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WORLD SIGNS in the END TIMES

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8803679ac0fe20bb05080dd5eb167e9fWe 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

TRUMP: A KING and A KINGDOM

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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

JEWS & CHRISTIANS AWAIT A KINGDOM ON EARTH

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The Jews believe that when Messiah comes, he will be a dynamic Jewish leader, a direct descendant of the Davidic dynasty, who will rebuild the temple. He will fight (as David did) to restore the kingdom of Israel on earth in the end of days. Jesus, who spoke of an internal kingdom, didn’t fit their image. The Jew’s Messiah will come from the tribe of Levi. Jesus was from the tribe of Judah, and there is a reason for that. Levi was the tribe that instituted the carnal law, which was added for transgression; because they broke God’s Commandments, which Moses demonstrated as he came down off the mount. “Thou shall have no other gods before me,” the 1st of the 10 commandments, which they broke by worshipping the gold calf. They demonstrated outwardly what had already taken place inwardly. Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. But it is not Jesus that fulfills the carnal law. It is the spiritual works that Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on earth, saying “believe the works,” the word “believe” meaning “to obey, put action to.” Spiritual obedience to spiritual works, through which the carnal works of the law are completed, coming to an end.

“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.” Isaiah 1:11-15

Messiah will redeem or restore Israel in the end of days. There are seven days. We are in the end of the seven days; in the seventh day, which began with the new millennium. The number seven pertains to the spiritual. We are in the third and final “era of Jacob,” which translates to the “era of Spirit,” when carnal worship is to end and spiritual worship is to begin. Messiah will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. The Temple and Jerusalem share the same spiritual or symbolic meaning, which is the Heart, where the spiritual sacrifices of God are to take place: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.” Psalms 51:17,18. It is through spiritual sacrifice that we enter God’s protection, which the walls of Jerusalem symbolize. The Jews believe that when Messiah comes, all of the Jews will be gathered back to the land of Israel. This is an internal gathering of the sons of Jacob (Genesis 49:1), which are the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 49:28). The Holy Qur’an refers to it as the “Day of Gathering together” (50:44), which is the same as the “Day of Judgement” (1:4), when we are to obey the spiritual instruction or works of the Messiah the Jews rejected: “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 Jews believe that when Messiah comes there will be world peace. There will be no more wars and no more famine. “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 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. There will be world peace when the instruction of the rejected Messiah is followed. There can be no peace on the earth until there is peace in the heart of man. There will be no more wars when the judgment that brings peace is executed in the mind and heart of man. There will be no more famine when man hears (obeys) the words of the Lord, an instruction preserved for the end of days: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:” Amos 8:11

Those who follow the teachings of the Messiah by judging the twelve tribes of Israel take part in the “regeneration.” The word “regenerate” means “to form anew.” Through six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual) works they form “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” their “first heaven and first earth” passing away. “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18. Jesus is not talking about the passing of the physical heaven and earth. He is talking about the passing of the spiritual heaven and earth we formed through false perceptions and beliefs. The death of this unholy creation takes place through the spiritual judgment, through which we enter “new Jerusalem,” symbolizing a “new peaceful state of being.” They were to keep the carnal works of the law until they were fulfilled through the spiritual works of God’s spiritual judgment. But it wasn’t only the Jews that rejected Messiah. It was also the Gentiles: “THE KINGS OF THE EARTH STOOD UP, AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED AGAINST THE LORD, AND AGAINST HIS CHRIST. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together.” Acts 4:26,27

Messiah (Mashiach) means “anointed one.” Jesus was called “the christ.” He was the anointed one, the spiritual oil or anointing (christ) being the power through which the spiritual works through which we are spiritually healed, are performed, which is salvation. We call “the people of Israel,” Jews. We call “Gentiles,” Christians, who also rejected Messiah by rejecting the spiritual teachings of Jesus and buying into the carnal teachings of Paul. Like the Jews, they are waiting on Messiah to come and establish his kingdom on earth. Jesus will be their King, who will reign for a thousand years, heaven and earth restored to its former glory. The ‘Messianic era’ or ‘Messianic reign’ has come and gone. The carnal “era of Isaac” has ended. The spiritual “era of Jacob” has begun. We are in Jacob’s time of trouble because of the literal interpretations that have been assigned to our Sacred Texts through the doctrines of religion. When we read about Judah and Jerusalem in the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah we are reading about those that adhere to these man-made doctrines. It was the tribe of Judah that enlarged, as seen in her first king, Rehoboam, meaning, a people will enlarge. It was the false doctrine of the Gentile Judah that has enlarged to encompass all of Christianity.

“The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” Genesis 49:10. “The word sceptre means a scion, i.e. (lit.) a stick for punishing. The carnal law was Israel’s punishment for disobeying God’s Commandments, who became Judah by passing through the Red Sea; a type-and-shadow baptism. The feet symbolize the age of Pisces, synonymous with the era of Isaac, and with the reign of Judah.” We have left this era chronologically, but we will remain under its tyranny, manifesting in the form of terrorism and oppression, until we drive the impurities out of our heart, through which we bring in Shiloh, meaning, to be tranquil, secure, successful, be happy, prosper, be in safety, describing the mental and emotional state one enters upon the return of the spiritual Messiah.  Notice it says, “unto him.” This has nothing to do with the gender of a person. It has to do with the gender of a power, “christ” being the two divine attributes of the Creator; the two things needed to bring our new heaven and earth into existence, which Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, Elijah and Elisha, John and Jesus (all males) embodied. To the Jew, Shiloh is the Messiah, to whom the people shall be gathered, which should have taken place two thousand years ago.  Jews and Christians await a kingdom that will never come. “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.”  John 18:36

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2024

 

THE TWO COVENANTS

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“For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by the bondmaid, the other by the freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.  Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants: the one from mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Hagar.”  Galatians 4:22-24.  Abraham had two sons.  Ishmael and Isaac. The scripture is allegorical, symbolic, the language in which the Holy Bible is written, providing us with spiritual knowledge, so that we may understand the two states of the soul symbolized by these two sons. 

The mother of Ishmael was Hagar, an Egyptian. Egypt, where the children of Israel spent 390 years in bondage, symbolizing the spiritual bondage we entered early in life, just past the age of four according to the biblical text.  Ishmael was of the bondwoman, symbolizes bondage. “For this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children.”  Galatians 4:25. It was at mount Sinai that the children of Israel, chosen to represent us the people, went into bondage by worshipping of the gold calf, symbolizing the false image or belief that brings us into spiritual bondage, which only truth can overturn, freeing us from our bondage. Jesus, the truth personified, demonstrated this for us when he entered the temple, symbolizing the heart, overturning the tables, symbolizing “the fleshy tables of the heart,” where we have set up these false images or beliefs, which are to be brought down through a spiritual judgment, through which truth reigns supreme within in our heart.

“And Jesus said unto them… 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 twelve tribes of Israel are the sons of Jacob (Genesis 49:28), which are neither lost or extinct, but existing within. “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.”  The “last days” is more accurately called the “end of days.”  There are seven days, and we are in the end of the seven days— in the seventh day; in the beginning of the seventh-thousandth year since the fall in garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind.  A day is as thousand years (2 Peter 3:8).  In the year 2000 we entered God’s one-time spiritual Sabbath Day, which we are to keep holy through the purification of our heart.  Jacob, through his last words to his sons, reveals what we will encounter as we go through this spiritual judgment, purification, salvation, or healing process.  Our false beliefs, the result of the evil seeds that have been sown in our heart, form our word, which the prophet Jeremiah (23:36) says will be our burden, which is bondage.  In this soul-state, we fall under the first covenant, Ishmael, son of the bondwoman, the two sons or two covenants symbolizing the two states of the soul—  bondage and free.

“For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by the bondmaid, the other by the freewoman.” But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.” As God’s word was made flesh (John 1:14), so too has man’s word been made flesh— an invisible or spiritual flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh, keeping us in spiritual bondage, which Ishmael, the son of Hagar the bondwoman, symbolizes. Hagar was an Egyptian. The word Ishmael means God will hear. When the children of Israel cried out because of the bondage of Egypt, God heard them.  When we cry out because of the burden or bondage caused by our many false beliefs, the first covenant is fulfilled in us. Sarah was a Chaldean. She left a land that worshipped images and went to Shechem, meaning to incline (the shoulder to a burden).  When we are inclined to carry our burden (symbolized by the cross upon which we crucified truth) we have entered the second covenant. Through our sincere desire to heal on a mental and emotional or soul-level, we discover our word of error, our burden— the lies that have kept us in spiritual bondage for all these years. With the discovery of these false beliefs comes the discovery of the unholy spirits associated with them, revealed to us through the sons of Jacob. Through our judgment of these false beliefs and unholy spirits, which is the process of overcoming them, we receive the promise, Isaac, the son of Sarah the freewoman, receiving the truth that makes us free, placing us under the second covenant.  Jerusalem, symbolizing the Heart, has been made free of all false beliefs. “But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.”  Galatians 4:26 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2019