EPILOGUE: END OF THE END OF THIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBws54ZHyY
In the beginning. We started there. The blog, that is. Way back two plus years ago.
Adam and Eve walking in the cool of the day with God. Perfectly designed for the Earth. Doing the job they were meant to do at that time. One rue to obey. But the First Flesh was tempted and fell. Even being perfectly designed, even walking with God every day, in his presence every day, unfallen, they fell.
With no written rules, their children still had God available. They couldn't go back to Eden, (itnwas there, off in the distance to view somehow but the fiery sword of an angel kept it away) but they could have followed His orders, built a nomadic life until He ordered them go find a home. Instead they settled their own home and:
Ge 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. {Enoch: Heb. Chanoch}
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. {Lamech: Heb. Lemech}
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. {instructer: Heb. whetter}
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. {I have...: or, I would slay a man in my wound, etc.} {to my hurt: or, in my hurt}
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
(KJV)
If you read the list of the things these people introduced to civilization, you get a surprise.
Lamech: he takes two wives. If you follow God with one wife then two must be even better. The worship of the female form and the use of the woman's body was the foundation of the goddess worship culture which seems to have been the first form of organized idolatry. The first man to add to God's word so he could get gratification he wanted for himself, worship he wanted for himself, a power as a leader.
Jabal: tent dwelling, trying to follow God's rule in the "curse" about living by the land, having no place to rest. Yet Jabal did it without seeking God as Enoch on the other side of the family tree would. So he had much cattle. He went after the wealth which god bestowed on a man trying to obey. Except, if we look at the history of those outside of the Hebrew Bible listings, worship of the bull was the first male centered religious cult. He went from following the instruction to following a false god of money and cows who brought in the money.
Jubal: creator of music and musical instruments. These are the jot of many lives. Yet they became used in religious ceremonies and in the following of false gods. Today, we see demonic use of rock music and the leading of folks to follow after love rather than the Creator who is love. We see we have to use the music of the world and give it a kind of cleansing with god's word to present it to the people who are not saved and to please those who are. One of my obvious weaknesses as a Christian. I grew up listening to rock and it still stays in my mind, I will even use it here to demonstrate a point or present an emotion.
Tubalcain: master of working with brass. His art would have crafted the first metal idols, the ones who were the most enduring. The golden calf of Aaron would have been a direct descendant. Metalwork also created the most powerful hand-to-hand weapon of it's time, the sword and would have put powerful metal points to the wooden shafts of arrows. Made the first armor to protect during war. War will be the final thing unsaved man engages in as Jesus returns as a blinding botl of light in the clouds, returns with His bride. His sister (whetter) would have been the one who honed those initial blades with the edge of war.
Note that these are mentioned as their mother's children. The worship of the goddess was underway.
Lamech again: The sin of Cain had come fully down to his children. Lamech has murdered and murdered more than one. The multiplier of murder is war. And the worship of the strongman ruler arrived. If the idols and the religions couldn't make people do what the ruler wanted, if people would reel despite having all their desire temporarily met by their stone idols, by their sexually available women, then the ruler himself would enforce his will with blood. People would do what they were told. The ruler would become the god himself. The living idol.
Human history without God distilled into a few paragraphs.
(This by way of introduction to the blog The Approaching Kingdoms. Among other things we'll present the ways for the virgins to keep their oil lamps lit as the Lord's arrival nears while we also discuss the things that reveal He is arriving soon.)
Humanity kept falling, one by one until Enoch was lifted out and only Noah remained as honorable and the rest were wiped away in the Flood.
To begin again. Only to fail.
God gave new rules. Sacrifices specified. Circumcision. Direction to Abraham to go to another country which he didn't immediately obey. Then to Isaac, then to jacob who happened to take two wives due to misleading. To Joseph who walked with God and had visions that got him in trouble and obedience that got him in trouble and then troubles that got him to the leadership of his country.
Then the slavery of those whose leader was once seen as a deliverer and the slaves waiting for their deliverer.
Moses.
And the complex new law.
Wandering in the wilderness where disobedience to God always leads. Following every rule but still not achieving anything, lost in the wilderness until the last of the original disobedient died out as those long ago in the flood.
Fighting to get their home. Doing the battles God directed and succeeding: going off on their own and failing. Never getting the message that to follow Him was to succeed.
,
Obedience, disobedience, years as captives in Babylon and under the Meads, because following God was too easy? No. Because they would have had to let their fields rest for a year every seven years and following God would have meant trusting him completely for those years.
Returning, hearing again the Word from a man of God, having a man of faith rebuild the wall to protect them, as faith will always build a wall of protection or direction into some risk that is meant to build new walls of faith. So long as God is allowed to lead the leaders.
The Kingdom reformed only in Judea, named only Israel. The long history of struggle, of loss to the Romans.
Jesus arriving in the kingdom formed by Rome, overseen by false leaders who could only keep their rule by pleasing the most idolatrous empire to ever exist.
The death of the Savior. Only Caesar could be god. Only the Law could be god. that way humanity could dictate its own fate. Because our idols have always been, will always be about the killing of the Lord. In our lives and in the life of others.
Death be not proud. Death always be self-involved. Self-involvement always leading to death.
And then the ultimate idol, the living Satan who has always ruled from behind the scenes , saying "Pay not attention to that angel behind the curtain." Held back by the power of God's Holy Spirit living in the true Church. Hiding on the things we love best and on the depths of our Old Man inside. resisting the change which would throw him ff the throne he stole from Adam long ago. A being meant only as the winnowing device for human obedience once he himself disobeyed. A lost cause to be tossed aside in the final hour of the Earth and universe he corroded.
Destined to fall
In all this one important point to stress as we leave: the reason the Millennium had to happen before the Second Resurrection. Everyone in the Second Resurrection is judged on their deeds. they could have an "out" by saying humans never had the chance to have their deeds tested under the true Lord ruling by the laws he set up. We all ache to have something special about us. We all want to find something special in Scripture that no one else ever has in the few thousand years it has existed. Or we want to find the secret rite that gets us in touch with a deeper part of God. Or to use our gift in some way that says we have something better than anyone else's gift. Or so we can judge others better than the old Pharisees or the old judges or God.
But there is, always was the one true hope: salvation in Christ.
We pointed out that all our flesh came from that one flesh, Adam and Eve. We mentioned that science had that idea as a corollary to our relationships to each other found in DNA and they say they have traced t back to being true. Science also suggested a female could exist who had all those initial DNA markers which led us to the idea Mary may well have been such a female since God took it on himself to set the Hebrews aside and to only carefully introduce new DNA markers along the way. Jesus then would have been the second Adam, coming from Mary who offered only her DNA in the virgin birth and Jesus would have been the physical clone of her ad Eve was the clone of Adam. Jesus came to recapture what was lost to humans years ago and did it in a fleshly vessel that would tie every human that ever lived to him BOTH physically and Spiritually. He can literally call parts of himself from the tombs of the world, from the ashes on the wind, from the belly of the sea. And he can literally remake that flesh to be like Him. If quantum theory has it right, He could easily step into the past as far back as He would like and grasp the atoms of those long ago lost and bring them back from the moment of their death, the failed flesh intact and reshape it completely. He can resurrect everyone as He promises.
And bring them up to be with Him to live in the New Jerusalem in the new universe.
In Final Flesh, able to walk through time and space, through walls and walk on rivers. as easily as we walk through the air, as easily as we walk down the block. Created to reflect God as his Son reflected Him. Created to serve as kings serving under THE King.
And the verses which lead from this blog to this blog https://approachingkingdom.blogspot.com/ :
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? {grave: or, hell}
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
(KJV)
And I conclude with a song that is as much an introduction to the themes of the next blog as it is a reflection of my wishes about the Lord. This long and winding road has been a lifetime and yet seems only a second now and the feeling I've been left behind in my following it sometimes overcomes me. Yet I know every second is mine to claim for Him and not myself, not my Fallen Flesh, but a building block toward my Final Flesh even as this song of unsaved calls out to the something it cannot perceive, the yearning for the Final Flesh, the yearning for the true home we abandoned long ago and blame the Lord for taking from us. The new Jerusalem, the sacred city in the Eden of our heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0u_qjq2fM
Even so Lord Jesus, come quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdBws54ZHyY
In the beginning. We started there. The blog, that is. Way back two plus years ago.
Adam and Eve walking in the cool of the day with God. Perfectly designed for the Earth. Doing the job they were meant to do at that time. One rue to obey. But the First Flesh was tempted and fell. Even being perfectly designed, even walking with God every day, in his presence every day, unfallen, they fell.
With no written rules, their children still had God available. They couldn't go back to Eden, (itnwas there, off in the distance to view somehow but the fiery sword of an angel kept it away) but they could have followed His orders, built a nomadic life until He ordered them go find a home. Instead they settled their own home and:
Ge 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. {Enoch: Heb. Chanoch}
18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. {Lamech: Heb. Lemech}
19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. {instructer: Heb. whetter}
23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. {I have...: or, I would slay a man in my wound, etc.} {to my hurt: or, in my hurt}
24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
(KJV)
If you read the list of the things these people introduced to civilization, you get a surprise.
Lamech: he takes two wives. If you follow God with one wife then two must be even better. The worship of the female form and the use of the woman's body was the foundation of the goddess worship culture which seems to have been the first form of organized idolatry. The first man to add to God's word so he could get gratification he wanted for himself, worship he wanted for himself, a power as a leader.
Jabal: tent dwelling, trying to follow God's rule in the "curse" about living by the land, having no place to rest. Yet Jabal did it without seeking God as Enoch on the other side of the family tree would. So he had much cattle. He went after the wealth which god bestowed on a man trying to obey. Except, if we look at the history of those outside of the Hebrew Bible listings, worship of the bull was the first male centered religious cult. He went from following the instruction to following a false god of money and cows who brought in the money.
Jubal: creator of music and musical instruments. These are the jot of many lives. Yet they became used in religious ceremonies and in the following of false gods. Today, we see demonic use of rock music and the leading of folks to follow after love rather than the Creator who is love. We see we have to use the music of the world and give it a kind of cleansing with god's word to present it to the people who are not saved and to please those who are. One of my obvious weaknesses as a Christian. I grew up listening to rock and it still stays in my mind, I will even use it here to demonstrate a point or present an emotion.
Tubalcain: master of working with brass. His art would have crafted the first metal idols, the ones who were the most enduring. The golden calf of Aaron would have been a direct descendant. Metalwork also created the most powerful hand-to-hand weapon of it's time, the sword and would have put powerful metal points to the wooden shafts of arrows. Made the first armor to protect during war. War will be the final thing unsaved man engages in as Jesus returns as a blinding botl of light in the clouds, returns with His bride. His sister (whetter) would have been the one who honed those initial blades with the edge of war.
Note that these are mentioned as their mother's children. The worship of the goddess was underway.
Lamech again: The sin of Cain had come fully down to his children. Lamech has murdered and murdered more than one. The multiplier of murder is war. And the worship of the strongman ruler arrived. If the idols and the religions couldn't make people do what the ruler wanted, if people would reel despite having all their desire temporarily met by their stone idols, by their sexually available women, then the ruler himself would enforce his will with blood. People would do what they were told. The ruler would become the god himself. The living idol.
Human history without God distilled into a few paragraphs.
(This by way of introduction to the blog The Approaching Kingdoms. Among other things we'll present the ways for the virgins to keep their oil lamps lit as the Lord's arrival nears while we also discuss the things that reveal He is arriving soon.)
Humanity kept falling, one by one until Enoch was lifted out and only Noah remained as honorable and the rest were wiped away in the Flood.
To begin again. Only to fail.
God gave new rules. Sacrifices specified. Circumcision. Direction to Abraham to go to another country which he didn't immediately obey. Then to Isaac, then to jacob who happened to take two wives due to misleading. To Joseph who walked with God and had visions that got him in trouble and obedience that got him in trouble and then troubles that got him to the leadership of his country.
Then the slavery of those whose leader was once seen as a deliverer and the slaves waiting for their deliverer.
Moses.
And the complex new law.
Wandering in the wilderness where disobedience to God always leads. Following every rule but still not achieving anything, lost in the wilderness until the last of the original disobedient died out as those long ago in the flood.
Fighting to get their home. Doing the battles God directed and succeeding: going off on their own and failing. Never getting the message that to follow Him was to succeed.
,
Obedience, disobedience, years as captives in Babylon and under the Meads, because following God was too easy? No. Because they would have had to let their fields rest for a year every seven years and following God would have meant trusting him completely for those years.
Returning, hearing again the Word from a man of God, having a man of faith rebuild the wall to protect them, as faith will always build a wall of protection or direction into some risk that is meant to build new walls of faith. So long as God is allowed to lead the leaders.
The Kingdom reformed only in Judea, named only Israel. The long history of struggle, of loss to the Romans.
Jesus arriving in the kingdom formed by Rome, overseen by false leaders who could only keep their rule by pleasing the most idolatrous empire to ever exist.
The death of the Savior. Only Caesar could be god. Only the Law could be god. that way humanity could dictate its own fate. Because our idols have always been, will always be about the killing of the Lord. In our lives and in the life of others.
Death be not proud. Death always be self-involved. Self-involvement always leading to death.
And then the ultimate idol, the living Satan who has always ruled from behind the scenes , saying "Pay not attention to that angel behind the curtain." Held back by the power of God's Holy Spirit living in the true Church. Hiding on the things we love best and on the depths of our Old Man inside. resisting the change which would throw him ff the throne he stole from Adam long ago. A being meant only as the winnowing device for human obedience once he himself disobeyed. A lost cause to be tossed aside in the final hour of the Earth and universe he corroded.
Destined to fall
In all this one important point to stress as we leave: the reason the Millennium had to happen before the Second Resurrection. Everyone in the Second Resurrection is judged on their deeds. they could have an "out" by saying humans never had the chance to have their deeds tested under the true Lord ruling by the laws he set up. We all ache to have something special about us. We all want to find something special in Scripture that no one else ever has in the few thousand years it has existed. Or we want to find the secret rite that gets us in touch with a deeper part of God. Or to use our gift in some way that says we have something better than anyone else's gift. Or so we can judge others better than the old Pharisees or the old judges or God.
But there is, always was the one true hope: salvation in Christ.
We pointed out that all our flesh came from that one flesh, Adam and Eve. We mentioned that science had that idea as a corollary to our relationships to each other found in DNA and they say they have traced t back to being true. Science also suggested a female could exist who had all those initial DNA markers which led us to the idea Mary may well have been such a female since God took it on himself to set the Hebrews aside and to only carefully introduce new DNA markers along the way. Jesus then would have been the second Adam, coming from Mary who offered only her DNA in the virgin birth and Jesus would have been the physical clone of her ad Eve was the clone of Adam. Jesus came to recapture what was lost to humans years ago and did it in a fleshly vessel that would tie every human that ever lived to him BOTH physically and Spiritually. He can literally call parts of himself from the tombs of the world, from the ashes on the wind, from the belly of the sea. And he can literally remake that flesh to be like Him. If quantum theory has it right, He could easily step into the past as far back as He would like and grasp the atoms of those long ago lost and bring them back from the moment of their death, the failed flesh intact and reshape it completely. He can resurrect everyone as He promises.
And bring them up to be with Him to live in the New Jerusalem in the new universe.
In Final Flesh, able to walk through time and space, through walls and walk on rivers. as easily as we walk through the air, as easily as we walk down the block. Created to reflect God as his Son reflected Him. Created to serve as kings serving under THE King.
And the verses which lead from this blog to this blog https://approachingkingdom.blogspot.com/ :
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? {grave: or, hell}
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
(KJV)
And I conclude with a song that is as much an introduction to the themes of the next blog as it is a reflection of my wishes about the Lord. This long and winding road has been a lifetime and yet seems only a second now and the feeling I've been left behind in my following it sometimes overcomes me. Yet I know every second is mine to claim for Him and not myself, not my Fallen Flesh, but a building block toward my Final Flesh even as this song of unsaved calls out to the something it cannot perceive, the yearning for the Final Flesh, the yearning for the true home we abandoned long ago and blame the Lord for taking from us. The new Jerusalem, the sacred city in the Eden of our heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0u_qjq2fM
Even so Lord Jesus, come quickly.
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