The bronze sea

If we can believe that the animals that are carnivores now, are not going to eat flesh in the new heavens and earth, then we can also believe that the animals that do not now procreate in monogamy, will in the new heavens and earth. And along with this, just as those who lived under the Law of Moses shall all have an opportunity to live in the earthly New Jerusalem, and then receive to be able to live in the New Jerusalem in the heavenly dimension that the Father and angels shall live in, then we can also go on to believe that animals will first live on the earth, and be incorruptible themselves, and then procreate monogamously, and have their offspring be given unto those who live in the New Jerusalem in the heavenly dimension, as pets, after they have already lived on the New earth. And this is just as easy as believing what the Bible says about the living creatures which are in heaven, that even symbolize earthly things and the existence of God in them. And there are a lot of other illuminations in the testimony of Jesus Christ and Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation concerning this.

Going on from this, as with the maturity which comes in knowing that it isn't God's will to leave and never come back, we may know that being married to another created being does not separate us from Christ. This is true, even though we have the Scripture which says 'they shall leave their father and mother and become married,' knowing that we shall always have Christ in our marriages, as He is the Bridegroom, but that we shall also always have Him and the Father, and even the Holy Spirit, as our Father. And we can discern these things, also knowing that Jesus said that we have only One Father, who is in heaven, speaking about His Father, even though He is also called a Father to us, as shown in Isaiah 9.

The Bible says that precept should be upon precept, and line upon line. Firstly this brings up the topic of discernment and truth. But also, within this verse, we are even given the circumstance by which we would have to build, putting precept upon precept and line upon line, and the truth of having to do this, is actually something that the modern day church had begun to believe as to being evil, when it really isn't. Within this, we may also receive understanding regarding how to rightly divide the word of truth. We may know that even Paul's sweat rags were taken and used to heal other people. In this, we may understand the topic of satiation. There are passages in the Bible which promise us to be satiated in the Spirit, and it is this type of thing that was happening, even in the physical realm, regarding people becoming healed. And even beyond that, we may know that we are given a promise from this, in the same context that the Bible speaks about our righteousness’ being as menstrual rags. In building things by the precepts, judgments, and knowledge of God, we are doing more than just becoming satiated with His Word by itself, or the Spirit by itself, as His satiation gives us to have the godly mixing of the Spirit and the Word. And the connection between the Spirit and the Word is the imagination. And the imagination is also even the connection between the physical and the spiritual. Furthermore, just as we are told to enter in, that our souls may be saved, the promise of satiation fore-mostly involves our souls being satiated. The breath of the LORD is the mechanism by which the spiritual and the physical meet, however, it is the imagination that is the source of the breath, just as we may also be able to dissect further, and discern that as the breath connects the Spirit, blood, and water, which bear witness on earth, that it is the union of what is spiritual and what is physical that is being established, and thus witnessed of. And so the breath, in these regards, would be as the Spirit of Jesus Christ, knowing that Jesus has His own Spirit, but is one with the Holy Spirit as well, and that it is His kingdom, under the Father, that is being established. Therefore, in this context, the breath, though primarily a name for the Holy Spirit, is the substance of the imagination, likening it (the breath) unto the Word, which is the substance of the Spirit, and therefore showing the imagination to be the source of the breath, likening the imagination to the Spirit (as the Spirit is the source of the Word).

The very foundation, by which the Bible speaks about having good works, namely following the NT, concerns the help and love that we give, as we are bringing what is spiritual out into the physical. However, the entire foundation by which Christ says that the world hates Him, and will hate us as well, for being with Him, is the very foundation by which the world rejects the spiritual. And this is where we begin to discern between the physical that is holy because the Spirit is abiding in it, or the physical which is evil because it lacks the Holy Spirit, as this is the truth distinguishing why the flesh is called evil when it is, knowing that creation itself is good when God is present in it. And so the truth of the NT gospel being a ministry of reconciliation, and not one of condemnation, is illuminated in knowing that we should be having good works by which we are not condemning others, whether we think they are being too spiritual, or whether we think they are building on the physical without the Spirit of God.

Jeremiah 31:14
I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance,
And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD

Jeremiah 31:25
I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul

If we were really sowing by all waters, as Isaiah 32 says, then we would be helping nearly everyone around us. However, these things bring up the topic of who we are supposed to help and when. The world, and the church in it, have previously come up sayings such as “A hand up, not a hand out,” and “God helps those who help themselves,” though these sayings are directly against God. Through studying the first two commandments, we may discern that we won’t have anything to give anyone else, that is of godly value, if we don’t ourselves receive from God. And also, we may look into the circumstance of whether or not someone is trying to do everything on their own, and not be involved with others, or whether they are doing nothing on their own, and desiring that everyone else do their work for them. And again, there needs to be true discernment in the Spirit, in regards to distinguishing between the spirit and the flesh, even within the church, as God does speak to His people in contexts in which they think they are in right standing with Him, but aren’t. At the same time, we may able to view the direction the church was heading in, as people embraced Rick Warren, and things such as acronyms, as the church at the same time was rejecting knowledge, and was set up against it, as with things such as the three heavens, 7 pillars, and circle of heaven. Along the path that the church was heading on, we may also find the truth of how the church was glorying in the fact that they lacked knowledge, and used this as a foundation by which they came up with the knowledge that they did use. And again, it all comes back unto the truth of the new birth, though at the same time, we may be able to refine and cleanse the spoil that we have before entering into the Promised Land, and keep it, as the Israelites did, in regards to what I just spoke about Rick Warren. Though also, even in this, the direction must remain wholly on God, and not again become pointed into the direction that leads away from the new birth giving us perfect, sinless, and incorruptible insides, because that leads into the depths of Satan. It is in this same way, that we may be able to discern what happened with Elijah, when he was raptured, after crossing the Jordan, and leaving the boundary of Israel. The book of Hebrews mentions Enoch, who was raptured as Elijah was, and says that he was taken, having pleased the LORD so much. This also is in agreement with what Hebrews says in regards to the world not being worthy of God’s people. God divided the waters three times in the Bible, once when leaving Egypt, once when entering into the Promised Land, and once with Elijah, before he was raptured. These three occurrences concern the totality of how the waters are in-between the heavens, just as it shows in Genesis, in the account of creation. And just as Revelation says that there will be no more sea, we may discern that the waters represent separation from God, and thus division, even though Genesis says that the heavens divided the waters, not saying that the waters divided the heavens. The fact that the waters represent separation, even though Genesis says that the heavens divide the waters, gives promise, this also occurring in the same way that certain words in our language are used as either positive or negative particles, such as the prefix ‘a,’ which can mean without, though it is the first letter of the alphabet, and though Jesus is called the Alpha, which is the first letter of the Greek Alphabet. And so the heavens do not represent division or separation, though they divided the waters, but they actually represent our separation from separation, even though it could be called esoteric to say that. The third waters are found on the physical earth, as there are three heavens, with two waters between them in the spiritual realm. And it is here that we also are given the antitype of baptism, which Peter speaks about. And this is also where we can learn of how the physical sometimes still does contain things that are ‘ceremonial,’ even though we don’t follow the Law of Moses anymore. And this is true, even though we are to build the spiritual first. Obviously, in the teaching of faith, we are concerned with walking with God as Abraham did, who actually did physically leave the city of Ur, and follow God, showing him to not only build spiritually, but to have built physically as well, unto the LORD. And this is where we get the examples of works and faith, and what James spoke about concerning works perfecting faith, and working together with faith, and justifying a person as well. Included in this, are the different testimonies found in the Bible, as to how each person built unto the LORD, both in the physical and the spiritual. And these can give example, unto how we may daily follow God, though even in this, there was still the prophecy of the two witnesses.

Through the example of Laban, Jacob, Leah, and Rachel, we may again receive illumination regarding the gifts of apostle and prophet, and even receive more enlightenment regarding what happened with Jacob. In one context we may view Leah as the prophetic gift, and Rachel as the apostolic gift, and I have already spoken before, about how Leah may have supposed to have been married to the talent which was Esau’s, and was physically given unto Jacob, though the talent does include his very soul and salvation as well, not only his gift, just as there shall be generations born in the new heavens and earth, and just as there shall be eternal monogamous marriage in heaven for created beings after the marriage of the Lamb. In the context of coming unto the gift of the apostle, through the gift of the prophet, as the gift of the apostle is higher, we may see a certain type of maturity fulfilled. Physical beauty is not evil, and Jacob was not evil for loving Rachel for her physical beauty; what would have been evil, was to not have the spiritual beauty and the beauty of the inner person present as well. And the actions of Laban were actually evil, in how he dealt falsely with Jacob, just as he even worshiped idols, as found in the Book of Jasher. And again, as we discern things, such as the testimonies of the LORD, we must understand that the examples of sin do not point unto the Messiah or God, and thus are not testimonies of Jesus Christ, as with the argument of there being no eternal monogamous marriage in heaven between created beings after the marriage of the Lamb, through attempting to use the fact that Jacob had two wives on earth, as proof. In one way, Rachel would more so be represented by the prophetic gift, as the word prophet means ‘one who sees,’ and because Jacob marveled at her beauty. However, as the word apostle means ‘sent one,’ we may find wisdom in knowing that after receiving the sending of the LORD, a person has already been accepted, this illuminating the period of time that is involved in sowing, before harvesting and reaping. And so the gift of prophet would be as sowing, and the gift of apostle would be as reaping, and when there comes the ‘promotion’ from prophet to apostle, there has already been the consummation of a person having poured themselves out, even in regards to their personal life, and then becoming whole in the LORD. And this is actually exactly what the gift of the prophet first entails. And Paul speaks about how when he became mature, that he put aside childish things, and there is a difference between being childish, as in the light of immaturity, or being child like, as we should be with the LORD. When the ‘promotion’ from seeing unto being sent comes, then the in-completions that were included while being poured out are taken away, and there is the sealing of the Spirit, who seals a person, and their inheritance, as they believe in Him, and then also enter in. This promotion from prophet to apostle, is actually one of the best examples that can be given for entering in, that does not only include spiritual things, but an actual physical example. Though the Bible does also say that Jesus spoke in parables so that only those who would know Him would understand. And these things are also in the same context that I spoke of, in showing how the prophet exposes sin and is concerned with it, and how the apostle gives that one’s meditation may be on good things. And the way that Leah and Rachel are in the testimony of Jesus Christ, regarding the points I just made, without using sin to point to God, is found in how God does give rewards, even though we can not earn anything from Him. And how does He do that? Through correlating rewards, with fruit.