The Phases of the Ages

Post 323

Now that we have a very basic comprehension of the Grand Tapestry, let’s pause to consider its progressing phases with a bit more understanding. Parallel to the previously described phases of the observable human maturation process as our Typology reference, we find suggested in the scriptures seven specific unobservable phases of humanity’s spiritual development toward that simultaneous end. Allow me to walk through these in brief for the big picture comprehension. Here is the outline as I see it:

Temporal lifespan: conception/birth - infant - juvenile - young adult - productive - resource - old age/death.
Spiritual lifespan: conception/salvation - child - slave - servant - steward - friend - bride/kingdom of heaven.

Like as with the temporal in the previous Post, let’s not here quibble over the specific order in my list of the spiritual. But unlike my temporal labels; these spiritual labels are God’s so our only discussion of question should be the specific order in which I placed them with intent, which, in our present later-stage in the list, is not that important as long as we include them all and see the proper flow of progression from beginning to end.
Every Christian can accept that the spiritual life begins and ends with these and any bible reader should be able to easily identify these seven specific labels as they relate to God’s relationship with humanity-- whether his children or not his children, via adoption-- (Romans 8:15, Galatians 4:5-7 *1).
By connecting these biblical labels into a charted development process as I have done here, the Christian should suddenly get a revelation of deep understanding and be able to find new comprehension as he reads the scriptures so that we don’t have to go over the very exciting, and massive, volume of details here. The scriptural types and cycles and examples are abundant, and you should find the scriptures fresh and new as you explore what it has to say along this concept in explaining why God seems to work with different ages in different ways, though very fundamentally consistent in intent of application, and why the similarities-but-differences seem confusing when we read it all lumped into a single “one size fits all” mentality of a teenager’s rushed application to adulthood in youthful ignorance:

“God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds (165);” Hebrews 1:1-2.

worlds 165 aion; from the same as 104; properly, an age…

This full seven-staged maturation concept is very complex and hard to explain simplistically, as each explored stage also has its own similar seven-phases not to be confused with another stage in a similar phase but shifted by the maturity of its entire age, and in addition, each application-- such as temporal-- has application in Type to another application-- such as spiritual.
Picture this like trying to explain the intimate and mysterious workings of the solar system and the atom simultaneously because the solar system is made of atoms, which reflects the nature of God, who made it all in the beginning when it was fresh and maintains it all at the end when it is wearing out (Isaiah 51:6), and you begin to get the idea. So to aid a seating of this concept for you to explore in depth later on your own, let’s walk through the list in brief before we focus on our present “Woman’s World” phase of this later-age and it’s Grand Tapestry purposes.
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New Beginnings:
We see in the Creation narration of Genesis 1 the specific progressive creations and separations that God made on each day: Substance from non-substance, light from dark waters, lower waters from upper waters (*2), dry land from lower waters, one kind of land flora from another kind, day and night ruled succinctly by sun and moon, creatures in the waters from creatures above the waters, and finally; the land creatures different from water creatures separated by kind, and the animal kind themselves distinct from Mankind, and mankind divided further into genders.
We note that each creation group has both a ruling (greater) and a submitting (lesser) element, this is the pattern of creation as one stage is distinct from the next but directly interacting with the others, and when all this was complete and functioning like a well-oiled machine, we read that God took his Sabbath rest, (from which is spawn the demonic doctrine of the “watchmaker” theories that suppose God now observes the earth “hands off,” as if it could run even a moment without him; as if Colossians 1:16 were segregated from v.17 (Job 37:10-13 etc.). Every lie is composed of some degree ---up to a whole lot-- of twisted truth for the purpose of misdirection, but that is for another topic).

In a pattern recognition in scripture, we see that God’s creation of mankind-- as distinct from other kinds-- is further divided into “favored people” and “not,” and each favored people-group-- I am calling an “age”-- is separated out from those that were created previously. What we end up with are seven distinct ages for God’s distilled “favored” people-group, which each first-phase was presented as a “new beginning”:

Beginning/Adam - Noah - Abraham - Moses - David - Jesus - Kingdom of Heaven/End.

Each of these studies, when investigated for its unique purpose in the Grand Tapestry, reveals amazing and surprising discoveries. As an example: when investigating the new beginning of Moses’ age as distinct from the previous, have you ever listed the foundational life-directing declared commands of God given to men in the ages from Adam until Moses-- whether good men or bad?

“Be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28), Don’t eat the forbidden fruit (Genesis 2:17), Do well (Genesis 4:7), Don’t eat blood (Genesis 9:4), Don’t murder anyone (Genesis 9:5-6), Walk perfectly, before God (Genesis 17:1).”

As brief as this six-part short list is, it was not even delivered all at once but rather was dispersed through the ages as necessary. To show a single example of how this worked functionally, let’s further explore the last command in the list:

“These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God” Genesis 6:9.

Where in all the scripture before this verse, do we read the command to be perfect? We don’t. Yet Noah was. Hmmm, I wonder what motivated this perfection from him without a specific command, and at a time when nobody else on the planet was?
In the age that followed, we come to the stage of Abraham, who-- while yet Abram in his early phases of the faith as he pleased God though clearly not perfect-- was in fact finally given the command to be perfect:

“And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect” Genesis 17:1.

Noah didn’t need the specific and direct command but Abram did. Why?
I believe our answer is found in the specific instruction that reveals the key to perfection: “walk before me and you will be perfect,” not; “be perfect so you can walk before me.” Walking before God simply produces perfection as a byproduct. “If you are not perfect, you are not walking before God,” as opposed to; “I am walking with God, therefore I am perfect.” This important distinction is somehow still confusing to our later-day age, though there is now no excuse because God's motivating perfecting Spirit now dwells within us in addition to Jesus himself confirming the command (Matthew 5:48). I propose that the reason for the command to Abram but not to Noah, is because in the advancing age of maturity, while having much more information and experience to evaluate, and so, believing that we are more self-intelligent in choosing our proper walk, humanity has with this advantage a greater capacity to manipulate the interpretation of God’s command with those experiences and information and therefore alter the rules of life by the complexity of voluminous perception. New means of finding “loopholes” requires more numerous and specific rules to overcome them. And frankly my voluminous works of explanation has that same potential danger in misapplication (Proverbs 10:19), but the confused age now requires it.
As Abram was the representation of the age that needed the newly specific command in order to achieve the intended goal of walking before God; it was humanity itself that was maturing by self-evaluating the increasing knowledge of good and evil that Adam and Eve introduced into the human paradigm. God is simply working within man’s state of comprehension at different levels in the age process of teaching the teen to drive the family car.
A six-year-old takes out the trash when told to without a thought toward rights, a twelve-year-old is supposed to know when the trash needs to be taken out and then do it without asking but wars with his individuality in the task forced upon him, an eighteen-year-old figures; “you have no right to make me.” Each progressing phase requires greater rules both in expectation of duty and consequence for greater breach through increased knowledge.

All that goes away when he reaches adulthood, and at that point, whether he takes out the trash or not is entirely up to him with the results just being something everyone has to live with either way. There is no punishment for failure, he really does have the right to choose for himself-- if for no other reason than he has come of age. Good son or bad son, or a man who renounces his father altogether, the right is his to choose whether he will take out the trash or not and he is publicly evaluated as a no-account sloth or a dependable blessing to the family by his choice. At this point it’s not a judgment made for correction or punishment but merely an observation of fact that must be worked with as we interact with him. Miley Cyrus and her trash isn’t going away any time soon.
In like principle, the groom gets the girl he marries, not the girl he wishes her to be. The composition of her pre-marriage existence has made her who she is at the foundational level. Yet compromised Christians, composing their entire lives in the comfort of dirty grace, assume that somehow when their bodies are adapted to enter eternity (marriage to the Lamb), “who they are” will also be changed at the same instant. But in such a case, with a new body and a new soul and spirit that motivates it, how could that still be you? What would be left to call it you? You didn’t want to change your ways while on earth because "it wouldn’t be you anymore," and so we get the answer to the question; "Why does a young woman become very unhappy when her new husband doesn’t like who she is and tries to change her to whom she should be?"
Marriage is the time to reap the rewards of who you have all your life been striving to become in the hope of a happy marriage: Angry bitter and selfish, or tender loving and benevolent, the eligible girls are lined up at the dance and the suitor gets to choose what he likes. At that point it’s not his job to fix your foundation; it’s your job to present yourself desirable…not to you but to Him! We touched on this concept in Post 249 “The Cinderella Syndrome” - (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/06/cinderella-syndrome.html), and while the Apostle Paul gloried in his infirmities (II Corinthians 12:9-10), today’s “infermal” glorying is not at all what he had in mind (Luke 7:21, Romans 6:1-2). And so we require still more specific instruction as we seem to go backwards not forwards in our development.

Regarding the above very short list of governing rules in the early ages, the revelation is rather startling as we realize just how much of human history those early ages covered, and we get a keen note of comparison as we consider the first 200 years of the "not quite" United States had no constitution or unified government at all, and then after those early ages, our Founders created a unifying government with a four-page Constitution to adequately govern the colletion of States under one Union for another 150 years of mid ages. Today, in her later age, that established governance now creates thousands of additional pages of law every year in the effort to sufficiently govern the now stubbornly wicked people who resent being governed at all (Ezra 9:9-15+ Isaiah 13:10-11+ Jeremiah 25:29,44:29+ I Timothy 1:9-11= I Peter 2:13-19+), yet seem to clamor for a nanny king in the foolishness of unlearned repeating cycles (I Samuel 8:7).
Boiled down to the basics, God tells us that the plethora of new laws still have the intended “Do well” command, even if those laws are now flawed themselves and have a different definition of “well” and a different surface beneficiary of the well doing (I Corinthians 7:20-22). Suffering through oppression has an amazing ability to realign the value of self-regulation long abandoned in lieu of boundless self-pleasure (I Peter 4:1-2, Hebrews 11:24-25). The actual important perspective of this is a “family matter”; it’s what is primarily good for the family, which is why our early Americans were willing to sacrifice their possessions and lives for the good of the righteous nation and the new self-focused unrighteous generation calls them fools. This gets very complex when a nation changes its family values for the global community values, and the factor that few seem to be considering becomes: “If the globe is the new family, Who gets the benefits of my labor, and then; Who is the new enemy to defend against?” The new enemy becomes the rejected Almighty head of the house himself and his people who are no longer a part of that family now globalized (Isaiah 43:9-12, Jeremiah 31:10-11, Zechariah 14:17-19, Micah 4:11-12= Matthew 25:32).
Contrary to the age of Isaiah 43:12, there is now a strange god among us. To avoid the confusion of manipulated propaganda, we need to make our evaluations on the declarations God gave before that strange god arrived with his slight-of-hand deceptions (Isaiah 48:5).

Getting back on topic regarding pre-Abram mankind, We know by conjecture that in spite of nothing written to declare that he was given such a command to be perfect, mankind must have somehow been given other “rules to live by,” as Cain and Sodom, before the law, were remarked as accountable for their sin (Genesis 4:5,7+13:13,18:20), and sin is declared to be the breach of the law (I John 3:4) whether applied or not (Romans 5:13+6:15), and so we see that the law came to the early ages with less directness but nonetheless in clarity of understanding the unspoken, (Romans 1:20,28-32+2:12-15,27, I Corinthians 11:14-15=Job 12:7-10, Psalm 19:1-4, Isaiah 45:8).
Even before the law came, Cain was suggestively reasoned with that he knew by nature to “do well,” and God similarly, in a later age, sent angels to actually evaluate if Sodom’s sin was as bad as they made it out to be (Genesis 18:21). No chastisement, no warning, no correction before they were unceremoniously snuffed out for their excessive wickedness as decreed so by nature itself, without having the written command that would be needed and provided in later ages, because, in the later mature wisdom with the intellectual comprehension of Sodom in their lineage-past, they are now prone to misinterpret the speech of nature, even if they are looking diligently for the correct answer:

“India's Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling. 'It is the right of every human being to choose their gender,' it said in granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female. It ordered the government to provide transgender people with quotas in jobs and education in line with other minorities, as well as key amenities. According to one estimate, India has about two million transgender people” - BBCNews-India 4-15-2014 - (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27031180).

Back at the tower of Babel-- where they defied the confirmation of the first direct command (Genesis 11:4 vs. 9:1+7)-- God simply broke up their party to keep them from doing stuff that would be globally destructive at that early stage (Genesis 11:6-8), but, in our last-days stage of intelligent technology that brings again the world into a “single-city mind” which empowers humanity with that same degree and capability which was previously foiled, we are repeating the same Type events on a global scale which God will allow this time, to bring our own destruction of a significantly harsher consequence because of what is to be expected from the now mature age.
An ignorant boy that plays with matches gets a spanking before he burns the house down, but an evil minded nation that plays with nukes on his neighbors porch… who will “spank” him? Who can is who should. But, since this is the age of self-governing maturity, a rebuke or a spanking is inappropriate before the event; now is the age for criminal prosecutions and harsher judgments that we use quotation marks to describe as like kind in maturity.

This "be perfect" comparison between ages is one example of many. It seems that the early world, even at the flood that judged them without the law, knew enough about the right way to be held accountable, and even to walk before God perfectly, yet the Maker rarely intervened dramatically in the affairs of godless men as they matured in the early stages as they so desired… but when he did, it was dramatic to say the least, as the goal at that point was not usually correction but judgment to make way for the next phase or age. This “hands off” contemplation directly speaks to the question of; “Why does God allow all the suffering in the world?” and the answer is found in the very first command/declaration of humanity’s appointed burden of responsibility:

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them… replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion…” Genesis 1:28.

It’s our earth, we are supposed to be figuring out how to run it, even if only by the trial-and-error applications of our knowledge of good and evil… until we reach that repeating point of misapplication (such as the Beast Islam and the boundless Whore of Democracy we see rising today) that goes beyond correction and brings early termination for our failed attempts at reaching the seemingly undeclared but discoverable goal:

“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” Genesis 6:5-6.

“For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not” Ecclesiastes 7:20.

So God cleans things up, restarts the next generation of humanity fresh, and we begin again in the progression of phases in the next advanced age of only seven, that are supposed to collectively bring humanity’s maturity by experience and time, and wiser choices by historical past-failures learned. In all reality this is in fact human evolution as we painfully learn how to rightly handle the fruit of the forbidden tree now in our possession, and for the confused mind it can be seen as human Evolution as that fruit is used to other inglorious ends of discovery. The very real difference between the two perspectives is the direction taken and the end result: One to success the other to failure. “But what is success?”
To answer that, we need to add all the stages into the collective evaluation to find the sum, and the details of the beginning and end now become important.
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Five Interim Stages of Seven:
Let’s not presently explore the first stage of birth-- that by our existence is simply a fact-- and let’s also set aside the still questionably proven future details of the end, which leaves us with five interim stages of our human lifespan to explore couched between these bookends. For clarity sake I have comparatively listed a few of the biblically calculated keys to the ages that open that door for you. [These were a lot prettier and easier to see comparatively when columned and typed across a full sheet of paper]:

• Creation days: 1st=Beginning - 2nd=labor - 3rd=labor - 4th=labor - 5th=labor - 6th=labor*(man) - 7th=rest.
• Work Week: 1st=Sunday - 2nd=labor - 3rd=labor - 4th=labor - 5th=labor - 6th*(gather twice) - 7th=Sabbath.
• Ages: 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th* - 7th.
• Humanity: conception/birth - infant - child - young adult - productive - resource - old age/Death.
• Spiritual: conception/salvation - child - slave - servant - steward - friend - bride/Kingdom of Heaven.
• Favored group*: Adam - Noah - Abraham - Moses - David - Jesus*(x2) - kingdom of heaven/End.

For the more diligent explorer the following is an extended collection, though these take much more interactive investigation to figure out and so for this quick review should be passed over to avoid greater confusion. We covered these individually in more detail in other Posts on prophecy, but here the striking connection between the temporal and spiritual outline is interesting as we compare these two lists:

• Prophecy: 69 weeks of man’s rule= 1 through 6* as decades (* long surprise Gentile age) - Hebrew return as 7th decade-week/Christ's return.
• Angelic Princes: Red - Black - White - Grisled - Bay - Specled* - Rest.
• Gentile Age: gold - silver - brass - iron - iron & clay - x2* - Stone/New Beginning.
• Fesh: head - chest - belly - legs - feet - x2*(Toes are feet, but unique 8th) - stone/God.
• Post-Israel GDEs: Babylon - Persia - Greece - Rome - Islam - Islam II* - Hebrew kingdom/Eternity.
• Grand Tapestry*: adds 2 Gentile GDEs before Israel ruled and fell, making - Islam II=8th(*of 7) - ninth king/Christ.

It is a bit confusing to group these so simplistically without long explanations, which is why the scriptures isolate each in their own books and chapters to explain them individually in their settings for us to understand their individuality before we figure out how they interact. The comparative connection like this chart, reveals quite apparently that we are most surely now living in the 6th* Age of complexity in a 7 Age program.
* -- Do you remember in early Posts we touched on a principle that there is always a complexity in the 6th that comes before the 7th and final phase of success? (Post 087 “The 6th 7 Principle” - http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/10/preparation.html). The majority of this whole Blog seems to be a dedicated description of the “pretty big bump*” that threatens to derail this train just before it reaches the terminal, and whether or not the train derails, it will throw a lot of passengers… many from the train. Scriptural Prophecy is your seatbelt and I’m in effect the purser helping you to get it properly fastened at the last second. Five phases have passed; we are already in the bump stage, as the great bloodletting of the 20th century reveals. The significant damage/complexity is still to come, which is the seemingly insignificant “*” of the jot or tittle attached to the age. If you have to ask; “Was that the bump?” the answer is; “No.”
This is my perspective of the four “blood moons.” To suppose these natural eclipse events are the sum and meaning of the scriptural end time prophecy is to suppose the red hue of the setting sun is what turned the Exodus river of Egypt to blood in the effort to motivate the Pharaoh to let God’s people go. Don’t malign God by supposing that he thinks scientifically mature, intellectually aged, sinning humanity, will be impressed by a redish eclipse:

“And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues…” Revelation 16:8-9.

“Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound” Isaiah 30:26 (meaning, this return of Israel is clearly not that event).

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come” Joel 2:31, confirmed in Acts 2:20, (Isaiah 13:10 may or may not be this same specific event).

When the sun actually burns out after a brief mini-nova-like period of being seven times brighter, to the point that perhaps its dying ember light can only brighten the moon to a deep red, It’s safe to go ahead and be impressed, (*3). The part of the bump that is still to come as the now-expected 6th 7 transition, is a very big bump indeed. You may want to brush up on the details some.

When God told the first-stage Adam not to eat the forbidden fruit, Adam had an actual tree standing in the middle of paradise. It was just not that hard to figure out what not to eat.
When God told the third-stage Abram to be perfect (meaning, abstain from the fruit of imperfection), it was a little bit harder to define what the forbidden fruit actually was. Same fruit, same concept; very different presentation for the advancement of a more mature age, though Abram, like Adam, was at the time, in an early phase of his stage. And like Adam, Abraham’s age ended in the eviction of his people from the Promised Land (garden), and into a land of thorns and labor and toil for their bread all the days of their life. Until the next-age of Moses came. Are you seeing the pattern of Christ's advanced age?
When God told the more-mature-stage Moses and his people, not to break the newly written perfecting Commandments, it was far more complex still. The forbidden fruit was just as plentiful as in Adam’s day, but it wasn’t hanging from a single temporal tree for obvious abstinence; nor was it clear by an uncompromised perception of life that understood the speech of nature. No, now it had to be understood in the evaluation of what was commanded in a very long collection of complex and specific temporal rules with very direct temporal punishments for error.
Today, in the sixth-stage of maturity, the garden is fenceless and overgrown, the tree has sprouted an orchard though not trees per se, the comprehension of nature is confused by complexity, and the written rules of temporal compliance have all been taken away with the temporal temple. There are virtually no boundaries or restrictions… but the unchangeable law of the universe still stands: “The forbidden fruit has consequences,” (Matthew 5:48). We really should have figured this out by now, to the point that we don’t need the rules. Do you still touch the hot stove? Go figure. Who really needs more than five lessons?

The Slow Thinkers:
Having now a basic comprehension of the distinctive and progressive ages and their phases of the Grand Tapestry and their beneficial education for a specific end that we might not yet grasp (much as we have done with the Sabbath), we need to at least discuss the groups of people who can’t seem to figure out how to keep up with the proper age, let alone the latest phase of it. We are not throwing stones or making condemnations in this discussion, but simply making necessary observations so that we can wisely interact with them in the real world as it is, and not as we would like it to be. But having said that, it is awfully hard not to mock the teenager who comes to school with his hands in bandages for the umpteenth time in a single year. I encourage you to have extended pity on variously stunted minds which we might not understand in their difficulty of comprehension (II Corinthians 3:14 and 4:3-4), because you too have your own tendencies toward stupidity in areas that should be obvious (I John 2:11, Ephesians 4:17-20, II Peter 1:8-9,3:17). Compassion and tolerance may help with the intersocial attitude, but it doesn’t help with the consequence of failure, on their part or on yours. Be perfect, walk with God (Hebrews 12:12-24…). And pray for those who don’t (Matthew 5:44), offering them more than prayer only, even as I do with you (II Timothy 2:24-26).

Skipping over the obvious state of the Jews in their “hand burnt” spiritual blindness, (because the scriptures have made that reason very clear: Romans 11:25+11:19, etc.), Let’s contemplate the other group of slow thinkers that still live in their out-of-place 7th Century phase in this present 21st Century age by the rules of a religion that was created at that time from the even older Mosaic age long past when they dug it up from the sands of time. The Muslims seem to have picked up that fragmented faith long after it was declared-- not destroyed (Matthew 5:17) but nonetheless-- obsolete without the latest updates (I Timothy 1:7-8, Hebrews 10:28-30, I Corinthians 7:39, Galatians 4:21-26). In this age of cutting-edge technology needing to be updated almost daily, this religion is only two entire ages and a few thousand years behind the times~ both temporally and spiritually. The Grand Tapestry makes that very clear, in both the big picture as well as the intimate details.
So what do you do when you have an entire house full of people that keep burning their hands? You take the stove out of the house. And in keeping with the times and the spiritually lobotomized era, God removed the temple, the law, and the sacrifices so they could no longer hurt themselves with them. Healthy adults really don’t need those anyway because they are out eating fresh herbs from the garden they tend (John 14:26+Romans 2:14-15+Romans 8:1-4). But while the Jews have no garden and no stove, the Muslims found the old stove out back and brought it into their house, believing that burnt hands are just a natural part of responsible cooking, and if your hands aren’t burnt you are neglecting your social duty.
The Christless Jewish and Muslim confusion seems to have no clear explanation until we place their disorder properly on the progressive timeline with the big picture in mind, and then it makes perfect sense. But I warn you, don’t get smug; This is the age of confusion and derailing bumps before we reach the terminal! If you are not getting frequent updates from the Spirit of God through his word, then your faith is also obsolete!
As evidence of this fact, let’s next discuss The Sixth Age.
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(*1) “To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ” Galatians 4:5-7.

(*2) Lower waters from upper waters: See Post 268 “The Waters of Clay” - (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-water-of-clay.html).

(*3) “That’s It?”
I confess that while I worked diligently editing this Post waiting to see the eclipse from my office window, I was disappointed that my sky became overcast right at the wrong time and I saw the obscured event through a “lightly fogged” sky. Did I really need to see it at all? No, I already know the times, I am already prepared, I have no need for a sign-- even of such a magnificent spectacle-- to motivate me to get right with God in fear of the end. Do you? (Hebrews 10:26-27).
It seems so poetic to think that God might create such a “pre-sign” of the sun-darkening end-event to come, and then cover the sky with clouds so that the masses would miss it by ignorance while the “knowledgeable” know it is happening even without seeing it.

“Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember?” Mark 8:18.

It’s as if God was telling us scripturally illiterate intellectual giants that this “sign” is not about the temporal event to be watched in either awe or fear. As I visit with people in other states, God seemed to cover the event with clouds over much of the land, thereby forcing us to contemplate what we knew by information but could not bow see.

“…An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” Matthew 12:39-40.

This “blood moon” event happened on Passover; also the day of the crucifixion on which Jesus Christ likewise died to save us from our much-deserved wrath of God as the Death Angel passed over the Hebrews in Egypt protected by that blood of sacrifice. How many Christians contemplated THIS over the hype of the end of the world? …where virtually every scriptural mention of the moon turning to blood also includes the sun going black (Joel 2:31, Acts 2:20, Revelation 6:12).
If this was a sign, the masses of Christians completely missed the point. And the non-Christians had no hope of figuring it out.

As a side note: Do you realize that according to God's divine calendar, established on day-four of Creation and declared specifically designed to mark such things, We can know confidently that in spite of all the manipulations of man to mess with times and laws-- and calendars-- we should be celebrating the resurrection this year on Friday morning the 18th as God’s resurrection Sunday, as Typed by the OT “second sabbath” Holy Days (Leviticus 16:29-31, 23:27-32=Leviticus 23:37-38). How hard is that to figure out? But don’t let this bit of insightful trivia throw you from the topic and point of this Post.

Humanity gets all the life they need from the sun, and in that temporal mindframe of understanding life they reject the Son and his light that was given as hard to comprehend and unnecessarily redundant. So, like as the stove of the temple and sacrifice that was taken away to encourage them to accept the true worship and Sacrifice that they only Typed, God will likewise blot out the light of the sun and moon to allow us no alternative but to accept the true life-giving light of the true Sun:

“And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it” Revelation 21:23-24.

How amazing is that?!
The exploration of this prophecy applied functionally will have to wait for another time.
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The Grand Tapestry Introduction

Post 322

I desire to expound in several directions that the last Post brought up, such as:
Now that we recognize that neither intellect nor emotion are the Spirit promoted by God, we need to study the spirit and how to distinguish God’s Spirit from both our own and the spirits of darkness-- which study would be a continuation of Post 269 “The Spirits Of Clay” (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-spirits-of-clay.html).
Or we could investigate the social impossibility of complaining against the many Roma Downey type messages of unconditional love in the face of the alternate very conditional hatred thrust upon us by the 4th Beast’s spirit of violence, anger, and intolerance that we see today, and we could see how this “male and female” double-assault of wickedness is reminiscent of the twin faces of death presented by Communist Marxism as it murdered millions in a Politically driven Genocide vs. Nazi Socialism that murdered millions in an Ethnically driven Genocide while each presented itself to the masses as a unique savior from “the oppressor.”
And along with that, we could study to show how Mystery Babylon will indeed first destroy spiritually and then actually kill physically, all in the name of her marvelous liberty of love and peace-- (Don't miss this very interesting and revealing current Muslim example of what I mean http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26878477)-- before the “male” Beast of iron law has had enough of her “feminine” democratic ways and brings in the Anti-Christ to destroy her with his own form of correcting law, that by then the general world will see as worthy because of her irrational and shameless lewdness that knows no bounds, yet bemoan the end of her era of wealth and luxury and greatly desired decadence of lawless Liberty.

But this work is already long enough and my intended point has been sufficiently made: Mystery Babylon with her many complex faces is now among us alive and well (*1), but in her beautiful, exciting, uninhibited youth and innocence with great promise and potential in giving herself to your pleasures with no apparent strings of significance, she is hardly recognized as undesirable even by the “slightly tainted” Christians who see no other options. Yet once she and her new NGO governing ways are tolerated by secret desire, then accepted by a surprising success, she will begin her artful vilification of those few remaining who oppose her "insignificant" lewdness in any way. In her initial exciting, smooth, pure, and beguiling ways-- that will succeed at taming the “One God” intolerant Beast of Islam-- she will also succeed in making her other “One God” Christians and Jews her bedfellows too, her only opponents left will be the resisting “radicals” from those groups that must be destroyed for the sake of Unconditional Global Love. Her new Dirty Grace Jesus will unquestionably label the resisting Hebrew, Muslim, and Christian God(s), the one-in-the-same malevolent destroyer that must be globally risen against by the democracy of human tolerance. Her declared goal is not to destroy or even take vengeance on the intolerant; but to geld and tame and bring it under her benevolent skirt of universal Peace as she rides him. The destruction she “reluctantly” administers only comes when these “resisters” refuse to conform. This is the same spirit that drives the Purpose Driven Church movement today, which is right now subversively consuming common Christianity almost without resistance, as the first stage. I tell you now, like the aggressive spread of final stage cancer, it is too late to stop this spirit that has infected the entire world; we cannot save this patient as the Whore quickly consumes the earth under her spell, and Glenn Beck seems to be setting up to be among her greatest assets in spreading her message.
In these last days it is inappropriate to continue denying the inevitable in favor of a false hope. It will take creative and dangerous exploits on the part of the few honorable and Godly people, to succeed in delaying this subversion even a little (Daniel 11:28 vs. Daniel 11:32), and many weak, milk-drinking Christians, will criticize and condemn such righteous activity as wickedness (Matthew 10:36). And many more will wickedly conduct themselves in the same name and presumed cause of the Godly, which, by so doing, will prove the cause as evil. It is the age of confusion.
And so I leave these explorations for you to do with the Lord and his Spirit of Holiness that he has given to us by our spiritual baptism into Christ Jesus (Revelation 1:5, Revelation 7:14) with the spiritual water/fire of the Holy Ghost (Numbers 31:23, Acts 22:16, I Corinthians 6:11, Titus 3:5, Hebrews 10:22), whom I trust that my Ephesians 5:26 path-straightening, foot-washing work has helped you to hear, by encouraging you to maintain the cleanliness of your spiritual hands and feet (Exodus 30:19-21, Psalm 26:5-7, Matthew 15:2-3, John 9:7, 13:7-10,14, Isaiah 1:16-20=Ephesians 6:15), and instruct you to always confirm what you hear from the Spirit, with the whole of the written word of God (Deuteronomy 32:46-47, Psalm 119:11)-- that can often be summed up in a single verse for discussion sake, but is never a one-verse theology confirmation.
The word without the Spirit is a corps unraised, but the Spirit without the word is a disembodied aberration (*2). The unity is life itself, and we Christians in our temporal state are the physical image and Type of that union of Spirit and Word, in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord (Genesis 1:26, I Corinthians 12:27, Romans 12:5).

And now, as we bring this present unfinished study of Mystery Babylon to a slow conclusion-- which introduces the next study of continuation, (which I may or may not get to as quickly as I desire), let’s explore the seven phases that introduce the Grand Tapestry of our human history. These two topics go hand in hand and so we must discuss both at the same time, but in the following few Posts I endeavor to focus primarily on the stages, or phases, and only use the Grand Tapestry outline as a resonance-board to be deeply explored in another work.
I need to make clear that these two concepts are not spelled out as fact in the scripture. Rather I am applying historical and scriptural study in comprehension of the Spirit of God, to infer, postulate, and explain, our current state of existence before God as it seems to differ some from earlier phases. In otherwords; this may be considered just my educated theory as distinct from what I know to be the established word of God, but I expect you will discover that my proposal is scripturally sound and quite explanatory of all that we have covered in this lengthy multi-collections of work, which I believe God commissioned me to do as I heard his glorious concert by His Spirit though the Word, of which I am even still attempting to flesh out the notes and write it all down on paper, (see Post 110 “3 AM” - http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2010/10/3am.html, an excerpt from the As America Falls collection of earlier Posts that I still hope to compile and publish in book-form).
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The Repeating evolutionary Cycles of Life:
All life consists of phases in development. For humanity let’s label these phases:

conception/birth - infant - juvenile - young adult - productive - resource - old age/death.

Let’s not get stuck on these specific titles at this point, but simply understand that humanity goes through specific and predictable changes from beginning to end. We can all agree this is true, and we can all agree that the phases begin and end with these, so we only have these five mid-term phases to quibble over and that’s not too bad when beginning a discussion of new consideration.
In the pre-Darwinian era this chained process was properly called evolution but we can hardly use that corrupted word anymore because it has been transformed into something it was never intended to mean, so let’s just call this the process of maturity, and if I use the word evolution here, this is what I mean; The changing from one phase to the next. But, don’t ever for a second imagine that I am trying to blend the natural and predictable processes God designed into the seed, with the subversive unpredictable and fanciful Evolutionary processes of added information that Satan has twisted the maturing of creation to suggest. Such a blending is utterly disastrous, with ends surprisingly functional but nonetheless pure evil, much as was represented by the results of Jurassic Park in the movie of the same name, the surprisingly enduring phrase from the silly old black-and-white film days is; “We’ve created a MONSTER!” But with the sophistication of science and slight-of-hand fantastic presentation, it’s not so silly anymore.
So now let’s continue:

As I have expressed throughout my work, the observable creation explains the unobservable (Romans 1:20). This is the way designed into virtually everything, which is why these Christian movies that blend and rewrite “insignificant details” of the scripture have done a terribly destructive disservice.
As an example: the scriptures never tell us that Jesus asked for help to get into Peter’s boat, nor after aboard, does it tell us he dangled his hand in the water to “summon” the fish into Peter’s net, or said that his mission was to “change the world,” as Roma Downey’s Son of God movie shows us with blasphemous drama: --Matthew 4:17-20, Mark 1:14-18, Luke 5:1-11, vs. “fishing” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60YCt10Zgyo)-- because such events and words invented by her would deviate from, and destroy, the description of the unobserved prophetic principle that God intended the biblical event to Type.
It’s the very pleasant deletion of “go, and sin no more” from the “neither do I condemn thee:” message of John 8:11, because we want a different result. Just be sure to also delete the “junk colon” concept in order to successfully get the desired liberating outcome rather than the undesirable limiting warning of “lest a worse thing come unto thee” (John 5:14).

Like the so-called “Junk DNA,” there is nothing in the scripture that is extraneous-- even if it seems so by ignorant men; virtually every letter and emphasis of the written scripture (and the spiritual message of life that it gives), no matter how small and seemingly insignificant, has a specific and complex intent that remains valid to the end of time, whether we know it and choose to use it, or whether we don’t know it and choose to abandon it or manipulate it to mean something else:

“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot (2503) or one tittle (2762) shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” Matthew 5:18-20.

Jot 2503 iota; of Hebrew origin (the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet); “iota”, the name of the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, put (figuratively) for a very small part of anything:-- jot.

Tittle 2762 keraia; feminine of a presumed derivative of the base of 2768; something horn-like, i.e. (specially) the apex of a Hebrew letter (figuratively, the least particle):-- tittle.

So, although we will not now rabbit-trail this concept to study the mystery of just what has been so carelessly manipulated away in the section of cinematic scripture exampled above (among the plethora of similar in her films and shows), we must make strong note that these so-called Christian films, like today’s scientists playing with the genome sequence, are destroying in the souls of their participants the very carefully and miraculously constructed work of God found in the scriptures, to the point of creating still unknown problems that very likely will not have a solution short of a Noah-like genetic cleansing but by fire (Deuteronomy 19:14+27:17, Proverbs 22:28, 23:10-11, Job 24:1-13= Genesis 6:9, Matthew 24:7 [Pestilences 3061], II Peter 2:17-21, [Numbers 31:23], etc.):

“Scientists hail synthetic chromosome advance.
… As a form of life whose cells contain a nucleus, yeast is related to plants and animals and shares 2,000 genes with us. So the creation of the first of yeast's 16 chromosomes has been hailed as ‘a massive deal’ in the emerging science of synthetic biology. The genes in the original chromosome were replaced with synthetic versions and the finished manmade chromosome was then successfully integrated into a yeast cell. The new cell was then observed to reproduce, passing a key test of viability. …
Chucking the junk.
… The new chromosome, known as SynIII, involved designing and creating 273,871 base pairs of DNA - fewer than the 316,667 pairs in the original chromosome. The researchers removed repeated sections in the original DNA and so-called ‘junk’ DNA known not to code for any proteins - and they then added ‘tags’ to the chromosome. Dr Boeke said that despite making more than 50,000 changes to the DNA code in the chromosome, the yeast was not only ‘hardy’ but had also gained new functions. …” - BBC science 3-27-2014 (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26768445).

Scientists, filmmakers, and modern minded preachers of repentless salvation, are cavalierly changing the very fundamental foundations of life, without having a clue as to what repercussions will be faced as a result, because they have no idea what they are actually playing with, or how and why it even works. Remember the vestigial appendix, or the Lobotomy doctors of only a few years ago, not to mention the blood-letting or manure using methods of a generation earlier? These are the same ignorant guys who now want to download your mind into a computer and assure you that it will still be you! And they are doing the same thing with the scriptures and the Spirit of God.
Calling the Son of God movie “a spiritual lobotomy on a chromosomial level of technology,” might not be as far off as one would think… but they are learning by experimentation how to manipulate it to get the Genesis 6:4 results they eventually want.
Moving on.
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How Long is the Span of Life?:
Frankly, other than the first 5.006 chapters in Genesis, we know almost nothing of the Age that ended with Methuselah, when, like Adam, God commanded Noah to replenish the earth in a new beginning (Genesis 1:28=9:1). Therefore, whatever IS written about that previous world is very important for us to know or God wouldn’t have included it. Let’s call that pre-flood period our paternal human development. Like DNA, it’s the foundational blueprint of our present humanity, as, Typed in a subsequent generation, we go through our own stages of predictable-but-new repeating development, and that development has both a historically known beginning and a prophetically known point of culmination, between which we live out our lives as we see fit, expecting the predictable and inevitable end but uncertain as to exactly when it will actually come. Here is where we run into a major argument of two distinct worldviews: “How long do we have to live?”

When your six-year-old asks such a question, what do you tell him? Clearly there is no termination date stamped on the bottom of his foot, so you tell him, “We don’t know.”
But speaking collectively, we do have a reasonable parameter within which we can expect him to live; barring many various causes that cut short a human life, we can assume that generally the lifespan of human beings today is about 75-90 years depending on a whole lot of factors. So how would you respond if I answered your son and told him his lifespan is normally expected to last 230,000 years-- give or take a few thousand. You would burst out laughing and tell your son I was joking. But what if I became greatly offended that you should think I was joking and I drew diagrams and dates and charts on napkins to prove it? You would perhaps think it’s time to find a new friend. Yet this is the condition that our present generation faces as it asks the question, and the difference between 6000 years and 13,820,000,000 is just ludicrous (*3). How is it possible that two seemingly sane adults can come to such greatly varied conclusions? A difference of two hundred years in a single life-expectancy theory would be vast enough to figure one of the two opinions is insane, but a difference of 229,900 years? wow! what can be said to adequately describe the lunacy? or which one is insane for that matter?
When you open the door to begin a legitimate dialogue with insanity, the discussion never ends because insanity knows no limits to its options of defense. But along that line we discover that sanity is sanity precisely because it has specific limitations that are at least testable to discover flaws in those boundaries. Let’s simply recognize that Uncle Buck has his limitless billions-of-years theory, and get serious again. Allow me to show you my odd theory as to how I come to answer this question of humanity’s expected duration and you can evaluate its worthiness for yourself by testing it against, recorded history, true science, and untarnished scripture. All I ask is a momentary earnest ear of contemplation.

I begin this theory by taking my foundational DNA control example from the first recorded complete human blueprint-- those first 5.006 chapters of Genesis-- as the beginning and end of humanity’s cycle if you will. God’s “Spec-book” on humanity’s reality tells us that from the moment God began creating our temporal realm (Genesis 1:1), He made everything in six days, and rested on the seventh day-- presumably to enjoy all that he labored to make (Genesis 1:5+8+12+19+23+31+2:1-3= six days of humanity’s temporal realm creation):

“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it” Exodus 20:11.

For reasons that are easily overlooked, God made it very important for his “inside” people to perpetually honor this six-day creation theme:

“Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed” Exodus 31:15-17.

Skipping for now the important refreshing concept, God really seems to have “a thing” for the Sabbath rest, and this “thing” is of perpetual duration; i.e. for-e-ver. Scripturally, capitol punishment is reserved for really heinous acts like murder and rape… and dishonoring the Sabbath. What is with the Sabbath?! Let’s see if we can discover something new that would make it so very important.
In our post-flood, next-human-period of replenishing the earth, God gives us a cipher to help us apply this Typology to what is otherwise difficult to figure out:

“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night” Psalm 90:4.

That OT comment might not have been as cryptic for their age as it is for our own, but here in the NT age the Apostle Peter explains this mystery for our assisted understanding as if we needed more help to figure this out:

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” II Peter 3:8.

Now in ignorance of both the scripture’s specific and general intent we might easily assume this mean that God created everything not in six 24-hour days but in 6000 years, yet this is clearly not what Genesis specifically tells us. So whether we choose to believe it or not, Genesis makes very clear that God says he made everything in six literal days as the light identifies day from night by the six-time repeated phrase; “and the evening and the morning were the ___ day.”

Additionally we read that God identified these six-days of creation as; “the generations (8435) of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day (3117) that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,” Genesis 2:4.

Generations 8435 towldah; or toldah; from 3205; (plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history:-- birth, generations.

Day 3117 yowm; from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), [often used adverbially]:-- age…

In my theory I propose that these six-days of creation are the development that brings the earth from conceptual beginning to completion: its prenatal conception-to-birth so to speak. Six days, not millions of years. This creation period is a very significant marker to help us evaluate the life expectancy of human history as we look to anticipate our expected terminus.
But if the thousand years as a day cipher is not referencing a truly six-day creation, then what is it referencing? I suggest this is a complex computation that still has something to do with creation as we remember the importance of the Sabbath. The six-day creation, which is so important that we never forget, even for a week (for reasons we may not actually comprehend as we honor it), is a Typology of something else that needs this days=thousands-of-years computation to figure out.
I suggest, and will explain, that each day of creation represents an age of human development, just as every generation in the Type of the repeating Sabbath observations experiences personally first-hand, and then second-hand as we see the next generation grow up like we did. Every individual experiences stepped phases of life which are repeated by their own children, and I propose there are specifically seven phases, individually as well as the human duration as a whole, though I am not hung up on my specific labels to identify them as repeated here:

conception/birth - infant - juvenile - young adult - productive - resource - old age/death.

While each of these phases are very different, and can each be experienced in a wide variety of acceptable and unacceptable expression, none of them are unpredictable or surprising in the natural evolution of the human individual, and shouldn’t be surprising in humanity’s evolution either. You don’t teach a juvenile to drive a car, and you don’t expect a productive adult to soil his pants, each stage of development gets an increased set of parameters and expectations that fits its relative phase. This variation is not contradictory though different, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out… but a teenager will complain that he is not treated as an adult, because, from his limited perspective he can’t see the difference, while he can see his maturity from the previous phases he has experienced and wrongly uses this awareness to assume his adulthood.
Among several examples throughout scripture, we see this concept of the conjoined temporal and spiritual phases hinted at in the evolution of the New Testament events in the Christian Age that has now lasted 1,981 years and counting:

“But I have prayed for thee (Simon) that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. And (as our teenager example) he (Peter) said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee (now), both into prison, and to death” Luke 22:33, (also John 13:36a,37), but Jesus didn’t see it that way (Luke 22:34, John 13:36b,38).

Jesus said: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:…and he will shew you things to come” John 16:12-13.

“(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” John 7:39.

(The experiences of Jesus Christ from v.1-10) “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses (145) exercised to discern both good and evil” Hebrews 5:11-14.

Senses 145 aistheterion; from a derivative of 143; properly, an organ of perception, i.e. (figuratively) judgment:-- senses. [see the definition of Perspicacity!].

“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him” I John 2:27.

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:” I Peter 1:14.

Clearly there are stages described here, even to the Christian’s spiritual life as it grows in the temporal, and, as in our temporal world, we likewise do not put a juvenile behind the spiritual wheel and expect things to turn out well (I Timothy 3:6). Within these predictable stages of maturity with unique issues to manage, we see (as with the above included Hebrews passage) the added problem of failing to mature at the expected phase of development. This is most easily recognized in individuals but it’s not as easy to translate this understanding to the phases of Human Ages as they relate to the Grand Tapestry of temporal History, both physical and spiritual.

Allow me to propose that the idea of these human phases of development between birth and death-- like the six days of creation and the one of rest-- are a Typology of the biblical 165 aion or “ages,” and that there are seven specific ages of human history from beginning to end. I believe this seven-age theme is the number one most repeated theme in all the scriptures, and has many layers of explanation; such as the seven days of the week, the seven nations driven from the land that God then gave to the Jews to replenish (Deuteronomy 7:1), the seven stages of the Revelation 17:9&10 Gentile Age, the seven stages of the Revelation chapters 2&3 Church Age, and the seven seals, trumpets, and vials of Revelation’s last-days Age to name a few. This interwoven repeating seven-stage theme concept can become very deep indeed as we see it play out with great complexity through the book of Revelation and its miraculously complex Heptadic structure (*4), but we will only here deal with the very first layer concept of simplicity by calling them; Seven Phases of the Grand Tapestry of History, which when complete, reveals a specific purpose of refreshing.
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The Grand Tapestry Introduction:
By the aforementioned suggested calculations I have concluded biblically that all temporal history-as-we-know-it in this present state, has a duration of seven-thousand-years from the creation of Adam to the “end of the world.”
Now it should be noted for clarity sake that the “end of the world” must needs remain in quotes because the scriptures tell us that the world will not actually ever end (Isaiah 45:17, Ephesians 3:21, Isaiah 66:22, Psalm 104:5) though our world will undergo a fundamental transformation (Psalm 102:25-26, Isaiah 65:17, 66:22, II Peter 3:12-14, Revelation 21:1) much as our temporal bodies will undergo a fundamental transformation to enter eternity as well (I Corinthians 15:49,52-54, II Corinthians 5:1-4, Revelation 21:4-5).
In our present state of temporal existence death is pretty much the end of life, and in this way the “end of the world” is pretty much the end of the world in every sense of the meaning (Isaiah 24:19-20, Luke 21:33, II Peter 3:7, Hebrews 1:10-12, Matthew 5:18). Only when we contemplate the realm of God and our eternal existence do we comprehend that there is a complex continuation beyond the end (Job 14:1-17). We will discuss this tapestry-explaining continuation in later Posts as it relates to the Christian Sunday that comes after the week, but first we must discuss the old seven-day week where Saturday-- day 7-- is the last day. It is the conclusion and end-of-the-week in refreshing rest from the week’s long labor. Saturday does not suggest any day to follow it; it is the end of the week; the terminus.

6 days of creation/labor + a day is as a thousand years = 6000 years of labor.
add to that 1 day of rest + a day is as a thousand years = 1000 years of rest.
This adds up to 7 days total duration of creation/week + a day is as a thousand years = 7000 years total duration of history.

Now we Christians know the bible states plainly that the last 1000 years of humanity’s history-as-we-know-it will consist of the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth (Revelation 20:4-6), and so it’s not difficult to see this as the confirming cipher of our theory and the Typology of the 7th day Sabbath Rest from all our toil and labor (Revelation 20:2-3) that God seems to feel is extremely important for us to constantly consider.

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return O LORD, how long?...” Psalm 90:12-13a (see also Ezekiel 4:6).

I suggest that the Sabbath rest is the key to numbering our days and answering the question, (and the part of the verse I left out reflects our period of striving labor that will end in the great rest of God’s forgiveness):

7000 years of History (the sum of creation), minus
-1000 years of Millennial Kingdom (Sabbath rest), equals
6000 years of human toil before the Lord of the Sabbath comes (Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:27-28, Luke 6:5).

The Jewish calendar-- recognizing no Messiah yet (*5)-- still counts history from the creation of Adam according to the specific math found in the lineages of the Torah. According to that biblically calculated Jewish calendar, humanity has been in existence for 5774 years and the cosmos has existed an additional five days.
So what this means is that we can subtract 5774 years of labor-past from 6000 total years of human labor to get a very close speculation as to how much longer we can assume humanity must toil before that kingdom comes.

6000 years of total toil, minus
-5774 years already served, equals
226 years remaining until the Kingdom of Heaven comes, as we are instructed to pray for and expect (Matthew 6:10).

Yes, I am well aware of all the kooks who predict the end of the world, and like all those supposedly coming back from heaven with a message from God, we are getting very weary of hearing this garbage and simply toss out anything that sounds similar (II Peter 3:4[-7]): “We have already given these theories an honest hearing and determined they are all unscriptural, and so in conclusion we reject this type of calculation as heretical and foolish.” And to validate our blanket rejection we wrongly apply Matthew 24:36-29 and Mark 13:32 in spite of the fact that when it was time, Noah knew very close to the day (Genesis 6:3, becoming Genesis 7:4), and I am pretty confident that Jesus will know, if he doesn’t know already, the day he will return, even though he didn’t know it when he made the statement. It’s a maturity of time thing:

“…Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power” Acts 1:6b-7.

“And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: he revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him” Daniel 2:21-22.

“But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night… but ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief… for God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us…” I Thessalonians 5:1-2,4,9-10.

“…When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring (4768 overcast). O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” Matthew 16:2-3.

“Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark [M]ountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness” Jeremiah 13:16.

“He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the [B]easts of the forest do creep forth” Psalm 104:19-20.

“He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white (like Ezekiel 37’s dry bones)” Joel 1:7.

“When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again…” Deuteronomy 24:20a, (but Isaiah 17:4-7+ Zechariah 1:15 explains what I left out that relates to near-future events).

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the door” Matthew 24:32-33, (see Luke 21:29 that includes all trees).

“The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away” Song of Solomon 2:13.

“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” I Thessalonians 4:17.

But regarding the Lord’s later Second Coming of judgment: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” Matthew 24:36.

“Son of man, Prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth (1929: ah! expressing grief) the day! For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. And the sword shall come…” Ezekiel 30:2-4a.

“Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. ...Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?” Amos 5:18,20.

“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doeth come” Matthew 24:42.

Clearly we can’t know the day or hour, but only a eschatological hypocrite does not know the season, and even a general idea of where in the season!... Israel is always the prophetic olive tree (Jeremiah 11:16-17, Romans 11:17,24-25), and remember; green olives always come before new leaves. Now read again my instructional parable misorder of Matthew’s near summer as it relates to the Song of Solomon’s even nearer springtime!
Summer is the Day of the Lord-- who comes like a thief to break up and destroy, while springtime is the calling away of Christ’s bride. Enoch departed “unusually” (Genesis 5:23-24) before Noah endured the wrath of the flood yet in God’s protection. There was no sign preceding Enoch’s departure but Methuselah was the world’s sign of the season, and by the meaning of his name the flood came as expected; the year he died. At nine-hundred-years-old it would be pretty irresponsible to assume he would live another 200 years, even though it turned out that he lived longer than any other person. At nine-fifty one might begin to wonder if he would live forever, but the obvious reality is that his remaining days just had to be few! Did anybody know the day or the hour he would die? No, but his advanced age and condition, compared to the expected duration, gave strong evidence of his near pending terminus.
Therefore the singularly important question would be; What is a normal lifespan? and we might even have asked; What is the longest on record for comparison? This is the importance for correctly comprehending the designed duration of history. And this is why God made it so important to contemplate the Sabbath as the rest at the end of the week, and experience sleep at the end of the day (John 11:11).
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Don’t you suppose then, that this very common, none-scriptural, flat rejection of any “seasonal investigation” is exactly why Satan has sent so many kooks to make false predictions, and another hoard of kooks to tell us that the numbers are in the millions? To ignore the timing of the end until it comes, might not be a problem for God’s people… except for the fact that God has made it very important that we remember the six-day creation theme and keep watch for the end (Matthew 24:42-45, 25:13, Luke 12:37). I propose that, along with a perpetual expectation of unspecific immanency that has maintained a consistent ready faithfulness through the early part of this 6th age, in these last days we really need to know the Genesis 6:3 season more accurately, because we really, really need to know the specific timing as History wraps up (I Thessalonians 5:4+6, Job 14:5), for reasons I hope to make plain, and this theory seems to prove itself in the very specific math of scripture’s last days calculations that are available to those who will need them (Daniel 12:4,9-13, etc.).

As I have said before; I think in the timely knowing and the not knowing, we are dealing with the difference between the Church age Gentile promises that remain generally vague and mysterious in faith, vs. the Jewish age believers who are most always given very firm landmarks and chronological points of reference in their hardships (John 20:29, Daniel 9:2,24-27). I suggest this disparity is a; I Thessalonians 4:17, II Corinthians 12:2,4 style (726) harpazo, vs. a Second-Coming discussion, and presently we are discussing the Second-Coming end of the world, which I am growing confident that, like Noah, we are to know more accurately as it draws closer.
I believe that topic does have a scriptural termination date stamped somewhere, and while we might not find the date, we can sure learn a lot about the season in this late searching, and thereby glean some very insightful secrets regarding the date of our own early departure. A reasonable but theoretical biblical calculation of 226 years to the end, means we better have our "walking with God" bags already packed and exercised by now! At most, that’s only one generation away from the generation that will see “all these things be fulfilled,” (not Matthew 24:6 but Mark 13:29 in prep for Matthew 24:34). From Adam until now, we are down to a very possible two generations from the actual end!

Knowing the predisposition to class this study in the “whacko section,” why in the world would I even present this end-of-history theory as plausible? It’s because of all the Christians that are eagerly looking for the Antichrist and the “last seven years of world history” to happen any day (Luke 21:8). Events like the four blood moons (beginning in 11 days), while I am sure have a significance that we should know (*6), are, in the ignorance of the timing of the end, causing great anxiety over the presumed evidence of this “last seven years” theory that now captivates inquisitive but simple minded Christians, who, when the world doesn’t end, will find the magician’s cup empty without any explanation other than a certainty that Jesus’ promises and signs are fraud.
Are we close to the last 7 years period? Oh you bet we are! But not that close. Still, 226 years is really, really close!(*7). But this greater period of time, which seems to coincide conveniently with the historical span needed for the rise and fall of an entire empire, explains how the scriptures show many things yet to happen before the end of the world; like the rise and power and fall of Mystery Babylon before the last seven years begins.
So now we can move into my connected parallel theory, which, if you will remember, was the point of this Post;
The Seven Stages of the Ages.
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(*1) [Added 6/23/2014] "Berlin House of One: The first church-mosque-synagogue?
Berlin thinks it is making religious history as Muslims, Jews and Christians join hands to build a place where they can all worship. The House of One, as it is being called, will be a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one roof. ... The idea came from the Christian side of the triangle. ... We want to use these rooms for our own traditions and prayers. And together we want to use the room in the middle for dialogue and discussion and also for people without faith." - BBC News 6-22-2014 (http://bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27872551).

This may indeed be favorably reminiscent of the 1739 generic early-American building of worship erected in Philadelphia by fully Christian minister George Whitfield (http://www.reformed.org/documents/index.html?mainframe=http://www.reformed.org/documents/Whitefield.html), according to moralist Benjamin Franklin: "expressly for the use of any Preacher of any religious persuasion who might desire to say something to the people at Philadelphia. The design in building not being to accommodate any particular sect, but the inhabitants in general, so that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach Mohammadism to us he would find a pulpit at his service" (- Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, chapter 11), but unlike Franklin’s stabilizing confident belief that we all must one day give personal account of ourselves to God the Maker and a clear biblical understanding of who that Maker is; the complete lack of actual fundamentals in the emotional faiths of today, desiring to unite the several god’s and faiths in mutual worship, opens the door wide to "Chrislam": the next step in consuming the actual substance of these different religions to create a chimeric Evolution of universal faith by becoming something else entirely. And while we may very well like the socially beneficial results, whatever it has become in this present “House of One, Chrislam blend” mentality; it is no longer the faith that Christ brought to sinners in need of salvation, but is rather a generic promotion of much needed morals as a show of wisdom (Colossians 2:23), but beneficial only as long as we remain on this soil. Yet in its usefulness, it undermines any thoughts of need in preparation for the life to come, (see Post 298 "Mother Teresa's Abomination" vs. Galatians 5). It has become an earthbound religion, greatly offensive to God, largely because it changes a Republic to a Democracy.

(*2) Aberration: 1. Act of being aberrant; deviation, especially from what is right, natural, or normal. 2. Disorder of the mind. 3. Astronomy. A small periodic change of position in the heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. 4. Optics. The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, or rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus.
Aberrant: 1. Wandering; straying from the right way; deviating from truth, rectitude, propriety, etc…

Disembody: to divest of a body, of corporeal existence, - (Merriam-Webster online Dictionary adds “or of reality”).
Corporeal: 1. Of the nature of, consisting of, or pertaining to, matter or a material body; physical… - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948.

My meaning then, is that the Holy Spirit through the word of God makes that word live in a functional and practical application to reality, that neither the Spirit nor the word can do independently. The human body-and-soul that we call life is our Typology of this marvelous relationship. Today’s divided Church seems to work hard at segregating these two to dwell in both realms separately, and the result is the death of the functional and practical application, yet provides an indefinable “life-form” that doesn’t belong in our world because it can’t be confirmed or denied or regulated as right or wrong in our temporal domain. The spirits of the dead belong somewhere other than here, be it a human body or the body of Christ (James 2:26, Romans 8:11).

(*3) How old is the Universe?
“13.82 Billion years” is today’s common secular answer -- (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/21/age_of_the_universe_planck_results_show_universe_is_13_82_billion_years.html)-- although the 2 seems like a comical bit of presumed accuracy since the 13, let alone the 8, is still casually jerked around by Billions from time to time.
Conversely, the Christian worldview has remained firm on its generic 6000 years theory (by most scrutinizing scholars, it is calculated to be accurately enough 5774-years-old and counting). You would think that in the unchanging dogmatic declaration of such a ridiculously short period, science would have found conclusive proof that this is a completely impossible theory. But they haven’t come up with anything so far but speculation and theory as proof.
On the other hand, Creationists have conclusively shown that many of Evolutionist’s foundational data is actually fabricated data with misleading intentions. Remember Lucy? or Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man, Java Man, or the many other Missing Links? or Haekel’s fabricated comparisons of developing animal embryos still found in textbooks today? or the circular reasoning in dating both the fossils and the rocks they are found in? or the fully fabricated Tree of Life? not to mention the mythical Geologic column, or the ignored theory-breaking Cambrian explosion in the Fossil Record, the alarmingly shallow depth of the dust on the moon, the helium still escaping the earth, or the undispersed heat in the universe, the absence of a single intermediate fossil, the fact that all of Darwin’s evolutionary finches are still thriving simultaneously, the Irreducible Complexity problem, the mystery of information in the DNA, or…
To postulate an explanatory hypothesis for study, or to say openly, “We don’t know yet,” is one thing honorable; but to create lies, misdirection, and the mockery of any opposition given in the spirit of a genuine scientific investigation, is something else entirely.

(*4) Heptad: n. [Latin heptas the number seven, from Greek helptas, -ados, from hepta seven.] The sum or number, of a group, of seven - Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1948.

(*5) The Hebrew Calendar:
It is a further curious “coincidence” that by God’s command memorializing their Passover rescue from Egypt, the Hebrew calendar begins on a new day:

“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb…” Exodus 12:2.

But since they refused to give up their old calendar, their nation is now split by schizophrenia using two different calendars: the secular and the religious. The new calendar just “happens” to begin at the halfway point in the secular. The Moses-like rescuing Messiah that they rejected also came at the halfway point in human history, and thus we end up with a Jewish calendar that still begins with Adam, and the Christian calendar that begins with Jesus the second Adam of new beginnings (I Corinthians 15:47-48).
The mathematical discrepancy from true-center accuracy has similar complexity as the Daniel 9:25 calculations with calendar changes, leap-years, and such-- explained by Sir Robert Anderson in The Coming Prince-- that, perhaps by lack of investigation alone, is frankly still beyond me; but here we are simply making the general point of curious comparisons that defy coincidence as an explanation, and in good conscience I could not leave it unnoticed.

(*6) Four Blood Moons:
This of course is an entire study of its own that I don’t wish to get into. But suffice it to say here that while each of these four consecutive eclipses are both reasonably uncommon, and shown to occur on Jewish holy days, only the last one will be seen from Israel so it’s really hard for me to imagine that they have any direct significance to Israel at all.
On the otherhand, (if there even is another hand), These four potentially “blood” moons will be seen in the western world, and the first one just happens to come on April 15, 2014; America’s tax day. Might there be a relationship between the Jewish/Christian holy day of Passover/Crucifixion and America’s day that oppresses her real trust and the people’s individual monetary status collectively?

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon” Matthew 6:24.

It’s just possible that this is a sign of the choosing that will be forced upon us by an economic collapse. Frankly I don’t know, and I don’t have time or desire to investigate it before it occurs. But IF this sign means anything, and IF America is the Promised Land of the Gentile Age as I suggest, I would think it might be an omen of bad things in the west, and specifically for America-- the Harlot Fiancé-- and therefore specifically related to her economic wellbeing, both nationally and personally as it relates to the Lamb’s blood to protect us from the Lord’s destroying angel that devastates an entire land. That’s a lot of IF. And that’s all I am going to say on the topic at present.

(*7) Please understand, the purpose of this Post is not to try to sell you on the idea of 226 years left. I am not attempting to predict "the date of Methuselah's death" or the end of the world. There are complexities with the calculations of the Hebrew calendar and such that I do not attempt to address here. What I am trying to show is the importance of distinction between 6000 years and 13.82 Billion.
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The Misleading Deception

Post 321

The Game:
Every good deception has a cover deception that is intended to be discovered by the discerning critic so that he believes he is abnormally aware of the deception and therefore safe from the illusion’s trickery and free to stop searching the deception in order to just watch the show smugly for entertainment. Great illusions often have a second decoy that masquerades as the better-hidden “true deception” for those who know this game. The term slight of hand is the explanatory phrase that describes the illusion that intentionally leads to deception.
If your keen-eye sees the magician secretly drop the object ball into a cup as he performs the “disappearing” trick in his hands, then you are not surprised with the audience to see that his hands are empty at the end. But when he then “accidentally” upturns the cup and you find it empty, your mind is fully confused because you were sure you knew his trick and the accidental exposure unequivocally proves your secret-cup-drop theory, but the results don’t make sense. The less discriminating person that didn’t see the ball drop is also confused, but with a far less complex confusion that has a far less disturbing affect on the mind.
Now with this description, did you pick up the concept that we have in effect “two balls” that have disappeared, two problems to solve; the one in the hands and the one in the cup?

The Deception:
Daily, the Headline News is presenting us the deceptive illusion. Just this morning (March 21) I read an additional article regarding FGM (Female Genital Mutilation). It is regarding suit brought to citizens of Great Briton for crimes as spelled out in the Female Genital Mutilation Act of 2003, and the Serious Crimes Act of 2007 - BBC FGM 3/21/2014 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26681364).
With knowledge of what FGM actually is-- as opposed to what it isn’t-- we have no problem agreeing with the fact that this crime against humanity must be stopped aggressively and immediately. And for the sake of the discerning, without going into uncomfortable detail, it takes on several forms, the primary being: the cutting off of the sensory organ, and/or the cutting and growing together of the opening making it impossible for penetration but leaving enough opening for urination. This procedure, most always done in their youth-- example at age five-- is done by unskilled elder women of the village with less than surgical instruments.
So by the informed world broadcast, we are encouraged to campaign against this heinous crime-against-women not only in our own lands with our own laws, but we push for the UN to implement international laws to cover nations other than our own. This international force just seems undeniably right and good and worthy of the intrusion into the culture and governments of others who can’t seem to make themselves respect basic human rights.

But here is the slight-of-hand that is supposed to be discovered by the discerning person:
While making such laws in our lands to protect the innocent, we have no business making laws to govern the nations of others unless we conquer them and make it our own burden to govern, feed, and protect. Let’s turn this concept around and ask the question if we would like Islam to force the UN to establish Sharia law in our own land in our own governments because they feel we need better management. Of course not! They have no business in our laws; “Implement your debauchery in your own lands and governments if you want, we will manage our own thank you very much.”
The sad part is, that today, the world’s people are so dull of thinking that most are now missing this obvious slight-of-hand action, and with a blank-look at the stage they clap delightedly because everyone else is clapping at what was apparently a good presentation. They have no idea the ball even disappeared or that it was supposed to. So to explain to them that it dropped into the cup is beyond them. But we know better!
But do we?

The Cup-Drop:
Along with the several faces of FGM, we have included the bloody and barbaric procedure of “Female Circumcision.”
“We westerners just don’t do that sort of thing here,” and so to add this to the list of FGM is a no-brainer; “What is wrong with those sick people?” we ask ourselves, “Can’t they just let girls be naturally human?” but we already know the answer in our heart, which is that the East has a male dominated society that oppresses women. “This we must campaign to stop,” but if not in their land, at least in our own. OK fine.
But what have we just done? By an honorable and worthy effort to protect women, we have walked through the door that leads directly to laws in our own land against Male Circumcision. After all, what is the difference?
And now suddenly you discover that the cup is empty! You’ve been deceived like the others while you were so sure you saw what was going on! So now you back-peddle quickly in your mind, trying to find the flaw in your evaluation, but you can’t find it. Why not?

The Empty Cup:
Will you and your society now abandon your mission to end FGM in order to protect your religious right as God’s people? or will you, by force of righteous law in order to protect the innocent, give up the right of Male Circumcision because it seems barbaric to you now? After all, it’s conceptually no different than Female Genital Mutilation, and to say otherwise is irrational if not just sexist~
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Micro vs. Macro Evolution/Observable vs. Historical science/Misorder vs. Wrong data:
This distinction between similar but independent-spheres is not casual or insignificant; rather it is the key to discovering truth (II Thessalonians 2:10) and the right answer of correct application (2:12. [See also Revelation 3:10]). In essence, this is the difference between your child’s FaceBook Password input having wrong data vs. having the right data but in the wrong sequence (*1). While having the same generic result they are not at all the same thing; the one is foundationally far closer to finding a successful outcome than the other. To simply see them as the same thing is to utterly fail to apply what was so close to success, and instead guarantees total failure because you have now rejected what was true by “proving it wrong” through forgetful misapplication, which leaves you at even less than ground-zero in the attempt to hack your own program as if you were an unlawful intruder who didn’t know to at least reject the “proven wrong-answer” that you had. In otherwords; even a hacker might stumble upon attempting your password while you have already “tried” and rejected it as no longer a viable option.

The principle I am driving at is that information gives value to everything. But even a lie is information, as our own corrupt Government, now using lies for a purpose, has dubbed it; Misinformation.
Misinformation is not just a lie; it is a destroying deception. That is; a crafted effort to lead others in a false direction as opposed to no other intent than to hide oneself from the truth. Therefore, to be ignorant of information allows one to be confused until the truth is discovered, but to have wrong information as uncontestable truth allows one to be irrevocably destroyed.
Now back to the question of Male Circumcision: Why would you not outlaw it as barbaric? after all, the indwelling Holy Spirit has rendered that tradition significantly mute (Galatians 6, Romans 2:25-29, I Corinthians 7:18-19).
To answer this concept in depth, let’s explore a few more, deceitful current events:
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Mel Gibson’s 2004 The Passion of the Christ (*2), and Roma Downey’s 2014 Son of God (*3), are just two recent-to-current movies on a new-level of extremely-good slight-of-hand craft artfully designed progressively to expose just enough acceptable wrong presentation to lead you to an eventual irrevocable deception when you later find the cup is empty too.
Nearly every Christian who has ever heard even the simplest bible story’s of Jesus in Sunday School up to the 1960s, will come away from either of these movies with an “I saw the deception” mentality grinning knowingly at the “artistic license” taken by the writers and producers, and say to themselves and their friends;

“I know the truth so the slight errors did me no harm, and I deeply liked the movie for it’s emotional connection to Jesus if not just for its good, clean, entertainment value in a world of normally wicked entertainment.”

But how strange it is that Christians would casually and knowingly allow Pagans and Cultists to use “artistic license” with the image, body language, inflections, motives, and even the very word of God himself, because they wanted to be entertained. Am I really the only one you know running around crying, “Clean! Clean!” in a Christian land of spiritual lepers? Do we really need to go into the details of Roma Downey (*4) and her perpetually heretical decade-long Touched By An Angel TV show (*4), or the scriptural apostasy in her History Channel TV series The Bible? (*4). This beautiful, gentle, soft-spoken, benevolent, Jesus-loving, woman, diligently and almost disturbingly trying to conduct herself as a benevolent angel, is the new Roma[n] Catholic Church in these last days; Without any ill intent on her part, she is the Great Whore of Babylon personified. But if you don’t know the ball was supposed to disappear, or that it even did, my words will only confuse your joy of clapping, and you will resent me for ruining your happy emotional experience of the delightful performance.
Yet I will show that to venerate the image of Jesus Christ in this film is no different than venerating a Catholic image or idol of him (*5); This IS idolatry on the grandest of scales. And idolatry, as one of the Big Ten, is confirmed forbidden by Jesus even in the New Testament (Matthew 4:9-10). This Son of God presentation to Christians and Pagans is how the pictures and idols made their way into the Jewish temple of God (Ezekiel 8:7-11) and drove God from his own temple as He was replaced (Ezekiel 8:6). Catholicism has a new old face!

Scientific micro-evolution in misapplication is fraudulently used as misinformation to validate the baseless religion of macro-Evolution, and misapplied Observable Science is likewise used in the same fraudulent deceptive means to validate the foundationless illusions of Godless Historical processes. In a similar way, Female Genital Mutilation has virtually nothings to do with Circumcision anymore than a dark-ally knife has anything to do with heart surgery. And it really doesn’t matter about the gender at this point, though in deeper detail it does.
And now that we made the distinction to segregate out circumcision as a genuinely harmless (and even perhaps hygienically beneficial) custom of any particular people group: Male Circumcision was a unique command of the Jewish God for his special people as a covenant between he and them; it had a specific purpose, while Female Circumcision seems to be Allah’s game in kind for his own people of consuming preoccupation with sex. While we might stand fully against true inhumanity regardless of religion, the other needs to be left up to a people’s own culture and religion whether we agree with it or not. Don’t we in turn want them to leave our cultural and religious values alone too? This is the very reason for the God-intended concept of nations (Genesis 1:28 & 9:1 vs. Genesis 11:4 resulting in 11:8-9), and the repeating danger of the UN (United Nations)-- without implying that the UN is all-evil or that nations are all-good.

With the less-questionable Epic Christian films that came before-- such as The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur and Barabbas (in the comparably used foundational three Disney Princess stories)-- to lay the accepted groundwork of presenting the scriptures in this new format, these recent films have now crossed the line just far enough to demand open rejection, but we have grown accustom to the required "artistic license" in this format and so say nothing.
No longer do we evaluate and contend with the seemingly-minor biblical idiosyncrasies of the production, as we did with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments (*6), or William Wyler’s 1959 Ben Hur, or even Richard Fleischer’s 1961 Barabbas, No, now we must grapple to reclaim the ground we actually gave up in the name of peace, because from that surrendered ground they are metaphorically lobbing spiritual rockets into the neighborhoods of our defenseless citizen, just as Palestine is doing physically to Israel.
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The Deception Revealed:
The greatest of tricks, illusions, and deceptions that simply cannot be discovered as fraud, loose all their power to mystify as real-magic when someone exposes the slight-of-hand deception. So it is with the spiritual world; knowledge is extremely powerful.
The key element that by exposure disempowers these films, is the knowledge that “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24), to which we add: “I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD” (Psalm 31:6 from v.5. hated 8130 enemy, foe).

It is imperative that we comprehend this fully, but it will take just a bit of explanation to make the truth clear. Please take the time to also read the foot-notes as they are an integral part of this Post.

Here is the deception exposed: Emotion is not spirit. But it masquerades as spirit (Hebrews 4:12).

These films today have a single focus, and that is to saturate your emotions. Today’s filmmakers and actors often state that the declared goal is to make you feel something-- anything. They don’t even care if it is hatred for them and their film; they feel that if they have made you feel deeply then they have succeeded in their job. Many have said this directly. I came to this conclusion myself as I viewed The Passion, but in watching the DVD extras this is again stated to be their mission. They have mistakenly believed that to deeply feel compassion for Jesus as he suffered is the same thing as finding spiritual salvation. A common phrase regarding the film is that they were “changed by it,” but what does that actually mean?

I tell you plainly that the emotional assault leaves virtually no room for a spiritual response of truth. Yet in the slight-of-hand confusion, the emotional response is mistaken for spiritual and the result is a foundational deception that masquerades as salvation. This is the game of the Charismatic Evangelical movement. It is boundless emotion run wild, attempting to do the job of the sleeping spirit like a woman who rules her home because she can’t get her husband to do what she wants done. But if the spirit is slothful it’s because the emotions are ruling, and, as they say; “If momma aint happy, aint no one happy!” so the spirit lets emotion rule while it checks-out of his own home, at first metaphorically but later actually, in an ugly divorce (Ezekiel 10:18-19 [begin reading in chapter 9]).

God is Spirit. This is why in his word, God states that He must be worshipped in spirit, but adds that this must be done in truth (John 4:24). Truth is the foundation, truth is the boundary, truth is the distiller, truth is the stabilizing element that distinguishes spirit from emotion.
This is why we regard them as enemies who regard lying vanities, because they place their trust in something other than in the LORD while claiming they follow him. This is spiritual cancer, whether they know it or not.
Understand; I don’t believe Roma Downey or Mel Gibson has intentionally created this deception, but they regard the lying vanities of both Emotionalism and Catholicism. This cannot be embraced by Christians.
Even if every word of the film was taken directly from the scriptures, the over indulged emotional presentation would still hinder the gospel message from reaching the spirit. The mind and emotion are flesh and they must only be allowed to support the spirit, not rule it.

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth within you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” John 14:16-18.

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come” John 16:12-13.

“(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord” Ephesians 5:9-10.

“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” I Peter 1:22-23.

“We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error” I John 4:6+.

We cannot afford to confuse emotion with spirit. But this is the driving force of Babylon in today’s Woman’s World of emotionalism.
Jesus was a leader, not because he was physically or emotionally dynamic, as this Charismatic Age is want to believe; he was a leader because his Spirit breathed the life of truth into men’s dead spirits and drew those revived spirits to the Spirit of God. While today’s ministers are reaching primarily the emotions, and even periodically the minds, it’s the spirit of men that we need to be reaching with the true life of God in order to give them new incorruptible birth, but we are failing greatly at the task because we are living in a combined intellectual and emotional age, that while indeed giving them new birth, it is corruptible. Emotional spiritualism is as close as they can even comprehend, and then they enhance that illusion with the intellect of science to “create new life” but that’s not even in the same park. What is being “re-created” today is the Age of Noah all over again, and this is why the image of Noah must now be corrupted and perceived as evil. Noah was the Typology of Christ, and Satan doesn’t want anybody getting on that boat!

For a "Part 2" update, please see Post 328 "Two Steps Backward One Step Forward" (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2014/07/two-steps-backward-one-step-forward.html).
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(*1) An Example:
Ravi Zacharias presented a case where in a lecture at a University a Muslim speaker was berating Christianity as a way that no rational man could follow. A Christian professor in the audience asked him to explain and was invited up to the stage where the speaker used the Sermon On The Mount as his example for his demonstration and then severely struck the Christian across the face and asked him to now turn the other cheek, to which the Christian man complied.
The speaker declined a second striking in the name of mercy and instead went to the next command of that Sermon and told the Christian to give him his trousers. In this artfully boxed-in corner the Christian could deny his Lord’s command and prove the speaker right or surrender his drawers. In commendable humility he first turned to the mixed audience of young people and begged their forgiveness, and then on stage removed his trousers and handed them to the speaker who mocked him and his foolish religion while he stood in his underwear. The Christian professor’s office was later flooded with Muslim students apologizing, and Christianity seems to have won a sort of pathetic victory, but at what cost?

What we have just seen is the misleading deception in practice.
By using the true command of Christ, found in Matthew 5:39, as the foundation for his trick, the speaker misled the Christian professor to a false truth established on that first startling event that rattled his brain. Because the commands were in effect one-in-the-same the first time, the Christian professor did not realize that he had obeyed the speaker rather than the scripture, and did likewise the second time when the speaker slightly abused the command. The Christian should have recalled each command directly rather than take it’s meaning from the non-Christian speaker who just established the field by showing that he knew correctly the meaning of the previous command. By recalling the scripture itself the Christian would have been able to respond in knowledge and ask the speaker; When had he brought suit to lawfully take his jacket before asking for his trousers?

“And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also” Matthew 5:40.

You see, we cannot allow Satan’s children to artfully use our own scriptures against us in deceptive misapplication. A correct interpretation of v.39 by a Pagan, does not automatically lead to a correct interpretation of v.40, but this assumption is what the speaker artfully drew from the Christian, with destructive intent. Yes, the speaker was very nearly applying correctly the whole concept of Matthew 5, which is why the Christian fell for it. But "very nearly" is not good enough. The second "disappearing ball" in this trick is that even as a Christian, the speaker would have had no business making the application to others; it’s a personally applied principle to be used in wisdom, not blind obedience. This is a case of Self-application vs. Forced-application. Not at all the same things and very much like Obama’s Communist share the wealth concept masquerading as American charity.

(*2) The Passion Of The Christ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ):
By turning on the subtitles for a movie in quasi-Aramaic we immediately discover that this film is sprinkled with presumed words, motives, thoughts, and purposes of not only the disciples but the Lord Jesus himself. This is a landmark departure from the foundational Christian film epics. Without going into detail here, I liken this transitional production to The Little Mermaid in our study of the progressive Princess epilogue. Said simply; the focus of the needy human girl longing for her Redeemer Prince as the Type of humanity and her Messiah, has made a significant but subtly deceptive switch to the viewpoint of a functionally superior feminine entity with the reversed pursuits of winning the less significant human prince. This important transitional production opened the door for the proactive princess spirit that we see in all the subsequent stories, yet we didn’t even notice the change, and so, like the Christian professor, we automatically apply all the previous approvals to the new foundations and feel obligated by Christ to give up our trunks.

In our emotionally driven world today, this film is intended to make you feel. And feel deeply. And it succeeds at that aim masterfully. It actually made me weep for the great emotional compassion I felt in watching his biblically declared great physical disfigurement through the torture more than any man (Isaiah 52:14). I felt extreme compassion and sorrow for him, and a deep gratitude for what he was willing to do for us and for me… but not once, through the entire film, did I feel personal guilt or remorse. Not once. Not even a little. And I knew by the scriptures that I was supposed to, so what of those that don’t?
If the emotion didn’t preoccupy my senses by blocking out all others, my extreme compassion alone was all the proof I needed that I certainly could not be found guilty for what took place that day, and, while I might not understand their reasons, it was very easy to identify the guilty “they” as the wicked Jewish priests that stirred up the ignorant people at the trial against him, and the demonically driven Roman centurions appointed to carry out the task. The film’s extreme depiction of powerless social grief helps us to feel with them-- as non-interacting observers-- as if we are a weeping distraught participant along that Via Dolorosa, which makes us feel guiltless, and this emotion is why so many today actually travel to Jerusalem to reenact the solidarity with that day’s road of suffering. This is hardly different from the OT sacrifices that never succeeded to take away sins (Hebrews 10:3-4).
Since the film’s goal was emotional and succeeded at its goal, it is inappropriate to complain for the comparatively minor abuse of the biblical text when it comes to the words and image of Christ-- though the deviations are several and profound; such as the numerous unbiblical focuses on Mary, and the specific cases of him calling her “mother” in contradiction to the entire text of scripture (Matthew 12:46-50, John 19:26), for reasons that should be explored especially by Catholics--, the intended emotion squarely hit the mark and so the film was perfect in aim. The deviation from the text only aided the emotional end intended and so the experiential emotion applauds the result and thereby justifies the means regardless of where they were sourced:

“Catholic Devotional Writings: Screenwriters Mel Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald said that they read many accounts of Christ's Passion for inspiration, including the devotional writings of Roman Catholic mystics. A principal source is The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ the reported visions of the stigmatic German nun Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), as written by the poet Clemens Brentano. A careful reading of Emmerich's book shows the film's high level of dependence on it.
However, Clemens Brentano’s attribution of the book The Dolorous Passion to Emmerich has been subject to dispute, with allegations that Brentano wrote much of the book himself; a Vatican investigation concluding that: ‘It is absolutely not certain that she ever wrote this’. In his review of the movie in the Catholic publication America, Jesuit priest John O' Malley used the terms ‘devout fiction’ and ‘well-intentioned fraud’ to refer to the writings of Clemens Brentano" - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ).

Gone is the reverence for protecting the sacred word and visage of God the Savior that we saw in the “old 1960s donkeys and sandals story” of Ben Hur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_%281959_film%29), and in its place is an artistic license to dramatize the Lord’s image, words, conduct, meaning, and experiential events, for the titillation of our ruling emotions. And the door has been opened for us to now expand on that option that finds our Christ just another character in our productions that we can artistically “enhance” in our efforts to present our own version of the biblical gospel message (II Corinthians 11:4). Man is now arrogantly pursuing the human validation of the needy deity, which is a complete biblical reversal.
Yes, the true gospel message is in this film near the summation. But it is quickly snatched away by the far more captivating drama of the raven’s revenge. And to tell you the truth, in the rampant emotion, I think I often felt more emotionally-choked compassion for Mary’s suffering than for Jesus’, and the after-DVD extras supported this as intentional. In this film the gospel message is always greatly overshadowed by the emotion, and so the true message is functionally lost, and in its place is a feeling of commodore with Christ to “love your neighbor in self-sacrifice” as the total of the gospel. This is the gospel of Global Peace through compassion, not the gospel of repentance unto a salvation at great cost to our Savior. Did you understand the Leviticus 16:8 scapegoat typology played out with Barabbas? I didn’t think so; we’re just drawn along in the logicless emotion of it all, like when the Devil packs a demonic baby through the crowed to create a feeling we can contemplate as a kind of logic-replacement. Wait, what chapter is that in? Oh that’s right, this is just a docudrama in the style of rewriting history that America has grown so accustomed to do. What is truth anyway? And who really cares? I cried a lot and that’s the goal~.

The cutting room editor John Wright, said in the DVD extras: “I’m not a real religious person… but you know… whether you believe that Jesus was the Son of God or whether you believe he was just a guy-- you know, at the wrong place at the wrong time-- you can’t look at this without being moved. That’s how I feel. It moves me. It moves me.”

I think as well as any other comment, this explains my argument. So what if the Godless are moved; if they are not moved to repentance unto salvation what does it matter? What specific place did it actually move him to? An anti-violent sympathy?… perhaps against God the Father?
You need to understand that when you live in a world that is run off emotion, emotion is all you have to work with. This movie does a fantastic job of working in that realm, but is the result salvation? or just a warm affinity toward Jesus as he endured his Father’s psychotic cruelty, and the idea of universal forgiveness that needs no repentance to acquire?
Tell me how we are not simply re-warming the old concept of Universalism and calling it Christianity.
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Theological and Christian Support:
“Gibson consulted several theological advisors during filming, including Fr. Jonathan Morris.”
“The Passion of the Christ received support and endorsement from most known evangelical leaders and representatives of USA's conservative church organizations: Billy Graham, James Dobson, Mission America Coalition, Salvation Army, Promise Keepers, national Association of Evangelicals, Campus Crusade for Christ, Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry falwell, Max Lucado, Young Life, Tim LaHaye, Chuck Colson, Lee Strobel, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mother of Preschoolers (MOPS), Seventh-day Adventist Church…” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ).

Who can’t see the anomaly that every form of Christianity from Billy Graham to Rick Warren thinks this film is great? In fact the list above includes a whole string of apostate ministries like the Trinity Broadcast Network and the now Catholic minded Chuck Colson, with a few good but simple ministers such as Lee Strobel. Clearly there is something dangerously non-biblical going on here that needs further exploration, because not all sheep are going to hear the Lord’s voice as they apparently hear in this film. If most of the above names are for it, I automatically stand on the other side when I begin my investigation. Yet I have to confess that I too, at first, was drawn in to approve this movie.

“Domestic[:]
“The film opened in the United States on February 25, 2004 (Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent). It earned $83,848,082 in its opening weekend, ranking it 4th overall in domestic opening weekend earnings for 2004. It went on to earn $370,782,930 overall in the United States.

International[:]
… Despite the various controversies and refusals of certain governments to allow the film to be viewed in wide release, The Passion of the Christ earned $611,899,420 worldwide. The movie was also a relative success in certain countries with large Muslim populations, such as in Egypt, where it ranked 20th overall in its box office numbers for 2004” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ).

The enormous sales and support in America alone, indicates that the same powerful masses who have allowed by neglect, if not by disobedience, the de-Chrisitanizing of America to her own destruction, are those that flock to this film. This tells us that these flockers are fully missing the point of the scriptures that they think they support. If the same 83-million-dollar-weekend-masses were walking as upright Christians obedient to the scriptures, America would not, no, could not, be in the state that it is presently in (II Chronicles 7:14).
Yet they flock.
And applaud.
And leave the show never knowing that the ball has disappeared, let alone how it happened.
The Mel Gibson Jesus was just the next state of the now progressive Jesus of Roma Downey. I am revealing the distinctive difference between the true and false Jesus.

(*3) "Son of God" Movie: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_God_%28film%29).
A production of Roma Downey, which-- other than Youtube clips, promotions, and such-- I have not watched and have no present intention of watching. I have seen the long evidence of the leprous spirit behind this woman's life and work and declare her unclean. Therefore, whatever she touches is also unclean (Ezekiel 44:23).

"If one bear holy flesh [Christ] in the skirt of his [unholy] garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy [because of the holy flesh he bears]? And the priests answered and said, No. Then said Haggai, if one that is unclean by [touching] a dead body touch any of these [things], shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean" Haggai 2:12-14.

(*4) Roma Downey and her works; Touched By An Angel and The Bible:
“On May 24, 2011, Downey and husband Mark Burnett announced they were producing a 10-hour docudrama for the History channel, The Bible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_%28TV_series%29), based on stories from the Bible scheduled to air in 2013. [and was broadcast weekly between March 3 and March 31, 2013 on History channel. It has since been adapted for release to theaters as a feature film (138 minutes), [as] the 2014 American epic biblical drama Son of God.] They began planning it in 2009 and lined up their own financing. The full production cost was $22 million USD. Downey and Burnett wanted to stay as true to the content in the Bible as possible so they put together a wide variety of pastors and academics to review the script and filming. For example, they worked with Pastors Joel Osteen and Rick Warren and academics such as Craig A. Evans and Mark Goodacre” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Downey).

Ok, really? Joel Osteen and Rick Warren are their idea of Consulting Pastors for biblical authentication? Enough said! but we will in fact say more.

Continuing:
“She is married to television producer/entrepreneur Mark Burnett. Her only child, Reilly Marie Downey Anspaugh, is from her previous marriage to director David Anspaugh. … On Thanksgiving Day 2006, Burnett proposed to Downey during a family vacation in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. They wed on 28 April 2007 in their Malibu home. Her Touched By An Angel co-star, Della Reese, officiated at the wedding” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Downey).

OK, we have a twice (*4b) divorced woman from previous professional-in-film men, on an exotic “family” vacation with another professional-in-film man, that-- we hate to presume but are forced to believe-- was her cohabitant in a prolonged relationship of fornication in “their Malibu home,” and the minister officiating her third-time-round not-quite-as-sacred vows is… and actress? …that pretends to be a permissive ministering angel of God for a living?
Enough already, my head hurts! I have heard all I can take about her confused life of Dirty Grace worldly permissive spiritual interests masquerading as approved of God:

" ‘Now this is curious,’ I remember thinking. Because I'm a person of faith, the spiritual aspects [of the script] got my attention’” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Downey).

" ‘For ten years, I played an angel on 'Touched by an Angel,' and the premise of that show, at its simplest, was that there is a God and that He loves you and that He wants to be part of your life,’ she replied. ‘It was a privilege for me to be playing the angel -- to be messenger -- and delivering that message every week’” - (http://crossmap.christianpost.com/news/miracle-couple-mark-burnett-and-roma-downey-from-northern-ireland-touched-by-the-son-of-god-8665).

I have seen the show. And the very clear message she was so privileged to deliver every week, was a message of universal salvation that needed no repentance. Everybody gets to heaven, all you have to do is believe you are going. That is a given, with no significant focus on that future. The real point of the show was-- (to quote a coined phrase)-- “your best life now.”

“Downey was raised as, and remains, a Roman Catholic” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Downey).

Of course she is~. But the foundational problem isn’t just Catholic; Clearly this permissive Christianized Catholic leprosy now infects the Christian Church body of believers on an $83-million-dollar-weekend epidemic scale:

“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” Matthew 15:8-9.
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Son Of Flaws:
The self-proclaimed flaws-of-thinking in the creation of her latest film Son Of God are numerous and remarkable, but I will only touch on a few to make the point:

"We remembered that the disciples at that time didn't know they were in the Bible. They were a bunch of tough guys following a charismatic leader who later is revealed to be the Son of God. Imagine the fear they were going through when they discovered this and imagine the Romans hunting them down and the temple authorities trying to get rid of them.” - (http://crossmap.christianpost.com/news/miracle-couple-mark-burnett-and-roma-downey-from-northern-ireland-touched-by-the-son-of-god-8665).

Well, that’s a curious bit of news, as the bible clearly states that on the day that Jesus began his public ministry (John 1:29), John the Baptist confirmed him to be the Son of God, the Lamb of God (v.33-36), and the very next day, one of the first two disciples of Jesus (Andrew), who had followed John and heard his statements of confirmation, expressed to the third disciple (Peter) that they had found the messiah (John 1:40-41). The passage continues and the very next day (v.43) the fourth disciple (Philip) declares to the fifth (Nathanial) that they found the messiah that Moses spoke of (v.45) and this fifth disciple, on the third day of “disciples,” declared Jesus to be the Son of God (v.49).
The scriptures also likewise declare that they knew the prophecies of the Apostles, called Bishops in the OT, and that one would be replaced, and what they were to do (Acts 1:20-26), even in multiple areas of their continuing work (Acts 6:5-6, I Corinthians 4:9, Ephesians 2:19-20, 3:5, Revelation 21:14, etc.). They knew that they were writing scripture when they wrote it (Ephesians 3:1-6, Romans 1:1-2, 11:13, II Peter 3:2,15-16, Jude 1:17, Revelation 18:20, etc.). So what are we to do with Roma Downey’s foundational errors of declaration in trying to create the “accurate” emotions in a docudrama film of the events? Frankly she doesn’t have a clue as to how to put additional emotion to the biblical text while she goes about declaring that she does. Nobody does. And to try is to rewrite the bible.

Now lest we go off on an emotional witch-hunt, it must be acknowledged that the disciples didn’t readily comprehend the application of all that this meant, and this might be construed to be the intent of Downey’s statement, but since we already know, and have shown by her own words and actions, that this woman’s life and doctrine and “angelic ministry” are foundationally confused to disobediently destructive ends (I Corinthians 6:9-10, 5:9-11), we cannot give her much room to be unclear. She has lost her “winging-it privileges” (pun intended).

Continuing on: Do the scriptures tell us that Jesus was a “charismatic leader”? No. But clearly he had to be in order to gain his following… or so she surmises from her non-biblical perspective of what makes a leader. But while this seems like an insignificant point that is open to such speculation in the gap of what is not written, I contend this is not insignificant at all, for reasons that will become evident. Let’s have a look at what IS written on this topic of her Charismatic leader:

Jesus said: “I can of mine own self do nothing…” John 5:30.

“If this man were not of God, he could do nothing” John 9:32.

“For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood” Hebrews 7:14.

“…Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?...” John 1:46.

“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:” Philippians 2:7.

“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him” Isaiah 53:2.

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” John 6:63.

The scriptures are filled with the evidence that Roma Downey’s charismatic, magnetic, beautiful Jesus is not God’s Jesus. But what actually makes the difference significant? Let’s see if we can discover that:

“…We've tried to present it in a way that emotionally engages an audience.
We cast a beautiful and extraordinary Portuguese actor called Diogo Morgado and he gives an amazing performance and gives us the qualities of strength, kindness, and compassion. He's an actor who plays the lion and the lamb and when you see this, you're reminded of what an extraordinary love story this is…. This is a very dramatic film. This is not your old 1960s donkeys and sandals story, but this is something for young people. This is a 2014 movie and it looks like it with big special effects. This is a story that can really affect the world in getting to know and love Jesus" - (http://crossmap.christianpost.com/news/miracle-couple-mark-burnett-and-roma-downey-from-northern-ireland-touched-by-the-son-of-god-8665).

How does a non-Holy-Ghost-filled, fully human actor, accurately portray the magnetism that Jesus possessed beyond any physical or human characteristics that is specifically declared in the scriptures as important information? He uses his human qualities of attraction to imitate the other, for us to get-- at least in representation-- the spiritual draw Jesus must have had. For any human story this might be acceptable, but for this spiritual story this is an unacceptable deception that leads only to a fundamental destruction of the entire message. It matters not whether this destructive deception was intentional or not, and I have no problem believing that from her point of view it was not. It still doesn’t matter in regards to her guilt (Leviticus 5:2-3). She is, in the essence of truth, the ministering damsel of Acts 16:18, (see Post 270 - http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-ministering-damsel.html).

The danger in the following two links of information are not as easily comprehended until we expose the foundational flaw in Roma Downey’s Jesus, and then it becomes quite clear.

"Even though this was a reenactment, there wasn't a person there who didn't feel the enormity of what He had done for us. And then, for Mark and I, as believers, to be there at the foot of the cross we were reminded of how much we were loved; that He [Jesus] would have done that for us" - (http://crossmap.christianpost.com/news/miracle-couple-mark-burnett-and-roma-downey-from-northern-ireland-touched-by-the-son-of-god-8665).

Other telling information we will not cover: Why we cut Satan from ‘Son of God’ (http://www.religionnews.com/2014/02/20/roma-downey-cut-satan-son-god/).

(*4b) Twice Divorced: “Both he [Anspaugh] and Downey, a native of Northern Ireland, had been divorced: he in 1988 after 13 years of marriage to a cruise-line sales manager, with whom he had a daughter, Vanessa, now 18; she in the 1980s after a brief marriage to a fellow actor” - (http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20124846,00.html).

Not that such a thing can’t be forgiven, but the strong compounding evidence is that this is not her past-life forgiven, but a continuation of her unrepentant present life. This is significant, especially as it relates to her privileged spiritual message contrary to the scriptures: I Corinthians 6:11 as one example.

(*5) Venerating an image of Jesus:
“…[H]ypocrites…This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandments of God, ye hold the tradition of men... And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition… making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye” Mark 7:6-9,13.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (6459), or any likeness (8544) of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them…” Exodus 20:4-5.

Graven image 6459 pecel; from 6458; an idol:-- carved (graven) image.
6458 pacal; a primitive root; to carve, whether wood or stone:-- grave, hew.

Likeness 8544 tmuwnah; or tmunah; from 4327; something portioned (i.e. fashioned) out, as a shape, i.e. (indefinitely) phantom, or (specifically) embodiment, or (figuratively) manifestation (or favor):-- image, likeness, similitude.
(See also Leviticus 26:1 which includes idols).

Idols 457 ‘eliyl; apparently from 408; good for nothing, by analogy vain or vanity; specifically an idol:-- idol, no value, thing of nought.

“Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude (8544) on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude (8544) of any figure, the likeness of male or female,” Deuteronomy 4:15-16.

Similitude 8544, [see Likeness above.]

God put a lot of work into being specific and it’s our job to comprehend the spirit of his collective meaning rather than get all legalistic over the details of “it didn’t say photograph.”
But just for you, let’s go there too:

“Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures (4906), and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:” Numbers 33:52.

Pictures 4906 maskiyth; from the same as 7906; a figure (carved on stone, the wall, or any object); figuratively, imagination:-- conceit, image(-ry), picture, X wish.

I really have no need to go into this much detail on this, because those whose hearts will hear my point, heard it back in the discussion. And those that didn’t hear it there, will just fight with the details here. But God is merciful and longsuffering, and so, if you think you need them, he gives you all the details too.
Am I saying all pictures of anything or anyone are detestable and sin? Not necessarily; by the context of the passage, this is about worship, as we saw in Deuteronomy 4:15-16.

“But I don’t worship the actor in the Son of God film,” I hear you say. But I argue that you do. We already know that Catholics are prone to worship wooden likenesses of Jesus and everybody else for that matter, so the risk is there.
Who do you picture in your mind when I ask you to think of the personification of Moses? Is it Charlton Heston? It is if you are the generation that watched The Ten Commandments (1959). And while this may not be such an abominable thing changing one man for another, it is something else entirely to replace in your mind the Lord God with the likeness and mannerisms of a common man. This concept is profound when distinguishing between spirit and emotion.

(*6) Do you know why I no longer own a copy of The Ten Commandments DVD? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten_Commandments_%281956_film%29). Among lesser reasons, it’s because the writer/director felt it was necessary to script and film an actor casually using God’s name in vain as a common expression. Isn’t it ironic, that, of all films, this breach of the 3rd commandment is found in a movie titled; The Ten Commandments?

“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain” Exodus 20:7. (Confirmed in Deuteronomy 5:11).

Yet we thoughtlessly allowed it because it was such a good biblical film.
But now in hindsight we can understand that this type of allowance is how we end up with films of abomination like the soon-released Darren Aronofsky’s 2014 Noah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_%28film%29), which-- as the Passion of the Christ movie that laid the groundwork of God’s unreasonable abusive nature regarding his own Son, and now also expressed in the nature of his prophet Noah-- is only the beginning of what is coming in the defamation of God’s character since we have opened that door of rewriting the nature of scripture to suit the fancy of our 4906 imagination.

“Movieline's Pete Hammond said that ‘This 'Noah' is unlike any other film of its kind - an intimate and stirring new take on a biblical story we only thought we knew.’
In March 2014, Paramount attached a disclaimer to all forms of advertising: ‘The film is inspired by the story of Noah. While artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide. The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.’ " - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_%28film%29).

Wait and see what this actually means.

“The film was banned in Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Indonesia prior to its release as the local government said that it contradicts the teaching of Islam. Later that day a representative of Paramount Pictures confirmed the news by saying ‘Censors for Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE officially confirmed this week that the film will not release in their countries’. The film was also banned in Egypt as it violates Islamic law and could ‘provoke the feelings of believers.’ In Islamic tradition, the portrayal of prophets like Noah is forbidden.” - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_%28film%29).

If only Christians held this much respect for their scriptures!
It’s really hard to fathom that while you think Islam has rejected the scriptural message by rejecting movies like these and refusing hospital administrators like those of the Pleasure Hospital, Islam is now more righteously discerning than Christian America! But both Jewish history and the scriptures tell us this is not a new concept:

“And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them” Ezekiel 5:6.
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