The Gilead Teachings

PAUL the LIAR

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I first heard Paul was a liar back in 1975, through the Teacher of the revelation of 1960.  The first documentary on “The Dead Sea Scrolls” served as a witness to this very important truth.  Peter wrote about Paul and his teachings in his letter to Clement: “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 true Christianity, whose teachings Paul perverted. Peter goes on to say that Paul is the source of these errors, and that his visions deluded him. The following are from the Homilies and Recognitions of Clement:  “Our lord and prophet, who has sent us, declared to us that the Evil One, having disputed with him for forty days, but failing to prevail against him, promised that he would send Apostles from among his subjects to deceive them. Therefore, above all, remember to shun any apostle, teacher or prophet who does not accurately compare his teachings with James…the brother of our Lord…and this, even if he comes to you with recommendations…

The Assembly of the Lord, which was constituted in Jerusalem, was most plentifully multiplied and grew, being governed with the most Righteous ordinances by James… James is preaching in the Temple when an unnamed enemy accompanied by an entourage of followers, bursts in.  The ‘enemy’ taunts James’ listeners and drowns out his words with noise, then proceeds to inflame the crowd, with reviling and abuse, and, like a madman, to excite everyone to murder, saying, What do ye?  Why do ye hesitate?  Oh, sluggish and inert, why do we not lay hands upon them, and pull all these fellows to pieces?… Much blood is shed; there is a confused flight, in the midst of which that enemy attacked James, and threw him headlong from the top of the steps; and supposing him to be dead, he cared not to inflict further violence upon him.” Who would have had “an entourage of followers” at this time? Who is this angry unnamed enemy that is trying to silence the one called “James the Righteous”?  James is in the Temple, preaching to the Jews; those adhering to the law, which Paul, by this time is calling rubbish. James’ obedience to the law would have earned him the Righteous epithet, which was appropriate for the time. Paul would have been considered an enemy to those adhering to the carnal law through external works, and also to those adhering to the spiritual law through internal works. We are to keep away from any teachings that do not agree with the teachings of James, and when it comes to works, the teachings of Paul and the teachings of James do not agree. Paul rejects both the carnal and the spiritual law, which he has substituted with his own law, which he calls “the law of Christ,” found only in the Pauline Epistles.

The following was also found among the original seven 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… who were unfaithful in the new covenant in that they have not believed in the covenant of God, and have profaned His Holy Name.” (Habakkuk Pesher 2:1-2, 5:12, 2:3). Christians who follow the teachings of Paul are unfaithful in the new covenant because they have not done the works. The new covenant is synonymous with the new creation, which cannot come into existence without works. James teaches that faith without works is dead.  Faith without works is the definition of unfaithful. Paul teaches that Jesus did the works for us, which is a lie!

“ The ‘Teacher of Righteousness,’ or ‘Righteous Teacher,’ leads a Messianic Movement befuddled by the Spouter of Lies, who leads many astray in order to build his city of vanity ON BLOOD and erect an Assembly upon Lying, for the sake of his glory, tiring out many with a worthless service and instructing them in works of Lying, so that their works will be of Emptiness. And they will be brought to the same Judgments of Fire with which they insulted and vilified the Elect of God,” (Habakkuk Pesher 10:9-13).  Paul built his own doctrine ON BLOOD, Christians crediting their salvation from sin to the literal blood of Jesus, the Son of God. If blood were an acceptable sacrifice for sin, God would have accepted the blood of Isaac, Abraham’s son, four thousand years ago.  What God did accept as sacrifice for sin was the ram, meaning idolatry— the worshipping of false images.  That is what the people should have sacrificed two thousand years ago. Paul teaches that salvation is a gift rather than the compensation or reward for good works, which is a lie! “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works…” Paul teaches that we can do nothing to save ourselves, which is why Christian’s “works will be of Emptiness.”  Because of this, they will be brought to the “Judgements of Fire,” which is a good thing because they represent the spiritual works through which our new creation comes into existence, through which we fulfill our end of the “new covenant.” 

 I’ve been asked by Christians over the years why God would allow this deception to take place.  It’s not that God allowed it.  It’s that man chose it.  A group of governmental and religious leaders, the Council of Nicaea, decided what teachings would make the New Testament cut, and Paul’s best fit their agenda, which was to present one religion for the people to follow.  This in no way takes away from the Holy Bible being the Word of God, which is a detailed account of man’s spiritual and religious history. It is up to the individual to discover that Paul’s teachings are opposed to the teachings of Jesus, which makes Paul the likely candidate for this person dubbed “the Spouter of Lies.”  “And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way… men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.” Acts 1:9. The same character as the unnamed enemy that attacked James in the Temple, which gives us some insight into Saul’s zealous character. It would take one powerful experience to change this destructive energy. Many disciples of the Lord were saved from death by Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, which is a change in a person’s beliefs or attitudes, but not necessarily in their character.  

According to the book of Acts, there was a disciple of the Lord at Damascus named Ananias, whom the Lord (in a vision) instructed to go enquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul of Tarsus, who has seen (in a vision) a man named Ananias, who put his hand on him, that he might receive sight.  According to the story, the Lord tells Ananias that Paul (who has been murdering the disciples of the Lord) is a chosen vessel; chosen to bear the name of the Lord before the Gentiles, the kings, and the children of Israel, which is to stand in support of Jesus.  Vision or no vision, the story has two important things to teach us. One, that Paul is blind (if not literally, then spiritually). And two, that he was chosen to do one thing, which was to bear the name of the Lord before those of government and religion. But Paul’s egotistical character would not be satisfied with this menial commission.  He would go on to build his own doctrine, through which he would bring harm to the disciples of the Lord on a soul-level. Paul wastes no time setting out to gather a following, selling his Christ doctrine to the disciples of John and to the disciples of Jesus, possessing the spirit of a politician, who assumes different personas to gain votes. “And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; to them that are without the law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without the law.  To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”

Paul, out saving people.  Take note of how often Paul refers to himself.  The ego at work.  His zealous character, now used to save rather than slaughter, has not changed one bit. Paul’s need to save others following his so-called conversion, is where the idea of saving souls comes from— an ego-driven role being played out by many Christians.  Trying to save others with some bogus salvation, while rejecting their own true salvation.  Paul has appointed himself to teach the gospel of Christ, as does the priest or pastor, but what spirit is leading him?  “For I would that all men were even as myself… It is good for them if they abide even as I.  But if they cannot, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.  And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband…”  Paul wants other men to be like him, celibate, controlling their sexual urges. But if they cannot, due to the lust of their physical flesh, they should marry, and remain married.  If the wife does leave, she is to remain unmarried.  Paul claims that this is the Lord’s command, which is a lie!  This is a religious command, initiated by Paul, and instituted by the Catholic Church. And we all know the evil that was perpetuated by priests who could not control a lust that is inherent to the physical body. James, contrary to Paul, teaches on the spiritual lust of our spiritual flesh, which is not to be controlled, but overcome through the removal of the flesh that drives the lust.  This takes place through the spiritual circumcision the prophet Jeremiah spoke of, whose words Paul plagiarized. “Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings” (4:4).

Paul teaches salvation without works. Jesus teaches salvation through works. Paul teaches that the righteousness associated with obedience to the works of the Law, was self-righteousness.  Paul was a Pharisee, son of a Pharisee, a zealot when it came to obedience to the carnal Law.  But having seen the light, claims to have shed his robe of self-righteousness, saying, “not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ…the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”  Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it.  The carnal works of the law were to remain in effect until they were fulfilled through spiritual works. What Paul is doing, is tearing down the works of the law in order to lay the ground-work for his faith without works doctrine.  According to Paul, one becomes righteous by having faith in Christ.  Not by doing the works that perfects one’s faith, which is what James taught.  Under Paul’s doctrine, one can simply believe in the man Jesus, and be saved. Jesus, on the other hand, does not care if we believe [in] him, as recorded in the book of John.  He wants us to believe the works, which is to obey or put action to the spiritual works, through which our faith is made perfect, completed, our soul receiving salvation. “Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls.”  1 Peter 1:9

The revelation of 1960 exposed the error in the doctrines of Christianity, exposing the lies in Paul’s doctrine.  Let’s start with water baptism.  Jesus instructs his Apostles to remain in Jerusalem and wait for the promise. He re-enforces John’s baptism unto repentance, and then speaks of the holy Spirit immersion or baptism that was to follow their baptism in the name. “Then Peter said unto them, Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”  Acts 2:38. They were to wait for the promise, which is the gift. “And it happened, while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper parts came to Ephesus: and having found Some disciples, he said to them, “Have you received the holy Spirit since you believed?”  Paul teaches that the gift is the Holy Spirit, which is a lie! There is nothing about receiving the holy Spirit from Jesus, or Peter— the rock upon which Jesus said he would build his church, which is spiritual!  Paul, out to build his own churches, with his own doctrine, has found some pure vessels into which to pour his iniquity. They are disciples of John, having been baptized with water unto repentance.  Paul tells them that John told the people that they should believe on him that was to come after, and be baptized in the name. Paul taught the people to believe in the man.  Jesus taught the people to believe the works. Once again, Paul, with his carnal mind, is making it about the man.  If Paul were being led of the holy Spirit, he would understand the workings of the holy Spirit. He would know that it is not the holy Spirit one receives following baptism in the name, but the gift of the holy Spirit.  The Teacher of the first revelation illustrated it this way:  There is 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.  One receives the gift during the time one is immersed in holy spirit, the power that delivers the promise or gift, which is truth. 

Paul’s great lie has not only created a lust for spiritual power in Christians, which the promise or gift will have no part in.  It is keeping many of them from doing the spiritual works through which they would receive true salvation. The disciples in Ephesus believed the words of Paul and were baptized in the name, after which Paul laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and prophesying.  The power of suggestion.  They received exactly what Paul told them they would receive once they believed— a mockery being played out in churches around the world.  What makes it a mockery is that it’s an imitation of the real thing, which took place on the day of Pentecost, which Paul took no part in. Paul teaches that one fulfills his made-up “law of Christ” by bearing one another’s burden, as Jesus did for us by dying on the cross.  More lies. “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 he mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God…”  Jeremiah 23:34,36. The burden was never Jesus’ to carry. Truth carries no burden. It makes us free. Jesus carried the cross to demonstrate how our word of lies weighs heavily upon the truth that wants to live in our heart.  Because of Paul, the Church teaches that Jesus died for our sins, which is a lie!  Jesus died because of our sins; because of our iniquities, as spoken by the Prophet Isaiah.  Truth dies because of iniquity.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”  Paul is referring to being free of their bondage to the carnal law, which his “law of Christ” sets them free of.  This is where Christians get the idea that they are set free of their bondage or addiction when they accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior. The truth is, we are made free of our yoke of bondage through the spiritual works we perform through the christ power. “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves…for even their woman did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another…”   Romans 1:24-27. Paul is breaching the subject of homosexuality, using the carnal law to support his case against it, the very law he claims his “law of Christ” has set them free of.  Paul said, “there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”  If there is no such thing as gender when one is “in Christ,” why is Paul, who refers to his followers as “babes in Christ,” even talking about the physical relationship to begin with? Jesus never taught on homosexuality because he taught obedience to something greater than the carnal law.  Jesus would not have brought our attention to the physical act, but to the spiritual act taking place within us. I have come in contact with many Christians over the years who love to boast about not being under the Law, arrogantly placing themselves above the Law. Yet, being followers of Paul’s teachings, they are compelled to judge homosexuality according to what is written in the Law.  So how can they say they are not under the Law? “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely put him to death; their blood shall be upon them”   Leviticus 20:13

Paul, being carnally-minded, taught Christians to look to the man Jesus, and to wait upon his physical return. He thinks he has support for this in an event that took place in Galilee. But Paul, not having seen it for himself, has missed something very important in the story, which will prove Paul’s teachings of a physical return of Jesus to be a lie! “And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”   Acts 1:9-11. The two men that stood by in white apparel represent the two witnesses, who are there to make sure that the truth pertaining to Jesus’ return is not turned into a lie, which they did by asking a simple question.  If the men of Galilee were doing right by gazing up into heaven, waiting on a physical return, what need would there have been for the two men to question it?  Jesus was taken up “out of their sight,” meaning, they did not see him taken.  His return will be in like manner— a return not seen! “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air…”   Another lie, revealing the carnal mind of Paul, who is teaching a physical return, and what Christianity calls “the rapture,” which sadly, so many Christians still believe in. The word rapture does not appear in the Bible, nor does the word have anything to do with some physical event. It has to do with an emotional state, which one experiences upon the spiritual return of Jesus— upon the return of truth to his heart.

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet must sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”  To say that we shall not all sleep, which is clearly not about sleep, but about death, is a lie!   Every one of us will die a physical death.  And when we do, our spiritual condition does not change. We are not raised incorruptible. The only thing that does change is our physical condition. There will be no more suffering on a physical level.  However, whatever spiritual (mental and emotional) state we cross over in, is the same state we will be raised in.  While a wrong thought can be changed “in the twinkling of an eye” upon hearing the truth, the impurities of the heart do not disappear upon resurrection. Paul’s doctrine of lies has kept Christians from doing the spiritual works through which their heart would be made pure; through which they would receive true salvation.  According to the prophet Jeremiah, they will come to know that they are not saved. “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” Jeremiah 8:20.  As for the “last trump”  Paul says will accompany this miraculous ascension and transformation?  It has already sounded, the type-and-shadow of which took place 3500 years ago when God told Moses to make the people ready for the third day.  “Now it was on the third day, when it was daybreak: There were thunder-sounds, and lightning, a heavy cloud on the mountain, and an exceedingly strong shofar sound.  And all the people in the camp trembled”  Exodus 19:16. We are in the daybreak of the third day— in the beginning of the 3rd thousandth year since Jesus brought us the spiritual knowledge that is not being taught in the churches.  To the very ones that claim to be God’s people, as was spoken by the Prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”  Hosea 4:6. The destruction is spiritual— on a soul-level.  At the sound of the shofar, a trumpet made of a ram’s horn, they were to ascend the mount, illustrating the spiritual ascension and transformation that takes place in what the mount symbolizes, which is the heart.  But the people declined out of fear, lacking the courage to surmount what was in their heart. Paul, the founder of his own Christianity, offers the people another way to climb up.  Jesus warns us about this, revealing the true way through the spiritual works of the seven churches: “Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write… I know thy works, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them to be liars.”  Revelation 2:1,2. It was in Ephesus that Paul told his great lie, causing those who claim to be God’s people to skip over the spiritual works, the first of which is to find apostles such as Paul, liars.  What better candidate for this “Spouter of lies,” whose instruction (according to Peter) is “bad instruction.”  Let’s stop “robbing Peter to pay Paul” by following the good instruction given to us by Jesus.   

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2016

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

 

NEW AGE & THE NEW ORDER

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I was first introduced to New Age Christianity in the beginning of the new millennium, which was no different than mainstream Christianity, a revelation I received in 2004.  It had just been repackaged in order to sell it to the masses.  What did the two have in common? Faith without works. Spirit without the word. Energy without the seed.  One could simply claim to have the Holy Spirit or be Spirit, without any further action. Through the power of the mind, and the gyrating of the body, one could activate spiritual energy, which is spiritual masturbation (onanism); a revelation I received in the mid-seventies. This deceptive spirit, called the “energy of delusion,” was carried over in those that thought they left the dogmas of religion behind.  They may have left the building, but the energy that gave power to the old belief, was simply transferred to the new belief; one that teaches that we are perfect with respect to our spiritual state. We just have to remember that, having been behind the “veil of forgetfulness,” as it was referred to.  In truth, it is not about remembering that we are perfect, which we are not.  It is about us remembering (via the christ power) what took place in our life that caused us to separate ourselves from the pure spiritual state we knew as little children, moving away from love and light (good) and into fear and darkness (evil), which they have no knowledge of because the New Age doctrine teaches that we are perfect just as we are, and that anything considered bad or negative (such as disease) is just an illusion— not real. 

Interesting fact: the fabric used to make a veil (and I’ve made quite a few) is called illusion. The New Age illusion-doctrine protects the evil by denying it exists, this psychological veil obscuring the evil, an anagram for veil.  Lifting of the veil, the definition of the word revelation: a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood. The energy of delusion that drives the spiritual masturbation taking place in the churches, was carried over in those that thought they left the religious system behind— into what the leaders of mainstream Christianity derogatorily called “new age.”  It took on a new form in this New Age Christianity, causing those that got caught up in it to commit spiritual fornication. Fornication is sexual intercourse. Spiritual intercourse is communication.  When one buys into the “pleasing to the ear” New Age doctrine, and sells it to others, one is committing spiritual fornication. It feels good, satisfying the ego, but it does not (through its application) result in the conception of holy seed in that spiritual womb called the heart. Those that have bought into one of the many forms of this New Age doctrine or belief, will have to stop resisting the holy spirit— the energy that sows the seed or word of truth within the heart, which is the only way to reach spiritual perfection— the only way to enter back into a pure spiritual state. They say they are Spirit with their mouth, yet they resist the holy spirit of their heart, whose divine purpose is to bring the evil that exists in their heart (sub-conscious) up to their mind, into their awareness or consciousness. 

They say “We Are All One,” unaware that the New Age doctrine they believe in, and are advocating for, is giving power to the New Order, which teaches “We Are All Equal.”  There is no hierarchy, no one is lesser or greater than anyone else, and everyone receives the same reward, whether they work for it or not.  All of which is contrary to God’s Word.  Ascension (the process of returning to a pure spiritual state) is a hierarchy: a group of persons or things organized into successive ranks or grades with each level subordinate to the one above.  And if someone puts more effort into the process, he is counted greater (in spiritual measure or stature) than the one that puts in less effort, his spiritual reward, greater.  The New Age doctrine, like Christianity, offers another way to climb up. No works necessary.  Anyone can achieve an ascended or born again state. You just have to say it with your mouth, remember it with your mind, or actualize it through the manipulation of the energy of your body. Mind and body. The Heart doesn’t even enter the equation, which makes this New Age doctrine contrary to the teachings of God’s Word. 

The New Order or One World Government is the external vessel for the unholy spirit that is at work in that internal vessel called the mind:  “And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” 1 John 4:3. The New Age movement gave birth to the idea that there was no historical Jesus, which is the spirit of antichrist. Notice it says, “it” should come, indicating a thing, not a person, which brings us to those that do confess that Christ “is come in the flesh,” proclaiming that they themselves are Christ, which Jesus warned us about. “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.” Matthew 24:23.  Believe it not because Christ, which has become synonymous with Jesus, is not a person. Christ is a healing power. The spirit of antichrist is playing right into the hands of the New Order.  Why?  Because, if the heart of man were to be healed through christ, known also as the “spirit of truth,” man would be truly empowered, instead of falsely empowered through the “energy of delusion” working through his mind, giving him an illusion of peace— the state of mind the people need to be in for the New World Order to complete its objective, which is to control us, taking away our freedom. 

Capitalism is an economic and political system characterized by a free market for goods and services and private control of production and consumption.  Socialism is a social system or theory in which the government owns and controls the means of production and distribution of goods. Liberals believe that socialism is the solution to corporate greed. They are all for the government stepping in and taking control of the “greedy bastards” of capitalism, as they speak.  They are willing to sacrifice all of their freedoms for the few examples of corporate or monetary greed. Why? Greed is a heart problem, which cannot be controlled or legislated by government. Greed is a rapacious desire for more than one needs or deserves.  The Government feeds this greed when it hands out more and more money to those that do not work for it, empowering the spirit of laziness that has settled over the people.  Spiritual greed is a lust for spiritual power.  A power many claim to possess, but have not worked for, deceiving themselves. If we want to be authentically spiritually empowered, we will have to wake ourselves up, out from under the spirit of slumber that has settled over us, and do the spiritual works of God’s Word. We will have to move beyond mind-disciplines. Beyond prayers, mantras, affirmations, intentions, visualizations, and the like— and into a heart-discipline, activating the spiritual power of our heart, through which we perform the spiritual works that make us spiritually free.  Freedom within = freedom without. 

We, through our limiting religious and spiritual beliefs, are unwittingly exchanging the freedom of capitalism for the bondage of socialism. Socialism grows directly out of capitalism; it is the first form of the new society.  Communism is a further development or higher stage of socialism. The color associated with Socialism and Communism, is red.  Esau is Edom (Genesis 36:8), which means red.  Esau forfeited his birthright for red pottage, which translates to dangerous arrogance. To claim that we are born again or perfect before we have done the spiritual (mental and emotional) works (via the christ power) that would bring us to this ascended state, is pure arrogance. It is the great new age lie that has kept so many from overcoming the spiritual bondage of their heart.  Bondage within = bondage without.  

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2016

GOVERNMENT & RELIGION

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“And whereas thou sawest the iron and the clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as the iron is not mixed with clay.”  Daniel 2:43

The clay symbolizes the religious image, the iron symbolizing the political power that gives strength to the beastly religious image, the two kingdoms divided through separation of church and state.

The Founding Fathers saw the danger in mixing government with religion, should one or both become corrupted by lies, as they have.  Here’s what one of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, had to say about the Christian religion:

“Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. …Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.” 

It is most likely this insight that gave rise to Thomas Jefferson’s  “Wall of Separation of Church and State,” which became part of the First Amendment to the Constitution for our protection, which is what a wall does.

“Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.”  Daniel 2:45

The stone symbolizes truth.  In exposing the lies in government and religion, the left in politics will move right, and the right in politics will move left, moving toward center, the meaning of the word heart, where truth can be found.

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  The words of Jesus.

America, “land of the free.”

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2016

THE STICK OF JUDAH & JOSEPH

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“Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another into one stick: and they shall become one in thine hand… Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand…”. Ezekiel 37:16-19. “Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them:… I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”   Ezekiel 37:,26,27

It was Judah that prevailed above his brethren (1 Chronicles 5:2), as it was the tribe of Judah that enlarged, seen in Judah’s first king, Rehoboam, meaning a people has enlarged, the tribes of Israel dispersed in 722.  It is not only the tribe of Judah that has enlarged.  It is the religious doctrine of a Gentile Judah.  The first book of Kings reveals that Judah and Israel became as one (1 Kings 22:4). 

“… take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions…”  

This Gentile Israel became Judah by accepting the born again Pentecostal doctrine.  Judah proclaims to have the birthright. But God’s Word plainly tells us that  “…the birthright was Joseph’s” (1 Chronicles 5:2). Let’s go back in biblical history and look at the relationship between Judah and Joseph.  It was Judah, and his brothers (the tribes of Israel) that threw Joseph in the pit.  It is the Christian religion that has thrown the spiritual teachings of Jesus in a metaphorical pit or prison by accepting the carnal teachings of Paul.  But when the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt, symbolizing the World, the brothers are forced to go down into Egypt and humble themselves before Joseph, just as Joseph’s dream had predicted (Genesis 37:9,10).  The corn that Joseph stored up during the seven good years symbolizes spiritual truth, which is feeding those that are spiritually hungry. Those that have entered the spiritual famine of which Amos prophesied (Amos 8:11).

Fast forward some 2000 years to the Jews of Judah and Jesus, the son of Joseph. Jesus is allegory to Joseph, as we see through their parallels.  Both were hated by their brothers, Joseph by his biological brothers and Jesus by his religious brothers. Both were falsely accused and thrown into prison. Both entered Egypt in order to preserve their lives.  And both would bring salvation to the people.  Judah is companions with the children of Israel— the children symbolizing those that are unskilled.  Christians, the Gentile Judah, are unskilled in the spiritual Word of God.  Joseph is companions with all the house of Israel.  The house of Israel are the sons of Jacob, as Jacob was called Israel (Genesis 32:28). The sons of Jacob are the tribes of Israel (Genesis 49:28), the twelve tribes symbolizing the spiritual judgment through which one obtains true salvation (Matthew 19:28). Christians have accepted a lie when it comes to their salvation, and according to the Prophet Jeremiah, they shall come to know it (Jeremiah 8:20).  Jeremiah’s prophecies pertain to Judah.

The stick of Judah is joined to the stick of Joseph when Christians renounce the carnal teachings of Paul and accept the spiritual teachings of Jesus, which is to eat of the corn. “I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand…”   Ephraim, in the literal sense, was the leading tribe of the northern kingdom, which was Israel.  Ephraim means double-fruit.  What we think we are and what we are— a teaching of the first revelation.  “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:” Revelation 3:17. We become Ephraim when we become aware of this. Those that thought they were born again and saved, now think differently. Now they are ready to do the works of the first six churches, which they have skipped over, through which they will experience true salvation. “ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire…” Revelation 3:18. The fire symbolizes the spiritual judgment, through which the mind and heart are made pure, which the gold symbolizes. Christians have unwittingly chosen religious iniquity over spiritual truth, which they have become quite firm in (the meaning of the word “stick”).  But through repentance, which means to think differently, they will become firm in spiritual truth, which the stick of Joseph symbolizes.  This is the joining of the stick of Judah to the stick of Joseph.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2015

JUDAH & JERUSALEM TODAY

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The Bible contains the history of the Judeo-Christian religion. There is an Israel and Judah of Judaism.  And an Israel and Judah of Christianity, whose history is encoded in the stories of the Old Testament.  Israel was called Judah after passing through the Red Sea, receiving the name through a type-and-shadow baptism. Judah is associated with the name.  Jesus, of the tribe of Judah, said that he came in his Father’s name.  Jesus was called the Son of God.  The surname of the father is carried on through the son.

“In Isaac shall the seed be called.” Hebrews 11:18.   Jesus, the seed of God made flesh, the word called meaning to bid, call forth, whose surname was called.  It was in the literal name (assigned to the Father in the carnal era of Isaac) that the people were to be baptized.  But now, in what is the spiritual “era of  Jacob,” it is in the spiritual name that we are to be baptized.  Jacob was called Israel, the sons of Jacob (Genesis 49) revealing the spiritual process through which one becomes a son of God, having the spiritual name, through which one meets the requirements of the carnal law.  “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.  Deuteronomy 23:2

The Israel of Christianity is Catholic and Trinity.  The Judah of Christianity is Pentecost.  What separated the two can be seen in their baptisms.  Pentecost, Judah of the Gentiles, baptized “in the name of Jesus,” which came by revelation in the early 1900’s, and is the true baptism.  Catholic and Trinity baptize “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” an illegitimate baptism, as no man has the power to baptize us of the Son or of the Holy Spirit, which are spiritual baptisms.  Israel and Judah separated when it came to water baptism, but they were of one when it came to the spirit that had rule over them, a king symbolizing a spirit.  “And Jehoshaphat [king of Judah] said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.” 1 Kings 22:4.  The word horse means to skip; a swallow (from its rapid flight).  The spirit of the horse is impatience.  The JUDAH of Judaism got impatient while waiting for Moses to come down off the mount, during which time they built a false image, breaking God’s spiritual law; a transgression that placed them under the carnal law.  The JUDAH of Christianity got impatient while waiting for what Moses symbolizes, which is the holy Spirit, which Paul told them they would receive once they believed and were baptized.  “And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Spirit since ye believed? Acts 19:1,2. 

But it was not the Holy Spirit they would receive.  It was the gift, which the holy spirit delivers— a teaching of the revelation of 1960.  “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Acts 2:38.  Paul turned the truth into a lie, causing Christians to build a false spiritual image. In accepting the lie, we are committing spiritual adultery because our spiritual husband is truth.  Israel and Judah of the Gentiles committed spiritual adultery by accepting Paul’s Great Lie.  “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.” Jeremiah 3:8. According to the words of Jeremiah, God was married to Israel and Judah.  There was an intercourse or communication that took place between God and this Israel and Judah of the Gentiles.  The unholy spirit that caused them to commit spiritual adultery was their impatience with regard to what they were promised, encoded in the story of Judah, whose daughter-in-law played the harlot due to impatience when it came to what she was promised.

The Israel and Judah of Christianity have become one, but not for the good, ruled by the same unholy spirit of impatience, the spirit of Judah, which has caused them to skip over the spiritual or internal works that would bring them into the exalted state they are proclaiming out of impatience.  According to the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah they are not born again and saved— a doctrine that has spread throughout Christianity.  Those that have accepted the “born again and saved” lie are JUDAH, which has caused their mind to enter a false peace, which JERUSALEM (in this context) symbolizes.  This is the JUDAH and JERUSALEM of which Isaiah and Jeremiah prophesied.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2014

 

SARAH THE FREEWOMAN

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The importance of Sarah today is in what she symbolizes.  The transition of power that took place two thousand years ago was the type-and-shadow of the transition that is to take place today, illustrated by the beheading of John the Baptist, the beheading symbolizing the decrease of power and authority associated with mind-body disciplines, and the increase of power and authority associated with a heart-discipline. It is important that we move with this transition by desiring to be spiritually free.  Sarah symbolizes the Heart.  Spiritual freedom can only come through the Heart.  We cannot think, practice, or pray our way to it.  As John prepared the way for the coming of Jesus, quieting the mind prepares the way for the coming of the spiritual Jesus— the word that forms a spiritual creation, the instructions for which are encoded in the symbolism of the creation story.  

The East is associated with the Spirit, and the Mind. The West is associated with the Word, and the Heart. Elijah symbolizes the Spirit of God, which rested upon John. If that were enough, why send Jesus, symbolizing the Word of God?  The Spirit of God is Love, which alone, cannot transform us.  It cannot form us into a new creation.  That will require the word of God, truth, which when sowed in the heart, makes us spiritually free.  “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” 

There is a lot of talk these days of love and consciousness. Consciousness is the state of being conscious: mentally perceptive or alert. But attempting to reach deeper levels of consciousness through the power of the mind is futile, because the deeper levels are of the sub-conscious, of the heart, which can only be reached through the power of the heart.  That power is called christ, through which we reach “Christ consciousness.”  If these deeper works were being done by those who claim to be God’s people, or spiritual, the world would not be heading away from what Sarah symbolizes, which is  freedom.  And into what Hagar symbolizes, which is bondage.  This is happening because the power of the mind (mental energy) does not  have the power to retrieve us out of spiritual bondage.  

Abraham had sons by Hagar, Sarah, and Keturah.  Hagar and Keturah were concubines, bondwomen, symbolizing bondage.  Some scholars  suggest that Hagar and Keturah were one and the same, which symbolically, is true. Hagar represents those of religion, who claim to have the gifts mentioned in scripture.  Keturah represents those who claim to have spiritual gifts, such as psychics, mediums, and empaths, having the ability to predict the future, tap into the spiritual realm, or into the emotional realm of another, none of which have the power to release us from spiritual bondage.  “And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.  But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son…”  Genesis 25:5,6. It was Sarah’s son that received all that the Father had.  Sarah symbolizes the Heart, the son symbolizing truth.  It is through the power of the heart that we claim God’s inheritance of love and truth. While many talk about the positive emotion of the Heart—love. Few talk about the negative emotion of the Heart— anger, which lies buried deep in our heart, keeping us in spiritual bondage. We want to talk about the good, which feels good. But not about the evil, which is uncomfortable. We do not want to see it or admit to it, resisting the holy spirit that brings it to the surface, into the light of truth so that we may be made free of it.  In fearing to confront the evil within we are giving power to the evil without! Hagar and Sarah.  Bondage and Free.  These are the Two Covenants. 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2014

ANCIENT ALIENS or DIVINE HUMANS?

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The following was inspired by History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” series, providing us with an explanation as to who they were according to the ancient spiritual knowledge given to us in the Holy Bible. Were they ancient aliens or were they divine humans?

WHO WERE THEY?

THEY were humans, possessing the same divinity as the first Adam; the first of his kind, made a spiritual being, made in the image of God, with spiritual abilities and godly intelligence.  THEY reached the highest degree, becoming the finest example of human kind while on this earth. THEY experienced a spiritual creation during their time here on earth, through which they took on the same divine attributes of the first Adam, giving them spiritual abilities and godly intelligence in the afterlife. They became the last Adam with regard to the spiritual energy that existed in their human flesh bodies at the time of their death; a quickening spirit. Adam, the creation of the seventh day, is not to be confused with the creations of the sixth day; other human-like kinds, varying in beastly appearance, symbolizing the stages in man’s spiritual devolution. The first Adam became a human being through the adding of physical flesh. The last Adam becomes a spiritual being through the removal of spiritual flesh through a spiritual circumcision. THEY are those who overcame that which formed this flesh that cannot be seen, restoring a spiritual energy that cannot be measured, becoming pure spirit with regard to their spiritual essence while still living in their physical flesh body.

WHY DID THEY COME?

THEY desired to return to the place of their physical existence, where they had received, and applied the spiritual knowledge left by their ancient ancestors, encoded in our sacred texts, ancient writings, encrypted in our ancient ruins, understood by those whose motivations were pure. THEY followed the ancient instruction, completing the spiritual works, receiving the spiritual seed; receiving the highest degree of spiritual life in the spiritual realm— an existence without limitation. THEY go where they want, when they want, at will. THEY are time-travelers, having the ability to go forward and backward in time, having power over the physical laws of the third dimension, demonstrated by the second Adam, who walked on water and raised the dead.

WHAT DID THEY LEAVE BEHIND?

THEY left behind spiritual knowledge, the Holy Bible being the source of this knowledge, its mysteries opened up through an understanding of its symbolic code, which has preserved this knowledge for what the Bible calls “the end of days.” Our ancient ruins, through the measures found within their very construction, stand as monuments to this spiritual truth. The number 72 is found in the construction of the Forbidden City, the number 144 in the construction of the Great Pyramid, referring to spiritual measures of the Mind and Heart.  As The Holy Bible has been misinterpreted, so too has the knowledge left behind in the form of symbols engraved on our ancient ruins. It was never to be about sacrificing human hearts and innocent children, demonstrating a beastly obedience to a carnal interpretation. The spiritual knowledge of God’s Word instructs us to sacrifice the spiritual impurities of our own heart, which are responsible for destroying the pure essence that existed in us as children, impurities that limit us in this life, and in the afterlife.

WHERE DID THEY GO?

THEY went wherever they wanted to go, having no limitations, able to move through three states (spirit-glorified-physical) at will, needing no physical mode of transportation. There are two distinct types of beings in the Holy Bible.  In the story of Abraham, we have three men, appearing and disappearing as if into thin air.  We find this quality or ability in the story of Enoch, who was, and then was not.  They became spiritual beings in the afterlife by removing all spiritual flesh in this life, their mode of transportation being their minds. Then we have Ezekiel, who describes what appears to be a flying object.  And although for some, there is compelling evidence of beings arriving in flying objects, there is no concrete evidence of such.  We have a choice.  Go the way of science and the mind.  Or go the way of spirituality and the heart.  Being made in the image of God, we have an innate desire to understand and experience the things of the spirit; the things we cannot see.  One can use science to measure sound and vibration, some using the science of sound to experience states of consciousness (an activity of the mind). Mantras and prayers fall under this level of sound and vibration. Then there is a sound that cannot be heard, and a vibration that cannot be felt, taking place at a sub-conscious level (an activity of the heart). Two distinct paths. One through the mind, the other through the heart. Only one leads back to our spiritual origin of spiritual abilities and godly intelligence.  Only one path removes the invisible flesh that limits us in this life, and will limit us in the afterlife.

WILL THEY RETURN?

For what purpose? To teach us some great spiritual truth? THEY already have, demonstrating their spiritual abilities and godly intelligence through their very constructions, astounding the learned minds of our time.  Maybe we should consider that it is not about the ancients returning to us, but about us returning to the ancients; to the ancient instruction THEY left behind for us to follow, encoded in our ancient sacred texts and ancient ruins, through which we ourselves can become the gods we seek to understand; the divine beings the Holy Bible says existed in former ages.

“Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; [why] Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?  If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.”   John 10:34-38. The instruction through which one becomes a god.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2013

 

SAVING ISRAEL

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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

BEHEADING of JOHN the BAPTIST

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A representation of the spiritual event that was taking place at that time; a transition from worshipping God through the mind and body to worshipping God through the heart. Both were present at the time.  John with his disciples, and Jesus with his disciples, and the disciples of John were taking notice: “Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?”  Matthew 9:14. Jesus answers in parables, using symbolism, speaking of the children of the bridechamber, the bridegroom, the new cloth, the old garment, the new wine, and the old bottles. He is saying that it is not going to be easy for those serving God through their mind and body to accept this new way through the heart. They found the symbolism of his parables hard to understand. It was God’s spiritual language, which is foreign to the religious ear. And if they were not able to hear the message in the literal sense, how could they possibly hear it in the spiritual sense, which is to obey it. It was the new wine, which cannot be put into old bottles lest they burst, referring to the outburst of anger many Christians, who are still holding on to old religious beliefs, display when their beliefs are questioned. What Jesus was talking about through his parables was the conception of spiritual truth. But they, as Jesus described them, were children; unskilled and immature, completely satisfied with their old religious practices, to which they had become addicted. Like a drug, it gave them a feeling of euphoria. It gave them false peace, symbolized by the wall the prophet Ezekiel spoke of, which comes crashing down in difficult times (Ezekiel 13:10-15). What we have is a time of trouble brewing, and a lot of people that are unskilled and unprepared because they have chosen the physical path over the spiritual path; choosing religious worship over spiritual revitalization and regeneration.

Let us rewind the reel of Jewish history back to Joseph, allegory to Jesus. Both hated for the words they spoke. Both falsely accused and thrown into prison.  Both taken into Egypt to preserve their lives. Joseph is in prison, where he comes in contact with the baker and the butler. Each man has a dream, which Joseph interprets. The baker will be beheaded, but the butler will continue his butler-ship. John was beheaded. Jesus went on to fulfill his mission. But unfortunately, religion prevailed, the spiritual truth, and spiritual path through the heart, subjugated, symbolized by Joseph’s imprisonment, the return of spiritual truth symbolized by Joseph’s release from prison. The corn that Joseph gathered into the storehouses for the coming famine symbolizes the spiritual Word of God, spiritual truth that has been preserved through the symbolism of the literal Word of God.  It will take a spiritual famine to get those who have chosen the path of religion to hunger for spiritual truth. “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

In the spring of 2010, I was shown that we are in the exact same place we were two thousand years ago, man’s spiritual stagnation over the past fifteen hundred years due to teachings that were diametrically opposed to the spiritual teachings of Jesus, which only those few entering the narrow gate; choosing the path through the heart, understood.  I believe this is the last call to ascend the mount, which the children of Israel were instructed to do on the third day, but declined out of fear, remaining at the foot of the mount worshipping the graven image. The world entered the third day with the new millennium, the graven image symbolizing the false religious image that so many continue to worship out of fear.  These religious beliefs, like the carnal law, have no power to bring us into perfection. “If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?”  Hebrews 7:11. That will require us to make the transition from serving God through our mind and body to serving God through the power of our heart, which is to worship God “in spirit and in truth,” the words of Jesus. The power and authority that was once associated with religious customs and practices has been cut off, beheaded! “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.”   Isaiah 1:13

The children of Israel, chosen out of all the nations of the world to teach us about ourselves, received the carnal law because they transgressed the spiritual law. The ritualistic feasts and festivals served as a tangible pattern for the spiritual, which they would have kept had they reached spiritual maturity by not resisting the Spirit of God, which they illustrated for us by resisting Moses. Their second opportunity came two thousand years ago, when the spiritual son, seed, or word returned to take them out from the bondage of keeping the letter of the law, and bring them into the freedom that comes with keeping the law spiritually, through which the carnal law is fulfilled. But the Jews would reject this spiritual knowledge, as would religious Christians, who chose to believe a doctrine diametrically opposed to that of Jesus, choosing to remain in their childish ways, worshipping the beastly religious image as the children of Israel worshipped the gold calf, never ascending the spiritual mount, through which one experiences the spiritual transformation of their heart. The beheading of John the Baptist takes place within us when we no longer worship God through the power of our mind and body, but through the power of our heart, which is why John said he must decrease, so Jesus could increase.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2010