Does anyone see how Stephen metaphorically stepped in front of a bus when he contradicted Jesus and started to accuse men?

John 10:18  No man takes it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative.

Act 7:52  Which one of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? Yes, they killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,

John 10:34 Jesus answered them: “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said: “You are gods”’? 35  If he called ‘gods’ those against whom the word of God came and yet the scripture cannot be nullified.

 

I don’t know, maybe I’m on a totally other level. I make sense of nonsense sometimes. I guess I might be an Autistic savant. I understand things but I seem to explain things in the abstract and people don’t get it.

 

Here is something that you may be able to understand if you can think in the abstract at all. Give it a try and see if you can see how it wasn’t mere terrorists who took down the towers.

 

Isaiah 45:6 … I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.  7  I form light and create darkness, I make peace  and create calamity; I, Jehovah, am doing all these things.

 

Jerusalem syndrome / Messiah complex / Jesus syndrome

There are so many who claim to be Christ that there are names for the phenomenon.

What if these people are not sick at all?  Why not look at this from a different angle?

There is only one big God right?

Then, there is only one begotten Son called The word in John 1:3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This one was in the beginning with God. All things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence.

Could Christ be all things and all people?

Colossians 3:11  where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor un-circumcision, foreigner, Scythʹi·an, slave, or freeman; but Christ is all things and in all.

1 Corinthians 2:16 For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, so that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ.

Galatians 4:6 Now because you are sons, God has sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts and it cries out: “Abba, Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave but a son; and if a son, then you are also an heir through God.

Col1:17 Also, he is before all other things, and by means of him all other things were made to exist, 18 and he is the head of the body, the congregation.

19 because God was pleased to have all fullness to dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all other things by making peace through the blood he shed on the torture stake, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

Maybe those of us who don’t identify as Christ have yet to smell the coffee.

 

Just saying!

Who is (חכמות) wisdom?

 

 

 

Proverb 1:20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She keeps raising her voice in the public squares. 21  At the corner of the busy streets she calls out. At the entrances of the city gates she says: 22  “How long will you inexperienced ones love inexperience? How long will you ridiculers take pleasure in ridicule? And how long will you foolish ones hate understanding? 23  Respond to my reproof. Then I will pour out my spirit for you; I will make my words known to you. 24  Because I called out, but you kept refusing, I stretched out my hand, but no one was paying attention, 25  You kept neglecting all my advice And rejecting my reproof, 26  I also will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when what you dread comes, 27  When what you dread comes like a storm, And your disaster arrives like a storm wind, When distress and trouble come upon you. 28  At that time they will keep calling me, but I will not answer; They will eagerly look for me, but they will not find me, 29  Because they hated understanding, And they did not choose to be amazed by Jehovah. 30  They refused my advice; They disrespected all my reproof. 31  So they will bear the consequences of their way, And they will be glutted with their own counsel. 32  For the waywardness of the inexperienced will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them. 33  But the one listening to me will dwell in security And be undisturbed by the dread of calamity.”

 

 

 

Psalm 49:3 My own mouth will speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart will show understanding.

 

 

 

שׁבעה׃ עמודיה חצבה ביתה בנתה חכמות Proverb 9:1 

Proverb 9:1, True Wisdom has built her house; She has carved out her seven pillars.  2  She has fully prepared her meat; She has mixed her wine; She has also arranged her table.  3  She has sent out her female servants To call out from the heights above the city:  4  “Whoever is inexperienced, let him come in here.” She says to the one lacking good sense:  5  “Come, eat my bread And share in drinking the wine that I have mixed.  6  Leave behind your inexperience and live; Walk forward in the way of understanding.”  

 

 

 

Pro 14:1 The truly wise woman builds up her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

 

 

 

Mat 13:54 After coming into his home territory, he began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astounded and said: “Where did this man get this wisdom and these powerful works?

 

 

 

Mat 13:54  καὶ ἐλθὼν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα αὐτοῦ ἐδίδασκεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ αὐτῶν, ὥστε ἐκπλήττεσθαι αὐτοὺς καὶ λέγειν· πόθεν τούτῳ ἡ σοφία αὕτη καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις;

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The Hebrew letter ב "Beth" is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the Hebrew aleph-bet.  The first letter is א Aleph, the letter A and the number 1. The letter Beth represents the number two and is the extension, or vehicle, of א Aleph.

To understand ב Beth, you have to always remember א Aleph, because ב Beth is that through which א Aleph speaks. ב Beth in this sense is like a mouth, and in its shape you can imagine this.  The breath (the Aleph) emerges through ב Beth.  The emergence of the breathe of God is the emergence of life.  The breath of God is the Neshemah (the soul).  The breath is creation, emerging through ב Beth.  This is why Beth is the very first letter of the entire Bible; the entire Torah or Tanach begins with ב Beth.  The significance of this letter is underscored by this simple fact.

The understanding of the entire Judeo-Christian theology rests in the letter ב Beth. If we have not understood the letter ב Beth, we have not understood the Jewish or Christian religion.  This is why it is so important for us to understand the Hebrew letters.  Even the Christians who claim to have a doctrine of truth yet who reject the study of the Hebrew letters are in fact rejecting the teacher, Yeshua Krestos, Jesus Christ, because he stated explicitly that he did not come to abolish the prophets or the law, but to fulfill them. As a master of Israel, as a rabbi, he knew the Hebrew letters and the Kabbalah very well.  His teachings are entirely conforming to the Kabbalah and refer to the Hebrew letters.

ב Beth is the first letter of the first word of the Bible. That word is בראשית "Bereishit."

בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. - Genesis / Bereishit 1:1

It is from the letter ב Beth that the entire Bible emerges as an expression of that א Aleph, the breath of God.  This is why we call the Bible "The Word of God."  The Word in Greek is "the Logos."  It is the expression of something that is inexpressible.  This is part of the importance of these Hebrew letters.  They encode and symbolize a form of knowledge that is inexpressible and is incapable of being symbolized.  So, each letter has multiple meanings and a depth of significance that is far beyond the intellect.  To grasp the real meaning of the letters requires the intuition to be active.  With intuition, we can grasp the full depth of the meanings of these letters.

The House of God

The letter ב Beth represents an olive tree sprout or a house for a bird, the spirit. The Bible, both the Old and New Testaments, are full of references to the House of God, to the temple, to the tents of Israel, and all of these are related to Beth.  In fact, to write the word "house" in Hebrew, you write  ביתBeth (pronounced BAH-yeet).

The word בית Beth is spelled with the letters ב Beth, י Iod, and ת Tav, and we see these three letters in the word Bereishit - the first letter and the last two letters.  Between those three letters are three more letters: ר Reish, א Aleph, and ש Shin.  This has an importance because Reish, Aleph, Shin spells ראש which means "chief, ruler, or king."  Beth (spelled בית Beth-Iod-Tav) is the house. When the King (ראש Rosh) comes to inhabit that house (and you insert the letters ראש into בית) it spells בראשית = ב + ראש + ית Bereishit; creation, Genesis.

In other words, when the King, the Being, God the spirit, comes into our house, which is us, then בראשית (Genesis) can happen in us.  Genesis (to generate) really means creation - the creation of the man in the image of that King, or the image of God.  This is the very fundamental basis of religion:  the union between us and God.  “Religion” comes from the Latin "religare" which means “to re-unite.” 

Eph 1:10  for an administration at the full limit of the appointed times, to gather all things together in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth. Yes, in him

The knowledge of the existence of this union implies the existence of a separation, that there are two parts to reunite - the lower man, the terrestrial man, and the superior man, or celestial man. Paul wrote about this in 1Co 15:44 “Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust; and like the heavenly one, so too are those who are heavenly. 49  And just as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we will bear also the image of the heavenly one.” The union of these two is called the awakening into full consciousness, the filling of the void and liberation. That is all represented in Beth.

As the second letter, Beth represents a separation - a twofold nature.  Yet, those two parts are related, and you also see this in the structure of the letter: two horizontal lines joined by a vertical line like the hemispheres of the brain, logic ‘left’ and the senses ‘right’ are bridged by the Corpus Callosum.  This is in the mediator or letter Beth.

The first word of the Bible or Tanach is בראשית “Bereishit.” Normally in the English or Latin Bibles, it is translated as, "In the beginning."  But the word does not actually mean that.  This word בראשית "Bereishit" is full of meanings.  It can be approached from many angles, and has many depths. It is a puzzle or anagram within which is contained the whole universe.

As a fundamental basis, ב Beth is the first letter of the whole Bible. ב Beth is also the number two. If we look at  ב Beth as its number, which is two, then we would read the first word of the Bible as:

ב + ראשית  Beth + reishit or Bereishit = beginning.

 The Hebrew word ראשית (rasheet) means “kingdom.”  So the first word of the Bible could be read as "Two kingdoms." In Hebrew, the sentence would say Bereishit-Bara- אלוהיםAlohim  

 

ב ראשית ברא אלהים

Two kingdoms, created the אלוהים Alohim. - Genesis 1:1

Those two kingdoms are the Heavens above and the lower kingdom, which is where we are, which is us.  The superior kingdom is where our Being, our Inner Father resides, and the lower kingdom is where we reside.  The point of religion is to unite these two and make them one.  To put God in charge of our own temple, our house, our בית Beth, that King ראש needs to come and reside inside of us, and unite the kingdoms and make them one.  This is the meaning of בראשית, Genesis, creation. To make the man in the image of God is to make the two kingdoms a perfect reflection of one another. 

1Co 13:12 For now we see in hazy outline by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face-to-face. At present I know partially, but then I will know accurately, just as I am accurately known.

My house (the physical body) shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. - Matthew 21: 13

That house is represented by the letter ב Beth. That house is us collectively the body of Christ. It is our mind, our heart, our soul, our body.

They are to make a sanctuary for me, and I will reside among them. - Exodus 25: 8

That sanctuary is our heart temple where we have to place the 'ârôn b^erı̂yth, the Ark of the Covenant which relates with our heart, where the most pure, most sacred, most holy artefacts are to be kept.  This is not something outside of us - it is inside.  When our heart is purified, our Divine Mother will inhabit our heart.  Our inner Divine Mother is the sophia, the Spirit of God: that feminine spirit who holds all the mysteries of creation in her hands.  Luke 7:35 All the same, wisdom (Sophia in Greek) is proved righteous by all (Her) children.” She is represented by the letter ב Beth.  The letter ב Beth is feminine. ב Beth is the goddess who stands next to א Aleph, the Father. Wisdom (Chokmah in Hebrew is also a feminine noun.

The God that religious people call “the Father” is not exclusively masculine, because to write Father in Hebrew, you write אב Aleph-Beth.  A-B: male-female.  God is male-female.

Gen 1:26  And God said, Let Us make man in Our image…     Plural

Gen 1:27  And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. Male and female

 

God creates through the power of two: male-female.  All creation is made possible by the female aspect. So where did our mother go?

 

Isaiah 50:1 This is what Jehovah says: “Where is the divorce certificate of your mother, whom I sent away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look! It was because of your own errors you were sold, And because of your own transgressions your mother was sent away. Are we talking about a typical couple, strict accusative father and lenient and loving mother? How can we know?   (In our image)    אם Am mother       אב AB father

On every level of nature, everything that is created comes through male-female.  This has been established by God.  This is a law throughout all the universes, throughout all the infinites.  It reflects the nature of God's creation.  So God can not be exclusively male.  Such an idea is illogical.  It is incomprehensible.  A male alone cannot create.  A male needs a female.  God, the Father, needs God, the Mother.  Ab, the Father, needs Am, the Mother. אב Ab or Abba is Hebrew for “father.”  But this is not only in Hebrew: in Sanskrit, Hindi, Tibetan, all of the world, Abba, Apa, means “father.”  In English we say “Pa and Ma.”  In India, China, and Tibet, they say, “Ama, Apa.”  The deep meaning of these letters is universal.

Creation comes in twos.  Everything reflects this two.  Our entire temple, our entire Beth, reflects this.  We have two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two halves of the brain, two lungs, two hands, two feet, and all of those organs are creative; all of them.  With our eyes we create, with our ears we create, with our nose when we take breath and exhale, we create.  We create with our hands, our feet, our lungs, our kidneys, our brain.  These are all creative; they all transform energies and create new ones.  They are all masculine-feminine: dual.  But most of all, we create with our sexual organs.  Every male has two testicles, every female has two ovaries.  Yet, alone, they can do nothing.  They can only create through cooperation with each other.

Creation is always from two.  This is why the Tree of Knowledge [עץ הדעת טוב ורע], Daath, or Gnosis presents two paths: the Path of Goodness and the Path of Pollution.  In the Bible these are called טוב Tob and רע Ra, usually translated as “good and evil.”  The Hebrew word רע Ra means “pollution, impurity.” (This is not the Ra of the Egyptians.) טוב Tob means “purity or goodness.”

This form of creation can only be done by the power of the Alohim who is within us.  This is why the Bible starts with:

בראשית ברא אלהים

Bereishit bara Alohim

Creation is a work of אלהים Alohim, and Alohim is within us.

Bereishit Bara Alohim is usually translated as “In the beginning God creates.”  In the Zohar, this phrase is translated, "In wisdom Alohim creates."  Why does it say, "In wisdom," and who is "Alohim?"

It says "In wisdom" because of who the Alohim is. אלהים Alohim is a plural Hebrew word.  In the English and Latin Bibles, it is translated as “God,” singular masculine.  But the word אלהים Alohim is not singular masculine.  Alohim is a plural word which comes from אל El, which is “God,” masculine in Hebrew. אלה or אלוה Aloah / Aloha is God feminine in Hebrew. The suffix ים -im is plural. Thus, אלהים Alohim can mean either God and Goddess or Gods and Goddesses.

In Hawaii, THE DEEPER MEANING OF ALOHA
by Curby Rule

For those who are fortunate enough to live in Hawai'i, it is common for us to use the word Aloha. We use it in greetings and farewells and in expressing love. But the word means even more, it is a way of life.

Besides these common meanings, the word Aloha holds within itself all one needs to know to interact rightfully in the natural world. These insights describe an attitude or way of life sometimes called "The Aloha Spirit" or "The Way of Aloha".

The spirit of Aloha was an important lesson taught to the children of the past because it was about the world of which they were a part. One early teaching goes like this:

Aloha is being a part of all, and all being a part of me. When there is pain - it is my pain. When there is joy - it is also mine. I respect all that is as part of the Creator and part of me. I will not wilfully harm anyone or anything. When food is needed I will take only my need and explain why it is being taken. The earth, the sky, the sea are mine to care for, to cherish and to protect. This is Hawaiian - this is Aloha!

As the child grew, the need for a fundamental code of ethics was taught. This code is found within a deeper layer of the meaning of the word Aloha. The code is derived from one of the acronymic meanings of Aloha.

A, ala, watchful, alertness
L, lokahi, working with unity
O, oia'i'o, truthful honesty
H, ha'aha'a, humility
A, ahonui, patient perseverance

 

When we look at the Bible as it was intended to be read, as a manual of spiritual development, the first three words tell us, בראשית ברא אלהים Bereishit Bara Alohim:

In wisdom your Alohim creates.

Your Alohim is your inner Father-Mother ( אל Al + אלה Aloha = אלהים Alohim), and they create in you “through the spirit of wisdom.”  Christ.

Gal 4:19 my little children, for whom I am again experiencing birth pains until Christ is formed in you.

What did he teach?  The way to the light.  The way to the truth, which is through the Son.  That Son is Christ who must be born within us.  When he was giving his teaching, the religious powers of his day - who knew the Kabbalah but rejected his teaching - were outraged that he was giving the secret knowledge openly, to everyone.

It says in the Bible that he had said to them,

We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. - Mark 14: 58.

Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking of (Beth) the temple of His body. - John 2:19-21

That temple of the body is the teaching of Jesus - how to build it.  Yet, the Jews knew this teaching. It is reflected in the midrash:

We are taught by tradition that all which Solomon wrote in the "Song of Songs" has reference to the King of Peace who, though he rules below, yet has his kingdom on high and thus is king of both worlds. This is hidden and signified by the letter B [ב], whose numerical value is two, placed at the beginning of the word חכמה Chokmah in the Scripture, "ב חכמה be-hochma,

 

Proverbs 24:3 MKJV Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established.

 

Matthew 7:24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does them will be like a discreet man who built his house on the rock.

Who is the wiseman?  A wiseman is one who has wisdom, “Christ is formed in you”  This is not to have a belief, this is to have incarnated that; to be a wise man.  In Greek terms it would be Pnuematikos:  to be one with the Spirit, to have the Spirit, to have Christ.

Matthew 7:25And the rain poured down and the floods came and the winds blew and lashed against that house, but it did not cave in, for it had been founded on the rock.” That rock figures significantly throughout the teachings of Jesus, not only in the teachings of Jesus, but throughout the Old Testament.  Jacob rested his head upon the stone and saw the visions of the Angels.  All of the great mystical traditions depend upon a stone, a rock, which forms the basis, the foundation of the temple.

The word "foundation" in Hebrew is יסוד Yesod, the Ninth Sphere.  This is the foundation upon which we have to build our temple.

 

  the sprout is the Hebrew letter B Beth the arm of God and it represents Christ, the only begotten the alpha and omega (A to Z in our alphabet) the one who was, is and is to come. The B in the Hebrew is the first born of A - Aleph and B gives A a voice in this world by making the first word. The Word mentioned in John 1:1-3. The symbols were only a way to communicate like we could make the letter F out of a fork if we didn't already have the alphabet. All the letters of the Hebrew Alephbet were either farm tools or animals.

"The Word" AB father, without B, or Beth, there is no house for Aleph to speak. Aleph is a silent letter until it has a chosen prophet. B is therefore the Beth, the house of God called Bethel, which is pronounced as such but is spelled Beth-al in the Hebrew. the Aleph, looks like an N,(א Aleph) The original symbol for Aleph was the head of a bull, see the confusion in Exodus, the golden calf. answering your question of 2016,

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that Jehovah God had made. So it began to say to the woman: “Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?”

Exo 4:3  And He said, Throw it on the ground. And he threw it on the ground. And it became a serpent. And Moses ran from it. +Exo 7:10

Num 21:8 Then Jehovah said to Moses: “Make for yourself a fiery snake and place it upon a signal pole. And it must occur that when anyone has been bitten, he then has to look at it and so must keep alive.” 9 Moses at once made a serpent of copper and placed it upon the signal pole; and it did occur that if a serpent had bitten a man and he gazed at the copper serpent, he then kept alive.

Joh 3:14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up, 15  that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life.

2Ki 18:4 He it was that removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars to pieces and cut down the sacred pole and crushed to pieces the copper serpent that Moses had made; for down to those days the sons of Israel had continually been making sacrificial smoke to it, and it used used to be called the copper serpent-idol

What was he saying?

signal pole; and it did occur that if a serpent had bitten a man and he gazed at the copper serpent, he then kept alive.

2Co 11:3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent seduced Eve by its cunning, YOUR minds might be corrupted away from the *sincerity and the chastity that are due the Christ.

*sincerity translated form ἁπλότης haplotēs = singleness also used in

Eph 6:5 not by way of eye-service as men pleasers, but as Christ’s slaves, doing the will of God whole-souled.

Jas 1:6 But let him keep on asking in faith, not doubting* at all, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and blown about. *Lit., “judging for self dividedly.”

Jas 1:7 In fact, let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from Jehovah; 8  he is an indecisive* man, unsteady in all his ways.  Lit., “two-souled.” Gr., diʹpsy·khos; two spirited

Jas 4:8 Draw close to God, and he will draw close to YOU. Cleanse YOUR hands, YOU sinners, and purify YOUR hearts, YOU (indecisive*) ones. *Lit., (two-souled) Greek., diʹpsy·khos; two spirited

Col 3:22 YOU slaves, be obedient in everything to those who are [your] masters in a fleshly sense, not with acts of eye-service, as men pleasers, but with sincerity* of heart, with fear of Jehovah.         sincerity* *Lit., singleness.  Greek ἁπλότης haplotēs

Heb 5:8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered; 9  and after he had been made perfect he became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those obeying him,

Eph 2:2 in which you at one time walked according to the system of things of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Joh 5:45  Do not think that I will accuse YOU to the Father; there is one that accuses YOU, Moses, in whom YOU have put YOUR hope.            

(Moses the accuser?)

Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come to pass the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ, because the accuser* of our brothers has been hurled down, who accuses them day and night before our God!  *Lit.,  κατήγορος katēgoros a complainant at law; specifically Satan: - accuser.

Joh 8:44 YOU are from YOUR father the Devil*, and YOU wish to do the desires of YOUR father. 45 Because I, on the other hand, tell the truth, YOU do not believe me.

47 He that is from God listens to the sayings of God. This is why YOU do not listen, because YOU are not from God.” 

*Lit., a traducer false accuser, devil, slanderer. διάβολος diabolos            (traducer; disparaging contemptuous or disapproving)

So, if there is only one begotten son, how can all this be re-conciliated and re-consolidated?

Mar 1:23 Also, at that immediate time there was in their synagogue a man under the power of an unclean spirit, and he shouted, 24 saying: “What have we to do with you, Jesus you Naz·a·reneʹ? Did you come to destroy us? I know exactly who you are, the Holy One of God.” 25  But Jesus rebuked it, saying: “Be silent, and come on out of him!” Luk 4:34                    why “Be silent”?  Did you come to destroy us? Who was going to be destroyed? Jerusalem and the temple?

*Lit., singleness.  ἁπλότης haplotēs

*Lit., “two-souled.” Gr., diʹpsy·khos; two

*Lit., “judging for self dividedly.”

Who had a split personality?

Luk 15:11 Then he said: “A certain man had two sons. 12  And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the part of the property that falls to my share.’

Gen 3:5  for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.  

Joh 10:18 No man has taken it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, and I have authority to receive it again. The commandment on this I received from my Father.”

Act 7:52

Which one of the prophets did YOUR forefathers not persecute? Yes, they killed those who made announcement in advance concerning the coming of the righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers YOU have now become                                  or No man has taken it away from me?

*Lit., a traducer false accuser, devil, slanderer. διάβολος diabolos            (traducer; disparaging contemptuous or disapproving)

*Lit., (two-souled) two spirited

*Lit.,  κατήγορος katēgoros a complainant at law; specifically Satan: - accuser.

*Lit., “two-souled.” Gr., diʹpsy·khos; two spirited

*Lit., “judging for self dividedly.”

*Lit., singleness.  ἁπλότης haplotēs

Isaiah 14:12 “O how you have fallen from heaven, you shining one, (Lucifer) son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the earth, you who were disabling the nations! 13  As for you, you have said in your heart, ‘To the heavens I shall go up. Above the stars of God I shall lift up my throne, and I shall sit down upon the mountain of meeting, in the remotest parts of the north. 14  I shall go up above the high places of the clouds; I shall make myself resemble the Most High.’ 15  “However, down to Sheʹol you will be brought, to the remotest parts of the pit. 16  Those seeing you will gaze even at you; they will give close examination even to you, [saying,] ‘Is this the man that was agitating the earth, that was making kingdoms rock, 17  that made the productive land like the wilderness and that overthrew its very cities, that did not open the way homeward even for his prisoners?’ 18  All other kings of the nations, yes, all of them, have lain down in glory, each one in his own house. 19  But as for you, you have been thrown away without a burial place for you, like a detested sprout, clothed with killed men stabbed with the sword that are going down to the stones of a pit, like a carcass trodden down. 20  You will not become united with them in a grave, because you brought your own land to ruin, you killed your own people. To time indefinite the offspring of evildoers will not be named

 

 

 

Rom 11:16 if the root is holy, the branches are also.17  However, if some of the branches were broken off and you, although being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the richness of the olive’s root, 18  do not be arrogant toward the branches. If, though, you are arrogant toward them, remember that it is not you who bears the root, but the root bears you. 19  You will say, then: “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20  That is true! For their lack of faith, they were broken off, but you are standing by faith. Do not be haughty, but be in fear. 21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22  Consider, therefore, God’s kindness and severity. There is severity toward those who fell, but toward you there is God’s kindness, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise, you too will be lopped off. 23  And they also, if they do not remain in their lack of faith, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them back in. 24  For if you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature and were grafted contrary to nature into the garden olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree! 25  For I do not want you to be unaware of this sacred secret, brothers, so that you do not become wise in your own eyes: A partial dulling of senses has come upon Israel until the full number of people of the nations has come in, 26  and in this manner all Israel will be saved.

 

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator. 2  He takes away every branch in me not bearing fruit, and he cleans every one bearing fruit, so that it may bear more fruit. 3  You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4  Remain in union with me, and I will remain in union with you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in union with me. 5  I am the vine; you are the branches.

 

Cleans = prunes clips cuts-back?

Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, no one has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the good news 30  who will not get 100 times more now in this period of time—houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields, with persecutions and in the coming system of things, everlasting life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

 

 

 

 

           I Am Bringing In My Servant Sprout!  My signal pole to the peoples

 

I will proclaim things hidden since the founding. I will propound riddles of long ago.

 

John 16:13  

However, when that one comes, the spirit of the truth, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak of his own initiative, but what he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things to come. 14  That one will glorify me, because he will receive from what is mine and will declare it to you. 15  All the things that the Father has are mine. That is why I said he receives from what is mine and declares it to you.     

   

Propounding a riddle:

 

א “Aleph” is the first letter in the Hebrew alephbeth. א remained silent until ב Beth had extended from א. Beth ב, the house of Aleph is its arm and first born. The first word that could now be pronounced was אָב “Ab” Father.  ב Beth was in the beginning with “א” and All things came into existence through ב, “Beth” and apart from ב not even one thing came into existence.    Bethel בית־אל = house of God in fact Beth-AL אל

Paul Simon - I can call you Betty And *Betty --- you can call me Al       *Elisabeth 

Elisabeth corrected to Alishabeth אֱלִ = Al  Alisha = אֱלִישָׁע = God is salvation 

Beth = במה =  House   ב

 

Zec 6:12 

And say to him, “This is what Jehovah of armies says: Here is the man whose name is Sprout. He will sprout from his own place, and he will build the temple of Jehovah.”    

 

Ephesians 2:21  

In union with him the whole building, being harmoniously joined together, is growing into a holy temple for Jehovah. 22  In union with him you too are being built up together into a place for God to inhabit by spirit. (Rom 11:17-23-grafted in) John 15:1-5 true vine

 

Zec 3:8

Hear, please, O High Priest Joshua, you and your companions who sit before you, for these men serve as a sign; look! I am bringing in my servant Sprout!  

 

Jer 23:5

“Look! The days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “when I will raise up to David a righteous sprout. 

 

Jer 33:15

In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous sprout, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16  In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will reside in security. And this is what she will be called: Jehovah Is Our Righteousness.’”    

 

Isaiah 6:13  

But there will still be a tenth in it, and it will again be burned, like a big tree and like an oak, which after they are cut down leave a stump; a holy seed will be its stump.

 

 

Isaiah 11:1

A twig will grow out of the stump of Jesʹse, And a sprout from his roots will bear fruit.  2  And the spirit of Jehovah will settle upon him, The spirit of wisdom and of understanding, The spirit of counsel and of mightiness, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah   

 

Mat 24:32 

Now learn this illustration from the fig tree: Just as soon as its young branch grows tender and sprouts its leaves, you know that summer is near.    

 

Isaiah 53:2  

He will come up like a twig before him, like a root out of parched land.

 

Isaiah 60:21  

And all your people will be righteous; They will possess the land forever. They are the sprout that I planted, The work of my hands, for me to be beautified.

 

Isaiah 4:2 

In that day what Jehovah makes sprout will be splendid and glorious, and the fruitage of the land will be the pride and beauty of the survivors of Israel.

 

Two anointed ones a riddle:

 

Zec 4:2

So I said: “I see, and look! A lampstand entirely of gold, with a bowl on top of it. There are seven lamps on it, yes, seven, and the lamps, which are at the top of it, have seven pipes. 3  And next to it are two olive trees, one on the right of the bowl and one on the left.” ------ 14 He said: “These are the two anointed ones who are standing alongside the Lord of the whole earth.      (Seven lamps =  Seven times)           two or twice/twofold?

 

Son of oil יצהר  ב                    ב Ben = Son                יצהר  yitshâr = oil

Hebrew is written from the right to left. The anointed Son is first on the right before the seven lamps and then the anointed Son is also last after the bowl and seven lamps.

 

Dan 4:14

He called out loudly: “Chop down the tree, cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the beasts flee from beneath it, and the birds from its branches.

 

Dan 4:16

Let its heart be changed from that of a human, and let it be given the heart of a beast, and let seven times pass over it.

 

Dan 4:23

And the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from the heaven, who was saying: “Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, with a banding of iron and of copper, --------- until seven times pass over it.”          

 

 

 

Eph 3:18

May you be rooted and established on the foundation, 18  in order that with all the holy ones you may be thoroughly able to comprehend fully what is the breadth and length and height and depth…

 

What is abstract thinking?

 

The simplest way of explaining abstract thought is perhaps to compare it to its opposite reasoning - concrete reasoning. Concrete thinkers are more comfortable with what currently exists. They like things that are clear and tangible and that they can hold in their hands. Concrete thinkers like to follow instructions and have detailed plans. They hate anything that is vague or ambiguous. They do not usually read between the lines.

 

A concrete thinker will probably like lists and spreadsheets, but they are not always good at being spontaneous and "going with the flow".

 

Conversely, abstract thinkers think about how everything relates to the big picture. They are always searching for the deeper meaning or the underlying patterns of things. Abstract thinkers want to understand how everything is related to everything else.

 

They are very curious and love to work with complex ideas. They can appreciate subjects that use a high degree of abstract thought, including subjects as diverse as astrophysics and poetry.

 

Abstract thinking is closely related to symbolic thought. Much of our society and culture depends on the ability to use symbols to express ideas. For example, the statue of liberty is not just a statue, it is a symbol of freedom. Even the language itself is abstract because we use words as symbols of things, places, ideas and emotions.

 

How we use abstract and concrete thinking

 

Of course, most of us use a mixture of concrete and abstract reasoning at different times and in different situations. No one could go through life relying on one single way of thinking. Everyone must use abstract thinking to plan for the future, understand complex ideas or even park our cars. We must all use our concrete thinking to accomplish the most practical tasks in life, such as whether we need milk.

 

However, for most people, one type of thinking dominates. This will be the type of thought that they will feel most comfortable and happy to use, while the opposite type of thinking may be more difficult.

 

Everyone sometimes uses abstract thinking. When you were a child, you counted on your fingers. Now you do not need your fingers anymore, because you understand the abstract idea that numbers represent the amount of what you think.

 

That said, this type of thinking is easier for some people to understand. These types have abstraction as a dominant thought strategy.

 

7 signs that you can be an abstract thinker

 

1. You spend a lot of time thinking about big questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" Or "What is the nature of consciousness?"
2. You constantly wonder why. As a child, you've probably made others crazy with your endless questions.
3. You do not like to do things unless you have a good reason to do them: "Just because" will not work.
4. You hate following step-by-step instructions and much prefer to arrange things for yourself.
5. You do not like routines and you get bored easily if you have to perform the same task over and over again.
6. When you think of something new, you often tie it to something you already know, even if it seems like it's not related.
7. You are good at proposing metaphors and analogies and linking ideas together in new ways.

 

How to improve your abstract thinking

 

Businesses and colleges often test this way of thinking. It is therefore wise to sharpen yours if it does not seem to come naturally.

 

If you want to improve your abstract thinking, you can try exercise books. Developing your math skills can also help you because math is an abstract way of thinking. Trying to find patterns in statistical data can also increase your ability in this area.

 

Learning about topics that can not be understood in a concrete way is another way to develop your abstract thinking. Subjects such as proverbs, quantum mechanics and astrophysics require us to think abstractly.

 

Working to develop your ability to use metaphor and analogy can also develop this way of thinking. Reading and writing poetry can be a good starting point. Visiting a modern art gallery can help you develop a more symbolic way of thinking.

 

Overall, abstract thoughts provide answers to questions by extracting solutions right out of a problems.

 

Once abstract thought is familiar, you realize that “the truth” is intricately woven as one.

 

John 19:23 

Now when the soldiers had nailed Jesus to the stake, they took his outer garments and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and they also took the inner garment. But the inner garment was without a seam, being woven from top to bottom.