Matthew 19:28

ANCIENT BIBLICAL HEALING PROCESS

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 “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

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THE LITTLE BOOK for the soul takes us through the spiritual judgment encoded in the 49th chapter of Genesis, where Jacob tells his 12 sons what will befall them in the end of days, describing what we will encounter should we desire healing at the deepest level of the soul. The 12 sons of Jacob reveal the unholy spirits we are to judge, which is to overcome them. The first three sons reveal the unholy spirits that work through the mind, heart, and body, the three aspects of the soul. The fourth son reveals the unholy spirit that has caused us to make some poor decisions, and has caused Christians to skip over the spiritual judgment through which one receives true salvation of the soul. Leah has two more sons, which reveal the workings of the mind, protecting us from pain by repressing the memory, suppressed emotions that give power to the four unholy spirits seen through the sons of the bondmaids of Leah and Rachel, symbolizing the spiritual bondages or addictions associated with the mind and heart. These unholy spirits or negative and destructive energies are attached to our false beliefs, which in biblical terms, is our word, which brings us to the last two sons, born of Rachel, the one Jacob loved. It is through this internal judgment that we sacrifice our word of false beliefs, along with the unholy spirits that sustain them. It is a process through which we restore the truth that brings us to perfect love; an internal judgment through which we obtain internal peace. 

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THE NUMBER 144 – THE YEAR 2025 – THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL

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People have been seeing the number 144 lately, and there’s a reason for that. It’s a biblical number, so the Bible is where we will find the true meaning of the number. It has nothing to do with the mind; with consciousness. It has to do with the heart; with the subconscious. The number 144 is not associated with the “kingdom of heaven,” symbolizing the “realm of the mind.” Two thousand years ago, the cry was, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” the number 120 associated with the day Pentecost. Moses died at 120. The Law was to end with the passing of Moses. It was time to make the transition from the wilderness, symbolizing the mind, to the promised land, symbolizing the heart. The days of flesh are “an hundred and twenty” (Genesis 6:3), referring to the veil of spiritual flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh, which can only be removed through spiritual circumcision of the heart, which the prophet Jeremiah spoke of (4:4), through which one reaches the spiritual measure of 144.

For those of you who are not familiar with my story… in 1975 I met a man of no religion, who had a unique interpretation of the Bible. So intrigued by this knowledge I spent the next 19 years taking in the teachings of the revelation he received between 1960 and 1974. One evening, during Bible Study, in or around 1976, the Teacher told each of us what we represented or what our gift was. When he pointed to me, he said, “gift of knowledge.”That turned out to be true, as it was spiritual knowledge I was gifted with between 1998 and 2005 through revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible. In 1981, the man who the Teacher (in 1978) said would be coming to the group, arrived. One night, he pointed to him and said, “The Heart, there it sets, right there.” I like that he used the word “sets” instead of “sits,” indicating that this is not about the man, but about what the man represented. His sun sign is Leo, representing the Heart. We married in 1988, a representation of the union between THE HEART and  SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE.  

Fast forward ten years, to 1998, when I had a dream, which I only recently came to understand the meaning of. I was getting a gynecological exam. I looked over at a table and saw the number 64. The head nurse came in the room and said (referring to me) “Because of her age, she’ll be pregnant by January.” Again, this is not about the person, but about what the person represented, which is knowledge, 64 being the number of years from the start of the first revelation: 1960 + 64 = 2024… “pregnant by January” takes us into the year 2025, when we are to conceive of spiritual knowledge in that spiritual womb called the heart, knowledge that those that identify as God’s people lack, as spoken by the prophet Hosea, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (4:6). I mentioned to my husband that this year, 2025, our ages add up to 144. Then he pointed out that our ages added up to 70 when we got married, and that the Teacher who married us, was 74, which adds up to 144. Marriage is the act of intercourse; when a man and a woman come together and become one flesh. Spiritual marriage or intercourse is communication. The Heart is the spiritual womb, which is female. Spiritual knowledge is the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11), which is male. Intercourse or communication between the two results in the conception of spiritual truth, which should have taken place in the heart of the people two thousand years ago, but it was rejected by the carnal mind of those of religion, first by the Jews, and then by the Gentiles.

In December of 2024 I went back on social media after a 7-year hiatus, and found myself in the midst of Jehovah Witnesses, which I now know was not a coincidence because that’s when I learned of Charles Taze Russell, and began an in-depth study of the man and his teachings. His quote, “the truth is progressive, shining more into the perfect day,” suggests that understanding and enlightenment grow gradually, emphasizing the importance of continual learning and revelation. He spoke of the “perfection of knowledge,” referring to the spiritual knowledge we gain through revelation or understanding of the symbolic code of the Bible, which I began sharing on social media in 2000; in the dawn of the new millennium, which marked the beginning of the 7th day; the beginning of the 7th thousandth year since the fall in the garden, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. The word “seven” means “perfect.” The 7th day is the perfect day, when the truth of God’s Word is made perfect through spiritual knowledge, which those of religion lack, being behind what I call “the veil of religious iniquity.”

As I continued to research Charles Taze Russell I came across something that I believe was by design, something that would connect Russell to my teacher Gilbert Loman Stiles. On October 2nd 1914 Russell announced that the “Gentile Times” had ended. Stiles was born on October 2nd 1914. In 1975 he announced to our little Bible Study group that the Gentile Israel and Judah were cut off. The years 1914 and 1975 marked important events, which Russell and his successors, misinterpreted. He left the Christian religion, but unwittingly brought some soul-destroying Christian beliefs with him, placing him behind “the veil of religious iniquity,” which prevented him from seeing things clearly. The number 144 shows up in the ages of these two men, which my husband also pointed out. Russell died at age 64 and Stiles at age 80, their ages adding up to 144. Russell was born in 1852, dying in 1916, and Stiles was born in 1914, dying in 1994, resulting in a 2-year overlap. Total years between them (1852-1994)=142. Add in the 2-year overlap=144. These two men were instrumental in the progression of spiritual knowledge, encouraging their students to continue to learn, and to be open to the possibility of more revelation, moving beyond what they had been taught in search of a deeper spiritual understanding of God’s Word. While Russell had one foot in religion by bringing the doctrine of the Christian religion, Paul’s doctrine, with him, Stiles was of no religion, and what was revealed to him about Paul was that he was a liar. I see these two men (born within two hundred miles of each other) as two witnesses advocating for and contributing to the progression and perfection of spiritual knowledge. Russell prophesied of the end of the Gentiles. Stiles announced its fulfillment. The word “Paul” (made apostle to the Gentiles) means “come to an end.”

144 is a spiritual measure, “the measure of a man” (Revelation 21:17). “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. The “regeneration” is the process through which a new creation is formed inside of us. There were six days in the creation of heaven and earth (not to be taken literally). A day is 24 hours. Six days formulates to 6 x 24 = 144. Our new creation comes into existence through the judgment, our six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual or internal) works outlined in the first six churches in the book of Revelation. The work of the first church in Ephesus (where Paul spread his lie pertaining to the holy Spirit) is to find those that say they are apostles, but are not, liars. Paul was made apostle to the Gentiles, the three main Christian religions (Catholic, Trinity, and Pentecost) making up the Gentile Israel and Judah that was cut off in one day in 1975. But Paul’s doctrine of lies lives on in the mind of the Christian, “the veil of religious iniquity” that prevents him from seeing the spiritual truth of God’s Word. To see it they will have to experience a spiritual “apocalypse,” which means, “lifting of the veil.” 

“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.” God’s kingdom is being set up on earth, just not in the way the carnal religious mind would interpret it. The return of Jesus to the earth is the return of truth to the heart, taking place in those who are engaged in God’s judgment, overcoming their false religious and personal beliefs, through which they reach a spiritual measure of 144, ascending beyond the kingdom of heaven. Jesus tells us who is the least and who is 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. Paul taught the people to reject the law that contains the commandments, replacing God’s law with his own law, which he calls “the law of Christ,” found only in the Pauline Epistles. Evidence of Paul’s rejection of the law is found in a commentary on the book of Habakkuk, who wrote in 626 BCE, a contemporary of Jeremiah the prophet, who wrote from 627 to 585 BCE, the commentary written in the late 1st century BCE, found in the Dead Sea Scrolls: “Those who were unfaithful together with the Liar, [who] did not listen to the word received by the Righteous Teacher from the mouth of God” and “who were silent at the time of the chastisement of the Righteous Teacher and did not aid him against the Liar who rejected the Law in the midst of all their Assembly…” No historical personages are mentioned by name because it’s a prophesy yet to be fulfilled.

Clement, who traveled with Peter, reveals that the ‘Righteous Teacher” was James, the brother of our Lord. And in a letter to Clement, Peter wrote this of Paul: “bad instruction, vain boasting, and other such evils have filled the whole house of this world like some enormous smoke preventing those who dwell in it from seeing the Founder aright.” Jesus was the Founder of Jewish Christianity. Paul was the founder of Gentile Christianity. Jesus chose the twelve to spread his gospel among the Jews. Paul was chosen apostle to the Gentiles, where he spread his own gospel, which is why Jesus said, “salvation is of the Jews.” Those who have left Pauline Christianity in favor of keeping the commandments, encouraging others to do so, “shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven,” while those who have accepted Paul’s “law of Christ,” selling others on a made-up law that requires no works, “shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.” Both camps have an opportunity to ascend beyond the kingdom of heaven. Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. What fulfills the law is not Jesus, but the spiritual works that are synonymous with Jesus, which if believed (obeyed) perfects the law, completing it. “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works.”John 10:38. What are the works of the Father? Creation, made through God’s word; through God’s seed, which Jesus is. It is through the creation of a new heaven and earth that the first heaven and earth we formed through false perceptions and beliefs passes away, which is what Jesus was referring to when he said, “till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” They were to keep the carnal works of the law until they were fulfilled through the spiritual works of God’s spiritual judgment.

Those who follow Jesus’ instruction by judging the twelve tribes of Israel, through which they reach the spiritual measure of 144, ascend beyond the kingdom of heaven. They enter the “kingdom of God,” symbolizing the “realm of the Heart” while in the physical realm, entering the reality of the kingdom of God in the spiritual realm, having completed the internal works that are synonymous with the judging of the twelve tribes of Israel. There are many interpretations when it comes to the number 144, and to the number 144,000. If they claim that the number is a literal number, whether of people or angels, if they associate the number with consciousness, with the energy of the body, or with a frequency at which the body is to resonate, it falls under a mind-body discipline, which is associated with the kingdom of heaven, not with the kingdom of God. The beheading of John the Baptist two thousand years ago illustrated the end of purification through mind-body disciplines; through perpetual prayers, ritualistic baths, and dietary restrictions, which is why John said he must decrease so Jesus could increase. According to Jesus, it is not what enters in from the outside that makes us impure, but what proceeds out of our heart, which is made pure through God’s judgment, by judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

A vision of God’s Kingdom was seen by Stiles on 7-7-77. There were “twelve columns,” symbolizing the judgment, all twelve tribes accounted for. Three below the mount. Seven on the mount. Two above the mount, in the city. The twelve columns are between the mount (the kingdom of heaven) and the city. One night, which would have been after 1981, the Teacher spoke on the Kingdom, which he had never done before, not even after receiving the vision. He spoke of the wall around the city, which like the wall that measures “an hundred and forty and four cubits” is a glorified body, which those in the city, being of pure spirit, must pass through to interact with those in the kingdom of heaven, which are in varying degrees of a type of flesh that can be seen in the spiritual realm. Adam and Eve existed in a spiritual realm, but when they disobeyed God’s word they received “coats of skins,” which were not animal skins, but physical flesh bodies that grounded them to the physical realm. Seeing themselves as naked, they hid themselves. “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…” Revelation 3:18. The fire symbolizes God’s judgment, which consumes the sinful flesh that has been formed inside of our physical flesh.

The two tribes associated with the city are Joseph and Benjamin, representing the two divine attributes of God, which is the Christ, the healing power through which we do the spiritual works that are synonymous with the judgment, through which we form a new creation; “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” which is salvation, the healing of the soul: the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought and emotion. Those that come out of the tribulation are right outside of Joseph and Benjamin, which tells me that its tribulation (within or without) that brings on the birth of this new creation from within, the “time of trouble” that Daniel (meaning, God is my judge) spoke of in the twelfth and final chapter. Having been purified through the judgment they enter a glorified state. They make up the wall of the city. They have judged themselves while on earth, reaching a spiritual measure of 144 in the 1,000-year reign of Christ, which began with the new millennium. They make up the 144,000, which Russell referred to as “the body of The seed.”

“The seed, The seed, The seed,” which Stiles heard in 1960. “What about the seed,” he asked. And with that, his understanding was opened. The seed is the gift of the holy Spirit, the Spirit being the Energy that sows the seed or word of truth in our heart if we don’t resist it. Stiles received the seed in the form of the revelatory knowledge he received over a period of fifty days prior to his baptism in a Pentecostal church he saw in a vision. What happened to him following his baptism on October 30th, 1960 matched the image of what Pentecostal refer to as “getting the Holy Ghost,” but it is not the holy Ghost or holy Spirit one receives following baptism, as Paul teaches. Stiles referred to what happened to him that night as “getting the seed.” Those who have “The seed” are in the city, as long as the window to enter the city remains open. I was shown that God’s kingdom closes from the top down. The 1,000 years given to man to reach a spiritual measure of 144 through God’s judgment is not to be taken literally, 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 sounded. The time to ascend the mount is upon us. There is only ONE WAY to ascend the mount and enter the door that leads to the kingdom of God, which is through God’s 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.

“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.” Luke 13:28

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2025

DOES BLOOD SACRIFICE ATONE FOR OUR SINS?

/ Sandra L. Butler

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lambFor 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.

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“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. The concept of a goat taking away all the sins and impurities of the people first appears in the Book of Leviticus, the book that contains the religious laws the people placed upon themselves through spiritual disobedience. Paul, being a  Pharisee, and the son of a Pharisee, known for their strict adherence to both the Written and Oral law, would have been very familiar with this religious concept.

“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.

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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

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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

THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE…

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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

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

THE 144,000

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“And I heard the number of them which were sealed; and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of Israel.” Revelation 7:4. The word sealed means to stamp with a signet or private mark (for security or preservation), referring to a spiritual security or preservation.

“And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”  Genesis 32:30. It is our spiritual life that is preserved, through which we enter an invisible wall of protection, the measure of which is 144. 

“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.  How does man reach this spiritual measure of 144?  By obeying Jesus’ instruction pertaining to the twelve tribes of Israel:  “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 word regeneration means anew; the process of forming again, referring to the forming of a new creation from within, “a new heaven and a new earth,”symbolizing a new mind and a new heart,” through which “the first heaven and the first earth” (formed in a darkness we mistook for light; through lies we mistook for truth) passes away.  “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” Revelation 21:1

The twelve tribes of Israel are neither lost nor extinct, but existing within in the form of positive and negative aspects.  We are to judge the negative aspects of the tribes, which is to overcome them. The number twelve represents judgment, as we see in our own judicial system.  Judging the 12 tribes of Israel formulates to 12 x 12, which equals 144, “the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.”   An angel is a messenger. Those that hear (through obedience) the message of the angel of the first 6 churches in the book of Revelation reach the spiritual measure of 144.   As God’s physical creation was formed through 6 days of works (not to be taken literally), our new spiritual creation is formed through 6 (metaphorical) days of (spiritual) works.  A day is 24 hours, 6 days formulating to 6 x 24, which equals 144.  These spiritual works are the works of the spiritual judgment that is to take place within us— the act of overcoming all of our false religious and personal beliefs. Those that reach the spiritual measure of 144 by executing God’s spiritual judgment upon themselves, enter the 1,000-year reign of Christ: 144 + 1,000 = 144,000. “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them…  and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years…”  Revelation 20:7. The reign of Christ begins within the individual when what constitutes christ (love and truth) rules their mind and heart.  These make up the 144,000 mentioned in chapter seven of the book of Revelation.  Notice that the tribe of Dan is not listed among the tribes. That is because the word Dan means judge, and the 144,000 have already judged themselves.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2008

2012 DECODED

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iuO6Y15085“The Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age into another. The message they give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility. The same theme can be found reflected in the prophecies of many other Native American visionaries from Black Elk to Sun Bear…”

In the year 2000, the world made its transition from one biblical era to another.  From the carnal “era of Isaac” to the spiritual “era of Jacob”; a transition that was illustrated two thousand years ago when John the Baptist decreased and Jesus the Christ increased.  It was to be man’s transition from repentance to perfection through the spiritual works that Jesus spoke of and demonstrated for us while he was on this earth.  But mankind has not been performing these spiritual works for the past two thousand, making little spiritual advancement due to the carnal-minded doctrines of religion, which fail to teach these deeper works.  If man accepts this transition by doing the spiritual works, there will be peace and tranquility.  If he resists, there will be more wars and destruction, causing much anxiety. 

“The Mayans prophesied that from 1999 we have 13 years to realize the changes in our conscious attitude to stray from the path of self-destruction and instead move onto a path that opens our consciousness to integrate us with all that exists.”  – Joseph Robert Jochmans

The biblical time of transition took place in 2000, giving us 12 years to actualize positive change through a spiritual judgment that takes place in the heart, the number 12 representing judgment.  At the end of these twelve years, a physical judgment will begin to take place in the earth. 

“And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,”   Revelation 7:2

This is the travailing of mother earth, revealing the spiritual travailing that should already be taking place in our spiritual mother— in our heart.  The time of trouble mentioned in the 12th chapter of Daniel, meaning judge of God, is to bring on the spiritual birth in those that have yet to begin this transition.

“Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.  And I heard the number of them that were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”  Revelation 7:3, 4

  144,000.  The number of days in a Baktun cycle.  But more importantly, it is a spiritual measure reached through the spiritual 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

Each tribe has a positive and negative aspect.  We are to judge (overcome) the negative aspects.  The number 12 represents judgment. Judging the 12 tribes formulates to 12 x 12, which equals 144.  

“And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits”  Rev. 21:17

Those that complete this spiritual judgment enter a spiritual wall of protection. These have become pure in heart through a spiritual sacrifice, entering what is referred to as the 1,000 year reign of Christ: 144 + 1,000 = 144,000.

What do man’s carnal sacrifices have in common?  The sacrificing of the pure and of the innocent.

In the “era of Abraham” (4000 years ago) Abraham was instructed to sacrifice his innocent son. Five hundred years later, the Hebrews would be instructed to sacrifice a lamb without spot or blemish, illustrating what would take place in the “era of Isaac” (2000 years ago), when a human lamb, one without spot or blemish (without sin) was sacrificed. Why would God first instruct Abraham to sacrifice his innocent son?  To show us, through the ancient language of biblical symbolism, the spiritual act that has taken place in our heart; the son symbolizing the word of God, which is truth, revealing the sacrificing of a spiritual innocence or purity, which according to scripture begins to take place just past the age of four.  In the end, it was not Abraham’s innocent son that was sacrificed, but the ram, symbolizing idolatry, the worshipping of false images, which we do by giving reverence to the false religious and personal beliefs of our heart.

The Mayans misinterpreted the ancient spiritual knowledge given them in the way of symbols.  It was not the literal heart that was to be sacrificed, but the spiritual impurities of the heart.  

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

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

I can only hope that over the next 5 years many of us will become still, quieting our mind, entering that spiritual temple called the heart, discovering and sacrificing the false religious and personal beliefs, whose negative and destructive energy is bringing death.  Let us be diligent, setting aside beliefs and disciplines that serve only to bring us an illusion of peace.  Setting aside the things that distract us from the spiritual works that must be performed in order to spiritually prepare us for the dismal prophecies predicted for our future due to our fallen spiritual state.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2007

EAST & WEST

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The Holy Bible contains all the spiritual knowledge we need for the salvation or healing of our soul, combining ancient practices of the east with the ancient instruction found in the Sacred Text of the west.  “And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD…”  Exodus 14:13. The word still means quiet self, be silent, keep (put to) silence.   “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”  Revelation 8:1. Silence in heaven is the key to opening the seventh seal.  Heaven symbolizes the mind. The seventh seal is the seventh chakra.

“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.”  Revelation 1:7. If this were about the physical eyes, it would be plural, not singular. This is about “the third eye,” the spiritual eye, through which we gain insight pertaining to the things we cannot see. The verse is clearly about Jesus, symbolizing truth, which “cometh with clouds;” coming with or through the thoughts of that spiritual heaven called the mind. Truth comes to us through our mind by way of the Spirit.  East and west, Spirit and word. The Spirit is the power that delivers the word of truth, first to our mind, and then to our heart if we don’t resist it. “For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:27. The “lightning” and the “Son of man” share the same symbolic meaning, which is “truth.”  Jesus was called the Son of man, the son symbolizing the seed or word of truth through which man is spiritually healed.

The East is associated with the Spirit and the Mind. The Spirit works through mind-body disciplines or practices such as yoga to bring calmness to the mind, and wellness to the body. During the practice, one is encouraged to “trust the breath,” the breath symbolizing the spirit. When the children of Israel journeyed through the wilderness, they were to trust Moses, symbolizing the Spirit of God.  But they resisted, forfeiting what comes with the holy spirit working through the mind, which is tranquility.  In stark contrast, is the anxiety that is possessing the minds of so many, the cause of panic attacks.  So many on anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs. Clearly, man is resisting the holy spirit, whose deepest purpose is to bring us into the truth regarding the source of this anxiety and depression. “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do aways resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.” Acts 7:51.  In the eastern practice of yoga, one is often led to put his hands to the third or inner eye, which is associated with higher consciousness or spiritual sight— the meaning behind the mythological Cyclops. Another example of the spirit working at a mind-level is the eastern practice of Reiki, performed through a technique similar to the laying on of hands for the treatment of physical, emotional, and mental disease.  It’s when we combine the ancient practices of the east with the ancient instruction found in the Sacred Text of the west, that we activate the ultimate healing power called christ.  When meditation is done according to the ancient instruction of the Holy Bible, the 7th chakra is opened, through which the deepest level of the soul is healed. The Spirit, activated or manipulated through ancient practices of the east, while evoking a response that can heal mind and body, cannot, by itself, heal the sub-conscious, which is the heart— the deepest and most important aspect of the soul.  To heal the heart requires us to follow the ancient instruction of the Sacred Text of the west.

“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 word regeneration means the act or process of re-forming.  As Spirit and word formed the physical heaven and earth, spirit and word are needed to form our new spiritual heaven and earth.  The word is the works of creation.  Those that are in the process of the regeneration are metaphorically sitting upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, which are the works that bring their new creation into existence, “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizing a new mind and a new heart. (Revelation 21:1). Judgment is symbolized in scripture by fire.  “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

Perhaps you have heard new age teachers talking about the “violet flame,” their understanding of which will be limited to the source through which they received it— through the Spirit, which makes it an incomplete truth. To receive complete truth on these spiritual matters will require us to incorporate the Word. The gold tried in the fire symbolizes the purity that comes through the judgment.  A “flame” is part of the fire.  The seven colors associated with the twelve tribes of Israel or twelve sons of Jacob are the seven colors of the rainbow.  And what do we find at the end of the rainbow— upon the conclusion of our spiritual judgment? Gold. Purity. The color “violet” is associated with Naphtali, a son by Rachel’s bondmaid, symbolizing bondage.  This is the point in the trans-formation process where we go from seeing the bondage of our mind to seeing the bondage of our heart.  This is where we make the transition from the kingdom of heaven, symbolizing the realm of the mind to the kingdom of God, symbolizing the realm of the Heart; the throne of that healing power called christ. Krishna or Christ, east or west, the meaning is the same: the source of all existence.

It is time to incorporate the Word, which provides us with the ancient instruction through which we are made holy. It is time to bring a deeper meaning to the many religious ceremonies and celebrations through the Word.  Let’s look at the eastern festival called Holi, also known as the “Festival of Love,” the “Festival of Colors,” or the “Festival of Spring.”  It celebrates the eternal and divine love of Krishna, and signifies the triumph of good over the evil.  The east is associated with the Spirit of God, which is Love.  The west is associated with the Word of God, the Holy Bible containing the the spiritual works through which we reach Love, which is why Jesus said, “believe the works,”  the word believe meaning “to obey or put action to.”   And why Jesus, the truth personified, said, “no man cometh unto the Father, but by me,”  which is to say, no man comes to Love, except by truth, which being the word of God, is the spiritual works or instruction through which we are made holy, triumphing over evil.

East and West.  Spirit and Word.  Love and Truth, through which we are healed on a soul-level.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2001