Blog 2023-01-02
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Not only did the disciples not understand the teaching of Jesus, but they forgot. He taught them on many occasions that he had to die and would be resurrected. Yet when he died, they had forgotten what he said.
Even simple teachings: he had fed thousands with bread and fish miraculously, yet they forgot that and were worried about what they would eat.
It is difficult to imagine how they could forget so easily, until we realize that we may be thankful for the way he provides, then turn right around and worry about how we will be provided for.
We learn a solid doctrine like Jesus said no man has seen the Father, yet the next Sunday debate if it was the Father or Son who walked with Adam in the Garden. We are not too different from them.
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After the resurrection Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to remind them of what they were taught and to guide them in the truth as they continued to study.
They did not depend on getting special knowledge. All of the Old Testament was now pregnant with the New Teaching of Peace; the New Jerusalem. The Spirit guided them as they searched the scriptures and studied to show that they were approved by God. They did not rely on special knowledge to show they were approved by God. The modern fortune teller has no credibility because he does not know the truth of the Word of God.
If someone tells you they are a prophet and cannot show you Christ from the OT mystery, then they are not hearing from the Spirit of God, since that is his primary purpose. The Spirit assisted the OT prophets in hiding the mystery, and he helps NT prophets unpack it. Jesus told us not to worry about the future, so why would we need fortune tellers to tell us the future? Paul says that he wishes that we would all prophesy; that we would all understand the mystery.
I have heard Christians say they don't need to study doctrine because they know God. Doctrine IS the knowledge of God. Many create false Gods by imagining a god after their own image rather than learn what God has taught.
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God's name 'Elohim' means 'God separated from men by ignorance'. His main purpose in all is that we would learn who he is. The symbol of marriage is all about teaching. The husband teaches his wife. Christ teaches us, his bride. This is reflected in four letters which are formed by joining the symbols for the Son and the bride.
There are four letter made from the kof Χ (Son of God) and the zayin Χ (bride): The mem Χ tet Χ final mem Χ and samech Χ‘.
The mem Χ connects them at the top indicating that the joining of the Son and his bride was arranged by the Father.
The tet Χ connects them at the bottom indicating that the teaching takes place on earth.
The final mem Χ and samech Χ‘ connect them at top and bottom to display that the Father's will is completed: first in the law Χ then in the spirit Χ‘.
No man has seen the Father except the Son who has come to make him known. The mem Χ represents the Father and the final mem Χ represents the Son. They both have the 'm' sound. They are one but different.
The Father arranged, before the foundation of the world for us to be taught by the Son, through the cross.
--- The teaching is on earth... Why?
There is no ' marriage' in the resurrection. There is no teaching. No one will say 'know the Lord' for all shall know him.
The gospels make up Portion 5 of the scriptures. Each day of Genesis 1 points to one of six portions of scripture. Day 5 of creation points to the gospels. From the waters of day 2; representing the Word of God, the separation of the waters on day 2 was not good! Of all the other days, God saw that it was good. But on day 2 there is no such declaration. It represents the separation of the Father and Son. The incarnation is the first separation of the Father and the Son. The second separation takes place on the cross.
This separation is typified in the parable of marriage. A man leaves his parents to obtain the bride. The Son became incarnate to obtain his bride. In Genesis 1 he does not obtain his bride until day 6. On day 2 he has yet to woo his bride. He is alone. "It is not good that the man should be alone".
The last three days speak of things coming 'from' the first three; Lights from light, fish and flying things from water, and animals and man from the dry ground.
Symbols
- Water - the Word of God and it's results: His people 'creation Χ finished by the Son Χ'.
- Fish ΧΧ - those who live in the Water/Word. 'Commanded Χ to pursue Χ'.
- Flying things Χ’ΧΧ£ - those who live in the Spirit. 'Flesh Χ’ that clarifies Χ the mystery of the cross Χ£'.
Jesus is the word and the fish are those who search the literal scriptures, the flying things are those who live in the mystery by the Spirit of God. These come from the teaching of Jesus.
John should not be separated out from the other gospels. It is the 4th snapshot of doctrine being taught in the Hebrew church, given to the Gentile church.
Mark wrote the testimony of Peter. It was the first snapshot taken early in the church. The men on the road to Emmaus had returned astonished at the teaching of Jesus in his resurrection. It was the same teaching they had received before the cross, but now their eyes were opened. Everything in the scriptures spoke of Christ. They could not reproduce what they had heard, but now they had seen the lid on the jigsaw puzzle to know what to look for.
The disciples had been given the Holy Spirit to remind them of what they were taught and lead them in truth. As they read the scriptures, the mystery began to make sense. The Spirit did not give them instant knowledge as if it were a taste of omniscience; they learned to study and search scripture properly setting the foundation for teaching.
Each author had access to the earlier texts. He had reasons based on further study to make the changes. Matthew and Luke intentionally revised the earlier works to improve the teaching. They had an opinion on what and how to relate their interpretation of the Old Testament in light of what they were reminded of the life of Christ. Christ fulfilled scripture in many ways. The Old Testament has many layers of meaning having pericopes within pericopes and layers on layers. The differences between the gospels reflect the hermeneutic tools they were using at the time of the snapshot.
The Gentile church did not use the Old Testament in Hebrew. They could not unpack the mystery from the Septuagint. Mark was used to give them a deeper insight. The book did not stand alone. It was delivered to the Gentile church by messengers who used the text as an outline to teach. The messengers understood much more from the Hebrew OT than contained in the book, and added those insights when teaching from the book.
Peter's insights into the mystery were limited but he began the work, often making the point that the actions and teachings of Jesus fulfilled prophecy. His attempt to teach in the language of mystery failed. He taught that we can handle snakes and drink poison; and we can IF we understand what it says in riddle. We will withstand temptation, and learn things (as from University) that are harmful, but will not be hurt by either. Those who read his teaching literally were put in harms way, so some churches removed that teaching from the book of Mark.
Ten or fifteen years later, the Hebrew apostles had learned more and had more hermeneutical tools available to unpack the mystery. Matthew was aware of Mark's work since it was being used everywhere as New Testament writing. It is likely that James wrote sometime during this period making sure people understood that the serpent was just a symbol of the temptation of your own heart, and correcting the misunderstanding of the end of Mark.
Peter/Mark understood the beginning of the story to be the preaching of John the Baptist. As he related the life of Christ as the fulfillment of scripture he used his life beginning with the testimony of John. When Matthew wrote, the Hebrew church had discovered that Israel in scripture, was a parable to the nations. Matthew saw things in the history beginning with Abraham that were fulfilled in Christ.
Another decade had passed when Luke began to write. By then the apostles discovered that the lives of the men prior to Abraham also were a parable of Christ. Luke began his telling of the life of Christ with Adam. The church realized that the interpretation of the mystery in the Old Testament was dependent upon a recollection of the actual life of Christ. Before all the eye-witnesses died, Luke attempted to capture their memories and with this purpose, interviewed many. He had both the books of Mark and Matthew available. With each book, the audience was more and more Gentile and Greek. They had less foundational knowledge of the scriptures.
This Greek church became arrogant and began separating from the Hebrew church. John himself was unable to visit a church being disallowed by a Greek church ruler. How much power did this man have that John could not even visit the city and talk to old friends? How antagonistic to the Hebrew scriptures had they become? It is likely that so many Judaisers had wreaked havok attempting to get everyone to be circumcised, that the ruler just wanted no more Jews.
All the apostles but two were dead, and Peter asked John to write a book explaining the mystery so it would not be lost. There were three editions of the "Life of Christ" in circulation and John had no need to use most of that material. He had become proficient with notarikon, the attribute of the Hebrew language where words get their meaning from the combined meaning of the letters. His book could be called "The life of God on earth" seeing more than the literal life of Christ. He began with Gen 1:1 obtaining John 1:1-4 from the first three words.
Now a flashback to Paul. He was called early to be the missionary to the Gentiles and they flooded in. The apostles were reminded of what Jesus taught them of his death and resurrection, and were busy searching the scriptures for those prophecies. What they missed were they prophecies of the bride. They did not understand the invasion of the Gentiles. Jesus taught Paul of the bride after his resurrection. As Paul read scripture, he did not so much look for the cross as use the cross as a pointer to the bride.
This confuses modern theologians; many thinking that Paul has a different gospel than the others. It is not different in the least but is directed at the life of the bride in Christ as taught in the mystery, rather than merely the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in the mystery. The others worked from their memory of Christ to see him in scripture. Paul worked from scripture to see Christ and his bride.
John is not a separate entity, but the latest snapshot from the Hebrew church on the state of theological understanding derived from the mystery. The four Gospels are a record of the Hebrew church reproducing the sermon on the road to Emmaus.
For any other gospel to fit into this record it would have to be written by eye-witnesses to the life of Christ, since it is his life that is used to unpack the Old Testament scriptures. It's purpose must be to recapitulate the OT mystery through the life of Christ. It must have evidence in starting within the Hebrew church and being passed to the Gentile church. And it must have evidence that the Gentile church received it as authoritative, both using it and passing it on.
