The Sixth Age - Self Governance

Post 325

Now that Rehab is finally over and you pack your 6th of 7 bags to depart, I invite you as friends, and teachers of the next generation, to come into the sitting room while you wait for your Messiah to come pick you up. The lessons are over, I am no longer making demands or stuffing your head with rules and obligations in the faith; this is the sitting room, grab some coffee and sit if you will, I have some very interesting thoughts for anyone interested while we wait. If not, feel free to wander the grounds, the course is over.

I am going to change up our Gender Typology and speak now of Men as we still comprehend that both genders are the bride in our relationship with Christ. Ladies, be alert, this is the sixth age of seven and you are now packing your sixth bag (Hebrews 4:11). Therefore expect that this conversation might be a snag “*” that will easily toss you from your praise-worthy, long endured, successfully completed, rehab course if you are not now keeping your eyes on the Lord of the 7th age of rest, as a way of life. This is not a retraction of all that we have learned, rather it is a sum (Hebrews 4:1-3), but, it will be very easily seen as a liberating retraction if we get a backward focus right at the end, and such a focus will cost you your reward after successfully completing the course (Genesis 19:26).
These opening statements may be metaphorical but it is quite pregnant with much deeper meaning, don’t just skip over it as a cute intro to meaty stuff. The king James Bible words the idea like this; “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches,” and, “(Whoso readeth, let him understand).”

The danger of changing genders in our discussion is that the male role is supposed to Type God, so in the perception of our manly failure of that Type it will be easy for “women” (our human mindframe) to transfer that failure to God and thereby justify the feminine error of self-will in the offered self-governance at the end of the course. If you expected men to comprehend their part in the feminine gender role discussion, now it’s your turn to exercise your comprehension and dig deeper for your own application in this one.
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Men:
Regarding your perceptions of the male female relationship as it personally relates to your marriage, this is in fact a main topic of my concept in declaring this “a Woman’s World now.” I know that you are greatly concerned that if you let your wife govern herself, you will be out of a job, disobedient to Christ, as well as, she will end up in very great trouble without her shepherd. I know of no other way but to continue the writing and hope that it speaks to your specific needs, but in the; “I need real answers now” concerns, I feel your frustration with trying so hard to “interpret cryptic material”; “Why can’t he just speak plainly?” Right?

I spent years complaining to God that if he wanted us to learn what he wanted us to know, his message was too difficult to figure out: “I want desperately to know it, I am using all my heart and soul and mind to diligently understand it, because I really, really want to please and obey God as well as find success in his way, so why can’t I figure this out?”
The reason why is because this is not an intellectual problem.
“But I am an intellectual creature, I use intellect to figure things out, so what else am I supposed to be using?”

From their side of the same conflict, this is the very same difficulty our wives face with us as we try to be the head of the family and they can’t figure out what we expect from them, the only real variant between them and us is that they are trying to figure out how to be a good wife from their emotions, but it’s not an emotional problem.
“But we are emotional creatures, we use emotion to figure things out, so what else are we supposed to be using?”
We each tend to get frustrated with both ourselves and our Lord (God/husband), and ask; “Why is this so hard to figure out?”: Just as with you and your Lord, it’s not like your wife isn’t trying too.

What is your specific complaint against your wife? Is she a bad woman? Is she evil? Is she rebellious? Is she subversive? It helps to seriously ask yourself these questions, not to intellectually identify “her specific wickedness,” --which, in our self-validation, we can easily manipulate evidences to the wrong conclusions that match our pre-seated perspective--, but rather to understand our own complaint of unhappiness with the relationship. "What are we really complaining against?" as opposed to an emotional vague dissatisfaction that by its vagueness has no solution.
I venture to suggest that for us men it is our personal will; our pride, that is being challenged, resisted, or foiled by our wives' reactions, and this rubs us wrong, because; “I’M the man here!, God gave ME the role of leadership.” And of course we think we mean well in this; we are doing the very best we can to lead right. “And we could, if she would only follow like God commands her to,” right?

But are wives really a sub-species of human that don’t have personalities and thoughts and desires and ambitions and wills, that, like ours as we relate to God, feel suppressed and oppressed by our “biblical demand” that she give them up to our manly domination? Are they really created by God to be beautiful but mindless and in perpetual need of being told exactly what we want them to do at every moment of the day? Are women supposed to dump their humanity to marry a man and thereafter be his plastic doll? Are they soulless automatons to be so directed and used when, and as, man chooses to fulfill his “God-authorized” self-centered will? Did God really design women to be chattel property for men as if God is really only interested in men? Does God hate women? When God told man (Genesis 1:27) to subdue the earth and all that is in it, did that include women? Really, go read that for yourself to truly resolve the question in your own mind, I’ll wait. You can find it in Genesis 1-3. And then look for that “Dominate your wife” command through scripture.
Dominate your children? That’s scriptural, but your wife?… well, that’s more complex, but it’s all perfectly ordered in the progressive ages of the Grand Tapestry.
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This has all been explained before:
At my suggestion that this is now a “Woman’s Word,” I get a lot of raised eyebrows as if I am preaching a new gospel. So how can you be sure I am not? Haven’t I shown you how to go back to the scriptures and look for the related Grand Typology as a major theme found through the entire word of God?
“So when have women as an entire gender ever been given the power of self-governance in scripture?”
Well, you mean besides when Eve chose to eat the fruit while in Adam’s presence, and then shared it with him who ate of his own free will too? Is that one too questionable for you? Maybe this or that happened, maybe it went this or that way to explain that this was just feminine rebellion. Right?
OK. Let’s pick a different one.

Lucifer:
By understanding the prophetic mystery, and reading the context of Ezekiel 28 (example: v.13), we know that at least the prince of Tyrus is a title describing Satan as the Daniel 10 principality spirit that ruled the Dominion of Tyrus, (among others through time: Egypt and Babylon to name two), and the king of Tyrus was the man that Satan used as one of his many antichrists (I John 2:18) to do his bidding. And now we know why Christ is called a prince while men are called kings (Revelation 1:5): We are speaking of two different chains of authority in two different domains as they interrelate. God is King in heaven while he made Man king on earth. In the Second Coming, God sends his only begotten Prince to govern kings.
So, When God gave the (lower case “p”) prince Lucifer his power and glory above the others in his “p” class of night princes (Ezekiel 28:2,12,14-15, etc.), He designated him to rule over the night by his own right of granted authority. We are not speaking of night as evil at this point: In the time before his fall of pride, I postulate that his realm, the night, was not evil; it was good (Ezekiel 28:14-15), but the fall of his realm took place before the creation of our universe and so night became emblematic of darkness: Evil. When making distinctions, God does not call the darkness good, even as early as Genesis 1:3. This is because the darkness already existed before the Creation process (Genesis 1:2), the darkness was already evil, from which God drew out the Creation in a redemptive move (II Corinthians 4:6=Psalm 112:4, Isaiah 9:2+ Isaiah 45:7+Jeremiah 13:16=Ezekiel 32:8). Understand; Satan’s fall was not an accident but rather a pre-staging of conditions before God created man’s realm within it (Isaiah 45:7). One must start a fire before he can bake bread.
We are already off topic so contemplate this stuff another time, but be sure you do it with the Spirit of God or you will get way deep into trouble. This hidden biblical information is what Satan’s people are just now getting wind of and the world is exploding in a powerfully new doctrine based on the twisted understanding of chimerical scripture. You better know your scriptures and God’s perspective before you get it from Satan’s children of light!
OK, is that one still a bit too weighty for you to accept as biblical evidence that God gave the “submissive creation” the right and power to self-govern? Let’s do another one.

The Sun and the Moon:
When God made the moon to rule the night (Genesis 1:16-18), we know intellectually that the moon has virtually no light within itself; it simply reflects the light of the sun, which the world cannot see at the time the moon “gives her light.” So is the sun ruling the night? The scriptures tell us “No,” and emotion tells us “No,” but scientifically and intellectually we know the answer is “Yes.” Why is that?

Nobody of reason doubts that it is the light of the sun that sustains life. But for some odd reason God designed a system where the sun and the moon mutually share individual dominion over the earth in a very complex cosmic waltz. No intelligent person really thinks the moon has any light within itself as we look at her brightness, but do you suppose that the sun resents the moon for “stealing his glory” when her glory cycles alone in the night season? Did you ever wonder why the sun is always faithfully “the sun” but the moon is sometimes glorious and sometimes dark, and has many phases of her monthly moods that fall between? Why is it that the moon is the one which so dramatically affects the earth’s tides; first pulling the waters this way, then pulling them the opposite way, before pulling them back again as if she can’t make up her mind? Isn’t it because the moon is so much closer to the earth than is the sun? and isn’t that a good thing? Why does the moon always completely submit her glory when the sun is home at the same time as the moon?
Why is it that the woman is the one who stays home to raise the sea of children while the man is off at work sustaining the family? Why as a carpenter am I a “house builder” but a wife is a “home maker”? Why is the man designated by God to be the head of the family and the wife is commanded to be submissive to his rule? Why don’t the sun and the moon usually fight over who’s “will” dominates when? Does the sun really force his will over the moon, or does she rather glory in his light as she dances around the earth not fearing when on occasion his light is obstructed from view? And finally; If the sun “is all that,” why did God give the moon the glory of the sky at night in his equal mercy? (Psalm 136:8-9). Why does God hide the sun at all? I wonder if God just arbitrarily came up with the earth’s related cosmic cycles in a grand chaotic explosion of undirected randomness, or is there a Divine purpose to it all as if he very carefully engineered the cosmos with a specific plan in mind?
I wonder.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge” Psalm 19:1-2, (see also Jeremiah 31:35-36).

“It is he that sitteth upon the circle(orbit) of the earth…that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in… Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things (the starry princes), that bringeth out their host by number: he (God) calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth” Isaiah 40:22,26, (see also Psalm 147:4).

“There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory”
I Corinthians 15:41.

So now we identify the significant different authorities of the sun, the moon, and at least two-different “kinds” of star-glory. I am going to skip over the stars for the time being, but you should note that the Moon rules glorious and beautiful above all the stars at night, but, she nonetheless shares the night sky with the stars; i.e. the angelic princes.
Are you getting the idea that the scriptures are not at all silent on my proposal that here at the end of the 6th age it is time that the “woman” rules the night season as ordained by God, but that her rule is a very-complex, many-faceted, reflected-light, shared-domain with angelic forces of both good and evil?
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Getting off topic, sort of:
In the desire to stay on track explaining the seven-age Grand Tapestry design (that has in effect eight ages of seven), and specifically now this 6th age of self-rule, I also see an urgent need to expound on this “sun and moon” theme as it relates to today’s Christian’s troubled marriages. This is all very much integrally tied together, which is my point of expounding on the Grand Tapestry, but each topic tends to run in it’s own direction so I am torn between which way to go with this. This sub-topic is very urgent today, so allow me to wrap up this 6th age Post in the effort to keep these interconnected topics as separate as possible for clarity sake, and perhaps we can explore the sub-topic of marriage in a Post all its own before continuing on with the 6th age concept in general.
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The roles of the sun and moon in this waltz:
When God told man to love and cherish his wife as Christ does the church, I wonder if the sun might be our temporal Type to better understand our spiritual example. What more could the sun do to increase his display of affection for the moon yet remain faithful to his divine role in the cosmos and allow her to retain her designed role too?
If the sun submitted his light to the glory of the moon when they both occupy the sky at the same time-- if that were even possible-- what would happen to life on earth? It would freeze and die. And on the other side; what would happen if the sun never went away day and night? The world would burn up and become sterile (Psalm 19:4-6, Isaiah 40:7-8), so the sun goes away for a specific time and leaves the moon to reflect his light so the people have reprieve from the heat but do not stumble in the dark. I wonder.

What if in fear of being usurped and in pride of domination the sun refused to send his light for the moon to reflect at night while she ruled in her time? The world would be cast into darkness. Genesis 1:17 tells us that this is the very reason why the moon (and stars) shine at night; “to give light upon the earth.” When the harvest moon dramatically enters the room by rising in all her fantastic glory, we don’t have a problem praising it for her magnificent and special brilliance that delights us all just to look at her, this is an emotional response at her stunning beauty that really doesn’t need the sterile intellectual cold-water to remind us that what we see is really just a reflection from the sun, and at the moment of admiring her special glory, we are not offending the sun to praise the magnificence of the moon’s beauty. In fact, the thing that makes her so mesmerizing is that we can intently admire her textured beauty whereas we cannot gaze directly at the sun-- even for a second-- because he is just too brilliant. This concept is mind-bendingly deep when you think about it; “Her deferring diminished brilliance (humility) is perceptionally more beautiful even than the brilliance of the sun itself?” Sure; when a man and a woman are waltzing, who really notices the man? Yet who is stunned by the moon’s glory when she is dancing by herself in dark self-love and not reflecting the sun at all? (Luke 14:11, James 4:6-7, I Peter 5:5-7). It is undeniable that her glory-- as glorious as it is-- is only in her reflective light and how she goes about it in her many delightfully mysterious changing phases, but even technically reflective, it is still her glory (I Corinthians 11:13-15). Even the stars have their own light that reveals their consistent masculine nature like the sun, but not so the moon: without the sun she is just a dead rock to be ignored or exploited but not admired. Do you imagine the moon is offended at such an observation? I wonder.
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Stay on Target:
To borrow an aeronautical phrase; We tend to “spin in and ball the whole thing up” when we loose sight of the grand scheme of things. We can spend so much time looking out the window enjoying the view that we forget to actually fly the plane, or we can literally spend so much focus studying the “dials” that we loose track of what the instruments are actually for: which is to help us keep the plane flying safely.
I fear that in my necessary exposition I may have done you a two-fold disservice that needs course correcting: Firstly, in filling my Posts with scriptural support for too long. Because-- while at first this prepares the seed to spawn faith-- after a time this just breeds intellectualism and not faith.
And secondly, in making the weed of unrestrained emotionalism seem so evil for the purpose of properly preparing the soil, it may breed the hatred of all plants in the misunderstanding of why we thoroughly till.

Our minds are wired to want information and our hearts want experience, and in harmonious combination we find ourselves with wonderful experiences having avoided the bad. But when, in the need to correct disharmony, we segregate these two elements for too long, we begin to conclude that either: theory is clean and safe, resenting experience as undesirably dirty and dangerous; or we tend to conclude that any experience is desirable, good or bad, resenting the regulation of instruction.

In continuing this present sub-topic of practical marital relationships, we must continue to pay attention to the instruments in order to maintain our designated heading of the main-topic, but in the going we must actually fly the plane of real life experience-- like turbulent air, an elevated perspective, changing scenery, course correction, pressure differentials, and such-- to actually find ourselves at the destination when the flight concludes on schedule (i.e. before we run out of gas). If you know the destination in principle but don’t know the specific course to get there, there is one thing for sure: you may have a good or a bad experience in the flight but you will not reach the destination and purpose for the adventure.

So as I come through the isles and pass out in-flight entertainment information to make your flight more enjoyable, don’t forget to stay on target: your marriage is only a Type of something else! There is a very important reason for charting the Grand Tapestry and it has everything to do with self-governance in proper perspective.
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