Kingdom Come

Beethoven’s endurance is expressed in the title of a movie about his life, “Immortal” Beloved.

While the title is based on his avowed eternal love for a woman, there is a broader application of the immortality of his own soul’s creativity and deep emotions living on through devotees of his music after his death. After 200 years Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” still remains perhaps the most famous piece of music in history.

This is not simply conceptual. There is a material reality to im-mortal-ization as aspects of Beethoven’s soul are re-experienced, re-in-corp-orated and re-vitalized in the viewers’ em-bodied souls.

But not Beethoven’s own complete soul.

And the same situation is true in natality – where each parent going all the way back to the Adams is re-incorporated into their offspring, but not the owner’s complete soul.

Eventually, as ordained by YHVH and reiterated by Melisandre (in GOT, of course), “All men must die.”

Job, despite his conviction of having led the penultimate example of a righteous life, paints a grim picture of death.36

Continue reading “58) Immortal Beloved = Permanently Embraced By God’s Spirit”

“the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed…And I will put enmity between…thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise / crush thy head [permanently destroy], and thou shalt bruise his heel [temporarily incapacitate].” (Genesis 3:14-15)

There is lyric quality, a poetry even in English to “bruise a head / bruise a heel” which the King James translators did a great job in transliterating from the Hebrew. In contrast to smashing a head which destroys, wounding a heel only disables, like an Achilles tendon injury,

To which warning the serpent froze in horror, not the least because he was unable to identify this enemy.

Seed? What’s seed??

This was a whole new element to the battle, completely unknown before death entered the world.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn / seed of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit…now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” (John 12:23, 31)

Continue reading “60) Natality Is New Life From The Dead”

The oldest clearly and unmistakably definite reference to re-generation from mortal to immortal was written before Moses compiled the Torah. Because of the consistency between Job’s and Moses’ accounts of Creation, we can be assured that they both drew their information from the same source documents, now lost to us.

The Book of Job is not only the finest expression of the Hebrew poetic genius; it must also be accorded a place among the greatest masterpieces of world literature – and was incorporated into Handel’s Messiah (1741), one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.

Job’s account, like any good literature, begins with, then wraps up with, a thesis. At the beginning we are informed that God and Satan begin a game of Risk.

“Now there was a day when the sons of God / righteous angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan / the Adversary cloned from Lucifer came also among them [i.e. he is not one of them]…

And the LORD said unto Satan…Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Then Satan…said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power.” (Job 1:6-12)

And Job loses all that he has – all his substance / wealth, his children, his health, his reputation, his friends, even his will to live.

Continue reading “61) The Re-Generation”

There is a common teaching that there are different ways of being saved from eternal damnation during different eras of time with

1. works of obedience to the law and sacrifice in the Old Testament required for pre-Christian salvation
2. and work-free gift of grace for Christians obtained by simply asking Jesus to come into your heart. As an adult. I still don’t know what that means.

This is the problem with teaching isolated verses to children in Sunday School without ever connecting the dots as adults.

If we stick with a hermeneutical analysis of the Bible we see that there has always been just one way of being saved from sin and its consequences.

Adam joining his wife in death saved her from the dreadful isolation that defines death, but that didn’t reconcile her to a spiritual relationship for eternal life with the Creator.

God can unilaterally forgive sinners but even He can only offer restoration of relationship, which must be accepted by the sinner. This is what is commonly experienced in our society as marriage counseling.

“And the LORD God said…Because thou hast done this…thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” (Genesis 3:6-16)

This is not a punishment. There is a direct connection between

• the woman’s desire for tasty food, pleasure, and wisdom getting her in trouble and dragging her husband down into her trouble,
• and God’s response by putting her desires under her husband’s oversight.

It’s to prevent a recurrence in order to reconcile her broken relationship with her husband. How could he ever trust her in the future if she didn’t admit her weakness and allow him to protect himself as much as her? YHVH wasn’t setting up a tyrannical marriage system. Adam had proven his love for his wife by dying for her. If the rest of us women screened prospective husbands for Adam’s qualifications, we wouldn’t find ourselves desperately backing out of slavery.

Continue reading “63) Atonement Is Melchizedekian-Driven Reconciliation”

A Revocable Trust keeps the Grantor in control of the assets, allowing the Grantor to change or terminate the trust at will. 

An Irrevocable Trust requires the Grantor to permanently relinquish ownership and control over the assets. God’s Trust to mankind is irrevocable. “For I am the LORD, I change not.” (Malachi 3:6)

The creation and operation of every trust requires three distinct parties:

1. The Grantor creates the trust document and contributes the assets. In this case, the Grantor is the Creator of the earth and all its living populations, YHVH.
2. The Beneficiary is the person or persons designated to receive the benefits of the trust – property and rights. In this case, this is the eternal Only Begotten Son of God – designated heir – after proving to be in the image and likeness of the father, i.e. representative / priest and dominus / king: Melchizedek.
3. The Trustees handles the trust and manages the assets until the beneficiary takes over. 

This first trust follows the standard requirements when probated for authenticity by any claimant.

• written down –
  • So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them…and God said unto them…have dominion.” (Genesis 1:27-28, 2:7)
  • the general assembly and church of the firstborn / heirs, which are written in heaven.” (Hebrews 12:23)
• signed – Back in the day before the alphabet or universal literacy, symbols / signs were used to identify a person, especially authority figures. Think sign-et ring or military in-sign-ia. God tells us that his in-sign-ia is found in the heavens.
  • And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven…and let them be for signs…even his eternal power and Godhead…Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven…sign-ifieth the removing of those… things that are made…we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved.” (Genesis 1:14, Romans 1:20, Hebrews 12:24-28)
• sealed / guaranteed to be truth by legal authority –
  • “there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time…But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end…in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals…Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof [to finally bring about the end of judgment]?” (Daniel 12:1-4, Revelation 5:1-2)
• witnessed per required legal process –
  • “Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,”(Revelation 5:1)
• confirmed by swearing with an oath to end of all strife / dispute on the matter. (Hebrews 6:13-17)
  • The LORD hath sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec: (Hebrews 7:25)