GOD HATH PROVIDED FOR YOU A STAIRCASE OF HIS THOUGHTS

04-17-22 This message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com and tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are archived.

 

GOD IS THOUGHT

(Gen 1:1) In the beginning God [Thought] created [i.e., no thing (nothing) can be created without first thinking about it] the heaven and the earth [and “evil”] [1](Gen 1:2) And the earth was without form [Heb: a waste; fig. a worthless thing; vain: confusion] [i.e., worthless thoughts], and void [Heb: empty; an undistinguishable ruin] [if ruined, it must have been something else (unruined) at one time]; and darkness [Heb: the dark: fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness] [i.e., evil unholy thoughts] [2] was upon the face of the deep [Heb: an abyss (as a surging mass of water)] [(anthropomorphism)] [i.e., a surging mass of fallen angels (fallen thoughts)]. And the Spirit of God [i.e., the Holy Thoughts of God] moved upon the face of the waters(Gen 1:3) And God said, Let there be light [Heb: illumination (including happiness)] [3]: and there was light [drawn out from the darkness; a kind of rebirth (born-again) from darkness into light; typified by being (born-again) from Mary (Heb: rebellious /// bitterness) into Jesus (Heb: Jehovah-saved)] [4]. (Gen 1:4) And God saw the light [Heb: illumination (including happiness)], that it was good [versus evil]: and God divided [Heb: separated] [as in birthing] the light from the darkness(Gen 1:5) And God called the light Day [Heb: to be hot; a day (as the warm hours)] [i.e., good], and the darkness he called Night [Heb: properly a twist (away of the light); fig. adversity /// to fold back; a spiral step: winding stair] [i.e., bad, evil]. And the evening and the morning were the first day

1.    (Isa 45:6) That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. (Isa 45:7) I form the light, and create darkness [Heb: the dark: fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness]: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things [to teach you]

2.    Commentary: “darkness” = evil unholy thoughts (consequential perversions of God’s Good Holy Thoughts). This verse describes a surging mass of fallen angels who are spirits (fallen thoughts no longer of God) that are perverted (changed, and therefore corrupted, perverted thoughts), perversions of God’s original pure Holy Thoughts, evil thoughts that are in agreement with and serving under the mingled chief fallen angel spirit identified as Lucifer-Satan (Good-Evil, Light-Darkness).

3.    (John 8:12) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light [illumination (including happiness); brilliant radiance] of the world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos” (universe)]: he that followeth [Gk: to be in the same way with] me shall not walk in darkness [fig. misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness], but shall have the light [illumination, (including happiness); brilliant radiance] of life

4.    (1 Peter 2:9) But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar [Gk: an acquisition: purchased, possession] people; that ye should shew forth [Gk: publish, celebrate] the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light[Will you respond to that call and step forth, or stay in the womb of darkness?]

 

GOD’S STAIR CASE OF THOUGHT REACHES INTO THE GLORY OF HEAVEN

(Gen 28:10,11) And Jacob [who was not yet “imputed for righteousness,” i.e., “not saved” until Gen 32:28] [1] went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon [arrived at] a certain place [Heb: a condition (of body or mind)], and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep

1.    (Gen 32:28) And he [the angel] said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob [Heb: heel catcher (supplanter)], but Israel [Heb: he will rule as God]: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. 

a.     (Hosea 12:3-5) He [Jacob] took his brother [Esau] by the heel in the womb, and by his strength [Heb: in the sense of effort, but successful] he had power with God: Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication [Heb: to implore (move to favor by petition): beseech] [“wrestled” i.e., Jacob prayed vigorously in humility] unto him [the LORD God]: he [Jacob] found him [the LORD God] in Bethel [Heb: the house of God], and there he spake with us;  Even the LORD God [Heb: elohiym; gods] [the Trinity] of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. 

 

(Gen 28:12-15) And he dreamed [1], and behold a ladder [Heb: a stair case] [2] set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God [3] ascending [messages from us, i.e., the prayers of our thoughts] and descending [messages from God, i.e., His Thoughts, revelations] on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. 

1.    (Job 33:14-18) For God speaketh once [in the written Word], yea twice, yet man perceiveth [Heb: beholds, regards] it notIn a dream [i.e., the “twice”], in a vision [Heb: a revelation, espec. by dream] of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his [ungodly] purpose, and hide pride from man. He keepeth back [Heb: restrains] his [man’s] soul from the pit [of hell, of eternal damnation], and his life from perishing by the sword [of the Holy Spirit]

a.     (Eph 6:17,18) And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word [Gk: rhema; revelations] of GodPraying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication [Gk: petitions: prayers] for all saints; 

2.    Commentary: please note the “rungs’ of the ladder that connote ascending steps or scholastic grades (rhema upon rhema, revelation upon revelation) provided by God for the advancement of our education, i.e., for our understanding.

3.    Commentary: “the angels of God” = Angels are the seeds (logos) of God’s Thoughts (rhema), for they each contain a (rhema) message of God. Angels are the Thoughts of God expressed in/as the Words of God, clothed as Angels (Heb: messengers) (seeds) and sent to us for our understanding.

IF

(Gen 28:16-22) And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel [Heb: house of God]: but the name of that city was called Luz [Heb: (as growing there)] at the first. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on [me], So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a [location] pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth [Heb: tithe] unto thee

 

 

Amen