Shedding The Darkside

- (vs. masking it by reflection) -
Post 330

In the previous Post I proposed that the real issue never examined is not how long the closet sinner can hold out hiding “the real me that wants to get out”; but why she is possessed with the affliction at all. Let’s take a moment and consider this question more deeply:
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Foundations of Faith:
Early on, in Disney’s foundational Cinderella princess story (Post 248) that told in parable the message of salvation, we easily saw the comparison in Typology between the enchanted animals as angels, as well as the fairy-godmother as the Holy Spirit. We concluded that in the fairytale-world magic=supernatural, and in that story, magic was wholly received as good because there was no direct supernatural evil protagonist but only evil people in the flesh. Even among the magical creatures that represented angels, the only evil angel represented was Lucifer himself, who was seen only in the non-speaking/non-“higher thinking” flesh with no magical qualities apparent. Therefore, in that paradigm; Magic=supernatural, and supernatural=good. Evil has been de-supernaturalized in comparison to God’s divine “super power” to help us.
As a Christian society, responding to human oppressors while trusting in a supernatural God, we saw the easy representation that God sends angels and even the Holy Spirit as “supernatural help” in ways that manifest only physically as such hard-to-explain timely; supernatural helps, clothes of righteousness, vehicles as methods, coachmen as aids, events outside of our doing, and unexplainable circumstances, that enable us to succeed in bonding with the Prince in spite of the opposition. From this representation of happy innocence in a simplistic but sufficient faith that we already possessed, we reasoned through the other two foundational stories that included magical antagonists, and so, we subconsciously accepted that there is in fact good magic and bad magic as contending supernatural forces, and this became our “Disney fairytale worldview as Christians” if you will.
Clearly the wicked antagonists had a connection to the dark forces, whether ignorantly as an evil-minded stepmother and her daughters subtly influenced by Lucifer the house pet, or as Maleficent the sorceress empowered by calling upon those evil forces intentionally. This direct and accurate parable of our real-world paradigm enabled us to blend spheres with the fairytales quite successfully, using the one to teach our children about the other, and in that innocent world of yesterday, where right and wrong were clearly divided, it worked quite well: “We know it’s the good-guy because he wears white”; i.e. Beautiful=Good, automatically understanding by sound faith, that this meant in Type: Good is Beautiful. The faith that the fairytale Typed, was what we as children were to believe; not the fairytale itself. Obviously~

But when we now look back from today’s greatly complex world and fairytales (including movies and such in that stream), by observing how we got here, we can see some things we should have alertly held closer rather than let them slip as insignificant for the sake of the intriguing story (Jude 1:3,5). The main point being that the scriptures call all magic evil, (i.e. sorcery), and God’s tolerance for it in our lives is Zero:

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, (speaking to the legislation of God’s society and people [Genesis 19:5-6, Malachi 3:5], and not implying forced values on other societies who don’t know God; [see Jeremiah 27:9-10 and Daniel 1:8,17+4:8 for two different examples]).

When we are in ignorance, we are unable to tell healthy flesh from cancer, which is why the body itself accepts cancer cells without question while earnestly battling off other kinds of destructive cells that it does recognize as hazardous. The body is not being slothful; it just doesn’t know any better. Similarly for disease and viruses and such; the body that once was incapable of defending itself from such inflictions died, but with new understanding we can give it what it needs to win the fight by building up a defense against a newly understood enemy force. So now in Type, by our “spiritually technological advancements” of historically painful experiences and the resulting explorations for the causes, we are now better informed and can make the finer distinctions more easily, and have ready answers to battle secretly-debilitating assaults that once destroyed our faith (such as the things they teach your children in school and college).

Therefore, by an informed review of our innocently generic values that seemed to work for us back then but are insufficient now, we see that God makes a clear distinction between magic and his supernatural involvement, while back then it all seemed to be the same “gooey substance” to us. This ignorance allowed us to make the simplistically accurate but complexly unwise overlay in Cinderella that opened the door to the progressively wrong thinking that followed by our “fairytalizing” the very real spiritual faith while letting the reality of that faith slip unattended.
Good and bad magic, even in the fairytale-world, is a case of Yin and Yang. If you will remember, we discovered in Post 193 that the whole circle is a wickedly cancerous religion of beguiling evil that is distinct from the Creator’s biblical worldview of right and wrong, which Elsa cast away when she couldn’t succeed in making the choice, but rather elected to merge them in her life by removing labels and doing whatever she wanted, calling it “freedom” in the form of liberation.
Understanding this concept allows us to make simple, though more-informed, explorations to discover the cause of Elsa being born with her infliction when apparently not everyone was, and then seeing how that Types our own condition. I’m not suggesting that movies and fairytale-worlds are real, but that our women and children, and now even adult men, are actually blending spheres, and thereby allowing the movie/fairytale values to apply in their real world. Thus, we are required to apply God’s real world values to explain the failures in the values of the fairytale-world, to teach our people right from wrong and thereby weed the garden of the kingdom of heaven since we allowed the seeding in our slumber, which, if you will remember, was our focus in the previous post:

“…the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man (Jesus) which sowed good seed in his field (The world): but while men (ministers) slept, his enemy (the Devil) came and sowed tares (G2215: false grain) among the wheat (kingdom children), and went his way” Matthew 13:24-25, (see Matthew 13:38-40 for my inserts).

God, the very real Creator, is the LORD of everything real and imagined. Nothing is outside of his domain of authority. We covered these concepts before, but with new experience comes new understanding and a need to review what we didn’t comprehend previously.
Back in the day of innocence, we opened a door and methodically merged spheres to our advantage by sending Typology values one way as a tool of instructing our young, but now, having abandoned our foundations of faith for entertainment, that open doorway like unfiltered feedback, is sending alternate values of education in the wrong direction. Originally the movies and fairytales were used to explain our faith, but now they are re-creating it; transforming it.
In spite of the fairytale's suggestion, there is simply no way that Elsa and her sister can retain the “fun of the magic” and be the good girl too. And likewise you cannot dabble in the pleasure of the forbidden and be a Christian. The problem is that Disney’s heroin as “fun” has already made you an addict by letting you feel the unspeakable pleasure, that once felt, is a need so great that it cannot be denied. Every addict will tell you that the pleasure is unexplainably powerful. An addict is an addict because he feels that he needs the pleasure more than life itself. Disney is a drug dealer pure and simple.
Ending your addiction is not usually something God can do for you but something you must do for yourself. It’s yours to do or not do, by making a choice. But like a rehab program, and like a governing husband; God can help once that choice is made. The secret to successes is not to focus on the absence of the inordinate pleasure, but on life itself. Focus on the Lord and let life begin again. Over time the hunger for the inordinate pleasure will diminish, and the goal is to eventually find it repugnant: “I hate Disney because of the life-sucking spirit that comes with the fun.”
This may seem all so “fairytaleish” to ones mind because your spheres are so badly blended; therefore I strongly suggest a reading of II Peter chapters 1&2 (and even 3). You will be amazed at how accurately they apply to this setting, and able to realign your thoughts and perspectives to reality by washing with the water of the word.
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The Dark-Moon vs. The “Darkside”:
Using the Hebrews 4:12 surgeon’s scalpel again, we can divide our dark-moon nature that everyone has from birth-- which should be covered up as is nakedness--, from the “darkside” evil that must be replaced deep within ones core. Without making the distinction we end up with the Star Wars witchcraft idea that “The Force is neither good nor bad, depending on how you use it”; i.e. Yin and Yang in one circle of life-Force; i.e. Elsa’s idea that there is no right or wrong, it’s just following your heart honestly that matters.
But we can make a distinction because God makes the distinction. Allow me to explain:

“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” Matthew 5:14-16.

Said simplistically in the old, easy to comprehend, “good vs. bad” Christian perspective, this concept sufficiently describes our generic human condition that we call salvation. But, in our now complex age of confusion through alternate versions of perspective via the details, more distinction is necessary for accuracy sake, because the seemingly insignificant “slack hand” of generality is now used nefariously against us. I am making a surgeon’s distinction between the candle light in the house and the public shining light of good works which are intimately connected.

In the New Age concept presented by Star Wars and apparently secretly leaked into Frozen, the darkness must be balanced with good, which is how Anna supposedly fixed Elsa’s uncontrollable storm with her sacrificial love. This is the common idea today that believes you get to heaven because the goodness outweighs the wickedness until it all comes out right in the wash. But while some isolated elements of this idea of “sacrificial love” are correct in their nature, this whole concept is in direct conflict with God’s word:

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one” Romans 3:10.

“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy (menstrual) rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind (of iniquity on faded leaves), have taken us away” Isaiah 64:6.

God tells us through his word that there is just no way any amount of “good” we do on our part can make up for the bad, because the bad is not what we do but who we are. Therefore, if we can’t even help ourselves in this balancing attempt, how much less can we help someone else? We know this scriptural principle is true by evaluating our “score” in keeping the Ten Commandments, while considering that only one murder makes you a murderer and not someone who has “done a lot of good too” that makes up for it. Likewise, breaking any one commandment, one time, makes you a breacher of God’s law and worthy of the defined death penalty as a resulting judgment. It just makes sense whether you agree with it or not; it’s The Law.

The moon has virtually no light of itself. As far as light goes it has no intrinsic value but the ability to reflect light.
So the moon, by capitalizing on this lone virtue, feels that it earns its place as a star by worthy reflection, i.e. “doing good.” This is the religious prude, who by earnestly reflecting the “good light” of works, hides the fact that her heart is still as dark and dead as if there were no sun at all. But, when observing her from her public presentation, as long as she maintains a visual alignment with the sun (obedience to the law), she shines brightly in the sky and is counted among the lights of heaven, no one the wiser by the naked eye of simplicity. This is the New Age of world Democracy: The idea that by choosing to do good, all humanity can live in peace. The truth is that this is actually a very true and worthy concept to be applied… but it does nothing for the dark, dead heart of the moon, who, in spite of her reflection efforts, has no life whatsoever. Even an ax-murderer can learn to clean a toilet to everyone’s advantage, yet the Judge is not impressed in regards to the murder trial; it simply does not apply to the case.

So what’s a girl to do?
The one-chapter book of Jude helps us see more clearly, as, (perhaps being the second to the last book for a reason), it reveals the mature darkness near the conclusion of this Age that allows us to “look back” to see where the path divided, much as I have done by looking back to Cinderella now knowing where it allowed us to go on the journey of where we will end up if we continue to follow this course.

“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ… These are… wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever” Jude 1:4,13.

By proximity to Earth, the moon is our intimate example of exposing the nature of a wandering star, but in truth, this phrase is primarily speaking of planets as we have already discussed. From our vantage point on earth, planets shine very much like stars, but by charted observation over time, they don’t act like stars.
These wandering stars are in Type, clothed in righteousness but not in salvation; reflecting good works while having a cold, dead, dark core. They are in effect pretenders that create confusion by their star-like shine with erratic nature. The scriptures make a distinction between these two elements of salvation and works, which combine to reveal a true child of God:

“…for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness…” Isaiah 61:10.

Remember, both Satan and his fallen angels can perform works of righteousness which makes them appear as producers of light:

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works” II Corinthians 11:14-15.

And so, by adding verse 13 to this, along with our above passage in Jude, we discover that there are three distinct pretenders in the dark realm that shine brightly: Satan, fallen angels, and unregenerate men with deceitful works of righteousness:

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ” II Corinthians 11:13.

Meaning no offence but declaring facts: These deceitful men are very religious and outwardly honorable and godly. And now we can see a need for the distinction between the public robe of righteousness and the clothes of salvation beneath.
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The Daystar:
What is a planet to do? It has no star-like abilities to shine within its nature, and even if it could somehow be infused with such ability; to burn like a star would be to kill all life besides that of its burning fire, no earth-type life can live on the sun, and in kind; no man can even look at the sun for its brightness. Likewise, no man has seen God for the same reason (John 1:17-18). Apparently the moon is just out of luck; It can’t be self-luminating like the sun lest it kill everything, but with a cold heart it can’t sustain life either. The best it can do is to reflect the suns light and remain hopelessly dead inside.
The same goes for planets; Wandering Stars… except for the unique life-giving planet called earth. It doesn’t self-luminate like the sun, but it’s not dead like the moon; it bears and sustains life with a perfect combination. How does it do that?

“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:” II Peter 1:19.

While this sounds poetically cryptic, what is this saying actually?
Applying it to our analogy of the cosmos representing our being clothed in salvation as different from righteousness, the dead moon represents Satan (and his kingdom Islam) as he appears luminated in righteousness of the Law without the heart of salvation from within. In this deeper concept of our walk, it’s the planet Earth that represents mankind in general and the woman in Type, but because we are the earth and so cannot observe our own reflection, we look at the moon as our observable Type that reflects the sun to see how this works. And so, like as God’s people being described sometimes male and sometimes female for discussion sake, we see that the many Types cycle repeatedly but are used interchangeably in explanations of various truths. It is in this deeper understanding that we learn; when we make the distinction regarding true-light vs. false-light, we see that the surface luminance doesn’t tell the whole story. God confirms this distinction by calling both the sun and moon “great lights” (Genesis 1:16) and further by declaring there are even different kinds of star glory (“…for one star differeth from another star in glory” I Corinthians 15:41). This goes quite deep so let’s just leave it at that.

In II Peter’s above chapter, there is quite a truth regarding prophecy that we will also not cover here, but is connected to the surety of prophecy as a temporary confidence in Type of the Old Testament Law of dead rocks reflecting surface light of righteousness while the prophecies shine light deep down in the cracks of our faith as it were. We understand that the internal fire day-star arising in our hearts was long anticipated by clinging to the prophecies, which gave some internal heat until the Holy Spirit filled our heart with a much more dynamic fire of personal enlightenment. Then the prophecies become confirmation of our experience.

Once Jesus Christ came to infuse his followers with his very nature, by first dying to liberate us from the confining law, he rose again to offer New (Testament) life by the infused power of the Holy Spirit into our quickened hearts. Jesus in effect gave our spirits new mitochondria (*1). We see now, that the day-star of this verse is the action of the Spirit of God himself as he dwells within our temple (the believer’s being):

“For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did…” Hebrews 7:19.
“By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament” Hebrews 7:22.
“These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance...” John 14:25-26.
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” I Corinthians 3:16.
“And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people” II Corinthians 6:16.

In our Typology revealed in the cosmos, this Holy Spirit is the molten core of planet earth that necessarily aids the sun in sustaining life. It is very much the identifying glass slipper in Cinderella’s possession that matches the one in the Princes’. It is the marriage of man and wife, Christ and mankind. This day-star molten-core of fire and light is fundamentally really deep (pun intended for impact), so I would like to expand on this concept a little.
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Specific Purposes:
From a scientific point of view it is very interesting that the molten core of the earth is absolutely necessary to life on many simultaneous planes; heat being only one, the refreshing of the crust another, but to me, the stabilizing magnetic field that protects the earth from radiation and such, is without a doubt as mysterious to contemplate as playing with magnets on your kitchen table. You may comprehend a bit of the science behind it, but it’s still just “to unreal” to ever stop marveling at its mysterious invisible power interacting on here-and-now stuff in seemingly unnatural ways. Electrical magnetic fields are in that same category but even more “sci-fi” to the mind in what they can do.
But as hot and as molten as the Earth’s core is to perfect advantage for sustaining life, isn’t it curious that it’s not supposed to erupt from the surface more than a little from time to time? It’s just far too powerful.

Understanding that the Father, which cannot be seen because of his glory (Exodus 33:20-23), is a Spirit (John 4:24), and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth (i.e. according to eternal and temporal rules), and, understanding that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the risen Christ that now dwells within our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:16-17), we begin to comprehend that while the fire of the Holy Spirit, that so perfectly gives sustenance to life in many various ways, is just too powerful to leak out onto the surface more than a little from time to time. The Old Testament face of Moses so brightened by reflection (Exodus 34:29-35), is sure testament that this is a correct interpretation of the New Testament Typology of the glory contained deep within the Christian (Proverbs 4:23, Ephesians 3:14-19). It’s contained under the crust for a very good reason.
And so that you can here glean the powerful connotations, though risking your misunderstanding until it is explained, I’m just going to spill the beans now and tell you that the Fire of the Holy Ghost is feminine in nature, (after all, women got their Genesis 1:27 likeness of God from somewhere). I understand that this is really going to cause you alarm in your faith as you presently understand it, but we will seriously address this in upcoming Posts as we continue to explore the Grand Tapestry of scripture. But for now, let’s just ponder that thought in the back of our minds and move forward with the present topic.

So we see a strange but true suggestion in the Typology; that although we hold the fiery Spirit of God within our earthen vessels to give us powerful life from within, it’s not technically the fire from within that produces the light of our righteousness without, which everyone is supposed to see and glorify our unseen Father in heaven. If we don’t reflect the Lord’s light through our life conduct, though we may have a molten core, nobody sees the light as if it’s hidden under a bushel. The internal fire is the mitochondria power-plant of our heart, but it’s the external light of reflection on our crust that is to help the world not stumble in the darkness. Matthew 5:16 tells us that our candle, like a mini sun that is now an infused part of our makeup, is not our good works but only empowers our good works which everyone then sees. Likewise, the empowerment of our wives gives them fire within, granting them internal life to enable a heartfelt reflection effort that is not forced: This effort is commonly called Love (I Peter 1:22). This is the Ephesians 5 Typology of Christ and the Church concluding in vv.32-33.
The nature of what the world sees in the viewing is not found in what we reflect. It’s found in the fire of motive. All the good works in the world, though beautiful, does not produce in the observer the desire to glorify God the Father if the Holy Spirit fire is not burning furiously within our hearts. Read Ephesians 2:1-6 in the light of this Post and discover new and wonderfully deep, empowering understanding. We will explore v.7 later as it speaks of the Grand Tapestry design.
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Conclusion:
By understanding this dual function of the clothes of salvation and the robe of righteousness, we are able to see where the problem actually lies and why it is so hard to identify when ignorant of the distinction.
Nobody can see the internal fire, but the reflective light is easily seen while it comes and goes in cyclic waves of success and failure as we traverse our human course. When our reflection begins to dim by misalignment, we become alarmed and step up our efforts of good works. This makes the world cheer for our full-moon light and we feel better about ourselves for having done it. But in laboriously maintaining our rigid reflection in outward righteousness, it is easy to remain absent-minded regarding our fire of salvation that burns unseen deep in the core that constantly renews our surface crust (Romans 12:1-2, Job 29:20). That internal fire has an entirely different purpose (Psalm 51:10-13, Isaiah 40:31) yet is critically tied to the surface light for sustaining planetary life. The neglect of the internal fire is the cause of a frozen heart, which Anna’s heart of unconditional love, cannot thaw, but becomes frozen too in the exhausting failed effort (Matthew 24:12). Her frozen heart having been disillusioned, changes tactics, goes to the mystics, and finds another way with another prince.

When the world gets the glorious idea of a collective surface-reflection in righteousness, (even if they don’t recognize where that reflection source is coming from), the result is indeed a universally beneficial cleanliness of “the public facilities.” And who is going to argue against the good of that? Certainly not me, (Deuteronomy 15:11, Psalm 82:3-4, Proverbs 21:13).
This righteousness is Glenn Beck’s greatly commendable, much-needed charity toward the illegal Central American children flooding through our governmentally unprotected borders to our own destruction; It is the Mother Teresa approach demanded by the overwhelming circumstances of God’s growing national displeasure (Haggai 1:5-11, [the “house” is now a metaphor for our spiritual lives today since we are the new temple]).

My argument, (which is God’s argument reflected), is not against the much needed charity work, but that the sparkling clean appearances only mask the continuing hidden darkness within; let’s call it germs and bacteria and disease in our metaphorical public bathroom. The swept-and-shined presentation is a surface illusion that generally functions quite well for the cosmetic emotional benefit of the general population, but the illusion is what keeps them from seeking solutions for the spirit of death that lingers because it wasn't actually cleaned:

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation” Matthew 12:43-45.

God’s Spirit does not reside in governments, but in men; i.e. people. By the failure of her governments, America has observed the effects of losing her internal Light, but her response is to re-beautify the exterior like so much cosmetics on the proverbial pig. In this way, her earnest renewed efforts of righteous reflection are just the hypocrisy of Jude’s wandering stars; her heart toward God is cold as ice. Enter stage left, the Jewish State today as Christianity brings Elsa home retaining her disdain for the Prince of peace but tempered by her sister's unconditional love.
Recently returned Israel is today promoting multi-culturalism to the extreme degree of “any god will do, so long as we have mutual peace.” But the Two-State division of Jerusalem and or the nation is an abomination unto God (Amos 7:17, Matthew 12:25, Daniel 11:39b, Zechariah 14:21, etc.) with great consequences.

Having said that, don’t for a second think that I am anti-Israel because of their confusion. I am not, (see Post 287 “The Three-Part Yin” http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-three-part-yin.html).
I’m just concerned for the Kingdom of Heaven.
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(*1) “Mitochondria are known as the powerhouses of the cell. They are organelles that act like a digestive system that takes in nutrients, breaks them down, and creates energy for the cell. The process of creating cell energy is known as cellular respiration. Most of the chemical reactions involved in cellular respiration happen in the mitochondria” - (http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_mito.html).
It is curious to note that the Mitochondria is supplied only through the mother’s contribution of the egg.

(*) [8/14/14]: Having been challenged by a reader's comment, I re-checked every reference used and discovered a type-O, made the correction, and added a reference as copied here:

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18, (speaking to the legislation of God’s society and people [Genesis 19:5-6, Malachi 3:5], and not implying forced values on other societies who don’t know God; [see Jeremiah 27:9-10 and Daniel 1:8,17+4:8 for two different examples]).
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