Between Books

(POSTSCRIPT)
Post 243

As I wrap up the details of this section of my Blog, which I am compiling into my intended first published book, I am greatly concerned about later publishing the information of part two in a separate book, yet the information of book one is so necessary that I don’t feel I can delay its publication.

In fact what I have to say in section two is so huge a concept that it troubles me to post them individually in this Blog for fear that many will stumble onto it without having read all the related that came previously. To avoid a misunderstanding and misapplication, what I have to say from here on must be understood based on all the previous posts on the topic. The potential for such an error about something so important, is so great that I almost decided not to continue with the Blog as well as delay the publication of book one until I can include the material of book two with it. My reasoning is that if it’s all in a single published book then to get to part two the reader must first go through part one, this provides protection to the reader from misapplication of having only the second part. But I am pressed that the present message needs to be made known, and so I wrestle with how to go about it in the right way.

I have been struggling with this for several weeks while knowing with each post, it is coming to that place where it cannot be delayed. What to do?

This morning the understanding of what I was wrestling with came clear in all its glory, and what an overwhelming revelation it is!

In part one, which I titled “The Uncommon Christian Walk”, I have been carefully showing the mostly abandon details of our Christian adventure of faith which was pre-revealed in the Old Testament Exodus. The Christian overlay is so perfect and substantial that it cannot be argued to be my personal fanciful fabrication, and it is declared so perfect by the Apostle Paul himself (I Corinthians 10:11) with special attention to the pre-example of what happens when we lust after evil things (I Corinthians 10:6), i.e. we don’t choose to go in when given the opportunity.

The entire Gospel is here in the Exodus narrative from Egypt to the Jordan River: From the Passover lamb of salvation from bondage, through baptism of the Red Sea, the trials to expel a false worldview, the temptations to dabble in the old familiar ways, the instruction of the new life, and warnings, and maturity, and practice, to the hope of entering into a rest beyond the wilderness we presently experience. Book One has it all. Do not blow off Book One as old and obsolete because Book Two is what you think you need to know as current. The successful application of Book Two lies in the comprehension of Book One. You won’t properly accept the savior if you don’t properly know what you need salvation from or for. The knowledge and the savior are both found in Book One as the Christian faith explained by laying it over the Exodus narrative like a transparency. Book Two does not redundify that message; but confirms it. If you don’t get it in Book One, it will be very difficult to apply it correctly in Book Two because Book Two moves forward from Book One: It is a sequel not an amendment, and Christ did not leapfrog over the Law to arrive at Liberty.

But now to continue this overlay perspective beyond the fateful Jordan River Decision, is truly terrifying. It blows open the doors of a comprehension so huge and previously mysterious that if seriously considered will shake the foundations of our present understanding of the future of our faith. It is so dramatic that I am greatly concerned that it may be read and considered without having understood the first part that lays the necessary groundwork of stability, to arrive at a conclusion not intended and the true message rejected as heresy.

As I brought this concern before the Lord again today, it was made clear that the revelation of the New Testament had the very same issue when it came out. It was not a new faith having replaced the old as an amendment; it was simply greater revelation of the old faith now more complete as a sequel. How then can the new understanding be properly applied if the old understanding has not first been read and understood? This was the concern of the apostles and elders for the Gentiles who did not have the Mosaic Law background (Acts 15:2,5-7a). But those delivering the New Covenant were comforted by the knowledge that the Gentiles had available the Mosaic Law taught every Sabbath in synagogues everywhere (Acts 15:21), so now that they believe, they can go learn the foundation in the dis-ordered principle of Matthew 20:16.

But since modern Gentile Christians have abandoned the Sabbath and therefore the instruction of Moses, we have no regular learning in that law. And now today, even after being published into a single two-part book called the Holy Bible, the majority of Christian readers refuse to more than brows Part One as obsolete, while assuming proper understanding and application of Part Two! And so by the ignorance of the important stabilizing groundwork of the first, the later revealed information of the New Testament is often and easily haphazardly misapplied in ignorant Gentile comprehension having no anchorage. But originally, the foundation of the First Book (the Old Testament) was so important, that it could not be delayed for the completion of the Second Book (the New Testament) that would follow seemingly on its own. This is how the paths of the Lord have again been made crooked even after John the Baptist went about encouraging the straightening of it for Christ’s first arrival before the second book. Even the Jews, without the New Testament of liberty, misapplied the intent of the law. Now with the Testament of liberty, having thrown away the law, we Christians feel we have been given “license” to sin while we look down our nose at the disobedient Jews!

I am not writing new scripture.

I have simply read and expounded on what was already written in the First Book the Old Testament, about the New Testament Christian faith. This has been a delight to affirm our dilapidated faith, and in that confidence I have explored many of the guiding balusters (Rephidim) of our faith secured in the ancient scriptures. But now, to continue the overlay after the Jordan Decision, in the instruction of Romans 15:2-4 *1, with trembling reverence surpassing that of an archeologist entering for the first time an earthly chamber long sealed, I have been given permission to fling open the door to eternal mysteries I believe not previously known! This is perhaps a sign that a greater degree of darkness has fallen at the rise of the 8^th GDE *2, and so a greater degree of the light must be provided to see through that darkness.

And so, because there must be a line of distinction so that the first can be issued timely, I end book one and begin book two, though the division is less than sharp, as is also the custom of scripture (Matthew 11:11-12). The wandering of the failed first generation Exodus people is a transition of information between books; it really belongs to the end of the first book as it has necessary information to support it and complete it, but it is also a complex groundwork that raised up the second generation to success. I choose therefore to publish book one without it, and include it in book two in the image of John the Baptist found in the New Testament, though he was actually the end of the Old Testament (Matthew 11:13+John 3:30).

God willing, like the brass serpent, most of the remaining significant obstacles of book one will be resolved in book two.

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*1 Instructions for Interpretation:

 “…For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” Romans 15:2b-4.

Though both books apply in warning and hope: The 1^st gen. Exodus narration was specifically to warn us not to lust for the evil thing, and the 2^nd gen. Deuteronomy narration is to provide hope through patience and comfort! Keep that in mind as we begin book two.

*2 GDE (Global Dominate Empire):

Having written several posts of unique view on this topic, which I hope to soon publish into a separate book, I have coined this term to explain the Eight prophesied Global Dominate Empires to affect Israel, before Christ establishes the ninth and last, found in Daniel, Zechariah, and specifically in Revelation 17. I have not included these referenced posts in this book because they begin an entirely different trail that significantly diverts from this pre-important foundation of able faith.

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