GOD'S CODED LANGUAGE IS ALL ABOUT TRANSPARENCY

THE GARDEN

“The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing”

(Isaiah 51:3).

THE GARDEN IS AN IMAGE OF A FAMILY COMPRISED OF MANY BEAUTIFUL AND DIFFERENT TREES, SHRUBS, VINES AND FLOWERS. THESE ALL IMAGE THE DIFFERENT LEADERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOD’S FAMILY.

When Adam and Eve were created, they lived in the garden of Eden. “The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed” (Genesis 2:8). God planted His garden in the same direction as His temple. This garden where mankind was planted is God’s penmanship at work painting a picture of beauty and peace. It is an immediate visual for every man, woman and child on earth as cultivated parks, reserved forests and natural wonders of the world that triggers an awe-inspiring gasp. 

God’s penmanship of a cultured, beautiful garden is a painting of His created righteous, holy, royal, ruling family both in heaven and on earth. Located in Eden, God reveals His family home. God is at work. He is molding many different people who, when He is finished, will exhibit exceptional qualities and skills. People with great strength, resilience, compassion, ingenuity, kindness, law-keeping, peace-loving and creation-loving people. Members of God’s family will all be transformed people, but common to them all will be their application of righteousness. 

Creation on earth was not God’s first creation. Spirit beings were created first and their abode is in heaven. But not all has gone well in heaven. Many have turned against their Creator, Almighty God. His family in heaven has been darkened and His heavenly court corrupted. Mankind, God’s second creation will fill all of the positions of the fallen angels. God is going to rebuild His fallen holy, heavenly court with repentant, righteous people.

TREES, VINES AND FLOWERS

• The cedar tree images the great giants who are experts in God’s law.
• Evergreen trees image the eternal leaders who don’t die spiritually. They stand for loyal and faithful before Almighty God under any circumstance.
• The olive tree images the righteous priests who are the great lights of the world.
• The palm trees are the leaders whose roots go down deep in search for eternal life. They lap up God’s Holy Spirit during times when evil is everywhere.
• The fig tree is an image of God’s people where two crops will be harvested. The first is the resurrection and transformation of the bride of Christ and the second are those who live through the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ and are resurrected and transformed at the second resurrection.
• The Poplar trees are leaders who will rise up in the multitudes during the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ. They will before a network of strength and protection.
• The Myrtle tree is an evergreen flowering shrub with healing properties. These are leaders who specialize in teaching in ways that bring people back to God.
• The almond tree is the first of all fruit trees to break out of dormancy after a chilly winter and cover itself with a showy display of abundant soft pink and white blossoms. This tree images the people in the faithful and fruit-bearing people who will be in the first resurrection.
• The fruit from the Pomegranate tree is large and filled with juice encapsulated seeds. It is also symbolic of virility when national leaders keep God’s commandments, they seed through the church the environment that will produce many righteous people maturing spiritually and fit for God’s kingdom.
• Grape vine is also an image of God’s people whose blood-sacrifice devotion is part of the royal commitment to remain standing for righteousness under duress and distress.
• The delicate flowers showcase something gentle and sweet that pleases God. The variety of perfumes from flowers, likely images all the different prayers offered up to God by people.

FORCES OF NATURE

“They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, ‘Master, Master, we are perishing!’ And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm. And He said to them, ‘Where is your faith?’ They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, ‘Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?’” (Luke 8:24-25)

So many scriptures recorded in the Bible reveal the deeper picture that is so often missed. The disciples shook Jesus awake terrified that they would die in the storm. Jesus rebuked the wind and the surging waves silencing them. Then he turned to his disciples and asked, “Where is your faith?” What forces did the wind and surging waves mirror that would enable the disciples to silence them? The disciples responded to each other now referring to the winds and water as “they”—entities who obey. Awestruck, they were amazed at the power Jesus wielded. If they only knew what Jesus knew, they would have known the forces attacking them and would have silenced them themselves, if they understood their calling.

FORCES OF NATURE

• Rain cleanses. The flood cleaned the earth of wickedness. God’s Holy Spirit is imaged in water.
• The wind images a force by God. His powerful force is imaged in the east wind.
• Fire separates and destroys dross.

WATER and OIL

“A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills” (Deuteronomy 8:7-9).

God uses the physical elements and objects to illustrate the spiritual, unseen world critical to our learning. God’s promised land to His people is an image of the abundance and richness of eternal life.

• Water is imaged as God’s Holy Spirit.
• The process and application of oil is an image of forming a righteous people who will shine the light of truth and goodness.

BREAD and YEAST

                               “Watch out!” Jesus told them.

“Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Matthew 16:6

Jesus warned his disciples about the effects of yeast, leaven, that rises and causes dough to puff up, and yet, he described the kingdom of heaven to have the same effects as leaven. Through a parable, he told the story of a woman who mixed in thoroughly a little leaven in sixty pounds of flour and it permeated every part of the dough (Matthew 13:33). What is this ingredient that leaves nothing untouched?

• Bread is symbolic of the word of God.
• Yeast is symbolic of the puffing up of the self in pride and self-righteousness.
• Yeast is also symbolic of the thorough infiltration of God’s word, His law that will eventually cover the earth during the reign of Jesus Christ.

SALT

“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, 

so that you may know how you ought to answer each person”

(Colossians 4:6).

Salt is an essential mineral that when applied to food, brings out the flavours that would otherwise remain hidden. God created salt with that special quality. It was His intention from the beginning to use it as a teaching metaphor that is easily understood by mankind who apply salt in their daily lives for multiple purposes.

Speech seasoned with salt is a conversation where the meaning is brought out from the muddied language of deceivers. God wants believers to be forgiving and kind in their conversations with each other, while at the same time, using clear and easy-to-understand language so that the truth is brought out from misinformation and disinformation.

God describes the righteous as the salt of the earth. This is a description of people who are preserving and saving the people on earth when they teach them God’s law and His ways of loving one another and loving Him, the Great Creator. It also reflects the spiritual healing that takes place as people overcome and turn away from carnal behaviour that hurts and destroys to humble responses that care and protect one another.

BARLEY, WHEAT and GRAPES

“Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me” (Exodus 23:14)

“The three annual appointed feasts--the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles” (II Chronicles 8:13).

God’s seal is on His three celebrations. These holy days, God’s celebrations, were taught to His people as part of revealing His timeline of His salvation plan for His people and all of mankind. God does not hide His grand plan for mankind. On the contrary, He is doing all He can to teach His people every detail of it. The three annual appointed feasts celebrate three harvests, which are three resurrections into life eternal.

The barley harvest is the first to ripen in spring and this harvest images the first resurrection of men and women at the time Jesus Christ returns. The wheat harvest takes place in summer; it is the second resurrection. The harvest of the grapes is the last resurrection that brings first judgement and death on the unrepentant and then, life eternal to people who finally repent and humbly seek God.

Each harvest has its own story.

• Barley: the first resurrection of the righteous, the bride of Christ.
• Wheat: the second resurrection of the righteous who lived through the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ.
• Grape: the final harvest which will determine and separate two groups of people. The righteous group will be resurrected into eternal life and the rebel group will be destroyed.

PRECIOUS STONES

“The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass” (Revelation 21:19-21).

The imagery God uses is not flippant, but precisely exact. Stones and objects on earth that are designated precious are carefully categorized that way because they are exceptionally rare, beautiful and hold qualities that surpass the ordinary. They are lasting, robust and enduring. This is the message God is trumpeting when He uses precious stones and objects in His language and yet, wisdom and understanding surpass the most precious of all stones.

God’s eternal kingdom is precious, His royal, ruling family members are being polished and perfected. This kingdom is hidden and few find it in this evil age, but those who recognize it, will sell everything to own the property upon which it is found, so that all contents on the property is indisputably theirs.

The evil rulers during this evil age cannot see God’s kingdom in the making. They strut in pride and arrogance thinking earth belongs to them, but cloaked by God, His kingdom of wonder and magnificence is forming.

• The land is the place where the righteousness reside.
• Precious stones: enduring people will be formed during a time of great distress. They will recognize and value truth and stand against all odds.
• Pearls: God is transforming His people into a rare and precious righteousness. They will endure abrasive actions, but those who endure will be God’s precious pearls.
• Twelve gates of pearl: This images God’s perfect government.
• Seventy palm trees and twelve springs of water: As ancient Israel exited Egypt, their first stop that revived them were seventy palm trees with twelve springs of water. This is a spiritual image of God’s promise to provide His people with seventy strong counsellors to protect them when all twelve tribes become anointed priests baptising repentant people from the nations.
• Twelve pillars: The twelve nations into the 21st century will become twelve spiritually driven nations showcasing God’s law and His way.
• Twelve precious stones: The twelve nations into the 21st century will surprise themselves when they realize their roots and stand up against the beastly coalition of Revelation.
• The NEW Jerusalem: Layers of righteous strength will form and a NEW Jerusalem will rise to forever exhibit truth, righteousness, justice and goodness.
• The blameless 144,000: twelve times twelve times 1,000 is the symbol of eternal 3D perfect government who will be eternally loyal to Almighty God.
• The white stone, a new name, and hidden manna: God’s grace is precious. Repentance people will be given forgiveness—the white stone, by God and He will remember their sins no more.
• The Pergamum-like people will be judged and will give an account of their publications.

THE CONCEPT OF ONE

“But for us, there is one God, the Father, by whom all things were created, and for whom we live. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created, and through whom we live” (I Corinthians 8:6).

God the Father and His Son are both Gods of the God family, of which the Father is the head. Their relationship is established by their placement in the God family. They work in total unity; they move as one and live in complete peace, unbroken or divided—one.

The Apostle Paul taught Christians to “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called—one Lord [Jesus Christ], one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all” (Ephesians 4:16).

Creating this level of unity is the work of God’s hands. Bringing mankind into repentance and submission with a willing spirit and a heart of flesh comes from God’s Holy Spirit flowing out through Jesus Christ. God’s hands go to work like a potter forming a magnificent and glorious piece of art. God’s work will be done when the fullness of creation on earth is in total harmony with God’s laws and way of love. Then, billions upon billions from creation in both heaven and on earth will be one body under one government embracing one theology; all living as one, but are many—countless individuals.

All things will come together as ONE when God has finished His work.

• There is only ONE God family comprised of the Father, the Son and soon, countless from the creation in heaven and on earth.
• There is only ONE Saviour, Jesus Christ.
• There will be only ONE church comprised of many people.
• There is only ONE theology—the word of God.
• There will be ONE legal structure comprised of the bonding of law and grace.
• There will be ONE re-united kingdom of Israel.
• There will always only be ONE body –a unified body of righteous and obedient members of God’s family.

DUALITY BY DESIGN

“If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (Matthew 18:15-16).

Duality was designed by God. it is a teaching about his legal system and the implementation of a legal witness.

TWO GREAT LEADERS

Jacob gave the family sceptre to Judah and the firstborn birthright blessings to Joseph. Duality was planned before the beginning to teach mankind about their future in eternity. The lesson of duality here is the reflection of the Messiah in Judah through King David and the Messiah in Joseph as Lord and steward of God’s eternal kingdom.

DUALITY IN JOSHUA AND CALEB

Moses sent twelve, one from each of the tribes of Israel, to spy out the promised land. They returned and ten gave an evil report while Joshua and Caleb had faith in God that they could overtake the barrier of giants. Two out of the twelve gave a witness of faith and truth.

Caleb was from the tribe of Judah. From Judah, Jesus was born. From Judah, the Messiah became king—the sceptre given to him. Caleb’s faith in overcoming giant barriers mirrored Jesus’ faith in conquering the barriers blocking the success in the establishment of God’s eternal kingdom.

Joshua was from the tribe of Ephraim, son of Joseph. It would be Joshua who would lead all of the twelve tribes into the promised land. He mirrors the great work of bringing many sons to glory—transformed-reborn people with Christ living in them. 

Caleb mirrors the faith of salvation through Christ and Joshua mirrors the faith in bringing many sons to glory.

NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP

By design, God uses the number two as the minimum for an honest legal witness. Righteous leadership is a marriage of religious knowledge, understanding and wisdom and its application. National leadership without binding with God’s priesthood will result in suffering, bias and corruption. The experts of righteousness must be bound with national leaders in order for rulership to be executed in love and service to the people.

KINGDOM OF ISRAEL: THE FRACTURE INTO TWO HOUSES

The lesson of duality is the chaos created when a separation occurs from God’s law and His theology. In this case, self-righteousness and unrighteousness reared up. God’s law and His theology bound together can heal mankind and bring them back into balance, back onto God straight and narrow path of righteousness.

• LAW AND GRACE: God’s law is bound with grace. During Christ’s millennial reign, the unity of law and grace will demonstrate justice, peace and prosperity.
• TWO CREATIONS: ONE IN HEAVEN AND ONE ON EARTH: Two creations, two experts: one a master of God’s law of peace and the other an expert of God’s theology of righteousness.
• MAN AND WOMAN: The man and woman mirror creation in heaven and on earth. The great mystery the Apostle Paul unveiled is the relationship between a man and woman mirroring the relationship of Christ and the church.

THE NUMBER 3

“For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40).

Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish. It is both a witness by God’s use of two, that is, the emphasis of days and nights, with the great stamp of God’s seal using number three. God’s official seal of three days and nights was the confirmation that Christ’s burial in the earth was His divine plan. The number three is peppered heavily throughout the Bible; it simply cannot be ignored.

CHRIST TEMPTED BY SATAN

1.  The first temptation: earthly food or heavenly food. Ancient Israel failed to understand the value of spiritual knowledge, understanding and wisdom. They kept falling back into this earthly world focusing on temporal living. Jesus never left his spiritual focus, the important task given to him.

2.  The second temptation: trust in yourself or trust in God. The ancient Israelites could not let go and put their complete trust in God. It was difficult for them as it is for Christians today. Jesus put his life in the hands of God, without question—fully and completely.

3.  Third temptation: Rulership through Satan or rulership through God Almighty.

VICTORY OVER THREE DEMANDS

During the Great Tribulation, a people are seen standing beside a sea of glass mixed with fire. They are victorious over three demands by the enemy. They did not:

1.  Worship the beast

2.  Bend their knee to His image

3.  Have his number/name written on their forehead or right hand (Revelation 15:2).

The number three is also God’s seal marked along a timeline. These time markers are expressed as: in three days, after the third day, in the third year, on the third hour, a three day walk, three times. 

Every story in the Bible has supplemental meaning attached to it. For example:

• Laban was told on the third day that Jacob and his wives had fled. 
• God selected 300 men to fight with Gideon against the Midianites.
• Samson was confronted by thirty guards when he arrived at Timnah to celebrate the engagement to his first wife. 
• For three days the people could not give an answer to Samson’s riddle. 
• 3,000 Jews went to Samson to urge him to stop provoking the Philistines. 
• David while being chased by King Saul had three mighty men among his warriors. 
• Jesus was thirty when he began his ministry.
• Christ was crucified on the third hour.
• The Holy Spirit like rushing winds was given to the reborn church on Pentecost on the third hour.
• Noah had three sons.
• Hannah gave birth to three sons. 
• Job had three daughters.
• Daniel had three faithful friends: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. 
• Recorded in Zechariah, behind the man on the red horse among the Myrtle trees was three horses: red, brown and white.
• Peter denied Christ three times.
• Christ asked Peter three times if he loves him. 
• Paul asked three times for the “thorn in the flesh” to be removed.
• At the second trumpet in Revelation, Mystery Babylon is attacked by God. This theological body is imaged to have their home-base on the sea where ships are used to transport trading merchandise:
• One-third of the sea turns to blood 
• One-third of the sea creatures die 
• One-third of the ships are destroyed. 
• At the blast of the fifth trumpet, three woes begin.

THE FULLEST COMPLETION IN SEVEN

“So, Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her” (Genesis 29:20).

Jacob was drawn to Rachel the moment he saw her. She was a shepherdess and he, a shepherd. Feeding, caring and protecting the flock was their job, which they did well. Jacob wanted to marry her, but he had no dowry, so an arrangement was made with Rachel’s father, Laban. He was to work for Laban for seven years.

The end of seven years bought him the woman he loved. It completed the payment he owed. But, to Jacob’s horror, Laban secretly gave him Leah, Rachel’s older sister, which forced Jacob to work yet another seven years to have Rachel as his wife. His rest was delayed.

The number seven confirms the full completion of important components of God’s plan.

• God’s creation on earth was complete in seven days. Mankind made God’s family complete. God’s family comprises of two creations: one in heaven and one on earth. 
• Christ established seven churches to form his body. The seven churches are the complete kingdom of Israel as a functional unit. It includes national and religious leadership, educational institutions, spiritual warriors protecting the kingdom from infiltration, charities, and missionaries to expand the good news as God reveals more of His plans.
• The Jubilee is determined by counting in sevens. “You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement” (Leviticus 25:8). The Jubilee year follows seven blocks of seven years. At the end of seven years, slaves are released. At the end of seven times seven years, everyone is released from the slavery of debt.
• Seven baskets of bread were picked up after Jesus fed the 4,000 people who had come from far away. These people were from the redeemed ten tribes of Israel. (Matthew 15:37). The seven baskets represent the spiritual food that would last Christian churches completely and should completely nourish them spiritually until Christ returns.
• God can humble the proud and arrogant. He humbled King Nebuchadnezzar for reducing him to live for seven years as a beast of the field.
• Revelation is the book that details the completion of God’s wrath and judgement:
• The scroll with seven seals (Revelation 5:1) is a complete series of events leading up to God’s final outpouring of wrath.
• Seven kings, five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes, he must remain a little while (Revelation 17:10) is the completion of evil rulership on earth.
• Seven angels given seven trumpets (Revelation 8:2) is the complete and final warning.
• Seven thunders, though what was said was not recorded, it could be God speaking out for all to hear His voice pounding out a final warning.
• Seven angels with seven plagues imaged as bowls (Revelation 15:6-7) is destruction of all of God’s enemies:

 Those who worship the beast. 

• Creatures living in the sea die are those who are committed to live in wickedness. They are referred to as creatures because there is no saving plan for them.
•  Rivers turn to blood is again the watery homes of the wicked being destroyed.
• Scorching by the sun of the wicked is a fiery purging.
• The throne of the beast is thrown into darkness.
• War against the kings of the East and the three evil frogs coming out of Satan, the beast and the false prophet.

Finally, the declaration, “It is done!”

ORDER IN TEN

“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD, not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it” (Number 14:21-23).

Mankind’s journey out of ignorance into God’s truth and His sanctuary of peace and tranquility is a walk following our Messiah, through a complete series of: growth processes, knowledge building, understanding refinement and the acquisition of true wisdom. God’s written word is an engineering feat of multidimensional stories crossing over time into ever-lasting space about His creation on earth as mortals and in heaven as spiritual beings. God is teaching both creations how to live righteously; He is warning both creations of the consequences of sin; He is the loving parent wanting to save them all.

Through numbers God stamps a message. The number ten trumpets law and order and how it will be re-established by the overthrowing of Wickedness through the sword of truth, Christ’s humble sacrifice and God’s wonderful grace.

• LAW AND ORDER IN 10 COMMANDMENTS
• JUDGEMENT EXPRESSED IN THE NUMBER TEN: God executes judgement expressed in the number ten: commandments, plagues, days, times, generations, cycles, and jubilees.
• 10 RIGHTEOUS MEN WOULD HAVE SAVED SODOM
• ALMIGHTY GOD’S SUPREMACY OVER PHAROAH: the 10 plagues of Egypt
• THE 10TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH: a new beginning, sacrifice of the Son of God
• 10 DAYS BETWEEN CHRIST’S ASCENSION AND PENTECOST
• 10 DAYS BETWEEN ROSH HASHANAH/FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND YOM KIPPUR/DAY OF ATONEMENT—THE TEN DAYS OF AWE
• SMYRNA WILL SUFFER FOR 10 DAYS
• 10 JUBILEE CYCLES CONFIRMS THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF LAW BY HIS PEOPLE
• 10TH DAY OF TISHREI—THE DAY OF ATONEMENT/YOM KIPPUR
• TEN FINGERS AND TEN TOES

THE JOURNEY THAT TOOK 40 YEARS

“They returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days” (Numbers 13:25).

It wasn’t at the completion of seven days or in three days, but after forty days spying out the Promised Land that the twelve spies brought back a report. Only Joshua and Caleb had faith and trust in God and reported favourably of the overthrowing of the giants living there. Only they were close to God.

Despite all of the many miracles that God did for them, all of them except for Joshua and Caleb still did not have a relationship of trust in God. These people will be resurrected back into their physical bodies at the beginning of the Millennium, along with the Israelites like them who lived warring against God throughout the generations. They will be given God’s Holy Spirit and they will be given a complete and full amount of time to mature spiritually and draw close to the Creator God of all creation. The story is told in the imagery of numbers.

Strategically woven into the number forty are tests and trials for mankind designed to stimulate spiritual growth that provides mechanisms to find the way to God that brings spiritual healing and an intimate relationship with Him.

• Christ was close to God, before he began his ministry.
• God cleansed the earth in forty days and forty nights of rain.
• Noah waited 40 days after it rained before he opened the window in the ark
• Moses for 40 days and 40 nights covered in a cloud, was taught by God the commandments, statues, and ordinances. He was right next to God during those 40 days and 40 nights—very close to God.
• Elijah for 40 days and 40 nights walked to Mount Horeb to stand in the presence of the Lord—close to God.
• Jonah for 40 days warned Nineveh of their destruction.
• Ancient Israel wandered the wilderness for 40 years.

The work of our Creator goes beyond the wisdom of man. His use of numbers is woven into His handiwork with exquisite precision. He threads them as mysteries and binds them securely in His timeline, in our story, in His gifts, in our correction, in His rewards, and in our obedience. 

The number 40 is used to confirm a completion in testing, a period of judging, the work of restoration and hope that culminates in an intimately close relationship with God. Learn from the city of Nineveh and don’t wait for the fulfillment of 40; repent now and draw close to God.

CLOTHING—A SYMBOLIC COVERING

“Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with 

hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience” (Colossians 3:12).

God’s coded language uses clothing as a covering that images specific qualities of different roles. Kings wear fine clothes, the saints wear fine linen, Elijah and John the Baptist wore camel hair.

• Adam and Eve were given by God an animal skin as a covering after they sinned and lost their shining covering.
• Garments of God’s priests: red, blue and white made from linen.
• Sackcloth: the image of humility.

                  King Ahab

                  Job

                  The king and people of Nineveh

• No covering, nakedness is an image of sinful behaviour.

COLOUR-CODED PROOFS COMPLEMENT THE WORD OF GOD

“Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, 

because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; 

so, he made him a robe of many colors” (Genesis 37:3).

Joseph’s story is a mirror of Jesus Christ. As Israel [Jacob] loved Joseph, God reveals how He loves His beloved Son, Jesus. Loved by Israel because Joseph was born in his old age. It points to the birth of mankind’s Saviour born in the latter third of this evil age. Though Almighty God does not age, the end of the age of mortal man brings the completion of God’s family, which will begin a new era—a timeless era, post judgement, where only the righteous in both heaven and earth will exist. Joseph’s covering of many colours is a mirror of the many achievements of the Son of God in heaven and on earth, now coronated King of all kings and Lord of all lords—the wearer of many crowns.

Colours:

• Red: Adam, red earth, blood
• Blue: the Tzitzit made from a blue cord, God’s Holy Spirit, His word, His law
• White: symbolic of religion
• Purple: symbolic of the rare, royal warriors of God.
• God’s tabernacle in the wilderness comprised of specific colours and made from specific materials.

EYES, EARS, HEART and WALK

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not” (Jeremiah 5:21).

God often describes choices in life made by mankind as a journey stumbling along, often blind, deaf and dumb. This journey and all of the difficulties it brings is a direct result of not knowing Him, His law and ways and living them. There is a reason for this.

The Apostle Paul said, “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (I Corinthians 2:14).

Understanding God’s world requires having God’s Holy Spirit. His highly complex supernatural world exists outside of the physical world of man. Mankind needs special eyes to see, special ears to be able to distinguish between good and evil, a special heart of flesh full of compassion kindness and goodness and God’s wisdom so that we walk towards God, never wandering off into darkness.

• Eyes to see
• Ears to hear
• Heart to feel
• The walk to and of God

OVERVIEW OF PART 3

SHEEP and GOATS, The SERPENT, MONSTERS of the Sea,

BEASTS of the FIELD, BIRDS of the AIR

“Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert. The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people. The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise” 

(Isaiah 43:19-21).

Created with only instinct, how can God declare that the beasts of the field will honour Him? This study will explore God’s use of language that moves back and forth in both realms of creation.

In some cases, God uses animals to add meaning to the behaviour of people. The use of sheep is common in the Bible. They are a popular domesticated animal raised for their fleece, their milk and meat. God refers to them as a clean animal providing a safe meat source for mankind. The imagery of sheep is often attached to the faithful who follow Jesus Christ, their Shepherd. The image of these faithful is that of needing a leader because they are vulnerable and innocent.

Goats are a cousin to sheep and this animal is used to refer to foolish people, but there is an intriguing reference to two goats in the ritual on the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur. 

Goats have horns that point up—an image of kingship in heaven, while most sheep don’t have horns. Sheep that do, curl and point down—an image of kingship on earth. Goats are independent, sure-footed climbing high places with ease, while sheep gather into flocks grazing in pastures. A significant day on God’s timeline of the salvation of His people and all of mankind, is the Day of Atonement—Yom Kippur. It involves a sacrifice to God and a ritual involving two goats on the 10th day of the 7th month. God’s use of numbers is by no accident. By establishing the Day for Atonement on the 10th day and 7th month points to God’s ten commands being re-established and the 7th month pointing to the number for completion, it pictures the finishing of the violation of God’s ten commandments and the cleansing of His people. 

• Sheep and goats resemble the behaviour of people and specific characteristics that provides colour to God’s unfolding mysteries.
• A discussion of the meaning of the two goats selected on the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur unveils a deep and solemn reminder of a very important upcoming event.
• Beast of the field and birds of the air are more than the birds and beasts on earth, but descriptors of life in heaven.
• Monsters of the sea are fallen, rebel sons of God.

The SWORD, the SLING and the BOW and ARROWS

“Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me. He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.He said to Me, ‘You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory”’ (Isaiah 49:1-3).

Mankind, who live in sin, thinking their evil and corrupt deeds go unseen, will be ashamed when all of their actions are brought into the light. Sharper than any two-edged sword their lies will be exposed. Polished arrows of truth will pierce through the armour of the wicked. Exposed for who they are, they will flee searching for their hidden places but will have no place to go. The testimony of Jesus will shine brightly leaving no shadows and no dark places. 

The Apostle Paul said, “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account” (Hebrews 4:12-13).

The day is coming when Almighty God and Jesus Christ will end Satan’s reign on earth. The commanding power of God’s spoken words will capture, judge, sentence and destroy.

• The sword is the descriptor for the weapon used against those who break God’s law, God’s word, God’s belief system.
• The bow is like the sling, which is the descriptor of the stabilizing weapon used against those who live ungodly lives, rejecting God’s theology.
• Arrows, like the stones released in a sling, are released from the bow. The arrows and stones are a descriptor of God’s righteous people going out to all the world to shed light in all the dark places and destroying the giants of evil.
• The commander of God’s army is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
• The sword of the Spirit is God’s word.

The HABITATS on and above EARTH

“And God said, ‘Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.’  And it was so” (Genesis 1:9).

• The firmament separates the water in heaven from the water on earth. 
• The sky is a habitat of unseen elements that are tapped and used. Airwave transmission is a broadcasting activity everywhere across this planet. The airwaves are used to communicate physically and spiritually.
• The sky will be rolled up at the end of this evil age and mankind will see into heaven.
• The wind images powerful forces, like God’s Holy Spirit with the immense power to transform the mind of people to understand spiritual matters and apply wisdom.
• The land is the home of Adam and Eve and their descendants. It is God’s image for a habitat where growth takes place and an abundance of fruit can be produced. It mirrors people who have the potential for eternal life, where they can grow in God’s knowledge, understanding and wisdom to produce the fruits of righteousness.
• The desert is the image of land on earth that is spiritually drained.
• Inner earth is the place of the imprisoned. Fallen heavenly rulers remain there until judgement. Satan will be sentenced to Sheol, inner earth, during the millennial reign of Jesus Christ.
• The universe was made by God Almighty. He speaks and His creation obeys. The earth is His footstool.
• The sea, the deep waters are the image of the abode of wickedness.
• The beasts from out of the sea and out of the earth are a coalition of rebel, heavenly rulers from out of heaven and from on the earth.
• The mountains, the hills and valleys are images of federal, state/provincial, and civic governments.

OVERVIEW OF PART 4

DIRECTIONS

“And they will come from east and west and from north and south, 

and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God” (Luke 13:29).

The BIG picture of God’s story comes to life as God reveals His deeper things. He will take His scholars in all directions making clear why He pushed His unrighteous people west all the way to the borders and why the lawless are gathered to the south. He will remind His people that His temple is located in the east far from the unrighteous and His throne and centre of law and justice are located in the north.

From the beginning, two realms were planned, one in heaven and one on earth. The directions: north, south, east and west exist in both realms. By no coincidence, heaven is north and earth is south. From out of infinite space and time, God gave His creation in heaven and on earth multiple ways to recognize their path and the direction to where they are moving. God, Himself uses these mechanisms to fulfill His work.

Events initiate time and boundaries define space. When God created, time came into existence and space was allotted. When God first deemed Lucifer His enemy, it became a marker along infinite time and his dominion became dark and chaotic.

• North: God’s throne is in the far north, the centre of His law courts.
• The Apostle Paul in a vision entered the third heaven beyond the home of the angels.
• A rogue kingdom remains in the far north in heaven: Gog of Magog and his hordes.
• East: God’s temple is in the east. The wise men came from the east, direction of God’s temple. Eden is in the east. God’s righteous judgement come from the force of the east wind.
• West: The ungodly are pushed by God westward, in the opposite direction of His temple. God’s people were pushed westward to Western Europe and the West.
• South: law-breakers are confined to the most southerly places. Inner earth, Sheol, is the most southernly location that imprisons overthrown, rebel heavenly rulers.
• North, South, East and West: All directions will be pointing at one time to the Saviour of mankind when his feet stand on the Mount of Olives. It will be split east and west then the mountain moves one part to the north and the other to the south. Upon his arrival, all compass arrows will point to the return of Jesus Christ simultaneously. From that location, everything on earth changes immediately.

ENERGY exploding into LIGHT

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all”  (I John 1:5).

Almighty God is a being of pure energy, always existed, never tires, never sleeps. He is perfect in wisdom and understanding. He is rich in knowledge and His spirit is unique to all other spirits. Mortals cannot look at His face and live. His greatness cannot be contained. He is the one and only Almighty God.

• Light: The Son became the Word, the Light, the Way for all of mankind to follow.
• Darkness: Darkness separated from light are the lies separated from truth.
• Two governing lights: The sun and the moon point to the Father and the Son of God.

THE GENDERS

“For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church”

(Ephesians 5:31-32).

The spiritual meaning behind the creation of gender is often a mystery, rarely understood. God is primarily concerned with spiritual teachings. He wants mankind to know His plan for them and yet, theologians often don’t fully understand this teaching.

God is birthing family members through mankind on earth. He wants children fit for his kingdom. The mystery that Apostle Paul understood was the spiritual story of the man becoming one flesh with the woman through marriage. This union is a mirror image of Jesus Christ marrying the church and through their combined leadership working as one, a righteous God-fearing and God-serving congregation is birthed fit for God’s family kingdom.

• The man: image of creation in heaven, represents national and legal roles
• The woman: image of creation on earth, represents a religious role, mother of all creation and future creation of congregations fits for eternal life.

THE RIDDLE slipped in among EVERYDAY STORIES

“Out of the eater, something to eat;

out of the strong, something sweet” (Judges 14:14).

The story of Samson: a prophecy with a riddle that remains a tantalizing mystery.

HOSEA’S AMAZING LOVE

“You will live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you. For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or idol” (Hosea 3:3-4).

The ten tribes of the ancient house of Israel were sentenced to live 2,520 years in exile. They had many moments of wandering over Europe raping, pillaging and plundering, worshipping gods, playing with magic and casting spells. Sometime prior to the birth of Jesus, they fell into despair and pleaded with God, like the prodigal son, to accept them back into His covenant family. With their history of superficial sincerity, Jesus made them wait until their heart softened into a pliable state, then he taught them during his ministry on earth. Into the 21st century, they may not remember the details of their wayward past behaviour, their illusive repentance, nor do they see their future allegiance with the God of Israel that will award them with a double blessing, but the God of Israel never lost sight of them. He preserved their history in a story.

THE  Shoes  GIVEN TO WEAR

“His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned,’ said Jesus, ‘but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed [revealed] in his life’” (John 9:2-3).

Throughout the Bible are examples of people who lived their whole life like Hosea, mirroring the greater story—the spiritual story. No fault of their own, they suffered, so that God’s story could be revealed through the painful experiences in their lives.

The spiritual story orchestrated by Almighty God was preserved through selected people given shoes to wear and a path to walk, so that 21st century Judo-Christians would come to know and understand the spiritual battle raging in the shadows, working to silence portions of human history.

• Jacob:  For moments in his life, he mirrored experiences of Almighty God.
• Leah: She mirrors a church desiring to be loved by God, but struggles to walk in His ways.
• Rachel: She mirrors the loved church comprised of the prophets, prophetesses and the righteous saints. She died prematurely to prophecy the infiltration of false prophets into the church.
• The woman at the well in John 4: She is a mirror of the church of the ten tribes who were offered God’s Holy Spirit. She understood Jesus’ offer and took it, birthing reborn people who became known as Christians.
• Naaman: While the divorced ten tribes of Israel ravaged Europe, living in paganism, the experienced the full measure of the curses of disobedience. Like the prodigal son, they relented and begged to return to God and live His law and ways. The story of Naaman is their story. The national leaders repented and God healed them. Today, they have slipped back, but they will be awakened to their folly during Jacob’s trouble, the Great Tribulation.
• The woman with the issue of blood: This woman mirrors the church of the ten tribes of Israel. Like Naaman, the church repented and Jesus healed them.
• The death of Jarius’ 12-year old daughter: This story is a mirror of the congregations that have died when the ministry wandered far from the teachings of God. Jesus healed the young girl and he can heal the congregations of the churches.

FORESHADOWS: THE REDEMPTIVE SACRIFICE

“Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offence of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come” (Romans 5:14).

The Apostle Paul said that Adam is a type of Christ. Adam’s failure was a conscious decision to choose rebellion against God, while Christ’s success was a conscious decision to remain faithful and loyal to God. What Adam had in common with Christ was that he was a mirror of the sons of God in heaven. Christ is a special Son of God. Christ succeeded, remaining sinless, he was victorious and his redemptive sacrifice has bought salvation to all of mankind.

Christ’s redemptive sacrifice was foreshadowed throughout the Old Testament. All of the details are discussed in the study.

FORESHADOWS: The FIRST and SECOND EXODUS

“It will no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers” (Jeremiah 16:14-15, Jeremiah 23:7-8).

When God’s people turn away from their God and live in the ways of Satan full of corruption and hatred, God causes them to fall into captivity where they are attacked with many dying and the survivors taken out of their country to live as slaves among their captors. Today, we live in a world of corrupt governments, manipulated finance and trading, protocol-controlled medical professionals and an educational system teaching only what is craftfully text-booked. Religion is silent, for the most part, to warn and educate the people who are captured into a system of wickedness.

A second captivity is prophesied. God’s people will be the target of Satan’s wrath and they will awaken in shock and terror. During this time of great distress, God’s people will remember Him. They will humbly repent and cry out to Him. He will hear and rescue them. God used the first Exodus of the ancient Israelites out of Egypt as a foreshadow of the greater Exodus to come.

FORESHADOWS: JOSEPH and JESUS

“Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come” (I Corinthians 10:11).

The scriptures clearly state that by divine design examples were given to believers for teaching purposes and especially to those at the end of this evil age. The events in Joseph’s life are a mirror of the troubles and successes of Jesus Christ. Joseph’s life was the stage play, Jesus’ life is the spiritual reality. All of the examples are provided in the study.

FORESHADOWS: BENJAMIN, A MYSTERY PEOPLE

“Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, 

and at night he shall divide the spoil” (Genesis 49:27).

“About Benjamin he said: ‘Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders’” (Deuteronomy 33:12).

Benjamin is the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob. He is one of the most intriguing characters in the Bible. His mother named him, Benoni, which means ‘son of my sorrow.’ After Rachel, Benjamin’s mother died, Jacob changed it to Benjamin, ‘son of my right hand.’ When Jacob blessed all of his sons, he characterized Benjamin to be like a ravenous wolf devouring the prey in the morning and sharing the spoils at night. The tribe of Benjamin will fight to their death in support of their allies; they were distinguished archers and slingers. The blessing Moses gave to Benjamin reflected the name that his father, Jacob gave to him. He is a son cherished, loved and resting on his father’s chest protected in his arms.

FORESHADOWS: JOB’S THREE DAUGHTERS

“And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.” (Job 42:15)

A surface reading of Job 42:15 would appear that in ancient times, it takes having exceptional physical beauty before women were valued equal to sons where an inheritance was given. The penmanship of Almighty God triggers curiosity, drives critical thinking and demands exploration.

Job’s three daughters image the transformation of the wayward kingdom of ancient Israel who will, still in the future, transform their three religious centres into three God-fearing, God-serving, God-loving churches. Their beauty will be seen all around the world. They will be a holy kingdom living God’s way and a kingdom of royal priests modeling for all to see the way of God.

These daughters who image the three religious centres of the future kingdom of Israel will receive an inheritance (Job 42:15b). Traditionally, the family inheritance was given to the sons with a double-portion blessing going to the oldest. In ancient Israel, daughters received an inheritance only when there wasn’t a son to receive it. In the case of Job, he gave his daughters an inheritance along with his seven sons.

God’s holy, royal family, now in the making, is a ruling kingdom. Job’s three daughters received an inheritance—rulership. So, as Job’s story reveals, God will give an inheritance—rulership to the three religious centres of the future re-united kingdom of Israel. God will move the focus of honour away from the national leaders of countries to three religious centres. Their names will be renown throughout all creation because of their spiritual beauty: their devoted righteousness, their gracious love, and their keeping and protecting of God’s law.

Job’s story is simple. It is all about the transformation of God’s first-born men and women into eternal life and the three religious centres they produce. God will elevate them to take centre stage and the nations of the world will marvel.