Author: Sandra L. Butler
CHARLES RUSSELL & GILBERT STILES: Reason & Revelation
I first heard of Charles Taze Russell and his book, Millennial Dawn in December of 2024, and have been studying his writings ever since. What I am discovering is a connection to the knowledge I received; the teachings of two revelations, which will expose the error that Russell carried over from the Church, and stand witness to the truth, bringing divine revelation to what Russell deduced through reason. As he said, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day.” He understood that “a direct revelation of the plans and purposes of God,” was necessary, because without it, “men could only approximate the truth, and arrive at indefinite conclusions.” Through these two end-time revelations, the “perfection of knowledge” that Russell speaks of, is attained, which would start with identifying the error or sin of the Church— the purpose of the first revelation (1960-1974).
Russell understood that the Christian religions of his time were in error, the first revelation serving to expose the error in the doctrines of these religions, which were founded upon the teachings of Paul, not upon the teachings of Jesus. Pastor Russell may have left the building by leaving the Church, but he would take one “soul-destroying” belief with him. Russell was attempting to build spiritual truth on a carnal foundation, which Paul laid through his carnal-minded teachings. “Paul was a liar”— a teaching of the first revelation. And what he lied about was our salvation. The physical death or blood of Jesus does not atone for our sins, as Paul teaches. That is carnal thinking, which is “enmity against God.” What atones for our sins or iniquities is the spiritual death or blood of our spiritual beast of false beliefs— the error or sin responsible for the death of truth that has taken place in our heart. Our beast of false beliefs is consumed through the fire of a spiritual judgment (Matthew 19:28), which the followers of Jesus’ teachings will execute upon themselves— teachings of the second revelation.
Paul perverted religious law when it came to blood sacrifice, replacing the beast with a human. When the children of Israel broke God’s spiritual law by worshipping the beast, they placed themselves under the carnal law, under which they were to sacrifice a carnal beast until they fulfilled the carnal law by sacrificing their spiritual beast. It’s beast for beast, not human for beast! Paul not only perverted religious law when it came to blood sacrifice. He supported it through his mistranslation of one word. The word “for” in “Jesus died for our sins” does not mean “in place of,” as Paul’s doctrine would have us believe. It means, “because of.” 
“He was bruised for our iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:3). Jesus, the seed or word of God made flesh, died because of man’s sins, not in place of them, not to absolve them. Russell concluded that the “coats of skins” given to Adam and Eve represent the covering of our sins through the blood of Jesus. But if the premise is in error, which it is, so too will be the conclusion. What covers or pays for our sins is not the physical blood or death of the physical Jesus, but the spiritual blood or death of the false religious and personal beliefs that crucified the spiritual Jesus— crucifying the truth that wants to live in our heart, through which we acquired a spiritual debt. Jesus did not pay our debt by dying on the cross, which is what Paul would have us believe. We pay our own debt by doing the works, following Jesus, who instructs us to “believe the works” (John 10:38), the word “believe” meaning “to obey, put action to.” The works are synonymous with the judgment, through which we overcome our word of false beliefs, our spiritual debt paid in full through the blood or death of our beast of false beliefs.
The “coats of skins” given to Adam and Eve were not animal skins, as the Church teaches, but flesh bodies— a teaching of the first revelation. Notice it says that God gave them coats of skins and clothed them (Genesis 3:21)— two separate things. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s word by believing the word of the serpent, which they demonstrated by acting on it, flesh was added. They were ashamed, and so they hid themselves. “Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?” (Genesis 3:11). As God’s word of truth was made flesh, so too is man’s word of error made flesh— a spiritual or invisible flesh formed inside of our physical flesh, which can only be removed through a spiritual circumcision— circumcision of the heart, which the prophet Jeremiah spoke of (4:4), and which Paul plagiarized, failing to credit the source of such a profound spiritual concept— a concept Paul did not understand. Spiritual circumcision (the removal of our internal flesh) is the result of the spiritual judgment— a spiritual fire that consumes the flesh, which if not removed, will cause us to see ourselves as naked in the spiritual realm. “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see” (Revelation 3:18). The gold symbolizes purity, the result of the judgment.
According to Russell, and I quote: “Paul had more abundant revelations than any other apostle. These revelations he was not allowed to make known to the Church, nor fully and plainly even to the other apostles.” The problem is, he is using Paul’s own words to support his conclusions, which will not stand up in a court of law. Russell goes on to say that Paul’s visions and revelations were “a value to the entire church.” Then we have Peter, the rock upon which Jesus said he would build his church (which is spiritual) who writes in his letter to Clement, that Paul is the source of the error in the early Church, and that his visions deluded him. The Church was founded upon the teachings of Paul, so you can see why the Church needed to hide these records. Fortunately, for the people of religion, the truth about Paul would come to light with the unearthing of “The Dead Sea Scrolls” between 1946 and 1956, it’s contents not widely known until the first documentary came out in the mid to late nineties. In that first documentary they said they found written, “Paul the Liar,” which was left out of subsequent documentaries. I did a deep dive into the scrolls years later. That is when I learned about the letter Peter wrote to Clement, and about this person referred to as “the Spouter of Lies,” who is described as a madman who attacks “James the Righteous” while he is teaching in the temple. In the “Homilies and Recognitions of Clement” is written, “Therefore, above all, remember to shun any apostle, teacher or prophet who does not accurately compare his teachings with James…the brother of our Lord…and this, even if he comes to you with recommendations…” And when it comes to our salvation, the teachings of Paul do not agree with the teachings of James. Paul’s salvation without works compared to James’ salvation through works. Is it reasonable to think that Jesus would choose Paul to carry on his spiritual teachings? A man who teaches salvation through carnal blood, and who claims that the saved will be lifted up to meet Jesus in the literal air. And then, not allow those spiritual teachings to be shared with the Church, or with the Apostles that Jesus himself chose? Paul was chosen Apostle to the Gentiles for a reason. The date that Pastor Russell predicted for “the end of the Gentile times” (Luke 21:24) was October 1914.
What took place in October of 1914 was the birth of Gilbert Loman Stiles, a man of no religion, and very little knowledge of the Bible, having no “veil of religious iniquity” to distort the knowledge of a 14-year-long revelation, which he began receiving in 1960, at the age of 46 (a temple measure). That same year he had a vision of a church, where he was instructed to go and be baptized. It was a Pentecostal Church, the last of the three Gentile nations, to which the true baptism was revealed. What happened to him that night, which Stiles referred to as “getting the seed,” had the elders asking him to come back and speak from the pulpit. But what he taught did not match their religious image, so he and his teachings were quickly rejected.
The Church, founded upon Paul’s doctrine, teaches that one receives the Holy Spirit after one is baptized, which Pentecostals refer to as “getting the Holy Ghost.” This was the great lie that Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles, spread when he was in Ephesus, perverting the words of Peter in Acts 2:38, which has prevented Christians from obtaining true salvation. It is not the Holy Spirit ones receives following baptism, but the “gift” of the holy Spirit, which is right in the plain text, yet required revelation to see. Mr. Stiles illustrated it this way. There’s a knock at the door. You open the door. A man hands you a gift. The man is not the gift. The man delivers the gift. The holy Spirit is not the gift. The holy Spirit delivers the gift. The Gentiles, according to Russell, are “the nations of the earth in general.” The Gentiles, according to the revelation, are those that follow the three main Christian religions: Catholic, Trinity, and Pentecost, all founded upon the teachings of Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles. These three religious nations make up the Gentile Israel and Judah, which the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah pertain to. Russell takes us to the words of Peter, who takes us to what the Prophets were told, which was that the prophecies were not for them, but for those of the “Christian Age,” as Russell refers to it. That is because the prophecies reprove the doctrines of the Christian Church. Isaiah speaks to the absurd Christian notion of being born again. And according to Jeremiah, Christians will come to know that they are not saved. Born again and saved— two very destructive beliefs that spread like wild-fire well after Russell’s time here on earth. The Gentile Israel is Catholic and Trinity (Moab and Ammon), the doctrines of which Russell rejected, except when it came to sacrifice for sin. The Gentile Judah is Pentecost (Edom), which Russell may not have been familiar with, seeing as the United Pentecostal Church only became organized in 1905. They were given 70 years to make reconciliation for their iniquity, which the 70 weeks in the book of Daniel represent. Paul was Apostle to the Gentiles. The word “Paul” means “to come to an end.” The Gentile times did not come to an end until the three main Christian religions preaching Paul’s doctrine were cut off, which took place in 1975.
That is when a very small group of people were gathered together, seemingly overnight, myself included. We spent the next nineteen years taking in the teachings of the fourteen year-long-revelation, which we called “Bible Study,” much like the “Bible Students” that were drawn to Russell’s teachings. Another thing we had in common was the Greek Diaglott, a must-have for the serious truth seeker. It was in 1975 that Mr. Stiles heard the word “Ichabod,” repeatedly. Not sure how to spell what he was hearing, he searched Strong’s Concordance of the Bible, and found it. After reading the story in which the word appeared, he told us that Israel and Judah of the Gentiles were cut off. The time of the Gentiles would come to an end, just 61 years later than Russell had predicted. God had a relationship with Israel, Judah, and Zion. The power that departed from Israel and Judah in 1975 moved on to a new people, which explains why Mr. Stiles referred to us (on a couple occasions) as “the daughters of Zion.” The word “daughter” means “to build upon the family name.” The NAME is extremely important, as Russell attests to, bringing our attention to the name “JEHOVAH.” The NAME is our salvation. We are to be immersed in it.
Before the teacher passed away in 1994, he told us not to limit ourselves to what he taught us. There was a deeper level that we were to tread out, which brings to mind the words of Russell, who said, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day.” But after the teacher’s passing, our little group began to look more and more like religion— a stagnation that after two and a half years left me with no choice but to move on from the people with whom I had spent half my life. To quote Russell, “we must walk in the light, continue to make progress, else the light, which does not stop, will pass on and leave us in darkness.” And once I left, they would have nothing to do with me— a religious response generated by fear, which was quite painful, bringing to mind the words of the prophet Zechariah”— “And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.” (13:6). What followed, in the spring of 1997, was what I can only describe as a tearing down process, through which the error added to the foundational teachings was made clear to me. With the foundation restored, it was time to obey the teacher’s final instruction, which I had completely forgotten about until it was brought to my mind in the fall of 1998. What was this deeper knowledge, and how does one go about treading it out? I had no clue, so I called upon the Lord, and what I received over the next seven years was revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible, which was needed to spiritualize the teachings of the first revelation.
The spiritual truth of God’s Word is revealed to us through an understanding of its symbolism. It is why Jesus, the orator of spiritual truth, spoke in parables— a language that only those whose motivations were pure understood. When Russell speaks of “the perfection of knowledge,” he is speaking of the spiritual knowledge that those of religion, who identify as God’s people, lack, as we learn through the prophet Hosea— “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (4:6). The destruction is spiritual, on a soul-level, as the healing or salvation of our soul requires us to follow the spiritual instruction of God’s Word, which is why we have been given revelation of the symbolic code. Case in point: Jesus instructs the hypocrites of religion to clean the inside of the cup and the platter so the outside of them becomes clean. The inside of the cup symbolizes the thoughts of the mind. The inside of the platter symbolizes the emotions of the heart. The soul, by definition, is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action. When our thoughts and emotions are made pure through the conception of truth, so too will be the actions of our body, requiring no external law to govern them. Righteousness, doing the right thing, becomes a law unto itself. The second revelation arrived in the dawn of the new millennium, marking the beginning of the 7th day; the beginning of the seventh-thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The word “seven” means “to be complete,” the definition of “perfect.” The 7th day is the “perfect day,” the new millennium coinciding with the thousand-year-reign of Christ. Pastor Russell was correct!
The Watch Tower Society predicted 1975 as a possible year for the beginning of Christ’s millennial reign, but it would take 40 years (1960-2000) for the knowledge of the first revelation to the reach the perfection associated with the “Millennial Age,” which we find in the story of Elijah and the juniper tree. He arose and went in the strength of that meat for forty days and forty nights— meat that is given to the faithful and wise servant “in due season” (Matthew 24:45). Russell teaches that the return of Christ is invisible. We have Jesus’ own words standing witness to this truth— “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not” (Matthew 24:23). Why not believe it? Because christ is not a person, christ is a healing power that is activated in a person— in the faithful and wise servant. Up until such time, we are considered antichrist, working against this power. How do we activate this healing power of the heart? By following the instruction of Moses, which was given to the children of Israel, chosen out of all the nations of the world to represent us the people— “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord…” (Exodus 14:13), the word “still” meaning “be silent, quiet self.” It is in quieting the mind that we activate the power of the heart, through which we see our salvation— a process that unfolds through our sincere desire to be healed on a soul-level. “And when he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour” (Revelation 8:1). There was silence in heaven when the seventh seal was opened because silence in the mind opens the seventh chakra, connecting us to the divine power, through which we experience true enlightenment through the conception of truth— the return of the spiritual Jesus to that spiritual earth called the heart. Whether we speak the language of the east or the language of the Sacred Text of the west, the instruction is the same.
Jesus instructs his followers to judge the 12 tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28). The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12, which equals 144. This is not a literal number, but a spiritual measure— “And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel” (Revelation 21:17). One enters the 1,000 year reign of Christ (not to be taken literally) through the judgment that equates to the measure of 144; when that which constitutes the Christ (Love and truth) rules our mind and heart, which adds up to 144,000. Russell is correct in equating the “little flock” with the 144,000 “who are exalted to a spiritual nature,” to quote Russell. Yes, they are exalted to a “spiritual nature” through the spiritual measure they reached by judging the 12 tribes of Israel, which are the 12 sons of Jacob (Genesis 49:28). “We must travel from Reu to Ben; from Reuben to Benjamin”— an instruction that came by revelation to Mr. Stiles. Reuben means see ye a son. Benjamin means a son of the right hand, the right hand symbolizing power. It is through the completion of the salvation or healing process (encoded in the 49th chapter of Genesis) that one becomes a son of God. This is what Pastor Russell is unknowingly referring to by “THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD.”
This instruction to travel through the 12 sons of Jacob is the same as Jesus’ instruction to judge the 12 tribes of Israel, which is to overcome the unholy spirits working in our mind and heart— the reason for the second revelation and a second book. Russell refers to the “little flock” as the “body of Christ” or the “body of The Seed,” to whom God is pleased to give the kingdom (Luke 12:32). In 1977, our small group took a road trip to Independence, West Virginia, Gilbert’s hometown, less than two hours south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Charles’ hometown, which I find very interesting. On 7-7-77 Gilbert had a vision of God’s Kingdom— ” It is made up of 7 levels, the kingdom being the 8th, at the top. The land at the top is very flat—7 rings around the mount. As you go up, each one is smaller and higher than the last. The city is the smallest, which rests on the flat land at the very top (Benjamin’s inheritance was the smallest, but the richest)… The new Jerusalem will come down and set itself on the very top of the mount. All life comes from the kingdom—all healing power, all foods, and all drinks… Jerusalem is Joseph and Benjamin. People that come out of the tribulation are right outside Joseph…The city is sitting on twelve columns. The separation on the mount is the separation between carnal and spiritual. They’ll never see the glory of the city…”
Within God’s Kingdom is the kingdom of heaven (the seven levels) and the kingdom of God (the eighth level). Christians want to go to heaven, and they will, where they will experience the judgment. The eighth is reserved for those that have gone through the judgment on this side. Spiritually speaking, the kingdom of heaven symbolizes the realm of the mind and the kingdom of God symbolizes the realm of the Heart. It is the latter that Jesus advocated for (Luke 17:21). To enter the kingdom of God without (in the spiritual realm) one must first enter it within (in the physical realm). In 1980, Gilbert moved back to West Virginia, his little flock following. Then one night, he spoke about the Kingdom, which he never did, even after receiving the vision. He said that those in the city were pure spirit. To appear to those on the lower levels (which I now understand to be in varying degrees of spiritual flesh) the pure spirit would pass through the wall around the city, taking on a body, which supports Russell’s reasoning that the “little flock,” the 144,00, make up the “body of Christ” or “body of The Seed.” The wall measures 144 cubits (Revelation 21:17), “the measure of a man,” which one reaches by judging the 12 tribes of Israel, symbolized by the “twelve columns” in the vision. Mr. Stiles also taught on the difference between the “bride” and the “wife.” The bride has the name. The wife has the seed. Maybe the bride becomes the wife when those of pure spirit (those truly born of the spirit or born again) pass through the wall—“Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife” (Revelation 21:9). These are the things that those that are found worthy will come to understand. And according to the teachings of Mr. Stiles, as our understanding is opened up on this side, the understanding of those who have passed on and are worthy, is opened up. Let us remember the teachings of Pastor Russell— “the truth is progressive, shinning more into the perfect day.”
The creation of heaven and earth took 6 days (not to be taken literally). A day is 24 hours. 6 x 24 equals 144. It is through the judgment that we form “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” our first heaven and earth (formed through false perceptions and beliefs) passing away (Revelation 21:1). All that took place physically in the previous era of Isaac (baptism, anointing, fasting, healing, speaking in tongues, casting out devils, etc.) are now, in what is the final era, to take place spiritually. Any physical demonstrations of these are associated with the negative aspect of the era of Isaac, which is mockery. If there is no more physical baptism, what happens to the name in which we are to be baptized? The name of the father is carried on through the son. God the Father has been called by different names throughout the ages, which was appropriate in the “era of Abraham” and in the “era of Issac.” But we are in the spiritual “era of Jacob,” in which we are to be spiritually immersed in the spiritual NAME of the Father, which is TRUTH, carried on through the Son—“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God” (Revelation 19:13). The WORD of God is TRUTH. We are to be immersed in truth. It is God’s word of truth that saves us from our word of error.
Russell reasoned that Abraham’s sacrificing of his son Isaac was proof that the sacrificing of Jesus to cover the sins of the people was God’s will, part of God’s plan. But there’s a problem. God did not accept Abraham’s son as sacrifice. It was the ram that God accepted as sacrifice. The ram symbolizes idolatry— the worshipping of false images. It is the false perceptions and beliefs that formed our first heaven and earth that we are to sacrifice, not the truth. It was Paul who taught that the Son of God was an acceptable sacrifice for sin, that Jesus carried the burden of our sins by dying on the cross. Let’s hear what the prophet Jeremiah has to say about it— “And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house. Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken? And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God” (23:33-36). Truth carries no burden. It makes us free. Jesus carried the cross to illustrate how man’s word of error weighs heavily upon the word of truth that wants to live in our heart!
To quote Russell, “For God has evidently designed the permission of evil for six thousand years, as well as that the cleansing and restitution of all shall be accomplished during the seventh thousand.” But there’s a problem with this assumption. It is not God that is permitting the evil, as we learn through the prophet Isaiah— “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things” (45:7). God created evil, which is the idea of evil, just as God created the idea of the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). Nothing has been made or formed yet, as we see in the next verse. It is man that has formed the evil within himself, permitting the evil over the past six thousand years through disobedience to God’s word. In creating evil, man was given the ability to take in two opposing thoughts and the freedom to choose between them, which is why God, knowing the outcome, but desiring to give them freewill, told Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that was in the midst of the garden. They have already eaten of the good, having a positive experience. But to eat of the good and the evil is to have the knowledge of both, to experience the negative consequence of accepting the evil, the word serpent meaning to learn by experience. The “thorns and thistles” that grew in the garden after they listened to the lie symbolize the pain and aggravation we bring into our life because we mistook lies for truth, as we learn through the prophet Isaiah— “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” (5:20). We have all called evil good, putting darkness for light by mistaking lies for truth, causing us to make wrong decisions throughout our life, which brought woe, meaning misery, grief— the result of our first creation.
What is to take place in this seventh thousandth year, which began with the new millennium, is a new creation— “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
This is “THE GROANING CREATION” of which Russell spoke.
Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025
THE RESURRECTION of SPIRITUAL TRUTH
DOES BLOOD SACRIFICE ATONE FOR OUR SINS?
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.” Leviticus 17:11
The children of Israel disobeyed God’s commandment when they formed the gold calf, and worshipped it—“Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). It was this act of spiritual disobedience that brought them under the carnal law, instituted by the tribe of Levi, the Book of Leviticus a book of religious law, which served as a figure for the Spiritual Law they disobeyed. They were to keep the carnal works of the Written Law until they fulfilled them through spiritual works; through spiritual obedience— a higher level of Torah observance. The adding of the Written Law, which included the Ten Commandments, was the birth of Judaism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions. To atone for their sins would require them to sacrifice the blood or life of the very thing that caused them to sin in the first place, which was the beast. The flesh is the beast, the life of which is taken through the spilling of its blood— a blood sacrifice.
Let’s rewind history five hundred years to the time of Abraham, who was instructed by God to go to the land of Moriah, and offer up his son for a burnt offering. Moriah is derived from the primary root יָרָה (yarah), meaning to teach or to show. The story provides us with divine revelation and instruction, and it’s prophetic, revealing what would take place two thousand years down the road. Abraham was willing to sacrifice what was most important to him. Are we willing to do the same? Abraham represents God the Father, and Isaac represents the Son. What is most important to God the Father is His Son. The son is the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11) truth, which was made flesh (John 1:14).
The “life of the flesh is in the blood…”The people sacrificed the wrong flesh at Passover two thousand years ago, sacrificing the word of God, truth, which is life— “In him was life” (John 1:4). What they should have offered up was the blood or life of their internal flesh— the beast within— a spiritual blood sacrifice. As God’s word was made flesh, so too has man’s word been made flesh. God’s word is truth. Man’s word is the opposite of truth, iniquities that destroy the truth that wants to live in that spiritual earth called the heart.
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5
The word “bruised” means “beat to pieces, crush, destroy.” The word “for” does not mean” in place of” (as the Christian religion teaches). It means, “because of.” Truth dies because of our iniquities— a mistranslation that unfortunately gave credence to Paul’s ‘atonement for sins through the blood of Jesus,’ a perversion of religious law, which required the blood of a beast— a law that was to end at the coming of Messiah, which we will find encoded in the story of the first passover.
… the chastisement of our peace was upon him…” The Jews wanted peace, which they believed Messiah would bring when he returned to restore the kingdom of Israel to its former glory. What they got was a Messiah that spoke of an internal kingdom (Luke 17:21), where through an internal judgment (Matthew 19:28), one would obtain internal peace (Psalms 122), a spiritual concept the rejected Messiah paid for with his life. The Jews may have rejected the spiritual teachings of Jesus, but it was Paul who perverted them, teaching Christians to wait for Jesus to come in the clouds and restore heaven and earth to their former glory, through which Paul instilled a false peace. When you think of Paul, think of the carnal mind— the spiritual “veil of religious iniquity” that prevents us from seeing and hearing spiritual truth. Paul, chosen apostle to the Gentiles, sold Christians on the carnal concept of atonement for sin through the blood of Jesus, making them equally guilty for taking the life of God’s word made flesh.
… and with his stripes we are healed.” The word stripes goes back to the primary root חָבַר (chabar) meaning to join self, to join together, compact. We are not healed by the physical stripes Jesus endured. We are not healed, freed from our sins, by joining Jesus in his death, as Paul teaches. We are healed when we follow what Jesus teaches: “Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matthew 19:28 . The word “compact” in the definition of “stripes” appears only once in the Bible: “... Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.” Psalms 122. We are healed through an internal judgment, through which we obtain internal peace.
If the blood of the son were an acceptable sacrifice for sin, God would have accepted Abraham’s sacrifice. The angel of the Lord instructs Abraham not to sacrifice his son. An angel is a messenger. The message? The acceptable sacrifice for sin is not the blood or life of the son. The acceptable sacrifice for sin is the blood or life of the beast— the ram, which means idolatry; the worshipping of false images. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” the “other gods” symbolizing our “false images or beliefs,” which equate to “man’s word,” the flesh or beast we are to sacrifice. Abraham demonstrated his belief in the One God (which he was introduced to while dwelling in a land that served many gods) by willingly offering up what was most important to him. We demonstrate our belief in the One God by willingly offering up what is most important to us— our other gods; the false (religious and personal) beliefs we give reverence to, daily. The sacrificing of this beast of false beliefs is the only acceptable sacrifice for sin! Anything else is nothing but a mockery!
Fast forward five hundred years, to the first passover of the children of Israel. Every man was to offer up a lamb. “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year… ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.” Exodus 12:5,6. Abraham’s sacrificing of his son, and the children of Israel’s sacrificing of the lamb without blemish, are prophetic, pointing us to the same point in time. The coming of Messiah, when Jesus, called “the Lamb of God,” was offered as sacrifice for the sins of the people. He was “a male of the first year,” put to death in the first century. The children of Israel, now referred to as Jews, were to observe the carnal Passover (which required animal blood sacrifice) “until the fourteenth day.” God’s cycle of time is 28 days, the same as the woman’s reproductive cycle. Conception takes place in the midst of the cycle, which is when Jesus, the spiritual seed or word of God made flesh, came to earth. It was time to conceive of spiritual truth. Jesus came in the fifth day; in the beginning of the fifth thousandth year: 1+2+3+4+5=15. Carnal sacrifices were to end, fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy. But the Jews, unable to conceive of spiritual truth, which instructs us to offer up spiritual sacrifices, offered up a lamb “in the evening” of “the fourteenth day” (the day counted from evening to morning).
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats… Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Isaiah 1:11,13-15. Isaiah is describing the carnal practices of religion, which were to end two thousand years ago. Israel’s obedience to religious law, once counted as (a degree of) righteousness, is now counted as iniquity. Paul, in teaching Christians a perversion of religious law with regard to blood sacrifice, is solely responsible for the iniquity of the Gentiles, which are the Christians who believe that the blood or life of Jesus has atoned for their sins. Now, two thousand years later (in the last or end of the seven days) we are being given one last opportunity to offer up a one-time spiritual sacrifice during the spiritual Passover of the World, which has already begun.
The seventh day: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28. The beginning of the seventh thousandth year since the fall, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The number seven pertains to the spiritual. Through the mouth of David we learn that only after the spiritual sacrifices of God are performed, will God be pleased with the carnal sacrifices made under the law (Psalms 51:17,18). Until such time, all religious sacrifices, practices, and traditions, are counted as iniquity. The seventh day, which we entered with the new millennium, marked the beginning of the third and final era. The “era of Abraham,” which began four thousand years ago. The “era of Isaac,” which began two thousand years ago. And the current “era of Jacob,” which translates to the “era of Spirit.” One last opportunity for man to move beyond the carnal and into the spiritual; beyond the ritualistic practices of religion and into revitalization and regeneration of the soul. “God is Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” John 4:24, spoken by Jesus two thousand years ago.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Matthew 16:24. Jesus teaches us to carry our own cross, symbolizing the burden our word of false beliefs has placed upon the truth that wants to live in our heart. Paul placed the burden of sin on the Lord, teaching Christians that the blood or life of Jesus atoned for their sins. “And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord. And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house. Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the Lord answered? and, What hath the Lord spoken? And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.” Jeremiah 23:33-36. Jesus was made the scapegoat, made to bear the blame of others.
“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:…” Exodus 12:5. Paul teaches that Jesus, who was holy, without sin, offered himself as a living sacrifice for our sins, which is carnal thinking. Paul also teaches that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, holy, being transformed through the renewing of our mind, which is spiritual thinking. What Paul did was mix religious law with spiritual truth, mixing milk with meat (בשר בחלב), which is unlawful. The beast they offered up under the law, was carnal. The beast we are to offer up, fulfilling the carnal law, is spiritual. It’s beast for beast, not human for beast! It’s the blood or life of our spiritual beast that we are to sacrifice. But how can we, in our present state, being with sin, offer up a lamb (sheep or goat) without spot or blemish? A young sheep is called a lamb. A baby goat is called a kid. The term kid is used to refer to a child. Jesus said we must become as a little child, which is to be pure in thought and emotion— holy. This is how we will offer up a lamb without spot or blemish. This is how we will keep God’s one-time Sabbath Day, holy (Exodus 20:8).
“Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.” Matthew 23:26. To clean the inside of the cup and the platter is to purify the thoughts of the mind and the emotions of the heart, so that the outside of them, the actions of the body, will be pure, acceptable in the sight of God, needing no external law to govern them. In this new purified state, righteousness (doing the right thing) becomes a law unto itself. Paul teaches that we are to offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, “being transformed through the renewing of the mind,” which he does not understand, looking “through a glass darkly” as he puts it, which is to see something in an unclear or imperfect way, having limited understanding of divine matters. Understanding requires revelation. Any revelation Paul claims to have received came through Jesus and the Prophets. Paul will use the words of the Prophets to systematically tear down the law he once enforced, using violence if necessary— the same law Jesus said he came not to destroy. Paul will invent his own law— a spiritual law he calls “the law of Christ,” which he claims sets them free of the carnal law. To do away with the religious law of circumcision, Paul uses the revelation of the Prophet Jeremiah (4:4), which teaches circumcision of the heart, but Paul has no revelation of his own when it comes to this very important spiritual matter. He does not understand spiritual circumcision, providing no instruction for removing “the foreskins of the heart.” If Paul had received revelation on this spiritual matter, he would not have taught that the blood or life of the flesh of Jesus atoned for the sins of the people. He would have understood that every false belief we accepted in our heart, believing it was the truth, formed a layer of flesh— “the foreskins of the heart,” and that the removal, or death of the spiritual flesh formed by our false beliefs is what atones for our sins. Paul has perverted the words of the living God! How can the blood or life of Jesus (the death of truth) atone for our sins, when our sins are the result of the death of truth that has taken place in us because of our false beliefs? It is the blood or life of the flesh formed by our false beliefs that atones for our sins— the death of our beast of false beliefs.
Paul was the “blind Pharisee” of whom Jesus spoke, seeing things in an imperfect way. Paul said they would receive the holy Spirit following their baptism, causing Christians who claim to have the holy Spirit to “blaspheme against the holy Spirt.” The word “blaspheme” means “to speak impiously,” the word “impious” meaning “ungodly; profane.” Revelation corrected the ungodly and profane teaching that has prevented Christians from experiencing the transformation through which they could offer themselves as a living sacrifice, without spot or blemish— holy. It is not the holy Spirit one receives following baptism. It is the gift of the holy Spirit (a teaching of the first revelation; 1960-1974). The teacher illustrated it this way: There’s a knock at the door. You open the door. A man hands you a gift. The man is not the gift. The man delivers the gift. The holy Spirit is not the gift. The holy Spirit delivers the gift. The gift is the seed or word of God, which is truth. It was through God’s word that heaven and earth came into existence. It is through God’s word of truth that our spiritual heaven and earth comes into existence, “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart” (Revelation 21:1), our “first heaven and first earth” (formed by false perceptions and beliefs) passing away (a teaching of the second revelation; 1998-2005). Transformation refers to the act or process of changing in form, which takes place as our first creation gives way to our new creation— a process! We are not “transformed through the renewing of the mind,“ as Paul teaches. But rather, “our mind is renewed through the transformation of our heart,” which is why the ladder in Jacob’s dream was set up on earth, symbolizing the heart, and reached into heaven, symbolizing the mind. The ladder symbolizes the process of transformation, which begins in the heart, where the beast is. It is our beast of false beliefs that we are to sacrifice, the blood or life of which is offered up as we overcome our false (religious and personal) beliefs, through which we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice, without spot or blemish— holy, keeping God’s one-time Sabbath Day, holy.
“For the life of the flesh— it is in the blood; I (myself) have given it to you upon the slaughter-site, to effect ransom for your lives.” Leviticus 17:11 (The Five Book of Moses). The first five Books is called the Torah, the third book, Leviticus, the book of religious law. The blood of the beast was “to effect ransom.” To effect is the power to produce an outcome or achieve a result. The blood sacrifice, which God gave to the children of Israel because of their spiritual disobedience, served the same purpose as the manna God gave them in the wilderness, which they ate of for forty years, until they entered the promised land, where they ate of the old corn. The manna symbolizes the law, added because of transgression. The old corn symbolizes the ancient spiritual truth. The Jews entered the promised land metaphorically at the coming of Messiah, who was the promise— the spiritual truth, which if obeyed, would have made them free of their fifteen hundred year-old bondage to the law, ending blood sacrifice, which like the quail God gave them in the wilderness, they should have been sick of by now. But they would rather continue with their perpetual blood sacrifices to atone for their sins, than to effect “ransom” through spiritual obedience to God’s spiritual Law— a deeper level of Torah observance, through which they would cover or make atonement for their sins, restoring their spiritual lives. They rejected their Messiah; the One providing the “ransom” by providing the spiritual instruction that would atone for their sins when acted upon. Christians are also guilty of rejecting their Messiah by following Paul, who teaches that Jesus provided their “ransom” by dying on the cross.
We are all guilty of the death of truth— the spiritual Jesus. Knowing that the blood of Jesus was poured out because of our sins, and not to make atonement for our sins, should result in a “guilt offering” [אָשָׁם֙]; a spiritual sacrifice made as payment for our sins through a spiritual death, which takes place through a spiritual judgment. What is to be put to death is our word of false beliefs, the “accuser” we will face in judgment, whether it be in this life, or in the afterlife— our choice. We “overcome” the false beliefs for which we will be judged through “the blood of the Lamb;” through “the life of the Truth.” If we complete God’s judgment, overcoming the false (religious and personal) beliefs that have ruled our lives, we will die a spiritual death, being dead to sin— our names written in the “Lamb’s book of life.” “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Revelation 12:11
There were several Jewish sects living in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus. The scroll read in Temple consisted of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, along with the latter books of the Prophets — 24 in all. This is called the Written Torah (Torah she-bich’tav). But there’s another Torah, called the Oral Torah (Torah she-ba’al peh), both of which, according to Jewish tradition, were revealed to Moses at Mount Sinai, which he transmitted to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, passed down as oral tradition until the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the seventieth year of the Common Era, the “seventy weeks” in the book of Daniel (9:24). A period of time given to the Jews to end their transgression, and make an end of their sins. Obedience to the spiritual works Jesus was attempting to transmit to his religious brothers would have done just that. Jesus, the source of divine revelation, could have provided them with a spiritual interpretation of both Torahs. But the spiritual truth was rejected, the detailed explanations of the Oral Torah interpreted through the lens of religion— through the carnal mind, which only added to the rules and regulations of the Written Law— a law that was added because of transgression, which along with their sins, remained.
Jesus had only three years to impart this spiritual knowledge, which would soon be usurped by the carnal thinking of a religious mind. Paul, raised with a religious mind-set, is responsible for the carnal thinking that is synonymous with the Church, assigning literal interpretations to that which is spiritual— the “veil of religious iniquity” that has prevented Christians from seeing and hearing the spiritual truth of God’s Word. It was Paul who taught a physical return of Jesus, interpreting a spiritual event through his religious carnal mind, which is why every date predicted for his return has been wrong. It was Paul who taught atonement for sins through blood— a religious law he perverted, making Jesus the beast, whose blood or life would save them from their sins— the lie that causes Christians to retain their sins.
DOES BLOOD SACRIFICE ATONE FOR OUR SINS?YES, but only if the sacrifice is performed spiritually. The flesh we are to sacrifice is the spiritual flesh formed by our word of false beliefs— the spiritual beast, the spiritual blood or life of which is consumed through the spiritual fire (Revelation 3:18) of the spiritual judgment Jesus spoke of (Matthew 19:28). The spiritual blood sacrifice takes place on the spiritual altar called the heart, the beast being the false beliefs of the heart, the heart being the seat of the soul— the throne, where the judgment takes place. We overcome the false beliefs for which we will be judged through “the blood of the Lamb;” through “the life of the Truth.” It is not the physical blood or life of the physical Jesus that atones for our sins, as Paul teaches. It is the spiritual blood, the life of the spiritual Jesus (truth) that atones for our sins. Two thousand years ago, the Jews were given a choice They chose the carnal law. Now, two thousand years later, it’s the Christians who will have to choose. Follow the carnal teachings of Paul, which leads to death. Or follow the spiritual teachings of Jesus, which leads to life.
In closing, I will answer the question I have been asked by Christians over the years, which is why would God allow Paul’s teachings to be in the Bible if they were not of God? The Bible is a history Book, containing man’s governmental, religious, and spiritual histories. Paul, to whom 13 or 14 books of the New Testament have been attributed, played a major part in man’s religious history because it was Paul’s doctrine that established the Christian religion. Paul was sent to the kings and to the children of Israel, to those of government and religion, which Paul, having been a Pharisee in a time when Jerusalem was under Roman rule, was familiar with. When the Council of Nicaea; the first ecumenical council of the Christian church, convened by Emperor Constantine in 325 AD to establish a unified doctrine for Christianity, it was a no brainer. Paul’s doctrine better fit their agenda, which was to establish one Christian religion for the people to follow. It worked, but that doesn’t mean it’s of God!
Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025
WORLD SIGNS in the END TIMES
We are in the end of [the seven] days; in the beginning of the seventh day or seventh-thousandth year since the beginning of the spiritual decline of mankind, symbolized by the fall in the garden. “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.” 2 Peter 3:8
The number seven pertains to the spiritual, coinciding with the spiritual “era of Jacob,” which the world entered with the new millennium. It is important to understand the spiritual message encoded in Jacob’s description of his sons in what is the last, or end of, days. “And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.” Genesis 49:1. The Holy Quran refers to it as “The Day of Gathering together.” It is a spiritual or internal gathering of the 12 sons of Jacob or 12 tribes of Israel, which takes place as we judge (overcome) the negative aspects of these sons or tribes from within our own mind and heart. “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matthew 19:28
Let’s take a look at the first three unholy spirits or energies, born of Leah, symbolizing flesh. Because this spiritual judgment has not been taking place in mankind, the negative and destructive spirits or energies of what these sons or tribes represent moves out into the physical where we can see the effects they are having upon mankind. Leah’s first son is Reuben. The unholy spirit of Reuben is fear, a spiritual truth we find encoded in the story of Reuben, who lay with his father’s concubine, Bilhah, which means terror. The SIGN of this fear or terror was SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001. What follows fear are two more unholy spirits: “Simeon and Levi are brethren: instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.” Genesis 49:5,6. Simeon and Levi, the unholy spirits of anger and control. They are brethren; kindred spirits. Where there is one, you will find the other. They are the source of every physical addiction, which is driven by our spiritual bondage or addiction. The soul is not to come unto their “assembly,” referring outwardly to the religious assembly, as the church is filled with false beliefs, and as the temple was filled with false images in the days of Josiah. What is sustaining the anger and control that fuels our addictions are the false images or beliefs we have set up in that spiritual temple called the heart. It was in the temple that Jesus expressed righteous anger in response to the false images that were set up upon the tables, representing “the fleshy tables of the heart.” Let us use our anger to do right, directing it toward the false image or belief, which through our sincere desire to overcome, will bring us the truth that destroys them, making us spiritually free.
Many choose to accept these false religious beliefs because it gives them a feeling of empowerment, and peace. But it is a false empowerment, and a false peace, symbolized by the wall that should be brought down, and will be brought down when the reality of what is taking place in the world does not match the religious image or belief they bought into. “Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall…” Ezekiel 13:10,11. And if you challenge their false beliefs, you will see their anger rise up in an effort to maintain control, which they demonstrate by slaying you metaphorically with hateful words, just as the religious assembly slew Jesus for attempting to bring them a new, yet ancient, truth— “for in their anger they slew a man.” It is through their anger and control that “they digged down a wall,” symbolizing the invisible wall of protection they would have entered through spiritual obedience to the spiritual works that Rabbi Yeshua taught. We are seeing this anger being unleashed upon our policemen, who serve as our physical wall of protection, a microcosm of the WORLD-SIGN revealing the spirit of anger and control in the heart of mankind, which is giving power to the “instruments of cruelty,” who are demonstrating this negative and destructive energy from without, which we have come to know as ISIS. What do SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001 and ISIS have in common? The nation they are associated with. The nation that represents the spiritual bondage of mankind.
The carnal interpretations that have been assigned to the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran have kept those who follow them from believing (obeying) the spiritual laws or works, through which they would be made free of their spiritual bondage. Which is why the nation that represents the bondage state of the soul is gaining in power, exponentially. But this power is not peaceful. It is a destructive, warring power, whose law will be oppressive— a law without mercy! As within, as without. “Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by the bondmaid, the other by a freewoman…which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants.” Galatians 4:21-24. Islam and Israel, two great nations, each serving as a SIGN, revealing the spiritual state of man. Ishmael and Isaac, two sons, existing without as Muslims and Jews. Existing side-by-side in the holy Land, symbolizing the Heart of man. The on-going war between Palestinians and Jews is the outward expression of the on-going internal war that has yet to be won in the heart of man. “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” James 4:1. The “members” symbolize our own mind and heart, the lusts of which are driven by the false beliefs that keep us in spiritual bondage, under the 1st covenant.
Israel and America are inherently linked by what they stand for— freedom, the 2nd covenant. They must stand in support of one another to preserve our physical freedom, as they represent the two witnesses that work together within to bring us spiritual freedom. America’s symbol is the eagle, symbolizing the presence of God. Israel’s symbol is the star of David, the six points representing our six days of spiritual works, through which we are made spiritually free. The country retreat for the President of the United States is called “Camp David,” which is no coincidence. David was a man after God’s own heart, which he became by slaying the lion and the bear— the lion symbolizing man’s unholy spirit, the bear symbolizing man’s unrighteous word, the sum of his false religious and personal beliefs, which the prophet Jeremiah says will be his burden, which is bondage. America, “the land of the free,” had to fight against ENGLAND, whose symbol is the LION, in order to preserve that freedom. The recent focus on RUSSIA, whose symbol is the BEAR, is yet another SIGN.
Having entered the spiritual era with the new millennium, we must now fight against the spiritual bear by fighting against the unrighteous word of our own heart. If man continues in his spiritual disobedience by refusing to fight this internal bear, the external Land that stands for freedom will become a Land of bondage, which we are already witnessing here in America through the enactment of more and more laws. To stop an oppressive government and religion from ruling us from without, we must stop the oppressive power ruling us from within. Russia stands in support of Syria, another very important SIGN, pointing to the direction we are headed as a people and as nations if we do not get on with slaying the spiritual bear of false beliefs, the Holy Bible providing us with the instruction through which we will be delivered of this oppressive internal, and therefore external power we are facing in these END TIMES.
“Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance from Syria…” 2 Kings 13:14-17. Elisha received the double portion, symbolizing the spirit and word of God, the presence of God, the death of which took place within us when we replaced God’s holy spirit and word with an unholy spirit and word, symbolized by the lion and the bear that David slew. To be delivered of our word of false beliefs will require us to follow the instruction of Elisha, which being the power of resurrection, will bring about a resurrection of truth in our heart. “And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood upon his feet.” 2 Kings 13:21. Jesus, symbolizing truth, said, “I am the resurrection.”
It is through the resurrection of truth from within our heart that we receive salvation; being saved from our own word of false beliefs, through which our heart is made clean, our spiritual life restored to the state in which we received it from God. “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” Psalms 51:10-12. It is through God’s power that our heart is made clean. But as Joash called upon Elisha, we must call upon the spiritual power of our heart by activating it according to God’s ancient spiritual instruction.
These are a just a few of the WORLD SIGNS in these END TIMES.
Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2015
THE BIRTH OF JESUS
There is quite a lot of speculation as to when Jesus was born. The Christian religion teaches that Jesus was born on December 25th. Messianic Jews favor a date that ties in with one of the fall Feasts, such as the Feast of Trumpets or Feast of Tabernacles. There are also a few spring predictions out there.
Let’s start with what Jesus is. The seed of God (Luke 8:11). God is called the husbandman, which means gardener. A gardener plants his seed in early spring. Let’s assume God planted His spiritual seed into the physical womb of Mary the first day of spring, the March equinox beginning on March 20th. The flesh that would house this spiritual seed takes forty weeks to form, putting the birth on precisely December 25th.
A December 25th date puts Jesus among the many other gods believed to be born on this day: Buddha, Krishna (eastern gods), Mithras (Roman god), Quetzalcoatl (Aztec god), Hercules (Greek god), Tammuz (Sumerian god), Horus and Osiris (Egyptian gods). This is where we need to look at the customs and practices of the people that worship these gods. The custom of the Egyptians was to be buried with their most valued earthly possessions, which they believed would go with them into the afterlife. Certainly not a concept of Jesus, who taught us not to put value on earthly possessions. The reason we should not group Jesus with the eastern gods is because the practices of the east are mind-body disciplines. Jesus advocated for a heart discipline, which brings us to the Aztecs, who sacrificed human hearts to their gods. Clearly not a concept of Jesus, who taught on the spiritual sacrificing of the impurities of the heart.
For the spiritually-minded, the birth of Jesus is not about a literal day, but about a spiritual or internal experience. When seed is planted in the earth, symbolizing the heart, the life in the seed (John 1:4) is regenerated through its conception, which through the process of time, brings forth. Maybe our time would be better spent thinking about the birth of God’s spiritual seed in our heart instead of the birth of the physical body that housed the spiritual seed, which is why Jesus would not have been born on December 25th, a date that fits the physical conception of physical seed rather than the spiritual conception of spiritual seed, which Jesus was. Maybe we will never know the truth when it comes to the day that Jesus was born because it is the spiritual birth that matters. The birth of truth can not be given a day. It takes place within the individual over an indeterminate period of time.
It is the Christian religion that is responsible for the way many think about the birth of Jesus. And religious Christmas songs like, “Come let us adore him…” doesn’t help, taking our mind off of the spiritual, and putting it on the physical. Christians say they believe in Jesus, which is to believe at a mind level. They adore the physical aspect of God’s holy seed. But adoration for the spiritual aspect of Jesus requires us to believe on a heart level through spiritual or internal works, which has nothing to do with proclaiming we love Jesus with our mouth, or in our mind. “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:” Isaiah 29:13. “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.” Matthew 15:8. It is through these spiritual or internal works that we regenerate truth in that spiritual womb called the heart, giving birth to truth, through which we demonstrate our love for the spiritual Jesus. Let us think about the birth of Jesus in the context of what his birth symbolizes. There is not enough information to determine exactly when Jesus was born in the flesh. But there is enough information to determine how we give birth to truth in our flesh.
“Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, recovered the temple and the city: But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled down. And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread. When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations. Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu. And they kept the eight days with gladness.” 2 Maccabees, Chapter 10, verses 1-6. December 25th, the day the heathen profaned the temple. The word profane means lacking due respect. We profane the temple through our false religious and personal images or beliefs, which we have set up in that spiritual temple called the heart. We cleanse the temple by overcoming these false beliefs through the birth of the spiritual Jesus from within our heart. In doing this, we are no longer counted among the heathen, the unbelievers, who only celebrate the birth of Jesus literally, perpetually, one day out of the year.
Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2015
THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE…
God’s Kingdom is being set up on the earth. Just not in the way the carnal religious mind would interpret it. I remember the teacher of the first revelation saying that we here on earth are running parallel to those in the spiritual realm called heaven.
“In my Father’s house are many mansions.” The word mansions means to stay (in a given place, state, relation, or expectancy) revealing their spiritual element. The kingdom of heaven has seven levels, the “seven heavens” mentioned in the Holy Quran. The kingdom of heaven symbolizes the realm of the mind. All religions and ritualistic practices (east, middle east, and west), all disciplines of the mind, and all spiritual gifts, are associated with the kingdom of heaven. When you hear people talking about “states of consciousness,” they are unwittingly talking about one’s ascension through the levels or mansions that exist in the kingdom called heaven. We choose the mansion in which we exist (both on earth and in heaven) by choosing the state in which we wish our mind and heart to exist. The soul consists of mental and emotional energy, so the state of our soul at the time of our death determines what mansion we enter. From the vision of the Kingdom (seen by the teacher of the first revelation on 7-7-77) we learn that ascension in the spiritual realm is limited, so we want to do our works on this side, executing God’s spiritual judgment before we die. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” Hebrews 9:27. It is through God’s spiritual judgment that we die a spiritual death, which is called “the second death” because for all but a few, the physical death comes before the spiritual death, which is the result of the judgment.
Some use the rituals of religion to bring their mind into a peaceful or purified state. Others have moved away from the mind-body disciplines of religion and into disciplines of the mind only. Through these principles, practices or techniques, which grew out of the new age movement, one could enter a state of peace through the power of his mind. This may serve to help with the anxiety, but it also serves to mask what is causing the anxiety. One such practice has us using our mind to stay in the present, claiming that being in the now is where the power is. This may serve to help with depression by not allowing our mind to revisit the pain from our past, but it is also serves to “resist the holy Spirit,” the power of the heart, whose divine purpose is to bring the painful repressed memory up to the surface, into our awareness, so that we may discover the source of our depression; the false religious or personal belief that is the cause of the anger that causes the depression. Jesus demonstrated this for us when he entered the temple, symbolizing the heart, and in anger overturned the tables that held the false images, the tables symbolizing the “fleshy tables of the heart,” where we have set up the false beliefs that are making us so damn angry, and rightfully so. Beliefs are seeds that have been sowed in our heart. We do not eliminate the evil seeds of our heart through the power of our mind. We cannot bring about everlasting peace in ourselves or the world through these religious and spiritual practices; not through prayers, positive thoughts, affirmations, intentions, the pineal gland, the vagus nerve, you get the idea. This will only bring an illusion of peace, brought into existence through the power of the mind by way of the “energy of delusion.” This is the false peace the Prophet Ezekiel spoke of, which he describes as a wall that will be brought down. The wall symbolizes protection, but this false peace will not serve to protect us by sustaining our peaceful state of mind during the tribulation that mankind is bringing upon itself.
“Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.” Jesus tells us who is the least and who is counted great in the kingdom of heaven: “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19. Christians have placed themselves above the law by accepting the teachings of Paul, buying into his “law of Christ.” Because of this, they will be below those keeping the law by observing the commandments. Many Christians left Christianity for Judaism, ascending to a higher position. From the vision of the kingdom we learn that ” To reach the top of the mount you must go to the one higher than you are at, then one at that mount will take the message to the next higher mount, and so on. They cannot leave their mount, only to the outer border.” The communication taking place in heaven is also talking place here on earth, through social media. How else could this be possible? The table is set, each bringing to the table what they have been given. Those that left the Christian religion, but continued to seek the truth of God’s Word, through the message of their teachings, are helping those that are being led to come out of the Church. On social media you will find people from every mansion; from every level of understanding, so your message will only resonate with those bordering your mansion or mount.
“Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done…” What is God’s will? Creation. “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you believe me not, believe the works.” Matthew 10:37,38. What are the works of the Father? Creation. The judgment that takes place in the kingdom of heaven that is on earth, within us, is the process of overcoming our false religious and pseudo-spiritual beliefs, which do not contribute to the salvation of our soul by helping to transform our mental and emotional energy. That will require a new creation, through which our negative and destructive energy is transformed into positive and constructive energy. As the physical creation took six days (not to be taken literally), so too does our spiritual creation take six days, which have been outlined in the first six churches in the book of Revelation. Ephesus, the first church, is where one finds those that say they are apostles and are not, liars. Christians can go no further until they find Paul a liar, because what he lied about was their salvation, which takes place through the judgment or creation. The first four churches are the works of overcoming the religions and religious beliefs that grew out of Paul’s false teachings, formed between the middle of the first century up until the twenty-first century.
Once the “veil of religious iniquity” is rent, one can begin their transition from that “sanctuary” called the mind to that “Holiest of all” place called the Heart; from the kingdom of heaven (realm of the mind) to the kingdom of God (realm of the Heart). Entering the kingdom of God within requires one to engage in a heart-discipline: “…for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 30:21. Moses and Jesus provide the instruction. The fifth church is Sardis, where we must “strengthen” the things that are ready to die, our works not yet perfect before God; not yet complete. Having become dead to the false religious image or belief, we must now “be strong in our determination” to overcome the false personal or self image or belief we formed as “little children.” Jesus came in the fifth; in the beginning of the fifth-thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. What was Jesus’ message? The same as David’s message. Purification of the heart. Seven impurities of the heart, the seven inhabitants the children of Israel (chosen to represent us the people) were to drive out of the promised land, which symbolizes the heart. Saul slew his thousands and David his ten thousands. Purification at a heart level is ten times more powerful than purification at a mind level when it comes to slaying our spiritual or internal enemies, creating a powerful spiritual healing energy that will move out to help stop the external enemies of this world. The “white raiment” in the message to the church of Sardis is evidence that we have been compliant with God’s purification process, the “name” symbolizing the “truth” through which we overcome our false religious and personal beliefs. In overcoming our false self belief through truth, we demonstrate a love of self, which will move out to our brothers, the sixth church, “Philadelphia” meaning “brotherly love.”
Through six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual) works we form a new heaven and a new earth within. Six days formulates to 6 x 24 = 144, a spiritual measure one reaches (Revelation 21:17) through the completion of his new creation; through the spiritual works Jesus instructs us to “believe,” meaning “to obey, put action to.” The works are synonymous with the judgment: “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Matthew 19:28. The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12 = 144. In the vision of the Kingdom there were “twelve columns,” symbolizing the judgment, which is in-between the mount of many mounts and the city. 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.
There will be two judgments that take place on this side. The judgment that takes place as a result of a spiritual or internal tribulation. They will enter the city (as long as the window of opportunity to enter the city is open). And the judgment that will take place as a result of the physical tribulation. They will make up the wall of the city. They will judge themselves according to God’s judgment in the 1,000-year reign of Christ, which began with the new millennium. They make up the 144,000. However, it will not be a literal thousand years due to man’s evilness, within and without, as it is written, “… except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Matthew 24:22. The trumpet has already sounded. The time to ascend the mount is already upon us. There is only ONE WAY to ascend the spiritual mount and enter the door that leads to the kingdom of God, both within and without, which is through the judgment. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” John 10:1. We will be stealing from ourselves, robbing ourselves of our highest potential, which is eternal life in the kingdom of God.
Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2024
TRUMP: A KING and A KINGDOM
When I first heard that a man named “Trump” was running for the 2016 election, my mind, like I’m sure the mind of many Christians, was taken to “the last trump” in the New Testament, where Paul claims that the dead shall be raised incorruptible, changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. “Trump will be the last President of a truly free America.” That is what I heard when he got elected. It makes sense, since the left advocates for socialism, which is about bondage, not freedom. Just ask anyone who has fled a socialist country for the freedom of America. If the left had succeeded in winning this election, they would have four more years to finish what they started, which is to turn America into a socialist country, in which everyone is equal. But as the history of socialism teaches us, the people are not made equally rich, but equally poor. When Trump made the comment that God might have been protecting him during the two attempts on his life, I have to agree. While God does not care about the politics of mankind, God does care about mankind. Trump’s second, and last presidency, is giving mankind a small window of opportunity to ascend the mount at what is “the last trump,” the sound of which means, “prepare for battle,” symbolizing man’s spiritual battle against the internal enemies of his heart: “And *seven priests shall bear before the ark *seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the *seventh day ye shall compass the city *seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.” Joshua 6:5 KJV
This is most likely where Paul first got his idea of a carnal ascension, which he says will take place at “the last trump.” The number *seven pertains to the spiritual, indicating that this is about a spiritual ascension, through which we are changed on a spiritual (mental and emotional) level. This ascension is to take place on the “seventh day,” which began with the new millennium; the beginning of the seventh-thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The children of Israel (chosen to represent us the people) were to ascend the mount on the third day, which also began with the new millennium; the beginning of the third-thousandth year since the crucifixion of Jesus, a physical event that symbolizes the death of truth that has taken place in the heart of mankind.
“We have more liquid gold than any country in the world. More than Saudi Arabia. We have more than Russia. Bobby, stay away from the liquid gold,” Trump told Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former environmental lawyer and presidential candidate who could play a role in shaping health policy in the next Trump administration. Our leaders and our countries, like the kings and the kingdoms of the Bible, reveal important information, along with a message of instruction for mankind in what is the “end of days.” It may be in the meaning of their name, in the words they speak, or in what they advocate for when it comes to the betterment of mankind. They are for signs, but the adulterous generation (which we are) is given no sign. The signs are there, but mankind has not been able to read them with any clarity until now. Revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible gives us the ability to read the signs, so that we may prepare ourselves for what is coming, a tribulation that mankind is bringing upon itself. What a merciful God! The “liquid gold” refers to “oil,” symbolizing “the anointing.” America has more oil than any other country because America stands for the freedom of the people, our physical and spiritual freedom dependent upon oil. Israel and America, two countries fighting to free the people from their oppressors; inherently link through their symbolism: God’s Spirit and God’s Word, the Anointing, the Two Witnesses, which is why America must always stand with Israel. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam. Abraham had two sons. Ishmael, father of Islam, son of Hagar the bondwoman, symbolizing bondage, and Isaac, father of Israel, son of the freewoman, the two sons symbolizing the two states of the soul: bondage and free. The “anointing” is “the christ,” through which we are made free of our spiritual bondage or oppression. The bear (a widespread symbol for Russia) symbolizes what the Prophet Jeremiah calls “man’s word;” the false (religious and personal) beliefs that are responsible for our spiritual bondage. The ongoing war between Palestinians and Jews is the outward expression of the ongoing war taking place within us, as we learn from James the Just, brother of our Lord.
Trump is accused of being a dictator by the left. A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. Trump was never a political leader. He’s a business man, and a damn good one. He understands what it takes to get us out of debt, while the left works hard to get us further into debt through the outsourcing of labor, and handouts to those who have not gone through the process of becoming Americans. Debt is bondage. Left or right, which side is giving power to the nation chosen to represent bondage? Both, one by supporting a political party, the other by supporting a false religious belief. A dictator possesses absolute power. Did not the Kings of the Old Testament possess absolute power? The terms “tyrant” and “autocrat” dictator are used exclusively as a term for oppressive rule. King David was a man after God’s own heart. He had absolute power, but he did not use that power to rule the people in an oppressive manner. That was Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah… “ And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.” 1 Kings 12:11. “Rehoboam” means “a people has enlarged.” It was the tribe of Judah that enlarged, the tribes of Israel dispersed in 722. But more importantly, it was a false religious belief that enlarged. Rehoboam was the son of Solomon, the reign of Solomon representing the 1500 year-long reign of pseudo-Christianity, in which the false belief spread like wild fire. Christians, through their beliefs, have given power to a “king,” symbolizing a “spirit,” one that rules with great oppression (within and without).
The window of opportunity to do the spiritual works associated with the kingdom of God will not remain open forever. I was shown many years ago that the levels in God’s Kingdom close from the top down, the 8th being the Kingdom of God, at the top, the inheritance of Joseph and Benjamin, symbolizing the Word and Spirit of God, which is the Christ, the spiritual healing power of the Heart. “Those that come out of the tribulation are right outside of Joseph.” (from the “Vision of the Kingdom”), bearing witness to what I was shown, “the tribulation” referring to the physical tribulation coming upon the world! Trump, along with Netanyahu, will continue to fight against the tyrannical oppressors of the people. But what they cannot fight against is the invisible force that is giving power to them. Christians have been taught (by Paul) that Christ has set them free. A lie that has kept them from doing the spiritual works (via the christ power) that would make them free of their spiritual bondage. Christians, which make up nearly one third of the more than 7 billion people on earth, are unwittingly given power to the nation chosen to represent man’s spiritual bondage, which has grown exponentially under our current administration. Trump will do what it takes to fight the external enemy. But without the Christians fighting against the false religious belief that is giving power to the external enemy, the tribulation will escalate within a very short period of time. This may be why I heard: Trump will be the last President of a truly free America.” Is this set in stone? No. It’s the government of the people, and by the people, so the people determine whether or not the nation that represents freedom, remains free.
When I saw Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. standing next to Trump and talking about his passion, the health of the people, my mind immediately went to the words of the Prophet Jeremiah: “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”(8:22). The word “daughter” means “to build upon the family name.” The spiritual family name is truth, through which our spiritual health is restored. There is balm in Gilead, the name given to the teacher of the first revelation (1960-1974), which laid the foundation upon which to build spiritual truth, which is why we were given a second revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible (1998-2005), through which the spiritual truth encoded in the symbolism of the Sacred Text, is revealed. Knowledge that helps us understand why so many of us are moving away from our religions and religious beliefs. Knowledge that will help those that are being led to go within, providing an understanding of what they have been experiencing, as the Bible takes place within us. The “last trump” has sounded. It is time to ascend the mount, to enter the kingdom of God, where we will experience the transformation of our heart.
Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2024
TRUMP: THE RIGHT CHOICE
Now that we are heading in the right direction when it comes to “government,” we need to head in the right direction when it comes to “religion,” the two symbolized in scripture by the “iron” and the “clay.” America was founded upon the principles of Christ, not upon the Christian religion, which has taken on many forms since its inception. Principle: a basic truth, which applies to both the physical and the spiritual. Government and Religion are the physical representations of God’s Spirit and Word, the two divine attributes that make up the Christ. There is error in every Christian belief that is out there. To insure America’s freedom we must correct the error in these man-made doctrines, iniquity that has grown exponentially during my 6-year hiatus from Facebook. The teachings of Jesus have been perverted, corrupted by Paul, and subsequently by every Christian faith, doctrine, or belief, from mainstream to mystical, all of which grew out of Paul’s unholy doctrine. In correcting this error, the Word of God is sanctified. If the Spirit and Word of God are made holy, we have the Christ; the power and the instruction through which to heal our nation and ourselves!
REVELATORY TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY BIBLE
The Teacher of the first revelation, who passed away at the age of 80, dedicated his life to passing on the teachings he received between 1960 and 1974. He would be 110, the number of years of Joseph, which is significant. It was Joseph who gathered the corn into the storehouses in preparation for the famine. The corn symbolizes spiritual truth, the famine symbolizing the spiritual famine the Prophet Amos spoke of; a hunger for hearing the words of the Lord, which religion, with its literal interpretations, has failed to teach us. The first revelation exposed the error in Judaism and in Christianity, the histories of which are encoded in the stories of the Old Testament. This was the primary objective of the first revelation, serving to re-establish the true foundation; the one laid through the spiritual teachings of Jesus, preserved by the code that served to protect them throughout the 3500 year-long reign of religion, which was to end with the new millennium. This would require a second revelation; that of the symbolic code of the Bible, teachings I received between 1998 and 2005.
THE BIBLE DECODED takes us on a journey with the children of Israel, who were chosen to represent us the people. They traversed the wilderness, symbolizing the mind, but that is as far as they went. They never gained the courage to ascend the mount, symbolizing the heart. They never entered the promised land, where they were to drive out the seven inhabitants, symbolizing the spiritual impurities of the heart that Jesus spoke of. Where the people stood two thousand years is where the people still stand today, with hearts in need of healing, which doesn’t take place by keeping the letter of the law, or by engaging in any of the disciplines that focus on the mind. In fact, they have now become a stumbling block in that they lack the instruction needed to make the transition from the mind to the heart; from the kingdom of heaven to the kingdom of God, or from the 4th dimension to the fifth dimension. Jesus has given us the instruction, which is to judge the twelve tribes of Israel, the subject of my second book, originally published under the title: “Judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel.”
THE BIBLE DECODED 