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Re the post titled 'Life Abundant' Ge.1:20-23)

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The 'moving creature' as species shall move from the land to become marine creatures vice versa. These dynamics owe to the quality life, which is an expression of divine holiness. In naming the earth separation of light from darkness such migrations did not injure the quality of life. In the pitch darkness of the depths marine creatures live as freely as land animals spread out in the dark foraging for food. It also throws up a great scriptural truth. "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."(2 Co.8:9) Joseph was deprived of his parental home and in becoming the savior of the nation of Israel, the Spirit instructs us in terms of life 'the lame shall take the prey.' God made his Son an example."

Ge.1:20-23 "Life Abundant"



"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven."

Referring the earth from the Psalm quote, "The fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein" belongs to God. He established it upon the floods which highlights the divine Will, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly.'The key word is life. Jesus coming to the word revealed the will of his Father, " I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."( John 10:10-KJ21; Ps.24:1-2) God by dividing light from darkness is leading us to the quality of His name. He called the dry land, earth "and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas." Separation of light and darkness is in His will serves a purpose; by the same purpose what shall we make of his command, 'Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life' ? It is held together in his Son. "And by him all things consist." (Col.1:17) "The 'moving creature' as species shall move from the land to become marine creatures vice versa. These dynamics owe to the quality life which is an expression of divine holiness. In naming the earth separation of light from darkness such migrations did not injure the quality of life. In the pitch darkness of the depth marine creature live as freely as land animal spread out in the dark foraging for food. It also throws up a great scriptural truth. "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich."(2 Co.8:9) Joseph was deprived of his parental home and in becoming the savior of his name the Spirit instructs us in terms of life the lame shall take the prey.' God made his Son an example.

"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."(v.16)

God willed 'that in him should all fulness dwell'. This being the case the greater light and the lesser light are not about the sun and the moon in their natural context, but signifying the Father-Son relationship. " All things were created by him, and for him."(Col.1:15-19) In him was life and the day and night mentioned in the verse is with regards to the life forms, to which we shall come anon. Wellbeing of nocturnal or diurnal creatures belong to the Son. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein./For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods."(Ps.24:1-2) Full significance of the Psalm quote we shall examine when we consider the fifth day.(vv.20-23)

The sun the moon and the stars serve double function as signs and as token of theodicy. (Re.21:25b) His throne is an emblem,"The Lord has established His throne in heaven,/And His kingdom rules over all." (Ps.103:19-NKJV). The evening and the morning were the fourth day and sequence His sovereignty leads us to the end times where the throne of God and of the Lamb (Re.22:1)present the same emblem of the greater light and the lesser light. The Spirit repeats in v.15 and v.17 the expression

"to give light upon the earth" which out to give us an indication that Bible is organized from both the standpoint of the Father and of the Son. There are only two worlds framed by the word of God which can only be understood by faith. The same faith that establishes the Father Son relationship. 'I come to do thy will' presents the will of the Father on one part and fulfilment on the other. There is no other. Faith is one.

Ge.1:14-15 "To light upon the earth"

"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so."

The Spirit sets the holiness which is an abstract quality in terms of the earth. Jesus Christ the visible image of the invisible God serves as a sign. It is for this reason he is called the sun of righteousness. "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall."(Mal.4:2) This specific quote is about the judgement as the prophet speaks in the preceding verse of it, the day appointed for "And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble", and the sun itself shall establish what God had intended when he commanded, "Fiat Lux". It was a sign for the Son the true Light. "And the city had o 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."(Re.21:23). God in his mercies has set in the heart of man the necessity of doing what is right while there is time. The Preacher speaks of time as set in heart of man. "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."(Ec.3:11) The only way any man can find out the work of God it is to believe in the Son who is the sun of righteousness.(John6:28-28)What is the test of children of light? The word of God is clear:"But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."(John3:21) God set the sun as a sign.

"I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.(Ec.3:17,1)

Ge.1:11-13 "After His Kind"

11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. Let us apply the worlds framed by the word of God (He.11:3) and the life of vegetation also derives from it. "In him was life; and the life was the light of men."( John 1:4)The same holiness transcribes the Law in the case of plant life. " A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit"(Matt.7:18) A herb yielding seed seasons the dish presented at the table. If it is not subject to law can we depend on it? One day it adds 'zing' to your palate and next it may be poison.

12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Herb yielding seed after his kind is an objective lesson from the word sent forth by God. It applied to his Son and i applies to animate and inanimate world. In the quantum world exists an exclusion principle so 'no two electrons in the same atom can have identical values for all four of their quantum numbers'.

The word of God is sound and signs so when we read of the glory of grass it is in context of the glory of the Son "For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away."(1 Pe.1:24) The Preacher calls it as 'vanity' and it is also a sign.

13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

The command number Three signifies the Son and the familiar phrase the morning and the evening were' shows us him as the tree of life.(Re.22:2)

Ge.1: 9-10

"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so;And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."



On second day he defined the light in terms of 'works wrought in God." It has a quality that darkness cannot comprehend. "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."( John 1:5) The similar separation was introduced by a firmament between waters above and waters below. This serves as a face so whosoever on the darkness may seek and find light. "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."(Matt.4:16;Is.9:2).

This explains the quality of mercy.

The Spirit moving upon the face of the waters did it so for a purpose. There is a certain knowledge in the face. Even adulterous and wicked generation looks for signs therein. This knowledge is different than what is in the face,"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."(2 Co.4:6). This face serves as a looking glass for man individually as well as whole mankind. On the cross the malefactor saw this knowledge,"And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." ( Luke 23:41-43). What work did he do to ask a favor? He got it without trying, is it not? Here we see grace. By Jesus Christ came grace and truth. In short the separation of waters above from below is to give a body to holiness of God. This is the mercy of God embodied in the Son.(Ec.1:4)

This clarifies still further: as gathering of seas and the dry land. Holiness of God through his Son sets this seal on a firm basis."God knows who are his." (2 Ti.2:19). Where does it lead to? "And there was no more sea."

"And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." (v.8)

God named heaven so our heavenly calling is not a random call. In separation of light from darkness his holiness set his seal of approval of the works of the light. "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." Works of light therefore have transparency as it were. The reason is simple. It is wrought in God. The Holy Spirit gives us a clear proof: Believe in the Son who He sent. "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. " (John6:29) By the same token the chief priests, elders and those who rejected him, hated the true Light that made their evil point an accusatory finger at them. " For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."( John 3:20-21)

The Spirit gives us a sequence of events coming under the second day. The Spirit moved upon the face of the waters sets of their own development so steam rising when the sun heats a body of water to form clouds or wind blowing owing to variation in pressures obey laws of nature. These laws are subject to the Word which is the Law. Word is a sign so the spirit works. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."( John 3:8) This invisible quality of the Spirit that any heart can hear is in harmony with holiness of God. It is thus God separated waters. Consequently mercy of God from above can work with the earth. The firmament is a face, which when the three magi looked at it saw the wondrous sign."Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east,"(Matt.2:1-2) It is thus deep calls unto the deep which is non verbal communication of the Spirit.

5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Day is many things to many people. It pleased the Father that in Jesus should all fulness dwell, So days, ages, the first and last, the beginning and the ending, Alpha and Omega must be explained in terms of his deity and humanity."Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof' (Matt.6:34) from the context refers to a period of time ie., of 24 hours. Whereas 'Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."(Ps.2:7b) belongs to a time that only God shall know. Within which all shades of meaning mentioned above must fit in. Be that as it may in the Genesis account 'the seven days' serve as seven arguments that the Spirit has presented in the abstract to the God document.

"What is an abstract? An abstract is 'a concise summary of a research paper or entire thesis'. It is an original work, not an excerpted passage. An abstract must be fully self-contained and make sense by itself, without further reference to outside sources or to the actual paper. "

Its objective,- the thesis, is to instruct man in righteousness. (2 Ti.3:16). Medium of instruction is to mould a man after the image of the Son who is the only template in which he can be redeemed from the earth to his heavenly calling. God is a Spirit. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."(1 Co.2:13).,/

The phrase 'the evening and the morning were' is to set apart seven aspects of His holiness. For example separation of light from darkness sets off a sequence that we see in the city of God " the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God." (Re.21:10) Thus with seven 'days' and each serves a definite purpose. '"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it' refers to all saints redeemed from the earth descending out of heaven.(Ge.2:3)

"And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."

Holiness is His name. Mary mother of Jesus qualified God thus,'Holy is his name'. From whence came this knowledge? The Spirit moving upon the waters (v.2) sensitized every vapor that God is knowable. "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly" accordingly gave Mary a measure of the invisible quality of God. How do we differentiate between good and evil? There is only one standard which is what we can infer from this short colloquy. "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God."( Mark 10:18). When God settled for light as good who shall contradict him? He as the Father of lights saw the light, that it was good. Amen.

Light and darkness are alike unto him. His Son consequently is the true Light which has a great consequence. He named the light as His own. He called the light Day which from henceforth shall signify his holiness as radiating from His godhead, from his force of will. It is set as the law. "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."( John 1:5). So children of light cannot remain hidden but shine forth boldly. "That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;"(Ph.2:15)

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

God separated two nations, children of light and children of darkness on the basis man responds to His holiness."But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."( John 3:21) Adam hid from the presence of God knowing that he disobeyed him.

Ge.1:1-3

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

The Spirit sets the time which for God is immaterial. The Holy Spirit refers to the eternal Will. He.11:3 annotates it for our understanding. He framed the world with the Word, which is His law. His holiness is the sum total of his Being. His law makes it expressed as signs and sounds." There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard."(Ps.19:3) Glory of His holiness has a body whether it is as small as a seed or a celestial object. Because of this heavens declare the glory of his Presence. (Ps.19:1)

2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

The invisible aspects of holiness shall in appropriate time manifest so the Spirit speaks of his Son as the visible aspect of His holiness. It is thus the worlds framed by faith is set in terms of lights. God is the Father of lights and Jesus Christ as the true Light which lights everyone that comes into the world. From the above the expression 'in the beginning' is a device to explain the culmination of the brightness of his glory. "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power" What do we know of holiness is through his Son and it is what this quote signifies.

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The Word was with God in the beginning and the word becoming flesh is the culmination of his Will as an express image of his person.

The waters made up of vapors which present a face as live of man presents a face before God. As "a man beholding his natural face in a glass" the Spirit works so heaven and the earth are set in context of each other. ( Jas 1:17,23)"The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."(Pr.20:27) Heart is the designated inward parts.

Ze.14 (continued)

(Matt.13:29-30)

Harvest- Conclusion

This Parable of Jesus also serves to impress us the ingathering is no longer restricted to the nation of Israel or in context of the Law of Moses. This celebration is in direct frame of reference to the everlasting covenant. (Note: Le.23:33-43 it was celebrated immediately after the harvest, in the month Tisri, and the celebration lasted for eight days. This feast was designed (1) to be a memorial of the wilderness wanderings, when the people dwelt in booths (Le.23:43), and (2) to be a harvest thanksgiving (Ne.8:9-18))

20In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses,Holiness Unto The Lord; and the pots in theLord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar./Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto theLordof hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein:and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of theLordof hosts.

So concludes our study of the Book of Zechariah.

Ze.14:10

"From Geba to Rimmon"

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

Compare Geba to Rimmon with this expression very familiar in Israel. "From Geba to Beersheba" expressed the whole extent of the kingdom of Judah, just as "from Dan to Beersheba" described the whole length of Palestine. Here the Spirit is giving us new coordinates since the traditional site of Jerusalem has ben elevated and significance of places also do shift. This change owes to a cataclysmic earthquake to which we referred in the earlier post under the title "The Elevated Site.

Geba is a hill , a Levitical city given to the tribe of Benjamin. Whereas Rimmon once again is associated with the tribe and it marks the rock into which the remnant of 600 Benjamites fled.(Jud.20:45). Seven thousand of them were slain meaning the tribe had been to all intent and purpose was annihilated. This 600 is a remnant and it also applies to the nation of Israel. When Jerusalem is ransacked totally, leaves yet 'and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city."(14:2). This is how God has willed and it was shown out true in the case the tribe of Benjamin. So shall be with the nation of Israel. Only they shall be brought into the body of Christ through much tribulation.

The remnant of the Tribe of Benjamin found a rock to hide themselves. But when the Day of wrath there shall be no escape. "And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places."(Re.5:14-17)

Ze.14:9-11 (1 of 2)

"Universal Peace"

"And theLordshall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be oneLord, and his name one."

The Lord God is one to which there is no dispute. The Spirit establishes in the vision of Daniel his status. He is the sovereign Lord,- the Ancient of Days who confers dominion to the Man. "

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him./And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."(Dan.7:13-14)

Jesus is the Son of man who dwelt among us and he was in a human likeness but with a divine mandate. John 3:16. God sent his Son to the earth whom we received as our Savior. The vision of the golden candlestick (Ch.4). The Spirit established position of man in relation of the Ancient of Days. The candlestick is 'Christ in us' and the two anointed ones in the two olive trees are spirit (12:1) and soul, both from God. Thus we are fellow-laborers with the risen Christ. We are anointed consequently "that stand by theLordof the whole earth. "(4:14). If so what has activism of the Evangelicals to do with us? We cannot hunt with dogs as well as run with hares. We are to stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

The day of Regeneration must come when he comes int his dominion, the kingdom of his dear Son. "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power./For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet./The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death".(1 Co.15:24-26)

There is another day in which God may be in us all. That sets the Fellowship of God with Man an eternal verity.

KJV+, John 3:5: "5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."

Everyone is born of water it's your physical birth in OT it was tradition be baptized in water NT every time mothers water breaks child is born of water, but be born of spirit you have to make that decision to be born of spirit because we are in grace administration

KJV+, Rom 10:9-13: "9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

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I am busy reading 1 Kings 17 in Verse 6 the ravens brought Elijah bread and flesh , Now this is my Question what is this flesh the Word is speaking of ? is it human flesh , animal flesh or is it that the ravens brought him meat ?

"The word of the Lord are pure,"(Ps.12:6)

God is a Spirit. Worship of God is in the matter of creature giving glory to the Highest. The memorial of in heaven shows the subject matter and object of reverence. The four beasts for example never broke off from their devotion while they explained to St John of the significance of the bound book with seven seals. (Re.4: 8-9)."

While the Lamb opened one seal one beast says, 'Come and see.'(Re.6: 1). Thus with every beast and in the midst of these four beasts a voice is heard when the third seal is broken, "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine (Re.6: 6)". Worship of God is in spirit and in truth. ( John 4: 23-24). The voice in the middle spoke language of the Spirit on non-verbal mode.

The medium of instruction is faith the same article our Savior Lord employed to do His perfect will, which to our intent and purpose is obedience. Thus spiritual understanding is what we require in order to be perfected as a man of God, 'thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

" Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered./ And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God."(Ro.8:26-27) Literally interpreting the quotes in the Bible is like watching a 3-d film without polaroid glasses. Faith makes one hear the word of God both Father and the Son in focus.

Face

Nothing is hid from God's presence, "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known".( Luke 12:2). Face in the parlance of the Spirit is simply a term to define a surface that is open before God, and implies beginning of a process, as in the face of Cain. God asks him, "The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?" (Ge.4:6-ESV). His 'countenance' (KJV) or face was open before him.

By the same token the creation account presents, "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters".(Ge.1:2). Its reaction we have in this verse, "The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled" (Ps.77:16).

From the convulsions the deep presented before the Spirit we can infer that the face holds a quality. As God tells Job ' it is turned as the clay to the seal.'( Job 38:14) This explains the manner God framed the worlds by his word. He commanded 'Fiat Lux' and consequently the things, which came to the surface were seen, as hidden depths of Cain's heart were mirrored in his face. The will of God brought the earth as clay to the seal. It is as finished as the will of God shall be complete and wanting nothing more. So we have this certainty, "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."(Ro.11:29-NKJV)

Face is the presence of God, which St Paul annotates in this verse, "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."(2 Co.4:6) Coming back to the creation account the Spirit of God moving upon the waters gave every water vapor a certain ability to know the glory of God, ( Jas 4:14). Ro.1:19-20. "So we are without excuse."

Presence of God is applied to the face so while the Spirit of God moved upon the waters it created a context so God can interface with us and lead us by the light of his word.

"The light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ' throws off heat and the two disciple felt it when the risen Christ 'expounded to them from the word'. "And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?( Luke 24:32)"

Presence of God is the word that went forth before the worlds began.(Is.55:11;2 Co.4:6)

Sometimes one mistakes the person of Jesus, his humanity for the face as in this case. Here antipathy of the Samaritans for his Jewishness came in the way.

"And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem."( Luke 9:51-53) They were taking cues from the presence of God and not the person of Jesus who wanted to be helped along the way.

Let us all do the work we are called to do. Pray for our nation's leadership in all 3 branches of government. May they find salvation in CHRIST JESUS, and then study HIS word to know how to walk with HIM.

GOD bless all on this forum and that we seek to worship and glorify HIM.

September 11, 2023

Ok, I would like to begin a conversation, I'm a Universalist; that is, I Believe that God will Save Everyone including demons. It all began when I understood Romans 14:11 KJV. If anyone has any questions I would love to explain.

Mode-2

Min-Max mode (2 of 2)

The Parable of the city on a hill is about Zion. (Matt.5:14). The idea of Zion as a sign is cited in the epistle to the Hebrews and it is with reference Isaiah. "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." (Is. 8:18). This leads us to consider what makes up Zion. "And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her./ The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there."(Ps.87:5-6) They were signs and wonders precisely for the reason that God blessed them, "with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ"! (Ep.1:3)

In the case of Isaiah it was necessary for the prophet to bring up the witnesses to solemnly name the birth of two sons as a commentary of Israel's fall and God's judgment. With the first son it was decided for him, "Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz./For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria." (Is.8:3-4). This happened as was predicted.

As for the name of the second, the name Sherajashub signified 'a remnant shall return' and fulfilment is reserved for the end times. "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, ... but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel in truth."(Is.10:20 ). God had determined the survival and conversion of a faithful remnant in Israel. The mode of Min-Max is, however, an extra-Biblical term.

Mode-2 (1 of 2)

Min-Max Mode

The eternal Word is the constitution of the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ as His visible image is the Word become flesh. So God sent his servants from time to time to deliver messages of his Advent. We shall compare two such messages. "Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace!"(Na.1: 15). Here the prophet is speaking of Judah specifically. We have in Isaiah a similar quote but it extends its significance from what Nahum has delivered. Isaiah predicts, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" (Is.57: 7)

The point is that prophecies given to man is specific as well as universal in keeping with the Min-Max mode of narrative. The burden is not merely with regards to places,- Nineveh, Babylon or Jerusalem are interchangeable, but it stands in context of Zion which is founded in heaven!

In order to keep such a narrative tight-knit the Spirit tags such piecemeal prophesies with symbols. Mountain is a tag for instance.

These two prophecies are with direct reference to Jesus Christ the prince of peace. So when St. Mathew writes the Gospel he sets the Beatitudes against the backdrop of a mountain. ("And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, "Matt.5:1)

Mode -1

Core Will of God has several modes by which the pre-eminence of the Word is presented. 'The Word was God' places the Scripture based on the Law. This Law may be expressed on stone tables and on fleshy tables of the heart. Thus the logos aspect of the Son permeates the kingdom of God. How the Holy Ghost the third office in Trinity has chosen to present the Lord God is from the Father Son relationship. So Jesus Christ as the Apostle of God says, "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven."(Matt.23:9-ESV) the Spirit places the position of Jesus Christ as 'the Son over his own house' as self-evident. "That in all things he might have the pre-eminence./ For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell."(Col.1:18-19). This fullness covers names of places, persons and events within direct frame of reference to Jesus Christ. St Paul refers to it, "All things were created by him, and for him:/And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."(Col.1:16-17). This being the cases all other laws are pendent on the Law. Moses as a servant gave the Law to Israel which we know was a mode.

Time

Time

Time is a sign. It is in this sense we have the Spirit tells specifically of its purpose under the heaven. "And a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die (Ec.3:1-6)". God's covenant with Noah is similarly pendent on the decree that He made with his Son, and it has to do with the day (Ps.2:7). (See entry under D-Day)

Time is of no consequence to eternal God. So we have time reconstituted to apply the role of the Son of man as the Word made flesh. St Peter provides us a clue to it in 2 Pe.3:8.

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.( John 9:4)." His call 'follow me' applies to the day in which the Preacher sets out a whole range of work any man who would follow the way the Son may do.

"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 (Ps.2:12)."

Noah walked with God and he did according to the instruction. So how long he took to build the ark is left out by the Spirit for a reason. The Spirit instruct us to abide in God a Spirit so our volume carries our earthly circumstance, time subsumed into the will of God. When you received the Son,, you are part of the body of Christ as the ark of Noah and the man symbolically became one.

Covenant of heaven with the earth has thus a time marked by the Spirit where number has specific significance in the same manner a bow in heaven would signify.

Jericho

Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites opposite of Jericho. (Josh.3:16) Cities of the plains ('kikkar') have same characteristic and it is to which Prophet Isaiah refers,- and the question concerns God's judgment on godless nations. The cities of the plains form a circle as in this verse: "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where," (Ge.13:10) These are Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar. Apart from the significance of five (See under N-numbers command /Jubilee) this circle is enclosed as Jericho was a fenced city. Joshua and his men circling the city seven times signifies God's judgment as fell on Sodom and Gomorrah would fall on her.

So Isaiah asks, "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?/It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:/That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.." (Is.40:21-23). (See entry below: Jerusalem)

"In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun." (1 Ki.16:34)

Altar

When God commanded Moses He specified, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.(Ex.20:25)". The stone referred to 'the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands '(Dan.2:45)'referred to Jesus Christ, 'the only begotten Son.' In Ezekiel's vision the altar of the temple also supplies the same idea.

"The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners (Ez.43:16-NKJV)" The Spirit establishes it in commemoration of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world. Command numbers 12; and Four signifies Jesus Christ as 'the Saviour of the world'. For the same reason before making the tabernacle in the wilderness God commands Moses, "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof:(Ex.27:2a)."

Genealogy of Adam (2 of 2)

From the context 'And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him(4:15b) it is more making Cain as the one 'most likely to succeed',- and in this sense he fits with the shrewd servant in the Parable of Jesus. "For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. / I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.( Luke 16:8-9-NIV)."

The Spirit disposes of Cain and takes up a new narrative in vv.25-26. This leads us to the generations of Adam proper. This alternative Genealogy carries all who would press into the nation built entirely out of the people of light. Thus the entire narrative from the separation of light from darkness (Ge.1:4) is about two nations of light and of wrath.

The genealogy in ch.5 has this peculiar construction.

For example vv.3-4

"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:/

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

In his own likeness prefaces Seth who is a double for the Son; he is called to be the heir of inheritance among children in light. The rest are consigned after the likeness of man.

Genealogy of Adam (1 of 2)

One interesting feature of this genealogy is that Cain is conspicuous by absence of his name. It is as striking as absence of Aaron from the list of heroes of faith in ch.11 of the Book to Hebrews. The Holy Spirit left his name out for a definite reason. Cain was not in the likeness of the Son while Seth was.

The emphasis is built up by the term 'likeness.' Of Adam the Spirit introduces the generations of Adam with this statement, "In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him' He goes on to elaborate and evidently it is of the holy family, 'Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created'. Here from the construction of words we can understand what the Spirit is driving at,- Adam as the head is qualified by phrase 'called their name Adam' for the simple reason that Eve is included in him,-and it establishes her as symbol for the body of Christ. In the likeness of God points Adam in relation to Jesus Christ as the Son.

This justifies the last line in the Lucan genealogy, 'Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God(3:38). In short the Spirit was right in presenting Adam as a forerunner of Jesus, which St Paul takes in the ch.5 of his epistle to the Romans.

What about Cain? His genealogy is given separately in the previous chapter. "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden(4:16).Of his descendant Lamech boasts thus: 'If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold(v.24)." Unlike the obedience we find in God the Son, what Cain has given Lamech is altogether different trait. Natural it would be to equate the mark of Cain antithetical to the name of the Father in the foreheads of the first fruits unto God (Re.14:1)

Abraham and Isaac (2 of 2)

It signifies that they were separate from everyday reality. Peter at Joppa would go 'up upon the housetop' (Ac.10: 9) and 'the upper room' where Dorcas lay before Peter would raise the dead carries the same significance. (Ac.9: 36-43; 1 Ki.17:17-24). The Spirit isolates them in order to give us its spiritual underpinning. In setting this Spirit wants us to get into the spirit of heavenly things that run parallel to our workaday world. God made Abraham the Father of many nations. Isaac is the heir of promise. What is their relationship? He is the seed of Abram after the manner of flesh. In raising him to the father of many nations, the heir also has to rise correspondingly is it not? The Spirit presents Abraham as a substitutionary symbol; -in which Isaac 'thine only son' serves the model for the Son.

God tempted Abraham in the sense he had to become the Father of many nations, which is based on faith so he proved his DNA was same as that of God a Spirit. For this reason he was not to lead his son to anywhere but "And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. /And they came to the place which God had told him of;"(v.9b)

The Spirit builds up Isaac in small steps, -"And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son" references to the wooden cross Jesus would carry to Calvary. Next we have this phrase, "And they went both of them together,"(Ge.22: 8-9) In the silence we may recall the words of Isaiah, "yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter."(Is.53: 7)

What is Mount Moriah? Here the Spirit is referring to Zion that God has founded with which the creation account began. This is the centre of the divine Will and it is to this that their faith had to rise. In short faith sets Abraham and his son as one. Isaac signified the Son the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.

Abraham and Isaac (1 of 2)

"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham"(Ge.22:1)

Does God tempt man? Certainly not! The word of God is clear about it. ("For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:"-Jas.1:13). In order to understand the story of Abraham and Isaac as intended by God, we can only understand its full significance from the manner the Holy Spirit has organized the Fellowship of God with Man.

The Man is Jesus Christ where both his deity and his humanity bears upon everyman who is brought into the fellowship. He is called to be saint . It is thus we find in the epistles of St Paul, "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints" and yet another, "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints " (Ro.1:7; 1 Co.1:2)

The Spirit is not referring to human nature as we in our workaday world tend to view temptation. An open door may tempt a saint for instance is precisely with regards to his human circumstances. Whereas a saint's world is set in an altogether different context. He is set in context of the world of the Spirit according to his own pleasure and not because he merited it. God does not tempt anymore than he has to remember as we read in this verse, "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark." Temptation is letting Abraham know where his priorities lay and God desired that " I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."(Ge.17:1)

As commanded of God Abraham took his only son along. "And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you." (22:5) Help provided by the young man hitherto covered only muscle power, which in the world of the flesh does count. But the intent of the Spirit is something else. So he purposely sets them higher than others who had accompanied them.