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Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D.

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Dedication

The Classroom Version of As I See It:

The Nature of Reality by God

is dedicated to all people who love to study

God’s written word, the Holy Bible.

Foreword

Dear Readers,

This is the first in a three book series on Christian metaphysics: 1) As I See It: The Nature of Reality by God; 2) God, Our Universal Self: A Primer for Future Christian Metaphysics; and 3) Divine Metaphysics of Human Anatomy. Although these three books are not fiction, they constitute a trilogy because they are all interconnected by the common theme of Christian metaphysics. And, although I have listed them in a specific sequence, readers may read each book on a stand-alone basis — or read all three books in any order — without feeling a sense of disconnect. For people especially interested in the theme of Christian metaphysics in relation to cosmology and apocalyptic events, I have also written a fourth book, entitled Hello from 3050 AD! This fourth book provides an overview of the Pre-Millennium, the Millennium, and the Post-Millennium. Although Hello from 3050 AD! is complementary to the three book series, it does not need to be read at any specific juncture in relation to the series. (Information for all of my books is given in the section entitled Books by the Author at the end of this book.)

Although I have written As I See It: The Nature of Reality by God in the first person singular as if God were writing, it is not my intent to mislead the reader into thinking that I think that I am God or that I think that I am the possessor of all truth. To be sure, I do not think that I am God, and I do not subscribe to any philosophic or religious position that I can ever be God or equal to God. And, although I would like to think that everything that I have written within this book is true as well as written with the consent of the Holy Spirit, please know that I do not think that I am “channeling” God or that I have written Holy Scripture. The Creator alone is the Lord God Almighty (which is to say, “Supreme Being”). I am simply part of God’s huge creation. Although I know that God loves me, I also know that God does not love me any more than He loves any one of you. Like you, I have substantial imperfections, vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and infirmities. I am someone special to God only to the same degree that each one of you is special to God. So, if this book does what I am hoping that it will do, then please praise God for it and thank God’s Holy Spirit, the only teacher of all truth. If I have missed the mark in any area within this book, it certainly is not God’s fault.

It is my hope that, either while reading or after reading this book, readers will: 1) come to some epiphanies concerning how Scripture might be viewed as they develop their own personal theologies based on, and consistent with, the Holy Bible; and 2) learn more about what Scripture has to say by seeking to refute the perspectives presented in this book through comparing what I have presented to what is actually stated in the Holy Bible. If this book does nothing more than stimulate you to read and reread the Holy Bible, then I will be satisfied that this book has done what I wanted it to do. If I have misstated something in relationship to the Holy Bible, then God’s Holy Spirit will show you (either immediately or eventually) where I am wrong as you become more familiar with the one true and only real Scripture, the Holy Bible.

As I See It: The Nature of Reality by God expresses the personal theology that I developed over a lifetime of studying the Holy Bible. By using the first person singular, as if God were writing this book, I have tried to express my own personal theology in a conversational manner that, I believe, will most easily engage its readers. I think that fewer people would be as easily engaged if I wrote in the third person singular (for example, “God said”). And, although I believe that there is a triadic plurality to God’s unity (see the postscript to this letter for definitions of “triadic plurality”), I think that for me to have written in the first person plural (“WE”) would have confused more than a few readers into concluding that I was trying to turn my book into some sort of bogus religious encyclical as God’s “chosen prophet for this hour,” or that I was trying to force one particular Christian perspective, doctrine, or denominational position upon the reader. I realize that I still run that risk by having God speak in the first person singular (“I”) rather than the first person plural (“WE”), but I think there is less risk and that this calculated risk is more understandable to a greater number of people.

Please know that I have no interest in promoting any Christian denomination over another because I believe that, in most instances, creating and/or perpetuating division within the Body of Christ is dishonoring to our Lord and that the time for such division is over. And I have no interest in beginning my own Christian denomination or cult because, although I may think that I have some charisma, I do not believe that I am charismatic enough to found a popular denomination or cult. And, although it might be easier for me to found an unpopular one, that is not appealing to me either.

In the final analysis, it is my heart’s desire to bring more honor, glory, and praise to the Lord God Almighty through this work at the same time that the Body of Christ is edified and uplifted. Time will tell whether that desire is achieved. And, of course, my heavenly Dad (“our Father in heaven”) will let me know when I see Him face-to-face.

I have only reported in this book what I can see. And, like you, I can only see to the extent that God has granted me a glimpse of the truth, and only to the degree that I am not indulging self-pride and self-will. My job has involved a lifetime of learning to try and best articulate my view.

To be sure, I am most grateful that our heavenly Father has granted me the education, life experiences, and time to do this.

God be with all of you always and in all ways.

Much love in Jesus Christ,

Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D.

(One of Many Friends of God)

P.S. In this book, the phrase “triadic plurality” (as opposed to, for example, “dyadic plurality” or “quadratic plurality”) refers to: 1) the troika, or triumvirate of “persons,” that comprises the Godhead; 2) the tripartite Creator-God who sovereignly rules the Universe, or All-that-is; 3) the one Supreme Being who is partitioned into three consubstantial, coexistent, and united parts.

Notes

As used in this book, KJV is an abbreviation for the public domain King James Version of the Holy Bible. To ensure their accuracy throughout this book, all paraphrases of the public domain King James Version of the Holy Bible were finalized only after first checking: 1) the Masoretic Hebrew text of the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible) for accuracy of passages from the KJV Old Testament; and 2) the earliest Greek text extant for accuracy of passages from the KJV New Testament. Additionally, to enhance readability of the public domain KJV text, the present author has changed words like hath, thou, and ye to their modern equivalents.

Although God the Father (i.e., the Lord God Almighty) and God the Son (i.e., the Lord Jesus Christ) are consubstantially united in the Godhead along with God the Holy Spirit, in order to distinguish God the Father from God the Son, an upper case “H” is used for personal pronouns specifically referring to God the Father (He, His, and Him) and a lower case “h” is used for personal pronouns specifically referring to God the Son (he, his, and him).

Some transliterated Hebrew and Greek words referenced within the text of this book are noted by their respective numbers [in brackets with a preceding “H” for Hebrew or “G” for Greek] from the Dictionary of the Hebrew Bible and the Dictionary of the Greek Bible found in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong (Copyright 1890), Crusade Bible Publishers, Inc., Nashville.

Finally, whenever the title God is used in this book, the reader should assume that it is referring solely to: (1) the God of the Holy Bible — who is the Lord God Almighty or Yahweh (YHWH); (2) the one true and only real Creator-God; (3) His tripartite nature; (4) His sevenfold Spirit; and (5) His various facets.

Although the Creator-God does not possess a human gender, there are no apologies for the use of the male pronouns He, His, and Him when referring to the Lord God Almighty in this book for the following reason: In general, certain words in theology and philosophy are capitalized to show that they represent qualities and characteristics that transcend human understanding and experience. This includes the pronouns He, His, and Him and even the word God itself. She and Her are not used in this book when referring to the Creator-God because many people, if not most, have a tendency to confuse the use of female pronouns with advocating Wicca and other pagan cults that worship the Mother-Goddess — such as those devoted to Aphrodite (Venus), Artemis (Diana), Astarte, Cybele, Hecate, Ma´at, Morrigan, etc.

For the sake of clarity, when the author of this book uses the phrase the present author in this book, he is referring to himself.

Table of Contents

Copyright

Foreword

Notes

Table of Contents

Chapter One: It’s Me, God!

Chapter Two: There is a Famine in Your Land

Chapter Three: Your One True Origin and Only Real Being

Chapter Four: Less than Stellar Views of Corporeality

Chapter Five: The Control Gene

Chapter Six: Mythology about ME

Chapter Seven: Conflicting Natures

Chapter Eight: The Guilt Complex

Chapter Nine: After MY Own Heart

Chapter Ten: Knowing Who You Really Are

Chapter Eleven: The Dissolution of Corporeality

Afterword

Books by the Author

About the Author

Chapter One

It’s Me, God!

On Prayer

When I created you, I basically committed to a “hands-off” approach unless you personally invite ME into your life. I resolved to not intervene in your daily life unless you first ask ME. Most of you have wondered: if I know what ails you, if I know what you need, and if I know what you desire (and I do know all of these things), then why don’t I simply heal you, deliver you, instantly provide for your every need, and grant your every heart’s desire without being asked? Here are two major reasons:

First, that I require you to ask ME is actually an integral part of the wonderful gift of free will that I gave to you. If you do not ask, then MY presumption is that you want to live and experience your own individual lives without interference from ME. Although I never intended for created beings to be self-sufficient and independent from their Creator, I honor any and all of your requests to be separate from ME. You might say that you don’t recall ever asking for self-sufficiency and independence, but I would reply that the request does not need to be in words. Instead, the request can be reflected in actions, attitudes, and behaviors. Until you change your mind that MY “interference” is actually “intercession” on your behalf, and until you ask ME for help, I will respect your boundaries and withhold MY help. How can MY answers and solutions be forthcoming to your questions that are never asked and for your problems that are never acknowledged to yourself let alone to ME?

MY “hands-off” approach is easily seen in what I offer to you in MY Grace and Mercy. I do not force you to accept the gift of salvation, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and their operations, deliverance from difficult situations, healing of physical disorders, daily provisions, earthly rewards, and even spiritual blessings. I do not force created beings to accept anything from ME, even if it would be good for them to do so.

Although I provided MY Plan of Salvation for you, I will never force acceptance of it upon you. You are free to accept or reject MY Plan. Similarly, if you do not call upon ME to release your spiritual gifts and for ME to be in charge of their operations, they will lie dormant, under-used, or misused. You must call upon ME to release your spiritual gifts and ensure their correct operations in accordance with MY Will, which is always pure, and with MY Timing, which is always perfect. (Spiritual gifts are supposed to be used for developing interdependence on each other as you grow increasingly dependent on ME.) Similarly, you need to ask ME for deliverance and healing if you want ME to intercede. Otherwise, I will respect your boundaries, which are simply the lines that you have drawn to separate yourselves from ME (and not the other way around).

Didn’t you think it strange that I asked you to pray for your daily bread[1] at the same time that I cautioned you not to worry or be anxious?[2] How do these two lines of thinking intersect? As long as you are making your requests known to ME daily, there is no need for you to be anxious or worry. This relates to a second reason for requiring you to ask ME to intercede. I want you not only to know but also to acknowledge openly that I AM the Lord God Almighty and that I AM your Creator and the only Creator-God (I deserve that acknowledgement), and I want you to trust ME (I also deserve your trust). Requiring you to ask ME helps you to demonstrate your trust in ME at the same time that you grow increasingly dependent on ME as your Creator, Provider, Healer, Savior, Teacher, Counselor, Encourager, Indweller, Rewarder, and Blesser. As your Creator, I never intended for you to function independently of ME (that is, act outside of MY Will) — although you may do so if you choose.

“To pray” means “to ask.” Praying without ceasing includes solidly fixing your gaze upon ME at the same time that you are eternally aware of MY Presence and MY availability to you (“eternal” awareness transcends space-time as you know it). As you become eternally aware of MY Presence, you eventually become conscious of ME every waking and sleeping moment. Even when your mind wanders, you cannot help but return right back to ME in thought, in feeling, and even in deed. This is what the Apostle Paul meant when he directed you to “pray without ceasing.”[3]

What keeps you from asking ME for anything is a result of the arrogance of your false ego. So, why not ask ME? Why not ask ME to participate in your lives? Why not ask ME to forgive you? Why not ask ME to heal you of a physical condition or deliver you from a difficult situation? To be sure, asking ME does not mean that I will grant every prayer request as you perceive that each prayer should be answered. It may mean that you will not be healed or delivered in accordance with your timeline if I know that the difficult condition or experience: 1) will increase your capacity to understand ME, 2) will increase your overall stamina in ME (that is, your ability to stand fast in ME), or 3) will benefit the greater good. Here, “greater good” refers to that which is for the good of an “us all” and not just for the good of an individual. Remember, I created the whole of which you are a part. You alone are not the whole.

What are the elements of an effective prayer?

You must have some faith. You must believe that I AM and that I AM a rewarder of those who diligently seek ME.[4] You must be honest, humble, and sincere. It does not matter if you pray in a loud voice or quiet voice or if you pray silently. However, because of the way that your brain functions, it is probably better not to pray silently. (Most of you lose focus when you use this approach.) Praying aloud with your voice, or silently with your hands in the language of the hearing impaired, enables you to more effectively, efficiently, and cogently deliver your prayer request to ME. You are then able to be a bit more objective about whether your prayer is reasonable as well as articulated accurately.

To pray effectively, you must also know who I AM, even if you only know that I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob or the God of Moses. You must not confuse ME with a false god. It is not required that you know all about ME because that would be unreasonable, and impossible. Nevertheless, you must know something about ME. For example, you could know that I AM the only one full of grace and mercy, or that I AM “the Father.” (By the way, I AM not repulsed by the appellation “Mother,” but that title gets most of you who use it into trouble because your limited comprehension causes you to confuse ME with a mother goddess, a force of nature, an impersonal power, or a social agenda. Besides, if it was good enough for Christ Jesus to call ME “Father,” then it should be good enough for you.) Also, it would be good for you to know that I AM not the Father because I have many children (and I do), but because I have an only-begotten Son, whom you know, and should know, as Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach.[5] (Later, I will answer this riddle for you: “Which father is his own son, and which son is his own father?” and explain MY answer. But not now.)

When you pray, you really should not expect ME to answer your prayers: 1) because you are a “good person,” 2) because you “have lived a good life,” or 3) for the sake of your own name, faith legacy, or posterity. Rather, you should expect ME to hear your prayers and to answer them: 1) because I AM WHO I SAID I AM, 2) because I AM the ONLY giver of good gifts, and 3) for the sake of MY own Name’s reputation, marketing, and advertising. Although “marketing and advertising” might seem worldly to you, both witnessing of ME and giving testimony about ME go a long way to help others understand that I AM and that I AM a rewarder of those who diligently seek ME so that these others might want to seek ME, find ME, and eventually acknowledge ME through praise, too.

Sincere and honest praise should be a part of prayer. Praise catches MY attention and invokes MY Presence. Using MY Son’s Name in a respectful way also invokes MY Presence and, therefore, MY Power. As a postage stamp ensures that a letter is delivered to an addressee, so, too, does using MY Son’s Name ensure that your prayer request is delivered to ME.

Praying for yourselves individually is as important as praying for those who might not have the necessary strength, wherewithal, faith, or knowledge to pray for themselves. For example, when MY prophetess Miriam became arrogant, I struck her with a horrible flesh-rotting disease that I healed only in response to a prayer request from MY servant Moses.[6]

Praying for others aggressively is important. Aggressive prayer includes:

1.Believing that I AM, and believing that I AM a rewarder of those who diligently seek ME.[7]

2.Praying regularly (for example, every day at a specific time).

3.Praying for a specific purpose.

4.Making a commitment to pray until something changes (for example, praying for a person until the person either receives healing or comes to accept that a specific condition is God-ordained for a specified period of time).

5.Building (that is, perfecting) a prayer in writing and/or in speaking.

6.Expressing your understanding of a situation to ME, and asking ME to clarify and/or correct your understanding. (Do not assume that you completely understand a situation or the reasons for it.)

7.Asking for MY Mercy in addition to MY Grace (grace is receiving what you do not deserve and mercy is not receiving what you do deserve). Examples of grace include salvation, gifts of the spirit and their operations, peace, joy, the redemption of your bodies, and entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. Examples of mercy include healing of a disease that you have brought upon yourself, not going to hell, and not being limited by your own understanding or misunderstanding.

8.Praying for MY “Name’s sake” (as opposed to praying for a person because that person is deserving or a “good guy” or a “nice person” or “has been through enough”).

9.Praying in the belief that MY Will is always pure and that MY Timing is always perfect.

10.Trusting ME in patience for MY Will to be done concerning the situation at a time that I choose to act in response to your prayer.

11.Extolling MY Virtues (praising ME) not for the purpose of manipulating ME but because I deserve your praise even if I choose not to do anything else for you other than to grant you salvation.

12.Praying that a person is granted repentance[8] for sins committed as well as forgiveness for the sins he or she confesses.

13.Accepting that I forgive you of confessed sins the precise moment that you confess them in repentance to ME.

14.Proclaiming MY Goodness for forgiving your sins.

15.Praying that an underlying condition is understood and healed rather than just the effect of a cause. For example, some substance abusers are substance abusers because they have an anxiety disorder. Praying just for recovery from substance abuse is not good enough. You need to pray for the healing of the person’s anxiety disorder.

There are some people with faith in ME who become judgmental about others who have unyielding physical conditions or unchanging earthly circumstances — which is to say, situations that are seemingly unresponsive to prayer. Such judgmental people misinterpret the conditions and circumstances as the result of a lack of faith on the part of the afflicted. MY advice for those afflicted is to remind these judgmental people that the affliction might be unyielding or unchanging because of a lack of faith on their part rather than a lack of faith on the part of the afflicted. In what way? Because I also heal and deliver the afflicted based on the prayers of others who have strong faith, perhaps those who are being judgmental lack the necessary faith to “pray through” for the healing and deliverance of the afflicted. In response to this fair turn about, those who are being judgmental might claim that their own faith is strong enough to “pray through” for others but that their prayers are being thwarted by the negative thinking of the afflicted. Here, I need to remind all that when I choose to do something, including healing and deliverance, nothing keeps it from happening because I AM WHO I AM and I AM WHO I SAID I AM.

Similarly, I can heal despite the medications that the afflicted may be taking. When I heal people who are on medications, they eventually learn from their physicians and/or improving physical conditions that they no longer need the medications. If you feel moved to throw your own medications away because you are believing ME for a miracle and as a sign of your faith in ME, that is your prerogative (which is to say, a result of your own free will). To tell someone else to throw their medications away is irresponsible. And to believe that your faith is sufficient to heal a child entrusted to your care is presumptive, arrogant, and should be unthinkable. For children, you should always use all legitimate resources available to you. If I choose to heal you or your loved ones, including children, I can heal despite the continuing medical treatments they receive. People who have faith in ME concerning MY healing a physical condition sometimes forget that the primary healing is the healing of a soul that has been separated from its Creator.

When the Apostle Paul asked ME (praying is asking) three times to remove the figurative thorn in his flesh (which is to say, take away a physical condition from him), I replied that I would not because “MY Grace is sufficient” for him — or anyone else, for that matter — to endure any difficulty because “MY Strength is made perfect in weakness.”[9] If I had removed the thorn, the Apostle Paul would have become prideful and arrogant because of the revelations that I gave to him and because of the leadership position into which he was placed by ME. Then, he would have lost sight of MY Purpose for him and become ineffective. By the way, if you have a genuine thorn in your flesh and not a trumped up sign of your own feigned martyrdom, I might permit the thorn to remain for a short time, a long time, or a lifetime.

To summarize why I sometimes permit physical, mental, and emotional disorders:

1.To encourage you to call out to ME, and cry out to ME, for MY healing touch.

2.To help you know what suffering really means so you are better able to minister to those who truly suffer, including the brokenhearted.

3.To lay claim to the truth that I AM Sovereign Ruler and that I AM the source of all healing virtue (which is to say, divine power) that heals and restores.

4.To bring more glory to ME through your sustained praise of ME. (Do you praise ME through bad times as well as good times?)

5.To test, add to, and strengthen your individual and collective resolve to exercise your faith.

6.To help you yield your individual and collective will to MY Will.

7.To help you develop a more mature prayer life and more intimate relationship with ME.

8.To discipline and chasten you as well as teach others of MY Sovereignty through your condition.

You should never be presumptive or arrogant enough to believe that you know all of the reasons for a physical, mental, or emotional disorder before I reveal the reasons to you, if and when I do. Such presumption or arrogance would also be a sign of great ignorance. (Simply speaking, ignorance is the lack of an inquiring mind.)

Disequilibrium

As one enters into successively higher states of grace, the conscious functioning self is able to step aside to allow one’s higher self, or supraself, to take over. The supraself is herewith defined as “that part of each human being that communes directly with the Creator on a higher (and, sometimes, the highest) plane of consciousness.” On which plane you are communing with ME depends on which state of grace you have entered. Creative “flow” occurs within MY Spiritual Universe to and from that part of yourselves known as the supraself. The supraself, however, cannot take over in the throes of your succumbing to any form of disequilibrium, or instability. Spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and social distractions can create various forms of disequilibrium; the distractions cause you to shift your focus away from ME toward whatever distraction that causes the disequilibrium. (For the sake of clarification, MY Spiritual Universe is defined in this book as “MY Heavenly Consciousness,” “Heaven,” “the Kingdom of Heaven,” “the Kingdom of God,” “Paradise,” and “Eden.”)

Factors that are correlated with disequilibrium include, but are not limited to: physical illness, mental illness, unresolved emotional issues (hurt, embarrassment, and/or anger), active addiction (daily, you are either in recovery from sin or in active addiction to it), egotism, fear, bitterness, and hatred. I use the word “correlated” here because, although disequilibrium is the primary cause of any one of, or any combination of, the various factors indicated previously, each factor itself compounds, or adds to, the causes of disequilibrium when that factor is indulged.

The relationship between an epileptic seizure and the brain condition that permits the seizure is analogous to the relationship between disequilibrium and the spiritual condition of the soul that permits the disequilibrium. Iniquity (that is, unrighteousness) is the culprit here. However, because the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cleanses you of all iniquity, you are capable of having your consciousness elevated by believing on that shed blood.

Although a number of human beings have discovered certain spiritual, or metaphysical, truths and have elucidated those truths in various literary works, you need to know that, unless the shed blood of Jesus Christ enters into the picture of those truths (that is, the way you envision them), those truths cannot be applied with any measure of success. Without the shed blood of Jesus Christ, all spiritual truths are of null effect within your personal lives. To be sure, the truths are not untrue and are not of null effect within MY Spiritual Universe; they are just “untrue” in your personal lives (that is, there is no efficacy to them within your day-to-day experience). Without employing a solid understanding of the shed blood of Jesus Christ, declarations of truth will get you nowhere.

It is recognizing and understanding the efficacy of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that brings heart to the superior intellect. The truth be told, the superior intellect is superior to nothing without heart (that is, without application of the shed blood of Jesus Christ to the truths that the intellect discerns). It is the shed blood of Jesus Christ that permits the intersection of the supernal, eternal, and absolutely real with the earthly, temporal, and transitory.

Even though indulging sinful behaviors adds to one’s disequilibrium, all addictive behaviors (that is, sinful behaviors) are symptomatic of disequilibrium. And, whenever you make your equilibrium (or stability) dependent on anything other than your Creator, such dependence causes disequilibrium.

Healing as it Relates to Disequilibrium

Healing is the same and different for all human beings. It is the same in that all healing is dependent on the shed blood of the only-begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ. It is different depending on where each person is in his or her own spiritual development and journey. Often, immature authentic Christians (spiritual “infants” and spiritual “adolescents”) need only pray, or be prayed for, to have their various healing needs met. However, mature authentic Christians (spiritual “adults” and spiritual “elders”) need to declare, affirm, and “lay claim to” spiritual truths in order to have their various healing needs met.

“Various healing needs met” does not mean that all people will be healed physically before they die (depending on circumstance, death of the mortal body itself can be the ultimate form of physical healing). For immature and mature authentic Christians, physical healing does or does not take place depending on what a person’s individual needs are as well as the needs of those who are close to the person and/or whose lives may be impacted by that person. This is why authentic Christians should not be disappointed if they do not receive a physical healing when they think they should receive a physical healing.

The Body of Christ (the “church universal”) is an “us all.” The Body of Christ is composed of those already in Heaven as well as those on earth who are already saved. To be sure, there are those who will be saved at some point in the future and, then, at that time be added to the Body of Christ. Because the Body of Christ is an “us all,” MY Spiritual Universe functions in multivariate ways regarding physical healing (which is to say, there are many factors that come into play). Although physical healing may not always occur, I always give you sufficient strength to meet your daily challenges. Such strength is actually part of your “daily bread.”

The Godhead

I know what your theology books state about who I AM and what I AM supposed to be. Through your interpretations of who I AM, I find that there is “oneness,” “twoness,” and “threeness” or, if you like, “unitarian” (not the religious denomination), “binitarian,” and “trinitarian” paradigms to explain ME. If I wasn’t God, it would all be quite confusing. Since I AM God, I see that each of these perspectives has some truth to it. When asked by MY people to explain MYSELF — that is, reveal who I AM — I try to keep it simple, but that in itself poses at least some difficulty. Nevertheless, I will try to explain MYSELF to help you come to better understand and know who I AM.

I WAS always ONE before the creation, but before the creation I decided to partition MYSELF at the precise moment of the creation in order to place into motion MY Plan of Salvation that I devised for immortal beings who would enter a fallen state (mortal state) soon after their creation. (More about this later in the section entitled “MY Plan of Salvation.”)

At the time of creation, I partitioned MYSELF into YHWH (the Fiery Part of MY Being, or “the Father”), the Logos (MY Spoken Word, or “the Son”), and the Spirit (the invisible ME, or “the Holy Spirit”).

In the first three verses of Genesis, you see immediately the three partitions about which I now write:

1.In the beginning God [the Father] created the heaven and the earth.

2.And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [the Holy Spirit] moved upon the face of the waters.

3.And God said, “Let there be light!” [the Logos or Spoken Word] And there was light.[10]

Implicit in Genesis 1:1-3 (along with John 1:1-3) is that I created — and still create (and even re-create) — through MY Spoken Word, which is MY Logos (i.e., MY only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ).

I partitioned MYSELF into YHWH in order to remove the Fiery Part of MY Being far from you because it would annihilate you if you were to see ME in this way. The Fiery Part of MY Being is like a wheel of fire infolding itself inside another infolding wheel of fire.[11] (I AM the Wheel of all wheels and the Vortex of all vortices.) Partitioning the Fiery Part of MY Being compartmentalized MY Fierceness and MY Wrath (MY Justifiable Anger), but that is not all that it compartmentalized. Ironically, the Fiery Part of MY Being also contains the Fullness of MY Grace and MY Mercy (flip sides of the same coin, so to speak). One can also say that the “Fiery Part of MY Being” represents the Fullness of MY Glory.

No human being can see the Fiery Part of MY Being without being annihilated. Human beings, even saved human beings, cannot see ME in this way without being burned up (that is, without being consumed). Moses was the only one in the flesh that I permitted to view a portion of the Fiery Part of ME, but, even then, I had to shield him from becoming undone, so to speak.[12] The Prophet Isaiah,[13] the Apostle Paul,[14] and the Apostle John[15] also caught a glimpse of the Fiery Part of MY Being, but only when their souls were caught up into a spiritual state of being and not while their souls were still abiding in their flesh.

Although I withdrew the Fiery Part of MY Being into a dimensionless reality that is far beyond your physical reach, mental grasp, and mortal comprehension, I did not withdraw MY Logos (MY Spoken Word) nor MY Spirit from you. Given the right set of heavenly-determined conditions, MY Logos and MY Spirit have had, and still have, direct access to you and vice versa (but never on your terms, only on MINE).

I partitioned MYSELF into the Logos to visit you from time to time, which visits are recorded in MY Holy Bible and often interpreted by theologians as “theophanies” (that is, MY personal appearances in a physical state of being). The Logos is actually the creative part of ME that would eventually walk among you as “God-in-the-flesh” in the person of Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach, who, through his atoning sacrifice, re-creates you from your fallen state back to the original state of spiritual being you had when I first created you. (In other words, you are rebirthed by MY Spirit the moment that you believe on MY Son and in his mission.) The Logos can trigger MY Wrath, as well as MY Grace and MY Mercy, to fall upon you. Unfortunately, many of you have misconcluded that you can trigger MY Wrath, Grace, and Mercy by entertaining a supposed requisite magical thinking through your own imagery or by mentally unlocking a mystical combination by coming to know certain “secret stuff,” which is absolutely ridiculous.

Finally (“finally” here is not referring to a sequential act), I partitioned MYSELF into the Holy Spirit in order to freely communicate MY thoughts and emotions to human beings and, eventually, in order to indwell them without annihilating them. To reiterate, MY Spirit is the invisible part of ME that is available to touch you intimately and to communicate with you personally without destroying you. MY Spirit is imparted to you at the precise moment that you believe on MY Son and in his mission, which is clearly articulated in MY Holy Bible.

At the time of the end, after all things have been placed under the feet of Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach, and all saved souls are indwelt by MY Spirit, and MY Wrath has been fully appeased, then I will release the Fiery Part of ME to fill all creation and, once again, be All-in-all.[16] Remember, I partitioned MYSELF in order to keep you from being annihilated by the Totality of MY Being. Despite this partitioning, MY entire Being has always remained whole, united, and complete within the framework of a space-time that you cannot fully know or fully comprehend in your present state of being.

If you have been using addition to represent MY tripartite Nature (1 + 1 + 1 = 3), then you have been using the wrong metaphor. It will make more sense if you use a base of one raised to the third power (1^3) since that equation more accurately represents the essence of MY tripartite Nature (1 × 1 × 1 = 1).

Although you call MY Spirit “Holy” (and it is), so is the Fiery Part of ME “Holy” and so is the Logos “Holy.” I ALONE AM HOLY. In order to approach ME, you must be Holy as I AM Holy. (However, you cannot be as holy as I AM.) In order to approach ME, you must be wearing the crown of salvation, which in the world of Spirit reads in Hebrew as “Kodesh L’Shem,” or in English as “Holiness to the LORD.” That crown is only received by you once you accept MY Plan of Salvation and never turn back by rejecting it.

My Plan of Salvation

In order to wear the crown mentioned in the previous section, you must accept MY Only Plan of Salvation at the same time that you reject everything contrary to that Plan. Rejecting everything contrary to MY Plan goes hand-in-hand with accepting MY Plan as the Only Plan.

Before the beginning of creation, I knew that once I created beings with free will, they would test their individual free wills and go against MY Guidelines to live in accordance with MY Will. (Don’t your own children do that, too?) For immortal beings who would fall from doing MY Will and, thereby, bring condemnation upon themselves and their progeny, I devised MY Plan of Salvation to enable them to avoid eternal separation from ME.

Why did I provide for the salvation of fallen beings?

The answer is because:

1.I AM gracious and merciful,[17]

2.I did not want to lose those who, given the opportunity, would return to ME after they both realized and repented of their errant ways,[18] and

3.I did not want to give MY Inheritance and MY Glory to another (that is, Satan).[19]

Thus did I provide for the salvation of fallen beings.

In contrast, I did not provide a plan of salvation for Lucifer, who was once MY “Light-bearer,” because he fell as a result of his own arrogance and narcissism, which he developed consciously on his own and not by succumbing to some external temptation. And I did not provide a plan of salvation for angels who chose to go against MY Will by following Lucifer’s lead because these spiritual beings (that is, incorporeal beings) who rebelled against ME did so in full view of the magnificence of MY Being. However, I AM lenient with those beings who fell from doing MY Will (honoring MY command) because their disobedience was a result of yielding to external temptation.

Who can understand the Fullness of MY Compassion? In your current state of being, MY Compassion is too good for you to fully comprehend just as MY Will is too good for you to fully know. You can comprehend ME and know ME only through MY Holy Spirit, who begins residing within you at the precise moment that you accept the earthly mission of MY Logos as “the only-begotten Son of God.”

Because I knew that human beings, who had turned from ME by going against MY Will, would require an acceptable offering to ME to propitiate (that is, appease) MY Wrath (or MY Justifiable Anger) against them, I devised a Plan that included the shedding of innocent blood to atone for (that is, “cover”) and remit (that is, “cancel completely”) all debts for their transgressions against ME. In order to execute MY Plan of Salvation, I partitioned MYSELF at the time of the creation into YHWH (to be known later to you as “LORD” and “the Father”), the Logos (to be known later to you as “the Word,” “Lord,” and “the Son of God”), and the Spirit (to be known later to you as “the Holy Ghost” and “the Holy Spirit”).

When Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach, bore all of the transgressions of human beings upon the cross of his crucifixion, that was the only instant in eternity that the Fiery portion of ME had to look away from the Logos portion of ME and the only instant in eternity that the Logos would be unaware of MY Fiery Presence. If the Fiery Part of MY Being were to look upon sin in your space-time, the bearer of that sin would be forever annihilated. The instant that Jesus Christ bore all of mankind’s transgressions (past, present, and future) upon the cross, it was the only moment in eternity that he was unaware of MY Fiery Presence, which — until that moment — burned effortlessly within his soul because of his sinlessness. It was this brief separation that caused the Logos, as MY only-begotten Son, to cry out upon the cross, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani! My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”[20]

Regardless of the Fiery Part of MY Being “looking away” from the Logos for that one brief instant, and regardless of the Logos being unaware of MY Fiery Presence for that precise moment, both YHWH and the Logos (“the Father” and “the Son”) remained connected by the Holy Spirit. Because the Son was doing the Will of the Father in paying the penalty for all transgressions against ME, MY Spirit still rested upon him even though the Fiery Part of MY Being had to be hidden from him. Although this was somewhat similar to the way in which I covered Moses to protect him, the Fiery Part of MY Being[21] was totally eclipsed from MY Son as he bore your sins upon the cross, which is why he felt utterly and completely forsaken.

Since it was not the role of the Spirit to bear the iniquity and sin of mankind but was the role of the Son to do so, and since the Holy Spirit still rested upon the Son because he was doing the Father’s Will, the Father remained connected — as the Father forever remains connected — to the Son by way of the Spirit. And the Son remained connected — as the Son forever remains connected — to the Father by way of the Spirit.

Earlier, I stated that I would solve the following riddle for you: “Which father is his own son, and which son is his own father?” and that I would explain MY answer. Here is the answer and explanation: I AM MY OWN SON AND I AM MY OWN FATHER! I AM WHO I AM! I AM WHO I WILL BE! I WILL BE WHO I WAS! I WAS WHO I WILL BE! I AM THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE! I AM! (It should stand to reason that understanding my true nature is difficult because I AM UNFATHOMABLE.)

The penalty for all human transgressions against ME had to take place in the flesh because the transgressions of Adam and Eve took place in their created flesh (which had a very different appearance in its original state than it does now). This explains the need for MY Logos not only to appear in flesh as a theophany, but, more importantly, for MY Logos to be born into flesh as a human being in order to carry the full weight of the penalty for the transgressions of immortal beings who had become mortal beings as a result of their transgressions. Transgressions against ME must always be paid for in the modality, or condition, in which they are committed.

Because Lucifer and the angels who rebelled against ME did so in a spiritual state of being, and they remained in a spiritual state of being, their penalty has to be exacted in that modality. Because souls who rebelled against ME resulted in their current physical state of being, their penalty necessitates payment in that modality (which is to say, physicality or corporeality). See? At this point, it is important to state again that your original flesh and your original state of being were vastly different from what you know and experience today.

If you blaspheme against MY Holy Spirit, the sin is unforgivable[22] because it is committed in your spirit (just like the transgressions of Lucifer and his angels are unforgivable because they were committed in their spirit). For the sake of clarification, “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” is ridiculing MY Holy Spirit by calling MY Holy Spirit a liar and saying that MY Holy Spirit is reprehensible and evil, when the reality is that MY Holy Spirit is the only teacher of all truth[23] and provides the only way that human beings can know ME and MY Will as well as comprehend MY Compassion and MY Goodness while they are on earth.

Careful (which is to say, deliberate), conscious, and continued rejection of MY Plan of Salvation by you through your renouncing MY Son and MY Plan of Salvation all the way to your deathbed falls within the category of “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.” Ignorance, or lack of awareness of MY Plan of Salvation, because you had never heard it explained to you, or taking your own life out of the darkness of emotional despair and mental depression does NOT constitute “blasphemy against MY Holy Spirit.”

Although the blood of MY Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, covers all of the sins of the world (that is, sinning in the body), it does not cover spiritual sin (that is, sinning in the spirit). That is why blasphemy against MY Holy Spirit is unforgiveable.

The Fight

After I created specific spiritual strata (realms) and an order and hierarchy for spiritual beings in those strata, there was rebellion by some of the angelic beings under the leadership of Lucifer, MY one-time “Light-bearer.” As MY “Light-bearer,” Lucifer had a special place of honor within MY Spiritual Universe. However, chaos and confusion were introduced into these spiritual realms as Lucifer fell from his high position. Lucifer, a cherubic being created with the gift of free will (just like yours), became enamored of himself because of the sheer magnificence of his appearance, which magnificence was second only to MINE. And the more enamored he became, the more arrogant he became.

Make no mistake, arrogance is always born of self-pride and self-will, both of which are foreign to MY Nature, contrary to MY Character, and contradictory to MY Creation. I did not create any of you with arrogance. Arrogance is always a choice for all created beings with a free will. However, arrogance is never a choice with a good end.

Because “God is Love”[24] (which statement is true), some human beings like to think of ME only as “lovey-dovey,” or saccharinely sweet. These fail to understand that I hate all things evil, and that because arrogance is always evil, I justifiably hate arrogance. These also fail to take into consideration MY need for divine justice and the intrinsic legitimacy of MY Wrath (that is, MY Justified Anger).

Although Lucifer “fell” to a spiritual level that he himself “created” through the introduction of arrogance into the spiritual realms over which he was given jurisdiction (more about that later), his appearance is still spectacular and his power to tempt mankind to go against MY Will still remains extremely strong. Nevertheless, Satan’s power is not as strong as the power exercised through MY Logos. MY Logos overcame all evil for all time as the crucified and resurrected Christ. Nor is Satan’s power as strong as MY Holy Spirit. MY Holy Spirit actually resides within those who believe on MY Son and in his mission.

Lucifer is now called Satan — which is to say, MY “Adversary” and MY “Enemy.” It is Satan who created the conflict that I AM calling “the Fight.” Lucifer was not content with his own magnificence and the delegated authority he had over his angelic followers. Satan heaped his grief (that is, he widened his separation from ME) by declaring an all out war against ME in order to overthrow ME as Supreme Being. How? By trying to rob ME of MY Creation. Although you might see the impossibility of that happening, Satan’s thinking became so clouded by his arrogance that he could not see the possibility (and certainly not the inevitability) of his defeat.

Although Satan has tried to rob ME of MY Creation, through MY Plan of Salvation I have guaranteed that all human beings who desire to return to ME are able to do so by calling upon the Name of Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach, as the only-begotten Son of God and their only Savior. (“Only-begotten” is used throughout this work to denote Jesus Christ as the only person on earth ever conceived by MY Holy Spirit in consort with a human being.)

This so-called fight is not about you, yet it is about you. Fundamentally, the fight is really about ME, MY Power, MY Position of Exaltation as the Self-Existent One, and MY Creative Abilities, including MY entire Creation (which is where you come in). Satan wants to exalt himself by overthrowing ME. Despite Satan’s calculating abilities and cunning nature, stupidity always accompanies arrogance. When Satan began his campaign against ME, he did not realize that overthrowing ME is an impossibility. Why is it an impossibility? Because I AM WHO I SAID I AM. AND I ALWAYS WILL BE.

During and immediately after his fall, Satan believed that he could shift power in the spiritual realms by having those with free will follow after him, obey him, and worship him. In his arrogance, Satan stupidly thought that he could cause ME to cease from being Creator by robbing ME of MY Creation. His premise was, and still is, fundamentally flawed, but arrogance always clouds one’s interpretation concerning who is in charge.

Even now, despite Satan’s realization that his end could be near, he continues to try to rob ME of MY Creation by setting up a counter-creation to MINE, complete with: 1) a final prophet, 2) a false Messiah (the end-time Antichrist), and 3) religious worship. Because Satan likes to ape ME and MY Creation, he even has a moral code and houses of worship built into his end-time religion. Unfortunately, his moral code is a facade and the worship is directed only towards the primogenitor of all evil, Satan himself. Satan even has a so-called holy book through which he convinces his followers: 1) that “God” (not ME) cannot have an only-begotten Son, 2) that an only-begotten Son is not crucial to receiving eternal salvation, and 3) that so-called nonbelievers (“Kafir”) need to be converted to Satan’s way of thinking through the strategic use of fear — including economic, geopolitical, and physical threats of terrorism.

The truth be told, Satan cares not one iota, jot, or yod about his followers. To Satan, the ultimate fate of all human beings is inconsequential. That is why I stated earlier that the Fight is really not about you but about ME. Satan’s stupid supposition is, “If HIS Creation is removed from HIM, then, by definition, HIS role as ‘the Creator’ is removed from HIM as well.” Satan thinks (erroneously, of course) that the Creator will cease to exist, or not BE, without the Creation that defines HIM as “the Creator.” In his own peculiar brand of nihilism, Satan thinks that I will become an imploded black hole in MY Spiritual Universe if MY Creation is stolen from ME.

I have permitted the Fight to continue until the pre-ordained time when MY Final Judgment will take place. Deliberation about the eternal salvation of souls who have accepted MY Only Plan of Salvation while they were on earth is not part of MY Final Judgment. At that time these “saved” souls will be judged according to their works on earth,[25] which works will be judged righteously and fairly to determine the heavenly rewards they will each receive. In order to receive rewards for their works, their works need to have been motivated by genuine love for ME and for all of MY Creation.

At the time of MY Final Judgment, souls who have never heard of MY Plan of Salvation will be judged strictly on the presence or absence of earthly works[26] that were inspired by genuine love even though they did not know ME by MY Name. These souls will receive either eternal salvation or eternal damnation based on their works, the motivations behind their works, and the intended outcomes of their works. (For people who have never heard the gospel message, sacrificial selfless love always fulfills the Law because such Love is a Law unto itself.[27])

Finally, those who carefully (that is, deliberately) and consciously reject MY Plan of Salvation continuously until their earthly deathbeds can only receive eternal damnation.[28] Naturally, Satan and all of his angelic followers belong to the last camp since they were beyond reclamation the first instant they departed from ME (for the reasons stated previously).

The Fall and the Curse

Although Lucifer and his angelic followers “fell” outside of MY Presence at the precise moment of their insurrection, and although Satan and his angelic followers “fell” by losing their dominion over the world at the precise moment that Jesus Christ bore your transgressions upon the cross, neither of these constitute the Fall of which I now write. The Fall of this titled section is the fall of mankind through its iniquity and sin by the actions of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve not only represent all of humanity, they also represent all immortal beings with souls that I made. (For the sake of clarity, I AM not discussing a timeframe for the creation of souls in this section.)

Adam and Eve fell the moment that they turned from obeying MY Will by acting on the temptations of Satan. Satan had tempted them: 1) to do what they had been commanded by ME not to do;[29] and 2) to try to become like ME by living forever with the knowledge of both good and evil,[30] something of which created beings are not capable without losing their immortality. Although I can know both good and evil without becoming evil, created beings can only know both good and evil by experiencing evil through deliberate action in disobedience to ME.

Adam and Eve chose to dishonor MY Will with full knowledge of the consequence that they would die (that is, become separated from an intimacy with ME that I had originally intended to last throughout all eternity). When they transgressed MY Will, they found themselves in a state of being quite different from the one to which they had become accustomed. When they transgressed MY Will, MY Reflected Glory departed immediately from their flesh, causing their flesh to lose the luminescence that MY Reflected Glory imparted to them, and causing the living substance of that original flesh to crystallize and compartmentalize into what exists today. For the sake of analogy only, it was as if original DNA was three-stranded in the cells of the pre-Fall Adam and Eve but, as soon as they disobeyed ME, one of the three strands disintegrated instantly and completely. That disintegrated third strand figuratively represents MY Life Force. Additionally, such a loss caused them not only to lose their intimacy with ME but also to become mortal beings because of their newly-acquired corruptible flesh. The corruption of their flesh was then transmitted to all of their progeny through the figurative “sin gene,” which had become spliced into their genetic makeup through their act of disobedience. From that time onward, all souls in this newly-acquired, altered flesh were predisposed to sin (that is, to miss the mark) as well as to suffer the debilitation, deterioration, death, and ultimate decay of their bodies.

The Adamic Fall not only included a type of self-imposed exile for Adam and Eve because of their disobedience, it also included MY Cursing the world I originally made. As Adam and Eve changed spiritually and substantively the moment that iniquity and sin entered into their lives, so did the world change to their view. And, not only had Adam and Eve changed to their view of themselves, their universe changed to their view as well. Although your world and universe resemble the world and universe that were originally created, what you now see does not compare to the beauty, splendor, and magnificence of MY Original World and Unaltered Universe. Indeed, your flesh, your world, and your view of the Spiritual Universe is altered from what I originally created. Paradoxically, MY Original Creation (symbolized in Genesis as “Eden”) has remained intact, but you were expelled from it and cannot now see it.

Please remember that, like some hidden time bomb, a curse is embedded into every action that takes place outside of MY Will. But be of good cheer because, conversely, a blessing is in store for you every time you do MY Will. (Yes, every time!)

When Adam and Eve dishonored MY Will, I withdrew MY Spirit from them and they no longer had direct and immediate access to ME. Although I would communicate from time to time with humankind through MY Holy Spirit in the ensuing millennia, the relationship that I once had with MY Created was altered until the sacrifice of MY only-begotten Son reopened the free access of souls in dust to ME. This access is granted through MY Holy Spirit’s residence within souls at the precise moment that they believe on MY Son and in his mission.

How do you obtain your free pass to Heaven? (Actually, it isn’t free because MY Son had to pay for it with his life.) You acknowledge that you have sinned, or gone against MY Will, you repent of your sins, and you accept MY Plan of Salvation by believing on MY Son and in his mission as it relates to you specifically and all of mankind generally. Although it is rather simple, many do not accept MY Plan because acceptance requires humility on their part. Humility requires its practitioner to give up something that most people believe they cannot afford to give up: control.

Is it possible for you to lose your eternal salvation once you have received it? Although no external agency can rob you of your salvation, you can throw it away by returning to, or continuing in, a way of living that is foreign to MY Nature, contrary to MY Will, and contradictory to MY Creation. However, if you have returned to a disobedient way of living and genuinely feel remorse about such a return while you are still in the flesh, then you are not beyond reclamation. (Regrets and remorse after you die reverse nothing. You must repent while you are still in the flesh for any change to take place. This is MY Rule and MY Requirement.)

The Death Blanket

Spiritual death is best defined as “separation of the created from their Creator.” When Adam and Eve sinned, a death blanket enshrouded MY Creation. This fog of death enveloped MY Creation at the precise moment that Adam and Eve “fell” to their newly-acquired, but previously nonexistent, corruptible state of physical being, which is hallmarked by debilitation, deterioration, death, and ultimate decay. In this way did MY True Creation become hidden from them and their progeny. Physical death not only accompanied spiritual death, physical death was the effect of spiritual death.

Although I had given Adam and Eve dominion over their world, they handed that dominion over to Satan by succumbing to his temptation for them to become like ME[31] (which is absurd because it is an absolute impossibility). Satan robbed them of the authority I had given to them by getting them to believe his lies (for the future, please remember that all temptation consists of lies and lies only). Adam and Eve ended up trading MY Truth for a lie. By going against ME, they chose to separate themselves from ME.

It was not until Jesus Christ won victory over Satan by resisting temptation all of the way to the cross that direct access to ME was restored. Through Christ’s victory, all power, authority, and control in spiritual realms were removed from Satan by MY Logos (also known as MY “Word” and the Creative Part of ME). That was when Satan fell from Heaven. Yes, Satan’s dominion has been removed forevermore by Christ’s victory! The lost dominion of souls in dust over their world, which world is now under Christ’s authority because of his victory, is imparted back to human beings when they believe on Jesus Christ (that is, believe in who he says he is, entrust their lives to him, and surrender their human wills to the Will of the Self-Existent Almighty One, ME).

Although the state of the world today might cause you to think that Satan still has dominion over it, any power he and his minions have is illusory and, at best, short-lived. I have permitted Satan to have access to earthly realms to test the sincerity of those who are returning to ME. Human beings can only pass this test by clinging to the cross of Christ, wherein they find MY Strength to overcome the world, their fleshly desires, and Satan’s temptations. Indeed, if they cling to their own strength, they will fail.

Although the last enemy that is yet to be completely overcome is physical death,[32] restoration of MY Glory to the earth will remove this remnant of MY Curse. When I again infuse MYSELF into the fallen part of MY Creation, the last vestige of MY Curse will vanish. At that time, death shall be no more.[33]

Holy Scripture

Why do you think that the Holy Bible has continuity and complementarity throughout its entirety despite its multiple writers? Because I authored and inspired it through MY Holy Spirit! Although there is a missing yod or two within the current Tanakh (the Jewish Scripture or Christian “Old Testament”), the manuscripts of that complete work have survived relatively intact throughout the millennia mainly through the painstaking efforts of MY Jewish scribes and copyists, who reproduced each stroke of the Hebrew alphabet[34] in the Tanakh meticulously and faithfully. Likewise, the individual works of the established New Testament Canon have survived relatively intact from the time that the New Testament inclusions were originally written.

Although the genealogies listed in the Tanakh and in the Christian Gospels might be tedious reading, they are not frivolous because they help to trace the human ancestry of Jesus Christ — who is “fully human and fully divine” and not “half human and half divine” — as well as the origin of ancient peoples and their various migration patterns.

Much of MY Holy Scripture is written in narrative form (that is, “chronicled history”) in order to help tell a true story in the most-engaging way possible. Just because certain events are reported within narrative form in MY Holy Bible does not mean that I endorsed their happening. For example, that it is reported that Lot offered his two daughters to the marauding residents of Sodom does not mean that I endorsed the potential sacrifice of his daughters. MY Holy Bible simply records what happened. Similarly, many of the epistles (letters) of the New Testament contain incidental or anecdotal remarks to help them be more engaging to you as “living history.”

Christian leadership has not often done a very good job teaching what the Tanakh (Old Testament) has for Christians. Here are eight reasons why Christians should read, study, and comprehend the Tanakh followed by one reason not to study it:

1.To understand the origin of the universe.

2.To understand the origin of mankind.

3.To learn the history of mankind since Adam and Eve as well as to learn the origin of iniquity and sin.

4.To understand the promises of God to mankind concerning the Jewish Messiah (MY Logos), who is the only Savior of the world.

5.To understand the prophecies of God that have already been fulfilled, that are currently being fulfilled, and that will be fulfilled at a later time.

6.To learn from the journey of the Children of Israel and how it mirrors the personal journey of individual Christians.

7.To learn basic spiritual principles and apply them to living today.

8.To better understand Old Testament quotations, references, and imagery used in the New Testament.

It is important to add here that Christians should NOT read, comprehend, and study the Old Testament in order for them to follow Levitical Law! Levitical Law was written at a different time for a different people who lived in a specific geographic location (Israel).

Am I finished with MY Jews? Of course not! Once I choose people, MY Call is irrevocable[35] unless they individually reject ME through the gift of free will that I gave to all created beings. Have MY Christians replaced MY Jews as MY Chosen People? Of course not! Both groups have been chosen by ME. I not only “juggle” Jews and Christians at the same time, I cause their paths to intersect periodically. To be sure, Christianity has been grafted onto the root of Judaism in the Tree of Life. Although I have never deserted (and will never desert) MY Jews because they rejected the Messiah I promised to send to them, they have returned to wandering (similar to the forty year period during the Exodus). However, I used their rejection of MY Son as an opportunity to graft Christians into the Tree of Life. But after the Church Age is finished, I will re-graft MY Jews into the same trunk. Later, after human beings have been tested one last time and there is a final battle,[36] “the Son” will deliver unto “the Father” all “re-created” beings that have been placed under the Son’s feet. Then, because all those who have chosen ME will have been cleansed and purified, I can then infill them with the Fiery Part of MY Being without their annihilation. At that time, I will again be All-in-all [37] and no longer need to have a triadic plurality (see the postscript in the Foreword to this book for the definition of triadic plurality). After that, I will never again partition MYSELF.

Although I have just stated that I will infill all “re-created” human beings with the Fiery Part of MY Being (just as I previously filled them with MY Holy Spirit when they accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior), please don’t get pantheistic on ME. MY Creation will not become the Creator (ME); we will just be enjoined to one another in a reformed and reconstituted dyadic association. Although it sounds like quite a soup, I simply mean to say that I will infuse MY Re-Creation with the Totality of MY Being. Human eye has not seen and human ear has not heard what I have prepared for those of you who choose ME![38] The result will be both breathtaking and breathgiving at the same time.

Look for truth within MY entire Holy Bible, which consists of both Old Testament (Tanakh) and New Testament. Don’t forget to use these principles when studying MY written word: 1) mentally hold the whole Bible while simultaneously attending to its various parts; 2) investigate the meanings that the words had when they were originally written; 3) study historical and literary contexts for the written words; 4) look for and identify major principles that you can apply to your daily living; 5) ask for MY Help in trying to identify the ideals that I have articulated within MY Holy Scripture; and 6) gradually strive to completely live up to MY Ideals by asking ME for MY Help.

Grace

The Fullness of MY Grace is always extended to human beings, who are, in effect, woeful “souls in dust.” However, although MY Grace is always extended to you, you receive it only to the degree that you live in contrition through a deepening attitude of sincere inner humility (as opposed to feigned outer pretense). Experiencing higher states of MY Grace is dependent on the depth of your contrition through humility.

Yes, there is only one Grace, but there are many states within it. And such states are only entered into, and MY Grace is only received, in proportion to your contrition through humility. That is why contrition through humility must be an obsession for those who are seeking to ever more fully live and move and have their being in ME. Although such an obsession is contrary to the human condition, without it souls in dust fall prey to the influence of evil in their daily activities.

Living in a state of contrition through humility is synonymous with living in a state of grace. You cannot have one without the other. Contrition through humility is your contribution, and grace is MY contribution, to the dyadic union of “Creator” (ME) and “created” (you), — “Lover” and “beloved.”

Contrition through humility is the attitude of a soul who acknowledges that its human life is not only born of, but also shaped by, iniquity and that this very same iniquity has produced vulnerabilities that, when acted upon, result in sin (or “missing the mark”). A true desire to please ME (that is, honor MY Will) and to gain, or regain, an intimate relationship with ME results in contrition. Your contrition through humility delivers you directly to MY Throne of Mercy. (The last statement presumes that you already believe on MY Son and in his mission.)

Contrition through humility is the condition of remorse in a soul who is painfully aware of the depravity of its human spirit as well as the poverty of its human condition regardless of its individual abilities and personal material possessions or lack thereof.

Grace, MY Unmerited Favor, is MY Gift to you. MY Grace is your opportunity to be fully returned to ME as you gradually and progressively learn to experience MY Being through MY Holy Spirit. To live in contrition through humility and, thus, to live in MY Grace is the “secret” to how you can experience MY Joy, which on earth provides a true foretaste of Heaven. (In this work, “Heaven” is completely synonymous with “MY Heavenly Consciousness,” “MY Spiritual Universe,” “the Kingdom of Heaven,” “the Kingdom of God,” “Paradise,” and “Eden.”)

You enter into MY Grace the precise moment that you believe on MY Son and in his mission. You ascend the ladder of MY Grace in stages directly proportionate to: 1) your deepening contrition through humility; 2) your meditating[39] on ME, MY Written Word, and who you really are in ME; and 3) your praying to ME as well as praising ME.

Chapter Questions

Use the Foreword and Chapter One to answer questions 1 through 42. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. In using the first person singular in writing this book, does the author think that he is God or will become God?

2. Why do you think it is difficult for many people to accept the trinity and unity of God at the same time?

Use the following online resource: www.blueletterbible.org or your own Bible to read the Scriptures referenced in Footnotes 1 and 2 of Chapter One in order to answer Questions 3 and 4:

3. In what way, or ways, do the Bible verses of Footnotes 1 and 2 seem contradictory?

4. In what way, or ways, are the Bible verses of Footnotes 1 and 2 complementary?

5. In your own words, what is “praying without ceasing”?

6. Name at least five elements of an effective prayer.

7. Read Psalm 79:9 online (using www.blueletterbible.org or your own Bible) and briefly discuss the significance of the expression “Thy name’s sake”? (“Briefly” here means in two to three sentences.)

8. Why was Miriam struck by God with a horrible, flesh-rotting disease? (Review the Bible passage referred to in Footnote 6.)

9. In your own words, what is “aggressive prayer”?

10. Should Christians who are ill or disabled feel shame because they have not been healed?  Why or why not?

Although they may seem as if they are the same, Questions 11 and 12 are different questions:

11. Should Christians throw their medications away?  Why or why not?

12. Is it alright for Christians to throw their medications away when seeking healing from God?  Why or why not?

13. Discuss one of the eight statements on why God permits physical, mental, and emotional disorders. (“Discuss” here means in three to four sentences.)

14. What does it mean to be “in recovery from sin or in active addiction to it”?

15. Of what importance is the shed blood of Jesus Christ concerning the application of truth, or spiritual principles, to disequilibrium?

16. In what way, or ways, is physical healing simple?

17. In what way, or ways, is physical healing complex?

18. Using external resources, what are major differences between and among the following three views: unitarian, binitarian, and trinitarian? (“Unitarian” here is NOT referring to the Unitarian Christian denomination.)

19. Based on what the author has written, do you think that the author is unitarian, binitarian, or trinitarian?  Explain your conclusion.

20. Read and reread 1 Corinthians 15:28 as well as its preceding and following verses.  Explain what 1 Corinthians 15:28 means.

21. Briefly discuss each of the three reasons that God provided for the salvation of human beings. (Read the scriptures referenced in Footnotes 17, 18, and 19 before you answer Question 21.)

22. Using the online Blue Letter Bible, type in “John 1:1-5” (without the quotes).  When John 1:1-5 appears, click on the button “C” to view the Greek for each of the five verses.  How many times is the word “Logos” [G3056] used in each verse of John 1:1-5?

23. Look up G3056 by clicking on the number.  Summarize the meaning of “Logos” in two to three sentences.

24. Why did God the Father hide his Fiery Presence from God the Son?

25. Why does God the Father hide his Fiery Presence from human beings?

26. In your own words, explain the riddle: “Which father is his own son, and which son is his own father?”

27. Using external references, research “theophany” and briefly describe what Christian theologians think it is. Give three examples of presumed theophanies in the Old Testament.

28. Review the Bible passage referenced by Footnote 22 as well as the explanation given by the author for “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.”  Do you think that denying Jesus Christ as the only-begotten Son of God could be included as blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?  Think carefully about this and carefully explain your conclusion.

29. If God is love, then how can God hate?

30. What does God hate?

31. What is the significance of using the phrase “only-begotten Son of God”?

32. Read the Bible passages in Footnotes 26 and 27 and discuss their interpretation as well as significance.

33. (a) What is the only way that created beings can know both good and evil?  (b)  Is this different from how God can know both good and evil?  (c)  Please explain.

34. Discuss each kind of death.

35. Discuss the relationship between humility and the need to control.

36. Do you have strength or power apart from Jesus Christ?  Please explain.  Use Matthew 28:18 in your explanation.

37. Choose any two of the eight reasons to study the Old Testament (Tanakh). Discuss the two reasons that you have chosen.  Use Bible verse references and quotations from the Holy Bible to support your statements.

38. Would you refer to “the final battle” referenced in Chapter One as “World War III” or “World War IV”?  Please explain.

39. What is “pantheism”?

40. In what ways is each saved human being a wretch, a worm, and woeful?

41. In what ways is each saved human being NOT a wretch, a worm, and woeful?

42. (a) Define contrition. (b) Discuss the role of contrition in your own personal intimacy with God.

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Two

There is a Famine in Your Land

Today, there is a famine in your land that has nothing to do with the cultivation of plants and the domestication of animals. Rather than being indicated by empty stomachs and emaciated bodies, this famine is demonstrated by the lack of spiritual substance within the souls of those who move through the earth plane of consciousness as “souls in dust” — who do not even think to question what or where their true nature once was and now is. These have accepted as their only reality the consciousness of self-pride and self-will that presently prevails within your sphere of activities.

Sad, but true, because most people do not look for what eternal verities can be found during their earthly sojourns, they are limited (simply by the limitations they have imposed upon themselves) from seeing the wider view of a horizon of thought upon which dawns the nature of a universal reality. That nature is invisible to the physical senses but visible, indeed, to the spiritually-enlightened sense of insightfulness, which is an inward-looking provided only when MY Holy Spirit resides within you.

To be sure, most people feel the pangs of spiritual emptiness, but, in trying to ease the discomfort that results from it, the overwhelming majority have chosen to work toward ideals that falsely hold up something within your earth and its plane of consciousness as a standard for good. Even among those who profess to follow lofty conceptual frameworks are found many who believe that something, somewhere in the physical universe, is Good — or, at least, can be made to be Good. However, the supposition that good-in-itself (which is to say, “God”) can be found within the confines of finitude and that absolute good is observable through mere mortal sense (which includes faulty human analytics and emotions in addition to the physical senses) is erroneous. As long as lives are based on such a weak supposition, they will never be joined to the only consciousness that provides true fulfillment, which is not just in your awareness of MY Being but in your actually living, moving, and regaining your being in ME.

Whenever people who are still spiritually alive align themselves with the systematics of any earthly belief — no matter if the belief is associated with politics, philosophy, sociology, or religion — they still feel a hunger gnawing from within, begging for something else. And, though they may turn by the droves to other belief systems for that “something else,” they continue to feel unsatisfied, unfulfilled, and even lost because such feelings cannot begin to abate until those-who-seek realize that their true needs are filled from within only by spiritual substance. What is spiritual substance? Spiritual substance is the Essence of MY Being, imparted to you only through MY Holy Spirit at the precise moment that you believe on MY Son and in his mission.

Many of you, including those who have received good Bible training to interpret and resolve earthborn problems, are still unable to make the necessary connection between your true spiritual nature in Christ and the tiny earth globe on which you live. I hung your planet in a space that is neither the center of a solar system nor the center of a galaxy or universe to drive home the point to you that you are neither the center nor circumference of the universe where I reside. Although the tenets of an ethereality may ring true within you, you still lack the understanding that links the physical body in which you currently find yourselves with what you inwardly know is your true spiritual identity in and through Christ Jesus. Many of you, because you are unwilling to do the necessary work, leave the questions and their loose ends in the hope that the questions will somehow find their own answers and the answers will eventually tie themselves together.

The answers to all questions are already within you, waiting to be unlocked to your spiritual sense through an earnest, diligent, and prayerful search for truth within MY Holy Bible. Eventually, you must face the seeming incongruities between corporeality (physical being) and spirituality by regularly separating yourself from your world to study the Scriptures and search for truth within the sanctity of an inner peace. I provide you with such peace when your mind is focused on ME in prayer during Bible study. I provide you with such peace when you meditate on MY Written Word, WHO it says that I AM, and who it says you are and what you can become.

If you turn toward ME, I will turn toward you[40] and, thereby, permit you a glimpse of the truth in a startling view, which will reveal to you that I did create the world — but my original creation is not the same one in which you are presently found.

Your spiritual identity is best understood only when I live within you through MY Holy Spirit, given to you at the precise moment that you believe on MY Son and in his mission. (If you still do not know ME, I ask that you take the first step toward ME right now by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Savior as well as Savior of the world.) Your current physical identity is best understood by coming to know what happened when Adam and Eve fell to Satan’s temptation, the details of which are presented in this book.

Since dependency on anything other than ME is a shaky foundation on which to build your life, it is MY Message to those-who-will-hear that if your individual faith in ME is only buoyed up by hearing a songbird, encountering someone with acceptable mannerisms, or seeing a blue sky — or, in short, by anything that is physically sensed, then that faith is found wanting and forever will be found wanting. Such faith will be insufficient to sustain you through the inevitable trials and tribulations that you will encounter as you travel through the earth plane of consciousness. Sooner or later, if you are to progress to any higher realm of being, those-who-seek must come to an understanding that all earthly songbirds are parasite-infested, that all con artists have acceptable mannerisms (otherwise they would not be “artists” who fool others), and that people still starve for food under breathtakingly-beautiful blue skies. In short, you must eventually realize that your world is corrupt as well as corruptible. In the final analysis, regardless of what is said or done, the whole world in which you live (that is, where you have your physical being) is still subject to debilitation, deterioration, death, and decay. It is not my original creation.

Although the previously-cited are but a few of the many examples that could be given as evidence of the inadequacy of material existence to house and support the pure and perfect Life that I radiate, they nevertheless point to a veracity that exposes the spiritual emptiness of physicality and clears the way back to the Garden of MY Heavenly Consciousness for those who desire with all of their heart, soul, mind, and might to return to it. (However, you cannot will yourself back to that “Garden.”)

Because it is nothing more than spiritual immaturity that requires the fulfillment of earthly criteria for the demonstration of proof that there is a God, then bound to be upset is the faith of those who assume that their corporeality (that is, their physical being) is a manifestation of the Fullness of MY Glory (the Fiery Part of MY Being). These unwittingly seek to confine ME to their own image of ME, which image is the one they currently have of themselves.

If you reread MY Scripture, you will see that the original Adam was made in MY Image and Likeness and that Adam’s son, Seth, was made in Adam’s image and likeness,[41] which image was a fallen one and not the one I originally created for Adam.

Now, more than ever, “the joys of this world are temporal” needs to be stated without qualification and understood as such by those who are seeking amidst your earthly sphere of activities to find the Kingdom of God. Yet, in one way or another, most people insist on turning to that which is “of” the material universe for solutions to problems that are spiritual in nature. People just won’t disbelieve their physical senses. Even most people who call themselves Christian would insist that God made the cloudless day (although they might not be as adamant about the stormy night) and that this world — including its heaven (that is, its sky) and its earth — constitutes MY Original Creation. However, such as these fail to realize that the physical universe is a manifestation of iniquity. Paradoxically, it is their own mass iniquity that hides MY True Creation from those who depend solely on human sense to give them a picture of reality.

Please do not misinterpret here that there is a duality between spirit and corporeality (which is to say, that spiritual being conflicts with physical being). That the physical universe in raw material form is a manifestation of iniquity does not mean that the physical universe is iniquity-in-itself. There is really only one duality, or conflict, that exists. It is between Good and Evil, not between spirit and matter. Matter is not the culprit. Matter is the effect, not the cause, of iniquity.

Scripture tells you clearly that you “wrestle not against flesh and blood.”[42] Of course, that does not mean that you do not wrestle with your own flesh and blood in terms of raging hormones, brain chemistries, and physical addictions. It means that, if you are waging war against the world based on its appearances and your own physicality, then you are fighting needlessly and aiming your spiritual weapons in the wrong direction. Your target should be Evil, not corporeality, not physical being, and certainly not the physical universe. You do not really need to overcome matter; you need to overcome Evil.

Haven’t you noticed that, when you open the window a crack to indulge your own parasitic behaviors, negative attitudes, and addictive desires (which include much more than just sexual appetites), it is difficult to close that window again? Because you cannot tame sin, all you can do is to not act on the temptation to sin and, if you have sinned, to quickly repent and ask ME for forgiveness concerning your sinful acts. Sinful acts are actions based on your own iniquity, which is responsible for your predisposition to sin. In addition to asking ME for forgiveness, you also need to ask ME for MY Strength to overcome future temptations. However, MY Son’s life should be a lesson to you all. He was tempted all of the way to the cross, and even on the cross.

The concept that there may be twin worlds parallel and coincident in space may not be new to you. And the idea that time, space, and motion are relative to one another as functional coordinates of energy may not be new to you. What may be new to you is the idea that MY Perfect World is masked by corporeality, the visible sign of iniquity. (Remember, corporeality is not iniquity-in-itself and not the cause of iniquity, only an effect.)

MY Old Testament Prophets and MY New Testament Apostles were aware (some more than others) that an iniquitous mass consciousness had superimposed shadows of darkness over MY Spiritual Universe and that the physical universe itself was brought about by the fall of once glorious beings “like unto light.” The fall of Lucifer and the angels who followed his lead introduced chaos and confusion into an outpocketing of MY Spiritual Universe with one big bang, a shot that can still be heard around your world.

Because I knew Adam and Eve would fall from the glorious estate that I gave to them (where they actually reflected MY Glory), I decided to stage their return, and the return of their progeny, to ME in this three-step process: physical birth, spiritual rebirth (vis-à-vis the salvation of their souls), and re-glorification of their bodies (which happens en masse in a most spectacular way at a later time). I wanted them to do their inevitable falling on earth (although the earth was vastly different then) so that payment for their sins could be exacted in the modality which resulted from their sins, and so that they and their progeny would eventually be free forevermore to have their habitation within ME without the possibility for another fall.

As soon as unfallen created beings (immortal beings) entertained ungodly thoughts and acted on them, their souls, spirits, and bodies became impure. Then, the vibrational rate of their once pure spiritual substance slowed to a level so heavy that it concomitantly manifested in the animate matter with which you are familiar today. MY use of “as soon as” is from the perspective of MY Perfect World and not from the space-time perspective of your world of appearances. When viewed from the core of iniquity, “as soon as” actually translates to “eons after,” such units of measurement constituting the physical time that it took for chemical reactions to produce the aggregates with which those in corporeality are most familiar. In other words, of those who were tempted to exalt themselves above ME, all who succumbed to that temptation were catapulted over the billions of years of physical time that have elapsed since such time began. They were catapulted from MY Absolute Reality to the relative and unreal at the precise moment that they permitted unwholesome thoughts of self-pride and self-will to enter their individual and collective consciousness.

If you are having trouble fitting this in with the Adam and Eve account of creation, perhaps I can help you here. The Yahwist and Elohist accounts of MY Creation in Genesis[43] are there to illustrate that some spiritual truths are simultaneous rather than just linear and sequential. When they are simultaneous, spiritual truths are difficult to conceptualize, experience, and “know” by the human spirit through simple cognition and emotion. That is why you can only fully understand these things through MY Holy Spirit. For example, you can’t conceptually merge such truths by illustrating them with a Venn diagram or by sequencing them perfectly in linear thinking. I know that there will be those who believe that this explanation is a cop-out, but, trust ME, it is accurate. If someone gave you two different beautiful glass marbles, you would not try to appreciate them by fusing them, you would best appreciate them side-by-side. This is how I would like you to appreciate the Biblical narrative concerning Adam and Eve and the accounts given here of the fall of eternal souls from immortality to mortality (that is, from “life” to “death”). The Yahwist and Elohist creation accounts in Genesis are not provided to give you double-vision, but, rather, to give you stereoscopic spiritual vision. So, too, are the accounts of Adam and Eve and the fall of immortals to mortality designed to give you true sight when viewed in tandem. In other words, you should use both of your spiritual eyes in order to have spiritual stereoscopic vision.

The thesis of the current chapter is this: What you in the earth plane of consciousness see as a universe is really a perverted (that is, bent or refracted) version of MY Spiritual Universe, which contains the Fullness of MY Glory (which is to say, “the Fiery Part of MY Being”). Although MY Spiritual Universe is eternal and changeless in truth, it appears altered to those who have themselves been altered by their own iniquity and who manifest their impurity as “the shadow of death.” “The shadow of death,” “corporeality,” “physical being,” “the shadow of turning,” “corruption,” “the visible sign of iniquity,” “earthly flesh,” and “the sin body” may all be used interchangeably to signify the outward manifestation of spiritual error when Adam and Eve first turned from ME. (Their “iniquity” was brought about by their turning from ME as they yielded to Satan’s temptation.) Your corporeality as a purely physical state of being (which state does not reflect MY Glory) is distinguished from the spiritual reality of the corpus of redeemed souls in the Body of Christ (which state does reflect MY Glory).

Various philosophers and religionists have caught glimpses of this truth, but they usually ended up pitting Spirit against matter and not Evil. Evil is the culprit, not matter. Your major challenge is to overcome Evil and not to overcome matter. You waste precious time when you think that you must learn to transcend your own physicality. Instead, although Evil is undetected by your physical senses, you should be transcending it by resisting the Devil through the precious blood of MY only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ. As the blood of the lamb protected the children of Israel from the Angel of Death when it was applied to their doorposts just prior to their exodus from Egypt,[44] so does MY Son’s blood protect you from Evil when it is applied to the lintel of your mind and the doorposts of your soul. (It is when you venture beyond the protected space that I have created for you through Christ Jesus that you get yourselves into trouble.)

What I have in store for those who believe on MY Son and in his mission is invisible and inaudible to those who indulge their own self-pride and self-will. And it will continue to remain unperceived by them in direct proportion to the level of such indulgence until the time of the end, when all — regardless of belief, disbelief, or unbelief — will confront the Nature of MY Absolute Reality in a celestial order whose spiritual hierarchy is based on faith in, and loyalty to, ME alone. Such faith and loyalty are functions of genuine contrition for wrongdoing through humility as well as gratitude for everything that you now have and now have access to.

For the sake of clarity, here are the events that I have been detailing:

1.In MY Spiritual Universe, which you cannot now see, hear, or touch physically, I created a hierarchy of spiritual beings, including Lucifer, who had the special role of carrying, or bearing, MY Light (Glory, Spiritual Light, or Light-Energy).

2.As Lucifer and the angels who followed him decided to rebel against ME, they immediately fell.

3.Their fall caused matter to explode into existence from the Light-Energy that they carried. (This relationship of energy to matter is obliquely represented by your scientists in Laws of Thermodynamics, theories of relativity, and energy-mass conversion formulas. Metaphysically speaking, this event is represented by the following formula: ΣЕ=0, where Σ represents the sum of, Е represents fallen spiritual energy [i.e., iniquity], and 0 represents absolute nothingness.)

4.Out of the chaos, disorder, confusion, and “nothingness” that exploded into existence as matter, I made the physical universe. (In other words, I made order from disorder, sense out of nonsense, and “something” out of “nothing.” I alone create ex nihilo and de novo.)

5.In MY Original Creation, I made Original Man (“Man,” “True Man,” or immortal man) in MY Image and Likeness. I imparted MY Life to Original Man. And I created Original Man to reflect MY Glory. (As stated earlier, your original “flesh” and created state were quite different from what your souls inhabit today.)

6.Original Man (“Man,” “True Man,” or immortal man) fell by yielding to Satan’s temptations, in effect, to join him in his fight against ME. (Throughout this book, iniquity is defined as “turning from God” and sin is defined as “action based on that turning.”)

7.Because the apple that Satan offered was really a spiritual grenade, it exploded when Original Man (“Man,” “True Man,” or immortal man) bit into it. Then, at that precise moment, what you knew as MY Creation forever became altered to your view. (Although you might think that I may be playing a word game here, “forever” does not mean “throughout all eternity.” In this usage, “forever” is a function of the dimension known to you as physical time whereas “eternity” is spiritual timelessness.)

8.With the fall of Adam and Eve came the curse of debilitation, deterioration, death, and decay that has plagued your world and its inhabitants ever since. Immortal man had fallen to become mortal man.

To summarize, MY Spiritual Universe (the place where I reside) has been obfuscated by the imposition of iniquity upon your view, and your forms have been altered from what I originally created in that your bodies no longer reflect MY Glory. However, although your view of MY Creation has changed, I have not changed because I do not change. I do not change because I cannot change. I AM THE SELF-EXISTENT ONE. I CHANGE NOT.[45] That I have partitioned MYSELF into “the Father,” “the Son,” and “the Holy Spirit” did not require ME to change. MY Essence and MY Substance did not change with MY partitioning and I certainly have never abrogated MY Will. I will never abrogate MY Will because I cannot. I CANNOT BE WHAT I AM NOT. I AM ALWAYS WHAT I AM. And the changes that have occurred have been permitted by MY Grace and Mercy for the time being in order for you to be given the opportunity to return to ME.

Are you beginning to understand the magnitude of what I AM telling you?

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Two to answer questions 1 through 11. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. What does it mean to you personally to “live and move and have your being” in God? (Read Acts 17:28.)

2. What is necessary for one’s salvation? (Read Romans 10:9.)

3. Would you describe your own salvation or conversion experience as instantaneous, gradual, or both?  Please explain your answer.

4. What is the Glory of God?

5. Define corporeality. Is corporeality the enemy of God and mankind?  Please explain.

6. Using the Bible passages indicated in Footnote 43, discuss the seeming differences between the Yahwist and Elohist accounts of creation. In the final analysis, why are the two accounts only “seemingly different”?

7. Explain Isaiah 64:4 and 1 Corinthians 2:9.

8. Describe how you can be “loyal” to God each day.

9. (a) Define iniquity and sin. (b) Discuss how “iniquity” relates to our predisposition, or inclination, to sin.

10. Discuss how “sin” relates to addiction.

11. Would it conflict with or contradict Scripture to say that, although God does not change, God can evolve?  Please explain your answer.

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Three

Your One True Origin and

Only Real Being

So you might better recognize the role that I, your Creator, intended for you within MY Perfect World (not the one you currently see), and, thereby, be better prepared to meet ME face-to-face, you need to try to remember the Source from which you have your one true origin and only real being.

Until now, I have not discussed the moment that I created your souls (the eternal souls that currently live in human forms). I did not discuss this within MY Holy Bible because the discussion would have gotten you off track. So, some of you may think that I create one soul at a time each time a human being is conceived; some of you may think that I create a soul sometime during the development of each human embryo and fetus; some of you may think that I create a soul at the time of childbirth; and some of you may not have given it much thought at all.

Before the beginning of the history recorded in MY Holy Bible, in order to reflect MY Pure and Perfect Being, I created channels of purity, which altogether constituted Original Man (capitalized here to keep MY Original Creation distinct from humankind). Confusion to the contrary often lies in human beings who believe that they are minuscule versions of their Creator. Unfortunately, your current state of being and present state of mind cause you to anthropomorphize everything: from invisible forces of nature all of the way to your household pets (which is to say, you ascribe to them human emotions and rationality). You even try to anthropomorphize ME. How? You conceptualize ME in your own image rather than vice versa. You even refer to ME as “the man upstairs.” Just how insulting is that? Such an epithet diminishes WHO I AM in the minds of the hearers. I know that many of you are embarrassed to use the word God or Jesus in front of others except as swear words. (Actually, the word God is not MY Name but more about that later.)

Because of the physical reality experienced through your human senses, human intellect, and human emotions, many of you walk in the belief that I inhabit the physical universe. Although I turned chaos into order after the Big Bang (when I brought order to the physical universe), I do not inhabit the physical universe in the way that you might think I do. Some of you think that I AM embedded in inanimate matter as well as all living forms as some type of impersonal and nebulous force. You might even state that you see ME in the physical universe, when it would be more accurate to say that you see evidence of ME throughout the physical universe, for example, in MY having brought order out of chaos in an Intelligent Design.

And some of you think that, because I set all of the laws of physics into motion at the time that I created order out of chaos, I have stepped away from you or that those laws are unalterable by ME. In your unbelief, you even try to explain all of the miracles detailed in MY Holy Bible with explanations based on physical nature. Although I have stepped the Fiery Part of MY Being away from the physical universe so that it would not be annihilated, I AM still very much a part of your daily experience. I AM a Personal God, not an impersonal force of physical nature. You just don’t see MY Being.

To those who depend on physical sentience alone, the data presented by the physical universe contributes to the swelling mass consciousness from which you must turn if you are to realize a state more nearly, and more perfectly, reflecting ME and manifesting MY Life. Although daily, earthly living may bombard you with worldly solutions — some blatantly (but most subtly) contemptuous of ME in their so-called answers — you must turn from them if you are to catch glimpses of ME in your current state of being.

Of importance to your apprehending MY Spiritual Universe — the universe in which the Fiery Part of MY Being resides — is: 1) your willingness to admit that you have been off-centered by self-pride and self-will; and 2) your desire for spiritual instruction that might enable you to grow back to ME. “Grow back” here does not mean that your salvation is dependent on works. It means that, although your salvation is instantaneous and is not a process, your sanctification is a process and is not instantaneous.

That you have even been allotted time for return to a spiritual network, whose fabric far surpasses in brilliance any materially-illuminated vesture, speaks not of your righteousness but of MY Infinite Mercy. I have never once stopped loving MY Offspring, wayward though you have been. As soon as a soul accepts that a life lived in self-pride and self-will just cannot be, that soul may commence to work more fruitfully to understand its spiritual heritage because it then will be facing in a different direction.

Souls in dust need to turn from thoughts of a lower, debased self to thoughts of a higher self (that is, their “supraself”) and aspects of a common selfhood found only in ME. If a soul cannot confess, “By myself I am nothing and of myself I am less than nothing,” it can have no part in MY Absolute Reality, where all individual souls are interdependent channels of MY Expression. What frightens most of you is your thinking that you are going to be swallowed up by some impersonal and nebulous life force and lose your individuality. To be sure, I created you as individuals meant to be parts, or members, of One Body with ME as the Head, but it is in the resumption of your place within MY Creation through Jesus Christ that you truly regain your individuality and are completely freed to be who I originally created you to be.

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Perhaps I should write some type of disclaimer here. (Of course I should!) Regardless of the level of your understanding concerning what is written in this book, it is only important for you to accept: 1) that Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God[46] as well as God in the flesh,[47] 2) that Jesus Christ shed his blood on Mount Calvary for the remission of the debt for your sins,[48] and 3) that Jesus Christ rose again from the dead on the third day after his murder on the cross.[49]

I intentionally wrote MY Holy Bible so that its principle message could be understood by a diverse group of people with different emotional capabilities and intellectual means. For those of you who do understand what is written in MY Holy Bible, you should not pat yourselves on the back because what is brilliance to you may not be brilliance to ME. In actuality, I value true emotional commitment to ME through your demonstrated love for ME more than I do your intellectual understanding of ME. For example, some of MY Offspring who think more slowly reflect ME more brilliantly than many of MY Offspring with intellectual prowess (there are many forms of genius and many forms of ability). How? People with intellectual prowess are often impaired emotionally because they are unable to love anyone other than themselves or express that love without shame. Indeed, intellectual prowess can be a much greater disability, liability, and limitation than intellectual impairment.

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In order to respond to the challenge of Christ Jesus to “be perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect,”[50] those-who-seek must confront their own imperfections rather than ignore them. However, because of spiritual weakness, ignorance, or presumption, many who feel that they have embraced Christianity as a way of life have come to the conclusion that simple verbal negations of their own vulnerabilities and infirmities, or affirmations of their own self-perfection, are sufficient to dismiss wickedness in themselves as well as in others. Certainly, imperfections cannot exist within MY Perfect World, but they can and do exist within your world of appearances. Do not forget where you are and where you wish to be, for, though it may be difficult for you to admit that you harbor a false sense of self, no soul will be able to pass through MY Portal to Heaven as long as it willfully clings to excess baggage in the form of a cherished earthly personality or identity. That does not mean that you should not cherish your memories. It means that you should not look back like Lot’s wife to find yourself frozen by your past.

Though the physical earth appears to be a reality-in-itself to those who people its globe, souls connected to human existence are actually located somewhere between MY Perfect World (that is, MY Sphere of Activities) and the world of self-pride and self-will (a world set apart from ME), how close or how far they are from one or the other determined by the lives that they lead and the attitudes they maintain. Since the two worlds of which I write are opposite and opposing in nature, they cannot comingle in one space, but they can (and do) exist coincidentally in two places at once.

It is impossible for Satan, who rules the world of self-pride and self-will, to occupy the same space where I AM. Depending on the sense, either spiritual or mortal, with which souls in dust make observations, they are exposed either to images in the light of Good or in the darkness of Evil. Here, you should not misinterpret “in the light of Good” to mean that such Light (that is, Spiritual Light) makes things become “of God” when they are not, but, instead, should interpret that phrase to mean such Light exposes things for no more and no less than what they are. Additionally, you should not misconstrue that all “images in the darkness of Evil” will appear unpleasant because it is part of the serpentine nature of Satan to make look good that which is not good.[51]

I AM hoping you will understand that your current physical reality is somewhere in between MY World and Satan’s world without coming to the conclusion that you should hate corporeality. Remember, corporeality, or physicality, is not the culprit. Corporeality, although somewhat limited and limiting, should neither be feared nor loved. It is neutral. To help you conceptualize, perhaps you might think of the earth and its plane of consciousness as a “quarantine zone.”

Thus placed in proper perspective, the earth and its plane of consciousness contain both elements of Good and Evil: the overall force of the one (Good) having created a home in which the people of God are to dwell, and the other (Evil) having constructed a prison for the products of self-pride and self-will to inhabit. The former is substantive beyond human comprehension; the latter is weakness incarnate. Although the former is found in MY One True and Only Real Creation (invisible to the naked eye), the other is found in its parody, “the false creation” (which is false because Satan cannot really create ex nihilo or de novo but can only caste shadows and confabulate illusions).

“The false creation” is really no creation at all but, rather, made of images from an erroneous mass consciousness that obscure MY One True and Only Reality from those who indulge their own self-pride and self-will. And, although iniquity masquerades itself to the physical senses as absolute reality, and though it is interpreted as such by human analytics and emotions, all impurity is excluded from MY Perfect World. It is excluded according to MY Spiritual Law, which forever keeps the sacred separate from the profane — as they should be kept separate.

When chords harmonious with understanding MY True Creation are struck from within, the thought products of a swollen mass consciousness (which many have come to accept as their own thoughts) groan and respond: “Physical events, circumstances, and experiences have shaped us. Because human beings are products of heredity, training, and physical environments, they are dependent on physicality for their own survival and well-being. Why, then, should we disbelieve our senses?”

Whenever you overlook your one true origin and only real being, you displace your faith. In other words, you transfer your faith from the Source of Infinite Supply, in Whom you live and move and have your real being, to the black star of self-will, which casts its shadow over the truth to those who “see through a glass darkly,”[52] such filter imposed by their own iniquity, which is responsible for their predisposition to sin.

To further confound spiritual sense and compound the difficulty of progressing from mere mortal thought to thoughts of ME and MY Absolute Reality is the trust that souls in dust place in material acquisition. The claim, “I am content with what I have,” is looked on today as insanity by the majority of those who passively accept or actively pursue self-gratification as the only release from their weary lives. Unfortunately, believing that there is no debate involved, such as these have turned to materialism, technology, and false ideology to solve all of their problems and answer all of their questions.

Currently, there is such a pervasive ignorant reverence for empty knowledge and arcane lore that, at best, you are asked to believe that you are no more than evolving psycho-socio-biophysical units. However, although that conclusion may be based on reams and reams of so-called evidence, analysis, and speculation (which further support themselves with more of the same), the foundation of such a belief is, in truth, the pit of self-will, its so-called evidence is the snare, and the credibility that you ascribe to it guarantees your continued fall (in a form of spiritual suicide) from MY Grace through a spiral of lowered consciousness toward the “second death.”[53]

So that they not become eclipsed by the darkness of self-will, souls in the earth plane of consciousness need to cease from all mental movements and physical actions that have their basis in iniquity (which has its foundation in a reality set apart from MY Absolute Reality) as well as to work to replace selfishness with selflessness. Yet the majority of so-called shepherds in your earthly world (or worldly earth, if you will) neither teach by word nor by example such values. In fact, they turn many further away from ME by their pedantic litanies and controlling behaviors, which are irrational to spiritual sense and offensive to ME.

Because religious leaders have chosen to feed themselves rather than their sheep, the flocks are now “required at their hand,” fulfilling this prophecy given by MY Holy Spirit through MY Prophet Ezekiel:

Woe to the shepherds who do feed themselves! MY flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and no one searched or sought after them. Therefore, you shepherds, hear MY Word: I AM AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS, AND I WILL REQUIRE MY FLOCK AT THEIR HAND, AND CAUSE THEM TO CEASE FROM FEEDING THE FLOCK: BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL BOTH SEARCH FOR MY SHEEP AND SEEK THEM OUT.[54]

Because of their own selfishness and willfulness, it is not given for the majority of souls in dust to understand the timeliness of the previous citation. To them, MY Holy Bible has little, if any, practical application to contemporary daily living and their own pursuits of happiness. They are unaware that the matrix that holds MY Absolute Reality together is a spiritual network that transcends their own space, time, and motion. They are unaware that “True Man” (the incorporeal, corporate Man that I originally created) can only really exist (that is, live, move, and have consciousness) within a universe unaltered by iniquity and sin.

Seeing that the interpersonal reality of which I write is not corporeal but spiritual, the personal worlds of self-will through which most souls in dust move are very far from MY Kingdom (that is, “Heaven”). Yet you were told by Christ Jesus that MY Kingdom is “at hand”[55] (Hebrew “al yod”), or “right next to you.” You need to understand that MY Kingdom is “side-by-side” with your world of appearances but beyond your dimensionality or full comprehension.

How can Heaven be both far and near?

Heaven is a state of consciousness which is far from those who act on their own iniquity as if it constituted MY Absolute Reality but near to those who daily look for the true meaning behind their earthly life. Thus, those who seek MY Absolute Reality ponder its Nature within their hearts in full accord with this clarification by Christ Jesus concerning Heaven’s locality:

The Kingdom of God does not come with observation: Neither shall you say, “Here it is!” nor “There it is!” For, let it be known, MY Kingdom is within you.[56]

Unfortunately, many end up believing that, because they have an aspect of ME within them, they have the totality of ME within them or that they themselves individually are ME or will become just like ME, none of which is true because not one of you alone can hold the Fullness of ME. One day I will fill and infuse MY Re-Creation with the Totality of MY Being (including the Fullness of MY Glory), but that is yet to come.[57]

Because the consciousness in Christ Jesus was (and forever will be) of MY Holy Spirit, MY Children who are still scattered throughout your world need no longer feel separate from one another nor separate from ME. MY Holy Spirit is ever-available to all who regularly submit their self-pride and self-will to MY Honor and MY Will by believing on MY Son and in his mission.

Rather than depending on religious leaders, it is MY Own Holy Spirit that now seeks MY Flock. And, because the “Fullness of that Spirit” (the meaning of which is slightly different from the “Totality of MY Being” and the “Fullness of MY Glory”) has already been demonstrated on this earth in and through Christ Jesus, then (in order for them to answer the call to return to a Heavenly Consciousness) earthborn souls must open their doors of thought to the Reality of the One True and Only Real God and commit themselves to the demonstration of the Nature of MY Absolute Reality within their own lives.

In order for earthborn souls not to remain earthbound, they must lay down the sense that would assign the quality of infinitude to the material universe.[58] Contrary to what many of you believe, the material universe is not infinite: it is a closed system. Ask any physicist, and he or she will tell you that the material universe is finite. Also contrary to what many of you believe, the cause of chaos and matter is neither in nor of ME. The cause of matter is an effect of self-pride and self-will and, as such, cloaks the Fullness of MY Glory from your view. Right next to your world is the world of MY Light. One day, I hope you will remember what you were, and are, and will again be in that Light.

As soon as souls in dust begin to wrest themselves from the shadows that have been thrown over the original land I created, they will rediscover that faith, and not dirt, is the common ground and substance of MY Original and Yet-to-be-Revealed Perfect World. As you become increasingly aware of the difference between true life (immortality) and real death (mortality), you who search for MY Absolute Reality will find that, as you yield your own self-will to MY Will, all of your earthly days will merge into a time of gradual awakening from spiritual stupor and slumber.

Restoration to an integrity that is found only within MY Original Creation (where the Fullness of MY Glory shines forth) requires souls in dust to reach the level of spiritual maturity where they are willing to accept responsibility for their own undoing and for their own actions based on their turning from ME. In other words, they must accept that they, of their own free will, rejected the immortality that was set before them in exchange for a sham and state of disgrace that they have since come to accept, and have been taught to look at, as their only real life.

Souls who are passing through the earth plane of consciousness (headed either in the direction of Heaven or in the direction of hell) must look at themselves differently (which is to say, in a Spiritual Light) if they are to recognize the emptiness in mortal self-sufficiency and again find their true reality in MY Love as well as find their only real identity within MY Christ, — MY Messiah, — MY Y’shua H’Moshiach. I add “MY Messiah” and “MY Y’shua H’Moschiach” to help remind you that “MY Christ” is not just some impersonal and nebulous life force but God-in-the-flesh (that is, the substance of MY Supreme Being in earthly flesh), the fullness of the Godhead revealed bodily.[59]

Considering the spiritual fact that a soul is either a channel for Good, the expression of God, or a channel for Evil, the expression of self-pride and self-will, it becomes easier to see that a human being does not make or create thought but, instead, opens or closes the door of its consciousness to either the Source of Infinite Supply or the source of confusion and destruction. To which one each soul in dust becomes most receptive depends entirely on its angle of inclination, the direction in which it is traveling due to its intent. Consequently, if a soul’s mind — that is, its attention — is stayed on ME, it will be opened to MY Spirit of Truth (which is to say, to MY Holy Spirit), whose very nature of progressive enfoldment expands the consciousness of each soul that yields to its good. Such yielding souls are then connected to countless others who are already so elevated in thought to MY Mind, “the Mind of Christ.”[60] Again, you do not lose your identity and individuality but, rather, gain your one true identity and only real individuality by being in ME.

Because I do not hide from those who seek ME, if a fallen being in the earth plane of consciousness seeks ME with a determination equal in intensity to that of a creature who quests for water in the desert, then that soul shall be filled with MY Holy Spirit. However, if a soul in dust is solely interested in the mundane, not only will that soul not find ME during its earthly experience, the profane will have gained that much greater of a hold on its consciousness, and self-pride and self-will will be that much closer to claiming complete control over yet another victim of mortal sense.

The idea that human beings are neither authors nor originators of thought but vessels for it will be difficult for most to accept because its truth stabs at the very heart of self-pride and self-will. Hence, those who fancy themselves as creators will be the first to reject it. Such souls have forgotten that one cannot really be creative unless one serves as a channel for the Creator. In truth, thoughts or feelings written, painted, enacted, or scored in musical note can have no lasting quality about them unless they are first conceived by “the mind that is stayed on ME.”[61] Creative works only live on if they bring praise to MY Holy Name. In contrast, all works engendered in self-pride, self-will, and self-ignorance remain temporal, finite, and limited since such works bring no praise to MY Holy Name and, therefore, no permanent accolades to their so-called authors. This is especially true for people in earthly societies that forever search for what is new under the sun. In short, seeking celebrity on earth (or anywhere else, for that matter) is a waste of your precious time, effort, and energy.

Although it is plain to enlightened spiritual sense that “there is no new thing under the sun,”[62] mortal sense would have you believe that the human mind itself is “the be-all and the end-all” and, therefore, capable of doing and accomplishing what has never been done before. But it is exactly through such self-delusion that history repeats itself over and over and over again because earthbound souls continue to make the same mistakes as long as they are involved in vain pursuits. As a result, not having learned from their world of appearances and its pathos what they need to know (so they will never again look to self-pride and self-will and their seeming reality as a suitable habitation for the Fullness of MY Glory), such souls remain caught within the earth plane of consciousness. In other words, souls who make little or no spiritual progress during their earthly sojourns restrict themselves in their movements even after the expiration of their physical bodies.

Although mortal sense would interpret that human parturition brings forth newly-created souls, such a conclusion is based on appearances only. Hence, those-who-seek must be careful not to accept a physical heritage as their original reality (the one in which they have their true identity), for, if they do, they will limit themselves to that view. Because, in the final analysis, you are as you see yourselves, all souls in dust who wish to ascend to a Heavenly Consciousness must extricate themselves from a material history, even from that part of history which is yet to come to pass — the history of the future!

If the etymology of the word immortal is considered,[63] the truth of the statement, “Immortality cannot be found in mortality,” proves itself. In other words, that which is “without death” cannot be found within that which is “death” (or subject to death). Yet, despite this self-evident truth, souls in dust insist on believing that their existence in earthly flesh is indicative of true life and that the cessation of such existence is indicative of real death. They have blinded themselves to the spiritual fact that mortality is death and immortality is life. They have blinded themselves to the truth that the nature of mortality is antithetical to the nature of immortality. Immortality is deathless life and, as such, it is not experienced through the physical senses. See?

In effect, your hearts, darkened by your own iniquity, have brought MY Curse upon you to exist in the living death that you now call “life.” Your iniquity has brought forward a sin nature, from which you must escape, if you are to return to your true spiritual origin and really live in ME.

For those of you who have incorporated reincarnation into your belief systems, I WILL neither refute nor support your views in this book. I AM simply going to remind you that the current moment is the most important moment in your life and that physical being is not MY ideal state of being for you. Although you are not to fear or hate corporeality, you are not to aspire to it either, for such aspirations can go nowhere. And hoping to deal with your spiritual weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and infirmities in some distant, imagined, and romanticized future is possibly the worst kind of procrastination you can indulge. Such indulgence has dire consequences.

So, then, what is your hope?

Despite where you are, you may yet have hope in ME, for I can, and will, remove this curse of death from off your souls. In other words, it is within MY Purview to turn the curse of death (that is, mortality) into a blessing for you individually and collectively. To be sure, through MY Infinite Grace and Mercy and the forgiveness of your sins, you can be washed clean again, or “white as snow,”[64] by the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Because only I can remove your iniquity, requisite for such cleansing is that you learn the follies of self-pride and self-will and, as a result, come to depend solely on ME as the only source of your real being (and your being real). You must die to your own self-pride and self-will in order that you might be born again to MY World.

Today, souls in dust have simply allowed themselves to become captivated by the world of appearances and, therefore, to be held captive by the propagator of the various lusts associated with it. That is why so many are selfish and willful and are materially-focused rather than spiritually-centered. Strident in their claims to an individual’s self-importance, such as these are unable to hear MY Still Small Voice[65] that cries out to them in the wilderness and desert wasteland you call “earth.”

This work is written for those who are unsure, yet want to know, just why it is they live in an upside down world, — why it is they feel as if they do not belong here, — and why it is that no matter how hard they have tried, they still cannot get themselves to fit comfortably into the societies of men and women who are “at home” on planet earth. This work is written for those who are willing to give up much of what they have thought is true about themselves and others to help them know how it is they are really pilgrims, foreigners, and strangers on earth, and to help them articulate that understanding for themselves that they might be strengthened as well as strengthen others.

This work is committed to the lost children of God, such souls scattered throughout corporeality, to serve as a reminder to them that, having the same origin, they are not really separate unless they wish to be. It is only as you individually and collectively break the common perception that holds you in awe of mortality that you are able to understand your divine purpose as the Created of God. Then, recognize your golden moments and seize the opportunity to repent of your own self-pride and self-will. There is still time to recapture your one true origin and only real being in and through Christ Jesus.

In Whom and through Whom do you have your one true origin and only real being?

Your Sole Eternal Purpose for Being

Your sole eternal purpose for being is to bless MY Name at all times and in all ways and in everything you think, feel, desire, say, and do. Your love for ME and your gratitude to ME should motivate you to bless MY Name through all forms of communication. It is in blessing MY Name that you glorify, worship, praise, and exalt ME.

While you are on earth, you can bless MY Name by premeditating every action you take to ensure that it will please ME — including every gesture and body movement you make, every word you think, and every request you pray. You can bless MY Name in every step of your foot, in every movement of your eye, and in every inclination of your ear.

The phrase “bless the Name of the Lord” does not mean just saying the word “God.” It means saying the Name that is “above every name,” which Name is Jesus, “none other name having been given under heaven whereby you must be saved.”[66] And it does not matter if you spell or pronounce that Name Yeshua, Yahshua, Y’shua, Yehoshuah, Yoshua, Yesua, Joshua, Jeshua, Jesus, Yesus, Hesus, Isa, or Isi. While you are on earth, I do not care what language you use to bless MY Name. Besides, when you get to Heaven, you will learn MY New Name[67] and how to properly pronounce it there.

While you are on earth, you can also bless MY Name by specifically referencing ME to others as the sole source of your salvation, faith, hope, joy, spiritual gifts, provisions, rewards, and blessings.

Paradoxically, as human beings you have come to expect blessings from ME, but you must learn that you were created to bless MY Name. And desiring to bless MY Name is also blessing MY Name. THIS IS YOUR SOLE ETERNAL PURPOSE FOR BEING! This is what you individually, collectively, and corporately will be doing throughout all eternity. Your eternal joy is forever derived from blessing MY Most Holy and Sovereign Name.

Blessing the Name of the Lord your God involves all movement and every gesture, all actions and every reaction, all words and every vocalization, all thinking and every thought, all feeling and every emotion, all desires and every hope, and all posturing and every attitude.

Blessing the Name of the Lord your God involves all elements of your consciousness and every fiber of your being.

Blessing the Name of the Lord your God involves all premeditation and every meditation.

Blessing the Name of the Lord your God is contemplative yet action-oriented.

YOUR SOLE ETERNAL PURPOSE IS NOT FULFILLED BY WHAT I DO FOR YOU BUT BY WHAT YOU DO FOR ME!

Your love for ME and gratitude to ME provide the impetus for what you do throughout all eternity. And what you will do throughout all eternity will continually glorify, praise, and exalt ME by blessing MY Name.

Blessing the Name of the Lord your God is your sole eternal purpose for being.

Eventually, blessing MY Name will become as natural to your spiritual being as breathing is to your physical being.

The statement, “I will bless the LORD at all times,”[68] does not mean that you will bless the word “LORD” but that you will bless the NAME of the LORD.

You can learn more about blessing MY Name by finding and studying the Bible passages that reference “blessing the LORD” and “blessing the name of the LORD.” (Find out what a Bible concordance is and use it.)

While on earth, strive to bless the Name of the Lord your God always, even during grief, for example, at the physical death of your loved ones, at the loss of your job, upon abandonment by your friends, at the loss of your reputation, at the loss of your possessions, and at the loss of your physical abilities and life.

Let your love for ME motivate you to bless the Name of the Lord your God at all times and in all ways and in everything you do. Ponder how this is possible for your own life and eternal state of being. You won’t regret it!

Always remember, you can bless MY Name by seeking to please ME. And “seeking to please ME” means praying that MY Will is done in all ways and in all places throughout all eternity.

If you have not found out already, you will learn that it is a blessing to bless MY Name!

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Three to answer questions 1 through 17. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. Research the meanings of pantheism and omnipresence and discuss how they do or do not relate to each other.

2. How can Christians believe in God’s omnipresence without believing in pantheism?

3. If you really believe that God exists, then how should that belief be reflected in your daily attitudes and actions?

4. How does God view someone with limited intellectual abilities?

5. From God’s perspective, who are the brightest stars among human beings?

6. How can you make the following statement practical in your daily living?

“As we mature spiritually, we are given opportunities to recognize things for what they are at the same time that we are not to be deterred by them.”

7. Is Satan able to create?

8. In what way, or ways, should you disbelieve your senses?

9. In what way, or ways, is ignorance the lack of an inquiring mind?

10. Why is  God against most religious shepherds?

11. What are the differences between true life and real death?

12. What opens the door to the Kingdom of God?

13. Rewrite the Scripture from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 15:22-28 using “God the Father” and “God the Son” to replace the pronouns “he,” “his,” and “him.”

14. All non-Christians, the majority of new Christians, and some longtime Christians have difficulty understanding that Jesus Christ is God at the same time that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.  Take the time to write a response to those who may have difficulty understanding that Jesus Christ is both God and the Son of God. Of the two concepts (Jesus Christ is God and Jesus Christ is the Son of God), which one is easier to understand for non-believers and new believers and, therefore, should be taught first? Explain your reasoning.

15. Discuss the importance of living in the “NOW.”

16. Using the online Blue Letter Bible, search the expressions “bless the Lord,” “bless the name of the Lord,” and “bless his name” to come to a fuller understanding of what it means to bless the Name of the Lord.

Also, review the meaning of the Hebrew word “barak” בָּרַךְ [H1288]at https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1288&t=KJV

Discuss your findings.

17. What is your sole eternal purpose for being?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Four

Less than Stellar Views of Corporeality

Iniquity is “turning away from God,” and sin is “action based on that turning.” Iniquity brings with it the predisposition to sin, or inclination to “miss the mark.” Although iniquity is a state of being that is invisible to the naked eye, and although I AM invisible to those who live in an iniquitous state of being, I know all that goes on in iniquity, the mortal state of being. However, although I know all that goes on in iniquity, please remember that I withdrew the Fiery Part of MY Being (the Fullness of MY Glory) from all who exist in corporeality lest their flesh perish in MY Presence (that is, become consumed by ME).

Although the corporeality with which you are familiar is a sign of an iniquitous state of being, it is only one sign. Nevertheless, it is a sign that is visible to your naked eye. Corporeality is actually only one stratum within mortality, which is defined here as “the state of separation from GOD” (that is, separation of the fallen created from their Creator). Although corporeality is a physical sign of one’s iniquity, corporeality is not “iniquity-in-itself.” Evil is “iniquity-in-itself.” Mortality is real death, and not just the transition you call “death.” As a state, mortality includes discarnates (souls who are not now in a human body) and incarnates (souls who are in a human body).

“Discarnates” include pre-incarnate souls who are yet to be born in human form as well as post-incarnate souls who have not gone on to MY Paradise either because they have made the conscious decision to refuse MY Offer for Salvation or because they have not yet made up their minds to accept or reject it. Post-incarnate souls who have made the conscious decision to refuse MY Offer for Salvation become “unclean spirits,” “demons,” “devils,” or “evil spirits” (all four terms are synonymous not only in this work but also in MY Holy Bible). The existence of “unclean spirits,” “demons,” “devils,” or “evil spirits” does not preclude the existence of devilish fallen angels, some of whom are already in chains awaiting MY Final Judgment[69] and some of whom are still roaming spiritual realms under the direction of MY Enemy and Adversary, Satan. Because Satan is MY Enemy and Adversary, he is also your Enemy and Adversary, unless you do his bidding — at which time he becomes your warden.

To those who wear a garment of flesh (that is, a physical body), the globe called “earth” appears to be a part of MY Ultimate Reality when, in fact, it is apart from MY Ultimate Reality. The only exception is if you live in a state of Grace. The precise moment that you believe on MY Son and in his mission, MY Grace is actualized for you personally. Then, as long as you are walking in faith, you are living in MY Grace.

Your material orb is a “stepped down” version of MY World. It is a lower sphere superimposed on and over, but not above, the real world that I made, such world only visible and audible to spiritual sense and only experienced in your plane of consciousness by the peace, joy, and hope I impart to those who are saved. (The “saved” are those who have received and accepted salvation through MY only-begotten Son.)

King Solomon’s views on corporeality, as stated in Ecclesiastes, are certainly less than stellar. Though he stated his position clearly, few have been able to understand just what it was he was saying about the world of appearances. A recurring theme in Ecclesiastes is “all is vanity” — not the “all” that is to be found in MY Absolute Reality but the “all” of physicality and the world-system that existed during King Solomon’s time and continues to exist even today.

“All is vanity” could have been rendered “all is emptiness,” “all is transitory,” and “all is unsatisfactory.” To be sure, King Solomon was not referring to MY Creation, which is complete and permanent and satisfying but to the emptiness of creature existence without ME. King Solomon’s Ecclesiastes is bound to be misunderstood by students of MY Holy Bible who assume that the earth and its fleshly inhabitants constitute MY Original Creation.

King Solomon saw the emptiness of earthly cycles and the vanity in human labor. He saw the foolishness of human knowledge and human cunning. He remained unsatisfied by the things of the world and its  world-system, most of which he had at his disposal and command. Unfortunately, a life of unchosen poverty is responsible for a disadvantaged existence beyond malnutrition and a poor quality of living. Unchosen poverty prevents many from coming to the conclusion that material abundance is unsatisfying. Concerning the human creature, whom many of you have mistakenly come to think of as MY Glory, King Solomon set the record straight. Solomon viewed the “sons of men” (the Biblical epithet for “human beings”) as “beasts”[70] who are unable to “find out the world that God makes”[71] because it is concealed from them by their hardened hearts, blind eyes, and stoppered ears.

King Solomon saw 1) that, on your earth, wickedness reigns instead of judgment, which is the ability to discern between good and evil, and 2) that iniquity stands in the place of righteousness. He saw the futility and frailty of human life, the so-called life that is really death incarnate (when MY Holy Spirit is not living within you). He distinguished between “the spirit of man that goes upward and the spirit of the beast that goes downward”[72] — which is to say, he knew the difference between the Essence of the Invisible God and the spirit of this visible error, the adulterated state in which you currently exist. He understood that all days of the lives of souls in dust are spent “as a shadow.”[73]

Yes, King Solomon felt that you should not refrain from enjoying the fruits of your honest labor. But Solomon was not the jaded epicure that many would have you believe. He knew that it was “better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.”[74] He understood that true wisdom is found in penitence[75] and that only such wisdom enables one to behold, as well as be beheld in, MY Perfect World, the true sphere where you really live, and move, and have your being.[76]

King Solomon understood the sinful and fallen state of souls in dust.[77] Yet he saw that your “face” (that is, your appearance) could be changed back to one reflecting ME through an increased understanding of where you are, what you are, and who you are in MY Absolute Reality.[78]

King Solomon foresaw that death, or mortality (which includes, but is not limited to, corporeality), would have its Judgment Day — when souls who are committed to Evil will have no discharge from their transgressions.[79] He also saw that, until Judgment Day, evil souls in dust would have it on their hearts and in their minds to continue in iniquity, especially since their punishment was not executed speedily.[80]

However, despite the disparity and the “time and chance” (that is, mere circumstance) that happens to you,[81] King Solomon was confident that in due time righteous souls in dust would receive their reward — as long as they honor MY Will. He knew that you are appointed to corporeality so that you might exercise a newly-bestowed faith in ME and, thus, be revived to the immortal life that can be found only in ME.

Besides King Solomon, another king gave report of the emptiness of this earth and the fullness of the world that is to be found in the Here-Beyond. That king is your Sovereign King, Jesus Christ — the One Sent[82] — the one who proved his words with works.[83] Yet, as with King Solomon’s testimony, few have understood the witness of King Jesus concerning the contrast between the world in which you are currently located and the one originally created by ME.

MY Logos, Christ Jesus, said:

You are from beneath; I AM from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.[84]

… he that hates his life in this world shall keep his life unto life eternal.[85]

If you were of the world, you would be loved; but because you are not of the world, I have chosen you out of the world; for this reason the world hates you.[86]

I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world; again, I leave this world, and go to the Father.[87]

In the world, you shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world [including the unique challenges from its corrupt world-system].[88]

I do not pray for this world, but for them which the Father has given me; for they are His.[89]

And now I am no more in the world, but these [the ones I am leaving] are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your Own Name those whom You have given me that they may be one, even as we are one.[90]

I have given them Your Word; and the world hates them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.[91]

I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from its Evil.[92]

O Righteous Father, the world has not known You, but I have known You.[93]

My Kingdom is not of this world [nor of its corrupt world-system].[94]

If I, the one true and only real God, the Summum Bonum, had created the chaos and corruption of this world, Christ Jesus would not have found it necessary to testify that he was not of this world and that he had overcome it. He would not have referred to the Adversary (Satan, the father of all lies[95]) as “the prince of this world.”[96] Nor, for that matter, would the Apostle Paul have referred to Satan as “the god of this world”[97] or “the prince of the power of [its] air.”[98]

Ask yourselves these questions: Would it be necessary to overcome your world if “carnal mind,”[99] your world’s directing force, were of — or from — your Creator? If your world were God’s unadulterated, original creation, would St. James have stated that “friendship with the world is enmity with God”?[100] Finally, would this world be destined to be removed — or “pass away”[101] — if it were the grand edifice of God? Children of God, you deceive yourselves if you believe that your Creator resides within mortality or its substratum of corporeality. Is it not written that no human being has seen the face (or appearance) of God and lived?[102] Your Creator cannot be seen face-to-face in dust. Yes, “the Word was made flesh,”[103] but the Word was also crucified in the flesh that you might be freed from the chains of iniquity and its carnal mind. So, too, are you to crucify your own flesh.[104]

To be sure, your corrupt “world-system” plays itself out in a world that is unreal, illusory, and not part of the world that I originally created:

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any person loves this world, the love of the Father is not in that person. For all that is in this world, the lust of the flesh [carnal desire], and the lust of the eyes [greed], and the pride of life [willfulness], is not of the Father, but is of this world.[105]

Marvel not, my brothers and sisters, if this world hates you.[106]

Greater is He in you, than he [Satan] that is in the world.[107]

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.[108]

Here, it is important to point out that the declaration, “the whole world lies in wickedness,” might also be rendered from the Greek as “the whole world is under the control of the Evil One,” the same wicked being whose works Christ Jesus came to “destroy” or “undo.”[109] Thus, you need to, first, undo the works of this world from your hearts that you might be found ready to be received into MY World, the world where all are one and the only absolutely real world.

The human body that you see is not the complete image and perfect likeness of God. That is why you must learn to tame, discipline, and overcome the creature in whose sin body you have come to reside and with whom you have come to falsely identify as your absolute reality. Please do not misinterpret these statements to mean that I want you to hate the animal kingdom, corporeality, or the material universe. I just want you to understand that the human body is an appearance quite different from the reflection of God and that human analytics and emotions do not permit you to fully comprehend MY Absolute Reality.

The human body is animated matter. It is subject to debilitation, deterioration, death, and decay. It is perishable. It is corruptible. It comes from dust and goes to dust. Because it is a biophysical machine, it can never be in a state of perpetual harmony — such state would be against MY decrees and contrary to the laws of physical nature.

Although many have sought to sustain the existence of their physical bodies, there have been — and always will be — limits to longevity within the earth plane for as long as corporeality exists. There must be limits. Corporeal bodies cannot become heavenly bodies. Physical creatures cannot become the metaphysical stars of God. After his death and resurrection (but before his ascension into Heaven), Christ Jesus showed himself in corporeal form to his disciples to help insure that they not mistake him for a shade, spirit, or ghost and to prove to them, through his resurrected physical body, that he had power over the grave. Although the time will come when I translate and glorify your bodies, physicality can never be spiritualized. Physicality cannot be made into something that it is not. Those who labor under the premise that physicality can be spiritualized have their hopes displaced; they are deluding themselves. Your purpose for being in this world is not to immortalize the human bodies that you carry about but to re-immortalize your souls.[110]

This means that your purpose is to transubstantiate your souls by allowing your faith in Jesus Christ to be tried, purged, and refined within the bounds of your world, which — except for MY Grace, MY Mercy, and MY Holy Spirit — is completely set apart from ME.

Souls in dust who are without Jesus Christ in their hearts are subject to control by carnal mind, your world’s directing force. Sad to say, such souls are no more and no less than how they see themselves. Since they individually believe that they have no more than a physical identity and earthly personality, they condemn themselves to their own conclusions. Viewed in this way, all they can hope to be are physical beings subject to the limitations and lack associated with corporeal existence. In other words, they are earthly creatures controlled by the events of time and chance. They are beasts. They are toilers. And they are spoilers.

For any who would advance spiritually, it is important to put the human body in proper perspective so they not be fooled into believing that a comely physique or an earthly form free from structural anomaly is an infallible witness of MY Love and that physical unattractiveness or deformity is evidence of a just recompense for intergenerational or personal sins. It should be understood, first and foremost, that in MY Absolute Reality a perfect body is one that is free from iniquity and sin and, conversely, an imperfect body is darkened by transgressions against MY Will. It is legitimate to debate whether or not freedom from iniquity and sin — or, on the other hand, enslavement to iniquity and sin — is always expressed by the condition of one’s physical being. Suffice it to say at this point, the physical body has never been an infallible testator of the presence or absence of MY Holy Spirit within a soul — unless, of course, the life that it holds is given up unreservedly in service to others or, on the other hand, given up intentionally to rebel against ME and sow discord. In either case, the physical body is not the “activator” of such works.

Physically speaking, what you have to work with on earth is not much. Though the physical body is more plastic than most of humankind might think, it is still subject to debilitation, deterioration, death, and decay. Even though Christ Jesus healed multitudes, those healed were still subjected to other ills of the flesh. Lazarus’ physical body was only raised up from putrefaction[111] to prove that Jesus Christ has divine power over all things. The raising of Lazarus was not for all time. It was not permanent. Later, Lazarus was to again pass from his physical body (as, indeed, you all must).

When you pass from your mortal coil, what it is you pass on to depends on what you have done while in your earthly flesh.

If you have not mastered the flesh (meaning, if carnal mind is still master over you by the time you leave corporeality), then you are confined to an incorporeal substratum of mortality. I could say more about what this specific substratum entails, but it would prevent many of you from accepting the gist of what I AM trying to teach you through this book. I AM not trying to withhold “secret” information from you, I AM just trying to maximize the potential of this book to influence.

If you have mastered the flesh (meaning, if carnal mind is no longer master over you by the time you leave corporeality), then you rise above mortality and are returned to the Place where I LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE MY SUPREME BEING. You are not only free to pass on to other experiences but free to pass over to the “the other side” of life through the portal made for you by the Lamb of God’s blood sacrifice. Unfortunately, however, for most souls in dust, corporeality is a brothel where they further prostitute themselves, their ideals, their spiritual goals, and their divine purpose. These sell their true selves for a few moments of earthly pleasure.

To be sure, you have been appointed to corporeality that you might receive life — which is to say, have an opportunity to be saved by accepting MY Plan of Salvation.

The True Man and Perfect World I originally created cannot be seen through the retina, heard via the tympanic membrane, or felt by nerve endings. Why? They are incorporeal — which is to say, they are beyond the realm of your current reality. What you witness in dust is a perversion (that is, an alteration or refraction) of the Glory of God. That perversion includes your own physical forms. (That DNA diffracts, or bends, light provides you with an excellent metaphor. Its substance cannot perfectly reflect the pure Light of God.) It is no accident that MY Holy Bible records Adam and Eve’s expulsion from the Garden of MY Heavenly Consciousness in these terms:

So God drove out the man; and God placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to prevent their access to the Tree of Life.[112]

Even the most conservative of literalists would hesitate to define the “flaming sword” in the above passage as a physical object. It is clearly an incorporeal object and its Biblical meaning is metaphysical.

Speaking of corporeal versus incorporeal, souls in dust need to be reminded that the most important healing is spiritual, not physical. It is only the healing of your souls that brings restoration to your original state, or the place you were meant by ME to be. It is only the healing of your souls that can rejoin you to the family borne of MY Love. To be sure, the healing of your physical bodies may be instrumental in your recognition of MY Sovereignty over all things, but it is only through a true ego inversion (a “soular” event), which entails involution from the spiritual darkness of self-will to MY Spiritual Light, that you are really revived and revivified. Why do you need such a healing? Souls in the earth plane of consciousness are shards broken from the original vessel that I, your Potter, made. They are parts scattered from their Creator’s True Man (again capitalized to keep distinct from human beings).

Then, it should stand to spiritual reason (a process of the heart and not the head) that healing of the physical body through spiritual means may be withheld by ME if the healing would be detrimental to the advancement of a soul — that is, if it would prolong, or keep, a soul from being returned to ME completely. For example, Job was permitted to suffer as long as he pictured a false image of himself; it was only when he repented (that is, changed his mind) and was willing to accept and acknowledge that I AM Supreme Being during bad times as well as during good times that things began to change for him. He passed his test. Are you passing yours?

It is important for you to recognize that there is a plan greater than what you see or think you see. Why is it important? If you admit to a power higher than yourselves — a power that knows more than you know — you open yourselves up to the things of God and allow yourselves to be included within them. Then, you yield yourselves up to ME in a way that sets you apart from corporeality as you ascend toward MY Absolute Reality to rejoin MY Original Creation.

Those who think of healing only in terms of healing the physical body greatly limit their own sense and scope of the relationship of the created to their Creator. They fail to see the magnitude of the breach by humankind, which is a fallen race lost in an image of spiritual darkness. King David wrote:

O God, You have cast us off. You have scattered us. You have been displeased. O turn Yourself to us again. You have made the earth to tremble. You have broken it. Heal the breaches thereof, for it shakes. You have shown Your people hard things. You have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.[113]

The human creature is not the Creator’s original created. The physical form that you now have is not the form I originally created for you. Though substantive, your original form had diaphanous and translucent qualities. Its qualitative nature reflected MY Glory. Your original form cannot adequately be described in human terms. However, when MY Son returns for his Redeemed, your mortal bodies will then be translated and re-glorified.[114] You will then see for yourselves, for you will then be like him.[115] (You can’t be him, but you can be “like” him — which is to say, “similar in appearance” to him.)

The danger of thinking of healing only in terms of the physical body is that you gloss over your most spiritually-glaring mistake, which is your errancy from ME. And, though the majority in your world may deny original sin from here to kingdom come, they will never be able to disprove the fact that souls in dust have been — and most still are — scattered from ME. Surely, that you are so well acquainted with “hard things” (not only things difficult but things corporeal) is a result of your transgressing MY Will. Lost souls, as mortals, further demonstrate that they have transgressed MY Will by becoming drunk with the wine of their love for a false self, which is their mistaken identity.

In its highest and truest sense, healing is salvation. To be so healed is to be saved from the abyss of selfishness, a very real pit of darkness. To be so healed is to be recalled by ME and, thus, re-membered to the Body of MY Christ. To be so healed is to be washed clean and raised up white as snow, like some holy thing. To be so healed is to dwell completely and wholly within ME, safe evermore.

Whenever primary emphasis is placed on the healing of physical bodies instead of the healing of sin-sick souls, mortals look away from the main purpose for MY Son having been sent to them. That is not to say they cannot pray expectantly to ME for release from physical affliction. The truth of the statement, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person avails much,”[116] still holds true today. And that is not to say they cannot stay the plague from their door by right thinking, affirming right, and pleading the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Rather, that is to say souls in dust need to understand just who they were meant to be and just how it is they have now come to be found in corporeality. They need to understand that the most important healing is the healing of their souls — individually, collectively, and corporately.

There are two categories of healing referred to in Scripture that I will now label with the terms “collective” and “individual.” “Collective” refers to the restoration of souls to MY World and “individual” refers to the attestation of MY Truth of Being by proofs practical to corporeal experience, including the healing of physical bodies. Collective healing is spoken of conceptually in MY Holy Bible by these terms: “renewal,” “deliverance,” “binding up,” “being built up,” “repairing the breach,” “revival,” “salvation,” “the taking away of iniquity,” “returning to God,” “coming together as members of the Body of Christ,” and “the healing of the nations” (nations, in the language of MY Holy Bible, refers to Gentiles, or non-Jews).

In other words, the Holy Bible makes it plain to spiritual sense that there are divisions among mankind, and divisions between mankind and God, all of which need to be healed. What kind of divisions? Real defects of the heart, the kind that prevents the giving of yourselves in service to God and to others. Seen in this way, the healing of physical bodies by spiritual means is placed in proper perspective: The healing must work toward God’s ends and not your own.

Hence, in order for the healing of a physical body to take place by spiritual means, such healing must result from, or contribute to, the recognition by souls in dust that I AM All-Sovereign. With regard to healing of the physical body, then, believers in Christian healing should be sure to keep these two things in mind: The healing of the physical body is not the primary healing. And it is neither MY Purpose nor MY Will to amplify the importance of earthly flesh, a substance that can never manifest nor reflect MY Glorious Light.

The plane of existence in which immortals live is high above your orb of materiality. Its heavens are the fiery waters of God. Its earth is the common ground of faith in God. There, I AM the center and circumference of its universe. There, the entirety of Heaven is MY Throne.[117] There, channels of purity walk in the Garden of MY Heavenly Consciousness and are bathed in the silver and golden rays of MY Light. There, souls reflect ME in all that they do. There, redeemed souls altogether constitute True Man, who is the only one made in MY Image and Likeness and found in the Body of MY Christ.

Are there stars in MY Heavens? Yes, they are the ascendants of Jesus Christ, souls aflame with MY Glory. They are virginal spirits and pure channels of MY Love. What do they look like? Like etheric snowflakes, each is unique. Multifaceted, everyone reflects their Creator in various ways. Stellated, each is six-pointed and yet is a point within a galaxy of stars. Just how many stars are there? Myriads upon myriads of stars comprise MY infinite Spiritual Universe (in contrast, the physical universe is a closed system and, therefore, finite). Are the stars in MY Heavens male and female? No, male and female are corporeal frames of reference. The stars in MY Heavens are not gendered beings. “They are like angels, who neither marry nor are given in marriage.”[118]

The immortals in Heaven do great honor to their Creator, I WHO AM LIFE-IN-ITSELF. As notes within creation’s lay and words of its song, they praise ME. They sing out in profound humility: “Glory be to God in the highest!”[119] and “Worthy is the Lamb of God!”[120] and “Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto Him Who Sets Within All of Heaven, His Throne!”[121] and “The LORD is our Faithful Sovereign King!”[122] They never tire in their praise of ME. They rejoice in their wholeness, their completeness, and their peace. No longer scattered, they have finally come to hold their God above themselves individually, collectively, and corporately. These are the heavenly bodies whose lives revolve around ME. These are MY celestial beings, the spheres of God, and MY lights. These are MY real stars.

Read now, with understanding, the following verses from the Apostle Paul [amplified in brackets]:[123]

35.But someone will say, How are the dead raised up? And in what body will they be found?

36.You fool, that which you sow is not quickened except it die:

37.And concerning that which you sow you are not planting the body that it will become, but you sow bare grain, as if it were wheat (or some other grain):

38.But God gives it a body as it pleases Him, and to every seed its own [new] body.

39.All flesh is not the same flesh since there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

40.There are also celestial [heavenly] bodies, and terrestrial bodies: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41.There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory.

42.So also is the resurrection of the dead. The seed is sown in corruption; but it is raised in incorruption:

43.It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

44.It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. Thus, there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

45.And so it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [Jesus Christ] was made a quickening spirit.”

46.However, the immortal body [that you will receive] was not first, but the natural body was first and afterward that which is spiritual is formed.

47.The first man [Adam] is of the earth — in other words, earthly [a physical being]: the second man [Jesus Christ] is the Lord from Heaven [a spiritual being].

48.As is the nature of the earthly, such are they also that are earthly: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

49.And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50.Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that your flesh and blood [the physical body] cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

51.Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [translated],

52.In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump [when Jesus Christ returns for us]: for, indeed, the trumpet will sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed [corporeal or natural bodies shall be translated into incorporeal or spiritual bodies].

53.For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54.So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

55.O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?

Pleroma is a wonderfully useful Greek word that helps describe the state of eternal redemption. It transcribes to the penitent heart an understanding of the oneness, and “allness,” of the Creator. When pleroma is used as subject, it means “that-which-fills” and when it is used as object, it means “that-which-is-filled.” So, pleroma may be used effectively to describe the unity that is to be found in ME, which unity caused Christ Jesus to say, “I and MY Father are one”[124] and “Holy Father, keep through YOUR own Name those whom YOU have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.”[125]

This is the same unity that prompted the Apostle Paul to use pleroma to denote MY Infilling the Church of God in Christ (not a religious denomination but a spiritual corpus), “which is his Body, the fullness [pleroma] of Him that fills [pleromizes] All-in-all”[126] and to denote the advancement of faithful souls to immortality: “Until we come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the Perfect Man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness [pleroma] of Christ.”[127] (In a spiritual sense, pleroma as subject is God the Father and pleroma as object is the Body of His Christ.) Pleroma especially symbolizes the nature of the Church of God in Christ in MY Absolute Reality, which, though corporate, is incorporeal.

Where is the pleroma of which I now write? Where is MY Fullness? It is on MY Right Hand, which is to say, it is within ME. Thus unlocked to spiritual sense, for those who will hear, is the meaning of the following passages:

The LORD [the Father] said unto my Lord [the Son]: SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL.[128]

Jesus said, “Hereafter you shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of Heaven.”[129]

So, then, after the Lord [Jesus] had spoken to them, he was received up into Heaven, and sat on the right hand of God [the Father].[130]

But he [Stephen], being full of the Holy Ghost, looked steadfastly into Heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, “Behold I see the Heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God [the Father].[131]

If you are really risen with Christ, then seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God [the Father].[132]

. . . let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising its shame, and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God.[133]

To be at (or on) “the right hand of God” should not be misinterpreted. Spiritual truths are most often presented to you in terms and images that you can understand. Souls who sit at MY Right Hand are actually in MY Heavens, set as stars within the Consciousness of Christ Jesus. They are located within ME, as opposed to those who are located outside of, or apart from, ME — who are, in keeping with the language of MY Holy Bible, on MY “left hand.” To be sure, the Fullness of MY Glory is hidden from those on MY Left Hand while I AM always evident to those on MY Right Hand (which is to say, those who are in MY Grace and Glory). And I stay veiled to those on MY Left Hand until their individual hearts break and they prove themselves ready to receive ME by believing on MY Son and in his mission. When all who will submit themselves to the authority of Jesus Christ are under his feet, they will then be infused with Christ as the “all” of MY All-in-all.[134]

Having received eternal redemption, souls who have been returned to immortality are all monarchs (or “kings” in the language of MY Holy Bible). In what way? They each have received the crown of Life from ME. In other words, they wear MY Glory, the Brightness of MY Being. In short, immortality is MY Kingdom. It is MY Heaven and MY Throne. It is the place where all of MY Created live, and move, and have their being. It is, indeed, on the other side of your corporeality yet right next to you and within you.

Souls who are not immortal are mortal. However, depending on their individual degrees of reflectance or nonreflectance of ME, and their individual degrees of willingness or unwillingness to learn and to help others to learn, mortals are found in different strata within the state of mortality. 1) There are those who are advancing toward the Godhead;[135] these are the ones who are being received into the Fullness of MY Glory. 2) There are those who are falling farther from ME due to the faith they place in a false self and untrue self-identity. And 3) there are those who are past redemption — which is to say, beyond reclamation for having forfeited their spiritual energies to the Evil One. These are the “wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.”[136]

The object lesson to be learned in corporeality by souls aspiring to Heaven is not how to re-immortalize the human body, or how to have a “cellular awakening” but how to re-immortalize the soul. Great gains may be made in repurification (that is, sanctification) when souls in dust cease to worry about the fate of their temporal personal identities (which is to say, the corporeal images they bear) and the supposed status or reputation of their earthly visages. It is possible for souls in dust to become perfect by loving like their Master, Jesus Christ. He taught you how to love perfectly in forgiving others and by finding and feeding scattered sheep. In order to do this, you need to learn how to become “other-worldly” without becoming useless. (Becoming spiritually-minded does not mean becoming vapid or vacuous.)

Except for those who suffer for the sake of suffering, suffering is the mark of perfection for souls in dust:

1.Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for they who have suffered in the flesh have ceased from sin;

2.That they no longer should live their remaining time in the flesh to the lusts common to mankind but to the Will of God.[137]

Perfect beings are those who have ceased from sin, are unafraid of evil, and are at peace with God, with themselves, and with others. Every perfect being loves the Creator and all of the Creator’s Offspring without measure. Each perfect being reflects MY Infinite Mercy by forgiving the hateful, the spiteful, and the abusive. Souls who have this mark of perfection cannot be touched by evil (though they may be tempted by it or injured by channels who subconsciously, unconsciously, or consciously yield to evil). These souls are sealed by ME — which is to say, found acceptable by ME. They are fully prepared to be received into MY Kingdom through the spirit of adoption (which spirit is MY Grace, or “unmerited favor”).

The length of your corporeal sojourn and the difficulties of your past and future experiences should not concern you. What should concern you is whether or not you are living for ME and for your fellow pilgrims here and now.

As souls in dust reflect more and more of ME, they become re-spiritualized in MY Light and their form begins to take shape in MY World. Here, there is a seeming paradox: Then, having obtained a foothold in MY Kingdom, they are both here and there (though they are farther from ME than those who are altogether in ME) until they are sufficiently advanced in ME to be one with ME completely.

As they progress, souls advance from death (unconscious of Jesus Christ) to sleep (subconscious awareness of Jesus Christ) to increasing wakefulness (conscious awareness of the presence of Jesus Christ in their lives) to true life (complete communion, companionship, and intimacy with ME through Jesus Christ).

For those of you who like to look in a mirror, it is easier to change appearances when you are dealing with the reflection. What does that mean? Though images in corporeality may change, and such images and forms may be influenced positively or negatively by physical activity — as well as thoughts, emotions, and attitudes — souls in dust do not really change in appearance (in substance or in form) until they exchange the false picture they have of themselves (in which there is no reflection but only shadow) for their true image in God.

So, then, why are there less than stellar views of corporeality?

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Four to answer questions 1 through 22. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. Where is the mortal state of being?

2. Why does God hide the Fiery Part of His Being?

3. Define mortality.

4. How do we live in God’s grace?

5. Using your imagination, what did God’s original creation look like?

6. Read any chapter in the Book of Ecclesiastes and summarize it.

7. Why does the world hate Christians?

8. What did Christ Jesus promise we would have in this world?

9. Name ways in which we crucify our flesh?

10. Does God want us to hate the animal kingdom, corporeality, and the material universe?

11. (a) Is freedom from iniquity and sin always expressed by the condition of one’s physical being? (b) Is enslavement to iniquity and sin always expressed by the condition of one’s physical being?

12. Why are we in the world?

13. What is the most important healing?

14. In what ways do we pass God’s test for us?

15. What are the differences between collective healing and individual healing?

16. Read the Bible verses given in Footnote 118 and discuss what you might look like in heaven.

17. Who are the stars of God?

18. Summarize 1 Corinthians 15:35-55.

19. What is the meaning of the Greek word pleroma.

20. What separates mortals from one another?

21. In what ways can human beings become perfect?

22. What does it mean to become one with God?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Five

The Control Gene

Lucifer fell because of arrogance born of narcissism (self-pride) and willfulness (self-will).[138] This arrogance precipitated his fight with ME for control of MY Creation. In the language of MY Holy Bible, control is “authority,” “power,” and “dominion.” Satan sought, and still seeks, to wrest authority from ME, to seize all power in MY Creation, and to have all dominion over MY Creation. Although doomed to failure at its inception, Satan has been methodical in his takeover of various spiritual realms and regions. Nevertheless, I AM still Sovereign King even though I have granted Satan access to specific areas for the purpose of allowing MY Plan of Salvation to play out in order to rescue those who would return to ME.

If I were writing this book one hundred years ago, I would have restricted MYSELF to metaphors understandable at that time. If I were to write this book one hundred years from now, I would use metaphors that make the most sense to people of that future day. For this reason, I have entitled this chapter “The Control Gene” since DNA, genes, and viruses are understandable to many in your day. This is the reason I use them as metaphors to help describe the pandemic alterations that have taken place in areas of MY Creation that have fallen from their original state.

When Satan fell, he infected a number of created beings with the virus of control (that is, the desire for authority, power, and dominion). Metaphorically speaking, the virus of control is a retrovirus that inserts itself into the spiritual DNA of created beings who, at the precise moment that they indulge self-pride and self-will, become susceptible to its continued attack. Infection from the control gene changed the predisposition of created beings from their original ascendant nature in ME to a selfish and prideful fallen nature set apart from ME.

Created beings susceptible to the attack of the virus of control were those who, although originally created complete and perfect, chose to indulge self-pride and self-will. Because arrogant traits and characteristics are foreign to ME and MY Creation, those beings who indulged such objectionable characteristics were excluded, ejected, and separated from MY Creation instantaneously. The choice was theirs to fall from their original, created state of being. I freely gave all created beings the gift of personal free will to do with as they would. To be sure, in this way — but not the only way — humanity is still made in MY Image and Likeness: MY Created have free will just like I have Free Will.

There are three reasons why I gave created beings the gift of free will. First, it is part of MY Nature to be generous and giving. There is no greater gift that I could give to created beings than the gift of free will. Second, I deserve to be worshiped because I AM WHO I AM. Worship from people who are captives, prisoners, or robots is really not worship at all. Forced obedience to ME brings ME no true honor, glory, or praise. I seek people to worship ME in spirit and in truth[139] because it is their choice to do so. Third, if the truth be told (and it is being told here), I want a Companion, someone with whom I can share MY Life. The “someone” of whom I write is not one soul, but One Person, or “True Man,” collectively represented in the beginning by “Adam,” and corporately represented in the end by the Body of Christ.

For those of you who have a tendency to think in human terms only, I add this disclaimer plus affirmation: I do not desire to have sexual intercourse with MY Companion. Remember, in Heaven you are gender neutral, just as I AM gender neutral. Instead, I want to interface with MY Companion in mutual respect, mutual adoration, and free-will communion (that is, heavenly fellowship). In this way would you, collectively and corporately speaking, be a Companion to ME, and in this way would I be a Companion to you.

Yes, Adam was an individual human being, but “Adam” also represents the One Person, or “True Man,” that I originally created to be MY Companion. MY Christ alone could not be that “someone” because “MY Christ” (MY Spoken Word, or Logos) is ME. MY Spirit could not be that “someone” because “MY Spirit” is ME, too. However, redeemed souls as members of the Body of MY Christ, with Jesus Christ as the Body’s Head, thus infused with MY Life through Christ, make not only a suitable Habitation for ME but also a suitable Companion for ME as well. When all things are subdued by Christ, I will then infuse all with MY ALL. (I AM the “All” and the Christ-filled Universe is the “all” in the phrase “All-in-all”[140]). After MY Infusion, Creator and Created will be inseparable as Lover and Beloved. This is why I told you that “eye has not seen and ear has not heard what God has prepared for those who love Him.”[141]

To those who would debate whether the Church of Christ or the Nation of Israel is MY Bride, let ME say this: Collectively and corporately, all of the re-created beings within MY Creation constitute MY Eternal Companion. The Gentile-based Church of God in Christ (not a religious denomination) was grafted onto the Root[142] and the Trunk (that is, the Main Branch[143]) of MY Tree of Life after MY Jews (who are still MINE) rejected MY only-begotten Son, Y’shua H’Moshiach, as their promised Messiah. When the Church Age draws to a close, the Nation of Israel will then be re-grafted onto the very same Trunk from which it was cut (that is, from which it severed itself). Because the grafts of which I write are seamless, ultimately there will be no distinction in MY Creation as to who was first and who was second or even third — which is to say: first, MY Jews were grafted onto MY Root and Trunk; second, MY Christian Gentiles were grafted; third, MY Jews will be re-grafted again.[144]

It is written:

The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [Jesus Christ] was made a quickening spirit.[145]

As a “quickening spirit,” Jesus Christ reinvigorates, revitalizes and re-creates those who fell from MY Original Creation. MY Logos has always been the Creative Part of ME. It should make spiritual sense to you, then, that MY Logos “re-creates” as well:

{1} In the beginning was MY Logos (or, Spoken Word) and MY Logos was with God, and MY Logos was God. {2} The same was in the beginning with God. {3} All things were made by MY Logos; and without MY Logos was not anything made that was made. {4} In MY Logos was Life; and the Life was the Light of all created beings. {5} And the Light did shine in darkness, but the darkness could not comprehend the Light from MY Logos.[146]

{11} MY Logos came unto his own [as the Messiah of the Jews], and his own [the Jews] received him not [that is, they did not accept him as their promised Messiah]. {12} But as many [Gentiles] as received him, to them gave MY Logos power to become the re-born of God, even to them that believe on his name [the Name of MY Logos, or Spoken Word, is “Jesus Christ”]: {13} who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. {14} And MY Logos was made flesh [as Jesus Christ] and dwelt among you — and you beheld his glory (the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth).[147]

The desire for control is seen not only in warring spiritual principalities but also in social distinctions made on earth — from the extremes of totalitarian dictators seeking to exterminate MY Jews and MY Christian Gentiles all the way to supposedly innocent or seemingly benevolent extremes in which people try to manipulate and exploit each other with their: 1) age (youth or seniority), 2) physical ability (prowess or infirmity), 3) physical appearance (attractiveness or deformity), 4) intellectual capacity (abled or disabled), and 5) ranked positions in employment (including chief executive officers of international corporations as well as local attendants cleaning toilets).

For example, in the previously indicated categories, people at one end of the spectrum might try to control others through domination based on their rank, assigned authority, and supposed value to society. People at the other end of the spectrum might try to control others by seeking to engender sympathy for their seemingly-lower rank in the hopes of generating good-will toward them. To be sure, Satan’s control virus has infected your entire global population.

In the final analysis, you are willing to control people by getting them to fear you or pity you. Whatever it takes to control, that is what you are willing to do.

There is no question that everyone tries to manipulate and exploit others; however, there is a question as to what degree and how often they do. Such is the nature of iniquity, the predisposition and inclination to sin. To be sure, the sin nature is a controlling nature.

In the case of unredeemed, or unsaved, souls in dust, they can do nothing but indulge their sin nature, sometimes even while employing exemplary standards of human protocol (as well as just the opposite).

With redeemed, or saved, souls in dust, it is quite different: It is as if each redeemed human being is conjoined with its old sin nature (that is, attached to its “old man” or “old woman”[148]). Unfortunately, redeemed souls in dust carry with them their old fallen selves, which are easily influenced by evil desires and fleshly interests. That is why redeemed souls in dust still have ungodly urges and desires — even though they 1) have committed themselves to ME by believing on MY Son and in his mission, 2) are “saved” from “eternal damnation”[149] and “the Lake of Fire,”[150] and 3) are “redeemed” to ME.

Sometimes, Christians view the rebirth process too figuratively. When they do, they fail to realize that they have been actually re-created through spiritual rebirth and not just cleaned up and polished. And, although the redeemed are reborn sinless, pure, and perfect, the “old man” or “old woman” is still right there with them, like a parasitic, conjoined twin. That old self serves as a vector for the control gene until your mortal coil is shed in transition from corporeality to MY Paradise.[151]

When “saved,” you are not just restored but re-created. Your sin nature, its body of sin (corporeality), and its carnal mind cannot be saved or salvaged. The Apostle Paul wrote:[152]

1.There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

2.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made you free from the law of sin and death.

3.For what the law [of Moses] could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [the Father] sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

4.That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in you, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

5.For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

6.For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

7.Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be.

8.So then they that are in the flesh [bound to corporeality in fleshly desire] cannot please God.

How many people on earth desire to control other people, situations, and ME? Everyone. Everyone? Yes, everyone. That “the whole world lies in wickedness”[153] is not hyperbole, or over-exaggeration. You might not want to control the whole world, but you might want to control the people whose lives immediately impact you. You might not want to control all of the various social environments on the planet, but you might want to control your immediate situation and conditions. You might not want to control ME to make sure that all others are blessed, but you might want to control ME concerning what you desire to receive from ME (pleasant experiences) and what you desire to not receive from ME (unpleasant experiences).

How do you try to control ME? You threaten ME, and you make false promises to ME. You threaten ME with removing your faith in ME if you do not get what you want when you want it. You threaten ME with withholding your praise and gratitude from ME. You threaten ME with ignoring ME and the needs of MY people. You make false promises to ME by not following through with what you have said you would do. When you make false promises to ME, you blaspheme (that is, you ridicule and demean) MY Holy Name. You say that you love ME, but you treat ME as if I were dung. You find it convenient to lie to yourself, to others, and to ME in order to get your own way. You insult yourself, all others, and ME when you do this.

Some of you fancy that you are leaders. But all that you want to do is control other people and situations. You either think that leadership should be a benevolent dictatorship or you think that leadership should be megalomaniacal (although you would purposely refrain from using that descriptor).

Spiritually speaking, church leaders can be worse than totalitarian dictators, especially when they try to justify their desire to control MY sheep by saying that MY ideal type of government is theocratic and, then, lying to themselves and others that they have been convicted by ME concerning what I really want for MY people under their autocratic rule. At least totalitarian dictators do not use MY Holy Name in vain. At least totalitarian dictators portray themselves as the wolves they are.

It should be of little wonder to you why MY Son said that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter Heaven.”[154] He understood that rich people often trust in their riches[155] and that rich people often fool themselves into thinking that they are in complete control. When people believe that they are in complete control, it is more difficult for them to receive Jesus Christ as Personal Savior, Lord, and Sovereign King. Because many poor people already recognize that they are not in complete control, it is often easier for them to humble themselves and ask for forgiveness as well as to more fully yield their individual wills to MY Will.

Everyone under the sun is vain, arrogant, and controlling. How much and to what degree is the question.

How, then, would you describe your own desire to control?

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Five to answer questions 1 through 11. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. Why did Lucifer fall?

2. (a) What is a metaphor? (b) What kinds of metaphors does God use to reach His people?

3. In what way is humanity still made in the image and likeness of God?

4. Using your imagination, why do you think God wanted (and still wants) an Eternal Companion?

5. What does it mean to be God’s Logos?

6. In what ways do selfish people try to manipulate, exploit, and control others?

7. Why do saved people continue to fight (wrestle) with their old fallen selves (their “old man” or “old woman”)?

8. How can we walk after the Spirit and not walk after the flesh?

9. In what ways do we try to threaten God?

10. In what ways are we dishonest to God, to ourselves, and to each other?

11. Why is it often easier for poor people and uneducated people to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Six

Mythology about ME

Because so much mythology about ME has developed, I AM very disappointed with your understanding of ME. Without asking ME, people have decided what I like and what I don’t like. They have decided that symbols I have used to speak to MY People in MY Holy Bible should be ritualized, iconized, and worshiped. They have even fooled themselves into thinking that they do not “worship” these symbols but, rather, “revere” or “venerate” them. They play word games with themselves to convince themselves of what is not true.

Miriam (some of you call her “Mary” or “Maria”), the mother of Jesus, was a wonderful girl, tremendous woman, and authentic believer. She was the mother of Jesus, but not the mother of God, even though Jesus is God. Some of MY People take deductive reasoning, Aristotelian logic, and syllogisms to an extreme, vis-à-vis thinking represented by the following:

“If Mary is the mother of Jesus, and Jesus is God, then Mary is the mother of God.”

People who believe this do not realize that not all truth is linear in sequence (that is, reasoned in steps). Logic is a good device and helpful in critical analysis, but it cannot be used to understand everything or to know everything that is to be known. Some truths cannot be adequately represented in your space-time because either they are coexistent on different planes but not in the same space-time or they intersect in a circuitous way through dimensional portals that periodically align, merge, re-align, and then re-emerge with different absolute values and relational coordinates. With these two last statements, I have purposely tried to help you to conclude that things are not always as simple as you might like them to be and that not everything can be explained through human reasoning, logic, and critical analysis, respectable though they may be.

Miriam (“Mary”) is your sister and not the mother of God. She should be respected, and I hope that you honor her, but I do not want you to worship her or devise any more fables about her being Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, or Theotokos.[156] There can only be One Redeemer, One Mediator, and One Eternal God. Remember, I AM Self-Existent and, therefore, have no parents. Like you, Miriam, mother of Jesus Christ, is a created being. Like you, she was created by ME. To be sure, you could not be more blessed than to have an earthly mother like MY Miriam. I AM so proud of her and was touched always by her humble, generous, and steadfast spirit during her earthly sojourn. But it is a blasphemy to MY Holy Name for you to worship any other created being, including MY beloved Miriam, who, as Christotokos,[157] is the most highly favored and blessed daughter of the Most High God.[158]

MY Son, Y’shua H’Moshiach, instituted the Christian communion meal as a bridge between the Old Testament Passover meal and his New Testament sacrifice upon the cross for the forgiveness of your iniquity and sin. The Christian communion meal is supposed to be a memorial to the fellowship that you have with ME through MY Son.

Transubstantiation?[159] Consubstantiation?[160] Memorialization?[161] Memorialization! MY Christian Gentiles are just as bad as MY Jews who ended up worshiping the bronze snake upon the cross that I had MY beloved Moshe (“Moses”) lift up to stay the serpentine plague.[162] Many of you refuse to think outside of the box because you can’t even see the box! You do not realize that you imprison yourselves in your own thoughts and feelings.

Fables have emerged even about what I require for salvation. As you read or reread about the thief crucified next to MY Son,[163] I hope that you can see that I do not require water baptism for salvation. The thief upon the cross was saved without water baptism by: 1) his acknowledging that he was a sinner who deserved punishment; 2) his acknowledging that, though crucified like him, Jesus was innocent (“without sin”); 3) his acknowledging Jesus Christ as “Lord” by addressing him as such; and 4) his asking to be saved by requesting Jesus to remember him when he arrived in his Kingdom. MY Son assured the penitent thief of his salvation when he responded: “Today you will be with me in Paradise.”[164] He did not make the thief get off the cross to get water baptized.

The meaning of the word baptism[165] includes “immersion.” Whole body immersion into water represents four things: 1) a symbolic cleansing from iniquity and sin; 2) a dramatic reenactment of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; 3) a public witness to others of one’s identification with Jesus Christ as his disciple (that is, someone who is fulfilling Christ’s personal request for his followers to be water baptized); and 4) a symbolic immersion into MY Holy Spirit (water often represents MY Holy Spirit) and concomitant access by the believer to all of MY Promises.

Rather than viewing the following two verses as complementary and equivalent to one another, many religionists and legalists of your day have created opposing formulas and divisive factions from these two verses in MY Holy Bible:

[Christ Jesus said] “Therefore, go and teach [the gospel message] to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”[166]

Then [the Apostle] Peter said unto them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”[167]

The word name in both of the above verses is singular. Why? I have one Name! However, although one word may be the center of MY Name, one word is not the circumference of MY Name.

From the time of Adam’s son, Seth, people first began to use the Name of “Yahweh.”[168] From the time of MY Son’s sojourn on earth, people began to use the Name of “Y’shua” (Y’shua means “Yahweh is salvation”). And, in Paradise (“Heaven” or “the Kingdom of God”), MY Redeemed Children will use a Name for ME that is unknowable to you in your current state:

Each person who overcomes [Satan’s temptations and his world-system] will I make a pillar in the temple of my God [“the Father”], and that person shall go no more out: and I will write upon each person the Name of my God, and the Name of the City of my God, which is “New Jerusalem,” which comes down out of Heaven from my God: and I will write upon each person my New Name.[169]

Please know that MY Name is not just one word. MY Name is comprised of all descriptors and declarations that acknowledge MY Nature and MY Character. MY True Name is conjugated in a dimensionless eternity that you cannot now fully comprehend. To be sure, MY Full Name is unknowable to you and unpronounceable by you on earth. I tried to teach MY Old Testament Children that MY Name “Yahweh” is holy and should never be taken in vain, just as I have tried to teach MY New Testament Children that the Name “Y’shua” is holy and should never be taken in vain. “Taken in vain” here means “used in unholy contexts” as well as “taken for granted.”

When authentic believers invoke ME by using the Name of “Yahweh” or “Y’shua,” MY Presence is actualized in your state through MY Holy Spirit. Unless you believe in ME, invoking ME by using MY Name will be ineffectual. You must at least begin to believe, trust, and obey ME if your prayers are to be answered even though you might be using MY Name. Why would I respond to you if you are only going through motions, practicing rituals, and offering lip service to ME? I will not permit MYSELF to be played like a deck of cards.

In either of the “formulas” for water baptism noted previously, the key ingredients are the words “Son” and “Jesus,” which are equivalent in sense and meaning when used by authentic Christian believers (who already know that “Jesus” is “the Son of God”).

There are many people who know of ME as the “unnamed God” or the “unknown God,”[170] but they do not have an intimate relationship with ME because they do not know WHO I AM through hearing or reading MY Holy Bible. Theirs is not a faith relationship with ME. It can’t be a faith relationship because they don’t know that I have an only-begotten Son, let alone that he is MY Logos and that WE ARE ONE. And, unless these cry out to ME as “the unknown God” (not with those exact words) and ask ME to help them to get to know ME, I cannot respond to their requests. I “cannot” respond to certain prayer requests because I do not go against MYSELF and the divine protocols I have established for approaching ME in an acceptable manner. (That “I do not go against MYSELF” does not mean that I never change MY Mind in response to the prayer requests of authentic believers.)

I also do not permit MYSELF to respond to those who subscribe only to philosophies of religion — that is, those who study the belief systems of mankind but they themselves do not believe in Jesus Christ as the only-begotten Son of God (some of your theologians are earnest in their scholarship but not earnest in believing on MY Son and in his mission). These might get excited about the discovery of an ancient manuscript, but they are really not interested in discovering or experiencing ME. These have not “tasted”[171] ME to see that I AM good (which is to say, they have not consciously experienced MY Goodness directly through MY Grace and Mercy).

To be sure, I also cannot respond to those who believe that I do not, should not, and cannot have an only-begotten Son. I do not respond to those who are anti-Christ. That would be unseemly.

I only respond to those who believe on MY Son and in his mission as well as those who are genuinely uncertain what to believe about ME but want to find out what to believe. I reveal MYSELF to all who want to believe, I reveal MYSELF to some nonbelievers who are being prayed for by authentic Christian believers, and I manifest MYSELF to — as well as answer the prayers of — all who believe on MY Son and in his mission. (To be sure, I do not always answer their prayers in the ways they might like or as soon as they might think I should.)

For those who might find fault with water baptism “in the Name of Jesus,” I would reply to them with this Scripture, “The person who acknowledges the Son has the Father also”[172] (that is, “the Father” is implicit in the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as MY only-begotten Son), and I would also reply with the statement that people cannot acknowledge Jesus as Lord unless MY Holy Spirit is working in them and speaking through them (thus, “the Holy Spirit” is also implicit in the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as MY only-begotten Son).

People who understand and readily accept that Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God but do not understand that Jesus is God have something yet to learn. People who understand and readily accept that Jesus is God but do not understand that Jesus is the Son of God also have something yet to learn. For those who may be embarrassed to use the terms “Father” and “Son,” I AM embarrassed by them.

For those who might find fault with water baptism “in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” I would reply to them that such a baptism honors ME in that it accurately proclaims WHO I AM. I would also add that people who believe in “God the Father,” “God the Son,” and “God the Holy Spirit” do not believe in three Gods: They believe in One God. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WHO I WILL ALWAYS BE. AND I WILL ALWAYS BE WHO I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. MY BEING DOES NOT CHANGE.[173]

It does not matter if you are baptized by immersing or pouring (or even sprinkling). It does not matter if you are baptized “in” or “into” the “Name of Jesus” or the “Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.” I tried to teach you during Old Testament times that I do not look at outward appearances but, instead, at motives and intents.[174] However, your bent nature (as opposed to your divine nature[175]) causes you to try to regularly overturn this truth of MINE.

There are those legalists among you who quote the following verse to prove that I require water baptism for salvation:

Jesus responded, “Except a person is born of water and of the Spirit, that person cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”[176]

Jesus was speaking to the Pharisee Nicodemus, who was already fully acquainted with water baptism as practiced by John the Baptist in the River Jordan but who did not know about spiritual rebirth through Christ. When parsed correctly, the statement carries this meaning:

Unless a person is [not only] born of water [but also] of the Spirit, that person cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.

Water baptism legalists fail to counterbalance their understanding of the previous verse with the following verse that records what Jesus also said:

The person who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but the person who does not believe shall be damned.[177]

MY Son did not say that the person who is not water baptized shall be damned, but, rather, that the person who does not believe shall be damned. See the difference?

Many students of MY Holy Bible also fail to see the double entendre of “born of water,” referring not only to the water of baptism but also to the bursting of the “bag of waters” when amniotic fluid precedes passage of the soon-to-be neonate (newborn) through the birth canal.

Finally, to end this chapter, there are those of you who think that I want every Christian believer to be wealthy, and there are those of you who think that I want every Christian believer to live in poverty. Both views are incorrect. I want what is best for you individually, collectively, and corporately to help you to become fully returned to ME and fully intimate with ME. Although simple to ME, your lives are more complex and multivariate than you can imagine in your current state.

Although it does not puzzle ME, it should puzzle you why people look for acts of nature to explain the supernatural events and miracles detailed in MY Holy Bible (thus viewing MY Holy Bible as inherently mythological) only to construct their own mythologies about ME by elaborating doctrines, rituals, liturgies, and requirements that do not have MY Sanction or Approval.

What myths do you still believe about ME? If you are unsure, then begin regular study of MY Holy Bible, and ask ME to grant you understanding, discernment, and wisdom through MY Holy Spirit.

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Six to answer questions 1 through 10. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for discussion.)

1. Explain why Miriam (Mary or Maria) is NOT the mother of God?

2. (a) Explain human reasoning, logic, and critical analysis. Please give examples. (b) How useful are human reasoning, logic, and critical analysis to spiritual understanding?

3. Explain the difference between the Greek words Theotokos and Christotokos.

4. What is the intended purpose for the communion meal?

5. (a) Is water baptism an absolute requirement for salvation? (b) Is total immersion in water an absolute requirement for baptism?

6. Is there only one way to water baptize new converts?

7. What does it mean to be a religionist or a legalist?

8. What does it mean to take God’s name in vain?

9. Does God ever change his mind?

10. What causes our prayers to be heard by God?

11. Does God want all Christian believers to be materially rich or poor? Please explain.

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Seven

Conflicting Natures

As you read the declaration of the Apostle John, “God is light in whom there is no darkness at all,”[178] and couple it with this statement by Christ Jesus, “God is a Spirit,”[179] you can conclude correctly that MY Fundamental Nature includes Spiritual Light, or Glory.

Because the illumination of the beings I originally created was neither by way of streaming photons nor material glow, it is important to make the distinction here between Spiritual Light and physical light. Though souls in dust may view the light with which they are familiar as a nonmaterial substance, they err in such an observation. Although subatomic, the light-energy with which you are familiar is physical and not spiritual in nature. Indeed, the levels of organization to which the physical scientist includes elementary particles and their component parts speak of the finite nature of those bits. And the characteristic of finitude is an obvious contradiction to MY Fundamental Nature, which is Eternal and Infinite.

The smallest building blocks of matter may be conceptualized as dense packets of light-energy, but they are exposed for what they are by the quality of being dense. Of course, when picking apart matter at the level of quarks and gluons, some of your modern theoreticians have already concluded that matter does not really exist. However, unless those who understand that conclusion are firmly grounded by placing their faith in ME, not even the greatest physical scientists will come to know how to interpret that information in a spiritual sense.

Spiritually speaking, all physicality — including physical light-energy itself — is darkness. Physicality, as you know it, is not part of the Nature of MY Absolute Reality. Why? Without MY Life Force, all physicality is “the shadow of death” and spiritually inert. (Remember, your conflict is with Evil and not with matter.)

In view of the contrasting natures of Spiritual Light and physical light-energy, what should become clear to spiritual sense is the meaning of passages from MY Holy Bible that describe the source of illumination found in the Kingdom of God, the space where I live, and move, and have MY Being, and to which all of MY redeemed will be returned one day:

The sun shall be no more your light by day … but the LORD shall be unto you an everlasting Light.[180]

There shall be no night there [in the heavenly city of New Jerusalem]; and they [its inhabitants] need no candle, neither light of the sun, because the LORD God gives them Light [which is to say, I AM the source of their Light].[181]

Viewed this way, it is easier to see that at the time of the end, when your “world languishes and fades away,”[182] I will reveal the Fullness of MY Spiritual Light, which is the Fiery Part of MY Being (or the Fullness of MY Glory). Although this revelation of MY Nature will be to the faithful and to the faithless alike, by accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior only the faithful will have made themselves acceptable for MY Radiant Presence to dwell within and among them — as well as be reflected by them. At that time, not everyone in mortality will be joyful that I have made MY Face — that is, MY Appearance — to shine upon them.[183]

That MY Appearance is Spiritual Light should signify to those-who-seek that MY Spirit is intangible and, as such, cannot be held in their hands, heard with their ears, or seen with their eyes. In fact, physical sense organs are instruments that sense corruption (that is, corporeal conditions) and are themselves corruptible. Thus, not only can they not sense MY Presence, they would melt and disappear in the Absolute Holiness of MY Presence. The Purity of MY Spiritual Light is so powerful that it would dissolve all things impure with which it came in contact. That is one reason why I use angels to communicate MY Messages to you.

No wonder the Prophet Isaiah cried out in terror, “Woe is me! I am undone … for I have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”[184] Isaiah knew that — because “God is a consuming fire”[185] — no iniquity or sin, and certainly no earthly flesh, could stand in the Fullness of MY Presence. He understood the separate natures of mortality and God-indwelt immortality. Although Isaiah saw ME, he was not cut off from his people nor was his life expunged. Why? Isaiah was in a spiritual state when he saw ME. In concert with the Apostle Paul’s description of his own experience, Isaiah was “out of the body.”[186]

Although MY Spiritual Light is hell-fiery to corporeality and painful to those who love to live in spiritual darkness, the same Light is warm, gentle, and loving to those who have chosen to place their faith in ME. Indeed, MY Spiritual Light rekindles the still burning embers of souls who have not turned themselves completely over to self-pride and self-will.

In one of the Dead Sea Scrolls,[187] a scribe symbolized the inverted nature of mortal consciousness and the possible levels of enlightenment that can be achieved by souls in dust. Using a numerical light-to-darkness ratio based on the common denominator of nine, he described three individuals: one “very wicked” with a light-to-darkness ratio of 1:8; one “largely good” with a light to darkness ratio of 6:3; and one “very good” with a light-to-darkness ratio of 8:1.

While I do not mean to suggest that there is a volumetric relationship between Spiritual Light and spiritual darkness in your souls, or that there is a bodily containment of an admixture of such Light and darkness, some profoundly simple truths may be apprehended in this ancient scribe’s symbology, namely that: 1) souls in dust are exposed to conflicting natures; 2) there are different degrees of wickedness and goodness in the people around you; and 3) not one of you can be whole until he or she is fully reunited with ME in MY Spiritual Light and thus fully immersed in MY Love. If a soul is completely enblackened by spiritual darkness, the spiritual selfhood it once had in ME is totally eclipsed and that soul is removed from all possibilities for redemption. At the end of time as you know it, the soul who has completely separated itself from ME by rejecting MY Son and his mission is eternally damned and cast into the “Lake of Fire.”[188]

It has always been glimmers, gleanings, and glimpses of MY Spiritual Light that have made clear the pathway of spiritual development for those who wish to be re-enlightened and, thus, restored to the Garden of MY Heavenly Consciousness. For example: It was in a flame of spiritual fire that an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses out of the midst of the burning bush that I might direct Moses to free the people Israel from their oppressors.[189] It was in the “pillar of fire” that an angel of the LORD appeared nightly to the people Israel that they might be protected from Pharaoh’s armies and be led far from their Egyptian captivity.[190] And it is in the Spiritual Light of Christ Jesus that many have been inwardly directed toward Heaven and, thereby, led far from the captivity imposed on them by iniquity and sin.

In MY Spiritual Universe, godly conditions reign. Godly conditions exist where you are, but they do not reign there. If MY Life is the Light of MY Creation, and “the true Light which lights every person that enters into the world,”[191] souls in dust who desire to be returned to MY World (the Sphere in which I live, move, and have MY Supreme Being) must examine their origin from the perspective of immortal sense rather than mere mortal sense. They must consider that if “True Man” was made in the exact image and likeness of God, then a certain incorporeality must apply to the created as incorporeality applies to their Creator. Those who are unable to see the light of that truth have simply confused “God’s created” with “the creature” (the human being) in which they now find themselves.

Indeed, your multifaceted Creator was, and still is, reflected in HIS Creation, “True Man.” In MY Holy Bible, you are reminded of the plurality of “True Man” in such concepts as “children of Israel,” “sons of God,” “children of light,” “members of the Body of Christ,” and “stars of heaven,” but the essence of the interpersonal reality in which I AM to be found is not within the multitudinous personalities and personas of human creaturehood. The Nature of MY Absolute Reality is spiritual, not material.

When I spoke out of the whirlwind to Job, I referred to MY Original, and unfallen, Creation existing at a time “when the morning stars sang together and all the created beings of God shouted for joy.”[192] Seen thusly, MY One True and Only Real Creation consists of created beings who, for their brilliance, are the stars of MY Spiritual Universe, where all such souls echo together praise for their Creator — from Whom they came to know life, movement, and being.

Please do not mistake that I AM claiming that you have no reality in your current state. I AM just making a distinction between the reality in which you find yourselves and MY Absolute Reality, wherein dwells the Totality of MY Being. If you are having a difficult time sequencing all of the events about which I AM writing, it is because you are relying on linear thinking and not really appreciating that in MY Absolute Reality some of these events are superimposed upon one another (that is, they happened simultaneously) and, as such, cannot be apprehended or apperceived with your current sense of calendar chronology. For example, although you may sequence certain faith events chronologically, faith itself is independent of deductive and inductive reasoning or sequential linear thinking. If you recognize that some of your fellow created beings in your plane of consciousness process experiences more from an emotional or intuitive standpoint than from “if-then” frames of thinking, you can better appreciate the implication about which I AM writing. To be sure, some people know things without thinking about them. (This is somewhat foreign to those of you who come to know things mainly through deductive and inductive reasoning.)

That their Creator could push HIS Creation into being is understood by those who rely completely on ME as the Source of Infinite Supply, for they know ME to possess all-power and all-creativity. Such enlightened souls also apprehend MY Spiritual Universe as the all-conscious Mind of God and each other as MY thoughts, verities, and realizations — the very “proofs” that not only AM I Supreme Being but also Creator. Knowing that from the Imagination of God exists the only Absolute Reality, there can be no doubt for those who live fully in ME (and I fully in them) that the Creator thought and it was, and is, so. Are you aware that I still create opportunities and conditions for you by just thinking and it becomes so?

Although you have fallen far from MY Glory, MY Supreme Being forever remains unchanged and always totally expressed. To be sure, MY Creative Expression is without end and changeless because there is no place within MY Spiritual Universe where I AM not or where I AM limited or less than MYSELF. I fill all space within the Totality of MY Being with the eternal movement of MY Life. As Creator, I always and completely express MYSELF through MY Creation. (What is true today is true tomorrow and what is true tomorrow is true today. Truth is eternal.)

In sharp contrast to the physical universe, time, space, and motion in MY Spiritual Universe are eternal. They are not finite and ending as they are in your plane of consciousness. Even though time, space, and motion are contingencies in the physical universe, even though they are cross-linked to form its apparent dimensions, and even though they thus overlap, your time and space and motion can never merge to form the unity of the absolute and inseparable all-time, all-space, and all-motion that is to be found within MY Spiritual Universe, a place in which where is when. Hence, time shortens and lengthens in your closed system of physicality, space bends, and motion decreases and increases according to temperature, concentration, and pressure. These physical changes are to no spiritual avail for souls caught within a corporeal web. You cannot depend on physical changes or the transformation of matter from one state to another to get you closer to your Creator. In order for you to draw nearer to ME, your changes must take place from within.

As long as souls in dust choose to make only physical observations, they will not be able to go further than relative frames of reference in understanding why they are on earth. Admittedly, it is difficult for you to envision the upright, straight, and unbent nature of Spiritual Light when you yourselves are bent — that is, turned away from ME — and when any Spiritual Light within you is outwardly clothed with the garment of corporeality.

Unfortunately, because in your corporeal state you daily see shadows of darkness, you find it easy to conclude that the images with which you are presented happen to belong to a universal and absolute reality, when nothing could be farther from the truth. Unaware that your Creator is “the Father of all lights, with Whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning,”[193] unaware that corporeality and physical changes have no part within MY True Creation, and unaware that souls in MY World are actually dressed in ME, you en masse have set up an ill-defined pantheistic life force as your imagined creator and have assumed its transient emanations for your identities. Can’t you see that you are the stars fallen from God’s Heavens, continually held to earth by your acceptance of the illusions of self-pride and self-will as your chosen reality?

Today, you are being called upon to remember that every created being was intended to be an equally important part of the whole and that the integrity and harmony of MY Original Creation were established by ME in the spiritual pronouncement that all offspring altogether constituted the “True Man” I created through MY Logos and am re-creating through Christ Jesus (MY Logos and Christ Jesus are one and the same). However, to answer that call is an especially difficult challenge for those who live in this present earthly sphere of activities because you are mostly surrounded by others who are doubly mixed up and triply confused as to who they really are. So, most people do not really help to point you in the right direction.

In proportion to their willingness to learn, those-who-seek will find a number of spiritual keys in MY Holy Bible that will help them better understand the Nature of the True Creation in MY Absolute Reality, and the nature of impurity in a universe that has been altered by iniquity and sin.

Because I AM “of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity,”[194] you may reasonably deduce that I AM incapable of containing iniquity, experiencing iniquity, or encountering iniquity without its annihilation. Hypothetically speaking, if I could know impurity, then I would be capable of not being MYSELF, and that is impossible. However, that I cannot know impurity is not to say that I do not know of it, because, knowing all things, I AM aware of the darkness that has been formed by the cumulative self-pride and self-will of souls who have fallen far from MY Glory.

As a spiritual diamond, purity is precious in all its ways. Purity alone allows MY Life and MY Love to pass through it with the force of a billion locomotives without explosion or implosion. Because I do not give rise to, nor dwell within, that which is impure and imperfect, it follows that transparent flawlessness, or purity, must be the Nature of the Creation that I originally designed to reflect ME. As you ponder that your souls were moved into being by MY Creative Impulse, it should become clear to you that both your spiritual heritage and your spiritual legacy are in a state of purity as members of God’s “True Man,” now being recast in the Body of Christ.

Though iniquity may be defined as “impurity,” the word actually carries with it a weightier sense if you examine the Hebrew word[195] from which “iniquity” is most often translated in the King James Version of the Old Testament. Besides “iniquity,” the Hebrew word may also be translated into English as “punishment.” Thus broadened to spiritual understanding, and in accord with spiritual law, iniquity is punishment — which is to say, iniquity is its own punishment. In other words, iniquity condemns itself. To be sure, that you have banished yourselves from MY Perfect World because of your iniquity is a just punishment.

To expand further upon the spiritual signification of iniquity: If you examine the other seven Hebrew words from which iniquity has been translated in the King James Version of the Old Testament, and if you combine their meanings, you will come to an understanding of iniquity as “an element of self-will, unrighteousness, or vanity that has afflicted the vessels who bear it, making them ‘bowed down,’ ‘crooked,’ or ‘bent out of shape’ from their originally-pure state.”

Though most poetic devices in MY Holy Bible are only interpreted as figures of speech, many of them actually intimate to spiritual sense that corporeality is a function of iniquity. For example, phrases which describe that souls in dust have been “brought low,” “cast down,” and “clothed with shame,” or that souls have “turned” and “fallen,” imply the stepping down in consciousness of those who have directed their attention away from ME, such decelerating transformation resulting in their wearing the garment of corporeality that you call “flesh.”

If you look for it, there is much evidence in MY Holy Bible that many of the righteous souls who contributed to the overall spiritual development of humanity were aware that the condensation of impure thought — the “concretioning” of iniquity, as it were — resulted in the physical forms in which you now find yourselves. However, although this evidence exists, it eludes those who have come to believe that they must not question what they see, hear, and feel with their physical senses. Most human beings take pride in a physical self, which, in the light of spiritual understanding, simply is the only picture they wish to have of themselves. Hence, undetected by those who are thus spiritually limited (by the limitations they have imposed on themselves) is the deeper meaning of these descriptive statements from MY Holy Bible:

… our days on the earth are as a shadow …[196]

… our soul is bowed down to the dust …[197]

… I walk through the valley of the shadow of death …[198]

Behold, I was shaped in iniquity …[199]

Such as [those who] sit in darkness and in the shadow of death … because they rebelled against the words of God …[200]

All flesh is grass … the grass withers … surely the people is grass.[201]

This is a people … hid in prison houses …[202]

Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood?[203]

… flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.[204]

For all that is in the world … is not of the Father, but is of the world.[205]

When created beings embraced elements of self-will and self-pride, and accepted them into their consciousness as their own, they became “polluted” by those elements and thereby “confused” (which is to say, no longer aware of who they were, and really are, in MY Absolute Reality). It is understandable to spiritual sense, though not excusable by it, that most souls in corporeality find it difficult to see beyond the mist, whose veil disguises and disfigures their one true and only real identity. The mist hides that identity not only from themselves but also from others so similarly-shaped in iniquity by a mind separated from God.

Though the condition of iniquity should call forth great remorse within the souls of those who have become thus darkened by self-pride and self-will, there are few in your world of appearances who will even consider that flesh and blood are not the substances with which they were originally created. Such consideration would make many feel uncomfortable, especially in a state where people prefer to look for, and find, worldly pleasure. And, to further compound matters, because of the growing credibility that is now being given to the illusions of self-pride and self-will, directions for you to reach the creative, spiritual seed within you have become increasingly unclear. Indeed, most to whom you think you might turn for support would chide you into believing your physical senses when just the opposite is necessary for your spiritual growth and restoration to the Garden of Eden, MY Heavenly Consciousness.

Those who seek to understand that the images and illusions of your world are delusions of self-will must combat the heaviness of the mortal thought with which they are surrounded and from which they themselves have drawn to construct their own belief systems. One obvious impediment to spiritual growth lies in religionists who misinterpret the statement, “the Word was made flesh,”[206] to explain that their own corporeality is indicative of MY Original, and unfallen, Creation. They have confused their own miserable existence with a very special event: the fulfillment of the promised Messiah through the birth of Jesus Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach, to save souls lost in the throes of self-pride and self-will. Christ Jesus came to free all bound by iniquity from their only real grave, the grave of mortality.

And, on the opposite side of the spectrum, another impediment to spiritual growth lies in irreligionists who would crudely — or eloquently — mock ME for MY seeming ineffectiveness as Supreme Being in permitting a fallen state, or parody yet, of MY True Creation to exist. They simply do not understand the Nature of MY Infinite Grace and Mercy while I wait — even up to the appointed “time of the end”[207] — for tares to be separated from grains of wheat.[208] “Wheat” here represents the prodigal sons and daughters who will yet return to their heavenly home through the Christ-escape I have provided. (Though I have written “Christ-escape” here, do not mistake that I AM referring to anything other than MY only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ himself.)

The condition of iniquity is sad. But sadder still are the souls in dust who tenaciously cling to self-pride and self-will, on which basis they then conclude that what they are observing constitutes the one true and only reality. Such as these are not able to even imagine the crystal clarity of MY True Creation (original and unfallen), let alone permit themselves to be restored to it.

Unfortunately, in your disgrace, many of you have come to view the hundred-plus elements of the physical universe and the unclear images that you have of yourselves as basic to MY Expression. This helps to prove that, as it is true “unto the pure all things are pure,”[209] so is it true that “to the impure all things are impure.” Thus, unaware of the reality of MY True Creation because of their own spiritual darkness, many souls in dust remain content to wander through a thick “shadow of death” (that is, corporeality), willing to accept the misnomer “life” as descriptive of all aspects of their animate existence.

So that you not misinterpret that corporeality is iniquity-in-itself, and erroneously conclude that it is the enemy, I must emphasize again that corporeality is only an image of self-pride and self-will — an image superimposed on souls who are themselves iniquitous — which is to say, “turned from God.” To be sure, bearing the visible sign of their iniquity as a physical manifestation, souls in dust wear the shame of their self-imposed exile into mortality. However, it should also be noted that the birth of souls into corporeality is part of the Plan of Salvation that I worked out for those who, through their iniquity, turned from immortality to mortality. By accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Savior while they are in corporeality, souls end their bondage to “dust” and are freed from the grasp of mortality and, thus, become pure and perfect immortals again.[210] Such acceptance only “works” while souls are in corporeality. Accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior after death does nothing to change things. Even the unclean spirits recognize Jesus Christ as the Son of God.[211] Their recognition does nothing to change their ungodly and unholy condition. A requirement of MY Plan of Salvation is that you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior while you are in corporeality in order for it to do you any good. You must demonstrate faith in ME while you are on earth. Why? “Faith is evidence of things not seen.”[212] You actually begin to take shape within MY Absolute Reality at the inception of your faith walk with ME and you continue to take shape as you make progress in your faith.

In corporeality, all views of MY Spiritual Universe are obscured and distorted. But, because physicality is only a shadow — an “effect” of self-pride and self-will, as it were — all who hope to progress to any higher levels of being, and eventually be fully restored to MY Life, must commit themselves to learn that their own self-pride and self-will, not corporeality, was (and still is) the primordial wrong, their original sin, their first crime against God, the cause of their downfall, and the reason for their self-imposed exile into mortality.

In the single Biblical reference to Satan when he was “Lucifer” (Lucifer is the primogenitor of all fallen created beings), MY Holy Spirit spoke this invective against self-pride and self-will through MY Prophet Isaiah:

How you are fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer [Light-bearer], Son of the Morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who would weaken the nations! For you have said in your own heart, “I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.”[213]

Thus unmasked to spiritual sense is the motivation of anyone who tries to set his or her star above others. In truth, the previously-cited message to the Lord of Confusion [or King of Babylon][214] is not only a remanding of the Prince of Darkness, the very leader of the rebellion which “made the earth to tremble … and the world as a wilderness,”[215] it is a far-reaching reminder to all who have departed from MY Way that their punishment is already built into their crime.

It is divinely just that MY Perfect World is out of focus to those who were, and still are, caught by an illusion of grandeur in self-pride and self-will. Their own false egos cloud and befuddle their apperception of MY Spiritual Universe. Although MY Spiritual Universe is altered to them, in MY Absolute Reality it really remains unchanged. It is fitting that your apparent world (that is, your world of appearances) is a desert devoid of the water of MY Presence. MY Holy Spirit cannot, and will not, dwell within that which is flimsy, chimerical, and without spiritual substance.

In order for souls in your earth plane of consciousness to work more fruitfully toward understanding the Nature of MY Original Creation, they must question why it is that they are in corruptible bodies. Equally as important, they must be willing to hear the unpleasant answer to that question from within. Unless they willingly learn that the corporeal state is inherently iniquitous and, as such, is not the divinely-intended, eternal tapestry for the created of God, those who people your planet will continue to be fooled by appearances.

If you are not able to identify the real adversary of MY Will, you will have an increasingly difficult time working to be freed from the bonds imposed upon you by self-pride and self-will. And, unable to see through the darkness imposed upon them by a false sense of self (because they refuse to see), such souls prevent themselves from catching glimpses of MY Perfect World. Further, unable to recognize ungodly elements in themselves and in others, these spiritually impaired are not only in danger of falling into the hands of those who would do them harm, they are in danger of actually losing the one true and only real identity that they can have in ME. Your belief in a false identity as your real identity has been perpetrated and perpetuated by none other than your own self-pride and self-will. You must take responsibility for your error.

Since men and women cannot cast out that which they are unwilling and, thus, unable to see, the inability to understand their true origin (and be returned, at least, in awareness to it) lies in those who have fallen so low that they no longer see that there is a foe to fight and a battle to be won. To be sure, your greatest foe is “the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan.”[216] But your next greatest foe is your own self-pride and self-will combined. That is why humility and gratitude should be obsessions to you. Without humility and gratitude, self-pride and self-will will overtake you and actually permit your greatest foe access to your individual spirit — your mind, or cognition and emotion. Don’t forget, that once slithering serpent is a swollen dragon now, gravid with evil.[217]

Somewhere between so-called Christian fundamentalism and so-called Christian metaphysics[218] is the delicate balance of understanding that permits identification of the source of all evil as a negative spiritual principle that operates through channels who have accepted for their reality the ultimate delusion of self-pride and self-will. The ultimate delusion is that true satisfaction can be found in sinful thoughts and actions. But in perilous deviation from that mark of understanding “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience,”[219] are those who would limit the cunning and cruelty of evil to one locality and one personality in the primogenitor of all evil, Satan. Likewise mistaken are those who think that evil can be disarmed and dismissed by ignoring rather than confronting the cause of it.

Many today minimize the influence which self-pride and self-will have within their own individual lives by attributing all evil to Satan. They assume no responsibility for the cause and effect of evil in their own lives. Others try to dismiss evil by speaking renunciations against evil and declaring affirmations of truth. These do not understand that, indeed, the source of evil is “nothing,” but only when it is exposed to MY Light in your world. What is MY Light in your world? Christ Jesus himself![220]

When confronting evil in the Name of Jesus Christ, souls in dust should take care that they themselves are walking in Spiritual Light and not darkness because, if they are not, they will be pulled farther from MY Source of Infinite Supply and closer to the bottomless pit, which is an abyss of spiritual darkness. You cannot cast out the effects of self-pride and self-will when you are harboring their cause within.

Because MY “works were finished from the foundation of the world,”[221] it is obvious to spiritually-enlightened sense that all who believe that they can change the order of things, or that they may add or subtract from MY Creation, cannot now really be a part of MY Creation because, if they were, they would not seek to change or alter it. Those living in the Spiritual Light of MY Son know that MY Creation cannot really be changed, although it may vary. Yes, MY Spiritual Universe has been altered by iniquity and sin, but MY True Creation remains forever unchanged and changeless. Your Creator is always completely expressed! Eden was not changed when Adam and Eve were expelled from it. Adam and Eve were changed.

As seen by those who never departed from MY World, as seen by those who have returned to it through MY Grace and Mercy (by believing on MY Son and in his mission), and as seen by those who have had a glimpse of its existence while on earth, it is nothing more than the “nothingness” of self-pride and self-will that has been the downfall of souls in dust. Indeed, in this way souls have chosen to separate themselves from one another and from their Creator. And, for those who might question the use of “nothingness,” that word is entirely appropriate to describe a false creation. Although the “false creation” may appear to be real, it is unreal and, hence, all for naught. To be sure, “false creation” is itself an oxymoron because there is only one Creator, ME, and, therefore, there can be nothing that can be “falsely” created. The so-called false creation is only an illusion. Certainly, that does not negate that I have made something out of nothing through MY Word, Christ Jesus.

In order to better understand where MY Spiritual Universe is in relation to the physical universe, it is important for students of truth to make an indelible note for themselves that their own self-pride and self-will are the only obstacles that bar them from seeing MY Spiritual Universe. In the light of this truth, the sole concern of those-who-seek should be that MY Spiritual Universe is hidden from their spiritual apperception and not that it is hidden from their corporeal sense. The view about which I AM writing is one of spiritual insight and not physical eyesight. Indeed, it is the view that you have when your eyes are closed to the confusive elements of your earthly sphere of activities. Although I must write about MY Spiritual Universe using frames of reference with which those in corporeality are familiar (for obvious reasons), it is MY Hope that the images that take shape in the reader’s mind will be far beyond physicality and physical sense. It is MY Hope that these spiritual truths will impinge upon your consciousness the Essential Nature of MY True Creation.

I take issue with those who hold literalism responsible for perverting the inspired words of MY Holy Bible because true literalism moves into the realm of etymological word studies and parsing what has been written. In turn, etymology and parsing provide keys to deeper levels of understanding and richer meanings of individual words, phrases, and statements. Instead of literalism, degree of adherence to physicalism in the interpreter should provide the index for measuring a perverted understanding of MY Written Word. As long as those who study the Scriptures are physicalists, matter-worshipers, and pantheists, they will be unable to see the real images within MY Inspired Word. Although the physically-minded might be able to concede the figurative meaning of Biblical statements like “ … so pants my soul after You, O God,”[222] they will not be able to discern the deeper meaning of the Biblical keys that provide access to a fuller understanding of their own spiritual origin, fall, and present location nor see the way back to their true roots. Most people who believe in ME believe that I can be found in matter, thereby elevating matter in their minds to a place where it does not belong. For this reason, unfortunately, an understanding of MY Spiritual Universe is most often earth-bound by physicalism.

In working toward obtaining a glimpse of MY Spiritual Universe and grasping each glimmer of its truth, those-who-seek should come to understand that MY Written Word employs such literary devices as ellipsis, understatement, repetition, amplification, word-picture, word-portrait, deduction, induction, substitution, word exchange, hyperbole, paradox, simile, allegory, parable, symbolism, enigma, implication, double-entendre, irony, oxymoron, idiom, personification, and counter-questioning. The highest understanding of Scripture includes the spiritually-figurative and metaphysical sense of the divinely-inspired written Word. The earnest student, then, should examine her or his own interpretive stance and question whether he or she is mentally reducing words, phrases, and verses to physical terms only when they would have greater significance translated as representative of spiritual truths and concepts.

Because MY Creative Nature is changeless, and because MY Offspring were made in MY Complete Image and Perfect Likeness, then the Original Nature of MY Created must also be changeless and incorruptible. MY Creation does not really have its true being in the physical universe, which is impure, imperfect, and full of change. The physical universe is actually the inverse of MY Spiritual Universe. The physical universe is an outpocketing of MY Spiritual Universe. The physical universe is MY Spiritual Universe turned inside out. The physical universe is an involution of MY Spiritual Universe. See?

My Complete Image and Perfect Likeness is not seen in that which is heir to the “cankerworm.”[223] However, if I so choose, I certainly can express MYSELF through, as well as to, those caught in your corporeal web, despite its inherently corruptible nature. When I choose to do so, it always suits MY Purpose, generally and specifically.

Although the Kingdom of Heaven may be found within the God-given spark of life which those in the earth plane of consciousness still retain (with the exception of those who have already given themselves completely over to self-pride and self-will), what those-who-seek are really seeking to be restored to is neither in material existence nor of matter. To be sure, MY Spiritual Universe is an elevated state set apart from material existence because it is, altogether and all-at-once, the abode and throne and mountain of God, where I Express MYSELF without measure. MY Spiritual Universe is the seat of MY Creative Consciousness, Christ Jesus. For those who might debate of its locality, please know that, though the Kingdom of Heaven may be the state without the place, it is never the place without the state.

MY Spiritual Universe is constructed on coordinates which are magnitudes of MY Creative Actualization, wherein I have pushed forth MY Thoughts upon those infinite axes in MY Statement of Being. The physical universe is constructed on coordinates which are magnitudes of iniquity, self-pride, and self-will that have cast their shadows of darkness over these finite axes in an illusion of falsehood. MY Spiritual Universe and the physical universe exist independently of one another. They are only linked when I choose for them to be linked. I choose for them to be linked through the blood of Jesus Christ and by MY Holy Spirit given to those who believe on MY Son and in his mission.

Because time is no more and no less than a sequence of related events, unrelated events cannot take place in the same time. (They can take place “at” the same time but not “in” the same time.) Therefore, because the events of MY Spiritual Universe are unrelated to, and not dependent on, the events of the physical universe, those two bodies of thought (the one pure, the other impure) exist in two different, albeit concurrent, times. The units of measurement that comprise time in MY Spiritual Universe are not interchangeable with, and they are forever separate from, those which comprise time in the physical universe. Although such times run alongside of one another, they are running forever parallel and, thus, can never be one. Similarly, because space is the area in which related events occur and motion is the rate at which they occur, events that occur in MY Spiritual Universe and events that occur in the physical universe can neither exist in the same space nor possess the same vibratory rate, momentum, or motion. In short, your outer space cannot be MY inner space.

Thus, seeing how MY Spiritual Universe is separate from the physical universe, I herewith make the distinction between the coordinates of the former as “spiritual time,” “spiritual space,” and “spiritual motion” and the coordinates of the latter as “physical time,” “physical space,” and “physical motion.” It should be noted that “spiritual time,” “spiritual space,” and “spiritual motion” are wholly unified in MY Absolute Reality and are divided here only for the sake of discussion, comparison, and fine-focusing.

If you come to understand the separateness and division between the world in which you have come to exist and the world in which you have your real being, do not despair or be inconsolably grieved by it. Just remember that there is hope because a bridge exists between the two worlds through MY Infinite Grace and Mercy. For those who travail to be delivered from their iniquity and sin, I have provided an escape in and through Christ Jesus. He is the warp in space-time that connects MY Spiritual Universe to the physical universe. When you believe on Jesus Christ and in his mission, you undergo a spiritual involution by turning in humble submission from self-pride and self-will to MY Will. Through Christ, you are fully restored to MY Perfect World, where no less spiritual time exists for you than for any other whose reentrance has preceded or followed you.

Although infinity will always remain in MY Spiritual Universe, that is not to say that you have eternity to be accepted back into the bosom of MY Love. Unfortunately, most people in corporeality demonstrate through labored frivolity that they think they have all the time in the world to be reunited with ME. The portal of which I write, however, will only remain open up to the time of the end, when the door to Heaven will be permanently closed, just as the door to Noah’s ark was shut tight to prevent the godless and ungodlike from entering. From that point onward, it will no longer be possible for doleful creatures of the night to be released from the shadows of darkness that bind them. Even if they call out to MY Angelic Hosts, they will not be comforted since those called upon will be unable to do anything but reply: “ … between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that they which would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from there.”[224]

At what point did the physical universe come into existence? Studies of sidereal nature definitely indicate that the physical universe had a beginning, such genesis often referred to in your modern cosmology as the “Big Bang.” However, the conceptual range of the Big Bang Theory is greatly limited. Although the theory takes into account that the origin of the physical universe is recorded in physical time, physical space, and physical motion by the eruption of an enormous, highly concentrated energy mass that produced matter, it fails to take into consideration that matter was sent hurtling out into the vacuity of a universe set apart from MY Spiritual Universe. But the limitation of that cosmogony is understandable since it is only through enlightened spiritual sense that one may gain a wider view of the origin of physicality. That view enables identification of the source that gave impulse to the physical universe and, revealing amidst the cumbersome skeins of physical time, when it all began.

Thus seen, the physical universe burst forth into existence with explosive force upon the introduction of self-pride and self-will into the consciousness of spiritual beings, beginning with Lucifer, who were then fallen from their state of being in ME. To avoid confusion, you should remember that the beginning of the physical universe is no more than a record of that event. It is an effect, and not the cause, of the Fall. In other words, earnest students should grasp tightly the knowledge that physicality is neither self-pride-in-itself nor self-will-in-itself but merely the evidence of self-pride and self-will.

Concerning these conflicting natures, a soul’s standpoint and perspective are very important. Though the physical universe appears to those in corporeality to be substantive beyond belief, it is known as a shadow of the truth to those in MY Spiritual Universe. You should never confuse the startlement that gave rise to the physical universe with the ever-beginning in Spirit of MY True Creation, which, as one might think, is also ever-becoming.

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Seven to answer questions 1 through 20. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. What are the differences between Spiritual Light and physical light?

2. According to the author, what is one meaning (or definition) for the shadow of death?

3. Explain why God sometimes uses angels to communicate with human beings?

4. In what ways do we confuse the human creature with the complete image and perfect likeness of God?

5. Is the nature of God’s Absolute Reality spiritual or physical (material)?

6. Has God stopped creating?

7. To what extent does self-will and self-pride determine what happens to us spiritually?

8. What does the expression True Man refer to?

9. In what way is iniquity its own punishment?

10. What is our one true and only real identity?  Please explain.

11. Are there times when we should not believe our physical senses?  Give at least one example.

12. Does the existence of sickness, disease, and death mean that God is not in control?

13. What is the role of faith in our spiritual restoration?

14. Why did Lucifer fall?

15. (a) Who is your greatest foe? (b) What is your next greatest foe?

16. Is it beneficial to ignore evil? Why or why not?

17. How does etymology and parsing help us to understand the Holy Bible?

18. How does physicalism influence our understanding of the Holy Bible?

19. Describe God’s Spiritual Universe.

20. What two things link the physical universe and God’s Spiritual Universe?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Eight

The Guilt Complex

When created beings fell from MY Perfect World by turning from ME to act in self-pride and self-will, they condemned themselves to death (defined here as “separation from God”) because of their guilt. They created a gulf between ME and them, which gulf I also think of as their grief. To be sure, if souls in dust “heap their grief” in the resolute decision to continue in sin (defined here as “action based on iniquity”), they “widen the gulf” between MY Perfect World and their own personal world.

Because I AM Full of Grace and Mercy,[225] I sent MY Son into your world to bear your iniquity and sin so that those who would accept reproof for their sin might be restored and, thus, returned to ME. Ironically, MY reproof to sinners is subsumed in their free-will admission of self-guilt. In what way? It is painful for souls in dust to confess their sin by admitting that they are wrong. Embedded in their pain is MY reproof. It is painful to admit the profound harm that you have done to yourself, to others, and to your relationship with ME because of your self-pride and self-will. I AM not speaking about remorse only but, more importantly, repentance. Repentance includes actually changing your mind from wanting to indulge your sin nature to wanting to please ME. In the final analysis, your actions prove or disprove the sincerity of your repentance.

The only bridge over the gulf between your world and MINE is found in the cross of Jesus Christ. In John 3:16-21, MY Son said:[226]

16.For God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17.For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18.The person who believes on him is not condemned: but the person who does not believe is condemned already, because that person has not believed in the Name of the only-begotten Son of God.

19.And this is the condemnation, that Light came into the world, but people loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.

20.For everyone who does evil hates the Light, neither is that person willing to come to the Light to be reproved [that is, rebuked] for sinful deeds.

21.But the person who is truthful is willing to come to the Light, that their deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Additionally, Christ Jesus said that “whoever believes my message, and believes on Him who sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not be condemned; but be passed from death unto life.”[227]

And the Apostle Paul wrote that “there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”[228]

Walking after the flesh and walking after the Spirit are clearly distinct from one another and carefully articulated as such in the fifth chapter of Galatians. People who walk after the flesh are those who indulge their sin nature in:

Sexual sin, uncleanness [impurity], lasciviousness [lustfulness], idolatry, witchcraft [including making false accusations against one another to manipulate situations and their outcomes], hatred, variance [quarrelling], emulations [jealousy], wrath [violence], strife [contentiousness], seditions [divisiveness], heresies [contrived disunity through denominationalism and sectism], envyings [spitefulness], drunkenness [active addictions], revellings [riotous behaviors], and similar things.[229]

In contrast, people who walk after the Spirit demonstrate their spiritual nature in Christ Jesus through:

Love, joy, peace, longsuffering [forbearance with fortitude], kindness, goodness, faith, humility, and self-control.[230]

In all probability, you have indulged your sin nature [remember the “parasitic conjoined twin” that you still drag around[231]] by “walking after the flesh” in most if not all of the sinful ways indicated in the fifth chapter of Galatians. However, if you believe on MY Son and in his mission, and if you have confessed your sins to ME and asked for MY Forgiveness, from that point onward you can rest assured that I have forgiven you and that you remain forgiven. You can be certain not only that I have forgiven your sins but also that I have remitted (that is, cancelled) all of your debts to ME because of those sins. Because of your reborn innocence, you no longer need to feel guilty. And you should not feel guilty. Why? MY Forgiveness is Absolute.

When your confessed sins have been forgiven, the only strategy Satan has left is to tell you that your sins are NOT really forgiven (remember, Satan is a liar[232]) and that you should still feel guilty because you are still guilty. If Satan is successful in getting you to feel guilty by reminding you of your past sins and your old sin nature, then he is also successful in getting you to doubt ME, to not trust in ME, and to not believe I AM WHO I SAY I AM. If you give in to Satan’s attack, you will become incapacitated by false guilt. And, thus incapacitated, you will be an ineffective Christian (you are still a Christian, just ineffective). As an ineffective Christian, you cannot overcome Satan and his advancing forces. Satan will have you right where he wants you. As an ineffective Christian, you will not want to pray to ME and ask ME to correct situations and undo what Satan is doing to you, your life, and the lives of others around you. Satan wins battles (though not the war) by getting saved people to feel guilty. To be sure, because it is all based on a lie, Satan’s attack is illegitimate.

Guilt is a powerful tool to Satan. The only legitimate inroad Satan has to authentic Christian believers is through unconfessed sin in their lives.[233] That is why it is important for you to be instantly honest with yourselves, with others, and with ME concerning the sins you commit. As quickly as you confess your sins to ME, I forgive them just as quickly. (This is not a license or an open invitation for you to sin.[234])

Part of the “Guilt Complex” addressed here also involves Christians accusing their Christian brothers and sisters of supposed crimes against them and ME. Christians regularly fall to this error when they have been wronged, or perceive themselves to have been wronged. Then, they approach MY Throne of Mercy[235] and conveniently forget that it is supposed to be a throne of mercy and not a throne of retribution and vengeance. They begin to castigate their Christian brothers and sisters by telling ME all of the other person’s sins or trespasses against them and, supposedly, against ME. They ask ME to reprimand, punish, and/or pour down MY Wrath upon the perpetrators. They are also vehement in their self-justification as to why they are right and the other person is wrong and needs to be punished. They usually recount a detailed personal history with the accused to help justify their requests for punishment. They often ask ME to help get them out of the mess they think they are in. Also, in a bold move of mixed feigned benevolence, feigned martyrdom, and feigned sainthood, they often tell ME that, although they forgive the perpetrator, I should not. (However, they will deny that they have ever said this or that they feel this way.) They are almost gleeful in their anticipation of: 1) MY meting out punishment and 2) how sorry the accused will then be for the wrong committed against the accuser.

The operative word here is “wrong.” The scenario just described is wrong, wrong, wrong! If you think that someone has trespassed against you, then you should first go to the person yourself to discuss the matter.[236] (Go alone to the person only if the trespass does not involve physical and/or sexual abuse.) As calmly and reasonably as possible, you should explain to the person why you think they have trespassed against you. Then, you should give them an opportunity to explain themselves, their actions, their motives, their intents, their attitudes, and their behaviors. Whether they can or cannot explain themselves to your satisfaction, you still have the following obligations (indeed, “debts”) to them: First, you are required by ME to forgive them of all of their trespasses against you, just as I have forgiven you of all of your trespasses against ME.[237] Second, you are required to ask ME to forgive them (in other words, for ME not to hold their sin against them), just as MY Son asked ME to forgive his murderers as they were murdering him,[238] and just as the first recorded Christian martyr, Stephen, asked ME to not hold sin against those who were stoning him to death.[239]

You must remember always that “the Accuser” is Satan.[240] It is he who accuses the Christian brothers and sisters day and night before ME. When you accuse your Christian brothers and sisters, then you not only embolden Satan and his demonic forces but actually empower them by granting them dominion concerning specific interpersonal relationships. Why would you want to join forces with Satan? Why would you want to serve as Satan’s tool?

Satan and his demonic forces hate forgiveness. The act of forgiveness actually takes power away from them because, like spiritual vampires, they feed on the by-products of self-pride and self-will, which are unforgiveness, discord, bitterness, and hatred. When surrounded by the spirit of forgiveness, Satan and his minions experience spiritual suffocation and panic attacks due to lack of inflow of negative energy from the evil motives behind unforgiveness, discord, bitterness, and hatred. Because forgiveness reflects MY Love perfectly, Satan and his demons shrink back to avoid contact with MY Light. Forgiving others is one way you are to resist Satanic attacks.[241]

Didn’t you ever wonder why MY Son directed you to “be perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect?”[242] Obviously, while in your corporeal condition, you can’t be perfect by never sinning again. Indeed, unless you are suffering in the flesh, it is virtually impossible for you to not sin in thought, in feeling, in desire, or in deed. (This last statement is not intended to grant you permission to sin.) However, you can be perfect by loving perfectly. Forgiveness is perfect love. So, in effect, MY Son was saying, “love perfectly by forgiving, even as your Father in Heaven loves perfectly by forgiving.” How? By being kind to those who are unkind to you. And by biting your lip when others make hurtful, libelous, and slanderous comments against you.

In Matthew 5:44-47, Christ Jesus said:[243]

44.I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45.In order that you may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven: for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust alike.

46.If you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even tax collectors do the same?

47.And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what are you doing differently than others? Don’t even tax collectors do the same?

The spirit of unforgiveness is a controlling spirit. The spirit of unforgiveness causes you to rehearse hurts, remember wrongs, and recount trespasses against you. The spirit of unforgiveness is a damaging spirit. It damages you and others around you. You can break the cycle of damage by simply approaching ME and asking ME to heal the hurt you have sustained as well as help you to forgive. Some wrongs are so grievous that the hurt sustained from them takes a long time to heal, especially if the emotional wounds were deep, if they festered for a long time, and if thick emotional scar tissue has built up around the wound. Thick emotional scar tissue has to be excised by the scalpel of the Master Physician[244] before spiritual healing balm[245] can be applied directly to the wound.

Hurt is the primary emotion resulting from someone’s trespass against you. Self-justification for your unforgiving spirit accompanied by anger are two major secondary emotions. Bitterness and hatred are the major tertiary emotions that develop as a result of your anger and unforgiveness. And revenge is in an uncharted territory that is treacherous to you and others around you.

If you are seeking revenge, or even if you have committed an act of revenge, there is still time to undo the harm that the spirit of unforgiveness has caused. You can slice through the spirit of unforgiveness with the sword of truth[246] by forgiving someone who has genuinely wronged you and by asking ME to forgive that person as well.

Forgiveness unbuckles the warp in spiritual space-time caused by unforgiveness. Forgiveness restores order and removes chaos. In MY Spiritual Universe, forgiveness not only reverses harm done but actually undoes it as if the cause for the harm had never existed.

You must have your causality in ME if you are to be fully restored to MY Spiritual Universe. Having your causality in ME necessitates your forgiving others. When you forgive others, you are reflecting ME without wrinkle and without spot,[247] demonstrating that you are, indeed, made in MY Complete Image and Perfect Likeness.[248]

Please don’t misconclude that I want you to pretend that a perpetrator has not wronged you. That would be dysfunctional and create its own difficulties. Again, I want you to use Y’shua and Stephen as examples. As MY Son was dying, he asked for forgiveness at the same time he acknowledged the crimes against him by saying, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”[249] (Y’shua did not pretend that he was not being wronged.) And Stephen did the same when he said, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.”[250] (Stephen did not pretend that he was not being trespassed.) The trespasses against Y’shua and Stephen were not just simple murders (no murder is simple) but complex crimes that cut to the quick emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually for each victim.

For egregious wrongs, forgiveness can be a process and not one event recorded in a flash of time. Please know that as you forgive, your childlike innocence is restored, and you again become “MY darling boy” and “MY darling girl” (yes, you always remain MY sweethearts, MY babies, and MY dears). As MY Children, I dandle you upon MY knee,[251] press you close to MY spiritual bosom, and shelter you with MY protecting wing.[252] I enfold you with MY Love to comfort you. I quell your sobbing as you feel MY Love surround you. And I wipe away all your tears.[253]

In order to see others as I see them, you must look at them through the shed blood of MY only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ. When you look at others through that blood, you will not only be able to forgive the wrongs (which is to say, sins or trespasses) they have committed against you, you will also be able to forget those wrongs. Just as I do not see or remember your wrongs when I look at you through Christ’s shed blood, in the same way will you not be able to see or remember the wrongs of others either. Looking at others through the shed blood of Jesus Christ is the only way that you can really forget as well as forgive.

You must also be willing to look at yourselves through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. This is the only way that you can move on with your lives and not be pulled down or held back by past mistakes. Looking at yourselves through that blood enables you to accept your own eternal salvation. Looking at yourselves through that blood, you are then not only fully persuaded of your own salvation but also no longer vulnerable to guilt, shame, and condemnation or to Satan’s accusations of past or current wrongs as he rails against you. In the world of the invisible, demons see the wrongs you have committed because they do not look at you through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. I do not see or remember the wrongs that you have committed because I look at you through that blood. However, unless you are made holy by that blood, I do not look at you through that blood nor can you look at others through it. See?

Earlier, when I used Y’shua and Stephen as examples for forgiveness, please don’t think that I AM equating the significance of their murders. Y’shua bore your iniquity and sin upon his cross of crucifixion. That cause brought to him untold added burden, which you now can scarcely comprehend. Stephen died because of the sins of others, but he did not die to bear anyone’s sins. I AM not minimizing Stephen’s death. I AM simply telling you that Y’shua’s death was far more painful emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. It was the shedding of Y’shua’s blood that operationalized MY Plan of Salvation to not only cover your sin-debt but cancel it completely.

Sometimes in feigned martyrdom, victims of abuse remain in abusive situations, and they erroneously quote MY Son’s “turn the other cheek”[254] to help justify their unhealthy inaction. Although Christ Jesus said to turn the other cheek, he did not say that you should run up in order to get your cheeks slapped over and over again. As soon as possible, remove yourself from the abuser’s presence or have the abuser removed from your presence. And, in this and all other difficult circumstances, pray not that I grant you strength but cling to ME as your strength.

Although you might have a special love for someone (family member, friend, colleague, or spouse), you cannot carry someone else’s burdens or pay their debt for sin. That does not mean that you cannot help them, support them, or try to influence them positively (the operative word here is “try”). It means that you cannot eternally rescue them from “paying the price” for their own errors in human judgment. (Human beings “pay the price” for their actions in both natural and supernatural consequences.) If you repeatedly rescue others to prevent them from paying the price for their actions, then you keep them from learning valuable lessons at the same time that you set yourself up as their “God.”

Instead of encouraging others to seek and find ME during times of crisis, you often try to present yourself to them as “God.” If you repeatedly rescue others, you set yourself up as their “Savior.” And, if you find others “innocent” when they are really guilty, or when you want to see them punished for disappointing you (as they often will), you set yourself up as their “Judge.” Ultimately, you do yourself, others, and ME a great disservice by not allowing everyone to develop — and then stand on — their own feet of faith. It is easy to prophesy what will happen if you continue to try to rescue others. First, you will become increasingly frustrated because they are not learning lessons and are not changing. Then, you will become increasingly weary, discouraged, and depressed as you realize that, no matter what you do, you cannot control them or their actions, behaviors, attitudes, or world views. Now ask yourself: “Who really needs to learn the lesson?”

You really need to learn the lesson! 1) You cannot change others or control what happens to them. 2) Only I can change people (who desire to be changed and who ask ME to change them). And 3) only I have the power, authority, and dominion to control events. Try as you might, you can never be God. Being God is not your responsibility. It’s MINE.

In a near worst case scenario, as you learn that people are not responding to your efforts to control them, you may end up wishing they were dead, that you were dead, or both. (“Wishing” is the near worst case and acting on that desire is the worst case.) Regardless, in any situation, you can always have hope in ME. Even after decades of going in the wrong direction, you can always turn back and re-turn to ME. The solution is simple, but you make it complex. Don’t be too hard on yourselves. Accept MY Grace and Mercy.

If you continually rescue others, — if you want to bear the burden of their sin-debt, — if you want to see others punished for their sin-debt, — if you are weary, discouraged, and depressed because of the harmful actions and negative attitudes of others, — if you wish others were dead, — or if you wish that you were dead, then please know that you suffer from the sinful desire to control. Please also know that you can never be in control because you can never be ME. I alone AM in control. I ALWAYS WILL BE IN CONTROL. BUT, BE OF GOOD CHEER, I WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR HEAVENLY DAD! YOU ARE MY CREATION. HOW CAN I NOT HELP BUT LOVE YOU?

Sometimes I hear people tell each other that they must forgive themselves. However, if you trust ME as your God, then that action is moot. If you have asked ME to forgive you, and if you have accepted MY forgiveness, and if you believe that I AM God and have the power to forgive, then forgiving yourselves does not really enter into the equation (except, perhaps, as a “feel good” exercise of questionable value). Moreover, if you look at yourself through the shed blood of Jesus Christ (as I look at you), then you will see there is no need to forgive yourself.

In closing this chapter on the “Guilt Complex,” it is important to add that, to ME, all unconfessed sin stinks like manure. Most of you think that your unconfessed sin does not stink, or that it stinks less than someone else’s. But, it stinks all the same. Likewise, you should not look at yourselves as “less guilty” of unconfessed sin than someone else because your sin is not as bad as theirs. Why? If you have transgressed one of MY Commandments, then you have transgressed them all.[255] By the way, burning all of the sweet incense[256] in the world cannot mask the stink from your unconfessed sin. And, although you might think that you can avoid personal repercussions from your unconfessed sin, please know that your unconfessed sin will always hit the fan and be thrown back at you.

To rid yourself of unnecessary guilt, please tell ME what unconfessed sin you have left in your life. Right now is just as good a time as any to tell ME and to ask for MY Forgiveness. Do this daily. (You can always make a written list to help you focus, but you must always destroy that list after you make it.)

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Eight to answer questions 1 through 16. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. Spiritually speaking, what is death?

2. What are the differences between remorse and repentance?

3. (a) Who are the people that stand condemned? (b) Who are the people that no longer stand condemned?

4. (a) Give examples of behaviors for people who walk after the flesh. (b) Give examples for people who walk after the Spirit.

5. Why shouldn’t saved people feel guilty?

6. What makes us ineffective Christians?

7. Why is it wrong to accuse other Christians? Please explain.

8. What are some things that we should do when others trespass against us?

9. Why do Satan and his demons hate forgiveness?

10. In what ways can we be perfect?

11. What are the primary, secondary, and tertiary emotions often associated with someone’s trespass against you?

12. How do you demonstrate that you are made in the complete image and perfect likeness of God?

13. How can we forgive and forget someone’s trespass against us?

14. Should we continually rescue others from the consequences of their sins? Please explain.

15. In what ways do we seek to control others?

16. Are you currently guilty of any unconfessed sin? (Here, answer only “yes” or “no. ”)

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Nine

After MY Own Heart

Your iniquity (or, “turning from ME”) resulted in your sin nature (or, “predisposition to sin”) as well as in your individual and collective corporeality (“sin body,” “body of sin,” “shadow of turning,” “mortal body,” or “flesh”), which was, and still is, appointed by ME as the visible sign of your iniquity. Sin is “action based on iniquity,” which occurs, first, by your entertaining ungodly desires and, only after that, by enacting those desires in your actions. Your actions do not precede your desires. Rather, your desires precede your actions. Scripture[257] records that:

14.Every man or woman is tempted when drawn away by his or her own lust …

15.Then, when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death [“death” connoting both supernatural as well as natural consequences].

That Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach, was made “in the likeness of sinful flesh”[258] when “the Word was made flesh”[259] was for the purpose of condemning through his sacrificial and sinless offering that which condemned you to mortality (the supernatural consequence denoted by your “separation” from God and the natural consequence denoted by the “death” of your physical body). Indeed, through his sacrificial and sinless offering, Christ Jesus led captive your once-permanent captivity to sinful desires and actions.[260] He won the victory by overcoming the world. His victory now permits you to win yours by placing your faith in him alone.[261]

Ideally speaking, you should be freely offering your eternal gratitude, humility, thanksgiving, and praise for the sacrificial sinless offering that Christ Jesus made for you. “Freely” here refers to your self-sacrifice of worshiping ME. I should be worshipfully approached through your gratitude, humility, thanksgiving, and praise because I AM WHO I AM. I do not force you to worship ME even though I deserve to be worshiped. Indeed, I deserve your very best consciously-chosen attitudes and efforts. (“Consciously-chosen” does not mean that you can feign them.)

As a Christian, when you entertain and indulge fleshly desires,[262] you are actually entertaining and indulging your old fallen sin nature.[263] At the same time, you are opening the floodgates of your consciousness to thoughts, feelings, ideas, and images from demonic realms. How far you open those floodgates — and, therefore, how powerful are the demonic thoughts, feelings, ideas, and images you receive — depend on how often you entertain and indulge sinful fantasies and how vulgar and heinous they are. Yes, except for the unforgiveable sin of blasphemy against MY Holy Spirit, all sin is sin to ME, but not all sin is sin — that is, not all sin is qualitatively the same in the demonic realm. Distinctions exist there. Portals for demonic influence are greater the more vulgar and heinous the sin you entertain, envision, and enact.

In the world of the invisible, actions based on sinful thoughts, feelings, ideas, and images are open invitations for increased demonic involvement and activity in your lives, especially in the areas of the sins you emotionally entertain, mentally envision, and physically enact. The carnal mind that still tries to parasitize you is where all sin begins. The sin is committed by your old carnal mind first before you act it out in corporeality. The more vulgar the sinful fantasy and heinous the crime, the more vehement and violent will be demonic involvement in your earthly experience (during wakefulness as well as during sleep). The door to the demonic realm is unlocked by your entertaining ungodly desires, cracked open through your envisioning the enactment of those desires, and swung wide open by your acting them out in the physical.

What you attract and what you produce all begins and ends with the state of your heart. Both godly and ungodly desires originate in your heart, which is the core of your soul. Your King, Christ Jesus, said:

{33} Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit. {34} O generation of snakes, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. {35} A good person out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil person out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.[264]

{18} … those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the person. {19} For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies: {20} These are the things that defile a person …[265]

At MY request, MY Prophet Samuel evaluated the sons of Jesse to identify who would be the next King of Israel after Saul. Samuel assumed that Eliab, the first of the sons presented to him, would be chosen by ME because Eliab was tall, dark, and handsome. As Samuel made this assumption, I quickly rebuked him:

Do not look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.[266]

I measure the stature of a person based not on your three dimensions of physical height, breadth, and depth but, instead, based on the three spiritual dimensions of sincerity, purity, and love.

1.Sincerity. Is the person sincere in seeking to please ME (that is, yield his or her own will to MY Will)? To be sure, sincerity alone does not enlarge a person’s stature. Many misguided people have been sincere in their pursuit of vain philosophies and false religions. In the final analysis, sincere people seeking to please ME should be willing to lay down all of their theological misconceptions and religious malpractices. Please take note that laying down “all” theological misconceptions and religious malpractices usually takes place one at a time. (I encourage you to be patient with one another, just as I AM patient with you.) Sincerity adds height to your spiritual stature, depending, of course, on the degree of your sincerity.

2.Purity. Is the person seeking to live a holy life? If so, holiness should permeate the person’s attitudes and activities. Purity has tremendous benefits. People who are pure in heart both see ME and understand MY truths.[267] Purity adds breadth to your spiritual stature, depending, of course, on the degree of your purity.

3.Love. Does the person love ME with all of his or her heart, soul, mind, and might?[268] Does the person love others as much as himself or herself?[269] Does the person love perfectly by forgiving others of their trespasses?[270] If the person is a mature Christian, does the person feed (that is, nurture) MY lambs and sheep?[271] Here, love is an action verb and not a noun. It is only through love for ME and MINE that souls in dust are returned to their original purpose and primary state of being. Love adds depth to your spiritual stature, depending, of course, on the degree of your love.

For those who might be swept away by an immature religious zeal, true Christian martyrdom includes daily sacrifice in the self-immolation of insincere motives and intents, impure thoughts and feelings, and selfish “love” (which really is not love at all).

Your spiritual stature in ME grows over time depending on your faithfulness to ME throughout your daily experiences and during your periodic testing. Your every success and failure is used by ME to grow you through the well-watering of MY Holy Spirit. However, you will only grow and produce fruit if you are attached to the Vine. Who is “the Vine?” Almost two thousand years ago, Christ Jesus answered that question:

{1} I am the true vine, and My Father is the cultivator. {2} Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, He purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.[272]

Ironic, isn’t it, that I appointed you to till the ground[273] and here I AM the ultimate sodbuster?

It is recorded in MY Holy Bible that King David had a heart “after MY own:”

{22} And when the LORD had removed Saul, He raised up David unto the children of Israel to be their king; to whom also He gave testimony, and said, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after MY own heart, who shall fulfill all of MY Will.”[274]

How do you receive and keep a heart that is “after MY own?” You begin and end in penitence.

Penitence is the one factor in spiritual development most often neglected by souls in dust. Yet, without penitence, you cannot even hope to apprehend spiritual matters. Unless hearts are penitent, you will be unwilling to give up human opinions and mortal beliefs that you hold to be true. In effect, with an impenitent heart, you demonstrate your unwillingness to be taught by MY Holy Spirit.

Without penitence, there is simply no room in your heart for spiritual truth. For example, all of the etymologists and exegetes in your world could be gathered together to interpret various meanings within MY Holy Bible; however, without penitent hearts, their individual and collective interpretations of Scripture would be void of depth, and their scholarly utterances would be little more than vain babblings. If Christ Jesus himself were standing in front of you, and your impenitent heart refused to soften and melt in his presence, you would not be able even to comprehend what he was saying to you (until, perhaps, it was too late).

To be sure, Christian men and women should not confuse their ability to reason with their having “the mind of Christ.”[275] Oftentimes the divine Logos defies human logic. Spiritual reasoning is dependent on penitence. (More about that later in this chapter.)

You alone may freely choose penitence for yourself when it is offered to you by ME, but you cannot achieve a state of penitence without ME. I alone grant repentance to you in response to your desire to please ME. I alone soften your heart.[276] I alone create within you a new heart.[277]

If you desire to have a penitent heart, all you need to do is ask ME for one. (You need not do anything alone anymore if you have a mind to ask ME.) All that asking ME requires is your humility. All that keeps you from asking ME is your arrogance. To be sure, arrogance is pushy, but there is no greater push against arrogance than penitence. Your penitence pushes your arrogance aside and lets you see ME. Your penitence opens the eyes of your heart.[278] And the more penitent you are, the more enlightened your heart becomes.

The crucifixion of a thousand Christs could not rend the veil that covers an impenitent heart because that curtain can only be parted by ME in response to your desire to please ME. Penitence cannot be forced on anyone through corporal punishment or by confinement because the reformation of a life must begin as the conscious, inner decision of that life to live differently.

It is only in penitence that you open your heart to ME and permit ME to come and reside within you through MY Holy Spirit. It is only in penitence that you are released from the shackles of your world and its world-system. It is only through penitence that you can be reclaimed to the family born of God’s love. And it is only through penitence that your soul can be healed:

The Daystar yet shall gleam,

Throw down its treasured beam!

It yet shall touch upon your soul,

And mend its troubled seam![279]

True penitence is past compunction and beyond grief. It is the mark of a soul that has turned itself right about face toward ME. It is a gift to ME of the highest order. It is the continued state of submission to MY Will. It is a demonstration of your eternal gratitude for MY efforts on your behalf.

Everyone on earth knows how difficult it is for them to say, “I am sorry.” Perhaps you find it uncomfortable to place yourself in a bad light in front of others. Perhaps you are embarrassed for having done something wrong. Perhaps you do not want to diminish the image you are seeking to project to others. Perhaps admitting that you are wrong would then require you to make a change that you are unwilling to make. Regardless of the reason or reasons, so difficult is it for souls in dust to say, “I am sorry,” that those three words often go unsaid. How much more difficult, then, would it be for a soul not only to say, “I am sorry,” but also to live the words, “I am sorry,” every day of its earthly existence? Yet, if you are to enter and remain in spiritual recovery from self-pride and self-will, such a continuing metanoia (or “mind-state of repentance”) is required of you.

It is nothing less than your own hardness of heart that prevents you from admitting that you have done anything wrong. And it is nothing less than your own denial of wrongdoing that would prevent you from entering MY Holy of Holies,[280] the place within where you meet ME, your one true and only real Self. Unfortunately, however, because most souls in dust look to find the Divinity without, the last place they venture to look for ME is within.

I must say that I hesitated to tell you that I AM your Self because you might decide that you are destined to become ME. [Everyone in Heaven still laughs at that notion.] Although one day I will infuse you and all other members of the Body of Christ with the Totality of MY Being, you can never become ME. When I say that I AM your Self, I mean that only in ME do you have your one true identity and only real being. I state that I AM your Self in the same way that Iochanan the Baptizer (“John the Baptist”) said of MY Son, “He must increase and I must decrease.”[281] I state that I AM your Self in the same way that Christ Jesus said, “In order to gain your life, you must first lose it.”[282] I AM the Creator. You are MY Created. I AM your Spouse. You are MY espoused. I AM your Lover. You are MY beloved.

I WILL eternally remain your Creator. You will eternally remain MY Created. Yes, I AM your Life, and I AM your Self. To be sure, if you have given yourself completely to ME, then it is no longer you who live but I Who live within you.[283]

Why should you be penitent?

Penitence is the only way for souls in dust to get to MY Glory-land. Where is MY Glory-land? It is over there, across the river, and to the east — in an overworld far above your current plane of consciousness. Without penitence, no one is allowed to cross the bridge between your world and the next. Penitence is the fare required for your passage over the bridge. Your penitence is the toll. For those who might interpret this to mean that salvation is based on works (that is, requiring the “payment” of penitence) instead of depending solely on the sacrificial sinless offering of Christ Jesus, please remember that it takes a willing heart to receive salvation. I certainly do not force salvation on anyone, and not everyone is going to be saved even though salvation is offered to everyone through the sacrificial and sinless offering of Christ Jesus. I do not compromise MY Integrity. In effect, penitence separates the sheep from the goats.[284]

Penitence is the only thing on earth that can keep you in love with ME. (Arrogance certainly cannot do that!) Penitence prevents the “prince of the power of the air”[285] from holding his power over you. (Through penitence, you will always find the strength necessary to overcome Satan’s temptations.) Penitence prevents you from becoming embittered by the unpleasant circumstances in which you may find yourselves. Penitence keeps you from judging others and from being judged.[286] Penitence prepares you for Heaven.

Instead of fear concerning the loss of the false image you have of yourselves, there should be great joy among you that I consider penitence sufficient as your contribution to the salvation process.

The more penitent you are, the brighter you become. To be sure, there is a direct relationship between your penitence and the degree of your reflectance of MY Glory. From MY spiritual vantage point, the more you submit yourselves to ME in contrition, the more you increase in brilliance until your brilliance eventually equals that found within MY Glory-land. In MY Glory-land, you are brilliant because you reflect MY Glory in all of your facets (somewhat like a spiritual diamond).

Let ME explain.

When souls are fully returned to ME as MY complete image and perfect likeness, they no longer carry around the darkness of self-pride and self-will. Because their souls are thus freed from iniquity, they are then enabled, once again, to reflect ME without blemish. When a soul receives its “crown of glory”[287] in Heaven, the garment of self-pride and self-will that it has worn since it first turned from ME (which is to say, the soiled appearance that has been a sign of its iniquity) is forever removed and permanently replaced with a new mantle, such robe an investment of ME. The appearance of a soul who lives in ME is bright as I AM bright, giving Light not as the Source of Light but, rather, as a vessel bearing MY Light, magnifying the Source for all to see.

Glory is what the children of God wear in Heaven. It is what makes them white.[288] It is an aura of goodness. It is a circle of Light. It is a radiant beauty and splendor that is incorruptible and unchanging. A very apparent luminosity, the Glory of God is what sets MY Children apart from the children of darkness. Thus, “glorious” is not only descriptive of MY bright appearance but also of the appearance of those who live fully in ME. As you wait patiently for that change to take place, please be reminded that all Glory belongs to ME!

Earlier in this chapter, I stated that spiritual reasoning is dependent on penitence. Indeed, spiritual reasoning is a process of the heart and not the head. When the caul of darkness has been removed from off the heart, when the heart has been circumcised of its self-pride and self-will, when the commandments of God have been inscribed upon the fleshly tablets of the heart, and when a soul seeks out ways for MY Love to be expressed through its heart, then, and only then, is a soul ready to apprehend divine ideas, spiritual facts, and truths of being. Until that time, a soul in dust is either dead (as one of the “walking dead”) or asleep to the purpose and meaning of life.

How do you get spiritual reasoning?

It begins with the softening of your heart. Such softening occurs in mortals when they come to believe on MY Son and in his mission. Mortals must become open to the world of Spirit before that world’s elements can be both seen and heard. It ends — no, continues — in your love for ME and genuine concern for the well-being of others.

If you are a person after MY own heart, then you demonstrate generosity by sharing your love, affection, encouragement, knowledge, experiences, and resources with others. You avoid withholding these things. And you freely share the things that are most dear to you with ME and with all others who belong to ME.

If you are a person after MY own heart, you are childlike without being childish. If you are a person after MY own heart, you are as harmless as a dove at the same time that you are as wise as a serpent.[289]

Are you a person after MY own heart? If not, you can be one. All you need to do is ask ME.

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Nine to answer questions 1 through 15. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. Briefly discuss the relationship of desire, sin, and spiritual death.

2. How do we win victory over desire, sin, and death?

3. In what ways do Christians entertain and indulge their old fallen sin nature?

4. What allows demons to torment us?

5. Spiritually speaking, what is the heart of an individual?

6. Name and discuss the three spiritual dimensions that God sees when He looks at us.

7. How do you receive and keep a heart that is after God’s own heart?

8. How do humility and arrogance relate to penitence?

9. How can we become and remain penitent?

10. How is God our Self?

11. Is everyone eventually going to be saved?

12. What is our personal contribution to the salvation process?

13. When we are in heaven, are we the source of spiritual light in heaven? Please explain.

14. How do we get spiritual reasoning?

15. How can we become people after God’s own heart?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Ten

Knowing Who You Really Are

If mortality is “death,” and corporeality is “the shadow of death,” what can souls who pass through dust hope to accomplish during their earthly sojourns?

Although you are presently tied to corporeality, you may refrain from acting on this visible sign of iniquity as if it constituted your one true and only reality. In other words, you can cease from acting on corporeal appearances as if they provided you, or could provide you, with a true picture of what MY Absolute Reality is like. And you can free yourselves from the shackles of sin, the “sting of death,”[290] in accord with the admonition of Christ Jesus that you be not “of” the world (and its world-system) even though you are found “in” it.[291]

Although you banished yourselves from the Garden of MY Heavenly Consciousness, — although physical bodies are the “coats of skins”[292] that cloak the naked consciousness of your bent souls, — although corporeality now hides the Nature of MY Absolute Reality from you, — and although you have refracted the Spiritual Light with which you were originally endowed, you need not view corporeality (the “shame” that you now wear) as the only frame of reference available to you as you make your way through its darkness. Instead, by looking to the Light[293] that is in Christ Jesus, you may turn toward your Creator, and thus toward your true home in Heaven. In this way, you can come to know who you really are in ME.

By ceasing to act on physically-related images of unwholesome wants and desires (such action constituting sin), souls in dust refute the power that self-pride and self-will have in their lives, reopen themselves to the Light of God’s “perfect day,”[294] and, as a result, see through all physical things to all spiritual things (gradually, of course). Unfortunately, however, those who do not struggle to remove the evil that has visited their souls — because they will not believe that they themselves are sinners or that there is a power greater than that which causes them to sin — cannot see MY Light. Since not even the faintest glimmer of spiritual truth reaches those who cling to their iniquity by consciously and deliberately continuing to sin, all things to them must remain inverted and out of focus for as long as they indulge, and to the degree that they indulge, their own self-pride and self-will.

Unknown to many of you, it is only by not succumbing to the temptation to sin that you are let go from the hypnotic hold that “the god of this world”[295] has on you and are, thereby, able to triumphantly proclaim these words as you march toward MY Glory-land: “O death, where is your sting? O grave where is your victory?”[296] Yes, refraining from sin allows those still caught in the web of carnal mind and corporeality to keep from becoming further entangled in iniquity so that they might begin the inward journey to that bright land, which seems so far away and yet is so near. It is only by shutting yourselves off from the cause of divisiveness (which is to say, action based on iniquity, or “sin”) that you start to sense the unity of all real life, a unity that was not bred by a flash of lightening upon some volcanic ash but born of MY Love. It is upon seeing such a common ground that you advance more closely toward MY Glory-land, where you will meet the rest of your spiritual family in Christ and find that you are, in truth, the rest of them.

Mere imagination cannot provide the breathtaking — no, breathgiving — view that is obtained when you subjugate your human creature in self-sacrifice to MY Love. Though at first “the creature” whines and shudders with self-pity that it is being denied the celebrity of its imagined glamour and comfort from its self-proclaimed speciality — in such restraint that the animal slowly dies while MY Holy Spirit within your soul quickens[297] the real you. Then, when “the creature” is finally thrust through with the sword of truth, it gives up the ghost and the soul that it once held condemned is freed to soar upward on its now unfurled wings of faith to greater heights thereafter. Although seemingly contradictory, the statement of Christ Jesus, “whoever loses his or her life for my sake shall find it,”[298] expresses the necessity for souls in dust to move through corporeality in surrender, yielding themselves up to ME in all that they do. In this way are you fully released from the false image you have of yourselves.

From “only begotten Son of God”[299] to “first begotten of the dead,”[300] it is fitting that Christ Jesus is the only Head of the Church of God. As “high Priest,”[301] and sole “Mediator of the New Covenant”[302] between God and humankind, it is also fitting that he is first over those who were once dead (that is, “mortal”) but are now made alive (that is, “immortal”) in him.

Although Christ Jesus is “the only begotten Son of God,” Christ Jesus is not the only “begotten of the dead.” Thus, it is necessary for “those who hunger and thirst after righteousness”[303] to understand that, when they seek to do MY Will, they are, though not Jesus, also of Christ.

How so, “though not Jesus, also of Christ”?

It is the mystery of faith that joins those who seek to do MY Will to the consciousness of MY Christ and, hence, to the one and only originator of all truth. Such a spiritual consanguinity traverses all apparent boundaries to include those who are struggling to be freed from the grip that self-pride and self-will currently exercise within their lives as well as those saved who have gone on (“passed on”) before them. Remember, I created one Body of whom all saved souls are members. In MY Absolute Reality, all saved people are interdependent channels of MY Supreme Being. They do not constitute or comprise MY Supreme Being. Rather, they are channels for it.

Sooner or later, it becomes obvious to each one travailing to be delivered from mortality that, because I AM Love,[304] you must already be loved to the uttermost. Yes, you are already loved to the last element of MY Supreme Being. Hence, you cannot ever be loved any more than you currently are, neither at present nor at some distant point in your cosmic future. Concerning such spiritual intimacy between Creator and created, it is important to emphasize to souls in dust that if you wait for ME without (outside of yourselves), I WILL BE a long time in coming, but if you wait for ME within (inside of yourselves), it will eventually dawn on you that I AM already there waiting for you. (Please note, waiting for ME “without” is not referring to the return of MY Son to earth, which return, most assuredly, will occur.)

As I see it, one of the greatest obstacles to understanding the Nature of MY Absolute Reality — and, thereby, knowing who you really are — is overcome as you apprehend that I actually reside within you when you are fitting channels for MY Love. In MY Absolute Reality, I cannot be separate from those who are MY Created (which includes MY “re-created” through Christ Jesus) nor can they be separated from each other or from ME. Of course, earthly appearances would lead you to believe otherwise, but you must keep in mind that such appearances are not part of MY Absolute Reality. Corporeal images prove nothing about MY Perfect World and who you really are. Although one day you will receive a glorified body, and although that body has some similarities to your current body, your glorified form is not corporeal. It is not physical. It is incorporeal and spiritual. And, albeit incorporeal and spiritual, it is substantive beyond mere mortal understanding.

That I live in you only to the degree that you prove MY qualities and attributes should be frightening to those in your earthly sphere of activities who profess to do MY work but do not demonstrate the single most important quality by which I laid down MY entire Spiritual Universe, which quality is love. Every soul who has tried to exist outside the framework of unselfish love has ended up negating itself — that is, phasing itself out of the one true and only reality it can have in ME. All such souls end up cutting themselves off from ME (the Source of all real being) and, hence, from communion with all saints (those who are eternally conscious of the spiritual truth that they live in ME only through the sacrificial and sinless love offering of Christ Jesus).

For those who might protest that MY Creation must contain impurity as well as purity, let it be known that MY all-time, all-space, and all-motion include by excluding. Boundaries do exist for MY Perfect World. Although MY Creation is infinite, those who live within it and contribute to MY Glory do not experience both good and evil, right and wrong, and purity and impurity, although they most certainly can distinguish between the contradistinct characteristics in each pair.

In order for souls in the earth plane of consciousness to become spiritually renewed and restored in purity to what I originally intended for them, they must rekindle MY fire within through their efforts to remove the illicit power of self-pride and self-will that now sits enthroned within their souls. (Although salvation is not dependent on your efforts, the process of sanctification relies on them.)

If souls in dust are to reenter MY Kingdom, they must be willing to wake from their sleep of death to sacrifice the illusive pleasures and pains that have kept them bound to self-pride and self-will. King David came to such an understanding, which inspired him to write:

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears have You opened: burnt offering and sin offering have You not required.[305]

For You do not desire animal sacrifice. Otherwise, I would give it. You do not delight in burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not reject.[306]

Like King David, you also must come to the spiritual recognition that I neither expect nor exact false sacrifices from you. Instead, I require the most difficult offering: sacrificing yourself daily in gratitude, humility, and penitence. If you “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God,”[307] then you will daily place yourself on the altar as “a living sacrifice.”[308]

To be sure, I AM worthy of the only offering that gives true evidence of contrition in those who have gone astray, which evidence includes the sacrifice of your self-pride for MY Pride and your self-will for MY Will. For those who would glean merely half a truth here and then try to physically, emotionally, or mentally press another soul into submitting to ME, please know that such action has no foundation in truth. Feelings of genuine thanksgiving, selflessness, and contrition cannot be forced from without when they do not exist within. Unless an offering is presented of one’s “own voluntary will,”[309] it means nothing to anyone, least of all to ME.

In your world of appearances, many people have taken the defeatist attitude that an unblemished life (which is to say, a Biblically-perfect life) simply cannot be lived by those who dwell in fleshly vehicles. And some of these same people have additionally concluded (as demonstrated by the lives they lead) that all indulged weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and infirmities will be forgiven without any natural or supernatural consequences. Unfortunately, choosing those mindsets as backdrops for living on earth is a mistake since they provide scenarios for one spiritual failure after another. In direct opposition to such negativism, not only is Biblical perfection attainable, it is your challenge from ME:

I AM THE ALMIGHTY GOD. WALK BEFORE ME, AND BE PERFECT.[310]

Unfortunately, some religious people have decided that what will do the trick is the emphatic mouthing of verbal affirmations, like “I am whole,” “I am perfect,” “I am made in the image of God,” and “I am healed.” Undoubtedly, however, these paroxysms are insufficient without genuine gratitude, humility, and penitence to back them up. Your fellow citizens may not recognize the difference between genuine and feigned, but I do. (For example, a smile that is “sweet” to you could be sincere, saccharine, or sardonic to ME.)

Although the word perfect may call to mind visions of physical beauty, youthful vigor, and intellectual excellence, those images are but poor shadows of the attractiveness, dynamism, and brilliance that are found in MY True Creation, where beauty in one another is perceived from within, action is the result of spiritual forethought, and luminosity depends completely on degree of reflectance of MY Glory. Spiritually elevated in thought and looking beyond mortality, it is easier to see that, as the work of God, MY Children are altogether lovely and, thus, the true luminaries, or stars, of Heaven. And, regardless of what those on earth might think, believe, and/or say, a perfect body is, first and foremost, one that is free from sin.

By searching through the multiple meanings of the Hebrew and Greek words from which the word perfect has been translated in the King James Version of the Old and New Testaments, students of truth will gain a greater sense of what a state of Biblical perfection entails. In such an undertaking, one would not only find “unblemished” but also “without spot,” “whole,” “complete,” “finished,” “of full age,” “replete,” “fulfilled,” “satisfied,” “at peace,” “peaceable,” “established,” “upright,” “undefiled,” “clean,” “returned to one’s former condition,” and “showing one’s true self.” However, in spite of the wider view that might be obtained from such a search, and in spite of additional words that might be used to round out an even fuller sense of what it means to be Biblically perfect, unless souls in dust are willing to have the tarnish removed from off their souls, they will not be able to understand firsthand the significance of “Biblical perfection.” (What you have just read is not intended to be in contest with the truth that the salvation of your souls is provided solely by the sinless blood offering of Jesus Christ “once for all.”[311])

In order to be restored to the consciousness that is in Christ Jesus, which consciousness is described in MY Holy Bible as “the mind of Christ,”[312] souls in dust should have an unquenchable thirst for MY Holy Spirit. It is in the searching for — as well as in the finding and drinking of — such “living water”[313] that you early rise to an awareness that MY Created are sojourners of purpose in the “waste howling wilderness”[314] of earth and that only the spiritually disinherited, walking in the ways of the world, travel its purposeless paths. Since “carnal mind”[315] continually tries to convince you that a state of existence in dust is natural for the created of God, it makes it difficult for you to want to accept that there can be no permanent dwelling, no real rest or pleasure, and no true glory in your current plane of consciousness. (You are buffeted daily to believe that you should make yourselves at home where you are and win the acceptance of at least some forms in humankind.)

How many on your globe could honestly say, “There is nothing here for me,” or “There is nothing — neither love of sin nor pleasure in physical sentiency — that holds me to this world of appearances”? And, of those who could, how many have reached the point in their spiritual development where they have maximally objectified their current condition by putting off their lower, abased self, which operates on the animus of corporeality, so they might be, right now, “present with the Lord”?[316]

“Absent from the body”[317] and yet present with the Lord? In dust and yet “in the Spirit”?[318] How can that be? How is it possible to exist in corporeality and yet “live, move and having your being” in ME?[319] These questions are not silly to broach nor unanswerable. Although you are in corporeality, those of you who seek to know who you really are will not be denied. MY Truth does not hide from those who seek it. However, the answers to all of your questions still must come from within you — which is to say, even if you are studying MY Holy Bible, unless you are willing to accept it as truth, you will not be able to learn from it. Thus, repetition and increased time on task are not successful teaching methodologies for the spiritually unteachable. For those who believe they already know everything there is to know, there is no room within them to “get understanding,”[320] especially not the kind whose torch lights the way from your world, finitely finite, to the one “without end.”[321] Ironically, those who are caught in the looking glass of vanity are damned by their own convictions because they do know everything they can ever hope to know (as long as they cling to such a view). As a result, they remain spiritually incapacitated, unable to flee to ME because of their ignorance of who they really are. (Most often, spiritual ignorance is due to the lack of an inquiring mind.)

Concerning the uncertainty of “here and yet there,” an exclamation used by Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, David, and Isaiah sheds additional light on the topic: Their exclamation to ME of “Here am I!”[322] intends much more than their verbalization of the self-evident or their announcement of an existential moment. “Here am I!” states their purpose of being. Through its exclamation, their souls gave open testimony that they no longer were willing to view their selfhood independent of MY Life, Love, and Light. It is the statement of souls yielding themselves back up to ME consciously and willingly, receptive to all instruction from ME that they might receive the “re-reward”[323] of MY hereafter there-ever-after. In short, “Here am I!” is the response of souls surrendering to their Creator, WHO has been saying, and continues to say, “HERE I AM!”[324]

It is important for the spiritually-minded to grasp tightly that their true home is wherever I AM — which is to say, that their real being is in ME: not their imperfect, or human, being (which is their current appearance in mortality) but their perfect, or glorified, being (which is how they appear in immortality). Because you cannot “be” where I AM not, souls in dust need to apply unceasingly that understanding to the shadows, dreams, illusions, and nightmares they meet while homeward bound. Souls in dust who let down their spiritual defenses, though but for a moment, are often found spiritually weakened enough to be attacked and controlled by self-pride and self-will. Unfortunately, whenever souls in dust forget that they are only in transition within the earth plane of consciousness — that is, merely passing through its corporeality either to be or to be no more — they are unwilling to relinquish the false image they have of themselves. As a result, they are unable to find the strength that is necessary for them to step from death to life at the end of their earthly days.

Because the Kingdom of God is within you,[325] and because you can only have your one true identity and only real being in ME, souls who fail to supplant physically-based views of existence with spiritually-enlightened views of life greatly err. Since you are how you see yourselves, such souls condemn themselves to remain “bound in fetters and held in cords of affliction”[326] — which is to say, tied to mortality in one form or another. Indeed, many in corporeality take no responsibility for their individual actions, preferring instead the license of viewing themselves as autonomous from one another. This license permits them to do as they please without the burden of a guilty conscience. Since the apostate make Christ’s mediation of null effect for their own lives, the platform of mortality on which they stand becomes their way station to hell. Hell does nothing but open its gates and enlarge its borders to receive them into eternal damnation.

Without knowing who, what, where, and when they really are, it is easy for souls in dust to accept their low, fleshly estate as existing within the schema of MY eternal handiwork and, thus misguided, to continue to try and dig a home in dust farther away from ME. It should stand to spiritual reasoning (a process of the heart and not the head) that, if I AM incorruptible and immortal (and I AM), then MY Creation, which is made in the image and likeness of ME, also must be incorruptible and immortal. As recorded in the wheels of mortality and in the skeins of physical time, all who have clung to their encarnalized condition, as if it were a desirable state, were on the road to spiritual extinction (that is, eternal separation from ME).

From the first moment of the appearance of souls in dust, physicality has always been unfit to hold the Essence of MY Being. That is why I declared: “MY Spirit shall not always strive with humankind because [in addition to what else it is] humankind also is flesh.”[327] In other words, there will be a point in physical time when MY Life, Love, and Light will be totally withdrawn from those in corporeality who remain intent on glorifying themselves. If only you would take the time to look within yourselves, you would find that I AM the ONLY Cause of all real being. It is only in ME that you know who you really are.

I continue to lament because:

MY people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit. MY people have committed two evils: they have forsaken ME, the Fountain of Living Water, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no [living] water.[328]

“Knowing who you really are” does not mean that you need to get in touch with yourselves physically, psychologically, or philosophically. Rather, it means that you need to discover fundamental truths about your first estate.

Early Christians were challenged by the Apostle Paul’s query, “Do you not know your own selves that Jesus Christ is in you unless you are counterfeits?”[329] Likewise, contemporary Christians should be challenged by the inner call to investigate that which is spiritually substantive and, through such investigation, come to rediscover who they really are in their Creator’s species of thought.

If corporeality were the eternal work of the Most High God, then there would be no need for ME to call you home because you would be there already.

It is not sufficient for ME to tell you in order for you to fully comprehend the insignificance of who you think you are and the significance of who you really are. Souls in dust must discover that for themselves. (Such self-discovery is the true sign of a quickening spirit.)

It is only when you each come to the point at which corporeality and its false images of “individuality” and “separateness” seem altogether unnatural for you that you are willing to extricate yourselves from the tight grip that self-pride and self-will have had on you. Then, fully awake from the dead, “you will know even as you also are known.”[330]

Are you ready to learn who you are in ME?

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Ten to answer questions 1 through 17. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. Is corporeality the only frame of reference that human beings have available? Please explain.

2. Discuss how self-will and self-pride prevent us from seeing spiritual Light.

3. How can we refrain from sin?

4. In what way are we fully released from the false image that we have of ourselves?

5. How are mortals made immortal?

6. How are we of Christ?

7. How do we achieve an intimate relationship with the Lord?

8. When do we receive our glorified bodies?

9. Who are the true saints of God?

10. What sacrifices should we offer to God?

11. In what way or ways is Biblical perfection attainable?

12. Spiritually speaking, what is a perfect body?

13. What is responsible for ignorance in most people?

14. What does the exclamation to God of “Here am I!” mean?

15. Where is our true home?

16. Why is physicality unfit to hold the Essence of God’s Being?

17. What is the true sign of a quickening spirit?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Chapter Eleven

The Dissolution of Corporeality

Few people realize that corporeality is a curse. Fewer people realize that corporeality is a curse imposed upon them by their own iniquity. It is your iniquity that has brought you from immortality (“true life”) to mortality (“real death”). And it is your continued falling, or action based on your iniquity, that keeps you tied to the substratum of mortality called “corporeality.” Acting as if corporeality is all that there is, many souls in dust bind themselves to a flesh that is not the eternal substance of God and to an earth that does not hold God’s Glory. In so doing, they destine themselves to remain in mortality (although not necessarily in corporeality).

If you exist in corporeality without MY Holy Spirit residing within you,[331] then you are one of the “walking dead.” You have an eternal soul but you are not immortal in the sense that the word immortal is being used in this book. To be sure, all souls are eternal. Christ Jesus addressed the eternal nature of all souls when he spoke of “eternal life”[332] (or “life eternal”[333]) for some and “eternal damnation”[334] (or “everlasting punishment”[335]) for others. However, only some eternal souls are “immortal.” The others are “mortal.” In this book, “immortal souls” are saved souls who have either gone on to be with the Lord in Heaven or who are still in corporeality and have not made their transition to Heaven yet. And, in this book, “mortal souls” are unsaved souls either in corporeality (in a flesh body) or in incorporeality (not in a flesh body).

Despite what people think about the longevity of corporeality, it is not eternal. Most souls who are at home in corporeality find it difficult to imagine that one day all corporeality will be removed suddenly and unexpectedly:

{10} But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, at which time the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. {11} Seeing, then, that all of these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons should you be in all holy conversation and godliness, {12} Looking for and advancing toward the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? {13} Regardless, according to His promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.[336]

In order for you to get more accurate bearings on your current location, you will need to become better acquainted with MY Holy Scripture, wherein lies the basis for understanding the view of the eventual dissolution of all corporeality. In addition to the explicit view just quoted, this dissolution is presaged, allegorized, analogized, alluded to, symbolized, and prophesied throughout MY Holy Bible.

When the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah reached the fullness of their iniquity, I consumed them by raining upon them “fire and brimstone from heaven.”[337] Because the children of the Exodus complained, it is recorded that “the fire of the LORD burned among them, and consumed them…”[338] MY Holy Bible also records that when Korah lead the rebellion against MY servant Moshe (Moses), “there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.”[339] And, each time King Ahaziah sent “a captain of fifty with his fifty”[340] to take MY Prophet Elijah, “the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty.”[341]

A very important concept concerning MY Nature and its capabilities are contained in the previously-cited Bible passages. MY Wrath (that is, MY Justified Anger) can be so kindled by the sinful actions of those in humankind that it can consume, expunge, and remove them from physical existence. As I told Moshe, “You cannot see MY face [that is, MY Appearance] because no human being can see ME and live.”[342] Thus, although MY Spiritual Light is radiantly warm and awesomely beautiful to those pure and perfect heavenly beings who fully and completely “live and move and have their being”[343] in ME, that same Light, as a “consuming fire,”[344] would annihilate corporeal beings if they were exposed to it.

Why have I permitted corporeality to continue without interruption since its inception? Because I love MY Creation, I have withheld the Fiery Part of ME from breaking forth upon the fallen until the time of the end (that is, the end of physical time). When the last souls who belong to ME are finally sealed and eternally separated from those who do not belong to ME, MY Glory will then burst forth upon all physicality. At that time, all souls (saved and unsaved alike) will acknowledge that I AM God.[345]

Many times I have been tempted by the sins of souls in dust to destroy your world. But “being full of compassion, I did not destroy you; indeed, many times I turned MY Anger away from you, and did not stir up all of MY Wrath.”[346] Instead, I reserved infusing the physical universe with the Totality of MY Being and carrying out MY Final Judgment until the end of physical time. MY Final Judgment and MY Infusion[347] will not occur until after the one thousand year reign of Christ Jesus on earth[348] (that is, at the end of the Millennium). Until that time, “it is of MY Mercy that you are not consumed because MY Compassion is consistently unfailing.”[349] However, make no mistake, I WILL not wait beyond the time that I have set. This is consistent with what MY Prophet Daniel wrote concerning another end-time event: “for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.”[350] MY Compassion is not without principle. I WILL not allow MY Spiritual Law to be disregarded throughout eternity. Yes, I AM compassionate, but I also require justice.

As already indicated, at various times in Bible history I have dissolved the corporeality of those who have displeased ME. It is also recorded that I have dissolved the corporeality of people who have greatly pleased ME. How? I stepped up their consciousness and “translated” their physical bodies so they might ascend to Heaven without experiencing physical death.

Concerning Enoch, MY Holy Bible records and explains his unusual earthly departure as follows:

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not [found]; for God took him.[351]

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.[352]

It is also recorded that, as he talked with his fellow prophet Elisha, Elijah departed in a most unusual way:

…there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and the two of them were separated; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven.[353]

Both Enoch and Elijah were removed from physicality and glorified. (That they were glorified is implied in MY Holy Bible by the appearance of Elijah “in glory” at the time of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ.[354]) Because MY Forgiveness of their iniquity was so complete and so instantaneous, they literally stepped from the earth plane of consciousness to MY Perfect World. It is not that their physical flesh became spiritual flesh. Instead, their filthy garments of corporeality were dissolved and their iniquity was removed, freeing them to enter MY Kingdom.

Both Enoch and Elijah were translated: 1) because of their extraordinary righteousness[355] as well as 2) to serve as prototypic examples of “the Rapture.”

The English word rapture is derived from: 1) the Latin noun raptus/rapti, whose meanings include “caught up” or “seized and taken away” and 2) the Latin verb rapto/raptare, whose meanings include “to catch up” or “to seize and take away.”[356] The Biblical Rapture (Greek harpazo [357]) is the great “catching away” of Christians before Jesus Christ sets foot on earth during his Second Coming (Greek parousia [358]). Regardless of when you think that the Rapture should occur or the specific time that it actually does occur, the operative word in the last sentence is “before.” In other words, the Rapture will occur sometime before Christ Jesus sets foot on the earth. (“Sometime” here means, though undetermined by you, predetermined by ME. And “before” even includes immediately preceding — or as a part of — Christ’s Second Coming.) Unless Christians get rigid, controlling, and legalistic about their conclusions, the debate between and among them as to when (not if, but when) the Rapture will occur is healthy.

The Rapture is described accurately by the Apostle Paul as follows:

{13} But I would not allow you to remain in ignorance, brothers and sisters, concerning those which are “asleep” [believers who have already physically died and whose souls have gone on to be with the Lord], that you not be sorrowful like others who have no hope, {14} For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so [the souls of] those who “sleep in Jesus” will God bring with him. {15} For we say to you what we have received directly by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive [believers who have not yet physically died] and still remain [on earth] until the coming [Greek parousia] of the Lord shall not take precedence over those who are “asleep” [in him]. {16} For the Lord Jesus himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the [bodies of those already] dead in Christ [“asleep in him”] shall rise first: {17} Then, we who are alive and still remain [on earth] shall be “caught up” [Greek harpazo, Latin rapiemur] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. {18} Therefore, comfort one another with these words.[359]

{49} And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. {50} Now this I say, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption. {51} Behold, I am showing you a mystery: We shall not all “sleep,” but we shall all be changed, {52} In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the [bodies of the] dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we [who are still alive] shall be changed. {53} For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. {54} So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.”[360]

The Rapture is a time when souls travailing on earth will be delivered from their iniquity and the power of death at the Second Coming of Christ Jesus. The Rapture will be similar to the departures of Enoch and Elijah. At that time, souls in dust who have committed themselves to doing MY Will — by believing on MY Son and in his mission and striving to act accordingly — will be “stepped up” to MY Consciousness. All together, and at the same time, they will be carried away. From that point on, they will be enwrapped eternally in MY Glory and each will receive a new somatic identity. In other words, it is during this event that all saved souls will receive their glorified bodies. Souls who are caught up “to meet the Lord Jesus in the air”[361] will not retain their physical identities. (Something so unlike ME cannot be made to have a part in MY Spiritual Universe.) This does not mean that you will not have form and substance or that you will not have bodies in Heaven. It just means that your heavenly bodies will be incorporeal and, therefore, quite different from the ones that you now have. Describing what your future bodies will look like, the Apostle John wrote:

… it does not yet appear what we shall look like: but we know that, when he [the Lord Jesus Christ] shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.[362]

Although Jesus Christ has his own unique somatic identity, you will look like him to the extent that you will then be enwrapped completely by MY Glory. Your new bodies will have the same basic form, substance, and function as his.

When will the Rapture take place relative to the dissolution of all corporeality? The Rapture of MY Church shall precede the dissolution of all corporeality by one thousand years. (Chapters Twenty and Twenty-One of the Book of Revelation articulate what will occur in chronological order.)

Is it so far-fetched for you to believe that corporeality is not the “be-all and end-all” of existence and that corporeality has never been, is not now, and never will be found in MY Absolute Reality?

You cannot cling to particulate matter and its seeming reality throughout eternity. When will you be ready, willing, and able to give up the false image you have of yourself? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow? The day before your earthly sojourn comes to an end?

Souls in dust have come to believe (more in demonstration through their actions rather than in their conscious thinking about it) that corporeality will be perpetuated throughout eternity. They fail to see that corporeality is a temporal and transitory state. They fail to see through the illusions of its appearances. And they fail to see the allusions in MY Holy Bible to the dissolution of corporeality.

Concerning Biblical references to the dissolution of all corporeality, concepts expressed by certain key words in Scripture are most helpful in providing insights to the end of all physicality. In the King James Version of the Bible are found these key words (in their various grammatical forms): “dissolve,” “consume,” “fall,” “burn,” “move,” “remove,” “shake,” “melt,” “flee,” “devour,” “languish,” “fade,” “vanish,” “depart,” and “pass.”

Although many Biblical passages relate to the dissolution of all corporeality, the following are some of the clearest on the subject:

A fire goes before Him, and burns up all of His enemies. His lightning enlightens the world: the earth saw and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth. The heavens declare His righteousness, and all the people see His Glory.[363]

Therefore, I Will shake the heavens, and the earth shall be removed out of her place in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger.[364]

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is removed. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a temporary dwelling; and the transgressions thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.[365]

You will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.[366]

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and those who dwell therein shall die in like manner: but MY Salvation shall be forever, and MY Righteousness shall not be abolished.[367]

The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at His presence, yes, the world and all who dwell therein. Who can stand before His indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.[368]

Therefore, wait upon ME, says the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for MY determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them MY indignation, even all of MY fierce anger: for all of the earth shall be devoured with the fire of MY jealousy.[369]

And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people who have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouths.[370]

And the earth departed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.[371]

And I saw a great white throne, and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was no place for them.[372]

And Death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire.[373]

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away …[374]

That the earth melts like wax in MY Fiery Presence, — that the earth is removed in the day of MY Anger, — that the heavens shall vanish like smoke, — that the earth shall be devoured by the fire of MY Jealousy, — that I will pour out MY indignation upon the earth, — that all flesh will be consumed by ME, and — that the earth and her heavens shall flee and not be found altogether should paint a clear picture for the spiritually-minded. All corporeality is going to dissolve. Only that which is eternal is indissoluble.

All physicality must pass away if you are to behold — and be beheld in — MY Glory. As the flood of waters came during Noah’s time to cleanse the earth of the apostate, so, too, must the infusion of MY Fiery Presence come to blot out all iniquity as well as its various manifestations. At that time, the Light of God will cause all shadows to flee — even “the shadow of death”[375] (corporeality). If only literalists had thought more literally, they might have seen this coming.

Chapter Questions

Use Chapter Eleven to answer questions 1 through 9. Please include each question along with each one of your written answers. (These questions may also be used for the purpose of classroom group discussion.)

1. What is the major difference between immortal souls and mortal souls?

2. How do we know that all corporeality will one day be dissolved?

3. What is the nature of God’s Wrath?

4. Did Enoch and Elijah suffer physical death? Please explain.

5. (a) What is the Rapture?  (b) When is it healthy to debate about the Rapture?

6. When is death swallowed up in victory?

7. What will our heavenly bodies look like?

8. When will the Rapture take place relative to the dissolution of all corporeality?

9. Which Bible verses help us to understand that all corporeality shall one day be dissolved?

Note

In their efforts to familiarize and understand the Holy Bible, students should look up all Bible verses referenced in the footnotes of each chapter and read them aloud at home or in the classroom.

Afterword

Views expressed in this book are not based on consensus reality or the reality of any one individual. They are based on the present author’s perceptions of God’s absolute reality as he understands it and can best articulate it. When in doubt about any view, regardless of whether it is expressed by the present author or any other person, always consult God’s only written Word, the Holy Bible, and ask for wisdom from God. If you ask aright, God will not withhold His Wisdom from you:

[5} If anyone lacks wisdom, let that person ask of God, who gives to all people liberally, and does not reproach; and it shall be given. {6} But, let each person ask in faith, not wavering. For the person who wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. {7} That person should not think that he or she will receive anything of the Lord.[376]

We cannot save ourselves. We are saved solely through the shed blood of God’s only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. That is why all creation bows at his feet. We can only blush in shame at the purity of his innocence. When we see each other in Heaven, it can only be through his shed blood. If you study God’s Holy Bible, I know that you, too, will be able to catch a glimpse of God’s absolute reality while you are still on earth. In order to understand the Holy Bible, all you need to do is look through the holes in the precious hands and feet of Jesus Christ as you read.

Grace and peace to you in the Name of Jesus the Christ, Y’shua H’Moshiach!

Books by the Author

As I See It: The Nature of Reality by God by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2019. ISBN 978-0615590615.

God, Our Universal Self: A Primer for Future Christian Metaphysics by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2014. ISBN 978-0985772857.

Divine Metaphysics of Human Anatomy by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2018. ISBN 978-0985772819.

Christianity and Homosexuality Reconciled: New Thinking for a New Millennium! by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2017, 2018. ISBN 978-0985772888.

Hello from 3050 AD!  by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2019. ISBN 978-0996222402.

The Koran (al-Qur’an): Testimony of Antichrist by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2018, 2019. ISBN 978-0985772833.

Intelligent Evolution by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2019. ISBN 978-0996222426.

The Biology of Psychism from a Christian Perspective by Rev. Joseph Adam Pearson, Ph.D., Christ Evangelical Bible Institute, Copyright 2019. ISBN 978-0996222464.

About the Author

Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson is a college and university educator with more than forty years of classroom and administrative experience. Dr. Pearson has been the International President and Chief Executive Officer of Christ Evangelical Bible Institute (CEBI) for over twenty-five years. At the time of the publication of the latest edition of this book, he still oversees thriving branch campuses of CEBI in India, the Philippines, and Tanzania.

Currently, Dr. Pearson spends the majority of his time developing, designing, and deploying curriculum for Christian education nationally and internationally. And he preaches, teaches, and leads international crusades as well as provides group pastoral training in global mission settings.

During his professional life, Dr. Pearson has also served in the role of Senior Pastor of Healing Waters Ministries in Tempe, Arizona and as Dean of Instruction for Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona — where he was founding instructional dean for its Red Mountain Campus as well as Director of its Extended Campus.

Dr. Pearson believes that after we are saved, and at the same time we are being sanctified, our individual actions are part of an “application” for the jobs that we will each hold during Christ Jesus’ Millennial reign on earth. Dr. Pearson’s greatest goal is to be one of the many committed Christian educators who will be teaching during that period of time.

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Endnotes (Footnotes) Follow:

[1] Matthew 6:11 & Luke 11:3: King James Version

[2] Matthew 6:25-31; Luke 12:22-30

[3] 1 Thessalonians 5:17, King James Version

[4] Hebrews 11:6, King James Version

[5] Often transliterated from Hebrew as Messiah and translated into Greek as Christos.

[6] Numbers 12:1-15

[7] Hebrews 11:6, King James Version

[8] Acts 11:18 & 2 Timothy 2:25: King James Version

[9] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 2 Corinthians 12:9

[10] Genesis 1:1-3, King James Version [Brackets mine]

[11] Ezekiel 1:4, King James Version

[12] Exodus 33:20

[13] Isaiah 6:1-7

[14] 2 Corinthians 12:1-4

[15] Revelation 1:9-10

[16] 1 Corinthians 15:28, King James Version

[17] Exodus 33:19, King James Version

[18] 1 Kings 8:47-52; Ezekiel 18:30-32; Matthew 9:13; Mark 1:15, 2:17; Luke 13:5, 24:47; Acts 17:30-31; Revelation 3:3, 3:19

[19] Isaiah 42:8, King James Version

[20] Matthew 27:46, King James Version (see also Psalm 22:1)

[21] Exodus 33:21-23

[22] Matthew 12:31-32

[23] John 16:13; 1 John 2:27

[24] 1 John 4:8, King James Version

[25] Revelation 20:12-13, King James Version

[26] Revelation 20:12-13, King James Version

[27] Romans 13:8,10

[28] Revelation 20:15

[29] Genesis 3:3-4

[30] Genesis 3:5

[31] Genesis 3:5

[32] 1 Corinthians 15:26, King James Version

[33] Revelation 21:4

[34] The word alphabet is derived from joining “aleph” and “beyt,” the first two letters in the common sequence of Hebrew written characters.

[35] Romans 11:29

[36] Revelation 20:7-8, King James Version

[37] 1 Corinthians 15:28, King James Version

[38] 1 Corinthians 2:9, King James Version

[39] Psalm 1:2; 63:6; 77:12; 119:15, 23, 48, 78 & 148; 143:5

[40] James 4:8

[41] Genesis 5:1-3, King James Version

[42] Ephesians 6:12, King James Version

[43] For the purpose of this book, “Elohist” refers to Biblical passages that use the name of Elohim for Deity; and “Yahwist” refers to Biblical passages that use the name of Yahweh (YHWH or Y’hweh) for Deity. Applying these definitions to the creation accounts, Genesis 1:1 – 2:4a is “Elohist” and Genesis 2:4b-25 is “Yahwist.”

[44] Exodus 12:7, 21-23

[45] Malachi 3:6, King James Version

[46] Matthew 3:17; 17:5, King James Version

[47] John 1:1, 14, King James Version

[48] Matthew 26:28 & 1 Corinthians 15:3: King James Version

[49] 1 Corinthians 15:4, King James Version

[50] Matthew 5:48, King James Version

[51] 2 Corinthians 11:14, King James Version

[52] 1 Corinthians 13:12, King James Version

[53] Revelation 2:11; 20:6; 21:8, King James Version

[54] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Ezekiel 34:2, 6, 7, and 10-11

[55] Matthew 4:17, King James Version

[56] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Luke 17:20-21

[57] 1 Corinthians 15:22-28

[58] In this work, “material universe” and “physical universe” are used synonymously.

[59] Colossians 2:9, King James Version

[60] 1 Corinthians 2:16, King James Version

[61] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 26:3

[62] Ecclesiastes 1:9, King James Version

[63] The prefix im- means “without” and the base word mortal, from the Latin mors, means “death.”

[64] Isaiah 1:18, King James Version

[65] 1 Kings 19:12, King James Version

[66] Acts 4:12, King James Version

[67] Revelation 3:12, King James Version

[68] Psalm 34:1, King James Version

[69] Jude, verse 6 (there are no chapters in Jude), King James Version

[70] Ecclesiastes 3:18, King James Version

[71] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Ecclesiastes 3:11 and 11:5

[72] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Ecclesiastes 3:21

[73] Ecclesiastes 6:12, King James Version

[74] Ecclesiastes 7:2, King James Version

[75] Ecclesiastes 7:3, King James Version

[76] Ecclesiastes 8:16-17, King James Version

[77] Ecclesiastes 7:20-29, King James Version

[78] Ecclesiastes 8:1, King James Version

[79] Ecclesiastes 8:8, King James Version

[80] Ecclesiastes 8:11, King James Version

[81] Ecclesiastes 9:11, King James Version

[82] John 3:16-17 & 17:21: King James Version

[83] Matthew 4:23-25 & 16:20; Mark 16:20: King James Version

[84] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 8:23

[85] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 12:25

[86] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 15:19

[87] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 16:28

[88] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 16:33 [Brackets mine]

[89] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 17:9

[90] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 17:11 [Brackets mine]

[91] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 17:14

[92] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 17:15 [Brackets mine]

[93] John 17:25, King James Version

[94] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 18:36 [Brackets mine]

[95] John 8:44, King James Version

[96] John 12:31, King James Version

[97] 2 Corinthians 4:4, King James Version

[98] Ephesians 2:2, King James Version

[99] Romans 8:6-7, King James Version

[100] James 4:4, King James Version

[101] Revelation 21:1, King James Version

[102] Exodus 33:20; Isaiah 6:5

[103] John 1:14, King James Version

[104] Galatians 2:20 & 5:24, King James Version

[105] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 John 2:15-16 [Brackets mine]

[106] 1 John 3:13, King James Version

[107] 1 John 4:4, King James Version

[108] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 John 5:19 [Brackets mine]

[109] 1 John 3:8, King James Version

[110] Although all souls are eternal, in keeping with the language of this book they are either in an immortal state (saved and restored) or in a mortal state (fallen and unsaved).

[111] John 11:39-44

[112] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Genesis 3:24

[113] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 60:1-3

[114] 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

[115] 1 John 3:2

[116] James 5:16, King James Version

[117] Isaiah 66:1; Matthew 5:34, 23:22; & Acts 7:49: King James Version

[118] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 22:30 and Mark 12:25

[119] Luke 2:14, King James Version

[120] Revelation 5:12, King James Version

[121] Revelation 5:13, King James Version

[122] Deuteronomy 7:9; Psalm 36:5, 89:5; Isaiah 25:1, 49:7; 1 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; & Revelation 1:5, 17:14: King James Version

[123] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 15:35-55 [Brackets mine]

[124] John 10:30, King James Version

[125] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 17:11

[126] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Ephesians 1:23 [Brackets mine]

[127] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Ephesians 4:13

[128] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 110:1 [Brackets mine]

[129] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 26:64 [Brackets mine]

[130] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Mark 16:19 [Brackets mine]

[131] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Acts 7:55-56 [Brackets mine]

[132] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Colossians 3:1 [Brackets mine]

[133] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Hebrews 12:1-2

[134] 1 Corinthians 15:28, King James Version

[135] Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, & Colossians 2:9: King James Version

[136] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Jude, verse 13 (there are no chapters in Jude)

[137] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Peter 4:1-2

[138] All arrogance is born of self-pride and self-will.

[139] John 4:23, King James Version

[140] 1 Corinthians 15:28, King James Version

[141] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 2:9 and Isaiah 64:4

[142] Romans 11:16-18, King James Version

[143] Isaiah 11:1 & Romans 15:12: King James Version

[144] Romans, Chapter 11, King James Version

[145] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 15:45 [Brackets mine]

[146] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 1:1-5 [Brackets mine]

[147] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 1:11-14 [Brackets and italics mine]

[148] Romans 6:6; Ephesians 4:22; & Colossians 3:9: King James Version

[149] Mark 3:29, King James Version

[150] Revelation 19:20; 20:10, 14-15; & 21:8: King James Version

[151] Luke 23:43, King James Version

[152] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Romans 8:1-8 [Italics, brackets and underlining mine]

[153] 1 John 5:19, King James Version

[154] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25; & Luke 18:25

[155] Psalm 52:7; Proverbs 11:28; Mark 10:24; & 1 Timothy 6:17: King James Version

[156] Greek Theotokos means “God-bearer” or “the one who gave birth to God.”

[157] Greek Christotokos, or “the one who gave birth to Jesus Christ,” carries the correct nuance.

[158] Luke 1:28, King James Version

[159] The dogma that the bread and wine of the communion meal actually become the body and blood of Jesus Christ although they retain the appearance of bread and wine.

[160] The dogma that the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ are present at the same time with the bread and wine of the communion meal, but that the bread and wine have not themselves been changed supernaturally.

[161] Luke 22:19; 1 Corinthians 11:24-25

[162] Numbers 21:5-9; 2 Kings 18:4; John 3:14

[163] Luke 23:39-43

[164] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Luke 23:43

[165] From the Greek baptizo, which means “to immerse or pour”

[166] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 28:19 [Brackets mine]

[167] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Acts 2:38 [Brackets mine]

[168] Genesis 4:26

[169] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Revelation 3:12 [Brackets mine]

[170] Acts 17:23, King James Version

[171] Hebrews 6:4-5 & 1 Peter 2:3: King James Version

[172] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 John 2:23

[173] Malachi 3:6, King James Version

[174] 1 Samuel 16:7

[175] 2 Peter 1:4, King James Version

[176] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 3:5

[177] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Mark 16:16

[178] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 John 1:5

[179] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 4:24

[180] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 60:20

[181] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Revelation 22:5 [Brackets mine]

[182] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 24:4 (See also Revelation 21:1)

[183] Numbers 6:25; Psalm 31:16, 67:1, 80:3, 80:7, 80:19, 104:15, 119:135; Daniel 9:17; Matthew 17:2; & 2 Corinthians 4:6: King James Version

[184] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 6:5

[185] Deuteronomy 4:24 & Hebrews 12:29: King James Version

[186] 2 Corinthians 12:2, King James Version

[187] Qumran Document 4Q186 from The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective by Geza Vermes. William Collins and World Publishing Co, Inc., 1978, pages 84-85.

[188] Revelation 19:20; 20:10, 20:14-15; 21:8: King James Version

[189] Exodus 3:4 to 4:17

[190] Exodus 13:21-22 & 14:24; Numbers 14:14; Nehemiah 9:12 & 19

[191] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 1:9

[192] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Job 38:7

[193] Paraphrased from the King James Version of James 1:17. “Turning” is iniquity and “shadow of turning” is the visible sign of iniquity (which is to say, corporeality).

[194] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Habakkuk 1:13

[195] Hebrew aw-vone´ [H5771] from the Dictionary of the Hebrew Bible in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong (Copyright 1890), Crusade Bible Publishers, Inc., Nashville.

[196] 1 Chronicles 29:15, King James Version

[197] Psalm 44:25, King James Version

[198] Psalm 23:4, King James Version

[199] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 51:5

[200] Psalm 107:10-11, King James Version [Brackets mine]

[201] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 40:6-7

[202] Isaiah 42:22, King James Version

[203] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 57:4

[204] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 15:50

[205] 1 John 2:16, King James Version

[206] John 1:14, King James Version

[207] Daniel 11:35, King James Version

[208] Matthew 13:24-30

[209] Titus 1:15, King James Version

[210] Although all souls are eternal, souls either exist in mortality or live in immortality.

[211] Matthew 8:28-29

[212] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Hebrews 11:1

[213] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 14:12-14 [Brackets mine]

[214] Isaiah 14:4, King James Version

[215] Isaiah 14:16-17, King James Version [Brackets mine]

[216] Revelation 20:2, King James Version

[217] Revelation 12:9, King James Version

[218] Metaphysics here means “a spiritual science and sense beyond comprehension by mere human science and sense.”

[219] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Ephesians 2:2

[220] John 8:12, King James Version

[221] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Hebrews 4:3

[222] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 42:1

[223] Joel 1:4, 2:25; Nahum 3:15-16: King James Version

[224] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Luke 16:26

[225] Psalm 86:15, King James Version

[226] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 3:16-21

[227] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 5:24

[228] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Romans 8:1

[229] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Galatians 5:19b-21a [Brackets mine]

[230] Galatians 5:22b-23a, King James Version [Brackets mine]

[231] The conjoined allegory is first used at the end of Chapter Five in this book.

[232] John 8:44, King James Version

[233] 1 John 1:8, 10

[234] Romans 6:1-2a, King James Version

[235] Exodus 25:17-22, 26:34; Leviticus 16:14-15; & Hebrews 4:16, 9:5: King James Version. The “mercy seat” of the Bible represents God’s heavenly throne of mercy.

[236] Matthew 18:15-20

[237] Matthew 5:23; 6:12, 14-15; 18:21-22, 35; Mark 11:25-26

[238] Luke 23:34

[239] Acts 7:59-60

[240] Revelation 12:10, King James Version

[241] James 4:7, King James Version

[242] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 5:48

[243] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 5:44-47

[244] Matthew 9:11-12 & Luke 4:23: King James Version

[245] Genesis 37:25; Jeremiah 8:22, 46:11; Revelation 3:18

[246] Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12; Revelation 1:16, 2:12, 2:16, & 19:15

[247] Ephesians 5:27, King James Version

[248] Genesis 1:26; Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 15:49; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Colossians 3:10

[249] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Luke 23:34

[250] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Acts 7:60

[251] Isaiah 66:12, King James Version

[252] Matthew 23:37, King James Version

[253] Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 7:17, 21:4

[254] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 5:39

[255] James 2:10

[256] Exodus 25:6, 30:1, 7-8; Psalm 141:2; Luke 1:9-10; Revelation 8:3-4

[257] Paraphrased from the King James Version of James 1:14-15

[258] Romans 8:3, King James Version

[259] John 1:14, King James Version

[260] Ephesians 4:8, King James Version

[261] John 16:33, King James Version

[262] Romans 6:6; Colossians 2:11

[263] Romans 7:5, 18, & 25; Romans 8:4-5, 8-9, & 12-14; 1 Corinthians 5:5; Galatians 5:13, 16-17, 19-21, & 24; Galatians 6:8; Colossians 2:11 & 13; 2 Peter 2:10 & 18

[264] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 12:33-35

[265] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 15:18-20

[266] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Samuel 16:7

[267] Matthew 5:8 & Titus 1:15: King James Version

[268] Deuteronomy 6:5 & Mark 12:30: King James Version

[269] Leviticus 19:18 & Mark 12:31: King James Version

[270] Matthew 5:48, 6:14-15, King James Version

[271] John 21:15-17, King James Version

[272] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 15:1-2

[273] Genesis 3:17-19, 23, King James Version

[274] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Acts 13:22; see also 1 Samuel 13:14, King James Version

[275] 1 Corinthians 2:16 & Philippians 2:5: King James Version

[276] Job 23:16, King James Version

[277] Psalm 51:10, King James Version

[278] Ephesians 1:18, various translations

[279] Copyright 1975 by Joseph Adam Pearson.

[280] Hebrews, Chapter Nine

[281] Paraphrased from the King James Version of John 3:30

[282] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 10:39

[283] Galatians 2:20, King James Version

[284] Matthew 25:32-33, King James Version

[285] Ephesians 2:2, King James Version

[286] Romans 2:5, King James Version

[287] 1 Peter 5:4, King James Version

[288] Matthew 17:2, 28:3; Mark 9:3; Luke 9:29-31; John 20:12; Acts 1:10; 1 John 3:2; & Revelation 3:4-5, 4:4, 6:11, 7:9, 13-14, 19:8: King James Version

[289] Matthew 10:16, King James Version

[290] 1 Corinthians 15:56, King James Version

[291] John 17:11-17, King James Version

[292] Genesis 3:21, King James Version

[293] John 1:9, 8:12, & 12:46; 1 John 1:5: King James Version

[294] Proverbs 4:18, King James Version

[295] 2 Corinthians 4:4, King James Version

[296] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 15:55

[297] Psalm 71:20; 80:18; 119:25, 37, 40, 50, 88, 93, 107, 149, 154, 156, 159; 143:11; John 5:21; 6:63; Romans 4:17; 8:11; Ephesians 2:1, 5; Colossians 2:13; 1 Timothy 6:13; & 1 Peter 3:18: King James Version

[298] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Matthew 10:39

[299] John 1:14, 18; John 3:16, 18; & 1 John 4:9: King James Version

[300] Revelation 1:5, King James Version

[301] Hebrews 3:1, King James Version

[302] Hebrews 12:24, King James Version

[303] Matthew 5:6, King James Version

[304] 1 John 4:8, King James Version

[305] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 40:6

[306] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 51:16-17

[307] Philippians 3:14, King James Version

[308] Romans 12:1, King James Version

[309] Leviticus 1:3, King James Version

[310] Genesis 17:1, King James Version

[311] Hebrews 10:10, King James Version

[312] 1 Corinthians 2:16 & Philippians 2:5: King James Version

[313] John 4:10, King James Version

[314] Deuteronomy 32:10, King James Version

[315] Romans 8:6-7, King James Version

[316] 2 Corinthians 5:8, King James Version

[317] 2 Corinthians 5:8, King James Version

[318] Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 5:3; 1 Corinthians 14:2; Galatians 3:3, 5:16 & 25; Ephesians 6:18; & Revelation 1:10, 4:2, 17:3, & 21:10: King James Version

[319] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Acts 17:28

[320] Psalm 119:104; Proverbs 3:13, 4:5-7, 15:32, 16:16

[321] Ephesians 3:21, King James Version

[322] Genesis 22:11, 31:11, 46:2; Exodus 3:4; 1 Samuel 3:4; 2 Samuel 15:26; & Isaiah 6:8: King James Version

[323] Isaiah 58:8, King James Version

[324] Isaiah 58:9, King James Version

[325] Luke 17:21, King James Version

[326] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Job 36:8

[327] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Genesis 6:3

[328] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Jeremiah 2:11 & 13

[329] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 2 Corinthians 13:5

[330] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 13:12

[331] God’s Holy Spirit indwells a soul when that soul accepts God’s only-begotten Son by believing on him and in his mission. (“Believing on” connotes trusting.)

[332] Matthew 19:16; Mark 10:17-25, 10:30; John 3:15, 5:39, 6:54, 10:28, 17:2: King James Version

[333] Matthew 25:46 & John 4:36, 12:25, 17:3: King James Version

[334] Mark 3:29, King James Version

[335] Matthew 25:46, King James Version

[336] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 2 Peter 3:10-13

[337] Luke 17:29, King James Version (See also Genesis 19:15 & 24)

[338] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Numbers 11:1

[339] Numbers 16:35, King James Version

[340] 2 Kings 1:9, King James Version

[341] 2 Kings 1:12, King James Version

[342] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Exodus 33:20

[343] Acts 17:28, King James Version

[344] Deuteronomy 4:24, 9:3 & Hebrews 12:29: King James Version

[345] Romans 14:10-12, Philippians 2:10

[346] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 78:38

[347] 1 Corinthians 15:28, King James Version (See also Ephesians 1:22-23.)

[348] Revelation 20:7-15, King James Version

[349] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Lamentations 3:22

[350] Daniel 11:27, King James Version

[351] Genesis 5:22-24, King James Version

[352] Hebrews 11:5, King James Version

[353] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 2 Kings 2:11

[354] Luke 9:29-31, King James Version (See also Matthew 17:1-3 & Mark 9:2-4.)

[355] In the Holy Bible, “righteousness” refers to placing one’s faith in God (Y’hweh in the Old Testament and Y’shua H’Moshiach in the New Testament) and walking in that faith daily.

[356] The noun is used in St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate of the Holy Bible in 2 Corinthians 12:2, 4 and Revelation 12:5.

[357] Greek ἁρπάζω

[358] Greek παρουσία

[359] Paraphrased [and amplified] from the King James Version of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

[360] Paraphrased [and amplified] from the King James Version of 1 Corinthians 15:49-54, including quote from Isaiah 25:8.

[361] 1 Thessalonians 4:17, King James Version

[362] Paraphrased from the King James Version of 1 John 3:2

[363] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Psalm 97:3-6

[364] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 13:13

[365] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 24:19-20

[366] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 29:6

[367] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Isaiah 51:6

[368] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Nahum 1:5-6

[369] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Zephaniah 3:8

[370] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Zechariah 14:12

[371] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Revelation 6:14

[372] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Revelation 20:11

[373] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Revelation 20:14

[374] Paraphrased from the King James Version of Revelation 21:1

[375] Psalm 23:4, Isaiah 9:2, Amos 5:8, Matthew 4:16, & Luke 1:79: King James Version

[376] Paraphrased from the King James Version of James 1:5-7