Author: Sandra L. Butler

Chapter Six: ZION (excerpts)

/ Sandra L. Butler

Out of Israel came Judah, and out of Judah came Zion. This would be as true among the Gentiles as it was for the Jews. This is where I come in. I had come home to work during my summer break from college. It was 1975, I was twenty-three, and having the time of my life, so I was not prepared for what was about to happen. Having landed a job in the Florida Keys as a housemother for troubled boys, I was paired with a housefather, who loved to talk about God, rekindling my interest. On one of my days off, on my way home to visit my family two hours north, I did a favor for my co-worker.  He had asked me to drop off his guitar, which needed some work, so I obliged, having no idea that it would change my life, forever. As I walked into this building on the outskirts of my hometown, I noticed a scripture posted on the wall: Acts 2:38. And on the desk, a very big book, which piqued my curiosity…It turned out to be a book of Bible words, a number given for each word. Clueless, I closed the book… 

This man, whom I consider to be a true man of God, began his odyssey in 1960. And like me, he had no previous teachings on the Bible. In fact, from a beginner’s standpoint, he knew less than I did. He once told me that when he read the first four books of the New Testament, he broke down and cried after each book. He thought Jesus kept coming back, and they kept killing him, not aware that it was the same story being told by different men. This was a pure vessel, his mind a clean slate, quiet, having no preconceived ideas about God’s Word. It was in 1960 that he received a picture in his mind of a nearby church, where he was instructed to go and be baptized. It was a Pentecostal Church; Judah of the Gentiles, where he received the name through water baptism following fifty days of prayer, in which he heard things like “the seed, the seed, the seed.” Frustrated, he would cry out, “Lord, what about the seed?” And with that question, the information started pouring in. What he heard he wrote down, papers I recall seeing some years after we met. He had gone through a period of repentance in those fifty days, and was baptized in the name of Jesus in accordance with Acts 2:38, in the church called out to bear the name. What happened to him that night in the church was readily accepted, mirroring their image of what they call “getting the Holy Ghost,” only this was not a mockery. This display was for the congregation, as the gift of the Holy Spirit had already been received in the form of truth he received over those fifty days. When he spoke in tongues, two in the congregation received the interpretation, after which time he was asked to teach from the pulpit. But what he taught did not support their beliefs. He was speaking things they did not understand, a new language, and it wasn’t long before he and his teachings were angrily rejected. 

The man of God spent the next fourteen years alone, being taught. Fifteen years from the time this man experienced a connection with the spirit of truth, which began in 1960, a new people was gathered together. Pentecost was given fifteen years in which to accept this truth, before being cut off in 1975. And what is quite interesting, is that during those fifteen years, a religious Jew named Yehuda, Hebrew for Judah, stayed in contact with this man of God. Judah of the Gentiles and Judah of Judaism were both privy to the spirit of truth teachings…

Israel, who became Judah at the crossing of the Jordan, was also given a period of fifteen; fifteen hundred years in which to assimilate this ancient spiritual truth, illustrated by their eating of the old corn in the land of Canaan, which replaced the manna, symbolizing the carnal law.  But fifteen hundred years later, when the spiritual word of God returned to take them out from the law, which they went back under through their disobedience in the Promised Land, they rejected it, wasting the holy seed, illustrated by Onan, the second son of Judah, who spilled the seed upon the ground. God then chose a new people, open-minded pagans, Gentiles, who understood the spiritual, drinking of the new wine and speaking with new tongues. When God’s people stagnate by slipping back into a carnal way of thinking, a strong dose of God’s spirit and word appears to move them forward into a spiritual way of thinking. If they reject it, there will be a new people prepared to take their place. God’s kingdom is always moving; moving us into a deeper spiritual understanding, which if applied through action, brings us back to our place of origin… 

Judah, Pentecost, never brought forth fruit unto God, so the name was taken away from them and given to a new people, to Zion. This Zion, gathered together in the carnal era of Isaac, went through a carnal baptism, taking on the carnal name, while Judah became as backsliding Israel, without a name, and having been married to God through a spiritual intercourse, was given a bill of divorce. This occurred in 1975, when the man of God heard the word, Ichabod...  The word Ichabod means there is no glory. This is the story of Ichabod: Now the sons of Eli were the sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord… Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord. 1 Samuel 2:12,17. The word Belial means without profit, worthlessness, destruction, wickedness, evil, naughty, ungodly men. These two men, who did evil by robbing God with respect to sacrifices, represent the Gentile Israel and Judah, who were cut off in one day, in 1975. 

To be of Zion we must first realize that we are Judah, which takes place when we realize that we only thought we were serving God, or thought we were doing the right thing.  But now we realize it was just a pretense. We begin to see that the way we are thinking and managing our life is no longer working for us, that it is only bringing us more problems. We are ready for change. In this humbled state, we make our way down to a symbolic Jordan. Here we begin the process of being stripped, our secret parts exposed through awareness of our false perceptions and beliefs. When we are ready to deal with the reality of our life, we become a daughter of Zion, building upon an awareness of our true condition, which we will change through works. The word Zion goes to the unused root meaning to parch, aridity, a desert, barren, solitary place, wilderness. It is a solitary place because we are the only ones that can change the way we think and feel, and what we believe. Each of us must do our own spiritual works, becoming a barren wilderness by drying up to our old way of thinking, and by sacrificing the destructive beliefs born of painful emotions. To be a spiritual daughter of Zion takes work, but it is worth it! 

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Chapter Five: JUDAH OF THE GENTILES (excerpts)

/ Sandra L. Butler

Israel and Judah, two groups of people, represented among the Jewish and Gentile nations. Israel of the Gentiles refers to two of these religious factions, Catholic and Trinity. Now we will identify the religious group that falls under the category of Judah of the Gentiles. Judah was the tribe separated out for David’s sake, for the sake of the spiritual kingdom of God. Israel symbolizes the Mind, which ruled by the unholy spirit of fear has caused her to buy into lies, while Judah symbolizes the Heart. What comes out of Judah reveals what proceeds out of the heart, be it holy or unholy, good or evil. John and Jesus, embodying the Spirit and Word of God, came out of the tribe of Judah, revealing the positive attributes of the Heart; love and truth. The beheading of John the Baptist and crucifixion of Jesus the Christ illustrate what has taken place in the heart of man, the holy spirit of love and word of truth usurped by the unholy spirit of fear and word of lies. Spirit and Word, the two witnesses of the heart, appearing in physical form two thousand years ago in the era of Isaac; in the era of mockery. 

You will often find Judah and Jerusalem in connection with one another because they represent the name and the mother who bears the name… God called a man forth from the tribe of Judah to announce His name to the world, the name of the Father carried down through the son, as Jesus said, “I am come in my Father’s name.”… But they rejected Jesus as Messiah, rejecting God’s holy name, rejecting His spiritual word or holy seed, that once conceived of in the heart brings salvation to the soul, healing the soul… Israel of the Gentiles rejected the name when they accepted a baptism based on a lie, but out of this Gentile Israel God called forth a new people that would restore baptism in the name of Jesus. This people, who received the name through water baptism, were called Pentecostals, and their church, once organized, was called The United Pentecostal Church or UPC. This is Judah of the Gentiles. 

As we leave the physical era of Isaac, and enter the spiritual era of Jacob, which coincides with the new millennium, we leave behind physical baptism. Baptism is now to take place spiritually in a symbolic Jordan. We get down to this Jordan by humbling ourselves to the new spiritual era. By letting go of the literal and taking hold of the spiritual. The word Jordan means to descend, to go downwards, or conventionally to a lower region, which the tribe of Judah illustrated by separating from the tribes of Israel, becoming the kingdom of the south, situated geographically downward, in a lower region, from Israel. Judah of the Gentiles, Pentecostals, separated themselves from Israel of the Gentiles when it came to baptism. By humbling themselves to the true water baptism, this Gentile Judah symbolically entered the Jordan, being physically baptized into the physical name in the physical era of Isaac. Judah of the Gentiles brought the name up to Jerusalem symbolically through baptism in the name of Jesus. The reign of Judah, Pentecostals, began in 1905 and ended in 1975, seventy years [Daniel 9:24], tying in with the seventy weeks. They, as the Jews of Judea, were given seventy years to bring in righteousness through the assimilation of truth, finishing their transgression and ending their sin or iniquity. Jews and Christians have both failed to obey the spiritual word of God. The veil of religious iniquity remains, holding up God’s holy seed, and polluting His holy name. The Jews failure to assimilate spiritual truth through spiritual obedience to God’s spiritual law was manifested in the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70AD.  

The iniquity that caused Judah of the Gentiles to mock God’s Word had to do with the promise of what they would receive following their baptism, this Pentecostal iniquity spreading like a fire gone out of control. When the iniquity of the mind is not overcome through the conception of truth in the heart, it forms into a false belief. Judah of the Gentiles took the iniquity to the next level, from a thought of the mind to a belief of the heart. Judah failed to drive the inhabitants out of the Promised Land, as Judah of the Gentiles failed to drive the unholy spirits and false beliefs out of that spiritual promised land called the heart…  All the false religious images formed from God’s Word over the past two thousand years, makes up the heavy yoke of bondage the religious peoples of the world serve under. This spiritual bondage is symbolized by the physical bondage the children served under in Egypt. The heavy yoke symbolizes the oppression that comes with accepting these false religious beliefs in the heart, so many carnal interpretations being assigned to spiritual truth. Some give reverence to a God on earth they call Father, when Jesus said, “Call no man your father upon the earth”… Some look to the clouds for the return of Jesus, believing in a rapture that will take them out of the “time of trouble” that is already upon the earth. All of this religious iniquity, causing so much confusion, and adding to the spiritual flood of evilness that comes with putting our trust in these man-made images; in these false gods.

The oppression of Rehoboam, the king of Judah, symbolizing the spirit of the Heart, exists in us all, and the ruler we have vested with absolute power is our fearful, angrily-controlled, selves. The spirit of the heart is anger, which leads to oppression, and has many of us beating our flesh into subjection, working and exercising our bodies to exhaustion in support of some false image, which we worship in exchange for a false sense of empowerment. This is not the authentic power of the heart, which the spirit of fear and humiliation stripped us of long ago, but a spurious power that brings false peace of mind. Our children suffer oppression and violence, starving their bodies and cutting their flesh, witnessing to the internal anger and pain of their heart. We fear that what we eat and drink will pollute our bodies, when Jesus makes it perfectly clear that it is not what enters our body that defiles us, but what proceeds out of our heart; the unholy spirit of anger, which works with the unholy spirit of control that feeds off the unholy fear of our mind. The word Rehoboam means a people will enlarge. It was the tribe of Judah that enlarged among all the tribes, as it is the doctrine of Pentecost, Judah of the Gentiles that has enlarged, being accepted by the majority of mainstream Christians. Proclaiming out of the spirit of impatience that they are born again and saved, Israel and Judah have finally become one, but not for the good. 

As the world leaves the era of Isaac, which is associated with Judah, and enters the era of Jacob, which is associated with Zion, it is time to leave behind the mockery of God’s Word. This is done by replacing the carnal interpretations assigned to scripture over millennia through the man-made doctrines of religion, with spiritual interpretation, thereby restoring the spiritual teachings of Jesus. It is time to rend the spiritual kingdom of God out of the hand of its oppressors, which have absconded with its spiritual truths. Whether she is a false religious image that has spread throughout the earth, or a false self-image that has permeated our heart, Judah has enlarged her borders, her spirit enlarging to include fear, anger, control, and impatience. These are the four earthly spirits; the four beasts or living ones that stand before the throne, symbolizing the heart, preventing us from living our authentic lives. Judah’s spirit of impatience, which grows stronger and stronger with each generation, is keeping us in spiritual and physical debt as we continue to demand immediate spiritual and physical gratification. It’s a spirit that is causing great mental, emotional, and physical oppression, oppressing the soul. 

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Chapter Four: ISRAEL OF THE GENTILES (excerpts)

/ Sandra L. Butler

When the spiritual word of God returned two thousand years ago, it was rejected by the People of Israel, so His spiritual truth was given to a new people, the pagans, whose practices included the worshipping of molten images, likened to Israel’s worshipping of the gold calf in the wilderness. These pagans were open-minded; open to the spiritual word of God, and came to be called Gentiles.  But it would not be long before they too would reject it, returning to their worshipping of false images. They, along with the Jews, the People of Israel, came against the word of God, coming against spiritual truth [Acts 4:26,27].

Those deeply rooted in the carnal-minded doctrines of religion will show contempt for the spiritual word of God, reflected in their anger, which destroyed the embodiment of spiritual truth two thousand years ago. Anger is born out of fear, and this unholy spirit of fear is what prevents one from letting go of these images or beliefs. But there will be more and more, who upon hearing spiritual truth, within or without, will stop buying the merchandise of the beastly religious image. It will be our love of truth, not our need to be right, that will end the reverence we show toward these erroneous beliefs, whose only power comes through the fear and lies they perpetuate. No longer placing value on this merchandise of false religious beliefs, the merchants within and without will be out of business, for good! … The Gentiles of two thousand years ago had left behind the graven images by hearing the word of God spoken through Jesus, as the children of Israel heard the voice of God through Samuel. But having a propensity for images, they would choose a king, as Israel chose Saul, who would form an image out of God’s word through carnal interpretations, which this Gentile Israel believed, being led to believe in the Son, as opposed to obeying the spiritual works of the Father (John 10:32-38). With the return of spiritual truth comes an opportunity to stop worshipping the false religious beliefs of today.

Israel demands a King:
“Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them… This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear the ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. 1 Samuel 8:6-20. If you take these words and convert them into modern day terms, you can easily make the connection to the church, and how it operates. For example, the sheep symbolize the flock or congregation. To take the tenth of the sheep is requiring them to pay ten percent of their income to the Church.

Israel wanted a king to judge them, and fight their battles for them, just as people want their religious leaders to decide what is right and wrong, so they don’t have to battle with these decisions themselves. We have long since forgotten how to trust in, and take direction from, our internal anointing, which guides us into the light of truth through the power of our holy spirit. We prefer to have the unholy spirit of fear rule our mind and tell us lies, then to allow the holy spirit of our heart to bring us the truth that will result in a spiritual and physical freedom that seems to petrify us… Saul was the king that ruled over Israel of Judaism, but he also represents a spirit that rules over Israel of the Gentiles. With a new Israel, came a new Saul. The name has changed, but the spirit is one and the same. Paul, referred to as Apostle to the Gentiles, was not chosen to be among the twelve so that we may see that there are two foundations that have been laid. One foundation has twelve pillars, represented by the twelve apostles, the foundation upon which the holy city of Jerusalem is built. The other foundation has one pillar, represented by the one apostle, Paul, upon which the city of Babylon is built. Paul laid his foundation through the words he spoke, mixing carnal law with spiritual truth; mixing milk with meat, which is unlawful. It is the cause of all the confusion and dissension among Christians today.

We learn from the Dead Sea Scrolls that Paul was a liar, which is how both Jews, who kept the carnal law, and spiritual Christians, who obeyed the spiritual works, would have viewed him… Israel of Judaism chose Saul because they wanted someone to judge them and fight their battles for them. Israel of the Gentiles chose Paul for the same reason. Most Christian doctrines lean solely on the teachings of Paul, the religious institutions operating through a set of by-laws, which the people willingly choose to obey. They pay their tithes, hiring someone to tell them what to believe, a belief that keeps them from fighting the ongoing internal battle between their own mind and heart, which can only be won through an internal anointing, through which they would gain the spiritual strength they need to be delivered, made free of their spiritual and physical bondages. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?  Jeremiah 5:31. But many are still allowing someone, or something, to do their thinking for them, and then they judge themselves according to that wrong way of thinking, leaving the righteous judgment undone. If they would shut out the incessant fear and noise that governs their mind through these man-made dogmas, they would activate the holy spirit of their heart, which would bring them into the truth of what they need to judge in themselves… When the word of truth dominates the heart, so too does the spirit of love, the good spirit and word driving the evil spirits and word out of the heart. This purified state makes us a spiritual virgin, and as it is written, “a virgin shall conceive and bear a son” (Isaiah 7:14), the son symbolizing the complete development or maturation of the soul through the highest degree of conception of truth in that spiritual womb called the heart. The holy spirit is the divine power or spiritual energy that delivers the gift, which is the seed or word of God; truth. We complete the revitalization or quickening of our holy spirit through truth, so you can see why this erroneous belief in a physical baptism based on a lie is so detrimental to the soul.  It started with the Catholic Church, “Babylon the Great, the Mother of harlots;” the false trinity doctrines born of the Catholic Church. They make up Israel of the Gentiles, and as their counterpart, Israel of Judaism, they failed because of the iniquity of their mind, Israel symbolizing our Mind. 

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WAR BETWEEN TWO NATIONS: READING THE SIGNS

/ Sandra L. Butler

The sign, and a very important one for us to read right now, is this hatred toward the Jews, which is perpetual. Why so much anger toward Israel? The Bible is the Book of our life, the children of Israel chosen out of all the nations of the world to represent us the people, which is why they are called “the chosen people;” chosen to teach us about ourselves.  The Holy Bible is not a religious book. It’s a book of psychology, revealing what has taken place within us on a soul (mental and emotional) level. To read what was first preserved for us through oral tradition, we must understand the spiritual language of the Sacred Text, which is why we have been given revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible.  (1998-2005). 

Hatred for the Jews is being contrasted by support for the Palestinians. What is this teaching us about ourselves? Abraham, which Islam and Israel have in common, had two sons by two mothers. Ishmael the father of Islam and Isaac the father of Israel. Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, was an Egyptian.

“The children of Israel entered Egypt, where they remained free for *40 years, living under the rule of Joseph and the kings that knew Joseph, which is to be subject to truth and to spirits associated with truth. Upon the death of these kings, the children go into bondage for *390 years. We enter Egypt, symbolizing the World, at birth. As long as truth rules our heart, we remain free. But when the lies of our mind are accepted by our heart as truth through the power of painful emotions, we go into bondage… Most of us will remain in bondage to these beliefs for about *39 years, after which time we begin our journey toward a new way of life, which for many will be ushered in by a mid-life crisis; a time when we seek to recapture our youth. But what we are really seeking to recapture is the freedom we felt as a little child through our holy spirit, which we began extinguishing early on through our many fears and misconceptions… * Egyptian time differs from our own by a factor of 10 to 1.” (excerpt; THE LITTLE BOOK FOR THE SOUL: an ancient healing process).  

The New Testament refers to Hagar as a “bondmaid,” symbolizing man’s spiritual bondage to false religious and personal beliefs. Sarah, the mother of Isaac, is referred as the “freewoman,” the two sons symbolizing the two states of the soul: bondage and free. In order to be spiritually free, we must fight against our spiritual bondage, overcoming it. This has nothing to do with the Jewish and Palestinian people in particular. It has to do with the two spiritual nations that are at war within us all. The ongoing war between the Jews and the Palestinians is the outward expression of the battle we have yet to win within ourselves. The hatred of Israel and the Jewish people reveals our own self-hatred, Israel being the nation God chose to teach us about ourselves!  

“Whence comes wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? ” James 4:1.

The wars and fightings among us outwardly are coming from the lusts that war in our “members,” symbolizing our own mind and heart, which is being generated by what is still hidden in the heart of man. But with no communication between the mind and the heart, it is impossible to discover the source. What has contributed greatly to man’s inability to communicate with his heart is religion, with its exoteric teachings, directing our attention to the outside instead of to the inside. Religion provides no instructions for entering the “kingdom of God,” symbolizing the realm of the Heart, where we have set up the false beliefs that keep us in bondage, and are the cause of the anger and the hatred we direct toward ourselves and each other. The Holy Bible provides the instructions, but like the signs, we must be able to read them.  

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025

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2025: A TIME OF SPIRITUAL CONCEPTION & TRANSITION

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In 1998 I had a dream. I was getting a gynecological exam. The head nurse said, “Because of her age, she’ll be pregnant by January.” I looked over at a table and saw 64. The dream ended. It was only in the last couple of years that I understood the meaning. 64 was the number of years from the first revelation, which started in 1960. The teacher of the first revelation was given a vision of a Church. It turned out to be a real church, a Pentecostal Church, where he was instructed to go and be baptized. What happened immediately following his baptism matched the Church’s image of “getting the Holy Spirit,” or “Holy Ghost.” He spoke in tongues, two receiving interpretation, after which time he was asked to teach from the pulpit. But what he taught, which he received prior to his baptism, conflicted with their beliefs, so he and his teachings were rejected.  He referred to his experience as “getting the seed,” knowledge that exposed what I call “Paul’s Great Lie.” It is not the Holy Spirit one receives, as Paul teaches. It is the gift of the holy Spirit one receives, which is truth. The seed is truth, as it is written, “the seed is the word of God” (Luke 8:11).  1960 was just the beginning of the sowing of God’s seed of truth in the earth, after lying dormant for 1500 years.  1960 + 64 = 2024. “She’ll be pregnant by January” takes us into the next year, 2025.

I believe man is being given an opportunity to conceive of truth through the power of his heart rather than through the power of his mind. This can only take place through God’s spiritual judgment, which the twelve tribes of Israel represent. The “twelve columns” in the vision of the Kingdom (seen on 7-7-77) represents this internal judgment, through which one makes the transition from the kingdom of heaven (realm of the mind) to the kingdom of God (realm of the Heart). The call was, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The call now is,  “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.”

Joseph and Benjamin, the sons of Rachel, the one Jacob loved, are the two tribes associated with the kingdom of God. From the vision of God’s Kingdom we learn that Joseph and Benjamin are Jerusalem, and that the people that come out of the tribulation are right outside of Joseph. On one of those rare occasions when the teacher spoke on the Kingdom, he spoke of the wall around the city. Those in the city are pure spirit, the wall being a type of body the pure spirit takes on to interact with the other levels. I now understand these to be the people that come out of the tribulation, having gone through the spiritual judgment on this side, through which they have been purified. The wall of the city is 144 cubits (Revelation 21:17); the measure man reaches through the spiritual judgment (Matthew 19:28). The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12 = 144. These make up the 144,000. We entered the third and final “era of Jacob” with the new millennium, entering “the time of Jacob’s trouble.” The same “time of trouble” Daniel spoke of, when a separation takes place between those that are being purified through God’s spiritual judgment and those that think they are being purified, but are not. The time to enter the kingdom of God is at hand!

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2024

Chapter Three: JUDAH (excerpts)

/ Sandra L. Butler

The prophet Ezekiel reveals to us that the children are referred to as Israel in Egypt and as Judah in the wilderness. The event that took place between Egypt and the wilderness, that caused their name to be changed, was their baptism in the Red Sea. Baptism is synonymous with the wedding ceremony, the bride clothed in white raiment, symbolizing her new name. Israel the bride and Moses the bridegroom, the Old Testament a type and shadow of the New Testament, Jesus the bridegroom and spiritual Israel the bride…

Transition from Levi to Judah and from Israel to Judah: Moses gave way to Joshua, and Aaron (of the tribe of Levi) gave way to Caleb (of the tribe of Judah), the type and shadow of what was to occur fifteen hundred years later, when the letter of the law was to give way to the spirit of the law, carnal giving way to spiritual. [Israel represents the Mind and Judah represents the Heart].

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law… For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning  priesthood.  Hebrews 7:11-14

With a change in the priesthood, from Levi to Judah, came a change in the law. The passing of Moses was to be the passing of the Mosaic Law. They would eat no more of the manna, symbolizing the carnal law, but of the old corn, symbolizing the ancient spiritual truth... Moses and Joshua, symbolizing the Spirit of God, placed their feet on holy ground, as it is through the power of our holy spirit that we get in touch with what the holy ground symbolizes, which is the heart. As the dry land called earth brought salvation to the children of Israel, our salvation will come through our heart… Beyond the wilderness is the mount. Beyond the wall of Jericho is the Promised Land. Beyond the sanctuary is the holiest place of all. Beyond the mind is the heart, in which dwell seven unholy inhabitants.

When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.  Proverbs 26:25

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:   Matthew 15:19

The mind is a trickster, able to conceal what is in the heart. It serves as a façade, putting on a good front, speaking its goodly words, lies. But the heart cannot be shod with such an unholy gospel without a vitriol response. It is holy ground, the holiest place of all, its unholy inhabitants designedly exposed through our mind and body; through our negative thoughts and destructive behaviors, giving us an opportunity to seek out their source, our false beliefs, the enemies of our heart, which will be cast out by way of truth as we are taken through God’s healing process… If we only purify our mind through prayers, affirmations, meditations, positive thinking, and the like, neglecting to also purify our heart, we will be worse off than before because our mind will have entered a deluded state, hiding our true condition— a secret held by the heart… Prayers and affirmations will not change the condition of man, or the world he lives in, because they do not change the heart. To manifest change that is permanent or everlasting, we must purify our heart… The heart, unlike the mind, has the power to manifest change that is permanent rather than temporary, eternal rather than temporal. We have become quite proficient at cleaning up the thoughts of our mind, replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts. But these mind-words are just thoughts generated through mental energy, not containing the power needed for a complete transformation, which requires emotional energy. We must enter into our heart, into the seat of the emotions, where we will do the deeper spiritual works that removes the root of the problem, instead of just whacking the weed off at the surface; at the mind level. Purifying the mind may bring peace to our mind. It may make us feel good, and make us think we have done the works. A deception that will keep us from seeing what is still buried deep in our heart. 

To reiterate, Israel symbolizes the Mind, which could not excel because of fear and lies. Israel was unable to perceive of the spiritual word or law of God, having eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, uncircumcised in the spiritual sense of the word. After Israel, came Judah, who upon entering the land promised them, were circumcised for the second time, illustrating their ability to perceive, and conceive of the spiritual word of God. They went on to bring down the wall that separated them from the Promised Land, allowing them to see the enemies inhabiting the land. Judah symbolizes the Heart, the seven nations symbolizing the spiritual impurities dwelling in our heart, which keep us from taking possession of the joyful life promised us. In the beginning, Judah was obedient, fighting against these nations they were to drive out. But in time, they would disobey God’s word by making marriages with these nations, illustrating their failure to drive these impurities out of the heart, not turning to God with her whole heart.

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Chapter Two: ISRAEL (excerpts)

/ Sandra L. Butler

And it came to pass in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.  Exodus 2:23

When we have a strong desire to change our life, we are crying out, activating the first covenant, Ishmael, meaning God will hear.

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman… which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants… Galatians 4:22,24

God’s covenant or agreement with us is that if we cry out, He will hear us, as He said to Moses, “tell the children (whose cry came up before God) I AM hath sent you,” I AM meaning I WILL BE THERE.  When we cry out, the holy spirit of our heart will be there to lead us out of the negative aspect of Egypt, out of the bondage or limitation caused by the flesh. The children of Israel have activated the Spirit, which Moses symbolizes, by crying out from their heart. The same Spirit that moved upon the waters in the beginning of creation is now moving upon the waters of the Red Sea, dividing it to expose the ground that will bring them salvation.

And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord… But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. Exodus 14:13,16

The word still means be silent, quiet self, the rod symbolizing the power of the holy spirit, which is lifted up when we quiet our mind, bringing the waters under the firmament, symbolizing the thoughts and memories hidden in the mind, into our awareness, exposing the ground, revealing their source. And God called the dry ground Earth. When the negative and destructive thoughts that have been hidden in the depths of our mind are brought up, into the conscious mind, we discover the source of this evil, which is in the Earth, symbolizingthe Heart, thesubconscious. We must pass through these waters, as the children of Israel passed through the Red Sea, which is to be made aware of these lower thoughts. We cannot change or transform what is in darkness, what we do not see. Transformation requires light, the light of awareness. And it is our holy spirit that brings us into this light. We activate the holy spirit of our heart through our strong desire to change our life, starting the process that will bring us out of bondage, out of spiritual and physical addiction, out from under the law of limitation imposed by our word of error, which forms the flesh that fights against the holy spirit…  When we make a heart-felt decision to move away from a way of life that has become too painful, restrictive, or unpleasant, we engage our holy spirit, making our way through a spiritual wilderness, working on the fear that has ruled our mind since childhood. With each step we take, we build trust, knowing that all we need to succeed on this journey into a new way of life has already been given into our hand, symbolizing power. Through a process activated by the mind discipline of silence, we discover the many lies that have led us into a life we do not want or no longer take pleasure in. By peeling away the layers of flesh formed by our word of false beliefs, we complete our metamorphosis, emerging from the sinful flesh that has cocooned us for so long.  Emerging perfected through spiritual works, we will live joyfully in the new-found freedom that comes with a complete transformation, which is made possible through God’s spirit and word. 

     As we conclude with Israel, we see that it was the fear of their mind that prevented them from ascending the mount, illustrating our journey through the heart. It was this fear that gave power to the lies of their mind, which formed the veil of flesh over their heart, symbolized by the veil over Moses’ face, which the seed of truth, through which we are made free, could not penetrate. The children of Israel died under the bondage of the law; a law that controlled the mind and body, but did nothing to transform the heart. The way to complete freedom is through the heart; by healing the painful emotions associated with the false beliefs that keep us from feeling joy, and experiencing freedom, keeping us from the good life we inherit when we enter in and battle against the enemies of the heart.

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Chapter One: THE GODHEAD (excerpts)

/ Sandra L. Butler

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God created heaven and earth in His mind through the faculty of thought. The same way a building is designed before it is built, God being the architect. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. The earth was without form as it had not yet been made. Before anything is made, there is an idea, a thought. This is the beginning of creation. Then energy is applied to that thought. And the Spirit of God moved. The Energy of God moved upon his thought. The energy we put into a thought is the first stage in bringing what we think into our reality, bringing it into existence. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. God spoke, the word being the builder. The word is the works that are applied in order for the idea or concept created in the mind to begin its formation; the process by which something evolves. The first thought to evolve or be formed and brought into existence was light, the means by which all things are formed, and transformed. Transformation is the process by which something changes from one state into another.

As the heaven brings forth waters, the mind brings forth thoughts. But it is the earth that contains seed, and it is the seed of the earth that brings forth, as seen in the word grass, meaning to sprout, to bring forth. We call a thought a seed, but it is not seed until it is sown, the word seed meaning something sown. Seed is sown in the earth, not in the heaven; in the heart, not in the mind. A thought becomes a seed, word, or belief the moment it is seeded; accepted into the heart through emotional energy. A thought, being mental energy, does not contain the power needed for the thought to become a reality, just as a seed, carried through the heaven by the wind, does not have the power to bring forth until it intercourses with the earth.  If the seed sown in the heart is evil, it cannot be eliminated by good thoughts. That which was sown in the heart through painful emotions will remain evil; as negative and destructive energy, until it is transformed into positive and constructive or creative energy. These evil seeds are being nourished continually by the lower waters; by the negatively charged thoughts buried so deep within the psyche that most of us are still unaware of their existence. Whatever thoughts we accepted into our heart through the power of emotion, became the seeds that in the process of time brought forth, becoming our reality. 

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:.. Genesis 1:26.

The Godhead refers to God’s image: God, His word, and His Spirit. Man is made after God’s likeness. Man sows his seed by his energy into the mother, as God sowed His word by His Spirit into the earth. The invisible or spiritual aspect of the Godhead reveals that as gods, being made in the image of God, we have a seed that cannot be seen, sown through an energy that cannot be measured. The spiritual creation process begins when a thought is created in our mind. If we continue to concentrate on that thought, we lend a degree of energy to it, but not enough to bring it into existence. It is only through the greater degree of emotional energy that our heart opens up to receive the energized thought, which now sown, becomes a seed, word, or belief. The creation process is complete when our word, through the power of our actions, becomes our reality… The problem arises when our creation does not match God’s creation; when we have a thought that is not good, not the truth. The problem is compounded when the untruthful thought becomes a false word or belief; an evil seed sown into our heart through an unholy spirit. 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  Genesis 1:27

We are all spiritually male and female. We are male in that we have the ability to sow spiritual seed by spiritual energy. We are female in that we serve as a protective habitat for this seed and energy. Our male aspect is our inner being of spirit and word, which is the essence of our father. Our female aspect is the receptacle for this spirit and word, which is our mother. Through a spiritual intercourse, our spiritual father sows spiritual seed through spiritual energy into our spiritual mother. The physical mother, which conceives of physical seed, is the female body. The spiritual mother, which conceives of spiritual seed, is the heart… Creation begins in the mind with a thought. A seed that will not bear fruit until it is sown into that spiritual earth called the heart through the power of emotional energy… Once conceived in the heart, through emotional, not mental, energy, it begins to form into a spiritual flesh, nourished daily by the same thought that created it. In the process of time, through actions that demonstrate our assenting to this word or belief, we bring it into existence, be it good or evil.  If our spirit and word be holy and true, it will bring forth good fruit. We will choose the right action, and the consequence of that action will be favorable. But if our spirit and word be unholy and untrue, it will produce evil fruit, causing us to take the wrong action, the consequence being unfavorable, weighing heavily upon us. Our knowledge of good and evil was taught to us. Not everything we ate of, metaphorically speaking was good; positive and constructive. Some of it was evil; negative and destructive.  And we, being naive children, confused the two.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness… Isaiah 5:20. Woe means grief, misery, the consequence of calling evil good; of mistaking the darkness of a lie for the light of truth. 

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THE BIBLE DECODED: breaking the ancient code

/ Sandra L. Butler

THE BIBLE DECODED provides us with an in-depth understanding of the symbolic code of the Bible. You will take a journey with the chosen people, the children of Israel, chosen out of all nations to teach us about ourselves, their journey a pattern of our life journey. Through revelation and word meaning you will learn God’s spiritual language, the ancient code of the Bible, revealing the psychology of scripture through its symbolism. The stories of the Bible offer opportunities for growth. As we grow in our knowledge of the ancient spiritual Word of God through a decoding of the scriptures, we are given an opportunity to grow in spiritual essence through the application of the works contained therein. The Patriarchs lay out God’s ancient instruction, which if followed will bring us back to that elevated state of existence once known to Adam and Eve, and that we once knew as little children. The Prophets serve to reveal the error that caused us to fall from this perfected spiritual state, while warning us of the physical and spiritual consequences of that error. The names of the people, places, and things contained in the Bible, many of which share the same symbolic meaning, reveal God’s end of day’s message to His children. And we, being spiritual children, unskilled and disobedient with respect to the spiritual word and works of God, must be told again and again, which has been brilliantly accomplished through the intriguing, and sometimes perplexing stories of the Bible.

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