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What is literal Jerusalem? The city of David. By rejecting the prince of peace the Jews chose the path unto desolation. Jesus predicted over the manifold sins committed by the chosen people of God and at the end he observed, "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate".(Matt.23:38)

Now comes the measurement with which Israel shall be measured. "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place."(Is.28:17)' God is referring to the line and plummet mentioned in the Second Book of the Kings.

Now we shall consider these verses, "And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;/Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day."

Notice the phrase 'even unto this day' at the end vv.14-15.? The Spirit clearly lays out how we should read the warning. It is with regards to Jesus Christ who is line and plummet. This single measurement is that of an angel, that is of man. "And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel."(Re.21: 17)

"From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever./But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness."(Is.34:10-11) This was predicted by Isaiah. This is how we shall see till God steps in.

Over Manasseh's idolatries God had this warning,"Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, Iambringingsuchevil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle." (2 Ki.21:12-14). As long as their sins remained unconfessed and left it was one continuous stroke which came in many waves. In the generation of Jesus we have had the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. How can one say the present Jerusalem is a proof of God's favor to His people? "And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;"( v.14)

Jerusalem in His sight is still like a dish upside down. God has no use for it. Let us examine the exact words of His curse."And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem asa manwipeth a dish, wipingit, and turningitupside down."(2 Ki.21:13) Compare the inaugural vision shown to young Jeremiah. Here it is dish laid on the table upside down. A clear sign 'no service!' God implies that it is New Jerusalem that He has in mind. Is.2 refers to it. "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of theLord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it."(Is.2:2-4)

The city of Jerusalem as of old is finished. "All nations shall flow unto it." It is an universal call and first made to Abraham. Those who are called ought to flow into it. If so what was this noise of tumult and hubbub in 1947? How can you bring to life a dead horse? God judged Jerusalem as He did Egypt and Sodom. Spiritually the life is zero since God has rejected them. "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified"(Re.11:8)

Was Jesus a Jew?

Does God love my children even if they was born without the mother and father being married

Good Morning, I want to add another post on the nature of God for the letter "I"

"INFINITE"

God is infinite in every way. So when I said that God is holy, His holiness is not bound by any limitation. Therefore, in regards to His separateness or uniqueness as part of being holy, there is no one now or will there ever be anyone who equals Him in His holiness. We are made holy, set apart in Christ, and also being sanctified in this life, and in eternity we will be sinless and made completely whole as glorified humans. But God is in a class by Himself. We cannot 'become like the Most High' as Satan wished to become. Our holiness in humanly, His is Divine.

God is infinite in wisdom, understanding and knowledge. He is infinite in love and goodness, This is true of all attributes. If He did not possess these attributes to the infinite degree, then there would be room for growth in His character because He is changeless. Therefore He is forever boundless and unlimited in all that He is. Time and space do not limit Him.

He is infinite Life and boundless. All life comes from Him. Eternally He is supreme in all that He is. His power, presence, and knowledge is without limit.

Psalm 147:5 speaks of His infinite knowledge. 1 Kings 8:27 says that God cannot be contained either by time, space, or any other way. Eph. 3:8 says that His the riches of His Being are unfathomable.

According to 1Corinthians 14:13, speaking in tongues must be interpreted but how do you interpret something you don't understand?

Why didn't you include the book of Enoch?

Where are the dead resting in Christ

Where did God come from?

Hi everyone,

I watched Messiah2030 . com parts 1-2-3 and part 3 I found to be the best of all. There is a msg in part 3 that repeats in a wayto get your attention. Curious if anyone has seen it?

If not, it is on YouTube free.

My top 2-main pastors are Gary Hamrick and Jack Hibbs. I do follow half a dozen others like Dr. David Jeremiah, David, C. Pack for direct discipline, lol... just saying, they are gifted and for news in Israel, Amir Tsarfati is the best.

Thoughts on Messiah 2030? Also I have been following the weather and quakes globally, If I had to guess ? We are so-so close.

Ezekiel 38 looks like it is....(no comment)

Is there any limit to the number of comments one may leave in the forum? Are there specific block words which may not be used. I tried a couple of times and I was blocked?

1 Cor 10:1-5,

1.Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed

through the sea;

2. And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3. And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

4. And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Points of attention:

1."all our fathers were under the cloud" - means under God's presence.

2. "And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea" - represents getting baptized in water and in the Spirit

3. And did all eat the same spiritual meat and drink - represents getting fully tought the Word of God

4. The result? They were overthrown in the wilderness - end of the road for them

Why that result??

Verses 6-11:

6. NOW THESE THINGS WERE OUR EXAMPLES, TO THE INENT WE SHOULD NOT LUST AFTER EVIL THINGD, AS THEY ALSO

LUSTED.

7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

10. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

11. NOW ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED UNTO THEM FOR ENSAMPLES: AND THEY ARE WRITTEN FOR OUR ADMONITION, UPON

WHOM THE ENDS OF THE WORD COME.

When sin gets in, we get out.

In conection with my previous post:

In his 2nd letter to Timothy which is Paul's last letter before his martyrdom, Paul says:

2 Timothy 4:6-7,

7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, BUT UNTO ALL THEM ALSO that love his appearing.

Well, Paul finished his course/run, he fought the good fight and hence the prize of the crown of righteousness (salvation) awaits for him.

If he stopped running, if he stopped fighting, if he didn't keep the faith...???

1 Cor 24-27,

24. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

25. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

26. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

27.But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

I don't think the above needs any further explanation. It is very clear.

No run, no prize, no fight no prize.

1 Cor 9:19-22,

"19. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

20. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

21. To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

22. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some."

The above is a part of God's widom given to Paul. Paul was always trying to place himself in others' shoes so to understand them and talk to them for Jesus directly to their heart. When one asks God to use them in a ministry, especially evangelizing, then God often allows them to go through hardships and trials in order for them to realize how people feel under the same cicumstances. People who do not suffer anything are usually very strict in their judgements for others. One who has fever understands how people who have fever feel and knows what they are expecting for.

1 Cor 9:3-7,

"3. Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 4. Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5. Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6. Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?. 7. Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock".

Also 1 Cor 9:14, "Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel."

A point of attention. "Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles...". They were all carying their wives together with them in their ministries. They didn't just leave them alone at home with the kids.

So what do we conclude from the above, should a minister get paid for his ministery or not? The answer seems to be, Yes, they should get paid.

But lets go to Acts 20:33-35, where Paul talks to the elders of Ephessus,

"33. I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. 34. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35. I HAVE SHEWED YOU ALL THINGS , how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive."

It is obvious that Paul suggestion is that ministers should follow his example and not use that right, but work with their own hands for their own needs. If they are not able to cover their needs, then in that case only, they must accept help(not wage) from the church, like sometimes Paul himself did.

Ge.8:14-20

Altar

"That they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

In the creation account God blessed man with the same words, be fruitful, replenish and subdue" Mind of God is steadfast, and blessings in his Son have been laid immutable before the worlds began. The Lamb slain (Re.13:8) is an emblem that is 'forever' as his power and glory is everlasting to everlasting. Only clue we have of it is from the example of Jesus Christ who as the Lamb of God showed it. In short when the Spirit annotates it 'God remembered, its key can only found in his Son whose atoning work holds an emblem and his everlasting covenant is established by his life and sacrifice. "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."(He.10:14). What is the will of God, which requires no afterthought or correction? As the Father is perfect so is the Son. So the emblem in the mind of God is perfection that the Son offered on the cross.

Noah tasted the mercy of God who spared him alone, and the creation that God chose for him which by principle of Association makes them as one. Thus the command number Five encapsulates his world in which God's mercy is bound within the ark. Breadth of the ark was 50 (5x10). In vv.9-10 God sent them out.

The ark would have one single measurement, which was true with the ark and it shall also be in the holy city of God to be revealed in eternity. Thus man has a volume where we are responsible for His creation. Jesus Christ did not spare himself. "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;/And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."(He.5:8-9).It is thus the Spirit instructs us with the ark. Without shedding of blood there is no redemption. Jesus set us an example and our reasonable service is to consider our bodies as as living sacrifice. (Ro.12:1) It is the only way we can put on the mind of Christ.

Ge.8:7 The raven and the dove

" And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth."(v.7)

What is the role of the raven and later a dove that Noah sent from the ark? The writer to the Hebrews says, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,/Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son."(He.1:1-2)

" The dove has a double function and the significance of the raven goes beyond feeding Elijah in his distress but serves us to understand the mind of Christ.

"And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us./ And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us."( Luke 9: 49-50) Jesus could work with people of all hues for he knew what was in their mind. Noah similarly accommodates,-metaphorically speaking, the entire creation under his charge. His name Noah signified rest. So the Spirit ties Noah as a rest-giver with Jesus who was the prince of peace.

The raven flew hither and thither till the waters drained off from the face of the earth but he chose not to return. He however serves us to understand that it makes all sorts of people whose service to God have their own shape and colour. When Jesus tells his disciples, "I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour."( John 4:38)

The dove with 'an olive leaf pluckt off' is an emblem. Its primary sense: the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which would meld holy families 'in the now' for the holy city of God in eternity.

The dove represented His messengers ie., John the Baptist who was anointed in his mother's womb to serve as ' friend to the groom'. Thirdly the dove served as a harbinger of House of Prayer for all nations in eternity. (Ps.128:3) Olive signifies gladness and glory of the church. (Ps.104:15)

Ge.8:1-6

vv.1-6

"And the waters returned from off the earth continually: "

God brought a great deluge to rid of the ungodly old earth. How did the men of old fare? Their disobedience rendered them unhinged from truth, which means they held truth in unrighteousness. "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.(6:5). Very much like our times and we breathe the toxic of their conspiracy theories and no civil dialogue on whatever topic is almost impossible so God's word would find no rest till it is completed.

Noah sends out from the ark a raven and a dove to check out. Impossible! "But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot." (vv.8-9) It is gradual but continually the word gone forth from his mouth does its work. It is how the Holy Spirit presented the day of creation with the formula, "And evening and the morning were" at the end of each day in Ch.1 The same holds true when God rested from his labors. He blessed the seventh day precisely for the truth that the Law of the Lord sanctified the Day of creation. The day was Person specific, and even here truth remains the same. "I am the Truth" The Father willed and the Son made.

:"And God remembered Noah, and every living thing," and this,"and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged." Compare what Jesus did with boisterous winds? "And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."( Mark. 4:39)

The example of Elijah stopping the rain. "And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." (1 Ki.17:1) It was the word of the God and when Elijah says "according to my word" he was standing as a stand in for Jesus Christ.

Ge.8:4 "Mt. Ararat"

The Spirit has set the place where the ark would come to rest for our instruction and Ararat is another name for His holy mountain.(Is.14:12-13) "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat."(8:4)

In the narrative we shall continue the progress of man in which Abraham will represent the stand in for the holy family, "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."(Is.51:2). God fashioned Adam of the dust of the ground while the mountain signifies the rock, on which Zion is founded. "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation" The seven pillars that wisdom has hewn, keep the eternal promises of God despite of the judgment of the old world standing on a sure foundation.

"Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." (Is.51:1)

Secondly, how do we fulfil the will concerning us? Redeemed saints have two worlds which are of the body' (a body hast thou prepared me) and of the Spirit. Each has, as the study of the Ark of Noah instructs us, carries a spiritual volume as Noah had, measurement of which can only be computed by one measure, which is of man and of an angel. Simply put it is the presence of God, it is word based and it is being hid in Christ. ("For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God."- Col. 3:1-3)

Noah preserved in the water speaks of a death every saint has to undergo. "that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:/ Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished." (2 Pe.3:5-6)

Ge.7:1-11 "Forty Days"

" For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth."

"For yet seven days"

The narrative is set clearly on the basis of *the Law, which is the eternal word settled in the heaven. So in the creation account there were seven 'days' of creation, and and judgment now is to to be meted out upon the ungodly old world shall come in seven days.

The rains when they did come lasted for forty days and forty nights. The command number Four is a tag for the Son who came to the world as the word become flesh. A man's life the number 10 is deemed legally adequate. (Thus 4x10). The Spirit presents Jesus before being led to be tempted of the devil fasting for forty days. "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil./After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry."(Matt.4:1-2-NIV) Likewise the risen Christ was seen for forty days."The apostles whom he had chosen,/to whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days(Ac.1:2-3).

In v.9 we are shown the creatures going in two and two unto Noah into the ark calls to mind the manner Jesus sent his disciples to preach the good news. ('and sent them two and two'- Luke 10:1)

* of the Law

vv. 2-3 the Law of the Lord:" Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female./ Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth." These shall come into their own under the Law of Moses but he is giving us from the standpoint of the Son and it is Jesus Christ who is to manifest in the fullness of time, "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."(Ro.10:4;Ac.13:39)

Ge.6:13-18 (2 of 2)

The Ark

(Continued)

Length of the ark is 3x100 while breadth is 5x10 and height is 3x10. Compare this with the tabernacle in the wilderness. The court was an enclosed space of 100x50 cubits. Intent of the ark was unlike that of the tabernacle and was for preserving the godly for a world to come. Instead of the old world destroyed by waters they were to continue the holy family God had covenanted his Son. The ark was sealed "rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."

The window in the ark suggested the window of heaven, representing the mercy seat and there was door on the side which let the generations of Noah claim the new earth. The ark was divided in three, "with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." This was to be the world where Noah administered giving us a foretaste of the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ.

Ge.6:13-18 (1 of 2)

The Ark

""But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark,"

This ark is Person specific, so the Spirit introduces him as a double for Son who is in context of "These are the generations of Noah."(v.9). Like wise he introduced Adam earlier.(5:1) His world a floating tabernacle, however, holds dimensions specified by God, which cautions us to treat dimensions are specific of one kind, as in the case of the holy city of God in eternity-'according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel." (Re.21:17).

Length of the ark is 3x100 while breadth is 5x10 and height is 3x10. Compare this with the tabernacle in the wilderness. The court was an enclosed space of 100x50 cubits. Intent of the ark was unlike that of the tabernacle was for preserving the godly for a world to come. Instead of the old world destroyed by waters they were to continue the holy family God had covenanted his Son. The ark was sealed "rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."

The window in the ark suggested the window of heaven, representing the mercy seat and there was door on the side which let the generations of Noah claim the new earth. The ark was divided in three, "with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou mak

The Son is tagged by 3, and the length of the ark is 3x100. In order to emphasize the judgment aspect the number 10 is applied to the generations of Noah. God found him righteous so he and his family are saved from destruction. As St Peter refers to him here as follows, "to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,"(1 Pe.3:20-NIV) In vv.14-18 the Holy Spirit gives us additional information.

Ge.6:3 "Man the message"

"And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."(v.3)

God is a Spirit and His covenant with Man sets two worlds of the body and of the Spirit. He shall not henceforth strive with man in the Man component, on the basis of the day of creation but in terms of the logos aspect of the Son who therefore represents the way for his salvation. Gospel of Christ is tagged by the command number 12. Every man shall bear his burden and shall be responsible to keep this covenant "Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."(Ps.50:5). Predestination disperses all spiritual blessings in his Son to man who is committed. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.

'Yet his days shall be'

Jesus chose 12 disciples, which gives us the clue: He represents the Gospel of his Father. As the logos aspect he is Four while as a Son he is tagged by the command number Three. The will of God in the key verse sets his days as 120 days. (4x3x10) The number 10 refers to the Law of the Lord.

The man holds two worlds, which are about the heart a spiritual space. By his life hidden in heavenly place he has length, breadth and height, which is time. By setting his days to the Law, which is settled in heaven every man has a spiritual volume in terms of the Gospel. Each member of the body of Christ consequently is an angel as well as man. "The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal./ And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel."(Re.21:16-17)

"As he is so are we in this world"( 1 John 4:17) has only a single measure that of the spiritual body,'the 'body thou hast prepared me.' Holding on to Christ the head we are of the selfsame measure, that of both angel and of man.

Ge.6:1-6 "Men of Renown"

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them"

The Holy Spirit records the course of the descendants of Cain, who having slain the righteous Abel did not wither away.

Parenthesis is God's mercy giving man to come to senses as the Father of the Prodigal Son in the parable waited.

Cain's inheritors have multiplied on the face of the earth, and as v.4 says 'the same became men of renown.

Are we not living in a very similar circumstance? There were 'mighty men, and men of renown. In our time it is celebrities, whose flashy life style is much emulated and peccadilloes of their kids are treated with kid gloves on the excuse that is a touch of affluenza; if they went into a career, doors are opened instantly for they are nepo babies. How ardently the media glitz surround their life style! Wealth makes 'the men of renown',- no matter the sewers left flooding the broadways and homes, their lives are envied. It was thus fallen angels found their men so they were no longer 'fallen from their first state' but found first in Cain a kindred spirit,- and then there were others as carriers of the wickedness. Jude refers to them: "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."(v.6) These unclean spirits without exception under judgment, but made common cause with the natural man beginning with Cain.

These sons of God would corrupt natural man of old even as we find it happening in our times.Social media platforms are flooded with their hate and devilish agenda. Is it surprising that God would judge the old world with waters that had become byword for the wickedness? " But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt./There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."(Is.57:20-21). "And there was no more sea."(Re.21:1)

Ge.5. "The Four"

Lamech-cont'd

"A son in his own likeness, and after his image,"(Ge.5:3) refers to Adam who is also the son of God. ( Luke 3:38). Methuselah is distinct from his siblings. "And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech./And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.(Ge.5:25-26)

Noah

Heb. Noach meaning rest. Foreshadows Jesus Christ who is the Mediator between God and man. In a similar manner Noah serves as the link between the old world and the new. God did not spare "the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly (2 Pe.2:5)"

The period "the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing," was one hundred and twenty years (Ge.6:3)) to which the Spirit gives a basis for baptism by water, where in few, that is, eight souls were saved by water'(1 Pe.3:20). Good conscience is equally applied to body, spirit and soul.

Noah is also a double Adam as the steward into whose keeping all His creation, were left in trust. For this reason the Last Adam a life-giving Spirit explains the beginning of the age yet to come.(1 Co.15:45)

(Selected from *SC Bible Dictionary)

Ge.5 "The Four" (1 of 2)

Enoch

He walked with God, meaning in the presence of God, so he was aware of the will of God and its fulfillment. The significance of the name of his son attests to it. It is the power of the Word and it allowed him to prophecy of the end times." Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones."(Jude v.14-NIV)" The number Seven is indicative of his life span was in accordance with the word of God. Sixty-five years before Methuselah. Three hundred years with God (3x100) points his translation without seeing death was fulfillment of the word, "And whoever lives by believing in me will never die."( John 11:26). We are setting his life in context of the word forever settled in heavens.(Ps.119:89)

Methusaleh

The Spirit places him as a double for the Son, being the seventh in descent from Seth who stepped in the breach of Abel who is the first martyr for being righteous. ( 1 John 3:12) Seven as command number indicates perfection of the divine Will. He is the only son in an age when a large family was the norm, foreshadowing 'the only begotten Son' who would be sent to the world. The holy family of Seth survives judgement of the old world through his grandson Noah. His personal name, meaning man of the dart, points to the river of time that Salvation Plan of God connects from beginning of the age to its ending

Lamech

The Spirit includes two of the same name in order to present representations of godless descendants of Cain and of the holy family beginning from Seth. Lamech the fifth in descent from Cain was boastful and who feared neither God nor man. "If Cain is avenged seven times then Lamech, seventy-seven times.' (Ge.4:27). Famous last words. On the other hand Lamech seventh in descent from Seth is a locus classic as to the 'in the image of man'. Thus Methusaleh is set as the double for the Son. The remaining sons and daughters are left out.

Ge.5:1-5

Genealogy (2of 2)

It pleased the Father that his fulness in Jesus Christ should dwell. Accordingly the Spirit gives him the tag of 42 (14x3. By Law of Gradation the power given to the beast is 42 months. Similarly the martyrdom of Abel is set in the frame reference to the Son as the beast whose authority is derived from Satan. (Re.13:5)

This Law is established on the basis of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which earned him a name above every other name. (Ph.2:9-11; Col.1:15-19) It is thus we need approach the narrative. So our names were recorded before the worlds began. (Ep.1::3) Genealogies found in the God Document include us as the names mentioned here.

The generations of Adam with which we began this chapter presents us Noah for example a double for the Son shall continue after the old world has been judged thus we are coming a full circle, genealogy of 'now' within the genealogy of the saints redeemed from the earth in eternity. His calling and gifts are irrevocable ( Ro.11:29), whether we consider in part or as a whole.

" And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch./ And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters."(vv.18-19) Enoch carried the holy family through his generation.

In the next post titled The Four we shall consider Enoch, Methusaleh, Lamech and Noah.

Ge.5:1-5

Genealogy (1 of 2)

The Holy Spirit is summing up the genealogy of the Holy Family that were distinct from the other line that Eve as the mother of all living bore. Seth for instance is mentioned first as a son in his own likeness. The Holy Spirit with this tag establishes clearly his place as the double for the Son.

The role of Eve is indirectly referred in the second instance 'after his image' (v.3) which sets the double function of Seth in the genealogy. "And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew." (4:25). He is stand-in for Abel, the righteous one. He was after the own image of the Son, so he is heavenly; also served also as a template for the earthy.. With this simple adoption the Spirit lays down the ground rule of being born again. (John3:5-7).

St Paul explains this double function. "And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly./ Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." The will of God has laid the rule so Christ is the head of the church; For the holy family there is only the name of the son and in him should all his fullness dwell.

It is thus Seth stepped in the breach made by Cain so obedience of Seth proves his DNA, which was faith.

In this genealogy the v.4 could be taken as the template for introducing the heir of promise. Of the rest the Spirit rounds off with this formula. "And he begat sons and daughters.' for example see vv.6-7. Seth is followed by Enos and it is how the Holy Spirit has organized the generations of Adam. In the Gospel of St Mathew we have three sets of 14 generations each, from Abraham to Jesus giving us the key to understand all these lists are held together in Jesus Christ. (Matt.1:17) The tag of 42 (14x3) serves for the Son of man whose earthly ministry lasted 42 months.

Ge. 4:25-26 "Parallel Accounts"-2

Eve is the Mother of all living. The two worlds set in Adam carried 'bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh' and it showed up in Abel and later in Seth. This would set a holy family which shall be gathered for the Millennial Reign.

"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory./And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."(Matt.24:30-31) All the tribes of the earth indicate the coming of the Son as the Savior of the world.

The Salvation Plan having set in motion before the foundation of the world shall overarch to the Day appointed for the Son. Day of Regeneration following judgment shall be called the holy city of God. God set a mark that allowed Cain to build a city which he called Enoch after his son.

In short we have two narrative arcs one regarding the will of God regarding his Son, the city of light and another, eternal habitation for the children of wrath. In the narrative, we see the mode of Parenthesis and it separates the day of Final judgment from the fall of man. It explains the significance of the day in 2:17 we have it, "For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' There Parenthesis rules one day from another. It is thus we need handle the 'now' the day of salvation with day of the Lamb. Similarly the one week in the Seventy weeks appointed in the vision of Daniel.(Dan.9) One week is isolated from the whole.

"And will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy."(Ex.33:19). This is vital for understanding our calling. We need a personal Savior and Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. (He.13:8)