The Gilead Teachings

FAITH & SALVATION

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Bible-heart-key-center-blk“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1. In the definition of faith we find the beginning of faith (things hoped for, not yet seen) and the end of faith (the substance, the evidence).  The beginning of faith is an analogy to the beginning of Creation. “In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” Genesis 1:1. God envisioned His creation. But there was no evidence. Nothing had been made yet, as we see in verse 2. For the thought or idea, which is energy, to become substance, which is matter, would require the word of God (Genesis 1:3; John 1:14). The word of God is the seed of God (Luke 8:11).  Every thing is made by a seed (John 1:3).

God’s thought of creation became a reality through His word— through the works that brought His creation into existence.  Faith, like creation and salvation, requires works. “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” James 2:26. We are given a number of examples of the works associated with the beginning of faith in the book of Hebrews, each one having to do with external salvation, which started with a thought.  Noah, believing in his mind that a flood was coming, began the works of building an ark.  Just because we say something with our mouth, think or believe something in our mind, does not make it a reality in our heart.  Saying we are saved because we have accepted Jesus into our heart does not make it so.  To be saved we must accept the spiritual Jesus into our heart.  The spiritual Jesus is the word of God, truth, through which we truly become in our heart what we think we are in our mind.  “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. Christians say they “believe” in Jesus.  This is the beginning of faith.  But this elementary-level faith is not enough to save us.  Salvation, like creation, requires works.

“If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works…”  John 10:37,38. The word believe means to obey or put action to. The works that Jesus is referring to are the spiritual works, through which our spiritual creation comes into existence. It is through these internal works that we receive the salvation of our soul. This is the end of faith. “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”  1 Peter 1:9.  As it took works to bring God’s physical creation into existence, it takes works to bring our spiritual creation into existence.  The carnal works of the law, a figure or type-and-shadow of the spiritual works, could not perfect them that kept them. “… which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.”   Hebrews 9:9,10

Nevertheless, they were to keep the carnal works of the law until “the time of reformation”—when we do the spiritual or internal works of the Father, through which we form a new heaven and a new earth, works that do make us “perfect as pertaining to the consciousness.”  This is because “a new heaven and a new earth” symbolizes a new mind and a new heart.  “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18. Jesus is speaking of a spiritual heaven and earth.  The “first heaven and first earth,” formed through darkness we mistook for light— through lies we mistook for truth. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away…”  Revelation 21:1. Jesus said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it.  But it is not the physical Jesus who fulfils the law.  It is the spiritual Jesus that fulfills the law. “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works…” John 10:37,38. The works of the Father are the works of creation, the works being synonymous with the word, the seed by which all things are made—the spiritual Jesus.  We believe Jesus by doing the works. We have six (metaphorical) days of (spiritual) works to perform. The spiritual works of this new creation are encoded in the beginning and end of the book of Genesis, which means creation. The beginning of Genesis gives us an overview of the creation process.  The end of Genesis, where Jacob tells his twelve sons what will befall them in the end of days, gives us the instruction for the salvation process. Salvation through the works of creation!  “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”  1 Peter 1:9

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

 

SACRED TEXTS SYMBOLISM

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download (3)When the ambiguity that exists in the literal interpretations of our Sacred Texts is removed, we are left with ONE spiritual TRUTH.

“It is He who has revealed to you the Book. Some of its verses are precise in meaning-they are the foundation of the Book— and others ambiguous. Those whose hearts are infected with disbelief follow the ambiguous part, so as to create dissension by seeking to explain it.”  The Holy Qur’an 

The word ambiguous means susceptible to multiple interpretations.  The discord among Christians and Muslims is due to their literal interpretations. They follow the ambiguous part, not building upon the true spiritual foundation, resisting the holy spirit, through which they would receive a spiritual interpretation of the Book.

“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the holy spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.”  The Holy Bible

In resisting the holy spirit of their heart, their spiritual eyes and ears are shut, preventing a spiritual understanding of the Word or Book, which would bring unity instead of division.  If the holy spirit does reveal a literal interpretation, it is ultimately for the purpose of seeking its deeper spiritual meaning, which carries the blessings of life and peace through its application.

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!  It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garment; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessings, even life for evermore.”   The Holy Bible 

Aaron symbolizes the Word of God, which is why he spoke for Moses, who was “slow of speech.”  Aaron’s beard symbolizes the wisdom of God’s Word.  It is not our knowledge or understanding of the written Word that makes us wise.  Or our physical obedience to literal interpretations over millennia.  It is the action we apply to the spiritual instruction found in the Word or Book, revealed through the Spirit of God, which Moses symbolizes.   Spirit and Word— the precious spiritual ointment or anointing.

The ambiguous parts of the Quran are those parts that have been assigned multiple literal interpretations, which continue to be discussed, debated, and followed by “those whose hearts are infected with disbelief,” wasting precious time, and adding to the negative and destructive energy in the earth.  Disbelief is not something that takes place in the mind.  Disbelief is something that takes place in the heart.  Disbelief is spiritual disobedience— failing to obey the spiritual works encoded in the verses of the Book.  The word ambiguous means doubtful, uncertain, to wander about.  When we seek literal interpretation over spiritual interpretation, choose mind-body disciplines over a heart-discipline, offer carnal sacrifices instead of spiritual sacrifices, we become as Cain, wandering about, getting nowhere spiritually, our world becoming uncertain, which the children of Israel illustrated for us by wandering about in the wilderness, choosing carnal service through their obedience to the carnal law, which could not make them perfect.

“The Holy Spirit thus signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience. Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.”  The Holy Bible  

The way into the holiest place of all, symbolizing the heart, is not made known to us as long as the first tabernacle, symbolizing the carnal mind, still stands, which continues to assign literal interpretations to the words of the Book.  The carnal acts taking place in the previous “era of Isaac” (animal sacrifice, baptisms, ritualistic baths, anointing, fasting, healing, speaking in tongues, casting out devils, etc.) are now, in what is the third and final “era of Jacob,” to take place spiritually.  Any physical demonstrations of these are now considered mockery, the negative meaning of the word Isaac. These carnal acts have no power to purify the mind, and stand in the way of us entering into the holiest of all, where we offer up the spiritual sacrifices that purify our heart.  The time of spiritual reformation is now!

“… if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?  How much rather than, when he saith, Wash, and be clean?  And then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”  The Holy Bible  

The number seven pertains to the spiritual, to the spiritual process through which we are made spiritually clean.  So the children of Israel, refusing to obey the spiritual instruction, which would have purified their hearts, remained in bondage to the carnal law for 1500 years, after which time they were to fulfil the carnal law by obeying the spiritual instruction for salvation that the Messiah brought them, of which the carnal law is a figure or pattern.  But they rebelled once again, unable to grasp the spiritual concept, which would have made them free.  Not only of their physical bondage to the carnal law, but of their spiritual bondage to the seven spiritual impurities of their heart.

“Do you not yet understand that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?  But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man”   The Holy Bible  

Physical things do not defile the man.  Neither can they purify him. Putting ourselves under the law of controlling our mind and body may stop the external acts.  But it does not put a stop to the internal acts. Thinking we have taken care of the problem, we relax, entering a state of false peace.  We find this in the story of the man who swept his house clean, unaware of the seven unholy spirits or impurities in his heart.

“When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.”  The Holy Bible

These seven abominations, symbolized by the seven nations the children of Israel were to drive out of the promised land, are the spiritual enemies residing in our spiritual temple or mosque!

“Drive them out of the places from where they drove you.  Idolatry is more grievous than bloodshed.  But do not fight them within the precincts of the Holy Mosque unless they attack you there; if they attack you put them to the sword.  Fight against them until the idolatry is no more and God’s religion reigns supreme.”  The Holy Qur’an 

We are to drive these spiritual enemies out of the places that they have driven us.  And they have driven us to some very painful and destructive places in our life.  And yet, it will be the enemies that work in these dark places, through the havoc they wreak in our life, that will drive many back to their heart as they begin to question the circumstances of their life.  These spiritual enemies have attacked us within the precincts of the Holy Mosque, which like the Holy Temple, symbolizes the Heart.  We are to put them to the sword, which is to hold them up against what the sword symbolizes, which is truth.  And what did Abraham ultimately sacrifice with his sword? The ram, symbolizing idolatry—the worshipping of idols or images. Spiritual idolatry is the worshipping of false beliefs.  We are to fight against these until TRUTH reigns supreme in that spiritual temple or mosque called the heart.

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

 

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

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beast_number“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.” Revelation 13:18

The number is not 666. That number came through the power of the mind. Through knowledge, a number a child can deduce if he knows that a “score” is equal to twenty.

The true number came through the power of the heart. Through understanding that came by way of revelation in 1960. The number 666, assigned to the scripture over millennia, may point to physical things, as the number six pertains to the physical. But the true number has seven digits, the number seven pertaining to the spiritual—the physical event associated with this number revealing the spiritual event that has taken place within the heart of man, giving power to the beast without.

“Six hundred threescore and six.”  The word “and” has a value of 0, as in “one hundred and six.” 

6006006.  Left to right, or right to left, the number is the same: six million, six thousand, and six.  The number of Jews put to death in the Holocaust through the power of the first beast.  Every soul accounted for, never to be forgotten!

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN

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The Native American Indian or Red man was assigned by the Creator to be caretakers of Mother Earth.  The Red man possessed the Spirit of God, connecting with the Spirit that lives in all things, while the White man possessed the Word of God in the form of The Holy Bible.  But there was great error in the White Man with respect to God’s Word, the Spirit of which had all but been destroyed by the middle of the 5th century, spiritual truth giving way to religious iniquity.  The White man that entered the North American continent toward the end of the 15th century was not what the Hopi Indians refer to as “The True White Brother.”  If He were, He would have co-existed with the Red Man, living in peace and harmony.  What was the importance of bringing the White man and the Red man together?  To bring the literal Word of God, which was in the hand of the White man, back to the Spirit through an understanding of the language in which it was written, which being symbolic, was in the hand of the Red man.  Through an understanding of the symbolism we gain a spiritual understanding of the Holy Bible, which is of vital importance as we enter the third and final spiritual era of Jacob. 

The word of the White man (in government and religion) was lies. The government of the White man broke nearly every treaty it made with the Red man.  The religion of the White man that entered the North American continent was not the Word of God. It was a man-made image of God’s Word, too often wielded in the spirit of self-righteousness. In an arrogant display of entitlement, the government of the White man nearly wiped out the Red man, just as the man-made dogmas governing the self-righteous religious peoples, had all but wiped out the Spirit of God’s Word. The Spirit of God has been working through the Red man, warning us of the imbalance in Mother Earth.  And what does the Red man tell us is causing this imbalance?  Greed.  The root of evil bringing death and destruction to Mother Earth.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil…” 1 Timothy 6:10 

The love of money is greed, a negative emotion born of fear and lust for control— two unholy spirits created in the absence of God’s holy spirit, which are dwelling in the Heart of man— in our spiritual Mother Earth.  Greed is a rapacious desire for more than one needs or deserves.  Spiritual greed is a lust for spiritual power, which is at work in religious Christianity due to the Great Lie that created the lust, perpetuated by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teachings of Jesus.  A lust that is being demonstrated in churches around the world.  Having the same evil root as monetary greed, spiritual greed is contributing to the destruction of our physical Mother Earth.  We will never be able to give the land back to the Native American peoples, but we can balance the spiritual scales of justice by giving that spiritual land called the Heart back to the Spirit of God, through which we honor the Red man, whom the Creator chose as caretakers of Mother Earth!

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000

WHO ARE WE REALLY?

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Who are we really? What is our origin? Did we evolve from Apes? Or are we the descendants of Adam and Eve? Evolution or Creation? Through revelatory knowledge from 1960 we open the door to discovering that our origin lies somewhere in-between.  “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:…” Genesis 1:26. This is not the creation of Adam, as the Church teaches, placing Adam among the living beings of the sixth day, varying in beastly appearance, including human-like kind, each going through an evolutionary process until it matched the image in God’s Mind. Genesis 1:26 is the idea of Adam, as Genesis 1:1 is the idea of heaven and earth. Nothing has been formed yet, as we see in verse 2. There were two creations. The sixth day creation, the number six pertaining to the physical. And the seventh day creation, the number seven pertaining to the spiritual.  Adam and Eve were made in the seventh day, in the image of God, spiritual beings existing in a spiritual realm, having spiritual abilities and godly intelligence, passed down through the DNA of Cain and Abel. The coats of skins they received were not animal skins, but physical flesh bodies, grounding them to the physical realm, which prior to their fall they enjoyed and interacted with through a glorified body, Eve’s part of the “them” called Adam. “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam.” Genesis 5:2. After Cain slew Abel, he went to the land of Nod, where he took a wife. So who are we? We are the descendants of Cain and his wife, who I suspect was the highest development of the human-like kind of the sixth day, which is why we carry Neanderthal DNA. The creation of heaven and earth took six days according to Genesis. And according to Peter, a day is equal to a thousand years, which is why the Church teaches that God’s Creation was formed over a period of six thousand years. The 6 days have to do with our spiritual creation. A day is 24 hours. 5 days equates to 5 x 24, which equals 120, the age at which Moses, representing the Law, and the flesh, referring to our sinful spiritual flesh, dies. 6 days equates to 6 x 24, which equals 144, a spiritual measure through which one enters a spiritual wall of protection. The six thousand years has to do with what took place at the beginning of these millenniums. What took place in the beginning of the 3rd thousandth year was the foreshadowing of what took place in the beginning of the 5th thousandth year. That is when we were given the spiritual instructions for returning to a pure spiritual state of being through six metaphorical days of spiritual or internal works; through the creation or formation of “a new heaven and a new earth,” symbolizing “a new mind and a new heart.” We are now in the seventh day; in the beginning of the seventh-thousandth year since the fall, symbolizing the spiritual decline of mankind. As Adam was formed in the seventh day, we too can be formed, or should I say reformed, becoming the last Adam, returning to our spiritual origin, back to who we really are. 

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000 (updated 2025)

EGYPT & THE BIBLE

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Could their symbolism be revealing the same spiritual truth?

egypt-bible2Why did our ancient ancestors, who had no knowledge of this God of the Bible, look to heaven as the source of power they knew intrinsically existed?  Why do their ancient ruins in the earth, through their very construction, reveal the builders preoccupation with the lights of heaven; with the sun, the moon, and the stars?  Was their devotion to the Sun in a way prophetic, predicting man’s future devotion to the Son?  Could Ra, the Egyptian Sun god, and Jesus, the Son of God, be emanating the same spiritual truth?

Look at the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who did away with the worshipping of many gods, proclaiming there was only one god, the sun god Ra?  And Abraham of the Bible, who left the worshipping of many gods in the land of Ur to worship one God in the land of Canaan.  And Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, dedicated to the worshipping of one God (as Akhenaten before him), who after becoming an Egyptian was given great power, second only to Pharaoh.  And Moses, who after living forty years as an Egyptian was introduced to the God of his fathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, leaving Egypt only to return forty years later to retrieve his brothers (the Hebrews) out of a land that worshipped many gods, and bring them into a new land where they worshipped one God.  And last but not least, Jesus, “the light of the World,” the “Ra” of Judea, who came to bring his brothers (the Jews) out of the bondage of serving many laws, as Moses had brought his brothers out of the bondage of serving many gods. Today, there exists many religious truths.  But there is only one spiritual truth. 

Why did so many important Biblical figures go into Egypt?  Why is Egypt repeatedly interwoven into the stories of the Bible? The Bible is the Word of God, the source of godly intelligence— the source of spiritual knowledge. Egypt is associated with the Spirit of God, the source of spiritual abilities, Egypt being the key to unlocking the spiritual truths encoded in the Bible.  I believe they went to Egypt to show us the importance of bringing the Word of God back to Spirit— back to a spiritual interpretation through an understanding of It’s symbolism, the language in which the Bible is written.   

Written by Sandra L. Butler © 2000