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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.



         

PAGE 10 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(LIGHT AND DARKNESS)

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.