Homework. Use 1 John 1:9 like breathing. Ask God To Help You Avoid These Landmines. I swear, internet searches on Bible Doctrines are like Trips to Twilight Zone, the scholarship is so shoddy. Don't be like them: The Holy Spirit is God, so obviously is Smart. Get in God's System (ἑνότης), breathe 1 John 1:9 and think Bible 24/7 (keep trying to do that) — and you'll see Just How Smart God Makes You. So you can avoid these billions of misuses.

Back to God's Rerouting: how does this Precedence, interrelate? God's Covenants both within the Godhead (Trinity is a Corporation, as illustrated by titles of Father, Son, Spirit) and with creation, always display Like-Consistency. Differences are due to nature of those in the contract, i.e., angelic natures aren't human, so their covenant isn't stated in detail, but we do know there is Consistency: Believe or Burn. For, we know Satan & Co. broke it, and Matthew 25:41 is their prehistoric sentence. Since we know it hasn't yet been carried out, (i.e., "devil... lion... devour" verse in Peter), then That Case Must Be On Appeal. Which means, precedence for appealing a sentence existed before Adam. Which means, Adam And The Woman Were Created To Demonstrate The Appeal. (Like some other pastors, mine has taught this essential "Appeal Trial" nature of the Angelic Conflict for many years.)

So, A Legal Way To Resolve A Broken Contract Pre-Exists Man. So, Adam and the woman had a covenant which was broken as well (eating from the Tree); Hosea 6:7 cites it as Precedence in the "riv" (court case) testimony against Israel the Betrothed, who broke the Law in like manner. It's a major running theme in the Old Testament; Ezekiel and Hosea, for example, are scathing treatises on how the Betrothed wasn't living up to her end of the potential contract.

God's Rerouting Precedence Key → When a covenant is broken, there are terms inside or outside of the agreement which govern what happens next. Moreover, if another agreement is made, or a successor group receives the terms, Terms Previous Which Were Essential And Incomplete 'port Over' To The New Agreement Or Successor Group. Again, due to the inherent rule that justice should continue and be fair. Any Change In Terms would have to have either its Own Precedence, or some Other Just Cause For Change, lest Justice somehow be misused with respect to a group signatory under the current or previous contract. (For example, the state of California can't grant you a license to be a retailer with terms more favorable than it would grant to another retailer, without justifying why.)

In the case of the Brideship Contract, obviously the 'Intended' would have to Consent to the Contract also, or there is no Contract; because Contracts must be signed (agreed to) by the parties of the Contract, for a Contract to become valid. That Israel was the first group of humans to be offered Brideship is so vast a group of prophecies in the Old Testament, it would take hundreds of pages to go through all the prophecies. Suffice it to say that any prophecy about Messiah was also an offer of Brideship, eschatologically. You'll find the Brideship offer everywhere, namely, in all those tender verses where Adonai pleads with Israel to return to Him. Every prophet talks about it. Hosea and Ezekiel (especially Ezekiel 16 of the latter) focus especially on this issue.

Precedence is therefore always a hupostasis, since the God-man is Himself, by very nature, a marriage between Infinite (Godness) and Finity (humanness). Which is why theologians call His married nature, "The Hypostatic Union" (term comes from Hebrews 1:3). So, that's why all prophecy is likewise, dual: double entendre, dual usage. For, the only difference between "prophecy" and "teaching" is that the former is also predictive. More importantly, the dual-usage shows the Precedent Condition was Not Heeded, if the Second Usage occurs. It's always about the Contract, even and especially, with respect to prophecy. So its Duality Paradigm First Reflects His Duality, and therefore is still a Double-Pronged-Teaching, which is the more important reason for it; Prediction is made to Protect or otherwise Benefit those Hearing it in Advance. Just as would be true, for any Teaching. Especially, if from God. For, all prophecy represents Teaching about the Coming One Who Himself is a Duality, the God-Man, Messiah. Learning about God, after all, is rather more important, than being able to predict something about your own life.

So, Dual entendre: Two generations are to understand it, the Current one getting the prophecy in miniature (called "near-fulfillment", in theology); and, the Future one getting the Full Blown Prophecy (called "far-fulfillment", in theology). So, dual usage: 1) anyone else is to use the Teaching Paradigm Of The Prophecy, to Grow Spiritually. Whereas 2) those Future who get the Full-Blown actual events of the prophecy, are to understand it then to know what to do, then. That's why we still have the Old Testament for lessons, why Revelation for us is largely paradigmal; that's why the Tribulation folks will be learning lessons from our day, but will be living on, the prophecy which then is actually happening to them. It's a synergistic arrangement, and everyone is thus doubly blessed: we vicariously (AKA, indirectly) share in prophecy which applies to others; others vicariously share in doctrine which directly applies to us. And, vice versa, of course. "Blessed", by the way, is usually a mistranslation in English Bibles. Term is usually "μακάριοι", literally happinesses (cute play on μάχαιρα, the Word-sword). So, these happinesses are way too big for the body, to enjoy.

I don't understand why people find prophecy titillating, though: its blessing doesn't ever feel good. For, when it's being fulfilled, it's a shocker, if you can see it at all; or is bizarre, if you still can't see it, though living under it. None of the prophets were welcome. True, most of the news they had to bring was bad, but if the news came true, it was a huge shock, just the same. If it wasn't seen to be true, to believe it anyway, felt weird. Look how Gideon acted with the fleece; how Moses acted with the 'burning bush'; how the Israelites acted when Moses was gone too long. Prophecy is very intense. The human body, can't take its fulfillment. Heck, wasn't it upsetting to review all those timing numbers about how Messiah arrived at the 1000th anniversary of David's Kingship and the bazillion other fulfilled number and prophecy and historical convergences about Christ? Isn't it upsetting, to see how vivid, the Dumb Dome and the Wailing Wall, to show the Unimpeachable Truth of Daniel 9:26c?

Also in contracts, there is usually a dual financial expression, and Precedence is the Key here, too: like, a downpayment (Big Bible keyword in New Testament, usually mistranslated as a clause, "what has been entrusted"). The rest of the payment is Contingent on whatever the rest of the contract terms, are. So, prophecy was first 'paid' to the generation who got it; the 'balance' would be 'paid' to a parallel future generation. So, if the prophecy was of something painful, it likewise operated in two 'payments', so to speak. But the Purpose of All Prophecy, painful or no, was and remains, To Encourage People To Vote For Messiah.

So of course, He Comes Twice: first to Make Payment; and second, to Deliver The Contractual Fulfillments. Book of Hebrews takes the reader through all these dualities, and is well worth however many months it takes, to master that Book's contents.

So until there was a Groom, there's no Marriage Contract to Actually Offer. All of the promises to Israel were Contingent upon a Groom Coming, which the Jews (even today) knew as "the Messiah to come". The groom would personally and actually offer the marriage contract to whoever "Israel" would be at the time He came. Israel could tell who the Groom was by means of the Prophecies Being Fulfilled In Him. Thus, Isaiah 7, virgin conception (far-fulfillment, compared to the near-fulfillment in Isaiah's day). Ergo also the other 108 or so 'markers' in about 900 prophecies. Israel would have to first know who the Groom really was, in order to decide whether to sign or not sign on the marriage contract only the Real Groom could offer. Jews who don't do their own homework in the Tanach will sometimes argue that "virgin" means "young woman" and will argue that when Isaiah's wife fulfilled the "near" meaning of the prophecy (hence the baby's weird name), that was all the meaning to be derived. Nonsense. Every Prophecy In the Old Testament Is Dual-Entendre And Dual-Usage, even as the Mercy Seat was made of two materials. Jews who know Yeshua is Messiah understand the duality of "YHWH", He-Who-Always-Was-Becomes-Savior; and hence understand the correct interpretation of Isaiah 7, since the Savior must be born without Adam's sin nature (in order to be the Last Adam, got it?).

And unless there was a Fit Bride, No Valid Acceptance Of The Groom's Offer, Would Occur. So the Groom is Party "A", The Alpha Glory, "Becoming", Immanuel; but Israel was Party "B", Body, Bride — potentially. Hence she had the Mosaic Law to Learn How To Become Fit. Axiomatic principles like Brideship, Nature of God, and a whole welter of Fundamental Contract Doctrines are communicated in Bible by means of wordplay. The very etymology of words and their kindred roots, reveals this. Bible is woven into every syllable of the Hebrew language. You can't see this in translation, but it really sticks out in the original text, and thoughtful lexicographers are always remarking on it (like TWOT, a standard seminary lexicon). This fact was widely known among Bible scholars in the 19th century (i.e., Thorleif Boman's Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek), and of course has always been known among the Jews. Improper use of this fact, not ignorance, is the cause for the predominance of bad interpretation. So when you hear today that the Law is some kind of magical vehicle for salvation, or any other stuff making the Law into a credit-self vehicle, just laugh. Look: people misuse the Bible without compunction — Epistle of Jude is even rude on their rudeness — so it shouldn't be too surprising that the most scholarship is slipshod, lying, stupid, who-knows-which. It's not rocket science to prove wrong. If I hear Matthew 16:18 misused again during some alleged 'scholarly' documentary, I'll scream.

For an interesting discussion on the Biblical verbs and their concepts of time, see a really cool explanation of this fact in Thorleif Boman's Hebrew Thought compared with Greek.

So to see how the Law was a Bridal Contract which thus was Conditional, versus all the other covenants to Israel which were unconditional, requires you look at the type of vocabulary Bible uses in the original languages. Marital analogies are so frequent, you find one in practically every verse of the Old Testament, after the Exodus; for the Lord Always Talks To His People Based On The Bridal Contract — and they are usually breaking it. That's why the Bible is so repetitive, too; for the breakage was repeated, and the role of Husband is to Admonish and Train the Wife (true in secular marriage, too, as that precedence comes pre-Adam's Fall). She wasn't responding to Him. Past is prologue, so we should take deep notice — as we are disobeying in exactly the same ways.

In Deuteronomy, when Moses is briefing the second generation just prior to their entry into the Land, he reminds them of these provisions, and how they are to Become A Priest Nation by fulfilling the Law (e.g., the five "an holy people" clauses in KJV, like Deuteronomy 28:9; which are variantly incorporated by reference in hundreds of later-book verses). Fulfilling the Law was always a post-salvation contract, so was never about sin per se — but about the Conditional Bridal Contract with the Lord. If you read Deuteronomy even in translation, you'll find Moses uses an if-then construction (hallmark characteristic of contracts) to review the contractual terms, and they all relate to the prosperity or adversity the people will experience, if they (respectively) obey or reject the terms. Nowhere do you find even a hint that these terms relate to salvation. For, you had to first believe in Adonai for Him to 'become' Elohenu (our God). He's not your God until you believe in Him. By the same token, you have to believe in the Contract Provisions, to obey them. So If You Do Not Believe In Them, You Are Abrogating The Relationship.

Hosea 4:6, even in translation, makes it clear what abrogation means (whole book is on the topic, with Gomer representing unfaithful Israel): in the KJV of BibleWorks 5, the verse reads like this: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

  1. Clause 1: because thou hast rejected knowledge (of God — see context) , I will also reject thee,
  2. Clause 2 eschatological portion of covenant, Brideship: that thou shalt be no priest to me;
  3. Clause 3 + summary of loss of blessing by association: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

    There's lots of contextual wordplay in Hosea, and especially in this verse. There's the "worn out with serving Baal" sound play in the word here translated "destroyed", balaiy: really, "mibaley", idea that they are fornicating with Baal and thus birthing destruction, instead of having marital relations with da'ath ("knowledge", Divine Truth, the Law). Wordplay also runs rife between da'ath, damam, and similar words. Idea that if you silence/destroy the Word, you yourself will be silenced/destroyed. Awesome stuff. The word da'ath is also used in Isaiah 53:11's Hebrew text. A lexicon like TWOT which analyzes wordplay will help you see why I translate it "Mastery of Thinking", etc. If my pastor had but one message he wanted us to get during his 50+ years of teaching, it was that we needed to get the Thinking of Christ in our heads, 24/7. Hosea 4:6 is a verse he thus uses a lot to remind us of this mandate.

Preview of coming attractions, and how God reroutes: That verse was said to the Northern Kingdom, aka "Samaria" and "Israel" (Hosea was one of their prophets). Assyria was used to fulfill that verse circa 725 BC (?). Jonah was later sent to Nineveh to convert the Assyrians there, and they all became Jews (Book of Jonah). So all the Jews got delivered. After that generation, Assyria went steadily downhill, so it got punished (fulfilling the running prophecy that God uses other nations to punish Israel, then punishes the punishers). God keeps His Promises. God uses negative volition, in the sense that He lets it run its course. Satan & Co. get to discipline negative volition. They love seducing God's people into being negative for that reason, and they love abandoning anyone they seduce. So unbelievers are seduced into attacking believers (here, Samaria), and then they are abandoned: we are all just pawns to be used! God lets them do this, so God Takes Responsibility for it. True Love never coerces, and never shrinks from the harsh measure.

Notice how there's nothing there about losing salvation. It's the post-salvation blessing of Priest Nation, Contingent on the Law of Learning being Fulfilled, that they lose. Notice also how the entire Book of Hosea is crafted in marital-relations terms (Hosea calls it a divorce case in Hebrew of Hosea 6:7): First Commandment. A command to learn Love. They rejected it, instead wearing themselves out with Baals of this world (Hebrew sound-plays on that, but KJV renders it "destroyed", so you can't see that meaning in English). Adultery. Cause for breach of contract. A Contract to Learn something. Not works. Hosea really did marry Gomer (and he loved her utterly); and she really was graphically unfaithful to him, though becoming faithful, in the end. Imagine how much grown up in Love Hosea must have been, that he would endure so much infidelity, and even make it public in order to get the Word out! Since the written form of this message came after the time of his ministry (which is the norm, since you only need a written record if it's to be a timeless thing), imagine how grateful both Hosea and Gomer were that they could tell this story to all generations. Awesome love for God, here.

Hence, when Messiah actually came, He frequently Invoked Contract Terms, to show them they were Abrogating the Relationship. Hebrew "shemah" means hear-and-believe, with "obey" being the result of believe. In Greek, the term which best represents "shemah" is "ὑπακούω", and unfortunately it's translated "obey", so you miss the standing-under-hearing significance of the word's etymology, which is being used in wordplay on "shemah", everywhere you find it in the New Testament. If you read the Gospels even in translation with this idea in mind, they should make a lot more sense: Matthew is the earliest Gospel, written down finally around 50 AD (when people needed it, due to the large audience and conflicting tales told); Mark was composed just before the Temple was destroyed, with the imminency — Greek keyword "εὐθύς", usually translated "immediately" — of that prophecy being fulfilled as the rhetorical underpinning of the Gospel's style; Luke was written between Matthew and Mark; John was written about 90-95 AD, with the Post-Temple spiritual life as its rhetorical underpinning. Because, Church was going the same way Israel had, so by using the Gospel rolled out in stages, we all could look in the Mirror of Now.

So let's look in the mirror, by looking at their past when He was here: the following if-thens applied to "Israel" at that time (His "visitation", in English Gospels — the term really means the Official Visit Of The Sovereign, and should be translated that way).


So Israel's Signing/ 'Voting Yes' meant that enough in Israel were
a) believers, and
b) Loved The Groom Enough To Want His Rule.

Israel was Offered Brideship In Addition To Her Other Covenants, but that Covenant was incomplete, because the Groom would have to
a) Voluntarily Offer it, and
b) fulfill the Groom conditions Himself. Else, He couldn't provide for the Betrothed's well-being, and the "Father" would never grant a marriage.

So now let's match up both a)'s and b)'s to see what would have completed this contract. If Israel had also accepted Christ contingent upon His Fulfilling His Own "b)", then Israel's Acceptance Would Have Been Valid Once Christ's Own Fulfillment Became Valid.

So notice the derivation of Part 3's Corollaries from His Completion at the Cross, our Macro Issue. God's Royal Accounting Standards are for a) Assets due to the Alpha Precedence of Our Lord; and b), Balancing to/ for the Body Who Gets the Assets, Christ.


This Royal Asset Accounting and Balancing shows why the Second Advent had a specific, prophetic, sequence. For, the Second Advent was always Contingent upon the fulfillment of the First. Which, as we see, had Two Signatory Parties: Christ, and Israel. So when Messiah came, and explained His Rulership role, the question was, would enough among the people Israel respond to Him and thus become Bride? Bible prophecies are always in two categories: a) kickoff, which is always "imminent", and b) child, which is due to the kickoff occurring, and hence always dateable. Note that the a) and b)'s of the table above, reflect the dual nature of God's Prophecy Design. (Everything is always a pairing with God, because He is Infinite, therefore Full-Spectrum Balance, and Christ is God-Man.) So if the a)'s got fulfilled, then the b)'s could be dated. Which, as we learned from the history, they were: by Matthew 16:18, Vashti had refused. So, b)'s date began the rest of His Ministry (hence the shift of vocabulary in Matthew, to Bridal). So, His Own Days were numbered (though we couldn't know how long) — to the point of the Cross. And, He died right on time, having been (uncrowned) King as long as David was King over united Israel, 33 years. And, so the Temple was destroyed right on time (516 - 483 - 70 - 33 = 70 AD), having lasted exactly 586 years, the same number as the date the First Temple, was razed by Nebuchadnezzar. God keeps His appointments!

So notice how those a)'s and b)'s being completed, give rise to our a) and b), which is the Same as (Precedence, again) Israel's was: a) believers-only are in the count, and b) enough believers have to love the Groom. But, because He completed His a) and b), our b) changes to Ephesians 3:15-19, "to come to know the Love for Christ" (ingressive aorist, there, my pastor reminds us every pass), which then justifies "that you may be filled with πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ Θεοῦ". Pleroma. Higher than Israel's standard, because the blessing got rerouted from Israel, to Church.

Okay, now pretend you're Satan. Pretend further it's circa 27 AD, and you've just left the Lord, having given your greatest genius temptations possible, temptations no one should have been able to resist, in (what we know as) Matthew 4; but He does resist them! So: now what do you do?

Aha! Two Parties Must Sign. If party of the second part, Israel, does not sign, then it's a mistrial! For this Trial is all about, divorce! If Israel Rejects Her Husband, Divorce occurs! So how can Elohim Justify sending me and my demons to the Lake of Fire for Divorcing? Either Elohim must Divorce Israel in 'reply', and thus it's a Mistrial! Either way, I win! For, if God is so wonderful as He says, then creation should want Him.

And no one got a better 'deal' from God, than Israel. But as history had proved, Israel didn't want God, they wanted goodies. Saul replaced God as King of Israel, and it went downhill from there, saving a few bright lights like David, Hezekiah (greatest of the kings). So if Israel Rejects the Groom, then the Best-Blessed vote "no", and I win! thinks Satan. Which helps balm his sore ego, considering how he was just defeated by the Lord's starving Humanity. Oh, yeah. Isha was the weaker one, in the Garden. So this Betrothed has always been the weaker one. Ahhh.

Okay: now the plot thickens considerably. Here we gotta weave in the Prophecy For The Gentiles. This prophecy is liberally sprinkled in the Old Testament, hundreds of verses in 'size'. For, the eschatological promise was, Israel Was To Be A Priest Nation 'client' of God, charged with the duty of evangelizing the world. That, to fulfill the promise to Abraham of "many nations". (Paul talks about this passim in Romans 4-9, Ephesians 2-3, etc. to explain how it is he came to be an apostle to the Gentiles. Peter talks about it in Acts 2, and 1 Peter 2.) So, all of the Gentile nations were supposed to be Blessed Through Israel. So, had enough of Israel accepted Messiah when He came, Israel would be bride; and the prophecy was, the Gentiles would benefit Due To Israel. Isaiah talks about this a lot, as I recall, but each prophet does. Paul loves talking about this topic in each of his letters; it's worth tracing.

Note the fine print: Gentiles benefit through Israel. Doesn't mean the only way they benefit is if Israel becomes a Bride. It Can Work, Vice Versa. Peter stresses that fact via his Old Testasment quotes in 1 Peter 2 (showing the precedence and rerouting, thereby). Lawyers, sheesh. God, the smartest of the smart, sure knows how to craft a loophole. Like how creation can continue after the Fall of Adam, for example. Like salvation, for example. Like delivery of the woman through delivery, for example, one of the funniest verses in the New Testament (1 Timothy 2:15, especially in context, playing on Genesis 3:15ff). It's not a slur on womanhood, okay? Greek "σῴζω" means to Rescue, Deliver, first. We call it "save", for that's the result of delivery, but there's no result, without rescue. Great pun! Rest of verse is poorly translated. My pastor spent time on exegesis, stressing that verse asserts her spiritual equality; not, lower status. Spiritual equality doesn't mean equality in human endeavor. So this isn't a license to disobey the husband, become a pastor yourself, etc. ad nauseam. Sheesh. We can spend time on God, and can ignore all that irrelevant sex-rights garbage, yet another of Satan's clever distraction toys!

Note How That Red Clause Can Work Both Ways: Gentiles Saving Jews, Or Vice Versa. Like how that red clause, whichever direction it goes, ends up 'delivering', 'sewing up', all the human race. What a Sense of Humor! Then again, He is the God Who chose to Covenant via a phallus (with Abram)! And how appropriate, since through that phallus, God chose to Beget the entire saved human race! Abram Was Not A Jew, until circumcised (Romans 4). So not-My-people can rescue My-people, too (see Hosea)! Kill me now: was there ever a God like ours, even if we pretended there could be one? Oh! Oh! Oh! Out-lawyering Satan, the smartest creature ever made by the Son! ("Satan" means "opposing attorney" in a court case, remember.)

Israel didn't do its evangelization job very well. So, was sent out ("diaspora") several times in its history. Even so, the world wasn't exactly receptive. So, the world kept on declining with each 'advance'; man could rely more and more on himself; he was getting pretty tired of needing some god's help, and especially tired of these three-continent, land bridge, merchant-trading "Jews" who kept on telling everyone only their "Adonai" was the Real God, the Promise of Whom was to take on Humanity and conquer the world! Yeah, right. Octavian already did that: became the Divine Augustus, even. Was deified not too long ago, when his wife Livia poisoned him-to-death with his favorite figs. Been there, done that. Sheesh: why does everyone want to be a Caesar?

So, the prophecy of the Birth was the prophecy of how the Gentiles were going to share with Israel, too. So when the world (not merely Israel) was so far gone in self-absorption it couldn't go on any longer, the far-fulfillment of Isaiah 7 occurred; behold, a virgin shall conceive! Everyone knew this was the kickoff for the "times of the Gentiles" prophecy; for, just after Messiah finished cutting the New Covenant (wordplay on brith, in Daniel 9:26), then the Final Phase of History would begin, culminating in His dramatic Rescue of Israel at the end of the "times", at the end of the Tribulation's second "half" of those "times" (Daniel 12; aka time of Jacob's trouble, in Jeremiah 30:7). Even in translation, you can tell this meaning. Second Advent follows immediately, as the rest of Jeremiah 30 and succeeding chapters, show.

All over the world, people had a pretty clear idea that Messiah ought to be coming soon, by 6 BC. End-of-the-world prophecies tend to get more hearers. So, many false messiahs had come and gone, already: in fact, the 200 years preceding His birth were largely dominated by the Maccabeans, who had themselves arrogated to themselves a messiahship role (which is why the Herodians aligned with them, though previously conquered by the Maccabeans and not liking it). Hence the True Royal Family of David, had to lie low. The Qumran people, too, were weirdly watchful: they decided to go off into the wilderness early, so in case Messiah came and was executed, they'd be safely away from the Tribulation events they expected to occur in Jerusalem. They had an almost perfectly preserved Isaiah scroll, and Isaiah is premier among the Messianic prophets.

Looking at Daniel 9, one could well estimate His Birth; it revealed that hey — in Daniel 9:25-26, Messiah would come at the end of the 69 "sevens" following the Decree to Rebuild Jerusalem (which one could also construe as beginning with the decree to rebuild the Temple); plus, the 70 missed sabbatical years, not stated there in Daniel, but in Jeremiah (see Daniel 9:2). For, the Jews, like most folks in the world, measured time by the number years after some ruler or benchmark began: number of years since Abraham, number of years since Moses, number of years since Temple, etc. So from 6 BC onward, everyone started looking for Him.

Moreover, David's line length was to be mirrored by the New Covenant Millennium, the idea being that "restore Israel" meant to Make Good On Losses. Mosaic Law was all about, restitution. The reason for the punishments was to motivate Israel to be restored; at which point, whatever Time was lost, was also restored. That's why the "weeks" calculation in Daniel, is used: its 490-year setup ties severally to various benchmarks to Restore The Time for each of them: you can see Paul apply it to a kingship benchmark (Israel's rejection of God as King), in Acts 13. Hence the Savior, the Redeemer, redeems time. (Church is supposed to redeem time, too — Ephesians 5:16, Colossians 4:5 are but two of many such passages on our like-Him role, and of course are usually mistranslated so you don't see the Bible keyword, Redeem/Ransom.) But Savior also comes to redeem the Gentiles ("light of the Gentiles" and related Old Testament passages). So the Gentiles had a vested interest in knowing this prophecy, too. Nerd note: "the nations" (τὰ ἔθνη) means the Gentiles, in Bible. Gentiles is a better idiomatic translation, because the term means all non-Israel.

So by 3 BC, David's reigning lineage was 1000 years old (David became king of all Israel, in 1003 BC). So Messiah had to come soon, to Restore the Line and thus pave the way for the Millennium which would Restore to Israel, Her Lost Years. In fact, that's the Year He was actually born. So He is born of Water and Spirit (1 John 5:8), from birth: Luke 1:35 and Hebrews 10:5, "A Body You prepared for Me", fulfilling also Psalm 40:5ff. By this, the Jews were to know that an Ending of Israel's "time" (Age, in our parlance) was at hand, because the Birth of Messiah was a sign of impending Judgment: i.e., if they accepted Messiah, His (yet-unknown-how) Isaiah 53 Payment for sins, Resurrection, Ascension, would follow. Then, the "times of the Gentiles", which included the Tribulation. Hence, Luke 2. Shepherds who were charged with keeping the sacrificial sheep, forbidden from entering the Temple by the Levitical priests for this very reason — these outcast shepherds got to see the angels passing in review on the way to the feeding trough ("manger", to you), to see the Baby wrapped in corpse bandages ("swaddling" for burying a corpse in a tomb). Because, He came to die. So, the shepherds came to see their Lamb.

So when these shepherds got to see the angels passing in review above them, they spread the news far and wide. Which is why Herod knew about it, and why so many innocent male babes, died. Then, for the next 30 years, no one hears a thing about Him, which gives the message time to reach all the Gentiles, too (along the trade routes), so they can come to Jerusalem. Of course, faith was sorely tested. Readied, really — for when you see prophecy fulfilled, your brain reacts with disbelief, and you need to fight that disbelief with belief in what Bible says, to next have the strength to see prophecy fulfilled with your human eyes and brain. Proof: our current blindness despite the Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall depicting Scripture fulfilled (Matthew 24, Daniel 9:26, all like passages — hundreds of them). Every hour, every day. So people either believed and moved toward Jerusalem, or they made up some goofy substitute idea, and picked that to believe. For a shocked brain cannot stay neutral.

Gratuitous, Irrelevant Sidebar on Shroud of Turin: it's a classic example of how a shocked brain picks something goofy, to substitute for examination of truth. First, Christ didn't have long hair — see how Paul excoriates men having long hair in Corinthians. Second, He was only 33 years old when He died, and He died at the peak of health — aside from the fact that He was beaten up beyond recognition, per Isaiah 53. So He wouldn't be emaciated like the Shroud image. Worse: you wrapped a dead body like a mummy, with strips of cloth wound around each part of the body. It's a practice done on dead people and babies from Latin America to China, very well known in anthropology. So, then: the "Shroud" should have also left imprints of these strips being wound around the limbs, etc. Which, it doesn't. Of course, there should be no imprint of body or strips on the "Shroud", since He was only in the tomb for three days, dummy! Body doesn't have enough time to decompose and leave a mark: and the body was wrapped with those strips (though apparently the women didn't know) by Joseph of Arimathea (Luke 23:53, Mark 15:46, Matthew 27:59-60 are summary statements — but He was wrapped in strips, "ὀθόνια", John 20:6). But after a longer period the body would start to swell and burst from the internal gases breaking down; so if there were to be any mark on a shroud, it wouldn't look human. Worse: millions of hapless Christians read the translation and think there was a shroud only, when it's the shroud which is missing (Peter saw the strips). Worst of all: people want God to leave a fully-naked picture of His Son's Body on a cloth, when instead God spent over 1500 years leaving a Full 'Naked Picture' Of The 'Body' Of His Thinking, Bible! Sheesh. So either the Shroud is a very extreme hoax, or it's someone who is clearly not Christ; even if the Shroud's textiles match that 1st-century face cloth (including blood type) relic in that Spanish church. Maybe a sudden burial of a criminal (who wouldn't get such burial care), since no strips. Sheesh: all these years people have maybe been pouring over some murderer's shroud, when they could have spent their time learning the Bible, His Living Body's Thinking! How embarrassing for them. Even worse, Donald Trump sympathizers like Dr. John Campbell who presented disinformation on COVID and vaccinations, 'suddenly' got the idea to pivot and create a video claiming the shroud was real, in 2024. So there's a strong synergistic connection to Christian apostates (Revelation 17) who shill both Donald Trump and the Shroud of Turin. Notice Dr. John Campbell never once reads the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew, and instead obsesses over goodies and magic tricks.

So, John 1: He grew by agency of the Spirit and by means of the Truth. So, at the then-traditional Jewish age of maturity for marriage (age 30), Jesus began his Official Offering to Israel; that's why there were Gentiles at the time to hear and respond. Kinda like the Exodus generation, many Gentiles were among those who believed in Him. That's why also He could make the offer in Matthew 16:18, when Israel played Vashti. For, there would also have to be Enough Gentiles accepting, for Him to even make the offer. That's why He travelled so much. Understand that it was to Israel that He came. Understand that this is why. A whole lot of Gospel verses will suddenly make sense if you can distinguish between the Offering-of-Contract to Israel, versus the Church prediction, and the other topics He covers. My pastor repeatedly stressed that the believer cannot properly comprehend the Gospels, if he doesn't know how to differentiate between what is and is not, Israel's.

Poignant, then, is the resulting story. Not only were there so few in Israel believing in Him that the Gentiles couldn't make up for the dearth of Jewish believers; there were in aggregate way too few among both groups, who wanted Him to be Messiah. On the other hand, large numbers wanted Him to be a political ruler. So, then: there were, however, between both groups, enough believers to justify making a Replacement Offer, Matthew 16:18 — to Fulfill the Prophecies about the Gentiles. Which is why, inter alia, He made such a stink about the centurion's faith to the Jews, to Show Them How They Had Played Vashti, Matthew 8:5ff, 27:54ff (showing that the example meaning was tracked), Luke 7:3ff, Luke 23:47 (parallel tracking). See? Without those Gentiles being there, the counteroffer couldn't have been made. God orchestrates events without gerrymandering, and yet keeps those appointments. Even if we are always late. When Bible tracks an episode, it makes a stressed/key-principle example of it. So we know there were many Gentiles who believed, this centurion being a representative of the group.

Thus we have a Trial Legal issue, the "corridor/boundary of consent":

Oh, there were plenty of folk, for that message to be spread. But, not enough to love Him enough to vote for the Second Advent, which would only occur amidst Tribulation (ending it, actually). There were enough to spread the Word to the Gentiles, for example, such that it would fulfill the prophecy to the Gentiles, to make the offer when He did. Else there couldn't have been a Paul (wouldn't need a Paul, if insufficient interest). So by the Gentiles being sufficient even when Israel was not, the Precedence and Consistency was met with respect to fulfilling the promise to the Gentiles. Which, after all, was the next slot in God's timeline, too.

So you'll see the Gospels shift into a bifurcated, due diligence disclosure: first, here's the "X" offer; if you refuse it, "W" will happen, and the "Wife" will be these Gentiles, not Israel, If You Reject Messiah Now. The tribulation timeline cannot be avoided by rejecting Messiah; and rejecting Messiah means the goyim get to have the honor of Brideship, not the sons of Abraham. It was an upsetting choice: understand that the Jew correctly knows he's superior, so to have to be subject to goyim! Yet they didn't want their own Brideship. So they are choosing with full knowledge and consent, an informed decision. They wanted another Saul; their idea of Messiah was political, only. He wasn't offering what they wanted. He had a Better Offer, but it would hurt. They had three years to consider their alternatives, and refuse His offer.

Messiah, of course, was not there to solve the problems of the world (Third Temptation), so was not there to become a King of the World (as He'd explained to Pilate) — so if you're voting Messiah, you're voting for the rest of prophecy to be fulfilled, God's way. But they wanted a political leader, not the Father's Son. So became Vashti, which led to the finding of Esther.

Again, if a Gentile believed in Adonai during the "time" of the Jews, he thus became Jewish, just as maybe two thirds of that going-out population in 1440 BC (Exodus), was Gentile ("mixed multitudes" in English Bibles). Moses' second wife, was Ethiopian, remember (which upset Miriam so much, she became leprous with jealousy, and then God made her leprous on the outside, to match). For the children of the Promise, though by blood a supernaturally-created race due to Abraham's faith via Isaac, still had to Elect All That Went With The Promise. Which meant, tribulation. Again, Isaiah 53's contract To And For Christ, applies to all of us. He had a Cross to accept, and then He'd become King-Priest. We have the same terms paradigmally; Israel had the same terms paradigmally, which is why Isaiah 53 reads as it does (using the sameness-of-contract terms as its jumping-off point in Isaiah 52:13). If you believe in Christ, you inherit all He is and has: starting with, His Own Contract, For Better or For Worse. Fourth Reason for Royalty covers this 'cross' meaning, and it applies to all believers. You will suffer, one way or the other. Question is, will you Suffer and Grow in it, or shrivel? Again, precedence is Christ, and that's the real reason why Israel still suffers. She is bound forever, and isn't turning to be healed. But even if she does, Tribulation is all the promised time that's left for her to corporately go through (but as a people, since the National Contract is abrogated).

So, now, with the "W" counteroffer replacing the "X" offer, any Jew who believed in Christ, would become Part of that Replacement Promise, too. Because, it's the Promise, which matters (refer to: Romans 4, Romans 9, Romans 11, Romans 11).

Repeating, Note the Fine Print: Gentiles benefit through Israel. Doesn't mean the only way they benefit is if Israel becomes a Bride. It can work, Vice Versa. Peter stresses that fact via his Old Testament quotes in 1 Peter 2 (showing the precedence and rerouting, thereby). Lawyers, sheesh. God, the smartest of the smart, sure knows how to craft a loophole. Here you see Him use it. Reversing, we still go through Israel, since Christ has Completed. So, now Israel who abrogated, can still get in, through being part of Church. They get a Better Replacement Contract, too, if they do (threaded theme in Book of Hebrews). Only God is this smart. Only God is this Loving. Shemah, shenayim! Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad-united!

Messiah is the Heart of the Promise, "X" or "W" version. Because, all covenants go through Him as Seed (Galatians 3). So, again: Precedence and thus Consistency of Justice, are met.

So too, since "W" replaces "X", then a re-routing occurs, which means the "W" promise will be much harder to live with than "X" would have been. It's a post-Cross promise, that the "W" precedence and terms, are those of the Completed Groom — no longer, the more childlike covenant which was Israel's, had she elected to become Bride. Which is why Church is a New Covenant to implement the New Covenant to Israel, under the "Footstool" banner (main theme in Book of Hebrews).

Father is making the enemies a Footstool for His Feet, which terminates with Rapture, and then terminates with Tribulation (main theme of Revelation). So a New Covenant replacing, means a New Law, "the law of Christ", the "royal law", the "law of Grace", to name but a few of the New Terms of the New Covenant we get. Hence the New Testament, ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη (Bible term). But based on and Rescuing, the obsoleted one (main subtheme of Book of Hebrews). So the New Church Covenant is a Royal Upgrade, because He defeated Satan in the Trial, strategically (Hebrews 2, Hebrews 10, Hebrews 11); so it's Royally Harder. And any Jew who believes in Christ during Church's "Age" (another Bible term, usually mistranslated), gets the Same Contract (main theme of Galatians). Just as, in the past, any goyim who believed in Adonai became thus Jewish. Precedence was Abram. And Abraham still is the Precedence. And before him, all those others in the Bible roster of heroes in Genesis 11 and Genesis 5. Consistent Justice, in Royal Upgrade: the Ultimate Son of Sons, the Christ, unites both 'walls' of Jews and Church, via the same 'throughput' mechanism. We got in by faith in Him Old Testament-Style, so they get in by faith in Him New Testament-Style. Salvation always comes through the Jews, whether they are in Abrogated Status, or not. God Keeps His Promises.

Of course, Brideship is harder to have, because intimacy with the God-Man Seated and Ruling, requires a higher spiritual life, which is why Christ's was the toughest — ergo that long-ago promise if Brideship was elected, that the Word would be Written on their minds and hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34, explained in Hebrews 8:8 through Hebrews 10:17). So again, Consistency: what Israel's contract would have shifted to, had she elected the "X" Brideship offer, would have been harder. But since she did not, the "W" offer would have the same attributes as if had she accepted — plus Much Harder ones, because she didn't; because, as a result of her refusal, a rerouting must occur.

Consistency: the Law is altogether about restitution, redemption, restoration. And now due to "W", the Cost of Restoration makes the Entire Cost, higher. In fact, the cost was the sins of the human race; but the cost is, His Own Nature, Now. For obviously to go from poo to Royal Bride is far more expensive, than to merely restore the sinless status Adam had in the Garden; far more, to go to the goyim, than go to Israel already familiar with the Law. So the Yield On those Added Costs, the Profit on them, must Now be way higher, still. So, "to whom much is given, much is expected", and the "W" offer therefore requires "much" be much more. Christ is plainly telling them all these facts, via His explanations and parables — so they can make an informed choice.

That "W" offer is a choice every believer faces. We don't have an "X" offer to refuse, since only the "W" offer is open, now. And, 99.9% of us, historically speaking, don't even choose to believe in Him for salvation and thus get into the "W"; much less, to elect the "W", once we are believers and thus Body. So, there's a time-bubble quality to our lives: as if the First Advent, hadn't ended. For the issues facing us, are paradigmally the same, as faced the world while He was down here. Stepped up, though, to the "W" level. Will we choose the "tribulation" of learning His Thinking, even as He had to become the Truth, to go through that Maximum Tribulation, the Cross? Will we take up our own crosses, rather than drool after the political and other nonsense which characterizes "earthly things"? Our choice, Romans 8, every day.

In sum, during the First Advent, Christ offers the "X" Divine Benefit Plan contract, Messiah's offer to 'marry' Israel; but not enough in Israel, though believers, agreed. So, Israel's "b)", was finally, No! We want Barabbas! (Matthew 27.) So Israel's Consent to Brideship Never Became Valid. But He completed the Groom Conditions of that Divine Benefit Plan of Isaiah 53:10-11, so the Contract for a Bride was still validly offerable. So the Divine Benefit Plan Reroutes, Changes to "W". So Matthew 16:18, Groom extends the "W" contract offer, and Groom Completes His a) and b). He thought on Cross, therefore we Church, exist!

The offer to Israel was removed when Christ, while still here, said to Peter the famous "On this Rock I will build My Church." Principle: the Ruler Gets To Call The Shots. If you reject intimacy with Him, He 'rejects' intimacy with you. That's why 1 John 1:9 (Psalm 32:5, Psalm 66:18) is so important. God doesn't coerce. If a person Rejects Him, He allows it. So, Christ acknowledged Father's Choice from Eternity Past, and therefore Requested 'Church' be as Father Decided, in John 17. Absent His Choice, you and I wouldn't be breathing to make any choices.


The Bridal Contract for Church, in Brief

We are Church, Body of Christ, Bride: these terms reflect the Contract Conditions And Delivery. But, The Precedence Changes. Christ Fulfilled His Conditions. By crafting a New Spiritual Life. So, no longer can the conditions for Brideship be the same as Israel's was, based on the Old Testament system of spirituality; but rather, it must be based on the Groom's Completion. For, Prior to "Church", The Groom Completed His Own Seed Contract, Isaiah 53:10-11.

So our Standards for "Completion" are Like His. Scripture on this fact is all over the place; every time I look at Bible, I find another passage stressing this "Like His Life" Mandate, for Church. My pastor has taught it for years. Today (1/21/2004), when listening to a lesson of his and examining the Greek to understand him better, I stumbled onto 1 John 2. 1 John stresses this theme over and over, even in translation. So does every New Testament epistle. We all know we are supposed to be 'Christlike', but how often do we check what Scripture says that means? Well, it means fully like, not just a little bit, Ephesians 4:13. Yikes! No wonder we need the Power Of The Spirit 24/7!

Nonetheless, we see Consistency. For, the Groom fashioned From The Law, His Unique Spiritual Life. The Four paired Reasons explained how this Uniqueness passes on to us. Thus, the Mosaic Law, being fulfilled, expanded exponentially, to Full Intimacy In And With Father — which, Israel did not have, as their spiritual life was focused on Son's Deity. For, the Promise to them was, Son would become Messiah: depicted by that Ark in the Holy of Holies. Depicted by the Rock (πέτρα, big keyword in LXX) which the Ark sat on. But in our case, like Hebrews 5-10 painstakingly explains, We have a Different Priesthood Because Our High Priest Has A New Priesthood. to Father. So everything must change. No precedence from the Mosaic Law, anymore. Here, "rightly dividing the Word of Truth" (KJV phrase in Timothy) is vital. For, again — if you don't distinguish between form and substance in deciphering "Precedence", you'll mess up understanding what Bible says Changed, for Church.

The terms of our Precedence in Him reverse nearly every characteristic of the OT system. The basic reason for the reversal is that the Old Testament folks looked forward to the Incarnation. But we are Post-Session. They looked forward to His coming Down. We look up, because He Rose. That's why, as noted in the "Third Reason for Invisibility", the New Testament writing style is abstract, math-like. It's aerial, see: not like the earthy, concrete, child's (compared to us) spiritual life of the Old Testament with its paint-by-numbers rules. Here is an incomplete synopsis of the differences. A proper listing would have to be very long, over a hundred items.

Whereas, (Legal word introducing precedence or basis for a contract or Corporate Resolution, in us.)

  1. Their entire relationship with God was a besidedness (Old Testament Bible key term "with God", "God with us"), ours is a full-blown insidedness ("in Christ", "in Him" New Testament key terms).

Christ rendered Himself Qorban (wholly dedicated to God). No one in the Old Testament could do that. Hence all the many Levitical offering rules allowing Qorban (something you dedicate to God) and freewill offerings. There were specific parameters as to what was allowed to be Qorban, and what wasn't allowed. So in the Old Testament, much of your life couldn't be dedicated to God, however much you'd want it to be. Most, of course, didn't want to dedicate anything, and in their minds obeyed to get something from God. But many wanted to have some kind of reciprocation expression, and the Law made provisions for it. A thing dedicated to God thus immediately became holy, set apart to God. It thereafter had no other purpose. Hence you have redemption rules such as those in Leviticus 23, providing for what you could do if you changed your mind.

Since the Messiah is Qorban Himself, the Law is essentially upgraded in Him. So now we Church, are entirely Qorban, no matter what we do. Of course, Qorban is, as in the past, a voluntary thing. But the human race was dedicated by Christ; it's up to each individual, to agree with His Decision. The level of decision we can get post-Cross is 100%, because by paying for us, He owns us as "plunder" (Isaiah 53:12). Of course, if we reject this role we will be devoted to destruction (another Old Testament concept); of course, in that process we can change our minds ("repent", real meaning of Greek word μετανοέω), and instead become devoted to God.

So all the Church provisions below, and many more not yet listed, are to reflect the essential Upgrading from a partial dedication to God, to a Whole One. All of the New Testament is about this changeover; it was what Israel was Training to Learn — to go from partial to whole, but knowing that until Messiah came, there was no mechanism to make that transition (see Hebrews 4, Hebrews 5-10 — whole book is on that topic). Again, since Israel rejected it, they were cut out; but Messiah had Completed the Purpose of the Law, Fulfilling it, so the Law now Upgrades — in Him. Blue text below shows the pre-upgrade structure, and purple (made purple by His Thinking 'blood' circulating on the Cross, Isaiah 53:10-11), is for Church.

Because for Church, Israel can be grafted back in, Romans 11. Because for Church, and since Church only gets to be Church because there was (and is) an Israel, Church is given the job of rescuing Israel, including, the time for her. So by no means does God renege on His Promises to Israel. Rather, just as He always does when He changes a covenant, He Reroutes the Blessing, and that means the Divine Benefit Plan Vastly Upgrades. For, everything is Now Qorban, and God should get His Value Desired from it. Which value, as you saw in Isaiah 53:12, is given to Christ, and apportioned. What an awesome salvation we have!

I hope it's dawning on you now, that when you brush your teeth, when you stumble on the sidewalk, when you pee, when you do something you consider noble. It's all holy, now! Israel couldn't get that, then. But Now any Jew can get it by 'obeying' like Abram did, John 3:16 (Genesis 15:6). And those who do, are Church, see Galatians 3-5. Upgraded, fulfilled Law. For until a thing is fulfilled, it cannot be upgraded, theme of Book of Hebrews. So it is upgraded, now. In Him.

  1. They were a polity; we are individuals from among many nations.
  1. They were always the same polity (meaning, even if split, still Israel); Church's blessing-by-association occurs relative to the number of Growing Believers in any nation.
  1. They were supposed to combine Church and State: well, there were Three Separations even in the Law; We Are Not Of This World (1 John 3-4, subtheme), but are individually Evidence of Christ (1 John 4:12-17, Greek).
  1. They had a physically-derived limited (Levitical) priesthood; but we have a spiritually-derived universal and royal priesthood (New Precedence, kata Melchizedek, theme of Hebrews 5-10 + 2 Corinthians 5, etc).
  1. They had prophecy to benchmark the future; we have no added prophecy, but 'borrow' from theirs (more follows, below).
  1. They had concrete ritual, from which to learn doctrinal principles; we have abstract (math-like) doctrinal principles, "the thinking of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16), and craft everything from Him.
  1. They had visible manifestations of God; We have the Word, Completed Canon in writing. Ergo, an Invisible Spiritual Life: Bringing every thought into captivity, 2 Corinthians 10:5. No one in the Old Testament had that criterion. Beware, Christian, of not living on His Word! Matthew 4:4! ("Christ" is used also as a moniker for the Body Of His Thinking in the believer, in the New Testament. Examples: "Christ formed (really, just-birthed) in you", in Galatians; "Christ at home in your hearts", Ephesians 3:17; "Christ in you, the confidence (literally, ἐλπίς, confident expectation, wordplay on Plato's Philebus) of glory (ties to Ephesians 3:21 and John's σκηνόω, Shekinah Glory, and 1 Corinthians 6, Indwelling)", etc.
  1. They had Limited Intimacy with God; we have Full Marital Intimacy in God. All those "in Christ", "Christ in you", "in Him", etc. verses are quick ways to see this in-ness. It's real important to note this difference: it's a martial oneness we get. John 17 prayer that we be one with God, as Christ Himself (as God, and post-Cross, as Human) Became One with Father. It's a huge difference. For example, they weren't Indwelt, and they didn't have the Filling of the Spirit (John 3:34, John 7:39), but we do (John 4:23-24, John 14:17, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:13, etc).

Part 3's Reasons covered the vast differential in some detail, especially Third and Fourth paired Reasons. This difference will be keenly felt at the Bema. Our need to be close is not like any other group of folks, because we are made to fit Him. So to not have "endured to the end", learning Him (can't lose salvation), is really a tragedy beyond description. To me, hell looks far better! There is no suffering in heaven, but the Limitation on seeing Him will be a constant source of yearning. A basis for happiness, yes; but you don't have to be limited! That's why this warning about the Rapture is so important, for it can happen right now, no one knows when. So Learn Him, while you still have a 'today' (Hebrews 4).

  1. They had "Friend of God" as the highest threshold of spiritual attainment (AKA Jeshurun, though the latter is also a class); we get "Pleroma" (Ephesians 3:19, max fullness — has pregnancy connotation, which also indicates invisibility).
  1. They had the limited standard of faith; we have Full Adult Love: His Thinking In Writing In Our Hearts. This is a hard doctrine for many to comprehend. It's another case of asking the wrong questions, and then getting the wrong answers out of the Right Bible. We Christians ask the wrong questions about the Rapture: when, not why. We ask the wrong questions of Genesis: how the universe, not why man (despite the clear meaning of the very Word "Genesis", the origin of man). We also ask the wrong questions about Acts and the temporary spiritual gifts: what were they, instead of why were they there. Paul answers why they were there, in 1 Corinthians 13: to act as stand-ins, until the "Head" is in writing. So, no one "gets" that message, and instead everyone runs around imagining himself to have the gift of tongues, healing, whatever.

I didn't get it either, though I knew from common sense that God wouldn't write a Book if tongues, etc. were His system of communication. So I wanted the Book, not the feely stuff. So, I got a pastor who knew the Book within about two weeks of that realization; yet, not until hearing my pastor exegete 1 Corinthians 13 in lessons 1660ff of 92SD, did I understand how to document from Bible, what common sense long validated. When hearing 1 Corinthians 12:31 about a bazillion times, I realized Paul was using ὁδὸν and ὑπερβολὴν in wordplay to signify Head. See a parallel usage in Ephesians 2:7 via ὑπερβάλλον, especially in context of Ephesians 1. Of course, only in Greek can you tell that Paul uses 1 Corinthians 12:31 to point forward, so that the "better gifts" are what he's about to say, not what he had already said.

Then also, in BibleWorks, I could see how 1 Corinthians 13's Greek anaphoric style shows Canon ("Head") completing (1 Corinthians 9-13), playing on both Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Head-and-Body analogy, since 1 Corinthians 2. You might try doing that yourself, if this usage of 1 Corinthians 13 seems odd to you. Also note all "Love" metaphors in Paul's letters, like Romans 5:5, plus the verbs he uses with the metaphor. For example, in Romans 5:5 we know it's the Word he means (just as in 1 Corinthians 13), because "poured" is water; because, the Holy Spirit does it; because, it goes in our "hearts" (cycling-of-believed-Word-portion of soul, everywhere in Bible). Clear statement that Love is produced by Word being in us, there. See also 1 John 2. Well, to be Real Honest, there's a whole lotta stuff I didn't see before writing this to Audit the Truth. Unlike most people, I have less than no excuse, because I had a pastor teaching from the original languages of Bible, day in and day out for decades. Gotta turn over what you are learning, or you may as well shoot yourself!

  1. They were "Family of God"; we are "Royal Family of God". (In quotes, because these are my pastor's terms. Bible has different ways of stating these titles.)
  1. They were physically-prosperous; we are spiritually prosperous.
  1. They were a physical bloodline Founded on Faith (See Romans 4 and Romans 9); ours is a New-Precedence, "new-in-kind spiritual species" (2 Corinthians 5:17's Greek = καινὴ κτίσις), and obviously still founded on Faith (John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Acts 4:12).
  1. They had Prophecy; we Determine History.
  1. They will be the client nation of the Millennium ("Footstool" in Bible); only a very few of us will rule the Gentile nations as 'wife' to the Head of Israel, Our Husband, the Lord Jesus Christ. He, of course, is the Head of the World, too.

And on and on. The only commonality with the Old Testament system of spirituality is that faith in Christ, and continuing Learning of the Word, remain fundamental. But even then, their highest level of growth is but our spiritual childhood: the faith-system is exponentially enlarged, due to love being Seated (main theme of 1 Corinthians 13). A central teaching of my pastor's. I'm not phrasing its nature as well as he does, because he uses specialized vocabulary. So our Word/Scripture/His Mind is exponentially enlarged, too. Learning it is intense, and takes a lifetime; no kindergarten, soundbyte, homily system. Of course, the commonalities of faith in Him and learning whatever-was-then-Word, remain true in all Covenants of Association in history. Check it out yourself. (Why is Old Testament faith system childish, by comparison? Because the Christ had an adult spiritual life. My pastor has long taught that fact, but you can see it in Bible, too, but you'll need the Greek texts. Best one I found, though not the only one, is 1 Corinthians 13:9 compared with 1 Corinthians 13:13, with tie-in verses elsewhere, like in Hebrews 4. In Corinthians, at least two important keys to interpretation seem to be generally missed. Until my own pastor mentioned them, I didn't see them either. Only the Greek helps. First key, Paul's playing on "Head" using terms like ὑπερβολήν and μέρος and "Way" (ὁδός, nickname for Christianity then, and reference to "Way... Truth... Life" verse) in 1 Corinthians 12:31: a verse pointing forward, not backward. Remember he had been talking about a body, a theme begun in 1 Corinthians 6; about the head, begun in 1 Corinthians 2. Second key, is "anaphora", a Greek rhetorical style in three's. It's a type of parallelism. So you vertically match the first of a three in one verse, with the next parallel. Kind of like tic-tac-toe. So notice what's first listed in each of the verses 1 Corinthians 13:9-13. They are meant to be interpreting each other. Then, repeat with the other variables. "I am known" is mistranslated, in 1 Corinthians 13:12, so is not about post-death, but Post-Canon: it's really caused to know by God, but translation misleads. Phrase is also used in Galatians 4:9 and 1 Corinthians 8:2-3 (especially 1 Corinthians 8:3). See Romans 9:23, Romans 11:34, Romans 16:26 (!), 1 Corinthians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 (!) Ephesians 1:9, Ephesians 3:5, Ephesians 3:10, Colossians 1:27 for the larger meaning of this catchphrase. It's Paul's way to explain the fulfillment of Jeremiah 31:31-34.)

Later on we'll see the Macro Effect of this Intimacy in/to/with Father which Church is caused to have, due to and through the Seated Christ, on all History. Father's Choice, As Wedding Present For His Son: Endowered, Fit, Bride.

Of course, as is always true in all God's Covenants of Association, some basics remain the same. So, "Church" (ἐκκλησία) derives its precedence from synagogue, and has the same meaning: We Are To Learn Something. The ἐκκλησία was a place where people assembled to hear διδάσκαλοι, Teachers who Taught About God. Going To God's School. So the term is not even remotely related to a socializing with other believers. The Hebrews 10 "not forsaking the assembling of themselves" is thus seriously abused by religion, to get believers to play hooky. Piously, of course.

Hence learning is the quintessential condition, just as it was back in the Garden. (The first condition, of course, was to be a believer, for no unbeliever is Church.)

"Body of Christ" is Part Of Christ, Who is the Head. We are staff, completing (perfecting, legal term) Him. So, we are part of the "party of the first part", because we are His "Body". That is a condition with precedence, too:

  • Just as He Had To Fulfill The Seed Conditions, so also His Body must in the same way fulfill Growth Conditions. That is why we get His Spiritual Life. For, He's Precedence.

Because He fulfilled His Conditions, the 'bar' of learning is Raised To His Level: Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 3:19. This, since He should 'marry' fitly.

  • The other precedence: again, just as there had to be Enough among Israel to accept Him for Israel to get Brideship, so also there must be Enough of us. Our Contract is still in the Betrothal stage, until we are 'Enough', so (as happened with Israel's) it can be broken. We just know in advance (per Revelation) that we'll make it, else there would be no more history. How the numbers of us need to fit together and 'balance'.

This is another reason why the 'bar' of learning is so much higher. If they rejected, then how to justify a Replacement Bride for Trial purposes, if the Replacement, is not Better? Meaning also, a richer 'kidnap' victim. For Satan to succeed at getting Church to reject Him, given the extremely high levels of blessing we get — sheesh, what macro damage can be done to the world!

To whom much is given, much more Growth is expected. Royal, even. Ruling, even. So if a crown prince screws up, there's royal trouble, too. Trouble is, other people suffer when the ruler screws up. It's devastating. The bigger you are, the more you can suffer; the more responsibility you have, when you screw up, the more you must be punished. I don't look forward to the Bema: the screaming will be unbearable, until it ends. Yes, screaming. 99.9% of us believers will end up losers. Saved, but no spiritual growth. We get rewarded for our high moments (i.e., cup of water verse). But the big reward is to be crowned. Very few rulers, because most people opt for Brother-Foot Churchinanity, fancying themselves holy (threaded subtheme in 1 John, following the straw man pattern set up in 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10; see also Ephesians 4:14, Philippians 3:18-19, 1 Corinthians 4:8, all of Jude, 2 John, 3 John, last two chapters of 2 Peter).

  • Therefore Pleroma is the Hugely-Upgraded Value Of Those Few Who Do Fulfill This Highest Of Learn Conditions Ever Granted To Man (past or future), "inherit the Kingdom", get "crowns", etc. A Pleroma believer is so capacious, he can Rule a whole kingdom, because on the inside, he's a completed kingdom within himself. Therefore also, the Extreme Bema shame of those who Reject This Most Valuable Covenant of "the Age over all the Ages", Ephesians 3:21. So, Pleroma believer is crowned King, inherits great property, wealth — and people. Bible terms are individual; the corporate side has to do with enough King/Winners fulfilling these inheritance conditions, en masse. Masses themselves, don't count. Those who don't fulfill the Learn Condition will still be Royal Priests forever, but will not rule. The "Kingdom" is a Federation of "Kings". Hence, the "King of Kings" is the Lord. So, there are kingdoms within the Kingdom, and the "inherit the Kingdom" means you become a King within it, not merely a Royal Family beneficiary.

This Royal Status isn't some cute, symbolic, feel-good picture to make us sigh. It's a literal, scary truth. Spiritual Royalty in Him is Real, and God help the Christian who thinks like a peasant, anyway. The First and Second Reasons of Part 3 should have dispelled all notions that we are somehow Brother Foots. We can behave like peasants if we want to: with eternal ramifications. If you look at any royal family in history, you know full well that while the outside world gawked over them, internally, they operated on a very strict hierarchical code. The Romanovs, for example, were forever having trouble with their cousins acting like peasants. Royalty means responsibility, and if you can't take the responsibility, be prepared for Royal Punishment. Edward VIII should not have abdicated: it was evil for him to forsake his office. We, too, face that severe a life: learn to rule, or learn to be punished. Being royal means both, and everything in your life is abnormal: however mundane, you are getting Royal Training. Like secular royals (i.e., the Romanovs and Hohenzollerns) you might be sleeping in cots or eating bread and water — to toughen you up for better ruling ability, later. So the peasant's conditions, you often get — but for Royal reasons. Conversely, maybe you need to be trained using gold spoons and tiaras: well, then Royally learn, don't get that peasant-like glow about how much you own. God help the Christian, who mistakes the high or low circumstances, for a low spiritual life.

The higher in life you are, the more Rules Govern You and the more you are expected to govern yourself. That's why you get the "big bucks." So this Royal Training you must do; you can't pawn it off on religion, some teacher, a catechism or works. That fact is true first, in God's Plan. That's why there was a Cross, a Contract, and plunder. Can't get the crown, without first going through your cross. And only the Holy Spirit's Filling you with His Thinking, will Complete that contract, Isaiah 53:11.

And the Contract, though it has a Corporate Component, is Precedented On an Individual, so retains that essentially-individualistic character. No one is to blame for my failures, but me. The contract is to me, individually. To you, individually. To your next-door neighbor, someone in the remote recesses of the Andes, to the rich guy, the poor guy, the sick gal, the well gal. Individually. Everything is Vertical, never horizontal. So it's not "publish or perish", the bane of academia and science — but audit or perish. What beliefs we have and keep on choosing, determine everything. Especially, beliefs about God.

"Bride" is what we are called when we are completed/perfected (legal sense), meaning the requisite number is fulfilled. So, the "Body" is complete: all because we Church learned enough, and thus developed enough. Remember the funding criterion of God's Divine Benefit Plan, in the first part of the "Legal Precedence" section, how God reroutes blessing? Funding for the eternal polities is based on the 'money' of Thinking which Father Will Hear Forever. Starting now, since we are alive (and hence thinking), Now. So when that criterion's funding goal is met (technically, all the present values are enough such that the accumulated eternal values are enough), then we are Raptured up.

Note well: just as for Israel, we too have an open-ended option to reject or accept Learning Him. First Commandment requires Like-Mindedness. So, if we refuse, then the Body is not yet complete. It's not how many believe in Him, any more than it was how many believed back in the Old Testament or First Advent. It's How Many Fulfill The First Commandment, so to speak. Consummation of a marriage requires the wife "know" her husband. Hebrew Old Testament was quite strong about this: "to know" (jadah) and "to have sex" (davaq) were used interchangeably; so having intercourse with God meant knowing God. Hence, infidelity was not knowing God: see Hosea 4. You'll find parallel scathing indictments all over the New Testament, like in Philippians 3:15ff, Romans 12:2-3, 1 Corinthians 4:8, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7. 2 Peter is so strong about dogs returning to their vomit (negative believers), it's hard to read. You will find many Trump and MAGA Christians (as of 2025) reverse this verse at unbelievers when they fail to realize they're the very dogs returning to their vomit: accusing others of what they are afflicted with. Revelation 2 and Revelation 3, of course, are famous for their severity and, Husbandly tenderness.

All these add up to: Warning, Believer (!) if you don't learn Christ, you'll end up having the form, but not the substance, of marital relationship with Christ. Meanwhile, history will continue until Enough Believers Fulfill The First Commandment. Bible term for this completion is "Pleroma". Fullness. Fullness-of-knowing-Him. See Ephesians 3:15-21 for a great summary definition.

One of the cardinal rules of both translating and interpreting text written in the past, is to interpret it in accordance with the 'time' of its writing. So, for Shakespeare, you have to know a lot of special olde English vocabulary, to get what Shakespeare meant: look up "codpiece" to see the term is not about dinner. So, especially for Scripture, part of textual criticism is to find out the meaning of a word at the time of writing. At the time of writing, while the world was largely monogamous, there was a worldwide tradition of royal or very wealthy men having (what in the Middle East was called) harems. These harems were often just legal arrangements to cement alliances, and the 'brides' had little or no contact with the husband. In short, just the form of marriage. Not love, not even much sex: just a legal form, to prevent ruffled feathers. For a ruler or a very wealthy man needed to have alliances, and these alliances were traditionally cemented by marrying someone in the group with whom the alliance was to be made. It was better than having hostages, which was the other common practice of assuring loyalty of the other group. So often those in the harems, were strangers, and had honorary but pretty menial jobs. That's how This Contract is Described for Church, too. You will be as close to Him as you choose, though. So the only 'alliance' issue is of your own choosing. He already Chose Oneness. Question is, do we choose as far as He did? We can, Ephesians 4:13. But we don't, else we'd all be in heaven by now.

Principle: those who reject Learning Him will have little or no contact: just a minor and distant member of Christ's 'harem' Bride. Well-cared-for, to be sure; happy, oh yeah; but well, the person didn't want to know Him, so He doesn't 'want' to know that person. Forever. The "Lord, Lord" verse is talking about unbelievers, but there's a parallel for believers, too: "Alert! I come suddenly!" That's the corrected translation of the Revelation refrain (which the Lord also used in the Gospels), ἰδοὺ ἔρχομαι ΤΑΧΎ. Not, "quickly", or "soon", but suddenly. Like a thief, who suddenly swoops in, relying on his speed to get away. (If you've ever been overseas in poor countries, you see this same swift manner of theft.) Revelation 16:15 goes so far as to warn you of not getting torched for sleeping on watch, "naked" being a term for no rewards at Bema (ties to 1 Corinthians 3, yet he himself shall be saved, as though through fire).

For decades, my pastor explained this problem, warned about how low Christianity had sunk, and to be honest, I believed him, but didn't really think it was so bad. Until I discovered Christian internet chat. My pastor predicted 9/11 long before it happened, and not from some "prophetic utterance", but from Scripture: the Leviticus 26 / Deuteronomy 28 warnings are vivid. To watch those chapters play, flip on any Christian broadcasting service you want to name. Or, open any history book (i.e., Gibbon) covering Constantine's time. Same Christian ignorance-and-crusading happening now, as then. It's heartbreaking.

Loving God is what makes you mature (heavy emphasis on the relationship aspect), 1 Corinthians 13:2-3. You can't love God until you know God. You can't know God until you know Bible. You don't know Bible unless you spend some years daily breathing 1 John 1:9 "I've sinned, I've sinned, I've sinned" and internalizing Bible into your own life under whomever is your own right pastor. So notice: doesn't matter how correct your 'doctrines' or how moral you are. Sure, it's important to learn better and to be moral, but without that transition into just loving God for Himself, you will tank in the spiritual life, but fancy yourself holy. It's the norm in Christianity, to be all puffed up over works and how 'correct' self is in a doctrine. No love there, only ego. And no Bema reward, either. As my pastor puts it, you have "two mutual flanks": one is Bible in your head, the Truth you know and live on; but the other, is Love for God. You won't mature spiritually without it. Therefore most Christians want the Bible but without the relationship to God, and so are perpetually lopsided. Duh, you're going to be talking to God in your head 24/7 like He's your best friend or the love of your life. If not, it's a potential litmus that you just don't care: condemned to 2 Timothy 3:7.

You can tell if you love God if you keep wanting to know Him better, just because. When people are genuinely interested, they keep spending their thoughts on the object. They don't regard what they spend as being of any merit, but are too busy enjoying the object of their thoughts. Self is not in view, because they are too busy thinking about the object of their love. You don't see anyone who loves building model airplanes pat himself on the back over how good he is to do that. So, he really loves the activity. So if you catch yourself trying to tell yourself how good you are due to something you did, then love is absent, not present, to that extent. Talk to God all the time if you can, no matter what. That builds love. And when you do love Him, you'll keep on thinking that you don't. If you don't love Him, you'll keep on telling yourself how much you love Him. Heh: sin nature always denies the truth, so whatever you have the urge to think, the truth is the opposite.

Rulers must be like-minded. So if not a ruler, Not Close. Frankly, even hell sounds better than so much eternal distance! What, do you want to live on (what's the equivalent of our) 'Pluto', seeing Him way off in the distance, King riding by in a carriage but once every Millennium, if you are lucky? You don't have to settle for that! Don't miss the growth!

So Father Unites History through Church, because — as is depicted in Ephesians 2, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians 12, Hebrews 10-12 — Father uses Church to rescue Israel. For, history is tied to Israel: all the 'sevens' are hers. Through Him, the Seed, Our Savior and King. So just like Him, We Ironically Are To Determine History, rather than be promised time — because He Redeemed Time. So that's our job, too.

Something Old, to go with Something New...

So we are a new spiritual species, created in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 2:10); so, we have a new contract, new precedence, yet something old: consistency of the two fundamentals of Believe and Learn. Believing, means being "pro-" the object of belief. Learning also means being "pro-", the object Learned. And Love has to be learned. For only God is Love. But we can Learn His Love, by learning His Word (Romans 5:5, 1 Corinthians 13, Ephesians 3:15-19, 1 John 4, etc).

Since Our Origin derives from the Old Contract Israel was offered, its Completion terms also have to port over, else God is not consistent. These Believe and Learn variables, therefore, are what Justify The Call Home. Our terms are necessarily harder than theirs, since blessing had to be rerouted through us, and since Messiah completed His Contract; so, any Bridal terms which remained unfinished, we must get. As we saw earlier in the "Israel's Signing/'Voting Yes'" white table on this page, those criteria were two: a) enough had to be Believers, and, and b) Enough had to Love the Groom. Simplified, these two Call Criteria constitute Completed Votes Pro-Him.

So, then: due to His Precedence, our 'Church' completion must satisfy the same criteria. Additionally, since He did complete His Own Contract conditions, we Inherit From Him the same characteristics as pertained to Him, while He was still down here.

The body-count issue is part of a much bigger criterion of Father's, and will be covered in Part IVb. For, due to this much bigger 'Body' criterion of Father's, there are 'child' (corollary) issues (pun intended). Be prepared for many great shocks!



Our Precedence, Groom's Father Uses Church To Rescue Israel

So where are we? Well, since Israel played Vashti, the Gentiles become Esther, still with the purpose of rescuing the Jews. And ἰδοὺ, look! They Still Get The Contract, But Upgraded: they are grafted back in (theme of Romans 9-12). So the call goes out to them from the very Gentiles who saw the Light, Isaiah 52:15, and δείκνυμι clause in Isaiah 53:11; with Matthew 22 as its fulfillment, playing Right Now; thus, Matthew 22 becomes an Invitation to Their Own Wedding, if they too believe in Him! Matchless, Infinite Grace! Paul can't stop exulting over this fact in Romans: it's a major subtheme of that letter.

Probably all the marriage parables (i.e., Matthew 22, plus the virgins and their lamps) best display these Offers. Sermon on the Mount was the Groom's Policy of How He would rule: an offer to Israel. The vignette of the Samaritan woman at the well, and the other one who said even dogs eat scraps from their masters' tables, are two other (beautiful) demonstrations of the to-Israel offer being known by non-Israel. The "W" offer is clearly marked after Matthew 16:18, with the stress on Bridal-related vocabulary. The parable of the virgins and their lamps of course references the Rapture, also in Matthew 24. Sadly, by Palm Sunday we see just what believers preferred, Jew or Gentile, akin to how it was Saul became king; akin to how it is Christianity politicized in the 2nd century: we preferred a political Messiah for this world, not the Real One forever. And (!) we still do. Past is prologue, despite Precedence, 😩! Like Paul moans in Romans 7, using himself as the representative human (and playing on the X and W loophole, what a witty guy): Who will deliver us from these our bodies-of-death! Thanks be to God the Father, through Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! So let's now see how He'll do it.

So How Does Father use Church to Rescue Israel? Basically, He takes advantage — oh, how God is the Best of Lawyers! — He next takes advantage of the loopholes in Our Bridal Contract to graft in anyone from among the Jews, who wants in! Because to "cut a covenant" (b'rith בְּרִית) you gotta cut off something, to graft in something. Vinedresser. God started the cutting-out right away:

After all, that's how the Gentiles were delivered, back in the Old Testament! We were Cut Out, and Israel was Cut In by Cutting a Phallus (Abram's). So they got cut out, by rejecting Messiah; so We got Grafted in Their Contract, via the Same Messiah; hence we get Our Contract; so isn't it Precedence and Justice, that they should have an Escape Clause to get Grafted In Our Contract — too?

You bet!!! And it's the Best of Loopholes, too: His Son! Ἰδού, Look at this! Repeating: Messiah Seed (Galatians 3) had Completed His Contract, Ascended, was Seated "at the Right Hand" (Highest-Authority idiom), so is owed delivery On His Contract! So we saw Father's Ephesians 1 wit: the King of Kings, had no kingdom! Hence, the calling out of the Bride from among the Gentiles (see Ephesians 3, Romans 10-11, all of the "mystery" verses, 1 Corinthians 2:7).

Which, of course, we even knew before He finished the Cross, beginning with that first announcement to Peter (Matthew 16:18), "On this Rock" — ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ Πέτρα, thus pointing to Himself (see also τοῦτον of John 6:27), because Πέτρα = Messiah = Bedrock on which the Ark sat! — "I Will Build My Church."

Wow. You know, seems like Peter never got over the Lord's use of οὗτος (ταυτηΐ, dative, relationship, benefit), back then. In the Greek of Peter's two epistles, he's always making plays on words: That One! This One! Paul and John also, but in Peter it's so cute to watch him play on his name and on οὗτος, this one, the Christ! The Πέτρα, and I am πέτρος, a 'bit' of Him! Him! So you believers I'm writing to are λίθοι, ὑπογραμμοί, κρύσταλλοι...!

Note: Upon This One! ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ Πέτρα! He will build, not someone else (no popes). He will build, not during First Advent but after (Church did not begin in Abram's tent). He will build, so no works by the structure are at issue (a structure can't do anything until it's been built, any more than a fetus has a soul until born). Church. "Us" (New Testament keyword for Church). "Now" (New Testament Keyword for Church's "time"/Age/covenantal period).

Church, not Israel. Church not replacing Israel. Remember the red "fine print", God's rescuing loophole for Gentiles, Jews, the woman, since Adam, the whole human race? Now Look: because Christ is the Direct Recipient as seed (Galatians 3), All The Covenants Are Completed except Brideship, since that depended on Another Party, not Him, saying "yes". So no part of Israel is Church, nor vice versa. Couldn't be clearer. Paul exults in this Joining, not replacing, at the end of Ephesians 2. We derive our contract solely because Israel rejected the Offer from the Groom. But Israel Never Loses The Messiah.

Proof: what the Lord announced in Matthew 16:18, Ephesians explains. How Israel is affected by that announcement, Romans 9-11 and Hebrews explain. The primary impetus for each of these books, is to show What Changed, and how the Promises to Israel, Would Be Rescued. Try repeated rereading of those books, even in translation, with that focus in mind. See if they don't suddenly make a lot more sense. Suggest Romans first, then Ephesians, then Hebrews. Or, cross over to another book's chapter on the same topic — i.e., when reading Romans 9-11, after that switch to all of Hebrews. Check lexicons when you see what you think are keywords, because keywords track the story for you and are always multilayered and interlocking, in their meanings. Most Christians bristle at this heavy level of Word pursuit, claiming that it's not right, that to argue all should do this, is elitist. What self-righteous garbage: God Runs His System, so we have no excuse. Everyone thus gets to sit at Father's table. Where we choose to be at that table, is up to us. Do we take Him up on His Offer and get into His System, hence mature in Word as He Initially Gave It? Or do we make lame excuses to prefer the Word in some diluted fashion, like the people in Matthew 22?

We just saw how the Lord Rescued Her Time by Inaugurating Church.
There are basically Two Rescue Functions God makes via Church, relative to Israel:
1) Rescue Her Ignorance of the Change, and
2) Rescue all Her Covenants; which are in Abrogated Status, due to rejection of Messiah.

So "Rescue" is Primarily an Education Problem:
Educating Israel as to her current status, and what to do about it.
The rest of this webpage covers How God Addresses this Problem.

The Education Problem itself is subdivided into another two goals (everything with God is Hypostatic, Union of Opposites, God-Man). These Two Education Goals are: Educate via Scripture alone, and Educate via Comparing Scripture to Observable History. For that's always how God 'played' it with Israel: Leviticus 26, Hosea 4 (etc). is the pattern. If you won't Hear Word, then you will hear Warring. So the History plays a Confirming Witness to Scripture Role of Warring, i.e., No Temple, No Covenant.

So let's now examine the "Educate via Scripture Alone" Goal.

We just saw how the Bridal Contract itself, and its Precedence, provide a huge amount of comparative data for Jews to see how what was to be their own Fulfillment, still is occurring — but via Church. So they can get in on it, "while it is yet Today", as Hebrews 3-4, explain. They get in, via Church. They become Church if they believe in Christ, no matter what they call themselves. Jews typically have a hard time thinking of themselves as "Christians", even once they have believed in Christ, but what they call themselves, doesn't matter. They are Church, simply by faith in Christ, even as we all are.

The other big problem the Jews have, is their excessive (but quiet) prejudice against non-Jews. This prejudice is built from many spokes of history. They are better, truly: smarter, more attractive, more healthy, more witty, more talented in every way. This makes them receive more prejudice, so they understandably react. No one is more persecuted than the Jew: God placed Israel in the Spot Most Likely To Be Attacked for its sheer geographical commercial Travel Value. So that's part of the prejudice. It truly is hard to be better than others, and yet have to deal with them. It is truly hard to have the Truth about God and know that, yet have to deal with all those who wanna argue or fight with you about it. So Jews aren't particularly receptive to our claim that what they had right, is now totally Wrong, because they are stuck in the past.

So, God provides a Tracking System they can Use to verify it's God Who's telling them they are wrong — rather than, some goyim. After all, no one likes to hear he's wrong. God thus employs a tracking system in the Word, so the Jews can know it's Him speaking: special keys and keywords help them (and us, of course) track the main 'flow' of the Change. This tracking takes you all over the Bible, and you have to think like a thesaurus. (Jews are trained to do that, from infancy (usually). It's part of their gift in Abraham, to think from hubs with spokes. Read the Mishnah sometime, you'll see it. They get tangled up in their spokes, their genius for seeing many sides of a question. But then, so do we.)

So note, in the following chart, how these keys trace the main outline of the Precedence, the Continuity, the Upgrade, the Change and above all, the Faithfulness of God. All of these keywords tie directly back to Isaiah 53, which is the Master Contract for All Covenants in History. So you'd expect the New Testament to be full of these keywords. And, it is.


"Ἰδού, 2 Corinthians 5:17! Behold, New Spiritual Species Has Arrived!

Greek γίνομαι means to become, to come to a station/place/status, hence arrive. Lots of wordplay in Bible, using that verb.

Precedence is expressed by continuity. So When Precedence Changes, There Must Be Some Explanatory Tieback To What Was The Precedence For The Change; So You Can See The Continuity. Something Old, giving rise to something New. So you know the jurisprudence is Genuine. Like, the Old Testament, giving rise to the New One.


New Precedence-Is-Established Key → Because He fulfilled His "a)" and "b)", a New Group gets an "a)" and "b)", because the Brideship Contract Still Remains, so Still Remains Offerable; Still Remains Essential, and Still Remains Incomplete. This much, the Jews already know. They dispute that Jesus the Christ is the One Who fulfilled the Groom side of the contract, so they dispute Church. But they do know there's a Contract. So God works with what they know.

  • Every New Testament writer ties back to the Old Testament so all can see how the New Covenant ("Testament", to us) is being Implemented via Church.
  • So the Same Holy Spirit uses Old Testament Vocabulary Jews Can Test in the New. That's why so much of the New Testament is devoted to quoting the Old Testament, to demonstrate the tiebacks.
  • Like, the "vocabulary" of Jeremiah, especially Jeremiah 3:16, and Jeremiah 31:31-34. The Book of Hebrews is built around those verses.
  • Like, the vocabulary of Exodus 3:14's first official use of the Sacred Tetragrammaton (its original form being a sentence, prediction of taking on Humanity). John focuses on that.
  • Like, the vocabulary of Isaiah 53, especially its LXX terms in Isaiah 53:10-12. All the of the New Testament uses those terms, both directly and allusively.
  • Like, the vocabulary of Messianic prophecy, which is everywhere stressed in the New Testament, including and especially, the prediction that the Jews would reject Messiah when he came (tie between Daniel 9:26 and Isaiah 53, the latter's meter being used by God to explain Daniel 9's chronology).
  • Like, the vocabulary of the "times of the Gentiles", the vast body of Old Testament prophecy on how the Gentiles would come to believe in Messiah due to Jewish rejection — again, summarized in Isaiah 52:14-15.

In short, the objective is to show the Old Testament is fulfilled in Christ. Remember in the earlier discussion about Precedence, that when Party "A" completes the contract, there are a separate set of clauses regarding When And How And If Delivery on the promise to "A", shall occur. For example, you buy something from Amazon; but then you have to choose how and when the purchased item, shall be shipped. To where, whom, etc. That's an easy example of an implicit contract — Amazon promises you'll get what you purchased, but now there are terms regarding how, when, and if: since if something goes wrong in the process (i.e., the package is lost), you might not get the item delivered, at all.

So here, the task for the Jew (and us) to understand, is that a delivery of something completed, is where we are in history. Messiah has Come and Left the Building, Daniel 9:26, Matthew 24. It's not something future.

  • He completed Isaiah 53, it's not something future, that's what the Gospels all explain, showing how all of the Old Testament prophecy "keys" were fulfilled.
  • He completed Isaiah 53, not someone else, not works.
  • So the Law is Fulfilled.
  • So it must Change to the New Covenant, which the Jews all knew about.
  • So this is a Furtherance of the Promise, the Delivery Phase. That orientation must first be understood. This is where the Jews are hung up, essentially: they are stuck in the past, which has moved on just as God promised.

Repeating: Messiah Seed (Galatians 3) Completed His Contract, Ascended, was Seated "at the Right Hand" (Highest-Authority idiom), so is Owed Bridal Delivery On His Contract!

  • Thus the two best-known facts in Judaism, the Coming of Messiah and the Temple Depicting Him, are centrally-placed in both the New Testament descriptions — and, in history. Here, we're just focusing on the New Testament descriptions.
  • So the terminology most employed in the New Testament, is evocative of the Temple:
    • "Dwelling" words. Indwelling is thus communicated, since now believers are The Temple, because Messiah-The-Living-Temple, is being built. Hebrew "banah", used of the woman being "built" for Adam. Very clever. Thinking like a thesaurus, you get dwell, remain, fill, house, home, God-in-you, etc. See how these are all thesaural hubs around a "dwelling" concept? For what is Messiah, but "God with us"? Dwelling — that's the promise, that's what happened to the Temple, it was the 'house of God'. Representing, the day God would add Humanity to Himself. Uniquely-born. Housed in Human flesh, tabernacling among us.
    • "Marital" and "family" words. Intimacy is thus stressed. In the Old Testament, Israel was to be the Bride, and a Family of Nations was to come from Abraham's loins. But what kind of loins? Not merely physical, but spiritual. For you are a 'son' of Abraham if you believed in Christ like Abraham did. Jews know this very well.
    • "Wealth" words. Temple was the repository of all Israel's wealth, for it was a fortress. The Big Bank of Heaven. Depicting, the spiritual wealth which God would bestow on Israel, in the Millennium. Depicting, His House, which after all would be the Wealthiest of all, since God is Absolutely Rich. Rich to Know, Rich Provider, etc.
    • "Destruction" words. This is the warning of warring, famous in Leviticus 26, but first promised in 1 Kings 9, the negative side of the Temple contract: diaspora. The Temple's destruction is a central mourning in Judaism. People will not marry in the month it was destroyed. People often won't have any nice celebrations that whole month. And on Tish b'Av (9th Av, usually August), they often fast. No Temple means God is Displeased, they know that well. So the New Testament spends much time explaining why the Temple was Destroyed, beginning with the prediction in Matthew 24, and of course the Lord's Own Claim His Body was the Temple, which would Rise in Three Days. They taunted Him with that, when He was on the Cross. So the Daniel 9:26 prediction of the Temple's Destruction, and its fulfillment, but the future promise of Rebuilding, is the best-known doctrine in Judaism. For it was supposed to be the end of the world, when the Temple was destroyed. But the world didn't end, see. So why not? That's the question which should be hitting their minds, every time Av rolls around, every time they go to Aish.com and see the Wailing Wall.

You get the idea, by now: the New Testament is chockfull of Old Testament vocabulary to show how Messiah fulfilled Prophecy. But the Jews are stuck in the past, because they are rejecting Word. (Just like us Christians.) They only mouth it, and that rotely. Bobbing in front of the Wailing Wall, rushing through the Hagadah as quickly as they can at Passover Seder, priding themselves on how they all read the same Torah portion every Saturday, all over the world — glorifying thus themselves, pretending that glorifies God. It's sick. It's derisive of God. Kissing the Torah — well, kissing your fingers, then touching the Scroll as it is paraded around the aisles — but never learning it. Chanting songs, praising good deeds, making sure dues are paid, boy oh boy — making sure you are "seen of men"!

Meanwhile, all along at least once a year they have to go through the 'Torah portion' from Jeremiah. So when they mindlessly chant on Saturday the portion containing Jeremiah 3:16, they don't recognize that promise of a dead piece of stone and the dead box atop it, being replaced by a Living Ark Who will Stand for All Time. So when they mindlessly chant on Saturday the portion containing Jeremiah 31:31-34, they don't remember the tefillin significance: The Word is to be written on your hearts and minds. The Living Word in your own words, 1 Corinthians 1:5, 10, 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 (Greek). But the writer of the Book of Hebrews sure understood it: those two Jeremiah verses, plus Isaiah 53 (and all the rest of Scripture) form the legal outline of his God-breathed book. Telling us how the past is obsoleted: for "better things", Attic "κρείττων", the New Covenant, has Come! Sanctifying, for all time, Hebrews 10:10-17! 1 Corinthians is egregiously mistranslated in important verses.

For, as every Jew who studies Torah should know, Legal Contracts are self-contained.

  • So all the relevant provisions and definitions must be inside the Contract.
  • Something outside is therefore excluded from contractual provision/definition; unless the Contract itself, incorporates by reference what's outside;
  • hence only to the extent thus Incorporated By Reference does an outside provision, 'come into' the Contract.

That's how you need to read the Bible. For the Bible is first and foremost, a set of "Covenants", "Testaments": which mean, contracts. Even the narratives communicate contract provisions; even a deposition is an implicit contract that the Testimony given, is True.

  • So God mirrors back to them the Superior Promise of the New Covenant via the goyim. Incorporating them by reference, just as He'd promised He'd do, back in Isaiah 52:15 (and many other places). So His Face can Shine upon The Chosen People who during Now are rejecting Him, still.
  • Cutting-out and Grafting In the Jews, even as the Gentiles were at first "far" (cut off), but now "near" (grafted in). That's an Incorporation by Reference technique. Clever, huh.

So the Bible uses Old Testament keywords to prove to the Jews by grafting-in aka incorporation by reference, that the New Testament is just as much from God, as the Old Testament. Here are sample keywords in the New Testament, you can trace.

"Remnant" is evocative of the Vine, the grape gleanings so small, everyone else abandoned them. Much about the "remnant" in the Old Testament. Thesaurally, "rest", "remnant", "remainder", and of course, all the verb forms. Writer of Hebrews uses the verb "καταλείπω" in Hebrews 4:1, to show the Change in Precedence. Its "λείπω" ending is most significant. Writer uses this ending with various prefixes to craft his letter (ἐκλείπω, ἀπολείπω, etc). So he plays with its many related meanings: you'll need a detailed lexicon. Essence of καταλείπω: something is Deliberately Left Out, Left Behind, 'Remaining' In The Sense Of Pending Completion Or Acquisition. Very pointed incorporation by reference of the Promise Still to be grabbed while it is yet "today", in the Book of Hebrews.

Remnant as a People in Hebrew or Greek always has two connotations: a) "leftovers" (sense of cast off, crumbs), and b) Remainder after Disaster. Study the etymology of she'erit in Hebrew, and λεῖμμα in Greek. Awesome meaning, here. There are many synonyms for these two keywords, each one conveying more about the meaning. Idea that the ones rejected, abandoned, left behind — few in number and weak — will be the foundation for the New Kingdom. Awesome wordplay, since Christ was rejected, Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:3. Isaiah 54:1 is all about remnant being more productive than the 'respectable'.

Verb "μένω" — to abide at home, at post, remain, be loyal — always refers back to Christ's definition, in John 15; but Christ is using the famous Vine definition from the Old Testament. God is the Husbandman, makes the Vine Israel, Grow. So remain on the Vine, and the Branch will Come to make the Vine Prosper. Many compound verbs are made with prepositional prefixes, like κατά-, ἐπί-, ὑπό-. For example, ὑπομένω, literally "to remain under", means to endure, be patient. Nouns are made from -μονή.

John 14-17 uses this key verb to show how and why we get our spiritual-life Precedence from Christ, not the Law. It originates in the Greek-cultural context of communing-with-a-god (intimacy overtones). Staying at home. Because you want to. Staying obedient. Because you want to. Staying at your (military) post. Because you are loyal. Staying In The Witness Box, despite your "adversary" (meaning of "satan") trying to trip up your testimony. (Also trace uses of μαρτυρέω, μαρτυρία, usually translated witness/testimony/affidavit/deposition — remember the "Ark of the Testimony"?)

Usage of "μένω" is a more pregnant a tieback to the Old Testament than even "remnant", which in Hebrew is rooted in "sheba", meaning "seven", the promise itself; verb = shaba (shin beth ayin), too; often means to take an oath; so the writer of Hebrews incorporates by reference both meanings throughout, especially in the last half of Hebrews 6 (to demonstrate fulfillment of God's Promised One).

So the very-much-related Greek word "μένω", the main theme of John 15 and most of the New Testament, has to do with vine-ness. The first usage of vine is in Genesis 40:9, the very basis for Israel becoming Israel, Joseph's interpretation of the cupbearer's dream. Had Joseph not done that, there'd be no Israel. So Joseph had to Abide waiting until God delivered him; so Jacob had to Abide thinking Joseph was dead; so Israel had to Abide in Egypt when the famine came, and then of course Abided there until the Lord delivered them. So abide is thesaurally the heart of vine. So the Lord takes all this connectedness into account, when talking about Vine and Branches, in John 15. You'll find that 'vine' is used as a major Old Testament keyword for abiding in the Word, in the Old Testament. God is Wine, see. Wine is associated with Blood, therefore with the Heart of Messiah, Whose Blood (Thinking) would save Mankind, Isaiah 53. See? Bible is sheer Genius, so a race of geniuses were crafted to understand it. And these Geniuses — the Jews — are so tangled up in their abilities, they are blinded to the God Who Made them. But God knows what tracking metaphors they need to get their sight back.

Quintessentially, though, remnant and ab ide were used of the temple. Only the Remnant would return to rebuild it, and God would abide with Israel as a result. That's why "Immanuel" — God with us — always meant the Temple Standing, per the contract in 1 Kings 9. But it's not standing now. So God is not with Israel now. Every Jew knows that, every Jew knows that Daniel 9:26 is "on", but they reject the first statement of that same verse, that Messiah's leaving is what would trigger Temple Destruction.

Now, if you recognize "remnant" plus "μένω", you also gain understanding of the mechanics of the spiritual life; which you can track, in the New Testament. For example, now all those "endure to the end" verses will no longer be confused with salvation verses: for, "ὑπομένω" means to endure. And what are you enduring in, staying in, abiding in, at home in, remaining in? In The Vine. In His Thinking. Not, enduring to get saved, for crying out loud. See, if You Weren't Already Saved, you couldn't be Abiding under Christ, get it? See 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. So it's about Enduring In His Thinking; In the Witness Box, the Post, at Home In Him (main theme of 1 John, Ephesians 3). Until, you Go Home, To Him (1 Corinthians 15).

It's not works, But God Works in your own soul, to Make You Compatible with His Son, Ephesians 2:10. Ephesians 2:10 is mistranslated; My pastor calls this "ὑπομένω" verb and its cognate noun ὑπομονή, "staying power". That, it sure is: Isaiah 53:11, Isaiah 52:13, by means of His Mastery of Thinking, He endured. Which Hebrews 12:2 references. His Thinking Sustains You: 2 Corinthians 5:14.

For the gist of the entire New Testament contract message is this (summarized in John 14-15):

  • Christ went Home.
  • So, He wants a Bride to Come Home.
  • So she is to Learn How To Be at Home In Him while Down Here,
  • so she can be Intimate with Him forever.

Homecoming. Rapture. First Advent was a Going Down. That's why the Old Testament is so concretely-styled. So now, going up is the Entire Thrust, because the Precedence changed. Hebrews painstakingly takes the reader through this change in precedence. Even though translations are mangled, if you keep on reading the translation you have, after maybe 12 or more readings of the whole Book, you can begin to see the writer's outline. Then, start reading yet again and again and again, using 1 John 1:9 in all readings: the Holy Spirit will point out to you what's relevant so you can understand, Precedented per the transformative δείκνυμι Contract clause in Isaiah 53:11, implemented as the Lord explained in John 14:26. Always grasp the Big Picture Outline of a Bible book on Its Own Terms (not some commentator's), so you don't miss the forest, for the trees. You need the keywords each author uses, to see the outline of his book. Don't go by the published outlines in Bibles. Dig through it yourself. Better still, find a pastor who will always outline the whole book beforehand.

There are many other important keywords to track. A really important one is πληρόω, to fill up, fulfill. Every New Testament writer uses this verb; and the many other words formed from it, explain Christ's Thinking getting filled in us, via the Spirit Filling us with His Thinking (Romans 8's theme). This is the whole spiritual life, which the Greek of Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:2 and Hebrews 11:6, stress. "αἰῶνας" in Hebrews 11:3 should be translated "Ages", meaning covenantal epochs, not "worlds". Don't know how the heck anyone could get 'worlds' out of this term for Divisions of Time. Seems that because the term is sometimes used to describe a group of people on earth over a given period of time, someone thought "world" should be used. Not a good idea. Obfuscates what God says.

Πληρόω and its cognate noun Πλήρωμα, mean pregnancy.

  • The most common Greek literature use of this verb is two-fold: a) secular use, What Fills Up A Container, especially, a ship. Idea of cargo and crew.
  • Then b), spiritually, the Greeks used the term to mean seed of the gods. For the 'cargo' and the 'crew' was contained in the womb. Get the pun?
  • It's extremely difficult to find these facts in the prudish, 'respected' lexicons. Fortunately there is much on the internet regarding Greek literature, so you can find the meaning of the verb and its cognate noun (popular in Gnosticism, which Paul and John incessantly tweak), "Πλήρωμα".
  • Greek plays make puns on "πλήρωμα" being pregnancy, all the time. Idea of getting filled up with the god, see. It was an honor. Paul in particular crafts the entire letter of Ephesians from the famous seed play, "Ion" by Euripides. "Ion" means "venom", euphemism for semen — here, of Apollos. So Paul tweaks that play with the real Pleroma of Christ in You, namely, Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 3:15-19.
  • Cardinal principle of hermeneutics is that you should interpret a verse using the meaning of the Original Words The Way They Were Used At The Time of Writing. At the time of writing, "πληρόω" and "πλήρωμα" were euphemisms for the god filling you up: with semen, with his thinking, with emotion, with material blessings (because you served him by letting him fill you up in the other ways).
  • So, that meaning is used throughout the Old and New Testaments, for the Real God Who wants to transform you to be like Him, Isaiah 55:9.
  • The entire Book of Deuteronomy is about that: if you will get into and get filled up with the Law, then God will fill you up with blessings from the Land over and above all other peoples.
  • We saw in the last section how Samaria refused to be filled up, so God filled them up with disaster, per Hosea (i.e., Hosea 4:6, but read the whole book).
  • πληρόω and πλήρωμα keywords are used to designate the far-higher "Filling of the Spirit", versus the Old Testament.

Thus both Jew and Gentile are alerted to the fact that "works" is fornication, just as much as the grosser kind. Works always pretends to be holy, and that's why it fornicates. A harlot demands payment for what services she renders, and the works person is expecting God to pay him for his works. So the person treats God like a 'customer', as if not married to Him. If married to Him, then a slave, and the payment is what God chooses, if any. And we know all this even in translation from Hosea, Malachi, Zechariah, Zephaniah (great summary book of the whole changeover, to which Revelation 17 ties wholly). So there is no excuse. Asceticism Is A Form Of Harlotry, pretending to be a virgin.

  • See, you are the fruit, yourself. Not what you do.
  • God's plan is to beget sons of The Son, not good deeds. He made that plain from Genesis 5 onward, tracking the sons, barely mentioning anything any of them did: you'd have to glean their character, from the meaning of their names (which lexicons famously omit).
  • sons, not deeds. For only God can make a tree, only God can make fruit, only God can make gold, silver, precious stones.
  • The tree must be husbanded, fertilized, given water — and like a lamb doesn't even produce its own wool, so too a tree doesn't produce its own fruit.
  • Matthew 7 makes it clear that "fruit" is what is believed (teaching, in the chapter), so by what teaching you believe, you are known.
  • What the teachers teach falsely, identifies them. i.e. any pastor who proclaims 'life begins at conception' you are immediately alerted to their doctrines of demons.
  • For you are what you eat. Eat = believe. And the rest, is done to you.
  • That's why the fruit of the Spirit is done by the Spirit, not by you.
  • So if you're trying to work works by yourself, then what's your fruit? The fruit of disbelief, for you prove thus you are believing in yourself, not God.
  • So that's why works never work out anything but sterility: frustration and bitterness, ending with a grave. So many buildings and streets named after dead people no one much cares about or remembers.

All these lessons, come from the pithy use of πληρόω and πλήρωμα — warning both Jew and Gentile, alike. Vanity of vanities, wrote Solomon.

Sadly, most Christian translators tend to be ascetic, so think it shameful or demeaning, to translate the Bible's strident use of sexual terms. So you don't learn that you are the fruit, due to the mistranslations of these key words. Instead, you get a vagueness. Yet the entire story from Genesis 3:16 onward, and especially from Abram onward, is about begetting, but the better translation of yalad (Hebrew) or γεννάω (Greek) is siring: The Covenant With Abram Was Made Operational Using A Phallus, is that clear enough?

  • Instead of man's works, man's seed, God's Works = The Word, is to be Sired in You, a constant refrain in 1 John (usually mistranslated "born of God") — even as, He is Sired (usually mistranslated 'Begotten') of Father, via the Truth;
  • which Truth, He Became, because He was "filled up" with it (i.e., "full of Grace and truth" verse in John's Gospel).
  • So the entire thrust of all that Paul and John write, play on this Pregnancy idea, which is How Our Sins Were Paid for: after all, the Lord devoted three whole chapters to it, John 14-17.
  • And why? It's the Contract: keyword in Isaiah 53:11, "me amal", labor pains Of His Soul Filled With Truth,
  • Using That Truth In His Soul To Pay As A Substitute for Sins; the Lord's Humanity thus being made 'pregnant' with sin, so make Divine DNA, hence Delivering us to Righteousness.
  • Really beautiful and vivid analogy, which makes Paul quip how the woman too is delivered by delivery, in 1 Timothy 2:15. Never properly translated, of course.
  • So remember this Pregnancy In Word meaning whenever you come across a "fill" verse in concept or words.

Satan is ascetic par excellence. The demons under him vary, but the higher ones are more ascetic. All of them burlesque God's Begetting Divine Benefit Plan by using a) gross sin (especially sex), and b) asceticism. Because they consider us animals, they animalize God's design for sex; so, having done that, they automate those who also reject a) — moving them to the other end of the fornication spectrum, rejection, frigidity. So all religion is rotelike, parroting: you know, hump hump hump like a mindless animal, to get it over with. Christians who study Bible get into the b) trap, and prove thereby they only know how to thump their Bibles.

Next Big Keyword represents the Contract Result of being Filled with Him, referenced by τελειόω and its many cognate/compound forms. Verb means to complete, to make mature, to realize, Fulfill, legal sense of Completion, so the "end" (purpose, destination, contract) is met. πληρόω and τελειόω are used in tandem by New Testament writers, because πληρόω stresses process, but τελειόω stresses result. So when you see either of these two words in some perfected/past sense, remember the difference between them: πληρόω, process of filling; τελειόω, threshold-of-capacity-met, result. The wordplay on these two verbs (and cognates) is vast. You really have to think like a thesaurus, for many synonyms are used ("riches", "Christ" — many you'd not think normally synonymal). Moreover, when using them in tandem, sometimes one is substituted for the other, to wryly stress how you got there (if πληρόω is the substitute), or why you go/got there (if τελειόω is the substitute).

τελειόω is a major verb in the LXX, and always means contract fulfillment or condition for it: Exodus 29:9, Exodus 29:29, Exodus 29:33, Exodus 29:35; Leviticus 4:5; Leviticus 8:33; Leviticus 16:32; Leviticus 21:10; Numbers 3:3; 2 Samuel 22:26; 2 Chronicles 8:16; Nehemiah 6:3, Nehemiah 6:16; Ezekiel 27:11; Daniel 3:40; Luke 2:43; Luke 13:32; John 4:34; John 5:36; John 17:4, John 17:23; John 19:28; Acts 20:24; Philippians 3:12; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 7:28; Hebrews 9:9; Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 10:14; Hebrews 11:40; Hebrews 12:23; James 2:22; 1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:12, 1 John 4:17f.

Then there's συντελέω, famously in Daniel 9:24: Genesis 2:1f; Genesis 6:16; Genesis 17:22; Genesis 18:21; Genesis 24:15, Genesis 24:45; Genesis 29:27; Genesis 43:2; Genesis 44:5; Genesis 49:5; Exodus 5:13f; Exodus 36:2; Exodus 40:33; Leviticus 16:20; Leviticus 19:9; Leviticus 23:22, Leviticus 23:39; Numbers 4:15; Numbers 7:1; Deuteronomy 26:12; Deuteronomy 31:1, Deuteronomy 31:24; Deuteronomy 32:23, Deuteronomy 32:45; Deuteronomy 34:8; Joshua 3:17; Joshua 4:1, Joshua 4:10f; Joshua 21:42; Judges 3:18; Ruth 2:23; Ruth 3:3; 1 Samuel 10:13; 1 Samuel 13:10; 1 Samuel 15:18; 1 Samuel 20:7, 1 Samuel 20:9, 1 Samuel 20:33f; 1 Samuel 24:17; 1 Samuel 25:17; 2 Samuel 6:18; 2 Samuel 11:19; 2 Samuel 13:36; 2 Samuel 21:5; 2 Samuel 22:38; 1 Kings 1:41; 1 Kings 2:35; 1 Kings 5:14; 1 Kings 6:1, 1 Kings 6:3, 1 Kings 6:9; 1 Kings 7:26, 1 Kings 7:50; 1 Kings 8:1, 1 Kings 8:53f; 1 Kings 9:1; 1 Kings 22:11; 2 Kings 10:25; 1 Chronicles 16:2; 1 Chronicles 27:24; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 4:11; 2 Chronicles 5:1; 2 Chronicles 7:1, 2 Chronicles 7:11; 2 Chronicles 18:10; 2 Chronicles 20:23; 2 Chronicles 24:14; 2 Chronicles 29:17, 2 Chronicles 29:28f, 2 Chronicles 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:22; 2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:7; Esther 3:13; Esther 4:1; Esther 8:12; Psalm 7:10; Psalm 118:87; Proverbs 1:19; Proverbs 8:31; Proverbs 22:8; Job 1:5; Job 14:14; Job 15:4; Job 19:26f; Job 21:13; Job 33:27; Job 35:14; Job 36:11; Hosea 13:2; Amos 7:2; Micah 2:1; Joel 2:8; Nahum 2:1; Zechariah 5:4; Malachi 3:9; Isaiah 1:28; Isaiah 8:8; Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 10:22; Isaiah 18:5; Isaiah 28:22; Isaiah 32:6; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 55:11; Jeremiah 5:3; Jeremiah 6:11, Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 13:19; Jeremiah 14:12, Jeremiah 14:15; Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 41:8, Jeremiah 41:15; Lamentations 2:17; Lamentations 4:11; Ezekiel 4:6, Ezekiel 4:8; Ezekiel 5:12f; Ezekiel 6:12; Ezekiel 7:5, Ezekiel 7:15; Ezekiel 11:15; Ezekiel 13:14f; Ezekiel 16:14; Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 22:12f, Ezekiel 22:31; Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 42:15; Ezekiel 43:23; Daniel 5:26; Daniel 9:24; Daniel 10:3; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 12:7; Mark 13:4; Luke 4:2, Luke 4:13; Acts 21:27; Romans 9:28; Hebrews 8:8.

As you can see, there is a lot to track from the Old Testament, and the New Testament uses the same terms, to demonstrate continuity, and Precedence Change due to Fulfillment of Contract by Christ.

Then there's ἁγιάζω, to set apart, sanctify. Idea of being a full-time Temple slave (priest), irrevocable, due to Cross (versus mere ceremonial sanctification). These words are critical for tracking what is meant in Hebrews and Ephesians; but so too, for the other epistles. It's a position which gradually becomes a reality via πληρόω and τελειόω's operation.

Here are some of the main ἁγιάζω verses (you'll need to track the cognate nouns, too): Genesis 2:3; Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12; Exodus 19:14, Exodus 19:22f; Exodus 20:8, Exodus 20:11; Exodus 28:38, Exodus 28:41; Exodus 29:1, Exodus 29:21, Exodus 29:27, Exodus 29:33, Exodus 29:36f, Exodus 29:43f; Exodus 30:29f; Exodus 31:13; Exodus 40:8ff, Exodus 40:13; Leviticus 6:11, Leviticus 6:20; Leviticus 8:11f, Leviticus 8:15, Leviticus 8:30; Leviticus 10:3; Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 16:4, Leviticus 16:19; Leviticus 20:3, Leviticus 20:8; Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:12, Leviticus 21:15, Leviticus 21:23; Leviticus 22:2f, Leviticus 22:9, Leviticus 22:16, Leviticus 22:32; Leviticus 25:10f; Leviticus 27:14ff, Leviticus 27:22; Numbers 3:13; Numbers 5:9f; Numbers 6:11f; Numbers 7:1; Numbers 8:17; Numbers 16:16; Numbers 17:2f; Numbers 18:8f, Numbers 18:29; Numbers 20:12f; Numbers 27:14; Deuteronomy 5:12, Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 15:19; Deuteronomy 22:9; Deuteronomy 32:51; Deuteronomy 33:3; Joshua 7:13; Judges 17:3; 1 Samuel 7:1, 1 Samuel 7:16; 1 Samuel 16:5; 1 Samuel 21:6; 2 Samuel 8:11; 2 Samuel 11:4; 1 Kings 8:8, 1 Kings 8:64; 1 Kings 9:3, 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 10:20; 2 Kings 12:19; 1 Chronicles 18:11; 1 Chronicles 23:13; 1 Chronicles 26:26ff; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 5:11; 2 Chronicles 7:7, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Chronicles 26:18; 2 Chronicles 29:33; 2 Chronicles 30:8; 2 Chronicles 31:6; 2 Chronicles 35:3; Ezra 3:5; Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 12:47; Nehemiah 13:22; Psalm 45:5; Proverbs 20:25; Amos 2:12; Joel 1:14; Joel 2:15f; Joel 4:9; Zephaniah 1:7; Haggai 2:12; Isaiah 8:13; Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 29:23; Isaiah 49:7; Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 17:22, Jeremiah 17:24, Jeremiah 17:27; Jeremiah 28:27f; Ezekiel 20:12, Ezekiel 20:20, Ezekiel 20:41; Ezekiel 28:22, Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 36:23; Ezekiel 37:28; Ezekiel 38:16, Ezekiel 38:23; Ezekiel 39:27; Ezekiel 44:19, Ezekiel 44:24; Ezekiel 46:20; Ezekiel 48:11; Daniel 4:22; Daniel 12:10; Matthew 6:9; Matthew 23:17, Matthew 23:19; Luke 11:2; John 10:36; John 17:17, John 17:19; Acts 20:32; Acts 26:18; Romans 15:16; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Timothy 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:21; Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 10:14, Hebrews 10:29; Hebrews 13:12; 1 Peter 3:15; Revelation 22:11.

In the New Testament, Greek verb ἁγιάζω (or cognate) is never used apart from the context of Marital Intimacy. Idea of the Husband bonding and thus sanctifying the wife. Trace how the writer of Hebrews uses this word. He uses ἁγιάζω to prove what changed, especially in Hebrews 10. If you search the verb (or cognate) in the Old Testament you discover a remarkable fact: the Old Testament people did not get but a temporary and ceremonial ἁγιάζω. That's a major stress in his letter. Christ Entered Behind The Veil, thus Sanctifying us for All Time.

Point is, if now we are sanctified for all time (theme beginning in Hebrews 1), then the old covenant which offered only temporary sanctification in the first place, is replaced by a better covenant (κρείττων). The old one has been obsoleted.

That fact is used to setup Hebrews 11, which related this ἁγιάζω 'delay', to the terms of the Angelic Trial in history (which you cannot see in translation, because Hebrews 11:1 is totally screwed up, as noted earlier). That theme began back in Hebrews 2, as you'll see even in translation. So due to the Trial, and due to Israel's rejection, the Old Testament people have not yet inherited, because We Rescue Israel (Hebrews 11:39-40, the point of the chapter).

Do you see? Church Is Used Like A Mother. Christ was impregnated with our sins, and the intended wife refused Him. Instead of abandoning her, He 'builds' (banah, like Isha) a wife and then makes Her pregnant with His Thinking, thus sanctifying Her — and the pregnancy's Fruit (completion of Body) thus 'delivers' Israel. What a princely thing to do. What a wifely honor to have. Wow.

Next big Keyword, πίστις, a common term for Bible Doctrine You Learned And Believed, not so much the act of believing itself, is vital. It is another way of saying "the shemah", which is Deuteronomy 6:4-5. That's the first and always the sine qua non meaning of the noun, what you believe. Hebrew "shemah" means really to hear and believe because the Word is from God. See Deuteronomy 30, in addition to Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 7, Deuteronomy 9.

Cognate Greek verb is πιστεύω. All the of the New Testament, and especially James, make no sense if you misinterpret "πίστις" as your doing something; which misinterpretation, people routinely make. (Man always spins Bible to make it into a religion, so he can claim some credit before God.) So if you don't know that "πίστις" means Bible Believed, you will screw up Bible for the rest of your life; and almost no Christian you talk to recognizes this first meaning of "faith". Hebrews 11:1 is screwed up in translation, largely because they didn't remember what every lexicon (e.g., Bauer-Danker) stresses, that πίστις refers to Truth Believed. Well, they also overlooked that "ὑπόστασις" means "Christ" (Hebrews 1:3, contract definition), which is used in apposition to "πίστις", so means the Thinking Of Christ On Trial, is the Unseen Evidence In The Trial. Oh well.

πίστις/πιστεύω is the operator, the Divine Actor, the Holy Spirit putting Holy Word He Wrote in Christ — in you. So, you believe it; as a result, It Works For You, In You, On You: the same five infinitives (Isaiah 53:10-12). Just as those same five infinitives Did For Christ. So πίστις is what's πληρόω'd into you; when you are πληρόω'd enough, you become τελειόω'd, completed. You'll need to understand this mechanic especially when reading Hebrews, Ephesians and Romans, though all New Testament writers spend time on it. Gnostic teaching on "Pistis Sophia" is also thus burlesqued by the New Testament writers, by explaining this Real Mechanic of the Real Spiritual Life (the readers were familiar with gnosticism).

Hence, all the body-typology words are meant as thesaural ties to both ἁγιάζω and πίστις, to show you the big picture, What God Is Making. Especially, keywords like "surpassing" (ὑπερβάλλω, references what's on top of the Body, the Head, Christ to be in your head). Then there are the bazillion metaphors for what His Head is, like "Love", "riches", "glory", "truth": the Word Incarnate, see. So His Word we are to get, see.

Thus the Jews are alerted to the Old Testament terminology being flawlessly used in the New Testament, so they can securely know that God wrote the New Testament. For all these ideas — especially, πίστις — were key to the Old Testament spiritual lifestyle. Believe in God — that's how Abraham became Righteous (saved), Genesis 15:6. Every Jew knows that: trust in the Lord, be of good courage, and He will give you the desires of your heart (i.e., Psalm 27:14, Psalm 37:4). So now it's just a question of proving that "God" is Christ Jesus, the Adonai Elohenu, of the shemah.

Jews wrote the Septuagint. The post-Malachi books which are not Canon, are nonetheless in Greek. So Jews do know both languages, if they want to know them. The Greek terms are Hebraistically used, so again the fact that the words are in Greek, is no hindrance. It's easy to know what Hebrew words, the Greek represents. It's solely a Jewish book, at every turn.

Book of Hebrews is the easiest to track using the above keywords. Also, be alert for wordplay with "rest", "remnant", "remain", "stay", "faith" and "promise" (literally, "to seven", in Hebrew, refers to rest as promise, hence means promise/oath/to swear): they really help out the reader. Greek for all of these words is punny thesaurally, but the English words aren't, so you miss what he's saying: Church is the rest, the 7th 'day', of history, because Christ Has Rested From His Work. So there Remains A Promise (Hebrews 4) to Get His Thinking, so that We Get Completed, so that the Old Testament promise can be completed. Book keeps circling on this theme,

  • starting with His Session, and what it meant (Hebrews 1-2).
  • It's superior to the 'house' Moses presided over (Hebrews 3, understanding that 'house' is a People Under God, here a Royal House — see Greek of John 14:1-2);
  • It's a Divine DNA Conversion, getting "God's Blood" — blood always being a metaphor of Thinking in the Old Testament — of the left-behind "promise" of Brideship which Israel had rejected (á la their rejection in the wilderness, same kind of stubbornness), so we get it instead (Hebrews 4);
  • and We Have A New Covenant as a result (Ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη, in Book of Hebrews) which Christ Established, since He fulfilled the Law and thus the Law no longer applies (Hebrews 5-10).
  • So the Temple is about to be destroyed; will we fulfill the getting-Word-in-hearts promise (Hebrews 10:15-end)?
  • For it's the central Trial issue (Hebrews 11:1,6), one which has gone on from the beginning and Wraps Up History (rest of chapter);
  • therefore until we get completed in this Promise, they don't (Hebrews 11:40).
  • So, let us run the race (Hebrews 12)!

See if you can't tell the foregoing outline, even in translation, if you read the Book of Hebrews over and over. Key is that Rest/Remaining/Sevening wordplay. The other keywords mentioned above are very helpful, too.

So, the Copybook Race Remains: for a Groom is completed, but not a Bride. Vashti refused, so a no-racial-distinctions Esther (referencing Galatians 3:28, oh, what a sense of humor!) is to be sought among the highways and byways, Matthew 22. Church. Us. So Israel can still be delivered. So the prophecy sequence can Start Up Again, Once the Bride is Completed.

Because He First Fulfilled His Contract, The Precedence For Our Contract Changes To His Post-Fulfillment Status. That's the essential reason for the Contract Change. Upgrade. Not, His Pre-fulfillment status during the First Advent. For His Status, Changed. Again, the Consistency is that an Actual Offer had to be made. Again, it had to be made while He was alive. Again, it had to be paid for while He was alive (inter alia, John 17 shows He Agrees to Pay for as Many as Father Chooses to Make). Now you know why Paul talks about "mystery" in Ephesians 5:32. Now you know why the Lord uses the future, not present tense, in Matthew 16:18. Parallelisms must be carefully discerned, when evaluating Precedence. Bible is the most careful discerner of them all.

Hence our New Nature, 2 Corinthians 5:17: new-in-species, in Him. Not, in the Law. New Precedence Means New Contract: that's the central and advancing theme in the Book of Hebrews which you should be able to trace, even in translation. It's also dramatically illustrated in Ephesians 1, Colossians 1, 2 Corinthians 5, all of 1 Corinthians (which is about Body and Head, even 1 Corinthians 11 wordplay on hair). Keywords "the second", "promise" are most prominent in the Book of Hebrews. 1 Corinthians is too narrowly viewed. Look very carefully at the keywords Paul uses, and note that, even when he's truly writing about marriage or hair (not hats) — which is hysterical, since during this time he began to get goofy about a Nazarite vow — he's still drawing analogy to Head and Body; so that's how all those do's should be interpreted, in light of the whole doctrine of Head-and-Body; not shallowly, like whether you should wear a hat to church! For example, the point of 1 Corinthians 11, is about respect for authority. Hair is used in a culture to show such respect, namely some Muslim women (like the Corinthian women in Paul's day), veil themselves or have longer hair than their husbands. By way of extrapolation, respect is to be shown in all things. This, because the Christian isn't to flout societal rules, just because he's no longer of the world, get it? It's an ambassadorial rule, essentially. The other do's in Scripture are also for that purpose. We are not to be troublemakers, politically involved, etc. — for Our God is not like the other 'gods' people think they know.

Since Not-My-People are Now My-People (terms are in Hosea, Gentiles' prophecy tags), and since the Abrogation of the Old Contract is thus advertised, the Jews are — as you can imagine — a tad incensed. Just as, the Arabs born from Ishmael were pretty incensed to have to depend on Isaac, for any largesse. Tables are turned. But if you were interested in God rather than your ego, you'd appreciate the Grace of it, and would just jump right into the Promise. Gentiles did that back in the Old Testament, so Jews can do it now with the New Testament. Doesn't matter how you get in: God Loves You, else you'd not be breathing, and there'd be (of course) no Promise from any source.

We get built (clever term, Hebrew of Genesis, Isha was bana'd, built) by His Thinking, Ephesians 2-4. So to become Fit Bride, Ephesians 5. So to win the Angelic Appeal Trial/Conflict, Ephesians 6. What builds Church, builds history for the rest of time. For Christ Is History, and we are His Body, forever! It's positively hilarious how Paul is thinking of banah when he writes Ephesians 2-5, especially since he's tweaking Euripides' play, "Ion", to show God's Superior Building And Begetting.


Okay, but what is the status of the Jews during this phase of History? Well, think: in the first place, the Jewish Race Was Founded On Faith, not genes: Genesis 15:6, Romans 4, Romans 9, Book of Hebrews, all explain. And that, because the Promise Is Forever — eternal — so you gotta have God's life, to live with God, forever.

So, the genetic distinction is not the basis of the Promise being inherited, but the faith is (theme of Romans 9). So, two distinctions. First, genetically, Bible uses the term "Gentiles" ("τὰ ἔθνη", literally, "the nations") to mean anyone not a racial Jew; so, if you have a drop of Jacob's blood in you, you are Jewish. Well, sometimes "Gentile" is used figuratively. Jewish term is "goyim" and it's not exactly complimentary. So sometimes God calls the Jews "goyim", to show they aren't any better than those they demean. That's why the tongues warning in Isaiah 28 is used, for it mimics a Gentile pagan practice of ecstatic-gibberish-drunken-mass-orgy.

So, second distinction: faith is what made you Jewish, too. In fact, even if you were Jewish, if you didn't do what Abram did (Genesis 15:6), you weren't his kid even if you were his kid. Like Father, like Son. Like Father's Thinking, else no son is really a Son. The Jews knew that very well, and made a lot of wordplay out of it, like Isaiah 63:16 (can't see the wordplay in translation). The verse flips the fact of faith-fathering to render the conclusion, even if Israel repudiated us as its sons, you are our Father, Father. Really cool verse.

So the covenants to Abraham bifurcate based on these distinctions. If you parse out Genesis 12, Genesis 15, Genesis 17, you'll find a whole bunch of clauses which are not dependent on faith, but on bloodline. However, All Of The Eternal Promises Are Solely Based On Faith. Paul explains this in Romans using the "promise" concept, since the Promise Basis Is Eternal: a forever-life with El-Elyon, via a future Son who would pay for all the sins of the human race. Book of Hebrews does the same thing, since Only The Eternal Promise Was Conditional. The bloodline promises were unilateral and unconditional (read those Genesis Chapters, see for yourself).

Hence, the racial distinction never meant that a Gentile couldn't become a Jew by faith; and most "Jews" today are in fact of mixed race (i.e., the Exodus was maybe two thirds "mixed multitude"). Genesis 15:6, Romans 4, Romans 9 explain that it's the Promise Believed Which Causes The Eternal Inheritance. (If you read the Exodus account you'll realize that many nations, racially, were in the group of folks who left with Moses, and they are all called "Israelites", anyway. If you'll look at the Matthew and Luke genealogies in any detail, you'll realize that every race is included in the Lord's bloodlines. So no basis for antisemitism. So no basis for racial prejudice! See also Galatians 3-5.) Meanwhile, the other Genesis 12 protection covenants operate for all sons of Abraham, as those clauses explain. Believer, or unbeliever. Elaborating on Genesis 12's (and Genesis 17:5's) promise to Abram, Deuteronomy begins with a very careful delineation of what the Arab cousins, get to keep, in Deuteronomy 1-4. That will be helpful to know for those who think the Arabs ought to be wiped out. No can do: they are sons of Abraham, too. They also refuse to be the sons of the promise (assuming they remain unbelievers), but God Still Honors His Promise to their progenitor, Abraham. The Bible's promises to the Arabs are so superior to Koran's, it's not funny. Koran mocks its own believers, and is a deliberate parody of the Mosaic Law, point by derisive, satirical, fun-house-mirror point — how cruel. Satan & Co. hate all Abraham's kids. Amazing, how they don't catch on.

So, it should be easy to understand that just because now the Bride is to be called out from among the Gentiles, Jews are also included in that Call, Romans 11. That is, just as in the Old Testament, any Gentile (i.e., Rahab) who believed in Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echad was by faith a Jew; so also, any racial Jew who believes in Christ is part of "Church".

The woman is delivered by delivery (see also Revelation 12): just as God used the Jews to call the Gentiles, so Now also God uses the Gentiles, to call the Jews. (This prophecy is all over the Bible, actually. Pretty much every reference to Gentiles is referencing this prophecy. Isaiah 7 and Isaiah 28 are vivd examples: trace them in the New Testament. Paul's epistles will probably prove quite helpful, if you've a study Bible, in reducing your research time.) Precedence. Consistency. Fairness. Justice. Truth. God. For, the Ultimate Precedence God Uses, is the Cross, and Christ Paid For Everyone!


Ἰδού, 2 Corinthians 5:17! Behold, New Spiritual Species Has Arrived to Rescue Israel, even Right Now!

Again, note the Grafting Origin/Precedence of our So-Great Covenant: only only only Because Israel rejected its conditional Brideship Covenant — well, a sufficient number of Jewish believers refused to 'sign' it, so to speak — we get "grafted in" (theme of Romans 11): we get Brideship. We are to be wifely to Israel, since Our Lord is Her King. Hence, we will rule Gentile nations in the Millennium, complementing His Rule. Thus is Israel rescued, redeemed, saved. God keeps His Promises.

Note that well: this is about God Keeping His Promises. We get to be the grateful conduits, and as usual are also just dufuses weltering in our blood, Ezekiel 16:6, being nonetheless carried by the Holy Spirit despite the fact we stink (Isaiah 64:6). Israel got a big head over being chosen by God, and we will too: so we need to remember what Moses warned them in Deuteronomy about big-headedness (i.e., Deuteronomy 4:38, Deuteronomy 5:15, Deuteronomy 6:1-15, Deuteronomy 7:1, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Deuteronomy 8:1-4, Deuteronomy 8:11-20, Deuteronomy 9:1-6). Christians who are antisemitic will suffer the most, since we are given a Protector role, not merely a live-and-let-live role. God blesses those who bless Her, and curses those who curse Her, Genesis 12 (inter alia): so how much more will He curse one who is to protect, but curses? So many wanna-be-replacements of Israel out there, now. Guarantee of mental illness, to be antisemitic. Don't those rioting Arabs and other anti-Israel Muslims look positively wacko on social media and TV? That's why antisemitic 'scholarship' is so demonstrably insane — people who in 2005 'saw' La Virgen in a salt stain below a Chicago underpass, are much saner. Good thing the 'scholarship' is so bad: thus others who retain logic can better avoid infection! In recent times (2023 through 2025) you can observe how Satan has married Palestine activism and the LGBT community together even influencing both the progressive pride flag and Palestine's. And so, the very group (LGBT) that gets prosecuted and would be murdered in Gaza, 'suddenly' has an undying fealty to radical Islam and antisemitism through Palestinian activism. Very sick indeed.

Our role in regards to Israel, which God Alone Makes Happen (hence the need to live in God's System):

  • We are to rescue Her from any danger or enemies, whenever and wherever (precedence is the Good Samaritan rule, and Leviticus 19:18, expanded to the Royal Law of James 2:8, etc). Prosemitism is commanded (i.e., in Genesis 12). It's not an option.
  • We are to redeem her — the macro role of growing up, so the Promises to Her can be kept despite her rejection, Hebrews 11:40.
  • We are to 'save' Her — here, the Ambassadorship role of being witnesses, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Romans 9-12.

Each of these roles is technical, and requires a great deal of Scriptural knowledge, to properly execute, as we saw in the first "Ἰδού!" table. We need to know Bible well in order to show how the Old Testament is fulfilled. Christians don't learn Bible and instead insult Jews, so Jews are alienated, and thus remain outside. They are negative, too, which means it's not all our fault. But it doesn't matter whose fault it is: it matters that we get filled up with His Word, or the Promise will not be rescued. They deserve to know the truth, not be preached to, not have it shoved down their throat, and not be catered to, either. We should neither fawn over nor fault Israel. Very careful study and usage of Word is required.

Israel's problem is its blindness. Paul uses the cool analogy of a "fishnet" in Romans 11's Greek to explain that God is out to Catch her in our Net. Which after all, is a Better Offer than she had, Pre-Cross. So she wins, not loses, by believing in Christ. Problem is, she's insulted by a goyim "call" to her (Isaiah 28, fabulous Hebrew). She treated her favored status haughtily, and still does. So it's a delicate thing to do any of the activities above. You need all the skill of a diplomat, which is our role anyway ("διάκονος" means diplomat). Which means, a Mastery of Thinking and Words.

You'll notice from Romans 11 that the troublesome Roman Gentiles were kinda uppity about being grafted in. Since that's the same disease as afflicted the Jews (it's hard to be humble when you really are superior, okay), Paul really lets them have it in that Chapter. The sarcasm which culminates in Romans 12:1-3 is awesome. Paul's sarcasm is full-spectrum, from finessed to outright derisive, and being chewed out by him, sheesh: you know where you stand! So we are to Understand that this haughtiness is a problem we will have, in comparison with the Jews, so need to keep our own arrogances in more monitored by 1 John 1:9 check, than normally. Frankly, any witness situation is more a waiting for someone to ask you something, not you volunteering something. People always think that when information is volunteered, the one volunteering is pushy. We're all too bombarded with salesmanship, anyway. God will put people in your path. You don't need to seek people to witness to. So just prepare, learning the Word and living on it, daily. The most important thing you can do to protect people is just that. God blesses the world due to people growing up in His Son. No amount of human works can buy time. But God Grants Time and other blessings to the world, due to the spiritual maturation of individuals. Invisible.

What not to do: don't crusade politically on Israel's behalf (and what a surprise, notice how all of the Trump and MAGA people 'suddenly' have become obsessed with Israel). Isaiah has many verses about how Israel got punished because she went to Egypt or other nations for help, instead of praying to God, i.e., 2 Chronicles 7:14. Same is true for Christians. So the worst thing you can do, is to form coalitions of Christians who petition or march on Washington demanding more favorable treatment of Israel, etc. Go To God In Prayer. Else you are just begging Him to clobber you and Israel, for not reading what Isaiah said. Peace, peace, there will be no peace. Forget it. The politicians will not learn this lesson, but you as a believer must. You are Royal Family of God. You have clout. If you asked for all the terrorists to be rounded up and shot within a year — maybe God would do that. So you can pray for Israel to be defended. You don't need Caesar, you need your own spiritual life.

Most importantly, Israel needs to recognize that The Contract Changed. The Old Testament is chockfull of How the Change Works, so she doesn't have to even believe in the New Testament, to see the proof in the Old Testament; that's the proper procedure, anyway (you always validate what's 'new' by what's old in Bible, principle of consistency of Divine Writ). Of course, then she needs to see how the New Testament displays that Same Omniscience as the Old Testament, despite being written in Greek. But of course, if you don't know how, then you can't help. You also can't grow up spiritually, since it really is the Same God Who Wrote Both Testaments. For we all need to see the Faithfulness of God, and no translation can portray Him.

The second part of "Education" for the Jews which God provides, is real history. Vividly: for the visible evidence of the Contract Change faces both Israel and non-Jews, daily: the Dumb Dome (Dome of the Rock) and Wailing Wall, as covered earlier. She doesn't see that, so she's not going to look at us, either. As a result, there are the unavoidable holocausts and other evil persecutions: when that stuff happens, some Jews realize 'something's wrong' and hence Look Up, because it's our happy job to rescue them from their many enemies. At other times, Jews doubt their own faith, just like anyone else, so we need to be pre-informed of the change so we can answer any questions asked of us ("in season and out of season" 2 Timothy 4:2). What we never should do, is impose. And of course if we persecute or have bad attitudes toward Israel, we will reap the punishments due her enemies, Genesis 12. See? This is complex. Can't do it right if you aren't really Filled Up with the Word. This is a diplomatic post, 2 Corinthians 5:20.

So if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed and want to help her but can't — and even once you can — Pray. God alone has authority. So, Go to The Authority: Him. Be sure you are following Royal Protocol. For you are a Royal Priest, not like the Old Testament priesthood — but Higher. So you have a higher (and simpler, more awesome) role. So the Protocol is higher (and hence simpler, so you can do it All The Time). Phrase your prayer in your own words, don't do something canned which you recite; as an analogy it's like submitting a resumé template rather than filling it out with your details, to a potential employer. Canned prayers never go higher than the ceiling — see the parable of the Pharisee and the publican, and the other Gospel verses where the Lord talks about prayer. The "Lord's Prayer" is a guideline (template), not some chanting thing. God never regards it: the way people use that prayer spits in His Son's Face (use 1 John 1:9, ask Father to have Spirit guide you on this topic, if you're disturbed). God gave you the Holy Spirit's Brains — so use them.

Nerd Note: doesn't mean you can't come up with really good wording you understand, like, and think on while you pray. A well-worded prayer is a nuclear weapon against temptation while you pray. Don't you like it when something is well worded? Gives you practice in Thinking, not roteness. That's not 'canned', okay? But here's canned, and stupid to boot: the so-called Lord's Prayer. It's not the Lord's Prayer, even; His Prayer, is in John 17. Note how He does it. Again, the so-called Lord's Prayer was an outline to show the disciples something of the contents of Prayer Protocol, and even so, a good half of the prayer outline doesn't apply now ("thy kingdom come", for example). You don't repeat it mindlessly, like millions do every Sunday. Wood hay and stubble, that: you don't instruct God, you ask God John 14:14. And you certainly don't engage in roteness! What wife or husband enjoys the other spouse just rotely going along? So: your Heavenly Husband sure doesn't like it!

I probably pray a bazillion times a day, each one lasting but a minute or two. Over the years I've learned that the most powerful prayer I can pray is to incorporate by reference all of what the Lord says, my prayer should mean. And then I vote absolutely for whatever that is. It's not a rote prayer: I'm concentrating on it, and the prayer is new every time. So until you are comfortable with your own wording in prayer content, try that one, but phrased as you understand its import so you can concentrate on that meaning, when you pray. Note well, your prayer can be absolute in scope: the Lord said we can ask Anything in His Name, so why not ask for everything He wants? 😏. Remember, you have the Son's and the Father's Own Divine Righteousness, 2 Corinthians 5:21, So You Have an Absolute Status in Him. As if you yourself were God, no matter what a scallywag you are otherwise: you wouldn't even be allowed to pray, if you didn't have that Status, for then you would be too low for Him to Hear. So when Christ paid for you, His Status Changed; ergo, So Did Yours: per Contract. It's not your own faithfulness, but His which matters: "If You will Give Your Soul as a Substitute for Sin", Isaiah 53:11.

So let's next examine How The Prophecies For Israel Are Not For Church. Here we're focusing on the educational role of Rescue; and for Israel, the prophecies were how she was to tell Messiah Came, and Will Come Back; so we need to know them as well. If you don't know Israel-versus-Church-roles; if you don't understand the underlying nature of prophecy itself, then you can't very well answer any questions you might get, or do your other Wifely-Fulfilling Roles in the above "Ἰδού" chart's purple text.

Basically, We Are 'Hidden' Inside Their Prophecies, But They Are Not Inside Ours. Because, we have no prophecies. Our Job Is To Determine History, not prophecies.

Interpreting Prophecy and Who-Gets-What Key → All the covenants which were ever to be invented were Invented For Israel, Because Christ is Jewish, And Is Seed (theme of Galatians 3). So, just as the Samaritan woman replied to the Lord that even a dog can get crumbs from his master's table, so we also get the (gem!)stones the master builders rejected: Brideship. After that, there are No Covenants Remaining To Complete. The only thing remaining, is for Christ to be 'Complete'. (Body/Temple analogy, theme of Ephesians, namely, Ephesians 1:15-end and many other verses.)

So we are not in the Tribulation, which is a separate epoch, being simultaneously the last 7 years of the Jewish 'Time', as well as the ending 7 years of the "times of the Gentiles", Luke 21:24 (topic is covered even more, below); so the Bride must be completed before the Tribulation begins in order to be ready in time to gather Israel. So, Hebrews 11:39-40 yells this fact: "apart from us, they will not be completed". Greek is not vague like English: the Greek of Hebrews 11:40 strongly denies that they get anything unless and until we are "brought to completion" (Greek: passive voice of our friend τελειόω). Because there is no client nation Israel to accept Christ's Rule until the Second Advent, but the Tribulation resumes the last 7 years of (Daniel's timeline for) the Jewish 'Time' (Age), the Bride must be completed before the Tribulation begins. The writer of Hebrews in 11:40 tries to use that fact to light a fire under believers in Jerusalem, before Titus does.

Church Cannot Be In The Official Tribulation, Since There Is No One Eligible For 'Bride' During That Time, And Since That Time 'Belongs' To A Different Covenant. The very term "times" tells you Two Different Covenants (one per 'time') are subsumed: one Church ("Now", Bible keyword) and one Jewish. They are not the same. Israel never replaces Church, nor vice versa. Hence, Luke 21:24's "times", not 'time'. If you are still having trouble with the timeline, read Hebrews carefully (two dozen times or more, use 1 John 1:9 constantly); note how the writer distinguishes between the two covenants. The Brideship offer was to a client nation, Israel. Not enough of them accepted, during First Advent. No other client nation ever gets the offer. Church is not a client nation, but a group of individuals; when a sufficient number of those individuals reside in a nation, that nation is given a 'client' status, analogous to the Moses-Caleb-Joshua story, but it's technically not the same. Israel was the only client nation in history. So to call 'client nation', nations of sufficient-remnant Church believers, is an apt functional description; but not a legal status, permanently tied to a particular landmass and a particular people, as is Israel's. In the Tribulation, Israel is not a client nation either, but a people. Whatever its superficial political configuration has been since 70 AD, it is not yet regathered, because only Christ does that — at the Second Advent, not before. Isaiah 53-61ff, passim in Zechariah, Ezekiel 30ff, and Ezekiel 40 onward, explain. People who claim that the 1948 establishment of Israel is the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37 cannot read Bible. For at the Second Advent, all of the Old Testament people are resurrected. That's what the "dry bones" means in Ezekiel 37:4ff. People from the Old Testament. Amazing, how blind one becomes when he won't properly interpret Scripture.


Second Education Problem God Solves: Educate via Comparing Scripture to Observable History.

Daniel 9 and Book of Esther historically repeat, Right Now. History repeats itself, since God Orchestrates even Time itself, as a Corroborating Witness to the Word. Clearly only God can Orchestrate Time. If you spend time 😏 on the Mirroring Timeline Inset you will see just how Precisely God Orchestrates Time. Revelation's many horrors are also orchestrated repeats of the Exodus plagues. So indeed prophecy is playing right Now, but as a reminder, not something "new":

But the New Testament explains all of this. Because Israel Rejected Messiah, There Is No Replacing Covenant. So, "times of the Gentiles" meant that Israel was not God's covenanted nation during that time, nor was anyone else. Church is hidden, "mystery", and even that, only due to the 'leftovers' Israel spurned; and even that, on an individual basis. The "Body" we become is future; now, we're only forming. It's analogous to pregnancy, as Paul explains in Romans 8:11ff, Galatians 4:19, and other pregnancy passages. Corporate Body is not 'alive' as a unit until Completed. For as noted earlier, Satan's desperately trying to abort Christianity, so he can get a Mistrial.

Time hung in the balance, back in 586 BC. Note the parallel: Israel was in Diaspora then. So too, Now. Israel was ejected from the Land then, the Temple razed. So too, Now. Temple is not there. So Israel should not be there. This message, she heeded up until about 100 years ago. More about that will be said in the next division. Here, just grasp the idea that a Very Big Parallel is Demonstrably Played only by God, since none of us can roll back or cause, Parallel Time.

So, technically, people in the Tribulation Return to the Mosaic Law, Because There Is No Renewed Covenant. Just like Daniel in Daniel 9 (the precedent), they are Voting for one, Individually: enough of them have to complete too, to justify Messiah's Return (Revelation 6:11b). So, we're still talking 'leftovers'. Only the Memorial of the Law is left, and even then, only its Remaining Promises are left: the promises of deliverance despite the Tribulation. Promises made to the sons of Jacob. That's why the Revelation 7 'decree' tableau sealing 12,000 from each tribe, is used. Note that Jews are sealed, not the nation, and not Gentiles. When the Bible takes pains to be precise like this, it is to be interpreted literally. It's not rocket science to know when God uses analogy, figurative speech, symbolism, etc. Or, when He intends literal understanding. Every legal/literary document follows the same patterns of speech, and for the same reasons, too. Of course, some people want to imagine they are covered by that sealing passage, so assume they are in it. Weird.

Precedence: remember that white three-tiered chart in the Precedence section, with the a)'s and b)'s for Israel during the First Advent? Well, they Rejected Messiah. But, as we learned, there were enough people such that Christ could offer the "W" replacement covenant, even though the initial Brideship "X" covenant was rejected. A seed crop of people, existed for "W", but not "X". So also, there must be a seed crop on earth, for a Replacement Offer to be made. Every change in covenant occurs when there is no longer enough seed, to constitute a seed crop. ("Seed crop" is an agricultural term, and it's used in the Bible (i.e., Luke 8): that initial amount of seed a farmer needs to get a crop he can propagate into future crops.) In the Tribulation, the Replacement Offer which remains, is the offer to rescue Israel and regather her at the Second Advent. Again, all those hundreds of verses in the Old Testament, including flagship passages like Isaiah 61-63, Ezekiel 30-39, Zechariah 7 and Zechariah 12, etc. are still open: because, the Second Advent — hasn't yet occurred. We Church are the reason why that Replacement Offer can be made, even as Israel was the reason why Gentiles pre-Cross, could get The Same Offer. So: Once We Are Completed, Rapture kicks off the Tribulation. It's really pretty simple, once you trace the Contract Precedence and Terms.

So Father uses Church to rescue Israel because Father's Purpose For Church Is To Unite All History Through It, since it is Body to His Beloved Son. Since History effectively Finishes Its Building with Church, there is no need to offer Brideship afterwards. Paul in Ephesians 1-2 stresses this fact. (Greek is so dramatic it takes your breath away.) Since Israel is still the Nexus Nation, in which was born the Nexus Person of Christ; that middleman nation's own prophesied historical timeline will be used to stamp history. For, all history, all prophecy, testifies of Christ, Revelation 19:10.

Could God make Himself more obvious, than to take the most famous Freedom-from-Oppression Festivals, Chanukah and Purim — and then Tie them Together to the Messiah's First Advent? And make all that, the map of History Playing Now? Look: there are two Jewish Festivals which are not part of the Law, but are rather custom, based on Freedom Received: Chanukah and Purim. Chanukah commemorates the Abomination of Desolation of Antiochus IV Ephiphanes; "Two Stone Witnesses" covered something of the Dome's being a Repeat Reminder, showing Daniel 9:26 being fulfilled (more on that below). But Purim commemorates the other Freedom, freedom from antisemitism during the time the First Temple was destroyed. What the Book of Esther doesn't cover, is the aftermath, that Jerusalem was rebuilt: Book of Nehemiah covers that. So every year, both festivals are celebrated blindly, no one noticing that the very same Characteristics are Historically True Now, all due to Christ stating Matthew 16:18, and Daniel 9:26 (via Matthew 24). So because the First Advent is ignored, these other Vivid Historical Repeats go unheeded. All Confluencing Together. So it's not some Christian hallucination. It's God.

And why is God replaying Daniel 9 and Book of Esther? Precedence. Temple. Again, remember that the best known doctrines in Judaism, are about Messiah's Coming, which the Temple represents. Messiah was predicted to be born on the anniversary of the Temple's Foundation, in Haggai 2. That turned out to be 25 Chislev at sundown, which later in history became Chanukah. As for Purim, there would have been no Chanukah, had Purim not been put down — due to the discovery of Haman's conspiracy, via Esther. So both holidays relate to the Temple = Messiah, and there'd have been no Messiah, else. Can't divorce Messiah from Temple: but that's precisely what Jews are doing, today. So, they need 'advertising' from the Only One Who can use Bible + Real History, to do it: God.

So the Temple got its own 490-year lifespan, thus the world could continue for 490 years. But prematurely, apostasy was so bad, the Temple had to 'die' 126 years early: 950 BC - 586 BC is 364 years, not 490. So that's the first instance where Time Ran Out. Time is based on the Jews. So if Time runs out, then it runs out for the whole world: for the rest of the world, rejects God. Here, Israel did too. But remember the vocabulary about "promise" = "rest" = "remnant" in the first "Ἰδού" chart of this division? So, a "remnant" was in Babylon. And one guy in that remnant — Daniel — prayed. Prayer is always voting. Voting is Volition, so Precedence Grants It Value. So, based on one guy's vote — Daniel's — Time continued. Just one guy. One guy, Abram. Precedence. One guy, David. One guy, Daniel. So one Guy, the Christ Himself, was Contingent Upon Votes which had no 'prophecy' connected with them. The prophecy came as a result of their making history. So it's the history-making which generates the prophecy-making. For you have to get time, to have time to forecast something, right?

So, Precedence: one guy's vote bought time. So bought prophecy, since prophecy depends on time continuing. Borrowed Time, essentially. Financed, in advance, pending Completion of Messiah, Who By That Time Being Granted, would have to arrive and finish and pay by what we call, 30 AD. So notice the Precedence: first a Vote Makes History, in order for there to even be prophecy.

That being the case, then to communicate that yes, Messiah has Come and Left! the relevant, preceding, Precedental History Should Be Replayed, as a 'Stamp': to Communicate Where In Time, we are. So to know we aren't hallucinating Who "God" is. For only a Real God can really Orchestrate Time, replaying it as a video, to Exactly Match What Bible Says.

Again, Second Education Problem God Solves:
Educate via Comparing Scripture to Observable History — warring.


So Father stamps Earth's Trends During Church, with Daniel 9:26c — To thus Warn Israel, and the World

God knows how hopelessly pathetic we humans are. Yet, it's not right to manipulate us by doing doggy tricks. Yet, it's also not right to leave us stuck in our self-created insanities. So, God runs the weather directly (the four weather angels then enact upon those orders), using it to communicate — and often, in an uncomfortable way. So, He leaves all kinds of historical evidence for us to find, since we won't consult Bible. After all, the Bible's definition and timing criteria for the Rapture are plain, but we Christians still 'debate' it. So, as introduced at the end of the "Rescue" section,

Israel has a blatant 'sign' they won't see:
no Temple but a "remnant", the Wailing Wall;
plus, abomination over the Holy of Holies.
Just as long predicted in Daniel 9:26c, and Matthew 24.
If they won't see, all Old Testament warnings, govern;
Hosea 4:6 and Daniel 9:26c, govern;
Ezekiel Chapters 4-8, govern;
Hosea and Isaiah govern;
Zephaniah and Zechariah govern;
all of the Old Testament warnings govern;
so they will be trapped and killed
by the lure of its satanic rebuilding.

This section will cover that problem in more detail; additionally, God not only uses these Two Witnesses for the sake of Israel, but as part of an overall structure Making All History A 'Witness' To The Bible. Idea is, we are to consult the Bible to see that fact. Which no one does. So God has to make it obvious apart from Scripture; and we won't 'read' those signs, either. Which signs, must be Tribulational, since we aren't reading them.

Repeating: No Temple Means No Covenant To The Nation Israel Is Operating. Dome of the Rock being there makes this no-covenant status, even derisive. But, here we all are, blind, falling into Satan's trap, even though Satan & Co. kindly obliged us by raising up a Surrender (= Islam), so to surrender Israel's Holy of Holies, over to a Dumb Dome. Idols can't talk, you know, yet this one 'speaks' volumes! Yet who among the living ears, hears it?

The meaning of this Temple is almost completely overlooked by Christendom, even though many chapters in the Old and New Testaments, are devoted to it; every New Testament epistle uses LXX Temple words, to explain how the Living Cornerstone, Christ, is the Foundation for a New Temple made without hands and made of Living Stones. So, let's take a refresher course as to why the Temple is so important. Then we can understand why God uses its history, to Stamp All History.

In the beginning of Part 4 we saw the Legatee chart near the beginning, which summarized the story. But now let's go over the information again, focusing this time on just the role of the Temple. From there, we'll branch into more explanation on why the Church is not Israel, the role of Church. In short, all the previous themes will be threaded through together, here. For that's what Father is doing, Threading Everything Through Church In Order To Finish Weaving All History. As a Gift to His Son Forever.

See, from the very beginning of Israel's march out of slavery, God started telling Moses to make a House For Him. One of the many reasons why the Bible is unique among holy books, is this one: A Personal God. You can't find any holy book of any kind which depicts God the way the Bible does; and no greater "sign" of His Personal Nature is depicted, but that of this House. To become, a Living House: Genesis 3:15, Exodus 24-31 (the initial Temple Contract), 2 Samuel 7 (the Messiah contract tied to David and to Temple, cutting out Israel and grafting her into David); Jeremiah 3:16, John 1, John 14-17, Heb3, Ephesians 2, 1 Peter 2, Revelation 21ff, etc. Every other holy book depicts "god" as aloof, far away, capricious and unfathomable, more a collection of powers than a person. Not here. Every other holy book depicts sacrifices people make to the "god". Not here. Here, This One Will Sacrifice Himself. That's Why There Needed To Be A House, Because It Was A Promise He'd Come. The House represented, that Promise. Always, l'moed! Hence the line of Seth, literally, the Appointed, became the line of Abraham, literally, Father of Many Nations. And therefore the Christ, literally, the Anointed One (term is used in Daniel 9:25). The appointments lead to the Anointment. All this, is depicted by that House! IsraEl gets BethEl, because ImmanuEl!

יִשְׂרָאאֵל בֵּית־אֵל עִמָּנוּאֵל

For this God, is the Real One. So He Wants A House! First, as a Tent of Testimony, sign of the National Contract (AKA covenant) between Adonai and His Chosen People. So, He laid out elaborate instructions. Because, This Was To Be His House, God's School for Israel, where He would live and thus have Fellowship with them. Everything Associated With This House, Including All Its Rituals And Dress, Depicted Something In The Nature Of That Covenanted National Fellowship, that Covenant of Association. Principle: You Can't Divorce God Yet Keep The House.

Ezekiel 16 paints the poignant picture of this Temple Association's meaning: training up the House of Israel so she could become Adonai's Bride. It was common in ancient times for a King to be older, and for the bride to be affianced while still a child; then, she'd be brought up in his royal household, so that by the time she came of age for marriage, the customs, etc. of the royal house would be natural to her — and, she'd be a virgin. So an adoption, when young; so to become daughter-bride, legally (double claim on inheritance). Same as happened to Mary Queen of Scots, when she was little: she was betrothed as a child to the heir of France, so grew up in France, and her French King husband, died young.

The Goal, Psalm 111: Israel as a Nation had to 'grow up' under God's Tutelage (Paul talks about this in Galatians 4; Hebrews 3-4 is a parallel); After Which, She Would Become His Bride, His Priest Nation, Forever — the priesthood would upgrade to the kata Melchizedek level (Psalm 111, in context of Psalms 109-110, David claiming that promise to get through his suffering). So If She Didn't Grow Up, The Betrothal Was Abrogated. See, you could be married off when you were five years old, and if anything happened between that time and the time you officially married (usually age 30, sometimes younger), the entire contract was abrogated. So it is, here. (Side note: in Jewish law, the contract had pre-official-marriage conditions, which if broken annulled the marriage. That is what faced Joseph when he found out his betrothed Mary was pregnant.)

So the Promise of Jeremiah 31:34 is in Abrogated Status. NASB (1995), translates that verse as follows (highlighted portions are my corrections to the translation):

"They will not exhort each other, each man to his neighbor and each man to his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord', for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the Lord, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

And Hebrews 10:15-17 explains that Church got that promise, because Israel refused: verse 16 is badly translated in all Bibles.

Now that verse in Hebrews, is a repeat quote from the LXX of Jeremiah 31:33 (LXX is Jeremiah 38:33); but Jeremiah 31:33 of the Hebrew (Masoretic, AKA "BHS") text, has the most awesome wordplay, which the LXX neatly subsumed under the Greek double entendre, "την διάνοιαν αὐτῶν". The Hebrew text goes like this: "בְּקִרְבָּם וְעַל־לִבָּם אֶכְתֲּבֶנָּה". Now the Bible always plays on nuances in the original language text, so you have to look at literal meanings and etymology. Here, "beqirebam", usually translated "in their minds", is really, "in their inner parts/midst", because the noun is qereb, and means both the inner life (the thinking of the soul), but also in the midst of a group; so, "in their midst". But also qrb is a root for the Sacrificial Animal, from which comes "qorban", meaning 'dedicated to Temple'. Idea of the inner parts of the animal being sacrificed and burnt, whether whole burnt offering (holocaust, for the sins of the people in general), or taken out and burned separately. Depicting, how man cannot save himself, so the thinking (inner parts) of the Savior-to-Come will pay for them.

So next note "wallibbam", which is translated "on their hearts", but the "al" is our friend "ala", going-up. Idea that what you believe goes 'up' to God, like the smell of a burnt offering. It's related closely to "ola", the burnt offering itself (the smell of which goes up to God). So next, "ekttabenah", which is translated, "I will write". So when you take the double entendre into account, you get: Him coming up to God from amidst them — on Whose Heart, site of circulating thought, God will write His Thinking and our sins, Isaiah 53:10-11. This kind of embedding of meaning is real common in Bible, but no translation can capture it, since it relies on sound, word proximity, cultural relationships and etymology. But no Jew could miss this, unless he's not interested in looking. Every New Testament writer makes much of this clause in Jeremiah. Paul references both it and Isaiah 53:10-11 in very close proximity, in almost every verse he writes. The entire Book of Hebrews is about the relationship between this verse in Jeremiah, and Isaiah 53:10-12. John takes a more finessed approach, stressing how we are the Temple now — but using John 15 (which everyone knew about, long before John penned it), the "abide in Me", Vine and Branches discourse — in the midst of Him, we Church are now (effective present tense of μαρτυρέω, Hebrews 10:15); and apart from Him, we have no brains, John 15, Romans 5-8, 2 Corinthians 5. Only God is this Loving, and this smart!

Since this Jeremiah passage is directly about writing on us, and every Jew knows the Torah is supposed to be in and on the head, 'written' in one's thoughts, well — do you see the double entendre of "בְּקִרְבָּם וְעַל־לִבָּם אֶכְתֲּבֶנָּה " in the very midst of the words of that clause? Only God is this smart.

Now you know why Abram was willing to have his yet-unborn sons go through 400 years of slavery, if they could get to be with, in the midst of, El-Elyon. Who now was telling Moses, to build Him a house! So He could 'live' there, first as Shekinah Glory filling the Tabernacle, then later tenting among us as the Human Lamb of God Who Will pay for all the sins of the world, John 1. Rising up to God from the midst of Israel, so Israel could get His Mind in their inner parts. "I have stored Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You", wrote the Psalm 119 people on their death march to Babylon, a generation after Jeremiah started preaching. Earlier, David had said, "How Precious are Your Thoughts, Oh Lord!" in Psalm 139:17.

But Israel was unfaithful to Him; past is prologue; so we are unfaithful to His House, too. Look at what history, preceded and precedented, Church: While Moses was yet up on Mt. Sinai, getting the Tablets but more importantly, the description of the House, Israel played the harlot with the ol' time religion of that day, Egyptian-style calf worship. Golden calf. (Phallicism was mandatory, in most religions of that time.) So, got punished. So, got punished for 40 more years, until enough had grown up to go into the Promised ('sevened') Land. Once there and settled, she almost immediately began imitating the people she was supposed to replace. Judges records this sad story. The last of them, Samuel, was told that Israel wanted to just plain be a nation like all the others: with a human king, not The God Who Would Become Human. Rats. So, Ever-Patient, He gives in, and Saul is appointed. Saul doesn't work out, though. So, in comes David, "anointed" king by Samuel while still a teenager; a shepherd boy whose family doesn't even like him — that's why he's a shepherd — whose God does like him. For David had been Learning Him, since forever. So, down to the Battle, down with Goliath, down with Saul and up with David. It takes something like 20 years, if I remember properly, for David to come into his kingdom. He grew up, see.

So, King David wanted to Build A Permanent House For His Beloved Adonai, especially since He gave David the Unilateral Promise that Messiah would be born from David's loins. God even picked out the Holy of Holies — the very site where Isaac was almost sacrificed, a huge hunk of bedrock which at the time David surveyed it, was a threshing floor. Atop Mount Moriah, soon to be renamed Mount Zion (Genesis 22:2, 2 Chronicles 3:1). That Rock is famously known as Petra, in the Greek, depicting the Rock of their Salvation; even as Abraham almost-sacrificed his adult son Isaac (who was 25+ years old, then) at God's command, to emulate Father's sacrificing His Only Son-to-Come. The rest of the Temple, was to be built around it.

But, David was not to build the Temple, because he was a warring king. Temples mean peace, see. So what must no Temple mean? Warring. Specifically, Daniel 9:26c & the Book of Esther. Reconciliation. Shalom. Shalom first means prosperity, which of course presumes peace. Reconciliation is its deeper meaning, Prosperity/Saved/Peace with God Himself. So Temple means Shalom, For God Is With Us. No Temple means no shalom, For God Is Against Us. Us, then meaning the Nation Israel. For the promise to David, was the promise to a king, of a Future King from his own bloodline, One Who Would Rule Forever. Kings rule nations, see. So this Promise of a Temple is all at once a promise that All The Covenants Will Be Fulfilled In This King-To-Come, And That There Will Be A Nation Israel Which He Will Rule. Forever.

So, the job of building God's House, was given instead to his son Solomon — his name is a variation of "Peace", actually. A Greater and more elaborate building, had not been made, apparently, for people came from all over to see it. It was the pride of Israel, their comfort, their joy, because God really mattered, then. Above all, the Temple symbolized God With Us — downpayment on the Incarnation of Messiah-to-Come. "Messiah" means Anointed One, meaning King. King-Priest, actually, Psalm 110:1ff. So, notice how this King-Priest is not Levitical (big theme in Book of Hebrews). So someday Israel was to become a Priest Nation, no longer a nation under God with only sons of Aaron, as priests. It was the Big Promise, Total Intimacy with Adonai Elohenu, Adonai, Echad. Well, so long as Israel listened to Him.

Pause here, if you will, and digest the enormous significance of this fact. Israel was In Training To Become An Entire Priest Nation. Presently, it had its own priests — but if it grew up, Everyone Was To Become A Priest Under The One Who Would Add Humanity To Himself. So, think: to Whom are they eventually, to be priests? Certainly not to the One Whose Deity was depicted by the gold covering the Ark. He Himself was going to Add Humanity to Himself so He could be King-Priest of a Priest Nation — to Father, duh. The Same God as Would Receive The Ransom, as depicted by all those sacrifices. Do you see how blind Israel is, today? Every Saturday some Torah portion is read by the congregation — every congregation in the world reads the same portion. Yet, reads nothing. How can they miss this? It's not as though Psalm 110:1 weren't well-known (see Luke 20:40-44).

But, how do we also miss the real meaning of "Trinity"? How can we even imagine that Godness is anything but Three Independent, Co-Equal Gods? We have the same 'Torah' as the Jews. How can there even be a Jehovah's Witness or Apostolic "oneness" insistence by anyone, when the Sacrificial Law in Israel is so plainly Three Gods? Satan's blinding, that's how we don't see this blatant fact. That's how we don't see Father was the Person Who got the sacrifice, Son was the Sacrifice (depicted by the animal being blemishless), and Spirit was the One Who Empowered all that ritual, to become spiritual information (hundreds of verses on this in Old Testament, usually ruach-YHWH as His Title). So shame on Israel, shame on us: Romans 11 isn't only about the blindness of Israel, but of those who emulate her.

So imagine how much worse the grief was on Paul (see Romans 9, makes you cry just to read it). So imagine how much totally worst it was on the Lord when He was down here, seeing the blindness in His Own Brothers, in the Pharisees — well, Mark 3:5 says it all. Pity Satan is so jealous of the Lord's Love, he had some translator make out the "anger" there, as if it were the Lord's. (Classic example of how to tell a verse is mistranslated: the translation always maligns God, and glorifies man. Pitiful. There are at least a dozen other verses in the New Testament using meta+ a noun object, which prep phrase refers back to its closest antecedent noun, acting as an adjectival phrase, for that antecedent noun; these other verses recognize the closest rule, so are rightly translated. So how could the translators suddenly misconstrue Mark 3:5 as the Lord being angry? The nearest antecedent noun is the Jews, not Him. Oh well.) The people were angry at Him, and He felt sorry for them in response, so healed that guy's withered hand, to show what sabbath really means: Rest in Him. Come home to Scripture, Israel, and I'll come back to you! This Come back to Me! is the most common type of verse in the Old Testament. Read every Sabbath, blindly. Kill me now.

So, from the beginning, Moses had laid out with the Nation Israel the Conditional Terms of their Fellowship with Adonai:

Solomon's Temple was destroyed in 586 BC. Going into the Babylonian captivity with Nebuchadnezzar were some of the Royal Family, one of whom was a very devout young man named Daniel. There were no sacrifices, because no Temple. They observed the dietary laws, which weren't spiritual, but were reminders of Him. They thought about Him all the time, as evidenced by Daniel and Psalm 119. So, even though the national covenant was abrogated, God prospered His People. Still, no Temple meant no nation Israel, so the covenantal promise, was in abrogated status. So the question was, when would their punishment end, and fellowship on a National level, resume? Daniel, in Chapter 9, is heartsick over it. The chapter opens with a long introductory explanation of why the Temple was destroyed, via Daniel's Naming The Cause (= Psalm 32:5, Psalm 66:18, 1 John 1:9). By this we are to understand the explanation is Paradigmal Of Any Temple Destruction. All the other prophets repeated this explanation in many ways, long beforehand.

God of course not only answers Daniel's immediate petition, but gives him the entire Temple History in Daniel 9:25-26. Note: the Temple's History is the Nation Israel's History, because both depend on Messiah's History. Text is problematic in the LXX (scribes make mistakes, etc). Translations prefer using the Masoretic text. The closest 'canned' translation I can find is (oddly enough) in the New Living Translation. It goes like this (highlighted words is my addition):

"NLT Daniel 9:25-26 Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times. After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed*, appearing to have accomplished nothing; and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood (of troops), and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end."

*killed is "cut off", as in foreskin; so, Cut A Covenant, Cut off Without Descendants, are all additional meaning layers.

Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

Things then came to pass precisely as the angel (Gabriel, not Michael, since the latter is the Angel of National Israel) explained to Daniel. When the Babylonian captivity ended, Zerubbabel and others returned as God had promised Daniel, and right on time, too. In fact, Zerubbabel was dragging his heels to rebuild it, so just as He did to Moses before, the Lord bugged Zerubbabel to do it. Thereby, leaving for all posterity, the principle: if no Temple, then no covenant, no blessing to the Nation. For, if you look at Haggai 1, the Lord explains that He was withholding rain, etc. Because His House Wasn't Being Built. Very witty language! Gives one pause, for we are Living stones. So if we aren't being built, ouch!

So, the Second Temple was built. Then, just as God had foretold, and Right On Time, the Second Temple was destroyed, in August of 70 AD. Even history corroborates the dates, now.

Note how in Daniel 9:26, the Temple is not to be rebuilt again, after Messiah is killed. So because Messiah Came And Left, no Temple. No more Mosaic Law. It Got Fulfilled By Him. So the next rebuilding is at the Second Advent, and not before (see Ezekiel 39-end book, very detailed). Galatians 3, Romans 9, and Book of Hebrews spend a lot of time on the significance of this, while the Temple is still standing, so that the people will be reminded of the Daniel timeline and its meaning. Of course, Jeremiah started his book forecasting the eventual razing of the Temple, and how they wouldn't miss it (Jeremiah 3:16), because the Word would be Incarnated then; in His Heart, and therefore could be in their hearts (Jeremiah 31), so the 'heart' of the Temple, became a Person. Book of Hebrews picks up on the Jeremiah meaning and threads it through the epistle.

So you know that the ruler in Daniel 9:27, is not the same person as in Daniel 9:26; because Daniel 9:27 talks about sacrifices being stopped. So there is a Fake Temple, not by God's approval, since the Latter doesn't approve until the Second Advent (Ezekiel 39ff). Moreover (in the original text, not so clearly in English) Daniel 9:27 is the 70th week, itself a verse distinguished as a separate 'seven'.

So We Have A Gap In Time Between The Temple Destruction After Messiah Is Killed, And The 70th Week, AKA the "Tribulation", in popular lingo. So Daniel 9:26c (the highlighted ending of verse 26) Is The Stamp Of History Until And Including Daniel 9:27. But! Notice how Daniel 9:26c is not a 'seven', and not time-defined. Of course, many other verses in Scripture elaborate on the meaning, here. To say 'seven', by the way, is first to mean a Promised Time Period, because Hebrew "to seven" refers to God's Promise(s), i.e., prophecy. It's also interpreted to mean a 'week' of years, but that's an additional layer of meaning. What's most important, is the Promise of it. In short, the very usage of "seven" is chockfull of wordplay, as in rest day, end, finish, Promise, etc. going all the way back to when God "rested" on the 7th Day, the Sabbath (meaning 7th). 'Seven' is God's shorthand and witty way to state completion: of the Christ, of the promises to Israel, of History. New Testament threads through this 'seven' meaning in a number of ways. For example, Book of Hebrews, written circa 68 AD given Hebrews 13:23, is structured around this 'seven' usage, to Warn Of The Temple's Upcoming Destruction, and to Warn that the Covenant Had Changed. So the readers could Escape The Destruction (Hebrews 10:36-39).

So to a Jewish guy in Diaspora, God sent a comprehensive Wrap Up Of History, showing how Gentile domination follows the Successful Completion of Messiah; and thus the subsequent Temple Destruction is Evidence That Messiah Finished (Daniel 9:25-26). No Temple Will Again Be Built (Daniel 9:26) Until He Returns (Ezekiel 39-end of book). Only wars and rumors of wars, until He Himself returns (Matthew 24, Daniel 9:26). Really, it's impossible to miss!

The Lord has all of this future in mind, when He speaks that so-witty, so astonishing, So-Committing Himself, Matthew 16:18. Parallel passages on the same event are in Mark 8:29ff, Luke 9:20ff, and most poignantly in John 6:60ff. Background: as you'll see most clearly in John 6, the Lord's popularity had quickly worn out, because He had explained He was the Real Bread: His popularity began to sour as soon as He heals a paralytic on the Sabbath, in John 5.

So in Matthew 16 (etc.), the disciples have just returned from going all around Israel, sent on Jesus' behalf to tell the people about Him. This is voting reconnaissance. At this point, there should have been a large number of people who not only knew He was Messiah, but who wanted Him as Savior. They all knew David was 30 years old when he became King of Hebron. They all knew the shepherds' reports. They all knew of Herod killing all those babies, for crying out loud. So no one in Israel didn't know Messiah was born.

So everyone in Israel had 30 whole years (!) to review Scripture, to think out how they felt about it: for they should have known He wouldn't Appear until, like David, He was 30 years old. When Saul was killed at Gilboa, word came to David about it from a guy hoping to cash in on bringing David the crown. Instead, David executed the guy, and issued a proclamation to see Who Would Vote Him King. Judah did, then Hebron, and it took almost 7 years longer for the rest of Israel to accept him. So, it was known that the Messiah would proceed in the same way. Couldn't miss it. Had enough time. No excuses.

Remember, people entertained themselves by talking; their jobs were largely physical, so the brain was relatively free to think and talk; they didn't have some podcast blaring in the background all the time to drown out thought. So, they played with Scripture, all the time. They did it while weaving, bathing, eating, just like Moses said they should, in Deuteronomy 6, Deuteronomy 9, etc. When you get up, while you are up, when you go to bed, teach your children, wear strips of leather to remind you to think Torah. Which was a delightful thing to do, much as your favorite music or books: Bible's words are downright witty, delicious, in the original language texts. So everyone knew well the prophecies.

So, by Matthew 16, He's hearing the intelligence reports; obviously people don't believe in Him, or are confused. So, He asks the disciples who they think He is. So, in Matthew 16:16, Simon/Kephas blurts out, You are Christ, Son of Living God! Greek monadic articles either need to be stripped out in translation to preserve in English, the Greek official stress; else, you'd have to stick "The" in capital letters where each one belongs: "The Christ, The Son of The God The Living", literally. Notice how after "Christ", Peter also trebles the articles to show Identicalness and Trinity, a strong way to say Christ is God the Son as well as uniquely-born Son, so as God, Co-Equal with Father. See also 2 Corinthians 13:14. This was what the Pharisees hated: "Son" was known to mean Godness — the very Ark depicted Godness via the gold, and Humanity via the wood. Trinity was known and believed, "Messiah" has always been taught as God-Man, that's why the shemah (Deuteronomy 6:4) is so witty. And that's why they sought to crucify Him, for claiming to be God the Son. See John 5:17-18. They believed in a "Son" — but like Isaiah says in Isaiah 53:2, "Oh No, not Him! (as the Incarnation)" That's a modern English idiomatic translation of the "wa lo toar Lo" clause, though Isaiah is reporting it as indirect discourse, the popular reaction when He comes.

So the Lord responds in kind, Matthew 16:18, translated directly from the Greek: "Thus I call you, Little-Rock (πέτρος); in fact upon This Big-Rock (Πέτρᾳ pointing to Himself), I will build my Church..." What wit, playing on Isaiah 61:4, and in context of that whole long prophecy! No wonder a yet-to-be-saved Paul, would weave the Isaiah prophecy with Matthew 16:18, then wrap the whole thing in a brilliant tweak of the Greek play "Ion", to write Ephesians, especially Ephesians 3:21! For in its Own Time, just as Isaiah 60:22 explained, He will hasten (word has birthing overtones) 'her'. Time. 😏

What love! See the 'Seven' of History, the Promised One, Messiah/Petra/Rock of their salvation, "Πέτρα" being an Old Testament LXX keyword. Christ had surnamed Simon when He first met him, "Kephas", John 1:42. That's Aramaic for Little-Rock (like the city), Little-Stone, Stone. (Think of "Stone Phillips", formerly of NBC's Dateline.) πέτρος means the same thing as Kephas, a chip off the Bedrock, part of Petra. Renaming is a form of adoption, and hence a form of "announcing a change in Covenant". So here, note the switch to Greek, the language of the Gentiles, "πέτρος". Note also that ἐκκλησία (Church) is likewise in Greek, a clear replacement of the Mosaic Law's "synagogue"; so a New Priesthood is being inaugurated (the later focus of Book of Hebrews). New covenant, therefore, because Groom is rejected.

No wonder the New Testament inspired original language texts, were written in Greek. Clearest way to play on this verse. Best language on earth, so replete with god-man cultural concepts from way back in the Mycenaean age, to use for explaining the Real God-man's Legacy for us. No wonder the New Testament writers love the wordplay! For to see this Greek language be used to explain God's Superior Begetting in Christ (Isaiah 53:10-12, LXX + BHS texts), was downright insulting! Yep, and Israel was very insulted when the Lord began to explain all this to them from Matthew 16, onward.

Note the future tense in Matthew 16:18: "I Will Build". Ουπω, Not yet! First, the Due Diligence Disclosure Warning of the Bridal Contract with Israel being in default, must be presented. And first also, the Groom has a Cross ahead of Him. That's why the rest of Matthew 16 reads as it does, with Him charging them not to reveal He's Messiah, and what will happen to Him. If you read the other Gospel passages related to this (i.e., John 6 onward), you'll see there was recognition and refusal of who He was, from the moment He admitted He was Messiah, the Bread of Life. So they were supposed to decide of their own free will: for, to call Him "Lord" or "Christ" was at once a Yes Vote. The disciples were not supposed to influence that with the titillating news, He's Really the Messiah!

So the replacement Bride Will be Built On Christ (not Peter, 🤣), at this point. The woman in the Garden was built after Adam and from Adam. So, this new Woman will be also built from the Groom Who is the Last Adam. For He is The Cornerstone, the Foundation which the Master Builders (Israel) Rejected, the Stone of Stumbling, the Rock of Offense. (See Psalm 118:22, Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:11, 1 Peter 2:7; Isaiah 8:14, Romans 9:33, 1 Peter 2:8. See also the end of Ephesians 2.) Thus He's telling Israel that they play Vashti, and Announces Abrogation of the Bridal contract is imminent, via parables. If you keep reading in Matthew, you'll see He's explaining all this to the Jews, so they can 1) change their minds about Christ, 2) Get in the New Covenant, and be Part of the New Esther (remembering what He said after He dies); or 3) Get Trampled Down In The Upcoming Temple Destruction, Matthew 24 (see also Luke 19:44 in context). Very dense confluence of all Old Testament prophecy, here in this one verse, Matthew 16:18! As in all prophecy, it warns, punishes, and reassures. Awesome mastery of Scripture. Awesome Responsibility Accepted by Him: see John 17.

Most awesomely, Christ commits to pay for Untold Billions Of Future sins of People Not Yet Born. And He does this, to Rescue Time in order to Rescue Israel despite herself. It is impossible to overstate His Commitment. He Raises the Cost of the Cross! It's Passover 29 AD, when the Lord makes this Commitment. As we saw in "M" of the "Bible remains a Mystery" section, Satan claims God should have issued a Mistrial Verdict when Israel rejected Him; Satan should have won, right then and there. But His Commitment being so impossibly high, Satan consented. So He invents Church upon Himself, so her Contract is as difficult as His. No precedent for that, except Him. And He invents and invokes Church, based on His King-Priest kata Melchizedek contract with Father, from eternity past (i.e., Psalm 110, explained in Book of Hebrews). But the cost (!) on the Cross, who can even imagine it? That's what He's doing here, committing to pay for billions of people in advance — including the sins that continue from everyone in the Lake of Fire. He ratifies this commitment in John 17:20-21. Takes your breath away.

So, now: shift time forward, and pretend it's 30 AD, and Christ has Just been Seated (that's how Book of Hebrews opens). Put yourself in God's Place, since if you love Him you want to see through His Eyes. You did all this very careful forecasting, let everyone know in advance, fulfilled all those impossible prophecies about His First Advent (!) but still You are rejected. Your Son, King of Kings, now — He is rejected. Do You depart from what You planned to do? Or, keep on going? Well, as Faithful God, You Keep On Going. With the same message, same warning, same parameters. Precedence. Justice. Love. Especially, since You'd long ago set the precedent, i.e., in Isaiah 28. Blah-blah-blah speaking people sounding as drunk as you really are, Samaria — They Will Become Your Warning, And You Will Become Their Slaves. Frequent refrain, among all prophets from Dan to Beersheba, from Samuel to Malachi. Not pretty. Not to be missed. Oholah and Oholibah (Ezekiel 23, but start in Ezekiel 16).


  • So Father decrees Jewish history as the map of history, the stamp of History, because Messiah is the Culmination of History (Ephesians 1:10, Greek, also Romans 10:4).
  • So Father 'maps' the inserted history for Church the same way. Just as promised, since Daniel 9. To advertise it.
  • Specifically, Daniel 9:26's last clause: "The end will come with a flood (of troops), and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end."

For the prophecies themselves, were already given Israel; God never gives prophecies to anyone else. Strictly speaking, Church wasn't begun by a prophecy, but by Jesus the Christ's Advance Affirmation and Election, Matthew 16:18 and John 17. So notice how we become a prophecy to be fulfilled thereby. Of course, it's a Mistrial if our numbers do not complete. So this is more than just a prophecy to fulfill. All the rest of time, depends on it.

God never welshes on His Gifts and Promises, and that's what's really on Trial. In fact, this is how He Completes His Promise, why Revelation 4:1 twice notes the Door opening into Heaven: that's us Church, going up. For at the Ascension, He split the veil/door of the Holy of Holies, and thus becomes the "Way" to God, Hebrews 6-10. So we go through that door in our 'Ascension', Revelation 4:1. We got mapped in, grafted in, and then leave, because Christ is risen, and we are going up to Him Who Preceded us. All this, without altering the promised trends on earth during the 'end times' as Daniel (and other prophets), explained. For prophecy is Jewish, not Church. For The Seed is Jewish, not Church. So prophecy heralds Christ (Revelation 19:10, multiple double entendres), not Church. We aren't heralds, we are Body.


Nine Advertising Parallels God Employs between First Advent and Church, to Rescue Israel and the World

Advertising Parallels 1 and 2: Imminency And Invisibility

So the "Rapture", really "exit resurrection" (ἐξανάστασις in Philippians 3:11), is Parallel to the 1) 'imminency' of the First Advent and the 2) invisibility, of the Ascension. So, add these up: you get an Extension of the First Advent (1 John 4:17) but with the characteristics of imminency and invisibility, the "sign of Jonah". Just as the Lord promised, in Matthew 12:49, Matthew 16:4, Luke 11:29-30. Note the irony: while it is true that Israel was required to predict His Coming ever since David died, as we saw just before the A Syncopated Prototype of the 'Tribulation', begins, during the time He's down here, it's up to Him How Long He Lives: "I lay down My Life" clause, John 10:15-17. So in that sense, His Life is imminently ending, can happen any second — even though, He had a deadline for dying which Israel was also required to know, the 1000th anniversary of David's own death: that's when Time was (initially) to End, if He didn't finish successfully. So Time would end whenever He did die, if unsuccessful. See the parallel?

Next Parallel, Invisibility: as covered extensively in Part 3's four Reasons for Invisibility, thought is invisible, playing before Heaven and known to you, but not to anyone else unless you choose to express what you are thinking. So in the Trial, it's all visible and predictable — but not to people on earth. So too here: like Him, we are down here Now, and while our departure date is known to God — no one down here is given that date.

Ergo His Precedence is the reason for the Imminency and Invisibility parallels to His First Advent, which we Church, represent. The Jews didn't accept Him. So it's as if the First Advent, isn't over. Yet, Christ did complete, so He left. So if you add up the Legal Facts that a) they Rejected, but b) He Accepted, you get what's still Open: the Message He gave While Still Down Here, mainly for Israel's sake (see Hebrews 3-4, which uses this legal a) & b) rhetorical structure); and, the Result Of His Ascension, the bride price of His Spiritual life, from which (get this wit) Father makes a Bridal Dowry prior to marrying us off to Him at the Rapture, theme of Ephesians 1. So the Divine Benefit Plan Rerouted Blessing, So The World Could Continue To Hear The Call To The Wedding — to be the Bride at that Wedding! Now, Israel is to understand that it will be but friends of the Groom, once the Millennium begins. But if Jews Now believe, they will still be part of 'Bride' — so the Old Testament Promise is not only Still 'on', so to speak — but is Now Upgraded. They get "better things" (keyword to explain this in Book of Hebrews, Attic κρείττων). Because the Trial, is about who's better: God, or Satan (see how Hebrews 11 explains that). The rest of the world, the τὰ ἔθνη, the goyim, get to be in that Same Bride, Now. Again, owing to Israel's prior refusal. However, this Message is Now Carried through this Bride-in-Training (think of Esther, before she was presented to Ahasuerus). Quietly.

Let's focus on the First Advent Parallel to Jonah. The Lord invokes this as Precedent for His Own First Advent, Matthew 16:4, just before creating Church in Matthew 16:18. After God used some big marine animal as a taxicab, Jonah ran around Nineveh hollering that their destruction was imminent, so they better believe in Adonai for their salvation. All they had to go on was his telling them, so it was an invisible warning. So, Jonah was in his first advent in Nineveh: he had such success, he ended up staying there the rest of his life, and is buried there. That whole generation turned around, due to his Warning. So, Their History Was Prolonged. Sadly, 120 years later, the fourth generation's continued apostasy resulted in Assyria's complete destruction as a nation (612 BC). Assyrians are still alive as a people (i.e., about half a million reside in Chicago), even as Hittites are still alive as a people (I don't know that number). But only as leftovers. Few in number, blessed to keep living because some in their history, grew up spiritually.

Christ's First Advent thus functions like the ministry of Jonah. First, His Birth was fulfillment of Isaiah 7, an Ending Of Time Prophecy. Messiah was supposed to come at the End of Time, To Complete the Time, to usher in the Millennium. So it's appropriate, that the time of His Stay on earth be a Warning, like Jonah's was. Imminent ending, Beware Of Not Believing in Me, (i.e., John 16:9)! It's also imminent, since for the first 30 years everyone knew He was born, but didn't know when the Groom would show up. It's also "imminent", in the sense that the duration of His Time on earth was deadlined, but not predicted. Not predicted, because it was Up To Christ To Grow Up In His Own Destiny As King-Priest And Finish The Cross. How long that would take, no one knew. After He died, you realized He Fulfilled the Deadline: oh, He died on the 1000th anniversary of David's retirement from Kingship; so yes, this One is Messiah. Can't be anyone else at any other time in history: the dates alone, never fit. Couldn't be bar Kochba, couldn't be any of the other pretenders before or after Christ. So either Jesus the Christ is the Messiah, or there will never be one. See how Precise God is? See how easy it is to know Who Messiah is, at any time in history? So see how easy it is to validate Who He is, even Now?

Christ's Ministry was also invisible: most of His Life, He was isolated; His Death on the Cross, was in supernatural darkness; His Payment on the Cross, no one saw; whenever He'd perform a miracle, He later shushed the person He gave it to, or deprecated it as inferior (i.e., John 6:13-41, John 6:59-61); of course, He didn't show off His Godness, either. Matthew 8:4, John 1:50, John 7:19-25; Matthew 7:22-24, Matthew 11:21 compared to Matthew 11:29, Matthew 13:58; Mark 6:2-9, Mark 6:59, are other good samples. All this, to prevent manipulation. Satan absolutely couldn't "get it" that God wouldn't do the flashy thing, Matthew 4. We humans don't get it, either. But look: If We Don't See What God Does Show — like obvious weather, the Dome of Rock and the Wailing Wall, His Orchestration of Time as a whole which you can conclusively prove from that best and most flashy of all miracles, the Bible — what point is there in showing lesser flash? The Bigger Miracles Are In Front Of Anyone's Eyes, but we don't like those Far More Valid, Miracles. So might as well be invisible, then: an evil generation clamors for a sign, Matthew 16, 1 John 4:17. Every generation. Every time. Without fail.

"Visible" to us really means titillating. what entertains us. The greatest miracle of all is to get God's Own Thinking into our measly heads — but oh, no one cares about That Miracle. Biggest promise in the Old Testament, fulfilled in Christ and now in writing in the New Testament — which sits in every hotel room, abysmally translated or not — unread. Ho Hum. So What can God Do to Top The Biggest Miracle? Be silent, that's it.


Advertising Parallel 3: 'Today' on the 'map' of God's Time Construct for History, is thus Daniel 9:26c.

So we Church likewise get a 'first advent' of no predicted length, because we are the Extension of Him Who Left (1 John 4:12-17). This, because Israel rejected His First Advent; so our 'job' is like Jonah's, and the 'prophecy' applying to us is only Daniel 9:26c (as highlighted prior); we are in that slot of time. We aren't in the 70th week, but in the Gap Between Messiah's Cut Off And The 70th Week. Thus advertising that Messiah has Left the Building. Messiah, not Elvis. Messiah has left the building, so there's no Temple. Messiah has left, so is not yet-to-come. Messiah has left, so not still on earth. So there are no other 'messiahs' to look for on earth, since we are on earth, Representing Him.

So our Job is to Explain all this Change. Which, sadly 99% of Christians don't even know; most Christians are as stupid as the Jerusalem church was, busily trying to adapt the law post-crucifixion. Yeah, and that's why God made Paul the writer of most of the New Testament, using the others only for Gospels or to round off what Paul didn't write. So the 1% who do know, are used to explain to the (probably 1%) of Jews who want to know that answer. So what changed, and why? Book of Hebrews (how apt), answers. We come into being only due to Israel's rejection. Further, it answers what is the Objective Of Our Lives: To Reach The Rest Israel Rejected (Hebrews 4), Resting In The Promised One, Whose Thinking is in Writing, Christ (denoted as Word, to show continuity to Old Testament and fulfillment of its Promise). Because He Is Now Seated, Behind The Veil, And Thus a New Priesthood And A New Covenant, And Their "New Covenant" (Jeremiah) Will Be Implemented Via Us. Writer of Hebrews very carefully explains all this. Can't miss it, especially since he's explaining it while the Temple is Yet Standing, but everyone knows it will soon be Destroyed, precisely because Messiah Has Finished His Task And "Cut" A New Covenant. So he writes In Haste, for they are to have Another Going-out: Hebrews 10:36-39. They had their first going-out, from Egypt; all other going-outs, were Diaspora. For, the only place for the Temple, was in the Land. No Temple means Diaspora, since No Nation if No Temple. Again, you can't divorce God and keep the property. However, you can 'marry' the Lord by believing in Christ (John 3:16), which makes you in Church, which after all is pro-Israel — a Promotion. Even Moses longed to see our day (Matthew 13:17 my pastor quotes it often).

So again, we are invisible, too. Christ didn't promote Himself, ever. The "Great Commission" did not include trickery or Madison Avenue techniques. Does no one remember Christ telling the disciples to take nothing with them? Did no one remember His Conversation with the Samaritan woman? He didn't give any dog and pony shows. God led the hearers to Him, not the other way around 1 Peter 1:12. So we are invisible, and aren't to advertise ourselves. Thus the hearer knows God Is Advertising, not us — the Superior Witness, not us. So, the First Advent Matthew 22 Wedding Invitation is Being Extended through us, 2 Corinthians 5:20. Ambassadors are never flashy (the worst thing an ambassador can do, is call attention to himself).


Advertising Parallel 4: Ongoing Warning that 'Today' is the End of Time, Hebrews 3-4 + Daniel 9:26c.

Book of Hebrews was written in 68 AD, to warn everyone that the Temple was about to be destroyed (Paul had just died, and Titus had just stepped up the siege of Jerusalem). It painstakingly explains the Two Kingships of Christ, and how Church derives from the eternity-past contract between Father and Son, the Battlefield Kingship Patent Award for defeating Satan in the Trial, recorded in the Old Testament for example, in Psalm 110. So Book of Hebrews walks the reader through how Israel, the first intended Bride for that contract, abrogated it; so Church is inserted. Two Kingships, Two Covenants, Two Priesthoods. And the legal precedent link used, is the "new covenant" promise to Israel, which was supposed to result from her fulfilling the Bride contract (AKA the Mosaic Law). See Hebrews 7:12-28, Hebrews 8:7, Hebrews 8:8-12, Hebrews 9:14-15, Hebrews 10:1-8, Hebrews 10:9-14, Hebrews 10:15-17, Hebrews 10:18-39.

His Kingship as Son of David, is separate from all this and unconditional, housed in David, not Israel. That's why David's 1000-year time grants were the end of time — for to make good on the contract for David's (and hence Israel's) sake, Messiah would have to be born and die within those bracketing deadlines (4 BC, 30 AD, and 37 AD). Which He did: so He redeemed time, but Israel rejected Him, so Israel doesn't get the benefit of His Victory. Unless, she "today" believes in Him, theme of Hebrews 3 and Hebrews 4 (i.e., do not harden your hearts, while it is yet today clause).

So, our parallel representation (Greek: διακονία, one of its meanings) has the Same Essential Characteristics as His First Advent, prophetically speaking, to act as an Ongoing Warning Of The End; to explain that there are Two Advents, not One, so that Jews can see God really does keep His Promises. Again: Isaiah 7 prophecy of the Virgin Birth was a Warning Prophecy of the End Times: beginning with, Messiah Himself. Why else do you think Daniel's timeline ends with the tandem Messiah cut off and the destruction of the Temple (Daniel 9:25ff)? Just after which, follows a description of the 70th 'week', cut off from the rest of the text? Wars and rumors of wars. Imminent, from the day of the Temple's Destruction, onward. Can't miss it, given all the huge volume of prophecy on the topic in Old Testament.

And lo, the Witnessing Sentinels to corroborate our testimony: The biggest Objective Sign that Messiah Has Come And Gone Is The Destruction Of the Temple, Daniel 9:25-26. No Temple always and only means No Covenant with the Nation Israel is operating. The People are still protected, even in Diaspora (see Genesis 12). But the nation? Again — no receipt, no service. No Temple means No Covenant. Note How Obvious. Note that today, the Dome of the Rock, of Islam (!) sits where the Holy of Holies once was (same Rock as the Ark sat on). Could God more plainly point to Christ? Could God more blatantly display, Daniel 9:26? "Times of the Gentiles"!

Ask almost any Jew, and you'll find he believes in Messiah, alright, but coming once, not twice. (No excuse for that, but it's the normal Judaic belief.) They don't buy Isaiah 7 as a virgin birth (and go through all manner of convoluted refutation); they don't buy that their diaspora is due to Messiah having been rejected (so can't interpret Daniel properly); they don't buy that Messiah Had To Come To Pay For Sin First (so can't read Isaiah at all, especially Isaiah 53-55, nor any of Leviticus, nor Deuteronomy, nor even Genesis 15:6). What they call "the Law" today, isn't even the δίκαιώματα, the spiritual code — but instead, secular stuff like the dietary laws (which they consider now 'holy', and have morphed them into innumerable additions). Torah study is reduced to rote chanting, kissing the scroll... Aposiopesis, like Paul's, in Romans 9:22.

So, there's this gigantic blindness problem, as bad as Pharaoh's (Romans 9). Of course, unbelievers who are not Jewish, have the same problem. Of course, most Christians screw up the interpretation, too! 🤣, we are all in this blindness problem, together!


Advertising Parallel 5: First Advent Terminated unpredictably due to Israel's Voting; so Rapture Occurs Unpredictably due to Church Voting.

His First Advent's Termination was alike Imminent, Date-Unpredictable, pending Israel's Vote. So Our Exit Is Alike Unpredictable — and for the same reason, pending Our Votes. And as in the case of Christ, until we exit, the Jews have a chance to catch onto the fact that there are Two Advents, not merely one; to catch onto the nature of the Daniel 9:26c time-gap, and thus be in Church. After we Leave, it's the Tribulation, time's up! This is a deliberate Mirroring Reversal of the role Israel should have played. It was supposed to be Israel who warned the Gentiles. But instead she played Vashti, so God creates an Esther to warn the Gentiles, and Rescue the Jews. God is never unfaithful.

This is a major sea change, for Israel was always required to predict the Time of Messiah. Passover, for example, was an exact chronology of Passion Week. But you didn't know in what year it would happen, but rather only the deadline, until He announced Matthew 16:18 near Passover 29 AD, giving everyone a year's warning notice. You also didn't know if Israel would Vote For or Against Him, as a whole. You only knew from Isaiah, that the leaders would be responsible for His Death (Isaiah 53:2-8, especially Isaiah 53:8's "me otser umi mishpat luqqah" clause on the kangaroo trials). Now, Daniel 9:26c is "on", so everything is unpredictable. Notice the ironic parallel: you only needed three pieces of information to predict His Birthdate, which Every Jew Knew: the Haggai 2 month and day, 25 Chislev; the 1000th anniversary of David's death, 37 AD (year 4143 from Adam's fall is how they dated it); and the 1000th anniversary of the year David became king over all Israel, which was late 4 BC (year 4103 from Adam's Fall). For Messiah would have an allotted lifespan equal to the number of years David ruled, in order to meet all the 1000th anniversary deadlines so to again Renew Time, on time. Would take you three seconds to compute His Birthdate. As we saw, you had at least a dozen other ways you could calculate that date, and you'd get the same answer, even if you screwed up the math. Atop that math proof were a bazillion other confirmations of Messiah, like being born of a virgin, where born, events in His Life, the chronology of His Passion week exactly matching Passover's timing, etc etc etc. So the only way you could miss knowing, was if you were negative to the Word; we Christians are negative to His Word, and that's the only reason why we don't know when He was born, when He died, etc. Bible spells it all out, plainly. But we are sloppy in reading it. For centuries. So too were and are, the Jews. Ta'anach: Bible is sandy soil to them, so no understanding grows from it.


Conclusive Rapture Precedence: In God's Time-Accounting System for the human race, all time is based on Messiah, Who is from the midst, the loins, of Jacob, and hence is from Israel (another name for Jacob). This time is granted in 490-year segments ever since Adam (the first grantee). A 490 is granted, but it can be lost before it finishes. To be granted, someone during the previous 490 had to be 'completed' in spiritual achievement. David thus received three 490-year time grants, as well as three 1000-year grants, all based on dates in his life. The Temple was a promise to David, not Israel, 2 Samuel 7. Israel thus shares through David. So the first Temple's existence was truncated due to apostasy; but due to David's spiritual growth, God could reinstate credit for Time to the Temple; that's what He does, in Daniel 9. His Proviso is that Israel Rebuild the Temple and Jerusalem On Time. Which, it did.

But due to 2 Samuel 7, only Messiah Son of David, Can Redeem Time. So, He literally came at the End of Time, Daniel 9:25-26, which is based on the Davidic deadlines. Note that carefully: there is No Time Left, when He comes. If He doesn't make it, then everything ends. So you could know the Birthdate and end-date based on the ending of Time itself. But that still didn't tell you if He would Succeed, and when. So it was imminent, when He'd finish. That is our Precedence, and that is why you can't predict the Rapture. For we are still at the End Of Time, Daniel 9:26c.


So, He's Our Precedence, Our Ἀρχηγός, main theme of Hebrews: hence our 'birthdate' was also predicted, from Matthew 16:18, forward, and Peter even announced it in Acts 2. Remember the shepherds and Herod's massacre of babies, and the other Visible Manifestations of Christ's Birth (B'nai Brith)? So too, ours. Birthdate — but not, the End-Date. You'll only know that, when it happens. Daniel 9 didn't reveal the ending-date of Messiah, but only the Deadline. And why? Because it was a Contract, Depending on what He Chose to Do. He had the free will to do differently, and the God-man nature meant He could do anything He wanted.

Same deal for Church: Our contract is a number of bodies, not a set amount of time. The actual testamentary contract clause, is in John 17:20-21. Look at the parallel to His God-Man Nature, and how all creation depended on how He'd use it: we get the Holy Spirit's Power without measure; when we don't use it, worldwide disaster ensues. God forbid that the Body should be more important than Her Husband! So anyone into date-setting the Rapture blasphemes Him. Especially, in light of His bald statements in Matthew 24 and Acts 1, Don't seek the date.

Of course, back during His First Advent, the world did not see His First Arrival for what it was, since only the group for whom Messiah came, were the audience. Hence, they, but not we, needed the prophecies to discern the Real Messiah. The Parallel: they but not we still get the same prophecies. We don't need prophecies, Because We Are The Prophecies Being Fulfilled By God For Them. That is another reason why Israel's historical trends stamp Church. So, as during His First Advent, Our Leaving Is Imminent, Date-Unpredictable, to — again — Clue Them In on He's The Messiah.


Advertising Parallel 6: Church Is the Esther of Matthew 16:18 being fulfilled, so like Her Husband, Makes History.

We are Being Fulfilled, because we represent Christ Who Makes all History, He Who Is the Subject and Object of All Prophecy (Hebrews 1:2, Acts 17:28, Revelation 19:10). And, because He contractually created us to be an Esther, Matthew 16:18. So we are here to save Israel, not replace her; the "new covenant" prophecy will get fulfilled to her through us (main theme of Hebrews 8:8 through Hebrews 10:17). Christ created us as Esther in Matthew 16:18, by Contract with Father, John 17:20-21. So we are future from that date. Being realized, Now. Book of Esther is the promise of deliverance of the Jews, and it takes place during the time Jerusalem still needs rebuilding. It will be due to Esther that Jerusalem will be rebuilt, a generation later. So do you understand Matthew 16:18 - Matthew 24, now? The Lord is referring to Esther being found and thus the Jews being in Diaspora, being delivered. Warned, before they even go into Diaspora; so that's a prophecy, echoed all over the Old Testament. Because, they will reject Him, and He's Warning them of their attitudes. So this is as blatant a statement as can be made on how the Gentiles will be used to save the Jews. Hopefully the imminency analogy is obvious from Matthew 25's lamp oil parable.

Like all prophecy and Bible verses, Book of Esther is multilayered in meaning. So sad that people interpret the Book of Esther so narrowly. It's The Key To How The Jews Get Saved By The Gentiles, Using Actual History The Jews Celebrate Every Purim. We are thus "Esther", Fulfilled for them. Couldn't be plainer. Look at the obvious parallels: Joining Of Jew And Gentile (Esther and the goyim who's the King). That was Israel's job, see. They weren't doing that job, so the story is set in the Diaspora (post-586 BC). Notice how it's still open for them to do that job. Notice also how God has to cause both that job, and the protection of the people, Himself. ("Esther" is Persian for "myrtle", an astonishingly versatile plant which can become a whole tree (!) in Israel.) So Israel gets Grafted In Via Marriage To The Gentile (Esther being symbolic), during the Diaspora. Which Diaspora, is of course going on Now, so — see? Long before there was a Church, God left a book behind so Jews could understand that He provided them a solution. Pity that so many people for centuries were so stupid about this Book's importance, many argued that the Book of Esther shouldn't even be in the Bible! 🤣

God Is Omniscient, so one of the Biggest Miracles, the Bible, will evidence His Authorship by being structured like Omniscience, layer upon layer of Perfect Fit. So, another layer of meaning to Esther, is a veiled warning not to play Vashti (Zechariah 7), or He will spit them out of His mouth: repeated to Church by the way, in Revelation 3 on Laodicea. So We are Bride, also for the purpose of delivering Israel. All the rest of history hinges on our completion, as Hebrews repeatedly warns. So we are caused to become the Fulfillment Of The Delivery Of All Covenants, because Son is to have a Bride before He fulfills anything. That's why Revelation 4 commences with the opening of a title-deed-to-earth ceremony after we are raptured up. Church Makes History, Not Prophecies; Church Is History, Not Prophecies, Because Church Is Being Used To Fulfill Prophecies, Not Get Them.

Happily, there is a rather large group of Jews today who also believe in Christ (Yeshua HaMashiach); some of them don't yet buy the New Testament, some buy only the New Testament Gospels, as Canon. Some, buy the whole New Testament. You won't hear much about these people, but they are there. Lowkey, most of them. Put down by their fellow Jews, most of them (very big effort in modern Jewry to stop these Jewish believers in Christ from proving from Scripture He's Messiah, going on now). So never let it be said that God doesn't know how to Graft In His Chosen People!

Warning: idiots who think Church replaces Israel prove they don't know their Bible, at all. Worse, they malign God by claiming they replace Israel. Like the Arabs who all pretend to want Israel to be an independent state — never mind, that the first Article of the PLO Charter is "Israel has no right to exist", an article PLO has never rescinded — these people who claim to replace Israel are completely anti-God. Avoid them like the plague they are. Hosni Mubarek did an interview with Charlie Rose. I can't believe Rose fell for it when he asked if the Arab world was ready to accept Israel as an independent state. Mubarek cagily replied that at the recent summit (in 2004, March, I believe) Saudi Arabia had stated categorically that Israel should be a state. What disingenuousness. As I recall, Saudi Arabia's proposal had something like 20 conditions which had to be satisfied for that recognition, all of them totally unacceptable — including, the full use of "shub" — that the Palestinians could return (get back for free) their alleged pre-1948 land. The proposal was in the newspapers at the time of the summit to unveil the proposal (they're keen on that kind of advertising). When you read it you will really know how disingenuous is any Arab proposal. Read From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters, check out the facts for yourself. President Bush was no fool. He conditioned the existence of the Palestinian state on the revocation of Article One of the PLO Charter (I heard him say that in a news conference on CSPAN, when he first surprised everyone by offering to help broker an independent Palestinian state. No one ever said anything about what Article One meant — sigh.) I learned of the PLO Charter back 30 years ago, when doing a "Model UN" thing in high school (playing Saudi Arabia, ironically). So this isn't classified information. See? We don't care about Bible, so we don't care who's really right in this Arab-Israeli conflict, either. We'll be sweet-talked over to the Arab side, because We Don't Do Our Homework! The day that happens, the United States will cease to be a nation. God help us!


Advertising Parallel 7, Math Proof: The Same Daniel 9 Messiah Who Redeems Time is Now Also the Head of Church.

Now, Since Messiah Has Come And Gone, They Can Tell. The Daniel timeline is Now operating post-"Messiah... cut off", in a bubble: a prophetical parenthesis of no prophetical content, itself. The big explosive ending, was the Destruction Of The Temple. So the next prophecy to occur, is the Tribulation. Thus they know it's time to become part of Church by believing in Christ, John 3:16, Hebrews 3-4; since there's no Messiah during the 'dead spot' between Daniel 9:26c, and Daniel 9:27. See, it's hard for Israel to accept that Messiah would be Christ. So they need Scripture, not goyim pushing them, to show it's God who says He is the Christ. They won't listen to us, for all goyim are inferior. Yes, it's a prejudice; all humans have prejudices, and this one against the goyim, is ingrained within Israel. When it comes to faith, Israel is queen and everyone else is a peasant. That was true: but when Israel played Vashti, she became the peasant and another Queen was found. That's the message, and it's rather hard to accept. Paul explains all this in Romans 11.

In the "So now Israel's Days were Numbered" section of the Legatee chart, you'll find bullets listing the various ways you can calculate Daniel 9 and determine Messiah's birth and death dates. Also, in "David's 490 & 1000 Grants End Time" and "To Be or Not to Be". Point is, without any outside human interference, any Jew can prove mathematically that Christ is the Only Possible Messiah. If not Him, there is no one else at any time in history or the future, based on dates, alone. Prophecy can be interpreted variantly. But math cannot. It either balances or does not, and whether you like it or not. So whether pre-Cross or post-Cross, you can tell Who Messiah is, all from Bible. God gives you the entire timeline of history from Adam forward (which Judaism mangles in its calendar). So if you use Bible you know exactly what time it is.

Since those events are extremely detailed in the Old Testament, and Revelation outlines them as well, Israel gets time to realize that they are in a parenthesis between the two events. So, of course, do we; so also, the rest of the world gets time. Time of no certain duration, though. Just as Daniel 9:26 depicts. Time of no certain duration, because even in that prophecy, the amount of time it would take for Messiah to complete His life, was not stated. Notice that Daniel 9:26's 69th week ends with the destruction of the Temple and the city, not with the death of Messiah. So you knew the deadline for His Death, but that deadline includes the destruction of the Temple and the City. It could have been coterminous. It wasn't: Messiah died 7 years prior, and that last seven — as everyone knows — played from 64-70 AD. These are not disputed facts. So it's easy to know Who Messiah is.

So We Too Are Made The Cause Of Time: History Has Elongated Beyond Its Originally-Planned Boundaries. So we are still in one of, not both of, the "times", of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24); for the other "time", is the Tribulation itself. Just as Assyria 'lived' longer due to hearing Jonah, so the world lives longer, due to us listening to the Word so we can train for our Lord's Father, as king-priests under Him. For, that is How He Vested as King-Priest: see Hebrews 5.

Israel thus should have caught on immediately when Titus invested Jerusalem; even, if they didn't listen to the Lord's Own Warnings about it (Matthew 24, Mark 13), due to Daniel's forecasting of Temple destruction following the cutting-off of Messiah. But they didn't. So it was 'invisible' to them, because they were so willfully blind, not because there was no proof. After 70 AD, no Jew could misconstrue the identity of Messiah, period. So it has to be rejection, not mere ignorance. Daniel is too plain. They don't even read the Two Stone Witnesses staring them in the face every day. So they won't hear us, either. Word is better proof, anyway. And it's always available.


Advertising Parallel 8: World's Weal Depended on the Jews since Messiah was Coming. World's Weal Now depends on Church since He's Left, Risen, and is Coming Back.

Just as the Well-Being of the World depended on the Jews because He was Coming, Now that He's Left and is Coming Back, the well-being of the world depends on Church. Once that Coming occurs, Disaster! The Jews understood that when Messiah would come, the world would end. With that ending was disaster, war, tribulation. It's still true — but Now in a different way. The world was turned upside down that first century, due to the Coming Back nature of the Rapture, since it still meant the end of the world would occur. It still does. So the Jews and the world have yet another Parallel Advertisement as to Who is the Real God.

God has always and only blessed or cursed the world, owing to believers in it. If you've seen Timeline Benchmarks and Dating Methodology and God's Orchestration of Time and Ten Ways this Timeline differs, you understand how that rule has been demonstrated in Bible since Adam. The blessing rule gradually narrowed as time passed, to David. The world only continued post-963 BC, because God made a promise to David to give Him a Ruling Son forever, the downpayment of which was the Temple, which depicted Him. That's why in Daniel 9, the Temple is destroyed when Messiah leaves: to signify that He left. But in the wake of Temple destruction, comes world destruction. That's why Daniel 9:26c reads as it does, and that's why world history has been exactly in that Daniel 9:26c pattern, ever since. The Jews vaguely understand all this, even today. What they refuse to accept, is that the verse Applies To Jesus Christ. It's impossible for the verse to mathematically apply to anyone else. So, since they won't listen, one more Advertising Thing God can Do, is demonstrate the Blessing-of-the-World-Role the Jews once had, but via Church. As my pastor likes to say, "as goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God, so goes history." And frankly, you can prove that true in history, as the aforementioned documents attempt to demonstrate, post-Cross.

#9 of Ten Ways this Timeline differs demonstrates how Israel was mathematically taught the Jubilee depended on the observance of the sabbatical years. The latter were used as a kind of 'time tax' to 'buy' the 50-year voting periods for the Gentiles every 1000 years. The math is exquisite. Many verses in the Old Testament also testify to this function of Israel being the source of blessing for the world, and even today every Jew knows it. But that fact has gotten Israel in a lot of trouble over the centuries, so over time its truth became a hidden thing. Jews know about it, and in fact are both puzzled and proud of it — never saying much about it to the goyim, of course. So if they can see the pattern of God blessing the world through those goyim who believe in His Son Who is the Messiah, then they have a nice advertisement as to Who Messiah is. So too, the rest of the world. This advertisement hasn't exactly gone unnoticed. Millions of words have been spent by Gibbon and others on how the rise and fall of Christianity has been the blessing or cursing to the world. And it's like clockwork: anywhere in the world you find a trend of increasing interest in the Christian Bible, at any time in history post-Cross, you find a trend of rising material prosperity. Conversely, anywhere in the world you find a trend of declining interest in that same Bible (i.e., Dark Ages, when the Roman Catholic Church reigned supreme), you find disaster, adversity, sickness, etc. Doesn't matter what country, region, people. Does matter that it's Bible. Upon tracing this phenomenon, it seems to run in 200-year cycles. But you can see it all very quickly, in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, which is God's 'contract' on the topic. He applied it to Israel: you can prove historically He applies it to Church. Thus you can know Who Messiah is.

Christ's Time On Earth Depended On His Volition. The Quality of Life on Earth and indeed the universe itself, likewise depended on His Volition, since He holds it all together — even when He was here (a point my pastor never tired of stressing, invoking Hebrews 1:3 when he reminded us). Same is true for us. We Are Here. The wellbeing of the world depends on our spiritual growth, not prophecy. So either read the Book or be unpleasantly surprised, Hebrews 10:35-39, Hebrews 11:39-40!

Since we don't know how each the other is growing spiritually, there's an imminency to our situation, as well. Same structure, as for Him. And now, the New Testament being completed, there is a God-written set of books which testifies to our being the extension of Him in the world. So in a way, we are prophesied, kind of like He was. There's this book, the New Testament: it essentially and continually says, the Fulfillment of the Prophecy of Bride, is "On" Right Now, εὐθύς! So Straight Away! Immediately! Ταχύ! Now! Without Delay! Believe in Him! For, who knows how long "Now" will last — parable of the 10 virgins, not knowing when the Bridegroom will arrive.

Meanwhile if we are growing, what an effect! See the paradigm of the meaning of Church's role in Rescuing Israel. Paul's 'fall' (going to Jerusalem) well illustrates the whole story. Her son of sons, Paul (Philippians 3:8 in context) is rejected, beaten nearly to death at the external altar, circa 58 AD — but oh, a Gentile (Roman) delivers the Jew who was supposed to be Christian, but instead rejected his Royal Priesthood to return to a Nazarite vow! So, Gentile delivers the wayward forgot-he-was-sewn-up Jew. Isaiah 53:5, Hebrew verb raphah, really means to Heal By Surgery, hence you are sewn up, and as a result, you heal. Cool word. Paul seems to be playing on it by his use of συγκλείω in Romans 11:32. Heh. So, now because this same guy is executed by a Gentile (Nero), the Jews are delivered over to the Gentiles, but also delivered by the Gentiles (90,000 went into captivity), just like (Precedence!) it was back in Jeremiah's day. See? You don't need a date for the Rapture, you need a reason why. Here it is: we gotta complete so we can rescue Israel, hence We Determine History, Not Prophecies. What happened to Paul there in Acts 22, changed the history of the world forever. Which role do you think more befits a Wife-in-Training under the Limitless Power of the Holy Spirit? Didn't Christ Change History forever?

But if we are retrogressing, what an effect! My pastor stressed that "all hell breaks loose when a Pleroma believer dies." Well, we know just how much "hell" is. Book of Hebrews flatly says that if believers don't grow up, the Temple will be destroyed. Now watch the dates, so you can see how Paul's merely being alive preserved the nation. For, the Jerusalem siege went into its final phase just after Paul was executed by Nero. For, we know from Josephus that the siege had two basic phases, because Titus really didn't want to overrun it. He wanted a negotiated settlement. If I remember rightly, historians place the first phase of the siege beginning in 64 or 66 AD. Paul was in his final imprisonment, sometime near then. Paul was executed sometime in 68 AD, which is approximately when the final siege began, because Titus' adopted father, Vespasian, became emperor in 69 AD, Nero having died a few months after Paul. Thus Titus couldn't wait for a settlement, and wanted a triumph to take to his father. That was the "Year of the Four Emperors". We know Jerusalem finally fell in August, 70 AD. Right on time, and Paul's being executed as well — and all in Jerusalem who were negative to Paul, likely were negative to leaving despite the siege, too.

We are Evidence of Him. We are pointed out by God. We don't promote Him, ourselves. Again, copy Christ. He wasn't flashy. So you also, are not to be flashy. So: if you are growing in God's System, be certain that both the Holy Spirit and Satan & Co. are busy advertising you to your periphery. So your focus must be διώκω (Philippians 3:14, again), not "I promote myself." If anything, you need to be lowkey. Don't wear Christ on your sleeve, thinking that oh, you don't honor Him if you don't talk about Him to everyone all day. Kings don't do that. Less talk, less action. More thinking, more restraint. Keep regarding everything in your life as Training from the Holy Spirit. Hence the need to be in God's System (ἑνότης), to "rightly divide the Word of Truth." So keep looking at His Thinking, at what He is saying via That Thinking, to rule your own life. That's how people can see Christ is rest, not arrest (John 7:19ff).


Advertising Parallel 9: Rapture Parallels His Ascension.

So, here's the final Advertising Parallel of Church to Christ's First-Advent Ministry: the world won't see our 'Ascension' (1 Thessalonians 4), either. Rapture is not necessarily visible to the world. For example, our much-vaunted Disappearance depends on how many Christians actually exist at the time of the Rapture (which no one thinks about); but in any event they will not see us going up in the air, any more than the world saw the Ascension. The Tribulation is plenty full of warnings, so there is no need to have havoc due to disappearing bodies. That we straitjacket Scriptural interpretation with this idea, betrays how we want titillation, not God. Why we are leaving behind, common sense!

Think: God could take each person at some precise moment over the same day, such that no one got hurt. Everyone has to pee at some time, for example. Pretty safe, there. Or, you're sleeping in bed. World is divided into time zones. Or, you've just stopped for a second to get a cup of coffee, and zap! Get the point? It might not be disruptive, at all. The Rapture means that people from different locations assemble at one location; implicit in that idea is that not all folks arrive at the same moment. Maybe they do — but what if they don't? All in a twinkling of an eye doesn't mean all at the same moment, maybe. Then again, maybe it does. In which case, it still could be that one moment when all the Christians aren't driving, doing hazardous work, etc. God would know. God works in us to will and to do, so we might all know not to go doing something problematic, maybe a split second before we disappear.

More importantly: who knows how many have really believed in Christ, since no one in public Christian television or social media can even state the Gospel correctly? Bet that most 'Christians' are not saved! The True Gospel is Believe Only In Christ Only, John 3:16, Acts 16:31, similar passages. If you add other verbs, you are not saved, Ephesians 4:8-9. Look: if you believe you needed to both believe in Christ and get baptised, then it's not exclusively Christ you believe in, so you do not believe 'He' is enough. That blasphemes Him. If you believe that you need to feel sorry for your sins and believe in Christ to be saved, then you do not believe that Christ is enough, you instead believe in something you do as making it enough — same blasphemy as believing in baptism. If you believe that you can lose your salvation by some sin you commit or that you will never sin again after salvation (1 John 1:8), you likewise believe that Christ is not enough — here, a negative thing you do is allegedly so powerful, it can undo His Perfect Work on the Cross. How utterly blasphemous are most 'Christians', then. Roman Catholic Church blasphemy, Orthodox blasphemy, the many denominations who claim you must be baptised or repent of your sins — these are 99% of so-called "Christians"! How many of these people are actually saved? These are "Lord, Lord" people. They will not go to heaven, unless at some point in their lives they jettison all that crap and simply believe in Christ (and maybe they did accidentally before they got confused and were convinced to add verbs to salvation). They will likely not jettison those other acts they do or try to avoid, because those acts make them feel holy. Satanic, all of them. Yet you can count on God to use all that exposure to the fact Christ paid for their sins and they do believe He did, to at some moment isolate that recognition, to get rid of the crappy other stuff, such that Believe Only in Christ Only, occurs. So they likely end up being saved. The meanwhile, Satan uses them to sell a 'gospel' which saves no one.

For the real Gospel being disseminated, is quite rare in history. It's not public. You can find it in Bible, find it in conversation with someone who knows it, but Satan's not stupid. Satan & Co. have control over publicity, and the 'gospel' they sell will always be false. As you can prove, whenever you view Christian social media or televised programs. So it's no wonder that as usual, the True Gospel is almost unknown in the United States today. Of course where it is known like in Ukraine (which many believers reside), suddenly apostate Christianity in the United States becomes very anti-Ukraine.

Fake gospels have predominated for centuries, and got their impetus from the 'Church Fathers'. Just read their writings, to see that. So who knows how many among them were even saved? During the Reformation there was a brief respite, for one thing Martin Luther and John Calvin seemed to understand, was Believe Only in Christ Only; for about a century or two afterwards, it became relatively common for people to know Gospel is John 3:16, not some other verb. Then, there was another dip in awareness, as the reformers apostatized into state churches. But during the Civil War in the United States, an awakening to the Real Gospel began again to be widespread. But since 1930 or so, yikes! The most blasphemous false gospels have surfaced, especially in the United States! For several generations in the United States, therefore, the so-called "independents" have screwed up the Gospel — joining the "denominations", who have long screwed up the Gospel — so are they saved?

Watch televised Christian media yourself, try to find even one evangelist or speaker who states that John 3:16 fact, Faith Alone In Christ Alone — the Calvinists didn't invent that, it's the Bible, stupid. That "Lord, Lord" verse in Matthew 7 looks like it encompasses a bigger group of folks, everyday. Have you ever thought about it? Why would people be calling Him Lord, if they never believed? Well, look at the fake gospels pandered today, their substitute verbs, saving no one who 'does' those verbs: Make Christ Lord? Believe and repent? Believe and be baptised? And the all-time favorite, accept/invite Christ into your heart or life? My pastor has a field day with that last one, constantly reminding everyone of Jeremiah's "the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked — who can know it", saying "so you are inviting Christ into a garbage dump!" And then for "life", he likes to quip — "oh, since we are spiritually dead — you are inviting Christ into a tomb!" Sheesh. People will believe anything but the truth. No wonder the Cross was a Joy to Him.

Where are any of those fake gospel lies, in Bible? Nowhere. No faith + Gospel: so no one gets saved that way. So, then: how many who claim themselves 'Christian', ever really believed in Christ? It's the scariest of thoughts, and every Sunday for 50 years, my pastor has always stressed that Believe-only is the Real Gospel — so if he's scared, I am too. I used to be irritated that he'd repeat the warning so much. Not any more! So if you're not sure if you've ever Believed Only In Christ Only, for heaven's sake, Do It Now!

Royal Principle: Rank has its privileges. Those who don't believe, don't see. The Rapture occurs because those 'left behind' are too negative to respond absent Cataclysm. A principle which has loads of precedence, too. So we don't need future prophecies: we need to see the past ones. For past is prologue. But we're not noticing. So don't count on the Rapture being a large population of adults. Many kids, maybe.

So notice the parallel to His Ascension: when He rose, only believers saw Him. Well, the Rapture is the exit of all believers, so there is no one to watch. The media's idea of public havoc is likely false, therefore. And since Satan & Co. have a monopoly on all things public — we poor saps of course don't know they manipulate us, 🤣 — this promoted-havoc idea is likely untrue; rather, Rapture is likely to be a quiet thing. Whatever is popular, assume the opposite is the truth, and you'll save a lot of time. Clever, to promote it as a public-havoc idea: so if the Rapture is quiet, folks won't realize it happened, even if large numbers of folks suddenly 'disappear'. You can just paint the scenario: individuals seeking missing family members go to the police. Then nothing happens, as there are a bazillion other reasons why people go missing, the "Rapture" being the most goofy idea of all, not worth believing.

So if quiet, that explains why the Two Witnesses next appear in Jerusalem in Revelation 11; in part to explain that the Rapture occurred, and to keep everyone away from the Fake Temple which by then will exist. Thus the Jews will be warned to flee from Israel.


Objection: where does New Testament show the authors recognized Daniel 9:26c as true?

Ok, so let's look at Book of Hebrews, to see if it recognizes the Daniel timeline:

Next, notice how the other New Testament epistles begin and end, and what, if anything, they say about the Temple. Beginning of each of their writings helps you set the date; so also, the end.

Here's the biggest tipoff: the New Testament writers all knew of the parenthesis: the covenantal vocabulary, shifts. Huh? As explained earlier, the Bible is a set of legal documents. Legal documents must define within the document the meanings of keywords. This, to prevent misinterpretation of the document's meaning assigned to the words. For example, "faith" has a common meaning in people's minds. Does the document use the term that way — or, differently? For every word in any language has multiple uses and hence, meanings. So: when talking about a Contract (AKA covenant), words must be defined in the document. So it will be clear what the parameters of contract provisions, are. This results in a specialized vocabulary; so, if a contract changes, the vocabulary must change also. Hebrews spends a lot of time explaining this fact in Hebrews 5-7, to show the change in priesthood, so all the old definitions attendant to "priesthood", no longer apply: for the Mosaic Law, is rescinded (i.e., Hebrews 7:18).

Bible teachers and scholars all know this, but debate what the vocabulary is, what it means, what kind of changes are denoted, etc. It's the same kind of debate attorneys can get into, when they review contracts (especially when preparing for a lawsuit). So you should find a lot of information on the fact of Bible's deliberate changing-vocabulary in the New Testament, on the internet. For example, one raging debate has been whether God Intended to make known Trinity, in the Old Testament. Frankly, it's real clear to me Trinity is depicted, from Genesis 1:2 onward (even Mishnah recognizes the Holy Spirit), but — you'll find a whole lot of lexicons and commentaries questioning that clarity. All based on, what the Bible words are 'read' to mean. See? without 1 John 1:9 being breathed, all the 'erudition' in the world, is hot air.

No pastor can make an interpretation, without basing it on how he thinks those words are Biblically-defined. Same, for any lawyer making arguments in a civil trial ('bible' is the applicable civil law): competence in definition is the heart of all law. Competences in spotting definitional changes are the heart of all commercial lawsuits. Since Bible is the commerce of Life, our very Thoughts, it's way more important to spend time on Bible's definitions!

So, to see the parenthesis, you look for a Change In Vocabulary. It's not hard to spot.

It's clear even from these few bullets that:


So Revelation 1-3, Revelation 6-17 Run and Reign as Trends, to Depict Daniel 9:26c

So the actual Revelation we really have in writing from the Real Holy Spirit, shows that every generation of Church will experience paradigmally, Revelation 6, Revelation 11, Revelation 12, Revelation 13 and Revelation 17 as trends, so we can't predict the Rapture, either. As summarized earlier, Revelation is a Greek drama; so Real History 'plays' in specific formats which divide the times for you. So you knew to interpret Revelation trends for Church by the tableaus and paused explanations, as distinct from the blowing of the trumpets, or the pouring-out of the vials. Additionally, Revelation marks out the time boundaries using a clever time-barrier idiom, "μετὰ ταῦτα" (usually vaguely translated as "after these things"). You can find the idiom all over the LXX; so it's not hard to prove that the phrase divides the "times" for you. So you know what are flash-forwards versus flashbacks. This, because in Greek drama you have all these prologues which tell you the themes, followed by the actual events.

Historical Trend H1: Believers Play Hooky, don't want Bible, but prefer Flash and deem themselves holy, Revelation 1-3

So note how past is prologue, the historical parallel: each generation of Israel might have been the one to get Messiah's arrival; until David died, there no predictability because Messiah really could have come sooner. It was only after Israel had so prolonged its apostasy against God as King, that the timeline was imposed; not until David died, did the timeline turn "on". Because, the whole point was a Continuous Line Of Kings culminating in that King-Priest, Messiah. Again, because Israel's Conditional contract of "schul" (Modern Judaic name for Temple, with emphasis on Torah learning), had to get them to Graduated status. But Israel flunked out, by rejecting Messiah when He came. Paul seems to be making that very point, in Acts 13.

So here with Church, we are in the same 'schul' status: each generation will have the 'stamp' of the final Raptured one, because (again) volition is determinative. And, since past is prologue, the past proves we want the flash, not the Food: we reject Matthew 4:4, preferring Matthew 4:3. Hence we become Satan fodder, in every generation since the Crucifixion. Dying mostly to the "sin face-to-face with death", capital punishment, 1 John 5:16 — dying, from the rocks in our bellies, fancying we turned them into bread.

Here in Church, we thus prove any generation can be the Rapture generation, since we demonstrate the same wackiness over the Rapture, as every generation since Pentecost — rather than, going to God's School. So, years ago, people near my hometown probably sat up high on Mulholland Drive (near Los Angeles), just like necking teenagers used to do; but, maybe having sold all they had (!) looking over the valley at the lights and expecting the coming of "Jesus" because some guy had said there were 88 reasons why the Rapture would come in 1988. Hmmm. They must be hungry, by now: I only remember a few squirrels, beer cans, and rocks up there. Yet the shell game continues: who among us doesn't know some family whose spouse or kids went wacko because 'Jesus' is coming back on such-and-such a date? Did we never read Matthew 24's warnings about that? How anyone with a straight face can write a book, post on social media, or get on television, and claim what even Christ wouldn't, in Acts 1! Gee, when did these self-styled prophets get more authority, than Him? I don't know who among us is dumber: the folks who peddle that nonsense, or the folks who believe it despite clear passages like Matthew 24.

He warned His audience to not listen to claims Christ was back. He warned his audience to flee when the "abomination" was set up. Well, why are we listening, now? Date-setting and event-watching is a claim of Him coming back on some timetable, and thus no different than all those in the future who will scour the caves, shouting for the Christians to come out. So, He told us to hide in Petra, His Name in the Old Testament (bedrock on which Ark sat). Are we doing that, hiding in the Word, trusting it? Are we fleeing the abomination that most make out of prophecy? For our bodies are Temple, Indwelt by the Trinity, so we surely don't want such abomination in there. Your 'holy of holies' is your soul. You defile it by what you believe wrongly. And you can't fix a false doctrine, without Learning Bible. Bible, not rituals, works, songs, emotionality, church history, flashcard spouting of verses, potlucks, whether other Christians think you spiritual. So playing hooky, lots of ἀδικία is building up because we don't think we need 1 John 1:9: so our future is 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, Colossians 3:25. Ending, with 1 John 5:16 and then 1 Corinthians 3:15.

Nor should we just throw Revelation away as 'allegorical' or 'non-canonical'. Lots of dummies in this category, too. Preview of Coming Attractions: just because Revelation 6-19 functions like a historical-trend 'stamp' for Church, doesn't mean the events are not real upcoming events belonging to Israel. Both uses of Revelation, are true. Just because a Church history stamp, doesn't mean that Church replaces Israel. Just because a Church history stamp, doesn't mean we have nothing to watch out for. Rather, look how stupid we proved ourselves to be, to not notice how Catholicism was the Revelation 17 harlot? Do you realize, she began to form within Four Years after John penned Revelation, and no one, especially not the Church Fathers, noticed? And now, the 'independent churches' are literally going down the same path, right down to what doctrines get perverted into works and magic. Oh, how every generation, we Church prove Revelation right!

Historical Trend H2: Leviticus 26 = Revelation 6 = Daniel 9:26c Historical Patterning

For there's another Trend for every generation alive at any "time": a prophecy with a Dated Period (here, Israel's Tribulation) is always kicked off by one having an Undateable ("imminency") Period; for the Dated Period only occurs due to some Failure in the Undated Period. So the Historical Characteristics of the Dated Period are irrelevant, and instead those of the Undated Period, control. Here, that "undated period", is Daniel 9:26c. Precedence, again: this time going all the way back to Adam. Adam's days weren't numbered until after the Fall. So no one else's are, either. If you check carefully, Messiah's arrival was Undated until Israel rejected God as King; so then her days were numbered: but it was up to Him to complete His Task in time. No guarantee He'd do that, but rather only a provision. For God promises time in 490-segments, but as happened in 586 BC, apostasy can abrogate the time. So Messiah could Redeem the Time, but He'd have to do it on time — which, since it was up to His Free Will, didn't guarantee what time that would be. Same is true for us.

Of course, until the Temple's time ended, it was always warned about as an 'imminent' thing (i.e., in Jeremiah, last phase in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28). Once the time is up and has happened, then God gives (to Daniel) dates. So a Dated Thing is always first dependent on an Undated Thing which is Contingent on Volitional Votes by Believers. Same thing happening, now: Our Departure Is Undated, Until Its Time Is Up. Seven years is the timeline after our time is up. So the historical circumstances which govern us are not those of the Dated Period, but rather of Daniel 9:26c, which means trends of Leviticus 26. Revelation 6, Revelation 11, Revelation 12, Revelation 13 and Revelation 17 all reflect Leviticus 26, and are presented as tableaus for that reason.

The characteristics of the Dated Period are not the same as that of the Undateable Period; since the Dated Period is due to Failure, its characteristics are bad; but the Undated Period is milder, via the pattern of Leviticus 26. Hence anything 'hidden' in the Undated Period, shares in its characteristics. So, although Church is inserted, the new 'wife' doesn't change Israel's prophecy map; rather, the new offer to Church rescues Israel, too. So again, no new 'prophecy' is needed. We are "in" the "prophecy" of Daniel 9:26c. It's really clear. This essential structure of Prophecy being divided into dated versus undated periods and their characteristics.

Historical Trend H3: Fake Church, Revelation 17 + Revelation 13

Most importantly, Revelation tells us what is happening Now with respect to Satan's schemes. But in every generation, we don't listen. That's why Revelation 1-3 is only 'prophetical' in that the churches named are typical of Christian degeneracy (we are only too human); that's why Revelation 4:1 is the Rapture. You don't see "Church" mentioned after that: John goes up to heaven through the door in Revelation 4:1, and "μετὰ ταῦτα" occurs two times in that verse. Can't miss it. That's why you know the Revelation 17 harlot is Satan's game to pretend Church, because 'mystery' is a Church moniker, but the 'Church' depicted, is the antithesis of Paul's description in Ephesians 2 or Ephesians 4:11-16 (Greek; English is horrible).

Funny how we don't regard the prophecy we do have, so Satan keeps successfully playing his games in plain sight. I mean, the same colors in Revelation 17 are adopted by the Roman Catholic Church and no one notices? We ape the same stupid harlot-like things in all the independent churches now? How much more evidence could you want? See: we are just as blind as the Jews. We don't see our "Dome of the Rock", either.

By now, of course, we've a really long history proving how Satan pulls off this Fake Church, so he can better pogromize the Jews. Reflect: Christianity has split into a bazillion sects over this Rapture doctrine. So, if (say) the Rapture were to occur 300 years from now, a whole lot of paperwork among those who think Rapture is not true, or mid-Tribulation, or end-Tribulation, will exist. You know how we humans are, about 'respectable' paperwork. Especially, old (venerable!) paperwork. Heck, we actually still believe that the news we hear on television, is infallible! So what do you think believers then will believe, when they see all these (then-old) lies and mistakes about Scripture's "Rapture" meaning? They will believe the lies, and be destroyed! Satan's not stupid, but we sure are. The Lord took pity on us, and warned John to write Revelation 17, way back in 96 AD when it was but a gleam in Satan's eye.

Revelation 1-3 tells us how every generation will be, and bluntly. Only one apostle is still alive, John. The guy had to be nearly 100 years old. There would be no one else left to write if John died. Domitian had just exiled him to Patmos. It really looked grim, for although fantastic growth had occurred spiritually, you can tell from Revelation 1-3 that Christians were getting — um, tired. Which is why it's the last book of Canon. No one else left to write, because people are not growing spiritually, anymore, so there's no reason to write anymore. Apostasy has set in: exact same pattern as in the later Old Testament books; Malachi, the last Old Testament book, is pretty brusque; just repeats what people should know; Malachi tersely sums up as a final argument, God's case against and promise to Israel. Then, stops abruptly. Then? Silence. The so-called inter-testament books all portray in spades that God Did Not write them. Still, they are valuable in gaining insight as to how low believers had sunk between Malachi and Matthew.

Hence Revelation displays the same brusqueness, with respect to the world: in fact, no one talks to them; the 'signs' do all the talking. At the end of Revelation, you see the typical Greek-drama epilogue, Revelation 22:6-21: don't add to this book! That's an Old Testament affidavit catchphrase for Book Completion and Warning to Interpret it properly (used in Deuteronomy, the prophets, etc).

The Message? All Has Been Said. God has nothing more to reveal, until the Rapture.

So for Church, you should interpret history using Revelation, alright, as Trends; because only that Time Map remains. But historically, we don't. So the Trends forecast indeed play as predicted, to our detriment. Ask the right questions, to get right orientation to your own historical circumstances. See how you can avoid these historical landmines which put Christians on the Punishment Side of History:

Satan's Fake Church has been wildly successful. Brother-Foot Churchinanity? We can't get enough of it. If you were to gather all the pious tomes written since 96 AD into one place, and then inspect them all for whether they assign any role to thinking before Father — you might not even have one book left, afterwards. So there's no joy in Mudville... the caseys have struck out.

Historical Trend H4: Fake Temple, Revelation 11 + Revelation 12

God used to orchestrate time around the Jews, then around David and the Temple; but post-Cross, He does it benchmarked to the 30 AD Crucifixion. Satan does, too, but Satan benchmarks to the Temple's Destruction date of 70 AD whenever possible. To see all this, you'll probably need God's Orchestration of Time. Gold 'stripes' in that worksheet are the 490-year deadlines (qualifying and historical); 1000-year deadlines are in green 'stripes'.

Because Satan doesn't know when the Rapture will happen either, he always uses a Fake Church: it's designed to prevent Gospel from being learned, to prevent spiritual maturation; but most of all, the purpose of the Fake Church is to pogromize Jews, especially when the official Tribulation begins. To that end, Satan also historically sponsors "shub", a yearning to return to Israel and rebuild the Temple. So he'll use the Fake Church, to 'help'. Help herd Jews back there, against God's Warnings (i.e., Matthew 24, Luke 21, Revelation 12).

First, the overall satanic strategy historically played, and continuing Right Now: If Satan can convince us that Church is in the Tribulation, he can gather us for slaughter, both Now and in the Tribulation. You gotta gather your enemy, to kill them. So Satan wants a Fake Church and a Fake Temple trap to gather Christians and Jews and thus kill them, too. For, there is no client nation Israel, and no 'Shekinah Glory' (extrabiblical term) to fill that Temple, until the Second Advent. Review Ezekiel 40ff, and note how that rebuilding doesn't occur before Messiah returns, but is due to His Return. So Satan can fake everyone out by claiming Christ has returned: hence, the two antichrists. Hence, the statue in the Temple. That's why those Two Witnesses in Revelation are so important during the first half of the Tribulation — Israel's flee period — to Warn People To Stay Away. It's a life-or-death matter, to rightly divide the Word of Truth: especially, in the Tribulation.

Now let's look at the underlying historical-psychological reaction to the prophecy about the Temple, which gave rise to Satan's strategy. For Satan's perennial strategy is to Distort Bible; so to Herd People to a Fake Bible, and thus demand The Supreme Court Of Heaven Order Our Mass Discipline. That's the only way he can get permission to kill so many (i.e., in Revelation 9). For the Rapture is first, a type of Mass Discipline On Both Church And Those 'Left Behind' who are yet too evil to see what was before their eyes — the long-standing Two Stone Witnesses. Who of us isn't that evil, considering how long the Two Stone Witnesses have been in front of our own eyes?

So here's the Psychology of Our Ongoing Blindness, Jew, Arab or Christian, in Every Generation.

  1. The dearest dream of every devout Jew ever born is to have that Temple rebuilt. So he's a sucker for the Satanic plan to rebuild the Temple and fake God's Authorization for it. Satan thinks he beats God if there aren't enough Jews alive to constitute a nation, by the Second Advent: when Ezekiel 39ff and all covenants to Abraham, will be fulfilled. So Israel has been plagued with fake Messiahs, which is why the Real One was executed — just as described, in Daniel 9:26.
  1. Why do you think the Zionist movement had so much appeal? Satan wants it, dummy! You have to herd your enemy, to better kill him. So, think: The Temple is everything to the Jew. More valuable than life itself. But did they understand Daniel 9:26? Matthew 24? Ezekiel 40 onward (through end of his book)? Did they understand Jeremiah's meaning when the Good Figs Were Exiled, but the rotten ones, remained behind? And therefore heed the warning, and Flee Jerusalem? No! Notice that well: for 40 years, Jeremiah warned everyone. No one listened. So God finally had Nebuchadnezzar come and cart off a bunch, and then kept on warning those left behind. Finally, He did it again — and Jeremiah himself remained behind, hoping to yet turn around, the idiots who didn't listen. Same old story had happened to Samaria, and happened ever since. Jews don't listen. Jews are the quintessential example of all humanity, and surely our deaf ears are plentiful and provable. So: every time, just as in Deuteronomy 1:44, whatever God says, the opposite is what they (or we!) do.

So what do they do? They flock to Jerusalem, like sheep to Satan's slaughter! With all us yapping Christians, slobbering over how the regathering must be the end-times, brother — cheering the Jews to go there! Look: if the Jews didn't catch onto Messiah's First Coming, they won't "get" His Second, either. So we should be educating them on their own Ta'anach, for it is sandy soil to them, they aren't growing; so they can see they should flee, not flock. This is genocide in the making!

  1. Add now this temptation: Dome of the Rock, the most hallowed of Islam's shrines (even more than Mecca — Muslims dream of being buried near it), sits there now, mutely and derisively showing The Whole World That Daniel 9:26 Is Alive And Well. So for the Temple to replace the Dome would require a massive, humiliating victory over Muslims. Satan can make that happen anytime, baby; and whoever he uses to 'save' the Temple Mount will look like a Messiah, get it? Then, Jews would flock by the millions just to look at the Temple; no longer a Wailing Wall. Most would want to live there. It would be real easy to believe Messiah Has Arrived (!) under those conditions. You couldn't keep a Single Jew Away from the Temple, under those conditions. Islam is already a detailed parody of the Mosaic Law, right down to its peregrination rules. Does anyone get that? Nope. So they will all be suckers for this Satanic Slaughter Ploy, too. Arabs are from Abraham. If they believe in Christ, they are the "remnant", too. So Satan Has To Kill As Many Arabs and Jews as he can. Best way to do that, is to Make Them Fight Each Other; when that doesn't work (and for almost 2000 years it didn't work very well at all), then he's Used The Christians To Pogromize Them All. Dear God, how we learn from history that we learn nothing from history: this historical trend is so plain, you really have to be blind not to see it. Yeah, and I myself didn't see it until writing this!
  1. Meanwhile, approximately half of the Old Testament is dedicated to Temple Building; for example, whole chapters and most of some books, explaining in minute detail, How God Fashions The Temple. God, not man. God empowering man, or God just flat doing it Himself, via angelic construction (i.e., measuring out the foundation, the first act of building). Each time. First, the Wilderness Tabernacle; then, First Temple; then, Second Temple. Finally, the Millennial Temple (theme of Ezekiel 39ff) — At The Second Advent. Not before. Many other Old Testament books talk about this final Temple, and all of them reiterate that Promise of Second Advent rebuilding. Not before. Israel was supposed to wait. But, it clearly doesn't. Because in the Tribulational passages, Jews Are In Israel. They aren't supposed to be there. We saw that in Daniel 9:26, Matthew 24; Jeremiah states the principle: you come back to the Land when I return you. So no people, no Land, no Temple are to be there "until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled", Romans 11, Matthew 24 (and parallel passages in other Gospels and elsewhere). That's why Peter is in Babylon, not Israel, not Rome, when he writes (he was an apostle to the Jews). That is why Jude is outside Israel, too. Temple Gone Means People Go! But, by the Tribulation, the Jews will have reversed the Will of God, even as they reversed His Will when going into the Land from Kadesh Barnea (Deuteronomy 1, context before Deuteronomy 1:44).

So if you look at Revelation 11:1, you'll see the Two Human Witnesses are dressed in Temple mourning, what you wear when it has been destroyed — but look at the text. It says a Temple is Standing there, and people are worshipping in it, which means sacrificing — first half of Daniel 9:27. So it's the Tribulation, first half. So the Temple there is not what God ordered built. God is very sarcastic in this chapter, telling John to measure with a reed (symbol of unfaithfulness, easily broken), rather than a rod. So John measures with his pen (reeds were used for writing), what is said. And it's all anger, baby — at the Witnesses who Warn people not to enter the Temple. (Or, prevent them from entering, I'm not quite sure which.)

See? Satan doesn't miss a trick. Satan & Co. know prophecy better than we drooling Christians. They know fully that there is no covenant operating during the Tribulation. Only the 'leavings' of Old Testament promises of deliverance, plus the New Testament updates: Flee, Fight. The folks who believe then will hopefully heed those promises, but — people are the same in every generation. We love to aggregate. We love the grand show, the pomposity, the majesty of it all. So all Satan has to do is make sure a Paper Trail is Left Behind when the Church goes up, so he can spin the lie that covenants are operating: one to the believers who are Gentiles, and one to the Jews. Because, no covenants are operating to anyone, except the leftover promises precedented since Genesis 12, plus the remaining prophetical promises people are then to claim. Cute ploy, huh?

We learn that we learn nothing from history. Satan has sought to get the Jews back to the Land many times in history. Whenever we stop looking at the Middle East, Satan & Co. do something to make us look there. You can set your watch. About 100 years before each one of God's promised 490 periods ends, Satan & Co. pull some stunt to make the Middle East a religious hotbed. When that doesn't work (and it didn't work until the Balfour Declaration), then Satan has the less-efficient task of making pogroms in many smaller pockets, wherever Jews congregate. He fosters antisemitism in order to make the pogroms work, and to herd Jews. So they are not scattered as God intends them to be for their safety. Because, they reverse the Will of God yet again, and trust in man's ideas of protection. But any general can tell you his first desire is to congregate his enemy, versus fighting a guerrilla war: "economy of force" doctrine. Satan is the best of generals, other than the Lord Himself.

  1. Why else do you think Islam exists? Witness how Satan has used God's 490-year accounting-for-Time System, to prevent the Rapture. You can see trends, and then vet further, as you see fit. Obviously there's nothing like this on the internet or in print. So vetting the ideas is crucial. Breathe 1 John 1:9 as you do it, so you get God's Brains and save yourself a lot of tail-chasing. For Arab history, the best summary book is written by a pro-Arab Englishman, and it's a classic: A Short History of the Arab Peoples by Sir John Glubb. (It was required reading in my university back in the 1970s, so maybe you can get it wherever Arab history is taught.)

In short, the same herd-then-slaughter pattern has occurred so often — you'd think someone would wake up and notice it's happened again. And now in 2006, over 50% of worldwide Jewry, lives in Israel! Makes one want to tear his clothes, smear the face with dust and wail forever.

  1. Thus you can see Revelation 12 playing live on television. Everyone hates the Jews; everyone feels so sorry for the poor Palestinians 😭 (who were not even there, the Jews bought the land from the Porte); never mind, that by age nine Each Palestinian Boy Knows How To Make Three Kinds Of Bombs. (That's what I remember seeing a kid tell Diane Sawyer, that in a program she did which aired here in 2003 or 2004 — nice shot, maybe six boys and her sitting on benches as if at a picnic table, very serene, talking about bombs they learn to make in school.) Sheesh. All those roadmaps to nowhere, with the First Article of the PLO Charter being, "Israel has no right to exist." (Clever, since that's invoking the Bible Contract clause of No Temple (e.g., 1 Kings 9:7-9), thus again witnessing to Who is the real God.) See? How obvious can Satan make it to the Jews? Hey, dummies, don't you read your own Ta'anach? Get Outta Here. You don't exist as a nation again until the Second Advent! Do you see this Dome? Sigh. Well, Elohim Can't Say "I Didn't Warn Them".
  1. And why does Satan do this? Because in those same time periods, you can see how God has progressively made Scripture available to the common man. In the last 490 — also beginning within 100 years of its ending — Bible Was Rolled Out By God For The First Time Since The Crucifixion in the original language-texts, during the mid-1800's. Scripture being available so widely means the Potential For Pleroma Completion Is At An All-Time High. That's The Rapture Criterion, Pleroma Completion by Sufficient Numbers of Believers. So Satan Has To Herd The Jews Quickly, Since The Rapture Is Now More Likely Than At Any Time In History.

See, you can't get to Pleroma if you don't breathe Bible, and the translations cannot get you there. That's why Scripture was kidnapped for the better part of 18 centuries, and the translations are so bad. Easy to believe in Christ; but impossible, to reach Pleroma Maturity level, Ephesians 4:13. So those who did reach Pleroma during the last 20 centuries, had access to the original language texts. A duke, a monk, a charwoman — who knows. It's God's Power, His "IQ", so the only logistical problem was getting a Full Bible, and Time to Learn it. Very few wanted to do that, but clearly some did, or we'd not be here: one person per 490 years must mature in Bible enough for God to allow the world to go on living. We've now had four such 490s since the Crucifixion: on a contiguous (qualifying-to-renew-time) basis, these deadlines fell in 520 AD (Paul probably got that one, followed by someone else post-Canon we can't know who); 1010 AD, then 1500 AD, and finally in 1990. So Time after 1990 (the 5th since the Cross) continues because someone got awarded it during the 490 ending in 1990. Five people. Just five. That's entirely possible, no matter how kidnapped Scripture has been.

God will give anyone who wants His Word, their fill. Full. Pleroma. But now — must be a whole lot of folks who want That Real Bible. So, they are getting it. Few in percentage, but also, Very Few are Needed. So the more available the Word in the original language texts, the more likely the Church will be completed. Ταχύ.

Since we don't know our Bible, we can't read history, either. It's not coincidental that the sudden shubbing of Jews to the Land in the late 1800's — suddenly getting very nice deals from the Muslim Porte (Turkey, to you) to Buy The Land Back, were occurring in record numbers. By 1905, it had become a whole movement, Jews everywhere getting excited. Just in time, the pogroms in Russia were at an all-time high, too: and just in time, Japan declared war on Russia, which Russia disastrously lost — which made the pogroms, all the more virulent — and the need for a 'safe haven', all the more urgent. You had the Dreyfus affair in France, and antisemitism in America was in one of its uglier periods (we've not really recovered from either racism against blacks, nor against Jews). Go to B'nai Brith or other Jewish organization to get the history. It will open your eyes. God warned the Jews He would chase them with the sword wherever they went, and history proves that Warning. It's all over the Bible, stated in just about every way it can be said (i.e., Leviticus 26:33 and Deuteronomy 28:22, with "sword" being a keyword for each whole chapter). It's all over history, too: if you look, that is.

See How We Miss Everything? Do you think Satan's plan for Church (or Islam, for that matter, since they are sons of Abraham, too) is any different? Of course not! Why change what works? So, the same herding is being set up now, even as Church 'unity' is promulgated — yeah, once we were all together under one roof, "in the dark" and therefore in the dark ages. So like the Jews, we Christians will keep on as now, blithely assuming Church is in Tribulation, looking for dates and signs and titillating miracles. Yeah, marching right into his trap. We prove from Bible and history, that we learn nothing.

If we don't get this Rapture doctrine right, do you know how much blood is on our heads? Every popular book on the Tribulation should be Left Behind In The Trash; even every popular Pre-Tribulation Rapture publication gets it wrong about what happens and why! Every Tribulation movie ever made, is completely off; and hopefully they will all burn up before the Tribulation begins, lest they cost the lives! of people seeing them, then. We Christians have a lot to answer for, at the Bema.

Think Real Hard: all these books and programs extolling the end times, brother: "feel the reality", one of them says, advertising the movie version. Sheesh. This Is Bad News, and we turn it into a thrill seeking? Is this honoring to the Lord? To Totally Misrepresent The Bible's Explanation of The Events (pure vomit, those books and movies) — and to make the Tribulation into a thrill, besides? Look at the stupidity: Israel is regathered so the Lord must be coming back soon, "oh goody" 🙄. Can we be dumber? That's not at all a good sign, but a Very Bad Sign the Jews are there! Sitting ducks! They don't even read their own Two Stone Witnesses — one left behind by Satan, 99 + 586 years AD!

Don't you know, Jews believe in Messiah, too? But a Coming One. So they think we are mistaken as to Who He is, but Right about the Fact He's Coming. For Messiah's coming is The Hope of Judaism; so anytime anyone anywhere says He's here He's coming, He's coming soon — they salivate. Why else do you think the Lord warned them in Matthew 24 to flee? To Not Believe Anyone Who Said He Had Come Back??? You don't offer a drug addict drugs; you don't offer an alcoholic a drink; you don't offer the Jews a suddenly-returning Messiah. Instead, educate yourself. Then, educate them! He doesn't Return until the very last minute, when war in Jerusalem is so lost, it's the end of the world — which happens only because Jews foolishly gathered there, in Anticipation of His Coming! It's bleeping Kadesh Barnea, all over again, Deuteronomy 1:44 (see context)!

We Should Be Warning Israel To Get Out Of There, not panting over the similarity to the Tribulation because an 'Israel' is there! And because it is similar, what must happen if they go live there, huh? Don't we know for centuries, that the Tribulation is a time of unprecedented pogrom? So why would we want them to be there??? We Christians really are insane! Sure, so long as they are there, We Should Defend Them With Every Breath — meanwhile, helping them to see that — hello! Stupid Dome which is an Abomination like Daniel explained, like you remember every Chanukah, for crying out loud? No Temple Until Messiah Returns. Which, as Zechariah explains, is an event happening on a day which is night, so He comes at night making 'day' out of the whole sky? So you don't need someone to tell you He's Back, you'll see Him in the sky yourself? And the whole world will likewise see Him at the same time?! Laws of optics: if the object in outer space is in just the right place, the entire world can see it at the same moment.

If you are sane at all, defend Israel with your life, don't side with the burgeoning 'Christian' trend of antisemitism. At the same time, analyze yourself how exactly history proves Messiah has Come and Gone which means Israel should not be there: so to save as many Jews as you know, by at least informing them to Do Their Homework. This is a flee period. Satan will keep on using Islam to herd the Jews, and he'll withdraw his sponsorship of Islam in order to herd Jews the more, thinking now they've gotten "peace, peace!" when there never will be peace, until Messiah Returns. It's just an atom bomb, waiting to happen.

Don't crusade, don't join the hundreds of pastors who march on Washington (= Egypt) to make it 'save' Israel, don't publicize, just quietly Do Your Homework, Grow up in God's System. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, as always. But Your Own Spiritual Growth will do more to protect Israel, so emphasize that. Not someone else's growth, yours. God saved Israel due to Moses. One person. So maybe you or me is the one person needed. Maybe someone else, but one is enough. Grow. God doesn't need Caesar's help: that's how we got into this regathering mess, in the first place, by going to 'Egypt', AKA 'Caesar' AKA 'the United Nations' (notions!) AKA any human government. It's the devil's world, got it?! You have a Higher Government to Whom you can Appeal. Prayer is a Vote for God to be involved, and only the believer has that privilege. So pray!

We Christians caused this problem. 2000 years Satan has been trying to get the Jews to shub, and we are responsible for that Trap! But God Will Deliver them. Best thing you or I can do, is Get in and Stay In and Grow Up In God's System! Pray your heart out, the meanwhile! For no one ever delivers the Jews but the God Whose Everlasting Arms, Always Embrace Jacob.

See? Revelation should put us on much greater alert, than if we were trying to set the Rapture's date, for crying out loud. Stuff is going on right now which we are ignoring to our peril. Thus contributing to Satan's side in the Trial. Not good. For, we keep asking the wrong questions of Bible. We should be asking about why. We should be asking about Precedence. We have oodles of precedence we know of yet mysteriously leave unexamined; we have the map of time laid out, yet we don't read it. So we really don't need prophecies; we don't read what we already have. So of course we don't even know from those prophecies that there are no other covenants to complete; because all Precedence Precedes His Fulfilling the Contract; and thus the only Design Map for history is based on the Jewish Tribulation; because it is the Only Phase of History which wasn't yet completed. That's why the First Advent occurred, for crying out loud. Time was supposed to end!

Historical Trend H5: Operation Footstool, Psalm 110, Revelation 17:14


Matthew 13:24-40 Time Parable of the Wheat and the Tares: The Wicked Prosper, so the Righteous can Exist.
So the Righteous exist for even the Wicked, to Prosper Time.

There's always been a whole lot of nonsense against the Jews, against this-or-that sect or group. But think: We are only here due to their rejection of Him. But we only remain here due to our own rejection of Him. It's the wicked, who prolong history. Wicked Christians, since the Session. For Messiah's First Advent was to trigger the Ending of History. He came at the end of history, AKA "the fullness of times". 1000th anniversary of David's becoming King, The King is born, to usher in the next 1000 years. 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement from Kingship, The King Himself 'retires' on the Cross, John 19:30's "τετέλεσται!" For He is Resurrected (the "no decay" clause in Psalms), so we will, too. Nexus Birth, Nexus 'Retirement', Nexus Resurrection. Fully. So now He, the Purpose of Time, is Completed: τετέλεσται. So Now that the Purpose is Completed, the Play Out is Being Completed, Psalm 110:1.

In military terms, His Success at the Cross is called a "strategic" victory. All effort after that mops up the campaign or war, which the Bible calls "Footstool", Psalm 110. That's our time slot in history right now, too. So it's the number of enemies (negative believers), who help prolong time as well. Idea is, the achievement of certain key goals so conclusively finishes the fight, that the remaining time is spent "mopping up". Okay, but it's still a matter of life or death, for those involved in the mopping up.

For us. We are Wheat and Tares. Tares are vile weeds which look like wheat (religious unbelievers, in the parable). They infest a wheat harvest so well, to get rid of them you end up harming the wheat. So instead of harming them, the tares must be allowed to grow, too. Then when the sickle is put to the standing grain, the tares are separated and burned. That's what should have happened about 2000 years ago in 94 AD, the originally-scheduled beginning of the Millennium.

But Israel rejected Christ, so Time continued instead with Church inserted, Matthew 16:18, John 17:20-21. So another 'burning' awaits: at the Bema. Either we believers will be torched yet saved (1 Corinthians 3:15, Revelation 16:15, NIV), akin to the Roman custom of torching the hem of your garment if you're found sleeping while on guard. Or, we will have gold, silver and precious stones. The Rapture would have occurred long ago, had there been enough believers in the latter category. Obviously, there weren't.

Our many so-called spiritual giants in church history books were therefore pygmies. They are set up as examples, made popular, so we too will be pygmies, mistaking the spiritual life for works, ritual, holy 'amen brother' noises and all manner of hypocrisy. Else, the Rapture would have happened long ago. So the 'popular' ideas of what's 'spiritual' are all satanic. Again, were that not true, the Rapture would have long been over, because it only takes one generation, to complete Church. Obviously that one-generation criterion has never been met. Yet how many 'Christians' have there been? Billions! Of course, if they believed in Christ + some other verb for their salvation, they are roasting in hell now, since they were Tares. But anyone who Believes Only in Christ Only, and did that at least once in his lifetime — will only suffer the burning of the 'tares' he did while down here. But he himself is and remains in heaven from the minute he died. Notice that only tare-persons or tare-deeds get burned. Notice further that there must be a lot of them, for the Rapture hasn't occurred till yet.

So notice how You And I Would Not Be Alive Today If The Lord Didn't Choose, 2000 Years Ago, To Pay For Us On The Cross. Which He couldn't justify doing, if there was to be no Church. Which He couldn't justify doing, if Israel didn't reject Him. Salvation truly has come from the Jews, and Christ Himself wants to return the favor. For, had there been no Jews, there'd have been no Christ. Could the Lord make it plainer, than in John 4:22? "Salvation is come through the Jews". Justice must be Just. Consistent. Precedence. We'd have had no precedence for Existence, if the foregoing history had not occurred. So we'd not exist, if Daniel 9:26c had not occurred. There'd be no room for us.

So we've had nearly 1000 more years, post-(what should have been the end of the world) in 1094 AD + 50 (for the Revelation 20:7 voting) = 1144 AD. Yet what have we learned from the past? All those past prophecies and 'signs' (σημεῖον, means Warning more than "sign") did us no good at all. We learned nothing. Greek drama word οὐθέν. Those 'spiritual gifts' people keep on drooling over today, were Warnings (i.e., tongues were to warn Israel, Isaiah 28:1-10 — 1 Corinthians 14 quotes it). Not good. Moreover, back when those gifts really were extant, people did not advance spiritually, despite all the temporary spiritual gifts which forecast the completion of Canon (healing, tongues, etc — see 1 Corinthians 13). It was a Test, all those signs. Which we all flunked, and still flunk, today. Tongues, ended 70 AD (see 1 Corinthians 14:21ff for purpose). The others, went on until 96 AD (or soon thereafter), but what did we learn from them? They only learned to invent the silliest stories of miracles and fake gospels, rituals and endless petty observances: just read some of the 'Church Fathers'! These are the people we mimic? No wonder the Rapture still hasn't happened! We today crave 'signs'. But they had them! Do we learn nothing from their provable experience of learning nothing? I guess not: Paul wrote back in 56 AD that apart from Love (Canon, His Thinking), we are nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2-3, οὐθέν and οὐδέν). So, nothing resulted!

It's like that Yiddish song by The Fugs, about the days of the week: every day we repeat the same "nothing", the same goofinesses of the folks in Acts, casting lots, communism, making big stinks about what we give, getting the Ghost; or, titillated about the Rapture. We repeat their foibles because we don't even discern that they are foibles. Oh, it's in the Bible, so it must be holy! Yeah, and the wackos of the Exodus generation are in the Bible, too — is that why we also imitate them? Looking for miracles? All the loud singing of Miriam and others on their tambourines, but hey — three days later, crying again. They politicized against Moses. Oh, we really imitate that! Not to mention, all the crazies in the Gospels. Yeah, we see it in the Bible, and merely see it. We see Spot run. We don't Learn to Run, ourselves.

Because nothing, flunk has been the continuing trend, we Church Wheat Making Tares, keep on salivating like that first generation, thus Elongating Time. Sure, a few get to Pleroma each generation — that's the only reason we are still here. But when the number of Pleroma finish — Time Ends for Church! And there's no way to gauge when that will be, to read any other soul but one's own.

Meanwhile, you and I should not exist. All, for the want of a nail. But we do exist, and The Four Horsemen are still riding (historical trends, see also Zechariah 1) — only because Christ paid, since Israel Rejected, since David Existed, since Israel Existed, since Moses Existed, since Abraham Existed, since Noah Existed, since Adam Existed. God Organizes Time around Messiah, and hence around Israel (Hebrews 1:2, Hebrews 11:3). Because He wanted All The Nails Of Our Sins. So no more nails are wanting, Now.

We should not exist, but Isaiah 54:1! We therefore do exist, and we are thus to Make History For Our Husband, not prophecies! For we are the Far-Fulfillment of the Book of Esther, for Israel! Wa tsahali, lo-hala! Cry all the way to the bank, you shouldn't-exist-but-do, Royal Priest!



Role of Precedence, Summary

So, we've now seen how Past is Prologue which leads to Precedence. We've seen God reroute Rejection into Redemption, without which, We'd Not Exist. To recap the Precedents for Our Precedence:

Because, the Tribulation is the Last "Week" of the Jewish Age; at the end of which, comes the Second Advent. Then the Millennium, "Footstool", the fulfillment of all Israel's covenants. All of them, contingent on, the Lord's Announcement, being first fulfilled. Like it says in Hebrews 11:39-40, apart from us being completed, they don't get completed. All written in a scroll of a book...

Of course, the reality that history only continues due to Israel's rejection of Messiah, thus Church continues only until enough Pleroma are built for Messiah, sets a shocking and glorious, beyond-imagination precedent in our contract about Our Role: it's a Numbers Criterion, 'how many' of us Father Wants to Build for His Son. So He really wants Many Sons, Hebrews 2:10 ("perfect" properly means "completed", τελειόω); So Paul isn't kidding around when he writes in Ephesians 3:15-21! God can do anything!




Part 4a "Mirror Now", The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

God's Script: Now, versus "Later"

Why does our "Now" end with a Pre-Tribulation Rapture?
Says Ephesians 1: Because Bride is Completed!

Mirror, Now: God's Post-Cross, 490-Year, Justice Accounting System for Time

Contents: [Introduction] [Seven Post‑Cross Trend Characteristics] [1. Scripture Rollout] [2. Back‑to‑the‑Bible] [3. Mass Evangelism] [4. Opposition by Religion] [5. Mass Migration / Change] [6. New “Client” Rises on Ashes of Old One] [7. Wider Geographic Spread vs. Prior 490] [Sum of 7 Trends] [Sketch of How #1–#7 Play Out in the 490s Since 30 AD] [A: 30–520 AD] [B: 520–1010 AD] [C: 1010–1500 AD] [D: 1500–1990 AD] [#7’s Geographic Spread, A–D] [1990 Watershed 490 Characteristics] [Bible Teaching Watershed Table] [Where Are We Now?]

Important Update Note, 6/10/2007: read this section for the description of the seven post-Cross historical trends. The description is valid. But the benchmark years in this page are sometimes wrong. The right benchmark years are in parentheses, in header sections A-D below. All of the correct benchmark years are chronologically logged and color-coded in God's Orchestration of Time. It plots the actual historical benchmarks, whereas we're only reviewing the qualifying 490s here, which are non-intercalated.


Introduction

Both before and after the Cross, God 'mirrors' time back to us for the same reason He mirrors Himself: to teach. See, we need to have someone show us where we are wrong or right, and God's method is to measure back what's wrong or right, so we can see objectively: principle is most succinctly stated in Matthew 7:1-2. So if you have a spiritual problem, you'll have a mirroring physical circumstance. So if the world has a time problem, it has a mirroring time segment to go with it. Loss, or gain. And any gain or loss is balanced either prior or later, with a matching time segment of like kind.

More fundamentally, God 'mirrors' time like an accounting transaction, so that everything balances ("for every thing, there is a season" and similar verses). He does this in 490-year segments, starting with Adam.

The basis for all this mirroring, moreover, is solely, the believer: God grants the Earth 490 more years based on the accumulated Divine DNA (Bible Doctrine) of an individual, starting with Adam. We are used to buy time for the world. It's not a figure of speech, but literal, and has been God's Justice Criterion since Adam. Further, these grants of time stack together, if more than one individual alive at the same time, receives it, which greatly improves the prosperity of the Time the Earth gets.

Further, God's Criterion for Church Body-building is also based on Divine DNA: He dates the Rapture based on the present value, as it were, of the Divine DNA of Church; which aggregate Divine DNA, would be sufficient such that the eternal series of "kingdoms" will be optimized in happiness. If you understand the concept of a sinking fund for capital, or a defined benefit plan, that's the analogy for this "present value" of Divine DNA production. It's not a denominational issue. It's not a works issue. It's not a ritual issue. It's a God-develops-your-soul issue. So it doesn't matter what denomination you are, what doctrines you or someone are 'right' about, how moral you are... it's about How Much Do You Want To Learn God, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. And that means you need Bible getting in your head: all the works and rituals and good deeds and denominational characteristics are utterly incapable of putting God's Own Thinking into your head — since only God Wrote the Bible. So it's how much do you want the Holy Spirit to do Matthew 4:4 and John 14:26 and 1 Corinthians 2:16 to you. Him doing that to you each time you consent (i.e., you're learning Bible under your pastor) — produces what I like to call "Divine DNA" : spiritual dendrites, if you will.

This Divine DNA production is the fundamental reason why we can't date the Rapture: Divine DNA is Sovereignly conditioned and produced, based on believer positive volition, as a gift from Father to Son and vice versa, per Isaiah 53:10-12. That contract means the development of His Son's Soul in the souls of believers in Church, is something only God can know. It's an open-ended contract.

The point is, it's a contract which The Father is completing for The Son. There was an initial deadline for that contract, but due to Israel's refusal of Messiah, the contract (which itself is open, the deadline came later) got extended. That's the only reason why there is a Church. We'd not be here but for Israel's refusal, so we owe Israel much. Flee antisemitism like the poison it is.

Finally, as explained later, macro-historically, mankind is steadily devolving into animalism, because the sin nature becomes progressively more influential on the soul with each succeeding generation: thus only so many generations remain, before God can no longer justify imputing a soul at birth. There comes a point where the exiting fetus will have too corrupt a biological nature, and the soul will no longer be able to use it. Freedom means freedom of degradation, too: and when that point is reached, there will be no more births. So we're in a race for time, God orchestrating even time, but without gerrymandering: to finish the Trial, finish building up believers for His Son. He can do this without gerrymandering only if enough believers are on earth who are positive to His Will. So He can execute His Will, with consent — that is not gerrymandering. So we are definitely used to preserve the human race in far more ways than we know. Would that we be so humbled by the realization God chooses to have it be this way (rather than just bing what He wants)!

And mankind had already degenerated too much, almost 1000 years ago. So the only reason Earth continues now, is due to God being legally authorized by believers on earth, to bless the people on it; and, to provide added blessing due to Bible contract clauses for past believers' post-mortem blessing benefits. You can reasonably prove mankind is already in an overtime round, as history was supposed to end 1144 AD: the originally-planned ending of history (1094 AD end of Millennium + 50 year voting period), had Israel accepted her Messiah during the First Advent. Because she did not, she gets a double dose of tribulational sevens: the first one resulted in Messiah dying seven years earlier, because time literally ran out; so that seven years was played to end the 40 year period ending 70 AD. Thus the 7 years of the Tribulation, now vested in Christ (to pay Him back for the years He gave up down here), are reserved.

So this race for time is now a sudden death round, and can end at any time; for the last 1057 years of history must occur; God will Rapture us up first, so that those years will occur. But, we have options, too: and woe to us, if we refuse His Divine DNA offer.

So if He would even orchestrate time for the sake of the whole human race, and that, based on the positive believer, whoa — then you know for sure that you'd better get in and stay in His System, kissing good bye to all of that folderol which usually passes for 'Christianity'. Only God can orchestrate Time; the doctrine of the 490 segments is Scripturally and mathematically provable, so you cannot hallucinate this major doctrine in Bible; so you know you have to learn it; it's very serious with huge impact on mankind, so you know you're not supposed to slobber about the "end-times, brother." So you know you need to grow, because you are essentially refusing God's making you into a '490' person like He did to Noah and others, if you do not stay in His System. Whoa.

Clearly no human works can create or extend time. Clearly, then, the Work God Wants is to make the Believer like His Son. We are the Work, made wholly by God, Ephesians 2:10, the quintessentially witty New Testament statement on Divine DNA (in Greek, not English). Ionic dative of purpose of ἐπί right next to "Ἰησοῦ" (Jesus) is priceless wit, since "Ion" was the legendary founder of the Greek sea peoples to whom this epistle was circulated. Ion was supposed to be half human, half god, and "Ion" means "venom" (euphemism for semen). So Paul is direct about Divine DNA being our origin, and wryly so!

So we're not who we think we are: we are Royal Family of God. Hence we no longer have a personal life. Even human royalty is trained from the cradle to give up its own personal life for the sake of ruling: since one never rules well, if his personal life 'competes'. Rank has its responsibilities: as Royal Family forever we are responsible for the wellbeing of the world, by Divine Design. So the quality and quantity of Time itself is ruled by how we grow or retrogress in Christ. So you are to become a '490', yourself. As befits your Royal Station legated to you from Christ. So if things go bad, blame yourself. If you are growing, you are being made part of the solution. My pastor commonly quips, "as goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God." And, so goes the world which Needs that client nation, to prosper.

The relay-race of historical 490's running since 30 AD follow two primary tracks: one dating from the Crucifixion (i.e., 30 + 490 + 490 + 490), and one dating since the Destruction of the Temple (i.e. 70 + 490 + 490). God tracks from the Crucifixion: so His "AD" means "After Death", and His "BC" means "Before Crucifixion" (which was 14 Nisan 30 AD, tantamount to our 3 April). But oddly enough, Satan appears to derisively target the 490 from Temple destruction. Satan's been obsessed with the Temple since it was destroyed, because the Lord warned everyone to never come back once it got destroyed (i.e., in Matthew 24 which applies Daniel 9:26). So Satan's been messing with the Temple Mount, ever since.

Since both tracks unite backwards at the Exodus of 1440 BC, the ongoing 490's post-Cross, thread together. So these two 490 tracks run in syncopated tandem. That makes for very intense historical experience, within the last four generations of The Crucifixion 490. In the table below, the ending dates of each of these 490s are listed, so you can see how they overlap.

Ending Dates

Cross 490s Temple 490s
520 AD 560 AD
1010 AD 1050 AD
1500 AD 1540 AD
1990 AD 2030 AD

Historical 490s aren't quite the same as the above dates. The above dates are non-intercalated, but the historical 490s are intercalated with voting periods. Mankind in aggregate must want God enough for time to be justifiably continued; every 490 years or so, that voting is critical to the continuance of the world (i.e., as it was back between 586-516 BC). The 490s are housed inside a 1050-year unit, like this: 1000 (qualifying unit for believers) +50 (voting unit) = 490 (qualifying unit for believers) + 70 (voting unit for believers) + 490 (qualifying unit for believers). The 1050 'houses' the 490 + 70 + 490. So technically, the above dates in the table, are the dates by which someone must qualify to be awarded a 490. In actual time, the voting period next follows. Then a new qualifying 490 must be awarded. Else time ends.

The Seven Characteristics of each 490's completion follow below. After that description, you'll find an "A-D" historical review, which seeks to identify what historical evidence supports the characteristics (as a test in diagnosing what 490 goals were met). The "A-D" is sketchy (and sometimes confusing), right now. The description doesn't distinguish between the two 490's. So you'll need the above table, to see which of the above 490s is being measured, in "A-D".

See, in order for God to justify continuing Time, certain goals must be met by the end of a previously-granted 490 years. God reroutes Blessing by association via believers; if those believers are too few, and especially if at least one believer during a 490-year-grant doesn't reach a requisite level of spiritual development, God won't continue time. It's a Justice issue.

The Crucifixion redeemed time, as was its purpose. It redeemed time backwards and forwards, in essence justifying all of creation. But the continuation of time is still a justice issue, now in a different way: how much time is it just to provide, considering that man is devolving. For in anything there comes a time when you must stop: to continue further, will become destructive, not constructive. So if God is not judicious about how much Time He allows, then He is unfair. That will never happen. Hence the need for at least one believer to be so spiritually developed that the thinking of that believer justifies another 490 continuance. There must always be a balance between the thinking patterns, analogous to the reason for the sacrifices in the Old Testament. Concept of compensation: God is not compensated by suffering or sacrifice, and in fact needs no compensation at all. But It's A Justice Issue That Compensation Be Paid. Isaiah 53:10-11 is the contract of compensation, Christ's Thinking for our sins. Hence, that same thinking compensates for all the bad thinking God must hear — so the goal is, to deposit that thinking in enough quantity to justify all other individuals' thinking during the same time period — and really, during up to a whole 490 years for the entire planet.

So the Cross 490s' continuation, depends on that Deposit Goal being achieved, and there must be at least one individual who gets so high a deposit, all the others have time to grow during the next 490. #1 Characteristic (below) is therefore the rollout of Scripture, since that is the Source of the Deposit, the God-breathed Word, Christ's Thinking (as God, Old Testament; as Human, New Testament).

The Temple 490s' continuation criteria are a bit harder to diagnose, just yet. I only know I can prove it's running, and its significance is a kind of anti-type Satan uses. Historically, in each of the last 100 years of the Temple 490s, 'something' with respect to that destroyed (Second Temple), happens in history. Satan seeks to focus attention on the Temple (hence on Jerusalem), to motivate gathering, Temple building... and hence, war. That's his strategy post-Cross, as Revelation 11-17 reveal.

The Temple 490s' continuation criteria are a bit harder to diagnose, just yet. I only know I can prove it's running, and its significance is a kind of anti-type Satan uses. Historically, in each of the last 100 years of the Temple 490s, 'something' with respect to that destroyed (2nd) Temple, happens in history. Satan seeks to focus attention ON the Temple (hence ON Jerusalem), to motivate gathering, Temple building.. and hence, war. That's his strategy post-Cross, as Revelation Chapters 11-17 reveal.

The way Satan plays the 490s is sometimes off-timeline, yet on it.

So when you try to track to Satan's games, go by some prior matching date which is significant to the Temple timeline or some other important past event in Jewish history, not necessarily by a 490 ending post-Cross. It's not enough that you find a 490 (or other Biblically-significant) number difference. The character of the event must match the character of the past event. Derisively. There are infinitely more of these events than I list.

It's less clear to me so far how God uses the Temple 490: so this page will need successive revision as I understand God's usage better. One usage of the Temple 490 by God is reasonably certain: He's sending the same message to the Jews every 490, as He did between 30AD-70AD. That period, of course, was the Daniel 9:26 warning, that the Temple would be destroyed; that the Church Age had begun, that Israel had failed. Since the unbelieving Jew essentially denies the First Advent, and Church functions as a potential warner and explainer — inter alia, that pssst! See Daniel 9:25 and the Dome? Messiah has already come the First Time! — it stands to reason God would be using this 40-year gap for this purpose. Analogous to the 40 years in the wilderness, an analogy which the writer of Hebrews makes in Hebrews 4, and Paul makes in Acts 13. But there's more meaning than just this. I need more time to think out what else this overlap signifies.

Needless to say, I can't find anything remotely like this elsewhere. People notice that there is an orchestration of time; but they use the wrong dates to track it e.g., going by astrology or other bogus planetary phenomena. The Bible forbids astrology, so God would not be using it Himself i.e., no Star of Bethelehem, since astrology was punishable in Deuteronomy 18:10-14 (the person was to be cut off, looks like capital punishment). Or, someone interprets the 1260 days in Daniel to mean 1260 years — nope); or, they truncate the tracking at the 70 AD destruction (I made that mistake, too), not recognizing that the 490's begin with Adam, so predate Israel. Most just treat the 490 of Daniel as the sole 490 operating. That mistake is common, and I'd have made it too except for a fluke when analyzing that 490 (yeah, no flukes in a Christian's life, God uses and baptizes your 'mistakes' as well).

So as you read what follows, pay particular attention to the Seven Characteristics, but skim over the historical analysis solely to understand the Characteristics' meaning, better (it doesn't show the tandem tracking).

So a "490" ends in one of two ways: successfully, or unsuccessfully. If successfully, it will have seven marked (highly visible) trend Characteristics. There's nothing coy about its ending. If unsuccessfully, well... the world ends, unless another 490 is still running to take up the slack. Again, the stacking/nesting of 490's are individual, as well as corporate. We saw this in the case of Israel, in the 586 BC destruction of the corporate 490, the Temple: there, David's 490 was still running, so God could make the offer of Daniel 9. Else, the world would have ended. Since the world hasn't ended yet, we can tell Each of God's successfully-ending historical 490's have predictable characteristics.


The Seven Characteristics of a Successfully-Completing "490"

So a historical 490's successful end seems to have at least ALL of the following characteristics:

  1. Biggest Litmus: Scripture Rollout Reaches A Peak. The rollout always begins several generations prior to the end of the 490; "rollout" means a) some 'find' of original language Scripture, b) the desire to teach and properly translate it, c) some easing up in technology, so that more people can more easily get and/or read Scripture. All or any of these three characteristics will be unusual in scope, and begin to reach unusual scope about 100+ years prior to the 490's end: because, God uses the 'four generation curse' doctrine in His Timings. Precedence for this is the 120 years' deadline in Genesis 6, then Shem being born 20 years later (God made the first covenant with Noah at Shem's birth). The 120 years represents four generations (age of maturity for marriage, rulership and certain other contracts is generally age 30, in Bible); the four generation timeline isn't always stated so explicitly, but you can trace its repetition in the Old Testament (i.e., book of Jonah, Nineveh being given another 120 years due to his ministry can be proven from when Assyria died, circa 612 BC). So you know it's a 'four generation' window.

This #1 point is so important, it requires some elaboration. Scripture is first and foremost a Legal Inheritance Contract, so one incurs a liability for ignoring it. When you truly love, you obligate yourself, and Scripture is God's Voluntary Love Contract to make "Divine DNA" (clone His Son's Thinking in anyone) on behalf of the human race: Isaiah 53:10-12. If you don't know that text, you don't know the Bible, no matter what else you know in the Bible. So you don't know what God has provided. Because to refuse that contract is to refuse Holy God, there are legal consequences. These are disclosed. To refuse to even learn the contract is a refusal of God; to believe in Christ per John 3:16, however, is an unconditional promise, hence refusal to learn the rest of the contract, cannot cancel salvation. Of course, the Bible makes this clear in the original languages (and even in most translations, if you are reading with your brain on).

For the most important point to get about God is this: God is indeed omnipotent, but He will only choose to use His Power consonant with Love. Love is above all, a stasis, an Absolute Attitude. Hence, Absolute Justice. Hence, A Contract Of Love. Which Absolute Love will Absolutely Defend and Honor. You accept the terms or do not, but God will never abrogate His Love for you. If you reject this Contract there are consequences, because those same consequences would obtain if God Himself rejected Love. God is free to reject, consummately so. And the consequences would be exactly the same — but at an Infinite Level. Since we are living, we know He will never abrogate His End of the Contract. So it remains for us to learn the Contract, and decide how much, if any, we are willing to accept. For, Honor is the highest form, the Expression of Absolute Love. And God will thus absolutely and always honor His Contract. Which contract, was sealed on the Cross forever, Isaiah 53:10-12 (again).

Hence, the most important indicator of the ending of a 490, is some unusual new availability of Scripture; be it availability of the Greek and Hebrew original language texts, good teaching (which is always rare and quiet), or some convenience aide; because such unusual availability, means Contract Disclosure is Peaking. Which peaking, signifies an unusually large number of humans (at that time or upcoming within four generations) who want to know God better. For example, in the 1100's, the College of Paris invented the Chapter and verse system we have today (original Scripture has no punctuation or even spaces between words). That was a convenience aid of some magnitude: the ability to learn, remember and discuss Scripture was exponentially increased, causing no end of hassle for the Catholic Church, since friars were enthusiastically teaching people the Bible that way; which disclosure, freed people from Rome's stranglehold as never before. Quietly. Learning Bible frees you from all the tyrannies in your life, and Our God is the God of Freedom, John 8:32, Galatians 5:1, John 17:17. Even more gigantic, was the invention of moveable type, by Gutenberg, in the 1450's. There'd have been no 'Reformation', without it.

The biggest rollout of Scripture (original language manuscripts) in history, began in the 1850's. It's downright astonishing that so many men from all over Europe at the same time, got it into their heads to go searching for the original language manuscripts, and to collate them. Knowing that the manuscripts were in the thousands, the hunt and the comparison (to test for copyist errors) was an operation of such magnitude, you can't even imagine the scale. Yet these individuals all sacrificed their lives for it. The process took most of the century, and there was true collaboration. Frankly, the rollout is the most significant event in the history of the world since the New Testament Canon was completed circa 96 AD. For translations of the Bible were not written by the God-breathed authors. And you always lose between 20%-100% of the meaning of a sentence, in translation. Can't avoid it. Can't ever want to see the Word in translation again, once you see it in the original language texts: the two are like apples and oranges.

In the original language texts, you know for a fact you are seeing the very 'face' of God; anything else in life or in translation, is downright boring. God's Beauty of 'Soul', precise and witty Thinking, Who in a Word, is able at once to express a bazillion layers of infinite etymology and meaning nuance! Infallible Word, too. Provably. Copyist errors were provable, since there were thousands of manuscripts, so you could find mismatches and figure them out (i.e., 1 Corinthians 13:3's καυθήσομαι wasn't even a word in Paul's day; presumably a malicious edit by a Byzantine scribe who didn't like καυχήσωμαι). Think of the process of comparison like the most important crime scene investigation, ever. No higher calling in life. No tougher one. No more thankless job, than to be a pastor trying to teach a bored congregation, the most Gorgeous Word in the Universe.

Thus during the 19th century, 18 centuries after The Word Became Flesh and His Thinking was Codified among us.. the common man could once more finally see what God Really Wrote. Someone should make a movie of this epic event. If you can read German even with a dictionary, check out bautz.de, which has biographies on these guys (assiduously attended, too, updated regularly). "Satan's Kidnapping Scheme" illustrates this epic; but it's too tame. No conspiracy nut would be disappointed to investigate the real story.

For God prepared long in advance, for this rollout: He provided teachers to teach this most precious find, and many of those teachers were the ones who engaged in the collection, collation, and comparison of the texts. They passed on their knowledge to others. In the 19th century, every 'gentleman' was fluent in Attic Greek, Latin, and usually in Biblical Hebrew (the first two languages were long used in science, as well). So God prepared men to pass on what they learned; to copy carefully the ancient manuscripts, so the material could be widely disseminated. So forget the "Industrial Revolution", it pales in importance. Anyhow, it was needed to make Scripture easier to produce and distribute. So Bible rollout is the Revolution, back to what God originally intended: the original language texts, taught deeply to people who wanted to live on those texts. Just because. This revolution is ongoing still, and it has many enemies.

God does a #1, only when enough people want it, because of the liability. If Scripture is hidden or too hard to read/access, and you wouldn't want it were it easier to get, then.. even though you remain liable for your own negativity, God didn't add to your liability. Conversely, if you did want Scripture and He didn't give it to you, then He is at fault. Just because God can instantly create anything, doesn't mean He chooses to be unjust. Love isn't ever unjust, and it's always unjust, to coerce (which is why hell exists); and Righteousness never operates apart from Love. Sovereignty wouldn't have it, any other way.

Christianity perennially gets it wrong about God's Attitude, so perennially misses the awesomeness of His Nature. Because He is omnipotent, He can bing anything He wants and it is so. Therefore what He wants, is to condition on others' wants, the existence and shape of a thing. Because, the one thing God 'can't' do because He is Love... is to coerce. So it's wonderful, in His 'Eyes', especially knowing us as He does — that we would want Him. Not that He doesn't deserve it, but that we cannot understand Him; that we are not compatible with Him, so want antithetically. So to Him it's utterly amazing that His Son's Humanity would want and would go through the Cross, despite all that was thrown at and on Him — even, our sins. Even, judging our sins. Sovereignty is all about, Free Will, and would never accept anything else. Because anything else, God can do in a nanosecond. Because anything else, is not a Relationship. John 17 is all about, Relationship. And hence, Free Will. Sovereignty wouldn't have it, any other way.

Consequently this biggest Scripture rollout occurring in the 19th century, means many people are interested in God. So, then: if He did provide and then we refuse to learn what He provided, our liability is far worse. Why else do you think history's conflict has accelerated so much, since the 19th century? Modernization made Bible more convenient to have, and we got the original manuscripts; and we have (albeit few) qualified pastors in every country on earth, many of them providing recorded classes, so you don't even have to leave the house; and we have the easiest and most prolific adjunctive study software: all these, at the highest levels ever in history. Because God Exercises His Sovereignty, to preserve free will and hence freedom itself. And all freedom, completely depends on believer spiritual growth, since Church began in June 30 AD (Ephesians 4:5-11, Ephesians 1). This does mean of course that Satan has to pivot strategies, which is why KJV-Onlyism and disinterest in Greek and Hebrew is on the rise.

  1. Next characteristic: mass revolt against Catholicism/institutionalized religion, with a "back to the Bible moment" as the reason. Look for a peaking in "back to the Bible" movements (and those of entrenched religion who attack them) in the last 40 or 80 years of each 490 (the most recent one began in 1950). It's not necessarily a public massing of people so much as a lot of people making the same decision, I want to Get Bible. Nor does it mean revolters' doctrines are correct. It means they want Bible, not religion. So if they want Bible, they wouldn't always have to make noise to get it; rather, they could quietly arrange Bible time... say, by working for/as/hiring a monk or something. Aha.

If the "back to the Bible moment" movement was unusually successful, another 40 years is mirrored. Hence, a nexus of two 7-year periods joins the two 40-year periods: accounting model/precedence is Joseph's period as vizier in Egypt. The second of these 40-year periods often shows precipitous decline in Bible interest, resulting in a subtle or obvious persecution of those still interested in it. Keyword is interest, not correctness. Can't become correct, if uninterested. Even if correct, disinterest nullifies the correctness, 1 Corinthians 13:3. Hence the disinterest is judged after the period ends. This period is a bellwether, so if you can diagnose its 'play', then you have a better grip on your historical location.

1983-1990/1990-1997 appears to be the nexus, with the "slash" as the juncture of the two 40-year periods; yet the characteristics could mean something else, or the period is different (i.e., 1990-2003). For now, let's presume 1983-1997 correct. 1990 ended the latest qualifying 490. The "1990" portion later on will tentatively examine the year.

A 490 only completes if there is at least one person during that time (often, occurring at the end of it) who has become so spiritually-mature, another 490-year period can be granted. The two 40-year periods with the seven-year nexus on either side, means at least one pastor became so spiritually-mature, another 40 years can be granted. Again, both of these criteria have the 'savior' precedence. The nation in which such a pastor resides is getting a final warning to wake up and smell God's coffee: analogous to the warning Egypt got when Amenemhat III reneged against protecting the Hebrews shortly before Joseph's death. Amenemhat's offspring were the last to rule, and they were so weak Egypt descended into four centuries of civil war.

So if that nation now happens to be the United States (most likely candidate): if it doesn't wake up to God by 2030, if it doesn't rid itself of the Christian right in politics — watch it spectacularly decline. If you are an American Christian, you can help prevent your nation's demise: get in and stay in God's System. This is not a public thing you do, but a quiet learning; you will get no kudos from anyone, so unless you really want to know God, don't do this — you won't make it. However, the impact you could have, is extremely high: one person of any denomination, might be enough (when added to the very few others who are doing it, each one unknown to anyone). Certainly a few might be enough. Meanwhile, if enough pray for God to save our country, He just might do it anyway, 2 Chronicles 7:14. But no prayer outside God's System, gets an audience. Since nearly 100% of 'Christians' don't even get the Gospel right — even fewer know how to pray. The foregoing sentence can be tested and proven, and you should do both.

The 1990 watershed has worldwide characteristics, so maybe not only the longevity of the United States is at stake. Whatever nationality you are, Grow in God's System. That way you will be caused to (invisibly!) help save your own nation. As a believer, you are a Royal Priest before Father. So this is your job. It's not a joke, it's not something to make you feel important (🤣, you already are important); it's not a wild eyed "end times, brother" statement. It's God's Justice Accounting for Time, and it has precedence: as noted with respect to Joseph, above.

The purpose of diagnosing a bellwether or benchmark is to encourage internal motivation. Not, to run around warning other people (who don't know Bible as well, so will think the warning, wacko). Think of it as an investment opportunity you'll wish you didn't miss... at the Bema.

Since a "back to the Bible moment" can play softly, sometimes you can only detect it by means of the opposition to it. In the United States, the "back to the Bible moment" was pretty public, though 'respectable'. You didn't have the entrenched religious community ordering a crusade, like the Pope did against the Cathars. So: it was not 'politic' in America's religious community of the '50's, that pastors break away from denominations, and teach Bible from its original languages. It was politic to 'work within the system', which resulted in a whole lot of stultification in Bible teaching. Yet the teachers were constrained to feed the hunger. Even Catholics were affected by this "back to the Bible" groundswell among the populous: a papal bull reluctantly authorized exegesis in 1943. But the Protestants weren't eager to exegete for their congregations, either. Yet the popular desire to get Bible, couldn't be quelled; people knew of the Qumran and other 'finds'; many wondered if their King James Version was accurate; many knew it wasn't, even in the 1930's; so, enquiring minds wanted to know. Now.

The popular hunger for Bible proved to be politically destabilizing for the Protestants, as you might imagine; Gutenberg's Bible likewise proved the undoing of the Catholic Church. Now people could know what God had written; God, not a pastor or translator with a religious agenda. So marked is this hunger, you can't take a course in American history without the historian being obliged to cover it. From the last half of the 1800's through about 1930s, everyone and his brother was talking about 'new' doctrines. Of course, there was a lot of nonsense (i.e., ideas as alike yet diverse as Spiritism and "getting the Ghost" movements). But also, a lot of serious Bible scholarship — for we had the original language texts to see. Then, these various 'new' ideas settled into denominations of their own, and from the 1930's to the 1950's you saw a decline of interest. Then, it rose again, from 1950, going through a series of peaks and valleys. But during this time, it branched out all over the world, kind of like a virus. Hunger for Bible, as a virus? Yep.

So we're looking at a groundswell, here, not a happy thing for the entrenched religious elites who'd become just as dogmatic about their own power, as any Pope of the dark ages. Among these elites, though, were a few very happy campers, who longed to teach their congregations/students that Beautimous Word. The discoveries at Qumran blew the lid off public curiosity, for both Bible huggers and debunkers alike had old stuff to compare to their translations. Those elites who wanted to teach original language Bible now had even more justification to break away. Which, they did.

They were of varying denominations or no denominations. There were goofballs among them, and some of the most brilliant scholars, too. They spread geographically, mostly out from the United States and Europe, but even in Asia the movement grew (i.e., Watchman Nee). The post-war environment of exhaustion and the usual "why did God allow the war?", fuelled interest from Sao Paolo to Nova Scotia to Djakarta. As the fallout from WWII also left many a nation hankering for political freedom, the idea of freely knowing Bible for yourself was of even deeper interest. For one of the less salutary effects of WWII, was that everyone was tired of the 'old' pre-war authority structures — after all, didn't those folks get us into the war? So a dark undercurrent of interest accompanying genuine interest in Bible, was... iconoclasm. So we overthrew our monarchs and opted for new-fangled ideas of governance (which ideas began a century prior). Thus the goofballs spouted original language Scripture, too...

The better qualified teachers were in the minority, however: they were not popular among their other elite brethren, for dissenting with 'tradition'. Kinda hard to agree with Roman Catholicism, when you have a Bible which contradicts it; kinda hard to agree with any of the denominations, when you see in Bible how they've mangled the translations and teachings. So of course, the movement became quite political, right away — mostly, the opposition politicized the movement, and assigned to the break-away teachers, nefarious motives. That's pretty typical: back in the 1500's, neither Martin Luther nor John Calvin sought political power. John Calvin was busy trying to evangelize the French King, and Martin Luther was trying to get a discussion going by posting his Ninety-five Theses. So it was the opposition then, as well as the opposition now, which politicized everything. Satan has to play the Revelation 17 harlot against a "back to the Bible" movement: it's all he has, to offer.

The only dampening in the 1950-1990 groundswell, was the discovery by your average joe Bible student, that it's rather time-consuming to study Scripture this way. So the wheat and chaff, separated: since it had become fashionable to know original language words, shallow treatment of those words became popular — and easier to claim one 'knew'. But the wheat, grew on more substantial stuff. So did the opposition grow: they could play off arcane Greek-geek and Hebrew-geek explanations, and use their degrees to claim superior competence. But that didn't deter the break-away teachers. And they became, some of them, popular: the groundswell, mostly through word-of-mouth, passed on the information. It doesn't appear that the teachers were promoting themselves, so much as inundated by people who wanted to hear them teach. [Example: though Watchman Nee travelled quite a bit, it wasn't to promote himself so much as to save people via the Gospel, given the tenor of his writings. People all over the Western world wanted him to come speak to them, and so the poor guy had very little time to himself. Parallel phenomena occurred at the end of each of the prior 490's, with respect to evangelism and teaching, and is not so easily traced (but the travelling and geographical spread has been documented). But no prior 490 had original language Scripture so widely available.

So the period 1950-1990 was fertile for believers being added to the Body of Christ, and believer spiritual growth. The salient question of enquiring minds during this period seemed to be, how do we really learn Bible and really live on it? For that's what most of the teachers, were trying to address. The seekers were aware that ritualized religion and works weren't 'it'. At the beginning of the 1900's, they'd tried emotionality, and by now it had paled. They wanted meat. There were pastors to cook it for them (well or badly, isn't so much the point, as the demand for real Bible info).

Hence there was a lot of opposition to these 'new' teachers and to the local churches they established. Technically, the movements ran in defined 'waves': 1850-1930; 1950; 1970, and the current one, 1990. The period 1950-1990 was also remarkable in that widespread negativity to the idea of God at all, grew exponentially. So society the world over, polarized over God Himself during those 40 years like no other time in history, so far as I can tell. So the religious crowd was fighting against these teachers, and Christianity fragmented; but also, a fast-rising segment of the world's population who just flat decided God was 'dead', opposed the teachers by lumping them in with the religious crowd. The latter managed neatly to garner definition as the herald for Christianity, such that even in movies today, what passes for 'Christian' is really a quasi-catholic wash or a Pentecostal rolling. As ever, the 'quiet but competent' Bible teacher, the real core of God's System (ἁφῆς in Ephesians 4:16), gets no press, and wants even less than he gets (for what he gets, is opposition).

Turns out, my own pastor was one of these break away teachers; I wouldn't have known that, but for the internet and people telling me what opposition he'd gotten. Turns out even Time Magazine paid a visit to the church sometime in the 1980's, but only to see if the guy really called his congregation "stupid", like they'd heard he did. And this is what Time's editors thought fit to investigate? They covered him as if he were a cult or something, because of the intense devotion of his hearers. So you gauge teaching by popular reaction? Why? A whole lot of crazies believed in Christ during His Time here, as the Gospels reveal. Does that mean Christ is crazy? Another article made a big issue out of Marilyn Quayle's father listening to Thieme. And why would that matter? Can't tell a teacher's teaching by who belongs to the church, for crying out loud. Another article complained about how my pastor was anti-communism, as if he were bad as a result. And what does that have to do with the teaching? Everyone is entitled to a political opinion. Notice how substantive stuff is not at all, addressed; the reader is expected to dislike the target based on irrelevant information, so the relevant information needn't be stated. That's an old lawyer's trick. So it would be quite entertaining to read what the opposition argue, if it weren't so tragic they do no homework: kinda like the wild accusations made against Paul by the Judaizers.

That's but one example which I understand from 'both sides' of the question. But you'll find many pastors who are opposed or 'analyzed' using lawyer's tricks as just mentioned — by those who have an agenda. Pro- or con-, an agenda. Bible is its own agenda — but hey, Bibles are only for show, right? Thus the opposition is herded by Satan & Co. to focus on people-to-people jealousies, controversies — so the Bible goes safely back into the closet. This is a hallmark tactic of Satan & Co., during a "back to the Bible" movement occurrence.

So does this kind of nonsense by the opposition always occur, not merely in the case above? You bet it always occurs. And as stupidly, too. Phenomenon: the same weird slipshod homework, characterizes criticisms against other targets both in this period and prior (like the Reformation, and the 1st century AD). Read up on the contemporary opposition to John Calvin, Martin Luther, Saint Patrick, Columbanus, Waldo, the Cathars (oh — and tell me how the Rite of Lyon is 'gnostic', okay?) or any other "back to the Bible" movement you look at. Never mind how correct they might be in their doctrines, since until they have enough time learning the Bible, they they can't be correct (1 Peter 2:2). Don't know why opposition is so consistently slipshod, asserting its arguments absent backup. Makes those they excoriate, look good. But it's great for diagnosing who are the good teachers of a #2 era. So, for your period of interest, follow the criticism 'trail' — and try not to laugh too much at the opposition's carelessness? For the opposition is patently as political, cheesy and silly, as those counterfeit 'Gospels' of the first and second centuries.

So, back in 1950-1990, you had a cadre, if you will, of mostly unaffiliated individuals teaching Bible in the original language texts and thus castigated for it, in the United States and in other countries: Brazil, Canada, China (for a short time), England, Germany, Korea, and Philippines. In short, this phenomenon arose worldwide among individuals who did not necessarily know each other, akin to the 19th century desire to collect original language manuscripts. And it makes sense, given what did happen in the 19th century which clearly God orchestrated. If He's gonna rollout Scripture to teach, He's gonna rollout the teachers, too. Distinguish between forest and trees. Trees don't grow evenly, so not all pastors who grew during this period were wholly correct, and some of them were desperately in error. But they all got it right that the real spiritual life depends on Bible Teaching from the original languages of Scripture. Just teaching the Bible, not telling you how to live your life. Just teaching Bible in the original languages, not giving you some church activities or rituals. Learning Bible takes time, and of course errors occur as you progress. But it's not the mistakes which matter, but the Ongoing Willingness To Learn. Absolute stubborn refusal to fix mistaken beliefs, teaching, or translation (not the mistakes themselves) is the true sign of apostasy. It's also a part of what my pastor calls "scar tissue in the soul".

Secularly, the period 1950-1990 is one of the confluence-periods in world history, so you'll find lots of folks writing books attempting to analyze it; books as early as the 1970's by William Manchester, David Halberstam, Hedrick Smith, Theodore H. White, etc. repeatedly noticed the phenomenon of confluence, but didn't recognize its true cause. Mostly, attention was paid to the unique effect of the United States, post WWII. But the true cause was God, and once you compare the 490 ending 1990 with those prior, you'll see it's been God Who's orchestrated time. By the end of 1990, God rebuilt the proper Bible teaching structure into the 'mainstream' of Christianity: for the spiritual life is studying Bible taught from its original languages by a God-appointed pastor to a local church, per the exacting Greek of Ephesians 4:11-16. That's the way He did it in the first century, and that's what He re-established by the end of the 20th century.

Which is why so much political change occurred during these 40 years, and why so much unusual political breakup attended the completion of the 490, by the end of 1990. The two world wars did not happen by accident. As usual, Satan was trying to prevent the completion of a 490: he's always angling for Armageddon, which is why the Jews shouldn't have returned to Israel, doesn't mean we should abandon Israel — quite the contrary, we should defend Jews everywhere with our very lives! — and does mean there will never be peace in the Middle East until the Second Advent. Isaiah 61-63, and the last few chapters prior to Ezekiel 39:1 give you that story in kinda gory detail. However, God grew enough folks spiritually to justify its completion (nearly at the last minute, as has been usual since Noah). Sure, the pastors within the structure vary widely in quality of teaching, but the basic right structure of teaching Bible from its original languages, is God's System. From 1950-1990, that re-established structure became mainstream in Christendom. Finally.

Political power shifts are designed to free up people so they can get this teaching. Whether they are negative or positive, the structure being available means enough political freedom must be made available. When interest in Bible is too low to justify such political freedom, God uses other means. We know a huge amount of interest in Bible exists, that God would so provide both the texts, and the teachers. Of course, all you have to do is look at the current hunger for Bible in China, Korea, India, Russia; in Latin America (Brazil being one of the bright stars) — and especially in Africa — to see why God would do this. We didn't get the discoveries leading to computers and the internet for no reason.

Africa's interest is the most poignant. Every time I see a program on Africa by Frontline, whether it's Angola, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, you name it — there's this 'at the village level' of Bible interest. I think it was Angola where an election after their long civil war, was held: do you know, the people campaigned on Bible ideas? One lady who was running for what we'd classify as 'Congress', was talking to a crowd of people who probably didn't have five cents between them, making an analogy to Deuteronomy 28 — and she didn't even have to cite where in the Bible it was! She just talked about how there was no reason why Angola (?) couldn't become a great nation, since God would advance the nation if the people were faithful and called on Him — which is the point of the Deuteronomy 28 contract. And the villagers listening to her understood what she meant! Poor, dusty, living on less than 10 cents per day... they understood?! Yeah, who in America would understand? You watch Africa. There's real Bible hunger, there. Pray for them. There's a difference between campaigning on Bible ideas and trying to unite religion and politics. Any political campaign must be about ideas. Here, the point is what ideas were used. It wasn't a religious pitch. No particular religion was espoused. Which means, vast numbers of Africans in that country shared those ideas. I'm awestruck. These people have nothing, but they have Everything: Him.

Opposers to the "back to the Bible" movements always do the same things: they damn the teacher, claim him wrong in his teachings — but only once the teacher is popular. So it's not because he's wrong, but because he's popular; so the teacher is accused of 'stealing' congregants, which in fact is not happening. What is happening: congregants who don't even know the teacher, who are not being fed by their current pastors, go where they can get the food they need. But the teacher is blamed, even though he knows nothing about what's happening all those hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Christ was accused of the same thing: people came from all over the world, having had about 30 years' advance notice of His Birth, to see Him. All kinds of political turmoil and accusations were flying, as a result. The persecution post-Crucifixion was severe and generally immediate. So if your pastor is being accused... smile. God proves who is the good teacher, Matthew 7. Actually, the world had about 1000 years' advance notice of His Birth, because you could use David's Kingship or at least the Daniel 9 timeline to figure it out, had you sufficient dates related to Israel. When He was born, Herod's atrocities massively amplified the shepherd's quiet witness. There was no Star of Bethlehem, Bible wittily tells you it was an angel (Bible says the 'star' hovered — angels are called 'stars' in Bible, and only an angel could hover over a house). So the wildfire gossip spreading of that Birth went along the world's trade routes for 30 years — no one seeing Messiah, the meanwhile. So there was plenty of time, to get to Israel and see Him. God gives the world time: that's but one of the reasons why Messiah didn't show Himself, until age 30. That was the rulership age, so Time was up.

This phenomenon and its opposition, isn't at all restricted to religion. You can find it in every discipline, for the entrenched 'order' never brooks change unless the proposer grovels and curries favor from those hoary entrenched. The so-called Atkins diet revolution, for example, began with a lot of doctors dismissing the idea of good and bad cholesterol. But today, everyone treats HDL and LDL as normative medicine. Same for Galileo; for Socrates; for anyone who differs from the mainstream, at a time when the mainstream is wrong. When the rank-and-file among the people side with the 'heretic', eventually the 'mainstream' must either fight vociferously (which it always does, at first); or, 'compete', by aping the 'heretic'. This, of course, is how the Reformation occurred. I submit we are in the midst of a fourth 'reformation', going back to how God originally intended Scripture to be learnt. (You of course, will draw your own private conclusions.) That wasn't a plug for the Atkins diet people, whoever they are. It was just a quick example that came to mind.

I just learned from someone else, that many others have detected the phenomenon of another 'reformation' brewing, so you should find stuff in print and on internet, about what others think of the period. I define 'reformation' in terms of God's Revealing His Word, not according to the religious conventions, since it's God, not man, Who matters. So we see four 490s, and at the end of each of them, is a kind of reformation: by 520-560, you see the demise of imperial religion, with nation-states taking on that mantle. Hence the progressive fight with the Catholic Church in the next 490, and by 1054 (just after the second 490 post-Cross) what we now call "European" nations won sufficient independence to develop on their own. By 1540, the idea that secular rule is separate from religion even in nations was born, but again, mostly confined to European peoples; but by 1990, individual pursuit of spirituality no matter to what culture or nation you 'belonged', became a mainstream idea worldwide. It is still playing out, but you can see the huge impact on the Asians and Africans — and now on the Arabs, who historically have been the most reluctant to modernize, advance beyond their culture and tradition to the idea of impersonal secular law. Meanwhile, also in four reformings, you see the idea of (gradual) rejection of institutionalized observance and the (gradual) adoption of personal study of Bible, maturing.

So of course today, almost everyone who teaches/studies Bible is constrained to pay at least some attention to the original languages of Bible, and it's now fashionable to use original language words (ego, not God, is the motive). So now that the prior opposition got crushed, apostasy of the opposite kind — slipshod, fake, twisting 'scholarship' in the original languages is encouraged: i.e., abuse of Strong's soundbyte-like lexicons; ignorance of Bible's prolific use of Attic Greek; 'new' translations of Bibles which instead copy prior translation errors rather than fixing them; abuse of the original language texts to suit political agendas, etc.

It's too embarrassing, to name the denominations and people who engage in and promote such bad scholarship. Best defense is to keep using 1 John 1:9 and keep asking God to point out errors so you don't keep making them, too. The process takes time, no shame in that. It's the pretense of being scholarly and right, not the making of mistakes, which signals apostasy. That negative, cover-it-up, bully-them attitude means you can't even begin to fix the problem. God will have to clean house. So you can only keep asking Him to help them and alert you, in case you become like them.

Back when the Bible was under lock and key, a dissenter had to play a different game. Such a person would more likely become a monk, friar, or other person who could be sufficiently trusted to work on or even own a Bible. Then he could quietly learn it; then in conversation, the occasional comment could be made. Much discussion could be had, and freely, comparing Scripture with Scripture, if you were in some 'order'. So if you really wanted Bible and you wanted a way to teach & expose what the real Truth was, you could reliably do that quietly. There are a number of "back to the Bible" moments in 500s and 800s AD (in the peak period of the 490) showing phenomenal growth in monasteries. In Atlas of Bible and Christianity (or a similar book), you'll see maps of Europe almost completely covered with 'dots' of these monasteries' locations.

Overt rebellions of "back to the Bible" were thus rare; but when they occurred, they were traumatic. More often, it was the Catholic Church who demanded allegiance, and when it wasn't forthcoming, the 'heretic' brand was applied. Generally, the folks rebelling did hold goofy beliefs, but so did the Roman Catholic Church — but the rebels sure were right to claim religious independence from the Pope. The rebels were only persecuted for their claim of independence; all else was an illegal charge. For no one has the right to tell you what to believe. Still, it was (and remains) an evil time: so the more savvy who were positive to Bible, found the monastic (or similar) route. God isn't a God of loud rebellion. You could get in and stay in His System, be you a serving wench or a Wenceslas the King. God is never restricted. God never says "no" to anyone who wants Him, and will move heaven and earth to make sure no one dies without the fullest disclosure. Period. Don't ever think God would waste His Son's Precious Thinking 'blood' by doing anything less!

The harlot never learns. By now, you'd think that ecumenical religion would have begun to reexamine its doctrines and premises in light of the Bible. Instead, it uses the Bible to justify the past. Some of the most convoluted uses of Bible you'll ever see, are in ecumenism. Almost as bad, as how the pro-Grail people misread the Bible. So expect that the same arguments as made back in the dark ages will be played again, with as much seduction or force, as can be mustered. Learn whatever God intends you to learn from them... and just walk away. They can't hear.

  1. Hence, mass evangelism (ergo all that travelling). If you needed to avoid ecclesiastical wrath, it would be easy to point at John 3:16, psst! Here's how you get permanently saved! Travelling made for more freedom of teaching: again, lots of real Bible teaching went on under the nose of Catholicism. Many real Catholic heroes will be rewarded at the Bema: charwomen, serfs, monks, outcasts, some priests, dukes and kings. For it's not about your social status: it's only about, Did You Want God? And, they did.
  1. As a counter-trend, religious opposition and political upheaval: Satan's Revelation 17 harlot. This is the other main characteristic of a 490's end, and it plays at peak level (peak down, peak up). As distinguished from opposition targeting "back to the Bible" movements, this #4 is its own substitute. Satan's chief goal is to reverse-substitute everything connected to God and call that reversed-substitution, "God". Satan's been wildly successful at it. Hence, at the end of a 490, he turns up the charm, as it were. Or, the force. Therefore one of the salient characteristics of a corporate/historical 490 ending, is that Religion goes even more political than its norm (hint hint: the Trump administration and everyone who voted for him); and it revs up its two approaches to win you over. Sheer force is one method; the more usual method is to seduce you, by claiming it supports ideas which will appeal to you. You can trace how the 'Church fathers' essentially barnacled all manner of pagan concepts to entice adherents, so that all gods look like God. That same trend has predominated in every century of history, since. Have to show a little leg. Have to allow folks think they see the appearance of Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich, some fountain or church, or even on a Chicago freeway underpass pillar (really, a flowing salt stain which looks like an ugly bell curve: when a salt stain on a Chicago freeway underpass claimed as an 'appearance of Mary' makes news (!) on both the national United States television network and NBC Dateline, you have ample reason to worry about the mental health of not only the United States, but everyone else). For the harlot, knows no shame. And there are many harlots, all peddling different enticements, and all competing with each other over who is the most beautiful. Some peddle tongues; others, songs and healings; still others, 'Christian fellowship' (read: Christian Tyranny Into Your Privacy). Everything for everyone, hooray!

Satan plays decoys, always. So he also has to set up another decoy to make the one he sponsors, look holy. So, since there is always opposition to entrenched religion for political reasons, he'll sponsor one or more groups to unfairly oppose the entrenched religion, to foster sympathy for it. When Rome and Persia lay exhausted in 600 AD, Persia couldn't be used anymore, to make Rome look good. So Satan had to 'save' Rome by giving it a new common enemy, Islam. This marshalled Europe back to the Roman fold for some time, culminating in the Crusades. So interest in Bible tanked again, in favor of someone human you could fight and thus feel holy again. Same gambit has been played, ever since. The gambit's success doesn't last; but while it does last, at least most of the masses learn Bible less, and many never learn it at all.

  1. Also, the last 100+ years of a 490 are not calm, but frenetic. Movement Everywhere. Movement in war, or swift and massive economic or technological change, movement of populations, you name it. Frenetic Activity. Satan's strategy here is to give man's puny mind something else to think about, so he won't think much about God. For, when a 490 is ending mankind senses it, mistaking the ending for the ending of the world (which is always possible). So man gets to thinking more about God, due to that sense of an ending. So man needs a diversion; and wants one, since he's nervous. So you have populations suddenly on the move, rapid changeovers of relationships, politics, anything but standing still. Complicating this phenomenon and often running coterminous with it, is the ending of a "client nation": that's my pastor's term, taken from Bible (like 2 Chronicles 7:14). It means a nation of enough believers to have God's sponsorship, analogous to Israel pre-Cross. For it seems that every time a 490 is about to end, God cleans house. And any of His national representatives who've not kept the faith, well... they get replaced by a newcomer, who will. We none of us remain faithful, but God never abandons us. Think of this period like... large-scale renovation or preventative surgery (to slow/stop spiritual plagues), for that's pretty much what it is.

The house cleaning will be violent or subterranean. If subterranean, lots of believers get sick and howl, and their legalism/lasciviousness and it increases exponentially: rotten figs, as Jeremiah's book explains. Just like Israel did in the Operation Cobra (you know, when Moses had to make the brass serpent). Lots of believers in crisis. Leviticus 26 tells you how it goes, stage by stage. So if the nation in question starts to wake up and smell God's coffee, then the house cleaning slows or is delayed. If not, then the nation goes out. 40-year cycle still seems to be the operative period, precedented on Pharaoh's dream period. When it's 80 years long instead of 40, that means the first period went well, but now a second round is needed. The United States is in just such a place right now. I wonder if we'll last until 2030. I gotta grow up!

  1. A New Client Nation Is Born Or Established At This Time; usually on the ashes of the dying one. This is another major litmus. That trend is true anytime a client nation dies, and you can trace it historically; but it also specifically happens at the end of a 490. (Precedence is consistent: Exodus was built on the ashes of Egypt, Temple was built on the ashes of David — the latter case being a dying in honor, so a new 490 was born.)
  1. Finally, each successive 490's above characteristics, extend more broadly geographically, than the 490 prior. Check out the geographical spreads of these characteristics circa 520 AD, 1010 AD, 1500 AD, 1990 AD: those dates were 490 endings. Atlas of the Bible and Christianity has maps you can use to start your homework, if you're interested in such tracing. Neither my pastor nor that book make the 490 claim I'm making here; the book's maps are very helpful.

I'm not sure that the proper benchmarks to use for #7, are the Cross 490s. Seems as though I ought to use the true historical intercalated endings (590, 1080, 1640, 2130). Reason? Because #7 represents responsive voting. Scope of interest. In #7, you're looking at an entry concept, for the scope is a going-in to expose people to Bible. Like anything else, there's a need for secular infrastructure to support that free exposure, so widespread change in secular ideas and economic/political development, must occur. Its impetus is interest in the Bible, but for that interest to be realized, other secular changes must occur.

Africa is a real good example of this phenomenon playing. The interest there is strong. And there's no supporting infrastructure. So it's being created, and the interest is 'financing' that creation, from the Divine Justice Point of View. On the ground, it's a very rough time for them. But they keep on believing, much as Israel did during her slavery period in Egypt. Funny thing is, they seem to know that. Hope that interest, remains. Then when God delivers them, humans that they are they'll lapse due to the prosperity of the deliverance, just like we all do. Just like Israel did. But the meanwhile, some among them will grow up spiritually, and thus hopefully those gains will result in a kind of stability so the next generation(s) can learn too. But each generation makes its own decisions. Each one of us makes our own decisions. As goes the believer, so goes the nation in which he resides, as my pastor liked to say.

The increase in scope can be direct, or caromed. Islam, for example, ends up serving as a kind of caroming device to spread Christianity. Every time Christians and Jews stop looking at the Middle East, Satan plays a game with the Muslims to make Christians and Jews look at the Middle East. For Satan must generate an urge to rebuild the Temple — on his timing, not God's. So when we rest in our faith that God is handling things — or, when too disinterested, 🤣 — then Satan has to do something to whip us up. However, if you look back at the historical results, his success resulted in the spread of Christianity, despite itself. No, we shouldn't have gone on those Crusades. But as a result of being there, lots of folks in the Middle East got exposure. The positive ones left or otherwise started learning Bible. They'd not have had that opportunity, had Satan not whipped us Christians and Jews up to look at the Land.

It is ever the wont of human nature to arrogate to itself, someone else's merit. That's a type of theft. So when you hear people counting themselves important due to their faith or nationality or past history, arrogance is on parade. Exactly why apostates like Charlie Kirk made race 'an issue' instead of just learning the Bible and realizing we're all the color of God. The truth is, God makes this work. We prove ourselves to be idiots, the meanwhile. But then, that's what His Grace is all about, saving all the idiots: all of us humans, in any generation.


Summary of the Seven 'Ending-490' Characteristics, post-Cross:

  1. Scripture Rollout Peak (including ease of use and especially, superior teaching) during the last 100+ years of a 490.
  2. "Back to the Bible" movements peak during last 40-80 years of a 490, including strident opposition which seeks to discredit the teachers.
  3. Mass Evangelism peaks during this same time (last 100+ years), so international travel peaks, too.
  4. Substitute religion is forcefully or seductively pandered to oppose #2 & #3, beginning about 100+ years prior, claiming to be 'the original' version, with loud appeals to the past and 'tradition', as if an old lie were somehow less a lie. So its lie is patent, even slapstick. But it has power, so it wins adherents who want to share in that power. Truth matters not. Thus a separation of wheat and chaff, occurs.
  5. Frenetic physical, technological, economic, and/or political movement: again, during the last 100+ years.
  6. A client nation dies and at least one other arises, usually on the ashes of the one dying. Timing is fluid, since if the 490 condition is met, the otherwise dying nation, is instead preserved.
  7. Geographical range of each 490's ending characteristics spans far more territory than the range of the preceding 490.

As mentioned earlier, this section employs non-intercalated benchmarks. The intercalated 'for voting time' runs 490 + 70 + 490 = 1050 = 1000 + 50. So the "100+" years toward the end of a 490 works out more often to be something like 120-160 years. It's still a four generation measure, fitted to the actual historical 490 playing with the intercalation, factored in. To see the difference, track the gold rows versus the historical events between them.


Historical Sketch of the #1 - #7 per 490-year period since Cross

Now let's test the foregoing with a sketch of what 490's we have. The purpose of the sketch is to show methodology, and test the above listed characteristics. I'm writing from memory, so some of the data and their dates might be a little 'off'. Data and their interpretation can always be disputed; but even the right data can't prove a thing if the methodology is wrong; if the characteristics aren't the right ones. Note in the dates below, that the ending year is the same as the beginning year of the next 490. Scripture dates have this piggybacking quality about them (i.e., the next day is measured from the night of the previous day, in the Law); so there often seems to be "1" too many or too few, when you work with the dates. For, in real life there is no zero: the beginning and ending are always the same moment. Unity, hupostasis. Also, since this is a living history, the characteristics won't neatly stop, but spill over into the beginning of the next period. Still, you should be able to observe these Seven Characteristics within the last four generations or so of a 490, and the scope/degree will be higher, unusual.

So we've seven 490's since 1440 BC (the Exodus), and four 490's since 30 AD (the Crucifixion), both resulting in 1990. So just we've just begun a new qualifying 490 rather spectacularly: let's call the ended ones, "A-D" and provide a too-brief sketch of them, so you can see the idea (whether I'm right in what variables picked, doesn't matter right now):


"A": 30-520 AD, 70-560 AD
(the intercalated, real-time historical period is 30-590 AD)

This was the period of the New Testament's formation and distribution. Technically, it overlaps the ending of the old Adamic historical 490 and resets with Christ's, so its beginning is an ending, such that the four generation window plays twice. Here we see God's corporate goals for a 490, playing the same as He demonstrated pre-Cross. The goals are always to Get the Word out. Prior to Christ Himself, the goal was provide for His Coming, so that when He came the world would accept Him. That meant Getting the Word out via developing a bloodline and then a nation to 'house' it, so that the world would have a place to vote with its feet, to Get the Word. Again, infrastructure is needed to support positive volition to God, so one can learn in peace (and war, when ready for it). Here we see the preparation for dissemination of the New Testament, and its infrastructure goals.

The fourth 1050 would end 4200 years from Adam's Fall, our 94 AD; however, the voting period of our 44-94 AD required Christ to be completed before it even begin. Problem was, David's underlying time grant of 1000 years based on his death — which justified the world continue — ended in Year 4143 (which is why 7 years is walled off in Daniel 9:27). Due to Israel's rejection of Christ, that Davidic deadline couldn't be used, since it was a voting for David to be king via the Last David, who presented Himself. Hence Christ had to die another 7 years prior, which was the 1000th anniversary of David's Abdication of Kingship. That anniversary was based on David's own election, so it was unimpeachable (Israel's negative voting, couldn't nullify it). Hence Christ died in 4136 (our 30 AD).

Israel knew this accounting system; wasn't too hard to count from David. So during what we call 44-94 AD, everyone expected the Rapture, Tribulation, and Millennium to all begin, because that period technically was a voting window. But it was also a brand new 1000, since Christ had successfully paid for sins. Hence the goal for that period was to Get The Word Out, even as it had been for the "seven weeks" piece in Daniel 9:24-27. Old Testament Canon's distribution finished then (446-397 BC): notice how it's a 50-year window.

So just as the 490 granted in Daniel 9 had the agenda of disclosing Messiah and getting the Word out with very specific subgoals and components, like the rebuilding of the Temple and Jerusalem — here post-Cross, the same overall agenda plays. It's got different subcomponents, but the same 'Disclose Messiah and Build the Temple of His Body the Church', remains. That requires a lot of secular building, training, etc. Hence you see all seven trends.

So, by the time of this 490's ending in 520 AD: #1 is the distribution and translation of the original language texts. By this ending, many of the texts were in hiding, unavailable to the common man. Knowledge of Bible was almost zero; it was so bad, people who had Scripture couldn't even read it: you don't need to convene a Council to determine whether Christ is God or whether a Book is Bible, if you can read the Bible. Bible is plain. But negative volition can't read it. So the elites had taken over, imposing their views, full of their self-importance; and the common guy had nothing for comparison. So Constantine convened Councils — he himself couldn't read Bible, either. But wanted to. As you read the Church Fathers' writings, you'll see how wacko they all were. Some great moments and understandings punctuate their stuff, but oh — how much nonsense, how many lies were pandered. It's embarrassing. Take Pepto-Bismol as you read the Church Fathers. And be glad if we never have to go back there, again.

For by this ending, the Bible itself had been kidnapped by the elites. So Jerome, who disputed with the Catholic Church and everyone else quite a lot, had sequestered himself so he could translate from the manuscripts he was lucky to find; but the Roman Catholic Church didn't like Jerome's contemporary Latin; so his translation was sequestered for another 400 years, finally being adopted as the (newer) Vulgate sometime in the 800's AD, nicely anachronistic. #2-#4 is evidenced by all that missionary activity by St. Patrick and Columbanus, who weren't exactly on good terms with the Catholic Church either (the winner of a conflict gets to rewrite history, so you have to dig deeper than normal, to see these were "back to the Bible" movements). Of course, #5 is kinda obvious, what with the Visigoths and all. #6 "old" is the death of Rome, obvious. #6 "new" was the Franks under Clovis, at least. Looks like more than one client nation got born/established at this time. #7 is obvious: the geographical 'virus' of Bible hunger spread from Palestine, outward and everywhere, but it took deepest long-term positive root in what we now call Europe. Not to worry. So long as there is a base for expansion — which here widened considerably — people can vote with their feet. Thus you see the Rise of Europe: not because of Christianity, and certainly not because of Europeans, who were largely abusing Bible — but because of God.


"B": 520-1010 AD, 560-1050 AD
(the intercalated, real-time historical period is 590-1080 AD)
(first 1000 ends 1030 AD; intercalated ends 1080 AD)

This is a complex period. God's goal, as always, was to rescue Bible from the clutches of politically-entrenched religion, so the common man could get it. Hence there is a lot of warring and development of new infrastructures, as old institutions break apart and give way to new ones. It's almost easier to demonstrate the 490's ending by all the schism and dissent which characterized the new 490 which began the same year. #2, Beginning about 100+ years prior to the end, you had the quiet revolters, the bazillion monasteries (Cluny and Cistercian monk "back to the Bible" movements, since that was the only reliable way to get time in the Bible); the louder revolters, like the Cathars, etc., began at the end; of course the Great Schism occurred in 1054. All these were ways of (however heretical in belief) insisting that Revelation 17 was wrong, and study of Bible was right. Since the Bible was under lock and key, if you were interested in it you pretty much had to become a monk or a heretic armed with a Bible. If a monk, you could secretly study by becoming a copyist or servant of one. If a heretic, you must have gotten a Bible somewhere. Which is why the confiscation of Scripture, which began in the 90's AD, peaked during this 490. God being God, well — sorry, people who wanted Bible got it anyway. Notice how Islam 'rises' so timely and conveniently, to give the final blow to Byzantium, and to give the new #6 folk some spiritual exercise, at the beginning of a 490: the completion of which Satan is always out to prevent.

#1, Codex Amiatinus (and others) was pretty important, for the Roman Catholic Church had ordered it collected, burnt, and forbid translations, circa 900+ AD (if I remember properly) — so you had widespread translations going on, and dissemination of that text, which would explain why there could be so much dissent (can't dissent over Bible, if you don't have one). #3-4 are pretty obvious. #5 is obvious. #6, the client nation dying is the Holy Roman Empire, but #6, post-Charlemagne the same territory became a clump of client nations on the ashes. Charlemagne was big on getting the Word out, and well... it kind of undid his sons' reigns when they tried to reign in the people; so the "Holy Roman Empire" was one in name only; even the kings had to be elected. Frankly, the kings themselves wanted their own independence from the Pope, as well. That's why so many folks were receptive to Islam's resurgence in the 900's: no Pope behind the king.

The Pope himself wasn't doing too well, either, and for the same reason; so the Great Schism of 1054 was to be expected. Splintering, all triggered by the kidnapping of Scripture people came to want for themselves. Everywhere everything had broken up by 1050, and the foundation for our modern nation-states, began. All due to people wanting Bible not religion, what do you know. Notice how the #7 trend of geographic 'virus' spread to encompass the Russian landmass, and good portions of Africa, in part owing to the up-again, down-again 'play' of Islam. So just after this 490 ends and the Great Schism begins, Islam will resurge again, take over Byzantium, and thus encourage the evil of the Crusades. That served to widen exposure to Bible even more, however much it was still sequestered by the elites. People talk as they walk or eat, as they rape and pillage.

It's fashionable in Protestantism to say how vile the Catholic Church was — but honey, it could have been any denomination, and the same bid for power would have resulted. Today there are many popes. So we should see how we've mimicked those Dark ages, covering up Bible just as much as any prelate ever did, even still repeating the bad translations and interpretations of that particular harlot, but pretending here in 2006, that the translations are 'fresh' and 'scholarly'. Nonsense. So who's the harlot now?

Man has this goofy idea that his agreement is worth something to the other person with whom he agrees. That this other person, is somehow done a 'favor' when he receives agreement. So, man projects that idea on God, too. Hence history is a constant choosing between whether agreement with mere people matters more to you, than agreement with God. Sooner or later a burgeoning interest in God will require one break off with people. This breaking doesn't have to be obvious; it can take the form of isolating oneself. That's what happened to every Bible hero: each one "saw Him Who is Invisible" (said of Moses in Hebrews 11, as a paradigm). Then, they made those choices. You can be isolated as a shepherd or a king, like David was. Leadership isolates. Then, there's the more obvious isolation of going somewhere alone, like Abram's peregrinations, Moses in the wilderness, David as shepherd, the Lord in the mountains, Paul in Arabia. For at some point, one must choose it.

That's partly why so many monasteries flourish during this 490 period. We owe them much.


"C": 1010-1500 AD, 1050-1540 AD
(the intercalated, real-time historical period is 1080-1570 AD)

This is the most obvious 490, which of course neatly ends with the 'official' Reformation itself, which caused the map of Europe to be redrawn (particularly with respect to Germany and France). It's no accident that Elizabeth I is born toward the end of this period — and trained in reading Scripture's Greek, a Protestant by upbringing. England will become the true spearhead of "back to the Bible" movements from this time forward, as the Reformation fizzles into state religion.

So it's no surprise that #1 began its peaking with the technology of making what became known as the "Gutenberg Bible", about 100 years prior (movable type — poor Gutenberg went bankrupt circa 1455). Notice how God provided a way for the Bible to become more available than ever by the time people would want and need it: you'd not have had an 'official' Reformation, without it. So there were a number of "back to the Bible" movements during this 490, abounding in translations, etc. Many client nations reformed on the ashes of their predecessors, and usually in the name of religious war. You should be able to see #2-#6 pretty easily. There are many of them, all overlapping, from 1450 or so.

Satan knows all about the 490's, so he kindly managed to prepare in advance our friend Osman and his dynasty to take over Constantinople in 1453, so Islam could compete for attention with that new-fangled invention of Gutenberg: you know, choose between Bible into the common man's hands, or attacking the infidel. So by 1540, naturally, the Ottoman Empire was at a peak. Got to have some kind of reply to God's freeing up Scripture in Europe... just like 560, and 1050, Satan counterplays to match God. You can set your watch: he does this in the last 100+ years of a 490 ending, to counter the Scripture availability peaking; well, he missed that timing goal somewhat when he started up Islam, but managed to get it going in the first 100 years of the new 490 that began in 560; so he used the Persian Piruz Khosrow instead, during the prior 100 (460+ AD, and kept him going until Mohammed could take his place (6 year overlap between 622 and 628).

Circa 950 AD, he had rolled out Islam again, and when that didn't work by 1050 he rolled out Islam again, getting the Seljuk Turks to capture Byzantium in 1071. Which started, the Crusades. Since history was supposed to end 1070-1144 AD (range of dates given Israel's rejection versus her acceptance), it looks like Satan was really trying to get it to end, for this period approached a war-everywhere period — chiefly, with Islam as the counteragent. Seljuks took over 1071 (cute play on the 1070 expectation); Crusades began 1096 (cute play on the original design to end Millennium in 1094, cuter on John's Revelation which came out 96 AD). As always, the aim was to move the focus back to the Middle East. When it didn't work yet again, he use Islam to retake Byzantium in 1453. Note the usage of Islam (again, except the first time, because Satan was using Byzantium and Rome to kill each other, and then Persia to deliver the final blow — which didn't work out).

Else, the identities of #1-#6 are quite obvious. The Reformation itself was a "back to the Bible" movement, and had many facets, not merely the Calvin and Lutheran ones. It's interesting that both Martin Luther and John Calvin got caught up with the movement, weren't really interested in politics, at first. Satan neatly managed to arrest both of their adherent groups into state religions: little popedoms. And they've not advanced in their theologies, ever since. Pity.

Even so, the raging in Europe was coupled with unprecedented exploration and migration — the many pogroms of the Jews, in particular — and here you see the globalization begin in earnest. So #7 widens, usually with a tyrannical or seductive banner, hitting on far-flung coasts of the Americas, Africa, and China. The 'virus' is no longer contained. When you look at the many European voyages then going around the world, it's almost as if they were in a hurry to get their missions done in time for the Reformation, which technically hadn't yet begun! Spain and Portugal were racing with each other, ostensibly. But God had other goals. So the race begins the end of the 1400's, just in time to deliver the new printing-press Bibles, to their destinations (i.e., the Portuguese reach even Macau by 1514). Over and over, wave upon wave from the West. So by the end of this 490, the base of operations was worldwide. Just in Time.


"D": 1500-1990 AD, 1540-2030 AD
(the intercalated, real-time historical period is 1570-2130 AD)
(second contiguous 1000 ends 2030 AD; intercalated 1000 ends 2080 AD)
(Intercalated 1050 ends 2130 AD)

This period is usually classified "modern history" in high schools. Its seven trends are obvious, too; its #1-#6 components should be readily identifiable. God's main purpose for the Reformation was to completely free Scripture. It didn't happen right away, but the idea it should, did happen. So the desire to know the Bible as the Bible just couldn't be checked anymore, and you have a proliferation of "back to the Bible" movements, competitions, resurgences of institutionalized religions, everyone calling everyone else a heretic, and oh — two world wars, preceded and followed, by many civil ones. When interest in Bible breaks free, polities free up, as well. Spiritual maturation produces a kind of secular maturation, so man can handle freedom better. So it's never a political problem when a polity is not free. It's a spiritual problem. So you learn God, instead of crusading for political change. And if it's God you want, you won't even think about trying to get political change: you'll be too busy, learning Him.

Notice how the baton keeps switching back and forth among France, Germany, and England: when one of them loses interest in Bible (i.e., France under Louis XIV, who revoked the Edict of Nantes), others rise (i.e., Fredrick William took in the Huguenots evicted by Louis). Finally, the United States (an offshoot of England) was founded in order to have freedom from state religion, specifically. If you read John Hyde Preston's A Short History of the American Revolution, and specifically its report on the sorry state of the Revolutionary troops at Valley Forge due to the abuse by Congress and other Americans, you realize that only God made America the victor in that Revolution. And solely due to, the faith of a few, in Him. Him, not religion. (Let us never be so arrogant to think we Americans accomplish a thing. God And God Alone is the source of our prosperity. God, not religion. God, never mankind! Read how Moses keeps reminding Israel of that fact, beginning around Deuteronomy 4, repeating the fact every 10 verses or so.)

#1 is extremely interesting, during this 490's span; you have many manuscript finds during this period — in fact, most of the manuscripts we know of today, were found since 1540, with the most important one, Codex Vaticanus, being force-published in 1889: because Samuel Prideaux Tregelles had a really good memory when he was allowed to look at the original Codex but not touch it — so memorized and published what he'd seen. It is worth pointing out that Desiderius Erasmus was given the opportunity to review the Codex Vaticanus for his Textus Receptus, but in one of the biggest blunders of all Christianity he deliberately turned it down, resulting in many longstanding and horrible translation additions and errors that persist to this very day as a result! Note the direct correlation between, say, the intense gathering and miraculous discoveries of Bible original language texts by the likes of Samuel Tregelles (1844+) and Constantin von Tischendorf, the guys who got Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus out from centuries-long sequestration, to mankind; compared to counter trends at the same time of fake religious texts such as:

  1. The Book of Mormon (1830)
  2. Marxism (1848) yes, a religion, billed as if rational and political
  3. Darwinism (1859) yet another religion in disguise, animism, etc.

Then there were the many philosophers (yet another disguise, man worshipping himself). Of course, Islam enjoyed a nice resurgence beginning about the same time.

Of course in 1950, when the "back to the Bible" was mainstream in the United States, God rolled out some Greek grammar texts (from Qumran or somewhere), so everyone had to start over rethinking what they thought the manuscripts' words meant. Then, everyone in the United States promptly lost interest in Bible (a counter trend beginning intermittently during the 1930's). By the late 1970's, everyone decided God was dead, and the religious crowd were falling all over themselves with various apologetics and wimpy Madison Avenue-like gimmicks. Rather than going back to the original manuscripts, they were missing their brains; so viral-RNA morphing. The Social and Political Gospel has replaced the Real One; who needs God, when one can call Caesar, 'God' and get away with it? Just watch any popular televangelists and see for yourself. In six months of watching "Christian" TV almost continuously in 2004, I didn't even hear one (including the famous speakers) correct Gospel message. Not even one. Was listening for it. Not even one. So whoever gets saved by watching that stuff?

By stark contrast, do you see the proliferation of "back to the Bible" all over the world, now? It's commonplace: bf.org begs for even torn portions of Bibles, so they can get them out to folks who don't have them — yeah, and who in the United States is that hungry for the Word, anymore? Do you see the Roman Catholic Church trying to 'unify' other Christian denominations to itself? It's commonplace. Do you see how we are doing what every other people at the end of a 490 are doing? We learn from history that we learn nothing from history, and we learn from history that God keeps on being faithful.

He is faithful to get the Word out to anyone who wants it. Satan is 'faithful' to reverse-substitute, obfuscate and imbalance God's 'effort'. If you love your home country, Get In And Stay In God's System. You honor the Lord, you honor your country, and you fight for its freedom that way. Stay out of politics and all other manner of satanic, crusading substitutes for God's Divine DNA System. And at the Bema, you will be a hero, and heartily grateful for all the Divine DNA the Holy Spirit Alone can make from you. And so will everyone else be grateful — especially those believers who were hostile/indifferent to God, down here.

So #3 is at an all-time high, during this 490. Hence #4 takes on the new form of "scientific" and "philosophical" thought as counter-religions, especially in the 19th century; God wasn't dead exactly, but He sure was to be questioned. This was an iconoclasm movement. After all, institutionalized religion took a beating during this 490, so something else was needed.

Of course, another #4, Islam, has been up and happening (but only as needed) all over again; timed nicely with the breakout of Bible in the mid-/late 1800's: that was when the Ottoman empire underwent substantial 'reform'. Then again, Islam countered when Bible teaching from the original languages started becoming commonplace in the US circa 1950+, with Arab independence movement and the establishment of Israel: a Satan-sponsored thing, just as the Crusades were. Got to get our eyes on something in the Middle East in the name of God, so we can take our eyes off new and/or better Bible availability! Israel should be protected, but God didn't want her going back to the Land. Christ warned about it in Matthew 24, as did Daniel, back in Daniel 9:25-26. We should never abandon Israel, never be antisemitic, unless we want to end up in the dustbin of history, like Hitler did. But the Jews were not supposed to 'shub' (return) — the Dome of the Rock is the living Matthew 24 warning to stay away. Who listens? No one... as usual. So we should be in Iraq for Israel's sake, even if it weren't simple good sense. Sheesh: here we rescue a people from a Hitler-like tyrant, which we should have done in 1990. And we are excoriated for it by the world. George Bush got it right on 'invading' Iraq. No one can get the execution of policy right, but God will bless it.

I thought it a particularly nice touch that Satan's demon underling who herded the Sublime Porte, had it sell so much of Israel's swampland to Jews anxious to re-establish their homeland in the late 1800's early 1900's. Most folks don't know that most Israel was first purchased from a Muslim Sultan by the Jews; so the "Palestinians" have no proper land quarrel — they weren't even living there. Again, God doesn't want Israel to be there, it's a satanic trap to be there now — only God is supposed to "shub" them, at the Second Advent.

Of course, it's to be expected that both Roman Catholicism and Islam revved up as 1990 approached, and are continuing to do so, still. Hence all the press attention, and the slavering over both. They aren't by accident the two fastest-growing religions in the world right now. The latter are "the kings of the south" in Revelation, and the former is exactly described in Revelation 17. Right down to the colors of the clothing and the parasitic reclaimation on of false doctrine from other faiths, to sell itself as 'the' voice of Christendom. What amazes me is that all these centuries have passed, and Revelation 17 must be going unread. You can't mistake the allusions depicted; you can't mistake how evil Christian activism is. For we have so many Revelation 17 harlots, now. The Roman Catholic Church is by no means alone, look at how Putin is utilizing the very evil Russian Orthodox Church to roll out his propaganda.

True believers can be in any denomination, so you don't go bashing them. But when both Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations commonly teach false gospels, well: who among them, is really saved? The "Lord, Lord" verse in Matthew 7:21-2, which specializes on false teachers (see also Luke 6:46, Matthew 25:11, Luke 13:25 — these are different occasions). You are not saved until and unless you Believe In Christ Alone, John 3:16. Even common sense should tell you that His Death would be in vain, else. Even common sense should tell you that getting dunked in water won't save you from soul sins. Can't clean a physical body from a soul problem — hence the need for Him to pay for all sins, past present future — on the Cross. All sins. Else God is being shorted and really violating His own standards for justice. Which we know would never happen, so it's impossible to lose salvation.

#5 is a bit more complicated to explain. The frenetic activity is clear enough in literally every level of politics and society, especially in the 1980's and 90's. If I were a cartographer, I'd be rich, what with all the name changes, alone. Clearly the client nations of Europe at the beginning of the 490, were not the same at the end, however much they occupied the same ground: all the political and social structures, had changed. It's not altogether clear which are the client nations, now; might be a good dozen of them. The United States was the big winner of this 490, but it seems on its last legs: Christian activism is the worst evil in the world, even worse than the terrorists, for the world can end if Christianity becomes too apostate. Which is why activism is most rampant in the dozen or so client nations.

But here's the complication, and I can't find its like in any other 490 except Egypt under Joseph, and Daniel 9: the United States appears to have gotten a second 40-year warning. Hence the initial explanation regarding a nexus of 7 years, in #2 above. Hence those of us learning Bible must take responsibility for 9/11, since if enough of us grew up to Pleroma (Ephesians 3:19) stage, there wouldn't have been another deployment of Islamic terrorists. It's not the 'infidel' who causes the downfall of a nation: read Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 and 2 Chronicles 7:14. That gives United States until about 2030 to wake up and smell God's coffee. But only a few of us need to make it.

Meanwhile, other nations who have not been interested in Bible, might be carrying our baton, as #6 new client nations: China, India, Brazil, Korea and maybe some country in Africa (Cameroon?) will take over. God knows. Would that they all became client nations, and that the United States would wake up as well. You can set your watch: a rise of interest in Bible for itself results very quickly in a rise of prosperity in the region or country wherein that interest resides. There might be a one-generation lag, and if the interest doesn't sustain over three generations you might not have enough time to recognize a blip of prosperity increase; but generally, the rise of prosperity is swift. American belief in Bible surged in the aftermath of the Civil War; and by 1900 we were the most significant of the Industrial Revolution countries. So it happened in that generation. A rise of Bible interest seemed to happen to Brazil, soon after João Goulart (guessing). Korea's interest is so strong in America, you can't hardly go a mile anywhere in a metropolitan area, without seeing a Korean Bible church. Many of them have tape ministries, too. God bless them all!

Looks like God's goal back when the Spanish and Portuguese were racing, got realized for the distant races, huh. Just when they'd need the information and were ready for it en masse, God sent out explorers, to set up bases for distribution. Sure, it has always been true that if you wanted Bible, no matter how isolated you were, God would bring it to you or you to it. Trade routes have always been all over the place, and of course Israel is in the middle of three continents. But what all the exploration and travel en masse tells us, is that there were distinct periods in history when a whole mass of people in a geographical area, wanted the Word At The Same Time. So, God provided it.

The travellers themselves were few in number; those they met, were few in number. So the converts were few in number, but they dispersed. Technically, God would deliver an entire nation for the sake of one person (Israel, due to Moses or David). The whole world is delivered for the sake of Christ. At the same time, people are all connected, so one person's information can disperse across a very wide area. What people do with that information, is up to them. But the word of mouth system is very effective. People like to repeat information.

Now think: don't you see how He was doing the same thing for the Middle East, via the Americans in Iraq? What, do you think we were there for our reasons? Guess again! God runs history. Not, puny man.


#7's Geographic Spread, A-D

Regarding #7, notice how the geographical span at the end of each period, is so much wider than pertained prior to the ending of the previous 490. In "D" we have worldwide span, compared to "C" which was worldwide exploration (setting up for "D", if you check the dates of Columbus, Vasco da Gama, etc). So today's client nations are potentially many, not few, owing to the spreading geographical span of interest in Bible. Hmmm. God did promise to get the Word out. Looks like His record is rather good, doncha think?

While I don't agree that the United States is directly referenced in the "eagle" prophecy — which is instead, SPQR — the United States is yet another legatee of Rome's demise at the end of the first post-Cross 490. What distinguished SPQR from all other polities was the eclectic nature of its state religion. It was a state religion that you honor the "gods", but what gods you honored, was a matter of personal choice. Rome only prohibited claims that 'your god' was the only one; so Rome serially persecuted both Jews and Christians. Eventually the persecuted became the rulers, as happens so often in history; that was Satan's goal, not God's. But then God used that outcome to return back to God's version of the SPQR 'freedom of religion' policy. Since, that is the First Commandment (can't pursue the First Commandment if 'freedom of faith' is curtailed). So you see the breakup of Rome, and Europe formed out from its ashes.

So the United States, is a 'descendant'. And, we have a very similar political structure to SPQR. Hallmark characteristic of the United States is separation of Church and state, which separation principle was indissoluble from the very founding of the United States (however much the Christian right, ever unable to read anything, ignorantly contend otherwise). The idea of this separation is that Personal Freedom Of Faith should never be a thing government 'touches'. Our current government is misguided (or even traitorous, due to the prolife idiots) to our founding purpose, but there's no need to take revenge or crusade, since God founded the United States, so God will handle the necessary correction.

And you know God is the author of the United States, because literally every country in the world feels constrained to adopt at least some of the United States 'model' of government. That doesn't mean 'democracy' is universally right: in fact, the United States is not a democracy (would anyone bother to read the Constitution), but a "republic". Meaning, elected representatives are the rulers, not the 'people'. Same model, as SPQR. Deliberately (if anyone would bother to read the Federalist Papers and like material).

So, what are other nations doing? Well, everywhere you see an increasing attention reluctantly paid to freedom of opinion/faith. Even Saudi Arabia is holding elections; even Egypt is paying more attention. While those movements are secular, not about faith, the underlying idea is 'freedom of opinion' being necessary. So if freedom of secular opinion is necessary for good government, then soon 'freedom of faith' can flourish better. That is the significance of our being in Iraq. Not to 'bring democracy' there, since not even the United States is a democracy (5th century BC Athens was a democracy, and it didn't work out too well). But rather, to bring about some kind of 'freedom of opinion' as a valid institution in a polity. Which type of institution, nations are deciding. But not a country on this planet, is unaffected by the American idea of 'freedom of faith' (hence 'freedom of opinion', its root). So clearly God is freeing the world: currently, via America.

God is doing it, not us. We are contributing the problem, as usual. Man contributes the problem, God makes the 💩 into Diamonds, and Satan tries to make the Diamonds defeat God. That's the plot line of history; so here in #7, you see that plot widen geographic distribution to its widest extent, in the latest (and maybe last, who knows) 490... the one we are in, potentially ending 2480 AD if the Rapture doesn't occur first.

The Rapture being based on believer growth or retrogression, cannot be predicted. Further, retrogression will be the ostensible trigger for the Rapture to occur; God having finished His Trial Rebuttal will let time run its natural course, as usual. Which means, as usual, believers will not grow beyond spiritual age 8; so, will retard and retrogress. So will be called home in shame, with Satan exulting at finally being able to get rid of us. For he won't buy that God's Trial Arguments were right. Instead, he'll think he has finally manipulated time himself, to his advantage.

Since we are still in a 40-year grace period, the United States will probably limp along: Americans don't own much of their country's economic assets, anymore, so we're almost "America" in name only, here in 2005 — perfect description of the last two 'cycles' of Divine National Discipline in Leviticus 26. (There's more than one way to be under siege.) The world will probably limp along, too. So if interest in Bible within the United States doesn't experience a resurgence whereas the other nations' interest in Him increases, you'll see a shift in the balance of power to the nation with the most interest. Many would argue it already began about 20 years ago. How long it will take for the new balance of power to result in war, I'm not sure. Newly-strong nations will be challenged, and they want to stretch their muscles: expect alliances to change in surprising ways. But the desire to fight economically rather than militarily, is the norm. Only the Middle East could trigger a real military conflict, if nations take sides. And they are, so the danger is real enough. Satan's always angling for Armageddon, especially when interest in Bible is high, and he'll 'match' religion to religion, to get our eyes off Bible in the name of God. Of course, we can see that trend every day, since we lived in the wake of 9/11. It's real significant that both the Roman Catholic Church and Islam are being promoted. Not sure yet how they will be used.

The United States will die very quickly if our antisemitism keeps on rising. Here in 2006, after Israel entered Lebanon due to the unprovoked attack by Hezbollah, the 'incredibly negative to Israel' reaction by Christians and unbelievers presage a dark turn in our policy with respect to Israel. Most of their negativity is a way to be negative to President Bush; so they react against Israel, to 'get back' at him. How bizarre. Imagine turning against another innocent country because you don't like your own nation's president, who favors that country. How satanic. So it's frightening how no one bothers to look at the facts of Hezbollah's evil, which for a change the media were correctly reporting (though slanted pro-Arab, as usual). So if we turn anti-Israel en masse, that's the end of the United States. Hitler's regime didn't last but what — 12 years?

When Nebuchadnezzar invaded Israel, he took back with him the best individuals, put a puppet king on the throne, and left. Two more times he'd return, and the final time in 586 BC, he razed the Temple and melted down the Ark. You can read this in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, toward the end of each book. God then picks up the story with Jeremiah, using the latter to explain how God pulled out the still yet good figs (believers) into Diaspora, leaving the rotten figs (again, believers) behind to suffer. Of course, He had done the same thing prior with Noah, delivering him and his family who'd also voted for God. He'd done the same thing in 70 AD. In short, when God removes His Protection due to a nation's apostasy, the believers are delivered. But those left behind, get the punishment due, so they too can wake up and smell God's coffee. You'll see that pattern in Bible again and again. Well: it plays in history, too. Looks like by 2030 or sooner, it will play yet again.


1990 Watershed '490' Characteristics

1990 was undeniably a watershed year. Technically, it was the end of a qualifying 490, an off-calendar, running contiguous deadline by which some believer on earth must receive the grant. The historical 490 ends in 2130. But unless someone got the 490 award during the qualifying 490 which ended in 1990, time would end in 2130. You'll see these qualifying 490s in mapped in a lighter, cross-hatched gold (versus the solid gold of the historical 490s). Someone got the award, so as usual God readies mankind for a massive housecleaning and Bible rollout, to terminate the last 120 years of the historical 490. Additionally, 1997 was the close of the 2000th anniversary of His Birth, which usually God tracks as a kind of warning. But it's not a qualifying 1000 (which runs 30, 1030, 2030, etc). An unusually-successful ending of the 490 means an unusually-polarized new 490 is in the making (as a counter, trying to undo the success and force the Rapture). Seems like Thomas Friedman wrote about 1990 being a watershed year (according to his early May interview on Charlie Rose, April 2005) — not attributing the nexus to Bible interest, of course.

So examine what else happened in 1990. That was the year the official 'downfall' of the Soviet Union began. The significance of the downfall of Soviet Union is that Freedom Of Opinion (and economy) can flourish there. It's been a tumultuous place to live, with fantastic highs and lows, ever since.

1990 was also the year China began its breakup as well, though to the world it looked like a resurgence: economic breakup leads eventually to freedom, and in China the Great Communist Experiment also failed. (But then, it never really was about communism in China, but about modernization against foreigners, a centuries-old goal.) In that year, China became the biggest economy (in terms of people), with everyone outside China, slavering to serve it. Of course, Deng Xiaoping began that reform to economic (and hence related) freedom, about seven years earlier; once ostracised because he was practical, Deng got the last laugh over his former arch-rival, Mao Zedong; the latter having died in 1976, Deng quietly began to consolidate power enough to cause the reform simply by announcing it, beginning about 1983. Microsoft Encarta notes that due to Deng's announcement in 1990, it "touched off" rapid economic growth, though Deng was officially (but not really, okay?) out of power, by then.

Next, the breakup of the Middle East began in earnest in 1990, though it's not as obvious. Terrorism in the Middle East has two basic roots: a) antisemitism, which is a 4000 year inheritance quarrel (Isaac got the inheritance, not Ishmael). Then b), Islam is a terrorizing religion (unifies church and state) which thus keeps its people backward economically — and the rest of the world has passed it by, so lots of Arabs are becoming disaffected with Islam. The backlash of terrorism neatly gives Arabs an excuse to think they are still superior. Hence, in that same year 1983, our friends the Muslims managed to decimate Lebanon and turn the conflict there into a full-scale terrorism campaign against the United States. The world began to be under siege, then. By 1990 Lebanon ended its civil war, so Saddam Hussein started a new one. All the while, Israel was increasingly involved, so terrorism stepped up, and given Saddam being such a problem, what with invading Kuwait and all, Israel and the United States caved into negotiations with the Palestinians who sponsored the terrorists — negotiations which went nowhere, except to get Yitzhak Rabin killed.

While the Soviet Union, China, and the Middle East began breaking up due to their failed economic and political policies, Germany, Europe and other groups were unifying during 1990. Germany was split post-WWII to prevent it from ever being able to wage war again, and now its erstwhile conqueror, is the one conquered. Of course the 'end times' people went even more wacko when the European Union was started, but that was also a natural outgrowth (starting some years earlier) in order for Europe to compete with its larger geographical competitors. That's actually more why places like Angola and Serbia were troubled, due to losing the Soviet Union's patronage; Eastern Europe itself had nothing to hold it together now. Of course, the conflict in Afghanistan began in 1990 for the same reason (civil war fallout from the Afghan-Soviet war). Of course, 1990 was the first year Al-Qaeda was on its own.

Beneath these political developments of the 80's and 90's, is a deeper spiritual ennui, and it has two sides, as well: emotional, and genuine. For, man now has an increasing awareness that there should be 'something more' to life. You can easily find commentaries on the rise of religion, which characterizes the period: people searching. God isn't dead, anymore. But its emotional side quickly devolves into goofy conclusions (the intifada and Osama bin Laden versions, being obviously destructive, but the tongues movement is just as destructive, even worse than drugs). Hence the now-worldwide popularity of the tongues movement and all manner of emotionalism in Christianity, which — also begun about 1983 — had fully embraced Revelation 17 as if it were spiritual. Now no one bothered to read the Bible, so could ignorantly claim whatever, and the stupid 'prolife' movement passed for God's Will — we even elected a President (Ronald Reagan) who espoused it (otherwise a great President). So it's all downhill beginning in 1990, and by 1997, well.. ministers crusade on political topics in their pulpits; one even ran for President. What happened to teaching Bible? Some technical talker using buzzwords from the original language texts.. but tell you to pray to Jesus or the Holy Ghost; they tell you to invite Christ into your heart to be saved (which is nowhere in the Bible, and doesn't save you); they preach emotion and thumping the Bible, and cruises and retreats; and they teach God is emotional, for crying out loud. Guess all those technical words they use, they just use for show. Even John 3:16 in translation, isn't taught or remembered anymore (whereas in 1949+, practically every non-Catholic schoolchild and parent in the United States, knew it by heart). Sheesh.

So naturally you'll find all kinds of obsessive interest in the supernatural. Feeds emotion. So you got the channellers, the psychics, the witches, the New Agers; and so many programs on TV about the supernatural, you almost can't find a secular program. Every one of these programs is incredibly goofy (blasphemous, if alleging to be about Bible). No one seems to care. Everyone wants to emote or point the finger.

An offshoot of that are all the 'survivor' type programs and this really weird love of crime programs. You almost can't find a program in prime time which isn't on the topic of murder. That depicts a judgemental mindset, a fearful mindset, one which just itches for a crusade. Man is fed up with trying to be good, and fed up with seeing 'bad', win. Where's the pea under the walnut shell? Nowhere. Morality without first knowing God, is like that... empty.

So from 2005, expect demagogues to arise in the next 10 years. There's a strong market for a repeat of last century's Mussolinis, Francos, Perons, Hitlers. Satan & Co. can empower someone to become a demagogue in less time than it takes me to finish typing this sentence. You saw the slavering at the Pope John Paul II's funeral and at Princess Diana's funeral.

Look anywhere you like, use any mental attitude index you think elucidating, and you arrive at the same conclusion: we're a world of emotional wrecks! Do you realize, that as of June 2005, Argentina had to pass a law regulating that shops carry larger sizes of women's clothing, to combat teenage bulimia? That was on BBC News, June 4, 2005. The BBC (!) not any random news station! So what must be the problem, in other countries? Which is worse: the tyranny that the kids cannot buy the fashion they want because they aren't thin enough, or the tyranny that a law must be passed to force sales? Wouldn't a normal business want to sell to its market, so make clothes to the bodies in that market? So wouldn't need a law to force it to do what makes a profit? But what normal teenagers should starve to fit clothes which make them look like Auschwitz victims? Of course, why would it be fashionable to look starved and ugly? Is this a sane fashion standard? See how wacko we all are?

The June 2005 rejection by French voters of the new European Constitution is your harbinger of mindset, too: fear of elites causing a loss of jobs, if countries in Eastern Europe are added to the list of European Union members. Never mind, that addition increases the whole economy of Europe, so everyone will eventually work more. But then, France is the home of the 35-hour workweek (what insanity), another stupid law. See how wacko we all are? Watch: demagogues will arise to tap all this emotionalism, all this resentment. We're just begging to be herded.

Read the first 10 verses of Isaiah 28, and Leviticus 26 for the mindset of escapism and mental illness. Then compare what was said to what you see 'out there' in the world. Abnormal minds go to demagogues.. and then, to war. You can set your watch.


Bible Teaching 1990 Watershed: the Quest to Personally live on Bible

Meanwhile, during this same period, teaching on Bible by a few reaches an all-time high in quality, as teaching it from the original languages, matures. The quest to have a personal spiritual life living on Bible, as distinct from herding within institutionalized religion, becomes a mainstream Christian pursuit. The United States led this trend, and many in Europe find the United States odd because of it. Of course, by 1990, it became the dominating focus in Asia (especially China), Latin America (unevenly), Africa. If you ever get a chance to watch PBS Frontline World or Wide Angle on Africa, notice how this focus plays at the grass roots level.

Alongside some of the newly-taught goofiest ideas in Christendom (like 'Lordship' salvation, soul-life-in-womb, and God is emotional), some very few pastors worldwide had true breakthroughs which enabled folks to finally get a grip on how to live the spiritual life, daily. Real hands-on concepts you can breathe while you do dishes, writhe in pain, exult in happiness, stand in line, move your computer mouse, drive somewhere, use at the office. 24/7! For it's during this period that Bible Doctrines long neglected or covered up for centuries, begin to be comprehensively explained or proven from those dusty original language texts. Several types of systematic theologies arise during this time, as a result; they don't necessarily agree, nor are they alike accurate, but the sheer fact they are there and nearly all of one focus — how does the believer really live on Bible — is of epic importance.

If you go back to Adam, you'll notice the macro rollout: from Adam through the Flood, the objective was to get the Word out that the Savior was coming, and to develop a bloodline for that Savior. Note how deft: the evidence He was coming was in the evidence that people you could see, were to be the progenitors of the One you could not see. So the ones you could see, would be charged with the message He was coming. People in Genesis 5 all knew they were the progenitors. That is the Promise they lived on, since they would never live long enough on earth, to See Him Be Born. At the end, only Noah and his family cared about that Promise of a Savior. So they were delivered. From them we all derive. From them, eventually Abraham derived. From him, came that bloodline. With the bloodline, a secular nation was needed, with the potential Promise (Contract, really) of becoming a Priest Nation for this Messiah, when He came.

That bloodline and the nation coming from it — Israel — were given a Written Word gradually rolled out, to learn and teach anyone else who wanted to know it. That way you had both a People And a Book, To See The One You Could Not See. So you also had little rituals which mimicked common, everyday tasks, such that when you even did the mundane, you were reminded of the Divine. So the Word and the ritual could be 'married' in your mind, such that nothing you ever did, would actually be mundane. But look: that Word kept on getting lost, right inside God's House! Samuel found it while wandering around, sleeping in the Holy of Holies. Then later, when the Temple was built, it would go lost again, though right inside: some king would find it, and weep when he read it; some priest or prophet (like Jeremiah) would find it, and would also weep. Weep, weep, read, then lose it again. Meanwhile, the disclosure kept on being added by God. Then, finish. Then, Messiah comes. Then, He is rejected. Then within only 66 years, this time — the entire New Testament is reduced to writing. Which it had to be, since the fourth 1050 was ending. So in the 1st century, Canon got completed, by the end of the voting period.

Then it's quickly lost again, kidnapped by religion — the Revelation 17 harlot, right on time, began. It goes lost for the better part of 18 centuries, slowly broken out in pockets, available only in pieces — a Psalter or one of the Gospels — so far as the macro history is concerned. Theological development was most childish and legalistic. Until the 1850's, the Reformation was the largest of these breakouts, but look how kindergarten its focus, for what was the big issue in the Reformation? What's salvation, and whether you need some pope to tell you how to be spiritual. Very baby focus, that. See how much we didn't know? How is it, we didn't even know what salvation was?

Well, look: by the 4th century, even the Bible experts didn't know if Christ was Divine; thousands of people died over this question. How so? Why couldn't they even read a simple Gospel verse like "Before Abraham was, I Am"? They all knew Greek well enough to read that in the original language texts. Verse uses the Greek version of the Old Testament Sacred Tetragrammaton, leaving no doubt that He's God. John's extremely popular Gospel starts with the explanation that He's God, making very clever wordplay on Exodus 3:14's LXX. So how did they not know? Yet even the experts couldn't read that, else they'd not be debating and denouncing slaughtering each other. They couldn't read Matthew 4:3, where Satan admits Jesus is God. They couldn't read any of the Old Testament, obviously, since all over the Old Testament it says He's God.

So they convened Councils, instead. Blind leading blind. You don't need a Council to tell you He's Divine, and you don't need a Council to tell you if a Book is from God or not, because God will make that clear, and a Book from Him will be provably from Him. So look: there was also a frequent street joke that if you needed your shoes fixed, the shoemaker would tell you whether He was Divine or not; when you got your daily milk, the milkman would give you a treatise on how He was God and Man. So the popular interest in Him was surely there. So the Councils were there. Someone in those Councils was deployed who could read the Bible, so that the people could get a whole Bible — since the experts themselves, were too dang blind to teach it! God accomplished that. God: not, stinking human consensus. "Stinking", in that so many today arrogate to themselves a claim that they determined what the Bible is. I'm reasonably certain that at the time of the Councils, a whole lot of people genuinely didn't know, and wanted to. So it was like this humungous Bible study group, and among them were a few who actually knew 1 John 1:9 and could therefore teach the others, how to read the requisite verses, etc. So probably the group ended up being temporarily positive enough, to read properly. But later generations of religious who look back on these Councils to arrogate to themselves a mantle of being right — that stinks, sorry.

So God managed to get His Word out, despite us. And here in 1990, we are back to the first and third centuries. Full circle. For the majority of our experts debate the same things, having learned nothing in 20 centuries. Same old debates clog social media: how many is God, is Christ Divine, what's salvation, can you lose it, what is the spiritual life, and on and on and on. You'd think we never had a whole Bible, either. But a few among the experts, have been deployed with sound knowledge, too. So we can get Understanding to go with this now fully rolled-out Bible, we have. So while traditional theology remains extremely childish and even anti-Biblical — new theologies of much greater depth and accuracy are taking their place. Hence all the iconoclasm against the 'traditional' denominations. "They teach as if we were in 200 AD", my best friend quipped a few days ago. Yep.

For God's always been about freedom. That has two ends: the evil, stupid, and its other apex, Seeing God. Seeing God, not seeing religion. The problem isn't sin; sin is a symptom of the problem. The problem, is that God is Infinite but we are finite. Sin irrevocably complicates our finity, hence the need for the Cross. After which, it's a question of spiritual growth, to get "His Head in Our Heads" (witty Greek theme of Paul's letter stated of 1 Corinthians 1:5, always mistranslated). We have to grow beyond our human nature, not just our sin nature, to have a true soul oneness with God. That's impossible. But with God, nothing's impossible. His Son's Humanity grew to Complete Oneness with Father, due to the Cross. You don't think Father put Him on the Cross without that purpose, do you? God is Omniscient. So that means all the highs and all the lows — to have Complete Rapport. So that's His Goal Through His Son's Soul, for us: the Contract of Isaiah 53:10-12, and forms the basis for the Book of Hebrews as well as all the New Testament.

So to do that, means Scripture — Son's Thinking, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Hebrews 4:12, Romans 12:2, etc. — must be built in us. That's what I call "Divine DNA", and only the Holy Spirit can do this. Hence the need to live in God's System. It's not a works thing. It's a Growth Thing. So you need the Mentor and the Book, growing you. So you need a whole lot of secular stuff, supporting that. So the world needs historical circumstances, supporting that. Thus the development of all the necessary mechanisms to transmit this Freedom to Learn Him, is the purpose of secular history. It operates within the corridor of what people are willing to accept, since Sovereign Love Never Wills to Coerce.

Thus by 1990, a few pastors caught on to this as God's Goal, caught onto what's the real spiritual life, and they began teaching it. Not all of them taught it as well, not all of them understand it as well, but there came to be a large enough group to get that point across: spirituality is Someone You Learn. And we've heard that point, got that message, for look: nearly every Christian in any denomination will tell you the spiritual objective is to be "Christlike." Problem is, what does that term mean? Aha: this is the point of the new 490, to explain that being like Christ, is learning to Think Like Christ. We all kinda know that. But we need to get those Spiritual Dendrites. And enough pastors worldwide, have enough information now, to impart. 1983-2003 is probably the most productive period of Bible doctrine recoveries — all due to and made in, those original language texts, not translations. That phenomenon bespeaks a sustained (not merely temporary) hunger to really know God, not religion.

For the human race has long regarded religion as the way to relate to God. The idea of relationship was kinda like the idea of war: set pieces, rote things you did, everyone congregate (and in war, smash each other). You sacrificed because it cost you something, so therefore it was worth something to God. You said this or did that and you observed, observed, observed, and patted yourself on the back, when you did. Thus you told yourself you were assured of heaven. What a shell game. No wonder people got so jaded by the end of their lives. All that roteness, all that sacrifice... bought nothing! Hence the iconoclasm of the 19th and 20th centuries.

But God never told us that's how it should have been. We invented those silly robotic ideas, and slapped God's name on them (which violates the third commandment). Helped to keep slapping, by an eager Satan & Co. who ever love turning us into puppets. We danced to their tune. Wasn't enough interest in God to even ask once: "hey, how is this spiritual? What about just plain learning about Him?"

The prophets were forever warning Israel not to misuse the Law as a set of rotenesses. Isaiah made fun of them in Isaiah 28, with his famous "tsav latsav" speech, imitating a drunk who just says the same thing over and over — the wordplay is usually translated "line on line". Double entendre: instead of learning one item at a time, you guys just chant it, repeating your rituals as if you were drunk or sleepwalking. Thus it was for Israel, and thus we inherited the goofy idea that the Law and all those rituals, were somehow magic in themselves, something you did to get a blessing. Never mind it was stupid. So they didn't notice the rich metaphor of the tefillin, the sacrifices, the washings. Learning intensifies if you use tools to signify the doctrine behind them. But if you don't know that doctrine, then... it's "tsav, latsav", just so much drunken shuffling. Leaving you with a hangover.

So now, the lid is blown off that rote religion idea, beginning most prominently in the 19th century. Now, it's a free for all, as the new advances in Bible understanding, slowly coalesce and mature, coming out of their entrapping, religious cocoons. No, it's not the elites who decide how you worship; no, it's not the elites who stand between you and God; but rather, you learn Bible and live it yourself. This personal freedom idea is often iconoclastic, namely, all the "I can interpret Bible for myself" rebellions, throwing out the baby with the bathwater. And right there (!) are a few pastors simultaneously discovering God has an answer which reconciles this Royal freedom with Royal discipline with Royal responsibility: you need someone to teach you math, so you need someone to teach you Bible and you live it yourself. You live the Bible, not religion. Yourself, thinking with it before the Lord. No paint by number rules. For, you are in training to become a King. So you are to make your own rules, and hopefully learn from your own mistakes. Which is why you get the Holy Spirit as your Mentor. Which is why you need a human pastor who specializes in studying Bible, 24/7, to teach it to you. For we are Royal Priests to Father, a Kingdom of Priests — which is what Israel was supposed to become, but she turned it down. Christ however succeeded, and thus we get His Thinking. Revelation 5:10, Revelation 1:6, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:9. We are in training to be King-Priests.

So Isaiah 53:10's "ʾim-tāśîm ʾāšām nafšô", "If He will appoint Himself a Substitute for Sin" becomes the Replacing Mindset we get (in Greek), 1 Corinthians 1:5, Romans 8:4ff, Romans 12:2, 1 Corinthians 5:14-21. He lived for us, He died for us, so we get to live for Him, now. Mechanism? Learning our Husband via the husbandmen ("ἁφή", meaning pastors), Ephesians 4:16, so we will all be grown up to Christ's Maturity, Ephesians 4:13. That's the deal. That's what is variantly understood by many a pastor. That's the goal of this and every other 490, since Adam. Freed, now, from Satan's religious shackles which would have us be drunk, forever (2 Timothy 2:26).

So despite the iconoclasm in the aftermath of WWII, and maybe even partly due to it, by the end of 1990, people worldwide realized that some kind of Personal Relationship which functions 24/7, is the spiritual life; and they want it! Just God! Just Because! But the devil is in the details, hence the confusion over which idea of God (and the lie that all versions are the same); hence so much emotion (which the ritualized religions recapture via the 'feel' of the ritual). But the details are in Scripture; so learning those original language texts, teaching from them, unlocks the conundrums that the devil so cleverly strews in every believer's path. Aha! Ephesians 4:11-16!

Thus is fulfilled the verse refrain (i.e., in 1 John 2 and 1 John 3), which is a frequent Old Testament prophecy that you won't have any need for anyone to teach you what God says (idea that you don't have Scripture, so rely on a prophet), for you yourself will know. Because the Word is completed in writing, and the Word Itself Is Taught To You Directly as it was written, line on line, precept on precept; hence The Mind Is Written on your minds, τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν ἐπιγράψω αὐτούς (ending of Hebrews 10:16). God keeps His Promises! When John wrote his Gospel, 1-3 John, and Revelation, he knew he'd be the last Canon writer. That's one reason for the riddle-like structure in 1 John 2. It's a main theme of 1 John, that Canon will be completed, and John is the last of the writers of it. That's why the letter is crafted in "firsts" (i.e., the "in the beginning" catchphrase) to show that the fulfillment of God's Purpose since the Garden, is coming to pass with what John writes. Full circle: ties to Ephesians 1.

So Satan must copycat whatever God does, so to substitute God with himself. Hence the most popular among the new systematic theologies (all of which stress personal relationship with God as the spiritual life).. will nonetheless be the most satanic. So the truth must be 'shaved'. See, Satan has to use truth in order to wreck the spiritual life, since there is no power like the truth. So by shaving it, dicing it (Second Temptation method), he can manipulate.

Hence the opposition to this personal quest makes disparaging and dismissive remarks, reminiscent of the way kids in high school ridiculed "geeks" — you know, students who took their school learning seriously, so were considered to be 'showing off' or trying to curry favor with the adults. To the masses, it's somehow wrong to take learning or Bible, seriously. Cool people don't do that.

Hence the most popular 'dicing the Bible' manipulation method Satan employs is truncation. Soundbytes for bored minds. So the Bible looks like something no cool person would actually read, but instead, would nod at. Hence the translations are awful. If the original language texts of Bible said, "The Maserati sped down the Autobahn", then the translation of that 'verse' is "the vehicle moved down the path". Notice how fuzzed over is the translation, merely by 'clipping' down the meaning of each word, to vague generalities. Now you know why you fall asleep whenever you try to read Bible. Now you know why it's so easy to misuse Bible. Now you know why God rolled out the original language texts of Bible in the 19th century.

The dead giveaway of a satanic truncation going on, is the promotion of herding. Herding activities (you know, those rallies where everyone sings how they love Jesus), herded ideas. Away from individual responsibility, and toward a Group Identity on an issue, on a doctrine, something. People in crowds stop thinking, because the 'feel' of the crowd is so comforting to them. That's when Bible gets thumped. Thus the Bible's own words can be read, and only the truncated meaning assigned at the Group Identity level, will be heard. Soundbyte Christianity.

So now you know why people pretend to know those texts, but still dice Scripture. The conclusive evidence of a satanic interpretation is that it stresses man, not God. Man's doing something. Man's being something. God nicely gets chopped down to Petty Judge/Sugar Daddy level, that way. Gracelessness is Satan's #1 love. So will be lovingly patent in all false pitches re Bible.

We are to blame, not Satan & Co., because we don't check Scripture, but just love how the shaved/diced 'truth', feels. Especially, if emotional (asceticism is very emotional, just like the tongues crowd). Kinda like the prolife movement: anyone involved in it has lost his mind, hates Bible, never even reviews the original language texts to notice that every "womb" verse is completely reversed in translation (e.g., says "in the womb" in translation, but "from birth" in the inspired text). There are hundreds of verses saying human life is not in the womb, and you need to know that, to know how the spiritual life really works.

Note Satan's dilemma: the cat is out of the bag (cat being the Bible). How can he get it back in there? Satan can't. But he can bring rise to things like the King James Only movement, as well as distorting and obfuscate what Scripture plainly says; he can discredit all of what's taught, by 'tainting' with one or two obvious falsehoods. That is his focal goal. People who truly know Bible will be persecuted as subtly as possible (martyrdom only attracts adherents). The main games will stay Revelation 17 in style, since everyone loves crusading. That will contaminate and thus siphon off a lot of erstwhile interest in God. So now he can focus only on the smaller groups who are genuinely interested.

Since the Bible is now freely available in the original language texts, how can Satan obfuscate desire to consult them? Well, he's got to get our eyes on people! Same strategy as he used to roll out Islam and thus the crusades. Here, he's got to get some emotional idea within Christendom around which people can rally. So he picks the pagan idea that there is soul life in the womb. Roman Catholic Church carefully cultivated that idea in order to advance the lie that Mary's only spiritual value, was being a virgin. (What a slur on her character.) So now with the precipitous decline of interest in Bible, the non-Catholics have picked up that pagan idea, never even bothering to read the original language texts. Hence the prolife movement is the worst spiritual cancer in the world today, so any pastor with a systematic theology which supports or is sympathetic to prolife and claims to be teaching from the original languages, will promptly be promoted by Satan & Co. Said pastor will also think this promotion is from God (all apostates mindlessly give credit to God Matthew 15:8) and won't bother to question their rotten theology nor their absent relationship towards God.

Satan thus masks the quiet, accurate teaching this way; he hopes to mask any other accurate teaching even by prolifers, by stress on a human thing, so to mask information about God. Always, the substitution of man for God, in the name of God. I could quickly name at least three pastors who fit the 'prolife' category of Bible abuse; who have developed their own (sometimes quite brilliant) systematic theologies; who are very engaging to hear... and thus who are quite popular, too. Pray using God's System of protocol, for these pastors to wake up and smell God's coffee, because they don't need to keep on serving Satan's chicory chicanery, Ephesians 4:14. It would be a real shame for these guys to lose out at the Bema, because this falsehood will bring down all their other insights. A pastor's job is the worst on earth, and who among us wouldn't want to see those who give us our very food, the most blessed?

There are also some popular "back to the Bible" movements which fail God's System, in that they reject the doctrine of Right Pastor, Ephesians 4:11-16's Greek (which explains how Isaiah 53:11-12 function for Church). Yet they too are recovering certain truths which have long been in front of our very eyes, unseen — their writings are prolific, and are likewise worldwide. Would that they understood the need of a pastor, too, since for all their recoveries, they will not profit by growing spiritually, absent function within this Element of God's System. As you can hopefully see, I'm trying to avoid naming names. Today's failures might recover and become tomorrow's spiritual successes. There are at least three groups of folks, each numbering in the hundreds of thousands (if not millions), who believe and understand God's System Element #5's structure, but refuse #4. So they are growing fitfully, God orchestrating what they learn to get the message to get into #4. Meanwhile, sometimes you'll see quite brilliant conclusions by folks in these movements, and some of their stuff is a joy to read. They claim to retranslate the Bible, and have crafted their own full versions. But instead of true retranslation, they just rehash the old translations — still egregiously wrong in the same places as the traditionally accepted translations (i.e., James 4:5, Genesis 1:2, Genesis 3:11, 1 Corinthians 1:5, James 2:22, Hebrews 11:1, etc). See, if you don't know the doctrine being covered in a verse, you'll mistranslate it. And you can't learn the Doctrine if you're not in God's System (#4 of the System, here begin rejected). We're all learning!

These are but two of many examples, the prolifers and the 'no pastor required' crowd. Here's the gain for Satan: both 'doctrines' are easily proven false from Bible. So for as long as folks believe the falsehoods, their spiritual growth is stunted, even though other doctrines developed by these two groups, might be very beneficial and seemingly advanced. And, if some do notice the falsehoods, then all those other doctrines of value taught by these two groups, will be deemed false. Look at how people just lambast everything the Roman Catholic Church teaches, due to a fictional novel based on the fictional premise that Christ had kids. The Roman Catholic Church is accused of covering that up. As a result, the Bible is accused of being an invention of the Roman Catholic Church. It's totally amazing how a flimsy accusation which a fictional novel merely used as its story line, is accepted by millions of people. No one did their homework. No one wanted to do their homework. Everyone just wanted to be iconoclastic. And everyone just wanted to hate the Bible. For notice how the entire Bible got blamed, too? This is negative volition talking. So Satan licks his chops: Yeah, let these people advance theology — I'll make sure they bang the drum on obviously inaccurate things, thus ruining all that advance!

You see this all the time in secular life. A guy works hard and achieves much. But one day, he does something bad. Thereafter, all that good work done prior, is tainted because of the one thing he did bad. We humans are disgusting.

So Religion vs. Bible is the hallmark theme of our current 490, and since its first 40 years are internal stabilization and maturity years (analogous to Israel wandering in the wilderness), we are in for one heck of a historical rollercoaster between now and 2030. That's why attention got focused on the United States: not because of us, but because God used some pastors here for the sake of the rest of the world, since we aren't listening to them, but to Revelation 17's siren song; but some few in other nations, are less arrogant. So God is answering their need. Hence the United States' economic decline, too. In whatever nation interest in Bible grows, that nation prospers. In whatever nation interest in Bible wanes, that nation declines. It's all laid out in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, even in translation. Here, we're talking of the verifiable historical play out of those Bible truths.

Expect a stirring up of religious fervor, and demagogues, worldwide (i.e., at much higher levels than characterized the close of the 490 ending 1990). All targeting against Israel, the United States, and any nation which has good teaching in it. At last, the world realizes that the Bible is God's, not some culture's private pet (so not 'Western', 🤣). Hence a number of nations are beginning to shine with His Face, and have the tumultuous politics, to match (God uses tumult to mature and strengthen interest in Him, just as He did to Israel in the wilderness). For example, Brazil will be #1 target in Latin America; Cameroon, Liberia, Niger and Nigeria are becoming strongly pro-Bible (few people, but you only need a few); maybe some others in Africa, I'm not sure. China is becoming strongly pro-Bible; Korea is already one of the most pro-Bible countries in the world, which is why it got split post-WWII, so the positive people in the south could Learn Bible In Freedom. Kim Il Sung himself was raised Presbyterian and possibly believed and was saved, which would explain why God gave him that neck tumor as a wakeup call. Korea is one of the shining stars, baby. I hope they all become God's Stars! I hope my own beloved America will regain its lost interest in its Former Love, and stop acting like Laodicea (Revelation 3). If I grow up spiritually, and finish the Pleroma course, God will save my own nation. So too, you can 'do' in God's System (His Power, your choice)... for your own country! Some 'causes' are worth dying for: spiritual growth is a gain to the one getting it, and so isn't really, a sacrifice — but God will use it to save many from disaster. So be a spiritual soldier?

So all these nations are upper-echelon targets, and there could be others, of course (who can ever have all the facts for diagnosis). Doesn't mean there isn't a lot of apostasy within these nations. Does mean there is a lot of interest (one can't grow out of apostasy until much time has been spent learning in God's System).

Meanwhile, to compliment this huge appetite for studying the Bible in its original languages, you have Bible software and websites of every kind available. It's never been easier to study the Bible than now.

It's incredible, the historical contrast: the official Reformation was only about a few basic doctrines: salvation's mechanic and the Roman Catholic Church's control. So the Reformation quickly fizzled out into much the same apostasies as had characterized its Roman Catholic parent: state religion, denominational infighting and interdenominational fighting, tradition, fake scholarship, standing pat on the famous men God used, rather than continuing to improve on what learning they got. Hence the Reformation's accomplishment was the idea of personal salvation, John 3:16, and the idea of Bible being the Authority (not the pope), Hebrews 4:12, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Revelation 22:6ff. Which the Reformers of both camps (Martin Luther, John Calvin and their spinoffs) just stood on and crusaded on, but didn't advance. So, descended into legalism. How tragic.

But since the 1800's, oh! So much more desire to really know! So God rolled out Scripture and its teachers, beginning in the 19th century, as discussed in #2, above. Even so, 90%+ of Christians as usual don't give a flip to know God, they only want His Goodies (Luke 23:8), and ego stroking, feeling good. But now, oh! Some, more than the normal number (small as a percentage, as always) really want to know God deeply. Just because. And you know this is true, because all the fake interest in God is reacting: when real interest is widespread, fake interest reacts; so you can tell the true level of interest, using the fake as an index of the hidden 'true'.

When an idea spreads widely in a populous, there is an inevitable morphing to grouping. Call it a fad, a fashion, a 'movement', a 'cause'. But what you really see, is the widespread thinking about, the idea/thing. Once the group morphing hits, one needs to fit in with the idea/thing, so a whole lot of what passes for 'interest', is really only interest in fitting in. But that interest reflects the hidden true interest. I'd bet you that 99% of folks who own a PDA, don't use it well or find it frustrating, but it's the thing to do. But 1% of folks live on their Blackberry or whatever. Same, for interest in God. His Nature and Existence waxes and wanes in the public interest, so of course when the awareness of the size of interest morphs to a 'group' level, most of those in the 'group' could care less about God: they just want to fit in. Nonetheless, even the 'fitting in' folks have an occasional thought or two — which God can use to foster genuine interest (God never coerces, but He never misses an opportunity, either).

True interest has its maturity levels, so true interest which is young, will of course be glitchy, prone to siphoning off into false concepts about God. For a baby's level of even true interest, is quickly overcome by any kind of distraction. But if it grows anyway, or at least remains, then God will work with it (and discipline the baby, when he gives into the distraction, so that his interest can be freed up). That's what you see here. Sure, the 'fitting in' crowd are just going along with the latest fad; but they too get God's attention just as much: Christ paid for the whole human race, and God will never waste His Son's Payment by neglecting anyone (2 Peter 3:9). So, it's a messy process, but all along the wheat are being caused to grow, and the chaff are making themselves plain. We do it to ourselves, but since info about God can only come from God, and He will never coerce, then — wheat and chaff are self-determined. So a chaff can reverse that disinterest in God, and boy oh boy — God will Answer! The process, being messy (there are many distractions), takes some years. But God is answering — because, again, He'll never waste His Son's Payment, Isaiah 53:11!

Those in the lukewarm traditional denominations look down their noses at the fresh faced versions — which are often wild in their doctrinal ideas, to be sure — not realizing that the issue is Do You Want God, not how 'proper' is your denomination and its doctrines. God can make any stone into a son of Abraham. So while 'today' these baby goofballs look silly to their Pharisaical elders, count on it — God will develop the goofballs into geniuses. Wanting to know God is what He uses to develop you, principle in 1 Corinthians 13:3. It's not what you know, it's Who you love. God is innately loveable, so no merit accrues due to loving Him. But those who love religion and its trappings don't love God. The two are mutually exclusive. So the goofball of today will become the superior scholar of tomorrow. Wait and see. Ignorance and error can be corrected; 'lack of love', cannot. The Lord didn't fault the Laodiceans for being incorrect on doctrines, but for their lack of love. And in fact, He said it was even better to be cold: a 'cold' or 'hot' person is honest about how they feel towards God (either having interest in loving Him or not), whereas a 'lukewarm' person is wholly religious and dishonest (lying about their love).

And now you know why 1) English is becoming the universal language, and why 2) we have the internet, which became user friendly in 1991 with AOL. Oh: Windows was first released as a shell for MS-DOS in 1985, right on time. God's Time, of course. Windows 3.0, which was the precursor to all other versions, was launched in 1990. God remembers everything. Now why were these two developments so important? Well: most of the really important recoveries of meaning and teachings in the original language Bible texts, are done by English-speaking pastors. So, the rest of the world needs to know that language to have easy access to the teaching, should anyone choose it; so, the rest of the world needs an internet to get free access to those teachings, especially since the rest of the world is still largely so poor. But God will provide. He always does. And especially at the end of this topsy-turvy, weirdest 490 the Earth has ever had.

It seems as if never before in history we have more average Joe Schmoes than ever venturing deeper into Bible study. Look at all those personal websites regarding the Bible strewn thickly throughout the internet, including of course, my own. So many needles in haystacks. What makes people want to publish such stuff? Is it demon possession, mere ego, a drive to learn God, a drive to share knowledge of Him? It's a hard thing, to keep writing webpages. Eats up all your free time. Yet look: millions upon millions of these pages exist! Not to mention, social media and group chats clogged with believers, all trying to articulate their faith, and usually unable to do so. Why do they go? Why remain? It's not as easy or as nice as congregating in a coffee house or church bazaar, you know.

Upshot: many believers are isolated, and it appears to be a choice. We humans don't know what to do with ourselves, ever — but we get it that some alone time is important. Maybe, it's imposed. Maybe more likely, we feel 'different' or 'outside' our peer group. But you couldn't have the skyrocketing websites and Bible study materials sold by the bazillions if there weren't a whole lot of worldwide interest in Bible. We're all inept in our interest... but God knows how to mature us. Again, can't get correct, until get Bible. But disinterest coupled with however much competence, who can fix? Love will never coerce volition. The rest, can be healed.

So the upcoming historical 490 is designed by God to coalesce and refine understanding in what is the true spiritual life, God putting Bible in your head and running it, 24/7. Not, religion. This purpose will be fought tooth and nail by Satan & Co., as its progress dramatically shortens history's lifespan: for as people grow up in Christ, God completes the Kingdom He's gifting to His Son. And when He's finished doing that, the Rapture occurs. So yes, we are in a new 490, but it's 'sudden death' in nature: can end tomorrow. For the larger timeline is the completion of Church for the sake of rescuing the rest of time which is on hold for the sake of Israel. Whom the Lord heads. Forever.

So of course Satan's mimicking counterstrategy to God's has its success, too: beginning about 1990 those interested in learning Bible this deeply, decline drastically in number; many of those interested die, but no new cadre replaces them. So that in the United States by 1997, you have incredibly low interest in learning Bible deeply, compared to the seven 'fat' years from 1983-1990. The louder and more popular 'Christian' has become, the more it proves no interest in God is operating. Hence the loud 'Christian' agenda in 2000+ elections. So those genuinely interested, always small in number anyway, dwindled to so small a size, that the normally apostate populous can't be sustained at the same level of 'blessing by association' which God had granted. 9/11 happened not due to the terrorists, but due to Christians who are disinterested in God, Leviticus 26 (last cycle, toward end of chapter).

This counterstrategy looks like genuine Bible interest: lots and lots and lots of internet pages, for example. But look deeper: the analyses are shallow, the doctrines are false, the content is emotional, and above all you're being sold something with typical Madison Avenue sale appeals. Appeal to congregate. Appeal to 'belong'. Appeal to give money, of course — which makes you a 'good person' and a 'faithful partner'. Yuck. All that people stuff — notice how God is omitted? That's the dead giveaway of a satanic approach; cut God out, and graft people in. So people (or yourself) become the god you serve... all in the name of God. Just His Name, as a designer label, a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Not any real information about Him personally. Oh no. You just sing songs about how you love Him, and His Own Character isn't ever taught from Bible. No, morality toward people is enjoined as spirituality, instead. Clever, huh? And because they never learn to know God's character or style, they never realize the false doctrines they believe are an antithesis to Him.

This doesn't mean the pastors are necessarily bad. Does mean the people don't want to hear whatever real information about God, the pastors might want to impart. When Christianity politicizes like it's done in the US and several other English-speaking countries, that's your sure litmus that interest in the Bible is dead. So "God" is just a word you sing to feel good.

My pastor's own ministry reflects that trend. When he started teaching 53 years ago, he taught fast, advanced, and gave you plenty of exegesis. As a result, his teaching started to morph, growing in sophistication, a true advancing in theology. He'd revisit past teaching and correct, refine, and upgrade it constantly; teaching six new classes per week, so you ended up going there daily (except Saturdays). So by 1990, you had a thorough grounding in Bible, and could read it yourself in the original language texts — for he always backed up any principle taught, by showing you how he got it. It was like going to seminary for 50 years: well, seminaries weren't even that deep. My pastor would kill us if we didn't keep on revisiting what he taught, improving it where necessary. Your parent or teacher always dreams you will carry on the baton, not stand on it, insisting that every golden word out of his mouth should be forever enshrined. Unfortunately we treat our parents and Bible teachers & scholars as if what they say should be frozen in time, never improved. Yeah, and he'd have learned more himself if he didn't have to spend time parenting you. So honor him and carry the baton, improving on what God caused him to give you. It's only loyal to do this. It's disloyal to stand pat on what he says.

But starting in 1992, people bucked all that depth, and he had to keep dumbing it down. So that by the end (2003), when he got the pinnacle of his understanding, the ultimate theological point that Love is God's Head Attribute, and He builds our reciprocity at His Own Level! Which he communicated, too — he nonetheless had to stop elaborating, and revert back to repeating how salvation is John 3:16, and you use 1 John 1:9 after that. Most of each Bible class hour had to be spent explaining over and over and over these baby doctrines. Because if you don't get the Gospel, you can't be saved. If you don't get 1 John 1:9, you can't be spiritual and learn Bible.

Here's the point: my pastor was advanced. We got better Bible teaching than I can find anywhere else, and I surely didn't appreciate that fact before writing these webpages. So in my congregation, we have zero excuse for being ignorant of Bible; each one of us should by now, be experts ourselves, given the high and consistent quality of the teaching we got. His many years of almost daily Bible class audiotapes are the witness against us, that still we didn't listen to him. I'm utterly embarrassed, okay? So it's really hard to go through his audiotapes after 1990, but that's where the most advanced theological material is — hiding amongst all that baby food the people wanted. That doesn't mean there aren't pastors as good or better than him. I just can't find any Bible teaching which is more advanced, than what I got. Pastors often dumb down what they teach, so they might be more advanced, but can't teach what they know due to the lower acceptance levels of their congregations.

So if that's how one congregation went, for congregations everywhere are just as human — that's how it's gone for America. You can see it in the insane politicizing of Christianity, it's not a hidden trend. You wouldn't have so much interest in the Da Vinci Code and its many precursors, if people knew their Bibles. Bible is way more interesting than any other thing in life. But of course, you can't know that until you learn it in the original languages. And you won't do that, if no one's teaching from those languages. And no one will be teaching, if no one wants to learn. So if even my own congregation went negative, which was taught for over 50 years from those original language texts, guess what? Up go the fictional sales, down goes the truth.

Litmus: how many believers can genuinely articulate God's nature in their own words — without sounding like parrots? Almost no one. But boy oh boy, everyone can articulate well the latest party, soccer match, date, political squabble! Every word of a song is remembered, lingered over, played incessantly. But thinking about how God is? Um, is He one God? Or Three? Or maybe an Egg? We can't even understand Trinity.

So the 'lean years' from 1990-1997 in the European nations, are lean of desire to know God. So the pastor must lean toward his congregation's need, and hence cut out the delightful fatness the Lord would rather have us learn (see Isaiah 55). So we stay lean, mean... children. How tragic.

You can evaluate Leviticus 26's 'play' in the United States yourself, by thinking over what setbacks happened to the United States since 1950, and then comparing them to the cycles & stages God explains in Leviticus 26. You'll have to upgrade the text for modern times (i.e., Leviticus 26 uses agrarian economy phrasing). Basically, an increasing series of setbacks in economy, foreign policy, and weather are deliberately allowed by God to wake up a nation He sponsors (at the time, Israel). You should be able to match the cycles to United States history without too much agonizing. Wikipedia can list major events, say, "1990" and get its list of major events of the decade. It's real useful to 'play' here, so you can see how predictable are the results. Again, the Christian is supposed to read history now, not 'after the fact' when it's too late, so you can use the 'play' here as practice in discernment, breathing 1 John 1:9 as you do so.

Conversely, the rest of the world's interest in Scripture has increased. Nations previously lukewarm have, since 1950, peaked up in interest: Korea; China; India; even Africa. Latin America is kinda spotty, going through a rejection of Catholicism in favor of the tongues movement, so going from one apostasy to another. Africa seems to be more Catholic, but underneath that trend is a lot of interest in real Bible, "lot" being always a small percentage, even when high: these people clamor for Bibles, and will even accept torn Bibles. They sit around together and listen to one person read from what may be the only Bible the whole tribe has. So watch Africa: it's a battleground of real interest, which is partly why Satan needs to get institutionalized religion to take over (i.e., Catholicism). So while interest in Bible in the United States has seriously declined (but might return, one never knows), interest in hitherto uninterested countries is much stronger. One of these will be the next big power, if that interest continues.

So for this upcoming 490, Satan's main strategy will be an extreme promotion of religion itself: he needs to create Götterdämmerungs and destroy certain key technological advances of the last 500 years, in order to isolate access to Scripture. So we're looking at a new dark ages, by the end of this 490, if the world lasts that long. Satan always builds up prosperity to encourage war (via greed). Since God built prosperity to get Scripture out, Satan tried to capitalize on it, to foster greed and hence chaos. Well, he had a lot of success, but didn't prevent the widespread access to Scripture the world now enjoys. Hence, he needs a religious war, which is the only counterstrategy he can employ, in light of the current interest in God. Satan hasn't had a good religious war going for two centuries, and needs one. Satan will use our current globalization and interest in God (fake or true) to foster religious alignments. For only that will generate enough fervor to war again. Beware religion of all kinds. It's only about the Bible. So everything except the Bible, it will seem to be about. In the name of God, of course!


Consequently, war since 1990 is now mainly fought with disinformation and economics. So much more effective, than the old-fashioned methods of "hack and destroy". Sun Tzu was right: you aim to defeat the enemy's mind, in part because then he makes better booty, and you can capture more of his infrastructure. Hence guerrilla type tactics in economics are far more important. Like, how much of the United States is actually owned by Americans, anymore? Has anyone noticed China's quiet policy of economic hegemony, which — surprise, surprise — also began in earnest about 1983? Who recognized the weirdness of the Federal Reserve having to keep down interest rates, so the United States doesn't go into a depression, beginning about 1990?

And of course, everyone is aware of the resurgence of religious polarization which terrorism nicely advertises, with the result that from about 1990 onward, that becomes the primary military concern of the world, a tail wagging the dog; and those trying to catch terrorist dogs afflicting Iraq, are instead excoriated by the world? Why does the world hate the United States for freeing Iraq from a tyrant? But then how could anyone believe the claim of that tyrant who invaded another Arab country — that he was doing it for the "poor" freedom-loving Palestinians no Arab country would succor? For that's what Saddam Hussein did, rocketing Israel after he invaded Kuwait. What did Israel have to do with his invasion of Kuwait? Do you know, back in 1990 people actually blamed Israel? Same insanity plays now. What hypocrisy: Arabs not helping other Arabs, Muslims not helping other Muslims, violating the Five Pillars, but it's the fault of the infidels? What a slur on Allah: if their faith is so true, why didn't they take the Palestinians in to the other Arab countries as brothers? Why instead, did they set up quotas and refugee camps for their fellow Arabs, disallowing them citizenship? It's just another trick to use one's fellow Arab, a tactic from time immemorial. Sorry. The Koran means nothing, it's just the way they express their antisemitism.

And we buy all this blatant hypocrisy, even in the United States: Americans condemning the United States presence in Iraq? Kind of like every other nation which was ending at the end of a 490, is the United States, today: the barbarians 'invade' by buying us, now. The barbarians wag the dog, and the dog is both stupid, and grateful. The Untied States will not survive the 21st century, if Christians don't grow up in God's System. It only takes a few in the (last) Pleroma stage of maturity, to preserve the nation (25-50 people, my pastor estimates). And if enough more are trying to grow, that also can stave off disaster. So if you care about the soldiers and people suffering in Iraq... grow up spiritually. Meanwhile, pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) using God's System protocols. Doesn't matter if you are a spiritual idiot, if you follow the protocol, your prayer will be answered.

See, we really are Royal. So our attitude determines the quality of life down here for the whole world. We have a lot to answer for, at the Bema. Meanwhile, those invading us economically are preserving us; just as happened back during the slow demise of SPQR, it was the barbarians who kept it going; and they ended up being converts. That's a trend of history you can trace, even if you didn't believe in Bible.

One could go on and on with other developments which 'just happen' (yeah right) to reach watershed points in 1990, like the globalization of the world economy and culture. Everywhere you look we are becoming alike. We dress in t-shirts and jeans, we've got cellphones, we get on the internet: even in the poorest sections of Niger you see skinny Africans with "Pokémon" t-shirts. Of course, this is the real reason for human interest in warring: the old ways are dying. It's hard to keep up with the dizzying pace of technological change. Satan knows how destabilizing change is. So he takes what God does for freedom, to turn it faster — into chaos.

The most important of all these watersheds was Iraq. See, the one group which has remained the most tyrannized of all the peoples of the world, is the Arab. Both Arabs and Jews are cousins. They are very alike. Their cultures are different, but they are so 'big' on 'family', it's suffocating. So in their communities, the herding is worse than normal: religion is so much a part of the race that it's much harder than normal, to have free opinion. Israel has had long practice in dissension owing to the Diaspora, but the Arabs haven't been similarly dispersed. So the mindset remains parochial, and free opinion is given lots of lip service, but... that's all. So for Iraq to break open like this provides the entire Middle East with a potential to find God it's not had in centuries. So there must be a lot of hidden positive volition in the Middle East. The Arabs are the worse off, and this gives them space to consider rising above clannishness. It won't play pretty. Modernization never does.

The precise apex might be a little to the right or the left of 1990, too: but then, this measure of the 490s is being done based on calendar years. So you have to allow a variance of a up to a year, on one side or the other. If you do, and you take a gander at whatever significant variable you want to name in the world's development, I'm confident you'll find 1990 was a watershed marker year. It certainly was, in terms of Bible teaching. As goes Bible teaching, so goes the world's history; as goes response to Bible teaching, so goes the blessing to the world. Which results, in technological developments, in breakups of tyrannies, etc. Because, God is the God of Freedom, not tyranny, and the Word frees you from tyranny, John 8:32, Galatians 5:1, etc.: no matter where in the world you are, no matter what type of government or personal burden you are under, God will free you from the inside. So you don't need to ever crusade. "Stand still, and watch the deliverance of the Lord," Moses told the Israelites when they had their backs to the Red Sea, and saw Pharaoh's whole army, rushing toward them. "Be Still, and know that I am God," God told David. Still true.

Next, notice how plausible and alike are each of the A-D epochs in their timings. Note also how the confluence of #1-#7's presence, allows identification of the end of the 490, even if you don't quite diagnose properly, any one of the seven. In short, you don't have to count all the trees properly, to know you have an end-490, forest. So, in the diagnosis of particular facts above, well... they are facts which can be checked; the interpretation of the facts can be disputed. Gauging #5 and #6 would be subject to error in the sense of choosing the determinative variables and identities. But the #1 rollout of Scripture would be determinative, and the other six characteristics would be fairly easy (although painstaking) to reliably identify, in a broad brush manner.

So when God Rolls Out Scripture Or Ease In Learning Scripture, there is a genuine, invisible, market for it of an unusually high quantity. In short, it would have been easy to get Scripture as it was being written, the slow technology notwithstanding; Israel was easy to get to, all the main trade routes went through it. Today, it's easy technologically, so you can stay in the same spot all your life, yet 'visit' any country in the world. God knows how to get the Word out, and when He does, that is the litmus of true interest. A more important historical bellwether cannot be listed.

The other variables likewise can be identified in a broad brush manner, and reliably. It cannot be disputed, for example, that the world is in quite a lot of moving turmoil at all levels from religious to political to even sheer movements of people (movement economically, and/or movement physically) at the end of each 490.

It also cannot be disputed that religious warring characterizes the end of each 490; that's in fact another litmus, a reaction to the unseen true interest in #2-#3; for Satan must make a #4 to counter any progress in #2-#3, as those latter two potentially hasten the Rapture's occurrence.

Today #5 and #6 play differently. We are more sophisticated in our warring, so are tempted to think we are at peace; but in fact today we war constantly in word, at bar (courts), ballot box, and especially in checkbook. Greed and cultural insecurity predominate, but we are all too weak to just don our armor, rush onto some plain, and hack each other with abandon. Oh no: we have words, now. Yesteryear, conflicts were set pieces; they were short and composed of far fewer bodies, usually two blocks of men who rushed at each other not unlike Pickett's charge, at Gettysburg; then, the kings of the warring nations and/or city-states gave enormous importance to the outcome of those encounters, largely due to how outsmarted they or the enemy, was in the event. The Battle of Waterloo had what, 1% of the troops involved, compared to Verdun? So our mode of warring has changed, but the warring has actually increased, not decreased. And become guerilla-like, subtle.

Same too, with the ending of a client nation: it may be a subtle demise. SPQR continued in name, but died essentially with Diocletian or Constantine. The Holy Roman Empire really ceased with Charlemagne's death. Yet on their ashes other nations grew, trying to be phoenixes, carrying the baton. So the United States of today may well cease as a nation in 2030 (seems to me it died structurally in the late 1960's or 1970's, when Americans stopped owning their own country); but it will still likely be called the United States. When a client nation dies, it typically dies this way, or splits in two. You see that phenomenon clearly with respect to Israel after Solomon, SPQR, and Germany. They had all at one time enjoyed a large-enough body of believers to constitute a 'client' God sponsored (i.e., evangelism, laws largely compatible with the Ten Commandments — which is a code of freedom, not religion, which any nation however heathen can adopt for its benefit). So again, today's version of national demise will largely mean some other nation, maybe rising on the same soil, will gain ascendance. Outwardly, it might not even seem to have changed.

Certain telltale characteristics always precede the national demise of a client nation to God, and these characteristics linger over decades (usually 40 years, sometimes much longer). So a nation in the throes of demise dies slowly, giving its people maximum opportunity to wake up and smell the coffee, 2 Chronicles 7:14. So such a nation, languishes. Its believers, not any foreigners or unbelievers, are the sole cause ("figs" in Jeremiah, "my people" in Hosea, and the audience of Leviticus 26 are all believers). The nation has gone from self-reliance to regulation, so laws proliferate, as do welfare programs; taxes, accordingly, become oppressive. The economy, of course, gets in deep 💩. National discourse becomes shallower and more shrill; once-hallowed freedoms are significantly curtailed, as a result. 'Barbarians' invade and control ever-greater portions of the landmass and national assets, so the client nation is progressively under siege. The population becomes more diverse, therefore, so the people lose a sense of national identity (not always); factions thus rise, and the populous becomes more polarized. Crime greatly increases. Leviticus 26 outlines the basic pathology and resultant Divine Discipline stages. Deuteronomy 28 is a parallel chapter. Chapters on the bad mental attitude of the believers are Isaiah 28 (well, practically every other chapter in Isaiah), Zechariah 7, Malachi 3, Hosea 4 (which diagnoses the problem most clearly in translated Bibles). In short, you can document and observe the phenomenon both in Bible, and in history. It's not hidden.


Where Are We Now?

1990 was the contiguous end of the seventh 490 from the Exodus, when Moses began putting Scripture in writing for the first time. 1990 was also the contiguous end of the fourth 490 from the Crucifixion, the 'exodus' of our sins from being under condemnation, Galatians 5:1. Since all time vests in Christ and He is Risen, that is the operative timeline for the world; but, as usual, there must be at least one individual 'completed' to a spiritual maturity level high enough by the end of it, to warrant granting another new 490; and then, the new 490 can always be truncated, as it was for Israel.

That's why Rapture can't be predicted: it occurs based on a balance between Christian apostasy warranting Divine Recall — and on the high end, Christians who reach Christ's Own "Pleroma" level of Spiritual Maturity, Ephesians 4:13. Your average Joe Schmoe believer or pastor would say that's impossible, how arrogant, no one can be mature as Christ is. Well, look at Ephesians 4:13, and guess again. Nothing is impossible for God. God is omnipotent: He could just instantly create you with Christ's Thinking if He wanted to. But that would coerce your volition. So how God Sovereignly wants to use His Omnipotence, is within the corridor of your volition. So His Power, your choice. And when enough believers choose to be grown up to Christ's level, the opposite apostasy will be at its nadir (there's an inverse correlation, historically). At that point — which no one can predict, since no one can predict volition — the Rapture will occur.

So this is no normal period in history. If God orchestrates time and convergence, and we know He does, then when He does a convergence, it's a time of special importance. And we know it is, because never before in history has Scripture been so available to so many for free, with qualified teachers all over the world to teach it. The first century was higher in quality, but far more restricted in scope. Now, all limitations are 'off'. They might resume again, but we are in an open window. How long it lasts, well... no one knows.

2030 is the contiguous end of the second 1000 since 30 AD. That's a qualifying 1000: someone must be awarded a 1000 by its ending, or the next 1000 can't play, and time ends.

Satan of course rolled out Islam right on time, yet again. We can now see his games live on television, ever reminding us of Daniel 9:26c, the historical bubble in which Church sits. You can even view the Wailing Wall live, to remind you of Daniel 9:26c's importance. So we've a convergence here with the Temple 490, but we're really in that second 40-year period, with 1990-1997 being the 'lean years' in (American, European) Bible disinterest. How the next 33 will end, is anyone's guess.


Where We Are Now: Three Timelines Now Converge; so ours is a most ominous and potentially-profitable epoch: 1990-2030.

If you scroll down to the year 6112 since Adam's Fall per Bible (= 2006 AD), you'll notice several gold and green rows which benchmark the actual historical windows nearest this year (it tracks the intercalations). The non-intercalated 490 ended 1990; but the second contiguous 1000 ends in 2030, as well. Temple 490 ends in 2030, too. And then there's the second half of the nested sevens (each containing a 40) which began in 1950 and also ends 2030. This isn't mystical number crunching. These are deadlines. Certain spiritual development goals must be met to justify continuing time. Maybe they were met already, I don't know. But if not, then this will be a very tumultuous period until 2030.

In Biblical numerology (rendered simply),

Biblical numerology is not at all mystical. Neither is math. Numbers have properties. So if you know the properties, you know how to do the math. If you know the properties of how God designs, then you know how to read life. So, God tells you, and some of what He tells you, is in numerical format. So: in God's design, each of the above numbers has the property indicated. So you can 'count' or 'account' based on those properties.

So here we are, in the fifth qualifying 490, which tells you... what? God Intends Profit. He built a structure of Bible rollout to completion in the 490 just passed, 1990: that was the 4th 490, so something got completed. It's profit time. That could mean Rapture, just as it always could. But more prosaically, it means the rollout just finished, will now earn its 'dividends'. You. Me. Hopefully a bazillion growing believers. For if all we had to live for was this mundane life on this dirt ball, please kill me now...

So could you call it 'coincidence' that here in the fifth 490, we have structurally Returned to the Profit of the original language Scripture.. just like that first century AD? I couldn't. So the Profit is to Profit from the Prophet, Christ, Revelation 19:10. His Thinking going into our thinking, Divine DNA-changing our thinking to be His Thinking. God can do this. We know how. Do we do now, what we know how? Up to us.

Rapture depends on how people grow up in Christ, and thus cannot be predicted. God won't coerce volition, so He won't predict its outcome. The availability of Scripture and the hunger for it are at an all-time high (all time low percentage wise, but all time high numbers-wise). So the likelihood of Church completing is the highest. However, for that very reason you should expect massive attempts at world war. It took Satan 2000 years to get the Jews back into the Holy Land (yes, Satan, because God warned them to flee, Matthew 24, which is why an abomination repeatedly sits over the Holy of Holies since 70 AD). Since it took Satan that long, he's got in mind the rebuilding of the Temple; every other time he's tried to do that, war resulted. But before, he didn't have Jews there in sufficient number. Now, over 50% of world Jewry, lives in Israel. Sitting ducks.

Satan's has two strategies he can use, and to him both are win/win: 1) use the regathered Jewish populous now as targets of world opprobrium, so that even Israel's friends (United States, Britain, South Africa) are constrained to abandon Israel. Thus he can justify pogromizing the Jews and punishing all the nations who attack Israel. 2) Satan can foster an even bigger regathering, if he temporarily abandons his sponsorship of Islam; then once the Temple is Rebuilt, the anger can be used to motivate more serious resistance against Israel so she can be attacked. Historically, he's had a problem getting even the Arabs to be motivated enough to attack Israel, let alone other nations, no matter how antisemitic the individuals. With Plan 1), he can always repopulate Israel after depopulating it, with the same tactics he used to motivate everyone post-WWII to establish that State. So we will learn from history yet again, that we learn nothing from history. With Plan 2), he is more sure of executing larger numbers — then the inevitable pitch for reconstruction and repopulation, will be even more appealing.

In short, Satan sure considers the Rapture more likely to happen now than at any time prior. It's really possible in any generation, for the number of Pleroma people needed to rule in eternity can be potentially developed from any generation among a world population. Obviously. There are six billion of us, roughly 2 billion per generation. Centuries ago, there was still a huge 'pool' of potential, to draw from. Any generation can be the Rapture generation. But Satan seems to be rolling his dice.

Temple Reconstruction does not presage the Rapture. Yes, a Temple is rebuilt against God's orders by then. See the sarcasm in Revelation 11. But that can happen any time; the rebuilt Temple can last for centuries, yet no Rapture will occur. Because the Rapture doesn't depend on the Rebuilt Temple, the Rebuilt Temple Depends On The Rapture. And the Rapture, depends on believer volition. Thus we know Satan thinks many believers will grow up during this 490, and he's hedging his bets, creating a distraction we'll drool over, so we'll forget about learning Bible. That's always his ploy with respect to the Temple. We humans drool over buildings. We call a time period great or bad, due to the buildings which we find. Can we be dumber? Hitler thought that way, just ask Albert Speer when you get to heaven. So do we.

Hence Satan wants a rebuilt 'something' (Dome of the Rock, for now) to remind everyone of the original meaning of that Holy Ground, so people will look at that Holy Ground, instead of looking into, their Holy Bible. So he must think he can make a lot of distractive hay from that Ground, since 1950. Looks like he's been real successful, huh...

A 490 is no guarantee, remember. It plays conditionally. It can only get granted because at least one person by the end of the previous 490, fulfilled the spiritual growth conditions (and we can't say precisely who each one was, post 70 AD). Once it's granted, it can run to completion, but depends on someone growing enough spiritually. So if too many are apostate, the 490 can be truncated — just as it was, in 586 BC. Because Israel had some credit remaining on the spiritual growth ledger, the whole world didn't end. But the logical corollary of that fact is... if no credit remains on the ledger, the Tribulation begins. So it's a game as to when the Tribulation begins, and Satan's trying to manipulate the timing. On the one hand, he wants to delay it, but on the other he wants to have it. So he's really trying to have his cake and eat it too.

Meanwhile, all we do is quietly learn in God's System. We need to be aware of the upcoming clamor and its real meaning; but for all that, it's kinda like driving a car. When you're driving, you look out for the other driver, since he might hit you. But you don't worry about it, you concentrate on your own driving. Same idea, here.

So instead of being alarmed like the goofy "end times" Christians, get armed in God's System and learn His Script. That will do more to protect the Jews (well, pray also!) than anything else you could do. God blesses them, but we are the judicial connection. So grow up, pray often, and you'll be a bigger help than you can imagine, now. Your job is to turn over what you learn under your pastor 24/7 and live on it, using 1 John 1:9 as needed.

In other words, "the end times, brother!" comment you so frequently hear isn't necessarily at all the Rapture, but the Ending of a 490. In this case, the ending of a 490 which freed Scripture for the common man. Satan will have to respond to that by an all out war, so he can destroy the technological advances he initially fostered to get man's eyes off God. For, those very advances which advanced his goal of homogenizing mankind, now serve to distribute knowledge of Bible as never before... never, since the first century AD, the last time the world had a relatively common language (Greek and Latin). Large powers' languages are learned by others in order to do business with those powers, so Greek and Latin were widely known throughout the world. Trading was relatively easy, though time consuming, and you had time to learn the language as you travelled there. Even your average peasant along a trade route would pick up many words in a foreign tongue. Look at how many outside English-speaking countries, speak English today? Even remote people in Niger who were slaves spoke some broken English to a reporter from PBS Wide Angle, when queried about the slavery there. So it's not unrealistic or arrogant to say that Greek and Latin were widely known throughout the world, in the first century AD. Even as, English is now.

So now, we're in a second 40-year period following a nexus — and the 40th year will not end well, if we keep on the same disinterested course. It's a mirror testing period analogous to Egypt's second 40-year period under Joseph: the one containing the lean years. Like back then, here in 2005 the world's people got too fat and happy during the first 40 year period, 1950-1990; plus, many groups suddenly had a freedom they didn't have for decades. So now, both old and new nations, need a wilderness of spankings (remember how Israel started as a new nation).

So there couldn't be a more important time to get in and stay in God's System, than right now. God does this. God designed it. God isn't setting prophecy on the 490's, but believers who grow in Christ to Pleroma level are caused to totally affect history. Same, in the opposite direction, if we are negative. Remember, we aren't working, He is. So if we refuse to be in His System, then He isn't working on us, and we bear responsibility for that: again, 9/11 is the fault of Christians in the United States... no one else. God isn't kidding when He tells us "to whom much is given, much is expected". We are in training to become kings forever. So, are treated like kings down here: and you know that whatever the king does or doesn't do, either blesses or curses his country.

Learn to be a king, then: under your Mentor, the Holy Spirit. Believers are supposed to interpret their 'slot' in history, it's part of our Training, Matthew 16:2-3 (and elsewhere). Training, not drooling about the "end times", oh brother! So instead of drooling, dig deeper in Scripture and grow up to Pleroma, secure in the knowledge that God does guarantee building Divine DNA all the way to Pleroma completion (Ephesians 3:19-21), if you stay in His System. It's a real, intense, personal, continuing decision, to stay.

Moreover, the Level Of Motive is the volitional 'corridor' for what God blesses, Matthew 7:1-2 principle (in the larger Bible context of what you want, you'll get). Motive is everything. Don't think because you feel somewhat stupid about Bible, that you're somehow inferior. Nothing could be further from the truth. Don't think that because you're so educated in Bible, that you're somehow superior. Nothing could be further from the truth, 1 Corinthians 13:3. Because God never wants to coerce, whatever meaning you assign to a thing, He grants. So if you obey Bible as a morality thing, that sets a kind of 'corridor' of what your volition accepts, and God will bless within that 'corridor'. But if you want a bigger corridor and that is your reason for being positive, then God uses that bigger corridor, since your volition essentially authorized it. God is the God of authority, so He chooses to subordinate to any authority: would that we would be so humble! So Divine DNA is the biggest corridor motive: my pastor would term it, "Reciprocity"; Divine DNA is what the Holy Spirit produces in the believer, and that reciprocates God: obtained by, being in His System and learning His Son, 24/7. So you essentially vote for God the Holy Spirit to produce the Divine DNA, Bible running in your head, transforming your thinking. Hence He Sovereignly responds analogous to "Light, Be!" in Genesis 1:2ff. Just as you can pray anything in His Name, so also you can receive anything.

As my pastor liked to put it when he was yet teaching, motive and knowledge are "mutual flanks" which have to run in tandem. You'll never get more understanding of Scripture absent the motive to know God better. And your motive cannot be sustained, if you're not learning Bible in God's System. So if you learned but as an ego boost, then you learned nothing. If you didn't learn but emoted and thumped, then you learned nothing. Motive fuels knowledge, and knowledge fuels motive. And when one of them lags, so does your spiritual life tank. So ask yourself which is lagging: that's where your salient is, your danger zone, where you can be derailed, sidelined. 99% of Christians lack motive to know God. They want to know what makes them look better to people, for crying out loud. That's why the United States is in so much trouble, today. Decide where you want to be. Every moment is a fight on the inside, where no one but God and you, can see.

So now you have an extra reason to be more motivated: being a hidden soldier for your own country's freedom, whatever country you call 'home'. No fanfare, no groups, no one to cheer you on. It's like you're in a foxhole, and only God will see you. Now: isn't that the best way to fight?

Consequently, it couldn't be more important to be in God's System. Just get in, go through the process, don't worry about the results: God does all the work. Doesn't matter who you are, what you've done right or wrong, nor even whether you're correct or incorrect in your beliefs, nor whether anyone even knows about you doing this (better that they didn't). Just get in the System. God will do the rest. For, we truly are at an apex of human history — and one person can indeed be made all the (invisible!) difference! God Alone does all the making, Ephesians 2:10! So... vote for all that Divine DNA!




Part 4b, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump Links in this table also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
Rapture’s due to Believer NUMBERS Father’s Balancing Criteria for Fit Bride:
Criterion #1 — HE does it all, Eph 2:10 #2 — He Endowers via Pastors Feeding Us Word,
Eph 4:11–16 #3 — He Exploits via Church,
Eph 1:22–23, 3:21 Criterion 3F — the Role of Numbers So Numbers’ Balance Ripens for Rapture God’s GAAP Accounting:
Diamond Doctrine Facets per “Buck” of Bible‑in‑head 1st Facet — Impossible Ruler Over Impossible Ruled:
Believer Learning Bible is sole CONDUIT for Blessing 2nd Facet — Impossible Blessing RE‑ROUTES
to Believer Learning Bible & his periphery 3rd Facet — Impossible Priesthood:
PERFECT THOUGHTS to Please FATHER 4th Facet — Mission Impossible Soul Life:
Warring TRANSFORMATION into Son’s Thinking 5th Facet — Impossible Cycling‑Truth Profit
Defeats Satan in the Trial 6th Facet — Impossible Body Bride:
Intra‑Body Blessing 7th Facet — Impossible Progeny:
Believer Blessing, post‑mortem
God’s GAAP Balancing:
How Many FACETED Believers “ripen” Church? Criterion 3B — Church Ripeness cannot be prophesied Criterion 3C–D — Church’s Wifely Role is to be History, Not Prophecies Role of Church — Summary Appendix — How “scholars” misread Bible and thus misread or debunk Rapture

God's Script: Now, versus "Later"

Why does our "Now" end with a Pre-Tribulation Rapture?
Says Ephesians 1: Because Bride is Completed!

Rapture's Based on Body, Not Prophecy

Now to Father's Other Reasons for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture besides Precedence, and the Truths which these Reasons, display. It's a cardinal rule of hermeneutics that you "compare Scripture with Scripture." What matters is Doctrinal Fit. Rapture is a contested doctrine, by those who've not yet examined the Bible's proof of it. Proof would not be acceptable only from citing the many relevant verses — which some think contestable — but even more importantly, one must demonstrate the underlying Doctrinal Fit of Pre-Tribulation Rapture, with respect to all the rest of Bible Doctrine. So accounting for the Doctrinal Fit of a Pre-Tribulation Rapture becomes paramount, whether you believe in it or not. If you don't believe in it, then the Fit has to be explained away. If you do believe in it, you don't understand what you believe, absent seeing the Fit. More, if there is a Fit, then you can compare pan-Bible with many more verses, accounting for that Fit. After all, truth must be consistent with all other Truth. Accordingly, what Doctrinal Fit have we seen thus far? We observed how the character of Precedence, forms the legal parameters of Church; and hence, the exigency of Rapture being Pre-Tribulation. There are eight major types of Precedence, which here are mnemonically listed:

  1. Archegos Association voting Precedence, especially with reference to Israel being the first-appointed Bride for Christ's other and earliest Kingship, 'kata-Melchizedek' — which required voting for Him; that she also had to vote for Him as 'Son of David Messiah' was a separate issue, as Book of Hebrews painstakingly explains throughout. God likes dovetailing goals. She voted "no", but He voted "yes"; except He voted "yes" for Father to make a Replacement Bride for His kata-Melchizedek King-Priesthood; and through her, a kingdom for it. The 'Son of David' title didn't require a Bride, so Church is never Israel. So the Rapture's date is unpredictable, as it's impossible to foretell when Church voting ends. Moreover, just as Israel the first appointed Bride and He the Groom had to vote "yes" or there could be no Tribulation, Daniel 9:27 predicated on Daniel 9:26 completing: we as Bride must likewise finish voting "yes", or there can be no Tribulation. So Rapture must precede the Tribulation. Past is prologue, past is precedence, and future always depends on votes prior.
  1. Bride-worthy Battle testimony Precedence too, due to the Archegos Association: battles His Body faced, must be Church Body's battles to become Bride, as well. Hence the Battlefield Royalty His Body won, defeating Satan, is to be inherited and shared out among His Body of Church. Idea of the Bride being fit, of sufficient dowry and station, to justify marriage. If Christ won His Royalty on the spiritual battlefield against Satan, then Church must be subject to the same terms and the same battle. Else she is not worthy for marriage. So the Rapture's date is unpredictable and must precede Tribulation, as it's impossible to guess when and even if Church's battle testimony successfully ends. The Tribulation and all the Old Testament heroes' resurrections would not 'play' if Satan wins, just as Hebrews 11:40 explained: our testimony (Hebrews 11:1, in Greek) must complete, prior. Just as Revelation 4's ceremony demonstrates, He can open the Title Deed to Earth (signifying defeat of Satan), because Married: it's a wedding present, fulfilling Psalm 110. That's why we're that sea of glass in front of the throne when Revelation 4 opens. This is God's Side of the Angelic Trial, yet apart from it: God wants a fit bride for His Son, Trial or no Trial. So it's the nature of the Victory of His Son, which determines the nature of our being built into Fit Bride. The dowry and qualification are higher than for Israel, because we are Post-Cross.
  1. Crown Crafting invention Precedence. To accomplish His Victory, Christ Our Archegos first had to invent the Royal Spiritual Life; with it, He Battled and won His Crown, in His Own Body. So Father legated His Invention to us, which was His Own Betrothal Bride Price, paid on behalf of our Body battles as Church, to make us Bride-worthy. For recall from Hebrews 7-10: Mosaic Law wasn't enough to save, so wasn't enough for Him to use and stay sinless on the Cross; so He invented a perfect thought life out from Scripture, Matthew 4:4. New Testament is that Life, in writing, 1 Corinthians 2:16; we are mandated to learn and live it like He did, 2 Peter 3:18, Philippians 2:5-10, 2 Corinthians 2:14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 10:15-17, Hebrews 12:2. Learning and living on whole Bible in that Life, thus requires constant thought monitoring and thinking toward Father, just as it was for Him, 2 Corinthians 10:5 (see also Hebrews 5:8-9's use of ὑπακοή). The many unique Elements of this Life is light-years higher and harder than those under the Law could even imagine. They had nicely defined, cookie-cutter rules to follow, with which they habitually choked themselves. We have to invent our rules from His Thinking Principles and Reasonings, since we are Royal Priests in training to become rulers, just as He was. Yikes. Sheep invent rules? Satan smacks his lips over this our situation. So the Rapture's date is unpredictable, as it's impossible to forecast when Church Crown Crafting invention ends. As the Rulers must be fully developed and qualified else Christ cannot 'marry' us, Rapture also must precede the Tribulation, as we saw in the Archegos Association and Body Battle Precedences above. Notice how these Precedences are all causally-linked, interdependent. Just like a body.
  1. Daniel Deadline Bridging Precedence. Ever since Adam's Fall, time grants are contingent, so must be 'bridged' by an award to someone on earth whose spiritual development pleases God enough for Him to grant time. In Daniel 9, the award to the Temple was precedented and bounded by, David's spiritual growth awards. So the next person who had to become the Bridge to get the next (Millennial) grant, was Christ Himself: else Time would end. He got that grant, but due to her rejection of Him, Israel herself suddenly ran out of Allotted Time. So to save Time itself and Israel herself, Christ the Archegos had to invent a post-mortem 'Bride' He calls Church, then Battle to Pay for Her a much higher Bride Price, Ephesians 5:25ff. Thus He could construct a Bridal Bridge back to Israel via Church (Vashti and Esther analogy). To this end, while still down here He had to Craft an even higher Royal Spiritual Life for a far Bigger Cross and hence Crown, than otherwise would have been 'due' as payment. Ergo: though His Victory was long predicted and in detail, only its deadline was provided in Daniel 9, and Church was not predicted at all. So there was no provision and hence no time, allotted it; its very existence was a contingency which may never have come to pass. But Christ invoked it, Matthew 16:18, hence his Bride Price, Cross and Crown would all be higher. He won. So He successfully resurrected in a year not predicted, yet within that Daniel 9 deadline, in the week long predicted by Passover Law and exactly as the holiday portrayed. In retrospect, the year of His Death proved to be the convergence of all Time on David's 1000th anniversary of kingship retirement and the 1470th anniversary of the original Exodus, to the day: seven years in advance of the Daniel 9 deadline, which ended with the 1000th anniversary of David's death. So those other seven years short, played between 64-70 AD.

So Daniel 9:26c still characterizes all remaining history, just as God promised Daniel it would. But Now, Revelation elaborates on Daniel 9:26c and Daniel 9:27, so you know to interpret Revelation both in paradigm and then literally, for the actual Tribulation. An inserted elaboration, due to an inserted Church. Thus current historical events always 'advertise' Daniel 9:26c as our slot on the 'time map', to advertise Messiah both Came and Left The Building. So The bridge Is Out. So Rapture is therefore ταχύ, next in sequence without prior warning, since Daniel 9:26c gives no warning for the Tribulation.

So the Rapture's date is unpredictable and pre-Tribulation: we Church weren't 'in the cards', but were inserted into the game, Now being decked out for our wedding, thus constituting the Bridal Bridge back to Daniel 9:27, trumping Satan at our own last trumpet. Our last trumpet is an ending trumpet ("last" as signalling an end, not "last" in the sense of its own sequence); it not the same type of trumpet nor blown by the same angel, as the allegedly-last trumpet in Revelation. Our trumpet is the Trumpet of God, commanded by and maybe also blown by an archangel, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 1 Corinthians 15:52. The allegedly-last trumpet in Revelation, is not even called the last trumpet, but rather a seventh angel blows one; it is blown by a lower ranking angel, beginning the last half of the Tribulation — so that trumpet doesn't end anything, but begins something. So the trumpets are not the same at all. Rank has its privileges, and we are Royal Family of God; the angel blowing the seventh trumpet of judgement for the world is not an archangel, as the text will show (Revelation 11:15, in Greek). Different trumpets for different events and audiences, different endings for each, blown every time by a different angel, couldn't be plainer. Just as all verses with "save" aren't on the kind of "save" that saves you from hell, not all "trumpet" verses reference the same trumpet. Many kinds of saves, many kinds of doors, many kinds of trumpets.

Here we notice four imperative reasons for the Rapture to be Pre-Tribulation and unpredictable:

  1. Israel ran out of time, so there's no time allotment to give Church.
  2. Israel and the world need a poster boy advertisement that He came and left The Building. So The Bridge Is Out, come on board, get into the fortress before it's too late: and that bridging advertisement is Daniel 9:26c, attested by Dome and Wailing Wall.
  3. Israel and the world need the Tribulation to themselves, if they won't heed the milder advertisement, prior. God has to remove believers in order to judge, principle of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Flood, good and bad figs in Jeremiah. We have to be removed in order for the blessing of Judgement to 'play'.
  4. God promised and Christ paid for, the yet to be completed promise of Tribulation and Millennium. Just as previous Bible heroes — most notably David — were awarded Divine Time Blocs of 1050 years (1000 + 50 year voting period), so also Christ purchased the Millennial time, with the 57-year initial 'bridge' remaining to the end of the 8th 490 from Adam +7 shortfall for His dying early, thus justifiably playing during Church. But that reserve ended when Church did not complete by 87 and then 94 AD. So both Tribulation and Millennium remain reserved, pending Church's Bridge-Building conclusion. That time belongs to Israel, not Church. So the Rapture must be pre-Tribulation, no other time for it is possible.

See, the Rapture is a warning, both to us and to them. It's not some gawking Disneyland thing. You don't look forward to a hurricane, and so you don't look forward to the Rapture, either. You respectfully fear it, and seek to grow up spiritually as fast as possible.

  1. Elongating Exit Resurrection Precedence: Our Archegos Battled and won, so He came and left the Building, on Time; leaving to be Crowned, Luke 19; so leaving Church to be Banah'd (= built, used for Isha in Genesis 2:22), the Bridge to Time, with the same Battles and Crowning. The deadline? Not stated. For all future history depended on Christ resurrecting, since the Payment for Sins must be Living (theme of Romans 6): as God is Omniscient and forever sees those sins; as hell goes on forever; as we are forever short, and live forever. He's FirstFruits, the 'produce' of Day 7 of Passover, post-sundown, signifying renewal, setting up for Jubilee, depicted by Pentecost 50 days after that Passover ending. So the 57-day hiatus between Passover's beginning and Pentecost occurring — and the added 57-day hiatus between Pentecost and 9 Ab, if Israel rejected — signifies the outcome of resurrection, the Ultimate Harvesting Renewal and Jubilee. That 50-year period always represented the "times of the Gentiles", the last 7 years being the Tribulation, see Luke 21:24 in context. Again, this is an advertisement the meanwhile, beginning most propitiously on Passover 70 AD, the 40th anniversary of His Death; and ending, 9th Ab, with the destruction of the Temple — because The Temple, Messiah — was risen. If you were truly a devout Jew you couldn't miss the numbers convergence, taught since the Exodus: because 57 years after the 1000th anniversary of David's death, the Millennium was originally scheduled to begin. They didn't know what year until David died, so they had 1000 years' advance notice on the originally-scheduled end of Time.

So Now what happened to Him, happens to Church, since we are His Body, a First Fruits Extension of Him in the world, James 1:18, Romans 11:26, 1 Corinthians 15:20-23, 1 John 4:17. Our Exit is predicted, as was His. However, God will no longer predict when, since His Gracious 1000-year advance notice, was rejected; also, since His Own Death Year was provisioned, but not predicted, lest our free will be compromised. For it was His Own Life, to lay down. Consequently, the same issue applies to us. So the Rapture's date is unpredictable, as it's impossible to calculate when Church's Elongating Exit resurrection should occur. "Exit Resurrection" is one of the Bible's terms for Rapture (Philippians 3:11), Greek word ἐξανάστασις. Another one is ἁρπάζω, 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which in Latin uses the verb 'rapere' ("rapiemur" in Vulgate), perfect tense rapto, Anglicized into "Rapture". So the Rapture must precede the Tribulation, for the same reason that the Harvest of First Fruits always did: again, see Luke 21:24 in context, notice how Church is not mentioned, though obviously included. For Church is inserted, might not ever have existed: so the original Plan of Time, which didn't include any "Church", still holds. It's just Elongated, Extended. For Israel effectively Elongated Time by rejecting Him. Elongated, but didn't abrogate it or change its initial order. Christ fulfilled Time for all time, Hebrews 10:14, hence as an Elongating Extension of Him, our Elongating Exit Resurrection effects the Original Goal of Our Archegos, completes the Bride-worthy Battle, Crowns us, meets the Daniel Deadline as Originally Intended. God sure likes dovetailing His Goals, huh.

The Lord's Birth was a warning of the exiting of Israel's favored status: Isaiah 7 prophecy and Daniel 9:26 tie together as a warning of the end. Israel had 1000 years' advance notice on that deadline. The larger doctrine underlying it is that believers must be removed prior to judgement, a precedent since Adam. So Church must be removed else the Tribulation cannot begin for that Justice Reason, above all. Justice is consistent. Past is prologue, precedence, consistent. Time is thus elongated by Justice Judging, so that those undergoing the judgement can change their minds and believe. Judgement is always a blessing. It just hurts, that's all: we need it to hurt, in order to hear. So one "J", "Jesus", and the "J" of "Judgement" He received on behalf of our sins, leads to another "J", Justice Hurting so we get the Justice we need in order to Hear to have yet another "H", the "Heaven" of living with the "H", "Him". Forever. God sure likes dovetailing His Alpha/Aleph + Beta/Beth Goals, huh.

  1. Flipping Failure into Fulfillment Precedence. God doesn't number anyone's days until a failure has occurred. The angels had an indeterminate time in a wholly harmonial state (whether or not all of them sinned). So did man. After each such harmonious period ended, days became numbered as an endpoint was required, υντελέω/kalah fulfillment principle in Daniel 9:24. So, every failure of angels and mankind to 'obey' whatever covenant was granted, resulted in a new covenant being invented which threaded forward the 'unanswered' provisions rejected by the prior group. One-third of the angels rejected God, and their rulership passed on to those who did not reject Him. Man was created for yet another reason, to play out the rejection arguments. So man got a rulership, which covenant he broke, received a replacement covenant, broke that too, so kept on receiving ever more sophisticated and higher covenants. So it became harder and harder to live the spiritual life, but the benefits became more and more royal. Until, the Man, Christ — Who had the worst spiritual task of all, and invented the highest spiritual life of all. Notice too, that during all these upgrades in covenants, the provisions of each succeeding covenant are opposite in key ways, to those which obtained prior. Man's failure, for example, resulted in him having to be born, rather than created as an adult; no knowledge at birth, rather than mature adult knowledge; no knowledge of God, having to work (versus a life of fruit-eating ease in Garden), etc.

So Our Royal Spiritual Life is opposite Israel in nearly every respect. Our Archegos had to invent a higher spiritual life than the Mosaic Law, to be Crowned. So as Bride, our Battle to be Crowned must have the same Characteristics, which is why we are Royally Invisible, disparate, Crafting Our Own Rules from His Thinking, the Bible. Hence, one of the oppositenesses, regards that Daniel Deadline: the Jews had 1000 years' advance notice on Messiah's Birth and Death deadline, framed by David's dates. So Church is opposite, has no notice, since we Elongate, Build the Bridge, as part of our Crafting job to be Bride-worthy and get Crowned. It's also sudden death if we fail, just as it was for Christ; Time would have ended had He not succeeded; same is true for us, Hebrews 11:40. So no time guarantee can be granted us, because He got none. So the Rapture's date is unpredictable, as Church's fulfillment has no time set: for God doesn't begin to number days and hence set time, until failure occurs. And for us, it's sudden death if failure occurs. So we might fail rather than fulfill, just as He could have. Thus our covenant deliberately omits any Time Allotment, i.e., 1 John 2:28, 3:2, Philippians 3:11. Greek of those verses is clear, English is terrible. John uses ἐάν + subjunctive, proving it's a contingency; Paul uses εἴ πως, = "if by whatever means", again showing contingency; see also Romans 11:14, same contingency construction with same Greek; parallel to Romans 11:14 is 1 Corinthians 9:22, which shows there is no doubt, but the way in which it happens is contingent. So Paul's not doubting his resurrection, either, in Philippians 3:11. Helps to do one's homework, huh. By contrast, the Second Advent has no contingency element, it's long been predicted to come at the end of the Tribulation, namely, in Zechariah 14:1-7. By contrast, Rapture is contingent, could have come during John's or Paul's day, just as they show by using those Greek constructions.

  1. God's Grace Grafting Precedence: This precedence is the most important one. God is Love. God uses His Sovereignty to express Love. All other Attributes but Sovereignty are 'passive', and so He chooses to Love, is never constrained or forced in any way to use His Attributes as He does. That He chooses to commit, to make covenants, doesn't impair or hamper Him, as He can always choose to abrogate them, destroy us all "ab initio", and we'd never know to protest. So we exist only because He chooses to Love. This is the primordial Precedence: God loves, because He wants to. That is a voting. Love is and obviously should be, always contingent on Sovereignty choosing to Love. So in effect, life always is dependent on His Choice. That Choice can always reverse, for God is Free. The common silly speculation about whether God would be God afterwards if He ever sinned — trying to claim God cannot sin, thus unwittingly blaspheming His Omnipotence and Sovereignty — is answered by the fact God never wants to sin. So paradoxically, the greatest guarantee a believer can have is to know God chooses him, and is never conditioned, forced or constrained to do so owing to any Attribute, promise or creature merit (or demerit). Hence the Rapture's date is unpredictable, because God flat wants it to be. Father determines the Body of Church — and everyone else, for that matter — per Love Contracts He Sovereignly chooses to enforce. So it's impossible to predict the Rapture's date, as His Choice about when to deliver on those contracts, John 17:20-21, is open ended by Christ's and Father's choice. The number of yet future souls is unknowable. Bible verses which seem to say God cannot do something are generally mistranslated. For example, James 1:13 doesn't say God cannot be tempted, but that temptation doesn't affect him. That's quite different, saying that the power of temptation is not enough (ἀπείραστος); sadly, that meaning is reversed in translation, making God look something less than Omnipotent. Same for Hebrews 6:18: to say it's impossible for God to lie is not quite what the Greek says. It's impossible that those two immutable things be lies by God. The Greek doesn't denude God of His Power. Translations do.

God's Grace grafting is the Precedent of Precedence. There would be no Archegos to Wed, absent His Vote to do so. No Vote to do so, if no Choice to do so. So no Bride to develop, whether Israel or us, absent His Grace Choice that it be so. No Battle to win, no Crown to receive, had He not Voted for it, Himself. The Daniel 9 Deadline came from God's (not a human king's) Decree in Jeremiah 25:11, which Daniel was reading in Daniel 9:2; that decree in turn was Graciously dated from 586 BC and predicated on six time grants given David, three at 490 years, and three at 1000 years. Without those Grants, there would have been no Second Temple, no rebuilt Jerusalem, and no Christ to become Archegos, to have a Battle, to have a Bride, to be Crowned, to have a Deadline, to Elongate Time, to Fulfill the Failure since Adam's Fall, thus making Him the Last Adam Who Never Fails. So He can make an open ended contract with Father in His Humanity, even as the contract to become Humanity, 1 Timothy 2:5, was ratified by Him as Son of God, before even angels existed (no verb in 1 Timothy 2:5, tells you that). So it's wholly consistent with His Choosing, that Choosing, Voting, Testimony, Invention, Bridging, Elongating Resurrection Fulfillment — or Failure — should determine outcomes. God chooses to Love. Hence we can too, 1 John 4:19. So the Rapture being unpredictable, based on Voting Testimony Invention Bridging Elongating Resurrection Fulfillment — or Failure — is determinative. By God's Gracious, Choosing Love Decree, John 17:20-21, Ephesians 1; James 5:7-9, 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Philippians 3:11, Hebrews 11:40, Jude 21 & Jude 24, 2 Peter 3:4, 2 Peter 3:8-10, 1 John 2:28, 1 John 3:2. Jude closely parallels 2 Peter 3, given the mention of apostles in the past tense in Jude 17: wow, no apostolic succession, baby: just read and remember what they said — this, said by the logical next head, the Lord's own brother. John's exile might have brought about the letter, Revelation not yet being penned? Ask God about this, research it more.

It's a balancing thing, this grafting. Body balancing is the theme of this webpage. For a quick video review of the grafting God does, play my Youtube video:

  1. Heaven's Historical "ἁρπάζω" mistrial Precedence. The Angelic Appeal Trial is essentially founded on a Mistrial claim by Satan during his own rebellion Trial which predated mankind; you know of that prehistoric rebellion, from God's restatement of it in Isaiah 14:13-14 and Ezekiel 28:12 (suddenly bypassing the human rulers and talking straight to Satan himself). Satan's accusing God of rape, Greek verb "ἁρπάζω" in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. Essentially, Satan claims God "snatched" (= ἁρπάζω) what didn't belong to Him, and claims Himself right to do so. Thus creation is raped (rapere/rapto) by God, claims Satan, so God's not Loving. See how apt the "Rapture" is? See how it's not a nice quiet holiday?

You know Satan's objection as a Mistrial claim, from many other Bible verses and especially from fake holy books, but you can see it plainly enough even in translation, in Job 1:9-11, Job 2:4-5. Satan accuses God of Bribing Job, a fatal misuse of Justice. That accusation remains, namely, Zechariah 3. So God's Grace grafting Precedence is itself really on Trial, here. God Himself is accused of being a rapist, or at least being arbitrary in His Love; and of being therefore UnLoving, to punish anyone who freely chooses not to love Him in return. Thus God is argued to be less than advertised, a liar, manipulating the evidence to make Himself look right. Accordingly in this phase of the Trial, legally the Rapture must precede the Tribulation, as Church is new Evidence introduced during the Trial. Is God manipulating Evidence, since who but God could know what future souls were paid for on the Cross? For when Israel rejected Christ, that should have provoked a Mistrial Verdict — meaning Satan would win — if the Lord didn't invent Church. So Rapture signals the end of God's Presentation of Church in Evidence, hence concludes His Appeal Trial Rebuttal to Satan: that despite having the same covenanted spiritual life as given the Christ, fallen man is happier than under Satan's plan. Let's review why.

Notice how, quite independently, this "H", Heaven's Historical "ἁρπάζω" Mistrial Precedence, accomplishes all the A-F goals of "G", God's Grace grafting Precedence. For all the "H" reasons for Rapture to predate Tribulation, 'just happen' (yeah, right) to be the very conditions God Sovereignly wants and contracted with His Son — before angels even existed, per Ephesians 1 (especially Ephesians 1:19-23). Satan has his own reasons for insisting that we get the same terms, battles, and hence spiritual life as Christ Himself — it's impossible to want and live that Life, evidenced by the fact we've been here a whopping 2000 years since the Crucifixion, yet the paltry number of Pleroma kings needed to warrant the Rapture, haven't been developed! (Possibly as low as 1000 top-tier for 100 billion souls, covered in "God's GAAP Balancing" below) It should be obvious that Satan wants to put off the Tribulation and ideally prevent it altogether. For at that point he knows he's only got seven years' freedom left. So Church cannot be in the Tribulation for all the above reasons, plus this one: Satan doesn't want it, either. Satan therefore fakes the Church, and will pretend it is there in the Tribulation, so to debunk the Rapture, so Tribulation believers won't recognize the time they live in; meanwhile, to fake out Church believers, so you think you're being godly, but instead are kowtowing to the god of this world — all in God's name, of course!

Consequently, we'll thread in the above Precedences, and further examine Father's Other Body Building Criteria, all of which surround the fact that Father wants the Rapture to depend on Believers Voting To Learn His Son. Since we can't read each other's souls individually, let alone in aggregate — no one can predict when that Voting will suffice to complete Church. So scrap all those drooling historical event programs which choke Christian media: every generation will have the same Daniel 9:26c trends.

So let's next catalog some of the balder Bible English verses and keywords, which show that the number of people in Church is something Father will determine, so no one can predict when Rapture will occur. This rebuttal phase "Church Age" will continue, until the number of Pleroma are "complete" — via the criteria in;

1 Corinthians 12:7 is slightly mistranslated; I exegeted the passage live, to refute the 'King James Only movement' garbage. The other videos follow as responses.

Here are my raw notes on the corrected translation (Thieme's translation is very different — Lesson 1604, 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, series 376): "Now to each one is given for the benefit (δίδωμι + dative of advantage) of the team (συμφέρον), the Doctrinal Teaching (φανέρωσις) of (objective) the Spirit, for the purpose of being beneficial to the team."

πρός to συμφέρον, with πρός as accusative of purpose and συμφέρον, idiomatically: it's an Attic Greek prep phrase, concept of purpose of benefit to the organization). BDAG lexicon "y.subst.to" heading confirms this, and has cross references. Again, idea of public contribution — so is it related to συντελείας in Matthew 28:20? Early in s.1 of tape is exegesis. BDAG noted that συμφέρω has also a connotation of 'benefit for the team' (didn't use quite such words, but same meaning).

Thieme stressed that one should regard φανέρωσις as a "noun of action", and that to Πνεῦμα is objective genitive, but sounds like it functions like subjective genitive but he kept saying objective genitive Listen in later tapes to see if he changes to subjective genitive."

It's astonishing, how this numbers fulfillment concept is so stressed in the New Testament's well-known metaphors. It's more astonishing, how we overlook them and then claim Rapture isn't in the Bible, 🤣:

The Standard for Completing Church is that in aggregate and individually, His Maturity is 'built' in us, Ephesians 4:13. Greek verb "καταντάω" (used in Ephesians 4:13) means a journeying to a destination, and is often used in Greek to signify the "journey of life". You can find that in a Bauer, Danker lexicon or another one of like quality. It always takes the preposition εἰς to show the destination, His Maturity Level, Ephesians 4:12-13. So Church's 'life' reaches its destination when that Maturity has been built into it. So Rapture is not based on historical events. Pattern of history is the same since the Crucifixion, as there are enough human bodies on earth in any generation, to become believers and complete Church. That gives you a sense of its size.

Thus you can begin to see that the Lord in the Gospels, and every New Testament writer; each has his subtle and not so subtle ways of stressing this Body Completion criterion. The citations above are more quickly obvious; most other numbers verses assume reader already knows this criterion, so build on it, rather than stress it severally; and therefore focus on the intra-believer or inter-believer issues, not so much the big picture goal:

That's the Roman (well, and other cultures') custom of haughty distance: a 'proper' Roman patriarch would never deign to speak directly to anyone below his class, except the head slave. So, if he had words for a third party who was lower, that third party would either a) stand in front of the patrician, who would instead speak to another; that other then was to repeat the words to the third party, who was deemed too low to deserve direct discourse with the patrician. Or, b) the third party would get the information from a 'proper' person, in the absence of the patrician. Either way, this indirect method of communication implied: 'oh, how high the godlike-patrician is', and 'oh, how low you scum are'. That's why today we all find it so offensive if a person won't speak directly to us, or if he speaks to someone else in front of us, as if we weren't there. Root idea: only the privileged get to be near the King (patrician); only the privileged get to be spoken to by the King (patrician). Of course, that very custom is widely practiced in this world, still: i.e., you got to be Granted An Audience with Pope, Queen, President, etc., and you're thrilled to death if you are!

Paul in Ephesians 2, passim in Romans and Corinthians (maybe Colossians also), plus the writer of Hebrews, also reference this custom of "far off" and "near", to explain our relationship with God in Christ. The terms were also used in Greek worship rites: core philosophy of the phallicism. Of course, everyone remembers how no one during Moses could go close to Mt. Zion, on pain of death (see Hebrews 12:18ff). The point: you will be as close to God as you Want, And God Will Be As Close To You As You Want; and if You Don't Want Bible Doctrine, You Don't Want To Be Close. So, you will be Far Away from Him, though saved — Forever.

Ephesians is the flagship Bible book on Church Body Completion. Paul in Ephesians bluntly says Church is the completion of the Father's Purpose for history, because Church is the Completion of Christ. Paul's bluntness doesn't only appear in Ephesians; Romans 5:1 - Romans 15:17 is yet another parallel sketch. Yet in Ephesians the panoramic meaning is full, Greek drama style. Building the 'Body Bride Progeny' is the primary theme of the book.

For you can prove that Paul wrote Ephesians in a metaphorical format which tweaks the then-very famous Greek play, "Ion", by Euripides.

Here's the Founding of Bride outline in Ephesians:

The chapter divisions are "off" versus the conceptual divisions in the writing, but you'll see that as you read.


Father's Balancing Criteria for the Rapture: Fit Bride

1st Criterion: God Endowers Bride and Does All the Work of Making Her Fit, Ephesians 2:10.
(Parallel passage is Philippians 1:6.)

God the Holy Spirit constantly stresses the extreme Leveraging Value of Bible Doctrine, in every verse of Scripture. He always does so by small and deft deployments of arcane characteristics of the original languages of Scripture. So if you don't know those original language texts, you can't see what He's saying. Tiny particles and case endings, subtle etymological wordplays, rare grammar constructions, allusions, imports from other languages — oodles of little things placed just right (!) change the entire meaning! Here in Ephesians, you can't see the Founding, Begetting, Financing Structure of our Royal Spiritual Life in Christ, if you don't study the Book in the original language texts. This chart will illustrate why.

Ephesians 2:10 (a parallel verse is Romans 8:28, which is also Greek Drama) in corrected translation reads: "For we are His Craftsmanship, created in Christ Jesus for the founding purpose of divine Achievements which God (The Father) prepared in advance, that we should/may walk/live in them."

As has been said prior, We are the Work, done to us by God. Not what we 'do' to ourselves or anyone else. What He Makes Us Become, is the spiritual life's goal. Not, what we do. And this becoming is an invisible thing, a 'progenitor making' thing. You are here to Become a Founder, not to founder around looking for peasant-like things to do. You are to be a product God makes inside you. A whole polity.

  • You must have capital, to pay.
  • You must have capital, to help others.
  • Therefore you must become the capital, since the only thing you take with you when you die, is your soul.
  • Hence Bible Built In Your Soul, Goes With You. That alone makes you rich, and it makes you rich forever.
  • Only then can you do good, whether down here or after you die.
  • Gold silver precious stones are not manmade, 1 Corinthians 3.

Note the verse well: we are to live in His Works not our own! That meaning's precisely the opposite, of the usual translations! See how Satan & Co. beguile us? If we are His Craftsmanship, saved by grace — then how is it we do something? Can a chair made by a carpenter, suddenly do something on its own? Um, kids don't make themselves. Their parents make them. Father Makes Us, not the other way around! Potter makes, not the pot makes!

Paul uses the Ionic dative of ἐπί and other arcane & unusual features of Greek to communicate this meaning: We Live In God's Works, not our own. Ephesians is all about Church Founding. Birthing. Begetting. Progeny. How we get made, how God knits us together, how God creates us. As a Dowry for Son, answering John 17:20-21!

  • Ephesians 1 has the longest single Greek sentence in Bible, because Paul uses covenantal vocabulary. My pastor spent a lot of time stressing that when he kept reteaching Ephesians 1 in 1985. I don't recall him saying why. But from my own practice, I know one reason why: in a legal document, the purpose of a long sentence is to stress the intimate relationship between the provisions within the sentence, so they can't be misconstrued as falling 'outside' the purview of the clauses. Therefore any elaborative material following the close of the sentence is to be understood in the context of the sentence. Sadly, English Bibles chop that sentence up into smaller sentences, so you can't see this contractural meaning. The covenant is tied to the kata-Melchizedek contract with Christ in eternity past: Genesis 3:15's bruise clause, Isaiah 53:12, Psalm 110, 1 Timothy 2:5, (and the later Hebrews 5-10); which Christ invoked to invent Church in Matthew 16:18, John 17:20-21 (remember, that prayer was long known before John reduced it to writing). Father is in the process of answering Christ Now, Operation Footstool (Psalm 110 via Ephesians 1:22); that's why Paul writes the longest sentence in the Bible, Ephesians 1:1-18.
  • This long sentence is on the dowry which was laid up for us in Eternity Past; stressing, that this Founding and Endowing of Church was the very purpose of history since before creation, summing up all things, Ephesians 1:10; then, Paul prays for the successful outcome of Church, to "fill all in all" by the end of Ephesians 1, since all is finished via Church, i.e., the Trial, see the Operation Footstool reference in Ephesians 1:22; all is thus exploited through Church. That prayer is unfinished (i.e., no Amen or doxology) because Church wasn't finished when Paul prayed. Idea that Church is ongoing, no one knows when Rapture will occur. So the prayer is still ongoing, 'Banah Building of the Last Eve' is in progress (compare with Hebrew of Genesis 2:22).
  • Ephesians 2 onward is about how that finishing and exploitation is achieved, and of course God Does It, since He's making a Gift to His Son, get it?
  • The Ionic dative in Ephesians 2:10 stresses that God does all the work.
  • Greek preposition ἐπί with Ionic dative stresses even far more, because a) εἰς or ἵνα would be more removed from the "Created in Christ" Cause; b) ἐπί, which connotes Building On Something Founded, stresses both "contact" and "where", yet for the benefit of the direct object (Christ, and therefore us) — can only be shown by the Ionic construction.
  • It's an awesome choice, this Ionic dative, for the dative case is that of 'benefit to beneficiary', Relationship to Giver, hence often 'indirect object'; but "Jesus" is right next to the clause; and since we are "in" Him — Built Upon Him, and Acted Upon us!
  • So the Ionic dative includes all those meanings, deftly! with "God" right smack dab in the middle of the sentence. Doing all the work, see.
  • Multi-entendre meaning, here: for κτίζω (to create) is in the passive voice, so the ἐν also signifies "by agency of" Christ Jesus. Not, by agency of our own ideas. It's a Greek grammar rule that ἐν + passive verb enacting the ἐν clause + Actor, signifies "by agency of" that Actor. You see this ἐν + passive + Actor in Holy Spirit verses, almost all of which are mistranslated "in".
  • So notice how the verse's construction refers the reader back to Matthew 16:18, the Agent King kata-Melchizedek Psalm 110, Ephesians 1:22 — invokes His Title to create the Church. Created by Agency of Christ Jesus, get it?
  • And then of course, John 17:20-21, Father's Response Prepared Beforehand in Eternity Past (theme of Ephesians 1, again), Divine Achievements we live in. Um, you live in a thinking, a 'house of thoughts', since the real you is your soul.
  • So Who can Father your thinking, except God?
  • See all the clever allusions and wordplay Paul packs into even this single verse, Ephesians 2:10, incorporating by reference the entire prior Chapter, plus Psalm 110, Matthew 16:18, John 17:20-21 (John's material was known, but not yet written)?
  • Paul loves to play on this fact in all his epistles: the "good works" are What God Makes Out of Us, exactly as Ephesians 2:10 says!
  • God's Point in Ephesians 2:10: we wouldn't be able to "walk in them" if God didn't do the work. For, we can only "walk by means of the Spirit." (See Romans 8:1, Romans 8:4, Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:25.) Commonly venerated lexicons stress that προετοιμάζω (prepare beforehand) is "only used for God's work" in the New Testament. That verb is in the aorist tense, meaning it is all done by God, so what plays out, are but results: hence "walk" is in the subjunctive aorist, the blending of 'purpose and result' signified by ἵνα ("that").
  • Parallel passage is Philippians 2:12-13, using the middle voice in καταργέω of Philippians 2:12, then the fabulous Divine verb ἐνεργέω, in Philippians 2:13.
  • 'Blessing by association' is the entire theme of Ephesians, demonstrating how Isaiah 53:12 gets 'done': God Will Make Riches of Glory Out of The Body of Christ, which is Part of Christ Himself. The believer is to understand that he is part of the Biggest Blessing in the Universe, the Culmination of History.
  • Therefore, his behavior toward men takes certain expressions, based on his Occupation with Christ (Ephesians 3:19). That's why Paul weaves in a postscript ending the epistle, regarding all those marital/family inter-fraternal comments. It's not about morality, it's about living toward Father and being built: the listed behaviors and relationships, would flow out from that Divine Thinking.
  • Paul spends four chapters on how Father builds Church for His Son: so the emphasis is on the Living for Father's Purpose, not on morality.
  • Paul also stresses that this building finishes God's Angelic Trial arguments; so in each Chapter you'll find a thread about the Trial, i.e., "redeeming the time", Ephesians 5:16 (KJV). See also Ephesians 1:10b's "in the heavens", Ephesians 1:21-23 (Footstool), Ephesians 2:1b, Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 4:8-9 (The Ascension, which Satan & Co. fought), Ephesians 5:32 (marriage is a central Trial issue in the Angelic (Divorce) Appeal Trial), Ephesians 6:11-18.
  • All aspects of the Third and Fourth Reasons are referenced in Ephesians, especially the Third and Fourth Reasons for Royalty. Test that claim for yourself. Parse Ephesians, and see.
  • Actually, "good works" is a terrible translation of ἐργοῖς ἀγαθοῖς, because the Greek term has a very pregnant meaning going all the way back to Homer. Both terms first reference the Divine: idea is that whatever is good, came from 'the gods.' Second, whatever works, also came from 'the gods'. So you can't divorce The Giver from The Action. Man is blessed to get good, to get works.
  • Bible keeps the Greek cultural meaning since the Real God Really Did Make Everything. Greeks believed that life ought to be lived based on Intrinsic Value, which is to say, Virtue: that's what ἀγαθός meant to the Greeks. You'll see this view expressed in Greek plays. Even the smallest thing is tied to Divine purposes, so live as unto the gods. Even a small thing has some epic meaning it represents; the banal has its roots in the Divine, so is not so banal. For this reason war should be virtuous, etc.
  • Consequently, when you read a Greek play, the surface activity is very earthy, but the meaning behind it is epic. Just as Paul writes what seem to be basic behaviors with respect to interpersonal relations, but with the epic underpinning of God's Grand EnDowering Purpose.
  • So to just go through the moral behaviors, without first being 'enlightened' (Ephesians 1:18), nor comprehending breadth-length-height-depth (Ephesians 3:18), is to miss Love, Him, fullness (Ephesians 3:19), abundance (Ephesians 3:20), and glory (Ephesians 3:21).
  • God's Script for endowing us precedes and must fuel all those behaviors; so it couldn't be clearer, God's Thoughts as you do the do's, alone make alive. Third Facet link section of this webpage will elaborate.
  • Hence ἔργον + ἀγαθός in Greek signify not simply "good works", but rather Epic Intrinsic divine Value Achievements. Concept that the gods are always working everything together for a Good Result. Just the opposite of man's notion of good works. God's Works are epic sized, not potlucks and being nice to someone. When you review the Seven Facets, you'll see just how epic are His Divine Achievements, which no human being can even do. Yet, all the world depends on them. And the believer in Church is the conduit for all of those Achievements? Yes. It's frankly quite shocking how Ephesians 2:10 'plays'. We have no clue how important God has made us.
  • English Bibles mistake or fuzz up who does the "good works" in Ephesians 2:10. No one properly translated ἐπί ἐργοῖς ἀγαθοῖς to reflect its Ionic Greek dative of purpose or its Divine Actor Nature (emphasized by the anarthrous construction). This is a common mistranslation method, cutting God's head off and putting man's atop, so man appears to be the actor, thus reversing the meaning of the Greek text. This type of error occurs thousands of times in Bible translations. Since Greek drama and philosophy have so many extant manuscripts, so are well documented; since there is much scholarship on both Greek languages and their culture; for translators to assign these famous Greek Divine-Actor words to the wrong actor (ἔργον + ἀγαθός), is blindness. Aided by Satan & Co. These words appear in hundreds of verses, if not thousands; God's Head is cut off, replaced with man's. It's a constant, egregious, repeated, and deft surgical error. Notice how the original meaning in the Greek is reversed in translation, just as it's reversed here in Ephesians 2:10. (Error occurs in most "God does all of the work" verses.)

So notice: Ephesians 2:10 is just after the famous Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:8-9, which make clear that No Works Can Save: We Only Got Saved By Grace. So, do any translators' brains turn on one measly verse later, in Ephesians 2:10? Oh no. Grab any translation you like of Ephesians 2:10. Did you see some silly "to do" stuck in there? Making — why should I be surprised — making it look like we work?! Lie! There's no "to do" in there, or even implied! So why the mistranslation error? It's not like the translators don't know about the Ionic dative, most translated Bibles even vaguely recognize it by translating ἐπί as "for", rather than the usual "on".

There seems to be no excuse. My pastor spent a lot of time on this verse, and obviously he didn't get his learning in a vacuum; the information was obviously 'out there' when he went to seminary in the 1930's, else he'd not know about the Ionic dative's import. So what happened to everyone else, that they let the horrible translations get into English Bibles? Granted, it takes time to learn. Even my own pastor spent a whopping seven years of daily Bible classes exegeting and proving the meaning in Ephesians verse by verse, restarting three times: he kept being dissatisfied, saying that Ephesians had so much more to say than he had taught, prior. He was embarrassed over his prior 1972 teaching, had to be talked out of purging everything he'd ever taught prior.

Here's the point of this digression regarding my pastor: if a pastor who beat his brains out for over 50 years daily studying in the original languages, had the above interpretation (purple text) which transformed his own ministry, then how much more do we need to get the right meaning out of this Book? You can prove his insight due to Ephesians skyrocketed from 1985 forward: incredibly advanced stuff, it will take mainstream theology a century to catch up; but his pre-1985 teaching enhances the post-1985 material, provides an audit trail, a development & discovery path, is priceless. Yet look out on the internet: Ephesians is shallowly taught by everyone else. Yeah, because they use translations which reverse the meaning in the original language texts! By contrast, notice how the above translation (purple text) is consistent with context, but the usual translations contradict context! First rule of hermeneutics is context (subset of "compare the Bible with the Bible" rule). Okay: well, that rule wasn't followed in the published translations of Ephesians 2:10.

On a larger scale, Paul's rhetorical construct for Ephesians counterplays and thus tweaks Euripides' "Ion" (founding of the Greek sea peoples).

  • Here's the basic plot:
    • Phoebus Apollo raped Creusa, who bore Ion.
    • She, embarrassed over being seduced, abandoned the child in the cave where she was 'wedded', putting him inside an ark (!) with snake charms (!) for protection, and casts him adrift. Oh, yeah, the Greeks knew the story of Moses quite well — they're the ones who renamed the Reed Sea, "Red Sea"!
    • Phoebus Apollo AKA Loki then discovers the child, has Hermes take him to Phoebus' Temple at Delphi, to rear him.
    • So the child is a slave-son (δοῦλος means both slave and son), but doesn't know his parentage. It was custom to give orphans and captured slaves to the local temple, but it was not a custom to abandon children there. Again, Euripides makes mocking parallel to the Moses story, this time a priestess discovering the ark.
    • Years pass. During that time Creusa marries, but is made barren by Phoebus.
    • So eventually she comes to the Temple with her husband, seeking a boon that she will have children.
    • Meanwhile, Phoebus is playing yet another prank, on Creusa's husband Xuthus. Phoebus gets him to believe that Ion is his real son, via the Pythia.
    • The husband buys into the claim, since the couple are childless and the peripatetic, conquering Xuthus did attend many a Bacchus orgy.
    • Ion doesn't want to leave the Temple, afraid that both Athens who accepts no strangers — and Creusa in particular — will want him dead due to his sudden high fortune. But he reluctantly and then enthusiastically, agrees to Xuthus' claim.
    • Indeed, Creusa is surreptitiously informed of this new heir, and resolves to kill Ion with ion (venom from Gorgon that she wears around her wrist).
    • Meanwhile, self-appointed daddy Xuthus goes to the twin Peaks of Parnassus with two heifer victims (Isaiah 53:10's אשם (asham), red heifer offering), shades of Abraham going up — but no Isaac! Rather, he bids Ion remain behind and set up the feast to celebrate his sonship, holding it if necessary in Xuthus' absence.
    • There ensues some wildness as her plot to poison him misfires during that celebration, which by the way looks a lot like Isaiah 28 (an uncomplimentary passage on how Samaria partied instead of preparing for Sennacherib).
    • The whole of Delphi is enraged, and seeks Creusa to stone her.
    • Creusa flees to the altar of Delphi to avoid death; Ion finds her there and confronts her.
    • The Pythia intervenes and presents the ark in which she found Ion. Creusa recognizes it, and all is revealed.
    • At that point, Athena comes down and announces now-penitent Phoebus as the real father,
    • who will atone for his own misbehavior by making Ion the head of four great branches of Greeks, and
    • by making Creusa and her husband the progenitors of other famous Greek tribes.
  • As you can imagine, this is a legend every child grew up on, like we in the United States grew up on Johnny Appleseed, or Paul Bunyan.
  • Euripides was a popular playwright. Aristophanes' "The Frogs" is about Dionysus (Bacchus) going down to Hades to retrieve either Aeschylus or Euripides, because the Greeks had no good "poets", anymore. Remember also that Greek plays were still very popular in Paul's day, so Paul's audience would recognize any allusions. Just as we do, when people allude to or inject phrases from popular movies, songs... even actors.
  • All of Ephesians tweaks this play. What we call "Ephesians" was actually a letter which cycled throughout the churches (our copy being one which Ephesus got, hence the 'book' title), most of which were on both sides of the Aegean Sea, the area which the goddess Athena announces will be Ionian, as a gift from Phoebus Apollo. Again, the play portrays the legend that many famous Greek 'tribes' came from Ion; that many more (including the Doric/Spartan peoples) came from his mother Creusa and her human husband (see Athena's speech at the end of the play).
  • Paul's letter would have been scandalous (!) to the non-believers; it would have gotten wide circulation. No wonder he met with such opposition, in Acts; this letter is written after Paul was imprisoned, but is clearly a recap and expansion on prior explanations (Ephesians 3:3).
  • So God the Holy Spirit has Paul choose one of the most famous plays and legends which relate to Epic Founding, as the paradigm for the Real Founding of the Church In Eternity Past on the Real Founder, Christ Who is not not not a 'snake'. So Paul tweaks the play by saying Who The Real Founder Is!
  • Ergo Paul's use of the Ionic dative for Ephesians 2:10, ἐπί ἐργοῖς ἀγαθοῖς: Behold God's Real Truth of Your Good Begetting, and No Venom, either! (I'll long laugh about this. My class notes on Ephesians 2:10 are from the 1985 Ephesians T.247s2; there's nothing about this play in them. Yet I've owned the play since 1984, but didn't even know of it. But 20 years later, in a class tape, my pastor noted the meaning of "frogs" in Revelation 16:13 as an allusion to Aristophanes' "The Frogs". So, I found that play among my books. From there, I got into Greek drama and the outline of Revelation for this. Looking for a sample of interjection to explain ταχύ, I got into Euripides, hence, "Ion". I didn't know the translation of "Ion", either until I read the play and looked it up. So to stumble on this verse in these circumstances!)
  • Note that ἐπί in Ephesians 2:10 ties to Foundation/Cornerstone in both Ephesians 2's ending, and thus to the Ionic purpose, being built upon Him.
  • Ion, who grew up as a slave-son in the Temple of Delphi — was Phoebus' 'craftsmanship', get it? So, Paul parallels that legend as a teaching aid in his letter: How The Real God Is Building A Body Which Is Also A Temple!
  • Phoebus' penitent gift of making the Greek peoples reveals the treachery for which Delphi and its Oracle were famous; after the 'chorus' of Creusa's handmaids learn of Ion being adopted, they talk about Phoebus' treachery. So Paul tweaks that with Ephesians: God gives a straight answer, and yep, we really are sons of God — of the Real God, not of a double-tongued snake demon! See how easy it would be for the Ephesians and other Greeks to relay the Gospel to non-believing Greeks? The myth is a morphing from the truth, not the other way around. Believer-Greeks would be able to demonstrate that from Genesis forward, showing how the Greek myth was really demonic, a satire on the Exodus. (All demon-authored stories blatantly satirize and parody the Bible in some way. Look at any popular holy book, you'll see the satire.)
  • Moreover, Ephesians 2's you were once far but now near must have made the Greek hearers smile and even laugh, remembering how Ion had been abandoned by both godfather and human mother, as a child; how he was cruelly snatched up and put in the Delphic Temple to 'rescue' him, but he never knew his own origins. Yeah, the Real God isn't like that! The Real God's Parallel Answer: Ion and his mother were estranged, so were you goyim (see Ephesians 2); far, but finally brought "near" (a technical term for being near God, Temple) by play's end, and at the Temple's altar, to boot! From whom come a whole bunch of progeny (Church), knitted together (marriage and family verses), all united by the Blood (Thinking of Christ)!
  • Hence the Favored Citizenship (a Roman term for the highest privileged colony, Ephesians 2:19), no longer orphans like Ion had been! Oh, this is fabulous.
  • The play "Ion" employs 'snaking' sub-themes of venomous thinking to advance the plot; so Paul parallels those themes in his letter to illustrate that 'Phoebus Apollo' is really Satan, thus showing the Angelic Conflict is resolved in the real play of building Church. In the play, you find Genesis 6 allusions, demons ("gods") uniting with women — which underly all Greek myths — that, of course, is the impetus for both Ion and the play. Phoebus Apollo is the Greek name for Satan (tying to the Morning Star title and the Genesis snake: ἀπόλλυμι means to destroy, Ἀπολλύων means Destroyer). So Paul has snaking sub-themes about the Angelic Conflict in Ephesians! 🤣
  • Of course, the overall effect of God's Provision for Christ is marital, which ends filling all in all (Ephesians 1:21-23, sexual analogy intended), and, the epilogue — Defeating That Ol' Snake Who Seduced Generations Of Humans. "Pleroma" originated as a concept of being filled up with a god's seed, pregnant, and came to mean pregnant with that thinking; then, in the general sense of being filled up with some particular view or doctrine, i.e., John 1:14. So when Paul uses the term of Christ in verses like Ephesians 3:19 (us being filled up), and Ephesians 4:13 (the goal for Church, criterion for the Rapture), it's a tweak at Ion.
  • So Christ comes at the Rapture to snatch us up, analogous to Athena coming down at the end of the play — how rich the metaphor, to the Greek reader! Wow. God outclassed Euripides via Paul! God wins the Olympic competition for Best Play!
  • Yet though God wins, God Gives the Prize to you! And the Gift He Gives, is Christ's Thinking, Bible Doctrine. For that reason Christ Ascended, Ephesians 4:7ff, tying to Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:12! Oh my — "measure" in Ephesians 4:7 ties to "measure" in Ephesians 4:13! Maybe that's why Ephesians 4:8-9 interpretatively reverses its Old Testament quote of Psalm 68! The Man gave His Gift of Thinking, so The God gives us That One as a Gift! See also last half of Romans 5.

Read the play, you'll see these and many other Pauline tweaking parallels to the Angelic Conflict and Church, to Isaiah 53's begetting (and especially, Isaiah 54:1) re Creusa's origins, parentage (too hard to explain here), and marriage. Ion's worries over his new-found 'father' via Phoebus' aka Loki's prank are rich with parallelisms, too many and too arcane to list here. Awesome stuff. It's a short play. So now when you read the building analogy at end Ephesians 2, Ephesians 3:15ff, and 1 Corinthians 3's "foundation", you see better what Bible says. The parallelling genius is Total: God's. This FOUNDING is a frequent running theme of Paul's in all epistles, so he's not merely tweaking the play in Ephesians. Yet in that book Paul slam-dunks the Greek sages, writing GOD's Play which outfoxes the snake!

Okay, enough about play parallels! Enquiring religious minds want to know What are the (ahem) "good works" we are to "walk" in?

    • Well, Paul doesn't answer that until Ephesians 3:16's "inner man" clause!
    • What do you know. Getting stronger. Inside.
    • For what purpose? Ephesians 3:17 "So that Christ may be at home in your hearts through doctrine" (underlines are my pastor's translation of κατοικέω aorist active infinitive + καρδία + πίστις, 1985 Ephesians series T.360s2), and
    • (Ephesians 3:18) "that you... may be able to grasp the idea with all the saints". T363s2, καταλαμβάνω.
    • After all, Ion is a διάκονος in the Temple, serving in it, a priestly function; as well as a δοῦλος, slave-son. Seed of the Word in you, begetting. Not works.
    • Gosh, no works there, but rather Learning! So Who is doing the work? Ephesians 2:10, God!
    • And What is the Work? Inner strength, 'Thinking of Christ' dwelling in your hearts... comprehend.
    • Aha. Becoming Fit Bride, then.
    • A Temple, even (end of Ephesians 2).
    • For the Shekinah Christ.
    • Coalescence. Oneness. Married.

Oops. All those "good deeds" ideas pandered by the religious types don't add a farthing to becoming Christlike; don't add a copper to the spiritual capital you take with you at death, huh.


2nd Criterion: God makes Her Fit,
via Holy Spirit's Ministry of Feeding Bible Doctrine, Ephesians 3:15-19, Ephesians 4:11-16.

Backdrop for Ephesians 3 and 4: when you have a relationship with someone, the quality of that relationship is entirely determined by:

    • Association: How intimate you are with the other person.
    • Bond: how much shared thinking you have with that person, and
    • Comprehension: how well you know that person.

It should be obvious that we all get attracted, knowing little about the other person. But as we know each other better, we find differences which are unpleasant. So the bonding doesn't progress, or it stays less intimate, so we don't associate more closely. If we keep on trying to know the other better, then we find ways to bond. God by nature is alien to our nature. He being Infinite, can bond to us, and did. But we being of the opposite desires (Isaiah 55:8-9), don't want to know Him. No amount of works, emotion, rituals on the planet can solve that problem. Such activities don't really bond people to people, and certainly not to God. The first bad experience generally breaks a relationship, or seriously erodes it. So one needs a deeper level of sharing, to weather the ups and downs, especially if that relationship is to be intimate. God's will is full intimacy, John 17. So that's the point of this 2nd Criterion: creating that intimacy. You will get as much or as little of it as you want. And that level chosen, lasts forever. God never coerces us to have a relationship, and never coerces what level of relationship, either. So we get as close to God as we want, and if we don't want to learn Him, we don't want to be close. Period.

God makes use of all the bad stuff in life. One of the uses is to divest the believer of his need for "nice". For to the extent you need a relationship to be "nice", the "nice" is what you want, not the person with whom you have "nice". That fact proves itself quickly, when things go wrong. People divorce, companies disband, friendships break, all because what had been "nice", is not, anymore. So when things aren't "nice" with God, then what happens? We break. He does not. He should hate us, but only loves us. We can't love Him back; what passes for love is emotion. You can't love someone you don't know, and you can't want to know someone with whom you don't associate, and you won't associate with someone who seems unattractive. Religion makes knowing God unattractive, a 'must do' thing, to get "nice". So, we don't know Him. So, if we learn Him anyway, sooner or later "not-nice" will happen to us, provoking the question of breaking the relationship. Every Bible hero went through that. Cross is the maximum not-nice experience, and Christ never broke. Because, He knew God Intimately.

The purpose of Bible is to bond: to get God's Head into your head, so you share His Thinking because you know Him, and you want to Bond with Him, Philippians 3:7-11. Fully intimate. Fully Shared. Thus fulfilling Christ's prayer in John 17:17 - John 17:21. So the Real Royal Spiritual Life is 100% Internal, Thinking, so to get this Oneness. All day long, all night long, everything you do and think is Associated with, Bonded to and Comprehended, based on All the Bible you know that particular day. That's serving as a priest to Father, as you'll better see in the Seven Facets. Associative intimacy Bonding us to Him Who we Comprehend: will sustain us. It can be full, as in "Pleroma"; but you need the full 'alphabet' of His Thinking, to get there. Notice that 'oneness' depends on having All the Truth in you, which He prays for. Not just a few verses you say at supper, on holidays, or sing on Sundays.

That was His Job, so it's also Your Job: Under Christ the King-Priest kata Melchizedek, you also are a Royal Priest To Father Who Hears You Every Second. That's the real "work of service" you are being trained in. So, you must be continually Fed His Thinking, or the Associative intimacy Bonding (to Him) of your spiritual life will be Absent, Babyish, and Crude. So will be your eternal future, if you don't eat and live on Bible. It's that simple. No other rules, and nothing other than Bible (i.e., good deeds, rituals, singing songs) can put His head into yours. Your Craftsman Alone can do that. So, Your Craftsman — the Holy Spirit — teaches you how to craft your thinking on all the specifics in your own life, every time you are in a state of 1 John 1:9 used, as you daily go through this eating learning living procedure of Bible in your head, 24/7. Ephesians 3:15-19 depicts the outcome if you learn from your Craftsman. Ephesians 4:11-16 explains the procedure, being under a pastor He has personally appointed to train you in Bible.

Here, Paul again tweaks the play "Ion" to show God's True Priestly 'Service' Rule of learning and living on Bible 24/7, so to think Perfect Thoughts before Father. Ion is a διάκονος in the Temple, serving in it, a priestly function; he is as well, a δοῦλος, slave-son. Paul will be playing on these meanings in Ephesians 4. In the play, you see a lot of Ion's thinking, and he's wholly occupied with what he understands to be the god's standards and thinking, while he does whatever he does. Ion is the dedicated slave-son.

Both Greek words were frequently employed in plays to develop subplots, since both words have double entendre, High-and-low-status meanings which make for what we would consider 'Shakespearian' twists. διάκονος was either a waiter, kitchen slave, or diplomat, emissary, representative of the king: more on διάκονος follows below. δοῦλος, as just mentioned, was a slave or a son. So you can have lots of fun writing plots where the son is mistaken for a slave, and an emissary of the king is mistaken for kitchen help! We Church are both, 🤣! In the play Ion, διάκονος is used in both senses: Ion is actually in charge of the Temple's possessions, a cushy position of no little honor; but in the first scene, the talkative Ion's sweeping the front of the temple with a laurel bough, and shooting arrows to drive off birds trying to eat the sacrifices or nest in the Temple — quite the caretaker!

English can't replicate all that witty meaning. Still, most translations of Ephesians 3:15-21 are decent enough that you can see Paul is talking about The Individual Being Built Up In Him. For, Ephesians 1 was Father's Purpose of Endowing; Ephesians 2, how We Are All Being Built Up Together Into A Temple; so, next question — What About The Person? Well, the person gets built up, living stone quarried (note how it's done to you), then all the stones get fitted together. So, Ephesians 3, is on the individual's being built.

Unfortunately, Ephesians 4 is egregiously fuzzed up in Bible translations. Paul's meaning is clear and witty, but only in the Greek. Ephesians 4 is on the fitting together of all the individuals, and answers the question how each of them is 'supplied', so that Ephesians 3's individual purpose, is accomplished. Hence, Ephesians 4:11-16 baldly states (in Greek, not translated) that Ephesians 2:10's ἀγαθός, = "intrinsic value Divine achievement" (not insipid "good works") is accomplished in the Body Of Christ Via Eating Doctrine, so we can Serve Doctrine.

The wordplay in Ephesians 4:11-16 is fabulous! It's all one sentence with four main subjunctive-mood verbs (you can't tell that in English), signifying the intimate connection between the clauses, via Ephesians 1:1-18.

Key to translation and interpretation: recognize how Paul parallels his εἰς clauses as 'branches' from καταντάω in Ephesians 4:13, the climactic verse about reaching Christ's Own Maturity level (most shocking verse in Bible, in my opinion). This recognition is not done in any published Bible, so the passage is fuzzed up; typically, εἰς clauses are mistranslated in English with some horrifying results. (i.e., making Romans 10:10 look like you must say aloud you believe in Christ to be saved, what a lie. Rather, the εἰς = Because, since it's the second εἰς in the sentence. So, Romans 10:10 should read εἰς = Because you are already saved you are able to say aloud that you believe. Typical, the published translation reverses what the Greek says.)

In Ephesians 4:11-16, Paul uses καταντάω with its εἰς clauses to construct a road map in which all roads lead to the same destination; en route, there are benchmarks of development to 'get there', else you don't make it. Subjunctive mood in Greek with εἰς indicates purpose and objective, but allows potential for failure: "qualified by the element of contingency", as my pastor puts it. So Paul makes the εἰς clause do double duty, showing the destination as well as the purpose. In our modern English, this deft paralleling should be translated with bullets. Each bullet below is an εἰς clause in the Greek, and begins with εἰς. Note well the parallel objectives in each such bullet. Idea is that all of them meet together. I'm not wholly using my pastor's translation here, but just translating straight from the Greek, lest someone think I mimic him. The interested reader can get his 1985 Ephesians series beginning about lesson number 870 until about 970 to see the exegesis he uses. Study Socrates on the meaning of ἑνότης, because it's a culturally-loaded word of being in harmony with the gods' thinking, not the insipid "unity" you find in English Bibles, 😩.

The main verbs are in caps, below. All the other text is 'spoked' around the main verbs via subordinate clauses, dramatic usage of verbal nouns and adjectives. εἰς clauses are underlined, for easier spotting. When εἰς clauses are chained as here, they are causal. καταντάω takes εἰς, and the object of εἰς is the 'destination' object of καταντάω, the verb meaning "to arrive at", "reach" (a destination in your journey, the spiritual life's destination here).

Words you see here but don't see in published translations are actually included in the Greek words' meanings; but the translators are required restrict themselves to one English word per Greek word, so you get the wrong translation if you obey that standard. No one in professional translation would ever use such a standard: he'd be fired. So I'll not use it, here.

Ephesians 4:11: And He gave.. to some men, the spiritual gift of 'pastor-teachers';
Ephesians 4:12: each one provided for the thorough spiritual training of believers,

  • resulting from his feeding-them-Word;
  • resulting in, building up the Body of Christ;

Ephesians 4:13: until,

  • resulting from the Divinely-Unified-System-of-Doctrine-and-Believed-Knowledge-of-the-Son-of-God, we severally arrive at
  • the resulting 'destination' of 'Completely Mature Hero':
  • resulting in, Christ's Own 'Pleroma' Spiritual Maturity Level;"

Ephesians 4:14: so we'd stop being spiritual babies, wave-tossed hither and yon via every tempestuous teaching by the chicanery of men, (and as much) by our keen and constant proclivities for any straying, false doctrine scheme;
Ephesians 4:15 but instead teaching Truth within/by means of God's Love System, we would grow up

  • into/with reference to Him, The Everything, Who is The Head, Christ;

Ephesians 4:16 born from Whom all the Body, being 'very married'-and-'embraced'-of-Word via every Divinely-Financed 'husbandman'-pastor according to God's Enabling — one Allotted pastor-teacher per Allotted congregation — he, to the extent of his own growth within/by means of God's Love System causes, makes the growth of the Body,

  • resulting in its building up (of Ephesians 4:12)."

That looks nothing like your English Bible, huh. Many translation mistakes are made in published Bibles. It's particularly bad in Ephesians 4:16, where the sex of the "one" (pastor, in context since Ephesians 4:11) is in the neuter, so "himself" has to be rendered in English, but the silly translations say "itself" as if that referenced the Body, which in the Greek is feminine gender (so can't be "itself", must refer to the pastor, same sex). The pastor-teacher is the poster boy example in the passage, since he was the last office mentioned; but obviously the same paradigm in larger context would include each evangelist having his own allotted role; and back in Paul's day, before Canon was closed, the apostle and the prophet each had their allotted roles, those offices now being defunct since 96 AD. The only permanent spiritual gifts post-Canon are pastor-teachers and evangelists. The others weren't needed after Canon finished. Apostleship was only given to those who saw the Resurrected Christ, and Paul was the final one appointed — see 1 Corinthians 15:1-10. "Prophets" has three meanings, one of which is pastor-teacher; another, someone gifted to say what would end up being written Bible, a gift which died when Bible completed; the last one, also dead since Scripture finished, was foretelling the future: for now Everything comes through the Son, and Revelation is the end of Canon: see Hebrews 1 and Revelation 22:6-21. Trace the usages of προφήτης and ἀπόστολος in the Greek text. Should become obvious that the foretelling, and future-Bible notifying role of the προφήτης is dead; should be obvious that there's no such thing as apostolic succession, especially after reading 1 Corinthians 15:1-10. Same, for lots of other claimed extant 'gifts' like tongues, healing — search Bible on these passages, see how they were temporary, dead since Temple destroyed or Canon completed in 96 AD. Lack of 1 John 1:9 and doing one's proper Bible homework account for the fact Christendom has been so mixed up about these issues for centuries. Does take time to analyze, but it's amazing how fast are God's Brains — which you don't get, if you're not breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed!

It's really important to note that the allotment (μέτρον... μέρος) language is legal, contractural, coming from Isaiah 53:12's booty-sharing LXX clauses (μερίζω... σκῦλα). Paul uses that language to introduce Ephesians 4, in Ephesians 4:7; also in Romans 12:3, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 13:9-12, 2 Corinthians 1:14. Idea is that Christ's Thinking paid for us, so is now "booty" for us to plunder, so we can become booty for Him in the eternal state. Really cool analogy. Christ bluntly makes that analogy in Luke 6:38 (using μέτρον, which is the cognate noun from μερίζω).

  • Notice how we are to get food rather than 'do' something. All a baby can 'do', is doo-doo! μέχρι, until, he grows up!
  • We ourselves are served doctrine by "pastor-teachers", to eat it.
  • Convoluted English makes it look like the flock is doing that "work of service", but the πρός and εἰς Greek prepositions prove it's the pastor-teacher who does it. Ephesians 4:11, corrected translation, Granville Sharpe rule; but also Ephesians 4:16's analogy of "joint", ἁφή, and "work of service", διακονία.
  • Ephesians 4:12's διακονία is egregiously fuzzed up in English with phrases like "work of service". Instead, διακονία has the root sense of preparing and serving food (i.e., waiters).
  • διακονία comes to mean mediating, intermediary, so it has a representative connotation, and is entirely about words. Communication. Not a mere messenger, but someone in government who is assigned to handle some aspect of the king's business.
  • This dual meaning afforded the punning Greek playwrights some funny plot lines: like one where a hostess mistakes a foreign minister for a kitchen servant, and sends him out to chop wood! In short, both meanings were well known. So, Paul, the irrepressible humorist, uses both meanings at once, too. We are restauranteering Ambassadors! Ambassadorial restauranteurs? How about Representative Gourmets?
  • For, Bible Doctrine is our food, just as it was the Lord's: Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4, "bread" and "water" passages, etc.
  • We are charged with the Communication of Our King, 2 Corinthians 5:20. Among us are those charged with feeding us this Communication. Only when we have been fed, can we ourselves, do any communicating. Like, I couldn't write this were I not fed by my own God-appointed (Ephesians 4:16) pastor-teacher. Notice how writing has no authority, but is useful (also for witnessing). Notice further that the writing depends on being fed. Finally, notice that if God didn't make the feeding nourish you, all the food in the world would just turn to fat, killing you. Hence the need of 1 John 1:9 and study under your right pastor, then living on what you learn, 24/7. Else there is no circulation, and your spiritual life is toast. Comatose & toasted, burned at Bema.
  • διακονία in Ephesians 4:12 is related to the word διάκονος, which is often used for the pastor-teacher (so is "elder" and a bunch of other synonyms, each stressing a different facet of his role). So it's a great wordplay, showing cause and effect.
  • Principle taught: you have to get whatever διακονία God gives through being fed by your διάκονος. No διάκονος and no 'eating' from your διάκονος, means you have no διακονία that survives Bema Burning (1 Corinthians 3).
  • The 'service' is that you get fed, since you are a sheep and the 'work' is 'produced' inside you — duh, what sheep can 'do' anything but eat, sleep, get fat and grow wool, all of which happen to the sheep!
  • Greek word καταρτισμός is usually translated vaguely as 'equipping' in English. That's misleading, but what else can a translator do with it, since he's restricted to a 'one word per Greek word' rule? Here's the scoop: root meaning of καταρτισμός is to set right a broken bone or mend a fishnet; aha (!) requires an expert to equip us. (Like, the Holy Spirit who Appoints a teacher for each of us.) BDAG, along with the other lexicons show that the noun comes to mean training up to a state of corporate completeness; the corporate equivalent of ἄρτιος, "mature" in 2 Timothy 3:17; so that shows you it's learning Bible Doctrine (2 Timothy 3:16) which is the criterion. Really, that's a parallel passage to ἐπί ἐργοῖς ἀγαθοῖς in Ephesians 2:10.
  • Obviously, Training Means Learning. Just like James said, in James 1. Just as the Lord kept saying, while He was here "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me." (John 4:34.) Our 'work' is the Word, not body-works. Eating and living on it, Matthew 4:4. If that's good enough for the Lord, then guess what's the life for us? Can God make it more obvious than these verses plus the analogy to us as sheep? Sheep don't work; others work on them. They get fat and shaved and die to make someone else get food.
  • So, then: in Ephesians 4:11-12, the pastor-teacher 'cooks' and 'serves' us the food based on our needs, since congregations are matched to their right pastor-teachers by Divine Design, Ephesians 4:16. Notice how we won't all agree on what 'right doctrine' means. Notice how we will variantly interpret the roles, if any, of works, rituals, etc. Notice finally that none of that variation alters God's design of one pastor per congregation. We don't have to be perfect in our doctrines, but if we don't get under someone and learn, there's no way we'll grow out of whatever we got 'wrong', thus far. So the worst thing you can do, is refuse to be under a teacher. People habitually refuse to be under pastoral authority in the name of pastors being so routinely apostate. Yeah, that's true: but then God knows who you need, so whether you think that pastor apostate or not, if you refuse to be under him, you'll be spanked big time. Pastors of course are always learning too (ideally). So whatever pastor you are under, if that's the guy God orders for you, that's the teaching you obey. Until and unless, God moves you elsewhere. It's like being under parents. Kids can disagree, but authority is authority. Here, the authority is one you consent to — so, as long as you consent, that's the authority you obey — or you go elsewhere. Quietly. (Judging or criticising a particular pastor makes you get the discipline you think is due him, or the actual discipline due him. That's why I try to keep criticisms in these pages at the generic or doctrinal level, never personal, unless one of my own screwups makes for a good sample; examples are necessary to show where there are problems, but more importantly, to illustrate how Satan & Co. beguile us all. We live in a glass house, ouch, and no one among us means to get it wrong about God and His Word. But we all do, in variant ways.)

Continuing with Ephesians 4, now verse 16:

  • The phrase: "'very married' and 'embraced' of Word" in the above purple translation, versus the usual 'joined and held' published translation, comes from a pair of Greek sexual intercourse verbs Paul uses in Old Testament tradition and to tweak the play "Ion". These are συναρμολογέω and συμβιβάζω. These verbs are also used in the construction of buildings, same idea of intimate fit. Old Testament has a lot of fun with the twin ideas of marital intimacy 'fit' and construction 'fit': it's a major rhetorical style in the Old Testament, so Paul is aping it here. Thus the purple translation above, reflects that wordplay. For example, Paul reminds the reader of Genesis 2:22 when he uses these verbs. Sadly, that wit is fuzzed over in English with 'joined and held'. But now you know what kind of 'joined' and 'held' is really meant. The latter verb is used a lot in the Septuagint — i.e., in Isaiah — as you are to have 'intimate relations' with God by means of being knit together in His Word. A lexicon for συμβιβάζω might say something like 'knit together/unite understanding by means of instruction or advising'. For συναρμολογέω you'll typically get 'joined together as a building', but with a little imagination you can see what kind of marital joining is in view. Here, you must know the graphic nature of the verbs, or you miss what Paul says. Especially, since he's tweaking "Ion". We are to be close, intimate with Our Husband's Thinking. Hebrew 'davaq' in the Old Testament had the same mandate (translated "cleave" in KJV), and in Hebrew it means to have sex, as my pastor never tired of repeating. Well, that's metaphorical: you don't have physical sex with God, duh. But if you're not intimate with His Thinking, it's like being a frigid wife. Worse, actually. That's why I used the American idiom, "very married" to translate συναρμολογέω; the American idiom means the married couple are quite devoted to each other and harmonious. Then "embraced by Word" is a good translation of συμβιβάζω, uniting both the marital and 'communication knitting' connotations Bible uses for it. Spiritual tefillin. Both of those verbs are in the passive voice, done to you.
  • So here in Ephesians 4:16, notice the analogy between the 'uniting' of a married couple to build progeny, and the 'uniting' of stones to make a building. Paul deliberately chooses these graphic verbs συναρμολογέω and συμβιβάζω to show God's Superior Begetting of Temple from Messiah = Christ = Temple, contiguity from the Old Testament stressed. So, Ephesians 4:16 in Greek is the exact opposite of its translations, Made To Be Thinking High. Like a professional, which we are in training to be: kings. Like Our Husband, for crying out loud! See the multifaceted tweak on "Ion" Paul makes, by picking these two verbs? I mean, "in Christ" and "in Him" — these frequent New Testament refrains have a sexual connotation for a reason! It's Oneness, just like He prayed in John 17, which is a marital prayer!

Note well: contiguity, not continuity. Church is never Israel, they are two separate walls, kingships, covenants, priesthoods — joined in Christ. Because God's Standards are always the same, of course many of the Old Testament rules port over to the New Testament, but technically it's 'de novo', a legal term to redecide a case on its merits, ignoring any prior rulings. Christ invented a spiritual life which we inherit. We are technically totally apart from the Mosaic Law. However, He fulfilled the Mosaic Law. So the principles will be consistent with His Nature of Fulfillment. That's why you need Romans 13-14, which tell you what remains and what ends; you need Ephesians 4-6, Hebrews 13, 1 Peter 3, same idea. These things wouldn't need to be repeated unless the Law had been abrogated due to being fulfilled in Christ (running theme in Hebrews, especially Hebrews 7-10).

  • "Divinely-Financed 'husbandman'-pastor" in the above purple translation versus mere "joint of supply" in published translations derives also from the etymology of two Greek words. Published translations' "joint" is ἁφή. Like συναρμολογέω and συμβιβάζω above, ἁφή is used in both the body linking and construction linking sense. It has a "husbandman" connotation as well; that meaning fits together particularly well with συμβιβάζω, so ἁφή is here translated "husbandman" to convey Paul's wit on marriage, 'biology of body', progeny, and Temple construction. ("Pastor" meaning was introduced in Ephesians 4:11, so needs repeating here.) The concept of 'Divinely-financed' is due to Greek play expense underwriting noun ἐπιχορηγία, which is a favorite of all New Testament writers. (We are, after all, being orchestrated in the greatest Drama of history, due to Christ.) So the Underwriter of our Greek play, the One who has the Doctrine Money To Fund It — is God! The Greek noun is used as anarthrous, so it means God is the Underwriter. Sadly, published translations completely wipe out all this meaning by translating those two nouns "joint of supply". Very misleading. Again, God's work, not man's (with emphasis on the Holy Spirit's role, in Ephesians 4). It was very expensive to put on a Greek play. Kinda like it's expensive to make a major movie, in modern times. So "Underwriter", "Financial Backer" does an ἐπιχορηγία, "financing" of it all. The Producer, if you will.
  • Again, Learning, not works: since what actors did, was learn lines. Words, not works. I'm from Los Angeles, so grew up around (mostly wanna-be) actors, directors, etc. Acting is embedded in the local culture. So that's kind of how I 'play' my own spiritual life. I keep voting to go 'into character' of Christ Himself. (Only the Holy Spirit makes that work. So all you can do is vote and then go ahead.) Even when brushing my teeth or doing the dishes, I seek to emulate or at least better understand, what would He be thinking doing the same activity. What would it be like for Him? After all, the Trinity indwell me just as They do any other believer, so They have an answer to every question, right now. God wouldn't invent pee if He had no purpose for it, because He has to look at it forever! So, Not "What Would Jesus Do", but "What Would Jesus Think": What should I be thinking? What should I be hearing? He didn't live one second on this planet without constantly asking those two questions toward Father and then waiting for an answer, which would be instantaneous. The point of the Priesthood is that it be Father's Answer what you think and do 24/7, even if your own will is the same: it's a facet of what theology terms "κένωσις", Philippians 2:7-8, setting aside your own, because you'd rather it be His, come what may. Thinking toward Father, learning, turning over so Father is pleased. It's not really sacrificing, but a preference. Not a loss, but a gain. Life is just flat not worth living at all, unless it's Father's Choice.

Any actor can tell you this is the best way to get inside someone, pretend (and know you're pretending) to 'be' that person. An actor spends a lot of time getting into character before he ever steps foot in front of the camera. Superficial aping is not true acting. You must be able to see through the character's eyes. Well, we have God's Script, so we can do that. So stay in constant 'conversation' with Him, AKA 'prayer'. His Answers come from John 14:26, a recall, understanding, insight, not voices or visions, 🤣. Most commonly, you just know the answers' principles and immediately know the Scripture to back up those principles from several or many parts of Bible at once. You'll find it very witty, how several verse snippets from widely divergent parts of Scripture come to mind when needed, whether in translation or in the original language words learned. See how that actually happens to the Bible writers, to the Lord, when you read Bible. Sudden and deft recall of stuff you hadn't even studied for years comes to mind, too, the way the dots of facts connect, the continuity and orchestration. Very genius, apt, the Holy Spirit's 'reply'. Which of course you test with the Bible 1 John 4:1-6: as demons can send you thoughts disguised as your own, too. It's a fact of life: we have an unseen audience, this is a Trial, and we are the pawns/heroes in this real life drama. You are truly your own movie, being watched, beginning Job 1-2, Luke 2, Luke 15:10, 1 Corinthians 4:9, 1 Corinthians 11:10, Ephesians 3:10, 1 Timothy 5:21, 1 Peter 1:12, Hebrews 1, all of Revelation (heaven watches earth). It's not farfetched. It's real. So, play it as real: What Word Jesus Thinks? Act it out! Best way to learn Him is to keep on thinking Bible toward everything, 24/7. Analogizing, analyzing, pondering, acting out. In your modern life with your modern daily stuff. God hears it all. But then, your life is your own, before the Lord. So you decide how to live it, before Him.

  • Purple translation's "one Allotted pastor-teacher per Allotted congregation", is an idiomatic rendering of the Greek idiom, ἐν μέτρῳ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου μέρους. You should translate in the target language the meaning of a source language idiom, and here to know the idiom's meaning, you must start back in Ephesians 4:7. Fatal to the translation here, published Bibles don't do that. So this vital rule of God's goes undetected: you have no spiritual life if you don't follow this rule, and you can't know the rule, if it's not properly translated. This rule shoots down all notions of ecclesiastical hierarchies. So of course it's not properly translated! Greek nouns μέτρον and μέρος (= share, portion, measure) shows apportionment as a system. μέτροι and μέρος have a root idea of assigned-portion. Etymologically μέτρον stands for the vessel holding one's given μέρος of a thing, so a measuring cup concept = μέτρον, and what it holds, is a μέρος. So together, these nouns come to mean your allotted inheritance. Isaiah 53:12's LXX Greek uses the verb μερίζω = to apportion, share out, give one's share of an inheritance. So, one pastor is assigned to one congregation, and these two paired words μέτροι and μέρος are used that way in this verse. Your pastor is your booty and you are his. You'll find Paul make jokes about that 'mutual belonging' often in his letters, about how his audience 'belongs' to him, and he to them. Sometimes he uses μέτρον to convey this (but his phrasing of the idea varies a lot, Galatians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 3:2, Ephesians 3:2, Romans 1:11, etc).
  • Greek noun αὔξησις means "growth" which is not of itself : a thing which happens, but is not its own cause. The noun is cleverly placed to point backwards and forwards, telling you the pastor's own growth forms the assigned "measure" (μέτροι, standard/allotment/assigned portion) for his congregation's (μέρος) growth. Published translations make it look like the Church grows itself, in Ephesians 4:16. That's a sex error in translation (next bullet), but also a verb error, given the meaning of αὐξάνω, (= to grow) from which the noun αὔξησις comes. Exact opposite translation, versus God's Greek!
  • "causes, makes" in purple translation, is Greek verb ποιέω, and the actor is the pastor. Verb is in the middle voice, causative.
  • So ἑαυτοῦ goes with the verb and also references the pastor. It does not go with the noun οἰκοδομή (= building, noun, or building-up, verbal noun) which receives the action, and is a different sex. But, is mistranslated in published Bibles as if it did.
  • Again, the building doesn't make itself. Greek ἑαυτοῦ is in the neuter gender, tying to HἐνOS, "one", meaning the pastor (the one at the end of v.11). Showing that, God does this growing of us through the pastor, whose own spiritual growth forms the limit of what his congregation can grow to. My own pastor stressed that fact, and beat his brains out to grow more himself, so that he wouldn't limit our growth. In the Greek, this limitation is placed at the end of the sentence, not where you'd expect it — in Greek, what's most important is reserved until the end. So Paul is stressing the importance of the pastor's own growth in God's System (ἐν AGAPE, ties to ἑνότης). Warning that the pastor himself must be in the System, or the congregation won't grow. Parallel verses would be 1 Corinthians 9:27, 13:6-7, 2 Timothy 2:5, Titus 1:16, Jude 12, "vipers" quotes by the Lord, many other verses. Downright scary, pastors' responsibility, though they are but human. They need our unending prayer support. Imagine how awful it would feel to have taught something wrong about God all your life, and then have to face Him at the Bema? Better we laymen should all be denuded of rewards, than our pastors!
  • "Enabling" in the purple translation above is the noun ἐνέργεια, which always means Only Divine Work, as any good lexicon will tell you. That verb is culturally laden with the idea that the gods 'energize' everything. But do you see any of that meaning, translated? No! Translations of Ephesians 4:16 are goofy and magical, as if you grow yourself up by means of human works and agreeing with other people! Again, God's head is cut off, and man is made the hero instead! And how could the verse be translated without misleading? Oh, you'd have to add the word "Divine" or "God-works"! So I added "Divine" in English, since it is already included in the Greek meaning of ἐνέργεια. Chop "Divine" out, and people can readily conclude their works are in view. Deft satanic surgery, huh. You just know zero translators mean to render a translation satanically. We are too hassled, too hurried, and that satanic 'one word translated for one Greek word' hamstrings us. It's taught in every seminary, 😡: see the Appendix to Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek for a good example of the rule's usage. The rule has been in effect for centuries. It should be changed. Fat chance.
  • Meaning for Church: We are being Made By God into a Synergized Temple Economy, Polity Of Doctrine. Ephesians 4:11-16's verbs are all passive in meaning: a building doesn't make itself! Ephesians 2:10, God does it, we are His Craftsmanship! Ephesians 4:11-16 tells you how and what Divine Achievements in Ephesians 2:10, get produced in us sheep. Either God does it to us, or Satan & Co. do. We are all dumb sheep, and couldn't discern the truth if it bit us. Which, it constantly does.
  • Corollaries of Ephesians 4:16 which apply to Your Priesthood Now and Later: if the pastor's own spiritual growth limits what his congregation can grow to, as Ephesians 4:16 says (indicated by ποιητής... ἑαυτοῦ) — then Your Growth Likewise Molds Your Own Kingdom. Your own body is your 'practice kingdom', since you have the doctrine in you. God blesses people down here based on your growth. So later, when you've died, your future kingdom will be all those below you. So grow! Millions of lives depend on it. It couldn't be more important, to learn Bible. God's epically sized works are far bigger than a human being can even do. So what He makes of you in any nanosecond is worth more than all the money on the planet, and in fact make money itself, even possible. All because you breathe.

By contrast, watch how silly, to claim works do squat for God. If an unbeliever gives a million dollars to charity; and you, believer, give a million dollars to the same charity, who is better? So what's the importance of your being a believer, if works is the spiritual life? See what a crock it is, what a lie it is, what pandering it is, for pulpits to urge upon their congregants, works? It's Thinking, not works. That's why the widow who gave her two coppers was worth more than the guy before her, who gave the equivalent of a year's wages. [One of my bible dictionaries said a "talent" was worth a year's wages. I think that's inaccurate — talent was worth far more — but I forget how I know it was worth far more. Probably, from one of my pastor's explanations, gotta find it.] Her thought was more valuable, and the money meant nothing (Mark 12:44, Luke21:4).

  • So Ephesians 4:11-16 in Greek stress God's Work, and that His Work Is Feeding Us Via Our Right Pastors; that the main criterion for the Rapture date depends on our Corporately Learning And Eating what we learned, not works. A Body Is Built Up By Food. Works don't feed, for crying out loud. Reread Ephesians 4:11-16 with this 'Doctrine Builds Body' meaning in mind; watch how the other references in both it and Ephesians 4:17ff suddenly make sense (regarding maturity versus childishness, truth, understanding versus ignorance). The criterion is stated in other ways in Scripture, too. Galatians 3's description of the Seed is parallel. A seed doesn't grow itself. It needs to be planted ("implanted Word", in James 1); it needs soil and watering (Luke 8 parable), so it needs a Farmer to buy it in the first place (+ Matthew 13, Mark 4).
  • Thus, "Fit Bride". Fitted together as a Body, nourished with sufficient flow of Living Bible Doctrine in all its parts; fitted for eternal service to Father, the deepest desire of the Son: thus, fitted for the King of Kings, down to the last detail! Fitted for His marriage bed, then, in both body and soul! Coalesced. One. In answer to His John 17 prayer.
  • All this, within just 5 verses in Ephesians 4, by the only perpetual virgin, the apostle Paul! Who really liked the topic a lot, for he talks about it allusively in Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 3:15-21, Romans 6-7, 1 Corinthians 6-7, 1 Corinthians 12, just to name a few large passages! It's really interesting, the order of topics in 1 Corinthians; marriage in 1 Corinthians 7 follows the 'spiritual body union' metaphor with Christ in 1 Corinthians 6; more on marriage and the Angelic Conflict just precedes the Communion topic in 1 Corinthians 11; then, spiritual gifts, in 1 Corinthians 12-14, with Love smack dab in the middle! So where the heck do Christians get so legalistic? You'd have to throw out 80% of the New Testament, to justify their positions...

Note Well: our "service" is as Royal Priests To Father, not people, just as Our King-Priest, Christ's.
That service is Thinking 'sweet savor'(e.g., 2 Corinthians 2:15, 2 Corinthians 10:5), just like the Cross.

Can't do the Will of Someone you don't first know! And that, you yourself live on! So it sustains you. Get it? So we 'serve food' by Living On The Word. Just as Our Lord did: Matthew 4:4. Whatever else we do with our bodies, varies with the spiritual gifts we were given, as Ephesians 4 (and 1 Corinthians 12, among other places) explained. So we aren't all pastor-teachers, but we are all to live on The Word. That provides the Priestly Sweet Savor of Son's Thinking to Father (!) and a way for the 'peasants' to get out of peasantry: to Live Royally, instead. Again, the similarity between ἄρτιος, mature, and ἄρτος, bread (confer Matthew 4:4).

Your Role In Life Key → The English translations all stress man, but the Greek stresses God. He Is The Recipient Of Our Thinking, which in turn is based on the Bible Doctrine we 'ingest'. That's what saved us, that's what we live on: Christ's Thinking. Only then, are we truly functioning ministers in His Kingdom, Priests To Father, Our First and Last Purpose In Life! Only then, can the peasant get any kind of 'message' attractive enough for him to choose to leave his peasant-like ways.

Man's thinking is helplessly ugly. Always trying to get something, always afraid, always blaming, always negative, always shallow, always pumping up his fragile ego with the puny deeds he'll call 'good'. No wonder most people wish to die, by the end of their lives. So what atones for all that ugly thinking God is stuck with hearing? Our thinking. Same exact principle, as the Cross. While it's clear Christ paid the entire opportunity cost of creation on the Cross, and therefore all of us are dividends, so to speak — even so, who wouldn't want to max out the value of the dividends? So — your thinking Scripture is applied by God to the evil thinking he hears in someone else. Thus, that someone else, can have a life. Is there a greater work than this? God does it, but He does it in your name. Which is ironic, since only the Holy Spirit runs the cycling Doctrine, in you. Pure profit, to you. Pure profit, to Him. So, justifies Him spending some of that Blessing Profit, on those whose thinking, is ugly. You couldn't do any work as great as God directly blessing them because He likes how He hears you think.

Okay, does that mean you go to a mountaintop somewhere and meditate or sit on a park bench contemplating your navel? Nope. It means you get in and stay in God's System and keep on asking Him for His Will on a thing. Don't do what Peter did in Acts 1, presenting Him with your own choices and making Him pick among them. (Peter had a bad hair day. Notice, as my pastor reminded us, you never hear from those two straw picked disciples again.) God does all the picking. Be alert for what He picks. It will usually seem like the wrong choice. God is not politically correct in any generation, Isaiah 55:8-9. "Least-expected, most desired" characterizes all His answers. Abraham wanted one son, God wanted to make a universe of sons. That kind of thing.

Ergo, Only Father Decides
What "Body" Fits & Complements
His Son's King of Kings,
Bright Morning Star,
King-Priest kata-Melchizedek
Battlefield Royal Patent.

This Kingship predates time, so predates Israel, as the Book of Hebrews takes great pains to explain. Church is not Israel, ever. See Psalm 110:1, Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:12, 1 Timothy 2:5, all of Ephesians 1, Matthew 16, John 17:20-21: these are the actual contract verses with oodles of Precedence. Then, read the entire Book of Hebrews repeatedly until you can't even forget it when sleeping; pay close attention to the flow of the author's points, especially since Hebrews is surgically mistranslated (demon surgeons, we humans aren't that smart and long-lived, in our coverups). Then next, Acts 1:7, Matthew 24:36, Matthew 25:13, Mark 13:32. Since Ephesians 1:1-18 (longest sentence in Bible's Greek) proves Father made our Dowry in Eternity Past, obviously exploitation of the Body is what He wants. What He wants. He, not us. Because, we are a gift to Him from Christ, inasmuch as we are to be Royal Priests to Father forever. Body of Christ, the King-Priest kata Melchizedek.

So it's priesthood type of Kingdom, which is a type of ambassadorship, διάκονος. Serving Father. Just like Ion was a servant in the Temple, an ambassador for the god, someone others sought as a go between to 'put a good word in' to the god. Well, the Real God gets paid by Thinking, and even back during the Levitical priesthood the priests were separated, having a 24/7 job. Thus those more distant could get blessing from God. So it is, in the eternal state and even while down here. Takes special training to be a priest, not in the rituals — but in the thinking. God doesn't need rituals or works. Doesn't mean you can't do them, does mean that whatever you do with the body, the right thinking better be in it at the time, or your relationship with God is fanciful toast, 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10. If your spouse just went through the right motions but the thinking was elsewhere or ugly, those motions would become immediately ugly to you. How much more, to God (i.e., Isaiah 1:13, Isaiah 65:5).

Incompatibilities will range widely in heaven, so there's a need for priestly thinking to compensate for that. Worse, hell lasts forever, so what kind of counter-thinking must exist? In aggregate, this amounts to a Body of Thinking which is an Ongoing Pleasant 'Smell' for Father. For when you have total power and wealth, your pleasures go by principles. You have everything else, and spend everything based on principles. That is, if you have Integrity. So those most sharing your principles would be intermediaries between you and those who less share your principles, and so on to the opposite end, those irreconcilably hostile to you. These incompatibilities will last forever, so counter-thinking is a must. Fitted counter-thinking, to match the less compatible thinking. That's how sins got paid, by Christ's counter-thinking. That's how you live with what's incompatible to your own life, by counter-thinking some beneficial reason, to go on living with it.

It's neither good for ruler nor ruled that what's incompatible, should be confined together in close quarters. What Presidency runs well or happily, when those hostile or 'incompatible of policy', reside alongside? Disagreement is important, but that doesn't mean proximity should accompany it. How much more, God should not have to listen to, put up with, be 'near', those who disagree with Him? It's not as though He withheld the means for getting close. So the rejectors, can get the distance their rejection obviously chooses.

Hence our 'Associative intimacy Bonding us to Him Who we Comprehend fully': that's a thinking relationship, no matter what we do. Our closer, more intimate level of thinking will justify blessing those farther away from Him, both now and forever. So too and first, Isaiah 53:11, Christ's Mastery Of Truth on the Cross is what paid for sins (Hebrew and Greek inspired texts stress this point, and do so differently). So, That Structure Never Changes. God is not pleased by anything else (Hebrews 11:6), and only the Thinking constitutes Evidence in the Trial (Hebrews 11:1). So, while it is true that God Loves everyone Infinitely, it is also true that Fellowship With Him is largely distant — since, to be close, you gotta Think Like He Does. Of course, man bristles at this idea, just like Satan does, wanting his puny deeds to count for something; well, that's arrogance. So, a life filled with arrogance isn't getting filled up with Son's Thinking, so will be distant forever, though in heaven. It's only fair. When we are all standing before Him at the Bema, we'll then agree it's only fair, no matter how much we bristle now. Hence the warning in 1 John 4:12-17, especially v.17: let's Learn Him, so we will have Confidence on that Day.

A modern term for this Body would be "economy". That's also a common Bible word, οἰκονομία (Ephesians 3:9); it has a 'building word' counterpart, οἰκοδομή (Ephesians 4:12). Both are Bible keywords for the structure of what's called (in olde English), a "dispensation", the covenantal period, AKA "Age". Yes, dispensations are Biblical: but like any other doctrine, the way some particular person divides them up, might be wrong. Truth is, the "covenant" is the contract, and the "dispensation" is the period over which the contract is valid. Ephesians and Colossians are God's main macroeconomics books for Church, though a lot of microeconomics verses are in there. Philippians is His microeconomics text, though macro stuff is in there also. 1 John is microeconomic. The other New Testament epistles are more of a mix. So of course one can argue what are the provisions during what period, but clearly there's no contract ever born which lacks duration clauses. Whew: now we don't have to wrestle over the convenantalists versus the dispensationalists' debates, and can leave them all thrashing in the sandbox, as if the discussion were either/or. It's two sides of a coin: covenant, the economic provisions: dispensation, the time period of those provisions. Simple.

So these structure words add up to a whole series of interrelated polities, complete with flourishing economies: Kingdoms. We know they are federated and hierarchical in nature, because Bible says there are plural kings. An empire, really, in which the constituent kings 'rank' relative to each other. So there are interrelated economies, as well. Given the believer numbers in history since Adam, heaven is quite large, so the eventual eternal state would be a whole universe of maybe 100 billion humans, before we even estimate the angelic population: this, because anyone too young (or handicapped, etc.) to reject the Gospel by the time he dies, is saved. Well, that kind of mortality alone has always been quite high among humans: those 'since Adam' numbers alone, could easily run in the tens of billions.

Paul starts the economy/polity analogy immediately (Ephesians 1:3), and it keeps weaving in and out of what he writes in Ephesians. The polity is built upon the Ephesians 1 eternity-past escrow, and we are citizens of it. (Ephesians 2:19, "πολίτευμα", favored-citizenship, a big deal in those days.) Since God is Omnipotent, the question of an economy, money, etc. is based on Reasons, not abilities. So when He says "every spiritual blessing", He wills to match that with whatever material expressions will best go with the spiritual reasoning developed.

Each person being unique, reasons slightly differently from the next, so a wide variety of provision will be caused to exist. Again, to express the spiritual variety. So there will be vast differentiation in material provision. Those who opted to be close to God by learning Him, will have more to go with the larger expression of intimacy in their souls. Those who opted to be distant from Him will have less, because they opted for less. So too, among those who have much, the kind of muchness they have, will vary. Some people don't mind owning lots of things; the upkeep and maintenance isn't a hassle in their minds, they enjoy it. Others would rather own little and spend their money in other ways they find more pleasant. We differ. A lot. So the polity God makes must be varied enough to accommodate all the freedom which will then be 'heavenly' to have.

Now, each of us lives in some country. Each country is full of people who are rich and poor. Unequal effort, unequal 'supply' of money. Problem is, how are the poor gonna get fed? Problem is, how can the country avoid going bankrupt if it feeds the poor, who don't add anything to the production value a country can sell? Problem is, how are you going to do this, without being unfair to those who work hard? Since heaven is a free place, these questions are still valid, but of course have perfect solutions which will perfectly operate, too. Lack of intimacy with God is a kind of poverty. Since anyone can get that intimacy, the vast majority don't want it, so won't have it in the eternal state. So they will be poor, and need others richer than they are, to make up for that difference.

The key is to get "economics of scale": a successful company or economy requires enough people, and enough money, in aggregate; because money flow among the people, and production from its flow, is like the cardiovascular system. So, if the 'blood supply' is smaller in some places, but large enough elsewhere, then 'circulation' can continue. Hence the economic "body", like the physical one, is unequal, but each part is necessary. So the doctrine learned is likewise unequal, but in aggregate is sufficient for the health of the whole. Which means, the Pleroma are Very Rich. They have to be, because those who did not opt to learn God's Script shall be poor (Bible term is "naked", γυμνός) forever. Thus, in aggregate, there will be enough for the kingdom to thrive — freely. God never gerrymanders Truth.

Therefore: the big goal of any Christian who claims to love "the poor", should be to grow on God's Script all the way to Pleroma: so he will be big enough to make up for the millions of believers who (every generation) opt for Satan's 'Brother Foot' myocardial infarction ('heart attack', in plain English). So there will be enough Doctrinal Money Flowing to bless everyone, in the future.

Just as we are all "in Christ", so also those who don't grow up to Pleroma, are in the Pleroma rulers. That's why the Pleroma will be ruling kingdoms in eternity: the masses elected to live far away from Christ down here, but close to each other and to their emotions, rituals and works, Philippians 3:18-19, Romans 8. Subsequently, they will be in heaven alright — but far away from Him, and under some king who unlike them, elected to be Close to Christ, learning Him intimately. It's the exact same analogy as for Christ. He, elected to be One with Father — in His Deity He was naturally "one", but His Humanity could choose distance. Instead He chose Full Oneness, John 17. Hence the Cross, 'a knowing sin yet staying sinless' just as is His Deity (and of course Father's). So, His Human Soul had to be built up in Divine Truth by the Spirit; as a result, all sins could be put in Him. So, all mankind is technically in Him (theme of Romans 6). So, He will "divide the spoils", as it says in Isaiah 53:12, and "with the great ones". Great, because in Him. Great, because Grew up in Him. Which God the Holy Spirit playing 'Mother', so to speak — did to us. For Him. So, those who didn't take that offer get apportioned out "among the great ones", owned by them. Which is a terrific blessing to them. Because, they will have smaller souls, so need the 'intermediary' of a king (who needs his own staff), to enjoy being ruled. All this, is communicated in Bible both blatantly and with 'invisible' original language characteristics. Alpha and Omega. Founder And Finisher. Which you are also to provisioned to become. Invisibly.

The higher you go in life the more your job owns you, not the other way around. So the higher you grow in God the more that thinking owns you, and you progressively stop having a life of your own, 2 Corinthians 5 and the Lord's "lose your life" comments (Matthew 16:25, Mark 8:35, Luke 9:24, Luke 17:33). You don't mind losing your life to something you love, and in fact consider yourself gaining. But technically, you sacrifice yourself to that object of your love. So poverty is the result of refusing to love, essentially. So the ability to love is smaller, and therefore poverty of love down here, leads to poverty of love up there. Perfect, loving... but small. So needs from those bigger than the self. So rulers and a hierarchy are needed forever. Thus everyone can have what he wants, whether poor or rich.

So notice the two fold economic nature of this future federation of Church polities God is crafting: 1) a federation whose Thinking Pleases Son, fits Son's Thinking, Reflects Son's Thinking, and thus 'smells good' to Father; and 2) a federation within which everyone needs everyone else's thinking to operate optimally and synergistically, such that everyone can be free to be what he chose to be down here, in the relationships he chose down here. We don't all choose to be high. We don't all choose to be low. Freedom means we ought to get what we do choose. And that, is heaven.

We are finite, and are unequal in every respect. Spiritually, our inequalities only result from our choices, since we all get the Holy Spirit without measure, John 3:34. Without measure, but also without coercion. We will unequally choose to grow up, and whatever we choose will be our lot in the eternal state. The poor will have become poor solely by choice, and the rich will become rich solely by choice, and we will be freely not sinning, so we won't have the hangups about rich and poor that we do now. So heaven is not like down here, where we are often unequal irrespective of our choices; where we are insecure or bullying based on our own perceptions of inferiority or superiority (contrasted with angelic behavior in Revelation 4:10 and Revelation 19:10). More about that inequality and its uses will be covered just after this table ends.


3rd Criterion: because Body is of Christ, God Exploits All Else Through Her.
(a common refrain in Ephesians, i.e., Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 2:21, Ephesians 3:5 + Ephesians 3:9 + Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 3:21's "by means of the Church throughout all generations of this Age Over the Ages, Amen.")

Each New Testament writer has his own way of expressing this refrain. Paul seems to like sweeping clauses with the following terms in them: "Age", "fill" + "all", "riches of His Grace" or "Glory", "the all things" (τα πάντα). The latter keyword is very commonly used in New Testament (and rarely the LXX), and it always has a universally-encompassing meaning. So, then: very near any clauses with these keywords in them, you'll find the Church; if you look a bit closer, you'll find that the Church is made a catalyst, subject, or object of "all". Nearby any of these clauses you'll find something to do with the Angelic Conflict, usually via keywords translated "rulers" and "powers" or "authorities" (which are levels of Satan & Co. organization). Of course, nearby any of these clauses, the Lord Jesus Christ is Most Prominent. For, we are His Body. And He's why Father (with Spirit) exploit all else through the Church. Blessing by Association. With Christ, so therefore with Christ's Body. We are not our own, and our being so highly favored is due to Him. Always. Let us never be Uriah Heep nor puffed up, about this epic truth.

So God, Who takes all facts and interrelationships into account, also has other Criteria for His Decision, besides our being internally developed into "Fit Bride". These other Criteria also require Rapture be the kickoff for the Tribulation. The Criteria all intertwine.


Father's Criterion 3F: The Role and Properties of "Numbers"

Now let's examine Father's Criterion 3F, The Finishing Nature of Mankind's Votes: for man's votes are the Substance of the Angelic Trial (Criterion 3A), Hebrews 11:1 (Greek). This numbers criterion is multi-faceted, and impacts how Criteria 3A-E, transpire. There are unbelievers and believers 'voting' on how much they want God. The voting, of course, affects the balance among people both now, and in the future. That balance thus determines how history goes.

Since the "sine qua non" of Perfection is balance, and since finite creatures exist, a question arises: what is the perfect number of them? Pity the ancient philosophers: they argued this number thingy for eons, and got nowhere, because they kept starting with mere math, instead of with Absolute God! Moreover, what is the requisite proportion of Divine Thinking (or bad thinking), sufficient to bless (or hurt) them? Notice how there's a certain "ripeness" quality about number: too few, and a thing doesn't work. Too many, and a thing becomes bad, even if it was good. The "balance" is the right time to 'pick the fruit', as it were. Likewise, in science we routinely see a Bell curve property of destruction whenever the number of a population becomes too high (e.g. in viruses, Malthusian theory). The 'contagion' of thought is in part quantitative — when 'too many' bad thoughts are in a populous, it degenerates.

What's the role of "numbers"? Well, first let's look at what numbers, really are: variety. The very word "numbers" means "variety". There must be many, and each one is different from the next (+1 property of uniqueness). It's the combining of the numbers, the combining of the varieties, which underlies virtually every structure in life. Like many dots, but... each one at least slightly different from the next. So each number is unique; each combination is unique; the rate and manner of change in Living Numbers Of People, Is Thus Unique. Like a snowfall. Among all these uniquenesses, some combinations are small in 'size', but big in effect. Likewise, at the opposite end of the variety spectrum, some combinations are big in size, but small in effect. Sometimes, one is so big (Christ, for example), that all are affected (anyone can be saved). At the reverse end, many are so individually small (sins, for example), they have no positive effect. Only their weight has effect (i.e., weight of our sins crushing Him, Isaiah 53:5's 'dakah', the volume of plunder, Isaiah 53:12).

So, variety means hierarchy. The Numbers Have To Fit Together In Just Such A Way, So They Can All Benefit Each Other, No Matter How Big, Or How Small; However Disparate In Compatibility; or, however alike. So, the Relationship Between Small And Big Within That Hierarchy, is simply this: Mass depends on leverage. Leverage, as you probably know, is the property of a small thing being able to 'cause' a big effect. A 'small' amount of malaria can kill you. A 'small' amount of anthrax in an envelope killed a lot of people. Germs are small. Their 'leverage' value is high. The military equivalents for this financial (and science, biology, etc.) concept is "economy of force", and "concentration of force". Use those analogies as you read, if they are more familiar to you.

This same leveraging of mass applies in happier areas, of course. Say you bought your house with just a little money "down". That downpayment leveraged the entire value of the house, for it was what the bank wanted, in order to justify Lending You The Rest Of The Money. So, that little down payment "blessed" the mortgage, without which you couldn't get the house. Thus you see how "mass" (the whole cost of the house) is leveraged (justified) by means of a little. So that 'little' is called "leverage", "seed/venture capital" (economics/finance); "hub", "pivot" or "vector" (physics); "cornerstone/foundation" (architecture); even, "preservative" (food industry). In the Bible, negative leverage is called "leaven" (yeast); positive leverage (pivot/preservative, etc.) is called "remnant", or "salt".

We all know how salt (doctrine, yes!) makes foods tasty. But that is not the primary use of salt. The primary use of salt is to preserve your body. The cells in your body must have a balance of sodium in each cell in order to keep your body sufficiently nourished. For, sodium (the principal component of salt) attracts and is attracted to, water-based liquid. Nutrients are carried by water-based liquid (e.g., blood), and the salt level in your blood determines whether the cells in your body open to accept those nutrients. So, cell health is determined by how the salt in your body works. A little salt does a big job: making you healthy.

Moreover, in the ancient world, they didn't have refrigeration. So, salt was a highly valued commodity, for it preserved large amounts of food from spoiling. So, it was often used as we use currency, today. Like currency, it was easily transportable; durable; easy to measure; universally acceptable, and needed. Just a little salt leveraged, so to speak, a lot of food. This created an economic prosperity, for if food could be preserved, the work otherwise needed for food production could be spent on other goods; so, the family with a goodly amount of salt could become more prosperous. So, the polity with a goodly amount of such 'salty' people, could become prosperous. Just a little salt leveraged the prosperity of even a whole nation. Then again, if a major flood hit a salt dome, the salt was washed away, or leached into the soil; this made the salt "saltless" (unusable, for the water leached out the sodium). So, that polity's prosperity depended on preserving its preservative!

Conversely, seawater has too much salt. Modern Israel has no end of problems trying to desalinize its water supply, so that the soil won't become overladen with salt. For, the good thing about salt is also potentially the bad thing about it: it sterilizes. That is why it's great for food, but terrible, for soil: soil needs bacteria (mold etc.) to provide the properties food needs to grow. So, too much salt in the irrigation water overburdens the soil with salt, so nothing will grow. So, see? The "leverage", the "salt" depends on "mass", too. Body needs a Head, and the Head is much smaller than the Body, mass-wise. But the Head still needs a body, too. So mass depends on leverage, and leverage, on mass: and both must be in the proper proportion to each other. Else, growth (enjoyment) is impaired. Or, even ruined. So, both mass and leverage are mutually dependent. For Better or Worse.

So, then, whether looked at from within the Bible's text itself, or observed from extrabiblical sources, these leverage principles of "salt" or "leaven" are obviously structural properties woven into the entire universe. The "few" have what economics would term a "multiplier effect" on the "many". In fact, in economics, "multiplier effect" means that the "few" actually cause the "many".

When you spend a dollar, that dollar is received by the seller of the product you purchased with that dollar. It's just "1" dollar, but it has now moved between two sets of 'hands'. In turn, that seller purchases something with that dollar, so again — another set of hands. Therefore, at the third transaction, the "multiplier effect" of that lone dollar, is already "3". It's done the work of three dollars. Quickly. Now, think: who doesn't spend money? Why, everyone spends money. In fact, the complaint most have is that they don't have enough! Okay, then: that lone dollar is multiplied millions of times, because it's circulating around the populous, isn't it? Whatever one buys, another gets the money, then he buys, so the next person gets that same buck, and so on and so on. So, the "few" (the lone dollar, here) cause the "many", because the "few" have a "multiplier effect". The lone dollar does the work of millions of dollars, because it is circulating through the populous!

Thus you have tax law: the purpose of tax law is to cause a multiplier effect of changing mass behavior in an economy; 'purportedly, in some salutary direction which those ruling think the country needs. See, if you pay a dollar less in taxes, you'll spend that dollar a different way. To influence you to spend it in a certain way, a government might reduce your tax by a dollar if you spend that dollar on item "x". You, and millions like you, say, do this. That money then multiplies (changes hands) many times over, circulating in things related to "X". Supposedly, to benefit whatever "X" is supposed to do; which, supposedly, is to benefit the people as a whole.

However, taxes you pay to a 'not for profit' government don't circulate in this way. For, a not for profit government itself is a cost without production. There is no "product" such a government produces. It alleges to produce something, but think: all such a government does, is buy! It doesn't "sell" anything. Unlike you, who go to a job and actually produce something new during the day (product or service), that government just takes your money, and gives it to other people. It, itself, produces no new goods or services in return for its own expense. You gave it money, but it gave you nothing in return. Instead, it gave your money to someone else. All this, at a cost of overhead, for oodles of officials are needed to choose and then account for the movement of this money from your pocket to whomever's. So, a not for profit government's "product" is merely a report of how it spent something. Oh, and lots of laws, to make that report even more expensive.

Notice how all government can ever be, is a middleman. Hence, an added cost. We pay government for services, alright, but it itself, isn't producing those services. It pays someone else to do that, and it of itself, produces nothing. That's what a middleman does. Ideally, you pay a middleman because he knows the most efficient way to get you the service and goods you want: but it is always an added cost to pay him. So if the middleman has a right to your money and there is no competition (other middlemen you could pay instead), then he has no incentive, to give you value for his expense. So, it's a true tax on you, to pay him. Kinda like those bandits who roamed up and down Israel's trade routes, robbing from the travelling caravans...

In economics, then, you'll hear this problem discussed often. The health of a polity depends on a mostly-private sector economy, so that there is enough new production to make up for the cost of having a not for profit government. So, an economy needs money circulating in it, but also needs equivalent production made as a result of that circulation, at each turning over of the dollar. Else, the "multiplier effect" is really zero. For, if the money goes from person "A" to person "B", and it doesn't do so because "B" gave "A" something of equivalent value in exchange for that dollar, then only "B" has the money. It's the same dollar, in that case. So, if money "circulates" to that government, no added production value goes with that. Kind of like too much salt. Ahem: For Better, or for Worse. "Not for profit" is the reason why there is no value added, the reason why such a type of government is only an expense to its polity. A for-profit government, by contrast, always has a value added structure; namely, ancient true monarchies, where the "king" owned the polity, or received taxes as an addendum to his personal wealth. God's Kingdom is the 'ultimate' form of this 'for profit' structure.

American liberals, of course, argue that the government does indeed produce value for the money given it. What they forget is that the private sector will always do a far better job, because Profit Drives Productivity. Government Can Just Take Your Money: It Has A Monopoly On Your Taxes, Even To The Extent Of Putting Liens On Your Property. So, It Has Insufficient Incentive To Be Efficient in how it decides to give your money away to other people. If government were run like a business, and didn't have a monopoly, then you could vote your money elsewhere, which would motivate it to attract your money by producing a better redistribution of your money. As is, it only needs to promise money to those who as a consequence will vote for its own desires to take your money. How well it lives up to those promises, well... everyone knows that answer.

Liberal or no, it's true that government must exist. We need certain centralizations and laws, so a government must have certain limited monopoly rights over your money. For, there are certain functions which only government can do: transportation, infrastructure oversight (for the sake of efficient military and inter-province & state movement), foreign policy, currency, military, costs of making those laws (as low as possible, please — few laws, not many) are examples of the few valid governmental monopolies. And, let's face it: since the way those things are provided is by giving your money to other people without you first getting equivalent or better value in exchange, it's just an added cost. Without production. Multiplier Tax, baby. Principle: the higher the taxes, the higher the drain on the polity, no matter how those taxes are structured to hit given groups of folks.

Here's why: Taxes only get paid if the payor has money. People only have money if they produce something and sell that something to someone else. So, if you buy a can of tomatoes, the corporation making that can of tomatoes must charge you part of the tax it will have to pay, in order for it to have money to pay the tax. Since the corporation, like you, pays a tax on income, and that income comes from you, you pay the tax. Of course, you have a job, too: your job costs a corporation (assuming you work for one), money. Those who are customers of the corporation, which buy its products/services, thus also pay the tax, and your salary. So if your corporation is not competitive, or overtaxed (!) less income will be available; so some other corporation (or person, entity) will get that income. So, You Might Lose Your Job, As The Corporation Tries To Cut Costs In Order To Save Enough Money To Pay Taxes And Stay Alive. Frankly, that's been the history of the United States since about 1975 (friend of mine would date it earlier, to the late 1960's when the oil depletion allowance rules got so bad).

Just as you don't want to eat into your savings, so also (and for the same reasons, really) a corporation doesn't want to eat into its profits, when income declines; even more so, because it costs a corporation many times more than it costs you, to 'live.' No one can predict what disaster might occur, so the savings and profits are a cushion against disaster. So, cost-cutting measures are first sought. Frankly, it's easier to make more money than to save it, but businesses are often as dumb (short sighted) as the people in them, so seek to reduce a cost rather than to become more productive. Think of the fake savings you often get from buying some cheap cellphone (etc), versus one of higher quality, and you'll get the point. The good news is, the natural 'laws' of free enterprise eventually penalize a corporation which makes stupid decisions; government, being a monopoly, doesn't get that beneficial wake-up call until it is too late. To the extent a government tries to mess with the laws of free enterprise, it makes worse whatever problem it tries to correct. 'Roughly analogous to the Reconstruction Era in the United States, or picking a pimple.

So, if country "A" has taxes that are way higher than country "B", country "B" has a sales advantage. So, businesses in country "A" will want to move taxable stuff over to country "B", to reduce expenses and thus be more competitive, compared to country "B". Since a lot of a country's taxes go to pay for social benefits (which United States economists estimate run an extra 33%-50% of United States wages), moving where employees are hired saves costs; so, that's why America has lost so many jobs. It's not desirable to do this: it must be done to stay alive as a business. Until, the tax laws lessen in cost.

Now let's tie the 'multiplier effect' and taxes concepts, to Church. Bible calls itself money in a bazillion ways, most of which aren't well-translated, but some are: "gold", "silver", "precious stones", "deposit" (NIV manages to catch some of these terms), "true riches" (a favorite term of the Lord), "riches", and a wide variety of financial synonyms, all conveying the idea that Christ's Thinking (Deity, Old Testament, Humanity, New Testament) is Spiritual Capital. So, since thought circulates (Bible depicts this via the metaphor "heart", "blood"), we're looking at the multiplier effect of Bible Doctrine in a populous; or, conversely, the Tax of Anti-Scriptural Thinking in a populous. You can flip open a Bible even in translation in almost any place and see how God excoriates bad thinking, and blesses good thinking, but the easiest to read passages are Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Note how God holds a nation together due to Sufficient Circulating Spiritual Capital (Hearing His Word); or, destroys a nation due to Excessive Anti-Spiritual Taxation (Rejecting His Word, main theme of Hosea and Malachi 3). The concepts in these passages will be very useful to remember, as you read what follows.

Here's another critical numbers concept which economics addresses: money begets money. The larger the pool of capital, the more income that capital can earn, the more Addition to Capital is available. This is the most important reason why one needs a class of wealthy people for a polity to be healthy and strong. (If you know anything about actuarial welfare and pension science, all that knowledge analogously applies here in spades, especially with respect to the role of present values.)

See, because mass depends on leverage, and because there must be a balance between them, There Must Be Sufficient Leverage, Capital, To Fund whatever mass exists or is desired to exist. So, you try to save money in a savings account, for until you have enough, you can't buy what you need, or... save for retirement. Your "mass" — needs you have — can't all be paid for at once. So, you try to borrow (a form of leverage) based on the 'mass of savings' you have, or the expected mass of income you will get. Or, you forego your needs until you accumulate sufficient funds. Ideally, you keep accumulating funds by foregoing so that at some point you can stop working and just live on your accumulated capital. This, of course, is called "investment".

No country can operate if its accumulated savings and investment by its people is too small. This is called "capitalization". Lack of proper capitalization means that needs exceed funds, so a person, a company, or even a whole country, can go bankrupt. This, because There Must Be More Wealth Produced Than Spent. The leftover money is invested. Investment fuels jobs; makes available money to borrow; enables trade with other countries; makes people able to finance current needs, i.e., because there is an expectation based on the current capital/health that whatever is borrowed can be repaid.

(Spiritual) Capital Value Key → The more you have saved up, the more comfortably you can live. So, like it says in Proverbs, invest in learning Scripture ("wisdom", yet another synonym Bible uses to designate itself).

Biblical capital can only come from... duh, the Bible! So, Bible makes frequent reference to this fact, but unfortunately the English translations all fail to uniformly translate economics and financial terms in the Bible: deposit (both noun and verb), escrow/in-trust funding, investment, financing, etc. are all Bible concepts which both the Old and New Testaments use. Keywords like "inheritance", "promise", "reward", "crown", "prize" (but also a lot of verbs saying the same thing which English never quite gets right) abound, and they all tie to this same idea: God's says to Invest In Learning His Son So To Receive The Payout of "Riches" on personal deposit for you. My favorite ones are in Proverbs, about "wisdom" (eaten Bible Doctrine) being capital, making you rich (e.g., Proverbs 8:18 tied to Ephesians 3:8).

Spiritual Capital Value to History Key → Bible Doctrine is a long-term capital investment which pays what's equivalent to a bazillion percent interest. However, like any long-term investment, the yield 'sits'. 'Until those who are to receive the payment are big enough to enjoy so much payback!

Inescapable Profit Key → God is Uncreated, so doesn't have to work at 'being God'. Thus, there is no such thing anywhere as 'deserving', a term which only has relevance with respect to 'works issues'. The term is merely a benchmark we can use to figure out how much toward Righteousness a thing is. See, because God didn't 'deserve' to exist, but just does, forever; so it's not possible for deserving to exist: God didn't make himself, so you can't technically say He 'deserves' to exist.

Technically, God being Omnipotent, He Is Capable Of Sinning, But Of Course Never Does. Being Infinite is a status quo. Greek states this through what is called the "static present tense" of stasis verbs like εἰμί, though John in John 1 uses the imperfect tense. Here's why he does. Hebrew states God's Nature dynamically, to stress Aliveness, e.g., the clever doubling of the verb "to be" in the imperfect tense — signifying Absolute Existence: see Exodus 3:14. Because it's in the imperfect tense, there is no beginning, no end, so Outside Time, so to speak. Kinda like the Greek aorist, in its root sense.

So John uses the Greek imperfect of εἰμί in John 1, to stress that The God of the Old Testament who Named Himself to Moses, is The Man he's writing about. Clever, deft, undetectable in English way to shout Who Messiah really is. Can't miss it. So given John 1:14 & John 1:18, YHWH: meaning, He Who Always Was, Becomes! — a concatenation of "hayah" and "hawah", which when merged (Hypostatic Union!) and spoken quickly, sounds like "Yahweh" or "Yahwah" or "Jehuwah", etc. And of course, sounds like Yehoshua ("Joshua"), hence "Yeshua", hence Jesus. Joshua 1:1's Hebrew is very funny when it says that Yehwah spoke to Yehoshua... Also, the concatenation signifies that anything 'becomes', via Him. See? It's not rocket science. There's no reason why His Name should be a 'mystery' — God Wants Us To Know Him. We don't need "ineffable names" to block our learning Him!

In short, God by nature is 'all at once', not 'time' related. So, theology tries to simplify this fact by claiming God 'can't' sin. Very misleading. If God couldn't sin, He'd not be Omnipotent, get it? So, while theology might try to claim (again, to simplify) that God 'deserves' to be God because He never sins, even that is an inaccurate argument. For, God Didn't Create Infinity, So He Doesn't Do Anything To Perpetuate Himself.

Moreover, God Doesn't Sustain Himself (property of Infinity, which needs nothing, so doesn't 'need' to sustain itself, either), so there is no such thing as 'doing' anything at all to deserve continuing to be God. Upshot conclusion from these facts? God Is Pure Profit By Nature, So Everything Is Pure Profit By Nature, Since Everything Is Sourced In God's Nature. If you know even the basic math that division by a fraction, multiplies, then you understand how even the smallest thing, however divisive, can only multiply value for God. Simply because, God Is So Big. Nerd note followup: only if God sinned, would He stop being pure profit. Since He never will, His Nature is unsustained, the natural property of Infinity is in stasis. No works, because no need for works. So, if no works, then no deserving issues, and only pure profit can exist.

So, however bad man is, he's but a negative mutation from God's Nature. So, just as in math and physics the derivative of a thing is but leverage, due not to itself, but rather due to the (here, Infinite) Power From Which It Derived (God), all bads are but fractional divisors, so will inevitably return a bazillion percent interest to God. This fact is repeatedly stated in Scripture using irony: verses like "valley... exalted", and Isaiah 54:1's barren bearing more kids, and the quintessential, 'even the wrath of man praises God'. So "Cost" is but an interim accounting term; "Investment" is the true character. 'At a bazillion percent, Because God Is Unmade, Unsustained, And Infinite. So the smallest thing, even the baddest thing, first exists as some derivation of God, so can only 'bounce off' God's Nature, thus producing a gain due to the bounce-off value, infinity. It's how big God is, not the size of the derivative, as any math and physics student can demonstrate. So the 'return' on any existence reflects Infinity, so we have to use the term 'bazillion percent' to reflect the gain value.

God's Thinking, Bible Doctrine, is likewise Infinite, True, Righteous (etc) by nature. So it, too, is pure profit. So if the Holy Spirit invests Doctrine in you, you become bigger. You and I, of course, are not infinite. So, we aren't naturally big enough to hold so much wealth. The spiritual life is entirely and only about wealth, and to get wealth means one has to Grow In Wealth. Bible Doctrine accomplishes that goal; so, once the person is big enough, the wealth in him flows to everyone else. By Divine Design the person, once Infused With Christ's thinking (Bible Doctrine, in verses like 1 Corinthians 2:16), becomes so big, everything he does 'invests'. So, just as it is when something bad 'bounces off' God, every bad thing happening to such an "enlarged" (Bible term) believer bounces off him, so produces multiplying yield for him. For, the Thinking of Christ was built by the Holy Spirit, so is Divinely, innately, Profitable. So, the believer who gets filled up with Bible Doctrine (Romans 8, main theme) can't help but be Divinely Profitable — so, rich. And, as you know by now, the 'poor' are 'poor' because they don't know how to handle wealth. So, by seeing the rich, they learn how to handle wealth (if they want to, that is) — and by mimicking the rich, they themselves can get rich.

God doesn't believe in welfare programs, primarily because such programs teach Dependence On Goodies, rather than Dependence On God. That's why Israel's welfare program was so puny, i.e., poor could only glean a field after the owner had harvested it. Bigger example: every third year you collected an additional 10% (flat) income tax from the nation, expressly for the poor. Third Example: Charity done on an individual level is very specific, personal, ad hoc — exactly like spiritual giving (see how Leviticus differentiates between the regular daily and holiday sacrifices, versus the ones people bring). This individualized method of giving doesn't deprecate the recipient, and the recipient knows it. On the other hand, Welfare Programs All Deprecate The Recipients, and teach them to expect money from people. Hurts the soul, is anti-God, this: "cursed is the man who puts his trust in man, who makes his arm his strength." That verse ends with the cause of such a curse — the person has no knowledge of God. So, makes idols of money, people, welfare programs, etc. With 'high sounding' altruism, of course.

So, if on the other hand, man is left on his own, and charity is limited, he gets to look up to God, and look up to Learning how to get money. Thereby, learns how to save and use money. Starting with a little, starting in extreme difficulty, perhaps. It's a slow but permanent process of learning how to handle wealth, if he sticks to it. Every rich guy gets there that way. Those who inherit another's wealth, only keep it that way. You must learn how to forego. It's like dieting: portion control.

As we saw earlier about how the "multiplier effect" works, person "A" buys a product from "B", with the result that "B" can pay whatever taxes he owes, and pay salaries. So every dollar you spend, buys jobs and pays taxes, along with buying whatever product or service you wanted. For a rich person, this fact is exponentially more true, so it's absolutely impossible for a rich person not to provide jobs no matter how he spends the money — well, except that if the money goes to taxes, there is no production from that expense, so no net value-added jobs are added to the economy by it. Instead, productivity is lost. Due to taxes, jobs merely shift, and as a consequence, jobs are always lost. Get a classic 1960's macroeconomic textbook, i.e., by Paul Samuelson, if you find this statement hard to understand. Since about the 1980's, macroeconomics laws, which are by nature as unchangeable as math itself, are no longer accurately explained: political correctness interferes.

A rich person generally has personal use of .1 percent (.001) of his wealth, if even that much. Anyone not rich has personal use of at least 90% of his wealth (97%, in the United States). While the rich person's dollars are greater (because .001 of a Billion Dollars is a lot of money), he spends his time on the other 99.9% — managing it, much like a "steward" (KJV Bible term) — whether he wants to do that, or not. For, wealth owns the rich person, not the other way around. So, then: whatever the Rich Person does, is noticed. Is catered to. Is aped. So, whatever the Rich Person buys with his .1%, Buys Jobs. Moreover, no matter what he does with his money, someone will watch him, learn from him, and make money on whatever was learned from watching. So, the Rich Person is a walking investment benefit for all who see him. He can't ever be anything else. He's also a walking textbook of standards (hopefully, the right ones) — which everyone copies. That, too, generates income to those who watch. For, by copying, they learn to do what it takes to become wealthy themselves. In short: if you get rich in Bible Doctrine ("true riches", "gold/silver/precious stones keywords in Bible), because both the Holy Spirit and Satan & Co. must point you out as being so rich — People Copying You Will Get Rich As A Result. No matter what you do.

So, all those poor spiritually, can get rich by copying you — if you are rich. In Him. In His Word. Until then, what you are learning 'sits' in you, growing and growing — until the time the capital investment is big enough (think what it costs to have enough money to build and operate a steel mill) — to pay off. That's God's plan for your life. That's what Pleroma means. At the point of Pleroma, you are built ("banah", clever Hebrew term for the construction of the woman from the first Adam, forecasting the Bride from the last Adam). Thus, providing the livelihood of millions. Yes, millions.

Preview of coming attractions: What You Think is True Wealth; or, Poverty. Proverbs stresses this constantly. The Lord and all the New Testament epistles constantly stress it, using wealth terms, like "deposit", "riches", "glory", "promise", "reward", etc. (many of these are not translated in English so you don't see them). Why is Thinking, True Wealth? Well, for one thing, anyone who got money had to do a lot of smart thinking to get it. Read the biography of any wealthy person, if you doubt that fact. Next, the quality of life is determined by the Quality of Thought. If you have all the money on the planet, but bad thinking, your unhappiness will result in your losing that money, guaranteed (if not in your lifetime, in your kids' lifetime). Moreover, if you have no money, but have Happy Thinking, you have more money than those with money but without the thinking.

See? "True Riches", like the Lord told folks in the Gospels, is Thinking. Which is the Ultimate Wealth. Which, by the way, is the mandate we have toward Father: Think Son's Thoughts. Now, obviously, God owns everything: so what would God consider valuable? Son's Thinking. So, What you think is the true value in life, according to Very God. This Thinking Must Be Accumulated, Just Like Any Other Type Of Wealth. The more of it you have, the more you can do with it. The more you can do with it, the more yield (return, money on money) you get. The more yield, the more happiness you have. See? Better than money, 'where thief cannot steal nor moth destroy', as the Lord put it in the Gospels. Where your treasure is, there will be your heart (circulation of thought, Bible metaphor).

Excluding 'timing' trades (a type of smart gambling, like commodities and options traders do), there are basically two types of investments in life: long-term, and short-term. Short-term investments, i.e., interest-paying bank deposits, are supposed to yield quickly; therefore, of course, their typical yield is correspondingly smaller than would be true for long-term investments. Long-term investing means that one's ability to forego is 'stretched', because one waits longer for the yield to be realized. Thus, there is an increased Risk Of Loss Of Principal and Capital, for the longer you wait to get paid, the more chance there is of the payor being unable to do it (because of extrinsic attacks, etc). Moreover, longer-term investments typically require a larger amount of capital investment than a short-term one. The same exigency of a bigger-deposit also applies to investments which pay you more, kinda like a minimum bank balance being required to get certain 'goodies' from your bank.

Examples:

Hence, long-term investments usually entail considerably more risk, but usually pay off many times more than small-term alternatives. The bigger yield must 'make up for' all that extra waiting, and risk. Bible Doctrine is the most risky investment of all, because it has the most enemies, and because God's Infinity means one must accumulate a lot of Doctrine before the "payoff" can be seen! For, investing in Bible Doctrine means you are the target for the investment! God invests in you for the long term (eternity)! So His Investment (with your consent) is designed to pay off, in you! So what's the risk? That you won't stick with it, but rather you'll 'sell out' to Satan's counterfeit investments...

So, then, you are taking a risk, too. You think how, 20 billion years from now, you yourself will have had 20 billion years of perfect rapport and happiness with the Most Gorgeous Persons in the Universe; that you will have had 20 billion years of perfect rapport, activity, happiness with all your fellow beings. Moreover, that 20 billion years is just a drop in the bucket, compared to the billions of billions, of billions of Unending Future Years with the happinesses all just being bigger and bigger and bigger... All this, God promises is the result of investing in Bible Doctrine during this 'dust speck' period called "life". Think, then: isn't the rate of return on 'your' investment in Bible Doctrine, a bazillion percent? Which He Himself (Holy Spirit) Alone can invest in you (you merely consenting)? So what's your risk? That you'll get tired of 'waiting', and instead opt for Satan's pretend-gain investments, which are all really debt, so you become a spiritual bankrupt!

So what have we seen thus far, about "numbers"?


So above all, since God is Omniscient and therefore Must See All The Small, As Well As All The Big, At Once And Forever; don't you immediately know how He'd design the relationship between Doctrine-Dollars and life? Wouldn't

  • He demand that the Small Leverage The Big (be catalysts for far bigger gains than if the small didn't exist)?
  • He demand the small have a "multiplier effect" due to Multiplying Value-Added Circulation, yet another way for smallness to leverage big results?
  • He demand the 'net tax' be zero, since taxes have no production, but instead, only added cost?
  • He demand Capital Investment In His Son be not only totally Pure Profit, but also the means whereby all the small pettinesses taxing life, are made into Catalysts of Far Bigger Gains than would be true, absent their existence?

Of course, only God could make those bullets hit their targets!


God is the Ultimate Capitalist, and Thank God for that!


So Balance-in-Numbers Makes Church "Ripe" for Rapture

God thinks, therefore we do. The question is, what do we think? Literal Hebrew of Proverbs 23:7a tells us, "as he calculates in his soul, so he is". Calculates, reckons, considers, weighs pro's and cons. Verse's main point is that you can't trust the outer behavior of someone, because his inner calculations, are against you. So he may look nice, act nice — but you'd be better off avoiding him. Pretty strong language, in that passage. Of course, sooner or later we all have run into (or have ourselves been) such a calculating person, ouch!

Thinking determines everything in life. How you characterize an event is how it will affect you. If you were fondled by a priest when you were 11, and you forget about it, it means nothing, and you were unharmed. Doesn't matter that the priest was horrible to do such a thing. If, by contrast, you stubbed your toe and agonize forever after about it, you are severely affected by it. Doesn't matter, that it was only a stubbed toe. Psychology is based on this premise: How You Baptise A Thing, Determines Your 'Reality'. Yeah, in the sense that You Call Real Based On Your Thinking About 'Whatever'. Doesn't mean it really is true, but does mean that's how you'll think.

So in aggregate, man's thinking adds up to a whole lot of bad and good stuff going on. Wives think husbands cheat, husbands think wives only want their money, children think their teachers are mean, everyone thinks Martha Stewart is guilty because she almost lied: so she unjustly goes to prison. The prison is real enough, even if the basis, is not. Principle: bad thinking and good thinking have real effects, even if based on falsehood. I keep bringing up the Stewart case because it is so indicative of the 'sickness of accusation' in the United States. Flimsy stuff which people crave to accuse, is the sign of a nation about to terminate under what my pastor calls the "Fifth Cycle of Discipline": Old Testament talks about this a lot. It's in Isaiah about every other chapter, and occupies most of Zechariah, Hosea, Malachi. Jeremiah spends a lot of time on it as well. General principle is Matthew 7:1-2, but here writ large for the nation.

Oh boy, then we gotta know What Aggregate Amount Of Doctrine Money, Church Needs! Hmmm. Let's start with a smaller question: what's a "buck" of Divine Thinking, worth Now? Well, the only legal tender and 'capital' in God's Kingdom is His Son's Thinking, Bible Doctrine. What's the "multiplier effect" of that "buck" of Doctrine? What's the "tax" imposed on a populous, if that "buck" is not circulating? Conversely, What's The Capital Investment Growth, If Enough People Invest In His Thinking?


God's "GAAP" Accounting: Seven Doctrine-Diamond Facets per "Buck" of Divine Thinking

"GAAP" in the American Public Accounting means "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles", meaning the standard by which ethical accounting, should be practiced. Well, God's Accounting is always and only based on the Impossible, in order to be Infinitely Acceptable. Because "nothing is Impossible, for God." That verse is in the context of the rich man asking Christ what good deed the guy could do to get to heaven (Matthew 19, Luke 18, and especially Mark 10:17ff). Because even he knew that his wealth wouldn't get him there. What he didn't know, was that all the good deeds he could ever do (and he was doing a lot of them, with all that money)... wouldn't add up to a hill of beans in God's Accounting. Because, God is infinite.

So, man being finite, can't ever even begin to be on the same playing field. So no spiritual currency; so how can any good deeds, ever matter? Christ thus stressed the futility of good deeds as an instrument of salvation or credit toward God (see also Romans 4), by making analogy to what was then known as the "eye of the needle", a night gate into the walled city of Jerusalem so small, you can't get a camel to fit through. You need to know that camels were not kosher. So Christ is also saying that Works Are Not Kosher. Hebrew "kasher", from which we get the Yiddish "kosher", means to be right, proper, fitting — acceptable. Paul plays on this meaning in the last two Greek words of Romans 12:1. Only man could get in that gate (so, no works can get in): and it was the only gate through which you could go, after dark. Everyone knew about that gate: so this is also a witty warning to believe in Christ while the Light is still Shining (while He is still down on earth). This scene parallels verses about Christ being the Door of salvation. (But not in the Revelation 3 passage on Laodicea, since that is talking to carnal believers. "Church" means believers. Not all uses of "salvation", not all uses of "door", are the same, duh.

See, if you don't know that the rich guy was hung up on his money because of his honoring his father, and his doing good deeds with the money, you miss the entire import of the passage. And you know that's the kind of hangup he had, by the question he asked. Moreover, in the Mark passage, the guy runs up and kneels (oriental sign of complete deference) at the feet of Christ. So he believed Christ was a good teacher... he just didn't take that next step, of seeing Him as Savior — we should take deep notice, of that kind of unbelief! So pity the greedy legalists who use this passage to rail against wealthy people, and thus miss the Wealth Of Beautiful Doctrine really in the passage. They thus have the exact same hangup as the rich guy they rail against. The rich guy was thinking he could buy his way into heaven by giving the money into particular good deeds. So Christ played on his hangup: Okay, Then Give It All Away. Kind of like Paul would later do with the Galatians, telling them to chop the whole phallus off, not just the foreskin, in Galatians! (How my pastor loves to linger over that Galatians verse! It's a play on the cult of Cybele, in Galatians, a real tweaking verse!) But look: even that's not enough, see — for Christ then told the rich guy, "then follow Me." So give all your money away, avails you nothing (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). So pity those legalists who harp and harangue, to get your money, in the alleged "good cause" of helping the poor, etc. Christ saw through all that. Hope we do, too...

Okay, time to roll out the Seven Fabulously-Impossible Diamond Facets in Every "Buck" of Divine Bible Doctrine!


First and Founding Facet, Impossible Ruler Over Impossible Ruled:
Believer learning Bible is the Sole Conduit for Divine Blessing to the Human Race.

Divine Thinking in us puny humans is of utmost historical importance to the preservation of the human race. Satan rules this place. So people can't get blessed by God, except through us "salt". It's a Judicial Issue: the one who you select as your ruler, rules. So the one you didn't select, doesn't. See Romans 6-8. The unbeliever is selecting Satan, whether he knows it or not. The carnal (not using 1 John 1:9) believer is also selecting Satan, but his legal status remains as a citizen of Heaven (Ephesians 2), so some "de minimis" blessing still goes 'through' him. For, he's getting time to grow up. Clearly, the growing believer who's using 1 John 1:9 is selecting God. So, the Blessing thus Authorized through venue of that person, is.. stupendous. Note how it's not due to works.

As per the Trial basis: who is better for the human race, God.. or Satan & Co. The Superior Side wins. So the superiority has to be demonstrated, but within Trial terms. And one of the most important of Trial terms, are man's Votes. Voting for God, is the harder of the two votes to make, and it almost never 'plays' pretty. Voting for Satan & Co. is always the easier of the two votes to make, and they'll play any way they can, to get your vote. So for the Divine Benefit Plan to be operating, believers must exist. Since Satan's plan always ends with ennui, the human race needs Divine Blessing. But, isn't Voting for it. Thus believers have always been automatically determinative of history: even though technically we are "no longer of the world", and even if we ourselves, Do Absolutely Nothing, But Breathe.

This point cannot be overstressed. If there was only one believer on earth, and that person was bedridden, barely able to think, even; but what few thoughts the person had, were Doctrine, the entire planet would be blessed in some way. Even if not doctrine, but alive, Divine Blessing is allowable, because that person once believed in Christ. Never underestimate the power released in consequence of the Cross, Ephesians 1:19 and Ephesians 2:7. You can practically predict a rise in prosperity following a rise of interest in getting Bible, anywhere in history you look.

There are at least seven categories of this conduit role of Blessing which occur locally, regionally, nationally, worldwide:

  1. Blessed time. You can prove this conclusively from the Bible.

Shocking stuff, thoroughly revised and updated for 2007. Smaller time grants also apply, and some of them are quite dramatic. A good example of a short grant was D-Day, where because Hitler slept, the Allies were able to successfully land. God blessed that time — a very strategic time — due to one or more individuals who were learning His Son. We'll know who they are, at the Bema.

  1. Blessed Weather, Agriculture, Economics, Economics, and all manner of physical stuff on a grand scale — all this is outlined in Leviticus 26. So the whole world is affected! You can easily prove all this from Scripture. The general principles are repeated as threads throughout Scripture, but summarizing chapters like Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28 give you a panoramic view of how the Divine Blessing Plan works for a believer (under any covenant). So if you want to bless mankind, grow up in Christ.
  1. Blessed other-category Circumstances. These are all secular blessings, things people yearn for, when we are positive. Secular cursings, things people fear, when we are negative. They are not 'small potato' blessings and cursings! Category is broad, but would include whatever goes along with the Leviticus 26 category, above. A big category would be cultural and societal norm changes. This you can prove historically. Whenever many people begin to believe in Christ, the actual social structure changes where those people are located. So, for example, you'll find that during the Civil War, many people came to believe in Christ — and if you read how people reacted to the war, you'll find an astonishing amount of honor thinking, whether the individuals were believers, or not. The West developed for this reason, actually. People who did not believe, were still attracted to the virtues they saw in those who did believe. So they adopted secular ideas and copied them, thus growing secularly in the process. The West was once a wild continent of savages worshipping trees and rapine. Christianity civilized its ideas (and also harmed its ideas, both trends). You can say the same thing for certain cultures, like China and Islam, though these latter two demonstrate a cruelty which Christendom unevenly grew out of. Still, the root idea is that good thinking is attractive, and gets copied. So clearly God's Thinking would have a far greater impact on even the secular happiness of unbelieving mankind.
  1. Blessed people. There will always be some nation or nations on the planet who are 'celebrities' in each generation. The baton passes as Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 play negatively. Just as in the Old Testament, when Israel was a haven people could seek to learn God, so also some Gentile nation or group of nations, today plays the same role. It's a freedom role. Freedom to learn God. Substitute for "nation", "region", "neighborhood", even "family". Pockets of prosperity, from the very small (i.e., you), to the very large (a polity). "Prosperity" doesn't necessarily mean visible prosperity, though the larger scale "blessed People" categories, are usually visible (visual aid). The United States is an example: note how everyone loves to hate us, yet apes our ways of doing things (for better and for worse). They see us as prosperous, and they want to have what we have. Even though "democracy" is not necessarily a good idea, the Freedom Of Opinion, is sacrosanct: were the United States not here championing the idea, many nations would be under far greater tyranny, because there would be less 'competition' for the minds and hearts of man.

Visible or no, "Prosperity" will always be a Prosperity Of Thinking — a vigor, a vitality, a virtue. It won't necessarily be visible, this good thinking. Sometimes, the blessed people are undergoing testing, so things can actually look quite bad. But blessing is nonetheless true: The Greatest Blessing Ever In History, Was The Thinking Blessing Christ Himself Received On The Cross, Isaiah 53:10-11. For That Process Opened His Soul For Full Compatibility With Father, Isaiah 52:13 tied to Isaiah 53:10-12, Hebrews 1-2, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2 (well, the whole book)!

  1. Blessed Competence. Usually, but not always, competence resides in the nation (etc.) of the blessed people. Sometimes the competence is developed elsewhere, and a blessed nation (region, family, etc.) gets help from such other place(s). "Competence" means ability to function well despite the many foibles in the world. It is a vital blessing. So vital, in fact, that one of the hallmarks of Leviticus 26 cursing, is a loss of competence in economic, political, or foreign affairs. The United States is suffering a massive decline in competence, which is due to lack of interest in God. Come this time next century, we may no longer be a nation. My pastor has warned of this problem for the better part of 50 years.
  1. Blessed Learning. Here, the root idea is that thought is contagious. If you are learning God, your thinking will become more competent in other areas as well, to support and enhance the learning of Bible. The abilities to think, reason, plan, decide, analyze are all required to learn Bible better. Holy Spirit provides those abilities, and if you are living in God's System you will be improving in such thinking skills even when not in Bible class. For the idea is, you are to be thinking toward Father 24/7 — so what must happen to your secular abilities? They improve. They improve, since you are to be online with the Spirit in whatever you do. So whatever you do, improves.

So if whatever you do improves, the improvements will be noticed. You have associations with people, and a kind of communication life with them. So, people like to learn from each other, and people will be learning from you: even if you aren't saying anything. This is particularly true since you must be pointed out as a believer — again, even if you say nothing. So you will be watched, copied. So people will benefit from that learning. It's a big benefit, not a small one. For all the problems in life are due to bad thinking. So if you're engaged habitually in good thinking, others will pick up on that thinking — whether you know it or not — and they will thus get the opportunity to improve their own thinking. Again, this is a big deal, since Father likes good thinking, even in the smallest things. And he rewards good thinking, always. If He thus reroutes to you that reward (since despite good thinking, the individuals are not voting for Him to rule them), well... you'll be trained in how to use it. Again (at the risk of nagging) — this is a huge benefit. Not, a small one. All other benefits are due to it, for a populous must have Capacity For Blessing, and all Capacity, is born from Thinking.

  1. Prayer is exclusively a conduit blessing which you control. You are the exclusive authority, here. If you don't follow the protocol, your prayer won't count. Only the believer has the privilege of prayer, and only if he prays following the protocol, will he be heard. Our world would be in much better shape if we properly prayed, i.e., 2 Chronicles 7:14. So all of those Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Shintoists, and other faiths who think their prayers get heard, well... we need to pray for them, too, since they are praying to the wrong name — God won't answer to a fake name or belief any more than you would answer if someone called you by the wrong name. We don't use prayer properly. We don't ask God for big things, we don't really believe He'll do what we ask, and what we ask, is absent sufficient Bible understanding. We don't think big, like the kings we are in training to be. Okay: so what to do? Practice. Guess. Learn the protocol until it is natural (it's real simple, a question of being in fellowship and talking to the Right Person and believing in His Answer). It never hurts to pray often and practice. That's an immediate conduit blessing you yourself can do, anywhere anytime any day. Prayer is a nuclear weapon. You truly can pray anything in His Name — yikes, be careful what you request!

Then there are the individual Scripture examples, to show you the Extreme Blessing Value Of Even One Believer On Earth. Most of the Old Testament, you'll notice, revolves around individuals — depicting, how the world depended on them, as far as God was concerned. One judge, one 'appointed' person for a task — this is God's Accounting! If you peruse those individual stories, you'll find each one of those folks was wacko in some way, for quite awhile — so the world wasn't blessed because of any good deeds they did. In fact, it was solely because they believed (big point James stresses in James 2, but the good deed individuals always miss it). Then, after they grew up in El Elyon, or Adonai, or however they called Him, then they do one or two things which we humans laud. But it took Years Of Believing And Learning, to get them there — which God did to them (another big point James stresses in James 2:22, using Greek verb συνεργέω). If you're under my pastor, think also of what he's taught since 1997 about Jeshurun and Pleroma. So we are all learning, en route there, so Blessing because en route, would also apply in a corollary manner (and on a smaller scale, but look how God blessed Europe after the Reformation, and we know most of the people, even among the 'leaders', were spiritually childish).

God granted the world 1000 more years to live, due to Abraham. Abram found God when he was age 75. Poor guy, he went wacko, on and off for the next 25 years; with the result that the whole world today suffers from one set of cousins (the Arabs) being dead set against another set of cousins (the Jews) — and probably at least 80% of today's world population, has at least one 'drop' of either Arab or Jewish genes in its DNA. God's sense of humor: for "Abraham" means "the father of many nations"! For all during Abram's wacko zig-zagging growth, he kept believing. By the end of that time, he'd grown up, so now he was ready to have the promised heir. Well, look at the result: we are all children of his belief (theme in Romans 4, real important to grasp).

Next example, Moses: due to him, the world got 490 and 1000 more years to live, as well. And Moses got his time, due to Joseph being granted 490 years, so the world got to live from Joseph to Moses, only because of that time Grant. Through Moses, the whole of Israel was preserved. But it's really the whole world, for all history goes by Israel, and Moses was the sole reason for Israel's preservation, at that time. So too, Noah, like it says in Genesis 5: "but Noah found Grace". Compared, to everyone else in the world: God gave the world 490 years and 1000 years due to Noah, without which there would not have been an Abraham, who got his award the year Noah's expired. Many other confirming verses can be listed, like the statement Moses was the most humble man on earth, like the Genesis 5 roster (showing the heroes in God's eyes, and notice how few there were), the Hebrews 11 roster. David, for example, was the reason why Israel continued to exist, namely, in the catchphrase about how God Keeps Israel Alive Due To His Servant David. Then there are the Righteous Branch verses, which refer to Christ; most famously, the Seed passage (i.e., in Galatians 3). So, see? If God Is Pleased By Even One Person On Earth (Job being another example, especially in the Trial context), then the earth continues. Never Underestimate The Priceless Value Of Bible Doctrine Learned And Circulating In Your Own Soul!

Biggest example, David. God gave David six Time Grants! The entire world since 963 BC survived based on them. Daniel 9 is an accounting based on the time grants to David, because the temple was a promise to David, 2 Samuel 7. Temple represented Messiah, was a kind of down payment guarantee that Messiah would come. So the Temple was given its own 490-year time grant, from 950 BC - 460 BC. But apostasy, a kind of negative voting by believers, resulted in God razing the Temple using Nebuchadnezzar, in 586 BC. So it was 126 years short of its 490-year grant. So God allocates back those missing years, in coming up with the accounting pieces in Daniel 9. That puts Time back on track in light of David's three 490-year and three 1000-year time grants, the endings of which bracket the scheduled and realized, lifetime of Messiah, Jesus the Christ. Christ Bought Time by dying successfully on the Cross, Galatians 4:4. So, that's our legacy in Him: but that rule, has been true since Adam.

It makes the religious types very uncomfortable to see that the Davidic line is founded on incestuous prostitution (Tamar, Rahab — see Matthew and Luke genealogy). It makes them even more upset that folks like Moses and David, committed murder (Moses, of the Egyptian, and David, of Uriah the Hittite). And they positively cannot abide the fact David fornicated (with Bathsheba) — and God gives the kingly line, through that Union (via Solomon, truncated, via Nathan, from whom comes Mary)? Well, so did Abram fornicate, with Hagar. Of course, soon after the Flood, Noah got drunk and committed sodomy with his own son! Wow: decades ago, when my pastor exegeted that passage and explained "uncovering nakedness" was the sodomy (the getting drunk was a mistake, since mold was a post-Flood flora mutation), um... I had to really listen hard, since my Bible said nothing about it — yet the (extrabiblical) passage heading, is "Noah's sin" (in my NASB hardcover Bible). Where is the sin depicted? Well, it's covered up, see — in the translation.

So clearly these many heroes were not the paragons of virtue you hear about in childhood Sunday school. So, think! You can be a hero as well. Become one the same way these guys did: Live In And On His Thinking. Don't worry about what a scallywag you are or were — Paul was the worst sinner in history (1 Timothy 1:15, 1 Corinthians 15:8-9), and he lived on Philippians 3:8-14. Keep on keeping on: after all, if you are such a scallywag, then wouldn't that be more reason, to keep on going?

Legalists will never become God's heroes. They are Satan's heroes, though. Like Satan, they pride themselves on how good they are, what they do, how moral they are. Yeah: they, not God. Better to commit sodomy, than think like that. Paul was the worst sinner in history because he trusted in his goodness and morality; and as a result, he did the most immoral things (casting whole families in prison, murdering people — see his biographical sketches in Acts 8-22, 1 Corinthians 15, Galatians 2, 1 and 2 Timothy). And he committed all of that while being highly educated on the Old Testament scripture (2 Timothy 3:7), being over educated means nothing if you're not in God's System. But any legalistic scallywag can alike get into God's System and stay there!

So as individuals, and as a group, we believers are the sole means of the world's weal — or walloping. Scary thought, huh. The unbeliever is never to blame, on a grand scale. Only us. King-sized responsibility goes with a King-sized potential inheritance.


Ergo Second Facet: Impossible Rerouting of Blessing, From Impossible Ruler to Impossible Ruled

We just saw that believers are the sole conduits of blessing to the world. In itself, that First Facet is a direct blessing to the world, not to us, but because of us. Here in this Second Facet, we'll see that the blessing accrues to us, not the world; they share indirectly, due to their proximity to us. This has a multiplier effect, just as we saw earlier with money: blessing is better than money. The multiplier macro preservation value, was vested in Christ, so the rerouting to us, varies with how much we've grown in Him (main theme of Paul's and others, tapping the μερίζω keyword in Isaiah 53:12's LXX). So how much of it we directly get, depends on how much we are learning Him Now.

Notice the parallel. The world breathes because we do, and we breathe because He does, and He does, because He paid for all sins. So There Must be a Far Bigger Macro Effect Due To Believers Learning Him, post-Session. For Now, He Himself is bigger, Having Been Seated, Hebrews 1:4; for He is Risen and Ruling. This fact is the central theme of the Book of Hebrews: see Hebrews 1. We are Body, so We Are To Have The Same Effect on History. Even though, and especially because, we are not of the world, anymore.

  1. So, look at the macro effect: unlike the training Old Testament folks needed, we need much more; so, much more associated Blessing can flow to those who we 'need' around, to learn what we need to learn. Believers (hopefully) cause their nations, Great Blessing. Or, if we are too negative, Great Cursing.
  1. Basis for Blessing to Us: Life Now is all and only about, our Real Role, our Role Real, Our Role Royal: that of being developed into a Royal Priesthood, for Father.
  1. All this, because Father is pleased to do it for Christ: sweet savor principle, like that of the Cross (Isaiah 53:11; and "sweet savor" verses, KJV). Other versions translate the term differently. KJV is uniform, though, so it makes a good search target.

So the sum of these three, combine into a Blessing "ABC": Associated Basis Christ; those associated with us are more blessed because the basis is our need for spiritual Priestly Training for Father, due to Christ. Now you know one reason why the wicked prosper. Some growing believer needs them to prosper. (More often they prosper because believers malign them, 🤣, Matthew 7:1-2.)

For True Blessing in Life is thought, not outers. All the outers in the world won't make you feel good if your soul is full of sick thoughts. Conversely, if your thoughts are healthy, bad outers won't matter. That is a significant testimony in the Trial (Fifth Facet), that blessing is an inner thing, not an outer thing (i.e., accoutrements and works). Only God can bless you on the inside. So then whatever you have on the outside, is worth having even if painful.

Meanwhile, other people are only alive because believers are alive. Because believers need to learn Him, and need circumstances which constitute a Training Environment. A 'job' requires a setup so that 'job' can function. Again, we've voted for God to rule us forever, that first nanosecond we believed Christ paid for our sins. Everyone else, didn't vote for Him (at least, not yet). So, They Continue Only Because We Do. And we continue, only because Christ does. And the quality of our continuance, likewise depends on Him: Learning Him, and not learning the world. For the world, Satan owns. But God, owns us. So what we Think, Learning Him, 'pays' for the continuation of Planet Earth, even as His Thinking on the Cross, paid for us to even exist. See how that analogy continues? See how it's Only about Learning Him?

Next, let's go over the underlying principles to show why "Associated Basis Christ" is true. Essentially, we get blessing from God because our learning 'smells good' to Him. Every one of these Facets is worth megabucks of Divine Diamond Doctrine Blessing to our very souls; but then, God has this 'thing' about matching material blessing to spiritual blessing, per contracts in eternity past with Son, theme of Ephesians 1 and Isaiah 53:10-12. Secular always comes from and reflects, spiritual, in God's laws. That's why everything in life exists in opposites, hypostatically (depicting God-Man), for example (check it out, whether physics, economics, biology, etc). So too, in the Divine Accounting of Diamond Doctrine Blessing Bucks. So you are accruing real wealth: first and most valuable, spiritual — increases your oneness with Christ, so you can see Him better — forever. Intimacy grows. Nothing beats this. Nothing compares to Intimacy with Him, period. However, your ability to express that enjoyment of intimacy, requires you have a body — ideally, a whole kingdom is needed, so you must become a king — and then all the wealth to support that body (again, a kingdom's worth). You will own it all, yourself. People included, if a kingdom. That's the ideal way for a polity to be, if the ruler is virtuous. And we will all be perfect, then. We are owned by God, and we know how Divine a blessing that is! So Divine, the world depends on it: Now, and in the eternal state. So this is real money to go with your real wealth. Count on it. Some of that you'll get even while down here, to train and support you. Maybe a lot, maybe a little, usually times when you have a lot and a little, so you get a full spectrum of training.

Bible "riches" keywords are many, but often translations dilute them. "Riches", especially in the New Testament, means this category: "riches of His Glory" is pretty easy to find. "Treasure" and just about any material-good word (and all food and shelter words) depict Diamond Doctrine Bucks, in the New Testament. For the Word is likened to every kind of material good man has or wants.

So why are we so blessed? God likes the smell of His Son's Thinking in us. I like to call it the "isotropic property of the universe", that God the Father Sees His Son, Everywhere He Looks. To depict this, Old Testament uses the smell metaphor all over the place, signifying that future Son's sacrifice by means of the cooking meat of the Levitical offerings. "Sweet savor" is a really cool translation in the KJV, and it's used often. Idea was that the believer in the Old Testament who sacrificed an animal, cooked it. The smell of the cooking is called "sweet savor". It's a really great tweak at the world's religions of the day, because they all taught that you did something for the 'god', you sacrificed. Heathen religions were all about pain. Even the mandated sex acts were designed to be degrading. So, sacrifice was about pain to you, pain to the victim. Religion is always and only about pain, in any period of history. The other polities also were often hungry. They didn't get blessings of weather and agriculture, akin to how in the last Exodus 9 plagues, Goshen (where Israel lived) was always exempted. So if you travelled, you knew you were getting near Jerusalem because all you'd smell, was cooking meat from all the animal sacrifices. Meat was hard to come by, in the old days. So right away you associated the blessing of food, with Israel. Easy to want to convert! So these two things, a God sacrifices for your faith, plus all that meat, did a great job of evangelizing. For Israel was a center of commerce, and the world travelled through her.

Since God is Infinite, and Infinite Love, no pain can ever compensate Him. Only what He does can compensate Him. So, God can't be bribed, either. Moreover, although justice requires an eye for an eye so to teach all that there are consequences to sin, every Levitical sacrifice thus a) had no pain inflicted on the animal (carotid was cut, thus cutting pain); b) the blood and fat were the central elements of the sacrifice, depicting the life itself, not works by that life; and c) the rest of the sacrifice (the commercially valuable part), was either burnt up (to show it didn't contribute, to show total dedication attitude) or was eaten. This latter represented Reconciliation with God. So the Sweet Savor was Communion in all cases: life given due to dedication can only be given if desired, so it's not about any works, but about love. Eating together is likewise a form of Love of Association. See Psalm 40:5-13.

Via the Mosaic Law then, and the spiritual life Now, God refutes all religious notions and says, No, it's not really sacrifice, but Dinner Together. You don't regard it as sacrifice, to prepare a meal for people you love. You don't regard it as a sacrifice, to prepare and then eat, what you enjoy. God is about Togetherness, not pain. Dinner is always regarded as a togetherness, social function, especially in ancient times when "dinner" was more like what we'd call a banquet, today. In the Middle East, if you shared dinner with someone, a kind of bond occurred. Fighting with the person afterwards was more difficult, and in some cultures, no longer possible (the hospitality extended created a reciprocal obligation). So God is deliberately communicating to the rest of the world and to Israel, that the sacrifices were what God did for man, not the other way around. Man would naturally want to reciprocate. But how do you reciprocate God?

Since He's really God, He doesn't 'eat'. That's why the emphasis on blood, fat, offal, etc. being the 'sacrifice', and you plus the officiating priest, Ate The Good Parts. Many of the Levitical offerings are partial, with both believer and priest getting some of the meal and meat. Check it out, especially the wave offering. Talk about humor! He likes the 'smell' of what is not beneficial, getting cooked. He also likes the 'smell' of what you end up eating (depicting belief). Notice how the thing has to be cooked, to be useful.

For 'Smell' is an intangible thing; so is Thought. It's interesting that the sense of smell is so vital to man's life, such as Richard Axel's work on the subject. Therefore, the ultimate Chef, Christ, cooked all our sins on the Cross By His Thinking (Isaiah 53:10-12). Thus, He Who Was Made Sin, Made Sin Useful, Savorful, to God. He did this by Getting The Truth Poured Into Him, Not By Works. No amount of good deeds is powerful enough to deposit Truth into the soul. So if the soul remains tainted, all the good deeds in the world can't fix it. All this, the Levitical sacrifices explained metaphorically: especially, with the emphasis on blood (depicting Circulating Thought in 'Messiah ton Come'). For the quality of life with someone depends on Shared Thinking. All the good deeds in the world can't create, rapport.

So the sacrifices depicted this then-future Son's Thinking Toward Father On Man's Behalf, So That Man Could Have Dinner With God Forever.

They got mere 'dinner', but we get εὐχαριστία, Colossians 2:7, His Thinking to 'eat', 24/7. So the effect of that food must be light-years larger than what they got to 'eat'. Well, What Must Be The Macro Effect? If only one guy, Moses, was carrying the whole nation of Israel, God's Chosen People; then what 'multiplier effect' must we potentially have? Moses didn't have the Thinking of Christ in writing, "but we have the Thinking of Christ", 1 Corinthians 2:16 (theme of the epistle). Moses saw through the veil, and he was the only one allowed to do so; but we have unveiled face; he saw like a child, but we can see as adults (1 Corinthians 13:9-13).

Rerouting of blessing to us spills over to them, since we are in the world being 'cooked', while they remain raw. Idea is, the Smell Of His Thinking Is Innately Admirable, and so maybe they will opt for getting cooked, when they 'smell' us. That's a corollary and very minor reason for our existence down here, since The First Reason Is To Think Toward Father What Pleases Him To Hear/'Smell'. But it's impossible to be down here learning Him and not 'smell' good to others, even if one never talks about God. It's the Attitude. Oh boy, people notice!

If you've been addicted to Bible, you've probably blurted out stupid stuff about it to others. So they know that you're into Bible. As you grow you learn not to do this. It takes time. As a spiritual kid, you think you're supposed to do it (idea of being loyal, wanting others to be saved, wanting to express what you are learning). As a spiritual adult, you realize that folks are upset to hear you talk, not only because you were too pushy (maybe); but really, because God the Holy Spirit and Satan & Co. are pointing you out as someone who knows God. That pointing is needed since those folks need to know God, too. They will rightly consider it superior to know God, and will react. So you will get these weird reactions, obsessive behavior toward or against you by others. When even perfect strangers who do not know of your addiction treat you in the same manner, then it will dawn on you that your own behavior, is not the cause. That's one corollary function of rerouting. Information goes out, even if all you do, is breathe. Remember how the demons chased the Lord in the Gospels (especially in Mark's), and He had to keep shutting them up?

See the multiplier effect: your thinking 'circulates' just like money does. And those who pick it up, pass it on. You also get thinking passed on, to you. So all this thinking cycles in a polity, and the strength or weakness of that polity depends on the circulation of thinking in it. That's what God is building, an Eternal Set of Federated Polities — Kingdoms — which have a Perfected, Synergistic Thinking Structure. For we will be sinless forever, yet have free will. It's not a magical status. We will know enough to not want to sin, even as God Who is Omniscient, never wants to sin. He can sin. He won't, because He knows what sin is. He doesn't like it. He likes that sweet savor, instead. Even you are not tempted to sin certain types of sins, because they don't 'smell good' to you, and nothing can make them 'smell good'. Something you know about those sins makes them forever smell bad to you, so you are not tempted. Well, magnify that idea out to infinity, and you know why God will never sin any kind of sin, even though He being Omnipotent, could do so. Next, you now can see how we will be free in the eternal state, yet never sin. So that Thinking Structure of His, needs to be built in us. Multiplier effect, variety, hierarchy. rerouting, therefore.

So even now, God 'deploys' you as it were, to an audience. They get information from you, whether you realize it or not, whether you talk about God or not. In exactly the same manner, that selfsame 'deployment' creates contact; because they are associated with you in some manner (even a chance encounter), God Can Justify Blessing Them. For, you must have some need of the encounter (i.e., for spiritual training, the foremost reason for deployment). So, They Have To Be Blessed In Order For Your Need To Be Met. The company you work for must be blessed, so you can be paid. The nation you live in must be blessed, so you can live in it. Notice that carefully: you are the cause, not them. You need it, so to provide for your needs, they all have to be blessed. What a humbling thing to know!

Now, for the flipside. If you are rejecting learning Him, then They Have To Be Cursed, For You Need Cursing. But, the objective is still spiritual training, so the cursing you get must be modified in light of that goal. Sometimes that means you get much more cursed, thus lessening the necessary curse on them. But too much cursing won't be productive for training. So more often (this is so scary), they get cursed the more. Think of what happened when David did the census (end of 2 Samuel). David didn't get a disease, but 70,000 of Israel, did. Rulers cannot be punished, because they have to keep ruling. So others get hurt if the ruler screws up. That is the most humbling thing to know. Scariest. Just as in the olden days, when the young prince messed up, his "whipping boy" got spanked, so also we need to be frightened of the damage done to others for our own screwups. God isn't kidding when He makes us Crown Princes; as a Crown Prince, you own it all; so your decision affects what you own. No better way to train a King, than by disciplining what and who He owns. It worked for David, and it works for us. Frightening, this.

No extra charge corollary: "9/11" was a reroute of cursing due to believers not growing. The terrorists are just pawns of Satan & Co. So believers like me, my church, who had the most exposure to Good Bible Teaching, are the most responsible for "9/11". I can't pretend it's not true: after these years of research, I realize how very blessed we have been, and how very unappreciative we have been, of it. So, every day, I live with that knowledge. Generals live with the knowledge of how many mother's sons they sent to die in battle. Kings live with the knowledge of how many of their own, they damage when they make a bad decision. Can't learn leadership, else. Can't be a blessing to others, apart from this understanding. Which usually is learned, the hard way. For a king is but human. Big role, big mistakes, big learning (hopefully) — so that all those damaged, did not suffer in vain!

For Bible Doctrine really is the ultimate wealth, and if you were given a lot of it via your pastor, well... then you have a lot of liability when things go wrong. It's one kind of liability if you never learn Bible, or learn it a little bit; it's another kind of liability when you did learn a lot, but didn't progress as a result. See, the goal of learning, is Living On What You Learned. All too often, people who get good Bible teaching, sorta preen about it, and a kind of roteness, a 'flashcard knowledge' approach, is adopted. To preen, one must have petty markers, like how much Doctrine one knows. That is not really knowing, anything. Until you can account for the whys, and live on the Diamond Doctrine, you don't know squat. And of course once you really do learn the whys and living on, you realize you are still a nothing. For it is so much more valuable, than you. So you don't preen, you Prepare. With fear and trembling, as Paul remarked (Philippians 2:12).

Lest you be tempted to think God is arbitrary, understand that the blessing or cursing which happens, was already due those who got it. Problem is, the bridge might have been out on how they could get what was due. Justice is a tangled thing; what's due also depends on there being a delivery mechanism, and if no mechanism, then Justice is in effect missing. So we believers are used to create bridges where needed. My pastor calls this "the geographical will of God" and other like names. So: cursing is intended to bless just as blessing is intended to bless; and the Blessing, is to be motivated to look up. Man typically only thinks of God when he's hurting, and even then all he thinks is a quick "God, help me!" — and then, danger passed, he goes back to his rote observances, "God" just being a genie you rub when you must. So the truth is, the cursing or blessing is not based on deserving, but based on Need. So if you need cursing, they do also. If you need blessing, they do also. But since they aren't voting for Him, then the need is determined by yours — and is never unfairly administered.

Notice how other people got or lost Time, blessing, due to the individuals God used. A great example, is Joseph. The development of the 12th and 18th Dynasty of Egypt is literally tagged to the 490-year awards to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph like birthday presents. For Joseph, it was a slavery present: Egypt was blessed 490 years due to him alone; and in the 490th year, the Exodus occurred. The 80 years while he was vizier (12th Dynasty, starting with Amenemhat II), gave Egypt a chance to develop so well economically, my 1985 Encyclopedia Britannica waxes rhapsodic about it in its "Egypt, History of" article (without noticing Joseph was the vizier, of course). God uses everyone, so orchestrates all the foreknown effects, so that Justice is Always Served. Because God Sees It, and He should get Sweet Savor. That's why the Cross, so we are free to screw up — that's why everything happens as it does. Freely, yet never 'outside' the Justice Requirement of Sweet Savor, Psalm 37:28, the quintessential Psalm about why you don't worry when the wicked prosper.

So you are being blessed or cursed solely based on whether you are learning or rejecting, Bible. And everyone around you, depends on you learning Bible. Couldn't be a more vivid way to prove that fact, than by how God orchestrates Time around believers, none of whom did any good deeds by modern standards, but by God's Hebrews 11:6 standard!


Ergo Third Facet, Impossible Priesthood For the Impossible Ruled: Thinking Christ-Perfect Thoughts to Please Father

For God measures Value and thus Blessing He can Justify,
by the Divine Quality and Quantity of Thought He 'hears'.
God does not measure value based on action,
but rather on the thought behind the action.
For Thought Alone, Makes Alive.
Therefore even a menial object like brushing teeth,
or a disgusting object like sin imputed on the Cross!
is made Value solely due to Like-Christ Thinking during that moment.

Let's walk through how this works. If a point seems confusing or wrong, use 1 John 1:9 if needed and Ask God to show you the relevant verses. There are so many, I'm not sure which ones you need to see. So what follows is a summary of the doctrines, and any citations will be restricted to those which spring to mind per John 14:26.

So in all events, notice it's not "What Would Jesus Do?" It's "What Word Jesus Thought", and "What Would Jesus Think?" Indeed, Scripture is rife with verses on this "Word Makes Alive" topic. The Bible heroes are heroes due to believing, which is a kind of thought. Trusting in God is a thinking. The widow who put in the two coppers versus the rich guy's Temple contribution before her — she was more valuable than him, based on thought, obviously. The Lord said you committed adultery if you merely thought it. Pharisees were condemned based on their thinking, infecting others by their false legalistic teaching, to think the same way. (Just read the Mishnah, see for yourself how awful their thinking was.) The Hebrews 11 roster of heroes are all measured based on their thinking, and Hebrews 11:1 says Thinking Word is the Trial Testimony. More about Hebrews 11:1 follows later. Point is, thought is what makes alive. Money is not alive. Your body is mindless, so not really alive, just an organic machine. Only Thought is alive, so only Thought is the measure of value for Justifying Blessing or Cursing. Thought applied to intrinsic worthiness however does matter. Intrinsic worthiness is anything God is or has constructed, i.e., Scripture, the basic laws of the universe like morality, gravity, etc. Bucking the system has a correspondingly bigger negative effect when bounced against intrinsic worthiness than when bounced against something stupid. So, ironically, that's why homosexual sex is a sin of devastating impact: because it goes against the laws of nature God constructed. Ironic, though, is the why: because self-righteousness is the most self-destructive sin of all. The homosexual who persists, as indeed anyone who persists in a sin — gets hurt the most not because of the sin itself — since all sin is stupid — but because he uses a self-righteous motive to persist. In short, the most destructive force in the universe is self-righteous motive — thought (!) — which expresses in the bucking itself (i.e., Genesis 3, Isaiah 14:14), rather than, the sin itself! Rebelling is more than sin, and the motive for all sin ("pesha" in Hebrew).

God Is Immaterial: Pure Thought, His 'Divine DNA', so to speak. Godness is Infinite, therefore the only 'body' He has, is a 'Body' Of Thinking, AKA YHWH, Essence (οὐσία), Being (ὁ ὤν = YHWH, Exodus 3:14, a term John uses), Substance (ὑπόστασις), Reality (ὁ Λόγος), The Word (ὁ Λόγος, first meaning, Hebraistic for dabar and emeth). Concrete doesn't think. A couch never laughs. The planet Venus cannot read you a poem named after her. Inanimacy doesn't think. The ability to be alive had to come from Someone Greater Who Was Already Alive. Big hint: "Spirit" means life, breath. Genesis 1:2, incubating, Speaking Into Existence The Restoration Of The Earth. Hebrews 1:3, the Hupostasis, Christ, Who (John 1) was Always God, upholds the universe by His Word. Wow. Thought is pretty enlivening, huh. So much for all those reincarnation fantasies about our coming from some bleeping amoeba, 🤣.

We also know that thought makes alive, because David told us so, in the God-breathed original language texts of Psalm 139:16-17 (Psalm 138, in LXX): David Had No Thought Until Born, Didn't Exist — but when God Birthed him, David Could Think — So To See God's Thoughts!

We also know that thought makes alive because Christ paid for our sins with His Thinking, Isaiah 53:11. Obviously, since He was Nailed to a Cross, Thinking was the only 'thing' He could 'do'.

Word in You run by the Holy Spirit is a Resurrection and Session Power, Ephesians 1:17-20. That's why Bible so often uses Resurrection catchphrases to describe it. In Christ, in God's System (i.e., using 1 John 1:9 so under the Power of the Spirit), the more Scripture you learn, the more you see Truth, so the more you orient to Truth, so the more you Think Truth in whatever you 'do'. So the value of 'whatever' suddenly becomes Matthew 4:4, Thought Applied! Isaiah 54:1, the Impossible Life! We the sterile, bear kids: His Thoughts, dividends of Him, 'children' of Him! Get this: the sterile object of your thought (and all is sterile, compared to God), becomes childbearing! For, God sees the Thought Applied in the circumstance, therefore the meaning of the sterile object, becomes alive. Examples: ἐγείρω, to raise up from death, ἐκ νεκρῶν, out from the dead ones. See also Ephesians 1, and similar passages. The phrase, "out from the dead ones", ἐκ νεκρῶν, occurs over 50 times in the New Testament; I didn't count the Old Testament occurrences. So this is a strongly stressed metaphor for God's Enlivening Purpose and Power. My pastor spent months when exegeting Ephesians 1 over and over and over (three times!), to explain the Biblical moniker of resurrection power.

True Righteousness is Love-based, not hatred-based. Hatred-based 'righteousness' is what you commonly see in the world, all its crusading, shaking the fist and preening over how right and moral it is. That's not righteousness at all, but is indeed Satan's mindset. If you beat yourself up, or think God is beating you up, that sentiment is not coming from God. Hatred-based righteousness wants to crusade, punish and kill things: the prolife movement is a good example of hatred-based 'righteousness'. Any crusading of any type, any marching on Washington, there should be a law, any mass movement of any kind — is all hatred-based. All hatred has a thirst for power and powerful 'show'. This is false morality. The satanic purpose is to make righteousness kill you — make you dead to God, exhausted from all your effort and flagellation.

But Love-based Righteousness is relaxing, a relief, a joy — God's — and wants to make alive. So when you read the Bible, if you read it with hatred-based righteousness, you get a lot of fire and brimstone, pounding. But if you read it with 1 John 1:9 on as needed, you see that God stresses how you are Made Alive Again — to Him. He's happy about you, never condemning, Romans 8:1. The parables of the lost coin, the lost sheep, and especially, the prodigal son, all show Love-based Righteousness. The joy at finding, not anger at what cost the one lost inflicted. Love subordinates. Love substitutes. Love Lingers. Because, Love Loves. And what Love Loves, is Righteousness. Adamantly, Absolutely.

So the Love Absolute Resurrection Power of God is used to save you, and to resurrect your dead thinking soul via learning and living on Bible, 24/7. Just read Ephesians, see that stress yourself. Do you ever wonder why God allows bad to exist in the world? Because He Can Make Good On It. God is Omnipotent, so He can make anything. So, He can make a thing perfect such that it can't become imperfect, instantly. But He doesn't want that. He enjoys the slower creative process, and He wants Free. So He wants to make a thing Free... and then if it freely becomes imperfect or dead, He wants to pay for its perfection and resurrection; and then make it Perfect and Alive, from what He pays. He wants to do it the slow way, the hard way, because He actually Loves Righteousness, enjoys it. So enjoys lingering over making what's bad, good. This is a joy to Him, no matter how much it costs. So here, it's a True Pleasure to save us, and then to remake our souls into His Thinking post-salvation. Not a burden or a chore. So that's why so many Bible verses exult over our future status as sons. Notice how even in the judgement passages the Bible continually stresses the happy side — no condemnation, no remembrance of how bad we were. But only, on how happy we will be. True Love for Righteousness actually enjoys Righteousness, that's why there's no condemnation in Christ, Romans 8:1.

This Resurrecting is the main theme in Isaiah 53-55, and is always masked in translations: the chapters explain in detail, almost blow by blow, how, because we got borne on the Cross, so we become birthed as His sons forever. Isaiah has no end of fun with pregnancy metaphors in his Book, so the metaphor pops up often, and especially when talking of Messiah (i.e., Isaiah 7, Isaiah 9); so, especially the Lord Himself and Paul, plus all the New Testament writers, carry forward the metaphor, thickly threading it through their letters. This wordplay is the main theme throughout Isaiah 53-55. Crescendo verse Isaiah 53:11, "Out From His Labor", in corrected English, are the first two words in Hebrew: wordplay between labor stage of pregnancy, and labor as in bearing a load. Very funny: Hebrew preposition min is always used with birthing or separating connotation, and to study it in Scripture is a treasure worth more than all the world's wealth. Job and the Psalms use the same wordplay with those two Hebrew words. Maybe other verses also, I stopped checking when I saw so many in those two books. Fabulous, how Isaiah uses words there. So fabulous, how you can also use your Word Learned, in your life! Heaven, in earthen vessels!

How apt: we die twice (muth... muth construction in Genesis 2:17) and we live twice. We, born the first time dead at the same time in Adam, become alive to God via that first nanosecond's faith in Christ (John 3, Romans 5, especially Romans 5:12ff). So, if now alive to Christ and in Christ (Romans 6-8, 2 Corinthians 5, Colossians 1-3), then our thinking is precious to God, even as God's thinking was precious to David, the only reason why David felt it worthwhile to be born either time (Psalm 139:17, in context). Physical birth is still a kind of deadness, since one is 'dead' to God's Thoughts. Spiritual birth depends on physical birth to precede, so now physical birth is made alive to God, due to spiritual brith — and thus its sterility is made alive, Isaiah 54:1! Paul plays incessantly on that theme, especially in his grand drama of Romans 8 and all of Ephesians and Philippians, 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 15, etc.

Consider: God already knows how you will be thinking once you've died and are up in heaven. He could have chosen instead to just make you like that from the get-go, eliminating the interim process of you being born physically on earth, Christ having to go pay for your sins beforehand, you believing in Christ and then undergoing whatever spiritual growth you would go through, down here. All that pain, eliminated. God could have just made you as the end product, rather than as a beginning. Sounds good, right? Yes and no. Yes, eliminating the pain is nice. No, because The Pain Never Got Associated with Thought. So it is always a dead thing, never enlivened by the birthing thought could have given it; always a "would of could of should of", never a reality which goes on forever. So it's not merely a God would cheat question — which is impossible, for whatever God wants is valid, even were it wrong, He's Free to Choose — it's an enjoyment question. God would be cheated of Enjoyment, and that's why He won't 'cheat' by doing something which impinges on freedom, whether His... or yours. "Filling all in all", as Paul puts it, end Ephesians 1. Nothing left out, nothing left 'unbaptised', as it were, by Christ's Thinking.

Because Word Makes Alive what was Dead, Thought Makes Alive; So Everything dead (i.e., your body, your life down here) — is Now Qorban

Due to the Cross everything is ruled "Qorban", dedicated to God. Nothing in life is excluded for being too low. Qorban is a voluntary thing. Christ has ruled on it. Now, it's our turn. To the extent therefore that we Practice Him, we are ratifying qorban. So, we get built into Qorban, as He was the Ultimate Qorban, the Holocaust Offering for the whole world. That "qorban" Old Testament concept had two basic elements: dedicated to Destruction, or dedicated to Service — Paul illustrates this with aposiopesis, in Romans 9:20-23. See, the Old Testament problem was, only certain things and people could be dedicated to God, since Christ had not yet come. But now that He has come, everything can be dedicated to God. And everything is... in Him. So now everyone can choose Which Way To Be Qorban: and everyone makes himself a "vessel of destruction", as Paul explains in that Romans 9 passage — if he rejects Christ. Pre-salvation, never believing. Post-salvation, never learning, so No Treasure In Earthen Vessels to Survive Bema Burning (1 Corinthians 3).

Everything is holy, now. It wasn't, before He completed the Cross. Hence our Priesthood is not like the Old Testament (central theme of Book of Hebrews). New covenant, to implement the New Covenant for Israel. So Everything About Your Life, Is Dedicated To God: Qorban. So if you refuse, you get punished. It's Not About Sin, But About Growing Up In Christ. Far worse than sin, then, to refuse. If you refuse, you are still qorban, so you will be devoted to destruction. You never lose your salvation, But There's More Important Stuff To Lose — the Kingship rewards, which make you close to God... forever. Why pastors don't teach this fact, I'll never fathom. A few do: search the internet for "doctrine of crowns". There will be many goofy websites, but a few good ones. My pastor calls it by other names, so you shouldn't get his site in the mix. But the teaching is out there — sparse, but it exists. This replaces the sin question with a More Serious Issue — and obviously, sin obstructs spiritual growth, creates more downtime getting past the habit, etc., so you won't want to sin anyway. The Bar was Raised by the Cross to Ephesians 4:13: that's rarely taught, too. But you should be able to tell that even in translation of that verse, plus via reading even a translation of Romans 6-8, if breathing 1 John 1:9 as needed, the whole time.

The New Testament references qorban concepts often, too many to list. But here is a sample grouping:

So you do not focus your attention on "earthly things", because you are not part of Satan's world anymore. Instead, 'cook' them with Doctrine. Bible says this so often and in so many ways you should be able to open it to almost any page in the New Testament, and find verses on that fact. 2 Corinthians 5, and Romans 6-8, Philippians 2-3, all of Ephesians, Hebrews harp on this fact. Christ talked about it constantly, namely, what does it profit, if you gain the world but lose your soul? He is Your Soul Now. Spirit Is Your Brains Now. Everything else, is qorban for the Royal-Priesthood Training Purpose. Blessing you need for this purpose, blesses the world far more than anything you can ever even fantasize doing. For, God is Infinite, and you are not.

You Are Not Of This World Anymore. God made that happen 2000 years ago. You need to know it, to orient to your new life. Just as, if you got a knock on the door; when you open it you see a dapper attorney, telling you your rich aunt just left you a billion dollars... So also, you are getting God's knock on your door of volition, that Your Status is not some mere peon, down here. Moreover, you are only a Citizen of Heaven. So, you are no longer on earth except as a 'King in Training' (!) and, an Emissary. For which jobs, you need lots of training. Royal jobs are like that: ironically someone else runs your life (scheduled down to the minute); it's time consuming, of long downtime before you do anything at all.

Thinking makes or breaks the value of a thing. You know how upsetting it is when you hear thinking you don't like. Doesn't matter how right or wrong you are or the other person is — it's not likeable, due to the thinking. So a pretty gal with a petty mind suddenly becomes very ugly. So An Ugly Guy or Gal With A Doctrinal Mind, Becomes Very Handsome and Beautiful. We've all experienced this, so now just extrapolate our smaller version of pleasure or upset.. to Infinity. How pleased must God be, when He hears what He likes?

What does God like? Well, you'd have to know the Bible, to know that. You'd have to analyze Bible, to know that. Hence the need to be in God's System, and live on God's Script. Then practice analyzing, learning, playing with, using, living on it, 24/7. So you know He'd not like blaming others, excuses, pity me, bullying, crusading, anti-doctrinal stuff like prolife, false Gospels, rah-rah Jesus (Matthew 15:8), sacrificing, false witness, laziness, hypocrisy, flattering, pettiness, judging, gossiping, maligning, jealousy, implacability, envy, anger (yes, anger is a sin, Ephesians 4:26 is mistranslated, should be "stop being angry" and "stop sinning"), etc. Nor ideally, do you like those things when you hear them in someone else. So what you hear you don't like, don't foist on God, either. That's a starter list, anyway. God is not petty. So we should not think petty thoughts. Religion is nothing, if not petty.

Paul caught onto this fact, big time. Every one of his epistles is a primer on How To Think Scripture. It's really cool to see the way he matches ironies, like in the last half of Romans 5; all of Romans 6 (which is about how you are dead to this world and alive to Christ). Romans 7 is about the paradoxical tug of war the soul goes through, as a result of being divorced from the world, yet finding self still seduced by it. Romans 7 is somewhat prophetic, for just after Paul wrote Romans, he went back into Judaism, doing a Nazarite vow... twice! My pastor spent a year covering that failure ("Paul's Fall" subseries in 1992 Spiritual Dynamics (+ April 1999), maybe 200 lessons). So when he writes about the warring in Romans 7, it's real, baby: read Acts 18-22, see for yourself.

Like Paul, if you keep on staying in God's System, eventually you will have a crisis or epiphany (often, several) where you realize, I just got to get serious about learning Him. It's as if you wake up one day and realize it's only about the Relationship to Him, and devil take the hindmost, you're going to spend some alone time, learning. All that isolated life you see in Moses, Paul, David, the Lord — that's why they spent so much time alone. Once you make this decision, no matter how beset by people and circumstances you are now, God will move heaven and earth (pleasantly or unpleasantly) to get you that time, so be alert for it.

So as time passes, a focus of Looking At God In Your Thinking Will Become Habitual. So you are constantly evaluating, monitoring, analysing. That's an executive's job. That's why they need to play golf or go for other excursions, to get something mindless to do: not that golf is mindless, but missing a putt doesn't put your company in bankruptcy, and it's nice to make a decision which is not going to have epic repercussions. For all that command pressure of thinking, needs a Rest.

In short, it's command pressure you are learning. Command over your thoughts, over your tongue, over your body. Even brushing the teeth is thus of mammoth importance. Does your mind wander? Do you use the time to figure out something you heard in class? Do you relax with God, in the activity? All these things are Thinking Skills. You can't become a ruler without them, and you get no other training except via God's System, which means living on God's Script. Living on — in your head. Not demanding someone else do it. You do it. Kings must become "spiritual Atlases", as my pastor likes to remind us.

This is a hard lesson to learn, that Thinking and not doing, is the spiritual life in Christ. The world is all about you doing something. It's ingrained from childhood. But the spiritual life is all about God doing something to you. So you sit. Christ is Sitting, not running around doing potlucks and charity bazaars, "look at me look at me I'm a good person". Matthew 4 temptations are to good deeds! But you can't do any good deeds God will accept, else every 'good deed' enforcer would be long saved, and there'd be no Cross. Only God Deeds are good enough, Matthew 19:17.

This shouldn't have to be said, but obviously you don't spend your life on a mountaintop contemplating your navel, since the spiritual life is about thinking. Rather, every activity is evaluated in light of Bible you know at the time. Even brushing your teeth. So, since you have a body and family and all kinds of obligations — even if you're not working, you have to take care of yourself — you will have stuff to do, every day. Okay, those things are all Qorban, whether the world would consider them good deeds, or not. So you evaluate them, and your thinking 'cooks' the interpretation of what you do, so to make sweet savor for Father. Whether they also happen to be good deeds in the world's eyes, is beside the point. You obviously will get a lot of opportunities to do what the world also considers good. But it's just a dessert, adjunctive, not important compared to how you think when you do it.

So as you can see, this Thinking toward Father is a full time job. 24/7, really, and it takes nearly a lifetime to get to the place where it's 24/7. So while good academic discipline in learning Bible is important, how you internalize and apply it to your life, and what motive governs, is equally important, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. So it's not only about whether you know Hebrew or Greek, or names of doctrines or whether Sennacherib was defeated circa 701 BC. It's about whether what you are learning, integrates in your soul. A little with a lot of integration, creates Integrity. As my pastor likes to put it, the inhale is the learning, and the exhale is living on what you learned of our Beautimous Word, for Diamond Doctrine learning and living, is God's Currency. Sweet savor of the Cross, in us! "Christ in you, the confident expectation of Glory", Colossians 1:25-27 and 1 Peter 1:7-8.


Ergo Fourth Facet, the Mission Impossible Soul Life of the Impossible Ruled: A Quad-Dichotomous Warring Transformation into Son's Thinking

In the Third Facet, we just saw the Impossible Requirement for Christ-Perfect Thoughts Toward Father. Everything else in life is qorban, devoted; even, brushing your teeth.

So this Fourth Facet is about that Warring Transformation, and the underlying dichotomies which are being resolved through it.


The Dichotomy between Infinity and Finity

First Dichotomy: Infinity is never compatible with finity; that's why Christ had to be Two Natures in One Person, and then in that Dichotomous Status, Complete the Cross Without Sin. The Cross simultaneously resolves this Dichotomy, resolves the Trial and defeats Satan, creates a New Kingdom of Church, as well as accomplishes the payment for sin to Father forever. God is nothing if not efficient in His Goals. It's God Who 'goes low' (ταπεινόω, verb in Philippians 2:8), to Unite with Man. Man can't go up, see. Note well: perfection doesn't mean compatibility. The problem even in perfection, is to get compatibility with Infinite God. The angels were initially perfect too, but not fully compatible: had there been full compatibility, Satan wouldn't have sinned. Same, for mankind: Adam was initially perfect, but not automatically compatible. God, as we know, is Infinitely Perfect. And, because He is, He Unites All Incompatibilities to Himself. That is a Choice. Perfect Infinity makes that Choice, flat. Togetherness, flat. No conditions, Ephesians 1, "filling all in all."

This First Dichotomy between Infinity and finity, is why the Lord said you cannot be a slave to both God and mammon, Matthew 6:24. The entire Trial is about whether God or mammon, is better. "Mammon" isn't really worldly wealth, but the thought process behind it. So, a Trial of Two Thought Processes: God's, or Satan's. So "mammon" isn't money per se, being rich per se — but rather, what conclusions do you draw as a result? Do you think well of yourself, as if some external made you a good person, like the guy in Luke 11:12-21? See, "mammon" represents the world's preoccupation with itself. Idea of believing in, trusting in, and above all preferring something other to God; trusting in whatever that other thing or person is, more than God. Christ is talking about God and mammon in this context: Matthew 6:21's, "where your heart is, there your treasure shall be also." So He's not browbeating anyone when He says you cannot be a slave to both God and mammon. It's just a fact, and He's explaining the problem: the thinking, depicted by "heart" in the verse. Not, what wealth or goodies. But how you value them, i.e., as being your 'god'.

This dichotomy between God and mammon is more fundamentally, the dichotomy between Infinity and finity, for finity is separatist, small, needy. No matter how big it is, its 'interests' are opposite those of Infinity. Infinity is inclusive, wanting all big and small, uniting, loving, holding. Finity must push off, since after all, its birth (creation) is separatist by nature. Mi'ḇeṭen | ἐκ κοιλία, Out From The Womb. See the humorous Hebrew of Genesis 3:22, how God uses the preposition "min" to communicate how man separated from God, due to sin. But look: to be born, to be created, is already a type of separation.

Thus finity by nature is incompatible with God. But God resolves it in the very Person of Christ. Satan disputes God's Solution and Togetherness Plan, so this Dichotomy is a Central Issue in the Trial. Here's how that works:

For it's not God who has a problem being incompatibly united to finity: obviously, since He created. (See also Galatians 3, especially Galatians 3:20 in NASB.) Rather, it's the finity which has the problem. So, finity needs mediation by means of the Truth Cycling in the soul. Thus finity needs Infinity to be Inside, and Cycling. Then the problem is Reconciled, which took Christ a lifetime of growing in the Truth. But look at the result! Even the Cross, is a Joy (Hebrews 12:2). As a result, post-salvation His Thinking in us functionally reconciles our thinking in the same way as it reconciled His Two Natures (five infinitives). This is not the Reconciliation of Salvation, which was already permanently done on the Cross, obtained that first nanosecond you believed in Christ. Rather, this is a resultant functional reconciliation need to get compatibility. A wife's 'reconciliation' with her husband is not merely the official kind (i.e., not divorced), but rather is one of shared thinking. Else, divorced even while still married. We are divorced in our thinking, even though that initial faith in Christ 'married' us to Him forever. So now it's a question of intimacy, which is a kind of thinking reconciliation. For again, finity is not compatible with Infinity, ever. So a continual mediation is required, cycling in your head. Else there is no intimacy.

If you don't understand the Hypostatic (God-man) Union, here's a helpful hint: you get thoughts from two sources, your sin nature and your soul, but you are still one person. One will. You decide between the inputs. You can choose to 'tap' your sin nature (give into temptation), or not. Christ, of course, had no sin nature, but as God, He could have humanly chosen to 'tap' His Deity to learn, to speak stones into bread (Matthew 4:3), etc. Obviously as Human He didn't automatically know all His Deity knew. But He Could Have, If He Chose to. Satan was trying to get Him to choose to, in Matthew 4. The Word He got from the Holy Spirit in His human Soul was so great, not any temptation to use His Deity contrary to Father's wishes, 'broke through'. That's why being God-man was harder, not easier.

So, think: you are getting temptations to give into bodily stuff, to which you must say no. You can only learn how to do that (and it takes time), The Same Way He Did: learn under the Spirit, under your right pastor. Meanwhile, the resultant continual struggle will help you appreciate what life for Him was like.

See? It's not about your weaknesses: those are but a 'format' for Learning Him. He went through it without sin, Hebrews 2 and 4 (last half of each Chapter). We go through it with sin, but look: it's the same process. Our version is small, compared to what He went through, but we get the same spiritual life, so we get the Same Testing. So we can know more intimately, Our Greatest Love Who Saved us. You can't get this knowledge any other way. Learning Bible is the base of operations, the foundation — but Living on it, is a separate learning experience. Because, there is a duality of nature, soul and body. Body can't handle Bible, will always have a childish 'read' on it.

Whom you have come to love. That's why combat becomes what you yearn for, from spiritual maturity, onward. It takes a lifetime of learning.. because He is so big, and this experience is playing for Father. Royally. So it's not about sin, but about Christ!

God went low. Why did He want to do that? We saw in the Third Facet that He wants not only to go low, but forever — for we are forever a low, compared to Him, even once perfect — and He likes it slow, low. He can instantly get what He wants, didn't have to go through this long process of building us, could have made us differently from the get-go. But did not. Why? Satan's positively apoplectic over this, as you'll see in the Fifth Facet. But for now, consider that your own 'dual nature' dichotomy gives the 'high' of you the opportunity of learning to love the 'low' of both you and everyone and everything around you. It's a lifesaver, to look at life this way. Everything teaches what Christ's Life was Like, Why God Chooses to Structure Creation as He does. So teaches His Absolute Love, despite our puniness. During the day, I try to make it a drill to name what about Christ is depicted by some menial or frustrating or grand thing in my life. Then I try to 'rehearse' how He'd view it and deal with it (I like acting). Maybe you'll enjoy doing that, too. Keeps one sane. It's a kind of hands-on Bible class lab, very satisfying.

Repeat: it is Hell Not To Be God, and no one knows that fact better, than God. So He's out to put Himself into us, so that even hell is heaven. Our hell only lasts while we are down here: the purpose of life is to get saved, and then learn Him before we die. For God will only change what you authorize Him to change: love never coerces. So your happiness forever is determined solely by how well you learn Him, down here. My pastor calls this "Capacity Righteousness", and I use the term "soul size" and "dendrites" in the Divine DNA series for approximately the same concept. Another good analogy is a cup size. Idea is, the bigger you are, the more you can hold. Greek verbs αὐξάνω and μεγαλύνω denote that idea of Bible growing your soul ("grow", "enlarged", "magnified" are some of the English translation words).

And as you do learn Him, it's a real pistol, to tolerate life. The high standards and the low body which can never meet the standards, is progressively intolerable. Even if breathing. Even if wealthy and in good health.

God is not compromised by incompatibility, because He created. We are the ones who cannot handle the incompatibility. So our closeness to Him, even in heaven forever, will be limited by whatever Doctrine we lived on, down here. Again: works can't make this compatibility happen. Only God's Word in you, moving (!) can make this happen. When we all are dead and/or Rapture occurs, we'll be standing before Him hearing our future roles. We will not want to have roles closer to Him than the ones we get, because then we will realize just how incompatible we would be, if we were made closer. It's not God who will have a problem with the closeness... but us. So the incompatibility problem we have down here, to the extent unresolved by learning Him, will remain permanent. By our own choice. Nerd note: we will all be a bazillion times bigger and better than we are now (which is why past human talents will become obsolete — and really, the only 'value' will be Christ's thinking in those who have it), but the compatibility differential will still be vast — just that "de minimis" level, the floor, is far higher than we can now imagine. But still, paradigmally, the differentials in compatibility will be vast. Remember that verse in the Gospels, when the Lord did the fish miracle for Peter, and Peter begged the Lord to leave because "I'm just a sinner, Lord!" (Luke 5:8, in context.) That's how we'll feel, only bigger. We will want the distance then for a very different reason, versus now. Now, we are disinterested in learning Our Husband's Thinking, but then... we will be vitally interested, yet — due to a sense of Justice — vociferous about how we should not get so great an intimacy.

For God is Holy; and even though perfect finiteness is short of His Infinity and thus short of His Glory, and thus not Holy — God is not compromised. The term "holy" is so abused by religion, we can't even properly understand it. "Holy" means Pure, Inviolable, Happy. Can't be happy, except to the extent you have integrity: the pressures which knock you down, are more powerful than you, so your happiness is — as it were — enslaved to those pressures. But God is Total Integrity, so nothing can compromise His Nature. So, He wants to Give that Nature, to us. God is "set apart" (root meaning of 'holy' is Dedicated, hence set apart, sanctified). Nothing can 'dent' Him. He doesn't have to work at it, so He Infinitely enjoys Himself. That's what "holy", really means. Safe, secure, not needing any defense, all offenses against Him, simply bounce off harmlessly. Even though, He more than all creation put together, experiences all hells, all pain, all everything — all at once. That's how holy He is. Nerd note: to say God 'experiences' everything is not like man 'experiences'. It's not a feeling. It's an Absolute Knowing, which frankly is the true experience — feeling is just a reflex of the body in response to thought, which is a knowing.

Consider your body's capacities: you can lift so much weight comfortably, run only so fast, engage in only so much acrobatics or gymnastics or racquetball or whatever is your preferred activity. So whatever other activity is beyond your body's capacities, you cannot undertake. Same, for the spiritual life; so the problem is, these limitations last forever. It's kind of like growing up: you only grow so tall, and then you stop. With the spiritual life, there's no inherent limit on how 'tall' you can grow, except to the extent you refuse God's System. You take your soul with you, at the end: so whatever 'size' and 'capacity' it has at that point, becomes forever locked in place (part of the reason for this 'lock' is also because you won't sin anymore, if you can't sin, you also have less of an ability to learn: can't truly know pain until you experience it, can't truly know sin until you experience it, etc). There's a de minimis increase we all receive, and then atop that, an increase for what Bible we learned down here, because Bible increases your soul capacity for Relationship with God. So if your capacity for that relationship remains small and distant because you became intimate with works and rituals — rather than becoming intimate with God, Learning Him Personally via His Word — then you've a smaller soul. Forever. Happy, sure. Free, sure. Freely perfect, sure. But only within a certain sphere of 'activity', so to speak. Your choice while down here, what intimacies you want to have forever.

Satan is royally ticked off at this Relationship God Designed to handle the incompatibility problem; Satan fancies himself mankind's defender, to 'save' us from this Design. Satan's quintessentially moral, and really imagines God is wrong, unfair, Unloving — all due to this First Dichotomy. For it's true that God could have instantly created us all to be what we would become, bypassing the entire growth process. More on these satanic objections will follow in the Fifth Facet. For now, just notice how this First Dichotomy creates all the others which follow. There's a reason why you always feel like a failure, if you love God: this First Dichotomy is it. The more you grow spiritually, the more you notice the Dichotomy, and the more unbearable your life becomes. So just imagine, how impossible it was for Our Lord! Again, more about this Dichotomy follows in the Fifth Facet.


Dichotomy: You Inherit Christ's Training and Position, Despite Your Puny Nature

Second Dichotomy, your Royal Position in light of God's Ultimate Design for Your Life has to be the same as Christ's, even though you are puny compared to Him. God can do anything, including make alive what is dead, Isaiah 54:1. God knows everything, and He wants to put His Son into everything, even as He put all sin into His Son on the Cross. Thus Everything is made Compatible. For us, that means Rapport, Like-Mindedness. Now consider: if you're going to become Like-Minded, then you must get Parallel Training Which Puts You In The Same Position As God Is. Else, you can't know Him well enough to have Rapport. That's why Adam was made ruler of the world (parallel to how Satan was made ruler of the angels). God was training Adam using animals — which were far inferior — to see that God Who is Far Superior, is not demeaned or offended, but happy to grow Adam (and later, the woman). For Power means ruling, not haphazard grabbing and doing like some lottery winner or kid in a candy store, busy purchasing everything you ever wanted, etc. When you have absolute power, you use it based on reasons, since you are not limited by characteristics. Doesn't matter, therefore, that finity is too small. Doesn't matter, then, that a menial task has no innate value. Doesn't matter, then, that sin is disgusting. Omnipotence Can Create Any Result For Any Reason Sovereignty Chooses, and that's How It Will Be, Period. God thinks. So God wants Thinking to be the Criterion, the Reason for judicial matching of thing "n" which is mindless and even disgusting, with Thought "X" which is Christ's. So that kind of reasoning and matching, is what we're being trained in. The pressure helps us gain a stamina so that when when we die, our souls will be big enough for the new life we'll be getting.

Satan is completely bollixed over this fact: you don't bandy about your power. It is to be used sparingly. Matthew 4 illustrates his thought pattern — and ours — rather well. Why not turn stones into bread? Sounds like a good idea. Why not do a power display which makes people believe in You, since they ought to believe in You, since you really are, God! That's good, right? And, why not destroy me for insulting you with an offer of all the kingdoms of the world, since I am evil, and then you don't have to go through the Cross, or you can still go through the Cross? Sounds good, right? For Christ came to defeat Satan. That's good too, right? In short, why does Christ not use His Divine Power? Well, the answer is, the Right Use For The Right Reasons, controls. And Satan's reasoning, isn't right. Sounds right, to us. (Satan is moral, never forget that.) But not right enough. For what difference does it make, if we get fed in the belly, but not the soul? What difference does it make if we believe — if that belief requires flash? What difference does it make if Satan loses, if we don't become compatible with God? See how differently the Lord reasons? If God doesn't want a thing, what does it matter, anything else?

Next related Ruling Issue: we all like creating things. Parenting is a type of creating. When you're rich (or poor, for that matter) — you're the parent of all you own. Owning requires a lot of training and self-control, as any parent or rich person, can tell you. So the Richest Parent of All, Christ — tells us in His Word that He Loves Creating Salvation, even from sin, even from evil, even from all the wiles of Satan. And He loves it being done to Him by the Holy Spirit — slowly. One 'dot' at a time! So now that you are saved to heaven, well — what about saving your soul from all the trashy thoughts, down here? So that Father can smell better thinking? That's why you are still alive, down here. One moment at a time, learning and living on Word, your soul is being remade — fit for the King, from the very soul of the King, in the same 'Holy Spirit Does It' process as the King Himself went through — so that you too can become a King, under Him forever. Pretty creative and parenting, huh.

Ergo you must learn lessons Now based on how you would be, if you were already in heaven and promoted as a king. So when you go through your small life, you must think paradigmally, for the small structures still depict the Big Issues in Ruling. So look at anything around you, and you'll find Underlying Structure Patterns: lots of small stuff which has to be 'just so' in order for some whole to work; stuff which is always a hindrance; stuff which always just works beautifully. High and low, great and small, totally-profitable and total waste. As you work with these things in your life certain thoughts occur to you. Certain Thinking Skills are being developed, used, discarded. Question is, What Quality Of Thinking? Life = Bible principles, or death = world's principles? Life Means Life With God. All else is dead, sterile, futile, ματαιότης — black hole. Rigor mortis, still twitching, pretending life. Nothing is more dead, than morality without God running it. 1 John 1:9 means God is running it. Self considering self moral, means 1 John 1:9 is deemed unnecessary. Self-righteousness is a sin. So that's dead, however moral.

God is big. So we need training in Big, parable of the talents (of faith = Bible = Money), Luke 19:10ff. We don't believe Him enough, so we get little; and then are resentful, wondering why God won't 'do something'. We don't get because we don't ask, James explained. We don't ask, because we are too busy trying to get from other people, what we can get from God. Because, God isn't interesting to us, except for His goodies. So we don't want God to be God, but a dog. So, He acts like one. But the believer growing in Him, wants to know Him. So gets a bigger life — not necessarily visibly bigger, but definitely bigger on the inside. Every decision you make should be made as if you were ruling as a visible king, in public. For, you really are: in public before God and in the Trial, Hebrews 11:1. Even if you lived in isolation. Nothing is menial. Everything is Royal. I must have read the parable of the talents a bazillion times, but it wasn't until just now that I realized how you can prove it's Bible Doctrine which He's talking about — because it's money you invest while He's gone, and He's giving you the Word — dabar, a command, Hebraistic — and comes back, Rapture parallel. How could I have overlooked that obvious reason! Oh well, better late than never. My pastor has taught the meaning for years, and I just took his word for it, 🤣. But now I see it myself!


Dichotomy: Christ's Hupostasis is Replicated in You, so your old and new natures are constantly at War

Third Dichotomy: your entire life is Now "mission impossible": Thinking Toward God must be Christ-Kingly, perfect. But cannot be. Thus you are in the same dichotomous position as Christ was: Divine Thinking Required, but hampered by being human at the same time. Due to Matthew 16:18, it's a requirement of the Trial that we inherit the same spiritual life as Christ's: and how well we live that spiritual life, is the Substance of the Trial and the Reason for the Rapture's unpredictable timing, Greek of Hebrews 11:1 (covered later on). So we are in the Same Position as He is. Obviously the scope is smaller; but you are in Him, so you are in His Same Position, as while He was down here. You need that status, in order to train in His Thinking. So, that's your real status, whatever you look like to yourself and others 'outside'.

Romans Chapters 5-8 is on this Mission Impossible Life. A big threaded theme of those chapters, is the impossible dichotomy of being spiritual yet still in a body, trapped within the 'old' life. Because Doctrine Growing in you, is a Soul-Resurrecting Transformation (theme of Romans 8, mandate in Romans 12:1-3, in Greek). Once you believe in Christ, you acquire a human spirit. Thus you are spiritually alive. But your soul is still full of dead thoughts. So the spiritual life, is one of progressive production of spiritual thoughts, replacing all those dead soul thought patterns accumulated over a lifetime. That's why a person can be 80 years old, yet a spiritual toddler. That's why people who think themselves so informed about Bible and church history, prove to be such spiritual infants when it comes to true spiritual wisdom. Flashcard knowledge is all they have. They don't "get it" about the spiritual life, even after a lifetime's study in Bible. Truly tragic. Paul explains the need to spiritually mature and the problem of fake spirituality, in Romans 8. The Gift of His Thinking replacing our fallen human thinking, is covered in Romans 5; the ensuing thinking struggle once spiritually born, is demonstrated in Romans 6-8. Playing on Isaiah 52:13 - Isaiah 54:1 in Romans 8, Paul likens the spiritual life to pregnancy: a fetus being developed, stressing the deadness of fallen thinking being converted gradually into His Thinking; such that one is 'born' to eternity, when one dies. Very witty, not too visible in English.

Upshot of these Chapters: Parallel to Christ's Own Innate Structure as God-man, the Believer Becomes Two Natures within himself, and these two natures are not at all compatible. It is no exaggeration to say that a mini-Hypostatic Union is Being Created in you. So you will constantly be at war with yourself. Romans 5-6 explains the basis, and The New Hupostasis You Find Yourself In, due to being in Permanent Union with Christ; 5 is about the basis and its eternal goal (not well discernible in English); 6 is about the Union, and the death of the 'old husband', the sin nature. Sadly, translations can't show the marital and pregnancy wordplay rife in the Bible. Each Bible writer uses keywords, and Paul especially makes very sophisticated use of them in all his letters, for he knows they are to tie together. So first read Romans 5-8 over and over until you see something of an outline. Then, do it all again and again — this time, with Bible software which has lexicons with etymology. For, Bible wordplay makes extensive use of etymology, and you will miss the point of what's said, if you don't know the etymology of the original words. If you can't afford that or do that, parse out the origin of the Greek syllables, since most Greek words are compounds of simpler words you can look up. So, break down compound words into the root meanings you can search on. Like, μένω means to dwell, remain, etc. Ὑπό means "standing under" (connotation of submission, trust). So, ὑπόμένω means to remain under, dwell under as a mental attitude. So, stay under, keep going on in the Word! Granted, you need to know the idiomatic meanings as well, but at least you can get some of the etymological wordplay which is stuffed into every word of the Word. If you're interested, my pastor exegeted Romans verse by verse, and frankly that's when all the Greek-geek stuff I'd been learning under him, began to gel for me — it's the 1977 Romans series, about four years of daily classes. You can order them for free on USB or DVD from his ministry. Suggest you go sequentially, not topically, with anything you order from that ministry, so you get the comprehensive fit of the doctrines as you learn them.

So, Divorce And Remarriage Is In Progress; and you know what a fight that is! So, Romans 7 shows how it feels, and Romans 8 explains what it is and how to resolve it: Bear Kids For Your New Husband, His Thinking! Very funny in Greek: you yourself are a spiritual child growing up in Him, and yet the Thought He (the Spirit) teaches you in order for you to grow up, also makes you become pregnant! 🤣 Hence the war, your "labor pains": your flesh (your nature apart from what you learn of Him) will never learn the Doctrine, for it is only spiritually apprehended under the Spirit (1 Corinthians 2, Romans 8:1-10). Romans 9-11 are a parenthesis explaining how Israel and Church are related. Isaiah 53-55 are used to continue the birthing analogy climaxed in Romans 8. Romans 12ff then basically answer questions related to, 'where do we go from here?'

This new tripartite structure (body/soul/human spirit) eventually makes the Christian either the happiest person on the planet, or the most miserable. No middle ground. So as you grow, you will constantly mistake your 'normal' human nature's recalcitrance for something bad about you, because due to learning Doctrine you are no longer compatible with your human nature, frankly. So the truth is good, not bad: you are being remade. You're in a chrysalis, now. Your old nature is the chrysalis — that's all it's good for. So, it keeps on acting like it is, and by contrast, what you are learning about Him changes your soul to be more Spiritually Compatible: but the body, never learns (Romans 8:7). It will abuse, misuse, mutate any doctrine you learn. Obsessively.

For if thought makes alive, then it also, kills. Old sin nature is essentially an unendingly arrogant warring, a death thought pattern with its own thinking skills, as my pastor likes to remind us: self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption. If you become competent in arrogance, you will come to love, hating. At the extreme end, you would love hating so much, even flames licking around you in hell, buttress your hungry ego: note the extremely cruel thought pattern of the rich guy in Hades, in Luke 16! Have you ever seen two people fight? Didn't it occur to you, oh, they both are so silly/ugly/stupid! How tragic! But clearly, those in the fight were so wrapped up in fighting, they didn't see themselves 'from the outside', and fancied themselves, both absolutely correct! So you, on the outside, see what's really true. But they, on the inside, are living this warped fantasy. And there's no way you can explain anything to them, then.

So you'll see this internal arrogance fighting the growing Word in you, and the fighting becomes very intense. Notice how you learn via this struggle,

Hence as you grow spiritually, you will progressively hate yourself. For your standards about "good" are rising, and you of course never measure up, theme of Romans 7. God accomplished Our Spiritual Births via the Hypostatic Union of His Son on the Cross; and accomplishes our spiritual growth, via the Thinking of That Son growing in the Church believer ("in Christ" verses). Therefore, you are in Union with a Nature not compatible with your own, so your desires keep on reflecting that fact. So the battling you feel, is the incompatible human nature, going against the spiritual nature you inherited as a result of Him Mediating Himself via all those Truth Deposits.

So, that is your solution, also: "Keep On Keeping On" with the Doctrine: an American expression of perseverance. You can't explain to your human nature that its obsessive fighting is wrong. No extra charge corollary: that's why you can't straighten out anyone else, either. Crusading is futile. Instead, just keep using the Doctrine you know under the Spirit: tell your new self what's really going on, Romans 7-8! The battle doesn't end until you die. Accept the fact or do not, but that's the truth of it. More about the nature and origin of this incompatibility is covered in the Fifth Facet, since incompatibility is central to the Trial. "Positional sanctification" and "experiential sanctification" are also theological buzzwords used to describe the difference between your actual structural nature, and the process of Reconciling via Truth Deposits, by the time you die. Unfortunately, these buzzwords are poorly explained, so many think experiential sanctification is a 'works' thing. But Bible says Truth depositing in you is what experientially sanctifies you, i.e., in Romans 5:5-8:4ff. So you can prove in Romans 5-8 what Bible says these terms should mean. See also Hebrews 4-10.

Satan & Co. use that growing frustration at yourself to foster substitute thinking so you can get relief. That's why Christianity goes in for works, ritual, etc. to make themselves feel 'spiritual'. Yeah, only the body feels, and it is dead, so the thinking substituted is likewise dead, passing itself off as alive: Frankenstein's monster. Just so much meaningless electrical current, making body parts move like reflex motility, chained to the table, fancying oneself holy. All Christianity reflects this fight, with the body's distortion, winning. It's one thing to be saved; it's quite another to grow up spiritually. The thinking is the issue. So if belief that body does something to be 'spiritual', then that view is dead as the body, get it? Christianity thus has historically played mortician, selling God as Doctor Frankenstein. Your big clue? Look who is emphasized in Christianity: people. What we do. What we don't do. What we find immoral. What we find moral. And then worst of all, we slap God's Name on everything we say — and bethink ourselves holy! That's 1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 2:4, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22 (see 2 Timothy 2:26 - 2 Timothy 3:7), etc.

So works, which are done by a non-thinking body, are absolutely not the Bible's prescription for spirituality. Works are so excoriated, real Bible practically nags the reader: can the writer of Hebrews make it more bald, than to say "dead works"? Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 6:1-6, good deeds are dead, just like the temptations to them in Matthew 4. Really vivid, in Hebrews 6:7-8, showing how without the Water of the Word 'watering' what you do, your deeds are but prickly weeds, harming anyone touching them. Of course, in the original language texts, you see clearly that any praising of works references God's works, never man's, wholly consistent with Isaiah 64:6. In all such verses, the article is used either monadically or omitted, to stress Divine Actor. But in translation, 🤣 — all that meaning is stripped out, reversed — so it looks like man is doing the works, "praise me praise me praise me I'm so good". Satan's not stupid: he knows what to target, in Scripture mistranslation! 😈

Two-sided dichotomy, then: internally, and externally with respect to everyone around you, especially other believers. Nothing ever measuring up, who will deliver us from these bodies of death, Romans 7! Truth mediates them all, and you'll need to live on the Word to live through, the day!

If you become competent in cycling Scripture, which means competent at continually wanting it, since the Holy Spirit alone can run it for you — if you become competent at cycling Scripture, you will come to love everything. Suffering becomes just as much a gift to you, as anything man could even fantasize as wonderful. This is Christ's testimony: even the Cross was happiness (Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 5:9). So, by Thinking Scripture all the time (which means the principles, essentially — though it's really nice when the verses come to mind), you will develop a Competence In Love which nothing can touch. But you'll feel more incompetent than ever. It takes a long time to recognize that what you see and feel, is the very opposite of the truth, i.e., defeat will feel like victory, but victory, like defeat; competence will seem like incompetence, and vice versa. That's why Paul quipped, "when I am weak, then [at that moment] I am strong, 2 Corinthians 12:10. Impossible to live, without that verse!

Let's examine the interplay between what's seen from the outside, which is God's Perspective, compared to what the self fighting sees, on the inside. When it takes a lot of effort to go after a goal you love, there are many moments of suffering. The love keeps on driving you (2 Corinthians 5:13-14). On the inside it feels bad, and the circumstances make that feeling worse. On the outside, it looks awesome. See that Love! How much that person, loves! We react to the Cross from the outside. God responds from both the outside and the inside because He Is Infinite, Experiencing All At Once. So whatever you're going through that hurts, He experiences it worse — see how the Lord cried with other people suffering, in the Gospels. And who hurt worse, than Him? Ish makh'ovot, w'idua holi, The Heartbreak Man Knows Lovesick Grief, Isaiah 53:3. Godness doesn't 'feel' — it's far more intense than that. Far more intense than all the suffering of all people ever alive and hurting — all at once. Because God is Omniscient, the suffering never turns 'off'. All based on Truth.

The last thing a person who has suffered much wants, is for others to suffer. So the effort, the suffering you go through is far more appreciated by God — especially because you aren't capable of the effort, only the Holy Spirit is making it efficacious, and yet you are willing? Knowing is true suffering or happiness: we get emotion in our bodies to help us appreciate more clearly. So when you suffer, know that you're really learning something of Omniscience — what it's like, for Him Who Loves You. It's not about suffering, it's about Rapport, and Intimacy with Omniscient God means all Truth. So you need suffering to grow in understanding of what it's like, for God to know all truth: good truth, bad truth, any truth, because truth — He Loves it All.

Even if you are brushing your teeth, the Doctrinal thought in your head, that's awesome. You aren't capable of thinking "God's Thoughts", Isaiah 55:8 + Romans 8:7 + Romans 8:8, as my pastor explained (1992 Spiritual Dynamics, L. 1740-2, or 1723, I forget which one). We were born spiritually dead. Dead people can't think — the soul is out of the body, so it's just rotting away, no person 'inside' it. Well, we were born dead to God, no ability to think toward Him, and any "god" concepts we get, are completely wacko. So what's this? Now we can think Divine Thoughts? It shouldn't be happening. We're too small, too fragmented, God is alien to our nature, and we to His; we are completely fettered by needs, so are one jot above an animal, even though souled; our vaunted philosophies are hypocritical in the extreme, everyone using them only to preen; our vaunted good deeds do nothing but complicate life; thus it's true that "no good deed goes unpunished." And on and on and on.

So there is no way to avoid suffering as you learn God's Thoughts. The differential between His Holiness and your own puniness is intolerable, the more you age in Christ. More about that problem will be said in the Fifth Facet, but for now, notice: it hurts. God knows it hurts. God doesn't want it to hurt, but freedom means consent, and the changing from what you were to what He's making you can't be always pleasant. Meanwhile, along with the hurt is a growing pleasure at knowing Him. They come to sit side by side, Hebrews 12:2 in the making. For God is Omniscient, knowing at once all Good and Bad, so how is it, He's Happy? That's what's being developed, the same besidedness of knowledge. Again, it's about Rapport, and Intimacy with Omniscient God means all Truth. So, it hurts — and no greater happiness exists, either. Side-by-side. As my pastor likes to explain, spiritual maturation is a process characterized by a gradual equating of adversity and prosperity, such that you come to welcome the one, as much as the other. For the One You See Who Is Invisible, gifts them both. Thus you'll suffer. And of course, all this equating is humanly impossible, Hebrews 5:8.

So God is amazed that you would want to go through this growth process. Witness the besidedness, the impossible dichotomy of your life:

Main theme of the last half of Romans 8: whatever you are doing, high or low, unpleasant or pleasant, the structure of that thing is a kind of 'cross' — which gets your thinking 'applied' to it, which Father Hears Forever. If you read the Bible accounts of Biblical heroes or even anyone mentioned, you'll see God's Assessment is always Based On What They Thought. Not, what they did. Like He told Samuel, when Samuel went to Jesse's sons: Man sees on the outside, but God sees on the inside. The flipside of that remark, is this: we only see ourselves from the inside of the battle, grunt-level: but God sees from the inside at His Level. When you're in combat, you don't see the success of the operation, you're too busy slopping up Hamburger Hill, falling down ten paces for every one you advance. So it feels like failure. But you saw (or should see) that movie: didn't you admire the soldiers? They weren't feeling admiration for themselves, they felt like losers. But we see their insides from above the fight. So does God.

Now, you yourself only see from the inside, the grunt level. So you are constantly tempted to be offended or ashamed, because you're bombarded with temptation. But think: if you're using Doctrine to parry the temptation (like the Lord does, in Matthew 4), God sees you go through a parallel of what His Son went through! Matthew 4, The Exact Same Mechanic As The Lord Used During The Cross (again, Isaiah 53:10-12, probably the most important passage in Scripture). Now happening in parallel form, in you! That's why it's such a sweet savor!

Here's a training aid to help you see His Amazement and Pleasure in your darker moments, for you will have many. For now, recall some moment in your past during which you trusted Him. How do you feel about it now? At the time, you probably felt pretty bad. But now — aren't you glad about it? Remember about some discovery you've made about God recently — wasn't it a thrill? Not necessarily emotional, but Certainty and Oh! I Get It! Wasn't that satisfying? Well, moments like these are helpful hints as to how God 'feels' about it, multiplied a bazillion times! Even the angels shout with joy, when a person first believes in Christ (Luke 15:7,10 — see context). Of course, they're all watching us! Nearly every New Testament verse with "angels" in it portrays them watching for Trial purposes. Those latter are: Paul, 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 11:10, Galatians 3:19 (Old Testament phase of Trial); 1 Timothy 3:16 (famous refrain, at time of writing); 1 Timothy 5:21. Hebrews is all about this topic and was not written by Paul. Peter talks about it passim, actually, but the 'craning their necks' verse is 1 Peter 1:12. Again, pretty much every New Testament verse with "angels" in it references their watching, not only to protect us, but more importantly, for Trial purposes.

He is Amazed and Joyful over Something Impossibly Ugly, Made Beautiful (Hebrews 12:2). Doctrine applied, does that. Just as it did, when Christ applied His Thinking to our sins, on the Cross (ibid). Which, since God is Omniscient, always plays before Him. Cross is always 'on', just like all other facts. Experienced, always all at once. So what amazes Him the most, is that we ugly, hopeless beings are willing to live for Him, with Him, to Him. That we can think the same kinds of thoughts, understand the same doctrines, as His Son does. Because, it shouldn't be possible. But the Truth poured into us, makes it possible. Sterile us, bearing kids?! Impossible! Heh. Again, the Richest Parent of All, Christ — tells us in His Word that He Loves Creating Salvation, even from sin, even from evil, even from all the wiles of Satan. And He loves it being done to Him by the Holy Spirit — slowly. One 'dot' at a time! He Loves rescuing us. It's a creative process: first rescue, salvation from hell, John 3:16. After that, many rescues, one precept at a time. Slowly. Remaking the soul so when the body dies, the soul is prepared for heaven, in and with Him forever.

God knows and therefore sees, from eternity past. Everything. All At Once. Godness is One Big Now-ness. There's no incrementalism. All that could be or would be or couldn't be or wouldn't be; every flaw, every shortfall, every arrogance, every sin. So He doesn't expect good from us. He'd be stupid, if He did. He doesn't Love based on how 'attractive' the object, because He is Love. Doesn't need an object; and thus doesn't need the object to be lovable. So if the object is bad, His Love loves it because it is bad, too; but because it is bad, the Love is in the form of grace, mercy, compassion. Because He knows how ugly it is, how helpless it is, Ezekiel 16:6.

Let's posit two people standing in front of a mirror, brushing their teeth. Pretend one is poor, and the other, rich. One of them is thinking how unfair it is that so-and-so got something; how bad the teeth look, and how upsetting it is that they can't be fixed. The other of them is wondering how the Hypostatic Union works, mulling over what was learned in Bible class, grateful for the information, exulting in it. Then, this other one tries to figure out how to use that information, concluding that Psalm 22:6 was used by the Lord on the Cross to name the very thing He found repugnant, as His 'Dream Come True'! Which, it was. Which, he decides to use on the disease he has, which he cannot fix...

Which of these two persons, pleases God? And which one is really rich, whatever his material 'status'? And how much Joy there would be in rescuing, both of them!

We humans obsess over our bodies. A pimple, hair out of place, fat, wrinkles, lack of muscles, shape of body parts — all these we obsess over, spending trillions of dollars to make ourselves look better. Yet the body of our thinking goes seriously neglected, and wow is it ever ugly. Just turn on TV and look at the shallow, petty concerns, interests; what is called good; what is called bad; how there is zero concern for God in any of it. How the ugliest thinking of all, is Christian — mouthing God's name all the time, yet clearly knowing nothing about Him. Hypocritical, holy tones to please people, for crying out loud. And now imagine you are God, hearing all this! Makes you wonder why He doesn't command another Flood.

But we're on the inside of the obsession, so like those two hypothetical people fighting, we're so engaged with how right we are, we don't notice how ugly we are. How silly we are. For we are not engaged in thinking Bible using 1 John 1:9, living in God's System. So we are truly ugly. Sin, human good, evil all share one characteristic: they are ugly to those viewing them from the outside; but deemed beautiful, to those viewing from inside. Divine Thinking in you has the opposite 'look': to you on the inside, you don't measure up, so you think self ugly. But on the outside, your inside body-of-thinking looks beautiful/handsome, to God.

Pharisee and the publican, Luke 18: let's posit two cockroaches. One is busy gloating over what power he has, looking for whatever he can devour in your house, telling himself that he's one of the most ancient lifeforms — you know, like folks who claim they are of the "original" Christian tradition — exulting in his huge numbers and calling himself holy because so many other cockroaches just like him, agree. Off to the side, though, there's another cockroach which recognizes itself as evil, and wishes the resident humans would just kill it. Which cockroach do you think God would rescue? Assuming cockroaches can think (and we know many human cockroaches who do) — which one would God happily turn into His Own Son? Hey presto! You're no longer a cockroach, but I Make You a King! Celebrate! But the other one? Okay, you exult in being a cockroach; so that's what you want, and that's what you get.

When you are truly growing in Him, you will constantly be valuing self as a worthless cockroach, because you never measure up to His Standards. But God sees on the outside, which you can't: you want to learn My Son, you are trying to obey as My Son does, you are trying to think as My Son does, that makes you beautiful. As for the specific doctrines you fire to analyze, ponder, decide, avoid temptation, etc., well those are like home runs in a baseball game, or touchdowns on the football field. Beautiful. Fluency and quantity of these thoughts increase as you grow spiritually, but no matter how childish or infrequent, each such thought is precious. So you and the world, get blessed. But to you, it looks and feels like Hamburger Hill: hopeless, and you'll deem the self a loser. That's when you need to fire Bible like never before, every promise you can remember, every doctrine which tells you the outside reality of your situation. For Bible is Truth, and all else is but a funhouse mirror; radically distorting reality masquerading as being truthful. Here's your big clue: look at any news articles from maybe 10 or 15 years ago, notice how stale the material in it; how silly the preoccupations back then. Yet we get so riled up over politics in today's news, as if it were of vital importance? How come?


Dichotomy: You are both Spiritually Pregnant and a Spiritual Fetus, Yourself! No wonder you're internally at war!

Fourth Dichotomy: our post-salvation life here is a pregnancy. That, because:

Our Impossible Life thus derives from His Impossible Life. Impossible, to be God-Man. Impossible, for Humanity to not 'peek' or 'tap' Divine Nature to benefit Himself. Satan was desperately trying to use His Hunger to generate a body reflex that would whoosh past His Volition and 'tap' His Divinity, in the First Temptation. But the Lord's Human Nature was so saturated with Word, not even that reflex could get past Him. My pastor spent weeks on this (92 Spiritual Dynamics, around Lessons 800). The only thing more impossible is that Father should have imputed and judged all sin in Him, thus making Him sin, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Isaiah 53:10. But it happened. So we start out as cockroaches, but end up inheriting His Own Nature, because He started out in the opposite nature. It's a juridical exchange.

2 Corinthians 5:21 is the flagship verse on this juridical exchange, explaining Isaiah 53:11's "bedato yasdiq" clause. Him being made sin (far worse than a cockroach), so we could be made sons (zera ya'arik yamim clause in Isaiah 53:10). Ephesians 1 explains how that was the Plan from Eternity Past, Isaiah tells you how it got accomplished on the Cross, and Ephesians 2-6 plus all of Hebrews, are flagship passages on the results. We truly go from bar-khockroach to king, in Him. John 10:34 is not hyperbole. Our current nature is just a training aid in 'low' and 'bad', because Omniscience knows all that, and how else can we too get that information, without our volitions being compromised, 1 Corinthians 15:37 - 1 Corinthians 15:57? Our souls must be grown, one consent and precept at a time. Nothing's more beautiful than His Thinking. In us earthen vessels, even. One Loving, Lingering Moment at a Time, which Father relishes forever.

So we see shame, but God sees what He can make out of it for our benefit. Isaiah 54:1 (my translation directly from the Hebrew, copying the meter): "Whoop for joy, You Barren Never Birthed! Burst into neighing trill, You Who Never Writhed! Far more, the sons of the Shamed One, than of her who is Ba'aled', rules the Lord!"

The translation's "Ba'aled" is literal, but the term came to mean husbanded, legally married. But in Isaiah, it's a play on words to Ba'al, a false god. The world depends on a false god, marries itself off to worldly attractions; and especially, the religious attractions, preening itself holy. But we are of the Real God, and God loves that being true. So Christ Who became the Shamed One ("asham" in Hebrew means a substitute offering for sin, in Isaiah 53:10) — He is not ashamed of us, Hebrews 2 (see also Psalm 40, which ties). Because, God Sees Accurately, And What He Sees, Doesn't Make Him Ashamed, But Instead, Loving (see also 2 Timothy 2:13, a humorous and tender use of Psalm 40, Ephesians 1:15-23, 1 Corinthians 12). Sadly, 2 Timothy 2:10 and 14 are legalistically mistranslated, so you miss the context. Takes too long to explain why. Basically, the mistranslation reverses the meaning of "τυγχάνω" in 2 Timothy 2:10, and "λογομαχέω" in 2 Timothy 2:14, to make both look like works is better than Word. How sad; so the reader of 2 Timothy 2:13 is supposed to feel guilty, and misses the humor of the Lord being unable to deny Himself (we are part of Him, and He won't refuse Himself).

God's Alchemy: you contribute the 💩 (we all are poop, down here) — and He makes diamonds out of your poop. That's the deal! See 1 Corinthians 3, Philippians 3:8. Isaiah 53:10-11 is quite explicit about this.

We think that what we see, is the reality. But it's not. The reality, is that we are "sons of God in Christ Jesus", Galatians (and elsewhere). Rescued (real meaning of σῴζω, usually translated "saved"). Rescued from this hellhole called "life". That pleases God utterly, for the suffering of being a cockroach, He experiences more than everyone, and All At Once. He's dying, as it were, to rescue us. In fact, He Did Die For That Very Reason. So that He can be the Parent of Our Salvation, shouting Isaiah 54:1 forever. And so can we. For those of us who won't grow up in God's Perfect Thoughts, will be perfect forever but smaller in size, and yearning to be bigger. And then those of us who become kings, can have that same pleasure of growing those in our kingdoms, in the King's Thinking. Because no one will like sinning then. No one will care about inferior or superior, then. All anyone will care about then — is seeing Him Who is Currently Invisible.. except, through His Word.

Hence the ironic, impossible life we have in Christ: it's just a pregnancy (Romans 8:11ff), this groaning, shameful life down here. Sown in dishonor, raised in max honor, 1 Corinthians 15. Even as He was, Philippians 2:5-10. You are no longer the same being as you were pre-salvation, 2 Corinthians 5:17. Spirituality cannot be felt — that's why John had to write 1 John, because believers were mixed up about it, since in those days the temporary spiritual gifts were felt, and the gifts had pretty much ended; so believers didn't know what it was, anymore. Tongues is Isaiah 28, related to Temple Destruction (see 1 Corinthians 14 which reminds believers of that fact), so died with the Temple. Other spiritual gifts like healing and miracles, were already dying out while Paul was alive, namely, the verses where he could no longer heal anyone. 1 John was written circa 90 AD. But spirituality is real, and if you persist in using 1 John 1:9 and studying Scripture under your right pastor, you will see the Invisible.

God Alone makes you human at birth. It's a very important fact to know, because the spiritual life is a type of pregnancy too, meaning that what is happening here is not the real life, and only what God Makes, is Life; so, He Makes You Down Here, even as He made your soul, at your physical birth. Paul depends on reader understanding of that fact when he writes Romans 8, because it's an analogy. Same, for 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 15. All this life's stuff has no more 'life' in it, than developing fetal body parts, in preparation for the Real Life to come... forever with God. Or, apart from Him, if that is what the living soul, elects. No soul is in a womb because it would not be able to think (brain is the last to develop, so no 'hookup'), and not able to be independent and see: volition would not be free until the fetus exits the womb. So God will never put a soul inside a womb. So there is no life inside the womb, it's just developing biology, an organic machine. Moreover, all that biological change would be painful if a soul was in the womb; God is neither murderer nor sadist, so He makes you alive at birth, so you can see His Thoughts (Psalm 139:13-17, main theme in Hebrews or Greek, but not the egregious translations).

Likewise, we are physically alive once born, and spiritually alive once we believe in Christ, but that only sets up the potential to be in another 'womb' — Of Spiritual Development, which the Holy Spirit 'mothers', even as He mothered the restoration of the Earth, in Genesis 1:2ff. So, being in this 'womb' of earth with the Holy Spirit and the earth groaning in pregnancy labor (Romans 8:11ff), we groan, too: for we can't yet see the angels and Christ Seated (big theme in Hebrews 2ff), but we know it is true (Romans 8:28-38). And that, because Isaiah 52:13 - Isaiah 54:1 is on the theme of how Christ was raped with our sins in order to birth all sons for all eternity.

Again, you are in a Romans 7 situation. Two natures are struggling inside you, analogous to how two developing sets of body parts were 'wrestling' in Rebecca's womb (Genesis 25). She sought the Lord about that problem, and so should we. It's a pregnancy, not real life, down here. What's happening is a Transformation. But that doesn't mean you abort the struggle. Ask God What To Do. Great advice for physical pregnancy, for spiritual pregnancy. The dead life down here, pretends to be alive. But the real life, seems dead. Doesn't seem that thinking toward God means much, but rather movements with the body, matter. Yeah, and you can make a marionette move, and it remains just as dead. That's what Satan & Co. do to the human race: puppet us. Notice that movement is a false 'god'. Body loves that 'god', and can only see that 'god', because that election was programmed into the biological nature, from our original parents: Adam and the woman. So it's a mindless urge, an animalism. Whether expressed as works (fig leaves) or hedonism, it's still but an urge, like going to the bathroom. Dead, deaf, deafening to the soul. Only His Thinking can fight the urge which was 'birthed' by bouncing off Infinite God, rejecting Him. Maximum negative derivative, an atom bomb, constantly exploding against (or in), the soul.

So, the question boils down to developing a 'Spiritual Body' of Thinking, which means... Growing in the Faith. Faith is first the Doctrine in Bible, and then also Believing It. Lots of words for Bible, each one stressing some facet of its value: "faith" stresses eating the knowledge and believing (metabolizing) it. That makes your spiritual body parts, grow. Your spiritual body won't be born until you die (see 1 Corinthians 15:39ff). So, while you live down here, it's a struggle, and you are blindsided. So Don't Abort The Spiritual Life. See also James 1:15's and Galatians 4:19's Greek (lexicons may euphemize), and like passages. Satan plays on this purpose, big time. Evolution and Genesis 6 and Greek-type pantheons, gnosticism, eastern religious 'reincarnation' concepts alike mock the real 'womb' meanings in Bible; the prolife campaign is also a satanic ruse. Notice how all of these ruses abort understanding about what Bible really says. Whoa, Satan's not stupid, but we sure are! Satan's trying to 'mother' us into being smothered before we are born; whether with respect to the real mechanism of spiritual birth (John 3:16) or the real mechanism of post-spiritual pregnancy for developing our spiritual body, Satan has a brilliant and largely-successful plan to abort us all!

Romans 8 is the happy ending of the play (begun in Romans 5, sotto voce), where finally Your Soul Reconciles Under His Thinking, no longer seduced by the thinking of this world. So, by that end, you too come to want the combat of it. In the beginning, the combat really bothers you, and you fall down constantly; but by the end, You Love The Fight, Because It Gives You Something To Give Him. So, victory: I am convinced that nothing can separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus. No barriers. True miracle. That's what's really going on in your life right now: all the surface stuff, are just training aids. Your flaws, your strengths, another's flaws or strengths, things, events — all just cannon fodder so you can learn, to shoot Doctrine! Which, by the way, ennobles the cannon fodder, Blesses it. Sacrifices it, Cooks it. Making it smell good because the Doctrine Applied, is such a great Chef: Him.

Imagine: here we are, dog 💩 by nature. Yet we can give God a gift? For surely all the money and charity and other stuff we do, God doesn't need. What do you give, to God? Thinking: His Son's. It is a volitional act, the Holy Spirit produces it, via John 14:26 (recall of what you've learned). It's Superhuman, this Divine Thinking in you, an earthen vessel otherwise dedicated to destruction; who, of yourself, couldn't be giving anything. But now, oh! Everything is Qorban! So: that's where your body goes, but you go to Heaven. Meanwhile, you can devote this dead body to training in Qorban, to becoming a Worm of the Worm, and think like a King. Isaiah 52:14, last half: "ken mishhat meish mareyhu, wa toaro me bene adam" — see all those "M" sounds? More than Human, Born from the Worm Who Bore More than All Mankind Put Together.

Therefore, from God's Perspective, whatever you do while Thinking Doctrine, is ennobled beyond all wealth. For the first and most wealth, is His Thinking. Paying, even for sins (Isaiah 53:11, again). No bigger work, than this! For God Knows Value, because He knows Everything. The non-God object of any thought is completely irrelevant (doesn't matter how good or bad it is); since it isn't God, it's "short" of His Glory (second prong of Romans 3:23). So, instead, you get the privilege of using even the most mundane of things, 'toward' Him: "bringing every thought into captivity to the 'standing under hearing' of Christ", 2 Corinthians 10:5 (ties to Hebrews 5:9). The capped words are a literal translation of ὑπακοή, because the literal meaning is more what Paul means. The Holy Spirit plays on etymology a lot, in choosing words. The whole of Hebrew is wordplay based on etymology, every word within itself! So too, most of Bible's Greek. so English "obedience" misleads the reader, especially since the verse is about hearing and learning and using. Just as it was, in Deuteronomy 6:4. "Obedience" is a believing, based on a hearing: that's a running theme throughout Bible. Check it out. Even logic tells you that you 'obey' your own thoughts when you 'hear' and believe them!

To sum up: We get Infinity, His Thinking, cycling in our puny bodies, so we get an Impossible Life of learning and living on Bible, so to have Perfect Thoughts Father Will Forever Hear. Impossibly wonderful life, if we stick with it; impossibly horrible, if we do not. Bible terms depicting this impossible cycling are very wry, and usually not visible in the English. Most common, is the "Love of God" or "Love of Christ" or "Love" verse with a motion verb that is used for Bible itself; like, Romans 5:5 (Word = water, in Old Testament). Greek subjective and objective genitive ("of" in English) is a circle; subjective, God's Love; objective, Love producing Love for Him (i.e., Romans 5:5, which is vivid on the mechanics, but also 2 Corinthians 5:14, and many parallel verses which most study Bibles and Bible software, will list). So it's God's Thinking (technically, Christ as God and Man is stressed as Source). "Treasure in earthen vessels" is another catchphrase; so are "mirror", and "glory to glory" phrases (or their concepts, namely, in 1 Peter 1:7-8). Then there are the multitude of ironic phrases so common everywhere in Scripture, like valley exalted, mountain made low, dead made alive again; poor made rich, and rich made poor (see James 1, then look for the many parallels in Gospels and Old Testament); all these are communicating what the Circle is: "Christ in you, the Confident Expectation of Glory" (Colossians 1:25-27, again).

Again, It's Only The Thought That Counts to make you happy and sinless and Pleasing to God. God's Thought. In You. Whatever your nature. Colossians 1:25-27, Philippians 1:21!


Hence Fifth Facet, the Impossible Cycling Profit from Impossible Ruled: What pleases Father, fulfills us.
Even — and especially — when we are hurting. This defeats Satan in the Trial.

This Cycling of Infinity inside Finity, is an Impossible Profit: "Christ in you, the Confident Expectation of Glory", as Paul puts it in Colossians 1:27. That's a Trial verse, a demonstration to Satan & Co. why their contentions are false. So here in the Fifth Facet, The Diamond Doctrine Bucks are extreme. So let's review again the Facets thus far:

So Fifth Facet, here: the Impossible cycling profit of those Christ Perfect Thoughts, and the Suffering Profit, Hebrews 12:2; which results in Satan's Defeat in the Trial. So these are Trial Victory Diamond Doctrine Bucks. Really, you could call these Mature Love Diamond Doctrine Bucks. For when Love matures, it WANTS suffering, needs it as an outlet, calls suffering Profit, Philippians 1:21. My pastor warns you need "two mutual flanks": Doctrine in your head, but also Love for God. The first without the second is hopeless legalism, sterile and unspiritual, however correct one's doctrines might be. The second without the first is a crazed person, having no discernment. The two must grow in tandem. So when you study if a love for God is not growing, but rather a puffed-up love of how well you know Bible — your salient is exposed, and you're off kilter in the spiritual life. Same for the "rah rah Jesus" crowd you see so often in churches — their problem is no Bible.

To the one not loving, this looks like masochism, sadism, or mental illness. Okay, which craziness do you prefer? The craziness of the seraphim in Revelation 4:10, or the craziness of the guy in Hades of Luke 16:20ff? Your choice. You will end up one way or the other. The small soul cannot love. What passes for love, is need. The small soul needs nice, so when it gets nice, it says "I love you." But take that nice away, and "I love you" isn't the attitude, anymore. It's "I hate you." Because, the small soul cannot love. It can only coo when its need is met. To the small soul, this cooing is "I love you." Tit for tat "love" is not love, therefore, because it's predicated on needs or desires being reciprocated. Absent the deemed required reciprocation that love dies, claiming it's unrequited. Welcome to all the failed loves of the human race.

To the large soul, nice isn't what "love" means. Love includes nice, but also includes giving. Extreme love needs to pour out for the object of that love, not looking for anything in return. The Largest Soul in History needed the Outlet of such Pour out: the Cross. As you grow in Him, you progressively will have the Same Love, Romans 5:5; so you will progressively have the same Pour Out Need. So, when you've grown enough — and at training intervals even prior — God will Gift you pour outs. And instead of kvetching and preening when you suffer unjustly or for someone else, instead you are relieved and grateful. Just as Christ is. Welcome to the nature of true love, which is the Issue in the Trial: "Does God love, that He would create us so?" You can hear that accusation any day in any mouth in the world; for it echoes Satan's plaint in the Trial.

So we first see Compatibility is a Choice Of Will to Adjust To The Object(s), and it is a continual choice which Love Alone can motivate. Since a choice of will, when God created, He did not force compatibility on any creature. Rather, He gave them knowledge so they could choose how much compatibility they wanted... with Him. Finite creation faces the same problem of adjustment, for God is not like finity, and there always remains a Dichotomy between Infinity and finity, as we saw in the Fourth Facet. So to resolve the incompatibility requires that Infinity — God — Pour Himself into finity, and that finity keep on wanting that Cycling. He united to what is Not Like Himself (see last half of Romans 5, 1 Timothy 2, Galatians 3, John 3:16, Romans 5:8). So, will we choose to unite to Him Who is Not Like, us? In order to Be Together? And, How Much? Romans 5-8 is all about this 'adjusting due to Love' process (parallel descriptions are in Hebrews 4-12, 1 Corinthians 2-13, Colossians 1, Galatians 3-5, Ephesians 1-4 with different metaphorical bases, but same idea). You can see Paul explain this adjustment due to Love process, even in translation, if you start from Romans 4. Romans 1-3 are lead in to Romans 4, which is a crescendo chapter, setting the stage for Romans 5-8. Romans 8 is a crescendo chapter. Romans 9-16 is conclusion based on Romans 8: corollaries, macro and micro. Read it, see for yourself. Romans is badly translated in all key verses, so after you've seen that "something" of this meaning is there, go through it all again, very carefully, with lexicons stronger than Strong's Concordance. Strong's is not intended to be anything but a handy mnemonic to students already familiar with the Bible's languages, as most in the 19th century, were.

Life post-salvation is about becoming functionally compatible with God, theme of Romans 8. Any function cannot occur until a structure is built. Hence continual living in God's System produces a Structure of Divine Thinking. It happened to Christ first, and then we inherit His Structure. But the inheritance is an election we make, one precept at a time. As we choose, the Structure of His Thinking is built in us; as it gets built, some of it starts to function right away, some starts later on, etc. Bible likens this growth to a pregnancy, and also to childhood, adulthood, and maturity. Goal is Ephesians 4:13, His Full Mature Structure Level. But it occurs slowly, imperceptibly, and you must consent each time, learning and living on Bible, using 1 John 1:9 as needed — else you're spiritually comatose, no truth in you. So you have a function of structural development going on, and as that structure builds, it begins to function. At "Pleroma", the structure is built, and you go through various functional testings. If you pass them all, you beat Satan in the Trial. That's the focus of this Fifth Facet, the issues one faces with suffering, for the Testing is an ongoing thing, culminating in the 'Love Function Testing' which characterizes Pleroma. It goes on until you die.

This spiritual development to resolve incompatibility with Infinite God was the very same problem angels all faced, too. They had to grow up via adjusting to God, or sin. See, unlike us, all the angels were simultaneously created, and with full knowledge of Him. But, like us, knowing a thing doesn't mean your will positively adjusts to the knowledge you have. Because, you are a whole being with volition. So "knowledge" doesn't mean "wisdom" or "strength". Those things come with turning over what you know, thinking about the meaning, using what you learn. And most of all, your attitude about it. Like Paul quips in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, even if you had all the gifts and all the knowledge, but didn't have Love, you'd be nothing. Well, love depends on your attitude to what you know, don't know, etc. Especially, with reference to God.

So also it was, for the angels; so also it was, for Christ Himself. Same issue. So, for the angels, and even more for Christ, it was not easy to adjust; it was a struggle, because as we saw in the First Dichotomy of the Fourth Facet, Infinity is not compatible with finity.

For Christ it was the Worst. For here He is, One Person, in effect torn apart by Two Antithetical Natures: Infinite, which is innately inclusive; and Human, which is innately exclusive. The sheer tension of living... well, it's beyond what we can imagine; even if we analogized His Life to being a victim of the Hittite post-war game of 'skin the prisoner', we'd not even get a glimmer of the pain He suffered. Long before He even got to the Cross. How do you live being God and puny, at the same time? Being human and perfect is still being puny, compared to Godness. How was it He could wait on the Spirit to grow Him, when He had always at His beck and call, the ability to just instantly load whatever learning, good, etc. He wanted? Just one thought in that direction, would have made it happen. Satan's counting on that fact, in Matthew 4!

So, whether the angels or even Christ Himself, Compatibility with God must be forged out from many volitional choices to adjust to the Object you know, so to be compatible. And frankly, no one can make good on such choices, with respect to God. He has to use His Power in you, to make that choice work. Which means, you are continually voting for Him to remake you, and continually voting against your own nature. "Something better" than your own nature — His — is what you keep voting for. He responds with a Yes Vote and remakes you precept on precept; and the process continues. It's a zigzag:

Satan essentially rejected this adjusting to the Truth, the True Apodosis, Integration with God. Satan instead prefers his 'always divorcing' apodoses, and insists God is the One Who's Wrong. Hence, we are on Trial — in a Divorce trial (see Daniel 9's prelude, and all of Hosea, although translation may not be clear). So, in the Divorce Appeal Trial, Satan's still angling for a "Mistrial" verdict based on the same reasoning which motivated his rebellion, the fact of the incompatibility between Infinity and finity. It's not about sin, but about God's Design. Christ solved the sin problem at the Cross, so from the Divine 'end' sin is not on Trial; that's why in Revelation 20:11-15 people are judged for their good deeds (ἔργον, in Greek), not their sins. To Satan also, sin is not an issue, but rather just evidence of what he considers God's fault, the incompatibility. So, he contends a different standard ought to be used vis á vis finite creation, rather than God's Own Infinite Standard of Righteousness.

See how it's also not about works? Whatever you do, you do as a finite person. But the problem, is that God Is Infinite. So what standards of relationship should govern?

Satan says, "works" should be the governing standard, precisely because we're not God: since, for crying out loud, we're finite, we can't have another standard! So, those works also have to be priced. So those who are less valuable than others, can have incentive; so those more valuable than others, can feel rewarded. God's Impossible Infinite-Righteousness Standard, and therefore His Design and Plan, throws away the entire person He Himself Created! Not Fair! What kind of love, Satan asks bitterly, is that??? Hence as we just saw above, Satan contends that God's going slow — creating creatures lower than the ultimate intended Design goal — is really a form of sadism, not love. Especially, since if they reject as they inevitably do — they either go to hell, or have a hellish post-salvation life. For if God loved creation, He could have initially made us all in the Ultimate Design which He Foreknows we'd choose, anyway. Pretty powerful satanic apodosis, huh. Satan's arguments are all good. Just not as Good as God's. Matthew 4 temptations are to good deeds, not to sin. But it would be a sin, for Christ to do those good deeds. Let's see why.

God's Reply is that He will make us Compatible. So that's not the problem. What He wants, is Love. Togetherness, and at His Level. Nothing less, will 'do'. Finity by nature needs barriers to hold together: barriers of time, of space, of body, of needs due to that body, of soul, of sequential thinking — oh, barriers all over! Good deeds are also barriers. For then your relationship is barred by your good deeds, so something is 'between' you and the person to whom you relate: the deeds are the mediators, the 'god' between you and the other person. So Satan wants good deeds to be the 'god', instead of God. See how evil Matthew 4 is? Worst kind of evil, cutting out God altogether, in the name of good, just as happened to Adam with the fig leaves

But infinity means, No Barriers. Love means you throw down your barriers, like those angels throw down their crowns, in Revelation 4:10ff. Like Christ threw away His Own Life, on the Cross. For, love is essentially alien to finity's need to push off, be on its own. So even were you perfect, you would have this 'tug'. It's not temptation, but the natural property of being finite, the 'tug' of independence. Since love is all about dependence, especially the superior choosing to spend self on the inferior (parents to children, for example), love is alien to independence. That's why it feels like a defeat or a threat, to believe. For inherent in belief, is dependence. The foundation of love is belief, so to the extent a person doesn't believe in God, he is incapable of any kind of love, even toward humans. Yet it's quite understandable, for belief is a kind of 'surrender' of your independence.

If you want to be close to God, you must go against your own finity, not merely resist sin; and all of its innate barriers must come down, with Divine Love = Truth replacing them. Thus functional reconciliation is achieved; for God's Attributes are Indivisible. So when the believer receives deposits of His Truth, His Love is being 'deposited', too. For there are No Barriers in God.

The warring we saw in the Fourth Facet is essentially the symptom of internal soul barriers all coming down. Here is but a sketch of what amounts to an internal soul 'guerilla' war of attrition (previously covered more in depth on 'First Reason for Invisibility'):

So the Impossible Profit of "Christ in you, the Confident Expectation of Glory", Colossians 1:25-27, demonstrates you are supernaturally, Free; suffering didn't undo the Love. God is Unpriced, and so are you. "Having done all, to stand", Ephesians 6:13 (KJV). The Impossible Ruler is in your head, so you the Impossible Ruled, are Impossibly a Priest to Father; καταρτίζω'd, kitted out with an Impossible Life, so now that Impossible Profit, generated via the individual mechanics of Ephesians 3:15-19 via Ephesians 4:11-16.. pays off. Oh, how rare a gem the Holy Spirit has made you, by this point. You'll soon see how rare, how powerful, all this Thinking you're learning, really is. Remember the First Facet? The Ruler couldn't justifiably be a ruler benefitting Earth, if you weren't learning. Not someone else, you. We Christians are so busy looking at others, we forget all about, ourselves. That's not altruism, but stupidity. Each of us is a 'King in Training'. We should regard ourselves that way. Objectively, like God does. This is the Dowry Father pays Son: our training. You're worth an incredible amount of money. Will you bring it to the wedding? Or have it reroute to someone else? That's where this Thinking, Vests: in you. Not, in someone else.

When you inherit a large amount of money, it's humbling. You didn't earn it. You didn't work for it. When you achieve something great in life but someone else trained you or made some other material sacrifice so you could get that achievement, it's humbling. Well, God's Achievement here is Priceless. We should not spurn His Wealth. We got it via the Cross, and the Son would be totally dishonored if we uttered fake pious words like "awww, I don't want anything for myself", or other Brother Foot blasphemies. God is Rich, and makes us Rich. It's an inheritance. Respect it, by learning it well.

So Note The Impossible Profit... Love! As Galatians 5 explains, God wants the Impossible Profit of Infinite, Divine Love, which He produces via the Spirit Pouring In the Truth, operating in every believer, and at Christ's Level! "Fruit" in Bible means thinking, teaching, and is always an agricultural word for profit, the 'crop' which made all that husbanding, worthwhile. So when reading Galatians 5:22, keep that fact in mind. For the "at Christ's Level", see Ephesians 4:13, in Greek — astounding verse! If you don't get the Greek Marital Vocabulary Paul uses in Ephesians 4:16, you won't understand Ephesians 4:13. It's a real pistol to find out from the lexicons that συμβιβάζω, etc.. are Marital sex verbs, and even (sometimes) crude ones. Love.. because God is Love (1 John 4). So, God makes Love Pour in You via those Truth Deposits, Romans 5:5. So: You Are To Be Transformed, just as Paul explains (by way of imperative), in Romans 12:1-3. This is a very important passage, and its translations are a royal mess. Here's a quick translation of Romans 12:2 from Greek, so you can see how different, the meaning. Capped words vary from the translations extant. Translation:

"Stop being conformed to this age, but be transformed[1] by means of the renovation of your thinking, in order for it[2] to approve you as genuine / competent[3] regarding[4] what's the Will of God, the Divine Good and well pleasing and complete."

Study Romans 12:1-3 in the Greek, you'll love Paul's sense of humor!

That's the work he's talking about, in Ephesians 2:10; what James is talking about, in James 2:22. (See also Romans 8:28 which uses the same 'Divine Actor' intransitive (!) verb.) You become something you were not: Compatible. Heh: like Paul notes in Romans 12:2 when using the word μεταμορφόω (gnostic term!), God doesn't need multiple lifetimes, to 'evolve' you! Doesn't need to first make you a goat or amoeba, and move you up the chain! (Evolution is just Greek deification myths/gnosticism/metempsychosis in new clothing, what a joke on intellectuals! Satan chuckles.) It's truly embarrassing how science can be so dumb to miss yet another reincarnation of reincarnation! If God were a cactus and you were a rose, you couldn't be 'potted' in the same soil, but you would have to be farther away, even though in the same Garden (Heaven). But Doctrine makes you into a cactus, too! So you enjoy being Close To That Cactus Who got stuck with all sins, Christ! All you 'contribute' is your nonmeritorious consent, and your weakness: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. It's a real cross, just to breathe. "Thus passes the glory of the world", and Thank God For That!

So how is it we finite puny can be compatible? God Cycling His Thinking in us every second is done by Him. So it's Godness cycling in finiteness. What God does to an object makes it holy. Again, this is the Resurrection Power concept of the Third Facet: Only Thought Makes Alive. So if it's God's Thought in you, it's alive at God's Own Level, since done By God. Yes, that means we are utterly dependent, a kind of κένωσις. That's why all the barriers have to come down, that's why it feels so bad and defeating. What's being defeated, is the natural barrier against God doing it all to you. We humans value ourselves in terms of what we do. That valuation must be utterly destroyed. Satan contends this destruction is the wrong way to have a relationship. Well, if you love God you want to be destroyed, just because: and just because He is forever better than you are, you need it to happen, to be happy that He's getting His 'money's worth' out of you, so to speak. That's the reasoning of Love. In humans, this reasoning has a price. But when Divine Love is built in you, it becomes Priceless, Isaiah 55:1ff. No price is too high. God doesn't love us for what we can do for Him. He just loves us, period. And, in Pleroma, you find out you too just love Him, period. That's why Abraham needed to sacrifice Isaac, to see that it wasn't God's Promise he loved the more, it was God he loved the more. Love never accounts itself as loving. So the proof of it, must be demonstrated to the one loving. By the One Loving.

Consequently God the Holy Spirit is not ashamed of us, but He is Mothering us to beat even Satan's arguments in the Unseen Angelic Trial, Hebrews 11:1. What beats Satan is thinking Bible, 24/7, 1 John 5:4. That's how the Lord became the Way, the Truth, and the Life, Matthew 4:4. So can God do that to us also? If Yes, Satan is defeated. Writer of Hebrews likens this life to wandering in the wilderness (especially in Hebrews 4 and 11), during which the Unseen Trial Evidence Of Christ Is Our Faith, His Thinking, Hebrews 11:1.

The Greek of Hebrews 11:1 is so important, you should spend time on it until you thoroughly master it. Not hard to memorize, great drama and wordplay. Verse in Greek reads like this, Three Equalities: Ἔστιν δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις, πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων·

Idiomatic Translation (still better than extant published translations): "It's about Doctrine Confidently Believed, (which is) the Christ of the Trial, (which is) Trial Evidence, unseen."

I translate the verse differently elsewhere as needed to fit context. Greek layers of meaning can't all be fitted into one set of English wording unfortunately. We all should just study and learn the original languages, and forego translations, in my honest opinion.

So what's being tested in the Trial which our faith, proves victorious? God's Choice of going slow is proven the more right. Remember earlier, God already knows?

Satan's saying God's going slow like this is wrong, immoral, unfair. Satan contends God's unfair to require us believe in God, to keep trusting Him to grow us, because it means rejecting all we are — which God made, of course.

These are pretty good arguments, huh. Satan's a moral person. All his arguments are moral. From his perspective,

You see Satan say all these arguments within the rationales behind his three temptations, in Matthew 4: each temptation zips past a hurtful state to an end result. Bypass, each time: bypass hunger (for the world, not just for Christ); bypass difficulty of belief via flash; bypass Cross, by zapping Satan himself for making an insulting offer. (Satan would then masochistically become the messiah, saving the world, and saving even Christ from the Cross, get it? That's why the Third Temptation is the most aggravating, and should have resulted in the Lord's Humanity having a gut reaction, willing Omnipotence to zap Satan into hell.)

For Satan contends that the Lord won solely because His Nature was superior from the get-go, even though human (i.e., because perfect and God-man). Thus,

So if we sinners also grow the same way as Our Lord did, then Satan has no arguments left. Notice how in the Old Testament, because Christ had not come, His Thinking wasn't available to them: can't pass on the thinking of someone not yet born and completed ("perfected" or "perfect" in English translations of Book of Hebrews). So it always remained a Trial argument that since they had an inferior life to His, that God rigged the spiritual deck, making the Old Testament folks' spiritual life too easy.

Israel, as you'll remember, had lots of flash in her spiritual life; lots of miracles, God in the pillar and cloud, manna in the wilderness, healings, etc. She had all this ritual to do which depicted how God pays, not the people; her laws were uniquely humane, and even the 'god' subjected himself to rule of law, a thing unheard of among nations. Moreover, when she behaved, she had the best wealth, agricultural and weather on the planet; nations were afraid of hurting her — when she behaved. The Temple was a wonder of the ancient world. All that flash advertised that she belonged to the Real God, and people obviously saw it as they travelled through her. So it would have been pretty easy to believe.

Christ was at the opposite end of all this. He couldn't sin one sin without tanking forever. No second chances. His Spiritual Life was far higher than the Law, as Book of Hebrews painstakingly explains. And, He's unique: shemah, Yisroel! Accordingly, Satan contends that His Unique Nature plus the Old Testament flash, 'contributed' to the success of His Spiritual Life. Thus Satan calls for a Mistrial, alleging that God rigged the Evidence, and instead really proves Satan right: See, Elohim, He only won because you made Him superior, and because you used 'enticements' to Israel to believe. That's just what I've been contending, all along! You made creation too low, and that's why we sin. So it's your fault 🤪. Aha. Now you know why Matthew 16:18 and the inauguration of Church, for another reason besides Israel's rejection.

So here we are Church, all the flash gone! with no rituals, no visible manifestations, no cookie-cutter rules, and a New Testament which is abstract in spiritual life construction. We must make rules out of principles. Humans don't do that very well; our eyes glaze over even basic math and dates. We need stuff to do, a track to run our bodies on, paint by numbers. If you ask us to define ourselves, we pick irrelevant body stuff such as our names, birth, parentage, sex, nationality, occupation, behaviors, looks — but not soul characteristics. So "abstract" is not something we understand. But Christ won by His Thinking, Paying for Sins. So doings aren't our spiritual life, either — we have the exact same setup as Him. Thinking. Abstract. Toward Father. 24/7. It should be impossible, since we are of inferior nature — human, not God-and-human, and sinners, to boot. Saved, but with sin nature and messed-up souls in a world which is spiritually dead. Talk about a rigged deck! Everything is rigged against us.

So isn't it ironic, that Our Church Royal Priestly Impossible Life is used to prove why God didn't bypass the grief of development, Hebrews 11:1. Each time you learn and live on Bible during your day, Perfect Thoughts which forever will please Father to 'smell', which transform you — also defeat Satan's contention in the Trial about God being unfair. For look at the results!

Satan can't defeat this Hebrews 11:1 testimony of Word in You. It's a nuclear weapon to learn and live Bible 24/7, in God's System.

So here we are, in this stadium called Planet Earth, each of us choosing (or not) to get this Impossible life: "what think ye of Christ?" If we want Relationship with God, we believe in Him; if we want an Intimate Relationship with God, we learn His Word all our lives, in God's System (i.e., 1 John 1:9 breathed and learning Bible under your God-appointed pastor). Else, we might marry Him (initial faith in Christ), but — well, we just want the status (being in Heaven forever), not really the Person. So, that's what we'll get: fabulous status, retarded relationship, Matthew 7:1-2. Those having voted for Intimacy all their lives will get to Pleroma, and will rule the rest of us who didn't make and stick with, that election. Intimacy is voluntary.


Hence Sixth Facet: the Impossible Body, Bride!

The Impossible Body of His Thinking, makes an Impossible Bride... forever. So these are Bridal Body Diamond Doctrine Bucks. The 'body' of your kingdom is tailored to you. And in aggregate, we are all perfectly fitting, Him.

The Impossible Body of His Thinking changes that impossible body you're stuck with down here; changes the impossible bodies of others you live with; changes, for all eternity, the Body of Christ To Be Just Like Him. In aggregate, a sea of glass, Revelation 4:1's tableau (Revelation 4 is the Rapture and its aftermath). So here in the Sixth Facet, the Bridal Diamond Doctrine Bucks are invested and spent on us believers for us other believers. Pretty much every Christian is at least vaguely aware that we have relationships to each other which are important. However, we view these relationships as body things we do, like being in church together, being in social functions, and we call these, "Christian fellowship". Unfortunately, typical "Christian fellowship" often wrecks the Body, rather than building it; is a snare, 2 Timothy 2:26 - 2 Timothy 3:7, rather than a service. Same problem as in Acts 5 and 1 Corinthians 4-5 and James 4, everyone had his eyes on the other guy, in the name of God — but God was nowhere in view.

The real building of the Body Corporate is largely something only God sees. God knows how the eternal state needs to be, for His Son. That's one big reason the Rapture is unpredictable, we are all in a state of spiritual flux. Those who died before us had certain characteristics, individually and corporately, which of course we don't know. The Body of Christ is an aggregate, composed of those still alive and those dead, those yet-to-be-born. So really, your own Bridal Diamond Doctrine Buck value is established wholly by your own personal spiritual growth, not by how you interrelate to other believers down here. Even were you isolated your entire life, part of your value is related to all those other believers in eternity. God knows how you need to develop for that value to fit exactly right. So again, it's what He does to you, not what you or other believers do to each other, that constitutes true and eternal "Christian fellowship".

Christ lived an isolated life. So did Paul. So did Moses. So did David. So did Abraham, who told his servant under no conditions, to take Isaac back to Haran (Genesis 24:6-8)! Christ made the blind guy He healed, stay away from Bethsaida (Mark 8:26). John the Baptist, a valid Levite priest, taught instead out in the desert, far away from his heritage, serving in the Temple. Christ Himself didn't spend much time in the Temple, even though He is the Temple, but rather spent most of His time in areas the Jews wouldn't enter! Do you see a pattern? By typical Churchianity standards, none of these people would be "spiritual" because they avoided church and hobnobbing with believers! The frequently-cited Hebrews 10:25 is a farce, because the verse is about being under a teacher, never mind associating with other believers, same as the reason you went to synagogue. Churchianity is satanic: notice how the Word is cut out, which was the only reason you went to synagogue — to get the teaching. Never mind social life. So of course that All-Important Road to Intimacy stressed in Hebrews 10:25 (just after Hebrews 10:15-17, see the context), is reversed by the satanic Churchianity crowd. "Avoid such persons as these", Paul warned Timothy (2 Timothy 3:5). So did Peter (2 Peter 2, whole chapter); Jude 12; John (1 John 1:6, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:10, 1 John 2:4, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 4:5, 1 John 4:20, 2 John 9-10) warn against them. All form, all sweetness-and-light, poison in their lips, all about how holy they are, what they do, human approbation alone impresses them. But not God. Rubbish!

Only about 10% of the New Testament is about stuff you do with the body, and the material is usually placed at the end of the letter, expressed in a peremptory fashion, axiomatic. But 90% is on how you should think, what you should know, with pretty much every Greek verb for thinking that existed in that language. Yeah, because God hears us 24/7. So with Whom should our 'fellowship', be? And if you're busy worrying about what God hears, won't your behavior improve? So you don't even have to worry about relationships with people. God first, main theme in 1 John. And if it is God-First, then you have to spend time alone with Him. Away from people: just like Christ, Paul, Moses, David, Abraham. If you don't seem to have that time now, ask God for it. I am proof that He grants it, and there are hundreds just like me who asked Him for the same thing: just cruise the internet, see how many Bible-fixated websites there are by mere individuals, alone, puzzling out the Word. It's not wrong to be isolated. It's not wrong to want to spend what the world considers an "unhealthy" amount of time, to study the Word. There is a problem of going too far with it. But isolation itself is an important phase of the spiritual life.

No wonder the Rapture hasn't happened until yet. If ecumenism was as holy as it claims, if all that Sunday potluck good-deed nonsense was as good as claimed, the Rapture would have happened before 200 AD. Revelation 17, baby. Keeping us babies, not growing the Body, delaying the Wedding. Satan must be laughing his head off. Pharisees are clearly good-deeders in the Gospels, you can see it even in translation. Yet we Christians don't notice that, what with all our many Passion plays and Christmas pageants? Nope. We childishly define the spiritual life as people being nice to people. I just got an email of some gardener guy who got beat up over and over and one of his tormentors was so impressed that the old man didn't fight back, the tormenter became a "pillar" of the community. "This is the true Gospel", the letter said. Really? You believe only that, and you go to hell! Christ paid for us, not good works: John 3:16, Romans 4:1ff, Ephesians 2:8-9. See, we Body are truly destructive to each other, spreading lies and calling ourselves holy. It's spitting on the Cross, just as the writer of Hebrews says, in Hebrews 6:1-8. Frankly these days, it's better to avoid believers altogether, the world is so full of their apostasy. You can't be a hermit, but you can limit social contact and buying into their garbage. Quietly.

Clearly, then, true Christian fellowship is that each of us is in Fellowship with God, never mind people. The people fellowship is adjunctive, optional. 1 John is all about that fact, the Greek sarcasm sometimes so pointed and finely-honed, you have to stop reading. It's pretty bad when John has to warn someone not to even greet those who are apostate, 2 John 9-10. James and Galatians too, for that matter. If you grow up, then in eternity all these Churchianity people will have a conduit — you — for fellowship with God they had rejected, while down here. Whew. That's building up the Body.

It takes a long time to learn about the hidden trap of so-called "Christian fellowship". When you are a child, you're taught principles in terms of stuff you do with your body. So you think that's what "good" means, your little gold stars and your washings and making the bed, taking out the trash, which Mommy and Daddy praise. But they do that, because you are a child, and don't yet know the meaning behind the motions. The goal is to grow out of that childish association, eventually. Many humans don't. More believers don't. After some point, Word Eating is supposed to grow you out of that. But if you keep eating it with childish eyes, and never progress into at least a curiosity to know God better for Himself, well... you'll just keep on seeking those little gold stars.

However, there is one big visible category with which we all should be concerned: wanting good pastors. Wanting the Word means wanting to know God, so we need to let our pastors know we want to eat more information about Our Dread Lord, for Himself. We've seen how learning Word is the basis for blessing. So our voting to learn Word would mean we seek pastors who teach it. If we don't do this, the Word will not be taught, and the world will be in peril again. This happens in 200-year cycles in history. The current cycle began in the mid 1850's, and has already started to turn sour: in the United States, we've suffered a precipitous decline in true Bible interest, beginning in the 1930's and then escalating seriously in the 1960's. However, right now people in the age 20-30 group seem to be going through a revival of interest.

There are a lot of good pastors out there who don't teach what they know, because there's no 'market' for it. So we need to create demand by ourselves, wanting to learn Bible more. We don't form clubs or groups to lobby for better teaching, we just vote with our feet to where the teachers are. Or, we start asking our own pastors, deeper questions. That lets them know an interest exists, and they can then justify teaching more. For a pastor must feed his flock. If his flock won't eat what he is able to feed them, he must restrict what he feeds. So let's not restrict our pastors by being uninterested. Again, this is just something to kick around in private conversation, not have rallies and phone banks about. We don't need Caesar or Madison Avenue. We need interest in God, and we need to let our pastors know we want teaching about How He Is. Just Him. Else, they'll be stuck teaching us how to get those little gold stars.

So consider: since believers have historically been a tax on mankind, because they historically have not learned Him, Then the Divine Benefit Plan yield required on each succeeding generation of believers needs to be Much Higher, to get the same Aggregate Thinking Result for eternity. Hence, the potential growth available and needed; thus the potential responsibility for us today, is enormously higher than in Paul's day! That means you and I have a Much Higher Potential Inheritance than obtained for previous generations, because they forfeited their crowns. It's simple math: if the eternal structure is a value of "X", its present value 2000 years ago, was far smaller than today. But since the Rapture hasn't happened yet, the required 'thinking fund' for lack of a better word, is not there. So subsequent 'thinkers' to be funded must each be bigger than in prior generations, to still result in that future "X" value. It's as simple as you needing $10,000 in five years, but two years pass and you've only saved $100 of it. So now you've only got three years to get $9,900. Ouch.

Worse, Scripture goes hidden when people stop wanting it. Just because we've got the technology now, doesn't mean this can't happen again. Bible was very widely available during the first century, and they had no technology. After that, it quickly vanished. Which means interest in God was generally extremely low between 96 AD and 1850 AD. Reformation and other movements (like the Waldensians) show blips of increase in interest, but these blips are of childishly-narrow Biblical scope (i.e., Reformation was about true Gospel (faith-alone), Luther and Calvin), and short-term (going apostate within a decade or generation or two after beginning). When interest in Scripture declines, interest in education declines, especially in the languages of Scripture. So yeah, maybe the technology remains, but who's around to teach it? Hence the need for us Christians to be adamantly seeking good teachers. We don't crusade on this. We just do it, ourselves, one at a time. Back in the 1930's, you had to study Bible languages for years, and you took your exams in Latin. For the past generation or so, you don't even need but a year or maybe two of Greek, let alone much Hebrew, to graduate — and seminary students even complain about that much. That tells you properly-trained teachers, are not coming out of seminary. So yeah, the Word in the original language texts is now in public domain, accessible on any computer. But no one to teach it means it's just as hidden, as if still buried in crocodiles, within caves. Same thing happened in the 2nd century. We have come full circle.

Even worse, Leviticus 26 plays its negative contract paragraphs when we reject Bible, so major historical crises are in the offing. By now, 6 or 7 generations into the major trend of world history since the Crucifixion, which is the Kidnapping, Freeing, and Now Worldwide Availability Of The original language Texts of Bible (two to three generations into the ease of use of those texts), our patent disinterest in Word, means a future negative history of extreme magnitude. Which negativity, can only be offset by us Learning Him — again, demonstrated by seeking good pastors. So the magnitude of Our Learning Him in this current period of Church, is vitally necessary and extremely high. Way bigger than in the past. For there has been so much loss in past centuries, there must now be a bigger gain required. Every century which passes from here on out, must have bigger believers still; and if they aren't produced, then Satan wins in the Trial. We know Satan won't win from prophecy, but on a micro level — what you gain if you stick with God's System, versus what you lose — the results are dramatic. Positive, or negative. Every Believer Counts!

So on behalf of Our Bridal Body 'yet to be born', it behooves us to individually grow as much as possible; and, not only for that reason, to seek good pastors, plus instil in our children a refreshing idea of God and Bible, not the legalistic Dour-God or Circus-God image of past generations. So in terms of how we relate to other Christians, probably the most useful thing we could do is talk Bible. Brainstorm the doctrines with each other, find out who the good pastors are and pass on that information, encourage them and each other who are under them, think over what we are learning under our pastors. That will encourage thinking in ourselves — ideally, without us descending into 'my pastor or denomination is better than yours'. For we all can learn from each other, as all of us are Crown Princes, whatever our sex or societal status.

The only other visible thing we should do, is stay out of politics. That's Revelation 17. God will curse us big time for our politicking, urging our home nations to do something we consider 'moral'. We don't need Caesar, we need Prayer. We're the only people on the planet who have the right of prayer. We just ask God for whatever we think is needed. By contrast, the prolife movement is a blot on Christianity. It isn't functioning in the Right Jurisdiction, so none of its proponents are growing much spiritually, if at all. If you believe abortion is wrong, Ask God your King (God) — not Caesar, who is one of Satan's sub-kings. Satan rules this world; any cause you get into will only be a vote for Satan, in the end. Why else do you think, the worldwide weather and other disasters like terrorism, have been so weird the last decade or so? Does no one bother to read Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28? Guess not. So what do we do about all this? Get in and stay in God's System, First Commandment. Then He will use us to rescue our respective peoples, nations. That's the Precedence of the Cross. Christ went to Father for everything, not the Sanhedrin, not Rome — get the point?

Clearly this doesn't mean some Christian should avoid seeking political office, if that's God's Will for his life. Clearly this doesn't mean you sit on a park bench and be uninformed about political affairs. What it does mean, is that you don't depend or trust politics, and above all, you don't insert faith issues into politics. What belongs to God, is God's. Christ made that clear to Peter with regard to the two drachma tax (Matthew 17:24-27, ties to Matthew 22:17ff, Mark 12:14ff, Luke 20:22ff, and notice their distortion in Luke 23:2ff). We really should read our Bibles someday, huh.


Dia Touto! For this Very Reason! 7th Facet, Impossible Progeny! + Facet Summary

Like all other Diamond Doctrine Buck categories, this Progeny Diamond Doctrine Buck Value will be a basis for determining your inheritance at the Bema. So there are a total of seven whole Faceted 'funds' of Diamond Doctrine Bucks with which you get accredited, simply by voting for the Holy Spirit to do to you, what He did to Christ, via learning and Living on the Word, 24/7:

Here is the complete summary of facet points:

  1. First Facet, you are the conduit for blessing or cursing to the human race, simply because you are a believer. That, because your King is God, and the rest of the world has voted instead for Satan to be its king. So it's a problem of Jurisdiction. God is King only of all believers. So Blessing from God can only be granted due to believers. So these are Conduit Diamond Doctrine Bucks. This has been true since Adam's Fall: had he not believed for Salvation (Genesis 3:21), we'd all not be here. So the Jurisdiction Rule applies, throughout history. It's phenomenally upgraded, for Church, as we saw.
  2. Second Facet, direct blessing from Your King, to Train You in His Royal Son's Thinking. So as a result those associated with you, get blessed. You are treated as their owner, and to bless you for what you need, they must get blessing. So these are Direct Blessing Diamond Doctrine Bucks.
  3. Third Facet, you are a Royal Priest to Father, being trained in His Son's Thinking, to develop a Thinking Lifestyle of Christ-Perfect Thoughts which Father can enjoyably 'smell'. Others in your periphery will smell them also, which has a multiplier effect on your periphery, the nation, the world — even if you never mention "God", which effect is a Second-Facet rerouting... So these are Sweet Savor Diamond Doctrine Bucks.
  4. Fourth Facet, a Quad-Dichotomous, Mission Impossible Life of Christ-Perfect Thoughts. So your nature is continually at war with this Training, due to Perfect Truth growing inside your head, Perfectly Operating: for your thinking is being transformed by Him, the Holy Spirit. Dead to Living, a Resurrection and Session Power. So these are Transformation Diamond Doctrine Bucks.
  5. So Fifth Facet, here: the Impossible cycling profit of those Christ-Perfect Thoughts, and the Suffering Profit, Hebrews 12:2; which results in Satan's Defeat in the Trial. So these are Trial Victory Diamond Doctrine Bucks. Really, you could call these Mature Love Diamond Doctrine Bucks. For when Love matures, it wants suffering, needs it as an outlet, calls suffering Profit, Philippians 1:21. My pastor warns you need "two mutual flanks": Doctrine in your head, but also Love for God. The first without the second is hopeless legalism, sterile and unspiritual, however correct one's doctrines might be. The second without the first is a crazed person, having no discernment. The two must grow in tandem. So when you study if a love for God is not growing, but rather a puffed-up love of how well you know Bible — your salient is exposed, and you're off-kilter in the spiritual life. Same for the "rah rah Jesus" crowd you see so often in churches — their problem is no Bible.
  6. Sixth Facet the Impossible Body of His Thinking, makes an Impossible Bride... forever. So these are Bridal Body Diamond Doctrine Bucks. The 'body' of your kingdom is tailored to you. And in aggregate, we are all perfectly fitting, Him.
  7. Seventh Facet, Impossible Progeny of His Thinking, post-mortem blessing in your name, which God gives the world: Progeny Diamond Doctrine Bucks.

What I'm calling "Progeny" here, my pastor calls "Heritage Impact" of the believer who dies victorious. Running theme in my pastor's epic 1985 Ephesians series of consecutive recorded Bible classes — seven years' worth — is the impact of the believer God grows up to Full Spiritual Maturity of Christ. For example, when exegeting Ephesians 4:13 in T436s2 (probably lesson 872) he uses the term "Heritage Impact" to describe the post-mortem blessing I'm here calling Seventh Facet "Progeny". It's a series of blessings to the believer's periphery which goes on after his death. The granting of Time to the entire world for 490 or 1000 years due to selected believers, is a demonstrably true Bible doctrine. History would not have continued, else. But so far as I can tell, I'm the only one who knows about that being in the Bible thus far. However, others know of extra types of post-mortem blessings, my pastor being one of them. The general idea of post-mortem blessing from a believer is well attested in Scripture, the "for the sake of my servant David" verse and the blessings you see the children get from their parents' benedictions, etc. Those benedictions were prophecies, legacies. Doesn't mean you have to pronounce them, for the kids to receive them. God blesses. We all know about the four-generation curse, so there's a flipside of blessing. Point is, the world is impacted by these blessings too, long after we're gone. Most significantly, the Tribulation and Millennium believers cannot exist unless Church completes successfully. So if we know that big a blessing applies on a macro level, we know myriads of other Divinely-Granted blessings exist on smaller levels. It stands to reason that the same Six Facets of Blessing enumerated above, have post-mortem 'threads' or 'roots' which sprout crops in future generations. God is consistent in the policies He sets.

It's hard to be categorically specific here, other than with respect to the blessing of Time, which I could document since Adam. But if that blessing is so dramatic and specific, then we know other categories exist as well. There are trends of history which help us see the post-mortem impact. You can look at the increase in Bible interest in nations historically, and see the contemporaneous (same generation) rise in material prosperity; you can see it continue for about four generations within that same nation, generally each time. Sometimes only one or two generations (which tells you subsequent generations were quite negative) remain prosperous. So we know the conduit blessing categories continue post-mortem, as they can be empirically traced. So if what we can see continue is so vast, then other types and smaller-scale blessings continue as well.

The most important 'progeny' we can 'propagate' is correct and interested understanding of Bible. Typically, people use the Bible as a mere location for genealogical records, or trot it out at holidays, reading Psalm 23 or some other 'traditional' passage. How sad. Historically our theologies remain quite puerile, even after centuries of having Bible. We still wrestle over "God 101" baby topics, as if we were all stuck in the Reformation, as if frozen in time (and in many cases Christians today now know less than what they did in the reformation). There's no excuse for that: our theologies of God's Nature should be way better than they are. Moreover, there's no excuse for us not understanding that Bible Thinking Alone Toward Father is The Spiritual Life, since Christ Paid For Our Sins To Father by means of His Thinking. So if you're trying to figure out what's the best propagating you can do, learn Bible and pass on your learning to anyone who wants to brainstorm it with you. People talk. Good Bible topics or ideas are refreshing, delightful, light-years more delicious than all other information passed on. God never lets His Word return void. But we can refuse to learn it, talk about it. What a loss to us, if we do.


GOD's GAAP Balancing: How Many Believers with Diamond Doctrine "bucks", 'ripen' Church?

God's Covenants require enough "salt", and "mass". Only a little salt, applied to a whole lot of mass! Consequently, the "mass" leveraged by the "salt", the "multiplier effect", the "economy of force" and "concentration of force" values for even a buck of Divine Thinking, is extreme; for, if the leverage or multiplier is high in natural things (germs, physics, finance), how much higher would it have to be, in supernatural things? Ergo the Seven Macro Effects of God's Balancing Criteria to Make Fit Bride. These seven are the product of the seven micro facets of each Diamond Doctrine Buck accumulating in us, solely by agency of the Holy Spirit (never by means of works). This accumulation — or lack of it — accounts for the 'play' of History until the Rapture. So the following seven Macro Effects are always ongoing, 'til then.

For again, the biggest criterion to establish the size of Church, and the balance between Progenitors And Progeny is this: What Numbers Are Sufficient To Fully Reflect Christ's Thinking in us Royal Priests, Eternally Before Father? We just saw the Seven Facets. We are being mined now to result in a synergistic hierarchy of Son's Thinking Which Father Will 'Smell' Forever. Rulers think, and the masses emulate the Ruler in varying ways. People love to look up at other people and talk about every little detail in those upper folks' lives. Tabloids depend on it. So the task is To Create The Rulers' Thinking, so that the future whole polities will forever mimic, emulate, reflect The Son to Whom We All Look Up.

So the numbers depend obviously on what God does, not at all on what man does. So count on it, if you're not in God's System, you're not gonna be in the progenitor class. But you can change your mind, and get in God's System. Most Christians haven't, and won't. That's why history continues.

The Divine Formula for making the economy (οἰκονομία) and body-house (οἰκοδομή) for Church is listed below. Now that you've some understanding of the Diamond Doctrine Bucks God wants to deposit in you & see each such Buck has Seven Divinely-Rich Facets, let's ponder God's Building Formula:


Thinking alone is the true currency in life, buying everything bad or good, since the effects of the thinking are always real. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that Real God Really Knows The Real Effects Of Whatever Thinking He Perpetually Hears.

  • So for Church to be Raptured, Church In Aggregate Needs A Balance Of Thinking Such That The Whole Group Is Benefitted, Not Harmed. Especially, if planning the Body of Church for the One Who Paid for Church, Ephesians 5. Only Divine Thinking will be circulating, there.
  • This balance depends on one king per eternal polity being the progenitor, and the polity 'fitting' him as progeny. One head, many body parts.
  • So, then: some need to be Very Highly Thinking, since most will not be.
  • God's Macroeconomics (It's A Funding Calculation): How much aggregated Divine Thinking will result from "X" composition of Church, Compared To Some Other Number/Composition? Divine Thinking is the true currency in life, buying everything: the "every spiritual blessing" clause in Ephesians 1. Real God really knows the real effects of whatever thinking He perpetually hears. When you have a lot of power, the way you happily use it must be keyed to Good Reasons. Else, the power becomes a misery, rather than a pleasure. So Good Reasons Require Good Thinking. God is Total Power, so Total Reasons are alone enough. Total Thinking, therefore, is the criterion. All else is just instantly created (!) to go with that Thinking. Because, God can indeed do anything He wants, so what He wants, is the Free Thinking To Be Right. All else is a passive thing, a go-along, even as the body just goes along with whatever the soul, thinks.
  • So, the corollary: what's the right balance, such that the Low Ones, When Matched To The High Ones (the pleroma kings), Will Together, Connected — Synergistically Produce This Aggregated Divine Thinking? Eternal freedom among finite beings thus requires societal barriers, to preserve enjoyment of compatibility. Barriers create balance and synergy among the variant compatibilities, wrought by the variation we chose to learn and live on Word, down here. That will be the only reason why we vary in rank forever: Word, not what we were down here; Word, not sex, job, or any other human factor people drool or divide over, down here. Up there, we will be perfect and far bigger persons; yet essentially, we'll still differentiate, as each of us has uniquely chosen for or against — Word. We will therefore not be equal. Unequal therefore unique combinations of interests, abilities, and especially, Doctrinal Thinking, result. All of which we accumulated down here.

Bible terms οἰκοδομία (house, structure, both literal and figurative of 'organization') and οἰκονομία are keywords used to show God's Corporate Goal, here. Like, a polity: citizens of Heaven, a holy nation (Pauline and Petrine catchphrases). We've just seen some of the variables which go into making a successful polity and economy, such as low taxes, and free enterprise. Much more true, this, when it comes to thinking. One person is good at thinking out how some piece of machinery works; another, at how foreign policy should work; a third, on how to make dinner. All are vital, but not all are equal. Can't exactly fix foreign policy, if no dinner!

Freedom means variety. Freedom within finite beings, means societal barriers in order to create balance among them, and synergy among them. Because, individually, We Are Each Different. So, we're not gonna be sitting up on clouds all chirping away, strumming golden harps. We will be perfect and far bigger persons, then. But we will be, essentially, much like we are down here: one does one thing, and another, another; not equal. Even nations and taxes eternally continue, Revelation 21:24! Because, each person is unique. Unique combination of interests, abilities, and especially, Doctrinal Thinking. Which we had to accumulate down here.

So, in life down here as in life post-body death, we differentiate and as a result, fit together as a whole. Down here, we often don't get to make choices about how we differentiate; a person who wants to be a ballerina, is too heavy, so can't. Someone who wants to be President, has too checkered a background for the opposition, so can't be nominated. Lots of restrictions. But in God's Economic and Political Plan for Church, There Are No Restrictions, because Christ paid for them all, theme of Ephesians 1. So He is free to make what He wants, juridically, at His end. However, He is free, so we must be also. That's His choice. So, What We Choose As Our Relationship To Him, Is What We Will Get.

God's Economic and Political Plan for Church won't impose restrictions, since Christ paid for us all, theme of Ephesians 1. So He is free to make what He wants. What He wants, is that we choose our relationship to Him while down here: that's what we'll get 'up there'. Did we choose a works-based, ritual-based relationship, closer to people but far away from knowing Him intimately? Did we choose emotionality rather than Word, being close to feely stuff we hallucinated, but far away from knowing the Real God? Okay: that's what we'll get in heaven, too (sans the hallucinating, of course)! True Justice. Truly derived. No coercion. You get what you want from God by Divine Decree, Matthew 7:1-2.


Now let's try to calculate these numbers. First, the overall size of Church is much bigger than believers expect. Ever since Adam, anyone in history who died before being old enough mentally to reject the Gospel went straight to heaven, 2 Samuel 12:23 and all the "blot out" verses. Every human born is registered in the Book of Life. You only get blotted out because you rejected the Gospel all your life. Well, lots of babies didn't reject the Gospel, they couldn't even understand it to reject it. Infant mortality is and remains high, throughout history. Then there's the number of people with diseases or malnutrition which so hamper mental function, they couldn't understand the Gospel. Lots of reasons why lots of people died without being able to reject the Gospel. So they went to heaven. A child comes to recognize the idea of an Omnipresent God sometime. If he consistently rejects that idea he might not go to heaven, and it wouldn't matter if he got the Gospel, for the Gospel is based on God being of a certain character which is already rejected. Only God has all the facts. I know I was aware of God in this manner when I was maybe four or five years old, as were most of my generation. So it can happen that young.

That means heaven's human population is in the tens of billions. Since from any one generation Church can complete, its size is a dynamic: on earth now, there are mainly three generations at about two billion each. Conversely, how many too-young died since the Crucifixion? That number alone easily exceeds two billion. So we know that while any one generation can complete Church, a much larger "Body" exists.

So what's not yet enough, is the number of rulers. So what we've not done since 30 AD, is grow up spiritually. Hence Christianity's had a Macro Flunk Effect, our failing grade mentioned above. We piously claim thousands of spiritual giants among us from past and present in far larger proportions than needed to complete Church. So they aren't spiritual giants, after all. Numbers can't lie, they don't have political agendas, and the meaning of the numbers is clear: we are still here, so we've a very sorry report card, even among those whom we consider 'spiritual'. They are not. We should thus revisit our notions of what constitutes spirituality, since obviously our notions are not God's. You'll see just how stridently the math proves this, later on.

Accordingly, although Church can complete in any generation, there is a backup contingency criterion — enough balance between the underlying population, and the rulers. Well, duh — the rulers are always very few. Many body parts, but only one brain. So notice: the ideal is actually the balance between, not the aggregate number itself. A dynamic — so again, the Rapture cannot be predicted. As a result, we'll see how any one of us growing up spiritually, makes an enormous impact on history... forever. (My pastor has taught this fact for decades, but until writing this I didn't understand the numbers. Maybe it will help you too. Scary stuff!)

Since Christians have hated God so much that history goes on for 2000 years post-Cross, you know immediately that the ruler component is incomplete, but the Body itself is rather large. The hypocrisy and puerility of mainstream and historical Christianity added to the Number of Body, but not to the Brain. In the Sixth Facet we see something of this need for future Pleroma Kings to be grown bigger than past ones, to make up for the 'forfeiture' in the Divine Benefit Plan for Church — owing to past and especially current, norm of Christian apostasy. So the Brain must get progressively larger, to accommodate the larger Body which has grown since 30 AD.

So what numbers of Pleroma Kings Thinking Doctrine must result to fulfill the Divine "X-for-Xpistos" Formula? Well, we've seen that blessing or cursing by association is in part quantitatively based on a very small ratio and therefore number, of "salt" persons. Most often, between "1" and "3": the former, needed to start the process, and the latter, to stabilize or perpetuate it. Again, because secular always reflects spiritual, in both math and science this property is also frequently noted: the structural 'laws' of physics, thermodynamics, navigation, and even economics often center on "1" or "3".

It should thus be easy to understand the primordial rule that God's Own Laws require "1" to start, and "3" to stabilize or perpetuate: First Adam, "1". Last Adam, "1". Noah, "1". Abraham, "1". Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, "3". Moses, "1". Moses, Caleb, Joshua, "3". Four-generation curse depends on the 3rd generation's apostasy being repeated in the 4th. That curse's span is routinely displayed in the Bible (usually implicitly): it's often 120 years, namely, the warning period of the Flood, and Assyria's 'lifetime' after Jonah went there, the sum of the voting periods in God's Accounting System for Time. So, too, in almost any "famous" family line, and in many periods of history, the same 120-year span displays a marked recurrence.

In short, the numbers required are small; but if enough Divine Thinking is in a few people, then many believers who reject the spiritual life can be supported. It ends up being a free dynamic which always has a perfect answer for 'whatever' size, since anyone on earth can believe in Christ. Isaiah stresses this fact in Isaiah 52:13 - Isaiah 54:1, with his constant contrasting of the One Christ with the many resulting sons He paid for. (Nerd note: He paid for everyone, but you must believe in His Payment at least once in your lifetime to become a son, John 1:12, John 3:16, Galatians 3:26, Ephesians 2:8-9. Don't add any other verbs.) That's the Eternity Past Contract For Making Sons, and it proves conclusively that indeed it only takes a few, to balance (leverage) off the many. One good thought, John 3:16, saved you forever! So what does God do for an 'encore'? Build many kingdoms from one each believer who grows up in His Son's Good Thoughts! Just as He builds all from His Son, Isaiah 53:11!

Again, it only took one man of faith, Noah, to save the human race. It only took one man of faith, Abram, to justify the coming of Messiah and thus save the human race. It only took one man, Moses, to justify preserving Israel (God offered to wipe out all Israel and begin over with Moses, Numbers 14:12 and Deuteronomy 9:14). Moses only needed 70 leaders, to dispense justice in a nation of at least six million people. Notice the proportions are really very small: one per six million is Moses (that's the proportion my pastor uses when trying to estimate the number of Pleroma preserving the United States). So it becomes a fluid dynamic, if there are many being added to the Body, but very few growing up in the Head. Sadly, that also means we Church are 99.999% apostate, in any generation: 1:6,000,000 is way less than .0001%. Whatever is popular in Christianity, comes from Satan. Can't be another answer, mathematically. Popular doctrines, practices, etc. are all skewed, even if 'Biblical' in some vague way — and it will always be vague, fuzzy, emotional, empty, anthropocentrically-herded, if popular — skewed, into something evil. Wolves in sheep's clothing. Makes you want to throw dust on your head and wear sackcloth, mourning.

Here's the root reason why the numbers required are few. The world largely rejects Christ, so goes to hell; even believers — and not all 'Christians' are believers, remember the "Lord, Lord" passage — even believers overwhelmingly reject the spiritual life.

Think about that. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all base their faiths on this would-be murderer. In Judaism and Islam, you don't get an answer why, yet this Abraham is a good guy for sacrificing? Well, lots of other fathers sacrificed to Molech or Kali (etc.), and they really did kill their sons. What's the difference? Sure doesn't seem like Abraham is any better. See the skewing? The the reason why is not addressed. So now, it's evil. So now, both the Jews and the Muslims pride themselves on being descendants or adherents of the allegedly-same faith that Abraham had. Abraham, a would-be murderer. And these who pride themselves on him, don't 'get it' about Abraham, at all.

Christians don't get the point of Abraham either, just as blind as their unbeliever counterparts in Judaism and Islam. But at least the Bible explains what we stupid believers cannot: God is Holy, So No Works Can Pay For Sin. So He Took On Humanity, of which Abraham was to be the progenitor. So Abraham needed to see that he himself loved God in the same way as God loved him, by (in the future) saving him at such an unconscionable price. God didn't need it, Abraham and Isaac needed that test. Isaac was between age 20-40 by the way: Hebrew "na'ar" means a marriageable youth, Genesis 22:5. So Isaac, like Christ he represents, was willing. That's why it's not evil, Romans 5:8. So again, only the Bible tells you the full story. So Misreading or Masking Bible is Satan & Co.'s Number One Priority. Once you know Isaac was willing and Abraham was willing, there is no way you can mistake the spiritual life for works; no way you can miss the meaning of Christ. So, of course you don't know Isaac's age in Christendom so you have all those dippy cartoons and documentaries depicting him as a child being sacrificed — all because no one cares to look up the Hebrew, 🤣. So both Abraham and God look like loonies.

For the sacrifice, is about Love. Unpriced Love. We humans just can't take that message, unless we sugar it up with self-praise, oh what a martyr I am. Abraham wasn't thinking like that. God doesn't think like that. True love doesn't need to praise itself over what it pays. Only hatred obsesses over what it pays, as we saw in the Fifth Facet. True love belittles what it pays. Hatred magnifies what it pays. True Love is grateful for the smallest thing. Hatred is never grateful, always concludes self cheated. God is praising Abraham, but Abraham isn't praising himself; God gives him this 'sacrifice' to prove to Abraham that he really loves God. To Isaac, too. Because, True Love always belittles itself, always concluding it doesn't love enough. Hatred, by contrast, always overvalues what it 'gives'. See, we really don't get it about Abraham, be we Jews, Muslims, or Christians: we're just like Ananias and Sapphira, in Acts 5. Proof positive: when something goes wrong in the life, people complain Why did God let this happen, obviously concluding that it is unjust, given how 'good' they are. That's a hatred motive. Tit for tat is always based on hatred.

There's a reciprocal (flipside) of the fact that 99.999% of believers are apostate, and therefore only a few Rulers need to be developed. You or I, could become one of those rulers. God's Power alone develops us. So each of us who grows up in Christ can tip the historical scales for better with More Power Than An Atom Bomb: God's Own Power in Growing Us Up. Precept by atomic-sized precept, God can grow anyone up in His Son, Ephesians 1:18-20, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 4:13. Those who grow up in Him are a motley collection of folks you'll see at the Bema: charwomen and celebrities you'd never expect, paraplegics and wealthy, not a few 'wayward' monks and businessmen, and human royalty. Every Bible hero is controversial: exactly the opposite of what Christians would 'count', would they ever read their Bibles, "wa lo hadar" in Isaiah 53:2.

Bear in mind as you read what follows, that Ephesians 1 says each of us has a crown, so it is ours to lose (see also the "lose your crown" verse Revelation 3:11). My pastor harped on that fact for seven years of daily Bible classes when exegeting Ephesians verse-by-verse. He didn't want us to forget it, constantly reminding us that there is an "eternal memorial to lost opportunity" per person which each one losing his 'crown' can visit in heaven, because the benefits are "escrowed". A king need not have a kingdom to be a King. Christ had no Kingdom at His Resurrection. So had we all become kings, we'd have the standards, wealth, and enjoyment of a king, without the burden of people to rule. So the fact that there are people to rule in eternity means most people rejected the spiritual life, and forfeited their crowns. Thus the intended wealth had to be rerouted, the Divine Benefit Plan, which is taken from both my pastor's exegesis of Ephesians, and directly from the "wa-et-atsumim" ("great ones") clause in Isaiah 53:12. (See the JPS Tanach for the first clause, and Webster's Bible for the second; all English Bibles blasphemously mistranslate that verse, making it look like Christ only gets a part of the total, though the Hebrew is unmistakeable that He gets it all, and He does the re-apportioning:

"laken ahalleq Lo (to Him!) b'rabbim, w'-et atsumim (to the great ones, i.e., Pleroma) Yehalleq (He assigns) shalal (the people-booty and other spoil)".

Thus more training is needed to be a king, because frankly, it's a royal pain to rule people, even if they are perfect. Ruling is above all, parental: and you'll gladly kill yourself doing it, especially if the ruled are perfect. Love would drive you. Much more true, in the eternal state.

So, it becomes a race against time: will enough Pleroma be developed? And, what does this 'enough Pleroma in any generation' criterion tell us, about ratios to achieve perfection in-number? Bible and history help us here. We have some ratios to use as guidelines. None of them will be exactly correct, but they will help us get a sense of proportion. A sampling of ratios follows, with a hypothetical conclusion. You might prefer to develop your own ratios from other Bible data, etc.

The appropriate ratios depends on how you define the scope of "Pleroma": would it just be top-tier rulers, the kings? That seems most Biblical, given verses like 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, 1 Corinthians 4:8 (sarcasm); before Church, you have the Genesis 5 roster, David, Moses — very few people. But wouldn't it make sense also to define "Pleroma" as a designation for an entire ruling class, analogous to a whole governing body? My pastor has taken both positions, from what I can tell. For example, ever since the 1960's, my pastor has speculated that the total number of Church equals the total number of demons, based (among other things) on 2 Corinthians 2:14, since at the end of a triumph there is a one-on-one casting into the Mamertine dungeon. But he also wondered if the total number of Pleroma ends up equalling that number (in the 1997 lessons (and following) of 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, passim when the topic came up). In the latter assumption, "Pleroma" would have a wider meaning, not just top-tier rulers. Or, many more smaller kingdoms in a hierarchical federation. For there have to be, billions of demons. We know they organize themselves not only by task, but by nation-state in the world (i.e., Gabriel's comment in Daniel 10 on how he was detained). So there are logistical issues, and the deployment on both sides is sometimes too thin. Since the elect angels outnumber the demons 2:1, the demons have to number in the billions. Then again, a good many of them are incarcerated in Tartarus and the Abyss. (Satan is not confined to the earth, as some suppose. That happens mid-Tribulation, see Revelation 9 and Revelation 12.) So obviously many of the elect angels are on standby, or are doing other things, lest Satan contend that he's outnumbered. Therefore you also know that God gives angels a lot of initiative and executive roles as free agents — just as He does, us. Freedom is God's Middle Name, so to speak.

That God balances to rejecting populations seems indicated by Deuteronomy 32:8, Hosea 1:10, Romans 9:27, Romans 11:25. We know He cuts out and grafts in, so that doctrine ties in here. So maybe the goal is also to replace the numbers of demons, since obviously when all the angels were initially created, that number and balance was perfect. So the idea of replacement balancing makes sense. Exactly how it ought to work, well.. that's a guess, at our end. But a certitude, at God's End.

So for our purposes here, we'll use the following ratios to derive a Low-High: Low, the number of top-tier kings needed; and High, the number needed for a ruling class. So the valuation at the end of this subsection will hypothecate a Low-High representing kings (Low), and ruling class (High). However you hypothecate the value, the number will be unbelievably small: that's the point of this exercise.

Concerning the Exodus population, the "six million" is a scholarly consensus you'll see used a lot by pastors and on the internet; my pastor used it, too. Bible doesn't say the size exactly, but you can estimate that the Exodus generation which left with Moses in 1440 BC, numbered approximately six million (based on two million adults). That's a ratio of one-six-millionth! By the time Israel entered the Land, only three of the initial adult males who'd left Egypt remained alive: Moses, Caleb, Joshua. Moses died just before they entered the Land in 1400 BC, so then only two people, so 1:3 million became the ratio. Ergo to use the United States government bureaucracy fraction of .02% greatly overstates the ratio.

So we see that the "multiplier effect" during a period of extreme negative volition, often boils down to just one person being 'enough' to justify the continuance of History. How much more true, Now that the Lord is Seated? With a Bride in training? That's the point to focus on, here: the Greatly Increased "Multiplier Effect" Of 'Blessing By Association', Due To His Session, through His Bride.

This Deliverer ratio is really bigger than it looks. For Israel was to be a whole nation justifying the continuation of the world. So you'd really have 1:1 Billion, just like the Construction Ratio, since Moses was one, and you can probably presume 1 billion as the world's population (never mind its short lifespan due to infant and other early mortality). Or, you can take six million to one billion, .006, which is .6%, but that seems high.

Most believers don't execute the spiritual life, historically. Only a very small percentage do that. So, out of let's say only a million believers in Nero's (Paul's) day, wouldn't the requisite number of top-tier believers be very few: using the United States Bureaucracy Ratio, there would be only 179 top-tier, per million? And if that small a number had been reached in Paul's day, the "many" would have been raptured up! But were not! Yikes, that doesn't speak well of the history of Christianity! For the Bureaucracy Ratio is the largest of the list here. So if the ratio is truly more divergent (lower) — and the requisite proportion should be even less than needed for Moses to carry Israel, due to the Session — then how vast a loss! Progeny, but no or very very few, Pleroma progenitors!

While extrabiblical records and some references in the Bible seem to indicate that faith in Christ spread like wildfire in the generation after Our Lord's Crucifixion (from the huge reaction worldwide to Christianity, reflected in literature and religion-changes globally), in the first century AD; while it's obvious, from the strategic, geographic position of Israel that such a fast Gospel-spread would be logistically probable; still, we can tell by the same sources that most believers were truly weird. Revelation 1-3, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and especially the Book of Acts, all reveal really bizarre questions and concerns among these folks. Well, every book in the New Testament does.

Also, in extrabiblical sources, much of Christendom's goofy history is all too apparent. The many fake Gospels with their slapstick themes, goofy mysticism and lurid claims; the widespread aping of the wacko Christians seeped into non-Christian faiths, including those funky stories' themes. Christians today still act just as goofy, and if you want to know what "crazy" means, just talk to them. Then you have historians like: Edward Gibbon, Theodor Mommsen, Max Cary... to give you a sense of how nutty we Christians were, right up through the 19th century and beyond. Earlier historians like Josephus, Suetonius and others of the time explain how Christians ("The Way") often made trouble for Rome. In short, we see that believers largely didn't catch on to the meaning of Scripture's message. So, however big or small the "mass" of (say) Paul's generation, most were pretty much like their Exodus-generation counterparts: wacko. So the "Pleroma" of Paul's day were very few. Which makes a great deal of sense, look: for a long time, the whole world was indirectly dependent on the high faith of one person in that world's generation: Noah. Abraham. Moses. David. Christ.

Consider: how many believers in history there have been? How many "rulers" are required to effectively rule the "many", without choking the ruled with oodles of laws? Very Few to complete their spiritual development in 1 John's Script; easily enough in any human generation. Just like God says through Paul, at the end of Paul's prayer, in Ephesians 3:21. When Paul writes the doxology of Ephesians 3:20-21, he seems to know that it will be answered, and that's why he writes as he does.

Think how the numbers need to work, to get a better sense of proportion and... well, of how apostate we've been. This is Perfect Government, not like the human micromanaged version we always see in our sordid history (Isaac Asimov was right, about Trantor). Okay, let's think this out: pretend the total Church population ended up being the size of the United States in the Year 2000, 280 million; then, Church would require between 50-50,000 rulers. "50", you get by using the Moses ratio (1:6 million), which we know must be too low, because we are post-Session. So maybe use a multiplier like in Luke 8, of 30-100.

If we say a generation is 30 years, there have been 67 generations since 0 AD, roughly; some portion of the 63-67th generations are on the planet right now in 2007. Just to pick a number: using only the Moses ratio, assuming Church at a per-generation size of 300 million (remember all who die too young are automatically saved): 67 × 50 = 3,350.

If we apply Luke 8 the 3,350 would be divided by factors of between 30 and 100. (Parallels: Mark 4, Matthew 13, the talents parable, precedence is Genesis 26:12.) Surely the higher spiritual life He legated to us increases the leverage "multiplier effect" value beyond that of Moses. Whether it's really by the scale of the Luke 8 factors I don't know, but since the Lord used those factors, it's reasonable to use them here. So let's play with that:

3350 ÷ 100 = 34 people. 3350 ÷ 30 = 112 people.
The population would be 300 million times 67, about 20 billion people!
Again, anyone dying before able to reject Gospel goes to heaven;
Human history is full of people dying too young.
So 20 billion is not unreasonable.
So if 112, that's one ruler per 179 million.
If 34, one ruler per 591 million, seems high.
Conversely, if we even used a 10 factor,
that would be 3350 ÷ 10, so 335 people,
so one ruler per 60 million, roughly the size of France.

So let's next think about the number of generations since Adam. According to the Bible, the year 2007 is year 6113 since Adam's fall. That works out to 204 generations, assuming an average of 30 years each. So applying the above assumptions,

204 × 50 = 10,200 rulers, on a population of 300 million × 204 = 61.2 billion.
10200 ÷ 100 = 102 people. 10200 ÷ 30 = 340 people.
Again, anyone dying before able to reject Gospel is in heaven.
So 61.2 billion is not unreasonable.
So if 102, that's one ruler per 179 million.
If 340, one ruler per 591 million, seems high.
Conversely, if we even used a 10 factor,
that would be 10200 ÷ 10, so 1020 people,
so one ruler per 60 million, roughly the size of France.

We're really missing the boat on the value God intends to make from us, huh. Even if only 60 million, that's the size of France! It is an issue how big a country is enjoyable to rule, so I tend to favor the 60-million ratio. Too big a country would make rulership too remote? Of course, the kings are stacked in a federation, since Christ is Head. So Paul is maybe ruler over several billion at least, with lesser kings below him.

Okay, what about the time it takes to grow up to Pleroma and finish the course? Does that affect the number of Pleroma? Well, that's impossible to estimate too, though we know Paul got there over something like maybe 38 years (30 AD - 68 AD, my pastor spent some time analyzing that issue in his 1999 classes). The Lord is also atypical (The Unique One), and it took Him 33 years. Of course, the Lord is Way Bigger Pleroma than even Paul; and Paul, is way bigger Pleroma than what would be 'typical'. Still, the '30 year build savior' number in the Old Testament, might be a guideline. Okay: let's say 30-50 years (it can be any number, now). Well, that doesn't increase the progenitor number, because the Pleroma person would be growing up during a generation's 'time'. Okay, that's enough number crunching to "get the drift" of how the proportions, play.

Now let's factor in the eternal future. The the number of "progenitors" (Pleroma) Father wants:

In short, the job of 'Church' is not restricted to a single generation, as was true for those prior, though post-mortem blessing does flow from every Bible hero. Still, this is a higher job than they had. But Christ is So Much Higher than Moses (theme of Hebrews 3), so even this much larger job, over a much larger population (which encompasses all believers in history, eventually)... man, you're still talking something way less than 50,000 people throughout all time! being needed. (Something under 15,000? Gotta quintuple the 3,350, to even get that high.) Any generation on the planet today, easily numbers at least 1 billion souls! Well, you could say there should be about four generations on the planet in any given year, so if the world's population is 6 billion, then about 4 billion would be over age 20, with maybe a half-billion over age 60, so maybe 1.5 billion below age 20. Wow. So it's a wonder the Rapture hasn't happened, 'til yet!

We don't know how long a future that represents.

Presume that the total number of generations in history were 333.
That means a population of 300 million × 333 = 99.9 billion.
At the "France" ratio size, that equates to 16,650 Pleroma,
But of course the kingdoms are hierarchically organized,
So it wouldn't be an even size of 60 million per king.
So if we say 10,000, we'd be more accurate.

Therefore, the Pleroma number needed is maybe somewhere between 1000 (Low, kings) and 10,000 (High, ruling class) to cover all eternity. That valuation adjusts lastly for a gut sense of the efficiency in the eternal state, evidenced by the Angelic Ratio: at some size the governing body itself is too large, unwieldy. We'd have perfect knowledge then, but it would be truly annoying to have 10,000 beings meeting in a conference; the personalness gets lost? You might come up with some other adjustment. But whatever the value, notice how it must be extremely small, compared to the likely overall population in eternity. That Church hasn't been completed yet, despite the very wide spread of Christianity in history, confirms how we Christians hate God. Which of course, history all too well corroborates. So much for our protestations of how we love Jesus. The numbers prove we don't.

However you craft the ratios, it's obvious that balance between the numbers of these two groups is a perfection criterion. Son wants Father to get the Maximum Amount Of Reflection of Son's thinking in Son's kingdom and economy. That's what we live for. And frankly, in heaven the only Topic of Interest is Him, so no one will care who's superior or inferior (see how the angel censures John in Revelation 19:10). So obviously, if the top-tier are too many, the bottom tier is too taxed, regulated. Conversely, if the top-tier is too few, the many have no cohesion, and the Royal Thinking Standards' circulation will be too weak. In short, the top needs to be few, so that the many can have more; but not so the many are choked. That has always been the case, even down here on planet Earth; so how much more true, in a perfect life?

In our modern arrogant age, we fool ourselves that we aren't children. Yet anyone who owns anything soon learns that governance is a real pistol. Governing the self, governing others, governing even a PTA committee in grammar school! There are endless pettinesses which people get into, all of them headless, none of them seeing the big picture. Someone makes a stink about what color the invitation ought to be, for a wedding — excuse me, is that so important, when people are dying in Iraq? Or, someone makes a stink over how some priest treated them, 30 years prior — yeah, and what happened in the past 30 years, that the person never got over it? You can only blame someone else for so long. Others crusade on some asinine issue, i.e., the 'proposals' in corporate annual reports, like PETA's demand one play music for chickens before killing them. So it's clear that leadership must be Well Trained, Strong, and Inspiring. So that all us headless chickens can breathe, rather than spouting up nonsense all the time.

So, Church needs certain individuals to be leaders. AKA, ἀρχηγοί, rulers. Not too many, not too few. Thus all can be happy, free. No chaos; and no tyranny, either. As my pastor says so often, "Freedom without authority, is anarchy; authority without freedom, is tyranny." So a perfect balance between authority and "masses", makes for a perfect society. Especially, in the eternal state. So think of Church as this growing mixture of crops (Biblical metaphor), of which some types are ripening faster than others. When enough ripens to make the whole commercially-viable, it doesn't matter that some are over-ripe, or even unripe (see the parable of the fig tree in Greek and Jeremiah's talk about figs in Jeremiah 24-25). That's when the Rapture, will happen.

God didn't have to make us this low. God can make us anything. So clearly, whatever we are or become, is designed for the sake of enjoying relationship. When you have all money and power, you don't just sit around. You do stuff. You still like the small activities, the simple things — in fact, you appreciate them more, the greater the money and power you have. So being God or grunt, you still do something with what you are. God loves all, great and small.

So the eternal state is a busy life. So much to enjoy. Work, yes. Work is its own kind of pleasure. Play, yes. Play is its own kind of pleasure. Hierarchy, yes. That's a relating, too: and there, it's really important that all us believers fit together into enjoyable relationships and compatibilities. Like stones in a building.

Perhaps here it's good to demonstrate how the essential "numbers" of variety, make Rapport synergistic. Additionally, to show how variety means the requisite composition of Church, cannot be predicted by man.

So watch how rapport is affected. Imagine a person whose interests are in things like what she ate for dinner, the scarf she is knitting, what nice compliment she received from someone. So too, is her thinking; so too, is her conversation. Now, match her to another gal whose interests are in the causes of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, whether light really travels, and the Attributes of God. Will these two be comfortable together? Of course not! How much rapport, then, will they have if they are stuck together forever? Very little. By contrast, if those around the one who likes knitting are like her; and those around the one who likes Gibbon, are like her, and others are between them, each one a little more 'hybrid', then the one liking dinner and the one liking koine Greek, can have some kind of Relationship. For, the intermediaries, mediate the differences. Just by breathing. Connectedness, means flow. Here, of Rapport.

You and I likely aren't on best-buddy terms with the President or Prime Minister of a country. We hear about the person from others. So our 'rapport' with that person, is distant. There is an enjoyment in that distance. Similarly, if we were best-buddies with such an individual, the rapport would (ideally) be greater — but it would not be the same kind of rapport, as if we were distant. Being best buddies, we'd read the news and realize how wrong it is, compared to the intimate facts we know. So we would not enjoy learning about the person via those others. See? it matters how close you are, and that depends on your interests and contacts and desires. Enjoyment is not some dry product of what you own, or even who you know or how important you are: it is the product of your inner compatibility. So, variety means everyone can associate with whomever they are most alike.

People like people because we are all different. Of course, we also have problems with each other due to that same fact: our differences. For, one has money, another lacks it. One has health, another lacks it. One has beauty, or intelligence, and someone else... doesn't. So what's best about our numbers, our variety, is also what's bad about it: differences make us uncomfortable, for our interests are a result of our tastes and abilities.

Obviously this discomfort doesn't exist in perfection. Yet variety must, for God is Infinite; moreover, absent variety, "perfection" is deadly boring. Thus, one aspect of variety must be the fact that we are all of unequal rank. It's neither fair nor good to force the person who's more interested in dinner than in the organization and function of a polity, to rule. Yet today, inequality is frequently condemned, as if everyone should have the same position, in order to be "happy"; therefore, if "A" has that position but "B" does not, then "B" is supposed to be unhappy due to his lower status.

We are Royal Family of God in training to become Fit Bride for Our Royal Lord. That, if we make it to Pleroma, we too shall be royally-ruling. This of course means that most folks won't be ruling: 🤣, the 'dinner' is more attractive! Yet, think: it's really hard to train for and function in a ruler capacity. So, think: those who didn't opt for that, would they be happy being forced to rule? Unprepared, rulership is an intolerable burden, not enjoyment. For all the power the ruler has, he himself is owned by his title: he has no life of his own. Even the ruler's "goodies" are subject to rules-of-use. So, then: is it really so bad for "B" to be lower? Maybe what constitutes "happiness" is more a question of being fitted to your training and interests, rather than the supposed "status" of your official job?!

So, in a perfect kingdom, there would be variety from Top to Bottom, and everyone in between, varies. So those who are most like another group, would tend to have the most rapport with that group. Those who are very different in their societal "level" wouldn't be comfortable within that group. What the heck is wrong with that? Nothing: so long as people have the capacity to enjoy the differences. Enjoyment, then, is "close" where people have similarities, and "distant", where dissimilarities. See? It's not a question of status, but of commonality. In a word, Rapport.

Variety thus knits together otherwise disparate groups, for each one varies by just a little bit, all up and down the spectrum. So, those "distant" can be enjoyed more than if there were a "great gulf fixed" between "us" and "them". For, there are lots of others between your group and the other group, each one a little closer to that other group than the next — so you can get a lot of vicarious pleasure watching, or knowing about, those not "near" your own group. Thus distant groups benefit from the mediative effect of those who are "between".

First Illustration: Say you win the lottery tomorrow, with the result that you immediately receive 10 million dollars. Sounds good, right? Think again. Immediate relatives and friends suddenly treat you differently. The money interferes. For, one relative suddenly becomes grasping, and another, cold; a third tries to 'help' you manage the money, whereas a fourth is constantly touting some cause which needs your 'help'. A fifth begins to find fault with everything you do, and a sixth, becomes fawning. The seventh, well — he doesn't know what to do. In all cases, you find that your money is like some scarlet letter on your chest, and it goes before you in everything. Suddenly "you" no longer exist. Only your money exists — in the eyes of those around you. Fun, eh? So, what do you do? Well, you must hire "intermediaries" — those who will deal with the long-lost relatives and other graspers, those who will interact with the many suppliers who have "just the thing" for you to buy. You become isolated, but at least you aren't pestered.

Those suddenly 'below' you of course become isolated from you as well. But you can count on this: they talk about you a lot, now. They think of you with your money and fantasize some wonderful life you have. They are enjoying something vicariously — your having the money. If you didn't get it, they couldn't have this kind of enjoyment, for they obviously can't handle the money themselves (if they could, the relationship with you would not be changed due to the sudden money). By the same token, you yourself have more relationships than you'd have absent the money, and through those intermediaries you can actually come to enjoy having the money (instead of being isolated and burdened by it).

Second Illustration: Moses talked with the Lord directly, but the Exodus generation repeatedly reacted with fear every time His Presence was anywhere near them. In a word, the Lord was too "big" for them to know directly. They needed a mediative contact, Moses. Moses, because he had so much Bible Doctrine (as it was then revealed) deposited in his soul, was able to be closer to the Lord than they were able to be. Bible Doctrine gave Moses something in common with the Lord: the Lord's Own Thinking. So, it wasn't a fear or a burden to him, but a joy. Yet, because Moses had the contact, the people could get more out of their distant relationship to the Lord than they could have had if there were no Moses. If you extrapolate the foregoing, you can see how a variety of folks all up and down a spectrum of differences makes for a harmonious relationship amongst all differences: the folks in-between, as it were, have more and more in common with the other groups, yet also a commonality with "us".

Hierarchy, then, is a natural result of variety. Mediation, then, is the way such variety can harmoniously coexist. To the benefit of all, for not only do folks group together based on commonality and rapport, but they also enjoy the more "distant" groups through the intermediaries (others who are closer to the distant groups than they themselves are). The flow of information, of vicarious enjoyment, of ideas and just sheer joy of seeing how others live — all depends on mediative hierarchy. Balanced: few at the 'top', whose real life is one those at the 'bottom' would consider most unpleasant; many at the 'bottom', who enjoy the togetherness of massing — a commonality which the 'few' don't have. Of course, those few prefer both their isolation, and giving their all to the 'job', so would consider it unpleasant to mass together, work "9 to 5", have regular time off. Authority always isolates you; the job rules you even in your off hours; so you have to learn to love being isolated. See? Everyone benefits. Just like a family.

So, we can't know exactly how large the total kingdom will be, to have the perfect variety in it; so, we don't know how many "top-tier" and "masses" there need to be for the 'balance in numbers perfection' to occur. Thus, the Rapture can't have a warning event preceding its own occurrence. For, its only "trigger" is both volitional and invisible: the completion of the Bride. Your volition is yours. Your decisions are yours. Only God, moreover, can know what "number" constitutes completion: but His Knowing that doesn't make it happen. Instead, our volition makes it happen: believers, not God, by Divine Decree: how will we "finish the course"? 'Same question as applied to His Incarnation. For, He's our "Author" (Hebrews 12:2), Greek word "Ἀρχηγός", and we are in training to become "ἀρχηγοί".


So Church's "Ripeness" Date can't be prophesied

Let's now interweave Father's Criterion 3B, The Lord's Bridegroomship, into 3F, man's voting for God. For a Bride must Consent to be Married.

Christ is God-Man, and He too is Sovereign. Having been Seated, as Hebrew 1 notes, Everything now goes through the Son. Through His Human Sovereignty, as well as His Divine Sovereignty. The Church is designed by the Father (per Ephesians 1) as a Gift to the Son: a Bride, to the Bridegroom, and the Bridegroom is a Bridegroom because He, in His Humanity, defeated Satan (confer Hebrews 2, 1 John 3, etc). Therefore, the Rapture is a Decree, a Ruling the Son wants, first. However, what are the terms of that Ruling? Well, this Son wants a fit Bride, and the Father wants to make that Bride Fit for His Son, which is why we get the inheritance in Him that we do (John 8, John 14, John 17, Ephesians 1, Ephesians 3, Hebrews 7-10, Hebrews 12, 1 Corinthians 2-4, 2 Corinthians 5, Romans 6-13, Colossians 1, all "riches" passages, etc).

This Bridegroom became a Bridegroom of His Own Free Will. He freely relied on the Spirit's Power to spiritually develop and sustain Him — all the way through the Cross. So, this Bridegroom is wholly & freely determined. "God's Action", the Power provided by the Holy Spirit, was only provided to the extent the Son's Human Free Will wanted it. 'Which the Son Totally Wanted. 'Even through the Cross.

This 'God's Free Action', matched to 'Son's Humanity Free Reception' sets the Precedence and the terms of the marriage contract with the Bride. For, the Bride is to have the same spiritual life as Her Bridegroom, in order to become fit for Him. By her Choice. Precedence of the prior Bridal contract which got annulled, ported over. Further, precedence from the Groom Completing His Contract, also ported over. So it can only be a volitional criterion, for Church's 'Rapture'. Because it was only a volitional criterion, for the prior Intended Couple, one of whom refused, and One of Whom Accepted.

Terms of Our Marriage: Since His Spiritual Life is the Precedence for ours, and since His Spiritual Life was fully a matter of His Freely choosing to receive, so also, the Bride's "fitness" is wholly a matter of the extent to which the Bride Herself likewise chooses to receive the same provision. And since Bride here is who knows how many people, we none of us know when we are 'enough': enough due to numbers, balance, variety, etc. It's a dynamic equation, which no human can even write down, much less, calculate. Sure, God could have predicted what date: but He doesn't, because God Follows Precedence, because He is Righteous. And He never predicted whether Israel would accept Messiah when He came; nor did He predict how Messiah would use His Spiritual life under the Spirit. All He did predict, was that Messiah would be successful. Satan took deep notice of this non-prediction, and worked long and hard to make Israel antagonistic to Messiah, by the time He arrived.

A Bride marries of her own free will. A Bride becomes 'fit' of her own free will. The fact that many others do things to and for her to make her fit doesn't mean that she is denuded of her free will in the matter. In fact, whatever others do to and for her has no effect if her free will is negative. So, it should be easy to understand that all the Father and the Spirit do to us, won't force us to become fit Bride. We agree, or we do not. If "no", the provision for us doesn't 'attach', but remains in escrow. Or, using the Divine Benefit Plan analogy — the provision refused, like the talent of the stingy servant, forfeits to those who will become the "great ones" (Isaiah 53:12), and will instead distantly benefit those who had refused.

Caveat Emptor: Those who believe in Him but don't grow up in God's Script have, in effect, said they are Only Willing To Have The Form Of Marriage, Without The Rapport of Marriage. For, they did not learn the Thinking of their Bridegroom. So, then: they will be in Heaven, for that is the extent of their choice. So, then: they will be officially married to Him but will not have much contact with Him. 'Because, they didn't want to get that contact, because they didn't want to learn God's Script. The effects of that Script are in escrow for them, as well as the structure and mechanics of the Script's usage itself, per Ephesians 1's "every spiritual blessing" — since eternity past. So, we see that God's Action was made First. So, all this provision was done to and for the Bride before the Bride even existed. But, during the life down here, part of the Bride has said "no" to all of that provision. So, that part of the Bride — which is most of the Bride, the "mass" — will be distant from Him. Forever.

So when the Bride votes negative, the Bridal Contract is being rejected or breached. Rejection has an endpoint. When mankind no longer responds to the spiritual life provided, the people have become "saltless", overtaxed by "me be good" governing the soul. To correct the lack of Divine Thinking production, the covenantal epoch or dispensation ends. Question is, what justifies a replacement? 'The Divine Thinking of past "salt" people. So, covenantal provisions are revised for the new group, even though they are all negative.

Each of these covenantal changes has been foretold; each change is marked by a warning "sign". Hence, there is no more prophecy to 'tell'. It's all in writing, now. Thus you can match up what God wrote with what happens, to know it's God Who's Talking, not hallucination, not happenstance. Every "sign" is always an Orchestrated Thing, so you know it's not a natural phenomenon you can explain away (no such thing, really); so you know it's not a hallucination or wizardry (since Satan & Co. can do lots of supernatural and hallucinogenic stuff). In short, God Makes Plain He is Behind a thing, by matching the Word to the wonders. If you don't know the Word, you will screw up the wonders, and... have a very tragic life.

The classic example of how you should use Bible to match up to what's happening is portrayed by the Dome of the Rock and the Wailing Wall. Both exactly illustrate Daniel 9:26-27, Matthew 24, and Revelation 11:1's import. It's the most blatant possible Warning to Israel to Stay Away from the Land, that can be done. Yet no one notices. This, we saw in Part IVa, at some length. But instead, we chase after stupid ossuaries, whether we got a real Shroud, a real piece of Noah's Ark, a real piece of the Cross. How sick. So "signs" are never helpful, since man doesn't really care about learning God, he cares about titillation.

Hence: "Sign" (σημεῖον) in Bible, is always a Warning, a Judgement. So too, the Rapture's Sign is for purposes of Judgement, that Man's Votes are so negative, God must Declare War, as it were, on the entire world. Which means, the world is "ripe" (Bible term in Revelation and elsewhere) for Judgement. So the first thing you learn about God's Signs, is that He's telling you something bad. Which, prior to the sign occurring, you can avoid by doing what He says (learn His Son). Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, again, summarize the parameters and The Meted Stages Of Orchestrated Judgement. All these, you can trace out in Bible and in history, as happening when interest in Bible, drops precipitously low. So it's always man's negative votes, which bring on "signs" from God. When those votes are "ripe" for "reaping", well... the "sign" hits.

Moreover, you'll find that virtually all of these signs have been dual, which means they play twice: they have (what theology calls) "near" and "far" fulfillments. "Near" is generally 'micro', local. "Far" is generally, 'macro', large scale. Further, the "near" fulfillment was in the context of the generation which received the prophet telling them about the 'sign', which is soon thereafter, fulfilled; and the "far" fulfillment, was for a much-larger parallel generation in the future (e.g., parallel in the depth of its apostasy). The far-fulfillment meaning to Isaiah 7 Virgin Birth was a warning sign of the upcoming end to the Age of Israel. Tongues, which initially occurred circa 721 BC, (Isaiah 28:10ff, quoted in 1 Corinthians 14:21-22 to remind them of the temporary role of "tongues") was in 30 AD, the Second Warning Sign for that "far" generation: that the age of the Gentiles would begin.

The "Church" was an unknown, and is not at all prophesied. Because, the Lord had to choose to bear sins for Church. Which He shows He would, in Matthew 16:18, and John 17. Remember: There Would Be No Church If Israel Hadn't Rejected Messiah. So there was no need to prophesy directly about it, nor would it have been fair to Christ, since He would have to agree or disagree, to pay for sins of those yet to be born. Which, again, He does, in Matthew 16:18, John 17 (see Ephesians 5 commentary on that). So note the Voting Precedent: Christ had to vote for a Church, for there to be a Church. If nothing else "clicks" in your head as to why the Rapture is unpredictable, that fact of Him needing to vote for it, should turn on a lightbulb.

Note how the prophetic "sign" always indicates changeover because apostasy necessitates it. Ergo the advance warning-event(s). Principle? 'Warning Grace Before Judgement.

Similarly, Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, Revelation 1-3 (and like passages) tell folks how to spot when a nation is about to end due to apostasy. Warnings like these were also forecast by prophets (i.e., to the apostate nations in the Land, 40 years before Israel would enter it). So, normally, God warns of cataclysms in advance. So, the recurring historical trends of nations declining spiritually are likewise preceded by visible, predicted pattern events. Even today. This fact is so well known, even Shakespeare made liberal use of it in his plays. Every religion, even, Christian or no, has some like doctrine. Perhaps the most blatant recent example in history is what happened to Germany in the 20th century. It had been very strong for Bible Doctrine; got split, after WWII (akin to the splitting between Israel and Judah, which we know from Scripture was Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28's play out). Notice how a client nation drags on for a while, before going completely out (Israel went completely out in 70 AD). SPQR's client nation history basically ended the same way, splitting and then lamely dragging on for some centuries, until 'moved' to Charlemagne's reign. Then his kingdom split up into basically what we now call Germany and France (well, and Italy as well). So the death of a nation with enough believers in it, is slow, painful. And all written out so you can see God's running it (i.e, Acts 17:26), blow by blow, in the Book.

The Rapture thus has these same characteristics: the rejector number is "ripe" for a change, the acceptor number is "ripe", and God has finished His Rebuttal answer to Satan. These latter two are the Church-side litmuses of the Rapture, since:

  1. Enough believers passed the "2-3-4-5 Evidence Tests", to finish God's Answer to Satan. These would be the top-tier Church believers (analogous to Abraham, Moses, and others). They together constitute the 'progenitor' criterion mentioned above, in the sense that there has to be a top tier (the Lord being the King of Kings, so 'top of the top', so to speak).
  2. Enough "masses" of believers will exist, sufficient to constitute a kingdom of "progeny", to benefit from the numbers of top-tier "progenitors"

So the Rapture's date cannot be predicted; nor did the Lord prophesy it in Matthew 16:18 for the sake of Church, but first on behalf of Israel. For Church is wholly founded upon an abrogation of a prior contract between Israel And Messiah — a contract based solely on Voting. Because He had to invent it during and for Israel's 'time', the Rapture itself is a contingent prophecy, not a fixed one. Cut out, graft in.


Oh, Objection! People say otherwise! People say the Rapture absolutely has 'Signs'!

Oh Yeah? Where did we in Christendom ever get the goofy idea that there was supposed to be a "preceding" sign? No other sign prophecy has a sign preceding it, except the sign of Jonah (spoken and written warning by a preceding prophet). Comb the Bible all you like, take decades even, with every scientific instrument and Bible Code scholar known to man, and you won't find even one instance where the sign itself, was preceded by a sign to advertise it.

For, all signs in the Old Testament were "imminent" (theological term)! The very significance of "sign", is ex post facto, not ante! You know, the Dome Of The Rock And Wailing Wall Are Very Blatant Signs, And Are ex post facto of Daniel 9:26c, Matthew 24; sort of burlesquing the future Revelation 11:1, but it's Satan who made that joke (by putting up the Dome). So how much more signage do you want, to tell you how to read Bible, huh??? Um, how crazy do you have to be, to go combing through Revelation dissecting what will happen then, and meanwhile ignore these Two Biggest Witnesses of Stone; and next, predict when the Rapture will arrive, and that based on literal events in Revelation, which are all Post-Rapture?! Sheesh: it's the Rapture which kicks off those events! Yeah, we'll read anything but the Smart Word Already Provably Fulfilled in the Most Holy Place!

You realize, of course, that people who look to 'prove' Bible with their relic hunting, 'testing' of miracle events in it, science debates, etc. ad nauseam, all demonstrate that their faith is wavering near zero. Bible makes them nervous, and they want a greater surety than what it says, as if some old stone inscription or ossuary would be superior proof. That's why they can't tell God orchestrates Time Grants since Adam. That's why these Two Blatant Stone Witnesses, the two biggest proofs any relic hunter could want of Bible being true — go unheeded. No matter how many signs God gives — duh, the Bible being 100% conclusive, only God is smart enough to write it — no matter how many signs God gives, we'll still not 'see' any proof. So the constant emphasis on whether current historical events mean we are the Rapture generation, is of this same type: people think that if they see something similar in the world, that 'proves' Bible right. Nope. God proves Bible true as you read it, if you're using 1 John 1:9 and living in God's System. You don't need to 'reconcile' anything in the world, and frankly — God will point out so much empirical proof in the world, you can't remember it all. Then you'll know that people are asking the wrong questions, get no or the wrong answers, so don't 'see' any proof. But you see it everywhere, 24/7!

Let's explore how Bible uses prophecy and signs. Each "warning sign" is God's Action. The underlying 'cause' warranting God's taking action is, of course, always creature volition. The 'number' of creatures who have cumulatively voted, as it were, for and against God has become "ripe" for a reply, so to speak, by God.

Thus any warning sign, including the Rapture, is always predicated on Justice 'replying' to the cumulative effects of volition. It is a Ruling, a Judgement, a Decree Response By God. Directly. His Volition, His Sovereignty, chooses the reply to make.

So let's review how Bible uses signs: the sign itself, is always a result of something, never a cause of something. Again, God's Action in Reply, to man's votes. Sure, the sign itself becomes a cause, and sometimes once the sign begins, there is a fixed time period it "announces", as we'll see below. And what does the "sign" announce? Judgment. In every case, whether the sign kicks off a fixed-time period or no, Judgement is God's Own Justice Reply, not some action undertaken for no reason. God is Just. In other words, any "sign" in the Old Testament is the "sign" of something beginning based on past cumulative results. Moreover, the initial "Warning" was always a Statement, not an event, and the occurrence of the "sign" warned meant that the Previous Warning Was Not Heeded. Duh. Can God make it more obvious? Why then do so many obsess over "signs"? No wonder the Lord said, "an evil generation seeks a sign" (e.g., Matthew 12:39).

Furthermore, "signs" are chained, kind of like a "child process" in operating systems. So the Divine Broadcasting System exhibits a very predictable pattern: 'Stated Warning' (this is how we learn what a "sign" is, even); then, the kickoff sign; then, any resultant ("child process", so to speak) "sign(s)". Even so, the occurrence of the events within that pattern are not necessarily tied to fixed-dates, just as a "child process" in computers sometimes starts or ends based on user input, rather than on an elapse of time. The chaining is exhibited in many ways in Scripture, depending upon the type and nature of Judgement which needs to be executed.

God's Judgement Replies thus come in two 'flavors': fixed-sentence, and contingent-sentence:

  1. Fixed-Sentence: Scripture does, in certain instances, state 'periods of time' Once The Judgement begins, which the "sign" kicks off. In these instances, the "sign" begins a 'clock', so to speak. Thus you see 40 years as a typical Old Testament warning or judgement period; or, sometimes, 120 years, e.g., started by the "sign" of Noah's commencing to build the Ark. Or, the time Israel stays in the Babylonian captivity, 70 years. These are all Grace Warning Periods or Sentences, and so they do have fixed time periods. So also, the Tribulation has a fixed time period, for it is at once both sentence and a Grace Warning of the Second Advent. And the "sign" starting that Tribulation 'clock', is the Rapture. See? God is consistent. The structure of signs and sentences is consistent.

Prophecy Key → Every Fixed-Sentence Prophecy Is A 'Child' Of A Kick-Off Sign. Also, No Fixed-Sentence Prophecy Depends On Volition. Check it out yourself. Go through the fixed-sentence prophecies in Scripture, and note how these parameters are always true.

  1. Contingent-Sentence: Justice also decrees contingent sentences. Here, the sentence's quality and length of time depends on recipient response. Of course, the greatest example of this Flavor "2", is the Gospel. The Gospel acts like a contingent warning: "Believe or Burn". The deadline is not given as a set date, but rather as the contingency of one's death. Growing up in 1 John's Script is likewise a Warning to believers, in all the "endure... end" and similar type verses. That, too, is a Contingency: grow up, or else lose your 'highest and best' (reserved, escrow) inheritance. The "deadline" is, again, death. Of course, if you don't begin early, the later you begin to grow in Him, the more intensely you'll have to grow, to 'catch up'. And, of course, there comes a point when not enough time is left to 'catch up'. You don't know what time is left. So: get cracking!

In a similar way, but on a macro level, the Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 punishments are all judgements contingent on the 'user input' of volition awakening during the punishment. So, the "time" period is determined by volitional responses. For, God does not coerce. 2 Chronicles 7:14 is a good sample verse to show the Divine Policy here. It currently applies to the United States, which is under the "fifth" of the "cycles" of Divine Discipline ("cycles" being my pastor's term for the fifth round of the punishments in those passages). So, no definite time period is set; rather, it's Contingent Upon Sufficient 'Change Of Mind' By The Believers In The Polity Being Judged.

Another Prophecy Key → Every Contingent Prophecy Is A Kickoff Sign, And Every Contingent Prophecy Is A Result Of Prior Accumulated Volitional Votes. So, Every Contingent Prophecy Is 'Imminent': Its Occurrence Date Cannot Be Predicted. Again, go through Scripture, check it out for yourself.

So, to properly understand 'where' the Rapture belongs, we only need to see whether the Rapture is a 'child' or a 'kickoff' prophecy. If the former, then we have to look for a kickoff sign (the 'child' is always dateable). If the latter, then the prophecy is 'imminent': the date is unpredictable ('kickoffs' cause 'children', but not vice versa).

Obviously, the Rapture is a kickoff prophecy, and therefore date-unpredictable: the Rapture is Contingent On Aggregate Volitional Responses to the "Warning" of Getting With 1 John's Script. So, it, too, falls under this Flavor "2", not — repeat, not — under Flavor "1". Those who inanely try to fit the Rapture under Flavor "1" will thus become obsessed with dating the undateable, and will thus miss out on growing up in Christ, because they fruitlessly spent their time trying to date the Rapture, rather than trying to learn their Lord. Thus, such folks will only have the "mass" Royal inheritance: distance from Him for all eternity. So, Matthew 7:2! Caveat Emptor: Be Warned.

Okay, but what "results", then, turn the Previously Stated Warning Into The "Sign"? Well, look: believers in any period of history essentially vote on how much Rapport they want with Him. Such a fact is thus just as true for the Church. It is thus also just as true that any kickoff "sign" is really "imminent", in the sense that the "sign" itself represents the Judgement Reply To The "Results" of Unseen Thus Unpredictable Cumulative Volitional Votes during that historical period. So, the far-fulfillment of the Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7) didn't have a Predicted Date. Indeed, if you look at any Old Testament kickoff prophecy, none have predicted start dates. There are timelines for the resultant (chained, child process) signs, (e.g., Daniel's 70 weeks), there are benchmarks, there are symptomatic events — but none of those benchmarks or symptomatic events are conclusive of the start date of the kickoff "sign". So, again, in this sense, all kickoff "signs" in the Old Testament have an 'imminency' quality about them, for their occurrence is based on God's Reply to the invisible, cumulative 'votes' of volition. 'Which no one but God can date.

So, frankly, the pious eye rolling quotes that "we are in the end times, brother", and bizarre 'trying to date the Rapture' craze, long the bane of Christianity, are completely at a dissonance with every other kickoff sign's function. For that "Sign" Begins A Thing, can't ever be predicted, since it's Invisible Negative Volition Which Always Gets The "Sign" as a Judgement Reply from God. 'Simple as that.

So the Rapture, being as it too is a kickoff "sign", can only be "imminent": we know that at some point, the worldwide trends become so apostate, man becomes "ripe" for "the Rapture" to occur. Further, we know that the Rapture itself falls into Flavor "2" of the Divine Justice System, given the terms of our marriage contract with the Lord (discussed above — Bride's free will is determinative, just as the Groom's Free Will was determinative). So, in any period of Church history, the viewed declines are inconclusive, because the spiritual life might be flourishing, and God is just "cleaning house". So one can't do any date-setting for the Rapture — at all.

One final and very happy comment on the interplay between 'kickoff' and 'child': nearly every promise in the Bible is in the contingent category, or the 'child' of one. Like, the Lord promises that:

"I give to (us) eternal life: no one shall pluck (us) out of (His) Hands".

That is a 'child' promise of an already-fulfilled contingency, the Cross. See? Not our volition, but His, produced the 'child' of permanent salvation (see also 1 John 5 in this connection). Heh. Another example: He promises that we believers go to heaven when we die (contingent on death), and God Chooses How We Die, And What Date. Still, we don't know that information. So His Volitional Vote makes our date of death, a kickoff! Imminent! But next begins our 'child' promise of living with Him forever and ever. Fixed! Double 😏. This is all the more meaningful when you know what "sealed to the Day of Redemption" means: that's the Holy Spirit's Guarantee That You Will Go To Heaven ("seal" was a legal guarantee, in the ancient world). A Fixed Guarantee Contingent on... what? Only on what date you die. Not on 'where you're going' in the spiritual life. Triple 😏.


...for Church's Wifely Role is to Be History, not prophecies

Now, let's interweave Father's Criteria 3C, The Lord's Precedenting Role in History for Church.

Since we have this sealed guarantee, since no one can pluck us out of His Hands, since the Trinity Indwell us — let us not settle for a mess of pottage, like Esau did. Let us remember to Whom we are Betrothed. We are Betrothed to the Nexus of History, The King of Kings, the Word of the Cross, the Word of God, the Word. He, and He alone, truly is history. (Isaiah 28:16-17, Hebrews 1, John 1, Colossians 1:16-18, "Alpha and Omega" verse, etc.) Thank God for that! For, what value is there to breathing at all, if He's not the reason? So it comes as no surprise that He also controls history (e.g., Acts 17:26, Isaiah 28:16-17).

So, it should come as no surprise that the Father would want a Fit Bride for this Uniquely-Born Son. So, then: it should not be surprising that the Role for this Bride, while she trains down here, is to Be History, even as Her Betrothed already is History (confer Romans 9:33, 1 Peter 2:6 and similar-concept passages). If even earthly kingdom's histories rested wholly on whom the Crown Prince would marry, how much more, the kingdoms of the Eternal State! We are not our own, but His, and His Title rules us. So, then: we have enormous power, and need to wake up to that fact. So, then: we must learn the rules of use of our "goodies", Our Extreme Profit In Christ. For, His Kingdoms are His Personal Property. Forever. And therefore, as Bride, ours.

Thus, we don't set dates for the Rapture, we instead prepare for it, and our preparation is likewise a volitional contingency. For, we do know from Scripture that each of the New Testament writers themselves expected the Rapture to occur at any time during their own lifetimes. What was the criterion? Had enough believers in Paul's day reached their full Royal potential — "the fullness of Christ" (Greek word "Pleroma") — the Rapture could have occurred before Paul even died; same, for the time of John; same, for any generation. That's another reason why the Rapture is unpredictable, since we don't know who of us will grow, and who will fail.


Church Makes History, Not Prophecies

So, then:

  • Since we believers are positionally closer to God in the hierarchy and variety of humanity, compared to unbelievers; since among believers, only a few of us are growing toward Pleroma — we are "Moseses in training". Really, Higher. For, as Paul puts it, this is "the fullness (Pleroma!) of times". For, due to Our Archegos, we are Royal.
  • Due To Our Being Royal, We Are Used To Determine The Character And Length Of This Phase Of History. For good, by our growing up in Christ; or, for bad, by our rejection of our post-salvation legacy in Christ.
  • Thus, Both The Quality And Quantity Of Current History, As Well As The Size Of The Kingdom Is Impacted By Our Spiritual Lives Now.

If a believer-generation is apostate, immediate history is adversely affected. That increase in "progeny" also requires an increase in "progenitors", for balance, so history must (badly!) continue. Conversely, if a believer-generation is unusually positive, immediate history is prosperously affected, and the "progenitor" group increases. That increase in "progenitors" also requires a decrease in "masses", for the requisite balance to occur. Of course, such a decrease means that the quality of life improves even more (Malthusian people-nomics). See how important our lives are? This open-endedness is unique.


..Because Christ Invented Our Spiritual Life

Christ's "ending" at the Cross was foretold by Isaiah 53:5-6, for example. ("Crushed" there is really Hebrew for a burden too heavy to carry! A perfect analogy to Stone too heavy to lift!) The length and features of His Royally-Invisible Spiritual Life, however, were not foretold. Why? 'Because He Himself was to invent the Spiritual Life, while He was here. ("Archegos" means Author, Originator, Inventor, Pioneer, Hero — confer Hebrews 12:2.) See, He was Free To Choose Whether He'd Even Go To The Cross. He was Free To Use The Doctrine Or Not — or, use His Own Deity. Thus the features, and the length of time it took Him to advance, were options via the Spirit which He Himself Chose While He was Living Here. His Humanity invented the Spiritual Life of the Cross ("The Word of the Cross"), as well its character and length, because His Job Was To "Redeem..Time": to Pay For The Rest Of Time. It's utterly provable from Bible, math, history. Shocking stuff.

His Precedence, Our Corollary: Thus, He's our Precedence, our "ὑπογραμμός", our Copybook. So: the length of our individual spiritual lives are also not forecast by God, for we inherit Christ's same Rulership Spiritual Life: 'difference is, He's Our Spiritual Life. The Pattern He Invented is Now the Standard for us; however, we are to make the rules out of His Pattern, the Doctrine in our own souls, just as He did. So, the Church Is Thus To "Redeem The Time": buy the time for the rest of the human race, because we are the Bride, the Evidence of Him in the world (1 John 4:12-17).

Ergo, Our Shocking "Multiplier Effect"

It took only three Evidence Test 'passers' to justify the Royal Bloodline. Only one, to justify the continuation of the nation for 40 years, then only three, to justify the growth of the remnant. Then only a small remnant. What's the proportion there? Well, Moses was "one" compared to about 6 million people (including children). One to six million! Okay, then: what about the 'proportion' The Christ justifies? That was One Person For All Humans. What's that proportion? "Infinity", so to speak. So, don't you think the leverage we Church have, given our Precedence, is potentially rather more than 1:6,000,000? Since Christ's leveraged 'Blessing by Association' is Uncountable?

Okay, let's really be conservative. Even if we just use economics concepts, the "capital", "leverage" and "multiplier" effects are gigantic. What "multiplier effect" shall we assume results from the "capital leverage" of just one believer who's grown up in Christ? Let's pick a low number, say "10", even though the Biblical multiplier seems to be something more like "100" (confer the parable beginning at Luke 8). So: each of us is potentially the on-earth conduit of blessing or cursing to 60 million people, roughly the size of France? It's too awesome a thought to bear, a stone too heavy to lift! Thank God for 1 Corinthians 10:13, since "the way of escape" is the same as Our Christ's: Live in the Word! 2 Corinthians 12:7-10! Note: L1520, 5/1999 (1992 Spiritual Dynamics), estimated the needed Pleroma for United States to avoid Leviticus 26 & Deuteronomy 28 "Five Cycles of Discipline" at between merely 25-50 believers; at "25", his estimate is roughly 50% of Moses' ratio, meaning an estimated multiplier versus Moses for CA Pleroma at between 1-2. Thus the number to remain a client nation is far lower, because the Fifth Cycle in the Unites States is currently in progress. Since the client nation is the justification for the continuation of history for the world, the actual multiplier is of course far greater, but impossible to accurately estimate. One would need to know how many client nations there are currently, and population of each, versus how many non-client nations and their respective populations.

Bigger than that: the world kept on living because Israel did. God grants 490 to 1000 years for the entire planet to go on living, due to some one believer on it; if more than one can be granted, the times improve in quality. But at least one. So also, that one justified the entire planet. So one nation of believers, justifies the entire planet — Israel's existence justified the planet continue. So it's not really even 60 million, but the nation which has the Pleroma, is used to justify the planet go on breathing. Could this be more intimidating? The smallest thing a king does, is front page news. The smallest thing you do is front page news in heaven. Think of it that way, for if you would be close to Christ forever, you're stuck being a public person forever. Every thought you think is heard by Father. For, that's your job: Royal Priest to Father. That He ordains your breathing justify the world's breathing (or breathing a little easier) is quite secondary, huh. What's bigger, than God?


Next, Father's Criterion 3D, the Defending Role of Church relative to Israel.

The most important part of this Criterion Is Whether Church Actually Completes. The origin of Church is to create a bridge back to Israel's time, since she rejected Christ. So an entirely new entity was needed, which He invoked in Matthew 16:18, and left up to Father to configure, in John 17:20-21. So we defend Israel, by growing up. Consequently, as we've just seen, human history is wholly determined by how Church goes. Therefore, our role in the Millennium will likewise have that role, but the specifics of its configuration are in process and can't be specified. Church is now used to rescue Israel, as an Esther-type, Now. In the Millennium, no matter how we turn out, those who are Pleroma will rule Gentile nations in the Millennium, to implement the promise that Israel will have peace from her enemies, as a Wifely Service to Our Lord.

So, the only prophecies during "Church" can be its terminii. And the occurrence of the second of the terminii, Depends On How We Grow, Now. This, because the terminii Bracket Jewish-Age Events:

Biggest Prophecy Key → All prophecy is solely related to the Jewish covenants, because all prophecy is about the "Testimony of Jesus" (Revelation 19:10; this is but one layer of meaning in that verse). The very meaning of the name (in Greek) "Jesus" (Hebrew: Yeshua, English "Joshua") stresses His Jewish Humanity in Hypostatic Union — which wasn't predicted at all until the Covenant to Abraham, the progenitor of the Jewish Race. For, until Abraham circumcised himself, there was no Jewish Race, as Romans 4 explains.

So also, There Was No Church Until He Prophesied It, In Matthew 16:18. Even then, His prophecy was based on Father calling the shots as to the terms, and He said in that verse, I will build future tense of οἰκοδομήw. Future, after He paid for sins. Because, there still might not have been a Church, if Israel had accepted Him. He had to announce the prophecy of it while alive, so Israel would be forewarned she was playing Vashti. The outgoing broken vows could yet be mended. He just knew they wouldn't be; and in typical Jewish play of prophecy, When The Days Get Numbered, Israel Gets A Prophecy About It.

So again: we are the Fulfillment of Prophecy, so we make History. They are to look at us be the fulfillment. Church gets no prophecy of her own, for her days are not numbered, get it? So those days can end in the next five minutes, next five years, next five centuries. But here you can assume without being a donkey, that the sooner is the more likely --

So Satan & Co. are playing the Dome and the Wailing Wall and Islam for all the Götterdämmerung they can get. So you know they think the Rapture is quite near. We should, too.

So, during the "Church Age", the Lord's not wearing, so to speak, His "King of the Jews" hat. That 'hat' is set aside, as it were, temporarily. Instead, He is Seated as the Heir of All Things (Hebrews 2), Not Testifying. The King is deliberately absent from the world's view (parable of the stingy servant, and Matthew 24's king gone away), due to the four Reasons explained, we are testifying, as Bride-Evidence of Him in the World. That is why we are Ambassadors. 'Whether by blood Jewish, or Gentile. All Church believers are one 'new in species' spiritual race (confer Galatians 3, 2 Corinthians 5:17's Greek). So, see? We Are A Different 'Race', and have Our Own Covenant. We are used to Rescue Israel's Covenants, not replace them. Different "R". Notice How We Are Agents Of The Rest Of History, By Divine Design. Because we are in Christ, not in Israel.

Being in Christ is not the same, duh, as being Christ. All Prophecy Is About Christ Himself, And He Is Jewish. The fact that the prophecy was given to Israel, was due to the fact that the Seed of Israel would Fulfill It All. He Fulfills It It, Not Church, Not Israel. This is as blunt a fact as there being no Temple. We should all immediately know that because there is No Temple, Christ Is The Messiah, because we can exactly date the Daniel 9:26c timeline. So, then: how can we Christians not notice that all prophecy is about Christ, not us; even as there was a Temple and will only be a Temple, Connected To His Presence, not our own?

Tribulation Warns of His Coming. Not, warning of our coming or going or anything about us. For, we are an Index of Him. Not, of ourselves. So we Church are a "mystery", a folded in, grafted in, part of The Vine. But the Prophecy of the Tribulation, preceded us, and we wouldn't even be here Now, were it not for Israel's playing Vashti. So we are a Leftover, a "remnant according to the Election Of Grace"; a prophecy on earth in progress of fulfillment, not for ourselves, but for Him. So we make history, not new prophecies. So we get history, not prophecies.


Role of Church, Summary

In sum: We Are The Fulfillment Of The Prophecy Of His Coming, The Means Of Implementation Of "Operation Footstool" (my pastor's term, taken from Psalm 110:1). So We Are Here To Make History, Not Prophecies; Because We Are Grafted In, Part Of, The Fulfilled Prophetic One, The Christ.

Thus, as the last section of each chapter in the book of Hebrews notes, Operation Footstool is in its preparatory phase, and we Church are 'it'. Because, we are Body of Christ, an Extension of Him. The historical trends of Operation Footstool are also foretold in the New Testament, with rubrics like "the latter days"; but no specific prophecies are to be fulfilled, since the Church is not in the Jewish Age. We were "grafted in", remember. (Confer also the bracketing method of writing the book of Hebrews uses, culminating with effective present tense of μαρτυρέω in Hebrews 10:15 — the earlier 'bracket' being Hebrews 8:8-12.) So there is no prophecy, no date-setting. Rather, there is a need for the Bride to Prepare, since preparation, by nature, is a behind the scenes function. You don't announce "the play" until it's ready to go onstage! 'Which readiness can't be dated, since it is entirely volitional.

Therefore, all events between the two prophetic terminii, as well as the quality of the epoch itself, are determined exclusively by how we grow or retrogress in Christ. By How Many Of Us Grow Up Spiritually To Complete Pleroma Status — and as we saw, only a very few are needed, maybe between 1,000 and 10,000 to suffice for all time, oh! A dinky fraction of a modern city on any given day! 'Just as history during the First Advent was wholly dependent on how Our Lord of the Sabbath would grow toward His Cross. (Matthew 12:8, Hebrews 4:10-16, Revelation 19:10.) In sum, this open ended role for the Church is unique, because:

So, then: we can only say that "the play will go on!" And, Get Ready! Τάχύ!


Appendix Sidebar on how 'scholars' and other folks misread and thus misdate or debunk Rapture

Rapture is a valid doctrine for many reasons, and the many ways the Rapture is expressed in the New Testament, are overlooked by 'scholars' who demonstrably do not test pan-Bible. Witness how in the typical allegedly scholarly documentary you see on Bible in the History Channel or elsewhere, degreed people (!) claim that "Rapture" is an invention of the 19th century. What a crock. Guess they can't read Bible, for look: "rapture" is really an Anglicized Latin Bible term: namely 1 Thessalonians 4:17 in Vulgate Online Bible mapped to the KJV. The verb "rapere" means to snatch/take/pluck up, and has a violence and suddenness connotation. Perfect tense form is "rapto". So, in old English, "rape" — which didn't only have the sexual connotation it does in modern English. "Rapture" in old English then meant simply, taking-suddenly. So the term's origin has nothing to do with the insane allegation that John Darby or someone else in the 19th century invented "Rapture". Bible 'scholarship' is inexcusably bad (especially in documentaries), yet passes itself off as competent. Thank God it's so easily proven inept by a little Bible digging.

Christians ask the wrong questions, so don't get the right answers. That's normal, nothing to be ashamed of. Can't learn to ask the right questions without a lot of trial and error. What's abnormal is that we don't properly test, account for what we think is a right question or answer, across all Scripture. Even that's not so bad, because it's very time consuming. What is bad, is our stubbornness: we stand pat on whatever we think the answer, so we won't learn further. Kiss your spiritual life good bye, at that point. Makes the one insisting, look like a liar or a fool.

For if you don't balance all the checkbook, you didn't balance it at all. How much more important, is Scripture's 'checkbook', to 'balance'? It's bad enough to have a check bounce — but your whole spiritual life?! Μὴ γένοιτο, perish the thought! Of course, this kind of testing is also trial and error, many mistakes made en route. So the key is to stay somewhat 'loose' about what you believe, always open to a better accounting than you currently have. Only God is Perfect. Don't know about you, but I don't give a flip if I'm wrong. I do care about learning something better than I know it now. I had to be saved, so being right is impossible. Being wrong is the norm, and learning God is the magnificent life legated to us in Christ Who Made Me Right In Him 2000 years ago. So being wrong in a Bible interpetation is no biggie. Standing pat on an interpretation, is insane. Why people do that, baffles me no end. Stubbornness is not 'loyalty', but spiritual apnea: leading quickly to spiritual coma and 1 John 5:16, after which one lives happily with the Lord forever, sans rewards which could have been received. What a waste.

Hence there are three basic sets of mistaken ideas people have about the Rapture, so they can't find it in the Bible; or, if they find it, can't time it properly; or, insist that Bible prophecies events just preceding Rapture. Example: Ezekiel 37 plainly and literally talks of resurrecting Old Testament Jewish believers to constitute the whole of Israel; but the "bones" are instead twisted to mean the mere establishment of the secular State of Israel in 1948. Then there's the misreading of last trumpet in 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4, versus a different (lower-ranked) angel who blows his trumpet to kick off the mid-point of the Tribulation, in Revelation 11:15. One could go on and on with how folks misread Bible passages which are clear even in translation (i.e., the only verb that saves you is believe, clearly stated in John 3:16, John 16:9, Ephesians 2:8-9, many other passages). But grouping all these examples categorically, you get three basic flavors of misreading:

  1. Misreaders who think Revelation is allegorical or symbolic rather than literal. Thus they throw out most of the Old Testament prophecies about the Tribulation and Second Advent, of which there must be hundreds of verses. Revelation plays on the Old Testament imagery and uses stock Greek drama rhetorical style to convey its message (i.e., a quadriliogy surrounding one day, the Day of the Lord). Nothing secret or hidden about it. Format is rolled out chronologically, too. All this is ignored by the misreaders.

The Revelation imagery, just as in the rest of Bible, is metaphorical: the metaphor stands for something literal the image represents. That's not symbolism, really. Symbolism is vague and ephemeral, but a metaphor depicts something real. So when John writes he's trying to describe what he sees in terms the reader can use to literally relate. Yes, they are Old Testament and Greek drama images and each one means something real that will or is really taking place. For example, Ezekiel's vision of the wheels within wheels is literal — he really saw it — and metaphorical, for the Justice of God. Same too, with John: he really saw those things, and they represented other things which will really happen, like the demon (not human) armies swarming up out of the literal Abyss, in Revelation 9. (Satan opens the Abyss where demons are locked up, text is plain.) In short, those who dismiss Revelation as allegorical or merely symbolic instead of metaphorical, do so because they are uncomfortable with the supernatural. Then they don't even believe in God, Who by definition is Supernatural. Oh well.

This really can't be too hard, can it? In Revelation 4:1 two "μετὰ ταῦτα" clauses wall off Church from the Tribulation, since Revelation 4:1 is the actual Rapture Event. We are a sea of glass in front of our King, so the Kingdom is complete, and we reflect Him. Nothing in Revelation after that speaks of any Kingship He has over the earth, until the Second Advent. So there is no Church on earth except the Fake Church, after Revelation 3 ends. It's as vivid as a blimp flying overhead. Title deed ceremony in Revelation 4 means that His Kingdom is not on earth, which is why He's opening the seals (Roman custom of inheritance, the heir opens the scroll). So we are not on earth, since we already know He is Our King. Can this be more obvious? Just like He said in Luke 19, He would go away to a 'far country' and receive his Kingship appointment and then return (Second Advent). We are there in the throne room with Him when He gets that Appointment, so now He is ready to open the inheritance deed — which has to happen with us present, since it's the Bema, in Revelation 4:1. Don't know how God could make it all plainer; unless you have a penchant for blatant arrogance.

Every image John uses in Revelation is backed up in either the Old Testament's imagery, so there's no mistaking the meaning — or was current in Roman culture (i.e., tableaus and miming were then-current features in Greek and Roman plays). So those who find Revelation vague, aren't doing their Bible and isagogical homework. Revelation 9, for example, specifically says demons come from the Abyss, a jail under the sea. Those aren't human armies, they are demon armies, and Satan unlocks them. Text is very vivid. Yet if you look around on the internet, even Pre-Tribulation Rapture teachers misread Revelation 9 and call them human armies with 'modern' vehicles and weapons, making a big stink about how China's reserve army is 200 million. Yeah, it is (military training is compulsory in China), but that has nothing to do with Revelation 9. Point is, when Revelation is vivid even in translation, we don't read it rightly; so we don't read its sophisticated Old Testament-documented imagery rightly, either. No excuse for that.

  1. Misreaders who think Church started in Abraham's tent, such that Church's covenant somehow derives from Israel's. These people throw out the entire New Testament; don't even try to argue with them, just walk away. Um, can the words "New Testament" make it clearer that we are not Israel? Term is used in Book of Hebrews, hey καὶνή διαθήκη. It's wordplay on Jeremiah 31:31-34, showing how the Matthew 16:18 invention of Church is based on Christ invoking His Kata-Melchizedek Kingship — a Kingship wholly separate from and antedating Israel, since the kingship is instead an eternity-past contract, Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 53:12, 1 Timothy 2:5, Psalm 110. Whole Book of Hebrews is dedicated to that subject, elaborating on how the shift to Church occurred, why our covenant is separate and not related to Israel. Our newness "now" (= keyword for Church Age in the New Testament), is used as a 'bridge' to restore Israel, so she can get her own new covenant promised since the Exodus, Hebrews 8:8 - Hebrews 10:17. Due to her rejection of God, His promise to her rerouteS. So she's no longer on the same odos, derek, road; but she'll end up at the same promised destinations: Tribulation, Millennium and then the eternal state. So Church is not Israel, ever. The Old Testament law even on the 10 commandments had to be restated de novo in order for it to apply, i.e., in Romans 13.
  1. Misreaders who don't recognize that Daniel 9 signified the End Of Allotted Time. These people throw out all the date verses, never analyzing the patterns, how all the dates demonstrate God's orchestration of time under an Accounting System of Time Grants on which the world depends. Time is not automatic. It must be granted someone on earth, or the earth stops existing. First grantee was Adam. So all of Genesis 5, Genesis 11, the king and Temple dates, etc. — hundreds of verses, minimum — are overlooked. God started Accounting for Time with Adam's fall, awarding 490 or 1000 years only if some believer sufficiently developed spiritually by the time an existing time grant, ran out. It's a baton-passing criterion. Else, Time would end. So if you don't know that, even if you believe in the Rapture you'll either misdate it, or bethink prophecies for the Tribulation, somehow presage the Rapture or mean Church is in the Tribulation.

So with these three types of mistakes — all due to slipshod scholarship and laziness, no other cause — the Rapture unfairly gets a bad rap. It's not a matter of interpretation. It's lack of homework on the part of those who debunk the Rapture or misdate it, period. There's no excuse whatsoever that we don't know how God Accounts Time. God's Accounting System for Time is too vivid in the Bible, and even I could prove it out in but two years, using only BibleWorks. So Pre-Tribulation Rapture debunkers and misdaters only prove they don't do their Bible homework, sorry. This isn't rocket science; it just requires a dogged chasing down of all the verses, because there are so many. Of course, until writing up this portion I hadn't properly done my Bible homework either, 🤣 — twenty years ago, the four years of daily exegesis in Revelation under my own pastor, bored me. Like everyone else, I just relied on what other people said, doing Not Enough Bible Digging. Then God spanked me for that. So I lost another four years writing Part 4, beginning on the 20th anniversary of my boredom with the daily exegesis of Revelation. God is punctiliar about matching the time, huh. Mea maxima culpa, huh. Like everyone else who has an arrogance problem due to being intellectual, I was a tad embarrassed about the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, even though I believed in it. Oops.

Israel's Time Ran Out; that's why the covenant had to change to Church; that's the root reason why Rapture can only be Pre-Tribulation. The last seven years couldn't play for Israel because Time Ran Out. So that problem pre-existed Church. God's accounting in Daniel 9 is based on a Deadline For Time Ending as a result of two expiring 1000-year time grants to David, measured from his 1004 BC crowning (deadline for Christ's Birth would be 1000 years later), and his 963 BC death (deadline for Christ's death would be 1000 years later). A third 1000-year grant based on the anniversary of his retirement (970 BC) would determine the deadline for Christ to die if Israel rejected Him. In each case, when Messiah dies, Israel's time is up. That's why Daniel 9:27 is cut off from the rest of the text — its seven years is past the latest Davidic deadline, so cannot play unless Messiah completes and Israel accepts Him. The acceptance didn't happen, so the Tribulation can't happen yet. Time Bridge is Out.

If you don't know God's underlying Accounting System for Time, then you can't see this deadline structure is quite literal, real, and during at least seven times in the past, time almost ended. The timeline balances from Adam through today, so you have to know its accounting structure. Thus you can proof event dates derived, for error. The timeline is self auditing, wholly contained in Bible, so it's the Bible you use for your proofing. Not, the stars, Roman calendars or other pagan stuff. After you've constructed the entire timeline and proofed major event dates in the Bible, you see a pattern of these time grants; then of course! you can verify the event times historically, as you'll finally be looking in the right place for the information. Exodus per Bible was 1440 BC; only the 18th Dynasty which was on Egypt's throne then, used the "moses" moniker. It was the Greeks, not the Jews, who renamed the Yam Suf as the "Red Sea", owing to the carnage drowning in it. Hello! Joseph was made vizier in 1916 BC and ruled Egypt for the next 80 years. Extrabiblically, you can establish that a "vizier" during that same time reorganized Egypt for the 12th Dynasty, and the farming of the Faiyum Depression was a phenomenon of its day. Yeah, they wouldn't call him "Joseph", but by his title, just as "Pharaoh" is a title, not a person's name. See: ask the right questions, ask them in the Bible, look for them — and then you don't chase your empirical tail making silly searches for relics long since trampled underfoot by wandering beasts, covered up by sand or mud, picked up by travellers, tomb robbers, or weathered to dust by time.

Once you've constructed and tested the timeline per the Bible, you find that Daniel 9's 490 is but one time grant of eight which have been going on since Adam's fall; there have been four more, since the Crucifixion. (Latest grant was awarded to someone on earth in 1990, which was the award deadline, not the historical deadline.)

Additionally, we don't apply common sense to Bible interpretation where we should. So we come up with wrong answers or no answers, but blame Bible, instead of ourselves. Quick example:

Second quick example:

Let's not even talk about the fake Star of Bethlehem, which is nowhere in the Bible. Point here: see how we're freaking lazy about doing our Bible homework. So we ask wrong questions, come up with wrong answers, and blame the Bible for being obtuse. Handy excuse, huh.

Bottom line: we are queasy about supernatural stuff, so we try to explain it away — betraying that we don't really believe in God Who by definition, is of Supernatural Nature. So what's natural for Him to do, is not going to be reflected in our dead, natural terms.

God isn't kidding when He says we can ask anything in His Name, and He's not kidding when He says you have to Believe In Him To Be Rewarded, John 3:16, John 16:9, Hebrews 11:6, Ephesians 2:8-9. God is Merit. So if you don't Believe In Him Who is Merit, you are saying He's worthless, so that's what you get from Him: nothing. That's why prayers go unanswered, why people lose faith, can't reconcile Bible, etc. They don't believe. So they get what they don't believe: nothing. Bible is totally provable by any standard man can come up with. But we don't test it properly, because we don't read it properly. No excuse for that since 1850, when the whole world started to have ready access to the original language texts. So what passes for Biblical scholarship is likewise nothing of value. There's no belief inside the scholars, so of course they don't find the Bible up to snuff! Use 1 John 1:9 and go through Bible, keep plugging yourself. You'll find more proof of God than you ever dreamed of!




Part 4c, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump Links also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
18 Conditions make Church Ripe for Satanic “Mistrial” Attack Satanic Attack Plan contra Church Publicize, to Homogenize Homo Genocidus Homogenize, to Wreck Authority Your Personal Thinking Royal Impact Side Trip: Divine Benefit Valuation of Your Impact Divine Benefit History Satan’s trying to Raid God’s Divine Benefits Your Personal Thinking Invisible Impact STOP OMEGA Demon Influence Example #1, Evolution Ex. #2, 9/11 Reactions Ex. #3, Hate the Rich Other Examples Conclusion: Thinking Enriches or Impoverishes Now Why Our Spiritual Life is Hardest Objection: pre‑Trib Rapture is “cheating” Overruled: Church is Judged, too
Satan’s Military Objectives NOW So Rap the Rapture, Retire the Christian (in shame) Revelation: a Play within a Play Shall we NOW Retire or stay the course?

God's Script: Now, versus "Later", continued

Why does our "Now" end with a Pre-Tribulation Rapture?
Says Ephesians 1: Because Bride is Completed!

So Church is Now Ripe for Satanic Attack, too...


Now we go onto Father's Criterion 3A, relative to the Angelic Appeal Trial Arguments and potential Mistrial. The rest of Part 4 is about this Last Criterion.


Know your enemy. That's one of the cardinal rules of military science. Satan knows us quite well. We don't know him at all. Yet it's not as though Bible didn't provide a full disclosure. God tells you what you need to know in a zip file format. So you use 1 John 1:9 as needed, study under your pastor, and keep asking for the extrapolation to 'unzip' as you keep on learning and living on Word. So, plodding in the Word each day, after a decade or two you do come to know the whole story, and in extreme detail. Hence even in this article, we've seen enough of God's Plan and Satan's objections to it, to know how both think. So now, think like Satan does: If you were Satan, wouldn't you see the vulnerability, here? Puny believers cause history?! Wow, that's better than the advantage he had during the Incarnation!

  1. Israel was designed to be His Bride first. Thus, during the Lord's First Advent, Israel had an open-ended option to accept the Christ. So we've seen the Precedence Structure we derive as a result of Israel's rejection.
  2. But what's the impact of that fact in the Angelic Trial? History's continuance depended on Israel's response; and now, on Church's response. So, Israel elongated history by rejecting Christ, for the first-intended 'Bride' said No. Thus, a new 'Bride' would have to be 'called'. So Satan got a "continuance" on his own sentence, too. Suddenly, he has a chance to win after all, if he defeats "Church". This fact cannot be overstressed. A "continuance" is a legal term for a delay in Trial proceedings. Basically, everything goes on hold until the contingency which gave rise to the continuance, elapses in some fixed-time period a judge may set — or is met, with respect to other conditions.
  3. In short, both Christ's completion of the Cross, and Israel's acceptance of Him were contingencies. So now Church's acceptance of Him, is likewise a contingency. Granted, the ultimate outcomes of both Israel and Her Messiah were both prophesied, but not the "when": deadlines alone, were given in Daniel 9. The "ultimate outcome" of Christ, was the Cross. Daniel predicted this as the Messiah being "cut off". The "ultimate outcome" of Israel was "the Age of the Gentiles", via the tongues prophecy — but not whether Israel would have in sufficient numbers accepted or rejected the Messiah at his First Advent.
  1. We were never designed to replace Israel; but to rescue her, though Bride in her stead. A reverse yet prophetic, paradigm of the Book of Esther. "Vashti" (Israel) refused her husband, when He wanted Her presented (First Advent). So "Esther" (Church) is selected from all the people. As a result, "Esther" saves the Jews due to her closeness to The King. So, here it happens again. In the Book of Esther, the Jews were in the Diaspora. Now, they are again. Protected from that wicked Haman, the satanic antisemitic plan. But, by an Adopted, Successor Bride. Not antagonistic. Sibling, instead. Anxious, even, to restore the former One to recognition for all the Millennium. Just as the Rejected Husband had promised, so many times in the Old Testament.
  1. Satan's Strategy Key → Satan thus took advantage, both during Esther's time, during the First Advent, and Now: for to Satan, God's silence on Israel's First Advent acceptance of Christ was a 'red flag' that Satan might win, even as he almost won at what became Purim, without which Jerusalem couldn't be Rebuilt on Time, as required under Daniel 9's terms. Satan managed to pull victory from defeat, by getting Israel to spurn Messiah during His First Advent. So, Christ had what initially seemed a Pyrrhic Victory: A King, but no kingdom to match.

Legally, this strategy has another meaning: Motion for mistrial. A "mistrial" is the greatest victory a defense attorney can get; it looks like the attorneys for O.J. Simpson were angling for that, when they kept on impugning the evidence of the prosecution. How right who was on each side, I don't know. I only saw snippets of the proceedings, and what I'm typing now came from that viewing. It's not relevant who was right. The paradigm, that's the point. The key in "mistrial" is that you can't be tried again. So if you can prove sufficient misconduct in the evidence — or, better still — in the Trial Basis, then the defendant is freed. Doesn't matter if he's guilty. So Satan & Co. get off scot-free if they can prove a Mistrial.


A Marriage Contract Requires Joint Consent. Satan thus takes a backdoor approach into a Mistrial Motion, in a very clever way. However superior You Are, Most High — if a) Your own people don't want to 'marry' You, but instead want to 'marry' me, then b) You can't justify keeping Your past Promises to those who did want to 'marry' You, and you are the one Divorcing, by your Own Terms. So you can't justify trying me and my 'people', either.


Remember our Trial Basis: voting. Since marriage requires consent, that's a voting issue. In the Trial, this voting is not a majority-vote question, but a superior performance question. That is, what are the Results of the Votes for each side? So if everyone but eight persons voted for Satan & Co., as happened in Genesis 6, the results were destruction: not the Flood itself, but the destruction by the people (half-angel, or not) of themselves. They had passed the point of no return in their souls; so, those still alive on earth, wouldn't benefit from living longer. So the Flood only happened, like Genesis 1:2ff only happened, to clean up the mess. Of course, Noah and his family, were preserved. Notice how they did no works to get that: instead, they merely believed.

So you can see that the results of the votes have to do with the quality of life which gets produced, inside the soul. Not works. Inner Happiness, versus misery. Outer stuff is not determinative of your life's quality: rather, what you think. After all, if you are miserable inside, the nice weather outside won't make you feel better.

  1. God, of course, knew long before angels existed, that He was setting Himself up, so to speak: see Ephesians 1. Note, then, how Perfect His Plan, because He doesn't have to protect Himself from anything. Not even, a Cross. So, we know that because God insures free will, no prophecy overrides free will, not even Satan's. Notice how in all events, Father's Design is fulfilled: Church Causes History, not prophecy. Church is the cause, not the European Union or other political events. Church is the cause, not anyone or anything else, because Church is body of Christ. Christ Caused Church — Matthew 16:18 — to Rescue Israel. So now Church is the Cause, even as Christ is the Cause, as an extension of Him, 1 John 4:17. No one else is the cause. For better or for worse, the Bride is the cause.
  1. Rapture has two causes Key → Because free will is never overridden, the Rapture is caused by Free Will Choices, not by prophecy. Church is the cause in both cases: because sufficient Numbers Of Individual Believers Were Positive, Holy Spirit grew them up to Πλήρωμα. Conversely, because so many Numbers Of Individual Believers Were Negative, Satan could demand the "diplomatic recall" of Church. It's a Convergence of Both Causes, that culminates in the Rapture.
  1. So now all Conflict is designed by Satan to make the Negative Cause of Church, its adherence to:

Triumph over the Positive Cause, the number of developing Πλήρωμα people being sufficient. Same paradigm as he used back during the First Advent. So he wants the Rapture, too — but on his own timing, not God's. Here, the issue is just like the Flood: declining numbers of positive folks, as time passes, because Satan's strategy has been so successful. Individuals being developed, notice. Not a national body, as Israel was. That's the difference, for an Individual — Christ — paid for all mankind. So Individuals — believers in Church — are being developed, as He was. So to stop all this Individual Development, Satan has to foster a Counterfeit 'Christian', the Revelation 17 harlot. Which he began to do, right after the Crucifixion, Acts 15. Hence the need for a Paul. Then when that gambit didn't work well enough, Paul's ministry being too successful among individuals — Satan had to go 'institutional', Revelation 17 married to a polity. Hence Constantine (eventually). For by obfuscating the Individual Development Goal itself, Satan brings about a Mass Defection within the very Body of Christ. So can demand a "diplomatic recall" of all believers.

"Diplomatic recall" is what a home country does inside a host country, just before declaring war. The Ambassador is recalled, and all the people of the embassy, leave. Alternately, "diplomatic recall" occurs when the Ambassador (or someone lesser) has so shamed the home country, in order to preserve good relations with the host country, that individual(s) must be recalled. Both types of meaning are represented by the Rapture. For Church is the cause. Not politics, not the unbeliever, not even Satan. Again, Christ is the Precedence, He is the Individual, and when Enough (very few!) individuals are grown up in Him per the Ephesians 3:15-19 standard, We Go Home En Masse. To our glory, to our shame. It's that shocking, that simple.

  1. So we know that "predestination" is insurance, not tyranny. And, when God suddenly doesn't predict a thing — which full disclosure rules in the Trial demand — it's a "red flag". It means that Satan can so materially affect the outcome, God won't predict anything, lest He interfere with Satan's free will. Or, believers of such a time are so influential, prediction is avoided — for the same protection reason. So Church's completion is only predicted as an outcome, just as Christ's completion was only predicted as an outcome. Christ had to be completed by a deadline. Israel had a deadline given her, because she had rejected God as King back in 1050 BC. That deadline given, was the 1000th anniversary of David's death, used as the boundary in Daniel 9, the reason why the seven years of Daniel 9:27, is separated and reserved. For the 1000th anniversary of David's death, intervened. Hence there is no time to give Church for a deadline. Deadline is already up. Hence if Church doesn't complete, it's a mistrial and history ends. That's why the Rapture has two causes, not one, why it's a red flag that we have no set time, why Satan can win, and why Church determines history, not prophecy.
  1. To protect the Old Testament folks' free will, the Church was not predicted, either. After all, there might not have been a "Church", had Israel accepted Christ as Messiah. Even so, the fact they would one day become so apostate that the "Age of the Gentiles" would begin, was foretold (the "tsaw latsaw" tongues prophecy in Isaiah 28:10, far-fulfillment meaning). Pentecost was the "sign". It was to last for 40 years, the traditional period in the Jewish Age, for earthly Warnings. Just as in all Warnings, the 40 years is provided as a grace period for folks to wake up. In this case, the "wake up", as Isaiah had prophesied, was to alert Jews to the fact that their nation's favored spiritual status was ending. Thus they were to know that Messiah had come, gone, and would return, as many prophets had long foretold.

The book of Hebrews has these facts firmly in mind, throughout: "the Church" might have lasted only until 87 AD, as initially scheduled since David's death. Everyone expected Jerusalem to be invaded and overrun per the old schedule; the Temple to be destroyed by 70 AD — an easy thing to expect, since the siege of Jerusalem began back in 64 AD. So, would enough folks grow up before that date — and "redeem" Israel? For, it was known that the 7 years would follow. Again, the original schedule had gone like this: had Israel accepted its Savior, He'd Pay and Ascend by 37 AD; then would follow an insertion of 50 years; after that, the Tribulation would begin. So the long-foretold Millennium would commence 94 AD, which in their reckoning was year 4200 from Adam's Fall, when a new 1050-year period had to begin anyway — this one, which Christ the Last David had purchased in the very year the first David's 1000-year kingship retirement time grant, expired. That happened in 30 AD, seven years prior to the latest of David's grants, because Israel rejected Messiah: that changed the schedule in the 'middle', so to speak. There would be a 40-year warning period housing the additional 'seven' due to Christ dying 7 years early, the traditional time to warn of Israel's end as client nation; so it would be the "times of the Gentiles", and Church could still complete by the same initially-scheduled 87 AD when the Tribulation would begin. Nerd note: "times" means two or more Dispensations, "Ages" (latter is the Biblical term, as well as "time" or "times", plural. Another Nerd note: no client nations exist during the Official Tribulation. For, it is a time of "lawlessness", meaning so little positive volition, the numbers are too few for a nation to become a client nation. That is yet another big flag telling you Church is not in the Tribulation; for, like during the time for Israel, the "client" of God is one or more nations. So, since there are no client nations during the Tribulation, No Church Is On Earth. Don't mix up what men call polities, compared to what God calls them: Israel doesn't become a client nation again until the Millennium (which is part of what Peter explains to the crowd in Acts 2). So: Although the Tribulation belongs to the Age of Israel, the People Israel are not a client nation during that period; so the Tribulation is also a "time" of the Gentiles. You'd have to compare Luke 21:24 with the "man of lawlessness" passage in Thessalonians, plus some other hallmark passages in (I think) Zechariah 12 (about the maalouf, Jewish generals), Revelation (i.e., the Revelation 13 and Revelation 17 beast and harlot), to get the duality. This "times of the Gentiles" is a huge prophecy in the Old Testament, running vividly in at least 100 verses I could find.

So the 40 years began the "times of the Gentiles" at Pentecost. Peter also ties in Joel 2 in Acts 2 to explain it; the actual mechanics of appearing "tongues of fire" likewise made it plain ("fire" metaphor in Old Testament has a 'Judgement for purification' connotation). So, both covenantal periods overlap for the first 40 years. So, then: would the Church complete by the end of the 40 years, thus also ending a "time" of the Gentiles"? That they did not know, for the criterion for completion, was a 'Number of People Criterion' (Romans 11:25). They knew that the Tribulation would begin at the end of Church, for the Tribulation period was based on Israel, not Gentiles; but they didn't know The Start Date; so, looks like the writer of Hebrews is guessing it might begin with the overrunning of the Temple. Remember, Revelation hadn't yet been written. So they didn't know of all that added detail. All they knew were the Old Testament prophecies. The writer of Hebrews writes as if the destruction of Jerusalem is imminent; it's hard to otherwise interpret the haste at the beginning of Hebrews 2 and the end of Hebrews 10, Hebrews 11, the urgency and fait accompli tone of Hebrews 12. So, the book was written after Paul was executed, because Hebrews 13:23 notes Timothy, Paul's protégé, was released from custody, and Paul's last letter was a request for both Timothy and Mark to come to Paul, see end of 2 Timothy .

  1. Reason For Continuing History Key → as Paul stresses Ephesians and Romans; as the Lord stressed in Luke 8 (and elsewhere), history post-Cross is solely for the purpose of farming a sufficient crop of Πλήρωμα believers. As required under the Terms of the Trial: it's a mistrial if these people are not 'produced', since they were introduced in Evidence — paid for on the Cross — in advance. So history continues only because the Church continues; the Church continues only because the need to harvest more Πλήρωμα "Progenitor" believers continues. My pastor has been stridently teaching this fact since 1997, when he discovered it. If you are interested, you can get his tapes on "Jeshurun", which is part of "1992 Spiritual Dynamics", series #376. What I say in this site about why this fact is true is only partly derived directly from his teaching; for, he's only had time to outline the major variables, since he teaches a large congregation and consequently must simplify and limit what he says. So, I'm trying to 'read between the lines'. So, much of what I write is designed to help me independently validate what he's taught, and learn any corollaries. Whether or not he'd agree with what's written here as the validation, I don't know.
  1. So Satan's got to get in the farming business, too. Hence every generation will look like the Rapture generation, from the shallow standpoint of some developing European hegemony, etc., the trends outlined in:

For these trends are Satan's strategy, since he doesn't know when Church will be completed, either. Satan's constantly trying to set up the ideal conditions and beat God to the Rapture 'punch'. Obviously, only God can foreknow volition; as we saw above, God won't gerrymander the results so Satan has a free hand. So, has a free strategy. This strategy will be our focus, from here on. To start, we're looking at the basis and parameters for his strategy. The layout of the terrain and deployment issues which he faces, so to speak.

  1. Therefore: will enough of us grow up and be harvested as Πλήρωμα Believers during 'this' generation? Clearly, the requisite number of "progenitors" has not been reached, for by now the 'masses' are indeed many. For, these 'masses' rejected the spiritual life — which is why they became... um, Royal peasants. Not God's Will, but theirs. So, analogous to Israel's rejection of Messiah at First Advent, so also we Church, although really a Kingdom, although forever saved — we too are yet unbalanced, because we too have mostly rejected our post-salvation Ephesians 1 reserved and escrow inheritance.

So Satan & Co. are busy farming the human race to produce the crops they prefer (apostasy farming), under a kind of "Sword of Damocles", the "last trump", the retreat order for Church, which God the Father can mandate at any time. Church is here to trump Satan by Church's own-and-separate last trump; so Satan wants to trump all seven trumpets before they even blow in the Tribulation.

  1. We individually affect all humanity by our own attitudes toward Him. It's no longer some 'separate from us' Mosaic Law which confers the blessing. Instead, "Christ in you... the confidence of glory" (Colossians 1:25-27) applies. Individually. 'Since we are in training to become kings. So, our Royal 'Blessing By Association' Causes History To Improve, Continue. So, our Royal 'Cursing By Association' Causes History To Degenerate, End. So man's existence can be wiped out, not by nuclear weapons or pollution, but by spiritual fallout: apostasy. We do it to ourselves. Thus, the few positive are a blessing by association to the many negative — and all mankind can justifiably remain alive. As goes the Christian, so goes human history, as my pastor so often reminded us.

There are only "winners" and losers, in the Royal Family. Either you reach the "fullness of Christ", and thus inherit your "crown", your "promise", your "reward" saved up for you by the Father in your personal spiritual escrow — or you do not.

It's pass or fail, which Scripture depicts as a marathon race which one either completes, or quits en train. Quitters die from permanent carnality: the "sin face to face with death" (1 John 5:16, literal trans), which is God's version of corporal capital punishment. That's the historical, blessing by association reason why 1 John 1:9 and learning Bible Doctrine, is so important. The pass or fail quality parallels the situation both Satan, and more, the Lord's Humanity faced. Satan "broke" at some point well into his (pristine) spiritual life — he became so disillusioned, he permanently rebelled. The Lord, of course, had a much more unfair situation — but, unlike Satan, did not even sin once.

We, as Bride, have the next-most unfair situation: will we permanently quit, as Satan did? Or will we keep on getting up and "finish the course"? Well, that makes us "winners", if we do. When enough folks reach "winner" status, God's Rebuttal ends, because the Bride is complete. Look up "τελειόω", "τέλειος", "τελειότης", and "Πληρόω", "Πλήρωμα", namely, Ephesians 3:19, especially compared to Ephesians 1:18ff on "Body". Regarding the winning, see Paul's phrase in 2 Timothy 4:7. Some tie-ins: Ephesians 6:13's "having done all, to stand"; "endure to the end" verses, Hebrews' "hold fast... confession" phrases, and Hebrews 12:1-2's marathon footrace Greek. John uses the term "abide", μένω, which is used by other writers too (i.e., translated "remain" in 1 Corinthians 3:11, of the gold/silver/precious stones). Gospels and Paul also use the term "remain" (often, "μένω"). Revelation uses the term "hold fast", which means really, "rule" (e.g., κράτει ὃ ἔχεις, Revelation 3:11). James and Peter like to use "ὑπομονή" for this same concept. Example: James 1:3-4, but remember "faith" means "believed doctrine". James is saying Let Doctrine Have Its Completing Work. See the Greek yourself: almost any lexicon will be helpful. Peter's use of ὑπομονή and ὑπάρχειν will be covered later on.

  1. Bride's Completion also means a dark converse, as it does any time the knowledge-and-power "covenant" / "Dispensation" must change: apostasy has set in against it. The world progressively hardens, and the spiritual standard reposes in a narrower and narrower group. That prediction is repeated very often in Scripture, usually (in English) under the rubric of "the latter (post-Cross) days" (or synonymal terms), one flavor of which is our Now. (See also Philippians 3:16ff, 2 & 3 John, 1 Timothy 4, 2 Timothy 4, 1 & 2 Peter, Hebrews 2:1-3, Hebrews 4:1-7, Hebrews 10:39, Hebrews 12:15ff. Gospels, too.) Eventually, kinda like before the Flood (see 2 Peter), there will be only "one": the last Πλήρωμα believer of the Church. When that person is "ripe", he goes (or dies). Then, every other remaining believer gets raptured up (maybe with him). Apparently, publicly, in the sense that there will be a sudden disappearance (of many or few, I don't know). However, people won't see us moving up in the sky. God does it this way to parallel the Lord's Ascension, but His Ascension was only visible to believers with Him at the time. Rank has its privileges: pearls will not be thrown before swine (common Old Testament metaphor for unbelievers, given Jewish law and pagan rituals involving pigs). So, since all believers are going up, there's no audience to see us rise. We'll just suddenly not be here.

The Rapture might be the biggest Judgement sign ever shown on the earth, to (its) date, since it will be worldwide; since people will just disappear. Because it happens, people draw conclusions. So, again, needs no preceding warning sign. The warning is the Rapture. Conversely, maybe the apostasy is so bad, only a few believers are left on the earth at the time the Rapture occurs. So, again, no preceding warning sign, because too few believers 'disappear' for folks to notice, anyway.

Really Get This Point Loud And Clear → God doesn't need to cater to arrogance. If you don't want Him, He'll not plead with you or sell you some 'sign' to get your belief. Christ wouldn't do it in Matthew 4, He wouldn't do it while even on the Cross, so He won't do it now. The only time He gives a visible sign, is to indicate judgment.

Even every Gospel miracle told two messages: 1) Wake up (!) I'm God-on-earth (!) and 2) Beware of Not Believing. For, "an evil generation seeks a sign", remember. So if you think you saw Him or His Mother or an angel in a tortilla or other 'vision', forget it. He is The Word, so He only speaks through His Word, and even that, only via the Holy Spirit teaching you via your right pastor-teacher. If you don't like that, tough luck. Pearls go to those who appreciate them, and if you don't believe the Word is the "pearl without price", go snout elsewhere. That's the message those "left behind" will get; for, after all, they want God to wallow for them as a condition of their belief. Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting For Him To Cater To That 'Condition'!

There's nothing anywhere in Bible which says the Rapture will be disruptive. The idea is based on human supposition that many Christians will be alive at the time. Well, since we so routinely mangle the Gospel, how many real Christians are there? Satan's plan often hinges on subversion of the Gospel (Revelation 17), and he largely accomplishes that task, historically, by naming a thing Christian, which is not. So a person will call himself a Christian, but will not be one, and won't even know that he isn't.

For Satan starts his counterfeit Christianity, with the Gospel itself. Catholicism totally mangled it. After that, some breakouts prior to and in the Reformation reminded folks of the real Gospel, but not for long. Statism replaced Catholicism in many nations, but still works were added on to 'save' you: baptism, saying a particular prayer, and any number of truly goofy stuff. So how many believers, have there really been? Ask any 100 "Christians" what "the Gospel" is, and you will get 99 wrong answers. It's John 3:16, believe, confirmed by John 16:9, would anyone ever read The Book. No repentance, no naming sins, no "accept", no "make Christ Lord" no other verbs. So there are very few believers among "Christians", unless by mistake or something they happened to merely believe, and then forgot about it. (Count on the Holy Spirit orchestrating just that happenstance!)

So, even if you listen to a famous evangelist, ask: what is the Gospel Presentation? Sheer drivel. Or, ask any Christian you know what he thinks the Gospel is. I can't find but one out of maybe a thousand who actually understand it's John 3:16 and nothing else. Also, for a while I regularly visited Christian instant messaging groups, and only a few among the Calvinists, understood that it was Only Faith in Christ. Everyone else, hedged. And even many among the Calvinists, came up with some goofy idea that if you backslid (however one defines that!), you were never really saved in the first place. Garbage!

So, think: how many Christians will there really be? And can't God choose to Rapture them up at times when it will not be disruptive? Does it have to be disruptive? Based on what? Sure, it makes sense to argue that it could be disruptive, but if those left behind are too negative anyway, why should God cater to their arrogance? Don't bet on it.

  1. Thus, the only "preceding" warning is written in Scripture — not an event. That is why Revelation begins with written warnings to the pastors of churches (John, exiled on Patmos by Domitian, was still an apostle). Greek "ἄγγελος" first means "messenger". See Matthew 11:10, Mark 1:2, James 2:25 — why does the English get it right in those places, but not in Revelation? Does any man write to an angel? John was commanded to write to... duh! We have a standing warning, interjected, to convey the flavor of suddenness, in the New Testament: ταχύ. That's the only warning needed. Class Note: 1992 Spiritual Dynamics L1455-56 has a neat summary list of "riches of His Glory" and τάξις-timeline groups' verses.

Reminder About ταχύ → "ταχύ" and "τάχος" are often mistranslated by the English "soon". The term instead connotes surprise: next-in-sequence, but without warning. That's why you will always find the phrases "I come suddenly" "like a thief" in New Testament interjected, because an "interjection" is a sudden, without prior warning, rhetorical device. Therefore, Rapture is "suddenly, next — but without prior warning", ταχύ.

In the many lexicons I have, it's very difficult to tell "next-in-sequence, without prior warning" meaning. Why? Rarely is military terminology translated idiomatically in English Bibles or referenced in lexicons. You'd have to read the cites they give, to know. Like "girdle" in Revelation (KJV) is really "baldric" (see the one the Queen of England wears at certain ceremonies); the "pebble" in Revelation is really an Engraved Citation Stone (very easy way for Romans to have voting passes and other privileges they had to carry as proof).

So, lexicographers give the soundbyte common meaning of τάχος and τάχυς as 'quickly, swiftly': but many of the passages they use to cite the occurrence of the word are military usages. Surprise and next-ness are what the military usage means, for two of the cardinal (nine, in the United States) principles of successful military offensive action from time immemorial are surprise and 'speed of attack'. A real good Biblical example of this is how Moses rescued Lot among others: that's why Melchetzadok (Melchizedek) praised him so. Principle: Whether it takes a long or short time to logistically ready for that offensive, if its implementation isn't done at an unexpected time, or if, while being done, it is done too slowly, the enemy has a chance to regroup. This 'surprise and swiftness of deployment' is well illustrated (both success and failure) in Hitler's going through the Ardennes to capture France and the Low countries; in Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's campaign to conquer Russia. So: since ταχύ/τάχος in Biblical usage is likewise is a military thing, the Rapture — obviously the lexicographers should have paid attention to that in their soundbyte-renderings.

  1. Moreover, the "Rapture" doctrine is but one expression of a far bigger one, usually denoted in theology as "the doctrine of the remnant" ("remnant", which is rarely translated properly in English, is a major Bible keyword): the believer is preserved, and is removed from a locale which God is about to judge harshly. This "good figs", "remnant" doctrine is really a very common, in Bible: you see it first in the Flood: "Methu + selah" in Hebrew means "when he dies, destruction comes". And that was his birth name given him by his father Enoch. So the world had 969 years' advance notice (more likely 1000, else why would Enoch even name his kid like that). Next, you see it in the calling out of Abram. Just after he left, Ur was invaded. Next, in the Sodom-and-Gomorrah judgement, where Lot & Co. are pulled out. You see it in the Exodus story, itself. You see it in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, which outline the reasons for such action. You see it in detail, in Jeremiah 25-29, where the Lord explains to Jeremiah that He will pull out the "good figs" and safely deposit them in Chaldea for 70 years, using Nebuchadnezzar; you see it in the Diaspora prophecies, including those the Lord explains in the Gospels. You see it in the Greek of the Book of Hebrews, last few verses of Hebrews 10-11, a subtheme started in Hebrews 2:1 — Jerusalem is about to be destroyed, get ready!

Notice the pattern, here: No World-Wide Disaster of Tribulational Scale Happens While Believers Are Still Present. Long before it occurs, Believers Are Pulled Out In A Spectacular Way, but the others all choose to stay behind, because they don't believe what their eyes already see. Because, the pullout of the believers is not spectacular — to those disbelieving. And, it's not spectacular, in the sense of chaos — for No Chaos Can Begin Until The Believers Are Pulled Out. Historically you can see this phenomenon often, especially just before wars begin, i.e., the savvy who got out of Germany before or just upon Hitler's becoming Chancellor.

It's a Doctrinal Principle to watch history and make wise decisions in advance: the Lord chided the Jews for knowing the redness of the sky indicating weather, but didn't know the signs of the times (i.e., Matthew 16:3). Writer of Hebrews was insistent on the imminent Temple Destruction; everyone knew the Daniel prophecy. Yet, read Josephus! Most Jews didn't believe. Those who did, got out. Their exit was individually spectacular, and they gave away what they had to those not leaving. Kinda like those Jews who left Hitler's Germany before or just after Kristallnacht, some believed they should leave, others didn't. So for those leaving, it was a spectacular thing, but for those not believing, though seeing others leave, well... So, again: why should the Rapture itself be spectacular? Seems like a lot of wishful thinking among bored Christians who don't catch on that the real spiritual life is the most exciting thing, ever

Remnant in Hebrew or Greek always has two connotations: a) "leftovers" (sense of cast off, crumbs), and b) remainder after disaster. Study the etymology of she'erit in Hebrew, and λεῖμμα in Greek. Awesome meaning, here. There are many synonyms for these two keywords, each one conveying more about the meaning. More awesome! Hence, God takes what no one else wants, and removes them to preserve them.

Root idea: since the evil in the land is so great, the 'righteous' need to be pulled out, so that the necessary wake-up call (punishment) can be most profitably delivered. Whether the 'righteous' are believers only, or... only those believers who stick with the spiritual life. For, as always, God's Judgement is designed to rescue, bless, save, deliver. Even, the most evil. For, so long as believers or positive believers are in a locale needing so much punishment, the 'blessing by association' to them, prohibits the needed punishment. Which 'locale', by the time of our Rapture, is the entire world: if all believers aren't pulled out, the world won't get what it needs to Positively Respond to God. For, sometimes massive surgery, is what saves!

Thus we see another major judicial reason why the Rapture must be Pre-Tribulation, and cannot have a preceding warning sign, which ties back to "Elongating Exit Resurrection Precedence". The other changes in epochs had warning signs, because there were believers who needed the signs. The Rapture, unlike all other events, has no preceding warning sign because it removes all beleivers from the earth. The Rapture means God's Divine Benefit Plan closes His Blessing window on the world. After this current benefit window closes, the world can only be blessed due to the beyond-window benefits Church Age Πλήρωμα Believers were granted during this current window period. That is why Tribulation people need us to grow up Now!

  1. So when the Church Age "completes", the next "covenant" reverts back to a version of the Mosaic Law, but without a so-called "client" nation. Because, for the first time in history, there are no believers on the earth. Note that well: people will be so negative, there's no 'upgrade' in God's Covenant, unlike all prior times. Rather, a truncated Old Covenant returns: to forewarn that Christ Returns. More specifically, believers then will practice the Law the way Daniel and his comrades did as exiles — no sacrifices, lots of prayer — because there is no Nation Israel. The secular State of Israel is not at all the Bible's definition: "Israel" in the Bible is what God creates. Doesn't mean that God has abandoned Israel or the Jews, and anyone trying to use Israel's 'covenant in abrogation' status to hurt her, well — God will clobber everyone who tries. But technically, No Temple means No Covenant. So there still is no God-Authorized Temple in the Tribulation, but instead a Fake Temple. So any nation Israel then existing, will be protected as a people, but the national contract won't be renewed until the Second Advent, namely, Isaiah 63, Ezekiel 39, etc.

This fact can't be overstressed: just because a political entity of Israel exists, doesn't mean God's covenant with the nation, is operating. With the people, yes, because the People Covenant predates the nation, and is based on Abram (see Genesis 12). No temple means no covenant. So Satan will get the Temple rebuilt in Israel, sometime during our Now, in order to fake the idea Messiah is returned; so to gather the Jews, so to kill them better. For, Satan doesn't know when the Rapture will occur, either.

Memorize This: it's Satan's objective to confuse what is "Christian" now, to confuse what is "Jewish", then. That's always what he does, is confuse by counterfeit lookalikes, What Is God's. Oh, we are all such cannon fodder, for his wiles!

Since 144,000 Jews will be believers and evangelists (Revelation 7), and the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11) will be telling everyone what the Lord said in Matthew 24 (stay away), Satan's got to counter that message with a counterfeit law. Hence he will cause the Temple to be rebuilt. Could begin tomorrow, 1000 years from now, who knows. But it's rebuilt by the beginning of the Tribulation (Daniel 9:27, Revelation 11). As a snare.

Remember: the biggest prophecy in the Old Testament, which almost any Jew or even unbeliever in Timbuktu can tell you, is the Coming of Messiah. The Old Testament rituals etc. were physical, because the Emmanuel (literal, "God with us"), Messiah would come in a Body. That fact is so well known in the world, apostasy or no, the very reversion back to even a truncated version of the Mosaic Law is itself the most blatant of advertisements of Christ's Return. Even if no one believes in Him. (See God's Grace? Using a well-known faith to Advertise, Warn, Protect?)

See? God has already put the warnings in writing. Like the guy in Luke 16:20ff, mankind isn't satisfied with the Word, but wants a Lazarus to come back. Well, the Lord Came Down to tell the Luke 16 audience about that guy in Hades... much better than ol' Lazarus being resurrected, that He Who, when resuscitating a different Lazarus to show He is the "The Resurrection and the Life" — much better for That One to tell the audience of Luke 16. Nerd note: the "Lazarus" in Luke 16 is not the same person as Christ resuscitated. The fact should be obvious, from the Gospel timeline, duh. So, then: much better the statement by angels flying in heaven (Revelation 14) to say the Lord is coming back, since man won't look at the Word which long ago told him the same thing. So why do people need a spectacular Rapture, when the Two Witnesses do their spectacular stuff in the first half of the Tribulation (Revelation 11), and these angels start flying daily, in the last half?

Therefore Satan's Attack Plan Against Church is designed to best manipulate the 18 conditions above, to his advantage.


So, What's The Satanic Attack Plan Against Church?

Satan's perennial strategy is mistrial, and the only way he can get that Verdict, is to 'make' Our God 'fail' to fulfill His "Promise", never mind it's our fault, never God's. So, he Now repeats the same strategy used during the First Advent, to forestall and hopefully prevent, the second. Remember: Satan delayed the Second Advent by finagling Israel's rejection of Messiah. Satan did that by fostering moral apostasy, to replace the "promise" of Messiah's Upcoming Rule. People rejected Christ because He didn't offer the kind of goodies-"Kingdom" they wanted on Earth. See, they wanted the goodies of the marriage, but not the Husband. Thus, the covenants to Israel could not then be delivered. Now that Satan has prototyped and tested that strategy, it's very appealing to mankind, so he continues to use it.

We're to be the Bride, Now: anyone who 'does' John 3:16 between Pentecost and Rapture. Nerd note: obviously anyone who believed in Him during His Incarnation, and also survived past Pentecost, is part of Church. Of course, we're just like Israel was: way enthusiastic about the Husband's goodies, but... um, not quite so enthusiastic about Him. After all, He went to a Cross before He got the Crown; which fact, of course, makes us feel we will have to do the same...

So Now with Church, Satan has yet another chance to prevent God's Promises from being completed. Satan's thus intensively working in exactly the same way he did with Israel, to make Church believers apostate; thus he perverts the Rapture to serve his own goals, rather than God's. Rapture, like the offer of Messiahship, means that Christ collects His people, rather than Christ instituting goodies on earth. Sure, there will be lots of goodies, but... you gotta leave the earth first; leave this body, one way or another. Just like the Jews of Jesus' day, we Christians aren't so keen on leaving a life we've come to like. So if the Rapture can be used to romance us about this life (you know, 'helping' Him return by some political stuff, like the Zealots had wanted) — or conversely, make us wacko about "end of the world prophecy" like the Essenes — well, that buys Satan time. Just as, after the Cross.

Satan knows the principles of offensive better than anyone, except the Lord. Wittily playing off the Bible's meaning of "ταχύ" and "τάχος", Satan aims to:

    • Keep us off balance — vulnerable to surprise, because we're confused, and /li>
    • Keep us unprepared — swiftness blocked, because we're undiscerning.
    • For, we won't grow up if we don't know this Rapture Doctrine about Church Numbers, whether enough of a "current" generation will sufficiently accept Him.
    • 'Meaning, sufficient numbers completing our Royally Invisible Spiritual Life. Which means any one of us could be "enough", since the numbers are so few. For if you know you make a difference, then you become very interested. Now.
    • So if we think the Rapture distant or non-existent, we won't grow up, we won't finish Church. So Satan wins. Deflowered, having fornicated with Satan's plan, eschewing God's.

Man needs immediacy. Else, he loses interest just as a child does, and he'll procrastinate. Both my best friend and I notice that flaw in ourselves, often. Surely you can see where you get that way, also. The Rapture instills immediacy into the believer's faith. You literally can't make it to Πλήρωμα without a proper understanding of the Rapture (and how the Pre-Tribulation is the glue for everything). All of the Bible ties through it. It's a culmination of history, culmination of the Trial, precedented by every Doctrine in the Bible. Yet notice: all the Doctrine on the planet won't get you going without a sense of urgency. God graciously knows that. That's why the First Advent Terminus Was Imminent. It gave some extra kick to faith, the prophecies, but the imminency really kept a believer going. Look at how the writers of New Testament reason, in Bible: Based On Nowness.

So this fact too is precedented, past is prologue: absent a sense of Immediacy, an urge to learn and grow now, man tanks. After 1000 years' notice, Israel had become jaded. Didn't matter that the exact year of even the Millennium, was forecast by use of the Davidic Death Deadline in Daniel 9:26, coupled with the timeline of Passover through 9th Ab (57 days from Passover beginning to Pentecost, and 57 days from Pentecost to 9th Ab). Observe that the Long Advance Notice didn't help. So we humans are liars about prophecy, we don't listen to it when given and proven mathematically, even today — ever since Adam.

So, the reverse is also provided by "God's Grace choosing Precedence": only the Daniel Deadline bridging Precedence, the deadline for completion, is in Daniel 9:26 — but not, the actual year of His Death. So once He came here, until a year before He died, no one knew when. But then He invoked Matthew 16:18 announcement of Church; then, He in effect told everyone that "imminency" was "on". That was 29 AD, just before Passover (see the context of the passage), and so His Death could have occurred that Passover, or the next one, or the next one, etc. Imminency "on" from that time onward. Hence the many warnings of King-going and Esther, etc., from Matthew 16:18 onward. Of course, anyone who knew Bible and David's dates would know that the 1000th anniversary of David's Retirement was the following year, which year also was the 1470th anniversary of the Exodus (3 × 490), and if Christ died on Passover that year — which He eventually did — it would be that Anniversary To The Day. Not hard to get moving, when you have a "soon" deadline.

Rapture is "soon" in that it is imminent, ταχύ. Can happen before I finish typing this sentence. Didn't, huh. Can happen in 1000 years. No one knows. Your death can occur before you finish reading this sentence. Didn't, huh. Notice how, because it didn't happen and you've already lived so long, You Don't Expect It To Happen in the next second. But it can, and we routinely hear the news of many people suddenly dying in a day. So the Rapture, is like that. But we don't listen. So we don't listen when it's certainly dated, and we don't listen when it is imminent, either. Satan exploits this, our deadness to God. It's in the genes and becomes a deadness in our volition, when we are disinterested in God.

Man needs Contingency of Danger, balanced with Promise. Else, he'll be distracted, and... procrastinate. Nagging wives and husbands learn to become nagging, because they 'invent' or 'discover' this trait in their spouses and children. So they threaten a lot, use guilt tactics, which of course has the opposite effect — people drag their feet to 'obey' the nagger even more. Advertising companies also know of this human trait, hence we are bludgeoned with advertisements all the time. For when you know a specific need or date is coming, you often put off until the last minute, what you need to do. We've all done that with bills, tests, getting our cars inspected. There's a sort of passivity which set dates engender in human nature. But if we don't know when the next terrorist attack will begin, or the next storm, and we expect it to happen soon, well... we go wacko preparing for it. Notice how after the bombings, we suddenly shut the barn door. Too late, but... that's when we realize the danger. Before, there was nothing to motivate our preparing. Similarly, if we know Christmas, a wedding, or a heat wave is coming, we prepare for it, but a kind of 'oh what the heck' sets in if that date is Too Far Off. That's what happened to Israel: she had dates, and she got Tired Of Waiting For Messiah. So when He did come — which still ended up being suddenly... she wasn't interested. Her patience had run out.

That's what happened to Church too. That's human nature. Shows every time you turn on your television with respect to virtually anything in life: all we want, is titillation, a quick fix. For we are children, still.

So notice how deftly God addresses this human flaw. Read even any long Old Testament prophecy. Notice how it constantly switches between something going to happen, and something then-current, happening. Tying the two together. Notice how many of the prophecies don't say when a thing will happen, but warn that if a given rejection continues, dire stuff will happen. That's a nowness reasoning. Something happening now needs to change, because something bad will occur if it doesn't change. In "Criterion 3B: Church's Ripeness Date Can't Be Prophesied", we noticed how all prophecy is divided into contingent and fixed-time, with the former being the vast bulk of prophecy. Rapture is a contingency, as was there demonstrated. That's a danger. For us believers, it's a danger we wouldn't have grown up enough to get rewards at the Bema which immediately follows the Rapture, Revelation 4. For unbelievers then on earth, it's a danger of all that horror happening to them. We all don't know when, so we should be alerted. But, we aren't. Not until the disaster happens.

So the Biggest Threat To Our Spiritual Life, Is Procrastination. Comes from being distracted; or, thinking the spiritual life is something else; or, from thinking all that future stuff is so far away. The antidote for procrastination is interest in God for Himself. For when you are interested in God, you want right now to think about Him, learn about Him, talk to Him in prayer. So the lack of our orientation to Rapture and its "nowness" meaning, signifies we are disinterested in God. A revealing aspect for apostate Christianity is that they never talk to God all the time like they would another person, and so the interest in God simply isn't there. They prefer their imagined legalistic version of God and their crusading.

Satan thus means to exploit our disinterest in God, the same way he did it during the First Advent: via Believer Rejection of Christ. For disinterest ultimately leads to deadness, hostility, substitute 'gods' we find more interesting. All in God's Name, of course. So, our "Now" is the worst tribulation; the 7-year "Tribulation", with its horribly-spectacular signs is easier, as it fosters more interest. We easily pray when we are in a disaster. Natural thing to do. That so many still won't believe then, tells us much about how hostile and dead they are. So ours is actually the harder situation, with everything being undated, undateable, invisible. Bible study? Oh, that's only good to make you feel smart or win in some contest against someone else!

Hence it's Satan's objective to confuse what is "Christian" Now, to confuse what is "Jewish" then, since then he must contend against Higher Interest Motivation — due to all the spectacular signs. Revelation 9 is a counterfeit ploy, real demon armies (not human) unleashed to balance against the previous 3.5 years' spectacularity of Tribulation bad weather, disasters, the Two Witnesses, etc. Satan lobbies for and wins the release of those demons to a) kill the Two Witnesses, and b) to fake the Second Advent. That tells you he feels spread too thin logistically, and needs them released, which God conditionally grants. So this chapter is a heads-up that a whole lot of people believe in Christ during the first half of the Tribulation.

Satan must always spin whatever is God's, as wrong: that spin often requires mimicking, to effectively distort the truth. Hence he has to make Fake Church and Fake Temple, both Now and then, to drown out all the 'advertising' God does during the Tribulation. Satan always confuses by counterfeit look-alikes, What is God's. Virtually 99.9% of what's represented as 'Christian' popularly, is not. Bible Study is distorted into a 'gold star achievement', a work, something for highbrows. But that's the only way to grow up spiritually! Works are touted so often it's like a nagging wife — which, don't you know, nicely makes being 'Christian' look painful. For to Satan, it is — if we grow up, he goes to the Lake of Fire!

Satan must now confuse what is 'Christian' and what is 'Jewish', and get us to buy his counterfeit — for then we are rejecting God, in favor of his counterfeit. Thus, he wins a Mistrial Verdict. For, again — it's Only About Votes. Not, about sin. Not, about works. But only, the Three Trial Issues, which all resolve to, Do You Want God... or not? For only God can make you able not to sin, even as He did to Christ (humanity has no power to avoid sin, it requires Divine Power). For only God can make true good (hence works are no good, unless Divinely Done). So to opt for alternatives, is to reject God. Specifically, to reject God's Love. For God did not make us to be pets doing tricks for Him, avoiding sin or doing works. Adam did no works in the Garden. Adam was not a pet. Satan accused God of making Adam and the woman a pet, which allegedly eating that fruit would 'solve'. Yeah, all it 'solved' was to make Adam aware of how True God was! Which gambit Satan has played, ever since. For him, it's a life-or-death matter. Wish we realized that God's Script is likewise a daily life-or-death matter, for us.

So ironically, by subverting just the meaning of the Rapture, Satan subverts the entire spiritual life: for then he removes the Sense of Immediacy from man's mind. Hence there's not a media presentation, movie, or other public program ever made which doesn't make Rapture look silly: even when the people making the program, are pro-Rapture! Either the people touting it look like droolers, or those debunking it with their bad scholarship but holy tones, look like 'oh-so holy intellectuals'. Yeah, and if you don't know their bad scholarship, you'll buy into those holy tones, baby. So will stay a spiritual baby... forever. That's Satan's goal, too: he'll fantasize God being stuck with so many spiritual babies he helped to make. We are all duped! For, if we don't realize the role of growing up in Christ, how Rapture's imminency fits into the entire Plan of God, we'll not recognize why works, etc. are so evil. Thus we eventually die the "sin unto death" (literal, face-to-face with death, an idiom of capital punishment — see Acts 5 on Ananias death), 1 John 5:16. This, of course, is maximum Divine Discipline for not using the Royal Spiritual Life Our Lord Authored for us.

Prove this to yourself quickly. How often have you been in a to-people witnessing situation, where the Gospel is debunked. So, you or someone else says, "what if you died tonight?" There will be a pause, for we are all naturally afraid of death. But then, the reaction will be something like, well, I won't die tonight, I'm healthy, in order to brush away the immediacy of the threat. Yet, if someone around us has just died, oh — we do think about it, even obsess about it! For, unless we perceive crisis, we find excuses to procrastinate what we do not want to think about. Kind of like the folks in Matthew 22. (This is one big reason the Gospel shouldn't be given out indiscriminately. Becomes a nagging, so the ears become even more dead. Use 1 John 1:9, ask Father in Son's Name to know if you should say anything and what you should say, before you even open your lips.) Even as a believer seeing rabid Christians scream: "repent, repent, repent!" while holding a sign in your face is obnoxious. Who wants to be a Christian if that's someone's first introduction to Christianity?

So, Satan's racing against time by encouraging us to think there is no race. But see Hebrews 12:1-2, Greek: the Royal Spiritual Life is likened to a Marathon footrace, a "τρέχω", race course set before us, as it was for Him. If Satan can force God to discipline-by-recall the Body of Christ en masse, before the Body Has Enough Rulers, God "fails" and it's a Mistrial Verdict. Fails both His Promise to Church and Israel, on the grounds that not enough Church completed Πλήρωμα, the Divine Condition to implement the "promise" (i.e., in Ephesians 1:15-23, Ephesians 4:13, plus Hebrews 10:12-17, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 11:39-40).

Again, it's a numbers game. Satan's got to prevent the Completion of Church's Ruler Complement, getting us to buy into his substitutes "in God's Name": it's his last realistic chance to win. Once Church's Πλήρωμα Body Complement Completes, Satan has but the leftover 7 years allotted Israel, to finalize his longstanding goal of a "nice" world order which needs no God. That 7 years remains, only because Israel rejected Messiah as King, thus causing our "Now". That's why the "covenant" reverts back to the Mosaic Law. The Tribulation is not a "new" period, but a finalization of the 'old' one ("Age" of Israel). We Church, as Paul notes in Romans 9-11, were "grafted in". So, the hiatus period known as the Covenant/Dispensation of the Church (Bride) gives Satan the real window of opportunity: a period with no certain time limit. (God's grace!)

So maybe the last believer to be in the Rapture is now alive; maybe the Rapture will occur tomorrow. Maybe the last believer to be in it won't be born for 1000 years — no one but God knows. So, you can bet Satan's working most intensively to make us apostate.


Satanic Strategic Theme: Publicize, to Homogenize

Look at Satan's success: it's been 2000 years, and still the Body of Christ is not complete. Why? Well, think: if enough Πλήρωμα believers could have been 'grown' from even Paul's generation, then the number of Πλήρωμα believers needed has since increased. Why? Because the number of believers has since increased. Believers — that is — who did not reach Πλήρωμα, who instead jettisoned 1 John's Script. Reading Church history, it's not too hard to see what a colossal failure Christians have largely been, ever since the Ascension. So, as explained in "Church Makes History", since the number of "progeny" has increased, there's an Imbalance: so, more Πλήρωμα "progenitors" are needed.

And why is that? Well, Because we have the hardest spiritual life, and the most options to sin, of any group of humans in any period of history. (You should have realized by the end of Part 3 that God's Plan for Church is infinitely higher than it is for other groups of believers; if not, by the end of this section, you will likely realize it.) On top of that, Satan's got this unique opportunity to leverage believers' Divine Benefits to suit his own goals. Ergo Satan — as a last resort, to be sure — will even promote Faith-In-Christ, to increase the number of apostate believers, in order to buy himself time for maneuver. Why else do you think he so promoted Christianity politically, beginning about 100 AD?

Interpreting History Key → An increase in young or apostate believers, especially if publicly promoted, means an increase in Πλήρωμα folk is being offset. Let's be frank: people 'buy' what is sold. They do it, because sales is a kind of public thing, and whatever is public, is granted a certain legitimacy. So, if your mom or best friend believes in Christ, and tries to persuade you to do so, you probably will. For, whatever is public, motivates the human reciprocity reflex to "fit in with the crowd". Publicness conveys a crowd-ness. So, if the Gospel is sold publicly, lots of folks will buy it. And thus Satan focuses on selling the False Gospel publicly, i.e., all of those added verbs present in social media and websites which cancel the only valid Believe verb of John 3:16. Which is kinda risky, considering even a five-year-old can read John 3:16 and be immediately saved by it. So, Satan will periodically sponsor 'revivals', to cause and perpetuate Imbalance, one of his four cardinal "D-I-O-S" Grand Strategies to make The Real God, 'foreign' ("strange", in English Bibles) to us.

Interpreting Publicity Key → Always consider any publicizing of faith as a setup for a 'crucifixion' later on, and as a demonstration that the Body is going apostate, imbalanced, too few rulers developing. Don't seek publicity, don't want publicity, don't value publicity, but instead avoid it. As was noted in "God's 2-3-4-5 Evidence Test Structure", some believers have a middle-Evidence-Test phase of publicity. In such a case, it's an imposed setup, to humiliate and denigrate them, their faith, Christ. Satire of what actually happened to Christ, when He was down here. Frankly, the entire public lifestyle is the worst of ongoing 'crosses', because everyone and his brother thinks he owns you the minute you are on public display. Whatever you say, is deemed some kind of sales pitch, so if someone agrees with you, you are expected to be grateful. You get wheedled for money, for agreement with various causes; if your hair is out of place or your dressing is not liked, the comments are thick and critical; or, even worse, nosey and gushing. I'll never forget when someone told me about people reacted to Monica Lewinsky's interview — wanting to know what kind of lipstick she wore, for crying out loud!

Of course, you'll never see privacy again. People will imagine all sorts of things about you; will be groupies; will hate you because your eyes are green or you wear a toupée. Worst of all, people are so arrogant and vacuous, thinking they impress you with their big words or 'dignified' tones, committee meetings, endless irritating protocols. All of which, of course, you are supposed to admire profusely. You are drained all the time, you are grief stricken over folks' thinking, you ache to help them... but cannot. Just as, the Lord could only speak in kindergarten-phrased parables. To empty, grasping, titillated minds there for a 'Carnival' of miracles. Weird. True Twilight Zone, and no one in his right mind would seek such a life. See? Satan promotes public-ness in order to spread his lie that more-makes-right, fit-in, 'respectable'='public favor'. So that any valid message is suborned to Status. The Christian who seeks publicity, like all of Christian activism today, is utter Satan fodder; I wouldn't wish the resulting bitterness on my worst enemy!

So when Christianity is publicized, it's to distort what Bible says. It's to put down Bible. So any seeming promotion — and 🤣, we Christians are so hungry for publicity — any seeming promotion will be used to apostatize us further. Pastors and laity fall for it routinely. See how big our church is. Boasting about members, showy services, stress on how some one goes all over the world, name-dropping, politicking, thinking one is doing good for the Lord because of all the numbers at a revival rally, etc. — all the satanic ploys are used, and we buy them avidly. We flunk Matthew 4 so fast, it's breathtaking. Every item the Lord refused to do in Matthew 4, we just can't do swiftly enough. We fall all over ourselves seeking, what He rejected!

The 'blessing by association' provisions are analogous to the fig tree parable for Israel, a believer needs time to grow up in Christ. A believer gets benefitted during that time, in case he will use it to grow up. So, the more young or apostate believers, the more God will allow time for them to grow; the more time, then, Satan & Co. get to finagle their own goals.

Publicity homogenizes whatever is publicized. It's a herding of Opinion. Politicians, lawyers, and advertisers well know the importance of repeating a message, making it public, so that you feel you must conform to whatever is 'the message'. If someone famous suddenly started to don underwear as a hat, count on it — within several weeks, most of the world would do the same. Content doesn't matter. Publicity matters. Makes a person feel 'in' if he conforms to what's sold as publicly-acceptable. Thus Satan & Co. can isolate those who believe correctly, from those who don't care. Saves the demons time, allows them to focus on the truly-dangerous folks (dangerous to their goals).

So keep this satanic publicizing strategy in mind as you continue to read, for it greatly explains the hows and whats of mankind's history, Right Now. If you know anything about viruses, barnacles, bees & pollination, or piggybacking in legislation and corporate management — the practice of adding something marginally acceptable to something bigger which will be accepted — then you have a keener idea of how "publicness" is used, by Satan & Co.

Satan strategically lost the Trial Conflict at the Cross. ('Running subtheme in Book of Hebrews, especially Hebrews 2 & Hebrews 9.) So all he's got left, is to prevent the Πλήρωμα from completion.


"Homogenize" = Homo Genus, Homo Genius, Homo Genocidus

Here's Greek-style sophisticated wordplay for you: the title words here are usually recognized to stem from Latin, but they also stem from Greek. "Homo-" in Greek denotes same-as, like, alike; the other words have Greek meanings similar to Latin. As explained further in the Appendix "Seven Content Elements of the Satanic Signature", #2 is to Publicly Promote ancient Greece and Rome. Christ came at the end of time. The world's cultural mores and values at that time were very Greco-Roman, even when wearing Asian clothes. Satan habitually replicates those values largely to deride God's Plan, a kind of "in your face" advertisement. Of course, the Bible repeatedly warns about how these cultures are deliberately satanic, from the Tower of Babel through Babylon (Genesis to Revelation). So naturally God will preserve information about these cultures, since the original language texts of the Bible are from such cultures. Clever, huh.

Satan's genius is used to make a Power-Hungry Genus out of man, thus making man feel he is the Genius; and therefore, denuding love; and therefore, man will commit genocide against his fellow man to prove his power.

Satan's always wanted man to homogenize; it's been his strategy since the Fall, showing up most notably in Genesis 6 (ancient Greek culture, his crowning achievement) and ancient Rome (progeny of the ancient Greek culture). For, (what we call) the 'Greco-Roman' type of man-can-become-god cultural mindset is the most stably anthropocentric, historically: note how man has always glorified the Greco-Roman eras (i.e., in the new Star Wars films, "Jedi" being the Equites). This glorifying manages always to cover up the fact that both polity groups were true tyrannies: Greece was like modern Communism, fiefdom-like; SPQR was a much bigger and more integrated version, so more like modern Nazism. Chekism ran both polity groups' societies, so that 'fitting in' was their real god. Nerd Note: the essential difference between modern Communism and Nazism lies in the doctrine of how the economy relates to the state: else, both are liberal/big government political orientations. In Communism, the state is to own and control the economy in the name of the people; in Nazism, the economy is subject to overrule by the State, but the economy remains owned by individuals. By the way, 'Communism' is way older than Marx; 'Nazism' is way older than Hitler. Nerd note #2: the Cheka was one of the earliest Russian Communist internal policing organs, dedicated to catching 'enemies of the state'. In reality, it was a vehicle much like the mafia, so that one could end one's enemy by merely accusing him. So "Chekism" came to mean someone who was out to profit from bad happening to another person, so sought ways to accuse.

You either end up a winner, growing spiritually all the way to Πλήρωμα ("Fullness"), or you deaden inside. The central symptom of the deadness is a hardness. The term is frequently used both directly and implicitly, in Scripture, and is portrayed in countless ways. In the Greek, there are several terms, each having a medical flavor, which in modern science roughly correspond to coronary occlusion (i.e., "σκοτίζω") and scar tissue (i.e., "σκληρόω"). The ancients knew quite a lot about biology, so the Bible uses these biological terms to convey how spiritual disease works. For example, nearly everywhere in Scripture, "heart" is used for the soul's faculties of belief (especially in God) and thinking; so, it is analogized to the known function of the biological heart, which has the 'office' of circulating blood. Cardiac and pulmonary problems are caused by blockages in circulation — so to use medical words like "harden... heart" would be understood. This hardness would manifest as cynicism, and each type, whether hardened by lasciviousness or self-righteousness or anywhere in between, had a distinctive ending signature: animalism.

When man senses his group size, he degenerates into worshipping that bigness, in lieu of God. Morality is the best way to motivate this subtle switch, since it is moral to be a hero. So one seeks to be important, worthy, big in the eyes of others — and that is where the switch occurs. Human approbation subtly replaces God's Approbation. Bible is so strident about this problem you can open almost any page of it even in translation, and see it parade. Paul warns about it in Ephesians and Colossians; Jude excoriates it as the main theme of his letter; Peter spends the last half of 2 Peter on the topic, and John traces it side-by-side from the beginning of each epistle (it's the main tracking device of contrast, in 1 John and his Gospel). Moses spent one line of every 'paragraph' in Deuteronomy on it, especially Deuteronomy 32, his swan song. We humans are children, so we childishly shift our loyalties easily.

Satan therefore takes this natural human need of greatness — founded on the insecurity 'born' due to sin in the Garden — and sells his masterpiece, legacy of Genesis 6, Greece-and-Rome. So read the classic Greek plays; if you skim through Suetonius, Tacitus, Haase or Gibbon; if you watch some good movies on these polity groups (i.e., "Gladiator" captures the norms well), you can see the characteristics display dynamically. Here, let's just list some of their salient characteristics. As you read through the list, ponder how these values are promoted in world society today, especially in the last dozen years:

  • Virtue was praised, but more as a status symbol than for its innate characteristics. See, "Virtue" means power, and absolutely not, Love. "Love" was the expected response to power, the 'reward' the one having Virtue should get. So "Virtue" in these societies was very precisely defined, and had more its Latin connotation of "strength", than rightness per se. Rightness was deemed strength, but in many ways, this was just so much lip service. More pragmatically, "virtue" was defined as whatever pleased society to praise in you. So if the societal norm accorded with a particular item, then that item was "virtuous": chastity, but also clever outwitting; dying for one's country, but also clever-enough cheating; religious observance (called "piety" by both Greeks and Romans), but also disinterest in the gods themselves. Above all, hardness, the idea that nothing moves or dents; so laws were harsh, military life was harsh, and these were deemed virtue. Hence also the popular custom of suicide, to show machismo, much like harakiri meant in Japan. A guy named Zarmanochegas for example, was praised by the Athenians because he burned himself to death in the street (not too dissimilar from the aforementioned Aaron Bushnell). This apparently happened near the time of the Apostle Paul.
  • Sexual promiscuity in socially-acceptable ways, but marriage as a legal entity was sanctified in Form (marriage was a status thing). In the Greek city-states, homosexuality was either tolerated or mandated (i.e., Spartan military training required homosexual bonding, wives were to have lesbian relationships while their husbands were off fighting). In Rome, it was tolerated but regarded as plebeian. In both polity groups, heterosexual promiscuity was part of the phallic cults and was a societal status symbol (i.e., a noble must have a mistress).
  • Like today, Religion then was a mix of mystical spiritual experiences (what we call 'New Age' is remarkably similar) and ritual (gamut of rituals we see in modern Catholicism through Wicca, with much stress on hymns). Your social acceptability was gauged by how 'piously' you observed these forms. Socrates, for example, was sentenced to drink hemlock for being 'impious'. Rome, for example, found Christianity so heinous, because it didn't nod to all the gods people superficially worshipped, and particularly, it didn't agree the Emperor was Divine. Note that the argument against Christianity wasn't against the Christian God, but rather against the fact that Christian faith refused the superficial, hypocritical 'nod to the gods' which was then the societal norm. Above all, both Greeks and Romans prided themselves on their open mindedness, which was defined as 'piety' toward all or any gods. The ones they favored were the more important, of course; but it was impolite not to nod to a god. Any 'god'. Thus you see that 'religion' was the height of hypocrisy in society, and anyone who didn't go along was... well, not particularly acceptable. Kinda like people disapprove if you didn't attend Sunday or shabbat service. It's just a matter of compliance with form. Substance matters not at all.
  • Intellectualization was praised, particularly with respect to clever speech and wordplay. Argumentation (debating technique) was highly refined, and classified with 'philosophy' into 'rhetoric', the art of presenting thought in a persuasive manner, with the alleged purpose of discerning and teaching truth. In fact, it was a status symbol, and no noble of either the Greek or the Roman polities escaped being schooled in 'rhetoric'. Our modern 'lawyering' comes directly from 'rhetoric', including all the hypocritical, word warring flaws. Art, especially playwriting, was considered a form of rhetoric as propaganda, and was considered vital to purging the audience of emotion (κάθαρσις). Again, really learning the truth was of no value, but rather how approved you were by your peers and society. Hypocritical to the max.
  • Heroic Confrontation, and smart (i.e., military) maneuvering were among the highest-praised activities. In the Games (which included 'rhetoric', plays, since these were mental maneuvers), a winner would get a great deal of status, money and fame, with exemption from taxes. Self-Sacrifice was the greatest of Status Symbols: Paul burlesques this fact in the Greek of 1 Corinthians 13:1-3; and Philippians 2:1-8 (burlesquing himself). 1 Corinthians 13:3's Greek word καυχάομαι is the real Greek word there, meaning "boast"; not κᾰυθήσομαι, a verb tense which didn't even exist until Constantine's time.

What the Greco-Roman cultures all praised the most, was animalistic hardness. It was considered a virtue, being blasé, believing in nothing. Only a weak person had to have faith in someone other than himself, see. Therefore: apathy = virtue = strength. What became known as "Stoicism", the rightmost self-righteous end, was praised in all ancient societies, but in Greece (and later, Rome), the Hero was most praised when he was most cold. (Exaggerated sequences in the classic Greek plays, you'll notice, are reserved for women and for tragic-flawed heroes.) So, in society, this value translated into a ho-hum attitude. Not really believing in anything. Being cynical. Form, not substance. Just the fight, raw. Sex was but a weapon to use for gain. If anyone was accused, he was deserted. It was acceptable to desert an accused, even if the accused was never proven guilty, since 'survival' was itself deemed a raw, cynical game which everyone played. The arts, religion, love and poetry were extolled only to make people feel important. Big buildings were built competitively: "I, Crassus Andronicus, paid for a more noble bath than you, Marcus Polonius." Grace and love were ideals in plays, to keep the masses in check, nothing more. Only the stupid actually believed in any extolled virtues, you see. Hardness was what sophisticated people cherished. You know: the criminal mindset, a gang mentality. Oh so refined, yes! So much for those past 'glorious' empires!

Homogenizing groupness is key to all this satanic maneuvering, because the Bible stresses the Individual Relationship to God, Personally. It's a sacred thing between the individual and God, not a group thing. Kind of like, marriage is a relationship between individuals, not communal. Funny how religion always glosses over that fact. See for yourself: the covenants, are to individuals: even Israel's covenant is only an extrapolation from the one to Abraham... Jacob, David. It's a frequent Old Testament refrain that except for the promise to David, all of Israel would have been wiped out. Then there is The Seed (Galatians 3), another Individual — The Individual Who Saved Us. An Individual did that, not a group. So, the heroes in Hebrews 11, are individuals. Not members of any sect, and most of 'em lived solitary lives... get the point?

Do you see the devastating effect, here?

  • We Are In Training To Become Kings. Each of us. Unbelievers have this potential offered them, too — they just need to believe in Christ, to get in to the potential inheritance; Christ paid for them, too.
  • So if we instead look at ourselves, we are not getting the training.
  • So if we instead opt for group stuff, we are not getting the individual training we need to become kings.
  • We Must Become Independent Of All Group Pressures, To Rule Well.
  • So the best satanic strategy will herd us in the name of morality or God... so to make us consummately immoral, rejecting the One Person Who Alone did and can Deliver, mankind!
  • So we are to group, hence homogenize, in the name of human genius, so to commit genocide in the name of our hallowed groupnesses.

Satan & Co. laugh their heads off as they remove Our Head from us. And Scripture? Well, it nicely gathers dust, everyone claiming Christ died on "Good Friday", never mind there are not three days and nights between Friday and Sunday by anyone's calendar (Matthew 12:40-21). We don't care. Bible be damned, we want to fit into the herd!

Of course, look at any social media or TV and you'll see the exact same: "apathy = virtue = strength" mindset promulgated. Walk into any boardroom, classroom, church — watch the many colors of hardness on parade. Just: "ego, mei, mihi. Cogito ergo sum. No Deus cogita, ergo sum." So the sum of the sum of man's thinking is: "ergo, ego. Ego rego." Those hardened by profligacy end up being just as self-righteous about their lifestyle as the silliest religious anti-abortion crusader. The heart can't tell the difference in the sclerotic origin, so occludes in either case. I am right. Quid pro quo. Defend the turf. Growl and survive.

So to develop the Greco-Roman mindset is always Satan's goal; Satan & Co. constantly and deliberately reveal this goal, wittily using Greco-Roman vocabulary and ideas in a manner to satirize Scripture (and thus God).

  • Satan & Co. thus promote that mindset on a global scale, with the typical results of homogenizing, stultifying lukewarmness, apathy.
  • Money/Status is the King, not the King of Kings, yet again (sigh here).
  • Notice the subtle difference: there are noble and ignoble ways to use wealth, but it's visible all the time. Visible, because everyone wants more than he has.
  • So to stress the ignoble ways of using wealth, makes those not having, feel better about themselves; feel justified in putting down wealth; feel justified in warring.
  • All this, because wealth is made a group idea, "the rich".
  • So, "the poor" is another group idea.
  • And then you choose sides.
  • No side has God's Name on it, of course, so God, the Real Wealth, the Real Reason For Living, gets forgotten, trotted out only at Thanksgiving and weddings, with lots of nodding-to-sleep...

You can substitute any group term for "the rich" and "the poor" in the above bullets, with the same results. "Male" and "female", "Arab" or "Jew", "Christian" or "Muslim", "Western" or "third world", "President" or "janitor". Notice how all these terms denigrate individualism? You are only a dot in a group, an attribute, not a person; so the group, not you, is important. So you naturally feel more inferior still; so to assuage your now-heightened inferiority because "group" is stressed, what do you do? Oh, you choose a group which makes you feel noble. So you choose only which group, but never... Individual God. Even and especially, when choosing in God's Name. Who said Satan wasn't clever?

Groupness is evil. Animals Get Herded, Grouped for Slaughter. Hence all religion must make evil, good. So to blot out the individual, make him a tool of evil. Observe, that of the Seven Divine Freedoms can be individualistic, like the United States (well, we are descending into statism); or groupistic, like Japan, the Arab countries, and other homogenous cultures and religions, authoritarian or no. So God's authorization of nations to 'compete' with the world-religion plan of Satan in Genesis 6 onward, is individual-preserving, freedom-preserving. Just as, #4's "Family" was invented by God to also 'compete'. For variety is the heart of freedom, and finity needs those barriers to balance, leaning against each other.

Barriers to God must come down, or you don't grow to Πλήρωμα. That's an impossible thing, since finity requires barriers to survive. Hence Infinity cycling inside finity — Bible in your head, in God's System — makes the impossible, occur: God's Power Alone enables this. So Satan aims to substitute his own power, and thus break down human barriers to generate Homo Genocidus... AKA, Götterdämmerung.

Thus Satan turns God's Seven Freedoms' balancing structure into any number of group tyrannies, either with direct political control, religious control, or societal control, all in the name of Group Loyalty: especially, tribal/ family/ tradition. The trick is, to make the Group Identity overwhelm the individual identity, in the individual's mind.

  • Thus it becomes easy to stultify a group, to religify it.
  • And thus, to shackle it to one or more 'pasts' it must honor.
  • Every society remains backward to the extent it does not grow to the larger collective idea of a set of principles which transcend blood and past.
  • Stuckness on the past, stuckness on 'tradition' stunts an individual, a neighborhood, a nation, a world.
  • This is why the Jews didn't progress spiritually, and don't believe in Christ.
  • This is why 'Christianity' doesn't, either.
  • When "relationship with God" is denuded to observances or cheapened into emotionalisms, and then persists, "the past" becomes a hardened knot which has to be cut, before one is free. No person, group, society that keeps the knot intact, prospers.

All history can be viewed as the competition between groups which are transcending the past, and those still stuck in it. That's why disasters can be the best thing to happen to the world, freeing it at least for awhile, from all that tangled groupness.

"Balance" is a precise thing. As Scripture puts it, "neither to the right, nor to the left". So, it is off balance for a man to have less loyalty for his wife than his family, Genesis 2:24, quoted by the Lord in Matthew 19:5 and Mark 10:7. So too, off balance for family to interfere with the individual's Faith in God. So too, off balance for a nation to obstruct 'freedom of faith'. Chain Of Loyalty is essential to freedom, and when the chain is broken, society breaks. Which passages like Micah 7:6, show. For when God is not First, all other barriers to loyalty also devolve into tyranny and the society in question, will self-destruct. That's Satan's goal, and he uses religion and groupness, to accomplish it. Morally.

Thus Satan's plan, is to superimpose the freedom-serving institutions God created, family and nations, over that One owed all loyalty, God Himself. You but need to look at social media, politics, the news, to see that plan's success.

  • "God" is suborned to 'belong' to a people', rather than the other way around.
  • "Spirituality" is degraded to the level of culture, so you're a good or bad person, fitting in or not, if "spiritual".
  • Notice how God is cut out, and your head goes on top.
  • For now you worry about your conformity, and questions about what God is like — are nowhere in sight.
  • Hence culture and family loyalties superimpose over faith in God by redefining what "faith" is — in terms of the culture and family, of course!
  • That's why passages like Matthew 10:35, an interpretative quote and explanation of Micah 7:6, are in Scripture. Christ explains to those listening that He didn't come to make man-man relationships peaceful, but to 'throw the sword' of Doctrine (Hebrews 4:12). Great wordplay with βάλλω and μάχαιρα in Matthew 10:34, which Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 12:31 and elsewhere! Rather, that Word would cause discord to arise over Him, just as was predicted in Micah 7; so He 'came' to split families, since over Him they will betray one another. Satan just loves a good reversing joke, see. Again, you have to look at Greek of Matthew 10:34 to get the wordplay setup, and the satanic 'reply'.

Consequently, for Satan's homogenocidus goal to be achieved, groupness must be sold as the ultimate virtue: fit in, be part of, don't stick out, agree with whoever is currently touted as the Leader. Satan does this so well, look:

  • Satan laces the message with both carrots and kicks, as per mistranslations of Ephesians 2:10 and Ephesians 4:11-16.
  • Oh, be sure to egregiously mistranslate key Bible passages like Ephesians 4:5; so believers will mistake Ephesians 4, despite Ephesians 3's stress on individuals... as one denomination.
  • Never mind that Ephesians 2 also stressed individuals who only God fits together (Ephesians 2:10).
  • Never mind that Bible was written to be heard by all individuals, not an elite.
  • See? Scripture translation itself is infected with the satanic spin groupness.
  • Talk about genocide! Biblia occident!
  • So do you think politics or even social media/TV escapes? Of course not. Lord of the Flies, "The Lottery", Brave New World, Nineteen Eighty-Four and many other works of 'fiction' tell us much about our propensity to groupness, slavering over it.
  • Oh, how many more you can execute by killing the mind! Saves money, too: much more cost-effective than Zyklon B or those slow ovens in Auschwitz... We are so naive.
  • So, playing on God's 'sons' motive, Satan spins that into a grotesque farce of 'oneness', statism. Fit in. Be one with society.
  • Losing, thus, your individuality, as if that were nirvana. That ploy works every time, baby. It worked in the Ziggurat of Babel just as well as it worked in Genesis 6; just as it works today.
  • Again, there's more than one kind of genocide: killing the mind is way more infective and effective, than killing the body.
  • Maybe, even better. You can make everyone feel good when you kill their minds soothingly; thus you still have their living bodies, to slave toward your goals. Rah-rah-rah.
  • Ignore the Bible, Christian, and group together righteously (!) to call abortion a "holocaust", so to call God a murderer by your satanic 'doctrine', but you don't care: it feels so good! 😩
  • Crawl to the mosque together Shiites, to share in Husayn ibn Ali's pain from way back in 680 AD!
  • Muslim, Make the Hajj so you can get trampled at the end of it, when you try to cross the bridge! (I learned about that problem from a Muslim.)
  • See? If the groupness becomes 'holy', then only 'my' group is holy; as an individual, I am only holy if in that group; else, my life is trash.
  • So all competing groups become the devil, subhuman, pigs; so killing all those "untermenschen" isn't a crime, anymore.
  • The ploy has so much historical appeal! Every war is based on it. Every crusade! Oh, the Spartans were real good at this line of 'logic', but so were the Athenians. Later, the Romans.
  • It's an old song, plays sweetly in politics and pulpits.
  • Recent historical examples and the atrocities to which such 'holy' attitudes lead.

Satanic Strategic Theme: Homogenize, to Wreck Authority

So, it's not surprising that the exact same Revelation 6 "four horsemen" still ride, just like last century. Last century we finally learned to despise both 'traditional' monarchy and democracy, though we still pay lip service to both: what 'new' institutions we'll develop in the 21st century to replace them, one can only shudder to imagine.

Notice that the United States' culture was largely used to achieve this widespread sense of humiliation. Our power and wealth basically rushed into a political vacuum in WWI and WWII; and since we don't really know how to use ourselves, we are rather clumsy. So, people want what we have, but don't want to admit it. So, feel humiliated. Kinda like it was, back in the 2nd century, AD.

Notice next that United States culture has become very much more like the ancient Greco-Roman cultures, especially since Christian activism and interdenominational 'competition' first became popular here (late 1960's). This developmental pattern is exactly the same as happened in the Roman empire from about 180 AD onward. We just happen to be the actor used, at present. You can also see the demons really digging into this with the Third Term Project portraying Donald Trump as a Roman caesar, or another portraying Barron Trump as Alexander the Great.

Barron as Alexander the GreatTrump 2028

When any nation has a lot of positive believers in it — and the United States still 'leads the pack' on that count (well, before 2025) — God promotes it. Then Satan jumps on the bandwagon, hoping to stuff the promotion down everyone's throat, kind of like all those demons kept on advertising Christ (a major, biting theme in Mark's Gospel). So if Satan can manipulate God's promotion of (currently) the United States into another Greco-Roman mindset, he feels quite rewarded. Always nice to make Christians mimic Genesis 6. Religion is a type of fornication, in any form it takes.

By promoting Greece and Rome, Satan promoted war. To get to that goal, he must first homogenize by glorifying the entity of choice. That makes everyone else, jealous. Meanwhile, gradually infest the polity everyone else envies, with Greco-Roman machismo and jadedness, so that the entity itself becomes proud, cocky. So now you've married "nationalism" — a loyalty, a groupness — with Greco-Roman ideas. Wow. Bible then collects even more dust, and those ignoring it can safely call themselves "Christian", since so many of them are in the same entity! See Satan's genius? That's how he converted Christianity into a polity, Rome. That's what he's doing to the United States, right as you read this. Been going on now for two generations, and we've just entered a third. Fourth generation would be the last, if we don't wake up and smell the coffee.

The coup de grace comes next. Having built up the entity, having built up the hostility around it, the entity must then fail in some important way. This promotes debunking all authority in all nations, because for all the hostility, those around the promoted entity admire it (secretly, of course). So it is a kind of betrayal of trust, to see that entity go down. Chaos ensues. Dark Ages. It's a phenomenon you observe many times in history, both on a macro and a micro level (look how we all reacted to Enron's demise). People love to use the ill bad authority seems to or does make, to wreck al authority. So when Russia came down in 1917, did the revolutionaries carefully package all the furniture and other expensive property, to sell it abroad for the sake of the poor? No! They trashed it or hoarded it. Same story in China. So Homogenization is used to make us proud, and hence war, and hence wreck authority in the name of a 'holy' revolution or cause. Same ol', same ol', since the Garden of Eden.

So, if you're wondering what the 21st century will look like, review the 20th: in the 21st century, though, "world war" will largely be fought by economic means, with any military expressions being reserved for little countries no one much likes. For, just as in the 20th century, Satan's objective for the 21st is to logistically and financially bleed dry countries with strong pockets of positive Christians, i.e., the United States. Bleeding-dry increases dependence on other nations; increased dependence on other nations, polarizes the people in the country being bled (well, and other nations' attitudes toward that country, too). Polarization motivates finding a scapegoat. This, of course, brings with it not only an internal series of persecutions/pogroms, but war itself. Just review Rome from 100 AD - 300 AD, if you want to see the paradigm of Satan's historical plan.

God, of course, has His Own Plan. We'll see more of how His Plan works, in the next section. For now, remember this: breakups of families, neighborhoods, regions, polities, etc. are used to free people from groupness oppressions. Sometimes it takes drastic action, to do this. The theme is frequent in Scripture that God removes people from an area they want to be in, and transplants them elsewhere, namely, the Jews in Jeremiah 25ff. Those 'left behind' are left behind, to be judged. Those so judged also may become positive as a result of the disaster, war, etc. On a smaller scale, folks may be removed because they are positive to God in some way: under the Trial, they have to be removed to get the answers they seek or finally ask the right questions; maybe the method of removal needs to be traumatic, even torturous. Suffering brings with it a sense of isolation, so you are free from group oppressions, so are free to think. For example, a lot of folks involved in that horrible Rape of Nanking became believers. It was a terrible way for those individuals to wake up, but they are all in heaven now, happy with the Lord forever. Always View History With Long 'Eyes', not short ones.

So the 20th century pattern will repeat, but via 'butter' weapons, not guns; with new faces, country names, and a scintillating change-of-costume for the perennial messianic promise of war (which in Western military history debuts during the first quarter). Using The Encyclopedia of Military History by the Dupuy brothers, one finds an amazing clockwork precision in the rise of one or many messiah-like causes during each first quarter of a European century. During the 1600-1700's, there were so many messiahs, it's hard to separate them!

Here in 2007, 'catering to the mob' is the norm; so the next step history usually 'takes', is to 'discover' some demagogue who will capture the world's imagination. All the current stress on 'alternative' this-or-that, be it in medicine, business, education, forms of government, faith, religion, etc. bespeaks a worldwide ennui of mammoth proportions. Everyone is busy rejecting his past, in order to get more 'butter', which is the economist's term for consumer goods. That's the big war of the 21st century. Of course, to the casual observer, this breaking up of authorities/past looks like a healthful trend of anti-monopoly. However, as lately revealed by the insane accusations against both Arthur Andersen (at one end of the spectrum), and against the United States Administration's policy on Iraq, we prove to be at the beginning of anti-authority chaos, and thus world war. Of course, such beginnings are many in history, and have been forestalled. Still, the mindset is rampant now. A good diagnostic book to read on this mindset's role in destabilizing history, is William Shirer's The Collapse of the Third Republic: its purpose seems to be to show the mental roots of France's capitulation to Germany in 1940. From J'Accuse through Marshall Philippe Pétain's administration, you'll see how rampant accusation due to cynical iconoclasm permeated the country; this, coupled with head in the sand hedonism, is a deadly mix inviting war (study Isaiah 28 in this connection, the pre-invasion mindset of Samaria). Likewise, if you look at any dozen or more years preceding any big war, you'll find this same popular iconoclastic attitude with the same alternative-seeking. For, man has tired of his institutions, finds them wanting, so wants a change: enfin, violently.

If a military conflagration results, the only likely catalyst will be via hidden alliances over the volatile countries of the Middle East; for that geographical nexus of three continents will always be the most likely catalyst for military war. If that happens, the United States will probably lose — unless we Christians get with the spiritual life in sufficient numbers. If God was willing to wipe out Samaria (and later) Judah, bet that He'll have no compunction in wiping out an apostate America (first by means of 'spheres of influence' driving a new civil war, given the pattern of past client nations of God who finally 'went under'). Careful study of Israel's history will show that a particular kind of civil war, which effects a polity-splitting, preceded foreign takeover. God does this to preserve the more-positive part, from the negative: as noted previously to explain the underlying doctrine for the Rapture, this "good figs", 'remnant' principle likewise explains how God preserves His Believers. You can also see the same pattern occur historically in the first Gentile client nation, SPQR. The pattern repeats with respect to Germany and France (whose origins derive from the Holy Roman Empire splitting in two), and Great Britain (United States split off); note how those nations all retained sovereignty, but were much reduced in size compared to their heydays. The same phenomenon might hold true for Portugal (Brazil split off), China during the 1940's, and Korea during the 1950's, but I'd need more data about the extent of Christianity then in those places, to be sure. Some other nation who is more spiritually-loyal to Him can easily take our place. Maybe the next God-favored nation will be... Canada?

Again, the sense of groupness is used in many ways to herd people. Once people are herded, they are prey to anything which is successfully used to make them feel good. Depends on what they want. Jealousy and Greed are the two main motivators — cloaked, of course, in the name of some cause which generally has a Hate Week value. That's where we're headed, here in 2007. So violence, chaos, rejection of all God's Divine Freedoms is in the offing. Happened in the second decade of last century, and probably will happen within the next ten years of this one.


Hence Your Personal Impact Now: Your Thinking

Okay, we've seen enough of the macro picture and its strategies, to realize we humans are being 'played' on a grand scale, pawns in this Trial between the Lord and Satan. But how does this Satan vs. God War-Trial play in 'my' life? How are we individually used by Satan — by God? And that's the question you should be asking. For read this loud and clear: it's an individual fight, not a group fight. Politics don't matter at all. What groups of people, nations, business, whatever do, don't matter at all. You matter; not your nation, not your friends, not your family, nor any works whatsoever. It's just God and you, analogous to how it was for Christ Himself, when He was here. It's pretty shocking, so buckle up!


Part 3's Royalty-Reasons' Flow-through: Your Own Thinking is Strategically used by God to bless or curse your periphery, your nation, and the world: Right Now.


Royalty is essentially strategic in nature. Every decision it makes affects all structures, so any Royal Decision must be strategically-motivated. That's why we need to train in this Our Royal Legacy from Him. For He Strategically Defeated Satan at the Cross, theme of Hebrews 1. So Psalm 110 goes into action, because of that. Strategy governs the plan of achieving a goal. Tactics, by contrast, are how that goal is to be implemented, carried out. So the peasants and others ruled in a kingdom are to implement, be the tactical arm, the army of the general, who is the King. That's why a King's Job is thinking, on which everyone else depends. Notice how this Ruler Status is at the same time, a Chief Slave role. Head without Body, useless. Body without Head, useless. So God ordained it. Our inequality is not demeaning. He is not insulted by the fact we are inferior, and could at any time make us higher. In fact that is His Goal, to make us gods, John 10:34 — but, with our consent. Not, by imposition. Make us gods via the Son of God Who Voluntarily humbled Himself so that this could be done, precept upon precept.

Being Royal, therefore, means Rank has Its Privileges and Responsibilities. Being strategic, these Privileges and Responsibilities are invisible. We've seen something of this Our Royal Role. Now we've been examining the 'play' of our Royal Role on history, with a major subtheme of why the Rapture is thus a valid doctrine, and is pre-Tribulation. So notice: your thinking is strategically used by God to bless the world, solely due to your training in His Son's Thinking. So this strategic usage of you won't be detectable to the world, nor would you want it to be. Royalty is largely invisible, distant from those ruled. So are you. This Royal Spiritual Lifestyle you grow up in is not detected, even if you are constantly among people all day. Nor should it be detectable, since publicity is the last thing you would want. Satan publicizes. Royalty is to be quiet, unassuming, not self-promoting. As is, Our Dread Lord.

Invisible, yet real enough. We saw the underlying justificational structure, blessing, and function of "Payoff": God blesses one's periphery in progressively bigger ways, to express His Pleasure in one who's learning His Son's Mind. Such Divine blessing cannot even remotely be accomplished by any human activity. Thus, even brushing your teeth can help the poor more than all the money given to charity. Why? God is Infinite. People, money, are not.

History has always been predicated on whether there was a basis for 'blessing by association'. God created Seven Divine Blessing Freedoms which bless anyone, believer or unbeliever, who follow them. Above these, the Blessing by Association with believers is the reason why Time continued up through the Cross, and thus history continues after it. This is how the "wicked" can survive — even prosper. That is Grace, so that they can have sufficient time to change their minds about the Gospel, the spiritual life. That is Grace, so that those whose spiritual and secular weal "depend" in some way on the welfare of those same "wicked", can have sufficient benefit, sufficient time. Remember how Pharaoh was used? That's an example of this principle.

So, you and I are literally alive today only because Christ paid for all mankind; because some believers, going before us, actually grew enough to justify post-mortem 'blessing by association' to us. 'Just as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob's spiritual lives were so pleasing to God that the Jewish bloodline could be guaranteed forever.

Note the 'substitutionary' quality of these by-association rules. It's by association with our sins that Christ was justified in paying for our sins. It's by association with Christ in His Deaths (see Romans 6) that we can receive salvation. It's by association with Christ in His Life (see Romans 6, Hebrews 7-10) that we have permanent salvation. Substitution and association are at the very heart of how man lives... or, dies. Why? because Love substitutes. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15's Greek makes quite a play on substitutionary prepositions ὑπέρ and περί, plus the proleptic idea that, since He substituted for us, we don't live for ourselves, but instead 'substitute' as living-for-Him. A real gem of a verse-pair.) Sacrifice, for example, is a substitution: one foregoes thing "A" in favor of (due to love/preference for) thing "B". So, as in Romans 5:8 "God demonstrates His Love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died as a substitute for us." (Greek preposition "ὑπέρ" means 'as a substitute for'. Greek students are required, in order to pass their Greek course, to chop out all but the 'for', when they translate to English. This chopping-out requirement applies to all prepositions and many other Greek words — even though it is known that such a chopping rule changes the meaning, too. Confer Bill Mounce and Daniel B. Wallace's books on Biblical Greek, especially Mounce appendices.)

As Bride, we who are growing up in Christ are made "substitutes", too: the "sweet savor" of our learning Him 'propitiates' the Father, as it were, for all the me-be-god thinking He constantly hears. 'Analogous to how the Son's Own Thinking on the Cross propitiated Father for all the sins He saw. Think of us as 'dividends' of His Payment. So, those other folks who are not growing up in Him, can live. So also we, who are only here because past Christian soldiers died victorious.

Strategic Property of History Key → It's always the few who fight, but the many whose lives are spared, just as in earthly wars. It's always the few who are rich or rule, but the many who get their privacy as a result. It's always the few who invest, risking their capital to build business, but the many who get their livelihoods from such success. Or: in an employer's defined-benefit pension plan, it's always a few who persist and collect full (Πλήρωμα!) benefits, but the many who quit early and thus forfeit.

In all events, Divine Valuation Of Benefits Balance To Volition. So the blessing that comes, might itself be rerouted to those who have the capacity for it, however 'wicked' to us they might appear. That's the criterion for the transmitted benefit-level, and thus the beneficial history, of any polity/location/group, as you can prove from Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, which are the essential secular blessing provisions for any nation who adopts laws analogous to the Decalogue and the Judgements. So God's Blessing to a group of people is contingent upon sufficient numbers of Each Class of Believer Beneficiary sufficiently progressing in the spiritual life (moving up in ranks), to replace those who are dying off or quitting ("attrition"). Gotta finish the race, 2 Timothy 4:7-8. So, like secular benefits, In God's Divine Benefit Plan, if you don't "endure to the end", you have rejected your post-salvation benefits and thus will forfeit them (again, salvation itself cannot be lost). However, you'll be able to visit what you could have had, in (what we'll call here) the "Eternal State Memorial Bible Bank".


Divine Benefit Plan Blessing History you can check yourself

Note the Strategic Historical Impact of The Few Who Fight, Who Remain, Who Persist in God's Divine Benefit Plan: God grants the earth 490-year segments to continue 'living' based upon such hero believers. We can prove who these persons were until 70 AD; post-70 AD, we can't identify the people, but we can prove the strategic value of what they won as each 490 ended.

So too, an increase or decrease in Bible interest within an individual region, country or maybe even a neighborhood, 'plays' strategically in history to bless or curse. For as Leviticus 26 promises, there is a direct correlation between a nation's rise in Bible interest, and a rise in material prosperity in that same nation. By contrast, when Christianity politicizes, it means interest in Bible has declined to an all time low; and so does the prosperity of that same nation, usually within the same generation. (There may be a one or two generation delay.) You can see this historically. It's not that hard to detect. The Old Testament shows you how to detect it. When Israel rejected God, her times went bad. When she came back to God, times improved. That's how all history goes: positive to God, therefore positive to God's Word. Negative to God, therefore loudly pretending loyalty to Him, even politicizing — but negative to His Word. The Pharisees of Jesus' day were very loud about their piety. Yet utterly blind to the Word: just read the Mishnah someday, it's mostly the product of 1st Century Pharisaical thought. And as blind to Bible as is possible. Utter disconnect.

Many books have been written which trace the rise and fall of Christianity, to show how it has blessed or cursed the world historically. The goal of Christopher de Hamel's book was simply to trace the history of how the Bible came to be in its present form; however, since he covers historical events and trends from 96 AD onward, you can also use that information to trace the Divine Benefit Plan window. Other sources of information you can use for your own detecting also follow below.

So in your own research, trace a rise or fall in Bible interest you can see, with a concomitant rise or fall in the material prosperity of the nation or region. It will not always be apparent, the rise or fall; sometimes what looks like a rise is actually a fall, namely, the rise in popularity of what became Catholicism is actually a fall of interest in Bible — so you look for those who distanced themselves or isolated themselves in order to pursue Scripture, instead. Any increase in popularity of Christianity always but always means a decline in Bible interest. Satan publicizes for just that reason. That's how what we call Catholicism came to be popular: it was not the original 'Christianity' as it claims to be, but the Original apostasy, sourced in the apostate Jerusalem church of Acts 15 (all the tenets of what we call Catholicism are in seed format, back there). Doesn't matter that it was Catholicism. Could have been any denomination, and now in 2007 the independents are being popularized, so many of them having worldwide ministries, writing books, etc. The prolife movement is as satanic as it gets: that's why it's so popular. Not the 'strait gate', but the wide religious, Pharisaical gate. We Christian Pharisees are many times worse than our first-century counterparts. Key: the popular version of Christianity is always Anti-Bible in its doctrines. But pretends to be Biblical. Doesn't take but maybe 10 minutes to prove the key tenets of the main independent churches are anti-Bible. Just cruise their websites, then dig in Bible. See the divergence. It's uncanny how the more divergent from Bible a tenet is, the more popular it is. Weird. All these "Lord, Lord" people — who might not even be saved! For they don't state the Gospel right, either.

Currently, the world is experiencing two antithetical trends, both strong: the vociferous 'Christian' crowd represent a precipitous decline in Bible interest; by contrast, there is a largely non-political, multi-origin grass roots popularity to really learning Bible. This latter is detectable by the plethora of Bible study aids and software, and by the massive amount of thinking out what Bible means being undertaken by folks who don't get any money or fame for doing it. That individualism is a healthy sign. Satan works by groupness. So when you see a lot of individuals who on their own puzzle out Bible, whoa — big potential crop for God to harvest. People strong enough in faith to not fight the 'herd'. Christ had to fight the herd the most; Paul was persecuted for not herding. So was David before him, and Moses before him. If God is your focus, you stay away from the herd, and the herd will persecute you for that. Goes with the territory.

As you research the question of historical correlations, the herding, these twin antithetical trends, no doubt you'll discover other variables of material import, as you trace the history. What follows are but pointers to certain timespans, and too-brief reasons why I picked them. Really, someone ought to write a book on this. My pastor has taught it for years, and I'm sure there are others who've noticed the correlation between Bible interest and material blessing, as well.


Specific Historical Periods to research:

  • World history from 30 AD - 800 AD shows a remarkable shift in religion and culture, especially beginning within the first 100 years post-Crucifixion. Since this topic is so broad, you'll have to pick an area, and research it. Chief characteristics are religious-tenet changes to mimic what happened in Judea to Christ, in those regions which are contiguous. From there, a spreading-out not just of Christianity, but of other religions, becomes messianic. Political roteness and upheaval are related to these movements, and persecution rolls in waves. So, population shifts: though it's not so easy to tell sometimes, because in those days many practiced an essentially migratory lifestyle, either due to trade, or due to following weather or finding pasture. The world's population has always been mobile for one reason or another, and especially non-urban populations; so to discern unusual shifts won't be easy. However it is easy to see how the Word could so quickly spread.
  • Even the Americas during this same period show massive shifts in population and 'mysterious' disappearances. We know a great deal of trading was done up and down the Americas, from North American Indian ruins: the Mesoamerica and South American Indian tribes were well-known runners, very brutal and hardy... and something happened to them all in 100 AD - 800 AD, occasioning sudden disappearances. Also, the kinds of art and worship they had, plus the way they built, are surprisingly like the religious constructions in the Middle East. So some kind of ongoing, albeit sporadic, contact, was maintained. It would be a fabulous topic for a book, and I'd begin the migratory research in 586 BC from Judea, outward. What's so curious about the Book of Mormon — no human wrote it, for sure — is that the premise of the 'new' exodus in Nephi, comes from the downfall of Judah (Nebuchadnezzar, 586 BC Temple destruction). The claim in Nephi is that Jews then came to the Americas, therefore the Bible is bupkis and adulterated, and Book of Mormon is the "real" and "correct" Bible. So, think: if Columbus could go to sea in 1492, then the more experienced sea-faring Jews could do it, far earlier; they'd but need rain barrels (or enough wine), and fishing equipment. Of course, they could also have gone overland eastward, and/or hugged the coast (i.e., bridges in Bering Strait) — that's what Nephi even claims. (We moderns think so much about what can go wrong, we forget that more often, nothing goes wrong, so we shouldn't be so skeptical.) Since Satan loves using truth to deceive, I'll just bet there's some linguistic or other evidence of this within the Indian lore somewhere in the Americas. Since they didn't leave a written language, art and what we can tell from their ruins, would have to be used to detect any connections. There's too much similarity in the art and architecture between Middle Eastern and Americas' Indian, to be a coincidence, i.e., they were building massive structures much like the ziggurats.
  • SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus, ancient Rome) between 96 AD and 196 AD; you'll see an example of the Seventh Facet, Divine Benefit Plan "Πλήρωμα gain" + logistical de minimis categories playing out. Check it against the rapid decline in Christianity, to get an idea of just how big the Πλήρωμα blessing from Paul, Peter, John was. It looks like the first three generations of Christianity were positive, but Christianity went 'political' beginning about the same time as the "Five Good Emperors." So, the four-generation grace period ends about 196 AD or so.
  • SPQR from 196 AD to 300 AD; you'll see an example of the "loss" playing out in a polity (300 AD and following being the nadir).

Max Cary's 1935 History of Rome should be read to see the remarkable outline of events, and how the window of prosperity opened with "the Five Good Emperors" yet quickly closed after them. Cary, like many writers of Roman history, is not pro-Christian; so his analysis wouldn't be aiming at a pro-Christian interpretation. Yet when you read his cataloguing of changes and factors, you can't help but notice that the rise of ecumenism occurs at the precise time that Rome's decline markedly begins. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapters 20-30, 37, make that connection. Given that ecumenical Christianity has chastised Gibbon over the years since his 1776 publication, it is even more astonishing that his scathing assessment of Christianity during this time so clearly tallies to the relevant Biblical chapters (e.g., Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, Romans 2, Zechariah 7, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah 7, Romans 9, Matthew 6 & Matthew 23, Revelation 12-17, among others). Try reading Cary and Gibbon in a parallel manner (pick a period, read Cary, then Gibbon for that period); next, the relevant Biblical chapters. See if you don't recognize what God the Holy Spirit is getting at, so to speak, when He writes such chapters.

Also: it is truly astonishing to me (this brown font is written 12/18/2002) how Revelation also constitutes an immediate warning of both the impending 'golden age' of Rome and its decline due to Christianity. The whole book is a sketch of things which were then happening or just about to happen in the Roman Empire (i.e., the beast and harlot also depict the imminent rise of ecumenism, which rise began 4 years after Revelation was penned by John). Read it carefully after you have some familiarity with Roman history of the first and second centuries AD; notice telltale omissions, too. This procedure is part of what "textual criticism" does, to establish the linguistic date of text; more importantly, that same procedure helps you understand what the Lord is saying, better. Try it, and see.

  • Assyria's history between 754 BC and 612 BC shows a sudden interest in Bible for about 30 years (Jonas' teaching period), then a decline, until it was wiped out by Chaldea. So you see the four generation curse, plainly. Isaiah was cousin to Hezekiah and chronicled the Sennacherib invasion of 701 BC. Very important turning point in the history of Assyria. If you have Dupuy and Dupuy's Encyclopedia of Military History, you'll find that useful reading on this topic, also.
  • 1170 AD - 1300 AD in the West — the surge in interest for portable Bibles 'coincided' with a prosperity within such nations. Christopher de Hamel's The Book: The History of the Bible traces this period as a series of facts, so you can see for yourself what to make of those facts.
  • 1450 AD - 1960 AD: bursts of secular prosperity follow bursts of interest in the Bible, around the globe; also, the reverse. The 'coincidence' is amazing. Everywhere Christianity is adopted, you see a marked increase in secular prosperity. But also, everywhere the spiritual life corrupts after its initial "hot" stage, the seculars fragment in horrible ways, and die (like what eventually happened to the Laodiceans in Revelation 3). Some of these trends are discernible in de Hamel, but you'd need a lot of other sources. Suggest Encyclopedia Britannica or other comprehensives ones.
  • There has been a rapid decline in aggregate Christian spiritual growth since 1960; having passed the adversity test of WWII, we failed the post-war prosperity test. Another similar period was the United States Civil War and its prosperity aftermath, even though the instigator of the war, the North, was also the victor, and the victor was, unknowingly of course, satanically-motivated. You might want to read The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester, and any pre-1970 book by Thomas A. Bailey (that date apparently he was constrained to be more politically-correct). Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of Great Powers is fabulous. David Halberstam's The Reckoning deals with United States Business. Anything by Reischauer, Fairchild on Asia, Fainsod (or Hedrick Smith) on Russia also helps.

Worldwide, it seems to me that in 2007 we parallel that spiritual 'map' of 180 AD or 1933; you see the same burgeoning satanic evil of Christian activism (coupled with simultaneous internecine sectarian strife and a desire to unify); and, its counterpart straw-man, militant Islam (again, coupled with its own simultaneous internecine sectarian strife and unification-urges). By making counterparts, Satan wins no matter which straw-man 'side' humans pick. Mankind is so bludgeoned by the loudness of these two sides, he doesn't much recognize that both are satanic.

Yet, a new burst of genuine interest in God seems in the offing among folks now under age 30, going by the sudden popular interest in 'spirituality' around the globe: so, there are many loud satanic counterparts (new age, psychic readings, egregiously false doctrine in Christian media and teaching, trying to unite big denominations, etc. ad nauseam). I figure that if there were no upcoming true 'hunger for God', Satan wouldn't need to be so 'busy' lately with his hook-'em-emotionally schemes.

Conclusive Proof of Overwhelming 'Christian' hatred of God: alarming what's-the-Gospel inaccuracies are promoted in Christian pulpits and movies. So folks listening to that stuff are not saved! This is like watching your best friend be trapped in a burning plane. No sane person wants anyone to ever even 'smell' the fire of hell, let alone live there. So to state the Gospel falsely is to condemn those believing in it, for they will think themselves saved... so won't listen to the true Gospel when it's presented. You just know God the Holy Spirit is not in any of these false Gospel trumpeters, for He knows the Gospel, namely, John 16:9. believe in Me — not make Christ Lord, not name your sins and repent of them, not invite Christ into your heart or life, not any of that garbage which is entirely the satanic spin — saving no one. So how many believers are there going to heaven, among these 'Christians'? One wonders. Test the following yourself. You won't believe it, till you do. I'm not saying that the people spreading false Gospels aren't believers. Likely they believed in Christ and went apostate, instead. The fact that they cannot say the Gospel accurately today, is the alarming thing. And they aren't saving even one soul by their false presentation. That's the alarm to ring. Say Gospel correctly — and notice how 99.99% of so-called 'Christians' you talk to, cannot do that. I finally quit the 'Christian' chat channels because of this. It was too depressing to listen, to hear the hostility against John 3:16 and 1 John 1:9. One wonders how many of those people are saved. My pastor harped on John 3:16 and 1 John 1:9 until we the congregation wanted to vomit. Now I know why. It's a Life Or Death thing, so who cares about a little vomit?

  • Warning! Speak Gospel Accurately: it's Just Believe Christ Paid For Your Sins and That's Why You Go To Heaven. Do nothing else. Don't weep tears of repentance, don't repent of sins, don't walk an aisle, don't invite Christ into your heart, don't add any verbs, for then you add to the Cross and cancel your alleged belief of the same sentence. Just One Verb, Believe Alone In Christ Alone: for Once Believed Always Saved. See especially the Greek tenses of Acts 16:31, John 3:16-end. How we royally screw up the salvation message: we mix truth with falsehood; we omit "believe in Christ for salvation"; or we insert non-Biblical or anti-Biblical stuff like "repent your sins" or "commit" "accept Him as your Lord and Savior" as a precondition to salvation (dead people can't accept, change their ways or commit to anything, okay?); or, say we must make Him Lord (what a crock: He Is Lord Already, okay?); or we insist on a "head vs. heart belief" (and since when did a pump have thought). There is a lot to learn post-salvation, and of course folks need time to learn, so the meanwhile will disagree: But get the Gospel accurately, so they can first be saved; then can learn, okay? Do you want it on your conscience that you screwed up the Gospel presentation, when you meet the Lord at the Bema?

It's truly awesome that when you cruise the websites of famous pastors and evangelists, their versions of the Gospel are murky. They don't say, Believe Christ Paid For Your Sins And You Will Be Saved Right Then And There, though the Bible is plain enough, Acts 16:31, Acts 4:12, Ephesians 2:8-9, John 3:16, Ephesians 1:13, Romans 5:1, Galatians 2:16, Titus 3:5, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 3:18, Hebrews 3:19, and nearly every "believe" verse in the New Testament! It's utterly frightening that these popular pastors, evangelists and very famous ones at that — can't even state the Gospel clearly and correctly in their own websites. Fuzzball Gospel is what they pander, saving no one. Again, please check this out yourself. Must see it to believe it.

God Had To Do Something To Save Us. Same, for the post-salvation life. You believe, that's not a meritorious thing, because to justify believing, the Merit Must Be in the object. It's a simple logic: you don't say, "Oh, I'll spend $1,000 on a bad computer!" See? It's the perceived merit in the object, which alone justifies spending the money. How much more, where you'll spend eternity? So that's what we got: belief. That's all we got, and if God doesn't do the rest, well... we're just toast. God Does the Doing, that's the main theme of the Trial. So all this fuzzball gospel stuff is satanic: for Satan's all about, creature making himself high, Isaiah 14:13-14. Yuck.

  • Note carefully in any 'Christian' conversation or media piece how the Gospel is always 'fuzzy', these days. The vivid salvation-mechanic verses like Acts 16:31 are rarely cited, and even if the venerable John 3:16 is cited, it's 'surrounded' with a lot of junk like 'commit to Jesus' or 'accept Him as Lord', or 'repent of your sins' or 'pray the sinner's prayer' or 'accept Jesus into your heart' or 'life' or anything but the True Gospel. Oh, there are holy tones and lots of nice music, and near-death experiences (which always manage to fuzz the Gospel, too), and tears and confessions of a bad prior life — but no salvation mechanic is announced. Lots of donations and works and money pouring in, boy oh boy. Lots of feel good thump thump records of "how I love Jesus!" is sold. But no how to be saved message is communicated. You know, driving the car without gas. Going precisely nowhere.
  • So who can get saved? None of the claptrap which passes for the Gospel (which means "official" (as in Ruler's) Good News), is even in the Bible. But the Bible says, every time, Believe In Christ And You Shall Be Saved: the Greek never alters from this statement, and the "shall be" means immediately, upon that nanosecond of belief (communicated by Greek verb tense, usually). But in pulpits, conversations, chatrooms and media, where is that bald statement? Oh, it's covered over. Experiment: ask ten people how one gets saved, see if even one person in a group chat knows the mechanic. So who is being saved? Lots of social gospel, a trend which began in earnest in the 1930's, but the Real Gospel? Oh, it's in the Bible somewhere. Gathering Dust. While the world goes to ashes, around us.

Now I understand why my own pastor started stressing the mechanic in the late 1960's. Satan fooled the mainstream, charmed them right outta their socks, because these barnacles covering the Real Gospel evidence superhuman lawyer smarts. See, a lawyer will substitute a 'near' term which just manages to reverse the meaning of a sentence. So it is, with this fuzzy Gospel, thus saving no one. So, we all bought the substitutions, so the Real Gospel stopped being taught, and we non-lawyers didn't even notice. Poo salvation mechanics replaced Scripture with no one the wiser. Counterfeit doctrine (1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 2:26-3:7). So who got saved, then? 💩

  • Note well the lawyerly cleverness: the 'invite' and 'knock' and 'accept' and 'repent of sins' and 'Lordship' etc. are all things which, at best, only a 'born from above' believer can do, because you first must have a Spiritual Life to do anything with respect to the Lord. Frankly, only God can make good on any of these verbs, even after salvation, because man's free use of free will is Never Powerful Enough For God, so only the Holy Spirit can sufficiently empower such verbs: see Philippians 2:13 and similar verses. Romans 8:28's Greek is a stark statement to this effect, but if you don't know the Greek drama style of intransitive verbs going to the impotent villain, you won't 'see' this fact, either. The unbeliever is spiritually dead, so can't do any "to-God" verbs whatsoever. So the believer will mistake the verbs for the salvation mechanic, because he doesn't do his homework in the Bible, so doesn't know that these verbs are never used for how to be saved. Even when James says, "accept the implanted Word", you realize that you must have already been planted in Christ to 'accept' His Word. Let's get the Gospel straight!

Whew: I sure don't want lack of clear Gospel statements on my conscience at the Bema. After all, this barnacled and fuzzy Gospel arises and spreads at least once every American generation: like gangrene, sickly sweet. It reared up again in the 1960's, when I was a teenager; the so-called (bad term) "independent church movement" (which had really founded America) was newly mainstream, by then. So apostatized, then; oh, how powerful people felt, how good people felt with all their singing and raising of hands; oh how popular it felt to be in a group of other people; oh how nice to smile and do good deeds 💩, not having to bother with really knowing the Word except to spout and seem smart. Not popular with God, then. So, a generation later, my generation is being punished right left and center for having screwed up the spiritual life. I've watched my fellow believers go mad, become hopelessly jaded; and worst of all, become hardened, legalistic cads.

The above garbage, as well as the prolife movement, all started while I was in high school and college, so I was a first-hand witness of the distortions' birth and eventual putrefaction; of course the adherents are now in positions of power, infecting even the communication of the Real Gospel. Thus, renewing the same ol' garbage for the current generation, as ruined my own. Snake oil. The four generation curse for misrepresenting God is a provable thing in history, so do your homework and see for yourself.

The worldwide historical decline in the last two generations is ample proof of the negative provisions of Leviticus 26, playing out. When a civilization or nation is in decline, there are definite benchmarks, and they all have one trait in common: excessive detail about ever-shallower topics. It's a population explosion of pettiness. A micromanaging mindset pervades law, architecture, dress codes, hairstyles, interpersonal conduct, you name it. Obsession with minute things, treating them as all-important. Once upon a time, you could fit the entire Internal Revenue Code into one book you could carry with one hand. Yeah, that was before the 1960's. Same with most other rules we had and lived on. Same, for much of our standards about everything else in life. But now? Wow, even the paint on a frog might get banned, and of course all your liquids can't be carried onto a plane, not even water! For a real eye-opener, subscribe to IRS newsletters, see how virtually everything in your life is ruled on by them in some way. But isn't IRS merely a taxing agency? Yeah! This is how SPQR died. This is how the Roman Republic died, and Augustus took over from it. First thing he did was simplify tax law and many other rules. When a society declines, it multiplies its rules — kinda like adding verbs to Believe — until there are so many added verbs and do's, the society collapses under the weight of them. That will happen to US.

  • You can also trace on a micro level in your local region, or even in your family. You can look through almost any 'famous' family history, or your own family history over four or more generations, and notice these same direct correlations; though you won't be able to truly tie individual "A" to prosperity "A", and don't forget that physical prosperities per se are always inconclusive, etc. You can't get enough data to separate all the overlapping positive or negative accruals among relevant folks. You will, however, be able to discern broad patterns over four or more generations: note carefully any changes in mental attitude toward God.

Ergo, Satan Aims to Strategically Raid God's Divine Benefits

Company welfare and retirement plans "terminate", too. That is, the company cannot or will not pay more benefits than are funded already: the plan disburses whatever money is in it, and closes down. Usually, onerous government regulation causes the problem (true in the United States, anyway, since 1975). When that happens, those in the plan currently usually divvy up the funds in the plan among those in it; the result can be a significant windfall to those remaining at that time, in effect winning many times what they otherwise would have had. Or.. very little, if funds aren't sufficient. In either case, the plan ends.

God will terminate His Divine Benefit Plan for a group:

Hence Satan's out to exploit God's Blessings to his own advantage. So, think of this as Satan's ongoing ploy to raid the Divine Benefit Plan, and suborn the funds to suit his own goals. "Raiding" more aptly has the connotation of plunder, in Bible; Satan knows Isaiah 53:10-12 plunder language better than anyone. Since most people are not interested in the spiritual life, there is a lot of Spiritual Money going unclaimed. So God reroutes it. He reroutes it, to the Πλήρωμα. So the money in God's Plan never can be truly raided, but only forfeited among those in His Plan. Satan aims to make God's rerouting benefit his own HomoGenocidus goals, with remarkable historical success. People think they're right with God, when they have prosperity. They think they're wrong before God, if disaster hits namely, how Job's alleged friends kept on accusing him, though just as God said to Satan, Job did no wrong. So Satan wants to use prosperity from the Divine Blessing, to persecute and thus prosecute, believers. 🤣 People talk about Job just as his false friends did, thinking Job had sinned to get such disaster; no, he finally sinned under the pressure of the accusations by his false friends. Can no one read what God said about Job to Satan? 🤣 Even translation is clear enough.

    1. Author a mediocre product; here, a substitute spiritual life which is distinctly non-satisfying, that needs propping up by works to buttress ego, or ritual to make emotions pass for truth (i.e., feeling 'spiritual' because emotionally moved). When ego or emotion don't get 'paid back' for their trouble, hatred and anger thus reign: that's the goal. Hatred and anger have their own version of holding together despite pressure, literally an instead-integrity, an anti-integrity.
    2. Hence it's necessary to bond the mediocre product to both ego and emotion — i.e., box it up in pretty words — for a mediocre product eventually motivates apathy since it really isn't satisfactory.
    3. So next clang loudly, publicize, advertise the product; as a result, people will herd to clutch the product, because it's public. I saw it from a social media influencer! My friend likes it! My family does it! It's "tradition"! Everyone does it! It's 'respectable'! Notice how at this point it doesn't matter whether the product is any good; no one investigates the quality of the product (i.e., whether a claimed religious tenet is valid, sensible, or even in the Bible). The public acclaim drowns out all objectivity; after all, if everyone buys it, it must be good.
    4. Then, as the product proves a curse instead of a blessing, damn someone else for the problem --
    5. And especially, claim not enough was expended, whether money, commitment... or faith.
    6. Thus people keep on fawning, never wising up to the fact that the product is false, bad, a failure, etc.
    7. Thus guilt is used to motivate continued purchase: you're only a good person, if you buy it. The mediocrity itself becomes a loyalty test. You got to buy it, now — precisely because it is mediocre. Else you're a selfish bad person, shame on you.

"Leprosy" in the Law doesn't mean solely the disease we call "leprosy" today. The term also had a generic connotation of contagion. So, when "leprosy" was in an article, the priest was to isolate the article (or person), to test whether the damage spreads. Thus, in the Law, the entire article would be burned, if after successive testing and cleaning measures, the damage still spreads. This, because the damage can't be contained or cured. (Lesson 1450 of 1992 Spiritual Dynamics, covering 1 Corinthians 3:11 (to explain Galatians 3:21), calls "wood, hay, and stubble" the three (successive) Divine Discipline levels of the believer who goes out under 1 John 5:16, analogous to the three arrogance skills: self-justification, self-deception, self-absorption. That's real interesting, because it would mean that all production evaluated at the Bema, even 'bad', comes solely from Heaven: i.e., did God 'reply' to believer volition by building gold/silver/precious stones, or did He have to 'reply' by Discipline? This "interesting" point was not covered, but the idea just occurred to me, when rewriting this section on 7/26/2002. Also, I can't think of a single wood-metaphor in the Bible where it's not depicting a "curse fit only for burning": even the acacia wood of the Ark depicted the Humanity of Christ, Who would be cursed so we could be healed. Finally, the production in the believer, not the believer himself, is burnt. So much for the false idea that the phrase "as though through fire" is an allusion to some kind of below-earth Purgatory. Whatever Discipline 'burning' we get, we get before death.)

So it is, with Cursing by Association: the inevitable need to execute Christians who are too long negative to the spiritual life. The negative Christian will be 'treated', so to speak, via the priestly treatments in the Law: successively-severe discipline will accrue to the negative Christian. These treatments are designed to wake him up, so he'll use 1 John 1:9 and get with 1 John's Script. If, however, he persists in becoming ever-more leprous, God must put him to "sleep" — for the sake of those who are not so damaged. Just as the priest had to burn a leprous article. So, then: Satan, knowing this, is out to get as many Christians as possible to be negative, so he can go before the Supreme Court of Heaven and justly say, "You should order their deaths." Satan's not stupid. God Honors His Word, and Satan counts on it — to get us wiped out. Again, as noted in #7 + #8 earlier, Rapture has two causes — here, the negative one of Cursing by Association demanding our diplomatic recall.

The fact can't be stressed enough. You should be able to confirm historically that the hardest wars are those which drag on. WWI and Vietnam are classic examples of two different types of wars whose outcomes were materially determined by their dragging on. Hitler lost in Operation Barbarossa (invasion of Russia) as Napoleon did before him, because Russia used its vastness to literally exhaust the enemy. So too, here: Christianity, like Judaism before her, got tired of waiting for Messiah to come. Rapture is tiring, an emergency always 'on'; you dull to it, if you wait too long.

Strategically, Rapture causes Satan problems, too: due to predictability in the Old Testament prophecies, Satan could reliably target certain groups or activities; and, leave others alone. Thus Satan could concentrate his efforts. Upon the Session, all that predictability was removed. The only "signs" are the historical trends disclosed in Daniel 9:26 and its elaborator, Revelation.

Worse, Satan now has to target every Christian. Satan must foster apathy, to do that. Hence Satan employs his own 'dialectic', using prosperity to promote apostasy and then destruction. Why? He's now got a two-front war: he's got to wipe us out, as well as all Jews. That's the only way he can stop fulfillment of the covenants. (Jews who believe in Christ during "Now" are part of "us", just as Gentiles became part of them due to faith in the Age of Israel; just as Gentiles become part of them in the Millennium, when the Age of Israel covenants are all fulfilled.) Satan is the best of generals. Yet, he doesn't see the Son's grace here. Instead of reading the strategic "sign" that two-front wars inevitably fail, he's intensified his bid to beat Him.

So we are truly in the worst persecution phase of history. The mass Revelation 6, Revelation 11, Revelation 12, Revelation 13, Revelation 17 strategies must be employed to prepare for a Rapture Satan can't predict; that's a logistical question, and no war is ever won if the logistics aren't carefully attended. Herding like the frogs do in Aristophanes' play "The Frogs" is vital (John alludes to that play in Revelation 16:13, my pastor noted). Additionally, the herding of all five chapters makes it easier to target those independent believers who do not go with the groupness propaganda. That too is a logistical question, of supply line. It's not easy to stay within the confines of human volition, constantly tempting it to reject God in one subtle way or another, i.e., the very public stress on "do it yourself" is an evil twist on God's morality.

Apathy is a kind of deadness of interest. Small interest. Like a child's. If you spend time with children, you spend most of your time listening to their self interests: I learned my ABC's! Oh, Johnny gave me this! Oh, I can fingerpaint! It's very touching to watch them learn, to become enthusiastic. But their interests are unavoidably narrow, self-centered. So a little cut on a finger makes them cry. So a little Valentine makes them happy. Smallness. Apathy in adults is not so cute: what in a child is an 'age of discovery' becomes in an adult, pettiness. What in school was 'cool', getting "C" grades (wasn't 'cool' to be academically interested, because adults wanted that), becomes in adulthood, mediocrity. Just do enough to 'get by'. Try to 'get away' with stuff. Try to 'pull one over' on someone. Get and use a coupon. Small change, for small minds. Society needs "C-level people" (a friend's term) as its bulk, for stability: whoever else would be willing to do the normal mundanities of life? But in God's Plan, no one has to be stuck with mediocrity. However, one does have to be Vitally Interested In God to transcend mediocrity.

So, Satan's out to stop that transcendence, and he does it, by making disinterest, 'cool', 'hip', 'what everyone's doing'. Fit in with people, not God, that's what's 'cool'.

Try to think of even one movie or documentary which didn't present church attendance as either boring or emotional. You are only presented those two alternative views, as if there were no other definition of 'spiritual'. Clever, huh. Kinda hard to want God if you're bored. Kinda hard to want God for Himself, if spirituality requires an emotional high: then as Paul says, emotion is your god instead, Philippians 3:18-19. Most people just opt out in the middle, nodding to God, ignoring the boredom and the emotionality. In a word, most people are apathetic.

Persecution thus proceeds most stably, when prosperity is promulgated. People don't realize that prosperity claims far more victims than war ever could. So they think the Tribulation is harder. Guess again. Just try lazing around in your body, rather than "warring" with it via exercise, if you don't understand how "peace" kills more souls than war. That's what Satan seeks to do to us: kill us with the little nicenesses, with peace. It's hypnotic, like sleep. Like muscle atrophy. Like "drugs". See, the nice thing about adversity is that it imposes a structure; so children benefit from it, since they don't have enough independence of standards in their souls, to rightly forego gratification. Simplifies choices. Sure, it feels bad, but — it's easier to go in the right direction. All that ease disappears, when you can do anything. The child is destroyed from inside if he can just have whatever he wants. So Satan & Co. belittle what is high and noble, to serve the childish appetites of the populace. Which, are apathetic to virtue, but interested in status. So the wrong timing of prosperity on souls too small to enjoy it, destroys those souls — just as it would destroy a child. That's why, as noted, royal children were often subjected to rigors of training no peasant could have endured. Thus, to develop virtue not to dissolve under prosperity. Just look at The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, to see what damage extended prosperity can do. So, absent an enemy one can see, get aroused over, and nobly fight, man's pretty prone to "a little folding of the hands to rest", as Isaiah warns. Ease means more leisure; more leisure means more time to pay attention to the things which have bugged you, or things which you've longed to have. So, more preoccupation with "earthly things". So, more pettiness. So, God diminishes in importance. After all, with prosperity comes no-need. So, there's no threat to give structure to the thought-life, no structure to motivate thinking beyond self.

God can do anything. But He routinely forgoes. It's a choice, and demands total Integrity. Everything finite literally depends on Him, and if He willed it in the next nanosecond, we'd all be gone. No one can force God to honor anything. That He commits, is due to His choosing. Notice how He chooses to go slow, rather than just have His Standards met. We saw how miffed Satan is about that fact. For Satan, like you or I, would just make everything be what he wanted, thinking that's the best happiness. Not so. For God doesn't do it that way, though He always can. God truly loves Righteousness itself, that's why it's a pleasure for Him to remake us, to judge His Own Son. And His Son loved paying: Isaiah 53 isn't there to make us feel guilty, but to demonstrate how much He loved paying, Romans 5:8. Again, if you love Righteousness for itself, you want to spend time and effort on it, just because. So, God lingers. God doesn't sin, because He actually loves Righteousness. If it were a sin to eat sprouts but you only liked steak anyway, the 'threat' of sprouts would be no threat at all. You're not attracted to them, in the first place. You're too busy enjoying the steak!

So absent sufficient Integrity, the needed love for Righteousness is absent. Instead, there is a love of self being right, which is another form of hating righteousness. If Righteousness is only good for salving ego, then it has no value of its own. Hence prosperity is the worst thing that can happen to a soul which hasn't learned to love Righteousness as God does. For then he pursues Righteousness to buttress ego, which means he must persecute anyone who doesn't agree with him. That's how Satan thinks. Prosperity then is a killer of one's own independence, and becomes the persecution-promulgator. Again, if you have a nice life, you think you're holy before God.

So it becomes, Persecution by Prosperity. The worst thing you can have, is prosperity before Love For Righteousness has matured. Christ faced the very worst of this type of persecution. He had maximum prosperity: He could do anything! The Hypostatic Union of His Two Natures in One Person made it innately persecuting to be that way. His Humanity could at any time choose to peek at Omniscience, use any Divine Attribute, at will. Satan's tempting Him to do just that, in Matthew 4: the three good deeds, are prosperity tests. Kenosis means He chose not to use His Innate Prosperity of Being, in that manner. Gotta Love Someone else far more, to be so motivated to forego. Positive offensive reason, loving Father, was what held Him together. Defensive reasons are important, but they don't win wars. So the inherent persecution of not using one's abilities, and instead choosing for God to do it to you, is the harder test to endure.

He also had to choose to ignore His Abilities, in favor of what was most repugnant to Him. Further, He had to do this amidst a culture of machismo which Rome at that time had infused into her subjects: only stupid people were actually interested in anything; the sophisticated Roman was supposed to be blasé. Tough. Strong. Doing and bearing all himself. Judaism, likewise, was shot through with its own version of ennui: Talmud overflows with it, as if that were wisdom. So, absent Bible Doctrine in His Soul, run by the Holy Spirit, He wouldn't be able to want the Cross. It's not humanly possible, else, for the extreme differential between the deadness around Him and the High Virtue He had, should have been unbearable. Worst of all, He couldn't talk to them about it; instead He had to constantly resort to parables or snippets or... even a miracle or two. Their interest in the Truth was that deadened, apathetic. So, too, ours. He wasn't a martyr, but a Lover. Only hatred makes an issue of what it 'gives up'. Christ accounted the suffering a gain, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 12:2. Paul echoed this in Philippians 3:8. When you love something enough, you don't even think about what it costs you; or, you're grateful to have a cost.

By contrast, the world wants goodies, so constantly accounts what it 'gives up' as a kind of 'price' to get goodies. Children are like that. So we wanted Him to cater to our childish ideas of right and wrong. When He didn't, we persecuted and then crucified Him. Had He come down to earth at any time, we'd have done the same thing, and in fact crucify Him every day we shout: "how I love Jesus!"... but never Study His Word. Or, distort His Word claiming to study it. So it's a 'cross' and never popular, to actually Learn His Word. Counterfeit students abound, of course. Satan's not stupid. The mediocrity of Brother-Foot Churchinanity is peddled by Satan & Co. to spit on the Cross, bypass the Truth of the Word. Crucifying Him afresh, every day. 💩 For the children only want the goodies, not the Groom. As went Israel, so goes Church.

So as Bride, we face the "most like-Him" problem. It's the Royal Training Program, to make us have the Life of the Most High. Can't learn Him without having His Life and Circumstances. Hence, He gave us His Spiritual Life as His Legacy, to nonetheless persevere toward our own maximum repugnances, our own "cross". And what is more repugnant than sitting still, studying, when the world needs so much "help"? See the parallel to what Christ — who could have fixed it all! — faced? Will we resist the urge to stop growing, and instead persevere in the "cross" of the First Commandment, to "fullness"? The whole world is blessed, if we do; cursed, if we do not. 'Analogous to how the world depended on Him. Our prosperity from God is awesome. We are the closest thing to Hypostatic Union, to Godness right now, in these puny bodies. Witness John 14:14: "if ye ask anything in My Name, I shall do it." That's a blank check. All Christ had to do was speak a thing, and it would exist, Matthew 4:3. So now all we have to do is speak a prayer, and it's a yes! All Scripture is from God. So, you take it seriously. If you asked God for a million dollars to appear on your carpet, and you understood why that was right to ask, you'd followed the protocol and you believed it, you'd get that money. I've asked God for some really huge historical prayers and seen them play true. Makes one very chary about what one is willing to ask. Just like, if you had all the power and money — what now? What do you do with it? Take off for the Riviera? That novelty would wear off fast. Own a fleet of sports cars, or mink coats? Boring, in a few days. Having money and power creates problems. Just like poverty does. Prayer is wealth, unlimited. So too is Bible in your head, 24/7. What ails the world, doesn't ail you. You don't need human approbation. You don't need worldly success. Don't you know, people pant after money to be relieved of need? But here you are, Bible in your head surpassing all needs, even while they remain. That's a prosperity the world's goods and efforts simply cannot buy. So what do you do now? It's a killer, prosperity. Far harder than adversity to tolerate, and remain intact.

A perfect example of this quarantining away from truth, is the miniseries "Fallen", which ironically is sponsored by the ABC "Family" channel. That this would be "family" content, a glorification of the Genesis 6 struggle immortalized in Greek and Kabbala myths, is most telling. Jesus is wholly suborned into a "Redeemer" half-angel creature — complete reversal of what Genesis 6 explains. The evil, the mediocrity sold in this miniseries, is incredible to witness. And you just know the creators of the program did not intend to be evil nor to sell it. Thus we are quarantined from the truth, thinking we are on God's side, telling a nice family story about angels which of course God should reward and we should bid our children to learn. Incredible, how God, angels, demons, Bible, are derided by that series. The fine acting and good editing in it prove that those making the series do not intend derision. If you know your Bible you can actually learn much of demonic strategy from the miniseries — so I'd recommend watching it — which strategy, the writers of the series also patently don't know they reveal. Yeah, well Satan & Co. like to portray themselves and everyone else derisively. Here you see quickly how well they succeed. Quarantined, our ability to discern!

So is it any surprise, Bible movies and pulpit discussions of Matthew 4 never show any understanding of that Chapter? All anyone grasps: Satan is bad, and he's tempting the Lord, so the Lord doesn't give in. He doesn't give in, because Father's choice is the only morality, the only Good, and by the way we all got saved because He refused to make stones into bread — a good deed, feeding Himself and the world; because He refused to jump off the Temple and prove He's God by landing safely — another good deed, justifying our belief in Him; because He refused to simply zap Satan for insulting Him with an offer of kingdoms of the world which after all Satan got from God. God already owns all the kingdoms of the world. But taking them over would be a good deed, defeating Satan who hurts us... right? Ruling the kingdoms of the world is a good thing, then one can impose the right standards... right? But Christ refused all that. You just try to find a pulpit or Bible movie which 'gets it' about why Christ refused. My own pastor's discourse on this begins about lesson 800 in the 1992 Spiritual Dynamics tapes, and of course is covered in Matthew tapes in more summary format, 40 years prior to the 1992 Spiritual Dynamics series. So maybe, because he 'got it', other pastors also do, but I can't find any others. Nor can I find even one Bible movie which demonstrates the real issues in Matthew 4. They are all syrupy and shallow.

But we Christians are forever panting after and doing what Satan says should be done. We routinely seek to turn stones into bread, jump off the Temple, grab all the kingdoms of the world as a kind of triumph over him — so we fantasize. See how we help the world! See how nice we are! See how large our church! See how our march on Washington changed policy! Christ refused all those things, but we claim ourselves holy for doing them? Satan laughs his head off. For Christ waited on God. We don't. So God must quarantine us, after He waits to give us enough Grace Time to grow out of our panting after Satan's wiles. We don't grow out, so cursing comes, and then we wonder why. For we don't want God, we want the goodies, and we gauge our holiness in terms of the goodies we have.

Prosperity persecutes. Satan uses it for that purpose. And we lambs to the slaughter, hating God, are easily herded to our own destruction, and easily use our herded values to persecute others who don't fit them. Using, Matthew 4.

Thus, the strategic quality, longevity, and even the number of peoples' lives Now and Later depend on us not failing to reach spiritual Πλήρωμα, "Fullness" (Ephesians 3:15ff, especially Ephesians 3:19). Do you think this our Royal Thinking Importance to mankind, is a tad higher than a cup of water in the Lord's Name which even an unbeliever can offer? Do ya think it might be worth study, learning Christ? Do you think God just might have a superior way to use you to help the poor — Now? Do you see how the Hebrews 12:1-2 Marathon "footrace" parallels are "run" — with Thinking? The Head, not the feet? Isn't that superior, faster, better? For the poor? Now?


Part 3's Invisibility-Reasons' Flow-through: Your Own Thinking is Tactically used by God and Satan, to affect those in your periphery. Right Now.


Strategy requires complementary tactics in order for the strategy to succeed. Most wars, battles, campaigns are lost due to bad strategy; on the other hand, poor tactics (i.e., if disjunctively coordinated) can lose many a battle, and even a war. Good thinking is thus God's major tactical goal, as well as the rewardable basis for blessing, Hebrews 11:6. Sweet savor of His Son's Thinking is True Happiness — the major Rebuttal Argument in the Trial — and it is the Entire End Goal of His Grand Strategy to Build Us Up in His Son. Accordingly, Satan & Co. thus give their all to implement Bad Thinking, as you'll see in this section.

"From this account then wonder not, Theseus, that they dared to die before the towers; for noble nurture carries honour with it, and every man, when once he hath practised virtue, scorns the name of villain. Courage may be learnt, for even a babe doth learn to speak and hear things it cannot comprehend; and whatso'er a child hath learnt, this it is his wont to treasure up till he is old. So train up your children in a virtuous way." At the end of that play, there's a allusion to Deuteronomy 33:22, calling certain Argosian Danaids, "lion's whelp".

You and I are in large measure the product of the thinking of others. You hear or read someone's thinking, and you pick among the thoughts constantly, accepting some, rejecting others. At that point, you are telling your soul to program itself in light of the choices you made. We are around others all the time, and so this choosing and programming is repeated thousands of times, each day. You watch YouTube or a subscription service, listen to radio or music, scan the internet, sit at dinner, at work, all the time talking of some kind is going on in your head, whether it comes from someone else, or from your own soul. That programs you. That programs everyone around you. You infect them, they infect you, there's no way around it. So if you are one of God's children, your impact is magnified to the level of Christ's Own. Because, you are Christ's Own, John 10:28. So cursing or blessing flow through you. You inherited that role the nanosecond you first believed in Christ. That's the role of Royalty. No getting around it. It's invisible, magnetic. No getting around it.

WWII was lost by Germany only due to a mindset. Mindset in Germany, is well-documented. Mindset in the world, less so. Propaganda, 'what to believe', galvanizes a mindset, or herds it into the direction of the propaganda, even while the volition, disagrees. The repetition of an idea, even if a lie, ends up being accepted. For the body has no discernment of truth, hence no defense against repetition, is trained by whatever repetition it gets, and is God-designed, to reciprocate in kind. So you must have a combination of regular repetition, with spectacular reinforcements that linger on in the mind afterward, and repeatedly. This is how learning works, and here the 'lesson' is a mindset being promulgated on a people.

While it is true that humans conspire and know about the value of propaganda, satanic propaganda cannot be promulgated by humans. They are willing pawns based on their appetites, not generally based on them knowingly being in contact with the demonic. So here the 'conspiracy' is strictly of the demonic kind. The humans involved in using terrorism are deliberately trying to propagandize via their selected terrorist acts, but truth to tell, a lot of it is not coordinated from some central human source. Osama bin Laden was not that powerful. There are many competing terrorist groups, and all of them are acting now. They have divergent goals, and yes they intend to propagandize, but Satan & Co. pull the strings of Islam. No human being, or group of human beings, is that competent. Feel sorry for the Muslims, Jews, and most Christians. They are the most targeted, and the most duped.


Satan's Tactical Offensive Plan: Operation Mega.

Completion of Πλήρωμα Believers means God can justify resuming Israel's 'time', since God is harvesting Πλήρωμα people, Satan too must enter the counter farming business. Well, this Operation Mega is his counter-farming fertilization, a tactical strategy. Which strategy, 'harvests' his Satanic Attack and Homo Genocidus Plans.

Satan's got to stop the Alpha Advent from becoming the Omega Advent. Hence, "Stop Omega" is his plan for this phase of the Trial. Or, at man's level, "Operation Mega", since the idea is to farm man into thinking himself, Great. You know, like in make myself like the Most High, Satan's own thinking depicted in Isaiah 14, and his successful temptation of the woman in Genesis 3, you will be as smart as the Most High? That was the first use of his "Homo Genus, Homo Genius, Homo Genocidus" goal. If you ever saw the Twilight Zone episode titled "To Serve Man" starring Lloyd Bochner and Richard Kiel, that's a great metaphorical analogy depicting Satan's plan for the human race. To eat us up, make us into cannibals: thinking ourselves holy the meanwhile.

Interpreting Satan's Strategy Key → Note Satan's wit: God is out to harvest Πλήρωμα believers, and that is the only reason history continues: such believers are Truly Great ("Mega" mean "Great", feminine gender, for Bride): the "wheat" Bible keyword. So, the Rapture occurs when the last Πλήρωμα believer has been "completed" (τελειόω, in perfect passive participle). So, Satan is out to harvest great believer-farmhands, aka "tares" in Bible, because that's the only way he and his demons can delay incarceration.

A "tare" is a type of grain which seems like wheat in a wheat field, but it's really a type of weed; which, if too great in number, chokes the soil so much, that the real wheat can't grow. Normally, the only way to deal with tares is to allow both the wheat and tares to grow together, and then separate them at the time of harvest. The "wheat and tares" parable in the Gospels covers all this, but most believers have no clue what a 'tare' is. The traditional interpretation is that the tare is an unbeliever. Parable seems apt to also illustrate believers who should be wheat, but grow up to be weeds, because they are following a counterfeit spiritual life. Of course, with the Gospel being so screwed up today among people calling themselves 'Christian', undoubtedly the believer population is much smaller, and the tares are many, "Lord, Lord!"

Lots of 'Christian' tares training to be farmhands, rather learning how to become the farmer who owns the farm. So eventually, there will be no crop to harvest, as there will be no one to run the farm. Satan's aiming for that goal.

So offensively, if Satan can poison God's crop enough, then God can't get the harvest He wants. That way, Satan & Co. can win, not just avoid perpetual jail. Remember, God is Perfect Integrity so He never coerces. Hence it's technically possible that the harvest won't finish: just as it didn't during the First Advent, among Israel. Remember, Perfect Integrity means God doesn't have to win against anyone to remain Holy. Even if Satan & Co. did win, God is not compromised. It just so happens that the free play out of history results in them losing in the Trial. God didn't gerrymander that result, but rather foresees it. Because, God will never compromise Truth. Bible Is Thus A Grace Protection you can use, a Disclosure.

So Satan's overall strategy is to convert the Real Bible into his own 'bible', based on Public Works. This Stop Omega plan is exactly such a Substitution, the 'foreign' god, D-I-O-S. (AKA, "doctrine of demons" in 1 Timothy 4:1.) Remember: Satan & Co. live to seduce. They'll do 'whatever it takes' to get a person on their side. So, if you like intellectual, political, earthy, that's what you'll get. If you like flashy, you'll get flashy.

Stop: Operation Mega is based on God's Truth — slanted in such a way to serve Satan's ends. Each 'prong' of Operation Mega takes something which is Biblically valid, but shaves it via Satan's D-I-O-S grand strategy:

  • Derision
  • Imbalance
  • Obfuscation
  • Substitution

This four-pronged D-I-O-S plan uses Mega in the same manner as the Matthew 4 Three Temptations: Body over Bible, Splashy over Spiritual, Fantasy over Freedom.

Note the interconnectedness of Satan's four-pronged attack, each prong: a) uses carefully selected truths, b) is Designed to Mask the Whole Truth, via careful stress on lesser truth. These prongs are thus coordinated to keep that careful stress where Satan & Co. want it to be, with the result that you buy a 'foreign' god when you get hooked by the four prongs in these qudrants:

Morality yields Derision.

Emotionality yields Imbalance.

"Gross" sin yields Obfuscation.

Apathy/Indifference yields Substitution.


Prong 1: Morality yields Derision

God's Truth printout also reveals a human nature grid: people tend to 'divide' into "big on do's", or "small on do's". They also tend to divide over getting, or giving. So, an individual will have some of each of these four attractions in him. The ones who are most attracted to getting, are likely those also most "big on do's", because they evaluate the doing as the 'price' of getting: the doing is never valued as wholly self-compensating. It's this "Morality yields Derision" person Satan most promotes, in order to kill love for God in us all. For, that type of person is most like Satan, thus the most attractive: and, the hardest person to live with! So, everyone who is not like that person gets his eyes on that person antagonistically, so off God; so, everyone who is like that person gets his eyes on that person competitively, so off God. So also, anyone attracted to giving is promoted to others by Satan as someone like himself, however untrue in fact: like, the Lord, the disciples, any Biblical hero. Thus, Satan slants everyone he can into "Morality yields Derision".

Satan & Co. accomplish this slant via publicity, just as he tried to do to the Lord, in Matthew 4. Look carefully at Matthew 4; remember that the Temptations preceded what would be the Publication Of The Christ To Humanity As Messiah. So, Satan is tempting Christ to "go public" in a (to him) more profitable way, in Matthew 4. Also, publicity works to deflect attention from God, since man is a social animal: fitting in with the herd is a kind of "Bible" to him, naturally. So, publicity disseminates the "doctrines" of the "herd", which then form the frame of reference value set man uses in all his decisions. Note, though, how God Is Not In The Value set, except as a Sugar Daddy and Petty Judge; just like in ancient Greece and Rome, the gods' views were there to Control Society. Of course, the rules were really society's rules, merely in the name of "the gods", to garner legitimacy. So too, in the counterfeit Bible plan playing on Christians every day, all the time. See Satan's Genius? Now, let's see how the individual Mega components fit together to accomplish his goals.

Morality, of course, is something God invented. It's innately good, beneficial to be moral. Mosaic Law demonstrates that fact beautifully; so via the Law morality is a gift From God to the human race. So, in Satan's Mega, "Morality" is promoted first: Prosperity is harder to withstand. Satan, having been the most prosperous of creatures, knows this quite well. So he uses this innate blessing to make morality go 'over the edge' (Second Temptation) as replacement for the First Commandment. Just as happened, in Israel's day.

See, morality gives clarity, and its innate rules make for harmony among humans. Since its innate rules are right, and since from God, it's easy to simply 'obey' and not consider any higher meaning; it's hard to see that anything can ever become 'wrong' with being 'moral'. Moreover, competence in morality can be learned relatively easily; and, it's a moral concept that competence is a good thing. So, one derives pleasure from becoming competent. So, one would be adverse to losing that competence, once gained. So, one would be threatened by anything which implies that the perceived competence is less than what self feels 'safe' concluding. So, one ends up clinging to that competence, and... defending it.

Ironically, people strongly in "Morality yields Derision" are the most aware that Righteousness is Absolute, so no matter what they or someone else does, it's never enough. That's true. That's how the tyranny begins. At this point, Love needs to be mated to Morality, or the demand for Righteousness will strangle the person and everyone around him. That mating rarely occurs. Ironic, huh.

Morality thus 'goes over the edge' into self-righteousness, power lust, approbation lust, crusader lust. These people thus become obsessed with how good they are, and hence how martyred they are, since being good of itself is not self-compensating, but is a tool to get good from someone or something else. Since that goal always fails, they spend their thoughts on self-praise, to make up for the 'loss' of not getting good from outside themselves. (That's why, when the very-moral person is either tempted or thinks he sins, something in the gross-sin category trips him.)

As a consequence, they are extremely miserable inside: therefore they become 'hyper' and brittle, as they age in this form of anti-integrity. Meanwhile, on the outside, these persons seem very respectable, upright (and never let you forget a favor!), with (calculated) pleasing personalities, etc. As children, these folks were attracted to the beauty of right and wrong as a status symbol for the self: the clarity between the two is a comfort to them. So, they worked very hard at being "good", "right". So, they really get hooked into tit for tat thinking; so, they don't grow past it, once adults, to Grace and Love. So "love" atrophies into a sterile matrix of do and don'ts, retarded in childhood. So "God" is Sugar Daddy and Petty Judge, and that's as far as their concept of "God", is willing to go. Much like Satan's.

Grace is truly a threat to these folks, because their self-esteem is challenged by its 'no status matters' nature. So, such folks are likewise threatened by, and hence necessarily obsessed with, others' sins or stupidities, whether believers — or unbelievers. So, they are always visibly complaining, visibly seeking moral laws to impose, visibly hustling for God, visibly touting works = spirituality: interpreting Scripture to have only visible "do's". For them, the Sugar Daddy and Petty Judge image of God is supreme, not the Real God. Thus, Satan can present Christ with a world that wants no God. Thus, Christ can't return, just as He couldn't, 57 years after the Session. The Pharisees would be the clearest example of this category. Also, James (the Lord's Brother) in Acts 15 onward. (James eventually grew out of this proclivity, and finally was killed for doing so (!) by his fellow Jews.)

Prong 1's Accomplishment: Morality stressed masquerades as Truth by derision.

  • Because a lesser part of the truth is about morality, by
  • Chopping out all but morality (stress accomplishes this), then
  • The context of morality is not seen, so
  • Morality becomes immoral (i.e., crusading, tyrannical, justifying murder, etc). Thus Morality derides Truth as inferior to works, the straw-man evil person in James 2:18. Flipside? Those who see the 'moral' be so ugly and derisive, react and deride them in return; but in their derision still 'buy' the lie that 'morality' is the Whole Truth, in order to justify deriding it. Thus is Satan successful in chopping Christians and non-Christians out of the real spiritual life. Notice how this is a perfect setup for all war.

Prong 2: Emotionality yields Imbalance

The second prong is emotionality. It's based on the Biblical Truth that life with God is innately pleasing. So, Satan takes that kernel of truth and blows it out of proportion (just as he does Morality), so to foster growth in the morality-substitute for the spiritual life. The goal to make a no want God world is the same. However, some folks perceive and thus don't buy the tyrannical, tit for tat 'dark side' of morality; instead, they want a relationship with God. So, they are deflected into emotional forms: the New Age format, healings, miracles, tongues, feel-good rituals and experiences, etc. These folks eventually go mad from all that emotion, which suits Satan fine: he gets them killed that way. He wants them eventually killed, for they began with a genuine desire for God — which is inimical to his plan. So by using emotionality, he 'makes' these people goofy; makes sure the rest of the world recognizes them as goofy. Thus, morality looks even more 'holy'.

Emotionality folks, when highly-developed, are upper-right quadrant: small on do's, big on giving. For them, giving is the emotional experience, and they do deem it self-compensating. In fact, that's the 'reward' they seek, for they deem contact with God to be desirable in and of itself, and they also (mistakenly) deem that contact to occur via some kind of emotion-related experience. All else pales in comparison: hence they are small-on-do's. Hence, though they are thus big on Grace and Love, they have no idea what those terms really mean, having replaced the learning of the truth about them, with emotion-related experience. Paul, who seems to be the greatest believer who ever lived, is an example of this class. He was also the most moral of unbelievers, thus the worst sinner, he says in 1Tim and Philippians 3; that's why his 'fall' of his Nazirite vow in Acts was so greatly punished by God. So maybe Paul 'spans' the whole upper half of the grid.

Prong 2's Accomplishment: Emotionality stressed masquerades as Truth by Imbalance.

  • Because Love needs to be mated to Righteousness; and
  • Righteousness is something you have to learn via 1 John's Script; by
  • Chopping out Righteousness (stress on feeling-things accomplishes this), then
  • The context of Love is not seen, so
  • The emotional believer becomes imbalanced (i.e., crusading, tyrannical, justifying murder, etc). Thus Emotionality derides Truth, and those who see the 'emotional', deride them in return; but in their derision still 'buy' the lie that 'morality' is the whole truth, in order to justify deriding emotionality. Thus is Satan successful in chopping more Christians and non-Christians out of the Real spiritual life.

Prong 3: "Gross" sin yields Obfuscation

The third prong is based on the Biblical Truth that life with God is based on Grace, not works. What's ironic about people in this quadrant is that they are more inclined to be independent thinkers: they don't need so much approval from others; aren't so shackled by "convention". So, they also tend to be more impetuous, talented, capable of great courage or other achievement. High 'goods', but also, high 'bads'. Most of the so-called historical 'greats' have sordid undersides in their lives. 'Seems to go with the 'territory' of greatness, historically.

So Satan can easily use Gross Sin to buttress morality even further, since morality is so offended at other's motes. Gross sins are just that — gross. They are obviously sin. The person with gross-sin proclivities recognizes the fallacy of morality 'counting' toward God — partly, to justify getting the 'good' of whatever gross sin attracts him. Of course, he's also big on the do's which are in the area of his gross sin. Satan pushes that valid Grace recognition 'over the edge' into habitual rationalizations: it's okay to fornicate, it's okay to cheat, it's okay to go off into pleasure lust, for God will forgive it. Of course, Satan can thus accuse these people in the Supreme Court of Heaven, and thus get them executed as well. Which, Satan ardently wants to do, since the gross 'sinner' actually has some (deflected!) desire for God. Of course, then morality looks even more 'holy'.

So, while such a 'sinner' might truly desire God (it's easy to be grateful for 1 John 1:9), he rationalizes away his need to grow out of his pet areas of sin. This, even though he likely knows that the emotionality crowd's way of relating to God is not correct, and rather Learning God is correct. This, even though he may be growing spiritually on 1 John's Script. Lots of truly-advancing believers get caught here, especially in spiritual adulthood, because the understanding of Grace suddenly frees the person from his legalism. (People who start out legalistic and grow spiritually will reverse sin attractions in spiritual adulthood; and, vice versa.) Bible is rife with examples, like King David.

Prong 3's Accomplishment: Gross Sin stressed masquerades as Truth by obfuscation.

  • Love Expresses Grace, so Righteousness is something you have to learn via 1 John's Script; by
  • Chopping out Righteousness (rationalization accomplishes this), then
  • The context of grace is not seen, so
  • The gross-sinning believer becomes clouded (i.e., crusading, tyrannical, justifying murder, etc). Thus Gross Sin derides Truth, and those who see the 'sinners', deride them in return; but in their derision chop out Grace, in order to justify deriding the 'sinner'. Thus is Satan successful in chopping yet more Christians and non-Christians out of the real spiritual life.

Prong 4: Apathy/Indifference yields Substitution

Apathy is based on the Biblical truth of 'little by little'. Scripture expresses it in many ways. Moses said: "teach us to order our days". Most people choose to be in this bottom right quadrant. They truly believe in the little givings. They also believe in limited do's: "limited", is a virtue. In Satan's hands, the golden Biblical rule of balance, constancy, fealty, punctiliarity becomes little interest, too: Satan's crown, and greatest triumph. Hence, Apathy becomes a protection. A virtue. One is sophisticated if blasé, full of ennui, even fatalistic: C'est la vie. Only children and peasants get excited. One can't get hurt if not caring. It's manly not to care too much. It's virtue not to do too much. Homilies are deep. And so it goes.

Apathy thus enables Satan to focus only on the 'dangerous' ones: the few who actually want God. So, the above three groups are used to foster an "I don't care" attitude in the masses. Note how cleverly he does this: it is right to be moderate in all things, and Bible is big on counselling that; for, to fit all into a day, you need to do a little bit at a time. So, Satan loudly trumpets this message via stress on the top three groups. So, they look like they go overboard; which, of course, 🤣 they do! So: all the resultant emphasis on morality being so 'holy' ends up looking to the average person like a whole lot of work! The average person is not keen on too much effort, and wow, this morality thing is lots of effort. So, better to admire others for being 'holy', than to be 'holy'. So the apathetic are big on praising others. So much easier than having to be 'good', oneself!

Do you notice what Satan's silent about? Emphasis on First Learning God's Son! Get this coy word-association game Satan plays. For, by being silent there, but so emphasizing the other three groups as wrong (well, 'we' can't admit that, it's not nice), then: 1) emphasis of any kind is therefore wrong, so 2) serious emphasis on Bible Study must not be okay, so no one 'normal' should do it. Or, if Satan wants to cast 'serious' Bible Study as moral, then "serious" is restricted to using Strong's Concordance; or, spending an hour a week on it — in a group, of course! In all events, if one "fits in", that can't be wrong, can it? All the background characters in the Bible are examples of apathy. The decadent portion of Ancient Rome's upper class worshipped it, en toto.

So, apathy is essentially a smallness, a lukewarmness, a superficiality, and this surfaceness is deemed true virtue. Keep one's nose-to-the-ground, so to 'fit in'. Apathy thus manifests as a nod-to-God, lukewarm faith. Bible is touted, alright, but that's about it. Superficial study, quoting of verses. Yeah: nice cover for the Bible, lots of effort practicing songs, or 'Christian fellowship' — but no emphasis on Fellowship With God, which requires really learning what the original languages of Bible say. Instead, listening to their conversations, you find out that "good" has a very childish cast.

  • When they describe themselves or others, apathetic people focus on the full name and birthplace or age, occupation, ethnicity. So you can slot where the person fits in the group. As if that elucidated anything at all about a person.
  • It matters what you do and say, and you will be gossiped about, shunned, if what you do or say doesn't fit in;
  • It matters what you wear;
  • What tone of voice you use (be nice, please);
  • Whether you remembered to send a birthday card;
  • If you baked a cake or donated money;
  • What you own (not too much or little, please);
  • Your attendance record or credentials or age, and the more of any of these you have, the more respectable you are (i.e., 'older' is automatically more venerable);
  • If you make the 'right noises' — not too loud, not too quiet, not too hard, not too soft;
  • If you congregate together and conform.
  • Being a loner, above all, is evil! Anyone who looks like or is a member of the group but wants to or does leave it, is the most serious of threats. Persecution must ensue. That's why if you get a promotion, lose weight, become more fit — more than those around you — subtle and pervasive criticism will dog you. Best to up and leave, permanently. Jealousy is a major motivator among the apathetic. If you are seriously interested in Bible Doctrine you will get no peace from this group.
  • God must have these values, too; so any Bible verses which seem to talk about such things become 'right', and all else is 'inscrutable'. Which is fine, for God is not part of the group!
  • Mass opinion is good, right, true: so you should base your decisions upon 'everyone else is buying/thinking/doing it'.
  • where 'you' fit in the group is all-important. Constant evaluation of how one's behavior etc. 'fits' in the group is the engine of all thought.
  • Content doesn't matter. The role of discernment is to discern how one fits in the group, nothing more. (A jazz song which sums up Apathy's attitude is Blossom Dearie's "I'm Hip".)

Notice how a respectable hypocrite or demagogue would do quite well, here. Notice how dissent or unusual interest would be uncomfortable, and thus shunned (nicely, of course). For, "Fit in" is their worship, their real first commandment. Do what others do. Just a little bit. Folks in this category buy a little bit of the first three prongs above, blending them into what is essentially a mediocre form of spiritual living. You know, pot lucks and bazaars, the scads of little activities in the name of "help". "I'm a good person", and the "all religion is ok" ecumenicalism and multiculturalism hallmark such folks. Such comments show that fitting in with the mass of humanity is what they value the most. They deceive themselves to be in the light, for the "light" is so small.

Satan satirizes our disinterest in God, and God's reliance on 'small' numbers of Πλήρωμα, to Complete His Plan for all creation (theme of Ephesians). So smallness is made a kind of 'god', in retaliation. As we saw in the section on Numbers properties, small is important. "He who is faithful in little, is faithful also in much." But thought is the smallest of all: invisible. Apathetics don't think, but instead deadly value, doing small things. It's Satan's burlesque of the truly important 'small', thinking. Most of humanity therefore falls into his burlesque, don't think. Instead, they mass into a ball. Like animals. So if believers, they will be the masses in eternity, not rulers. Satan never misses a trick.

The Apathetics can thus be relied on to "go along" with whichever of the top three groups Satan makes predominate. Any publicly-delivered message will be bought, however inane, if it seems that 'everyone' agrees with it. So, the Apathetics are "the masses" — and their sheer number puts pressure on anyone who might have some inkling of desire for the Real God. This by far is Satan's most effective means of persecution: make a person who doesn't "fit in", stick out.

Research "Divine Benefit Plan Blessing History" above, for his tactics in history.

  • Notice there was internal brethren persecution by James and the Jerusalem legalists against Paul; when that didn't work, they praised him and then finagled his being nearly killed, then imprisoned. (James got with the spiritual life after Paul's to-Rome denouement, so ended up being martyred by his erstwhile 'brothers' beating him with sticks until they pushed him over a cliff. Because he no longer fit in, you see.) The "James" here is the Lord's brother, and is the same one who wrote the Book of James, not James of Zebedee, who is part of the "eleven" in 1 Corinthians 15:1-10 (confer also Matthew 10). The latter had already been an apostle before the Lord's Deaths, and didn't write anything. The Lord's brother did not even become a believer until after the Crucifixion, and saw the Lord in Resurrection body. Why scholars confuse the two in the so-called famous Bible Dictionaries and 'treasuries' is really beyond belief, since Paul distinguishes which "James" (Hebrew: Jacob) is the James in Galatians 1, Galatians 2, and 1 Corinthians 15:1-10, Jude 1. (Jude, in Hebrew: Judas, was also a physical half-brother of Jesus, so of course was full brother to James; looks like he took over the Jerusalem church after James was beaten to death?) Honestly: can no one read? Oh well. Common sense would conclude that the brother of the Lord would become the head of the Jerusalem church, especially since the Lord appeared to him in Resurrection Body; 'replacing Matthias, who did not see the Resurrected Lord. So, not the Zebedee (since Peter was second, John third, and Zebedee not ranked). Oh well.
  • You'll also notice that when Satan & Co. couldn't wipe out Christianity in its first few generations, they instead institutionalized it. Beginning in earnest (what hutzpah!) just after Revelation 17 was penned.
  • So also, what Satan & Co. had done to Christ and Paul in the Gospels and Acts, was promote them. This made them stick out. That's how Satan finagled the Lord's Crucifixion, for by making Him popular, he made His Message a fit-in thing, rather than true belief. So, it was no surprise that upon the Lord's arrest, everyone became 'a judas'. Because, 'everyone' didn't Love Him, anymore. (Good thing salvation is permanent, anyway. The 'fit-in' motivates genuine belief the first time. Apathy doesn't mean insincerity.)
  • So, too, with a growing believer or pastor: if the person is to be destroyed, and it can't be done surreptitiously, then promote him.
  • Alternatively, promote the apostate also, since the mass buy anyone who is public (which means 'approved by mass', and hence automatically respectable). All the False Gospels are Popular. But the true Gospel, John 3:16, only shows up on a placard at a game or race. You don't hear pastors explain it; you don't hear people explain it. Instead, you get "invite Christ", "accept Christ", "repent and make Christ Lord" — all those lies, are popular. So who is really saved? Satan isn't stupid...

Notice: the person gets used like an animal or puppet. With no one the wiser.

Prong 4's Accomplishment: Apathy stressed masquerades as Truth by substituting mass opinion.

  • Because Morality replaces the Truth as the spiritual life, though difficult and unforgiving,
  • The context of Morality is unseen, so
  • The emotionality crowd are discredited, and
  • The gross sinning believers are discredited, therefore
  • Whatever mass opinion says is 'okay' avoids castigation, so
  • "Going along" becomes virtuous (i.e., crusading, tyrannical, justifying murder, etc). Thus Apathy derides Truth most of all; and those who see the 'apathetic', deride them in return; but in their derision chop out moderation, too, in order to justify deriding apathy. Thus is Satan successful in chopping nearly all Christians and non-Christians out of the Real Spiritual Life, for now everyone is divisive or scared; so the crusading, etc. can be easily herded wherever Satan wants people to go.

Watch how Truth doesn't matter: what was promoted 'to fit in' 50 years ago, was to be clean, moral, and self-responsible; because, that's what everyone did; today, what's promoted is sloppiness, immorality, and blamesmanship; because, that's what everyone does. Society in 2007 is completely the opposite of society in 1957, all around the world. Notice how the content matters not at all: was neatness, now sloppiness, polar opposites. Well, that doesn't matter. What matters is that it's popular, and the popularity alone conveys worth. Examples:

  • The prolife and 'get the ghost' movements went political beginning in earnest sometimes in the 1960's. In 1957, people laughed at such folks.
  • American psychology and psychiatry today widely teach the ass-backwards 'science' that mental health depends on sexual health; so, even a single person should have regular sexual contact with a "significant other"; auto eroticism is, within limits, healthy. Anyone who rejects these ideas is labelled 'abnormal'. Those ideas were new, heretical, and widely derided, in 1957.
  • It has also long been taught that any experience bigger than a cut finger requires 'therapy', which is usually defined as some kind of group support thing over long periods of time. This is how Communism got powerful, by the way; this is how brainwashing techniques work. In 1957, if you didn't take care of everything yourself, if you weren't tight-lipped, you were deemed a coward.
  • Today, blamesmanship is encouraged in the name of 'admitting' one's feelings; it's supposedly 'healthy' to vent. Of course, such venting gets one attention, 🤣, and is thus addictive. In 1957, you were a bad person if you did that.
  • By contrast, if one is unwilling to 'vent', or if one protests that his grief and trauma is over, the counsellor looks askance, disbelieves the protest, and writes some nasty comment about the protester being in 'denial', 🤣. Again, if someone disagrees, that person is 'abnormal', and requires counselling. In 1957, you'd be called "brave" and "virtuous" for your unwillingness.
  • You can trace these examples of psychological 'science' as becoming popular sometime in the early 1960's, as "behavioralism". But the founding academics and psychiatrists would be nonplussed, now.

In sum, the Apathetic Crowd is happy only so long as they fit in: doesn't matter how insensible might be what's "popular". That's god, see. Fit in! Conform! Just as they did, in the Nazi Nuremberg rallies. Since they are so 'nice', anyone who disagrees will be very uncomfortable saying so. Therefore, 'will either cave in to the crowd, or will break with them in some not-nice way. Then the crowd can go "tsk tsk" — and return to the light, baby. Wow, those kliegs turned up in the Manhattan sky at Ground Zero are so pretty, aren't they? Yep they are: just as they were, at Nuremberg.


Now let's examine how Satan & Co. routinely use Direct Thought Transference to support the above four rebellion categories. Again, Direct Thought Transference is my pastor's term for the angelic faculty of what can be called a kind of telepathy: demons send you thoughts or feelings, usually both. Most of the time, they mask their involvement like Satan semi-masked himself via that serpent in the Garden, because for Trial purposes it has to be man's choosing, not their overriding man's will; so they stay just one jot short of 'override'. They also like the challenge of gaining consent, so mask themselves to get extra fun out of the game. Sometimes they like to dazzle, to speed along man's engrossing interest, and hence advertise themselves. (Demons like to portray themselves as fools, in order to make fools of us. Watch how they behave in the Gospels; track what they do, etc. throughout Scripture. This is also why the common depiction of the "demon" is with red skin, hooves, horns — despite the fact they look more beautiful than any human)

When Direct Thought Transference operates on massive scale, it operates in essentially two flavors, designed to support the above four anti-integrity development goals. First, it operates acutely, a kind of spike. Second flavor, it operates chronically, to maintain certain prejudices that support the four rebellion categories in Stop Omega. The two flavors are coordinated, too, with the first being designed to help promulgate the second. In either flavor, the mass usage of Direct Thought Transference is easy to spot. Here's the overall pattern of either flavor:

So notice how orchestrated are the following obsessions, as you read. Again, the following examples are of two classes: the acute spikes bulleted below, followed by three 'chronic' illustrations. Once you analyze them all and notice the similarities, you just know human beings are not sitting in some secret room, 'running' them — we're not that competent, for crying out loud. Yet all these obsessions 'manage' to precisely fit together toward a particular macro result, thus speeding the destructive end of the United States. This recurring historical pattern is exactly the same kind of idiocy you see the demons do to individuals in the Gospels. Except, of course, we ourselves are seeing it live! So, if this kind of thing routinely happens en masse, you know it happens on a smaller scale: like, to you.

Here's just a quick, off the cuff list of acute, spiking items to show the satanic slapstick 'message', taken at random from the news over the past few years. No doubt once you see the pattern, you'll think of many other examples.

So we can see that most of all, demon influence (or possession) is satirical; and it obfuscates common sense.

The second-flavor chronic examples of satanic slapstick are also very common. What follows are three instances. No doubt you'll think of many more.


Demon Influence Example #1: Evolution, deemed "science"?! Christians, obsessed about it, too?

"Evolution" is one of the most irrational hypotheses ever invented, when you think it over carefully. Even the stupidest math student knows that all number sets come from number sets which are greater-than, so it is always impossible for the greater to come from the lesser. So while one can empathize with Satan's pathetic desire that he as a created being can become greater than His Creator; although one can empathize that he'd try to sell that snake oil to the human race in a 'science' mask, math itself proves incontrovertibly that evolution is just not possible: "no set can contain itself".

Look: the "ape" number/genetic/dataset is an inferior and therefore smaller "set". So the "man" set cannot have come from the "ape" set. Consequently, the "man" set in fact derives from a larger, not smaller, attribute-set than itself. Consequently, any similarity between the "ape" set and the "man" set might give science clues as to what "greater" set accounts for both "ape" and "man", but it's always impossible that the "man" set be a 'child' of the "ape" set. Unless, of course, you want to toss out all mathematic law, and just substitute a fairy story. So all the evolutionists are just as stupid as all the Christian activists: all of them, stuck in aboriginal 'Dreamtime.' Christian activists think they can achieve something via their activism. So why didn't Christ, Who is greater, do such things? Do you notice that people didn't even understand Him when He spoke? So, now: suddenly we mere Christians can get the point across? So, now: suddenly what He didn't do, we can magically do? Give me a break!

Look: the logical answer is that man is a child of someone bigger than him in attributes. That doesn't have to be "god". From time immemorial there has been a rich history of explanations by many cultures that someone beyond our nature, 'birthed' us. Today, we can call them extraterrestrial beings if we want to. Of course, the true answer is The Real God Creates Us at Birth, but hey — science needn't say that. It's patently illogical and mathematically impossible for man to be begotten by someone inferior in nature to himself. So, scientists like wondering if more advanced life is on other planets. Fine, then posit that's the cause of man, since math and genetics only support that kind of superior-begetting conclusion — not, that man came from an ape. But we still cling to the ape thing? That's not scientific. That's satanic.

Want to see more senselessness? Because some bones look a lot like human ones, all life just magically comes from chaos... Just because a dog has four legs, and so did a dinosaur, the former came from the latter, somehow? No? It's not so simple? Then why make the claim that a rock can become an amoeba — which must be true by such 'logic', given the inanimate 'big bang'. For, if "life" is but matter and energy, then how can inanimacy can become animacy, except by magic? Yeah, sure! Sell me some more snake oil! Oh? Light/Energy can think, which must be true, if "life" is but matter and energy? Yeah, right. And this 'evolution' argument is somehow more sensible than believing in God?

Even Animism makes more sense. Animism is a fundamental, depersonalizing mutation of God's Attribute of Omnipresence/Infinity, to cut the Real God out of life, demoting Him to a bundle of attributes, a mere elohim: just like Satan told the woman in Genesis 2's Hebrew. In the Hebrew, "Jehovah Elohim" is the first-and-last name of God. The first name stresses personalness, and usually refers to the Son (but not always). The last name stresses the Identicality of Attributes Each of Them Is. In Genesis 2, Satan cuts out the 'Jehovah', and just uses 'Elohim', which is extremely rude — it's like someone calling Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Great Britain, "Queenie", in order to insult.

Oh, yes: Animism, gnosticism's 'root', source of all metempsychosis faiths. Fundamental creed among the primitive for eons, worldwide, in variant forms; that rocks and trees and squirrels have magical powers, are themselves little gods; so, can 'transform' themselves. Worshipping the sun. Thinking the planets were the gods (popular, even in Aristotle's day). That 'god' is in everything, a type of life force. That anyone and anything can 'progress' depending on how he made friends with, or used that god or force. Sophisticated form, the Greek pantheon. Ahhh, so evolution just takes the word 'god' out, but believes the same thing! So, oh! because two life forms have the same surface structure, one must have transformed into the other! Magic! Yeah, magic, that wonderful, beguiling tool Satan & Co. manifestly have used on mankind from the beginning, to get 'fellowship' with man.

Truth Mutation-To-Lie Key → Notice how God's Plan for mankind to be grown up to have fellowship with God via the Cross and then learning Christ — is derided, satirized, and denigrated; all substituted with a magical, feely, frenzied, self-aggrandizing life.

In those old days, when men didn't feel stupid for believing in the supernatural — demons would play god, and would author any number of cults to celebrate their status. Usually, the cults involved lots of free sex and drugs (for enhanced vision, contact with the 'god', see). Usually, the cults involved a lot of human sacrifice; or, well, that was special, and usually a goat or pig would 'do'. Thus, people could, if sufficiently favored, get 'transformed' by the 'god' into valiant warriors, superhumans capable of great feats. The 'gods' could have sex with humans, and the progeny would be half-god, see. So the 'gods' favor was cultivated. Conversely, if the 'god' got mad at you, he could transform you into a squirrel. Of course, it was also popular worldwide that you were capable of transforming into a god yourself, over very long periods of time. You'd have to live a noble life over X lifetimes. Then, either as a reward from the 'gods' or as a magical power latent in you, you were 'transformed' into a god.

So "evolution" isn't scientific at all, but an old demonic creed dressed up in intellectual clothing. Except, it's dumber than the old animistic views, for 'evolution' maintains that the inanimate magically became animate. Yeah? When was the last time you heard a rock laugh? When was the last time light from the sun read you a poem? So, then: look how the idea we "evolved", is gobbled up by people with really big brains: they, above all others, should know better. So Satan & Co. deride the big-brain humans with the very belief the big brains despise: a belief which the most primitive of peoples, always held! Yet these big brains don't notice the point-by-point similarity? 🤣! And why do these big brains gobble up 'evolution'? Oh, because only primitive or stupid people believe in God! Really: and that's a scientific reason? Or, a prejudice? What, stupid people can't ever believe something which could be true? Because, if a stupid person believes it and you do, then you are stupid, too? So if "A" believes "B", and "C" believes "B", then "C = A"? Is that good logic? Is that a scientific reasoning — or, a defense mechanism? Puh-leese. Stupidity is man's, not Satan & Co.: however, when whole masses of people routinely buy a stupidity, and these masses are the elite — something else is going on. Like, Romans 1. Same ol' same ol'. We learn from history that we learn nothing from history, no matter how many degrees decorate our hallowed walls.

Want proof? See Julian Jaynes' Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its starting point, main thesis, and his dearly-cherished belief is that man was insane to believe in God; due to evolution, the nuttiness decreased over time. The book seeks to trace how it was that man gradually lost his nutty dependence on God and became sanely self-'conscious'. (Jaynes was a well known professor at Harvard. Most people have trouble reading his works because he's so brilliant, by human standards.) You should try to read his book, for it instead (unintentionally!) chronicles, at least in broad terms, man's progressive self-absorption: Bible calls this "hardness of heart", "darkened", "split-souled" (James, literal translation), crazy (shigaion, term coined by Moses). So too, according to the secular discipline of psychiatry, self-absorption the very source of non-organic mental illness!

Yet many educators, psychiatrists, scientists (etc.) hold to versions of Jaynes' thesis! Do you realize what this means? Love is deemed a congenital threat to self-esteem, for the definition Jaynes and others follow, is: If God, then I must lose myself, for "God" can only be tyrannical, bad. So love is Abject, Shameful Surrender, not happiness or fulfillment. Therefore, "love" is only self-abnegation, and can't possibly have any positive value. That true love is self-freeing, self-blooming, is denied. Just as Satan denies. Of course, "denial" is the grandaddy of defense mechanisms, and the main reason why mankind is so very blind to his genetic negativity to God; the main impetus for dissociation. 'The reason why man is Dissociatively blind to his anti-love goal, too!

Let's look closer: a mentally ill person becomes that way either due to some organic problem (i.e., allergy to some substance, or malfunction in brain), or due to decisions he makes to deny something he finds too painful. He puts what's too painful into his subconscious. From there, the subconscious keeps on trying to resolve the problem by means of various defense mechanisms. The items put in the subconscious are to be protected from the conscious mind's awareness at all costs, yet the subconscious must override the conscious mind in its attempt to resolve the painful items. So, eventually, a person disintegrates, for it is a threat to him to recall and recognize whatever is in the subconscious. He disintegrates, for the subconscious mind must exert ever-greater and more frequent action to take over the conscious mind, in order to resolve the hidden items. So, mental illness won't 'let go'. So, the person becomes ever more self-absorbed, and his personality, fragments. At the end, he's just a bundle of urges, lacking in awareness, irrational.

So the person who deems it crazy to believe in God will consider any pro-God or pro-love ideas a threat to survival. However he got that way, he came to regard any idea of God or love as 'hostile'; that's the defense mechanism of projection, for since he is hostile to any idea of God, "God" must be hostile. So, such a person is a sop for whatever anti-God and anti-love ideas circulate. So, over time, he can be easily led around by whoever taps into his ego and flatters him. So, over time, however smart he is, even the insanity of a claim that inanimacy can beget animacy, goes unnoticed. So, like mold, his self-flattering insanities gradually infect all other areas of his life. Sure, he'll seem rational, for true insanity builds its own 'castles of defense' — all founded upon me-god. But just touch his increasingly fragile ego enough, and those castles come tumbling down. What's left is a blubbering, angry, frightened soul. Empty.

For, it was never love, but tyrannical need for self-esteem, which drove all that respectable and even brilliant, self-sacrificing, behavior. True self-esteem, ironically, doesn't need to esteem the self, but is rather free to prefer esteeming others. For, self no longer needs defending, to self. But to the one seized by a tyrannical need for self-esteem, that quest is almighty: gods must be sacrificing, see. Castles of imagination ("strongholds", 2 Corinthians 10:4), protecting from one's awareness the tyrannical me-god, stand well — until the day when either self or the objects (people!) don't 'deliver' the expected kudos or power. Then, via either iconoclasm or self-loathing, the person shows his un-castled, real soul. Empty. And still blind, of course.

For, sometime long ago, the individual came to regard anyone having a power over him as evil, a threat so horrible that denial of any superior became necessary. So, anyone who wants power over him need merely give him the illusion that he still retains power, and no matter how obvious are the contradicting circumstances, he will still believe he is 'on top'. So, when such a person hears of the Christian God, the only part he hears, is the power over; and the "Believe or burn" Gospel is all burn, baby. "Burn" to believe, for then one is surrendering! Not acceptable! "Burn" to burn, of course, since no superior power can be benevolent, anyway. In short, long ago, the individual bound up with his idea of survival, a need to be first. So, he never has any true relationships in life; whatever 'love' he seems to have, is first self-pleasing; for no one else can ever become superior to him, in his own mind. A fact to which, he is still blind, of course. So such a one will often seem the most loving, because the inner tyrant demands protection

Guilt is the child of denial & projection, and of course children must be protected by their parents. So, they substitute for guilt. So, 'evidence' of God will not be seen by such a soul. So, because guilt, there will be protestations of wanting to see God, but look — there's no proof! Of course, 'proof' is demanded via mechanisms which can't prove, so look — there's no proof! Like, using science, which can only measure the material, to 'prove' what is beyond its ability to prove. Heh: the castle still stands.

Science is abused. It is used to justify the idea that there's nothing bigger than "me". Notice how science principles, which are not persons, so no one 'over me' — how science principles are lauded as superior. So when those principles make no sense, the obvious conclusion is that "me" is wrong for believing in them. That must be denied. So the cycle continues, castle still stands. It's no different than false doctrine. Same exact motive for adopting any falsehood, me-be-god, runs the show. Satan & Co. tap this, and derisively. So now the pseudo-intellectual castle is exactly the same as those primitive animists in the jungle: with the intellectuals, thinking themselves all so holy.

So why do the demons herd people to 'buy' the magic of evolution? To drive them crazy with self-absorption, and to denigrate Christ! After all, if 'you' are the top of the food chain, you have to save yourself! In order to reinforce and enhance this deft man-makes-self-god goal, they manipulate Christians: which, is part of Satan's "Dungheap Visibility Trap". Christians largely also view God as 'hostile', since they are hostile to God. So they promote the notion OF a hostile God, using His Name to bludgeon others; and thus infect those who are already using the same projection defense. If you ask most avowed atheists why they are atheists, sooner or later in a long or repeated discussion, you'll hear, "Those Damn Christians Are So Nasty!" Thus you know our misuse, our ignorance of God infects people, even more. Thank God for Divine Discipline: without which, neither atheist nor Christian has any hope of escaping his self-imposed lies! So of course, mainstream Christianity, which is in the doctrinal third grade of grammar school, is just as inane as the evolutionists in reply: trying to ban the teaching of evolution in the schools, thus ennobling it to martyrdom, just like the Scopes Trial did; trying to invent so-called theo-scientific rebuttal, which is neither Biblical nor scientific, proving so thoroughly that they are ignorant of both Bible and science, even the popular internet spoofer, "The Onion", notices (i.e., "Christians Repeal Third Law of Thermodynamics"). Does no one understand that with all this science vs. Bible debating, both disciplines suffer, because both thus ossify? Yeah, that's Satan's plan in a nutshell: harden until you become brittle and then the slightest tap can turn you to dust. Devolve, baby. Volverse. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Saddest of all, no one bothers to even read Genesis 1-4. You know this, because even in translation, it takes but a few hours to notice: hey, Adam was a Biology Taxonomist, and first thing Cain did was farm and then build a city. No hunter-gatherers, no meat-eaters, capisce? Once you do notice that fact, you realize a de novo review of what the Bible even says is required, before you can speculate on whether it contradicts science. Science is guesstimation. Scripture is interpretation. Both require one first know what each says before one can evaluate the content. But no one examines the content of either, yet everyone spends millions of dollars in pseudo-intellectual pursuits which are totally unrelated to either the content of science, or Scripture.

See how Satan blinds both sides in the debate? Oh, these super-smart folks believe in what amounts to ...magic! And call that "scientific"! Oh, the Christians give those idiots credence by fighting them, and on their own turf, to boot! And no one questions the sanity of both sides' arguments? So who's the more duped? The Christians, of course! See why demons roll over laughing, just as much as they did while they satirically tormented those folks in the Gospels and Genesis 6?


Demon Influence Example #2: "9/11" So Americans sue other Americans, and otherwise cannibalize ourselves?

Although everyone's easily convinced those who attacked the Twin Towers had to be demon-possessed, here's what's gone unnoticed. You wouldn't expect the aftermath of 9/11 to be Americans, eating each other. But we are! Leviticus 26, playing in the "siege" cycle, live! Relatives of those blown up in those four planes sued the airlines whose own planes were destroyed; New Yorkers sued New York for the tragedy; people got all weepy at the candle lighted raise-money campaign our Hollywood movie stars quickly put together, but hey — let's declare compensation for all victims of attack all the way back to Oklahoma City! With what for money? Do we not realize that fighting terrorism is both vitally necessary for our survival, and expensive, especially since it's a trial and error process to figure out how to fight such an enemy? Who pays for it? The private sector. But we are already killing our private sector with all our witch-hunts; inane audit laws, Federal interference with state's rights in virtually every category — these cost money but add no value. Jobs fly down the tube, or to other countries, for America is suddenly too suit-happy to be a safe investment. And our since the 1960's shrinking capital base alerts no one?

'Guess Not! For, instead (!) both government and the media everywhere and at every level had a feeding frenzy when the WorldCom, Enron, and Arthur Andersen stuff came up. Frenzy for attention to themselves, rather than sober judgement. Get in on the fame frenzy, rather than — hey, let's not kill whole companies for the flaws in a few individuals, shall we? And — um, this is a nation under law — so let's not be too hasty to call people guilty. So, it's not surprising that bankruptcy among some of the oldest and largest firms in every sector of industry have been more frequent after all our frenzy, than ever before it.

Do you know (as this new paragraph is typed in July, 2004), no one in these financial accusations has yet been convicted? Some did plea-bargaining (much cheaper, fee-wise), but indictment has only just now been made official! Indictment is not conviction. Yet, where did all the jobs go? To the trash heap. Whole companies downed by accusation? Are we crazy, or is someone else non-human, pulling our greedy strings? You decide. God makes it clear in Leviticus that the demons get to mess with you when you reject Him.

Of course, now that the effect of all our self-imposed capital/job loss is beginning to be felt, government and media now rip into something or someone else as the victim. I remember one conservative magazine egregiously overstating the United States maximum pension contribution limit for an exec they wanted to fry — and that was okay to do? Oh, but that's just business, you see. Okay, so not satisfied to restrict our implosion to the private sector, we fondle hopes of tainting other 'authority' as well: with the media's 'help', of course. For, we reach back to our childhoods and either fancy or remember that hey, some priest fondled me once. Oh? And you never did it to yourself as a child? Oh? and that lone instance is supposed to criminalize an entire group? Wow! You must have been really traumatized the day you cut your finger! Did you sue the maker of the scissors or knife, then? Didn't you go to the papers to expose that nasty scissors or knife? Why ever not?

This widespread evidence of decline goes way beyond the weirdness individuals are known to exhibit. It's nationwide, mainstream, and — most amazing of all — no one seems to find it wrong; instead, we just fall into line like those in Germany must have done when Hitler got in power in 1933. The 9/11 lawsuits are but the tip of the iceberg, proving a complete disconnect from reason. Until 9/11, there was at least a passing resemblance between something someone did wrong, and the ensuing witch-hunt afterwards. But with 9/11, suing the victims — the airlines and New York itself — proves that we want an excuse to blame the other guy. That the Government would grant compensation shows they are afraid. Do you know how many tragedies have occurred? As my best friend remarked, "Shall we pay compensation on all of them? If so, we'll go broke!" Worse, people abuse their alleged victim status to get money and fame, never mind how specious the argument we use to get it. A whole nation of such self-righteous thieves, cannot long survive.

So of course we later we trashed Enron and Arthur Andersen based on allegations, no actual proof in court of law — thousands of jobs were lost due to allegations? And everyone thought oh, let's go after the rich guys; oh, even if a Tyco executive forgot to pay sales tax on something personal he bought, the entire company should suffer? Martha Stewart gets advice on ImClone Systems, but oh, that's "insider trading"? By what definition? And, without any due process, wow, all her shows get cancelled, simply because she was accused? Thousands of jobs more, lost! Does this reaction make sense? Or, we trash Wall Street for the stocks losing money, assuming that since they knew these companies, we must have been fleeced; so what came out of that? 1.4 Billion in fines that no investor gets! See? We get mad, sue, and then end up paying the bill ourselves: for how else do corporations get the money to pay these outrageously unfair fines? Through products/services they sell to us! What, did someone put a gun to your head to make you buy the stock? What, are you never responsible for your own decisions? So we pay, both ways. Figures. Source: Fortune, 5/26/2003, page 182, Stanley Bing's article.

And what do the stockholders of these companies do? Oh, they inundate the Boards of Directors with dippy and expensive proposals to impose 'how to care for chicken' standards, even in other sovereign nations! Or, to make a guidebook on harassment say God doesn't like homosexuals! Are no brains working? The cost of sending out the annual reports and proxies on these inanities cost jobs! Isn't a human job more important than a chicken? What ever happened to recognition of other nations' rights of sovereignty? What ever happened to separation of business and religion? What the heck ever happened to us! Were we like this back in the 1950's, probably the greatest growth period of prosperity in world history? Shouldn't we look back to see which of our values were good, then? Oh no. Can't get on TV with that. Only old reruns survive.

And so it goes. We sue gun manufactures because guns kill (and what else are they for); car manufacturers get sued because people have accidents (oh, and it can't be the driver?); tobacco companies get sued because smokers get sick (then the self-righteous states squander the money, so who is the bigger cancer? Refer to: William Baldwin's "Soak the Poor". What a fantasy world we live in, now: oh, with all that devastating, economic loss, we'll spend money on two lights going up in the sky where the Twin Towers were located? Did someone spike our water supply with silliness? Is this what a non-demonized group of brains rightly concludes?

Worse, we are so greedy we forget that companies are but aggregates of people, and most of the revenue companies make pays salaries, of which the 'top brass' maybe get a measly 1%. Companies make products; products do things we need them to do. So when we crusade and sue, we burn money which could pay for making those products/services, pay for those salaries. In short, we no longer recognize that an economy needs value-added production to be healthy. Instead, we are all insanely chasing after someone else's money, and on the slimmest of accusations or charges we threaten or do sue. So big fines reduce a company's real value, but oh, the fines keep the circulation of money going! So we don't catch on to the fact that we are floating on that circulation, like a whole nation check-kiting — rather than on real wealth.

We don't want to catch on, either, because it's so enthralling to tell Grandpa you were on TV! So fun to shake the fist at your priest, your stockbroker, some executive! And then, when the suit settlement comes, your share is $1.40, but since you end up paying the settlement through what you buy, it costs you a bundle! All for that good ol' feeling of fame-and-blame. Note the glee in people when someone's accused, or when they talk about someone who's accused. Note the tsk tsk fizz fizz oh what a relief it is — even in college-educated folk. Yeah, just like at the Nuremberg rallies of Hitler's day. Ecstasy, baby.

So, we're a nation that has a death wish: all these obsessions together are the Exact Undoing Needed for our nation: we couldn't have planned it, better. Do we see that fact? Oh no. Just like Israel in Isaiah 28 and in Josephus' account of the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Only, we're not even under real attack! Just like Leviticus 26 promises to a people who don't wake up and smell the coffee. We make ourselves a laughingstock. Or, are demon-influenced to do so. With nary a thought that hey, our national behavior is insane. Despite all our vaunted technology and intelligence. It's a wonder this nation is still alive. Maybe the terrorists would be doing us a favor if they succeeded? For we are all the more, terrorizing our own selves.

Sometime in the 1960's, foreign ownership of United States firms began to climb. We hardly own ourselves, anymore. Thank God for those foreigners, for we ourselves are obviously too dumb to live, now! We'd not even be a country, now, were we not so owned by outsiders. Kinda like Rome when the barbarians came in, we live on due to: their money, their willingness to take risk, and frankly, their belief in us. We have many quiet friends. Because, "America" is at heart an idea, ever since its founding: of God, Freedom to learn Him, and individuality. Writ large.

On 9/11, someone I know was in Paris. She tells the story of how completely distraught the French were to hear that the Americans were attacked! How suddenly, every Frenchman was on his cellphone, calling to find out what happened, screaming in pain over how horrible a thing was done to the Americans: a sea of cellphones, people hugging each other and crying. Suddenly too, all the garbage cans and garbage openings were covered — for France experiences terrorism, too. Every North American, she said, was suddenly besieged by total French strangers wanting to comfort them, thinking them Americans. This is what really happened that day in France. Notre Dame Cathedral held special services, and prayer was intense. Let no one say, then, that we have no friends. Whatever the politics of the leaders.

Do you ever notice, especially when watching BBC news, how no matter where in the world the story plays, American-style clothing and habits are displayed? Do we yet realize the impact on history of this "America" idea? Freedom. Freedom to worship. Freedom to speak one's mind. Right to equal treatment in a rule-of-law, not culture, polity. Frenchmen can still be French; Estonians, still Estonians (toting their wives in a race, even!); Indonesians, still Indonesian. Freedom to be what you are: that's why the "America" idea is so captivating to so many, personally. It was an idea back in 1620; in 1776; and remains an idea today. Just so happens this idea rooted on some soil which has adopted the idea for going on 400 years. Ideas, travel.

Let us not forget those who secretly love us. But of course we do! We crusade to boycott the companies of a country whose sovereign position differs from ours on Iraq (can't God handle the injustice)??? And we don't recognize that such companies own so much of the United States, that untold thousands of jobs here would be lost if we did boycott, since we'd have to do our boycotting here??? God help us all. Christians sent emails urging we boycott these companies (i.e., evian). So see — you really do lose your brains the second you are saved, but the rest of the world is even more brainless. So Who will deliver us from these bodies of death, Romans 7?

Now, look at the Third Example, to see why 9/11 became a cannibalistic frenzy.


Demon Influence Example #3. Hate the Rich, no-matter-what

This category of demon-influenced thought is best illustrated by a (post-college educated!) taxicab driver who took me somewhere. It was a long ride, and he was a talker. He went on and on about a particular airline being rich and thus of course cheating its employees, so of course the employees were right to strike. Now, I happened to know that the airline in question had all of its stock in a pension plan, so the employees owned the airline. So I finally said: "um, do you know that so and so is owned entirely by the employees, via its ESOP? So, if the employees strike, their stock will go down in their plan? So, they hurt themselves?" Oh, no — that won't happen, he was so certain — because it was the rich fleecing the poor! Well, that company is in bankruptcy now. Want to guess the value of its stock? Want to guess what will happen to those folks' retirements? Gone! Evaporated! Poof! But of course the employees won't "get it" that striking when the travel industry's hurting, as everyone fears flying due to 9/11 — that maybe their striking caused the retirement plan's losses? See? It made him feel good to blame; so good, in fact, that despite a clear fact he even knew, that employees owned the airline via that retirement plan — oh no, it still was the fault of 'the rich'! Now, ask yourself — what makes an otherwise-normal person that obsessed? How could such obvious evidence be refused by a human brain? And on so vast a scale, for this guy represents the attitude of millions of people!


Other Demon Influence Examples spanning both Flavors (chronic and acute)

If you're interested, there are many other illustrations like those above. Here are a few more from the belief category, so you can test the similarity-of-pattern to the foregoing examples.

Satan times his deployment of Islam to God's 490-year Blessing Accounting System: Satan prefers to benchmark to 490 years from Temple's Destruction (first or second), but will devise other timing ploys. So you can expect he's trying to pull off something by the year 2030, which is the 4th 490 from the 70 AD destruction, and also the 2nd contiguous 1000 year anniversary from Christ's death. (Don't do anything about that, just keep living in God's System, God rules history.) The Islamic religion itself, is an exact satire of the Old and New Testament, an anti-type of the Exodus and Old Testament rules, right down to the peregrinations. Sheer DIOS genius. Mormonism is a bit more sophisticated, focusing more on mocking the New Testament and our Royal Role as Body of Christ, though Koran's At-Tariq sura gives Mormonism a run for its money on that topic. Hard to say which of the two is really the better satire.

So now we've seen a sampling of how Demon Thought Transference — always hallmarked by Supernatural Slapstick — spans both the chronic and the acute categories. Notice how clever: real demonic nature and contact methods remain undetected. In short, just as in religion, in secular areas Satan & Co. sponsor both ends, the goofy and the respectable, with the latter being by far the most pervasive, and the most low key. At either end, their activity nonetheless displays a herding quality; plus, the humans involved are unaware, so can't be orchestrating the obsessions. You have to use 1 John 1:9 and the Bible to see their gambits, because it takes Divine thinking to penetrate beneath the noise. Thus we prove willfully blind, disinterested, in love our prejudices, so are pawns for Satan & Co. games. It's our fault. Consequently the slapstick nature of their games is vivid, advertising how we don't care about the truth. Don't try to fight them, but rather, be bored. Only Doctrine is interesting. You have to know something so you won't get trapped; so you can 'read between the lines', akin to Central Intelligence Training with respect to Russian newspapers, back during the Cold War. Else, demon activity is really tawdry stuff, cheap titillation tactics, but worth learning so you can see God better.

The foregoing examples also illustrate how Satan & Co. use feeling as a favorite substitute for Truth: any feeling which will hook the recipient, from "oooh ahhh" to righteous indignation, to 'I am scientific', to 'I am so tired'. Thus they addict the recipient to that feeling; because, we all learn early that our body feelings are supposed to indicate something real (i.e., pain reflex is important to body health). Thus substituted, the content of a claim doesn't have to make sense anymore: you only need to feel a certain feeling to 'know' it's true. Of course, the culture has always been big on emphasizing feeling rather than thinking as a criterion of alleged truths like "love", "divine manifestation", etc. So, for example, no one ever questions, "Hey: since God is Infinite, He'd not use feeling to communicate, right? Didn't He give us brains?" Duh. After all, it feels so good to think God is 'communing', with that wonderful glow you have! Should Infinite God want to use emotion rather than thinking, words? Feelings, which can just as easily be manipulated by the right combination of chemicals? If feeling is used to make pronouncements or decisions, then Truth is being rejected, and the rejector is rightly a target.

God permits all this demonic stuff, too — because, if the person is negative to God, he's rightly due Divine Discipline — allowed to be "punished" by some demon. If, on the other hand, the person is positive, he'll learn how to ignore such spectacular displays, even though he knows they are coming from demons. Why? 'Because the Word of God is too important to him, to be bothered with what he knows are demonic, kaleidoscopic, trivia. 'Even if they reveal truths, which is their favored ploy. (Since God communicates via doctrine, demons like to do so, too — but with emotional "hooks".) So, either way, the believer can benefit. So, either way, God is fair to allow it. So, either way, we who know of any recipients should not judge them — since God allows it, 'either way'.

Satan & Co. occasionally like to play the 'supernatural' card, so might invent or fake "unexplainables", physical oddities like a statue crying, to hook people; under the Trial's terms, volition must agree to their involvement, unless they get to finagle some kind of punishment order from God. So, they try to get that agreement by entrapments. All the interest in the supernatural is cultivated for that purpose, just as always, since Adam's fall. So, if there's no 'natural' way to explain a thing, it might be a demon-game, or a group hallucination (like the Lourdes apparitions). See, if a demon stands by some statue and sends into your brain a picture of that statue crying, given the way your eye-brain connections work, you won't know the difference between that picture, and the real thing. Study up on how your eye works. The eye can't see a thing on its own: the brain must tell the eye what it sees. So, if a demon tells your brain what you see, you'll see it. If you need a layman's movie to help you understand, there was a movie starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino which aired recently on United States cable: Kilmer plays a blind guy whose sight-enabling surgery doesn't work out well due to the way brain-eye coordination functions: "At First Sight".

So a miracle is happening, alright: just not the kind you think it is, nor the kind you want. The miracle of a demon joke is being played upon you. And you won't know that, unless you have Bible in your head in God's System. In which case, you will know, and then you learn to ignore it. Demons kept on bugging and dogging all of God's people, in the Old Testament. So you won't be exempt, either. Just learn to ignore it, and keep on learning Him.

So, too, when the "ἐγγαστράμυθος" demon inhabits some psychic who speaks to the gullible widow in her husband's voice; or, just a bored demon, who of course knows everything about her husband, sends the medium a fact only the widow would know. Okay, but do any brains turn on, wondering just who is behind this? No, they all like how it feels! So it must be real! Ohhh, supernatural! Thrill! I desire more dopamine!

Next, how many people claim to have had voices, dreams or visions? Are these all merely mental illness? Or a bad dinner? Of course not. In fact, Satan & Co. use such stuff to drive people nuts; or, to motivate some response they want --in the name of God, of course. And who questions some supernatural manifestation as maybe coming from the 'other' side in the Trial? Or, when (get this) a demon is 'cast out' and then has his 'subject' make these really goofy statements, seemingly 'saved', now — the stupid exorcist Christian thinks he's really special with God! Yeah? And this is what the First Commandment says? Oh, if it's supernatural, it must be coming from God, so it's okay? Get a life! Tell me: how much sense does it make for Infinite Intelligence to want to communicate with rational creatures using any of these goofy things. Or, some 'sign'? Is that how a relationship should work?

The movie, "Signs" (starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix) shows how we view God, always blaming, always claiming He's far away, always looking for signs, never seeking Him unless we're in trouble; oh, and crediting the most insane occurrences as His Doing! Oh, and how tyrannically we expect Him to do our will. Yet, on the opposite side (last outside scene of movie), we occasionally catch on to the "still, small Voice" Who is never in the wind, because He doesn't need flash; Who gerrymandered nothing, yet orchestrated everything. So, then: it's not as if we don't recognize how God really works. Why, then, the lust for (often, very silly) signs? Do we want God, or... a genie? What did the Lord say in Matthew 12-13 and John 6-7?

Taken as a whole, the Homo Genocidus Plan proceeds apace, intertwined with Operation Mega, AKA Stop Omega (Christ at Second Advent). Hence there is always a distinctive, demonic, herding pattern. To be sure, one must test the pattern for what might instead be "isolated" weirdnesses and blindnesses as human failures or evils of one kind or another. But overall, and with characteristic slapstick-stupidity, with everyone being so blind — one can no longer blithely charge off as mere 'human nature', a Recurring Pattern Of Herding. The pattern broadly runs as follows, and we're now in it:

Same phenomenon, over and over. Granted, the last 100 years are a period of unprecedented psychological and technological advance in the history of mankind, and we've not even absorbed yet, its importance. Even so: at what point does a recurring phenomenon in any environment, predictable like gravity, get recognized as something rather above the humans in it, especially since in every case we are blind to it?

Above all, Satan & Co. use these herding tactics to influence how any from-God truth is interpreted. They will 'guide' interpretation to suit the Grand Strategic Goal. Which is as always, Götterdämmerung: to promote so high a level of apostasy that God must call believers home in shame, 1 John 5:16.

In sum, Satan & Co. balance the mundane with the spectacular, in order to trap everyone they can. On the one hand, the intellectualized goofinesses are herded as virtue or sanity, so that people think themselves smart to believe in evolution, trash or sue someone. In this same class, is most (incredibly-incompetent) Biblical 'scholarship', everyone preening over his degrees, hallowed tones and halting speech (those long pauses are supposed to impress you). On the other hand, Satan & Co. also sponsor silly supernaturality, i.e., supernatural-themed shows, ghost medium miracle 'performances', Bible Codes, Kabbalah, and other mystical stuff in Christianity and Judaism. The media isn't to blame. You index demonic activity by how the media responds, for it must respond to 'market'. It's the 'market' for such silliness which helps you gauge demonic activity. Also, it's a matter of content, how certain types of supernaturality are 'sold'. Hence in all the media programs of any type or time, notice how God is always portrayed as an enigmatic Petty Judge or Sugar Daddy. Those who believe in Him are always silly or wimpy. That 'advertising', works. We believe those lies, as they are public, therefore must be true! We don't even know we are being used. Joke's on us!

In all events, you can't escape this blanketed propaganda unless you live in a cave. As noted earlier, we are all plugged in, tuned in, turned on, in our now-global, 'village'. Yeah, a village of small-thinking, pettiness. Plague of Russia, China, Europe and now the United States. We used to think bigger, higher, better. Now it's all peasant stuff, baby. Which we fancy, adult. Because, we are children. And even if fighting to grow up, we are smothered by childish ideas. Only the Real Bible from the Real God, is our defense. And it too, is available, as never before in history. Thus is the conflict, the contagion, the correction available. And thus, the Combat of Growing Up to Πλήρωμα. Our individual choice, how much of that Fight for Spiritual Independence, we are willing to receive from the One Who Beat it all, while on the Cross!

How important it might be to analyze demonic activity, depends on where you live, and God's plan for your life. Often it's not important to monitor, except for the general purpose of understanding Bible better, i.e., like a "laboratory" where you try to use the doctrine you've been learning.

However much you agree or disagree with the foregoing analysis of satanic activity, notice how contagious ideas are among us humans. So, then: it cannot be denied that your location and periphery are thus tremendously impacted by what you think. So, where should you be deployed by God? Here in the United States, we recently learned the importance of small, deft, accurate 'deployment': two small doses of anthrax in envelopes. Lives and millions of dollars were lost! Okay, then: if that instance provoked such a vast negative leverage, due to some smart (and evil!) thinking by (what seems to be) one person, how much more deft a deployment might God's Thinking make, of us? If we are learning His Son, that is? So we can 'hear' Where He Wants Us To Be And How And When?

Conversely, if we don't get with 1 John's Script, how can we escape being deployed by Satan & Co.?


Conclusion: Your Thinking Enriches Or Impoverishes Others, Right Now.

Thus we've seen in outline, how a believer who is growing in Christ is immediately used by both God and Satan, every moment he breathes. For blessing, or cursing, to his periphery. In short, they are all constantly communicating to us: thoughts occurring to us aren't merely our own. But how we respond to those thoughts — causes history.

So: our every thought, word, breath, impacts those around us. So, at any moment, we are being caused to make history: either for better, as the Bride-upgrade on "salt of the earth", or worse: royally-saltless.

Thus, if enough Christians are growing in Christ, they will have a terrific positive and material impact on their nation. If, by contrast, enough Christians are becoming apostate, they will have a terrific negative and material impact on their nation. This same principle applies to secular truths, but absent the Christian's growth, secular truths are likewise rejected. Such is the story of the United States today. See how you are so much more influential, "just by learning" Bible Doctrine, than if you were out crusading the streets, in the name of some benevolent cause?

So, in which of the two directions, positive or negative, do we want our home nation to go? For, as goes the Christian, so goes his nation — and, in the aggregate of nations — the world. Right Now. Not in some distant, prophetic future. Now.

As before in post-Cross history, Christians today are apostate, like the Exodus generation. We are Royal and becoming en masse, more bane than boon to mankind. At some point, no one will want the Royal Spiritual Life; to keep mankind going, God will have to remove the Royal Family. Prosperity will eventually kill our desire for God even among believers, as Paul tearfully predicts in Philippians 3:16-19. So we end with a removal from the world. More like a mass execution, than a blessing. Satan will be very pleased indeed, to have succeeded in our mass judgement. It's his life's ambition. 😈

Which ambition, is met by him touting 'Christianity' as a peasant activity, rather than the Royal Thinking Training That God Authored Via His Son, Isaiah 53:11. So we never grow up in our Royal Role, hence humanity doesn't learn Royal Thinking, hence humanity stays childish. And Satan & Co., delay their Matthew 25:41 sentence. But we become cannon fodder, en route.

Kind of daunting, isn't it, to have soo much riding on whether you "just study"? Kinda interesting, isn't it, how obeying the First Commandment has been denigrated as "just study"? In favor of that stupid cup of water in the Lord's Name? Are you beginning to see how cleverly Satan has brainwashed mainstream Christianity?


Do you begin to see why Our Spiritual Life Now is the hardest?

  1. Because Christ is now Seated, and we are to be Bride,
  2. We have a Royal Spiritual Life, so
  3. We have an Invisible Spiritual Life, so
  4. We don't get the easy clarity of the Mosaic Law. Instead, we have to learn principles, so to learn how to Make The Rules, so
  5. We have to "learn Christ", get His Mind (Bible Doctrine) circulating in our souls, so
  6. We have at least 40 unique Royal spiritual assets (i.e., unique human spirit, Indwellings, Filling of Spirit, Royal Priesthood, Royal Ambassadorship), so
  7. "Winning" for us is growing spiritually to the "fullness of Christ", so we can be closest to Him, co-rule with Him, so
  8. More is "expected" of us, yet
  9. We've more ways to sin than any fallen humans in history, and
  10. Our every ounce of growth has a bigger positive impact on history, but
  11. Our every failure has a bigger negative impact on history, and
  12. We can lose all but salvation, forever, if we don't "endure until the end". Kind of like the dilemma faced by our Lord, the Christ.

Objection, Your Honor: Folks say a pre-Tribulation Rapture, is "cheating"...

Cheating? How easy is it to believe in God,

Come on, now: wouldn't it be easier to believe then, versus Now? Isn't the primary complaint both believers and unbelievers have now — "I can't see Him, how do I really know God exists"? How amazing. Here we are, in the Invisible Now, yearning for miracles, healings — the 'good old days'. Yet, in the same breath, we deem God to be wrong to take us out and reinstitute those 'good old days'. In spades. From which source does our irrationality derive?

And what's more important: to suffer, or to be saved? Isn't being saved more important? Satan sure thinks so. All along, his policy was self-enjoyment, rather than God-enjoyment. How did he tempt the woman? You will be like the Most-High, knowing as much as He does — remember? Satan can't win us over with pain, but with pleasure. Seduce and destroy... just like he did with her. It's easier for the totally-depraved human to win a war, than for him to win the peace. War is something he better understands. Peace, who ever understood it, except as a goal?

Satan's an angel of light — his "darkness" is too bright to see — not even he can see it. So, he wants mankind to consider himself justified by-works: pain belies that claim. So, the Tribulation will be easier, not harder, than the situation we have now.

Further still, won't it be easier to practice a miniature version of the Mosaic Law then, since the spiritual life reverts back to it? Back to paint by numbers? After all, the Scripture is now in writing, and all that folks will then see with their own eyes, is written out, blow by blow? As confirmation they aren't hallucinating? Again, the suffering is terrible, but far better to suffer, than to be drugged by prosperity's pleasure, all the way into hell.


Objection Overruled, for Rapture is Judgement on Church, too...

Most importantly, the purpose of the Rapture is judgement, not blessing, to everyone. You should fear it, not yearn for it. Sure, the Rapture means the Bride is to be "prepared" for the Second Advent. But "preparation" is the "Bema" — judgement/Evaluation — for how well we learned Christ while down here. Any "dead works" are burned: wood, hay, stubble. We shall be naked, escaping "as if through fire", if we were quitters, down here. Moreover those alive at the Rapture, who don't physically die before receiving their resurrection bodies, will likely be apostate — so "Rapture" is not good news for them.

The Bema judges those who quit, and evaluates favorably those who "finished the course". The latter group will be very few, as they are to be the Rulers, the "progenitors". So these Πλήρωμα people will be co-rulers with Christ. The rest, 99.99% of the Body of Christ — will be ashamed. 'As Paul writes in Philippians 3:18ff: their "glory" (down here) will be their "shame" (at the Bema). Luke 5:8-9 will be our attitude then. So shockingly aware He's God, Please send me away, I'm not good enough for you. Really, predictive of us all. The word "shame" doesn't even begin to communicate the grief. Because up there, the only interesting topic of conversation, is Him.

Ergo all the many oblique and direct Scripture warnings to "keep the faith", "until the end". "Blotting-out" of rewards, titles ("name"), honors: that's what Bride believers can lose. Not salvation, but rewards. These rewards are so vast, losing them is beyond bearing, for they determine how close one is to Christ! How believers 'judged' God to be in the body is how they themselves will be judged! So, those who held notions of Him which were distant, works-based, shallow — they themselves will have small inheritances, far away from Him! In Heaven, but oh so far away! 'Maybe see Him only at a distance during the convocations (like at the beginning of Job 1, Luke 2, convocations of the angels)!

See, the rewards are due to how close one grew to Him while in this Body. Those rewards are permanent. So also, the loss. One of the portions of the rewards is 'blessing by association' to the Tribulation people. As Hebrews 9:15ff notes, unless one dies, the will's property can't be conveyed to the heirs. So it's vitally necessary, for the sake of the Tribulation people, that the Church 'die' via the Rapture, so that the Tribulation folks and Second Advent folks can inherit blessing by association. From the Church, who got its "second" covenant from the Anchor, Christ. We are made pivotal not only to the Tribulation people, but to all the Old Testament folks as well, and are used to implement the "second" covenant which our Testator "established". Confer Hebrews 9:15ff and Hebrews 11:39-40 (well, really, Hebrews 9:15 through end Hebrews 10; Hebrews 11 is a parenthesis up through verse 38). Class Note: 1992 Spiritual Dynamics Lesson 1455-56 has a neat summary list of "riches of His Glory" and τάξις-timeline groups' verses.

Revelation 2-3 partly cover that fact that we can lose these rewards: "blot... name" should say "blot... title", since "ὄνομα" means "title" in those verses. We know the blessings are in escrow, on deposit, from Ephesians 1's "every spiritual blessing" and New Testament keywords, such as "promise", "inheritance", "treasure" and "deposit". Like any inheritance with conditions, we have to grow up to a certain spiritual age, as it were, to receive these rewards. After all, no ruler's children should actually inherit the rulership, if insufficiently qualified to rule. That would not be fair, nor be love.


Satan thus has a set of military objectives Now; and all of them, Obfuscate the Truth about the Rapture.

  1. Primary Offensive Objective: If he can get enough of us to "neglect this so-great salvation", he can maybe blot out enough titles to prevent God completing His Promises. With luck, if Satan can pull off his sweetness-and-light (Homo Genius chart) world order before the Body of Christ is complete, he can make God a liar. Hence he needs to make the Rapture look false, far-off, works-based (Satanic Attack Plan chart). If we think there's no Rapture; if we think it's far away or prophecy-dependent; if we think we bring it about by means of our works, well... then we'll not learn the Book, and God's Script will be mouthed, but not believed; spoken, but not understood. Hearing, we will never hear what the Spirit says to the Churches. For we will be busy living the Stop Omega plan of Satan, voting for him to be 'god', instead of the Real One.

Thus the Body of Christ cannot complete, the Tribulation cannot occur, so the Age of Israel cannot complete, so the Covenants to Israel cannot be delivered, and it's a Mistrial. For God delivers via consent. If that Consent isn't being given, then as it was during the First Advent, God cannot juridically justify fulfilling any of the long-promised benefits which to date, even the greats in Hebrews 11 never received — "for apart from us, they will not be completed." (Again, Hebrews 11:40: "made perfect" is our friend "τελειόω", meaning "to complete". "To perfect", in English, is a legal Contractural Completion verb. 'Meaning, until our Covenant/Contract is fulfilled, theirs cannot be. So, "made perfect" would also be a legally correct translation.)

As you'll recall, Satan's chief strategic goal is to get believers to reject Christ's Return (Rapture, for Church) the same way First Advent Jews reacted to Christ's Presence. This, so he can get a Mistrial Verdict. With respect to mankind, his first priority is to a) mangle the Gospel (very successful), or if failing a), b) divert those who believe into false systems of spirituality. This latter has the added benefit of obscuring the Gospel all the more, so that even Church doubts what it is (Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22). Satan's been very successful at this, too (ibid, plus a main theme in all John's letters, second half of 2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation). The historical record is embarrassing in the extreme.

Hence every little victory is significant to Satan; whether the raiding of Divine Benefit Plan Blessing, or his Mega Plan's successes, even if he can't stop the Body from being completed. See, wars are often won or lost on the most trivial of things; like in WWII, Hitler wanted some extra sleep, so the Allies got away at Dunkirk; like, in 1944, Hitler's last offensive, tanks ran out of gas at a critical moment, and our troops were thus spared. These two circumstances did more to help us win the war than many a well-executed maneuver. So also, in the spiritual war. Sure, we know God will win, and the Body will be completed: but that doesn't mean the Tribulation people will get the same amount of 'blessing by association'! Every little bit matters for them, as well. Satan sure knows that. But we don't.

Remember: the only reason people are alive the moment after the Rapture is because they rejected God, or — worse! because they are little children, yet too young to even understand the Gospel. There is some evidence God takes children that young home en masse, and of course being too young to say 'no', they are automatically saved. Still, who knows if it will be just to do that at the Rapture? If not, then He won't do it.

So there is no Divine Volactuarial Criterion for added benefit to them which can be used. If it doesn't come from us, it doesn't come. God will never gerrymander Truth. He didn't do it on the Cross, so He doesn't ever do it, period. So, then: every little extra bit of 'blessing by association' gained — or, lost — will have a big impact on how the Tribulation plays for our fellow humans. Do you want that fact on your conscience, if you refuse to get into and stick with the spiritual life? I sure don't.

  1. Secondary Offensive Objective: Satan can't make the official Tribulation work to his own advantage unless he can fool people then into thinking that the Church is in the official Tribulation. This, because he has to Fake the Second Advent at that time. He then needs a base of operations so he can conduct massive pogroms, because then his only option is to quickly kill a sufficient number of Jews and believers; he needs a way to gather them so he can kill them easily. The fastest way to gather them is round a religious banner, like — Christ's return. (God will allow it, too. Since the Church is not in the Tribulation, anyone believing otherwise must first reject huge chunks of Scripture.) Consequently, Satan must constantly debunk and distort the Rapture Now: so to provide a 'paper trail' of scholars claiming: "The Church is in the Tribulation". Just as we want to feel the Church fathers were right, since they were so much closer to the First Advent, future believers will favorably look back on what we 'learned', to help them decide their own interpretations. Isn't Satan clever?

It's amazing how this secondary offensive objective is so corroborated by history. First, one of the most obvious "shub" ("The Return") prophecies in Bible, is that Christ is to regather the Jews, not the Jews regather themselves: every prophet explains it, and Ezekiel 37 onward is devoted to the topic. That's a lot of prophecy to ignore. So, God gives them history, as well. Told them in advance, if they would be Read The Book.

For, they are blind to the meaning of no temple, they are blind to their entire Tanakh (their name for "Bible"). So, they prove They Can't Read Any Prophecy. So, they are suckers to any regathering ploy anyone makes. So their history has always been a plea to "gather" in enclaves, neighborhoods, ghettoes — anything to be together. Accordingly, Satan uses antisemitism in large part, simply to motivate them to congregate. So they can be easier to kill. The Lord warned against this in Matthew 24. No Jew in his right mind should want to gather: he becomes a sitting target. History's many unbelievably horrible pogroms, more than amply prove that.

We Christians are stuck between a rock and a hard place, when it comes to helping the Jews, because it's impossible not to be empathetic to their yearning to regather. It's as old as the Exodus, and since we derive our own salvation from them, we want to help out. Also, of course we are supposed to and typically want to, align with and protect the Jews at all costs. But to gather Jews in the name of shub (return to the Land), means Satan can kill them better. Witness the history, which virtually all Old Testament prophecy on their Diaspora, depicts (i.e., wherever they go, the sword will follow them, i.e., Deuteronomy 28:22, Ezekiel 11:8):

For, who among us Christians, won't defend the Jews? Our Lord Is Jewish! Satan's not stupid: he boxes believers into a corner, for we all love the Jews (except for the nutcases *cough* Noam Chomsky *cough*), and God orders us to protect and befriend them (namely, Genesis 12). As a result, those who befriend them are likewise 'enemies', so he can get more Jews and more believers killed off! For, he doesn't know when the Rapture will occur either, so has to keep getting the right 'killing fields' set up.

So, he manipulated us all due to right motives (yikes!) to gather them back in Ha Eretz. Now, all he has to do, is screw up Islam, so that the Temple can be rebuilt over where the Dome sits, now. That the Temple is not to be rebuilt until Christ Returns (Daniel 9:26, Ezekiel 39-end of book) evades recognition by not only Jews, but by most Christians. As a result: millions of people, Jews and non-Jews alike, will mistake any Temple Rebuilding for the Shub (Return) of Messiah/Christ. Just what Christ warned against, in Matthew 24. Don't you notice, Islam is being discredited in the minds of Muslims, due to 9/11 and our being in Iraq? That's why the militants are reacting so much! They fear losing mass attraction! It's a tinderbox for setting up the Temple to be rebuilt.

The Administration's policy on Iraq was the most brilliant thing to hit America's foreign policy history... but look how it plays right into Satan's hands, and we cannot justify changing the policy, since it protects America in the best possible way. President Bush was completely right when he says that he means to bring the war to the terrorists. We cannot defend our own borders. So we have to encourage the enemy to attack on their own home ground. That helps free those there to stop wanting the terrorists. For, man never learns a lesson, except the hard way, but once he does learn... the lesson is well learned. More lives, theirs and ours, are thus saved. Plus, we are nearer Israel so can defend her better. Which, of course, upsets the Arabs no end.

The freedom of the world depended on us being in Iraq. It is right to be there, never mind that Satan & Co. can and will use it for their own ends. Jews there in Israel get time to wake up to the situation. People all over the world get time to ask questions about the three faiths, and ponder. Not one soldier, not one civilian who dies there is dying in vain. Rather, now "world war" is fought in moments, much like ancient wars were one on one. Attrition is the most deadly form of war, just like crime. Cockroaches all in hiding, and you can never kill them all. Thus it becomes easier to stop being so naive about Satan & Co., potentially. For the past 50 years, God has essentially been advertised to the whole world, and as we homogenize the more, we can see better Who He is. For those Two Silent Stone Witnesses are famous, now; the role they play, is thus evangelizing, for anyone curious enough to want to know more about God.

So yeah, Satan & Co. mean the herding of Israel for evil; but God will make good Out From it. Birthing, salvation to many. Birthing, spiritual growth to many. Because whatever Satan & Co. do, can only glorify God.

When Satan & Co. are ready, they will withdraw sponsorship of the terrorists, and foster a peace plan to unite the "People of the Book". Which then will be used to kill those people. But the meanwhile, God will harvest the Πλήρωμα, and many people who heretofore did not see the vileness of Islam, will see it. So will themselves, become believers. 99.9% of course, will then careen off into apathy. But every soul, counts. So every Πλήρωμα believer who gets developed now — an era which is 2000 years in the making, a unique return to the conditions of the first century AD — every Πλήρωμα believer being developed now will have far greater impact. What a time to be alive.

But no wonder, the Revelation and Isaiah 63 / Ezekiel 39 Second Advent bloodbath forecasts will be so unspeakable! The Gog and Magog revolution at the end of the Millennium is a second time the same group of folks rebel; Armageddon campaign will be a prior occasion. See the "seven months" clause in Ezekiel 39, compare to Revelation. And we can't do anything to stop it, except as Individuals, to: a) Grow Up In Christ! and b) Don't Go Back There To Live. We'll have to defend Israel at all costs, and God of course will continue to protect her under Genesis 12. But oh! the deaths which will occur! Grow up! ταχύ!

  1. Primary Defensive Objective: If the Primary Offensive Goal is not met, Satan can still buy time, which is what 'defensive maneuver' is designed to do. So long as he can distract us Christians from the true spiritual life, there aren't enough believers growing to Vested Ruler status. Thus the Rapture must be delayed. So his sentence must also be delayed. Morever, he can use the delay to best prepare for the very-short "offensive" he'll need during the official Tribulation, as noted above. That too, is one of the 9 principles of warfare: use the defensive to make for a better future offensive.
  1. Revenge Objective: Satan thinks his revenge-fuelled Götterdämmerung Fantasy is still met, both Now and later. Now, he can 'enjoy' our being so stupid, how small we are, how we don't get our on-earth escrow conveyances. Later, even if he doesn't succeed at either Primary Offensive or Defensive Goals, he thinks he would reduce the pleasure of Christ by saddling Him with as many spiritually-retarded believers as possible. So, as he burns, he can fantasize his revenge — that God didn't get what He wanted, either.

Do you now see Satan's strategic goals, and thus how you are under the worst attack? Does your spiritual life seem rather more important and harder, now, than what you thought was the life in the Tribulation? Do you see how your life not only can impact people around you Now, but also forever in the future? How you, by "just" learning, can be used to benefit even those poor people yet to be born — in the Tribulation?

Do you see how God the Father has designed you to help "the poor" on a far greater, Royal Level than mere money, volunteerism? Help the poor? Heck, we're in a position to bless the whole world, for generations to come! No amount of money or volunteerism can do what the Christian is called upon to do! Or what do you think "redeeming the time" means? So, to what conclusion are we forced? Should we learn, as Romans 8 puts it, "the things of the Spirit", on which the world's weal depends, or should we be peasant-fleshly, fantasizing for ourselves heroism if we live during the lesser Tribulation? (Romans 8:28ff, obliquely says this very thing; the passage is expressed in military-style language in the Greek: the thinking of a great soldier, not a "civvy" (civilian).)

Does the subtlety of what we Christians face today, with the beguilements of prosperity and technology, reveal just how much worse life today is, versus the future? Does the threat of not growing up in Christ, ever-present for all of us, not involve far more significant losses than one had thought? Wouldn't it be better to go to Hell, than to realize for all eternity that one's escrow blessings stay frozen, because one remained a spiritual baby, earning instead of learning?

After all, look at the "Chief Witness", Christ, His Testimony: He learned through what He suffered (Hebrews 5:8-9) — not "earned", but "learned"! Better to learn from the suffering down here, than to "earn" all the kudos people (really, Satan & Co.) can give you for the fantasy of being some flashy martyr, i.e., in the lesser Tribulation! Christ got the worst "hell" on the Cross, honey: never ever forget that. So what do we thus get, if, as Hebrews 2:1 so tearfully warns, we neglect our so-great salvation? 'Earning, instead of learning?

Oh, we "earned", alright: we left out the "L" for "Lord", so "earned", instead of "learned". So who replaced the "L", huh? Why, Satan & Co.! What we "learned" by "earning" was Satan's plan! Satan's Thinking! Which we obligingly transmitted to our periphery! And what is Satan's future? Burning. So what is the future of all our "earning"? "Wood, hay and stubble"! 1 Corinthians 3! And, while still down here, we'll be burning all our lives: burning with ambition, burning with never-fulfilled fantasy, burning in whatever destruction we brought on ourselves at our "end". Compare Philippians 3:15-19, Hebrews 5:11 through Hebrews 6:6, Hebrews 10:38ff: review these passages in context, to see that the writers are drawing parallels between the ultimate suffering of the unbeliever and the vast loss of the believer who doesn't grow up in Christ. Mainstream Christian denominations historically (and today) chop out that context, dilute it into Brother-Foot nonsense, in order to do Satan's job: make you hustle 'for Christ'.

For, Satan's plan leverages the mass, too: he doesn't want us to be Sitting, like our Lord is! He wants us hustling, moving! 'Into Morality, into Emotionality, into Gross sin, targeting the Apathetic mass: to make them indifferent, uninterested toward Learning Christ. Yeah, baby, replace that "L" with another "L": Lukewarm! Lousy! Looky loos! Little! Limping! Lacking! So, of course those who glorify in these replacements will be lacking... forever. 'Getting a so-small! salvation. Forever. The way they measure the spiritual life gets "measured back" to them (Matthew 7:2). Forever.

See? We don't get the cute, tactile rules of the Old Testament, by which one could be sure of correct behavior. Oh no. We get the Power of the Spirit, so are supposed to know the actual principles, and from there Make The Rules as they ought to apply to us individually. 'So to prepare for Our Rulership over Gentile nations in the Millennium. So to prepare for Our Rulership over whole planets, in eternity.

Remember what was said earlier about Satan's Mega plan? It works so well, because: 1) the awesomeness of our future is too big for the human mind to contemplate, so it naturally goes into denial; and 2) the hardest thing to do if you really understand Scripture, is to Sit Still. Our job down here is to train for Our Eternal Role, not be involved in this world's frenetic stuff. We are to live in our bodies with whatever the Lord gives us, but our inner use of that stuff is the training purpose. There is no — repeat, no — outer stuff for us to do. "Consequently the sons are exempt": Matthew 17:24-27 aptly summarizes what should be our entire outlook.

Seems like we have a big job to prepare to handle. Question is, will we be prepared in time?


So... Rap the Rapture, Retire the Christian

Satan's doing all he can to stop our being prepared. His best strategy is to make us "dull" (Hebrews 5:11ff). The "Rapture is cheating" excuse is but one of many which believers use to bad-rap the Rapture. Most Christians don't believe in the Rapture or the Tribulation today. Granted, it's been spun so badly, one feels goofy to accept it — but Christ, not man, is the reason for it. And Satan, not man, is another reason for it. Satan needs his rebuttal, his last chance to prove that he can beat the Son. The Tribulation is it; so he needs Now to prepare, to make every minute of that 7 years count.

So do we. 'Which is why it's so critical to properly understand the nature of the Rapture — for application Now, not then. That is our future. So, like Peter says, what sort of persons must we Now become, in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle? That's how to use the Rapture. Not donning white sheets, not bidding friends and neighbors good-bye — but rather, Learn His Son.

Satan doesn't want folks to believe properly, either, lest they forget about whitewashing his world, which is Satan's anti-Rapture doctrine. He spins the "me be god" yarn well: that by political activism and do-goodism, Christians thus "help" Christ to return. So, his tactic is to make all who believe in the Rapture appear goofy. 'Which is not too difficult to do! Many baby Christians view the Rapture as some kind of aspirin, or trip to Disneyland. So, Satan's easily successful at making the Rapture look false: his tactic dovetails nicely with his goal of "me be god" intellectualism.

Satan & Co. have always spent a great deal of time in disinformation, here. The New Testament epistles are loaded with believer-confusion. Why do Satan & Co. want so much to bad-rap the future? Let's reason it out.

Because the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is a core doctrine for: how God orchestrates time, the poetic meter, the very issue of the trial itself (will anyone want God?), it's one of the greatest diagnostic tools for spiritual pathology. I can't think of another doctrine which will more quickly "disclose" a believer's core spiritual ill-health. Maybe examining the results will reveal why Satan & Co. so stridently seek to debunk the Rapture and following. These spiritual pathologies have hallmark defense mechanism characteristics. Four of them are illustrated, below. Note how all four groups 'just happen' to parallel Satan's Operation Mega groups (yeah, right 🙄)...

  1. Morality→Denial. Folks who dismiss the Rapture through the Millennium (i.e., amillennial), tend to be legalistic in direct correlation to their intensity of dismissal: 'treating Revelation and prophecy as "fulfilled", "allegorical", in secret code due to persecution — or wow — non-canonical! 🤣 Ahhh. Makes them feel so superior, so rational.

Ahhh. Discount all that, yet ignore how irrational it is to discount it, and call that irrationality, 'scientific'! 'Reason'! Ahhh. So, the believer is glorified: he's "arrived" in the golden age, and naturally will want to work hard in it, for he brings back Christ! Aha! Instead of God working, it's the believer! Just like Jewish unbelievers ignore the First Advent, but only regard the Second, so the believer ignores the result of the successful completion of First Advent: the preparation phase of Operation Footstool, which God And God Alone accomplishes. Ahhh, can't accept that: Believer then is impotent, see. Gotta hustle to buttress the 'me be god' ego, see. Gotta do Satan's work in God's name, see. Babylon the religion, Babylon the political power, Babylon the worker. Several major Christian denominations are in this category of arrogant dismissal. Funny how so many of them tend toward antisemitism, in their long histories, too.

  1. Emotionality→Sublimation. By contrast, those who enthusiastically accept all or portions of Revelation prophecy — i.e., some version of pre-Millennium — tend to be extremely young in Christ, or extremely emotional. I've heard some tragic stories of people who upped and left families, going to some location where Christ was to come down; my pastor frequently recounts how, in the 1930's, a group of folks donned white sheets and clabbered up to Mulholland Drive (famous lovers' spot in Los Angeles), waiting for Christ to return. My pastor was only new believer, then; he was with a friend, and asked these spectres why they were thus clad. They of course told him in hallowed tones! Oh, and they'd sold everything they had! Lo! The next day, the Lord had still not arrived?! Gee, wonder why. Someone sent me 88 Reasons the Rapture will occur in 1988, etc. Ad nauseam. Then there was the Late Great Planet Earth craze. In short, people get downright goofy. So Christianity looks goofy. So even God looks goofy. So the atheist can buy goofy "ape-man evolution", in the name of not being like the goofy Christians.

Usually such folks have no clue what the Rapture and Tribulation are really about. Ahhh: feel-good, escape one's life down here. So, even if their understanding is correct, they don't really know it is correct, nor why it is correct... they just feel good about it. So any old media preacher can soak them dry of funds. So any old event in a newspaper is the end times, brother. Yeah, they thought that when Genghis Khan and Napoleon were running around, too.

  1. Gross Sin→Rationalization. This is a surprisingly large group of folks, lately. They are antagonistic or hostile to portions, but not all, of Rapture through Millennium doctrines, i.e., mid-Tribulationists or post-Tribulationists. The 'scholarship' is appallingly, grossly, bad. Many of these folks obviously don't know enough about the original languages of Scripture to see that the official Tribulation is only post-Rapture. Since Scripture is so plain about it, the problem is easily correctible: just study for a year. However, they won't study Scripture that way. Why? Like those who dismiss the Tribulation & Millennium entirely, folks 'holding' to mid-Tribulation and post-Tribulation interpretations also want to be 'involved' in the 'golden age': they just date that age differently.

It's heartbreaking: if you talk to them enough, you find out they feel bad about that future; they want to be a part of it, to share in the pain. To them, God wouldn't be fair if He raptured the Church as the kickoff for the official Tribulation. To them, the gross spectacularity is important. Just as, to them, gross sins are important.

  1. Apathy→Guilt. Indifference, in the name of "It's not that important", is another clever mask, for shame. 'Believing something which is known to be regarded by others as goofy, and trying to hide it. Or, not believing something known to be regarded by others as right, and trying to hide it. Or, not wanting to think about something suspected as true, and trying to hide it. Or... well, you get the point — hiding. Shame. Fit in! Yeah, fit in with people, rather than fit in with God!

I myself used to be in this group. What was my arrogant pseudo-reason for indifference? To be honest, I didn't like Christianity for a very long time. What I knew of it, was the goofy Pre-Tribulation group's version. Fortunately, I did know the Bible was from God, so I didn't stay aloof from the spiritual life. Just the same, my early exposure after I remember believing in Him at age 18, was with the goofy crowd. Here I was, a new believer; though I had since freshman year (1971) gotten under the pastor via tapes, I was dilettantish about study. So, when in 1981 I got a wake-up call (Divine Discipline, let's not be coy), I finally went to the church. Still, the only part I didn't like about the Bible was eschatology! Why? Because relationship with God shouldn't be based on emotion! Ahhh, that reasoning was correct, but — do we throw out a book of the Bible, too? Throw out the baby with the bathwater? And guess what my pastor was teaching back in 1981 when I finally got serious about Doctrine? Revelation! Verse by verse, exegesis. Day in and day out.

So, then: did I pick up on that 'coincidence', my pastor's long daily teaching of Revelation? Oh, no. I still felt bad about all those goofy pre-Tribulation Christians I knew! I wasn't like them, oh no! Not fit in! (See how reaction is as bad, as much a fit-in, because the eyes are still on people, not God?) So, I glazed over the Tribulation stuff, didn't really listen carefully to what he taught. Oh, but I fooled myself! I took copious notes! I learned how to write in Greek that way! Knowing God, those portions of his teaching I wanted and ate avidly, too! I'd spend hours a day (and have, ever since) on the nature of God, My Lord, the Cross, the differences between Old and New Testament spiritual-covenants/"dispensations". While awake, and asleep (dreaming about it, which the sub-conscience does, to solidify learning): making notes, writing out stuff (similar to this series) to analyse what I was learning, talking to the Father about it (AKA "prayer"). Constantly. I couldn't get enough. By contrast, knowing all about the Tribulation and following, well — I believed what he said, but I didn't have much interest. I never much "turned over" (pondered) the meaning of what he was teaching, regarding the Rapture and others. (Big mistake!! Don't even ask how big was/is my Divine Discipline for having glazed over these topics! Thank God for Hebrews 12:6-11ff!)

So, I ended up believing in the Tribulation and Millennium correctly, and knew the data was correct, but I really didn't grasp the significance — what it revealed about Him. Knowledge of those passages made Him more real to me, true — but it was only an increased palpability, for lack of a better word. So, what's the clue, here, to my former disinterest? Ahhh: associative-shame. I too was a Christian. Just like those goofy people.

By contrast to these four groups' puffing-up, a correct grasp of the Tribulation, which the Rapture begins, makes a believer aware of the need to grow up. It underscores vividly the nature of personal responsibility. If He can return at any time to evaluate you, then soldier... look sharp! Grow up! This, of course, is a military command to be alert in the bush, as it were: "I will come suddenly!" is just such a command.

1st Century believers had the same four puffing-up problems. Rapture verses in the New Testament are many, partly for that reason. Thus the references are often chiding and hence indirect, as knowledge of the Rapture was foundational. If you know the alphabet well, and so do your readers, you don't keep repeating what it is, but rather add information surrounding its meaning. Most of Scripture therefore is written that way: the audience was already familiar with the underpinnings. So in English, the direct Rapture references appear to be few. Yet note the chiding character of the following:

The wedding itself was a kind of torchlight procession in which the Groom would go to the Bride's house and pick her up. It was custom for the Groom to arrive at an unspecified time, i.e., after what we'd call his 'bachelor party' — suddenly to pick up the Bride, Matthew 25:6. Perfect analogy to the Rapture. So, the Groom will Come Back, you see — they all knew that, but they did not know when. Of course "suddenly" is not used in that verse — you'd have to know the custom of the time. "Suddenly!" and "...like a thief" are frequent phrases in the New Testament, both via direct statement and by indirect reference. This passage is probably one of the proofs of how the Precedence for Church's Rapture comes from Israel, because the Groom First Came For Israel, But She Said No (depicted as not being ready, same idea; if you aren't really that interested, you won't be ready).

Matthew 16:18 is the Betrothal, John 17 is the marriage contract, John 17:20-21 is the Brideprice Agreement, paid on the Cross, Romans 6 (which uses the marital analogy); and now Father is making the Dowry pay off, Ephesians 1. That's all language of this custom, so the Rapture is foundational to it, as it's likened to the Groom Picking Up the Bride and the previous financial arrangements, being of an unpredictable length. Couldn't be any more vivid. Every one of Paul's letters uses marital and wedding and pregnancy terms. Paul's wordplay is phenomenal. So this is the major theme of the New Testament.

"...what sort (of persons) must (you) now be in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle?"

My pastor translates this as:

"...what sort of persons must you become, in a dedicated-to-God lifestyle?" (Reminder: Greek can designate subjects by means of suffixes or other devices, so it doesn't always need nouns.)

See? We are to be self-ruled, in order to become Rulers, and there's an urgency about it. For, Peter uses, instead of "γίνομαι" ("to become"), "ὑπάρχειν", which is a very pregnant word having connotations of control, mastery, being and possessing in or under a given state. Not works, but State-Of-Ruling! The word's root is a compound from "ὑπό", meaning "under", and "ἄρχω" meaning "to rule", and it's coupled with "δεῖ", meaning "must" (impersonal verb of obligation). It's a kind of conceptual palindrome: the One Ruling is the One Most Ruled. By Bible Doctrine, Our Employer's Thinking. The use of "ἐν" in 2 Peter 3:10 is the clue to how one knows Peter is setting up an analogy between the Rapture and the upcoming 'end of the universe'. That preposition has many uses: shallow Greek students easily misconstrue the usage to misdate the Rapture, or conclude it doesn't happen, because they don't know enough about how the preposition is really used. Also, in verse 11, "εὐσέβεια", often translated "godliness", is a lifestyle, the spiritual life. My pastor read from one of the German lexicographers (if memory serves it's Rudolf Bultmann, and the reference is in Kittle's (full) Theological Dictionary) to show why he considers the "dedicated-to-God lifestyle" the best translation of the "εὐσέβεια" clause. The rest of the translation here is literally-rendered, because I wanted to show Peter's style. The "now" emphasis is in the "δεῖ ὑπάρχειν" clause, partly because Peter's constantly using "ὑπ" prefixes to stress now-ness, in his epistle: be 'under', be ruled, obey, wait. His response to every problem is 'learn', 'hold', 'persevere'. Peter's use of Greek has long been characterized as inferior. I no longer buy that idea, because Peter's Greek is too keen on wordplay, and even uses hexameter verse. Moreover, Peter seems to use 'bad' Greek on purpose. Even back in ancient times, utilizing deliberately bad grammar was a writing style.


Warning Label

We should share that sense of urgency, because it applies to us, too. Now, it is just as imminent, just as potentially-horrific — but invisible. Like a virus. Like cancer. So, because invisible, it is more likely to be lethal. Will we be caught unprepared, like those 10 virgins without lamp oil? Or will we ourselves reach that Πλήρωμα stage, and thus ourselves be made the "last"? Our choice.


A proper understanding of the Rapture and following motivates preparedness, and avoids the stuckness of the four defense mechanism groups above. So long as one is reacting to the doctrines, rather than adjusting to the reality of them, one's spiritual life is stunted. So Satan buys time, by pinning them down under the fire of false-doctrine and emotional bullets. They remain frozen, and hopefully will not recover. Now I understand why my own reticence to admit the validity of the Rapture lasted so long. I let myself get pinned down.

It's hard not to react. The greatest benefit to knowing prophecy is also its greatest hurdle: the vividness. On the one hand, it deepens the awareness that yes, this is real!... and that same realization makes one want to recoil. Clever. Maybe that's partly why, in the Old Testament, so many of Abraham's descendants rejected the Messiah. Maybe that's partly why so many were hostile to Christ Himself when He was here: He was here, in one's face. Vividness. See, the Energizer Bunny, our sin nature in Adam, can't take the closeness of God (see Romans 8, especially Romans 8:8-10). So, we deny, sublimate, rationalize, feel guilty — whatever it takes, to move away from that closeness. The Imminency Of The Rapture Makes Man Uncomfortable.

Satan wants to do us all a "favor" then, just as he did for those in the Lord's day, and lessen the vividness, thus relieving our poor, weak, little-human natures. Just give us a few excuses to look away from Revelation: it's allegorical, it's feel-good, it's heroic, it's shameful.

See, even if you do believe in the Rapture as Pre-Tribulation, if you obsess over historical events, your 'response' is passive, not active — as if you're just waiting around for something else to happen, rather than get with the life. So you will be a virgin without lamp oil, so to speak. Satan's really captured a lot of believers here. And oh so many other very sincere folks who write their books and give their newscasts about what prophecy is illustrated by something happening in the bleeping European Union!

Meanwhile, ἰδού! The greatest importance any believer can ever have in history is available to each of us, no matter whether an axe murderer or Mother Theresa — and we just sit on this Bible? Looking out the window at man's activities? No greater waste. "My people perish for lack of Knowledge of God", moaned Hosea (Hosea 4) 😩. Church Alone is the Cause of the Rapture, not the prophecies. 1) Church causes the Rapture in a negative way due to Fake Church being too popular (including all those prophecy-culling people); and 2) in a positive way, due to enough Πλήρωμα believers being completed.

So we are encouraged instead, to look away from the Rapture. It's a looking-away, to think the Church remains in the Tribulation: for surely that person is not looking at Revelation 17's very-well-defined meanings. It's a more obvious looking-away, to allegorize Revelation and the prophecies, to mistake the Rapture for Second Advent, to be apathetic about it. Never mind that such looking-away wrecks the spiritual life. We are being encouraged not to want the future, and to instead use psychological defense mechanisms to explain it all away.

Folks who are preterists and partial-preterists don't believe in a Rapture, yet deem the Second Advent "imminent". That's denial. Some try to date it based on arcane numbers in Old and New Testaments; others don't. That's sublimation. The feel-good people are also sublimating, but with emotion rather than bogus research. The mid and post-Tribulationists rationalize being involved in a heroic struggle. The shame people use guilt as their defense.

Clever. Whenever a person keeps using a defense mechanism, he adds another thread to a growing "rope" of proclivity to mental illness. Meanwhile, he becomes progressively more able to use that same mechanism with respect to other doctrines which bother him. 'Usually, of the same "family" (here, visibleness, supernaturality, or both).

So the preterist will have a hard time with the Filling of the Spirit and other current supernatural aspects of the spiritual life, even if he realizes they are not visible or felt. So if Satan can make an inroad on debunking prophecy, then he can later make an inroad on using 1 John 1:9. Once Satan can get the believer to stop (or never start) habitually using 1 John 1:9, the believer's spiritual life ends. Whatever doctrine he thinks he learns is not in the Spirit, and is thus bogus doctrine, helping Satan. Clever.

Like (hopefully) the folks who believe in the Rapture, preterism claims the Book of Revelation depicts current trends. That, it does. However, the eschatology (as always, in both the Old and New Testaments) is dual: Revelation, for example, explains not merely post-Cross trends due to Satan's strategy, but also the eventual success he has. So, folks who don't grasp the dual nature of the prophecy, mistake the Rapture for the Second Advent. Or, misalign the Rapture (i.e., mid-Tribulation or post-Tribulation schools).

The emotionality people will, deeming the Rapture as Disneyland, mistake the Filling as an emotional thing, too; will get involved in the obsolete spiritual gifts like visions, alleged-prophetic utterances, tongues, 'casting out demons' (so they think, and the demons love playing with such folks). So they too will stop using 1 John 1:9, because they will "feel spiritual". So they will join the many in mental hospitals, who travelled down that same road.

The 'heroic' antagonists will, due to their 'rationalized misdating' of Church, miscast the way to live the spiritual life as well; since to them it must be spectacular and visible, to be spiritual. So of course, 1 John 1:9 will be irrelevant to them, if they never wake up.

Of course, the apathetic will be apathetic with respect to the spiritual life in all its forms. Fitting-in is their god, as we saw in Satan's Tactical Offensive. So 1 John 1:9 will be bypassed, as indeed the whole life is bypassed, in favor of the little things which make other people praise self.

Having tasted the Divine Discipline myself for not being more careful to study eschatology, I can only say I wouldn't wish the attendant discipline on anyone. But, of course, I can only write the warning. Each person must decide for himself, before the Lord. Sadly, I can "prophesy" (study Scripture, and you know) that most will die shrunken shells. And not know why, until that moment when the Lord comes to take them out of their bodies, home: for in dying, one learns one's performance, all at once!

Ok, but then how to read Revelation? Well, you read it like the Greek play it is. A classic quadrilogy, which in our modern day we call a "miniseries" or "sequels".


Revelation: a Play within a Play

  • Play One, Revelation 1-3, Our Now, ending at Revelation 4:1, the Rapture. In Greek drama, there are setpieces and themes you must include. For example, every play has a setup sequence preceding the action, to tell you how to 'read' it. So here, the setup/clause, is Church; so it's the background, with the Lord playing "chorus" to it — Revelation 1-3. See also the last half of Romans 8, which is likewise partly in Greek drama language. Romans 8:28's usage of συνεργέω is the key to interpretation. That is an intransitive verb (James also uses it in James 2:22). Villains always got intransitive verbs, since such verbs have no object: hence, the villain never wins. But the Hero always got the transitive verbs, which have objects, thus success. But note here in Romans 8:28, how the Hero, Father, makes the intransitive (us villains and the world), "work(s) together", transitive: for Divine Good (ἀγαθός, its true meaning) — "all things". But (!) only "to those who love God" — which, as 1 John makes plain, Requires one First Know God — can't love Who you don't know. So, in the horror of persecution/disaster in verses after Romans 8:28, the one who loves God nonetheless prospers, even in suffering. Ultimate Victory, 1 Corinthians 15:55-57! Bema Victory, 1 John 4:17!
  • Play Two First Act (half), in-heaven side, first 3.5 years of Tribulation, Revelation 4-6. Revelation 4 is the Presentation of the King, since now He has a Bride; Revelation 5, Presentation of the Battlefield Title Award of Earth: that's why the seals of Tribulation history can be broken open (again, He has a Bride, so can reign). Revelation 6 is therefore an official proclamation about historical trends as they apply to the Tribulation (See Zechariah 1 to know what John parallels. These are God's horses, not Satan's.) Think of it as advance riders painfully advertising the Coming of the King the world rejected.
  • The on-earth side of Play Two's First Act is depicted in Revelation 7-11:14. Revelation 7 is the sealing (preservation) of the Jewish evangelists (you always introduce the characters first), harvest theme; Revelation 8, the on-earth action begins, weather disasters; Revelation 9, Satan lobbies for and wins release of the demon armies. Revelation 10 announces that the Second Act begins with the blowing of the seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:15).
  • On earth, the First Act ends when the Revelation 11 Witnesses are killed at mid-point by Abbadon (of the demon armies of Revelation 9, let out near the midpoint). Satan uses those demon armies to feign the Second Advent: killing the Two Witnesses, fakes everyone out that it's arrived.
  • Thus begins the Second Act (half) of Play Two, seventh trumpet of Revelation 11:15. It runs through Revelation 18, spans the last 3.5 years of Tribulation, "time of Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30:7).
  • There is an proclamatory 'intermission' between the Two Acts, since God has to decree whether it occurs. In Greek drama, the intermission is a frequent device to explain the underpinnings of what just happened, and to introduce the main characters for the Second Act. Revelation 14:1-5 is a kind of epilogue alluding to Isaiah 53:9's "wa lo mirmah b'phiw" in Isaiah 14:5: a great testimony of the faithfulness of the 144,000 now-martyred Jewish evangelists.
  • Ergo the Second Act, in-heaven proclamatory 'side', picks up at Revelation 11:16-19, followed by the intermissionary announcement (via tableau) of the Second Act characters and plot Revelation 11-13, Revelation 17. The entities depicted in Revelation 11-13, Revelation 17 though built pre-Tribulation, officially function in the Second Act, so need to be introduced before the Second Act's action sequences 'play'. Is John tweaking Cebes' Tableau?
  • Play Two's Second Act on-earth 'side', picks up again at Revelation 14:6, which is at the end of Revelation 11.
  • All the vial judgements also 'play' on earth during those the last 3.5 years. So the opening of the first vial and the three angels literally flying in plain sight of the world in Revelation 14, are coterminous. Looks like those angels keep flying for the entire 3.5 years.
  • Play Three, the Second Advent and Millennium, Day of the Lord (which really lasts 1050 years), Revelation 19-20. In Greek drama you center action around a particular climactic day.
  • Play Four, Eternity, Revelation 21:1-22:5.
  • Epilogue: Revelation 22:6-21, the moral of the play required under Greek drama rules of that day. Every Greek play had to end with a moral, something you take home with you and ponder. Here, the affirmation that Canon is closed with Revelation, ergo the two warnings: don't add/subtract from Canon, and 'beware, I come suddenly!' — which fit perfectly with the Greek patriotic style. Be careful to Obey Written Instructions, keep sharp, for you have been forewarned!

A larger explanation of the Four Plays in Revelation.

So what's the overall picture? Well, from the beginning Satan has tried to achieve world hegemony via world homogeny. He has to build up man's secular powers, to do this. It takes many millennia. He always tries to do the same thing: world government, world religion, via homogenized morality, for that's the Independent-of-God "good" that he thinks wins the Trial. He doesn't come close to success, before the official Tribulation. He doesn't win his arguments, so the Lord comes down to take over — typical ending of a Greek play, the god comes down to save. Greek drama is very heavily influenced by Bible themes, not vice versa. Greeks and Hebrews were quite close, since Moses. Remember, Moses had been the heir to Hatshepsut. He abdicated. He was famous for that. So he knew the Greeks who knew the Egyptians well, and Egyptian religion was affected by the Hebrew faith ever since that other famous person — Joseph — was a vizier head priest in Egypt.

See how simple it is to understand? The Rapture's imminency has no warning; further, the Tribulation, unlike Now, is the culmination of Satan's goals. For in the Tribulation, he achieves them. Today, he's only progressing.

Hence the dual nature of the play, a play within a play:

  1. Historical Trends you read as inserted elaborations of Daniel 9:26c, and
  2. Literal Future Events of the Tribulation itself, etc.

So, then: to see only the literal meaning "b)", or merely the "a)" trends, removes or skews one's sense of immediacy. So that skewed reading lulls believers Now into apostasy, 'working to bring Christ back'. So Now, Satan and the demons laugh at our skewing; the Holy Spirit and heaven, groan. Those busy being skewed over the a) meaning, dismiss the idea that real events are depicted. Those busy being skewed over the b) meaning, mistake the prophecies collectively for something they can discern Now. No wonder the Lord told everyone in Matthew 24 to not listen to anyone talking about Christ's appearing. It was an old chestnut, even in Jesus' day, that 'Elijah' would precede the arrival of Messiah. Which, of course, was then true! For that 'Elijah', was John the Baptist. Christ has no heralds before His Next Return; the last Elijah was already beheaded by Herod (i.e., Matthew 11:14, Matthew 17:12-13).

So, believer misunderstanding of the Rapture's imminency keeps those believing only the "b)" signs — drooling.

The Two Witnesses aren't heralds; these Two warn everyone to stay away from the Temple. That's not a heraldic function. Nowhere does Bible say that the Revelation 11 heralds are past believers sent back to earth. They are instead stated to be resuscitated after they are killed in the events of Revelation 11. Zechariah 4:14 in Hebrew looks more like "sons of the Anointed One" than anointed sons; same, for LXX but the genitive singular is feminine. Also, Revelation 11:4, which references the Zechariah passage, talks of two lampstands, not one. But the lampstand in Zechariah, is Zerubbabel; meaning, a believer. Means they are filled with the Spirit (meaning of the oil, olive tree = Spirit, see Zechariah 2, Galatians 5:21ff). So these two Witnesses are characterized by the metaphors, that's all. So simple. Note also Revelation 1:4 which references Isaiah 11:2. So simple to understand. Why don't those trying to find out their names which God does not provide, neglect to see their warning-away role, which God sarcastically stresses? See, we don't think.

The angels in the last half of the Tribulation also warn everyone that to follow the beast, is harmful. They warn, they don't herald. Last herald, was John the Baptist. A herald was someone who walked in front of the king, announcing the king's arrival, and it was Good news. These beings are first warning, with implicit announcement of Arrival being not good news, if man won't wake up and believe in Him.

Then again, the warners are representatives of the King, going before. Then again, when you have declared war on someone you have emissaries always nearby, in case the other party wants to sue for peace. So maybe war heralds — but notice, they are sent during the Tribulation, not Now. So we have and need no heralds.

See? No heralds. We don't need heralds. The Word is our Herald, Now in Writing. When the Messiah left, when the Temple left, when the last apostle left, so did the prophets. "Leaving Behind", a Bible. For now, everything comes through the Son (Hebrews 1). And during that period when Canon was being completed, the temporary gifts of tongues, healing, miracles, and even apostleship, died with those who had them. Hence as obvious as the fact that no Temple means no Covenant to Nation Israel is operating, even so obvious is the fact that Only The Word is our 'prophet', now. Pastor-teachers, evangelists (Ephesians 4:11-12), and The Word. If those witnesses aren't heard, then resuscitating any others, well.. Luke 16:31.

So, believer misunderstanding of the Rapture's imminency keeps those believing only the: a) signs — whitewashing. Tragic flaw! So, the defense mechanism eventually stops the invisible spiritual life (use of 1 John 1:9). Why? Because with all that whitewashing, the worker becomes more moral — hence, narrows his definition of "sin". Since he's switched to moral sinning like the Pharisees, his elimination of immoral sinning seems to mean he doesn't need 1 John 1:9. So, instead of confessing his own sins he lives a lifetime of self-righteous carnality. (Confer Luke 18:9ff.) So, the defense mechanism rejecting the Rapture favors whitewashing the world — so, hastens the satanic whitewash plan and the believer's eventual execution (1 John 5:16). Clever.

If you're busy working, you're Voting for Works, and not Word. So you're on Satan's side, not God's. So you will still be in heaven — if you ever 'just once' simply believed in Christ — adding nothing! But, even then, you will be Without Reward. For it's only the Word that works (main theme in James 1-2, if anyone would read it carefully in the Greek). Oh, how it shows: we can't get the Gospel right, we can't get prophecy right, we can't get the spiritual life right... and our mistakes are intensely stupid! But we see nothing. Seeing, we don't see; hearing, we don't hear what the Spirit says to the churches (plural, not one denomination, duh — and not after Revelation 4:1, duh).

Notice how heartbreaking this is. Learning Bible is no easy thing. Living on it, harder still. Eventually, one's sense of inadequacy becomes so heightened that he yearns for a way to 'do something' to assuage it. So who can't identify with either the droolers or the workers, who here are drooling or working their way to no reward at the Bema? Yet, you can't tell them that's their situation, they will think you are trying to win self-approval by 'converting' them. Solution? Grow. Whatever can be done to wake them up, God is already doing. But they won't have the spiritual growth, so you get yours, and then you can gratefully spend it on them in eternity, for surely they will be in your kingdom then, if they are in your periphery Now. That's a comfort: I call it "For Father, Under Him (Son)" to remind me of this future. Because none of us deserve anything but hell, ourselves. "wa tsahalí, lo' h'ála!" / "and neigh, you never-writhed!" cries Isaiah in Isaiah 54:1. Yeah, we are all sterile, really. So it's a joy to spend whatever we get on those our comrades who fell in this, the war of wars...

Shakespeare wrote, we "by indirections, find directions out." God's Plan flanks the opposition. It seems, therefore, to go in the opposite direction from what one humanly would think proper: study, not work. Yet, by now hopefully we've seen that indeed, "study" is the only answer. And, it's a lifetime of learning, we need! So, then: we can't afford to ourselves (!) to be slow, "as some count slowness", and thus miss the "promise", our escrow. ('Playing on words in 2 Peter). We should be alert, and sharp; not "dull"(knives) of Hebrews 5:11ff, but instead, "rightly dividing the Word of Truth." Alertness speeds growth, so we can inherit that promise God the Father deposited in the Beloved at the Session. Of course, such alertness also speeds our entry into the Πλήρωμα group, so shortens the Angelic Conflict, because it hastens the completion of the Body of Christ. (Confer 2 Peter 3:12.) That is how believers help hasten the Return of the Lord — not by whitewashing Satan's world, helping him make men more 'me be god!' moral.


So: shall we Now retire? Or stay the course?

Now we see that Satan doesn't want folks to believe in God except on Satan's terms, which are the aforementioned fake herald, fake messiah, fake church, and fake temple.

So he can do to us what he did to Israel, as illustrated in Zechariah 3 (Joshua depicts Israel, and any believer). 'So he can 'retire' us to Heaven via the "sin face-to-face with death" (1 John 5:16). Yeah, go to heaven, believer — but as a loser, not a success. As a pawn of Satan, not a slave of Christ. Revenge, baby.

Are you surprised that he actually wants us to believe in God? Oh yes! Because then Satan & Co. can pass themselves off as God, and fool us! They can't delay the Rapture, otherwise! They can't pull off the Tribulation, otherwise! Thus we see yet more indirections, found out. For their Number One Goal is to Harvest Rejection. That's a mistrial verdict, and it requires believers be used, to pull it off. 😏 So much for all that prophecy-television nonsense bidding you look at world politics. Sheesh: all these fakes are the cause for the Rapture, because they represent Christian rejection of God! But no one sees that, who's busy selling the fake stuff on television and social media, huh...

As long as you don't ever get to know the Real God, you're Satan fodder, and of better use than the real unbeliever! If Satan & Co. wouldn't be spread too thin logistically due to so many believers, in this stage of the Trial and Conflict, they'd want as many stupid Christians as they can get! God has to bless the believer, give him enough time to grow up (a logistical support Justice Issue): Satan & Co. use that blessing to further their own goals. If the progeny increase too much, history must continue, so that sufficient progenitors will be developed to get that 'balance in numbers' Perfection in the Church. So, sometimes Satan & Co. promote faith in Christ, to buy themselves time.

So, then: since each believer, being Royal, positionally justifies the existence of millions, what's the flipside of that fact? That apostatization of each believer has a huge negative leverage. It's "Concentration of force", in military parlance. So, Satan & Co. will indeed want people to believe in Christ — if such persons can be used to further satanic goals. It's like the difference between using a foot soldier (unbeliever), and carpet bombing. To them, the leverage they might get from an apostate believer is worth the "loss" of a soul they never wanted, anyway. We are toys to them, as demonstrated by their 'throw in fire', 'gash with stones' possessions, in the Gospels. Or, as demonstrated today by their creation of flitty mass senseless obsessions. Remember how obviously-destructive our behavior since "9/11" has been? That's just a version of 'gashing self with stones'. Trying desperately, to turn them into bread: Fame On TV. Wow.

As Believers, We Are Even Better Toys. Royally-Better. Surely all the insanity in Christendom throughout history should be ample evidence of this fact. Moreover, you'll see repeated instances in the Gospels and Acts where they loudly proclaim the Christ, or Paul, correctly: each time, you'll notice that the Lord or Paul hush them. Some of the miracles the Lord did, He afterwards warned the recipient to tell no one, like the guy He cured of leprosy. Why do Satan & Co. advertise? If you want to persecute someone big time, the first step in accomplishing that goal is to promote the person. Same, with some doctrine they want to sleight of hand change: like "baptism", for example. So the promoted person, or the promoted doctrine, will "stick out". This enables all manner of soundbyte chopping. Because, we humans don't like to think too much. So Satan & Co. take pity on us, and give us something 'easy' to believe. Never mind that it's a lie. Trumpet it! Do what the Lord refused to do in the Second Temptation of Matthew 4! Easy.

So, Satan wanted Moses' body, after Moses died (Jude 9). He wanted to sift Peter "like wheat", the Lord told Peter. Satan & Co. have promoted, and then made total derision out of both Peter and Mary, through popery and mariolatry, in certain denominations. In fact, they've done that with all of the apostles, using them to craft one kind of apostate sect or another, in history. All by means of Second Temptation-style 'praise', cutting out a key truth phrase, thus totally reversing the doctrine! Just like they wrecked Israel, Turning The Grace Promise Of The Sacrifice Into 'Works'. Turning rest into (arrogance + rest) arrest.

For, as they promote one of these folks, they distort their lives, and distort the Bible. But, these were real people, with true faith — so not to buy the 'spin' on their lives is to be disloyal, right? So, folks buy the 'spin', too: yeah, the married Peter who hated private interpretation gets distorted into a bachelor who speaks ex cathedra! Yeah, and the priests and nuns should be unmarried, celibate! As if only abstention from sex makes one holy! This, despite the fact that two wildly-profligate groups of believers, those at Corinth and Galatia, were called "saints" by the only virgin apostle, Paul! Paul, who was the only apostle who God made the head of the Roman church. So Satan just can't select Paul for his Roman Catholic version. Instead, he has to pick Peter who was only appointed an apostle to the Jews, never to the Gentiles until Paul died. All this is evident in the Bible, even in translation. Do we see it? No!

Yeah, and the humblest woman on the planet, who was the Only Eligible Royal Member Left In The Davidic Line, would never sin by refusing her husband, children. That would wipe out the Royal bloodline! But hey: let's graft in the entirely Gnostic idea of calling her a 'perpetual virgin', anyway! As if that were better than her faith! And make her husband an adulterer, saying Joseph's other kids came from different woman! In a religion which considers it a sin not to bear children! In a religion which admits that this teaching about Mary is not Bible Doctrine in the very books its own laity are obliged to buy and read!

I kid you not. I write this section on March 8, 2002: I just read what a close family member (who was raised Roman Catholic) gave me last month (thus I add these indented paragraphs, plus the ..."Not Bible"... sentence, above). 'Library of Catholic Devotion (mine's in a fancy red and gold box, lavishly illustrated, expensively bound); published by The Catholic Press, Chicago, IL, August 1, 1953. It has the "imprimatur" of Archbishop (of Chicago) Samuel Cardinal Stritch, and has no ISBN because you have to get it through the Roman Catholic Church. Check out the first of its three volumes, Life of Christ, appendix beginning after page 304. (I didn't realize the Roman Catholic Church itself admitted that mariolatry wasn't biblical, before.)

The appendix is titled simply, "The Life of Mary": lots of mini reprints of famous paintings, interspersed with text. I'll violate copyright to quote it at length — so you'll have to find one of these volumes, yourself. (Ask a Catholic to lend it to you; I don't want to be accused of misquoting the text.) The text is astounding in its bluntness. It justifies its teaching about Mary from "anecdotes", which "crystallized" into the "Apocrypha", which this book plainly admits has "fanciful" material in it! Oh, and from "legends". Oh, and 'immaculate' status of Mary, from the Koran! 'A book which, as even any Muslim will tell you, teaches that a Human Savior is a complete insult to Divine Holiness, for God admits of no "partners"!

Don't believe me? Here's the video of the very book which I was obliged to make to prove I had it, on June 20, 2008:

Gee, why then is the Bible so "silent" about all this, as this appendix admits in its first paragraphs? Gossip is better than Bible? So much so, that Popes (according to this book) have thus decreed her "Immaculate" due to non-biblical "anecdotes" of her perpetual virginity even after Christ was born? So they consider gossip as "a more reliable witness", than the Bible (which says Mary did have kids by Joseph, but some Catholics twist the verses to claim those kids were actually Joseph's by means of fornication)! That's what Peter warned them not to do, in 2 Peter 1-2! Don't believe in cleverly-designed fables, because it's the Bible which is the "more reliable witness"! Okay, so who wins the Award for the Most Gullible People on Earth?

See? We're Royally Better Toys, because we're far more easily manipulated. See, we took the hardest step: believing Him against all the force of our own natures. All we had against the body-runs-soul depravity, against all the blanketed satanic "doctrine of demons" (1 Timothy 4:1) — all we had, was a free will God Himself created at our birth! Moreover, the Holy Spirit had to use His Power to even make the Gospel understandable! See how difficult a thing it is to believe in Christ? Even though it's the simplest act, which even a child can 'do'? So, then: think about how vulnerable we are, after that. We are so totally helpless. Newborns. Anyone can play the role of 'mommy'. Like, Satan & Co. And we'll listen to 'mommy', too — having no idea what "God" should really be or look like, having no concept of what "Christ" or "salvation" really is, we'll fall for anything. 'Right into their hands. Like Che Guevara sang in the musical, "Evita", "Get them while they're young, Evita get them while they're young..." Thus has been the history of the Church. For, the irony is, Royalty is more vulnerable than peasants. Dependent, even. On 'mommy'. No wonder the Lord wanted to go to the Cross. No wonder His Compassion was so great. No wonder the elect angels rejoice whenever someone believes in Christ! (Confer Luke 15.)

So also, for any version of 'God'. Look: once you believe in 'God', then the entire supernatural apparatuses Satan & Co. employ can be used on you, directly. They can jettison some of the 'baggage' of (Second Temptation-style) rationalized intellectualism. It gets boring, using the same ol' pseudo-sophisticated 'scientific' arguments. Better to hook folks in the supernatural! For then, things don't have to make sense anymore. So, you can get 'signs', 'miracles', 'healing', 'tongues', 'exorcism', voices, visions, disclosures, past lives, psychic stuff, even 'popes' allegedly speaking ex cathedra... and thus be told what to do. You won't need to question the 'order' for whether it makes sense anymore, see — for you have this 'sign'! For, you'll think you're special, blessed... and others will think you're nuts. Or, will believe you. Either way, Satan & Co. get gigantic leverage out of you believing, much more than if you don't. Oh, how slapstick funny, too! So much more fun to use thought transference and make people hallucinate the sun turning around backwards seven times, or that God's Mother would appear in a tortilla (multiple people have claimed this 🙄). As if God would display His Omnipotence in such a silly way. See? It doesn't have to make sense, anymore. It's a lot easier on Satan & Co. to shower those who prefer 'signs' to sense, with silliness. Why, it's even a play on words! Physical sensing replaces logical sensing! Just as in Genesis 6. They like it better, too: more fun, for them.

Thus they promote belief, today — for all this supernatural stuff is really on the rise. As man has become increasingly bored with his own moralities, as the rules choke him, he's beginning to think about 'god', again. 'Looking for some kind of rest, some kind of hope. Heh: and Satan's got 'just the thing', boy oh boy. Yeah, baby: have a channeller session at a branch of the United Nations, of all places. Universalism, united religions!

Thus we know there is a Huge Crop Of Positive Volition To God Coming Up In The World. That's why those planes flew into the Trade Center. no other reason. See, Satan needs to make preemptive strikes to deflect this surge of interest in God so he can manipulate it to suit his never ending revenge goal. A great example is how Nathan Phelps lost faith in God over 9/11 from an already shaky faith due to growing up in apostate Christianity; therefore never really knowing the True God combined with observing catastrophic events, becomes the perfect accelerant for believers to become disinterested and turn toward atheism. Satan's thus out to promote skewed thinking about God, because right now there's a strong V+ (positive volition) undercurrent toward the Real God — and Satan needs to herd it away from discovering the true life with God. So, Satan uses public means to herd folks, to get the undercurrent on-stage, so to speak.

Look: if the message is blared out, then to the hearer, it becomes dull, and finally — is inaudible. We tune out and block commercials, internet spam, junk mail, and popups — why? Because they are insistently repeated, apart from our wanting them. Worse, the "messenger" of the message becomes so stressed in the blaring out, that the message itself is by that means obscured. Note how everyone talks about Christ, but almost no one really understands His Thinking. Ask 100 people how He paid for our sins, and nearly everyone will respond, "He died" — but almost no one understands what "died" means! Almost no one asks, "Wait! How could a Physical Death pay for soul sins?" It's a mismatch, but no one thinks about the illogic, because "He died" is an answer. Blared out. So, no need to think. And, of course, zero desire to know His Own Thinking, what it is/was like for Him to be Him. Aha. Deaf. Blind. No interest. All by means of blanketed, loud publicity about Him.

Which publicity, nonetheless causes us to be receptive to the lie. For your body survives on repetition, and has no discernment. This, every advertising firm in America, well knows. If you are blanketed with a message, even if you hate it, you will be receptive to it. Brand "X" becomes 'familiar', and the body is all about, familiarity. Associates that with comfort. So if a lie about God is blared out, it will become familiar, even if hated — so the body is programmed for acceptance of that very lie. Even while it imagines itself to be resisting.

Satan's choice tactic is to blare out a message so you can't hear it anymore: hearing, you won't hear; seeing, you won't see. Totally inaudible, totally invisible. That's Satan's problem, and he wants you to get it, too 😘. Satan's other choice tactic is to so stress the Name that you don't think about the person. Stress loudly the outer, so to blank out the inner (interest, understanding, yearning to really know Him "just because"). All by means of public — public fame. See?

Once you can't hear it anymore, once you tune out, your brain has disengaged, so your body can be more intensively programmed. So if you previously believed the lie, well — you're already too far gone. If you didn't, well... now that you've tuned out, your body is being programmed without interference from your mind. Only if you absent yourself from the repetition, will you have protection. But we are all plugged in, now.. who can absent himself? Well — if you are busy studying the Word, you're absent from the bombardment, hint hint...

But Christians the world over are sops for publicity, as is every other "person of faith". We stupidly think God needs our help, to "get the message out". Or, that we should publicize Him to demonstrate our faith, our loyalty. All such thoughts toward the concept are pure satanic propaganda. God doesn't need publicity. Neither does the person hungry to know God. God sets the conditions. Wait On Him. He prefers the "still, small Voice". Not the loud, flashy spam. For, spam is tyranny, for it promotes negativity and deafness.

Don't fall into the trap of publicity. Don't make the mistake Hezekiah's advisors did, don't use man's methods to allegedly do God's job (theme of Jeremiah 17, too). That's the trap Hezekiah's advisers fell into (confer Isaiah 28:14, ff) — they allied themselves with Egypt (Isaiah 30-31 interpret Isaiah 28). God replied to them that they were refusing Him, His provisions; that they were scoffing at Doctrine. See, "publicity" is alliance with something man can do — using man's efforts to promote God is just as evil as alliance with Egypt "without consulting Me" (confer Isaiah 30:1-3, Isaiah 31:1-3). We don't need the leeks and garlics of Egypt. Neither does God. Neither does anyone V+ to God.

For, any public pronouncements sell man, never God. Oh, how subtle the sale is: stressing morality, stressing something man must do — why, that drowns out anything about God! Just leaves His Name. See, the sale of the action focuses attention on what "we" must do. The more intrinsically valuable the action, the more God Himself is sidelined. So, the worst lie is the one which over-stresses some mere portion of the truth. See? Everything in His Name, but we do the work. What a refuge of lies, to make works allied with God! Our works. So He's blotted out! Publicity, fitting in with other humans, becomes one's alliance. Just like with Taharqa's Nubian uncle (then Pharaoh of Egypt).

Beware (Isaiah 28:16-17) of not "getting the point", that it's Study Him via 1 John's Script — else, you too will be toyed with, abused, and will spin right out of history via publicity: works/emotionality/roteness/ritual. 'The mess of pottage which Satan spins as the spiritual life.

So it should not surprise anyone that the Satan of Revelation 12-17 is the same one who is very keen on everyone believing in some version of 'God'! He needs that, in order to pull off his sweetness and light world order! Satan's version of "god", though. That's the deal. Therefore, to the chagrin of many atheists who insist religion is obsolete, continue to be confounded as religion gets popular 'on demand' as Satan requires it.

religion is kept alive

His terms, then, for what's "God" can easily trick us, if we are sufficiently "dull". We know from the "Lord, Lord" verse that folks who call His Name don't believe in Him. Even if they are Christians. So, God will say, "this people worships Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me" and "Go away, for I never knew you." Of course, unbelievers never knew Him, because they never believed in Him. So He never 'knew' them, either. It's also important to highlight that the unsaved people saying "Lord, Lord" are more so disappointed in the True God because He's not based on the religion they were sold. So partly, they're upset because they want Satan's version. If they weren't, they'd simply drop their ego, admit their fault, and believe on the spot! 🤣

And their protestations that they worshipped God? What God did they worship? A strange god. Wonder who. Do you think it is an accident that nearly every religion born since Revelation was penned, even through today's New Agers and Scientologists — claims Christ as part of it? See, then you'd be believing in 'him', and even saying, "Lord!" Oh! Bar Kochkba! Hermes (and all those dippy gnostic texts)! Oh, He's an Avatar! A Bodhisattva! Lord Maitreya to come! Herald of Muhammed! Moroni's Lord! New Age Revealer! A thetan! And on and on and on: religions fall all over each other in competition over who gets to call Him one of their own — what other 'holy man' gets so many groupies? Wonder who is playing His role, eh? Didn't the Lord warn folks that there would be a lot of claims He was on earth, but don't listen to them?

So, too, the believer often spends his life on a "strange god". Such a "Lord, Lord" believer fails in his Trial witness. Christ 'never knew' that person, because the person never knew Christ, despite salvation. He never came to know Christ, never did what 1 John said should be done, never did what James 1 commanded, nor Paul, in Ephesians, nor Peter. He's still saved... but for all intents and purposes, a stranger-wife, AKA an estranged wife, living all his life here as if in "get" (Hebrew word symbolizing divorce): dead to God. See, the Bride kinda needs to "know" Her Husband, in order to conceive...

But the "Lord, Lord" believer never consummated the marriage; was instead cold, frigid, spending his time on the idols of "works". He fashioned them from his own hands, and then worshipped them, fornicated with them, "knew" them — but never God. So, upon his death and resurrection, he still is permanently saved — but remains forever farther apart. Why? He didn't build up his soul, while down here. "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." However much God wanted him, the believer did not want God, except to the de minimis level of believing for salvation. Not having grown up down here, such a believer has too small a soul in eternity, to be close to God. He will be a lot closer than down here, because of that de minimis, but..compared to others in eternity, he will be farther away. Such is the so-small "retirement package" of the "Lord, Lord" believer. Forever.

Do we find that future unfair? God revealed Himself, but some reject Him despite knowledge; others don't "know" Him, and thus reject for that reason. The believer here is the Hebrews 6:1-6 'huffing and puffing' works type. He wanted ritual, works, approbation... but not God. So, he "knows" ritual, works, approbation... but not God. If the unbeliever goes to Hell for rejecting Christ, "how shall we escape, if we neglect our so-great salvation?" (Hebrews 2:1) We don't escape. We are in Heaven, but... not close to Him. Being too close to all our wood, hay, stubble — we burned away the lifetime sized chance we had to inherit "more than we could ever ask or imagine" (Ephesians 3:20).

If we can't see that love requires mutual rapport, so consider a faraway status as unfair, then what about rights? Who wants a close relationship with someone who's hated you his whole life? Should not God have rights to be closest to those who most wanted to be closest to Him? Especially if He pulled out all the stops, as it were, to provide us with this unique spiritual life? And we rejected Him?

Instead, we could stay the course, and get God's idea of a good pension plan, 😏. For, if we do grow up in Christ, using God's Script, then indeed we: "come to know the love for Christ, which goes beyond gnosis" (tweaking the gnostics, tamely translated "knowledge"... Ephesians 3:19). So indeed we "know" Him intimately. So, when we've grown enough, just as with Job, God mentions our name in evidence... and our intimacy with Him will be tested as never before in our lives.

If we complete that Evidence Test.. oh, if! Then the 'blessing by association' is Royally Exponential — Forever. For, such completion means we have successfully become "Πλήρωμα", the "fullness of Christ", and have glorified God in our own bodies (confer Philippians 1:20). Thus, we will have "held to the confession" / "endured" "to the end" (key phrases for getting to Πλήρωμα status in the New Testament), we will have "finished the course" (Paul), we will have "done all, to stand" (Ephesians 6). So, the 'blessing by association' "stands" forever. Insured by the Grantor of Our Inheritance in Christ, God the Father. Himself.


Appendix Side Trip on Sample Satanic Homogenization Ploys in Modern History

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang uses that eastern holocaust to explore and explain the deeper psychology behind the Japanese atrocities in WWII. Footnote #32 in her Penguin 1998 edition, p.235, reads as follows (emphasis/bolding and bullet marks I supplied):

"32. the intensity of the training in Japan: 106/5485, February 1928 report, page 136, Papers of the British War Office in the Public Record Office, Kew, London. An OSS report on Japanese army training summarizes the process of indoctrination:

; report no. 8974-B, dissemination no. A-17403, distributed December 28, 1943, Research and Analysis Branch Divisions, Intelligence Reports "Regular" Series, 1941-1945, box 621, entry 16, record group 226, National Archives."

So the Japanese committed those unspeakable atrocities in Nanking, just as their many 'brethren' of every race committed them elsewhere before and since, in word as well as action — to live out their training; to prove how tought they are, to rape, pillage, skewer babies, etc. In Asian cultures especially, you smile or laugh if you are upset, to mask upset and to remain polite. People in all cultures have pretended enjoyment of atrocities, like the regular phallic cults, enemy takeovers of any kind. Once you get momentum, the pretended enjoyment turns into real enjoyment, and the human becomes an animal. Read up on any siege, any ancient campaign, and most modern ones. Wars of words are more a siege, and more atrocious, than all weapons man has invented. In fact, the physical atrocities are always and only a result of the mental ones. Can't do with the body, what the soul hasn't already done, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 15:18.

The Rape of Nanking was merely a usage of the time-honored military policy of terrorism to balance against the superior numbers, a doctrine older than even Abram; the application of it by Japanese military to China, being to ape Mongol hordes, China's biggest fear and cause of the Great Wall of China; Hitler had the same goal, maybe even copied it from the Japanese (one wonders). Arab terrorism has operated on this principle for millennia.

But the real author of this policy is Satan himself; and he plays it on us all, all the time:

So, then: is Al-Qaeda so different from the Nanking butchers? Were the 'Christian' Crusaders? Are the prolifers? And yes, the prolife 'mission' is made of exactly the same genocidal 'stuff' as the Rape of Nanking 'mission'. Murder needn't be physical, you know... Note the turning point in 'reason': if you are Tough For The Sake Of Your Mission, you can justify anything. Groupness thus compels you to be 'tough', no matter what your private opinion. Mass atrocities demonstrate toughness, so even timid soldiers mask it by greater viciousness. Most all of Arab culture is in exactly this same position, so will have an outer 'face' to hide inner fear.

Nor are homogenous cultures alone: look how everyone in the United States treated Martha Stewart, who almost (!) lied? And she went to prison for that, and everyone falls all over himself to make jokes about her? Even very famous prolifer pastors and politicians blissfully and publicly call abortions, "holocausts": they are so satisified with themselves for saying this! What, are they omniscient, that they can count back through all those eons of time, comparing the number of deaths in all the holocausts of history to the numbers of abortions? Oh, and worse: they thus accuse God Himself of genocide, since spontaneous abortions occur every day. Never mind, Bible repeatedly explains that God Personally creates a soul at birth, To Create An Independent Individual To Have A Life With Him, namely Psalm 139:16-17! See? We display the same bestial mindset as any German citizen under Hitler, any soldier skewering babies in 1937 Nanking. The only difference between us and them, is opportunity.

More fundamentally, the urge to be holy drives the ego; it's the Fall's prime directive to be like the Most High, Isaiah 14:13-14. especially, in the name of 'oneness'. Note how, when Richard Burton tortured John Hurt in the film adaptation of "Nineteen Eighty-Four", that was tough love: when three fingers is five because said to be five; when black is white and white black... then you are one with Big Brother. At the end, "Winston" (played by John Hurt) really did love Big Brother, and he cried happily in his little jot of gin... having betrayed his lover, Julia.

What the Japanese did in Nanking, Mao Zedong did multiplied by a million, just after taking power. At least 30 million Chinese died in his starving of the peasants, after he began collectivization, modernization. Just like Stalin, Mao used an 'enemies of the people' approach to terrorize, get everyone herded. Only maybe 1% of that number, were brutalized in Nanking. Mao's atrocities were much more fun, too: sons turning on fathers, mothers turning on daughters, public shame and Dazibao posters, confiscation of every description...

See? There's more than one way to rape and murder. Particularly exquisite, to lobotomize the mind like Winston's: docile, afraid, cowering. 'By the hundreds of millions! By then, 'rape' was what all good Communists should do: no more marriage, no more family, everyone spying on everyone else to prove himself the tougher comrade! Kids were raised by the state almost as soon as they were weaned, if not earlier. So, everyone was encouraged to have sex all around, to inform on each other, to confiscate... that's how you fit in. At least those free-sex, free-denouncings, free Hate Weeks gave you feeling! Just as, during all prior phallic cults! You don't 'love' the god if you don't have sex with all strangers; sacrifice your enemy's kid to Moloch, baby...

Watch this dividend: when everyone finds out how atrocious Nanking was, they go after Japan for not apologizing. Yet Communist China, the far worse villain, chimes in as if holy. Oh, how holy everyone becomes! Got our own son of Heaven crusade, now, tough it out! Band together! Never mind, that the Same Grouping Frenzy develops. Which, of course, is how both Japan and China got so imperialistic in the first place, traumatized as they both were by European superior weaponry. (Russia, same story. Arabs, same story.) Each polity in its own way vowed to never be humiliated again, and would defeat the *wàiguórén (外国人) at some future point, no matter how long it takes. The West always underestimates the power of ancient homogenous culture south and east of itself. The more homogenous the culture, the more 'saving face', machismo-type concepts, ethnic pride, matter. The formation of the West came from a heterogenous culture, so — ironically — it's harder for the West to respect those not like itself. So they belittle us, and we belittle them, and Satan beats us all!

* "wàiguórén" means "foreigner" (epithet, originally), in Mandarin Chinese.

Of course, no traumatically-indoctrinated "son of Heaven", would know that

Which, of course, man doesn't know, because he doesn't want Bible. So see the burlesque on us? Bible, twisted into martyrdom, of course: exact same thought process as Satan to tempt the Lord in Matthew 4. Just like Satan & Co. consider themselves, giving us their tough love!


Appendix Side Trip: For God Is The Perfect Actuary, 😏

Put your thinking cap on, for this concept is truly important to master. God is very punctiliar with His Justice: a Perfect Actuary. What's that? What's a "defined benefit plan"? Well, whatever country you are in, the 'old age benefits' your country taxes both you and your employer on — go to a big pot of money (which is usually raided by government, who promises to pay it back). That big pot is actually a "defined benefit plan", for the whole country. In the United States, it's known as "Social Security".

Okay, let's start simply. Here you are, Joe Schmoe, Mr. Average. Say you have $100,000 saved up. What will it earn over time? What do you need to spend it on? What if you die or get sick? All of these factors can be organized into what's called a "financial plan" so you can determine what you can now buy, or must forego. Of course, a significant factor for you is your future earning power relative to your circumstances today. Also, those dependent on you, what are their needs, and their income-earning potential? You don't have enough money to stop working. In fact, you have to budget yourself in order to provide for current vs. future needs. How do you figure out all your financial needs, how do you decide how to invest or spend?

Well, you must estimate the future. That's what an "actuary" does. That's really what actuarial science is all about: statistically forecasting, based largely on health factors and interest rates, what amount of money is needed now versus later. Health factors, like interest rates, are based on past history, and if the databases are large enough and over a long enough time, it's a reasonably accurate way to predict future health and interest changes. Insurance companies, pension plans, your government's social security and other welfare programs — all of these use actuarial science to try and achieve accurate forecasting of expenditure and funding now. These estimates use what are called "actuarial assumptions", which are neat mathematical formulae for deriving answers. For example, using one common set of assumptions, you need $131 on deposit for every dollar of monthly income for life, beginning at age 65.

So, let's come back to you. Your $100,000 saved up will not be enough! It will only give you $763/month, and that only at age 65! Uh oh! Moreover, you only have so many hours in a day you can use to earn money. So, your capacity to earn is limited by time (along with a host of other factors). So, your capacity to get is likewise limited. You only have a certain timeframe, so to speak, to achieve the necessary savings, and if you don't reach the goal within that window, you'll have less. So, having less, you must forego something. So, having less, you must become creative about what you allow to be foregone, and what you find essential. So, then: you have a Minimum Need, and thus a Minimum you must forego. So, then: you also have a Maximum limit, and thus a maximum you can get. Your Capacity To Forego Determines Your Capacity To Receive.

Funding Key → First, "define the benefit" you'll need, e.g., what amount of money payable how often, and when. Then, back into how much you need to forego, to get there. (Again, your capacity to forego now determines your capacity to receive later.) In short, you must create your own "defined benefit" plan. Then, execute that plan!

If you have access to Microsoft Excel, look up its "Present Value" functions. That will tell you how to calculate what you need to save. On second thought, don't look! It will be too much!

Glazed Over Eyes Key, 🤣 → The main point below is to explain the idea of God's criteria for blessing by association: to show how precise He is about it. I'll have to draw analogies between American welfare/pension funding plans/laws and God's "Divine Benefit Plan", so to speak, to do this (yikes). If you have a "Summary Plan Description" from your employer, some of the terms here will be defined in it. Or, if you've got a friend who knows about pensions, you can ask that person about quoted terms here, because they are real terms currently in use by pension actuaries and the IRS: you know, by folks who didn't find something better to do for a living!


Divine Benefit Volactuarial Criteria

In God's Divine Benefit Plan as well as in any other kind of group plan on earth, there have to be enough bodies in proximity or in the same group, for the plan to transmit benefits. Our Lord is in a Human Body as well as still being God Himself. So He can only be in one place at a time, humanly speaking. Therefore, the Divine Benefit Plan is based on the Replication Of His Thinking In As Many Other Bodies As Possible, so There Can Be Enough Blessing Transmitted Through Those Bodies To Those Who Do Not Have As Much Or Even Any Of His Thinking In Them. For, that's exactly how we all got paid for on the Cross: by His Thinking. So, this aspect of blessing by association with other Christians who are advancing in the spiritual life, is also logistically based on deployment of bodies. Obviously, since the criterion for the blessing passthrough is His Thinking, works don't help. Doesn't mean you can't do them, but they are not the criterion God uses to transmit blessing. Neither to you, nor to them. For, we are each here to Learn Him for Father's Pleasure, and if that isn't happening, there is no juridical basis for blessing transmission, just as there would have been none to us had Christ not paid Father with Christ's Own Thinking On The Cross, per the 'soul' contract of Isaiah 53:11. God is never inconsistent.

That's why priesthoods exist. During our Now, Each Believer Is A Royal Priest. So, with enough of us, blessing to the unbeliever can be transmitted above and beyond a logistical floor (covered in the purple table, below). So, too, among believers, we variantly accept Him. Acceptance, as always, means learning Him, since there is zero obedience to the First Commandment apart from Knowing Him (1 John, theme of epistle; so also James 1:1-2:26 or so). So, among believers, If There Are Enough Who Know Him Well Enough — then those who do not, like the unbeliever, can get more blessing than otherwise juridically permissible. For, a) there is zero justification to bless one who refuses His Terms (again, analogous to unbeliever rejection of Gospel); ergo, b) there is zero capacity to receive blessing by those who refuse (their souls are too small). So, then: By Aggregating Blessing To Those With Capacity, Even Full Capacity (Πλήρωμα), Distribution Of Blessing Can Go Farther And Higher Even To Those Who Otherwise Could Not Get Such Blessing. Paul explains this principle in terms of the Bema awards, in 1 Corinthians 3, 1 Corinthians 4:8, and second half of Romans 5, Ephesians 4 (Ephesians 4:13 looks like a climax), Ephesians 5-6 (an underlying layer of meaning), and last half Romans 8 (mental attitude of fighting to Πλήρωμα). "Crowns" doctrine is a common moniker pastors of today might call this doctrine.

"Concentration of force" in military doctrine means to marshal enough manpower and firepower together in a small location, so to break through an enemy's line/stronghold/front. So, too, in the economy of a polity, the polity needs 'concentration of wealth'. The ancient architecture of Rome would never had existed, apart from the few wealthy deciding to build those buildings. The poor got baths solely because some few rich built them. (The average citizen rented a dingy flat in a building which had no running water, and often no windows.) America would not have industrialized so well in the 18th and 19th centuries had not a few rich men staked all their wealth on railroads, steel, etc. Those few rich men, if you ever read their biographies, spent all their time dedicated to their businesses. Kind of like priests, who are wholly dedicated to the service of God. See the analogy?

Secular retirement plans are similarly designed: there has to be a big enough group of bodies, and their "demographic composition" matters a lot in deciding what benefits an employer can afford to fund or pay. Uncle Sam's laws for employer "defined benefit" pension plans also have minimum and maximum limits, both on an individual, and on an aggregate (plan-wide) level: companies are required to provide a certain minimum amount, and are disallowed from providing more than the United States-defined maximum (both limits are based on insane factors). This "minimum" is codified in United States Internal Revenue "Code Section 412"; the maximum, in "Code Section 404" (among other places). The Federal Government regulates each plan's limits based on Federal Financial Goals For The Whole Polity, rather than on the financial needs of each such plan. That is the real reason why United States retirement plans are in such trouble: and the trouble began, way back in 1975. Of course, basing one's own minimums and maximums on someone else's arbitrarily-defined 'need' is a totally unsound way to provide for the future: it's like saying you should save based on what some stranger in Alabama allegedly needs! 'Which is why the United States retirement system is always in trouble, and always being tinkered with in the name of (but to the detriment of) the "poor"! (The world's retirement system is in similar trouble, for other countries copy the United States. Big mistake.)

Happily, God's Divine Benefit Plan is infinitely more competent; but He does take the blessing to "whole" into account: capacity to receive is key. God's Blessing by Association is how He 'funds' (transmits) blessing to the "whole". So, God's Plan really works a lot like an "employer's self-funded welfare/pension plan". However, God's Plan is wholly "trust-funded" first (Ephesians 1); yet benefits are only paid to the extent that the "contingencies" funded for, occur. Beneath these rules is an actuarial concept of "population variance" (AKA "demographics") affecting the "benefit levels", so to speak, of Divine Blessing transmitted to a group of people in a "window" of time, over a geographical area. For, in God's 'benefit plan', benefits decline due to negative recipient volition. For example, the September 11 attacks on the United States, and the weird natural disasters over the past few years signify that a "window period" is closing: not enough people positively exercised their options.

Ephesians 1:1-18 records the fact that God willed the highest and best for everyone in eternity past, and then wholly funded that will. Thus, the Church becomes 'ripe', so also in history a nation becomes 'ripe' for blessing, depending on the positive volition dynamics of the people in it. Think of these like "window benefits". During the "window period", which is the time during which people must exercise their option to take the benefit, everyone is eligible, in two tiers: 1) eligible, because alive within the "window period", and 2) eligible For More Benefits Beyond the "window period", to the extent the person exercises his positive volition to God within the "window period". All other Divine benefits outside the window period are contingent upon the amount of Window Benefits being exercised. Positive volition is the "contingency" which turns on, so to speak, some extra amount of benefit transmission both within the "window period", and beyond it. The "window periods" are many, and aggregate for a locality; and, for a region; and, for a nation, a continent... the world. The overall effect of all these "windows"? 'Like a series of pipes with valves which open or close depending on the 'command' given them.

All Divine Benefits are measured in terms of How Much Of His Thinking Is Distributed, Isaiah 53:12. Every New Testament verse I've ever encountered 'points' to that fact; and the entire distribution system is most succinctly described, in Ephesians 4:11-16, as well as Romans 12:1-3. This is why we need pastors teaching us the Original Language Bible texts, never any stupid translation. Bible is impossible to translate properly anyway, and the satanic tampering with the translations throughout the centuries make what we have, even worse: blasphemous, frankly. Thank God man is so weak, that he can't even obey his demon-sent thoughts — which we all get, but Bible people get them the most, so need the most prayer support — since man can't obey period, he can't totally screw up Scripture translation, either. Just enough to make you scratch your head all the time, or think that works is the spiritual life!

So, for every covenant, there are many "windows" within it which open and close, dispensing Divine Blessing (including punishment). Moreover, each covenant is itself a "window" for the entire time it operates. (Bible keyword for the "window period" of a covenant is "Age", but English Bibles routinely mistranslate it so you can't see the keyword as often as it occurs. A lot of weird misinterpretation thus results, namely, some Covenant theologians think the Church began "in Abram's tent", and thus all the promises to Israel were given instead, to the Church. What insanity.)

Common United States Retirement Plan example: Say you're 50 years old. Corporation "ABC" offers a Defined Benefit Plan "window benefit" of an lifetime annuity of extra 15% of your pay if you retire at age 55, rather than the usual age 62. You get this "window" benefit usually in lump sum, rather than added to your stream of retirement income, so of course the lump sum is the discounted value of 15% of your pay for your lifetime, beginning at age 55. This, on top of your regular pension. But! If you retire at age 55 instead of age 62, the amount of your retirement income for life is lower; so, the question is, will that extra 15% annuity make up for the amount you lose by retiring early? Your election is irrevocable, of course, once you reach age 55: if you didn't choose the window benefit by then, you don't get it. If you did, you can't get out of it.

God's Divine Benefit Plan Example: God offers you, believer, a "window benefit" which is the antithesis of Corporation ABC's, above: the window benefit grows higher as you grow spiritually, and so do your other regular benefits: there not only is no offset, but Gain Goes To All Around You As Well As To You. (Reminder: salvation can't be lost, so we're talking about benefits atop the "foundation" of salvation, see 1 Corinthians 3.) This gain is in many more categories than mere money, and this gain buys what money cannot.

If you reach Πλήρωμα during the "window period", your "window benefit" and your regular pension will be a bazillion times higher; plus, those around you receive much more, too, even after the window period closes! However, like with Corporation ABC, you only have a limited time to say yes: the "window period". However, unlike Corporation ABC, your window period's "close" is the date you die. So, you really don't know how long the window lasts, because you don't know if you will die tomorrow. Also unlike Corporation ABC, you have the option to reject (by prolonged carnality) the window benefit and the regular pension at any time before death, even if payments began. (i.e., at maturity. God may override this for the sake of your periphery.) You can use 1 John 1:9 and regain your option to take the window benefit, but repeated rejections and rebounds might add up to a certain less than Full (Πλήρωμα) "Yes" amount. So, keep using 1 John 1:9, and stay on God's Script!

What kind of Benefits are these, For Church? Well, like many welfare or pension plans, God's (superior) Divine Benefit Plan contingencies and amounts are layered, kinda as follows (greatly simplified):

Casual Layer Window Benefit Type
Pleroma
Πλήρωμα = "Fullness of Christ" Fully vests: all escrows, awards, crowns secured (delivery occurs at Bema); all benefit levels plus death benefits awarded in believer's name, beginning at the time he vests, to periphery, nation, and continues long after his death. Range of award is vast, and varies (there's variation within "Pleroma", too). Crosses time as well: up to maybe all mankind on earth in future epochs; also up to all other believers, forever.
Maturity
Material and Immaterial On-earth installment of escrow blessings, plus on-earth blessing to believer's entire nation; plus much higher versions of the blessings in the categories below.
Adulthood
Logistical Support plus Testing Benefits, plus de minimis benefits to believer's periphery due to association with believer.
Adolescence and Childhood
Logistical Support, plus de minimis benefits to believer's periphery due to association with believer, because the believer needs those others, logistically.
Matthew 7:1-2 and other Judicial
Ad hoc bonuses for particular advances (or, conversely, due to others' abuse of the person, a Justice reward); ad hoc punishments (which are blessings, for punishment backstops negativity).
Logistical Support Benefits
Akin to "minimum benefit", irrespective of how positive you are; plus the more traditional benefit-contingency metaphors like disability, hardship, retirement, cost of living increases. However, 'logistical support' is defined as What You Need To Grow Up Spiritually. Which may mean, a great deal of either wealth, or poverty; health, or sickness; other success, or failure, like Paul said: "I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound," which ties to the Macro Purpose of Getting Rapport with Omniscience, "Filling all in all" clause at the end of Ephesians 1. So you get what you need Spiritually, personally tailored to you.

Note how these blessing conveyances also have "Dependent Benefit" provisions: blessing also goes to those deemed "related" to the person in like categories. You can see how, with all these layers and interactions among people, the more growing Christians there are in a nation the more blessed that nation is. Of course, the converse would be true, also! Principle: The More Believers There Are Who Are Moving "Up" The Table, The More Blessing To Their Nation And Their Periphery. Conversely, The Fewer Believers There Are, Or The More There Are Who Are Moving "Down" The Table, The More Cursing Flows To Them And Their Periphery. There are substantial grace periods in the latter case, to allow a recalcitrant believer to wake up, use 1 John 1:9 and get cracking with the spiritual life.

So there is always some 'layer' of blessing going to the aggregate group, i.e., the polity/nation. Therefore the rise and fall of amounts and types of blessing in all layers is determined by the individual positive volition characteristics occurring within the population, as well as due to the aggregate of such characteristics in the population as a whole.

Satan knows this spiritual actuarial valuation effect all too well, and he aims to move us down the table. For, the unbeliever is not blessed by God except to the extent of logistical support to get the Gospel: which is considerable, even so, and amounts to a substantial underwriting of his life and safety. (Since the unbeliever doesn't want God in his life, blessing can only go to him if there is some other Justice Issue Warranting It. Such as, 'blessing by association' with a believer!) So — as you might expect — Satan tries to deflect the blessing God grants believers to his own ends. When he can't do this, he objects to Divine Blessing for some individual, group, location, nation, etc.

So, due partly to Satan's objections in the Trial, God's "actuarial valuation" of the blessing 'payout' is based on two valuations of positive capacity per valuation period: the second valuation caps what the first would otherwise provide. The first "val" is based on the sufficiency of His Eternity Past provision, namely, the portion of the entire fund reserved (and wholly solvent) for current benefits, valued as if everyone would wholly 'collect' within the window period; The second "val" is based on the foreknown results of the free choice to get the provision (in lieu of "probability" factors). This dual-valuation of benefits is somewhat akin to (instead of individual limitations under "IRC Code Sections 415-417") the "Code Section 404 and 412" max and min "Full Funding Limit" ("FFL") corridors. God's 'foreknown use' valuation acts like those "FFLs". (Well, 'except that God's limitations actually balance to the provision needed, and make sense!)

How God's Imposed Limits Work → First of all, notice that "Predestination" means Insurance. Ephesians 1 says that "every spiritual blessing" was put on deposit in eternity past. Therefore, assuming each person exercised his full window benefit options by growing all the way to Πλήρωμα, enough Divine Benefits are there to fund all of it. So it's not as though free will were coerced. Of course, you have to get body blessings to fit the spiritual ones! These, of course, are fully funded too. So the only question is, do people have the needed capacity for these benefits? The negative soul shrinks: giving into its wants makes it even worse. Ergo Divine Limits must be imposed for the sake of backstopping soul shrinkage.

Therefore: if the First Val's provision falls within the 'Divine FFL' corridor, it's okay to transmit its benefits; recipients won't be under-receipted or over-receipted. Conversely, if the Divine FFL intervenes, then only that much can be currently transmitted, because over-provision would be harmful to the group: their capacity to receive is too low, due to too much negative volition toward God. Positive individuals within the group would get their still-due benefits in a different way, maybe, to prevent harm to others within the group. By the way: God favors Highly Compensated Employees ("HCEs"), since one becomes an "HCE" due to growing up spiritually in God's Script! Which, of course, is also how Congress ought to design pension and welfare law to best benefit the so-called 'poor', since all blessing flows down from God, so 'trickle down economics' works By Divine Design — but I digress...

The resultant benefit to the whole group can be likened to actuarial pension/welfare funding/benefit payout "probability mathematics", except that Omniscient God doesn't need to calculate probabilities: in any given period, a certain proportion of folks will "withdraw" (quit, reject); a certain proportion will die; another proportion will become disabled (bout of carnality, but not permanent); another, will fully 'collect' within the window period; another segment within the group, having collected, will keep 'collecting' Beyond The Window Period for so long, etc. All these contingencies can be valued in advance. God, being Omniscient, accurately valued and funded all these benefits in eternity past. So the amount of blessing transmitted, the "benefit accruals", are capped only by the 'Divine FFL', and then only for Trial reasons: Satan objected that folks were negative, and he was (eventually) right to so argue.

So the number and kinds of layers of "Benefit accrual" (beyond mere logistical support) are only due to the Amount Of Positive Volition Being Exercised within the "window period". If it helps, think of how Abram reasoned with the Son (as "The Angel of the Lord") on the way to Sodom. Or, how Moses reasoned with the Lord. There are lots of Divine Benefit Valuation statements in Scripture; but those two, almost anyone remembers. Some of them aren't obvious, like the "pearl of great price", and the mustard seed parable; and the fact that out of 5,000 adherents, only 12 were picked as apostles; only 1 was picked to be apostle to Gentiles (Paul). Some are distinct, like the talents parable, widow with two coppers, and especially the "sower" parable of Luke 8. In the Old Testament there are frequent invocations where God the Son says He'd wipe out everyone, except that He will keep His Promise to David. So now you have an idea that there are a good many Biblical Divine Benefit Volactuarial statements.

So, the Amount Of Blessing Transmitted In The Form Of Prosperity (or Adversity) depends on:

  • The Numbers of Folks Within Four Actuarial Groups, as well as on...
  • The cumulative Amount Of Benefit Accrued, which in turn is based on...
  • The cumulative Amount Of Bible Doctrine 'Eaten' by each individual within each group.

The four groups are:

  1. Πλήρωμα-stage believers (last and greatest growth stage of the spiritual life; stage begins sometime during Spiritual Maturity);
  2. Spiritual Adults (those who have learned the spiritual life, and as a result are progressing in or near Spiritual Maturity);
  3. Not new, but positive believers, positively learning the spiritual life;
  4. New believers.

Notice how unbelievers and permanently negative believers aren't included. Their benefits default to the bottom layer, "logistical support". Since they currently are saying "no" to God, He's a gentleman, so to speak: He won't impose unwanted blessing (see James 1, James 3, 2 Chronicles 7:14). Everyone is temporarily negative in some way. That's what 1 John 1:9 is for. So if you are a spiritual adult and get catawampus (slang for "petulant") with God, you don't lose your adulthood status — but you'll be spanked royally. By contrast, permanent negativity exists where you chuck the Bible or substitute ritual or feely stuff for the spiritual life (with Bible being something you thump and clobber, not learn). If you wake up and use 1 John 1:9, you'll have some moving up the table time to recoup.

Notice also how intra-group attritions, timed like the four generation criterion, would affect benefit levels for "the whole". For example, if the bottom-tier group's attrition is too high (not enough unbelievers are newly believing in Christ to replace those who were once new entrants), then the proportions between the groups changes, and blessing transmission must be "actuarially adjusted" for the loss, so the whole group's receipt of aggregate blessing decreases. This obtains, even if the higher beneficiary classes are doing very well. Conversely, if the upper beneficiary classes are exploiting their spiritual lives, the "actuarial adjustment" becomes gain to the lower classes — and of course, all the dependent periphery benefits as well. Nota Bene: any gain is given out, not used to reduce funding costs. For, "every spiritual blessing" was already funded since Eternity Past. God needs no help! See the "test me in this" verses in Bible, like Malachi 3:10. Ohhh, when the NIV gets a verse right, its translation is so good you want to cry with joy! This is one of them!

In sum, there are a lot of blessings and cursings being administered by God at any moment; they all overlap, and they are all due to individual growth or retrogression within an area. They All Spill Over To The Entire Polity, And They Spill Over To The World, And Across Time. God uses Time like a balance sheet, crediting or debiting it. Real Time, which is the greatest blessing of all, for we all need time to learn.

So when you see the disasters in Africa (particularly Niger, where there is a lot of positive volition, but most people are in the third and fourth tiers), notice how specific they are. The starving children, are automatically saved. The adults, if they also didn't have enough ability to refuse the Gospel, are also saved. And those who are positive, are the blessing holding the nation together. It doesn't take many, to bless a nation!

So when you see the disasters in the United States, you know too many of us are moving down the table. God never violates Justice.




Inset for Part 4d: Witness? Us. United States. America.

"Witness: Us" (pun on the "US" acronym for United States), an essay about post-WWII America's progressive disinterest in Bible and its concomitant historical decline. The assessment is my own, gleaned from a lot of thinking and reading to ferret out folks' inner mental attitudes, values, which I feel is the most reliable barometer of predicting trends.

It's a funny thing, about history. If you look back at its long sweep, it seems like some broom moved the dust of one civilization to another location, to build on that dust; moving gradually around the globe, one spotlighted continent (or subcontinent) at a time. Each successive one has some relationship to those which went before it; each starts vigorously against opposition, but ends languorously, against none: kinda like a relay race. So the spotlight on the United States is in large measure due to its receiving the baton from an England-led Europe, once the smoke cleared from WWII.

Winner of WWII, Grantor of the Marshal Plan, we had become a unique entity in world history, which of course we don't realize at that point. The Grand 1776 Experiment, a unique combination of no-monarchy and no-state-religion and, within but a century, the largest united polity, ever, without mandated religion or king/emperor. Beginning as we did, as a nation of folks seeking sanctuary to live under God according to our consciences, we also brought our pioneering and pacificism with us. Thus was forged our badger-like independence.

Shifting time and again among these conflicting attributes, we had our growing pains and civil wars, as every new nation eventually does. Our faith burned brightly for a few generations, and then dissolved into some form of hedonism; then, back to faith. As time passed, the bouts of strait-laced belief and wild abandon turned over faster. With due repentance at each turn. God mattered, you see. We couldn't get out of the spiritual third grade, but we didn't want to divorce Him, either. It is no exaggeration to say that, in aggregate, the story of America is the story of a people who really want God, but... Don't quite know how to grow up with Him. That is our secret, our soul.

So, we have always been fitfully growing up, retrogressing, coalescing, starting anew; we flexed our muscles time and again with foreign policy blunders, since we were forever bollixed over what to do about those cousins of ours, the Europeans; but when WWI finally bled Europe white, we found ourselves alone to fight, should another war occur.

Which, of course, it would: between Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and that travesty, the Treaty of Versailles, not to mention the never-resolved war of attrition that WWI really was, the centuries of argument between France and Germany were now a tinderbox for a Hitler. For a Mussolini. For a Japan which was rather happy to see the whites finally show their weaknesses. For a Stalin, who likewise was eager to see the hated West at last collapse. Bye-bye! The proverbial handwriting was on the wall, even as the ink dried on the treaty. But who listened? Oh no! We just fought the war to end all wars! And all was Quiet on the Western Front. Yeah, right.

So, as has always been true, the United States was unprepared for WWII. We drilled our soldiers with wooden sticks for guns, wooden models for tanks, wooden generalship for maneuvers, and a wooden populace who was deeply divided over warring in Europe -- as indeed, we always were. We had skewered folks like Billy Mitchell and all other manner of visionaries; many still believe that Roosevelt had to finagle the anger of the Japanese, or we'd never have gotten into the war. All that unpreparedness, of course, would change. As indeed, it always had, for once America wakes up... It gets going. After a rather nasty spanking, of course.

So we went to WWII. Our leadership ineptitudes in effect condemned many a sailor and soldier from Pearl Harbor to Bataan, to Omaha Beach; in Europe, the blunder at Hurtgen Forest, Bastogne was almost impossible to believe -- but, in both places and all the others, the "GI" was incredibly inventive, resilient, and accepting of all manner of hardship, despite his swagger: "Nuts!" We had a few brilliant over-tethered generals, and a lot of loyal soldiers; who, being human, showed both their flaws and their courage from parachute drops in France, to Anzio to Iwo Jima and Tarawa.

For, "God" actually meant Someone to us: although as spiritual children we still clung to our insecurity in the form of racially-segregated units, hugging the myth that skin color somehow intimated worth; nonetheless, every man-at-arms had a hymn book, a little maroon thing (1942), slimmer than some wallets. But we believed in those hymns. For, we believed in the God the hymns sang about, and the belief was simple, but deep. We'd be huddling in a foxhole on Iwo, looking at a sparrow calmly sitting on a log, despite the deafening slash of fire about it -- and we'd recall the Gospel verse that Father cares even for every sparrow. Thus inspired, we'd jump out of the foxhole to bring blood plasma and other medical aid, to others in other foxholes. Just like that sparrow.

For, "God" was the main reason America became unique in the first place: many of our ancestors came to this country fleeing persecution; a nation of mostly Deists and Reformed folks sought sanctuary here. So America became a unique entity in history because "America" is an idea, not a racial group, culture, religion, or even a common history. 'An Idea -- based on God. Based, thus, on Freedom. Freedom from having to be of a certain social class, ethnic background, culture; freedom from having to belong to some state religion; freedom from cultural baggage one feels disloyal to question; free to speak, finally -- more than ever in an entity of such size. All this, due to our simple faith in a weird desert God Who Paul and like missionaries brought with them when they came to Europe, to fulfill a prophecy we'd not known (i.e., in Psalms 18:43, Ezekiel 32:9, Isaiah 65:15). Back when our ancestors were still largely worshipping, trees...

So, still strong in faith, we come home victorious from WWII; and we build. An unprecedented period of prosperity in the history of the world, started by the Europeans (principally England), was now in full swing. So, we advance. Yet our strong belief, well, it didn't keep up pace with our material growth; our strong belief stayed skewed to childish moral thinking. You can see the skewing in the movies we made during the war: the innocent dialogue and Normal Rockwell dress code would later seem strange to the more modern, jaded children. You can see the skewing in the (new invention!) TV programs, which promote "nice": Mouseketeers, Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, Disneyland's "Sunday show" with Tinkerbell descending. We dutifully attend our churches on Sunday, praise the nice homily the pastor spoke, sing our hymns, and then play with all our new prosperities. Then God kinda gets tucked into the background, as we arrest in our childish fancies. These fancies display many dark undersides: Godzilla fears, burning crosses, greed. As many a historian has quipped, America wins the war, but loses the peace. And so we did, again. As indeed we always have done, since our beginning as a nation. So, the childish, shiny-faced, happily-hoping American, the Tom Sawyer of the world, grows into the Ugly American. With his big stick.

Kinda like a bull in a china shop, at that point we still don't recognize or know how to use our uniqueness, our size, any more than we know how to grow up with respect to God; so, we don't see the unprecedented weight our polity has on world affairs, simply because we are so different. Instead, all we know, as indeed we have always 'known', is that we still react against the 'old world' values we all fled from to get here in the first place. So, childlike (or childish) we blunder into other sovereign nations with our new way of being and doing, clueless; with our over-familiar manner, our overfed bodies, or overflowing money: and we don't see how the old world finds all that, offensive.

We didn't then (and still don't) recognize that our offer to rebuild Europe would not exactly garner everlasting thanks, for it looked a lot like the American Way would smother the European past; it looked a lot like a threat to the paranoid Stalin, who nearly destroyed the Russian economy and people to 'catch up'; his paranoia would be inherited by Khrushchev, onward. Our Way was a very real threat to the equally paranoid Mao Zedong, especially since Joseph Stilwell and following were on the Kuomintang side. The American Way looked a lot like humiliation to Japan, but they were determined to learn from it.

So our impact on history since the Enola Gay, plays essentially as follows...


The Trial of the United States

In short, to the world, our 'help', both then and now, looks a lot like a bunch of shiny money in braggarts' pockets -- with a significant obligation written on each coin we 'give': an obligation to give in. Worse, every other polity which was in trouble then and now would use the American Way as justification to fight in their own 'revolutions', from Arabia to Zimbabwe. Above all, our very materialistic culture, since we had become the biggest nation on the block in terms of economic and military clout, attracted the world's young -- so suddenly, the old world began to have trouble with their own children's respect for the past. Ergo, we are a bigger threat, in the world's eyes, than Genghis Khan could have ever been. Just by our simply being us. Our very existence is somewhat analogous to the problem of Walmart moving into a small town. Only, we don't have to 'move there', to be a threat. We just are.

Hence, even our breathing is seen as a cultural threat-to-survival: that's the political impetus for 9/11. That's the biggest reason why we are hated even by our usual allies; why it's fashionable around the world to make fun of us. That's why the danger of world war is higher than ever, and why Satan can use that perception of cultural threat (historically the greatest of war cries), to foster unity among disparate nations.

Our behaviour does nothing but augment that hatred. For, we are still children, so we don't discern how naturally intimidating we are. The rest of the world doesn't know what to make of us: on the one hand, our freshness is attractive, but on the other hand, it is rude. So if ever there was evidence that today "Second Reason for Royalty" is in full-force-and-effect, America's image in the eyes of the world is "it".

Solution: We Christians should take great care how we walk, Paul warned (Ephesians 5:17 and elsewhere). Destiny's Duty.. Even our Manifest Destiny's duty, to finally grow up. Whether we like it, or not. Our military can't go running around the world forever. Our politicians can't garner sufficient political will for stasis. No, it's really our fault for always remaining children, and it's high time we ourselves left spiritual grammar school. For, that's our true malady. For, Israel was made a spotlight for hatred, or a beacon of freedom in the Old Testament, so also the United States / us, "now". On Trial. Or God will pass on the baton, to someone else.

The United Kingdom, Israel, and maybe even Brazil, South Korea, and the Philippines are involved with us in this Trial, but I'm not sure to what extent. We should still be responsible for our own decisions, and not expect allies. Be glad for their support, and grateful, yes; but not be angry, if they must sit on the sidelines. For this is an issue between God and us: 2 Chronicles 7:14. Let us not shift blame!


Humiliation, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Just the same, in every dispute, as in every bad marriage, both sides are to blame in differing ways, and it always boils down to one question: will the parties find a way to mediate their differences? Surely the US cannot be blamed for its historical uniqueness or size, and if other nations are intimidated by some American superiority, well: that's not the fault of the US. However, we didn't grasp all this reactive aftermath, and still don't. We continued to remain clueless to our uniqueness, so keep on our natural way, offending. So, we keep on reacting to 'their' offense; thus shocked, self-righteous, or just plain baffled, we exacerbate any negative reaction to us. So foreign policy remains our greatest ineptitude. Because, we're still 'children'. Under God. Just as we were, back during the aftermath of WWII. So, of course, the war with Communism, first with South Korea as a battlefield, was inevitable.

It's a funny thing, about faith. When you're still young enough in it, every thing is black and white, good or bad. So, post-WWII (as today), we just scratched our heads when we encountered offense; that is, if we didn't wave our stick around. Others tried to scratch up some money from us... Or, from the paranoid leader of Russia. We didn't know how to separate genuine support for ideals like our own from superficial 'non-alignment' policy which was a ruse a weak nation needed to buy itself time. So we spurned a Ho Chi Minh and others like him, thus forcing communistic embraces which could have been avoided. We didn't catch on. So, instead of fighting the evil of communism with wisdom, we fought with religious polemics: because, we still believed in God, you see -- doesn't everyone?

It's a funny thing about the history of nations: not a one of them dies from prolonged adversity. Instead, they all implode, or slowly rot like an overripe peach: death-by-prosperity. Some outsider taking them over merely is a coup de grace. Whether you trace the history of China, SPQR, Russia, or Europe through the 20th century, in each case, prosperity is enervating, if it lasts too long.

Of course, the United States is a very young country, with a spectacular start, growth rate, and an unprecedented prosperity for its people: we were one of the very few countries in world history which could produce ample amounts of "guns and butter". So also, a swift decline has ensued, but for a reason not unique to nations-under-God: we don't grow out of spiritual childhood. That remains our Problem. For our Secret Soul Wants God -- and we don't know anything else, even as we don't know what to do about our spiritual retardation. We were founded on Him, not like the Christian right contends with its goofy misuse of Bible and history -- but more truly: in Simple Faith. Which, alas again, has become, simpleton. (See Isaiah 28, Hosea 4:6, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, just to name some sample passages. Paul expresses the same principle as in Deuteronomy 9:4, in Romans 11:17.)


So Witness Our Decline...

For, between the headiness of our new post-Korean War position on the world stage and our crusading over other nations' reactions, God became a designer label to US almost overnight. The moralistic 1950's degenerate into the 1960's: we react, frantically seeking happiness to compensate for all that moral sacrifice. The goodies, you see, leave us empty. So, tempers become thinner, and demands, higher, as the frantic search backfires, boomerangs, by mid-decade. Vietnam only helps accelerate the decline. Families fragment; divorce rates quicken, since the other partner is always to blame. The progressively self-absorbed populace emotionally revolts: if it's not demanding "free love", it's demanding religion and government "do something". So, legalism and laws multiply, suffocate. Thus, over the next 30 years, life becomes hopelessly negative, hypersensitive, as society chokes within a growing tangle of regulated "rights".

By the 1990's, you can see it even in our eyes: people have so blackened in self-absorption, their self-scarring deadens them. Seed-pod people. As Deuteronomy 28 predicts, they are restless: people now long for night in the morning, and for morning, at night; they feel chased, even when safe; they no sooner get a respite, when some disaster strikes, as no good deed goes unpunished. The Great Society becomes the Great Debacle. Father Knows Best is replaced by "Cops"; Tommy Dorsey gives way to rap music. The perennially-open kitchen door and evening strolls in our neighborhoods cease: for real hoods are out there, now. Cowering, some of us won't eat at public restaurants; won't drink anything at an private junior high's party; won't fly; won't won't won't move, for... It might be dangerous! The Boogeyman is everywhere, in our eyes.

So, having reversed all former ideas of "love" as giving, having rejected Grace, our people have come to violently demand being given-to: Legislation becomes 'god', in lieu of The Real One. So, law micromanages even one's private habits -- like if a fetus is a legal person, child discipline controls, right-to-die; like the paint on a frog, to old linoleum in a home; to smoking, eating; to packaging, like childproof caps which no adult can open; all these evidence how people insanely demand 'someone else' provide the 'magic fix' for their ever-shrinking souls. Life sours into a tasteless diet of rules, rules, rules, rules! Or, bread-and-circus. 'A men-are-from-mars, women-from-venus "scorecard" sterility is promoted "good". Everyone tells everyone else "I am right! You are wrong!" "Join my crusade!" "March on Washington!" "There Oughta be a law!" So of course even "sex" must be religified, too: you have to learn it on video. Why, for only $49.95, says the back cover of Book magazine's second volume, you can get both the basic sex techniques, as well as the advanced lessons. So to show how proficient you are. You are 'good' if you make the right movements; bad, if you don't.

And Love? Well, it was in a movie, once. George Orwell's "Hate Week" has replaced it now. Big Brother's penetrating eyes have replaced it, now. Very moral, very paternal, very enslaving, very dead.

Thus history repeats itself. Such was SPQR (Ancient Rome), toward its end. The Inquisition, too. The 'Salem witch trials. The French Revolution. Hitler's Germany. So, US churches today browbeat, or offer feel-good thump thumps to keep congregants returning. So, today's hypochondriasis -- or, true illness -- skyrockets. Why? The defense mechanism "plumbing" is overloaded with self-focus, so backs up into the conscious mind. The soul, already too shrunken by these many dry rules, begins to break under all their stress. And so it goes. 'For people, for nations. All due to loveless morality's diarrhetic tyranny. George Orwell's 1984. That's how loveless morality shrinks the soul. Never was Satan's plan -- "having a form of godliness, but denying its power" -- so eloquently expressed, as in that book. There, everyone is madly in "Room 101" -- Orwell just picked the wrong country for his allegory, that's all.

Hate Week is our life. Now, in 2001. Now, in 2002. Dull, afraid, colorless, waving the flag, shaking-the-fist, we bang our heads on our rhetorical walls, thud thud. Not even the shocking loss of life on 9/11/01 really penetrated our cotton brains: we get on our high horse and kill those who have the same skin color as the terrorists, or we get on our high horse and think God likes it if we negotiate with Sennacharib's spiritual children. And we mount our high horses stupidly, to boot. We donate oodles of money, but not a single thought to the insanity of strengthening a cockpit door, when the latch itself is always easy to break.

Oh, yeah: and we hollowly praise the lost, just as horribly as we hollowly praise everything else. Like the world just before Christ was born, we glory in fear, fear-of-death, death, rather than appreciating life. Did we all get on television to praise the dead of 9/11? Did we make stamps and pictures and not fly out of honor to them? Or, to praise ourselves? True grief is silent, not loud. Were all those public tears really for the dead, or to get attention?

OOOOOh, it feels so good to feel bad. Ooohh, it feels so good to sue the airlines whose misfortune it was to ferry the terrorists! Uh-Oh, bored again. So, what else is new? Oh, yeah, Enron: aha, another feeding frenzy, get some more soundbyte coverage! But Oops! Enron died too quickly! So onward, after Arthur Andersen! Drat, it also died too soon by allegation! Ahhh, let's impale someone else, as our thirst for bloodying others is yet unquenched! Let's engage Hamlet's self-righteous quest, rising up against a sea of alleged ancient pederasts, and by accusing, end them!

Thus we living vultures prey on our own dead, to feed our own egos. Piously, of course. After all, one must have some manners at the dinner table. Anyone got salt?

Such is Satan's Götterdämmerung legacy to mankind, which we Royal-Failure Christians kindly made possible: carrion-eating. See, man will atrophy into insanity, from unmediated morality or immorality, because both destroy the ability to be satisfied. That's what happened to Adam, post-Fall (you never hear from him again), because man cannot live alone, apart from God -- he's not designed to live divorced from his First Love. So, the ennui outcome of Satan's plan is inevitable: moral or immoral, you get to the same sighing destination! Immorality renders the soul ever-more-impatient, so any achieved wants are but specks compared to the tyrannical desire. By contrast, unmediated-by-love morality is likewise masturbating, because it ties its morals to self-worth, rather than to the proper 'mate', God's Righteousness. For, if morality mated instead with His Righteousness, there would be no need to play with self.


What's Our Epitaph?

Yours truly was born shortly after Stalin died. Growing up in the United States, I saw first-hand how different we were then. The seeds of our present malaise were already well-sprouted, but there was a certain understanding about the 'little graces', and we revelled in them. Gloves for church. Thank-you notes. Saying hello to one's neighbors while walking to school -- even a stranger was welcome! Goodie-baskets for new neighbors. Dressing up for dinner, or company... Even at home. There, children learned to sit quietly, and practiced hard to be well-behaved. It was quite a thrill, I can tell you, when I mastered which fork and glass had what purpose!

Dads puttered in the garage or at the fishing hole. Moms baked bread, and truly relished doing it, with memory-moist eyes telling their daughters how "Nana" rolled the dough with just so much cinnamon. Kids played marbles and actually got tucked in at night with a genuine bedtime story. In the morning, if we made up our bedsheets so tightly a quarter could bounce off them... We got to keep the quarter! Which we could, yes, we could! Spend on "Pushups" for our friends when the ice cream truck rolled by after school!

Parents taught us that no well-bred young man or lady considered a porter's Job demeaning; one oughtn't to deem the rich evil, but to have worked hard to get there: did not God give them the money? But: both were admired, for did not God make us all? Servanthood or Headship were both a privilege to cherish, whether high-to-low, or low-to-high. After all, we were all equally-loved, by God. Nearly every child in Sunday school learned these things, as did I. Whether in the poorer sections, or the wealthier ones. We all had God in common, you see.

My friends and I didn't understand some of the grownups' rules. For example, why certain colors of kids couldn't live in our neigborhood -- so we sneaked over to theirs. They didn't understand why, either. So we played together, on the sly, vowing that when we grew up, we'd not have such rules. Doesn't Jesus love all the little children? So, all their parents, too? For, we all had God in common, you see.

The reason to be moral, was good manners: to be thoughtful of the other person. That mattered, and it felt good. It was a thrill, then, to have one's own little tea party or soirée, the little gentlemen in their tiny suits, the little ladies in their patent-leather shoes and crisp pinafores, because we could practice our manners, and practice being thoughtful. It was nice to avoid swear words, and being cross; it was understood that the problem with sex was, if you had it too soon, you dishonored your intended mate-for-life. That was important, then, and we believed in it.

Best of all, God was a real person you prayed to at night, learned in Bible class, and trusted to take you home so you could finally see Him face-to-face:

"Now I lay me down to sleep;

I pray the Lord my soul to keep;

And if I die before I wake,

I pray the Lord my soul to take."

This was a real America, and I grew up in her. This was a real America, who had Bible Doctrine... Once.


See how important Doctrine is, see why God's 'just study' First Commandment is vital to one's health? Sure, some of the details above seem stilted now (whyever did we need to wear gloves and hats) -- but, see the intent? It was a childish honor, to be sure -- but it was Honor. Where is even that honor, now? Where is the pleasure we once knew, in the little graces? Oh, but we never grew past their forms! Never came to learn the God 'behind' them! So where is honor, now? Oh, it's in but movies, now. Gone, with the wind.




Part 4d, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?

Jump Links also serve to list webpage theses. Italic links are charts.
“8 R’s” of
Evidence Testing E.T.’s about
Relationship Basics I. Structure
Basics II. Passing
Grade III. God’s
Oneness Goal IV. Togetherness
Vested V. Dependence
on God VI. Superhuman,
Isa 52:14 VII. Satan defeated by
God‑Dependent Happiness VIII. Eternal
Effects ET attests STAYING,
not straying Divinely‑Royal Breeding Exclusive Focus on Christ Royal “Issue”, Children Staying, in Bible Staying at Rest A Combat of Rest Christ’s Combat on Cross #VI Superhuman Thanksgiving PLEASURE ET Litmus: Wasting yourself?
Or the Relationship? Reverse Litmus:
misspelt spiritual life = Divorce ET Roster of Victorious Waste Your Combat Payoff ET Compared
pan‑covenant Romans 8 — Filling Fulfilled
‘Sum, God Blesses World
while we Prepare’ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Your Legacy? Witness: US. America.

Your Trial Combat leads to a Destiny God reserved for you in Eternity Past, as per Ephesians 1. You can refuse it. Yet suppose you instead kept on in God's Script, so now you are in Pleroma Maturity, ready for Evidence Testing? What would it be like? God being so high and all, you'd think that Evidence Testing would be flashy or epic like "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston. Guess again. In Evidence Testing, you go back to basics.

Think outside the Christian box for a second. 2000 years ago, a dusty little country no one liked had a visitor. This visitor claimed to be god. Everyone and his brother was claiming to be god in those days. Ho-hum. As is usual, people divided over this new visitor who was unusually attractive — and followed him around the dusty countryside for about three years. As is usual, they claimed this god did all these miracles. As is usual, the god was basically not submissive to the authorities in his teachings, though he counseled no uprisings. So as is usual, this god-person's uncomfortable teachings, motivated the authorities to do something about him. So as is usual, eventually they got him; and because they had no right under Roman law to execute him themselves, they rigged a deal for the Romans to do it. So this god-person was crucified, as was usual — especially in that dusty little scrap of a country. Ho-hum. Story ends here, an asterisk in history, a footnote comment a Suetonius or Tacitus feel almost resentfully compelled to recount in passing, and that only due to the brouhaha which afterwards flamed over this god-person.

God is flashy by nature. If you 'saw' Him, you'd be so overwhelmed, you couldn't think. So He veils Himself; thus you can see Him indirectly, through what He creates. That is, if you want to see Him. That's why a dusty little country considered an asterisk in history — but for the brouhaha over it — would get The Visitation. So it wouldn't be besieged, so mankind wouldn't be weighed down, so decisions about Him could be private; so back then, the dusty little country whose Law He authored, could choose whether it wanted its Always-Existing Creator Who Became, YHWH! Its Savior.

So, let's talk about basics. Rescue is basic; saving someone, is basic. A dog is in trouble. A person is under rubble. An oceanfront is awash in oil. Everyone loves a good rescue. Very satisfying. Well, Greek verb "σῴζω", usually translated "to save", really first means rescue. Think of "salvation" as rescue, for that's what it is. You were dead, but alive again. You were lost, but now found. You will live, even if you die. These are all Bible verses and there are a ton of them, using every metaphor known to man, for Rescue. So what use is flash, to a person under rubble? Can a dog be rescued from drowning, if stones are turned into bread? Can a people wholly sold under false thinking be rescued from it — by a spectacular Jumping Display (Second Temptation)? Can the misery of disbelief, that most desolate unhappiness no child ever had — can Disbelief be Rescued, via some guy ruling all the kingdoms of the world? No: political power doesn't rescue now, and didn't back in Enoch's day, or there'd have been no Flood. Can't rescue by public means, by outers, a Private and Inner Problem of Disbelief.

You can tell from the Greek of Matthew 4, Satan is absolutely flummoxed that Christ would not want to be flashy. Satan thinks Godness should be flashy; how much more, this Human Who Alone among Humanity, is so Perfect? Satan admires Him: But this total lack of flash.. Why? People are weak, and need that assistance! If you really loved mankind, Oh Most High-in-the-Flesh, why penalize their weak minds, as if they could do anything on their own? Show Yourself! This, Christ refused to do. Any supernatural demonstrations He'd make in His Public Ministry were balanced with comments that those things weren't important. But instead, He stressed the Word constantly. Well, words are basic. Sine qua non of life. Especially, the Word. So, The Word stuck to the basics. For which, He was crucified. For Which He Rose, Psalms 138:2b + Isaiah 52:13 + Isaiah 54:1 + Isaiah 55:1. That's the Word of the Cross, 1 Corinthians 1:18.

Life is fundamentally basic, not flashy. Life is basic, whether you're God, or a creature. God lives. That's basic. God Thinks. That's basic. God Wants. That's basic. God gets what He wants. That's basic. And what He wants, is relationship, which is the most fundamental basic of all: for what's the point of being alive, if not to enjoy relationship with Him? That's basic: Rescue, in order to have Relationship. That's the Word of the Cross, believe and you get that Relationship. Forever.

So two of the Three Rs of the Spiritual Life, are Rescue and Relationship. What's the Third? "Remaining." Remaining in the Relationship, in Your Head. Bible in your head 24/7, does that. So here in the Evidence Test, it's about that Remaining, verb "μένω", Being At Home in Him.

Reality down here is basic. Basic aliveness, basic needs, basic wants. And all this life's basics, are basically bad. For human affairs are universally hypocritical and treacherous, dare we admit it. So beyond humanity's basic grabbing mentality is a lot of hot air, buying nothing. For despite all our philosophies, we can be undone instantly if we get a cold, have an accident, win the lottery. For despite all our vaunted moralities, all we want is to feel good. "Life" to us is comfort-defined, for we have so little of it. We want things, we try to get what we want; others want things, and of us, too; so we all basically strike up some kind of bargaining over what we will give for what we will get. We call all these activities by nice and noble names, but it's just basically, survival. To feel good. Nothing more. So when we get that cold, win that lottery, lose a little sleep.. And especially if there is a Public Victim, we prove all our noble words to be but hot air. Nothing is more constantly true of humans, than inconstancy.

The world is one big cardiac arrest. Incredible pettiness and childishness pervade all aspects of public life; makes you half-wish all the talk shows, charities, Congress and media would just fall asleep, as in J.B. Priestley's "The Hesperides Conference". Whether lamely pursuing immorality as if that ever satisfied; or, equally lamely, ascetically priding itself on its morality, the world is completely sterile. Its me-ness preoccupations don't leave room for any genuine rapport. "Love" is a designer label, a tool to get something from someone, or worse! to preen. Love has this 'price'; so relationships are incredibly shallow, fragile, dependent on forms rather than substance. Oh, and in need of constantly nice weather, have you noticed? Just one bad incident breaks up a marriage; a long friendship; a multinational corporation. Everyone feels so hurt! Even years and years later! So, it's not surprising that iconoclasm inevitably settles into the life; the world becomes jaded, and folks enter their retirement years with funded bitterness.

This shouldn't have to be said, but a whole lot of people are horrible to live with, not because they don't behave, but because they do. And, that's all they do: live proper lives, always have dinner on the table, always do their job at work — but inside, are so full of pettiness and insanity, being around them drives one crazy. It's the worst kind of hell: here is Joe or Jane Perfect, so the outers are all just right — in return, of course, Joe or Jane expects you to spend time admiring their pettifogging correctnesses. So like the German generals at the Berghof, you are sentenced to sit around listening to that precise, perfect mind beat you to death over how perfect it is. Nicely, of course. Better a meal of vegetables, Solomon quipped.

For, these people (and who doesn't have at least some of Mr. or Ms. Perfect running in the brain?) see only outers. To the inners, they are blind. So when they read Scripture, all those little perfectionistic behaviors are what they see: but the meaning beneath, oh no. Blue or white thread at dusk? If that Talmudic rule doesn't convey the whole bitterness of the world's outer-defined living standards, nothing does. For there's nothing but a shell. With dead men's bones inside. For they infect everyone with their "how good I am ugliness". Pharisees, hitlers, every one of them: and the rest of the world ardently wishes for respite away from them, and breathes a sigh of relief when they die. These are the people who form the majority of the upper-echelon population in every religion. No wonder God looks like someone you'd rather avoid, Romans 2:21-24; for they steal all the enjoyment out of life, 'robbing' God of His Rightful Portrayal. And betray themselves but walking dead.

Sooner or later, the bones surface: whether the broken skeleton of inconstancy, or the perfectly-fitted skeleton of propriety. Both, just as dead. Both, just as tyrannical; both, unavoidable. Worse, you yourself are so easily felled, so fragile: all the looks, all the brilliance, all the wit, even all the money on the planet, won't compensate for basics. Arthritis. Cancer. Death of a loved one. Injustice. Sleep loss. The littlest of things, undo us. Even, the common cold. No goodies, no power, no reputation or wealth or anything can assuage the bitterness which comes from these things. So the guy who's worked so hard! to get the recognition, position, and money due him, finally gets it and bam! he can't enjoy it, simply because he can't sleep, now. The gal who slaved to stay gorgeous, trusting in her looks, bam! gets into an accident, and though recovered, there's this red rash on her face. Ruining everything. See? We got nothing on the inside, so nothing on the outside really works, either. Too fragile. So the bones surface, and we betray ourselves as the ghouls we really are, shaking our fist at the sky: "why did God let this happen to me!"

Note how the world thinks exactly like the Fall's 'legacy' of the "me be god". It's impossible to stop its bleeping:

Notice that the outers of life are arrogated to a claim of self-worth. So the flipside: the person without those outers, is concluded bad; in order to cope with that, he must conclude himself a victim, a martyr, a messiah, as he must make himself noble in some way, to assuage ego. Hence by the end of his life ennui sets in, a kind of fatalism in which one is the unrequited hero for being so victimized. It never dawns on us that we all have to pee, so all the outers of life don't add to or subtract from, self-worth. They are merely outers. Nice to have if you've got them, but they don't make you better or worse than you are. Dependency on these outers tells us we are not worthy by means of them. Sin nature can't 'hear' all that, it's a Lady MacBeth trying to wash away its damned spot. For it killed its king — God — from its mind. So now that dead-to-self king must be blamed, to hide the dirt inside; meanwhile one ardently seeks the outers, fig leaves to cover up, to hide the ghoulish reflection in the mirror.

For it's man's universal proclivity to blame God. So of course, the world can't "see" God: it has macho pride glaucoma from Remaining and Abiding, in ghoulish ennui. Hence the Reality of Cardiac Arrest. Can't pump belief, without sight. Can't see, if don't want to. Don't want to see God, if busy blaming Him. So all the looks, all the brilliance, all the genius, all the wealth of creation, won't compensate God for the shaking fists. Ghouls don't look better, when they wear makeup. Ghouls, being walking dead, can't see better with eyeglasses placed on their ears. Ghouls, who continue to putrefy as they walk, don't smell better if dressed in nice clothes or high-sounding words and songs. If the ghouls were made alive again, something could be done about them. Else, well... they just rattle around, angry.

So it's a given that the human race with its rattling, pettifogging inconstancy, can't possibly remain true to God. Someone Outside must hold man together, 2Cor5:14. Notice how it's about being true to God, not about sin. Whereas we pettifogging humans make big stinks about sin as if we had the ability to overcome it (what a crock), God and the angels on both sides in this Trial know better. A paraplegic, can't walk! We 'sin nature' paraplegics fantasize we can walk, which thereby proves how blind we are. Cardiac arrest, blind, paralyzed, and fantasizing otherwise. Because we are ghouls, we fancy ourselves living. Because moving, we fancy ourselves magnificent, and don't notice how we are all instead, puppeted. Anything can manipulate us, as every politician, preacher, adman and media gal can tell you. So it's a big deal that a ghoul can want God and stay wanting God. Especially, if all the world is thrown at him. For again, the only constant truth about man, is his inconstancy.

So Two of the world's Three Rs are Resentment, Revolution. What's the Third? Remaining in ghoulish ennui. That's Satan's Testimony; the Evidence Test, trumps it.

So the Hypostatic Reality, the Three Rs of Life, its basic "reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic", are:

So the fourth "R", Realization, will be the hypostatic printout from one or the other triad of Rs you choose for your life. There are four other "Rs" flowing from them: Result, Reproduction, Rest and Rapture. So we have a total of eight "Rs" which get put through their paces in the Evidence Test. 'God's Side' of these eight, are as follows:

  1. Rescue: which on God's side are salvation and post-salvation 'rescues' from the frailty of being human. By Staying in the Word, you are progressively rescued from inconstancy, 1 John 4:17-19.
  2. Relationship: which on God's did is a progressively exclusive Relationship with Him, conquering all other 'loves' in your life. Staying produces a progressively exclusive Relationship with Him, conquers all other 'loves' in your life, Ephesians 3:19, Colossians 1:27 (witty oneness phrase, "Christ in you" signifying Bible-in-your-head, also used in Galatians 4:19, same pregnant meaning).
  3. Remaining in the relationship: which on God's side is the passing grade criterion of the test. This Passing-Grade criterion of the Test, is already your dearest wish — not because you care about winning, but because you care about Him. You want to win because you want to reciprocate Him, Philippians 3:8, Philippians 3:10. And you thus want as much wealth as you can get, to spend on Him. God can't use worldly wealth. The "true riches" are His Thinking, and that you should be utterly greedy to get. It lasts forever, and the valuation of the material blessings you receive, are gauged by how much of His Thinking impregnated you down here, James 1:21, Luke 8. We had this really great song about that in my church, which my pastor wrote? It ends with the line, "Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven, feed me 'till I want no more! Feed me 'till I want no more..." Yeah, don't ever stop wanting it! The material wealth you have or lack down here is specifically designed to develop your spiritual wealth, so don't feel guilty if you are rich, nor resentful if you are poor. Full spectrum is God's goal, so there will be times of plenty, and times of want. Paul explained all that, in Philippians 4:12.
  4. Realization: which on God's side is the reality of the togetherness / oneness with Him, the contract of John 17 realized in the believer. The contract realized in you, is your complete desire.
  5. Result of the test: which on God's side and His testimony, is that you should be crowned. You should be Crowned — but you want it to spend what you get on Him, like those angels in Revelation 4:10, see Paul's excitement in 2 Timothy 4:7-8.
  6. Reproduction: which on God's side is the 'progeny' of your thinking like His Son. 'Progeny' of your thinking Like His Son, will be a kingdom you can spend on Him. Your 'body of thinking' is fertile, enough to fund an entire polity. And that polity will be quite happy to have your thinking, too. Read all of Philippians, see how Paul keeps on talking about his effect on them, and their effect on him.
  7. Rest: which on God's side is proof that the Trial is over with respect to you. So the prosecution rests. You win, get Crowned, and then (maybe shortly afterwards) die. So the Prosecution Rests. And so do you. All the "crown" verses tie in here. So to pass Evidence Testing you rest. In effect, you attest that the Trial is already over, for you are at rest about Him, your life, everything. This mental attitude will be side-by-side with a lot of upset coming from the sin nature's reaction to pressure, so it 'plays' like combat, not rest.
  8. Rapture: which occurs when the accumulated prosecution rest with respect to each successful trial witness, completes. God has proved his point. You've hastened it. "Hasten" is the usual translation in Hebrew for the verb "mahar"; see also "ahishennah", (hiphil of hush, last word in Isaiah 60:22), both Rapture-precedent terms, both with 'hastening pregnancy to delivery' overtones. God has again proven Heaven's Historical Mistrial Rejoinder... Via you. Peter picked up on that, in 2 Peter 3:12 using one of his favorite words, σπεύδω: means enthusiastically going after something, same verb is used in Hebrews 4:11, which also ties here. (Both verses' use of the verb get legalistic 'spin' in translation, as if life with God should be dour. Translations strip out the enjoyment, and drily mistranslate the verb "be diligent", or something else equally sterile. Neither the Rah-Rah God nor the Dour God portrayals, both so popular in Christianity, are the Real God of the Bible.)

Conversely, Satan has his own Rs in reply:

  1. Resentment: man is his own god, 'rescued' from having to look up to anyone else. When man admires someone else, he considers himself a good person for doing that, so is really patting himself on the back.
  2. Revolution: a progressively exclusive relationship with 'white' evil conquering all other 'loves' in your life. The good you do is proof you should be rewarded, so "evil" is white, not black.
  3. Remaining in the relationship: ennui leading to a 'sense of self' as victim, martyr, messiah, a 'toy for the gods', the quintessential philosophy of the ancient Greeks.
  4. Realization: self is the unappreciated hero, brooking no competition.
  5. Result of the test, hell is the kingdom one inherits so to keep on enjoying his heroic suffering.
  6. Reproduction: 'progeny' of resentment, revolution, pious hatred.
  7. Arrest: the trial is over, Satan thinks he wins, having proved God wrong.
  8. Rapture: Satan's call for a Mistrial. Notice that the Rapture happens when God has both finished His testimony, and Satan thinks he's finally proven God wrong.

Rest and Remaining play in tandem, during Evidence Testing. For the believer undergoing it, is progressively at rest about his situation. God does it to him, so his Remaining takes on the character of Resting, Waiting for God to do what God wants to do to him. That's what happened to Christ: He continually Rested in the Word, continually waited on Father or Spirit, continually Remained in the Word, especially through the Cross. We sin, so our staying is not continual, but it does become a quick use of 1 John 1:9, and back in again, like breathing. For us, success means not quitting the spiritual life (i.e., not becoming disillusioned about God, not going after works or some other false idea of 'spirituality', etc). So long as we are still breathing and get back up again via 1 John 1:9, we have not quit.

It's hard to separately exhibit these "Rs" in the following description, since they are all intertwined. So try to spot them as you read. As you read what follows, at least pretend you are in Evidence Testing, for everything prior to Pleroma builds up to it, so your life right now will be governed by the same testing essentials as what follows. So you grow faster if you approach your life as if you were already in this testing phase. Just keep voting to know and live on Bible more and better! If a person just wants to know God, and keeps wanting to know God and keeps on keeping on in Bible, he'll come to these issues in his own life. So how much faster do you get there, if you know in advance what awaits? My pastor has taught this doctrine for years, and though I can't find anyone else who teaches it, Bible is plain enough on the parameters. So it's not invented here, but rather recast in the overall context of the Trial.


So Evidence Testing is on the second "R": Relationship Basics, not flash.

  1. Test Structure Basics. Your very soul is tested in a basic way, in the Evidence Test: do you just basically want God... no matter what bad stuff you get? Invisible Testing, therefore, just as Hebrews 11:1 says. That's what happened to that Visitor on the Cross, so that's what happens to you. For God doesn't want our goodies, and won't flash His cash, to get our votes. Because, He doesn't want us to want Him for His goodies. So the Evidence Test is not about our goodies, either. For Evidence Testing centers on this Basic Love Question: do you Want Me for Myself, as I Am? In Part 3, Evidence Testing was categorized in this fashion:

What follows below is an succinct upgrade stressing the macroeconomic Trial role of Evidence Testing, versus the earlier Part 3 (which covers the 'microeconomics' of internal spiritual development). Ergo: flowing from the eight macro Rs we just saw prior to this section, we have an outline of Trial Testing Issues. All these issues are playing at once in any given moment of the test.

This Evidence Testing runs in three phases, with 'rest' intervals in between to alert you to a phase's end. You have to pass the prior phase before you are 'moved' to the next one. These phases are all imposed and you consent to the imposition — you don't seek the testing and you don't refuse it, either:

    1. a "fasting" or "adversity" phase which is internal/private (no one else knows or sees), analogous to Matthew 4;
    2. a "prosperity" or "public" phase, analogous to His public ministry;
    3. a "humiliation" or "high suffering" final phase which is public + private, analogous to the Cross (publicly humiliated, but the imputation and judgement of sins was wholly invisible).

Generally, the testing period runs the last decade or more of your life, to adequately cover all three phases; but it could be much shorter, i.e., the Lord's last three years were all Evidence Testing. "Public" could be just those in your immediate periphery, i.e., friends, family, co-workers, etc. Isaiah 52:13-14 tells you the Testing is a High-low spanning, see also the δοκιμάζω clause in Romans 12:2, and the spanning tenor of Philippians 2:5-10 (which parallels Isaiah 52:13-14, Isaiah 53:10-12). Ephesians 1:23's "Filling all in all" includes divergence (a kind of leveraging); so Testing will include material prosperity (usually in the middle phase, to set you up for bigger humiliation in the final phase).

Again, the Lord is the 'poster boy' for this structure, but you can see the same structure in the lives of Noah, Abraham, Job, Paul. I could see them in my own pastor's life too, which helped immensely to spot more details about these patterns in Bible and test their Biblicity over the past seven years. (I've never met my pastor, but from decades of hearing his Bible class lessons on tape, one learns much. By the way, this paragraph is written in 2007.) Evidence Testing also exhibits some coordination with significant dates in your life (i.e., your birthday): that's a pattern for awards too, ever since Adam. The pattern varies, and not only birthdays are targeted. So I can't be more specific, here. Ask God about it for your own life.

The Trial Answer is in nine parts, all of them intertwined and complex. And they all lay bare how you think. Again, this is an Invisible Trial before Heaven, so it's not something you talk about. The Answer basically divides into the following categories, all of which play at once, each 'part' reinforcing the other. Nomenclature below dovetails with the A-H Precedence categories listed at the beginning of Part 4b, since Evidence Testing is an Angelic Trial Witness which speeds the completion of the Body of Christ, thus hastening the Rapture. The good news about the complexity is that you can't influence the answer. It happens to you, and over time you come to understand it. Again, God does all the doing: that's the central issue in the Trial: if you want God, you want Him to be doing the doing, not you. If you don't want God, you want to be your own god, hence doing all the doing, yourself.

"In fact, stop being conformed to this age, but be transformed (it's a play on words: don't copy someone else, become like Christ!) by means of the renovation of your thinking, in order for it (your renovated thinking) to approve you as genuine, competent (δοκιμάζω, like testing a gemstone versus a fake; another play on words, hard to explain) regarding (still part of εἰς to clause, content of "it") what's the Will of God, the Divine Good and well pleasing and complete." (Greek hendiadys might be appositional, but it looks like a listing which Paul doesn't complete because they already know the list. Similar structure is in Hebrews 6:1ff.)

Παρακαλῶ οὖν ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, διὰ τῶν οἰκτιρμῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, παραστῆσαι τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν θυσίαν ζῶσαν ἁγίαν τῷ θεῷ εὐάρεστον, τὴν λογικὴν λατρείαν ὑμῶν· καὶ μὴ συνσχηματίζεσθε τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ, ἀλλὰ μεταμορφοῦσθε τῇ ἀνακαινώσει τοῦ νοός, εἰς τὸ δοκιμάζειν ὑμᾶς τί τὸ θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ εὐάρεστον καὶ τέλειον. λέγω γὰρ διὰ τῆς χάριτος τῆς δοθείσης μοι παντὶ τῷ ὄντι ἐν ὑμῖν μὴ ὑπερφρονεῖν παρ᾽ ὃ δεῖ φρονεῖν, ἀλλὰ φρονεῖν εἰς τὸ σωφρονεῖν, ἑκάστῳ ὡς ὁ θεὸς ἐμέρισεν μέτρον πίστεως.

If the Bible in your head is real, you're living on it all the time, test or no test. If Bible in your head is real, you just love it. So when suddenly hit, the Bible in your head anyway, comes to the rescue. The "deadline" element varies with how the test progresses, but there always is one. So it's unpredictable, sudden-death-abrupt, like the Rapture. The test comes suddenly, stops suddenly. Here, "hurry up and wait", the bane of the combat soldier, is the test as well. "Be ready in season and out of season", for you never know when God will bring you a situation. Trial Witness is before heaven. It's a 24/7 "situation". You are a strategic person. You don't act on your own. Christ never did a thing without looking at Father, first.

So it's the same temptation to perform, for us. As any combat soldier, you don't know how well you're doing, you're too busy fighting (i.e., the onslaught of temptations, including guilt if you have prosperity). As any combat soldier, you see the failure all around you, so you're tempted to quit. So that's part of the Trial Answer too: your awareness of and reaction to, 'performance'. Yours, or someone/something else's. Especially, God's.

It's natural to want to be competent. So, here you are not. Or, you are but it achieves nothing. Disappointment, failure, despair, impotence, all drain a person. Doesn't matter if it's his own failure, or someone else's with which he must live (i.e., at work, in the home, whether a small failure like a Microsoft Windows glitch or a big one like your house burning down). These things accumulate in a kind of attrition war, so take their toll on the psyche. The test of a person's real attitude is best seen when failure characterises the life. A spy who is not backed up by his government, does he stay loyal? When God seems to abandon us, do we stay loyal? Satan contends "no", as he did with Job (beginning of Job 1 / Job 2). It's easy, conversely, to blame the self for the problem, especially if one loves God. That's not the right answer either, in Evidence Testing. For in Evidence Testing, you are examined on what you got right about God, not on what's still wrong with you. If you succumb to guilt you lost the battle, here. Evidence Testing is only about whether God is good, and whether He made good on you. It's never about you. You got paid for, 2000 years ago. Your inheritance in Christ and how it's been built in you, is what's being examined. Again, Romans 12:2 above: it (Word-in-you, your inheritance, booty from Christ) approves you, not the other way around.

This examination proves the "excellency of the knowledge" (Philippians 3:8), the superior performance of Genuine Gemstone Word on you. Not, you on yourself. It also proves that performance from you is not required to get or keep the relationship. God instead will rescue you from whatever failure. So God basically turns Satan's contention on its head, here: yea, it's about performance alright — God's. Now you know why 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 reads as it does! Boasting in what God does!

And here's the boast: it doesn't matter what life does to you. You have Him. So the 'performance' is irrelevant: end Romans 8. Relationship to Him is happiness, inviolate; and all else matters, not at all. Body will feel otherwise, but the soul attitude's tandem reply is Philippians 1:21. Both are side-by-side. Hupostasis: when I'm weak, then I'm strong, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.

Of course, this Evidence demonstrates that the Elongating Exit Resurrection Precedence is valid. That Time has gone on so long, your Evidentiary Witness 'redeems', Ephesians 5:16. So the 8th "R", the Rapture is hastened.

God's into making Heroes. He likes doing that. So it's not arrogant to be such a Hero, because God did it. Boasting in Him: that's a big theme of Paul's. To someone arrogant, Paul looks arrogant in his writing: it's absolutely incredible, all the calumny said against Paul in theology. God made Paul the poster boy of believer ultra-maturity, and we are to learn from what happened to him. Paul, the worst sinner (1 Timothy 1:15) made into the biggest New Testament Hero (1 Corinthians 15:10). Paul's not shy about it, because he's supposed to show them how it works (i.e., freely admitting it in 1 Corinthians 15:1-10, Ephesians 3, 1 Timothy 1, all of Philippians, 2 Corinthians 12). So He boasts in what God did to him. What God did to him the worst sinner, therefore, God want to do to anyone.

So tested here, is whether you follow Satan's plan of making yourself a hero in the world's eyes, inheriting it — just like mainstream Christianity does, following Satan with all its hunger for world recognition — or whether you keep on in the Word, and God makes you into His Son. Invisibly. In the latter case, you become a "great one", Hebrew "atsum"; getting your share of "shalal", Hebrew word for "booty", Inheritance (both terms are in Isaiah 53:12).

As Hebrews 11 explains this nine-part Trial Answer, the superior 'performance' of God's Deeds in reply to our merely wanting the Relationship, was Evidenced right away, at the Fall. We saw how Adam and the woman merely admitted they were wrong, so God saved them based on their mere belief in the coming Savior (Genesis 3:15 promise, 'sealed' by the sacrifice of animals, hence the animals' skins for clothing). For the Old Testament heroes, the Evidence Test was a vote of "So, what?" to everything else in life, but God. Abraham longed for but one son; God wanted to make a universe of sons out from those longing loins. Then, He did. Then, Abraham was told to go sacrifice that son on Mt. Moriah. At that point, Abraham learned only God mattered to him. God already knew that. Abraham did not. For love never accounts itself as loving enough. So that's the precedence, the prologue, giving rise to the Cross. Giving Risen Evidence, therefore, of Church's Legated Royal Spiritual Life. So the Test is now upgraded to His Ephesians 4:13 level. At which level, everything else in life is a "So, what" — including, life itself.

Hence the Basic relationship Goal God has for your life, is to build His Son's Thinking in yours; the Basic Reason to even want life, is for Him to do just that. Not the goodies. Not the crowns and rewards you'll get as Πλήρωμα if you pass these tests. Not the fame forever, the millions admiring you. No, none of those things: life is only good for Seeing Him Who is invisible, and the admiration you get is only pleasing because you know that's their way of thanking Him, enjoying Him — you are but a conduit. All else is a happy throwaway: especially, yourself. Which seeing and throwaway, you do invisibly: in your soul. The real you sees the Real Him, and basically you need and want nothing else. All that, the Evidence Tests are designed to accomplish and prove. In you, by Personal Agency of the Holy Spirit. To you. To Satan & Co. and in the eternal state, all the results will be on a pillar with your name on it (Revelation 3:12), for others to enjoy and learn from. Eternally. Bible verses about pillars refer to historical records, since those records were inscribed on columns which held up buildings. At the time of writing Bible (throughout), kings made monuments with inscriptions about their exploits. Common example extant today, are the pyramids. Paper dies, but stone lasts.

  1. What basically constitutes a Passing Grade, in Evidence Testing? The entire Trial Witness isn't at all about works, but rather "abiding in Him", in the Word. You only abide in Christ Himself if you abide in His word, main theme of John 15 and 1 John. Here's the flipside Test: what 'expense' will motivate you to quit doing that, and instead Divorce God? For this is a Divorce Trial. We are the evidence of Him to the world; but invisibly and more importantly — we are Evidence of Him in the Angelic Divorce Trial. So our "work", as 1 John 4 keeps stressing, is to "abide". Rest. Be at-home with Christ's Mind circulating in us, which results in knowing God, and loving: so, we become Fit Bride, and "have confidence in the Day of Evaluation" (1 John 4:17). Hence the Basic Marital Question: we all know we are in Christ from the moment of salvation forward, but is our thinking also "in" Him? In, on, about, with, towards, focused on, seeing? If you are around another human being, you are aware of that person, you interact with that person, and you think about that person. So, that person is in you; and you are also in that person, because your thinking is on that person.

So, the Evidence Test: Are you as much in Christ in your own thinking, as you are in Him in His Own Thinking? The totality of your focus on Him using Bible in your head to live, is tested. So it's a motive test, not a works test. Why do you love God? It's a valid question: is 'love' given due to the attractiveness or goodies of the object, breaking or fading quickly if that attractiveness or goodies disappear? God is innately attractive, but in Evidence Testing He seems to 'act' unfaithful. Cross is an unfair thing, really. But if you really love someone, the unfairness doesn't matter. Of course God is not ever unfair, but Satan contends He is, and the human needs the 'stretch' of what goes against his nature (i.e., morality, which is a natural instinct). So although much unfairness transpiring in life has zilch to do with God, it always remains true that God can just instantly™ wipe it away. See the analogy to Matthew 4? The Lord could have ended all hunger, all disbelief, taken over from Satan at will and at any time. But wouldn't. Why isn't it unfair of Him to refuse, Satan taunts. Satan really thinks it's wrong. So do we. Evil exists, and God does nothing?

Therefore here in Evidence Testing, you stay in the Word, because you want to. That's your abode-of-thinking. Where you are, 'at home'. Of course the next question is, 'what does that mean?' It means every thought you have gravitates to Bible ideas, concepts, principles. You decide or want based on Bible, you even react based on Bible, and it's all cognizant. The Bible is constantly on your mind, and you want it to be, whether you are brushing your teeth, inheriting a million dollars, just diagnosed with cancer. The lesser body issues — even the grave and dramatic ones — all of them, take a back seat or are rerouted into some Bible 'thought'. Because you want them to. Struggle is constant, but always Bible is the arbiter. You fall down, but get up with Bible. You awaken with Bible on your mind. You fall asleep with it. Just like Moses said for Israel in Deuteronomy 6:1-9. Bible's 'home' in your head, 24/7. Because, that's where you want to 'abide'. And you can't abide, anything else.

The verb "μένω" means many things: abide, live in, stay in, cling to or keep returning to in your thoughts, live with, remain in. In short, it's all about your own volition's wanting to be somewhere in your thinking, your life, your day. Consistently. Often. All the time, 'where' you are in your own thinking by your own choice. The 'place' you stay in, is your 'abode', home. You have a 'home' in your thinking, some pattern or topic to which you keep loving to return. It's all about where you want to be whether physically, or mentally. And wherever that place, it's 'home' to you. "Where the treasure is, there the heart will be also", Matthew 6:21, Luke 6:45, Luke 12:34. So the two root ideas in "μένω" are staying somewhere, and wanting to do that. Stay, because Want to. God runs this. You cannot. You vote, He replies. For example, in the above "Where the treasure is", I didn't even look at the Bible, and for some reason I said "the" instead of "your" in both places, and 'just knew' I was typing differently from the translations. I've not seen that verse in a very long time. Looked up the citations, after typing it. So I didn't know I was translating it from the literal Greek of Matthew 6:21. But God did. Leaving out the two "your" words states the principle generically. It's common in Bible for a quote to be re-rendered to make an interpretation. That's what just got done, here. Now tell me: who wouldn't want to abide in the Word, since that's where God is? And so witty, His re-rendering of the quote? It was Him who brought that quote to my mind in the first place, interrupting the typing! Again, who wouldn't want to stay in His Word, since that's where He lives?

Christ used the verb "μένω" a lot during the First Advent (i.e., John 15) to illustrate the relationship with Him, post-salvation. It's one of the most common verbs in the Bible. As you'll see in "Staying, not Straying.", all the New Testament writers play off His use of the verb and its many cognate verbs and nouns. Translations render these as "abide", "remain", "stay" somewhere. But those translations are vague, and strip out the motive inherent in the term. Again, the root meaning of "μένω" is to live-at-home. Idea of love, comfort, wanting-to-be-there. Not just a location. Interestingly, it also has both legal and military connotations — idea of remaining-true, remaining-at-post, remaining-in-witness-box (because the opposing attorney couldn't discredit your testimony). Again, based on your attitude. In a word, Love is stressed.

So the Evidence Test is a 'Love Conquers All' Test. People can't abide God, really. He's regarded as a chore you must finish on Sunday, trot out on holidays, Someone you have to appease to get goodies in this life, to avoid roasting in hell. To them, God is a have-to, not a want-to. So they don't pant to talk about or hear the latest discovery in the Word; but oh boy, mindless details regarding a celebrity they like, well they're enthralled for hours. We Christians are frequently accused of being pushy — well, that's because the Person we are enthralled with, the world hates. Else, they'd beg us for more details. So people are preoccupied with other people and things, 24/7. Our minds are on everything and everyone but God. It's not a sin question, or a works question, but a Thinking Question. Moreover, when we are "in" all these non-God preoccupations, our thinking is pretty ugly. We blame, we manipulate, we fear, we constantly are trying to get something to 'work' as we want. The object is of interest if we are attracted, but bam (!) goes that attraction, if the smallest thing goes awry. God, well... He was in a movie, once — wasn't it "The Ten Commandments"? Hence it's a sheer miracle for a believer to come to focus on Christ. In the Evidence Test, that miracle has already completed, but all the "competition" against the believer's focus on Christ, hasn't yet been defeated. So an individual "Operation Footstool" ensues, where all the enemies to Functional Union with Christ in the believer's Own Thinking are defeated.

Notice how the believer who passes Evidence Testing, is progressively rescued from all the competition. So, then: shall God Who rescued him via the Tests, not also use him to rescue his own brethren? "For He is not ashamed to call them brothers", says Hebrews 2. Well, if you pass the Evidence Tests, the God of Rescue will rescue your brothers. Who are, any humans. Good Samaritan concept. If some among those humans don't believe in Him or, having believed, don't grow up in Him, well the rescue was provided. And you are used to rescue them from what they missed down here, even if you never meet those people. You will be the ruler over some of them, and thus their teacher forever. Teaching about Him. Our Water. Our Bread. Forever. It's phenomenal, "more than we can ask or imagine", as Paul puts it in Ephesians 3:20. Again, due to God-Deeds, not puny man's overrated good deeds.

  1. God's Rebuttal Testimony about His John 17 Oneness Goal is Completed via the Πλήρωμα. In Evidence Testing, God 'answers' Satan's (Examination Evidence) 'performance' arguments via the believer (i.e., in I.H., above, + Fifth Facet): God doesn't want 'performance', He rather wants togetherness, flat. Just to Be in Everything, and Share Himself Fully. This is distinct from Omnipresence. God is Everywhere, but wanting to be there, is quite another thing. God doesn't have to be Everywhere, He wants to. No Limits. No Boundaries. Uniting Everything To Himself, as Paul says in Ephesians, "filling all in all", a phrase he repeats in variant ways in all his letters. Πληρόω, to fill up, fulfill. Πλήρωμα, filled up, pregnant with God's Seed. And the Seed, is the Son. His Thinking.

Togetherness requires like-mindedness, to be enjoyable. Compatibility, Shared Inner Environment, not outer environment. Above all, the Cross is about maxing Togetherness. To do that, the juridical barriers between God and creation must be removed by the Cross. These barriers are of two types:

1) the barriers of finity, and
2) the barriers of sin within finity.

So note the genius solution: Unite the Sin in Christ, Who is God-Man.
The very union of His Own Dual Nature solves: 1) if He completes the Cross, which He did.
The solution for 2) is the same, since for creation to 'share' in Him, all sins must 'place' in Him.

Consequently, Father's Gift to Son is to make us One in Him. Our "hupostasis" is with The Hupostasis, Christ, the YHWH, God-Man. It's real:

For Christ Our Archegos wanted total rapport with Father, and given the nature of the 'knowledge' of sin, its imputation and judgement, He had to remain sinless — even as Father is sinless — to get all that knowledge. (Sin deadens, hence deadens the ability to know it.) So no barriers in knowings, sharings, between Son's Humanity and Father (nor Son-Spirit, etc.), due to Cross: which, Omniscience perpetually 'sees', so the Cross is always 'On', Always Shared. No different than Christ is always willing every second of existence to continue (manually, by choice).

This isn't a have-to thing, but a want-to thing. You'll never make it if you keep living like a child, viewing everything as some parental rule. That's why over 99% of Christians historically don't advance beyond spiritual age 8. The kid is supposed to grow up from "thou shalt" to "I will." Because you want to. Verb μένω, is all about want-to. And you can't want to, unless you want the Togetherness. And you can't want the Togetherness, unless you know God. And you can't know God, unless you live in God's System. It takes some years. Took Paul almost 40 years (30-68 AD) to go from new believer to Victorious Death. Took Christ 30 years to ready for His Testing from Satan and for the lead-up to the Cross. No two individuals are alike, and what's an easy fast growth today, can easily get bogged down or reversed tomorrow. We all have our knotted kinks, and God knows exactly how to untie us. But Love never coerces volition. So this isn't a have-to thing, but a want-to thing.

  1. It's Basic, this togetherness Focus, and therefore it gets Evidence Tested: for the Trial is all about whether Life with God is really worth all that trouble. It's God Who's On Trial. Not us. But because we believed in Him — we are On Trial, Hebrews 11:1, 1 John 4:17. So here in Πλήρωμα, God's Seven-Faceted Doctrine Diamond Bucks fully vest in the believer (see Ephesians 1). For exegesis and interpretation of the Trial meaning in 1 John 4:12-17 I heartily recommend my pastor's 1992 Spiritual Dynamics (series 376) lessons 1217-1274. No one else on the internet, anyway, seems to understand it; else I'd recommend anyone else I found, as well. Also get his verse-by-verse exegesis of 1 John back in 1980 or so.

In America, your retirement plan at work provides a required disclosure booklet called a "Summary Plan Description", AKA "SPD". Other countries often have the same rules, but I don't know their vocabulary. This "SPD" defines certain legal terms so you can better understand your benefits. One of these legal terms is "vesting", the percentage of the money in your accounts you can freely take if you leave the company right now. Often, there's a sliding scale of percentages based on how many years you've worked for your employer. So too, in the Divine Benefit Plan for Eternity, you must vest. In God's Plan, you must "endure to the end" to vest in your inheritance. You can't lose salvation, that's based solely on the Cross, and Christ already Vested on the Cross, so He already vested in you before you were born, Isaiah 53:10-12. Therefore, that first nanosecond you believed in Him, you became His Fully Vested Property, Isaiah 53:12; so you cannot even get lost once you believe in Him, John 3:16 + John 10:28.

Subsequently, now it's our turn to vest in Him, which means investing in the Word to ingest it and become like Him, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. Accordingly, the only vesting issue for any believer is the inheritance atop salvation, which is a primary focus of the New Testament — Testament, meaning conditions of inheritance, ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη: term is in Book of Hebrews, elaborating on what the Lord invented at the Last Supper, Luke 22:18-20 (term is in verse 20, ties back to Jeremiah 31:33). Hence the conditions for His investiture pass on to us: He ate Word, Got Fat, Got Slaughtered — so we are to do the same: in Him.

God uses what in secular pension lingo is called "cliff vesting". Your Divine Benefits were already funded fully in eternity past, Ephesians 1. So you have a kingly inheritance on deposit you can lose, Revelation 3:11, 2 Timothy 2:5, James 1:12, 1 Peter 5:4, Revelation 2:10. So don't fall off the cliff: stay in, or you get nothing. You have to "endure to the end" to inherit atop salvation, in God's Plan. It's all or nothing. If you Stay in the Word until the end, you inherit a kingdom, get crowned, 2 Timothy 4:7-8 example. If you don't, you are a Royal Priest Peasant forever, under some other believer who didn't quit. Stay, Abide = win. Quit = lose, Revelation 3:11. No middle ground.

If you stay in the Word you will mature spiritually. It gets harder to stay in, yet easier. Your motive grows as you understand Him better. You come to be like-minded with Christ. Of course, if you don't learn the Word, this doesn't happen. Of course, if you don't live on the Word, this doesn't happen. 99.9% of Christians won't learn the Word, because they find God boring. So the Word is boring. Variant degrees of disinterest among believers make it seem like they want the Word, but upon closer examination, you find their interest has a very low threshold. Your interest must keep growing with the learning. If not, you will quit before you die. And you'll be happy in heaven, to be sure. But you won't have the inheritance God laid up for you from eternity past, and it will instead forfeit to someone else. The Evidence Test is designed to vest you.

Hebrews 11:1 is the quintessential statement about this Togetherness Love Test. Then there's 1 John 4:12-17. 1 John 1:17 also boldly says, as does Hebrews 11:1's "ων" case endings, that Our Learning Of Him ("ὑπόστασις" = Christ — look it up in Hebrews 11:3) is Trial Evidence. Not works, but believed doctrine (first meaning of πίστις is What is Believed, not the act of believing — see Bauer or other lexicon).

  1. Evidence Testing proves the superior merit of dependence on God, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:10, Hebrews 11:15, Hebrews 11:39. From spiritual infancy through Pleroma Stage, there's been but one trial demonstration: do you want God, or not? If yes, then faith is demonstrated, Hebrews 11:1. Faith is non-meritorious, for you believe due to the merit in the object. So the merit of God is on trial in Evidence Testing, not you. The merit of God is on trial through you. Sin continually makes me be good arguments; for disbelief in favor of religion was the impetus for the "Fall": the Eden couple wanting to be good as God, but independent of Him.

Our ghoulish, pettifogging sin nature keeps making stinks about lesser, dead issues like some wrong you or someone else did, politics, junk related to the body. But God makes irrelevant, all sin and human good or human anything for that matter, due to the Cross. So what's really bad, is that we are hostile to God — in the name of what independent good we do. We are thus evil, for we claim these lesser issues should have standing before God. But look:

works are garbage

So anyone making an issue of sin or good deeds, makes an issue of something independent, and therefore evil. God throws all that out of Court, Zechariah 3:1-5, Psalm 103:12, Jeremiah 31:34, Isaiah 64:6, John 16:9, all of Hebrews 3 (parallel to John 16:9, especially John 3:12-19), 1 John 1:9's "ἀδικία", Revelation 20:11-15. Noun "ἀδικία" means a judge who abuses his office, etymologically. Worse than sin is to not use 1 John 1:9, because then the Holy Spirit cannot justify filling you and furthering your growth in Christ's thinking. So the sin itself is of zero significance, compared to the rejection of the pardon. Peter really excoriated that in 2 Peter 1:9.

    1. Sin is evil, Ἀδικία; because the person choosing to sin, chooses to be independent of God.
    2. That's a fundamental irrationality, for every Breath you take depends on God willing you to breathe.
    3. Your ability to breathe on your own is Corollary to Him willing it, hence dependent.
    4. So to Decide something against God is to say you want to be independent of Him, "something" in your own right.
    5. So notice, "works" Elects the same argument that sin does: something you do of yourself is supposed to be accredited independently.
    6. So "works" is evil Filth, too — Isaiah 64:6.
    7. So human Good is evil, just as the Genesis 2 Hebrew says, when it calls Satan's plan, "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil." In the Hebrew, good = evil. It's the Hebrew equivalent of a hendiadys.
    8. So the Heart of evil = good = works = sin, is a claim of independence from God.
    9. That's a hatred motive. Love never wants to be Independent of the love object, but hatred always does.
    10. So notice how all the good deeds on the planet, only dig you deeper in Jealousy, sense of being unrequited for all your effort. That's why moral people are so often hateful people. Now you know why the "M" in Satan's "STOP OMEGA", is "Morality". Anyone who makes big stinks about his good deeds betrays a hateful, and supremely Jealous nature.
    11. By Kingly contrast, God = Κύριος, is Love. Love never makes an issue of how good it is, its works, 1 Corinthians 13:4.
    12. In Love, God invented freedoms for the human race, one of which is morality and doing good.
    13. But notice: Morality and good remain dependent on God at all times, just as your breath does.
    14. Hence the Law = νόμος, to show you the 'corridor' of obedience, so you stay nested within that dependency.
    15. Hence the Overriding, obliterating all else First Commandment, is Love for God, which requires knowing God, which requires learning God, which requires wanting to learn God, which requires wanting God for Himself.
    16. And if you do want God, if you do love God, then you Prefer to be dependent.
    17. This desire to depend on God is completely anti-human, an impossible Quixotic dichotomy.
    18. So it's this super-human Relationship desire for God — nonmeritorious for sure, but nonetheless impossible for a human to maintain — it's this superhuman relationship desire for God, which is Evidence Tested in the Trial.
    19. Not your works, they are Superfluous, because independent.
    20. Not your sins, they are Tainted, because independent.
    21. Not your human good, attractiveness, or any ability or inability you have, they are all Useless, because independent.
    22. Rather, only what depends on God, is Valuable, within the true corridor of Good. Divine value Good, else no good; hence 1 John 1:9 versus ἀδικία.
    23. So, your seemingly Wasteful dependency on God, is what gets tested.
    24. The wasting is the test Χριστός = Christ passed but Satan flunked and contends against.
    25. All barriers have to Yield, go down, in relationship to God.
    26. But finity can do Zilch to break down its barriers, since finity depends on barriers, to stay propped up, intact. But zilch, nothing is impossible for God, Luke 1:37. Note the context in that verse: the angel talking to Mary in Adar, the sixth month on the calendar, uses that language to explain how she will become pregnant without human means.
    27. Satan contends God is Absolute Ἀδικία: a sadist to create us independent, yet require we throw that independence away, to be together with Him.
    28. Satan therefore contends that God is Absolutely Bad, to make anyone go to the Lake of Fire (or hell (ᾅδης), the temporary location) for wanting to keep the very independence, God gave him.
    29. So, in the Angelic Conflict — when you throw your own independent nature away in Pleroma, you defeat Satan in the Trial.
    30. Your Absolute Dependence on God the Absolutely Dependable Holy Spirit, enables this throwing-away, even as only He runs everything spiritual: hence the need for 1 John 1:9 like breathing, so you can Avoid Defeat.
    31. Just as, He Absolutely Enabled Christ on the Cross.
    32. The same Absolutely Fabulous testing, same issues, happening now: to you.
    33. So Absolute Good, dependence on God, triumphs.
  1. So this love evidence togetherness testing, is a superhuman High-Low, quintessentially expressed in Ephesians 1:23, and in Isaiah 52:13-14. Paul's 'looking' at Psalm 110 and Isaiah 52:13-14 when he writes Ephesians 1. Isaiah uses the min preposition throughout the chapter, to stress His God-Man nature, and also to stress how He birthed us sterile, on what would be the Cross. In verse 14, "min" is "me": notice how God-Man is referenced, filling all in all because filled up with all the bad, too: k' asher shamemu aleyká rabbim, ken mishhat me ish mareyhu; wa toaro me bene adam. There's no way to translate it properly. On the surface, the (too tame!) antiphonal meaning is Just as much as they are appalled up-at You, so also You, The Beyond-Man, will be abused/tortured beyond human semblance — by mankind. The Hypostatic Union is stressed: hence Beyond-Human, gets below-human. The Ubermensch treated like an untermensch, even by God Himself. That's pretty basic. So the resulting glorification of Him is intimate, too (Isaiah 52:13) LXX Isaiah 52:14 demonstrates that with its two (Ὑπόστασις!) "ἀπό" clauses, playing on the 'circle' nature of "wa toaro me bene adam" in the Hebrew: His Incarnation, from beyond the sons of men, because He is God — 'generates' abuse so vile, He's more tortured than all mankind put together — so He is glorified more than all mankind put together! (Even beyond all angels, theme of Hebrews 1:4ff, just as Isaiah 52:13's last word promised: me'odth in Hebrew, vehemently glorified! See TWOT.)

What a child enjoys, an adult does not. What man enjoys, God does not. So if you want Oneness with God, you must grow beyond your own human nature, just as a baby must grow past his childhood. Spiritual childhood means you have a lot of human proclivities ruling your life. Spiritual adulthood, less so. Spiritual maturity means you are shedding human proclivities, and Πλήρωμα means they fall down. Doesn't mean you stop sinning. Means that God's ways of thinking become so preferable to everything human, you yearn to suffer loss. It's not masochism. Everything in life actually stops being meaningful, except Him. It's not that what's nice in life stops being nice. Rather, it stops being important. To the world, "nice" is all-important, and God's Name is slapped on so that man can call himself holy for wanting what he wants. But as you truly age spiritually, all else in life becomes insignificant. It's a harrowing process, not unlike the time you first realized your parents (here, the world) weren't the idols you imagined as a child. There's a crusading phase in spiritual adulthood where the puny thinking you now see (because you grew bigger), you fantasize fixing. That's when you find out you're not human, anymore. It takes some years, because you don't evaluate yourself as high — that's not even an attractive idea — so everyone else must just be uninformed. So you try to inform them. Big mistake. When you hit your head against the wall enough — with plenty of Divine Discipline to wake you up — you settle into just learning Him, again. Then you mature enough to get into this final stage. And by this point, you are not human, in your thinking. So are ready for testing.

So Bible you've believed and live on in God's System — via the Spirit — has grown you past the sin nature's pettifogging religious proclivity for blaming self- or others (and hence rebelling), to see the real point of it all: God just uses our puniness to teach us about His Son. Sure, you are constantly bombarded with the sin nature, and habitually 'reply' by picking / voting for God's Apodoses — Bible in your head, in God's System. So you know all the bad stuff is really purposed to teach you the clause in 1 Corinthians 5:21, "He Who Knew No Sin was made Sin as a Substitute for Us"; which is a summary of Isaiah 53:10-11's contract of Eternity past. You get that same experience, paradigmally, to learn Christ. Not because you are bad, or someone else is bad, etc. But those lesser issues really lacerate the soul — again, teaching what happened to Him — so make great training mechanisms for Developing Love to Completion. For as you go through this stage, even though you know what it is and why it's happening — it's extremely wearing, and the desire to quit is extreme. Knowing that desire itself is even more wearing, for you realize you can't be loyal, yourself. But you can vote for the doctrine to sustain you (2 Corinthians 5:14), which is precisely what Christ did on the Cross, σύνεσις and da'ath keywords in Isaiah 53:11 (LXX + Masoretic): evidenced (in Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34) by His shouting Psalms 22:1 while on the Cross (claiming the entire Psalm to stay motivated, especially Psalm 22:6). The Same Holy Spirit Who did it to Him, does it to you. You are carried, in the Evidence Tests. Hence the Test is about abiding, not you 'doing' something. But it's a superhuman thing, to abide in Him. Only the Holy Spirit can make that happen. Your vote, but only His power. Your weakness, His strength.

Again, the lesser issues which preoccupy the sin nature and the human race will 'compete'. Winning means you can be hit but the Love remains. Again, it's not about 'performance' (i.e., the fact you are so easily beset). It's about whether you quit the spiritual life, due to the pressure. Loving Him means a tendency to be perfectionistic, to be demoralized as you see yourself continually fail the Standard of Obedience you feel He should receive from you. So whatever most makes you call yourself a failure, will be a big test category. Conversely, if your penchant is to be a bull in a china shop (an expression of aggressive Love), you'll be tested there. The love is always what's tested, just as in Matthew 4; and of course any sin nature proclivities glom onto genuine love like flies on poo 💩. So you will constantly experience failure, and that 'competing' sin nature will tempt your focus onto lesser issues of blaming, despondency, etc. Atop that, the boys at Satan & Co. wanna help the sin nature, so give it lots of muscle by sending you thoughts, messing with your periphery (people and things). Anything to get you to give up. For togetherness is the antithesis of divorce, and they need you to divorce: they hope the many fall downs will be so demoralizing, you'll either blame God or yourself so much, you'll morph out of the spiritual life. 99.9% of the time they succeed well. God empowers you (Holy Spirit), so the boys on the other side of the Trial gotta have their chance, too. You're always picking between the two, and 99% of the time you fall down. Just get up again. Think of it like practicing a golf swing, racquetball strokes, learning a language. Many failures, but persistence results in success, Hebrews 10:36 (not "receive what was promised" but "carry off the prize", my pastor always notes); Philippians 3:14 (note the Greek's plodding, slogging cadence), Hebrews 12:7 (NJB is good, here).

And as you keep on keeping on (Philippians 3:14) over time you'll notice an amazing thing: the worse it gets, the better it gets. Moreover, the worse it gets, the less attracted you are to the nice things of this world, and the more attracted you are to the bad stuff, paradigm of Luke 22:15. It's exactly the reverse of what should happen. You literally grow out of your normal human nature. It becomes progressively unimportant, only worth throwing away. This isn't masochism, but Maturity. Spiritual Maturity. For God is not threatened by bad stuff, nor compromised in any way. So by the Πλήρωμα stage, only the really nettlesome stuff remains (tailored to you personally, what 'gets' to you); so lots of abnormal stuff needs to be added in cycles, to keep 'trying' to get you to divorce. You fall down a lot, but get up again, and it's a prolonged thing; but over time the fall downs are of much shorter duration and an aggressive desire to actually have what bothers you, grows and remains. Eventually that desire conquers — yet the pressure becomes worse, not better. Until, there's nothing that can divorce you. Then you usually die, victorious. The Love is Victorious. Barriers All Down, baby, "nothing shall separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus"! No Divorce! Totally dependent!

You can't go through this kind of torture except because you love God. Knowing His thinking alone carries you. You are beyond-human, here. God is glorified, μεγαλύνω'd, here. So God carries you through it. The high of knowing Him and the low of this earthly life — nice or painful, makes no difference, it's all unacceptable by now, has completely lost jurisdiction — that divergence, is what's tested.

So it's not at all like the tests of childhood. Childhood tests are basic too, but blatant and limited. The Old Testament testing was blatant and limited. Adulthood and especially Royal testing is subtle, a thinking thing, very easy to miss: see Matthew 4. Most people don't even understand that chapter. They don't see that the temptations are to good deeds, are moral, with Satan basically accusing Father and Son of being immoral and unloving of the human race and Each Other. So the human race actually pants after the very same things Satan does, and believes itself holy for doing so... just as Satan contends, in Matthew 4. So a child falls for those temptations. Even an adult falls for them. But when you're in Evidence Testing, you have a superhuman understanding of these issues, and like Christ you conclude: for Father or forget it. No matter how 'moral' a thing might seem on a lesser level, to you at this point there's but One Morality: does the Father want it? If "no", then you don't, either.

But the human is completely tapped out. The crushing Divine knowledge of what everything means — which you now know well — juxtaposed with what you now recognize is this impossibly puny life... is unbearable. Divine Standard in your head, and it can never be met by the body you are in; unending frustration of being stuck with all those other ghouls, and boy oh boy you are one too — but you are nonetheless alive? And you want to keep trying? No harder task than to ride into the Valley of Death, a quixotic Charge of the Light Brigade in a briganded world with a branding at the end, accomplishing nothing. Sheer waste. Which even while living, surrounds you. Dead minds, endlessly preoccupied with banalities, and your body is no different. Romans 7! Who will deliver us from these bodies of death? A child is buffered by his ignorance. Yours left, long ago.

So it's not at all like the normal human tests in life. The knowledge of God is egregious in every way. If you are going to be compatible with Him, you need to have that same knowledge. People quit or lose their reason to live for far lower causes: divorce, loss of a loved one, abuse by another, loss of trust, etc. Well, those things are basic knowledge for you, just to even know what Truth is. After all, even Abram was promised a universe of kids, but in Genesis 15:13 notice how God said that first they'd have 400 whopping years of slavery! And Abram was supposed to accept that? Not yet having even one kid? And that lone kid didn't even arrive until some 25 years later, so the long waiting tired out Sarai, who then got witchy with her slave girl (hence the Arab-Israeli conflict, the true cause). So Abram had to say "yes" to a promise of tortured kids! Before he even had one. Then, he had to wait and himself be tortured for nearly another generation — before that one was allowed to be born. So knowing God carries with it a superhuman burden, for God's Knowledge is me ish, beyond-human. So the demon boys who are also beyond-human, get to supernaturally attack you. Goes with the territory. Their attacks are blatant + subtle, because you're not a spiritual child, anymore.

The previous (pre-maturity) "yeses" become "nos", and vice versa. When a child, you had lots of dos. The child can't think, so can't reason, so teaching a child principles requires teaching him things to do. Hopefully he'll become curious and want to know the 'why' behind the 'do'. Then he learns to reason and associate dos with knows. The adult, by contrast, should only think in terms of principles, and craft dos from them. We have a royally adult spiritual life legated from Christ, so our daily 'dos' are knowings. Much harder. So in practice and in this stage especially, what was once prohibited, circumscribed, imposed: is either allowed, or even mandated. Christ had to say "no" to sin all His Life. And for what? To be made into sin by Father on the Cross! So that lifetime of "no no no" got Him a bazillion "yeses" by all of us. And He had to say "yes" to receiving that imputation (yet not resent it, etc., sinning Himself).

So paradigmally, we too have to say "yes" to conditions during this test which seem wrong. That's anti-human. The specifics vary per person, but Matthew 4 is the pattern of them. Really, Satan's position in Matthew 4 is the epitome of taking the path of least resistance for what seems right on the surface, but is ultimately wrong in the big picture. This is why so much of humanity routinely votes for Satan's ideologies (morality and good works, activism towards "Palestine", being obsessed with religion etc.), they can't be bothered to look at the nuance behind it all.

We have to say "yes" to doing nothing. Before, when younger, you should do moral things; but now, you're too old for that. The Father is superior to people. So what the Father wants, however strange it seems (i.e., don't eat, don't feed people, don't jump and prove you're God, don't defeat Satan, don't withhold the knife from Isaac) — that's what you do. And what the Father wants, is for you to do nothing, or do something when it seems like you ought to do nothing. Everything reverses, totally the opposite of what even human common sense would dictate. You can only 'do' what the Father wants from knowing the Doctrine — Him — intimately. Very subtle, tangled, passive, listening. The aggressiveness is passive.

A business owner, president, or general can easily remember the many times in his life he had to make a decision which was right but seemed wrong to others. Classic case in point was dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No sane person wants to kill people, especially in masses. Yet that hard decision saved millions of lives on both sides of the war. It cost hundreds of thousands of lives in both cities, to save the many more. A less-mature man than Harry Truman wouldn't have made that call, and many of us alive today would never have been born. Exodus, Leviticus 26 and Tribulation punishments all show that same kind of kill-the-masses decision — made by God. See also Isaiah 63:1-9. It's a fact of life that we humans need disaster, in order to look up from our puny preoccupations. Point here is that you will be making decisions which seem wrong, in the Pleroma phase. Takes Superhuman understanding, therefore, to make them properly.

Same for the Cross: to elect it rather than the three temptations ended up meaning that millions of people went hungry, millions more didn't believe in Him, and Satan got to keep on running this world. Seems immoral, right? Yeah, and none of us would even be alive today, plus heaven would be under Satan, if the Lord hadn't chosen the Cross over all those lesser moralities. See? Immature understanding has its own sense of rights and wrongs; something more advanced, seems wrong. God is Infinite Maturity. So here in Evidence Testing, the Exclusive Love For and Right of Father over everyone else, is On Trial.

The crowning Superhuman event, is ignominy. In the last phase of Testing you will be exposed and humiliated, whether to the 'public' of just your immediate family, or to some larger group of folks. It's not like the movies. In God's Trial, the hero always looks like a fool, Isaiah 52:14, Isaiah 53:2-5, Isaiah 53:7-9. That's inhuman, too. Again, only the Bible in your head enables you to keep going to the end.

  1. Hence Satan is defeated in the Trial. Completion of Evidence Testing proves the superior happiness of knowing God despite suffering, and versus all the good Satan can pour into the human race. Hence Evidence Testing is a kind of deposition by you, and then testimony about you from God, same courtroom pattern as in Job. Issues in Church are far higher, but the legal structure is the same. "20" is the number of "battle", "years of service to retirement", "city or Temple building", and "adulthood" in the Bible. So here are 20 + 1 legal structure features of your Evidentiary Testing:
  1. Satan's Trial Argument is based on a contention that:
  1. So the Witness — you — is being "deposed" on these issues.
  2. Which means, both sides in the Trial put forth questions and issues which you answer.
  3. The goal of deposition is to qualify the Witness.
  4. If you don't qualify (if you rebel, not merely sin, and quit the spiritual life) — you're maybe booted out. Discipline ensues, and it hurts a lot (Psalm 32:4 which my pastor called "awesome suffering, in the Hebrew").
  5. But you use 1 John 1:9, get back up, get back in (maybe after awhile, maybe right away).
  6. The Discipline might end, or continues as deeper Testimony. In the latter case, your spiritual growth might skyrocket like it did with Paul after his Acts 22 denouement: he stayed in jail maybe four years after he used 1 John 1:9, but the prison epistles are probably the most concentrated and sophisticated in Bible. "Paul's Fall" subsection of Bible classes in 1999 is on Paul's denouement due to rejecting God's will he park himself in Rome, and the aftermath of his writing those epistles, theme of recovery from a bad fall, even by a Bible hero. Those classes skyrocketed my own growth.
  7. If you do qualify you stay in, and the depositions get worse (the three phases).
  8. But of course, both sides are invisible to the Witness, Hebrews 11:1.
  1. What are the Questions? They will all be on themes of the 8 Rs, as those themes apply personally to you in your own life.
  2. What are the Answers? They will all be on themes of the Trial Answer in #A-I of #I, as those themes apply personally to you in your own life.
  3. You don't generally spend much time guessing or trying to answer, and you don't always know you are On Trial, especially early on in the first Evidence Testing phase. Yet as time passes you will be 'told'. That 'telling' is a kind of insight, as you turn over the doctrinal issues relevant to your situation, a usage of John 14:26 (Holy Spirit causing you to know the interpretation, in addition to recall). Romans 12:2's corrected translation, tells you the testing meaning is depositional, verb δοκιμάζω, testing for the genuineness of the Witness.
  1. For key to the Trial, is you can't see what's going on. At first you don't even know it's happening to you, because you are too focused on Christ to care about anything else.
  2. As the Tests build in intensity, you get to the point where you ask God (i.e., Job 6-9, Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:8, root idea behind that verse and its context is an awareness of trouble). So you'll then know.
  3. Ignorance is harder for awhile, but there's a crossover point when advance knowledge is harder than ignorance. So it's a full-spectrum thing, going from the pressure of being blind, to the pressure of seeing too clearly. The Lord had to know and then vote on what was the plan for His Life, Luke 2:49, Matthew 3:15ff, John 6, Matthew 16, Luke 22:42. So will you.
  4. So you just plug along with Bible you know, living on it. You parry the onslaught of temptations and otherwise go through your day.
  5. But you're really on Tralfamador, under the glass. Look up Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It's great satire, and there's a film by the same name.
  6. The actual Witness is the result of what happens to you, and this is God's Testimony, not yours: see the beginning of Job 1 and Job 2, Isaiah 53:9's last two clauses*
  7. That Result and Testimony, you often cannot detect during the phase, though you become progressively aware. But even if you do know, you can't influence the outcome. Knowing the answer makes it harder; you can of yourself, do things. But you must eschew those options. All you can do, is keep on voting Philippians 3:14. Only God makes the result, you cannot do anything, and you learn to love being helpless, 2 Corinthians 12:10. Sheep don't shear themselves!
  8. There is a distinct, hypostatic besidedness quality to this Testing. There's a kind of 'duality of recognition' you come to have, via Romans 12:2: you're a nothing in your own estimation, and the Testing stresses that. But you can objectively see what God has done to you, and why it's true you should get a passing grade. You really are happy — well, "content" is a better word — despite the pressure. Paul frequently displays his awareness of this besidedness in what he writes, as does Job. The Lord often talks about Himself in the third person, especially when saying how important He is, which also depicts this duality of recognition.
  9. Time to rest, retire! Prosecution Rests. Given the end of Job, + 2 Timothy 4:7-8, you do come to know what was tested and proven after the fact, no matter how little you knew during.

* Isaiah 53:9: Before Father no violent rebelling did He (Christ) do; and no deceit / treachery / lying was in His (Christ's) Mouth.

עַל לֹא־חָמָס עָשָׂה וְלֹא מִרְמָה בְּפִיו

ὅτι ἀνομίαν οὐκ ἐποίησεν οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλος ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ

al lo hamas asah, wa lo mirmah b'piw

Hebrew "al" is here translated idiomatically. It literally means "above", but in the verse it's God Who Is Above Declaring the Result: so "Before Father" is the meaning. Hebrew "hamas" means a violence-of-revolt-against-authority, so the LXX stresses the 'revolting' quality, usually translated 'lawlessness'. The translation is too vague. I wonder if the "Islamic Resistance Movement" Hamas in Lebanon realize their very choice of name declares their evil nature?

You'll recall from "the Bible remains a mystery to Church" that the A-N Trial term categories for Church, all had to be met. One by one, the Witnesses complete, with any one of us potentially among that number. So "Bridal Battle Testimony", having successfully completed, results in "Heaven's Historical Mistrial Rejoinder", with respect to that (your) Witness. This dramatically shortens the remaining time to the 8th R, Rapture, for each such completion. The Heaven's Historical Mistrial Rejoinder Testimony is that creature nature doesn't matter, Happiness is knowing God irrespective of anything else no matter how bad or good (prosperity is the harder pressure to bear).

The believer undergoing this testing literally changes nature, so there's no faking the 5th "R" results. Again, "20" is the number of "battle", "years of service to retirement", "city or Temple building", and "adulthood" in the Bible. So the second 20, means a "40", the number of Testing, in the Bible:

    1. The believer undergoing this testing, even when he knows he's in Pleroma, doesn't think well of himself. For in Pleroma, you're too busy looking at Christ to have much room for anything else.
    2. That's the problem: you still have a body life and need to attend to it. Lots of adjusting to do. Depending on your personality, the kinks remaining in it get worked out during this stage (or maybe just prior, my pastor kept on varying his assessment on the kink timing).
    1. So although maybe only 100-300 other people on the planet are in the same spiritual growth stage 'you' are, it's nothing to crow about — well, lots to crow about God, 2 Corinthians 12:10.
    2. Self is boring, not worth thinking about except when you must.
    3. You come to view yourself as a 'house' for the Word He builds in you, 2 Corinthians 5:15-16, Romans 1:14, Romans 15:18-20, 1 Corinthians 9:16-18, 2 Corinthians 10:15-18.
    4. All the usual human ideas about the self progressively cease to be meaningful by comparison.
    5. It's thinking about the self in the third person (which psychology erroneously derides). See how the Lord talks about Himself in the third person throughout the Gospels.
    6. That's objective thinking. You can't be a ruler if you don't think of yourself in the third person.
    7. Ego must die, or you'll never be fit to rule. That's even true on a secular level. A child can't think beyond himself. A small-souled person can't think beyond his small periphery. So to be in charge, you must learn to ignore the self.
    8. Ego is unable to die, unless you have Someone replace it. Paul isn't kidding around when he writes 2 Corinthians 5:14-21. That's the replacement result.
    9. Ego is rather fulfilled this way: you have someone better to look at now, Hebrews 2:9-10, Hebrews 11:39, Hebrews 12:2.
    10. Oddly enough, that's the Victory in the Trial, the fact that you keep looking at Him to the progressive exclusion of all else, Philippians 1:21, Philippians 2:5-10.
    11. It's not about what you do, but how you think. And what you progressively think, is that dependence on God is more enjoyable than every alternative. And it really is better, so there is nothing you can fake.
    12. It's a killer life, constantly monitoring your thinking so to have Perfect Thoughts before Father, so obviously you constantly fail, too; but nothing else in life is satisfying, either.
    13. Becomes real easy to understand how Christ would come to long for the Cross, Luke 22:15.
    14. And why is that? Because your nature is changing, so He makes sense and progressively, anything anti-Him does not.
    15. Shared thinking means you understand the other person. Well, you share that person's thinking, which means you are more like that person. See? Result of togetherness, like-mindedness.
    16. Again, you can't fake this. You of yourself can only cause problems. God does all the solving and proving in you, as we saw in Romans 12:2.
    17. You can keep on voting for it by living in God's System, but the result happens to you. You become aware of the results, you don't create them.
    18. The 'tares' of your sin nature remain, too. Two crops are growing, not just one. Satan gets defeated because the 'tares' didn't stop the Word Wheat from producing His Crop, Luke 8. Um, it should be obvious that you can't grow yourself. Wheat doesn't grow itself, but something happening to it, makes it grow. That's why it's such a devastating defeat: it's patent you didn't do this to yourself, and it's likewise patent that all life's weeds, didn't choke your growth. See why mainstream Christianity is so far off the mark, what with its many political crusades, works and rituals and singalongs and rallies? All that public stuff is Satan's Revelation 17 Fake Church, AKA "mystery of lawlessness" in 2 Thessalonians 2:7! They don't even know they're being fooled. Strong delusion, 2 Thessalonians 2:11. Pray for them. So long as the Christian values publicness as a criterion for spirituality, he will never grow up, and will instead be choked by the 'tares'.
    19. Time to rest, retire! Satan is thus defeated, and you are:

Thus the nine parts of the Trial Answer, play in your own life. And you didn't do a lick of work! Yet you are exhausted! Trial Over!

  1. So now watch the eternal effect of this Superhuman Intimacy won in Evidence Testing. As noted above and elsewhere, Father is pleased to hear us be so intimate with His Son. For Omniscience lives with seeing unbearable amounts of ugly thinking forever. We are so incredibly disinterested in Him, interested in earthly things, petty towards each other, no real love at all. Being Omniscient, He has to see all this forever. Even once we are perfect, we will still be small. So will our thoughts be small, compared to the quality of His. Something Has to compensate for that problem, and forever. Sin only worsens the problem, birthing hostility toward God, the 'good and evil' thought pattern of Satan.

So, how to make up for this horror? The Cross underwrites the entire present value of the opportunity cost for all time, "Opportunity Cost"; followed by, believers in Church who get so filled up with the Son's Thinking, that their own quality of thinking justifies all the rest of the believers, who remain small because they didn't want to learn Christ's thinking. This is the major thrust of Hebrews, from the macro view, especially in the wordplay on ἁγιάζω in Hebrews 10, a consecration of Temple verb: we were separated from God, so are now set apart (root meaning of verb) to God forever, idea of the full opportunity cost (present value) being fully paid by Christ. So, Hebrews 10:15-17 is a testimony by the Spirit, to show how the Word in us is the fulfillment of the Jeremiah 31:31-34 promise. So also, Ephesians, but the latter also explains the mechanic of the individual variance among believers being knitted together by God. 1 Corinthians is also on the topic. Watch keywords carefully, because many metaphors are used. You'll need the original languages, for the English always strips out the special meanings in verbs and nouns. Very careful precision in the original language words, and a ton of wordplay.

Romans 6 makes a huge point out of the fact that Our Redeemer is Living Forever. Hebrews stresses that also, in Hebrews 6-10. If you know anything about present values, you understand that funds on deposit have to generate an ongoing income of a particular amount, to justify themselves. Else, you should invest or spend the money another way. Here the funds on deposit, are His Thinking. So those funds, are living. The innate value of Christ's own thinking in Him, keeps on living. So also, the 'dividends' — little stones, us — are themselves, present values with Funds of His Own Thinking, DDNA. A whole Divine Kingdom of Thinking circulates. All of those funds of thinking thus throw off dividends of their own. As in any economy, the circulation of money (here, "true riches", His Thinking) comes from those who are the wealthiest. For no matter how they spend their money, they create jobs (i.e., those who want to sell to the rich employ people to make products/services to sell). So it's only the rich who basically underwrite the polity's costs; since the poor, have no money. So the poor get jobs from the rich, since any way the rich spend, however outlandishly — their money goes to someone.

The richer you are, the more you hold the money, but it isn't idle. It's invested, and hence whole industries can afford to exist which thus provide, jobs. God isn't stupid like human governments who tax the rich and thereby perpetuate the poor. So this Thinking isn't taxing, either. But it is true wealth, the reason you want even to be alive. So in the eternal state, the thinking of the Pleroma will 'finance' the much-lower thinking of those who rejected God while down here. So all get more Thinking in them, and hence are much happier. And thus Father hears His Son, everywhere. Fully.

Hell is also living, and all the thinking there, is sin. But because His Thinking is so big, and replicated in those of Heaven, the sin-thinking perpetuated is actually a bonus, not a cost: Matthew 4:4 wouldn't exist, if there was no Matthew 4:3. So the beauty of His Matthew 4:4 thought wouldn't exist, absent the juridical occasion of Matthew 4:3. That's how God accounts sin, as fuel for More Beautimous Thinking in His Son (Isaiah's five infinitives).

Again, the key is the juridical connection and eternality of the Thinking. The payment has to be living, since all souls ever born are always living (including all angels, of course). Hence a circle of thinking, 'occasioned' by those poor in Heaven's eternity (and in hell) will justify new thoughts in those richer, occurring. So the poor can even be there. And get enriched by the volume of thinking around them. Growth never stops ∞. But the inherited spiritual-thinking 'capital bases' all vary, derived from how much of His Thinking you learned down here, since God's Love never goes beyond the corridor of consent. So your capital base is built down here. It determines how rich you are in eternity.

Post-death, all believers will be light-years higher in nature than we are now (1 John 3), but we will still vary due to our decisions down here; so the Pleroma believer is literally caused to underwrite the cost of the remaining shortness in the rest of Church (recurring theme of 1 Corinthians, Ephesians and Hebrews, Romans 8, Colossians). Forever. Because, he is more connected, compatible with Son's thinking, so the farther-away others are connected through him, to God. The shortfall in the others' thinking is compensated for by the high quality of the Pleroma believer's, analogous to how sins created a separatist shortfall which Christ paid for. Now no longer separated, believers nonetheless are unequally compatible in shared thinking. Something must make up for that, something must connect the 'dots' of us, so to speak. We are connected at our linking points of compatibility, as noted in "Criterion 3F" numbers property of "variety".

So this flowthrough of Christ's Thinking in Church is a priestly thing, even within the "holy nation" (Peter's term), Church. Hence Ephesians 4:11-16 uses ἐπιχορηγέω (financial equipping of a Greek play) and ἁφή (pastor-teacher, the one getting the spiritual money to equip us actors) to explain this flowthrough. Hence the keyword οἰκονομία, economy.

Hopefully it's becoming clear that the problem isn't God's ability to be compatible, but ours. If you were to diagram the problem, it's like a 'circle' of God, whose Lone Judicial Connection to an underlying 'pyramid' of mankind, is the topmost 'stone': Christ. So the rest of the top part of the pyramid, is the body. Since the lower stones among these are not directly touching the the capstone, they get fellowship by their connections to other stones; and their own positions in the pyramid are forever determined down here, based on how much of the capstone's thinking, they acquired down here. The other, lower stones are believers under the other lower covenants, like Old Testament, Tribulation, Millennium. Now you know what the Lord meant when He said that the last will be first, and the first last — for we are the last phase of the Trial. (Everything after that is a type of postscript.)

The 'stone' analogy is very important. No two stones are exactly alike. Rather, stones vary in attributes, strengths, sizes, color, etc. So to fit them together, they first must be quarried (analogous to us getting His Thinking in us); then, cut and shaped (the Evidence Test); finally, fitted into the structure. Compatibility is related to the 'job' of the stone: how much loading must it bear, what environment must it be in, etc. Obviously, there have to be more stones at the bottom, for those at the top to do their 'job', so all stones need each other. The 'glory' of the upper stones thus passes to those lower, since they all need each other, just as Paul keeps on saying (using Head and Body analogy), in all his epistles. Stones are permanent, too: not made of wood (man's nature and works, in the Bible). So the structure, lasts.

Consequently it's not a lording-over thing, this eventual hierarchical 'economy' of Christ's Thinking, flowing through all of us. Rather, those higher will think like those highest angels in Revelation 4:10, thrilled to spend themselves on Him and on all those whom they rule. The ruled are, in their variant capacities and compatibilities, likewise thrilled to spend themselves on those above and below themselves. It's a very happy picture: for once and forever, everyone loves each other, truly. You don't lord it over someone you love, you're too busy trying to bless them! So none of the crap of power-hungry nitwits who run around today, pretending to be 'holy'. Those old things really will have passed away! Looking up at God, spending self on God, is not an emotional thing, but exceedingly more fulfilling. (Emotion is way too puny.) Sine qua non of life. Nothing else in life compares; everything else is boring and anticlimactic. And in heaven, that's our privilege forever!


So Evidence Testing is on the Third "R": Remaining in the Second "R", Relationship. Staying, not Straying. Staying causes all other "Rs", but chiefly the 5th and 6th: Result of Oneness, and Reproduction.

Let's elaborate on how Relationship Basics #I through #VII 'play' in both the Trial and your life; with emphasis on II., the Evidence Test "Passing Grade" of "Remaining" — here called "Staying", as in "staying together". Essentially, you pass if you prove faithfully fit Bride, and fertile: so 'staying together in the Vine, Christ' is what's On Trial. These are trial "matters", issues to be resolved at court. In legal lingo of the Bible, a "matter" is something before the court which resolves the case at issue. The frequent Hebrew term is "riv", in the Old Testament. Greek equivalent is πρᾶγμα and other words. The Bible also uses other legal terms. So in this section, we'll see the major "matters" before the Supreme Court of Heaven with respect to Church on Trial, in Evidence Testing.

Of paramount concern: when the believer gets filled up with Christ's Thinking, he becomes compatible, and it's time for... "maximum intimacy". Hence, the labor pains. So all the commandments, all the pushing for compatibility, all the huff-and-puff, is really... making spiritual love. Before, we were spiritually too young to make love, so we had to learn in a different 'language', like commandments and do this / do that, and think Doctrine as if it were a 'work', etc. But now old enough, we find out hey, it's all about being together! HAYAH. HAWAH. Being. YHWH. The Self-Existing One wants to be One with all things. And if you want that also, you'll get it from Him! Here in the Evidence Tests that union "completes" (τελειόω). Perfection of contract, meaning its completion.


Staying is a Trial Matter of Divinely-Royal, Spiritual Breeding

The art of ruling is to be the embodiment of the royal standard. People look up to royalty. So without legislation or coercion, people are 'ruled' by their own desire to mimic what they see in a celebrity — and especially, in a royal. So the royal doesn't have to make many rules for others, but himself is a walking textbook of rules he loves to impose on himself. The people seeing him are inspired to emulate, and that's how rulership is accomplished. We all seek to emulate Christ — no one is putting a gun to our heads, or setting enforcement over our lives. So Christ rules us without having to 'do' anything.

Since one rules by being the embodiment, ideally one is bred for rule, from childhood. This is especially true, for the royal spiritual future we have. Therefore:

Obviously, all these skills take years of daily drilling to acquire, for the skills must be instinctive. For you are to become something, not 'do' something.


Staying is a Trial Matter of Divinely-Royal, Spiritual, Exclusive Focus on Christ

Marriage is basic, and exclusive. As my pastor liked to say, Adam wasn't created just a man, but a husband. Isha wasn't created just a woman, but a wife. No greater intimacy, no greater potential for heartache or happiness exists, as in marriage. A person grows up three times, in life: first, physically / mentally (normal growth); second, and ideally, in learning Him; thirdly, in Marriage. For in marriage, a couple grow up together. That's why, ideally, they first became mature before marrying. Well here in the Evidence Test, you've grown up enough not only to marry Him — which by this point is already true in your mind — but you are ready to bear Him kids. From the Seed in you, His Thinking. Forever. Through which Tests, you also grow bigger — to delivery! Rescue!

God isn't 'merely' God in Nature, but Ruler. The Ruler is the Most Ruled, by sovereign choice. So Christ isn't 'merely' a God-Man, but Ruler. So He submits the most, by choice. It is this Rulership submission which theology has missed for centuries, constantly misdiagnosing which of God's Attributes 'rules' Him, consigning Him to being 'unable' to sin, etc., understanding nothing. The Ruler is the Most Ruled, by Divine Choice. Hence Love is His Head Attribute, and Love is always foregoing. He chooses to Love Righteousness, and 'submits' to it, again by Sovereign Choice.

So in Evidence Testing, rulership of love is tested. Sovereign love, a King's love built up in you over all those decades of Bible class, Romans 5:5. For if you would be close to God, you too must become a Ruler in your mentality — like He is, in His Essence. So that buildup is tested, here.

You've married Him in your mind by the time you enter that "Spiritual Maturity" stage. You are occupied with Him, and Philippians 1:21 is your life. But just as in a marriage between two people who are right for each other, this twin pull of dependence and independence, is bewildering. You are already 'complete' in the sense that the Structure of His Thinking is fully in you. But it's not fully functioning. The Evidence Test phase will complete that function. The form of marriage has become the full-fledged intimacy of marriage, total coalescence of souls.

The world focuses on the middle to the exclusion of what's outside it. Hence, "earthly things", as Paul puts it in his letters. So when mankind understands "God", even when saved, they look at Him with a middling interest. Light this candle, get this blessing, follow these forms of worship, get these goodies, do this behavior, pooh-pooh those who don't. They orient to everything based on middles: what happens down here, laterals with each other, right / wrong (irrespective of truth, which is quite different), and on and on and on. Life is a trip to the supermarket, and everyone has his own produce to sell. They get right the idea that they have a life, promises God will bless them, etc. What they don't get, is the totality of the intimacy. God is not a partial being, but Absolute. So the relationship to Him is Absolute. As in, "First Commandment". God is the only love object, and Christ made it clear to Satan that all the kingdoms of the world — all people, and all benefit to people — is of zero significance, Matthew 4:10. Christ essentially says in Matthew 4, "For Father or forget it!" There is only One Morality: for Father. Everything else is of zero consequence.

You now think the same way. See, this stage is no child's thing, no performance thing, no works thing, it's marriage, which is exclusive.


Staying is a Trial Matter of Divinely-Royal 'Issue', Spiritual Children

At maturity you yourself are able to bear children, and the 'children' come from all the Bible Doctrine you've accumulated and used for so very long (at that point). Royal issue: can the wife bear an heir? This is the sixth "R", Reproduction. As you may know, many times in history a royal husband had to have more than one wife, simply to assure the royal bloodline. So, the completion of the Evidence Test proves you can bear spiritual children, and you do. Just as the Cross depicts: that's our paradigm.

That's why "God is a Perfect Actuary" notes that Pleroma benefits go on forever to periphery. Those are the 'children'. Everything Divine is immaterial, a thinking. God just thinks a thing, and it is so. That kind of immaterial 'begetting' must be produced prior to the believer's death, even as it was produced prior to Christ's death on and via, the Cross. Such 'begetting' is vital to a free yet sinless, eternity. That's why the mass of Bride who reject the spiritual life — and hence prove sterile — can even get an eternal inheritance, because enough Divine Doctrine is available via the Pleroma person to 'feed' them all. See? It's Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4! The Real Bread, The real way to feed the poor is to be full of truth, yourself. Don't know how the Bible could make it any plainer, than that.

It's bad English to mix metaphors, but great Hebrew and Greek. Bible mixes metaphors together in the very words chosen, if you study the etymology of them. We'll see some of these terms in the next section. For the moment, remember the themes of Divine Benefit Plan 'financing' of thought. Also, the metaphor of a polity: the king's thinking circulates such that all the people fit together as a hierarchical and unified society, Second Criterion of the Fit Bride. Tandem with that was "Summing up the Reasons" and "Summing Up the Conclusions". Christ is the Head of the Universe. So His Thinking must be high enough and big enough to 'hold together' all those under Him. You are in training to become a King of a kingdom under Him. So your thinking must become high enough and big enough to 'hold' your kingdom. This means you lose your personal life to the job of ruling. So here in Evidence Testing, that 'holding power' of 'staying' is tested, to see if your thinking is high enough and big enough. If so, you inherit a certain number of believers as your kingdom, and you will rule them forever. Those are your 'children', and their thinking will literally be based on yours. It's an awesome role. 100% of you must be 100% dedicated to Christ, for this structure to both work perfectly, and for you to enjoy it. God never gives gifts without first developing in the recipient, the capacity to enjoy them. Hence the royal breeding analogy which began this "staying" division.

So all the other Bible metaphors signifying Word — food, shelter, clothing, riches, life, breath, love, happiness, freedom — these are all personal needs, but also polity needs. And in you they are to 'house'. So you will get in eternity all those material things to 'feed' your polity, if enough Word is in you. Again, that's the purpose of Evidence Testing, to complete that Word in you, so it will reproduce in them. For Father, under Him your Husband forever.

For the spiritual life down here is about whether you want to relate intimately to God, and how much. Your choices forge a kind of method of relationship: distant, or close. If distant, there need to be many intermediaries between God and you, in order for the totality of Divine Thought Father wants, to occur. 99.9% of Christians choose distance, being instead intimate with other people, works, rituals, religion (pregnant with Satan instead). That's the method of relating to God they choose, so that's what they get. The Pleroma make the opposite choice: they want exclusive relationship directly with God, and all else is extra, designed to be subordinated to that exclusive relationship, i.e., the 144,000 in Revelation chose exclusivity, so they become the Lord's personal entourage it seems (Revelation 14:4). The 24 seraphim in Revelation 4:10 are right there in the throne room, in His immediate proximity. So by analogy, the Pleroma get to be closer to Him. So they get kingdoms, because that status makes them have exclusive, marital-intimacy relationship with God their King: close, intimate. So everyone gets what he wants, from God.


Staying is a Trial Matter of Scripture, AKA "the Royal Law", James 2:8

Marital Oneness as a metaphor of Spiritual Life with God is the most-stressed theme in Bible. So the bullet points here on how Scripture covers spiritual intimacy with God are quite limited, focusing rather on the staying criterion for victory. Additionally, this extreme divine desire for togetherness often goes unnoticed in theology, not merely because Christians tend to be ascetic so avoid proper teaching about marital intimacy; but because in Bible, foundational doctrines are foundationally expressed: by the use of a preposition, a case ending, juxtaposition of words, intransitive verbs used transitively — every nuance of grammar and syntax is 'employed'. That rhetorical style reflects God as Foundation for Everything, Omnipresence Unseen and Universality of Applicability.

Infinite Unseen Sovereignty is Everywhere, but that's not why He's in Everything. He wants to be in everything, because He is the Everything, and Everything about Infinite God is a Desire for Togetherness, flat! Hence the Cross which accomplishes that Desire, Isaiah 53:12, Ephesians 1:23. Compatibility, therefore, isn't a "work", but a goal: Absolute Togetherness. That they may be one even as We are One, Christ prayed in John 17.

The verb μένω means many things. Christ used the verb during the First Advent to illustrate the relationship with Him, post-salvation. As you'll soon see here, all the New Testament writers play off His use of the verb and its many cognate verbs and nouns. In 1 John, for example, μένω is usually translated "abide", in the sense of Remaining, Staying somewhere. Really, staying at home. For the root meaning of "μένω" is to 'live at home'. Idea of love, comfort, wanting to be there. Not just a location. You'll see this word often used in the New Testament; interestingly, it also has both legal and military connotations — idea of remaining-true, 'remaining at post', 'remaining in witness box' (because the opposing attorney couldn't discredit your testimony). Unfortunately, due to the insane translation rules taught in seminaries (one English for one Greek word!), English Bibles often translate μένω in so many different ways, you miss its 'live at home comfort / fealty' idea. This word is worth all the time you can spend researching using some detailed lexicon: Strong's is not strong enough! Use some 'biggie', like full Kittle or Bauer Danker Arndt Gingrich and others. Add to these the smaller, insightful lexicons like Thayer, sometimes Friberg or Liddell-Scott. Amazingly, some of the smaller ones, though seemingly shallow, actually afford more insight. Read through as many as you can find.

Biggie Lexicons

As noted, "μένω" was coined by the Lord to describe our relationship to Him, in John 15. Vine and Branches. In all 60 uses of "vine" in Bible, the metaphor always has sexual connotations; it's tangentially referenced elsewhere, as in the command to creatures to "be fruitful and multiply", in Genesis 1. Husband fills the wife, so kids result, the "fruit". He makes this same analogy about sex in many ways within the Gospels and the beginning of Acts; vividly prays for such a marriage in John 17's "that they may be one" with the Godhead repeatedly, and makes it clear Truth being in us is the way to do this (John 17:11, John 17:17, John 17:19, John 17:21-23; see also 1 Corinthians 6:16-20); and of course His Discourse in Revelation 1-3 are Husband focused. One of His many methods of analogizing the spiritual life to marriage is His comment that once a mother gives birth to a child, she forgets all about her 'labor pains' (John 16:21). Bible uses that metaphor a lot, usually translated 'travail' in KJV.

So the verb μένω is 'husband' to the famous and oft-repeated ὑπομένω, for obvious reasons: the Greek prefix "ὑπό" means "under" or "underneath", and the compound verb of ὑπό + μένω is variously translated "to be patient", "to endure", "to obey". My pastor likes to translate ὑπομένω as 'having staying power', and crafted a whole doctrine frequently taught us about "the Staying Power of the Cross". Ὑπομένω is a responsive verb, compared to "μένω" alone; but obviously still means be 'at home underneath love', authority. (By the way: -μένω suffixed nouns change to -μονή.) Ὑπομένω and ὑποτάσσω (latter means being under orders, is often used in a military sense) are favorite verbs of the New Testament writers, but it's really interesting that John strips out the "ὑπό", and stresses just the "staying at home" root of μένω alone. Why? Because John focuses on motive, which is love. He's known for that focus among Greek scholars, and with good reason: if you don't love being under the Lord's Thinking, what's the point of being alive? And, of course, as John develops the μένω keyword in 1 John, he's saying just that: if you don't μένω in Doctrine, you aren't but a walking corpse.

Considering John's big stress on the initial garden marriage via his "in the beginning" and other very subtle keyword uses (which my pastor stresses over and over, tying the garden marriage to the Church, and especially to Christian marriage), I can't escape noticing a sort of 'making love' nuance in John's use of μένω. The better lexicons will tell you μένω has a long history in Greek drama, also sotto voce: the idea being to dedicate oneself to a god (i.e., in Euripides' play Ion). In the Greek religions, you had a communion with a god via both sexual and mental uniting.

John seems to be making a play on that principle in both his Gospel and 1 John; and given his repeated stress on the indwelling (σκηνόω, but "μένω" means "to dwell in", too, and is frequently translated as such in the New Testament), it's clear John is talking about all the aspects of marital intimacy with the Real God; just that the spiritual equivalent of our responsive sexual act is the Word being "in" us. My pastor, when talking about sex, nearly always reminds us that the biggest reason why sex apart from one's spouse is horrible, is that marital sex is designed to "build the castle walls" of the marital bond. So, too, with the Spiritual Bond circulating Bible Doctrine creates in the soul under the Spirit. Hence anything not Word is horrible, disgusting. Fidelity alone is attractive. This is why learning Him is the only way to stop sinning. Something better — SomeOne better — has to replace the old attractions. Fidelity exists for a reason: you are more in love with the object than anything else in life. It's a happiness, not a preening.

The world's sense of pleasure and rightness is always animalistic: shallow, rotelike, grunting, with mere feeling passing itself off as truth ("feels right", ugh), love or spirituality. So religion caters to that worldly sense with its endless Stepford-wife strictures, robotic. Set prayers, rituals, works, etc., all conveying "God" as painful and animalistic, himself. Spin this prayer wheel, eat this food, chant this mantra, light incense or a candle, live a deprived life. Every religion has features like those (Asian ones) just listed. Same ol' game dressed up in different cultural clothing. Magic comes from the robotic observances. See? No brains, just movement: for animals are to be herded and led wherever the brains want them to go. So is it any surprise that sex is sold like animals rutting? Many partners, all about having some physical pleasure which magically turns into love if you make the right movements. No different than religion. Same with drugs, wealth, you name it. Exact same formula as that Satan's 'magic fruit' pitch in the Garden.

The Christian God is the Real God and He doesn't prescribe us to live like animals. True Righteousness is truly enjoyable. Animals don't know how to enjoy anything but what's animalistic. But we can't stop living like animals, until we learn the Word and come to enjoy His superior taste, Hebrews 6:5. Taste the Lord, for He is Good, Psalms 34:8. God is an Acquired Taste, and that's the purpose of the spiritual life: So tasty, that the Lord wanted to taste (γεύω, thoroughly savor) Death, Hebrews 2:9. As a result, He was Completed (Hebrews 2:10). See? Once you taste Him long enough, everything else is... well, animalistic. So your fealty to Him, is for a reason: He tastes better.

Yep. In Genesis 22:5, Abraham says he and the lad will return. The "lad", Isaac, was no boy: he was between 25-40 years old, signified by the Hebrew word na'ar (Isaac married at age 40 - Genesis 25:20), so this passage happened sometime earlier.) So both of them needed to know how much they loved El. El already knew, of course. Hebrews explains how Abraham was able to do it: he deemed Isaac to be returned from the dead. Because, his love was total. For this, he became "Friend of God", James 2:22 and following. Not for any works: James makes this fact screamingly clear in the Greek, by using the intransitive verb, συνεργέω — so the 'works' weren't done by Abraham, but by the Doctrine ("faith") in him. (See also Romans 8:28, same usage.) Because Abraham's love had been grown fully, nothing separated El and him. Which, he needed to know — and the Testing Proved it to him. And to Satan & Co. So based on this one man, all of history continued. He is the father of all nations, since believers will be from all nations (see Romans 4 and Romans 9). Chief is the Son, the Christ.

That's the meaning of the Evidence Test: togetherness, flat! even under what seem to be 'immoral' conditions. For God is #1, and any other loves are immoral, by comparison. Total love for Christ, eclipsing all your other loves (and hates), whatever they may be. On Trial. That's the meaning of the Cross.

So of course, now you bear children to your beloved. Hence the 'labor pains' of Evidence Testing. The coalescence of thinking is real, and here it becomes total. So there are 'children', you being one of them, of His Thinking. That's the main theme in Isaiah 53, very clever and graphic about how He was raped with our sins so He Who had no descendants would bear children forever to Father:

in Isaiah 52:13 through Isaiah 53:10-12 (i.e., b'yado yitslah in Isaiah 53:10, b'dato yatsdiq in Isaiah 53:11, ahalleq lo b'rabbim in Isaiah 53:12). Isaiah spends much wit and meter parsing out how knowledge of Truth Mastered (Isaiah 52:13) Will Prosper Christ: Hebrew "sakal" there ("yaskil" in the verse) means "knowledge which makes you prosper". And the prospering, is in terms of Progeny ("yireh zera ya'arik yamim" in Isaiah 53:10, and "ahalleq lo v'rabbim" in Isaiah 53:12). So what He Knows will Birth from the Sterile, "long-lived Seed", Isaiah 53:10-12, Isaiah 54:1. Now you understand Galatians 3, Luke 8, etc. What marital wit! It's a Contract. The confirmation in Hebrews 1:4, Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 5:8-9 (τελειόω means to 'complete', legal notion of perfection of contract) reference the Isaiah 53:10-11 contract. The header clause of this contract begins in Isaiah 52:13.

"Soul" is placed smack dab in the middle of the verse, which is high Hebrew and Greek economy, making the Object of the Prior Clause, the Subject of the ἀπόδοσις. Takes the breath away.

Isaiah 53 is all about the birthing of our salvation from the rape of the Cross. Preposition min's root meaning is outside and beside; so it also has an adjectival / adverbial usage of beyond, above and beyond, incomparable (so anything 'beside' it is dead, inferior, not-worth-comparing). So it's used to distinguish the dead fetal biology, absent soul, versus the real you, which is a soul God makes at birth, pattern of Genesis 2:7. So Isaiah (and the New Testament writers, for that matter) plays on this essential 'outside source of your origin' being God — to show how sins got paid for on the Cross — via using "M" sounds constantly in the verses. Very clever. Note the "Ms" here in Isaiah 52:14: "ka'asher shamemu aleka rabbim, ken mishhat me'ish mareyhu, wa toaro me'beni adam." That 9-8-9 syllable structure is so full of multilayered meanings — one of the most gruesome verses in all the Old Testament, and yet one explaining His Hypostatic Union, the best. Beyond Human, what was done to Him Who was Beyond Human. Outside Human. Born from human, not from inside, but from outside. Since all the humans are spiritually dead, even while living. Just like a fetus is soulishly dead, even though mindless biological tissue in the making. (The Bible uses this pregnancy labor metaphor a lot in Job and Psalms, maybe elsewhere too, I didn't check all the many references.)

Philippians 1:20 Exegetical notes:

What do these Bible metaphors of the spiritual life and especially its last stage — combat, endurance running, marital coitus and pregnancy — all have in common? Increasingly fast repetitions. Pushing to a successful ending. In combat, you fire much faster when you are closely engaged with the enemy, against whom you rush to meet; in labor, your contractions become closer and closer, and you are supposed to push harder and harder; in endurance running, you save some strength for the end, when you sprint for the 'tape'; the sex act's increasing speed doesn't need elaboration. In all of these, you find 'the principle of the offensive', one of the (usually 9) cardinal principles of military doctrine. For, only by means of 'offensive' is a decision gained. Only by pushing do you deliver a child, finish a race, annihilate an enemy, and (well, you supply the word for the finish of the sex act). God designed them all. And have you noticed, when you push like that it's satisfying, even restful?


Staying is a Trial Matter of Divinely-Royal, Inspired, Informed, Mature... Rest

See the irony of rest: God seems to 'just sit there', yet no one is busier. Same, for royalty. Again, the consummate ruling role of royalty is to be the embodiment of the royal standard. The true enjoyment of ruling is to fulfill righteous standards, oneself. Thus the life is actually forever busy, especially in one's thinking. One lives for the righteous standards upon self, not others. That attitude inspires people, and to communicate the high value of the standards, a royal is generally public, yet 'distant'. The 'distance' is to give the ruled 'space', privacy, freedom to emulate or not. Granted, ruling also requires governance, but governance never inspires people: it merely regulates them. Ideally, governance would help facilitate the standard people want to emulate anyway — from seeing the royal. In our world, that facilitation never happens. All any human government can do, is mess things up: for we humans are all messed up.

But God inspires — just to look at Him. And why? Because God infinitely enjoys living the divine standard. That's why He'll never sin. Only the divine standard is desirable. We see Him love it 😘, and are inspired to do the same, Psalm 89:14-15, 2 Corinthians 5:14, Philippians 2:5, Romans 5:8, etc. Accordingly, staying in the Royal Spiritual Life, is a trial matter of inspired motive, and informed marital maturity: im tasim asham naphesho, "If He will Appoint His Own soul as a Substitute for sin", Isaiah 53:10. Hebrew "im" means "if", so if you keep resisting as He did on the Cross, that's a Trial Victory. Of course, the reverse of "im" is "mi", the short form of Hebrew birthing preposition, "min". And so if you rest, you birth for your Husband Whom you have come to love with all your heart and soul and mind, in Evidence Testing.

Consequently, Evidence Testing is designed to:

Produce the Restful Divinely-Royal Togetherness, Ephesians 4:12-16, 2 Peter 3:18.
Demonstrate the Restful Staying Power of Divinely-Royal Togetherness to you and everyone else in heaven (God already knows all about it), Ephesians 3:15-19, 1 John 4:12-17.
Prove the Resting Superior Nature in the person thus Restfully Developed, to answer Satan's Arresting Arguments in the Trial: Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 4:4-5, Hebrews 4:11-12, Hebrews 6:19, Hebrews 7:18-22, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 10:10-17, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 11:10, Hebrews 11:16, Hebrews 11:26, Hebrews 12:2, Hebrews 12:23-24, Hebrews 12:27; Colossians 1:27, Romans 12:2.

Hence for the Royal Believer, the test that produces, demonstrates, proves — is rest. The test is rest. Just sitting there. After all, we'll be perfect in the eternal state, so enforcement via governance won't be an issue. But learning and living on the standard will be all anyone will ever talk about or want. Living toward Him. With pleasure. So your pleasure at living on the Divinely Royal Standard despite every pressure, is shown by your resting.

Notice how staying and therefore resting, address the 8 "Rs" of Evidence Testing (blue text).

But the rest is shown by
Your response to pressure.
You repeatedly desire
To reciprocate Him.
So you rule yourself.
You keep returning to Him, as
The relationship matters more.
So this remaining is Evidenced
By the continual recall of Bible
In reply to what's hitting you. See the added royal "Rs"
You're reproducing?

Hence your fealty during Evidence Testing is due to comfort, even under pressure. It is not comfort as the world gives; but rather, comfort in knowing Him so great, the world's enticements and discomforts can't interfere. You are hit but don't quit, 2 Corinthians 4:7-10, 2 Corinthians 5:14-21, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. Word in your head is the Comfort now: so the hits occur and even knock you flat — but they don't defeat the Love. You remain because you want to. Satisfied despite suffering, because Full. Pleroma. Full of food, Bible Doctrine, "the unhidden" (literal translation of ἀλήθεια), Truth. So full of the Seed (Galatians 3) are you, that you are 'pregnant' with His Seed, it's all hanging out there, unhidden: you are the verge of delivery. So will you keep on abiding during labor, or abort? Just as, Christ "abided" in Doctrine, in the Father, in the Spirit — even on the Cross. No glamour, no flash, but instead: demeaning and messy and, well... basic. So basically, Rest. Not work. Rest, not (arrogance + rest) arrest.

Ironically, it's a lot tougher to do 'nothing', than to do something. First, we've got the sin nature inherited from Adam, which equates to an incessant do-something urge hitting the soul. Second, our bodies just can't sit still for long. Thirdly, the body (and the soul, too) has certain 'survival reflexes'. For example, if you smell smoke, your first instinct will be to get out of whatever room you are in; if you hear a sudden noise, you'll want to hide, get up to investigate... something. If you've ever had a CAT scan or other medical test (or even dental surgery) in which it was critical you stay very still: didn't you at that moment want to move more than ever? Paul talks about this problem in Romans 7 when he quips that he didn't covet, until the Law forbade it. In short, resting is really not something our body can handle. We seek it constantly, but... oh, gotta turn on that TV or radio!

Hence it's a Superhuman thing, nay, even a demonstration of the superior dependence on God — if we can just sit still while Superhuman Doctrine and the demon boys, are hitting us!


Evidence Testing: The "Combat" of — Rest!

Now let's try to interweave all the above Testing Structure, the 8 Rs, + Roman Numeral parameters I through VIII, + Bible concepts about abiding, marriage, bearing kids — together. Won't be easy!

Evidence test key → Functionally speaking, our #7 rest plays thusly: do you (#3) "remain" AKA "Abide" to completion (τέλειος or τέλος, "the end" in English Bibles)? It's a full-spectrum set of testing, "filling all in all" objective to be realized in you, Ephesians 1:23, "abased and to abound", Philippians 4:12. Soul capacity is being built. A child's capacity for nice and not-nice is very limited. An adult is more 'capacious', so to speak. Christ's soul capacity became infinite even in His humanity, due to that Ultimate Evidence Test, the Cross. So here your capacity must be increased by prosperity and adversity which hits. The highest prosperity is He Himself, Whom you now see via the Doctrine itself. All else pales by comparison. That prosperity makes Evidence Testing almost intolerable. For now you have the tension of being stuck in this body: this world's nicenesses become too low, and of course the world's adversities are already intolerable. But you learn to enjoy both despite the pressure, for Doctrine — His Thinking — matters more than them all. God always pushes the envelope. It's literally like a pregnancy, your soul being so full of Word. Joy and its antithesis, all at once.

  • In sum, as my pastor puts it, the Evidence Test categories concern our #2 "R":
  1. Your relationship to God
  2. Your relationship to life
  • These two answer categories were already explained in Evidence Testing. The active and passive levels concept I get from other doctrines my pastor teaches, as well as directly from Scripture, but I've not yet heard him say anything about them with respect to "Evidence Testing", though the concept is pretty obvious in Paul, Peter, and John's epistles.
  • As that chart shows, there are many facets to this testing. So once you become aware of them, you will see yourself advanced in some particulars, but behind in others. It will be very tempting to be demoralized over the ones you see 'behind', and cocky about the ones you see 'advanced'.
  • You gotta learn to say "So, What!" to both awarenesses. Then you move forward. Which you will, if getting close to Him is your #1 priority (i.e., as Paul expresses it, in Philippians 1:21 in context).
  • Ergo, in the passive levels of this testing, you'll habitually 'reply' to whatever bops your volition with doctrinal association. Meaning, of course, recalling doctrine to answer what hits you, via Matthew 4:4, and following. You don't 'do', anything. You let it hit you, but 'reply' with the Doctrine. Just like Christ did. Especially, on the Cross.
  • Then there are the active levels (and both types overlap, too): here, the prosperity you have requires aggressive initiatory use of the Doctrine in you. It's a lot rougher!
  • In the active levels, your focus is different: you lay down a barrage of remembrances of Doctrine, to offensively go forward, in the test.
  • You might not know that's what you are doing, for awhile. But you will come to know.
  • It will be a great relief, for here you discover that your pressure is separate from your Love! for Him. And He's showing that fact, to you! It's an incredible experience, and is strictly internal. Outers which 'prove' this to you can be pleasant or unpleasant, and will likely be both at once. Just like the Cross, Hebrews 12:2.
  • Study how Paul expresses himself in his epistles, especially Philippians, which is all about progeny (μεγαλύνω keyword). That aggressive enthusiasm is a perfect example of how to deal with the active levels of the test.
  • The idea is that you just love the Word Meaning so much, it drives your thinking throughout your day, keeps on being something you think about whenever you can. It won't seem like testing, but it is. It will seem like fun, and that it surely is.
  • You're developing a fluency of thinking Bible Doctrine under pressure, of thinking toward the Father despite distraction and pressure, 24/7. For that's how it will be in the Eternal State. The harder pressure is the extreme joy of seeing Him. To bursting. So you gotta get big enough, to withstand that. Adversity is one way to 'stretch' you, but prosperity is harder and more important. Doctrinal prosperity is the hardest kind of pressure to live with. But it is fun, just as any prosperity seems like fun. That's the problem with prosperity: it's So Enjoyable. Becomes very much harder to regard anything else. The pressure buildup is so intense, you eventually cannot even bear looking at anything else except through the Word you love so much. And that's when the docking begins to succeed. The right home for everything else in life is under the Word. The pressure is innate to the process, and God uses it to provoke that docking. For how else could Christ bear sins? Hebrews 12:2 tells you how: they docked under the happiness He had: "His exhibited happiness" my pastor translates it (not "joy set before Him"). Hebrews 12:2 seems to be alluding to the clauses in Isaiah 53:11.
  • This fun practice of looking at Word all the time will become extremely helpful when disaster hits: that's a surprise result, (result of the test), in Evidence Testing.
  • We expect the Testing to be painful. Well, sometimes it is. We don't expect it to be fun. Well, always it is. The two are supposed to be side by side. How else do you think God can live with Himself knowing all the horror! Something so pleasant He knows is so compensating, the horror is even enjoyable, Hebrews 12:2.
  • Here in Evidence Testing, you taste that side by sidedness. Omniscience is full-spectrum, so the tests are high-low, to enable you to gain more compatibility with God's Own knowingness. That's Superhuman. That's "Realization of Togetherness", John 17 being developed toward fulfillment.
  • When in labor during a normal pregnancy, a woman must push. Notice the irony: a pregnant woman is at 'rest' (i.e., on a bed), yet is in labor, combat. So are you, in Evidence Testing. Doesn't matter what motivation she uses to push, so long as she pushes. Else, the fetus will not be delivered. So it doesn't matter What Doctrine you use, so long as you push with it. Wanting to, despite all the pressure against it. For, in labor, the last thing a woman feels like doing, is pushing. Same, for you in this phase of your spiritual life. Because of that fact, the awareness of pushing being the imperative, can mislead you into 'pushing' via Satan's visible system. But you really push, by recalling and believing in doctrine you already learned. Active phase means you aggressively recall, seek, etc. Passive phase means defensive recalling. The Bible puts it this way: "me amal... naphesho". Out from His Soul's labor, first two words in Isaiah 53:11, plus clever positioning of the word "nephesh", soul, smack dab in the middle of the metered verse. You're smack dab in the middle of the high ground, ken mishhat me ish mereyhu, wa toaro me bene adam — beyond human, Isaiah 52:14 playing in paradigmal form so you can share in it, from here on out.

Pregnancy is basic. On the Cross He was made pregnant with our sins. All the New Testament refers back to Isaiah 53:10-12, in unending allusion. It took me about two years to see that pervasive pattern of allusion in Bible. Now, maybe it's your turn to go look. This is the very heart of Evidence Testing, since it's patterned after the Cross (pick up your cross, hint hint, you will be under immense pressure and the world will hate you).

The fetus is separate from the woman. But, it is not yet independent, which is why no soul is in the womb. Same, for this phase of the test: the Birthing of Πλήρωμα in you is the goal. You're pregnant with it, but not yet delivered of it. So it is a separate pressure you feel, and that fact is of great comfort. It is of great comfort, because you can view it for what it is — separate from your love for Him — see Romans 7. Thus you are spared a lot of angst, trying to reason with what you think is your 'self' to motivate change. Well, it is not you, as Paul explains, in Romans 7. So, you don't reason with it, you just push. Just as, you can't reason with a fetus, since it is dead, soulishly — potentially alive, but as yet, not. It won't become alive, until born. Same, for the pressures you will feel: they are dead, so you can't reason the Doctrine with them. Instead, all you can do for them, is push. That makes them alive with meaning they'd not otherwise have; even as, the Doctrine you've applied all your life, made whatever you applied it to, alive. Isaiah 54:1!

Of course, after one has given birth, it's called a joy to have gone through the process. But true joy is not emotional, obviously. It's a stasis, an absolute, so exists during the suffering as well. The word "χαρά" means "unalloyed happiness" as my pastor likes to explain. Nothing mixed in, therefore pure, absolute, independent, needing no 'alloy' to buck it up, like emotion. Usually mistranslated "joy", which in English is always an emotional word, the Greek term connotes God's own happiness. Infinity is not emotional. Emotion means change. God never changes. So scrap all ideas about "joy" in human terms. Again, everything in the spiritual life is Superhuman. The low is Superhuman, and so also the High, because the objective is to have spiritual soul capacity with very God... forever. To get that, one needs combat. The ultimate capacity Person, Christ, received total rapport completion with Father — on the Cross. It didn't feel good. But it was a joy while on it, Hebrews 12:2. That's His legacy to us. Takes a lifetime of training so Hebrews 12:1 and passing grade can happen to the believer. Paul says Worth it! Philippians 1:21, end of Romans 8, and 2 Timothy 4:7-8.

Ergo result of the test, the functional demonstration in Evidence Testing, is reproduction, due to rest of Psalm 46:10, which means keep on "abiding" in the Spirit, fluently thinking that Beautimous Doctrine which took a lifetime's training! In the Old Testament, folks passed it by just trusting God to handle a situation. In the New Testament, your brain has to be very, very active, for you are Learning to Rule. Not just trusting. All the while, though, relaxing as though your whole being wasn't torn by the very high knowledge of Him, versus the very low earthly life you have (even and especially, if prosperous). It's a killer just to do 'nothing', yet the second facet of Righteousness that withstands all opposition, is completing in you.

Evidence Testing of you therefore exhibits your own #I "A-I" nine-part Trial Answer, just as His Evidence Testing (Matthew 4 through Cross events) demonstrated His love for Father. So the Evidence is, "see how you competently love me", successfully tested. Proving the success to Satan & Co., and to you. 'Not proof from you. God is testifying. After all, creatures need the proof, not God.

So, this testing proves why result of the test justifiably begets #II through #VI. For, God is doing the proving — to you. To Satan & Co.. This Evidence Test phase is really the biggest payoff of life!

God really does "save the best for last." Look: by this point, what the world drools over means nothing to you. Only the Lord matters. So, what does the Lord give to the believer who has been grown to have 'the all things'? Well, look at Romans 8:31 and following: only Combat is Enough! Imagine: enjoying true combat while in it? 'More than goodies? But that's impossible!?! Heh. What a paradox. Just as the Lord felt about the Last Supper, yearning for His Cross with all His Heart (Luke 22:15), so will you come to feel. For, all the learning, all the training, all the waiting... now pays off, and you in your puny body get to see it! It's the greatest joy and happiness one can ever know, this side of Heaven. And you'll know it, while in it: you see how true it is, yourself, for God demonstrates the evidence to you, Isaiah 53:11. It's a kind of release and relief, to finally be there. Since Evidence Testing proceeds in measured segments and phases, the repetition of release and relief, builds. So, the testing builds. In the final phases of the testing, an "unalloyed happiness" builds into a kind of stasis that the pressure cannot dent. The side by sidedness of the pressure and the "χαρά" AKA "joy", both remain, coalescing into a kind of Oneness, thus realizing God's Oneness Goal.

Christians mistakenly think that sin is supposed to magically disappear from the life once they believe in Christ 🤦. Romans 7 proves the opposite is true: your pre-salvation state and the accumulated post-salvation sins + human good & evil, are all "tares" in your soul. Bible Doctrine being deposited is Wheat Seed, Bread of Life sprouting. So, your sins become worse. My pastor likes to joke about that, telling a fake 'testimony' about the skunk-drunk who converted and then truly started sinning. Your sin nature has no war until it has God's Righteousness to combat, which is imputed to you when you believe in Christ, Genesis 15:6, Isaiah 53:11, Galatians 2:16 (justified = made righteous, alludes back to Isaiah 53:11's bedato yatsdiq, tsadiq ab'di l'rabbim), all of Galatians 3; 2 Corinthians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Romans 3:22, 5:1, Titus 3:5-7 (again Titus 3:7, justified = made righteous).

So the sins are worse, post-salvation, because you are internally at war. Your old nature remains, its natural condition of being a 'tares' crop now agitated by the Word-wheat being planted in it. To your sin nature, the wheat is weeds, 1 Corinthians 2:14, Romans 8:6-8, Galatians 5:17. It's agitating. So from the point of salvation onward, you've two crops growing, until you die. Not only that, but as you keep growing, your standards change. You are becoming more compatible with God, so what once didn't bother you, agitates: for you now see the evil which heretofore looked 'good' to you. Just like Paul says, in Galatians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 4-5, first half of Romans 8. Everything about God is alien to humanity. So this Romans 12:2 transformation won't play pretty. By the time you are in the Pleroma phase, therefore, you ardently want those tares defeated. For you are largely Wheat, now.

Here in Pleroma you get harvested, wheat and tares together. Thing is, by this stage the tares have been deprived of their satanic water and soil for so long, they are rather sickly, yet that makes them more choking than ever. The wheat is rather strong, so the dichotomy by this point is extreme. You know that, because you're remaining in the relationship, so that's a result you can finally see, main "abiding" theme in 1 John. So it's a relief and a stasis, and the tares are there — everything, all at once. Side-by-side, akin to how Omniscience sees everything. So it was, on the Cross — our tares, His Wheat, harvested together, ubahaburato nirpalanu, sewn up in His Wounds and thus healed, Isaiah 53:5, last clause.

This besidedness is confusing for a long time, so often a Christian thinks he's failing in the Christian life, when in truth he's just experiencing the simultaneous pressure of the High Doctrine he knows, plus the low hits to his sin nature, from temptation. Romans 7 helps you see that simultaneity is a permanent condition, down here. But think: God sees all at once, so the besidedness is a permanent condition for Him. To get the rapport, then, you need to have this besidedness of knowing, in you. God is perfect, we are not, but we somewhat 'know' sin by sinning ourselves and living with it daily. We don't know it like He does, because being a sinner deadens the ability to know anything. But we get the 'stretch' of High-low by getting all that Wheat planted in us: Bread of Life, Bread of Heaven, Our Manna, Christ. Which of course irritates our sin nature no end, so living with this knowledge of better thinking is rather abrasive to that nature. Still, the point is the besidedness remains; over time, it doesn't get better, it gets worse. It gets worse, because the more Bible you live on, the more you see how sick and puny are the world's values, the better you see what "evil" and "sin" really mean, and the more unattractive you find it all. God doesn't sin for a reason: it's unattractive. But we are born in sin, so we are attracted to sin. Bible growing in you changes all that. But what it doesn't change, is the sin nature. So you are progressively aware of it as something you're stuck with, just as Paul explains in Romans 7. Yet the purpose of those tares now, is to teach what it was like for Him to be God-man, to be made sin. And, what it's like to be God, Omnisciently knowing all the high and all the low — at once.

So the "togetherness" grows from both the Wheat and the tares in your soul, Isaiah 54:1, Luke 8! So due to the simultaneity, your body is feeling one thing, your sin nature another, your soul is hit with them both, yet right there dominating them all, is this Wheat of knowing Him, 2 Corinthians 4:7-10. Hence the Hypostatic Paradox of Him, but in your body, now: the hurricane strength winds blow His Wheat, but it doesn't uproot. The low shears chop at it, but it grows even more, as a result. You should be upset, but are not — instead you are happier still; or, are not as upset as you should be, and people are amazed (and even ticked off, for they think you don't care).

In fact, only one thing can upset you: whether you are 'right' with Him. That is your weak spot. That's where all the temptations target. For nothing else will work. "Satan played to the Lord's strength" in Matthew 4, my pastor explained. Idea that if your strong suit is defeated, you are thoroughly defeated. Well, what's strong in Pleroma, is your love for Him. Yet the combat actually develops that love further. Happiness here is being in Him, together, seeing Him. Unhappiness is anything and everything else. You've become a one-note person: only He is worthy of Note. So to get you to divorce Him is critical, for that's true misery. All other attractions have lost their power. So a Cross seems as though God 'leaves', disapproves. No greater grief, than separation from Him.

Of course, the Ultimate in Besidedness, is the Cross itself: simultaneous imputation and judgement of all sins in history, all to a Perfect Soul Full of Perfect Divine Truth. So what happened?




His Combat On The Cross, Your Joy to 'Practice'

So look at Him: combat here is living on His Thinking, for His Thinking paid for sins. But more than that! He was Maximally Enlarged, μεγαλύνω'd! For the 'combat' of the Cross enlarged His human soul for total rapport with Father. See Isaiah 52:13-14 + Isaiah 53:10-11, Hebrews 1:4, Hebrews 2:10, Hebrews 5:8-9. That's the first reason why He wanted the Cross! He was not a masochist, but rather ardently wanted total rapport with the Father.

Freedom, Love and Justice 'Unity' Tested → We know exactly the Evidence Test Answer from Son and Spirit, the Attitude Goal of our own spiritual lives: that the Father is the Be-All and End-All of life (τὰ πάντα). Since Son and Spirit are Co-Equal but instead choose to subordinate to the Father, what other answer can there be, for such choice? So, we get the consummate privilege of having that same attitude, which functionally demonstrates itself via μένω-ing in Christ's own Thinking: rapport.

As God-Man, Christ structurally had total "Communion of Attributes" (theological term) within Himself, because the two natures are One Person. However, His Human Soul's "communion" with the Father was complete except for one type of knowledge the Father had which the Son's Humanity did not yet have: the knowledge of sins and their judgement. See, to have total rapport with someone, you need to share sufficient knowledge with that person, so that you can see through that person's "eyes": commune. Well, Deity's knowledge of sin and the judgement due sin is total: in fact, that's one reason why Absolute Righteousness would require Payment. So, for the Lord's Humanity, that area of knowledge was kept theoretical: He didn't look at it, because that would be cheating. Moreover, being Human, even the Largest Soul ever — for He became "The Truth" — even so, to complete rapport with the Father required Christ actually be imputed and judged with the sins themselves. For, if you totally love Someone, you want to share Everything with that One. 'Including, everything bad.

Combat Key → So He could not get that rapport until the Cross itself: any knowledge Deity could Righteously give His Humanity about the Cross, yet in advance of the Cross, would only be iffy-history; a could have been knowledge. Reality-knowledge can't be transmitted until the reality occurs! See, just as in the Third Temptation, which was a proposed alternative to the Cross, for His Humanity to get knowledge of the Cross in advance would have precluded the reality of being on the Cross, since He would have gotten the knowledge a different way. So He'd not be able to get the iffy-knowledge and then also get The Reality. To get the True Knowledge, His Humanity would have to actually bear sins and be judged for them — it's a running subtheme in the Hebrew sound and wordplay.

Knowledge makes the soul bigger if that Knowledge is Truth, 2 Corinthians 9:10. Well, the truth about sin is that sins exist and are bad. To know any kind of truth, bad or good, is imperative for God to be God. Nothing can be 'shaved', however heinous. But of course, if one sins one knows nothing, as per Adam's sin obliterating his understanding of God. So our 'knowledge' of sin is not like God's. So Christ's knowledge couldn't be either, for the opposite reason: He had to stay sinless. So to complete the Truth Knowledge Connection with Father and thus have that Togetherness 100%, He'd actually have to receive that horrific knowledge on the Cross before He could know it, 2 Corinthians 5:21.

From which Pregnancy while on the Cross, He actually received and Birthed from His Knowledge all Righteousness, again 2 Corinthians 5:21 (which points back to the b'dato yatsdiq clause in Isaiah 53:11). In union with His Own Deity, in Union with Both Father and the Spirit Who indwelled Him and Who sustained His Humanity. Unity. Community. Communion: Three. Maximum Intimacy, Full-Spectrum, from the 'top' of Holy God all the way down to the 'bottom', the true hell no one else will ever experience. No wonder He has white hair in Revelation! See, the Cross doesn't juridically work without the Trinity, for each Member's 'Office' in it must be Juridically Independent from the Others. Bye, bye, centuries of ecclesiastical angst, arguments, and arrogance over whether God is Three separate Persons! So easy: salvation is not juridically valid unless one Person judges, but a different Person pays, and a third Person Empowers the One Paying. Separation is required for that. So no hydra-headed definitions of God, such as those in the Catholic Encyclopedia and in Westminster Confession, are ever valid. God is not "diminished" if More than One (the "diminished" key to Catholic Encyclopedia's "Unicity" definition, and also in the koran's "partner" verses, for crying out loud). 2 Corinthians 13:14 is alone valid, and those three monadic articles say it all perfectly. We should just stick with bible, not invent our own inferior theologies.

"Infinity is intensive, not extensive", as my pastor likes to remark when talking about Trinity or the Hypostatic Union. Consequently, if Infinite God runs the system, His Knowledge cycling inside a finite soul, is still a totality. Because, God is Totality, and He is running the cycling. So yes, total Communion of Attributes and of Knowledge even in Christ's Soul, is a Totality. As Deity, of course the Totality is obvious. But also, since the Holy Spirit is totally just as much God Himself, then if He does the running of Truth in Christ's Soul, it's a totality in His Soul. So that only leaves a question of amount, which amount gets completed on the Cross. Since God always runs it, there is no inaccuracy or shortfall.

A computer analogy might be helpful, for understanding how Infinity can run inside finity, creating this Totality. In programming, "pointers" are objects that fetch references in memory. So you build a data-intensive program with many pointers, because the program (the soul) must be small in size, due to RAM and other restrictions. In fact, you want the program to be as small as possible, for the smaller it is, the faster it can run, the more modules you can create to make it efficient. So you don't add in the database itself, which after all would frequently change anyway (just pretend). So the data remains outside the program (the soul), but due to the pointers (the Divine-DNA the Holy Spirit builds in you via those many Bible deposits), one can access the entire database (God's Knowledge) instantaneously and at any time, if the user (Holy Spirit via John 14:26) knows how to run the program. And of course He does, flawlessly. This is how we become gods, yet remain finite. Just like Our Lord did. In my pastor's lingo, he calls this accessing function a "frame of reference". His description isn't quite the same as I write here, but the perfection of it, is. This function's perfection is not hyperbole. Bear in mind that it's an aorist-type function, so when it is "on" it is indeed Infinitely Perfect, since only God can run it. For example, I almost never have to look up the verse citations I type or the quotes I make, anymore. They hit my brain instantaneously while typing. Back in 1999, this was not true. Eight years later, and how is it I who have no native memory can remember, decipher Hebrew and Greek important text in minutes? Yeah, BibleWorks is a tremendous help, but you have to know how to read what you're looking at. People think I'm a genius. That's a flat lie. I'm an idiot. So how is this, I can do it? God and God alone! 1 John 1:9 really works. Living in God's System really works. John 14:26 is real. I live on it, day and night. Believe that or not, your choice. Better still, test the claim yourself in your own soul before God Himself. So it will be true for you, too.


So now, put yourself in His Place on the Cross: here you are, nailed with spikes through your forearms, face so bloodied by punching it's not recognizable as a human face; back so lacerated with the bone-and-stone Roman interrogation 'whip' you've hardly any skin left, against a very rough hewn wooden cross. Overhead is a crude placard, listing your 'crime': "King of the Jews" (in all three languages). Which of course, you are in all respects! The "crown" of thornes the Romans wove to make fun of you is jammed into your head, and blood is dripping into your eyes from those wounds, too. You've not slept in maybe 36 hours; everyone below is laughing, crying, shouting, insulting: your mother and some of your disciples look at you with a mix of gut-wrenching horror, wonderment, and disbelief. Even them. The two others being crucified (on each side of you) are talking to you as well. One is insulting you for claiming to be Divine, and the other is asking to be remembered when you come into your kingdom (who did believe, but assumed that 'wasn't enough' as many Christians do). Both of them see you: same facts are before them. Different orientation. So you tell that other one, you'll be with him today in Paradise. Where Abraham is.

Suddenly, a supernatural darkness descends so thickly no light can penetrate it. The crowd panics. Then, like the wind! Made sin! Wholly-repugnant thoughts rush into your soul: hateful and murderous thoughts, jealous and vindictive thoughts, fearful thoughts, petty thoughts; ego thoughts, selfish thoughts; self righteous and other lusts of every smell, me me me! all these billions upon billions upon billions of waves of assault javelins; wave upon wave of disgusting excrement! And you have to acknowledge: do you accept so-and-so's sins? Yes! Then parry the assault! Though you know they all hate you more than everyone! Yet don't give into, don't reciprocate the overwhelming urges that go with the sins! Instead, embrace them! Hold them! Hold embrace hold wave upon wave, wave upon wave, for what seems like eternity; while the smell of contempt from the crowd blasts you; while every inch of you screams with pain, itches and oozes from every laceration: just like Isaiah promised, you are pierced through for our iniquities, both physically and psychically. So hold embrace hold, keep thinking, love them, oh, love them! Worst of all, Isaiah 53:5 (!) the Father's Own Judgement against all those disgusting waves, all crush upon you at once! As if you were the one guilty! He 'turns His Back' to you, His Own Son?!

"Ηλι, Ηλι, λεμα σαβαχθανι! Ηλι, Ηλι, λεμα σαβαχθανι! Ηλι, Ηλι, λεμα σαβαχθανι!"

And He's thinking, faster than light can travel: I'm a worm for My Father, oh thank you Beloved Father, this is what I trained a lifetime to receive! Thank You for this Pain! In Me! In Me! At Last! In Me! Acknowledge: Millicent, Andrew, Sismus, in Me paid, by Your Word! Thank You, oh Beloved Father! How I love seeing Your Judgement, How I love Your Beautiful Truth! Pain, How I love this Pain, this fulfillment, this Marcus, this Sally, this Mduma this Czesław this Deidre being purchased! How I love this Judas, this Shivakumar, this Hua Fang I was caused to freely ransom, with this beautiful truth circulating in My Soul from Spirit giving it to Me! Pure Profit! Oh, Father, thank You Forever! Thank You Forever and ever and ever for this privilege!!! Oh, I never want to stop paying! In me! In me! Isaiah 54:1 for all! Oh God of Doctrine! How Beautiful you are!!! Thank You thank You thank You ΗΛΙ ΣΑΒΑΧΘΑΝΙ!

"Τετέλεσται, it is accomplished with results that last forever!"
"Into Your Hands I dismiss my spirit, Oh God of Doctrine!"



Staying due to #VI Superhuman Thanksgiving Pleasure

Psalm 22, triumphant, His Last Words, Psalm 31:5. So, then: all this utter, loathsome terror, into this Perfect Human Soul? All within 3 hours? And He lived? He remained sane? Even Enjoyed it? How? Bible Doctrine. The Truth is so Gorgeous, so unutterably Magnificent — the pain itself 'atones' for the wonder having such Priceless Diamonds. Get that παρονομασία?

So the believer in Evidence Testing needs a supersized thanksgiving outlet to God; so he gets the best kind, living on Meaning, Bible Doctrine. Against it, is everything human and demonic, to boot. "Skin for skin!" as Satan spat in the book of Job. Loathsome, like Job's cancer sores: because the believer in this stage really understands how like boils the world's values are. Fragile. Arrogant. Petty. Shallow. Stupid. And he himself sees those same boils in himself, too. So it's doubly hard to seek the very items which most transmit them to his own body. Just as, Christ had to seek them on the Cross. And, He well knew successful completion of the Cross meant its loathsome knowledge would forever be in front of His 'Face', so to speak. But as we just saw, to Him that means He will forever be paying! A joy! For as we just saw, the joy of knowing Father is so high, a counter-outlet is needed to 'balance' it. The joy of paying means that Father the Gorgeous, always gets paid. So the suffering is a joy, a relief as large as the lovesick grief — "ish makhovot w'idua holi, heheli" — a grief so far beyond human, we can only speculate on it. Lovesick, that's why He never tires of it. Love is like that.


Evidence Test Litmus: Waste yourself, or Waste the Relationship with God?

Here's the litmus test: if you really love someone or something, you ache to sacrifice on your object's behalf. Nothing you do will be satisfactory, for you always want to do more; you will be tempted to despair, or to blame yourself. Moreover, at some moments you will nonetheless realize that you gave your all, and are exhausted; or, that you were, what do you know, competent enough. If your next thought is, "thank you God", coupled with "thank you for giving me this (sacrifice's name)", true love is your attitude.

Note how it's an attitude, not an emotion. Emotions can be and will be all emotions, tagging along for the ride. (Body reacts strongly to true love, and much of the reaction is unpleasant to feel.) For, true love's attitude is married to the love object. Bonded. Enslaved, if you will. By choice.

The Bible makes it clear that love is only grown by God the Holy Spirit, Romans 5:5. 1 John 1:9 makes you online with the Spirit, and that's the only way you'll have the truth operating in you. (Greek is very clear in context, English is harder to understand). Ephesians 5:18's mandate is thus in compliance (between sins, that is); Galatians 5:22 makes it clear that the profit (καρπός, mistranslated "fruit", meant "profit / gain" at the time Paul penned Galatians) of the Spirit is love. Note the connection pathway from even these verses: love is a profit, and comes from the Holy Spirit's running Bible Doctrine in you. So, if you aren't using 1 John 1:9, and habitually Learning Scripture under your God-appointed teacher (see Ephesians 4:10-16 + 1 Corinthians 12 in this connection), whatever you call "love", is but a lie and an ego trip.

True love aches to give competently to the love object, so the attention is on what the love object wants, needs, thinks. Pseudo-love aches to call self, 'good'; so the attention is on what self wants, needs, thinks. So the people who are free with their "I love you" claims — flee them. They only pride themselves on how much they love. True love has a very difficult time saying "I love you", because real love concludes secretly, "I don't love you enough", so hesitates to claim love. Pseudo-love, by contrast, habitually wallows in loudly saying "I love you", since it makes the speaker feel so good to say it. Better run away!

Love and pseudo-love part company here. Madam Bovary needed her fantasies. Jean Valjean, did not. Pseudo-love is in love with itself. So when the bad times come, pseudo-love spins out permanently. Real love's big problem is that it denies itself, because that's its nature. So for real love to get full expression, combat is needed. It's not a masochistic thing at all: love fundamentally denies it loves enough, because what it wants to give is always greater than what it credits itself giving. This is especially true when one is weak. So combat 'breaks through' that innate and normal barrier of self-denial, to show enough love is demonstrated. That's why Abraham needed an Isaac to sacrifice, and why we will, also. And, until you are in it long enough, you can't enjoy knowing what is essentially a testimony to you that yes, you really love Him! So, the Combat is the best part of your life.

When you stop thinking: "oh, how much I love this, oh, how blessed I am to have this", and instead start thinking: "oh, what it's costing me, oh, I'm a good person if I do this" — then you've hit your love limit, your kenosis limit. For, Kenosis satisfies, is true love's response.

Think of arduous exercise, working on something difficult, or other activity which prompts CrossOver reactions to hit your soul. Say you keep doing it anyway. What happens? You are satisfied at the completion of the task. There's a certain satisfaction that you completed the task anyway. Moreover, the next time you do the same thing, that previous satisfaction comes to mind, and the task is a little more loved, and a little less difficult. Moreover, one reason why it's a little less difficult, is that the exercise of it made you a little bigger in your soul. So love is something you learn.

Bible in your head motivates you to keep on even at the CrossOver point. That grows the Love, because that grows your soul. You want to love more than you do, so you keep on keeping on. And so, the integrity builds, God-operated at all points. So, the love builds from all those Doctrine deposits. "Mutual flanks", my pastor calls it: Doctrine in you and voting for it, which means you love it. Not as much as you think you should, but enough to keep going. You don't quit. You don't think you're advancing. But then, in Evidence Testing, God proves that you love Him far more than you realize...

The Angelic Appeal Trial is a divorce trial; in this phase, Satan angles for a mistrial verdict, on the grounds of Church's historical negativity to learning Christ. Back before man even existed, Satan called for a divorce; there ensued a rebellion, during which one third of the angels sided with him. After everyone had finished choosing sides, God held a Trial. It was proved during the Trial that Satan & Co. were at fault; they were sentenced to a not-yet created universe the Bible calls "the Lake of Fire", Matthew 25:41. But Satan appealed that sentence, which we know is true from all the Trial verses in the Old and New Testament. As initially, Satan still contends God is to blame for the rebellion and for creature sin, so no one should go to the Lake of Fire AKA hell (an accusation we humans echo daily). Ergo the human race: we come in on 'appeal', dumber than stumps, and whatever we think (actions are reflections of thinking) is used as evidence for the Appeal. So, suffering has an important role in the Trial: a role Satan continually mocks, just like he did in Matthew 4. He mocked Christ's love for Father, Father's love for Son, God's love for the human race. So, we humans get told how worship is supposed to be sacrificial, etc. Waste, in other words. That's Satan's mindset, and that's the proselytizing message universally exported via every religion ever born: to want God is a waste. For Satan hates God. To Satan, God is ugly. So he sells religion which is always ugly, as holy. And if you buy religion, you divorce God — in the name of God. Cute, huh.

  • So in Evidence Testing stage everything you ever wanted and never wanted hits you at once, and with increasing intensity, to motivate Divorce. Completion of Evidence Testing is front and center.
  • To weather all of these hits, you handle them with Bible Meaning, His Thinking circulating in your head, via Matthew 4:4. That's what He did.
  • Because, God is the Object of all prepositions, and thus Christ is the Subject and Object of all that believer's thoughts. My pastor (and others before him) call this state of thinking, "Occupation with Christ".
  • See, Christ was built in you, so now you occupy the 'building' of His Thinking; thus, are yourself Occupied with Him. Solid thanksgiving meaning.
  • It doesn't play smooth. Basically, the whole of the Christian life is failure running side by side with success. The ratio, the mix, the degree of each varies like ocean currents. So it's stormy seas in Evidence Testing, even when the outward life is calm: especially when calm, because it's so eerie.
  • The Test is on whether you stay, not whether you sin and fail.
  • You keep getting up: Paul describes it well in 2 Corinthians 4:7-10, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.
  • So the thanksgiving Meaning keeps on being there, in increasing dominance over the continuing failures. Really, it's a lot like a NASCAR race. You keep on going to the next race, fixing your car, as it were: you don't quit. Lots of hurry up and wait, lots of plodding, lots of slow travel round and round, only a short time actually racing, very uncomfortable, requiring you be extremely alert — which can kill you instantly. War, on wheels.
  • Because, the meaning remains total, to you. There is no price: all the rest, is about how the Holy Spirit makes you able to win more and more often, executing your own desire to thank God for His Priceless Son. He does all the executing, and you feel as though you are being executed. It's kinda poetic.
  • For Evidence Testing above all displays the thanksgiving meaning of His Thinking to you, and that Meaning fluently 'runs' your motivation, 2 Corinthians 5:14, trumping everything else. Demonstrated to you: for it's God Who Testifies, using you as Evidence of the same Power of Truth as for His Son.

So "waste" is Evidence Tested. Satan accuses God of wasting Himself and us; so, when the believer has been grown up enough to have Evidence Testing, he gets a series of "wastes" to process. He will look ineffectual, weak, abandoned by God, yet inside he knows the doctrine so well, his own attitude (running right alongside all that temptation) is: "oh, this is a gain to me!" And, it is. By contrast, Satan's attitude is that only what self gets is good, and all content is subordinate to what glorifies self. So, worship of anything or anyone other than self is a waste. We humans echo that sentiment constantly, too. So 'love' as we use the term, is but an ego trip. We burn ourselves up with it.

  • PBS' "Liberty!", which covers the American Revolutionary War, covers the events leading up to Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered and the Americans finally got their independence. Key to that occurrence was an American general who kept on losing battles deliberately, enticing Cornwallis to keep chasing him all around Virginia. This wore down the superior forces of Cornwallis, such that for want of supplies and rest, he had to ensconce himself in Yorktown. From whence, he was successfully besieged. Very dramatic story. Notice how the wearing down of superior forces was vital to that outcome. Done by, a very savvy general who constantly aimed at losing the battle but never getting captured, so always able to deliberately lose again. The Vietnamese did the same thing to the superior forces of France and America, about 200 years later.
  • This is how Evidence Testing plays: you wear down, but you win the war. God makes you both victor and vanquished, the latter coming first — just as He did, to His Son. The Lord never sinned, but obviously He learned piecemeal, so had to build up to the Cross. So it was similar to losing a battle, in that He didn't use His Deity to 'win' against the natural human limitations. Which, He kept on doing. So the supply of human motive ran out: only the Divine Motive (so to speak) remained, Invincible. That's what happens, in this stage.
  • This is the deepest, hardest, most gratifying combat a person can ever have or know. It is subtle, largely a mind thing, with little outside 'proof' — for the testimony is to the larger audience, God and the angels. So don't expect anything outwardly spectacular. Expect, instead, to be constantly exhausted from trying to get the thinking and the body to coordinate under what to others are nondescript circumstances. Remember Matthew 4 and the Cross were unseen by man (i.e., Cross was enshrouded in darkness); so Evidence Tests are largely invisible.
  • As a believer, you will either die after suffering from the Evidence Test, and will be happy like Paul (2 Timothy 4:7-8), or you will die miserable suffering "the sin face-to-face with death" (1 John 5:16). Either way, you are caused to prove in the Trial, the efficacy of God's Plan. Either way, you get wasted. Your choice, which of the two ways; and if you didn't stick with Doctrine, the miserable ending will be yours to remember forever. Misery isn't physical, but internal. Anything external is at best a balancing device, so the person can stay sane. So most Christians, since they never choose to learn God and keep growing in the Word, die this way: so what you think is the 'norm', is 1 John 5:16. But their tears will be turned to joy, partly because they will then Love Him, and then will be comforted that they did suffer; this comfort will last forever, too. So after the Bema, everyone will nonetheless be totally happy. Since Evidence Test Success and 1 John 5:16 look the same, you can't say for any individual, which way he went.

Evidence testing format key → To depict the "Waste" Issue in the Trial, Evidence Testing takes the 2 Corinthians 12 form of Imposed Weakness; it's imposed absent you doing something to warrant Divine Discipline. Though the latter can be immediately flipped over into testing after you use 1 John 1:9, if your spiritual growth stage warrants it — see this paradigm via Paul's experience in Acts 18 and following.

Remember, Christ went to fast for 40 days before He was to be tested by Satan; remember, Christ was constantly set upon in public by groupies and haters alike, during his God-Required Public Ministry to announce He was the Messiah; remember, Christ was arrested and then tortured, run through six or seven totally unjust trials before He was dragged to the Cross.

So scratch the giveaway, voluntary martyrdoms! If the test is visible at all, it's not flashy; folks won't see it for what it is, and you won't look like a hero, principle of Isaiah 52:13-14 and Isaiah 53:2-4 repeated in our lives. Instead, you'll look like scum: you're being abandoned, shamed, cursed by God. Just like Christ. So that, God looks bad, too. For, that's the contention of Satan: God is bad. Also, Evidence Testing is a sustained period of time, not just some flashy moments you can later tell your grandkids. More like being alone in a jungle, than roaring across the plain in a tank brigade.

So, the believer in Evidence Testing will also seem a fool. Sure, in Evidence Testing Structure's second intensity level, the believer receives group admiration from his periphery — but that's a mere setup. 'Promotion, to ridicule the better, when the foolishness of his cross is administered to him by none other than God Himself. For, at that time, those who admired him will desert him, as he will have some kind of circumstance which makes him look punished by God. When in fact, the opposite is occurring. Just as, at the end of His Life, He looked like He was abandoned by God, Isaiah 53.

Man's big problem is that he at heart recognizes his meaninglessness. Ergo his constant quest to buttress ego. So, he is offended by anything which tends to mirror his smallness. So "meaninglessness" is in the small things, the invisible, the demeaning (get that pun?), the shameful. Hence anything visible would have a competing meaning; man's comfort can be fantasized to come from something other than God Himself. Ergo all that movie stress on the big noble conflict, the hero image everyone praises — God wants none of that. Instead, God wants pure raw truth cycling in the believer's invisible soul versus the smallest, most vile of both visible and invisible. Bonding the two together. So Evidence Testing isn't Arnold Schwarzenegger battling the Predator to a climactic finish. It's more like swarms of deadly gnats which no one else sees — so your often visible exhaustion looks like something is wrong with you. "And we esteemed Him not", Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 53:2-4 (sarcasm in Isaiah 53:2, the outright quote ends verse 3, more sarcasm in Isaiah 53:4). The world will not consider you a hero, nor will you look like one. But God will call you "atsum", one of the great ones in Isaiah 53:12; for then, you look like His Son; Thinking like His Son.

One of the testing issues is whether the believer will correctly diagnose what is happening to him, as was the issue for Job: he had done nothing wrong. His friends were convinced he had. That tripped Job up for a time, and finally he sinned in reaction to the faithlessness of his friends (Job 7:11). Then he recovered (for sure by Job 19:25). When Evidence Testing hits, you too will be tempted to think it's due to something wrong you've done, since sin is an everyday occurrence, and in the Πλήρωμα stage, life is extremely intense and tense, internally. Careful diagnosis is essential. However, when the test ends (i.e., a segment in the phase), like Job you will know how it turned out.

Bible has been written on your mind and heart, so now it wastes itself, so to speak, on everything in your life. Everything gets thrown at you, with the result that (especially in the final phase) you are wasted. And you learn how totally invincible is His Thinking, in full moment by moment Communion with Him! I didn't understand this very well until God struck my pastor with Alzheimer's in 2003, forcing him to retire. Thinking over the live recorded Bible classes of that period, it seems to me his disease began in earnest sometime in late 1999 or early in 2000, the very year when (I'm now certain) God completed the theology about how God's Attributes work, in my pastor's understanding. To date, you can look anywhere you like amid the thousands of theological tomes, and you won't find a more complete theology. Love is the expression of the Sovereignty of God, the King of all God's Attributes, by sovereign choice. Once you understand this — and it hit my pastor like the proverbial ton of bricks in the year 2000, something he dreamed of finding for 50 years — God will no longer be ephemeral in your mind. Every verse in Bible becomes clear, when 'sorted' according to God's Nature. Will take theology maybe a century to figure that out, I won't live long enough to see it, hence these webpages just seem like mere assertions, now. It doesn't matter that he's my pastor. Were he not my pastor he'd become my pastor due to the teaching. Any pastor who does a good job, should be spoken of. This is but one of many good ones, out there. I have to bring him up when the context warrants, i.e., source material for something expressed in my webpages. All pastors are important. Would that they each got a bazillion dollars annual salary for their hard work! Well... when they're not willingly giving into Christian apostasy and crusading for prolife, mixing church and state, and the Lordship Salvation, violating the Third Commandment so hard they expedite their 1 John 5:16 death, etc.

So why then did God hit him? Seems like the worst time, seems like a punishment. Yeah, and the Thanksgiving Meaning is so resolute in that man's soul, you know why God hit him. The man needed the outlet, plain and simple. What is there more valuable to give up, than understanding of God? Christ had all knowledge, but had to talk in parables! Leaving it to later generations, to 'explain' Him? At His peak, God killed Him; the very act of the Cross, finished His own soul development. That's how Evidence Testing works: same story in Abraham, Moses, Paul — why was he beheaded when finally he got completed? You'd think he'd be around a lot longer. Nope. You get ripe, you get plucked. Thank you Father! The rest of us in this world are too disinterested, anyway. God will carry forward His Message. But the main goal is to harvest you. So count on it, when you finally get it all together about God, that's when you go home. After a suitable period of enjoying the thanksgiving. That too, is the character of Evidence Testing. A Joy, even amidst suffering. Satan can't beat that.

Waste and its suffering in the Christian life reflect the meaning of "Infinity": full-spectrum. This Attribute of God means "everything at once", not merely unlimited continuance. ("τὰ πάντα" plays on the Attribute, means "the all-things", monadic.) Infinity has no limits; but we humans, do. In order to grow beyond (Hebrew preposition min!) our limitations, Bible Doctrine gets filled up in us, just as it did in Christ; then, when enough filling-up has occurred, suffering must be given to grow us further.

Here, sharing of horrible knowledge. See, total rapport means for better or for worse. A couple "know", together. You can't learn that in a textbook, not even the Bible. It has to be experienced. But you need to know Bible intimately, to interpret what you experience. And through Bible, you know God is not horrible, but He knows all horror. So, you prepare to learn it by eating Scripture and cycling it (analogous to food nourishing). Until strong enough to get that experience which Bible will interpret for you: which experience, you also get from God. Then, you live on Scripture, even as you've become accustomed to do, in order to get that horror-knowledge completed in you. Whatever agents are used (i.e., Pharisees or Romans or whoever in our life), don't matter. This is no light thing to train for, and it is the ultimate in the life, so it's not something to dread, but to yearn for, as a gift: "fellowship of His sufferings" as Paul put it in Philippians 3:10. And it is a gift, of knowledge. Truth. Good truth, bad truth, any truth, because truth, because God knows it. So you want to, also. Whither He knowest, you would know (play on Ruth 1:16).

So God's Testimony is that suffering is part of "everything at once". Nothing outside, never Divorced. Neither is pleasure divorced: in fact, some of the greatest suffering a person can receive comes from pleasure, especially the pleasure of knowing Him. So, every kind of suffering, every kind of pleasure, is included in "everything". Ergo the believer so imbued with the cycling Mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16) that he can suffer / have pleasure without divorcing God is thus being praised, not punished, in Evidence Testing. Yet that suffering believer is grateful for something he can actually give, for a change. Thanksgiving. Bride's response to the Father of the Groom, reflecting that Groom.


Reverse Litmus, 1 Corinthians 13:3, the Case of Καυχάομαι versus Καυθήσομαι;
AKA, do we 'Misspell' and thus divorce and truly waste, the spiritual life?

Can't divorce Doctrine, and still Love. 1 Corinthians 13 is all about this. So true waste of your spiritual life, is works. Paul deftly proves this, in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, where he contrasts true love for Christ, which is 'Bible in your head' (called "love" in 1 Corinthians 13, the "Head" being drolly referenced by ὑπερβολή in 1 Corinthians 12:31), 1 Corinthians 13:4-13. Versus, pseudo-love in those first 3 verses. Pseudo-love, there, is expressed in terms of getting all high on self due to some (now obsolete) spiritual gift, or due to spectacular good deeds. Real Love is contrasted. Ἀγάπη always means virtue love, not mere human love. The term has a whole lot of Greek etymology on its use, and Paul's Greek in 1 Corinthians 13 is Attic drama, so the Attic drama meaning of ἀγάπη (the virtue love) is what he means. My pastor spent nearly every day in Bible class harping on this message from 1997 forward, though he himself didn't recognize it until 2000. But once you hear his recognition and go back to those recorded live classes, you realize God birthed it in him back in 1997 — well, maybe as far back as 1985, in the Ephesians series, when covering the Falaise pocket gap as a metaphor of Doctrine and motivation growing in you.

Misspelling is a form of mismatching to cause confusion or divorce, and is the cleverest of lawyer / terrorist tricks. Something which almost makes it, but doesn't. If a rivet for an airplane fuselage isn't tooled exactly, it will loosen in flight, and the plane can fall apart. Loosen confidence just a little, and the person falls apart — that's what Iago did to Othello, which of course is what Satan did to the woman in the Garden. For by clever 'misspelling' of the facts, you destroy; hence rush pell-mell into disaster and true shame.

So key misinterpretations or 'misspellings' of Bible verses will make your spiritual life fall apart. That, too, is a type of litmus — in reverse. Hence the need to continually audit one's faith for errors, rather than standing pat and getting huffy about how good you are. The religious types and those who make a big stink about sin, are divorced from God, just like the Pharisees: forever misspelling the spiritual life, and all their works will be burnt up at the Bema. If they are even saved, that is — for typically these people feel somehow the Lord's own words in John 3:16 are inaccurate or abstruse — He, the best communicator of all time (!) — because they add verbs or otherwise dispute that Gospel. And their substitute gospels save exactly no one, Cain's vegetables! For it's only "Believe" which saves — a thing you can only do with your head dummy, since the heart has no thought, duh.

Just like, the Byzantine scribe who misspelled καυχάομαι in order to add works, in 1 Corinthians 13:3. Which scribal arrogance proves the point, due to the misspelling.

Now: look at how great God is. Didn't He know from eternity past that some scribe would spell the word one way, and another, another? That subsequent scholars would be too legalistic, scared, harried, or lazy, like today's scholars (welcome to the human race), to check against other manuscripts? Good ol' boy network: just keep on repeating an error, so the prior work isn't discredited, rather than own up to a mistake and fixing it like you would a broken window, 💩 happens. Tischendorf, in particular, spent a bunch of time collecting original language manuscripts (while Joseph Smith was translating his 'plates', ironically enough). During this process, he made what he felt were needed corrections for scribal errors. So, look: Tischendorf included both letters, though surely he knew no Greek verb had such spelling. What's even harder to understand is how an etymologist could support what he had to know was a deliberate adulteration which had to be done during the Byzantine era (475 AD and following), on the spurious grounds that the practice of self-immolation was common in Paul's day (and is still common now, i.e., among some Asian Buddhists). This kind of adulterate rationalizing is a hallmark characteristic of satanic influence: process Scripture into caricatures of the truth, to deride God. So these people cannot be blamed for missing it. We are all vulnerable. Apathy (Stop OMEGA) is all about, fitting in with people. God is just a designer label, the real god is people. So that's why this error never gets corrected. Very sick indeed.

Why would God allow such a thing? Wouldn't someone lose faith because, oh, there's this scribal adulteration in the Infallible and Inerrant Word of God! Won't God subject His own Word to ridicule and criticism because of this error? How could God allow one of the greatest Biblical scholars of history to use both letters? How could God allow a very famous etymologist to insist on using a bogus word, as God's? Seems like Satan's right — something's wrong with God.

Oh, yeah, right. Do you get what communication God accomplished with this 'mistake'? There's no Greek verb of that spelling (which has both letters); there's no "καυθήσομαι" in any dialect of Greek at or before the time Paul wrote Corinthians: nor will there be, until (maybe) Constantine (or later). But there was indeed a practice of self-immolation in Paul's day, to gain fame, money, and a (false) sense of forgiveness (usually For sexual sins).

So, ἰδού, watch what God does with error! Both verbs end up being reviewed! Boasting by self-immolation! What a great way to 'marry' look-alike verbs which each negate the spiritual life, the very point Paul makes in the passage: Christian, beware! You misspell the spiritual life if you do the works! For, if you are divorced from virtue love, you gain nothing but hot air (boasting); then, you really do burn / waste all at the Bema (see 1 Corinthians 3). Now tell me, is any human that clever? Do you see how even the smallest mistake is used by God? So how much more do you think He's using every ounce of suffering you or anyone else ever has had or ever will have, especially since He's been stuck knowing that suffering, since forever past and future? Because, nothing is divorced from infinity. Not now, not ever.

So notice how Satan's wasting people by his religious ploys. Notice how God's reply to that is so deftly contained in preserving this scribal error throughout the centuries. For "boasting" and "self-immolation", καυχάομαι and καυθήσομαι, are thus united. Two sides of a good works coin. The result of works, you burn yourself up for nothing! God outsmarts everyone, huh.

So notice how, despite the very common knowledge of the error in 1 Corinthians 13:3, Satan's grunting version of Christianity is nevertheless the common norm: hustle pain hustle oooh hustle ahhh. Blither clang glow oomph boast flame; ohhh, how spiritual I am, giving away everything to the poor — Barnabas, eat your heart out! Ohhh, boast flame; Zarmolchegos, eat your heart out! Inflame burst boast hot air pride vacuum blow up! Nothing. Οὐθέν.

Neat word, "οὐθέν" (1 Corinthians 13:2). It's Attic Greek Drama and is used in the predicate accusative, the strongest possible way to express an attribute of the noun to which the predicate refers. Nothing. From nothing to nothing. Nothing as subject, I. Nothing as object, me. So all the works, all the self-sacrifice, all Satan's preferences do what? Make me be still nothing. Make me gain still nothing. So it's even funnier that Paul switches to koine for "nothing" in 1 Corinthians 13:3 ("οὐδέν"), still predicate accusative. Heck, all this sacrifice doesn't even gain anything common! My pastor emphasized that "οὐδέν", because it uses the dental "δ", is more guttural than the Attic "οὐθέν" used in verse 2. So, my corollary: works, only by throat sounds.

So, when believers try to be thankful to God, absent first getting Doctrine, they live divorced lives. For the mindset absent Doctrine is divorced from His: under the same roof yet far apart, due to lack of shared thinking. So, they fall into Satan's visible pseudo-spiritual life; and thus become "enemies of the Cross" (Paul's term, in Philippians 3:18-19). See, we are born. Babies and children are very much body oriented, because their souls have little or no knowledge in them. Spiritual babies and children are likewise body oriented, for their souls have little or no God knowledge in them. So, they value body things, and thus Christianity's history is a demonstration of such valuations.

Granted, all children start out this way. However, absent growth in the First Commandment one eventually hardens (Bible term), from childhood into.. bullyhood. This hardening makes for a prickly, tit-for-tat, intolerant, and above all hypocritical personality. The surface might be sweetness and light, but its shallow veneer wipes off quickly. Loveless morality just can't maintain a smile unless it's pasted on. It's not that most Christians (and Jews, for that matter) are insincere. They are very sincere — but it's "zeal without knowledge". So, imbalance. So, the works-stress, the self-worth stress, the emotionality stress, the apathy; in all cases, one inevitably ends life in bitterness and soul shrinkage — or, insane fantasy. So, the extreme pleasure of knowing God, which was supposed to come first, is unexperienced and unloved, having been substituted with body things. So the extreme pleasure of knowing God First, is not the account of Christianity written in our history books. Instead we find that emotional enthusiasm and dour God masks, predominate the Christian apostasy play since 96 AD.

So Christendom's history is one of wasted spiritual lives: anti-kenotic, shallow, loveless tyranny which no one in it means to be or do! Satan fodder! Edward Gibbon exhibits those poor and clearly sincere souls of the second century forward, who imagined themselves holy by imitating the outward lifestyle of John the Baptist, playing hermit. They didn't remember John was a Levite priest who lived in the wilderness to demonstrate rejecting legalism of religion. Or, those second (and following) 'Christian' persecutors, who thought they should imitate Peter and his sword in Gethsemane by attacking the 'heretic', as if that were rewardable by God. Conversely, they fantasized themselves martyrs oh, because they give their bodies (!) — despite how Paul began 1 Corinthians 13. Or, those same persecutors, if they made bids for political power, for the ears of kings / emperors, fancied that the King over kings who shunned doing the same (Third Temptation), would nonetheless lavish favor on them, as if forcing conversions and seeking political clout was somehow good. Or, those who hallucinated visions or stayed chaste, led a 'pure' life; never mind the Lord warned them "an evil generation seeks a sign"; never mind, the wildly sexual Corinthians and Galatians were also called "saints" by the only "perpetual virgin", Paul. Or still others from Clement I onward — and starting with him in his Epistle to the Corinthians, be sure to bring Pepto-Bismol — fooled themselves that their long set prayers impressed God; never mind, the Lord's repeated warning to the contrary, in the Gospels. If any of these people ever read the Bible, they must have been sleepy when they did.

The list of fodder foibles goes on and on, tragically: incredibly, since these were folks who had a version of Greek for a native tongue! They couldn't figure out if God made heavens and earth (what, no Genesis 1?), or if the angels did it; they couldn't tell if man had free will after the Fall; they couldn't tell if salvation was permanent (!), either. And so it goes. In fact, they couldn't tell very much from their Bible studies, at all. Their body preoccupations got so bad they had to convene endless councils to figure out what "God" means, and if God is Trinity: what, did 2 Corinthians 13:14 disappear? It got so bad they had to figure out whether the Lord was also God: what, did Philippians 2:5-10, John's use of "ὁ ὢν" and all of John 1, not to mention "Before Abraham was I am" — did all these verses disappear, too? Weirdest of all, to them the Hypostatic Union was an enigma: they had to figure out how many wills (!) Christ had, since He had two natures (yeah, and two hands and two feet; body and soul, too) — so, maybe He was two persons? Yikes!

Really, now: does the 'will' of the left hand ever feed to the right one? No. So when the whole person Lord Jesus Christ wills something, He wills it as God (right hand) or as Humanity (left hand) or as both (both hands). Do you remember the verse about not 'telling' your right hand what your left hand is doing? Well, The Humanity had to keep on willing that Deity's Power (i.e., knowledge) stay separate from humanity. So in answer to the needless yet ancient conundrum, was Christ as Human, aware of His Deity... yes, dummy! That's why it was harder for Him to live as a human being, than we will ever know! If you had a billion dollars in your unlocked closet, beside which you ate and slept and worked, 24/7 — but had to live as if the money wasn't there — that money's availability isn't the more tempting?

Sheesh, we Christians were Scriptural dolts back then, and not much better now! For this stupid debate goes on, even today! Look how obvious is the answer:

What's so hard to understand? Do you know, people killed each other over the definition of His hypostatic nature? Sheesh! Again, think of His God-Man nature as a problem of having a bazillion dollars you own and keep at hand; but you only spend it occasionally, and never to benefit yourself, even when you are tortured: how could anyone resist such temptation? Of course, I should admit that until I thought about what I learned in Bible class a bazillion times, I didn't understand the hypostatic union, either: just like every other dufus on the planet. What a difference 1 John 1:9 and being under the Spirit makes!

See? Those Church forebears which today's institutionalized religions so laud, were often retarded babies. So, they engaged in body-thinking, Energizer-Bunny controlled: rather than using 1 John 1:9, being controlled by The Spirit, and growing up spiritually. So, they were spiritual retards. Pure Satan fodder. So of course by Justinian's day, persecution was no longer the evil provenance of ecumenism and government: the people themselves mobbed the Circus Maximus and slaughtered each other over their differing definitions. In God's Name, of course! Talk about true waste!

So, spiritual black holes that they became, they sucked in all the world to believe that their retarded, sick idea of the Bible was 'holy' and 'true'. If so holy and true, why is the history of the Bible under Christianity one long series of kidnaps and breakouts? Oh, can't let the masses actually have the Bible for themselves, must keep it chained to the altar for the elites! Yeah, and that occasional servant girl or monk or Duke / Duchess who got to dust some Bible or own a copy of it, being curious, got to reading... And quietly grew to Πλήρωμα. Despite all the best satanic kidnapping schemes ever devised. God's History books are the opposite of ours. Most of the 'famous' people we accredit in history will turn out to be the least important... and if they are in heaven, they will be busily saying, "I told you not to credit me!" Laughing, all of us. So we get the last laugh, we pitiful creatures: for He laughed on the Cross, Hebrews 12:2!

The world has been suffering from their same apostasy, ever since. Satan's not stupid: the same ploys worked in the Garden to make Isha and Adam fall, so still work now. Upgraded, of course: by Matthew 4's appeals!

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history, but hopefully you will learn from this sad tale that we have an adversary who is quite capable of blinding us all. Satan has to get so much leverage because God is bigger, to level the playing field — and that, without gerrymandering. It truly is a miracle of miracles, if one grows up in Christ!


Evidence Testing Roster: "Combat" of Rest, is Waste!

So, look! We know the Evidence Testing 'waste' of wifely thanksgiving demonstrations, abound in the higher history books: God's. For, Scriptural examples of this "thank you for knowing you, for Doctrine" reciprocity-response — even in sin nature humans (!) — abound.

  • Enoch just flat wasted his whole life knowing God. And for that, God shortened his life to one third the normal time in that day. To make it up to him, his son Methu + Selah = "when he dies, destruction (the Flood) happens", is the longest lived Old Testament person recorded. 1000 years' notice on the Flood to everyone. But Enoch? Gone, baby!
  • Noah, woah — he wasted 120 years building a boat to nowhere. And for that, God saved him and his family — and us, for we all descend from Noah.
  • Abram's 'waste' was that he needed the outlet of waiting for the "son of the promise"; Abram needed to sacrifice his "son of the promise" in order to get an outlet.
  • Moses' 'waste': he needed the outlet of 'wasting himself' on the Exodus Generation, and that's why, when twice the Lord offered to wipe them all out, Moses replied as he did (see Deuteronomy 9:14, Numbers 14:12).
  • That's why Joshua wanted to be next to Moses;
  • That's why Caleb wanted to fight the giants, to 'waste himself' on fighting them;
  • Why David lay prostrate in Psalms 138 on the very ground of (then named) Mt. Moriah (but called in Hebrew YeHwah Yireh, cleverly played on by Isaiah 53:11); where Abraham once stood, readying Isaac for sacrifice; and why David wanted to build the Temple's Holy of Holies, there; and, came to want to be denied that privilege, in favor of Solomon's doing it.
  • Why Solomon, when dedicating the completed Temple on Mt. Moriah (renamed "Zion"), talks as he does.
  • Why Jeremiah wanted to go through the horrible excrement and sewer experiences (read the whole book, + Lamentations).
  • Why Psalms 119 reads as it does (people were routinely being tortured, raped, deprived of food and water — even worse than the Bataan death march in the WWII Philippines).

One can go on and on with examples. In the NT, you have so many more.

  • Stephen's testimony and stoning;
  • Peter's learning how the Lord would allow him to die to glorify the Lord (John 21:18-19).
  • Paul's attitude in Philippians, oozing from every verse, vividly displayed in Philippians 1:20-21, an attitude he came to have while doing nothing because he was under house arrest.
  • Which was caused by Paul's irrepressible need to do something: evangelise the Jews. Acts 21:13-14 is an example of the thanksgiving outlet need when it goes awry, over the edge in the style of Satan's Second Temptation: thus Paul actually defied the Lord's order not to go to Jerusalem, but Rome; a defiance which lasted maybe 2 years before the Lord Himself took Paul to Rome in desmos, chains.
  • John's expression of the thanksgiving outlet is very sotto voce, asides about his own unfaithfulness during the trial and after the Resurrection: the very softness of his expressions show that no amount of pain or suffering would ever be too much to balance to the Love of the Christ, the Doctrine, he knew. Confer John 18:15-16, John 19:26, John 19:35, John 20:3-5, John 20:8 (!), John 21:7, John 21:20-25 (!). Also the whole of John 1, John 14-17; 1 John 1, 1 John 3-4.
  • The author of Hebrews also exudes this attitude from every verse, from the standpoint of the new covenant is being readied! This excitement, running under the elegant language he uses, shows up in the vehemence of his exhortations (namely, Hebrews 4); and is all the more remarkable when you consider that his impetus for writing is that the destruction of Jerusalem is known to be imminent. From the fast-paced tenor of the book and the reference to Timothy's release, I bet Paul had just been executed, but of course I can't prove it. See the end of Hebrews 10 and Hebrews 11, beginning of Hebrews 2, note double entendre usage of 'salvation' / deliverance, and hell / 'destruction' terms.

See, when love is so high, it keeps on seeking obediences, 'wastes', as thanksgiving expressions. And never wants to stop. Not-love, of course, interprets all these statements with the opposite orientation: pain pain pain. For, the beauty of Doctrine is unseen, unappreciated, unloved. No wonder sin is so devastating: for, sin destroys the ability to discern anything, or enjoy anything. One stab at a time. Just like it did en masse among believers, beginning sometime in the fourth generation after Christ died. And thereafter, even until today. As Paul explains in Romans 7 — and it took me years (!) to understand this — the sin nature keeps on bleeping its deaf way, but meanwhile you are learning Him His Way, so the two warring desires persist side-by-side. The petulant child which is the essence of the sin nature, is incurable, causing no end of distress to the now enlarged (with His thoughts), soul. So wasting is the happiest thing in your life. Beats all the huffy kingdoms of the world, which frankly are just so many screaming, snappish children... fancying themselves, holy.

By contrast, growing in Doctrine massively aids discernment, and thus enjoyment. So, one comes to have our husband's tender love toward all 'lows', to fulfill them, raise them, vindicate them, honor them. Just like in 1 Corinthians 12:22-24, which 1 Corinthians 13:1-10 explains: "For better, or for worse." The wasted, 'unpresentable' parts of life are made into the greatest catalysts of thanksgiving, love! Just as, our sins were made catalysts to provide unending gifts fit for Father by Christ's own Thinking, on the Cross. Well, that's one way to use 1 Corinthians 12:22-24's meaning. Main point Paul makes is that the unpresentable parts are the ones reproducing. My pastor taught that stridently, in late 1999 onward. So the usage is a flip of that: the reproducers will seek to honor those who are less honored. For look: the inferior, the wasteful, the petulant — can't help itself. So it needs glory. What a pleasure, to be caused to make glory from one's petulant self?



It becomes a question then, of whether 'you' or 'me' will be on that roster, at the Bema. We've now seen that:


Your Own Combat Payoff: Maximum Communion with Him!

So the real message of the Cross is not the pain, but ἥδιστα οὖν μᾶλλον = rather! How gorgeous, the Communion with God! He kept on wanting the Word to keep on energetically increasing His Soul; to absorb, parry, and embrace all that sin thinking, and even the Father's Judgements on them! That's why He's shouting from Psalms 22! He's getting His Outlet, at Last! Remember that the first Adam said "at last!" when the Lord brought Isha to him.

Hebrews 11:1 explains the why. So in learning Him we focus on Him, are occupied with Him, motivated to run! (Ties to all of 2 Corinthians 5, especially 2 Corinthians 5:14.) His same race becomes a joy to us, sprinting in the Evidence Test for the tape! Hebrews 4:11-12 becomes victory of "Christ in you, the confidence of glory", Colossians 1:27 (parallel passage on the trial effect)!

Payoff Key → Your inheritance is Christ Himself, the Most Gorgeous Person in the universe to know. So God saves the best for last: to get through Πλήρωμα, you must 'make love' to your husband. So He's the prize, and also the means to get the prize. Thinking like Him means you are communing with Him, and thinking toward Him, looking at Him, is the way to get that communion, too. Circle of love, constantly reinforcing and building the intimacy. Notice how you get the inheritance — Him — first. So you are training in your spiritual marriage to Him. Requires a most intimate understanding with the Bible in your head 24/7, to do this. This qualifies you to be crowned, because you prove to be loyal, intimate, fruitful. Which since you love Him, you ardently want to be. Nerd note: Paul didn't have trouble with thinking of himself as a wifely subordinate, so obviously a person's sex has nothing to do with this so frequent Bible depiction.

Hebrews 12:1-2 shows how we Church get that intimate communion with Him, during Evidence Testing. The "race" we are to run, is the same as His. That bonds us to Him. The participle "προκείμενον" in Hebrews 12:1 matches to "προκειμένης" in Hebrews 12:2, and means a marked out racecourse. The word "race" is the verb τρέχω, in Hebrews 12:1; it means to run in a marathon race; but look! It's changed to χαρᾶς (joy) in Hebrews 12:2, a parallelism: to show you it's a joy to run the race! Meaning: He was the One to first run the race, and it was a joy to Him, thus He authored we get the same race, via Him being the pioneer, progenitor (ἀρχηγός) and completor / finsher / perfector (τελειότης) of our doctrine (πίστις). Parallel passage is 2 Timothy 4:7-8 (the racecourse noun δρόμων comes from the aorist of the verb τρέχω).

Hebrews 12:1-2 are the climax of the book: everything after these verses are applications, ways to think and act in light of The Race. So, when covering this verse pair or its parallel passages, my pastor often likes to explain His Legacy of His Thinking to us as follows: pretend you build a submarine. It has a maximum depth before the hull, buckles. Christ created the Prototype via what He learned under the Spirit, and tested it to 1,000,000 fathoms. We get the 'operational type'. We never need to go that low.

So it utterly matters, that you focus on him during Evidence Testing, just as Hebrews 12:2 commands. This test is about togetherness, which is Infinity's sovereign desire anyway. But it's also to fulfill the John 17 prayer, so it's to Christ that we bond, in Evidence Testing. This is the 'consummation' of God's Trial Answer, how we bond to Christ during Evidence Testing:

  • Father unites you functionally to Christ's own Humanity in this stage: for in your own soul, you too have become a ruler most ruled — by Him.
  • Precedence Parallel: He was united to Father while on the Cross, that last kind of knowledge bonding Him totally in truth.
  • Thus His John 17 prayer is realized in us via the same mechanism, an ending 'cross'.
  • You are here to make children (Paul's point in Philippians 1:1-25).
  • Precedence Parallel: that's the Isaiah 53:10-11 contract, to make children. So Πλήρωμα means "pregnant", that kind of fullness, which in Isaiah 53:12 is an "atsum" ("great one").
  • So, you have to think of your Husband while bodily involved to 'connect' the body do's, to Him. Notice that Hebrews 11:1 is on the soul, but Hebrews 12:1-2 is on the body. That means all of you, 'coordinated', as it were.
  • Precedence Parallel: First Commandment.
  • Evidence Testing is spiritual intercourse, because it demonstrates how bonded to Him you are in your thinking. It's spiritual 'marital' intimacy.

Obviously, prior to Πλήρωμα you can 'rehearse' the idea by living in God's System as best you know from the Bible you know, 24/7. Speeds growth if you just keep thinking toward God as if in a constant conversation. Keep alert for Bible recall and learning as you do this.

  • Precedence Parallel: Cross is fundamentally a form of spiritual intercourse (the rhetorical theme in Isaiah 53), because it's a bonding type of payment for sins, the ultimate fulfillment expression of the First Commandment, as Paul explains in Ephesians 5.
  • Precedence Parallel: Christ invented Church in Matthew 16:18 and then contracted to pay for her, in John 17:20-21. So bonding to Him in Evidence Testing fulfills that bridal contract.
  • So it takes a lifetime of learning and living on Bible, to become fit bride. At the end of your life, you 'consummate' the spiritual marriage.
  • Precedence Parallel: Christ spent His entire life training for it.
    • Father chose how He wanted His Son's Humanity to be; Father chooses how Church is composited.
    • Spirit chose to put that Truth in Christ; Spirit puts that truth in us.
    • So on the Cross, Christ receives all that Father wants to throw at Him. Unconditionally. So we too get all thrown at us.
  • Hence Evidence Testing involves the same kind of total surrender and aggressive acceptance, too. "Communion" means that, especially in Bible's culturally-laden, κοινωνία, a marital relationship / sex with the gods term, from which the English term "communion", derives. Hebrew counterpart is habar with a het, joining — see etymology. Don't confuse "habar" with "hey", which has the opposite meaning, dividing. See also davaq. There are literally hundreds of uses of this term in Bible. "Commune" isn't some goofy emotional thing. It's rapport, shared thinking. Root meaning of "commune" is, "have in common", get it?
  • So Evidence Testing is the biggest payoff, for it maximally enlarges our soul capacity for rapport with God.
  • Precedence Parallel: as a result of His successful completion of the Cross, His Human Soul became big enough to fully commune with Father's Deity. Therefore, having received that unique experience, now His Human Soul enjoys full communion with Deity, forever. As big as the suffering He suffered, even so much bigger was His learning (Hebrews 5:8-9), so He became our anchor behind the veil (Hebrews 6:19).
    • For in God's Economics, only Pure Profit is allowed.
    • Any suffering in life is always made into pure profit for the recipient.
    • God's appointed suffering is always and only a gift!
    • Satan's plan, by contrast, is true waste, fills the soul with ego-buttressing emptiness (ματαιότης: vacuum, black hole); always and only makes one suffer stupidly (i.e., all those silly religious observances), in vain!
    • Thus, God's Reply to Satan, completed.
  • The problem of a finite soul's inability to survive, take and enjoy contact / communion with Deity is demonstrated to be solved, communally enlarged, via those millions of deposits of Bible Doctrine, Romans 5:5.
  • Since each deposit is truth, thus also a little 'communion', each one surgically increases, and thus creates, a bigger soul. There are many verses on this, besides the obvious ones like Hebrews 4:12, Ephesians 3:15-19, Psalms 119:32 (!) and 2 Peter 3:18. Search Old Testament Hebrew for "ra(c)hab" (Yes, same root as the prostitute's name — word means "to grow, enlarge, expand" — very witty). Check also its synonyms, like "pat(h)ah" and "rabah"; New Testament Greek for αὐξάνω, πλατύνω (a favored word in 2 Corinthians 6,10). And, as noted above, μεγαλύνω (Philippians 1:20, Psalms 138:2a, many other passages), with the Hebrew counterparts of "meod" and especially, "gadal".
  • Precedence Parallel: His Invincible Thinking was built that way. Can you even begin to imagine His happiness at seeing how He could freely embrace immeasurable pain? Doctrine works! Not dented! Holy Spirit gave Him the Power for free, no tricks, no gerrymandering! The stone too heavy to lift is being lifted! Utterly-Beloved Father is utterly satisfied! Victory! Τετέλεσται! That's love. That's payoff!
  • Hence, deepest and completing rapport with Him comes during this Πλήρωμα stage of the spiritual life.
  • As in marriage, combat bonds those going through it together. Humans (and presumably also angels) bond when they go through a shared vulnerability together. The length and scope and type of vulnerability determines how much bonding, occurs. That's why, for example, patients bond with their doctors; victims with the torturers; strangers with those they'd not otherwise associate. The bonding creates a need for closeness with the other person, if the shared vulnerability lasted long enough.

Hatred may characterize the attitude, but the need for closeness remains. Of course, Love may be the attitude, instead. Satan represents one who has bonded totally to God (especially the Son), but with hatred, not love. Ergo his thirst for revenge, his genius parodies and mocking games, his contempt — won't die. He's Jeremiah 13:23, unable (because perennially unwilling) to change his spots.

  • God demonstrates to you not only your love for Him via the vulnerability of Evidence Testing (2 Corinthians 12:9-10), but also more, His being with you in it, Isaiah 52:14 playing parallel in your life. As a result, your volitional bond with him becomes invincible, if you "abide" in the Test. Doctrine bonds to body, now. The latter's vulnerability greatly intensifies your love, just as the marital sexual bond becomes a sacred set of "castle walls" (my pastor's term) between a husband and his wife.
  • So the believer who doesn't get Christ's Thinking, never positively bonds with Him. If the believer chose works instead, he bonds with his works; the 'intimacy' he chose thus will be the intimacy he gets, forever. The sin nature is removed, the resulting spiritual person forever is way bigger; but there's no intimate thinking to go with that increase, except what he bonded to, down here. Knowledge increases, yes! Abilities increase, yes! Intimacy, however, is a volitional choice, so to whatever you unite down here, you'll unite to up there.

Your Name Here? Your Choice!

Evidence Testing successively demonstrates how His Escutcheon also lives in you!

Royal Order of the Lion, Profit: Doctrine maximizes profit in you, even during Hamburger Hill!

Royal Order of the Ox, Virtue: His Standard is impregnable in you!

Royal Order of Melchizedek, King-Priest: Honor inviolately rules your life, everything docks below Him!

Royal Order of the Flying Eagle, Trial Victory: Satan's alternatives didn't unseat you! Instead, all those millions of Doctrinal phalanxes finally drove Satan's accusations from the field of battle. God again proves how Vast is His Victory: Your Witness!

Remember in 1 Corinthians 15, how God gives us the victory? Remember Colossians 1:27's trial victory statement: "Christ in you, the confidence of glory"? Remember how Paul exulted that he had finished the course, 2 Timothy 4:7-8? When you victoriously finish, you know. You also know you'll be crowned. You get a citation stone with a new title inscribed on it which no one else will know... yet. 😏


For, the Trial is not only about the superior happiness of wanting God for Himself, versus His 'goodies', but also about the resultant competence of that love for Him. It's a highest level doctrinal thought skill test, not merely a volition test. As will be explained further in the next section, the demonstration is that no matter how much or often or deeply you're hit by whatever non-God things / people are in your life, God remains stably first. 'Analogous to how the Lord could be pierced with all mankind's sins, yet not react, but instead enjoy, which is the major theme of Book of Hebrews (Hebrews 2:9ff, Hebrews 4:15ff, Hebrews 5:8-9, Hebrews 9:14ff, Hebrews 12:2ff). See? Just as Peter notes at the beginning and ending of his letters, we are here to become ὑπογραμμοί, inscribed chips off the Old Block.

Note again: it's not about sin — you'll do that until you die. It's not about good works — works can't put His thinking in you. It's about thresholds of His Thinking being completed. Which, of course, mean that old sins which once beset you become deadened or go away; new ones replace them, and then they deaden, too. And so on. The increasing dominance and depth (etc — see Ephesians 3:15-19) means a whole complex (scaffolding) of His Thinking is built in you. So you can bear children forever. You were once sterile, but now... bear kids, Isaiah 54:1!




Evidence Testing Compared, Pan-Covenant

We've just seen the impact of Evidence Testing on the Church believer. So how does Evidence Testing in Church, compare to believers under other spiritual covenants? The following links cover much of the answer to that question:

Similarities pan-covenant are all based on Angelic Trial issues; but more fundamentally, on development of relationship. For each of us has a relationship with God by divine design. So, the Evidence Test is on our acceptance of that design, individually. The fact that the test is used in the Trial as Evidence for purposes of completing Testimony, is adjunctive. Hence each being is tested on his relationship to God, relationship to life (for him), and — as a subset of both, the Plan of God (for him). The covenants therefore differentiate these questions by scope. For example, the scope of the relationship for Christ, is not the same as the scope of the relationship for Abraham. Differences in scope prompt differences in pattern, since the pattern has to fit the scope, for effective development and testing.

Church is unique, because Christ is Unique. Hence the format of development and testing have unique features. We inherit His Spiritual Life which He invented down here, even as He invented a then-future entity, Church — to become His future bride. As a result, the pattern differences between our covenant versus others', parallel the differences between His Unique Covenant, and everyone else's: this pattern differential is a big theme in the Book of Hebrews, especially in Hebrews 9-10. There, the author takes great pains to parallel the significant features of the Temple and Levitical Priesthood, versus what Christ is and accomplished. For the main theme in Hebrews is how the covenant changed, why, and how the trial witness of Church is thus unique and a precondition for the continuance of time itself. The whole book can be considered a treatise on why the Rapture precedes the Tribulation (Hebrews 11:40), as a consequence.

So our format of Evidence Testing will be like that of His Covenant, not like others'. One could summarily classify the format similarities and differences, thus:

This doesn't mean you go join a monastery or live like a hermit. It's how you think about everything in your life. If you want the 100%, your thinking changes to become that way, and no matter what you are doing , it's "unto the Lord", the quintessential expression of the 100% standard in the New Testament.

Really, the differences surround the fact we are to be in exclusive relationship to Christ, having no other life; hence, we are in training to become rulers. The training for a future ruler is quite different than for a commoner, as the prospective ruler must learn to throw his entire personal life away, in favor of stringent self-regulation. He lives to rule, and that becomes the enjoyment of his life. For the more you own, the more it owns you. The goodies of a ruler are only there to make ruling itself more effective, and to display the standard on behalf of the ruled. (Even in secular life, you'll notice that the billionaire spends all his time working, paying scant attention to the goodies he has, except to use them for his work. Those who work for him get more use out of the goodies than he does. Just think: the servants on a yacht or a vacation estate are there all the time, since someone must maintain it; so they see the magnificence and enjoy that environment, all the time; the owner arrives but occasionally, is often on the 'phone, then leaves.) Reminders:

Only Angelic Trial terms govern any pan-covenant continuities within Evidence Testing. Victorious witness is consequently a God First and only testimony, with everything else being a "So What?". The needs vary, what bothered these believers varied, their progressive docking of everything under Him also varied in time and content; but in every case God was #1 to them.

Covenant design issues are used by Satan to allege God has erred. Trial has been about the propriety of God's design of creation, with Satan always alleging that design is flawed, wrong, even immoral. Covenants and their tests roughly divide over the following essential design parameters:


1. Full / Perfectly-Balanced Knowledge (angels, garden couple) versus Progressive Knowledge (post-Fall).

At issue is whether the amount or type of knowledge inhibits spiritual growth or love for God. Conversely, whether man is benefitted by the covenant, or is given an unfair set of conditions.


2. Visible (Angels, Garden, all Old Testament, Tribulation, Millennium) versus Invisible (Church)

At issue is whether visibility better or worse benefits man versus invisibility. The default is visibility, for until Christ and after Church, the covenants are all marked by visibility. Since the covenant parameters were outlined above with respect to the conveyance of knowledge, here we'll just summarize the respective roles and problems which visibility vs. invisibility, present.

Trial Answer: neither visibility nor invisibility improve or worsen the results, nor is man happier with or without. Man just wants God or does not, and wanting God is what makes man happy.


3. Perfect (Angels, Garden, Millennium) versus Imperfect (Old Testament, Church, Tribulation) Outer Environment.

At issue here: does perfect environment aid or impede obedience? The breakdown of the problems are roughly the same as with visibility versus invisibility. Trial Answer: perfect inner environment due to relationship with God alone works.


4. Common (Angels, Garden, all Old Testament, Tribulation, Millennium) versus Royal (Christ, Church) Spiritual Standards.

At issue here is the impossibility of finite creatures meeting divine standards which by nature are the utmost in royalty. So previous covenants all required divine empowerment at some level; for mankind, the empowerment was provided within a limited corridor of spirituality that man could learn and live on, in harmony with God. Hence the stress on visibility, to enhance that limitation. But with Christ Who is God-Man, only the full divine royal standard would be acceptable. That standard is in turn legated to Church, and its covenantal properties result in an empowerment level equal to what Christ had in His Humanity. For He did not use either His Deity or His Humanity to execute His contract (that was a precondition of it). So the Evidence Test for Church centers on whether this same standard is too high, even as it should have been too high for Christ's own Humanity. Trial Answer: If God empowers the life, then divine standards can be met even by finity whether sinner or perfect — His God-Man Nature and His perfection did not 'contribute' to success. Moreover, because of the Cross, the Full Divine Royal Standard has flowthrough which eternally upgrades all creation under all covenants, to wit:


The Pan-Covenant, Test-Passing Criterion: Romans 8, Filling Fulfilled.
Ephesians 1:15ff is thus met. For Christ is Royally 'Built' For Father Across All Time!

As Romans 8 climactically explains in Greek, Evidence Testing is about a lot more than answering Trial Issues. It's about fulfilling the Divine Royal Standard for Father and forever. The entire chapter is about how Spirit replaces our 💩 with Divine Diamontic Thinking to glorify Christ, AKA τὰ πάντα. The term is usually translated "all things". Christ is Everything, so "all things" go to Him, unite in Him, just as it says in Isaiah 53; so He fills "all things", and "all things" are structured to glorify Him, by Father's design, theme of Ephesians 1. For the Romans, Paul is explaining the epic meaning via τὰ πάντα from the human perspective, all things in one's life; then, tying them to Him Who is τὰ πάντα (see also Colossians 1-2).

For, as Paul so constantly stresses in all his epistles, but especially Ephesians, Father wants us to fitly complete Christ, defined in Ephesians 4:11-16. No higher purpose can exist. That purpose, of course, makes Evidence Testing far more stringent than the most torturous of satanic cross-examinations. Just as, the Cross itself was solely among Father, Son, Spirit — no one else was involved. So also, this Evidence Test goes far beyond what Satan & Co. could 'test'. Testing to demonstrate, fulfill: only Father can do that, just as Father imputed and judged sins on Son's Humanity on the Cross. Only Spirit can sustain, just as He did Son's Humanity on the Cross.

Ironically, what makes Evidence Testing so subtle, is the obvious we don't see:

  • Christ got Filled Up with Doctrine By God,
  • So to be Filled Up with our sins By God,
  • So we could be Filled Up with Doctrine By God,
  • So we could be Filled Up by Father's Ephesians 1 dowry.

We are the work, by God, not what we do (Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 1:6): so we have to get filled up, not fill up something or someone else. Therefore: Evidence Testing is of our inner being and thus is wholly internal, since we are being made ready for our Bridegroom; not for someone or something else. So the test is one of filling and staying filled: do you hold, or spend? The humorous irony is that you actually spend by holding. Just as Christ did, on the Cross.

There's another 'side' to this Filling which will really bother those of us who have problems orienting to Authority: the only justification for our own existences, is to fill Him up. Body of Christ. We 'filled Him up' on the Cross, in the sense that, getting filled up with our sins filled Him up so totally He could have total rapport with Father. Father knew sin; thus was able to pass over it until the Cross, then pour it out onto His Beloved Son. Son did not know sin, so was made sin — see 2 Corinthians 5:21, in context. Thus, now knows sin, but without having sinned, Himself — that's the only way to get that knowledge. Thus, no barriers to rapport remain between His finite Soul And the infinite Father. So, believer or unbeliever, positive or negative, our true worth is to fill Him up. No other.

Thus, as Paul explains in 2 Corinthians 5 (as well as in Romans 6), we believers live for Him now, because we died in Him then. In Him. Filling Him up. Body of Christ. So also, the world is to fill us up: Doctrine we learn coupled with the stuff on this planet we learn is designed to make us Fit Bride for Son. So, we get filled up with the world's problems, analogous to how He got filled up with our sins. So the world suddenly has a justification to exist which it did not otherwise have — because we need its stuff, to learn our own filling up. So, to fill Him up as Body. So, the world benefits solely for that reason: Church Makes History, Not Prophecies.

So notice how no handicap can matter, since the purpose of 'your' world is to train you: you have all the externals you need to grow to Πλήρωμα. In short, the world exists so we can be filled up, so that we can fill up Christ's 'Body' of Thinking which will rule for eternity. If anyone in the world thus wants to 'get in on the deal' (believe in Christ), he can. If not, that's his choice. We need not go anywhere, do anything, advertise... just breathe learning Him. Thus the world is allowed to breathe; because, just as sins were used to fill Christ up so we could too be filled up by the same Father and Spirit, so also the world is here to support us. For Him. Think about it. Implications are staggering, and you will probably want to retool every 'position' you have in your own soul.

Using different words, my pastor has stressed this fact for decades. Beginning about 1997 (Series 376, 1992 Spiritual Dynamics), he started to explain how the Old Testament "Jeshurun" class like Abraham, Moses, Caleb, Joshua preserved Israel. Christ raised the bar to Πλήρωμα (a moniker for Him in Bible), so that's now our bar, too. Over and over he stressed how the world only continues due to enough of Church still learning Him, and when the last Πλήρωμα person is completed, Rapture happens.


Hence we Church have a unique role in both history and eternity.

Note how our problem is so subtle: we hold Doctrine, live it internally, fatten up like lambs, and stay quiet, Isaiah 53:7. For, no one wants our meat. Not until God 'sacrifices' us at the end, will anyone be able to 'eat' us. All the other covenants had some kind of holding rule, but it was external, not internal, and everyone wanted what they had. Ours, by contrast, is unwanted and internal. We can't give it away: Cornerstone was rejected, so all His LittleStones will be also, since man wants stones turned into bread, not writing tablets. So, God writes His Son on us, fattens us with Him, then gives us away at the altar... to our Groom, replicating Isaiah 53:10-12. Forever.

Hence we get the Evidence Test when we are nearly 'full-term' with His Thinking. Like all Bible metaphors, the pregnancy metaphor is multilayered. First pregnancy, the Cross; that set up the potential for the second, creation; thus the third, our own physical body, hence our births; which set up the next pregnancy, our potential to be saved; hence the next one once saved, to be filled up with His Thinking. Once filled up with His Thinking, it's time to demonstrate Isaiah 54:1! We are sterile, because sinners can't bear God children; but also sterile, because the world can't bear to hear us. So, spiritual parthenogenesis and fusion via the Evidence Test, occurs. Then, 😏 — the Wedding (🤣 gotta prove fertile, first) Supper. The Bible metaphors keep on rolling, don't they?

So notice the ultimate metaphorical comparison: in the Old Testament, the Evidence Test is essentially: do you trust God to fulfill His Promise? You can trace that test question from the Garden forward. God promised that eating from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, would kill them spiritually and then physically, Genesis 2:17. So the 'promise' of the Garden, depended on them not eating from the tree. When they did, God upgraded the Promise to that of a Savior coming to save them... depicted by a lamb, which Emptiness AKA "Hebel" ("Abel", to you), sacrificed. So he got sacrificed, Cain (Acquirer) having thus learned how to murder (1 John 3, John 8:44).

So until Christ came, all the tests are trusting in His coming, in His deliverance, in His love despite weakness or apparent abandonment. Thus, the one trusting metaphorically depicts being like that future Lamb — for he is Trusting, yet seemingly led to the slaughter by God: Job is afflicted, Jeremiah is afflicted, Moses is afflicted, David is afflicted, and on and on and on.

So once Christ comes, He Is The Fulfillment, Himself. So, fattens up on the learning, Old Testament style. So, crafts from the learning, what we know as the New Testament style of being filled up, directly from the Holy Spirit — since He is the fulfillment, not merely looking toward a Fulfillment.

So, next: Church, the extension of Him in a 'no want' fulfillment, world (theme of 1 John, especially 1 John 4:17; see also John 14-17). We get filled up like He did, and of course no one wants our meat, either. But God fattens us, then abandons us, then slaughters us, and all that time and because of us, the world can 'eat' of God's blessing.

So Church, like its Christ, is a fulfillment: filling Him up, even as He was filled up with our sins. Even as He was filled up with God's Thinking to pay for our sins, so we get filled up with His Thinking in order to fill Him up so God will be filled with Sweet Savor Thinking in His 'ears' forever, main theme of Isaiah 53:10-12, Romans 8, all of Ephesians (especially the quintessential marital analogy in Ephesians 4:13, Ephesians 4:16 which is fuzzed over in translation).


Church, the Fulfillment of Father's Reward to Christ, and hence the Fulfillment of and for all... Time

As Ephesians 1, shows: Fulfillment of the Promise is Our Role, which father alone ordained and 'deposited' since eternity past, as a gift to the Son, Isaiah 53:11's: "If you will give your soul as a substitute for sin, you will see long-lived seed." So, fulfillment of the Promise of Πλήρωμα, is our Evidence Test 'theme'. We are to Become the Fulfillment, not look forward to it.

By contrast the Old Testament people, and especially Israel, were tested on how much they looked forward to the Fulfillment.

Hence Romans 8, Ephesians 1:15ff. Fulfilled, for Him. Fulfilled, For Father. For, the Old Testament (and hence Tribulation and Millennium) people. "For, apart from us, they will not be completed", Hebrews 11:39-40. Lambs of our Lamb. That is the goal of our spiritual lives, and that is what the Evidence Test, proves successful.


Note therefore how our fattened-up learning of Him is absolutely essential to getting this test, as well as passing this test, the highest in all history, for fallen humans. Again, it's easier to pass the adversity you have, than to pass the prosperity you have. It's easier to pass when you can't do something, than when you can do something. For, the latter kind of test is the harder one, for it is a test of wealth. Power. Holding. Revelation 3:11 (corrected translation of clause), "κράτει ὃ ἔχεις", "Rule / Master what you have". Not 'explain' or 'share'. Heh: He tells you how to rule in the very text, for "ἔχεις" is the command (implicit in κράτει): it means, "have! Hold!"

Ask just about anyone you know what would they do, if they won the lottery? Oh, they'd buy this, and that, and pay off debt, and give money to this and that and... on and on. What kind of activity do they enumerate? Spending. Spend, spend, spend. Do, do, do. Not (!) hold, wait, invest! But no one who gets wealth keeps it unless he holds, waits, invests! So a baby Christian, he'd flunk Evidence Testing, for he'd spend it crying, moaning, martyring — spend, spend, spend. Or, he'd spend it by doing, doing, doing. Not by holding off. Certainly not by being quiet, like a little lamb!

So Christians who hustle in activism will never actually get the true Evidence Test. They are too immature. So, they spend. They choose to squander their spiritual 'time to learn' assets off-balance sheet, as Enron (allegedly) did: 'in flashy 'works' partnerships, rather than in the Son's Mind (their Employer)! So, of course they will go into debt and become bankrupt. Choked seeds (Luke 8), they didn't burrow into the soil of the Word, so they didn't produce anything but a crop of tares, weeds, a multiplier tax upon mankind. So of course, they will never vest in their Evidence / Ruler escrows. They are a shame to Christ, for they fail Matthew 4, and call it "virtue". Of them it will be said (1 Corinthians 4:8), "and I wish you really had become kings, so that we might rule with you!"

Only those who realize learning Him is the real issue, will grow up in Him. They are holding, waiting, investing, not spending, doing, preening. They are becoming wealthy in Doctrine, not in Satan fodder. This growing-up process is extremely intense! Joe Blow huff and puffer would never be able to compete! So, then: when such growing believers grow to associate Doctrine with literally everything in their lives, almost instinctively, like a reflex, then they will receive, and probably pass, Evidence Testing.

Luke 8 calls such believers a seed crop in good soil, producing a hundredfold: they will become 'evidence', and rulers. For it is they who, obeying the First Commandment, pleased the Father; Who can then, under the terms of the trial, permanently justify the blessing by association, which no one can do better than Almighty God. If you and I don't "get the point" by now — how vital it is we learn Christ, instead of works — we're in trouble up to our eyeballs.

That crop analogy is really important, for it also explains how those who don't pass are nonetheless benefitted. Notice how most of the seed did not produce. Yet, all the seed was put into the soil. So, all the seed benefitted from the soil, yet all the seed couldn't be justifiably put in the soil, since most was foreknown to be sterile. However, some of the seed produced the necessary "crop". In on-earth terms, we humans don't know which seed will be sterile, which will produce, so we justify sowing so much because we do know the aggregate result. God, however, is even more efficient: He knows which seed will grow, and also He knows that the sterile seed wouldn't even be able to be associated with the crop if He didn't buy and plant them all. See the blessing by association synergy? John 13, the Passover scene, parallels the point about sterile being blessed by producing seed, when the Lord tells Peter that unless the Lord washes him, "you have no part in Me." (John 13:8) See also 1 Corinthians 6:19 (especially in context), 1 Thessalonians 2:8, 1 Thessalonians 2:14, Hebrews 3:1, Jude 3, and like verses. Of course, that's the meaning of eating the Bread and drinking the Cup, too.

See? A thing is dead, of its own. Doctrinal use of it 'washes' it ("water" and "bread" are Biblical metaphors for the Word, since only God can make water or seed); so, gives it purpose, meaning, value, honor. We too, are dead on our own. His Doctrinal use of our sins gives us purpose, meaning, value, honor. Not my people become my people. The sterile one becomes the bearer of more than them who have children. Living on Bible Doctrine to Πλήρωμα-Τέλειος (fullness of Christ completed), gives those others who did not get filled up a purpose, meaning, value, honor — for, apart from the Πλήρωμα, those others have but little (merely-saved) part in Him. For, they didn't accept the water, so became sterile seeds. So, cannot be washed by us directly; so, we who do accept the water, and thus grow to a crop, 'water' them that way (not by stupid works, which don't clean the soul), by Divine Decree. Just as the Holy Spirit made us fountains of living water, the Son's Thinking, so also we are drunk with satisfaction by the Father, Who in turn can thus justify them being in our inherited kingdoms' soil. Family. Synergy. To everyone. No matter what.

Moreover, in agricultural biology, a sterile seed is eventually broken down by the soil into various molecules. The soil then is enriched (same principle as humus) more. So, those seeds which are not sterile will yield even more, because the soil's action upon the sterile seeds, enriched it further. So, even a sterile seed has a productive role. In synergistic sum: value, purpose, honor.

Therefore, those who grow up in Christ are used to hasten the Conflict's end. All knowledge and power "covenant" levels are displayed; in every generation, not only in this covenantal period / dispensation, but in all others, sufficient witnesses reached (each covenant's version of) spiritual maturity, and Jeshurun / Πλήρωμα (Uprightness / Fullness). So Satan's argument that God made angels and humans defective is proven false. So, Satan's argument that he can better benefit man than God the Son can do, is proven false.

We who passed the Evidence Tests prove to be qualified to receive our Ephesians 1 escrowed Divine Benefit Plan blessings, and will co-rule with Christ. After all, the Trial is about who is the more-qualified to rule, based on the results of the sovereign programs which ruled us. So we are made into rulers via completion of the spiritual life, and both during and after we are made fit — our very lives are used to bless others. And, That Blessing Is Superior to the counter-rulers' plans. So, we get to co-rule, having become superior rulers. In HIM.

We who fail permanently will stay saved, but the rewards reserved for us in the Divine Benefit Plan, AKA "escrow" (my pastor's term), instead 'forfeit' to the Πλήρωμα; for down here, we who fail had spurned our assets and instead, spun down into the "sin unto death". (1 John 5:16, capital punishment of the believer, not a loss of salvation — the context of 1 John 5 makes it clear you can't lose eternal life, only body life.) We become the mass, progeny of the progenitors (Isaiah 53:12): their 'periphery'. Forever. That is the only way we can get any "portion", see. As a result, our "substitute inheritance" is as a passive beneficiary. We are beneficiaries through them, since we are still royal family, and royalty takes care of its own. Like the "infirm cousin", we will be provided for. But oh, what we missed! In eternity past, to honor His Son, God had reserved for each of us the title and estates of "king"; we were crown princes, down here, for that reason; but, alas, like England's Edward VIII, we abdicated. So, instead, we become but relatives of a king. Forever. That is why John warns us to learn Him so to "have confidence in the day of evaluation", 1 John 4:17. 'Which of course, is the Rapture 😬. We'd better get rid of our "Rap the Rapture" defense mechanisms, then, and Look sharp! Grow up!


God Uniquely Blesses The World While We Intensively Prepare

How God Blesses

As we've seen, the blessing by association isn't a "cliff". While we are growing, God compensates the world as it were, for our "downtime" in study. God being God, even the smallest thing He does is infinitely greater than the greatest things we (think we) do.

This shouldn't have to be said, but Christians famously overvalue their works. If they witness, if they give money, if they visit the sick, etc. They imagine that their good deeds really amount to something. What hogwash. You can be nice to someone for years, but just become cross once — and watch all those nicenesses count for nothing. People aren't so nicely impacted by good deeds as is claimed. It's all eyewash. That is, hogwash. Why? Because being nice, doing nice things — don't affect the soul. They only entertain the body. Like Satan & Co., like Satan's 'love plan', the body is likewise fickle. It only 'loves' you for as long as you are nice to it. The minute you stop, you're doubted or hated. "What have you done for me lately?" is body-thinking, and it's endemic in society. So much for 'good deeds', even human to human!

God knows that we overestimate our value founded on base body thinking, so we underestimate what He does. God knows what really needs mending, so we can grow out of our childish ideas about works, sin, and enjoyment — mend the soul with truth, and the recipient will grow up. When Christ was here, oh, how the groupies congregated around Him — yet once He was accused, everyone deserted Him. Everyone became like a Judas. So if even the Christ's good deeds didn't avail anything, how much less, ours? So: Christ focused on the Word, and kept looking at the Father. Fulfilling the royal law (named such after Him, in James 2:8), He didn't value 'works', but rather the Word. Which sustained Him on the Cross. So the 'little', 'invisible' thing of sticking to study — leveraged the entire salvation of mankind. For He is not only the Author, but the Finisher of our salvation! (Hebrews 12:2.) With that 'little thing', circulating Bible Doctrine in His Mind. The 'little thing' of study had an uncountable "multiplier effect". That's God's economics.

But also man's, for look: the big, visible helping the poor body stuff — is quickly forgotten by mankind (confer John 2:25). And saves them not at all. What about all the men who have died in war? The thousands upon thousands of soldiers who were slain, or maimed? What did they buy? A plot of land, for maybe a month — until the next war came along. Go to any spot in Europe; or, to Gettysburg, PA; and realize that the ground you walk on was soaking in blood! What did those soldiers buy? Exhaustion, which now manifests as a lot of stupid Americans blaming each other based on what? Allegations. Accuse accuse accuse. So, did they die in vain?

Do you remember Scipio Africanus? Stilicho? Belisarius? The whole Roman world cheered these guys — for about a month, during a triumph. That's why the slave standing beside them in their chariots kept chanting, amidst the cheers of the crowds who lined (for example) the Appian way, "sic transit gloria mundi". So the glory of the world passes. And passed them right by, for each of these truly remarkable generals of history were in the end betrayed by the very people they saved; by the jealousy and greed of their own people. Dead. Who remembers them now? They each saved Rome! Who remembers them now? And, how do we remember them? As facts in schoolbooks. Some dumb thing we gotta remember to pass a test. 🙄. Wow, man's works really do something for the poor, don't they? Yeah, like food: you eat it, and it turns into urine, and feces. 🥳

Indeed, "the poor you will have with you always." Why? Because we only care for a moment. That's all our puny bodies can do: care, and then pass it on, into urine and feces. So, we name a building or a park after the one who did those good deeds — and thus we're free to forget him; and thus we're free to look for the next idiot on which to feed. Dracula looks like Mary Poppins, by comparison! Oh, yeah: we praise anyone who'll give us goodies. Sure, Mr./Ms. Philanthropist, we'll name a building after you: the fact that only the edifice will actually 'remember', goes unsaid. Yeah, baby: like the guy who'll say anything to flatter a girl into the bedroom. Slam bam thank you m'am. Yep, yep, yep: and we seed the world with Satan's 'me be god' / Sugar Daddy contagion, in the process. Pure hypocrisy, and no dang good to anyone. Like Paul noted, giving away all you have produces nothing but Satan's noise (1 Corinthians 13, 1 Timothy 4:1ff, 2 Timothy 4:1ff).

Only God remembers, because only God is eternal. What does infinity mean, what does Infinity see? Those people are still dying on battlefields: to Him, their deaths are not in vain, because what He always sees, is Bible Doctrine, His Thinking — applied to them. Christ's Deaths (substitutionary spiritual, and unique physical) are still occurring, to Omniscience. So, not in vain. So, then: what lasts? His Thinking. So, then, to Whom should we live, and how can anyone get anything of lasting value, except from and through Him? And how can they get anything via us, if we have no Doctrine in us — which we can't have, unless: 1) saved, 2) in the Spirit (1 John 1:9 used), and 3) learning and using Scripture every second? See: we need, as it were, triune spiritual function. That's how the poor get helped. We need become reproductive, heh. Multipliers of His Thinking, even. Because, nothing else lasts: "Heaven and earth will pass away ("sic transit gloria mundi", see also 2 Peter 2-3sic transit gloria mundi, but my Words will not pass away". All else is a perpetually dead battery you must jumpstart each time you wanna drive.

So if we want to bless the world, we need to fatten up on the Word. After all, we're the only ones with spiritual bellies! Unbelievers don't have a spiritual life. So how can they get help from us? We need to feed on the Word, so God can justify blessing them: confer 2 Timothy 3:16-17; Deuteronomy 6:4, Deuteronomy 30:11ff; Isaiah 55; Zechariah 7; John 8:31-32; Romans 10:9-10, Romans 12:2-3; Ephesians 3:15-19; Hebrews 4, James 1-2:8, 1 Peter 1:7ff, 2 Peter 1-2, 2 Peter 3:18, 1 John. (Greek of Ephesians 4:11-16 explains how the feeding works via διακονία, fabulous.) Else, we and they will only get Satan's 'food.'

For God vindicates His Word. He'll use it in us, to do the only good deed which saves man anything: restoring the soul. This shouldn't have to be said, either, but man famously overvalues his body, and undervalues his own soul. Our souls are pure trash; first, due to being born in totally depraved bodies, for we soon let that body run our souls. Second, 'due to Satan's blanketing the world with self emphasis and body emphasis definitions of "God", "Good", and "Evil". Third, because it's just plain too hard to think. Easier to give into whatever instant stimuli placate volition. "If it feels good, do it!" Sound familiar? So if it feels good to steal, to retort, to get revenge, to castigate... hey, why not? So what value is any 'work', when the soul the 'work goes to', is sheer garbage?

Indeed, what value is any of the thinking in such a soul? Look at almost any philosopher, from Plato to Sartre, and see how they all run in circles. Note how they never begin with God, but rather with man and his world. Even so, they do begin well, have many brilliant and incisive analyses (especially, in my opinion, Plato & Aristotle)... but in the end, because they started their lines of thinking in the wrong place, nothing truly gets learned. They do get some great insight, but inevitably crash it below tons of rumination, like René Descartes did with his exhausted conclusion: "Cogito ergo sum". See? His 'me be god' depravity put an "o" where there should have been an "a": "Cogita ergo sum", God thinks therefore I exist. Certainly would have saved him a lot of hand cramped writing, if he began his determination of whether God exists, with God!

Or, look at early philosophers through Aristotle (and onward, really): because they started with physicalities like the elements and "movement", then moved upwards to derive the "οὐσία" of godness, rather than beginning with the (duh) obvious implication that Absoluteness, Infinity had to be Alive independent of space and time (and hence, "movement" only applies to finity) — they kept tangling themselves in their intellectual shoelaces (e.g., Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book XII, Chapters 6 and following). So much so, "one" remained a spatial concept, which Aristotle himself continually warned was inaccurate!

Aristotle's reasoning thus is the most tragic. Like everyone else, Aristotle mistakenly starts his analysis with relatives, rather than beginning with the "necessary" properties of Absolute. Granted, Aristotle does this to set his ideas in context with past and current other "thinkers"; so, he gets lost. Oh, how close he comes to recognizing true infinity, in on the soul, only to end up tangled, in the distinguishing of sense versus thinking! So that, by the time he gets to Metaphysics Book XII, Chapter 6 and following, he ends up dissolving into a version of the same stupid "circle" and "movement" conclusions about the "Unmoved Mover" who must be eternal! Einstein ended up doing this same thing with his Theory of Relativity, I think — a theory which Aristotle first proposes, that time is but movement. The slowing up Einstein observed was, I bet, the mathematical hint that true infinity is static, and time / space is but a subset of it; a point which the Hebrew Bible has long communicated, by use of its verb "to be". Moreover, for the same reason Aristotle is right about light not "travelling" (On the Soul, Book II, Chapter 7), with respect to our ability to see it. In short, because infinity is static, God's the base / source / cause of all existence, and any 'movement' can only occur among finity; that is to say, mass: so it is not true that the starlight we see is x millions / billions of years old; the non-visual properties of light have mass, so would have to "travel", but our ability to see it, as Aristotle explains, is a function of the intervening distance being of the right contrast, our position relative to the thing viewed, etc.

Finally, because infinity is static, "number" can only apply to finity (a point Aristotle does make, then forgets); so, to say that there are Three Persons who are each unique and infinite is neither a contradiction, nor a "diminution" (Catholic Unicity term) of Godness; nor is tritheism being advocated. See, people mix up the finite number of beings with the finite or infinite Quality of them. Using Aristotle's definitions of "quantity" and "quality" (which are the reverse of common usage), spatialness is a quality, and is thus finite; infinity is quantitative, hence cannot be spatial, and may be of any "number" without loss of uniqueness nor diminution}. It's Personhood which is unique, because each Person has His Own Will & Existence, indivisible: however many persons there may be. All else has to do with the quality of such person(s) — or, even things. Look: you are human, I am human, but there can only be, forever, only one "me", and only one "you". The fact that we are each finite has nothing whatsoever to do with our personhood. So also, even with a speck of dust: it is unique; all other specks of dust are not the same as that one speck. They have attributes in common, but each independently exists (whether alive, or not). So also, with God's infinity. Therefore, the existence of how many unique, Infinite Gods is instead related to the truth of what 'number' of Unique Persons is "necessary" for stasis. That is to say, what number of Persons must there be for each of them to want to stay God? Love, Righteousness, Justice as motives for stasis are relevant to alive infinity. And, if you think over how justice must work to be free and impartial, the only proper 'number of Persons' can be Three.

No wonder then, that the Jews and Christians went wacko about what "one" means. So, look: if even all these famous and educated people can't 'get it'... our brains just don't work (thanks to the sin nature we inherited at the Fall). So, our "substance", is garbage. So, all our vaunted philosophies, beautiful as many of them are, end up in the garbage dump. And save no one.

So instead of recognizing the divine design is to cycle infinity inside finity, hence a Circle of Love, subjective and objective genitive, we chase our tails in philosophic circles, and call the John 17 oneness, a 'mystery'. 🤣 — yeah, Church is One in Him — and we don't get it? Yikes! So we follow Satan's mystery math class, and argue over Trinity, to make God an egg. Sheesh.

By contrast, as noted in the "Your Thinking", God uses whatever Divine Thinking we are learning, to "catch" to our periphery. True rulers reign by just being the embodiment of the rule, rather than telling others what to do. Being the rule rather than telling the rules is far more influential than heavy philosophical tomes, academic and political kudos, or other cups of water Satan gives to foster his visible, 'me be god' morality. We are the defense against his 'body works' seduction technique. The only defense the world has: our "treasure in earthen vessels", 2 Corinthians 4:7. So if we aren't learning Christ, we are alone responsible for the world's troubles. And we'll be royally disciplined for it (Hebrews 5:11 - Hebrews 6:6, Hebrews 12:5ff). Justly.


How We Intensively Prepare: 30 Daily Combat Issues

Of course, the first person He heals is the one growing in His Son, to put that "treasure" into us "earthen vessels". Therefore, growth in Christ is no easy life, either. It's continual surgery! Hebrews 4:12! Growing in Him is far tougher than all the world's works, put together. God's Script is quite intense! So here are some of the daily combat issues we face:

  1. The purpose of this our royal training, is to learn to live in and love living in, God's royal righteousness standard. True love just loves the object. It doesn't seek to make others conform to its own love. Rather, it is utterly in thrall to the object, so wants to give its all to the object. God really loves Righteousness. It's a total love. So, pretend you loved eating chocolate so much, you yearned to be eating it every moment you couldn't. Would you get mad at someone who didn't share that love? Of course not. Even so, true love isn't affected if that love isn't shared by others. However, when it is shared, the rapport with those others, is increased. So you are learning to love righteousness as God does. Once you do, you'll have a really hard time calling anything you do for it, a sacrifice. To you, it's like eating your favorite chocolate. This is the essence of ruling well. You love your job so much, if you must do something not related to it, you 'pine' to get back.

Humans can't love righteousness. They use it to get things. So, the norm in Christianity is to bludgeon people about sin and good deeds. That's not love for righteousness. Children do the same with respect to how they 'obey', expecting to get a reward, not having yet learned to value the obedience for itself. They tattle on others who do not obey, constantly compare themselves to others, etc. So too, we spiritual children, even when going on age 65. Only the Bible in your head cycling under the Spirit on a daily basis over some years, develops a true taste for and hence love for, righteousness.

  1. We must learn to bring every thought into captivity, 2 Corinthians 10:5. That rule we inherited from Christ, for it is the ultimate function of the Royal Law. No fallen human has had so stringent a rule. No fallen human prior or after Church gets a standard of living every moment "as unto the Lord", because He'd not yet been Seated. So, every moment is to be lived as a test of the Divine Broadcasting System: "This is a test... what does the Father want you to be thinking, now?" is the thought in your mind doctrinal? If not, what would make it so? This becomes the most fun you will ever have in life, I don't care what 'competition' is proposed against it (i.e., sex, fame, wealth, the usual stuff people think enjoyable). But in the beginning, this is a hard habit to learn, and will be upsetting. Just keep on trying to be aware when you're not thinking toward Father, and keep testing your thoughts with Bible. It becomes fun faster if you truly enjoy thinking toward God and truly enjoy Bible. Else, you're in for a long slog before the payoff of enjoyment, comes.

Granted, the Old Testament people were also supposed to think of Him all the time. However, their lives were simple, and the extent of the rule for them is our childhood. They lived on faith-doctrine, too, just as we are commanded, but for them, it was merely a believing in life: passive, like a child's. For, as John 7:39 explains, Christ had not yet come; as Hebrews 2 and Hebrews 7 add, Christ had higher 'stakes'! His life was not at all passive. He crafted a new spiritual life out from the Old Testament. That is what made Him the "Author of our salvation", as Hebrews explains. So, then: our lives are patterned after His, and thus the most complex of all fallen humans'. Of course, just as the Old Testament witnesses proved Satan's plan no good, by every "So what?", so also we must learn to say "so what" 🤷 : yet, to the ever more intense adult tests we face.

Childhood is nice because you don't know much. Ignorance really is bliss, and so every adult longs for those simpler days. Frankly, the upset of life is to realize all those nice childhood dreams are largely fairy tales, and in the real world, nothing is nice. Hellish, even. So long as some dream is not yet realized, some answer still looks like it will work, hope remains. It's when you get all the dreams, get all the answers, that hope is seen for what it is: "sic transit gloria mundi".

You get a better purpose for living when you live for God. As you learn to bring every thought into captivity, your values change. After a while, occasionally you will look back and realize you've had a happier time of it than those around you, because they live for the world, and you are weaning off it. So it's a different "sic transit gloria mundi" for you, and it won't make you sick with ennui at the end.

  1. As you grow, your own spiritual competence, creates problems. For example, it's eons harder to just sit around once you have 'all the answers.' And you have to get the answers, to think toward Father, then be occupied with Christ Himself. So everyone around you, so needy, soo seemingly desirous of the answers.. Until you try to explain. Eyes glaze over, hostility, recognition you are right so... jealousy. Everything He faced, when He was here. The hard part of being rich is that life becomes refined and subtle. Real killer, especially since there is no fix, and you realize that. So long as you are poor, you can fantasize a fix. But this wealth, even more than the worldly kind, removes all fantasies. So you either become jaded, or... learn to become a lamb.
  1. "Bringing every thought into captivity" encompasses everything; yet the hardest group of thoughts to "capture", are the reactions to helplessness. Love motivates such reactions. So does offense. So does hatred. Everything motivates those reactions, for helplessness is the antithesis of Doctrine. Yet, you are to do nothing. Eat, eat, hold forego silence Jonah stand eat, eat, do stupid meaningless things while the world falls down around you. All the while, you know what would help. But you are a lamb no one but the Father, Son, and Spirit (and the elect angels, but they are standing, too), want. Well, Satan & Co. want you big time... to help them further their whitewashing plan. Because you now know all the answers. They trip you into whitewashing by motivating your true desire to help.
  1. Yet any help (i.e., answers) you can give, will only cause Royal Resentment. Christ knew all the answers. Yet couldn't even tell them to us. For, we were already angry over what little He could say in parables, etc. All of which, was Good News: John 6-7 are particularly poignant. But we hated Him and crucified Him for it. So, we are an extension of Him in this world, so we will get treated the same way, 1 John 3: do not be surprised if the world hates you, for it hated Him. So what to do? Find out from God what to do, lest you act outside His Divine Benefit Plan and thus drown otherwise-fertile, fields.
  1. No fallen human until Church could have a spiritual marriage standard (Ephesians 5) which is also a corporate Evidence Witness Now, because we are Bride. So if you are married, these daily combat issues are a daily double for you and your spouse. According to my pastor, Christian marriage depicts the larger and foundational marriage trial in the Garden, so is a spiritual standard for the first and only time, in Church. Because, He is Our Husband. Scary role!
  1. Paul repeatedly likens our spiritual training to the Olympics. Back then, there were many different sites where the "games" were held. You had to enrol in a gymnasium, during which there were extremely strict rules about your diet, your social life, etc. If you violated even the smallest of the rules, you could be disqualified from training. Which meant, you couldn't go to the games. Moreover, you had to train in lots of events which you wouldn't be entering, because you were supposed to become qualified in many ways, not just your selected specialty. Again, if you bucked the rules, you were out. Completely. On the other hand, if you went through the (usually) 18 months, you were qualified to enter the "games". If you actually won in the event, you received great wealth. Not just some little ribbon. So, too, is the reward of this spiritual life, a life only the Holy Spirit can build in you. Hebrews 10:36's ἐπαγγελία calls it: "carrying off the winner's prize of the escrow deposit". My pastor teaches it this way. You can verify that by looking in a good lexicon at the verb and noun.

English translations blandly say, "receive the promise". It's much more than that! The writer of Hebrews and others realized the "to seven" Old Testament meaning of "make an oath", "promise", "swear". Yet they often use ἐπαγγελία or its cognate verbs. The writer of Hebrews, especially: it's a keyword in the epistle, a tracking device. ἐπαγγελία is not just a promise, but a specific public pledge, like announcing in advance what amount would be won, in a contest. So the shift is meaningful, because Hebrew "to seven" (sheba, shin beth ayin root) is not normally translated in LXX with ἐπαγγελία (I couldn't find one instance — διαθήκη or some other word is used). In Hebrews 10:36 means to carry off a prize due to the verb κομίζω, middle voice: to carry off a prize laid up for you. Personalized. So the writer of Hebrews uses the term ἐπαγγελία throughout, and that Hebrews 10:36 is climactic. Fascinating to link promise with prize. Like Paul talks of winner's prizes! Always, referring back to the carry off, lift up, carry away rhetorical structure of Isaiah 52:12-54:1, especially in Isaiah 53:12!

The analogy to the gymnasium training is quite apt. Your daily life seems so remote from anything you would call 'spiritual'. What's really happening, is this: as you vote using whatever Bible you know to get through some task or moment, God the Holy Spirit is literally crafting anew your soul via that association. So even were you brushing your teeth — and of course, because Father is seeing it, you want to do the right Job — your soul is being built up. So something quite Spiritual is occurring. You are to become a Ruler, and the becomingness is accomplished by associating Bible with every second in your life. Again, developing this habit is hard to do, at first. As you keep on trying, think of it like learning a language, painting, golf stroke, etc: practice practice practice. Fluency comes with time. And with fluency, comes enjoyment. You are becoming a spiritual athlete for all time, one brushstroke at a time!

  1. Ergo Our Spiritual Olympics Training: Bible Doctrine must circulate in, and thus shield your soul. The Bible must be running in your head, be on your mind, as often as possible. Thinking toward Father is your priesthood, meaning you must cultivate the habit of being aware of Him, like breathing. It takes time to develop that habit.

Bible Doctrine shields your soul in two basic ways. First, as you learn Him, the knowledge changes how you value whatever you know. Your entire view of life changes gradually. It's very refreshing. It's very engrossing. It's very enjoyable. Secondly, you come to enjoy this view so much, it's always "on". So, in every detail of your day, you are reminded of some aspect of Scripture. This 'process of association' is what makes you progressively happy, thus competent — and, strong.

This shielding is critical to times when you are under pressure. The "Secondly" becomes a habit, so you become progressively less apt to be snared by the temptations around you. You're instead 'on the lookout' for 'whatever' might reveal something about Him, in your life; so life's many man-centered 'bullets', whizz right by you. The "First" is also critical for handling pressures which break through when "Secondly" isn't engaged. See, however 'grownup', man becomes childish under sufficient pressure (which varies by individual vulnerabilities, and can be feel good or bad); so at that point you need the knowledge to act as your drill sergeant. Saves your life!

Pressure which is basic to human needs tends to go below radar, and even if you don't give into it, it accumulates, thus weakening at least your body. So as the pressure continues, even if at some low level, the accumulation wears you down. So 'hits' of other types, even if simple things, can have a more devastating impact. Too little sleep, too little food, too little companionship, too little something... and you'll find yourself uncharacteristically reacting, kinda like a child would. It will be demoralizing, which is why you need as much Doctrine cycling 24/7, as you can get!

  1. The progressively intense spiritual gymnastics (cycling of believed Doctrine) 'muscle out' sin. For example, sins which trouble you gradually lose their ability to hold your attention — for you don't value them so much, anymore. Their value is being replaced. That's why, in the beginning of your internal 'Operation Footstool' you will feel the "competition" more keenly — there's a 'new Guy in town' to battle those sins. You get to watch how recalls of His Thinking gradually defeat the competition — within your own body. After all, "the Battle is the Lord's." 1 Samuel 17:47. And sin is 'fat'! But, "all fat is the Lord's." Leviticus 3:16. Designed to be burnt on the altar, along with all the other unhealthful stuff man shouldn't eat! So, God's Script, learning Doctrine, 'sacrifices' all that harmful stuff, and makes a "sweet savor" out of it! Ahhh. How nice to see the destruction of what's harmful. How wonderful is the barbecue!
  1. The good news is, by this we learn to be so constantly alert, so enamored of God, that no thought can provoke much of a reaction. To each stimulus, we learn to say: "so what? What's the doctrine here?" See? Following the pattern of Christ in Hebrews 12:2, we come to "disregard" the non-God value, in favor of the God-value. Eventually, it happens in the blink of an eye. That quickness takes a lot of skill, a lot of practice — so it takes a lot of time to reach competency. Ahhh, but we then fly! Not walk.
  1. Now for the bad news: unlike the Old Testament, our tests are Royally, Deadly Invisible. People are used, outer systems are used (i.e., government, one's job), but on the surface, all these tests seem innocuous. Like germs on a spoon, they don't "seem" to be anything much. That is the danger. A little traffic accident, a little tiff with the spouse, a little good deed, here and there — can undo the spiritual life. Permanently. They sneak up on you, and accumulate below radar, too. That's why "bringing every thought into captivity" is so vital. More on this accumulation's many dangers, follow in the remaining points of this section.
  1. Hence Satan gets to us using the same method as for learning doctrine: bit by bit. Chinese water torture: drip drip drip. They all add up. One is supposed to constantly "bring every thought into captivity" to Christ. Under His Feet, not Satan's. So every "bit" gets fought over. Between the manipulative trends in one's own "old man" (sin nature), and any 'help' from Satan & Co., it's a real struggle to "rightly divide the Word of Truth." 'Especially, when applying doctrine you've eaten, to your personal life. The precision required to "capture" the wrong thoughts, the habitual recognition and diagnosis — is beyond description. It's a horrendous drain on the psyche. Our spiritual warfare is a war of attrition.

For example, in the first temptation of Matthew 4, one of the many levels of attack in Satan's seemingly-innocuous request — was the power of suggestion. Remember, Christ is God, too. If His Humanity, so very hungry after 40 days, even imagined using His Deity to turn the stones into bread — it would have happened! Christ didn't surrender or turn off His Deity. He just kept on looking away from it, until and unless the Father dictated otherwise. That took enormous, full, constant awareness, alertness, attention, concentration, focus. Enormous, full, constant jeweller's skill. Which had to keep on operating — even in His sleep! The slightest slip in thinking would have wrecked everything. So, Satan was tempting Him to imagine — and thus, to slip.

Talk to anyone who's been starved for over a month, and you learn an interesting thing — the body keeps beeping the brain for food, by sending up sensations of look, or taste — so, one imagines food, in an attempt to substitute for eating. It's a natural body process, a protection mechanism. Which, in Christ's case, could have prevented the Cross, had His Thinking not been so strong.

Spiritual success key → He learned to "associate" every thought with a doctrine. So, when some image, say — of bread — hits His Brain, He immediately remembers a doctrine, a verse — like He does in Matthew 4. See how skillfully the Doctrine catches, filters, interprets that image? The non God value doesn't even get a "glance". Such "so what" fluidity, we too are to learn. Expertly. So we gotta keep using 1 John 1:9, staying in the Spirit, to aim toward that much virtuoso control.

People gloss over Bible passages, gloss over things in life, too. So when they read Matthew 4, they 'get' that the Lord was hungry, but limit the meaning to their own temporary hunger if they missed lunch. Big mistake. We are all constantly hungry for a lot of things.

  1. Doctrine increases all the hungers you have, and adds to them, the hunger for unity. Because, that's how infinite God thinks. Cross unifies, is a type of intercourse. So — don't underestimate the power of a little suggestion to undo your spiritual life. It's just as fast as happened to Him, in Matthew 4.
  1. When you are hungry, your maturity takes a holiday. Because, hunger is basic. As humans, we all remember something in our childhood as nice, and there remains a kind of yearning to 'go back' to those simpler days. That's a psychological motive. Atop that is this fact: the body basically is childish, so it reacts in a childish way when basic pressure of sufficient amount (for you) is 'applied'. The person who doesn't learn doctrine becomes progressively more controlled by their body as they age, so become more childish; they may be an intellectual, but apply a little personalized pressure, and bam! They're five years old. Well, they got no defenses. Again, in Evidence Testing it's all about basics, and all the barriers to full intimacy to God, come down in the soul. So the basic nature of the testing, just like Matthew 4, can make one blubber like a baby.
  1. So, the body's childishness will rear itself periodically. When you have doctrinal defenses, when you are growing and finally in the Evidence Test phase of the spiritual life — and, even before — you run the danger of being demoralized when you think you have uncharacteristic childish motives. Some of these motives are not childish; instead, they are maximally adult ones. For, a coalesced absoluteness motive is developing, too. Absoluteness is basic, simple. So, will look childish to the foolish (i.e., all those simple statements in the Old Testament look foolish to the foolish intellectual, who wouldn't recognize absolute faith, if it bit him). A child, believes. All the child knows, is trust. The adult is supposed to be skeptical (oh, how the intellectuals pride themselves on their skepticism) — so absolute trust in the spiritual adult has a sin nature, piggybacking connotation of shame or embarrassment: He's God, that's all I know, is the thought. So one feels silly or childish.

You are naked then. So, you feel like Adam did — after His fall. Not before. Adam wasn't ashamed of trusting before he fell, and he was genius. Nor, of course, was he ashamed of being naked. Naked love looks childish. Even, when maximally mature. When you are maximally hungry for obeying God, you will reason like a child, though not one. But will feel like one. God is thus glorified. But you won't feel that's true. Because, you are not a child, and you expect your reasoning to be higher than a child's. But naked love, mature, reasons in the same manner as a child. Because, there is no price. The child, doesn't know of price. The adult does, but has no price. So, 'looks' like a child, just trusting. It's not that you don't know better, but at that moment you are blindsided by the hunger for Him: He's God, that's all I know. You don't need justification, to believe. Neither did Christ, in Matthew 4!

When a person is deprived of something basic, however vaunted his achievements, his abilities, he becomes like a child. Illness, hunger, sleep deprivation, etc. All hit the body, and the body affects the mind, so the mind can't think. Interrogators know this. Satan knows this. So whatever wealth, health, success, they all count for nothing. You become five years old, under basic deprivations. Read Josephus' account of the siege of Jerusalem, sometime.

  1. Intimacy is another type of basic situation in which the parties involved, feel childish. You are growing toward God in intimacy, especially toward the Lord, so this is a daily issue of vulnerability. Trust is again paramount. Rationales take a holiday, because in a situation of maximum intimacy, the 'reasoning' boils down to, 'just because'. Just because in a foxhole. Just because in love. Just because husband and wife. No justification needed. Which, no child even knows how to need. Which, no one absolutely loving, needs. It plays like any kind of basic need — because, it is.
  1. The Royal Doctrinal Training you get under the Spirit prepares you for these deprivations. You will have basic rationales at such time, no matter how mature you are in Him. Because, you are under torture. You're under torture as a spiritual child, because you don't know enough. You're under torture as a spiritually mature believer, because you do know enough. It is always the same drip drip drip. And it's always basic, because — as happened to Christ in Matthew 4:3 — the body is the weak link.
  1. So the mature believer training for Evidence Testing, will undervalue his thinking, because he's under so much pressure. For, loving God as he does, he will lowly evaluate himself. Only time will prove otherwise. Like Christ said in the Gospels, God will move you up to a more honorable sitting place "at table". God vindicates His Word. So, keep on living on it, Matthew 4:4.
  1. Whether we grow up in Bible Doctrine or not, we nonetheless inherit the Matthew 4 temptation subtlety, and are constantly victims of it. Granted, one slip for us is not so drastic. One slip — aww, so small. Yeah... until it slowly drips us into apostasy. (I call this the "long, slow slide".) Below radar, this ongoing power of suggestion appeals to our depraved hunger to "be good". It surrounds the world, and it positively smothers us. After all, we are to "be good", and can — that's our Job, right?

See that sly question? See how easy it is to 'cave in'? That's the prime category in the Evidence Test. What you can do, you must eschew. What you can't do, you must go after. So you are always staring failure in the face. So, you feel helpless. So, you feel childish. So, the physical stuff which hits you (internal or external, the objective is to crush you with ineptitude), makes you feel worthless to God. That's what happened on the Cross — Christ Became What He Was Not — Worthless, Sin, 2 Corinthians 5:21.

To a lesser extent atheists often unknowingly echo the four temptations against the truth, such as this composite example of both Matthew 4:6 and Matthew 4:3 (demanding to see some flashy food to materialize before you, to satiate your hunger):

meat lovers please
  1. So the hunger to redress the helplessness, is extreme. And in the drip drip drip of the Evidence Test phase, that hunger keeps on going. When you finally pass one test, another hits. So if you finally learn to be helpless, then everything reverses (no no no becomes yes yes yes). You are always off balance, internally, and are not supposed to say anything about it. Yet, people will bug you (those who 'get' to you the most) to say something. Just like they did to the Lord, during the six trials and during the Cross (before the imputation 'darkness' hit). So the hunger to explain, to do something, anything to relieve the pressure... is extreme.
  1. So, to develop this Doctrine body coordination as preparation for the Evidence Test phase, we definitely get many "dos". We need them, for balance. We need them, to solidify our control over our bodies, lest they overturn our doctrine, due to lack of practice. Regard every little thing — even brushing teeth — as a doctrinal test or opportunity to use doctrine, however banal the activity. Just like for the Old Testament folks, who were constantly doing menial tasks for the Temple, constantly drilling in military preparation for war though God often went before them and just wiped the enemy out (i.e., Sennacharib's army, the night before their Rabshakeh said they would invade, 2 Kings 19:35, Isaiah 37:36), we too must constantly be on alert: yet, when the attack comes, we just stand there, doing nothing. Our own "valley of Berachah" (2 Chronicles 20:26) is every day. Even in teeth cleaning.

Just as it was, for Christ. What, how do you think He learned to become so strong? By constant, endless, punctilious repetition. Close order drill. Especially regarding "inane" matters. Even David with his sheep had known the importance of being "faithful in the little things." How much more, should we? After all, the Father is listening. What does He hear? Is His pleasure in hearing, a "small" thing? So: what's "small"? Nothing is small for the Christian. Nothing nothing nothing. Just as nothing was small, for Christ.

Satan likes to make us think "Big". Visible-big, that is. If he can get our eyes on the "big" stuff — which is really small, that's the irony — then the small stuff — which is really big — escapes our attention. Busy doing or wanting the "big", we miss the real way to become trained: to spot the mosquito. After all, it's a lot easier to escape the elephant. But the mosquito — he carries spiritual "malaria". Deadly. Small. Invisible. After all, when we fly, our reaction time must be instantaneous.

  1. Look at the genius of God, again. The faithfulness in the little things we also know is important, because "He who is faithful in little, is faithful also in much" (Matthew 25:21-23, Luke 16:10). But why? 'Because it's structural. It doesn't matter how "small" the thing is. A thought habit, that of association with Him, is being formed. See the paronomasia? God associates our sins with Christ, so every sin of ours He sees, "recalls", as it were, a thought Christ had to pay for that sin. So, God is propitiated. Likewise, every "association" we make, of doctrine to whatever, forms a habit of associating doctrine. We know that habits are hard to break, right? Heh — so, our "association" makes us become "blessing by association". Or — well — cursing, if we don't learn to associate doctrine, to "capture" every thought with it.
  1. Case Study Time: watch how God's genius makes even the most handicapped person capable of attaining that rarest of awards, Πλήρωμα status (Fit Bride). Pretend you're bedridden. What's the most difficult part of that state? Its visibility. As with Job, the worst test is the moral attitude of those around you, not the loss of normalcy. They pity you. They wonder why God allows this to happen to you. They won't leave you in privacy, in peace. They want to keep "helping". Worse, you have to let them, for you cannot do for yourself, physically. You are utterly exposed, utterly dependent; and, to top it off, most of the people you must depend on, are extremely obnoxious to be around. Due to their morality, they know what's best. Due to their morality, you have to listen to them in exchange for them "helping" you. Reciprocity. Ugly, isn't it? See how ugly unmediated morality is?

Then, there's the swarm of mosquito-inconveniences. Every movement is a major logistical operation. Going to the bathroom can take hours. Consumed with minutiae, how can one think? And then, there's the pain, for which maybe you need drugs.

Ah, but this version of "Hamburger Hill" has all the same solutions one would have if perfectly healthy. You can "baptise" (associate) every second with some doctrine, some promise. Even if you were only 8 years old, even if all you understand is 1 John 1:9 and salvation, two doctrines which even a child's "common sense" can deduce, you can repeatedly use those doctrines to parlay into spiritual strength. Further, God will provide a pastor — many have online or recorded ministries — so one can still get spiritual food. And grow Rich. And grow to Πλήρωμα. Despite all the cackling of unwanted "helpers", all the inconvenience (can't one think Doctrine in the bathroom?), all the pain. Because your human limitations don't matter a bit. You have Divine Power - the Spirit's. Just as Christ had. No one will probably even know you are growing. So what? God knows.

  1. "Hamburger Hill" comes in every flavor. Another Case Study: say you're a movie director or other celebrity, in the proverbial "Hollywood". Prosperous. Rich. Noticed. Busy. These pressures are every bit as complex, every bit as paralyzing, as being bedridden. So, they can be handled the same way as if bedridden. In some respects, the believer in this position has a greater chance of persecution by derision, than the bedridden person. On the other hand, the bedridden person suffers persecution by sympathy. Which is worse? Depends on your reaction. Doesn't depend on your outward "accoutrements".
  1. Next "Hamburger Hill" flavor as Case Study? Suppose you are Joe Schmoe believer. Nothing much marks your life. You're not famous, you're not sick. You've got an average Job, and average life. Doesn't seem like you're much of a Christian, for you don't have any big 'production' or tests.

Guess again. Morality and apathy are the jewels in Satan's crown: the "average" person is lukewarm. You look average, so you will feel pressure to be average. "Average" has two contradicting pressures: the need to "fit in", and the need to break out. Bringing every thought into captivity for you will make you very uncomfortable being "average". Count on it.

For 'average' and 'apathy' operate in parallel. Average people are apathetic about everything. On purpose. Don't get too involved, don't be too interested, don't stick out, be average, emphasize form not substance, talk about banalities, be 'politic' — herding, for safety. Politicians cater to the 'average' mind, which is why nothing ever gets done! Decisions by committee are always blanded out, so never effective. It's the 'average' person who is the most responsible for the evil in the world: goes to church on Sunday, obeys forms, is respectable, goes along with the crowd. Nuremberg mentality. There'd have been no Hitler, no Khomeini, no Taliban, no Hussein — if it weren't for the 'average' German, Iranian, Afghani, Iraqi of their day.

Christianity perennially suffers from the 'average' Christian, depicted by the Laodicean, in Revelation 3. These are the worst people on the planet, totally apathetic about God, doing everything in His Name. Satan's emissaries, thinking how spiritual they are because they have nice things. The Lord calls them vomit (Revelation 3:16, usually euphemized in translation), invoking His faithful and true witness title: the Word is not in them, so He will vomit them out (obviously, what comes out when you vomit, is vomit). See Revelation 3:14ff. So astringent, that the 'average' Christian interprets the "knock" verse in the passage to the unbeliever, not noticing that the passage is to a Church — so means believers. But of course, the Laodiceans act like unbelievers, all bound up with the world and its sick ideas of worth, the visibilities. Not, the Word. So at the Bema all those who spurned God and instead practiced a whitewashed sepulchre version of Revelation 17, will be "naked". One shudders at the thought. Look: this passage isn't against wealth (though other Laodicean idiots try to claim it is), but against disinterest in God (the "lukewarm" moniker, ties to the origin and importance of Laodicea as a town). It's real easy to think you must be a spiritual giant, when you get physical stuff — Satan uses that tactic all the time, and pulpits today sell his lies. Just last week I stumbled across one on Sunday morning TV, a sermon on how you can get the house of your dreams, because God thinks big. Sheesh. If he knew how big, he'd stop talking about such small goals! That's the essence of the apathetic mentality, the Laodicean mentality. Think and grow rich, regurgitated. Vomit is what the Christian absent 1 John 1:9 sees in Bible, thinking it wealth, because he puts a body slant on Bible, when he has no Spirit Breathing Brains into him. So he spits out vomit, and deems it wisdom. Your next big clue is how Christ says it's even better to be cold than lukewarm (ζεστὸς οὔτε ψυχρός)...

Notice well Revelation 3:21 — you have to overcome the 'average' crowd. If you compare that verse with the other "overcome" verses, you'll realize God assesses overcoming being 'average' as big an achievement, as all the greatness the other overcoming verses address. It's a big deal to overcome being, 'average'. Hardest thing to do.

So anyone who doesn't fit in, yet belongs to the 'average' group, is discussed. Gossip and disapproval accompany anyone who is 'different', see. For if you are average yet not like them, you are a threat to them. They are the scum, not you, and your difference makes that clear. Even, if you don't want it to; even if you say nothing.

Moreover, "average" tends to want visibility and routine. Your life will have glitches you can't even begin to imagine, so to denigrate your (unbeknownst to you) testimony. Glitches which will cause trouble to those around you. You'll be tempted to use the standards of the "average" in your Christian life — visibly trying to win folks for Christ, for example — at times when you shouldn't do so. You'll get sucked into the potlucks, the nod to Godders, the Brave New World "Lenina Crownes", who think all those lukewarm "works" aren't vomit. Because the standard for the "average" is that nothing should be out of the way, you'll be tempted to think your spiritual life is not going anywhere. That's the weight of the masses, pressing on you to give up, because "doctrine doesn't work". Of course, Satan's goal is to make you vomit up the spiritual life, by such lukewarm surroundings. You have a true "Hamburger Hill", alright.

  1. The ultimate "Hamburger Hill"? When Christ was on the Cross, he kept on shouting "Ηλι, Ηλι, λεμα σαβαχθανι!" (Greek tense of βοάω is linear aktionsart, continuous, Mark 15:34; it's a participle in Matthew 27:46, of λέγω.) He's shouting Psalms 22, of which that is a partial quote. He's shouting it — in triumph. He's not whimpering. If you look at the whole of Psalms 22, you'll see why. It's the Psalm about bearing our sins: the "worm" there is a "tola", Hebrew word for a worm whose blood was used to make the crimson robes — of kings.

He's thinking of us while on that Cross. He's using our repugnancy to remind Him that He's paying for us. That's the ultimate thought: the very thing which is most repugnant, is also your joy! Can there be any more inviolate a happiness than this? Can there be a greater righteousness, than the righteousness which can forego itself? Think that one over. He's not Righteous, if He permits sin to exist unpaid — but He's also not Righteous if He doesn't permit it. What, is Righteousness so weak, it can't live with sin?

See why righteousness is gorgeous? Morality, bah! It is picayune, compared to such Thinking, mediated by love. His Righteousness pays for our sins, so we "become the righteousness of God in Him". It was an exchange, as 2 Corinthians 5 and Romans 6 explain. So, how did Christ het paid? By the Doctrine — in advance! He spent the Doctrine on the sins, as a gift to the Father! So, no cost to Him. The Father, He gets paid from the Doctrinal thinking of Christ, so no cost to Him. So — get this — Righteousness is simultaneously paid and unpaid for sins. Thus, inviolate: because paid, the standard is met. Because unpaid (in the sense that sin exists), provably unmoved. Total Integrity. Who, tell me — thinks like Our God? Was ever there a glory like this?

Love is God's Head Attribute. For 2000 years somehow Christendom has missed that, though the fact stares us in the face: John 3:16, Romans 5:8, all those subjective and objective genitive uses of "Love of God", Psalm 89:14-15, even the famous Psalms 23:6 (usually chesed is mistranslated "mercy", but it means the Kindness of Love). Pursuing, running out in front. Love alone can solve righteousness and justice. For if either +R or +J tried to solve what each juridicates, then +R and +J would be violated. So there must be an above and beyond, Isaiah 52:14's last clause, a "ken mishhat meish merayhu wa toaro me bene adam" — beyond Human, Love... to unite, make peace, satisfy +R and +J. "He shall see, be satisfied" — Isaiah 53:11. He, God. Above and beyond, satisfies. Not, morality of some short people towards other short people, no one going beyond to look up at God.

  1. So, we are made to live the Superhuman, above and beyond life (more than human)... we associate with Him, now, Philippians 2:5, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 2 Peter 3:18, Hebrews 12:2, etc. As they said of the Peace Corps, this is the "toughest Job you'll ever love." Combat. True combat, not the silly visible junk of potlucks or door knocking witness. Rather, we have the true combat of "Concentrating on Jesus" (Hebrews 12:2-3a), so we can finish "the race set before us" (Hebrews 12:1) with joy — the same joy that was set before Him. Associate our "cross" with Joy (Hebrews 12:2b), just as He did — in crushing triumph.

Whenever my pastor exegetes Hebrews 12:2 (he does everything repeatedly), he always translates the participle προκειμένης (which is also used in Hebrews 12:1 to draw parallel), "exhibited"; rather than the normal finite verb translation, "set before". The term really connotes a public display, something assigned to you to complete, so you will be ashamed if you don't make it. Your audience here is God and the angels, not so much the human race — but if any derision can be made out of you before man, baby — you'll get that, too. Especially, in the last phase of Evidence Testing (analogous to Cross). The trick here is to keep looking at Him, as Hebrews 12:2 mandates. Because, then you're looking at what's 'set before' you, your own shamefulness, through His Eyes. It really matters to do this. Paul wasn't kidding when he said we walk by Doctrine, not by sight! Remember how Peter only fell into the water, when he stopped looking at the Lord, and instead, down at his feet? Personal testimony: I can only get through a day, this way. Wouldn't matter what the circumstances are, unless looking at Him, there's no reason to breathe. Try it.

  1. For, the tests are crushing. We are worms of the Worm. Knowledge is what makes the tests so crushing. Just as it was for Satan. Just as it was, the most — for Christ. See? To help us use what we are learning, we get progressive tests and "dos", for exercise. We are being trained in how well we make the rules of our lives (apply Bible Doctrine), how well we have learned the principles of Righteousness, Justice, Love (driver components of God's Integrity).
  1. Throughout, you are being tested on whether you depend on God. That's the central issue in the Trial, who does the doing, God or you? Only God is Righteous. So only if He does the spiritual life to you, will you grow up. Only God's good is true good. So absent 1 John 1:9 and living in God's System, you're toast, being burned up at the Bema, escaping with just your life. Happy after that in heaven, surely — but you could have gotten a kingdom, instead. Seek to be rich, for then you will have more to spend on Him. Whether getting to that destination requires He make you materially wealthy down here, only He would know. So Depend on God, seek His opinion on everything, and then you'll get Him doing it to you. Gold silver precious stones. Not wood hay and stubble of the idolizing, works addicted world. They look for things they can do so they can pat themselves on the back or feel secure. God is the only surety, the only wealth. All else isn't even worth the powder it takes to blow it to hell. Which is where it all goes eventually, 2 Peter 3:10-12.
  1. In the Bible, "30" is the savior number, the number of maturity, of eligibility to become king. David was crowned at age 30, and the Lord announced Himself Messiah at age 30. So, if you eventually pass, you vest: you thus inherit the rest of your personal full panoply of blessing by association and other escrow benefits in the Divine Benefit Plan — forever. That panoply is not blotted out of the Book of Life. And another ruling member of the Body has been added, thus materially shortening Satan's time for maneuver.

What shall be Your Own Legacy to Mankind?

Passing the Evidence Tests is a far greater 'work' for mankind than anyone could ever do. For, God blesses the nation, the world, by association with such a "winner believer" (to borrow from Revelation's "νικάω") — just as He always has done — as with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Daniel, the prophets, the Christ.

We've seen how the Trial is about our decisions, not about our works. "Works" is man's totally-depraved mentality, so God condemned man to work: that was a punishment, not something rewardable. Also, since man is so totally-depraved in his thinking, he gets language of accomodation "dos", in order to associatively learn something: just like a child. So "works" are training aids, not inherently worthy at all. It's the learning, not the 'earning', which has always been God's objective. Moreover, we've seen that the "works" named in the Bible are always preceded by a command to know something, and the "works" don't work if that knowledge isn't operating.

Role of knowledge key→Why? Well, we've seen that the spiritual life has always been, essentially, a learning to execute the First Commandment: loving God, which entirely depends on your thinking, which in turn depends on how well you know Him — not at all upon your deeds. After all, God is omnipresent: what does the Father hear? Moreover, if your thoughts don't 'tie' to love for God, you can't even love, so your 'works' will be completely incompetent (running subtheme in 1 John). Even for sheer competence' sake, one must be associated with Him (running subtheme in Romans 5-9).

Could God make the proof of all this more obvious? Look: because God the Father heard Christ's thoughts while imputing and judging our sins upon Him, we are saved. After all, what does one have to offer God, but thinking? Does God need food, or clothing? Granted, such smaller thoughtfulnesses will receive their rewards... but how much more, what God wants to hear? So also, even among we puny humans: isn't it only the thought that counts? What, if you get a nice gift from someone who hates you, doesn't that associated knowledge of hatred make you not want the gift (confer Proverbs 23)?

The seven facets show how blessing by association is due to Father's Being Pleased With What He Hears The Believer Think. Even sheer logic would prove that Thinking, not doing, is all important. But heck — we stupidly, even at the highest levels in theological seminaries, teach Christ paid for sin with His physical death — so we have no logic. So God is not pleased with our thinking, we are maligning the very Cross! That's the 💩 facets, operating. Which would you rather think God wants? Your poop thinking but nice deeds which even the unbeliever can do (Iranians are very moral, you know) — or the thinking of Christ, who nailed to a Cross, obviously could do, nothing? But absent 1 John 1:9, Scripture is just sav lasav, bodily interpreted, Isaiah 28:10-12, a foreign language which sounds like drunken speech...

The only way to "improve" on perfection is "horizontal", i.e., creating more perfect beings. No wonder Christ said, "and greater works than these will you do" (see context around John 14:12) — because His Mind is multiplied many times in believer bodies, through the millennia. How else does one parlay the Blessing of the Cross into a bigger blessing? Repeat the Son's Thinking in as many people as possible. We're here to please God, not people. The pleasure of people can only pass into urine and feces, so what we do for people can't help them, can't really please them. But God is our creator, holy, and eternal. Isaiah 64:6, Philippians 3:8, is what doing, does. But thinking God's thoughts requires God's power. So which is better, duh...

So, the Test: do you want the meaning of your life's blood to merely soak in the ground, which can only make the grass people trample a lush green; or, your thoughts to be made to please the Eternal One? So, which kind of pleasing is even better for people, for crying out loud?!

Therefore, the entire equation of how blessing is conveyed depends on association with people living the spiritual thought life, because only such folks are a "sweet savor" to God. Just like it was the animal, not the animal's works, which was offered up to God in the Levitical sacrifices; just as it was Christ Himself, not something He'd done, which was the offering, so also, it's us, not what we "do", which God wants. The animal, the Christ, had to be without blemish. No talk of do's, there. The actual living being, not what the being did or didn't or could "do". So also, what we become, not what we do. "Living stones", as Peter humorously puts it in 1 Peter 2:5. Note that verse: temple stones. Um, stones don't make themselves. So stones don't do works, either. Rather, they are worked on.

Of course, stones can be used to harm also. If we aren't "alive" with the Son's thinking running in our souls, then during that time we are dead stones, not living ones, and of course then whatever we do is "dead works", Hebrews 5:11 through Hebrews 6:6 and (sarcastically) Hebrews 6:10 (see also Hebrews 6:11-12), plus Hebrews 9:14, first half of Hebrews 7 and Hebrews 10. So, God is not pleased with such folks, who are Laodiceans. So, Satan can and does use us dead stones to harm the human race. So, the Gospel gets stoned to death in nearly every 'Christian' pulpit, with extrabiblical garbage verbs like "repent of your sins", "invite", and "make Christ Lord" being evilly added to John 3:16's only right verb, "believe". Thus saving, no one. Thus cursing comes by association with those folks, who are avidly becoming like Satan through his cosmic "do good" plan. Dying, from the rocks in their bellies.

Notice: all the stoning nature of mainstream Christianity. It seeks victims, it hallows its own witch-hunts, it tyrannizes folks via fecal-induced plans, and all in God's Name. Lord, Lord people who are probably not Christian (if they can't say the Gospel correctly, then maybe they aren't even saved) — more than 90% of 'Christianity', today! So if they are believers, what do you think the Lord will be saying to them at the Bema? Better to be boiled in oil down here, than have to face Him, then.

Our existence, like that of Moses, is fundamentally a life or death issue for the millions who don't yet want Christ. They are alive only because we are. We are alive only because Christ was (and of course, still is). We were once like the millions, too — we once didn't want Him, either. It took time to change our minds. It took time to grow up spiritually. So, we are not ashamed to call them brothers — and, like Moses, we want them to have time to see Him, also. Because, it's only about love. He's Gorgeous.

The blessing by association isn't merely about life or death. They get goodies from God, solely because He is pleased with the "sweet savor" of our learning His Son. Moreover, we also need them to get those goodies. After all, they are 'into' the worldy stuff, and we've not really much time for that: study takes up a lot of our time. So we need them blessed, to: a) get logistical support ourselves, and b) compensate them for what we aren't doing for their bodies. So, they get goodies, and thus we do too. It's just support, to us. To them, it's like life or death. So, we can enjoy their enjoying the goodies (which by our Royal Standards are merely tools). Everyone benefits. Kinda like Abraham said to the rich man in torments (Luke 16:20ff): We get to watch them have those things, and they get to watch us have spiritual things. Which gives everyone an opportunity to get more of both. (That's why those in Torments could see those in Paradise on the other side as an incentive to change their mind and believe.)

Time itself, plus the actual pattern of history, is directly affected by our decisions, alone: for we are the conduit of history itself, since we are Christ's "Body", "Bride", Royal Family — forever. Satan's activities are directly impacted, for the time he's got left affects what decisions he makes about what to do. The more of us getting added to the Πλήρωμα (ruling) class among the Bride, the less time he has to pull off his anti-Millennium.

So, then: Our decisions make or break history, just as the decisions of Royalty always have. That's royalty's job, for crying out loud.

Blessing by Association with us, is the sole conduit for Divine Blessing to the world. All those fake gods people worship are demons, and Satan's 'blessing' plan is Götterdämmerung. So the Divine Benefit Plan can't flow to the world, absent us. Does this blessing come through our works? Oh no — but only because we're breathing, and that because we inherited our Royal Status from Christ due to His victory at the Cross and consequent session, as Hebrews painstakingly explains. So also, people gain from watching us — our thinking affects their own, directly, because we all have reciprocity desires / reflexes, and thought is contagious. And, as noted earlier, God uses this exposure to us to provide a freedom from poverty only God can do: heal and grow the soul. That is how the world's ills are fixed, not by body works. Again, as always, only Bible Doctrine Works.

Look even on a secular level, to see the parallel about thinking, not works. For over two generations now, the world has been engaged in countless welfare programs and other legislation, charity, etc. To help the 'poor'. Nothing has worked: there are more poor, and they are all more poor, than before. But when you examine the successes in Africa, you notice that the successes only come because people got the idea that they have to improve their own lot. They start schools, they educate each other about AIDS, they take matters in their own hands. And from where did they get that idea? From the idea of self-responsibility, which is part of what's (erroneously) deemed "Western" culture — for the West is infamous for its stress on individualism. The Middle East is breaking into various (for them) kinds of new freedoms. Again, because of an idea — not because of all our warring and diplomacy, political maneuvers. The idea of free speech, the right to be an individual with his own beliefs, loosens the cultural stranglehold that has predominated not only in the Middle East, but in Africa and Asia.

And all that breakup started, because the West looked prosperous; people wanted to have a better economic life. So with that desire, came the idea underlying that superior economic life — man must be free. Of course, the West didn't learn the very lesson it taught the rest of the world, and has been descending into cultural slavery. But hopefully by the time we in the West all crash and burn, the rest of the world will have learned the lesson, and they will carry the freedom baton.

So now see how that secular breakup reflects its parent, spiritual truth: you are to be set free by the truth, not by good deeds, Galatians 5:1 (theme of chapter), John 8:32. Notice how in Galatians 5, as in Romans 2-4, Paul equates the immoral with the legalist. Awesome stuff. Truth is the ultimate prosperity, for if you have it, you don't need to hate, steal, be vindictive, backbiting, cheat, immoral, etc. For the truth is satisfying to the soul. Which then makes for a happier body, too. So that body will be free to have whatever life, and since you have logistical needs if you'll be studying Scripture, well... God will provide. He might give you a Bugatti for Bible class, or a bicycle, but you'll get what your body needs, so your soul can get fed. Now, think: if God will bless your periphery due to what you need, then... is that not better a "work" than all the world's demonstrably impotent, charity?

Charity chains, too. If you feed a wild animal enough, he forgets how to forage for himself. That's why in national parks, you'll often see "Don't feed the animals" signs. They have to be responsible for themselves. People, even more, since people have souls. A child stays a child, if you don't at some point stop doing for him. Nations stay children, if they are saddled with childish cultures. Tribalism, family, religion are all used to enslave and keep childish, a people. God invented competing barriers against these satanic tyrannies, but man loves tyranny, being himself, tyrannical by nature. Children are tyrannical, since they don't know how else to be. Hence we give them commands to go against their nature, so they can grow up. Charity and do-goodism break down those barriers, and like a virus, seed into the healthy. So that we all become victims, demanding of our governments, our authorities, our neighbors, our families, our spouses. Ceaselessly demanding, whining, blaming, and self-pity. Yeah. That's what 💩 thinking begets. Love is not so encumbered, Galatians 5:1-22.

People who promote good deeds have no faith. Like the straw man in James 2:18, they think their works are as good as the Word. James proved that wrong; so of course the works crowd, which can't read Bible except with body slants (true eisegesis), uses that same passage to claim their faith must be evidenced by works, 🤣 — which James proves false in that very verse! So they read Bible, backwards! Prove it to yourself: pretend for the sake of argument that wherever the word "faith" is used in James, it means Doctrine You Believed, then read your favorite translation. See if it suddenly makes a lot more sense. So, they prove they do not believe in God when they make their stinks about works. So God does no work in them, for them, from them, of them, Matthew 13:54. So their works are sterile, their charity impotent. Seek God's Opinion before you even think about doing a work, lest you waste your time!

Good thinking teaches a man to fish. Then he can feed himself. Divine thinking teaches a man to reach Πλήρωμα. Then he can rule a kingdom. Um, it's only the thought that counts.

So, then: failing the Evidence Tests is a far worse evil for mankind than anyone could ever do.The flipside of our royally-privileged status, is to be royally responsible for any screwups. Thus, Satan wants us to think more cheaply, wants us to think like peasants, wants us to forget about what God hears, and focus instead on that "cup of water given in the Lord's name." His strategy, as always, is to put blinders on the believer, so he can only narrowly view the spiritual life. So the believer can only think, for example, in terms of goodies. "Cup of water" verse gets distorted to mean the whole good, "in the Lord's Name." Yeah, everything in the Lord's name, but not really Him. Just His Name, like a designer label (Matthew 15:8). Yeah. Shout the name, plead the blood, sing "Do, Lord", wrangle over my denomination is better than your denomination, have mystical "special knowledge", get high on obsolete spiritual gifts, and ...🥁 please — #1 !!! — make morality the Alpha and Omega of spirituality. 'Which, even the unbeliever can do. So why should he want Christianity?

Indeed, why should Christians want it? How many jaded Christians do you know? How many depressed, maybe neurotic, obsessed, Christians do you know? Deuteronomy 28:28 describes far too many of us today. We obsess over politics, as if man was more important than God. We think by electing the "right" people, passing the "right" laws, God will reward us for our efforts. Isn't this insane thinking? What, the God of grace wants us to do the work? What happened to "not of my own righteousness", and "not of works, lest any man should boast?" What happened to "grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior"? What happened to Romans 13, and 1 Timothy 2? These passages, plus the slavery ones, don't argue for changing the world. Yet we are obsessed with it today... just as much as we were during the Dark Ages and Middle Ages.

Obsession is the first characteristic of mental illness. In California, for example, Christians are in mental hospitals in record numbers. "And I will strike you with madness" warns God in Deuteronomy 28:28. "Strong delusion" is not reserved only for the unbeliever, but also for the believer, "whose god is their emotion" (Romans 1, Philippians 3:18). "But you did not so learn Christ!" Paul shouted (Ephesians 4:20).

We become mentally ill when we replace God with our own ideas of Him, our own versions of spirituality, far more quickly than an unbeliever will become so ill. Why? Because we are more dependent. Royalty is more dependent than the peasant, that's the irony.

So, shall we grow up in Christ, or buy Satan's version? God's Script, or Satan's? Satan's leads to insanity, since that is the nicest way he can denigrate us in the eyes of the world, and get God to order our capital punishment (1 John 5:16), calling us home, in shame. That's why the 'bad ending' Rapture happens, too. Satan's plan to make the official Tribulation work — and he doesn't know when it will happen, so he started right away to create the fake Church Revelation 17 — Satan finally achieves such a high level of apostasy within Christendom God has to wipe us all out, like He did with the Exodus generation — but en masse. Not exactly the boon most enraptured folks think of that Day, huh?

Granted, we are still victorious in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:52-57), but... our victory could have been still greater. Instead, forfeited to the Πλήρωμα, are our Divine Benefit Plan blessings for time and eternity. All we will know of them directly is by memorial to what they would have been; all blessings we get will be indirect via the Πλήρωμα, Isaiah 53:12. But wait! There's still time, down here — so long as one is breathing. Time to get with God's Script, and learn it "full"y. Our erudition can't substitute for that Script; our works can't substitute for it. No one is too handicapped, no one is too intelligent, for we all lost our brains when we were born spiritually in Christ, John 3, Ephesians 4:23's clever genitive (He's also the breath of our thinking, so we have no other brains, what wit). So everyone gets God's Script only one way: just as Christ did, in the power Brains of the Holy Spirit. So we, like the unbeliever, also "are without excuse", Romans 1.

Worse, we become cursing by association to our nation and the world, bringing on it the judgement which our learning had forestalled. We lost our saltiness, so the world is less preserved, and more tormented. Satan is not to blame; we will be, though: for rejecting the Grace, the Love of Christ. By means of good deedism, we wreck the world! Just as Jewish apostasy, manifested in good deedism, nearly wrecked the world, so Christ came, so also at the end of the Church's completion, good deedism will require the Rapture. Then, that highest good deedism period dawns: the Tribulation. Are you beginning to get the impression that "doing good" is dangerous?

The biggest royal-screwup resulting from "doing good" isn't even the fact that it helps Satan move his plan along. Rather, the biggest danger is that "doing good" drives anyone crazy. The tragic flaw in Satan's plan is its loneliness. Why loneliness? Because, apart from God, there is no compensating love "spouse", to set boundaries. Morality is alone. Not good, that God should be alone. Not good, that man should be alone. Not good that morality should be alone. So, its good becomes not-good: true hell, because it can't stop. So, runs amok.

Let's now illustrate how such legacies affect mankind, right now. Unfortunately, the legacy currently operating (unless enough folks change), is negative. This, because believer apostasy has intensified rapidly since the Korean War ended. So, let's look at the "legacy" of such failure.

Ask anyone who's been a POW about how loneliness can more quickly drive one mad than anything else. In Russia, for example, if they locked you inside a red room, alone — in 40 days, you'd be completely mad. Well, Satan's plan is like a red room, only you don't notice you're going nuts, because folks around you are also deteriorating. So, you think you're "normal". You, like everyone else, hustle and scramble to "improve", never satisfied, always on that hamster wheel — I am good, I am good — except... the self is not good. Self is alone. Why? Because Satan's plan begets progressive self-absorption. The self is good mantra can't survive much scrutiny. So, it hides. So, people talk "at", rather than "with", each other. So, the TV screen is a better "friend". So, good deeds have to multiply, right down to one's hair gel choices. So, one must increasingly criticise whoever disagrees — even over hair gel. Thus driven, one becomes an automatic automaton, since the mantra is a type of masturbation. Interpersonal intercourse threatens the mantra, you see. Self can't withstand comparison! So Grace threatens the mantra, too. So, one must run! Escape!

The pace must become ever faster, faster, faster! To get the same thrill of being "right", of making someone else "wrong". One thus becomes frustrated, maddened, trying to keep up the needed pace. At some point, one quits — or, more likely, resorts to power lust. Why? Because morality never pays off, when it's divorced from God.

So, then: if we have the "treasure in earthen vessels", but instead of growing up in it, we hide that truth unused, like the stingy servant hid his Master's talent... no one else has any defense, because we don't have the right counteracting 'contagion' to give them. So we fail, "Caring Charge", as a "nation under God". We do not keep our Pledge of Allegiance: instead, we even sue against it, just like Michael Newdow did, piously claiming to defend his daughter's rights! Tell me: would you want to be that daughter? So, then: just as the Mosaic Law had been the sole defense against man's "me be god" degeneration into animalism, so now our royal treasure is the only way to "choose life" (Deuteronomy 30:19). Else, Satan's vampiric, vulturic plan runs unhindered. Unless we wake up and get with God's Script.

By contrast, God makes the Πλήρωμα Legacy from "the Riches of His Glory" (look up all verses with that phrase). He even uses it to reverse the decline into vulturism. (confer 2 Chronicles 7:14, Isaiah 35-37, and "Hezekiah" passages.) 'Bonus gift. "Just because". And why not? See how the contentment of the spiritually mature believer is superior to Satan's goodies? Imagine, as you read how the mature believer thinks, below — imagine how wonderfully enjoyable life with humans would be, if they thought the same way.

For, a mature believer's not shackled, anymore: "living, Christ! Dying, Profit!" (Philippians 1:21). So, everything else in life is just a "So, what?" to him. He can take it or leave it. He doesn't need power. He doesn't need to bemoan any injustices done to him. He doesn't need someone else to "fix" his problems. So he's not a burden to anyone. This, because his "me be good" nature is under Christ's feet. For the same reason, any "works" he does — unlike most of Christendom's — are actually competent, for a change. This, because Christ is His Standard, and thus he can discern what really works.

Armed with God knowledge, developed in Love, he doesn't seek crusades. He's not discontented, so is not obsessing over improvements. Others' sins merely mean they have freedom to learn Christ, too. So he doesn't take offense at them. His soul is uncluttered by the ever draining needs to get compensation from others. Therefore, he himself can be poor, or rich — it doesn't matter which one. Nor does it matter who else is poor or rich. So his relationships with others are hallmarked by contentment, and others who relate to him find themselves refreshed by that association. For them, he's an oasis in a desert of rules.

So they learn from him. What do they learn? They learn to view things differently. Life's preoccupations don't hold him, unlike most others they know. What seems shocking or bad to most people, doesn't faze him much. So their own flaws as they perceive them, they notice don't bother him. He looks past stuff which would normally trap someone else, and they wonder, how can he be so calm? For, he doesn't wear his faith on his sleeve, but in his heart.

And, when he evaluates anything, his doctrinal associations supplant the "me be god" urges, so he actually comes up with the right answer — which is normally, "Rest: do nothing". So, in whatever he does, he is far more competent. He won't encourage others to spend their money; he won't argue for taking up causes, seeking revenge; he won't sell anything. For, he will be self-sufficient. So, whatever he does, is from this self-sufficiency, and thus actually works. Ahhh.

So he represents an alternative lifestyle, one that refreshes, rather than drains. For he's Spiritually grown, so he's relaxed. Christ is the center of his attention, not the world. So, unlike the rest of the world, he doesn't need 'excitement' to escape the desperate boredom which embitters them over time; because he, unlike them, finds every speck of dust full of spiritual meaning: something depicting Christ. So, the few but highly strategic good deeds he does are from a base of love for God, and competently chosen. They don't seem like effort to him, even though great effort is required. He comes to like giving, "just because". He doesn't need to do "good" to propitiate his "me be good" depraved nature.

Because he's so centered on how every speck of dust depicts Christ, he's not looking at himself. What a freedom he has: he's busy looking at Christ, so not busy looking at the traffic jam, the snide remark, his sex appeal, his good deeds; he's not looking at whether he's rich or important to his neighbors or the world. So he's not competing with anyone, and he's not weighed down with the million frustrations which come from trying to compete. So he's not trying to convert anyone, use holy tones, dress in black or manifest other asceticisms, to 'advertise'. When disaster strikes, he might react, but it will be short lived, as the Doctrine kicks in to remind him of what's really going on — royal training. So, he relaxes. And those around him, who see this suffering 'whatever', are amazed. They say nothing, or something — but whatever they say, he soon notices the Doctrinal meaning, and brushes aside any compliments he gets. For, his eyes are on Christ; not much else can get in his line of sight. It's not that he is unaware of the world, but he enjoys seeing his Lord, the more.

He thus doesn't need reciprocation, approbation, recognition, for the good deeds do nothing for his self-esteem. Instead, the good deeds are refreshment, like tasty food. 'Not sacrifice, but received enjoyment. So, he doesn't need anyone to "know" about them. So, they are without "strings". So, 'satisfying. So, 'dispensable. Satan can't "hook" him. And Satan can't beat such a believer's happiness, either, because his happiness is expressed in the good deeds — not caused by them. Most of all, Satan can't duplicate the blessing by association benefits God does to show His refreshment — in the believer's name, "just because".

At times, he won't look more competent to the outside world, because his life will be harder, a Hamburger Hill. But he will handle it with equanimity. Whether he is to die slowly and painfully, or quietly in his sleep. Whether he is to lose those he most loves, or enjoy the prosperity of their earthly happiness. Makes no difference. Christ matters, and all else is — "So, what?" So, he is free to love those in his periphery, and free to love anyone. Anytime. Everything is extra, therefore everything is free. So, his love for them is free — not based on needs he himself has. He's not loving in order to gain something from them. That is glory. Glory which took a lifetime! To acquire, God's way. Never man's way.

Because, in the royally invisible spiritual life, "less is more". Less time on works, more time on learning Christ. Less time in redressing grievances, so more time to spend on what's enjoyable: Christ. Less time in "big" stuff, more time in constant small stuff: line upon line, precept on precept. Every moment, every day. Low, slow, and constant. Therefore, a habit. Therefore, easy. Therefore, enjoyable. Against this, all the goodies of the world have no attraction power. Against this, Satan has no reply. Against this, the entire world cannot stand. "Having done all, to stand" (Ephesians 6:13) will be this believer's future. Shall it become yours? Shall it become mine? Our choice. Every moment of every day.

What responsibility we have, to learn Christ. Not only does history literally continue because a few believers are grown up, have passed Evidence Testing, and have reached Πλήρωμα (Ephesians 3:19); not only do such believers massively aid even the secular happiness for billions; but all mankind gets the continued opportunity to see Him, grow in Him. Can't have a greater impact on mankind, than that. Can't do anything remotely like that except by God's Script.

So this, the highest of the knowledge and power level covenantal periods — Church, Body of Christ under development — will continue until no one wants it anymore. This "Age over the Ages" (Ephesians 3:21 and elsewhere) — this is the both the best and worst time to be alive, not the official (7-year) Tribulation. The official Tribulation is easier, and short. And dependent, for its own wellbeing, on us who reach Πλήρωμα status — even after our deaths.




Part 5a, The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?




Inset for Part 5: Separating the Prophecy 'Sheep', from the Goats...

What about the Tribulation?
Side Trip: Separating the Prophecy 'Sheep', from the Goats...

Folks in the Tribulation will have a very rough time separating prophecy accurately, even as we do now. In large measure, we will be the cause of that problem, for we stupid Christians never do our homework. So there will be a lot of inept 'expert' material circulating in the world, which takes time to cull through. So put yourself in that future, undateable generation's place, as you go through this section, so you can see what a mess they will be getting due to our failure to do our homework!

It's critical to understand that the Rapture terminates the Church, and the Tribulation is kicked off due to Rapture based on voting or Pleroma completions, which is the reason why the actual Tribulation's beginning cannot be dated. If you're trying to date the Rapture, if you're engrossed by all those prophecy programs which talk about historical events as if to say the Rapture could come now, stop. You are killing your spiritual life. Of course the Rapture can come now. Now means anytime. 1000 years ago, 10000 years from now, same trends, who knows when. But it's Christian growth to Πλήρωμα, which causes or delays the Rapture, not — repeat not — historical trends.

Part 4 covered this in excruciating detail, explaining that Christians ask the wrong questions, so miss God's right answers. So Use 1 John 1:9, ask Father in Son's name to prove that fact to you, either via Scripture reading (best idea), or by reading adjunctive stuff like webpages. In case He wants you to use these webpages, well... that's one collateral reason they are here. I needed them because I learn best by writing out what I learn via my pastor; maybe you learn better if you read something non-authoritative. That's between God and you — but don't miss out on the opportunity to grow spiritually. You don't know when the Rapture will occur, and if you live your life trying to date it, rather than learning Christ via Scripture... you will regret it.

Because, the "tribulation" actually comes in two flavors: our now, and the official Tribulation, which begins at the Rapture. This Side trip is dedicated to certain additional specifics, not listed in the other sections, so you can do your own Bible tracing. These specifics were chosen because people talk about them a lot, not because they are the most important specifics. The most important specific, is ταχύ, suddenly, don't wait, make haste to learn Christ. But, people don't do that. But, they look at historical events and such. Okay, then let's play on that turf, even though it's the wrong turf.

People roughly divide over the Rapture as follows:

  1. That there isn't one, it's a fantasy of titillated believers who want a rapture. There's no real Tribulation, either. Instead, believers are resurrected at the Second Advent, and it's not a disappearance. This tends to be a preterist view (partial preterism does believe in a rapture).
  2. Amillennialism. There's no real Millennium, it's an allegory. Hence no Rapture or Tribulation, either. This tends to be the Catholic view, and (if I remember correctly) the view of related faiths like Lutheranism, Episcopalian, etc.
  3. Church is in Tribulation, either half of the time (mid-Tribulationists), or the whole time.

The Amillennial and preterist views didn't get much coverage in Part 4, which instead focused on why the Rapture can only be pre-Tribulation, and that there really is a separate Tribulation. So the mid-Tribulation view, which is largely based on a judgement call about the meaning of the "last trump" in 1 Thessalonians 4 and the 144,000 evangelists in Revelation 7, was rebutted — but not on those two points. So the rest of this Side trip will cover these and other related issues not elsewhere discussed.

If you believe in the Tribulation but dispute that the Rapture is pre-Tribulation, Part 4 and 5 will be important to you. Tribulationists have no clue about the legal basis for the Tribulation itself, so can't sort how where the Rapture fits in. Others, of course, react to all the goofiness of Christians who typically believe in the Rapture. Well, the Bible is not goofy. The Legal Reason for the Rapture kicking off the Tribulation is quite complex. In accounting anything, in auditing anything, in proofing anything, the why is the most important. You can't get a conviction of a criminal without proving intent. So, too, you can't prove on 'circumstantial evidence' of scattered verses, their import, until you can prove God's intent.

If you don't believe in the Tribulation or Millennium at all, then you'll also want to look at, all below URLs will be relevant. Thus you see the math proof that both Tribulation and Millennium are literal periods, for God orchestrated time itself around them, and especially used the same periods to craft when Messiah would be born and die. So the Tribulation and Mill are "reimbursements" to Christ. It's a Justice Accounting God uses in His Design of Time itself.

Finally, a personal note: I myself didn't like the doctrine about the Tribulation for a very long time. So I'm not selling it to you, exactly. I got horribly spanked by God for not paying attention in Bible class on the topic, even though I was properly taught and even though I took lots of notes and even though I correctly believed the Doctrine. So how much more spanking, will someone not blessed with all that exposure, get? I wouldn't want any of my brethren in Christ to get that spanking. End commercial message.


Sheep: Literal use of Revelation 1-4:1, else paradigmal use (especially Revelation 6, Revelation 6:12-13, Revelation 17).

"Literal" use doesn't mean, for example, that you go looking for a church in Smyrna because that's a church name in Bible. Literal means take the circumstance presented and treat it as real now. Paradigmal means take what's depicted metaphorically and find a match in what's now, not expecting that the circumstance displayed, is in the full format depicted. If you were in the Tribulation, for example, you'd have to treat Revelation 7ff literally: which won't be hard, since there really will be the kinds of folks described, then. Since we are not in the Tribulation, we don't look at the wailing wall for the two witnesses, since we are not in the Tribulation so they will not be there.

It's really important to trace the Bible in order to distinguish between the paradigm of Tribulation which Revelation represents to elaborate on Daniel 9:26c, versus the actual Tribulation, where you use Revelation to tie to Daniel 9:27. And, of course, to tie all the other Old Testament prophecies about specific events. All misinterpretation is first due to not diagnosing God's purpose (Precedence); secondly, due to not distinguishing prophetical ties based on the Bible's own terms. We imbue Bible with our own meanings, so fail to first trace out what it defines as its own meanings. Big mistake.

Note: no Old Testament prophecy references Church nor anything happening in Church, so you can know that what Revelation ties to the Old Testament, is for the actual Tribulation, not Church. For Church was a "mystery". It was a mystery, Because it might not have ever come to exist. So, then: Old Testament Tribulation prophecy all lumps together, "the times of the Gentiles" within itself.

Revelation, by contrast, separates what is Church and what is not, by its own structure and language. There are distinct terms used which are New Testament terms, and others which are strictly Old Testament terms. Just like the Gospels, you have an overlap of covenantal periods. Hence the Lord's use of the term, "times of the Gentiles" (plural, not singular) in Luke 21:24. So use Revelation to fit together the references which belong to their own "time", carefully. It's painstaking to do this, but not intellectually difficult.


Sheep: Common vs. specialized use of Bible's terms for "tribulation".

Like so many other keywords in Scripture, "tribulation" (θλῖψις) has more than one meaning. This is true in any language: to not distinguish the layers of meaning means laziness, and misinterpretation will result. Bible has many ways of making distinctions. For example, in Greek, the distinction between a common meaning and a special one is often accomplished by the absence of the article ("the"), a sort of bold font face, stressing the word's quality (bad or good). Also, sometimes a monadic use of the article is employed, to stress uniqueness (example in 2 Corinthians 13:14). People go dotty with Scripture; their common sense flees. So whenever they read some word like "salvation" or "tribulation" or "baptism", they assign it an irrationally narrow meaning. Rightly dividing the Word of Truth requires a pastor-teacher's gift of true preparedness in the Word, which requires he constantly use the Holy Spirit's power. No human can rightly divide the Word of Truth on his own. God is the God of Authority, and it takes a dedicated lifetime to pass on the Word to a congregation. For example, Matthew 23:35's "Abel... Zechariah" is a term referencing the whole of the Hebrew Canon. What believer in a million would know that, upon reading it? So, then: we, too, need a good pastor and the Holy Spirit's power; so, we gotta use 1 John 1:9 and keep plugging!

Moreover, Scripture also distinguishes the official Tribulation from the generic or Church kind by using other names for the same period. You know that these other names designate only the official Tribulation, because the activities connected with these other names are the ones in official Tribulation passages. Some of these synonyms for the official Tribulation are: "time of Jacob's trouble" (e.g., Jeremiah 30:7, referenced in Revelation 12); Psalm 2:5's "vex" (KJV; Hebrew root is bahal, piel stem — English versions use words like "terrify"); "the devil's desperation" (Zephaniah 1:18), "great Tribulation" (e.g., Matthew 24:21). See? Just like "salvation" is used in the sense of deliverance while still on earth, so also "tribulation" has a common meaning, but also a specialized meaning — and context plus keywords tell you which is which.


Sheep: Near vs. far fulfillment timings of prophecy, per Bible's divisions — and especially, how they fit together.

As explained in detail in Part 4a, almost every prophecy in the Bible is deliberately dual in nature: it depicts what's called a "near-fulfillment", and a "far-fulfillment". God is always using puns, double entendres, multilevel meanings, in His Words. (Unfortunately, the English translations never convey this extremely important fact.) So for prophecies to likewise have the multistory structure, is fitting. Thus it was, for example, in Isaiah 7. The "far fulfillment" was the Virgin Birth, a warning signal to Israel that its time was ending — but also (see the double-entendre) that its deliverance from sin had come. See Revelation 12's double entendre pregnancy.

So it is with the official Tribulation. The 70 AD destruction of the Temple, for example, was foretold by Christ. He clearly depicted it as a pattern for two realities: the 70 AD destruction, and the upcoming Tribulation which His hearers already knew from Old Testament prophecies. It was true that with the destruction of the Temple, "tribulation" would come to Israel. However, there are two meanings of "tribulation", for Israel had rejected its King, and the Church was "grafted in". All Israel knew of that duality, as covered in Part 4a-c (brown text), was the 40-year warning period it knew as the "times of the Gentiles" (see Luke 21:24 and Romans 11:25).

This is a very big topic in the Old Testament. Easy English passages on this topic: Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:43; Psalms 57:9, Psalms 72:11, Psalms 96:7, Psalms 108:3, Isaiah 28:10, Isaiah 52:5, Romans 9:25, Romans 10:19, Romans 11:11-17, and especially Romans 11:25; Paul spends most of Romans 11-15 explaining this doctrine; also Galatians 3, Colossians 1:16-27. 2 Samuel 22:44, Psalms 18:43, Isaiah 11:10, Isaiah 12:4, Isaiah 42:1, 42:4, Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:1, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 49:22, Isaiah 51:5, Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:4, Isaiah 56:3, Isaiah 60:3-5, Isaiah 66:19, Ezekiel 22:4, Hosea 8:8, Malachi 1:11, Acts 15:14, Acts 26:23, Romans 3:29-30 explain why this is true (prophecy of Messiah and of Israel's apostasy and eventual regathering), but English isn't so clear.

What Israel had not known was the "mystery of Christ", the Church. What those who ended up being the first generation of "Church" still did not know was how long the "times of the Gentiles" would last. It could have lasted only as long as the 40-year exit warning to Israel, if a sufficient number of Gentiles believed in Christ. But the 40 years ended up lasting a lot longer, because the numbers-composition needed to complete the Body didn't then complete. Even, until now.

That's probably one reason why John, in 96 AD, had to write Revelation, to let folks understand why the 70 AD destruction of the Temple did not result in a Second Advent. There'd have been no need for Revelation, had the 70 AD destruction been the real "end", for Christ's Second Advent would then have come in 77 AD. But not enough Church had reached Πλήρωμα to justify that. So, nearly a generation later, by 96 AD, when the written Canon to date had almost finished circulating, and the last of the surviving apostles was exiled (and quite old), it was important to explain more about how the "end" worked, so to motivate folks.

Moreover, as mentioned on heraldry, according to historians, 8 years after Revelation was penned (maybe after John died, I don't know) Caesar made a major change in the role, eligibility requirements, and awards for the Equites. So, John wrote using a lot of Equites-style lingo: in advance, so that when Revelation would be distributed, that epistle would be up to date for the reader.

So, just as Israel was to suffer "tribulation" beginning now, so also the Church is in "tribulation" now. 1 John references that, as does Paul, and sometimes Hebrews. New Testament keywords are "tribulation", "end times", "last days", "antichrists... in the world", or "...now", for example. There is no way to mistake that "tribulation" is a characteristic of our "Age over Ages". It means "our now" is both unique, and the greatest period of fallen man's history. So to say it has "tribulation" in it, is likewise fitting. Christ had "tribulation" during His First Advent. Should not the Bride share in the "fellowship of His Sufferings"? Of course we should. "To whom much is given, much is expected." And Satan needs a level playing field. He gets it.

Certainly what John wrote was unknown, prior, for there are no references to Revelation in any other New Testament epistles — but rather, Revelation references the Old Testament prophecies, and elaborates on them. Finally, the only New Testament "Rapture" keywords John uses are the famous interjections, "I come suddenly! (English tamely uses "quickly", "soon"), and "...like a thief". So John ties no event in the Revelation narrative to the Rapture. Instead, Revelation 1-3 are current warnings to churches. Revelation 4 begins, "after these things" — a clear demarcation. Furthermore, "church" is mentioned nowhere after Revelation 3, and "mystery" usages are instead like the Old Testament's: no "mystery of Christ" is mentioned anywhere. Thus folks then getting Revelation could resolve their long-standing confusion over the order of the last things. Thus folks could become alert to their critical role, in "now".

That Christ would have two Advents is another example of dual prophecy. First, as Isaiah and David predicted, He would come to pay for sins; second, as David, Daniel, Isaiah (etc.) predicted, He'd come as King. Apostate Israel rejected the idea of the First Advent, long before Christ even came the first time. You can see this fact from Pharisees' reactions in the Gospels, for example. So, Israel stopped recognizing its own well-established rule that Bible prophecies are generally dual in nature — due to their apostasy.

We know it's due to their apostasy, because every Jew who is "taught Talmud" understands that every Hebrew word in the Tanakh is chock-full of multilevel meanings. That's why, when you ask a schooled Jew about the meaning of a passage, he always replies that the answer is too complex, and can't be simplified. He's right, too. Rabbis discuss every detail, and do so in Hebraic (multi-meaning, poetical) style. So, that's why the Talmud is so hard to read, and takes a lifetime of study to master. So, despite all this training in the fact that the Old Testament is so multilevel, right down to its every holy Word — they selectively tune out two Advents.

Further, we know it's apostasy, because the positive Jews in the Gospels understood there would be two Advents. Christ takes that knowledge for granted in almost every statement He makes. Moreover, when He talks about coming back, no one says, "What do you mean by that?" 'Because, they already knew what He was talking about. Rather, the big conundrum for his hearers, as (later on) with the Thessalonians, was how to tell the signs of when. So, obviously, since people only ask about what they don'T know, which tells you what they do know — they all knew.

True Judaism has always been what we could define as "Trinitarian". So, in the Gospels the Lord takes for granted they understood Trinity, for when He uses "Father", or "Spirit" no one misunderstands who is meant. Rather, the Pharisees and Sadducees wanted to put Him to death for saying such things, because they knew that the Lord was claiming to be the Son. So it wasn't a rejection of there being a Son, but rather, a rejection of the one claiming to be Him. This is sometimes lost on modern audiences who wrongly assume Judaism has always been monotheistic (one God instead of three).

After all, "echad" has many meanings: "one", "united", "first", etc. "Echad" is used in Genesis, for example, to depict sexual union, "and the two shall become one flesh" — union, united, rapport. Even today, Jews use "echad" to say "United" for the "United Nations" organization. So, we know that the touted "echad" meaning we only hear as "one" is likewise an apostate translation. Of course, Satan needs the Jews to be apostate, lest they turn to their Messiah, so Christ can return.

We Christians should take deep warning from his tactics with Israel, for he uses the same tactics on us. Finally, Judaism is by no means monolithic. The Pharisaical branch is the loudest, that's all. Remember: Satan bangs the drum on what he most wants you to buy, so to drown out truth. God, by contrast, uses the "still, small voice."

So, maybe the Jewish apostate tradition explains why some Christians don't see that Bible prophecies usually have double fulfillments; why they thus tend to dismiss the official Tribulation. Or, why they incorrectly date it. Thus you have preterist interpretations; thus you have mid-Tribulation and post-Tribulation "Rapture" datings. Secondly, these folks don't understand that in the New Testament "we" and "mystery" are New Testament keywords for only the Church; that "mystery of God" (not used in the New Testament anywhere before Revelation) is an Old Testament fulfillment of an Old Testament promise in Amos: for, the official Tribulation was never a mystery, to Israel.


Sheep: Isagogics of Church monikers and Bible-Defined Roles, i.e., using Church to Rescue Israel

Satan managed to get Israel to reject their Messiah; the Church therefore was not prophesied to Israel since Israel had the option to accept Him, and they might have done so. Thus, to protect their freedom (they would have been jealous of us, Paul writes in Romans 11:11), the Church was a "mystery" to them. The word "μυστήριον" means "secret knowledge", really — knowledge only known to those in the fraternity, and kept "secret" from those outside it. For example, there were the Elysian "mysteries", doctrines / practices only known to those in that sect. Likewise, today, in the Masonic and like orders, there are "mysteries" known only to those in the group. We, the Church, have our own "mystery" doctrines. (God uses also the word "μυστήριον" to poke fun at gnosticism, but that's another meaning level not here germane to discuss.) So, when a passage like 1 Corinthians 15:51 uses the word "mystery", it can't mean anything connected with the official Tribulation, because the Church was unknown to Israel, and the official Tribulation belongs to the covenantal period of Israel.(Remember, the Church was "grafted in", so not a part of Israel's "tree".) Hence, only a pre-Tribulation Rapture is true.

Secondly, remember the verse about how we are Ambassadors for Christ? That designation is used of no one else, and is never used of Israel. Similarly, no one else is called Bride. Similarly, no one else is called "in Christ". Similarly, no one else is called Church. These and other titles for "us" (another technical term for Church, in the New Testament) will help you navigate the boundary lines in the prophetical statements.

The Ambassadorship title is very important. When I was studying to become a diplomat (which I never finished, in favor of going into business), I learned two key things about ambassadorship which are relevant here. first, if an ambassador has behaved badly in his host country, his home country recalls him — it's the most shameful way a bad Ambassador can be censured. This was pretty much always true in history.

The other meaning of diplomatic recall was more ominous: it was a tantamount to a declaration of war against the host country. See, in diplomacy one engages in very soft maneuvers, so to keep communication going. One is always using diplomatic phrases, and seemingly-innocuous statements, so that the masses in the two countries don't get excited; so that if there is a glitch in the two countries' relationship, it can be resolved without drastic rhetoric. 'Just as in a marriage (ideally). So, to recall an Ambassador, on the surface, looks harmless. But to those 'in the know', it means that the home country is on the brink of declaring war. Thus, the host country has a strong warning to repair the relationship's damage — right away.

The Rapture signifies both 'recall in shame' and 'recall warning', to the world. Satan of course is always angling for the first, and is trying to time the second so it occurs at a point when God can't deliver on His promises. So, you thus see another reason why the Church is so very vital to history (made so by the Father, as a gift to commemorate the Son's victory). So, you thus see another reason why the Church is not in the official Tribulation.

The "Age" of the Church is the greater tribulation to be in, because all future history hinges on it.

That is why Ephesians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:16-18ff., Hebrews 2, Hebrews 9:16ff, Hebrews 10:12-14, Hebrews 11:39-40 (among other cites) all tie "Footstool" (an Old Testament synonym for the "new covenant" period, which we call "the Millennium") to the Body of Christ. We are an extension of Him in the world: that's why we are indwelt by the Trinity; that's why 1 John 4:17 says what it does. That is why Hebrews 1 stresses how in the latter days, everything comes through the Son. We are "one" with Him, just as He requested in John 17. So, the future blessing by association with the Son comes through us. That is how God the Father delivers it.

As Romans 9-11 explains, all blessing was to come through Israel, but they rejected their Messiah. So, the Church is "grafted in", to be the blessing vehicle. The grafting analogy in horticulture has two effects, not just one: a) the grafted in portion, is saved, and b) it's grafted in, to save the tree, improve its health, make it more resistant to disease, etc. Thus Israel has a chance to again accept its Messiah, and regain its promised "Footstool" role as the Millennial vehicle for blessing: but no longer, alone. Still highest, on earth (as was promised), but no longer alone. Not good, that Israel should be alone. It gets a sibling. What a glory, to serve Israel in that way, then, to thank Israel for its suffering due to its blood association with the King of the Jews!

According to the Ephesians passage above (and others like it), we "complete" Him. If He is not "complete", history is not complete. History could not thus continue. So we have to become completed. Ergo Satan attacks us the most intensely, in "our now". Ergo our spiritual life now is the most difficult, the most intense, the most subtle, the most easily wrecked, of any spiritual life any time in fallen man's history.

Remember, the official Tribulation is a time when there are no believers, initially, on the earth. How can God justify the continuance, then, of a saltless earth? Indeed, this question is what makes many well intentioned Christians conclude the Rapture cannot precede the Tribulation. It's the blessing by association due to the Church Age which justifies the continuance, even absent believers. See? God uses "us" to help the "poor"... not merely now, but forever. Do ya think maybe God has a bigger plan for our lives, than cups of water in the Lord's (really, Satan's) name?

So, because the blessing by association from the Church completes, the "official" Tribulation can occur, and can be a return to the Age of Israel, Daniel's 70th week. The Church is God's answer to Satan; the Tribulation is Satan's answer to God. The Church proves that Christ's spiritual life is even executable by animalistic humans, so God did not create man faulty — even after man became maximally faulty. So, God didn't even create angels faultily, for these fallen humans better executed a higher spiritual life than even the angels had. That's why the Church — especially those few who execute 1 John's Script all the way to Πλήρωμα ("fullness of Christ") and co-rule with Christ — shall be even higher than the angels.

The official Tribulation, by contrast, is Satan's attempt to wipe out mankind. Why? He has no answer back to God — but violence. It's his last trump. As always, God the Son plays into Satan's hands, for He "is not willing any should perish, but that all should have eternal life". All this time, the idea was (I'm guessing) — would Satan & Co. repent? So, God removes the Church; so, Satan gets a world without God. Of course, by this time, the world doesn't want God, anyway. Satan thinks he's about to win, so he can prevent the Second Advent. (For this reason, I'm not sure whether Satan demands the Church's removal — and God agrees, having finished anyway — or whether the Rapture is solely on God's initiative.)

In the Millennium, Israel will "complete" His Davidic bloodline. But the Millennium can't begin until the Tribulation completes. The Tribulation can't begin until the Church completes. Both futures depend upon the Church Age. So, Satan still has a level playing field. History is not gerrymandered in God's favor. Satan has the power to undo the future. God doesn't influence Satan, doesn't influence us, knows how it will turn out, and has let us all know — so we can wake up. Or, still keep fighting Him.

Satan keeps fighting Him. By the time of the Rapture, so will most of humanity be fighting Him. So the "Ambassador", the Bride, must be recalled. For the official Tribulation is a 7 year grace warning to precede God's war: "footstool" (Millennium). It's partly designed to defeat all enemies: of Christ, of Israel. Hence its name. When all enemies are defeated (the last being "death", per 1 Corinthians 15:24-27, 1 Corinthians 15:52-57), the unbelievers are judged and given their eternal sentence. Then eternity begins. Note: The 1 Corinthians passage, above ties in Footstool to the Rapture because our eternity begins at the Rapture, because we'll be co-rulers during Footstool. Confer 1 Corinthians 3-4 in this connection.

So, since the Bride's recall cannot be predicted, the official Tribulation cannot be happening now.


Sheep: Historical Events which are Tribulation-specific, Millennium-specific.

Nor is it happening now. Let's briefly review some historical conditions which must be met at the same time, to constitute the official Tribulation:

  1. The Jews must already be in dispersion, from which they are substantially "gathered". (Versus 70 AD, which was a going-into dispersion.) The gathering begins before the Second Advent — Satan wants this, so he can concentrate his efforts on killing all of the Jews. (One of the 9 cardinal principles of warfare is "concentration of force", and that principle in part depends on the enemy being concentrated in a "salient", another military term.) That's why, frankly, the push to gather Jews in Israel has been so marked since the Balfour Declaration: using us Church! During our invisible tribulation period. Satan loves to deride God, and loves using the Church to persecute God's Chosen People. See, since Satan doesn't know when the Body will be completed either, he's always rushing to gather the Jews so he can be in the best position to destroy them when the Church 'goes up', so to speak.
  1. The Tribulation is marked by worldwide war, not merely in the Middle East — because the Jews are still in Dispersion. In other words, Satan never reaches his 'regathering' goal. See, the prophecy is that Christ will regather Israel, but at the Second Advent. Satan thus 'fakes' that promise — so he can get Israel in one easy to destroy location, again. (You can see his efforts historically, from the rise of Islam to promoting "Zionism" in the 20th century.) Satan's uses the official Tribulation to wipe out all Jews, so the Second Advent cannot occur. So, the regional 'war' preterists like to make out of the 70 AD destruction of the Temple is totally misplaced.

Hence what's happening here in 2005, is but a continuation of his attempt to concentrate on and hence wipe out, the Jews. But he also wants to wipe out the Arabs he's using to wipe out the Jews, and the 'Christian' United States — if he can manage it — would be a nice tool to hurt both. Israel misinterpreted Daniel 9 (actually, doesn't even read it, however much each year it mouths it in Sabbath services); didn't listen to Matthew 24, so of course doesn't hear Revelation 11:1's measuring-line sarcasm. But that doesn't mean we the United States shouldn't support Israel as she is. However, the difficulty of the conflict, the problem with the Arabs, our insane energy policy (why don't we go nuclear?) — will all eventually contribute to a rise of antisemitism in the United States. It's already alarmingly higher than before 9/11. We die as a nation as soon as we go antisemitic. The biggest reason to support Iraq is to protect Israel. Frankly, we shoulda gone into Iraq back during the 90's, when Saddam invaded Kuwait (that's also the position of the Wall Street Journal, as told by Paul Gigot to Charlie Rose, in a program just before the election ended). But, at least we got there now.

  1. The specific strategic circumstances of the official Tribulation are thus always attempted, but haven't yet occurred. Here are but two of many examples.

The religious and political alliance between the king of the west and the Jewish king — who will be a guy from the tribe of Daniel — has never occurred. The Jewish king is antisemitic: why, is not revealed. Daniel says this guy has no interest in women. This metaphor means he's not like 'normal' men, so the maybe the metaphor depicts extreme self-control and/or power lust. Warning: don't get involved into all the anti-Daniel junk. That junk is an attempt to trick you into helping Satan wipe out Jews. God severely disciplines antisemitism of any kind. I've seen Him punish such folks in my own families. Israel, even when satanically 'regathered', even when reinstating the Temple, even when (at that time) very pro-Messiah, is very apostate. Satan has deflected whatever positive volition they have to Christ. How do we know? Look: Messiah is supposed to be from the tribe of Judah, David's line, not the tribe of Daniel. Furthermore, it's the tribe of Daniel which is omitted from the roster of the 144,000 (and maybe that's the only reason why Daniel is missing, so this mistaken Messiah can be spotted). But they don't notice that, I guess.

So I don't know if this Danite will pass himself off as being also from Judah. Maybe his bloodlines are mixed, and some of his ancestors were siblings of Christ's. Alternatively, since the Danite sets up an image of the gentile king of the west in the Temple, maybe the Danite passes off the gentile king of the west as being from Judah. As you read the Holy Blood, Holy Grail books, you'll see a real life scenario of how easily Satan can feign either type of obviously-false Messiah to a facile, credulous world. Even more likely, Satan will use, in the Tribulation, a claim akin to today's House of Stuart pretender, who claims that he is a progeny of Christ (look up "Sir James Gardiner" in dogpile: or, "Lawrence", if "James" doesn't work).

See, the bloodline claim is a claim that supernatural powers accompany the 'sacred' blood of Christ. So, it's very easy to fool us who already reject Scripture in favor of gawking supernaturality, because we humans want God's goodies (faked or real), but not the Real God. Just as Romans 1-2 tearfully record: what should have been a search to know God was replaced by a prolonged lust to know, and even promote, an old and patently silly lie. (Come on, now: would Christ subject His own family to endless strife by having kids, especially since, as He told Pilate, "My Kingdom is not of this world"? What, did the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail sit on their brains during the decades they spent researching and writing their books, continually straining at gnats but swallowing camels? Think, for crying out loud!)

Preterists, please note: In 70 AD, Titus did not invade Jerusalem at the behest of a King of the Jews — there was no such king then. The only one eligible, Christ, was executed, remember? Herod Agrippa II's Jewish blood was from the Hasmonean (priestly caste, not truly royal) side (AKA Maccabees). So he wasn't of Judah (the Maccabees were usurpers and then the Herods usurped them via intermarriage). So the 70 AD destruction cannot be justifiably used to buttress a preterist interpretation.

Moreover, the King of the West is both a political and a religious ruler of a European 10-nation confederacy headed by Rome. So it doesn't necessarily mean the Roman Catholic Church, but could be a brand new religion in a brand-new political entity. It's the political entity which is stressed. Religion is but an adjunct, to drug the masses (Lenin's / Satan's "religion is the opiate of the people"). Granted, we see Satan attempting this goal via his development of the Holy Roman Empires, during the first 1500 years of post-Cross history, during which he attempted to make Roman Catholicism the 'world religion', but even it didn't fulfill the enumerated conditions here. Granted, the rise of ecumenism is indeed what Revelation 13 & Revelation 17 depict, as a trend of history — but the "b)" side, the far fulfillment side of the prophecy as an actual event during the 7 years — its characteristics have not yet been fulfilled.

Satan's Geographical Strategy Key→ Satan doesn't need the entire world under his control. He instead needs to get nations near Israel under his control. Witness, historically, how antisemitism has radiated outward, geographically, from the time Israel was founded, even through today. So, nations which are pro-Israel, contiguous or not, are among Satan's biggest targets. Given Israel's strategic position geographically, and the Diaspora, Satan's got a big Job to do. He's been amazingly successful at it, as any study of world history proves. Why doesn't he give up? Because his thirst for revenge against the Son is boundless.

  1. Certain supernatural beings who publicly communicate to mankind must have their own 'second advents' during the Tribulation Here are two quick examples:

As noted, I don't buy the argument that the Two Witnesses are sent down from heaven, resuscitated — God is silent, and the last 'Elijah' was John. But many do think Moses and Elijah, or some other past pair of Biblical heroes, are referenced in Revelation 11. Okay, then: No Witnesses are broadcasting from a rebuilt Temple, spewing fire from their mouths or stopping the rain (first half of Tribulation, Revelation 11, Daniel 9:27's sacrifices stopped); nor are there any angels flying in the sky each noon hour, warning us of God's Judgement "woes" (second half, Revelation 14). In fact, at present there's no Temple at all. The Islamic "Dome of the Rock" stands where the Temple should be (the "Rock" being the rock on which Isaac was sacrificed, which became the place where the ark had rested in the Holy of Holies). If the two witnesses aren't "home grown" in Tribulation it defeats a good portion of the doctrine, and common sense. Reclaimed Biblical heroes would stand out and be unfamiliar with the culture and language of that time.

Do you see gorgeous 'aliens' in the millions swarming the earth, looking somewhat like the later Merovingians, and just as horny? Just as bloodthirsty? No? Well, then, I guess you're not in the official Tribulation, because that's when the Abyss demons and their cohorts are finally released from millennia of incarceration. And they are hungry.

  1. Tribulational tactical troop movements have not yet occurred. You find these in Revelation, Daniel 7-11, Zechariah 12, Zechariah 14, etc. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah also describe some aspects of these events. My pastor did his doctorate on this topic, so I have full exegesis on tape. Sadly, English translators often fuzzily render military terms, (e.g., "hosts" instead of "armies", "sash" instead of "baldric"), so English versions mask the military idiom. NIV does try at times to bring out military idioms, but it's very uneven in its scholarship. So, I can empathize with those who find it hard to learn about the Tribulation military movements from English Bibles!

For example, the king of the north makes a preemptive attack to separate the king of the west from the Jewish antichrist (there are two antichrist rulers, Gentile — king of the west — and Jewish). In this preemptive attack, the king of the north swoops down through the 'bridge' of Israel, possibly at the invitation of the kings of the South (Arabs) — but also to forestall a two-front war, by containing the king of the south (Arabs are notorious for suddenly switching alliances). King of the north, en route, takes over the northern portion of Africa, as well as occupying Palestine.

As a result, the Jewish leader calls on his ally, the king of the west, to intervene. A Mediterranean sea battle takes place. King of the north defeats the king of the west's fleet; but the king of the north can't follow up his victory and chase the king of the west, due to bad news king of the north gets from his home. His supply lines are so strung out he must backtrack, rather than using the sea to go home. So, he ends up in Israel, which is a base of operations for him. By that time, king of the west and king of the east and king of the south have assembled their land forces, and they meet in the valley of Esdraelon, for the biggest land battle in the history of the world. That battle includes the "siege of Jerusalem", due to its strategic location (which is why it's then a base of king of the north operations). So Satan causes the armies to 'need' that strategic base — but really, to destroy the Jews. (The Emperor Napoleon remarked once, when he saw the Valley of Esdraelon, "all the armies of the world could fight here." See? 70 AD was not like this scenario, at all).

  1. Tribulation-predicted disasters have not yet happened. Granted, the historical trends always move toward or away from these events. The trumpet and goblet / vial judgments which wipe out at once so much land, water, people — one third here, another one third there — have not occurred.

People mix up the Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 punishments with these judgments. True, they are of the same meaning: judgment for apostasy. For example, the sudden coupling of 9/11, plus the many fires and other disasters in the United States, plus insanities like the closing whole airports because one man is running, plus Enron / Arthur Andersen / WorldCom / pederast vulturic blamesmanship: all these act out, as if on cue, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. We Americans are 'suddenly' so eager to blame just about anyone who comes along! Truly frightening, how our souls have shrunk. Read those Old Testament chapters, and see for yourself how they are playing out, right now.

But that is where the resemblance stops. John's Apocalypse is way too specific. The writing is Greek drama style. In essence, the Son puts on a play for John, and asks him to write it all out. So, John describes things that will actually happen, using well-known metaphors. (Greek drama rules eschewed hypothetical plots. Like art, Drama was a deliberate propaganda tool, designed to teach Honor; so real events were always used in the depictions. Even Augustus caused the Aeneid to be written, for that purpose.) One mustn't brush away John's writing as merely paradigmal. Both patterns and specifics are intended. This, the writers understood. Do we?

  1. God's script for official Tribulation folks, is a reversion to a mini-Mosaic Law, patterned after Daniel's exilic life. Because, there is no client nation Israel (whether or not a secular polity exists), because no authorized temple will be rebuilt until the Second Advent (Ezekiel 39-end of book). The one in the Tribulation, is a fake! Trick for the Tribulation believers, is to know their Bible well enough, to recognize that and not fall for Satan's siren song to gather them with his Fake Temple (Revelation 11, Daniel 9:27's "offerings stopped" or however your Bible translates it); know their Bible well enough, to recognize that and not fall for Satan's Fake Church, either (Revelation 17). We've failed the latter every generation, so they will, too; especially, since there will be this very nice paper trail of bad 'experts' all saying Church will be in Tribulation (Catholicism did that very thing by allegorizing away Revelation. Then became the harlot. Independent Christian churches are today banding together and doing the same thing. We learn from prophecy that we learn nothing from prophecy...)

So the "Law" is lived as one does in exile: no sacrifices, because no temple; all they'll have is Bible and The Promises; plus, maybe what little ceremonies or laws they can observe. This, because Israel is 'owed' 7 more years. This, because the Old Testament visibility is briefly revived — as a judgment everyone can see because the time is so short. Those who see the Jewish leader put up a statue of the gentile one in the (then-rebuilt) Temple, are supposed to flee to Petra (and like caves: Petra is Bible, but also a real labyrinthine place to hide). Those in Israel after the Two Witnesses are resurrected on the third day (after killed by the demon Abaddon), who don't heed that warning, are supposed to stay and fight in Jerusalem. It's all visible, it's all paint by numbers, it all is a final 'shot'. And it's all not happening nor true today. Now, the antichrists are hidden; the spiritual life is hidden. Theirs is a visible Tribulation. Ours is an invisible tribulation: grace before Judgment.

Even from the above 7 categories, you can see that the Tribulation is a distinct and real period, which has not yet happened.

This quake causes an east-west split in Jerusalem, such that it becomes a seaport. (Reminiscent of the Red (Reed) Sea inundation, and the earthquake which swallowed Korah and following) The quake is used to enable those faithful few who are fighting in the siege of Jerusalem at that time, to escape from the four armies. (Recently, UC Berkeley seismologists have discovered the fault line, so even science can see that this earthquake could occur.) So Scripture, even in this one point alone, contradicts the amillennial interpretation.

Moreover, once He touches down, and the fighting "remnant" is safe, the Lord kills millions in (at least) the Valley of Esdraelon. He apparently does this in a gruesome way. Those being killed watch their own bodies rot, and then burst. As a result, miles and miles of blood flow (about 5 feet high for 180 miles, which is the length of Israel from Daniel to Beersheba). He kills them in this way to "cleanse" the Land. (Note how tender is His Mercy, for it takes time to die that way — so folks have their 'last call' to believe in a Christ they can see.) Again, amillennialism doesn't hold water, given even these two prophesied events.

In sum, both tribulations must happen Because Christ is Seated, and Satan has little time left. Our now is one, and the future official Tribulation is the other. These occur, not because titillated believers want to escape this life or feel important battling visible demons. Nor because intellectual religious folks are embarrassed by such manifestations, so need to explain them away as already fulfilled. But, as always, because of Christ.




Part 5b, Satan's 'Spin' on Tribulational Events




Appendix: The Lord vs. Satan: Supreme Court of Heaven;
AKA, the Trial of Human History, AKA, Did God err?