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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 IMPORTANCE OF THE SON

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The son symbolizes the seed or word of God (Luke 8:11). All things are made by a seed (John 1:3). God’s physical creation was made by His word (Genesis 1:3), the sowing of His seed in the earth. Our spiritual creation is made when God sows His spiritual seed in our heart. The instruction for this spiritual creation is encoded in the beginning and end of the book of Genesis, which means creation—  an instruction the children of Israel, chosen to represent us the people, failed to comprehend, having eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear.  So God sowed His seed in another mother— in the womb of Mary, her son providing us with the instruction for this spiritual creation through his word.  Jews and Muslims (the seed of Abraham in the literal sense) reject the son. The fact that Muslims reject the idea of the Creator having a son makes perfect sense because the Holy Quran does not refer to Allah as Father. But it also reveals the carnal mind, which cannot comprehend how something that is spiritual (Allah) could produce something that is physical (Jesus). Is that not the pattern of creation? Something unseen producing something that is seen?

If Muslims believe that Allah is the Creator of the heaven(s) and the earth, they unwittingly agree that Allah has a seed, the son symbolizing the seed by which all things are made. The New Testament of the Bible does refer to God as Father, and yet many Christians reject or deny the Son literally by claiming that Jesus is God. The Father is not the Son. There is one God and one seed of God. Father and Son. The Holy Bible tells us that he that denies the Father and the Son is antichrist, which Jews, Muslims, and Christians are all guilty of in one way or another.  But we are all anti-christ in the spiritual sense as long as we are against christ; the spiritual power through which we perform the spiritual works that forms our new spiritual creation. 

Jesus, the physical manifestation of the son or seed of God does not care if we believe in him. He wants us to “believe the works,” the word believe meaning to obey; put action to.  Christians say they believe in Jesus, but they do not obey the spiritual works that are synonymous with the son (John 10:36-38).  Neither do Jews and Muslims.  Jews fail to obey the spiritual works by not observing the spiritual instruction found in the beginning and end of the first book of the Torah. Muslims fail to perform the spiritual works because the Quran does not provide the instruction for these works. Christians fail to obey the spiritual works because they have been taught that Jesus did the works for them, which is a lie. There can be no creation without the son— the seed by which all things are made. We have already made an unholy creation through that unholy seed called the son of perdition, referred to as “the first heaven and the first earth,” which is to pass away.  What is to take its place is a holy creation, made through God’s seed or son, which is called “a new heaven and a new earth”  (Revelation 21:1).  Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac. The son symbolizes both the seed and the word of God, through which the physical heaven and earth was made. Both the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran are considered to be the literal Word of God or Allah. However, the Holy Quran does not contain the instruction for our new spiritual creation as it does not teach on the spiritual meaning of the son. It only goes as far as to say that Mary had a son, and that like Muhammed, that son was no more than a Prophet. But now we understand the importance of the son! 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2016

 

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