PAGE 18 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(OUT OF THE DUST)

GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE IN THEIR IMAGE AND LIKENESS:

"SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD HE CREATED HIM;  MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED HIM." GENESIS 1:27

THE HEBREW WORD FOR IMAGE IS "TSELEM" AND IT MEANS LITERALLY A SHADOW THAT IS AN OUTLINE OR REPRESENTATION OF THE ORIGINAL. THEY WERE BOTH CREATED IN GOD'S LIKENESS BUT THEY WERE CREATED LOWER THAN ANGELS. DAVID SAYS IN PSALM 8:

"WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM, THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU CARE FOR HIM? YOU MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE HEAVENLY BEINGS." PSALM 8:4

THE HIERARCHY OF GOD AND HIS BEINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

GOD - FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT
ANGELS
HUMANS
ANIMALS

BOTH THE ANIMALS AND HUMANS ARE CREATED OUT OF THE SAME DUST OF THE EARTH. MANY IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY TODAY TRY TO SAY THAT HUMANS AND ANIMALS MUST HAVE A COMMON ANCESTOR BECAUSE OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS THAT SHOW THE AMAZING SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE DNA OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS, SUCH AS FISH AND CHIMPS.

HOWEVER,  SCRIPTURE REVEALS THAT IT WOULD MAKE SENSE THAT THEIR DNA WOULD BE SIMILAR, BECAUSE THEY WERE BOTH MADE OUT OF THE SAME DUST.

ALL OF GOD'S CREATURES,  ANIMALS AND HUMANS,  HAVE A "NEPHESH" OR SOUL. GENESIS 1:20 SAYS:

"AND GOD SAID, 'LET THE WATER TEEM WITH "NEPHESH"'" GENESIS 1:24 SAYS:

"AND GOD SAID, 'LET THE LAND PRODUCE "NEPHESH" '" THE WORD "NEPHESH" MEANS LIFE OR LIFE-FORCE AND IT MEANS ANYTHING THAT IS ALIVE.

THE SCRIPTURE STATES THAT THERE IS  SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS  THAT THEY COULDN'T SHARE THE SAME ANCESTOR.  THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT HUMANS ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AND ANIMALS ARE NOT. GOD DID SOMETHING TO MAN THAT HE DID NOT DO TO THE OTHER CREATURES THAT HE MADE. GOD BREATHED INTO MAN'S NOSTRILS "THE BREATH OF LIFE." THIS "BREATH OF LIFE" IS UNSEEN AND UNDETECTABLE BY SCIENTISTS.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR "BREATH OF LIFE" IS "NESHAMAH", WHICH MEANS LIFE OR SPIRIT.  THE "NESHAMAH IS THE INVISIBLE SPIRIT  GIVEN TO EACH HUMAN.  UNLIKE THE "NEPHESH", IT IS INTELLECTUAL,  ALLOWS US TO REASON,  TO MAKE MORAL DECISIONS, AND TO REJECT OR CONNECT WITH GOD.  PROVERBS 20:27 SAYS:

"THE "NESHAMAH" OF MAN IS THE CANDLE OF YAHWEH, SEARCHING ALL THE INWARD PARTS OF THE BELLY." PROVERBS 20:27

THE "NESHAMAH" IS THE MORAL CONSCIENCE IN EACH HUMAN BEING.

THE "RUACH HAKODESH" IS THE HOLY SPIRIT OR THE SPIRIT OF ELOHIM GOD OR YAHWEH GOD. THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE "NESHAMAH", THE HUMAN SPIRIT. THE "RUACH HAKODESH" IS A SEPARATE MEMBER OF THE TRIUNE GOD. WHEN WE ACCEPT YESHUA, JESUS, AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND THAT HE DIED ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS, THIS MEMBER OF THE TRINITY, THE "RUACH HAKODESH" OR HOLY SPIRIT, JOINS TOGETHER WITH THE HUMAN SPIRIT  INSIDE OF US, THE "NESHAMAH". THE TWO SPIRITS BECOME ONE UNIFIED SPIRIT AND THEN IS FOREVER CALLED THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD IS THEN LIVING WITHIN US.

ANIMALS CANNOT CONNECT WITH YAHWEH GOD IN THIS WAY BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A "NESHAMAH". ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED WITH A "NESHAMAH" IN THEIR HEARTS, BUT THEY DID NOT HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT OR "RUACH HAKODESH" JOINED TOGETHER INSIDE OF THEM.

PAGE 17 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(THE BRIDE EVE)

EVE IS A PORTRAIT OF THE BRIDE OF YESHUA, JESUS.   THE EARTHLY MARRIAGE OF ADAM AND EVE POINTS TO THE HEAVENLY MARRIAGE OF YESHUA AND HIS PEOPLE.

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS THAT ADAM WAS A PATTERN OF THE ONE, YESHUA, THAT IS TO COME:

"AS DID ADAM, WHO WAS A PATTERN OF THE ONE TO COME."

THE APOSTLE PAUL CALLS YESHUA THE "LAST ADAM":

"SO IT IS WRITTEN: ' THE FIRST MAN ADAM BECAME A LIVING BEING; THE LAST ADAM, A LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT.'" 1 COR 15:45

JUST AS EVE WAS TAKEN OUT OF ADAM, THE BRIDE OF YESHUA IS FORMED OUT OF YESHUA'S DEATH ON THE CROSS.

GENESIS 2:23, 24 SAYS:

"THIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES AND FLESH OF MY FLESH, SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN FOR SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN."

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS TO THE EPHESIANS:

"...FOR WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY. FOR THIS REASON A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE UNITED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH. THIS IS A PROFOUND MYSTERY, BUT I AM TALKING ABOUT CHRIST AND THE CHURCH."  EPHESIANS 5: 30-32

YESHUA'S DEATH ON THE CROSS IS FORESHADOWED BY GOD'S CAUSING ADAM TO FALL INTO A DEEP SLEEP, OPENING UP THE FLESH ON HIS SIDE, AND REMOVING HIS RIB.

"SO THE LORD GOD CAUSED THE MAN TO FALL INTO A DEEP SLEEP, AND WHILE HE WAS SLEEPING, HE TOOK ONE OF THE MAN'S RIBS AND CLOSED UP THE PLACE WITH FLESH." GEN 2:21

THE OPENING OF THE FLESH ON THE SIDE IS A PROPHETIC PICTURE OF THE SPEAR BEING THRUST INTO YESHUA'S SIDE WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS. IMMEDIATELY AFTER, THE WRITER IN THE BOOK OF JOHN SAYS "BLOOD AND WATER FLOWED OUT." JOHN 19:34.  YESHUA SAYS THAT THIS BLOOD WAS POURED OUT FOR ALL PEOPLE IN ORDER THAT THEIR SINS BE FORGIVEN. THE WATER SYMBOLIZES THE HOLY SPIRIT POURED OUT TO CLEANSE US AND SANCTIFY US. ANY THAT BELIEVE THIS MESSAGE BECOME COVENANTED WITH YESHUA; BECOME MARRIED AND BECOME ONE WITH HIM.

YESHUA SAYS THAT THE CUP OF RED WINE AT THE PASSOVER MEAL WAS TO REPRESENT THIS. HE SAYS:

"THE CUP IS THE NEW COVENANT IN MY BLOOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT FOR YOU." LUKE 22.20

YESHUA SAYS TO THE PEOPLE:

"TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. THOSE WHO EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, AND I WILL RAISE THEM UP ON THE LAST DAY...THOSE WHO EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN THEM." JOHN 6:53-56

OUT OF YESHUA'S DEATH, WE BECOME THE BRIDE.  WE MUST GO TO THE PLACE OF THE CROSS AND ACCEPT WHAT HE DID FOR US, WHICH WAS TO DIE IN OUR PLACE, SO THAT WE CAN BECOME ONE FLESH WITH HIM.

"THEN THE LORD GOD MADE A WOMAN FROM THE RIB HE HAD TAKEN OUT OF THE MAN, AND HE BROUGHT HER TO THE MAN." GEN 2:22

THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF CREATION: FOR GOD, KNOWING THAT THE FIRST ADAM WOULD FAIL IN HIS MISSION, WOULD BRING TO YESHUA HIS BRIDE IN THE HUPPA OR HOUSE THEY WILL BUILD TOGETHER.

AND YESHUA WILL SAY, "THIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES AND FLESH OF MY FLESH." GEN 2: 23. THE HEBREW WORD FOR BONE IS "ETSEM" AND IT MEANS SELF, ESSENCE, THE SAME AS.  THE HEBREW WORD FOR FLESH IS "BASAR" AND IT MEANS BODY. FOR THROUGH OUR BELIEF IN YESHUA'S SACRIFICE FOR US WE BECOME ONE WITH HIM AND WE BECOME LIKE HIM. THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS:

"AND WE, WHO WITH UNVEILED FACES ALL REFLECT THE LORD'S GLORY, ARE BEING TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS WITH EVER-INCREASING GLORY, WHICH COMES FROM THE LORD, WHO IS SPIRIT." 1 COR 3:17

PAGE 16 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(THE BRIDE EVE)

AFTER THE FIRST HUMAN, ADAM, IS CREATED, HE IS PLACED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE SPECIAL, SPIRITUALLY PROTECTED HAVEN ON THE EARTH, WHERE ISRAEL IS NOW LOCATED.

GOD, THEN CREATES A BRIDE, NAMED EVE, OUT OF ADAM'S BODY.  WE HAVE THE FIRST WEDDING IN THE BIBLE AND THE FIRST PICTURE OF THE BRIDE OF CHRIST.  MANY SAY THAT THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS THE "HUPPAH" FOR THE WEDDING OF ADAM AND EVE.  MANY OF THE JEWISH WEDDING TRADITIONS, SUCH AS THE "HUPPAH" ARE SYMBOLIC OF MANY BIBLICAL TRUTHS.  THE "HUPPAH" OR WEDDING CANOPY IS ALWAYS AT THE FRONT OF A JEWISH WEDDING CEREMONY.  IT REPRESENTS A HOME THAT THE GROOM AND THE BRIDE WILL BUILD TOGETHER.

THE HOME BELONGS TO THE GROOM AND THE CEREMONY MARKS THE TRANSFER OF THE WOMAN FROM HER FATHER'S HOUSE TO THAT OF HER HUSBAND.  THE GROOM IS IN THE "HUPPAH" AND THEN STEPS OUT TO MEET HIS BRIDE AND THEN SHE MUST INVITE THE GROOM TO ENTER BACK INTO HIS "HUPPAH".

IN THE FIRST BIBLICAL MARRIAGE, WE HAVE THE GARDEN OF EDEN AS THE "HUPPAH", THE WEDDING CANOPY OR THE HOME THAT ADAM AND EVE WILL BUILD TOGETHER. ADAM IS PLACED IN THE "HUPPAH" FIRST AND THEN GOD BRINGS HIS BRIDE, EVE TO HIM AND THEY ARE UNITED TOGETHER AS ONE BODY.

THE SCRIPTURE SAYS:

"FOR THIS REASON A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE UNITED TO HIS WIFE, AND THEY WILL BECOME ONE FLESH."  GEN 2:24

WHEN THE PHARISEES ASK YESHUA, JESUS ABOUT DIVORCE, HE POINTS TO THE WEDDING OF ADAM AND EVE AS BEING THE ULTIMATE BIBLICAL MODEL OF WHAT A MARRIAGE SHOULD BE. HE SAYS:

"HAVEN'T YOU READ THAT IN THE BEGINNING THE CREATOR MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, AND SAID, 'FOR THIS REASON A MAN WILL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE UNITED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE FLESH? SO THEY ARE NO LONGER TWO, BUT ONE.  THEREFORE WHAT GOD HAS JOINED TOGETHER, LET MAN NOT SEPARATE." MATTHEW 19: 4,5

PAGE 15 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(TREE OF LIFE)

THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN REPRESENTS THE PURE WORD OF GOD AND YESHUA, JESUS. THE TREE OF LIFE IS GOD'S WILL AND WAY.

"MY SON, DO NOT FORGET MY TEACHING, BUT KEEP MY COMMANDS IN YOUR HEART, FOR THEY WILL PROLONG YOUR LIFE MANY YEARS AND BRING YOU PROSPERITY.  LET LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS NEVER LEAVE YOU; BIND THEM AROUND YOUR NECK, WRITE THEM ON THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART.  THEN YOU WILL WIN FAVOR AND A GOOD NAME IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND MAN. TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR PATHS STRAIGHT.  DO NOT BE WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES; FEAR THE LORD AND SHUN EVIL.  THIS WILL BRING HEALTH TO YOUR BODY AND NOURISHMENT TO YOUR BONES.  HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR WEALTH, WITH THE FIRSTFRUITS OF ALL YOUR CROPS; THEN YOUR BARNS WILL BE FILLED TO OVERFLOWING, AND YOUR VATS WILL BRIM OVER WITH NEW WINE.  MY SON, DO NOT DESPISE DISCIPLINE AND DO NOT RESENT HIS REBUKE BECAUSE THE LORD DISCIPLINES THOSE HE LOVES, AS A FATHER THE SON HE DELIGHTS IN.  BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO FINDS WISDOM, THE MAN WHO GAINS UNDERSTANDING FOR WHE IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN SILVER AND YIELDS BETTER RETURNS THAN GOLD.  SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES; NOTHING YOU DESIRE CAN COMPARE WITH HER.  LONG LIFE IS IN HER RIGHT HAND; IN HER LEFT HAND ARE RICHES AND HONOR.  HER WAYS ARE PLEASANT WAYS, AND ALL HER PATHS ARE PEACE.  SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE TO THOSE WHO EMBRACE HER; THOSE WHO LAY HOLD OF HER WILL BE BLESSED."

GOD'S WORD GIVES US WISDOM. GOD'S WORD IS THE TREE OF LIFE. THE LEAVES OF THE TREE OF LIFE HEAL US - REVELATION 22:2

PROVERBS 4:20 SAYS:

"MY SON, PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT I SAY; LISTEN CLOSELY TO MY WORDS.  DO NOT LET THEM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT, KEEP THEM WITHIN YOUR HEART; FOR THEY ARE LIFE TO THOSE WHO FIND THEM AND HEALTH TO A MAN'S WHOLE BODY."

PROVERBS 13:14 AND JOHN 7:38



YESHUA, JESUS, IS GOD'S WORD PERSONIFIED. JOHN 1:1 SAYS:

"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD.  HE WAS WITH GOD IN THE BEGINNING. THROUGH HIM ALL THINGS WERE MADE; WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT HAS BEEN MADE.  IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THAT LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN."

YESHUA IS THE WORD OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD. PROVERBS 3:19 SAYS:

"BY WISDOM THE LORD LAID THE EARTH'S FOUNDATIONS, BY UNDERSTANDING HE SET THE HEAVENS IN PLACE."

YESHUA SAYS ABOUT HIMSELF DURING HIS MINISTRY ON EARTH:

"I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME."  JOHN 14:6

"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME WILL LIVE EVEN THOUGH HE DIES."  JOHN 11:22

"...AND THIS IS THE TESTIMONY GOD HAS GIVEN US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN THE SON."   1 JOHN 5:11

MANY OF THE SCRIPTURES IN THE HEBREW BIBLE REFER TO THE MESSIAH OR THE CHRIST AS "THE BRANCH". THIS IS THE BRANCH OF THE TREE OF LIFE.  YESHUA GREW UP IN NAZARETH AND WAS A NAZARENE. THE ROOT OF THE WORD NAZARETH IS NETSER WHICH MEANS BRANCH.  ISAIAH 11:1 SAYS:

"A SHOOT WILL COME UP FROM THE STUMP OF JESSE; FROM HIS ROOTS A BRANCH WILL BEAR FRUIT."

THE TREE OF LIFE AS A WHOLE IS THE TRIUNE GOD: THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THIS TREE IN EDEN SPEAKS OF THE PRE INCARNATE YESHUA ON EARTH. HE IS THE TREE OF LIFE ON EARTH, THE SEED, ROOT, TRUNK, BRANCHES AND FRUIT THAT COMES FROM HEAVEN.

JESUS IS THE SEED, ROOT, VINE, TRUNK, BRANCHES AND FRUIT OF THE TREE OF LIFE THAT COMES FROM HEAVEN IN THE CENTER OF THE GARDEN.

WHEN WE BELIEVE, THE SEED IS PLANTED IN US. EVERY BRANCH IN YESHUA THAT DOESN'T BEAR FRUIT IS CAST INTO THE FIRE.

1 PETER 1:23

LIFE SCRIPTURES: LEVITICUS 18:4,5; DT 30:6,19

ELOHIM GOD, THE TRIUNE GOD, DECIDES TO MAKE MAN IN THEIR  IMAGE:

"THEN ELOHIM SAID, 'LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, IN OUR LIKENESS...'" GEN 1:26

I BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE SON, YESHUA, WHO IS ACTUALLY IN THE GARDEN, FORMING MAN. THE SCRIPTURES SPEAK OF YESHUA AS BEING THE ONE WHO PERFORMS THE ACTION OF GOD ON EARTH.

THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS:

"...MAKE ALL MEN SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN GOD WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST." EPH 3:8

"JESUS CHRIST....WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, FOR BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED...ALL THINGS WERE CREATED BY HIM, AND FOR HIM." COL 1:16

THIS MYSTERY OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE THREE MEMBERS OF THE GODHEAD HAS BEEN HIDDEN IN THE SCRIPTURES UNTIL THE INCARNATION OF YESHUA.

I BELIEVE IT IS YESHUA WHO CREATES THE FIRST MAN ADAM. THE SCRIPTURE SAYS:

"THE LORD GOD FORMED THE MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE, AND THE MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING." GEN 2: 7

YESHUA HINTS AT THIS WHEN HE BREATHES ON OR INTO HIS DISCIPLES.  THE SAME WORD FOR BREATHED ON OR INTO IS USED IS USED IN JOHN 20:22

"AND WITH THAT HE BREATHED ON OR INTO THEM  AND SAID, 'RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT...'"

I BELIEVE THAT HE ALSO HINTS THAT HE IS THE ONE WHO FORMED MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND IN HIS REPLY TO THE PHARISEES ABOUT THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN. WHEN THE PHARISEES ASK FOR A RESPONSE, YESHUA DOESN'T VERBALLY ANSWER BUT STOOPS DOWN TO WRITE ON THE DUST OF THE GROUND. THE SCRIPTURE READS IN JOHN 8:6:

"BUT JESUS BENT DOWN AND STARTED TO WRITE ON THE GROUND WITH HIS FINGER."



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PAGE 14. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(GARDEN LOCATION)

THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT TO UNDERSTAND THE END OF THINGS,  WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE BEGINNING. AS WELL, THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE: WE CAN FULLY UNDERSTAND THE BEGINNING BY LOOKING AT THE END OF THE STORY AND OTHER SCRIPTURE AS WELL. BY LOOKING AT THE END OF THE STORY, WE KNOW THE ORIGINAL LOCATION OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE PLACE WHERE HEAVEN MET EARTH. THE GARDEN OF EDEN WAS LOCATED WHERE ISRAEL AND PART OF HER SURROUNDING COUNTRIES ARE TODAY.

 THE CENTER OF THE GARDEN, WHERE THE TREE OF LIFE WAS LOCATED, IS THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.

  IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN,  YESHUA, JESUS WAS PHYSICALLY THERE.  THE PLACE HE IS COMING BACK TO DWELL AND SET UP HIS THRONE IS THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.  THE LORD THROUGH THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH SAYS:

 "ON THAT DAY THE LORD WILL GO OUT AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE NATIONS, AS HE FIGHTS IN THE DAY OF BATTLE. ON THAT DAY HIS FEET WILL STAND ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, EAST OF JERUSALEM..." ZECH 14:3

 WHEN YESHUA ASCENDS  TO HEAVEN FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE ANGELS TELL THE DISCIPLES THAT HE WILL RETURN IN THE SAME WAY HE ASCENDED . ACTS 1

 HE WILL RETURN THERE AND SET UP HIS THRONE IN JERUSALEM. THE LORD SAYS THROUGH ZECHARIAH:

 "I WILL RETURN TO ZION AND DWELL IN JERUSALEM. THEN JERUSALEM Will BE CALLED THE CITY OF TRUTH, AND THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY WILL BE CALLED THE HOLY MOUNTAIN?" ZECH 8:3

 HEAVEN WILL COMPLETELY BE CONNECTED TO EARTH AGAIN WHEN THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN AND UNITES WITH EARTHLY JERUSALEM. JOHN WRITES ABOUT THIS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION:

 "I SAW THE HOLY CITY, THE NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD..." REV 21:2

 THIS IS HINTED AT IN PSALM 122:3. KING DAVID SAYS: "JERUSALEM IS BUILT LIKE A CITY THAT IS UNITED TOGETHER" THE HEBREW WORD FOR UNITE IS "CHABER". IT MEANS TO BE KNIT OR JOINED TOGETHER. IT IS HINTED AT THAT THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM WILL BE UNITED WITH THE EARTHLY JERUSALEM. IN THIS NEW JERUSALEM THERE WILL BE THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE RIVERS FLOWING OUT FROM THE THRONE OF GOD.  REV 21, 22.

THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAYS THAT ONE DAY JERUSALEM WILL ONCE AGAIN BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN. HE SAYS"

"THE LORD WILL SURELY COMFORT ZION AND WILL LOOK WITH COMPASSION ON ALL HER RUINS; HE WILL MAKE HER DESERTS LIKE EDEN, HER WASTELANDS LIKE THE GARDEN OF THE LORD."

 THE ORIGINAL GARDEN OF EDEN, WHERE HEAVEN ONCE WAS UNITED WITH EARTH IS RESTORED IN THE END. WHEN I VISITED JERUSALEM, I COULD SENSE THE TENSION AND THE LONGING OF THE PLACE TO RETURN TO ITS ORIGINAL STATE.

PAGE 13 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (THE GARDEN)

DURING THE CREATION, GOD PREPARED A SPECIAL PLACE ON EARTH IN THE MIDST OF THE WORLD CALLED THE GARDEN OF EDEN. THIS GARDEN ON EARTH WAS NOT LIKE THE REST OF THE EARTH THAT GOD CREATED.  IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHEN IN THE CREATION ACCOUNT IT WAS PLANTED EXCEPT THAT GOD PLANTED IT BEFORE THE CREATION OF MAN.  I DO BELIEVE THAT FROM SCRIPTURE WE CAN KNOW THE EXACT LOCATION OF IT.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR GARDEN IS "GAN" WHICH MEANS GARDEN OR ENCLOSURE.  THE WORD ENCLOSURE MEANS A PLOT OF LAND PROTECTED BY A WALL OR A HEDGE. THE WORD EDEN MEANS DELIGHT. THIS BEAUTIFUL PLOT OF LAND HAD A HEDGE OF SUPERNATURAL PROTECTION SURROUNDING IT.  IT WAS NOT LIKE THE WORLD AROUND IT THAT HAD 50% DARKNESS, DEATH AND WICKEDNESS AND 50% LIGHT OF YESHUA, JESUS.  I BELIEVE THAT YESHUA REPRESENTS THE TREE OF LIFE AND THIS GARDEN WAS FULL OF 100% YESHUA.  THE TREE OF LIFE WAS IN THE CENTER OF IT AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS NO DEATH OF ANIMALS.  GOD WAS  THERE AND IT WAS WHERE HEAVEN WAS JOINED TOGETHER WITH EARTH. I BELIEVE IT WAS A COPY OF THE HEAVENLY EDEN OR GOD'S GARDEN IN HEAVEN.

GENESIS 13:10, ISAIAH 51:3, ISAIAH 58:11, JEREMIAH 31:12, EZEKIEL 36:35, JOEL 2:3

PAGE 12 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (THE BRIDE)

THE FIRST PROPHECY ABOUT THIS WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN STANDING ON THE MOON IS FOUND IN GENESIS 3 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

THE WOMAN, I BELIEVE, REPRESENTS THE BELIEVERS IN YESHUA IN ISRAEL OR THE BELIEVING ISRAEL.  SHE NO LONGER PUTS HER OWN CHOSENESS, OR HER RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, OVER AND ABOVE GOD HIMSELF.

THE INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS IN YESHUA FROM THE GENTILE NATIONS THAT MAKE UP THE CHURCH ARE GRAFTED INTO ISRAEL OR ARE THE SPIRITUAL PART OF THE NATION. THEY HAVE NOT REPLACED THE NATION OF ISRAEL BUT ARE NOW PART OF IT AND ALL OF IT'S SPIRITUAL PROMISES.  PAUL SAYS:

"...AND YOU, THOUGH A WILD OLIVE SHOOT, HAVE BEEN GRAFTED IN AMONG THE OTHERS AND NOW SHARE IN THE NOURISHING SAP FROM THE OLIVE ROOT, DO NOT BOAST OVER THOSE BRANCHES. IF YOU DO, CONSIDER THIS: YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THE ROOT, BUT THE ROOT SUPPORTS YOU." ROM 11:17

PAUL IS SPEAKING TO THE ROMAN GENTILE CHURCH AND HE IS PLEADING WITH THEM TO UNDERSTAND THEIR POSITION AS GENTILES AND TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS A MYSTERY. HE WANTS US TO GET THE CORRECT ORDER OF THINGS : THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE IS ABOUT THE NATION OF ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND WE, AS THE GENTILE CHURCH ARE GRATEFULLY ADOPTED INTO THEIR STORY.

PAUL SAYS TO THE CHURCH IN EPHESUS:

"THEREFORE, REMEMBER THAT FORMERLY YOU WHO ARE GENTILES BY BIRTH AND CALLED 'UNCIRCUMCISED' BY THOSE WHO CALL THEMSELVES 'THE CIRCUMCISION' (THAT DONE IN THE BODY BY THE HANDS OF MEN) - REMEMBER THAT AT THAT TIME YOU WERE SEPARATE FROM CHRIST, EXCLUDED FROM CITIZENSHIP IN ISRAEL AND FOREIGNERS TO THE COVENANTS OF THE PROMISE, WITHOUT HOPE AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD. BUT NOW IN CHRIST JESUS YOU WHO ONCE WERE FAR AWAY HAVE BEEN BROUGHT NEAR THROUGH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST."

THE GENTILE BELIEVERS WHO MAKE UP THE CHURCH ARE THE BRIDE OF YESHUA BUT THEY AWAIT A FULLER GLORY WHEN THE VEIL IS LIFTED OFF OF ISRAEL AND SHE REMARRIES YESHUA, JESUS. AT THAT TIME THE BARRIER BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE WILL COME DOWN AND THE TWO WILL BECOME ONE BODY.  THEY WILL BE RECONCILED TO YESHUA AND WE WILL BECOME RECONCILED TO EACH OTHER.

THE FIRST NOTION WE HAVE ABOUT THIS WOMAN, WHO IS BELIEVING ISRAEL AND THE BRIDE, IS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE

PAGE 11 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(SUN,MOON AND STARS)

GOD CREATES THE OTHER LIGHTS IN THE SKY: THE SUN, MOON AND STARS ON THE FOURTH DAY.  GOD LOVES TO USE NATURE TO TEACH US. HE SAYS:

"LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE EXPANSE OF THE SKY TO SEPARATE THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT, AND LET THEM SERVE AS SIGNS TO MARK SEASONS AND DAYS AND YEARS." GEN 1:14

THE HEBREW WORD FOR SIGN IS "OTH", WHICH MEANS SIGN, BANNER, OMEN, PLEDGE, STANDARD, WITNESS, TOKEN, OR EVIDENCE.

THE SUN IN SCRIPTURE REPRESENTS GOD THE FATHER AND THE SUN RAYS REPRESENT GOD THE SON. THE WRITER IN HEBREWS SAYS:

"THE SON IS THE RADIANCE OF GOD'S GLORY AND THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF HIS BEING..." HEB 1:3

THE RAYS BEAMING OUT FROM THE SUN AND TOUCHING EARTH ARE THE SAME ESSENCE AS THE SUN BUT ARE THE LIGHT WE SEE AND FEEL. YESHUA, JESUS IS GOD MANIFESTED ON EARTH.  THE SUN REPRESENTS GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON.

THE PROPHET MICAH SAYS:

"BUT FOR YOU WHO REVERE MY NAME, THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL RISE WITH HEALING IN ITS WINGS."

LUKE SAYS:

"...BECAUSE OF THE TENDER MERCY OF OUR GOD BY WHICH THE RISING SUN WILL COME TO US FROM HEAVEN."

THE PSALMIST SAYS:

"FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND A SHIELD"

THE STARS IN THE SKY REPRESENT THE ANGELS.

JOB SAYS THAT WHEN GOD CREATED THE EARTH:

"THE MORNING STARS SANG TOGETHER AND ALL THE ANGELS SHOUTED FOR JOY."

IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION THE SEVEN STARS IN JOHN'S VISION ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES:

"AS FOR THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS WHICH YOU SAW IN MY RIGHT HAND, AND THE SEVEN GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS: THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES, AND THE SEVEN LAMPSTANDS ARE THE SEVEN CHURCHES." REV 1:20

ISAIAH PROPHECIES ABOUT THE FALL OF SATAN TO EARTH AND CALLS HIM THE STAR OF THE MORNING:

"HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O STAR OF THE MORNING, SON OF THE DAWN! " ISAIAH 14

THE STARS REPRESENT BOTH THE GOOD ANGELS AND REPRESENT ONE THIRD OF THE BAD ANGELS UNDER LUCIFER.

THE MOON REPRESENTS THE NATION OF ISRAEL.  IT REPRESENTS THE CORPORATE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COVENANTED WITH GOD.

 THE MOON DOES NOT GENERATE ANY LIGHT ON HER OWN, BUT ONLY REFLECTS THE LIGHT OF THE SUN; THE MOON IS NOTHING WITHOUT THE SUN. UNLIKE THE SUN THAT NEVER CHANGES, EXCEPT FOR ECLIPSES , THE MOON IS HIDDEN FOR A TIME AND THEN WAXES AND WANES AGAIN.

THE CYCLES OF THE MOON ARE SYMBOLIC OF THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL.  THE FULL MOON IS SYMBOLIC OF THE TOTAL SHEKINAH GLORY OF GOD BEING REFLECTED IN THE PEOPLE. THE FEASTS OF PASSOVER,  UNLEAVENED BREAD AND SUKKOT ALL TAKE PLACE DURING A FULL MOON. PASSOVER CELEBRATES THE REDEMPTION OF THE ISRAELITES FROM EGYPT; UNLEAVENED BREAD POINTS TO THE RESURRECTION OF YESHUA AND SUKKOT POINTS TO AFTER THE TIME THAT THE MESSIAH YESHUA RETURNS TO EARTH AND LIVES AMONG US. THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IS THE ONLY FEAST THAT TAKES PLACE DURING THE NEW MOON; IT POINTS TO THE TRIBULATION OR TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE.

AS INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS IN YESHUA, WE ARE LIKE THE FULL MOON AS WELL, WHEN WE HUMBLY TAKE OUR PLACE AS THE LESSER LIGHT AND LET GOD BE THE GREATER LIGHT. WE FULLY REFLECT THE LIGHT OF YESHUA WHEN WE ARE TOTALLY FOCUSED ON HIM.

THE SHULAMITE GIRL IN THE SONG OF SOLOMAN WHO IS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BRIDE IN HER FULL GLORY IS DESCRIBED AS THE FULL MOON:

"WHO IS THIS THAT GROWS  LIKE THE DAWN, AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE FULL MOON, BRIGHT AS THE SUN, AS AWESOME AS AN ARMY WITH BANNERS?." SONG OF SOLOMAN 6:10

THE WOMAN IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS A PICTURE OF THIS:

"A GREAT AND WONDROUS SIGN APPEARED IN HEAVEN; A WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, WITH THE MOON UNDER HER FEET AND A CROWN OF TWELVE STARS ON HER HEAD." REVELATION 12:1

THE WOMAN IS CLOTHED WITH THE SUN. SHE IS CLOTHED WITH THE LIGHT OF YESHUA, JESUS AND THE MOON IS UNDER HER FEET. SHE IS STANDING ON THE MOON, WHICH I BELIEVE REPRESENTS  THE LIGHT OF THE MOON  BLAZING THROUGH HER, BUT SHE RECOGNIZES THAT THE SUN IS THE GREATER LIGHT AND THAT SHE IS THE LESSER LIGHT; THEREFORE, THE MOON IS UNDER HER FEET. THE STARS AROUND HER HEAD I BELIEVE ARE THE ANGELS OF EACH OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.

ISAIAH PROPHECIES ABOUT THE DAY THAT YESHUA RETURNS TO ISRAEL IN HIS SECOND COMING:

"THE LIGHT OF THE MOON WILL BE AS THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, AND THE LIGHT OF THE SUN WILL BE SEVEN TIMES BRIGHTER, LIKE THE LIGHT OF SEVEN DAYS, ON THE DAY THE LORD BINDS UP THE FRACTURE OF HIS PEOPLE AND HEALS THE BRUISE HE HAS INFLICTED." ISAIAH 30:26

AFTER YESHUA RETURNS TO ISRAEL AFTER THE TRIBULATION TO HEAL THE WOUNDS OF HIS PEOPLE, WE SEE A PICTURE OF THIS WOMAN AGAIN:

"...TO COMFORT ALL WHO MOURN, AND PROVIDE FOR THOSE WHO GRIEVE IN ZION-TO BESTOW ON THEM A CROWN OF BEAUTY INSTEAD OF ASHES, THE OIL OF GLADNESS INSTEAD OF MOURNING, AND A GARMENT OF PRAISE INSTEAD OF A SPIRIT OF DESPAIR."  ISAIAH 61:2

ISAIAH SPEAKS OF THE END OF TIME WHEN GOD WILL REPLACE THE SUN AND THE MOON WITH HIS OWN LIGHT:

"THE SUN WILL NO MORE BE YOUR LIGHT BY DAY, NOR WILL THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE MOON SHINE ON YOU, FOR THE LORD WILL BE YOUR EVERLASTING LIGHT, AND YOUR GOD WILL BE YOUR GLORY.  YOUR SUN WILL NEVER SET AGAIN, AND YOUR MOON WILL WANE NO MORE; THE LORD WILL BE YOUR EVERLASTING LIGHT, AND YOUR DAYS OF SORROW WILL END." ISAIAH 60:19

JOHN DESCRIBES THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH AS HAVING NO SUN OR MOON. HE SAYS:

THE CITY DOES NOT NEED THE SUN OR THE MOON TO SHINE ON IT, FOR THE GLORY OF GOD GIVES IT LIGHT, AND THE LAMB IS ITS LAMP." REV 21:23

AS LONG AS GOD IS NOT LIVING ON EARTH WITH US, THE SUN, MOON AND STARS ARE SYMBOLIC OF HIS TRUE LIGHT AND A WITNESS TO HIS COVENANT PROMISES. THE LORD SAYS:

"IF THEY VIOLATE MY STATUTES AND DO NOT KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, THEN I WILL PUNISH THEIR TRANSGRESSION WITH THE ROD AND THEIR INIQUITY WITH STRIPES. BUT I WILL NOT BREAK OFF MY LOVINGKINDNESS FROM HIM NOR DEAL FALSELY IN MY FAITHFULNESS. MY COVENANT I WILL NOT VIOLATE, NOR WILL I ALTER THE UTTERANCE OF MY LIPS. ONCE I HAVE SWORN BY MY HOLINESS; I WILL NOT LIE TO DAVID. HIS DESCENDANTS SHALL ENDURE FOREVER AND HIS THRONE AS THE SUN BEFORE ME.  IT SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER LIKE THE MOON, AND THE WITNESS IN THE SKY IS FAITHFUL." PSALM 89

"THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS, HE WHO APPOINTS THE SUN TO SHINE BY DAY, WHO DECREES THE MOON AND STARS TO SHINE BY NIGHT, WHO STIRS UP THE SEA SO THAT ITS WAVES ROAR-THE ALMIGHTY IS HIS NAME: 'ONLY IF THESE DECREES VANISH FROM MY SIGHT,' DECLARES THE LORD, 'WILL THE DESCENDANTS OF ISRAEL EVER CEASE TO BE A NATION BEFORE ME.'" JEREMIAH 31:35-36

WHEN WE LOOK UP AT THE SKY AND SEE THE SUN AND THE MOON; WE KNOW THAT GOD'S IRREVOCABLE COVENANT WITH THE NATION OF ISRAEL HAS NOT BEEN DONE AWAY WITH.



         

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YESHUA, JESUS WARNS OF A COMING DARKNESS IN THE END TIMES. HE SAYS IN LUKE 17:

"IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISTRESS OF THOSE DAYS, THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT..."

BUT THE LIGHT OF THE MESSIAH, YESHUA, WILL BREAK THROUGH THE SKY, LIKE THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, WHEN HE COMES BACK TO EARTH A SECOND TIME TO RULE AND REIGN. YESHUA DESCRIBES IT IN LUKE 17:

"FOR THE SON OF MAN IN HIS DAY WILL BE LIKE THE LIGHTNING WHICH FLASHES AND LIGHTS UP THE SKY FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER."

THE DARKEST OF THE NIGHT IS RIGHT BEFORE THE SUN RAYS HIT THE EARTH AT DAWN. ISAIAH PROPHECIES ABOUT THIS TIME AS WELL.  THE PROPHECY IS RECORDED IN ISAIAH 60, A PROPHECY THAT IS PARTIALLY FULFILLED AT YESHUA'S FIRST COMING:

"ARISE, AND SHINE, FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD RISES UPON YOU.  SEE DARKNESS COVERS THE EARTH AND THICK DARKNESS IS OVER THE PEOPLES, BUT THE LORD RISES UPON YOU AND HIS GLORY APPEARS OVER YOU. NATIONS WILL COME TO YOUR LIGHT, AND KINGS TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF YOUR DAWN." ISAIAH 60: 1-3

GOD USES THIS METAPHOR OF LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS, WHICH IS NOT JUST SYMBOLIC BUT IS REAL, TO CONVEY THE STATE OF UTTER HOPELESSNESS AND DISTRESS WE ARE IN WITHOUT THE LIGHT OF YESHUA, JESUS; WITHOUT GOD, WE ARE IN CHAOS. IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN GET TO HEAVEN WITHOUT JESUS THAT MANY SAY TODAY, IT IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN THE DOMINION OF DEATH AND DARKNESS WITHOUT HIS SAVING LIGHT. HE IS THE SALVATION FROM THIS STATE AND THAT IS WHY HIS NAME IS YESHUA.

AFTER GOD ESTABLISHES THE LIGHT OF THE MESSIAH ON EARTH HE SEPARATES IT FROM THE DARKNESS:

"GOD SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOOD, AND HE SEPARATED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS. GOD CALLED THE LIGHT 'DAY' AND THE DARKNESS HE CALLED 'NIGHT.'" GEN 1:5

ON EARTH, BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE ANIMALS OR MAN, THERE IS IN EQUAL PARTS, EVIL OR DARKNESS OF SATAN AND THE GOODNESS OR LIGHT OF YESHUA. GOD  GAVE THE ANIMALS LIFE AND SATAN BROUGHT DEATH TO THEM. THIS EXPLAINS WHY THE FOSSIL RECORD SHOWS ANIMAL DEATH AND EXTINCTIONS BEFORE THE CREATION OF MAN. ALL AROUND US WE SEE THE ABSOLUTE BEAUTY OF CREATION AND WE SEE THE EVIL AND DESTRUCTION AS WELL. YESHUA SPEAKS OF THIS DIVISION AS WELL:

"AS LONG AS IT IS DAY, WE MUST DO THE WORK OF HIM WHO SENT ME. NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN NO ONE CAN WORK." JOHN 9:4

"ARE THERE NOT TWELVE HOURS OF DAYLIGHT? A MAN WHO WALKS BY DAY WILL NOT STUMBLE, FOR HE SEES BY THIS WORLD'S LIGHT.  IT IS WHEN HE WALKS BY NIGHT THAT HE STUMBLES, FOR HE HAS NO LIGHT." JOHN 11: 9,10

"YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THE LIGHT JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER. WALK WHILE YOU HAVE THE LIGHT, BEFORE DARKNESS OVERTAKES YOU.  THE MAN WHO WALKS IN THE DARK DOES NOT KNOW WHERE HE IS GOING. PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE LIGHT WHILE YOU HAVE IT, SO THAT YOU MAY BECOME SONS OF LIGHT." JOHN 12:35

ELOHIM, THE GOD OF GOODNESS AND LIGHT, IS SOVEREIGN OVER HIS CREATION AND ALLOWS THIS EQUAL DIVISION BETWEEN THE EVIL OF SATAN AND THE GOODNESS OF YESHUA FOR THE FUTURE GOOD OF ALL OF CREATION. ONE COULD SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED.  THIS SEPARATION WILL HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE FUTURE. MALICHI 3:17 THEN ONCE MORE YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO SEE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED, BETWEEN THOSE WHO SERVE GOD AND THOSE WHO DO NOT." THE WICKED WILL BE JUDGED AND THE RIGHTEOUS BLESSED.  THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL MIXED THE TWO UP - NO DISTINCTION - CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE

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SATAN, THE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL, DARKNESS AND VANITY, FILLS ALL THE EARTH, WHICH IS NOTHING BUT THE DEEP OR THE ABYSS, BUT THANKFULLY, WE READ THAT "...THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS HOVERING OVER THE WATERS." THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY WAS HOVERING, MOVING AND SHAKING OVER THE EARTH, AWAITING THE WORD OF GOD TO SPEAK OUT AND COMMAND.

THE WORD OF GOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ACT IN UNISON; THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN NOT ACT WITHOUT THE WORD OF GOD AND THE WORD OF GOD IS ACTIVATED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. THIS WAS TRUE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD AND NOW TRUE FOR ALL BELIEVERS IN YESHUA, JESUS.  THE ONLY WAY WE CAN WALK IN FULL POWER AND GIFTING IS WITH BOTH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE  WORD OF GOD FOUND IN THE HEBREW BIBLE.

THE HOLY SPIRIT AWAITS GOD'S COMMAND:  "LET THERE BE LIGHT" AND IMMEDIATELY, "....THERE WAS LIGHT...GOD SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOOD." GEN 1:2.  THE HEBREW WORD FOR LIGHT IS "OR"WHICH MEANS "A LIGHT, DAWN, SUN LIGHT, OR LIGHTNING". OUT OF THIS DEEP DARKNESS, WHICH IS  THE EVIL OF SATAN, GOD ESTABLISHES A LIGHT IN THE WORLD, WHICH IS  YESHUA.

THIS IS THE FIRST OF MANY AMAZING PROPHECIES IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. IT IS FULFILLED AT THE BEGINNING AND LIKE THE RIPPLES OF WATER IN THE POND, IS FURTHER FULFILLED AT THE FIRST COMING OF THE MESSIAH YESHUA, IS FULFILLED IN THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN YESHUA, AND IS ULTIMATELY FULFILLED AT THE SECOND COMING OF YESHUA.

AT THE TIME OF YESHUA'S FIRST COMING TO EARTH, THERE WAS GREAT DARKNESS IN ISRAEL.  THEY WERE RULED BY THE ROMANS AND THE BRUTAL RULER HEROD. THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP WAS CORRUPT AND WICKED.  THE PROPHET ISAIAH PROPHECIES THAT YESHUA'S BIRTH WAS LIKE A GREAT LIGHT DAWNING OUT OF THE DARKNESS:

"...IN THE FUTURE HE WILL HONOR GALILEE OF THE GENTILES, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, ALONG THE JORDAN-THE PEOPLE WALKING IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT; ON THOSE LIVING IN THE LAND OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH A LIGHT HAS DAWNED.....FOR TO US A CHILD IS BORN, TO US A SON IS GIVEN, AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE ON HIS SHOULDERS. AND HE WILL BE CALLED WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD..."ISAIAH 9

THE APOSTLE JOHN WRITES ABOUT THE FIRST COMING OF YESHUA. HE WRITES THAT THE "WORD OF GOD" WHO THROUGH ALL THINGS WERE MADE" BECOMES FLESH AND MADE HIS DWELLING AMONG US." JOHN 1 HE WRITES"

"IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THAT LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN. THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS, BUT THE DARKNESS HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD IT. THERE CAME A MAN WHO WAS SENT FROM GOD; HIS NAME WAS JOHN. HE CAME AS A WITNESS TO TESTIFY CONCERNING THAT LIGHT, SO THAT THROUGH HIM ALL MEN MIGHT BELIEVE.  HE HIMSELF WAS NOT THE LIGHT; HE CAME ONLY AS A WITNESS TO THE LIGHT.  THE TRUE LIGHT THAT GIVES LIGHT TO EVERY MAN WAS COMING INTO THE WORLD." JOHN 1:4-9

THIS PROPHECY IS THEN FULFILLED IN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS FOR JOHN SAYS THAT THE "TRUE LIGHT" WHICH IS YESHUA "GIVES LIGHT TO EVERY MAN". IT IS A TRUTH THAT YESHUA CAN BE FOUND THE EASIEST WHEN WE ARE IN A DARK PLACE IN OUR LIVES. WHEN HARDSHIP COMES UPON US; WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO NOT MAKE SENSE; WHEN, WE ARE TROUBLED BY THE EVIL AND SUFFERING WE SEE IN THE WORLD; AND WHEN WE COME TO THE END OF OURSELVES. YESHUA IN HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT SAID "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE POOR IN SPIRIT",  "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS," AND "BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT MOURN." MAT 5: 3

PAULS SAYS IN COLLOSIANS 1:13

"FOR HE HAS RESCUED US FROM THE DOMINION OF DARKNESS AND BROUGHT US INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE SON HE LOVES."

PAUL SAYS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 4:3

"FOR GOD, WHO SAID, 'LET LIGHT SHINE OUT OF DARKNESS, MADE HIS LIGHT SHINE IN OUR HEARTS TO GIVE US THE LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF CHRIST."

BEFORE WE FIND YESHUA, WE ARE RULED BY DARKNESS, THE DOMINION OF SATAN, AND THEN AFTER WE FIND HIM AND BELIEVE IN HIM, HE FREES US FROM SATAN'S RULE AND BRINGS US INTO THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT. HE THEN GIVES US HIS LIGHT.  YESHUA SAYS  TO HIS DISCIPLES IN MATTHEW 5: 14-16 :

"YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A CITY ON A HILL CANNOT BE HIDDEN."

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THE FIRST THREE VERSES OF THE BIBLE INTRODUCE GOD IN THREE PERSONS, FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT, AND IT INTRODUCES SATAN. THE FIRST VERSE READS:

"IN THE BEGINNING, GOD (ELOHIM IS USED; THE PLURAL FORM OF GOD) CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH." GENESIS 1:1

BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,  YESHUA AND THE FATHER WERE TOGETHER MAKING THE PLAN FOR HUMANKIND ON EARTH.  YESHUA, JESUS SAYS IN JOHN 17 THAT HE TALKED WITH THE FATHER ABOUT THE GLORY THAT HE HAD WITH HIM BEFORE OUR WORLD WAS CREATED:

"AND NOW, FATHER, GLORIFY ME IN YOUR PRESENCE WITH THE GLORY I HAD WITH YOU BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN."

IN 2 TIMOTHY 1:9, PAUL TELLS TIMOTHY THAT "...THIS GRACE WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, BUT IT HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED THROUGH THE APPEARING OF OUR SAVIOR, CHRIST JESUS..."

IT IS SAID IN JOHN 1:3 THAT GOD THE FATHER CREATED EVERYTHING THROUGH YESHUA, JESUS:

"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. HE WAS WITH GOD IN THE BEGINNING.  THROUGH  HIM ALL THINGS WERE MADE; WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE THAT HAS BEEN MADE."

THE WORD FOR BEGINNING IN HEBREW IS "BERESHEIT". IN HEBREW, EVERY LETTER IN A WORD HAS A MEANING AND IT IS A PICTURE. AMAZINGLY, IN THIS ONE WORD WE HAVE THE PURPOSE FOR CREATION. IT MEANS GOD IS BUILDING A HOUSE FOR HIS SON. IT SAYS: SON OF GOD CROWNED WITH THORNS UPON HIS HEAD IN A TREE; HE IS THE THE GRAIN OF THE FIRST FRUITS OFFERING IN THE TEMPLE WITH THE FIRE THAT FELL FROM HEAVEN; THE SON OF GOD IS THE GIFT OF THE COVENANT.

THE SECOND VERSE OF GENESIS DESCRIBES WHAT THE EARTH WAS LIKE AT THE BEGINNING:

"NOW THE EARTH WAS FORMLESS AND EMPTY, DARKNESS WAS OVER THE SURFACE OF THE DEEP, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS HOVERING OVER THE WATERS." THIS IS WHAT THE EARTH WAS LIKE BEFORE THE LIGHT OF YESHUA WAS ESTABLISHED ON EARTH.

THE EARTH WAS FORMLESS AND EMPTY; THE HEBREW WORDS FOR FORMLESS IS TOHU AND EMPTY IS BOHU. THESE WORDS MEAN CONFUSION, CHAOS AND EMPTINESS.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR DARKNESS IS "CHASEK" AND IT MEANS LITERALLY DARKNESS AND FIGURATIVELY MEANS MISERY, DESTRUCTION, DEATH, SORROW AND WICKEDNESS.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR DEEP IS "TEHOM" MEANING DEEP, SEA AND ABYSS. THE "ABYSS" IN SCRIPTURE IS THE ABODE OF THE DEAD (ROMANS 10:7), THE ABODE OF DEMONS (LUKE 8:31), THE ABODE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST (REV 11:7, 17:8).  JOB ASKS "...WHERE IS THE ABODE OF 'CHOSEK', DARKNESS?" JOB 38:9

THIS DARKNESS AND CHAOS OVER EARTH IS BECAUSE OF THE FALL OF LUCIFER TO THE EARTH.

BEFORE THE EARTH WAS CREATED, GOD CREATED ANGELS THAT SERVED HIM.  THESE ANGELS LOOK LIKE HUMANS BUT ARE CREATED HIGHER AND GREATER THAN HUMANS. THE ANGELS WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS AND EACH HAS ITS OWN LEADER.  THE LEADERS ARE CALLED: GABRIEL, MICHAEL AND LUCIFER.  ALL OF THE ANGELS WERE CREATED GOOD; HOWEVER, LUCIFER, WHOSE NAME MEANT THE SHINING ONE OR MORNING STAR BECAME ARROGANT AND REBELLED AGAINST GOD.

GOD PROPHECIES THROUGH THE PROPHET EZEKIEL AND ISAIAH ABOUT LUCIFER'S REBELLION. WE ARE GIVEN A PICTURE OF LUCIFER BEFORE THE REBELLION, TENDING THE THRONE OF GOD IN EDEN, WHICH I BELIEVE IS THE HEAVENLY EDEN AS OPPOSED TO THE EARTHLY EDEN - THIS IS THE HEAVENLY GARDEN OF GOD:

"YOU WERE THE MODEL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY. EVERY PRECIOUS STONE ADORNED YOU: RUBY, TOPAZ AND EMERALD, CHRYSOLITE, ONYX AND JASPER, SAPPHIRE, TURQUOISE AND BERYL. YOUR SETTINGS AND MOUNTINGS WERE MADE OF GOLD; ON THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED THEY WERE PREPARED. YOU WERE ANOINTED AS A GUARDIAN CHERUB, FOR SO I ORDAINED YOU. YOU WERE ON THE HOLY MOUNT OF GOD; YOU WALKED AMOUNG THE FIERY STONES. YOU WERE BLAMELESS IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED TILL WICKEDNESS WAS FOUND IN YOU. THROUGH YOUR WIDESPREAD TRADE- YOU WERE FILLED WITH VIOLENCE, AND YOU SINNED. SO I DROVE YOU IN DISGRACE FROM THE MOUNT OF GOD, AND I EXPELLED YOU, O GUARDIAN CHERUB FROM THE FIERY STONES. YOUR HEART BECAME PROUD ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR BEAUTY, AND YOU CORRUPTED YOUR WISDOM BECAUSE OF YOUR SPLENDOR. SO I THREW YOU TO EARTH..."EZEKIEL 28:12

EZEKIEL 29

AND IN ISAIAH 14 IT IS SAID ABOUT LUCIFER: "YOU SAID IN YOUR HEART, 'I WILL ASCEND TO HEAVEN; I WILL RAISE MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD....I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE TOPS OF THE CLOUDS; I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE THE MOST HIGH'"

BECAUSE OF LUCIFER'S REBELLION, HE AND THE ANGELS UNDERNEATH HIM WERE CAST DOWN TO THE EARTH. HE AND HIS ANGELS ARE THE DARKNESS THAT ARE THERE. ONCE ON EARTH HIS NAME IS CHANGED FROM LUCIFER TO HASATAN, THE ENEMY OR ADVERSARY OF GOD.

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ALL THREE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE ARE INTRODUCED BY THE THIRD CHAPTER OF GENESIS, THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE: THE TRIUNE GOD(FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT), THE BRIDE AND SATAN. THE WHOLE STORY OF THE BIBLE  AND THE FUTURE PROPHECY OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE END ARE SET IN THESE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS.

GOD SAYS THROUGH THE PROPHET ISAIAH:

"I AM GOD AND THERE IS NO OTHER, I AM GOD AND THERE IS NO ONE LIKE ME, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THINGS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DONE, SAYING MY PURPOSE WILL BE ESTABLISHED, AND I WILL ACCOMPLISH ALL MY GOOD PLEASURE.  ISA 46:9-10

GOD IS MAKING AN AMAZING PROCLAMATION THAT HE HAS DECLARED THE END FROM THE BEGINNING.  TO UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN FOR THE END, WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE AND THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE,  BOTH GOD THE FATHER AND THE SON YESHUA ARE DESCRIBED AS "...HIM WHO IS, AND WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME." YESHUA SAYS THAT HE IS THE "ALPHA AND OMEGA", THE "FIRST AND THE LAST." REV 1. "ALPHA AND OMEGA" IN HEBREW IS THE "ALEF - TAV", THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET IS THE LETTER "SAMEKH". IT IS WRITTEN AS A CIRCLE, WHICH SYMBOLIZES THE UNITY BETWEEN THE BEGINNING AND THE END. THE EVIDENCE OF CYCLES ARE SEEN IN NATURE. SOME OF THEM ARE: THE SEASONS; PLANT LIFE; CYCLES OF THE MOON AND THE RISING AND THE SETTING OF THE SUN.

SCRIPTURE STATES THAT GOD TEACHES US DIVINE PRINCIPLES THROUGH HIS  WORD AND THROUGH WHAT WE OBSERVE IN NATURE:

"THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD; THE SKIES PROCLAIM THE WORK OF HIS HANDS." PSALM 19

"AND GOD SAID: LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE EXPANSE OF THE SKY TO SEPARATE THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT, AND LET THEM SERVE AS SIGNS TO MARK SEASONS AND DAYS AND YEARS." GEN 1:14

"FOR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD GOD'S INVISIBLE QUALITIES-HIS ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATURE-HAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD FROM WHAT HAS BEEN MADE, SO THAT MEN ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE." ROM 1:20

THE PRINCIPLE OF CYCLES PERTAIN TO ALL HISTORY, WHICH GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF IN DIFFERENT FORMS. THE BIBLE VALIDATES THIS PRINCIPLE IN ECCLESIASTES 3:15:

"WHATEVER IS HAS ALREADY BEEN, AND WHAT WILL BE HAS BEEN BEFORE."

HISTORY APPEARS AS AN EVER EXPANDING CIRCLE WITHIN OTHER CIRCLES. IT IS LIKE A PEBBLE THROWN INTO A POND, CREATING EVER EXPANDING CIRCLES. THIS IS WHY GOD'S WORD IS TRUE FOR EVERY GENERATION THAT READS IT:

"FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING AND ALIVE."

PROPHECIES THAT ARE MADE THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE ARE LIKE THESE EXPANDING CIRCLES: THEY HAVE A FULFILLMENT NEAR THE TIME THAT THE PROPHECY IS MADE, A MORE FUTURE FULFILLMENT THAT IS USUALLY AROUND THE TIME OF YESHUA'S FIRST COMING AND THEN AN ULTIMATE FULFILLMENT IN THE END TIMES WITH THE SECOND COMING OF YESHUA. THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS FULFILLED IN THIS SPECIFIC WAY BUT ARE USUALLY FULFILLED IN THE NEAR TERM AND THEN FARTHER OFF IN THE FUTURE.

GOD MAKES HIS FIRST DECLARATION OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE END, INTRODUCES US TO THE THREE MAIN CHARACTERS AND TO HIS STORY WITHIN IN THE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS OF GENESIS.

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SATAN IS CALLED THE "DRAGON" IN THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, REVELATION AND HE IS CALLED THE "SERPENT" IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GENESIS.  HIS NAME IN HEBREW "HASATAN" MEANS "ADVERSARY, OPPONENT OR ACCUSER." IN THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE, WE HAVE OUR HERO PROTAGANIST: GOD THE FATHER AND GOD THE SON WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH BY THE POWER OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT - THE TRIUNE GOD.  WE HAVE THE ANTAGONIST, SATAN, A CREATED BEING, WHO OPPOSES GOD AND HIS PLANS. GOD IS TRUTH AND SATAN IS A LIAR. GOD GIVES LIFE AND SATAN IS A MURDERER. YESHUA SAYS ABOUT HIM:

"HE WAS MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, FOR THERE IS NO TRUTH IN HIM. WHEN HE LIES, HE SPEAKS HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, FOR HE IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF ALL LIES." JOHN 8:4

GOD'S DESIRE AND PLAN TO GATHER A PEOPLE FOR HIMSELF AS HIS BRIDE, HIS DESIRE TO PARTNER AND USE HER TO FULFILL HIS WILL ON EARTH, AND HIS PLAN TO COME BACK TO EARTH TO LIVE WITH HER IS CONSTANTLY BEING OPPOSED AND ATTACKED BY THE DECEIT, THEFT, AND OUTRIGHT MURDER BY SATAN.