THREE VISIONS

ENDNOTES

a The word "seed" appears in the Hebrew both in the singular and in the plural. One refers to the Promised Messianic Seed, Yeshua of Nazareth; the other to the promised Messianic seed, the nation of Israel. In both these "seeds," singular and plural, should the nations be blessed and bless themselves.

b “Anti-Christ” the man is called "man of lawlessness," "man of sin," "the man of rebellion," "the lawless one," "the Wicked," "son of perdition," "son of hell," or "son of destruction;"  [see 2 Thess. 2:3, 8 in the KJV, RSV, NAS, NIV, LB]

c The lion is the king of the beasts of the field; the eagle is the king of the birds of the air; and the ox (or bull) is the king of the domestic animals.

d Obelisk: a four-sided pillar, carved from a single large block or piece of stone, slimming from its wider square or rectangular base towards a pointed, pyramidal top, often embellished with religious dedications.

e In many cultures, color is used as a silent "language," to express a meaning, a symbol, a status or feeling. This "language" is also extensively employed by the Scriptures regarding the furnishing of the Tabernacle. I used to be well acquainted with this "language," considering it a secret code. In Germany, where I grew up, "red" symbolizes love, "blue" faith and "green" hope.

f Love - 1 John 4:7-8 (9-10); faith - Galatians 2:16,20; Romans 3:22; hope - Colossians 1:27; 1 Timothy 1:1;

g see endnotes "e" and "f"

h The Hebrew word “dam” means “blood”. The name “A’dam” is generally believed to have been derived from its fem. form, “a’dam’ah”, meaning “earth, soil, ground,” because of its reddish characteristic implied by the word “dam”. Because “adamah” means earth, soil, ground, the name "Adam" is believed to mean merely “man”, since G-d created him from the dust of the earth. However, I believe such interpretation overlooks the word “dam/blood”, and its utterly crucial importance for the redemption of mankind. Hence, the name "A'dam" may actually mean "god of [the] blood" or, "Blood-of-G-d" (the "A"-aleph" being an abreviation for "Adonai" as well as for G-d being the "Aleph" and the "Tav", the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the A & the Z). G-d repeatedly states that in the “blood” is the life. The life that is in G-d, when His breath entered the man’s nostrils, was somehow imparted into man's blood and made him a living being [Gen. 2:7; 1Cor. 15:45]. Because G-d never says that He created man in the likeness of His “ruach”, that is “breath, spirit, wind”, but in His “dam’ut”, that is “blood-likeness”. Nor does our Redeemer ever suggest that man is redeemed, or atoned for by [His] “breath”, but always and only by [His] “blood”, because in it is the life. I realize that I may be fairly alone with this view, but I find it to be the only one which really makes sense when taking into consideration the vast amount of Scriptures pointing to the blood as the redeeming agent, and not to the breath nor to the earth. It is the DAM/BLOOD that matters, not the dust of the earth. It was not the “dust” which got corrupted, but the life. And the life is in the blood! The life-blood in the first human being carried the DNA of eternal life. Sin corrupted this DNA and altered its genetic code into corruption and death. Through the first "A-dam" sin and death have been passed on ever since, the characteristics of the species being carried by the genetic code from generation to generation. G-d told us again and again, "the life is in the BLOOD. Life has to be given for life taken." Out of this understanding Paul called Yeshua, the Son of G-d, the LAST "A-DAM.". His origin and blood becomes our origin and blood through faith and baptism, and by the the Holy Spirit energizing us by His power.

i Av = father; ra = multitude; h = letter representing G-d's unutterable name; am = people (NOT "nations"), like "the PEOPLE of G-d." The Hebrew word for "people" is "am" and is written with the letter "ayn."  The plural for "peoples" is "amim." In the case of Abraham's name the letter "ayn" was deleted and replaced with the letter "heh-h." Else Abraham's name would read "Av-ra'ha-am." Abraham's name literally means, that he will be the father of a single people numbering a vast multitude. That single people we find stated by G-d Himself in answer to Rebekkah's question why the twins in her womb were so rumbunctious. He said, "Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people be separated from thy bowels..." [Gen. 25:22-23; AV]. The two manner of people is le'umim in the Hebrew, which later would become the community of saints known as Israel. At the conclusion of G-d's work of salvation this "community" will be formed by all the redeemed of the earth, G-d's eternal and everlasting "Israel." Whether they were Jews or whether they were Gentiles will be of no consequence anymore. For only a new creation, only men recreated in the likeness and after  the image of the Son of G-d, will inhabit the new earth as the eternal people of G-d.

j There are 3 heavens: 1. the natural heaven, or blue sky, of which Satan is "the prince of the air;" 2. paradise, where the saints are gathered, awaiting the time of their full redemption; its light is as daylight, but bright, pure and crystal clear, in contrast to that of  the earth, which is less bright and very misty due to the heavily polluted air; 3. the third, or "glorious" heaven, is where G-d is seated upon His throne, His glory radiating throughout in the colors of the rainbow.

k Today I know, that two of those three partitions make up the Tent of Meeting, consisting of saints which belong to the Body of Messiah, being of like nature with Him. They, too, are of heavenly origin as He is, and have become partakers of the divine nature[1 Jn 2:2; 4:17; Heb. 12:22-23; 1 Cor. 15:48; Ro 8:29-30]. The third portion, which forms the court, is made up of saints who are not part of Messiah’s Body. They were assembled from the days before Messiah's Coming, from the days after His Ascension until His Return, as well as from the thousand year reign following His Return.  They too, were saved, and have escaped the power of sin and death, when they believed in their heart and confessed with their mouth the Promised Seed, the Savior, the Son of G-d [Ro 10:9-10]. But they were not baptized into His death and resurrection (ingrafted into His Body), hence do not share His heavenly origin and divine nature [Matt. 11:11; Jn 3:3, 5; Ro 6:3-5]. Consequently they do not share in the First Resurrection [Rev. 20:4-5], with the exception of saints such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and those mentioned in Revelation 20:4-6 [Rev. 19:9; Matt. 8:11; 27:52-53; Heb. 11:(7-39), 40]. They will be raised in the Second Resurrection and awarded eternal life for their righteousness, through the White Throne Judgment [Rev. 20:11-15; Heb. 5:9]. But their nature will be of terrestrial origin and glory, as the first Adam was before the Fall [1 Cor. 15:40, 47-50].  But this is a separate teaching I expound upon in my publication, "My Stand" (see link below). It suffices for the moment to discern G-d’s promise to Abraham that his seed would be as the multitude of the stars in heaven and of the dust of the earth (or sand of the seashore) [Gen. 13:16; 15:5; 22:17; 26:4; 28:14]. G-d never uses this or that word for lack of a better one, because He always means what He says and says what He means. He pursues to convey a truth with everything He says - or omits - in HEBREW!  Hence He indicates that Abraham's seed will be both of heavenly and of earthly nature [1 Cor. 15:48-50]. It is the one of earthly nature which shall bring into the Golden City the glory and the honor of the nations, and receive healing for their ailing from the leaves of the tree of life in the midst of that city [Rev. 21:24-26; 22:2, 14]. While the ones of heavenly nature will inherit the Kingdom of G-d and reign over those very nations. They will walk in divine health.  For how can one inherit nations, if there are none? How can one reign and rule, if there is nobody to be ruled over [Rev. 2:26-27; 5:10; 20:4]? How can ALL inherit and rule, if there remains no inheritance and no one to be ruled over? And why would anyone need the leaves of the tree of life for healing, if ALL are of heavenly and divine nature?

l I like to compare this work of putting away and renewing with that of a computer. It is indeed quite similar in principle. Old programs and documents we find no longer applicable or useful must be deleted. Faulty input and wrong commands must be corrected. We need space for new programs and documents. But we cannot do anything until we correct the wrong commands.  So we start the deleting process. But merely deleting a document is not enough. It can be recalled any time through the back-up program.  This is one of the main problems in the Christian’s walk of faith: often we do not understand how it is possible for a bad habit or some sin suddenly to reappear. We thought we had fully put away with it in Messiah. We failed to realize that we did not go deep enough into the memory of our "soul" computer. Of course, humans are far more complicated than computers, because besides the purely mechanical memory of the brain, we have also one of the soul, connecting feelings and emotions.  One needs to go into the “back-up file” to destroy the undesired program and document there also. Should our “computer” moreover be linked to a central computer, then it is necessary to go also into that memory bank and repeat the entire process. Otherwise, through that central memory bank our old and undesired programs and documents can be put back onto our personal computer.  What this imagery is meant to describe is, of course, the effect the sins of our fathers can and do have on us. Generational curses, and far reaching, unrepentetd sins of grand- and great-grand parents can affect us, their offspring of several generations later, unless by the Spirit we penetrate deep into the far recesses of our "memory bank" and delete its input altogether. Sometimes it requires to go all the way back to birth or conception; and in some instances even a few generations, to "call up" the programs and documents "written" into our memory at that point of time. There is conscious and subconscious memory, genetic and purely bodily memory, soulish, mental and spiritual memory. By the guiding and illuminating action of the Holy Spirit and the triggering effect of circumstances those memories are brought to the surface, one by one. Then, by the power of Messiah’s cross, blood, death and resurrection, with the Word and activating power of the Holy Spirit, we delete those old "inputs” permanently, one by one.  But we must not leave this newly won space unoccupied [Matt. 12:43-45; Ex 23:29-30]. Rather, we must fill the freed space IMMEDIATELY with new programs and documents --- from the Word of G-d! We are literally being “reprogrammed” with a brand-new program, superior to all other ones! The wrong commands are replaced with correct ones, and gradually we know what to do and how to conduct ourselves in any given circumstance as we call up the new “files” of our “memory-bank”. As the Holy Spirit fills us with the new "software" from the Word, we are being transformed, "document" for document, "program" for program, into Messiah's character-likeness, because He IS the Word. The more we absorb of it into our memory bank, the more we live by it, and the more we become like Him.  There simply is no quick and easy fix involved in this renewing process. The old memories and habits won't just simply disappear "hocus-pocus," the moment we are born again. Have we become new creations? Yes. Was the old man discarded? Yes. Notwithstanding, we are still at home in the old mortal body of sinful flesh. We are still run by the old inputs written into our memory bank of soul and mind. They MUST be deleted, because we are no longer to be controlled or "written" by them. Otherwise we shall not prove victorious, but rather be overcome again and again by our old nature, habits and memories. It is the marvelous work of the Holy Spirit to call up all those old inputs, and then delete them. But without our full cooperation nothing will happen. The Holy Spirit does not simply run over us. It is similar to the deleting process on our computers. As we initiate it, the question appears: “Delete this document? Yes/no.” Some programs ask a second time: “Are you sure? Yes/no/cancel.” To wit, this deleting process by the Holy Spirit depends entirely upon our free will and cooperation. If we don't want it deleted, it won't be. Hence, if we press on forward, forgetting what lies behind, then input after input will be deleted [Ph'pp 3:13-16].  However, sometimes we prove unable to locate the problem, even with the help of the Holy Spirit. This requires the help from a godly and compassionate "third" person to penetrate into and locate in the “directory” of our memory bank the program that continues to cause troubles. This can take time. Other old input (such as pride, boastfulness, selfishness, various types of lust, fear, insecurity, etc.) requires repeatedly sets of circumstances to "call" it up until ... one day... it finally is permanently deleted.  We'll know it the moment another similar circumstance occurs and we react no longer as formerly. The old memory, the old habit, the old sin, the old hurt --- its gone. Completely, utterly "deleted!"  But without the Holy Spirit there is no hope to accomplish this. Our flesh cannot delete the works of the flesh. It takes the power of the Holy Spirit and our full cooperation to put to death the deeds of the body, and it takes equally His power, to write the new program upon the tablets of our hearts.