Threshingfloor
This was a picture taken of my grandfather passing out Gideon Bibles at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). As you read this, you will understand why this picture of my grandfather has become so significant to me.
As I have worked on this site, I have fought and wrestled with God. I have been frustrated and exhausted and overwhelmed. This picture has served as a reminder to me of why I am here and what He has called me to do.
I look at my grandfather, “The Tired Gideon”, fighting the good fight.
The Gideon International headquarters happen to be located in Nashville, Tn, where I currently live. The Gideons’ primary activity is distributing copies of the Bible free of charge.
The organization describes its link to the story of Gideon:
Gideon was a man who was willing to do exactly what God wanted him to do, regardless of his own judgment as to the plans or results. Humility, faith, and obedience were his great elements of character. This is the standard that The Gideons International is trying to establish in all its members, each man to be ready to do God’s will at any time, at any place, and in any way that the Holy Spirit leads.
I have never felt called by God to do anything. God gave all of us gifts as part of being in the body of Christ. I wasn’t sure what mine was. Recently, however, I have had an enormous sense of urgency that He placed in my heart. I created this website called the “Narrow Gate Entrance” in the beginning of December of 2015 which I derived from Luke 13.
LUKE 13 : THE NARROW GATE (Matthew 7:13-14)
22And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23Then said one to him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said to them, 24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
When I started this site, I wasn’t quite sure what it meant, but I knew I needed to make sure that’s the gate my life was heading towards. There were so many verses that were in direct conflict with the way I was living my life. I was desperate to know the truth and His Story. The things unfolding in the world seem like they are straight out of Revelation. I felt overwhelmed with how to process what I was seeing and how it relates to my faith. I felt like the walls were closing in and I wondered how He could use me. I sit behind a desk all day without much interaction with people. I was doing everything I could just to keep up, but things seem to be moving so fast.
I was having more and more trouble discerning what was even right from wrong anymore.
The lines were starting to get blurry.
5 months later in April, I gave my friend a bible at a bible study we were having at my house every week.
I had not mentioned to him or anyone about my website.
After just a few days of reading,
this is the text he sent me:
Luke 21 : Be Watchful
34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come on you unawares. 35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36Watch you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. 37And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and stayed in the mount that is called the mount of Olives. 38And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
A month later, in May, our company took us for a team building exercise to play the Escape Game.
It’s a game where a group will go into a room and you have an hour to gather all the clues to unlock the door and break out. I was dreading going cause I hate these types of things and I was really tired but something told me I needed to go.
That day happened to be one of the peak days of my overwhelm and frustration. On my way there I actually pulled off the side of the road and just started crying. I was crying out to Him a conversation that went like this:
“Is this really what you want me to be doing? Why me? I am not equipped to do this.”
The more I saw happening around me the heavier my heart got. My brain felt like it was going to explode with all the research I was
doing. I really just wanted some type of confirmation or sign from Him. I felt like God was removing the scales from eyes for a purpose but I really wasn’t sure where it was going to lead. I finally drug myself to the game.
They have 5 different rooms. A different game in each room.
The first thing I noticed in our room was a book called Music City Babylon. The majority of the research I had been doing at the time was trying to figure out what the heck Babylon was.
Our room also had a clue containing a bible verse.
LUKE 13 29And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
I was not much help during the game. I was standing there looking at all the interesting stuff in the rooms. As time was running out, there was a map hanging encased in a box with a silver ball at the bottom of the casing.
The clue said “the shortest distance is a straight line“.
So we were supposed to use the magnet to drag the ball, which was behind the map, and drag it across to each of the four different cities on the map. If ball behind the map wasn’t guided in a straight line, it would drop and you would have to start all the way over.
They started trying to drag it but it kept dropping because they couldn’t keep a straight line. Time was running out, our team was frantically trying to figure out what to do. I was honestly just ready to go home, but
I happened to see a wooden board on the floor and put it up there for them to use as a ruler to guide him into keeping a straight line from point to point on the map. It worked and the door opened. We were the only team that actually “Escaped” in time. I didn’t think much of this until the next morning when I looked at that verse again that we had in our room and the verses right above it.
LUKE 13 : THE NARROW GATE (Matthew 7:13-14)
22And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23Then said one to him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said to them, 24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 25When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the door, and you begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not from where you are: 26Then shall you begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets. 27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not from where you are; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. 28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 29And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. 30And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
When I realized this the next morning, I started crying because I realized that it was His confirmation of what he had called me to do from the previous day when I pulled over in my car. I had used a wooden board to keep the path straight and level so we could open the door and escape during a time of panic and confusion.
Luke 3 : The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:19-28)
2Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight[g2117].
straight[g2117]euthýs
i.e. (literally) level, or (figuratively) true;
Nashville happens to be the Headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention.
- “Making paths straight” or “level” is analogy for “Justification” and being “Righteous” in God’s sight.
- “Justification” is builders term for whether a stone is “true” or not by using a plumline to make sure it was upright
- Our Justification is not based off our own works but by the work done of the cross for us.
- We are justified, true stones, through faith and obedience by keeping his word and commandments.
- The first stone established with Peter, where He said “on this Rock, I will build my church.
14Why hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things said he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
12Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write on him my new name. 13He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches.
I created this site in order to try to have a place to gather the things I was seeing going on in the world and to have a place to sift and sort them in relation to what I was learning in the bible.
To separate LIES from the TRUTH.
I didn’t realize it at the time, because I didn’t understand what a threshing floor was, but I was gathering (gleaning) and threshing wheat just like Gideon when He was called by God. I also didn’t realize at the time that the Gideon International Headquarters also happen to be in Nashville.
Judges 6 : The Call of Gideon
11And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.
Thresh[h1758]דּוּשׁ dûwsh
—break apart, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass a primitive root
The day I played the game Escape Game was the height of my overwhelm and I had pulled over on the side of the road and asked God if this is really what He has called me to do. Gideon asked for confirmation twice from God by laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor.
Judges 6 : The Signs of the Fleece
36And Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshingfloor[h1637]; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the earth beside, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
Threshing-floor[h1637]גֹּרֶן gôren
from an unused root meaning to smooth;
a threshing-floor (as made even);
by analogy, any open area:
—(barn, corn, threshing-) floor, (threshing-, void) place.
Luke 3 : The Mission of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:1-5; Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:19-28)
4As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight[g2117]. 5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
- A circular threshing floor was where sheaves of harvested wheat were taken and spread across the floor.
- Pairs of Oxen would drag a threshing board behind them to tear the stalks from the ears of grain.
At the time of the harvest, when his crop is fully ripe, the farmer cuts down (hew’s) his crop that he has sown in the field. Harvesting wheat was typically done through use of a sickle or scythe.
Harvest[h7105]קָצִיר qâtsîyr(occurs 54 in 49)
severed i.e. harvest (as reaped), the crop;
figuratively; also a limb (of a tree, or simply foliage):
—bough, branch, harvest (man).
The farmer would then gather (glean) and bundle the stalks of wheat together in what is called a sheaf or Sheaves (multiple).
The bundled wheat is then taken to the circular threshing floor where the sheaves of grain would be spread across the threshing floor.
The sheaves would then be threshed (smooth : break apart : loosen : Tread).
Pairs of Oxen
would be walked round and round
dragging a heavy threshing-board
behind them.
Threshing-boards
had stones or flint chips or iron spikes
inserted into the bottom side. These teeth speed up the threshing process helping to:
cut and crush up the wheat, tear away the ears of grain from the stalks, & loosen the grain and chaff/husk
Stalks
(are torn from)
Ears of Grain
“He who has an ear, let him hear”
The wheat would then be winnowed with a winnowing fork where the loosened grain is separated from the chaff (which is the outer protective coating of the grain) in preparation for storage and use.
Threshing floors were built in high parts of the city to utilize the wind to accomplish this separation.
The grain could then be further cleansed by sieving.
(A sieve, or sifter, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material)
Winnowed : Fanned : separated
Sieved
Light chaff & short torn straw
would be blown away by the wind
and fall some distance away;
the heavier grain
would fall at the winnower’s feet,
then finally taken into the farmers barn.
LUKE 3 : THE MISSION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
15And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; 16John answered, saying to them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I comes, the lace of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, (threshing-floor), and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
- “Threshing” and the “threshing floor” is an analogy for “Sanctification”,
- meaning “to cleanse”
- and “make separate”,
- and “made holy”
- Sanctification is how we are to be clothed with
- white, linen garments, (be smooth),
- as opposed to scarlet, rough wool garments.
- To separate from those who are Unrighteous
Revelation 3 : Message to the Church in Philadelphia
7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things said he that is holy,
Sanctify[h6942]קָדַשׁ qâdash(occurs 172x in 153v)
to consecrate,
sanctify, prepare,
dedicate, be hallowed,
be holy, be sanctified, be separate
a primitive root;
to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):
- My grandfather was representing the Senatobia, MS camp Gideon church.
- The name “Senatobia” was derived from the Indian word Senatohoba,
- Senatohoba, happens to mean “White Sycamore”—a symbol of “rest for the weary.”
- When we begin to understand the completeness of our Justification (righteous in God’s eyes), we can rest and rejoice in the ongoing tribulation, discipline, chastening (correction), and refinement of our “Sanctification” (process of being made Holy).
- Just as following the Law does not make you justified, but is an expression of the fact that you have been reconciled to Him.
We are
from the world,
because we are
with God through His Son
7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things said he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
12Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write on him my new name. 13He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit said to the churches.
After David became King and he slew all the Philistine Giants in the land, He bought the threshing floor on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem from Ornan the Jebusite for 600 shekels of gold and his oxen for 50 shekels of silver.
Mount Moriah was in Jerusalem where Abraham had offered up Isaac as a sacrifice. He built an altar and sacrificed to God there to keep the plague stayed from Israel.
After David died, his son Solomon built the Temple on the threshing floor that his father David had bought.
THE KEY OF DAVID
is reference Isaiah 22
and the SHOULDER,
which means those
who keep His commandments.
22And THE KEY OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID will I lay on hisshoulder[H7926];
so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut; and, and none shall open.
SHOULDER[h7926]שְׁכֶם shek-em
“the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens;
figuratively, the spur of a hill. ridge;.
שְׁכֶם shek-em the hebrew word for “shoulder” is also the name of a city in Canaan.
- SHECHEM was the 1st place God appeared to Abraham, after being called out of Babylon
- SHECHEM was where the 1st altar built to God by Abraham was
- SHECHEM was where God renamed Jacob to “Israel”
- SHECHEM was an inheritance for the son’s of Joseph.
- SHECHEM was where Joseph and Joshua were buried
- SHECHEM was where Joshua (“from Tribe of Ephraim”) made a covenant with Israel that they would put away strange gods and wrote Moses Law and took a great stone and set it here under this oak
The ARK OF THE COVENANT
was carried by priests
with STAVES
on their “shoulders”
David went up against Goliath
with STAVES in the name of the Lord.
Meaning David had a pure heart after God
and kept his commandments
1 SAMUEL 17 : DAVID SLAYS GOLIATH
43And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that youCOME TO ME WITH STAVES? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field
- David fought Goliath in “The Valley of The Oak”
- Jacob buried the strange gods that were with him here under the “Oak at Shechem”
- There was an angel sitting under an oak while Gideon was threshing wheat by the winepress.
I live 2 miles from Vanderbilt whose symbol is the Leaf and acorn. The new visual identity, designed by Malcolm Grear Designers in Providence, R.I., is built around a central image of the letter “V” encompassing a stylized oak leaf and acorn.“The oak leaf and acorn have long been symbols of Vanderbilt and are found in the crest of the Vanderbilt family,” said Judy Orr, director of Creative Services. “We thought it important to have a sense of timelessness and tradition in our final product, which I believe we accomplished.”Oak Hill is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee, 3 Miles from house. The Tennessee Governor’s Mansion, also known as the Tennessee Residence, in Oak Hill, Nashville, Tennessee, is the official residence of the Governor of Tennessee and his or her family.
The leaves and acorns (the fruit) of the oak tree are poisonous to cattle, horses, sheep, and goats in large amounts due to the toxin tannic acid, and cause kidney damage and gastroenteritis.Symptoms of poisoning include lack of appetite, depression, constipation, diarrhea (which may contain blood), blood in urine, and colic.
LUKE 3 : THE MISSION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Isaiah 40:1-5; Matthew 3:1-12; Mark 1:1-8; John 1:19-28)
7Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath
to come? 8BRING FORTH THEREFORE FRUITS WORTHY OF REPENTANCE, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say to you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 9And now also the ax is laid to the root of the trees: every tree therefore which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- My Grandfather’s middle name happened to be “Huey”, which I always thought was a funny name.
- I then found out that Gideon’s name happens to mean “Hewer”.
gideon[h1439]גִּדְעוֹן Gidʻôwn(occurs )
“hewer”; feller; (i.e. warrior);
from the primitive root; [h1438] גָּדַע gâdaʻ
generally, to destroy anything: —cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
God flooded the earth
to cleanse the earth from unrighteousness/wickedness
God redeemed Noah
who was righteous
and 7 others to
re-populate the earth
After the Flood, the descendant’s of Noah formed
70 Nations and built the Tower of Babel
God scattered the nations
across the face of the earth
just as
the CHAFF of the threshing floor would be blown away by the wind;
God scattered the nations because
the Tower of Babel they built
was unprofitable to Him.
It was vain, worthless, chaff.
God then chose Abraham as his new seed
to father his own nation
- Abraham, is called out of Babylon by God used to be the father of His Nation, and to bear Him fruit (profit)
- Abraham and Sarai gave birth to Isaac.
- God then tempted Abraham by telling him to offer up Isaac as a burnt offering in Mount Moriah, which was a common pagan practice that came out of Babylon. Mount Moriah is where David would eventually buy the threshing floor there and where Solomon built the temple.
- When God saw that Abraham acted upon God’s request, God knew that he feared God, and did not withhold His only son from Him. Abraham then offered up a substitute offering of a ram in Isaac’s place.
- Isaac and Rebekah gave birth to Jacob.
Jacob would be renamed to “Israel” which means “God Prevails” (against the nations) and from Jacob would come the 12 tribes of Israel.
- Jacob and his 12 sons first lived in Canaan but they eventually moved to Egypt because of the famine in Canaan.
EXODUS 1: THE ISRAELITES MULTIPLY IN EGYPT
70 Nations
scattered
across the world at Babel
1 Soul (Abraham)
redeemed by God in
order to bear fruit to Him
70 Souls
from Jacob go into Egypt
and multiplied into
600k+ souls
1 Nation
redeemed by God our of Egypt
Israel
God plagued Egypt and
killed all the firstborn in Egypt
God sanctified
all the firstborn Israelite’s
that came out of Egypt
to himself.
EXODUS 8 :
22And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there;to the end you may know that I am the LORD in the middle of the earth. 23And I will put a division between my people and your people: to morrow shall this sign be.
book of the dead
LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE
Exodus 11 :
But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Moses received the Law from God and established His covenant with Israel at Mt. Sinai.
At that point He considered Israel as His “Bride” because of the binding covenant they made.
Metaphorically Speaking
From God’s Point of View
Israel was the Firstborn of God
Israel was God’s Wife
From Israel’s Point of View
God was the Father of Israel
God was the Husband of Israel
Leviticus 20 : Keep All My Decrees
22You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out. 23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people. 25You shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and you shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine.
Leviticus 10: Restrictions for Priests
10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
- Just before entering the promised land 40 years later, we see God adding a new covenant to that which was given to the generation before.
- The covenant that came to the first generation under Moses, were not so much the instructions, but were an expansion of the blessings and curses that would result pending the obedience or disobedience to the Law
Covenant at Horeb / Sinai
which contained the Law and
the 10 commandments
as well as instructions
for setting up the tabernacle
Covenant at Moab
which contained
blessings or curses
pending obedience or
disobedience to the Law
After the covenant at Moab, Joshua, from the Tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelite’s across the Jordan and they began taking the land of Canaan which God had promised to give them. Eventually Israel decided to have a king over them.After David became King and he slew all the Philistine Giants in the land, He bought the threshing floor on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem from Ornan the Jebusite for 600 shekels of gold and his oxen for 50 shekels of silver.
Mount Moriah was in Jerusalem where Abraham had offered up Isaac as a sacrifice. He built an altar and sacrificed to God there to keep the plague stayed from Israel.
After David died, his son Solomon built the Temple on the threshing floor that his father David had bought. Under King Solomon rule, he led Israel to follow the gods of the nations that had been cast out by God.
1 KINGS 11 : God’s Anger against Solomon
9And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared to him twice, 10And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. 11Why the LORD said to Solomon, For as much as this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. 12Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it for David your father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of your son. 13However, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to your son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.
JEROBOAM’S REBELLION
- Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes which documents that all he had and had built was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do:
and, behold, all [was] vanity[h1892] and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.
Psalm 39 : I Will Watch My Ways
4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. 5Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity[h1892]. Selah. 6Surely every man walks in a vain[h1892]show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them. 7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in you. 8Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it. 10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand. 11When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity[h1892]. Selah.
Vain[g2756]kenós
empty ;
devoid of truth;
No Purpose, value or profit
Fruitless, without effect
-of places, vessels, etc. which contain nothing;
- After Solomon died, He gave 10 tribes of Israel to Jeroboam and 2 to Judah.
NORTHERN KINGDOM OF ISRAEL
led by Jeroboam (from the tribe of Ephraim) was given 10 tribes and became known as:
- “The House of Joseph”
- “The House of Israel”
- and simply “Ephraim”
SOUTHERN KINGDOM OF JUDAH
led by Solomon (from the tribe of Judah) was given 2 tribes and became known as:
- “House of Judah”
Just like the US, Israel became divided in two into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms,
but unlike the US,
Israel never came back together.
- God said He would scatter them among the nations, if they didn’t follow his instructions and were not obedient
- God had warned Israel just before crossing the Jordan River, with the added covenant, that this would happen if they didn’t obey, but they ignored the covenant that said…
- Now we see this scripture in Deuteronomy beginning to unfold, as the people of Israel no longer remain a people, but begin assimilating into the nations.
2 Kings 17: Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry
15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity[h1892], and became vain[h1892], and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 16And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Ezekiel 22: The Sins of Prophets, Priests, Princes
26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Israel left all the commandments of God while in the Promised land, and followed after vanity and became vain.
The Spreading of Israel
and the assimilation
back into the Nations would begin.
- The only thing that’s not vain is learning to observe and do all the things he has commanded us.
- Moses spoke these words to Joshua, before the Israelite’s finally made it to the Promised Land after wondering 40 years in the wilderness…
Deuteronomy 32 : Song of Moses
45And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: Set your hearts to all the words which I testify among you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life:
After 200 years of Idolatry, God divorced the Northern Kingdom of Israel because they hardened their hearts and rejected God’s Law in pursuing other gods
The book of Hosea is about God and his adulterous wife Israel. God’s charges against them were that they violated basic covenant requirements. They rejected knowledge of God and His law. They had become self-satisfied and proud and had forgotten God’s grace. They were engaging in idolatry and harlotry. They were trusting in human devices rather than God. They were guilty of injustice, violence, murder, theft, lying, oppression.Through Hosea, the Lord told the people of Israel to stop their promiscuity, idolatry, and iniquity and to return to Him in humility and faithfulness toward the law of the covenant.Like a marriage partner, God is deeply involved in our lives and is pained when we go our own way. God demands love and loyalty from His own. Often God’s people have failed to demonstrated whole-hearted love for Him. But He stands ready to forgive and restore those who turn to Him in repentance. In buying Gomer’s freedom, Hosea pointed ahead to god’s love perfectly expressed in Christ, who bought the freedom of His bride, the church with His own life.
HOSEA 4 : GOD’S CHARGES AGAINST ISRAEL
1Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood. 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest. 5Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother. 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. 7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. 10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit prostitution, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 11Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to them: for the spirit of prostitutions has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit prostitution, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that does not understand shall fall. 15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not you to Gilgal, neither go you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives. 16For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18Their drink is sour: they have committed prostitution continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give you. 19The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
HOSEA 9 : HOSEA ANNOUNCES ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENT
13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels. 16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 13 : Ephraim’s Glory Vanishes
1When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Even though Ephraim and the Northern Kingdom had been divorced by God and scattered among the Nations, because they had followed vanity, we see in the prophets, that it is God’s plan to seek them out from where he scattered them.
14Turn, O backsliding children, said the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
15And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.16And it shall come to pass, when you be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, said the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more. 17At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. 18In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers.
8Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, said the LORD. 9For, see, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall on the earth. 10All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
The Restoration of Israel
11In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, said the LORD that does this. 13Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, said the LORD your God.
23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
Remarkably, the same day I played the Escape Game
- was the same day when I figured out who the Lost Sheep were
- and why Jesus had to die on the cross.
The Lost Sheep are the Northern Kingdom of Israel that had gotten scattered into the nations.
10Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 11For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
21Then Jesus went there, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and sought him, saying, Send her away; for she cries after us. 24But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. 28Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith: be it to you even as you will. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
15So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Feed my lambs. 16He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said to him, Feed my sheep. 17He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Love you me? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep. .
So who are his sheep?
The overarching narrative
and redemptive story line
of the bible is the shepherd
and his sheep, which is the bride,
which all
traces back to
Rachel which means “ewe” (lamb)
“the wife Jacob loved most”,
and her 1st born son, JOSEPH,
who “Jacob loved the most out of the 12 tribes”.
- The 12 Tribes of Israel that came from Jacob came by way of his 2 wives, Leah and Rachel and their 2 handmaids, Zilphah, and Bilhah.
Handmaids
- Bilhah : Rachel’s Handmaid
- Zilpah : Leah’s Handmaid
Wives
- Rachel
- Leah
- Rachel and Leah were the ones that built the house of Israel.
RUTH 4 : BOAZ REDEEMS RUTH
11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
- Rachel died given birth to Benjamin in Bethlehem which means “House of Bread”.
- David and Jesus were born in Bethlehem.
Rachel’s Sons
Benjamin (“son of the right hand”)
- Paul who planted and established the first churches was from the tribe of Benjamin
Joseph (“God has added”)
- Joseph, was the son that Jacob “loved the most.”
- He received the 1st born birthright promise
While in Egypt, Joseph gave birth to 2 sons:
- Manassah
- Ephraim
- It is here where Israel blesses the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt.
- Israel claims that’s Joseph’s sons are to be treated as his.
- They were “grandfathered in” as part of the 12 tribes
1And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, your father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people; and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession. 5And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 6And your issue, which you beget after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
8And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these? 9And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, w
hom God has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray you, to me, and I will bless them. 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face: and, see, God has showed me also your seed. 12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long to this day,
16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the middle of the earth. 17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head. 19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
20And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
When stationed in the wilderness after the Exodus out of Egypt, all of Rachel’s descendant’s were stationed together in the West and were known as…
the Camp of Ephraim (Joseph’s Son)
- Ephraim
- Benjamin
- Manassah
Joshua from the tribe of Ephraim and Caleb from the Tribe of Judah were the only 2 people that left during the Exodus and survived the wilderness to make into the Promised Land of Canaan.
Joseph receive the 1st born birthright even though he was 2nd to last one born of the 12 tribes because after Rachel died, Reuben who was Jacob’s actual 1st born son through Leah, slept with Bilhah and defiled Jacob’s bed
Because of this, Reuben lost his 1st Born Birth Right
and it was given to Joseph the 1st born of Rachel
1 CHRONICLES 5 : DESCENDANTS OF REUBEN
1Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but for as much as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)
Birthright Promise
Joseph and his 2 son’s:
- Manassah
- Ephraim
Scepter Promise
Judah
- David
- Jesus
The SCEPTER & SHEPHERD came from LEAH
The FRUIT & SHEEP/FLOCK came from RACHEL
Jesus, the stone of Israel, came from the Tribe of Judah, who rules and shepherds his sheep, with his scepter, the Law and commandments that he wrote on our hearts with his Holy spirit.
His sheep are the sons of Rachel
Joseph and Benjamin,
and the 2 sons born to Joseph in Egypt,
Ephraim and Manassah
Joseph and Judah received the longest prophecy and blessings from Jacob.
Jacob’s prophecy of Joseph : The Fruit
GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY OF HIS SONS
22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.
Jacob’s prophecy of Judah : The Scepter
GENESIS 49 : JACOB’S PROPHECY OF HIS SONS
8Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk
- EPHRAIM, who received the 1st born blessing, was prophesied to be the fullness of the nations, those not belonging to God.
- God set the precedent at the Tower of Babel that it’s His seed and nation vs the Nations that were scattered.
Gentile = “of the Nations”
(that are not Israel)
Israel
“God Prevails”
DEUTERONOMY 32 :
8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Ephraim[h669]אֶפְרַיִם ʼEphrayim
double fruit;
Ephrajim, a son of Joseph and grandson of Rachel.
also the tribe descended from him, and its territory:—Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Ephraim = “double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful”
second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh
the tribe, Ephraim
the mountain country of Ephraim
sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah)
a city near Baal-hazor
a chief gate of Jerusalem
1st portion of Ephraim’s fruit
(of the womb) Multiplying into a nation while in Egypt after God told them “to be fruitful and multiply.”
2nd portion of Ephraim’s fruit
(of actions) the fruit of the Spirit given to us by Christ’s Holy Spirit
- Jacob said Ephraim would be a fullness of the nations.
- Jacob was implying that the nations disinherited by God that were scattered at the Tower of Babel that left off building the city, would eventually come together again to try and finish what Nimrod had started.
- Once the fullness of the nations plan is complete, which is re-establishing Babylon, the city the had left off to build in Genesis, Ephraim at that time, would be scattered among the nations.
- He will gather them together and then judge the nations.
JOEL 3 : THE LORD JUDGES THE NATIONS
13Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. 14Multitudes, multitudes in The Valley of Decision[h2742], for the Day of the Lord is near in the Valley of Decision
When you make a “Decision” to follow Christ, you cutting off and separating from sin and your old ways.
Decision[h2742]חֲרוּץ chărûwts(occurs 18x in 17v)
Decision; properly, incised or (active) incisive;
hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined),
a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth);
(figuratively) determination; also eager:
—decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.
33For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor[h1637], it is time to thresh [h1758]her:yet a little while, and the time of her harvest[h7105] shall come.
Threshing floors were built in high parts of the city
to utilize the wind to accomplish the separation of the chaff and fruit.
Revelation 18 : Babylon is Fallen
4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
Vanity, Vain Glory and Strife
Useless empty Chaff
Matthew 25 : The Sheep and the Goats
31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
the goats
the Sheep
Sanctification involves learning what is fruitful and profitable in God’s Eyes vs what is useless and vain in His Eyes.
Vain[g2756]kenós
empty ;
devoid of truth;
No Purpose, value or profit
Fruitless, without effect
-of places, vessels, etc. which contain nothing;
Fruit[h6529]פְּרִי pᵉrîy(occurs 119 in 107)
anything produced or accruing;
product, result, or effect;
return or profit:
produce (of the ground); offspring, children, progeny (of the womb); (of actions) (fig.)
Fruit[g2590]καρπός karpós(occurs 66 in 56)
that which originates or comes from something, an effect, result;
to gather fruit (i.e. a reaped harvest) into life eternal (as into a granary),
is used in fig. discourse of those who by their labours have fitted souls to obtain eternal life
from :
ἁρπάζω harpázō, (occurs 17 in 13)
to seize (in various applications): —catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).
Philippians 2
16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain[g2756] neither labored in vain[g2756]
1 COrinthians 15 :
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain[g2756]in the Lord.
Worthless, Empty Vain,
of no use in God’s eyes : the Husk
Valuable, profitable in God’s Eyes:
The Fruit
The Husk
.
The Fruit
My other grandfather, on my mom’s side of the family, loved pecans. He would go and gather pecans that fallen from trees and would spend hours cracking them, packaging them, and giving them to his friends.
“Pecan” is from an Algonquian word variously referring to pecans, walnuts and hickory nuts,[3] or more broadly to any nut requiring a stone to crack. A pecan, is not truly a nut, but is technically a drupe, a fruit with a single stone or pit, surrounded by a husk.
The Shell | Husk | Chaff
.
The Fruit
parable[g3850]parabolḗ(occurs 50x in 48v)
a similitude —comparison, figure, parable, proverb.
a placing of one thing by the side of another, juxtaposition, as of ships in battle
metaphorically: a comparing, comparison of one thing with another, likeness, similitude
an example by which a doctrine or precept is illustrated
MATTHEW 13 : The Parable of the Net (Matthew 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20; Luke 5:1-11; John 1:35-42)
47Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:48Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.49So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,50And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 51Jesus said to them, Have you understood all these things? They say to him, Yes, Lord. 52Then said he to them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed to the kingdom of heaven is like to a man that is an householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new and old.
wicked
JUSTIFIED
Psalms 1 : The Two Paths
1Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD;
and in his law does he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
4The ungodly are not so:
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous:
but the way of the ungodly shall perish
The 2 Paths
the pathis broad
which leads to destruction
the pathis narrow
which leads to life
the pathis paved with Gold
the pathis Paved with blood
EXODUS 32 : THE GOLDEN CALF
25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies:) 26Then
Moses stood in the GATE OF THE CAMP,
and said, WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE?
let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man on his son, and on his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.
Luke 13 : A Call to Repentance (Joel 1:13-20; Amos 5:4-15; Zephaniah 2:1-3)
1There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose you that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think you that they were sinners above all men that dwelled in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, No: but, except you repent, you shall all likewise perish.
The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree (Isaiah 5:1-7)
6He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why encumbers it the ground? 8And he answering said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that you shall cut it down.
Matthew 25 : Parable of Talents
26His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed: 27You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with usury. 28Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him which has ten talents. 29For to every one that has shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that has not shall be taken away even that which he has. 30And cast you the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
A farmer sows or plants seed
to produce fruit
Fruit is :
- anything produced or accruing; product, result, or effect;
- profit or return (on investment)
James 5 : Patience in Suffering
7Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Mark 4 : The Seed Growing Secretly
26And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 27And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. 28For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. 29But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Matthew 13 :THE PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND TARES
24Another parable put he forth to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27So the servants of the householder came and said to him, Sir, did not you sow good seed in your field? from where then has it tares? 28He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Will you then that we go and gather them up? 29But he said, No; lest while you gather up the tares, you root up also the wheat with them.
30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,
Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
THE PARABLE OF THE WEEDS EXPLAINED
36Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came to him, saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. 37He answered and said to them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man;
38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom;
the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
40As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be at the end of this world41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.43Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.
TARE
WHEAT
- A tare (or darnel) is a plant that commonly grows in fields of grain.
- Although it looks similar to an edible grain, it isn’t suitable for food because it is a poisonous weed.
The Wheat and Tares
are indistinguishable up until
Tares stand tall (light)
Wheat is bowed over from the weight
PRIDE
Humility
MATTHEW 13 : THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER (Mark 4:1-9; Luke 8:4-15)
1The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. 2And great multitudes were gathered together to him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. 3And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed,
some seeds fell by the way side,
and the fowls came and devoured them up:
This is he which received seed by the way side:
When any one hears the word of the kingdom,
and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. (Luke: lest they should believe and be saved. )
some fell on stony places,
where they had not much earth: and immediately they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
he that received the seed into stony places,
the same is he that hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; yet has he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution rises because of the word, by and by he is offended.
(Luke: in time of temptation fall away. )
and some fell among thorns;
and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
He that received seed among the thorns
is he that hears the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.
(Luke: bring no fruit to perfection.)
but other fell into good ground,
and brought forth fruit, some an hundred times, some sixty times, some thirty times.
he that received seed into the good ground
is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundred times, some sixty, some thirty.
(Luke : which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.)
The Purpose of Jesus’ Parables (Mark 4:10-12)
10And the disciples came, and said to him, Why speak you to them in parables? 11He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.12For whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whoever has not, from him shall be taken away even that he has. 13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mark 4 : parable of sower explained
13And he said to them, Know you not this parable?
and how then will you know all parables? 14The sower sows the word.
The Sower Sows The Seed
which is The Word
A seed
is the flowering plant’s unit of reproduction,
capable of developing into another such plant
Fertile soil contains
all the nutrients for basic plant nutrition
.
The soil in which the word
is planted is the Heart
A seed contains instructions,
detailed information
telling how something
should be done,
operated, or assembled.
The 10 commandments and a golden pot of manna were kept within the Ark of the Covenant
The Heart
Within the heart
Seed Germination
THE RADICLE
The first thing that emerges from the seed during germination. It is the embryonic root that grows downward into the soil. It allows the seed to suck up the water and send out leaves so it can start photosynthesizing which is the process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms activities.
The Root
The part of a plant, generally underground,
that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients,
and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
It is the part of a plant that attaches it to the ground
or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant
via numerous branches and fibers.
A root is the basic cause, source, or origin of something. The Foundation.
The STEM
A stem consists of 2 parts:
Hypocotyl :
The part of the stem that grows below the cotyledon and into the roots. The basis of the plant stem. The part of the stem of an embryo plant beneath the stalks of the seed leaves and directly above the root.
Epicotyl :
The part of the stem that develops above the cotyledon into stem and leaves.
These grow upward in response to light
Hypocotyl :
Jesus
Epicotyl :
his followers
who abide in His Love
by Keeping his commandments/instructions
- There are 3 things that a plant requires for growth and for the ability to bear fruit.
Light
John 8 : Jesus the Light of the World
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
water
John 7 : jesus the Living Water
37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. 38He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39(But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
WHAT GOD REQUIRES FROM US?
1) TO FEAR HIM
Which leads to
learning and observing to…
2) KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS
Which is how we Love
and Worship God,
so that we can then…
3) Love others
Which is how we abide in His Love
and bring forth the fruits of the spirit
(worthy of repentance)
We were created to glorify God by bearing much fruit.
Jeremiah 17 : Pen of Iron
5Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
2 Peter 1 : Make Your Calling Sure
3According as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue: 4Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10Why the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: 11For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Matthew 26 : Jesus Prays at Gethsemane
40And he comes to the disciples, and finds them asleep, and said to Peter, What, could you not watch with me one hour? 41Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Galatians 5 : Living by the Spirit (Romans 8:9-11)
16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,
and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh:
and these are contrary the one to the other:
so that you cannot do the things that you would.
18But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19Now THE WORKS OF THE FLESH are:
- Adultery,
- fornication,
- uncleanness,
- lasciviousness,
- 20Idolatry,
- witchcraft,
- hatred,
- variance,
- jealousies,
- wrath,
- strife,
- seditions,
- heresies,
- 21Contentions,
- murders,
- drunkenness,
- revelings, and such like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another, envying one another.
The threshing-floor is used as analogy for distinguishing what comes from
- the holy spirit vs what comes from the flesh.
- Our physical bodies are the outer shell/chaff for the Holy Spirit to produce the fruit within.
- If we don’t allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives then we are just empty useless vessels to Him that will be thrown away, because in our flesh dwells no good thing.
- Just as Circumcision was also used to remove the reproach of the flesh.
- Circumcision was required by all males as part of God’s Covenant with Israel, which was first established with Abraham.
- Joshua used a sword/knife to circumcise all those who were born in the wilderness at hill of foreskins in Gilgal (Circle) before reaching the Promised Land.
The works of the flesh
The work of the holy spirit
1 CORINTHIANS 7 : LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR CALLING
18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Romans 8: No Condemnation in Christ
1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Control by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-26)
9But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.
Heirs with Christ (Genesis 21:1-8; Galatians 4:1-7)
12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Future Glory (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)
18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
- We are new creatures in Him.
- Our old man (Adam) is dead and buried with Him in Baptism.
- We and raised to newness of life in Him.
Romans 6 : Dead to Sin, Alive to God (2 Corinthians 4:7-18)
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. 7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him. 10For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God. 11Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
Wages of Sin
20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. 22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
OLD MAN :: ADAM
- Born of Flesh From Earth
- Was made a Living Soul
- Sin entered into the world through 1 man’s offence
- Death passed unto many
- Death reigned by 1
- By the offence of 1 judgement, came condemnation unto all men
- By the disobedience of 1, many were made sinners
- Sin reigned through death
- The Law entered that the offence may abound
NEW MAN :: JESUS
- Born of Spirit from Heaven
- Was made a quickening Spirit
- Grace entered into the world through 1 man’s righteousness
- Life passed unto many
- Righteousness in life shall reign by 1
- By the righteousness of 1 free gift, came justification unto life of all men
- By the obedience of 1, many were made righteous
- Grace reigned unto righteousness to life
- But grace did much more abound
Ephesians 4 : Put on the New Man
17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now on walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20But you have not so learned Christ; 21If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
john 12 : Jesus Predicts His Death
24Truly, truly, I say to you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it stays alone:
but if it die, it brings forth much fruit.
25He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. 26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.
A seed ceases to become a seed
(meaning, it has to die)
so it can become something new,
in order to bear fruit.
Why was a new Covenant needed?
- The Law was made weak through the flesh.
- The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw near to God.
- Our flesh contains sin.
- Our flesh intercepted the Law and made it weak.
- So God sent His only son, “the Word”, that came as sinful flesh, to live the we couldn’t, and condemned sin in the flesh , so the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us.
- Moses Tabernacle and the Law served as a Shadow of the good things to come, but not the very image.
- A shadow is caused from the interception of light.
- They served as a temporary placeholder (and an example) of what His son would do for us.
- The Law came by way of Moses but Grace and Truth came by way of Christ
OLD COVENANT
- The Law was spoken to them by Moses.
- Bound through blood of goats and calves.
- Contained the inheritance of Promised Land
NEW COVENANT
- Law written into our hearts and minds
- Bound through blood shed of Christ.
- Contains the promise of Inheriting Eternal Life
jeremiah 31 : A New Covenant
31Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was an husband to them, said the LORD: 33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, said the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, said the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
John 3 : Jesus and Nicodemus
1There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him. 3Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.4Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 5Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6That which is born of the flesh is flesh;and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7Marvel not that I said to you, You must be born again. 8The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell from where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
2 CORINTHIANS 4 :
16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
John 15 : Jesus the True Vine
1I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears 
fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches: He that stays in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.6If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you. 8Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.9As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. 11These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.
- God created us to Glorify Him.
- We glorify Him when we produce the fruits of His spirit.
- The only way to produce the fruits of His spirit is by abiding in the vine of Christ, the seed God planted.
- The only way to abide in Christ is by turning from sin, repentance, and keeping his commandments.
- If we don’t bear fruit for Him, then we are useless disposable vessels…children of Belial.
belial[h1100]בְּלִיַּעַל bᵉlîyaʻal
“worthless or wicked”
without profit, worthlessness;
by extension, destruction, wickedness:
—Belial, evil, naughty, ungodly (men), wicked.
2 Chronicles 13:7
And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial[H1100]
2 Samuel 23:6
But [the sons] of Belial[H1100] [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
2 Corinthians 6:15
And what concord hath Christ with Belial?[G955]
Prophecy of the Northern Kingdom (“The lost Sheep”)
- In the book of Ezekial, The Northern Kingdom should have begun being restored after 390 years, which is 331 BC.
EZEKIAL 4 : THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PREDICTED
1You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city, even Jerusalem: 2And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4Lie you also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it you shall bear their iniquity. 5For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, 390 days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.7Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till you have ended the days of your siege.
- However, history shows that the Northern Kingdom never returned to their land.
- So what else does Scripture give us that can shed light on this.
- Which is after 2 days and in the 3rd of the punishment.
- 2009 began the process of the hearts of the Northern Kingdom coming back to Him in large numbers, thus concluding the Northern Kingdom’s judgement.
- The work of Christ started the restoration but its in the 3rd day that He completes the restoration.
- After 2 days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. (as it says in Hosea 6:2)
- He is bringing people back to his ways and back to His law.
Both of my grandfathers happen to pass away in 2009, when God started to really stir up my heart.
At his funeral, the amount of people that came and told me that he was one the “most Godly, humble, and kind men” they had ever met, and the impact he had on their life, made me really question what I was doing with my life.
I knew the life I was leading was not pleasing to Him.
I lived to be known and respected for my ba
sketball ability. That it is how the serpent deceives. He inverts everything to make it about your glory instead of Gods. That is why my life was in such shambles after college. You are empty and left with nothing once it ends. My whole identity was wrapped up in being a successful basketball player. I desired Vain Glory.
After my dreams of basketball were crushed, I then pursued after girls, money, and possessions.
The more I did, the more empty, fruitless, and tired I became.
The reason the picture of my grandfather became so significant to me was because I have had my picture and name in the paper many times for basketball. The difference though was that My grandfather was laboring for a different kingdom and a much different purpose.
I was laboring
to build my own kingdom
My grandfather
was laboring for God’s Kingdom
I had spent the first 30 years of my life “Laboring in Vain” and had become Prideful.The end result was unprofitable empty chaff that scattered with the wind. I reaped what I sowed.There is nothing more sobering than realizing the things you have built your life around are worthless in God’s eyes.Vanity = “excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements.”
I knew I would not have that same reception as my grandfather had my time ended then. My life had become a trainwreck. I tried to carve my own path and it left me with nothing but baggage and misery.
I was in the midst of one the roughest patches of my life, and it was when I really started seeking the Lord with all my heart.
It was when God started opening my eyes and started giving me understanding.
PSALMS 119:59
I considered my ways & turned my feet to Your testimonies.
65You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word. 66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. 67BEFORE I WAS AFFLICTED I WENT ASTRAY: BUT NOW HAVE I KEPT YOUR WORD. 68You are good, and do good; teach me your statutes. 69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart. 70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law. 71IT IS GOOD FOR ME THAT I HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED; THAT I MIGHT LEARN YOUR STATUTES. 72The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
DEUTERONOMY8 :REMEMBER THE LORD YOUR GOD
1All the commandments which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers. 2And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or no. 3And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live. 4Your raiment waxed not old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. 5You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. 6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
Hebrews 12 : God Disciplines His Sons
4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin. 5And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 6For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and whips every son whom he receives. 7If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not? 8But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10For they truly for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby. 12Why lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
- This is what ‘THE PRODIGAL SON’ is all about.
- THE PRODIGAL SON is EPHRAIM who was considered DEAD.
- The son of Joseph who was the son of Rachel, the son and wife Jacob loved most.
LUKE 15 : THE PRODIGAL SON
11And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me. And he divided to them his living. 13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave to him. 17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you, 19And am no more worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants. 20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son. 22But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: 23And bring here the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: 24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
It wasn’t until the perfect son, Jesus, came and died as the son of God to annul the covenant. To establish the new. He died in our place. He came as the Son of God, Israel. Israel was no longer son because of disobedience. Jesus was son because of obedience. When He died on the cross, the marriage covenant was made void because He died as the true son, Israel.
I bought a house in 2014. It was built in 1940 and I had all these plans for how I wanted to renovate it. The first thing I wanted to do was paint the outside of it because the whole house is tan, including the roof, and I thought it was ugly. I put it off and first did a few things that I wanted to the inside.
Not to long after I moved in, however, God started increasing His level of conviction in my heart. I started looking at all things that were going on in the world and I knew He was testing me. Am I going to seek Him first or am I going to put myself first and how I wanted my house to look.
- The parable of the wedding banquet in Luke hit me the hardest.
Luke 14 : The Parable of the Banquet (Matthew 22:1-14)
15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16Then said he to him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray you have me excused. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray you have me excused . 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22And the servant said, Lord, it is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room. 23And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say to you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
Matthew 22 : The Parable of the Banquet (Luke 14:15-24)
1And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables, and said, 2The kingdom of heaven is like to a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, 3And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. 4Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatted calves are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage. 5But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
I recently looked back at the tax records
and saw that my house was previously painted green.
They are 2 of the ugliest colors to paint a house, but they illustrate perfectly the stages of wheat.
That is truly amazing to me.
Matthew 9 : The Sheep and the Harvest
36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheephaving no shepherd. 37Then said he to his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; 38Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
John 4 : The Disciples Return and Marvel
27And on this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you? or, Why talk you with her? 28The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? 30Then they went out of the city, and came to him. 31In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. 32But he said to them, I have meat to eat that you know not of. 33Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any man brought him ought to eat?34Jesus said to them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 35Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. 36And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. 37And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps. 38I sent you to reap that where on you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.
“Milling” is the process of separating and classifying aggregate material. My last name is “Miller” which I got from my grandfather in the picture.
“A Miller” is a person who operates a MILL, which is a machine that grinds the harvested wheat grain, into flour, which is used to make bread.
How Bread is made…
Grain/fruit that has been separated the husk of wheatis ground intoFlour
Flour is then mixed with Olive Oil to make dough
Dough is thenplaced in oven to make Bread
Leviticus 23 : The Feast of Firstfruits
9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you be come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest: 11And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD. 13And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to the LORD for a sweet smell: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. 14And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The Feast of Pentecost
15And you shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16Even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat
offering to the LORD. 17You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals;they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the first fruits to the LORD. 18And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering to the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet smell to the LORD. 19Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21And you shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation to you: you shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 22And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not make clean riddance of the corners of your field when you reap, neither shall you gather any gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them to the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Before the Israelite’s were led out of Egypt into the wilderness in the Exodus, God appeared to Moses at Mt. Horeb in a burning bush that was not consumed.
EXODUS 3 : MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH
1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb[h2722]. 2And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
HOREB[h2722]Chôrêb(it occurs 17 times in 17 verses)
“desolate”,
Mt. Sinai where the Law was given to Moses by God
The page from Book of JOEL found in the Gatlinburg Fire
is burnt right through the middle,
verse 17
but the page is not consumed:
EXODUS 3 : MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH
1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb[h2722]. 2And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
HOREB occurs 17 times in 17 verses
- 17 was the age Joseph was when he was sold into the “empty”pit.
- The camp of Ephraim made up 17%of the tribes population in the wilderness
“Elishima” was the Chief of the camp of Ephraim and his name occurs 17 times in Bible.
- The first 2 dates in the bible are on the 17thof a month regarding the date of the flood and the date when the arc rested.
- Shechem is 17 miles west of the Jordan River
Ewes have estrus cycles ab
out every 17 days,[71]during which they emit a scent and indicate readiness through physical displays towards rams. The female then exhibits sexually receptive behavior,a situation that may be signaled by visible physiologic changes. A signal trait of estrus is the lordosis reflex, in which the animal spontaneously elevates her hindquarters.
HABBAKUK 3
The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
The trumpet was blown as a Warning Sign, and also as reminder of the ram offered for a burnt offering as ransom for Isaac at Mount Moriah, where David bought the Threshing Floor and where the Temple was built.
JOEL 2 : RETURN WITH ALL YOUR HEART
12Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:13And rend your heart, and not 
your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil. 14Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God? 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?
RESTORATION PROMISED
18Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19Yes, the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 20But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill smell shall come up, because he has done great things. 21Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 22Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
27And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God, and none else:
and my people shall never be ashamed.
I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT
28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come. 32And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
This section of JOEL 2 was quoted by Peter In ACTS 2
after the Holy Spirit was sent at Pentecost and he stood up to preach to the crowd
8/21/2017
THE ECLIPSE
33
days later
REVELATION 12 SIGN
The day before Jupiter went into the womb of Virgo at the end of November, 2016,
an asteroid fell into the Gulf of Mexico and THE GATLINBURG FIREoccurred
REVELATION 12 : THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON
1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: 2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. 4And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. 6And THE WOMAN FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a 1260 days.
THE DRAGON PERSECUTES THE WOMAN
13And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
August 16th, 2018
Members and supporters of the Satanic Temple wheeled a statue of winged, goat-headed creature Baphomet onto the grounds of the Arkansas state capitol on Thursday to horn in on a battle over religious freedom.
THE BAPHOMET RALLY PROTESTED A
installed last year outside the state capitol
after lawmakers approved it in 2015.
In May, the American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of four Arkansas women to remove the monument, saying it violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty for all.
The sign in the heavens on 9/23/2017was the dilineation marker for the beginning of the 3.5 year wilderness period where God will feed his sheep.
Revelation 12 :
6And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared of God,
that they should feed her there a 1260 days.
WILDERNESS
“as an uninhabited plan,
fit for feeding flocks.”
PSALM 80: HEAR US, SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL
1Give ear, O SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL, YOU THAT LEAD JOSEPH LIKE A FLOCK; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
2Before EPHRAIM and BENJAMIN and MANASSEHstir up your strength, and come and save us.
3Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
All the following occurrence’s of everything being burnt
and destroyed except “the word of God” happened
over the last 3.5 years from2014 – 2018
“Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.”
BRENHAM, TX – Valerie Escalera says she has no explanation, no idea how such a thing could happen. A book, Escalera said, was sitting inside the cab of her burned-out pickup truck, on what used to be the back seat. She wasn’t expecting to find much when she finally got the nerve to inspect her beloved 1995 truck after it was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon while her father Armondo was driving it on Highway 105. Escalera peeked through the windows and saw one item intact. There was a book sitting on the springs of the back seat, the wind flipping its pages.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God. What is this?” she said.
When the pages flipped back to reveal the cover, she knew immediately what it was. It was her leather-bound Bible, inscribed on the cover with her name and her ex-husband’s name. It sent a shiver up Escalera’s back.The Bible had survived a fire that fused the doors shut and melted away the dashboard.
Long-forgotten Bible survives fire
“You see images (of religious figures) and all that. But this is sitting in the back of our good old ranch truck. Everything burned and melted around it. There’s not even a steering wheel.“The leather cover is barely charred. The edges of the Bible are intact. “I’d put it in a cardboard box, and there’s no trace of that.”
1/6/2016
NEWPORT, TENN. (WVLT) — A Newport couple that lost almost everything they own in a house fire found a surprise in the ashes. Justin and Cynthia Wagner were just about to head to bed on Sunday night at their Trentham Road home when they smelled something burning coming from outside the house. Justin said he looked out his front porch and noticed the garage he converted into a makeshift apartment was engulfed in flames. The fire destroyed the Wagner’s garage, left their Mazda unrecognizable, and did extensive damage to the majority of their two-story home.
“Pretty much everything that we own is gone,” Wagner said. But then a friend found an unexpected surprise while he was helping the couple clean up on Wednesday morning. In the middle of the ashes was a Bible,opened up to JOHN 3:16.The verse reads, “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” Wagner took that as a clear sign. “That tells you right there that God is still here with us, he’s still here for us,” he said.
The majority of the Bible was burned with the edges of the pages blackened and charred, but the words of the passage are nearly untouched and clearly visible. Wagner said he has no doubt in his mind that God saved he and his wife that night because there is still more work for them to do on this earth.
MEMPHIS, TN – An official showed off a bible that was recovered, unharmed, from a car that completely destroyed after it exploded and burst into flames. (Credit: WREG) A Tennessee man was rescued from a vehicle by good Samaritans and police on Sunday just moments before it exploded and caught fire. The crash happened on the eastbound side of I-385 near Memphis on Sunday afternoon. The 2014 Jeep Laredo struck a pole and burst into flames. The Memphis Police Department responded to the scene. An officer and several Good Samaritans were able to pull the trapped driver out of the vehicle right before the explosion.
Anita Irby wrote,THE ENTIRE EXPRESSWAY STOPPED and people ran from their cars trying to break the windows and open the doors of this mans car to free him; as they were, the others went up in prayer for God to deliver this man from the paws of the devil.[…] None of the flames touched him.”
2/22/2016
GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA – The sweltering blaze engulfed the car and everything in it. Those who witnessed it never guessed anything could survive such an intense car fire.
“When the fire was burning it was an intense fire,” said onlooker, TJ Felder. “Then it just blew up.”
But then firefighters pulled an intact Bible from the backseat.
“There was a bible in the backseat,” said Gaffney Fire Department Chief Jamie Caggiano.
“It was charred on the edges but not burnt up.”
11/22/2016
GATLINBURG, TN –
The day after wildfires tore through Gatlinburg, damaging or destroying more than 700 structures, killing at least 10 people and displacing thousands, Isaac McCord was doing his part to help out, picking up debris from the Dollywood park grounds.
Gripping his rake, he revisited a spot in Craftsman Valley he had skimmed over after his co-worker, Misty Carver, quipped, “Is that how you clean your room?” Provoked, he said he had started “really getting in the nooks and crannies” under a park bench when he caught a glimpse of a piece of paper lying in a puddle of water — soggy, seared and torn in two.
McCord, a University of Tennessee alumnus who now works as a human resources training coordinator at Dollywood, said he had no idea what the paper would read, but considering the circumstances, he was curious enough to pick it up.
“As soon as I got down on the ground, I noticed it was a Bible verse, and I was like holy crap,” McCord said in a phone interview on Tuesday night. “It was in a puddle of water. I said, ‘I want to take care of this the best way I can,’ so I gently scooped it up and carried it out the best I could.”
McCord, 24, sat on the bench where he found the paper, and called Carver over. Their work partners, Dollywood wardrobe manager Angela Davis and employee Kimberly Moore, had left to go to the restroom, McCord said.
In silence, the pair pored over the page, the edges of which were burned black, rendering many words illegible. But parts of the right side of the page were preserved enough to get the message across: it perfectly reflected, McCord said, the tragic natural disaster that had thrust Gatlinburg and Sevier County into the national spotlight the night before.
“O Lord, to thee will I cry: For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field,” the page reads, according to a picture of the page posted on McCord’s Facebook.
burned Bible page after wildfires
“At first, we didn’t know what part of the book it was from,” McCord said on Tuesday night, “but we saw bits and pieces about fire and scorching the land, and how the beast groaned and roared for help.”
The page appears to be from the first chapter of Joel from the King James version of the Bible
“We were like this is unreal, this is unbelievable,” McCord said. “When we had both fully read it, we looked at each other — and I will never forget this moment — we both burst into tears. I was ghost white, and we just prayed. There was nothing else to do.
“Still to this moment, almost four hours after the fact, I don’t have words for it.”
1/24/2017
HATTIESBURG, MISS. —A tornado wreaked havoc on parts of southern Mississippi. The William Carey University campus in Hattiesburg was hit hard, with the gym destroyed and many other buildings having sustained extensive damage. The stained-glass window in the school’s Bass Chapel is gone — but it’s what was left inside the chapel that has many amazed.
The tornado left a Bible unharmedand open to PSALM 46, which begins,
“God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.”
Rick Wilemon, who teaches in the school’s art department, posted photos of the chapel and Bible to Facebook.
The tornado killed four people and injured more than 50 others, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
The William Carey University campus remains closed while the university works to rebuild and prepares to resume classes.
12/26/2017
HAUGHTON, LA –
A Haughton family loses everything in a house fire early Christmas morning, but they have found comfort after family Bibles are pulled from the rubble, intact.
The fire happened just after midnight Monday morning on Highway 164.
“Money, insurance cards, life insurance cards, deeds to the house. They’ve been staying here for like 30 years and everything they own is gone, all their clothes everything.”
Everything that had been a part of Tineke Brewer’s parents lives, now reduced to rubble.
On Christmas Eve, her 70-year-old mother chose to spend the night at the hospital with her 76-year-old husband, who’s fighting to live following brain surgery.
The only one inside was Tineke’s cousin.“She said something touched her and told her to get up,” explained Tineke, “so she said when she got up she walked out her door and she seen smoke and fire. Her window was hard to lift up, she said that she just kept on trying to pry it open and she jumped out the window.”
Looking at the pile of debris, Tineke can’t help but think “what if.”
“My son, he usually stays over here when my mom is at the hospital, and that night around 10 o’clock he came home and he said his head was hurting, so I gave him some medicine he laid on my couch and went to sleep.”
Two hours later, the fire erupted.
“My husband and my nephew were putting up a basketball goal at the back for the kids, and they ran over here and came knocking on the door saying my mom’s house was on fire. My child could’ve been there.”
But the only items to survive the blaze assures them that this is all part of God’s plan.
“The Bible is the only thing, everything else is crisp and burnt, but the Holy Bible never burns up, it’s a blessing.”
The charred edges reminding them to be strong, brave and to be thankful.
3/19/2018
NORTH AUGUSTA, SC –
A North Augusta family is rebuilding after a fire left them without a home. The family lost everything, including their 2 dogs, but among all the rubble one thing remained.
“I will never leave you or forsake you, and he hasn’t left us.” Homeowner Wendy Crawley told WJBF NewsChannel 6.
Crawley says she was on her way home, when she saw her life go up in smoke. Wet pages and minor smoke damage, but her bible survived the fire that destroyed the home and just about everything in it.
“Laying on my night stand, is where I kept it.” Crawley said. “It was the only thing I found that we really needed.”
The flames showed no mercy, claiming the lives of Crawley’s two dogs.
“One we’ve had one for 15 years and the other one was our son’s service dog.” She said.
Crawley says Sugar was very special to her 10-year-old, who was diagnosed with Autism 8 years ago.
“She was always there for him,” she said. “If he couldn’t figure out how to calm down, she would come and she would sit, and she would just lay on him and love on him.”
On Monday, the homeowner took our crew through what was left of her house.
For 17 years her family made memories there. Now they can only start over with their faith and the community’s support on their side.
“God didn’t start that fire, but he has certainly brought you through it.” She told WJBF NewsChannel 6.
Crawley says the bible is only one of the miracles she witnessed, that reminds her someone upstairs is keeping her and her family safe.
Fire Destroys South Carolina Home
But Bible Remains Intact Among Rubble
“Do you want to know something crazy? When we came over here, not an ash on that bed.” Crawley said. “Now the cabinet beside it, is messed up, but not an ash on his bed.”
Crawley does have homeowners insurance. At this time the cause of the fire has not been determined.
She tells WJBF NewsChannel 6 she hopes to find her son a new service dog.
Crawley and her family are currently staying with her parents in North Augusta.
1 CORINTHIANS 3 : CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION (Isaiah 28:14-22; 1 Peter 2:4-12)
10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon. 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Every man’s work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
All these occurrences happened within the Bible Belt
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas
REVELATION 3 : MESSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
8‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
The Keepers of “His Word” :: THE BIBLE BELT
Psalm 24 : A pure Heart [A psalm of David ]
3Who shall ascendinto the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4He that has clean hands,and a pure heart;
who has not lifted up his soul to vanity;[h7723],
nor sworn deceitfully.
5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.
7Lift up your heads, O you gatesand be you lift up, you everlasting doors;and the King of glory shall come in.
Psalm 127:1 [[A Song of degrees for Solomon.]]
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain;[h7723] that build it:
except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh [but] in vain;[h7723]
Vain[h7723]שָׁוְא shâvᵉʼ(occurs 53 in 48)
in the sense of desolating;
evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):
—false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
The “Bible Belt”
is also the largest and most dense
population of “Baptist” churches.
Nashville, Tn, the headquarters
of the Southern Baptist Convention
John the Baptist,
whose loins were
girded with truth (bible belt)
was the one crying in the wilderness
preparing the way for the Lord.
To make the rough smooth.
The above occurrences also fall in the blue area between the 2 eclipses.
All of Paul’s Missionary Journeys,
who was from the Tribe of Benjamin,
Rachel’s other son, established all the churches “West” of Jerusalem
Right along the Arc
The same path Abraham’s Journey out of Babylon took toward the West to Shechem
The Camp of Ephraim was typified as an OX
Luke 13 : Jesus Heals a Woman on the Sabbath
10And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity. 13And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 14And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said to the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. 15The Lord then answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, see, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
We are the oxen that God
uses to separate
the grain [fruit] from the chaff,
& to smooth out the rough
Just as we are the clay
that is molded by the
hands of potter
as it spins in a circle.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth
Isaiah 64 : illustration of God’s Power
8But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
From the beginning, in the garden of Eden, God created us to be in relationship with Him and to be His image bearers and to bear fruit unto him. Ever since Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, God has been working to restore His people, His Seed, and ultimately a restored Garden of Eden with His new Bride, while setting distinction and separation His seed, from the seed of the serpent. The new bride of Christ are His Sheep.
He is the potter and we are the clay.
Shaping and Molding us until
His Image is formed in us
through the work His Son
did for us on the cross.
We are the work of His Hands.
Adam and Eve were first put in the 1st garden and were deceived.
Jesus and His Sheep, aka His new Bride, who has not been deceived by the serpent, will be placed in the new garden.
ALABAMA is a anagram for “LAMB”.
MontGOMERy :: Capital of Alabama
Hosea is about the adulterous wife Gomer / Israel.
Alabama looks like a doorway with Mississippi and Georgia on the sides and Tennessee at the top.
MISSISSIPPI : 4 unique letters
TENNESSEE : 4 unique letters
ALABAMA : 4 unique letters (Lamb)
444TH VERSE IN NEW TESTAMENT
JOHN 10 : THE GOOD SHEPHERD
7 Truly, truly, I say to you,
I am the door of the sheep
Alabama is right in the middle of the occurrences of the bibles not being burnt.
27And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God, and none else:
and my people shall never be ashamed.
JOHN 10 : JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD
7Then said Jesus to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
ZECHARIAH 10 : JUDAH AND ISRAEL WILL BE RESTORED
1Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 2For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd. 3My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts has visited his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle. 4Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. 5And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
6And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph,
and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy on them:
and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
7And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine:
yes, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. 9And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 10I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. 11And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. 12And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, said the LORD.
EZEKIAL 37 : THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES
1The hand of the LORD was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the middle of the valley which was full of bones, 2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, see, they were very dry. 3And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know. 4Again he said to me, Prophesy on these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5Thus said the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: 6And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8And when I beheld, see, the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.
THE VISION EXPLAINED
11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, said the LORD.
ONE NATION WITH ONE KING
15The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
16Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.
18And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying,
Will you not show us what you mean by these?
19Say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph,
which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his fellows,
and will put them with him,
even with the stick of Judah,
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20And the sticks where on you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.21And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. 23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelled; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the middle of them for ever more. 27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the middle of them for ever more.
The Camp of EPHRAIM were closest to the Ark of the Covenant in the wilderness
The ARK OF THE COVENANT
contained
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The Church of Philadelphia
has the Key of David
Philadelphia = “brotherly love”
Brotherly love meaning the Ephraim and Manassah
Leviticus 24 : The Oil for the Lamps (Exodus 27:20-21)
1And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3Without the veil of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening to the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4He shall order the lamps on the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
The key to burning olive oil is to keep the wick saturated at all times. The thickness of the
Olive Oil burns clean, doesn’t leave a bad smell, and no harmful chemicals.
- Jesus drank the cup at the Garden of Gethsemane which means “olive press”.
- Our bodies process bread to be used as energy/fuel.
- The bread is the word and the Holy Spirit is the Oil.
The Oil
The Holy Spirit
Olive oil comes from the fruit of an olive tree that has been beaten. Jesus was beaten before the crucifixion.
He became the first fruits and then sent out his holy spirit on the day of Pentecost so we bear the fruits of his spirit.
Acts 2 : The Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Joel 2:28-32; John 14:15-26; John 16:5-16; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 19:1-7)
1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat on each of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What means this? 13Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, You men of Judaea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, bethis known to you, and listen to my words: 15For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Olive oil does not need processing, but you need the right kind of wick and lamp, to burn for fuel.
The Wick
The Right Kind of Wick :: A pure heart
(which holds the flame)
Psalm 24 : A pure Heart [A psalm of David ]
3Who shall ascendinto the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4He that has clean hands,and a pure heart;
who has not lifted up his soul to vanity;[h7723], nor sworn deceitfully.
5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.
7Lift up your heads, O you gates;and be you lift up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
The Lamp
The Right Kind of Lamp :: The Word
Psalm 119: a psalm of david
65 The Word is a lamp unto my feet
Luke 24 : Jesus Explains the Prophecies
25Then he said to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: 26Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? 27And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28And they drew near to the village, where they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. 30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and broke, and gave to them.31And their eyes[g3788] were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? 33And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, 34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon. 35And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
The breaking of bread with his disciples was a representation of Him giving them understanding of why He had to do what he did…and to show them where in the scriptures it said that those things had to be fulfilled. When He did, the disciples heart burned within them as a lamp.
John 12 : 40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart;
that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart,
and be converted, and I should heal them.
Matthew 6 : The Lamp of the Body (Luke 11:33-36)
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.
23But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light t
hat is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
The Works of our Hands
profit self (money).
Treasures stored on earth.
The Work of the Spirit
that profit God.
Treasures stored in heaven
Philippians 2 : Shining as Stars (Matthew 5:13-16)
12Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15That
you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the middle of a crooked and perverse nation,
among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain. 17Yes, and if I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. 18For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
Daniel 12 : Michael’s Deliverance and the End Times (Revelation 1:1-3)
1And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 5Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was on the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was on the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him that lives for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. 8And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.11And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a 1290 days. 12Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the 1335 days. 13But go you your way till the end be: for you shall rest, and stand in your lot at the end of the days.
Matthew 25 : The Parable of the Ten Virgins
1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him. 7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.12But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. 13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.
THE Parthenon = the VIRGIN’S TEMPLE
The Parthenon-Nashville
Nashville is called “the Athens of the South.” Her life-size copy of the Parthenon was constructed in 1897 to celebrate Tennessee’s Centennial and rebuilt in the 1920s.
Inside is sculptor Alan LeQuire’s masterpiece commissioned in 1982, a 41-foot, 10-inch tall statue of the lost Athena-Parthenos. (27.888 cu)
She’s the tallest indoor sculpture in the Western world. It is a duplicate of Athena’s Temple.
Considered to be the Serpent’s Eve reborn and exalted after the Deluge (THE SINKING OF ATLANTIS / Babylon), the immortal Athena stands with her holy rod of power and spear in her hand. Her giant serpent rises at her feet, the protector of the Acropolis (place of secrets) at Athens.
Clothed in leaves of 23.75-karat gold leaf in 2002, Nashville’s golden goddess replicates what historians believe the original statue of Athena looked like. She is stunning, even bedazzling to behold (when was the last time you stood in front of so much gold?). It’s breathtaking when they open the 8 ton bronze doors to her temple and let the Sun shine in.
Acts 17 :Paul at Athens
16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. 18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached to them Jesus, and the resurrection. 19And they took him, and brought him to Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is? 20For you bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Paul Before the Areopagus
22Then Paul stood in the middle of Mars’ hill, and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious. 23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I to you. 24God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; 25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he gives to all life, and breath, and all things; 26And has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. 30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent: 31Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.
32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear you again of this matter. 33So Paul departed from among them. 34However, certain men joined to him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Jeremiah 51 :
17Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.
Exodus 20 : The Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 5:6-21)
1And God spoke all these words, saying, 2I am the LORD your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3You shall have no other gods before me.
4You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.
ZECHARIAH 9 : DELIVERANCE OF JUDAH AND EPHRAIM
9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on an ass, and on a colt the foal of an ass. 10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. 11As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. 12Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double to you; 13When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece,
and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
Nashville is called “the Athens (Greece) of the South.”
THE LORD WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE (Isaiah 45:14-25)
14And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. 15The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 16And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign on his land. 17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
The symbol of the Gideons is a two-handled pitcher and torch recalling Gideon’s victory
15And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian. 16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do. 18When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece,
and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
“The Sword of the Lord” is “the sword of the Holy Spirit”, which is “the Word of God”.
The Holy Spirit which he has given us, is the Spirit of Truth, which pierces through the soul, to reveal the intentions of the heart
Luke 2 : Prophecy of Simeon
33And Joseph and his mother marveled at those things which were spoken of him. 34And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; 35(Yes, a sword shall pierce through your own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Gideon = “Warrior”, “hewer”
FULL ARMOR OF GOD
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EPHESIANS 6 : THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD
10Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13Why take to you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14Stand therefore, HAVING YOUR LOINS GIRT ABOUT WITH TRUTH, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;16Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Matthew 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword[G3162]
sword[G3162]máchaira(occurs 29x in 26v)
a large knife, used for killing animals and cutting up flesh
Hebrews 4 :
For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword[G3162], piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
- Circumcision was required by all males as part of God’s Covenant with Israel, which was first established with Abraham.
- Joshua used a sword/knife to circumcise all those who were born in the wilderness at hill of foreskins in Gilgal before reaching the Promised Land.
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The Sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, is used to circumcise the heart, which means removing the reproach of the flesh, so that we keep the commandments and worship God is Spirit and Truth.
Matthew 6 : Treasures in Heaven (Matthew 13:44-46)
19Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
24No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one, and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and money.
Jeremiah 51 : The Harvest of Babylon33For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel;
The daughter of Babylon
is like a threshing floor[h1637],
it is time to thresh [h1758]her:
yet a little while,
and the time of her harvest[h7105] shall come.
Revelation 18 : Babylon is Fallen
4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
14And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.
The East Frieze on Athena’s Parthenon, it is claimed, contained all the elements of Plato’s Atlantis texts and suggests that the Parthenon was built to commemorate both Athena and Hephaestus (Enki), since they both championed the Athenians in the epic War between Athens and Atlantis.
In Greek myth the god of smithcraft/alchemy, Hephaestus (the Sumerian Enki)
crafted this rod
for Athena.
Nashville is home to 3 temples from the ancient world.
When God scattered the languages at the Tower:
Enkibecame:
- PTAH to the Egyptians
- Hephaestus to the Greeks
- Vulcan to the Romans
The Egyptian version of Hephaestus is
PTAH
The Egyptian version of Athena is
Neith (net)
asenath[h621]אָסְנַת ʼÂçᵉnath,
Asenath = “belonging to the goddess Neith”
The Wife of Joseph
Genesis 46:20
And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim,
which Asenath[h621]the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
- Joseph was sold into Egypt by the Midianites.
- Joseph gave birth to Ephraim and Manassah while in Egypt with his wife Asenath.
- Asenath means “belonging to the goddess Neith”.
- Gideon was from the Tribe of Manassah.
Judges 6 : The Call of Gideon
12And the angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor. 13And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Senatobia is located in Tate County 30 minutes outside Memphis, TN but is part of the Memphis, TN–MS–AR Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In Egyptian mythology, Ptah is the demiurge of Memphis, god of craftsmen and architects.
Memphis was believed to be under the protection of the god Ptah, the patron of craftsmen. Its great temple, Hut-ka-Ptah (meaning “Enclosure of the ka of Ptah”), was one of the most prominent structures in the city. The name of this temple, rendered in Greek as Aί-γυ-πτoς (Ai-gy-ptos) by the historian Manetho, is believed to be the etymological origin of the modern English name Egypt.
The name Senatobia was derived from the Indian word Senatohoba,
The statue of the Pharaoh Ramasses the Great in Memphis, Tn
which means “White Sycamore”—a symbol of “rest for the weary.”
The Pharoah called Joseph Zaphnath-paaneah
which means “treasury of the glorious rest”.
The Hebrews interpreted it as “revealer of a secret”.
The Parthenon Acropolis is “the place of secrets”.
Genesis 47 :
11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses[h7486], as Pharaoh had commanded.
Rameses[h7486]רַעְמְסֵס Raʻmᵉçêç,
Rameses = “child of the sun”
Exodus 12 : The Exodus Begins
34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. 35And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: 36And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent to them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. 37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses[h7486]to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. 38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
Genesis 41:45
And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnathpaaneah[h6847];
and he gave him to wife Asenath[h621] the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt.
Zaphnathpaaneah[h6847]צׇפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ
Zaphnath-paaneah = “treasury of the glorious rest”
a name given by Pharaoh to Joseph
Hebrews interpreted this word as “revealer of a secret”
hephaestus
is the Roman
vulcan
My sister lives in Birmingham, AL, home of THE VULCAN STATUE.
The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world, and is the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, reflecting its roots in the iron and steel industry. The 56-foot (17 m) tall statue depicts the Roman god Vulcan, god of the fire and forge. It was created as Birmingham’s entry for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 World’s Fair) in St. Louis, Missouri. The statue is the world’s largest iron-ore statue, and among the nation’s tallest.[2]
Hephaestus, Ptah, vulcan, Enki
are the biblical equivalents of:
TUBAL-CAIN
who was the first METAL WORKER
and the last descendant of CAIN
mentioned before THE FLOOD
TUBAL CAIN has even been described as
“THE FIRST CHEMIST“
and a
“PROMINENT ALCHEMIST“
because he was the holder of
“PLUTONIC THEORY.”
Genesis 4 : Descendants of Cain
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah.
Athena beams at a 2,200-foot long ‘rod’ that has been growing since 1996 in front of the north slope of the artificially tiered mound upon which sits the State Capitol, a few short miles away.
Known as the Tennessee Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park located at the base of the State Capitol in downtown Nashville features a 2,200-foot long ‘rod’ laid out on 19 acres.
Its designers say this rod was “forged to honor the Capitol and exalt all that is Tennessee.”
(This is an interesting choice of words considering Hephaestus also forged Athena’s rod.)
Henry Wallace in 1999, noticed the uncanny similarity of its design to a second century drawing of Enki’s mystical Meru rod (on the left).
The Meru diagram is a mandala, a mnemonic device, designed to guide the neophyte into meditation and communion. The Meru rod resembles an antenna because that’s what Meru myth says it was. It is claimed that the immortals or the Great Spirit (symbolized in Judaism by a Serpent of Wisdom) lived at Meru because of the protecting power of the healing universal life force energy – the Key of Life – emitted (or transmitted) by Meru. The triangular apex at the top of the pillar symbolizes Shambhala, the dwelling of the gods.
Mount Meru, in Hindu mythology, a golden mountain that stands in the centre of the universe and is the axis of the world. It is the abode of gods, and its foothills are the Himalayas, to the south of which extends Bhāratavarṣa (“Land of the Sons of Bharata”), the ancient name for India. The roof tower crowning the shrine in a Hindu temple represents Meru.
Meru is symbolic of the antenna-like beacon or link the Dur~An~Ki, Sitchin says was used by the Anunnaki for sending messages heavenward and as a ceremonial center for state visits of Anu, Enki’s father, to Su-Meru.
Both of my grandfathers happened to be stationed in India during World War II.
The rod portion of the Mall has seven springs running beneath it. (The cosmic Tree of Life is always rooted in water.) Each of the body’s seven chakras is perfectly marked with appropriate symbolism at the Mall. It is truly a Seven-Gated Magician’s Rod fitting of Hermes.
***The assyrian is the rod of God’s anger. Isaiah 10
Jeremiah 51 : Babylon’s Punishment
17Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 18They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. 19The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 20You are my battle ax and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 21And with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22With you also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces old and young; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, said the LORD. 25Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, said the LORD, which destroy all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain. 26And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, said the LORD.
This living temple is lined with oak trees, which means it fits the biblical definition of an Ashera. The Hebrew word ashera, rendered grove in the Authorized Version of the Bible refers to a living or wooden pillar or a grove of trees of the Anunnaki goddess, Is-Tara or Astarte. Ashi is the Sumerian root for ‘heal’. These healing pillars of worship, where the Great Wise Serpent/Spirit (Enki) manifested, were forbidden by the Jewish patriarchy. The fact that the ashera was the place of worship of Ishtar is integral to decoding the Mall.
Gideon was tasked with tearing down the altar’s of Baal and the grove’s of Asherah.
My Grandfather was passing out Gideon bible’s at the Ole Miss university who are known as the “Rebels” and are famous for “the grove”.
Described as “the Holy Grail of tailgating sites” by Sporting News,[4] It is the tailgating area located at the center of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) campus. It is approximately 10 acres (4.0 ha) in size. The Grove takes its name from “the oak, elm and magnolia trees surrounding the area.
Judges 6 : Gideon Destroys Baal’s Altar
25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take your father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove[h842] that is by it: 26And build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove[h842]which you shall cut down.
Grove[h842]אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh(occurs 40 in 40)
happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess;
also an image of the same:—grove.
wooden pillars
William Henry, in his book City of Peace, he chanced upon Nashville’s Mall-Meru cross in 1999 while researching FDRs quest for the secrets of Jesus in Shambhala, the apex of Meru, in Mongolia in 1934. He followed a clue in a coded letter sent by Henry A. Wallace, FDR’s Secretary of Agriculture and partner in this “Grail quest”, to the famed guru Nicholas Roerich, the third ‘wise man’ in this trinity. It suggested that Nashville, TN was a possible repository for the results of their investigation.
The key clue that led Henry to the Mall site was Wallace’s mention of a “sacred casket” or coffin and a location in America marked by “7 stars under 3 stars”. Tennessee’s state flag is the only flag in the union that has only 3 stars.
According to state archaeologists, the Mall site has been used as a ceremonial center since 900 AD when the Mississippian culture built a ceremonial mound royal grave just 70 yards away. “Vast numbers” of bodies are interred here. This makes this site a giant coffin.
The Arabs called
the 7 stars of the Big Dipper ‘Nash’,
which meant ‘the great coffin’.
The Sumerians called
this constellation Meru,
meaning the sacred casket.
Middle Tennessee was originally called “the Mero District.”
The last name of the team member I used to drag the silver ball in a straight line was “Kever”.
As it turns out, Kever in Hebrew = “grave” or “tomb”
קֵבֶר kever; “grave”
At the apex of the Bicentennial Mall in Nashville, is a Stonehenge-like stone circle called the Court of Three Stars. The 4-foot diameter, Egyptian djed-like pillars hold 95 bells of different pitches (one for each county in Tennessee) that form a musical instrument called a carillon – the largest in the world. The 95 bells resonate with a 96th bell located beside the Capitol.
Coincidentally, the Land of Shambhala, with Meru as its center, has 96 principalities.
The stone circle or Gilgal.
96 Pomegranates lined the 2 Pillars of Solomon’s Temple which was built upon the threshing-floor at Mout Moriah that his father David bought from Ornan the Jebusite for 50 shekels of silver in Jerusalem.
gilgal[h1537]גִּלְגָּל Gilgâl(occurs 41 in 39)
“a wheel, rolling”, “stone circle”
This was the place where Elijah ascended in a whirlwind.
John the baptist was the one who went before Christ to prepare the way in the spirit and power of Elijah. Jesus became the new Temple and we are the stones of the temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in.
Luke 1 : Birth of John the Baptist Foretold 17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Malachi 4 : The Great Day of the Lord
1For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, said the LORD of hosts. 4Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Joshua, who was from the tribe of Ephraim, the other son of Joseph, took 12 men, one from each tribe, and each took a stone out the Jordan on his shoulder.
The stones on the shoulder meant the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark of the Covenant when it passed over. The stones were placed at Gilgal.
Joshua 5 : Twelve Stones from the Jordan
1And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, 2Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3And command you them, saying, Take you hence out of the middle of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you shall lodge this night.4Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 5And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone on hisshoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: 6That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these stones? 7Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel for ever.
Joshua then used a sword/knife to circumcise all those who born in the wilderness before entering the Promised Land in Gilgal at the Hill of Foreskins. Gilgal was named by Joshua because He had removed the reproach of Egypt from off of them.
Joshua 6 : The Circumcision at Gilgal (Genesis 17:9-27; Leviticus 12:1-8; Acts 15:1-4)
1And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. 2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make you sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. 3And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. 5Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. 6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land, which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 7And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. 8And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp, till they were whole. 9And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Why the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.
1 CORINTHIANS 7 : LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR CALLING
18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19CIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING, and UNCIRCUMCISION IS NOTHING,
BUT THE KEEPING OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD.
300 (= 17 x 17.65)
- Greek had the Army of 300 that battled the Persian army.
- Nashville is the Athens, Greece of the South.
- Parthenon 17 pillars on each side.
- The New Testament is written in Greek.
- The Mount of Olives was 300 ft above Jerusalem.
- Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years.
- Methusaleh : 969 = 17th Tetrahedral #
- His death brought the flood
- The length of Noah’s Ark was 300 cubits
- The flood 2/17
- The Arc rested 7/17
- Jesus was anointed at Bethany with ointment that could have sold for 300 Pence.
- The ship the disciples used to catch 153 fishes, was 200 cu from shore, which is 300 ft.
- 153 : 17th Triangular #
- Gideon had an Army of 300 that defeated the Midianite’s.
- 1700 shekels
Midian or Midianite = “strife”
Midia
Isiah 10 : A Remnant of Israel Shall Return
20And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay on him that smote them; but shall stay on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. 22For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. 23For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the middle of all the land. 24Therefore thus said the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt. 25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction. 26And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a whip for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was on the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Isiah 11 : The Root of Jesse
1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2And the spirit of the LORD shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatted calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
7And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
12And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
14But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over with dry sandals.
16And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
strife[h7379]רִיב rîyb(occurs 62 in 61) 17 books
a contest (personal or legal):
— adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion),
controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit
strife[g2052]ἐριθεία eritheía
intrigue, i.e. (by implication) faction:—contention(-ious), strife.
electioneering or intriguing for office;
a courting distinction, a desire to put one’s self forward, a partisan and fractious spirit which does not disdain low arts;
self-seeking pursuit of political office by unfair means (BDAG).
JAMES 3 :
14 But if ye have bitter envying [g2205]and strife[g2052in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth
JAMES 3 :
16For where envying [g2205] and strife[g2052] is, there is confusion[g181] and every evil work.
Envy and Strife leads to Confusion.
Babylon = “Confusion”
Babel or Babylon[h894]בָּבֶל Bâbel(occurs 262x in 233v) 17 books
“confusion (by mixing)”
Luke 22 : Who is the Greatest?
24And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
Phillippians 2 : Being One in Christ
1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2Fulfill you my joy, that you be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3Let nothing be done through strife [h2052] or vainglory [h2754]; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
vainglory[g2754]kenodoxía
empty glorying, i.e. self-conceit:—vain-glory.
vain glory, groundless, self esteem, empty pride;
glorying without reason, conceited, vain glorious, eager for empty glory
Galatians 5 : Living by the Spirit
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
James 3 : True Wisdom from Above
16For where envying and strife[h2052]is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
- Daniel, who was one those exiled/scattered into Babylon, writes…
DANIEL 9
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, ALL THIS EVIL IS COME UPON US: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and UNDERSTAND THY TRUTH.
Vain[g2756]kenós
empty ;
devoid of truth;
No Purpose, value or profit
Fruitless, without effect
-of places, vessels, etc. which contain nothing;
Vanity = “the absence of truth”
2 Timothy 3 : Evil in the Last Days
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Romans 1 : God’s Wrath against Sin (Jeremiah 6:10-21; Jeremiah 25:15-33; Jonah 1:4-10; Acts 27:13-26)
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things.
SO WHAT IS TRUTH?
1 Timothy 2:4
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth
Truthwas established through:
- the Law
- and Commandments
PSALM 119
142 Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy Law is the Truth
151 Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy Commandments are the Truth
- Grace and Truth was then established in our hearts by Jesus, who was the Word made flesh.
- He fulfilled the Law for us in the flesh, took the judgement we deserved.
- He commanded us to abide in his love and truth by performing his commandments.
- We are saved by grace and not by works, so no man has any room to boast.
John 1:
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.[G225]
17 For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth[G225] came by Jesus Christ.
- Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
- No man can come to God but through Him.
JOHN 14 :
5Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where you go; and how can we know the way? 6Jesus said to him, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE: no man comes to the Father, but by me.
- God is a spirit
- We must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.
John 4:24
God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.[G225]
- His Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth which guides us in Truth.
John 14:17
[Even] the Spirit of truth;[G225] whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth;,[G225] is come, he will guide you into all truth:[G225] for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
- The Truth sets us free from bondage.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,[G225] and the truth[G225] shall make you free.
- John the Baptist bore witness to the truth and he had his loins girded in truth
- John the Baptist baptized with water unto repentance which is an expression of being washed clean/sanctified.
- We are cleansed and sanctified through the washing of his Word, which is the truth.
- Baptize, means to submerge, overwhelm.
- Jesus then baptized with fire and the Holy Spirit
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,[G225] and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
JOHN 17 : PRAYER FOR THE DISCIPLES
17Sanctify them by the truth; YOUR WORD IS TRUTH
2 Thessalonians 2:13
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:[G225]
- We are to walk in His Truth by abiding in Him through keeping His commandments
1 John 3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth,[G225] and shall assure our hearts before him.
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.[G225]
- A Polygraph Test is commonly used by Law Enforcement and government agencies.
- They tie a band around your heart.
- It measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions
- You are first asked basic questions like what your name is, to establish a baseline of truth, before it asks more interrogating questions
if you are telling a lie
the needle jumps all over the place
if you are telling the truth
the needle drawing a straight line
- God establishes the baseline of Truth with His Law
- God judges based on whether or not you can keep the line straight.
- God is the one searching the Heart.
- Unrighteousness makes the polygraph needle jump all over the place to the right and left.
- Unrighteousness means you failed the Lie Detector Test and guilty of the Crime (SIN).
- Therefore you condemned to punishment (Judgement).
- God, being merciful, gave us a way to pass the Polygraph through the giving of His Son and His Mercy.
- The Polygraph needle stays straight under interrogation and tribulation if we Abide in His Love and Truth through his Holy Spirit which was given to us by Him who fulfilled the Law) (I am the Way, The Truth, and Light, no man come to Father but by me)
- The Needle is Established (Fixed) by Grace and are considered Not Guilty.
- When we do sin, we have a intecessor (attorney), the Holy Spirit, given to us by Jesus, that pleads for us on our behalf in front of the Judge (God) as did Moses
- Thus being able to pass the test, and declared Righteous in his sight.
The Mystery : Sun Worship
WIFE : Isis (queen of Heaven)(Moon)
HUSBAND : Osiris (god of Dead)(Sun)
SON : Horus (resurrected Sun god)
whose spirit goes into pharoah as fit extension through imitative magic from objects created by works of men’s hands
The Mystery : Son Worship
WIFE : Israel
HUSBAND : God of the Living
SON : Jesus (resurrected Son of God)
which sent his Holy Spirit into His believers through faith through work of God’s son on cross
Babel
Bible
penance
repentance
the pathis broad
which leads to destruction
the pathis narrow
which leads to life
the pathis paved with Gold
the pathis Paved with blood
Seed of Wickedness
planted by serpent
Seed of Righteousness
planted by God
tree of knowledge of good & Evil
Digital (Numbers)
Quantified, Qualifiable, Measured
Tree of Life
The Word
Eternal
self Assessment tools | Metrics
Self Assessment Tool
The Way of Cain
City Builders
Manipulating God’s creation
to fit your own desires,
through work of own hands.
which leads to
an artificially contrived
city of confusion
THE way of Able
Tending the flock
Tending to what God has created.
(nourishing and feeding his flock)
God completing His work in us
through His hands and spirit
which leads to
a city of peace created By God
The Foundation, Stone, Rock : Gnosis
Alchemy (Philosopher’s Stone)
The Foundation, Stone, Rock : the law
Christ
Established through initiation
and own works
Established through grace
and the work of Christ
Working to Earn Salvation
APPLYING SALVATION ALREADY GIVEN
rooted in gnosis [science]
Rooted in christ
Vine of sodom
Vine of christ
support for vine : electrical towers
support for vine : the cross
seeking the lost city
seeking the lost sheep
running a race that Has A
running a race that is already
fueled by discontent
and what needs to be done
Lust, Want, Envy, Covetnous
Self Will
Pride
Pursuing Passions
Ambition, Drive, Innovation
which leads to
Exhaustion
Anxiety, Stress, Panic
Anger, malice
Frustration
Hurry
fueled by contentment
in what’s already done
Wanting Nothing
God’s Will
Humility
Crucified Passions
Pursuing Righteousness
which leads to
Rest
Peace
Love
Joy
Patience
WALK OF FAME
WALK OF FAITH
Hollywood Script
The Holy Script
performance art
performing the commandments
Vanity Mirror
Used to fix our outer appearance
The Mirror of God’s Word
Used to fix our heart
Hollywood Star Shining
Shining as Stars in Midst of Darkness
Philippians 2 : Shining as Stars
15That you may be blameless and h
Holiday Gift$$$
(Holy Day) Free Gift of Salvation
Circuit Board
GALILEE=”circuit”
Crushed coal to make electricity
Crushed Grain (Flour) to Make bread
Oscillation : Electromagnetic waves
Wave Offering of Bread
Wave[h5130]נוּף nûwph(occurs 37 in 35)
to move to and fro, wave, besprinkle
a primitive root;
to quiver (i.e. vibrate up and down, or rock to and fro);
used in a great variety of applications (including sprinkling, beckoning, rubbing, bastinadoing, sawing, waving, etc.):—lift up, move, offer, perfume, send, shake, sift, strike, wave.
Haarp
David’s Harp
city of confusion
Babylon : Atlantis
city of peace
Jerusalem
online identity
identity in christ
Crown of enlightenment (corruptible)
throughmeditatation, chakra balancing, yoga
Crown of Righteousness (incorruptible)
through
prayer and obedience
Author of confusion
Nimrod | Osiris
Shepherd of the goats
author of Peace
Jesus
Shepherd of the Sheep
book of the dead
LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE
refinement of Metals
for dead works (to build city)
refinement of Heart
to do good works
Justification based off own works
Justification based off work done on cross
restoration of the lost city
through own works
restoration of His lost sheep
through His work
weapons of war : carnal
weapons of war : Spiritual
3For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war after the flesh:
4For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strong holds;
5Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;
6And having in a readiness to revenge
all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
bread : wafers of silicon
bread : wafers of unleavened bread
oil to run machines
oil for Lamps (heart) to light our path
tables of binary data
tables of bread broken for us on the cross
cup of abominations
cup of blood shed for us
yoke is heavy
yoke is light
works of the flesh
produce bitter fruit
adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, jealousies,
wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, contentions, murders,
drunkenness, revelings
works of the spirit
that kill works of flesh producing sweet fruit
Love, Joy,
Peace, Kindness,
Goodness,
Faithfulness,Gentleness,
Self Control, Patience
Labours for meat that perishes
Labours for meat that’s eternal
bundles of fiber optic cables
bundles of fibers of wheat
united Nations
united in Christ through the spirit
bound together by bitumen
fossil fuels
electricity
bound together by unity of Spirit & faith
in the bond of peace.
(Ephesians 4)
joining male & female physically
by Hermetic Alchemy and Science
joining male & female spiritually
through faith in Christ and marriage
GALATIANS 3
26For you are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as
have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:
for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Mark 10
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and join to his wife; 8And they two shall be one flesh: so then they are no more two, but one flesh. 9What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.
mixing elements to create elixirs
technical and the spiritual
mixing the word with faith
(the substance of things hoped for)
reconciling opposites in nature
Reconciled to Christ
woman : The Whore of Babylon
woman : The Bride of Christ
clothed in white lab coats
clothed in white robes by blood of lambRevelation 7These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Wool : Rough
linen : smooth
sorrow : wordly
comes from not getting your way
sorrow : godly
that comes people forsaking God’s law
Fear placed in Man
Fear placed in God
Mainstream News
the Good news
Man of Sin
“Number” of his name
Son of Man“Word made flesh”
house built by pharoah on sand
house built by God on rock
worthless Metal : dross
purified Metal
husk
fruit
tares : ungodly
standing tallPridegathered in bundles
the chaff
double destruction, burned in fire
godly : wheat
boughed overHumblegathered in bundles
the fruit
double fruit taken into barn
EXODUS 32 : THE GOLDEN CALF
25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies:) 26Then
Moses stood in the GATE OF THE CAMP,
and said, WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE?
let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man on his son, and on his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.
Revelation 18 : Lament over Babylon
9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her,
shall mourn her,
and lament for her,
when they shall see
the smoke of her burning,
10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment,
saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon,
that mighty city!
for in one hour is your judgment come.
The only spot where the smoke wasn’t prevalant…
New York Post :
‘Ring of Fire’ hit with 70 earthquakes in just 48 hours
Fears are mounting the catastrophic “Big One” earthquake could rip through California killing thousands after 70 quakes rocked the deadly Ring of Fire in just 48 hours. A cluster of 16 “significant” quakes – above magnitude 4.5 – hit yesterday following 53 that shook the region along the disaster zone on Sunday.
Psalm 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Psalm 68 :
6God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
REVELATION 14 : THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH
Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. 19And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. 20And the wine press was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
The Vine of the Earth
.
Horse’s Bridle used at Oil Well
to cipher oil (bitumen) from ground.
MATTHEW 25 : THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS
31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Ruth 2 : Boaz Shows Favor to Ruth
17 So she gleaned in the field until even,
and threshed[h2251]
that she had gleaned:
and it was about an ephah of barley.
The Threshing Floor
is an analogy for the process of Sanctification
The threshing, Winnowing, & sieving Process
is analogous with being
Chastened,
set apart,
& the refined as part of the remnant
The process of being set apart from sinners, cleansed and made holy
Learning and observing to do what is right
in the sight of the Lord while also distinguishing, and discerning, what is vanity in his eyes.
Being broken, humbled, and heavy through affliction. Falling to the feet of the one who we are justified through, in repentance and faith. If we are justified through Him, we worthy to be saved and stored in the barn.
Everything is else is
empty, vain, useless chaff
that gets scattered in the wind,
or burned in the fire.
After 70 years of Babylonian Captivity, the first thing the priest did was to gather the people and read the Law, so they understood it.
NEHEMIAH 8 : EZRA READS THE LAW (Deuteronomy 31:9-13)
1And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. 2And Ezra THE PRIEST BROUGHT THE LAW BEFORE THE CONGREGATION BOTH OF MEN AND WOMEN, AND ALL THAT COULD HEAR WITH UNDERSTANDING, on the first day of the seventh month. 3And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, AND THOSE THAT COULD UNDERSTAND; AND THE EARS OF ALL THE PEOPLE WERE ATTENTIVE TO THE BOOK OF THE LAW.
Old Hickory Boulevard is a historic road that encircles Nashville, Tennessee,which is DAVIDson county.
“Pecan” is from an Algonquian word variously referring to pecans, walnuts and hickory nuts,[3] or more broadly to any nut requiring a stone to crack
In alchemy, caput mortuum (alternately
called nigredo) signified a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation and the epitome of decline and decay;
alch
emists represented this residue with a stylized human skull, a literal death’s head.
The starting point for Enki’s alchemical work of transforming a human – the impure or base metal – into pure gold.
Tennessee State Flag
The three stars symbolize the ‘third eye’ and enlightenment
threshing
[Spread out, Smooth, Break Apart, Loosen]
Being broken, chastened, and humbled through affliction. Made heavy, meaning fruitful, through, repentance and faith. Making paths straight. Loosening the yoke of bondage and being lead to watering. Learning obedience.
Winnowing
[Fan, Separate]
sieving
Separating from sinners.
Learning and observing to do what is right
in the sight of the Lord while also distinguishing, and discerning, what is vanity in his eyes.
Falling to the feet of the one who we are justified
Further refinement and pruning to bear more fruit.
A sieve, or sifter, is a device for separating wanted elements from unwanted material or for characterizing the particle size distribution of a sample, typically using a woven screen such as a mesh or net or metal
Just like Gideon, who felt unequipped and asked for confirmation for what he was asked to do…
Judges 6 : The Signs of the Fleece
5And he said to him, Oh my Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.
36And Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshingfloor[h1637];
and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the earth beside, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
I also felt unequipped and was asking God for confirmation that this is what he wanted me to do.
I have never felt called by God to do anything. God gave all of us gifts as part of being in the body of Christ. I wasn’t sure what mine was.
That day happened to be one of the peak days of my overwhelm and frustration. On my way there I actually pulled off the side of the road and just started crying. I was crying out to Him a conversation that went like this: ““Is this really what you want me to be doing? Why me? I am not equipped to do this.”
Gideon was threshing wheat by the winepress. Wheat in bulk was threshed using a Threshing-board.
The sign God showed me that day was using a board to keep the path straight to open the door
judges 6 : The Signs of the Fleece
36And Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the threshingfloor[h1637];
LUKE 3 : THE MISSION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
Wool is rough meaning,
“having an uneven or irregular surface;
not smooth or level.”
Esau was rough and hairy.
Jacob was smooth.
God hated Esau and loved Jacob.
[h1637]גֹּרֶן gôren
Threshing-floor
from an unused root meaning to smooth;
a threshing-floor (as made even);
LUKE 3 : THE MISSION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
17Whose fan is in his hand,
and he will thoroughly purge his floor,
(threshing-floor)
and will gather the wheat into his garner;
but the chaff
he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Working with Fossil Fuels, which are Dead Plants,
in order to create electricity and energy are
what the Bible refers to as:
“The unfruitful works of Darkness”
“Dead works”
and
“Laboring in Vain”
HEBREWS 6: A CALL TO MATURITY
1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentancefrom dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Alchemy is known as “the dark art”
Alchemy is the what the
bible describes as
the “works of darkness”
EPHESIANS 5: CHILDREN OF LIGHT
\11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatever does make manifest is light.
105Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
EPHESIANS 6 : THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD
10Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Judaicum Bitumen
More than 4000 years ago, according to The Greek historian Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, hot bitumen was used as mortar in the walls and towers of Babylon. Approximately 40 AD, Dioscorides described the Dead Sea material as Judaicum Bitumen.
It is a light-sensitive material in what is accepted to be the first complete photographic process, i.e., one capable of producing durable light-fast results.[2]
The technique was developed by French scientist and inventor Nicéphore Niépce in the 1820s. In 1826 or 1827, he applied a thin coating of the tar-like material to a pewter plate and took a picture of parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, producing what is usually described as the first photograph.
It is considered to be the oldest known surviving photograph made in a camera.
Kodak Theatre in Hollywood
w/ graven image of Nimrod (Osiris)
who built the Tower of Babel
Hollywood : Motion Picture capital
Nimrod, The Assyrian, (Lucifer)
is known as Osiris to the Egyptians.
OS – IRIS :
The Egyptian God of the Dead.:
.
OSCAR
OSiRIS AWARD
MATTHEW 22:
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
…let us build us a city and a tower,
and let us make us a name,
meaning,
let us become famous
and always remembered
“SELF” FRONT IN CENTER, ON STAGE, IN THE egyptian limelight
NUMBERS 33 : DESTROY THE CANAANITES
52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 55But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which you let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein you dwell. 56Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do to you, as I thought to do to them.
DEUTERONOMY 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. …
25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein:
for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
.
ISAIAH 47 : THE FALL OF BABYLON PREDICTED
14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.15Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored, even your merchants, from your youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save you
REVELATION 11 : WITNESSES KILLED & RAISED
8And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified
SOURCE OF ALL “CITY BUILDING”
is the knowledge of Alchemy and Chemistry
which allows them to
transmute Bitumen
into
Energy and Electricity.
I.E. the knowledge of how to transmute coal (bitumen) into black powder to convert into electricity
Lightning is one of the most dramatic effects of electricity.
LUKE 10 : THE 72 RETURN WITH JOY
17And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject to us through your name. 18And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19Behold, I give to you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
$10M Radio Frequency Antenna at the top:
the Jewel in Apples Crown
ELECTRICITY :: “THE ELECTRIC – CITY”
In the 19th and early 20th century, electricity was not part of the everyday life of many people, even in the industrialized Western world. Electricity remained little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber. He coined the New Latin word electricus(“of amber” or “like amber”, from ἤλεκτρον, elektron, the Greek word for “amber”) to refer to the property of attracting small objects after being rubbed.
The early 19th century had seen rapid progress in electrical science, the late 19th century would see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Electricity turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force of the Second Industrial Revolution.
The solid-state device came into its own with the invention of the transistor in 1947. Common solid-state devices include transistors, microprocessor chips, and RAM. A specialized type of RAM
called flash RAM is used in USB flash drives and more recently, solid-state drives to replace mechanically rotating magnetic disc hard disk drives.
The popular culture of the time accordingly often depicts it as a mysterious, quasi-magical force that can slay the living, revive the dead or otherwise bend the laws of nature. The masters of electricity, whether fictional or real—including scientists such as Thomas Edison, Charles Steinmetz or Nikola Tesla—were popularly conceived of as having wizard-like powers.
ISAIAH 34 : GOD’S JUDGMENTS ON THE NATIONS
1Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2For the indignation of the LORD is on all nations, and his fury on all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll:
and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down on Idumea, and on the people of my curse, to judgment. 6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch[h2203],
and the dust thereof into brimstone,
and the land thereof shall become burning pitch[h2203].
10It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail
none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.
17And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
[h2203] זֶפֶת zepheth, Pitch
“pitch, tar, asphalt” aka bitumen
from an unused root (meaning to liquify);
asphalt (from its tendency to soften in the sun):—pitch.
VINE OF SODOM
FRUIT FROM VINE
DEUTERONOMY 32 : SONG OF MOSES
31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the
fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
35To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste.
36For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted
vine of ELECTRICITY (sodom)
Vine of the Dead
-vs-
GRAPE VINE
(with quadrilateral cordon spur training)
ANTENNAE
-vs-
GRAPE VINE
BAPHOMET, Egyptian goat of Mendez,
“As above, so below
Acts 17 :
Jason Seized
5But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. 6And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come here also; 7Whom Jason has received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.8And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. 9And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
from Manly P. Hall…33rd Degree Free-Mason
“When the vernal equinox no longer occurs in the sign of Taurus, the sun god incarnated in the constellation of Aries and the Ram became the vehicle of the solar power. The sun rising in the sign of the celestial lamb triumphs over the symbolic serpent of darkness. The Golden Fleece sought by Jason and his argonauts is the Celestial lamb – the spiritual and intellectual sun. The secret doctrine is also typified by the Golden Fleece. The wool of the divine life. The Arts of the sun of truth. The Golden Fleece has been thought by some to be in reality a book, written upon skin, which contrived the formulae for the production of gold by means of chemistry. The Mysteries were institutions erected for the transmutation of base ignorance into precious illumination. The Dragon of Ignorance was the terrible creature set to guard the golden fleece and represents the darkness of the old year which battled with the sun at time of its equinoctal passage. The destruction of the dragon represents the transformation of Man through the gnostic understanding of the identity of the first serpent in the first garden”
- The gold haired winged ram is based on the Golden Fleece (the celestial lamb)
- Sheep’s wool (fleece) – 17% production in US
- Gideon’s Fleece :
- Gideon’s Army was 300 + Gideon is 301.
- Square root of 301 is 17.34
- Rachel = “lamb”.
- Rachel died and was buried in Bethlehem where Jesus and David were born.
- Bethlehem = “house of Bread”.
- Jesus came to save “the Lost Sheep”.
- David
God promises to gather and restore them from the nations he has scattered them
- if they obey Him with all their heart and soul,
- then he will circumcise the heart so they can bear fruit.
Deuteronomy 30 : Restoration Promised
1And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you, 2And shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; 3That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4If any of your be driven out to the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you: 5And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
6And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. 7And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you. 8And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. 9And the LORD your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers: 10If you shall listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- My Grandfather was passing out Gideon Bibles and Ole Miss University whose mascot is “The Rebels”.
- Nimrod, the mighty hunter before the Lord, who built the Tower of Babel means “Rebellion”
Nimrod[h5428]נִמְרוֹד Nimrôwd
“rebellion” or “the valiant”
The Rebel who built the Tower of Babel
Midian or Midianite = “strife”
- Gideon was called by God to save Israel from the hands of the Midianite’s.
- Gideon used The Sword of the Lord to defeat the Midianite’s.
Judges 7 : Gideon’s Dream
12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. 13And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream to his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, see, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. 14And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand has God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Gideon Defeats Midian
15And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian. 16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do.18When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
A flaming Sword, cherub, was placed in the garden to keep way the tree of Life, after Eve ate of the forbidden fruitp
33For thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon
is like a threshing floor[h1637], it is time to thresh [h1758]her:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest[h7105] shall come.
Babylon means “Confusion”.
MATTHEW 24 : BE READY AT ANY HOUR (Genesis 6:1-7; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 12:35-48)
37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
THE WHORE OF BABYLON
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST
bound together by bitumen
fossil fuels, electricity
bound together by holy spirit
in the bond of peace. (Ephesians 4)
Just as they labored
to build the Tower of Babel
to make a name for themselves
God then came down
and confused their language
and scattered them abroad
The Tower they built
was Vainglory and useless to God
God scattered all those who built the tower across the world and confused their languages.
Genesis 11 : The Tower of Babel
3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime[h2564]had they for mortar. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth.
slime[h2564]חֵמָר chêmâr,
pitch, asphalt, bitumen
as rising to the surface):—slime(-pit).
Bitumen boils up from subterranean fountains like oil or hot pitch located near the Dead Sea and Babylon.
Afterwards it hardens through the heat of the sun and is collected on the surface of the Dead Sea
Fossil fuels buried in the earth’s crust formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth’s sediment ROCK crust over millions of years.
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Fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include petroleum, coal, and natural gas.
According to estimates in 2007 the primary sources of energy consisted of:
- petroleum 36.0%,
- coal 27.4%,
- natural gas 23.0%,
amounting to an 86.4% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is planning to sue oil companies, alleging they are
“knowingly killing people all over the world.”
“The oil companies knew from 1959 on, they did their own study that there would be global warming happening because of fossil fuels, and on top of it that it would be risky for people’s lives, that it would kill.”
Coal contains Sulfur and other elements, including dangerous metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic, that escape into the air when coal is burned.
Burning coal also produces particulates that increase air pollution and health dangers. Burning coal emits large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere..
The central elements in western alchemy are mercury, sulfur and salt, used to describe spiritual processes in terms of chemical reactions. The three essentials can also be called the Tria Prima, the Three Universals, the three humors,and many other things. It can be represented by a three headed dragon in illustrations.
Salt is the principle of the earth element
SODOMis known as THE CITY OF SALT
Lot’s wife looked back & became“pillar of salt”
Remember Lot’s Wife
Sodom was rained down upon
- with fire and brimstone
- which is “sulfur.
How Coal is transmuted
— into —
.
Electricity at A Power plant
Coal is placed in a machine called a pulverizer
which grinds the coal into fine powder
The powder mixes with hot air
to help make it burn more efficiently
The mixture is moved to a furnace
and the burning coal heats water
in a boiler creating steam
Steam released from boiler power turbine engine transforms heat energy from burning coal
— into —
mechanical energy
that spins the turbine
The turbine is used to power the generator
which turns mechanical energy
— into —
electrical energy,
through magnets inside a copper coil
A condenser cools the steam moving through turbine
as the steam is condensed, it turns back to water
The water returns to the boiler and the cycle starts over again
DEUTERONOMY 4 :
20But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.
Students of Judeo-Christian prophecy claim that the ‘End Time’ will see the appearance of Revelation 12’s ‘woman clothed with the sun’ who bears a child who rules with a rod of iron. It will also see the return of the prophet Elijah (through the gilgal, I presume) and the rebuilding of Solomon’s Temple, an act that is instrumental in the creation of the New Thousand Years of Peace. It is thought that Elijah will return the Rod of Jesse – the rod signifying his power, a branch from the Tree of Life – to the Messiah, who will be seated on the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies of Solomon’s Temple on Mount Moriah (or is it Meru?). He will replace the Ark of the Covenant that had symbolized him, in the place where God is believed to have first walked with Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden. Just as a branch from the Tree of Life was kept before the Ark, he will set the Rod of God before himself on the Throne of God, where the Tree of Life had grown in the Garden of Eden.
Ezekiel 44 : Rules for Levites
23 And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.