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WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE BIBLE

Posted by J.Luxum at 12:14 PM
In order to understand the message of the Bible one must use the gift of logic. The propensity for logical thinking is already in most people, but the gift itself comes from the Creator. God is Spirit, which means: He is not a man or a woman in a physical sense. He is genderless, simply because He does not have a physical body. However, anything physical, like genders, symbolizes procreation and fruitfulness. All species in the entire creation propagate their kind through sex, from birds, to mammals to fish. Therefore, anything living in a physical form only symbolizes; and even reflects to certain extent, the Creator whose main objective must be procreation and protraction; and never destruction or its termination. Those are just the basics.

When you start reading the Bible, above anything else, you must grasp three aspects of:

  • The spirit realm. Anything spiritual, which due to absence of time is instantaneous.
  •  There is no fixed territory and no boundaries.
  • There is no darkness in which things can hide; hence no secrets.

 From these 3 points comes spiritual logic. Out of many fragments and isolated pieces of knowledge, or sayings, there must emerge logic of the one God.

NOTE: The Latin word LOGIA speaks of knowledge, which should not be confused with Logic, which is the Greek word, LOGIKE. One can have tons of knowledge yet no logic. Knowledge can be scraps of disjoined information, and yet it is still knowledge. It is not the case with the biblical knowledge.

The heavenly logic must eventually bring all things back to God’s oneness. So, the simplest way to explain logic is that it makes one. Fragments do confuse. Just as is the case with jigsaw puzzles, where all pieces must perfectly fit, so it is with the realm of God.

How are jigsaw puzzles made? You have a picture on a cardboard. A cutting machine with bent into different shapes metal blades cuts through the cardboard and that’s it. Those pieces are then packaged and marketed. As help, the merchandise includes the original picture to look at; and then figure out how does each piece might fit in different areas of the picture. 

Some can do it quite fast, providing that they have already done it before several times; and their skills have been sharpened to some extent, but those who do that for the very first time might use more time. There are some pieces that look like they might fit, but they do not belong when the colors and shapes do not blend, or match one particular area of the picture. One cannot force a piece into a place in which that piece does not belong. All pieces of the puzzle must relate to different areas of the picture and fit. Some frustration is quite common, but the crowning achievement can be quite satisfactory.

THE USE OF LOGIC

With the use of logic we make out of many fragments something solid and one; and that is also the ultimate goal when reading the Bible. The ninth fruit of the Holy Spirit is self-discipline (Galatians 5:22-23). Without self-control, or self-discipline, no puzzle can ever be put together. Some people are so proud of their achievement that they frame their final put-together puzzle; and hang it on the wall. Indeed it is an achievement, but again it only symbolizes something much higher. All physical things point to something higher, a realm from which life came. Hence, “In Him we live and move and (exist) have our being” (Acts 17:28). Above all things God, of whom the entire Bible speaks, is life.

Life has no boundaries and no restrictions. The spirit of life is no matter, which we can measure (5 cm x 10 cm) and therefore define in terms of time and space, which in turn comes from the understanding of distances. Space is boundless. Any attempt to measure it is futile; nonetheless, we have some measurements of distances between the sun and earth, but that is only possible because of the presence of material mass. Each planet and any floating in space debris speak of time and distance. However, God is beyond mass, time and distance.

If we could measure God we would be able to control Him. From this comes the pagan thinking versus the spiritual thinking. One worships idols depicted with statues, figures and pictures, which can be measured with height width and thickness, which can be touched and handled; hence, idols are man-made and also controlled by physical and uprightly walking people.

In monotheistic religions the new God (of Abraham, Isaac and Israel) is called THEO-LOGY, which means (man’s) knowledge about God. Too often this knowledge, theology, is permanently and unchangeably fixed; hence it is no longer living and moving. Again, in that sense it a self-made god.

The desire to be in control, regarding all things in life because of the sense of insecurity, takes many out on a wild ride. The constant faith “bombardment” just to believe and hold on to it does not include logic or reason, but rather blind faith itself. Faith itself is being prized as if being a god. It is being prized as something almost magical, painting a picture as if I can get and do anything by faith apart from God; regardless if it is God’s will and plan for my life or not. This detachment from God is pagan.

[Mark 11:22-23] And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.”

Have faith IN God.  Have your trust put in God; and based on this kind of faith; inspired by God you can do almost anything. But what about when God does not inspire you? What happens then? Your faith is then self-made and not God’s gift given for the time of need. Watch yourself carefully, for many winds of doctrines would take you on a ride you do not want to take. It is not self-produced human faith. It is the God-produced kind of faith and the God-given GIFT OF FAITH, which, when used appropriately, produces astounding results. Jesus said that of Himself He could do nothing (John 5:19; 30). So no matter how much Jesus wanted to perform a work of power in His hometown Nazareth He could do no miracle.

[Mark 6:3-6] And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He wondered at their unbelief.  

This unbelief was not in miracles themselves but rather that they did not receive or accepted Jesus as a prophet and much less as the promised Messiah. Logically speaking, in verse 4, Jesus said that ‘a prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.’   

THREE LOGICAL PRINCIPLES

From these three logical principles: no time, no fixed territory and no darkness, we derive the heavenly logic and begin to spiritualize our mind. Our mind is not the physical brain, which has a beginning and an end. Mind is endless. It is God’s supernatural endless gift. Make note of this statement for you will find it very useful in your exploration. Brain is only a physical organ; everything else is spiritual; soul, spirit and mind. Just as we can’t control wind so we can’t control spirit; hence the Hebrew word for Spirit is also wind (RUACH).

We shall not speak about our fears, insecurities and doubts here for these are only offshoots of something that should not even be in the first place, but since they are in us; we must not combat them. The best way to be free from fear and lose any insecurity is to, again, understand these three principles about the Creator: in Him there is no darkness so, no guessing, no hiding, and no secrets. It is man’s work to hide and obscure light for only the physical man seeks to get away with something and so he obscures things on purpose in order to gain advantage over those less informed, or those less intelligent. This advantage works well in the financial institutions; and we call it the fine print. Did you read the fine print? Hardly anyone reads it, but anyway we sign at the “x,” which a clerk made for us.

GOD’S LAW

When God gave the Law to Moses and then to Israel, He gave us ten principles (The Ten Commandments) to live by, which Jesus summarized in only one sentence.

[Luke 6:31] Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.

The Ten Commandments emerged from God’s nature and His attributes:

Then the LORD passed by in front of him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth” (Exodus 34:6).

God is love, compassion, graciousness, slowness to anger, abundance of lovingkindness and the truth; and these reveal His true nature. You would have to believe and fully accept this before you could go on reading the Bible and understand it.

  • Compassion brings healing (Matthew 14:14). 
  • Graciousness enlarges your space. It speaks of freedom and the underserved favor, for God sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous all the same.
  • God is not too hasty to explode, but He is slow to anger because He is patient. He has time, which only restricts anything material; and also us in many ways.
  • He overflows with HESID, which is an active love. He sustains life.
  • He is the Truth, which is the perfect light that reveals everything. In Him there’s no shadow, no guessing and no groping in darkness of ignorance.

Based on God’s character He told us how to treat one another then to not cause any harm or injury. His spirit of life resides in all of us; hence He resides in us. By being conscientious regarding this matter we would not, in any way; sin against ourselves; against others and therefore also against Him. So these are the basics.

HOW TO READ THE BIBLE

You start with God’s oneness. He only manifests Himself in three dimensions: God, the decision maker, His Son – Jesus. The Spirit of Truth on earth the Holy Spirit. When it comes to comprehension we deal with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus paid the price for our sinful behavior so He took the injury and hurt upon Himself so that He might ask the Father for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was not yet sent, because Jesus was not yet glorified (John 7:37-39). This is important! Don’t lose this. Be anchored in this truth!

When the Holy Spirit came (Acts 2), as first, with Him came the conviction of sin, and then repentance followed; and then came the water baptism; and then comes learning. This is the sequence. Remember this sequence and never depart from it.

In John 16:13 Jesus said that when (the Holy Spirit) the Spirit of Truth comes He would teach, remind and guide us into all the Truth. He does not speak from Himself because His identity is in the WORD, which is Jesus, and Jesus does not speak from Himself because He only says what the Father says; and He does what the Father does. The Father does not do anything from Himself, but only through His WORD (Jesus) and by the procreative power of the Holy Spirit. So, this you must look for in the Bible.

 Remember: there is no self and no self-identity in God, which only comes from anything material found in time and in any measured distance. You cannot measure God or His eternal kingdom, can you?

THE BOOK OF GENESIS

  • GOD.
  • God the Father spoke the WORD (Jesus).
  •  HOLY SPIRIT brought forth; just as an earthly mother would bring forth a child.

However, there are also the angels as the fourth component of the God entity. Angels are spirits, flames and winds, God’s messengers and ministers. These four components, like the four winds, or a cross, speak of changes—and as it is the case with crossroads—it also speaks of brand new decisions.

CORRELATING THE OLD TESTAMENT WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT

Neither testament is better or inferior for both explain the mystery of God, salvation and God’s plan for humankind. The Old Testament maps the genealogical line that carries the COVENANT (with Abraham). The New Testament only mentions this in Luke 3:23-38, but does not dwell on it, for after all as the New Covenant it is an extension of the former.

In order to understand the New Testament one must know the old. That’s quite simple, because we know that from Cain came the Kenites called the TARES in the NT; and through Abraham - from Set - came the good seed. Everything else (to us) is irrelevant. Why? – Because we only identify with the good seed. All other things are only points of interest.  We trace our line as to why we are the way we are; and why others are the way they are. This is no discrimination, but an answer to many questions, which a wise man keeps to himself. Discernment and then keeping your mouth shut is wisdom. Are you mature enough to do it? This is of the utmost significance!

Watch for two genealogical lines: one from Adam’s son Seth who is called the replacement son, and another from Cain.

  • The replacement son (because Cain killed Abel) had a son called Enosh; at that point people started to call on God’s name YHVH. This is the New Testament’s picture of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus promised to us after Jesus had gone back to the Father glorified. Instead of the physical man Jesus we have the Holy Spirit today.
  • Cain’s line went blurry after he left Eden for Nod where he had married a strange woman and raised an offspring. Cain’s offspring has been identified as Kenites. Look for Kenites in the Bible. Jesus said that by their fruits you would recognize them. (Matthew 7:16-22; 13:30, 38; John 8:44; 1 John 3 and many more.) Jesus uses the term “tares.” Watch for the son of perdition and also Belial etc. These synonyms depict the root of Cain. Kenites settled Canaan (Genesis 15:19). God had reasons for the termination of Canaan and why He chose and told Israel to completely destroy those peoples.
  • Then look for three archetypes, Japheth, Canaan and Shem (Genesis 5:32; chapters 9-10).  Study the emergence of nations. From these three types, which are mentioned in the New Testament, come the masses (field), tares (Kenites, Canaan) and the good seed (Shem, Abraham, Moses, David Jesus and us). All these are on the earth and not in heaven. (You will find no genetics in heaven.) Watch for the parable about the treasure, which a man had found and then bought the field (the world) in order to dig up the treasure and possess it as His own. “Who is the treasure” is the proper formulation of a sentence in this case; and not “what is His treasure” for the Creator owns everything anyway. He seeks children and not hirelings, whom He had hired to do the job of digging up His treasure.

Do you identify with God’s treasure? If you do, then that’s good because you are about to embark on a journey of great discovery. Open your mind and grasp God’s thoughts!

NOTE: It is only help. If you conclude otherwise then please share with me, but remember the helper. All substantiated incongruity are welcome here.

SATAN & THE DEVIL

Study the Old Testament first and see Satan in a different light than the world sees him. Logic is helpful. Who created Satan? Is God the Creator the God, or a god? Did you choose Him or He chose you, whom He foreknew, as the scripture states? Did you make God or He made you? Etc. This is of utmost importance! Remain anchored in this.

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified (Romans 8:29-30).  

Cleave to straight and simple thinking. Simplify things, for only the fleshly and sensational man complicates things with his or her outlandish and farfetched put-on sophistications. If we came from the OMNISCIENT GOD who knows everything, because in Him and in His Kingdom time is nonexistent, then He knows who you are, where you came from and where you are going. That’s just a very simple logic. Dwell on that. 

If Lucifer fell then there had to be a war in heaven. Logic: the place of no time, no darkness and no territory all of a sudden is subject to plots, intrigues and struggles. 

Read Isaiah 14 carefully. From this chapter man created the devil theology. Look for words like ‘king, man, grave or maggots…’ Can a spirit, wind and flame undergo corruption? Highly significant!

In God’s court of law Satan is God’s prosecutor, but who is the devil? Look into the ancient Greek mythology and you will find DIABOLOS the devil there. Why was Satan equated with the devil, diabolos? And why Hades (Hebrew, Sheol - death) has been called Gahanna (Hebr. Gehinom, a valley of burning - hell)? Reason with yourself. Reasoning comes from the Hebrew word RATZON which is your mind. Whom does the devil represent since Jesus said that ‘he was the first murderer and liar.’ Do not get blindly indoctrinated by someone you might respect, for the respect build-up is done on purpose. I seek no respect here, but to make muddy waters clear again. 

Most authorities always fought for respects, even to the point of calling themselves gods. Don’t forget it!

Once this intelligent stream of deduction is opened and followed you will be elucidated, illuminated and enlightened by the Spirit of Truth the Holy Spirit. Allow Him to guide you into all the truth. Don’t settle for less. 

The name Satan in the Old Testament appears only three times: in the Book of Job, Chronicles and Zechariah. These books were written in, or shortly after the Babylonian exile. Check the dates and periods to better understand the origins of the evolvement of dualistic thinking. 

Remember to be on guard against paganism, polytheism and dualism; for once you allow it you will confuse yourself; and by this you will also grieve the Holy Spirit of Truth. God is one and His Truth is also one, which leads back to the source of all things. 

The Hebrew Satan of the OT is different from the Greek NT Satan. In the New Testament Satan is mixed with the mythological DIABOLOS. Plain truth. 

It is important to go back in time; for before the exile to Babylon only Jews clung to the One God. Israel fell into idolatry and was dispersed by the Assyrians. The exile to Babylon involved only the Judeans. After Medo-Persia they (Judeans) have returned to Jerusalem as Jews; and by then their monotheistic thought was severely compromise. This is of utmost importance. The timeline is important in this case, for Beelzebub or Beelzebul, which the Pharisees were busy with, which they equated with the Greek Diabolos; they equated with Satan.

[Mark 3:22-23] The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.” And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?”

Note how Jesus changed the name from Beelzebul to Satan, which “Beelzebul” was also called DIABOLOS the devil. This confusion remains to this day. 

Scientific NOTE: The Gospel of Mark is the oldest of all gospels; therefore the closest to the original tale about Jesus.

This was the accusation. So, who was Beelzebul? Was it not the old Baal of Jezebel whom Elijah did not fear? Follow the origins of this thought. Think intelligently. 

This trash entered the monotheistic Jewish house during circa 600 years. 70 years of exile and about five centuries of Greek mythological indoctrination called Hellenization. Timeline is important.   

Is Satan attached to the Omnipotent God, or is he detached from the not so sovereign over His entire creation god? God’s sovereignty over all of His creation is crucial otherwise chaos will fill your mind. So these are the fences to keep you in God’s oneness. But it is up to you to put those fences up or keep them down. 

Check your heart’s affection. Who do you love more; God or dualism; or theology; and still try to be theologically correct? The “beloved” devil is the subconscious exit door, but what about the truth? God will let you have it and He won’t throw you down to hell just because you have deprived yourself of knowledge that leads to wisdom. Even if you like the scapegoat idea, which our predecessors (the Kenites) gave to us still the loving God won’t punish you for it. The only thing is this: you would deprive yourself of the knowledge of truth that leads to life. You will not know Him in this life or the life to come. 

Which desire is stronger, the one for God your Creator, or for self; and a god of your own interpretations? This check is important for it determines whether you still brood in paganism or are fully cleansed from it. 

ANGELS

Angels must be understood. They do not speak from themselves but only transmit that which God says, and nothing more. They do not reason, and do not preach or teach. They are only God’s messengers. Like your country’s ambassador to another country, angels only say what the King says. Just as ambassadors do not speak from themselves but follow their government’s dictum, so do God’s angels.

See the difference between angels and overcomers. Angels are flames, winds and spirits, (Psalms 104:4; Hebrews 1:7). While being rooted in this knowledge and understanding read about fire, which cannot burn an angel of the Lord (Judges 13:20). After resurrection we shall be like angels.

[Mark 12:25] For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

Overcomers are those like Enoch, or Elijah whom God took alive. Elijah appeared on the Mt. of Transfiguration. (Jesus hinted at John’s translation also, which the disciples understood that John would not die.) This is important because the two men that went to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18 & 19) took Lot by the hand, while at the same time the angel—in whom was God’s name YHVH—kept speaking with Abraham. Abraham addressed the angel in whom God’s name was YHVH as the Lord. Hence, He addressed him as ADDONI, ‘My Lord.’ To better understand it check this with what God said to Moses. 

[Exodus 23:20-21] “Behold, I am going to send an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name (YHVH) is in him.” 

Every sin is forgiven, but any transgression against the Holy Spirit (who brings God’s Holy Name YHVH) is never forgiven. God speaks through His ministering spirits to us. Check Acts 10 where God’s angel advised Cornelius to send for Peter the preacher. Angels don’t preach or teach. It was the Lord that advised Cornelius rather than the angel. Associate this with Romans 10:14, 17 (preacher and faith).    

It is essential to associate and correlate, for that is the logic of oneness, which leads back to the one Creator. You can only know Him in His oneness; any other knowledge is a mixture of conjectures, assumptions and mystery. 

IN CLOSING

The central message of the Bible is this:

  1. God permitted us to eat of the Tree of Knowledge.
  2. Experience consequences of disobedience. 
  3. The possibility of repentance (Hebr. SHOOV, a return to God). 
  4. After we ate of the Tree we have received the power of contrast and choice. Choice is only possible in the presence of two different things: ‘for’ or ‘against.’ God blessed us with this ability with which we decide and choose. Man polluted this blessed truth making it as some terrible sin, yet God in His love provided repentance for us. 
  5. God concludes with the Five Books of Moses (TORAH, composed of TOV and RAH, good and bad), Deuteronomy 30:19 “CHOOSE.” 
  6. God is the Father who looks for His lost children. Lost in their flesh, which clings to only dust, from which death also comes; hence, the spiritual identity with God the Spirit (John 4:24) has been secondary, even lost. God seeks to restore that spiritual identity. This story weaves itself throughout the entire Bible; and Jesus told us about it in the story of the Prodigal Son who had REPENTED, which means: he returned home, back to the Father.  
  7. The discovery as to who we are and where we are going is the central theme of the Bible. It is not so much our natural, racial or ethnic identity, but rather the spiritual one. Genes play a role because they carry hidden messages, but they are only in the physical makeup of the human genome. Past complexities of our predecessors created a chasm between our God who is Spirit and us the physical beings. The nations (Hebr. Goyim) became pagan, which is a mixture of spiritual and physical things. Anything mixed is confusing and things must be sorted out.  


[Matthew 13:30] Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, first gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.

[Matthew 25 31-33] But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

This sorting and different treatment of each kind has to do with our choice. However, some will not choose for they can’t allow themselves to depend and completely put their trust in anyone else but only themselves. 

NOTE: In order to be physically healed there must come a certain measure of dependency on God, relying on His love and grace; otherwise the sick will turn to a man, a doctor, medicine or will trust in a surgeon. Men make mistakes, and people die on the operating tables. Nonetheless, the trust in just the flesh and its knowledge is stronger than any trust in God, which stems from the absence of knowledge; of God’s character; and of His ways. The restoration of trust in God can only come through teaching and learning and its fruit is a better knowledge, which leads to spiritual experience with God. 

Because of fear and self-reliance people have always sought a scapegoat, just in case… The perfect faith in God is then out of the question, but God already knew that. Therefore in His love and compassion He had determined to completely burn up the tares and the field with His timeless and instant eternal fire. Like an instant anesthesia, all self-awareness and any former identity are completely erased as if it has never existed. However, these two types (field and tares) have by then fulfilled their mission on earth. 

Many people do not care if they go to heaven or are resurrected; they are already convinced that after this show there won’t be another. How do they know that? Hence, Jesus said, 

[Matthew 13:11] To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.

[John 6:44] No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.
   
• Japheth – field, masses serving a special purpose on earth.
• Canaan – tares, thorns and thistles, we know these by their fruits.
• Shem – The good seed, sons of God even the peacemakers. 

With which do you identify yourself? The Bible was written for you so that you might know the truth about your Creator and about yourself.  
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TIME & LOGIC

Posted by J.Luxum at 9:18 AM
Rubens Eve
Most people do not think logically and sequentially; hence the term Sequential Logic. Something that happened before the sequence of events is not always true to one, while it is true to another. One mind studies a story, which contains a complete chain of events; while another is in the story. Unlike the reader those in the story deal only with the individual timeframes. Their experiences are solely theirs, we the observers and readers, can only glean some information from their actual experiences and interpret them. Those that were supernaturally healed of cancer, for example, know how they felt when they were sick and how they felt when God's force of life entered his or her body. Whether one believes in divine healing today, or not, is completely irrelevant in this case. Personal experiences of other people have to be taken at their face value and never (subjectively) interpreted. Rejoice with those who rejoice, dance with those that dance and mourn with those who mourn, that's the attitude, not dogmatic or contentious, philosophical or theological.

[Matthew 11:16-19] “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places, who call out to the other children, 17and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ 18“For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’ 19“The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

In the case of Adam and Eve the same applies. Each timeframe was an event, which they had dealt with, and at that time they were blind to any later subsequent events. Based on this logic one cannot conclude something to be completely true because one interprets these events subjectively within one's own timeframe. Try to explain something to someone about electricity and computers who is scribbling words with ink and feather pen; on a parchment using candle for light. Those two timeframes do not fit and therefore these two individuals are in two different worlds. 

For example: before Eve could even reach for the tree's fruit she had to have a desire, which was not present in her until Nechash created it in her. Adam did not eat the fruit immediately after it was picked off the tree; there was some time between the fruit in Eve's hand and then in Adam's mouth. 

Points if interest

  • Man was to rule and subdue the earth. Lost Garden of Eden was not lost.
  • There was no desire for neither tree. The "Yes" and "No" was not felt yet.
  • Choices are only possible within a realm of opposites.  

1. Nechash was only sent to create a desire for one tree, Etz Da'at. (Knowledge Tree).

2. Through Etz Da'at comes the distinction and choice.

3. Before Nechash and Etz Da'at there was only bliss (for our mind today, which for Adam and Eve was neither good or bad, nice, pleasant or unpleasant) because of the above points 1 and 2. 

4. After the fruit was eaten their eyes were THEN opened, which means that their eyes were closed before (Hebraic thinking of the opposites, non-Hebrew people avoid negatives; being quite hesitant to deal with it. The Hebrew people use RATZON the rational mind, which is quite different from the soul's emotional sphere, which uses minus and plus opposites. Either, the soul sends signals to the mind or the mind first sends signals to the soul as to how it should feel.

To not see means to not understand or grasp, and if so then no choice will follow. So they understood, and only with this ability of cognizance, or understanding, they could choose. 

5. Genesis 3 paints a picture of consequences and portrays good and bed emotions; having an unpleasant feeling makes one choose something more pleasant. That's just the basics. Obedience and disobedience and their consequences are being experienced, which is the actual eye-opening, seeing and grasping. They saw this cattle (creature Nechash) becoming a symbol of ARROR (Hebrew bitterness), curse, but also a symbol of healing, depending on how one perceives it and uses his or her mind.

The turning flaming swords outside the Garden of Eden had something to do with the two-edged sword mentioned in the Book of Hebrews 4:12, which pierces and separates the spiritual things from carnal or even soul's things. This sword is the Sword of Truth (Ephesians 6) minus and plus, darkness and light, curse or blessing, death or life...   

Moses lifted up the serpent and Jesus compared Himself to the lifted-up serpent. Just as people were healed of the snake venoms; people are also healed when they look upon Jesus. 

6. The driving out of Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden was not permanent, but it was in God's plan, for He told them to replenish the earth (with their kind), and to rule over the entire planet. They - being the (new) seed of God (in the midst of something old) or having the extra-dimensional life properties - had to deal with opposites; hence, morality, wrongs and rights. Later, Cain chose to be the tare having God's life in him. Also the good seed which manifested itself in Enoch, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Abraham … Jesus (the source) also manifests itself today in us. Thus Enoch returned to Paradise without tasting death; most likely Apostle John also.

Only the seed and the tares possess life, but not the field. The field is actually dead; hence very much neutral. A tare produced bad fruits and the good seed is being harvested and stored in a barn; used for food, wealth and for another sowing and harvest. 

(A) Scripture: [Matthew 7:16-20] “You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? 17“So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18“A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. 19“Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20“So then, you will know them by their fruits.
(B) Scripture: [Matthew 13:30] ‘Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn."'
(C) Scripture: [Verse 38] the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the evil sons.

7. Today, through "Tov" (good) and "Rah" (Bad or evil) (TORAH) we learn how to handle good and bad and then choose; blessings or curses, life or death, (Deuteronomy 30:19).

8. We have a new start in our personal life with Jesus, who paid the price for this knowledge to blossom like a flower and He further educates us through the Holy Spirit today. He introduces us to the Etz Hei'em (Tree of Life), which He Himself is,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death” (John 8:51).


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FOR OR AGAINST

Posted by J.Luxum at 2:30 PM
Your throne or a comfy chair
In reference to Luxum Books post
My wife and I do not understand why people take a stand (usually) against someone and even dare to label someone without any facts check. It is beyond our comprehension to see this daring accusatory way of some against brothers and sisters in Christ. "He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, he is a false prophet/teacher" even worse, perhaps "a devil or Antichrist" on and on... 

Amalek had no fear of God. David understood this principle of not touching God's anointed and Apostle Paul also (Romans 13:1). An anointed government does not mean a holy or righteous authority. Anointing is an appointment, it does not come and go. People anoint a president a prime minister. In Poland, which historically is known to be the earliest democracy in the world, appointed kings through a democratic process of election; hence, kings were voted into their office by Vox Populi, a Latin phrase that literally means voice of the people. However, God's kingdom has nothing to do with democracy for the Almighty is the all sovereign one and He cannot be voted in by Vox Populi. Hence, any other God but YHVH the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel is only a theological god. Pagans chose their gods out of a vast arsenal of pics: a god of water, sun, earth, wind etc, deities like fertility queens had something to do with sexual reproduction. Earth had something to do with harvests and calm seas with the appeasement of a god. In the midst of this, an astronomer by the name Abram had noticed that the heavenly constellations move in a rhythmic way. Changes of seasons occur quite regularly. Abram discovered universal harmony and order, but then he stumbled upon a disturbance. Leap year and leap months have something to do with the number seven. Abram went on to study the intervals and was desirous to know the author of those unusual and irregular movements. That's when the Almighty God spoke to him. 

From Abraham, and his descendants, comes the knowledge of rest and peace. Relax, take a seat and watch Me - the Lord is teaching us. 

Shev in Hebrew means to sit and repose. Shevah means seven. Shabbat or the Sabbath the seventh day of the weak is a day of peace and rest. 

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God (Matthew 5:9).

Why peacemakers are blessed, and why are they called sons of God? Are all others, those non-peacemakers are not sons of God? - This sort of thinking also comes from Abraham, who lived before Moses who told us about the Tree of Knowledge of plus & minus, something positive and something negative, but that it is only a knowledge. The tree was not half good or half evil but rather that it contained knowledge of the opposites. That's the reason why every time there is a positive statement an opposite statement must emphasize the actual truth found in between those two statements; and then comes the choice. If that was not so then God would not say so in Deuteronomy 30:19,

... I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live ...

This choice was offered to Adam and Eve, but only after they had received the cognizance (knowledge) from the tree; they also received the grasp with which they were able to choose. I used the word GRASP advisedly because in order to understand something there must be the ability to grasp and fasten. God gave Eve (first) the desire, which was not present before and then the imagination with which she approached Adam. Then their imagination got turned on and they were able to grasp, know and then choose - understand - know - become wise. 

 Restless people are warlike people. God never intended for Israel to exterminate all the nations inhabiting Canaan. He told them plainly (Deuteronomy 18:9-14) that on account of their occult practices and sexual perversions, bestiality and even sacrifices of children to idols like Moloch, they had to be eliminated. God is not human - speaking in humanistic terms - He is God. Period. He is holy. He is super righteous. He is super pure. The purest love, joy, peace and the purest graciousness. His perfect love, however, casts out all fear. Where does that fear go? - On his enemies those of the opposite kind; while the peacemakers are called His children.

Since the invention of evil as coming down to earth from heaven, 'the fall of Lucifer and his cohorts of evil angels' etc, people started to turn their own evils on Satan, the devil, Beelzebub, Belial, etc. Why? - Perhaps because they hated to be seen as evil themselves; and then they would have to repent and practice righteousness.

Pagans always believed that they must please their gods, so they kept on sacrificing and practicing elaborate religious ceremonies, which God never wanted, nor were they ever in His perfect plan for us. Religion is not His will for us. Nonetheless, because all pagan nations kept doing it, He only permitted it. First He let Abel and Cain offer sacrifices. Then to Abraham, with whom the break came when he was about to offer Isaac on Mt Moriah.

When Israel left Egypt a lamb was sacrificed and its blood smeared on the doors, but that was to be the last sacrifice. Nonetheless, people wanted to do whatever they wished, wrong, evil, disrespecting others, etc. One word sums it up, selfishness. Because of this God permitted sacrifices, but with them also came the education of pure and impure, holy, profane, righteous and unrighteous. Jesus summed it all up in one statement. 

In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 7:12).    

The law came first and then come the prophets then the Gospels and the apostolic letters, etc, this arsenal of writings point only in one direction: Treat others as you want to be treated in return. You want to be loved? - Then show love to others. You want to have peace, even the healing peace of God? - Well, start practicing peace each seventh day and then make peace each day. Be a peacemaker. So simple and yet so difficult.

Now, where does these evil traits come from. We know that Cain was restless and from him come the Kenites who have become super organizers and great gatherers of wealth; for Tubal-Cain was the forger of metals, which included gold and silver. Cain put a price on these shiny commodities and ever since then gold trading kept increasing value to. Because of gold people started wars. Because of riches other lands were subjugated and pillaged, not to mention murders and rapes and oppressions of most grotesque proportions. The simple equation of all evil and unrighteousness on the face of the earth is WAR.

In the midst of warlike ways Enoch returned to God and walked with Him most of His life. God loved His peacemaker so much that He did not allow Enoch to see death. 

Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death (John 8:51).  

Why is it so difficult to accept it and truly believe it the way Jesus actually said it? "Truly Truly, verily, verily" means more than a fact, it's a confirmed truth; the absolute and unchanging truth. 

There is something about that chair picture (above). It's a holy chair and it is my also. I decided to rest in it and meditate on God's peace and then sink ever deeper into it.

Between the 'for' and 'against' is the innocent state of neutrality. Why innocent? - Adam and Eve were innocent until they were endowed with the power of choice, but chose wrong. But, I speak bout the their choice already outside the Garden of Eden. Sure, the Seraphim stood like flaming swords turning in every direction, and we can make a mystique religion out of it, but the return was not to be a stealth sneaking into the Garden. "I don't know" is better than the proud "I know." "I study, I learn" and do not accuse, I do not fear, I observe... I rest in the Lord." Why do I have to start with prejudice first, and then make the suspect prove to me that my prejudice was groundless. Why wasting precious energy, weary the body and squander time, which is impossible to redeem. That's wicked and highly disrespectful to God and to those He had sent our way. That's the pride we have pinned on Lucifer while we carry it ourselves. The Pharisees did that to Jesus. 

“Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?” Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges" (John 8:48-50). 

Even here Jesus does not accuse or judge, for if He did He would've been like His accusers. He left all judgment to the Father.

Now, was it nice jumping on Jesus and treading that dangerous ground which is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? A sin which is not forgiven now nor in the age to come. Coming from the premise of testing the spirits because even Satan disguises Himself as an angel of light is taken out of context just to suit ones own prejudices and even maliciousness. 

The choice to return to Eden is yours and the way is already paved. Have a wider view; the broad angle view; see it from His point of view. Innocence returns but this time only after the right choice. The peace choice. Not the sweat of the brow and the toil of the ground, material possessions and their control.

By setting yourself against someone you make yourself into a judge, yet Jesus told us to not judge, for in the same way we judge others we shall be judged. If the Son of God did not judge His accusers, but left it all up to the Father; shouldn't you too learn from Him; take up His yoke, or yoke yourself with Him. Learn from Him humility and gentleness which is deep within His heart; let it also be found in your heart and there will be hope for you. Otherwise you will only try to avoid hell by making to heaven by the skin of your teeth and nothing more. Self definitions and accusations only kill.   

For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” (Romans 8:14-15) 

So, where is the leading of the Spirit, which makes one into a son and daughter of the Most High? Rather fear and prejudice, doctrine against doctrine, warlike religious ways dictate people's approach to the things of God. Yet, God chooses vessels, even human vessels, but if He runs out of those; then He will use again a donkey to speak through; or stone to praise Him. But woe to us then.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness (Matthew 23:27-28). 

The Law came first and then came grace. Why? By the Law we are guilty, but by grace we receive God's favor in order to become His overcomers the peacemakers even the Helper - PARAKLETOS - called alongside to help, comfort and aid you in overcoming any obstacle in life - the Holy Spirit. For such this earth longs; and can't wait for their appearance. Are you one of them? 

For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8:19).  
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THE STAR OF DAVID

Posted by J.Luxum at 10:10 AM

Conflict inside
 God longs to fellowship with us; therefore, when the Holy Spirit comes, He surrounds Himself with six ministering spirits (angels). In Isaiah 11:2 they are called the seven spirits of the LORD: 1. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him. 2. The spirit of wisdom. 3. The spirit of understanding. 4. The spirit of counsel. 5. The spirit of strength. 6. The spirit of knowledge. 7. The spirit of the fear of the LORD.

The six-pointed Star of David (Hebrew: Mogen David) is both a shield and a weapon.

[Luke 12:10] Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.

Obviously the Holy Spirit must be within that weapon-shield, or someone may die without ever having a chance to repent. God is super sensitive. His sensitivity is beyond human grasp. Holy Spirit is the Life of God and anything aimed at this super sensitive Spirit of Life must be eradicated first at the remotest gate. Now, picture the temple mount with the outer walls, inner walls and the Holy of Holies. Now, picture Jesus in His zeal in the temple (John 2:17) overthrowing the merchants’ tables as they were coming too close to the Inner Court and the Holy of Holies.
The Hebrew word racham means compassion, and the Hebrew word rechem means womb.  Imagine now a microscopic picture of the living fetus; what you will see is many protective walls around the embryo. These protective walls reject repelling anything that might try to penetrate and perhaps injure the most delicate embryo. Now, imagine our compassionate God, and those He made to be like Himself. Jesus felt compassion and healed their sick (Matthew 14:14). 
Ananias and Sapphira were directly exposed to the Holy Spirit and died on the spot; they actually lied to the face (presence) of the Holy Spirit (Acts 5). The Holy Spirit is on this earth. He comes because of what you hear and read, but not directly as God’s Breath of Life. He comes in a company of (like bodyguards) Spirit-Guards.  
When the Holy Spirit comes He comes first with the fear of the LORD, because the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). Wisdom is preceded by two stages: understanding and knowledge. Understanding acquires, it absorbs knowledge; and then knowledge attains to wisdom, which manifests itself in wise actions. Wisdom is the fruit of the understood knowledge - its fruit is a wise behavior. Therefore, the fear of the LORD is just the beginning. Solomon claimed to have wisdom, but his actions were not necessarily wise. The same goes for all of us. We understand, and know, but how much? We act according to what we have absorbed and know. Thus, we must keep quiet in some situations, and speak up in another. The discipline of our tongue is the training session number one. 
After wisdom comes strength, and after strength comes counsel. How can a fool counsel anyone? Strength is what everyone needs in this life.

[Proverbs 10:23] Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool, and so is wisdom to a man of understanding.
This picture shows the company of the Holy Spirit. Going clockwise: F stands for the fear of God; U stands for understanding, K stands for knowledge; W for wisdom; S for strength, and C for counsel. In the middle of these six spirits is the Holy Spirit. 12 o’clock - Fear of the LORD releases (2 o’clock) understanding, which absorbs (4 o’clock) knowledge. Knowledge conditions behavior, which includes thinking, and the management of feelings, also words, envisioning, planning and doing; hence (6 o’clock) - wisdom. After wisdom is established, more wisdom comes in, for as it is with fear and anger, both feed on themselves; wisdom also feeds on itself in the positive sense. “The one who has shall have more” (Luke 19:26). Wise behavior produces (8 o’clock) strength; even unnatural strength of mind, resolve, and determination when confronted with an obstacle. Only the strong can give (10 o’clock) counsel; for any counsel of the weak produces the same in others. If a fool teaches others, he only makes more fools, but a strong person can strengthen those that are weak, etc.
This wonderful turning glorious shield of power comes to plow the soil, like a spinning auger, being readied for the sowing of God’s eternal seed. If you prepare Him a room the Holy Spirit will come, and do exactly that which Jesus promised us, teach, remind, guide and comfort us.
The seal of the Holy Spirit also means shield of the Holy Spirit. The Greek root word is sphragis, speaks of fencing in, protection - derived from the root word sphragizo, meaning to stamp, as with a signet or a private mark for security or preservation.
Obviously, those two Greek words, depicting the Seal of Truth, also depict the shield, mogen. No matter what the language, or culture, God’s truth is never lost. 

God did not uproot the Tree of Life and burned it. He only guards it for the select few. He knew that the peacemakers will one day return to Him and will be invited to eat of this glorious immortality tree.

The guardian angels serve the redeemed of the Lord today. The expelling of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden was not permanent.

[Genesis 3:24] So He drove the man out, and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword, which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

 Those who are sealed with the Holy Spirit are also sealed with the seven spirits. Spirit-Guards are the guardian angels assigned to us after our fellowship with the Holy Spirit and they are innumerable, myriads; more than enough for the entire world.

[Psalm 91:11] He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways.
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BOOK OF REVELATIONS FASCINATION

Posted by J.Luxum at 8:04 AM
The four horses of Apocalypse

Why is it that almost every second preacher and religious program deal with the 666, the beast, Antichrist, tribulation, rapture, the lake of fire, Armageddon, the seven headed dragon, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse... the list is too long?

 Perhaps, the Book of Revelations is in the biblical canon for a purpose? Luther did not want it to be included and for about 500 years this book was not part of the Bible, why? Too confusing? Perhaps? many trailed the events John writes about and got lost. One goes on and everything neatly fits and then... oops. Something does not jive. We start all over again and then oops again.

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Luxum Books

Posted by J.Luxum at 5:57 AM
Soul's mortality

One must first believe the Bible as being true before one can even believe in its accounts. Death did not come because of Adam and Eve's transgression, but rather because of their lack of repentance. They have not fully returned to God. However, Enoch, in the seventh generation, did repent and walked with God. God took him alive. No corruption and no death.


Just as our sins can be completely forgotten and erased from remembrance the same can be with our physical or spiritual identities. 

He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19). 
Jesus said in Matthew 16:26-28

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds.Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”
Just as God gives the spiritual as well as the physical life in the same way He can snuff it out from both realms. He is God, not a god of theology. Learn more...  A shockingly good read
“Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm" (Psalms 105:15).

“So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers" (Matthew 23:31-32).
It astounds me to see so many fools attacking anyone that might be anointed of God and is sent for this hour in time as God's prophet. There is no fear of God. I suppose that they act this way because of a belief they have embraced, which is this: 'God is not appointing prophets any longer, does not anoint anyone; the gifts of the Holy Spirit are no longer needed or are dead.' Those who are in that belief vein also imagine that God would actually respect their beliefs, yet a little faith (a belief) is always man-made for it is the same as reading what's in a newspaper, or reading a menu in a restaurant. After reading the paper one experiences no change. After reading a menu one believes that the food will be eatable and digestible and well prepared, so based on that belief one chooses a dish. Sometimes the food is uneatable, or one needs an antacid pill after its consumption. The fact remains the same one has believed only that in the newspaper case one did nothing; while with the menu, one did something; one has eaten what one chose. One belief produced no action while the other did. 

The faith of God comes (Romans 10:17) it comes and then it goes for it God's gift. One only must prepare an honorable place for it. Faith is a gift (1 Corinthians 12:9). 

More about it "INTELLIGENT FAITH" (a free booklet PDF: Free online reading or download)
 
God remembers just as genes do remember. What our fathers have practiced they passed on to their children via the gene pool. Our DNA carries good and bad properties.

Those that are on the offensive and are hateful - attacking people like Billy Graham and other men of God, who are imperfect, and what they say may be disagreeable; nonetheless they are anointed- will only harm themselves. In due season they will reap what they have sown. Fools.

As a result of a blunt attack against God's anointed, (like King David, who was not only imperfect, but also a sinner, or Jesus as it was the case with His accusers during His day, the apostles, or the entire Jewish nation for that matter); the living properties (DNA) carry that hatred on and on. Only true deep and sincere repentance can stop this DNA conveyor belt. Hence, Jesus said that they TESTIFY AGAINST THEMSELVES THAT THEY ARE SONS OF… 

Scripture is clear, a son is not punished for the sins of his father. However, the son inherits his father's properties; and how he deals with them is his business. Some are so burdened that they are unable or unwilling to change. Imagine those descendants of the murderous Nazis who still keep walking in their fathers' shoes. 

In Matthew 7 Jesus said that everyone is known by their fruits, outward manifestations whether in words or actions. He  also said that from a good treasure man brings out good things, but also from a bad treasure bad things. Then He said, "How can you speak what's good when being evil?" Then He said that no one can (is able) to come to Him unless the Father draws him or her first. So, combine these things together and see logic and the very straight line in His thinking. Logic Divine.

It does not matter whether the king was wicked or not. Saul was wicked yet anointed.
[1 Samuel 24:5-6] It came about afterward that David’s conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul’s robe. So he said to his men, “Far be it from me because of the LORD that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the LORD’S anointed.”  
[2 Samuel 1:13-16] David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” And he answered, “I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite.” Then David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the LORD’S anointed?” And David called one of the young men and said, “Go, cut him down.” So he struck him and he died. David said to him, “Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the LORD’S anointed.’” 
Amalekites have no fear of God and no respect for the invisible God who is without form and image. They have no grasp of these things for they have been indeed given over to their own flesh just as it is written in Romans 1:24-28.

Check your spiritual reality. Is there any spark of it is still left? Or perhaps it's all completely gone; and out of desperation you have replaced it with your own interpretations, philosophy and beliefs?
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More on this subject later.    
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