The Gilead Teachings

The RED HEIFER SACRIFICE

/ Sandra L. Butler

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The Bible is written in a symbolic language, revealing what has taken place in us the people, the children of Israel chosen for that purpose, the physical revealing the spiritual.

We entered a new era with the new millennium, the “era of Jacob,” which translates to the “era of the Spirit.” The previous “era of Isaac,” which translates to the “era of the Son,” was to be the time of transition from carnal to spiritual, but religion prevailed.

“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.”  Isaiah 1:11 

The words of the Prophet Isaiah, who like John the Baptist, understood the transition from carnal to spiritual. 

In the “era of Abraham,” which translates to the “era of the Father,” we have Abraham sacrificing his son, which is not the acceptable sacrifice for sin in the eyes of our spiritual Father.  Jesus, the Son, was not the blood sacrifice for the sins of the people, another false religious belief. It was the ram, symbolizing idolatry, the worshipping of false images or beliefs. They sacrificed the wrong lamb two thousand years ago, “a lamb without spot or blemish,” a prophecy encoded in the blood sacrifice that took place thirty-five hundred years ago.  Blood symbolizes death. The blood of the carnal beast does not atone for our sins. The death of the spiritual beast within us does, which is consumed through a spiritual “lake of fire,” symbolizing the spiritual judgment through which we are made pure. This spiritual blood sacrifice takes place in that spiritual temple called the heart.  The color red symbolizes danger. The word heifer means to revolve, circular, symbolizing our dangerous habits, and the destructive patterns we keep repeating because of our false beliefs, which the children of Israel demonstrated for us by going around in circles in the wilderness. 

THE TEMPLE AND THE RED HEIFER SACRIFICE ARE SPIRITUAL!

SAVING ISRAEL

/ Sandra L. Butler

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Let’s start with what has not been helping to save Israel since entering the spiritual era with the new millennium.  We find it in the book of Isaiah, who has experienced a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  Judah was the tribe that enlarged, as seen in the meaning of her first king, Rehoboam, meaning a people has enlarged, the ten tribes of Israel dispersed in 722.

Isaiah is speaking to the Judah of Judaism— to the Jews of today.  However, Isaiah is also speaking to the Judah of Christianity— to the Gentiles of today. Judah is associated with the “era of Isaac,” and with its negative connotation, which is mockery. An era that began two thousand years ago when the peoples of religion mocked Jesus, the one bringing them spiritual truth. With that in mind, listen to what the Prophet is saying to the Judah of today:

“Bring no more 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 1:13,14

These carnal traditions, passed down from generation to generation, make a mockery of the Law or Word of God, which is spiritual!  Let me explain why these ritualistic religious practices, which one sacrifices his time to perform, are not acceptable to God at this time.  Why they are now being counted as INIQUITY instead of righteousness. There are three eras.  The “era of Abraham,” which began 4000 years ago. The “era of Isaac,” which began 2000 years ago. And the “era of Jacob,” which began in the year 2000, correlating with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  We are now in the spiritual era of Jacob, when worshipping God through these carnal practices equates to death for the nation of Israel, which the blood in the next verse symbolizes:  

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”  Isaiah 1:15

Two thousand years ago, a Rabbi of the tribe of Judah came to teach a higher level of Torah observance, which does not take place through the mind and body; through prayers and ritualistic practices, but through the heart; through spiritual works that purify the heart. But the spiritual teachings were rejected, the unabated evil within the heart of man now giving power to the nation chosen to represent the spiritual bondage that comes with allowing this evil to remain in our heart.  The internal enemy is giving power to the external enemy.  When we reject the spiritual judgment symbolized by the twelve tribes of Israel (through which we are made spiritually free) we bring death to the nation chosen to represent that freedom. By assigning literal interpretations to the Word of God, and by choosing obedience to the physical works of the law over the spiritual works that fulfil the law, we remain in spiritual bondage, imposing upon ourselves a law under which there will be no mercy, executed by those of the nation that was chosen for that purpose.

“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 bondwoman, 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 Agar.   For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.”  Galatians 4:21-25  

The word Jerusalem means founded peaceful.  There is false peace, founded through the power of the mind, which keeps us in bondage.  And there is true peace, founded through the power of the heart, which makes us free. Jerusalem is in bondage because of the false peace that is governing the mind, which keeps us from discovering the spiritual bondage of our heart.

“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 mortar… To wit, the prophets of Israel, which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord God.”  Ezekiel 13:10,16  

The wall symbolizes false peace, built up by those that think they can bring peace to Jerusalem through their prayers and traditions, or through positive thoughts, affirmations, and intentions— the untempered mortar that is holding the wall of false peace together, but which the unabated evil (within and without) is bringing down.  

“So will I break down the wall ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall….”  Ezekiel 13:14  

The “era of Jacob,” which began with the new millennium, is associated with Zion. The “era of Isaac” is associated with Judah.  One leaves the previous era of Isaac, whose negative meaning is mockery, by offering up the spiritual sacrifices of God, through which one keeps the spiritual Law or Word of God— a higher level of Torah observance.

“… Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”  Isaiah 2:3 

All of these religious acts, which the people sacrifice their time to perform, may have been appropriate in the previous era.  But now, in the spiritual “era of Jacob,” are counted as abominations and iniquity. Only after they have been performed as spiritual acts will they be counted as righteousness.  

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.  Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.  Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offerings: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.”  Psalms 51:17-19  

Only after the spiritual sacrifices of God have been made, will God be pleased with the carnal sacrifices made through carnal obedience. Only after the spiritual judgment, which takes place in that spiritual Jerusalem called the Heart, will there be peace in Jerusalem.  Only then will God hear the prayers for the peace of Jerusalem.

“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 the wall, and prosperity within thy palaces… For my brethren and companion’s sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee… ”  Psalms 122

Many proclaim to love Israel with their mouth.  But how many are willing to prove it through a spiritual judgment of their Heart, through which one obtains internal peace?

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2012

GNOSTICISM: WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES

/ Sandra L. Butler

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Gnosticism is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. – Wikipedia

The Bible is a Book of spiritual knowledge, the definition of gnosis. To help us make sense of the strange gnostic teachings that sprang up after Jesus’ time, we are going to look at what the Bible has to teach us.

Bible begins with the creation of heaven and earth (Genesis 1:1). The word genesis means creation. The God of Genesis is the God of Creation. Everything that God made was good— “And God saw that it was good.”  So the material world (real things, rather than ideas and beliefs) is good. The evil is in the ideas and beliefs that are in error, the definition of sin. God did not form evil. God created evil, the idea of evil, like the idea of heaven and earth, which had yet to be formed as we see in the following verse. This allowed for freewill. The freedom to choose between two opposing thoughts. God said they would die if they ate of fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden (Genesis 3:3). The serpent said they would not die (Genesis 3:4). They chose the latter, disobeying God’s word.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”   Religion, born of spiritual disobedience, is responsible for bringing another God into existence.  The children of Israel disobeyed God’s Commandment by worshipping the gold calf, placing themselves under the law instituted by the tribe of Levi, under which there was no mercy. The God of Leviticus is the God of Religion. The God of Destruction. Look at all of the death and destruction that takes place in the name of religion. The “other gods” we worship symbolize our false religious and personal beliefs, evil gods, merciless and cruel, which oppress and limit us in life, bringing pain and sorrow into our life.

Our false beliefs are what the prophet Jeremiah calls “man’s word,” which he prophesies will be man’s burden (23:36). God’s creation was made through God’s word— “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” Genesis 1:3,4.  Man’s creation was made through man’s word. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…” Isaiah 5:20, the word woe meaning misery, grief.  We called evil good, putting darkness for light by mistaking lies for truth, forming an unholy creation called “the first heaven and the first earth,” which passes away upon the creation of “a new heaven and a new earth.”  To form this holy creation will require us to follow God’s instruction by dividing the light from the darkness— the truth from the lies. It will require us to follow the instruction of Jesus by engaging in an internal judgment, through which we overcome our false beliefs, which is called “the regeneration” (Matthew 19:28), the act of regenerating, which is to form anew, the outcome of which will be joy instead of pain and sorrow.  “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:4

Gnosticism claims that the fall in the garden didn’t occur through Adam and Eve— it happened before the world’s creation, through a mistake made by a heavenly being called Sophia. We want to be very careful with our interpretation of these gnostic teachings. We don’t want to deny responsibility for the fall, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind, which we all played a part in. The story of Sophia’s fall is told slightly differently in the many Gnostic texts that discuss it, but they all share the basics in common. God the Father gave rise to a host of spiritual beings, aeons, who populated Heaven, which the Gnostics called the Pleroma: a state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being. Along with a divine Mother and Christ. One of the last of these beings to emanate from the Father, Sophia, gave birth to a new being on her own, without the involvement of her partner or the approval of the Father. The being born under such circumstances was nothing like the perfect inhabitants of the Pleroma; instead, he was ignorant and malevolent. This was the demiurge, whom the Gnostics identified with the god of the Old Testament. He created the material world to mirror his own wicked personality and trapped sparks of divinity, fragments of the Pleroma, within humans. It was then up to Christ to awaken humans to their true nature and liberate them from the world. Sophia is a feminine figure, similar to the human soul, one of the feminine aspects of God.
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The definition of aeon is a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe. So these aeons carry this divine power. That was the state of Adam and Eve before they ate of the evil; before they accepted the false belief. They were spiritual beings, wrapped in a glorified type of flesh body, which allowed them to interact with and enjoy the physical realm. The “coats of skins” they received because of spiritual disobedience were not animal skins (as religion teaches), but physical flesh bodies, which limited them to the physical realm. This was Adam and Eve’s fall from the spiritual realm called Heaven to the physical realm called Earth. The fall was from spiritual to physical, so how could the fall have taken place before the physical world came into existence?

Like Adam and Eve, we received a spiritual flesh body through spiritual disobedience; by eating of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, which is to accept the false belief in our heart, which formed this sinful flesh body inside of our physical flesh body. What is this divine power called aeon?  It is the two divine attributes of the Creator; the two things needed for Creation. God’s Spirit and God’s word— “And the Spirit of God moved… And God said,…” Genesis 1:2, 3.  Being made in the spiritual image of God, we carried this divine power. But in the process of time, we replaced God’s Spirit and word with our own spirit and word, replacing love with fear and truth with lies.

To restore this divine power from within, will take the activation of God’s Spirit, the instruction for which is given to us by Moses, symbolizing the Spirit of God— “Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord…” Exodus 14:13, the word still meaning be silent, quiet self. And by John, through the revelation of Jesus, symbolizing the word of God— “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour.” Revelation 8:1. There is silence in heaven when the seventh seal is opened because silence in heaven, symbolizing silence in the mind, opens the seventh seal, which in the language of the east, is the seventh chakra, through which we connect with the divine source. The holy spirit will deliver truth to our heart IF we stop resisting it. With each false belief we remove through truth, we remove a layer of this invisible flesh that has been formed within us— a process through which we become spiritual beings (aeons) with respect to our spiritual essence.

Along with the creation of the aeons, was the creation of the Mother and Christ. That is because christ is the divine power that works through our spiritual mother to restore the divine power to the perfect state in which we received it at birth. That is going to take spiritual works; the works of a new creation, which comes into existence when we conceive of truth in that spiritual mother called the heart through the the christ power. Our spiritual Mother has a name. She is called Jerusalem. The Mother of gnosticism is called Barbēlō, often referred to as ‘Mother-Father.’ She is the divine Mother that is in the image of the Father. Sounds confusing, yet no more confusing than the teachings of another Mother— the Catholic Church, who refers to Mary as “the Mother of God.” And who adopted the “God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit” doctrine, legitimized by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

Add to that the mistranslation of John 1:1, in which “a god was the word” has been changed to “the Word was God.”  The Son is not the Father. Nor is the Holy Spirit the Father. The three are not one. The three are of one— a man sows his seed by his energy. God the Father sows His seed by His Holy Spirit (male) into the Mother (female), which produces a son (a god). The seed is the word of God (Luke 8:11). When God spoke His word (Genesis 1:3), it was the sowing of God’s seed into Mother Earth. Just as God sowed His seed through His holy Spirit into Mother Mary. And as God, through holy spirit, will sow spiritual seed, in that spiritual Mother or Earth called the Heart, IF we don’t resist it! The spiritual seed of God is truth, which Jesus personified.

The Bible speaks of two fathers: the Father of truth and the father of a lie. “Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me…“Ye are of your father the devil… He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:42, 44. If God were our Father, we would love truth. Two fathers, sowing two very different seeds (truth and lie) by two very different energies (love and fear)— the Father that sows good seed through the power called christ and the father that sows evil seed through the power called antichrist. Two sons, the son of creation, and the son of perdition, which means utter ruin or destruction. Two mothers, the mother that is in bondage and the mother that is free. “For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.” Galatians 4:25, 26.

The word Barbēlō (the mother of gnosticism) means son of tribute, the word bar meaning son (as the heir to the throne), and belo meaning tribute, which means a burden, forced labor, from the prime root, bâlâh, meaning to fail, wear out, decay, similar to bâla, the prime root of bela, meaning ruin, destruction, sharing the same meaning as the word perdition, as in “the son of perdition.” Which son has mankind chosen to inherit that spiritual throne called the heart?  Some gnostic texts refer to Barbelo as the Mother of Christ. However, Christ is not a person, christ is the healing power that works in a person who has experienced a spiritual intercourse or communication with this power that works through the heart when the power of the mind is silenced. The outcome of this union is the healing or salvation of the soul. 

Sophia, an analogy to the soul, gave birth to a new being on her own, without the involvement of her partner or the approval of the Father. Like Sophia, we gave birth to a new being, or rather a new [state of] being through a creation that God the Father did not approve of, as it was not formed according to His instruction. This unholy creation (as previously mentioned) is called “the first heaven and the first earth,” which we began forming early on in life, just past the age of four (according to the biblical text). Heaven symbolizes the mind and the earth symbolizes the heart, aspects of the soul, which due to their compromised state, are in need of healing. Sophia gave birth to this new being without the involvement of her partner, as we conceived of, and gave birth to this first creation without the involvement of our one true spiritual husband. “The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband…” John 4:17, 18.  Our one true spiritual husband is truth, the seed or word of God— the spiritual Jesus. It is truth that heals or saves the soul, transforming the soul (the mind and heart) from an impure to a pure state. “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. If we purify the thoughts of our mind and the emotions of our heart (by way of the christ power), our actions will be pure. Thought, emotion, and action— the three aspects of the soul. The [state of] being born as a result of this unholy creation is nothing like the [state of] being born as a result of a holy creation. Man’s unholy creation has him living in a world of chaos, confusion, unrest, death, and destruction.

>“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away… And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:1-4. The new Jerusalem symbolizes a new peaceful state of being, the word Jerusalem meaning founded peaceful. Coming down from God out of heaven reveals that it is spiritual— a peaceful state that must be established within before it can come into existence from without. “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. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.” For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.” Psalms 122.  At the start of the new millennium, the world made a transition— from the “era of Isaac” to the “era of Jacob;” the era of Spirit, and of spiritual awakening. Now, the only way to effect positive change in our external world, is to bring about positive change in our internal world through a new creation. As it was “up to Christ to awaken humans to their true nature and liberate them from the world,” it is up to humans to awaken the christ power, through which we will form “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” restoring our true spiritual nature, while liberating ourselves from a world of suffering.

According to gnosticism, Sophia, meaning Wisdom, is a feminine figure, similar to the human soul, one of the feminine aspects of God. The soul is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action. Mind, heart, and body— the trinity of the soul. Knowledge is of the mind. Understanding is of the heart. Wisdom is of the body— the action we apply to the spiritual understanding of spiritual knowledge, which leads to a true spiritual experience, the true meaning of gnosis. The soul, and the flesh body that it is housed in, is female. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… male and female created he them.”Genesis 1:26, 27, the “our” refers to the two attributes of God— Spirit and word (Energy and seed), which are male. We were literally made when our father, by his energy, sowed his seed, into our mother, who made our flesh body— “made of a woman, made under the law.” Galatians 4:4. The “male and female” that God created were Adam and Eve. But there is also the “male and female” within us. “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”  Genesis 5:2.   We are spiritually male and female. We are male in that we have the ability to sow spiritual seed by spiritual energy. We are female in that we serve as the habitat for this seed and energy. What is born of this union depends on what type of energized seed was conceived in that spiritual mother called the heart. But does God have feminine aspects as suggested by gnostics?  An aspect would be a characteristic that describes God. We have a flesh body.  Flesh is female. God is Spirit. “No man hath seen God at any time…” John 1:18.  God has no flesh. Therefore, God is not female. Being made in the image of God refers to the spiritual image of God, which is male— the Spirit and Word of God, which Moses and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb, Elijah and Elisha, John and Jesus (all males) personified. There is no God the Mother. “Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother, Spiritual Sun and Holy Spirit,” an invocation of the Sophian tradition, is more on point. The Heart is the Mother, which conceives of the word of truth through the power of the holy Spirit—  the two aspects of the Father.  Seed is sowed in the Earth, symbolizing the Heart.

Adam represents a pure spiritual state of being— the state in which we enter this world. God’s Spirit is Love and God’s word is truth. They say “the eyes are the window to the soul,” which is why we feel love when we look into the eyes of a newborn. They also say, “if you want to know the truth, ask a child.” A child is incapable of telling a lie until he learns fear, which leads to doubt, which the serpent used to get Eve to accept the lie.  Eve symbolizes the Mind, which upon taking in the lie, becomes confused. This is why the God of Genesis does not want us to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve have already eaten of the good, having a positive experience. But to eat of the good and the evil is to have the knowledge of both, to experience the negative consequence of accepting the evil, the word serpent meaning to learn by experience.   We gave birth to Cain when we took in our first lie, Abel symbolizing the righteous truth we slayed or rendered unconscious through the many lies we would speak in the realm of our mind— in the kingdom of heaven. Seth is “the reappointed seed,” a teaching of the first revelation. Jesus was the reappointed seed personified— the second Adam. Just as one became the seed of Abraham through physical baptism in the previous era, one can become the seed of Seth in the present era through spiritual baptism, which is to be immersed in truth, through which one becomes the “last Adam,” a quickening spirit, the word quickening meaning to (re-)vitalize, make alive, give life. To resurrect or give life to the truth preserved in the subconscious, we must enter the realm of the Heart— entering the kingdom of God. 

When Jesus arrived on earth, it was all about the intellect, the ability of the human mind to reach correct conclusions, determining what is true and what is false. Religion served as the intellect, determining what is right and what is wrong, which the people were in favor of because it kept them from having to battle with these decisions themselves (1 Samuel 8:19 20). Samuel means heard of God, the voice of God, the children of Israel experiencing direct communication with God through Samuel, which they rejected in favor of a king named Saul. Samuel was the type and shadow. Jesus, the word of God, was the reality. The people received direct communication with God through Jesus, who spoke for God, sharing the spiritual knowledge (gnosis), which was rejected by the Jews, taking root in early Christians, only to be usurped by a self-proclaimed teacher of the Gospel of Christ named Saul. 

It is clear from reading some of the gnostic texts, which emerged during the end of the second century, that spiritual truth had survived to some extent. But you can also tell that spiritual truth, which is of the heart, and comes by revelation, has been compromised by the musings of the mind. While entertaining for some, and feeding the egos of those attempting to interpret them (as Saul, aka Paul, attempted to interpret the spiritual teachings of Jesus), are downright confusing. “God is not the author of confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33), spoken by the one who caused the confusion by mixing carnal law with spiritual truth; mixing milk with meat, which is unlawful. “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.” 1 Corinthians 14:34. The woman being subject to the man is a spiritual law, of which the carnal law was a figure— the flesh is to be subject to the inner being. Clearly, Paul was not spiritually minded. Paul was religiously minded, in which the woman holds a lower position than the man. Unlike Jesus, who placed Mary Magdalene in a higher position, which he demonstrated through his love for her, and which she demonstrated towards him through her love of truth. The Feminine, which has been missing from the equation since the time of Mary Magdalene, plays the most important role in the salvation of the soul. She represents the Heart, out of which Jesus cast the seven devils, symbolizing the spiritual impurities of the heart (Matthew 15:19), which is the salvation of the soul. It is time to make the transition from the Mind to the Heart; from Religion to Spirituality. The cause of all of our suffering is due to the bypassing of the Heart— the only place from which we can transform ourselves, and the material world.

There is no Elijah coming to sit at the table. No Jesus coming in the clouds. No Mothership coming from Planet-X. There is no salvation coming from without. I believe what we have in some of these gnostic writings is the mixing of spiritual truth with religious iniquity. Just as we must separate the esoteric teachings of Jesus from the exoteric teachings of Paul, we must separate the wheat from the tares when it comes to these gnostic writings, the wheat symbolizing the spiritual truth we can glean from them, the tares symbolizing the error in them.  For example, the God of Genesis is not the God gnosticism refers to as the God of the Old Testament. In fact, “Everything we need to know is in the book of Genesis”— a teaching of the first revelation (1960-1974). The first chapter of Genesis provides us with an overview of the creation or salvation process, encoded in the symbolism, which is why we were given a second revelation— revelation of the symbolic code of the Bible, which I received over a period of seven years (1998-2005), during which time I was taken through the process encoded in the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis, where Jacob tells his twelve sons what will befall them in the end of days, describing what one encounters as they are taken through this salvation or healing process.

Through an understanding of biblical symbolism we are able to interpret the spiritual knowledge encoded in these gnostic writings.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2023


TWO SACRED TEXTS

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The Holy Bible teaches us that the Son is synonymous with the Word.  Abraham, referred to as Father, had two sons: Ishmael and Isaac.  Ishmael was father to the nation of Islam, and Isaac father to the nation of Israel. The Holy Bible and the Holy Quran— the Word of God.

The Bible teaches that Ishmael was the son of the bondwoman and Isaac was the son of the freewoman, which are referred to as the two covenants, revealing the two states of the soul— bondage and free.

Two thousand years ago, the world made its transition from the “era of Abraham” to the “era of Isaac,” at which time the people found themselves at a crossroads, taxed to make a choice between the physical path they were on, or the spiritual path that Moses had encouraged their ancestors to take 1500 years earlier.  As their ancestors before them, they chose the physical path, rejecting the spiritual teachings that would put them back on the spiritual path.  Jesus taught on a spiritual kingdom that was to be restored from within.  But the Jews wanted the physical kingdom of Israel to be restored from without.  As their ancestors before them, they chose the bondage of the carnal law, rejecting the spiritual truth, which if obeyed, would have brought them freedom within and without.

In the year 2000, we entered the third and final “era of Jacob,” where we stand at the final crossroads, taxed to make a choice— continue to view the content of our Sacred Texts through the lens of the carnal mind, and remain in bondage.  Or begin to view them with a spiritual mind, following the instruction through which we are made free.

The Torah of the Tanakh shows us two paths: The book of Genesis gives us an overview of the spiritual path, the book of Exodus detailing the children of Israel’s journey through the wilderness and up the mount, symbolizing man’s spiritual journey and ascension.  But the children of Israel never ascended the mount, leaving the spiritual path in favor of the physical path, choosing the bondage of the carnal law, which was to end at the passing of Moses, which brings us to the end of Deuteronomy, and to the end of the Torah.

The Nevi’im of the Tanakh shows us two paths: It begins with the book of Joshua. With the Passover at Jordan, where the children pass over into the promised land, eating no more of the manna, but of the old corn, symbolizing their transition from carnal law to spiritual truth. Their labor was to battle against the seven inhabitants of the promised land, symbolizing the spiritual battle by which we take possession of a spiritual promised land. But they soon reverted to the physical path by making marriages with the inhabitants of the land, which God had commanded them not to do, reverting to the bondage of the carnal law.  By driving out the spiritual enemies symbolized by the seven nations, we are made free of our spiritual bondage. The book of Judges sets forth the spiritual judgment that would have brought them spiritual freedom.  But they would not hearken to their judges, rejecting the voice of God, which spoke through His anointed one, Samuel.  They chose instead to have a physical king rule over them, becoming like the very nations they were to remain separate from. The Old Testament’s “Kings” and “Chronicles” names these kings and chronicles their acts. It was King David, anointed by Samuel, that came to turn the heart of the children back to God, putting them back on the spiritual path that their patriarchal fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob followed. But the power and influence of these righteous kings was soon usurped by kings that “walked not in the footsteps of David.”  A king symbolizes a spirit, revealing the righteous and unrighteous spirits working through the mind and heart of man.  Yet God’s hand was outstretched still, sending His Prophets, who prophesied of the destruction that would come if they continued in their spiritual disobedience.  But they would not hearken to their Prophets, stoning them by their refusal to change, refusing to take the spiritual path by keeping the spiritual law or word of God.

The Holy Qur’an shows us two paths: It establishes quite clearly the error of the children of Israel.  Yet the Qur’an takes its followers down the same physical path, the laws of the Qur’an no different than the laws of the Old Testament. Muhammad, 570-632, founder of Islam, was said to have experienced a vision of the archangel Gabriel in a cave outside Mecca, whose Arabic meaning reveals its symbolism.  Muhammed pondered questions raised in his mind as he listened to Jews and Christians expound on their religious beliefs in the marketplace.  Proclaimed a prophet by the archangel Gabriel, he continued to receive revelations.  If of a spiritual nature, they would have stood in opposition to the beliefs held by Jews, and by Christians, whose religious beliefs in 610 were far removed from the spiritual doctrine of Jesus, which was buried by 460.  Any spiritual teachings given to Muhammad gave way to physical laws due to the civil unrest that comes with spiritual disobedience; due to what the Qur’an calls “hearts infected with disbelief.”  The Muslim religion, like every religion before it, would follow the physical path.

The children of Israel chose Saul over Samuel, who spoke for God. The Jews chose the carnal law over the spiritual truth that Jesus, who spoke for God, brought them. Christianity was founded upon the carnal-minded doctrine of Paul, which teaches that salvation comes by believing in Jesus, which is contrary to the spiritual teachings of Jesus, which teaches salvation by believing (obeying) the spiritual works he spoke of and demonstrated for us. Paul taught that salvation is obtained by accepting the Son. Believe in Jesus and you’re saved, the doctrine being taught to Christians at the time of Muhammed, whose revelation served as a backlash against the belief that God has a partner with whom He shares His divine attributes. Jews, Muslims, and Christians, all lack a spiritual understanding of the Son, without which there can be no creation, and therefore, no salvation.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

ABORTION

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Abortion image3-1609631691The Bible, to my knowledge, speaks only of spontaneous abortion, not induced abortion.  According to medical science, abortion is the removal of pregnancy tissue, products of conception or the fetus and placenta from the uterus.  Pregnancy is a process that consists of a series of biochemical changes that take place in a woman’s organs and tissues as a result of a developing fetus, connected by the umbilical cord to the placenta. Through the blood vessels in the umbilical cord, the fetus receives all the necessary nutrition, oxygen, and life support from the mother through the placenta. Heart sounds are created from blood flowing through the heart chambers as the cardiac valves open and close during the cardiac cycle. Vibrations of these structures from the blood flow create audible sounds.  

According to science, life begins at conception, which most Christians would agree with. However, the growing fetus does not have its own life.  All that it needs to sustain its existence comes from the mother. It gets its life from its mother.  So in truth, the life of the unborn child does not begin at conception. It begins when the child takes its first breath— the breath of life.

 “And the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7

The soul is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action.  When it comes to abortion, the soul should be taken into consideration. Our we, as parents, spiritually (mentally and emotionally) prepared to bring a child into this world? If we are not, we will end up bringing harm to the soul of our child through our mental and emotional deficiencies.

“Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.”  Isaiah 54:1  

“For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many  more children than she which hath an husband.”  Galatians 4:27

I’m sure it makes people feel good to say that they are pro-life.  After all, they are standing up for life!  But what if the life the child is forced to enter into (having no choice of his own) is not a good one? The prophet Isaiah tells us that the desolate have more children than the wife that is married. How can the desolate have more children than the one that has a husband?  When it doesn’t seem to make sense literally, it should be taken spiritually.  We call the ground desolate when it is without seed. The spiritually desolate are those that lack what both the seed and the husband symbolize, which is truth, through which we are healed mentally and emotionally. If pro-choice no longer becomes an option, Isaiah’s prophecy will continue to unfold, as more and more children, born of the spiritually desolate, are brought into this world, carrying on the spiritual legacy of their caretakers, contributing to the growing spiritual decline of mankind.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2022

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

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Unconditional love: affection without any limitations, or love without conditions. This term is sometimes associated with other terms such as true altruism or complete love. Each area of expertise has a certain way of describing unconditional love, but most will agree that it is that type of love which has no bounds and is unchanging. – Wikipedia

God is Love. While it is true that God, which is Spirit, has no limitations. Is it true that God, which is Love, has no conditions?  God has spiritual laws set in place, and being made in the image of God, man is subject to these laws. If he breaks these spiritual laws, he suffers the consequences. The law is the condition. God set up His Law out of Love, to keep us in the borders of obedience, within a wall of protection. 

 “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee… Exodus 15:26  

There are conditions that must be met in order to escape the diseases that plague us. Clearly, man is not been in compliance with the conditions that God has laid down for us, to protect us, because he loves us. 

God is Love, which also has a condition:  Jesus saith unto him,

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:16

Which is to say, no man comes to Love, except through truth.

“For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me…” John 16:27

God loves those who love truth, therefore, God’s love is conditional!  So where did this “feel-good” expression come from?  A search reveals that the term, “unconditional love,” was first used by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in 1934.  So, it is a precept of man, not of God. The term is sometimes associated with “complete love,” the biblical term for which is, “perfect love.”  

“Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God… God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: … There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear… We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.” 1 John 4:15-21  

The word confess means to assent; i.e. covenant, which is to express agreement or acceptance of something.  Those that agree or accept that Jesus is the Son of God, dwell in love.  Therefore, those that accept that Jesus is God, do not dwell in love.  Why?  Because, in removing the Son we remove the word of God (truth), the very essence of God’s spirit— “the spirit of truth.”  So we can conclude that if we remove truth from the equation, our love can never be made perfect.  We can never reach “perfect love” from within our heart. The “day of judgment” is the period of time in which we judge (overcome) our false perceptions and beliefs. If we achieve it in this life, we will have boldness on the day of judgment in the afterlife. Love, by itself, has no power until it is directed toward someone or something. God directed His Love toward us by giving us Jesus, the manifestation of God’s seed or word of truth.  How do we love ourselves?  By giving ourselves the truth.  Only then, can we truly say we love God. Only then can we truly love our brother. Fear opposes love. A lie opposes truth.  Fear is the spirit or energy of the lie.  Love is the spirit or energy of truth.  How many of us have (knowingly or unknowingly) enabled our brother’s bad behavior as a result of accepting the “unconditional love” lie?  That is not loving our brother.  Love has a condition, which is truth.  Yet we fear telling our brother the truth, which would be a demonstration of our love towards them. 

Fromm’s concept of “unconditional love” could very well have been an unconscious back-lash against the fear instilled in him through religion, having come from an Orthodox Jewish family, a religion he turned away from in 1926. If we did our due diligence by looking into the history of those that come up with these man-made concepts, we would most likely understand the psychology behind it. This obsession with love is an attempt to counteract the fear buried so deep within the psyche, that most of us are still unaware of its existence, a fear that can be overcome by replacing all of these lies, with truth.  In truth, there is no such thing as “unconditional love.”

“We can’t heal the world with Love until we heal our hearts with truth!”

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2021

REINCARNATION

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The doctrine that the soul, upon the death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form. Rebirth of the soul in a new body. This is the general understanding of reincarnation today, which comes from the east.

A different understanding comes from The Holy Bible— the Sacred Text of the west. The soul, by definition, is the vital principle in man credited to the faculty of thought, emotion, and action. The soul is unique to each individual because none of us have the same exact experiences in life, which determine how we think and feel; thought and emotion. The eastern concept of reincarnation teaches that the soul of an individual can return again and again for the purpose of reaching total enlightenment. Here, the body experiences a physical death, followed by a physical birth as the soul is transferred to a new body.

Energy is either transferred or transformed. The east teaches transference of the soul-energy. Here’s the problem with this incomplete concept. Our soul, through the painful things we saw, heard, felt, and experienced throughout our life, took on negative and destructive energy. If our soul-energy is not transformed during our time here on earth, our unhealed mental and emotional energy will be transferred, passing over into the spiritual realm—“in heaven as it is on earth.” If we are to accept the eastern concept of reincarnation, we must accept that the infant comes into this world in an unhealed mental and emotional state.  Otherwise, what would be the purpose of the soul’s return, which according to the east, is to reach enlightenment. So now, the poor soul that has taken on a new body, not only has the burden of the negative and destructive energy of the previous life, but the burden of the negative and destructive energy his soul will carry through the painful experiences of this life.

To have a complete understanding of reincarnation, we must incorporate what the Sacred Text of the west has to teach us on the subject:

The Holy Bible teaches spiritual reincarnation through a spiritual death and rebirth that takes place while we are in the physical body. To reach enlightenment does not require the soul to experience many past lives through many bodies. But rather, to experience the past of this life in this one body.  Jesus said we must “become as little children,” which takes place through the transformation of our mental and emotional or soul energy, through which we return to the state we lived in as little children; pure in thought and emotion. Jesus provides the instruction for returning to this pure state through his cup and platter parable. The “inside of the cup” symbolizes the thoughts of the mind.  The “inside of the platter” symbolizes the emotions of the heart.  We are transformed through the purification of our mind and heart.

Transformation is the process of transforming or being transformed— the process through which we become a new creation, our “first heaven and first earth,” (formed through false perceptions and beliefs carrying negative and destructive mental and emotional energy) passing away (Revelation 21:1). This is the spiritual death that precedes the spiritual birth of  “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing a new mind and a new heart, which being formed through the spiritual light of truth, carries positive and constructive mental and emotional energy, the soul reaching enlightenment in one lifetime. The soul consists of mental and emotional energy. The transformation of this energy is the rebirth of our soul in our body.  This is the teaching of the Sacred Text of the west on the subject of reincarnation.

“The last Adam was made a quickening spirit…” 

The spirit is the power or energy that works through the mind and heart— through the soul. The word quickening means to (re-)vitalize, make alive, give life. Through this transformation process, the holy spirit is revitalized. And with the revitalization of our portion of God’s holy spirit, comes the regeneration of God’s word (Matthew 19:28), which forms our new heaven and earth, the word regeneration meaning the act or process of creating anew. As man enters the third day, he is given one last opportunity to revitalize his holy spirit through the conception of truth in his heart, returning his soul to the pure state in which it was received.  A new mind and a new heart equates to a new soul, in which dwells a new spirit (Psalms 51:10)— a new soul formed inside of our current body, as opposed to the eastern belief of an old soul entering a new body.

Jesus asks, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?  Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets (Matthew 16:13,14).  Jesus’ response?  Elijah has already come (Matthew 17:12), which was for the benefit of the Jewish scribes, who understood that Elijah must come before Messiah. But Jesus is also teaching us a very important spiritual truth.  It is not the soul (which is unique to each individual) that returns.  It was not the soul of Elijah that returned.  It was the spirit of Elijah, which rested upon John the Baptist, while Jesus possessed the spirit of Elisha:

“And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.”  2 Kings 2:9  

“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 said, “I am the resurrection,”  possessing the spirit of Elisha.

So now, through the Word of God, we understand that it is not the soul that takes on a new body. But a body that takes on the spirit of one that has come before. During a past-life regression, my sister saw herself as Queen Sheba. She took it to mean literally.  When in truth, it was the spirit or idiomatic expression of Queen Sheba that she took on in this life.  Any knowledge we have of a past life should be used to understand the past of this life.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2015

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 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

LINEAGES OF MATTHEW & LUKE

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Bible-heart-key-center-blkThe two lineages are the same for the 14 generations from Abraham to David. Then, the Matthew lineage takes us through the kings of Judah, while the Luke lineage goes through another line. But there were never to be kings in the first place. Israel rejected God as ruler over them when they rejected God’s mouthpiece, Samuel, meaning heard of God, demanding a king like the other nations, so God gave them Saul, the first king of Israel. God would later rend the kingdom from Saul and give it to David.  It is after David that the lineages diverge.  The Matthew lineage goes from David to Solomon, and the Luke lineage from David to Nathan, both sons by Bathsheba.

The reign of David is the type-and-shadow of the Messianic reign. The reign of Solomon is the reign of religious Christianity that followed the Messianic reign. Solomon had many strange women, representing the many strange (flesh or carnal minded) doctrines of religious Christianity. The majority of the kings of Judah do evil, with a good king periodically entering in to try to turn things around, but to no avail.  Judah’s last king was told to submit to the king of Babylon and serve him seventy years, after which time he and his people would return to the holy city Jerusalem.  But Zedekiah refused to submit to the king of Babylon, which would have saved his life, the life of his people, and Jerusalem.  Zedekiah’s eyes were put out, and he was carried into Babylon where he died in prison. In refusing to admit to our confusion, we are left blinded to the truth, bound by our prison of lies, iniquity or sin, the wages of which, is death— death with regard to the full potential of our soul.  We are going into Babylon, whether we go willingly or are forced by the circumstances of our reality.

It is after they are carried into Babylon that the two lineages come back together for two generations. The first son born after entering Babylon is Salathiel, meaning I have asked God.  This is where we return to a direct communication with God, which takes place when we humble ourselves by admitting we are confused. His son is Zorobabel, meaning, descended of (i.e. from) Babylon.  The lineages diverge again until they both return to Joseph.  What has led Jews into Babylon, and what has led Christians into Babylon, are different, so the path or generations back to Joseph will differ.  Both lineages go through Judah; through Pharez, meaning, breach, and therein lies the problem.

“For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s.” 1 Chronicles 5:1  

Judah prevailed above Israel as seen in her first king, Rehoboam, which means “a people has enlarged.”  But the birthright was Joseph’s.  Both camps, Jews and Christians (the Judah of today) have forfeited their spiritual birthright by skipping over the spiritual works, which has caused this breach or gap. To receive the birthright, they will both have to return to Joseph, as both lineages do.  Judas (Judah in Hebrew) bought a field with the reward of iniquity.  What is counted as iniquity for the Jews is revealed through the prophet Isaiah (1:13,14).  What is counted as iniquity for the Christians is the doctrine of Paul, the Saul of the New Testament. The 12 generations from Salathiel to Christ represents the spiritual judgment that brings us to the spiritual christ, through which we become true worshippers— worshipping God in spirit and in truth.  

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.”  John 4:23

The generations should have gone through Jacob’s son, Joseph, not through Judah, which is why both generations go back to Joseph, the father of Jesus through the power of adoption.  All that came in-between; from Judah the son of Jacob to Jesus the son of Joseph, shows us our disobedience, and God’s mercy, who gave us David, a man after God’s own heart, who came to turn the heart of the people back to God.  But we are a stubborn and stiff-necked people, which was said of the children of Israel, chosen out of all the nations of the world to represent us the people.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2003

GOD’S WILL

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God’s Will was and is creation. Being made in the image of God we have the power to form a spiritual heaven and earth, which we have all done.  But this creation was not God’s Will, as it was not made according to God’s instruction. It was not formed in the light of truth, but in the darkness of naïveté. 

 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness…”  Isaiah 5:20

We have all called evil good, putting darkness for light by mistaking lies for truth, causing us to make wrong decisions throughout our life, which brought woe, meaning misery.  We have pushed the destructive energy of painful memories down into the darkness of the subconscious mind.  It is time to bring that which is in darkness into the light, through which we form a new creation, made in accordance with God’s instruction. This is God’s Will! 

While we are on the subject, let’s talk about this “God willing” expression we hear so often from those of religion.  Is this not saying that whatever happens, whatever the outcome, good or evil (i.e., desirable or undesirable, pleasant or unpleasant, joy or sorrow), is God’s will?  And what if what happens falls under the latter?  Are we not calling God, Who is good, evil?  According to the prophet Isaiah, the misery we bring into our life is the consequence of us calling evil good, mistaking lies for truth.  According to the prophet Jeremiah, our word (the sum or our false religious and personal beliefs) is our burden. When we say “God willing”  we place the burden on God.  If the outcome is one of pain and sorrow, it’s God’s fault, not ours.  This is a perversion of God’s Word, which teaches us that the burden is ours.   

“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… 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 23:33,34,36

We are responsible for what we bring to our life. As God’s word formed heaven and earth, which was good, our word formed a heaven and earth that was not so good.  But we have power to bring joy and peace to our life through a new creation. This is God’s Will!  

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…   And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”  Revelation 21:1,4  

Our reward for performing the spiritual (mental and emotional) works that result in the creation of “a new heaven and a new earth,”  symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart,” our thoughts, emotions, and actions made pure.  This is God’s will for us!

Written by Sandra L. Butler ©2022