Kingdom Come

This sorry excuse of a criticism smears itself, not the Bible.

This defamation of the Bible deceives its intended – obviously ignorant – audience regarding the fact that it is the Roman Empire’s culture – LAUDED by humanists such as this American Atheists Organization – which is responsible for the cruel slavery experienced by subjugated populations over the last two thousand years.

The Roman legal system, NOT the Mosaic Law, controlled the nation of Israel when the New Testament was written, and has been perpetuated into our current modern era by elitists’ exploitation of the masses.

“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons [i.e. the masters will get what they deserve from the Lord].” (Colossians 3:22-24)

In absolute contrast, the Law of Moses established fair treatment of all individuals in society.

“Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 25)

Continue reading “31) Lord And Master = Provider And Protector”

The ancient definition of father was not exclusively or even essentially sperm donor, or even head of a family, but a leader empowering subordinates to perpetuate his expertise.

• “Jabal was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.” Think the ranchers in the American West 
• “Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. (Genesis 4:20-22) the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals…to give thanks and to praise the LORD.” (I Chronicles 25:1-3)

The (in my view) phenomenally relevant television show Breaking Bad demonstrates this concept to a society that has lost touch with this reality. 

Walter White identifies so strongly [AKA I love it!] not only with the innate ability of a former student Jesse, but especially his rebelliousness and independence, that he exerts his heretofore untapped great knowledge and skill into making Jesse in his own self-image as a heretofore unrealized superlative and therefore rightly wealthy chemist.

“For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth / teaches by demonstration him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these.” (John 3:35)

A biblical example of a father who loved / i.e. identified with offspring and raised him up in his own image is Abram.

Continue reading “33) Father Perpetuates Himself In His Sons”

The Hebrew scriptures don’t describe the creation of the firstl sons of God, they simply state their existence in heaven prior to the creation of earth / mass from which mankind was made, when it was just being plotted out. (Plotted. Get it?)

We can change the order of the phrasing without changing the truth:

“when I laid the foundations of the earth…all the sons of God shouted for joy.” (Job 38:4-7)

“All the sons of God shouted for joy…when I laid the foundations of the earth.” 

This establishes these sons of God as pure hyperdimensional energy beings. In modern science this is known as cloning. A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell. In biology these are called “daughters” rather than sons, but offspring nonetheless.

Currently in Christian society a man’s responsibility for providing for a child may be rejected by the father, enforced only by a paternity test establishing that he is in fact the father. In ancient societies every man had the right to reject an unwanted child, or to accept one, regardless of the status of the mother, be she wife, concubine, or harlot. And just so, in this legal cultural process, was Jesus acknowledged by Joseph despite being conceived by Mary prior to having intercourse with him, and bequeathed his inheritance as the son of David, rightful King of Israel.

A man could even adopt a foreign slave as his son and then make him his begotten son / heir, as was Abram’s intention towards his steward, Eliezar of Damascus. This was as clearly understood as the process of illegal aliens being granted citizenship in the U.S. is today.

It is only when we understand this ancient but not extinct concept of fatherhood that we can grasp what is meant in the biblical references to becoming a son of God, most apparent in the process of a child’s entitlements, rights and privileges being established not by the fact of physical generation but through election / choice granted solely at the discretion of the father.

The concept of sonship in Hebrew family life, which underlies all OT and Jewish thought on the subject, is that a son is one designated or acknowledged as such by a father…the father-son relationship is not primarily physical but rather an interpersonal one created by a sovereign act of the father. The son is to be obedient to, submissive to and dependent upon his father. The perfect son then is the incarnation and extension of his father’s will and character, and he points to his father, not to himself. If he is the Son of God in the unique sense that the NT claims for Jesus, then he will incarnate the demands of God’s righteousness, and he will present the demand for discipleship, the demand for obedience, obedience however not to the Son as such but to God the Father, that is, to the Father’s will as made manifest by the Son. Thus the concept of Son of God on OT-Jewish lines is basically moral, interpersonal and theocentric.

• It is not enforced by any outside authority on legal or genetic bonds, but
• publicly conferred, like knighthood by the head of the family,
• usually after some public demonstration by the child confirming shared spirit or vitality, 
• and as a maturing adult in executing the father’s will.

The hyperdimensional clones of God identity as “sons” has nothing to do with gender but rather their acceptance by the Creator into his family, as being in his likeness in the following categories.

Continue reading “34) Son = Accepted By The Father As His Generation”

Hesiod, who translated the older civilizations’ accounts of the origins of the gods / Theo-gony into the Greek culture’s version also converted the ancient Babylonian Ages of Man – historical stages of human existence– to fit Greek culture. Like Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, these are indicated symbolically with metals of successively decreasing value as the Golden Age of Man characterized by peace and harmony when the humans freely associated with the gods and, like them, did not have to work to feed themselves. These conditions parallel the biblical account of the first humans’ way of life in the Garden of Eden, including conversing with the serpent as a normal part of a walk in the park.

One aspect of the unity between God and both branches of his offspring that is most unfortunately missed by mainstream Christianity is the expression of gender duality.

While it is assumed from the statement “male and female created he them” that God created one of the humans with male reproductive organs and the other with female reproductive organs, that assumption doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

“For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” (Colossians 2:9-10)

Scientifically, chimerism is a natural condition of a single individual being both male and female.

As shown in the very ancient Hindu depiction of Shiva, a primary god, this is a key aspect not only of Father God but his spirit sons. If we don’t acknowledge this, we miss a key manifestation of spirit beings interacting with humans.

Continue reading “SECTION VI: The Golden Age Is Perfect Unity Between Father And Sons”

“Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” (Genesis 49:16-17)

The clear description of Dan as a sneaky death-dealing saboteur of his brethren is confirmed by the use of as + noun means ‘in the role of’, distinguished from like + noun meaning ‘in the same way as’.

Dan has been a pretender all along.

Dan’s name, not given by Jacob, but by his mother Rachel, means “Elohim hath judged / din me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.” (Genesis 30:1-6) The King James Bible has translated “elohim” as “Almighty God”, but Rachel proved her paganism when, as she fled with Jacob back to the land of Canaan, she stole her father’s gods / elohim, clearly believing THEY empowered her, as she did not relinquish them until forced to by her husband. 

This interpretation is confirmed by the fact that the name Rachel chose – Dan – was known as the place-name / name of its founder of one of Canaan’s giant hybrid tribes.

“And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants…and pursued them unto Dan…the left hand of Damascus.

These geographical details are put there for a reason.

On the left of Damascus is Mount Hermon, where the pre-flood fallen angels set up base camp for invading earth to breed demigod monsters with human women (Genesis 6:1-4)

The ancient city-state of Dan was therefore a Canaanite giant stronghold along with the other giant city-states referenced in Genesis 14 at this early stage of post-flood history.

Upon entering the land of Canaan to finally take possession of the promised inheritance Moses prophesied that

“Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall [future tense] leap from Bashan.” (Deuteronomy 33:22)

Like Jacob’s prophecy, this too reflected Dan’s inherently evil nature: “Bashan,  which was called the land of giants.” (Deuteronomy 3:12)

Dan is not a son of God. In the last days his tribe is not found in Revelation 7 when “there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”

Dan’s choice to reject The Hebrew God is detailed in the book of Judges, a quick synopsis here:

“the Amorites [giants] forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley [so impoverished quality of life akin to that of the Appalachian mountain people]… [cocking an eyebrow here] yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed [i.e. in comparison to the Danites failure to win their battles due to their failure to trust in God.]

the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in…came to Laish…and saw…how they dwelt careless, quiet and secure.”

This was outside the boundary inherited by the twelve tribes for the very reason of their peaceableness. The Israelites were instructed to wipe out the evil giant tribes.

“And there went from thence of the family of the Danites…unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah…and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image [golden calves]. And they said unto [the priest]…go with us, and be to us a father and a priest…And they…came unto Laish…and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire…set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh [son of Joseph, not a Levite], he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.” (Judges 18)

This exactly replicates the rejection of the Hebrew God during the Exodus.

The captivity of the northern tribes of Israel for this same apostacy occurred when “Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, took the northern ten tribes captive to Assyria.” (II Kings 15:29), but Dan would likely have been exempt because it wasn’t part of Israel. Since Israel’s prophecies are fulfilled in the “last” days, we can identify the tribe of Dan in our day as the Druze.

Druze is a small Middle Eastern religious sect characterized by an eclectic system of doctrines and by a cohesion and loyalty among its members that have enabled them to maintain for centuries their close-knit identity. The Druze numbered more than 1,000,000 in the early 21st century and live mostly in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. They call themselves muwaḥḥidūn (“unitarians”).

The Druze religion is believed to have started in Egypt. Its mystery teachings are known only to a privileged few leaders. Despite the small size of their community, the Druze have figured prominently in Middle Eastern history. Druze soldiers have since fought for Israel in every Arab-Israeli war. They are the only Arab group conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, and they participate in Israel’s border security and diplomatic corps. 

The Druze keep to themselves and even today do not allow conversion to Druze or marriage to non-Druze. An immigrant work colleague of mine, struggling between his desire to marry an American girl and his father’s threat to permanently disown him, asked for my advice, since I was steeped in the culture from my 15 year marriage to a Lebanese immigrant. I could only tell him that being disowned was a better option than the alternative – constant attacks against the wife, but one way or another it was up to him to choose birth family or an American wife, he’d never have both.

The same goes for everyone’s spiritual family. Simply being born into a certain religion doesn’t confer membership in God’s family. “Ye must be born again” by choice, giving up one’s previous identity.

Primo-geniture/ first-born is the most common practice in the Western world, but ancient societies valued proven competence over birth order. for obvious survival reasons. An extension of the Father’s base-line authority, he also chose the son who became the new head of the family when he ceded his authority.

The Godfather saga is a case study of the concept of granting inheritance to the son who best manifests the father’s likeness by demonstrating commitment to the values of the father. Out of Vito Corleone’s sons, the older two go their own ways, both out of pride – the oldest out of arrogance and the second son out of resentment. Only Michael, the youngest, inherits the father’s dominion, because he carries out his father’s will.

Michael in turn publicly names his nephew Vincent as his heir, because Vincent has become  just like him because he has submitted himself to the punishing training required to make him capable of carrying on Michael’s legacy. 

The ancient term for designating a child one’s heir is “begat”.

“This is the book of the generations of Adam…Adam begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth…And after he had begotten Seth…he begat sons and daughters.” (Genesis 5:3-5)

In any inheritance there are two elements to one’s estate – material assets and authority to manage them. 

Continue reading “36) Begotten Son = Heir To Father’s Estate”

This concept is well portrayed in Breaking Bad.

Jesse’s character development into Mr. White’s likeness is encapsulated in a brusque comment made by Mr. White on a test paper that Jesse perceived as Mr. Whites’ recognition and empowering of his parents’ overlooked ability, so kept among his few belongings – “Apply yourself!”

Despite being in constant emotional conflict this authority figure, he respects him as evidenced by always addressing him as “Mr. White” and modeling his own behavior after his.

Not only does he become the heir to Mr. White’s drug empire, as Jesse matures we hear Jesse repeat Mr. White’s instructions, including the all-important “Apply yourself!” to his own subordinates, and they begin to model their behavior after his.

And without giving away any of the building drama, the “only” begotten heir multiplies himself into “many brethren”.

“Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob…Jacob begat Judas and his brethren.” (Matthew 1:2)

Continue reading “37) “Only” Begotten = “Unique” Among Other Heirs”