Kingdom Come

If we are ever going to understand how the massive amount of information, documented and preserved over thousands of years by multiple authors in a variety of cultures applies to us in our culture we must understand basic literature construction.

Theme refers to the central, deeper meaning of a written work.

Writers typically will convey the theme of their work, and allow the reader to perceive and interpret it, rather than overtly or directly state the theme. As readers infer, reflect, and analyze a literary theme, they develop a greater understanding of the work itself and can apply this understanding beyond the literary work as a means of grasping a better sense of the world.

Themes are recognizable by the repetition of key ideas and forces driving the plot forward from its beginning to the climax and conclusion. 

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was / became formless and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” (Genesis 1:1-2)

“That which was from the beginning [of time]…that [opposing force of] eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us…is the message which we…declare unto you, that God is light / life, and in him is no darkness / destruction at all…In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1, I John 1).

These passages define two of the Bible’s themes as Time vs Eternity and Light vs Darkness.

Time is scientifically determined to flow only into the future by the Second Law of Thermodynamics – the inevitable natural increase in disorder when no additional energy is added to a closed system.

“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature.” Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

We have to read Job’s account of Creation to learn what was happening during the hyperdimensional, eternal dimension before disorder / entropy / The Big Bang of a starter pistol began the stopwatch on the beginning of this racing-to-the-finish universe.

“when I laid the foundations of the earth…laid the corner stone thereof…the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” (Job 38:4-7)

On this first morning the created beings were “all” in unity. There was no disorder, no entropy, no time. 

Then, for some reason, some became false gods, not unreal but in the sense of deceitful, when they rebelled against their assigned subordinate role, promising to empower their followers but actually trapping and sucking the life out of them. Think politicians.

The oldest extant (still in existence) physical record of creation is the Sumerian Enuma Elis[h], preserved on clay tablets that are dated to ~2100 BC. 

It is generally agreed by archeologists that the Sumerian culture came into existence about 3500 BC.  

Cuneiform is the world’s first-known written language, emerging about 3,000 BC.

From a biblical perspective the emergence of cuneiform smack in the middle of “the days of Jared” when the fallen angels came to earth identifies this communication system as belonging to the false gods. This consideration is confirmed by the purposes for which it was used by the gods’ sacred kings, their priests and city administrators to track the god’s astronomical observations, keep records of the goods that were received through sacrifices, business and trade.

As the only recording system, over time it was adapted from “Excel” spreadsheets to “Word” documents by converting the symbols for the Sumerian words – which were conveniently monosyllabic – for use as sounds for expanded verbal purposes in legal and religious documents. One current parallel is the use of “All rise” in a courtroom to express “Show some respect you degenerates!”

So let’s take a look at what the fallen angels were telling their earthly servants.

Enuma Elise [The Heavens]

When skies above were not yet named…

Still understood from contemporary casting of magical spells, the ancients knew that naming a thing called it into existence and brought it under the namer’s power.

But while the Sumerian account vaguely mentions “naming”, note – it never credits a namer / designer / authority / owner.

Then gods were born within them.

The Sumerian universe was ruled by anthropomorphic (human features and personalities) gods representing various natural phenomenon. Once we acknowledge that the fundamental composition of any form or force of nature is e=mc2 then we must concur with anthropomorphized nature by c2, i.e. the infinite Singularity. The Bible also attributes consciousness to nature, which can only be understood as having come from the Singularity Creator.

The Enuma Elish is paralleled by Hindu scriptures which likewise fail to credit an intelligent “namer” / designer / controller.

the Vedas constitute the oldest scriptures of Hindu literature…believed to have been the result of direct revelation (Sruti)…Rigveda is considered to be the oldest and it declares the following:

“Who verily knows and who can declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?

The Gods are latter than this world’s production. Who knows thence first it came into being?

He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,

Whose eye control this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.”

By leaving unanswered whether the first / original god had any definite knowledge about creation we can see the origins of what is supposedly “purely” scientific, but is in actuality an alternate religion, of evolution of life from a primordial chaos of atoms in the Sumerian and Vedas accounts.

The Sumerian Enuma Elis(h)’s version of Creation parallels Genesis enough to support detractors of the Bible’s claim that the Hebrews plagiarized the Sumerians while transferring credit to the Hebrew divinity.

But the Hebrew scriptures clearly did not plagiarize what they alone state confidently – that a Supreme Pre-existent Being created the heavens and the earth with forethought and intent and objectives. This is one massive difference. Copywrite restrictions limit the declaration of life energy being outsourced from the infinite supply of the Singularity Creator to the Bible and only the Bible.

 ^“I am the LORD / Ani YHVH: that is my name / identity: and my glory / victory against opposition will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” (Isaiah 42:8)

And indeed, the Supreme god of creation called Ani in Hebrew, “I am” expressing the characteristic of Infinity overshadowing Time as always Being in every moment, and Infinite in power as the force of c2 that converts energy to mass to energy, is recognizeable as Anu in Sumerian, Ur-anu-s in Greek.

Anu retained his essential character and high status throughout Mesopotamian history. “Indeed, when other gods are elevated to a position of leadership, they are said to receive the anûtu, the “Anu-power”. For example, in Enuma Elis the gods express Marduk’s authority over them by declaring:” Your word is Anu!” (Tablet IV, lines 4-6).

Ani’s / Anu’s power was established by the enforcement of his word over the opposition to the execution of his plan.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. ” (Genesis 1:2)

Detractors of God’s handiwork like to claim a past tense to the word “was”, in other words, that God created a formless and void universe, allowing deep time for evolution.

This interpretation does not hold up under scrutiny. “Was” is used to denote a change in state over time.

“he drank of the wine [prior to being drunk], and was / came to be drunken; and he was / came to be uncovered” (Genesis 9:21)

“Esau came from the field [where while hunting with strength], and he was / came to be faint” (Genesis 25:29)

The plot of the Bible is stated in the 2nd-4th sentences of the very first chapter as “the establishment of the kingdom of God” against opposition.

Most convincingly of all, since “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (I John 1:5), this darkness, formlessness and void condition could not result from God’s Creative process, but rather from opposition to his Creation.

“I…commanded the morning [following the evening]…and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it…they stand [still] as a garment. And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. (Job 38:4-15)

“And the Spirit of God moved upon the [sur]face of the waters / chaotic form of molecules, compare to solid form of ice. And God said, Let there be / command performance, NOT creation of] light: and there was / came to be light. And God saw the light, that it was good / not evil:” (Genesis 1:3-4)

This claim is validated by physics’ discovery that entropy / disorder can only be replaced with order / enthalpy in systems that are not isolated but have energy input from another system.

“The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof…and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud…the crooked serpent.” (Job 26:7-12)

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)

This establishes that darkness is not simply the absence of daylight, it is the opposite of daylight, with its own works, characterized by destructive forces opposing God’s life-giving work.

What Is Dark Energy?

it is a complete mystery. But it is an important mystery…The rest – everything on Earth, everything ever observed with all of our instruments, all normal matter – adds up to less than 5% of the universe…

We are much more certain what dark matter is not than we are what it is. First, it is dark, meaning that it is not…visible…Second, it is not in the form of…normal matter…Third, dark matter is not antimatter, because we do not see the unique gamma rays that are produced when antimatter annihilates with matter. Finally, we can rule out large galaxy-sized black holes…

LIGHT IS LIFE, DARK IS DEATH :
AN ANCIENT GREEK AND INDO-EUROPEAN METAPHOR

In many ancient Indo-European languages there is a great number of metaphorical and euphemistic expressions…

Light in general and sun-light in particular enjoy some of the most prominent and most powerful symbolisms in many cultures. Sun is the heavenly light that man sees from the very beginning, indeed it is the stuff of life, what keeps life on earth…In Indo-European the sun and sun-light occupies prime position, the highest seat in the pantheon and religious imagery, an idea which is reflected in the name of the prime god Zeus (e.g. Gk. Ζευς, Skt. dydus, Lat. Iu(p)piter, etc., all from IE *dyeus ‘heavenly light, day light’). Many myths and many types of symbolism are associated with the sun and the heavenly light, many praises have been devoted to this primary natural phenomenon, and its magic and power have been immortalized in literature, art, and philosophy. It is, therefore, understandable to find close associations of light with life and life-source, and its lack with death, absence of life, and misfortune. Life, like truth, shines in the bright sun-light, while the opposite finds expression in darkness, in misty and foggy environments…

If we apply this to what the Bible teaches about light and darkness, especially that there is no darkness at all in God, then the following sequence of events unfolds during every day of creation week.

“and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening [midday to darkness and [second separate period of time] the morning [daybreak to midday, roughly 6:00 am to noon] were the first day.” (Genesis 1:4-5)

The struggle to control the world continues to be expressed throughout the entire first chapter at the most elementary level in the enigmatic recounting of “the evening and the morning.” Each creation day has the unspoken acknowledgment of the interjection, in the middle of each day’s work, of the opposing forces of darkness.

Something like the London Blitz.

 For thus saith the LORD / I AM / Creator…Seek ye me, and ye shall live…Seek him that…turneth the shadow of death into the morning…The LORD / YHVH is his name.” (Amos 5:4-8)

Consistent with the understanding that “the earth was without form, and void” on day 1 means that the new Creation became devastated, this same sequence of Creation – Destruction is played out on every succeeding day.

Only the Singularity God has the infinite ability to convert energy to mass and back again, to create and recreate one’s body, to input and sustain life of the body and soul through his spirit.

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11)

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my [the Savior’s] words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35)

“Giving thanks unto the Father,

• which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 
• Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
• and hath translated us into the [hyper dimensional] kingdom of his dear Son:” (Colossians 1:12-13)

Our placid lives and sanitized Sunday school stories have failed to give us a proper understanding of the Bible. It helps to put biblical words into suitable graphics. It’s rough, it’s tough, it’s dirty and bloody. It’s the true Game of Thrones.

The voice that thundered the universe into being – the real Big Bang – is the same voice that shouts his troops to follow him into battle to end the rebellion and establish his kingdom.

“He [God] is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?…Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth / locks up the stars.” (Job 9:3-7)

“And I saw…the end of the great earth…a deep abyss…no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon…it was a waste and horrible place…The angel said: “This place is the end of heaven and earth. This has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord.” (Enoch 6:16-21

“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity / second law of physics of  degeneration, not willingly / an act of will like the woman, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” (Romans 8:19-21)

Studying the Bible is not just a matter of cultural-religious identity, or living right, or solving problems. It is a matter of life and death for humanity! Whose side will you be on? The word of truth, or the lie of the adversary?