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PLACE TEEMING WITH LIFE
(Part2)
Sheila R. Vitale, Pastor, Te=
acher
& Founder
Living Epistles Ministries
~ Christian Spiritual Philosophy ~=
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THERE
IS NO MALE OR FEMALE IN CHRIST JESUS (Gal. 3:28). Accordingly, all textual
references to MALE and FEMALE point to spiritual princi=
ples,
and the words MAN and MEN, as well as the pronouns, HE, HIS and =
HIM,
include, WOMAN, WOMEN, SHE and HER.
CHRIST
JESUS is the only spiritual male. Accordingly, all powers and principaliti=
es
other than Christ Jesus are identified as female IN RELATION TO HIM=
.
The
powers and principalities which have incarnated this fallen world (2 Cor. =
4:4)
are male IN RELATION TO FALLEN MANKIND, and female
John
7:17‑18
17 If any man will do his will=
, he
shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of my=
self.
18 He that speaketh of himself=
seeketh
his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is tr=
ue,
and no unrighteousness is in him. (KJV)
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Transcribed And Edited For Clarity, Continuity Of Thought, And Punctuation=
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Vitale.
Pastor, Teacher & Founder
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A PLACE TEEMING=
WITH
LIFE
God corrected something that was taught in Pa=
rt 1,
and gave me a deeper understanding in some other areas, so we are going to=
take
another look at some of the Scriptures that we studied last week.
We will start in Genesis 2:5, review what we =
talked
about Sunday, and then go right on through Verse 15, Hallelujah.
Genesis 2, Verse 5, "And these are the
generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the=
day
that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the f=
ield
before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew, fo=
r the
Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man=
to
til the ground, but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the w=
hole
face of the ground, and the Lord God formed of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living
soul."
I am going to recap something that I taught l=
ast
Sunday, and to try to make it clearer: The basic building blocks of creati=
on
are spirit and earth. The Scripture talks about earth, ground, and the dust of the earth.
The earth was dry, and had no Life in it,
whatsoever, so God called the earth rubbish. A<=
i>Ground,@ on the other hand, is earth filled with the =
Life of
God. The Hebrew word translated ground means red. It is derived from the Hebrew word
translated Adam, which means ruddy, or r=
ed in
the face. As always, God gave us a natural example. A healthy person has color, or blood in the=
ir
face, which is a sign that they are healthy and filled with life.
It is a mystery how God breathed life into the
creation. He took the hard part of the creation, which is rubbish, infused=
it with
the Life of God, and it became ground, or fertile soil, which could bring =
forth
plant life. The dust is the grey pulverized particles that lay on the top =
of
the earth.
Last Sunday we talked about the earth being r=
ed,
that the color red conceals, that hell is a concealed place where the dead
continue to exist, and that the Carnal Mind is death. Every human being on=
the
face of the earth that does not have Christ is a dead person who still exi=
sts.
They are in hell, and that hell is in their Carnal Mind, which forms the w=
orld
they live in (as a man thinks, so he is). When we receive Christ, the
personification of heaven, He comes to us as a new mind. Hell and heaven a=
re in
our mind. Does everyone understand that? People who do not have Christ are
spiritually dead, and, therefore, are in hell, the environment formed by t=
heir
dead mind.
The Bible tells us that the Carnal Mind is de=
ath,
and yet carnally-minded people continue to exist without Christ. Hell is n=
ot
another place, or another planet where the fires burn eternally. It is
existence in the flesh, without God. Most of us here have come from pretty
heavy backgrounds, so we know that this life can be pretty terrible B witchcraft, alcoholism, drug addiction, what=
ever.
The people that God called to this ministry have really been through it in
their lifetime. We know that hell is to exist in the flesh without God.
Hallelujah.
The dust of the ground is grey. The ground is=
earth
with Life infused into it, which gives it color. Ground is red, but the du=
st is
grey. This is a great mystery.
I will explain one more thing before we look =
at the
new material. The apostle Paul, when explaining how a spiritual truth beco=
mes a
reality, frequently states the accomplished fact first, and then works
backwards. For example, Paul would say, "The promise is that we shall=
be
as God, and we shall receive the imparted anointing, and we shall receive =
the
imputed anointing, and we shall receive faith." Hallelujah.
Paul reversed the order in which we receive t=
he
promises. To get to be as God, you start with faith, then you receive the
imputed anointing, after that, the imparted anointing, and then you become=
as
God.
This Areverse@ literary style is very common in the Scriptu=
res. I
do not know whether the Holy Ghost is the author of it, or whether the King
James translators switched the verses around because it was the only way t=
hey
could make any sense out of these Scriptures.
I study in the Greek Lexicons, but I do not r=
ead
Greek. I know from other Godly teachers that go into the Greek manuscripts,
however, that there are other Scriptures that have been reversed. Verse 11, for example, should hav=
e been
Verse 4.
I suggest to you that Verses 5 through 7 are
reversed. The accomplished fact is stated first, and the Lord goes backwar=
ds
from there.
Remember, the Hebrew word translated
"plant" does not describe what we, today, would know to be a pla=
nt.
It is a word likened to the Greek word ALogos.@ God spoke it in the high realm of the Spirit=
, and a
shoot appeared in the earth. The Hebrew word translated Aplant,@ refers to the original Word of God that brou=
ght
forth the shoot. This shoot is Christ, who, in His maturity, is called the
Branch. God did not speak a mature Son into existence. Many believers stum=
ble
over this for years, believing that they are already in the image of Chris=
t,
and that they possess all of the promises now.
The picture that the Scripture paints is stil=
l in
the process of appearing in the natural realm. God said, "There shall=
be a
man in the earth." In God's mind, that means the complete Christ, not=
only
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but the complete many-membered Christ that is co=
ming
forth today. God spoke it, and the very beginning, a shoot, appeared in the
spiritual earth, which is taking thousands of years to fully manifest in t=
he
natural realm.
We need to be spiritual to understand a teach=
ing
like this, which is very hard to comprehend if God does not give you the
revelation. Anyone who is
struggling to understand should ask God for wisdom. We will pray for you, =
If
you like, but I exhort you to resist getting upset if you do not understan=
d the
subject matter
The Hebrew word translated Aplant,@ is in the plural. Verse 5 says, "Every plant o=
f the
field," implying the plural, but it can also be translated, "the=
whole
plant." We know that Christ is a many‑membered body of which Ch=
rist
Jesus is the head, and that God has given Him offspring. We are the offspr=
ing
of Christ Jesus. This declared one, He is the totality of the Christ and t=
he
children, which we are, that God has given Him.
God brought Him forth with one thought, becau=
se,
when the creation is finished, we shall, indeed, be one spiritual man,
Hallelujah, the Body of Christ, glory to God. God is bringing forth a man =
in
the earth, one man, a many‑membered man. The word "plant" =
is
translated "every plant," but it is really referring to Christ J=
esus,
Hallelujah, and means the whole plant. Glory to God.
We have already spoken about earth, ground, a=
nd
dust. "Field" is another word that we looked at in some depth on
Sunday. It means an "enclosed place." God created the earth. It =
was
without form, but it was still earth. Then God took a portion of the earth=
and
put a fence around it. We will say Afence@ to help us to understand the spiritual conce=
pt that
the word signifies.
At this point, the creation is still in the v=
ery
high realm of the Spirit. We are talking about the creation of mind, not a=
bout
man as we now know him today. The living soul that was created in the book=
of
Genesis at this point, is th=
e mind
of man. God created mind before He created the body. He took the earth, and
cleared and scored it. Then He put a fence around it, and prepared it to
receive the life of His Son. That is what the word that "field"
means. A place that has not received the Life of Christ yet, but neither i=
s it
still raw material. AField@ is half way between earth and ground. It is =
cleared
and prepared earth that has not produced anything yet. Hallelujah.
The Hebrew word translated "grew" m=
eans
"to shine forth." We know that the Scripture is talking about
spiritual life. Plant life puts forth a green shoot like grass, but when s=
piritual
life grows, it shines forth. AShine,@ refers to more than the rays that we see ema=
nating
from the sun on a nice day. We are talking about rays that represent spiri=
tual
life. A Scriptural example is the shadow that shined out of Peter, which h=
ad
the power to heal anyone that crossed its path.
Jesus knew that the woman who touched him had
recognized the spiritual lif=
e of
God shining forth from him, but His disciples said, "What do you mean
somebody touched you, everybody is touching you." Nevertheless, Jesus
said, Awho touched me?@ Glory to God, in whom is all provision. God =
is very
anxious for us to mature, so that he can relate to us on a deeper spiritual
level. Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Alternate Translation, the first part of Vers=
e 4.
"This is the story of the declared one of God, the Christ, who was
destined to project into the enclosed place, before He ever appeared in the
earth. [This is also the story] of the sons [offspring] of God, who would
project I into the enclosed place after Him, before they ever sprang forth=
[in
the earth]." Hallelujah, glory to God.
God intended Christ and His spiritual sons to=
be
wrapped in flesh when He declared them into existence, so He created an em=
pty
field to be a spiritual garment for them. God is still bringing forth spir=
itual
life coated with spiritual earth today. Glory to God.
The second half of Verse 5 says, "for th=
e Lord
God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to t=
il
the ground."
I looked up the word "for" in Stron=
g's,
and it does not mean "for" at all. The King James translators mo=
st
likely could not fit the true meaning of the Hebrew word translated Afor,@ into this verse, so they translated it
"for," but it really means "at the place which." This =
is
the story of the declared one of God and His sons...@ Remember, all of this is happening in the ea=
rth
that had not yet been rained upon, and where the man destined to til the g=
round
had not yet appeared. God is forming His creation in the prepared place th=
at
has not yet Abrought forth.@ Hallelujah.
The word "til," as we explained thi=
s past
Sunday, can also be translated (and I believe it is the correct definition=
in
this case), "to reduce to servitude." Take farming as a natural
example. If you cultivate wild ground, plow it, turn it over, pull out the
weeds, and plant seeds, you have subdued the ground. You have brought it i=
nto
servitude, and when the seeds come forth and produce fruit, you can say th=
at
you have laid hold of that ground and appropriated it for your own use. You
have caused it to become beneficial to you.
You
have truly enslaved the ground, you have brought it into servitude, and it=
is
serving you. It is bringing forth fruit. Even though you are laboring, and
farming is very hard work, you have appropriated the ground, and you are u=
sing
it for your own benefit You have brought it into servitude. Now, that was a
natural example. I am suggesting to you that the Lord God is intending to =
bring
the ground into servitude to Himself. Hallelujah, the creation is a spirit=
ual
plant.
I have a reference for you, Ezekiel 29:18,
"Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, caused his army to serve a great se=
rvice
against Tyrus...." The Hebrew word translated Aserve,@ is the same word translated "til."=
We are
talking about bringing something, or someone, into servitude.
Jeremiah 17:4 says, "And I will cause th=
ee to
serve thy enemies in the land which thou knowest not." That is the sa=
me
Hebrew word translated "til.@ I am suggesting to you that it is the intent=
ion of
the Lord God to give the Life of His Son to the earth, and to cause that e=
arth
to serve Him.
When God gives the Life of His Son to the ear=
th, He
calls the earth Adam, the natural man. It is the intention of the Living G=
od
for the natural man to serve the spirit man. God brought forth the earth m=
an
thousands of years before the spiritual man would enter the heart of the
natural man and rule over him.
The natural man says, "Who are you, who =
do you
think you are, and we will not have this man to rule over us." "=
He
came to His own, and they knew him not," Because they were unaware of=
the
purpose for which they had been created. Hallelujah.
The natural man does not understand the great=
ness of
the spiritual realm of God. He does not understand, because of the ignoran=
ce
and darkness of his mind, that even a position of servitude to Christ is
preferable to independence in the realm of the flesh. He lacks the knowled=
ge to
understand that the spiritual realm of God is so great, that the flesh rea=
lm
cannot even be compared to it. So, he will fight to the death rather than
submit to Christ. The natural man shall, indeed, die. He shall die to his
Carnal Mind, but live by the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus. Glor=
y to
God. Hallelujah. The Lord God has declared that the earth shall serve the
spirit man. Glory to God.
Alternate Translation, Verse 5.AThis is the story of the declared one of God,=
the
Christ and His offspring, the sons of God, the many-membered shining, spir=
itual
plant that dies and then reappears on a regular schedule, which was declar=
ed
before they ever sprang forth, to appear in the enclosed place, and be see=
n in
the earth. But the Lord God had not yet caused it to rain upon the earthen
creation, and neither was there a man spiritually mature enough to bring t=
he
life‑filled earth into servitude."
The word here is ground. There was not a man =
to til
the ground. We are talking about earth that had received the life of the S=
on,
which ultimately became us. This is the Life of the Living Soul. When God =
says
that there was not a man to til the ground, He means that the spirit man w=
as
not yet controlling the natural man.
The
Scripture teaches us that God promises to pour out of His Spirit upon us, =
and
that He is both the former and the latter rain, but the Scripture also cal=
ls
the Lord a consuming fire. Our God is an all consuming fire which burns up
everything that is unrighteous within us.
If we have not yet received Christ when God p=
ours
Himself out upon us, we will burn up. There will be nothing left of us. It=
is
the mercy of God that He has not yet poured out His fiery nature, because =
that
would destroy us, His creation. The process of creation is happening at the
place which the Lord God had not yet caused it to rain upon the earth, the=
hard
part of the creation, and there was not a man spiritually mature enough to
bring this life-filled earth into servitude. Hallelujah.
We will skip to
the second half of Verse seven, and work backwards, in accordance w=
ith
our previously-stated understanding that sometimes the Scripture is writte=
n in
reverse. We will start with the phrase, "and the man became a Living
Soul." God is saying, "and this is how the earth became filled w=
ith
the light [or the life] called the soul life."
Verse 5 says that God could not pour out the =
rain
because there was no man to bring the life‑filled earth into servitu=
de.
Then God says at the end of Verse 7, "and this is how the earth became
filled with the life of God." This is how it happened, this is the hi=
story
working backwards. God breathed the breath of life into the man=3D
We
found out Sunday that there was an enclosed area, that God imparted His li=
fe to
the substance in that enclosed area, and the man received the soul life of
lives. We have an animal life, a soul life, and a spiritual life. The accu=
rate
translation of the word "Living Soul" is "the level of life=
on
the soul realm." The soul life was created when God breathed into the
nostrils of the earth man.
We were told on Sunday that the Hebrew word translated "breath" means "to project forth." The camp= that of John says that Ahe was with God, and He was God.@ The Father and the Son were one in the realm= of the Spirit. I Suggest to you that the Lord God separated Himself from the Son = and sent the Son into the earth with the force and power of a flaming comet. <= o:p>
God did not just plant His Son gently in the =
earth.
He projected him from the realm of the Spirit, The verb implies that God s=
hot
His Son into the earth with great power, as if he had used a spiritual blow
gun.
Still going backwards, "and the Lord God=
formed
man, the dust of the ground."
I am going to tell you again how the life of =
God
wound up in the earth. God forcefully shot His Son, who is the breath of L=
ife,
into the dust of the ground. There is no Life outside of Christ Jesus.
AGround@ means earth filled with Life, and the dust m=
eans
the surface of the earth. God forcefully propelled His Son into the earth,
which instantly became Life‑filled, because of the presence of God.<=
span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> The man who is the dust, the rubb=
ish,
became a fertile soil. Alternate Translation,"And this is how the ear=
th
became filled with the light and life called the soul life, God forcefully cast His Son into the =
member [or
sac] which breathes, [also called the enclosed place, or the field], and t=
he
great pressure and heat that resulted from the forceful entrance of the So=
n=3D
Everything in the natural is a mirror image o=
f the
spiritual realm, right? If something is without in the natural, it is also
within in the Spirit. If we want to give water form, we pour it into a cup=
. The
water is formed when we pour it into a mold.
In the at of the Spirit, this reality is reve=
rsed.
Did anyone see the picture, The Invisible Man? In that movie there was a m=
an
that nobody could see, so what did he do when he wanted to be seen? He put=
a
coat on and wrapped bandages around his head. The clothes and the bandages
cleaved unto the invisible man, and you could see his form. He became visi=
ble.
The Son of God was separated from the spiritu=
al realm
of God when the Father forcefully, with great pressure that can be likened=
to
spiritual, fiery nuclear energy, propelled Him into the rubbish of the ear=
th.
The impact imparted life to the earth and converted it into spiritual grou=
nd,
which cleaved to the form of the Son and covered him. This is how God gave=
form
to the man.
The word "ground" comes from the wo=
rd
"Adam." It is the substance of which Adam was made. If the Lord =
were
to melt us, we would be unfo=
rmed
dust, waiting to be formed again. Adam was already formed from the dust wh=
en
the Son of God was propelled into the earth with great pressure, like a co=
met
entering the Earth=3Ds atmosphere. When a comet is propelled into =
the
earth, a crater is formed, right? In the same manner, when the son of God =
was
propelled into the earth, the earth rose up and clung to him.
The man was formed when the spiritual earth c=
leaved
to the Son of God, the hard part which can be likened to the invisible man=
. The
ground is the soft part, which can be likened to the bandages and clothing=
that
the invisible man covered himself with. The Son of God is the life of the
earthen man that clings to Him. There is no Life apart from the Son of God,
brethren.
Nevertheless, it is a simplistic understandin=
g of
this reality to say that the man, Jesus of Nazareth, is the fulfillment of=
such
Scriptures as, "He was bruised for our transgressions, and
The spiritual substance of the Son who dwelt =
on high
was made into both the male and the female elements of the creation called=
the
First Adam. After that, the same spiritual Son became the last Adam, who w=
as
born as Jesus of Nazareth, the natural man who appeared at the end of the =
age
to be humbled, humiliated and crucified. Then Jesus of Nazareth was glorif=
ied
and became the Father, the H=
oly
Ghost and the Son of the New Testament Church.
The spiritual Son of God gave up His heavenly=
riches
to be made into the creation of God. He is the great Holy Spirit that pour=
ed
Himself out upon all of us, and He is the Christ that is coming forth from=
the
fertile parts of the earth within all of us. God wanted to appear in a vis=
ible
world, so His Son became all of the many aspects of the multi-faceted crea=
tion,
which we are. He is everything.
Alternate Translation, Verse 7, "And thi=
s is
how the earth became filled with the light or the life called the soul lif=
e.
God cast His Son forcefully into the member [or sac] which breathed, [also
called the enclosed place or the field], and the Son of God caused great
pressure and heat to be inflicted upon the powered grey rubbish of the fie=
ld
into which the light of His Life was infused , and the rubbish was convert=
ed
into fertile soil."
Talk about fertilizer! The Son of God Himself=
was
the fertilizer of the spiritual earth. "And the Lord God caused the s=
oil
to cleave to His Son, thus forming the man."
In the beginning, the Son of God was joined t=
o the
creeping, crawling things teeming in the earth, and the two became one
creation, the First Adam. At the end of the age, Jesus of Nazareth, the la=
st
Adam, was crucified so that humanity, the spiritual earth, might receive t=
he
glorified life of the Son.
The earthen creation, the First Adam, exists =
today because
the spiritual Son of God gave His life to the earth.
The spiritual creation, the Last Adam, is eme=
rging
today, because Jesus, the Christ, gave His spiritual life to the earthen
creation, that we might receive a consciousness of God. I am not discounti=
ng
what Jesus did on the cross, but the Scripture does tell us that Jesus was
crucified so that men would believe. Also, Jesus=3D
submission to the cross was a symbol that He had completed the processing =
of
His soul life, and had overcome it. Indeed, the Christ within the man, Jes=
us,
brought the soul man into servitude by the power of the Father who was wit=
hin
him.
When Jesus=3D body died on the cross, the spiritual man re=
turned
to the spiritual realm of the Father, from where He poured Himself out upo=
n us,
so that we, too, could have the power, by His Spirit, to bring the soul man
into servitude B to form him, or conform him, to the Christ t=
hat is
emerging forth in us.
There would be nothing to conform the soul ma=
n to if
we did not have Christ as our example. The soul is being turned under the =
seal
of the Spirit of God. You may
remember that we talked about that on Sunday. God is having a confrontation
with the soul life, and God is not going to be dented. The soul life has to
change and come into conformity with the life of God. We have to change, we
have to become like Jesus in the days of His flesh. Christ is coming forth=
in
us, and forming the soul man, or conforming the soul man, to the image of =
God
in us, too. We are being mad=
e in
the likeness and the image of God.
We are made into the image of God as the Son =
of God
appears in us, and causes us to cleave unto Him, and, as we cleave unto Hi=
m, we
become like Him. This is a mystery,
a spiritual mystery. Father, help us all to understand, it is very =
hard,
it is very hard. Glory to God.
We are still going backwards. Verse 6, "=
And the
whole face of the ground was watered, because a mist went up from the earth
as the life of the Son rose =
up from
the earthen creation and irrigated the whole part of the soil that was tur=
ned
towards the realm of appearance, but the part of the earth that was not tu=
rned
toward the realm of appearance, the hidden part, was not watered and remai=
ned
without light."
The life of Christ was in the ground. The Heb=
rew
word translated "face," means "that part of the ground that=
is
turned towards the realm of appearance."
It is not unusual to find Scriptures that mak=
e it
obvious that the opposite must exist. If there is a part of the creation t=
hat
is turned towards the realm of appearance, then there must be a part that =
is
not turned towards the realm of appearance. It watered the whole face of t=
he
ground. It did not water all of the ground, it watered the face of the gro=
und.
The Hebrew word translated "face" m=
eans
"that part of the creation that was turned towards, or destined to ap=
pear
in the realm of appearance," so there has to be a part of the creation
that was not destined to appear in the realm of appearance, a
part that would be hidden and unseen, the Satanic realm. Hallelujah.
In these end times, unfortunately, we see the
Satanic realm appearing in the face of the earth, but God is going to swal=
low
him up.
"The Lord God propelled His Spirit into =
the
rubbish of the earth, and it became fertilized. The rubbish had become gro=
und,
and the Spirit caused the man, the ground, to cleave unto the Spirit of Go=
d,
and as the Spirit formed the man, a mist rose up."
The Life of God was now buried deep in the ea=
rth. He
is the mist that came forth, arose, and&n=
bsp;
irrigated the part of the ground that was facing towards the realm =
of
appearance. The mist did not irrigate the Satanic realm, and as we study t=
he
development of the soul realm (Verses 9-14), you will see that the part of=
the
soul that we call Satan, the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, the dark=
ness,
the pure evil and moral reprobation, never received the Life of God. He
remained rubbish, he remained white and grey and uncolored. We are going t=
o see
that very shortly.
I would like to read this Alternate Translati=
on for
you again. I will read the whole thing.
"And this is how the earth became filled=
with
light, or the life called the soul life: God cast His Son with great power=
into
the member, or sac, which breathed, also called the enclosed place or the
field, and the Son of God caused great pressure upon the powered grey rubb=
ish
in the field, that was infused with the light of His life, and the rubbish=
was
converted into fertile soil." Hallelujah. "And the Lord God caus=
ed
the soil to rise up and cleave unto His Son, thus, giving form to the
man."
The man did not form God, God formed the man.=
This
china cup forms the water within it, but the vessel called man did not form
God. The Son of God formed the man. Hallelujah, glory to God.
"And after that, the life of the Son ros=
e up
from the hard part of the creation and irrigated the whole part of the soil
that was turned towards the realm of appearance. The part of the earth tha=
t was
not turned towards the realm of appearance, the hidden part, was not water=
ed,
and remained without Life.&q=
uot; Hallelujah.
We are still going backwards. Verse 4, "=
At the
place which the Lord God..." Now, this is all happening, the ground is
being irrigated in preparation for something to grow in"The place whi=
ch
the Lord God had not yet caused it to rain upon the earth, the hard part o=
f the
creation, and there was not a man spiritually mature enough to bring the L=
ife‑filled
earth into servitude." Hallelujah, glory to God.
Verse 8, King James, "And the Lord God p=
lanted
a Garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man that He had formed.&qu=
ot;
Alternate Translation, "And the Lord God=
stood
upright, a place in the eternal realm of total provision, where the spirit=
ual
life of His Son, who was wrapped in the earth, could grow. And He put the man that He made from =
the
life of His Son and the darkness of the earth there, and imparted His Spirit to that place=
. And
this is how the Son that the Lord breathed into the earth lost all spiritu=
al
authority and died. He become a natural man so that we might receive His L=
ife,@ Hallelujah.
"And the more God stood upright..."=
You
see, when Christ was mixed with the earth, He became one with the earth, He
became a natural man, He lost all spiritual authority. If God did not impu=
te
His anointing to the man, He would have been overcome by the Satanic realm
which did not receive the Life of God. So God imputed His anointing to the
man."And the Lord God stood Him upright." God imputed His own li=
fe to
the man, and put Him in the =
realm
of the eternal, where the man=3Ds every need was met, The Scriptures supporti=
ng this
statement may be found in Part 1 of this Message.
The Book of Job says that man is locked up and
encased with sinews, and Christ prays to the Father to deliver Him from the
bowels of the earth in one of the Psalms. Some preachers say that Christ
descended into hell from where He prayed for deliverance after His crucifi=
xion,
but I do not believe that.
It was the Christ that was deep within David,
who, out of obedience to His
Father, had spent centuries in the earth being formed into a man, that ros=
e up
within David, saying, "Oh God deliver me from this place."
I believe that
all of the Scriptures that support the theory that Jesus went down =
to
hell after He was crucified, actually say that the Son was injected into a=
nd
made one with the earth at the very beginning of the time.
Can anyone to explain the Scripture that says=
, the
Lamb was slain from the foundations of the earth?
Yes, Jesus=3D physical body was crucified, but I do not be=
lieve
that the spiritual substance of the Son died when Jesus of Nazareth was
crucified. The Spiritual substance of the Son died after it was woven toge=
ther
with the earth, but was resurrected into life in the person of Jesus of
Nazareth It was the regenerated substance of the Son that breathed out of =
Jesus
of Nazareth as He hung on the cross, and then Jesus=3D
Verse 9, King James. "And out of the gro=
und
made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and go=
od
for food, the Tree of Life also in the midst of the Garden, and the Tree o=
f the
Knowledge of Good and Evil."
The ground, that is, the earth infused with t=
he Life
of God -- God made trees to grow out of it. Hallelujah.
We know that, in the Scripture, trees are a t=
ype of
life. Jesus referred to Himself as a green
tree. There are green trees and dead trees, but the Scripture says =
that
God made the trees to grow that are Apleasant to the sight, that are desirable.@ That Hebrew word translated "sight,&quo=
t; in
this context, means "spiritual sight."
I suggest to you that God made trees to grow =
out of
the Garden, that would develop the spiritual Life of God in the Living Soul
(the soul life of man), when he consumed, or partook of it.
Jesus offended many when He said, "eat m=
y flesh
and drink my blood," and many departed from him. They did not underst=
and
that Jesus was talking about spiritual flesh and blood. Eternal life is in=
the
spiritual flesh and blood of the glorified Jesus Christ. We feed on Jesus<=
/span>=3D
We are consuming each other, we are becoming =
one, we
are partaking of His spiritual Life, and He is consuming our soul life. He
became sin that we might be made the righteousness of God. This is the
substitutionary work of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are eating of His
righteousness, and He is devouring the sin in us. We do not have the power=
to
devour our own sin. He has to do it for us. Glory to God.
I suggest to you that the trees that grew out=
of the
Garden were manifestations of the Spirit of God which would enable the soul
realm to develop the Mind of God.
Eat of all of the trees which are of My Spiri=
t, God
said, and you will acquire my image, as well as my likeness, which you alr=
eady
have. You will be a reflection (image) of My righteous Life and nature, as=
well
a living form (likeness) made from the substance of My Life. You will be M=
e an
expression me on the visible plane of existence, you will have My nature.<=
span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> But if you eat the fruit of the T=
ree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil, God said, you will die to the righteous
immortality that I have provided for you.
The trees that were pleasant to the sight wer=
e not
apple or pear trees. They were manifestations of the Spirit of God which, =
when
eaten, would bring the Life of Christ into the soul realm. The mind is a
fertile place where spiritual things grow. Thoughts and ideas grow and come
forth from the mind.
The mind that God created would reproduce the mind of God w=
hen it
ate the fruit of the Spirit of God, it. We are talking about spiritual
copulation. Hallelujah.
The trees were not only pleasant to the sight=
, they
were also good for spiritual food, which would develop spiritual sight, and
produce the life of Christ.
The Tree of Life, the imparted anointing of G=
od, was
in the midst of the Garden, and also the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil. Christ Himself was buried, and had become one with the earth, so tha=
t the
earth could be made into a man, the creation of God.
Alternate Translation, Verse 9, "And out=
of the
irrigated soil, made the Lord to spring forth every tree that is capable of
bringing forth, or developing spiritual sight, and good for spiritual food=
. The
Spirit of God, by His imputed anointing, also in the midst of the Garden, =
and
the Carnal Mind of the soul, or the natural man, who was good and evil.
The man had a knowledge of, and the spiritual
authority to do good, because Christ was the source of his life and
consciousness. But there was also an opposing force within the man, the ev=
il
consciousness of the earth. The man would be good (Christ consciousness) a=
nd
evil (earth consciousness), until the righteousness of the Father (the imp=
arted
anointing) was added to him. God gave the good in Adam dominion over the e=
vil,
until such time as Adam would be engraved with God=3D
What is the problem with man? Most of us know=
what
is right, unless we are really demented, but we cannot do right all of the
time. We know what is right, but we do not have the power to do right. The=
re
was a knowledge of good in the earth from the Son of God who was lowered i=
nto
it, and there was also a knowledge of evil from the creeping crawling thin=
gs in
the earth, Hallelujah.
The Hebrew word translated Aevil@ is speaking about the "moral corruption=
."
that t rules in the dark part of the earth. The Son of God was joined to t=
he
darkness and moral corruption of the earth with the good side dominating t=
he
evil side, and the two became the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. =
This
is the imputed anointing. Then God said to the man, "Copulate with me=
, and
your nature will be permanently formed in my righteous image." This i=
s the
imparted anointing
We know that the darkness in the earth has a =
mind of
its own, and we all know what happened, but we are not up to that yet, glo=
ry to
God.
Verse 9, "And out of the irrigated soil =
made
the Lord to spring forth every tree that is capable of producing or develo=
ping
spiritual sight, and good for spiritual food to the mind that He created, =
and
the Spirit of God, by His imputed anointing, also in the midst of the Gard=
en,
and the Carnal Mind of the natural man who was a combination of the knowle=
dge
of good (what he remembered from before he was buried in the earth), but
without power, and the knowledge of evil (from the moral corruption that r=
ules
in the dark part of the earth."
Talk about God humbling His Son! It is a lot =
more
than what is being preached today. He humbled, He bruised, His Son, He did=
a
lot more than hang Him on the cross for six hours. It was a lot more than =
that,
brethren. He bruised him, He humiliated him utterly. Hallelujah.
The fruit of the trees in the Garden represen=
t the
fruit of the Spirit. We mentioned that. Everything necessary to reproduce =
the
life of God was present in the Garden, ready to fertilize the mind of mind=
of
the soul man when he ate of it.
Song of Solomon 4:12, "A Garden inclosed=
is my
sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an
orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire with spikenard. Sp=
ikenard
and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense and myrr=
h and
aloes, with all the chief spices. A fountain of Gardens, a well of living
waters, and streams from Lebanon."
This is a description of the mind, or the liv=
ing
soul, that God created, and calls the enclosed Garden. Enclosed means to surround, and a=
garden
is a plot of ground where Life grows. The mind of man is a garden where God
intends for His Life to grow. God calls the garden His sister, because she=
is
related to Him through His own breath, who the Life of the Garden. God cal=
ls
the garden His spouse, because He intends to marry her.
Mysteries, mysteries, "she is a spring s=
hut up
and a fountain sealed." Hallelujah. The Hebrew word translated
"Garden" means "to hedge about or protect," and the He=
brew
word translated "spring," which means "to be rolled,"
refers to deep emotion, waves of water, or the whirlwind.
God called the Garden, which is the mind of t=
he
living soul, three things: A Garden, a spring, and a fountain. The Garden =
is a
closed, protected place, the spring is raging emotions, and the fountain r=
efers
to the greatest pleasure and joy. I suggest to you that the raging emotion=
is
Satan, the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, and the greatest pleasure =
and joy
is the spirit (breath of God=3Ds Life)
that is in the soul.
The living soul consists of Adam, Eve, and Sa=
tan,
the spirit, the soul, and the dark part. The part that can give great plea=
sure
is the human spirit, or Eve, who is being prepared to be fertilized by God=
. The
deep rolling emotions are Satan, the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, =
and
the one that is hedged about and protected is Adam, the Son of God. That i=
s the
mind of man that God created , Hallelujah.
God can eat of every tree in the Garden, incl=
uding
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, because He is swallowing up Sa=
tan,
the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, which is the Tree of the Knowledg=
e of
Good and Evil. But, God told the man, if you eat of the Tree=
of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you will die to the immortal life that I have provided for you.
The book of Proverbs warns us, saying, "=
Young
men stay away from the harlot." Jesus, in the days of His flesh, was =
not
afraid of mortal man, the spiritual harlot, because Jesus could not be pol=
luted
by her. The Life of God cannot be polluted. When man tries to do what God =
does,
it results in destruction, but everything that God does, eventually works =
out
for the good.
Man is told not to do evil, but God does evil
perfectly. Man is told not to lie, but God sent a lying spirit into the mo=
uth
of His prophet. How can this be? Everything that God does, turns out good,
because His motives are consistently righteous. God kills and then makes a=
live,
but when man kills only dest=
ruction
follows.
God did not make a mistake when He put the Tr=
ee of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden. He put it there for a purpos=
e,
and said to the man, I can eat of this Tree, but you cannot eat of it until
after the marriage. If you do eat of it before we are married, destruction=
will
come upon you.
We tell our children not to cross the street,=
saying
AI can do it, but you cannot." This princ=
iple of
the Aright of the elder@ is
found all through our society. Copulation is legal in marriage, but illegal
outside of marriage. It is very simple. We prosper when we follow the rule=
s.
There is a spirit of rebellion across the whole country today. It is obnox=
ious,
and it is everywhere. It is in the kids, it is in the people, it is in the
employers, and in the workers. It is everywhere.
There are things that man can do under certain
circumstances, and not under other
circumstances, and there are things that man can never do under any
circumstances. We cannot partake of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and =
Evil
without being polluted. God can do it, we cannot. We have to learn our pla=
ce.
Man does not know his place. Glory to God.
Do you remember the teaching on Athe washing with the water of the Word,@ as opposed to deliverance ministry? We come =
to the
Lord with our Adamic, Carnal Mind generating all of our thoughts. These ca=
rnal
thoughts need to be separated from the thoughts of Christ so that they can=
be
cast out.
We think it is all right to take drugs, to st=
eal, to
smoke and to fornicate, because the Carnal Mind is confused. God gives us =
the
ability to separate the righteous
thoughts of Christ from the good and evil thoughts of our Carnal Mi=
nd,
and when we learn how to discern good from evil, the evil thoughts are
separated out from the righteous thoughts of Christ. This is the separatio=
n of
the soul from the spirit and the joints from the marrow. The soul life mus=
t be
separated from the spiritual life, so that God can process each one in acc=
ordance
with His will. There is one process for the soul life and another process =
for
the life of the spirit. We cannot mature into Christ so long as our two lives are stuck together. Glo=
ry to
God.
A similar process took place to form the mind=
of
man. The life of the Son was forcefully projected into the earth to form a
tri-part being: The man (soul), the Life of Christ (breath of God), and the
dark, lawless, morally corrupt part (earth), which gave form to the man, w=
ere
all stuck together in one lump. But, the Lord God had determined that the =
mind
of man would be in three parts so that the image of Christ could appear in=
the
human spirit. Wherefore, the next step was to separate that big ball of
spiritual clay into three parts and fertilize the human spirit.
How could God fertilize the human spirit when=
she
was clumped together with the man who was to be the servant, and the dark =
part
of the earth? Praise the Lord.
Verse 10, "And a river went out of Eden =
to
water the Garden, and from thence it was parted, and came into four
heads." It is common knowledge that a river in the Scripture refers t=
o the
Life of God. We know that a river appears in the New Jerusalem at the end =
of
the book of Revelation..
That river is the imparted anointing that perfects Adam and flows out of Eden.<= o:p>
Eden is the creation, it is the earth, it is =
the
ground, it is the building blocks that God created, and it is hanging ther=
e in
the realm of God. Eden, whic=
h means
paradise, is a place where one=3Ds every need is met. God made a creation whic=
h He
called the mind, or the soul=
, and
met its every need by placing it in a garden that was anchored in the eter=
nal
realm of God.
The river that went out of Eden (the imputed
anointing) connected the Living Soul to the eternal realm of God.
AAnd it flowed out of Eden and watered the Gar=
den,
the inclosed place, the field where spiritual things were starting to grow=
.@
Hallelujah. "From thence it was parted and it came into four
heads."
I Corinthians 12:46, "Now there are dive=
rsities
of gifts [talking about the spirit of God], but the same spirit, and there=
are
differences of administrations, but the same Lord, and there are diversiti=
es of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all."
The Spirit of God manifests in many different=
ways,
and performs many different
functions in direct proportion to who or what He is dealing with. For exam=
ple,
let=3D
I am a hairdresser. I do not change. I have t=
he same
skills and ability, and use the same scissors and tools when I cut a man=3D
AThe river went out of Eden...@
The Spirit of God flows out of the place in t=
he
eternal realm of God where the mind [the creation of God] was securely anc=
hored
and totally cared for, and, as it went forward, it performed four distinct
functions upon the mind that God created.
Alternate Translation, Verse 10, "And a =
river
went out of the place of all provision by the power of God, to irrigate the
Garden, also known as the soul life, or the mind, and performed four separ=
ate
and distinct functions upon the living soul."
Verse 11, the name of the first is, "Pis=
on,
which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold."
Verse 12, "And the gold of that land is =
good,
there is bdellium and onyx stone."
APison@ is the first function, or procedure, that the
Spirit of God is performing upon His creation. The word "Pison" =
means
"dispersive, water poured forth, overflowing." It is from a root=
that
means "to spread out, to disperse oneself, to multiply or to
diffuse." Webster's definition of the word "diffuse" is &qu=
ot;to
break up and distribute by reflection, to throw back light or sound."=
A mirror can manipulate the direction of sunl=
ight,
because light will bounce off of a mirror and continue on in another
direction. For example, all =
you
need to send a Morse code signal, is a mirror and sunlight, because the ra=
ys of
the sun can be caught and dispersed, or deflected to another place. If I had a mirr=
or, I
could catch the rays of the sun, and direct them onto that wall over there=
. The
circle of light that you would see on the wall would be an image of the light that I caught. I would =
not be
the original light.
It is possible that someone could see the lig=
ht on
the wall, and even make shad=
ow
pictures with their hands, without ever seeing the sun in the sky.
The word "Havilah" means
"circular," and it is from a root that means "to twist or w=
hirl
in a circular or spiral manner, to writhe in pain." It is used in the
Scriptures to describe the birthing of children, "to bear, to bring
forth." The word is used in the Scripture to describe parturition, ch=
ild
birth, and includes writhing in pain.
Havilah, the fertile piece of land that is al=
ready
impregnated and prepared to bring forth. is the land that this administration of the S=
pirit
of God is encircling. Hallelujah.
Job 15:7, "Art thou the first man that w=
as
born?"
This is the root of the same Hebrew word that=
is translated
"Havilah." It is used in the Scripture to mean "to be
born." The word "river"&nb=
sp;
means "a flowing," and is from a root that can mean "=
;a
conflux of people." The Scripture is talking about God's ultimate pur=
pose
to bring forth people in the earth. God is creating the mind first. What w=
ould
we be without our mind?
When we look at each other, we see our bodies=
, but
we are nothing without our mind. The mind, our soul, or personality, is re=
ally
who we are. We cannot see the mind. We can only see these bodies that we a=
re
in.
God's intended to create the mind, and out of=
the
mind, a conflux of people. The word translated "gold" means
"gold," of course, but it also means "to shimmer."
Sometimes it is used of oil, which we know signifies the Holy Spirit.
The imputed anointing surrounds the whole liv=
ing
soul, and the gold in the land of Havilah is the very Son of God Himself, =
who
is still emitting rays from under the earth.
We have discussed previously how the life of the flesh is rest=
ricted
by our skin, organs, heart, lungs and blood. If we cut ourselves open and =
our
organs pour out, we die, but the life of the Spirit can penetrate the skin,
and the spiritual life in us=
, that
is rooted in our soul, can vibrate out, past our skin.
There is no time or space in the realm of the
Spirit. I know because I have
experienced a spirit reaching across the room and touching me. The Spirit =
of
the Son continued to emit rays after He was buried in the earth, which rea=
ched
out and touched the Spirit of God that surrounded =
Him.
The two sources of light impacted and then bounced off of each other, and =
the
visible image of the world of appearance appeared .
As I
understand it, we do not see what we are actually looking at. We see an im=
age
that is on the retina of our eye. In other words, I am not really looking =
at
you. I am looking at a pictu=
re of
you. My eye takes the picture, my brain processes it, and I see the picture
that results from the process.
This whole realm of appearance, brethren, is a
picture that is created by the mind. Not our individual mind, but the collective mind of =
the
whole Living Soul, the Son of God who has been joined to the earth.
This realm of appearance is an image that it =
is
being modified in accordance with the Mind of God. The visible world chang=
es as
the Mind of God swallows up the Living Soul, because the realm of appearan=
ce is
just a picture. Today the realm of appearance is a reflection of Leviathan=
, the
mind of the Serpent. The world will be a reflection of Jesus Christ when He
becomes the mind of all of the peoples of the earth.
We will not see people sodomizing ten‑y=
ear old
girls, and brazenly saying, "how dare you put me in jail." An
attitude like that is a reflection of the displaced Carnal Mind, a spiritu=
al
movie that reflects the nature of the Serpent.
Did you know that a meteor burns for a long t=
ime
after it crashes into the earth? In like manner, the Son of God continued =
to
emit powerful rays of energy=
after
He lost his spiritual authority. The scientists tell us that the world came
into being with a big bang, but they cannot tell us where the big bang came
from.
<=
span
style=3D'font-family:Shruti'>We know,
however, that when the Livin=
g God
breathed the breath of Life into the man who was formed from the earth tha=
t the
Son of God was buried in, there was an explosion that brought this realm of
appearance into existence. God laid hold of the man who was His mirror ima=
ge,
interacted with him, and an explosion resulted which produced the visible =
world.
Such a feat, however, was not as simple as holding up a mirror to interact
with the rays of the sun. It=
takes
power to start a fire. This =
is the
first administration of the Spirit of God.
Verse 12, "And the gold of that land is =
good,
there is bdellium and onyx stone there also." AThe gold of the land is good,@ that is the good part of the Living Soul, wh=
ich is
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The good part of the Tree is the =
Christ
buried in the earth.
The Hebrew word translated "bdellium&quo=
t;
means "something in pieces, something precious, an honorable
merchandise," and Gesenius says that it is commonly accepted to trans=
late
this word "pearls, to separate, to disjoin, as two places by a veil, a
fence, a wall, things previously mixed together to distinguish diverse
things." We were just talking about how God was moving to separate the
parts of the Living Soul, so that His purposes could be accomplished.
We find the same word that is translated
"bdellium" in Leviticus 11:47, "...to make a difference bet=
ween
the unclean and clean, and between the beast that can be eaten, and the be=
ast
that cannot be eaten." I suggest to you that the phrase, "There =
was
bdellium in the land," means that power and wisdom (pearls signify wisdom) were in t=
he
earth -- that the man had the power and the wisdom to distinguish between the parts =
of the
creation which could be eaten, and the parts which could not be eaten.
Hallelujah.
God is separating between the clean and the u=
nclean.
He is separating the darkness of the Satanic realm from the part of the man
that He will marry. The three parts of the mind were all clumped together, but the Lord is=
separating
them for His purposes. Hallelujah.
The word translated "onyx" is from =
an
unused root meaning "to blanch," and probably means the beryl st=
one
from its pale green color.
Revelation 6:8, "And I looked and behold=
a pale
horse and his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed after
him." The word that is translated "onyx" means
"blanched," that which means "no color," from its pale
green color, which is a Scriptural reference to death.
There is another reference to Apale green color@ in
the book of Ezekiel.
Bdellium means separation from the part of the
Living Soul that is death (the Serpent=3Ds seed), and the red part that is infused wit=
h the
life of God (the female seed that God will marry ).
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