Mythology Buster

Ezekiel 7: The defiled secret place.

Rev. 2 and 3: The secret place defiled with all the abominations in the midst.

Amos 3:3 : Can two walk together except they be agreed?

1 Cor 15: First that which is natural, then that which is spiritual, the true secret place within.

PSALM 91 …PARADISE FOUND

EZELIEL 7…PARADISE LOST

JESUS: “He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one]; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The 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; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

Psa 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Deu 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

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Jesus, asked about the “last days” and the time of the end, prefaced such answer as He gave, with an admonition: “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these [are] the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.”

NATION AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM

To help comprehend the coming of the Kingdom, and the fallacious kingdom in the earth, showing itself as the kingdom, but is in fact in direct opposition to it, consider the seed parables which Jesus used to describe His Kingdom. Christ Himself, the firstborn among many brethren, that first sown seed of the Kingdom, which fell to the earth and died, that it might not dwell alone.

Jesus said in a parable:

“And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.”

One sowing, one reaping. First that which is natural, then that which is Spiritual. What was sown a natural body is raised a spiritual body.

Psalm 22 begins with words that can leave no doubt regarding to whom they apply: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Reading Psalm 22 will reveal to you, the first and great seed, falling to the earth and dying. Regardless of all obstacles, this seed will be raised, and not alone. This seed will inherit all, and will dispossess every false thing set up in it’s mockery and imitation. In it’s concluding lines, speaking by the Spirit of Christ, David prophesies,

“For the kingdom [is] the LORD’S: and he [is] the governor among the nations. All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].”

A SEED SHALL SERVE HIM

The Gospel of Matthew is an ink and paper book, which describes a book of an altogether different sort, a book of that which is sown a natural body, and raised a spiritual. A solitary house is sown, and is raised a house of many houses. It is the Father’s House. It is the living book of Psalm 139: “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them”.

It is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ.

The account states that from Abraham until David, are fourteen generations. From David until the captivity in Babylon, are fourteen generations. From the captivity in Babylon until Christ, are fourteen generations. The names, from Abraham till Christ are carefully recorded and categorized into three groupings of fourteen. But there is a little observed thing. If you count every name, when you get to the man Jesus, you are on the sum of 41, not 42. You are on the thirteenth from captivity, not the fourteenth. Thirteen is a number in scripture that often depicts confusion. But there is no confusion here. The fourteenth and final generation is the body of Christ…not that solitary body that was sown…but the glorified body that was raised. It is all who are added to Christ in His resurrection, from the time it began, to this present moment, and until , according to the Father’s pleasure, the last to be added are added, and it will conclude. And at it’s conclusion, all will be revealed together in glory. The resurrection is not passed already (2 Tim 2:18). I will not overthrow the faith of any by so proclaiming. Jesus is the resurrection, and it is yet happening. For by faith am I apprehended, and added to Him. By faith do I sit with Him in the Highest place. By faith know I, that at His appearing, I will also appear and be revealed together with Him in glory. The fourteenth and final generation of Matthew 1, is a spiritual generation. It is the generation of His resurrection. It is the generation of Psalm 139, written in secret, raised, and revealed in glory. If any be seated with Him in faith…keep your seat. That which is named the finished generation of Jesus Christ, is not comparable to carnal, chronological genealogy. It is not marching along a time line. The eternal is not off in the future. Time is stretched out in the eternal, as a string stretched in a body of water. The string has a beginning and it has an end. It’s beginning and it’s end are every bit enveloped in the water. At any point the water enters into the string, you have a unique situation. A way into the example of eternity has been made, which does not require one to travel the length of the string. Jesus, about to spend three calender days in the grave, completely dead, told a repentant criminal, “You will be with me today in paradise”. The “today” of which Jesus spoke, is not a day of the week. The topic of the “end times” is one of fascination, bordering on obsession, and the danger of complete distraction. As the apostle wrote, to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. The same apostle wrote that if this instant, this tent of flesh were dissolved, we HAVE (present tense) a house eternal in the heavens. The Father’s house of many houses is not real estate. It is an eternally glorified body of resurrection. It is in you now, as the orchard is in the apple seed now. Otherwise, if a seed is planted with nothing written in it, nothing comes up. As a further point regarding the one generation begotten in resurrection, not time, consider again Jesus answering questions about the last times:

“Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn”.

Take note that “bundles” is plural, “garner” is singular. Jesus said to disciples over two thousand years ago, “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest”. Tare are also known as false wheat. It is an interesting study. When sown together, they are tangled in the root…they share common ground, read from the same book, you would say. But what they grow into at harvest, is two different things, as different as night and day. Tares gathered by men into bundles to be burned (tried by fire) is temporal. It has a history reckoned among the nations. It can be plotted along the line of time past, as can all other human affairs. Wheat gathered into the garner, which is Christ, is eternal. It has no record among the nations. Balaam, a man gifted of God, though he abused his gift, nevertheless saw the Garner truly:

“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied? For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations”.

As kingdom rises against kingdom, knowing truth will make free. The apostle Paul warned carefully with tears, everyplace he spoke for the space of three years, of “another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel”…in other words, “another Christ”. That is, in fact, the meaning of the word “antichrist”. It is the offer of a substitute, as a means of coming against the true. What Paul warned about in it’s infancy, is now become accepted without question, as the true.

Zec 9:13 “When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man”.

Greece is synonymous with Western civilization and religion. It, along with every other civilization and religion, are gathered together against the Lord and His Christ. The nations , and all reckoned among them, as one , despise Christ, and them that are His. This is nothing new. As you see the “churches” give in and give place to corruption, in order to preserve their material wealth and their very existence, give all the more diligence to the treasure stored up in heaven. Every living soul of man will be brought to the place of forced decision. The kingdom of heaven is within , or it is beckoning from without. It is in resurrection, or it is in behavior modification and the pursuit of creature comforts. It is in the seed, or it is in the chaff. This truth is depicted in the life of Hezekiah, a king of Judah, of whom it was said , “And he did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him. For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.”

“Nehushtan” means “that copper thing”. The cross is not a thing to be worshiped, nor any other icon or imagery. Hezekiah was like no king in Judah, before or after him, in his walk with the Lord, to include David. He was a figure of a king to come. In his reign, Israel and Samaria, with it’s false religion and priesthood fell. Then their assailant, the hosts of the king of Assyria, having absorbed all other kingdoms, set his eye on the kingdom of Judah. Hezekiah did not hesitate to give him silver , gold, the precious things of the temple, nor any other form of material wealth. Hezekiah did not worship these things. When the cities of Judah fell one by one, and at last, Hezekiah was left in the fortress of Jerusalem with his remnant, the messengers of the king of Assyria began to reproach the Living God, and boast of all they would do to the city, and Hezekiah, and his remnant. They enticed the people, in their own language, to sit “every one under his own vine and fig, and drink of his own well”… “Until I come and take you away to a land LIKE your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us”.

This created a crisis of choice. Affliction and trial in holding to the true, or peace and safety in accepting the imitation. At this reproach, did Hezekiah pray, not asking on the basis of anything he lost, but because the Assyrian did reproach the Lord. Hezekiah’s true treasure (and ours) is the Lord. And for Jesus’ name sake, are His people hated of all men. When night passed and morning came, in the camp of the Assyrians, 185,000 men of war lay dead…”behold, they were all dead corpses” (2Ki19:35). Hezekiah did not pass the test with the sword. He passed it with faith. The individual is tested as an individual. If I do not accept that the kingdom of heaven is in me now, just as the tree is in the seed now, I may well be encouraged to look for it in some other place…like the “future” for example. What is in me now by faith, may be fully and differently expressed and seen in the “future” , but it is nevertheless, in me now, or I have no “future”. My hope is not to see Him at His appearing. It is to be seen WITH Him in glory at His appearing.

JOHN 3:16

I doubt if any among us have not seen this phrase on shirts, signs, billboards, etc:”For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have ever lasting life”. The phrase depends upon the intent conveyed in one little word, the word “so”, from the Greek, οὗτος, (hü’-tos), which means “In this manner” or “Thus”: “For God (IN THIS MANNER) loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.

The phrase does not quantify the love of God, it qualifies it. In other words, it does not say how much God loved the world, but HOW God loved the world. The question of how much, if one is asking it, is only answerable by knowing “how much” love the Father had for His only begotten Son, and has for all who receive Him. It is not a question I presume to be able to answer. In fact, reading on in John 3, you come to these concluding words which Jesus spoke, “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” The nature of the new testament, the new covenant, is that of an heir and joint heirs. Jesus Christ is the heir of all things, the heir in total, of all the fullness of God. All who receive Him, and believe on Him, are joint heirs together with Him. The new testament is not half of a book. It is between the Father and the Son. There is no other. No other arrangement exists for any to come to the Father. And there are no special arrangements with any flesh, outside of this.

Nicodemus, coming to Jesus under cover of darkness, did not come to Jesus alone. He came as an emissary of his sect, the Pharisees. This is revealed in his opening words, calling Jesus “Rabbi”, and saying “WE know you are a teacher sent of God”. This “outreach” was on the behalf of a group who had (so they thought) much in common with Jesus. The “fear” they had in choosing the cover of darkness, was of “the people” knowing they went to Jesus, and therefore did not have all the answers.  Among the perceived “common ground”, was a belief in a resurrection. They knew He was a teacher sent by God. They thought He would be a formidable addition to their ranks. What Nicodemus did not know, was that he was not hailing, as a peer, another teacher sent by God, but THE TEACHER sent by God. He was not talking to one who believed in a resurrection, he was talking to THE RESURRECTION. The very name “Nicodemus” means “Ruler of people”. The ensuing interchange between Jesus and Nicodemus, magnified these distinctions, and revealed that the only access to that which is in Christ, is by birth. To be a teacher, you must be born of THE TEACHER. The body of Christ is called to be, and is, a teaching body. Increase in the body, comes by “that which every joint supplies”. The current prolific arrangement of believers periodically assembled as a bundle of sticks, to hear nothing but the same individual , spoon feed the same “approved” franchised messages, over and over, can never, and will never produce increase. “Every joint” does not describe a pyramid scheme by which the body traces access to the head through some network that is funneled through a hierarchical structure. “Every joint” is defined as every member, every individual, holding expressly to the head. The supply, is the fruit of the union of each and every member with Christ, the head of every individual, via the indwelling Spirit. John 3 is an expose’ on the two conditions which are diametrically opposed, and that which is represented in Nicodemus, can never be part of that which is in the body of Christ. It is antichrist. And the apostles wrote that even in their day, there were many antichrists…many such arrangements. It is interesting to note that “Nicodemus” means essentially the same thing as “Nicolaitan”. Both names embody the idea of “divide and rule”, for both names are formed as a compound of two words. Nico (Nike) means to vanquish…to utterly conquer. Laity and demos both mean “people”. The clergy-laity division is antichrist. Jesus , finding it in the churches (Rev. 2 and 3), says He hates the deed and doctrine of it. Those assemblies afflicted with the malady, will never see increase. I am not admonished to examine myself whether I be in a church. I am admonished to examine myself whether I am in THE FAITH. There is one faith, one baptism, one body, one God and Father who is above all, through all, and IN YOU ALL. This describes the body of Christ, not an elitist cult of clergy. Jesus described to Nicodemus, the individuals, born of the Spirit. Nicodemus knows they exist, as we can hear the sound of the wind, but Nicodemus knows not whence they come, and whence they go. Who can bind the wind? No one need labor all their life as a son and heir, but experiencing nothing different than the life of a servant, not walking as the wind, where it “listeth”, but bottled and confined, hearing and doing what it is told. Who the Son makes free, is actually free. “Listeth” means “purposes”. Them born of the Spirit are lead of the Spirit. Jesus took every other entity out of the way. (Col 2:14 & 15). These systems of mediators still exist, and many choose to travel them. But they are not in the “way” Christ has made for you.

The prophet Samuel was dedicated to God as a child. Very early on, when the Lord would call to Samuel, Samuel would go to Eli, the priest, and say, “You called me?”. At least Eli had the integrity to encourage Samuel to know that the Lord was calling him, not Eli. It says that the word of the Lord was not yet revealed to Samuel. But the word of the Lord would later be revealed to Samuel in Shiloh (peace). The lamp would go out in the “house of the Lord” , the house of Eli ended, but all Israel knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet in Israel…the Word of the Lord was in him. This experience gives life and hope to them laboring under today’s “Elis”. Eli means “ascension”. This was ended in the “house of the Lord” , but came to abide in Samuel. There is “ascension” when one comes to realize that the bread of heaven is in you. The words to John on Patmos, in departing the assemblies, for the seat and throne of God, were “Come up here”. The lamp stands of Revelation 2 and 3 are removable, and the candle of them can go out, as was prophetically depicted in Samuel’s experience. But the hidden manna within you, opened up to them who go on in faith , as the Word of God revealed to Samuel in Shiloh, is inexhaustible. Jesus, alluding to the hidden manna, was referring to the meaning of Exodus 16. Christ in you.

The scriptures conclude with a lesson from the tabernacle. A people who have no need of light of sun or moon (outer courts), no need of candle ( holy place). But the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the light of them (holy of holies). I do not say there are not people who need the lesser things. But consider that “Manna” means “What is it?”. If Christ be in you, the manna, the bread of heaven is in you. Who do you want to answer for you, the question, “What is it?”. Do you want governors, tutors, theologians, politicians, social networks, etc., to give you their endless opinion about everything? or do you want to know the Mind of the Lord? Whosoever will, let him come and drink of the Waters of Life freely. The choice is there.

Consider that it is written, “No prophesy (message) of scripture is given for any private interpretation”. The author is alive. He will teach you. He will not authorize any to interpret scripture. He will open your understanding, to understand scripture…to know His thinking in them. This is the domain of the Teacher…the Spirit of Christ. These are the inspired words of Jeremiah:

“…And 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 unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

BORDERS

…Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. (from Isaiah 60)

…And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. (from Revelation 21)

The days we live in are filled with portent. Not so much of conditions to come, but of prevailing conditions at hand and pervasive. Many unique phrases and wordings in scripture, are reflected in a mockery…a weak imitation…of the things pertaining to the Lord and His appearing. A few examples are words and phrases like “cloud” , “no boots on the ground”, “the precious blood”, etc., to name a few.

CLOUDS
The scriptures often use the idea of a cloud, and clouds, to depict the Lord, and to depict a host, a company of individuals in whom the Lord abides. In fact, what crumb of bread can be remotely compared to the HOST of heaven, the Body of Truth? In Christ, before He was raised, dwelt all the fullness of God bodily. Now, in resurrection, it is written of Him, that in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, AND ye are complete in Him. “Ye” are added to Him in resurrection, according to what Jesus said , “Except a seed of wheat fall to the earth and die, it abides alone. But if it fall to the earth and die, it shall bring forth much fruit”. The resurrection is the raising of the Spiritual House. When it is said the Lord shall come with the clouds of heaven…it is not speaking about water vapor. It is speaking of everyone in whom His word has proliferated and had His way. In a few places, the Lord has given us the thought of His word being comparable to the natural processes of distillation:

“…Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. [He is] the Rock, his work [is] perfect: for all his ways [are] judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right [is] he.” ( Deuteronomy 32)

“…[There is] none like unto the God of Jeshurun, [who] rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God [is thy] refuge, and underneath [are] the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy [them]. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob [shall be] upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.” (Deuteronomy 33) ( It is helpfull to know who the Israel of God is)

“…Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off. Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly. Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, the noise of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.” (Job 36)

“…Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins [were] girded with fine gold of Uphaz: His body also [was] like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”  ( Daniel 10)

“…And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” ( Revelation 19)

For this embodiment of the living WORD in a people to be remotely compared to a “host” of bread crumb , is an abominable, mind numbing delusion. For humanity to revel in it’s corporately manufactured “cloud” of computing, is a revealing mockery to be considered. Truth is not embodied it the electronic cloud, to which so many go nowadays to find it.

Distillation lifts and refines water, thus purifying it. It then falls from the “clouds” or distills as the “dew”. This is an analogy of the way the Lord teaches. The clouds of heaven are not water vapor. They are a people, a nation born in resurrection, raised a spiritual house. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Who may choose the pure waters of life? Whosoever wishes to:

“…And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely”. ( Rev 22:17 )

NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND

Daniel, a man beloved of God, a man who sought to understand, was shown many things purtaining to the “time of the end”. Among these things, it was signified to him, how that a great conflict would play out between two kingdoms, the kingdom of Media and Persia, and the king of Grecia…the WEST. Daniel saw the WEST project great power over vast distances without touching the ground, he saw it wax great, and he saw it broken in the height of it’s power. In the account, you may read of some of the host of heaven, cast down to the earthy, and the “daily” sacrifice made to cease…replaced with a substitute. The DAILY sacrifice, is PERPETUAL. It is a once only sacrifice, received and held in faith, not the desolate-making , oft repeated gluten substitute, by which many have their thinking scrambled, crucifying Christ afresh daily in effigy, and revisiting again, the open shame of the cross, which Jesus despised, and endured, for our sakes. The bread of heaven does not go into one end of a person, and out the other. It is not base and carnal. It is high and eternal. It goes in the ear, and makes it’s way out of the mouth, unaltered. The bread of heaven abides in faith, is taken in faith. It has no substitute. Paul the apostle warned early on, everywhere he spoke, speaking with tears on a subject for the space of three years. He called it “Another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel, which is not another”.

BORDERS
The topic of “borders” has been in the forefront of national debate for decades. A nation with no secure bounds, is not a nation for long. It is a vassal state. For all nations and peoples to be gathered together, per the scriptures, against the Lord…boundaries and borders must be dissolved. They are, and are being dissolved. A nation that has sworn it’s elected leaders to guard it from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and ignores the advent of power arising in the domestic, set to destroy it’s collective right to choose it’s own affairs, will fail. Repairing the breaches in the hen house, once the fox lives inside, is futility. If one wishes to read the thinking of a great patriot, and noted scientist, who wrote in warning to his nation, of forces bent on it’s demise, I can recommend a book. It is availabe (as yet) online free, in .pdf format. The book was written by Prof. Samuel Morse, of telegraph fame, and was published in 1835. It’s predictions have proved 100% accurate. The book’s title is “Foreign Conspiracy Against The Liberties Of The United Sates, The Numbers Of Brutus”.

“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.” [2Co 3:17 KJV]

“And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage” [Gal 2:4 KJV]

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” [Gal 5:1 KJV]

“While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” [2Pe 2:19 KJV]

In our time, there is a place with borders. There is a secure nation, and secure house, a land wherein violence is not seen or heard, and who’s borders mark the end of wasting and destruction. This nation and house is destined to rule all nations with a rod of iron. This nation and house is a spiritual nation and house. Every individual of it, lives in freedom. Every individual of it, exercises his or her own mind. Every member of it chooses the good and refuses the evil. Every individual of it is an ambassador…the very kingdom in the earth, a forerunner until the fulness is unveiled. It has no physical boundaries. It is not presently of this world, though presently in it. From this nation, will the great fountains of the deep be broken open, and the clouds of heaven break forth in rain. The Kingdom of God is within you (if so be it is in you). Keep your heart with all dilligence, for out of it proceed the issues, the springing forth, of life.

When the Lord spoke, He stretched forth the heavens, hanging the earth upon nothing, holding back the face of His throne, stretching His cloud over it. All of the cosmos sprang by the word of His power, out of a space so small, that it had no measurable volume. Everything seen and known of man, all of it, was contained in it. All will go back to it. The heavens will depart, rolling together like a scroll…folded up like a used garment. That which can not be dissolved or folded up will remain…a house eternal in the heavens (2 Cor 5:1). Lest one think that the molecular is substantial, and spiritual is not…consider that of all the substance of your physical being were condensed into the smallest space it can occupy, it would be impossible to find. Indeed, all the substance of the known cosmos once occupied such a place. But that which is born of the Spirit…fades not away. It is eternal. It is substantial. The Temple of the Lord is Spiritual, and is present in the earth now. From it, shall all be revealed. It was sown a natural house. It was raised a Spiritual. If one reads the scriptures and considers the significations of the tabernacle, many things become evident. Not least among these, the fact that the farther into the core and seat of it one went, the smaller it’s footprint in the earth, and the greater it’s presence before God. Jesus, the firstborn among many brethren, was a man who you could walk around, and look Him up and down from head to toe, in a few seconds. In Him dwelt all the fulness of God bodily. The Tabernacle was a representation of Him. He was not raised up alone. The held-back throne of Job 26, one will find, is a shared throne. All the book of Revelation, a book bound to the significations of the Tabernacle, testifies to this, and to the quest of the overcomer. All who shall have found their way to this throne, will be revealed, being brough twith Him at His appearing.

Keep Your Borders

                      NEW CREATION- I SAW NO TEMPLE

                            THE RAISED SPIRITUAL HOUSE

Jesus, in departing a large and grandiose edifice was addressed by one of his own disciples, “Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!

The reply, “Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

Again, Jesus said, “…If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation”. (…And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him).

The prophet Hosea describes the works of them who forget their maker:

“Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof”.

This same Jesus, again in proximity to these works of them who forget who and what they knew, said a defining phrase, “…Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up”. Some who heard it, later bare false witness against him, “ We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands”. This confusion in a people steeped in tradition, and fixated with temples and buildings, the works of them that forget their maker…this confusion is perhaps understandable. But among a people who in their beginning, make a confession of Christ, to fall back to such week and beggarly misconception, is a sore and grievous error. The House which Christ is, was sown a natural house, and was raised a Spiritual house.

[1Co 15:35-47]]

But some [man] will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other [grain]: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh [is] not the same flesh: but [there is] one [kind of] flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, [and] another of birds. [There are] also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is] one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another. [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory. So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. Howbeit that [was] not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven.

The resurrection, ( “I am the resurrection”, said Christ) …the resurrection contains not a hint or trace of any substance or material of the old creation. Jesus Christ, heir of eternal life, raised and glorified, is the new man, He and them raised with Him. These things are held to in faith. For in that in Him, in resurrection, all things are made new, and so, the apostle wrote, that faith is substance. It is the very substance in you, of the things into which Christ is raised.

(Heb. 11)

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”

By faith, are we heirs of the body of His resurrection. For the resurrection is not about stuff and junk, it is about a body, a habitation eternal in the heavens. A flower, for all it’s facsimile to it’s plant and flower, and seed of origin, has no future without pollen. So a man or a woman, for all his or her facsimile to the creator, has no future without faith in the same. It is not enough to know about Him. It is imperative that His resurrection be in you by faith. Concerning the resurrection, many ask, “Where will I go? what will I see?”. A prophet wrote, “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor yet has it has it entered into the hearts of men, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him”. The Apostle Paul tells you that by faith, the substance of these things now can enter your heart. For to the words of the prophet, by reason of the fact that the Spirit is given, Paul adds these words, “ …But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God”.

So then, the great question is not so much, where will I go? What will I see?…the great question is, …what will I be? In whose likeness will I be raised? The question is answered in large part with another question…”Who is my teacher? Who am I hearing?”

I can not know the things of God, except the Spirit of God reveal them.

Revelation 21 speaks of the manner of the Lord’s coming and appearing. For all He is in resurrection, will be revealed, and every eye will see it. In reading the chapter, it is most notable that everything Jesus said of the complete tearing down of the old, and raising of the new, all are fulfilled in Him, in resurrection. For in the New Creation man, The second man Adam, who is the Lord from heaven, in Him, and in all raised, glorified and revealed in Him, having obtained His promises by faith, in such, there is no hint of the substance of the old creation. As it is written, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away; behold all things are become new”.

If you read Revelation 21 and look for a temple, you will not find one, except it be the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. He who is raised, and in whom dwells all the fullness of God bodily, and they who have obtained His promises by faith, these are the temple. There is no other. There will be no other. If I read Revelation 21, and imagine stick and stone, real estate, and objects descending from the cosmos, there is not one of these imaginary stones piled on top of another, that will not come down. Everything one may read in Revelation 21 is tabernacling in the earth now. Know ye not that ye are the temple….?

NO NEEDLE IN THE HAY STACK

Logic so simple, a child can understand it until a well meaning, ill informed adult explains it. A hay stack with no needle in it. Nothing to find, look though you may. Ritualistic, calendar based religion, wash-rinse-repeat. As it says, if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he has no part of Christ.

The underpinning of religion and religious authority is deception. It may be well intentioned, it may be for pretense…for show. But the leaders have no more idea where they are going than the following. They often  do present the image of mystique, albeit an empty image. The blind leading the blind, all proceeding along in the ditch.

THE TOWER , THE CALF , THE VINE

Although Jesus said in certain company, “Where I go , you know, and the way, you know”, in other company, He said, “Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come …Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come … And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins….”.

In His complaints to Noah, concerning regret at having made man at all, the Lord voice how that man had forsaken His way in the earth, and that the thoughts of a man’s heart was only evil continuously. That being said, it is profitable to read the few chapters leading up to Noah and the ark, and discern the Lord’s way. It can be discovered in recognizing that there were two men named Enoch. The first Enoch was the son of the murderous Cain, who being driven from the presence of God, multiplied and built. His first son, he called Enoch, and he built a city, naming the city for his first born. He called the city Enoch. All of Cain’s offspring were movers and shakers. They shaped the course of humanity with all they built and presided over, with the key to the equation being “presided over”. As David would later write, the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take council together against the Lord , and His anointed, with the main object of resistance being the Anointing. Stephen, in the book of acts, being filled with the Holy Spirit, was stoned for telling religious authority that they do always resist the Holy Ghost.
The other Enoch was a man. Only a man. No city. This Enoch was the seventh from Adam, and was of the line of Seth, the figurative man of resurrection, whom God gave to the woman to replace the seed of promise, murdered while yet in Abel. This man was not drawn away into a city that bore his name. This man walked with God, he was and he was not…he was in the world but not of it…and God took him. This man speaks in the book of Jude, revealing the usurpers, proclaiming the heavenly.
The name Enoch means to train, to dedicate, to inaugurate. So in the earth was a city with that name, that sprang from a man who falsely held that name. And there was a man who was apprehended of God, walked with God, thereby fulfilling the name. The city was destroyed with a flood. The individual was taken, that he should not see the death of the flood. (This creates a conundrum for ideology that only recognizes the ark of Noah as an escape from that age). This is good to dwell upon if one looks only to the Lord’s “coming”, and not His in dwelling. It teaches that we need not wait with the age we live in, we can enter now. So which Enoch signified the Lord’s way in the earth? The city or the individual? A clue is to ask, which did God destroy?
Upon repopulating the earth, as Noah’s descendants spread abroad, some of them came eventually to a place called Shinar…”Land of two rivers”. There, they observed, that they needed to assume some identity, build a city and a tower, and portray the heavens on it’s top. A tower of seeking, but with never any finding. A hay stack with no needle. Once again, the Lord’s way in the earth was abandoned, and the corporate experience replaced the individual. The Lord’s method of dealing with it, locked man kind into this futility. Although all the earth spoke the same language, they were nevertheless smitten with confusion. No two could agree on how to finish it, and yet no one could simply walk away from it. Fallen man has the deepest of affinities for a city, a place where one can presumably, by citizenship therein, satisfy God’s requirement to walk with Him. The Lord observed that man, left to himself, would finish his tower, it would produce nothing, and man would imagine some other project, which too, would conclude with nothing, followed by the next imagination, and etc. So the Lord limited man to his one ill conceived mental road to the heavens, by confusion. Man simply can not agree how to build it. Babylon means, “Confusion by mixture”. Babel is a hay stack with no needle in it. Nothing to find. The book of Revelation tells you that this futility continues to this day. There is good reason the Lord says of Babylon, “Come out of her My people”.

Upon being called up into Mount Horeb, Moses departed the camp of Israel. No sooner was he gone, then the people declared they knew not what had become of him. People tend to want something the eye can see, the hands can handle. They want something and someone familiar to the natural man. Jesus so came once, but is ascended up now, and we can not know Him this way again:

[1Jo 1:1 KJV] “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen [it], and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.”

[2Co 5:16 KJV] “Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we [him] no more.”

The children of Israel wanted something they could see. It is no different with Christianity today. Jesus has ascended, and has bidden us to follow Him. But many prefer a city and leaders that can satisfy the carnal senses. Upon Moses’ disappearance, the people set upon Aaron, the next authority figure after Moses, and they said to Aaron, “Make us our Gods that lead us up out of Egypt”. Aaron took up a collection, melted the gold, cast a golden calf, and finished it by hand, with an engraver’s tool. He presented it to the people, many of whom defiled themselves corporately, before the image. When Moses did return, he was disgusted, and demanded an explanation from Aaron. Aaron lied. He told Moses he cast gold into the fire and “this calf came out”. Why the Lie? Simple. Aaron’s story to Moses had to jibe with his story to the people. No one would worship an image that Aaron said he fabricated. It had to have some ethereal mystique. Hence the nonsense about the calf springing out of the fire. Most religious leadership and scholars, when presented a difficult question, will tell you there are some things not given to us to understand, that the “Lord moves in mysterious ways”. This is nothing but Aaron hiding behind his fabricated story. The scriptures plainly tell us we are to understand. And Babylon the great is named “MYSTERY”. There is nothing hidden from you , if you know where to look for it. All the treasure of knowledge and wisdom are in Christ. Remember His admonitions about seeking and finding, vs. seeking and not finding. The difference is where one is looking. And looking in the wrong place in compounded by them who try to hide their lack… “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…I am the great and powerful Oz”.

Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches”. In his parables of the vineyard, Jesus spoke of wicked servants who wanted the mastery of the vineyard. They are happy to oversee the laborers, but they want ownership of the vineyard, and all the profits too. These killed, not only the servants of the owner, but even the son and heir, thinking they could then take possession. But the vine, for one thing, did not remain dead. He is risen, and is seated at the right hand of the owner and Master, and every branch that is His, is risen with Him. Ironically, the vineyard that men murder and plot for mastery of to this day, has no eternal vine in it. He is risen, as he told them. They too, fight and plot for a needle that is not in the hay stack. So what do they fight over? What says the word of God?

[Isa 17:10 KJV] “Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.”

[Jer 2:12 KJV] “Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Is Israel a servant? is he a home born slave? why is he spoiled? The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy back slidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that [it is] an evil [thing] and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear [is] not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.”

FOUR FOOTED BEASTS AND CREEPING THINGS

The book of Genesis, chapter one, contains in it’s earliest proclamations, the phrase, “…and the earth was without form and void”. Researching the phrase reveals that it states that the earth BECAME without form and void…not that it was created that way. Something happened to cause this calamity. Something of unknown scope and duration. In every case where science and religion come to loggerheads over scripture, both sides would do well to comprehend that the scriptures are not a history book. They testify of Christ. Every seeming contradiction, is an opportunity to learn of the author, what His thinking is. Profane and vain babblings over words, if you do not have the author of the book in the room, is a pot shot…a shot in the dark. It is written that no prophesy of scripture, meaning the message of the volume of the book, is for any private interpretation. What this declares is that the Lord lives, and is the only authorized interpretor of scripture. You will read of Christ, that He opens the understanding to understand scripture. You will not find anyplace where private interpretation, interpretation other than His, is authorized. If you are in a college class with a textbook, and the author of the book is also the professor, what would take place if the students spent all their time disputing and debating what the intent of the author was, and the author sits in their midst, available to them, yet ignored? Of course, it is not reason to expect either science or religion to find faith in the present and very much living and accessible author of scripture. But that is not relevant. The question is, will I? Only if an author is dead, is is work opened to interpretation.  His word is that He will teach you. And that, first person singular…not circuitously via a chain and string of religious thinkers stretched over time.

There is a very simple 1-2-3 kind of observation in the scriptures that repeats itself. It is hereby submitted for consideration:

1a) Gen 7:23

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

2a) Lev 5:2

Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

3a) Eze 8:10

So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.

1b) Act 10:9

On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and CREEPING THINGS, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common. This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.

Jhn 13:10

Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

2b) Jude 1:3

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men CREPT in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

3b) Rev 22:12

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed [are] they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. I Jesus have sent mine angel (See Rev. 3 & 4) to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star.

The theme is of the sow washed, returning to wallow in mud, and the dog purged of toxins, returning to eat his vomit. But the theme is on the grandest of scales.

The Lord, in the book of Jude, and other places, congeals the meaning and signification of “four footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and CREEPING THINGS, and fowls of the air”, revealing this to be false and unauthorized interpretation of His word, via them in whom the Teacher, the Spirit of Truth, does not operate. The once cleansed, reinfected, and finally succumbing picture is plain to see.

In the world, they say history repeats itself. James wrote of the defiling nature of the tongue, an infectious organ, taking corrupt communication arising from a corrupt heart, and infecting everything around it. James used the expression, “course of nature”:

James 3:6 :
“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell”.

Course of nature is “WHEEL OF GENESIS”, meaning a first principle or rudiment from which everything if it’s kind follows. Everything brings forth after it’s kind….”wheel of genesis”. A patient not cleansed of all disease in his/her body, risks it’s return.

Paul spoke to Timothy of two men, Hymenaeus and Philetus, saying they have erred from the truth, and are steeped in profane and vain babblings. Profane , in the language of the tabernacle, means “without”, or common, of or pertaining to the outer courts. And from the perspective of the Holiest, it pertains to even to the holy place. In the book of Jude, you will find the unmeasured outer courts revealed to John. And Jesus, speaking in Rev. 22, reiterates the condition of the holy place, where the lamp stand is, seen in Rev. 2 and 3. Paul says these men’s word eats as a canker. The word canker is “gangrene”….worth looking up.

The work of the flood once cleansed the earth, but you may read how offenses returned, until the house of Israel was eventually rife with “every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel”. The condition seems to bear out what has happened in the world of “christiandom”.

The admonition is this:

I am hearing a recurring message, daily in my heart, it is to keep the heart with diligence. Keep the outside , outside. “Christianity” is succumbing quickly, to the thing Paul warned of…”Another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel”.

Profane can mean to make common. The things of Christ are not common. In the world but not of it. For that to be true, there must be a bound, a border, a line not crossed over. Vain babbling is the unauthorized declaration, that the things of Christ and of God, are for the world. Every media relayed story, and all communication from the “prince of the power of the air” today, fits the category. As it was in the days of Lot. Lot was told that Sodom could not be dealt with until Lot was out of the place. Remember Lot’s wife, who turned back in her heart, because she had children there…children who did not listen.

All organizational religious communication I see, is profane and vain babbling. All the two bit TV preaching I see is profane and vain babbling, with few exceptions. The common salvation is touched upon, followed by empty promises to flesh.

There is no authorized interpreter of scripture, save the Spirit of Christ in the individual. We live in a very difficult time. In his days, Elijah felt so isolated and threatened, that he confessed to being the only prophet of the Lord’s left alive. The Lord corrected Elijah, saying, “Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him”. Seven thousand Elijah(s) (for all I know) , perhaps none known to each other, but all certainly known of God. Paul says “The Lord knows them that are His”:

Rom 11:1
“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace”.

Beware of beasts, creeping things, and the foul of the air. They will strip meat from bone, tear and devour, and their word will be a gangrene, living tissue corrupted, killed and devoured by dead.

Paul, en route to Damascus, had his eyes seared by a revelation of Christ. He was restored, healed body and mind, and driven far from Jerusalem…far from his historic religion, and from even Peter James and John. His thinking regarding scripture, was completely retooled. His understanding to understand scripture, was opened, just as the two men on the way to Emmaus. The collective thinking of Gamaliel, the priesthood and scholars of his time, was completely replaced. Only years later, upon meeting Peter, James and John for the first time, and “comparing notes”, did Paul confess that nothing was added to his understanding, by these three men. What Paul received by revelation, he received directly, expressly, person to person, from the resurrected, glorified son of man. This is not said to diminish these three wonderful men. It is said to destroy the false doctrine of apostolic succession, and magnify the truth. Jesus Christ is your Teacher, as He was their’s, and everyone else’s He comes to by His Spirit. The Spirit of Christ in you, destroys and replaces the aforementioned vainly repeated, fallacy replicating “wheel of genesis”, of the passing age. Hes is available for the asking.

KEEP YOUR GARMENTS. KEEP YOUR HEART DILIGENTLY.

• Robber Bees

  It has been very instructive seeing honey bee hives revealed as a functioning mind, particularly one translated from darkness into the kingdom of the dear Son. As in all things, the use of tense; past, present or future, in scripture, is a thing often completely overlooked, such that things one does not see, tend to be relegated to the future by the carnal mind. The account of the man called Legion, in the tombs, in the land of the Gadarenes, is a picture of a mind planted in a land of darkness, where all things pertaining to the kingdom of God are taught and perceived to be always in the future, always on the other side of the grave. In fact, Gadarene means “reward after”. The grave was as close as the man new to get to the “reward” , if one believes you “die and go to heaven”, rather than believing Christ, who says the exact opposite, you must be born again to enter, otherwise upon leaving the flesh, you are found naked, like the man in the tombs. The end of the man’s healing was that he sat clothed (with eternal habitation) and in his right mind, with Jesus, here and now. And for that matter, the Lord’s work is eternal, not past, present and future, but eternal. Jesus, admonishing one of the assemblies, said they were naked. They had no eternal house, no body of resurrection, just a mental house of cards. Paul drew from the scriptures, revealing that the Spiritual meat, drink and Rock that went before Jacob’s children leaving Egypt, was Christ. We read that they sucked oil (fat, milk) and honey from the flinty rock (Deut 32)(Psa 81). The scriptures are teaching that Christ is the land of promise, the land flowing with milk and honey, and that He goes with us and before us. The natural children forsook this , choosing to seek a piece of real estate they perceived to flow with milk and honey. Honey has come to be associated with sweetness in the mouth, and perhaps a little bitterness in the belly, in other words, revelation is far to be desired over something that is second hand, having passed through someone else’s digestive system. Peter said it is profitable to take heed to them who walk, but the superior ideal, is that the Day Star arise in your own heart. The spirit of prophesy is the testimony of Jesus. Meat is for a developed digestive system, milk is for babes.

  Having said this, over the past few days, I have been helping my bees fend off robber bees. When nectar and pollen taper off for a spell, some bees will attempt to break into a hive with plenty of stores, steal the honey, and transport it to their own hive. The robbed hive often dies. All one can do, is reduce the bottom entrance to a small opening, so your bees only need defend a small area, and you block off all upper entrances with screen, to alow ventilation, but nothing can get in that way. Hives must “breathe”, CO2 out, Oxygen in, or all dies. A “strong” colony often needs no help, as it will “put a hurtin'” on attempting robbers. Being “Strong in faith” , one knows what belongs in one’s mind, and what does not, and also one does not suffer the thief to break in and steal:

  “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh 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. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

  The picture is robber bees trying to get into a hive by any available means, and take it’s riches to the store house of the thief.

  
  Pro 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the ISSUES of life.

  “ISSUES”: (STRONG”S H8444)

  *outgoing, border, a going out, extremity, end, source, escape

  *outgoing, extremity (of border)

  *source (of life)

  *escape (from death)

  Our escape, our path , our expanding pastures, spring from within. There are none to find “without”.

  Rev 22:15 “For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”

CHRIST IS THE HEIR OF ALL THINGS
CHRIST IMPLIES ANOINTING

[Gal 3:16 KJV] 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

[Gen 15:18-21 KJV] 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

[Psa 2:7-12 KJV] 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give [thee] the heathen [for] thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.

[Rev 5:9 KJV] 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Abraham sojourned in a land of a foreign king, Abimelech. While a stranger in a strange land, a land that today the three primary sects of religious thinking, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are fighting and killing over, Abraham heard the Lord’s voice and believed Him. For this, God both accounted this for righteousness, and promised a seed and heir, through faith. The promised seed was and is one individual to come out of Abraham’s loins, and that individual was and is Christ. In the poetic language of the scriptures, hearing the voice of God is as drinking from the waters that are present, though always beneath the surface, in a desert, and faith is the “digging” that looses the waters.

Abimelech was king at Gerar, and his kingdom were the Philistines, descendants of the Caphtorim. Abraham, dwelling with permission, in the southern lands of Abimelech, dug a well. For a time, there was strife with the servants of Abimelech over that well. Eventually Abimelech met with Abraham at the location of the well, where they swore a binding oath to one another, that neither they , their children, or children’s children, would cross over the oath to harm one another or to harm the land. As they spoke, Abraham set seven ewe lambs of his own flock aside by themselves, knowing what would follow. Sure enough, Abimelech, intrigued, asked, “what do you mean by these seven separated ewe lambs?” , to which Abraham replied, “You will take these seven ewe lambs from me, and incorporate them into your flock. Everything that they produce for you, from now on, is a witness between you and me, that I dug this well”. To this , Abimelech agreed. The well was named “Beersheba”, which means “Well of the seven fold oath”. It was also the waters of Beersheba, that Hagar’s eyes were opened to, as she was driven from Abraham’s household, and Hagar and her son Ishmael were preserved by those waters.

I can use no more plainness of speech, than to say this: It was agreed that Christ, the living well and waters, would come out of the loins of Abraham, because Abraham “dug the well”, Abraham believed God. It was also declared that all the peoples of the land would have access to the same well of waters IN THE ONE WHO CAME OUT OF ABRAHAM, and , like Abraham, faith would be the requirement , not flesh or blood lines. To this, all the scriptures agree.

The blood letting in the earth today, over religious differences, is in violation of the binding oath made by the same man all these sects claim as their “Father”, being Abraham. If they do not honor Abraham and Abimelech’s oath, they are violators and oath breakers.

There will never be peace or inheritance in the earth, between any peoples, except in Christ. And I do not refer to the “Christian” religion, such as it has become, which is that thing the apostle Paul warned about tearfully for three years, every where he spoke, referring to it as “Another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel, which is not another…”. I refer to the Promise of the Father, the Spirit of Truth, Who abides fully in Christ , and is those Living Waters to which all, by faith, have access for the asking. Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is plainly written, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he has no part of Christ. The very word “Christ” has no meaning , without the Anointing.

Current events are more than current events. Let the wise take warning and flee the houses of blood, the houses of oath breakers and blood letters, which houses will never know peace, the three houses which today, divide the city that men call “holy”, into three parts, their declaration of peace and safety will be short lived.

The Israel Of God …”I and the children”

Speaking before of the promise of the Father, the gift of the Holy Spirit, the Lord promised a “pure language” would be established in a people. This stands in stark contradiction to the present state of things, in which all the nations of men, the political, the ethnic, the social and the religious nations are speaking the confused language of Babylon. And “for the record”, religious nations includes the sects of “Christianity”, as they exist in the world, bumping along in the ditch, grasping the coat tails of self proclaimed leaders and prophets. The very name “Babylon” means ‘confusion by mixture’. If one would read Revelation 2 and 3, one would see that the Spirit is addressing the assemblies, but He does not have “the floor” alone. There are clearly described, many contrary and confusion-gendering voices, all coming, not from “among the ranks”, but from persons and entities which give the impression of speaking from “on high”, speaking as though they were intermediaries and conduits of expression, between the Lord, and His people. If I may say directly and in few words, that is Antichrist. Anything which denies that Christ is come in His people, and has turned to His people, each and every one, a pure language, is a thief and a robber. Anything that denies Christ is in you, and claims that position, is a thief and a liar. What are the earmarks of the speech of Babylon? the God-ordained confusion, which when salted among the sects and subdivisions of man and his self imagined works and devices of redemption, which can bring no redemption? Among these characteristics, which can be read in the account Moses gave in the book of Genesis, are the inability for those exercised in such vain undertakings, to realize the vanity of their undertakings, to see that their is no solution to complete their works, and they are unable to cease to look for one.

As an example of a pure language, which, for the Word of God that it is, separates the living from the dead, the substance from the symbol, the wheat from the chaff, let’s consider two things, only two, of the volumes of things needing clarification. Consider “Jerusalem” and “Israel”. What do these few letters, arranged into words, call to your mind when you read them?

When David, many generations ago, captured a city of a people called Jebusites, and took a tower in it called Milo, it says that he took residence their, and that men began from that time and forward, to refer to it as the “City of David”. A simple internet search of “City of David”, will reveal the confused speech of identity theft, of usurping a name and applying it to something it does not belong to… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_David . But when the son of David, according to the flesh, came and took upon Himself, flesh and blood, what did the angel of God, speaking the pure language of heaven, say to the shepherds abiding in the fields? He said , “Unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a savior, which is Christ the Lord”. If you know the physical city in which Christ was born, you now have a decision to make. Is the City of David the former city of Jebus, the city of David, as proclaimed by man? or is Bethlehem Ephratah the city of David, as declaired by one speaking the pure language of heaven? The scriptures speak of two “Jerusalems”. One above, and from above…one beneath, and from beneath. Which is the heavenly? the Spiritual? or the misnamed piece of real estate? Paul wrote that Jerusalem beneath is a city of bondage, and pertains to Hagar, Ishmael, and is the Mount Sinai of bondage and servitude. Again, in the book of Revelation, the Jerusalem beneath is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, and is identified as the place where the one born in the city of David, was later crucified.

The name, “Israel”, means “Prince with God”. A prince is heir. Heir of the throne and kingdom. When the name “Israel” was conferred upon Jacob symbolically, it was said that his name would no more be called Jacob (which means deceiver) , but his name would be called “Israel”. Yet from that point and on in the scriptures, the name “Jacob” and the name “Israel” were alternately used in describing the events of Jacob and his sojourn. Who was it in Jacob, that the name “Israel” applied to? Who would be Prince and Heir with God? The prophet Hosea spoke by the Holy Spirit, and proclaimed, “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt”. But what says the account of the Gospel of Matthew?

[Mat 2:12 KJV]
“And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.”

If the words of the prophet Hosea were not fulfilled until Christ, to whom then does the name Israel, “Prince with God” , belong? who is the “Israel of God” upon whom Paul confirms blessings?

[Gal 6:15 KJV]
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walk according to this rule, peace [be] on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen.”

Jesus is the Israel of God, and all begotten to God in Him. All other considerations are not true. The name does not apply to anyone to come out of Abraham’s flesh, save the one seed of promise, Christ, who is heir of all. To Christ, in His resurrection, are born the true ans Spiritual nation and Israel of God, A nation not born of flesh, nor of the will of man, nor of blood, but of God.

In our present time, many professing Christ, are living in a fog. They have progressed no further in their comprehension, than the place the two disciples leaving for Emmaus were in, until Christ came to them. All eyes are seemingly upon a place spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, waiting for a nation using the name “Israel”, awaiting a man to come sit on a chair and “redeem” Israel , and make unredeemed flesh behave. Their minds were upon a piece of dirt, when the very Nation and Israel of God stood before them, spoke with them, and they did not recognize Him….not until he proclaimed their former understanding to be foolishness, and becan to open the scripture to them, as He does to this day, by His Spirit in you (if you will hear). The Israel of God was called out of Sodom and Egypt, a place which the disciples errantly called Jerusalem. Jesus in no stranger in Jerusalem, He IS the Jerusalem of God.

[Luk 24:13 KJV]
“…And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed [together] and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said unto them, What manner of communications [are] these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found [it] even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”

When we read of Aaron’s rod that budded, we must consider that it not only budded, but it produced a crop of almonds, a generation with it, in it’s resurrection. This was pointing to the true resurrection, and the saying of Jesus, how that except a corn of wheat fall to the earth and die, it abides alone, can be comprehended in the raising of that almond branch, those many years before.

The prophet Isaiah, speaking before of the resurrection, said, “Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion”. The apostle Mark spoke how that signs would FOLLOW them that believe (not proceed them). Consider carefully, that all the expectation of the creation, groans and travails together, as in labor pangs, awaiting, not a man to “come” sit on a chair in a corrupt city, making corrupt flesh behave itself. This false notion will have it’s manifestation. But it will be short lived. The true revealing of Christ, that is awaited, is bound up in the manifestation of the Sons of God. (Sons is generic…no gender applies). There is one Israel of God. It is the Resurrection from among the dead. It is not a lifeless copy.

Read Revelation 2 and three, and ask the question, which is the Body of Christ, which are them fashioned like Him in resurrection? the assemblies, abiding still in the valley of decision? or the one plainly described as one like unto the Son of man? whose throne is found after the words “come up here”? There is a described seat and throne in the assemblies, and a throne described as above, and not in the assemblies. The body of Christ stands in the midst, but has not part with the seat in the midst of the assemblies.

Judge what I say.

 A LAND THAT FLOWS WITH MILK AND HONEY

(ISAIAH 26)

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Let favor be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD. LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth. LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them. Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

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A recent interest in honey bees and beekeeping has become a source of learning, not merely about bees, and what they do, but it has helped open a volume of understanding contained in the scriptures, wherein bees, honey, & etc., actually depict the mind stayed upon the Lord. This may seem strange, or far fetched, but the scriptures, after all, are “they which testify of Me”, (said Jesus).
Many a believer may well go through life, never “seeing”, never knowing, the “land flowing with milk and honey” , accessible, and available to us here and now, because the Helper, the Spirit of Truth is come to lead us unto ALL truth (as said Jesus), “Taking the things which are mine, and showing them unto you”. Every word of that which is called the Lord’s prayer, point for point, is answered in Colossians 1. That being the case, things which have been hid from the foundation of the world, things angels have desired to look into, are now revealed by the Spirit. But such “things” do not lay about openly. Rather, they are sought out in a relationship with Christ. The “common salvation” of the book of Jude, which is in the unmeasured outer courts, as described to John in the Revelation, does not approach unto the right to eat of the hidden manna, which Jesus awards the one who over comes. Pearls are not found on a walk on the beach. Gold, silver and precious gems are not found laying about the ground. Dust has been made the serpent’s meat. It is not the destiny of them called in Christ, to eat dust, the stuff of which Adam was elevated from, and fell back to. Jesus rebuked the Enemy, (Mat 16:23 ) “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men”.

(from Colossians 1)
“…For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hathdelivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist…”

Jesus, in the time leading up to His crucifixion, expounded that He was “going away”. That He had proceeded and come from the Father, and that He returned to the Father. And further, he expounded to His disciples that where He goes, and the way He goes there, they know. To this, one disciple, Thomas, replied, “we do not know where you go, and how can we know the way?”. Jesus also expounded that He would come again, not leaving His own, nor forsaking them. In saying “I will never leave you or forsake you, I will come unto you”. On the full day of Pentecost, the Lord came, as He promised. The prophet Joel cried: “ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts”. Remember the admonition of Paul, to a people preoccupied with buildings, rituals and clergy craft, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”. This Teacher, this Messenger of the covenant, defines the temple of the living God, by dwelling in it. It remains a mystery to me, how many can have and be something, not know it, and so, look for it to be built on a piece of dirt in the former land of Canaan. Indeed, the poison of religion, to me, is found in that it presents itself , side by side, with the true, showing itself as something it is not, and locking the undecided, in a mental valley of decision. Paul called this, “Another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel, which are not another”. The Armageddon of the book of Revelation, is not going to happen “some day”, it has been waging for quite some time. And it is waging entirely in the roughly three pounds of gray matter between the ears.

There are different forms of knowledge…different ways of writing instructions. Many a bird, many a fish, etc., “know”, without every being told, where their place of origin is. Many a bird will hatch out, fly to distant lands, and return to the very spot of their conception. Some Salmon, spawned in one of innumerable branches of a head waters, will spend it’s life in the sea, and return eventually, to the exact spot of it conception, where it mates. In the book of the seed bed, the book of Genesis, the principle is set forth, that everything brings forth after it’s kind. The Lord’s people are not a special or set apart segment of humanity…a particular genetic line of Adam. The Lord’s people are indeed gathered out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. They are as many as are begotten to God, IN CHRIST JESUS. I can tell you, that he that is so begotten, has certain knowledge written into him/her at conception, much as the map and blueprint of your natural mother and father, are written into every single cell in your body, beginning at conception, beginning in the zygote. This new and living way, can be spoken about and taught from without, but it must be experienced from within. It is shown us in Isaiah 64, and later quoted by the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians, For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Paul adds to this, “...But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God….”. To many who site the “Lord’s prayer” as an as yet unfulfilled plea, the Lord is afar off, seemingly removed in time and space, relegated always in the carnal mind to someone and something always over the horizon, always the proverbial carrot on a stick. But them in whom the Father and the Son have come, and have made their abode, making such an individual of faith, a partaker at the heavenly table, such “…the Father, hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath (present tense) delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins…”

One of the reasons, one of the complaints of the Lord, regarding man, and leading to the scouring destruction of the flood, is that the thoughts of man’s heart is only evil continually before Him, and they have forsaken His way in the earth. The Lord, recognizing that man’s thoughts are vain from his youth, pledged not to overthrow the earth with a flood again, having pledged that He would no longer strive with the souls of men. But in the Son of God, was found the mind stayed upon the Lord, never a vain, purposeless of repulsive thought crossed or entered it. And into this “mind” are we offered translation and abiding. The mind stayed upon the Lord, is beautifully depicted in nature, as a hive translated out of a land of darkness, into one flowing with milk and honey. The things once hidden from heart and mind, now revealed by the Spirit within. The Messenger now taking the things which are the Father’s and Christ’s, and revealing them to you, all unseen by the world.

In beekeeping, many of the first things learned, things as simple as the vernacular used, is eye opening. For example, the term “honey flow” correctly identifies the fact that honey flows, not from bees, but from the land, as indeed the Lord’s words reflect..promising a land flowing with milk and honey. The “flow” is the production of nectar and pollen, from various trees, flowers, etc., at various times through the growing season. Bees collect, process and store the nectar, and it becomes honey…a wonderful food that has many beneficial qualities, and is the only food in nature that does not spoil if stored properly. It keeps indefinitely. It is not unlike the manna in the golden pot, placed in the ark of testimonies, manna which does not stink or breed worms, as might the manna collected out of order, when collected under “law”.

Pollen is collected, each bee adds a secretion, like saliva to it, and it is packed into cells. It undergoes a complicated process that includes many of the things that happen when yeast is added to a flour mixture to make bread. In fact, the final product is called “bee bread”. It is finally composed, roughly, of 55% carbohydrates, 35% proteins, 3% minerals and vitamins, 2% fatty acids, and 5% of various other ingredients. Interestingly again, the wording of scripture is telling. For the “milk” in a “land flowing with milk and honey, is actually the word for “fat”, derived from a word that means “the abundance and choicest part of the land”.

A land of darkness provides flora no source to produce any flow from it. A hive (mind) abiding in a land of darkness, has nothing to gather from the land, for nothing is produced by the land, and the mind abiding in the “darkness that covers the earth, and gross darkness the people” similarly sees and hears nothing from the land. But read Colossians 1 again. Read of being made a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light, having been translated out of darkness, into the kingdom of His dear Son. The resurrected, glorified son of man, the Day Star risen in your heart, is the very land of promise, and not any piece of dirt or real estate, no matter it’s location. Jesus is substance of the allegorical the land of promise. A photograph of a life preserver, and books and teachings based on various opinions about it, will do nothing for a drowning soul. Clinging to the Jerusalem beneath, and to the experiences of them who interacted in the allegory and shadow of things that it was and is, have the same hope of salvation. One needs to come into the substance of things. Not the symbols. Jesus is the Substance. I was recently asked a question by a rather religious brother. Being asked, I answered at length. The man was very troubled, and said he has problems with my theology. I told him I do not have a theology. I am a disciple, and have a Teacher, who I believe. Men’s opinions don’t interest me.

The book of Deuteronomy, ch.32, contains a prayer and admonition of Moses, to the people, about to be given admission into a “promised land”…a land “flowing with milk and honey”. During the journey of the exodus, we have read of the manna that was provided…manna that “was like coriander seed, white, and the taste thereof was like like wafers made with honey”. Upon setting foot into this allegorical land of promise, a measure of manna was placed in a golden pot, covered with a lid, and hid within the ark of the covenant. All of this was symbolic of the bread of heaven, Christ in you. And to this very allegory does Jesus refer in the book of Revelation, promising the over comer, the right to eat of the hidden manna. His word abiding in you, and opened to you, is no allegory. It is the very substance of what everything about bread was pointing to. Jesus said that what was provided in the wilderness was not the real bread of heaven, but that “I am the true bread of heaven”. Spiritual bread, the true bread, is imperishable and not even remotely related to anything that can be placed in your physical mouth. The effigy enters the mouth and passes out the other end. The true bread of heaven enters in at the ear, the inner ear, and eventually makes it’s way out of the mouth, without degradation. In this, is the miracle of the loaves and fishes comprehended. Within the bee hive, a marvelous substance is found. It parallels, and bespeaks the bread of heaven. It can be compared to the hidden manna in the holiest place, and is superior to the man made bread of the holy place, bread gather under the category and heading of work and labor. Bread if mishandled or handled out of order, stinks and breads worms. The words which Christ Himself speaks, and all He reveals within you, are incorruptible. Though heaven and earth will pass, not one word revealed to you, at the Father’s table, will ever pass or perish. It abides eternal. You are what you eat, as they say. Bee bread, real bee bread, is a picture of this. It is not to be confused with pollen, taken by comb extractors from foraging bees as they return to the hive, and marketed as “bee bread”. It is nothing more than pollen, and has few, if any, of the touted benefits of bee bread. If it was never brought into the hive, chewed and processed with a little spittle and honey, never went through fermentation, never stored and capped in a cell, hidden and lidded in a little golden pot…it isn’t bee bread.

So what is the land of promise? Where is this land that flows with milk and honey? Was it a geographic destination? Moses admonished the people not to forget the Rock from which they sucked honey and oil. He said this BEFORE they set foot in Canaan. Years before, Jacob had poured oil on a rock and called it the house of God. Paul the apostle writes: “ Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ”. The “land” that provided then, as now, was Christ.

Moses, in Deuteronomy 32, plainly tells the people that the Spiritual Rock that exited Egypt with them, went before them, and provided honey and oil for them, is their promised land. He warns them not to forget and lose their true promise, when they become situated in a piece of real estate.

A honey bee hive is a unique system. Once functioning properly, the bees have built a large amount of storage cells called comb. Pollen and honey, the flow of the land, are processed and stored in it. There is generally one entrance, a narrow way, in and out of the hive. This makes the hive more easily defended against a host of things which would like to rob the bees of their wax, their honey, or their very life’s blood. Ants, mice, other bees, to name a few, come to rob. Skunks will scratch the outside of the hive to entice bees out, and will eat them. Moths will lay their eggs on the outside of the hive, which when hatched into worms, they will seek any crack or crevice to gain entrance and tunnel through honey and comb, ruining them. Religious dogma, collected and packed into my hive, will surely stink and breed worms. As Jesus said, “Labor not for the meat that perishes”. A strong colony with a well defended entrance, will do a very good job keeping invaders out, and honey in. I chose a strain called “Minnesota Hygienic” because they are very fastidious. They clean the cells relentlessly. Any marauder, they chase out. Anything they kill, does not rot in the hive. They drag it out. Even a dead bee, they remove from the living, casting it from the hive. A hive, as with a mind, functions optimally, when kept clean. Any number of things, left unattended, left not addressed, can fester overcome and destroy a hive. The knowledge and understanding we have of the Lord are priceless. Above silver, gold, or the price of rubies, as say the scriptures. And where our minds, each of us individually are concerned, we are not a commune. To have the mind of Christ is to have a mind framed after His, functioning like His, and privy to His. It in no way means He thinks for, or through us. Two can not walk together, except they be agreed, and, except there be two. “Come let us reason together”, requires two minds. And in the Lord, unlike in religion, the end result is two strong minds, not one overcome, subjugated and displaced by the other. In fact, where it says “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee”, the word “mind”, is יֵצֶר(yetser), and means “form, framing, purpose, intellectual framework”. It denotes more than whimsical thinking. It speaks of the very thing your constitution is being patterned after.

There is a saying used repeatedly in the scriptures, which describes the mind, translated out of darkness, into the realm and place of the resurrected, glorified Son of man. That saying is “Everyone under his own vine and his own fig tree”. In Numbers 9, the Olive tree, the Fig tree and the grape vine, are made allegories of the Holy Spirit, the Father and the Son. Jacob, in a place called Luz, meaning “Almond”, with his head on a stone, saw a ladder reaching to heaven. Above all was the Lord. The messengers of Heaven ascended and descended upon the stone and stones. Jacob arose, anointed the stones, calling the place, “The house of God, the gate of heaven”. He thereafter called the place “Luz-which-is-Bethel”…Almond (resurrection) which is the house of God. Under the fig tree, the revelation of Christ, which comes only from the Father, was given to Nathanael. Jesus told him he too, would see the messengers ascending and descending upon the Son of man. Judas, (not Escariot the betrayer), asked Jesus how He, Jesus, would reveal Himself to His own, and not to the world. Jesus said “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him”. As the Holy Spirit, The Teacher, takes the things of Christ, and of the Father (which things are one), and shews them to us, so bees “ascend and descend” from the hive, collecting and bringing in, the flow and abundance of the land. This He does not do in a mind not translated into the kingdom of the dear Son. And the mind of Christ is not a commune. The thing which every believer has in common, is the same Father, Teacher and Lord, while each retains his/ her own mind and identity. “Come let US reason together”, “come and place your hive in Mine”.

So, there are numerous analogies and comparisons to be gathered in studying honey, the hive, and reading all one can find to read of them in scripture. Have you ever read some report of someone attacked by a swarm of bees? This is a misuse of wording. A swarm of honey bees is a very specific thing. They are most docile and harmless when swarming. They swarm when leaving their former hive, to seek out another location. They do this to relieve overcrowding, escape a failing hive, escape predation, or for other reasons. Samson once killed a lion and later ate honey and comb from a swarm of bees that took up residence in the carcass. These bees had left their former location, for some reason (likely over crowding) , and found the slain lion’s body a suitable abode, in similar fashion, Abraham and Lot separated because the land could not sustain them when together. Jacob and eleven sons “swarmed” to Joseph (not knowing it was Joseph at first), when the figurative land of promise could not sustain them , by reason of famine. Joseph controlled all food…much to learn in that study. David, fled Saul, and came to the “cave Adullam”. All David’s household, and all who were debtors, misfits, outcasts, etc., somehow found, and came to David in this hideaway. All who “threw in” with David knew what would happen if Saul discovered them. The cave, a figure of death. Resorting, “swarming” to David there, was done in faith. David eventually enthroned, brought all who believed in him with him, is resurrection. “Adullam” means “justice (or justification) of the people”. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I have rejected the world, it’s religions, social orders and politics, and have “swarmed” to a place where I find peace. The life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. His Adullam is my Adullam. If He lives, and because He lives, I live also. That is His word, and I believe Him. And curiously, the word “swarm” appears twice in scriptures. There is always an imitation. The swarm of bees in the carcass of Samson’s slain lion, and the swarm of flies that plagued Egypt, the analogy of forced religious bondage. The word “swarm” in the former case, means “gathering, congregation”. The word “swarm” in the latter case means “mixture and incessant or involved motion”. It is applied to blood sucking gad flies. The Lord’s gatherings are quite different in nature from Egypt’s (if you take my meaning).

A mind overcome, is like a hive overcome. Domestic hives are worked by a beekeeper. He manipulates them using a knowledge of what makes them tick. A domestic bee keeper has one modus operandi…to rob the bees of honey, to subjugate them to his purposes via the one thing that regulates them all. The queen. Control her, and you control the hive. Italian bees are the most docile, least defensive of all. If you want to breed “meanness” out of a hive; destroy the existing queen, and replace her with an Italian queen. The offspring will become subdued and easily controlled. When going into the hive, a skilled beekeeper often uses no protective clothing at all. He or she uses smoke. Smoke masks smells, and bees are completely smell oriented. Smoke will hide any alarm pheromone. A bee keeper, operating in a cloud and fog of smoke, goes all but unnoticed by the bees. They know something is “not right”, not “normal”, but they can’t quite put their antennae on it. Revelation 9 is the same teaching about religion, priest and clergy craft, that beekeeping and the use of the smoker are. If that offends, I do not intend to offend, but I do not apologize. I know to hate the deeds and doctrine of the Nicolaitans, without hating them. John 3, and Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus, which name is essentially identical to the word “Nicolaitan”, is a perfect case study of separating the man from his deeds and doctrine, loving the man, but hating the deeds and doctrine. The world at present is being worked in a cloud and smoke described in Rev. 9. A certain edifice, located in Rome, when viewed from on high, bears a striking resemblance to a key hole. The bottomless pit has a key hole. The character traits of the ministers of the bottomless pit are not seen with the natural eye. The descriptives are spiritual. The presentation, the frontal view, is false. A crown “like” a crown of gold. Hair like a woman’s is a guise of humility and servitude. A breastplate as of iron, is not a breastplate of righteousness, faith and love. All this frontal deception is to hide the “business” end…the scorpion tail and sting, hovering behind and above. This sting has power to torment “five months”. The administration of the law, is the frustration of grace. The apostle Paul, faced with the mixture of Moses and faith, stopped it dead in it’s tracks. Sadly, today, the thing Paul warned of, calling it “Another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel”, is now vast and overspreads the earth, and the earthy. And it warns against them who are free and walking in faith and truth.

The use of honey, bees, and their characteristics, are a rich teaching in the scripture. And when bees forage and find something, they return and do not lead others to it. But rather, with a mysterious dance, they reveal that they have found something, and they point the others to it. It is then up to each bee to look, or not to look.